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uncertainty in the middle east now reaching a whole new level after the killing of hamas's political leader in iran, who was a key figure in ceasefire negotiations with israel. >> we are expecting to hear from prime minister benjamin netanyahu just minutes from now, also this hour, former president donald trump set to speak at a convention for black journalists. his appearance in itself sparking controversy. meantime, vice president kamala harris heading to texas after a high-energy rally in the battleground, state of georgia last night for her campaign, attack trump on immigration. we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. to cnn news central hello, i'm brianna keilar alongside boris

sanchez and we do begin with major developments in the middle east and growing fears that chances of an all-out war in the region have drawn magically increased. >> hamas says its top political leader, ismail haniah, was killed inside of iran. he was there as a guest of ron's presidential inauguration and had met earlier in the day with ron's president. we're also watching washington where any moment now we expect to hear reaction from both the state department and the white house hamas and iran are both blaming israel for killing haniah, and both are vowing revenge. iranian state media says a strike targeted honea at the location where he was staying in tough ron and he was a key player in gaza ceasefire and hostage negotiations. and his death could certainly complicate those talks. >> it is important to point out for israel has not commented on what happened into ron but just hours before that, israel confirmed it was behind this attack. one that they claim killed a top hezbollah commander in beirut, lebanon saying this was retaliation for

a recent attack in the israeli-occupied golan heights that killed 12 children again, at any minute, we're set to hear from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we will bring you those remarks live. but right now we want to take you live to tel aviv with cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward. clarissa, obviously a lot of anxiety in the region and around the world let's take a step back and give us the context of these two incidents coming within 24 hours of each other well i was just speaking barez to a reserve as brigadier general ossof, rn, who said that there's a broad understanding here now that there we'll be consequences. >> there will be some kind of an attack in retaliation for these two major assassinations of various great senior figures within hezbollah and hamas on lebanese and iranian soil. he

was also pointing out that you could be looking at something quite different in terms of the types of weapons that would be used particularly with a retaliation from hezbollah. they have much more precise weaponry they have further range weaponry. so really a number of different options on the table that is in stark contrast to what you see on the street beats here in israel where the government has not told people to change their posture. people are continuing to go about their normal lives. and yet there is the very real understanding that normal life as, as such, as it is, may not continue for that much longer. we do expect to hear from israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu. he will not be talking live to journalist. he is just providing some kind of a statement we believe that should be coming out in the next seven or eight minutes or so, but certainly fair to say that the entire region now brianna and bars really on a

knife this is a moment where it feels that the brink is so very close and not clear right now what potential off-ramps could be given the significance of these two assassinations in clarissa. >> this obviously is something that is going to impact these talks. we certainly expect that israel certainly must have anticipated that what was the calculus there and what are the expectations? >> well, for the 115 hostages inside gaza and for the more than 2 million civilians yes, it's trapped inside that hellscape. this is potentially a disastrous moment. those talks, which despite all the setbacks had been kind of soldiering on, are now very much in jeopardy. we have seen secretary of state antony blinken furiously reaching out

to all the different parties who are part of that. but we've also so seeing the communities who really are kind of a linchpin here saying that their outraged by this heinous act. and so now the question is, how can you keep the momentum going for those talks important for our viewers to understand that ismail haniah, the leader of the political faction of hamas whatever your feelings about him, he was the central interlocutor and within the context of hamas, he is seen as something of a moderate so the question if it becomes, who replaces him? could it potentially be someone like khaled meshaal? will he have the same kind of leverage on the table? will he have? the same power as he needed? will we see sinwar take more control over these negotiations? a lot of open questions and the most sort of pressing of those is do these talks even still continue at this stage? or does

everything just stop until there is more clarity around? and what happened, why it happened, why it happened. >> and most pressingly, what the response will be right. clarissa, stay with us. if you could, joining the conversation and we have a number of folks here, cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson. we have cnn national security analyst and former deputy director of national intelligence, beth sanner, and also cnn military analyst retired us air force colonel cedric leighton. beth to you first, where does this leave us this attack the attack against hezbollah as well. what does this mean for this moment in this conflict? >> i think that the way we should look at these twin attacks is that they were both retaliation and also deterrence in its most bold and raw form by israel so the way that they struck both in the layer, the very layer of hezbollah and in iran and tehran. this is aimed

