It’s Friday and we’re heading into a protracted weekend. Joyful (early) Labor Day! That is thought-about the unofficial kickoff for marketing campaign season, so in the event you suppose the political world has been just a bit bit loopy this summer time, hold onto your tush. Issues are simply getting began. Anyway, this is what’s occurring: 

• Trump is dealing with backlash from a number of musicians over his unauthorized use of their music.
• The most recent financial figures have arrived.
• Trump is amping up his on-line assaults towards Harris.

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Vice President Harris’s first main interview since securing the Democratic presidential nomination aired on CNN Thursday night. Listed here are some highlights from the long-awaited back-and-forth:

Harris seeks to defend altering positions: Harris was pressed within the interview on how she has modified positions on a number of coverage points because the final time she ran for president in 2020. “I feel an important and most vital facet of my coverage perspective and selections is my values haven’t modified,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash.

“Subsequent query please”: Harris had little to say about former President Trump’s assertion throughout the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) convention final month that the vice chairman “happened to turn Black” a number of years in the past. “Usual, drained playbook. Subsequent query, please,” she stated, with fun. 

Radio silence: Harris confirmed she has by no means spoken on to Trump. They’ll come face-to-face for the primary time after they take the debate stage Sept. 10. 

Throughout his NABJ look, Trump said of their relationship: “I’ve recognized her a very long time not directly. Indirectly very a lot.” 

Answering President Biden’s name: Harris stated she discovered Biden deliberate to finish his reelection marketing campaign solely shortly earlier than the remainder of us heard the information. 

She recounted of the sudden Sunday name from her boss:

“My household was staying with us, together with my child nieces. And we had simply had pancakes and, you understand, ‘Auntie, can I’ve extra bacon?’ ‘Sure, I’ll make you extra bacon.’ We had been sitting right down to — to do a puzzle. And the telephone rang. And it was Joe Biden. And he informed me what he had determined to do. And I requested him, ‘Are you certain?’ And he stated, ‘Sure.’ That’s how I discovered about it.” 

Bipartisanship forward?: Harris stated she would entertain the thought of appointing a Republican to her Cupboard if elected, although she had nobody particularly to call. 

“We’ve bought 68 days to go along with this election, so I’m not placing the cart earlier than the horse. However I’d,” she stated. 

What about fracking?: Harris addressed her seemingly about-face on the problem of fracking. Harris voiced her help for a ban on the drilling technique in 2019, however she stated in her CNN interview that she wouldn’t press for one if elected and stated she has held that view since 2020. She wouldn’t admit to a change of tune, although, saying she “made that clear on the controversy stage in 2020, that I’d not ban fracking … As vice chairman, I didn’t ban fracking … As president, I cannot ban fracking.”

Republican speedy response: The GOP used Harris’s line that her “values haven’t modified” in a video Thursday night resurfacing previous clips of her discussing a gun buyback program, abolishing fracking and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), defunding police and extra. Count on extra of this forward of the Sept. 10 debate.

Trump’s response to the interview?: “BORING!!!” he wrote on his social media web site Fact Social.

Check out The Hill’s recap of Harris’s interview. 

Five takeaways from the interview from The Hill’s Niall Stanage. 

Bret Stephens, The New York Times: “Kamala Harris didn’t harm herself in her interview this week with CNN’s Dana Bash. She didn’t notably assist herself, both.” 

Michelle Cottle, The New York Times: “I feel that went fairly properly, don’t you?” 

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: “Kamala Harris’s marketing campaign handlers had been little doubt giving one another high-fives on Thursday night time watching their candidate’s interview on CNN.” 

Joe Concha, Fox News: “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz sat down for his or her first interview because the 2024 Democratic ticket on Thursday and solely two phrases come to thoughts: Dishonest. Trainwreckalicious.” 

Jarvis DeBerry, MSNBC: “The hype previous Kamala Harris’ first and totally unremarkable ‘sit-down’ interview as a 2024 presidential candidate is a reminder that no one operating towards Donald Trump is ever graded pretty.” 

The battle between former President Trump and Vice President Harris is heating up.

