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yamiche alcindor, white houseen correspofor the pbs newshour , allly ball, national polit correspondent magazine ks, hallie j, chief white house correspondent and anchor for msnbc live with hallie jackson , and philip rucker, white housf bureau chi the washington post. molly, you wrote a big story for "time" about biden. did he meet this moment after dedes in politics? molly: you know, it almost seems like the moment metri himt? his strengths as a politician have always beenmp abouthy, storytelling, poetry, comforting pe ithnat timesf might not have right vibe, say, four years ago, but i think it was very fitting, and his speech was clear. it was powerful. it w empathetic, and heasrew that convery effectively. robert: and, molly, a quick follow-up. you have written thisat g biography about speaker pelosi. when you speak to sources in her world and other veteran ddemocrats this speech help carry it across the line this fall? molly: yes. i think the feeling among democrats, broadly, including on ntpitol hill, is that this was an effective conn. i think there was a collective sigh of relie

zerlina maxwell and yamiche alcindor, thank you ladies so much for joining us tonight.preciate it. and that is going to do it for me for tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> and good evening once again on this friday night, day 1,317 of the trump administration. 67 days to go until the presidential election. both party conventions are now history. both were largely virtual right up until last night when the convention came to the trump-branded white house lawn. very few masks, a pre-pandemic sort of seating layout. then came tonight an airplane hangar rally at the airport in new hampshire. the crowd booed an announcement

yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for "the pbs newshour." mary mary, national political correspondent for "the washington post." and author of "trump on trial." and the art of her deal, the untold story melania trump. jonathan martin, national political correspondent for "the new york times." and ayesha rascoe, white house reporter for national public radio. yamiche, let's start with you. you covered the democratic party for years. i have good memories of our time together on that bernie beat back in 2016. yamiche, is the bernie sanders wing going to rally around this ticket or do they still have concerns about senator harris and her record as a prosecutor? i can't -- i can't hear yamiche. we're having audio problems with yamiche. we'll try to get her back. jonathan, let's go to you. mary: yes, sir. robert: thanks for playing along with covid-19 here. jonathan, i loved your story in the times about the big decision. it was a huge tiktok deepive. how did biden ultimately land on harris and not say dr. rice? jonathan: well, i think when they c

and now i'm oined by our newshour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor on the north lawn of the white house. president trump just got bac there after an earlier campaign visit to north carolina. yamiche, we've already heard fr the president today. s' not even waiting until tonight to mawk an appearance. >> that's right,udy. the president delivered a speach at the rnc that was alm lt an hoong. and that is longer than the speech joe biden delivered when he was acceptinghe nomination at the dnc. but that was just president trump warming up what we hear is that the president will play a big role in this convention. he will be heard from every night, that doesn't mean he will speak every night from what we are told he will appear every night. tonight we are told he is supposed to be a perking with first respwaders. just check a trump campaign official who tells me former hostages freed under the trump administration are ulmately mawking an appearance. tonight's theme will be land of promises. the other thing to note is that the overall theme of the night is going to be, or overall th

yamiche alcindor not a friendly night for president trump are they reponding to what we're seeing? we've seen democrats bring out republicanto prosecute the case against president trump you saw governor kasich, former governor of ohio and many othe others. senior trump advisor says to "newshour" just a few moments ago that president trump is one of the most popular candidates in his party.se ially pushing back on the idea that republicans do not want to see him in office. e other thing jonathan capehart said, the moment i think is going to stick out for a lot of peopleo when that yung woman said that her father who was a trump supporter paid foatr ith his life saying she only had one preexisting condition, that was tru donald trump and he died because of that. this is really the democrats using republicans to make the case against donald tr >> woodruff: it's really interesting, lisa, to seehe democrats, to see joe biden weaving together these different themes around social justice. certainly around the pandemic. and around frankly around donald trump. and his leadership of the unit