the iranian strike against hamas was aimed as much or more against iran. and if you look back at netanyahu's speech before the special, the joint session. this is what he said. i mean, he said iran iran iran hezbollah hamas, and then he hardly talked about hostages at all. so this really shows the prioritization and the boldness of this also is designed to really deter that retaliatory response and limit it because they've shown they can go with precision strikes backed by exquisite intelligence and they can blow up things in the middle of the heartland of these countries. >> nic dovetailing off of beth's point that this sends a message to iran. and again, we're set to hear from netanyahu at any moment. so this may change, but it strikes me that the idf, israel would take credit for the attack in beirut route, but they've yet

to say anything about the one in tehran. >> why typically they don't i mean, when their perpetrator assassinations in tehran and more broadly across iran in the past, they don't tend to take credit for it. but no one in the region i think is really left in any meaningful hold out about it. the difficulty for the united states at the moment is that because of that successful on his own terms, visit and speech at congress by prime minister netanyahu has gone back to the region with the way it's interpreted the region is with the emperor imprimatur, if you will, of the united states sees actions come so quickly. and why do i say that? because over the weekend after the strike on the golan by hezbollah killing those druze children a source in the region was asking me what they were trying to figure out, what's going on, what's the united states real position vis-a-vis netanyahu. what are they going to do? what are they going to support? will they support, increased conflict inside of lebanon? they're not

asking those questions so strongly today because they think they understand, they think the two countries are keenly aligned on this yes, both targets, united states, very happy to see removed from the playing field. but i think this makes secretary state anthony blinken's efforts to tone things down and all international media it is efforts to tone things down, get talks started again. so woefully hard. >> any meaningful progress i think on anything before the election. >> i mean, really forget it. >> you can see that from how he is reacting to this and just demurer ring from commenting on so much of what we've seen happening here. he doesn't want to weigh in cedric, give us your military analysis of the types of strikes that we have seen here. and also just to note that we are being told by state run media media that in the case of the tariff, ron strike on a nia, it was an airborne guided projectile on

his residence where he was staying in the capital city so what this sounds like, brianna is in essence a very precise as beth was mentioning, very precise elegance based strike i, using probably drones that came either locally launched, which is possible, or all the way from israel. >> now that it takes a little bit of engineering to do and a lot part of connectivity that has to be done in, in exactly the right way. but it is technically possible for the israelis to do something like that. so what they've done in the iran case with hundreds yeah they have been able to go in and they found out exactly where he was living. they knew what his schedule was. they knew all of those precise details the fact that they knew that was i think critical in allowing them to execute this plan. the way they did. then on the case of beirut you have a situation with a hezbollah target. you have a situation where that was clearly retribution, but also, as you mentioned, this goes into that

escalatory piece where you have that escalatory ladder that could go one way or the other and in this particular case, the military options are such that they are warning. we have these capabilities. the israelis are warning this but they're waiting for response from the other side colonel, does it surprise you that at least according to the reporting, israel didn't notify the united states that we're going to go into touran this way. not at all. boris, because the israelis wanted to keep a lot of these types of actions secret there's always the intelligence world, beth and i know this quite well. there's this concept of plausible deniability and that is what the israelis were basically operating on. did the reason they do that is they don't want to give the store away. they don't want to tell their secrets. if they don't want them to be prevented. in other words, they don't want these operations to be he stopped as so they don't tell us about them. and that's one of the reasons that this is key. >> let's listen in to the prime minister of israel during

statistically fees, israel, good eve iran, axis of evil she missiles that and iran is trying to put on us shall also article i cited three who hezbollah houthis, iran, and hezbollah have no coat. >> method's al-khalid happening. >> we national race the hate on them. >> and that's why we took mama deaf two weeks ago we hit the hoodies hezbollah what yesterday. >> we mission is a haze. >> got four choker. >> schubach, and i would like to be to hone the appreciation of for all the defense forces we shooting was responsible for

