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kasie hunt next september 20. >> right now on cnn this morning. slim margins, kamala harris gaining momentum but the most pivotal states remain deadlocked me on the debate stage. >> let's have another debate. >> the problem with another debate is that it's just too late. >> debate challenge kamala harris accepts cnn's debate invitation why donald trump is still saying no to a rematch there has been incredibly exciting newfound energy for the harris-walz campaign here in north carolina carolina so on the mind, can the harris campaign sees the controversy surrounding the gop's nominee for governor in the tar heel state

on the east coast well, i've looked at capitol hill on this monday morning. >> good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. we are 43 days away from election day, and possibly 31 days from another presidential debate over the weekend, vice president kamala harris agreed to terms with cnn for another debate against donald trump. >> it would be on october 23 in atlanta. but now it's up to donald trump to agree as well something that he seems resistant to at this very moment one me on the debate stage with seven other debate is more to talk about and the voters of america deserve here the conversations that i think we should be having on substance, on issues on policies, what's your plan was my plan and we should have the one before election day the problem with another debate is that it's just too late. >> voting has already started. she's done one debate i've done two. it's too late to do

another. i'd love to in many ways, but it's too late. the voting is cast of voters are out there immediately harris is searching for another debate just as her campaign, is seeing some more momentum in newly released post-debate polling, according to cnn's poll of polls, harrills, harris has a tt edge nationally. >> that's officially still no clear leader. but there does seem to be clear movement after five post-debate polls were added the cnn average, three of them have harris leading outside the margin of error. this shift in national polling comes as north carolina's seems to be coming more online into play as a scandal continues to surround the republican nominee for governor mark robinson on several on sunday, several of mark robinson's top aides, including his campaign and deputy campaign managers resigned after that bombshell cnn report exposed robinson's history of dozens of disturbing comments, including calling

himself, quote, a black nazi on a porn site more than a decade ago, some harris allies believed that adding north carolina two or column could secure would secure her path to victory i'm not sure the impact that it will have at the top line, but it would be wonderful and almost ball game if harris wins north carolina, but she's made north carolina headed of already. >> and then after robinson now, it's we're in the best possible situation to win all right. >> joining us now to talk about this as michelle price, national political reporter for the associated press. michelle, good morning. thank you so much for being here. >> the bottom line, it seemed like good news through the weekend and for the harris team, certainly, no single poll is something that we want to hang. >> everything on. but i will say when, when they saw the nbc numbers i definitely heard there were there were there

were some excitement about that. and it seems as though for right right now, they think that things are moving in the right direction. what are you hearing from your sources about where this race stands? >> i mean, this is an incredibly close race. this is one of the closest races we've had in decades. there's no question it seems now that the vice president got a little bit of a boost out of that strong debate performance. and that's clearly why she's asking for another one. and that's the same reason why we're seeing donald trump be very hesitant to have another debate. it didn't go well for him. this race is incredibly tight. voting has started, and anything small that can move the margins could make or break this race, including questions about mark robinson in north carolina, a state where they were feeling much more confident weeks ago. and this was a state where they were they were feeling so assured that that the trump campaign was looking at expansion states now, they have doubled back and they're really focusing on some of these swingiest of swing states you'll, let's talk about north carolina for a

second because of course, the continued fallout from what happened with this cnn reporting what we've learned about the gubernatorial nominee there, mark robinson, the question of course, really is this going to affect things at the top of the ticket and republicans, i talked to will point to evidence that in the past there has been a divergence from there who north carolinians were voting for, for governor versus who they've been willing to vote for. at the top of the ticket, what are you hearing from your sources on how much of an impact this may have? i mean, again, in an incredibly close race, every little thing, especially at the margins can make or break array. so it's, it's clearly something think that the trump campaign is nervous about you noticed this on saturday when donald trump was in north carolina, he did not mention mark robinson. this is somebody the who he'd had on stage before he has praised him before. he's endorsed and they've endorsed each other. so it's a clear sign of some distancing and some concern there you know, the republicans, are right, that this is a state where they've if elected democratic governors before, but donald trump has won the state. it's not

