Guests: Timothy Snyder, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Dave Roberts, Jamelle Bouie

The Democratic ticket holds as the Trump threat looms. Tonight: the Republican platform and the autocratic project to remake America. Then, Democrats ask the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court Justice. And the President addresses the NATO coalition in D.C. amid the incalculable stakes of the election in November.

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