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inspection colleague, three three leaf filter today, more physically filtered.com adrenaline just like every tur n urine the cnn newsroom, i'm wolf blitzer in washington, and we begin with a major development are 2024 presidential race here in the united states. president joe biden and donald trump have just accepted cnn's invitation to host, to hold a debate on june 20. that's just in a few weeks that's months earlier
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than traditional face-offs take place between, between two presidential candidates the announcement comes after a heated back-and-forth earlier this morning between the two, the president challenge trump to two debates and then trolled him over his hush money trial. listen to this shop laws, two debates to me in 2020, it sends said he hadn't shown up for debate. now he's acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal, i'll even do a twice so let's pick the dates down. i hear you're free on wednesdays former president responded quickly calling on biden to quote, get ready to rumble. let's bring in our white house correspondent are left signs and cnn's kristen holmes she's here with me in the cnn newsroom are to you first president biden leinz, debate trump clearly, but only under certain terms that he's laid out what you did tell us about that? >> yeah, the biden campaign this morning announced that they had sent a letter to the commission on presidential debates informing them that they would not participate in
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those traditional debates. i had been set to begin in mid-september instead, the biden campaign, uh, put forward some of the terms that they would like to see for debates going forward identifying these dates in late june, as well as early september for opportunities for the two men to face off a one-on-one for the very first time. now the biden campaign has called for these debates to be one-on-one, which essentially is excluding any potential third-party candidates, including robert f. kennedy jr. they also so wanted to see these debates organized directly between the campaigns and the broadcast networks. that is something that we have seen now play out as both biden and trump have announced that they are accepting a debate with cnn on june 27th. that debate is set to take place at cnn's atlanta studios. and it will take place with just the two candidates, the moderator and are potential moderator, or i should say, and no audience will be involved now in their letter to the commission on presidential debates, the biden
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campaign outlined how they were concerned that about getting candidates in front of voters much earlier in the process. that's those camp debates were not set to take place until beginning, i believe on september 16th. so this will give the two men an opportunity to lay out their viewpoints on various issues far much earlier in the presidential contest than is typical. and also the campaign noted in their letter that some of these debates had turned into entertainment spectacle let's with outburst or involvement from audience members. so they're trying to eliminate some of that. another thing the biden campaign has called for is for the microphones to only beyond when that candidate is actively speaking potentially eliminating some of that intense back-and-forth that we saw between biden and trump back in 2020. but it's clear at this point that the debates date seems to be set without debate. first debate between the two men for this election cycle taking place. and just six weeks. >> very important political news indeed, arlette standby, christine, you're here with me. give us some more on the trump campaign's reaction.
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this challenge from president by, well, almost everything on that list was stuff that they also wanted. and this is because the result this actual public announcement was a result of back-and-forth conversations informally about debates that really focused on a mutual disdain for the commission on presidential debates and how to set up a possible scenario that didn't include the commission. so they were expecting something like this. now the only thing that trump's team and trump himself doesn't agree with is that he wants more presidential debates. he's going to be calling for roughly four presidential debates. he doesn't think two is enough. but if you'll remember trump's campaign had already reached out to the commission on presidential debates, asking for earlier debates. so that checks that box for them. they had also told me that they did not want third-party candidate up on stage. they said that donald trump would debate if there was a third party candidate up there, but that was not something that they were seeking out. so almost all of the conditions that biden lined out lineup with the former president. and i will tell you, we have reported this now for months donald trump's team believes that a debate
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will only help donald trump. so they're looking forward to it and they believe that he'll be prepped and ready to go we shall see are very effective, very much kristen, for that. and our lead, thanks to you as well. joining us now, quentin, folks, he's the principal deputy campaign manager for president biden quentin. thanks very much for joining us. so it's now official trump and biden have now both accepted this. cnn debate on june 27 in atlanta in our atlanta studio without a live audience is president biden prepared to take trump on president biden as ready as he said this morning, he's ready for not just one debate, but to debates we laid out our criteria for those debates. >> trump has accepted the first he said, anytime, any place, anywhere. and the only thing left now is to see if he's going to show up he is not shown up since the debate in 2020 with president biden. and so we'll see that keeps his word, meets us in atlanta in june. >> we'll see what happens on june 27th. the former house speaker, nancy pelosi, by the way, quentin just told are manu raju up on capitol hill and
