appearance in new hampshire, jim acosta reports communication in a bit of counter-programming the white house to the march on washington down on the national mall president trump held a surprise photo op in the oval office. >>where you shoot a full pardon to alice johnson, the same criminal justice reform advocate his prison sentence be commuted 2 years ago, we're giving alice a full part i just told her we didn't even discuss it, we you're out there. so you the audience last night but the president refused to comment on the march in the protesters hopes to end police brutality in the u.s.. his aides shouted over >>a subject democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris addressed in a virtual message to the demonstrators as we continue to see black men and women slain in our streets. >>and left behind by an economy and justice system that have too often denied black folks are dignity and rights. they would share or

i'm jim acosta in "the situation room." and we're following breaking news.mid president trump's attacks on mail-in voting, the postal service has just warned 46 states and washington, d.c. it may not be able to deliver mail-in ballots in time to be counted under their election laws. at the same time, former president obama is accusing mr. trump of trying to, quote, kneecap the postal service to suppress votes in the presidential election. there is also breaking news in the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. death toll has topped 168,000 people with more than 5.2 million known cases. and the cdc is now forecasting, get this, 189,000 u.s. deaths by september 5th. let's begin at the white house with cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins.

acosta is the one who agreed to the epstein deal.hen asked why he let a sex abuser skate, acosta reportedly lsaid "i was told epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone." what exactly does that mean? what intelligent service did jeffrey epstein work for, if any, and why did our government allow him to sexually abuse girls? we deserve answers to those questions. we should be demanding them. but so far, no one is answering them. epstein can't tell us obviously. he's dead. the media strangely doesn't seem very interested in pressing to find out. it's possible it's because t epstein was close to a remarkable number of prominent democratic politicians. the new document suggests the former president bill clinton,ic for example, visited epstein's private island with two young girls. giuffre claims epstein made her have sex with former new mexico governor bill richardson and former u.s. senator george mitchell and a famous mit scientist and others. is any of it true? we don't know if it's true. ghislaine maxwell probably does kno

also launching new attacks on presumptive democratic presidential nominee, joe biden we have jim acosta now with the story. >>another day another case of presidential coronavirus misinformation. today president trump suggesting without any evidence that a vaccine could be ready by election day mom optimistic that it will be. >>probably around that day. i believe we'll have the vaccine before the end of the year certainly been around that date. yes i think that's contradicting government health experts who say a vaccine likely won't be ready. >>until the end of the year at the earliest my projection which is only projection is that somewhere towards the end of the year. the beginning of 2021, we will know whether we have a safe and effective vaccine trump's claim the latest wishful thinking from a president who has repeatedly made false and misleading statements about the pandemic is going away now it will go away things go absolutely nuts said you know my mind it will go a doctor fauci also contradicting that prediction was long as you have any member of society any demographic group wh

let's go to jim acosta. the president keeps contradicting his own health experts and himself as well. >> reporter: there was agreement of dr. birx assessment that there is a new era of covid-19. the president lashed out at dr. birx. the president is inl sifting si virus is under control, saying the virus is what it is. the latest example, his interview. asked about the soaring number of covid-19 deaths. the president said it is what it is. >> i think it's under control. >> how, 1,000 americans a day are dying. >> that's true. it is what it is. it's under control as much as you can control it. >> reporter: the president tried to insist that data is on his side. >> i am talking about the elderly population. much worse than south korea. >> hold it, hold it. the surprise president, the task force have not been given the kind of credit. the united states has done an amazing question. >> reporter: but that is not true which is why dr. deborah birx was hammered. >> what we are seeing today is drircht th different t

