Happening now, donald trump embraces benjamin netanyahu, meeting with the israeli prime minister for the first time since leaving the white house from accusing vice president kamala harris have been quote disrespectful to netanyahu by forcefully criticizing israel s conduct in gaza also tonight, trump, running mate jd vance is defending his controversial past remark retrain harris and other democrats as gloat childless cat ladies vance, that would be the democratic party as a whole of being antifamily and antichild plus kamala harris gets the highpowered endorsements she has been waiting for a brock and michelle obama now officially in her corner as the democrats tighten ranks around their presumptive presidential nominee welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. Wolf blitzer is on assignment. I m pamela brown and you re in the situation room let s get right to the presidential race. Donald trump just revealed plans to return to the scene of the attempt on his l
It together. So let s act together, preserve our democracy. President biden addressing the nation for the first time since ending his reelection campaign. In a somber speech, the president talked about uniting the country and putting what s best for our democracy over his desire for a second term. We re going to have more on his historic remarks in just a moment. Also ahead, another day on the campaign trail for vice president kamala harris, working to shore up support in her bid for the white house. Donald trump was also on the trail yesterday, but he had a much more pessimistic view of the country. We ll have more on that. Meanwhile, president biden will hold a high stakes meeting today with benjamin netanyahu following the israeli prime minister s joint address to congress yesterday, which was skipped by dozens of congressional democrats. A lot going on. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, july 25th. With us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau ch
You may have seen their agenda part of it is called project 2025 now, can you believe they put that in writing 900 pages of it project 2025? a plan to return america to a dark past they intend to cut medicare to repeal are $35 cap on insulin two, eliminate the department of education to end programs like head start which would take away preschool hundreds of thousands of children in our communities let s be clear this represents an outright attack on our children, our families, and our future these extremist want to take us back. But we are not going back. We are not going back it s a fight for the future and hours is a fight for freedom across our nation we are witnessing a fullon assault on hard fought hard won freedoms and rights the freedom to vote the freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to live without fear of bigotry and hate the freedom to love who you love openly and with pride, the freedom to learn and acknowledge our true and full history and the freedom of a wo
His own homeland of israel, however, going to tell the story how they are fighting back on hamas. Listening to griff and the protesters, there is a disconnect about october 7 and remembering what it was. And over time as this political back and forth has played out, it has gotten exacerbated. Democrats want to make a political message. The administration want israel to deliver on ceasefire deal and normalization with saudi arabia. Sandra: bring martha into our coverage here, great to have you here. Put up on the screen, we ve put together number of lawmakers and faces who skipped this address. It was a number that continued to grow as we got closer to this, martha. This was bret moskowitz on the address today and those notably missing. He said republicans are going to drive a wedge between our caucus and they have been trying to do that with this issue for months. My members should come. It is not about a particular leader, it is about the relationship with the country. Your thoughts h
The united states that used to be more receptive to him in the past told. He may be popular with certain republicans, but i don t think he has a cache back in the states, he s a polarizing figure in the united states just as he is in israel. So, i think, you know, it s not necessarily the big win he thinks it is and maybe mike johnson thinks it is. It s a divisive event that is not going to get nearly the attention that that 2015 speech did. And admiral stavridis, among those very frustrated is president biden. He has made this goal to end this war, to bring the hostages home with the remaining six months he has in office, and i wonder what you think is the realistic expectation and can anything come out of the meeting that netanyahu and president biden will have? i think unfortunately it feels unlikely to me that this administration, the biden administration is going to get the win that i think they deserve. They work so hard to pull this together. Tony blinken, jake sullivan, the who