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couple of weeks ago on the 80th anniversary of d-day, we told you the story of ron de elliott, a goldstar daughter her father, corporal frank elliot, was killed during the normandy invasion. now for decades, rhonda and other goldstar families were able to call on the american battlefield monuments commission or a bmc to place flowers, flowers at the family's paid for themselves on the graves of their loved ones in the cemetery series oversees such as in normandy, it meant so much to them this is my father's ghraieb in normandy with flowers people walk into the cemeteries, they see these flowers and they know that there's somebody at home that's still cares about that soldier nine years ago presumably for cost reasons, the a bmc shutdown that program. >> retired marine corps general john kelly had goldstar dad himself first told us about this program being shut down i think it's minimal cost to the government, minimal work for the government. i suppose who some administrative costs and the battle monuments, but i can't imagine very much it even if it was a lot i've been they did give their

electric audi q8 e-tron models... >>> there is an apology to know this weekend from fox news to a goldstar fox published been deleted without a correction. the reporting claims the family had to pay $60,000 to have the remains of their phone relative shipped home from afghanistan because the pentagon refused to pay. again, that was a false story. false fox had been notified that it was false, how fox came to pull the story is of interest to our senior media reporter oliver darcy. what were the steps that led to fox finally apologizing? >> this was an interesting chain of events. so fox news publishes this false story and the pentagon notifies them that the story is inaccurate but unlike most news organizations that would immediately move to correct it, they just tweak the headline and they were notified again by the pentagon that the story was still wrong and they just deleted the story, not a correction, and note to readers, they straight up deleted the story and no apologized no apology to the goldstar family, either. this issue went on until this week when military.com obtain documents

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the goldstar families well, what i said was and this fact, if there are ghost off families were at the hearings when general amelie testified >> before the house armed services committee he said the same thing and he kept saying, as i've said before, so there was nothing new that was learned in this hearing and sometimes i actually oh very sad for the the goldstar families because the the general was kept saying over and over that in >> order to really get out and to answer their questions. we've got to look at the policies that have taken place and the decision was made not just for the last for three days or for a week, but the whole 20 years that we were in afghanistan the general also said that the doha agreement was the foundation of everything that follow, including the end, which says that you i can't just make a judgment of and give the transparency and give the goldstar families what they need without looking at the entire picture. and i hope because i want them to have the answers to. but the only way that we can do that is in a bipartisan way, not in an overtly political way

and as the rollback of it left many virginia gold goldstar and veteran families scrambling the blowback was swift and loud. they gave state officials some frank feedback about what the sudden change means at a meeting earlier this week louise is supposed to reflect the will of the people as far as i can tell, the only people who wanted this change with the administrators of the colleges where you're trying to justify their high costs and worrying about their bottom line. >> taking went promise to the families of severely disabled veterans and goldstar families shouldn't be an accounting item. >> how can someone sleep well at night knowing that they have stolen a ray of hope to those who have endured the most unimaginable, awesome hardship knowing the district away this vital support leaving these families to struggle with the dual burden of emotional and financial distress this is a pop and a tremendous breach of a covenant not to provide an entitlement to our most protected veterans are gold stars and severely wounded warriors. but something that was earned at the highest level that la

but in my heart and soul goes out to those goldstar families as it goes out to the over 2,400 soldiershat lost their life in afghanistan. yeah anytime you look at war, were coming on the anniversary of 911 and i look at the heroes that fire department that went into those buildings knowing they were going to come out those individuals are heroes and their families will suffer for the rest of their lives. all 2,400 plus. and so i intend on being there and that regards i think that president biden, unlike donald trump who has ridiculed people in the military, weighing the metals, who get one without civilian metal higher than that a medal. >> gold battles sadder than the medal of honor. >> terrible things about john mccain and other soldiers is better to be alive and to be dead. so to say to me, now that the one who we know has had the sympathies who understands because of his own son and family members who have been in the military have served not got up like donald trump did, to talk to say, then that donald trump understands and kaye has more about military families from what he said

