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>> all right? hi there a.m. here in washington, alive. look at capitol hill on this thursday morning good morning, everyone. >> i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us the effort to get donald trump to focus on policy over personal attacks it does not seem to be taking off as his allies might have hoped trump is trying to make the shift with a speech focusing on economic policy in north carolina what do you bad one subject ever? and then we'll start going back to the other because we sort of loved that dolan but it's an important no, it's an important. they say it's the most important subject i'm not sure it is but then not even a minutes into his speech. >> it was this neither she nor her running mate is said, the beauty isn't you signed a

bill. he wants tampons in boys bathrooms. >> i don't think so. >> trump also fixated as usual, on polling, trying to find an upside somewhere we have some very good polls coming out today. >> i just heard, despite all of the fake publicity about this radical left person from san francisco so what story are the polls actually telling? >> it's different from what the former president had to say there a new poll from pew research finds that harris, his campaign is energizing the democratic party in a whole new way, 62 2% of democratic voters strongly support harris at the top of the ticket. compare that to last month when just 43% of democrats strongly supported biden in the same poll, the swing all but eliminating the enthusiasm gap between the two parties joining us now to discuss sophia cai, politics

reporter at axios and mika solner, congressional reporter at punchbowl news. >> good morning to both of you. thank you so much for being here sophia we of course, expected or we're told i should say by the campaign, the formal dominant donald trump campaign he is going to come and give a speech about the economy. >> trump actually kind of mocked that very idea from the stage saying, well, this is what they want me muna do. i don't even think it's the most important. and then he went on to mock kamala harris for how she laughs. let's watch what trump said about harris is left for nearly four years, camila has grabbed gold as the american economy has burned. what happened to her left? i haven't heard that laugh at about a week. that's why they keep her off their say that's why she's disappeared. that's the laugh of a crazy person so we've talked a lot this week about how a lot of republicans want him to do something else. but trump, but i suppose in typical fashion does not seem inclined to change yeah, i

mean, look, nikki haley, just yesterday was asking him and he seem to stop whining and get focused on the issues i think she recognized that harris has been talking about the future, talking about freedoms, and he thinks that's what trump should we talk about. he clearly has not taken that advice. i mean, that's what that shows and he's also saying that he ultimately will be the decision-maker in terms of what his message will be yeah. >> mika solner, when you talk to you, you talked to members of congress are frequently they're obviously all off running for their own seats there has been so many there have been so many polls that have come out. and just the last 24 hours and they all seem to show that enthusiasm is are up among democrats here versus continuing to debt a lead in these national polls, we still don't have a ton of really good data from swing states, but it does seem to be a situation where the rising tide on the democratic side is lifting all all of the democratic vote boats together.

what is your latest reporting on that piece of it? >> yeah, absolutely. kasie, i think that this is all going to come to light next week of the dnc as well. the democratic end because the aza am and what i'm hearing from democratic lawmakers on the hill too, is a lot of them are willing, able, and, you know, open to serving a surrogates for the harris campaign especially in swing states. so i think that's going to be a big issue. that's especially the ones that have been the most vocally supportive of harris are some of these democrats in the middle of the caucus who are a little bit more moderate in tougher districts that were the most vocally opposed to biden being the top of the ticket. so it's a huge shift that we're seeing frank luntz, of course, we're now a longtime pollster republican and very close to particularly kevin mccarthy, but also other leaders in the republican party talked a little bit about how the electorate is changing when he did an interview on cnbc yesterday it lets, lets watch what he had to say and then we'll talk about it. >> take a look. >> she's bringing out people who are not interested in voting for either trump or biden so the entire electoral pool has changed. and if it

continues in this direction, you have to start to consider democrats winning the senate and democrats winning the house the actual people who are participating, she's got intensity now she got an intensity vantage he's got a demographic advantage and i haven't seen anything like this happen in 30 days in my lifetime so sophia, he's there saying this is really fundamentally change things and it's really that she is bringing out new voters who weren't going to show up. >> if this was a trump-biden race. >> yeah. look, this is the 70% of voters who during the republican primaries said they did not want a biden trump match-up. and these are also some of the same voters that the polling has shown harris doing better when she's also doing better with minority voters, doing better with women, doing better with younger voters is all of that as a concern for republicans and what frank luntz is doing right there as he's raising

