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it's tuesday, august 6, right now on cnn this morning, kamala harris narrows for vice presidential candidate and then it's down to two and is poised to announce her choice. >> in a matter of hours the border's broken. >> she was the borders are the gop trying to pin down the harris campaign on immigration and the southern border the us calling for calm in the middle east as american troops are injured in iraq, and fears of a wider war loomed all right. 5:00 a.m. i'm here in washington alive. look at capitol hill on this tuesday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us.

>> vice president kamala harris has now officially won the democratic nomination for president. it comes just hours before she's expected to announce the biggest decision of her whirlwind campaign to date. her own vice presidential pick. cnn reporting the campaign plans to make the official announcement through a video online. later today, the duo set to appear together at a rally in philadelphia. >> sources telling cnn, it's down to two candidates, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro and minnesota governor tim walz. >> the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, spoke with cnn and tried to offer some insight into at least what she thinks harris should be looking for in a running mate it's a question of who she feels the most comfort level with in terms of governance, people say, well, who can help us win, but it's about who can help us govern more than that. all right joining us now, axios politics reporter stef kight and atlanta journal constitution, washington correspondent, tia mitchell. good morning to both of you.

>> i'm momentous day on the trail. >> of course. i'm heading up to philadelphia later on this afternoon as harris is set to announce, that her running mate tia mitchell, it seems like the wind is blowing toward tim walz. this morning. >> but what do you expect as the day unfolds well you know, i think they've done a masterful job keeping this under wraps and having all of us guessing even hours before but i do think the big thing will be the shelter well of unity and i think they're going to try their best to have a positive message. >> we've seen a lot of negative negativity, particularly from former president donald trump in the past few days. so i think they're going to try to contrast this with the very hopeful positive message. of course, that unified front with the families together and all of those things too to portray that they're having a good positive launch to this this partnership that will be at least three months yes. at

least three months when you put it that way, 90 days or so, stef kight, what does it say to you that if you listen to the pelosi comments that we heard there, they're talking about governing partner that sort of indicates to me that they're pelosi certainly seems to be on tim walz aside in all this back-and-forth, there had been a sense that shapiro perhaps was on a glide path that seems stripping interrupted in recent days, what's your latest reporting on the thinking inside the harris camp? >> there has been reporting that pelosi is favor as walls here. and of course, he was in the house, so she is a little bit of a bias there. she wants to see her former house colleagues in the white house, but yeah, over the weekend, it seemed you know, even just 24 hours ago, i would've said it's still seeing that shapiro was the top contender. i think the longer this goes, the more it seems to indicate that maybe harris will ultimately choose wall. so there's kind of a difference in strategy between the two of them. walz is of

course, much more popular with the progressive wing of that democratic party that many of the progressives have some concerns about shapiro, especially where he stands when it comes to do israel middle east. so there are some concerns there. meanwhile, shapiro would signal more of an effort to bring in moderates, bringing in people across the aisle. and of course, doubled down on pennsylvania, which has been it's going to be the biggest state for this, right? yes. certainly want i mean, the fact that they're putting this event in philadelphia the first place says it says it all at tea our stephen collinson this morning is take a big picture view of this, right? i mean, this is kind of the biggest decision harris has to make right now. but there is so much that is out of her control, right? her vice president's in her control. what we have seen going on with fears around a potential escalation in the middle east, the conflict in the middle east with anticipatory anticipating, retaliatory strikes from iran against israel at any moment.

