It is the top of the hour. 6 00 pm eastern. It is an extraordinary political history. Joe biden, announcing he will no longer be the democratic president ial nominee and he strongly endorsed , the woman you see on the left, his Vice President , Kamala Harris to be his successor. Saying in a statement, my very first decision as the Party Nominee was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. It has been the best decision i have made here today i want to offer my full support for Kamala Harris to be the nominee. Late this afternoon, Kamala Harris released a statement thanking President Biden and notably saying, i am honored to have the endorsement and my intention is to earn and win the nomination. Vice president harris followed up with Fundraising Appeals stating, i will do everything in my power to unite The Party and the nation to defeat Donald Trump and his extreme project 2025 agenda. If you are with me, and a donation now. Two people familiar tell nbc that biden asked to see polin
Governor. The transfer of power took place at 12 01 a. M. The question is whats her first order of business . Its way too early for this. Good morning, and welcome to way too early. Show that is proud to see another Glass Ceiling shattered. On this tuesday, august the 24th, we will start with the news. With an august the 31st Deadline now just one week away, President Biden is facing Mounting Pressure to extend the Evacuation Mission in afghanistan. At a virtual meeting with g7 leaders later this morning, some of americas top allies will reportedly press the president to keep u. S. Troops at the Kabul Airport past august. Two u. S. Officials tell Nbc News that President Biden is expected to make a decision later today on whether to extend that deadline. The u. S. Military has informed the White House that itll take three to four days to get the roughly6,000 troops and remaining Embassy Staff out of kabul. That would mean the u. S. Would need to start moving troops out by The End of thi
ActIon. MeanwhIle In cuba, a crackdown has sIlenced the bIggest crackdown In decades. The RegIme CuttIng off Internet And Food and medIcIne amId surgIng covId InfectIons. In mIamI, cubanamerIcans have taken to the streets demandIng more for havana. New covId cases rIsIng by 50 . More Bad News for the j j, vaccIne. The Fda WarnIng of an Increased rIsk for a rare NeurologIcal DIsorder. ThIs hour Ill be speakIng wIth dr. Anthony faucI, the presIdent s chIef medIcal advIser, but fIrst to our top story, VotIng RIghts. JoInIng us now texas State RepresentatIve Ann Johnson one of 50 lawmakers to protest agaInst republIcan State Efforts agaInst access and who wIll be wIth PresIdent BIden for hIs major VotIng RIghts speech. Welcome to both of you. Ann johnson, great to hear from both of you. You had a late nIght, your escape from texas. You and your colleagues are goIng to be arrested and that the house votIng moments ago, In fact, for the Sergeant At Arms To track you all down. A number of my
[applause] pres. Biden hello, everyone. Good to be back here. We are family. Please, sit down. Your dad is here too. As far as i am concerned, the weavers are family. Speaking of family, your father and i fought a lot of fights together, took those flights to philly. Id rather not come all the way to philly. It is a wonderful tribute to the station to bear its name. Bill flynn, thank you for having me. Governor wolf, mayor kenney, thank you for the passport into the city. I appreciate it. I dont know if they are all here still, but i met a lot of important friends that were here for this occasion. I understand that the senator is here. There you go. Former attorney general. Took care of my son beau. Thank you very much. Also, Dwight Evans is here. You cant miss him. Come on, stand up here. A good friend of mine and worked like a devil to get me elected, brandon boyle. And donald payne, new jersey i keep telling donald that because delaware is so small, there is a constitutional case in
republican of georgia. congressman carter, were you there on the west front yesterday? i was. i was at the inauguration. i had a special guest. my guest was from my district and was the mental health advocate of the year for 2020 in the state of georgia. so i was very proud to have her with me, and it was a delightful day for both of us. she works in our prison bureau and does a fantastic job. and of course mental health is something extremely important to me and should be to all of us. and she does a great job within that system and very proud of her. well, i know you were just listening to that portion of joe biden s inaugural address that we played. what did you make of that call for unity? and where do you see your role in that as a member of congress? certainly i applaud the president, president biden for his message yesterday. that s exactly what he should have been saying and i thought he did a good job of pointing out that we need unity in this country. there s