The weak and dishonest here and we got a little business to take care of so thank you for joining us this afternoon. I martha maccallum. Back in new York City this afternoon and this is the story. Breaking by the minute now you have more democratic lawmakers calling on President Biden to step aside. Theres 31 now. 9 in just the past few hours. Theres a reported growing sense in President Bidens Inner Circle that the game is over. But he says he quote is looking forward to getting back out on the Campaign Trail next week. His team sending a never die message. Watch. The president is in this race. He says the time and time against me . Seen some slippage in support but its been a small movement. People are not moving from Joe Biden to Donald Trump. What they are doing as they are saying to us katie do and the president saying yes, i can. We are entering a pivotal 72 hours. Carol Mark Ware see is that this way. If biden does survive this weekend the pressure will shift every democrat call
I stopped listening after i heard the word indoors. Another Senior Adviser eyes are told me, ron and nikki made it clear it is djt Donald Trump juniors, excuse me. He donald john trumps party they needed Nikki Nikki Haley to come out here and endorse him tonight. Remember this . She only won two primaries, but she continued to get Tens Of Thousands of votes from republicans even after she it dropped out of the race, those votes, many of them in critical Battleground States like arizona, like pennsylvania, they were thrilled at the fact that she had directly dressed. Those supporters and that she told them to go vote for Donald Trump. They were thrilled at the fact that she made it a binary choice. That is something Donald Trump and his team have tried to do. That is something that Nikki Haley did tonight, and that is why they wanted her on that stage tonight. All right. Kristen holmes. Thanks so much. Lets go to Phil Mattingly now, whos getting more reaction to the Haley And Desantis .
You are looking at a party that is united in milwaukee tonight. Donald trump watching with his vise president ial nominee next to him, his formal rivals have been giving forceful speeches supporting him tonight. Good evening everybody, martha maccallum. Bret bear. Welcome to democracy 24, coverage of the republican national convention in milwaukee. We heard from Senator Tom Cotton and had some former rivals on the stage. Very forceful speech from Ron Desantis moments ago, the governor of florida, and nikki haley, former governor of south carolina, both of them full throated support for the Gop Nominee after a bruising primary which we remember well. They made the case that they believe undecided voters should swing and trumps direction. The Energy Electric Tonight once again as the crowd rallies behind the trump ticket. We will go down to the floor, another everyday american. This is michael, touched by illegal immigrant crime. Lets listen. But as soon as the politicians are no longer
Have been in constant contact with our senior military leaders, and im in constant, around the clock, and our commanders on the ground throughout the day, they made it clear that we can and we must complete this mission, and we will. And thats what i have ordered them to do. We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will not let them stop our mission. We will continue the evacuation. Ive also ordered my commanders to develop operational plans to strike Isis K assets, leadership and facilities. We will respond with Force And Position at our time, at the place we choose, in the moment of our choosing. Heres what you need to know. These isis terrorists will not win. We will rescue the americans in there. We will get our afghan allies out. And our mission will go on. America will not be intimidated, and ive the utmost confidence in our brave servicemembers who continue to execute this mission with courage and honour, to save lives and get americans, our partners, ourafghan allies of afghan
Americans were sold to stay away from tree different gates and only to approach when instructs. These are the first u. S. Troops killed in afghanistan since before january of last year. It comes hours before the August 31st deadline. Still the evacuation Operations Condition including for though the who are still in afghanistan. The plan is to still operate while under stress. Well continue to make sure that the mission continues. They will continue to push out the Security Corridor and shared some information to prevent attacks. We believe its possible that others have been thwarted. We cut down the information we gave the taliban. They dont get the full range of information that we, have but we give them enough to act and time and space to prevent the attacks. The situation on the ground has been fluid for weeks changing by the hour but these attacks mark a much greater shift. General mckenzie made it clear they would use the forces available, Aircraft Overhead including fighters and