plus, yesterday, we saw a global sell-off of stocks. the dow dropped over 1,000 points. that was a really rough day on wall street. there are some signs that today it's going to recover a little bit. but it doesn't obscure entirely these fears that we could head into a recession. these are major challenges for kamala harris and so far she has enjoyed this kind of honeymoon period how do you see these potentially critical tests for her playing out? >> so i do think that the honeymoon people given her a lot of grace to have to ramp up a campaign literally overnight. and it's only been about two weeks. as you've noted, but i think after she rolls out this vice president goals on the tour this week there will be questions about when will she sit down for a major interviews? when will she start answering policy questions more directly from journalists those independent of folks that want to drill down on her her

thoughts about where she wants to take the country. there also will be the question of a debate. we know that former president trump has put out some different scenarios out there. but at the end of the day, i think that there i think harris should debate. she should want to work out some type of agreement with again, the former president. it will be time, i think to drill down on her vision. people have given her time to get it started lots of goodwill, lots of money raised, lots of enthusiasm, lots of volunteers but, you know, she hasn't had to answer the tough questions, get. and i think the media is going to start getting impatient and i think her her critics, quite frankly, are going to start saying she's getting too much of a honeymoon. it's time to hold her feet for the fire while and staff. of course, donald trump trying to take advantage of what we saw in the economy yesterday, calling it the great

depression of 2024, you can't play games with markets calling it the camila crash. that of course is pretty par for the course for him. again it's, it's looking like based on some of the data out of the asian markets overnight that we're going to get a rebound here but how do you view this test for harris? >> yeah. i mean, obviously the trump campaign is trying to run this as if harris is the incumbent and they're going to blame every crisis on her and look you don't want to be going into an election this late in the game and having the country afraid of war and a recession, whether or not those play out, those that's not a sense you want to be running on and i would agree with ti do think we're at a point in this campaign where we're going to start to see the conversation shift. the excitement over the harris, which is starting to wane, and she does have some real policy comments that she's made in the past during the primary several years ago, that her campaign is trying to moderate on, but we need to hear from her herself and i think it's a really, really critical moment for her

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markets on fears of a potential us recession. today though, the nikkei clawing back posting a 10% gain overnight and dow futures also pointing higher this morning after that rough start to the week joining me now, cnn international correspondent hanako montgomery. hanako, good morning to you. bring us up to speed on the crash, the rebound. and what people are looking to next hi kasie. >> it's good to see you. asia stock markets and the japanese stock market specifically have recovered somewhat after the massive losses that we saw on monday. >> but experts are warning that we could see a lot more volatility in the markets until at least september when the u.s. federal reserve is expected to make rate cuts. now, the reason why asia stock markets and the japanese stock market in particular, which was the hardest hit, have recovered so quickly is really twofold. the first is we received better

than expected service sector data for the month of july from the united states dates now that's ease some concerns about the possibility of a recession in the world's largest economy. now, the second reason is the value of the yen has dipped a little bit and it looks as though it's beginning to stabilize a monday. we saw the yen surge against the greenback, which really caused some concerns among traders. and a month and hedge funders because they were selling very, very quickly but again, as it looks to stabilize, it's now trading at about 145 or 146 to the dollar. so that's eased some concerns. now we also know that european stock markets have also opened higher and the u.s. stock markets will likely open higher as well. well, in the next couple of hours following asia trends. but again, kasie, we're not quite out of the woods, just yet as a lot of stock markets around the world, watch with bated breath, with a us federal reserve will do in september, kasie. >> all right. hanako montgomery for us this morning. hanako,

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exist that people calling her that are doubling down on a misconception that's persisted ever since donald trump brought it into the mainstream that a single person could stop the largest global migration crisis in history. and caitlin dickerson joins us live now from new york, kaitlan. good morning. very grateful to have you on the program i you obviously wrote about this. i know you also have been engaged in a massive new investigation that follows up on some significant reporting that you have done on immigration. the bottom line here is that kamala harris was named as the person. should address the root causes of migration at the beginning of the biden administration and we had seen that crisis continues to unfold, not just here in the u.s. but also in many of these countries can you explain what you found and how you look at her role in this sure. >> i mean, i think what trying to interrogate kamala harris's record on immigration shows us is just how complicated this issue is and how simple fixes

