i'm katy tur. we don't always get a chance to vladimir lenin on this show. allow us to take the opportunity when we can get it. there are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen. it has certainly been one of those weeks. in just six days, kamala harris

has gone from the bottom of a lackluster presidential ticket to the top of a now electrifying one. she's brought in more than $100 million in donations. signed up 170,000 volunteers according to the campaign. leapt up in the polls. has had what feels like a mississippi river of ink spilled about her, and now she has the endorsement of basically every major leader within the democratic party, including these ones right here which the campaign says came in this morning. >> kamala. >> hello. >> hey there. >> hi, you're both together. it's good to hear you both. >> i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say, michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval

office. >> oh, my goodness. michelle, barack, this means so much to me. >> it has been one heck of a honeymoon, but a heart can't beat this fast forever. so what is kamala harris going to run on specifically? what story will she tell about herself, and what future will she promise to the american public? not only that, who will she pick to help her sell that promise and tear down her opponent's? well, we've had quite a few interesting trials on that front. listen. >> i'm getting a little sick and tired of this guy going on tv every day. [ bleep ] america. i have a message to donald trump, stop [ bleep ] america. >> you know there's something wrong with people, freedom, freedom to be in your bedroom, freedom to be in your exam room, freedom to tell your kids what they can read. that stuff is weird. >> josh shapiro, tim walz, joining us now, is yamiche alcindor. senior national politics

reporter, jonathan allen and senior political editor, mark murray. it has been a crazy week. i know you know that. you have been on the road a ton already. how does the campaign plan to go from here? this has been a momentous outing. a heart can't beat this fast forever. what are they going to do next? >> they're hoping the heart keeps beating this fast until november. what they're trying to do is harness this energy and get people excited to not just sort of vote for vice president harris, but also knock on doors, go out in the field, get their friends, talk to people who maybe weren't interested in politics or turned off by joe biden and donald trump. double haters we spent so much time talking about. now they are in the moment where they are trying to capitalize on the energy and keep it going. you can see it in the fundraising, but also in the zoom calls. of course there was that huge zoom call that kicked this off on sunday, with more than 45,000 people, most of them black women on a zoom call. they raised $1.5 million in

three hours. the next day, black men had their call. 33,000 people, they raised more than a million dollar. white women had their call, raising millions of dollars. what the harris campaign is trying to do is get ready for what will be a short but hard run here, because this is going to be an election, at least for now, that still looks like it's in the margin of errors. they're hoping to run up the numbers and hoping to lay out a path to victory that might look differently, and likely will look different from what president biden was doing. sources have been telling me, georgia, north carolina, critical states to mobilize southern black voters, along with the midwest states in the west, and arizona and other states. a lot of work to do, and they're going to try to do it fast. >> georgia and north carolina, the traditional suggestions and strategy has been focus on upper midwest, focus on michigan, pennsylvania, focus on wisconsin. are they suggesting do you that they're going to spend more time in georgia and north carolina?

>> what i'm hearing from really harris allies, i think the campaign is still trying to lay it out. i don't think they're discounting the midwest by my means. her first rally right outside milwaukee, it was the biggest campaign event from the biden/harris, of course now harris campaign it held ever. there were a number of people there, and she was really going after donald trump just a few days after the rnc was in wisconsin. they are still looking at the midwest. georgia and north carolina, they think feels more in play to them, is what i have been hearing from campaign aides and sources close to the vice president. i will say, i was in indianapolis also with her this week, and she spoke to zeta fie beta, a historically african-american sorority, part of the define nine, group of african-american sororities and fraternities. that's going to be key. they're people that are going to

do the work of grabbing people and gathering people to take them to the polls. that's the thinking, leaning into the base, and welcoming other people, and you see republicans and others releasing endorsements. the idea is she's going to have her coalition, and also really lean in to the people who are most loyal, black women in the democratic party. >> mark, i know we're getting numbers in every day, and we're still waiting on, you know, good polling from outside of this. we're going to say it again honeymoon moment and after the assassination attempt and the rnc. take us inside the numbers. what are they telling us, just beyond the top line numbers, what is the underline stuff telling us. >> the top line numbers, you do see a sense that harris has improved certainly since the trump assassination period and the republican convention, and the rough debate for joe biden, and so even in the "new york times" sienna poll, joe biden had a 6 point deficit among likely voters, that's now just a

