Washington Today (8-7-24): VP Harris/Gov. Waltz & Sen. Vance hold dueling campaign events in MI & WI

Presidential campaigns move to two more battleground states, Wisconsin and Michigan, with both the Democratic ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (OH) holding rallies and news conferences.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the progressive group of House Members known as The Squad, loses her Democratic primary to an opponent who received support from super PAC aligned with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and says in her concession speech, "AIPAC, I’m coming to tear your kingdom down!”

Day 2 of the National Transportation Safety Board hearing on the Boeing 737 MAX 9 in-flight door plug blowout earlier this year. We will speak with Reuters correspondent David Thompson about what was learned about who is to blame for what went wrong and how to keep it from happening again. (24)

Biden Administration says it is still working through diplomacy to convince Iran not to respond militarily against Israel to the assassination of Hamas’s political leader in Tehran last week

Russia says Ukrainian military forces have launched a cross-border assault into Russia's Kursk area and there are questions to the White House whether this violates U.S. restrictions on use of American weapons by Ukraine on Russian territory.

Republican political strategist Richard Galen has died. And so has former Majority League Baseball player Billy Bean, one of the few in that league to come out as gay. We will hear both from C-SPAN's Video Library at c-span.org.

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