veteran community including especially for goldstar families who lost loved ones in afghanistan.star families i have the honor of knowing because of my coverage of the war and veterans, i can tell you the emotions seem to be all over the map from the goldstar mom asking if this all means her son's death was for nothing, for no reason, to the more hardened former officer who told me he always knew it was going to end this way and he is glad no more gold star families will be created in afghanistan. to the two former lieutenants who started a gofundme to try to rescue two interpreters and their families. right now i want to take a moment, if you'll indulge me, to talk to them, talk to those who sacrificed over there, whether losing a friend or a loved one or a limb or the ability to sleep soundly at night or whatever. i have worn this bracelet for years now. it has the name of the eight men killed in combat october 2nd, 2009, kevin thompson, josh kirk, michael scuza, chris griffin, josh hart, justin gallegos, vernon martin, and stephon mace. every one of those eight men was killed

well, as think the way that you honor active duty veterans and goldstar service members is to acknowledgeere, they are serving some of them the transition from the military is very difficult, very challenging. >> we have service members that are serving they have challenges and they are there organizations and groups out there that do bring attention to some of the issues that our service members encounter my my support is has always been the military because my husband and i we've been married for 35 years and he's also a veteran so that's been a large part of my family's bint a large part of our lives so i'm very passionate about the military community as a whole my my my passion runs deep for the goldstar community because we're not seeing a lot of times on memorial day, you'll get something in your email or you'll see something about supporting veterans or but you don't see very much about the families of the fault so i'm very passionate about pudding eyes and our community and making americans aware that we're here. >> it's a journey is memorial day every day for us every day while l

selflessly what professionalism, courage, compassion, and with great sacrifice and finally to the goldstar families that are here with us today. and those that could make it there's nothing that i can say or do. it's going to fill that gaping hole in your heart but as i've told you before, i'm committed >> and i will honor that commitment >> to get you the answers, to get you to the truth and i will personally and i know everyone else will as well honor your sacrifice and the sacrifice of your loved one. thank you, mr. chairman, i look forward to questions. >> thank you, general millie, i now recognize general mckinsey for his opening statement. >> jennifer, thank you. and i'd like to just open microphone i'd like to ask you this opening statement be submitted for the record. objections, so we're chairman mccall, ranking member makes distinguished members of the house foreign affairs committee. i'm here to voluntarily testified today about the military component of our withdrawal from afghanistan dan before i begin, i'd like to recognize the goldstar families that are here today. i hope th

moments told the opposite of this reporting, citing what you just saw, my heart breaks for the 13 goldstar families who can't get closure or accountability on this tragedy. so even still now desperate calls for clarity and i think a feeling that the pentagon haven't yielded potentially all the information they have or haven't searched thoroughly enough into exactly what happened jake, nick paton walsh with some incredible and difficult reporting. thank you so much can we up next to families tearful plea today after learning american israeli hostage church goldberg-polin may still be alive. stay with us salon parts a lot again, flex, but super thin, flexible paths with maximum otc strength light again, that contours to the body to relieve pain rightwards hertz. and did we mention it really, really sticks salon pass. it's good medicine somebody would ask her something. >> she would just walk right past. he didn't know they were talking to her. >> i just could not hear i was hesitant to get the hearing aids because of my short hair, but nobody even sees them are nearly invisible hearing aids

the goldstar families who have given the ultimate in sacrifice. this is a slap in the face to them and especially now when we do have so many things going on around the world and our military is the best in the world, the most prepared in the world. >> but we have to honor them. >> and this is something that joe biden does better than anyone. he was over in europe talking about d-day of focusing on the massive service and what families gave up in order to keep us safe and in order to keep our democracy something that is thriving, that is gonna be a huge contrast going in to this coming election, because the more that donald trump focuses on denying that he insulted goldstar families and our military members. the more that joe biden is going to be able to make that contrast between somebody who is a massive threat to our democracy maria cardona, thank you, rena shaw, thanks to you. thanks as well up next, we'll get back to our top story closing arguments are set to begin very shortly in the hunter biden's federal gun trial, relied outside the court

but the two main areas we hope to focus on are in fact, the gold star children and educating goldstar children, in particular, as you know, i've been working with the special operations warrior foundation for many years. my wife, georgeanne is on the board. and so i know the statistics when it comes to the nature of the fallen and the children and special operations community since 1980, we've lost over 1,300 killed in action or in training, and they've left behind around 1,700 children. and the special operations warrior foundation has already educated well over 500, but that that means we've got 1,100 still in the pipeline. so a portion of this money will certainly go towards helping with those children. and then we'll see how we can broaden that out to help the other goldstar children as well. >> and then >> on the mental health issues now, frankly, the veterans administration, the military health care system and does a a really good job of helping the active duty members and some of the retirees on mental health. but where there might be a gap, this is where i really want to focus

