this is tiktok this is the okay, joining us now to discuss elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor molly ball, senior political correspondent, wall street journal, brad woodhouse, senior adviser to the democratic national committee shermichael singleton, republican strategist, and cnn political commentator you're laughing, but it's good times. >> i mean, an economic speech where attacks the tax, the vice president makes phone or mixed front of her laugh and actually says the economy is not the, not the number one issue on the same day that inflation went below 3% for the first time since 2021. so, you know what, i think he should do more events shermichael do you agree? i mean, yes, but we're not type of event takes like the former president still has an advantage by a lot of polls on this particular issue, which is why you saw former speaker the house kevin mccarthy. you saw former governor nikki haley former are not former current senator lindsey graham, all saying stick with the message because we have the advantage. kenny, i don't know know. >> elliot william

director of a car sellers, cnn political commentator, former south carolina democratic state rep, elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor and scott jennings, cnn political commentator, former special assistant to president george w bush. welcome to all of you. so grateful to have you here. bakari, you caffeine have been formed around actually added it up as about eight hours and 45 minutes among the four of you and put like three-and-a-half and kate got three, so yeah thumbs up or am i did i don't i don't know where i am or what i'm doing, but i'm apparently here just a little concerned but what kate let me start with you. last night we heard from harris, her presentation in particular stood out to me in terms of the decisions they made about how to frame her, how to present her there wasn't as much policy is maybe they could have been. what was your evaluation of what we saw less. well, it was a huge night for vice president harris. i mean, i think she had a high bar to clear and she cleared it. i think one of the things that's so challenging about nomination speech as they

donald dump for donald whatever happened to when they go low, we go high joining me now to discuss elliot williams, cnn legal analyst, former federal prosecutor annie linskey, reporter for the wall street journal, mike dubke, former white house communications director for president trump, and karen finney, cnn political commentator, former senior adviser for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. >> welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. >> so elliot we did see president former president trump on message yesterday on inflation and that he was standing surrounded by these groceries. he did talk about it. however, the event also went on and on and was filled with well beyond what beyond that, the personal insults saying he's entitled to make these personal attacks at clearly, it was designed to inject him into a new cycle that otherwise likely would have focused on president biden kamala harris what did you see in that event and how it played out yesterday i think i continued lack of discipline from the former president in many respects, a lot of the conditions in this election o

, our panel's here cnn politics senior reporter stephen collinson, former federal prosecutor, elliot williams, meghan hays, the former biden white house director of message planning and bryan lanza, former deputy communications director for the trump 2016 campaign, welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. >> steven. i want to start with you kind of big picture because this is going to be a big day on the campaign trail. we are anticipating learning who harris running mate is basically any minute now. but it's taking place in a very volatile environment. obviously trump doing what he's doing. but you also have this massive stock selloff. you have fears about what's going on in israel, a wider potential crisis in the middle east yeah, presidencies are about making choices. and today we will find out perhaps more than we've already known about vice president kamala harris, how she's going to define her campaign is the biggest choice a nominee makes as they head into their convention. as you say, this is taking place against a swirling backdrop of events. the crash of stocks aroun

as a result, attorney general elliot richardson has resigned his post as attorney general. and when deputy attorney general williams ruggles house -- william ruggles house -- william ruckelshouse refused the orders of the president, he was discharged. the acting attorney general will now be solicitor robert bork, who informed cox he had been discharged. all this happened after a day in which special prosecutor cox had said that he could not carry out the provisions of a new position the president took on the watergate tapes, which prosecutor cox was trying to get for the watergate grand jury at which the senate watergate committee was 22 get for its hearing spirit repeating -- deputy attorney general william ruckelshouse has been at this -- has been discharged by the president tend attorney general elliot richardson has been that has resigned as a result of the discharge of special prosecutor archibald cox. this has been a bulletin from cbs news. >> all the announcements were breathless, like that, everybody was in shock, surprised, gasping, and it was a stunning event. the next day's headlines, you can believe nix

of prosecutor cox being discharged attorney general elliot richardson has resigned his post as attorney general and red deputy attorney general williamed to carry out orders from the president, he was discharged as deputy attorney general. , the acting attorney general now will be solicitor general bork that important special prosecutor cox that he had been discharged. all of this happened h after day in which special prosecutor cox said he could not carry outec te provision of a new position that the president took on the watergate tapes which prosecutor cox was trying for the watergate grand jury in the senate watergate committee was trying to get forrg its hearings repeating deputy attorney general william bruckel tells has been discharged by the president and the president attorney general elliot richardson has resigned following the charge of watergate special prosecutor archie cox, this is nelson at the white house this is been a bulletin from cbs news. >> all of the announcements were pretty breathless like that until everybody was surprised, gasping and it was really a stunning event. the next day's headlines you can believe