e, but it's pr and doesn't spy on your searchs and duckduckgo lets you browsel but it blocks cookies and creepy ads that follow youa and other companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. pete g. writes, “my tween wants a new phone." join the millions of people "how do i not break the bank?" we gotcha, pete. xfinity mobile was designed to save you money and gives you access to wifi speeds up to a gig. so you get high speeds for low prices. better than getting low speeds for high prices. -right, bruce? jealous? yeah, look at that. -honestly. someone get a helmet on this guy. get a free unlimited line for a year when you add one unlimited line. plus, get a new google pixel 9 on us. bring on the good stuff. business easily with free? >> fiber cnn this morning with

kasie hunt. next it's monday, august 26, right now on cnn this morning, donald trump readies himself for all sprint toward november in a new approach to take on vice president harris we have to tell a federal abortion ban. >> i think he would he said that explicitly that he would the trump campaign trying to go on offense to control the narrative around abortion rights in the race for the white house. and he invited me to form a unity government take up here late in the race, rfk junior's suspending his campaign, his endorsement of the former president, how it may change the race in the final weeks all, right by am here in washington alive.

>> look at the nation's capital on this monday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us we are just 71 days away from the 2024 election. >> kamala harris, returning to the campaign trail along with her running mate tim walz to kick off a bus tour in georgia on wednesday her campaign announcing over the weekend, they've raised 540 million over half 1 billion since launching after president biden's decision to drop out of the race, donald trump's still getting used to the seismic shift in the race. >> kamala, mentioned my name, i think 21 times she didn't mention the border. she didn't mention inflation. she didn't mention anything, but my name over and over and over again. she blame me for the border. i haven't been there in four years that was trump on friday reacting to harris's speech at the dnc he's also spending time in swing states this week with plans to visit both michigan and wisconsin.

>> cnn reporting that trump's campaign is looking to ramp up his own campaign schedule leading up to november quote, think trump on steroids and quote, one person said, adding, it'll be all hands on deck. arkansas republican senator tom cotton noting over the weekend the race is just starting to heat up we, know the racial paula come down to a few hundred thousand votes in a few states can present. trump has been campaigning hard and vigorously nail for months obviously that's going to increase in its pace as we get closer to the election and president trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with kamala harris all right, joining me now, national politics breaking news reporter for the washington post, marianna alfaro, national race and politics reporter for the associated press, matt brown. welcome to both of you. happy monday. >> this of course. >> just a handful of days out from the beginning of early voting, which starts in less than two weeks in some states and of course, also pretty close to the september 10 what

we expect to be the first debate between harris and trump here, marianna, we of course saw trump in arizona at this border state rally. now they clearly are feeling pressure to ramp up his campaigning there, saying he's going to be out in potentially two states a day sometimes how do you think this all kind of sets up the race as we head into mean labor day is a week away, right? a week from today. the typical kind of kick start of the final fall campaign sprint. >> yeah. i mean, i think what we've heard democrats say is they are not claiming victory yet. they're saying that you know, they couldn't go to have the capture the flag, what they got to keep going and keep the momentum going. and i think that they're going to have to try to figure out a way to keep that and, you know, extend out for the next few weeks. that being said of the trump campaign is very much under the fence. and i think that we're hearing a little bit of that panic just coming out of the dnc. i think we heard former president yesterday on on social media ceo i don't know if he's going to be on the debate anymore. so i think that that's going to be the conversation for the next few days is just is he going to

stick to that already commitment he made. but i think that it's just going to be that continued reaction by democrats to hold onto their momentum and republicans to try to find a way to crack that harris while you have seen rise up. and this last few weeks. yeah. so matt, i mean, this is what trump brought wrote on his truth social platform, quote, i watched abc fake news this morning he misspelled jonathan karl is name, called his interview with tom cotton ridiculous and biased. but what we want to focus in on here is what the issue of whether or not he's going to do the debate. he said there so-called panel of trump haters, i ask, why would i do? the debate against kamala harris on that network? he's raised issues about you're raised complaints with abc news in the past, but he did say yes, he was going to do this what would the impact be of him? potentially refusing to do it? >> yes so as we saw over the last as you said, just now, labor day is generally speaking, when everyday americans begin to pay attention to the debate and

issues with the candidates. however, comma, because of the last week, a month of news that we've seen from a potential assassination attempt of donald trump to the dropping out of joe biden to a very euphoric last week dnc, a lot of the strategies and euphoria, disorientation, and determination that we've seen from both sides of the campaign has really gotten a lot of folks confused about how to run this race and how potentially the candidates should be responding thing donald trump has basically made clear in a lot of ways though that he is going to be running the campaign that he wants two to run this entire time. and part of that was not debating joe biden so even though the polls have changed and even though there's a lot of questions over how he needs to get his message out to potential swing voters. now, a lot of folks are looking at basically drunk in his heart of hearts. and as he's posting on truth, social is making very clear that he still does not believe that channels like abc news, which he has long despised and disparaged are not places where he wants to be getting his message out even though some of the dynamics of the race against vice president kamala harris have clearly