marcel acosta said he was headed to daly city. he says at first he thought he was poked by a screw or a piece of plastic. when he realized it was a used needle, he took a picture of the wound and the needle and called 911. >> there was definitely like some residue on the inside, you know. so it was definitely used. it wasn't like a brand-new needle. it wasn't capped. >> acosta had his blood drawn at kaiser to test for hepatitis and other viruses. b.a.r.t. police bagged the needle as evidence. a b.a.r.t. spokesperson says police are pulling surveillance video from that specific b.a.r.t. car to learn perhaps how that needle got there. >>> well, she got there just in time and saved his life. a central valley police officer pulled a man to safety who was stuck in his wheelchair on the railroad tracks as a train was approaching. >> a male stuck on the tracks. try to get him out. can you get him? get him, get him, get him! >> pretty amazing. this is body cam footage fr. she noticed that man stuck on the tracks. she quickly pulled him ou

chief white house correspondent jim acosta, what's the latest on how the convention is going to play out? >> as you were saying, we'll see a lot of trump family. as a campaign adviser told me, this is a trump administration, not a republican administration. that person said that in jest. but you'll see a lot of the trump family, a lot of trump surrogates. you'll see unusual additions to the lineup. the secretary of state, mike pompeo, is going to be appearing during the convention from israel, appearing to use his 0 fish capacity as secretary of state to lend heavyweight status to this convention. the state department is saying and the trump campaign is saying the rnc is footing the bill for that, but it's hard to think taxpayer dollars won't be going to that to some extent. one of the other wrinkles in all of this which is interesting is that you're going to see the president appear every night of this convention, from what we're hearing from our sources. that is highly unusual. as you see last week with joe biden, he waited essentially until the end of the convention. he did appear

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, we're also getting ready to speak to the white house chief of staff mark meadows. he's going to be joining us shortly. we've got a live interview with him coming up. but during the meantime, getting some new information from your sources about the president at his views on this pandemic. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and we should point out president trump continued his detachment from coronavirus reality today, insisting during a morning tv interview that covid-19 is, quote, going away, when that is just not the case, at least not any time soon. members of the president's coronavirus task force are still distancing themselves from mr. trump's rosy assessments. a source close to the task force told us the president does not grasp the severity of the pandemic in the u.s., explaining to cnn that mr. trump, quote, still doesn't get it. >> the percentage down is incredible. >> reporter: in his latest push to convince schools to reopen across the u.s., president trump is offering f

jim acosta, you're there in the briefing room. i assume you're trying to get a question to the president. he didn't call on you to answer a question, but let's talk a little bit about that. the president says, i think we're doing very well. then he says, china, they're not doing so great. india not doing so great. he says, i think we're doing very well. 155,000-plus americans have died over the past five months. almost 1,000 americans almost every single day are still dying. the numbers are going up. on what basis is the president saying, i think we're doing very well? >> well, wolf, he rattled off some numbers where he says in some states, there are cases that are receding. but, wolf, i mean that just flies in the face, and dana was talking about this a few moments ago, with what dr. birx said over the weekend, that it is extraordinarily widespread, this virus in this country, and that it is seeping now into all parts of the united states, not just in urban areas but in rural areas as well. didn't get a question to the president

and p. 500 reached an all time high the economic rule acosta right left corporate america feeling bullish. but across the country in wisconsin many are scratching their heads like dairy farmer ciro lloyd she says that despite the damage or trade wars on the coronavirus she is still undecided. i need the democrats to step up. and when they are like 0 7 i don't know people vote for her you're not offering them anything useful i mean all of our farms are going bankrupt because we cannot compete emits increasingly some solid data of economy and they're not offering us anything to do to fix that but. finding solutions in an increasingly divided america is the challenge of this election 12000000 people are out of work the economy took a historic plunge in the last quarter 19 has brought the country to its knees yet donald trump's appeal still who voted for the space divil organizer who voted for barack obama in 2012. and i feel as if ovo donald trump 100 percent or something dramatic happens because he has a record now we it's proven what he's done. seems good but there are many who see the pre

i'm jim acosta in washington in for ana cabrera. a milestone in the coronavirus pandemic but nothing to celebrate. 5 million people in the united states now confirmed to have the coronavirus with the number of new infections and deaths still on the rise, and breaking news right now. this from georgia where a viral photo thrust a high school in the national spotlight a few days ago. that photo showing students packed in school hallways most not wearing masks and certainly not putting space between themselves. straight to cnn's natasha chen with the breaking news for us. this is startling news about that school. what are you learning? >> reporter: jim, we're hearing from the school superintendent, the distribute superintendent,