the murder of kids and citizens well let me he was responsible that's a phone. >> the texts. >> jeremy come up if israel is to in the last few months late summer. >> the united states but that's not my time he was involved shooting from limb, so for them, it was involved in the murder of american citizens and 85 french beninese soldiers the connection 2d iranian missiles have been marina omega much the champs. >> i saw the sorrow of the families about the law i said to our druze, what isn't sisters? >> we are brothers we have covenant with a decade audio and this is a tight covenant from a grift to grief. maybe presha it was selfless civil of

the innocent people who had some phone, you shoe gloomy, but the him, in addition to the suffer of the north citizens that are no one stock, not able to live in their houses. we are not going to we're not going to be silent. will make everyone paid the price. everyone that's murder is the anyone that take our children citizen of israel in mud because these are challenging days from miami from beirut, there are threats. we are ready for any scenario we are prepared covered more. we are going to take high price got to exert high price from each arena as i saw him, citizen of israel shall i mean, come on like the beginning of the war, the first few days of the war should be cooler now, over i asked everyone to have

patience from what four months long rambling me buy to meta who does not same time in summer. >> people said to me, finish the war, it's, you know, we, exhausted what we could do. and we can't win. only if i wasn't given but this voices i'm not given then and that's governing if i was giving in, we will not steal that gun. you have habitual hamas to shoot me charlottesville. >> we will we will not get rid of philadelphia. this infrastructure of hamas. >> we want commercial be part of the law, we want to take over the philadelphi remote, don't really meet. >> and we will not be close to the framework to bring the hostage deal and to she but to return our hostages and to conquer the human aims of the war and make sure that gaza is

not going to be threaten israel and i have quiet in the north and south all these shipments in the last few months we managed to keep balloon because we took up brave decisions. when you're milken's a lawyer and it wasn't easy to do i had to make sure not to be under pressure for many places nba the nba. >> but we managed it because amlo i war is in the army in the defense forces, and they are determined to win the gop built on. >> and i backed him up we'd love god that we believe in our way we don't forget for a second term come in. >> the bereaved families there are still families that lost but the wounded and those who are trying to really take their life together we will fight and

with the help of god, we will win we've been listening to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is sending a message not only to leaders in the middle east, but across the world and to the israeli population as well. saying that we are facing challenging days, but we are ready for anything saying anyone that murders us were takes our children will pay we will extract a high price also notably asking the israeli population for patients, there have been many calls for a deal to bring hostages home, but he's essentially saying that the fight will continue, also sending a tacit that message to the united states saying that their strategy on the war in gaza will not bend to any pressure. >> yeah, he said, i'm not giving i've not been giving into the voices that say we have exhausted what we can do and clarissa, as you've been listening to this, he he went through when he ticked off a

list of successes or positions that he says israel is now in. that should be seen as successes. and he said he had to make sure that he has not been under pressure from anyone. he's not naming names there. but what did you think of what you heard? >> well, definitely a defiant tone. and also as was as expected, he did not address the elephant in the room, which of course is the assassination in tehran of haniah. he was very focused on the so-called axis of resistance. he says that is israel is engaged in a war against that axis. talked about the who these talked about, iran, talked about hezbollah he thanked obviously the defense forces and talked about the attack on sugar as retaliation for the children of muddles, champ's in the occupied golan heights. he said, we won't be silent and these are challenging days from beirut. there are threats, but we are ready so acknowledging

there, the very real possibility, indeed, the anticipated possibility that there will be some kind of retaliation, particularly from hezbollah. he asked the israeli people to have patience and he said to your point, brianna, people have said to me to finish this war, i wasn't giving up and i won't give in today. we've managed to come this far because we had to make short not to be any pressure under any pressure from any places that seemingly potentially a reference to the u.s. which has been putting a lot of pressure on netanyahu to find an exit strategy or an exit ramp to the hostilities as they have now been going on for nearly ten months. but nothing in that speech that indicates what this means for the hostages. what this means for for a ceasefire and hostage negotiations. and what the broader implications are