changed from when he felt confident but into against president joe biden. >> well, certainly there was also the specter of her getting unanswered airtime on on abc for several hours. so that's still potentially something that he would have to worry about if he decided not to do this. one of the thing over the weekend at marianna is that donald trump is fully back on twitter or the platform formerly known as twitter, i guess i should say x, he had been starting to get into that with this interview that he did with elon musk, but now he's clearly trying to flood the zone that way as well. and we can put up some of the things that he was tweeting about. and of course, he has settled on a nickname for harris it seems there'll be no future under comrade kamala harris there was saying that she's going to take us into a nuclear world war three. why get back on twitter now if you're trump i mean, it's definitely just not hitting the right audience just to be on truth, social, you know, he's really trying to expand his region, i think again, it's kind of that part of the strategy here. you know,

how do you get back that momentum? how do you? go back to where he was doing the rnc when he really thought that this was in the bag for him. and i think that twitter is just like the platform that's responded to him. you know, he's been able to gather not only so many followers, but just like everything he says, there becomes news. again, i think that the media is kind of being different about the way we tackle this system around, but it doesn't mean that we don't have notifications on everything, but i think that he knows that the following there is way more significant than it is on truthsocial. >> yeah, i had almost forgotten. i had my trump notifications turned on or blown up over the weekend oh, right. >> oh, right. >> i add that turned on matt before we before we go for harris, what are the challenges that she has here because she hasn't done a major interview yet with since she became the presumptive nominee, she has struggled sometimes in settings like that where she's not reading from a teleprompter or she's not prepared for whatever the situation may be in front of her. do you think the pressure on that is going to continue to grow yes.

>> kasie. so i think that over the next couple of weeks this is going to be a complete mad dash for both campaigns. kamala harris has a lot of wind at her back. she has a lot of energy in the party and a lot of determining nation of cross. i mean, the number of surrogates have just come out of the woodwork in the democratic party for her is very notable that said, even though this is a bit of a super friends coming together on the left in left-of-center politics but the leader of this, of this party is still commonly harris and she needs to be showing the american people what her vision is and it cannot simply be we are not going back or a new way forward. people want policy. if people want to be very clearly understanding what, where she actually wants to take the country and they seem to disagree at this point. >> i think that people want policy, but i guess we will see what happens. matt brown, marianna well, farro, thank you both very much for being here. i appreciate it. >> all right. coming up on cnn this morning, israel and hezbollah trade fire in a major flare-up of tensions in the region heightening concerns and all-out war in the middle pleased plus donald trump making a push to hit a new tone on abortion as reproductive rights is of course, a central

issue in the race. and rfk junior's suspending his life longshot campaign, throwing his support behind former president trump it became clear to me that i did not have a path to victory hi i'm with president trump, with his family, with his close advisers, and we just spent a general commitment that we're going to work together the pros for have i got news for you are pretty yeah. what are the kinds we could run on the news before then i would never happen if i got news for you, amir saturday, september 14th at night on cnn and streaming next day on max if you have heart failure far sica can help you keep living, look for the ones you love. ask your doctor about far sega today procedures can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal nitration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections and low blood sugar a rare

life-threatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur, stopped taking for sega in your doctor? right away if you have symptoms of this infection and allergic reaction or ketoacidosis were you worried the wedding would be too much another destination. >> why did we just got back from her sister's i.d nap book its merit in nap up my daughter who gets made some pleas more expensive. >> i can jamaica hey thank. back with empower, we get on our financial questions answered, so we don't have to worry, can we get out of here? >> i thought you'd never ask join 18 million americans and take control of your phone financial future with a real-time dashboard in real life conversations empower what's next lactate is 100% real melt just without the lactose delicious to just ask my old friend kevin now going like enjoying a cold one while watching the game who's winning no idea. real milk, real

delicious. >> and don't forget to try some delicious creamy lactate ice cream what is that able wow, it's marked out are you ready to connect to a perfect journey with turkish airlines to feel welcomed and to feel refreshed to discover unforgettable flavors to reach new heights. >> so happiness to connect to a journey that's perfect. >> because of you protect against, rsv. with the wreck sv a wreck sv is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv. and people 60 years and older a wreck sv does not protect everyone and is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients, those with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects it's

our injection site pain, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, and joint pain a wreck sv is number one and rsv vaccine shots. rsv make it a wrexham it's still have symptoms from moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease after a tnf blocker like humira or remicade put them in check with revoke. revoke works differently in its once-daily pill when symptoms tried to take control, i got rapid relief within vote when flares tried to slow me down, i got lasting steroid free remission with red book check and when my daughter saw damage for invoke helped visibly reduced damage of the intestinal lining, check rapid symptom relief lasting steroid three remission and visibly reduced damage. >> check check and check, rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections including tb, serious infections, and blood clots, some fatal cancer there's including lymphoma and skin, heart attack, stroke, and gi tears occurred people 50 and older with a heart disease risk factor have an increased risk of death.

