abc's christiane cordero joins us live from washington with more on harris's message. christiane. >> hey there. ama and dan. so vice president harris spoke for just under 20 minutes trying to draw a sharp contrast between her vision for the country and donald trump's. it's her first campaign rally since president biden dropped out of the race and gave her his endorsement. today, president joe biden, returning to washington after recovering from covid in delaware the first time we're seeing him since thursday and since he dropped out of the presidential race, his vice president and now presumptive democratic presidential nominee kamala harris on the campaign trail in battleground wisconsin, the path to the white house goes through wisconsin, and you all helped us win in 2020. >> and in 2024, we will win again. >> harris plans to campaign against former president trump by focusing on threats to abortion access and project 2025. >> donald trump wants to take our country backward. he and his extreme project 2025 agen will weaken the middle class. >> her candidacy, propelle

abc news reporter christiane cordero has the latest from washington. >> while speaking in front of aajor teachers union today, vice president kamala harris rallied supporters to fight against former president donald trump and what she calls his extreme allies. >> while you teach students about democracy and representative government extremists attack the sacred freedom to vote teachers union, one of several organizations now formally endorsing harris for president. >> the party's top leaders also appear united behind the likely democratic presidential nominee. >> she has a vision for the future that includes everyone and reflects the needs and priorities of women from every corner of this country. >> across the aisle, house republicans and six democrats currently running vulnerable house races approved a resolution against harris regarding policies related to the southern border. speaker mike johnson again calling her the border czar, saying, quote, today's resolution condemns the biden administration and vice president harris for their total dereliction of duty. christiane cordero a

abc news reporter christiane cordero is following this developing story. >> today, president joe biden returning to washington after recovering from covid in delaware. the first time we're seeing him since thursday and since he dropped out of the presidential race, his vice president and now presumptive democratic presidential nominee kamala harris on the campaign trail in battleground wisconsin, the path to the white house goes through wisconsin, and you all helped us win in 2020. >> and in 2024, we will win again. >> harris plans to campaign against former president trump by focusing on threats to abortion access and project 2025. >> donald trump wants to take our country backward. he and his extreme project 2025 agenda. will weaken the middle class. >> her candidacy, propelled by a flood of endorsements and donations, raising a record $100 million plus and getting the official backing of every democratic governor and nearly all of the party's members of congress today. senate majority leader chuck schumer and house minority leader hakeem jeffries giving their endorsements. >> we are

. >> tonight, abc news reporter christiane cordero is in washington with more on that and how donald trump and republicans are pivoting to campaign against her. >> tonight, vice president kamala harris is in the midwest, making her appeal to the middle class. now, as the leading presidential candidate for the democratic party, building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. in the two days since president joe biden dropped out and endorsed harris for president, she has received overwhelming support from top democratic leaders and today in wisconsin, her first stop since kicking off her campaign, the vp was greeted with cheers. her message focused in on her record as attorney general of california and threats to abortion access. we who believe in reproductive freedom. >> will stop donald trump's extreme abortion bans because trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have their government tell them what to do. >> former president donald trump off the trail since saturday targeting harris on social medi. and today on a call with reporters. >> sh

i'm christiane cordero with the latest from washington.orded history, the ongoing battle to put it out and the charges against the man accused of igniting it. good morning everyone. it's tuesday, july 30th. we get started with a forecast out there this morning. this is a live look from our san jose camera. sky spotty drizzle this morning. there's certainly drizzle across the city. along the coast. you may need those windshield wipers for a few minutes as you go about your morning. we'll break down that fog later on this morning for afternoon sunshine, but very pleasant temperatures later today. right now, pretty s we. so just like yesterday. pleasant when we talk about inland temperatures. no excessive heat today we will find lots of sunshine, daytime highs going into the low and mid 80s around the bay shoreline. it's very foggy this morning, even around 10 a.m. we're still pretty overcast. i think closer to 11 a.m. we see that sunshine prevail and then in the afternoon it's a partly cloudy sky and those temperatures going into the mid 70s