regionally, given the seriousness of this moment, not just with the assassination of sugar, which israel is talking about publicly but with the looming large possibility of a response from iran after the assassination of ismail haniyeh best to you. >> as clarissa said, he didn't address the elephant in the room, which is a looming iranian response following this assassination from iranian, the uranium perspective what do you imagine a response would be at it, it has to be something to assert themselves in the region, right? yeah. >> yeah. i mean, it could range from what we saw before, 350 missiles flying in an april, right? where the united states played this key role. but i actually, the signals coming out suggests that maybe we, they don't want to do that. i mean, you have to think about how weak they look, how weak they were perceived by some of

their own internal people about how that didn't go as planned and, so i think that this end this strike inside of tehran means that there could be more punishment, just like that so yes, we're in a new normal where we are now seeing strikes between these states that we never saw before directly on territory. but the un mission from iran, the iranian mission at the un did put out a statement saying that they would respond with special operations and so one of the things i would want our viewers to really know and think about is that the risk of assassination blowing up an embassy that kind of terrorism as a response is ratcheting up and especially in europe where they have much more range of activity, it's very scary thought. what does this do to hostage? negotiations? nic? >> i don't think that will be meaningful. hostage negotiations. a source i was speaking to said that this is the talks are over for now

month away and i think this is what prime minister netanyahu is very clear signaling here that the decisions he has made have been tough. they've not been easy but has been right look. at me. this is what i've done. we've got it right. trust me, follow me. as everyone waits to see how in which ways iran will respond. and if bets assessment is correct that the response won't come raining onto israel, then, then that will be a success. but let's also think about the domestic environment. it was just two days ago. i think that we were seeing right-wing politicians and supporters and israel storming an idf base because soldiers that were being questioned about the detention of palestinians and the treatment there. and then they went onto a storm a court building which by the impression created for israeli reporters on the ground, the police to a degree. step back and stood by.

>> you're looking at creating the right wing here, pressuring and creating tensions and divisions already existing in society, but also in the idf and also in the police service so netanyahu's the feet we think of this as the international stage, but the feat that he stands on at home are also on shaky grounds. >> so again, this was you sort of forget what you're seeing at home, or if you think about what you're seeing at home, we're still getting this right. the decisions, alright. we're going ahead with this way, and that's what we should understand from this it's his way neck, beth colonel leighton, and clarissa ward. >> thank you all very much minutes from now. former president donald trump is set to speak at the national association of black journalists conference in chicago his invitation sparking backlash. and infighting among some members of that organization. we're going to take you there for his remarks when we this is the home for the world's most essential stories in journalism. and now,

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i'm jessica schneider at the federal courthouse in washington, and this is cnn any moment now, former president donald trump is set to appear at the national association of black journalists convention in chicago. and he's expected to take part in a q&a session at the annual convention, something that sparked major backlash among certain members who have questioned why he's been given this platform. >> that's right. vice president kamala harris was also invited, but she will not attend. she is instead heading to texas for a number of events there. let's go now to sarah seidner, who is live in chicago. sara, what are you? hearing there about former president trump's appearance despite the controversy of the heard about that some members work a noise with the fact that he was being given a platform. >> he is the nominee for the

republican party for the president. should presidency. and if you take a look behind me so everyone has shown up for this. there are more than 1,000 people who are here and there are still a huge line outside people wanting to hear this conversation between three black journalists and donald trump himself is expected here in a short bit but there has been a lot of back-and-forth more than part of the reason why people were upset is because they saw him using this event as a way to try and encourage black voters to vote for him and also the same time going out. to the person who could potentially become the first black female american to become the president of the united states. calling her crazy tomlin saying she disrespected the national association of black journalists were not able to schedule post showing up here, not even virtually, but she has fairly tight schedule and now she is responding to him. and i would just we just got this

end. she is saying ahead of donald trump's compensation at me, bj today, let's remember remember exactly who the man is. not only does as she puts a donald trump has a history of demeaning and adj members and honorees remain pillars of the black press. he also has three of attacking the media and working against the vital role the press place in our democracy. they talk about the fact that they believe he is going to lie on the stage about what he has done before black folks in this country for african americans in this country and they do intend to have a conversation similarly virtually. but after the convention just been worked out with announcement association of black journalists. but here is what the president of any bj can lemon has said about this controversy and why it was so important to invite both of these potential nominees or assume the nominees out their respective parties for president, they've been doing so since 1976. here's what he said about the commonwealth it is our jobs as journalists to

