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combs, accused of sex trafficking, forced labor, and kidnapping. >> a new indictment detailing crimes dating back 16 years right. >> 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast to live look at capitol hill on this morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us later today. a major announcement expected that could have a big impact on the economy less than seven weeks out from election day, the federal reserve widely expected to announce they're cutting the benchmark lending rate after keeping it at a 23 year high for more than a year here's what fed chairman jerome powell. jerome powell's announcement could mean would mean for americans borrowing would get cheaper ideally, that leads to more business investment resulting in companies hiring more and selling more. probably because consumers would feel more

inclined to spend money with these expected lower rates this could be just the first of many cuts to come, but the move already expected and is already being politicized. donald trump trying to get ahead of this big announcement. he's claiming the cuts are needed because of the biden-harris administration the economy is now not good and interest rates you'll see, they'll do the rate cut and all the political stuff tomorrow, i think. and will he do a half a point? will they do a quarter of a point? but the reason is because the economy's not good otherwise you wouldn't be able to do it vice president harris naturally doesn't see it that way, maintaining the biden administration inherited an economy in free fall from donald trump and that they're still working to repair it as of today, we have created over 16 million new jobs, over 800,000 new manufacturing jobs we have the lowest black unemployment rate in generations we have invested in small businesses is the price of groceries still too high? >> yes do we have more work to

do? yes. >> all. right let's bring in john smile, fed, and economics correspondent for the new york times. good morning to you, jeanna. thank you so much for being here. really appreciate it. let's cut through all this year. the question today seems to be not whether the fed is going to cut rates, but by how much and the reason for that seems to be because they may have waited too long and left interest rates too high for too long. what is the thinking here and what impact does it have for people so i think the fed is facing a set of trade-offs here anytime that you work in commute, right? >> interest rates, they're sort of two things. you're thinking about. one is, are you bringing inflation under control? the fed raised interest rates in the first place to control prices by slowing down demand in the economy. and the second is, are you slowing the job market? high interest rates have a side effect in that but is that they cool the job market off overtime. i think the question is, is the fed worried enough about the recent slowdown in the job market to

really go bag and cut by half a percentage point today or are they going to take takes more muted step, cut by a quarter point and a signal that there's more to come in the future those are the two options available to them. >> i think it's going to be tricky option or a tricky needle for them to thread today because if you go by a quarter point, if you do just a little move, there's a risk that you signal that you're not really alert to how quickly the job market is slowing. but if you do that half-point cut, there's a risk that you signaled that you're nervous that things are falling apart and so i think that there are two big risks. they're trying to walk a middle ground between them yeah and the politics of this are pretty complicated. >> we saw a letter up from senators led by senator elizabeth warren, who many people are familiar with is often tries to take the, pro-consumer stand on these kinds of issues and they say that if the fed is too cautious, they wrote this letter in cutting rates, it would needlessly risk our economy heading toward a

recession. they're actually arguing in this letter for 7.75, not three-quarters of a point rate cut. that seems clear. it seems clear that that's not going to happen. but again, this seems to be about jobs and whether the unemployment rate is going to get too high yeah you. >> know, there are reasons to worry that the unemployment rate is going to get two pi. we've seen unemployment move up to 4.2% over the course of the past year. that's up from 3.4%. so it's a pretty dramatic increase over a relatively short period of time that said 4.2%. it's still pretty low by historical standards. and over for all the economy looks like it's returning to something that pure sort of roughly in line with the normal weaver used to before the pandemic rather than falling pieces. and so i think that's the challenge for the fed. they have to look at this job market and fake, out is this return to normal? or is this a slowdown that we need to be concerned with? and i think those call for two very different policy prescriptions and that's sort of the tricky

