Top of the hour. Im Brianna Keeler as the democratic National Convention in chicago, and my Colleague And Friend Boris Sanchez is in washington. It is Day One for the democrats, week long Nomination Celebration of Vice President Kamala Harris. And over the next several hours thousands in the party will gather here in the United Center to celebrate here erez and also to salute president Joe Biden as he delivers Tonights Keynote Speech and passes the torch to her. The president is expected to talk about his 50 Year Legacy of Public Service and to make the case for the harriswalz ticket. First Lady Jill Biden and Hillary Clinton will also take the stage with just 78 days until the election. The democrats arrive here on the windy city with a strong breeze at their backs as new polling shows, harris with a narrow lead nationally, the goal now is to build on the momentum and introduce harris her vision to the country. Cnns Mj Lee is joining me now. I know youre learning some new details abou
Hours, delegates from across the country will begin gathering at the United Center here this week long event, capping off a Whirlwind Month for harris who rose to the top but the ticket after president Bidens Decision to step aside from this race, he will be giving tonights keynote address, passing the torch to his Running Mate from four years ago, the president expected to focus on their achievements together. An argue that the Harriswalz Ticket is the natural Successor Assessor to carry the Partys Agenda forward. Then there was First Lady Jill Biden and also Hillary Clinton, who will be taking the Stage Tonight as well here with me now is cnn chief national Affairs Correspondent Jeff Zeleny, waiting for tonight to quote j. Lo, what are we waiting for . Will look, were waiting for President Biden to walk into this Convention Hall. And i am imagining is a lot of applause that Joe Biden has ever received. These democratic delegates and party officials are grateful to him for what hes do
Happening now, Breaking News, the pressure on President Biden to drop out of the president the national race intensifies by the hour, with top democrats feeling caught in what some are calling a doom loop. This, as Donald Trump is getting ready take his Convention Show On The Road with this first campaign rally. Since the attempt on his life also tonight, a russian Court Sentences American Journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on Espionage Charges that his allies in the united states call a sham. And a massive global Tech Outage creates chaos Around The World disrupting air travel, Health Care, banks, media outlets, and more welcome to our viewers here in the united states and Around The World. I wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room the Is Cnn Breaking News. Lets get right to the Breaking News on the state of the Biden Campaign as some democrats suggests, that calls for the president to end his Reelection Bid may be nearing a critical mass. Cnn senior white House Corre
Live in milwaukee at the site of the republican national convention. My good friend and coanchor, Brianna Keeler is live for us in the nations capital. And here are the convention. It is the final day tonight, former President Donald Trump will take the stage to formally accept the republican nomination. And deliver his first major speech since nearly being assassinated trumps original plans for what he described as a humdinger of a speech, getting scrapped instead, trump writing a new speech. He says to meet the moment. And in a new video, trump is talking about that terrifying incident last weekend. Lets listen this, has been our best campaign and then i got was amazing, horrible thing, amazing thing. In many ways, it changes your, your attitude, your viewpoint are live and i think honestly, i think you appreciate god even more really do Something Something happened i was trump gets set to speak to what appears to be a unified rePublican Party. Its almost the complete opposite on the
Accepts his Partys Nomination for president. His Speech Tonight could be different from any weve heard from him before. Were told its been rewritten after Saturday Shooting and is now expected to focus on a message of unity. Cnns Kristen Holmes is live for us here at the rnc in milwaukee. And kristen what are you hearing about trumps speech and how are lawmakers expecting it to be a different version of Donald Trump Tonight . I think that right now lawmakers that im talking to are waiting to see what exactly that speech looks like. Theres always a lot of talk about Donald Trump Changing Pivoting is he a different person or not and not everybody has had a chance to sit down and talk with them since that Assassination Attempt on saturday. But if you talk to his senior advisers, they do who say that he is a changed man and he has told allies that part of his speech he wants to lean heavily into what happened on saturday and the idea that there was some sort of divine intervention that sav