jill harris told the crowd to sit down and said, there is business to take care of the business of winning an election while they're still time and just $74.00 days. americans will vote for a new president and beyond. the cheers in chicago harris still has a lot of convincing to whole show if the election were held today. it would be close, but the winner would be clear. donald trump, i'm bring golfing berlin. this is the day the on behalf of every american, regardless of party ticket race is all about gender or the language. your grandmother speaks

on behalf of the people, citing is comforting in the nation on earth. i'm coming out of here and i bet your nominate the also coming up security scares and military bases in germany, mysterious drawing sidings, and unexplained fires is europe in the grip of a russian sabotage campaign. you'll pay a couple of $1000.00 a year old for some, some criminal do it's have to go in and break the door. and that's enough because the whole fuel headlines, food people have worries. they want to hurt us. and they doing whatever they can to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin today with the race to win the white house after

a month of unexpected, unprecedented events that have changed part of the november ballot just a month ago. the election looks set to be between incumbent joe biden, and former president donald trump bivens decisions and not run for a 2nd term, and changed everything for the democrats forcing the party to do in 2 weeks. what usually takes about 8 to months, select the presidential nominees. that process ended officially last night in chicago with the democratic national convention. when vice president cumberland harris accepted the parties nomination, the polls show her gaining ground on donald trump. but unless she can change the calculus of more voters, especially white men in america, donald trump may be moving back into the white house early next year. a possibility that many us allies dread, especially nato, and the european union. they see a better future with comma la harris as us president. we have more now on what her

foreign policy could look like. if she wins in november, as commander and see, i will ensure america always has the strongest moseley for fighting force in the world. with respect to the war in god, the president biden, and i are working around the clock because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a cease fire, a deal done and let me be clear. i will always stand up for israel's rights to defend itself for israel has the ability to defend itself because the people of this real must never again face the horror that

a terrorist organization called her mom paused on october 7th at the same time. what has happened in gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. so many live long hungry people waiting for stacy over and over again. the scale of suffering is heart breaking. president vitamin i a working to end this war, such that israel is secure, the hostages are released the suffering in gaza and, and the palestinian people can realize their right to the

days before russia attacked ukraine. i met with president zalinski to warn him about russia's plan to invade. i helped mobilize a global response over 50 countries to defend against whose address as president wilson's mom would you know how long the necessary to defend our forces and our interests against the run. any run back to terrorist, i will not close the up to tyrants and dictators like came down on who are routing and as president, i will never waver into vince of america security an ideal because in the, in, during struggle between democracy and tyranny. i know where i stand and i

know where the united states the. 7 i'm doing now by julia spend a long he's a political campaign strategies who worked on brock obama is 20082012 campaigns. julius joins us tonight from chicago. he has been attending the d and c julius good friday evening to you. you've had a, an event for a week. i'm sure this was not your 1st time at the rodeo that we have to say, i mean, you've attended almost every dnc since 2008 with the rock. obama became the parties . now many, you know how important these conventions can be and also have a relevant they can be as well. in the past 4 days, did they change or take uncomfortable harris's ability to win the election in november? i think it's strengthened carmella harris and everything, but she stands for again, remember that couple of hers just took over barely 40 days ago, and it was a role when ever since. and i think this be,

and so you have one job to do that is to show come a hair is, is most importantly to portray strength and the clips you just saw that you just played. of course, sprint. i mean, i think they've displayed strength, and i think that was the main focus of the speech to make sure that people see her as a potential next commander. and she that they give the confidence that she's able to carry out the job. i think that's something that she accomplished. i was reading through the program of events and meetings at the dnc and the diversity of the party was on display with meetings for almost every imaginable group of voters in america. come la harris, she pose well with minorities that we know, but if she wants to win in november, according to the poll that she needs to increase her support among white male voters, any idea how she plans to do that by november as right. so the sprint leading up to the big speech last night, i think, was focused on uniting the party, making sure that every constituency within the democratic party is coming home.

because remember, over the last couple of months, people were very wary about jo by the last 4 months. blanco, this month's young voters, much climate folders, fillings, the minorities. and so i think the number one task was for coming here. so, you know, for the, i think, you know, that's a check. she managed to do that. and now that speech wasn't as focused on the room, the conventional as somebody thought it was focused on middle america and again, was a strong display of strength. she said, i met with platinum improving, i'm sorry, that meant, but with a lot of volume is semanski right before the invasion that was supposed to signal that she of course is ready to meet with world leaders and is now the into current affairs. she said that there was a clue campus on defense like in room, in a kim john the north korea. so i think that was the main focus to display, to americans all across the country. but also the white middle class motors in the middle of the country that she is ready to take on the job. 5 weeks ago job i was

planning to run for a 2nd term, but things didn't change dramatically and quickly. and without having to campaign in when any primaries kimberly harris won the nomination, which we sold last night, does that make her a stronger or a weaker candidate moving forward? i remember like 40 days ago, people were saying we need an open convention. we're not quite sure who might do the best. not many people were floating names like richard whitmore and others. so she managed to convince the party that she's the best choice going forward. and so i think she's the strength and this convention now moving forward, of course she still has quite a bit of work to do. you mentioned the poli, yes, she has caught up the donald trump even exceeded in some points. but still, this will say polling is very clear, that is a toss up as to now of course today, the endorsement from robert is kennedy. the 3rd party candidates still floating towards donald trump. so i think there's still much room for mentorships. we've

