this is not about wild opinions shared on phone calls, just a matter of medical and scientific fact. i ll be back for a special coverage of night two of the republican national convention tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. our coverage continues he s right now with wolf blitzer and erin burnett the stage is set as night two of the republican national convention gretchen is about to kick off just one hour from now with a call for unity and coming together. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world pearl this is a special edition of the situation room i will flip. you re live in milwaukee. and hello wolf, i m erin burnett in new york. and this big night coming comes amid some new and disturbing reporting we are learning exclusively of an iranian plot to assassinate former president donald trump. now this is according to us intelligence the details that we have learned here show that the plot, as its unfolding so far has no connection to saturday s att
speak tonight to address the convention. in a few minutes president joe biden is expected to take the stage at the naacp convention in las vegas. we will bring that to you live in its entirety. but we begin this program with a quote, it goes like this, quote, what trump offers is an easy escape from the pain to every complex problem he promises a simple solution. he never offers details for how these plans will work because he can t. trump s promises are the needle in america s collective vein. those words were not uttered by a democrat, they were not uttered by any one of the many thoughtful critics of both parties of donald trump in the press, they were uttered by the man who now stands beside donald trump on the 2024 republican ticket as his running mate. j.d. vance is now casting his sharp, unsparing criticism of donald trump, things like calling him a, quote, cynical a-hole or not, quote, america s hitler, as the result of brain washing he was subjected to by the media.
welcome to the lead, everyone, i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead and foreign policy front and center at the white house this afternoon after praising his own administration s role in brokering a cease-fire barone israel and hamas. president biden today tries to shift his focus to east asia. right now hosting his south korean counterpart at the white house. about president biden has long said competition with china is one of the biggest challenges facing the u.s. stayed and next hour we ll bring you remarks from both of the leaders that are speaking live, but the obstacles in the middle east are far from over. that cease-fire touted by the president which ended 11 bloody and deadly days of fight appears to be fragile with new frustrations in jeersium and president biden saying relentless diplomacy got them to the edge of a cease-fire but can biden succeed where other presidents have failed in helping to achieve a long-lasting and just peace in the region, or is b
and private organizations, dawn has overseen disaster recovery efforts following two disasters. her work is chiefly been in collection management and administration. dawn are you with us today? i am, thank you. thanks, patrick for inviting me. i don t know if we have your video yet. let s see. we will make sure we have your video going. it is great to have you on and before we let you jump in, let me ask how are you doing and how is the team doing there during the pandemic? they are doing pretty well. as you know, our site is closed to the public as the other presidential libraries are. we ve been doing amazing work via tele-work. we ve positioned all our educational programs online just like this and we have been seeing a lot of positive feedback about them. that s great to hear. i know we re so eager to get these sites opened and it ll be a little while before that when everyone s back open. in the meantime, we are happy to have you today. i know you have a terrific
what s up? reporter: yeah, the crowd is much smaller. we have seen a couple of people that had medical issues. they actually have medics that are out here the whole time that have crosses on them. they will pick people up. they have literally picked up a who looked like she had a seizure and took her out to the hospital. we are also seeing people get injured with rubber bullets. we also remember earlier we showed there were some barricades and barriers that people had put up there, makeshift? well, now they have moved them all the way up to the fence right in front of the police, and at times, you will see the entire crowd sort of go down on their knees to get behind some of those barriers that they have created. they re pulling things like garbage cans and, you know, crates and using those almost as shields against some of the munitions that are being fired, the less than lethal munitions that are being fired. i want to give you a look at the scene, if i can. let s try t