handover. judge jeanine: i get to eat. bret: thanks, jesse. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. this day two of the republican national convention. we are coming to you live from the forum. the band be already kicked in evening session getting underway. among the highlights former presidential candidate nikki haley u.n. ambassador as well who had been a fierce critic of former president donald trump on the campaign trail. well, she will try convince undecided voters to come over to the g.o.p. side. today s theme here at the convention, make america safe once again. that sentiment has added meaning in the wake of saturday s attempted assassination of the former president. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie starts us off tonight live from the convention floor. good evening, issue sexual harassment. aishah: bret, good evening to you. we did see senator j.d. vance brand new v.p. pick on stage today. he was doing his run through ahead of his big speech tomorrow nigh
speak tonight to address the convention. in a few minutes president joe biden is expected to take the stage at the naacp convention in las vegas. we will bring that to you live in its entirety. but we begin this program with a quote, it goes like this, quote, what trump offers is an easy escape from the pain to every complex problem he promises a simple solution. he never offers details for how these plans will work because he can t. trump s promises are the needle in america s collective vein. those words were not uttered by a democrat, they were not uttered by any one of the many thoughtful critics of both parties of donald trump in the press, they were uttered by the man who now stands beside donald trump on the 2024 republican ticket as his running mate. j.d. vance is now casting his sharp, unsparing criticism of donald trump, things like calling him a, quote, cynical a-hole or not, quote, america s hitler, as the result of brain washing he was subjected to by the media.
the u.s. military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. militants with rifles kept crowds away from the airport gates guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. the security situation turning the united states and the taliban into strange bed fellows. seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. it s an impossible task we ve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. i expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. that s not the way this could work. we have to go out in the crowd. so these marin
what s worse, recording yourself in the middle of a crime scene or not even knowing which building was being overrun, that lack of awareness and basic civics didn t make it any less dangerous for officers like eugene goodman who faced down the january 6th insurrection even if some republican lawmakers are pretending it never happened. and speaking of that, one of the few republicans to stand up for the constitution, liz cheney is seeing a surge in fundraising, and as kasie hunt points out, i wonder why those numbers were leaked to a long time political reporter in new hampshire. 2024 anyone? plus, another political casualty of the trump era. former senator jeff flake lands a new gig in the biden administration. while the state of tennessee takes a giant leap backward on basic health. why state officials there are stopping all vaccine related outreach to minors, not just covid vaccines, all vaccines. the virus meanwhile continues to flare up in serious ways with cases on the
$3.5 trillion and they re saying we ve struck a deal. what does struck a deal mean? two weeks ago the white house was saying to me they made history with a bipartisan deal with republicans. that deal hasn t been signed. no, they struck a deal amongst themselves on $3.5 trillion and even amongst themselves it s only 11 democrats on the senate budget committee led by senator bernie sanders of vermont. you ve got the whole entire caucus that needs to sign off on this. that s going to be a much tougher lift. but this was the first step. as we mentioned this morning, this is a first step. they had to have this agreement, schumer has to find a way to get sanders and progressives to agree with moderates. but this was the first step. as you said, there s still a trillion dollar package out there on a bipartisan infrastructure deal. that s still got to happen and that s part of this whole complex game that is going on inside the senate right now. do we know where moderate senators