the alarm bell mika, i what is your sense of how the harris campaign moves forward from here because we anticipate that she, they've told us she's going to give an economic address on friday, the trump campaign is criticizing someone for policy proposals as stolen from him. >> the no taxes on tips and axios is also an others have been reporting that she wants to make a break from biden in terms of trying to separate herself from bidenomics from kind of the way the president has done all this so far. how do you anticipate that playing out? >> yeah. i think that the harris campaign is going to be completely focused on contrasting themselves too. former president donald trump, i think that's going to be the number one thing. they're going to attack him on. democracy, his history, especially if he continues with the personal tax on the vice president that's going to be a bidding the liability for the former president. a lot of republicans are a little bit nervous that he's not going to be able to help himself. and continue this streak of these personal attacks that have been highly unpopular and i think that she's going to focus a lot on

policy and also drawing out these voters that were discontent with biden as sofia just mentioned, right? >> because soellner, sophia cai thank you both very much for being with us this morning. i appreciate it. >> all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, russia on its back foot as ukraine gained more ground in the kursk region good progress today in the kursk region we are achieving our strategic how vladimir putin is trying to fend off ukraine's advances plus rfk junior considering dropping out of the race there's a catch and the economy taking center stage as both trump and harris make their pitch to americans when camila lays out her fake economic plan this week probably will be a copy of my planned because basically that's what she does he be on

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aligned ukrainians living near the border are watching the incursion with mixed emotions, pride, a sense of justice and fear about what could come next. let's bring in cnn's clare sebastian with more on this. clare good morning. do we have a sense of how significant this is? how many russian troops are being pulled out of ukraine to fight the incursion yeah. >> it's still early days to know how much of an impact this will make on, on russia's sort of reallocation of its troops. but this is of course the key question, right? ukraine has not gone into russian territory to try to take russia and territory. this is all about trying to prevent russia attacking further on ukrainian territory. so like you had that commander who heads a group that is active include sql, right now, he said that pulling troops from zaporizhzhia, crimea, and kharkiv, tellingly he did not say from donetsk where of course ukraine is facing the most pressure from russia. russia has been making very slow progress. there in recent months, we actually spoke to a military spokesperson on the eastern front on wednesday, who told us

that the level of attacks on that front remains broadly stable with what it was prior to the kursk invasion but of course, ukraine is not just attacking hang on the ground in russia, we saw on overnight into wednesday what they are claiming was the biggest attack on russian airfields since the beginning of the war for a different air bases we don't know exactly how much impact that has made as of yet. but president zelenskyy, in his nightly address on wednesday praising that and saying that with the help of the west, they could do more leucine. >> thank you for the accurate, timely, and effective strikes on russian airfields all ukrainian drones are working exactly as needed from the dock, but there are things that drones alone cannot do unfortunately, we need other weapons missile weapons and we continue to work with our partners on long-range solutions for ukraine well, ukraine's partners, including the u.s. >> so far seeing broadly supportive of what's happening in court plus but separately,

kasie, i want to bring you some new images that cnn has obtained because another part of what ukraine is doing inside of russia seems to be what they call replenishing the exchange from fund this they say was the biggest capture of russian troops. russian now prisoners of war since the start of the war, there's 102 in one go at this will help, but according to president zelenskyy and other officials in getting back, some of the ukraines as 8,000 or so ukrainian troops that are still in russian captivity. so as we look at the motivation here, this appears to be part of it. >> all right, clare sebastian for us this morning, clare. thank you very much. >> alright. still ahead here on cnn this morning, talks to end the israel-hamas war are picking back up in qatar. but one key player will not be at the negotiating table plus why rfk junior's campaign tried to get a meeting on the books with kamala harris's team erin

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election it's the economy stupid famed phrase from democratic strategist james carville, from three decades ago. still very relevant today. a new quinnipiac poll shows pennsylvania voters have the economy as their biggest issue. and that's coming to the forefront on both sides of the ticket this week, cnn reporting kamala harris is expected to call for a federal ban on price gouging in an effort to lower costs for everyday items. that proposal is part of a larger plan that she's planning to unveil at her first economic policy speech on friday in north carolina for liner. donald trump was the first to pay visit to the tar heel state this week when he showed up there yesterday during his own speech that was supposed to be centered on the economy, he also offered plenty of attacks john miller has declared that tackling inflation will be a day one priority. stake of it for her. but day one for camila was three-and-a-half years ago.

