Covid. Tonight, reports he is now more receptive to discussions about whether he should stay in the race. And tonight here, we remember a comedy legend bob newhart. First tonight, president biden and the future of his campaign. Covid forcing him off the campaign trail and into isolation at his home in rehoboth, delaware. Following pressure from key allies to step aside, including chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, influential donor george clooney. And tonight, abc news now obtaining a fourpage letter from congressman jamie raskin to the president, comparing biden to a star pitcher. What he tells the president. And if the president were to step aside, would it be kamala harris or could it be someone else at the top of the ticket? tonight, some of the other names that have made news. What mary bruce and jon karl have learned. Tonight, five days after an attempted assassination that nearly took his life, donald trump will accept the nomination here in milwaukee for the third time. Trump tell
The all new godaddy airo. Put your business online in minutes with the power of ai. Steve: ladies and gentlemen, this is thursday, july 18th, 2024. Today is the big day, former president donald trump will make his first major speech since that assassination attempt on saturday. Melania and ivanka are expected to be here for final night of the rnc, where the theme is make america great once again. Ainsley: last night j. D. Vance announced himself as official gop nominee for vice president. Tonight, mr. Chairman, i stand here humbled and overwhelmed with gratitude to say i accept your nomination to be voice president of the united states of america. [cheering] brian: president trump s return made another energizing crowd again coming back on day three at the rnc. President biden was shuffling off to delaware, he has to go to isolation, he was diagnosed with covid. It comes as division in his party grow deeper. Lawrence: members like hakeem jeffries, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer express
Every time they have had a nominee since then. It has been this guy. His democratic opponent the president of the united states joe biden tonight announced he has tested positive for covid. He has therefore canceled all events so he can recover back home in delaware. The president is said to be mildly symptomatic. The president s doctor releasing a statement saying he has upper respiratory symptoms including a runny nose and a nonproductive cough. The doctors a statement says the president has general malaise which generally just means you feel bad. The white house statement i should point this out misspelled the word malaise. I spent if you panicked minutes googling the misspelling of the word to make sure it wasn t a new medical term i have never heard before. Turns out it doesn t. The president just feels lousy. He has malaise. And a dry cough. He is taking paxlovid. This is the president of the second about with covid. The first time he had it was almost exactly 2 years ago july 20
Why they were dissatisfied with their briefing on the trump attack. Plus, a person close to the president s campaign says we re close to the end. What it s like inside biden s world right now. Our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. That s where we start. Nbc s aaron gilchrist, what do we know about what s happened in biden world? reporter: some of our colleagues, carol lee and monica alba and natasha korecki have been gathering details what s happening inside biden world, including his campaign and people close to the president. We re told there s a sense that the ground has shifted under president biden. We re getting that from five people with knowledge of the situation who, as you said, we re close to the end. Going on to say there s a senior someone spoke with a senior campaign official and says there s a sense of a new reality that s fallen over the campaign. Quote, they re finally realizing, when, not if. It s what we ve heard since the debate in atlanta wh
but an adviser to president zelenskyy just said this, quote, sooner or later debts will have to be paid back. that is why disarming the belgorod vor on nez depots is a absolutely natural process. karma is a cruel thing. russia is escalating its economic attacks beyond ukraine into the west. it shut off gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. they ve shut those off because the nations refuse to pay for the gas in rubles. this is significant. both countries rely on russian energy, they are nato members, and both have aided in the ukrainian defense. in the meantime ukraine now admitting it is taking significant losses in the east as the russians are intensifying attacks there in this new strategic bombardment of the area. and in the south a second missile strike overnight on a strategic bridge near odesa, this is actually video from the first strike. new images coming in moments ago showing the damage there, this is a rail and road bridge and it s the only link between the