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hey there, i'm joshua johnson. it's good to be with you tonight from msnbc world headquarters in new york. it is a night where i have something unusual in common with the house of representatives. we are both working. it was a very rare saturday session for the house. a democratic bill passed that allocates $25 billion to the u.s. postal service. the vote was mostly along party lines, with some republican support. >> on this vote, the yechas are 257 and the nays are 150. the bill is passed. >> we will speak with a house member who headed back to d.c. from california to make sure her vote was cast. but that vote may be the end of the line for this bill, despite this working weekend. the senate is still on vacation

until after labor day. it has no plans to cut that short and vote on this bill or to bring it to the floor when it does come back. president trump has said he won't sign it. tonight he tweeted this is all another hoax by the democrats to give $25 billion unneeded dollars for political purposes, unquote. he also repeated his misleading claim that absentee ballots are fine, but universal mail-in ballots are not. absentee ballots are mailed in, and all ballots are verified before they are counted. the phrase "constitutional crisis" gets thrown around a lot these days. this may actually count as 1. the constitution requires congress to set up a postal service and the scope of this service is staggering. according to the usps, it delivers about half of all the mail in the world. last year postal workers delivered 142 billion pieces of mail. and the postal service does not

get tax dollars each year to help pay its bills. msnbc's david gura joins us now with more on today's vote. david, in light of everything that stands in the way of this bill becoming law, what did today's vote really mean? >> yeah, i mean we have seen this ground swell of support over these last few weeks for the u.s. postal service and i think that's what's most significant here. so much attention has been focused on the health of this institution and the importance of this institution. you're right to take this back to the 19th century. to the 18th century as a matter of fact. this is an institution that was founded in 1792 and is codified by the u.s. constitution. it's been around a very long time and people have appreciated for incredibly long time how important it is to this country, to disseminate information, to have an institution like this, to get mail and information across this country. you mentioned what happens next? yes, we've had this vote in the house. unclear what will happen in the

senate. the president has said he would veto it. carolyn maloney said to alicia menendez today, of course the postmaster general, louis dejoy, will sit in front of her committee on monday, field questions from her and her colleagues. this is what she had to say about what happens next. >> at one point he said that he wanted to fund it and he wanted a stand-alone bill, so we gave it to him. now he says he wants to veto it. well, we may be able to override his veto if the american people keep speaking out. personally, i hope that he will listen to the american people, sign the bill, preserve the postal services for america. every president in history has supported the post office. i expect him to do the same. >> of course there's a lot here for the president to listen to. there were protests today in support of the u.s. postal service. we learned today from carolyn maloney, the chairman of that committee, that the dip that the

postmaster general described, the slowing of service was more than he let on. i was struck as i listened to the testimony he gave on friday before a senate committee how few -- no members of that committee as a matter of fact talked about privatizing the u.s. postal service. this is something that doesn't cut across party lines because of the way this postal service was engineered, has been engineered, and works in this country. everyone uses it in all corners of this country. it is the last mile for so many people in this country of delivery. we use mile loosely. you can get a letter delivered anywhere in this country because of the united states postal service. rodney david spoke about this earlier today. there were some republicans who voted in favor of this legislation. he was one of them. he's a republican from illinois. let's hear what he had to say about his rationale for making that vote on the house floor today. >> well, i'm going to vote yes. i've been a big supporter of our postal service. i think the men and women who deliver our mail to our mailboxes every day get taken

for granted for the job they do and the precision that they have throughout that process that really keeps many rural americans that i represent, it keeps them available to have that lifeline into the global marketplace. >> congressman davis echoed what i think a lot of republicans would say, a lot of democrats would say as well that this is a crucial service for so many of their constituents. that's what made them support this institution. pew has done a survey of how americans feel about the u.s. postal service. 91% of them feel positively about the job that that institution does. joshua, i was talking to a number of experts before the hearing on friday. a lot of them said there's a silver lining to all of this, that it's drawn attention to this u.s. postal service by americans. they're going to now pay more attention to what happens here. you mentioned the $25 billion that's a part of this package. despite what the president says, the u.s. postal service does need that money and that's in large part because of what

congress has said, that the u.s. postal service has to fund its pension obligations in advance. that is the waste, that is the yoke on the postal service today. you take that obligation away, it pretty much breaks even. that's something congress has the power to change or control. a number of professors, lawyers i spoke with say their hope is that because of this, long past election day there will be new attention on modernizing the postal service. again, that's the congress' obligation and responsibility. >> and the prior postmaster general said that they actually needed $75 billion for a variety of needs. $25 billion would go a long way, but it's not all that the postal service has been asking for. thank you, david. that's msnbc's david gura starting us off. let's continue now with democratic congresswoman maxine waters of california. she chairs the house financial services committee and she was on hand to vote yes on the postal service bill. congresswoman, good evening. >> good evening. >> so what happens now? i don't see a path forward for

