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new problems for president biden in polling. his popularity is seeing is a drop in voters as they rank the biggest concerns. and president biden is leaving for a g20 summit in india and what they say he needs to pull off while there. and an american is stuck in a cave thousands of feet below ground, and the measures to rescue him. i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn "news central." >> oomph, problematic poll numbers for president biden, the approval numbers are sinking to
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39%, and democrats are on notice as a 2024 race for the white house is heating up. among the voters' concerns, age. they are worried about the physical and mental competence along with how well he understands the concerns ofuture generations of americans. another big issue, the economy. 58% say that biden's policies have made economic conditions worse. all right. with me now, cnn political director david chalian and welcome back once again. for you, what stands out? there is a lot here. >> there is a lot here, and none of it good for the white house. this is a sort of the alarm bells are going off to sort of spell out to them the task ahead in the next few months. and the approval rating is hovering in that range here since the range, but that is how it is stacking up to the modern day predecessors at this stage in the presidency. so biden is sort of hanging in this area, with trump and carter
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just to note that both of those folks lost the re-election efforts when they were running for re-election, and looking at the mood of the country, 30% of the americans say that things are going well, but 7 in 10 americans say they are going badly. >> i am going to make the assumption that the economic issues are one of the big concerns for americans, inflation, and the jobs are not giving them enough money to keep up. >> no doubt. economy is a big part of this, but as we saw, he is also having a problem with the democrats, and their largest concern is centered around the age. and take a look at this, and we asked an open-ended question to democrats and democrat-leaning voters, and what is the biggest concern about the president, and it is age, sharpness, health, and this is all sort of the piece there, and this is a big warning sirnggn, and as you sai
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when we asked broadly, 3/4 of the americans in this poll thinks that his age is negatively impacting him to serve another full term. >> that is a stark number and one that the campaign is looking out and worried about. and lastly, how he stacks up to the republican rivals as well. >> this is the first time this cycle that we have tested the general election matchups against the general republican opponents, and everything, the economy, and the age and the approval rating is how he is in the margin of error basically tied races, and it is getting to be a close presidential election, and only nikki haley is the only one who is testing outside of the margin of error, with a six percentage error lead. we did see her on the debate stage have a strong performance and opening up the pitch to not just the pitch may have something to do with that there, but take a look at this. this is going to be once again a
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battle for 50 to 100,000 votes in four battleground states. this is a dead heat race at the moment. >> it is interesting to see the number, but here's the thing that we all know, that you have to be getting past the primary, and right now, who is the person in the lead at the gop, and that would be, and look at me, i am ruin the hold, but look at this, biden is the only person run at this point. >> a trump biden matchup, and you can see it is right there, and given the republican advantage in the electoral college, joe biden's team is going to want a stronger advantage in this popular vote to assure a walk in the electoral college. >> it is a snapshot in time, and people should know that we are not there yet, but it is going ever closer. >> and now, president biden is heading overseas soon, and
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arlette saenz is there. >> yes, president biden is set to depart for the g20 meeting in india, but troubling signs as david ran through in the recent polling in regards to the re-election, and the campaign is not commenting on the individual poll, but amplifying some democratic voices that the poll should be taken with grain of salt, but one biden aide that i spoke to said that the focus is not on this individual poll, but instead looking ahead to what the general election and battleground polls will ultimately show heading into next fall once there is a republican nominee selected. of course, so much of what the biden campaign has done in the early stages of the campaign is to try to paint this as a race between president biden, and maga extremism, and drawing on former president donald trump, but some of issues that david touched on there are issues worth focusing on when it is coming to president's handling of the economy.
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they have been making a big push over the summer to sell this bidenomics vision to sell to the americans, and the polling found that 58% of american voters believe that the president's policies have worsened economic condition, and showing that the white house, and the campaign, they have room, some movement that they need to make when it is coming to the public perception. one person here at the white house said it is going to take time for people to feel the economic impact, and they have the next year to make the case to voters, and another issue of top concern to the general election of the american voters and the democratic party are questions about president biden's age, and so far the campaign as not made headway of improving the numbers and you saw just the prevalence of the age question as vice president kamala harris traveled to indonesia and she did a pair of interviews where she was asked to address the president's age.