one-point deficit for harris, well within the poll's margin of error. we have seen that replicated elsewhere. inside those numbers, what i find fascinating, particularly in the "new york times" sienna poll. there's a really big gender gap. harris is doing incredibly well with female voters on the other hand, donald trump is doing really well with men. we are seeing, and kind of what yamiche was pointing out is that harris is still struggling a little bit in the midwest. of course when we end up having these kind of cross tab or demographic breakdowns in polls, there's a large margin of error. "the new york times" sienna poll, harris was doing much better in the west and northeast than she was in the midwest and in the south. and so it's important to kind of note, we need to see more polls, but right now, that shows someone whose path as you and yamiche were discussing might be better in the sun belt, in states like georgia, nevada, and

arizona as opposed to the wisconsins, the pennsylvanias, or the michigans. katy, it's still really early. the midwest is incredibly valuable, and as any democrat would know, you want to do well in the midwest, rust belt states as well as in the sun belt. >> all right. john, for all the attention that kamala harris is garnering, so much tension on social media, so much enthusiasm. there seems to be an equal wave of negativity surrounding j.d. vance in particular. he has been everywhere. the harris campaign is going after him specifically, and they're doing it pretty strongly. there's also just new audio that has been resurfaced where he's talking about abortions and what could happen if roe v. wade was overturned. it was. and if abortions were band in the -- banned in the state of ohio, and if women found themselves going to other states. here's what this audio that was surfaced, here's him seeming to

describe a situation that he would be against. listen. >> okay. look, here's the situation. let's say roe v. wade is overruled. ohio bans abortion, you know, in 2022. let's say 2024. and then, you know, every day george soros sends a 747 to columbus to load up disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in california, and of course the left will celebrate this as a victory for -- something like that could, i mean, that would be a really weird turn of events that could happen, yes. >> if that happens, do you need some federal response to prevent it from happening, because it's really creepy, and you know, i'm pretty sympathetic to that actually. >> this is the podcast, very fine people. it was recorded in 2022, before roe v. wade was overturned.

he was projecting forward, john, and at the end is he seems to be endorsing the federal government get involved to cope women from traveling. >> it's ironic that he used the words really creepy as he was talking there because what he is suggesting there, the whole set of things there is certainly odd. it's almost like donald trump got in a time machine to pick a vice presidential candidate. this is not something he's promoting today. something that the trump campaign would prefer that he hadn't said at the time, and at the same time katy, we are watching what happens when candidates get on the national stage for the first time. there's a vet. i was talking to a republican strategist earlier today. the first rule of being a vice presidential candidate is do no harm. and j.d. vance has been violating that of course in this case, and with some of the others in things he had said previously. he's done nothing to clean it

up. there are these sort of odd conversations he has been in in the past, sort of very, you know, i think problematic politically, points of view, and ones that are extremely conservative and outside the mainstream. >> and they have been everywhere lately. john allen, mark murray, yamiche alcindor, thank you so much. and still ahead, she's got 100 days. what the race will look like as we barrel towards november. michael steele and david french join us. will judge merchan toss the hush money conviction. what the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg just asked the judge to keep in mind. >> and it reads like an episode of succession, what's happening inside a secret murdoch family court battle for control of fox pitting rupert murdoch against three of his adult children. three of his adult children. ♪limu emu♪ ♪& doug.♪ and if we win, we get to tell you how liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need. isn't that what you just did?

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cocky. it's been a good week for kamala harris, and democrats, but as republicans dust themselves off, democratic strategists are warning the party to get ready as you heard him there. joining us now, former rnc chairman, cohost of the weekend, michael steele, and "new york times" opinion columnist, david french. off the top, how funny is it that we're sitting here having this conversation about democrats right now and what's going forward. let's do it. i'm going to start with you, michael. what's going to be coming at the democrats from the republicans after they dust themselves off? >> all hell will break loose. this is, i mean, look, it's full throated. this is about the ultimate power grab. look, project 2025 wasn't written just because they had nothing to do with heritage. and donald trump didn't embrace it and brag about it because he

had no plans for a second administration. so this is about everything that they can imagine, you know, coming true. and this is that moment. yes, j.d. vance, you know, vp interruptus is not a part of the plan. the reality is on the back end of this, you know, going into this convention, and coming out of it, and you've already begun to see elements of it. in pennsylvania right now, there are ads on tv against kamala harris with no re-post or response in that market from the campaign. understandably, given where things are with the campaign that literally just came online a few days ago. about a week ago. that's the reality that carvel is speaking to, and i know some folks in the democratic community are saying, hey, let us have our moment.

