Good afternoon, i m jose diazbalart in for chris jansing. At this hour, tim walz wants j. D. Vance to know he s quote, damn proud of his service. The tensions ramping up between the two men over their military records as both venture out on the campaign trail solo. Also ahead, eye on ernesto, the hurricane bears down on puerto rico with heavy rains and winds knocking down trees and power lines. Power has been knocked out to hundreds of thousands of people. We ll get the very latest on its track. Plus, could this be a turning point for ukraine?. What we re now learning about the cross border attack that president biden calls a real dilemma for vladimir putin. We begin with two veterans, and vp contenders battling it out over accusations of stolen valor. Just moments ago, just moments from now, i should say, senator j. D. Vance will speak in michigan after rival governor tim walz used his first solo campaign appearance to push back on vance s claims he distorted his record in the nationa
It where the underdogs in this race. A these guys are creepy and weird as trey 25. This is america s dad, america s football coach. He is what jd vance pretends to be. I smile a lot of things, including bogus questions from the media. I can t wait to debate the guy. If he is willing to get off the couch and show up. I don t even know how to talk about the couch line yet. We are not going there. What bothers me about tim walz is the stolen valor garbage. It is hogwash. Tim walz served our country honorably. We are joyful warriors. Nobody spoke in crowds bigger than me. If you look at martin luther king, we actually had more people. It would be hard to find a sentence in what donald trump said today that did not include at least one lie. We are very close to a wall war, in my opinion. Very close to a world war. Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power?. A if trump loses, i am not confident at all. He means what he says. We don t take it seriously. He means it. Go
Great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same everything. Same number of people, if not we had more. They said he had a million people but i had 25,000 people. But when you look at the exact same picture, and everything s the same because it was the fountains, the whole thing all the way back from lincoln to washington. And you look at it, and you look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd. We actually had more people. Donald trump yesterday talking again about crowd size. We ll have more from the former president s combative and chaotic news conference in just a moment. And while trump was airing his slew of grievances, vice president kamala harris was speaking to members of a key labor union in detroit. We ll show you some of her message to them. And also ahead, we ll bring you the newest details in the terror plot that forced taylor swift to cancel multiple shows in europe. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, august 9th. I m jonathan lemire. Thanks
It s 4:00 in the east with a marvelous and organic thing, we re talking about enthusiasm. Especially in politics. Desperately tricky to generate, impossible to manufacture, but altogether vital for anyone with serious hopes for higher office. For that reason, recognize what vice president kamala harris has been able to accomplish in less than one week. From a low drum to a steady drumbeat to what we re seeing play out this afternoon, a crescendo rumbling across every corner of american political, civic and cultural life. The culmination of that phenomenon today, the crown jewel of endorsements for any democrat, president barack obama officially endorsing vice president kamala harris for president. In addition to a statement that suggests he and michelle obama will do, quote, everything we think to elect kamala harris the next president of the united states, the harris campaign released a video of the very moment it happened. Watch. Cam mall la. Hello. Hi. Hey there. You re both togethe
Hello and welcome to the lead. I m jake tapper. Topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u. S. Withdrew from afghanistan. A senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u. S. And applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. Pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. The siv program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. And so perhaps this program should be looked at going forward. It is designed to be a slow process. Indeed it has been a historically slow process, one that a former trump administration official claims that the trump administration, quote, sabotaged. But that said, president biden took office in january, and his administration failed to expedite the process to get these afghan allies out, despite months of warnings. This