w. washington bureau chief in his poll from the republican national convention in milwaukee. that gets underway on monday. eunice, thank you for that. so we'll place an allen ease with the rice groups the think tank in washington, and i asked him whether he thought to us democracy is now under the trees. i don't believe democracy is under threat. no, i think this is rather a symptom of a law or running issue and you asked which is that basically the us is that the only major democracy that has a high degree of distrust among his own viruses. it's very difficult for you to, for the restaurant election is not disputed or not. so there's some degree of skepticism by at least a portion of the electric. i'm sure i think that this is also an addict of the increasing political polarization and division that we see in our country. i don't think that the suggest that democracy itself is at risk, but rather this is the most egregious and most obvious symptom of a long running issue, increasing whores. ition, are you talking about distrust and polarization? do you think this you're seei

w. washington bureau chief in his port and by the deputies correspondent, mtv. net connelly. welcome to you both in this we hubs in our reports about this summer. it's focused on building a bridge for the future. tell us how nato intends to do that. yeah, right. so there's somebody is taking place in washington where nato was founded 7 to 5 years ago. so this is basically also a big birthday celebration, but of course, the, as in these attendees don't only want to look back. they also want to look into the future. and kind of prepare of what needs to be done to ensure all uh, allies, uh, to be safe uh, with all the threats kind of being out here in this world. you're kind of cool. of course, we'll play a most major role. there will be discussions about the path to a full membership that will be the bates, whether this membership for or this pos to this membership should be your rosabelle or not. and of course, there are also other topics which will be discussed, for example, the threat to china is posing at least in the opinion of the united states and other member states. so

the state w washington bureau chief n as paul that will still in washington and benjamin netanyahu has promised to continue the war in johnson and cold on the united states to stand united with his right dressing a joint session of congress, the ready 5 minutes to defend it, these countries conduct of the war as purchased as gathered outside to demand an end to the conflict. mister mitt netanyahu was met with standing ovations, for most from most of the time to find a spot boycotts from some democratic womack. and he blamed to run and it's proxies of for minting instability across the middle east and said he would do whatever it takes to protect his latest. the gentleman that victory is insights, israel's defeat of hum us will be a powerful blow to he wants access of to her and other part of that access. cuz butler, i talked to israel on october 8th, the day after her mazda tech. it is launched. thousands of bits of and drones against us. $80000.00 of our citizens in northerners, rose, evacuated their homes, becoming effectively refugees and their own land. we're committed to returning

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w. washington bureau chief in this poll if he was surprised by how long president biden spoke for. so that's actually really interesting that he answered so many questions because, you know, before the press conference menu said, always probably only allowing 3 or 4 questions, but no event on for i don't know. 1520 questions. it fed at least a very long time. so those 2 holes that off to this press control rents, it would be clearer if donald trump quite sorry, it's joe biden, would stay in the office or not. they are disappointed. you know, he performed quite okay. he made only like one bigger mistake. calling donald from the vice president, but other than that, you just kind of tried to, to show how much knowledge she gained over his long time in office, in foreign policy, and also his a, kind of his knowledge in economical questions. so overall it was an okay performance, i shall say. okay, well in a, so i've been keeping an eye on what's being said in the u. s. media, i'm sure, of course you are to, will all of this be enough to silence his critics? you know, politics is all ab

well, for more on this story, let's bring in w, washington, bureau chief, anus paul, who's joining us now from washington, d. c. as this is not being investigated as an attempted assassination attempt by the secret service. what more can you tell us, but what's going on? the present national security division of the justice department is also expected to open an investigation into the attend to show to donald trump media reporting a right now. so this is obviously a significant indication that the department regards the shooting not as in kind of isolated the act of violence, partisan s as in the s estimation attempt was a national security implications. we also hear that the f b, i is also being highly and involved and that comes at the moment when, you know i liked the 1st shock of, if this is possible, is kind of maybe not over, but it's slowly overtaking a by the discussion how this was possible that someone came so close to a former president and to some to 2 person who's also running again for president. reach us to hear that it was like, uh, uh, football field in the hospital w

run against former president. donald trump. aiming to avoid further division among democrats, w, washington bureau chief in his poll told us earlier what the reaction to draw binds withdrawal has been like so far in the united states. yeah, it was a sunday afternoon after the republican conventions last week, and then there was a, a, a, the nato summit here in washington just some days earlier. so, you know, that was a very intense news. so anyhow, i know this polish i'll exploded into sunday sunday afternoon and of course many people i think relieved that this kind of long, long waiting is over. others jumped in immediately as the j. the vans is the v p. pick off for president donald trump saying that a bite and should resign immediately if he would be not able to run for president again. then he also, and i'm putting him here, is not able to run the country for another a 6 months or so. so this will definitely be also uh, the bade which will be louder from the republican side, but was in the demo, democratic kind of a area of people all really i think mainly relieved. and now of course, t

