lonnie, thanks for joining us today. >> hi, christine. good to be back with you. >> all right. so what do you make of biden's letter? what does its tone and content suggest to you about how he's feeling right now, whether there's even an inkling of an idea that he's someone, you know, remotely considering stepping aside? >> well, every indication we have is that the president has no interest in stepping aside, that he intends to fully see this race through. and i think that the conventional wisdom all along has been right, in the sense that he's the only one who can make the decision to step aside. there really is no forcing an incumbent president out of a race. there is no forcing him out of being the democratic nominee. i think the question is whether enough pressure could be brought to bear on him to change his mind. and the early indications are that he has no interest in doing so. and i think the reality is that there's no indication, at least in the polling data we've seen. so far, that other candidates would necessarily run more competitively against donald trump in the

. >> adriana: thanks so much, lonnie. former president donald trump asked a federal judge today to freeze the classify documents case against him. judge aileen cannon that the prosecution should be put on pause while she results whether trump is immune from criminal charges. as you remember, the supreme court ruled this week that former presidents have brought immunity from

lonnie is in rapid city, south dakota. line for democrats. thanks for waiting, lonnie. caller: no problem. i'm a disabled vet and i was watching yesterday or the day that president trump got shot. it's really sad that they didn't get that guy a lot earlier, you know. i appreciate c-span and thank you. host: all right. and art is in chicago, independent. caller: hey, how are you? host: i'm doing great. caller: my statement has to do with the abortion. it is not about abortion. it's about women's rights. and this is a path to makeking women second-class citizens. it's a thing that should never have happened. just because women are the majority in this country and this is a way to put them back down into being -- they'll probably lose a vote eventually and that's a crime. this is unfair. and i cannot believe we are even talking about it. thank you. host: george, oak harbor, washington. democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm just wondering, i don't get a lot of information about judge cannon, her background. it makes her a constitutional scholar a

norah, it is all yours. >> norah: lonnie quinn, thank you.ook at tonight's other top stories, and we start with this breaking news. a member of supreme court justice sonia mayor's protection detail shot a carjacking suspec. nicole sganga has the details just coming in. >> reporter: we're just learning tonight, two deputy u.s. marshals opened fire on a suspected carjackers near the supreme court justice sonia sotomayor or last week. 18-year-old control flowers sustained a nonlife threatening injury to the jaw after allegedly tapping this gun against the car window of a deputy u.s. marshal standing post near sotomayor's home. now charged with carjacking andt a license. d.c. police are still investigating but say there is no indication the suspect target of the supreme court justice or knew who he was attempting to carjack. >> norah: out to new mexico, where alec baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial is now underway and opening statements could begin as early as tom tomorrow. cbs's elise preston was in the courtroom for jury selection. >> rep

., let's bring in cbs new york's lonnie quinn.ening, lonnie. >> reporter: hey, good evening to you, adriana. look, we have not had a landfall in jamaica, but boy, it is close. the eye is on the south shore of jamaica. and the worst part of the hurricane as the northern eye wall and anywhere just north and east of that, and that's what the south shore has been dealing with all day, they will deal with it all night, as well. by tonight -- by later tonight, they will be out of hurricane conditions. if you take a look at the track, yep, the cayman islands earlier tomorrow morning, probably cap three and then you will get to friday morning, somewhere around to loom. possibly making landfall as a category 2. then it's back into the gulf, where it could restrengthen to a cat 1 hurricane, and then curves around, possibly right around the texas-mexico border, and it's putting out a lot of rain. storm surge, you betcha. rain fall, where you see that flash of white in northern mexico, that's a foot of rain or more. that little black is a foo

norah, it's all yours. >> norah: lonnie quinn, thank you.ook at tonight's other top stories, and we start with this breaking news. a member of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor's protection detail shot a carjacking suspect near the justice's home. cbs's nicole sganga has the details just coming in. >> reporter: we're just learning tonight, norah, two deputy u.s. marshals opened fire on a suspected carjacker near the home of supreme court justice sonia sotomayor last week. 18-year-old kentrell flowers sustained a nonlife threatening injury to the jaw after allegedly tapping this gun against the car window of a deputy u.s. marshal standing post near sotomayor's home. flowers is now charged with armed carjacking and carrying a pistol without a license. d.c. police are still investigating but say there is no indication the suspect targeted the supreme court justice or knew who he was attempting to carjack. >> norah: now to new mexico, where alec baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial is now underway and opening statements could begin as ea