Trump, who has proven no qualms about breaking political and social norms prior to now, has begun sharing on-line crude and sexist assaults towards Harris which might be crammed with innuendo. 

The Hill’s Brett Samuels reports on the shift here: “Trump has repeatedly waved away recommendations from his personal advisers that he ought to lay off the non-public assaults. The previous president has indicated at latest marketing campaign occasions he feels ‘entitled’ to insulting his opponent, largely due to the assaults and authorized instances he has confronted. “

Harris’s response: Harris’s marketing campaign has typically responded to Trump’s social media assaults by waving them off.  

“Donald Trump is out of his thoughts. If a member of the family posted what Donald Trump is sharing, People would rightly be involved,” Harris marketing campaign spokesperson James Singer stated in an announcement. 

Democrats see opening to assault Trump on army after Arlington altercation (The Hill) 

Former President Trump has been hesitant to take a robust stance with regards to abortion and reproductive well being care, looking for to reasonable his positions.

On one hand: This week he signaled help for government-funded entry to fertility remedies.

On the opposite: He didn’t toe the GOP’s position on a Florida poll measure on abortion rights, sending his marketing campaign into explainer mode. 

“I feel the six week is just too brief. There needs to be extra time,” Trump stated, referring to Florida’s present six-week ban. 

When pressed about how he would vote on the modification in Florida, the place he lives and is registered to vote, Trump stated, “I’m going to be voting that we’d like greater than six weeks.” 

Trump camp clarification: Karoline Leavitt, the Trump marketing campaign’s nationwide press secretary, adopted up on the feedback. 

“President Trump has not but stated how he’ll vote on the poll initiative in Florida; he merely reiterated that he believes six weeks is just too brief,” she stated. 

Trump stated in a press convention earlier this month that he would elaborate on his place on the measure in Florida, “in some unspecified time in the future within the close to future.” 

It’s not the primary time Trump has waffled on the issue. Within the Nineties he claimed to be “pro-choice.” He urged in his 2016 marketing campaign that ladies who’ve abortions should face criminal charges. Extra lately, he has stated that he thinks the problem must be left to the states. 

Harris bus tour targeted on reproductive rights to begin in Palm Seashore (The Hill) 

Rocker Jack White is the latest musician to blast President Trump over utilizing his music, after one of many former president’s marketing campaign aides posted a clip on-line of Trump boarding a airplane with The White Stripes’ iconic “Seven Nation Military” taking part in within the background. 

“Oh….Do not even consider using my music you fascists. Legislation swimsuit coming from my attorneys about this (so as to add to your 5 thousand others.),” White, one-half of the rock duo, wrote to his nearly 700,000 followers on Instagram alongside the video.

In accordance with Trump’s marketing campaign, they’ve a basic settlement with BMI and ASCAP clearinghouses to make use of some pop tunes at his occasions and has defended its playlist, regardless of pushback from the artists. 

Different musicians who have recently made it known they do not wish to be related to Trump’s marketing campaign: 

The Foo Fighters: The band publicly said final week that they didn’t give permission for the Trump marketing campaign to make use of the track “My Hero,” and any royalties earned from the track can be donated to Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign. 

Celine Dion: The powerhouse singer distanced herself from Trump’s marketing campaign with a snarky social media submit after his group performed “My Coronary heart Will Go On” throughout a rally in Montana earlier this month. “By no means is that this use licensed and Celine Dion doesn’t endorse this or any related use… and actually, THAT track?” an announcement posted on Dion’s Instagram account stated of the ballad from the film “Titanic.” 

ABBA: The Swedish group chided Trump over the “the unauthorized use of their music” and requested the “elimination and deletion of such content material” from Trump’s playlist. 

Beyoncé: Trump’s group tried to undertake the celebrity singer’s track “Freedom,” which is the accepted theme of Harris’s marketing campaign, prompting reports of a stop and desist menace from Beyoncé’s group. 

Up to now, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, John Fogerty, Neil Younger, Eddy Grant, Panic! on the Disco, R.E.M. and Weapons N’ Roses have come out towards Trump’s use of their music. 