balance that they're trying to strike at the moment. >> jeanna, there seems to be this perception that if donald trump gets reelected, the rate environment would be much different than if say democrats kamala harris were to keep the democratic hold on the white house. do you buy that? >> so i think i think that it's possible that that is true, but probably not in the direction most people think the federal reserve is independent of the white house. they do not set policy based on what the president wants. it does not matter what the president is telling them. they do not have to listen. donald trump is promising to drastically cut interest rates but that is not actually a power within his toolbox. he doesn't have that capability any. he'll usually couch it in this idea that he's going to drive inflation down because he's going to cause so much it's drilling so much oil production. >> i've talked to a lot of oil economist about this. >> they tell me that it's just can't push oil prices down like that. it doesn't work. the math doesn't work. oil companies wouldn't produce the

levels that he's, he's promising that first lincoln and that chain doesn't work. and in fact, most economists will tell you that a lot of the other policies mr. trump is suggesting would potentially push inflation up and so if we had a situation under mr. trump, were inflation was rising, you could actually see a world with higher interest rates under his watch. >> really interesting are jeanna smialek for us this morning. thank you so much for starting us off. i really appreciate it. >> all right coming, up here on cnn this morning, donald trump back on the campaign trail only consequential presidents get shot at when i say so, former president seemingly unfazed after that second apparent attempt on his life. >> plus the bombs in deeper exploding in the pockets of health paula members. >> how israel pulled off this attack and air 15s drugs, more than 1,000 bottles of additional lubricant attorney he's lay out the indictment, i guess music mogul, sean diddy combs a year ago sean combs stood in times square and was

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intelligence service, and the israeli military. the new york times reporting the blast happened almost simultaneously, at least nine people are dead, including an 8-year-old girl, more than two facts i wasn't injured hezbollah, which the u.s considers a foreign terrorist organization has vowed to respond to the attack and some people in lebanon calling for swift retaliation this is an earthquake that must be met with response from the resistance. a decisive destructive, and shattering response even if it leads to war. >> the on it has to escalate. that's how the situation seems i don't know action and reaction no one really knows honestly i tried to me now cnn international anchor max foster with more on this max, good morning to you. what a remarkable events what is the latest you're what we know about how the israelis pulled

this off well, there was a fat-tree is a time when he's company that made these pages and they had a factory in hungary, as we understand it, we don't know where the devices were tampered with and from what we know, they needed to have been tampered with because what, our sources are saying is an explosive had been put into these pages, which would have required a switch as well, which could have been set off remotely we're not quite sure exactly how that would work. >> but there were initial reports that this was just a case of overheating the bat cheese and getting them to explode. but now we understand there was actually he's explosives within the pagers they must have got there somehow either via mossad or the defense ministry or some sort of system that they had in place. but we don't know it happened, whether it was in the factory on the way to the factory. that's what people are investigating at the moment, but it's early days, but a really sophisticated operation and deadly as we've seen deadly indeed.

>> and max, there, this was what our nick paton walsh wrote about this. he says that the timing is telling on monday, the israeli defense minister yoav gallant said during a meeting that the time for diplomacy with hezbollah has passed and military might could take center stage literally hours later their enemy's entire communications infrastructure was hit with an attack that according to lebanese security source, used pagers purchased by hezbollah in recent months. and so this necessitated a long lead time in the operation's planning. so basically, they're saying this has been going on for a long time. hi, i'm and while we've of course focused on, i mean, the pictures from these attacks the idea that you're something you have in your pocket could explode at any moment is all very dramatic. the reality is the leader of hezbollah had warned his people off of using cell phones because of the possibility of for surveillance. this was a main source of communication for them and that is affecting that very much affects their capabilities to act know yeah.

