Thrown its support behind the Harris Walz Ticket, the first endorsement of any political candidate in the 95year history. Trump is headed for bright red boazman, montana, after Yesterdays Attempt to seize back political attention with a Press Conference full of falsehoods. But to show the early power of their political Coat Tails in states with major senate and other down ballot races. So for today, its a clash of campaign events, but come september, well see at least one battle on the debate stage. Both candidates have agreed to a debate hosted by abc news on September 10th with trump challenging harris to more. Joining us from glendale, arizona, aaron gilchrist, and national editor for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst, phil rutger. Aaron, well start with you. Vp harris is pushing into the southwest, they need democrats to turn out, and independents and disillusioned republicans. Is the message to the audience changing at all given that landscape . Reporter i think the
Me so much for watching Newsnight State of the Race Laura coates live starts now this is cnn Breaking News good Evening And Welcome to cnns special coverage of the historic Prisoner Swap with russia you are now looking at live feed from Joint Base Andrews, where just moments from now, Three Freed Americans will finally return home after surviving a long and grueling nightmare in russian captivity. President biden, Vice President harris, and their families will be on site to welcome them home. As. They walk off that plane. And finally, finally Step Foot on American Soil. A homecoming i suspect because replayed in their minds, an effort to hold onto hope that this day would one day be possible. Freedom on board former marine Paul Whelan held for nearly six years, journalists evan Gershkovich And Alsu kurmasheva held for more than a year all of them wrongfully detained, yet no ability to fight back in a russian court, no meaningful presumption of innocence or due process. But today, we lo
Critical race theory. Almost not at all about critical gender theory, we talked almost not at all about the move of climate change, socalled the green new deal. In this book i ve written, american marxism would talk about all that and more because they intersect, that s a word i didn t invent, is a word critical race theoreticians the lustful and california invented, they intersect and what is the common denominator? white dominant american society must go. It must be destroyed from within one way or another all the progress made economically is not progress at all, the progress we ve made is not progress at all, either and i want to talk about this before i bring guests on. I m watching on msnbc lying through their teeth about what s taking place with critical race theory. They either don t comprehend what it means or they are purposely misleading the public. Critical race theory is not about learning the history of america, it s not about learning slavery and segregation, it s not ab
Teenager [inaudible] we would talk, here and there she was a really nice person. And then something good ann s two daughters, katie and wendy escaped. But, that left ann and little thomas, just three years old unaccounted for, somewhere upstairs we put the fire out, and then started to check the bedroom for occupants nothing good after that. Upstairs, firemen found little thomas, on the floor, beneath the window, died of smoke inhalation. The chief felt his way through debris, lingering smoke and ruin. A crawled over to the bunk bed, that is where we found a victim, in the bunk bed. That person was secured in the bunk bed. Both hands and legs were secured. Tied up? yes, tied up. Now, that put a different complexion on things. This was not just a fire. So, what did that tell you? right there, this keys up this is a crime scene. We basically extinguish the fire, left everything as is. And then the forensic investigator at the time took over. The one thing that kind of jumped out at me t
The door to the oval office is always open. He ll be deeply engaged in the negotiations over the coming days. Meantime, vice president kamala harris and labor secretary marty walsh went to pittsburgh to promote the extended child tax credit included in the covid19 relief package passed earlier this year. The vice president talking about the importance of the monthly payments set to begin on july 15th. We want to make sure that we are actually helping families, right? and that means taking some of the pressure off of those monthly if not daily responsibilities. We re also following another big decision from the supreme court. The justices ruled that ncaa broke antitrust laws when it blocked some education related aid for student athletes. Such as, you know, money for post graduate scholarships tutoring and paid internships. We ll have more later in the hour. Of but we re going to begin this hour with the very latest from if washington, d. C. Joining us now, nbc news white house correspo