Welcome to our reports and we begin with the campaign for the white house. 85 days until Election Day and eight days until the convention with both contenders spending the weekend campaigning out west. New today we do learn some of the big names expected to speak at the dnc among them President Biden, former president obama, former president clinton, and former secretary of state, hilary clinton. Vice president harris, meanwhile, taking questions from reporters in Arizona Yesterday including one on the israel hamas war. Israel has a right to go after the terrorists that are hamas. As i have said many many times, they also have, i believe, an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties. And the president and i have been working around the clock and we need the Hostages Out and a deal and a ceasefire. I Cant Stress that strongly enough. It needs to get done and it needs to get done now. Also today the allies for Donald Trump and his Running Mate turning up the heat on the democ
The wreck of the titanic and discover the secrets of the worlds most famous shipwreck. Good morning. For many of us today it will be a cloudy and cool day. The best of The Sunshine will be across central and Southern Scotland and parts of southern england, but there are a few showers in the forecast, and i will tell you where shortly. Good morning. Its friday the 12th ofjuly. Our main story. The us president , Joe Biden, has insisted he remains the most qualified candidate to take on Donald Trump in Novembers Election despite growing pressure from within his own party for him to stand down. It comes after Mr Biden mistakenly called the ukrainian Leader President Putin during an event marking the end of the Nato Summit in washington, before later referring to his deputy Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump. Our North America Editor Sarah Smith reports. Applause World Leaders at the Nato Summit have cringed when Mr Biden introduced a key European Ally as his sworn enemy. find introduce
Covering up bidens health issues. The subpoenas theyve now issued. Jury deliberations are expected to begin today in the Highprofile Trial of Senator Bob Menendez after his Defense Team argued that the corruption allegations against him are, quote, rotten to the core. And the surprisingly good new numbers for the battle against inflation. Will it put pressure on the fed to finally cut Interest Rates . Our Nbc News reportes are following all of the latest developments and we start with the latest from Capitol Hill and the critical meeting between Senate Democrats and biden advisers that wrapped up moments ago. Nbcs Ali Vitale is with us and what do we know about that meeting . Anything yet . We are seeing the trickle of senators leave that meeting with the trio of top Biden Campaign aides sent to Capitol Hill to talk with senators and assuage their concerns effectively lay out a Game Plan and show hard data that could possibly get senators back onboard. Theres been skittishness both on
It back. Good morning to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. It is monday, august 2nd. The pandemic of the unvaccinated accelerating. 35 states have seen cases rise by more than 50 since last week. Hospitalizations are rising, nearly 44,000 americans are hospitalized right now. Thats the highest number since april. Dr. Anthony fauci says he does not expect lockdowns but he is warning that there are dark days and weeks ahead. Were looking to some Pain And Suffering in the future because were seeing the cases go up. Which is the reason why we keep saying over and over again the solution to this is get vaccinated and this would not be happening. The cdc is stressing more than 99. 9 of people who are fully vaccinated against covid have not had a Breakthrough Case resulting in hospitalization or death. That kind of messaging and a healthy dose of fear may actually be working because the pace of vaccinations is actually picking up. The sevenday average is up 26 from th
On america and the democrat that s still standing in the way. Would you be willing to break the filibuster in order to get this passed? and then new reporting on a new scandal for trump s money man. Plus labor secretary marty walsh on what today s jobless numbers mean for biden s big jobs agenda. And the climate nightmare in alaska where one oil company is now chilling the warming ground so they can suck more oil out of it. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. I m chris hayes. No one should be surprised by what is likely going to happen in the u. S. Senate tonight, but everyone should be outraged. Republicans are planning to block a procedural vote to filibuster. The attempts to create an independent commission to investigate the january 6th attack on the u. S. Capitol. This is a black and white issue. It s not morally complex. There s no actual justification for the vast majority of the republican caucus to take this extraordinary step of filibustering a completely bipa