president donald trump. donald trump will be in the convention hall later today as he is officially chosen as the republican nominee. it will be his first public am appearance since a shooter tried to take his life on saturday. it is here where we have just been told that he will also announce his vp pick later today. and all of that coming against the backdrop of a sprawling investigation into trump s assassination attempt in pennsylvania and the security failures that led up to it. but we start with an extraordinary legal victory for the former president that came down just a short time ago. judge aileen cannon dismissing the florida classified documents case on the grounds that the appointment of special counsel jack smith was unconstitutional. we have a great panel to talk to about it. nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. vaughn hillyard is in milwaukee. also with us, andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and with me here in studio msnb
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in louisville and new york. welcome, everyone to alex witt reports . we are tracking three big stories at this hour. right now, the outer bands of beryl are bringing wind and tropical rain to texas. it is expected to become a hurricane before making landfall. any moment now, leader hakeem jefferies will convene a meeting of house democrats to take the temperature on president joe biden s postdebate candidacy. president biden will arrive in harrisburg for a campaign event as he takes his fight to stay in the presidential race to the swing state of pennsylvania. we begin with breaking news on the storm, our team of meteorologists of reporters here with the latest. we will go first to you, priscilla, in the field with the most recent update on beryl. what is the latest you are hearing from officials? reporter: that s right, alex. i just spoke with the mayor and he reiterated the advice that people who are
black and brown americans who look very much like washington d.c. s nearly 60% majority minority population. many of them serve on the capitol police force and were beaten with flag poles and fire extinguishers as well as maysed by the angry, trump-crazed crowd. they also worked on the maintenance crews tasked with the cleaning up the vandalism, trash, and feces left behind by right-wing hooligans. one republican lawmaker would call normal citizens. many washingtonians found it shocking but not necessarily surprising. after all, president trump used their fair city as a prop during his most overt turn at dictatorial cos-play casting a crowd of peaceful black matter protesters so he could flaunt a bible in front of a church he had never shown any worship in though it had been the favorite place of worship for dozens of presidents who preceded him. even now republicans stand in the way of d.c. s third s statehood even though the population exceeds that of wyoming and vermont, s
announce plans for a huge spending package. what this means for biden s big push to get republicans on board. going in the wrong direction. unvaccinated americans are fueling a big spike in new cases and hospitalizations while millions still refuse to get the vaccine that could save their lives. kidnapping plot on american soil. federal prosecutors charge iranian agents with a wild plan to abduct a journalist in new york. new reaction is coming in from tehran. thanks for being here. we begin this hour with major developments on capitol hill. senate democrats reaching agreement on a massive $3.5 trillion budget package, paving the way to pour federal resources into many of joe biden s top priorities, from expanding the child tax credit to offering paid medical leave to addressing climate change. there s clearly much more. in the next hour president biden will head to capitol hill to meet with senate democrats about it. all of this comes as the president is getting together t
the people who have recently exerted themself in local politics marked themselves as outsiders. a couple weeks ago on the show, we reported on a situation in san luis obispo county, which erupted last month at the port of supervisors meeting. county supervisors holding their regular meeting, they open the phones to public comment. and what they got was hours and hours of public comments. hours an hours of colors. some of them didn t even really seem to know what county they were calling into. who nevertheless wanted to talk about the 2020 election in san luis obispo county. they specifically wanted to talk about the election results and their suspicions about the county s chief election official amending tommy gong. from the evidence i ve seen, i believe this machine was used to alter the vote counting in this county. and we need an independent forensic audit to verify its accuracy. tommy guang is using every excuse available to prevent an audit, giving his assurance that t