life with dr. sanjay gupta. >> listen wherever you get your podcasts it's friday, july 26, right now on cnn this morning for shaul and i couldn't be prouder to endorse your to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office kamala harris taking a big phone call, getting that big horseman from former president obama this morning. plus harris, his tough message to israel after her face-to-face meeting with prime minister netanyahu i haven't agreed to anything. i agree to a debate with joe biden. my donald trump is so far refusing to commit to a debate against his new opponent and we're following this developing story out of paris, coordinated arson

all right. 6:00 a.m. here in washington, alive. look at the white house on this friday morning warn everyone and happy friday. we actually made it to the end of what has been an absolutely ridiculous newsweek. i am kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. new this morning. yes, she can. barak and michelle obama closing clean out the week for kamala harris endorsing her days after president biden left the race i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, camila, i am proud of you. >> this is going to be historic. >> we call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse your do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. >> oh, my goodness michelle brock, this means so much to me. >> i am looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both following joe biden's announcement that he was exiting the race on sunday, the obamas had initially held off endorsing anyone expressing

their confidence instead, in the party and the process this morning's announcement, of course, yet another sign opposition to harris as the democratic nominee is effectively nonexistent the obamas join every other major democratic figure and uniting behind the vice president and includes the bidens, the clintons democratic congressional leaders, chuck schumer, hakeem, jeffries, and the former house speaker, nancy pelosi. >> in a statement released this morning, the obamas write this quote, there is no doubt in our mind that kamala harris has exactly what it takes to win this election section and deliver for the american people at a time when the stakes have never been higher, she gives us all a reason to hope. and the harris campaign may have more reason to hope this morning a new poll of likely voters conducted by the new york times. it finds no clear leader between donald trump and kamala harris. that's our parlance here at cnn. just one point separates the candidates here, and that stands in pretty stark contrast to the same poll conducted just three weeks ago when this was a different race.

in the wake of his performance at the cnn debate, joe biden found himself six points behind donald trump, there was a very clear leader then, and there is no clear leader now, joining me now to discuss cnn, senior white house correspondent kayla tausche is here. ashley etienne, the former communications director for vice president harris, and republican strategist, sarah longwell joins us. welcome to all of you so the obamas did hold off on doing this. kayla, partly my understanding is everybody kind of wanted this to roll out in a sequential way. this was widely expected, but at the same time, it gets, it gets everybody on the same team. >> and i think the obama is also wanted to avoid the appearance of being seen as putting their thumb on the scale here, letting the rule let's committee process play out. letting the delegates lineup behind harris and then coming out with their endorsement. but it also sequential nature of this also has the benefit of extending her honeymoon periods likely, i mean, this is quite a sprint to the finish line for harris. she has a ton of momentum behind

her and when these things happen in these sequences, it only serves to extend her momentum, which i think is also part of the rationale here ashley one of the things that stood out to me in that statement is that they explicitly said that they think kamala harris could win because there had been some reporting about nervousness that the former president barak obama may have had around whether she was capable of winning the election and that was a big part of the kind of behind the scenes conversation generally, as we approach this that seems to be tamping down. >> and it was laughing in my head because i think people said the same thing about barak obama. right? and so that's what i found very interesting is that he would make a statement like that about her, but i love my former boss. i think he's great and i'm glad that they both came out and endorsed her and they came out at a time where it was very clear there's no question that she's not only prepared based on what we saw yesterday, but there's this huge enthusiasm from the grassroots to within the party and even beyond we'll get into the polling for her.

