Good evening. I'm Amman Navas. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, the focus

in the race for the White House turns to the upcoming presidential debate with Donald Trump

threatening to back out. We meet families in Sudan whose lives have been

devastated by civil war with many forced to flee time and again.

The future of my children is very dark.

We have to believe in we are our nation.

And author Stephen King reflects on his long career and discusses his new book of short stories. Welcome to the news hour. With both party conventions in the rearview mirror,

the 2024 presidential campaign enters its final stage. There are now new questions about if the candidates will

debate at all, and today Donald Trump turned his attention to national security and

Kamala Harris's record. Lisa DeJardin has this report.

Well, thank you.

Former President Donald Trump

campaigning in battleground Michigan

addressing an annual meeting of the National Guard Association

as he seeks a second term as commander-in-chief.

And it's why I'm here today because America's future is under threat

like never before right at this moment.

Trump accused the Biden Harris administration of disastrously mishandling the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Biden administration has said its decisions were set in motion by Trump's agreement to pull out American troops.

In the chaos exactly three years ago today a suicide bomb attack in Kabul left 13 American service members killed.

Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the humiliation in Afghanistan, set off the collapse of American

credibility and respect all around the world.

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