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for civility right? 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. a live look at the national constitution center in philly philadelphia. >> that's where we're going to see tonight historic presidential debate go down in just a few hours. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us in just hours. donald trump and kamala harris will meet on that philadelphia stage for what might be their only presidential debate of the 2024 election. debate. it host abc news shared this first look at the stage. harris and trump will stand behind podiums just a few feet apart. their microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to speak tonight will be the first time that the candidates meet each other in person. trump didn't attend biden and harris's

inauguration after he refused to acknowledge the results of the 2020 election. this one night presents harris with the opportunity to introduce yourself to millions of americans and two voters who polls show, say that they need to learn more about her. the vice president has been preparing intensely for tonight and for an appalling unlike any, she has debated before he played from this really old and tired playbook, right? for him in terms of how long he will go and we should be prepared for that. >> trump's own preparations characteristically informal. his advisors calling them policy sessions. the former president likely to try to define harris on his terms. one potential line of attack previewed yesterday by campaign senior adviser jason miller it's very clear that kamala harris is the one who's time. and other opening, i do want to point out here tha all the flip-flops within the ill-fated interview with dana bash is kamala's said that her values haven't changed after

june cnn debate. it is nearly impossible to argue that debates never matter. so you do have to wonder what might happen tonight. that will remember long after this campaign is done they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull lipstick. >> would you who is there you go again. >> but can you get things done america does not want a witness a food fight. >> they want to know how we're going to put food on their table you're lucky enough. thank you so get those hands. are they small senator, you're no, jack kennedy center, obama i am not president bush. if he wanted to run against president bush, you should have run four years ago all right. >> our panel's here on this historic day. alex thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios, mark mckinnon, former adviser to george w bush and the man you just saw there, john mccain, karen finney, cnn political commentator, former adviser to hillary clinton's

2016 campaigns and brad todd, republican strategist and partner, its public strategy firm on message. welcome to all of you thank you so much for being here mark, big day debates. how much do they matter? how much does this one matter? what are you looking for tonight? >> tension city baby at georgia there's so much on the line, particularly for harris. >> i mean, it doesn't matter what trump's going to do. he's not going to move the needle with one vote. i doubt, but harris has a real opportunity, 30% of voters feel like they don't know enough about are yet. so this is all about her opportunity to define herself and also trump's opportunity to do the same about her. so that's what i look for and and the key here, i say, i wrote in my vanity about confidence. you've ever done debate training. the key to a candidate you're getting out there is, i mean in a sense, this is kind of game of thrones. she's saenz a stark he does hold or you've got to give. here, are you going to get him baby? both both internally and externally? she's got to show strength confidence, and go just kicks him as well in her team has

raised the stakes for the debate by the virtue of the fact that she's done very few spontaneous moments since she basically entered this race on july 21. as a result, voters that that citizen you cited from the new york times poll was 30%. people don't feel like they know her. so she has raised the stakes in this debate and that's also why you've seen her really hold up in pittsburgh. the one anxiety i hear from a lot of democrats, both biden administration officials, harris, it's officials former and current is like is this new kamala are old calm law, right? there. is this the new very competent person we've seen on the stump these last seven weeks, or is the old kamala from 2019, that basically never made it to the our caucus. >> so i'm going to dis slightly in that i think the stakes for the former president they are pretty high as well and that is because he will be facing two black women at the same time and he does not do well with black women. you could ask me, shall send our own abby philip, you can as april mao era april, you can ask the nabj he does not do.

wow with serious questions being posed by by black women so i think that is why his team overrode his idea to like, lets go free for all. let's all have the microphones. know. they were like no hot my x because they know that is a real danger to this president. >> and how he behaves for him. ng the debate, with joe biden, we will come away saying yes, he's old, he's were all because we focus so much on i didn't the last time she got away with a lot. >> i disagree. i think the most important moment in that debate with donald trump said, you know, i don't know what he said, no think he knew what he said. he actually is a pretty good game time player, but i agree with karen that this is very important debate night for him. it's one of the few times kamala harris is going to be under pressures. we've seen that effectively. she's running a basement campaign. he can put her under pressure and he could hold her accountable for what she said in 2020, which was a

