CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/08/24
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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America will see Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the debate stage just over a month from now. Late this afternoon, both nominees agreed to hold their first debate on September 10th, with more debates possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, former president Donald Trump agrees to debate Vice President Kamala Harris. |
| 0:09.7 | These debates, I think it's very important that we have them. I think they'll be very revealing. |
| 0:14.2 | While he attacks the Democratic presidential nominee. |
| 0:17.1 | Everything she's touched is her in bed she's incompetent how Harris is responding |
| 0:22.3 | we're not falling for these folks who are trying to divide us trying to separate us |
| 0:28.1 | trying to pull us apart the CBS evening news starts now good evening everyone I'm Major Garrett in for Nora. |
| 0:40.7 | America will see Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on the debate stage, just over a month from now. |
| 0:46.5 | Late this afternoon, both nominees agreed to hold their first debate on September 10th, with more debates possible. |
| 0:53.1 | The former president was the first to break the news at a Mar-a-Lago press conference this |
| 0:56.7 | afternoon. |
| 0:57.8 | That's where he blamed Harris for everything from high prices to illegal immigration to the |
| 1:01.9 | supposed decline of San Francisco. |
| 1:05.0 | CBS's Caitlin Huey Burns was in the room asking questions, and she starts us off tonight |
| 1:09.3 | from West Palm Beach, Florida. |
| 1:11.9 | If she becomes president, our country is going to be a giant fail. |
| 1:17.7 | In an hour-long press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort today, |
| 1:21.4 | former President Trump aimed to knock Vice President Kamala Harris out of the headlines. |
| 1:26.3 | How have you recalibrated your strategy to compete |
| 1:29.7 | against Harris? I haven't recalibrated strategy at all. It's the same policies, open borders, |
| 1:36.4 | weak on crime. She's, I think she's worse than Biden. And he called her out for not taking questions |
| 1:42.4 | directly from reporters since she became the nominee. |
| 1:45.4 | She doesn't know how to do a news conference. She's not smart enough to do a news conference. |
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