everyone was processing it. and really in the aftermath, just those few moments, what it was like all from the backseat of an uber we wanted to know what was trump's reaction to this major news that is totally changed. the presidential race for him so i called donald trump up and i don't want my headphones, so i put it on speaker in the backseat i'm writing down as i don't know who you are or no, no. >> the overt driver in trump's voice is like booming through like he knows why i'm calling. and in what quotes i wanted, dover drivers like turning around. he's like, so confused. he's like looking at me. it's looking at my phone well, he's like is that whose voice i think that i just sprinted out of the uber and eight hours later when we got off air, i checked the app to make sure i tipped him and hopefully he gave maybe give me one

>> thank you so much for joining us. the news continues right here on cnn are concerned about his attacks on vice president kamala harris. plus gaza ceasefire talks are set to resume on thursday but according to iran, warning of a potential attack on israel threaten the prospects of a deal, and tropical storm ernesto is bringing heavy rain and winds as it moves over puerto rico, more on where the storm is headed. >> as it continues to gain in strength live from atlanta.

>> this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie good to have you with us, where we are at three days away from the us presidential election and donald trump, they republican candidate, is struggling to regain his footing in the race. the trump team is calling his chat with elon musk on monday a success saying the torque reached 25 million x users and raised more than $1 million in recent weeks, trump has appeared frustrated since vice president kamala harris became the democratic nominee in the exit interview, trump aired old grievances about the 2020 election spewed conspiracy theories and showed he remains fixated on his former opponent, president joe biden. many of his republican allies fear his behavior is costing him the race i want this campaign to win, but the campaign is not going to win. talking about crowd sizes, it's not going to, when talking about what

race kamala harris's it's not going to win talking about whether she's dumb, it's not you can't win on those things. the american people are smart, treat them like they're smart the drawn campaign is angling for a line of attack against kamala harris. they have criticized her for lack of policy proposals and failing to take questions from reporters. but the harris camp is ready. her advisers say she will lay out her economic policy this friday in a speech that of course comes ahead of next week's democratic national convention in chicago. or meanwhile, house is running mate tim walz is making his first solo appearance on the campaign trail speaking at a union convention in los angeles was went after former president trump and j.d vance for attacking his military record these guys have are even attacking me for my record of service. and i just want to say i'm proud to serve my country and i always will be. i firmly

believe you should never denigrate another person's service record the anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent i just have a few simple words. thank you for your service and sacrifice walz also highlighted his union ties while pitching vice president kamala harris and himself to the largest government workers union in the country. >> ron brownstein is a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic. and he joins me now from los angeles, good to have you with us. >> hey, rosemary. >> we are at three days away from nato member elections and the polls show a very tight race with kamala harris pulling ahead of rival donald trump in some critical swing states he still struggles to form a strategy to fight back after a pretty rough few weeks of adjusting to harris's surprise momentum. so what do you see this race going from here when you look at those numbers? >> yeah you know, what, what

harris has done really is just unleash and resurface the energy that existed in the democratic coalition to resist the vision of america that trump is putting forward and that energy had been suppressed by kind of widespread despair among democrats from elected officials to rank and file voters about not only how others would view biden's capacity, but on about biden's ability to make the case, they wanted to hear made against trump and you know, when when that chant began in las vegas at the harris event over the weekend about bring it on that to me, kind of summarize the change in the race. you know, it's still a very close race. i think the advantage is slightly toward harris at this point, but the change has really brought democrats from the base of the party to the apex back into the game to a greater extent than i think

anybody imagined a few weeks ago. and that as you say, is put trump on his backfoot and then his first solo appearance since being tapped to be kamala harris is running mate tim walz defended his military service, saying he is proud of his record. amid these gop attacks, walz was speaking to one of the nation's biggest public worker unions, and he cautioned against denigrating anyone's service. but why would the gop use this as an attack method given donald trump avoided going to vietnam, claiming he had bone spurs in his feet it doesn't this put them on pretty shaky ground well, not only did he avoid vietnam by claiming you had burns, bone spurs later in multiple interviews, he said avoiding sexually transmitted diseases during his model dating days in new york in the 80s was the equivalent of going to vietnam. >> and he was because that was his vietnam. so yeah, there's a lot of vulnerability there. i think they're counting on

