Good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. Were following a busy evening of Breaking News from the 2024 president ial race. Former President Donald Trump and his newly minted Vice President ial running Mate Jd Vance are about to take the stage in the Swing State of michigan for their first joint Campaign Rally as a president ial ticket and, for trump, his first rally since surviving an assassination attempt. On The Other Side, Vice President Kamala Harris was in massachusetts this afternoon speaking at a major democratic fundraiser just hours ago. President biden, meanwhile, is is vowing to return to the Campaign Trail next week as he spends the weekend in delaware recovering from covid and facing calls from lawmakers in his own party to teardrop out of the race. First lets go to Grand Rapids, michigan, where former President Trump and his running mate, ohio senator Jd Vance, are holding their first rally together. Vaurn hillyard is covering the event, vaughn, what do you expect to h
Awards. The question is, has streaming officially taken over . Its way too early for this. Good morning. And welcome to way too early. The show that always roots for afc richman. Im Jonathan Lemire on this monday, september 20th. Well start with the news. Tomorrow, President Biden is set to deliver his first united nations general Assembly Speech since taking office. It could amount to a major test of his presidency. As some of americas closest allies look to see whether u. S. Foreign policy has really changed since Donald Trump left the White House. Tomorrows speech comes on the heels of a series of stunning setbacks for the biden administration on friday. First, the pentagon acknowledged that a drone Strike Targeting terrorists in afghanistan late last month mistakenly killed ten civilians, including seven children. Fda advisory panel overwhelmingly voted against a proposal to give a third Pfizer Covid Vaccine dose to the general population. The Booster Shot was only approved for sen
Of his presidency as some of americas closest allies look to see if u. S. Foreign policies have really changed since Donald Trump left the White House. Tomorrows speech comes on a heel of a series of setback for the biden administration On Friday. The pentagon announced a drone Strike Targeting terrorists mistakenly killed Tens Of Millions and including seven children. The fda Advisory Group voted against the Booster Shot, it was only approved for seniors or high risk groups. And finally, france recalled its ambassador to the united states over President Bidens to provide nuclear well get overall of that. The administration had hoped Todd Pivot back to his domestic agenda which has been jeopardized by some members of his own party. Whitehouses aides discussed curtailing the u. S. Travel. With us we have White Houses reporters, Jonathan Lemire whos up way too early for us and David Ignious is joining us. Jonathan, you traced Joe Bidens problem, hes obviously going to be dealing with for
Encouraging it and the stunning silence of the republican leaders as this is all happening, treating it as if it is a walk in the park. It is very painful to see. Not just silence but outright Defense And Dismissal of the threat. Whitney wild is outside of the fencing, surrounding it. Law enforcement making sure it is more prepared this time around. So what steps are they taking and what are they expecting . Reporter well what theyre expecting is potentially hundreds of beam to descend into washington as the Event Organizer for the nonviolent people who are charged in the January 6 insurrection. It is a little bit noisy out here because theyre doing Lastminute Tweaking that surrounds the u. S. Capitol grounds, somewhat of a familiar site here in washington following this January 6 insurrection. They are prepared for potential Violence Today as well as tomorrow and the concern, jim, is that people might be potentially promoting violence in furtherance of this stolen Election Lie and fur
Hes my guest. Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. The Breaking News, general Milley Wasnt alone. As calls grow from Mark Milley to resign over revelations he contacted a top chinese general twice in the final months of donald trumps presidency to reassure beijing the u. S. Would not attack china, were learning Mark Esper also took extraordinary steps at the same time. A former senior Defense Official says that the chinese were so concerned about the rhetoric coming out of trumps White House last year that esper, the Defense Secretary had a top deputy, not milley, a top Deputy Back channel beijing telling them they were in no danger of being attacked. That is the exact same Thing Milley said and weve learned today that milley conducted his call to the top chinese general in consultation with and with the approval of Secretary Esper. That call from milley was on October 30th of 2020. And there was one more call after that. This a call from milley to the same chinese general