From your local County Office to the hallowed halls of capitol hill, conversations are right now underway about something that was a few years ago unthinkable here in the united states of america, the stuff we thought happens in struggling, fledgling democracies, not here. Officials today everywhere bracing for the possibility of chaos around the 2024 president ial election. Thanks to an expresident who launched a Coup Attempt that ended in violence instead of conceding his defeat last time and is now priming his supporters to be shocked, shocked if he loses to a candidate whose entry in the race has thrown him for a loop. A candidate beating him in levels of enthusiasm, crowd size, most polls, basically any significant metric for a president ial campaign. The Associated Press reports that one suburban Atlanta County is deploying local sheriffs at early voting locations and Panic Buttons that connect Poll Managers to 911. More from that reporting, quote, californias Los Angeles County
Just part of her new warning about project 2025 and a trump second term immigration crackdown. Imagine what that would look like and what that would be. Harris using her platform to urge people to imagine and reckon with this Plan Trump immigration policy, as trump publicly vowed harsher and more violent crackdowns next year in we wins. Im going to play you the full statement here and some other big things that harris has been saying. But before i play that, lets be clear, the factual context and reporting matters. Harris is citing Donald Trumps past policies including how they sometimes illegally and often harshly targeted immigrants and their families and sometimes their children. And so, again, before i play harris for you, with regard to that history, Big Picture top line, i could tell you, Fact Check and true. And many americans may want to forget what it was like back then. But its important to confront that recent history and know and see these facts as the context for Harriss W
And its frightening to see violence being threatened and used in a political campaign. I worry about threats. I worry about whats being said online, about many, many people, not just the former president. And he should be doing, if he were really a leader, he should be doing what he can to calm the matters, not try to just continue to throw, you know, Red Meat out there to get people riled up. Former Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton condemning the apparent Assassination Attempt on former President Trump, and also reacting To Trump placing the blame for the attack on President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Well get the latest on the suspect and also the political implications in just a moment. And well bring you a report from springfield, ohio, as more threats fueled by lies from the former president and his running Mate Force schools to shut down for a Third Day. Good morning. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is tuesday, september 17th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the
Violence not as a fire that needs to be put out and urgently but something to be fed and fueled. Apparently not satisfied with having disrupted life for thousands of his own constituents living and working in springfield, ohio, with his lies about haitian immigrants eating family pets, lies that have spurred dozens of Bomb Threats against elementary schools, middle schools, hospitals, municipal buildings, Jd Vance chose to fan those flames, laying blame for what is still an apparent Assassination Attempt on Donald Trump at the feet of democrats. Listen. You know the big difference between conservatives and liberal is that we No One has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple months. I would say thats pretty strong evidence that the left needs to tone down their rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebodys going to get hurt by it, and its going to destroy this country. We should point out that the
Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. One quick note before we get started tonight. Right now, it is monday night, which is when you are used to seeing me here on the tv machine. Your eyes are not deceiving you, here it is. But this week, i will also be here on friday. We re doing a special edition of the rachel maddow show at the end of this week on friday at 8:00 p. M. Eastern. And then at 9:00 p. M. Eastern, on friday, right after, right after the rachel maddow show, we re going to be showing my new movie. My new documentary which is called from russia with lev. It s utthe first trump impeachment and what was both so terrible and equally so stupid about that entire scandal. So in case you want to pop it in your calendar or set it in the dvr, i m here tonight as normal but you get a second show at 8:00 p. M. Eastern on friday, and right after that special rachel maddow show, you can see my new movie, from russia with lev. But we start tonight