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>> you are 58 now. if you win a second term as you and the president are running to do. he would be 86 at the end of it, and the washington poll had a poll that said that joe biden is too old to run again. are you prepared to be commander in chief? >> yes, i am, if necessary, but joe biden is going to be fine. >> so, just an example of some of the areas of the campaign that they will have to improve on if they want the president to secure a second term here in the white house next november. >> thank you, arlette. joining us to talk about more on this is john avalon and margaret hoover also the host of "the firing line" on pbs. broad question first, because we have been talking and diving into the new poll number, and just how bad are they for joe biden. what are you seeing in the trend? >> they are bad for joe biden.
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no sugar coating this. you can move across the aisle and say take it with a grain of salt, but the overall issue is that the age and perceptions of vigor are dragging him down, and this is the poll among democrats and independents are seeing is serious erosion. and also the gap of the economy, and it is abjekabjectiveely bet ter -- better, and so people are not feeling it. >> and the reason is because joe biden is not doing the victory laps around it in every corner of the country, and this is my
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policy, and you have me to thank for this, and don't you feel good about it? i think that the polling is not looking good for joe biden as john pointed out, but the difference is that it is not saying trump v. biden. as soon as it is biden against donald trump, the numbers will look a little different, and this is only reason that he is still in this as according to many of his advisers. >> as you dig into this, the voters are saying that their vote in a biden-trump matchup is based largely on how they feel about donald trump and not about joe biden. >> that is what -- typically a re-election is a referendum on the incouincumbent, but now, yo seeing the electorate driving feelings of the electorate, and biden is under water, and trump
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is lower. >> good news for biden? >> it is compared to what the proposition is, as margaret said. >> and it is -- thank you, john avalon. >> there is a pony in there somewhere for joe biden, but i am not sure where. >> okay. wait, so, h s, let's talk aboutp v. biden and showing a snapshot here, and the first time that cnn has asked this question in the cycle showing that everything is within the margin of error, and biden versus all of the gop candidates without donald trump and it is nikki haley that is a in wa they he has tried to separate himself from trump and the pack, and someone who knows pence well, marc short was on, and the former chief of staff, and i said, you are trying to make the
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separation, but how do you call out trump for leading the country down the path of ruin, and you were part of the campaign of 2016, and this is what marc short said. >> i think that in 2016, donald trump came to conservatives said, if you nominate me, i will govern as a conservatives, and give me a list of judges, and give me the platform and i will adopt a tax reform, and those were implemented in the four years of the presidency, and hallmarks of conservativism, and he did govern as a conservative, but as he is running heshs has not come to the conservatives and said, what you would like to see as policy, but these are my grievance, and fight for me, and that is a different platform than he ran in 2016. >> i know marc short, and i understand what he is saying there, and i understand the argument that the conservatives is trying to say and what mike
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pence is trying to do to distinguish himself, but it is not going to be effective. and the extent to which he was conservative is because of me and the people like me in the cabinet and deferred to influence the policies and the policy directions that he litigated. the argument that mike pence made yesterday, populism versus conservativism, and a time for choosing is a missed opportunity. and the reason is because he is missing the point. yes, he is correct that the party is at a crossroads in the primary, and are we going to be populist like donald trump or conservative like everybody else, but the electorate is not voting on ideas, but grievances and personality of donald trump, and the other time of choosing that another republican president gave, but not at the ronald reagan said liz cheney said between trump and the constitution. and nobody is better positioned to make the case for the constitution over donald trump
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than mike pence as he demonstrated by last january 6th, and it is a missed opportunity. and why cloak itt in the ideas, because the ideas are the least of it, because it is about the constitution. >> and my bride is bringing the heat, and good advice for vice president pence. conservativism and populism are traditional opposites, but look, he tried to lump ramaswamy and pence to lump in together with trump. and that is the right strategy. >> hoovalon alert. it has shown up in the studio in the best possible way. >> and now, in the documents probe, and what we know about him and the potential testimony, but he stuchas been stuck thous
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is going to testify against trump. jack smith struck a deal against the i.t. trump specialist struck a deal in order to avoid being prosecuted himself. he implicated walt nauta and others in their effort to delete security camera footage. former prosecutor elliott williams is joining us now, and welcome back with snazzy new glasses and great new tie, and we will talk about that later, but this is more important right now. and let's talk about the allegations here in the indictment that deolivera said that "the boss" wanted the surveillance footage deleted and it seems that the testimony could be crucial in this, and
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how much might this impact this case against donald trump? >> so it could be crucial testimony, and big picture why the witnesses matter and how you get a witness to matter is when somebody can testify first hand as to conversations they had with the defendant or the co-conspirator, and here, taveras worked or had communication with de oliveira and nauta and others and placed close to the former president. look, it appears he can't implicate the president, himself, but an important question is always what you can get into court. conversations that an individual has rather than ones that he overheard or saw can be more valuable and useful testimony to be admitted into court. >> i am curious as we see that you, and others sort of have said, look, likely people who flip here, and start saying what they know, because they don't want to be prosecuted.
