Should never have let it out but it is what it is tonight, trump has launched season two of his coronavirus briefings show so the task force itself was notably absent but as he shirks responsibility for the very real health crisis, he is deploying a federal police force. To combat a fictional one. They sent a federal police force, and theres a mini army sent to portland, oregon, to go against protesters acting against the will of the governor and the mayor trumps forces are snatching people off the streets and forcing them in to unmarked vans without explanation and now trump is threatening to send the same police to more American Cities and distinctly to cities that happen to be run by democrats. I will do something, that i can tell you because we are not going to let new york and chicago and philadelphia and detroit and baltimore and all of these oakland is a mess. We are not going let this happen in our country all run by liberal democrats portland, they have done a fantastic job, t
Good to have you with us. The u. S. Democratic party has opened its National Convention making a case for joe bidens presidency and attacking President Donald Trump. The event is being conducted virtually due to the coronavirus. It has speakers including republicans in support of joe biden. Former First Lady Michelle Obama was among the headliners on Opening Night and she delivered an empassioned speech pleading with voters to pick biden. She also called mr. Trump the wrong president for the country and said he was in over his head. Donald trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is so if you take one thing from my words tonight, it is this, if you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can and they will if we dont make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending
A recap of the days news. You have gone to a District Trump won by 11 points. That romney won by 10 points. And now, it is a squeaker. Mo, what for frz. John. You lost, we won. You have to thing about it this way. If they needed the president to get him over the hump in supremely red district that should tell you that the district was in jeopardy. The best read you could give. What that means is there is a surge of momentum at least in this area. We cant necessarily transpose that sort of rest of the nation. But it does suggest that, that the president is not as popular, because that was a plus 11 district. You are right. Except, i wantup to have more momentum. Because you are going to keep losing. Peck pick up the senate and keep the house. The plan for the republicans. More momentum. Campaign on the strength of the economy. As well as trump tax cuts. For, for the, the november mid terms. That its the hope they believe. Actually, you know, maybe holding on to the house. Through tax cu
America unique is the durability of its institutions against the passions and prejudices of the moment. When times are turbulent, when the road is rough, what matters most is that which is permanent, timeless, enduring and eternal. One of the passions of this moment was the passionately angry reaction to mr. Trumps planned rally in tulsa. He initially planned to hold it on juneteenth, a holiday marking the end of slavery. That rally will now take place one day later. And the battle over civil war relics continues around the country. Today kentucky is removing a statute from the capitol of one of the best known native sons, jefferson davis, the president of the confederacy. Plenty to talk about today, but lets begin with that breaking story in atlanta. Cell phone video emerged in the deadly shooting of an unarmed black man in a wendys drivethrough. As we understand it now, officers got a report of a man asleep in his car blocking other drivers. That led them to 27yearold rayshard brooks
Reporting the National Security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned. He has been under fire for his contacts with the russian u. S. Ambassador before President Trump took office. A number of sources say flynn inappropriately discussed u. S. Sanctions on moscow imposed by the Obama Administration. And just recently we learned that the Justice Department had warned him that flynn may be vulnerable to blackmail by russia. All right, lets go out to our senior white house correspondent, jim acosta. Jim, i suppose his relationship had been tenable, or growing that way. But was it the potential idea of blackmail that was at issue, or was it because he misled mike pence, the Vice President . I think it was that the administration had warned him a month ago, that was certainly a turning point in all of this. All of this feeling inside the white house it was just unacceptable that the National Security adviser, now the former security adviser had misled intentionally or unintentionally, about whe