Im yasmin vossoughian. Putting socalled law and order at the center of his reelection campaign, the president announcing plans yesterday to send federal agents into chicago and says more cities all run by democrats will be added to this list. More than 200 federal agents have already been deployed to kansas city, missouri, to address a surge in Violent Crime. Now the Justice Department is expanding the program, sending roughly 200 federal agents to chicago and 35 to albuquerque, new mexico. Attorney general bill barr says this operation is not like what we saw in portland where unidentified federal agents in camouflage targeted protesters. Barr says the program simply adds manpower to existing federal task forces that already work with local police. This is a different kind of operation obviously than the tactical teams we use to defend against riots and mob violence, and were going to continue to continue to confront mob violence. Many of our politicians running our nations cities hav
Coronavirus task force, Vice President s official office, National Security council, and the like. The cafeteria is run by a contractor. It is now closed down. Another different commissary in a different building was also shut down. A white house staffer said theres no reason for panic or alarm. You will recall the Vice President s press secretary and trumps personal valet have tested positive for the virus thus far. Last month, it was reported several secret Service Agents and campaign advance staff assigned to the president s tulsa rally were also positive. Tonight, trump spoke to fox news their onair physician, and he said it was unlike anything hes known. When people like to compare it to the flu, i see the flu numbers. Theyre very bad. But when i look at flu numbers, i never lost somebody to the flu. Over my life, ive heard many people had the flu. How are you doing . I have the flu. Nobody died. I never remember anybody saying, he had the flu, he died. Ive lost five people, proba
Notified the others of his choice and, make no mistake, this is historic. Kamala harris is the first black woman and the first person of indian descent to be nominated for National Office by a major party in our country. She was joe bidens rival during the democratic primaries, announcing her own president ial campaign back in january of 2019. During his now daily briefing, the president attacked harris on health care, military funding, petroleum and taxes, and said he was surprised at her selection. She was my number one draft pick and well see how she works out. She did very, very poorly in the primaries, as you know. She was expected to do well. I was a little surprised he picked her. She was very, very nasty to one of the reasons it surprised me, she was very disrespectful to joe biden, and its hard to pick somebody thats that disrespectful. Trump is referring to harris stinging remarks, a haymaker delivered to biden during the very first democratic debate of the long primary seaso
Nicely brings us to our lead story tonight, a big enough story to displace the pandemic at the top of this broadcast. Barring disaster, the democratic ticket will be biden harris. The 55yearold california senator will appear with joe biden tomorrow in delaware, as close to each other as the cdc allows. The announcement came electronically this afternoon. The secret held while biden notified the others of his choice and, make no mistake, this is historic. Kamala harris is the first black woman and the first person of indian descent to be nominated for National Office by a major party in our country. She was joe bidens rival during the democratic primaries, announcing her own president ial campaign back in january of 2019. During his now daily briefing, the president attacked harris on health care, military funding, petroleum and taxes, and said he was surprised at her selection. She was my number one draft pick and well see how she works out. She did very, very poorly in the primaries,
Winner ninan good evening. T m reena ninan. Aesident trump is now on a 9,000mile, 19hour flight to ght apore and a historic meeting with the ruler of north korea. Ene president took off from canada today after a tense and truncated summit with the g7 leaders. Le mr. Trump arrived late, talked tough with americas biggest trade partners and left early weijia jiang has more from quebec city. I think its been very, very successful. Reporter minutes before leaving the g7 summit, President Trump said he made progress in the bitter trade battle with has. Allies. The relationship that ive had with the people, the leaders of these countries, has been i caled really rate it on a scale of 010, i would rate it a 10. Reporter the elite group of leaders offered friendly public displays and words. I feel the willingness on all the sides to find agreement and ntve a winwin approach. Reporter President Trump was firm on keeping new u. S. Tariffs on steel and aluminum, warning ather countries not to ret