>> serious allergic reactions can occur tell your doctor if you are or may become pregnant, what you uc and crohn's in check, and keep them there with brynn bove asked her gastroenterologist about rinvoq and learn how abby can help you save. >> they are some of the hottest videos on social media. those videos claiming to instantly get rid of bags under your eyes and net figure rowe is here to tell us why she says this one is for real, this one is for real. >> and what it does is it tightened and list the appearance of bags underneath your eyes. and not only does it work on the bags that works on the appearance of pros feet, fine lines, and wrinkles in this labor day for only $14.95 plus free shipping. is it flexor durham trial trial.com or call the number on your screen this source with kaitlan collins week nights at night all right. >> welcome back. israel and hezbollah exchanging attacks over the weekend in a major escalation of hostilities in the region israel carrying out

a wave of preemptive strikes across southern lebanon to try to neutralize large scale rocket and drone attack. >> the israeli military says its jets destroyed thousands of hezbollah rockets launchers. sunday morning, the iran backed terrorist organization claims they were still able to fire 320 rockets and drones at israel, even though most were intercepted did that, i'm not deja to the result is satisfactory and achieves the intended goal. and if the result is not enough from our point of view than we retain the right to respond. another time. >> sabu schmid, unfair israeli army destroyed thousands of short range rockets, all of which were intended to harm our civilians and forces in the galilee. >> additionally the israeli army intercepted all of the drones that hezbollah launched a strategic target it in central israel the u.s. >> provided intelligence for israel's preemptive strikes. meanwhile, gaza ceasefire and

hostage release talks are continuing in egypt with hamas insisting there's only one deal they'll except cnn's max foster joins us live now from you. always wonderful to see you.o at wl hamaxcept herelet's justtart on th ceasefire talks. what are they demanding and at is standing in t way right now while you know, there's so much different language comg t om a the dferent parties involved is really hard to get precise informatn, but we are tting these positive words evy so often aren't we fro the u.s. >> saying would close to a deal then it oes't ppen targeting israeli primcifically minister benjamin netanyahu, blaming him for changing the rules as they go along. but i think fund the fundamental part of this is really, this idea that hamas wants all israeli troops to leave gaza strip isn't something that israel finds acceptable. so that has been the common sticking 0.3, all of this i suspect is still

one of the sticking points, but there's also a lot of question about who's really committed to this peace deal and getting to it as quickly as the americans are suggesting, we should be getting their critics this is some of the americans as well, frankly, that they haven't handled this negotiation very well because we just haven't got there yet. >> yeah, for sure. so max, let's talk about the escalation of violence between israel and hezbollah. how is that impacting these talks? >> well, you know, the skirmishes across the border between israel and lebanon have been going on since this war with hamas began. so there is a lincoln hamas and hezbollah support each other as does iran raises tensions if there's this other front and the motivation behind these walls are linked they do affect each other. but what we have seen, the positive news, if i can call it that out

of all of this, is that both sides? hezbollah and israel claiming victory following both their attacks over the weekend, so that does suggest a de-escalation are not as big an escalation that the world was worrying about that hopefully calms things down across the region, but certainly a piece still in gaza were certainly helped relief tensions across all of those opponents of israel. there. >> all right. max foster for us this morning. max, glad to have you back. thank you so much for being here. >> all right, still ahead here on cnn this morning two astronauts are going to need a new ride home from the international space station. >> how a test flight turned into a very extended stay in base. plus trump's campaign now, trying to thread the needle on abortion but will his core supporters go along with it men gives you healthier,

smooth are feeling skin to celebrate lives and tense moments you stuff dead body wash with its 24 hour nursing micro moisture. >> enjoy hell smooth are feeling skin all day with dove men body wash, work play link relief work play blinking really. >> the only three and one extended relief formula for dry eyes good morning with glass good. >> good. good strike down. collect to a group by for fast and gentle constipation relief. and as little as 30 minutes.

making your good morning even better with all collapsed room. >> phi. >> it's kind of amazing. >> wow, room. >> if i drops dramatically, reduce redness in one minute and look at the difference my eyes with brighter and wider for up to eight hours, luma phi, it really works. >> see for yourself one a next level, clean, swish with the whoa of listerine. it kills 99.9% of bad breath germs for five times more cleaning power than brushing and flossing alone, get a next level clique with listerine. >> feel the whoa, this isn't sherman, the water. i don't feel as clean up dad i'm trying and this cheap stouffer's to finn. i told you not to get the other toilet paper. >> charmin ultra throng bottoms been saved with its diamond. >> we've texture sharman ultra strong cleans better with fewer sheets and less effort what's everybody waiting for this done? >> we know you're gleaning. >> we all go. why not enjoy the

go with sharman you love this style of shoe. they're comfortable casuals, stylish, but skechers is topped them and made them even better because now the coming hands-free schedule slip thanks. >> just slipping and go with no bending down and no touching them. try hands-free sketch your slippers my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. >> now, i have sky resy. i've got david, things now, i'm back in fixture, feels significant symptom relief at for weeks with guy rosy, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements sky breezy helped visibly improved damage to the intestinal lining and with sky resy, many were in remission 12 weeks. >> i've one year and even at two years serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or lower ability to fight them may occur tell your daughter wonder if you have an infection or symptoms

had a vaccine or plan to liver problems may occur in crohn's disease your gastroenterologist , how to take control of your crohn's? >> with sky resy is it possible to count on my internet like my customers count on me? it is with comcast business. keeping you up and running with our 99.9% network reliability. and security that helps outsmart threats to your data. moaire dida twoo? -your data, too. there's even round-the- clock customer support. so you can be there for your customers.