. >> tonight, abc news reporter christiane cordero is in washington with more on that and how donald trump and republicans are pivoting to campaign against her. >> tonight, vice president kamala harris is in the midwest, making her appeal to the middle class. now, as the leading presidential candidate for the democratic party, building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. in the two days since president joe biden dropped out and endorsed harris for president, she has received overwhelming support from top democratic leaders and today in wisconsin, her first stop since kicking off her campaign, the vp was greeted with cheers. her message focused in on her record as attorney general of california and threats to abortion access. we who believe in reproductive freedom. >> will stop donald trump's extreme abortion bans because trust women to make decisions about their own bodies and not have their government tell them what to do. >> former president donald trump off the trail since saturday targeting harris on social medi. and today on a call with reporters. >> sh

abc's christiane cordero has the very latest. christiane. good morning, andre. >> good morning. the president says he had a medical checkup after the debate. and despite growing pressure to quit, he's vowing to stay in the race. reporter this morning, president biden is rejecting growing pressure from democrats to step aside after his debate performance last week. >> the conversation was honest and open last night, biden met with more than 20 democratic governors. >> the meeting described as candid and blunt. biden revealed that he had a medical checkup after the debate, showing him in good health. >> all of us said we pledged our support to him because the stakes could not be higher. >> california governor gavin newsom writing i heard three words from the president he's all in and so am i. but one person at the governor's meeting said the president did not go one by one, asking each governor for support with the covid. >> excuse me, with, dealing with everything we have to do with, look, if we medicare. >> a new poll shows trump extending his lead over biden now ahead by six po

abc's christiane cordero has reaction. christiane. good morning. >> andrea. good morning.g the president's proposal a conversation starter, acknowledging the odds of it becoming a reality. are low. >> extremism is undermining the public confidence in the court's decisions. >> in his first speech since proposing major reforms to the supreme court, president biden said public trust in the court has eroded. >> these reforms restore trust in the courts. >> biden is proposing an 18 year term limit for justices with every president appointing a new justice every two years, ensuring consistent renewal of the court. the president also saying justices should be required to disclose gifts, refrain from public political activity and recuse themselves from cases in which they or their spouses have financial or other conflicts of interest. but the proposal immediately condemned by republicans, rather than accepting that they lost the biden-harris administration, has responded with a full scale attack on the justices who ruled against them. with a divided senate and a republican control

abc's christiane cordero has the latest. christiane. good morning. >> good morning. andrea. president biden is in a make or break stretch of his campaign. he's visiting wisconsin today with every appearance now being closely, closely scrutinized. president biden took in last night's 4th of july celebration from the truman balcony watching the fireworks with the first lady and vice president harris speaking to supporters before the celebration, he again dismissed calls to end his reelection campaign. >> you got me, man. i'm not going anywhere. all right? >> three democratic congressman lloyd doggett, raul grijalva and seth moulton are now calling for biden to drop out of the race after last week's debate performance. other democrats have questioned if biden's candidacy can continue. we needed a boost from thursday. >> we didn't get it and the campaign has been very, i think, arrogant in their response. >> we need a reset. we need a course correction. we've got to acknowledge that this was not just one bad night. >> during a meeting with democratic governors, sources say biden

. >> abc's christiane cordero is here with the latest.istiane, good morning alison. >> good morning. the news conference was biden's biggest test since the debate. and even many of his supporters are saying it's not clear he passed it last night. president biden doubled down on his decision to stay in the presidential race. >> i'm not in this for my legac. i'm in this to complete the job. i started marking the end of the nato summit. >> he made two notable gaffes early on. first, he mistakenly referred to ukrainian president zelensky as president putin. >> ladies and gentlemen, president putin, president puti, we've got to beat president putin, president zelensky, i'm so focused on beating putin, we've got to worry about it. >> then, during his first news conference in eight months, biden referred to vice president kamala harris as vice president trump. >> look, i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice president. did i think she was not qualified to be president? so let's start there. >> trump weighed in live with a post on