and now it is her moment. and so i'm excited for for her. i think this endorsement was just additional cherry on top of a 15 tier cake with icing already flowing. all off of it for her. i think what she represents today, the example which she embodies is what's possible when you turn the page. that's also would barack obama exemplified turn the page on yesterday, turn the page on what's old, turn the page on sexism, racism, all the isms. and now we're seeing what's possible, not just for her, but for the nation and for the party. >> sarah longwell, and you talk to voters all the time and a little bit later on in the show, we're going to, we're going to hear from some of them and what they've had to say recently. but let's look at this new york times poll a little bit more in depth because i mean 48, 47 is the head-to-head between donald trump and kamala harris, right now but then let's look at what happens when you add in

third-party candidates you get 44, 43, 5%. i mean, it clearly her being there is changing the calculus on how a third party is affecting things what are you hearing from voters about how this race has changed? >> will look, here's the thing i've been talking to voters about kamala harris for years now, the number one thing they would say is they had a negative impression of her, but it was steeped in this idea that they didn't see her. >> they felt like i don't know what she does. i don't see her around. i was excited about her, but now i just she's invisible that for a long time. i think that was the reason people were nervous about her because they felt like there was this negative impression. and the only time you did see here when republicans were doing a mean super cut off for laughing or something. but if you're listening actually what you hear is all the upside, because the voters didn't know or which meant she had this opportunity to completely reintroduce herself to the country and have them take a fresh look at her and what's happening right now. and the focus groups we've done

subsequently with swing voters, which i think we're going to listen to is you're starting to hear people saying, yeah, give me your pitch because they were like so desperate for something else besides a race between donald trump and joe biden, that even if they were i'm not sure how they felt about our they were like, okay, give me your best shot. i'm ready to listen. i'm here. yeah. one of the most interesting things to me about this election is just how right the voters have turned out to be, right in that they were telling us all the way along, we don't want this, we don't want this and the number of people that would come up to me and say, seriously, this is seriously the campaign we're going to get and be like, well, it seems that way the presented respondents in polls in april 2023, he said that joe biden's age was an issue, and yet that month he and his team decided to launch another bid for the white house, even though the voters were telling them, then as they ended up being right again this summer, that age is an issue. >> it will continue to be an issue will kaitlan can i ask you i mean, you've covered you've been covering in the white house for years now. >> what sarah was saying about kamala harris not really being

present, can you walk us through how the biden team has deployed or not deployed harris because she clearly has kind of had a growth trajectory recently, but she had a tough start. >> she had a tough start and certainly i was talking about some of her her policy the assignments with folks who know her well, earlier this week and they were making the point that yes, she had very tough assignments, but she also has a much smaller staff and she has a much smaller budget. so she doesn't have the travel budget. she doesn't have the expertise in-house that someone like a president or even an agency would. the argument from some people who have been in the fold with her was that not necessarily that she was set up to fail, but the infrastructure around her was not necessarily benefiting her. certainly, those are people who want to see her succeed. now but i think that her, her record on the border and immigration is going to come under very harsh scrutiny in the next few months and her record on some of the other issues, ashley, i know you want to get them you do. >> i just want to get in on this issue because i was actually there from day one

with kamala harris and this narrative that she was not present, wasn't doing anything. is completely false narrative. i think it's out of context. i talked to a lot of reporters then i still talk to a ladder reporters about this. now, you've been writing it actually, let me push pause on you. i'm so sorry. we're having a technical problem with your microphone, so we'll go to break, we'll get it fixed and we'll continue this conversation on the other side. up next here on cnn this morning. >> it is time for this war to end finalize the deal as soon as possible. >> kamala harris lays out a very clear position on israel applause, sabotage in paris, french rail lines target by arson attacks just hours before tonight's opening ceremonies at the olympics. and by the governor of kentucky, a vp hopeful issued this strange apology folks, i've been a person that when sometimes i've i've gone over the line, i wanted to make sure that i set

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death of far too many innocent civilians. >> kamala harris declaring shall not be silent about the suffering in gaza right after her face-to-face meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu according to axios, netanyahu was angry about her comments, suggesting that they could hurt ongoing ceasefire and hostage release negotiations netanyahu also sat down with president biden at the white house. it was the president's first meeting with a world leader since announcing he's withdrawing from the presidential race we've known each other for 40 years. >> and you've known every israeli prime minister 50 years from pulled from a proud jewish zionist to a proud irish-american zionist i want effect you for 50 years of public service and 50 years of support for a proud irish american zionist kayla tausche, the tone from kamala harris, notably different on this issue than president biden has been.