>> so there were told not to use mobile phones. she's pages instead and thousands of them hundreds of them have been taken out so they can't use those pagers now and then now. i'm sure questioning how they're going to communicate and then looking for an alternative system. obviously, hezbollah thought they'd got away from any sort of compromised by israel, by switching people two pagers because they're analog, but this remarkable work around the israelis appear to have found has been highly effective. you've got to remember there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds. it's a thousands of hezbollah members and it was awful as this incident was and deadly and people injured, including civilians, it seems they were talking about hundreds low thousands of hezbollah members who have been affected by this so it's not as if hezbollah and all his communication has been entirely undermined right? >> really interesting. and of course, it all speaks to this fear of the escalation of this

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snowboarder as this type of video makes my heart absolutely sing the first snowfall of the season, falling from the sky. >> yes, i love to see the changing seasons. so does this puppy. this is coming out of mammoth lakes area. they saw some measurable snow and as casey mentioned, you have people in phoenix are having a party this morning because their mercury in the thermometer did not climb above 100 for the first time in 113 days. that's saying something. so definitely the cool down over the western us, you can see it from seattle, san francisco, to los angeles. there's phoenix temperature, it'll stay below 100 now, the other stories that we're following today, the severe weather chances across the nation's midsection heads-up western portions of minnesota, large hail, some damaging winds as well with some storms fire up later today. remember what happened two days ago. this is coming out of carolina beach in north carolina from a non named tropical system. what we're still, still feeling the effects of this entity will call it, it's still bringing rainfall to portions of the

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trump a day after that second apparent assassination attempt against him. he blamed the left's political rhetoric for rising tension democrats placed the same blame on republicans donald trump was back on the trail for his diverse event since the incident yesterday, was a town hall in michigan. >> during his remarks, there was a moment where he struck a softer tone when he spoke about recent phone calls with vice president harris and president biden a little while ago, i got a very nice call from kamala very nice. so there but i want to be nice. yeah. he was so nice to me instead it but, you know, in one way, i sort of wish the call wasn't made because i do feel he should so so nice vice president harris was also back on the campaign trail yesterday in the must win state of pennsylvania, in a conversation with the national association of black journalists, harris spoke about her message to trump in that phone call i checked on to see if he was okay.

>> and i told him what i have said publicly, that there's no place for political violence in our country. i am in this election, in this race for many reasons, including to fight for our democracy and in a democracy there is no place for political violence all right, joining me now to discuss the state of the race is the singular ron brownstein. >> he is a cnn senior political analyst and senior editor at the atlantic. ron morning. good morning. thank you for being here let's talk for a second about this conversation that they are having on the campaign trail about political violence mean the fact that harris and biden both called donald trump. he actually seemed to have a relatively warm reaction to that. we see trump do that when he's, he's gotten it has had a personal interaction along those lines. but that said, that seems to be the exception in terms of how this is being discussed. we went from

basically straight to partisan attacks after this happened. >> well, look, i mean, i think as is often the case people who would do something this extreme and egregious their views about politics don't really map, our contemporary political divides. i mean, they're not, you know, this person seems to be bouncing all over the kind of the political landscape. the previous case you know, the very young person was even more kind of kind of scattered, like a couple of things can be true. political violence is simply unacceptable. in a democracy but the fact that donald trump has now been targeted does not absolve him of his role in promoting i mean, he calls his opponents communists and fascists and vermin. he says, immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country he repeats, is a terrific story in the wall street journal going through the detail in which they knew what they were saying about springfield was wrong, was simply not true and we're

aware from the beginning and yet continue to kind propagate those stories the way, the way i look at donald trump deserves to be able to run for president without taking a shot at him. someone taking, someone taking a shot at him and a haitian migrant who is here legally under a program signed into law by george hw bush in springfield deserves to go through their day without somebody threatening them because of an unfounded allegation from from trump and vance. both of those things can be true. >> yeah. and again, i just keep coming back to the speed with which this information travels especially sometimes false information results in it may be online, the where people are talking, but it results in offline. yeah, real-world consequences, real-world consequences. ron, let's talk about your new piece because as you've said many times on this program, you did originally coined the blue wall it's a phrase, right? you've noted that your initial blue wall has now been collapsed. >> it's been inverted that fell out of the blue wall are now what people think of as the