Inflation held regular one other month as American households spent extra money and noticed their incomes improve barely in July, in keeping with figures the Bureau of Financial Evaluation launched Friday. 

The private consumption expenditures value index, which is the Federal Reserve’s most well-liked strategy to measure inflation, rose 0.2 % final month and a pair of.5 % over the previous 12 months. That is about what economists anticipated. 

What meaning: Fed Chair Jerome Powell lately stated “the time has come” for the central financial institution to start decreasing borrowing prices after conserving them at two-decade highs for greater than a 12 months.  

The Fed’s baseline curiosity vary has been set at 5.25 % to five.5 % since July 2023. (The Hill) 

RELATED:  People’ confidence within the financial system ticked up this month, in keeping with a brand new Gallup ballot. (The Hill) 

People’ confidence within the financial system ticked up this month, in keeping with a brand new Gallup ballot. (The Hill) 

The US is dealing with a surge in COVID-19 infections as soon as once more because the summer time season wanes. 

In accordance with the Heart for Illness Management and Prevention, COVID-19 infections are rising or are prone to develop in 27 states this month. Wastewater checks have proven “very excessive” ranges of infections since early June in what medical doctors predict might develop into one of many largest summer time waves because the begin of the pandemic in 2020. 

What to know.

Terrorist teams are seeing a resurgence across the globe three years after the U.S.’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

Greater than 20 years because the launch of the worldwide Battle on Terror, ISIS and affiliated teams have claimed accountability for lethal assaults in Turkey, Iran, Russia and Germany. An ISIS-affiliated group additionally plotted a foiled effort to kill hundreds at a Taylor Swift live performance in Austria.  

The Hill’s Brad Dress reports: “The renewed ISIS menace, together with the proliferation of terrorist teams throughout the Center East, Central Asia and African Sahel areas, underscores how the U.S. and its allies are struggling to fight these teams in an period that can be marked by threats from state actors, together with Russia, Iran, North Korea and China.” 

Israel has agreed to a brief pause in preventing in Gaza after the World Well being Group (WHO) sought “humanitarian pauses” within the ongoing battle for a polio vaccine drive.  

The objective is to vaccinate 640,000 youngsters within the Gaza Strip amid the outbreak of the virus. 

The pause, beginning in central Gaza, will go from 6 a.m. to three p.m. for 3 days starting Sunday and stretch by way of the territory. Israeli authorities are serving to coordinate the hassle with the WHO. 

“I’m not going to say that is the perfect approach ahead. However this can be a workable approach ahead…we have now to cease [polio] transmission in Gaza and outdoors Gaza,” Rik Peeperkorn, a WHO senior official for the Palestinian territories, stated in a social media submit. (The Hill) 

🏝 It’s Nationwide Seashore Day! Absorb the final little bit of summer time solar in the event you can throughout this lengthy weekend! The Washington Submit has a helpful list of beaches solely an hour from D.C.

🎼️  Make it POP: The Nationwide Symphony Orchestra will carry out its free annual Labor Day weekend concert on the Capitol West Garden at 8 p.m. Sunday. Fortunately, the weather should be nice.

🎥  Yeesh: The reviews are in for the brand new “Reagan“ biopic, and the consensus is … not nice.

📺  Hello, KBJ!: Supreme Court docket Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will seem on the “Late Present with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday night. The primary Black lady on the excessive court docket, nominated by President Biden in 2022, is on tour selling her memoir, “Pretty One.”

The Home and Senate are nonetheless on their August break and can return subsequent week after the vacation. President Biden is in Delaware and has no occasions on his public schedule for the day; Vice President Harris is again in D.C. for conferences and debate prep. All instances Jap. (all instances Jap)

• 1:15 p.m.: Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will seem at a Harris-Walz marketing campaign reception in San Francisco earlier than heading to Aspen, Colo., for a marketing campaign occasion within the night. 
• 4:30 p.m.: Former President Trump holds a marketing campaign rally in Johnstown, Pa. 
• 8 p.m.: Trump addresses the conservative Mothers for Liberty nationwide gathering in Washington, D.C. 
• Arising: President Biden and Vice President Harris will hold a joint campaign event in Pittsburgh on Labor Day. 

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