necessarily what we call a reverse coattails but it could, you know, the comments that mark robinson has made, some of those were already out there and offensive comments long before this latest cnn report, but they could be motivating enough that they could turn out people who might have decided to stay home and that would be the concern and the difference this time is that donald trump had been linked to this man. he did endorsed him, but he'd also endorsed him again after a record, some of these comments that were seen as very offensive, some things on abortion and race even before this blockbuster report you know, talked to democrats who are from the south in particular, they they were saying things like what you point out. well, before this cnn report that he was already pulling in a place where they felt like the harris team was in a much stronger position than maybe a lot of people had realized. michelle price. thank you for starting us off this morning. i really appreciate it. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me all right. >> up ahead now, on cnn this

morning extensive strikes in lebanon as israel issues a warning to civilians to leave parts of the country plus the house speaker lays out his plans to try to avoid a government shutdown as the months and deadline quickly approaches. and several top officials on mark robinson staff step down. will the controversy surrounding the gop candidate for governor in north carolina boost democrats in the presidential race exists because donald trump has lifted him up throughout and candidates up and down the ballot in north carolina i need to have they need to be held accountable for supporting mark robinson rated oprah winfrey show of all time. we're still talking about it she opened the door to have discussed she's about way in a way that we had not before tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture. >> sunday at nine on cnn.

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>> it's certainly not going to be in the best interests of all those people. that prime minister netanyahu says he wants to be able to send back home international anchor max foster. max, good morning to you. always good to see you. very concerning signs here about this conflict potentially widening. what do we know this morning? >> i think the key thing is these messages, these phone messages that citizens in beirut have received telling him to evacuate these areas where israel believes hezbollah has strongholds. that's the first time we've seen that previously the attacks have been on military positions, but now clearly they are targeting areas, areas where there are civilians. so we're starting to look at the potential of civilian, civilian casualties here. yeah if israel goes ahead with these strikes and the civilians don't evacuate, so it does take a completely different twists this tension this escalation between hezbollah and israel, i think it takes a very different tone.

wait to see how people respond to this but certainly there's going to it does feel as if things are really ramping up max for max, can you explain what benjamin netanyahu is? >> looking at when he is considering his options here, militarily but also politically, at home in israel. and then we have also talked quite a bit over the course of this war about the challenges of having both the front and lebanon as well as the war in gaza ongoing. the military, the israeli the military has been stretched out rather thin as this conflict is heading towards the one year mark. how does that impact what we're seeing well, the shift is resources from gaza up to the northern border with lebanon. >> they feel clearly that they do have the resources to carry out their mission benjamin netanyahu is talking about his determination to allow israelis

who've had to move away from northern israel to move back into those areas. he needs to make it safe. so that's why he's carrying out this mission. against hezbollah. because as you know, ever since the war with hamas began, there have been constant tensions across the border between israel and hezbollah. and he wants to end that effectively, but he feels he has the resources. but there are two separate conflicts essentially. but in excreted inextricably linked because iran backs hezbollah and iran also backs hamas alright, max foster for us this morning, max, always grateful to have you. >> thank you so much. >> and coming up after the break here, multiple people are dead after a group of shooters opened fire in a popular entertainment district on saturday night, police investigating who could have been the intended target. we're going to have more in the morning roundup

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center tagging this cluster of thunderstorms over the central and western caribbean with a invest, which means this isn't area of showers and storms that they're going to be monitoring the next couple of days for the potential of development. and you can infer a lot from this particular hashed area that's got a 90% chance of development over the next 70 days. look where it heads between the yucatan peninsula and cuba all the way into the central and eastern gulf of mexico. so all of our computer models honing in on a potential florida strike later this week that come thursday into friday. so this is the area we're monitoring now, but there has been a trend to shift that track a little further east overnight. of course, all the details need to come together. but one thing's for sure, there's a lot of warm water ahead of the storm system, so it is likely that it will develop into a tropical depression or a tropical storm in the coming days where it goes from there, still unclear, but we do anticipate at least a hurricane striking the us

coastline by the end of this week. here's a look at the difference between the models. you can see the timeframe there as well. third, thursday at noon yeah, the american model a little bit stronger than the european at the moment, but often we play a little bit of catch-up once we get the information coming into the weather models, helene is our next named storm. and that is the storm system that we'll be monitoring for this entire week. kasie, back to you all right. >> derek van dam for us this morning. derek, always grateful to have you seen like sauer. thank you. >> still ahead here on cnn this morning, we are just about six weeks from election day and a new poll shows a significant jump in the vice president's popularity how that might impact the race plus israeli airstrikes in lebanon this morning, what israel's prime minister is vowing to do next in the fight against hezbollah we don't believe continue to believe that kinetic action, military action by either side it's really in either side's best interest, certainly not in

