interesting to find out how many people are listening when he appeals to everyone to call your congressman. are they listening to the stuff going on right now, actual action. thanks so much athena jones. good to see you. thank you, everyone for watching. it's been nice to have you with me. brianna brianna keilar is sitting in for wolf blitzer. >> it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 7:00 in toulouse france. wherever you're watching, thanks so much for joining us. up next will donald trump keep it civil? can jeb bush recover from his recent stumbles? we'll find out tonight as the republican hopefuls meet in the first debate of the primary campaign. the top ten candidates face off in prime time.

the other seven meet in an earlier forum. we are joined now from the debate site in cleveland. gloria borger is here with me in washington. david, you're there. you're on scene. it's just hours ahead of all of this getting going. donald trump is promising to be very civil. that's what he says. what do you think the chances are that he'll be able to keep that promise or do you think he's just really going to be unpredictable and we have no idea? >> reporter: i think he's going to keep that promise, brianna, right up until somebody takes him on. the moment that happens, all bets are off. so i do think he's trying to enter into this debate sort of staying above the fray but he has said very clearly if somebody hits him, he's going to hit back harder and we've seen evidence of that already on the campaign trail. he is -- what is amazing, brianna, he is totally unpredictable. he is the wild card in this race which is not how you normally describe the guy that is the formidable front-runner at the debate. >> that's right. normally that would be the slow and steady guy.

david really has a point here gloria. i think it's mike tyson who said everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth, right? >> right. >> and then all bets are off. >> we already know that trump has a plan if he gets punched in the mouth. >> which is? counterpunch. punch you in the mouth. >> i will say this and i talked to a couple campaigns about this they're not planning to go after donald trump tonight. they're not going to out-trump trump. that would not work for them. the campaigns have some zingers that they intend to use if they -- if donald trump goes after them but they probably would rather keep it in their back pocket and not use it unless they really have to do that. >> yeah and if they have to show some sort of strength or something like that. david, jeb bush this is obviously a key time for him. he is number two to donald trump in the polls right now but considerably behind. how important is this for him? >> >> reporter: i think it's a

pretty big moment. he wants to be the adult. he's obviously this first debate brianna, comes at a really rough week for jeb bush. he stumbled a little bit in trying to tell a joke monday night at a forum in new hampshire and stepped in it with a comment about women's health that democrats seized upon and jeb clearly has something to prove here. it's not that he has to prove he is deserving a spot on the stage. i think what he has to prove here is that he can do this that he's disciplined enough and skilled enough and i think he just wants to leave the evening having assuaged any concerns that are starting to bruin side the republican establishment. >> you know i think the person who is probably going to be attacked if any one of them is hillary clinton but also jeb is probably going to come in for a few attacks whether it's about his age or being part of a dynasty or being out of touch with the republican party. and i agree with david. i think jeb bush has to show a passion that we haven't seen and he also has to show that he

just doesn't want to be the next ceo of the family business right? he's got to figure out a way to say, yes, i'm a bush but i am my own man which is something as you know he has been struggling with for the last couple of months. >> this is what i want to wonder what i wonder if you have donald trump standing right next to jeb bush and jeb bush has this objective that he wants to come in and show that he's passionate isn't it -- imagine we're sitting here, if you're -- if i know that you've been calling me a loser and pathetic it is hard to not -- to not have that rub off on how i'm presenting myself. >> but that's where the presidential thing comes in. i think donald trump needs to look presidential and jeb bush needs to look more presidential. >> they're going to out-presidential each other. >> they're all going to try to do that whatever that means, by the way. i think jeb wants to portray himself as the adult in the room without being boring without

losing passion, and without being just another bush. >> how do you, david, if you are one of these candidates who is towards the end of the stage here perhaps kasich say, how do you create a moment that takes you from being almost an asterisk in the polls or really just getting a little bit of support to i guess, appealing to people whether it's through your personality and also through specifics about your policies when you only have 60-second shots of this? >> reporter: well john kasich already scored one victory, right, brianna, he's on the stage. he's the home state governor here. he's the late entrant into the race. seems like it was a smart play for him to get in get that attention from his announcement creep up in the polls pretty quickly and catapult over rick perry onto the debate stage. and christi, chris christie of new jersey is at the other end of the stage. what you were talking about gloria and, by the way, i've never heard gloria call you a