this bill. it feels like, and correct me if i'm wrong, but it feels like the strategy of house democrats is to put forth legislation and try to get the american people to put pressure on republicans in the senate to force them to bring the bill up for a vote. is that the strategy or is there something else? >> that's not only the strategy, a part of what we do as public policy makers is to define what it is we are asking for and what we want to see done. and the way that you do that is through the formal process of putting together legislation that spells it out. and of course we want the senate to support that, and of course we want our public to let them know that this is very important and that they have concerns and they want them to support it and send it to the president. and so, yes, pressure applied all the way through is very helpful in getting something passed. >> with regard to postmaster louis dejoy's testimony on

friday to the senate, he'll be testifying on monday to the house. what questions would you like to see him answer on monday that maybe he either did not answer on friday or maybe he didn't answer to your satisfaction? >> well, the first thing i'd like to ask him is what qualifies you to be the postmaster general? did you get appointed simply because you're a big contributor to the president and to the republican party? and why were you sent here? what is your mission? was your mission to do what you've started to do, dismantle machines that are responsible for sorting mail to get rid of overtime, to remove the blue boxes from our neighborhoods? is that what you were sent here to do? were these your thoughts or were you given this mission by the president of the united states, because he's afraid of absentee balloting or voting balloting, whatever you want to call it, mail-in voting. was he afraid of this to the

point where he's willing to basically, you know, have a scorched earth policy to dismantle the postal service in order to win. that's what it's all about. he believes that with this mail-in voting that he will not succeed, he will not be re-elected. and so he is prepared to do whatever it takes. and of course for me to dismant dismantle this american institution is just unbelievable how the president can get right in the faces of the american people who's relied on the postal services, everything from delivering medicine to our seniors, to delivering the checks to our veterans who are looking for those disabled ability checks, to the seniors, to the veterans, to people who basically wanting to communicate with their families, et cetera, et cetera. but the president of the united states to disregard all of that and move in quickly without any

hearings, without anything. i just think it's unbelievable. i still am shocked at the idea that the president could do this. >> realistically speaking, congresswoman, do you see a prospect for democrats and republicans to agree on a plan and get it to the president's desk before election day? i mean is there any common ground to work on? >> well, you know, we're always asked this question. and the fact of the matter is, it is the republican party that is a constantly against everything. it is the republican party who walks away from negotiations. it is the republican party who just does not seem to care what harm they're placing on the americans in this country in order, i guess, to prevail with their right-wing philosophy of not spending government money unless, of course, it's for building a wall the way the president wants or something that they think is important for

them that supports their philosophy. but when it comes to protecting or helping the american people, if it's a democratic proposal, we just don't get any cooperation. >> i certainly hope you do find some ways to cooperate going forward because you certainly know how dire the need is. thank you, congresswoman. >> oh, we are cooperating. don't forget, it's the democrats who are cooperating. it's the republicans who are the obstacles to anything getting done. >> congresswoman maxine waters, i appreciate you making the time. thanks very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> this week marks 15 years since hurricane katrina hit the united states. it was one of america's deadliest, most destructive disasters. you'd understand if folks on the gulf coast felt a little disgusted at the way they might end up marking this occasion with two more storms that could hit at the same time. the national hurricane center is tracking tropical storms marco and laura. forecasters expect them to make

landfall early next week, possibly simultaneously. as you can see, possibly along the same track. if they intensify and maintain their paths, we might have two hurricanes in the gulf of mexico at the same time. we've never seen that before. as the south keeps a close eye on the radar, california is praying for rain to ease wildfires burning across the state. nearly 14,000 firefighters are battling nearly two dozen blazes. more than 115,000 californians have evacuated their homes, businesses and colleges. the lnu lightning complex fire is burning in wine country in napa and sonoma counties. it is the second largest blaze in california's history. it has killed at least four people. officials say lightning strikes started many of these fires. california governor gavin newsom is asking oar statther states t out and the national guard has been activated. much more ahead tonight on msnbc. democrats are making the case