. >> you know, john, he also seemed to suggest that goldstar families may have given him coronavirus.song, what do you want to say to him? >> well, first of all, stop using my song. and have a little more empathy for veterans, for the guys in the military, guys and gals. i think that's the part he is totally missing. you know, we -- especially the veterans from the vietnam era went through a long, drawn out time of -- they weren't treated very well. i think our country finally came around and we started to really honor except for this president honor our people in the military. so i'm sticking up for my song because it means a lot to veterans especially people from those times. and, also, he's using my voice. he's playing my voice at a rally, an event i really don't agree with obviously i don't agree with the president's policies. >> listen, something that you wrote just resonates with a lot of people. you said the fact mr. trump also fans the flames of racism and hatred and fear while rewriting history is even more reason to be troubled by his use of my song. has there been any blowb

khan and all goldstar families. but then when they switched and turned it into a political attack, the rules of engagement changed as well. >> basil, i see a complete double standard, who hillary clinton effectively called pat smith a liar, pat smith's story has been corroborated. hillary clinton is allowed to effectively call these parents a liar and she gets a free pass? >> no, i don't think that's calling her a liar. i will say to the admiral's point, where some are trying to have this family separate themselves from -- and create a difference between them losing a child and being muslim, being a muslim is not something you can take on and off, like blackness, for example. i can't separate those two. whether he's muslim or me being an african-american, i embrace that. i could also lose a child and i can't separate those two things and we're asking those families to separate those two. them being a muslim in america, having lost this child in battle and still having the patriotism of all muslims being called into

. >> reporter: skyline for goldstar? >> skyline. >> reporter: graders?aders. >> reporter: ohio has been such a swing state in 2012. of course, president obama ended up winning, but not by much. portman won by an 18-point margin. >> this notion that somehow, you know, the democratic party is invincible now in these purple and blue states, it's just not true. >> reporter: but do you want to be president? >> well, i want to be in a position to help, to help people in their daily lives and help our great country. >> all right. so erin mcpike now joining me from washington. so erin, what's the strategy? because i don't think i really heard a definitive. so i heard definitively he wants to help people, but i didn't hear a yes, i'm totally in. >> reporter: well, fred, that's right. he's thinking about running, and he told me that he'll decide sometime after the new year if he really is going to go for it. but he told me that his big weakness here is that he is unknown nationally, but that he does have a national network of donors that could keep his campaign af

came across was that in august when trump was going on his tear, attacking the kahn family, the goldstarily where the father had spoken at the democratic national convention. their son had died. >> yeah. >> fighting in iraq. and when trump started off on that tear, the folks in the kremlin came to believe that he would have to withdraw from the race because he was showing himself to be psychologically unfit. at that point, they decided to stop distributing hacking information that they had until they could get a sense of who the next candidate was going to be. now they were naive, it is still trump. >> wow, okay. kurt, thanks for sharing all of your reporting with us. >> thanks for having me. >>> it's time for your money, your vote. jobs in the economy polling as the top issue in the economy. christine romans is in our money center with details on the last jobs report before the election. >> it's due at 8:30 a.m. eastern time, alisyn. expecting 177,000 new positions in october, that is higher than 156,000 in september. the jobless rate is forecast to tick down to 4.9%. you recall it was

you know, trump will likely have learned from his dealings on how he dealt with kahn, the goldstar familyfter the dnc convention. if he digs a hole on certain issues, it is not going to play out very well. i suspect when he gets to washington and this becomes an issue, that he will either defer to maybe reince priebus to deal with it or maybe just not address it at all. since he doesn't talk with the press at this moment, hoe might not have to and he might just ignore it. >> one thing that is worth discussing is he talked about it being done else where. we have big elections coming in 2017 in germany and france. if you are sitting there as vladimir putin you look at the playbook in the u.s. and say this is a pretty effective playbook to introduce turmoil into other country's election. if his goal seem to pull up from both sides of the atlantic and support for populous right parties in the german and french elections have the threat of doing that. what is interesting is that for their own reasons the trump administration may be more sympathetic to those parties. >> to that end, let's quick