democrats not to close the circle. they certainly want to challenge walz's military service in a way that prevents him or makes it harder for him to ground himself in mid-america but obviously they are opening themselves up to these counterattacks. we really haven't heard them yet from democrats, so we'll see whether they kind of point or take this obvious base that republicans are leaving out there for them on monday night, elon musk turned his company x into a pro-trump platform. it was two hours of attacks unchallenged, lies, and 40 minutes of technical glitches, apparently attracting about 1 million listeners. but while his advisers with thrilled other allies would not some insight as apparently saying trump is spiraling veering off message and needs to snap out of it if he wants to win, what exactly did trump achieved drawing? these two-hour rant, was he preaching to the converted or is he attracting a whole new voting sector on x

well first of all, i mean, out of the two-hour meandering conversation, the one comment that is most likely to have an afterlife beyond last night was when trump praised musk for firing striking workers. >> and it is the uaw and other unions immediately picking up on that. i mean blue collar unions kind of construction unions and industrial unions have had trouble holding their white working class members against trump, both in 2016 and 20 in 20 for trump does so explicitly endorsed union busting seem to me just an incredible unforced error because it will allow them to allow these, these union officials to make the case that trump wants to take away your union, which is a point of agreement between union leaders because and blue collar workers as opposed to all the cultural issues that might divide them and lead them toward trump. look, trump has had success at

reaching a universe of voters who are loosely connected to the political system. and you can see an all sorts of ways from some of the podcasters that he's done interviews with. two associated with the ufc, the ultimate fighting championship. he is looking particularly to present himself to young men who are not habitual voters and attend to be alienated from all elements of the political system x is useful for him in that, but but over the course of that very strange conversation i would say the unforced error of endorsing union-busting. so explicitly is probably the piece of it that's going to live on the most and it's going live on more on the hands of trump's critics and his supporters. >> ron brownstein, appreciate your analysis. thanks for joining us thanks for having me cnn projects minnesota representative democrat ilhan omar will beat back a primary

challenge. >> her victory comes as a relief for progressives, especially those critical of israel's war in gaza. pro israel groups have spent millions propping up challenges to progressive house democrats called the campaign the ugliest of her life the latest round of ceasefire and hostage release talks are expected to kick off thursday in doha, qatar. but diplomatic sources tell cnn the last-ditch effort is not expected to stop iran from retaliating against israel of the assassination of hamas leader ismail haniyeh sources say mediators that will present a plan to representatives from israel and hamas separately but a number of key sticking points remain, including possible last demands by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is offers, denies his change positions, and accuses hamas of adding unrealistic demands. us president joe biden is pushing back on questions about what

he's doing to pressure israel and hamas to come to the negotiating table. but he acknowledges he has concerns about the talks, given the threat of an attack on israel by iran horrible see what you will see, what iran does, we'll see what happens but i'm not giving up the understanding that you're if it was possible smart expectation cnn's paula hancocks is following developments and joins me now live from london. >> good morning to you, paula. so what is the latest on the leadup to thursday's ceasefire and hostage release talks. and what role? might they play in iran's calculation when it comes to retaliatory strikes on

israel well, rosemary, we're seeing diplomatic activities certainly from the biden administration trying to push the ceasefire hostage talks forward. >> we've heard from the state department's that brett mcgurk, the middle east envoy for joe biden, the u.s president, is going to be in egypt also qatari, you'll be in the middle east trying to push what has been described as a final bridging proposal that both sides, hamas and israel can agree to. we also know that amos hochstein, who is the special envoy trying to calm the situation on the israel-lebanon border. we'll be in beirut trying to pacify things. they're now of course the concern among many in the region also the biden administration is that whatever of iran's retaliation could be may spark wider conflict. there are those some within the biden administration who believed

that iran may not have decided what that retaliation is going to look like as yet, of course retaliation for the assassination of ismail haniyeh, the hamas political leader on a rainy and soil. bear in mind this is very new. iranian president. he was only inaugurated less than 24 hours before this assassination took place. so we do hear from two biden administration officials that iran may not have decided on its exact course of action as of now, wanting to retaliate as we've heard from many officials within deveron that they need to retaliate. it's their right to self-defense that there's been a violation of their sovereignty. but of course, at the same time, not wanting to spark that wider conflict. though we've also heard from diplomatic sources that they believed that these last ditch mediation efforts, when it comes to as ceasefire hostage deal will not make a difference to tear teheran when

