Former lawyer turned critic Michael Cohen, saying his return to prison was retaliatory. Were going to have a full report on that. And were awaiting a judge to rule on oregons lawsuit to remove militarized federal agents from portland as they clashed with protesters and tear gassed the citys mayor. Former dhs secretary tom ridge now saying President Trump is treating the crisis in cities like an episode of the apprentice. Youll never be able to take a reality tv approach to solve such Serious Problems unless you coordinate. Its not a onehour reality tv show. We have all of these stories covered. I have a team of reporters here helping me break all this down. But first, we want to begin in washington, d. C. , where President Trump seems to be blaming the dramatic rise in coronavirus cases on nearly everything, but his own administration. At wednesdays briefing, the president pinned the spikes on nationwide protests. Summer travel. Even mexico. In fact, moments ago, Democratic House Speak
Could you ask those members to choose not to come to work to silence their that is not a point of order. I now recognize mr. Attorney general, would it be accurate to say it is this administrations responsibility, and of course youre part of the administration, to see that the federal laws are upheld and that the federal property is secure and safe and protected, is that right . Thats correct, congressman. Theyre sort of distinct missions. One mission is to enforce federal law. By the way, the federal government is the sovereign of the United States. We have two sovereigns here in the United States and we enforce the federal law all over the country. Every square foot of the country, we enforce federal law. The other is protecting federal property. And specifically u. S. Courthouses, which are the heart of federal property in all 93 jurisdictions in the United States. And we have the obligation to protect federal courts. And the u. S. Marshals specifically have been given that obligati
Questions about the president ial candidates health. We have a lot to get to in what is a busy wednesday. Im Hallie Jackson with mike memoli with the Biden Campaign in wilmington, delaware, kelly odonnell, outside the white house, Steve Kornacki at the big board and ken delaney with new reporting on the dhs memo and russian trolls. Mike, ill start with you, talk to me about that you expect to hear from biden today after his campaign has been hammering the president over his response to violence around the country. Reporter well, i think this goes without saying, right . Covering joe biden in this campaign has been nothing like all the campaigns i covered in over the last decade, plus. And in fact what were going to see today is pretty much typical for what we have been seeing since the onset of the pandemic. No big rallies. His campaigning looks a lot like governing, the kind of events you cover at the white house. Well see joe biden joined by his wife, dr. Jill biden, life long educat
Mike memoli, joe biden told you Garrett Haake in pennsylvania, President Trump of course is what his goals are today as he going to be counterprogramming heads to wisconsin, the same another key swing state, visiting pennsylvania as he week that, of course, president threatens to withhold federal trump was there two days funding to democratic cities and states, which is very controversial. Earlier. Lets talk about that and whats yeah, thats right, andrea. He said he wants to provide a going to be in latrobe. Good example that there were andrea, if youre the president and you want to make actually calls from local essentially a war on officials for him to come. And andrea, these are tense democratcontrolled cities central to your reelection moments in the campaign, these campaign, as it appears are difficult moments to really President Trump does, there are pull off. But this really speaks to why worse places you could go than joe biden, why his core advisers latrobe, pennsylvania here
In just the last minute, a new look at one of those battleground states, North Carolina. Fresh off the president s visit, a brand new monmouth poll shows biden up just two percentage points, also within the margin of error. Today both candidates are driving their messages home in key states. Joe biden is heading, even as we speak, to kenosha, wisconsin, just days after the president s visit there. He left in the last 30 minutes and will meet with the family of jacob blake who was shot in the black seven times by police, leading to unrest and violence there. It will be joe bidens first visit to wisconsin in 674 days when he was there campaigning during the midterm elections. His message then is the same as hes giving now, restoring the character of our country. 560 miles from kenosha, President Trump is making another sweep into pennsylvania to rally supporters in latrobe near pug. Its another critical mustwin state. I want to go our reporters, nbcs mike memoli in kenosha, wisconsin whe