we're live in washington, christiane cordero, amanda and kumasi, back to you. >> thank you.ions this morning about the power of ai, potentially misleading people ahead of the election. now, over the weekend, elon musk shared a manipulated video of vice president kamala harris. we're not showing you the video, but it used images from a real ad with a fake voice that sounded like her voice. the original video was labeled as a parody, but musk did not explicitly say that when he reposted it, governor newsom responded on x, saying, quote, manipulating a voice in an ad like this one should be illegal. he says he will be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure that it is. >> happening today, republican vice presidential candidate j.d. vance is turning to a silicon valley connections for campaign cash. he's scheduled to headline a fundraising reception in palo alto. the washington post and bloomberg report the evening is being hosted by mike belshe. he's the ceo of the crypto company bitgo. vance is no stranger to the silicon valley campaign piggy bank. earlier, last month

christiane cordero abc news, washington. >> and we are one month away now from the democratic nationalion. that will be august 19th to the 22nd in chicago. abc will host the next presidential debate, currently set for september 10th, and it's unclear if or when the vice presidential candidates will debate. but election day is on november 5th. >> we're now getting a clearer timeline of the attempted assassination of former president trump. it suggests there were numerous opportunities to stop thomas crooks, but doesn't really reveal whether concerns about him were actually sent to the secret service. crooks was first spotted by a local swat team member at 5:10 p.m. last saturday, then four minutes later, his photo was taken by a member of a sniper team at 532. a sniper noticed crooks had a rangefinder nine minutes after he was spotted lurking around a building. about 6 p.m, police requested more information about his exact whereabouts. police began to move in on him six minutes later. then, at 612, the shots were fired. police confirmed crooks was dead just after 630, but still many mor

abc's christiane cordero has those details. christiane. good morning, andrew. >> good morning to you. the current head of the secret service said he was ashamed of the failures that day. and then things got tense during that hearing here on capitol hill, sir. >> agents interrupting him. >> stop interrupting me. >> republican lawmakers grilling the acting director of the secret service, ronald row. senator josh hawley pressing row on why he has yet to fire anyone over the mistakes made in the lead up to the assassination attempt on former president trump. >> i will not rush to judgment that people will be held accountable, and i will do so with integrity and not rush to judgment and put people unfairly persecuted. i unfairly persecuted fairly people who are dead. >> in another tense exchange, senator ted cruz asked roe to compare the number of agents assigned to trump that day to the number that would be assigned to president biden. is it the same number of agents or not? >> senator, there is a difference between the sitting president of th

. >> abc's christiane cordero is here with the latest on this. christiane.d morning, brianna, and good morning to you. >> it is a crucial day for president biden. he's preparing to face the media as alliances within his own party appear to shift. >> jill and i are honored to have so many close allies and close friends all in the same room. >> president biden led its host last night before hosting nato leaders for dinner at the white house. >> the allies in this room not only share a common language, don't share a common language. we do not share a common border. but we are neighbors. we're neighbors because we all share common beliefs in dignity, equality, democracy and freedom. >> but overshadowing the event. new calls for biden to quit his reelection campaign over concerns about his mental acuity. vermont's peter welsh has become the first democrat in the senate to publicly call for biden to step aside, and the website axios reports. senate leader chuck schumer is privately signaling to donors that he's open to biden, dropping out. schumer said this to rep

here's abc news reporter christiane cordero >> he stood on a white house balcony above a 4th of july crowd for president joe biden. these days, every move is a bid to show he belongs on top of the democratic ticket. three democratic congressman lloyd doggett, raul grijalva and seth moulton have called for biden to drop out of the race after last week's debate performance. others are criticizing the biden campaign's response, urging a change in strategy. we needed a boost from thursday. >> we didn't get it, and the campaign has been very, i think, arrogant in their response. >> we need a reset. we need a course correction. we've got to acknowledge that this was not just one bad night. >> the white house has repeatedly dismissed last week's debate as a bad night, first saying the president had not received any medical exams in the days after, then acknowledging he was seen by a doctor as he was recovering from a cold during a meeting with democratic governors, sources tell abc news. biden said he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, suggesting he shouldn't schedule anything af