for more on how long the seat waiver left, let's bring in cbs new york lonnie quinn p agreement, lonnie reporter: good evening, adriana. good evening, everybody pure but went to last a long time. stay in place and not really be moving. the entire west coast of the country under heat alert, then go from texas, all the way to new york state, with a heat alert. and what kind of heat are we talking about? the numbers, they speak for themselves. medford, oregon, 115. that breaks the record in bedford by 11 degrees peered palm springs hits 120, and specifically how long for places like las vegas? ten days in a row where you are 110 degrees more hotter. now let's talk quickly about what's going on with beryl. it's a tropical storm so it has been downgraded quite a bit, the yucatan tornado. it's gets in the warm waters of the gulf, going to strengthen, sometime monday morning between corpus history, corpus christi and houston. right now it category 1 coming on shore. please let's just be cautious. plan on at least a category stronger. i plan i cat 2. that water is too warm, i think it could rap

., let's bring cbs new york's lonnie quinn.ening, lonnie your >> good evening to you, adriana. look, we are not a landfall in jamaica, but boy, it is close, the eye is on the self storage jamaica. the worst part of the hurricane as the northern i wallowed anywhere just north and east of that and that is what the south shore has been dealing with all week, they will deal with it all might come as well. by tonight, later tonight, they will be out of hurricane conditions. if you take a look at the track, the cayman islands earlier tomorrow morning, cat 3 probably, then possibly making landfall as a category 2 event back into the gulf or it could restrength into a cat 1 hurricane and then curves around, possibly right around the texas-mexico border, putting out a lot of rain. rain fall, whatever you see that flash of white in northern mexico, that's a foot of rain or more. that whole black is a foot and half of rain. that could certainly wobble to the north vehicle for that to move by 100 miles for mother nature is nothing. that's

good evening, lonnie. >> good evening, adriana. one point i want to make here, yeah, the storm is getting weaker. we just heard from tom. well, now the storm is down to a category 2, with winds 110 miles per hour. let me show you what's going to happen. by the time we get to tomorrow morning, it's making landfall on the yucatan somewhere near tulum, mexico, 100 miles per hour still a category 2 but getting weaker, gets in the gulf of mexico, becomes a tropical storm, we think it will reform into a category 1 hurricane, maybe still a tropical storm as it makes landfall around the texas-mexico border, but here's the problem: it puts the brakes on and it just starts crawling through texas, so from brownsville to loredo, with a slow-moving storm they could pick up about a foot of rain during that time. and all the while, it has been so hot in texas. tomorrow they are going to be about 98 degrees in brownsville and laredo. hotter still, however, look at redding, california. redding is 118. the other side of the country, raleigh, north c

. >> and, lonnie, what's on the line for j.d. vance tonight? >> let's remember, even though people in politics know who j.d. vance is, i think a lot of americans don't. so as katy noted, this is really an opportunity to introduce the vice presidential nominee to the american people. when i worked with mitt romney and paul ryan in 2012, that was the first opportunity we had for people to get to know who paul ryan was, even though a lot of people around politics had gotten to know him and his policies and the things he stood for. so it will be an opportunity for that. but i also think in terms of articulating what this america first agenda is, we hear about america first applied in the national security context, in the economic policy context. it will be a chance potentially, if they choose to go in this direction, for senator vance to put some meat on the bones. what does that mean to have an america first economic policy or national security policy? so he can accomplish all of those things tonight, and also humanize the trump-vance ticket a lit

it was a response to criticism leveled at the team by the professional sports agent lonnie murray who posted comments on x saying she requested and received trades for 3 of her players. trevor holsima, austin davis and miles jefferson who suffered a season ending ligament tear. >> i highly question what they truly think about players. i have always looked at players as individuals. and i question if the way that they look at players is as simply property. >> murray said the injured jefferson went 2 and a half months without being seen by a doctor and eventually had to pay for his own mri. she said she had taken her concerns to the former manager, micah franklin. >> micah says lonnie, just be patient. i'm getting a meeting with the owners. great. he then let's me know i had had a meeting with the owners. give them a couple of days to figure it out. a couple of days later, micah was fired. >> there were also concerns about safety with the housing changing twice after 3 instances in the week of street crime against players. the team will not comment on the reasons for the trades or frank

