Im ari melber. Lets get into the headlines. Vice President Kamala Harris won the Delegate Votes to become the official democratic nominee for president , punching the nomination as expected, through the early virtual votes. The voting began today and she clenched. The dnc will make it fully official on monday because they will complete this virtual Roll Call Vote. Just as the 2020 boat shifted virtual during the pandemic, this Cycles Shift for the democratic convention and assorted procedures has begun earlier. Like early voting, this is a step democrats have taken and it has become somewhat normal. In this case, they want to be proactively organize and stave off any possible republican legal challenges overstate deadlines. Even before harris jumped into the race, you heard people mention, they were planning to go forward with the Delegate Vote, theyre doing it today. Harris swift caps this Woman Convention Tradition. We proudly cast 11 votes for our next president of united states of
In russia. The administration released this picture. President Biden and vice president harris will welcome them tonight. It will be Evan Gershkovich from the Wall Street Journal, russia american journalist, U. S. Veteran paul whelan, and a Putin Critic, vladimir kara murza. He was jailed for criticizing Putins War in ukraine. The president was with the families of the released Prisoners Today. The administration also released this image online. How big a deal is this . Diplomatically, it is the largest Prisoner Exchange with russia since the cold war. Under putin, russia held these individuals after public trials, which american Officials Stress were show trials. They are basically impugning Russias Justice System as completely under Putins Control. Vice president harris just spoke about this break through by the Biden Harris Administration late today. She was, to be clear, balancing campaign and official duties. She was prepared to leave houston for D. C. For the meeting i just menti
Her s their support behind her. Gretchen witmer is being touted as a potential vice president pick. Being tipped to challenge harris for the position has endorsed her. She s been speaking at the white house. Greetings everyone, and linda i want to thank you for all you do to support these extraordinary student athletes and it s good to be here with so many leaders including of course members of congress, members of our administration and our extraordinary athletes. Our presidentjoe biden wanted to be here today, he s feeling much better and recovering fast, and he looks forward to getting back on the road. And i wanted to say a few words about our president. Joe biden s legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history. In one term he has already, yes you may clap. Applause. In one term, he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who have served two terms in office. Ifirst presidents who have served two terms in office. I first came to know p
Start calling vice president harris the presumptive democratic presidential nominee we d starts right now vice president kamala harris, on route to delaware now, to greet the campaign staff that is now hers back by a fresh wave of notable endorsements kicked off with former house speaker nancy pelosi why and how democrats almost all fell in line immediately with less than four months to go before the november election, plus house republicans already sinking into the muck are you suggesting she s d she was a dei hire 100%. She was idea hire. The new attacks on vice president harris, i ll speak with podcast or angela rye and outspoken how do you host charlemagne tha god, an donald trump on social media attacking biden and harris while his vp nominee said this today we just got to get the current crop of crazies out of there and replaced them with president trump. The challenge that trumpvance campaign now faces with a whole new top of the ticket welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper in wa
And ukrainian president zelenskyy, the same layer who was on the other end of the line during the call that got trump impeached. And we re also learning about a big change that is coming to trump s rallies as a secret service is preparing to protect the nominee in his first rally since his attempted assassination tomorrow in michigan i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source tonight president biden is in isolation as he s fighting off symptoms from covid19. But he s also an isolation in the figurative sense as he is now fighting off new calls from his own party to get out of the 2024 race the party that biden has devoted his life to is unleashing a new and really public effort to push him out of challenging donald trump for the white house. A slew of house democrats have joined two more prominent democratic senators tonight in calling for biden to step aside. All of it, we are told has president biden seething tonight with much of his anger directed at nancy pelosi. That s because so