but, you know, around the country, maga extremists are lying on to take on those bedrock freedoms, cutting social security that you paid for your entire life while paying taxes for the will will wealthy. backing books and telling people who they could love all making it more difficult for you to be able to vote. when i ran for president four years ago, i said we were in a battle for the soul of america. and we still are. the question we are facing is whether the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom. more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be and i think you do, too. this is not a time to be complacent. that s why i m running for re-election. because i know america. i know we re good and decent people. i know we are still a country that believes in honesty and respect and treating each other with dignity. that we re a nation where we give hate no safe harbor. we believe that everyone is equal. that everyone should be given a fair shot to succeed in
investigation into former president trump has led to 34 felony charges. is the focus of house republicans. the house judiciary committee held a rare field hearing today in new york. g.o.p. members say alvin bragg s policies have contributed to the increasing violence in the city. democrats say today s event was all a political stunt. good evening, bryan. bret, good evening. republicans insist today s hearing was about how progressive district attorneys make america less safe. as for new york city crime victims well, they were just trying to be heard. there are hundreds and thousands of us. we don t give a damn about your politics. we don t care. victims of violent crime in new york city testified today against manhattan district attorney alvin bragg accusing bragg of pushing soft on crime policies that make the city less safe. bragg charged bodega owner jose alba with murder for killing a man in self-defense after he stabbed alba in his shop. the murder charge was later
thanks for being with us tonight. it is very, very good to have you here so, it was labor day weekend, 1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust that to account for how big the whole population of the country was at the time compared to now 100,000 people then compared to the overall size of the country that would translate today to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a thir
trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i m christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn s sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out and are officials saying why it was necessary? well let s start with why it was necessary there, christine, you say it s on sudan s on the brink of civil war, i think from the american and international perspective, it is a country in the throes of a very violent, actual civil war. there are, for example, sudanese jets bombarding positions inside their own capital. and it s that level of violence
leaders rare and public back and forth over controversial judicial reform plans. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning in kentucky, where two blackhawk helicopters crashed overnight. officials say they went down and trigg county, which is just north of the kentucky tennessee state border. the crew was flying a routine training mission at the time. the army has just confirmed several casualties. we don t have an exact number yet. this photo from wk dz radio shows flames from the crash. here s what one witness who lives about a half a mile away from the crash site saw and heard. two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, soon as i got older house, something loud banging everything shut down just all of a sudden, so we joined the truck came over here. that s what we ve found two helicopters so still waiting for more information from the army about how many people were on board ea