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administration is much lower than when president obama was in >> woodruff: such important reporting, yamiche alcindor, thank you. and you will be with us tonight watching it very closely. yamiche, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >> woodruff: ronna mcdaniel has played a key role planning this week's convention.ir she is the cman of the republican national committee and she joins us now from her party's headquarters in ronna mcdaniel, thank you very much for being here. so you're now at the halfway point. how do you feel the takeaway is so far? what do yo taking away from this convention? >> i think people are recognizing that we're telling the story of real americans in their own wo hrds andw the policies of this administration have impacted their lives directly, the farmer, the person who had a buseiness where th p.p.p. loan helped them, a chilr who benefited the right to try executive order, the lobstermen from maine. th that was our hope is that it would be about people of america and telling their stories. >> woodruff: we notice the people who calculate tv audiences say the number watching the

leading off our discussion tonight, yamiche alcindor and jim messina. he served as the white house deputy chief of staff in the obama administration. good evening to both of you. yamiche, you have been covering this president every week, but in this particular week, that seems unique. it seems like the flavor of the campaign has changed this week. the president is going out there. he's warning suburban housewives about an influx of low income people who are going to ruin their property values. he mentioned cory booker for no apparent reason. he embraces racist views about kamala harris when, in fact, no such views have been expressed about john mccain, about ted cruz, people who were born elsewhere. what do you make of what's happening with the white house and the president? >> well, i think the president backed up against the wall with polls not looking good for him. even though, of course, he still has the power of being an incumbent president. he is definitely not thinking he might not win this. but he understands he will be in a struggle when it come

yamiche alcindor was there and joins me now. amiche, first of all, we understand the president made commts about this massive explosion in beirut today, more than 70 dead, thousands injured. >> reporter: that' president trump took questions on that topic and he said it looked like a bomb or some sort of attack happened in that city, but there's no confirmation of of course, there was that massivexplosion, but the president aid it just looks like that and military offaricis still looking into exactly what happened there. >> woodruff: and the otherwa thing to ask you about, yamiche, the president had comments on mail-in voting again. >> reporter: that's right, the president over and over again has come out against the idea of mail-in voting. he said without any sort of evidence that mail-in voting would be fraught with fraud and that people would be trying to game the system, but today hetw ted and again doubled down on this idea during the briefing that flori is the state that can do ths mail-in voting without any issues. critics

. >> woodruff: our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor was watching the convention today and will be covering it all week.ch yajoins me now. yamiche, you've beking to people who have been organizing this, how do they want to distinguish what they are doing from what the democrats did last week? >> well, republicans are eager to make the case that they are more optimistic, moosreive than democrats. they say the theme of this entire convention is going to be honoring the great american story. tonight's theme in particular is and what they sy is that they really want to talk about all the greatness of america, they want to talk the history of america as being one that is amazing, as one that is positive. they say democrats focused too much on the flaws of america. we are likely going to see president trump, i'mer told, day of the convention. though he might not speak every day. another thing, there will be a host of topics on thisn conventenda including jobs, immigration, of course tve coros will be huge talking point. the main message though is going the best person to be lead the n

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and yamiche alcindor is tracking president trump for us, as always, during this critical week.ello to both of you. lisa, to you first, in wilmington, as we just heard, this is the place where joe biden and kamala harris are going to speak, but, otherwise, a pretty quiet place. tell us what is going on there and how does this compare for you to other conventions you've covered. >> judy, there's never been a convention remotely like this, but being here feels so different. the convention that democrats had planned was supposed to be in an auditorium that could seat nearly 20,000 people. instead, judy, joe biden will be accepting his party's nomination in the building behind me in an auditorium for about 200 people, no audience, just a few members of the press. as you can see, it's an empty parking lot here in what would usually be a place teaming with activity. what the democrats are getting instead, however, is a very bidenesque kind of event. this is just five miles from his home in wilmington and, as you may hear during this live shot, right near, one joe biden's favorite thin

joining me now is white house correspondent for the pbs news hour, yamiche alcindor who is an nbc news political analyst. good to see you, yamiche. less than 90 days to this election. has the president's campaign found a consistent message in attacking joe biden? now they're trying to say, well, he made some comments and the black community's going to leave him en masse. >> the trump campaign is really still searching for a clear message against joe biden. what they have is a hodgepodge of ways to attack him including calling him a radical left and saying falsely that he wants to abolish the police. there's also this new talk point saying that he's someone who's not a friend to the african-american community. there's also of course this messaging that he's not going to be someone who's going to be able to usher in change and a good economy amid the pandemic. and in some ways he's going to return the country to the obama-biden administration, which of course joe biden would say was a pretty good time to be in america. i think the thing here that you pointed out is the president has some