>> jim acosta, thanks for a view inside that meeting. joining us now to discuss former director of the cdc, dr. tom frieden. dr. frieden, always good to have you on. it is important to look at where we stand as a country in this outbreak, and i just want to show a map of cases and states where case numbers are rising and falling and yet it's the first time we've had a map where most states are seeing falls. we should note, some context here that along the east coast we are seeing some from the hurricane isaias because there is less testing and are there any signs of hope in those declines? >> well, there is hope in parts of the country, parts of the northeast where the virus remains at low levels, though far from gone, but overall, jim, the virus is winning and the american people are losing, and we need to focus on what's happening. 1400 dead in one day is just a toll that is unacceptable, and we need to up our game. we need a strategic approach to rapidly fixing the testing charade where people are waiting a week or two for results and

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let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, the president is offering no sympathy, at least not yet, for jacob blake, or for the nba for that matter. >> that's right. president trump will make his case for a second term tonight. earlier today, as you said, the president weighed in on unrest in wisconsin after the police shooting of jacob blake. the president asked what he thought of nba players protesting police brutality refusing to play basketball. the president responded by slamming the players saying their ratings are bad. another sign the president is looking to divide the nation to win re-election. >> reporter: ignoring questions whether he had seen the police video of the shooting of jacob blake, offering up more deployment of national guards to the u.s. cities. >> we will put out the fire. we will put out the flame. we will put out the vandalism, because the vandalism and the looting is ridiculous to allow this to happen. >> white house counselor kellyanne conway appeared to say the quiet part out loud revealing th

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. president trump is campaigning next door to joe biden's hometown scranton, pennsylvania. only hours before he accepts the democratic nomination. >> reporter: that's right. president trump wrapped up his speech in the critical town of pennsylvania. the former vice president prepares to give his speech on the last night of the democratic convention. mr. trump said he hopes the u.s. is nearing the end of the pandemic. that is not the case. the president is still sewing doubts about the upcoming election. the only way he can lose is if the vote is rigged. that's false. the president is back in a familiar position distancing himself from another form jeer e who is now under indictment, former chief strategist, steve bannon. stunned by days of attacks at the democratic convention, president trump is on a rhetorical rampage slamming joe biden. >> joe biden is a puppet of the radical left movement that seeks to destroy the american way of life. >> reporter: the president is diving into some o

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is standing by.he president seems to be showing a stunningly cavalier attitude toward this health disaster. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and an administration official is telling cnn that others on the coronavirus task force here at the white house agree with dr. deborah birx's stark assessment that the pandemic in the u.s. has entered a new phase and that covid-19 has become, quote, extraordinarily widespread. president trump lashed out at birx after she made that remark. but it's the president's latest comments on the virus that are raising questions about his grasp on reality. the president is insisting the virus is, quote, under control telling the news site "axios" it is what it is. for president trump, each appearance in front of the camera brings another departure from reality on the coronavirus. the latest example his interview with "axios." asked about the soaring number of covid-19 deaths in the u.s., the president says, it is what it is. >> i think it's under control. i'll tell you wha

we get more from cnn's jim acosta. >> reporter: in a bit of counterprogramming from the white house to the march on washington down on the national mall, president trump held a surprise photo op in the oval office where he issued a full pardon to alice johnson. the same criminal justice reform advocate whose prison sentence he commuted two years ago. >> we are giving alice a full pardon. i just told her. we didn't even discuss it, we just -- you were out there, i saw you in the audience last night. >> reporter: the president refused to comment on the march, and the protesters' hopes to end police brutality in the u.s. his aides shouted over our questions. >> mr. president, what is your message to the thousands of people -- >> let's go, guys. let's go. >> reporter: a subject democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris addressed in a virtual message to the demonstrators. >> as we continue to see black men and women slain in our streets and left behind by an economy and justice department that have too often denied black folks or dignity and rights. they would share our anger and

