Harris appears on Stephen Colbert to blast Trump for claim he gave Covid tests to Putin: Live

During her appearance on The View, Kamala Harris is asked about Donald Trump's baseless claims that FEMA funds are being diverted away from Republican parts of states hit by Hurricane Helene.

She responded: “This is so consistent about Donald Trump. He puts himself before the needs of others. I fear that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level, to care about the suffering of other people.”

On Florida Governor Ron DeSantis apparently not taking her call regarding the recovery from Helene and the impending impact of Hurricane Milton, Harris said she's talked with both Democrat and Republican governors. "So obviously, this is not an issue that is about partisanship or politics for certain leaders, but maybe is for others."

"And when I'm president I will continue to call him to see what he needs."

Vice President Kamala Harris is being interviewed live on ABC’s The View.

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg introducing her as “the next president of the United States” to loud applause from the crowd.

After recounting the story of President Joe Biden calling her to inform her of his decision to drop out of the 2024 race, Harris is asked whether she would have done something differently than Biden during this administration.

She responds: “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of — and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had an impact.”

Harris then lists the accomplishments of the administration including lowering the cost of insulin and increasing spending on infrastructure.

Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign told The Independent:

“None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he's slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.”

Donald Trump has reportedly spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving the White House.

A new book from journalist Bob Woodward includes extensive reporting about President Joe Biden’s “blunt, profanity-laced” behind-the-scenes responses to Putin’s war in Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza.

Woodward’s War — his fourth book since Trump won in 2016, excerpts of which were published by CNN — also contains previously unreported details about the former president’s relationship with the authoritarian leader, including a moment at Mar-a-Lago where he told a senior aide to leave the room so they could have a “private phone call.”

Alex Woodward reports.

First Lady Dr Jill Biden will hit the campaign trail this week in support of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

She is scheduled to visit Yuma, Arizona, on Friday, October 11, and Phoenix the next day.

On Sunday Dr Biden will be in Northern Nevada before swinging through the Detroit suburbs and Madison, Wisconsin on Monday. On Tuesday she’ll be in Philadelphia, campaigning in the suburbs.

President Joe Biden was supposed to be on an international trip to Germany and Angola, but that has been postponed due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Milton in Florida.

Statement from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on President Biden’s Travel to Germany and Angola:

Given the projected trajectory and strength of Hurricane Milton, President Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola in order to oversee preparations for and the response to Hurricane Milton, in addition to the ongoing response to the impacts of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast.

Barron Trump learned about the assassination attempt on his father while playing tennis with his friends, the former president has said in a new interview.

Trump recalled his son’s reaction over the weekend while appearing on The Ingraham Angle on Fox News in an interview that aired last night.

“Barron was playing tennis with his friends, and somebody walked over and – ran over – and said, ‘Your father’s been shot. He’s been shot,’” Trump told the show.

“Barron – and Barron really likes his father a lot. And he came in ‘Mom, Mom, Mom, what happened?’ So, and then they saw me get up, and then they saw the fist pump.”

Michelle Del Rey has more.

The former first lady starts out promisingly by saying “our differences create a more fascinating, creative, and innovative world” in her new memoir before rebuking groups that “attempt to impose their ideologies on everyone, deepening the divisions in our society”, without so much as a flicker of irony.

This is excellent.