Promises to be like no other Political Convention in American History with most events taking place virtually including joe bidens acceptance speech. Good morning and happy monday. Im sandra smith. Trace im trace gallagher. Tonight Convention Speakers include Michelle Obama and former 2020 candidate senator Bernie Sanders. Tomorrow bill clinton speaks. Wednesday bidens vp selection senator Kamala Harris and former president obama before joe bidens acceptance speech the following night. No public appearances over the weekend and have yet to take many questions from the press. A short time ago President Trump accused the media of not Holding Biden accountable. President trump somebody like biden, he doesnt know what to do. He doesnt come out because he cant. He doesnt take any questions from reporters. I keep saying to my people here i am getting bombs thrown at me every day by people totally frankly dishonest reporters but im getting theyre espousing the view of the radical left. Bombs
Large fires are raging in the states of california, oregon and washington. Looks at the map from the National Wildfire coordination group. It gives you an idea of how many fires are burning on the west coast right now. The bobcat fire which it is called in the Los Angeles National forest started on sunday. It has grown to 26,000 acres and 6 contained. The north complex fire is 250,000 acres and 23 contained. Oregon officials calling it a mass fatality incident. 36 fires have burned through a million acres so far with 500,000 people evacuated or waiting evacuation orders. Washington state Officials Say ten large fires that burned through 600,000 acres this week. 80 of the small town of mauldin was destroyed. The governor blaming climate change. We talk about this as a wildfire. I think we have to start thinking more of climate fires. They are climate fires because thats what creates conditions that make them explosive. There is a sustainable problem. That is climate change. Its a climat
Way he describes it. The verdict is in, and they say that we, we, all of us, won big last night. You know, biden lost badly when his support remembers saying he should cancel the rest rast debates. Now i understand hes cancelling the debates. Lets see what happens. I think thats not going to be a good move. Most alarming to republicans is that the president punted both in tuesdays debate and again yesterday when asked to clearly and firmly denounce white supremecism. The republican worry is that the damage now ripples from the white house race through other competitive races. They say money follows momentum in politics so consider this. Joe biden had the best fundraising day of the 2020 campaign yesterday pulling in more than 21 million. The democratic nominee also had his busiest campaign day since coronavirus changed everything taking a train trip from the debate site in cleveland across ohio and into western pennsylvania, simple math here. Simple. If biden runs Strong Enough in blue
Are arising every day. That context that the president is choosing to go back on the campaign trail and be filmed proudly in front of thousands of people who probably wont be social distanced, many not wearing masks. Why is the white house doing this . Whats the political calculation . Look, i think that john as we discussed many times, it is often not a political calculation and simply desire to do what the president wants. He wants to be back on the road for the final three weeks. What theyre saying theyll have him do is for seniors, he battled with covid, they had an ad with a misleading quote from dr. Anthony fauci in the middle of it or the end talking about work of coronavirus months ago, made it sound like he was talking about the president. Thats going to be their strategy, to try to sell it as a Success Story on the issue that he is behind joe biden on how to handle coronavirus for many months. Is it way too late to turn it around . Probably. I think again, i am not a doctor,
Not only remdesivir but experimental antibody cocktail and a steroid typically reserved for severely ill coronavirus patients. The president has been tweeting up a storm today. Vice president pence and his wife say they have tested negative today. Later the Vice President will be heading to Salt Lake City to prepare for wednesdays debate with senator Kamala Harris amid some criticism about pences plans to hit the campaign trail later in the week after the debate. Joe biden will be in miami today, will take part in a town hall with Nbcs Lester Holt. Live right here at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. In a moment ill speak with former secretary of defense leon panetta, also served as white house chief of staff to president clinton. Lets gyp with carol lee outside walter reed hospital. Associated press white house repo reporter. Carol, what are white house senior staffers now saying now that the press secretary has tested positive with coronavirus and so youve got top campaign officials, top prep team