don't work. i mean, i've been following immigration for a lot long time as it's ebbed and flowed over administrations, republican and democrat. and it's not like you can impose one simple tool. and change global movement patterns so vice president harris, his job was to, as you said, look at the root causes of migration. she focused on central america, which was sending the most people to the united states at the time. she raised about $5.5 billion of private funds to help support jobs in those northern triangle countries of central america and migration has actually gone down from that region during the biden administration fortunately, at the same time conflict and climate change and instability and poverty has unfolded elsewhere. i'm sure your viewers are paying attention right now, for example, to what's happening in venezuela where a seemingly stolen election has sent scores of protesters into the streets. 2000 have been arrested. that's a country where already about a quarter of the people

left and even more are expected to. >> the reporting i've just finished up with took place in the darien gap are dangerous route through the jungle where many migrants are taking to get to the united states and they're coming from all over the world. so as we see migration go down from central america, we're seeing it go up from other places at the same time we heard actually from chris murphy on this question of venezuela over the weekend. >> let me show you what he had to say and we'll talk about it. watch what drove the increase in migration was in part huge increased travel from a country like venezuela, which was plunged into economic crisis because of donald trump's policies. >> kamala harris was given a important but discrete task she was able to dramatically reduce migration from those countries. and again apples to apples crossings at the southwest border are lower today than they were at the end of the trump administration when he says that the venezuela crisis

was caused by donald trump's policies, do you think he's correct in that criticism and how he frames this? >> so what he's talking about there is the impact of american sanctions against the venezuelan government, which is certainly played a role. but nodes, american policy and american sanctions did not start the crisis in venezuela i think it's really a combination of factors. and again, a challenge with writing immigration policies. sometimes you have the state department imposing sanctions on a country that's violently cracking down on protesters. while at the same time, the department of homeland security is saying, hey you're hurting the economy when it was already in tailspin. and that's crucial getting more migration another issue for the united states. >> so you really have to have, foreign policy taken into account when you're writing immigration policy. >> and i think the unfortunate thing is is that immigration is just become so politicized that we are all laser-focused on the southern border on a

month-to-month basis and comparing numbers that tell a much larger story, we have to look abroad and really taken in a consideration what's happening. kamala harris alone or even donald trump alone could not have taken nicholas maduro out of power in venezuela. but we've got to have a more a comprehensive approach to these issues cannon, what's your sense of the biden administration and the decision to put kamala harris in this position in the first place because i will say when i have private conversations with people around her. >> they will say that doing this didn't do her any favors, partly because of all of the difficulties that you outlined that perhaps they handed her an impossible task yeah. >> harris, his aides at the time were pretty open about the fact that they didn't want to take on that job, look, it was a continuation of the work that president biden did when he was vice president, he got the same

job from barack obama and i think that's governing, you don't get to pick your issues when you're serving as vice president or when you're serving as president, you have to deal with the most important issues that are facing the nation, not the ones that you think are going to be best for your career fair enough. >> yeah. >> let me ask you about, i actually talked to kamala harris about this. she visited the border in 2018 and i accompanied her on this visit to otay mesa, which you probably know is a facility down on the border near san diego. and i asked her about something that was flaring up at the time which were calls from progressives to abolish ice immigrations and customs enforcement. here's how she answered the question. watch a lot of the signs at the rally you just held, or people standing there saying abolish ice yeah. >> is that a position that you agree with listen i think there's no question that we've got to critically re-examine ice and its role and the way that it is being administered and the work it is doing. and

we need to probably, you think about starting from scratch because there's a lot that is wrong with the way that it's conducting itself. and we need to deal with that so i'm curious how you read those comments because at the time harris, his team, a couple days later or in the hours afterward, tried to clean that up a little bit. >> now, of course, a lot of the reporting saying while she never we're actually said she was going to abolish ice starting from scratch at the time felt pretty clear to me this issue has obviously evolved in the years since and the way we talk about it here in the u.s. but what do you make of her answer there? and how do you understand her position on this? >> i think kamala harris as first and foremost alon order politician needed. >> that's existed as a through line throughout her career. >> and so i really can't see her ever abandoning enforcement of immigration laws. it's just sort of anathema to the trajectory of her career. >> i think who is responding to there was allegations of abuse

