mad noted that kamala was the first black woman on a major party s ticket. that was all true. but what nearly no outlet wrote is that in selecting kamala harris, joe biden was choosing s the worst viceng president in presidential year histor worsty. now, that s no longer justou our opinion. it s what the american people fully believe. a ne fully w nbc poll found that kamala harris has now hit a record low four net favorability among vicety. president. 49% of voters have a negative view of her. 49 pjust a third have a positivh view of harris. it s not hard to see why non ina person in american politics has beenme celebrated more for doin so little. lookg back, it s amazing that biden even chose kamala. she was the first to drop out of the democratic primary. she didn t even makerimary. ite iowa caucus. in a way, the choice was part of biden s genius, though. choosing kamala basically made biden impeachment approve on day one. as bad as joe biden wouldon prove to be, no one
july 4th holiday weekend, already this evening, those major airports slowing to a crawl. dangerous storms in the northeast causing a ripple effect tonight, stranding passengers across the u.s. a new round of storms now coming. flood watches also in the east at this hour. washington, d.c. up through philadelphia, new york to boston. and tonight, as we come on the air, the new warnings, the smoke from those canadian wildfires now set to return. already in chicago and the surrounding region. and tonight, new york s governor now warning it s coming back to parts of the northeast. also tonight, that audio recording of former president trump. abc news obtaining the recording, what trump can be heard saying about what he calls highly confidential secret information containing those potential plans to attack iran. trump saying, quote, this is secret information, look at this. a staff member later telling him, we have a problem. tonight, the new response from trump. pierre thomas in
thanking them for preventing a civil warfrom breaking out. in a speech, mr putin insisted his rule was not weakened during saturday s rebellion by the wagner mercenaries. he suggested russia s regular military showed restraint by not being drawn into any fighting. our moscow editor steve rosenberg reports. vladimir, vladimirovich putin. at the kremlin, it was pomp with a purpose. ..to remind russians he is still in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin 2,500 soldiers and guards, and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived the rebellion, it was time to say thank you. translation: you defended the constitutional order, - the lives, security and the freedom of our citizens. you have saved our motherland from upheaval. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion after the kremlin did a deal with them
we re passing each other all the time. it is great to be with my good friend, dana this morning. president biden insisting he told the truth, denying he lied when asked about his previous statements claiming he never had discussions with hunter about lucrative business arrangements overseas despite the fact they were traveling together on a number of these trips. karl rove saying if the president is telling the truth he should have said something to hunter to get him to stop. this was all in public. when hunter biden joined the burisma board it stunk. and the vice president of the united states, his father, was in charge of encouraging the ukrainian government to crack down on corruption and his own son was participating with a corrupt company in a corrupt act. he should have had a conversation with him about it and said what in the heck do you think you are doing? get off that board and stop trying to make money off my name. dana: david spunt standing by at the justice d
and my question to you is simple. are you with me in this fight? dana: there s a long road ahead for the biden team. staffers are going to have to work overtime in order to make sure bizarre moments like this don t derail his message. a lot of you are tired. you re tired. i get it. try being 110 and doing it again. that scene in the john wayne movie don t make me a dogfaced lying pony soldier all right? god save the queen, man! dana: wasn t even in the movie. it was not. that s not the first time biden has confused people with his old timy expressions. media coming to his defense saying biden s quirky afronimsms are sometimes weaponized by republicans. biden has been using unique phrases for years. even some of his aides aren t sure what he means by them. there s other trouble brewing for the president. biden is struggling against his top contender. a poll on a possible biden-trump matchup puts biden at 48%. trump at 44%. this is a poll, again, taken largely after t