Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Jose Diazbalart. Today the Harris Walz Battleground blitz is officially in full swing. The Vice President along with her newly announced Running Mate Minnesota governor tim walz are hitting key Swing States after kicking off their tour in pennsylvania yesterday. At a rally in philadelphia, Governor Walz gave a preview of what the Campaigns Message could be in the next couple of months. He wasted no time attacking Donald Trump. He doesnt know the first thing about service. Trump weakens our economy, to strengthen his own hand. He mocks our laws, he sows chaos and division, and thats to say nothing of his record as president. All this as the campaign says that it raised over 20 Million yesterday after Governor Walz was announced as harris Running Mate. Joining us now, Nbc News white House Correspondent Monica alba, Peter Alexander and zerlina maxwell. So, monica, you have new reporting about how Governor Walz went from being a Dar
Harris gets in by the way, there are numerous ways to say her name. You can say kamala, kamala. I said, dont worry about it. If i mispronounce it, i couldnt care less. A lot of people think im mispronouncing it wrong on purpose. There are a lot of ways. There are a lot of ways. That was Donald Trump with new attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, in a speech where he made an authoritarian style of voting for him in november. Well play that for you in just a moment. Meanwhile trumps Running Mate doubled down on sexist comments he made. Well show you his remarks. Its all coming as Vice President harris is seeing a surge in polling and raising a massive amount of cash for her president ial campaign. All right. Welcome to the workweek. Its too early. Good morning. Welcome to Way Too Early on this monday, july 29th. Im Sam Stein in for jonathan lemire. We begin with Donald Trumps comments Friday Night to a conservative advocacy group. The former president told a crowd of religious conserv
And the future of travel president biden is pushing for 50% of new vehicles to be electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars? from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. It s been infrastructure week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, there s also a big push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee republ
Electric. How might that change the way that you think about cars? from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. It s been infrastructure week all year long, but after months of negotiations, this week could soon be coming to a close. Today, the senate voted 6727 to invoke cloture. Cloture blocks any further debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. 18 republicans joined democrats in voting to advance this bill. The exact timeline of when and how it gets wrapped up is still in the air. Now the clock is ticking on 30 hours of debate, over which amendments to include. Any amendments would require the support of all 100 senators before consideration. At the same time, there s also a big push to move forward on a faster path. If the senate can agree on amendments and on shortening that 30hour debate period, this process would speed up dramatically. Tennessee republican senator bill hargetty is blocking that path. Now, this week, the nonpartisan
Other adversaies they must face consequences for this and other cyberactivity. The republican party made it clear they re the party of insurrection. Senate republicans yesterday blocked the bill to create a nonpartisan commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection, a bill that was negotiated in good faith by members of its own party. Here they are. 35 senate republicans who voted to block a vote on a january 6th commission. Modeled on the famed 9/11 commission. Why don t these people want an investigation into the violence that put their own lives at risk? are they worried about what might be unearthed by such an investigation? about what we all might learn about the former president and the protrump extremists that took part in and aided and abetted in the attack on the united states capitol? those 35 republicans voted against the commission even after the family of brian sicknick, who died after defending the united states capitol on january 6th, paid personal visits to sena