And the next segment will be about "the coming trials of Donald Trump," says co-moderator MacCallum as Fox goes into a commercial break.
Another clash between Pence and Ramaswamy who are talking over each other.
"Climate change is real, by the way," interjects the Joe Biden Twitter (X) account.
"We cannot let states like California, New York and Illinois have abortions on demand," says Sen. Scott who calls for "at minimum a 15-week limit."
"Consensus is the opposite of leadership," Pence rebuts Haley.
"We need to stop demonizing this issue" of #abortion, says Haley. "Let's find consensus."
DeSantis did say Trump “coddled” Anthony Fauci and should have fired him.
Updated: Two Republican candidates excluded from Wednesday's debate here in Milwaukee say they'll sue the RNC. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/trump-likely-to-upstage-opponents?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #Election2024
State Department says it’s imposing visa restrictions on officials of #China “for their involvement in the forcible assimilation of more than one million Tibetan children in government-run boarding schools.”
Five environmental groups sue to stop #Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin from withdrawing the state from a regional carbon market, They argue state lawmakers voted to join it, thus executive action cannot reverse participation. ( https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative-virginia-youngkin/article_f19e339a-4053-11ee-be13-2f3505af27d5.html
Former prime minister of #Thailand returns from self-exile and is being held in a private room on the medical ward of Bangkok Remand Prison. https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2633953/thaksin-has-own-room-on-prison-medical-ward.
President Biden, touring the #MauiFires destruction in Lahaina, tells reporters “the devastation is overwhelming" and promises to help the community “recover, rebuild, and respect culture and traditions.”
#China says it's investigating a 39-year-old Chinese national accused of spying for the #CIA. The state security ministry says the suspect, surnamed Hao, was a cadre at a ministry and had gone to #Japan for studies, where the spying recruitment occurred.
Trump's America First policy "made us weaker, not stronger," says Biden in response to the first series of questions at Camp David coming from AP.
NYT: Trump plans to skip next week's Republican debate in Milwaukee for an interview with the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/us/politics/trump-debate-tucker-carlson.html
Bloomberg: #Tesla failed to fix limitations in its Autopilot system following a #Florida crash that killed a driver in 2016, company engineers say in a family’s lawsuit over a very similar 2019 fatal collision that’s headed to a jury trial. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-17/tesla-failed-to-fix-autopilot-after-fatal-crash-engineers-say#xj4y7vzkg
Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment “disqualifies former President Donald Trump, and potentially many others, because of their participation in the attempted overthrow of the 2020 presidential election,” argue two Federalist Society prominent legal scholars in a forthcoming law review article. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751
Maui County releases identities of 2 victims; raises death toll to 106. https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/15/breaking-news/one-week-later-search-for-lahaina-victims-continues-families-begin-to-be-notified/ #MauiFires #Hawaii
Free Tweetdeck gone as of today. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23833707/tweetdeck-xpro-paid-service-x-premium-twitter
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows seeks to move Fulton County election case to federal court. https://abcnews.go.com/US/meadows-seeks-move-fulton-county-election-case-federal/story?id=102295084