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thanks to both of you, yamiche alcindor and jim. the postal service is sounding the alarm about vote by mail for this election. now there is an inspector general investigation and one member of congress has made a criminal referral to a state attorney general to look into the electoral subversion by donald trump and his big donor turned postmaster general louis dejoy. the congressman joins me after the break. matory conditions. matory conditions. because there are options. like an "unjection™". xeljanz. the first and only pill of its kind that treats moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, or moderate to severe ulcerative colitis when other medicines have not helped enough. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections, like tb and do blood tests. tell your doctor if you've had hepatitis b or c, have flu-like symptoms, or are prone to infections. serious, sometimes fatal infections, cancers including lymphoma, and blood clots have happen

joining me now, pbs news hour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor, former republican chair michael steele, and chris lu, who is currently a delegate to the democratic convention. yamiche, a lot of people don't know kamala harris even though she ran her president. her campaign ran out of steam even before the first voting. so this is a very big opportunity for her. >> this is a big opportunity and a big night. you're right that there are a lot of people who are very familiar with kamala harris, senator harris, when it comes to washington, d.c., when it comes to california. but i remember reporting on her in south carolina and there were people who simply did not know who she was. so i think this is really an opportunity for her to introduce herself. i think, as someone who's interviewed her a couple of times, we'll probably hear about her upbringing, her immigrant parents, her father being from jamaica, her mother from india. she's told me a lot of her character, her understanding, the power she has in this world comes from a mother who did not coddle her, who really taught her the

yamiche alcindor, lisa desjardins, ank you. >> sure thing. >> woodruff: in thday's other news: the death toll from the massive beirut port explosion reached 154 with more than 5,000 hurt. more bodies were found today as french rescue teams and others searched the area. with that operation underway, thhead of the powerful zbollah militia insisted his iranian-backed group is not to blame. >> (anslated ): i wholeheartedly deny that there is anything that belongs to us in the port. no warehouse for weapons, rockets, no guns, no bombs, no ngbullets, no nitrate, not absolutely, not now, and not in the past, never. >> woodruff: lebanese president michael aoun vowed to investigate all possible causes. >> an air india express flight crashed and broke in two, trying to land today in heavy rain in southern india. at least 16 people were killed, and more than 120 hurt. doctors and rescuers worked through bad weather to reach survivors. the 190-passenger flight carried pele who'deen stranded abroad by the pandemic. britain says it will crack down on a wave of migrants crossing the english channel fro

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yamiche alcindor, and former republican governor of north carolina, pat mccrory. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. we're going to get to all the political news in a moment. we're going to start with a deadly clash in portland, oregon. pro trump and counterprotesters clashed overnight. fist fights broke out and at one point gunfire broke out during a confrontation and a man was killed. joining me now is mike baker of "the new york times" who has been covering these events in portland. mike, tell us what you saw, what you witnessed, and if you can, who shot this individual? >> yeah, last night there was a huge gathering of trump supporters out in the suburbs of portland. they had this vow that they were going to go into portland waving flags as sort of a caravan. initially the plan was to sort of circle around the highways, but some of the ppdowntown wher were a whole large crowd of counterprotesters th

yamiche alcindor and jim messina. >>> coming up, the postal service is sounding the alarm about vote by mail for this election. now there is an inspector general investigation, and one member of congress has made a criminal referral to his state attorney general to look into the electoral subversion by donald trump and his big donor-turned-postmaster general louis dejoy. congressm dejoy. congressm and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill... ...can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some... rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious infections and blood clots, sometimes fatal, have occurred... ...as have certain cancers, including lymphoma, and tears in the stomach or intestines, and changes in lab results. your doctor should monitor your bloodwork. tell your doctor about any infections... and if you ar

also told that she is going to be mentioning jacob blake directly, andrea. >> kristen welker, yamiche alcindorks to both. >>> today hundreds of staffers who worked for the late senator john mccain, for former president george w. bush, and for senator mitt romney, are come out to back joe biden for president. one of of them joins me now, mike murphy, a strategic adviser for republican voters against trump and an msnbc political analyst. welcome, mike, thank you very much for being with us. the speech last night, you were tweeting that you thought it was effective, that the law and order message, with all the inaccuracies that you acknowledge, had political power, that democrats should be concerned. >> yeah, they've got to take it seriously. i think the convention was quite a mixed bag. trump's in big political trouble. they have not gotten out of it. they've got the problem now, especially what's going on in the country, that president trump is the classic arsonist firemen, starts a huge fire, then runs around the corner and puts on his fire hat and say he's going to put it out. pence drew a li

