Newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin the hour with Donald Trumps seizing the spotlight at the republican convention while President Biden is grappling with calls to exit the race for the White House right now, the president is isolating at is House And Delaware after his covid diagnosis, pressure is mounting on him this morning to step aside in favor of another democratic candidate to face trump in november, a Senior Biden Official told me things are looking bleak inside the campaign after reports surfaced that top democratic lawmakers are leaning on the president to get out of the race. Separate Source Close to the president told me biden as quote, listening, but the source added that the president feels like he is legally the nominee of The Party after winning the democratic primary is still another top Dnc Official said it seems more and more like a change could happen on the ticket. Meanwhile, in Milwaukee Gop is uniting at the republican National Convention hours from n
reza aslan joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes that s what russia seems to be carrying out in its war against ukraine. earlier today russian forces bombarded the city of zaporizhzhia, killing 17 people and wounding dozens of others. the shelling was concentrating on number apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. marking a clear instance of vladimir putin s invading army roth laws of war. upstanding doubly, the strikes serve as a particularly dastardly reprisal for ukrainian military games on the battlefield against russia in recent weeks. the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive brae ridge linking rachel what the kremlin peninsula. a critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western a
Zelenskyy s also being doubling down on his pr savvy lack ridging the soft power of his now huge global celebrity status. and that is some of the newfound friends. to bring more attention to the ukrainian cause. one such a newfound friend, hero of the battle of jedi master and veteran freedoms biden mark hamill. yes, i kid you not, lou skywalker himself and the farm boy who shot up torpedoes into an exhaust pipe besides a war brad to deserve the fourth death star. part in that moment after being named an ambassador for the official fund raising arm of the ukraine government earlier this year. animals turning s attention to the army of drones, a program aimed at supporting ukrainian effort through a contribution of unmanned aerial vehicles. aka, drone nations. because unfortunately, sometimes when you re fighting a reactionary totalitarian
A critical surprise route for the kremlin s forces. as you might imagine, a thin skin putin is not taking this well. on the contrary, he s renewed his nuclear saber rattling. unnerving western allies and the u.s. intelligence communities to the point where this week, president biden issued his starkest warning yet regarding the stakes of the war. saying the risk of court, nuclear armageddon, it s higher now than at any point since the cuban missile crisis. an alarming statement, yes, but not necessarily a hyperbolic one at least according to biden s national security council spokesperson john kirby. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is working overtime to boost commitments to his country. reminding allies of the catastrophic fallout of a limited quote, tactical nuclear strike. and reiterating his argument, the russian aggression against ukraine s by proxy for russian aggression against all of europe and the west.