Thank you for being with us as we continue to process and further develop the stunning news. President biden ended his Reelection Bid and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the democratic nominee and lead the charge against Donald Trump and Jd Vance. Over the last few hours endorsements have poured in from democratic members of congress and democratic governors and State Attorney generals and several unions including the service employees international. Also a statement from the Executive Council of the american federation of teachers. Fund rating has exploded for democrats. Donations exceeding 30 Million in less than half a day. That would be the biggest day for online democratic donations potentially ever. For Kamala Harris to become the nominee, she will have to formally win the nomination and secure the vote of enough delegates will be free to vote for whomever they would like. It is reported that the campaign has already begun calling delegates. Party leadership in tennessee has pledged
Think these are dangerous people. They need to be removed from their position of power. General milley needs to resign. If he does not resign, he needs to be fired. There is got to be accountability. The nation s top military officer feared trump s mental capacity. One of them just two days after the deadly january 6th riot. We are 100% steady. Everything s fine but democracy can be sloppy sometimes. Today the pentagon said they have full confidence in milley backed up by the president. Did general milley did the right thing? i have great confidence in general milley. Milley denies this reporting. He stated, he regularly communicated with chief of defense around the world. The pentagon was worried trump would execute a coup. The chairman should be put on trial for treason. My goodness. Joining me now is congressman ted lu and daniel gibbs and julio castro. Thank you, for your question, i see it as a jab. What general milley was referring to was a nuclear bomb. That would be a legal ord
The rapid spread of the highly contagious delta variant now pushing the number of new covid cases to over 00100,000 cases a day. But the highest number of vaccinations were given today in a month. Also tonight, the investigation into embattled new york governor andrew cuomo is expanding. Materials have been requested from the state s attorney general to determine whether the allegations of sexual misconduct lodged by multiple women amount to potential crimes. And president joe biden heralding the heroism of police officers, signing a bill to award the gold medal to capitol police and d. C. Police forces. The tragedy of that day deserves the truth above all else. We cannot allow history to be rewritten. We cannot allow the heroism of these officers to be forgotten. We have to understand what happened. The honest and unvarnished truth. We havto face it. I want to bring in now cnn white house correspondent john harwood. John, good evening, thank you so much. Powerful words from president
Fatalities are up 15%, so those are all going in the wrong direction. The number of patients are unprecedented and that s in black and white. We have more patients in our hospital now than ever before. This delta variant surge has been particularly intense across the south. One expert says the next few weeks will be critical in determining if that trend takes hold across the nation. We have all 50 states, the district of columbia seeing an increase in cases. The question will be if any of them turn out to be like we re seeing in the south, then we ve got a much larger problem on our hands going forward. If not, i think by the early part of the september, we ll see this curve come down. But in the meantime, it s going to extract a tremendous amount of pain in our society. Dr. Fauci has a warning about the virus. He said the delta variant could bring about as many as 1,000 to 2,000 cases per day. He said, if we don t get more people vaccinated, the virus will continue to smolder through