it decides what its retaliation will be as of now, we believe that these talks will still go ahead on thursday, trying to hammer out that final deal. according to a us official, the one main difference we have at this point and it's the sequencing of the hostage exchange. so that's something that the mediators, egypt, qatar, and the u.s. are trying to iron out before the end, we would do still have both hamas and israel blaming the other for this not having been done yet, this deal. but we really will have to wait and see what, if anything, can come out of those talks on thursday, resume. >> alright, our thanks to paula hancocks for that report maha yahya is the director of the carnegie middle east center and she joins me now, live from beirut in lebanon. many thanks for talking with us. >> thank you for having me, rosemary. good morning israel is still bracing for retaliatory strikes from iran

for the assassination of hamas leader ismail haniyeh in tehran. >> but us officials believe iran hasn't yet decided how, when and where it plans to strike. israel. but diplomatic sources suggest the ceasefire and hostage negotiations set for thursday and not expected to prevent these strikes from happening. so what are your thoughts on those assessments? >> and honestly, i think i mean, iran is a pragmatic actor. i don't think it's a question of not knowing where and how to retaliate. i think it's more a question of trying to see what kind of gains they can maximize. they can get out of this particular situation. if there is it's a ceasefire deal then iran can safely say the blood of smile haniah did not go in vain and can give up on the idea of retaliating. i think the same would apply to hezbollah everyone wants out of

this conflict. nobody is interested in having no luck i'll conflict in the region at this particular moment, particularly especially iran, hezbollah, the united states. they are not interested in an all-out war the israeli prime minister and his government is another story. i think there are two different kinds of calculus. >> so your sense is that iran will wait and not retaliate until after these talks in the center, use the retaliation as leverage. is that what you're saying? >> that's what i think is happening at this particular moment. now, there are lots of diplomatic discussions going on behind the scenes between iran and the united states. the the omanis, amongst others so it is a wait and see game to try and understand basically, yes. using this as leverage to try and get some gains, particularly a ceasefire, i think the issue ceasefire is

maybe the key the escalatory move if we want to avoid this war escalating into something that no one has we control over its has to begin with a ceasefire in gaza. >> and one of the remaining sticking points, so to reaching a deal is the possibility of last-minute demands coming from israel's prime minister netanyahu. do you think he wants to see a deal reached in gaza? >> he has not wanted to see a deal for a very long time president biden's initiative was on the table as of i believe the end of may there was a three-point plan that was agreed to and even israeli negotiators are complaining that netanyahu keeps changing the goalposts and keeps making additional demands in a way to scuttle the prospect of any deal. his political survival and that of his cabinet,

particularly the more right-wing elements within it is dependent on the continuation of conflict. they do not want to see the end of conflict. they do not want a day after in gaza unless that day after includes the transfer of ethnic transfer of palestinians from gaza. >> what do you think it will take to reach a deal in gaza and how would you compare the demands being made by hamas to those coming from israel? >> i think what it would take is for the united states to exert actual pressure and use its leverage in terms of weapons transfer. what we've seen is the opposite yesterday. the state department authorize the sale of $20 worth of arms to israel. now, whether they're using this as a carriage rather than using the stick of saying we're going to stop weapons transfer unless you you stop this conflict is another story, but i think the what it will take us for the united states

and this current administration to use the leverage at task and say enough, enough blood chad, we need a deal on the table right now what we've seen at least publicly in terms of the demands of hamas, at least the statement that was made a couple of days ago, as they said, we want to go back to what was agreed to and president biden's three-point plan. so clearly the goalpost, as i said, had been moved and shifted many times. they're saying, go back to this three-point plan, we need something on the table, concrete rather than continuing these endless discussions about the ceasefire deal, where every time we get to the point where there is a deal on the table, it gets scuttled by mr. netanyahu. hamas is not blameless, but just to make clear that the primary obstacle until now has been the prime minister of israel maha yahya. thank you so much for joining us and sharing your perspective and analysis. appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary will

