are said to be seriously injured over night heavy storms are thought to have triggered a landslide smikle singling from the train off the engine caught fire. the rouer demand for better working conditions brought hundreds of health workers onto the streets police used water cannon to disperse the rally and demo comes as the country bruises itself for a 2nd covert wave of countries already had almost half a 1000000 cases and more than 20000 deaths 7. in india and overnight protests in bangalore by muslims over a facebook post deemed offensive to islam left at least 3 people dead and more than 100 arrested and strangers gathered near a police station in the house of a local politician who made the post police used tear gas and live ammunition after crowds threw stones and torched vehicles. joe biden has named kemal a harris as his running mate as he bids for the white house she had been one of his rivals before dropping out and endorsing him kaleb orpen profiles the women the woman hoping to be the next vice president. after much anticipation joe biden has finally announced his vice preside

smikle has a phd out of columbia, but he's one of the people that actually does. ,ots of people have cable tv the hot air of politics, but others are out there doing it. he's within the chart of -- he's within the charter school system in harlem. you are all about the doing. tell our viewers how the biden-harris team will do when they are elected. basil: that is the open question that i think yesterday did a little bit to answer. there was a lot of conversation about joe biden's character, empathy. what they tried to get across is that joe biden is going to be this empathetic, concerned leader that cares about everybody. that cares about folks across race, ethnicity, class, and of course, political party, in stark contrast to how others, particularly michelle obama, described the incumbent president, donald trump. last night was a little light on actual policy. the most that you got was from bernie sanders, who talked about health care, and said joe doesn't really agree with some of the proposals i do, but i think we get closer to what we were planning if joe biden is in office. so v

for more on the unrest sweeping cities across the nation, let's bring in basil smikle, the former executiveemocratic party in new york, a former a two hillary clinton and a lecturer at columbia university. speaking outside of pittsburgh -- biden is speaking outside of pittsburgh and he will be speaking with police officers and calling for there to be some type of healing and de-escalation to the violence. the president is pushing this issue of law and order. what does joe biden have to communicate this afternoon in just under an hour in order to get back on track with his messaging on this issue? basil: quite frankly, he has to enforcement,o law but also to community leaders, african-americans, black and brown voters across the country. in the broader electorate. that there is a pathway out of this. there is a way that we can come together, we can heal our country, we can create dialogue, and get us back to strong footing where we have the ability to interact with each other without this unrest and this violence. certainly communities of color are going to want harder, more firm solutions a

. >> joining our conversation, democratic strategist, basel smikle, elise jordan, and current white house reporter for "the washington post," ashley parker. no doubt, there are people who are excited to meet donald trump and take selfies with him. but this is the quintessential joe biden story, right? he's on his way to the "new york times" ed board, he forges this deep bond in the elevator on the way to his meeting, and i think the point is, you go through joe biden's career and there are jacquelines around every corner. my question for you is, is the trump campaign trying to match that? >> well, we don't know the full convention schedule and list of speakers of the rnc yet, but from what we know and the names that have been announced in terms of sort of quote/unquote ordinary people, a lot of them are people who match the president's model of grievance. there's the st. louis couple, who got in a fight with a black lives matter protester who was passing by their house. there's the covington student. and so, you have people who are not sort of emblematic of the way that president trump ha

also joining us, democratic strategist, basil smikle and white house reporter for "the new york times," eli stokols. eli, i want to start with you. and i wonder if you can just take anyone who's doing a little mental decluttering last week through the weekend of events, as things grew more tense on the streets of portland, donald trump torqued up his divisive distribution of tweets to his millions of supporters. and through today, after local leaders called for him to stay away, insisted that he's coming. >> well, if we go back all the way to thursday, the day the president accepted the republican nomination, joe biden was out there saying, this seems to be a president who is rooting for violence. and he pointed to the comments by kellyanne conway during a television interview, in which he said, this stuff helps us. that's pretty much what she said. and democrats have been seizing on it ever since. now, trump went out that night on the white house south lawn and gave a pretty buttoned up speech for him after, you know, capping off a four-day rnc that every night in prime-time featured