so we have eileen, huang and vivian araullo and, eleanor vannata, alicia marquez, and lonnie hoesli. thank you all. so much. we couldn't have gotten through this process without a really great support staff. and i just want to echo kim's appreciation. the executive team was incredibly supportive, and, you know, there were calls at, you know, odd hours nights and weekends sometimes. and, and of course, our labor partners. thanks, anthony, for appearing today also. and so with that, we ask for your approval for our eight successor mous with our labor partners. thank you. thank you. and just want to thank you for the appreciation and recognizing your teams. thank you for helping us to see a little bit of what goes beyond goes on behind the scenes that we don't always see. d thank you all here, and all of you who are named for all of your work, colleagues, are there any questions or any comments from directors before i open it to public comment? okay. seeing none, i don't presume we have any public commenters on the room, but i will open public comment. please go ahead. i've been coming

so the smithsonian is avowedly and i'm very consciously nonpartisan, but lonnie, secretary bunch, all of us, i think, believe that, of course, as human beings and in this country, with our freedoms, our constitutional freedoms, we are political, are our very act, our bodies can be political, our actions can be political. so it's less about worrying about being political as politicize sized. it's it's less about being partizan as being a kind of inclusive of a huge, a significant range of political thought, which is is, is, i think, both challenging but also made very. very doable by the breadth of our collection because if we go and collect the with every we collect every presidential election and we joke that like our careers would be the only ones going like in 2020, before i had to pull them from the field because they were in the field when covid hit, they joked that it would be the reporters c-span probably and the smithsonian curators who would be at a sanders rally and a trump rally in the same day. so part of it is that the collection and the interpretive interpretation of the

for more on the hurricane and the heat, let's bring in cbs new york lonnie quinn pure good evening, lonnie reporter: good evening, adriana. one point i want to make, yeah, the storm is getting weaker. we just heard from tom p the storm is not a category 2, with 110 miles per hour. it is getting weaker, dangerous going on. by the time we get to tomorrow morning, landfall on the yucatan somewhere near to be 22, mexico, 100 miles per hour still a category 2 but getting weaker, becomes a tropical storm, we think it will reform into a category 1 hurricane, baby still a tropical storm as it makes landfall on the texas tactical border but here's the problem: it puts the brakes on and it just starts crawling through texas, so from brownsville, the radar, slow-moving storm could pick up about a foot of rain during that time. and all the while, it has been so hot in texas. tomorrow they are going to be about 90 degrees in brownsville and laredo. hotter still, look at redding, california, appeared redding is 118. the other side of the country, raleigh, north carolina, has 100, humidity feels 108. in

it was a response to criticism leveled at the team by a professional sports agent, lonnie murray.posted comments saying she had requested and received trades for three of her players. jefferson suffered a season-ending ligament tear. >> i highly question what they truly think about players. i have always looked at players as individuals. and i questioned if the way that they look at players is as simply property. >> jefferson went 2 1/2 months without being seen by a doctor and eventually had to pay for his own mri. she says she had taken her concerns to the former manager. >> he said lonnie, just be patient, i'm getting a meeting with the owners. great. he lets me know, i had a meeting with the owners, give them a couple days to figure it out. a couple days later, micah was fired. >> there's also concerns about safety with the teams housing changing twice after instances of street crime against the players. the ballers cofounder, paul friedman said the complaints seem to be coming from one voice. >> there is an agent who has made claims about the situations of the players in our

she says she had taken her concerns to former manager micah franklin. >> micah says, lonnie, just be patient. i'm getting a meeting with the owners. great. he then let's me know i had a meeting with the owners. give them a couple of days to figure it out. a couple days later, micah was fired. >> reporter: there were concerns about safety with the team's housing changing twice after three instances in a week of street crime against players. the team will not excellent on reasons for the trades or franklin's dismissal, but baller's co-founder says the complaints seem to be coming from one voice. >> there is an agent who has made claims about the situation of the players in our organization. we take the subject matter of those claims to be very serious. the player safety is incredibly important to us. player health is incredibly important to us. we think the fact pattern demonstrates we took the issues extremely seriously. >> reporter: freedman says to his knowledge jefferson had a minor injury and a more serious injury in july. he says the team is investigating the timeline now. the ow

