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he is now running against his former boss for the republican nomination. i have to say, mike pence has always struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure. he always sounds like he is doing a bad impersonation of a politician. but his biggest obstacle in the republican primary is that voters do not seem to like him very much. despite his real advantage on name recognition, just 7% of republican primary voters say they would vote for pence if the primary election were held today. and this ...

>> people -- for your vote. if we would not have joe biden in the white house. >> tonight, the effort to persuade rank and file republicans the former arizona house speaker rusty bowers on his conversations with the special counsel. then, as the ex presidents body man is finally arraigned, how walt nada chose to be a defendant instead of a witness. plus, how two democratic governors used a favor republican mnuchin maneuver to turn their agendas into law and how the wildly successful ro...

ceiling bill. the vote was 63 to 36. it comes some 24 hours after the house passed the same bill. it raises the nations debt limit -- while also imposing new caps on spending. and now goes to the presidents desk for his signature, with four days to go before the monday default deadline. lets get straight to nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitale, who has been standing by for hours and hours. all, right ali vitale. it happened. how did this whole thing go down tonight? >> yeah, ...

down tonight? >> yeah, it was less with a bang and more with a whimper, stephanie ruhle. weeks and weeks of high stakes negotiations here in washington covering each and every turn of them, as speaker mccarthy and his top allies huddled with top white house officials over the course of several weeks to hammer out this deal. and now the senate finishing it up in the dead of night, sending it now to the presidents desk, and avoiding default, with the days to go until that ex date deadlin...

investigators saying this -- left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trumps attorneys on fox news last night. >> they dont understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesnt get a new marking all the time. hes left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. >> we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of h...

every other american citizen in this situation. >> that was the chairman of the january 6th select committee, bennie thompson, weighing in on the report that former president trump plans to run for president again to help him avoid criminal charges. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." weve got a lot to get to on this tuesday, july 19th. in a moment, were going to talk about the two trump white house officials who will testify in thursdays primetime hearing by the january 6th com...

Decade doing trumps dirty work. Credibility issues are why the prosecution used the 20 witnesses who proceeded cohen to basically corroborate his story before they even put him on the stand. It is also why trumps defense team has singlemindedly sought to state their case on discrediting him. Even in cases that might not be read crucial to rebutting the prosecution. For that reason the defense may think they racked up a victory for themselves today because during the crossexamination this morning...

And lets just say that a lot happened today in lower manhattan. Lucky for us, we have the perfect person to talk about it with. Diane perry has been serving as counsel for Michael Cohen during the trial and has given an interview about the testimony. We will talk to her in a moment. Her client, Michael Cohen, of course is the star witness in the case and he returned to the stand today for a third day of crossexamination. From the beginning, we have known that putting Michael Cohen on the Witness...

>> oh [bleep] oh, by god. pete: we begin this hour with a fox weather alert. thousands of residents are left in the dark this morning as two tornadoes rip through parts of tennessee, kentucky and mississippi. rachel: at least six people, including a child, were killed after the tornadoes touched down. will: on the ground in nashville with the latest. nicole. >> reporter: will, pete, ray i chel, good morning to you all. it is a heartbreaking day here in the only in music city, but acros...

please go to cnn.com/violentearth. im liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. [narrator] previously on secrets & spies. [tim naftali] he sells their souls to the soviets. he sells their lives. aldrich ames is voluntarily killing people. [aldrich ames, on recording] [sir david omand] gordievsky knew that they had surreptitiously entered his flat, and that his flat was bugged. [oleg gordievsky] [alexander vassiliev] so, what do you do to officers who betray their own motherland?...