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i'm quoting are now i would never recommend going on stage with donald trump. close quote is this a risky move for the president? why is he decided he wants to do this look, our campaign has been saying for months that democracy is literally at stake. >> and what's on the ballot in this election, the american people deserve to hear from one of the two or two of the individuals who have a chance of being elected president united states that are going to represent them on the world stage, that are going to be in charge of the economy that affects their life every day, president biden deeply believes this. we have nothing to hide. president biden's incredibly proud of his record. we know what a second donald trump term will do to middle-class families across the country. we know where donald trump stands on important issues like reproductive freedom for women. and we think it's important now voter see that at all. and so from our perspective, we're completely ready. and excited to engage donald trump and make sure that american see the stark difference in contrast between what he represents in the vision that president biden and vice president harris have
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for america. >> quentin, what else can you tell us about president biden strategy going to be his strategy? what do you think it will? be in taking trump on in this first debate, june 27th of atlanta hosted by cnn, that given the stakes you just laid out president biden is going to do what president biden does. he's going to lead. if he's going to show americans what leadership looks like. and he will do that in a partly because while trump will be on the stage and when his mic is muted and he's able to talk and represent his values. american voters will see just how extreme he is. so we're going to stand firm and continue to do what we have been doing this entire time, which is making sure that we tell americans what our vision for them is. and when donald trump speaks and he lives, president biden's gonna be prepared to call that out and correct the record and also talk about the actual facts of what donald trump did when he was president of united states. and what donald trump is pledging to do if he gets anywhere close to the oval office again, as you know, former president trump wants,
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he says four debates before the election, is president biden will link to debate trump more than two times president biden didn't mince his words in the video, you played a clip of it earlier. he said two debates, one and june 1 and september before voters began casting their votes, no spectacle respect for the rules. and donald trump said, anytime anyplace anywhere i think it's pretty clear, right now, the time is going to be in june 27. the place as of right now for the first is going to be in atlanta, georgia and in a studio. so as far as we're concerned, donald trump laid out his criteria. we countered with ours, and hopefully we're set for the first debate on june 27th, and we'll see if donald trump shows so trump says he he'd accept any moderator for this upcoming debate. does president biden have someone in mind look, are we were very specific in the letter from our campaign chair this morning, a reputable moderator from one of the major
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networks that meet the criteria from what we laid out. >> to whoever that person is selected to be our campaign will be just fine limit. >> is the president officially going to start preparing now for this debate and what will that process look like if you can give us a little sense? >> the president's always prepared and ready to debate this will just be in front of the american people. he's got a grasp on every single issue that's affecting this country as well as the free world. and he is on top of it and he's ready and so the president is going to continue to do what he does. we're going to make sure that he's ready and we're excited about june 27, but then we'll see donald trump has got to show up. >> and we're just getting this in quentin robert kennedy jr. just responded on twitter saying this and let me put it up on the screen. are i'll quote, they trying to exclude me from their debate because they are afraid i would win keeping viable candidates off the debate stage undermines democracy. quit. and what's your reaction to kennedy i
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think he should take a look at the word viable because at the end of the day, i believe that there's only two candidates that have an opportunity to get to 270 electoral votes on be elected president united states. >> and that's joe biden on, on the other hand, that's donald trump. and again, with the states of democracy at hand here, and what we're talking about in these issues in the seriousness of them, we have to stop wasting time in front of the american people with individuals who have no chance, the american people deserve to hear directly uninterrupted from the two individuals that have an opportunity to be like the president united states and our okay. is not one of them. >> and june 27 in atlanta, as the cnn studio, that's where it will take place. quentin folks, the principal deputy campaign manager for the biden campaign. thanks very much for joining us thank. you we'll and still ahead this our a brazen and deadly ambush and france gunman crashed into a prison transport van, killing two guards and freeing and inmate there's an urgent manhunt underway right now and troubling details about foreign efforts to try to undermine us elections. how