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is with us. jim, president trump appeared in person in charlotte, north carolina, as the republican convention got underway today. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. president trump is kicking off the republican convention with more of his unproven conspiracy theories about mail-in voting in the upcoming election after promising an optimistic message at his convention, the president and his team are issuing dark warnings about what will happen with joe biden wins the white house. the president is also guaranteeing medical breakthroughs in the battle against the coronavirus, as he knows all too well voters have rejected his handling of the pandemic. three nights before his scheduled speech, president trump appears to be steeling the limelight from himself. >> if you want to really drive him crazy, you say "12 more years." >> reporter: paired down rnc in charlotte where he said democrats are using mail-in voting to steal the election. >> the only way they can take this election away from us is if thi

jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> all right.o to discuss the dueling conventions, let's bring in james davis, the director of political science, and he joins me from munich, germany. thank you so much for joining us. i appreciate it. so, general consensus, even among some fox news personalities is that the democratic convention went fairly well, and joe biden stepped up and satisfied the modest expectations. the rationale, did the convention change anything? the conventional political wisdom, the days of the convention bounce are done or short-lived, especially when the opponent's convention is just days away? >> well, i think that's right. i don't thing conventions really fundamentally achieve much. but the democrats pulled it off in very strange times. it's the first time bewe've had such a convention. i think they did a good job. i think the going was to reintroduce joe biden to the american people. to set out an agenda, a set of themes, of items they want to address. things that draw the contrast to this administration. i th

. >> cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta is there for us live.he keep doing this? >> well, this has become one of his chief distractions for his base in recent days. brooke, obviously he's facing a lot of tough questions about the coronavirus. and he has been trying to change the subject to the security of mail-in balloting, which, over the years has proven to be very safe, effective, and fraud-free way of voting in this country. obviously there are problems here and there. but even conservative groups that have looked at it have found cases of problems few and far between. getting to what the president was just saying a few moments ago, he has been seizing on this effort to expand mail-in balloting in nevada. they've been trying to do that obviously to protect people from the coronavirus. but at the same time the president is speaking out of the other side of his mouth in recent days saying that mail-in balloting is just fine in florida because he has republicans in that state and also advisers to his campaign who are saying, mr. president, ther

jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >> all right.scuss all of this with us, from london, is thomas gift. he is the director of the center on u.s. politics at university college london. thank you, very much, for joining us. so both conventions have come and gone. what did you make of the republicans' efforts to portray a kinder, gentler trump? it doesn't seem, you know, sustainable, contrasted with what we saw last night. the unscripted trump back on the campaign trail. so, what's the point? >> well, what struck me most about trump's speech was its predictability. he really stuck to the standard script of painting biden as an artifice of the political left. someone who would you understand mine so-called traditional american values. i think trump made few overtures to voters and appealed to his base, which is largely nothing new. lacking in his speech was a lucid agenda about what the party stands for. about conservative values. about what innovative policies republican party would bring to washington if trump were trump seems to thin

thank you very much, jim acosta, for reporting. let's bring in our chief political analyst, gloria borger and our cnn correspondent, abby phillip. the president still silent on the shooting of jacob blake, hasn't even acknowledged the march on washington happening right outside the white house today. what does that say about his priorities? >> wolf, one of the things that i think is a good indication of where the white house and the campaign are on this, our colleague, ryan nobles tweeted a photo from the rally in new hampshire, where it said, this is a peaceful protest. that is basically a summation of where the white house is. they believe that the real peaceful protesters are the ones who are attending his rallies, not the ones out in the streets, either participating in the march on washington or protesting outside of the white house last night. i do not think that the president has -- sees any political advantage to identifying with or acknowledging those protesters, because it runs totally counter with his campaign objective,