the w's washington bureau, chief enos, pole is at the convention, are stolen from so many nation as the presidential candidate on the 1st day of the republican national convention. what's expected, the focus was on the question he would pick for vice president. the excitement from the delegates was strong when they learned it would be j. d, but i think it's amazing. i like them a lot. i think he's very smart. i think he's got a wide range of popularity and i think it will attract a lot of people that may be traveling younger. that may be, trump would have had a hard time. so i think it's wonderful with this was upbringing that he had in, in the appalachian mountains, regardless of just it. he is the common man that became wash, you know, went to washington rather than he was not a product of washington. that's why, like i'm say it's or advance is a man. i think it's perfect for the role. we need someone with you in vigor in the republican party such as myself. and i'm glad that donald j. trump has decided to take a young senator and make him his vp. i have nothing but great hopes for hi

w. washington bureau chief unit poll from the republican national convention in milwaukee. that gets underway on monday . eunice, thank you for that. so let's get more now from now correspondence around the world, beginning with matthew mall here in building reactions have been pouring in across the political spectrum here in germany. a mix of concern and condemnation and shock for the victims. and for the closest ally, the united states, german chancellor, schultz said it was a despicable act which donald trump speedy recovery. his finance minister and the leader of the liberal party here in germany said his consent for american democracy was growing. and the whole, this would be a moment for democrats to reflect on what we have in common, the head of the opposition conservatives feature matches a man who could well in the future, be working with a future president, trump. and he called the images horrible and said the incident would only for the fuel. the poison in the campaign, like germany, is no stranger to political violence and incidents like this with the raising it

the w, washington bureau chief in his pole has more on the voices calling on by them to step aside. it's all it's, it's really called this despite the whole of the vitamin campaign to come down to the bay divided by it and sickness. and also really use the nato summit kind of to show what a successful president biden boss and will be in the future. nothing really is coming down here in the united states square. the officer just talked about george clooney is very, very popular. he's a major donor and, and he said that he just wrote him just the new york times piece that he just saw him lately in the t bite and is still the same man. i quote him here. we all witnessed at the debate and then we also mentioned that there's of course, the still very influential, former speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, who talked about by him in a very prominent tv interview. and when she says we are all encouraging him to make that position because time is running out, this is kind of a typical wait for her being such an experience policy maker to didn't directly urge bite and to reconsider his fit f

the w is alexander phenomena is in washington dc. following the summit for us and i asked her what messages job i'm head for the nato members present. i think that there were 3 key messages and they called the president of bite. and we are assured allies that to you as is and remains committed to the alliance and to defending every inch of nato territory. and it was important, of course, especially for those countries in eastern europe or in the politics who are afraid to fear that if you crane falls, they could be next president fight and also praise the accomplishments of what's new to was able to accomplish under his leadership the fact that the alliance welcome to new members, the fact that there are no spending more on defends that they have hundreds of thousands of troops on high alert. but there was also a 3rd message with president fight and urging allies not to be compliance to be aware that they need to do more. for instance, to the spring, some their defense injures to a base, to be ready to address any potential threats.

i s t w's, washington correspondent, janelle, dom alone, how significant band or summit from the obama as was for harris. nicole, this is very important. this was the big one. the bottom is, of course, are considered the most popular figures within the democratic party. some polls even put michelle obama as the most popular figure in american politics period. they're also very effective messengers and campaigners so they could provide a boost that could help campbell, a harris extend the momentum that she's been enjoying ever since joe biden decided to withdraw from the race. however much has also been made of the delay of how long it took the obama as a to make this endorsement for a camera harris. it has to be said, however, that it's not unusual. it's not unheard of, especially for, for rock obama to kind of hang back and wait until the democrats have definitively chosen their candidates before making his endorsements. and in this unusual situation, it taught the understanding is that a bomb, i do not want to put his phone on the scale. he did not want to fuel criticism that combat