>> what this is the presidential race hangs over how she deals with this, right? because it's something that's really split the democratic party. what are, what is your reporting around? how she views this and why she did what she did yesterday. >> we'll there had been some tensions in the white house for recent months, just based on some of the tone that she had taken in her official capacity as vice president. there was one event in particular back in march in selma, alabama, where she led what the suffering in gaza, it was the very first thing that she said and she talked. she talked very emphatically about the need for an immediate ceasefire, which at the time was under negotiations just as it on a temporary basis. and she did in that speech say that israel had a right to defend and itself, but it was seen as buried in those remarks. and there was a lot of tension within the white house about whether she was coming across as breaking with the president in those remarks. and i was told at the time and even recently that she's not substantively different than

the president xi's tonally different. she is more emphatic about the things that she cares about she does believe that there's room for both sides of this debate in a way that the president and his own team were very slow to embrace that throughout the course of this conflict she had a very clear goal in those comments yesterday, and that was to put her mark on the administration' 's position to step out and identify her own position on israel, on gaza. and it was something that had been at the center of many discussions in the campaign. i mean, national finance committee chair told donors wednesday, they said, what is her position on israel, and they said, wait a few days, we've got to get ironed out. there may be more nuance than there has been before. now that she's able to so, you know, plant the flag on her own policy. >> sarah longwell what kind of opportunity is there with voters here for kamala harris especially i'm interested in michigan as one of the states that democrats absolute really have to win if they want to get to to 70. this has been something that's really divided. the democratic party

and it's something that young voters are very focused on. for example like how big is the opportunity here for her on this issue? >> i think the biggest opportunity is that she's able to articulate nuanced in a way that joe biden was really struggling to do simply as a communicator, joe biden was having trouble i think being able to express clearly, like a complicated position and i think she is doing a pretty good job of trying to find the sweet spot more for democrats than the total electorate. >> but certainly democrats want to hear an acknowledgment of the suffering in gaza. and i think she is coming out now and she is emphasizing her support for israel while oh mentioning the suffering in gaza, which i think for the democratic coalition feels like the right space. and i just saw a poll this morning out of michigan in which she is now there was a nine-point swing toward her, i think biden just had too much baggage with voters on this. they were too angry at him among democrats when i do focus groups with young democrats, it was the only thing that you

would hear them talk about. she's got an opportunity to reset and i do also think voters might give her some grace. they might give her a little more latitude than they would have joe biden because they feel like maybe she's slightly more with them ashley, as somebody who worked for for harris for a long time. >> and what insight can you give us into how she thinks about this issue? >> well, i think what you saw yesterday and i'm glad you asked me that, but what i think we saw yesterday is really her ethos she said yesterday, icu to both sides, and that is who kamala harris is. i mean, i remember working for her and she went and tell us when you go into the oval office, when you go into the roosevelt room you bring the people into those rooms who don't even know that those rooms exist. and so to have her do two things, judge, they won reinforce her commitment to israel. dating all the way back from when she was a child two also say, i icu to the palestinian people and say you have a right to live

free. i mean, that was a powerful statement to say that it's not a binary choice. i can see both sides and i think that's what makes her the leader the right leader for this moment and i think i would i would also add to that how strong she looked yesterday. i mean, i think it's it's those types of things that we don't really talk about a lot on television that doesn't really show up in the poll. but she looked in command, she looked commanding yesterday. she looked forward to fight and who she is fortified in what she's capable of. and i think that came across very well yesterday. worked in that building twice and i've never seen a vice president deliver such a remark so profound on a such a big stage on such with a world leader like this before. so that was incredibly impressive in its clear that joe biden is moving to the left and giving her the stage now to commit but this is who she is as a leader that she brings everyone to the table, everyone's perspective to the table, and she she made the point and reiterated and that's a lesson for young

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now we're going to pivot quickly because i want to talk about the opening ceremony of this evening. all eyes on paris and what we believe we will happen. it's raining now in paris will get a break in the afternoon and then just in time this evening, we do see the potential for light to moderate rain showers that could put a damper on tonight's opening ceremony. of course, so much of the celebration reliance on the weather that occurs this evening all right. >> our weatherman van dam, derek. thank you very much. have a great weekend my next will we see another presidential debate before november now appears he's back pedaling, but i'm ready coming up the harris and trump campaigns battle over the terms of the debates plus potential vp picks, additional thing to be harris's running mate. >> talk about the latest when

