amy: john nichols, tell us where we are in milwaukee.scinating, the republican national convention has come here to milwaukee, a history of -- a proud history of a socialist city. >> i find it fascinating the republicans, who during this course of this convention will condemn socialism, i don't know, 300 times? 500 times? 1000 times? it has become such a part of their political messaging the last many years, even before trump. this goes back a good 10, 15 years. newt gingrich was a big accelerator of this. i am fascinated they chose to come to milwaukee because milwaukee is a city, as alice cooper told us in "wayne's world," the one major city in the u.s. that is selected three socialist mayors. socialists ran the city from 1910 pretty consistently until 1960. i knew the last socialist mayor as a kid, frank zeidler. his office was about a block or so from where the convention is being held. the fact of the matter is, milwaukee socialists were successful. this city was seen as the best governed city, awarded as such, yet they did not back

joining me now nbc news senior political editor mark murray, and john nichols, national affairs correspondenteek here in milwaukee. mark, just give us a broad overview of how the numbers look, especially in those battleground states. >> right now we have a situation where nationally and in the battleground states, donald trump leads within the margin of error, and honestly, the race hasn't looked all that different post-debate than it was before the debate. now, there was a new national cbs poll that came in that showed donald trump opening up even kind of little bit of a larger lead, still within the margin of error, after the assassination attempt on saturday. we're going to need to see what the polling looks like, katy. certainly in other surveys that were taken after last saturday's events, but i think right now with all the chaos that's surrounding the democratic party and the democratic ticket right now, donald trump has a lead, but it still is a very competitive race right now. >> it's a competitive race, it appears, from the numbers, but the democrats keep saying that they have a winn

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john nichols, i appreciate you joining us. you to wisconsin. >>> lester hole sits down with president biden in an exclusive one-on-one interview. watch a preview on "nightly news", and the full unedited view on -- that does it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts right now. >>> his there, everyone. 4:00 in the east, to quote beloved staff phone from "saturday night live," this place has everything. a real housewife, a guy who

joining us now is national affairs correspondent for the nation john nichols.alongside the uaw, he joined the picketline, first president to ever to so, the most pro union president of all time. why would there be hesitation from some unions about his vice president? >> i don't know that there's hesitation. some unions have different processes. what i can tell you is as someone who covered the uaw a lot and interviewed shawn payne, he would personally like to go and debate donald trump. so i have very little doubt where the uaw will end up. there are some other unions where there's much more debate how they will sort this out and where they will come. by and large, you're going to see a remarkably united labor movement supporting kamala harris. you're seeing some big endorsement thes happening now. the labors international union of north america, which is a very, very big union, gave its endorsement. they are a construction trade union, but they are also a union with a very large public sector component as well. they work in a lot of cities and do a lot of serv

it's going to be an interesting campaign, john nichols, from the nation, thank you so much. we're going to talk more about the big names being floated as kamala harris's vp, first, what democratic voters in arizona and pennsylvania told us about who they would like to see at the top of the democratic ticket. >> maybe, i don't know if he's running or not, but bernie sanders. he seemed like an ideal, you know, candidate at the time when he was trying to run for the candidacy spots. >> actually, hillary clinton. i voted for her back in 2016. so why not. >> the dream would probably for me be michelle obama, but, you know, i see them on twitter vacationing and stuff, maybe they want to chill. ant to chill . as i was writing, i found that i just wasn't sharp and that doesn't work when you're writing a mystery and i knew i needed to do something so i started taking prevagen. i realized that i was much more clear, much sharper. i was remembering the details that i was supposed to. prevagen keeps my brain working right. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription. it's payb

joining us, political analyst chuck todd and the nation's national affairs correspondent john nicholsd the biden team and biden himself will say these are elites. this is the democratic donor class trying to push me out. what do they know? look what happened in 2020? everybody counted me out but they're not counting on the voters here and what the voters say about joe biden. there's a polling out there, we've seen the numbers. i got out and spoke -- we mentioned this the other day, i spoke to voters in wauwatosa, wisconsin, democratic voters and i asked them what they thought of joe biden. let's listen. >> you look like you need to have a conversation about politics. it's just like you scream ask me about the presidential election? >> no. >> no. >> no, no. >> are you not excited? >> they're both annoying. >> they're both annoying? >> like, they're both not good candidates. >> no one is exciting me nationwide. >> it just sucks. >> sure does. >> i mean, if i'm being honest, they're just old white men. >> for me, it's almost like an offensive vote against trump. >> do you want joe biden

