pay a price for it in the marketplace. >> i do not know if she will pay a price for it in the marketplace, she has made her politics clear in the past and continues to have millions and millions of fans around the world from both sides of the aisle, by the way. just to clarify what the former president was talking about there when he said brittany is the wife to patrick mahomes, she recently allegedly liked the post of trump's so there has been a lot of conversation about that but taylor and britney are good friends. there are many people in this country who are good friends and have different political leanings. one thing i want to point out taylor said in her statement she referenced trump's ai posts that were fake about her and that could've possibly drove her to make this

endorsement. the morning after the fiery presidential debate, the former president and current vice president standing closer to each other than on the debate stage. they are in new york remember the thousands of americans killed in the deadliest terror attack on u.s. soil. we are live from the 9/11 memorial. >> kamala harris threw out the debate and donald trump took the bite every time. donald trump on the defense and harris like a prosecutor and court. but debates don't historically win the election. what will the impact be this time around. hurricane francine hurtling toward louisiana. where and when it is expected to land. this is cnn news central.

the names being read out loud by a young child's voice and the background right now. today is 9/11. we are here in lower manhattan on a beautiful morning. a somber occasion. the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. 9/11 families gathering once again to read the names of their loved ones out loud, to honor them and to never forget. we want to show you also some video that we saw play out moments ago, minutes ago. kamala harris, joe biden, donald trump and jd vance , all here attending the ceremony together. you see kamala harris and donald trump shaking hands just before the ceremony began. that was less than 12 hours since they were on the debate stage, the contentious debate stage, last night. a moment of

unity we are seeing. maybe a brief moment of unity but a moment of unity nonetheless on this 9/11 anniversary. we have been listening and watching all of this play out this morning. we are about to have another moment of silence. >> you saw michael bloomberg there. it is he who basically said, i want this day to be about the family. they have the pictures but now you can hear these family members reading the names of all the people killed here in pennsylvania and at the pentagon and also people who have died since that fateful day on 9/11. we are about to come up on the second moment of silence at 9:03. that signifies when the hijacked plane hit the south tower here at the world trade center site and four more moments of silence after that. you can probably feel it, how heavy this moment is, especially when you see these young kids and people who never met their loved ones. let's listen to this together.

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miss you so much. me and my three sisters wish we got to meet you. . >> honoring her grandfather. she says she wished she has gotten to meet them. >> i just talked to a woman who was 10 when her father, a lieutenant, firefighter and the fdny, was right at that building what happened. he came across the street and died. she said that for her, today is a heavy day and she thinks of nine slash 12, the next day, when the country comes together and unites. if you remember that day, there were flags everywhere. there were people coming together she said for her. and you might hear that again in this divisive election. >> that unity seems far off. especially today in lower manhattan, you can feel the call for it. and you see the

candidates. president biden and former the new york city mayor rudy giuliani who walked past just a short time ago standing next to jd vance as they were attending the ceremony. much more ahead from lower manhattan as we continue to honor the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. john. >> thank you so much. this morning, brand-new totally false claims from donald trump. he said the debate over night was rigged. that is not true. what is true is that reviews for the performance of kamala harris are much better than his. these are some of the fiery moments. >> donald trump was fired by 81 million people. let's be clear about that. clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that. >> wait a minute. i'm talking now if you don't mind. please. does that sound familiar? >> you will hear from the same tired playbook a bunch of lies,

grievances and name-calling. >> we have inflation like very few people have ever seen before. probably the worst in our nation's history. >> what we have done is clean up donald trump residence mess. world leaders are laughing at donald trump. >> i probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they say about me. they talk about democracy. that i'm a threat to democracy. they are the threat to democracy. >> why don't you tell the 800,000 polish americans right here in pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch. >> that was kamala harris and donald trump last night in the debate. we have more from philadelphia. the dust still settling at the debate site. what are you hearing about the debate? >> bottom line, they believed it was a mission accomplished.

