as a nasal spray, but there's also this whole sort of wild west doctors are calling it of off-label use of ketamine through clinics for things like anxiety, ptsd, chronic pain, and according to epic research prescriptions for kevin the mean have gone up more than fivefold since 2017 this is off-label use, so it's not the indications that it is fda approved for, but because the drug is fda approved, it can be used in this way. but doctors are worried about this because there are tight guardrails around how you can use spravato, the treatment resistant depression nasal spray you have to be monitored by health care professional for two hours afterwards, including for things like slowed breathing and you're not supposed to drive until you've had a good night's rest and the next day you can drive because of the effects of ketamine. so doctors say this can be risky and needs to be done in a controlled way. >> yeah, it's definitely getting a lot more attention now, meg, thank you so much for helping us with some of the facts around at all. >> a new hour of cnn, new news

central starts. now top the hour good morning to you. >> i'm sara sidner with john berman, kate bolduan is in new york for us, john and i hear in chicago this is the big dance for democrats in the belly of the bold then blackrock stadium, democrats later today will be kicking off a historic democratic national convention history will happen here inside the united center. it will become the the home to the first ever formal nomination of a woman of color, black and asian as a major party presidential candidate in the coming days and hours, we will see past presidents, current republicans, social media influencer, then hollywood stars speak at this convention is kamala harris is agenda messaging and momentum. take clear shape with just 78 days to go to election day, but

tonight it is president biden's night, who just four weeks ago, thought he would be the one accepting the nomination, even mentioned the bulls. >> i think the roster tonight might be able to beat the ball size. riley construct just trying to figure out it's like a name one player for them right now, the zach lavine convention with us now, cnn senior political analyst, mark preston, mark, it's great to see you. this is the democrats big moment. so different than what they thought it would be four weeks in one day ago, but now they've got a clear mission for these next four days. what do you think it is well, look, there's no question, john, that where we were four weeks ago and where we are right now are in two totally different places. >> tonight you're going to see the beginning of the selling of kamala harris to america. you know, she's been the vice president for several years right now, but she's really played a low profile role to really hasn't been out there on many of the big issues has been, criticized for that. but we're going to see tonight the beginning of again to selling

of kamala harris will see also the passing of the torch. we will see joe biden tonight come on, take the stage, which interesting, by the way, john, he didn't have his own balloon drop four years ago. if you remember because of covid. but tonight, he'll kickoff the convention. he will pass the torch to kamala harris will be interesting to see how he talks about what he has done over the past four years and what she's going to do to build upon that can i just ask you to four us take a step back and give us a sense of what we have all been through in this country. >> and what the democratic party in particular has been through as they ramp up for the beginning of this convention, it has been mind-boggling what has happened i'll tell you what. >> sorry, let's pull up a bottle of bourbon and maybe start smoking cigarettes because he's been one of those crazy summers right? know. i mean, i will tell you this is a democratic party right now that is entirely different than what

again, we saw just a few weeks ago depressed a demoralized, didn't think they can take on donald trump, but what they're doing now we should start to see this energy, this energy, and i you know, i think we heard it from the illinois governor yesterday where he talked about he hasn't seen this type of enthusiasm since barak obama, 2008. and i think he's correct about that because what we're seeing is young people, especially young women, who are becoming energized engaged. i mean, look at the segment we were just talking just a few minutes ago. you guys were talking about who were the celebrity is going to come out was taylor swift's going to show up, was beyonce going to show up? if kamala harris wasn't going to be on stage on thursday night as this was going to be joe biden's convention, you wouldn't have that kind of excitement mark preston. >> thank you very much, everyone. go check out marks, twitter where you can see him with his dress shirts laid out on his bad in chicago saturday, not getting ready to iron all of them. so he can look as good as he does this morning and the rest of the week, mark, thank you very much. >> that was so nice job.

