every time they have had a nominee since then. it has been this guy. his democratic opponent the president of the united states joe biden tonight announced he has tested positive for covid. he has therefore canceled all events so he can recover back home in delaware. the president is said to be mildly symptomatic. the president s doctor releasing a statement saying he has upper respiratory symptoms including a runny nose and a nonproductive cough. the doctors a statement says the president has general malaise which generally just means you feel bad. the white house statement i should point this out misspelled the word malaise. i spent if you panicked minutes googling the misspelling of the word to make sure it wasn t a new medical term i have never heard before. turns out it doesn t. the president just feels lousy. he has malaise. and a dry cough. he is taking paxlovid. this is the president of the second about with covid. the first time he had it was almost exactly 2 years a
you re looking at live images from the republican national convention in milwaukee, wisconsin this evening. of course, the big speech we are going to be hearing from trump s vice presidential running mate, jd vance. the nomination of jd vance marks the first time since john mccain ran against barack obama in 2008 that we ve had a u.s. military veteran of the top of the ticket either as the presidential or vice presidential nominee. jd vance is a retired marine. he spent six months in iraq as a combat correspondent as part of a marine corps public affairs unit. at the same time he was in iraq, literally at the exact same time, another rising star in american politics, another increasingly recognizable face of american politics, maryland governor westmore was also deployed with the military. he was a captain in the u.s. army leading combat troops as a paratrooper in afghanistan. in current incredibly, both of these men came back after their service and wrote highly praised, a
are, keep in mind, the country s highest ranking military officers, their job is to follow the orders of elected officials that protect the country no matter how much their feelings may be hurt. but in this case, that is not what happened. because the rules are different now. according to u.s. army major general, the presidents insults that day, similar comments he made in public, were a bitter humiliation for the country s military leaders. and they made it their mission to undermine civilian control of the pentagon ever after. i was really shocked by how many of my former colleagues voted for the former president and openly supported him, but when trump turned on the military, well, the military turned on him. keep in mind, that is not how democracy is supposed to work. military leaders report to the people you elect. but again, that is not what happened. stories began leaking about how the president, president trump, was ignoring classified intelligence about russian cou
about it, was a betrayal of the afghan people. our leaders made promises to them we knew we couldn t keep. honorable countries don t do that.ri it s shameful. you woke up the other morning to find your american patrons gone. they didn t tell you they were leaving, they just left. so what happens to you now in a country run by the taliban? it s hard to think about that. and yet, tonight many americans are thinking about it and feeling distressed as they do. americans are kind people and generous, they are quicker and more eager to help strangers than anyone else in the world. if you asked 100 people, should we try to help afghans who are facing persecution for helping us? most americans would have said it, of course we should. and we should be glad that they say that. we should be happy to live in a country that loves children and dogs and wants to help refugees. we are generous and empathetic people, and we should be proud. unfortunately, there are many in our ruling class th
the concert is tentatively set for august 21st and no artists have been announced just yet. all right, joe, this is big, sort of. except for the proof of vaccination. how is that going to work? well, so, look, this is how it works. it s going to be really complicated. you show that you were vaccinated, they let you in. so, i don t know how they ll work through that, but, yeah, especially you get in those theaters, they re pretty tight. i think everybody would be a lot more comfortable with that. but we ll let everybody sort through that the way they want to sort through it. free surprise. you know, it s your property, you can do what you want to do. but willie, the bigger news, very exciting, bruce springsteen coming to broadway, doing it quickly. and of course, the big concert in august. great news. new york city, open for business, open for music, open for the arts this summer. and how fitting that springsteen would lead the way back. i think you ve seen the show, joe.