Tonight on the readout.

I question America.

Is this America?

The land of the free and the home of the brave where we have to sleep with our

telephones off of the hook because our lives be spread daily because we want to live a decent human beings in America. Thank you.

Standing on the shoulders of giants, we hear the voices of black trailblazers like Fannie Lou Hamer and

Shirley Chism as Kamala Harris prepares for her historic nomination to be the president of the

United States. Also tonight Trump has a weird lack of respect for America's

men and women in uniform,

and now he's gone and denigrated our veterans once again.

But we begin in North Carolina,

where earlier today Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled her plans to tackle one of the top issues for voters this election cycle, the cost of living.

Harris pitched a handful of comprehensive new policies focused on lowering costs for American families

including a ban on price gouging for food and groceries and expanded child tax credit.

Tax cuts for regular income earners as opposed to the rich,

a $25,000 subsidy for first-time homebuyers, and a cap on prescription drug costs.

The VP spoke about the progress the economy has made since the COVID pandemic, which started four

years ago and devastated the economy, causing inflation to spike. and she emphasized that while inflation has

cooled there's still work to do.

Still we know that many Americans don't yet feel that progress in their daily lives.

Costs are still too high and on a deeper level for too many people, no matter how much they work, it feels so hard to just be able

to get ahead. As president, I will be laser focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic

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