loser. >> nor pathetic. she only says nice things. >> reporter: but what you were saying about the proximity to each other, i do think having these fiery characters chris christie and john kasich with enough physical distance from that top tier center of the stage with trump, bush and walker, that i do think creates a pretty interesting dynamic. it's not as uncomfortable to go across the stage to make your attack if you want to. >> it's also going to show you the discipline i think, of some of these candidates. it wasn't too long ago we were all saying oh, chris christie he's the bully in the race right? and now all eyes are on donald trump and if trump were to attack chris christie or say something untoward the question is whether christy would have the discipline to hold back on that or not and, you know in his case in particular i think it would take an awful lot of discipline and we'll have to see how all of these candidates behave. again, the key word is presidential. right? you want to be on that -- behind

the podium looking like you actually belong behind another podium at the white house. >> it's so important. gloria thank you so much. and a reminder that cnn is going to be hosting the second republican debate on september 16. the candidates are going to gather at the ronald reagan library in simi valley california. the democrats are now setting their debate schedule the first of their six debates will be right here on cnn. and cnn senior washington correspondent joins us now to talk about this. when and where for the first debate jeff? >> it will be october 13 in las vegas, nevada and if hillary clinton, of course will be center stage with the rest of the democrats who are running. senator bernie sanders, former maryland governor martin o'malley former virginia senator jim webb lincoln chafee the senator from rhode island and we'll see if that's it. there's still a question mark hanging over will there be any

other democrats in the field. so that's what we're looking at between now and october, october 13 in las vegas in nevada. it's one of the four early states. >> we still have david chalian, right? we don't. okay. i'll put this to you, gloria, you look at that debate stage where you almost need more people on that debate stage. you want to recruit some people maybe to make it a little more feisty. who knows, maybe it's still going to be feisty but it's such a different situation, the field, and this is the most visual representation how different it will be between the two sides. >> if you look at the debate stage, the republicans, the big boy debate it is big boys all boys. the debate stage, the democratic will have hillary clinton, a question that we have no answer to whether, in fact joe biden would get in this race. but i think in the democratic debate it would all be kind of

all of them ganging up on hillary clinton and some of them like martin o'malley are complaining why is the democratic national committee in charge of all of this because we want to have more debates because we want to get our name recognition up and there's a skepticism that the dnc is really on hillary's side. >> right. governor o'malley his team came out fairly strongly saying it's unfair to only have one debate in every early state. they want more debates. we'll see -- i don't think the dnc will change their mind at all but we'll see if other groups are hosting forums and things. of course he is trying desperately to get out of the basement. he's at about 1%. >> he's been squeezed sort of between bernie sanders and hillary clinton. certainly a great effort for him. jeff zeleny gloria bornlg yeahger. like the one we will be seeing tonight, former congresswoman michele bachmann. she ran for president last time

and she's joining me now from minneapolis. congresswoman, thanks so much for joining us to talk about this. it's great to get your firsthand insight on this. >> sure brianna. >> you know both sides of debate success and also debate stumbles from almost really launching your campaign into contender status with one debate to making a comment about vaccines you sort of paid for later. so knowing how you really navigate this situation, what are these candidates thinking as they go into tonight? >> well every emotion in the book but i think most importantly each one of the debates this particular year in itself is a political super bowl. there are very few debates comparatively speaking. i was privileged to be in 15 presidential debates. 15. we won't see that many this year on either the republican or the

democratic side. so for the increased number of candidates that we have each one will have to make their mark and i believe what the american people are desperate for is a strong commander in chief, and there is one issue that is in a league of its own and that's dealing with whether or not we will see iran become the wealthiest terror state in the history of the world. and so the question will be, how will the candidates deal with this issue of not only a nuclear iran but an extremely wealthy nuclear iran which has stated that they have the intention to act upon their ambitions against both the united states and israel and other parts of the world and how will these candidates deal with this issue? again, this is an issue in a league of its own, all issues are important, none more important than this and will we see commanders-in-chief on the

stage? >> it's a pressing foreign policy issue i think we're going to be seeing tonight. i also wonder let's talk about the personalities in this. one of your great successes was appearing very approachable personable and i wonder what you think about whether we might see some people stumble on some of that specifically i'm thinking about how these candidates are going to react on the stage where donald trump is there. i imagine if you were debating against him you might not be say, too far away from the lane he's operating in compared to say, a jeb bush. but as you look at these guys and they are trying to maybe not attack him but perhaps channel some of that support that he's getting, what do they do? >> you know there is no filter between the candidates and the person sitting at home or in a bar or somewhere watching these debates. there is no filter.