with comcast business, reliability isn't just possible. it's happening. switch to reliable comcast business internet with security and get started for $49.99 a month. plus ask how to get up to a $500 prepaid card. call today! i'm taylor available on the apple app store or android. >> five good things. listen wherever you get your podcasts all right 22 minutes past the hour. >> here's your morning roundup two astronauts stranded in space will come home in a spacex capsule in february 8 months later than planned. boeing's beleaguered starliner was supposed to bring them back from an eight-day mission. it's going to come back to earth empty instead telegram's ceo pavel durov was detained at an airport outside paris on saturday. durov was wanted under a french arrest warrant for the lack of moderation on the messaging app. he leads that led to telegram being used

for money laundering and drug trafficking. european union regulators are cracking down on online platforms to try to combat it's information and illegal content a new statue of late congressman john lewis has been unveiled in georgia. the civil rights icon will now stand 12th feet tall outside of atlanta. he replaced a more than a century old confederate monuments all right. >> time now for weather hawaii, dealing with some soaking rain from a tropical storm as the storm passes south of the big island and midwest dealing with some searing heat and severe storm threats. let's get to our meteorologist, derek and down this morning, derek, what are you seeing out there good morning, kasie. >> you hope you had a great weekend. it was a rainy and wet weekend for residents of hawaii, tropical storm lahaina, which was a hurricane at this time yesterday, brushing just south of the big island, 70 mile per hour, sustained winds and there's still a lot of rain, especially on the eastern facing slopes of the big island. so mauna loa, for

instance. so flash flood warnings still in effect as a system pulls away, there's a lot of wind associated with this as well. so any residents are perhaps tourists visiting the island chain will feel the impacts of this tropical storm as it pulls away. but i want want to give you the broader picture here because there are several tropical systems that are lining up across the central and eastern pacific. gilma. there's hector, there's a moving away from hawaii. so something we want to monitor for the next several days now, back here in the lower 48, the big story, the excessive heat we have a excessive heat warnings enforce chicago and the greater suburbs, heat watch to the south and east just outside of the indianapolis region, check out these afternoon temperatures, 94 in the windy city, 98 for the day tomorrow. of course, you factor in the humidity. it will feel downright uncomfortable. and this is actually dangerous heat as well. so we have to take the extra period cautions. we have 80 million americans under some sort of severe weather threat. so when you get this kind of heat, doesn't take much for the atmosphere to break. we have an enhanced risk of severe

storms from minneapolis all the way to pier. and you can see those thunderstorms firing up with the daytime heating from the sun kasie, back to you. >> all right. derek van dam for us this morning, derek, thank you. >> i appreciate it jonah, come here on cnn this morning. >> rfk junior dropping out of the presidential race, putting his weight behind can another candidate, how deep former independent presidential candidates still plans to hit the campaign trail. plus donald trump and jd vance's latest campaign promise this time on the issue, of abortion if you and donald trump are elected, that you will not impose a federal ban on abortion. i can absolutely commit that kristina dahl trump has been as clear about that as possible the tv moments that took culture over the edge, people who are watching and then our world change. he had an explosive reverberation tv on the edge from years sunday, september 22, did nine on cnn her name with thorkil acts good.

>> good. >> good yeah. >> track down collect to group bites for fast and junko costume good morning. even better with all galactic appears to getting better with age, appears to be nice to every thursday help fuel today with boost high protein complete nutrition. >> you need in the flavor you love so here's the now, now available boost max. >> i have active psoriatic arthritis, but with sky resy to treat my skin and joints count me in along with clearer skin, sky risen he helps me move with less joint pain, stiffness, swelling, and the tee. and is just four doses a year after two starter doses, theory is allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight the mail kara tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to, there's nothing like clear skin and better movement and that means everything asked your doctor about sky today. we're now abby, get help you save with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. my skin was

no longer mine. >> my active psoriatic arthritis join symptoms held me back don't. let symptoms to fine. you emerge as you with trump via most people saw 90% clear skin at four months and the majority stayed clear here at five years from phi is proven to significantly reduce joint pain, stiffness, and swelling. it's just six doses a year after two starter doses, cbs allergic real objections may occur. can fire, may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell you, doctor if you have an infection symptoms or if you had a vaccine are planning to emerge as you emerged triumphant ask your doctor about trump via okay, yeah, we got orders coming. >> starting businesses, never easy, but star now, eight months pregnant that's a different story. corey i couldn't slow down. >> we were starting a business from the ground up. >> people were showing up left there, right. and so did our business needs the chased a car and made it easy. when you go

for something big like this, your kids said it and they believe they can do the same. >> earn limit 1.5% cash back on every purchase. but the chase inc. business unlimited car all right. from chase pro-business make more openness yours. >> when we say it will be on time they expect it to be on time turned shipping to your advantage, keep those expectations with reliable ground shipping thanks, brandon. >> with usps ground advantage? >> morgan stanley is partnering, but the women's tennis association to remove boundaries because this game is for everyone do wonder and $73. >> this is how much you spend every month and subscriptions. >> i only have like two or three. >> right? >> that's what we all think when in reality, there's so much more that we don't even know we're paying so how do i put more of this cash back of my pocket, like him when he's a financial hit that shows you every subscription you're paying for. even that when he forgot about from five years

