new pulling shows most voters on the left say they are comfortable with her taking over for biden. among voters across the political spectrum, you re going to need everybody, the vice president s approval rating is tanking. staying stubborning lower than the president s for months. voters give the vp nearly 37% approval and 56% disapproval. that s according to a new 538 average of recent polling. britt hume says this problem is real. people had a dose of kamala harris and had not been impressed. nikki haley said a vote for joe biden is a vote for kamala harris. people look and say as old as he is, he can go any time. she might be president. harris: apparently top democrats on the hill don t want to talk about it. do you think he has the stamina to finish the second term? yes, i do. are you worried that president biden s health his age may be finally catching up to him? no. do you think president biden s age catching up to him? i m proud of the job president
john roberts in washington and so begins another week, sandra. sandra: sets us up for an exciting afternoon. i m sandra smith in new york. the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe said he had no knowledge of the sky establishment in 2019. were you aware of the cuba spy center? there wasn t one, maria, this kind of surveillance platform was present and allowed is just absurd. john: the china spy base is only about 100 miles from american shores and according to reports, it lets china eavesdrop on everything from phone calls and emails to communications within the u.s. military. sandra: florida congressman mike waltz how the u.s. should stop china from expanding the global footprint. gillian turner, what s the latest? gillian: secretary of state tony blinken wrapped a presser in which he appeared to confirm china has been operating a spy base inside cuba or trying to and it is part of this broader effort by the communist party to ramp up espionage
outside the u.s. district court building in south florida with the latest. good morning to you, jonathan. good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. security is always tight around federal courthouses. buff you can only imagine it rises to a much higher level when the defendant is a former u.s. president. the washington post is reporting law enforcement are actively monitoring online threats from extremists groups. monitoring their plans for rallies in the miami area. one of them reportedly planned for outside the courthouse tomorrow. also bringing in additional officers. mr. trump has been indicted on 37 counts, related to the alleged mishandling of classified white house documents stored in various locations around his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. the charges include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information with other charges related to mr. trump s alleged efforts to conceal the documents from federal investigators. south carolina senator
we go to new jersey with more of the former president s message. nate, good evening. trace, good evening to you. his first public remarks, or at least his first speech since his arraignment in miami this afternoon, former president trump defended his right to retain classified information. he said it is in the sole discretion of the president to keep their own documents, and he also took sharp aim at president joe biden for what he calls weaponizing the department of justice. listen here. this day will go down in infamy and joe biden will forever be remembered as not only the most corrupt president in the history of our country, but perhaps even more importantly, the president who together with a band of his closest thugs, misfits and marxists tried to destroy american democracy. but they will fail and we will win bigger and better than ever before. [applause]. charging a former president of the united states under the espionage act of 1917. trace, president trump then
tonight. she ll time this out. the breaking headline late today. law enforcement sources telling abc news marine veteran daniel penny has been indicted for the subway chokehold death of jordan neilly in new york. also tonight, former president trump this evening, what he s saying about the justice department. the attorney general merrick garland and special counsel jack smith today. and mike pence tonight now saying, if true, i cannot defend what s in that indictment. the horrific scene off the coast of greece tonight. hundreds missing in the water after a fishing boat sinks. the images coming in tonight. the rescues at sea. tonight, for the first time, we hear from one of the alleged victims in the case of the new york city lawyer who was brought back to boston to face rape charges. authorities say multiple cases. the victim describing how he allegedly approached her with a gun. she says as she tried to escape, he hit her with it and then attacked her. and tonight, t