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per hour wind, we can lose an awful lot of power here. we know that from history, maybe four to six inches even over the british virgin islands as that the tails, the outer bands is still come over parts of the u.s. virgin islands, the british virgin islands, and puerto rico proper temperatures in the ocean or one to two degrees, even three to four degrees fahrenheit above normal for this time of year. and this storm is going to make a run to bermuda it's going to be left are going to be right. the american model is on the west side. the european model is on the right side. what you need to know is that this thing could be 110 mile per hour hurricane as it makes its way toward bermuda. that's only one to miles per hour or less than a category three hurricane with the waters being so warm, there's no way to know whether it's going to be a two or three. but then where does it possibly go? well, if you're in nova scotia, newfoundland, i want you to pay attention because some of the models are trying to turn this back toward the west, not into the u.s. or into boston at this point, but still could be a brush with

nova scotia and newfoundland taking a look back out now into the pacific, we're going to take you to ample this is the storm that's going to make a run at tokyo. tokyo, you are in the cone of this storm at least for now. and it likely will be a pretty healthy storm hundred and 60 kph maybe here as we get close to tokyo. so the storm is back again in warm water, there's the circulation. you see the eye getting smaller and smaller, which means the wind speeds are going up and up now for now, the storm stays offshore, but that doesn't mean that the winds are going to stay offshore, or that all the rain is going to stay offshore. so we have to keep that in mind when you look at the cone here, you have to watch out. we know from him story that this can go left or can go right even if it's just one degree, it's going to make all the difference whether it's a near miss, a hit, or just something out into the ocean. we hope for this scenario out over here the federal emergency management agency's disaster fund has run

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evacuated as the fire came very close to the greek capital but all were more than 3 million people live. emergency crews have been working to extinguish the fire, which began on sunday near the town of varnavas meantime, across europe, there's no relief in sight from the heat wave, especially in the southeast. temperatures are expected to remain in the mid to upper 30s, even reaching 40 degrees celsius in some areas and cnn's barbie latza nadeau joins us now from rome. good morning to you, barbie so what is the latest on these very high temperatures across italy and other parts of southern europe yeah, we're bracing for two very, very hot days here before there's any relief, there are 22 cities in italy under red alert right now for the next two days. >> and these are sitting he's that are very popular with tourists a red alert with the civil protection here in italy means that it's not just those

who are vulnerable or that who have health conditions who are at risk from these high temperatures but everyone is there urging people to stay inside from the hot hours of the day from about 11:00 a.m. to about 6:00 p.m. and of course, that's very, very difficult for tourists, people who come here for one or two days there. those, those people that the civil protection authorities are really concerned about right now, urging them to try to do museums be inside churches, make sure they drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun. this is of course, not just in italy, we see these temperatures in greece, we see them in spain as well, but we under considerable heat alert here in italy. rosemary and bobby, the wildfire in greece it has ease, but what are the overall conditions? >> because they're and how is this affecting the people living there? the residence yeah, you know, even though the fires have 0s, we know the people whose homes have been destroyed, his gardens, who's pets have died you know, there are just counting the damage right now. >> they're just getting back to their houses to see what, if

anything is left. and this was so close to athens as an athens suburb. so these aren't beach homes that people go to during the summer, but these are residences that were destroyed so close about 11 miles from the center of athens so many tourists to visit that part of the world this time of year, who are also very, very concerned. now, as even though the fires have ceased you know, people are very concerned that it would just take one accident. someone flicking a cigarette or being careless with their with a campfire or something like that that could spark these fires again. so they're on high vigilance rosemary thanks to barbie nadeau for that report appreciate it. >> will draw in strikes and an incursion as ukrainian forces move deeper into russian territory, region no leaders are sounding the alarm to moscow cnn is live from chicago as demo but crafts unite to offer their support to a new nominee and her running mate

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electricity in puerto rico and nearly all customers across the u.s. virgin islands are in the dark iran's threat to strike israel is looming over gaza ceasefire and hostage talks set to resume thursday in doha qatar. us officials tell cnn tehran still has not decided on a course of retaliatory the action after the assassination of a hamas leader last month governor of belgorod in russia has declared a regional emergency, is saying ukrainian forces have launched drone attacks. there russia claims its air defenses shot down dozens of ukrainian aircraft-type drones and for tactical missiles over kursk. that is the region of russia where ukrainian forces have been advancing. it's been one week since their incursion shocked and humiliated moscow and put russian president vladimir putin on the defensive

ukraine claims it's already taken control of more than 1,000 square kilometers 40 of those in the past day alone. ukraine's foreign ministry says the country does not intend to annex the territory and that they only want a quote, protect our people's lives from russian attacks coming out of kursk cnn's clare sebastian joins me live now from london. good morning to you, clare. so what is the latest on ukraine's incursion into russia? and what's president zelenskyy hoping to accomplish here? >> yeah, rosemary, that's the interesting part of this, because having seen ukraine say nothing for the first few days of this operation, then talk somewhat cryptically about it. we're now seeing officials, including the president really talking openly about their goals here and a press briefing on wednesday those spokesperson for the foreign ministry saying that as soon as russia he agrees to adjust peace on ukraine's terms. that is when the raids on its territory will stop making it pretty clear