>> today, the trump campaign is doing its best to counter program to get eyeballs donald trump and j.d. >> vance kicking off a tour of five battleground states starting in pennsylvania today, trump is also having surrogates hold news conferences right here in chicago. the trump team is planning events every day during the convention with a spokesperson saying harris will have quote, no free shots on goal. cnn's kristen holmes joining us now what more are you hearing about the plans at donald trump has clearly trying to get people to pay attention to him and not as much to the convention here. >> yeah, that's right. they just want to somehow be able to break into week long coverage that is technically kamala harris's week, which they know is her weeks you're seeing now is donald trump going every single day to a different battle ground state with a different theme all along his whole, make america great. again, seem, here's where he's going monday, he'll be in york, pennsylvania to talk about the economy that's make america wealthy again, tuesday, how will michigan, that as a suburb

of detroit, he'll be talking about crime and safety. so make america safe again wednesday, asheboro north carolina, that is make america is secure again or excuse me, that one's make america strong again, they're going to be talking about national security. then he's going to go to the border in arizona on thursday, friday, back to the economy in las vegas, then he has a rally in glendale, arizona on friday night. all part of make america great again, as you noted, he's going to have various surrogates in chicago giving press conferences today. it is rick scott and ron johnson, two senators. they want them focusing on the economy. but even if they are trying to get donald trump to focus on the issues, particularly every single day, a separate issue, just a reminder, these they're not rallies. these are what are being internally calling messaging events. that means smaller crowds, smaller venues, and a way to have donald trump just stick to the message. but even with those kind of runway that they are giving him, donald trump is still likely to

veer off course because that's what we've seen time and time again. this is him in pennsylvania over the weekend have you heard her laugh that is the laugh of a crazy person to soon as she laughs, the election's over. >> i'm a better look in person thank kamala. it was a coup of a president. this was a coup and they stole the presidency of the united states from man. >> i am a better looking person then kamala harris is definitely not the message that i have been hurt hearing from republican allies. they want to hear from the former president what they have wanted to hear from him is talking about immigration the economy, and crime again, the things that are laid out this week, we will see if donald trump in these smaller venues with these smaller crowds, with this runway to just focus on the issues will do that thank you for keeping a straight face on that last bit there, kristen holmes, i really appreciate with us now, are cnn political commentators, kate bedingfield of bakari sellers, also se cupp is with us bakari by the end of

this week the democrats need to accomplish what vice president harris needs to accomplish, what that's a good question. i haven't really thought about that because that's why i'm here. thank you for asking that probing question go ahead and give us a pulitzer right now you know, one of the things that that i've been thinking about but as we have to leave this convention ready to work, i think that and i keep reminding democrats of 2016. i mean, yeah, 2016 when people were already choosing jobs and saying i was going to be this ambassador, that ambassador because we saw the polls and hillary clinton was up 12 points but, you know, kamala harris has an underdog, even as we take the stage today, i think you're going to have a clear message. i think that people are going to be able to go back to their respective communities and they have to be apostles of joy. everyone who is in this room or watching this speech has to go back to their respective communities. and be those apostles and be those apostles of truth, and be able to share the message that they commonly harris presents over the next four days a parcels of joy.

>> you brought that at seven or 80, my goodness, i'm i'm writing it down. >> i bakari. >> i do want to talk to you about something i know it's because you talked about hillary clinton and where she was when hillary clinton was running as the potential first female president, the united states, everyone was talking about that she was the first female. we have not heard that in such a robust way. is that because of something that kamala harris doesn't want to run it, you really wants to run on other things. what is the difference? what has changed? i really noticed that this time around. >> well, you know, i think kamala harris has been really smart about this. she is putting forth her vision for the country when you see her out, you see her talking about issues. you saw her making her case on the account want to be on friday, you saw her frankly, as she was kind of thrust into this moment, you saw her really rising to the moment, landing very quickly on this message about freedom that i think really resonates with people so what she's done that i think is so smart is she has made this campaign over this now, almost month and she's been the nominee she's made it about

the voters he's made it about you at home and not about her and you as you watch her doing this, you see she's a historic candidate. you see she's a woman. you see she is a person of color. just have to say it. you see it. it's show not tell. and i think she's using the opportunity and the attention and the platform that she has right now to tell people this campaign is about them not about her. and i think that's very smart s e cupp, bakari was praising mike. >> my question before i'll try, i'll try to talk question i asked him what what democrats need to accomplish. what do you think the biggest mistake that democrats can make this week is what is you think that they should avoid? >> well there's a couple of audiences here. i mean, for inside the room lean into those, lean into those three celebrities that are hosting those nights. lean in to your democratic surrogates. you're playing to a crowd that is already with you and i know this is now cliche, but this is