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i'll be an ally of the light, not the darkness. it's time for us, for we the people, to come together. and make no mistake, united we can and will overcome this season of darkness in america. >> joe biden's acceptance speech at the democratic national convention was a defining moment

for his campaign. and it got quite a few good reviews. some said that biden stuck the landing. some called his remarks enormously effective. one republican pollster said the speech would be a tough act for president trump to follow. biden's speech also was the cap stone of the dnc for audiences. it got the highest tv ratings of any night during the four-day convention. joining us to put this year's dnc in further context is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. good evening. >> great to see you, joshua. >> good to see you too. let me play one more clip from joe biden's speech in which he put this moment into a historical context i'd like to ask you about more specifically. listen. >> wonderful. >> nearly a century ago, franklin roosevelt pledged a new deal at a time of massive unemployment, uncertainty and fear. stricken by a disease, stricken by a virus, fdr insisted that he would recover and prevail, and

he believed america could as well, and he did and we can as well. >> so you've got joe biden invoking fdr, who took over after herbert hoover's presidency. the parallel seems super obvious to anyone who knows about that -- >> sounds good to me. you're doing great. >> how did you see that? there's also that and the fact that we're talking about fdr, who he referred to being stricken by polio and one of the last pieces of video before joe biden spoke was from brayden harrington, the kid with the stutter who felt this kind of connection to joe biden. >> right, that's exactly right, and showing one huge quality of joe biden, which is absolutely essential to great leadership in the american presidency, and that is a sense of empathy. but i think you're absolutely right, joshua, because this is a crisis moment. this is like 1860, when we were on the verge of civil war over slavery. that enormous moral issue that

presidents had shrunk from dealing with, or 1932, as biden said, a time of a great depression when people were saying maybe our economic system might not survive and the result may be our democracy might not survive. what does that sound like this year? so many speakers at the democratic convention, especially the obamas, said there is a big risk if donald trump is re-elected this year, we might not have a democracy anymore. barack obama said do not let them take your democracy away. >> let's listen to a little bit of what you're referencing right now. here's part of barack obama's speech at the dnc. >> donald trump hasn't grown into the job, because he can't. and the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 americans dead. millions of jobs gone. while those at the top take in

more than ever. our worst impulses unleashed. our proud reputation around the world badly diminished. and our democratic institutions threatened like never before. >> michael, clearly the fraternity of past presidents seems to have broken with this speech at this moment. >> that's absolutely true. and that to my mind was the most scathing criticism that a former president has given of his successor at a major party convention. barack obama feels so strongly about what's happened that he was willing to break not only -- not a tradition, herbert hoover spoke against fdr in 1936. it's not so much that, it's that president obama for nearly four years has been relatively polite and constrained. and for him to look into the camera lens and say what's at stake in this election is the very fate of democracy, that's

something that connects and has real meaning. >> let me ask you about kamala harris' acceptance speech. a lot has been made of the obvious historical import of her being on the party's ticket. here's a piece of what she should during the dnc. >> i keep thinking about that 25-year-old indian woman, all of 5 feet tall, who gave birth to me at kaiser hospital in oakland, california. on that day she probably could have never imagined that i would be standing before you now and speaking these words. i accept your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. >> before i let you go, michael, it seems interesting not just because of kamala harris' candidacy itself, but also the messaging of the democratic party, that this -- >> absolutely. >> -- is something that they believe telegraphs to the nation, we are where your head

is at and we are the party that's going in the direction that america is going. parties have chosen different ways to telegraph that over the years, and this is kind of the bleeding edge of this kind of messaging, i think. >> totally agree with you, joshua. and look at it this way. this is the 100th anniversary of the amendment that was intended to guarantee voting rights for women. of course it didn't do it because a lot of black women were not able to vote for decades yet. so in that year and in this year when you have a president who is all the time running down immigrants and denying the importance of immigrants and their contributions to the american story, which is immense, what better rebuke than to have kamala harris, the daughter of jamaican and indian immigrants. >> would love to talk with you more about the messaging after the gop convention going into the debates. >> i'd love it. >> i'm sure that will give us plenty to talk about. >> i think we'll have one or two things to say. >> one or two things.

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chief strategist was arrested this week. he faces charges related to taking donations intended to help build a border wall. bannon is pleading not guilty. here to break this down is david farenthold, and david corn, washington bureau chief at mother jones and an msnbc contributor. david is also the author of "russian roulette, the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." good to have you with us, two davids. i'll have to call you mr. farenthold and mr. corn. i just need to know who is who. starting with mr. farenthold, didn't we know all of this from the previous report, the mueller report? what makes this different from that? >> well, this report does go a little bit further. there were some conclusions in this report that i think weren't really underlined or weren't brought home in the mueller report. one of the most important ones was this person, konstantin kilimnick, who was an