i do w, washington bureau chief again, his positive state. if we finally b, medicare bite and has now endorsed his vice president comma law harris as the challenger to donald trump, but americans are divided on his choice is awful. awful news, joe biden got 14000000 votes. he should be the candidate. she's a woman. what also, maybe she was make change for us on special. we mean a lot of change. we need definitely some fees to. i don't see where they have really much of chance. i think it's over for it's, it's a, it's a party that is deconstructing it is failing, and i think the whole world is, is witnessing that right now. donald trump reacted to the news saying, cricket joe biden was not fit to run for president and is certainly not fit to serve. and he never was. he only attained the position of president by lies fake news and not leaving his basement. all those around him, including his doctor and the media, knew that he wasn't capable of being president, and he wasn't in 2020 harris failed in her bid to become the democratic nominee. now,

well, the w, washington bureau chief in his pole. these are the republican conventions and described the sense of unity. she said she felt in it was quite impressive. how the mood changed when donald trump entered this arena last night with his uh, tape your people are very emotional. um and uh, to those to whom we were able to speak. they kind of all come together even closer behind donald trump. they see in him a hero who's willing to risk his life to fight for their interests. it was pulled, a youtube is found a lot as a political strategist in communications experts who worked out worked on a bomb is 200882012 campaigns joins us from milwaukee. welcome back to this. we saw a donald trump's a grand entrance at the convention last night, talked to natalie escaping that assassination attempt. what did you make of his appearance, the staging of the reception that he goes? i mean, it was a grand entrance. he walked right behind us here on the stage and got into the family box, and of course it was standing ovations. it was very emotio

hear from the 46 president of the united states, we will be speaking with in his pull out the w, washington bureau chief to get his thoughts on his address. for now we are hoping very shortly to be able to go to the office. unfortunately, it's not big quite yet, so we will move on for now and of course come back as soon as that las vegas of.

w. washington bureau chief in his pulse, the very noisy republican national convention. let's go from julius fund a lot. who is a political strategist and communications that expert welcome to the w. so now we know donald trump's, the selection full of vice president, if they get it is j d vans. what does that tell us about donald trump's future plans? i think it is gonna be a shift to the right and i think this is important. it is continues to shift away from the sort of old republic on the chance of language alliance. this is a shift towards a rule america j. do vance as been someone who's been pushing the american agenda items all lower. she written a best center book just when he criticized donald trump in 2016, the origin american, one of your stamp voting issues. the conservative maple way to fly over states. we've often talked about and so putting him in the beach, nissan, i think your signal, donald trump, is going to continue to have some background. first agenda is going to move away from sort of a chance of planning. i do. okay. so that's the latest news. the

w. washington bureau chief knows pull, so he knows after weeks of rumors and talks, it's finally happened. president joe biden drops out of the 2024 election res. so what are the reactions in washington so far? scaling 2 notices. 3 are x 3, the former to the platform, which is also kind of surprising for many i mean the reactions are you know, as big as this country are as big or as diverse and different. all the quin uh, reactions, many of course price and saying what a great a presidency was sort of great centers. he was with a great political career he had but of course there are others who immediately react to vice, saying he should step down. one of the more uh, kind of better known one is of course uh the speaker of the house. the republican speaker of the house was said if he's not able to run again, then yes, a step down immediately. and this is what we hear more and more, and we'll hear more and more over, over the course of the next days from the republican camp. however, there is also um, and of course the big question now, who will endorse camelot harris? what's president bide

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chorus of little make his se increases his risk of losing to donald trump in november when he w, as washington bureau g. b. this whole joins me now from the republican national convention. in milwaukee. good evening to you, eat us before we talk about the g o. p. i'd like to discuss this growing list of building democrats who publicly or privately don't think the joe biden can win against donald trump in november. the latest addition to this list is former president or rock obama. tell me, what did you heard today? yeah, and that's of course huge. i mean, uh, joe biden worked under the rock, obama, brock obama and joe biden, that were really close. and what we uh here is the brook obama only talk, one's a to president fight, and after his weak performance during this debate. but that the pressure from this in the democratic policy, really gods hire, that the former president obama also spoke with a bite. and to step down of to advance to close the talk to him. officer hakim jeffries talked to him, a representative of the house. and then of course, talk to him or also kind of raise concerns tha

that is d w as washington bureau chief, you know, as well as the republican national convention in milwaukee. so they've heard donald trump, that to be formerly declared the republican party's presidential candidate at this convention of the f. b. i is still trying to identify a motive for the attack on trump. at the campaign valley in pennsylvania is in a country that gun violence has become a fixture of life. these particular gunshots still act more loudly than usual. the movements, the bullets stopped, the conspiracy theories begun flying. the, you know, to fill it from us and they can do whatever they can to get rid of trump. and so they have to do, they tries. and so we're here to learn whether or not that are going to happen in a cool political unit. 2 shops, rival president joe biden cooled and americans to dial down the rhetoric. there is no place in america, this kind of violence for any violence ever period or exceptions. we can't allow this violence to be normalized. you know, the political record of this country has gotten very heated. it's time to cool down . 2 days after the sh