and so if the candidate has the ability to be able to project their personality through the lens of the camera and into the hearts and minds of voters in the united states. and so this is an unprecedented opportunity and that's why i say that each debate will be a particular super bowl because there will be very precious few minutes. we're looking perhaps at ten minutes per candidate potentially if it's even that many that they'll have a chance to speak to the voter, and will they continue because the funding sources will begin to dry up very quickly for these candidates. depending upon their debate performance. and the debates is really the one forum where people do pay attention. they will turn in. there will be a lot of attention tonight just like when cnn hosts the debate. there will be a lot of attention on that night, and so there is a lot of pressure to perform. and so very quickly candidates will be either propelled or

stalled, and that means that donations and followers and polling numbers go along. so there's a lot of pressure on each of these candidates tonight, but they do have to be authentic. they have to be sincere and, as you said they need to be approachable and a lot of that is just who you are. you can't cram for this. this is really your life. who you are and your life is on display that night. and if you crammed, it's very obvious that you crammed for this. you've got to demonstrate -- and it's kind of like if you go back to kindergarten and did show and tell. that's what this will be. it's a political super bowl but you have to show what you know show and tell and you've got to do it all in a package. and, let's face it there will be a magic moment for a few people, and that will propel them forward. >> you really do crystallize it when you are showing it to be this very existential fight tonight. we will be watching along with you, congresswoman michele

bachmann. thank you for being on with us. appreciate it. >> thanks brianna. it was great. and coming up, the candidates on tonight's debate stage have actually been submitting questions to each other like this. >> the supreme court is not the supreme being, so do you believe that the recent ruling on same-sex marriage is the law of the land? >> some say they are stirring up drama before the debate even begins. we'll discuss that plus will hillary clinton be the invisible candidate in the room? the senior spokeswoman for the clinton campaign joining me next.

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hillary clinton won't be in the room at tonight's republican debate but she kind of will be because her name will certainly be in the air. republican candidates are anxious to show that they can take on the democratic front-runner and clinton has stepped up her attacks on the top republican hopefuls.

karen finney is senior adviser and senior spokeswoman for hillary for america, the hillary clinton campaign and she's joining us now from new york. one of our reporters, karen, actually -- i'm not sure if you saw this but she referred to hillary clinton as the invisible candidate on the stage tonight. how much of the republican fire do you expect to be directed at her? >> well look they've made a lot of this campaign actually about directing fire at her. so i think we expect it absolutely but, you know the thing is it's so interesting. they're trying to make this race about her, and she's actually trying to make this race about ideas and the american people and sort of her ideas for the country, so i think if they choose to make it about a lot about attacking hillary clinton, i think they will be showing the american people -- they won't be talking about ideas and i think that will tell folks quite a bit about what their real motivations are. >> in fairness karen, hillary

clinton has been lobbing attacks at scott walker at marco rubio, at jeb bush. she's in this almost general election fight, it seems like against some of these republican front-runners. there are a few of them. i want to ask you as well about what's different from what we've se her rhetoric is this campaign ad that has started to run. it's a $2 million ad in iowa and new hampshire. she talks about her mother. >> when she needed a champion someone was there. i think about all the dorothys all over america who fight for their families who never give up. that's why i'm doing this. that's why i've always done this for all the dorothys. >> this is something we did not see eight years ago, karen. this is very different. this is a softer look. this is a very feminine ad, i would say.

this is her talking about her mother which we didn't see her do eight years ago. we know hillary clinton right now is struggling with what has been a dip in her favorability ratings. is this part of that trying to reintroduce people and trying to counter some of that dip in the polls we've seen? >> we had actually always planned to start doing ads about this time because it's a good time when people can actually see the ad and there's not a barrage of other ads on television so we thought this was a good time to again, she's been talking about her mother as you know since she launched her campaign. so again, regrounding in these early stages what's her motivation? why is she doing this? i think that's very important to voters. they want to know are you going to fight for me? are you going to fight for my family? why are you doing this? we felt like this is a good time to you know, go back to that story and remind people this is to hillary clinton is.