abc's christiane cordero has the very latest. christiane good morning. >> hi, andrew. good morning.arris campaign appears to have settled on a new strategy to attack the republican ticket. this morning, democrats are using a new line of attack against former president trump and running mate j.d. vance, describing the republican ticket as weird. multiple times over the weekend, some of what he and his running mate are saying. >> well, it's just plain weird. >> that is weird behavior every day, vance, it comes out. vance has done something more extreme, more weird, more erratic. >> senator vance on fox news last night accused democrats of twisting his words after vance's comments from 2021 resurfaced, in which he called the vice president a childless cat lady and appeared to question the leadership of democrats who don't have biological children. >> if you look at the full context of what i said, it's very clear the democrats have tried to take this thing out of context. it's the fact that the democratic party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies. >> the biden a

here's abc news reporter christiane cordero. >> he stood on a white house balcony above a 4th of julyor president joe biden. these days, every move is a bid to show he belongs on top of the democratic ticket. three democratic congressman lloyd doggett, raul grijalva and seth moulton have called for biden to drop out of the race after last week's debate performance. others are criticizing the biden campaign's response, urging a change in strategy. we needed a boost from thursday. >> we didn't get it, and the campaign has been very, i think, arrogant in their response. >> we need a reset. we need a course correction. we've got to acknowledge that this was not just one bad night. >> the white house has repeatedly dismissed last week's debate as a bad night, first saying the president had not received any medical exams in the days after, then acknowledging he was seen by a doctor as he was recovering from a cold during a meeting with democratic governors, sources tell abc news. biden said he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, suggesting he shouldn't schedule anything after 8 p.

abc's christiane cordero has the latest on that christiane good morning brianna. >> good morning.ocrats spent yesterday in meetings discussing president biden's future as former president trump hit the campaign trail for the first time since the debate, former president trump challenged president biden to a debate this week when he took the stage at his florida rally last night. >> so that sleepy joe biden can prove to everyone all over the world that he has what it takes to be president. >> trump even invited biden to his club. >> i'm also officially challenging crooked joe to an 18 hole golf match right here. >> senator marco rubio, a potential vp choice for trump, voiced his concern about biden's health. >> the only conspiracy here are the people in the shadow government that are protecting and hiding from the american people. the condition of our current president. >> it comes as a seventh democrat in the house, new jersey congresswoman mikie sherrill urges biden to drop out of the race, saying, when i think of my four children and all of the rights that another trump presiden

abc's christiane cordero. >> reporter: as top democrats and donors scramble in washington, tonight an impassioned group of voters here in the swing state of pennsylvania are focused on the road to november, and committed to joe biden. >> i am definitely sticking by him. i don't care if they push him in wheelchair, i am going to vote for him. >> i think that everyone should keep in mind the importance of this election. >> reporter: despite the president's poor debate performance, many voters say the stakes in november are too high for him to drop out now. >> i fear that if we were to go have another trump administration, the rights and privileges i had when i was her age she will no longer have them. >> reporter: but even in this group of staunch democrats, some believe the president staying in the race is too risky. >> well, i am concern as we all are that he might not be up to it and it's so vital that we win. >> reporter: ultimately staying or going is biden's own call to make. >> if he makes that decision to step down, then i'll go along with what he decides to do. >> who would be

here's abc's christiane cordero. >> it was the mission that earned six men the first medals of honor.years ago. their story inspired and later tv shows and movies. in april 1862, the group known as andrews raiders, 18 union soldiers and two civilians a confederate train in georgia called the general deep in enemy territory. their plan drive the general north and destroy the train tracks along the way, cutting off a vital confederate supply line. >> at that point, it could have shortened the war, and there could have been hundreds of thousands of young men that would have survived the war. >> but the daring mission was unsuccessful. the men were forced to abandon the train. some escaped, but others were captured and executed, including philip, shadrach, and george wilson. the next year, six of the raiders became the first men to receive the nation's highest military award. >> secretary of war stanton decided and president lincoln that these men should be honored with this newly minted medal. the medal of honor. >> to date, 19 of the raiders have received the medal, but today that numbe