lipi roy and white house correspondent yamiche alcindor. i what tonight play more of jonathan swan's exchange with president trump in how he believes this virus is under control. >> i have covered you for a long time. i've gone to your rallies. they love you. they listen to you. they hang on every word. they want to get their advice from you. when you hear you say everything is under control, don't worry about wearing masks. >> under control? >> a false sense of security. >> under control a day? >> a thousand americans are dying a day. >> it is what it is. but that doesn't mean we're not doing everything we can. it's under control as much as you can control it. this is a horrible plague that beset us. >> this is as much as we control? 1,000 deaths a day? >> first of all, we have done a great job, we've gotten the governors everything they needed, many of them didn't -- some day we'll talk about the successful ones, the good ones and the bad ones. we had good and bad. lot in the middle. i could tell you right now who the great ones are and w

while we wait for word, let's bring in pbs newshour, white house correspondent yamiche alcindor, oner frequent contributors. and professor eddie glaude jr., welcome both of you to our broadcast. let's call it what it is, let's talk about the pressure on joe biden to name a black woman vice presidential running mate and i would ascribe that to two central reasons -- number one, the moment in history we find ourselves in and number two, something formative about the fact that there's a biden campaign and that's what happened in south carolina, thanks to a certain member of congress and a certain formidable, dependable voting bloc. >> i should tell you the two things you mentioned, i should say vice president biden is feeling this pressure, but i will also add one of the things that i hear from people is that african-american women in particular are the most loyal, some of the most loyal democratic voters and have been for a long time, in other words, black women have been going to the polls and voting for democrats and they haven't seen themselves representing on the ticket in the high

right now, i'm joined by newshour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor house, where the president will theak tonight. yamiche, i se crowd behind you. looks like quite something the white house has planned. >> this is quite something, judy the white house has been completely transformed into a campaign rally meets the republican national convention. behind me, people are thered shoulder to shoulder. no social distancing atithe . people here are not required to wear masks. there's no mamask ate. i've talked to white house officials. nobody has been tested for coid-19. i was not tested as a reporter. that being said, this is like the pandemic is not happening, sident wantin the optics to say we're moving past this. the presidenis expected to speak before a crowd of 000 to 1,500 people, judy. a large crowd for the white se h we've never seen the lines between the white house and the campaign blurred li this. also want to talk to you about the fact that the president will be delivering a biting speech, going after joe biden on all sorts of issues, immigration, foreign policy, race. i w

yamiche alcindor has more on his path from real estate to the white house. >> alcindor: donald trump's 2016 campaign promise to "make america great again" was not a new sentiment in american politics. >> for those who've abandoned hope, we'll restore hope, and weo 'll welcome them igreat national crusade to make america great again. a indor: but it was a promise that fit the political atmosphere of a divided country. and, it propelled the manhattan real-estate developer to the presidency. costa of the "washingto post." >> he wants to harken back to as timeworld war ii, where america was a different world, racially, economically. he believes that the country has st some of its spirit fr that period. >> as,indor: for some american the post-wmald war ii era was ed by racial and socioeconomic strife, of civil unrest and division. donald trump lived a much different experience. author gwenda blair. >> they had a chauffeur, usuallm black, a live-d. the kids were chauffeured to their private school. and they were-- they really d a-- kind of a semi-insulated life. >> alcdor: trump's father, fr

let's turn again to our own yamiche alcindor. she's standing outside he white house. yamiche, no surprise that the man who advices the president every day and agrees him on most of his economichilosophy is saying the president's doing a great job and the economy's looking nothing but rosy. >> that's right. and this is again the president and the republican party using the full forcef the white house to make the case that president would be better on the economy. so larry kudlow talks economic advisemaking the case tha president trump oversaw great economic success in that if he continues to be in office he will be able then to turn around the economic devastation that's but i want to put into context some of the economic things larry kudllow was just taking about. come with me on this. there are 6.9 million jobs created in the two and-a-half years under president obama. 5.8 milreated in the first two and-a-half years of president trouble. there are more than 55lion americans that have filed for unemployment since the gademic and the u.s. has 257,000 fewer manufacturing

