Coates and we are live from the Walkie Welcome to cnn special live coverage of the Republican National Convention. We are alive inside the Cnn Grill Right here in milwaukee, where Convention Attendees are gathering they are celebrating after a busy first night of your Republican National Convention. And you know what a lot has happened already here tonight. But perhaps the biggest moment we were all waiting for the arrival of a man who just 48 hours hours ago survive. What is being investigated as an Assassination Attempt. Former President Donald Trump was next to him. The man who solve the mystery of Who Trump Will Next aim as his Running Mate ohio senator Jd Vance, and both were nominated by republicans earlier. Today but tonight was more than about the fist pump. It was also a night in speeches focused on todays theme. It was make america a wealthy again, you probably saw all the different signs that were in the Convention Hall in each day. Its going to bring yet another new theme o
Yes, i will and i have before them. Lawrence: it has been a heck of a week for kamala harris, critics on both sides of the aisle taking issue and she is being mocked for struggling to come up with good answers. Now, you would think harris would figure it out by now, but she hasn t. I said that i would go to the border. When are you going to the border, vice president? of the administration asked i m not finished. I said i m going to the border. Lawrence: while harris blows up on reporters, new numbers show that the numbers at the borders are getting worse. And at a 20 year high and show no signs of slowing down. The situation is so bad that the states or act upon their own. In my home state, governor greg abbott says texas will build its own border wall. Watch. Texas will build it ourselves. I have been talking to people in the rio grande valley and the way they were paying over and is reprehensible, disastrous what the biden administration is down. It is not unaccompanied minors but p
Today. Cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us now from cornwall, england. Let s start with the vaccines. The president says this half a billion doses come with no strings attached? reporter: yeah, that s kind of been the white house s line as they ve been talking about what their vaccine sharing plan is going to be, because that s obviously a jab at other countries that have tried to trade political favors for sharing vaccines, but this does come amid some questions and even some criticism of what was the actual u. S. s plan going to be. That is what world leaders wanted to know and the white house knew that they should have expected president biden to get pressed on that by other world leaders as he is on his first trip abroad, and so that s why i think this timing of this announcement is certainly no coincidence with the president announcing that the u. S. Has bought and is going to donate half a billion pfizer vaccines. Now, a lot of those are going to go out
America s newsroom. The controversy igniting on monday with congresswoman omar questioning antony blinken. Then she tweeted this. We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the u. S. , hamas, israel, and the taliban. That drew a strong review from nancy pelosi and party leadership. She has since taken us back but she says it s too little, too late. Dana: first let s get to jackie with the story live on the hill. Let s begin there. Good morning. The fact that this comment was not just made in that interaction and was also repeated with the tweet was a concern that is lingering with a few of the democratic colleagues of congresswoman omar. The equivalency between the u. S. And israel and terrorist groups like hamas and the taliban that falls equivalency a review from 12 jewish lawmakers who asks for clarification as well as as well as house speaker nancy pelosi, the democratic leadership team who addressed her comments. Congresswoman omar initially pushed back on that letter from h
Yes, i will and i have before them. Lawrence: it has been a heck of a week for kamala harris, critics on both sides of the aisle taking issue and she is being mocked for struggling to come up with good answers. Now, you would think harris would figure it out by now, but she hasn t. I said that i would go to the border. When are you going to the border, vice president? of the administration asked i m not finished. I said i m going to the border. Lawrence: while harris blows up on reporters, new numbers show that the numbers at the borders are getting worse. And at a 20 year high and show no signs of slowing down. The situation is so bad that the states or act upon their own. In my home state, governor greg abbott says texas will build its own border wall. Watch. Texas will build it ourselves. I have been talking to people in the rio grande valley and the way they were paying over and is reprehensible, disastrous what the biden administration is down. It is not unaccompanied minors but p