Harris campaign responds to Trump NABJ interview: "A taste of chaos and division" Kamala Harris’s campaign team has released the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s combative NABJ interview: The hostility Donald Trump showed on stage today is the same hostility he has shown throughout his life, throughout his term in office, and throughout his campaign for president as he seeks to regain power and inflict his harmful Project 2025 agenda on the American people. Trump lobbed personal attacks and insults at Black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency – while he failed Black families and left the entire country digging out of the ditch he left us in. Donald Trump has already proven he cannot unite America, so he attempts to divide us. Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s Maga rallies this entire campaign. It’s also exactly what the American people will see from across the debate stage as vice-president Harris offers a vision of opportunity and freedom for all Americans. All Donald Trump needs to do is stop playing games and actually show up to the debate on September 10. He is naming the people injured and killed at the rally. He thanks the doctor who attended to Corey Comperatore, who died in the shooting. He names the people injured. “They’re doing really well. They’re going to be fine. Not going to be perfect, really, but who is?” he says. Trump says he will go back to Butler, the city where the assassination attempt took place. He thanks everyone at Butler Memorial Hospital, he says. “They saw some pretty bad things.” The crowd is chanting “USA! USA!” He claims that more than 20,000 people weren’t able to get into the stadium. He says “we didn’t need a star”, referring to the singers who have appeared at Kamala Harris’s rallies. Trump is on stage in Harrisburg and will begin speaking any moment. Trump’s address will be his first in Pennsylvania since the assassination attempt there three weeks (yes, just three weeks) ago. It is happening indoors at the state capital’s New Holland Arena. We’re expecting Trump to speak at a rally in Pennsylvania any moment –he appears to be running an hour late. Biden aides have expressed some worry to one another about how his lingering frustrations might surface, AP reports. Some pointed to his comments in the early hours of Tuesday morning, when a reporter asked Biden about his legacy with regard to LGBTQ Americans. The president harked back to to his 2011 comments supporting same-sex marriage that caught then-President Barack Obama off guard. It came off as a subtle dig at the former president, who in recent weeks was among those working behind the scenes to push Biden toward the exits. Biden and Harris’s regular lunches with Harris on Wednesdays have “taken on a new dimension” as the balance of power in their relationship has shifted, AP reports. Biden has tasked aides with finding additional actions he can take before 20 January 2025, to secure his legacy, AP reports. What those actions might be remains a work in progress. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged that Biden and the White House are still “recalibrating” after his decision. “We are trying to figure out what the next six months are going to look like,” she said. “Just give us a beat.” Ten days since ending his reelection campaign, Biden still is coming to terms with the political whiplash that he and the country have experienced, the AP reports. ”Privately, the Democratic president is smarting over those who orchestrated the abrupt end of his 50-year political career and processing a mixture of emotions — bitterness and regret among them, but also relief at not having to run a gruelling race against Republican Donald Trump. Nor will Biden have to confront the risk of what his potential loss might have done do his legacy and the country.” The parties involved in Lahaina wildfire lawsuits against the state of Hawaii, Maui County and utilities are close to a global settlement of claims that will be worth a little over $4 billion, Governor Josh Green told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Green said he’s hoping to finalise the details in coming days, perhaps as soon as Aug. 6, which would be two days before the one-year anniversary of the fire that killed 102 people and wiped out historic Lahaina. “If that could happen, it would be great. I humbly invite all the parties to finalize the agreement,” Green said in an interview at his office. “It appears that we are almost there, and we only have a very tiny holdout remaining.” He said all the plaintiffs and defendants have agreed to the global settlement number but final details are pending. More than 600 lawsuits have been filed over the deaths and destruction caused by the fires. In the spring, a judge appointed mediators and ordered all parties to participate in settlement talks. Conservative news outlet The Bulwark reports that several Trump campaign staffers and advisers say that Kellyanne Conway, former senior counsellor to Trump, is leaking negative stories about JD Vance to the press: In interviews with The Bulwark, twenty Trump campaign staffers, allies, confidants, and advisers were quick to shoot down any notion that Trump was turning his back on Vance or was displeased with him amid his rocky rollout. But more than a dozen of those sources volunteered without prompting that they believed Conway, who initially opposed the selection of Vance, was undermining him through leaks to the press expressing doubts about his readiness and the campaign’s vetting. Three men accused of being involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack – including the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – have agreed to plea deals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, prosecutors said on Wednesday. “The Convening Authority for Military Commissions, Susan Escallier, has entered into pre-trial agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al-Hawsawi, three of the co-accused in the 9/11 case,” the Pentagon said in a short statement. The New York Times reported that the three will plead guilty to conspiracy charges in exchange for a life sentence rather than a death-penalty trial. The men have been in US custody since 2003 and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is widely seen as the chief plotter of the terror attacks. Hello, this is Helen Sullivan taking you through the next few hours of US politics news. New York Magazine reports that among the images being projected to audiences at his rally in Pennsylvania is a screenshot of a Business Insider article that says “California’s Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator”: