Week when i had a little bit of a bug. I really appreciate it. You are welcome and the best news, you ve gotten better, so you have a great labor day weekend. Thanks, chris. You know, labor day weekend, it s finally here. The next three days are the time when americans everywhere try to get the most out of their summer. Maybe squeeze in one last cookout for beach trip before the weather gets colder and everything starts to taste like pumpkin spice. But in an election year like this one, labor day weekend also marks the moment when most americans really start to pay attention to the presidential race and for the campaigns this is a moment when every detail starts to matter. Vice president kamala harris and her running mate tim walz are coming off a two day bus tour through southern georgia. The first democratic campaign in that part of the state since 1992. Last night the vice president sat down for her first major interview since becoming her party s nominee. She defended the record of
This weekend marks our celebration of labor day, and the unofficial end to what has been a historic and sometimes unbelievable summer. And now, comes the race to november with both kamala harris and donald trump each making their sprint toward election day. The 66 days to go, vice president harris has been busy on social media challenging trump on a host of issues as she looks to capitalize on a successful week including her bus tour through south georgia. On thursday around 7500 supporters packed and arena in savannah to hear vice president harris speak. It was the maxim capacity of the venue according to her campaign. And that momentum seems to be translating to the polls. A new fox news poll shows harris has put four sunbelt states back in place and she entered the race. Now she merrily leads trump within the margin of error in georgia, arizona and nevada, while trump is barely clinging to a one point lead in north carolina. The poll also shows the vice president has improved on bid
into acting as though they are congress itself. this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don t say gay caucus. i hope very strongly that the president s next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. gillian: within hours the court s decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was
widening war in the middle east after president biden orders retaliatory iron strikes on a group in iraq. plus chaos at the border. america s top diplomat is heading to mexico where thousands of migrants are making the trek to an already overwhelmed u.s. border. local law enforcement are begging for help to deal with the ongoing surge. and lashing out, donald trump spent christmas day attacking his enemies including president biden, counsel jack smith, his christmas message to him, rot in h ell. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with the 2024 race where republican candidates are gearing up for their final campaign push in iowa. 20 days, less than 3 weeks until the caucuses, his rivals will be crisscrossing the state trying to chip away at the front runner status. who can we expect to see in iowa? how are they going to make a difference in what has been a race that trump has led by far and away over the course of the
politicsnation. tonight s lead, last-ditch effort. senate negotiators have been meeting this afternoon trying to hammer out a deal on immigration. president biden s homeland security chief met with lawmakers on the hill earlier in the day. majority leader chuck schumer delayed the holiday recess, hoping for a breakthrough on a bill that would also include military aid for israel and ukraine. if a bill cannot be made in the next several days, both chambers will have to take it up next year alongside a spending package to avoid a government shutdown. and in the house, there will be the matter of and impeachment inquiry into president biden. launched this week at the origin of that republican leadership. all this as the first presidential nomination contest is now less than a month away and iowa. and black voters across that south are literally so when the states that live in, over voting district maps that they contained designed to suppress the vote in 2024. an