why hasn't she done it? she cast the tie-breaking votes they gave us record inflation and for nearly four years there's camila has grappled as the american economy has burned all right, joining me now, white house correspondent for bloomberg news, akayla gardner and new york times, federal reserve and economy reporter jeanna smialek. >> thank you both for being here. jeanna, i actually want to start with you because i can't help but notice that all of the newspapers on the desk this morning or most of them anyway, have headlines like this one in the wall street journal, inflation hits lowest level since 2021. and of course, the big questions over overarching the campaign is in there's a lot of its outside of both of these candidates control are on the economy let me that could make or break either one of their campaigns. how do you read this inflation news in terms of the broader likelihood or lack thereof that the economy is going to continue to improve for everyday americans between now and november yes. i think this

inflation report was pretty unambiguously good news for the democrats and the harris campaign. president from president trump, as we saw yesterday, as we've seen throughout this race, has really been hammering on on this idea that inflation is out of control, that prices are really high, that they're really questioning american families. and while price levels are still very high inflation just means that they are increasing more slowly. it is the case that families aren't seeing those big jumps in prices at the grocery store in at the gas pumps in all the places that we were seeing them in 2022 2023. that's really a thing of the past and we're really seeing inflation returned and much more normal levels. and i think as that sort of sinks in and feels like reality to people, it's going to really differ saying that talking point that the republicans have been trying to use against the democrats akayla gardner, one of the things that's really shifted here as well is obviously the entirety of the top of the democratic ticket. and that has changed how voters evaluate democrats on the the economy. >> we can take a look at this

new pbs marist poll shows donald trump is trusted by 51% are people say, who can handle the economy is the question 51% say that donald trump could do it better, 48% say harris could do a better, but look at how different that is. it is definitely ticking. inherits this direction is 48, 51 versus 45, 54 in this new scenario, there was also a financial times poll that came out earlier this week that the harris campaign reportedly energized by that showed that she could be the person that voters would trust on the economy. but that said she still has yet to put out very many details here. and the time new york times reports the headline is vagueness is a strategy as harris prepares for economic message that she it seems to me that it would be useful to have some details from her how are they planning to move forward here? >> yes so we are expecting her to speak on friday in raleigh,

north carolina in a speech that it's really going to be focused on lowering costs and as you mentioned, she's going to be unveiling at least one proposal that talks about a ban on price gouging i think specifically for groceries and i think this is very intentional for a couple of reasons, particularly because americans continue to talk about high prices at the grocery store. this is something that is frankly in voters minds on a weekly basis. so she's really trying to blame corporations here companies here, grocery providers here, and trying to put that specific typically on them rather than on president biden on the democratic party. she's also appearing with president biden today. i think that appearance is also going to be crucial before the dnc showing unity, but it's also in maryland a state that's not on the map. it shows that potentially biden could be a weakness for her having to close association with him when it comes to the economy. and she's really broken rules here, you mentioned that ft poll, it seems like she is had some ways of sort of separating herself from biden's legacy when it comes to the economy.

>> akilah, the challenge it seems to me as well as that she's got to show you've got to figure out how to put some distance between herself and president biden on this. and axios reported this yesterday, quote, harris won't say at this bluntly in public, but her advisers do so privately. she wants to break with biden on issues on which he is unpopular. first up is rising prices. this is part of a highly choreographed effort to define herself in case there is redefined herself as a different kind of democrat or voters going to buy it it's really interesting though, because some of president biden's policies are popular, like the one that they're talking about. >> and maryland today about lowering prescription job causes. but i think what's really been underscored by the past few weeks is it was biden specifically. it's the messenger who is unpopular and i think she's still running on many of the policies that by and champion whether it's lori student debt costs, lowering prescription drug costs. she's still going to run in those things, but she's not necessarily going to mention biden we're talk about him when she mentioned some jeanna, can you give us a sense of how

plausible some of these proposals are because i know donald trump was on local media after his before his rally yesterday, basically saying this price gouging plan, like she can't do that. it's not possible to do it. we don't have a ton of details. i realize on how to address on how xi plans to address price gouging among grocery companies and others as she outlines. but what is possible in your view? >> yes. i think it's actually one of the most interesting things about this sort of detail laid strategy is it makes it incredibly difficult to figure out what is actually do a full here. >> i think one thing that we can say about both candidates proposals is they're talking about things like exempting tipped wages have to tips from taxes it's and things like in president, and vice president harris's case, raising the minimum wage, those sorts of things require legislation. >> they're very dependent on what congress this looks like and whether they can pass legislation i think that that

is an important thing to keep in mind as we look at what happens going forward. i think there are probably some things that if a trump administration were elected, he could do unilaterally when it comes to putting on higher tariffs so there are some things that a president can do on their own i don't know if we know yet enough detail to know if those price gouging things are among them. but i think that the big overarching answer here is we need a little bit more detail before we get to have a really good ability to assess that i appreciate. >> i've very much appreciate that. that assessment of all of this because it really it really is tough to get your head around. what, what is possible and whether or not this stuff could actually work gina, one of the other pieces of this, of course, that we're seeing the back half of all these inflation headlines is around interest rate cuts, potentially coming in september. and of course, one of the places where americans have been most squeezed have been on housing prices. i mean, they've just a mortgage rates which have gone up so high. and

