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The Rachel Maddow Show

BAD NEWS FOR TRUMP: Democrats get their wish as Roy Cooper enters North Carolina Senate race

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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4.534K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In an election year of astronomically high stakes, in the absolutely crucial Senate race in North Carolina, Democrats got their wish with popular former Governor Roy Cooper entering the race. Fresh from announcing his candidacy, Cooper talks with Rachel Maddow about his accomplishments leading North Carolina, and what he hopes to bring to Washington, D.C.

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0:00.0

Former Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is here tonight. I'm looking forward to that interview.

0:04.1

We've a lot of news to get to a lot of information to impart over the course of this hour.

0:08.5

But we are going to start with the breaking news out in New York City.

0:11.6

What we know at this hour is this. A man with a gun entered an office building in Midtown Manhattan earlier this evening.

0:20.0

Once inside, he did open fire. NBC News is reporting

0:23.2

that one police officer has been killed in this attack, and at least four others for civilians

0:29.9

are dead as well. The Park Avenue building where the shooting took place has offices

0:35.6

for several major companies, including the headquarters

0:38.8

of the investment firm Blackstone. Police released this photo of the man they believed to be the

0:45.1

gunman entering the building, carrying what appears to be an assault-style rifle. MSNBC is now

0:51.5

reporting that the man's name is Shane Devin Tamura, T-A-M-U-R-A, 27 years old.

0:58.5

Police say the man appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

1:03.2

But again, we are also able to report that five others appear to have been killed in this

1:07.2

incident, including one police officer.

1:12.6

Now, the New York Police Department is referring to this suspect as a lone shooter. They are also saying that the scene is now contained,

1:19.4

but this is a quickly developing story, and we are learning more with each passing minute.

1:24.5

Joining us now as MSNBC investigative correspondent Mark Santea. Mark, I know that

1:29.8

this story is developing rapidly. First of all, can you correct if I said anything that's either

1:33.7

wrong or now out of date in terms of our latest reporting? No, Rachel, you're spot on. I mean,

1:38.2

there's always, at a time like this, there's always fluid information kind of back and forth,

1:45.7

and sort of police are locking everything down right now. They're also going through video right now, Rachel.

1:50.0

You mentioned the suspect, the gunman who police say took his own life inside that building,

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