Newsroom. Im Jim acosta in washington in just a few hours from now. Vice president Kamala Harris will pitch her economic vision to the nation. And this morning were learning about some of the policies she is set to unveil and just a short time im from now including tax cuts for lower and middleclass americans and expanded Child Tax Credit, a fouryear plan to lower housing costs in a federal ban on price gouging. Lets discuss with cnn political Commentator Shermichael Singleton and democratic Campaign Consultant Tim hogan. Guys, i want to get to the battle over the economy in just a moment. But first i want to talk about this comment that trump made last night as he was praising one of his donors. He said the president ial medal of freedom for civilians was superior to the medal of honor because those recipients of the medal of honor are often wounded or dead soldiers. Lets listen to this we gave miriam the president ial medal of freedom. Thats the highest award you can get as a civilia
Battleground states that taking center stage today. The race for the white house former president trump set to rally with his running mate jd vance and atlanta separating seed that live shot there up the large audience waiting for them. That the same if they knew venue democratic nominee kamala harris held a rally within this asset crowd as well on tuesday. Welcome to a brandnew hour of fox news live i am arthel neville. Eric: hello everyone thank you for joining us apart is all but official now. The democratic national democral committee announcing vice president harris has enough delegate votes to secure her party s nomination. Due to rollcall open until monday evening the campaign off and running they say the cashers spigot flowing. She has raised an eyepopping $310 million in one month just this past july. More than double former president trump s campaign it when her to 38 million the harrison forces say it is all do to a groundswell of grassroots support for her. Two thirds of th
Story. I m wolf blitzer. You re in is the situation roo this is cnn breaking news. Let s get right to the flooding disaster. See, that s miguel marquez joining us right now. Half of the confirmed deaths are in new jersey where you are tonight. What s the latest? reporter: yeah. It is just incredible how much water was dumped in this area and that power of water. I want to show you what we re looking at right now. This is the river near new brunswick. This was a part right in front of us. It is about 10 to 12 feet over flood stage. It has started to come down ever so slightly. We re just passed high tide here. But these rescue workers here have a long way to go. Raging flood waters throwing across parts of the northeast tonight where active rescues continue. Officials estimate they have received calls in the thousands from people needing to be rescued from extreme flooding. The water was raised so high, i couldn t rush straight to the street. I wanted to go to the fire escape. Reporter:
The head of homeland security responded with a message for those leaving cuba and haiti, think twice before coming here. Laura: he wasn t happy with it. Like father like son. Guerrero junior obliterated that ball, in a mile high midsummer classic. Fox and friends first starts right now. Am ready to say toda look at me jillian: you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. Todd: do you know where you are? you were just there. Carley: it was great being outside. They allowed us in past security but it was so awesome being there, seeing those people together enjoying america s pastime, baseball. Todd: you are wearing colorado rockies covers. I that really happened. With that let s get to the news, president biden pushing for federal voting rights schooling republicans for restricting voter axis. Lauren blanchard has more on the president s politically charged speech. The president argued new voting laws passed in republican states restrict voter access and target minorities
Unbalanced president. These and other chilling scenes contained in a new book, i, alone, can fix it. The authors are pulitzer prize winning journalists from the washington post. It comes out next week. Cnn has obtained a series of excerpts. Each, which is really more alarming than the next. In this one, mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, is reassuring his deputies about preventing a coup attempt. Quoting now from the book. They may try but they are not going to effing succeed, he told them. You can t do this, without the military. You can t do this without the cia and the fbi. We are the guys with the guns. Cnn special correspondent, jamie gangel, is doing the reporting on this for us. She joins us, now. I mean, it s fascinating to hear how far general milley and what, exactly, how he saw this. Um, according to there are parallels, according to their book, about what the former president said about the election being stolen and adolf hitler s rhetoric. Absolutely. Mill