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>> i, donald trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, took the stand yesterday for rather contentious cross-examination from the defense in the former president's criminal hush money trial. trump's lawyers grilled cohen for nearly two hours over his relationship with trump and his decision to turn on trump back in 2018? they highlighted insults cohen leveled against trump as they tried to paint him as a man with a vendetta against his former boss. students are brynn jim grasses joining us right now are brynn what's been the reaction to cohen's testimony, at least so far? >> yeah. there's a lot more to go. well, if i essentially the defense attorneys say they're gonna go into tomorrow, when court picks back up for most of the day with their cross-examination, i'm glad you highlighted some of those insults because that's what defense attorneys started with todd blanche basically using michael cohen's own words from his books, from his podcast, two basic police say that he has vengeance against the
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former president. he called them a borers cartoon massage minus a cheeto-dusted cartoon villain to which michael cohen essentially said, yeah, that sounds like something i would say. they basically have said that michael cohen has profited off of donald trump, getting him to admit on the stand that he has who's trump's name in every single podcast that he's aired. and basically that is their tactics so far they haven't gotten yet to the crux of the charges. however before the defense attorneys had their turn, the prosecution did wrap up. it's case pretty much in a nice little bow getting to that oval office this discussion where essentially michael cohen told for jurors how donald trump knew about these hush money payments. let me read an excerpt from the transcript. it says michael cohen said on the stand, so i was sitting with president trump and he asked me if i was okay. he asked me if i needed money and i said no. all good. he said because i can get a check and i said no. i said i'm okay. he said. all right. just make sure you deal with
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alan. and the prosecution said, did he say anything about what would be forthcoming to you? and cohen said yes, it would be a check for january and february. now, listen, the prosecution laid out there the fact that michael cohen has pled guilty to federal charges. he served some prison time trying to get ahead of the defense, questions and we fully expect that to happen when the defense picks back up. but what listen, we're nearing the end of this trial. it's very possible the prosecution may rest its case possibly tomorrow. we'll see how long there is for redirect with michael cohen. and then it's the defense's turn, which we don't expect a very long defense. and then this of course, will go to the jurors were not expecting trump to take the stand and write it doesn't mean it would be surprising if he took the stand, but listen, it's important to note out both because if you remember from the civil fraud trial, he kinda hinted on twitter that yeah, he might take the stand, so it's possible we might see that, but it's very unlikely he's actually going to take the stamp. we'll be watching a bridge ingress. thanks is usual. appreciate let's discuss
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what's going on with our two analysts, cnn legal analyst, former us attorney michael moore, and former trump impeachment attorney michael vendor, been to michael's joining us right now, guys. >> thank you very, very much. i want to get both of you your biggest takeaways at least so far from yesterday today's very dramatic, powerful testimony and michael vendor been vendor v01. let me start with you. what do you think well, i think it's obvious they're going to be going after michael cohen as hard as they can. >> i don't think they have any other way to do it. realistically. i think the prosecution as a real problem in this case because they're ending with cohen and the jury's gonna be in that room saying, where's weisselberg? where's weisselberg to end with a cross of cohen in a small redirect i don't think it's unit bode. >> well, for the prosecution, what do you think michael moore what i'm going to be with you i thought it was okay. >> de for the defense. and in beginning their
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cross-examination. i mean, i think it became clear that cohen is an opportunist. i mean, he basically he's an opportunist and takes every chance to make money off his relationship with trump. he won't have promotion recovered relationship with trump. he's now selling books and doing his podcasts and apparently looking for his next gig because of this, i think that came clear also thought that the method of cross-examination, while it might not have seen conventional, that is that it wasn't all in a sequential story. it was good for the defense lawyer to do that because it allows him to catch the witness off guard, off scripts and not just follow the sequence that he's been prepping for months now, maybe years with the government prosecutors to tell the story. so he's moving around and i th
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next few days, that continued effort to discredit him and remember, it takes one juror and michael cohen is the only thing that the people have put forward to connect trump with this idea that somehow they,