joining me now is errin haines, and john nichols, national affairs kraubt for the nation, and fernand amandi, msnbc political analyst. thank you all for being here. i'm going to go to you first, errin. what do we know about the vetting of candidates? before we get to that, let's take a moment and ruminate on this speech today that the vice president did. this was her opening, it was a pretty big deal of an opening. let's talk about that first. >> donald trump is relying on support from -- okay, go ahead? >> yep. >> we're seeing kamala harris is just so much more confident and comfortable in her own skin than she was when she ran for president four years ago. coming out to "freedom" by beyonce is definitely a choice. it says a lot about the tone. i think we can expect to see over the next 100 or so days. she's already acting like the nominee. she's not waiting. she's introducing herself to the american people. she's positioning herself as a prosecutor making her case against donald trump and casting him as a creminal and threat to our democracy, and there's excitement. you saw it from

anyway, the rambling speech prompted john nichols to write, it is observed to suggest he can't be being now is democratic strategists and msnbc previous analyst previously served as secretary to vp candidate paul ryan. the new york times opinion writer described this speech is low-energy. we saw far south the rambling nature but it was boring, as well. it was as usual. how much of a gift was this for the democrats, whoever ultimately faces donald trump? >> i think that for donald trump at the rnc, that speech is a major gift. christmas came early for democrats in some senses. this was a speech that was touted as to be unifying, trump taking a different tone, more conciliatory donald trump, the unfortunate series of events following the assassination attempt but however, within the first 12 minutes, which i would argue were about unity written by some pretty strong speechwriters, he abandoned the script entirely and went on his own for the next hour and a half and returned to the maga, anti-immigrant, racist, you know, we have seen this story before, the 2020 negating the results of the

. >> mark murray, john nichols, thank you very much. that's going to do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show on social media @mitchellreports. i will be back on the air on monday, maybe even earlier, "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >> good day, i'm chris jansing, more committed than ever. that's how joe biden's campaign chair is characterizing the president's resolve as he fends off growing calls to leave the presidential race. have democrats run out of ways to force his hand? and while they continue a painful waiting game with joe biden holding all the cards, republicans are leaving their convention confident and unified. then again, president trump's promise of a more unifying message didn't last for the 93 minutes, what that means for the campaign as republicans chart their path forward. >>> plus, the blue screen making millions see red. the global computer glitch of historic proportions that's knocked out key services and grounded tens of thousands of airline flights worldwide. as one security

we also have charlie sykes here with us, and john nichols, i don't have your intros in front of me. forgive me if i have messed up everybody's title. let's talk about j.d. vance, chuck, he's definitely trying to do something different for the republican party, the traditional republican party, more in line with the donald trump future vision of things, i guess? >> i think that's the way to do it because it is interesting how there's surface unity on j.d. vance as the nominee. everybody here is just in a very good mood. it's still weird to me that this is such a celebratory mood given what happened saturday. but they are. perhaps they just believe it's divine intervention, destiny, however you want to look at it, and i'm not going to let other people analyze the psyche of that, but this is a very celebratory place. it is interesting the nervousness among tradition. whatever you want to call it, long time republicans. i'm sorry. and, john, i would be curious if you agree with this, that teamster speech on monday night, i felt -- i was transported back to san francisco 1984 and the wal

john nichols, i appreciate you joining us. i hope to see you next week when we're in wisconsin. >> i welcome you to wisconsin. >>> lester hole sits down with president biden in an exclusive one-on-one interview. watch a preview on "nightly news", and the full unedited view on -- that does it for me today. "deadline: white house" starts right now. >>> his there, everyone. 4:00 in the east, to quote beloved staff phone from "saturday night live," this place has everything. a real housewife, a guy who played herk leases, an ex-secure adviser, ex-president of the united states and who can forget, for one year there were even nuclear secrets stashed away. brand-new reporting from "new york times" swings open the doors to the private club mar-a-lago, fuel by proximity to the ex-president, now presumptive republican presidential nominee. it gives us a glimpse into the ideologues, the conspiracy theorists, the outright crackpots and weirdos that donald trump spends free time with, as he makes a third run for the white house. as "new y

nichols and that he had seen his name on tv. so, at this point, the fbi agents are thinking, "could this be our john doe number 2?" from. the guy said, "no, that's not the guy." ♪ he was not john doe number 2. ♪ at that point, of course, they had no idea where in the world is timothy mcveigh. ronan: they don't realize that their guy, their suspect, is sitting in a jail in perry, oklahoma, less than two hours away. potok: he is about to be brought before the judge, who is, undoubtedly, going to make some kind of bond arrangement and let him drive off into the sunset. but for the fbi, they're man hunters, and the first thing they did was do a national crime information center search to see if he'd contact with law enforcement. and we found out shortly after the bombing, an oklahoma highway patrolman, charles hanger, arrested him. man: he was in the process of being led to the courthouse for a bond hearing when that phone call was made and could have walked free in as little as 30 minutes. ♪ we jumped in the helicopter and flew up there as fast as we could get there. so, we went in and confronted him. they said, "do