blue wall. >> and they are michigan, wisconsin, and pennsylvania. now, you note in this new piece the trio of states has become the most csistent tipping point in american politics. they have voted for the same presidential candidate in 17 of the 26 elections since 1920, the candidate who swept these states won 15 of those 17 campaigns. and in the nine elections since 1920 when they split their vote, the candidate who carried two of these three states won seven times. now of course, when i talked to my sources, they will say they think that michigan and wisconsin are relatively firmly, harris sort behind this sort of leaning our way now. >> but the pennsylvania is a keyword. >> yeah, toss up. >> do you think that these states may split this time? and what else you reported here? >> well, first, let's let's talk a little bit about the history there is that perception that wisconsin and michigan and i have moved to a point where there are at least kind of sort of leaning toward harris and the pennsylvania is tougher, that would depart from

our recent history since 1980, these states have voted the same way in every presidential election, except 11988 when bush, george hw bush one michigan and pennsylvania, but lost wisconsin since 1994, the last 30 years, they've even voted the same way for governor in every election, except one day, they tend to move together. the michigan, pennsylvania convergence, though, is even deeper than that. michigan and pennsylvania have split the presidential election exactly once in the last 80 years, right? 1976, michigan voted for native son gerald ford, pennsylvania voted for jimmy carter, who even then, there's like an asterisk to go back to a wendell willkie and fdr in 1940 for the last time, michigan and pennsylvania vote for different presidential candidates before that and kasie before that, they split once in the 80 years before that, between 18601940, they've split three times since the

civil war. and there's a reason for that. i mean, they're very similar demographically they're both about 80% of the voters are white african-americans are the largest minority population, although latinos are growing similar religious profiles similar a union presence they have tended to move together. pennsylvania does look harder, but there's a long history that says they tend to why is then? >> in your in your view and actually this is a conversation i've had with a number of sources kind of trying to sort through and i have family roots in michigan and i grew up in pennsylvania, so i have like a one-person focus anecdata right. sense of some of the differences here. but when you look at why it is that pennsylvania may end up voting for trump, where michigan votes for him harris, why do you think that would be what i think you know what we saw in 2020 was that biden trump ran better among blue collar whites and pennsylvania than he did in the other two, michigan and wisconsin he also ran better

and kind of midsize cities in pennsylvania. then he did in the other two. hard to answer fully why, but i think if there's one reason, it's at the de-industrialization has been even greater in western pennsylvania than in most of michigan i mean, this there is still a functioning auto industry in michigan and is now transitioning to the ev kind of our production much more than there is a steel or a coal industry and pennsylvania, the lost money the loss may be even greater, but the dynamic is pretty similar in that, you know, if you look at what's happening in the wake collar suburbs of each of these states dane county, michigan, a dane county, wisconsin, which is madison. democrats have gone from 70% of the vote for hilary to roughly 80% of the vote for e evers, the governor candidate in 2022, oakland county, michigan, moving up to around 60% of the vote for democrats for suburbia and counties outside of philadelphia biden won them by 300,000 votes, right the way the math for

democrats in pennsylvania is 2016 levels of turnout in philadelphia in 2020 margins in the suburbs of philadelphia that's probably how she wins the state. if she wins the state, and of course the winner, someone's going to in pennsylvania by 50,000 votes and probably be our next president. >> why do you think harris was campaigning in johnstown, pennsylvania? >> because cutting cutting the margins in these in these red trending midsize cities. as i said, if you look at the center for rural studies does a really nice geographic kind of cat categorization and midsize metros, not the big place is kind of the midsized places are tougher for democrats in pennsylvania than they are in michigan or wisconsin significantly tougher. so screen of shaving a few points off the margin there. if you can meet with biden did, as i said, if you look at 20:20, he wanted the force of urban counties outside of philadelphia by 300,000 votes. then you can get, if you can get back to the hillary level of margin in philadelphia maybe