let's get details from our chief white house correspond errant jim acosta. many americans are in desperate economic pain right now, but stimulus talks seem to be going nowhere right now. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. with negotiations falling apart over coronavirus relief bill, white house officials say president trump is expected to same some kind of executive action to provide financial support to americans who are struggling to find work during this pandemic. the executive orders are likely to include some kind of effort to provide enhanced unemployment benefits as well as some kind of action on suspending evictions from rental homes, there may be some other proposals in the mix and in the meantime, we should point out the president just hinted out the path ahead in the last hour, tweeting "we are going a different way." that tweet coming from the president in just the last hour and in the meantime, administration officials are throwing cold water on the president's goal of having a coronavirus vaccine ready by election day, one seni

white house correspondent jim acosta. >> president trump is racheting up his attacks on joe biden inesponse to the democratic nominee's speech at the convention last night. but the president and his team are back on their heels as the trump administration is struggling to explain big delays at the u.s. postal service. leaders are insisting there is still cause for alarm about the upcoming election when lots of americans will be voting by mail. the president is warning he'll be sending law enforcement to make sure there is a fair vote. eager to get back on the attack, the president took aim at the theme of the democratic convention that t. >> they spent four straight days attacking america. and look look at what we've accomplished until the plague came in. look at what we've accomplished. and now we're doing it again. [ applause ] where joe biden sees american darkness, i see american greatness. >> reporter: it was a carefully scripted rebuttal to a biden speech that surprised even some trump allies. >> this is our moment. this is our mission. may history be able to say that the end o

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, biden's big convention speech last night of course isn't sitting well with the president. >> reporter: no, that's right, wolf. president trump is ratcheting up his attacks on joe biden in response to the democratic nominee's speech at the convention last night. but the president and his team, they're back on their heels this evening as the trump administration is struggling to explain big delays at the u.s. postal service. leaders at the postal service are insisting there's no cause for alarm about the upcoming election when millions of americans will be voting by mail. the president is warning, though, he'll be sending out law enforcement to polling places to make sure there's a fair vote. eager to get back on the attack, the president too aim at the theme running through joe biden's speech at the democratic convention, that the trump p administration has been a time of darkness. >> they spent four straight days attacking america as racist and a horrible country that must be red

jim acosta is with us. jim, stimulus talks up on capitol hill. they have collapsed. the president, we're told, is now apparently getting ready to take some sort of executive action if a deal isn't necessarily reached. they still have until the end of today. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. with negotiations falling apart over a coronavirus relief bill, white house officials say president trump is now expected to take some kind of executive action to provide financial support to americans who are struggling to find work during this pandemic. the executive orders are likely to include enhanced unemployment benefits as well as some kind of action on suspending evictions from rental homes. at least that's what the talk is from the white house. administration officials in the meantime are throwing cold water on the president's goal of having a coronavirus vaccine ready by election day. one senior administration official described that time line as highly unlikely. president trump's claim that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by election day is receiving an injection o

jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >>> doug heye is a cnn political commentator, also the former directorf communications for the rnc. a pleasure to see you again, doug. i wanted to start off, actually, with one of your tweets and we can put it up for people to look at. it says, gop enthusiasm is unlikely to match the intensity of the last election given trump's first-term success in filling court vacancy. so often you see a team win a championship and then they lose the urgency for the repeat. what do you expect from this rnc convention? and what will be different to how the democrats handle theirs? >> i don't think we know precisely how it will be different yet. the democrats were preparing for this inevitable virtual convention while the republicans, i think honestly, were kidding themselves for a while that they might be able to move locations and so forth. they may be less prepared than what democrats were. what we've seen i think surprises a lot of people is you're not seeing a lot of senators or members of congress who otherwise would clamor to be on a stage for a convention, and c