. >> he said lonnie, just be patient, i'm getting a meeting with the owners. great. he then lets me know, i have a meeting with the owners, give them a couple days to figure it out. a couple days later, he was fired. >> there were also concerns about safety with the team's housing changing twice after three instances a week of crimes against the players. the team says they will not comment on reasons for the trades or franklin's dismissal, but paul friedman said the complaints seem to be coming from one voice. >> they are an agent that has made claims about the situations of the players in our organization, we take the subject matter of this claim to be very serious. player safety is incredibly important to us. player health is incredibly important to us. we think it demonstrates that we take those issues very seriously. >> to his knowledge, jefferson suffered a minor injury on june 4th with another serious injury happening in july. he said the team is investigating the timeline but he said the owners felt it was responsible to respond to the allegations. >> the fans

in the meantime, we thank you, lonnie, for joining us here at the table.s a pleasure to see you. i think lisa is dunn on the floor keeping an eye on the proceedings, talking to some delegates as the night goes on. what's the latest down there? >> we're right up in front by the pennsylvania delegation. i heard the conversation you all had earlier about the appeal that trump is hoping to have to black voters, younger black voters. i found georgia delegate rufus montgomery, you're not imagining it, he is a full foot taller than me. i'm going to wear my heels tomorrow night. it'll be a little closer. but rufus, tell me, how long have you been a republican? what does it mean to be a republican? >> i'm a lifelong republican. i got out of the military in 1992. had to registered to vote, became a republican, been a republican ever since. >> what does the party stand for to you? >> from the begin television president bush. being a war veteran, desert storm, republicans did what they said they'd do in terms of sending us to war and bringing us back home mifl dad ser

lonnie, passing the torch -- what were the key takeaways from those remarks question >> it was a neweneration that is going to be taking over and if you noticed, paul not making any mention of any kind of illness or frailty is the reason for him exiting but rather just the fact that it is time to unite america and the way to do that is to pass the torch onto the next generation. the great thing about america is here, kings and dictators don't move, the people do. the power is in your hands. a very evocative speech. some ambition to do more. some bipartisan measures on a per structure and semiconductor manufacturing. he made sure to mention those. he did say he had some more ambition for his term including calling for supreme court reform for example. he has more to do. it is not quickly or how much he would be able to do that the help of congress and it will be a lame-duck session. but he also made sure there were elements in his speech that would put paid to some of the criticisms that they have. the fact that she may have been there what he was too frail to serve as president, that

you could also lonnie met dining of about 2 on this stuff is that it must, i should perhaps be aware that it can also happen quite quickly. now, if the pulses suddenly collapses ice, then a huge amount of methane can be released all at once. you log in, it takes a while for levels to normalize again, but that's whether that's one or 2 percent on the stop or however much it is, it doesn't matter if it definitely means by an increase on the current amount. is that the, the guy give me that, that is not the 1st thing that happens here will have an impact all over the well facility and quote, this isn't a remote corner in that sense and not, not change is happening here and not on the effect this region here, the month, the postponed by the ever notion car himself and have an impact on the global situation. the long distance, the human kind accelerated global warming, the budget can also slow it down. the soil 1800 is the top priority is preservation. and these natural westland shouldn't be misused any longer or dining quite the opposite of on it won't conservation program should be set

the player's agent, lonnie murray, told the chronicle today she's also advising female pitcher kelsie