all reminding the very 2008 convention. there's just a lot of momentum and energy lean into that. but outside the room, people tuning in might include swing state. voters might include undecideds, independence they are still clamoring for an agenda for problems and solutions to be told more specifically what your vision is. and that means tim walz to how are you guys merging? your visions. do you guys want to make america look more like minnesota because minnesota is bit more progressive than the country is nationally, at least according to polls. so i mean those are a lot of unanswered questions. they have to do it over the next four days. but with all these eyeballs on them, i would be making a parallel push for those independent undecided swing-state voters bakari, i do want to ask you about because there may be folks in the crowd that are going to protest the uncommitted group. >> there are 100 100,000 people

that police are expecting to take to the streets and to protest. and i just wanted to show people what kamala harris has said sort of when this has happened, while she's speaking in other venues, let's take a listen we believe in democracy, everyone's voice matters, but i am speaking now you know what? if you want donald trump to win, then say that otherwise, i'm speaking and let me just say this on topic of what i think i'm hearing over there let me just speak to that for a moment. i have been clear. now, is the time to get a ceasefire deal? >> how do you think she should address this if it comes up in the convention so there are a couple of things. >> the first thing is you saw how she addressed at the second go-round and i think that many of us had conversations about

that with people around the vice president about the better way to handle it than the first moment in which she scared me because it reminded me of my grandmother, aunty when they they give you the bomb alone you look like you need to sit you down and so i think they're a couple of their couple of things. >> i think she has to be very firm and what her position is and she articulates that very well. that she wants a ceasefire, she wants to bring the hostages home. oh my advice for those uncommitted voters is, you do more detriment to your movement by attempting to step on hurt night if in fact we see those protests in this arena, which i don't think we'll have a lot of their been a lot of things going on behind the scenes with mignon more and leah daughtry and having those conversations, having those meetings happen with those uncommitted delegates, et cetera. but i think you do more damage than anything else to your movement in what you want to do. and at the end of the day, i think that this is going to be a celebration. i think you'll have some protests that

go on on the outside. the media media will cover it as such and let those people's voices be heard. but the leader of the party and this is what i tell people. there are two things you need to know. we haven't had a more zionist president in the history of america than joe biden. there is no space between the democratic party in israel real kamala harris, there still is no space, but she also is talking about the plight of the palestinians in a way that has a level of empathy in the fact that we don't want any more jewish babies dying, we don't want any more palestinian babies die. that is the message that she saying and so with that being said, i think that we can lift her up and say on this issue, if you care about this issue, the way that you are marching and protesting, do you want kamala harris or do you want someone who's son-in-law said that gaza will be great, be trump property. those are the contrast we have. it's a delicate issue, but i'm here to drink casamigos and celebrate kamala harris. and so hopefully that's what we do all week so we don't know the full lineup of speakers tonight, but what we do know is president biden hillary

clinton, dr. jill biden this is not the for the future part of this convention as i think a lot of democrats i actually, i don't mean to be there, but what we're maybe i put it all seriousness. >> how do democrats then tonight? and i know it's four nights and they could do that other nights, but tonight they also i'm sure want to send that message. so how do you send that for the future message tonight? yeah. >> i was going to say i actually dispute a little bit certainly, president biden's speech tonight isn't going to be about the future because i think what's going to happen tonight is you're going to see present biden certainly going to talk about the things that he accomplished in his four years that he and vice president harris were able to get done. i think he's going to talk about the things that have long animated him, what he's done to protect democracy, what he's done to re-establish america on the world stage and i think that that resonates both. i think will certainly resonate with democrats in the audience here tonight. but i think also with a lot of swing voters who are watching, who are kind of looking at what, what do i want the next four years. so looked like i think he will make a

