it was hot, around 90 degrees. and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage, from the podium at the front of the crowd, that the crowd was about 80,000. but the police actually said it was bigger. police said it was 100,000 people. , again this was in 1936. so if you want to address to that forward for sure, it was $1. about if you want to adjust that to account for how big the population of the country was at the time compared to now, hundred thousand people than convey to the overall size of the country, that will translate today to a crowd of like 250 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd. particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician nude william lembke? he was a congressman, a candidate for president. third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election. and that, that huge rally on labor day weekend, and chicago in 1936, was a rally in support of will
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with joe biden heading off to poland tomorrow. he will deliver a message of solidarity just a few days ahead of the one-year anniversary of russia s full-blown invasion of ukraine. he will reaffirm support for that country. this comes on the heels of the munich security conference where the u.s. staked out some hard-nosed positions, accusing russia of war crimes and warning china not to give russia lethal aid. we saw the vice president, secretary of state tony blinken all delivering these messages to russia and china. tell us more. reporter: and white house officials have said it s a crucial time as we hit that one-year mark of russia invading ukraine. and joe biden will mark that with his trip starting tomorrow in poland. and during that time, he plans to reinforce the unity and support behind ukraine. now, he will be meeting with the polish president during his visit there, as well as a group of nato
the battle for the nation s soul is not over yet. those words from president joe biden as he officially tells america he wants four more years to finish the job. the mission statement he just laid out and his message to those he called maga extremists. prosecutors call them donald trump s army. five members of the proud boys on trial accused of assembling and leading the mob on january 6. that trial is now coming to an end. will a jury soon find them guilty? just as the u.s. was getting in position to rescue americans trapped in sudan, reports of a ceasefire breach. what this means for the thousands of u.s. citizens in that war-torn nation. all this and more on cnn news central. let s finish the job. president biden making it official as he makes his 2024 case to america. after two years in the oval office, months of speculation and a lifetime of politics, he officially now wants four more years. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we were in a battl
coming in to cnn news central. so it is now official in writing right there and also in video, president biden says that he wants to finish the job, and he wants to be what he callss - he wants to beat what he calls maga extremism. when i ran in 2020 i said i wanted to have more freedom and not less, and i think i know what the answer is and you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i am running for re-election. it was exactly four years ago today that biden threw his hat in the ring for 2020 and warned voters then about donald trump s rhetoric. we will go to white house now, and arlette seanez, we have seen the president on video today, and what do we expect from him life and in person? well, john, in a little over an hour, president biden is going to be holding the first public event since officially rolling out the presidential bid. he is expected at 12:30 to speak at a union conference here in washington, d.c., as he is looking to highlight the
1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust thatto account for how big the population was of the country, 100,000 people compared to the overall size of the country would translate to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election and that huge, huge, huge rally on labor day weekend in chicago in 1936, that was os sentencely a rally in support of his presid