and allegations of really, really harsh treatment overly harsh treatment, especially of children and families at that time, that a lot of voters were taking issue she with and wanting to rethink the way immigration enforcement works in this country. >> i mean, again, like we've said, it's so complicated ice per primarily works on enforcing immigration laws within and our borders. so there are questions when you're going after people who've been living in the united states for a long time, who've been working should children be arrested in those contacts? should family be arrested in this contract tax excuse me, in this context. so i think that criticism of cracking down on children and families that took place during the trump administration is what? harris was responding to i expect her to go nowhere near comments like that. as the election continues and really to go nowhere near comments like that. if she were to win the presidency, because as you've talked about, the most

americans at this point are citing immigration as a top issue for them right now saying that they trust democrats more than republicans. and so there's a lot of pressure on harris to show that she's going to have a strong back phone on this issue and hopefully one that takes into account the work that she's done for this biden white house so far, looking at root causes, taking a more comprehensive long view yeah, for sure. >> and the issue has changed so much in the six years since we had that conversation, caitlin dickerson of the atlantic, very grateful for your time this morning. thank you for being here. i hope you'll come back. >> thank you all right. >> let's go now to this story. the pentagon now, blending iran backed groups after several us soldiers were injured in a rocket attack on an american base in iraq. iran has been at the center of heightened tensions after it vowed, quote, blood vengeance against israel for the killing of a key hamas leader in tehran you don't need me to have on iran cannot be indifferent towards its

security its friends and allies security and the security of the region the us trying to urge calm in an effort to prevent the israel hamas war from turning into even an even larger regional conflict we are engaged in intense diplomacy pretty much around the clock with a very simple message all parties must refrain from escalation all parties must take steps to ease tensions escalation is not in anyone's interest. it will only lead to more conflict more violence, more insecurity so while israel is on high alert, anticipating the retaliation, the timing is unclear. >> us officials tell cnn it could happen in the next 24 hours or the coming days. let's bring in cnn military analyst i drink leighton right now to talk more about this, cedric. good morning. always wonderful to see you. >> so what is the u.s. doing right now to try to deter this

strike. >> so there are a lot of things that the u.s is doing. on the one hand, you've got the diplomatic track as you saw with secretary blinken, but from it military standpoint, you have a carrier battle group going into the eastern mediterranean that is replacing another carrier battle group that is actually in the gulf if of oman. so all of those movements are designed to basically tell all the parties in the region in the middle east that the united states is not only to paying attention, but that the united states will protect israel from an attack like we saw in april 13. in addition to the carrier battle groups, you've got air defense assets moving in, plus a fighter squadron of f 22's. that's moving into the region as well what is it about this moment that makes the fears of a regional conflict? >> standing higher than they've been since october 7. >> that's a great question. i think the basic answer to it is that all of the different parties you've got iran on one side, you've got hezbollah now sitting in lebanon. you've got

hamas sitting in gaza for the most part, i and of course you've got the israelis. i in each one of them has some kind of grievance that they want to actually move forward in a in a very much in the way of a conflict. and as a result of that, what they are trying to do is they're trying to it is set themselves up in essence for a military victory. netanyahu has been doing that for trying to do that for israel. he is basically been unsuccessful in achieving a full military jury victory in gaza basically, he's playing whack-a-mole with hamas in gaza in when it comes to hamas, they are basically looking at things from standpoint of what can they do in order to survive as an organization, given the israeli onslaught in gaza. but there also successful in reconstituting a lot out of their units. and then of course you have hezbollah that is trying to avenge the death of one of their key leaders. and you have iran that feels very aggrieved because the hamas

