right? and gosh, knows one of the most polarizing times in our history is political journey is unparalleled you re absolutely right. erin trump s speech later tonight may give us a sense of how he plans to move forward in that journey. sources now, telling cnn, the former president has been personally and very intensely involved in crafting what he ll say tonight, energizing, un, emphasizing unity after the attempt on his life, instead of the more familiar and divisive rhetoric he has offered used in the past. we ll be listening, of course to every word that s coming up later tonight than when trump accepts his third presidential nomination and delivers his remarks in primetime, we ll get a better sense of what s, what s, what s, what s about to happen this son, eric trump, also is speaking tonight and will help tie up his father s speech. we expect former first lady melania trump to be in the hall making her first appearance at this convention. erin. all right. and cnn s p
newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with donald trump s seizing the spotlight at the republican convention while president biden is grappling with calls to exit the race for the white house right now, the president is isolating at is house and delaware after his covid diagnosis, pressure is mounting on him this morning to step aside in favor of another democratic candidate to face trump in november, a senior biden official told me things are looking bleak inside the campaign after reports surfaced that top democratic lawmakers are leaning on the president to get out of the race. separate source close to the president told me biden as quote, listening, but the source added that the president feels like he is legally the nominee of the party after winning the democratic primary is still another top dnc official said it seems more and more like a change could happen on the ticket. meanwhile, in milwaukee gop is uniting at the republican national convention
find it at walmart wednesday night you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with several new developments in the attempted assassination of donald trump we ve learned that within 30 minutes of the fourth president being wounded by a sniper s bullet, federal law enforcement scoured paper records of gun sales and identified the gun and the shooter also knew sources are telling cnn that us intelligence learned that iran was plotting to assassinate trump, and that the secret service had beefed up his protection as a result, there s no evidence no evidence at this point, however, that iran had any connection to saturday s attack and tehran has denied any wrongdoing. just minutes ago we learned that the department of homeland security has opened an investigation into the secret service and the failure at the rally site. the fbi is also investigating also this afternoon, all senators will take part in an unclassified phone briefing on the
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sandra: a brand-new hour and right now president biden is meeting with nato leaders and while there is a meeting with democrats and a campaign has a new memo claiming president biden has pathways to victory in november. saying this remains a margin of error rates and key battleground states. hello and welcome everyone i m sandra smith in new york and you just don t know what is coming next. john: you don t but as doug schoen pointed out plenty of poles to show something completely different like what jen o malley dillon was saying. i m john roberts in washington this is america reports the biden campaign says it is built to win a close election lest our turgor democrats told us it is time for biden to go. the new york times now reporting that biden advisors are discussing how to convince him to step aside. and the campaign is testing kamala harris strength against trump. sandra: who is behind the growing push to dig biden? here is one as explained on morning jo