Becoming the first black woman, also the first asianamerican and just the fourth woman in u. S. History on a major Party President ial ticket. This morning, what she brings to the Campaign Including a new jolt of excitement for democrats as well as republicans. With President Trump already on the attack, how he plans to go after his newest general election opponent and if his attacks will stick. Our team is spread out covering every angle of this story. Lets start with nbcs andrea mitchell, in wilmington, delaware, this morning, ahead of their joint debut. Also with us, msnbc contributor yamisha alsindor and carol lee live at the white house. Andrea, lets begin with you, what can we expect for this big kickoff . Well, were here at a school in wilmington, it happens to be the school where joe biden usually votes. And this is where hes going to appear socially distanced with his running mate. This is their first joint appearance, you saw the video, which was of him asking her in a chat o
To the virus. Yesterday alone, 1,133 lives were lost and the cdc is warning that another 20,000 people in the United States could die in the next three weeks. One thing we keep hearing from Top Health Experts is that mask wearing is key, key in stopping the spread of this virus. But the president is contradicting his own top medical experts suggestions to the american people. He held a maskless rally in florida, one of the hardesthit states right now even as his advisers are pleaing with him to start wearing one in public every single day. The president spent his second weekend in a row golfing. Again, even as more than 1,000 american lives have been lost each day for the past six days. While we continue to track those devastating coronavirus numbers, another threat is emerging, were talking about Tropical Storm isaias tracking near floridas east coast, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain. The Tropical Storm is putting more strain on a state which is nearing 500,000 cases and
President trump. Well dive into the conspiracy group. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is saturday august the 15th. We are 80 days from election day. Im ali velshi. Nearly 170,000 americans are dead from covid19. More than 5. 3 million americans have been diagnosed with the disease. And for the first time in 21 weeks, weekly initial jobless claims fell below one million but only barely. More than 16 million americans remain out of work. Both the house and the senate have left for recess and not scheduled to return until the second week of september and there is no deal still for the next round of Coronavirus Relief funds. Polling shows joe biden with a significant advantage and despite what he says, it certainly does not look like President Trump believes that hes going to win the reelection in november. Not if you watch what hes doing. If you watch what the president is doing you are going to see the measures of a desperate man. Take, for example, what he admitted to actively engag
And top Homeland Security senator gary peters is calling for a hearing immediately. Hes going to join me live. And coming up at 8 00, we count down to the conventions. Now less than 24 hours away. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer joins me in our second hour along with Steve Kornacki and so much more. We want to start with that breaking news. House speaker n eer nancy pelos announcing shes calling the full house to return to session later this week to vote on legislation to reverse changes put in place by new postmaster general and trump ally lewis dejoy earlier this year. The House Oversight committee is calling on dejoy to testify a week from tomorrow after the Postal Service warned all but a few states this week that it cant guarantee all mailin ballots will be received in time to be counted in the election. One example of just how urgent democrats feel it is to address this crisis, congressman jim cooper, a moderate from the red state of tennessee, says if dejoy fails to appear, t
Joe biden held a major public rally before the pandemic really shut down campaigning as we know it, it was on the eve of the michigan primary, and who was on stage with him there . Kamala harris. To say the least, this is the biggest moment of bidens campaign since that moment and well see the two of them on stage for the first time as the democratic ticket. And while certainly times have changed since that march appearance, the message really hasnt. This is going to be a message from both candidates exactly what joe biden outlined when he kicked off his Campaign Last april, about a battle for the soul of the nation. Kamala harris, joe biden believes he has a fighter to help him wage that fight especially against donald trump and mike pence. Were learning more stuff about how this pick went down. There was a conversation between those two 90 minutes, in fact, before we learned about the identity of bidens choice. The former Vice President in a new video just released by the campaign sa