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prison and trump you think you could deliver the goods against the commander and cheseboro well, jamie, if i do debate president trump, i'm sure it'll be a competitive face-off where either one of us could end up on top really know i'd wiped the floor with him as far back as five years ago, kamala harris said she was ready to debate donald trump. now, she may actually get the chance deal is not done yet though trump's campaign has refused to commit until harris is officially the nominee even though of course their candidate debated president biden before he was the official nominee. >> well, i haven't agreed to anything. i agree to a debate with joe biden if kamala harris does end up being the democratic nominee, will you commit to debating her at least one time foe? yes, absolutely. i would be willing to do more than one debate actually harris says trump is back that way many of you have been asking me

about the debate and i'll tell you i'm ready to debate donald trump. >> i have agreed to the previously agreed upon september 10 debate. he agreed to that previously. now appears he's back pedaling but i'm ready and i think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. and so i'm let's go so kayla tausche, she where are we on this? >> there was of course supposed to be a debate on abc early in september, trump seems to be saying yes, he'll debate her, but won't agree to that place in time. >> well, donald trump does things on his own terms and if there's an opportunity to change the terms and he will try to do that the first debate that took place was done on terms the biden campaign thought would benefit their candidate. we have a safe seen how that turned out. but in this situation, most of the terms were brought to the trump campaign and they had very little input on them. and so i see this as having covered trump's presidency before as

him trying to get a better deal out of it, whether it is a deal over how much time each answer is are trying to pick the moderators for the debate. this is him saying, i'm not going to do it. i'm not going to give you the ratings. bonanza unless you come and meet me on my terms. yeah. >> of course. he knew he loves an audience. for example, we didn't have one in debate with biden that might be something else. they're going to we talking about. >> alright, let's turn now to this it seems like the younger generation, they are more likely to vote for harris over biden that's just the vibe that i get based on what's being posted online and based on what's being shared on social media, i just feel like it'd be like a breath of fresh air. >> i feel like it'd be like a new beginning. >> she's quick-witted. his funniest he has personality obviously being a female there are people out there that don't want to vote for a female president. i think those same people are ones that would not vote for biden either these voices from a focus group

conducted by republican voters against trump, they're sounding off about kamala harris as the presumptive democratic nominee. >> that group also running their first major ad campaigns since president biden left the race. this is targeting conservative leaning voters in swing states. let's watch i'm a two-time trump voter who predominant trump in 2016 and 20 and 20202020 voted for donald trump. i will never support donald trump. >> i'm not going to vote for him to burn down our democracy and rule over the ashes. >> he's putting donald trump first and to hell with them. controversy. >> i will never vote for trump again. >> you'll never get my poll ever, ever all right, so sarah longwell is here. >> she's a part of that, of course, in charge of it. i should say sara, i think the question that i've had as we've watched this week unfold and it's been a fast one, so we're still trying to catch up but i'm wondering for a lot of these conservatives, perhaps

people that have pulled the lever for republicans have to be convinced not just to go to the voting booth and not vote for trump, but pull the lever for the democrats is it harder to convince those people with kamala harris at the top of the ticket than it was with joe biden or is it easier so look, i had assumed i think for a long time that it would be harder that joe biden back in 2020 i was so glad when the democratic party came together and nominated him because i knew that he was the only one in that field that we were going to be able to move these right-leaning independents, soft gop voters and get them to vote for the democrats and not trump those kinds of voters make up the margins. and i've been very worried about whether or not they would go for kamala harris, but you know, what's happened in the intervening time is that these voters have increasingly become so frustrated with this choice. so down on biden, i mean, we were seeing a ton of backsliding in swing group voting groups of people who had voted for trump i'm sorry, who had voted for no, voted for trump in 16 and