case that's rooted in what he's been able to achieve, but will also crucially be about passing the baton to her and saying, you know, this is what this is, what's at stake. and here's what she's going to be able to do to carry forward these values that we, as americans care about. and the other thing i would just say about his remarks tonight, i think there's been a lot of discussion of policy and kind of how he's going to talk about his own accomplishments but i think another thing that is going to be on display tonight is this core sense of decency that is a fundamental, first of all, a fundamental contrast with donald trump in the way that he the way he conducts himself but it's also going to remind people that joe biden is somebody who made ultimately a selfless decision to hand over the nomination that he believes kamala harris is the right person to carry forward the values that we care about and i think having that kind of innate sense of decency on display tonight is gonna be really powerful thing for democrats. that also says to swing voters, hey what do you

want the future of this country to look like? you want to look like donald trump? or do you want it to look? plague? joe biden. >> now to you se usually i think at this time you understand or have a good idea of the policy priorities of the nominee or the presumptive nominee. but when you look at this new poll that came out, cbs poll it showed that more people will think they know what trump stands for compared to harris. now, granted, she's been in the position for less than a month running as the presidential nominee. how do you think that she should try to define herself? this week when when you look at those numbers yeah, that's what i was saying. i mean, people especially in the all-important swing states, i talked to them all the time. they want to know well how this government, a harris-walz administration will solve their problems. and they want specifics, not just on inflation and on the border, but on housing prices and mortgage rates. the cost of goods all kinds of things,

abortion. what are you going to do specifically and listen, you're right. she's only been there a little a little while, but i'm a prosecutor. he's a criminal that's not a that's not a policy. that's a bumper sticker and again, this is a week to celebrate democrats, but it's also an opportunity to lay out a message for people who are still waiting to hear that. and let me just add one thing. i think kate bedingfield as totally right that joe biden will talk about decency tonight. that's important. that's a great contrast, however this is just an aside. you can take it as you will. but i don't know why bill clinton is still at these dnc's. he is a problem. he is a bad look for democrats. he has been at every dnc since he was elected, and there's no good reason for it, quit. bill clinton. finally, please as he cup mccarthy sellers, kate bedingfield. thank you both. all everyone. every everyone

both is inclusive perhaps all right kate let's go, back to you in new york thank you, friends. so security measures, they have been tightened around the convention site in chicago protests have already started with crowds gathering sunday, sunday night. how law enforcement are planning now to keep it all safe and secure over the next four days. and ukraine bombing a key supply route inside russia, taking out a bridge with the precision airstrike both countries are warning people living along the border to evacuate. now and extreme flooding the north in northeastern the northeastern part of the united states is leading to rescues and evacuations, just look at this video, are the threat now is today start your day with

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at nine on cnn so where there are political conventions, there are protests, and we have seen the first ones here already in chicago so this was this week's first permitted demonstration. >> protesters called for a ceasefire and gaza tens of thousands of people are expected to protest near the convention perimeter this week and i was out there this yesterday and i saw some of them starting very early in the morning. >> cnn's whitney wild is here in chicago for us looking at the security apparatus and give us some sense of what that looks like and what you're expecting protests wise. >> sara, what we see around the united center is blocks and blocks of this eight-foot non-scalable fence seeing here. and this is a really what they call the hard perimeter but you have to have a credential to get past this location. in addition, sarah and john, you see that there are a vehicle

blockades for blocks around the united center and this is very similar where to the scene at the other dnc location, the mccormick place. so this is a dynamic security set up here. this is as much a physical game as it is a game of the number of bodies you have on the ground, chicago police say that thousands of chicago police officers are going to be on the ground as well as hundreds of mutual aid officers. in addition, governor jb pritzker said that at around 250 members of the national guard has been authorized. they are very much on standby though not something that they're going to deploy unless there is a major critical incident there are expected to be tens of thousands of protesters that major protests is set to kick off around noon and a big question is, how was that protests going to look? and right now, what we know is that the city has aligned a map that is about a mile-long. so this is a protest route. they've said to the protesters, here's where you can be. it's about a mile protesters say that's not enough with tens thousands of people. they think the route should be more like two-and-a-half miles long. so