there. and for now, quite clearly, those raids are continuing. we saw russia saying that it destroyed some 100 17 ukrainian drones overnight over the border regions including kursk, where of course, the epicenter of this incursion by ukraine. it's still taking place for missiles as well. that is a higher number than we usually see because of course, even before this ukrainian drone attacks across the border, we're fairly common place. the russian ministry of defense, meanwhile, releasing this video saying that its jets are striking ukrainian targets in the kursk region. so they are trying to look like they're really pushing back heading control of the situation. but of course, if you read the ounce. the more unvarnished accounts of brushes, military bloggers, its clear ukraine is still on the attack in a number of locations. and as you say, belgorod, which is another border region, has declared a regional emergency. the governor is trying to have that upgraded to a federal level emergency, which would mean that assistance the civilians and things like that would come

from the federal budget and meanwhile, president zelenskyy also talking pretty openly about ukraine's goals here and making it very clear that a secondary element of this operation has to do with the level of morale in the country take a listen she him all of us in ukraine need to act as unitedly and effectively as we did in the first weeks and months of this war, when ukraine seize the initiative and began turning the situation in favor of our state we have done the same now. >> we have once again proven that they didn't any situation where ukrainians are capable of achieving are objectives of defending our interest and our independence so the context here is of course, that in the lead up to this and after the difficulties that ukraine has had in the territory that russia has been gradually taking back over the last several months, morale had been dipping and ukraine as evidenced by their difficulties and recruiting new troops for the front. >> so he is really leveraging this moment here. the success

so far of that kursk operation, he's also made it clear that there is an element of an end game here. he said that in his, in his speech on wednesday, that he had a working group on ukraine's peace formula is still very much looking at that. and he said that the more that the russian military in the border area is destroyed, the closer they will be. to peace. obviously, russia has a somewhat different view of this rosemary, alright, our thanks to clare sebastian for that live report from london. >> earlier i spoke with jill dougherty, an adjunct professor at georgetown university and cnn's former moscow bureau chief and with russian news outlets covering the ukrainian incursion. i asked her how it's affecting russians and their view of president putin you know i don't think on the last part of the question that we really know. this is very early and we really don't know exactly where all of this is headed. why did you crane actually want to do is a lot of theories but i think if you

look the russian people right now, i would look at the instructions that the kremlin gave to the media. the state controlled media, of course telling them essentially how to handle this because all of a sudden they had a big problem on their hands so what do you tell the russian people? don't sensationalize this don't talk about in a second front. and that of course is really important because the kremlin, rosemary is trying to let people in the big cities, moscow, st. pete it is berg believed that this is a war, but it's over there and it really doesn't affect them, et cetera. whereas obviously we're risking it is beginning to affect russians very directly. and then they're also saying, tell human interest stories, don't tell big serious theoretical things. go for the human stories of people who have been killed or injured. and then finally, make sure

that russians know that the government and putin are on their side and we'll never leave anyone behind that type of message when they're issuing those types. of directions. i think that we realized we can definitely realize that they understand they have a big problem in a propaganda pr sense with their own people arrived. and how do you expect to putin to respond militarily to this ukrainian incursion and how what was it even possible that russia was taken off guard by this i don't know how he can explain it quite honestly. >> i think we're going to have to see what does he do to the people were in charge who allowed this to happen where we're the intelligence people who should have known that this was going on? how did the military handle it? however, the ukrainians essentially able to walk right in these are big

questions for putin. and if you look at the way he's behaved in this, he essentially disappeared for two days. he said nothing. and then when he came out, he downplayed it. he said this is a provocation and even right now in their counter action to try to counteract the ukrainians, they're calling it the kremlin is calling it a terrorist operation. they're not calling it a military incursion because again, they want to downplay it behind the scenes. i'm sure they know that this is a major step jill doherty told them to be earlier and still to come. >> donald trump's two-hour rant with elon musk may land both men and some legal trouble or on the complaint filed with us officials against i'm thinking i'm going to die and i thought that was it with

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