ago i can't believe him so pain for this i'll call it gets right now. oh, documenting even cancel it for you really. yep. >> all you to do is tap a few buttons and they take care of it della rocket money today new icy hot pro massaging bone, easy to grip the massage and the power of two max strength pain relievers i just works he makes it less knew. >> i see how pro massaging bomb attack is their tech house you relief works fast and lasts a full 24 hours. so dave can be deliverer. >> dana okay. >> dave let's be more than our allergies. >> these the day with zyrtec that the jeep make this the summer event. you can take a vacation from payments on the most capable wrangler ever our most affordable suv, jeep compass the only open-air pick up, cheap gladiator. >> and the most awarded suv ever jeep grand cherokee, hurrian, do you jeep brand and dealer and make the most out of

summer with great deals plus no payments for 90 days during the cheap make this the summer event, get $2,000 bonus cash allowance or get 0% financing almost 2024 jeep wrangler gas-powered bottles. i'm stephanie elam in los angeles, and this is cnn five-thirty am here on the east coast. >> so i look at baltimore, maryland and on this monday morning got to love it. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. i'm wondering it's wonderful to have you with us. donald trump and his running mate, j.d. vance are making new promises was about abortion access. some trump allies were surprised to see this post from the former president this weekend, where he promised his administration would be quote, great for reproductive rights and quote trump's running mate, j.d vance then backed up that stance when he appeared on the sunday talk shows saying that donald trump would veto an

attempt at a national abortion ban if such a piece of legislation landed on donald trump's desk, would he veto it are going to be very clear. >> he would not support it i mean yeah. i mean, if you're not supporting it as a present united states, you fundamentally have to tell a federal abortion ban. >> i think he would he said that explicitly democrats are running on overturning state abortion bans and of course made the issue a central part of the dnc last week, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren said this. >> she said she's not buying the shift in tone from the trump campaign american women. are not stupid. and we are not going to trust the futures of our daughters and granddaughters to two men who have openly bragged about blocking access to abortion for women all across this country all right, joining us now for more. >> daniel strauss, cnn political reporter, mychael schnell, congressional reporter for the hill. good morning. >> to both of you. thank you so

much for being here. daniel, let me start with you because clearly, this is that's something of a shift or rewriting of what's going on here, because trump has of course, bragged about being the person that overturned roe versus wade. that said, he also has talked about how republicans need to win elections, and that this issue is something that i get to the way of that project for him. you've already started to see some backlash from the anti-abortion, right? do you think this can stand this way? what is going on here? >> i mean, he, the former president for a while now, has acknowledged that it's bad politics to lean too far. aim to supporting some kind of federal ban or stronger restrictions on abortion at the same time, he is also eagerly listed as one of his major accomplishments of his one term in office that he nominated multiple supreme court judges that helped overturn roe v. wade now, his explanation is

that he this was really a victory because it through the question of abortion and abortion access back to the states critics democrats often say though that this really gives a license for states to push an effective national abortion ban or restrictions that as, early as four weeks or five weeks are basically abandoned itself. and so the president is very eager now to just let that be the end of the discussion. and i, it doesn't surprise me that vance was asset and say he saying he would not support a ban and when push finally says not sporting, that would mean a veto. but there is a difference. >> mychael schnell, let me get you to weigh in on that because there is a difference as daniel points out, how do you see it? >> it just shows how potent the issue of abortion and women's reproductive rights already is in this election cycle and is

likely going to grow. i've spoken to a number of house democrats in recent weeks who tell me that they are planning to really lean in on the issue of abortion on the campaign trail. they're hoping to replicate those better-than-expected wins happened back in 2022 largely because the issue of abortion was front and center and look, kasie, this race has really changed a lot obviously in the past few months. but there are two things in particular, when you talk about women's reproductive rights a vice president kamala harris, who's the administration and was the biden campaign's best messenger on abortion policy? six is now at the top of the ticket cheese the face of the party, and she's also the face of the administration's argument on women's reproductive rights. arguably, she's better at it than president biden. it's sometimes got awkward because of his religion and its relationship with abortion rights and women's reproductive rights. so that's different and b, the number of states that have ballot initiatives this cycle that are going to deal with women's reproductive rights is increasing. and those house democrats told me that there may be some folks who are

apprehensive to go to the polls because they're not excited about either candidate before them. but when they see the possibility to weigh in on women's reproductive rights, they will get off their couches. they'll go to the polls, they'll cast a vote in favor of pro-abortion rights and then democrats are hoping that they'll go down the ballot for democrats as well. that could also be potent when we talk about democratic returns and democratic victories come november. so i think that seeing the trump campaign's sort of moderated stance on this and change its tune just shows how important this is going to be in the cycle and how democrats want to keep it front and center all right, very interesting. >> let's turn now to this though, rfk jr. has officially suspended his independent presidential campaign and thrown his support behind donald trump it became clear to me that i did not have a path to victory 16 months censorship of being able to get any network really accept fox. he

invited me to form a unity government. we agreed that we'd be able to continue to criticize each other. issues on which we don't kennedy on friday, insisted he wasn't ending his campaign, but withdrawing his name from appearing on the ballot in swing states. cnn reporting, trump advisers see this as an opportunity to potentially court some of kennedy's supporters. >> kennedy says he's going to stay active on the campaign trail. >> yeah, i'm going to be campaigning actively trump is going to make a series of announcements about other democrats who are joining his campaign and i'm i want to make america healthy and others, president trump make america healthy again, michael and daniel are back. michael, let me start with you on this because one of the things that we've we've learned in the course of our bobby's