then voted for biden in 2020. lot of them are moving back to trump. now as we've been talking to swing voters, you hear that breath of fresh air there. the contours of this race changing or exciting to them. and that is being helpful and also a lot of it depends how she runs and what her vice president looks like. >> i. >> think that if she can pivot somewhat to the middle and look, if j.d. vance can go from calling donald trump america's hitler, to being his vice president. there's room for her to pivot to the middle of it. and so i think if she does that and doesn't run like the progressive californian that she did in 2020 and runs more like an ag who is a tough prosecutor i think she can pick up a lot of these swing voters. so we have a little bit more sound from some of these voters talking about the, their reservations about harris, if you will, let's listen to a little bit more of that. i just don't know her well enough. >> the positive part is, i assume her being a woman, she's going to be looking out for when it's right. i really think that four more people were racist and sexist than they let on that's going to be

how they vote it's just going to be they're going to vote because oh, i'm going to vote for trump because i can't vote for a woman it's going to be the oh, but what happens if she has a bad day and she gets really emotional? ashley what is your sense of how they plan to deal with all of this? because this has been a big part of me that especially among many black voters who tend to be very pragmatic, they're worried about putting her up because it can be harder to run. it is harder to run as a black candidate and as a woman yeah, i mean, i think what we've seen over the last four five days or however many days it's been, is that america is bigger than these two issues. >> that america wants to move past these issues and you see that and again, not only the grassroots support, but you can

hear it in the tone and the tenor of what those swing voters are saying. you can see it in the money that she's raising but what i think is what we should focus on is the internal polls within the hair. now harris campaign is showing that not only she outpacing donald trump among that big, broad coalition that biden built to win in 2020. but that she's also in a position to expand that that coalition. she's plus 19 with white educated voters. she's plus 19 would voters over the age of 65 and that's incredibly encouraging. and to add onto that the previous point that was made, she now has an opportunity to clear the slate, dropped job. joe biden's baggage. now, and re-introduce herself to the world because she has been in the shadow she has been in the shadows and now she's on the job? yeah. now she's on now. she's on the national and global stage. and people are getting a sense of

who she is. and clearly they want more of it. >> let's put up the new york times poll has a little bit of a breakdown of how voters in various camps see this race. and i, kayla tausche, when we get to chance look at it, you see there white voters with trump, fairly by with a majority but these black voters, 72%, 19 19% for trump at 19% still higher than i think democrats really needed to be but it going in the right direction for harris yeah but certainly that is a real opportunity for her because that is messaging about the economy, and that is an area where president biden did not succeed for the majority of his presidency in identifying with americans who felt like life was too expensive. >> and by enlarge, you've seen in those polls, black voters saying groceries are too expensive. my housing is too expensive. yes, i have a job but i don't make enough in that job. when you hear president biden having continue to harp on where we created 15 million jobs, but voters saying

but i'm not making enough, this is an opportunity for harris to come out with a stronger economic message to try to turn the tide of those numbers. again, i mentioned that the call that her campaign held with donors earlier this week, but i think it's really instructive because they asked, again, what is her message on the economy? and those donors were told again, we're still working on it because they know that's that's an area where they have to change what's been happening for sure all right? >> so next here on cnn this morning, malicious arson acts aimed at disrupting travel in paris. >> we now learned the opening ceremonies will go on as planned regardless. plus billy joel's door grand at madison square garden, coming to an end sunday. the whole story digs deeper into a historic weekend presidential politics first, the rise of kamala harris mahmood by the story of joe

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of madison square garden after a ten-year residency, featuring 150 shows the late night host jimmy fallon presenting joel with a banner that will live in the rafters at the iconic new york city arena. that will live very cool all right, let's turn back now to the presidential race vice president harris is less than two weeks away from naming her running mate, setting up one of the fastest vp searches in modern history. >> all right, fine. jimmy i'll do it i'm rob lowe and i am auditioning for the role of vice president of the united states to remember when they go high we go low well with any kamala harris, his vice presidential vetting well underway. >> a short of candidates

