Good evening, everyone. Welcome to msnbc s special coverage of tonight s presidential address. All eyes are on the white house tonight, where president joe biden is scheduled to speak to the nation, one hour from now about his stunning decision to drop his bid for reelection. I m joy reed. Joined here at msnbc headquarters by my wonderful colleagues, nicole wallace, jen psaki, alex wagner and the reverend al sharpton. Rachel maddow is under the weather tonight, but not to worry, she will be joining us just a little bit later. Now, it has been three days. Can you believe it s only been thee days? seems like 347 years. Since president biden posted a letter online announcing that he was stepping aside. But we have not yet seen him talk about that decision. That changes tonight. When the president delivers an oval office address about his exit from the race. This is also day three of the presidential campaign of kamala harris, whom vice president biden whom president biden endorsed for the
Thanks to our panel, it s going to be very long day. I m gonna be on our special coverage tonight, starting right ahead of the president s speech. So don t miss that. Thanks to you for joining us. It s now i am kasie hunt, don t go anywhere. Cnn new central starts right now the battle is on over the battleground, states vice president kamala harris, presidential campaign lays out their planned path to victory, brand new details this morning on how harris plans to beat donald trump. We also have new details on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu s address to congress today, who will and will not be there day six of the delta debacle, the airlines still struggling to get back on its feet days after other airlines are pretty much back to normal sparking a federal investigation. Now transportation secretary pete buttigieg is our guests. I m kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central breaking overnight a new campaign memo revealing how the hill heroes camp
Extraordinary levels of enthusiasm from democrats for the fight ahead. $126 million have been raised, more than 100,000 volunteers have signed up, and 38,500 new voters have been registered. Curtain number two, the other side, desperate and plain as day racist attacks on the de facto democratic nominee that reveal a maga world in mega meltdown mode. They are trying to find ways to smear her any way they can from attacking the way vice president kamala harris laughs to her endearingly love of venn diagrams. They are suggesting a wol who spent zen years as district attorney, who served as california attorney general, a united states senator and is currently america s vice president is somehow unqualified for the job that donald trump once held. That she s only where she is because of her race, again, unlike their guy who once hosted the apprentice. Take a listen to what they are saying. The only reason kamala is in the white house is because of the dei deal with bernie. Her hole history
That here today. But i can tell you there was a real consensus that this is the serious response to a serious problem. Soiri, on ukraine, just in relation to the capabilities, there is no change in position, note new decisions we take in as a government that weren t taken by the government of two weeks ago. sorry, on ukraine. But the support for ukraine. But the support for ukraine is as strong as it was and obviously stronger by having had 46 european leaders here today, that s on top of the nato council we had last week recommitting, so that commitment is there, but there is no new decision or change in position in relation to the use of the capabilities that we are providing. Thank you. Prime minister, i think i m going to say something prime minister, i think i m going to say something that s prime minister, i think i m going to say something that s a prime minister, i think i m going to say something that s a bit obvious, | say something that s a bit obvious, which say
Foreign policy talk last night, of the fact check doozy, that was the program. It s good to see you, daniel. Thank you very much. A new hour. Cnn news central starts now hello, everyone. It is the top of the hour. I m kate bolduan here in milwaukee, wisconsin, live at the republican national convention. The final day of the republican gathering here. And the day that donald trump officially accepts the party s nomination, this will be his first speech since the assassination, assassination attempt on him. One, where he promised will the speech will now focus more on unity. But even before that tonight we are now hearing some more from donald trump new video of trump speaking to a crowd here in milwaukee. This is new video obtained by pbs news, showing trump telling the group he got lucky, and that god was on his side i got lucky guy who was with me, ai in many ways it changes your your attitude, your viewpoint are live and i think honestly but i think you appreciate god even more are r