there's some discrepancy there. they've been in court battling with the city to try to get a longer route. they have not succeeded. so for a protest, organizers have made very clear they plan to walk that longer route meanwhile, if this does verge into issues such as criminal activity what chicago police as well as illinois governor have made very clear is they will not tolerate criminal activity if there are troublemakers, they're going to get arrested and they're going to get convicted. >> but the fact is the vast majority of people who are protesting and we've seen this before our peaceful protesters, they want to have their voices heard. they're going to be heard, no doubt about it, and we're going to protect that this is a heavy burden for the individual officers who are out here. chicago police say that they have done extensive training and that includes good stress inoculation. and they say they're ready for any potential problems. john sara we have been seeing a huge police presence, not just around that sort of hard perimeter but all for the city, michigan avenue.

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grew up in a middle-class home. >> she was the daughter of a working mom, and she worked at mcdonald's while she got her degree kamala harris knows what it's like to be middle-class is why she's determined to lower health care costs and make housing more affordable? donald trump has no plan to help the middle-class just more tax cuts for billionaires. being president is about who you fight for and she's fine. fighting for people like you.

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>> soak parts of connecticut just over a period of hours, causing a flash flood, emergency crews worked through the day and night, continuing with water rescues, connecticut's governor says as the they evacuated at least 100 people in the midst of all of this, cnn's derek van dam is tracking this for us. he's back here. now. derek, this rain, it came down hard and fast yeah. >> and it's proving to be quite difficult for the streams, the rivers, the roadways, and you've saw some of those a very heroic videos of the rescues that are underway or were underway yesterday. look at all this is stressing some of the dams in connecticut as well. some of them kind of overtopping some of their dams there. and i look at this rainfall totals have just approached that ten inch mark. so that's a significant amount of rain in a short period of time. the good news is the hardest hit areas yes. over western connecticut are currently dry, but we do believe that things are going to change into this evening. the first initial round of storms that moved through yesterday, moving off the

eastern seaboard, they produce a significant amount of rain i want to draw your attention to northern sections of long island and into western connecticut. that's where some of these rain, rainfall rates were quite impressive. and that's where we saw some the highest rainfall totals that's why we have our flood warnings still ongoing across that area. the others have been allowed to expire, but i do believe that this could start to at least the activity could start to rekindle later this afternoon and evening, just about dinner time, the run shower back home from work as another round of showers and storms develops this afternoon, weather prediction center has this area under a slight risk of excessive rainfall that could lead to flash flooding. and by the way, this whole story of flooding across the northeast, very consistent in a warming world, we've seen the increase in frequency and severity of he's heavy rain events since our world continues to warm right? >> they wants an end to end 200 years storm is now, you know what what we're is the new normal? derek. thank you so much. >> alright.

>> we're also tracking this president zelenskyy of ukraine says ukraine's foothold into russia is getting stronger as ukrainian troops are now reinforcing their positions in russia's kursk region. so let's see also saving clearly really for the first time what the mission of this incursion is. they're saying that they want to create a buffer zone against attacks by russian forces across the border. zelenskyy also says kyiv now controls about 621 square miles of russian terror territory. but as a surprise incursion now becomes a two-week old operational success. what is next? joining me right now is retired u.s. army major mike lyons. it's great to see you. thank you for coming in. so lizzie, he was kind of assumed what the goal was as it came less of a surprise incursion, but stating for the first time of what the mission is here to create a buffer zone you think this incursion into russia, where they are now is a real key turning point in this war. >> why it is, it's a strategic turning point that mission, he

said that there is tactical a creating a buffer zone there, dropping in bridges to mixture russian troops can't get to those retrain forces that they are, which are the professionals they sent the best troops. and for this mission, because they have to protect them. now at this point. but from a strategic perspective, the pivot just courts asymmetric warfare. the fact that they're going to now a tech infrastructure, they're no longer going to look for attacks against the russian military. they're not going to go after civilians then complexes and things like that. so everything has changed from ukraine's military perspective. and that's what's really different. again, the buffer zone is just protecting those forces. there you mentioned the two bridges that were taken out over the weekend it's cut off the supply lines for the russians. >> what is the real impact of it? do you think, well, it keeps russian forces from potentially massing to come against those ukraine forces. >> they have to hold this has ga doolittle raid that that went into japan. they are now, they're going to hold that that land as long as i can because they're going to use it as a negotiating ploy whence they can get to some kind of peace agreement here russia