>> michael, i think it was really great that basil and lonnie shackleford were here this morning to make for people. the reality is, it is the pledged delegates, the only way joe biden is getting out of this race if he does not want to, is 2000 pledge delegates who ran for joe biden revolt against him. that is not my opinion, that is to the facts. i think we talk a lot about people's opinions and we all share hours, but we need to talk about the tech as well. those are the facts weird and i don't think 2000 delegates will vote against him. i'm able to see it, okay? can't find the 2000 pledge delegates. given that, though, vice president harris has attacked even more so in these last couple of weeks, i would argue. donald trump is a name checking her. you got democrats thinking in this fantasy land, where they find 2000 read of people that are pledge delegates to keep the president of the ballot, somehow they will skip over the vice residents of the united states of america. if we were talking about vice president gavin newsom, with a b trying to skip over him? i want to be very clear, wh

but uncle lonnie was alive and he was 90. he was the youngest son. and i remember one of the things he said a few years ago, he said, paul, i can tell one thing we. didn't go barefoot, daddy, put shoes on our foot on our feet. we didn't go barefoot. my father grew up just absolute dirt. poor. you know, walking to school. and when he got to high school, he rode a horse. he wrote a horse to high school. and in 1937, he enlisted in the army air corps, we were we were four years and some from entering world war two. in 1937, it was a peacetime army. he was a he was a high school graduate who had almost literally been out of the county from in which he was born. and he wrote a up into illinois to chanute field in rantoul, illinois enlisted in the army air corps in mechanics school. then war comes on and he eventually was able to for flight high school at and married my mother. and when he went off to war to iwo jima late in war, he was 25. and my mother, just a few years out of her teens when they got married in xenia, ohio my mother was barely 19. and wh

attorney paul month lonnie telling the jury robert menendez put his power up for sale it wasn't enough powerful people in washington. you saw again and again a clear pattern of corruption menendez declined to testify miss own defense last week. >> the government is intoxicated with his own rhetoric. they spent two hours on not witnesses that came before the court. on charts. two hours. >> the 70-year-old senator's attorneys argued that his practice of keeping large amounts of cash at home was part of his cuban culture for emergencies. even though menendez was born in new york city. >> menendez was charged in a similar federal corruption case in 2017. that ended in a mistrial. but, if he is convicted of the 16 counts against him here, he could face up to 200 years in prison if he is sentenced consecutively. bret? >> bret: eric shawn following the trial in new york. eric, thanks. up next, the panel on whether president biden can survive these increasing calls for him to step aside and what comes next. first, here what happens some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering ton

. >> lonnie, as we mentioned, nikki haley is expected to speak tonight. and trump clearly aren't always on the same page. your thoughts on trump's reception at the convention last night, his plan to focus on unity, i wonder, just how unified is the gop right now? >> well, i think it's more unified than we've seen it at any point in recent history. i think if you look at the reception that the former president got last night, that moment was the electric moment of the night, overshadowing what was an eventful night. i mean, you had the revelation of jd vance as the vice presidential candidate. you had the head of the teamsters appearing at a republican national convention. when has that happened? really, the night was about donald trump's appearance and being able to see him. so i think that, frankly, there is a level of unity now, even amongst those republicans who voted for nikki haley. her presence tonight, she wasn't supposed to be here, signals the degree of unity that exists within the party now. >> garrett, the other big news, jd vance will be on th

>> we're going to get to talk more about that because donald will waltz to the point we're going to lonnie just had to put that in there. we're going to talk with you just after the break, so we're not going away. we're going to continue this conversation station as spicy as it is at ahead. we will wait to see what joe biden will do. it is up to him new questions emerging tonight about vice president harris. we will talk a lot more later with that spicy panel it's a surprise that one or a much better gag you know, i used to punt in college. >> smirnoff is much better with surprises without easter seals my luke would be a very different look like were you going there's an incredible urgency to get your child and services because the longer you wait, these motor pathways and percent stone, why knew he needed help? >> he needed the services this yes. >> you are you're so close you're so strong that none of my friends people in our network have a child with these needs. and then you good easter seals and it's such a good feeling to feel like we're in good hands. they understand what you're goi

we anticipate lonnie a trump attending the republican national convention. does not have a speaking slot at this time. she's yet to appear on the campaign trail. except when they voted in the republican primary earlier this year. but this, of course for her and her family, she referenced her son who just graduated high school earlier this year. this was of course, a tragic event and one that nearly took the life of her husband. >> i have had a chance to sit down with the former first lady for a link the interview and one of the things that came through, and i know that you know this, she is protective of her son, baron and as he's gotten older over the years, we are seeing him more and more and there has always been a concern whether with melania or the other trump children about the safety of the president. now it extends to the safety of the trump children as well. >> barron trump never appeared on the campaign trail with his father until last week at a rally in florida, that was his first campaign event alongside of his father. you mentioned melania trump