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now that we have one in the documents case, do you see others following once the sort of the band-aid is torn off, if you will, do you see others following? >> yes, the band-aid analogy is a good one. witnesses have an incredible incentive to flip or to provide testimony for the government. one, typically pleading guilty tends to give the individual os or -- individuals a lower sentence, and many call it a trial penalty, and you get a higher penalty going to trial and convicted. and also, providing testimony that helps the prosecutors and truthful testimony also can work towards someone's favor. also note that taveras might have been charged with making false statements or pernljury, d so he going to get himself of going to jail. sot the incentives are many for him and other witnesses or
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defendants who might have something to say. >> we are seeing it happen, and we should note that when they are getting a different attorney, suddenly this seems to be the case that people start to say, oh, no, i could be in real trouble here and they don't have attorneys paid for by donald trump like for example walt nauta. i want to move to the case in georgia where the d.a. is saying the trial is going to be about four months and submitted to the court over 150 witnesses with potentially and maybe not potentially 19 defendants. is this possible? because even the judge was skeptical it could happen. >> look, we are americans, and anything is possible, sara, but this is not going to happen. talking about 150 witnesses, you are not talking about each one of them taking stand, but lawyers for all 19 defendants
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cross-examining, and each person might face multiple rounds of questioningb and then you get to the question of whether some of the defendants might get referred to federal court, and so, four months is ambitious under the best of circumstances and any number of questions to complicate the case, and it is not likely. >> it is interesting to see how it happens, and some people peeling off to have their cases heard in federal court, and number of things can happen from now to the date set, and that date moving. elliott williams, don't you go anywhere, and sit there in that chair, and we will come back to you. >> food breaks. and dangerous mission to go save a man's life. a man is trapped in a cave more than 3,000 feet underground. and an inmate has died in fulton county jail.
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in turkey and the third deepest cave in turkey and a total depth of more than 4,100 feet. he fell ill at a depth of 3600 feet down, and then taken to the team's base camp at around 3,400 feet. and that is where the rescuers on the surface are now trying to reach out to get him stabilize and get him out. cnn's eleni gis there. >> and this cave is narrow, and it has narrow passages and very difficult to get through to various areas. and there are various base camps underground and you mentioned around 3,400 feet. and picture, in this is almost three times height of the empire state building. and that how deep he is underground right now. and 150 rescuers are on the
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ground trying to assist, including americans. so mark dickey fell sick saturday. and that is six days ago, and so we are talking about something that has been going on for quite some time, and he has received six units of blood. he is stable and able to walk, but if you know anything about cavingsh you have to be crawling and climbing and certain states of physical and mental strength to be able to get out. we are anticipating this could take a matter of days to be able to get him out with the assistance that they are talking about. they are talking about a stretcher. and now, imagine a stretch ter taken underground to get through the narrow space, and that is not perhaps the best option. at this point in time from what we are understanding from the rescue operations, they are trying to stabilize him to get him in the better physical state, and this is a very experienced caver, and over three decades of kafingcaving a the world which will help him to
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pull through, but will he be physically able enough to be removed. many teams are on the ground the figure out firstly, to get quickly as possible to get into the base camp to get more medical assistance and out. on a good day, kate, it is going to take 15 hours with the very experienced caver to get to the very top. so it becomes, and it is a sense of the complexity and how tough it is to be able to remove mark dickey at this stage. >> 15 hours when you are, you know, in perfect physical condition is what is it going to take. and this going to take a very long time, and tedious work to keep him well enough to get out. we will stay close in. eleni, thank you. john? atlanta police are investigating how an inmate die at the fulton county jail, and the 1th to die this year, and the sixth after july 31st, and this is the same jail where
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donald trump was processed a few weeks ago. ryan young live for us in georgia. ryan, the numbers here are staggering. >> john, the numbers are staggering and the community activists are wanting a change right now. and the doj is investigating this jail, and the sheriff has said that he needs a new facility, and everyone agrees that the jail is falling apart, but tell that to the family of shondre dellmore who was being held on a bond for $2400 for a minor offense, they don't understand how that leads to cardiac arrest. last week, multiple stabbings and one person died and it seems that every week, someone is coming forward to talk about the horror stories with this jail, and in fact, an attorney who ended a press conference who says that something needs to be done and now.
