Friday, August 9, 2024
The 7
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
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Friday briefing: Trump vs. Harris debate; Ukraine attack; Debby forecast; Cash App settlement; Noah Lyles; and more
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will face off in a debate next month. |
| 0:08.0 | That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Hannah Jewel. It's Friday, August 9th. Let's get you caught up with |
| 0:15.2 | today's seven stories. |
| 0:18.3 | Donald Trump agreed to debate Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10th. |
| 0:27.0 | The Republican presidential nominee made the announcement yesterday during a rambling news conference at his home in Maralago. |
| 0:34.0 | Previously he had said he would only debate Harris at another time and with a different network. |
| 0:39.0 | This one is planned for ABC. |
| 0:41.0 | He also proposed two other dates. During the news conference, Trump also bragged |
| 0:46.8 | about his crowd size at his speech on the National Mall on January 6th, 2021. |
| 0:52.5 | He claimed without evidence that it was bigger |
| 0:55.0 | than when Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 0:56.6 | spoke from the Lincoln Memorial |
| 0:58.2 | during the March on Washington in 1963. |
| 1:01.6 | If you look at Martin Luther King when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same |
| 1:09.2 | real estate, same everything, same number of people, if not we had more. |
| 1:15.0 | To be clear that's definitely not true. |
| 1:17.0 | Trump held this news conference as he's looking to seize the spotlight |
| 1:21.0 | back from Harris and her new running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walles. |
| 1:25.4 | Harris has enjoyed a surge in fundraising and enthusiasm within her party since President |
| 1:30.1 | Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid last month. |
| 1:34.0 | Number two, police released body camp footage showing the search for the Trump rally shooter. |
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