shaping up some of the top contenders. of course, hail from swing states and they are already trying out their ability, trying to demonstrate their ability to go after there would be republican counterpart of all the people in the country that donald trump could have chose. this reflects his judgment. he chose j.d. vance. this is not somebody who is a normy. he's not a normal person some of the tapes that have come out on him talking about childless parents those kinds of things are not going to play well in north carolina or anywhere across the country. he has exploited and attempted to attack my fellow kentuckians and it's my job as governor to stand up when that happens. >> what i really worry about is what he would do be one heartbeat away from the president if it's friday, you know what it means joining me now, michael smerconish, host of cnn's smerconish also cnn political commentator. >> michael always wonderful to see you. i let's, let's start

with harris's picks and then i do want to spend some time talking big picture and talking about j.d. vance in particular as well, were both through in pa is josh shapiro the guy for her is mark kelly, the guy for her. these are the two names that have floated at the top of my list, but i want to know what you think yes and yes. >> i think she's got to solid choices in both kelly and in shapiro because it's been a phenomenal week for the vice president. such a turnaround, kasie, from the two of us, a week ago today talking about what i thought was a near flawless republican national convention donald trump came out of that with a head of steam leading in the national polls, leading in the battleground polls, and look at where we are now. but in the end where can she move the needle in those seven states? so you look at kelley and you look at shapiro, the margin that donald trump enjoyed before this whole change was larger in arizona jonah, that

it was in pennsylvania. i think josh shapiro brings her the opportunity to put pennsylvania back in the democratic column. and i have to believe the behind closed doors right now, they are focus grouping and polling the bejesus out of how these two, in particular move their respective states yeah, very interesting. >> michael harris, one of the reasons why harris has had such a great week so far is because she does seem to be popping on social media for all the right reasons. >> while j.d. vance, the republican running mate, seems to be doing it for many seem to think the wrong ones. this soundbite has been making the rounds. you may have heard it, but just as a reminder, this was j.d. vance with tucker carlson watch we're effectively run in this country via the democrats be via our corporate oligarch's by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives. >> and the choices that they've made. and so they want to make

the rest of the country miserable too. and it's just a basic fact. you look at kamala harris pete buttigieg, aoc, the entire future of the democrats is controlled by people without children this prompted jennifer aniston to weigh in someone who we do not hear from on political issues very often, but she has been public about her own struggle to have children. >> all i can say is mr. vance, i pray your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her for own one day, i hope she will not need to turn to ivf as a second option because you're trying to take that away from her too. this seems to these comments seem to have really broken through how big of a problem do you think they are and what's your sort of overall way of looking at this? >> i think it's not, playing well in mar-a-lago. i don't know how it's playing in middle america. i assume not well, but i'm sure it's not playing well in mar a-lago because the last thing that former president trump wants is to have j.d. vance become a drag on the ticket when he's got other issues that he's got to deal with there's also a tone question here that this

brings to my mind in terms of how does the trump campaign, and i think they're wrestling with this. and so far coming to the wrong answer, how do they deal with vice president kamala harris? what are they going to say about her in my view to say that she's a progressive from san francisco and to regard her as the most liberal well member of the united states senate. that's all appropriate. that's all debatable. that's all fair game to talk about her as a dei hire and to say anything that smacks of misogyny or racism, i think he's going to have enormous blowback. so they got to get their act together and decide now how they're going to handle her and what i'm seeing in his truth social responses so far, meaning president trump tells me he's taking the wrong approach. he should have been more dignified. he should have come out of that convention as the victim that he was of an assassination attempt and continued to try and maintain that level of dignity so michael, i absolutely take your point and we've seen trump on the stump once since this all unfolded, and he seemed to mostly stick to policy based

attacks against harris. >> he didn't warn that he wasn't going to be nice. do you think trump himself is capable of doing what i'm sure chris lacivita and susie wiles who are running the campaign, want him to do which is what you are suggesting. do you think trump the man can actually pull that off no. >> and the reason that i say probably not is because i think of the convention speech for the first 25 minutes for the first 30 minutes or so of the convention speech, i thought was really compelling, really convincing. he was recounting what it was like to be on the wrist stephen end of that bullet and then you could almost see him not almost. you could see him deviate from the teleprompter, go off script as he so often does, he's very good at reading the crowd and knowing when he needs to enthuse his base. but that's also what gets him in trouble. and what what kamala harris and donald trump both need to be considering now is that the primary nomination process is over. she's no longer needing to worry about progressives and she didn't have a fight anyway, and he's got his base