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>> there is no way to be taking it as seriously as they should, because the jail is open and functioning as it is. it is a death trap and that is where we are right now. and what happened over the last several months and what has been disc disclosed, this is supposed to be america. >> reporter: it is tough to hear, because 25 people dying in the last two years. the sheriff for his part, pat labott says he needs $1 billion to build a new facility, and there are times when they have brought in wheelbarrows of the parts of the jail that have been falling apart, and doors that are not able to be locked. so for the people housed there, and don't forget that the air conditioning failed there this summer, and people want action and change, and this family is adding to the growing list of
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too much happening at this jail. >> ryan young, thank you for report, and keep us posted. sara? in a mtatter of hours, the president is going to be heading to india for the g20 summit, and we will look at his priorities for the key meetings. ( ♪ ) because this game is for everyone. to give your teeth a dentist clean feeling. start with a round brush head. add power. and you've got oral-b. round cleans better by surrounding each tooth to remove 100% more aque. for a superiorlean. oral-b. brush ke a pro.
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ghosh and also, analyst kim dozier, and look, bobby, the war in ukraine has been top of the agenda more than a year and a half, and everywhere he is going, is to shore up the effort for that war effort. he going to india who is luke-warm at best about efforts to aid ukraine, and other countries in the world where perhaps aid to ukraine and the interest in it may be waning. >> that is exactly right. i don't think that he is going to change too many hearts and minds in india on this. india is enjoying being on the fence here, because it has economic benefit directly from it, and it is not facing any sort of punishment for taking cheap oil from russia. what biden can hope to achieve is to reach out to other members off of the already existing coalition of the european partners, and japan and talk to them, and shore up their
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support. we are seeing over a period now that the europeans are finally stepping up, and shouldering more and more of the burden of supporting ukraine. i think that earlier in the month, or late last month, there was a tipping point in which the aid for ukraine, more than 50% of it now comes from europe than the united states, which is a welcomed situation to press on the europeans to do more. he wants to point out, look, guys, support for this in the u.s. is not as high as it used to be. and i have an election cycle coming up, and it is time for you the pick up more and more of the slack. >> and kim, i want to talk about china because president xi of china is not going, and potentially avoiding a face-to-face with president biden there, and what does president biden want to get from the other leading countries of the world, vis-a-vis china as
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they are expand pg militarily, and succeeding economically, because they are having real problems? >> well, the biden administration wants to build on the indo-pacific economic plan and shore it up, and encourage the countries face-to-face, they can stand up together against the chinese economic expansion schism. it is also a way for xi to not snub biden in person. so what that might do is to undo all of the progress of the three-months of high level u.s. visits to china. it is as if beijing thinks it is getting what it wants, but not quite enough to earn a xi visit to the g20. there is another chance for biden and xi to meet this year as xi is invited to the asian economic summit in san francisco later in the year that biden is
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attending. >> and bobby, there is an issue that is central to india, but there is implications to the dinner. an invitation went out to state dinner from the president of india, except that is not what the invitation said. it said that the president of barat invites you to the state dinner and using a name seen important to hindu nationalists there. can you explain what is going on, and why that is used? >> well, it is local politics, and it is around the g20 purposes. >> barat and india is the name use and everybody is going to recognize most of the indians are referring to themselves as such. and berat is something favored
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by hindu nationalists, although not exclusively by them, but certainly by the hindu nationalists, and there is an echo in narendra's party, and so it is a little bit of the propaganda, and it should not take at a tension away from the main agenda at the g20, because it is for national consumption, and frankly, nobody outside of india is going to change the way they refer to that country any time soon. >> thank you for explaining that. the bobby ghosh, kim, thank you. and so a new poll out this morning showing a rough road for president biden. age and economics showing the
