Good morning. Morning. Welcome to cnn this morning, it is saturday, august 17. I m victor blackwell. I m amara walker. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. And here s what we are working on for you. Vice president kamala harris ruled out her economic plan friday in what was her first major policy proposal as the democratic nominee, their proposals she is laying out and how her republican rivals are responding justin hurricane ernesto has made landfall in bermuda. Its battery bring the island with heavy rains and high wind gusts. And the east coast is feeling earnest. Ernesto s impacts to allison chinchar is standing by with the forecast, secretary of state, anthony blinken is headed to israel today as negotiators worked finalize a ceasefire and hostage deal between israel and hamas. The role he is expected to play, and the warning from president biden to those looking to disrupt progress in the talks. Plus five people have been charged in connection with the death of actor ma
Straight races. Watching but let s start the show well, first of all, will be on se performed with the democratic national convention next week. That s what people want to know. I mean, okay, it s not the most important question, fine, but that would be fired the historic moment that we know for sure, we ll see is the first black and south asian woman accepting the democratic party s nomination for president that s going to happen on the final night on thursday right now, chicago is getting ready for a whole lot of politico s and a whole lot of protesters to flood into the city, possibly a lot of events a propalestinian protests group just want to fight with the city for permits to have a stage sound system, portable toilets that they re rally during the convention. A few downtown businesses say they have started boarding up just in case things get rowdy and security fencing is up around the convention joining us now is christy george, executive director of the chicago dnc host committ
Ago wrapping her comments in raleigh north carolina. This was her first major policy speech since becoming lead on the ticket for democrats is the presidential candidate of the democrat party. She began saying she ll have more incoming speeches. This was largely focused on inflation and on housing. In terms of her economic vision. It included as you just are discussed $25,000 in a down payment support for firsttime homebuyers. A big expansion to the child tax credit and this is getting a lot of attention, federal ban on price gouging for food and groceries. Watch. Will help the food industry become more competitive because i believe competition is the lifeblood of our economy. More competition means lower prices for you and your families. Charles payne and david asman watching all of this very closely. The will join us in just a moment. Some have said there some of the program sound a lot like socialist or communist governments in terms of how they approach business. The vice president
Morning. What more are we learning about this?. Jose, what we re learning this morning is that former president trump s lawyers are asking judge juan merchan to move the date of his sentencing, which is currently scheduled for september 18th to some date after the election. Now, judge merchan has a pending motion before him to vacate the verdict. That motion is supposed to be decided by september 18th. By september 16th, a couple of days before. The conventional wisdom is he s going to deny it and move on to sentencing. They re telling him, you should hold the sentencing if at all until after the election and one of most interesting features they say is if you deny our motion to set aside the verdict, by postponing the sentencing, you will allow us to pursue appellate options. That s a signal that former president trump is not going to take a decision from judge merchan lying down, but is thinking about going to either state and/or federal appeals courts to try and fight the verdict be
Okay. Hey, everyone. Thank you so much here. Thank you for watching. Laura coates live starts right now well, donald trump tries to reclaim the spotlight, but his comparisons and his insults may have just shined a light on his own political flaws. Will any of that be enough to slow the rise of kamala harris plus the military mudslinging worsens as governor tim walz s national guard record is facing new scrutiny. My exclusive interview with the veteran who oversaw walz when he retired and the new pitch from da fani willis, fulton county, georgia, da pushes to keep her case against donald trump alive and she says she s the one who should prosecute him so before 2:00 this afternoon, you might i have been asking yourself, is trump mia, from his own campaign?. I m just one rally scheduled this week and senator j. D vance on the trail more than the top of the ticket. All i m time when kamala harris has blitzing critical swing states along with her running mate tim walz while today, some kind