. >> our visit to ported ex-oregon, continues now with author james hite, who provides a history of the office of the vice president and the people who have held the post. >> mr. chairman, delegates, friends and my fellow americans, thank you

. >> our visit to portland, oregon, continues with author james hite who provides a history of the office of the vice president and the people who held the post. >> mr. chairman, delegates, friends and my fellow americans, thank you from the bottom of my heart. i am deeply humbled by your confidence, and on behalf of my family, here and gone, i accept your nomination to run and serve as vice president of united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> in my book i make the argument that the rights of the american vice presidency really began in what i described as the rise of the modern vice presidency. everything else i consider the premodern vice presidency, and i trace the modern vice presidency toward harding decision to invite calvin coolidge to be a member of the cabinet and to sit with the cabinet. no president had done that before. not that there were not vice presidency meetings occasionally like it would be with other cabinet members but to be a a formal member of the cabinet, he invited coolidge to that. so i described that is being a very pivotal moment in terms of the vice

. >> our visit to portland, oregon, continues with author james hite who provides a history of the office of the vice president and the people who held the post. >> mr. chairman, delegates, friends and my fellow americans, thank you from the bottom of my heart. i am deeply humbled by your confidence, and on behalf of my family, here and gone, i

the wus hite house is recruitin republicans to challenge him in the primary. >>> a wildfire is threatening yosemite park. the entire town of mariposa has been vac waevacuated. power inside the park has been going on and off as the detwiler fire it's mo it one of more than a dozen wildfires in the western united states. >> paul williams has the national forecast for us, good morning, paul. >> good morning,a ariel, kendis. >> it includes salt lake city and close to seattle. numerous thunderstorms still causing concern for flooding, courtesy of the monsoon at moisture coming out of the south. so we have yet extended problems with urban flash flooding, sudden flooding and desert washes and blowing dust in the desert. ariel, kendis? >> what was tropical storm dawn is still making waves. a new one is forming and its name is hillary. that's right, don and hillary it's just a coincidence of course. and this hillary has just come from lists drawn up years in advance from the world meteorological organization. >> just when you thought you were done with this parg. > >>> a bison brigade stopped traff

i think the last election was the y donald trump because hite working class fundamentally is discussed it with the way the politicians ave been ignoring them or demeaning them and i think that has to stop. ost: one group you mentioned was no labels. chairman,ormer center, co-chair, lieberman at an event washington, d.c. want to play for the viewers. >> at the level of the american not really as divided as a lot of people would suggest. look at the polling, the in america people are in strt right to the center not at the re extremes. extremes. but in washington, it doesn't like the way, feels majority has been squeezed out by the extremes. the i'm saying, we have numbers, what we need is the the organization to put those numbers and the common comes with them back government. host: he mentions there, we need he will and the organization, is the will there in this country? is there a passion for this vision? guest: the problem with that sts and moderates is they're moderate, they are not passionate. to be given have and if these on leaders that i'm talking about, them, avyweights, i call

hite house says that ceremony is at 3:00 eastern. it will take place in the east room. also, the president has been tweeting. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your provider.

hite house says that ceremony is at 3:00 eastern. it will take place in the east room. also, the president has been tweeting. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your provider. susan: our guest on newsmakers is congressman john yarmuth. he represents louisville and the house of representatives and he is the top democrat in the house budget committee. our two reporters, economic policy reporter for the new york times and dave who covers politics for the washington post. we are keeping with a really late night in washington dc or early morning, we are watching what happened in the senate and that's where i want to start with congressman yarmouth. john mccain cast the deciding vote that seem to put in and to the republican plan for health care reform. the system still has big problems investor deal with. how you see this playing out. rep. yarmuth: it is great to be with you. i did not watch the old whole thing but i happened to wake up when they were about to declare the bill d

it is not clear if president trump would support the move. ,hite house communication anthony scaramuccisting that -- apart of a leak. scaramucci is unhappy that his financial disclosure form will leak. that theother sign economy is keeping up with its momentum. industrial profits rose more than 19% in june from a year ago. helping chinese companies deal with a heavy debt load. news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm emma chandra. this is bloomberg. vonnie: thank you. high-stakes for health care in washington. kevin cirilli joins us for details on capitol hill. remind us, what has been taken up today, or how many amendments are being taken up today? kevin: the senate is trying to advance the skinny version of its health care repeal bill to get rid of the individual an employer mandates. that said, i just spoke moments ago with representative -- with an ultraconservative representative. the skinny version will not advance out of the house of representatives as it is written down. -- will not advance out of the house of repres

