newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with donald trump s seizing the spotlight at the republican convention while president biden is grappling with calls to exit the race for the white house right now, the president is isolating at is house and delaware after his covid diagnosis, pressure is mounting on him this morning to step aside in favor of another democratic candidate to face trump in november, a senior biden official told me things are looking bleak inside the campaign after reports surfaced that top democratic lawmakers are leaning on the president to get out of the race. separate source close to the president told me biden as quote, listening, but the source added that the president feels like he is legally the nominee of the party after winning the democratic primary is still another top dnc official said it seems more and more like a change could happen on the ticket. meanwhile, in milwaukee gop is uniting at the republican national convention
president has cast over the election. both he and the leading republican candidate in the race have already without evidence begun talking about a rigged election in that state. there s new excerpts in a forthcoming book co-authored by bob woodward and his colleague, robert costa. jamie gangel has breaking new information on the book and has new details right now. let s start about the call between house speaker nancy pelosi and general milley. let me just say the book has new details about what trump was doing on january 6th during the insurrection, how mike pence kept asking if there was a way to help trump, and what trump says behind kevin mccarthy s back. but let s start with milley and pelosi. what we know is that general mark milley, chairman of the joint chiefs, took secret action to limit president donald trump s ability to order a dangerous military strike or to use nuclear weapons, according to woodward and costa. just to set the stage, it s january 8th, two days
newsom should be recalled, removed as governor of california. if no wins that, then newsom remains in office and will hold on the seat for democrats and dodge a huge defeat in deep blue california. if yes wins, then newsom is gone. he s removed from office delivering a major victory to republicans behind the recall drive, and the second question on the ballot asks who should replace newsom if recalled. a whopping 46 candidates are on that ballot, including republicans. larry elder emerged as the top. the first-time candidate supported former president trump and is borrowing from his playbook. for instance, making baseless claims of election fraud before one vote has been counted. other prominent republican candidates including former olympian and reality tv star caitlyn jenner and former nominee john cox and san diego mayor kevin faulkner and kevin kylie. there are some democrats on the ballot, as well with you tube personality kevin considered the leader of the democrats. to
the feds of lies and a cover-up. olympian simone biles demanding accountability as the attorney general is set to face congress as well. welcome to our viewers in the united states and arnolound the world. i m jim acosta and you re in the s situation room. we begin with the top general on revelations and explosive new book on the trump presidency. brian, the white house is standing behind general mark milley, as some republicans say he should stepped down or be fired. general milley is at the center of a lot of attention tonight. some key players weighing on whether the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff took action that could have saved lives or whether he committed treason. reporter: tonight president biden backing joint chiefs chairman army general mark milley following revelations in the new book by robert woodward, some calling for milley to be tossed out or court marshalled over the fear general milley was fearful that secretly called his chinese kaunt part t
demonizing the weltd though. eric adams is my guest. let s go k outfront . good evening. i m erin burnett. the breaking news, we re about to get the first exit polls for california s recall election. it will be the first glimpse into what voters are actually doing today and into whether governor gavin newsom can keep his job. one man who has actually been helping newsom is donald trump. newsom with an army of top democrats including president biden and the vice president kamala harris have done all they can to turn into recall into a referendum tieing him to larry elder. the leading republican running for governor is the closest thing to a trump clone that i ve ever seen in years. he s the clone of donald trump. we have someone on the other side of this that s to the right of donald trump. and trump himself is not staying out of the fray today trying to preempt a possible republican law with unfounded claims of voter fraud, rigged election. you know the terminology. t