platform that was the further left than you the democrat who has ever run for president has got to do that. >> can i push you a little bit on to karen's point about how he has interacted. she mentioned black women specifically, but women in general. right? we were just showing that moment with hillary clinton where he kind of knowing donald trump. i think he's basically trying to put himself in a camera frame when he's kinda behind her like that. >> he knows those were the cameras that't was kinda threatening and something that didn't use i don't think appeal to women. obviously, he won this election in the long run but what are the pitfalls for him? oh, look he's insulted. >> plenty of people of all genders, parties, and persuasions had plenty of times in live television, there's a real danger for him coming across like a jerk that's always the thing that donald trump has in many ways, these two people are misfits, don't trump's not as nice as most people would like their president to be kamala harris is not near a centrist as they'd like to present to be. that's what the battle is tonight. >> here's a strategic question for you you. that there's a line of attack that trump is

obviously taking, is that that harris is flip-flopping. but the more effective line is that she's liberal. so why go in the flip-flopper line, because then you're saying she's becoming a centrist. the stay just like flip-flop because it's weak into him, strength, weaknesses, the ideology. >> well, the most important perception of a candidate running for president is the perception of strength, right? >> hold up so lyndon johnson was not the 1965 civil rights act when he was vice president. he did pass it when he was president. is that a that's not a bad flip-flop. well, hold on. i'll take that flip flop because we want leaders who can learn new information. take the input and say, you know what the country is changed. i've learned new information and i too, i'm going to change here's what he had. >> no. >> he has not asked she know she sends brittany statements by spokesman, she doesn't say she needs to explain. >> i was wrong. she never said i was wrong in 2020. she doesn't she says, oh, i have learned experiences. that's different than saying you were wrong. why was she to what she

change or other democrats wrong? >> why she changed. >> i will i will say the one thing that's been consistent about all of these changes as they've all gone from the left to the center, which again suggests that this is more about a political move than a sincere change of ideology. now of course, maybe it is sincere, but the fact is that alex, you can say that it may look like that on the surface, but you know, her heart well, what's in her heart? i don't believe you're just values. >> and on the other hand, we do have a series of policy positions actually told the all in the same direction. >> i completely agree. i don't know what's in her i'm only putting out but it is consistent that all of these positions have gone from the left of center, and the fact is that she has it's not been really toughly questioned in interviews about why she needs to tell us. our are there democrats wrong to be for defund the police, are they wrong to want a decriminalised illegal crossings? are they wrong to ban fracking gus your chest as the far left says, anyone final thought from, you gotta go this one criticism i

have harris on this is that i think she's too defensive about it. and rather than sort of go to this, you know, you're attacking my record my values haven't changed to say, yeah you know, i used to be against fracking when we didn't have as much information, we've learned a lot. we now know it's a lot safer. we know it's a better alternative to gas and oil, but that's basically what she says. she said my values haven't changed. what i've learned now is that there is a way to have a clean energy economy without having fracking me apart, without banning fracking. >> i think the ultimate reality here is that there are a lot of voters who still don't fully understand this argument that you guys are having right here. we're going to see a lot. we're going to learn a lot tonight from her. and obviously our panel is going to be back in just moments to watch vice president harris and former president trump on the debate stage tonight, tune in to the abc news presidential debate simulcast. it's tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch it right here on cnn. i want to be live in philadelphia for cnn's special coverage and analysis before the debate. and coming up next here on cnn this morning, a catastrophic failure of epic proportions. that is how republicans are describing the 20 21 withdrawal from

afghanistan in a scathing new report, plus the civilian astronauts streaking through space as we speak, how they hope to make history and d change the whole race i think mr. nixon is an effective leader of his party i hope he would grant me the same question before us is which point of view and which party do we want to leave the united states kamala harris for follow for complete coverage and exclusive pre and post-debate analysis. a cnn special event, the abc news presidential tonight at nine eastern on cnn and streaming on max at bombus we make the most comfortable sox in the history of feet so comfortable you wish you had more visit bombus.com and get 20% off your first order have you always had trouble losing weight and keeping same discover the power of wegovy to

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designed to get to the truth. >> this was a catastrophic failure of epic proportions some say saigon was the worst i say this was that was house foreign affairs committee chairman mike mccaul. he's now threatening to hold secretary of state anthony blinken in contempt if he refuses to testify about the withdrawal. mark mckinnon, this was obviously a really, really difficult moment in american history at period what happened at abbey gate? obviously it's become a major is your political focal point of this campaign. and it also speaks to the bigger issue that the trump campaign is dealing with as they try to tie kamala harris to president biden because one of the things this report did was talk more about harris is role than it likely would have where she not at the top of the ticket, how should she be addressing this? this issue?