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shows no clear leader in the presidential race. it is tight. kamala harris, up over donald trump by three points, 50% to 47. that slight edge still within the margin of error even so, there does seem to be some movement in harris's directions. cnn's poll of polls takes the average of five recent polls and in three of those five, harris was ahead of trump outside the margin of error. this latest average taking into consideration polls taken after the last presidential debate earlier this month harris now challenging trump to a second debate in just a few weeks, as mail-in and early in-person voting already underway in some states this election is going to be close. >> we've always known that that's what happens in these presidential elections. and in a state like michigan or pennsylvania, wisconsin, we know that this is going to be a close race joining us now is semafor's shelby talcott. >> shelby. good morning. always wonderful to have you. as we've just got some new numbers in just in the last couple of minutes posted on the new york

times and her times, sienna, college poll. they did a sunbelt look the headline out of it seems to be that donald trump basically is doing well across the sun belt. and in fact, they found that the tightest of these states is actually north carolina, which of course, joe biden didn't win in 2020. it was donald trump's narrowest victory, but there you see the sienna college poll well, 49, 47 in north carolina, georgia, and arizona show that he has a slightly wider lead. there at arizona. in particular, my republican sources think is pretty much bond for the harris team that's one where donald trump seems to have a strong edge. georgia still some questions about black turnout, whether that might change thing but i think you're seeing here why harris has spent so much time in north carolina. you add this together with, of course what we've seen from mark robinson scandal at the top of the statewide ticket there. what do you make of these

latest numbers? >> yeah united talk about polls a lot and i think it's important to note that the race is so close and that's exactly what these polls represent. even if donald trump is up a little bit, or kamala harris is up a little bit. and in a lot of these polls, it's within the margin of error and that's exactly what the campaigns are seeing. and that's why we're seeing the campaign let's go to north carolina lot, go to pennsylvania, lag, go to a lot of these states. and another thing is a lot when i talk to particularly donald trump's campaign. but kamala harris's campaign also, when we talk about the national polling, they're more focused on these battleground states. and so when these numbers come in for the battleground state's specific it's ugly. that's what the campaigns are really interested in for sure. >> now, shelby, some of the big, the big picture trends to we can look at harris is favorability in that nbc news poll that dropped over the weekend. they had her at 32% favorability back in july lai

it's 48% now and now some of this is of course a reflection of people getting to know her throughout this. but i think one of the things i've been looking for is signs as to who is basically winning this war to define her. that was how the trump campaign talked about it when she entered the race. that's how the harris team has been at talking it seems like there may be some signs in this polling that it's the harris team that is succeeding there. i mean, the head-to-head in this national, in this nbc poll is now 49, 44, that's a change from 45, 47 back in july. again, i think you're correct to point out the campaigns are not looking at these national she'll head to heads the same way they're looking at the battlegrounds. but that number for donald trump is lower than it was, perhapflection of the way he's been running his own campaign as well. i mean, we know he has a floor, but he also has a ceiling know yeah,

absolutely. >> and that's the big thing back in the primary when i talked to candidates and campaigns that were opposing donald trump, that was their big argument was he does have that sealing and i do think that kamala harris is favourability and her popularity is notable because it could affect turnout. >> how cited our people to come out and vote for her ultimately, a lot of people believe that this election is going to come down to turnout. so those numbers are something to keep an eye out on. >> shelby. >> let's look at john fetterman was on meet the press over the weekend and he was he talks a little bit about mark robinson, who of course is the gubernatorial nominee in north carolina. >> republicans talking about sort of a complete collapse for robinson in the wake of that cnn story, let's watch what fetterman had to say about it it's great news for the democrats. >> i mean, robinson is actually, he's the new dream