seen how ball ta this campaign has been in the last 30 days. so i don't think anything is invented for couple of years. quite yeah. i'm gonna ask you about, well, because if give me just a 2nd, but i wanna talk about your start with political campaigns. you've started when brock obama began his run for the white house back in 2008. he and michelle were the star speakers tuesday night at the convention, obama said that it was time to pass the towards on to campbell, a harris signaling the end within the democratic party of the obama era. what are your thoughts on the twilight of obama has influence within the port slides? think looking at this convention, you had a tremendous influence and so that michelle obama, they gave to the best speeches. and that's it. you're saying be saying that as a former obama campaign zapper, but i think everyone room was just in all of how the obama spoke, the emotions that were able to set free, and that conventional is, i think, comma harris actually profited from the strong endorsement from the obama and the

show that they put on, of course she had a very different task and her rhetoric in her speech was locked, using bombs. the punches weren't as hard shooting as the obama punches. but again, that speech wasn't tailored to the audience in the room. just like the obama speech that's in her speech was tailored to a different audience. and so i think the speech was very strategic. now. come on, here's of course has won the nomination. so she effectively use the new head of the party. but she still got a winning issue once in november, and again, it is complex hare's party to move forward. and if not, 2 of them was will continue to have a great, great, great detail and, and then it is interesting. interesting. have you read that? let me ask you a balance of robert f kennedy gene before we run out of time, he has announced just today that he's a spinning his campaign as an independent to become us president. and then he's going to endorse donald trump. what do you think that means for the cumberland harris campaign? oh, 1st let me say, yes,

he's notice that he's becoming completely irrelevant. he had a pathway for it as long as joe biden was in the race because of the double of haters. those 18 just simply wants to meet with donald trump, north and joe biden. now that joe biden is out, a lot of people came home to call in harrison john john kennedy. jim just noticed that his opponent was a fading and probably the money that he wasn't making in his statement as well. so he took the best option. first, ask tomlin harris, and she might have a position for him within her next cabinet. she said clearly not. and so now he's over moving over to donald trump. i don't think it's going to hurt tremendously. i think those 4 or 5 percent that he's still holding maybe a progress, but i would imagine that quite a few of those people are just going to stay home in november because they need a happy with the democrats. another companies julia from the law julia, as we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us at the end of what i know, it's been a very busy week for you have a good weekend. thank you guys trying to get some sleep. take care bye. you too,

you too. authorities have temporarily raise the security level at a nato airbase in western germany siding, a potential threats. the 2nd highest alert level was in effect from late thursday until friday afternoon before being reduced to its previous elevated level. the air base houses aircraft carrying long range surveillance systems, or the heightened alert level forward warnings from western intelligence agencies that russia was stepping up sabotage attacks across europe in an attempt to disrupt arms, supplies, and support for ukraine. one of the country's most prepared for such incidents is finland dummies. terry shouts reports did not. why would finland known as the land of a 1000 legs suddenly have concerns about its water supply? because that's exactly the aim of multiple bizarre,

but unsuccessful attempts this summer to break into a finish water facilities, you'll pay a couple of $1000.00 euros for some. some criminal dukes has to go in and break the door. and that's enough because the whole fuel headlines suited people who've worried at uh, tying up a lot of resources. why would it be a rush on to your room? is there any intelligence officer on and i'm wondering how do i make things people worried in freelance to punish them for they donate on all the other things? well that's, that's a very easy or cheap way to do it. to very is the former head of finland's military intelligence newly elected to the european parliament. he came under fire recently for saying russia is waging war on finland to sabotage and hybrid attacks. he tells me it's actually a war on the entire west. they want to hurt us and they doing whatever they can do it. one of the most shocking plots and covered recently was a reported russian plan to assassinate the ceo of ryan mitchell,

a major supplier of arms to ukraine. in poland and lithuania, strong allies of keys, a mall, and an i q were destroyed by fire. police authorities have made arrest linking the incidents and implicating moscow. but if any country is ready for such attacks, it's finland, which unlike most of europe, never let his guard down after the cold war. protection of critical infrastructure, including water facilities, has remained paramount even during peacetime. we have been quite well repaired already before base to us out to help us happenings. and of course, this type of activity. during the last last months, of course, we have to reevaluate safe. we have something to do more. finland is also prepared to protect its people underground shelters, which can withstand conventional or even nuclear war can fit almost 90 percent of

the entire population of finland in germany. it's just over one half of one percent . in addition, finish citizens are periodically trained to take on specific crisis operation tests in case of emergency. these are all reasons european commission president or so live under lion made former finish president selling minas to especially advisor, co writer report on the use civilian defense and preparedness arts. we have a lot to learn from finland. newness to explains that well, structures are important. much of finland's readiness is a mindset that comes with the territory, that 1300 kilometer border with russia. but he says, all of europe needs to wake up to these threats. it's no use so frightening anybody to. we have all the reasons to remind that well, peace and security, they are value number one. i would like people to understand more that