leader was killed in the political leader, haniyeh was killed in tehran under there as a guest of theirs in that guest stops there, right. >> and so what does this situation do for netanyahu in terms of the kind of the way it pushes him politically as he wages this war in gaza. >> so for him, his imperative is continue the war effort as much as he possibly can because there are domestic political reasons for it, but also from a military standpoint, his military strategy is based on on no cheating victory over hamas. the problem that he has is that going after a group like hamas and achieving a complete victory is almost impossible except with total and i alation, total annihilation than gets the international community arrayed against him, that even the effort to do that, and that is really the problem that he has. so he is trying trying to continue on a path that in the long run will prove unsuccessful. but the problem

that he has is he has to find a way off of off of that unit to an off-ramp and he cannot really we find that off-ramp given the way in which he's pursuing his policies, for sure. >> all right. colonel cedric leighton for us this morning, colonel. thank you. always appreciate it. you bet all right. >> still ahead here on cnn and in this morning, personality versus policy, why donald trump keeps bringing up an old feud with a republican governor plus one olympic athletes reaching new heights for a world record for more than a decade. >> or sega has been trusted it's it again and again. and again asked your doctor about the first sega. >> do not buy generic viagra until you check out this program, giving away 100 milligrams generic viagra for just $0.87 cvs and walgreens don't want you to know about this because they sell the same

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overturn the 20 2020 election results in georgia. that is something that trump still can't get over is very bad for the republican party. he wouldn't do anything. he could have ended the travesty with a phone call because i did nothing wrong he's a bad guy. he's a disloyal guy, and he's a very average governor later, brian, little brian little brian joining us now. charlie dent, former republican congressman from pennsylvania. >> congressman. >> always wonderful to have you is it helpful for donald trump to be i mean, he calls this, is he's using the same label for brian kemp that he uses sometimes for kamala harris, who's running against and who is a democrat well, look the irony of what donald trump just said is really stunning georgia, the georgia gop has suffered terrible defeat to the united states senate because of donald trump's conduct because

he threw a snip after the 2020 election and really undermine the republican senate candidates in the runoff. in early january he cost them, he caused republicans trump cost republicans the united states senate. and he's still, he's still agreed because governor kemp and brad raffensperger oh, wouldn't overturn the georgia election outcome. and he's a very petty vindictive man clearly. and he just can't get over. he's obsessed and he's actually camp is the one who is actually winning in georgia at trump's the won who lost and cost the loss of the senate seats. so it's just amazing that the georgia is even, it all competitive for trump. you think republicans would have bolted from a whole long time ago, but that's where we are georgia still, still a battleground state indeed, and especially with harris. now that's kind of changed considerably. look, i want to ask you honestly about

pennsylvania because it's a centerpiece for the future president really needs to win pennsylvania, whether the democrat or the republican, right? kamala harris has this huge decision looming and josh shapiro has been at the top of the list. it's seems like he's fallen back a little bit and there's a lot of focus on tim walz here as we wait in these intervening hours. but i'm curious what you think about what a ship hero pick would actually do on the ground in pennsylvania because of how popular here he is well, it's pretty obvious to me that, kamala harris has no path to victory, to the white house without pennsylvania pennsylvania is almost the entire game for her if she loses pennsylvania, her election's over. >> and that's why josh shapiro was as at the top of this list because of his popularity and his strength, he has good political chops. he's a skillful politician and especially because he is strong in the philadelphia media markets the city of philadelphia, the four collar counties, and went what's your front as well as up into the

lehigh valley? that represents probably around 40%, maybe a little over 40% of the entire statewide i'd electorate, that is where kamala harris needs to run up the score. and so shapiro actually helps her on the margins in that case. and remember, pennsylvania this is, so competitive, but it was won on the margins. trump won it by 44,000 votes in 2016, biden won it by about 81,000 votes in 2020 it's in play hi so to the extent that shapiro's on the ticket, he can probably help bring some of those soft republicans and independents over to harris. and harris is going to need some help because she took the position addition to posing, fracking back in 2020 presidential race. she's going to need someone to blunt those criticisms. obviously, there's been erosion among jewish voters, not just in pennsylvania, but nationally from the democrats. some very loyal constituency to them. shapiro can help there as well. the ease those who are concerned about the anti-israel wing of the party. so i think he brings a lot of benefits.

