Switch to reliable Comcast Business Internet with security and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus ask how to get up to a 500 prepaid card. Call today good day, im Ali Vitali on this very busy Labor Day as Joe Biden lends the Bully Pulpit and his credentials to his Vice President Kamala Harris. This show of support coming after a Situation Room Meeting this morning following the deaths of six In Gaza including Hersh Goldberg Pollin. But Today Union joe returns to his Labor Day stomp grounds. Celebrating unions in pittsburgh at the first joint Campaign Deal with paris since he choose to leave the race. And it marks a key date. Considered the start of the fourth quarter of the president ial campaign season. When most voters start to tune in. But with harris, a recent walkon, democrats see Union Members as a mobilize force in blue states like pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan and the president is expected to visit those states this week. The Harris Campaign is hitting all three in one
And the concerns that he could still play spoiler. And breaking news, the fbi holds a briefing on the gunman who shot donald trump, revealing images of the weapons discovered and new details about what he was searching for online. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start in battleground georgia, the big kickoff for Kamala Harriss statewide swing, just a couple of hours away now. Nbcs mike memoli is in savannah. What are we expecting, mike . Reporter well, chris, the Vice President now on her way here to georgia, and the goal for the harris walz ticket is to take the energy, the Excitement We Saw in the arena in chicago and bring it to the battlegrounds into southeast georgia, part of a Battleground State where we havent seen much president ial activity. The stat of the day, chris, is this, there has not been a general election president ial Campaign Event for a democratic candidate in this part of the state since the mid90s. That just tells you th
Coming up, im going to ask the White House Press secretary whether beyond the announcement they actually have the votes in the senate, not to mention the house. Tragedy in florida. The search right now after a deadly Building Collapse there. A boy one of two people pulled from the rubble alive. One confirmed dead so far. 99 more floridians unaccounted for. Plus, a Big Development on a lifeordeath story that weve been covering for weeks, months, years even on the lead. The white house announcing that afghan translators who helped u. S. Troops will be saved, but how many . Of the 9,000 who have completed the paperwork, how many are we talking about . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with Breaking News on our politics lead. President biden making the official announcement this afternoon, there is a bipartisan deal on infrastructure. We had a really good meeting. In answer to your direct question, we have a deal. None of us got all that we wanted. I clearly didnt get all that
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Into the arms of the American People in the 1st 100 days 100000000 shots in the 1st 100 days. Meanwhile President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prioritize vaccines for the u. S. Before sending them to other countries it coincides with reports that is that ministration rejected an earlier offer from far as a to double its order of the medication. The worlds 1st fully tested Coronavirus Vaccine is being rolled out in the u. K. 90 year old grandmother margaret kim it was the 1st person to be vaccinated 800000. 00 people are expected to get the jab in the coming weeks with the elderly and Health Workers 1st in line. United arab emirates and egypt have praised new initiatives to end the 3 year blockade of qatar both countries say they appreciate efforts by kuwait and the us to saudi arabia announce progress had been made foreign minister has repeated calls for dialogue to resolve the dispute saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt goes a land and sea blockade on qatar in