associating. we knew he had ties to russia, but the description up until now had been praperhaps related to russian intelligence. this was a person manafort was feeding data to about what the trump campaign saw as its needs. this report says this man was a russian intelligence asset. making that connection clear. i thought that was one of the most important things that was said here. the trump campaign manager had this very close tie to somebody who the senate committee believed was definitely working for russia. >> david corn, what about other takeaways from this report, particularly the fact that this is a bipartisan report. and for the most part, i think there's one addendum that was different between the republicans and the democrats, but for the most part this is a unified finding about what happened in 2016. >> that's why it's so stunning. not only was manafort talking to a russian intelligence officer, the report says that there's evidence to believe this russian

intelligence officer was somehow tied to putin's attack on the election in 2016, the hack and leak operation. so take a step back and think about this. trump's campaign manager was talking to a guy in russian intelligence who might have been involved in russia's attack in the election to help donald trump? remember all the talk about no collusion? that sounds like collusion to me. this report unlike the mueller report, unlike what republicans have been willing to acknowledge, says that during the 2016 campaign, the trump campaign actively tried to exploit putin's attack on the election and tried to do so through roger stone and also took steps of their own to help the russians cover it up by denying publicly that the russians were doing this. so here you have not even an accusation, a conclusion from a republican-backed report that donald trump and his campaign aided and abetted a foreign

adversary's attack on the 2016 election. i think it's stunning. if this report had come out on its own a year or two back without all the other spin surrounding this, it would be the biggest political scandal in american political history. >> stunning indeed, but david farenthold, what comes of this now? i don't think that any democrat has the political stomach to try to impeach and remove donald trump now, 73 days before the election. so what happens next? >> well, i mean it's up to the voters. it seems like everyone has decided that's the forum to prosecute this is the 2020 election. you're right, trump has been already been impeached and acquitted. the mueller report, which robert mueller's investigation, which had this sort of main momentum and focus for the first two years of trump's administration, that ended kind of with a whimper. i think this arrives at a time when not much is going to happen except an election. >> david corn, let me shift gears and talk about steve bannon. he spoke publicly about his

arrest on friday. here's part of what he said. >> i am not going to back down. this is a political hit job. everybody knows i love a fight. i was called honey badger for many years. honey badger doesn't give. so i'm in this for the long haul, i'm in this for the fight. i'm going to continue to fight. this was to stop and intimidate people that want to talk about the wall. >> david corn, what do you make of the honey badger spinning this as a political attack? i don't think that the feds would have brought this kind of a case against steve bannon unless they were pretty sure they have the goods, but i don't know. >> i would encourage everyone to read the 24-page indictment. the case is very straightforward and very simple. i've read a lot of indictments, sometimes they're very hard to get through and figure out what the law is. in this case, at least as they present it, and he is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but as they present it, it seems to be a very strong case of trumpian grift. and, you know, he can get out

there. he's a man full of bluster and believes he's a great strategic genius. he did help get donald trump elected. but the facts will speak for themselves. and remember, the southern district of new york was run by a republican until very recently and bill barr tried to get that guy out of office and actually succeeded. you have to wonder if it was connected to this or other investigations at the southern district of new york that we believe are still ongoing that do affect trump and the trump organization. >> i'm glad you brought that up. with regard to that, david farenthold, before we go, what about the prospect of this being connected to other investigations, including the prospect that steve bannon, if he had information that was useful to prosecutors, might flip and turn state's witness on other people? >> well, it's certainly possible. i mean he would know quite a lot about the 2016 election. i don't think he knows that much about the trump organization, the private business, but he certainly knows a lot about the white house and the trump campaign in 2016. it's very possible. as david said, they seem to have

this case pretty cold. i don't think there's a lot of wiggle room here. steve bannon may decide there's some way to save his own skin. certainly donald trump so far has been trying to distance himself from bannon. he has not played the same game he did with roger stone or with michael cohen in the beginning where he tried to suck up to the person who might know something about him and was now in legal trouble. he's tried to cut bannon loose from the beginning. >> david farenthold and david corn, thanks, david, thanks, david. >> thanks, joshua. >> thank you. opponents of straw man leaders in and near russia are facing pushback and poison. a russian opposition leader is in germany now for medical treatment. navalny is an outspoken critic of vladimir putin. he remains in a coma but is in critical and stable condition. allies believe he was poisoned on thursday, allegedly by the kremlin. doctors in russia say he more likely lost consciousness because his blood sugar dropped.

