i can get my lips to work tonight i ll be able to have to get some questions. how are you doing, good to see you. carrots i wanna get your reaction to the news that tornado is leaving the secret service. any of location for the january six investigation? well this figure is one who has been controversial within the secret service for sometime. and his departure from the secret service comes just as the january six commission now has him in their sights. this is a moment of some transition for the secret service. just in the last couple of days. president biden has appointed a new director as director james murray stepping down and retiring himself. so, i think we are seeing a lot of questions about the role of the secret service, right now. they are tied to president trump. and what the loyalty some of the agents within that agency has been and was certainly in those hours around january 6th. nick 20 or not it was mentioned during a key part of cassidy hutchinson s januar
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
them back. this is american voices. hello, everyone i m julio castro in for alicia menendez. we begin this hour with president trump s rage against democracy. and those calling it what it truly is, a danger to democracy. saturday in wilkes-barre, pennsylvania, trump ranted for more than two hours at a rally for pennsylvania s gubernatorial candidate doug mastriano and gop senate candidate doctor oz. it was the former guy s first public rally and speech since the fbi search at mar-a-lago last month. as you can imagine, it quickly devolved into nothing more than a tirade against the man who beat him, president joe biden. he called biden an enemy of the state and the fbi and the department of justice, vicious monsters. well it s pretty much always the case, trump is clearly more angry at biden-than-normal after biden gave a primetime speech last week and philly, trying a clear line between maga and mainstream republicans. and this morning, just hours after donald trump muddy t
call and start saving today. all right that s gonna do it comcast business. powering possibilities. for me tonight. alex wagner will be here tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell good evening lawrence. good evening rachel and wish me luck sleeping tonight after listening to james acton talking about that nuclear power plant situation. you know it i did when i bought the one house that i bought in this world? i kind of drove around the neighborhood looking for nuclear power plant. i just wanted to make sure. just wanted to make sure. there wasn t one within walking distance anyway. i mean, the thing about nuclear power is that it s got some stuff going for it in terms of carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions in everything, it s great. but you know? what when used as directed, nuclear power plants produce nuclear waste and we re not always great at dealing with it. and a time of war zone, or unpredictability nuclear waste can become a mass
welsh this is brand new contemporary music. we re going to get into that as well as the politics. also tonight, carole king, the icon is here with us live. we re going to get into her activism, and why she says she has something to talk about on the beat, and we said come on over. it s a lot cooking here on this late august summer vibes. a lot of news, guests and a lot to get to. it ain t summer as far as the president is concerned. president biden going at what we calls the semifascism of certain maga republicans in that party. these are, according to some, the strongest comments yet, as he rebukes maga today just days after making waves in what was a parentally a very clear deliberate effort to address authoritarianism in america. so let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. for god s sake, whose side are you on? you can t be pro law enforcement and pro insurrect