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instead of being a misdemeanor business records case, this should suddenly become a felony case because of some intention to commit a violation of federal law. and they've not met aid that very strong part of the case yet. so the defense is looking to show that one witness or one juror. it's good that they've got a couple of lawyers on the jury as well to play too. but basically the side lift they've not met their burden of proof. i think that's what we're going to see over the next day or two michael vendor vena, a few weeks ago, trump was saying he's got nothing to hide. he'd be more than happy to take the stand and testify. do you think he should that you know, it's interesting because that's the one, one question you really can't answer. it's his choice and his choice alone. i think he could help themselves getting on. i don't think that he'll be tagged that much on cross-examination if he does, there's no new information and i'm not sure his testimony he really brings anything to this. i think they're going to feel comfortable with the weakness
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of the prosecution's case as it went in and they probably doesn't a week ago, i would have thought he's taking the stand. no questions asked now, i don't think it's necessary and what do you think michael bore? >> well, thank my colleague is right. it's ultimately trump's choice to decide if he's going to. but i feel like he would likely hurt himself and of our advised him i'd say do not take the stand. and the reason is he's got some of the same vulnerabilities that cohen has. and that is if they catch him in a lie or in a sort of a shaded ms truth, then maybe enough for the jury to believe what he's lied to us. he certainly knew about this and clearly he would be asked on cross, did he participate in this? and he'd know about federal election law right after he's asked about what the relationship, was with daniel's, he felt like he needed to cover up or at least keep out of public view so unless, he's going to be forthcoming about everything which i think may be an issue for him if he's trying to protect his family has reputations campaign, whatever i think he sets himself in a
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trap that he's not going to get out of so you, don't think he will testify, do you think he should not nice think he should not go ahead, michael vendor been, you know, after representing them before i know he's knowing at the bit to get on the stand he did in the civil trial, letting it's going to be a wise move. >> i'm just sit down. >> you thought it would be a wise move or wouldn't be a wise move yeah. i don't think he needs to testify in the defense of this case. i think that they're in a good
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as they think about whether or not he's to be believed. >> and so they're there, the spectacle that they're looking at this case three, maybe a little bit different than the optics than other people have seen it and say what you were removed that issue do you remember that jurors are just everyday folks coming in suppose they listened to a case from a claim point of view and making a decision based solely on the evidence in the case that's what the judge is going to tell them to do and to use
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their common sense. and i think he comes across especially with this merchandising and trying to sell coffee cups and other things about trappy just comes across is to opportunist and too much of a profit here to be credible, especially since he's the one witness in the room that the state is relying on to tau this up. so they've tried to put it into a bot, but i'm afraid it's it's unraveled on them a little bit. >> so very quickly microbrewery, or you think that trump might be acquitted. >> i think there's a decent chance. absolutely. i think that there's probably right now i'm calling it about 50, 50, and not not to split the baby, but that's really where i think it is interesting or michael moore and michael vendor been to both of you. thank you. >> you very, very much and we're continuing to follow breaking news. >> a european prime minister has been shot now, multiple times. what we know about the assassination attempt just ahead, we have detailed stay with us the russians were trying to spy on us. we were spying on them early friday
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8046180800 for visit coventry direct.com adrenaline i can't stand like a shot of adrenaline right to the heart or this just in to cnn, the prime minister of slovakia robert fico, has been shot multiple times. right now, we're told he's in the hospital in life-threatening conditions. here's a photo of him being carried away on a gurney just a short time ago. the latest reports say the shooting happened after a
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government meeting earlier today slovakia and officials say the suspect was detained at the scene amanda been well as underway in france after gunmen ambushed a prison van, killing two guards and freeing and notorious inmate three other guards were wounded in the attack. interpol has put out a red notice for the fugitive in ukraine right now, a president volodymyr zelenskyy says, he's postponing all foreign engagements, least for now as russia makes gains in the eastern city of kharkiv, take a look at this. a powerful russian aerial weapon. notice that glide bomb hit this apartment building. the us is hoping if financial infusion military aid can stem the loss is the secretary of state antony blinken announcing an additional $2 in military financing for ukraine. cnn's chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh, is near kharkiv. nick, how critical is this moment for ukraine?