it's time now to think if they can move anybody who's a centrist, anybody who's an independent, or at least all the enthusiasm of the party's respective basis really interesting, right? >> michael smerconish. thank you. as always, my friend, always wonderful to have you. thank you. remember tune in tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for smerconish right here on cnn. i'm actually filling in for chris wallace right after that tomorrow as well. so i hope you'll stick around for that to alright. olympic organizers in paris announcing tonight's opening ceremonies will go ahead as planned, despite disruptions to the french train system and the possibility of rain, the stars will be out for opening night lady gaga, just one of the headliners for tonight's opening ceremonies at the paris olympics. according to multiple reports, she's going to be performing a

duet with celine dion before the opening ceremonies even begins, snoop dogg will carry the olympic torch on its final leg. through the streets in northern paris and carrying the flag for team usa lebron james along with tennis star coco gauff, golf spoke to our coy wire about what that honor means to her it took a while for it to sink in. i still haven't really sunk like sunk in in. i mean, so many people are coming up to say congratulations, not just from team usa, but from other sports and countries as well. so i don't think i don't think it will until maybe honestly, like a year from now or something because i think it's just going to be one of those things is that your like i can't believe i just did that the olympic countdown is on. >> let's go live to paris. christine brennan is there. we've had some news this morning, but set the scene for us, christine and preparation for these opening ceremonies, but you're going to look different than any that we've seen before in recent memory that's right, kasie, this has never happened before and opening ceremony that's not in

a stadium, i think for people watching the olympics over the last years and decades, you know, you think of the stadium, you think of the flame coming in the athletes coming in behind the flags this time the athletes will be on boats on the seine river and the fans will be along the river on the bridges. as the athletes, as the performers, as entertainment comes along on the sen. it's an incredibly ambitious undertaking by the french fingers crossed. they're going to be able to pull it off. of course the disruptions it's with the trains earlier today, but i as we are standing here, we hear the police going by all the time that security is incredibly tight and here's hoping if the weather holds rank in his stopped for now that they can have the celebration that will be a really a once in a lifetime event for the olympic games yeah. >> christine, what do we know about that arson attack on the train lines at this point? >> we're reporting and we continue to report as everyone else's casey and i have talked to my sources in the us olympic and paralympic committee, and

they say all the athletes are fine, all the family members of everyone has it's been alerted, they're all on the international sos system. so they're getting the same updates that we are. and the u.s. opc we'll have all of their athletes on buses, so no one's taking a train to an event anyway. but of course, the great concern is hundreds of thousands of people according to the various reports that are now being impacted, who are trying to come into paris for the opening ceremonies and for the actual competition, which of course, women's soccer and others have started but the big events of course tomorrow swimming right off the bats that saturday morning, katie ledecky, the chinese, all the issues that we've been discussing. and people have tickets for that and they fought those tickets in some cases, months, even years ago. and now they are, of course, caught in the same. the issue of can they get here on the trains? and so kind of surprising that this is what's happened, but we know the olympics are a target kasie for

possibly anything, knock on wood that this will be as bad as it gets here. and let's hope that's the case that this is all it is. >> fingers crossed. christine brennan for us christine. thank you very much. >> you guys have favorites, olympic favorites. what do you watching? >> oh, i'm a track and field kind of girl. so i'm watching all this brands. i used to run the 400800 mile relay. yes. come on a lot to like usa i think this is i also think this is a great opportunity. i'm curious to see how kamala harris is going to lean in on the olympics. it really, well, you write back to your thing to circle what do you watch it? yes. >> of women soccer course. of course. >> all right. i will leave you with this on a friday because i got to tell you i loved it chevrolet rolling out the most powerful corvette that they have ever produced. >> the detroit automakers as the newsy r1 packs more than 1,000 horsepower, know corvette

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