we want that excitement and that energy. yes, he's not talking about the grass roots out there that are excited and so forth. what he's saying to the party is you've got to be able to channel that at critical moments starting like no. and that's really what he's concerned that that channelling operation is not up to speed yet in a way that will actually put all of that energy to work. that's what he's talking about. so as the chairman, i can tell you that's where my head would be right now at this stage of this newly formed campaign. >>. get online, get the ads out there. get the people out there. put your message out there. define yourself. don't let them define you. >> exactly. >> democrats, the strategists i have spoken to have said, david, that they are bracing for dog whistles, maybe overt attacks on race and gender. how effective is that going to be from the republican party, and will there be certain areas, certain demographics where it will work better?

>> i think the era of the dog whistle on the right is over. it's just whistles now. you are going to see, especially on the online right, you are going to see racialized attacks against kamala harris. i just don't think there's any question about that. you have already seen it with the constant repetition of the dei candidate talking point. the question is going to be are they going to be able to keep that sort of confined to dark corners of the twitter verse or is this going to be leaking out more broadly. time will tell. what has stood out to me is how flat footed the trump campaign was caught here. really on two counts. they didn't have this immediate broadside to unload against kamala harris. in fact, it was as michael was saying, it was in pennsylvania where really the first, really, i think what could be effective ads against harris were being aired. they didn't have the immediate attack ready to go, and seemed to be completely caught flat footed by all of the j.d. vance

podcast appearances and all of the j.d. vance rhetoric. so they're on their back feet right now, and if i'm the harris campaign, i'm trying to push the pedal to the metal as much as i can, while the trump campaign is in disarray. because it's not going to last very much longer. i mean, i'm sorry james carville is right, the political battle is not really even joined yet. kamala harris has had some advantages because of republican mistakes, but those mistakes, you can't count on them to happen forever. >> j.d. vance, is he going to be a liability. there are all of these podcast appearances, we just played some audio where he's seeming to support stopping women from traveling out of state. he's, you know, putting a scenario out there that's on its face. the underlying issue is he wants the federal government to get involved to ban women who live in states where abortion is outlawed from going to another state. there's that. there's more talk about how he feels about ivf.

there's talk about, you know, cat women, et cetera. how much of a liability is he going to be beyond this moment right now, david? >> you know, i think he's going to be a liability for a long time. because here's a reality. the american people do not apply the normal rules. or let me just say this. millions of americans do not apply the normal rules of politics to donald trump. they apply them to everybody else including j.d. vance. it's one of the reasons why these attacks seem to stick where as if trump had said much the same thing, it would have just been sort of washed over in all the waves of outrage. the normal rules apply to other politicians, and other maga politicians, have tended to not do well, compared to donald trump. and so he brought in a maga politician. it's not surprising to me at all that j.d. vance is struggling right now, that all of these attacks are sticking to him. can i just say, i feel sorry for the democratic staffers right

now who are probably in some basement somewhere listening to dozens of hours of j.d. vance podcast appearances? it's going to be a target-rich environment with all of the rhetoric of the new right that he's adopted and you're just going to see this happen more and more and more throughout the campaign. >> j.d. vance is going to have to debate somebody, the vp candidate that harris chooses, who should that vp candidate be, michael steele, we have talked a lot about some rust belt governors, josh shapiro, we played him at the top saying donald trump should stop s-talking america. tim walz of minnesota who called republicans weird. mark kelly has gone after j.d. vance. there's been a flood of democrats who have been trying out in public for the role of vp. >> yeah, this is the sort of early and middle stages all at once of the beauty pageant for vp. and o so now they're sort of

leveling up their voices in the conversation to say i can take a hit right to the trump team. look, ultimately, this is a strategic decision. it's a very important decision for this particular vice president, kamala harris, like all other presidential candidates, it is the thing that sort of signals how you think and how you see the world ahead of you, and who you think is going to be best aligned to help you enter this brave new world. and so for me, this kind of boils down to two particular world views, one, mark kelly, the other, governor shapiro, for similar reasons, but different. pennsylvania is a big piece of this puzzle for the democrats. and shapiro could be very helpful there. but then you can cut some brand new ground in places like georgia and certainly in arizona and nevada, and even some parts of the upper midwest with a

