Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. We begin with the intensifying 2024 race for the White House. In just a couple of Minutes Vice President harris will head to battleground North Carolina where she is set to unveil a new Tax Relief Plan for american families. This as former President Trump doubles down on his personal attacks on the Vice President. I think im entitled to personal attacks. I dont have a lot of respect for her. I dont have a lot of respect for her intelligence. And i think she will be a terrible president. I just want to win for the country. Some people say, oh, why dont you be nice . Be but theyre not nice to me. They want to put me in prison. Joining us now is garrett haake. Aaron, first to you, we are set to hear from the Vice President in just a couple of hours on our economic plan. What can we expect . Yeah, jose. Vice president harris will leave a little later this hour. This afternoon, we expect to hear her layout some
Pregnancy, before many women even know theyre pregnant, but it alSo provides no exceptions for rape or incest. And it relies on citizens, regular citizens just like you and me to enforce it, basically letting them sue anybody who helps a woman get an abortion and awards them ten stacks if they succeed. The most pernicious thing about the Texas Law, it Sort of creates a Vigilante System where people get rewards to go out anyway. And it just seems i know this Sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican what were talking about. President biden says the Justice Department is looking At The legality of the new restrictive abortion law, but this is a huge blow to roe v. Wade. It has spurred democratic leaders to try to codify the protections into federal law after the Supreme Court just allowed it to stand. But no surprise, other states are already working to use the law as a blueprint for copycat measures, and Texas Lawmakers have advanced yet another restrictive bill limiting access to abortion m
Will join us later this hour. Lets gun with afghanistan. Here to start us off with the latest, Nbc News white House Reporter and nbc national Security And Intelligence Correspondent And Nbc News Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube and Lieutenant Jern and Deputy Security Adviser for iraq and afghanistan. Thank you all for being here. Well start with you, mike, outside the White House. Talk about this decision to stick with that August 31st deadline. What led to that decision . Well, aaron, i want to start by noting that president s scheduled remarks that we were expecting initially at noon and then 2 00 p. M. Have just been postponed yet again. We now expect to hear from the president sometime after 4 30 this afternoon. If the president is watching as i hope he sometimes does, i say this not as a criticism but as the Data Point to really speak to what White House officials have been a dynamic situation. We do expect as White House officials and other Administration Officials have been
Dealing with two major unfolding crisis. Any moment now pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby will hold his second briefing of the day on the situation in afghanistan. Well bring that you to live when it begins. This comes as the pace of evacuations picks up. The pentagon saying at least 16,000 people were taken out during a 24hour period. But, there are new concerns about security outside the Kabul Airport after the german military said one afghan soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a Gun Fight that did involve u. S. Troops. The president did get some good news on the coronavirus pandemic today. The Food And Drug administration gave Fool Approval to pfizers vaccine. Now he hopes this will change the minds of people who have been hesitant to get the shots until full approval. The moment youve been waiting for is here. Its time for you to go get your vaccination. Get it today. Vaccination is free. Its easy. Its safe. And its effective. On capitol hill, the house is taking
Taliban soldiers going Door To door as new news that they have returned to afghanistan. Plus the world is watching, but Joe Biden claims theres no impact to americas Power And Credibility on the world stage. Whats your message to partners around the world that criticize conduct around the World And Credibility of our state . I have seen no question from our credibility from allies around the world. Maria army war veteran, Arkansas Senator Tom cotton is here on efforts to get people out of the country and why Joe Biden closed the Bagram Air Base while thousands of americans still on the ground. Plus democrats are running away from the most important stories impacting the american people. Afghanistan and the wide open borders, Nancy Pelosi forcing the house to return early from vacation to vote on her massive tax and spend proposals. Gop leader Kevin Mccarthy on what gets done this week as Bidens Budget still calls for Defense Spending to go down but spending on a new Green Deal to go up