these are the things that shaped her values these experiences, and this is how you know she is going to be a fighter for you. >> the fbi is now looking into the security of e-mails that hillary clinton, that her lawyers have preserved. they've turned them over to the state department but they also have them on hand and there is this look into this by the fbi. this has been a stumbling block for her, her e-mails, the fact that she used her personal server while she was secretary of state. how is the campaign -- we've seen this coincide with the dip in the polls. how is the campaign confronting this? is there a plan to try to get past this or perhaps to explain this better? >> well look let's be realistic here. this is a politically motivated sort of series of attacks that we've seen. as you know i mean chairman gowdy and his committee, they've been dragging this out. they're now saying it won't be

done until some time next year in the election year so we don't necessarily -- we're not necessarily expecting that it's going to end. we're prepared to fight that fight as long as we need to. >> are you saying that there are no valid questions? >> brianna, no. no, no no. that's not what i'm saying. what i'm saying is that part of what's going on here is a politically motivated -- hillary had been saying since november that she was willing to come and testify. we finally have been able to set a date. she'll do that in october. i think that will be a very good thing. she has said she will stay as long as they like and answer all of the questions and, look but, brianna, let's be honest, we've been answering questions. you asked her the questions, lots of people have asked her questions, we put a whole slew of information, made it available on our website, so we'll continue to answer the questions.

part of what's important here about this is remember hillary herself is the one who said release the e-mails, let people see them so they can see what i was working on and i think as we've now gone through two cycles of that people have seen -- gotten a sense of her sense of humor, a little bit of her sense of how she works. so there are legitimate questions but remember that this committee actually was supposed to be about the tragedy in benghazi right? and we're so far away from that now. this was supposed to be about how do we make sure it never happens again, and on the fbi piece, we knew about this last week when we had that you know took a few times to get it right. telephones it was botched. they finally did. nothing has really changed from last week. we are going through that process. we'll obviously cooperate with

the process any way that we can. that's the way we've been proceeding throughout this process, frankly. we're ready for it. it's not going to stop us though from making sure that hillary clinton is able to get out there every day and, you know talk to the american people about how she will fight for them. >> all right, karen finney we understand hillary clinton will not be watching this debate tonight but i'm sure that you will be and we really enjoy checking in with you afterwards to see what you think. >> i can't wait. >> all right. karen finney with the hillary clinton campaign thanks so much. and coming up i'll be speaking with a donald trump supporter about an intriguing phone call about trump and bill clinton. stay with us. ♪ ♪ when you're living with diabetes steady is exciting. only glucerna has carbsteady clinically proven to help minimize blood sugar spikes. so you stay steady ahead. when you travel, we help you make all kinds of connections.

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republican front-runner donald trump may face questions

tonight about his relationship with the clintons. a phone call from bill clinton to trump is adding to the intrigue about their ties. an aide to clinton confirms the call happened in late may when trump was decideing whether to join the presidential race and hillary clinton was already running. jeffrey loren is a trump supporter, a former reagan white house political director and he's contributing editor to american spectator who is joining us now from new york. so we've heard from the clinton side that the race was not discussed. an aide says that this was bill clinton responding to a few sort of solicitations or calls from donald trump and then he reached oud. out. tell us what you can about this call. >> in writing for "the american spectator" we can't endorse candidate so i can't be a trump supporter. >> okay. there you go. >> i wanted to say that for the record. >> i don't think there's much to

this to be perfectly candid. i understand what you understand. i saw suggestions in "the washington post" or there was concern that donald trump was a quote/unquote, clinton plant. donald trump, whatever one thinks of him favorably or unfavorably, he's nobody's plant. so i really don't think there's too much to this. they had a conversation. they've been friends, elections are tough. elbows are out. i don't think there's much more to it than that. >> okay. so they were just checking in? >> sure sure. >> it's amazing to think they weren't talking about politics. what else is there to talk about? >> well they might have talked about politics. i certainly don't think bill clinton was saying to him, you know donald you need to get in there. in a conspiratorial fashion. he may well have mentioned it. it would seem odd if they

department didn't mention it. >> okay. so let's talk about donald trump's plans tonight. he says he's going to be very civil. he says he doesn't want to attack anyone but we also know that he's saying look if he's punched, he's going to counterpunch. >> sure. right. >> it doesn't necessarily seem like it takes a lot for donald trump to seem like he's been punched and to really get out there. so how is there not going to be some dramatic moment or do you expect he's going to stay true to his word? >> i think he'll be donald trump. you know we used to have a saying in the reagan white house let reagan be reagan. i think donald trump will be donald trump. and he will rise to whatever occasion is there. what i find very interesting about this brianna, there was a political cartoon from the year 1900 when william mckinley who had no vice president at that point is vice president, he picked governor teddy roosevelt of new york to be his vice president and teddy roosevelt