candidate like mark kelly who brings that heft of being an astronaut and certainly the story of his wonderful wife, and my friend gabby giffords. so you've got a number of snare quos here where i can see where in boils down to a couple of choices that become very difficult, and that's when the strategery will kick in and you'll try to figure out which part of the chess board you'll get the biggest bang for your bucket, which was the thinking the donald trump team had with j.d. vance playing solely to the maga base, which was the advice of his two sons, see how that turned out, and so that strategy does matter in the end. >> i love the call back to george w. david, you're sure it should be governor josh shapiro. >> you know, look, i'm not going to be upset at a senator kelly pick, but i think josh shapiro is the better choice for a clear

reason, and that is he is a very popular governor of perhaps the key swing state. so kamala harris can win without arizona. it's really hard to imagine how she wins without pennsylvania. he's very popular. and as we've seen, he's been out there making a very compelling case against donald trump. if the last few days have been an audition, he's really done well on the audition tapes. he's made a very clear case, and i think one thing that he's really good at doing is when he talks about sort of defending america, defending sort of the state of the country, that is the one thing, that, you know, amongst the many problems that joe biden had, his inability to make the case with america with the kind of eloquence and passion that we're seeing kamala harris make, we've seen josh shapiro make, and in american politics, the side that generally tends to express the optimism about the state of the nation, hope for the future, versus the gloom and doom,

america's on the down slope, we're near the end. it is that optimistic vision that tends to win, and shapiro can make that case. i think senator kelly can make that case. but shapiro makes that case from pennsylvania, and we all know the three biggest rules of real estate, location, location, location, and he's in the key location. >> he is in the key location. i was also talking to a very smart top former democratic official who told me that seems like every 16 years this country goes for a big change, going back to the election of jfk. you can track it. and this is 16 years after obama. is this going to be the big change? is it going to be kamala harris as the big change for this country. michael steele, david french, appreciate it, and don't go anywhere this weekend because on sunday, 100 dates out from the election, we're going to mark it, michael steele, alley velshi, chris jansing break down what's next in the historic

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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with president biden and vp harris yesterday who both urged him to accept cease fire negotiations. today the prime minister flew down to mar-a-lago to cover his bases. it was the first time that netanyahu and former president donald trump have met in person since 2020. and ahead at today's sit-down, donald trump told fox news he also wants to see a quick end to the war. >> yeah, i want them to finish up and get it done quickly. you got to get it done quickly because they are getting decimated with this publicity. israel has to handle their public relations. their public relations are not good, and they've got to get this done fast. >> on saturday, donald trump will head to nashville to deliver the keynote address at the biggest bitcoin event of the

year. some 20,000 people are expected along with a long list of crypto's biggest players. joining us now, cnbc reporter mackenzie sigalos who is in nashville, tennessee. explain why donald trump is going to this event. >> donald trump is coming here because there are a lot of people who are excited about his about face on crypto. when he was in the white house, he said the coin was a scam, that it led to crime, and now in the last few months, we have seen him totally change his tune on this. in may he started accepting cryptocurrency donations. in june he said he would end biden's war on crypto, and then he met with a group of bitcoin miners last month in mar-a-lago who committed to raising $100 million to put him back in the white house. i think he sees it's a virtuous cycle, he continues the pro crypto rhetoric on the campaign

trail, it's paying off. it's a mutually beneficial situation there. >> thank you so much. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg's office is urging a judge not to overturn donald trump's hush money conviction. prosecutors argued in a filing made public thursday that the supreme court decision granting blanket immunity for official acts while donald trump was president has no bearing on the 34 felony counts for falsifying business records he was charged with, and found guilty of. joining us now, msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. do you suspect or detect any nervousness on the part of alvin bragg? >> i don't. i think alvin bragg feels secure about his case, and the reason is as follows, katy. the former president isn't saying he's immune from prosecution. he's immune from official acts evidence in this case. it was a series of testimony from former white house aides or tweets he issued when he was in

the white house. that's all that they're fighting about now. and alvin bragg's team says even if you took all of that out of the case, the mountains of evidence that they presented would have been enough for a jury to have concluded donald trump was amply guilty on all 34 counts. >> i guess i'm a bit of a layman when we're talking about this. i don't understand how if some of the evidence is flawed or inadmissible according to this ruling, how can a conviction stand if that was part of the evidence that was used to convict the person? >> so the law essentially says that you can do what's called a harmless error analysis, that you're basically looking, is there enough evidence that a reasonable jury could have concluded that each and every element of the crime was met based on the evidence that was presented at trial. alvin bragg's team, and eight to ten pages of the brief takes you through all of the testimony, all of the documentary evidence they presented on each one of those elements and says there was more than enough for a reasonable jury to conclude this guy was guilty. >> a mountain of evidence,