waltz, of course, i know tim, we serve together as a good man, but she already has minnesota right. and i'm not sure that no hill that he would bring quite as much value as a shapiro went to the ticket fairy, interesting. >> well, i guess this will be one of the last conversations that we all have speculating about this because just a couple hours which should actually have an answer. this question charlie dent to have you. thank you so much soon good time now for sports, which of course means the olympics. >> this heartwarming display of sportsmanship on the podium from two american gymnast has just lit up social media. amanda davis joins us now more with more from paris. amanda, this was just a hazing to see honestly, these athletes that absolutely the very, very best in the world being willing to look at each other and recognize game recognizes game exactly that. that is the phrase i have been using this

morning. the biggest sporting stage where these athletes have fighting thing for the biggest prizes. but we got what is being talked about as the most iconic image of paris 2024. i'm dubbing them the abc, rebecca and dr. jay sumo mile jordan chiles, not only the first all-black olympic gymnastics podium, but a true show of love, support, and respect between the trio all game changes in their own rights with biles and chiles bowing down to celebrate brazil's are draghi, as she celebrated her first olympic goals at her third games after coming back from not one, not two, but three, acl tears to win the floor competition in solid really is women supporting women in the best possible way it has been so much celebration of simone biles, rightly signing off here in paris with three gold and silver. she's described it as more than how wildest dreams,

but this really was an iconic, very, very special moment and speaking of iconic pictures, we've had a fair few produce 10,000 miles away as well in the french territory of tahiti. that's been the venue of the surfing competition. you might might have missed while you were sleeping. team usa's caroline marks taking the gold, the 22-year-old world surf league champion, upgrading have false finish from tokyo in the best possible way look at those scenes, but maybe the best possible way is the way that mondo duplantis did it in the pole vault, the world championed successfully defending his goal from tokyo by setting a new world record, the 24-year-old jr.'s keeps rewriting the record books he's raised the world records six centimeters in the last 4.5 years since he first broke it. and to put that into context, it previously, took 23 years is to move at that distance. he joined us here on the rooftop a

little while ago and he was talking me through how he's visualized his golden moments when i was a kid gemini, my backyard i feel like i always visualize the moment mauled record high olympic final just. me against the bar and then it's like it's the moment it's actually there and it feels like i've prepared for this for my whole entire life. so i feel like bad this feeling no would like peace and confidence that is hard to explain really it will work out the way that it did. it's just like unbelievable, right unbelievable, much like that com self-assurance he said he'd given everything you could tell, speaking to him this morning, noah lyles was there congratulating monday one is success as we were saying, gay recognizing game. >> and there's plenty more to come today, including team usa's gabby thomas heading into the 200 meters, very much as the favorite, having posted

the fastest time in the semifinals up against some lucia's hundred meters champion is julian alfred and i hope you notice there was only one glass of champagne on that table. not to i didn't i wasn't i'm glad you brought it up because i was like, what did he did he show up with it? now we actually there's a bar on the rooftop here. and if you're going to do it at 8:00 in the morning, it's going to read the day after a gold medal and breaking a world record, i guess. >> i wasn't ready jealous of your assignment and now i'm learning that he not go after done and have a glass we've got coffee here. amanda, thank you. do you very much. i appreciate it. i'll see you later this week all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, the list is down to as kamala harris is set to announce, her running mate in a matter of fact, hours plus everybody should maybe just go off google, not use it it. go off google. donald trump ratcheting up his attacks against them during an.

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