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. >> joining us now is white house correspondent for pbs newshour, yamiche alcindor. today, joe biden condemned violence of all kinds. how much pressure do you feel he's feeling on this issue especially because president trump keeps bringing it up? >> well, thank you for having me, joshua the speech that we saw today was the most forceful counterargument we've seen not just from joe biden but democrats on this issue of law and order and rhetoric that president trump and his republican allies have been putting out there. basically out there for weeks, if democrats are in charge, continued lawlessness and chaos. the rioting and looting. they say it will become the norm. joe biden has so far left those accusations largely untouched. these protests and the images of violence of rioting and looting could hurt joe biden in november and help president trump. for him to be physically out in the campaign trail in the covid era, they're taking this issue seriously and they want to get that narrative. we heard joe biden address a number of falsehoods republicans make about him,

yamiche alcindor joins us and david jolly. just pull back the curtains for our viewers.eleprompter was

zerlina maxwell and yamiche alcindor, thank you ladies so much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. and that is going to do it for me for tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. >>> and good evening once again on this friday night, day 1,317 of the trump administration. 67 days to go until the presidential election. both party conventions are now history. both were largely virtual right up until last night when the convention came to the trump-branded white house lawn. very few masks, a pre-pandemic sort of seating layout. then came tonight an airplane hangar rally at the airport in new hampshire. the crowd booed an announcement over the p.a. to wear masks. the speech was red meat for the base. here's just some of what we heard starting with trump's take on the demonstrators who were confronting some members of the rnc exiting as audience last night outside the white house. >> you ought to see last night in washington. it was a disgrace. it was a disgrace that these people are representing the united states of america. it was a

joining me now to discuss this, yamiche alcindor and rene graham. good evening to both of you.nk you for being here. we spoke a few days ago after you had written a column in the boston globe which you said, the headline was biden must choose a black woman for vice president. we don't know really how accurate the reporting is, but it sounds like he's moving in the right direction. what are your thoughts? >> that's the feeling we have. i mean, it's down to two names that we're hearing anyway. it makes sense. you know, if you think about what joe biden is looking for. and susan rice, he has someone he's already familiar with. i think that's very attractive to him. i think he wants someone with whom he could have a relationship like he had with obama during those eight years in the white house. what he would get from susan rice is someone who he could hit the ground running. they already know each other, and i think that's something that's very interesting to him. and kamala harris, let's face it, they had their issues during the campaign, but she's an extraordinarily strong campa

joining mow now is white house correspondent for pbs newshour yamiche alcindor and philip rucker. phil, let me begin with you. we'll start with tonight, what are you watching for, what are you looking to happen tonight given the backdrop of what we're seeing play out in this country? >> well, first of all, ayman, congratulations on the new show at 3:00. tonight, you know, the democrats are showing the diversity of their party and they're trying to bridge some of the ideological divide that really defined the primary campaign so i'd look for senator bernie sanders to see what he says in terms of extending a connection to the biden coalition and giving all his supporters on the left to really rally behind biden. michelle obama has been re relatively quiet, when she speaks out, she speaks out with conviction and resonates with the people. i'd really be curious to hear what she has to say not only about the presidency but the pandemic we're going through. >> yamiche, we're expecting to hear from governors cuomo and grech inwhitmer from michigan, this is happening against the backdrop

yamiche alcindor was there and sh joins me now. nderstand the president made comments abou this massive explosion in beirut today,ore td,n 70 d thousands injured. yamiche: that isid right, prt trump took questions on that topic. he said it looked like aomb or attack happened in that city, but there is no confirmation what happened. the president said it just looks like that and military officials are looking into what happened. judy: the other thing i want to askou, the president had comments on mail-in voting again. yamiche: that is right, the president over and over again has come out against the idea of mail-in voting. withou evidence that it would be fraught with fraud and peo ge would try e the system. today he tweeted and doubled down on this idea that florida the state that can do mail-in voting without issues. crics of the president say he is trying to carve out the state that is a kst battleground e, the state he won in 2016. the president saying it is safe and clean there. there is no evidence mail-in voting involves rod.

when you think of the questions yamiche alcindor and others have asked in that room for which they get slammed by donald trump as asking a nasty questions, he was so flattened by it, it's like he couldn't believe what he had just heard. >> right. the image that came to my mind, lawrence, is someone getting popped in the mouth and just, you know, touching your lip trying to figure out what's going on. >> yeah, yeah. >> this was an amazing moment, the fact that we had been trying to treat donald trump's presidency as if it's normal, trying to normalize what can't be normalized. and so the fact that someone from the press actually asked the question and then followed up with clarification when he was asked what exactly did he say, this is precisely what the states should be doing as a critical component of our democracy because donald trump's lying has not only diminished the white house, we see it in the data, lawrence, the broad trust that the every day people have in the government, we're seeing that decline precipitously, precisely because he lies through his teeth every single day. h

