Good evening, everyone. Welcome to msnbc s special coverage of tonight s presidential address. All eyes are on the white house tonight, where president joe biden is scheduled to speak to the nation, one hour from now about his stunning decision to drop his bid for reelection. I m joy reed. Joined here at msnbc headquarters by my wonderful colleagues, nicole wallace, jen psaki, alex wagner and the reverend al sharpton. Rachel maddow is under the weather tonight, but not to worry, she will be joining us just a little bit later. Now, it has been three days. Can you believe it s only been thee days? seems like 347 years. Since president biden posted a letter online announcing that he was stepping aside. But we have not yet seen him talk about that decision. That changes tonight. When the president delivers an oval office address about his exit from the race. This is also day three of the presidential campaign of kamala harris, whom vice president biden whom president biden endorsed for the
Speed or gutfeld, kellyanne conway, piers morgan, charlie hurt, and dana perino. The five. The lame duck is about to deliver his political swan song. Joe biden giving a rare oval office address at 8:00 p. M. Tonight where he will share what it is like to be ritually humiliated by his party, stabbed in the back by his best friends, and took the more popular girl to prom. Going to show us in his speech that the six months he has left in office won t be a total flop. He s alert, in the game, making tough calls. He doesn t need a midafternoon nap. Kjp insisting biden s decision has nothing to do with his health. In his letter, he talked about the country, talked about the party, talked about the moment we are in right now. It is not about his health. He doesn t see himself as a lame duck president at all three are gold this is the president has been incredibly successful, and he s going to do everything that he can to continue to fight for the american people. I haven t seen you in a wild.
Assassination of former president donald trump. He did a google search for how far away was oswald from kennedy? norah: what we weren t low mike learning about the weapon the shooter used and the drone he flew just 200 yards from the rally stage. Is that correct? norah: plus the newlyreleased body cam video footage taken after the gunman was killed by lawenforcement bids because this is him. Norah: the cbs evening news starts now. We are learning new details tonight about how quickly donald trump s wouldbe assassin came up with his plan and the tools he used to execute it. Good evening. I m norah o donnell, and and thank you for joining us on the 6 every day right here in washington pure from capitol hill to the white house, where president biden will address the nation to men on his historic decision to drop out of the race for president. But we want to begin with the gripping testimony he used on capitol hill today from the fda director on those security failures is running the assas
It is the top of the hour. 6:00 pm eastern. It is an extraordinary political history. Joe biden, announcing he will no longer be the democratic presidential nominee and he strongly endorsed , the woman you see on the left, his vice president, kamala harris to be his successor. Saying in a statement, my very first decision as the party nominee was to pick kamala harris as my vice president. It has been the best decision i have made here today i want to offer my full support for kamala harris to be the nominee. Late this afternoon, kamala harris released a statement thanking president biden and notably saying, i am honored to have the endorsement and my intention is to earn and win the nomination. Vice president harris followed up with fundraising appeals stating, i will do everything in my power to unite the party and the nation to defeat donald trump and his extreme project 2025 agenda. If you are with me, and a donation now. Two people familiar tell nbc that biden asked to see poling
Determines the outcome of an election. And i think there needs to not only transparency in the investigation but it needs to be independent. This can t be a cover your own moment. It needs to be a serious understanding of what went wrong how, why, why the shooter did what he did, why the shooter was able to get on that roof? and there needs to be accountability for it an investigation. We re really going to be kicking off. We know that the secret service director is potentially appearing next monday for a hearing in the house. And now this push with you and ritchie torres together trying to get more and more security for these candidates. It s good to see you, congressman. Thank you so much for coming in. Thank you. So a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now good morning. Once again, from milwaukee, wisconsin. I am kate bolduan right now inside the room where republicans will soon be getting the party started once again today, last night, they celebrated the return of donald tr