abc's christiane cordero is on the ground with voters in the keystone state. >> reporter: as top democrats and donors scramble in washington, tonight an impassioned group of voters here in the swing state of pennsylvania are focused on the road to november, and committed to joe biden. >> i am definitely sticking by him. i said i don't care if they push him in wheelchair, i am going to vote for him. >> i think that everyone should keep in mind the importance of this election. >> reporter: despite the president's poor debate performance, many voters say the stakes in november are too high for him to drop out now. >> i fear that if we were to go have another trump administration, the rights and privileges i had when i was her age she will no longer have them. >> reporter: but even in this group of staunch democrats, some believe the president staying in the race is too risky. >> well, i am concern as we all are that he might not be up to it and it's so vital that we win. >> reporter: ultimately staying or going is biden's own call to make. >> if he makes that decision to step down, then i'll

abc news reporter christiane cordero is live in dc with how some are reacting this morning. christiane. >> hey there reggie. good morning. so it's a conversation that's happening both publicly and behind closed doors. abc news has learned senate democrats privately met with the biden campaign thursday. one senator said they needed to see hard data that showed a path to success. in november, in his first press conference of the year, president joe biden fielded nearly an hour of questions highlighting his policies and political future. >> the best way to assure them is the way i assure myself, and that is, am i getting the job done? >> the president first pressed on whether vice president kamala harris could beat former president trump in november. biden flubbed his response. >> look, i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice president, but i think she was not qualified to be president. so let's start there. number one, trump weighed in live with a post on social media reading. >> great job. joe biden ignored the actual question about how the vp would fare agains

abc news reporter christiane cordero is live in washington with how some are reacting. this morning. good morning. >> hey, reggie. good morning. it's a conversation happening both publicly and behind closed doors. abc news has learned senate democrats privately met with the biden campaign thursday. one senator said they needed to see hard data that showed a path to success. in november. in his first press conference of the year, president joe biden fielded nearly an hour of questions highlighting his policies and political future. >> the best way to assure them is the way i share myself, and that is, am i getting the job done? >> the president first pressed on whether vice president kamala harris could beat former president trump. in november, biden flubbed his response. >> look, i wouldn't have picked vice president trump to be vice president, but i think she was not qualified to be president. so let's start there. >> number one, trump weighed in live with a post on social media reading. great job, joe biden. ignore the actual question about how the vp would fare again

christiane cordero joins us now with the latest on that.istiane. >> reporter: good morning, rhiannon. the house oversight committee is expected to grill secret service director kim cheatle who told our pierre thomas the buck stops with her. the hearing played out when senators confronted cheatle. some demanding her resignation. house speaker mike johnson has echoed those calls. he's also announced a bipartisan house task force that will investigate the shooting. one of several investigations playing out. local police took these photos when they first noticed thomas crooks and others saw items found on the roof. authorities say he intended to use it to remotely detonate explosives in his car. officials are looking into whether the suspect used a drone to surveil the area beforehand. as for the time line, we know snipers spotted him at least three times including six minutes before he started shooting, and this morning, the secret service is responding to a "washington post" article accusing them of denying requests for more security at trump

abc news reporter christiane cordero is live in washington with more on each candidate's message to votersing to you. so both vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump have sharpened their attacks on each other this morning, despite the party's support and record breaking donations, more than $200 million raised since entering the race likely democratic presidential nominee vice president kamala harris considers herself an underdog. we're the underdogs in this race, but this is a people powered campaign, and we have momentum. the vp rallied support from donors in massachusetts over the weekend. in minnesota, former president donald trump continued his attacks on president biden before turning to his new opponent. >> they took him out of the fight and they put a new fighter. we have a new victim now, kamala, but these remarks from trump got the most attention. you got to get out and vote in four years. you don't have to vote again. we'll have it fixed. so good. you're not going to have to vote. >> democrats claim that comment was a threat to democracy. congressional rep