This is nbc nightly news with lester holt, reporting tonight from the democratic national convention in philadelphia. good evening. on the eve of their big convention, the democratic party has been rocked by a bombshell tonight. the head of the democratic national committee, congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, resigning under fire late today, all in the face of an uproar over a batch of emails made public by wikileaks. i know this feels like a lifetime ago, but that was eight years ago, 2016 election. that s how the democratic national convention started. there was already friction in the party between clinton s supporters and sanders supporters. then there was this release of internal democratic party emails by wikileaks. it was like putting gasoline on a smoldering fire. and the chair of the national democratic party quit the night before the convention started.
she s out after a firestorm over party emails posted by wikileaks suggesting that the dnc favored clinton. it s just something we ve all known all along, that it s been corrupt and that they ve been hiding things and pushing for hillary. the clinton campaign today blaming russia for what they say is hacking. other experts are now saying that the russians are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping donald trump. oh, turns out those experts were right. it was a russian operation. the russian intelligence services had hacked internal emails from the democratic party. they released them through wikileaks. it was a tried and true russian strategy, right? they identified an existing point of friction, sort of normal party friction between competing candidates, and then they exacerbated it to cause maximum chaos to help their
Townhall.com editor congregant david s water fox news contractors and mark penn former clinton advisor and poster. now ceo of stagg well. without al mawasi, which have all three of you with us. i actually want to start by going back to october of 20 2020, mark. and here candidate biden at the time is talking about opening up the borders and that is why people should want to vote for him. watch this. president joe biden: is our first president of the units that anybody seeking asylum has to do it another country. you come to the united states and you make your case that i speak as an based on the following why i deserve an american law. they re sitting sitting in squalor and other side of the river. martha: mark penn big change of vantage point on all of us today. you said no you can come in to the country illegally. you can only come through the
The exciting thing him, who are having this discussion a moment ago with this momentum carried through november? the court cases are so as long as you have other venues pressing forward and legal strain, he was the voters continue to be galvanized and feel like it s an unfair process politically influenced. you reacted to that, turn in the grant from the president and the video. it was as creepy and insidious and almost like an sq. i m behind is because i set my number three from d.o.j. to work with alvin bragg which is not a step up in the career ladder. that smile told me so much that i wrote on twitter, make up a campaign ad. literally the trump campaign did the picture tells a thousand words. is senile chucky doll democrats a better description. let s look at this from the clinton we recently had new
Having this discussion a moment ago with this momentum carried through november? the court cases are so as long as you have other venues pressing forward and legal strain, he was the voters continue to be galvanized and feel like it s an unfair process politically influenced. you reacted to that, turn in the grant from the president and the video. it was as creepy and insidious and almost like an sq. i m behind is because i set my number three from d.o.j. to work with alvin bragg which is not a step up in the career ladder. that smile told me so much that i wrote on twitter, make up a campaign ad. literally the trump campaign did the picture tells a thousand words. is senile chucky doll democrats a better description. let s look at this from the clinton we recently had new
Harrison butker showed up. i think that was more of a thing for his team than maybe what he wanted to do the chief did by him but sports tend to be passive aggressive. so i m not surprised that there wasn t an incident. i can i can think back to so many times that people had some kind of beef about whatever president bush, clinton, even obama, and they came to the white house anyway and today it actually felt like a normal de is 40 400. look, they won the championship. he was a part of the team. he had every right to be there. but in your piece, you referenced this infamous moment from a 2017 trump s speech. listen wouldn t you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a drop the field right now out, he s fired i
Who needs definitely a better dye job than what he s wearing there. let them gloat and celebrate because there s 1 pull out today be the daily mail that shows donald trump adding 6-point bump postconviction and we have seen this movie before. 1999 you covered it. bill clinton s impeachment over his affair with monica lewinsky. republicans overreached. clinton impeached and clinton s approval 70% the highest of any 2 term president and pulling history because nobody likes political prosecutions. donald trump will tell you after his first impeachment while in office his numbers also jumped to their highest levels of his first term following that show trial. finally look at the fundraising we know about the 40 million-dollar hole in 10 hours after the trial concluded. when you peel off the onion you see 1 third of those donors are new donors. they never donated to the campaign in their lives. we see 2016 all over again. donald trump won primary due to people who had not voted.
Economy here. to be fair, this government has a lot to answer for yeah, i mean, the inflation rate you by british times as you d look with envy, the american right? but it strikes me that the parallel here is 1992, the last time there were elections in both countries, us and uk you saw there the american president going into that election saying that the numbers are so much better. but there was this lag between the act of the stats and the lived experience lima was saying that people hadn t ii was turfed out. that is exactly the fear biden and his team have now. and actually i remember everybody remembers that the clinton who did win we said it s the economy stupid, so it is the number one issue for voters. if you were, i m going to give you trump if you would, trump s campaign manager, what would your nightmare scenario b right now well, i it s not so much a nightmare scenario, but it could be that we have six months to go before the us election, roughly and in that six months if you continue to have a strong financial market, which you do and a continued
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Documents over a few months? hillary clinton also above the law like joe. in 2016 james comey the july 2016 press conference what did she do? she mishandled top-secret classified documents on her servers. illicit private servers she never should have had. infamously saying no reasonable prosecutor whatever prosecute. hillary clinton during an election. according to james comey. but that s not all. after hillary clinton and the dnc were katniss labelling payments for that dirty disinformation russian dossier a legal expense. it was funnelled through a law firm that hired an op research firm that hired christopher steele that led to a dirty russian disinformation dossier that resulted in not 1 but 4 separate warrants issued, 3 signed by james comey himself. no criminal charges ever brought. both clinton the dnc they were allowed to settle the matter