. >> all this now, cnn white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, what is the take on the postmaster general? >> we can tell you this evening, the white house issued a veto threat. house democrats are going to try to pass and are likely to pass this bill tomorrow that would provide $25 billion to the u.s. postal service. the white house says the president would veto that legislation. in a statement they put out to reporters, the white house essentially accused democrats of overreacting to what they described as sensationalized media reports about these problems with the postal service. the other thing that we can report to you, anderson, is that just this evening, we were provided with talking points that are being put out by the republican national committee and the trump campaign to their surrogates. essentially, accusing democrats of latching on to what they are calling a, quote, conspiracy theory about the postal service and the upcoming election. for his part, the president denied that he is trying to steal the election. earlier today, he

action meanwhile, as the pandemic rages on a vaccine doesn't appear to be ready any time soon jim acosta reports. >>president trump's claim that a coronavirus vaccine could be ready by election day is receiving an injection of reality as top administration health officials are saying don't bet on it if you don't know them earth are they all i think i think in some cases, yes possible before but right around that time a senior administration official told cnn that timeline is just not realistic saying it's quote mega physically possible but highly unlikely and coronavirus task force doctor anthony fauci said scientists may have to wait until november december just to find out of the vaccine really works adding maybe we'll get an answer as early as october, but i doubt it trying to put a finer prediction on the timetable right now i don't think any of us have enough information yet to know how that's going to shake out the pandemic battered economy recovered somewhat in july with the unemployment rate falling to just above 10%. >>with 1.8 million jobs added even with so many americans stil

we see no social distancing and no masks that jim acosta can see. was looking at last night, the president and vice president mingling with supporters, following the vice president's speech, people crowding the barriers. i don't see any masks in this picture. there were some in some places, but obviously few and far between, melania trump's speech seeing images of people mingling, no social distance. according to the white house, those who are close toast the president tonight will be tested. don't worry about anybody else. how dangerous is this? >> so, i'm sitting right now in the hospital six blocks from the white house, a hospital that treated hundreds and hundreds of covid patients over the last six months. and when i look at a gathering down the street purely for political purposes, purely to create a backdrop for the president, it's really maddening. so, by protecting -- by testing the people in the front, the white house is just protecting the president. by packing in 1,500 people without requiring them to wear masks, which i'm sure is a viol

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta standing by.understand you have some brea breaksing news. >> that's right. there is a new development in the case, and i think the controversy that exists around secretary of state mike pompeo's decision to address the republican national convention committee. his address is scheduled for later on tonight. it's sparked a lot of controversy because pompeo will be doing this not only as the current secretary of state but that he'll be doing it during an official trip while he's in israel. the republican committee, the national committee, the trump campaign, they've all said that this is all proper because pompeo's portion of the convention will be paid for by the trump campaign. but nevertheless, representative joaquin castro who is the chair of a subcommittee has fired on of a letter to the state department stating that he is launching an investigation into all of this. so some fresh controversy just as republicans are getting ready to kick off their second night of the convention. in the meantime,

. >> joined now by jim acosta at the white house. also, maggie haberman. sanjay gupta. jim, can you just lay out the president's -- what he is saying the plan, from his side, is? not actually enacting executive action. he is just saying what he will do if congress doesn't reach an agreement, is that correct? >> that's what it sounds like, so far, anderson, based on the president's remarks he is laying down, essentially another warning to democrats on capitol hill if they don't come to an agreement with white house officials on some kind of a way forward on a coronavirus relief bill, he is going to take executive action. he is talking about extending these enhanced unemployed benefits. an and, as well as, putting in place some kind of moratorium on evictions in this country. it's unclear how the president can do any of those things through executive action. which may be one of the reasons he didn't take those actions this evening. but it's worst pointing out the president was continuing to engage in this sort of magical suspension. he was talking about how the virus was

and tomorrow will be no different in fact it's going to be slightly cooler tomorrow than today with acosta only warming up to 60 degrees mid 60's along the bay and low 70's for most of our inland valleys, gusty winds as well 30 to 40 miles per hour and for the next 3 days we're going to gradually warm up later into the week near near average highs back to you catherine hartman bridge. so thank you so much. >>president trump is seems to be reversing course on mail in voting in a tweet today. he signaled his approval for florida's mail in absentee voting saying in florida the election system is safe and secure tried and true i encourage all to request a ballot and vote by mail and that's very different from earlier attempts to discredit malan balloting including an interview taped just a few days ago. >>there's no way you can go through a mail in vote without massive cheating. >>last week the president even suggested delaying the election of a mail in voting. meantime, the house of representatives has passed a bill giving free 0.6 billion dollars to states to help them expand vote by mail op