have those uncommon, uncomfortable conversations. >> so that the people who count on us to inform them get the information from and i hope as a journalism organization, national association of black dramas, we take that portion seriously the last word and the name is douglas and they have all showed up. >> she try him listen to this conversation. we will have much more when the conversation happened in just a bit here. but there is controversy swirling and we are expecting there to be protests boris brianna all right. >> sara sidner, stay with us, if you will. and we do want to bring in our panelists right now. we have shermichael singleton and kate bedingfield with us. shermichael, i wonder what you think of this controversy over president trump appearing at this conference. >> i mean, i get it. i have a

lot of friends who are black journalist and i have talked with a ton of them over the last 24 hours but i also found in my conversations texts, a few phone calls that they also have thought that it was important. i mean, here's someone who very well may become the next president. again of the united states. and there are some very serious questions that black journalist who do represent the interests of the black community should be able to ask both leading candidates in terms of their policies and their politics and their philosophy sophie and how that will have implications on the broader black community. that is their job as journalists. and the job is to take two task politicians and political leaders. and so my hope is that they will ask tough questions. and my hope is that the former president will answer those tough questions. mean black people are not a pusillanimous in nature. that is just not in our been in terms of who we are in this country. we went through a whole host of things and so i think three strong black woman can ask the former president

three darn tough questions. >> kate to. you there has been some back-and-forth about why vice president harris isn't appearing at the conference apparently, it has to do with scheduling. she wanted to do it at a different time. the organizers say that it couldn't happen. they tried to accommodate her. again, a back-and-forth, but i'm wondering what it means that she's not there and yet donald trump is i would not read anything into that. >> i think her team has said that she's going to speak to any j. virtually in the coming weeks. i mean, the reality is she became the presumptive democratic nominee just over a week ago and has been you know, all of has essentially been flooded with activity so, the reality is being a nominee for president united states has requires an enormous, a number of demands on your time. and i don't think anybody should read into her not being able to adjust her schedule this week to be there? i do think it is important that as these journalists that down with

donald trump this afternoon, that they, they hold him accountable and we know what trump is gonna do. we know his mo, he's going to lie relentlessly. he's going to try to overwhelm them with lies and with falsehoods. and so i'm really hoping that we're going to see we're going to see these women this afternoon really, really take him to task for that, which i agree with shermichael, is the role of journalists. and i think it's important for people who subscribe to and read the papers that the national association of black journalists represents. i think it's important that they hear these lies and falsehoods from donald trump be called out. so i i'm really interested to see how this goes this afternoon. >> yeah. i don't think this is going to be a walk in the park for the former president. and certainly we'll be watching very carefully to see how it does go. shermichael kate, if you will stay with us, we are waiting hang on the former president to appear there at nab jay. we're going to bring that to you live former president trump expected just moments from now, we'll get in a quick break. stay with us do

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set to appear. we have a panel with us for michael singleton and kate bedingfield, as well as sara sidner, who is actually there at the conference and sara, i want to go to you because you're there, you have a sense of the room you've been speaking to journalists who are there. we know that the co-chair of this conference prince actually stepped down over trump's appearance. so this is not without controversy. i'm wondering what sense you're getting from folks attending this year's conference about the former president being there wasn't involved the co-chair with the decision. but she stepped down i'm put this and for other reasons, it is interesting to note that if there was a controversy and people did not want to show up, that is not the case there are so many people here. it is a a packed house there. there is not an open seat and there are still people waiting outside. and remember, this is not open to the public. this is for the national decision, a black journalists, of the people in this room. were going to be coming to the convention.