still has that tremendous amount of property than in the southern part of ukraine. about 20% of the total landmass. but what ukraine military does this pivot and go to a place where russia is not classic son sue go with the enemy is not so i think that everything has changed and i think that there's going to be more political pressure on putin to do something eventually when it comes out of hiding, whatever he's doing. but his responses are also very limited. >> but let's let me ask you about that because i've been fascinated on how he has responded now, two weeks and i mean, it's the largest attack on russian territories world war ii. and he's headed out of russia to go on and just visit to another nation what do you think of his response or more specifically his lack of response? some have described it as him hiding from the crisis. >> yeah. i think the ukraine military calculated that this was what would happen if they were going to be yes, phil, it was all in their risk analysis of doing this mission to beginning because it was very risky, no question about it. >> this could have failed miserably and he's doing exactly what they're thinking now and he's not going to respond with major strikes. we can't carpet bomb his own

territory, can't carpet bomb inside of russia to go after ukraine forces. so he's looking for someone else to solve the problem which, which we've seen him do in the past, which then we see it doesn't really happen. so ukraine has the advantage right now and they're going to keep that momentum going for as long well as possible. >> and it's no small thing. the morale boost, you talk about a lot and what this momentum means as this stalemate has dragged on, this war has dragged on and then when what it's meant and the pain that is brought to ukraine, if that's this is no small thing, just justin that in and of itself, it's good to see you. >> thanks for coming in john all right this morning we have new reporting on how vice president harris is making major campaign decisions, how we are told her instincts have guidance her messaging. cnn talks to republican voters who had been searching for an alternative to donald trump, why they say they are going to now vote for him anyway but i would describe myself as being resigned i suppose to voting

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tomato is a vegetable because of how it's used in cooking. >> i didn't know that. >> now, you do what? i'm so glad you asked all alright we are just hours away from the first speeches here in chicago at the democratic national convention. >> and we are getting some new insight this morning into how the four week old harris presidential campaign is making its biggest decisions cnn's isaac dovere bear joins us here in the windy city and flash in the person inside this he enormous place that's going to be broken tonight and the next four days you've been reporting a lot on how kamala harris has been putting together what she has sort of for policy and what she's going to say out on the trail what is different that you're seeing now from her well, look, everybody remembers how much trouble she had

speaking about that. a lot of things over the course of her early years as vice president, there was a concerted effort to clean that up to get her more to shape, do a lot of events, a lot of interviews, and slowly build up what they thought they were doing was building her up to 2028 run and making connections for that obviously, things changed a month ago and they have been very quickly scrapping the other things. but what's interesting here is that we don't have the usual poll tested message tested campaign from a president or presidential candidate. we have someone who was putting together lines for a debate prep that was going to be the running mate debate that has now been quickly transformed into a stump speech to the point that a week ago because finally, a call between harris, his top advisers, and the campaign pollsters who had been the biden campaign pollsters. and what i heard is that the message that the pollster said i'm not sure he should be saying we won't go back. and i'm not sure you should be saying weird so much too negative, won't go back as a

backward looking, not about the future. and harris aides and harris herself said, hey, we are hearing what they're chanting at the arenas. we're going to go with that. and that's the way that they're approaching this campaign. >> and it seems to have worked when you look at the polling at this point in time? >> yeah. look, this is so far a campaign that is mostly about voting ims and feeling, but for the camo hires perspective for the democrats perspective, that's working just fine 79. >> the question is, is 79 days a really long time are, are really short time find out more about it. so much for being with us. >> kate let's ask that question joining us right now, is rachel full r-mo, former deputy communications director and associate counsel to vice president kamala harris. >> so how about that question that john john poses when you're looking when we're looking at is 79 days, a lot of days or a little a little amount of days it's a little amount of days. >> i think the election is it's close, it's coming up, and that's why she's hitting the trail. she's going to