. >> woodruff: lisa desjardins, yamiche alcindor, talking to both of you throughout the night, thank. thanks. >> woodruff: and with just couple hours to go before the start of tonight's republican convention, we're joined byit house chief of staff thank you very much for taking time to be with us. how do you think the convention is going so far and what do you thinkhe president is gaining from this? >> well, i think the convention is going outstandg because if we're telling the story of american people across the country, and in each and every night, it's not just about politicaligures and personalities, it's about people that are involved in whether it's a fisherman orlogger or anyone else, small business pe srson, it's thery, and that's what the american people are really interested in and, t ultimately, t forgotten man or woman that this president campaigned on some four years ago and, ultimately, it is his ability to represent them that this convention is all about. >> woodruff: we araring a lot of the personaltimes. 're also hearing a lot abjoe biden, and i want to ask you about

yamiche alcindor reports. >> we almost ran here when we saw the crowd. i'm feeling inspired. >> alcindor: angela flourney's late mother, helen, witnessed in person dr. martin luther kingli der these iconic words at the lincoln memorial. >> i have a dream.>> lcindor: king's speech was the culmination of the historic march on washington in 1963. itrought together more tha 250,000 people to the nation's capital to demand economic and racial jtice. ( singing ) 57 years later, the middle of a pandemic, the 53-year-old drove her daughter zorand their friend, rebecca phoenix, more than 500 miles from detroit to d.c. she wanted to stand where her own mother had on that historic day. >> those stories became my stories. i also want to model for my daughter that we have to sthnd up and tha is a struggle you have to participate in.that >> alcindor: i spoke to the group as they toured washington rlier this week. 15-year-old zora flourney says she needed to be here. le there's just so many pe that are ignorant to the problems that are ing on in this country. and i rea

leading off our discussion tonight are yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for the pbs news hour, and zerlina maxwell, senior director of programming at sirius xm radio. she's also the author of "the end of white politics: how to heal our liberal divide." ladies, it's really great to have you, really great to see you. i want to start off with that morning consult poll, that large number of people that said the country's going in the wrong direction. zerlina, the question is do those people think that the president is the person to put us back on the right track or that a change in the presidency is what's going to be necessary? >> well, it's not surprising that 73% of americans are not happy with the current situation because by and large, unless you're a republican going to a trump event, you cannot live your life as you were living it before frankly. you can't go outside. you can't hug your friends. you have to stay socially distanc distanced. you have to wear a mask. our lives have been upended. so what i think that poll demonstrates is that people have noticed that some of th

. >> woodruff: and now to share their reporting, i joined by our white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and foreign affairs correspondent nick schifrin hello to both ofe,ou. so, yami know you have been talking to the campaign today. how do they feel they werab to get their message across or not last night? >> well, trump campaign officials as well as republican officials tell me they are veryt pleased wie way the rothenberg and gonzaler.new mex. there were a number of claims. the first is from president trump himself, we had the unprecedented first speech at the r.n.c., about an hour. this chins virus go away ande it's happening." this is false. the united states is leang in coronavirus cases, we have about 2 million cases. in the last week we've seen 42,000 cases per week. so the coronavirus is not at aln away. it is sometimes decreasing but not going away. house minority whip steve scalise says, "joe biden has embraced the left's insane mission to defund the police. "this is the second ranking g.o.p. official in the house. that is n lse. joe biid repeatedly he does not believe in abol

with some of the armed civilian groups andhe role of polic but first, white house correspondent yamiche alcindor reports on how the psidentialss candidates added it today. >> reporter: amid a weekend of largely peeful protests, dueling messages on who bears the blame for outbursts of violence. in pittsburgh today, democratic presidential nominee joe biden pointed at president trump. >> this president long ago frfeited any moral leadership in this country. he can't stop the violence because for years he has fomented it. >> reporter: after the speech, president trump tweeted, "to me, he's blaming the police far more than he's blaming the rioters." and white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany said democrats are atault. >> when the trump administration arrives in a democrat-run city engulfed in chaos, peace is upheld.d, law and order is >> reporter: the vast majority of nationwide demonstrations sparked by the killing of george floyd in may have not turned violent, but incidentsf shootings, property damage andlo ing have ignited debates over how authorities should respond-- and whether demonstra

