Nominations at this democratic convention. It was a police riot and i had never seen that before in my life. I have never seen groups of policeman with lead, not gold gloves and clubs going after civilians. There were pools of blood on michigan avenue the levels of violence backtoback episodes of the cnn original series 1968 airs tomorrow night, 9:00 a. M. 9:00 p. M. Eastern time and right here on cnn hello, thanks so much for joining me today. I m jim sciutto in for fredricka whitfield. Just 94 days left before the election. And there were major developments on both in democratic and republican campaigns today, former president donald trump, the republic i m could nominee. He s going to hold a rally in atlanta, georgia, joined by his running mate, the ohio senator j. D. Vance. It is the same venue where vice president kamala harris held a huge rally in the battleground state earlier this week, trump says he is prepared to debate harris for the first time, but only on his terms he agre
Watch all new episodes of in practical jokers on a new network. Thursday s attack on tbs good morning you, are live in the cnn newsroom. I m jim acosta in washington. We begin the hour with kamala harris taking command for democrats in the race for the white house. Vice president, locking down enough democratic delegates to win the party s nomination for president this hour. She s heading to who milwaukee for her first rally since rising to the top of the ticket with no democrats challenging her at the moment, the parties are struggling effort to block donald trump s return to the white house appears reenergized. And the doozy asm is growing. The harris campaign says more than 58,000 people have volunteered to help her campaign it s president biden quit the race sunday afternoon and donors have joined that rush. The campaign says it has raised more than $100 billion as of last night, and it s worth noting the campaign says most of those folks are firsttime donors also last night at pow
It results in a conviction someday is something else, but we should keep in mind why the president, why it was filled hope mike professionals nonpartisan professionals in washington, the president aired the decision. It was his choice not to tell the american people about where their documents were. It was a choice made by the former president just we have to keep that in mind. It s not it wasn t a choice made by bureaucrats in washington all right. Tim naftali. Thank you very much. What will try to get back to your time is short and there s so much breaking news. But tim, as always, really appreciate those insights. Thanks so much. Thank cnn, breaking news all right. Good morning. I m jim acosta. You re live in the cnn newsroom at just a couple of hours before the launch of the republican national convention for president donald trump getting a gift from a judge, he appointed down in florida, judge aileen cannon dismissing the classified documents case. We have our experts fortson cor
The latest republican led state trying to enact new voting restrictions in the shadow of president trump s big lie. Democrats effectively killed the bill walking out of the state capitol in austin. Republicans had votes to pass sb 7, but the democratic group left the gop short of quorum minutes before midnight when the state s legislative session ended. Sara murray joins me live. What happens now? democrats know it could be a shortlived victory. Texas governor abbott, a republican, came out swiftly, said this is a top priority for him. He is going to call a special session to make sure it gets done. Texas democrats walking off the house floor late sunday. We won t let them disenfranchise voters. It was short of the lawmakers needed for a vote. Killing the bill for the legislative session. It may be dropped only temporarily. Greg abbott, a republican, saying it is deeply disappointing the bill didn t reach his desk, vowing to call a special session. After hours of heated debate, after r
russian forces close in. cnn is covering the invasion from key ukrainian and european cities and right here in washington. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off tonight. i m jim acosta and you re in the situation room. we re following the breaking news. a humiliating loss for the russian military, the premiere vessel in its black sea fleet sinking today. ukraine claims it carried out a missile strike against the warship. more than that in just a moment. but we begin our coverage with our report from the front lines of russia s resurgent push into eastern ukraine. our chief international correspondent, clarissa ward, is standing by for us in the central ukrainian city of dnipro. you just returned from a town in the east holding out against relentless russian attacks. tell us what you found. reporter: so, jim, we were in a city called abdika. the shelling did not let up from the minute that we arrived. the mayor says he i