backgrounds, battleground states across the country everywhere she goes, she's had between ten and 15,000 people. and here we're going to have tens of thousands of people here at the convention this week to hear her speech on thursday night. and so it feels like it's coming up quick and she's taking nothing for granted. >> so that also comes the lineup of headlines, speakers, and it's in the headliners tonight is president biden. and i'm curious about his impact tonight. there's a lot of reporting about where hill focus on his legacy on passing the torch. he he'll argue that harris is the natural successor to his record. he'll frame his work in office as a foundation for her to build on what what is the risk? where is the risk there? rachel, in tying her to closely to his record even include the parts that had swing voters looking elsewhere. >> i think his voice is going to be really important here tonight. the reality is that president biden made a really difficult decision a few weeks ago when he decided to not run for reelection and his

endorsement of the vice president means the world. he's been working hand in hand with her as partners for the last three-and-a-half fears on the most challenging issues facing our country and our world. and from everyone that i've spoken to, the really excited to hear from him tonight and when we think about when he launched the campaign, he talked about this battle for the soul of our nation, and right now, the way that we're thinking about it is that democracy is on the line and he's going to lay out exactly how that is. he's going to talk about how there's a lot that we have to fight for. and he's going to lay out that contrast. between donald trump and between vice president harris. and he's one of the people who knows that she can handle the task the best so donald trump and j.d. >> vance, they're trying to counter program brown this week. they're kicking off a tour of battleground states are kicking off where they will lead today is first in pennsylvania and one thing we know that he is definitely the president is leaning in the former president is definitely leaning into still is the personal attacks against kamala harris. let me play how he

framed it just on saturday have you heard her laugh? >> that is the laugh of a crazy person to soon as she laughs, the elections i am a better look in person then kamala it's part of his counter counterprogramming is made clear that this is who donald trump was and is and how he's going to run his campaign. >> but what do you, what do you do with that as? being on the other side of it every time that donald trump opens his mouth, like those clips that you just played, it shows that he's unfit to be president and people and his advisers keep telling him to stay on message, but he can't. >> he's a bully and that's why he's resorting to these types of attacks. he's trying to see what sticks but nothing is land ending. and so i know that he's of course going to try to distract from the convention this week. but the reality is that the momentum is so strong right now, democrats are so excited, the party has never felt more unified and so we'll see what insults he tries to

say this week whenever and also saying he should focus on policy, but i know that all eyes are going to be on vice president harris and governor tim walz this week, there are the polling shows that they're coming into this convention with momentum for sure, one poll though, saying that also showing that they're she and trumper even are now even across battleground states. but there's also this. a lot of voters want to know more and think they need to know more about kamala harris, a third in the cbs poll, one-third saying that they don't yet know what she stands for. when does that start becoming a problem? if it is not already well, vice president harris has been at the top of his ticket for the last month, and she's done an incredible job getting her message across probably the best that she could have possibly done over the last month, which how much travel she's done, how she's brought her message directly to these dates and xi really has carved this powerful message about fighting for the future, moving forward or not back in fighting for opportunities and know and

how she wants to do that. that's what they clearly want to know. >> and i think as people continue to watch her remarks, as they continue to hear from her, there. the message is going to get through and it's only been a month that people have been hearing from her at the top of the ticket, really carving this message and so as we get closer, i think these airwaves, we'll get to more and more households. people will continue to hear some of those detail in some of that, how to and what she stands for that clearly is mission number one for this convention this week. so we'll see rachel, it's good to see you. thank you so much for your time. >> sara thank you, kate, the star power expected to be turned up here at the dnc. why some delegates are holding out hope to see you taylor swift or perhaps beyond say, and catastrophic flooding in europe where cars are getting swept away in muddy rivers, we'll have those stories and more coming yep merrick, his choice, 2024. he is brought to you by

