Oh, thank you. Thank you so much for joining us. The news continues right here on cnn street as us stocks notch their worst day in two years. But in asia, the markets make a comeback and the british prime minister vows is swift response after days of violent farright protests, grip the nation live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church good to have you with us, where we should learn in the coming hours who you are as vice president kamala harris has picked to be her running mate, a key decision that will come just two weeks after she launched her presidential campaign. Harris is expected to announce a choice before she appears with her running mate at a rally. They in pennsylvania later today, multiple sources tell cnn harris focused on two democratic governors in the final hours of her search, josh shapiro of pennsylvania and tim walz of minnesota harris met both men and separate meetings on sunday. Former house speaker nancy pelosi lucy weighed in on who might be th
That s like blaming the victim a little bit here, right? like so somebody gets assaulted, you blame the victim. We shouldn t have been wearing that outfit. Are that man deserve to being being hit by a car or whatever he s not saying that, you know, it s early indirectly is we ve got to condemn actually going to condemn it outright, right? there s no justification, david, i ve condemned it from the very beginning. I abhor that, but you don t place for that, but you can i don t think it s also really can t say january 6 is the reason the president almost got killed yesterday. Did i say that? it i said the speaker said we have to lower our noise and i m suggesting that he should speak to his own camp and we should speak to lots of democrats, lots of republicans. The president united states at rhetoric, heated rhetoric. Well, let s start, let s do this. Let s start by not putting words in my mouth. Okay, well, i m not i m just saying he s saying for one second, but i don t want i just want
Evening we are minutes away from president biden s oval office address the nation and day and night since the near murder of donald trump. The most serious attempted presidential assassinations since ronald reagan was shot in less than a day from the republican convention in milwaukee, where cnn s jake tapper is tonight anderson, former president trump, arrived here in milwaukee this evening to lingering concerns about safety and security here at the convention. Later today, the secret service said it will not tighten security here specifically, they say they will not bar firearms for the socalled soft perimeter which lies just beyond the heartsick purities own. It controls around the venue here, even though yesterday s would be assassin, thomas crooks managed to setup rooftop snipers position in just such a zone with a clear shot at the former president, just about 150 yards away. And jake, we re learning more in the wake of the shooting, of course, at the trump rally in butler, penns
The bloody aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. On december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. The president, hafizullah amin, was killed. This was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. The soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. Afghanistan s communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, together with internal communist party squabbling, had resulted in crisis. Moscow ran out of patience. After assassinating president amin, soviet forces poured into afghanistan and occupied the major cities. This was the first time in the cold war that a regular armed force, tanks, jet fighters, was crossing into another country and occupying it. Now, if they had their own jet fighters, at the air force base in bagram and herat, they could have control
Hakim examines the rise of the taliban after the soviet occupation of afghanistan. Back in control. After nearly 20 years of conflict, thousands of lives lost and trillions of dollars spent, the taliban has seen off the us, nato and their afghan allies. A stunning success for them and another superpower humbled in the streets and fields of afghanistan. But to understand these events and the origins of the taliban, we need to go back to the cold war. The bloody aftermath of the soviet occupation set the ground for a new force to emerge. They were really seen as angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. On december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. The president, hafizullah amin was killed. This was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. The soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. Afghanistan s communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, tog