News Wrap: Harris fends off challenges to her policy positions in 1st interview as nominee

>> Welcome. We start tonight with the race for the white house. Kamala Harris in her first sit-down interview since capturing the democratic nomination. >> Over the course of 27 minutes alongside her running mate, she fended off challenges to her policy positions and took the line between being a change candidate and carrying on the legend of president Biden. She said she would bring a Republican into her cabinet, something that has not been done since the Obama administration. >> I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion. I think it is important to have people at the table when the most important decisions are being made who have different views and different experiences. I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my cabinet who was Republican. >> She was also pressed on why her economic proposals had not already been put into place given her position in the administration. >> You have been vice president for 3.5 years. The steps you are talking about now, why haven't you done them already? >> First of all, we had to recover as an economy. I am very proud of the work we have done that has brought inflation down to less than 3%. That is good work. There is more to do. >> Donald Trump was campaigning in Pennsylvania today. >> He used his social media platform to describe the Harris interview as boring. He said it was hardly a test. She is a total lightweight. Did you see her on television? This is going to be the president. Of our country. I don't think so. Sitting propped up at a desk. This is the first interview she has done. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. If you are too weak to do a one-on-one interview with somebody who was so soft. >> Tonight he will speak to a right-wing group in Washington and on Monday vice president Harris will appear alongside president Biden for a labor day event in Pittsburgh. It will be their first campaign event together since her nomination. >> A Russian attack killed five people and injured dozens more. Authorities say the bombs hit five locations across the city, including a playground where at least one child died. In Washington, the defense secretary met with his Ukrainian counterpart today and condemned Moscow's recent wave of strikes on civilian infrastructure. >> Let me be clear. It is never acceptable to target civilians. >> Ukraine's president has fired the air force commander after an f-16 warplane crashed earlier this week. U.S. Experts have joined the investigation into why the jet went down during a barrage on Monday. The Israeli military says it killed a top commander and two of his associates during a third day of operations in the occupied west bank. Video today caught smoke rising over the city after is really police vehicles patrolled on the ground. Israel says the rates have killed at least 19 people since Tuesday, most of the militants. Residents returned today after Israel withdrew from the area, finding their homes reduced to rubble. >> Here where you are filming is the house of an old woman. They destroyed the house. Then they entered the house behind us. There were walls and a road here. They were destroyed. >> In gaza, and agut -- a group says is really airstrike killed people. They say the dead were employees of a local transportation company and the strike came without warding. Israel claims gunmen had seized the convoy and that they were the focus of the attack. The Maryland supreme court has ordered a redo of a hearing. It is the latest twist in a legal drama that was the focus of a podcast which propelled the case to national attention. He was convicted more than two decades ago for killing his high school ex-girlfriend. He was freed in 20 only to have his conviction reinstated a year later. A judge did not mince words, saying that the case is a procedural zombie. He will remain free as a lower court considers whether to throw out his conviction. On Wall Street today, stocks into the week with solid gains. The NASDAQ added nearly 200 points. The S&P 500 closed out its fourth straight winning month. We have results from the second full day of the paralympic games. In the shot put, a Tunisian woman won her fifth goal of five appearances. A frenchman secured a second gold medal for the host nation. Team usa won its first gold of the metal in the 100 meter backstroke. And Brazil to come the first gold in para-athletics, which includes running, jumping, and racing events. We have a passing of note from the world of sports. Johnny geaudreau and his brother were killed by a drunken driver. Known as Johnny hockey, he played 11 seasons in the NHL. He was known for his speed on the ice and his love of the game. Lebron James and Chris Christie have paid tribute. He was in New Jersey to be a groomsman at his sister's we did wedding. -- Weekend wedding. Still to come, how the U.S. Complex system of insurance and mental health care makes finding help so difficult. Our guests way and on the campaign headlines from the week. And we hear from young musicians who were forced to flee their country after the Taliban takeover. >> This is the news hour from our studios in Washington and on the west from the Walter