President s political focus. When unions are strong, america strong. Major the competition for workingclass voters as the nominees promise to unveil their economic agendas for america. No tax on tips, and All Of A Sudden she is making a speech saying there will be no tax on tips, i said that months ago. Major plus new details about Marquee Speakers at the democratic convention next week in chicago. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, everyone. Im Major Garrett in for norah. Donald trump is working to grab attention back from Kamala Harris. He will hold to campaign stops in battleground states later this week after failing to land any significant rhetorical punches against harris during a rambling 2hour Interview with Elon Musk. What listeners did get was a 40 minute technical delay at an ear full of talking points from the former president on immigration, foreign dictators, and the economy. Meanwhile, democratic Vice President Nominee Tim Walz was on the Trail Solo for the f
Oh, what a 48 hours it has been. Kamala harris has now earned the back of enough convention delegates to be the de facto nominee. He s raised more than $100 million according to her campaign with 62% of donors giving for the first time. She s made her case against donald trump for her campaign. Saying that as a prosecutor, she knows his type. She s made her first came stop just now in wisconsin leaning hard into her background as a prosecutor. But perhaps most incredibly, she made the senate majority leader giddy. We are here today to throw our support behind vice president kamala harris. I m clapping. You don t have to. It is a happy day. What can i say. I ve never seen him like that. It is clear the vice president is on a glide path to the nomination. But will the ride to november be as smooth. We re talking to voters today. We re talking to pollsters today. And we re talking to the very best reporters about what kamala harris will campaign on. What we know about who she s vetting fo
Desantis and local leaders as well as local and federal leaders put politics aside in the aftermath of last week s deadly condo collapse. Good morning and welcome to morning joe it s friday, july 2nd. Along with willie and me we have msnbc political analyst claire mckasskill, eugene robinson, and white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Mika has the morning off. That was a nice moment. We ve seen a few moments. We never want to overread into these moments and if we do, we certainly will hear about it, people suggesting that we re somehow hopelessly naive. But it is important for americans, it is important for the world to see the president and the governor of florida sitting down, being polite with each other, agreeing with each other that they re on the same team, that they re working together to alleviate the terrible pain, the terrible suffering that these families are going through in florida. We also saw it earlier this week when we saw mitch mcconnell, yes,
Organizations. Invested in communities of color, or put to a reimagining hiring practices at major corporations. And now a year later, how much do you think was actually spent? take a minute and guess? 80%? about 50? 25? what about if i told you that only half of 1%, $250 million was actually spent by these companies in support of black lives. I bet you will think their holier than thou pledges of. Black communities and organizations were never going to get the support they were promised. But you would be exactly right. The one group that manage did get a whole boat load of cash was black lives matter. They pulled in more than $90 million last year. But only managed to spend a quarter of it on charitable causes. They have been so shady with the money begged the group to stop profiting off her son s death that probably explains why, according to the new york times, look at this, public support of black lives matter has cratered since june 20th. What a difference a year makes. Joining me
Now on bbc news, it s time for the week in parliament. Hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. Texts for tax breaks or ventilators to save lives? labour keep up the pressure on the prime minister over lobbying. Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze. And it s all on his watch. Race in the uk the equalities minister denounces critics of a major report. The government even more firmly condemns the deeply personal and racialised attacks against the commissioners, which have included death threats. Why are our rivers so dirty? feargal sharkey gets vocal. It s time for everybody to put on their big boys pants and start taking this seriously. And planning a big wedding? think again, says an expert. The fees for a church wedding or a simple registry office ceremony are very modest indeed. All that to come and more. But first, a week dominated by the continuing row over lobbying, with labour determined to target borisjohnson as the head of what it calls a whatsapp government . The row deepened a