Action and tonight a Democratic National Convention Like you have never seen before, the party looking to try to ramp up support with virtual speeches, and with no crowds in milwaukee. This as a new poll out this morning trump cnn shows that bidens lead is tightening. Next hour, the president heads for Campaign Events in minnesota and wisconsin, were watching for any comments ahead of that. Lets begin at the white house with john harwood. John, there are many headlines. I do think that the cnn poll is really interesting that you now have the president within four points of joe biden. It has narrowed and right in line with the margin of error. Do we know why . Reporter not clear why. Other polls have shown a somewhat larger biden lead. If you average all the polls together we show that joe bidens got a lead of roughly eight points in the polling aggregates. But joe bidens got a consistent lead and thats one of the reasons why weve got this battle over mailin balloting, and the integrity
Fact. His son though paralyzed from the waist down, is shackled by his leg to his bed. When i got to his side, he grabbed my hands and began to weep, and he told me he thought he was a lose nating, and he said i love you, daddy. Daddy, i love you. Yeah. Thats that must be so hard to see him in this condition. Yes. Then his next question was why did they shoot me so many times . I said, baby, they werent supposed to shoot you at all. Of course, you dont have an answer to that, and none of us have been given an answer to that . And we spread a lot of love in there, and he knows where i live, and and he just said i didnt think you were going to be able to come, and i just reassured him im not leaving. And he didnt think youd be able to come because you live in a different state . Yeah. Theres so many things that bothered me, but when i walked into that room, you know, hes paralyzed from the waist down. Why do they have the cold steel on my sons ankle . He cant get he couldnt get up if he
The way. While he is obstructing the transition of power, the administration is obstructing the free flow of information. Being afraid to answer questions or stand there and field the questions and try to dodge them. Press briefings have disappeared from the white house and from key Government Agencies. Lets start at the white house in the press Briefing Room which we havent seen much of lately. Now, Kayleigh Mcenany showed up on friday. It was her first briefing in seven weeks. She has been avoiding the press just like her boss. This is from october when the president spoke to the White House Press corps all the time in the days leading up to the election. Fast forward to november, and you will see he has not answered a single question from the White House Press corps in 19 days. This is an unprecedented streak of silence from the president of the united states. He is instead choosing to overturn the via twitter with some of the media using words like attempted coup to describe his ac
What prompted you to read the book this way . I wanted to write some thing to mark its 50th anniversary in business 50 years of my life, of kings legacy and his life coincided with my coming of age. So part of it was to do those two tasks. I felt i had connect it to the king legacy and yet i felt there was something about my life that needed to be told in order to understand how king impacted me and how i got involved in this amazing journey of editing kings papers. Well, its an excellent read. You and i are at the same generation i too am coming of age in the six days in the book i must say was bittersweet army because i knew dr. King. He was my mentor. I knew him to last years of his life. And bitter because the way he was taken from us because of racial hatred in this country. I guess we start at the beginning because the beginning of your book here on the mall with dr. King and near the end of your book, 50 years later with his monument, which you help to design. And in between, co
At. In the book you talk about your personal journey and you are very candid about your life and cover new insights as a historian from the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king, jr. What prompted you . Guest it is the 50th anniversary and it is 50 years of mine life of the king legacy and to my coming of age. Part of it was to do the to tasks. That my life had been connected to the keying legacy king legacy and how king impacted me and i was involved with this amazing journey of editing kings papers. Host it is an excellent reid and we are of the same generation and i was also coming of age. It was bittersweet because i knew dr. King he was my mentor. But bitter because the way he was taken from us because of racial hatred. We can start at the beginning the kids youre on the mall with dr. King and at the end you were there again with 50 years later with the monument you help to design. Guest and coming back for important occasions. I only lived in washington a short time but the m