the republican national convention in milwaukee. that came just hours after trump announced his running mate for november s election. meanwhile, the former president also picked up another legal victory with a judge he appointed while he was in the white house who tossed out his classified documents case in florida. we ll bring you expert legal analysis on that ruling and what could be next for that case. plus, we ll show you the big moments from president biden s wideanging interview with nbc s lester holt. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, july 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a very, very busy show for you this morning,nd we begin here. two days after an assassination attempt during a rally in pennsylvania, former president donald trump made his first public appearance doing so at the republican national convention in milwaukee last night. trump s right ear was visibly bandaged as he entered the conventio
body and my choice and seem to mean it when they said at the same people abandon their own argument immediately included iaarrived. suddenly on a time, they turn and demand that we wear the mas and get the shot. these were not optional suggestions. they weren t deeply personal decisions to made according to the dictates of individual conscience after consulting wit family physicians and clergy between you your character in god not all. these were mandates. all of a sudden democrats were arguing that actually politicians that do get to decide what you do with your body. it s their choice or not you re in check the powerful drugs whether you want to or no because we own you. whatever else it is it s not a pro-choice position to put it mildly. as we watch this happen, we wondered what are these people agreed to say the next time so-called abortion rights get challenged in court? and we know the answer because last night the supreme court of the united states ruled on the
another countries of all conflicts. i was the fourth president to preside over an american presence in afghanistan, two republicans into democrats i would not in will not pass this war onto a fifth. welcome, this is your world, in a tense moment not only for the administration, but the world i less than two weeks, you see th taliban take over the entire country of afghanistan. the blitzkrieg nature of all of that, and what they have been u two since assuming power is getting attention the world over . we should let you know that u.s troops have had two armed men a the airport, africans who scribbling to leave the country separately three other afghans who were clinging to a u.s. air force jet as it left cabell dropped to their desk. the pullout itself has gotten the united nations saying call must be restored. the unfolding situation in afghanistan. the development has taken place in the last week, in the steps we re taken to address rapidly evolving events. i national secu
way to france in 1940, to iraq in 2013, 2014. it was not only shocking, but enormously dismaying for all those coalition forces, including british and american, that worked so hard to train this army. we have heard quite a lot about the army looking very different on paper to the reality on the ground. shadow soldiers, and about the conditions for many of the soldiers, going without food sometimes, obviously scared, and elements of corruption. it is also shocking that this wasn t realised, wasn t really taken on board, for example, in washington. i think that there are a lot of reasons that they have collapsed, but let s put it in a simple phrase. you can t buy courage. the fact is, we made them capable, gave them the equipment, gave them the training, but if you take a look at the leadership, in many ways the leadership, in many ways the leadership of the military recently had been awarded to political hacks. you take a look at the corruption inside the government, that is c
live from cnn headquarters, live for those watching here in canada, united states and around the world, i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. we begin with an encouraging sign of progress in the u.s. vaccination campaign against the coronavirus. half of all americans are now fully vaccinated, according to data released friday, despite that, the number of new cases keeps growing. now topping 100,000 per day. and in florida, the delta variant is spreading at unprecedented speed. we re talking about 20,000 new cases per day on average. florida had more than 134,000 new cases total over the past week. the highest number since the pandemic began. but the white house is making it clear, the nation isn t headed for another lockdown. nick valencia has the latest on vaccination efforts across the country. reporter: a major milestone for the country, with half the total u.s. population fully vaccinated. but the grim count of covid deaths is rising fast. a 52% increase over l