was this huge personality and a hero of the san juan war and the cartoon shows this enormous teddy roosevelt on a horse in uniform and sitting as a tiny little figure on the horn of the saddle is william mckinley and that more or less seems to be what's going on here. you have this huge figure looming all over this. he will be there in the flesh on the stage and you've got a group of other guys all smart, all talented. carly fiorina. >> she won't be on the stage. she'll be in the earlier event. >> but they're all sort of in one way or another trying to figure out how do they deal with him? >> yeah how do they do that jeffrey? shed some light on that. how do they approach this? do they just pretend he's not on the stage or do they -- how do they advance their message? >> i think they have to discuss -- i mean john kasich has to be john kasich talk about himself, what he's done about governor of ohio. marco rubio is big on foreign

policy. he should talk about that. and speaking of marco rubio, there is a story out there in an outlet called d.c. whisperers which rush limbaugh was mentioning earlier today i find very interesting that donors unnamed, republican donors have been telling these candidates that they need to get on the stage tonight and, quote/unquote, take out donald trump. i would be amazed if they did that. i mean they figured senator rubio was one of the rips of this advice. apparently there are others of the consultants that swarm around them. that will be very interesting to see if anybody sort of wants to deviate from this is who i am and this is my record and go down that path. then i think they might be you know opening the barn door the way they don't want to do it. >> yeah who knows what to expect. who knows whether they would come out on top in that battle. we'll see. jeffrey lord looking forward to chatting with you after this debate. thanks so much for being on with

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there are conflicting reports today over whether more plane parts washed ashore on reunion island in the indian ocean. malaysian authorities say pieces of windows, seat cushions and aluminum material have been found but australian authorities coordinating the search for missing malaysia airlines flight 370 say none of the debris turned over to reunion police so

far appears to be aircraft debris. so what does all of this mean? i want to bring in our experts. cnn contributor david gallow the director of special projects for the ocean graphic institution and we have cnn safety analyst david soucy and is the author of "malaysia airlines flight 370." you hear the prime minister saying this one thing that the flaperon last week came from mh-370. experts say, not so fast. why are we getting so much conflicting information between the plane part and between this other debris? >> well we're looking at professional investigators doing their job versus people who are under pressure they are political, they know what they have to say, looking at it from a political perspective and under pressure to look like they're not withholding information so they're trying to be transparent but they're being too forthright i think.

they're say inging too much. most of these accident investigations we don't get information out to the public for at least a year so the fact that it's coming out in pieces like this is horribly difficult for the families. it's really not the way to do it. >> david, when you see where this flaperon was found, assuming that it came from mh-370 that seems like a safe bet, obviously, what we know about the plane's last reported position and ocean currents what you know really do you think searchers are looking in the right spot? >> i think, brianna, they have to look in that spot and maybe other spots as well a bit further out to sea. but i agree with david, too, this is not the way to give information to the families. it brings us right back to the first few days of conflicting information right after the disappearance of the plane. so i think they're in the right spot but they need better control on information flow. >> it does feel like deja vu doesn't it? what does this do do you think,

to families to people who are particularly invested in this when they don't feel like they're getting clear answers? >> to me? it's horrible -- >> david gallo, you. >> horrible. this is a 516 or 517 days and worse, 516 or 517 nights not knowing where their loved ones are. i think the malaysian authorities have very little credibility to begin with which led to all sorts of conspiracy theories and what not and this is going to make the wounds deeper bring all that stuff up once again. >> yeah i think you're right. david gallo, david soucie still ahead, those candidates are cramming for the showdown in cleveland. the video questions they've submitted for the rivals to answer and how they could lead to some interesting moments on the stage. you wouldn't do half of your daily routine. so why treat your mouth any

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for many of the republican presidential candidates tonight's prime time debate will be the culmination of hours of meticulous prep work. usually they can only guess what questions will be asked but this year they're getting a little bit of a preview in the form of videos recorded by their rivals. >> except for myself dr. carson and donald trump, nearly everyone on this stage has spent most of their career in public office. don't you think we'd be better off not electing another career politician? >> i'd like to ask all of the candidates as politicians and

nonnegotiators poem who don't negotiate jobs and lots of other things how are you going to make america great again? >> joining me now we have mike duncan the former chairman of the republican national committee, and katie packer the deputy campaign manager for mitt romney's 2012 campaign. she's now, we should say, just a little note her firm is doing some work for marco rubio's campaign. so i wonder katie, to you, before we even get into this idea of what the candidates said what do you think of this idea of them reporting questions for their rivals? >> well i don't think it's totally unexpected. i think the candidates want to make a little news ahead of the debate and make it clear that these are some of the questions that they're going to need to provide answers to. but it'll be an exciting night particularly for the candidates that we haven't heard a lot from in the recent months and lots of opportunities for them to make