ignore the one stick we don't need in the brush. when is the sentencing? >> if it happens, september 18th. we'll have a decision from judge merchan by september 6th. >> lisa rubin, thank you very much. coming up, what led to the fbi's surprise arrest of two of mexico's biggest alleged drug lords? first, though, a real life succession, the murdoch family court battle that you have heard nothing about.

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it is not an episode of succession, but it sure sounds like one. "the new york times" reports rupert murdoch, the 93-year-old media mogul and founder of fox news has been in a secret battle over the future of his media empire. late last year, murdoch petitioned to change the family's irrevocable trust to ensure his eldest son would remain in charge of fox and move his other three adult children are fighting to stop. joining us now, "new york times" writer at large, jim rootenberg. jim, this is a fascinating piece. what exactly is happening? >> well, this is rupert murdoch, the chairman, the founder of the most powerful media conglomerate in the english speaking world, moving to lock in his chosen successor, lachlan murdoch to ensure his media empire remains the voice of the populist right.

in the face of three other children who could under the current terms of his trust take it over after his death, shove aside their brother and move it in a more moderate direction. >> at the heart here, this is rupert murdoch saying the media empire is under threat, if my other kids get involved. lachlan is the one who's going to keep it going as it is going, with the bend it has, with the direction it's taken with donald trump, the extremes it's gone to, and he's saying he's worried that the other three kids will try to moderate things? >> yeah, and look, we are parsing through a leaked court document that we've obtained in a sealed case, so it's never always quite that explicit, but it very clearly states that his concern is the other three could change the editorial and strategic direction of the company and he's arguing that

this, he's trying to even protect them from themselves, that the value of his empire is in its current editorial bend, we know that is in many cases, conservative, right wing populist, and any change to that would threaten the value of the trust, he's protecting his own heirs. >> he's saying i can do this because i'm trying to protect the asset. maybe this is the wrong term but being a fiduciary here. i'm making sure this is going to make as much money as it has done so so far, and the only way it can do so if is lachlan is in charge of it. >> that's essentially the case, and there's a provision in the trust. the trust was written after his divorce from his second wife anna to ensure -- she wanted guarantees that all four children after his death, their four eldest children could work this out amongst themselves. he did have a clause written in there that he could change something to benefit all, and he's saying ironically here, disenfranchising his three

eldest children in favor of the one will help all. >> and the three kids are trying to stop this. they are fighting back, and it's created a rift, it seems, within the family. they're not talking to each other any longer. it does feel like it's straight out of the show "succession," can you tell me more about what we know at least regarding their political views and their views on where fox should go? they're worried about the extremes that it's going to? was there reporting that james thought this was going too far? >> james murdoch has actually at times, and he's lachlan's younger brother, they did power share for a while. he has been public with some of his concerns about the direction of the company in terms of climate change, in terms of the election four years ago. sometimes outright, sometimes a little subtler, but he's made it clear that he would have taken the company in a different direction. he think the direction he would have taken it in, our reporting found when they were running things together that it was

smarter to reign things in a little bit. he always saw it as a conservative outlet. his mantra we understood it was a more responsible version of all of this, but the ratings are the ratings, and he lost the fight internally with his father and brother. the proof is in the punch. the punch is the revenue and that's where we're going. >> fox news 15 years ago, instead of the fox news today. what's the deal with former attorney general bill barr being involved with this? >> rupert murdoch brought in managing directors. the trust, each vote is represent bid a person, and he brought in william p. barr. we don't know a ton about that. we know the former attorney general is running some of this, kind of quarterbacking the changes to the trust, and all of these are going to need court approval in this court in nevada. >> this is so important because fox has so much. fox news has so much influence in american politics, global

politics right now. and if this doesn't go rupert murdoch's way, it could mean that the politics of this country, the division in this country potentially changes? >> i mean, i look at it this way, everyone's riveted to these stories, because it's this incredible drama. but it could very well affect, again, what i think we all would agree is this incredibly influential media behemoth, that does have an outsized voice in our politics in the u.s., in the uk, in australia, and other parts. this is about more than one family's internal drama. >> jim rutenberg, thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. and still ahead. how one alleged mexican drug lord may have fooled the other into getting on a plane to the u.s. where they both were arrested. what exactly is going on here. plus, we're live on the ground in paris where the olympic games are beginning.