steve gets a goldstar star for working with me. no people out other than people from a hotel.uck, walking through the snow much more accumulation. the winds, still whipping but, again, it's the coastal flooding. when you think of massachusetts obviously, you're thinking of boston where i am. we're at the harbor so we're looking at the water. but the issue is you think of the people on the cape. you think of people in nantucket. we heard the winds are whipping clocking 62 miles per hour winds in nantucket. so that's pretty intense for over there. and so hopefully not a lot of people are down on the cape. and if they are they have boarded up the windows of those beautiful homes that they have over there. but for now the statewide travel ban is in effect. by now i'm seeing some flashing lights over this way, steve. i hope it's not someone getting towed. and hopefully it's a plow. it's looking like a plow. because we heard from the mayor in boston if your car wasn't off one of the main thorough fares, you get towed. so we'll wait and see how much more of this falls in boston. >> i

trail over the weekend, showing up at a nascar race in north carolina where he took photos with goldstar families. >> now, this came after he was loudly booed at the libertarian party's national convention for the full 34 minutes that he was on stage either way, that was one of his shortest shortest campaign speeches to date sequence. steve contorno is covering this forest. he was there over the weekend with the former president steve. why did trump attend this event? it's rare to see a presumptive republican nominee go to event like this and also what other stops is he making over the next few weeks? >> jessica, bottom line is the trump campaign knows or they believe at least this is going to be an especially close election and they say they're not afraid to go into unconvincing inventional places, even unfriendly places to find new voters. he did it when they met with the teamsters, you'd teamsters union, they did it with this rally in the bronx. a couple of last week and they did it at the libertarian convention on saturday. it's still made though four are remarkable event as you said

i recently spoke to goldstar family members of those lost family members and they told us that specificallyn is not giving them the answers and the accountability that they need for what happened to their loved ones that day. does the pentagon need to be more forthcoming about what happened that day to those 13 service members? >> jake -- i can't even begin to put myself in the shoes of those who lost their loved ones and who were acting so heroically and bravely. i can't begin to imagine what they're feeling. i can just say that if i were in their shoes, i'd probably feel exactly the same way, and we're determined as an administration to make sure that for the entire duration of the war including abbey gate that we draw the lessons that we need to draw from it, and act accordingly, and we will, and we are. at the same time, the president made it very difficult and a very important decision to end america's longest war. 20 years, and we want to make sure and as a result of what the president did, and we can make sure that we're not going to have another generation going to afghanistan to fi

and he has a history of attacking goldstar families, including my next guess, because they are khan is the gold star father, whose son captain, who my in khan was killed while serving in iraq you might remember this back in 2016, trump was pushing for a total ban on muslims entering the united states. he belittled mr. khan and his wife multiple times following their appearance at the democratic national convention mr. because they are khan joins me now. thank you very much for being here with us, sir. i wonder what went through your mind when you heard trump really added again, mocking nikki haley's husband, who's currently serving overseas have you? >> thank >> you. >> good to join you i was not surprised because the way we have known trump this person has no concept of service or sacrifice cannot comprehend what it takes to serve the nation, what it takes to serve others therefore, we are not surprised. we must take it very seriously as you're other experts have indicated that this person is he aligns himself with demagogues and dictators and authoritarians against the founding value

service members were killed in that blast, hundred grids are dozens at least of afghan, some of the goldstar families are now accusing the pentagon of telling lies. and leading this hour as the new york hush money cover up it's picks back up tomorrow in new york, a change in tactics from donald trump's legal team were told when it comes to adult film actress and director stormy daniels being back on the stand. let's go to cnn paul read in new york and paula, the defense cross-examination of stormy daniels, we were told it originally was expected to be fairly brief, but but sources are telling you that's changed why? >> yeah. they have a while to go at this point. and the reason they want to spend more time here is because they were surprised that in her testimony, she raised the possibility that the sexual encounter was not consensual, something that she had not previously said, though in her new documentary, she does raise this idea saying that it reminded her of being a young girl. she is of course a sexual abuse survivor. so they're going to take more time to go back through those stateme