news this evening. >> yeah we're certainly waiting to see what the moment is. you never know going into this what's going to happen. mike i want . mike i want you to listen to a question from chris christie from governor chris christie of new jersey. here's what he said. >> please give me your specific plan to reform entitlements in our country. >> all right. i hear that question mike. it's certainly a question that comes up. how does a candidate approach a question, like specifics on entitlement reform in 60 seconds? can they do that? >> obviously they can. this is spring training. this is the countdown in cleveland. we're starting the process here because we're having the first debate here several months later than normal and we'll end here with the nomination. but we've got 15 months to go. we have six months before anyone gets to vote on this. the specifics and -- in fact

you've gotten people on the stage tonight and very limited time. we're not going to get a lot into the details, which means that there's limited opportunity to make mistakes tonight. >> many opportunities to make mistakes. and katie, really like we said there is an unpredictable nature to this. what are you looking for in this debate? >> well what i'm looking for is sort of the get past all of the bluster that we're hearing. donald trump is getting about 22% of the vote. that means that 78% of republican voters are undecided or choosing somebody else. it's an opportunity for the other candidates to get to show what it is that they are passionate about and their vision for america. and i think all of them are being looking to make america great again. that's not really you know a domain solely for one candidate and i think we'll get a chance

to hear from the other candidates and they'll have to make their case. >> how much mike do you think we'll be hearing these candidates taking each other on versus taking hillary clinton on? >> well i think the focus is going to be on hillary clinton. if you go back to trump, that's what he is tapping into. dissatisfaction with what is going on in this country, the failed policies of the obama administration. you're going to hear a lot about that tonight and we should be. this is an election about change but really it's going to be an election about confidence for the american people. >> katie, as a former romney campaign official one of the reasons these debates were so key for him is that he appeared more presidential than the rest of the field. in just a very general way and there was some appeal for that for republican supporters. how do you coach a candidate to appear more presidential and how important is this?

>> well there's a saying that you shouldn't fight with a pig because you just get dirty and make the pig mad and i think when you avoid that you look more presidential. when you keep your focus on the ultimate rival, which is hillary clinton. she's only sort of staying afloat because the republican brand has suffered recently. and i think as we see other republican candidates emerge it will show strength and leadership. we have a real opportunity to defeat her next time and i think that they need to keep their focus on here. she's ultimately the target. >> all right. we will see if they take your advice. both of you. mike duncan katie parker, thanks to both of you joining us in cleveland. >> thank you. still ahead, the war of words between the president and republicans after yesterday's speech where he blasted opponents of the iran nuclear deal. the senate majority leader is now fighting back.

today marks 70 years since american forces dropped an atomic bomb on japan during world war ii devastating the city of hiroshima. thousands of people lost their lives that fateful day in 1945. among them the u.s. ambassador to japan, caroline kennedy, the daughter of former u.s. president john f. kennedy. in light of the occasion secretary of state john kerry sought to remind the public that nuclear weapons are not just a concern of the past but today's ceremony underscores the importance of the agreement that we reached to reduce more nuclear weapons. the stage is set for u.s. congressional showdown on the iran nuclear deal. senators have agreed to begin debate on september 8th after

returning from a month-long recess. the president has an uphill battle. mitch mcconnell made comments a short time ago. >> the president strikes me at least so far, as treating this like a political campaign. demonize your opponents, get the democrats all angry and rally around the president. to me this is not your typical political debate. this is an enormous national security debate that the president will leave behind under the constitution a year and a half from now and the rest of us will be dealing with the consequences of it. so i wish he would tone down the rhetoric and let's talk about the facts. >> mcconnell was talking about president obama's comments yesterday when he said those chanting death to america are

defining a common cause with the republican caucus and congress has until september 17th to vote on the deal that. is it for me. i'll be back at 5:00 p.m. for our international viewers, "amanpour" is next. for our north american viewers, brooke baldwin is here with cnn newsroom. i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. let's begin with this potentially huge break in the mystery of malaysian air flight 370. now we've learned of new debris discovered possibility from inside the plane. i'm talking about window parts and seat cushions along with aluminum washing up there on reunion island. at least that's what malaysia is telling us. they say they are sure this came from a plane although they are not quite convinced it's mh370. this is