46475, something like that add to it pittsburgh, allegheny county. are there enough other people to make up for it? and 'n to try to make it harder just a little bit off the edge in those in those places, but it does seem as though as i say someone's going to win pennsylvania by a fairly narrow margin. and in all likelihood, be the president and some of that strategy that you're talking about, there, fetterman employed it to great effectiveness when he was running his senate campaign, kind of cutting those margins in those small metros and i wonder to a lot of those small metros and pennsylvania, they sprouted up around steel and coal, right? >> exactly is. and the losses even greater? yeah, so sure. by the way if in fact harris now does have an advantage in michigan in wisconsin, and maybe on track for that typical democratic, very narrow win in nevada. that does mean that trump has to win all three of pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina if she in fact, if those first three are true, michigan, wisconsin, nevada, leaning toward her, any one of

the other three? pennsylvania, georgia, north carolina, gets her over the top. >> now it's a good point. all right. i'm brownstein. this is fine. come back soon. all alright thank you all right. ahead here on cnn this morning. we spent years studying donald trump's finances and businesses. now he's co-authored a new book about the former president called lucky loser and the pulitzer prize-winning new york times reporter run nar joins us next, plus the star miami dolphins quarterback out of action after his third career concussion. >> when will he returned the game, our bleacher report's ahead tonight at seven on cnn you've had thyroid disease for a long time, and you've lived with the damage it caused. but even after all these years, restoration is still possible. learn how at ted help.com, they are trying to shut down this

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have to tell you and i think one of you is going to be very, very happy lee you're fired. sean >> it was the reality show that made donald trump a household name. it boosted his net worth and popularized its public image as a self-made billionaire. in many ways, it's also what helped propel him on the path to the presidency was on that golden escalator to this day, the apprentice remains a core part of the former president's public persona. >> wasn't the apprentice a great show though a didn't do the apprentice because that's a big question. because a lot of people in hollywood are blaming themselves to this, this duty apprentice. he wouldn't be, but, you know they all vote for me all right. >> joining me now, new york

times reporter ross buettner, he is the author of a new book, digging into exactly how trump got rich over his decades long business career has called lucky loser, how donald trump's squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success at ross. ross. good morning to you. thank you so much for being being here. congratulations on the book you write in this book, that quote we calculated by the end of 1990 fred trump had provided, this is donald trump's father, his favorite son, were than 34 million. >> but donald trump's biggest paydays from his father's fortune. we're still to come by late 1992 the remnants of the empire that donald had built, the pieces she fought to keep from lenders and investors were still teetering. you also talk about luck. can you explain how donald trump got his money, how he what he did with it once he had it, and how that all ties into what we see today. >> sure. when we talk about luck, we're talking about

three sort of big trenches. one is what you just described, the money he received from his father that total of course, of his lifetime, about for more than $400 million in today's money and then he received this huge second tranche when this producer, mark burnett, the crater of mentis, walked into his office and gave him a deal to be on the show, but also half of all the product integration money from the show that led to a real wellspring of cash. and then that also led to a wave of licensing deals for donald trump was able to just let people use his name. that was more than another $400 million. all adjusted for inflation. that's easily over 1 billion. then there was an investment he was pushed into against this well it's a yielded hundreds of billions of dollars more. so that's well over $1 billion for things that are extra outside of his business. acumen use that to their course of his life to create businesses, many of

which lose lost money or failed, especially in the latter half of his life. >> that's what we're talking about. we talked about the luck and loss cycles very interesting when you were kind of reporting out this book how would you answer based on what you've learned that question that donald trump pose there that we saw at the rally where he says, well, if not for the apprentice, i might not be here today. >> i mean, would he it's an excellent question. we'll never know because that's what happened in the real-world. we do know the state of affairs when mark burnett, this producer, walked in to his office and offered in this gig, his businesses were his casinos, we're teetering on bankruptcy again we'd have to come up with 50 million to do that. he was pushing his family to sell the remainder of his father's assets, a sale that would valley are you the remnants of that state as well? about $1 in today's money. so he clearly needed money and