kennedy's bid here is kind of a wide variety of maybe they were once just family's stories, but now they are part of our national narrative. there was the bear, the baby bear. sure. in central park. that he took a photograph with his hand in his mouth and then recently we've learned about kick kennedy, his daughter telling us that he wants cut the head off of a dead whale on. the beach, and then bungee cord at it to the roof of the family minivan for the five-hour hall back to mount kissgate, new york she said, every time we accelerate on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car and it was the rankings thing on the planet. we all had plastic bags for our heads with mouth holes cut out and people in a highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us i mean, i raised this just because he is clearly he has

developed some sort of constituency here, right? there have been polling had picked up, there in particular, was a time when biden was still in the race where he seemed to potentially be a big factor. obviously, the kennedy name is a very famous one as for the democratic party, would ultimate impact do you think him throwing his support behind? trump has here? >> i think we're still trying to figure that out. and on your first anecdotes, kasie, i mean, oppo research has really reached a new point in this election cycle. but i think that we're still waiting to see how this is going to shake out. let's remember that rfk junior, he had sizable support, significant support for a third-party candidate a few months ago that has since significantly dwindled but the reason why folks went to his quarter was because they were disenchanted by president biden and former president trump as the candidates. they weren't excited about the rematch of 2020. it was sort of a protest vote for those two individuals. so two things now, a, the race has obviously changed. vice

president kamala harris at the top of the ticket. it's changed things up, shaken things up, energized voters on the ground. so it's possible that with that situation, the rfk support would have decreased even more because maybe some folks who are dissident disenchanted by those two, by trump and biden, are then going to harris his corner and be you know, we'll have to see if some of these voters actually fine hello, in trump's path, there was an analysis by the new york times that said over the weekend that said that this likely won't change the race very much. rfk junior's just going to give trump about a 1% bump in some of these key swing states. listen in some of those battlegrounds that could be significant because this contest is just so closely divided. but the end of the day, let's not forget rfk the junior supporters were folks who didn't want to vote for trump. and they want to vote for biden. and then harris so just thinking that they go right to trump, that's very questionable. >> yeah. a lot of them were the so-called double haters. daniel strauss, and that of course, is the thing that has shifted the most with harris are getting into this race you know, kasie,

i cannot get over the conundrum, the trump campaign has when they're trying to broaden their support, what they're trying to say that they have democrats, they have independence supporting them. and those examples of that are tulsi gabbard and robert f. kennedy jr. who by the way, did appear on our network. you did an interview him so it's not true and then he did an interview with erin burnett, right? so he's been relegated to fox news is absolutely incorrect, right? >> but, you know, look the early indicators are that the support that the trump campaign will get from this endorsement are marginal, but i think it will reinforce the attack line that tim waltz pioneered for the democratic ticket. which is that these are weird people and stories about dropping a bear in central park, strapping a whale head to the top of the car will only reinforce that narrative that democrats want to push yeah, this whale had washed up on squad island in hyannis port. of course camelot. bobby, who likes to study animal skulls and

skeletons, ran down to the beach with a chainsaw. >> surely there is a museum nearby daniel strauss, mychael schnell. >> good monday morning. thank you very much for being here. >> are coming up next here on cnn this morning political fallout from from the crisis in gaza, the harris campaign taking heat for not allowing a pro-palestinian speaker at the convention, plus the u.s. >> celebrating a thrilling little league world series championship ryan and mikah are taking on to hotels. what if i took on one of the hotels and you did the other 12 teams, we are going to be brian 100 days and the best so when 100 day hotel challenge special series continues tuesday night at 8:00 on hgtv time depress rewind with neutrogena rapid wrinkle repair. it has durham proven retinol expertly formulated to target stem cell turnover and fight not one, but five signs

of aging physical results in just one week, neutrogena shake up your shower with a flavor for every feeling. this stub fractions you up. this stub winds down. this dub, the deep glowing and this stuff keeps you going. so whatever care you care about, there's a doug for everybody can you do this as early as your 40s? >> you may lose muscle and strength proteins supports muscle health in shear max protein has a 30 grand blend of high-quality protein to feed muscles for up to seven hours. so take the challenge, insurer nutrition for strength and energy some days you can feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more botox prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine before they we start. and treatment is four times a year. >> in a survey, 91% of users, which they'd started sooner so why wait, talk to your doctor

effects of botox may spread hours two weeks after injection causing serious symptoms, alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, i problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. >> side effects may include allergic reactions snack and injection site pain, fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox if there's a skin infection, tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions, and medications including botulinum toxin as these may increase the risk of serious side effects chronic migraine we still keep you from being there. >> why wait. >> talk to your doctor about botox and get in the picture? learn how ad they can help you save our biggest challenge. uncertainty. >> hidden fees, surcharges. who knows what to expect? >> turn shipping to your advantage. >> keep it simple with clear upfront pricing, with usps ground advantage association locked went offline. >> this is why we rock they're why we want we walk in the

alzheimer s association, walk to end alzheimer's because we're getting closer to beating this disease morgan stanley is partnering with the women's tennis association to remove boundaries because this game is for everyone here's to getting better with age appears to be nice to every thursday. >> help fuel today with boost high protein complete nutrition, you need. >> in the flavor you love.