after he critic besides the goldstar family, after many, after charlottesville and so i don't think thats is going to move the needle, but what by the biden campaign is going to try to do is say to the hispanics that they have lost some votes for, is that, hey, this is not a guy who represents you and that he biden, if biden said this, you know, that fox news and the conservative media would throw a connection fit yeah. let me talk to you about some new reporting cnn now has about president biden's camp. they're a bit concerned about his support with then the jewish community. it appears at some of that is waning or weakening. we know that the campaign will name director of faith engagement it's interesting that some of his jewish support is weakening, but it's because of his strong support of israel during this war with hamas that some of his heir of american support is eroding as well. what's the urgency of this jewish reported? jewish community erosion for the biden campaign while republicans try every four years, every two years to make inroads with jewish american voters. >> and the

memorial day weekend posing for pictures at a nascar race in north carolina where he is with a group of goldstar families this a warm embrace compared to the jeers and boos he received last night at the libertarian national convention very party should nominate trump for president of the united states only do that if you want to win. if you want to lose, don't do that keep getting your 3% every four years joining me now republican strategist, more gillespie and democratic strategist, meghan hayes, great to have you both on also, we look very memorial day, red, white, and blue. >> i'm noticing they're more and let's start with you. we are looking ahead to these closing arguments. we are ultimately going to get some sort of outcome here. >> i'm curious what kind of impact you think a conviction could have on this race so unfortunately, i don't think it will have much of an impact, quite frankly i'm not a legal scholar, but it sounds as though he can still run. he may not be able to vote for himself, but he is allowed to still run. and so i think it does well, make it more important about who he pi

press club on the anniversary of the explosion this past year when you and sean ryan talked to the goldstar families of the 13 who fell, you talked members of operation allies, refuge who were at abbey gate. and what i will tell you manage as i'm traveling the country and i'm talking to veterans, they are really, really upset and feel a sense of betrayal by the way, this went down and yes, the state department the proponent for it, they dropped the ball, they failed to plan. but i also have to say and i think i'm speaking for a lot of veterans that when i watched that testimony, these two general officers who both said they knew this was coming they knew this was going to happen the question that so many veterans have on their minds is why did a flag officer not throw his or her stars on the table and take it stand against this, particularly seeing the way that ice is k and al-qaida are now re-emerging in a place where 911 originated from. it just makes no sense former secretary of defense, mark esper told me yesterday that one of his main takeaways from the tuesday hearing was the clear wa

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i think there's simply saying give me a goldstar. i did such a good job really, i should carry 50 states. let's be honest, and the district i think that's a wrong way to do it. it should be all about trump as a threat to your middle-class life. >> not scared enough as you put it. all right. paul. matt, thank you both so much for this morning. great to see you. >> thanks two italian newspapers are accusing pope francis of using a homophobic slur during a closed-door meeting held last week. according to the papers, latest reporting, the pope said that gay men should not be allowed to train for priesthood cnn's christopher lamb has much more on this and there's a lot to learn here. christopher what more are you learning and what is the vatican saying? >> well, kate, these reports have caused quite a stir at the vatican, have not yet responded to the claims that the pope used an anti gay slur in his meeting with italian bishops. a few days ago. now these meetings at the pope had were behind those doors. so the reports of the slur where l

we didn't have 13 goldstar families by miss decision in afghanistan. we didn't have this new axis of evil that we haven't seen from the 1930s, pushing but it's time i'm wondering character centers, but there's a whole support and is there a character matter when you say biden used his own power to tell the american public that the laptop was not true, that biden use now that through the secretary of state to go 251 people in the intel community former cia directors, to tell the american public that that wasn't sure you're concerned about use character there, but not cared about trump, but i'm weighing it all. i'm being consistent. you're being inconsistent and this if you listen, think for one moment you're saying only character matters and you're only going after trump people are human in this place of where we go. this is a decision an issue that, people knew about since 2016. so they voted on it. you're going back to something ten years. so if character matters, would you put somebody up on trial just because they're your political enemy? i think th

part provides mortgage free homes to fallen first responder families injured veterans, and also goldstar families. and may are doing exactly that for officer dealers family sean, thank you so much for being here this evening. i mean, what a tragedy to leave behind his loved ones, including a one-year-old, use spoken to the family and you will actually be in attendance for the funeral on saturday. >> how >> is the family doing? >> thank you, laura >> the families devastated they just had the world turned upside down. as they approached the easter holiday and the babies actually nine months old. and they won't get to celebrate that one year birthday and they won't get to celebrate that either with the whole family, with mom dad, and little line and this is very young couple the only married three years and jonathan's only been on a job for three years, like his brother-in-law said sky was born to be a police officer >> he had 70 >> arrest in dri years that number is insane. he was a very active police officer and was serving his cumulatively well >> just think of crimes he could have preve