william hite got a few pointers from pros and these kids and hundreds of others will gather for the largeste craft event for children. it raises funds for improvements for philadelphia schools. >>> ryan seacrest is returning to american idol. he hosted the show for 15 seasons on fox and abc announced they would be bringing back idol and he made it official on his new show live with kelly and ryan. >> i don't know if you have been in a 15 year relationship and then for a reason that you really don't know you break up. all of a sudden, the show is gone and we thought wow and then we broke up and i thought it would be great to get back together. >> nationwide auditions for the show begin next month with stops in pittsburgh and annapolis in september. >>> still ahead on "action news" at 5:00, a check of the accuweather forecast. looking live outside at the jersey shore, sky 6 hd showing you cape may and there are a few people on the beach. adam joseph has it's exclusive accuweather forecast. when we come right back. i work overtime when i can get it. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so

video game pointers from young pros, students taught mayor jim kenney and superintendant of schools, hiteow to play mind craft. in september hundreds of children will gather at the university of the sciences for the world's largest mine craft gaming event for kids and raises funds for improvements to the philadelphia schools. >>> there is more ahead on "action news" at 4:00, including an update on the heat wave impacting the delaware valley. >> plus -- i'm nydia han, if you have sun burn we have help. consumer reports has tips to ease the pain. ♪ from fertility services to pre-natal education, we've helped the two of you get this far. and we're proud to now join all three of you, as you continue the greatest journey you'll ever embark on. aetna. you don't join us, we join you. >>> 4:30 now and "action news" continues. with breaking news in the last 90 minutes, o.j. simpson was granted parole. a parole board decided that the 70-year-old nfl star should be released from prison. he spent the last nine years in prison for armed robbery and salts with a weapon. they cited simpson's carolina wi

but there hasn't been much in the way of anything from the hite house to create jobs. ms. jayapal: there really hasn't. i thank the gentleman for yielding. if you look at the budget, you really get a sense of where the priorities are. they're not investing in climate. they're cutting health care dramatically. and they're not investing in jobs and infrastructure. now, as the gentlelady from florida said, when i was in the state senate, it was actually a republican-controlled senate. but together we worked on a package and we invested $16 billion into infrastructure. because we knew that that was good for republicans and for democrats. and if you look at what this president has to say, this was a tweet that he just put out. really great numbers on jobs and the economy. things are starting to kick in now. but you the thing is that this week is supposed to be white house -- the white house is calling this made in america week. well, maybe somebody should let the president know that everything should be made in america. because i happen to take a look -- happened to take a look

. >> way in the back, blue tie, >> if i was to exercise my hite shirt getting up. >> thanks. jonathan ward, university of oxford. i wanted to ask you about zapad in the context of the shanghai cooperation organization.i'm wondering if the sco matters these days in your view as you focus onthe military theater particularly as it expands to include other nations? >> i mentioned earlier that i ould like the conversation about thesemilitary exercises and the need for transparency about militaryexercises generally to be internationalized and to be brought out of the trans-atlantic concept. when it comes to sco, i'm not really sure what we can do because sco itself, the united tates is not a member, i don't believe any nato members are members. so we -- and the agenda is very much controlled by the kremlin, by beijing. so i think we can engagewith those countries. i'm not sure whether it makes sense to engagethrough that organization. >> one component or interesting bit of information concerning china,that it's not in the framework of zapad per se. but as i said before, a whole ran

picked up after that point, and now we see it in june. 8348, you can see how what is happening is the ,hitebut now the trend is clearly upward again. two is the white line, hundred 22,000 jobs in june, up from 152,000 in may. it looks like at least for now that it is trending higher again. employment up .1%, still i low unemployment rate. low unemployment rate. people are saying because maybe there is more confidence, people on the sidelines are saying i will look for a job, helping to boost the employment rate. ironically, when things are better, you see that happening. people are coming back into the labor force, average hourly earnings up just .1% comes stock at the level for months now. this is something i want to show 1771, this turquoise line shows you people coming out of the labor force, coming out and finding jobs, the number has risen to a record, the highest level for this kind of trend. the white line or people who are not in the labor force and lower and lower, so a good sign, but still a lot of slack keeping average hourly earnings where they are, but wages the turn of the fed