they set out to characterize the former president as fundamentally not serious. more caught up in his own grievances than the concerns of everyday americans. and easily susceptible to being needled on trivial matters like crowd sizes and conspiracy theories like maligning immigrants for eating pets. and in addition, they believe the vice president commanded the stage and had a good mastery of the issues when it came to foreign policy and when it came to the economy. and especially when it came to reproductive rights where she illustrated real compassion. let's listen. >> you want to talk about this is what people wanted? pregnant women who want to carry a pregnancy to term, suffering from a miscarriage and being denied care in an emergency room because the healthcare providers are afraid they might go to jail and she is bleeding out and a car in the parking lot. she didn't want that. >> i absolutely support reinstating the productions of

roe v wade and as you rightly mentioned, nowhere in america is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. that is not happening. it is insulting to the women of america . >> you can see campaign aides with a little pep in their step last night in the spin room so happy about the debate that they are calling for another one. they are under no allusion, sara and john, that the next couple of weeks will be easy. they still view themselves as the underdogs and they know that it will be a difficult road ahead. that is why they are building out the week with the vice president campaigning both here in pennsylvania and in north carolina. >> the road to the election getting shorter and shorter. we are less than two months away. i want to talk to you about what donald trump is saying now. he said this morning on

fox that he doesn't need to debate again because in his mind, he won. and you noted that that is not with the majority of folks, including voters, have been saying. how does his campaign think that he did last night ? >> reporter: between his campaign as well, many republican's i spoke with, i was texting with many of them throughout the debate. i was in the spin room talking to his advisers. i think there is no question that people were very frustrated with his missed opportunities particularly on some of the answers harris gave on the economy and her changing her positions. they believe it was an opportunity for donald trump to set his own message and talk about the key issues that they believe voters care about, specifically the economy and immigration. many answers, he took the debate from harris and turned the entire conversation into grievances and talking about bizarre things like migrants eating pets. something of course that we know is false

and has been debunked. there was frustration around that. i did talk to some people as well who acknowledge republicans and acknowledge that he fell for the goading that harris led him down. and remember that this was a key thing in my conversations with senior trump advisors leading up to last night that they advise donald trump on. they said even more than the issues, they were concerned about donald trump's tone and his temperament and going off on to these different tyrants really about random things that didn't relate to his own messaging and that is what we saw last night. it appears they were not successful. however a key claim they make and donald trump made this this morning, is that moderators were biased against donald trump and it was a three on one debate although i argue that often when you are attacking the rest, you are often on the losing side. >> thank you both so much. live from the city of brotherly love. taylor swift in her

endorsement era. >> did that lay on the way it was supposed to? >> throwing support behind the harris campaign. >> donald trump not committing it to a second debate against harris. his campaign press secretary will join us to discuss.

so will there be another debate? this is what donald trump told sean hannity overnight .

>> she wants it because she lost. >> do you have an answer? >> i have to think about it. if you won the debate, i think why should i do another debate? >> press secretary karen leave it is with us. just so you know, trump went on fox a short time ago and again expressed doubt that he would do another debate. he said, i don't know that i want another debate. why? what is he worried about? >> i have not talked to the president since he made those remarks. as you know, he is at the 9/11 ground zero ceremony this morning commemorating the anniversary and the lives lost in that terrorist attack. however, what i will say, is all the debates we announced on the campaign, and there have been many of them, have come from president trump directly. i will let him make an announcement on that front. what i can also say as last night was a big success for president trump. he was able to highlight his record of success in his first term with the failures of the last year of

kamala harris. and kamala harris needs to do a sitdown interview. one thing i can say about president trump is that he will absolutely continue to do media interviews and sit downs with local stations like we do in every battleground state we travel to. hours long podcasts and press conferences., lead harris is going on day 52 of not doing any of that. the american people still have a lot of unanswered questions about her record and where she stands on the issues. >> in the cnn snap poll after the debate, a large majority said that they believe that kamala harris turned in the better performance. you called it a success for donald trump. 63% said she had the better performance. 37% say donald trump. this is actually a republican audience here. four points more republican than actually registered voters. what you make of that ? >> the audience also said that they trust president trump more to handle the economy then they do kamala harris. and his

support on the issue of the economy actually increased after last night's debate because he outlined the problems people are experiencing at home, the 50% increase in mortgage rates and 50% increase in gas prices since, harris has been vice president and how those were not an issue in american lives under his leadership. voters trust president trump on the issues that matter to them. that was proven in the cnn poll. i think the debate was summarized best by a woman in one of your focus groups last night from erie, pennsylvania. she said when facts come to facts, my life was better under president trump. that is the main question in the election. are you better off today than you were four years ago? kamala harris refused to answer the question on the debate stage last night because she knows the answer is no. americans are not better off today then they were under president trump and the american people know that too because they feel it in their lives and in their pocketbooks every day. >> did donald trump prepare enough for the