it's obviously become an issue as well with what happened at arlington cemetery. >> well, i mean, wars are hell. i mean, we how long were you afghanistan? decades and have we ever withdrawn from a war easily or casually, or without casualties i don't think so loss of any american life is is, is never acceptable and it should certainly be a worthy of investigation to find out what went wrong and what could have been done better. >> but i don't think i don't get a sense that american voters are sitting here today going, oh, we really screwed up and afghanistan and it's biden's fault. >> i mean, trump's the one that plan the exit and biden got it done, which was credibly, hard thing that well, i will say, i do think some republicans do think it's effective, which is why they're doing this report now, i mean, he chairman mccall may say that this is not political. >> i don't know what's in his heart but let's let's be honest, republicans i want to use this as a political cudgel against joe biden, and kamala

harris by proxy because joe but you look at the chart of joe biden's approval rating, basically, is this the first nine months and then goes like that, right after afghanistan. and the reason is because it's not and i understand marc's point. i don't think voters are going to vote on it dana stan, but it was a sign of competence. or incompetence by to a lot of voters and a lot of voters felt that it was a failure in the way they withdrew yeah, it's definitely feels like attorney for so budge ended on that debate stage. >> but the beginning of the end was afghanistan and kamala harris, that's when she told us i was the last one in the room what we don't know what she said that being the last one at the same time, there's plenty of blame to go around with regard to iraq and afghanistan. and i do think if it'll probably be a topic of discussion tonight, and both sides will have to talk about for trump, why didn't you leave it so opposed and for kamala but what is the conversation you have actually just to hear what she has to say about it all right.

>> coming up here on cnn this morning, final preparations underway for tonight's harris trump debate. how the vice president plans to handle the former president. and he starts attacking her personally plus ' governor chris sununu's spring the action to save a choking contestant in a lobster roll eating contests. >> that's going to be one of the five things you have to see this morning nobody got news for you premier saturday at nine on cnn cnn. upset stomach. i bureau guest indigestion, a bureau guest gloating ipo guest. thanks to a unique combination of herbs. i bureau gas helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better. six digestive symptoms, the power of nature, i bureau guest. >> we all know costs are too high, but while corporations are gouging, families, trump is focused on giving them tax cuts but kamala harris is focused on

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>> where he, there's no floor will go and we should be prepared for that. we should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth joining me now to discuss maryland's democratic governor wes moore, who is of course supporting the harris-walz campaign. governor as someone with an o's mug on the desk every morning. i'm very grateful to have you in a nonpartisan way representing the state of maryland go o's. and as we head towards the postseason but look, i want to start with what has become a tough question for kamala harris, which we've learned from this new york times poll 30% of americans say, we want to learn more about her. we don't know enough. so my question for you is kamala harris a progressive or a centrist i think kamala harris is someone who knows how to get things done and i have to tell you, i got a chance progressive or centrist things done well, i

think if you look at the work and the product that she has not only accomplished as vice president for the biden/harris campaign, but also the things that she has said that she wants to be able to get done talking about a $6,000 child tax credit that could have one of the largest impacts on child poverty that our country has ever i've scene. when she's talking about things like being able to increase liquidity and capital to small businesses and being able to increase the number of minority on businesses and women owned businesses and getting our economy going when she's talking about actually not giving away tax breaks and tax giveaways to billionaires, but also, but actually getting a middle-class tax cut. she's talking about practical things that actually have data behind them to show that it actually creates economic momentum. and i think that's the kind of future that she wants to lead us towards. >> let me show you something that bernie sanders, who of course is very progressive senator from vermont, had to say over the weekend on meet the press, let's watch what sanders said.

>> no i don't think she's a banding her ideals. i think she's trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election oh my own view is is slightly different. >> do you still consider vice president kamala harris to be progressive senator i do. >> her views are not mine, but i do consider her progressive so bernie sanders says he does consider her a progressive, is that helpful? and do you agree i don't think that it's helpful to put her or any person into a box as to where they are. >> i mean, i when i ran for governor, i'd never run for office before my life and people said, well, are you up aggressive? some are you with this? and i said, i'm a person who believes that we need to have we need to have accountability and supports when it comes to when it comes to public safety. and i'm a person who believes that we need to get second chances and i signed the largest pardon, 175,000 pardons in the history

