Stay. Stay. Very happy to see you both. Stay with us. Lots of stuff is weird right now in your life as well as ours. This is the first night of a Party Convention unlike any other in history. The bottom line of course will be the same. This years dnc will be joe biden and Kamala Harris for president and vice president. But other than that, everything is different. Despite its name, for example, this years convention will not actually convene any people. You are looking here at the Wisconsin Center in downtown milwaukee where the dnc is kind of still being held but instead of being filled to the rafters with delegates and Party Faithful and the press and balloons and streamers, because of the pandemic, the Wisconsin Center is home tonight only to a broadcast control room, which you see here, which will be handling video feeds of speeches being delivered remotely from all over the country. Those speeches tonight will include one from possibly the most popular person in the country, forme
Welcome. The president of belarus has discussed holding fresh elections eventually as pressure mounts on the countrys leadership. These are some pictures of protests from minsk earlier today. The protests began more than a week ago, over claims the election had been rigged, and have gathered pace despite mass arrests. President Alexander Lukashenko has ruled the country since 1994, and according to the official result won the president ial election with 80 of the vote. Until now hes held firm on the poll, even earlier today telling factory workers. But he was jeered and heckled, here what happened. Heres the bbcs Abdujalil Abdurasulov from minsk. Here is a survey is for it and moscow. I think the scenes a very public innovation is difficult for any politician to survive. Sarah ra i nsfo rd. Any politician to survive. Sarah rainsford. Belarus is an authoritarian estate so it is not normal in the sense of perhaps Mr Lukashenko can find a way to cling on. And as those jeers and heckling c
House back into session. The postmaster general, a trump donor, agreeing to testify before congress. And late today, the former department of Homeland Security official in the Trump Administration now endorsing joe biden, making stunning allegations against the president. Tonight, as parents decide whether to send their children back to school, this evening, the major reversal at that university. What they saw at school in just one week. The university of North Carolina at chapel hill. And the images tonight from across the country now raising concerns. And late today, what dr. Deborah birx said. What she wishes the u. S. Had done. The record heat and the fires tonight. Red flag warnings in several states. Firefighters battling wildfires in tripledigit temperatures. California residents facing rolling blackouts. The place where it hit 130 degrees. And the major disaster declaration now in iowa. And farmers among the hardest hit. We have teams covering both tonight. And the 16hour stand
Protests turned into riots and looting and violence. Peter doocy in delaware with the democratic nominees decision to hit the road after labor day. Mike emanuel in washington on the politics of violence and we begin with Kristin Fisher at the white house and the trump teams message after a big night. Good evening, chris. It was, brett. Fox learned that the Trump Campaign and Republican National committee raised 76 million over the last four days. For comparison, the Biden Campaign and the democrats raised 70 million during their convention. So the republicans definitely came out on top there. As for President Trump right now, hes in the air and on his way to his First Campaign event since the convention. Before he left the white house this afternoon, we saw a continuation of the president using his executive power to make another one of those madefortv moments. Were taking alice from commutation to a full pardon. He gave her a pardon on the Unconventional Convention with 2020 fireworks
United states and around the world, this is early start. Im laura jarrett. Good morning, im christine romans. It is 5 a. M. In new york. 11 weeks to the election. Democrats launching the opening salvo. Democrats of all stripes and several republicans casting a wider tent, maybe the most powerful speech coming from a woman who lost her father to covid19. Dad was a healthy 65yearold. His only preexisting condition was trusting donald trump and for that he paid with his life. The coronavirus has made it clear there are two americans, the america that donald trump lives in and the america that my father died in. Enough is enough. Democrats are trying to use this socially distanced convention to highlight the character of the partys choice to take on trump. The night included preproduced video with a short discussion on Racial Justice led by joe biden and a video highlighting the again da capped with sharp closing arguments of the president s failures including one from former first Lady Mi