debate? everyone seems to think she got under his skin. how is it that he let her get under his skin? >> i don't think that happened at all. in fact, i think president trump was defending himself from attacks and lies from kamala harris that unfortunately were not fact checked by the moderators in the debate. they fact checked president trump five times but did not fact checked kamala harris one time even though she repeatedly lied about president trump and his positions on the issues. she said he supports a federal ban on abortion. that is unequivocally false. he said he does not support a ban on abortion. >> caroline on the debate stage last night, i will say this. it was a position i had not heard yet from him, in which he refused to say he would veto a national ban on abortion. he was given a chance multiple times to say that he would veto a national ban and he wouldn't do it. >> he has said multiple times as well that he will not sign a ban on abortion and it is because it is the state right

issue. and kamala harris also refused to say if she supports a ban on late term abortions in the eighth and nine month of pregnancy. president trump pointed that question at her directly twice. she refused to answer it and left it off. voters deserve an answer to that question. >> i will say one thing. tim alberta writes for the atlantic. he said one way to look at it, abc moderators fact check trump and harris zero times. and moderators fact checked trump 2-five times instead of 500 times. i want to ask you about his concept of a plan on healthcare. he said, you will be hearing about it in the not too distant future. when will we be hearing about that concept of a plan? >> as he said, in the not too distant future. >> do you have a date? >> i don't have a date for you this morning, john but i will get back to you with one as soon as i can. what i will say is that

president trump's plan to drive down healthcare costs, which have increased 30% under kamala harris's leadership as vice president, is to let the free market go and give americans more options for healthcare. that is the opposite of what kamala harris wants to do and healthcare. she was the co- sponsor of the bernie sanders sponsored medicare for all plan. she said she doesn't support that anymore. that was also a lie that was fact checked by the monitors. the radical healthcare plan by kamala harris will eventually force every american off of the private health insurance. that is socialism. we have seen this happen in other countries and it does not work. that is why people in europe and other nations around the world come to the united states of america for healthcare because we have better care here and president trump wants to drive down costs and increase the quality of care here at home and you don't do that by forcing people off of their private health insurance plans like kamala harris wants to do. >> she said that is not her plan last night. thank you for being with us. we appreciate your time. >> she set him up and he walked

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in springfield, they are eating the dogs. the people that came in, they are eating

the cats. they are eating the pets of the people that live there and this is what is happening in our country. >> the springfield city manager said there is no evidence of that. vice president harris, i will let you respond to what you heard. >> talk about extreme. this is i think one of the reasons why, in the selection, i have the endorsement of 200 republicans. >> donald trump, last night, repeating the myth that has been debunked by not only the city manager but also police who said they have no reports of this that haitian immigrants are eating household pets in ohio. it was one of at least 33 false claims the former president made during the debate., lara's had some false claims or self, one of which when she said trump said there would be a bloodbath if he is not reelected. he did use the word bloodbath but he used the term when referring to auto manufacturing. former white house connect patience director and former white house counsel,

the director of the independent women's center. first of all, you heard this claim that is now on social media, is a far right talking point that has gone viral on many different levels of social media. why did he bring this up when it has already been debunked by police and the city manager? >> it hasn't been debunked. they said they had no reports of it. >> i think there are a couple of thoughts here. one is that, you can be too much online and treat social and on twitter and forget what people are thinking in the real world. i think the other point is that people are concerned

about the level of immigration and the level of haitian immigration and ohio where they have not been able to manage the numbers. the attorney general said that this is not a migrant problem. it is a too many, too fast, nowhere to put people problem. the point itself that there have been more than 11 million illegal border crossings at historic high levels over the last four years is true. can you be too online? that is also true. >> isn't this fear mongering? ultimately, he is talking about black people and in particular, haitians, eating people's pets. and to a lot of people listening to that, immigrants and americans that were born and raised here, it sounds like fear mongering. >> it is fear mongering and there is an element of racism to it. it is gross. it is also incomprehensible to i'm going to guess about 80% of the people watching the debate last night. it is an extremely online right wing meme which by

the way has been debunked and donald trump used this opportunity on the debate stage in front of millions of people to, instead of making a cohesive case about his own immigration plans, to talk about this thing that means nothing to 80% of the people watching . it was bizarre. it was quintessential donald trump. it was pinched with hatred and made no sense to anybody except the most online right wing maga followers and is not the way to make a case to the moderate and swing voters that will decide the outcome of this election. >> i want to listen to kamala harris on the economy. she was asked if people were better off four years ago, something we have heard. a debate being won, that very line, are you better off four years ago? here's how she answered it when asked. >> i love our small businesses. my plan is to give a

