The battleground now coming into focus, the battlegrounds we should say. Kamala harris and Donald Trump will hone in on about half a dozen states for the next 53 days that could make or break their campaigns. In all likelihood thats the case. Good morning on a friday. Dana has the day off. Martha maccallum, my Colleague And Friend has had one doozy of a week. Martha quite a week for everybody. Great to be with you. Im Martha Maccallum and this is americas newsroom. Were gearing up for an actionpacked day. No stopping between now and november 5th. Former President Trump kicks things off doing a News Conference in california. That should be interesting. That will happen at noon eastern. You will want to tune in for that. Reminder, we havent had one of these at all from Vice President harris, 54 days, 0 Press Conferences from the v. P. Bill do you think she rides out the string . We dont know. Trump heads to nevada for a rally in vegas. The Vice President will return to pennsylvania. P. A
she can play doubles for another five, ten years, but also they need to bring that same energy for every mactch. i guess they expected last night would be the last one, they have to bring the we love serena signs every night moving forward. how could she walk away from something that brings her this much joy. it s the top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. any moment now in pennsylvania, president biden will give a speech on gun safety. he s promoting his safer america plan, which includes increased funding for police and public safety along with a renewed push for an assault weapons ban. this is the first of three trips to pennsylvania in the coming days. on thursday, president biden will deliver a prime time speech in philadelphia. he ll be back on labor day in pittsburgh to celebrate american workers. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president in wilkes bury, pennsylvania, what can we expect from the presi
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. This presidency, we will ask a celebrated historian if there is anything to celebrate in the history that we are witnessing. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 561 of the Trump Administration and the end of another week brings a new sign of Robert Muellers increasing interest in one of Donald Trumps veteran advisers. His friend of 40 years, roger stone. Nbc news reports that according to a source with direct knowledge, a member of muellers stone met with a stone associate named kristin davis. She first came to prominence when the tab lights nicknamed her the manhattan madam after she said she provided prostitutes to the rich and powerful including a governor of new york. Davis said in july that the mueller representative who
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pittsburgh to celebrate american workers. cnn s arlette saenz is traveling with the president in wilkes bury, pennsylvania, what can we expect from the president today? reporter: president biden is set to take the stage behind me in a short while to talk about his efforts to tackle violent crime, including gun crime in this country. the president is going to lay out his safer america plan, which includes hiring and training 100,000 police officers over the next five years nationwide as well as calling for billions of dollars of investments in community violence prevention programs and other initiatives. the president is also expected to tout the bipartisan gun reform legislation that was signed into law earlier this summer. the first of its kind in decades, and the president will renew his call for an assault weapons ban, something that he believes the majority of this country supports. but this speech also gives the president an opportunity to try to present a contrast with republic
democrats and republicans and those who don t trust either party. history show that is the people in this room are the deciders. if you want to win, you have to win here in pennsylvania. the state of pennsylvania is going to win so big. pennsylvania in the trump column, the apparent winner and that makes the trump the president-elect. the crucial swing state of pennsylvania, republican red for the first time in years. i m here in pennsylvania and the reason we are visiting these states is pretty simple. donald trump won them 2.5 years ago. we are not going to let him win them in 2020. pennsylvania has the highest student loan debt in the country. for i am going to beat donald trump in 2020, it s going to happen here in northeast pennsylvania. we re love wilkes bury. we love this area.