Welcome to cnn newsroom. I m ivan watson, live in hong kong ahead this hour. America s economy. A key issue for voters take center stage kamala harris looks ahead to a big week for democrats gaza war, ceasefire talks remain a top priority in the middle east and beyond the u. S. President says, he s optimistic about a deal. Plus, cnn gets access to a russian town. Now held by ukraine but residents tell us about the incursion now, we ve just two days left before the start of the democratic national convention in chicago, u. S. Vice president kamala harris, who s focused on voters wallets, and explaining her goals for the u. S. Economy. As cnn poll of polls indicates the race is essentially tied with harris holding up slight lead over donald trump on friday. She s spoken north carolina now in play after president joe biden s exit from the race, harris took aim at trump s efforts to outline an economic agenda and his lack of quote serious plans two days ago, donald trump was here in north
Ago wrapping her comments in raleigh north carolina. This was her first major policy speech since becoming lead on the ticket for democrats is the presidential candidate of the democrat party. She began saying she ll have more incoming speeches. This was largely focused on inflation and on housing. In terms of her economic vision. It included as you just are discussed $25,000 in a down payment support for firsttime homebuyers. A big expansion to the child tax credit and this is getting a lot of attention, federal ban on price gouging for food and groceries. Watch. Will help the food industry become more competitive because i believe competition is the lifeblood of our economy. More competition means lower prices for you and your families. Charles payne and david asman watching all of this very closely. The will join us in just a moment. Some have said there some of the program sound a lot like socialist or communist governments in terms of how they approach business. The vice president
We might be seeing the sequel. Only this time it s not john belushi stirring things up but a harris accusing food companies in grocery stores of price gouging. Or solution price controlling. Force businesses to keep prices lower else. But today we asked the question everyone should be asking in this country, or else what. Welcome everybody i m neil cavuto. Glad to have you. The food fight is on my friends whether we are ready for it or not. Attention this is not just to clean up and i ll 7. This is bigger much bigger. Jack in rally north carolina on the vp letting her rip. Reporter: the vice president s plans have received some mixed reviews. Her proposal to create the firstever federal ban on price gouging for groceries prompted washington post opinion columnist to warn of potentially shortages black markets even hoarding and jason furman of obama s former economic advisor concur saying it s not policy and hopes it doesn t happen and there s no upside and in fact some downside. Howeve
Some, among other things, suspicious math there for the former president yesterday calling what he calls a news conference, but it featured much of what he typically says at his rallies. We have more from that event in just a moment. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, august 16. Along with joe, willie and me, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post eugene robinson and managing editor at the bulwark sam stein is with us. Sam. Thank you for joining way too early this morning. Donald trump held a second socalled news conference in many weeks, this one at his club in bedminster, new jersey beforehand trump was seen meeting with mypillow ceo mike lindell who continues to deny the results of the 2020 election. As for the event, trump spoke for just under an hour before taking several questions from reporters at the end. Initially he held back from making personal attacks against vice president k
John bolton is here, and john was very instrumental in some of the things we did yesterday. Some of the meetings we had all right. Well, thank you for watching newsnight. Laura coates live starts. Now tonight president biden turns up the volume on his critics will be drown them out plus a cnn exclusive, the radio host who agreed to cut portions of his interview with the president speaks out and a real life perry mason moment and forth. Leads to alec baldwin walking out a free man. Why the case was suddenly thrown out good evening. I m jim acosta in for laura coates on this friday night. Remember that republican congressman a few weeks ago? who said president biden may be jacked up on mountain dew heading into that debate with donald trump. Tonight, it appears the president was jacked up on something, something called defiance. Now defines do, doesn t exactly roll off the tongue but they were drinking it up at the president s rally in michigan earlier this evening, we re going to show s