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>> but it's a deep, deep grave situation north of ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv. and it's getting worse frankly day by day when are five or six days on from when? the russians first cross the border again. and what some dubbed a third invasion heading from their territory into parts of ukraine. they'd been kicked out nearly two years ago now. and in fact, it's depressing to be here, not far from vovchansk. and just remember how two years ago this was a frontline area and then we saw the russians pushed out because their supply lines essentially her crumble now they have their act together. it seems, and have on mass crossed over. we're talking double-digits, possibly a villages they claim to have seized vovchansk, the key town north of kharkiv on the border. that's really the focus of the fighting. ukraine's military making an admission that they had a paraphrasing here, execute some kind of tax call withdrawal, but saying they put their forces embedder positions around it, essentially suggesting the russians have pushed i'm back a little. and a police chief inside the town has been reporting today hearing extensive sounds of
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gunfire in and around the town there. so lots moving around vovchansk, russia, clearly coming at this with extensive resources, ukraine struggling to respond in kind remember that the layer is $61 billion of us aid for about six months has already had an impact across the front lines in the east. and now we're seeing it more acutely, where they're being frankly out gang by moscow without the artillery. they can't stop advancing forces desperate need to, for f 16s in the air here as well. the situation so grave that president volodymyr zelenskyy, ukraine has counseled forthcoming trip abroad that were hints he was going to europe member so much, ms jobs still is going around his allies shopping for the aid, making the case for tenured and better support for ukraine that is now not going to happen for the days ahead because things are so acutely bad here. clearly, russia has in his sights the second biggest city, kharkiv is still pretty far out, but it's guns might soon be in range and remember to all of this distracts forces from front lines that have already
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seen russian advance it says over the past days or weeks, in some cases, to a new phase of a wall here are totally desperate and one, frankly, that the slowdown in us military aid is significantly to blame for nick paton walsh, cnn story assaultive, just north of kharkiv, ukraine all right. >> nick, thank you very much and stay safe over there. appreciate it very much. turning now to israel, the prime minister benjamin and shiny out says for months he's been looking for a solution over who will govern gaza once the war over there is over. but first, he says hamas must be eliminated meanwhile, the idf, israel defense forces says it has intensified the military operation in rafah more than 1 million palestinians have taken refuge there since the war began. let's bring in cnn's political and global affairs analyst, barak ravid he's also the politics and foreign policy reporter for xes baraka. you cover this so well for us, we've learned that president biden is not proceeding with a
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$1,000,000,000 arms package to israel just days after blocking a shipment of some 2000 pound bombs to israel over fears that could be used in rafah and kill innocent civilians. does that send an inconsistent message to israel right now? >> i'm not sure wolf first because this arms package is not something that is going to be delivered anytime soon. according to what i hear from us officials the earliest at some of those weapons might be delivered is several months from now, some of them, it will take even three years before the we delivered. most of it hasn't even been produced yet by the industry in the so i don't think that this specific package is really connected to refer interesting israel, as you know, is still refusing to back down from its military operations into rafah in southern gaza, is prime minister and the tiny our calling biden's bluff in
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regards to this weapons ultimatum that was issued i'm not sure because at least for now, there's an understanding between these very government and between the ten you and his aides and the white house, that israel is not going to expand this operation at least until national security adviser jake sullivan comes to israel on sunday. >> and i even suspect that this will be prolonged our extended until and israeli delegation will arrive in washington the week after for in-person talks about rafah. most of the operation rafah, right now is still in the outskirts of the city and still pretty relatively targeted, at least that's what i hear from both israeli and us officials. so at least for now, biden's red line hasn't been crossed by the israelis. >> and jake sullivan, the president's national security adviser, is heading to israel in the coming days. what's his goal? what's the goal of this visit? in the short term?
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>> well, i think it's a very good question because he's going to go to saudi arabia first and then to israel the biden administration is still trying this. i don't know. hail mary effort to get some sort of omega deal with saudi arabia that might include normalization agreement with israel i think that sullivan's message to netanyahu is going to be less than you have two choices here you can go to rafah, which will be at maybe a tactical victory, but also maybe strategic defeat. and you can say, i'm going the other way. i'm not going to extend, expand this war, but i'm going to go for normalization. deal with saudi arabia. that could be a strategic victory for his so you think of relations between israel and saudi arabia potentially is still on the table, is that what i'm hearing i it's definitely on the table and i hear it from everyone. >> i talked to the saudis
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wanted the biden administration wants it a lot of members of the israeli war cabinet wanted, but it comes with a price that needs to be an n for the war. and ateneo needs to commit to a path towards a palestinian state, not tomorrow morning, but sometime in the future. and least for now and it fuses both of those demands quickly. >> barack, before i let you go, how worried are you about a deterioration? it seems like it's happening in the israeli egyptian relationship yeah, i think that this is a we saw this over the last week. israel didn't really coordinate well enough with the egyptians. this operation in rafah, the egyptian stopped sending a trucks through israel as a result, there's a deterioration in the humanitarian situation in southern gaza and israel security and intelligence delegation went to cairo today to try and solve this crisis to get some understanding, it is not clear yet whether it was, it was successful or not.