the moment i met him i knew he was my soulmate. "soulmates." soulmate! [giggles] why do you need me? [laughs sarcastically] but then we switched to t-mobile 5g home internet. and now his attention is spent elsewhere. but i'm thinking of her the whole time. that's so much worse. why is that thing in bed with you? this is where it gets the best signal from the cell tower! i've tried everywhere else in the house! there's always a new excuse. well if we got xfinity you wouldn't have to mess around with the connection. therapy's tough, huh? -mmm. it's like a lot about me. [laughs] a home router should never be a home wrecker. oo this is a good book title. imprint.com in britain for certain close captioning is brought to you by skechers hands glide, step slip in you're seeing skechers famous glide set, but where everywhere. >> and now that being his design is available, enhanced free sketches slipping yet the comfort and style guide step tried glide steph cancers, lipids the feni trump is the

top concern, but we can do that and we can also give space, create space for people, voices that are marginalized. >> we missed an opportunity to do that here. and in doing so, what we're essentially saying is that every palestinian thinks the exact same way that all i'll, folks who are protesting were voicing their concerns are one group and not individuals, not all folks who are coming with different perspectives. i think that there was room and space to say that here's room in the democratic party for that particular perspective as well that was pennsylvania democratic congresswoman summer lee. >> she's expressing disappointment with the harris campaign after they didn't to allow pro-palestinian speaker to address last week's democratic convention the vice president's defenders say defeating donald trump has to be the number one priority and they insist that harris spoke forcefully julio enough about where she stands on the gaza crisis she has felt urgently that we've got to bring about a ceasefire, get the hostages returned an end the enormity of the ongoing suffering of the palestinian people i think that

the convention did a good job of bringing up this conflict over and over again donald trump has been having some trouble finding an effective attack line against harris, but he apparently doesn't opportunity as escalating violence continues in the middle east, this is a look at his new campaign ad watch played hardball with iran destroyed i.s.i.s had the middle east at peace sad have been less. wars through strength all right, joel rubin is here. >> he's democratic strategist, former deputy assistant secretary of state in the obama administration, joel good morning to you. wonderful to let's start with how harris kind of navigated this at the dnc, which is to say they didn't broke any of it. >> and in fact, when susan rice was talking with my colleague, jake tapper about the uncommitted faction they were

delegates who are uncommitted to initially biden, but also a harris and she basically said, okay, it's a little bit fritch that people who are not committing to harris want a piece of the stage at her convention. but it seemed very clear to me they wanted to send a strong message that they were not sort of engaging in this really, while at the same time making sure that she took a tone in her own speech that was different from what biden was on this. how did you look at all of that i think that the vice president has shown a strong vision for how to resolve this current war. >> a call for a ceasefire, exchange for hostages strong argument for supporting israeli security, as well as for the palestinian self-determination ultimately two-state solution. it's hard to understand what more people could want out of a presidential candidate that was the most forward-leaning speech i've ever seen at a convention. and i think the crowd responded. the crowd responded as well to her calls for israeli security and the

folks pushing on committed also had out of behind the scenes engagement with the campaign. they had official events at the dnc. they were in touch directly. they did move the needle on much of the rhetoric that's a win. take the win. i'm not sure why they're not saying we support you and now we're ready to do more. it seems like a little bit of an own goal quite frankly joel, how do you think, what we're seeing play out between israel and hezbollah, right now is going to impact the overall situation. >> the politics here. >> yeah, kasie, look the problem here is that while the politics seems stable for the moment on the messaging and division, we don't control of the actions of all the groups in the region obviously, a hezbollah has 100, couple hundred thousand rockets pointed. israel is relative preemptive strikes trying to demonstrate the ability to strike those that can look quite literally blow up the whole diplomatic process. so it's going to just be this

way. it's going to be a tinderbox ongoing and there's going to be a lot of sort of whack-a-mole diplomacy alongside political messaging. and i think i'm. going to start a daily basis. we're going to have to see the team of the vice president, as well as obviously donald trump reacting to on the ground events because we don't control them. and a lot of spoilers right now in the region, when you watch that trump had very briefly, what do you see? there? >> i see a lot of misinformation. i see him attacking joe biden for getting out of afghanistan stand and claiming that he got us out on iran. he blew up a nuclear deal that made the region less safe. he clearly wants to leverage some gaps. there is violence in the middle east. you can't put that at the feet of joe biden. you put that defeat of the people committing the violence and there's a president in the white house trying to resolve it and comment down, donald trump would look the other way. as word spreads. so what we have right now is a lot of political gamesmanship on foreign policy. that's a good argument i think for the vice president, she'll be able to make pushback and clearly trump sees this as an area that he

wants to explore, right? >> joel rubin, thank you very much appreciate it. >> all right. i'm here, he's star aaron, judge, captain incredible weekend with two home runs yesterday against the rockies. >> carolyn manno has this morning's bleacher report. carolyn, good morning. >> good morning. kasie. i know you're a huge baseball fan. this is another day, another incredible effort from yankees, aaron judge. what he's doing is unreal. i mean, the stars slugger hitting home runs and for 5051 against the rockies on sunday, which puts him on pace to break his own american league record. judge, hitting 62 back in 2020 you recently he has made this look so easy, going yard seven times in new york last six games, number 50 came in the first inning, number 51 in the seventh, and it was actually sandwiched between home runs from ms teammates juan soto, and giancarlo stanton's. so the yankees offense on fire right now, they wouldn't easy tend to three very scary moment though in the bottom of the fifth majorly gunpowder nick mahrley hit in the head by a broken bat, taken off the field