anyway, and they are here and in full force to listen to this conversation. and it will be a conversation. this is not a speech. this is three journalists who are going to be asking him questions from different news organizations you will have a robust conversation. the other thing that any bj insisted upon is that there would be fact check in real time no matter who showed up for this, if both candidates did fine, it would still be the same way. and so there's going to be real-time fact-check that is implemented here during this conversation as well. but people are interested in and hearing what donald trump has to say and he will be asked some tough questions from the black community. there there is a sense for those who are upset that donald trump is here are concerned about giving him this particular platform. and part of that stems from some of the ways he has spoken to black journalists in the past, including our own brilliant abby phillip, where he has called journalists dumb, where he has said black journalists in particular called them

stupid. in particular, pointedly to pacifically black journalists not using that same language for other journalists. and then you of course have for all journalists, him using the saying, enemy of the people when it comes to journalism journalist. in particular. and so that is the consternation here, that is the concern about having him invited to this event, but i do want to point out that any bj has been inviting presidential nominees to this event since 1976. it is what they do to try to encourage people to turn out and how these conversations it is what journalists do. and so they've dealt very strongly the head of the organization and others felt very strongly that they have to put this opportunity out for them candidates who are leading as far as in the polls, two to see what they had to say to the american public, but also to the black community. and so they felt like if whoever said yes, they were going to accept it and there's what most journalists would do in this case. and so we're going to

have this robust conversation. there are at least 1,000 dozen people who have killed all of the seats here. and now we are at capacity and of course, there has been big security sweeps considering what happened to donald trump in that attempted assassination. so everybody is locked down here for the next however long it takes for donald trump to take the stage i think sara for that it's a very interesting point that you were making about some of the reasons why there is the controversy here. >> shermichael, i think we don't know how this is going to go. right sara really laid out former president trump's track record with not just journalists, but female journalists of color and particularly black journalists journalism isn't like normal interactions you know, you invite someone over to your house for dinner and they're rude to you. you don't indict them but we're kind of used to be in places where people are rude to us or don't, aren't

happy with us. and yet, when there's the question of racism that's kinda what goes up against the line that he has treated journalists of color and black journalists specifically differently than other journalists. >> phil look, i mean, traditionally speaking is a rather contentious relationship between journalists and politicians. that's always been the case because politicians don't like to be questioned they see themselves as individuals have some level of high authority. you can give creative so that whether or not you believe that to be true but the issue of race is not only a problem that the former president has to contend with, but it is one that the republican party has struggled with for quite some time i mean, back in my early days of politics when i used to really focus on black outreach even when you would question do surveys, do outreach. it went door to door knocking with black voters. a. you would see quite a few would say, i agree with these aspects of what would be traditional conservatism but it is because of these issues, particularly

pertaining to race, that many black people would say there's just no way in the world i could cross over that bridge. so i think this is an issue that has become more heightened and sensitive. what president obama, and now with vice president kamala harris. and so i think it is incredibly smart for the foreign president to not, i wouldn't say showcase deference, but to showcase a cultural awareness and understanding in this moment, particularly when we have seen some data that suggests he's doing better with black men, latino men. you don't want to turn those people off by having negative perceptions as it pertains to race okay, to that point, we have seen poll after poll show that the former president is performing better than just about any republican, i believe in like 60 years with african americans, what do you attribute that to well, i think but remember we've also just gotten a huge reset in this race just about a week ago. so i think you know, while there

was, you know, my sense of it is they're amongst the black community as among many other constituencies, there was frustration with president biden over the economy. in particular, i think that was part of what was driving some of that interest in trump and also in third-party candidates. and i think what we've seen with kamala harris now moving to the top of the ticket is we're seeing a reset across across constituencies here in this race. so for one sort of proof point and supported that. i see the trump campaign has now gone up or is about to go up tomorrow with tv advertising in north carolina, a place where there now suddenly feeling a little bit on the defensive. i mean, if you wanna know how where campaign really feel strong versus where it feels weak. look at where they're spending money. so you see the trump campaign now in the wake of of this reset that we've seen in the race you see the trump campaign now spending money in north carolina, a place where the black vote is significant. i think there is i

