to help us lower inflation. what a week of contrast as president biden was racking up win after win, republicans were pushing abortion bans, social security cuts and election denial and watching their mid-term prospects begin to fade. and a texas jury just delivered a massive blow to alex jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages for a first grader killed at sandy hook. i ll be joined by andrew warren, the democratically elected state attorney general who is the victim of an abuse of power by governor ron desantis. it was a great week for democrats, one that will be poised to get even better. first up the economy. after months of criticism of president biden for everything from gas prices to inflation to you name it, today we got proof that his economic policies are working with the latest blockbuster jobs report. in july job growth soared. u.s. employers added 528,000 employees, smashing expectations. and the unemployment rate
Making bannon the latest member of President Trumps team to face criminal charges. Thats just the tip of the iceberg today. Its happening amid the fallout from president obamas dire warning to the country last night that President Trump has pushed our democracy to the bri brink. This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if thats what it takes for them to win. Thats how a democracy withers until its no democracy at all. And we cannot let that happen. Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your democracy. It was an extraordinary distress call from a former president unlike anything weve seen in generations. And that extraordinary moment is happening the same time as another i call this an outrageous moment. The current president has legitimized an unhinged and dangerous collective of trump supporting conspiracy theorists called qanon. I understand they like me very much. Which i appreciate. I have heard that it is gaining in popularity. These
Potential convention showdown for both tickets. While Hillary Clinton is spending the day fundraising on the east coast, Bernie Sanders is out west, singing a strong signal to the party, he intends to take his fight all the way to the convention. In an interview with Rachel Maddow, he suggested he could still clinch the nomination, by luring superdelegates away from clinton. We think we have a good shot, cant guarantee it, of winning a whole lot of states, of winning a whole lot of delegates, perhaps winning california, state of washington, oregon, many of the smaller states, and winning new york state. We think if we come into the convention in july in philadelphia having won a whole lot of delegates, having a whole lot of momentum behind us, and most importantly perhaps, being the candidate who is most likely to defeat donald trump, we think some of these superdelegates who have now supported Hillary Clinton can come over to us. Sanders remarks coming just as he is set to rally voter
right. was that a tan suit on ted cruz? joining me is the president and show of votto latino and the author of why the we did it, a travel log from the republican road to hell. tim i, i need to start with you, it seems like a chef s kiss ending to republicans very bad week is alex jones. now been hit with a $45.2 million penalty. that s just the penalty today. he also had been hit with $9 million, so it s over 50 million that he ll have to fork over to just one of the sandy hook families, and i just i have to play you what marjorie taylor greene said defending alex jones before that verdict came in. take a look. somebody like alex jones who did say some things, but yet he is being politically persecuted right now and being forced to pay out millions and millions of dollars and no one no one agrees with what he said but
all week on the rundown we ve been highlighting the finalists in the votto latinos innovative challenge and now we know the seven winners that were announced last night. each submitted a unique idea in the tech competition to help solve problems facing the latino community. they will be splitting $500,000 in grant money. msnbc is a proud sponsor. joining me now is the president and ceo of votto latino. how are you this morning? so excited, jose. yesterday we did the we took all morning to identify not only the finalists but go through each project. there was not a dry eye in the room after each person presented because each story was about providing solutions to their own personal journey. that was going to impact millions of americans.