Hello. I m brianna keilar alongside boris sanchez. And at any moment, former president donald trump is set to take part in question and answers session at the national association of black journalists convention in chicago. That is what you were looking at there on your screen. The moderators selected for the event are rachel scott of abc news, harris faulkner of fox, and kadia goba of semaphore. But the decision to invite the former president has really drawn backlash and vision among members, even prompting a cochair to step down from her role in the event this is happening as vice president kamala harris s campaign says she is set to name a running mate by tuesday, and she s going to hold her first rally with her vp pick in philadelphia on tuesday, kicking off a series of campaign events it s in key battleground states. Cnn s arlette saenz is live for us in houston, where the vice president is headed later. But first let s go to cnn anchor sara sidner, who is at the nab, j conferenc
Don t see what the net gain here was. And i think a lot of black people will watch this appearance and then they will point to the former president and they will point to the republican party and say this is exactly why wouldn t you never give you all the majority of our support? i m curious what you make of a line that we ve heard him say before, but he drilled down on it today and he was asked a follow up. He sort of ignored it. He makes the argument that he s the best president for black people abraham lincoln yeah as a republican. Your response based on what metric i mean, based on what metrics honestly are there some good benefits i would argue in terms of conservatism culturally speaking, shore i think we re not a more relativist party shor are we good on the economic front? yes, i think we re better than democrats and liberalism on international relations. And the idea of free trade and capitalism but i think when you make these sorts of assessments, before people who have the e
Ago suggesting the kamala harris, just recently happened to turn black, which must have been big news to her classmates from howard university, believes starts right now the former president making other wild claims that a combative q a at the convention black journalists group with members with whom trump has sparred and insulted in the past, trump not only questioning the racial identity of vice president kamala harris, but also so making questionable statements about her being a dei hire plus to assassinations just hours apart, the political head of hamas taken out on a iranian soil hours after a top hezbollah commander was killed in lebanon israel has acknowledged responsibility for one of those killings, but the israeli prime ministers think the country has delivered crushing blows to its enemies. How will all of this impact the hostage and ceasefire negotiations? not to mention wider tensions in the middle east. Cnn s clarissa ward will join us live from tel aviv in moments san l
Enough to be closed. We still believe the details to be hashed out. It is too soon to know based on the reporting of the last 24/48 hours what impact this will have if any on the ceasefire deal. It was always collocated, it remains obligated and reports coming out of the region as we have seen over the last 24/48 as complicated. I would just say we have and maintain communications with our counterparts in egypt and cover with israel those communications are ongoing. To be clear about that, has the u. S. Reached out or had to contact either or indirectly with iran since the occurrence in iran? i have no diplomatic conversations this week. To be clear they have not been with them or with any of the intermediaries or you cannot tell us if there have? i have no conversations this week. Fundamentally is an iranian response here inevitable? look, you ve seen the comments by the supreme leader. He said publicly. It is out there for everyone to see. I will certainly not speculate about whether
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