has topped yamiche alcindor begins 5 million. oucoverage. >> how motivated is the white house?ouse flurry otions aboutte , a president trump's actions this weekend to bypass congress and ease the economic pain of covid-19. >> this president has taken f action to alleviate someat burden, but make no mistake . there's still much more we'd like to accomplish. that includes having willing negotiating partners in coress . yamiche: the patchwork of relief measures, made up of three men. does -- three memorandums and by the president ordayere signed after talks between all parties broke down. >> democrats are obstructing all of it. therefore i taking an executive amction. we've had it. and we're going to save american jobs and provide relief to the yamiche: the president said he would resume additional jobless benefits, but at a reduced rate of $400 per week. the federal government would pay 00 and request already cash-strapped states to foot the rest of the bill. it's still unclear how many states would be willing to do so, and, for now, when any benefits would be sent. s actions als

judy: and here with the latest on these negotiations are our own lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindoro to both of you. and, lisa, to you first. what is known about what they actually were able to negotiaten or discuss bclosed doors? and what do we know about what the main sticking points are? lisa: right. a little bit more on what you just reported, judy. democrats offered to take down their offer about $1 trillion to the $2 trillion area, let's say. t republicans said that, really, what democrats were doing was changing the timeline of spending. some spending that democrats ed to have for two years they would say limit -- or -- i'm sorry -- they wanted three years, and democrats were moving it to two years. essentially, judy, republicans said they don't think it's real money. they didn't e a real change in sort of the top -- the items that democrats were asking for. nonetheless, democrats said they hey believe is a good-faith offer. they are now waiting for republicans to make the next move. judy: and, yamiche, we heard the white house chieof staff, mark adows, say that the president

yamiche alcindor of "pbs newshour." former governor of north carolina and radio host pat mccrory. welcome to all of you. i'm going to start with showing our apocalyptic campaign frame that both trump and biden created at their conventions, take a look. >> he is the destroyer of america's jobs, and if given the chance, he will be the destroyer of american greatness. >> he's failed to protect us. he's failed to protect america. >> the hard truth is, you won't be safe in joe biden's america. >> donald trump's failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods. >> hallie jackson, this isn't a campaign where you're wondering, geez, boy, both sides are kind of running on the same message. it's pretty clear. i tell you, we heard those messages. two people -- we had three people killed this week in essentially what may be political protests. we're entering uncharted waters here. >> i mean, you're completely right, chuck. it's something that we're going to be hearing a lot more about from especially the person that i cover, president trump. i'm told by sources over the weekend as i was c

understanding his win was very narrow in 2016 and might be narrow again in 2020. >> woodruff: yamiche alcindor following itll very closely. thank you, yamiche. we're going to take a short break for our pbs stations. our coverage will continue in one minute. stay with us. >> woodruff: good evening, i'm judy woodruff and welcome back to our pbs newshour special coverage of this year's democratic national convention. this is a big night. we will hear from former president barack obama, former secretary of state, and of course the party's presidential nominee hillary clinton. and then the hstory making pick for vice president, senator kamala harris. and we may also by the way get a peek at kamala harris early on in the evening. the mc tonight is actress carry washington. the theme -- kerry washington. the theme is climate change to immigration starts with gun violence. here we go. >> i want to talk about the importance of voting. i know many of you plan to vote this year but aw amidst of excitement you may have misinformation and making it harder for you to st your ballots. i think we need to ask

also with us, white house correspondent for "pbs news hour," yamiche alcindor. great group.speculation, joe biden has announced senator kamala harris as his running mate for the 2020 presidential election. in texts and emails to campaign supporters shortly after 4:00 p.m. yesterday, biden broke the news, writing in part, "i've decided that kamala harris is the best person to help me take this fight to donald trump and mike pence and then to lead this nation starting in january of 2021." shortly after that, he posted the announcement on twitter, calling harris a "fearless fighter for the little guy and one of the country's finest public servants." biden's announcement comes more than a year after he and harris, a former presidential rival, clashed over biden's record on race during the first democratic debate. if elected, kamala harris would be the nation's first female, first black, first asian american vice president, and she's the daughter of immigrants, her father from jamaica, her mother from india. she attended the historically black howard university. harris was a pros

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