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walz should respond to all of that, should he respond to that tonight well, first of all, he's a goldstar son. >> i lost my dad in the vietnam war. you can imagine how i feel about a man who avoided the vietnam war by saying it flat feet, criticizing a man who served 24 years at his own election in the united states it's military. tim walz is an honorable man, served with grace and distinction and to try to shame him is one of most pathetic statements of a politician i've ever heard in my entire life. and he did not leave the national guard because he was worried of a deployment. he left to run for office i know the man and he can fix a lawnmower, you can plow his driveway. it's been a national guardsman, a teacher at football coach at governor, and a congressman. he's a genuinely good man and i'm thrilled and i think it's shameful how they're treating and how progressive was governor walz as governor of minnesota? i mean, republicans have been trying to paint him as a very progressive out of step. governor. what do you think what your response to? i think tim walz might be the most impor

apparently it doesn't well i think that there has been some some irreparable rips between joe biden and goldstar family, whether they're whether they're ones that died earlier in the war on terror and afghanistan are the ones that are part of the botched withdrawal. >> i have to ask you, governor, and in light of that, i think these families were trying to and to show the personal connection that they have with former president trump and how he's alleviated some of their very personal stories that they shared there is a marked difference between that donald trump and the donald trump that's been described by some of the former military officials that worked for him his former chief of staff, john kelly, a gold star father himself, a four-star general, and a group of others that trump has criticized who have come out and said that he has said things to them personally, and they've said this on the record that have described our service members as suckers and losers saying that he didn't want to go to a cemetery in france that he didn't want to be seen with amputees. how do you square this descrip

goldstar families today is about men and women willing to give everything. so you could focus on your cook out so your travel logistics, it's not a celebration of the start of summer when instead of somber remembrance of service in los and it's not just a today thing that is an everyday thing. it's an everyday thing for the family of colonel thomas o'day who was killed in vietnam on christmas day in 1968. you can see his headstone in arlington national cemetery right there. the flowers as they are every memorial day place there by his daughter, placed there by my mom thank you for joining inside politics, cnn news central starts right after the break. have a wonderful day in one of the most active 22 seasons. >> you can't control a tornado. >> what? kinds of interventions can we design go inside the store? >> the premier of violent earth with liam schreiber, sunday had nine on cnn my husband and i own a growing beverage company. we rely on e-commerce and digital tools to build our business and launch new products. thanks to american investments in ai, we're

did not mention the whole issue of the khan family, the goldstar family, they lost their son. she would address that but she decided not to. >> don't make it -- will's an old rule in politics. when your opposition is on fire, just walk away. if he's causing his own problems, don't make it political. just back off. >> it's like we were talking after president obama spoke, it was veiled but thinly so, about this issue. what's he or she going to say that's more powerful than the lengthy statement from john mccain? not much. >> just ahead, donald trump sparks a russia uproar of sorts. what's the real story behind his relationship with vladimir putin? ♪ approaching medicare eligibility? you may think you can put off checking out your medicare options until you're sixty-five, but now is a good time to get the ball rolling. keep in mind, medicare only covers about eighty percent of part b medical costs. the rest is up to you. that's where aarp medicare supplement insurance plans insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company come in. like all standardized medicare supplement insurance

for answers and he has given hope to are extended goldstar family now. >> we have another son servinghe army and. we do not dress joe biden with his life we have faith that donald trump to lead our military please join us in supporting donald trump for president and commander in chief campuses struggled to get there a very powerful and politically devastating tribute to fallen loved ones and endorsement of donald trump from those gold-star families we heard from the mother-in-law in the aunt of marine sergeant nicole gee and we heard from the parents of marine corps poll country lopez, two of those american service members killed in august 2021 during the withdrawal from afghanistan. >> our coverage will continue for milwaukee as we wait, tonight's headliner from the man who might be the next vice president of the united states. ohio republican senator jd vance. we'll be right back right now as the ones in unc let's, see tomorrow, live from milwaukee, former president trump accepts his party's nomination for the nation's highest office. >> jake tapper and anderson cooper lead cnn spec