The most important election of our lifetime. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im laura coates in Washington Dc. Its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of these states. State of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done on trump tried to deny democracy. I say were donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person, its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping
Over tiktok taking place now. The house voting on a bill to force the chinese owner to sell the app or be banned in the United States. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom. Im dana perino. Always a quick turn around. Bill im bill hemmer. Good morning at home. Some lawmakers say the chinesebased company is a threat to National Security. Others say tiktok ban would limit free speech online. That bipartisan bill expected to pass but faces an uncertain future once it hits the senate. Jim jordan on stand by. Chad pergram has the news live from the hill. Hello to you. Theyre coming to the closing moments of this debate. One vote coming up in this series taking about 20, 25 minutes here but they believe they have the votes to pass this bill. It will take a 2 three vote. If all 432 members of the house vote that will be 288. But they expect to be well alove that threshold. Look to see, though, if some of the concern that former President Trump has expressed suppresses the gop vote a
His role in january 6th, he was charged in the District Of Columbia for his role in january 6th. Owes 400 million to the state of new york for defrauding the state through his taxes and he has been judged a rapist. You want to be perceived understandably as credible. I want to first see if you will pledge to not accept an appointment from donald trump if he is congressman, im not here to testify about what will happen in the future. Seems like an easy question. I am here to talk about the report. You dont want to be associated with that guy again, do you . Im not here to talk about that, i will talk about the work in the report, which i stand by. There were no limits on you what you could charge by the Attorney General, is that right . The decisions reflected in the report are my own. You did not bring charges, correct . Correct. There were no limits on john durham in the Prior Administration when he was Special Counsel, correct . I dont have the information. He sat in the same chair a
State of new york for defrauding state through his taxes. And he has been judged a rapist. You want to be perceived as credible. So i want to first see if you will pledge to not accept an appointment from donald trump if he is elected again as president. Congressman, im not here to seems like an easy answer considering what i laid out. Im here to talk about the report and the work that went into it. You dont want to be associated with that guy again, do you . Im not here to offer opinions. Im here to talk about the work that went into the report. There were no limits on you as to what you could charge President Biden by the Attorney General, is that right . The decisions that i made that are reflected in the report are my own. You did not bring any charges, is that correct . Correct. There were no limits on john durham and his investigation of the prior administration, when he was Special Counsel, is that right . I dont believe i have the information required to answer the question abo