a couple named sandy and lonnie phillips, whose daughter was killed in aurora.hort -- or a play, rather, called just five minutes, written francine wheeler, whose son, ben, was killed at sandy hook. we are putting that on. she was an actress who with david, her husband, moved to sandy hook out of new york for the safe neighborhood to raise their children. and they are also, you know, victims of these outrageous phone calls, the harassment that is taken place, that they've had to live through on top of everything else. i saw those interviews for those kids who are graduating that would have been in ben's class. i just broke my heart. i just thought of the wheelers and all those families. >> in the book, in this incredible book, the friday afternoon club about your life and your family, there is a section in the book about the impact that the death -- the murder of your sister dominique had on the family. before that, i like to start with the idea that you grew up basically surrounded by a cavalcade -- i can't think of anything better to ask you to introduce the b

lonnie is in rapid city, south dakota. line for democrats. thanks for waiting, lonnie.aller: no problem. i'm a disabled vet and i was watching yesterday or the day that president trump got shot. it's really sad that they didn't get that guy a lot earlier, you know. i appreciate c-span and thank you. host: all right. and art is in chicago, independent. caller: hey, how are you? host: i'm doing great. caller: my statement has to do with the abortion. it is not about abortion. it's about women's rights. and this is a path to makeking women second-class citizens. it's a thing that should never have happened. just because women are the majority in this country and this is a way to put them back down into being -- they'll probably lose a vote eventually and that's a crime. this is unfair. and i cannot believe we are even talking about it. thank you. host: george, oak harbor, washington. democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i'm just wondering, i don't get a lot of information about judge cannon, her background. it makes her a constitutional scholar all

a couple named sandy and lonnie phillips, whose daughter was killed in aurora.king a short -- or a play, rather, called "just fiverather, called "just five minutes" written by francine wheeler whose son ben was killed in sandy hook. we're putting that on. i mean, her -- she was an actress who, with david her husband, moved to sandy hook out of new york for the safe neighborhood, to raise their children. >> oh. >> and they are also, you know, victims of these outrageous phone calls, the harassment that's taken place. what they've had to live through on top of everything else. and i saw those interviews for those kids who are graduating that would have been in ben's class, it just broke my heart. and i thought so -- i just thought of the wheelers, and i thought of all of those families. >> yes. mike. >> you know, in the book, in this incredible book "the friday afternoon club" about your life and your family, there is a section in the book about the impact, the death of, the murder of your sister dominique had in your family. you grew up in a cavalcade, i can't as

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i'm jeffrey lonnie i'm a vice president. i'm california left lanesed architect.i wanted to emphasize several points made in my memo. included in your briefing. dated february 15th. when the bay the owner of the property approached me than i provided photographic evidence. an ointment of moisture intrusion over a period of time. one of the solutions we come up with is waterproofing provide a hot rubberize asphalt membrane that would cover intauks, parking area and like to extend that to the tree wells. the asphalt would be the long lasting prune solution for pro robust system. i point out that engineers under my direction have done a pain steak, physical examine anticipation use the ground rebar to establish the location. i point out that unlike a steel structure giving you indication of accessive bending or column buckling. concrete structures only show signs of deathidation. we have seen with the sand plain tower in florida when concrete fail its fails in a sfek stack lar manner and the loss of life. i advocated we continue to pursue a solution that allows water

i've had several interactions with smithsonian secretary lonnie bunch on this very issue. in a house administration committee hearing in december of last year, i questioned secretary bunch on whether or not taxpayer funds were used for drag shows and if the smithsonian had plans to continue to promote drag shows during a hearing, the secretary said, and i quote, i think it is not appropriate to expose children to drag shows. i am surprised. and i will look into that. i was pleased to hear this answer as i also believe it is inappropriate to expose children to these types of events. a few weeks later i was shocked that secretary began pulling back on his answers to me. i believe this was in large back from plowback from staff who work at the smithsonian. a few months later the secretary followed up with additional questions i had. while the response from the taxpayer funds were not used for drag shows directly, official time and smithsonian resources such as web sites, staff and building space were being used. to me, this is completely unacceptable. the smithsonian hosted a

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