maybe in the future it seems that we have to pull 3 so smaller on security. you want to preview what specific recommendations he may make to the you, but he'd like to see public and private sectors cooperate more on security. so that the private sector kind of share its experiences, edits, scales, and public sector, which has always some sensitive knowledge. quote, to be a bit more open, but the old that needs that you have huge trust to each other's hopes. helping to illustrate the enormity of the common threat will increase the necessary common trust across europe. that report was filed by my colleague terry fields. you joins me now from brussels. terry, good to see you. let's talk about some things that have been going on here on the guideline. here's an airbase in north west. germany raised its threat level for about 24 hours in order to know on

a central personnel to stay home. what more do we know and do we know why this bass could possibly be a target? we don't know why they did it, and i did speak with an official at the base today and asked as many questions as i could about to what might have happened and didn't get anything out of this official. so that's unfortunate. but at the same time, we know that guideline care can is a natural target. this is where nato houses, it's a wax sleep. that's 14 flights, 14 planes that do recognizance and, and surveillance all across nato territory in international airspace. and they can see some 310000 kilometers into, for example, ukranian territory into russian territory. and so they've become even more important since russia started its full scale war on ukraine. because this really tells nato what russia is doing. and also these planes serve as a deter it to warn russia don't come any closer to nato territory. it was like the

incidents that you described in finland. there was also a suspected attempt to tamper with the water supply of the german military base. earlier this month. and this week we've seen drone flights over a sensitive industrial park on the german north sea coast. what do you think is going on here? or that's right, and in this case uh where the drones were cited. it was very interesting that germany announced publicly the, the investigation suspected espionage for the purpose of sabotage. so this was something that, um they're, they're really becoming much more candid about which teaches us a lot even if we don't know the exact details. and yeah, as you mentioned, there have been other incidents this, this base close to cologne where somebody cut a hole and somehow got close to the water supply. you know, for 24 hours it was believed the water supply had been tampered with. and that's something that's really frightening of, of course, to the population. and when that population is a military base, of course,

you've got to suspect that there was an attempt to disrupt what, what the military is doing on that base interior. is this the case? i mean the security really that lacks that a central water supplies are, are just what a chain link fence away from the outside world. we have to hope not. and it certainly isn't true across the board. or maybe i should say across the block because these incidents in finland and there been several over the summer. that's why i went there to do the story. they didn't get close to the water supply in this ended up being more like vandalism. is they tried to break down doors and cut through fences, but they didn't get to the water supply. and as we know in this durbin case, also they ended up not being able to temper with the water supply. so we don't want to scare people, but certainly, i mean i'm sure these bases are stepping up their security not just raising the threat level as we saw in guidelines here in, but you know, looking at what more they can do to keep people further away from from the basis of

this is certainly um, you know, the ammo for people who want to want to disrupt in and conduct to these kind of incidents. yeah. these people you're talking about. i mean, do we know who they are and you are, are they, russian state actors? is the kremlin outsourcing, you know, this behavior? i mean, and at what level does this become a state on state conflict? so that's a more complicated issue then it seems because of course, as, as packet over the former finish intelligence chief noted in russia or whatever government or whatever entity would want to conduct these attacks, can simply find local criminals. and, and we've understood from intelligence reports that russia is doing that on the dark web, looking for people to conduct these attacks. and you know, they don't have to pay them very much. and it can cause a really big disruption. but to link them back to the russian government is more difficult. now that has happened in a couple of cases already. there was a big fire. the largest mall in warsaw was set on fire,

and i kia store was set on fire in lithuania and poland founded. the perpetrators found that these 2 cases were link and prosecuted them. there's also been a case and is sonia where there was an attack on a stony and official an attack on a journalist. and they also found those perpetrators and prosecuted them and no surprise, they were linked back to russia. but to, for it to rise to a level where nato would say that russia is attacking a needle member state. you know, the implications of that. then you need to start talking about will there be an article 5 response and nobody's ready to do that for a tax at this low level. and that's exactly what the crumbling is counting on. your report says that the european union can learn from finland when it comes to protecting critical civilian and for instruction of the syndic and me. it has a question for you. if the e u commission is a study now of how fast do you expect security and awareness to really improve? so maybe never, unfortunately, i mean if you're,

if you're being realistic and former finished president means the was extremely humble and he kept telling me, don't make it seem like i'm going to tell the you what to do. he was commission to look at the readiness across the blog and of course, finland is basically the star people who are some of the other front line states suite and also also do quite well. but what he said was, you can build all the infrastructure protection that you want. you can, uh, you know, you, you can put up walls, you can, you can have surveillance of, of possible intruders. but until people decide that they are worried about this and they want to protect their infrastructure, you can't change the mindset to one of true readiness. and this is what he said will take a really long time. and in some countries far from the front line, perhaps it won't happen at all. the w terry sills of the laser life in brussels on a friday night terry, as always, thank you for the day continues online,

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