lead. i m jake tapper breaking this hour, president biden fighting for his political life is in battleground michigan right now, he just arrived at a garage and fuel bar and northville, michigan, about to hold a campaign event, tried to show the world that he s up for the job in just minutes. he s going to speak in detroit while in the background sources tell cnn his campaign chair acknowledged quote bad effing weeks and i call to staff, let s listen in she and i are together. she looks like my wife, jill, and i go are you married we bought i say yeah, i don t tell him who anyway. thank you. thank you. all just like you know, the whole and you had a beautiful day like this to come in to say hi, and i can t thank enough and your kids, you got had to get dressed up. i owe you big we owe you big. everybody knows. i like kids better people look folks there s a lot going on. we re here to have a rally a little later on. but, you know john and the congresswoman and i got involved
at this hour, protests in akron right now. a special grand jury in ohio declined to charge eight officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man last year. the city s response and the live report from akron as well as legal analysis plus, caught in the cross fire secretary blinken confirming a u.s. diplomatic convoy was attacked in sudan as two rival militaries fight for control quote, when hell freezes over that s the timing for one republican reogting to the possibility that democrats will try to replace dianne feinstein. plus, with more and more parents saying it s just financially out of reach, any minute now, president biden is set to speak in the rose garden about his administration s plan to make childcare more affordable our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments and i want to start with cnbc s senior white house correspondent. kayla, we are going to hear from the president any minute now he wants to make childcare cheaper. how s he going
issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
calls to stop punishing addicts if it is to end its reputation as the drugs capital of europe. president biden has tested positive for covid. the white house says the symptoms are mild. the bbc has apologised to the former royal nanny tiggy legge burke over a number of serious and false allegations made against her by panorama reporter martin bashir in order to obtain an interview with princess diana. a coroner has said that the five people, including four teenage soldiers, who died in the guildford pub bombings in 1974, were unlawfully killed. and no ordinary telescope for the first time scientists will be able to detect the smashing together of neutron stars good evening. now that the conservative leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates rishi sunak and liz truss, the focus is shifting to what each of them stands for. it s early days but the battleground appears to be economic policy. mr sunak was chancellor for nearly two and a half years but ms truss sa