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how did the fbi manage to arrest not one but two major mexican drug lords in texas yesterday. joining us now, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. so, ken, the story behind this seems incredible. explain. >> reporter: yeah, so what we're being told, katy, is that the son of el chapo guzman, the

famous drug lord who's now in u.s. prison was the driving force here. he cut a deal with federal authorities. he wanted to turn himself in. he's under a lot of pressure as the u.s. was closing in on him in mexico, and he thought it would be more favorable to him if he brought with him another drug kingpin, and so he brought -- he convinced a guy known as el mayo, who is the founder of the sinaloa cartel and the leader of the sinaloa cartel, importing most of the fentanyl into the united states to get on a private plane with him. it's unclear where he thought the plane was going. it landed in new mexico where both men were taken into custody and flown on to el paso. this is a huge deal, everyone from merrick garland, the attorney general, christopher wray, law enforcement is this as a major victory against a vicious cartel in mexico and now these guys where going to face sgluz what does this do to the cartels in mexico? does it stop them?

does it hamper them? what happens? >> this deals a huge setback to the sinaloa cartel which is a major player in the fentanyl trade, but no expert believes any arrest of any kingpin will stem the flow of drugs to the united states. it never has. there's a long history of the u.s. snagging these people and bringing them to justice and the drugs keep coming because there's so much money and corruption and that's assumed to be what happens here. there may be a short-term displacement among the sinaloa cartel. >> ken, thank you very much. appreciate it. the olympic summer games began a few hours ago with a floating extravaganza down the seine. a live report from paris next with all the details behind the celebrations. binehd the celebrations . #1 broker here for the #1 hit maker. thanks for swingin' by, carl. no problem. so, what are all of those for? ah, this one lets me adjust the bass. add more guitar. maybe some drums. wow, so many choices. yeah. like schwab. i can get full-service wealth management, advice,

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. the 2024 paris olympics have officially begun and for the first time ever the opening ceremony is not taking place inside a stadium. instead, it is on a river where thousands of athletes on dozens of boats are cruising three miles down the seine past landmarks like the eiffel tower and louvre along with performances from lady gaga and newly repaired bells of notre dame, stands full of cheering crowds. joining us correspondent stephanie gosk. can i be you today?

>> yes. i have to admit, this is a plum assignment, even among plum assignments. it is so much fun to be here. it was amazing to watch the opening ceremony unfold here. we've been talking about it for months. such an ambitious idea, but what has been cool about it and you'll see it tonight, i'm about to explain doesn't ruin it for you. watch it when it happens or record it. there are those moments throughout every opening ceremony where the host country will highlight its history. what's amazing about this there are historical points along the seine and they have used them throughout the opening ceremony. my favorite one takes place in a building, marie antoinette held there during the french revolution and a wild seen with a metal band playing, all of these figuring representing marie antoinette with their heads in their hands, streamers the blood of the french revolution. it's french and fantastic. you have to watch it.

but they are pulling it off here. and it's an amazing historic moment from the olympics and paris as well. >> laughing at marie antoinette's beaheading was not on my bingo card today. before i let you go, the trains and the attack, what's happening with that. >> well, listen, it's a mess. but they are figuring it out. all the security is here in paris. the focus has been on the games, the center of paris and then you have this coordinated premeditated sabotage of really the arteries of transportation in this country. three out of four of them were hit by this arson attack that targeted the fiber optics and messed up the signals and really stranded upwards of 800,000 people today. that's getting better. the trains are starting to move again. they had to move security and investigative intelligence

resources, law enforcement resources, to train stations because they're on high alert as well. >> safen ifeny gosk, thank you so much. hope you stay dry. what a plum assignment even when the weather is not quite at its best. a qr code on your screen right now. walk up to it, scan it with your phone. it's going to take you to a place where you can buy tickets, that's the msnbc democracy 2024 lav event. it's coming up on saturday, september 7th in brooklyn, new york. we'll talk about the most pressing issues of our time and this crazy election cycle that we've been living in, so please do come and join us. one last thing, before we go, on one last night. billy joel closed out his ten-year residency at the garden last night putting an exclamation point on 150 shows with what can credibly be argued

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