Today we are just 100 days from the 2024 election. The chairs of the dnc and the campaign arm for democrats in the senate will join the conversation. Plus, the eyepopping fundraising numbers for the vice president. We are going to discuss the harrison campaign. And caught flat footed. Donald trump struggles to research his strategy in this critical final stretch. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. [ music ] breaking this morning as we hit 100 days from the 2024 election the harris campaign just announced it raised $200 million since president biden endorsed vice president harris last sunday. The campaign says about two thirds of those donors are giving for the first time. They have also seen a spike in volunteers with more than 170,000 signing up in the last week. Last night harris spoke at a fundraiser in massachusetts. We are the underdogs in this race. This is a people powered campaign. We have momentum. The day after i announced my candidacy we saw the best 24
One of two republicans on the select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection slamming his fellow house gop members for threatening tech companies to not comply with the request for their records. Right now all we ve said is we want these records preserved. There s a number of people, and then we ll decide what we need to see and what s in the american people s interest. I think to turn around and make ominous talk to these telecom companies that when we take over it s going to be different or we ll have payback, that s not, frankly, the republican party i remember and the republican party i ever joined. And new polling today from the washington post and abc news shows president biden s rating has dropped in the wake of the delta variant, down about 10 points since june. Cedric richmond reacting to the numbers this morning. We re not worried about poll numbers. We re worried about the 1. 2 million people in louisiana who didn t have electricity, the people in new york and n
Flooded parts of the northeast. The death toll climbing to 50 as the damage from the multiple tornados is revealed. And america s jobs recovery hits a road block. The president says the delta variant is to blame for the very disappointing numbers. I ll ask the labor secretary marty walsh how the administration hopes to turn things around. We want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. I m wolf blitzer. You re in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. First let s get the latest on president biden s tour of hurricaneravaged louisiana. Our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly is joining us. Phil, with ejust heard from the president just a few moments ago. He was very specific in what he says the federal government can do to help. I think when you talk to white house officials they acknowledge that in moments like this in the wake of a disaster, it is the federal government that has the resources, the capability, the bandwidth to address c
Unanimous on the largest fine they have never recommended for anything like this in the history of the commission. I mean, again, we don t know exactly how this will ultimately bear out, including in the criminal cases related to this but those robocalls for so disgusting and so pernicious, and had an effect that can t be undone except by preventing it from ever happening again through deterrence, and this is designed to be that. Yeah, this is a very important decision. Thank you for that reporting, rachel. Indeed, thank you, lawrence. Thank you. President biden delivered important speech from the roosevelt room with an update on the number of people evacuated from afghanistan, which proves, once again that this is the best run evacuation from a war that america lost, which is the only way to describe what this evacuation is. There is only one evacuation in our history that compares to this one and that is the military evacuation from vietnam in 1975 after we lost that war, and by ever
This hour, national security adviser jake sullivan is expected to at least have to answer questions in the white house briefing room as president biden tries to focus on why we re leaving afghanistan rather than how. The biden administration supports a third vaccine shot for most americans. Mark eight months on the calendar, check your vaccine cards. At your 8 month anniversary from dose two, time for dose three. Welcome to mtp daily. I am chuck todd. Another busy august day in washington. This hour, we expect an update on the situation in afghanistan when white house press secretary jen psaki will be joined by jake sullivan in the briefing room. We ll go live to the white house when that begins. Next hour, we expect to hear from the state department for their update as evacuations continue at the kabul airport. One would assume semi orchestrated here in washington. First the white house, then state. The pentagon confirmed the kabul airport is secure and the defense department goal is