of this country. for cannabis convictions. >> i don't i don't know how are putting her into a box or a classification is useful. i think she is someone who believes in getting big things done, being able to build the right kind of coalitions in order to do it. and actually building an economy that serves everybody and not just some governor what do you see as the reason behind why in particular, young african american men and also hispanic men seem to be supporting donald trump in bigger numbers than or supporting the republican candidate in bigger numbers than they have in past elections. >> and what do you think harris needs to do? tonight to speak to them well, i think the skepticism that you see amongst many young african-american men and many latino men as well, it's not something unique to this moment, frankly, i think it's a long term skepticism that people have about a larger system and then actually i don't see this, this larger

infuse that's going towards donald trump. >> i think the biggest question is, are we going to get people mobilized to vote in the first place? are we going to get them engaged in a way where they feel like they are part of a larger solution and not just simply a problem that people are trying to solve for. and i think the only way that you do that is you have to be able to to engage. you have to actually be able to go where people are, and you have to be able to present a future that they are seeing in that future, creating pathways for work and wages, and wealth for them and their families, creating pathways where you're creating real economic opportunities for people. that's the way you're going to engage african-america n voters. so you're going to engage african american men. it's what you're going to engage men of color but you're not going to do it by bike, by making a trite statements like, well, i may felon, so therefore, you wonder i understand your pain that's not the way you're going to move people, but we've got to get people from going from the sidelines to actually saying we want to be actively engaged in this election process all right.

>> maryland governor wes moore, so grateful to have you on the show. i hope you'll come back and i hope to see you camden yards. >> i will. kasie, ideally in october, you know, you're serious. that's right all right. >> thanks, sir. i appreciate it. >> all right. our panel is going to turn now to this republican vice presidential candidate, j.d. vance, appearing on the all-in podcasts, arguing that former vice president mike pence could have done more to address what he said were quote, problems with the 2020 election, asked multiple times whether he would have certified the election results fans went on to say this i would have asked the state's to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we have. >> you wouldn't have certain states that is an incredible moment right there from j.d. vance, mark mckinnon. >> here's the problem with jd vance yes. in the last couple of days, he's been he's been echoing in and touting the story about immigrants eating pets. >> we have a whole segment on that coming up to be free black

immigrant from my point about it is that he is echoing what they said in the 2020 election, which is instead of like getting to the truth, they said, oh, we hear from people, so that's why i'm saying it. i'm hearing it from constituents. your job as a leader, as not to report what you're hearing from constituents is to tell constituents what the facts are. >> and that's what my client where did those constituents here? >> well, this is why trump picked j.d. vance that clip right there is exactly why he is now the top ticket because trump, who is not over 2020, who really, if you really listened to him, does not believe he lost that election and believes that mike pence is part of the reason he did lose the election. he wants someone like j.d. vance who will do his bidding now, one under appreciated you know, accomplishments of the biden ministration is that they did reform the electoral count act, which is the loophole that the trump team was trying to use probably unconstitutionally, but that has been reformed to avoid that scenario. next time, i want to show you, this is out this morning from the lincoln

project first here that it's a new ad that they're putting out there, obviously very focused on this specific issue as it relates to the election. >> and here's how they compare vice president's in this ad watch in 2020, they met and it historic debate. >> please welcome california senator kamala harris and vice president mike pence but today, for the first time in history, the two participants of a vice presidential debate agree on one basic fact. i cannot in good conscience endorse donald trump in this case. >> now, mike pence joins another republican vice president dick cheney in saying he cannot support donald trump. it's time to put country first, a mirror. >> what trump i mean, brad todd, it is a remarkable confluence to have the current vice presidential republican nominee is saying that he would have led congress considered too, including one fraudulent slate of electors. and you have

dick cheney, mike pence on the same page against donald trump this is a big trip for donald trump tonight every, every kid that has a blind spot and they have a trap electoral trap that they just cannot let go of that hurts him in the election. >> if donald trump is looking in the rearview mirror at 20-20, he's going to lose. he has to confront kamala harris on her leftism. she spin left her entire career. he has to make that the entire focus of the debate tonight. and i think that's one of the big questions for him. >> all right. >> coming up next here on cnn this morning, we just mentioned this claim that is flying around about immigrants eating pets we're going to dig into how disinformation took off online. somehow became an issue in the campaign. plus i will speak with lara trump to co-chair of the republican national the committee ahead of the one and only debate, we think maybe between donald trump and kamala harris a night almost certain to feature contentious moments you talked about ronald reagan being a

