joining me now are joan walsh msnbc political analyst and national affairs correspondent for the nationfried gop strategist and former rudy giuliani campaign aide and author of "gop gps." thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> joan, clinton gave several interviews at a major speech. trump released a facebook video. what do you make of that? >> well, i never praise donald trump but i have to say somebody wrote him a pretty good statement that day. >> that he actually read. designee actually read it. when he read it it sounded more fierce and tough. he did neglect to note that two men killed were african-american. designee called their name. designee called out their names, used their names and talked about them with a tone of respect. so that's a start. i mean secretary clinton did much, much more than that and as we would expect. she tried to talk about both, we don't want violence against police of course but we can't drop these issues of policing and training and justice. i also really like the fact that sheing talked about it as a white person, as white people needing to lis

jonathan capehart, joan walsh and david french back with me.dline? >> it's all -- people will come to grief, typically, when they're trying to predict the mind of donald trump. but i'm going to predict that he's going to do an important american first, pick newt gingrich as the vice presidential candidate, and creating the first six-marriage ticket in american political history, followed within the week by jerry falwell jr. coming and taking a picture in front of all six marriage certificates and saying, look, the republican ticket loves marriage a lot more that be the democrats. >> you know why i like you, david french? i'll tell you why i like you, because you agree with me, and that's usually the thing that makes me like a person most because i agree with your headline. jonathan capehart, what is your headline? >> i think the headline will be the endorsement from senator sanders to former secretary of state hillary clinton. but the key thing to watch is what do they do after -- how strong is the endorsement from senator sanders? and then onc

joan walsh and john fiery. we'll have an oncor performance of the snl weekend update crew. collin jost and michael che. they are very funny guys. some comedy in a minute. >>> we're back from cleveland. back now by popular demand, an encore performance of just an hour ago of "saturday night live's" weekend update. >> it's "weekend update" with colin jost and michael che. [ applause ] >> welcome to "weekend update" on msnbc. i'm michael che. >> i'm colin jost. we are live from cleveland from the republican national convention. >> or as i'm calling it, white rio. this is a gary buce. >> you'll find all the legendary artists who won't let republicans use their visa. mike pence just finished speaking and you can still feel the electricity in the room, static electricity created by all the shoes softly shuffling towards the exit. michael, what was your take away? >> it was all the trump celebrities. he brings out the heavy hitters. scott bao, duck dynasty dudes. >> probably the best ones. >> i mean, get this, they were all available. >> what, all of their schedules lined up? >> w

and now with me is al cardin and joan walsh, thank you for being here.nd first, al, you were a jeb guy. he is a never-trumper. where are you on mike pence. does it make him more attractive to you as a republican. >> i like mike pence. i support mike pence. when i was chairman of the american conservative union he was head of the republican study group. so he respected intellectually in the congress and respected as a governor. the retail politicians is donald trump. the insider will be mike pence. his job is to convince the 30 governors to go campaign for the ticket and convince house members who are skeptical that the ticket is a responsible one and he'll be good judgment to the equation. >> but it is an interesting choice on the part of donald trump. he is gone with somebody who is an evangelical and shore up the base even though they were with donald trump and somebody that the capitol hill version of the party will be comfortable with but he hasn't done anything, in this convention is different from 2012 because you don't have the young, non-white st

joining me now, msnbc contributor joan walsh. i guess i'm torn on this one. seems bizarre and boneheaded. although the context is that apparently this is a thing that bill clinton does with people when he's on the tarmac in the private jet portion of the airport and when he finds out someone else is there. he gets out and goes to talk to them. like with ted cruz. but i just find it a strange move. >> yeah, i agree. in the best of all worlds, he wouldn't have done it. and my heart goes out to attorney general lynch on this one. jonathan asked the question we all wanted to ask, what were you thinking? and she can't tell us. she may have been thinking, oh, my god, mr. president, what are you doing? you can't boot him off the plane. and secondarily, i hate the word optics, we all agree the optics are bad, but the substance of this is ridiculous. you have to believe that she is likely to be indicted and you also have to believe that this was the best way he had to potentially talk to her and influence that. both of those things are crazy. so the idea that we spend

joining me, joan walsh, josh barrow. is that it has been fairly conventional but for the one moment that wasn't which was a ted cruz moment. >> it was conventional except for the message they put forward. in 2012 you had a night where you had various people from the mormon church talk about good works mitt romney had done. you had people from his business career talking about his acumen. you had for what it was worth the we built it theme about the importance of small business. you don't have to like the message but it was a message. there has been no real theme on a lot of these nights. we had a night that was supposed to be about the economy, it was principally about how terrible hillary clinton is for reasons that have nothing to do with the economy. so it's been boring like a lot of conventions. i actually think it's been missing what a convention is supposed to do, sell the candidate. >> the other thing it's missing is heart-felt testimonials from anybody. when paul ryan got up last night, people weren't paying atte

>> joining me now, msnbc political analyst joan walsh, from the nation and a hillary clinton supporter. and nick confessore, political reporter for "the new york times" and an msnbc contributor. so many titles. so accomplished. great to have you here. we had this historic moment. interesting, because the whole convention felt like it was built really to speak directly to particularly white, married women, but just women in general. do you think that hillary clinton accomplished anything over the course of those four nights that might actually move the needle for the general election? >> i think out there in her suffragette white, she did give a lot of american women pride. but i think she also talked beyond it. there was a passage in her speech last night that didn't get much attention. but she's always being told she doesn't tell the elizabeth warren, bernie sanders story of the economy. but she said the economy isn't working because politics isn't working. she really made the case it's decisions we've made, whether it's citizens united, whether it's the privileging of the banking sys

joining me now, joan walsh, national affairs correspondent for the nation and hillary clinton supporterhost of majority report with sam seeder. well, here's what i want to start with, sam, to you. one of the things that happened in the primary, because of the hillary clinton and bernie sanders, she's pragmatic, he's the ideologue, discredited what a figure he's been. this was always going to -- >> yeah, it was inevitable. my assumption is that bernie sanders entered this race with the idea of i want to push a movement, i want to push an agenda. it made all the sense in the world for him to do what he's done to this point, push that agenda. he's changed the democratic platform, changed the positions that hillary clinton took, he forced her to take a lot of very specific positions in the primary they think she probably just gapeld out, didn't want to take, like any candidate, wouldn't want to get nailed down. >> most candidates want to take as few positions as possible. >> of course. and there's a very specific agenda, far more specific than what barack obama had to this point in 2008, to

well played senator, joining us now is my friend john walsh, joan, thanks for being here. >> thanks,ng me. >> you're a hillary clinton supporter. >> i am. >> are you happy with tim cato as the choice. >> i was very much for sharon sherrod brown. that was my first pick. i think they couldn't get around of having john kasich pick his successor. but i like tim kaine a lot. this is a governor and senator in the state of virginia, which is where the n.r.a. is based, who has an f. rating for the nra who stood up to the nra. he signed an executive order taking guns out of the hands of mentally ill people. he's closed a bunch of loopholes. he's been a great vote on gun control, which has become a bigger priority for secretary clinton in this campaign. i was very happy that the gentleman from virginia, that great report brought up his work on civil rights. that he won a tremendous settlement from nationwide, $17.5 million around red lining. you know, he's opposed -- >> with racist housing process. >> right. right. >> you know, he goes to an african-american church. he sends his kids to majori