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donald trump, you're asking americans to trust you with their future. let me ask you, have you even read the united states constitution? i will -- i will gladly lend you my copy. >> in 2016, khizr khan lit up the democratic national convention. he whipped out that pocket constitution offering it to donald trump. he was speaking as the father of a fallen soldier.

back in 2004, a car bomb killed his son as he tried to save his fellow troops. this year khizr khan returned to the convention representing virginia in the roll call to elect joe biden and he joins us now. mr. khan, good evening. >> good evening, joshua. i am so delighted. your word and your voice have raised our hearts and our homes for the longest time, so congratulations moving forward and continuing to hearten us. thank you. so good to be with you. >> that is very, very kind of you, sir, i really appreciate that. thank you very much. let me play one more clip of what you said at this year's convention or play a clip from the 2020 convention and i'd like to know some of why you expressed what you chose to express. listen. >> three years ago, my beloved city, charlottesville, virginia, was attacked by white supremacists and a young woman

was killed. we were attacked again when donald trump praised those racists, turning his back on a community that just wanted peace. that was the day joe biden decided to join this battle for the soul of america. over time my wife and i have come to know his soul. he's a decent, compassionate man. he will bring this nation together. >> both you and joe biden mentioned charlottesville in your addresses. what was it about that that stood out to you in terms of what you chose to say? >> well, we had been observant of donald trump's violation of our constitution even before 2016. and what concerns me is that --

please bear with me. extrajudicial killings on the streets of america, as america exercises its first amendment rights, these peaceful protesters, it has never happened before. immigrants, especially children in cages are locked up in jail without judicial due process that is guaranteed in our constitution. it is that, that caused me to continue to raise my voice. it is that, what took me to 2020 roll call vote and i voiced my concerns. >> what is your sense of the constitution today? you held up that pocket constitution in 2016. i don't think most people carry a pocket constitution with them, unless it's important to them. how has your view of this country, of this democracy, evolved in the four years that

donald trump has been the president? >> well, i am very concerned, very concerned. i have taken an oath, as every immigrant citizen takes the oath, to defend the constitution and the laws of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic. so i am continuing to defend the constitution. i have my full faith in the goodness and the values of our constitution and our democracy. but look, never before in the history of our nation such violation of our fundamental values has taken place as now since trump took office. but before independence when such violations were taking place, we threw out king george and gained our independence. this was 240 years ago.

never, ever since we have faced such violation as we are facing now. >> i know i have to let you go in a minute, but as a gold star father, i'm interested in your perspective on joe biden as commander in chief. is there anything in particular that you are expecting him to do or do differently if he's elected president as it relates to our armed forces? >> he is a military father. he knows what it takes to send a loved one to harm's way. that is why with that empathy, that compassion, he will make the best -- one of the best commander in chief of our armed forces. he has already voiced his concern about our adversary, russia, placing bounties on -- to harm our men and women. he has voiced whereas incumbent

commander in chief, incoumbent president has uttered not a single word in defense of our brave men and women. it is that, that makes me continue to support joe biden and america is realizing and america has seen the harm that current incumbent, current president continues to cause, continues to favor our adversaries instead of following, instead of defending our constitutional values, our rule of law in defense of our nation, in defense of our armtk appreciate you making time for us. thanks very much. >> thank you. a story breaking from "the washington post" tonight. it is reporting that one of president trump's sisters has made some potentially damaging remarks about her brother, the president. we'll get to that in just a moment.

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she spoke to students who decided to stay in the game. >> reporter: a couple of schools had different guidelines. i am here at annapolis. athletes across the country are patien patience. i spoke with one of the athletes who transferred to an out of state school to ensure he could play for his senior fall season and get those needed to college recruiters. he and his mom moved to their vacation home in florida so he can play football there. here is what is they told me about that decision. >> a lot of them rely on their fall season to get recruited. you push back to the spring and now that eliminates that whole

process for his senior year and junior. >> i don't think people understand how much bonded we are of the sports that we play. they don't understand how deeply connected sports like football or volleyball or arts for student athletes. not being able to play a sport that they love, it would have driven me crazy if i had to sit in my home the whole season and not play at all. >> i think when we made the decision i think we were the crazy ones. there were only a couple of families decided to make this move. i think honestly in the last three weeks, there has been handful of kids more than i would have expected to make the

move out of illinois to another state and it is not only football. >> reporter: the head of the national federation of high school sports quick to tell me that no sports had been cancelled. they are just modified and postpo postponed. 37 states had to modify their seasons and 17 cancelled and moved them to 2021. as schools assess and the public health risk and the mental health of the kids, this would be a fluent situation in the weeks and months to come. julia chester. >> thank you. more to come of stories posted from "the washington post." it involves secretly recorded video of donald trump's sister saying among other things that he does not read and he has no principles. we'll speak to senate joe kennedy of massachusetts and

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