w. b. 's, washington bureau chief unit poll from the republican national convention in milwaukee. that gets on the way on monday units. thank you for that. so let's take a look now at some other world news headlines. german police, i assure you says killed 2 people before tuning the gun on himself in the southwest in state of buttons. looking back the attack occurred in the village of i've said loudly and to others was seriously injured. french president emanuel, my calling has left the annual bus to dice. there are many in power as part of the parade has been altered to merge with the olympic torch relay before the games which begin in paris. in 2 weeks time, syrians type media reports that is riley strikes around the capital, damascus have killed one protocol from and 5 to and wounded 3 others is riley army says he targeted military infrastructure in response to 2 drawings launched from syria. at least 4 people were injured in central east rail when a call around and took him use his wife and get a bus stop police on the date. the suspect to the attack of one victim is in a crit

earlier they w correspondent in washington dc. benjamin alvarez grew to tell me how the president performed in this follow up interview. that's right, and there was so much expectation. also a v, a b c news chief, a washington correspondent jonathan, cause he said, and i quote, there was nothing in this interview, but it's called the nurse of jittery, a democrats. he also stated that this interview is raising new concerns over how unwilling or unaware of president vine is over the fact that he is in this sire a situation. and he also insisted the present binding this 22 minutes long interview that he was. and i quote, the most qualified to lead democrats to beat at donald trump and also rejected calls to take cognitive testing. and i quote, i have a cognitive test every single day. definitely something that will not a go a weight will not a go down well. so with those will already asking him a to drop his re election bid. and it's important to highlight that the fact that a big part, almost all of this 22 minutes a long interview that aired on a b c was just about the question. if a preside

w. a washington bureau. it's even in his folder. thanks so much and us let's get more now from let's leave in your more issues directed of the us and the america's program. at the chat on, i was think time in london, demonic as a tom says he's a changed man off to the famed assassination attempt. did you see a new trump in his speech? i think the 1st part of the speech really did try to speak to a unity agenda. he recounted the assassination attempts um any, any appear to reach out. and certainly in the days before the convention, he made a few moves in this direction, inviting nikki haley his opponent for that nomination. but then what was a very long speech? she quickly turned to a very divisive agenda that was littered with fake fast. um that only by name reference, president biden, once calling him the worst history of the worst president in the history of the united states. if you added up the 10 worst president's binding would be even worse than that. but throughout the speech, he really, i. e really was very derogatory toward

on the w the washington dc. january 6, 2021. a frenzied mob. march is on the us capitol. many military veterans were among them. i think it's actually our brig. c veterans involved in research and i know for a lot of them their hearts are in some ways in the right place. we just don't live in the same world of truth. many had served overseas at risk, their lives for their country. now they were prepared to use violence to prevent joe biden from becoming president. all of us men, women, people who have served are not old people. children, everyone becomes more violent and the aftermath of warfare. with the attack on the capital, a major turning point of american history. anybody who says that this can happen in a worst way, either they're ignorant or they're part of the problem. how could something like this happened in the birthplace of modern democracy? i've often asked myself, how did i end up on one side of the door and my fellow veterans who raised their same right hand and took the same oath that i took part of the end up in the other side that the, when i left the m

so it was the w is that washington bureau chief in his poll. we'll take a look at some old stores making headlines around the wild taiwanda urging china to release a fishing crew and boat that was seized by beijing. china says the vessel violated the fishing box. it was near taiwan administered the items with saving in chinese was facing claims. the self sold taiwan as a chinese title tree. russian president vladimir putin, his toe chinese lead as region pig. the relationship between the 2 countries is stronger than ever. a mass on the sidelines of the to day shanghai corporation organization summit in the cost of capital s donna. so he's president your magic type, the told mr president, the incorrect could help both sides reach a fast fees and the will in ukraine is when you cried says rushing miss files rushing, miss silent drug and strikes him to meet pro. i've killed at least 5 people and wounded at dozens by our state and the city on wednesday morning. the crime is present volume is that asking repeated his appeal to allies for more ad def