they're squeezed in other ways when interest rates are high as well, what's your anticipation of what the fed? it is likely to do and how might that play into the campaign? and its final weeks yes. >> so it does seem like the fed is barreling toward a rate cut the big question for investors right now, is it going to be a big rate cut or is it just going to be a little rate cut so that's sort of, that's sort of the question at the moment. i think that what we know about rate cuts is that they do not affect the economy immediately. so it isn't typically the case that you have a re, kind and then everything just go it's crazy. but what they do do is make people feel a little bit better about their prospects of homeownership and their prospects of affording things on borrowed money because it's a signal no to the world that the fed is sort of turning the corner in its fight against inflation and really going to bring interest rates down. >> so i do think you could put potentially see a little bit of a boon. >> you could see voters feeling a little bit better about the economy as interest rates come down and that is one reason why i think you've sort of seen

some focus on this from political speakers. president trump has suggested form president trump suggested that it would be a bad idea for the fed to cut interest rates before the election means it would be political. he obviously it's is important to note always, consistently pushed for lower injury restraints when he was in office so i do think that this is going to be it's going to be a big talking point headed to heading into the election. >> yeah, very interesting. and it tells you where he thinks the politics of this are for sure kayla gardiner, jeanna smialek. thank you both very much for being with us. i really appreciate it all right. >> coming up next here on cnn this morning, messaging, obviously a huge part of every political campaign are you better off than you were four years ago will ask an expert if the language that we're seeing being used in this 2024 race is catching on with voters plus the yankees slugger, aaron judge, setting a standard for power. but even begun roof didn't match from leading

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think it's pretty weird to be the border czar and to open up the border and allow fentanyl to come into your community? >> no, we're not we're very solid people. we want to have strong borders. we want to have good elections. we want to have low interest rates, will want to be able to buy a house. we want great education we want strong borders i think we're very actually i think where the opposite of when they're weird all right. >> joining me now to discuss michael maslansky. he spends his time working with companies with political campaigns on language, thinking a lot about what works and what doesn't michael thank you so much for being here great to be here. >> kasie so clearly that word weird is something that took off. >> it's something that clearly kamala harris and tim walz, i think is resonating with people that they're talking to. and it seems to clearly be under the skin of j.d. vance and donald trump how would how do you see how this has kind of become its

own? because while it's kinda went out there and started it right when he was basically campaigning on television to be welcome the vice presidential nominee and it's stuck why well, so first i mean, i think former president trump is the master at this. >> and so it's interesting that this is probably the first time since he's been on the political scene that there's a term that has been used against him so effectively. and i think the word weird has become amazing. it's really for three reasons. first, donald trump hates it in 2016 democrats tried to use bullying on donald trump, but he loved being called a bully. it was actually a badge of honor. and so it didn't work. he doesn't want to be called here and so it's definitely getting under his skin. the dems have had a tremendous amount of discipline. you see it all over the place as we saw in that opening montage and many other places. so it got repeated to the point that the media picked it up. >> then the trump and vance campaign have tried to rebut it. >> and the first rule of pr

really don't repeat the negative and effectively what they're doing is they're saying, i know you are, but what am i didn't work on the school yard didn't work now to try and rebut the term very interesting way to think about it so one of the other things that we have been talking a lot about since biden decided not to run again and kamala harris has gotten to the top of the ticket is how optimism and hope joy is the word that they're campaign has used how that contrasts with a message that's more fear-based and some of that you can see in some of the political slogans that we most remember from our presidents over the years. let's take a look at some of them going back to ronald reagan's morning again in america, let's watch it's morning again in america i'm trying has come to america

we're here because we are taking the first steps and we're taking them in a contract with the american people. that's why the second bill is a so-called build back better plan we will very quickly make america great. >> again so obviously we ended on make america great again, which is a little bit of a backward looking kinda turns it on its head. >> but i'm curious what you think and how you see the walls harris campaign taking a positive forward, looking view of the country versus the way trump is running now and how that plays with voters i would say in those examples and in most campaigns, the candidate with the most positive, optimistic vision for the future, the one that resonates most with the american people is the one that wins and i got a lot of trouble for this time, but my take on make america

great again was that it was a very positive slogan for for trump voters and even people on the fence at this this cycle in 2024, trump has been decidedly negative. >> he has used make america greater than ever before, but i don't think it feels like it's new enough. but the harris-walz campaign they've really kind of tapped into this joy, tapped into a positive fighting for freedom as opposed to threatening democracy, which was the way that the biden campaign has really framed it. and so they understand and that this from her laugh to his enthusiasm, to the words that go with it, really have a powerful impact on voters. >> well and the slogan that has clearly resonated with harris and the people should the crowd. she has talked to, is this we're not going back which was something that she could you can watch when she talked to the crowd in

