but it seems to say to us, that was steven blank from the foreign policy research institute institute in washington dc as to the us presidential race. now the republican candidate and former president donald trump has agreed to a televised debate with his democratic opponent, commer harris. next month, speaking from his florida home, trump said he wanted multiple debates and suggested 3 dates in september. harris has confirmed one will take place on september 10th, and left open the possibility of more opinion polls show an extremely close contest with harris racing lead. the trump had over joe biden since she entered the race just 3 weeks ago. a trump news conference was 1st since harris selected her running mate tim waltz. this week to use benjamin alvarez. goober has more. that's right. it was a lengthy press conference and this lot to unpack it. first of all, the timing that's quite interesting. and the choice also that he's come pain made to hold this news conference instead of it competing in the battleground states, that his democratic contenders a camel of hires. and tim goals

steven blank is a senior fellow at the american think tank, the foreign policy, richard research institute. welcome. what do you think ukraine aims to achieve with this big, the current incursion into russian territory? i think they intend to achieve a number of objectives. first of all, isaac psychologically the taking the war to russia, which is going to improve natalie domestic morale, but undermine russian morale, and show the russian people that russia is not waiting. and that's what can be brought home to them. secondly, they're going to probably take out tea, russell logistics targets, and the energy refinery centers in the pad of subject, which is the way they, uh, maybe a raid. i don't think it's really an invasion and they're going to undermine the as an army by striking out as logistics as they have done throughout the war, which has been a very effective tactics for them. so it's a very daring and high risk operation. but it seems to say to us, because it comes at a cost to write because ukraine's forces are quite stretched at the moment, particularly the don best region where

blank layupses n away landslide. will: economy is far and away the number one issues for voters. rachel: we had steven moore issue friend of the show and cofounder of the committee to unleash prosperity and editor of unleash prosperity hot line, and this is what he had to say about trump versus harris economy. listen. >> we looked at 18-20 major measures on how the economy did when donald trump was president and versus how it's done under biden is harris. on almost every one of these statistics, whether it's the stock market, whether it's gas prices, whether it's the inflation level, whether it's people's incomes, whether it's small business confidence. every single one of these with a few exceptions shows that the economy far outperformed when trump was president than biden. rachel: they did an interview with african american men ask we had more money in our pocket when donald trump was in office. these are numbers and this is data that they can't deny. but also people know it they know if they manage money they are now paying $350 or $400 for the same basket of goods that cost $250 almost four years