50,000-dollar tax deduction to start up small businesses knowing that they are part of the backbone of america's economy. my opponent, on the other hand, his plan is to do what he has done before which is to provide a tax cut for billionaires and big corporations which will result in $5 trillion to america's deficit. my opponent has a plan that i called the trump sales tax, which would be a 20% tax on everyday goods that you rely on to get through the month. >> she is talking about the tariffs that donald trump reiterated that he would use. she did not answer the question, are you better off? should she have answered that question directly and then gone into her policies? >> i think affective debates are about explaining to people how you view the world and why you are going to do what you are going to do if you are elected president. i thought she answered the question effectively by going straight to small business which she believes is one of the beating

hearts of the economy, talking and concrete ways about what she would do for small business and then contrasting with trump who has said again that he is going to give giveaways to the wealthiest in the country. i thought she did a nice job lining up the contrast. at the end of the day, a successful debate is about using the time in front of the camera to connect with the audience in the way you want to and answer the question the way you want to. i thought she did a very effective job of that in the answer. >> what did you think about her answer in the end? >> you know, the economy is the number one issue in this election and that just wasn't enough. she felt rehearsed and memorized and nervous. it didn't seem to the audience i don't think to be capturing the problems that americans are facing and presenting a real plan. i thought one of trump's stronger moments of the night was when he said, her plan can be summarized as run, spot,

run. there isn't much there. i will give people free things. it doesn't really address the problem of giving people free things is the cause of the inflation that has had historic levels and although the inflation is coming down, it is still rising at 1% higher than the fed's target rate which means prices are still going up. trump missed an opportunity there and of course the moderators did follow-up multiple times with trump, will you answer the question? tell me about your tweet. tell me about it. and they did not follow it. i think they were missed opportunities from the moderators and from president trump but it was not her strongest answer by far. >> who won this debate? >> trump lost the debate. i think kamala harris could have won the debate by explaining to people clearly who she is and i still don't think people know but trump lost the debate because he did have some strong moments. i think he got in to

something that resonated with me is something like the biden/harris demonstration hasn't fired anybody and they are sort of on cruise control and bureaucracy and i don't like that. i don't want that from my government. i want accountability. he did get distracted and her tactics of getting under the skin worked. the rally comment on down. so my friends, we are voting for trump. we want trump to win. this was a missed opportunity. this is not what we were hoping for. >> kate, there was an important moment talking about healthcare and in particular, reproductive rights. here is what kamala harris and donald trump had to say about that particular issue. >> what i did is something for 52 years. they have been trying to get roe v wade into the states. and through the genius and heart and strength of six supreme court justices, we were able to do that.

>> i absolutely support reinstating the productions of roe v wade. and as you rightly mentioned, nowhere in america is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion. that is not happening. >> kate, how do you think they both handled the question about reproductive rights? >> i think the exchange and reproductive rights was one of the best moments of the debate for, harris. you had trump there reiterating how proud he is that he put these justices on the supreme court who overturned roe. it was very clear who was at fault, who was that responsibility for the fact that reproductive freedoms have been taken away from women across the country. you had him reiterating that. and you had her pushing him on national abortion ban and whether he would veto it. he wouldn't

give an answer. and then you had her giving a really heartfelt answer about what women in this country are going through. it illustrated the stakes of the issue. and we know that this is an issue motivating voters across the country. i thought this exchange was one of the most powerful from kamala harris during the debate. >> thank you both so much for coming on this morning. >> gary: thank you. we are in lower manhattan and continuing to follow the reading of the names out loud by family members of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. the 23rd anniversary commemorating the horrible day. we also are following, while this is playing out in new york with live pictures, we are following a ceremony as we see every year happening at the pentagon as well as we are approaching another moment of silence that will be taking place shortly there. natasha bertrand is standing by at the pentagon as we are approaching the 9:37

a.m. moment. natasha. >> gary: that is right, kate. 9:37 a.m. is when american airlines flight 77 did crashed into the pentagon here in the outermost ring of the pentagon. you can hear the invocation beginning now. and they will do the moment of silence right now. let's listen.

