Good Evening And Welcome to our special coverage of night two of the Republican National Convention in Beautiful Downtown milwaukee, wisconsin. Super glad to have you with us tonight. I am Rachel Maddow here with my beloved, cheerful, well hydrated colleagues joy reid, jen psaki, ari melber, lawrence odonnell. We will be talking with her shortly. We will be here, any minute we are expecting the President Ial Nominee Donald Trump to be entering the hall at the rnc in milwaukee. If i look shifty and not making eye contact, im trying to keep an eye on the monitors to know when that happens. Both the Secret Service and local Law Enforcement pay some increasingly tough questions about Saturdays Assassination Attempt against Trumpeter Rally this past weekend. Cnn was first to report that Nbc News has confirmed that the Secret Service had ramped up security around trump in recent weeks after they received intelligence about a plot by iran to attack trump. Iran has singled out a number of diff
Ill discuss it all. With the u. S. Surgeon general. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin with an emotional and very powerful testimony about the capitol riot. Lets go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles. Ryan, these officers shared graphic details of The Horrors they faced on January 6th and the consequences. No doubt about that, wolf. This Explosive Hearing shocked many of us who thought we had learned so much about the Capitol Insurrection already. Even the Members Of Congress asking the questions seem surprised at the serious risk against their lives on that day. So help you got. Reporter from its opening moments, the first hearing of the select committee to investigate the January 6th insurrection was a jarring display of the violence on that day. Never before seen video and clips previously released showing Front Line officers dragged into the mob and beaten and then crushed between
Election was stolen from trump, and Senator Ron Johnson of wisconsin whom trump praised for getting to the bottom of things. The notes pointing to trumps perceived Coup Accomplices are now in the hands of those members peers in the House Oversight and reform committee, which is investigating trumps efforts to overturn his defeat. The extraordinary new window into conversations with top Justice Department officials and the expresident represent fresh Smoking Gun Evidence of Trumps Abuse of power and frantic efforts to cling to power at all costs. The notes illuminate a well worn theme of the trump presidency, the expresident s imperviousness to facts. The times writes this, the officials also told Trump The Justice Department had no evidence to support a lawsuit regarding the Election Results. We are not in a position based on the evidence, they said. We can only act on the actual evidence developed. Trump then cass at this gat cas. He said people are angry blaming the doj for inaction.
Military assistance, despite requests from the haitian government. Meanwhile, in florida the Miamidade Courthouse is now closed due to Safety Concerns that were revealed during a Building Inspection that was prompted by the tragic surfside condo collapse. The Engineering Firm that examined the 28story Court Building says that during the review it found structural distress in support beams and joists, including steel columns that are in, quote, poor condition, and concrete columns that have numerous cracks in them. The courthouse will begin to undergo repairs immediately. Employees will return to working from home while that happens. From the Miamidade Courthouse to the nations highways and bridges, it is apparent that infrastructure in this country is in need of major repair and it does appear that congress is taking notice of these glaring Warning Signs and is poised to take action. Senate Majority Leader Chuck schumer says his chamber will work into its August Recess to pass both the
Wouldnt republicans want to know the truth . Is it because they believe the lies or because theyre trying to protect the man who started them. My guess its probably both. Will you apologize about January 6 snt. In case you missed it i spoke to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. She told me shed like to serve on the committee but, should she . Listen to what she also told me. Theres, you know, information that there may have been fbi operatives. We dont know what that means, right . Is that informants . Where does that go . Wheres the proof the fbi was involved . Wheres the proof that antifa was involved . Dont you owe it to people to produce that proof that evidence . I dont know it. I didnt cause the riots so i certainly dont owe it. If the fbi tells you, congresswoman, we didnt have any involvement in it, would you believe them . Well, im sure, yes, of course, if they say they werent and showed proof they werent, then of course i would. The man picked by pelosi to chair the select