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in the spotlight tonight. >> he is the oldest candidate on the stage by 19 years, he will be tasked with not only demonstrating his own fitness, but also appealing to younger voters. a group that harris has made some gains with joining me now to discuss how the former president is preparing for tonight's debate. is laura trump's. she is the co-chair of the republican national committee, also, donald trump's daughter-in-law, lara. good morning. thanks so much for being here. >> thanks, kasie, great to be back with you. >> so let's start with how the former president is preparing, especially considering there is a very significant contrast here in the age of these two candidates. and they've never actually met in person. should we expect some of the personal attacks we have seen him? thank online show up in person on the stage tonight well, i think donald trump is very focused on this debate tonight. >> he knows how important it is. he doesn't take anything for granted. he has been preparing for this debate. he's done traditional debate prep, but he also, casey has

been out talking with the media, whether that it's in town halls. he did a town hall last year here on cnn, whether it's in press conferences where he fields questions from every reporter, or whether it's in the podcast or sit down interviews that he continues to do. he wants to engage more with the public, not less, and it is a stark contrast, of course, to what we've seen from kamala harris she has really up the stakes for herself in this debate. i think that many people already know who donald trump is, and they can hearken back to how their life felt when he was in office. and so he's prepared for this debate. he's ready for tonight and he's ready to talk about why your life was better when he was in office why would you want to vote for four more years of what we're in right now, which is what you're going to get with kamala harris so speaking of how people's lives could be better, the former president was asked, when he was giving a speech earlier this month about childcare. >> i want to play the answer

that he gave there and then i'll ask you about in the side. well swatch have to stay with childcare. >> i want to stay with joke, but those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that i'm talking about, including growth. but growth also headed up by what's the plan is that i that i just told you about. we're going to be taking in trillions of dollars and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive that's it it's relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking it. >> so there seemed to be a lot of americans who are confused by what he said, there what would donald trump due to make child care more affordable? >> yeah, there's no doubt that the cost of everything casey has skyrocketed life is 20% more expensive right now for people than it was when kamala harris and joe biden took office. and you go back to donald trump's days in office when he left the white house, 1.4% was the inflation rate. he wants to make sure that wage growth is meeting inflation and that we bring in deflation

down. if you recall, when he was in office, he doubled the child tax credit. he advocated for him pass paid family leave. these are important factors for working families out there and he does not discount for a second how expensive life has become. we all as parents, i have two young kids want to know that we can can make this life in america a life for our kids that is better than the ones we are in right now and for many people, it doesn't feel that way. that is very antithetical to the human spirit and human nature. he wants to afford people life again. and whether that's childcare, whether it's going to buy groceries, whether it's filling up your gas thank he wants to make sure every american can do that laura, i also want to ask you about something he posted recently on truth social where he actually called on the rnc, the organization you're a co-chair of to activate now. >> and this was around mail in voting. he said he was quoting tucker carlsen here with an

election expert that 20% of mail-in ballots and pennsylvania are fraudulent. here we go again. where's the attorney general? the fbi to investigate, whereas the republican party and pennsylvania, the rnc, must activate. now, now, in august, the rnc, your rnc and the trump campaign launched. i get out to vote tool we're pennsylvania voters can request a mail-in ballot directly. is the former president saying that republicans and pennsylvania should not ask for these ballots and now quite the opposite, donald trump wins every voter no matter if you're voting republican, democrat, or third-party candidate she's alive 1% of them are fraudulent. he's specifically referencing information from the 2020 election. what we're talking about right now is making sure that every vote matters and every vote counts. and i've worked very formation what evidence is there that 20% of the male imbalance in pennsylvania and twice i didn't see that report, so i'd have to go back and look at it so i can't directly speak to that. but what i can

tell you is we worked very hard on the ground at the rnc to make sure every voter in this country feels like when you cast a ballot, whether it's via mail, whether it's early voting in-person or whether it's on election day in an election office around the country, your vote matters and your vote counts. and donald trump very much wants every republican voter to vote. however, they feel most comfortable and every voter in this country to vote, however, they feel most comfortable. i would have to go back and look at that. i have not studied that alright. >> lara trump, i do very much appreciate your time. thank you very much for being here on a very historic day in this campaign. thank you. thank you alright, 52 minutes past the hour. here is your morning roundup today. an appeals court is set to rule on trump's effort to pause his criminal hush money case they federal court will decide whether to stay the case from proceeding in state court last week, the judge in the case delayed both his decision on trump's motion to overturn his conviction and

trump's sentencing and this mattic newly released body camera footage showing the moment when miami dolphins wide receiver tyreek hill was the, ground the reality of it is this the truth if i wasn't tyre kill, worst-case scenario week, we would have had a different article, you know, tyre killed you know, got shot in front of our rocks. avian is crazy that i you know, me and my family had to go through this hill was just outside the stadium on his way to play against the jaguars. he was pulled over for a moving violation, really difficult stuff. also, this welcome to wheel of fortune. i am your host, ryan seacrest at that ryan seacrest making his hosting debut on wheel of