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coverage, the democratic national convention to netted seven on cnn and streaming on max every weekday morning. here are the five things you need to know to start your day. >> cnn's five things with kate baldwin streaming weekdays on max welcome, harris and donald trump have been crisscrossing the battleground states. john king went back to the deeply red state of iowa as part of his all over the map series, he wanted to see why republican voters who he met there last year, who were once very critical of donald trump. our now comfortable supporting him. and what they make of a reinvigorated democratic ticket shanen ebersole cherishes her maverick streak, not afraid to wander a bit from the herd there will head, but going off like little boys wrestling that's their version of it. >> but now it's time to line up and bring things home i think it's an easy trump

choice because we have to put the american people first i think that the policies that have been put in place in the harris biden administration, they heard this. >> they heard our land and they heard the people in middle america. the most ebersole supported nikki haley in the iowa caucuses, a rare voice of republican descent and conservative ringgold county she then gave some thought to voting third party because she cringes sometimes at trump's combative tone but her family and her farm come first and ebersole sees backing trump as the best path to reverse democratic trade and climate policies. >> she says punished family farmers, phil supermarkets with foreign beef. >> i can tell you that that cow right there there is better at carbon sequestration than anything else on the face of the earth. and when she does it she turns it into the most nutritious meat that we could ever offer. when cattle or raise the right way, they help

the earth. they don't hurt the earth. >> and washington does not understand that. >> they don't, at all. they don't live here they don't ask they don't. if you want to see a 2024 race up close in iowa, the state fair is your best shot. >> are making burgers. >> there were debates over food here and games. with the presidential campaigns are nowhere to be found. their time and money is for the swing states that's because trump is strong here and not just in rural farm country this is cedar falls in eastern iowa midwest solar is busy in part because of biden administration, clean energy tax credits. but owner chris mudd is as loyal a trump voter as they come. >> i think if all i was selling was government incentives i don't think business will be very good, but that's not what we're selling were selling the power to help people save money months. >> he's trump is off his game a bit since the switch to harris atop the democratic ticket, i think he's spent too much time bashing and

complaining i don't know. i think you'll catch his stride and i think that he will get back on his horse and i think he will say what needs to be said and mud thinks the media is too easy on harris. and like trump, he sees no way harris wins and honest election i just don't believe it's possible, john, i really i really don't. yes, i would think that i would think many like me would think that same thing if kamala harris gets 81 million votes something something really went haywire. betsy sarcone, see such talk as a waste of time. >> i don't buy the stolen election if she went, she wins i'm not i'm not getting on that bandwagon. >> but that's sarcone plans to vote for trump is a big change. she backed haley in the caucuses. and when we first met a year ago, not running sarcone said she would vote for biden if 2024 ended up as a 2020 rematch. but grocery prices are still high. she says, and her real estate business is slow i would describe my it's off as

being resigned. >> i suppose to voting for donald trump again, i i can't vote for the status quo and i was absolutely better off during donald trump's presidency than i am today, right? >> i say kamala harris, you say, i'd say far-left. >> i'd say woke i'd say sidestepping. >> i'd say not truthful sioux city is to the west where iowa meets nebraska and south dakota attorney priscilla forsyth is happy to vote for trump a third time, even though she too began the campaign, hoping for someone new chairs it started with ramaswamy and ramaswamy. >> then i went to nikki haley. now, back to trump. but i see kamala and i see walz has been so far left that it concerns me. i'm comfortable with trump. i wish we had four years of trump. we know what trump is. i'm not voting for him to be my valentine. i'm not voting for him to be my best

friend forsyth isn't worried about iowa, but the past few weeks do have her worried. >> harris might win the white house in lawyer lingo. she says trump at the moment is presenting the wrong case focusing on his grievances. instead of her record, i think he can win on the issues. >> she doesn't seem to want to own anything now she doesn't own the border. she doesn't own anything. i think right now he's off balance. now, will he get back on track a loyal explorers fans and a loyal republican in a solid red county and state. >> but at the moment, she thinks her candidate is struggling just like her team john king, always has such insightful reports. >> thank you to him, kate, over to you. >> absolutely. >> breaking overnight, hamas is claiming responsibility for a deadly explosion in tel aviv video geo locate geo located by cnn shows the moment of the explosion on sunday, one person was injured after being hit by shrapnel and what the israeli government calls a terrorist tack this happening as secretary of state