>>jim acosta there reporting tonight the president also today attended the first official coronavirus task force meeting since april it was held in the oval office doctor berks and doctor fauci we're both there as well. >>wicks said again no one wants black lives her. >>parking is charged with a hate crime for defacing a black lives matter mural last month. they want their day in court nicole anderson and david nelson entered not guilty pleas today, the justice wakefield taylor courthouse in martinez. the criminal complaint filed by the contra costa county district attorney accuses the couple of defacing the black lives matter mural painted in front of the courthouse on the 4th of july. today the couple's attorney disputes the da's claim that his clients committed a violation of civil rights they have a radical mission and the fact that. >>my clients disagree with that mission is a problem for the dia and she's charged with a hate crime. so we look forward to defending these charges vigorously in court. >>the vandalism sparked protests drawing hundreds of demonstrators into town. the

i'm jim acosta.oe biden and kamala harris just appeared together for the first time as running mates, biden touting her, both of them forcefully arguing for the defeat of president trump. president trump may respond. we're standing by to see if he takes questions at a white house briefing. let's get more from what he heard from biden/harris. arlette saenz was in the room. what was it like. >> reporter: we saw them walk into the room wearing masks as they made their debut. they both forcefully spoke about the reasons they believe president trump should be defeated, pointing to his handling of the coronavirus. that was a big argument that they were making, that they believe the president has failed. this is an historic moment as kamala harris has become the first woman of color to be chosen as a vice presidential nominee. take a listen to that moment when kamala harris talked about the women who came before her and the future she hopes to bring. >> i'm so proud to stand with you, and i do so mindful of

our chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us. jim, the divide seems to be growing almost on a daily basis between the president of the united states and his own top health experts. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. president trump is facing something of a revolt on his coronavirus task force. there are now three members of the task force who are contradicting the president's view on the surging number of cases in the u.s. as well as his recommendation that hydroxychloroquine be used to treat people with the virus. it sounds like he is running out of answers on covid-19 claiming today that the u.s. is doing a, quote, amazing job on the pandemic when that's just not the case. [ applause ] ask why members of his own coronavirus task force are going rogue and contradicting his comments on covid-19. president trump side-stepped the question and praised his administration's handling of the pandemic. >> why are so many of these people on your task force contradicting you? >> well, i think we're doing a great job. >> reporter: three high-

jim acosta explains. >>another day another case of presidential coronavirus misinformation. today president trump suggesting without any evidence that a vaccine could be ready by election optimistic that it will be. >>probably around that day. i believe we'll have the vaccine before the end of the year certainly been around that date. yes i think that's contradicting government health experts who say a vaccine likely won't be ready. >>until the end of the year at the earliest my projection which is only projection is that somewhere towards the end of the year. the beginning of 2021, we will know whether we have a safe and effective vaccine trump's claim the latest wishful thinking from a president who has repeatedly made false and misleading statements about the pandemic is going away now it will go away things go absolutely nuts no question in my mind it will go a doctor fauci also contradicting that prediction was long as you have any member of society any demographic group who's not seriously trying to get to the end game of suppressing this. it will continue to smolder a

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reaction from president trump's news conference and with our chief white house correspondent jim acosta and our chief political correspondent, dana bash. jim, what we saw from the president today seems to square with your reporting that he just -- i don't know if he doesn't grasp the severity of the pandemic or it doesn't play into what he thinks is a winning plan for re-election. >> reporter: i think that's a good question, anderson. i do think it was notable that a source familiar with this meeting that the president had in the oval office yesterday with members of his task force would say something along the lines of, he doesn't get it. and repeatedly said in this conversation i had with a source that the president doesn't get it when it comes to the severity of this pandemic. obviously, members of the coronavirus task force can't go out on television or feel like they can't go out on television and say that the president doesn't get it publicly, but it not only squares with the president's performance today not only on fox, but in the briefing that he had this afternoon with reporte