fortune last night, he was joined by the singular, longtime co-host, vanna white seacrest took over the gig after pat sajak retired that's really it's it's amazing how much this show was part of of our collective american experience. >> a different phase walk out there than pat, right. >> proud of north myrtle beach love it. i'm marvin jeopardy person. >> i love jeopardy to them as a kid. >> anyway. alright. let's turn now to this, a viral we touched on this earlier in the show. >> i viral, but fake claim involving haitian immigrants in america eating household pets. the hoax centers on the city of springfield, ohio. it started as a rumor that was posted on facebook page and to be clear, it was later debunked by local officials. but not before the lie had already taken off promoted on x, the platform formerly known as twitter by trump allies, including elon musk, senator ted cruz, and even his running mate j.d. vance the rumor making it all the way to the halls of

congress can we add in that there's haitian illegal migrants taking over town's eating people's pets but yet there's not a government show of force against that. however, it is against these people that protests the avila. >> they're not as dangerous. >> sorry to interrupt you. i just wanted to interject that okay. >> mark mckinnon, you were the one who raised this earlier. now that we have laid out exactly what is going on here i think when i first signed up to be a political journalist, i didn't quite realize is where we were going to be, but here we are. >> well, i think the greatest casualty in politics over the last decade or so has been truth. i mean, we used to debate we'd but there were facts. facts. you'd agree on. then suddenly we have the notion of alternative facts, but now when you have candidates out there promoting absolute unverifiable falsehoods and then say, well, i just heard it from our constituents. your job is to telecom situates what the facts are to you, madam but it's

also let's be honest, as donald trump has done consistently trafficking in racist othering of immigrants because it wasn't just that these were immigrants, haitian immigrants. >> it was about fearmongering. it was about in the same way that we've heard trump goes on these vicious screeds about poisoning the blood, which is actually based on the nazis got it from jim crow because if you had one drop of black blood, guess what, then your poisoning the blood of white people so this screed that he goes on over and over and over again about there sending these dangerous, violent people when guess what? our economy runs in part on immigrant labor in this country. and there are plenty of immigrants in this country who are law-abiding citizens who love this country, who deserve to be here. but when you traffic in this kind of just screed it, all, it does is make people fearful of each other and just deepen racism

second the mayor of springfield, ohio, which city of 60,000 people. >> his name is robert. he says the cat stories on untrue. but what is true is that the biden-harris administration's put 15 to 20,000 immigrants in springfield without asking or telling them he says the city is overwhelmed. it's saturated. they would have hired more, 25 more cops, 25 more, five firefighters had they known. this is not the only place during this administration we've had non and a and-a-half million people cross the border illegally and they've moved to my true why let it get lost in this marjorie taylor greene's that gift that keeps on giving j.d. vance vice presidential nominee. >> echoing though but the other thing that's also true is if the bill that the republicans killed would have provided more funds and resources to cities that are dealing with the overflow of migrants in this country. and the republicans walked away from it. so that may, because we have, because it would appear at the 5,000 people are crossing illegally triggered republicans walked away from it because donald trump told them it was not good

for him politically, that would have provided resources to that. >> if we can secure the border, we would if they biden wanted to actually crossings are down. >> i hate to cut this off, but i really do not want to miss the opportunity. need to memorialize the person that i want to talk about here so we will leave you with this one constant through all the years, re baseball it's america is ruled by an army of steamroller it's been erased like a blackboard rebuilt in hollywood millions of adoring fans, me included mourning the death of the iconic actor james earl jones. >> fathers and sons, mothers and daughters everywhere bond over their love of baseball. thanks in part to his stirring portrayal. he played terence man in field of dreams. >> and there was this too i mean, who can forget it, the list of credits was so long. it was of course, james earl jones

who brought that sinister malevolence to darth vader in the star wars films that was also jones with elegant gravitas to parenting as brave mufasa, disney's 1994 animated classic, the lion king. and it's 2019 remake. and of course, all of us here at cnn haven't incredible special place in our heart for the emmy, grammy, oscar and tony, he got award-winning actor because he is, after all, the voice of cnn james earl jones was 93. he passed peacefully on monday with his family by his side. and we here will never forget him. thanks to all of you for being here, thanks to you for joining us. i'm kasie