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>> your first line is "i can't even front" -- >> i started out as a thief. >> now my grandmother would say, why are you telling everybody your business. >> right. >> why for you have to be this real and this raw with people who pick up the book? >> well, i felt like in beginning i was dishonest and i learned that life was about honesty and integrity and i was very ambitious and i learned that back then taking something was a success, and my grandma told me that i can deal with anything but a liar and a thief. >> a lot of our grand when people see you they think successful. this guy is out there doing his thing. he's wearing a nice gold watch. they see these things and they i think, if he can do it, why
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can't all black folks do it. what do you say to them? >> that's why i wrote the book. people see the finished product. this has been 40 years of me going through everything i went through and even the book is about the reason i named the book at adversity for sale is because you want you to know how many times i have lost and still keep the same enthusiasm. the world is on top of me. even at my highest, i was at my lom lowest. i want people to understand life is not perfect. it's not fair. it's hard but it's not fair. it's hard but it's fair. and you have to continue to believe and keep pushing because that's what my story is about. i don't want to tell people about the finished product. i want to tell them about how i got here. >> you talk about paranoia in your book. the fact that you yourself
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really paranoid for several years. it's a really uncomfortable feeling. do you think that fuelled you or started to break you down? >> a little bit of paranoia. a lot of trauma, depression, anxiety, all those things. i would say this. the thing they got me on my journey to healing is that i started to learn and understand what i was going through because before that i thought something was wrong with me. you come from poverty, this is how you're supposed to feel. i start ed to understand there were things you can help. as a black man, it's weak to have people help you. for me, i had to learn that the hard way. everybody needs some help. and i didn't know i had trauma. i thought these are the things we go through.
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>> the life you led, it was normal. >> when you lose friends at a young age, people that are around and going away doing 20 or 30 years in prison andment coing back like it's a nothing thing, you don't understand how desensitized you are. as you get into your adult life, you wonder where things are coming from, but it's coming from your young adulthood. i had to deal with that. if you ain't never seen the devil face to face, that means you are walking in the same direction. hi to take care of myself. because i'm a leader and i'm lead ing men. i have to have clarity and be in my right mind for the decisions i make. and i wasn't that way because i had so much trauma. but i'm not all the way healed yet. i'm still working. but i do feel that i'm in a
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better state. >> dpo you worry about the words in rap, the words in hip hop? you can go down a number of voices in hip hop. some of them are deep. it tells a story about what they have been through trying to help other people who have been through the same thing, put you also have misogyny, violence, drugs, do you worry about the words in hip hop that are going out to the masses and making it seem glamorous? >> i think it's the message. i can't be the one to talk. it was my truth. the reality is not on us. it's on america. we can't control our environment. we don't have the right tools so we have to survive. all these stories you're hearing are people that are coming out of these situations is and these environments telling their story, hoping they can connect
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with other people. because it's therapeutic for them as well. that's who changed my life. he was my therapist. >> he was a lot of people's therapist. >> the reason i had rules and a moral compass and values is because i listened to what tupac s said. so had a moral compass already. i was hope ing that's what my music was doing. because even if my music was negative in the beginning, it was always a message in it. you got to believe. it's always something in there that had something to do with evolving or going or staying motivated. >> i got to tell you. sitting down with him, there's a reason his book is a best seller. his first line in the book says, i was a thief. he goes on from there. and he's so raw and real.
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you almost no one hear nobody from that community talk about mental illness, the problems he had. he's an incredible person. not just a famous rapper. >> it's important he's doing that. >> really interesting. thank you so much for joining us. this is "cnn news central." "inside politics" is up next. do you struggle with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nervive nerve relief from the world's number one nerve care company. nervive contains ala to relie nerve aches, and b-complex vitamins to fortify healthy nerves. try nervive. and, try nervive pain relieving roll-on
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