all right, let's go back to washington where d. w. 's bureau chief in his pole is still with us, anus had at that moment to go down at the so much have that other leaders and attendees been commenting on biden's mental fitness. that was of course, a shock and it was right before this highly anticipated press conference, but i think we have to be fair here to bite and correct it themselves right away. and that's exactly what, for example, the german chancellor or love shots referred to when he was asked about that, saying, or love shows that many people make mistakes much more than one would think. i just referred to to joe biden as a president. donald trump, you know, people mix up names, i think that's not really the problem here. you do that after a long conference with these hours and hours of meeting and high performance, which joe biden date, it's more of the, the kind of the off them off of this. this is really this the page which was such a deep thirty's officer and you know, everything is kind of adding onto that. and the big

for re election in november, a buffer more or less, cross 9 to washington, where d w. 's bureau chief in this poll is standing by for us. it's always great to see so much anticipation ahead of jo biden's press conference. he answered that, let's say multiple questions about his future as the candidate for the democrats in november, is that us selection? what's your take away from it? oh, yeah, it's actually really interesting that to be honest with so many questions because, you know, before the press conference menu said, always probably only allowing 3 or 4 questions. but no, it went on for i don't know. 1520 questions. it fed at least a very long time. so those 2 holes that off to this press control rented would be clearer if donald trump quite sorry, it's joe biden, would stay in the office or not. they are disappointed, you know, he performed quite okay. he made only like one bigger mistake, calling donald from the vice president. but other than that, he just kind of tried to, to show how much knowledge she gained over his long time in office, in foreign policy. a

those 2 w corresponded alexandra phenomena in washington dc. thank you so much for that update. and we can take a look now some of the other stories making news around the world today. and the as prime minister in the rent remote e, as in the austrian capital vienna, he's met the chancellor called me, hung up as the 1st visits to austria by an indian leader in more than 40 years. but he has also been in russia discussing arms and energy deals with vladimir, put or a boss as collided with a milk tanker in north eastern india, killing at least 18 people crash happened on an expressway in the state of georgia or per dash officials believe the bus may have been speeding when it hit the tank or from behind a chemical explosion and set off a fire at a factory in the australian city of melbourne. firefighters worn, it could burn for days. thousands of residents were told to stay in. busy ours because of toxic smoke, but no one was injured. british police have launched a man hunt for a suspect believe to be armed with a crossbow after 3 women were killed in the town of m fields near lon

that's how to w correspondence. defend simons in washington, dc, outside the white house for us different types of lots about as well. class and alan used to meet the rise that groups the think tank in washington and earlier i asked him whether he thought us democracy is now under threats. i don't believe democracy is under threat. no, i think this is rather a symptom of a law or running issue in us, which is that basically the was, is the only major democracy that has a high degree of distrust among his own viruses. it's very difficult for you to, for the restaurant collection is not disputed or not how this under rio skepticism by at least a portion of the electric. and i think that this is also a magic of the increasing political polarization of division that we see in our country. i don't think that the suggest that democracy itself is at risk, but rather this is the most egregious and most obvious symptom of a long running issue. increasing correlation. are you talking about distrust and polarization? do you think this through seeing on the back of that is going to change how politic

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. ♪ announcer: this is pbs news weekend from w eta studios in washington home of the newshour weeknightst: studies show that over the past decade, there's been a steady increase in threats against public officials and in political violence, like yesterday's assassination attempt. ali rogin takes a closer look at how we got to this point. ali: those instances of political violence also include attacks on local politicians, members of congress and their spouses, and political disagreements that turn deadly. cynthia miller-idriss is the director of research at american university's polarization and extremism research innovation lab. thank you for being here. this was a shocking event and a horrible tragedy. for many americans the first time they have witnessed the attempted assassination of someone who served as president. there have been other acts of political violence in recent memory including the attack on nancy pelosi's husband. in 2022 there was the congressional baseball practice shooting that injured steve scalise. many other attacks against local officials. why are we experiencing

i asked the w correspondent, janelle dom alone and washington for her assessment. and then i would say that he had 3 things to do with this speech, right? so 1st he had to denounce the scourge of political violence campaign against donald trump, himself a victim of political violence while making his pitch to black voters. and the strategy he clearly decided to go with was to denounce the violence against trump, but then go on to say that all forms of violence had to be the notes. and then he started to highlight instances of violence where especially black people were affected. so he mentioned george floyd in 2020, he mentioned eugene goodman. that is, of course. so the capital police officer will face down a writing mob on january 6th, 2021. and that is how he brought those 3 things together before said going on to the message of why you would be a better president for black food or is now whether you managed to pull it off. i think he did reasonably well. he wasn't passion. he had a message, but also worth noting this was a very friendly room. there were a lot o