what we can expect to see the next four days and nights with our own chief white house corporate jim acosta. >> heading into the convention the president and his team insist they have an impressive record to run on heading into this election and convention. the president out on the campaign trial the last several days pointing to what he considers to be his achievements from his first term. but anderson, the theme of this convention is return to american greatness according to campaign officials. that is an acknowledgment that things are not great right now. the president has been insisting he has accomplishments to run on, but there's one big issue hanging over everything, and that is, of course, the coronavirus. >> we're going to win four more years. >> behind in the apostles and way weighed down by a pandemic, he's trying to pull off the ultimate sales pitch and convince voters his first term is a success story. >> i'm the only one probably that ever ran for office in this country that's achieved more than i said i would. >> the way he described his accomplishments in the battleground st

i'm jim acosta. biden and kamala harris just appeared together for the first time as running mates, biden touting her, both of them forcefully arguing for the defeat of president trump.

i want to go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, president trump has really zeroed in on the situation in wisconsin. what's the latest? >> that's right, wolf. president trump is vowing to crack down on the violence in kenosha, wisconsin, following the police shooting of jacob blake. the president and his team are pointing to the unrest in wisconsin as they build their case for the election. as one campaign official put it, the president's message on law and order is resonating and moving people in the middle to support mr. trump. seizing on the violence in the streets of kenosha, wisconsin, after the police shooting of jacob blake, the president is promising to take matters into his own hands, tweeting, we will not stand for looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness on american streets. my team just got off the phone with wisconsin governor evers who agreed to accept federal assistance. president's warning follows the first lady's address in the rose garden where she called for peaceful protests. >> i urge people to come togeth

a trump centric convention, i want to check in with jim acosta and kaitlan collins covering the president and convention. first to jim, you're hearing about concerns within the trump campaign heading into tonight. what are you hearing? >> that's right. there are worries inside the campaign it's too much donald trump, too much of the trump family dominating the airways over the course of the convention as a source close to the campaign said aids and allies are well aware members of the media will be chronics mr. trump or his family's devotion to the truth and facts throughout their appearances this week as that source put it quote, there are trumps every night. fact checkers will be working over time. separate campaign advisors said the president can't help but being heavily involved in the convention scheduled. viewers this advisor said he was afraid of saying that the president will have his viewers coming bored from this experience if they see the president night after night the nominee waits until the end of a convention to make a big splash. the president isn't doing this and asked wh

. >> jim acosta is digging on that. >> reporter: anderson, we talked so much about the embrace of theon movement. exhibit z is unfolding tonight and that is just a few moments ago we learned that mary ann mendonsa is pull from the lineup here at this republican convention. she was scheduled to speak about her experience as an angel mom. she's an angel mom that's grown close to president trump in this administration. in a tweet that she posted earlier today, we can put it up on screen. she said do yourself a favor and read this tweet. the tweet goes on to read this threat she said it goes on to layout of views expressed by the qanon movement and included antis-semitic views at one point the thread talks about a jewish plot to enslave people in the united states as well as other views expressed by movement. in the last hour or so, mary an mendonsa posted a tweet apologizing for this. it says i retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread. my apologies for not paying attention to the intent of the message. that does not reflect my feelings or personal

jim acosta, irks first to you. what do you hear about the lack of social distancing. 2,000 people sitting very close and most of them were not wearing masks. >> that's right, wolf. we heard a lot of gas lighting and we experienced maybe some super spreading. i talked about all these people, hundreds of people sitting side by side in the audience, not wearing masks and a senior white house official brushed off concerns about track of social distancing. this quote might blow you away. everybody is going to catch this thing eventually. those are the words coming from a senior white house official about the concerns being raised about this being a possible super spreader event. the president repeatedly white washed his record on the virus, saying he was focused on the science and data making this false statement at an event where people are sitting shoulder to shoulder without wearing masks. the way that this place tomorrow morning, the speech tomorrow morning and what we saw here tonight may not be as important as wha