this one martin burnett walked in, gallup, had done a survey of him not long before a survey, his favorability rating and less than half of americans view donald trump favorably. almost everyone knew him. they just didn't think highly of him the show created this three-minute amazing video that may donald trump look like the king of new york, king of business, of creating a new studio that looked like a boardroom. it wasn't his actual office and every week they were sort of reinforcing this notion that he was a really amazing businessman. and then after they did a survey out to another survey about 18 months it's later. and for the first time, more than half of americans view donald trump favorably. and that was the highest rated he would ever have. >> in fact, that counts and clearly they had reinvented his image it had reinvented his finances. >> and that really does seem to have led straight on to him having the credibility to run and of course, we see him lean

on that today as he argues that he would be a better steward of the economy than his democratic opponent's ross buettner. >> thanks very much for your time this morning. i'm looking forward to really diving in to the book. thank you very much. and of course you can get your copy of lucky loser, how donald trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success. it's out this week all right, time now for sports, the dolphins quarterback will miss at least four games as his head have you been to the team's injured reserve list? >> andy scholes has this morning's bleacher report. andy, good morning. yeah. good morning. kasie. so after two are talking about lowest suffered, yet another concussion, we all wondered when or if we would see him on the field again. and as of now, we know the earliest we could see 20 back under center for the dolphins would be october 27, the team putting too on injured reserve. that means he's out at least four games to a separate his third diagnose concussion last thursday against the bills, third-year quarterback skylar thompson is going to start with the dolphins on sunday against the seahawks. all right.

elsewhere, asia wilson said and add another record last night, the aces star grabs seven boards passing angel reese for the wnba single-season rebounding and record last week, wilson also became the first player ever to score of 1,000 points in a season. aces beat the storm last night, 85 70 72, liberty meanwhile, clinching the top seed for the playoffs with an 87, 71 win over the mystics, new york is 32 and seven on the season they know who they play in the playoffs that's still unknown is atlanta, washington, chicago are all still battling for the eighth and final spot. the regular season concludes on thursday with all 12 teams inaction. all right. to baseball where shohei ohtani keeps inching closer to the first ever 50-50 season. the dodgers star slugging his 48 home run of the season last night against the marlins. ohtani. now has 48 home runs and 48 steals. >> he's got 11 games left to get 50. >> dodgers actually lost that game to the marlins 11, 20 29,

juan soto, meanwhile, also going yard last night for his 40th home run of the season was also the 200 hundreds of his career. he's the seventh youngest to reach the mark and so soto and aaron, judge, the first yankees teammates to hit 40 home runs in its seasons. it's mickey mantle, rodger marriage back in 1961 takings beat the mariners 11 to two well, he asked her is playing in san diego, jose altuve hits this one. and he doesn't run because he hit it off his foot, which is a foul ball. >> well, the oms said it didn't hit him it's foot manager joel spata immediately runs out to argue altuve. >> they've removed his cleat and sought to show his foot is read from getting hit. he got objected for doing that as did his spot gray kissinger. he replaced altuve had second in the tenth inning partners at the bases loaded, but kissinger made a sliding stock to get the out. he's all pumped up. he and plates as mid-june the lie. asher won that 143, but kasie, this is actually the second time this season, jose altuve

has hit a ball off his foot and didn't run. and they got called out and he got objected forth so where they didn't happen in his entire career is twice this season how strange yeah. >> no, that's whatever it's taught me. >> like i'm taking my clean off in showing you my foot. >> i mean, i honestly don't blame the guy. i don't really appreciate it coming up in our next hour on cnn this morning, sean diddy combs we up in federal custody. the disturbing new details that were laid out in the indictment about the so-called free gauff's. he's accused of forcing on his victims plus the blame game continues why donald trump's running mate says calls to camp down rhetoric are leading to violence so consistent about the attacks on donald trump, not just over the last campaign, but the last ten years. is there is an explicit effort to try to shut him up to silence him

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