Political debates room policy and differing visions for the country. He told jiving him at the end as they were saying there thank youse and good nights, he wanted to have him back for another interview and they could talk about what really matters, talk about e issues. Former president trump has reportedly changed his plans beach weatr republican national convention. Saying he will now focus on, quote, ringing the country togeer. We shall see. At the same time, the former president has moved forward with his own campaign plans anuncing that ohio senator j. D. Vance will be his running mate. Of all of the purported shortlist contenders for trump s running mate, j. D. Vance widely considered to be e most radical choice in terms of his ideological, his ace on the ideological number line and what he s ticulated about what he thinks the powers of the president are and should be and what trump should do. He is talked openly about a president defying a ruling from the preme court. He has set
Today he briefly responded to questions about revelations in the book. According to the authors general milly twice called his counterpart in china. Both times prompted by u. S. Intelligence suggesting china believe the u. S. Was preparing an attack, their fears according to the authors of the book based in part on the rhetoric toward china coming from the former president. Asked by general milly today here s how the president responded. Did general milley do the right thing by according to a defense official who spoke with cnn these calls were not done in secret without anyone else knowing. They were according to this official attended by 15 people including a representative from the state department. General mark milley is scheduled to testify on capitol hill later this month. The woodward and costa book goes into further details about milly s concerns personally launching the attack. Apparently telling his subordinates he must be directly involved in any discussions regarding milita
Absolutely no one could have known it would be all gone in less than 24 hours. Today, this site is a memorial to more than 2700 people that lost their lives here on september 11. Victims of the worst terrorist attack in american history. Tonight, president biden will leave the white house and travel to new york. Tomorrow he will come here to remember those lost and those left behind. He will travel to the pentagon site of the third terrorist attack, and shanksville, pennsylvania, where flight 93 crashed enroute to washington, d. C. I want to bring in my colleague, kelly o donnell at the white house. Courtney kube at the pentagon. Think back. Joe biden was a senator when the 9/11 attacks happened. Now he is president. Talk to us about his experience in the last 20 years, how it is going to shape the way he marks tomorrow s anniversary. Reporter: in many ways, the sweeping part of joe biden s public life really is overlapping with america s journey from 9/1120 years ago to now. He has be
And very disappointing august job numbers out today showing how the delta variant continues to hurt hiring. I ll talk to a top white house economic adviser about the low growth last month and the battle is engaged over the texas law virtually banning all abortions with both sides of the debate sounding alarms. Already republican governors in florida and south dakota say they ll follow suit with similar laws as the president says the justice department is studying whether it has any legal options. I have been and continue to be a strong supporter of roe v. Wade, number one, and the most pernicious thing about the texas law it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out anyway, and it just seems i know it sounds ridiculous, almost unamerican. Let s begin with the latest on tropical storm ida s wrath. Joining me now is nbc s gabe gutierrez in manville, new jersey. Gabe, these are scenes we usually see in the south. This northeast hit was extraordinary and the dea
Part of the bill focuses on human infrastructure. The united states senate is addressing the needs of working families. And is going to stand off for ordinary americans rather than just the wealthy and powerful. The new york city judiciary committee has started the process to investigate impeachment articles against governor cuomo as we hear for the first time from an executive assistant who filed a criminal complaint against him. One of governor cuomo s attorneys will downme live to respond to that and much more later this hour. And a group of democratic lawmakers from texas who fled the state to block action on new voting restrictions, have security court order blocking republicans from forcibly returning them to the state capitol. We ll talk about that one of the lawmakers involved in this effort. And a sobering report from the united nations says that while human activities are responsible for global warming, there is a chance to pro vent the planet from getting hotter. We ghun hou