in a stretcher it was stanton's bat splintered just above his hands and mahrley collapsed to one knee. he was tended to immediately. he seemed alert conscious as he was carted off the field in the league tells cnn that he sustained a concussion and will be undergoing more tests over the next several days. elsewhere this morning, megan rapinoe's nwsl jersey officially in the proverbial rafters, the seattle reign framing it. number 15, honoring the two time world cup winter olympic gold medalist rapinoe's called it a very special day and the club capped off the festivities with a big win in the 97th minute. this is a goal from 18 team year-old emory autonomous, a perfect salute to her hero mega rapinoe's at the end of a great day, the iconic pose, there are a lot of bun and a wnba a thriller in chicago, the sky trailing by three points in the final seconds of this game until kennedy carter had a huge three from way downtown to tie the game. she led this guy with 25 points, but there was just enough time for aces star asia

wilson to do what she does best have the last word, a decisive lay-up to edge it for vegas the 77, 75, wilson finished up with a double-double 20 points, 18 boards, saving her team who looked as though they were going to blow a 13 point fourth-quarter lead and lastly, through this morning, a big congratulations to the team from lake mary, florida winning two state's first ever literally world series just the third third time the championship had gone to extra innings tied in the bottom of the eighth, hunter alexander laying down a perfect button year to advance the runner, but no one from chinese taipei covers first and then you had lathan norton hoard knew was so sick he couldn't play in the u.s championship on saturday, coming racing around from second basis score. so how about that? you can't even plagues. you're not feeling well, you come back and save the day with the winning run doing it for the state of florida. great stuff all around here for literally world series. this is always just a really fun bovet period, but the great love to see it

congrats to them. >> but it's amazing, carolyn. thank you so much. really appreciate it. see you tomorrow. coming up next here on cnn this morning with just over ten weeks until election day, the trump campaign in trying to beef up the schedule to counter the momentum that kamala harris has lately, plus the southern border crisis taking shape as a key focal point in the race for the white probably here, knock claim that she doesn't know that her policies underlying the family separation. they are and everybody knows it and she has ability for that the polls for have i got news for you are pretty yeah one of the kinds we could run on the news before then? >> i would never happen if i got news for you. the mere saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn and streaming next day on protect against rsv with the wreck sv, a wreck sv is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv. and people 60 years and older, a wreck sv does not protect

everyone and is not for those with severe alert reactions to its ingredients, those with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects are injection site pain, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, and joint pain a wreck sv is number one and rsv vaccine shots. rsv make it a wrexham lactate is 100% real melt just without the lactose delicious to just ask my old friend kevin now the ligand joined a call one while watching a game who's willing no idea real milk, real delicious and don't forget to try some delicious creamy lactate ice cream what's that? able wow smart out morgan stanley is partnering, but the women's tennis association to remove boundaries because this

game is for everyone ever worry that you're drinking too much. take back control with orhelp or health provides access to medication proven to make it easier to drink less for him to quit drinking altogether? qualified for treatment today at were health.com higher shipping race may be the cost of doing business, but at what cost turned shipping? >> to your advantage with low cost ground shipping from the united states postal service .'s their tech allergy relief works fast and lasts a full 24 hours. >> so dave can bva deliver? >> dans okay. >> dave let's be more than are allergy disease the day with czar tech you've had thyroid disease for a long time and you've lived with the damage it caused. but even after all these years restoration?

>> is. still, possible? >> learn how at ted help.com. >> okay, everyone that our mission is to provide complete balanced nutrition for strengthened energy ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein new icy hot pro massaging bone, easy to grip the massage in the power of two max strength pain relievers has worked for us he makes it less knew. >> i see how pro massaging bomb good morning with dhaka good. good. good. >> yeah right now, collect q0 group by for fast and gentle

pete g. writes, “my tween wants a new phone." "how do i not break the bank?" we gotcha, pete. xfinity mobile was designed to save you money and gives you access to wifi speeds up to a gig. so you get high speeds for low prices. better than getting low speeds for high prices. -right, bruce? jealous? yeah, look at that. -honestly. someone get a helmet on this guy. get a free unlimited line for a year when you add one unlimited line. plus, get a new google pixel 9 on us. bring on the good stuff. physicians, mutual i'm dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta. and this is cnn it's monday,

august 26, right now on cnn this morning the sprint to november donald trump's campaign and taking an aggressive new approach in the race against kamala harris and i don't want to border czar who make sit more efficient for illegal immigrants to come into this country? >> and one of trump's main lines of attack against harris continues to be the border. what democrats now say she needs to do to try to go on offense and later american women are not stupid elizabeth warren not buying jd vance's claim that the trump wouldn't sign a national abortion ban, plus a leading election forecaster. >> now, clarify classifying north carolina as a toss up is the south back in play for democrats all right. >> 6:00 a.m. here in washington. a live look at the washington monument on this

monday mor