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>> well, that's okay. they can repair that relationship. barak ravid, as usual. thanks for your excellent excellent reporting. and we're following other breaking news as well as president biden and donald trump agreed with debate right here on cnn, the trump campaign, asking for two additional debates, we have new information was shared that with you when we come back here's to getting better with age. >> here's the beaten these two every thursday helped fuel today with boost type protein complete nutrition, you need without the stuff you don't so here's two now you will mate
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new. he's calling our president biden to face in not twice, but four times saying, and i'm quoting trump now, there should be more than just two opportunities for the american people to hear more from the candidates themselves. close quote earlier this our president biden's principal, deputy campaign manager, told me that's off the table at this time, saying the president did not mince words when he said two debates cnn's alayna treene has more details for us. she's working this story, elaine. and what more can you tell us? >> well, if i think it's clear and you could just saw that the present the former president's campaign is calling for, for debates they wanted to beat biden as much as possible. that's what they're telling man, i think it's really interesting because what i've been told from donald trump's campaign, including this is an indication from his co-campaign manager is chris lacivita and susie wiles. is that they think that having biden on the debate stage with donald trump will show that biden is the weaker
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candidate. remember back in 2020, we saw donald trump and joe biden face off on a debate stage. and donald trump was very aggressive. he barely let joe biden get a word in, and he actually fell in the polls after that appearance. however, his campaign argues, they think it will be totally different. this election cycle and that having trump on stage with biden will show that biden is feeble and that he's a weaker candidate than he was back in 2020. and so we'll see how that pans out. the other thing i just want to point in your tension two is all this attention on them both accepting the terms to the cnn debate and i'm calling for other debates comes after some back channeling between the two campaigns from what we're told is both joe biden's campaign end, donald trump's campaign want to go around the commission on presidential debates. they want earlier debates, both of them have called for that. they want, they are argue that because of early voting, that they need to have these debates earlier. and they also, as we see, have been very open to having a network hosts these debates rather than having it go through the commission on presidential debates. there are questions,
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of course. so because when you go through the cpd, they're televised on every network this will just be for the first one on cnn. and so i think there's still some details that are being worked out, but it's very clear that they're ready to circumvent the traditional process because your why did they not like the commission on presidential debates? both campaigns? >> well, i think there's a few things. one is, i think from the biden campaign side, we're seeing that they have different terms. they want to agree to, including having no well audience for this first cnn debate the trump campaign has been very frustrated behind the scenes with how the commission on presidential debates has been running. that's what they've been telling me. and part of it is that they want as many debates as possible as i said, and they want these to be earlier. they think that if they wait too long until they get up to the election, that many voters will already be casting their votes via early early voting, that the debates won't matter as much. >> interesting alayna treene, excellent reporting as usual. thank you. very, very much. we're learning that foreign operatives have ai generated deep fakes to try and influence the 2020 election here in the united states. what that could
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some, exclusive new cnn reporting us officials tell cnn that operatives working for the chinese and iranian government is created aig generated content to influence the 2020 presidential election. >> cnn national security reporters that cohen has details for zack, what can you tell us about this foreign disinformation campaign? >> yeah, well, we're told by multiple sources that those china and iran had developed a prepared these fake ai generated content that wasn't intended to target us, american voters in the closing weeks of the 2020 election. that was based on intelligence collected by the us's national security agency. and it's interesting because we did see in that time frame iran and china both take part in various misinformation, disinformation efforts, but were told that these bag ai
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generated content, neither audio and/or video. we're deployed by either country. so it's an interesting question is, why neither china or iran did ultimately use this ai content in 2020, but it's also the underpinning concern of why we're hearing so much from us lawmakers and hearing so much from you as officials. now, for you here's later about their concerns that technology's improved so much that both countries and russia and other foreign adversaries could use this kind of fake content to try to influence the 2024 presidential election. there's a senate intelligence committee hearing this afternoon that is going to cover threats foreign foreign interference in the 2024 election. mark warner, chairman of that committee, told our john berman earlier today that he expects to bring up this issue of deep fakes, this issue of fayek ai and generate a concept because that is a prevailing concern and a tool that we haven't seen foreign adversaries have before yeah, it's a really worrisome development in deed. excellent reporting, zach, thank you. very, very much. zach, own reporting for us. and to our viewers. thanks very much for
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