think much bigger opportunity here for kamala harris to grow with black voters and then there was with president biden, who was such a known entities sort of all of his favorables and unfavorables were baked in. that's not true with vice president harris. she has a lot of room to grow, so i think we're going to see a new race here in terms of competing for some of these key constituencies who are ultimately going to determine the outcome in november yeah kate, i wonder what you think of a potential moment that we may see here. >> if you talk to democratic operatives, they'll say donald trump's safest place to be politically is just two hammer kamala harris as a san francisco liberal attack her on immigration. and yet he can't i'm not seem to shy away from taking shots that are obviously racially loaded. and i think i may be generous and my characteristic there he won't say her name correctly just on

friday, he was saying he couldn't care less even though he does seem to care. a lot of his supporters have been talking about dei hire, which makes no since and just seems to be a bit of a slur so if he's questioned about those things and he just doubles down on it. i mean, how is that moment going to go before this audience? >> well, not well for him. i would imagine and i think we have seen him continue to double down on this line of attack, even though you see others in the republican party, basically begging him not to do this and to focus on the places where they think they have a substantive advantage like you were referencing. but he can't help himself. this is who he is. this is what he has done to our politics in this country to the level of civility in our discourse so look, i can't imagine if he comes out this afternoon and says some of the really offensive and hateful

things that he has said about kamala harris so far. in this race, that he's going to get a good reception in this room. i think it will be interesting to see if he recognizing where he is, if he tries to adjust course. i mean, i think time and again, he's he's given the opportunity to adjust course and he never does. i mean, what did he say a few days ago that people thought? the shooting maybe changed him and made him a nicer person when he says, in fact, it made him worse so i imagine we're going to see that version of him and it will be really interesting to see what the reception is like in that room. i cannot imagine it will be good and crucially, i also can imagine it will be good from the audience, from the people who who watch the media, read the stories that are produced by the journalists in that room russia, michael, thank you so much for the perspective. >> of course, going to bring you donald trump and his q&a moderated discussion as soon as it begins, we're going to take a quick break though. stay with

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for him, he's going into this in chicago for chicago, if there's a lot of strategies going on here, i think we just heard kate say this, that while he had gained some momentum among minority voters, particularly among black men, the calculus and the entire race has changed because president joe biden has dropped out. >> so there is part of this, this is trying to reach out into different communities, but there's also a part of this that is trying to seize the media narrative that donald trump has been largely out of the spotlight for the last week and a half as vice the president kamala harris has really seized this opportunity, stepping into the light as people learn more about her or the fact that she, this unprecedented way that joe biden dropped out and she zoom to this position becoming the likely democratic nominee, having the entire democratic party coalesce behind her. >> and of course, all of the excitement and louisiana that has caused i'm with her taking on that role donald trump knows. >> and as we obviously have covered for years, how to take

control of a media narrative. it is unexpected for him the show up at nab jay, it is something that people are going to talk about and obviously we are talking about it because there is a lot of interest in him sitting down with black journalists. there are a lot of employees portland questions that he needs to answer as you heard sara talking about, there was a lot of controversy over him attending the people's thinking he shouldn't have been invited. and again, and donald trump knows that by accepting that invitation, it puts him squarely back in the spotlight. one of the things that he has struggled with over the past week and a half is gaining back that traction. you have to remember brianna that he had been basically coasting since the debate? yes, we are still in a presidential race, but they felt so good not only about those battleground states, but really about expanding the electoral map. they were talking about virginia minnesota, all of those things are now in question as we try to work through what this race is actually going to look like over the next seven several months heading into november. now that he has a new rival. so

yes, part of this is him reaching out into another community, but the other part of this is him i'm trying to squarely get back the narrative and get back out there as he tries to formulate his attack plans on kamala harris and as we heard some of our commentators you're saying it will be very interesting to hear how he navigates that as he sits down on this panel with those journalists. >> yeah, we'll see what kind of headlines he generates there. kristen holmes live for us in harrisburg, pennsylvania. thank you so much. we will bring you this q&a session with former president donald trump as it begins, we are going to take a quick break, stay with cnn stay tuned to learn more about this limited time offer from renewable by anderson. >> we all have that list of home improvement projects we need to do. and if replacing your home's windows and doors is on that list you want to know that it's going to be affordable. i'm from renewal by anderson and we've helped thousands of customers who are on a budget get our windows and

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