ladies and gentlemen, please be seated . >> 9:37 a.m., september 11th,

2001. that is the moment, as natasha was saying, american airlines flight 77 hit the pentagon killing 184 people on that horrible day. natasha back with me now. a memorial has been built since and is a beautiful one. >> reporter: it is. and they hold this event there of course every year commemorating the lives of the 184 people that were killed when the flight american airlines flight 77 did hit the pentagon directly. it killed 125 workers inside the pentagon including contractors as well as people who worked here on a more permanent basis as well as 59 people that were on the flight itself. the youngest being just a 3-year-old girl whose remains were never found here. the memorial is really to commemorate that and we do expect to hear from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who was about to speak as well as the secretary of defense, lloyd austin. they

will be giving remarks, commemorating the 23rd anniversary of 9/11. very personal day of course for the people here and said the pentagon, many of whom were here on that day. >> absolutely. thank you for being there and marking this moment. we will continue to mark the ceremony at the pentagon. the ceremony and commemoration continues in lower manhattan. and soon we will go to shanksville, pennsylvania where flight 93 crashed into that windswept open field on that fateful day. john, back to you. >> thank you so much. >> millions under her can watch as francine barrels toward louisiana. we could see landfall as early as this afternoon. and a major endorsement for the harris walaz campaign for the most famous self-proclaimed childless cat lady.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . >> sorry. the snakes freak me out. that was after the big debate. taylor swift announcing she is voting for kamala harris and tim walz and used her endorsement on instagram to take a job at republican vice president nominee jd vance signing the post "childless cat lady" ." >> elizabeth has jumped into the political fray with no abandon here. >> she has. and it is not the first time taylor swift has entered the political fray. in 2020, she did indoors biden and harris. this isn't a huge

surprise. but the surprise, sara, is that taylor made an endorsement at all. it seems that for months, there has been endless speculation on whether taylor, who was one of the biggest stars on the planet, would make this endorsement and this is the biggest endorsement from a celebrity yet for the vice president. earlier this morning on fox news, trump was asked about taylor's endorsement. let's take a look at what he had to say. >> i actually like misses patrick mahomes much more. i was not a taylor swift fan. it is just a question of time. you couldn't possibly endorse biden. but she is a very liberal person. she seems to always endorse a democrat and she probably will pay a price for it in the marketplace. >> when he says brittany, he is

referring to the wife of patrick mahomes. she allegedly liked a post of trump so there has been a lot of chatter about that and you see that taylor and britney who are good friends, they are hugging and were at the u.s. open having fun this past weekend, people made a big deal of that. just like taylor and britney who are very famous in the real world, of course, people have friends from all different walks of the political aisle. >> i'm not sure she gives a rat's tail about potentially losing some bands because that has not happened before and she has endorsed before but we will see what happens in the future. thank you so much for your reporting there. hurricane francine, the storm is gaining strength and expecting to make landfall later today.

hurricane francine could make landfall as soon as this afternoon. more than 2 million people are under her can watch. millions more under the threat of severe flooding. let's get to our cnn meteorologist. how strong is it and where will it land? >> it is a category one storm sustained wind at 91 miles an hour and gusting up to 115. the national hurricane center forecasting this will intensify further getting into a low end category two hurricane before it makes landfall likely later this afternoon or early this evening before finally beginning to spread inland taking with it the potential of heavy rain and storm surge and gusty wind. here you can see the outer bands starting to

spread into portions of louisiana. we have rain in texas and mississippi. notice pretty far inland for all of that reign, talking but areas like memphis, atlanta and birmingham likely to get several inches of rain out of this even though the coastal areas will pick up the most. it's not just the rain but the coastal areas have the concern for storm surge. this area south of morgan city looking at about 5-10 feet of storm surge. some of the surrounding areas about 3-5. >> we will watch it closely. thank you very much. >> thank you for joining us at cnn news central. the cnn newsroom is next.

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good morning. we are live in the cnn newsroom. the presidential debate and the morning after. we will look at the impact on a deadlocked race in a moment. first, remembering 9/11, 23 years later. the families of those killed on 9/11 are coming together to honor their loved ones and the nation is joining them remembering the sacrifices of that day. let's not waste a moment and go live to see an impact as kate baldwin who is at the side of the world trade center memorial. we are seconds away from a moment of silence. what can you tell us? >> seconds away from that

moment of silence. this will be the fourth moment of silence we marked here on this day. 23 years since the horrible terror attacks on our nation. let's listen to the moment. >> my grandfather richard j o'connor. we will always love and