we got it right. [ laughter ] john: we had some great guests what a terrific show today. a lot of information. sandra: absolutely thank you for joining us and sandra smith. john: i am john roberts we re handing it over to martha late sorry. sandra: sorry martha. martha: thank you very much you guys get afternoon in martha maccallum this is the story live from zebra publican national convention here in milwaukee. double truck junior will join us this hour as this dramatic split screen emerges of what is going on in this country. here tonight the 45th president once the deed the 47th as well will make his long-awaited big speech tonight before a crowd that s been waiting for this moment especially after the events of saturday. the attempted assassination on the life of donald j. trump. he will speak this evening at this convention we really seen a dramatic pulling together and unification of his party behind him over the course of the proceedings this week. on the o
for the nato summit in d.c. as it continues. this before a rare news conference where the stakes could not be higher coming later today. good morning, everybody. a day of consequence? could be. i m bill hemmer, good morning. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it s a big day and i think we ll make a lot of news on this show. the president s first news conference in eight months and sure to face an onslaught of questions for his fitness for office. the white house has spent the past two weeks in post debate damage control. republicans are seizing on that chaos. the democrats are in absolute full panic mode. not because of the president of the united states is unable to perform his duties as commander-in-chief and they are in panic mode. this is the ebb, the worst you ll see the biden campaign. i think what we are oh he seeing out of democrats they are living in the box they created for themselves by lying to the american people for several years, inc
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fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and refugee status in the united states out of the country. the context in which they were making this suggestion is the fact t
past few days here in europe telling people he thinks america is back. as in he think thinks the u.s. has seen as stronger on the world stage now that he has been elected president and he is putting a premium on alliances like nato. america. very good for america. essential for america. peter: surrounded by nato allies. the president seemed to be in good spirits. it looks like the first day back at school seeing all your old friends again. most of the time. for example, he didn t have much to say after a private meeting with the turkish president erdogan with whom he has significant policy differences. we couldn t hear you, sir. i didn t say anything. peter: russian aggression appears to russia s most aggressive challenge. we have russia that is not acting in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped as well as china. peter: so a lot has changed in a decade. last time nato put together a strategic plan 2010 when russia was considered a partner and