milwaukee and she used this and you can see how people reacted to it. watch not going back but you got almost see her react there in real time to the crowd feeding off of that. >> but we're not going back seems to play into this same phenomenon absolutely. >> i mean, first of all, it's, it's kind of wildly difficult to predict exactly which phrase, which idea is going to capture the imagination of the people we companies do a lot testing of it. politicians to a ton of testing of it. sometimes it is testing it out on the campaign trail and seeing how people respond to it. but this, you can kind of see, you're at the head of a mark with that kind of slogan and it is, it is motivating. it feels positive,

it feels energizing it is kind of reminiscent of yes, we can, in many ways, in the kind of feeling that it has behind it. >> all right. michael maslansky for us this morning, michael, very grateful for your time and expertise. i appreciate it thanks for having me, kasie all right. time now for sports, the new york yankees. all star aaron judge hitting a huge career milestone last night, and he did it in record time. andy scholes has this morning's bleacher report, andy, good morning. >> good morning. kasie no, we've seen so many great sluggers, right? yeah, babe ruth, barry bonds, king griffey junior, but no one has gotten to 300 home runs faster than aaron judge, the thirty-two-year-old, he come up. i would come up in the eighth inning last night against the white sox and he just blasted this ball into the chicago bullpen, which made it pretty easy for judges get that home run ball back in, judge getting to 300955 games beating ralph kiner is record by 100 132. he also did it in four 400

lesson fats been spammed bruce, just incredible yankees or attend to so here the judge afterwards on the achievement hoping it came in a win and we're kind of down early in the game. >> not really getting much going early on. accept that so homer, but now it was great throughout the whole game, guys, you're having great at-bats, having great rallies there to kind of pass the baton to the next guy that opportunity they got him. i elsewhere the braves, michael harris was back in the lineup for the first time since being placed the injured list on june 5, date look what he did in his first at bat that the grand slam right into recovery coe this is the first grand slam of his career as well, braves stomped the giants and that won 13 to do a dime bag, jog. >> peterson also made a trip around the bases, but not quite like harris. so he hits this ball down the line for an rbi double well then the rockies, they're going to try to get peterson at second, but they end up throwing the ball all the way in the left field. so

peterson gets on his fourth ends up with a little league home run, the fans there at arizona loving it, deep bags would win 11 to four arizona's 18 and three and there last 11 game i have some sad news for vikings rookie quarterback jj mccarthy, the team affirming yesterday, then mccarthy underwent surgery to repair a torn meniscus and he's going to miss the entire season. mccarthy, who is a tenth pick in the draft out of michigan was injured during saturday's preseason game against the raiders sam darnold is set to be the vikings starting quarterback, this season violated the wnba, returned to action tonight after nearly a month off for the alliance caitlin clark and the fever, they're going to return to the court tomorrow and she says she's more than ready i think i've been ready to get going again. >> i'm play games her while especially this last week where you're really kind of making that push to the friday and sunday game. i think we're all ready. we're kind of beating up on each other, beaten up on the boys. and finally, i want to get back out there brynn,

feel like we're ready to play some more games. high and fans are also anticipating the upcoming release of the late nba 2k game. and they've got a sneak peek of what some of their favorite players will look like releasing. they really a preview of caitlin clark and angel reese and casey. i'll tell you why i play video games my whole life. how realistic are these video games look now it's kind of crazy there. >> i will admit i have not played video games for my whole life terribly, but i agree with you. they do look pretty realistic i got to tell you, man so bond about jj mccarthy. >> yeah what a law and all indications where he was playing really well. >> you know, it was really pushing sam darnold is going to get could have potentially ended up being on the field a lot this season and yeah, that's that's disruptive. miss your season i'm so bummed. all right. andy. thank you. i really appreciate it. >> all right. coming up in our next hour here on cnn this morning, democrats feeling the energy and new polling shows those just how excited they are about their new candidate, kamala harris plus tim walz

agrees to debate j.d. vance. vance hasn't gotten on board just yet i strongly suspect we're going to be there on october the first but we're not going to do one of these fake debates law where they don't actually have an audience there were they don't actually say at the parameters in a right way. >> we're going to have a good exchange of ideas there's full comedy he is coming to cnn what could go wrong i got news for you for me or saturday, september 14 at nine on cnn 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 or health or health provides access to medication proven to make it easier to drink less warm to

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