candidate to run against back in 2018, i thought the governor wolf and i thought scott wagner was the dream candidate. we could run and we smoked him by 17 points. and then of course, doug mastriano came on in 22 and that's the best kind of candidate that you could buy in the shapiro campaigns spent millions of dollars to promote him as well too. but then robinson's like, hey, hold my beer this of course, shelby matters potentially because of its impact on the top of the ticket. and i thought that pennsylvania comparison was an interesting one because republicans had nominated doug mastriano, whose performance was so challenging for republicans that you saw this sweep for shapiro, are we headed for something similar in north carolina it wouldn't surprise me and when i talked to republicans inside and outside of donald trump's orbit people who are close to him, as

well as people who have been opposing him, who are repeating publicans. >> this has been criticism is just republicans picking some of these poor candidates and there is concern that this could drag donald trump down and we've seen how the campaign has quietly sort of started to try to distance themselves from him shelby talcott for us this morning, shelby. thank you very much. i really appreciate it all right. >> let's go now to this developing story. these are live pictures of smoke rising from lebanon where israel is conducting airstrikes near the country's southern border. the israeli military says they struck 150 targets in extensive airstrikes against hezbollah. it also urged civilians to leave areas where the iran-backed group operates. lebanon's health ministry says at least one person was killed and six others injured. the attacks come on the heels of attacks last week when israeli intelligence and defense forces blew up thousands of pagers and rain radios belonging to suspected hezbollah militants. now the u.s. is urging israel

to de-escalate we don't believe that a military conflict and we're saying this directly to our israeli counterparts, george, we don't believe that escalating his military conflict is in their best interests. >> it's certainly not going to be in the best interests of all those people. the prime minister and then yahoo says he wants to be able to send back home all right, joining us now to discuss joel rubin, a former deputy assistant secretary of state during the obama administration. >> joel. good morning to you. thank you so much for being here at this. seems to be a significant escalation here why is israel doing this now? and how concerned are you about an about a wider regional conflict coming out of this yeah. >> kasie, i am concerned to where to pivot moment in this conflict. it's been almost a year since october 7, and what we've seen now in recent days is clearly something that's leading us into a regional war which is the last thing any of the sides should want kudos to

president biden, vice president harris, and tried to tamp this down remember hezbollah and justifiably started attacking israel after october 7, and what that has done is open up the second front. and now we're seeing the results, which is a really harsh reprisals. now, recently by israel with the pager attacks, with targeted assassinations as well, israel's north is big hammered by hezbollah depopulating over, over 100,000 civilians. so it's time to pull back. it's time to get, for example, a ron to pull back his blog and it's time as well for israel to accept the ceasefire for hostage deal and really not go in the direction it seems to be heading right now. >> joel, this of course, the conflict there, what israel has been doing, the war in gaza all a significant part of the u.s. presidential campaign as well. and it's, it's been in the spotlight recently for comments

that donald trump i actually made about jewish voters. and how they majors or blame for his loss. he's saying this preemptively, i want to show you this exchange that jake tapper, my colleague had over the weekend with at the senator tom cotton, republican senator tom cotton about this. and he pressed him on whether this was the right way to be talking about this issue. let's watch donald trump. again. >> has been saying for months that anyone who cares about israel anyone who cares about the fate of the u.s. israel alliance should vote for him. they should okay. for kamala harris again, not just i keep talking about jewish voters in the united states and you keep talking about another lot of jewish, a lot of jewish voters, just like a lot of christian voters care deeply about the fate of the jewish nation and the status of our relationship with israel. >> are you comfortable with him blaming it on the jews preemptively?

>> the point he is making is that anyone that cares about that relationship shouldn't vote for kamala harris. they should vote for him joel what is your view of trump's comments and the impact that they have and cottons response there well, you know, cases in american jewish voters is very personal to me and what president trump did, former president trump, what he did was used an age-old anti-semitic trope and blaming jews for a potential bad outcomes that may occur. >> american jews were 2% of the population. we are americans we vote just like all americans and to blame one particular group to target us and specifically identify us, puts us at risk and it's obnoxious. and quite frankly depressing to see senator cotton equating american jews with israel as well. of course we're close and have a deep affinity to israel. many met jesus do. >> but that doesn't mean that we vote because viscera, we vote because we're americans, we vote because of health care environment, the future of the

economy, a women's right to choose that also feeds into an anti-semitic dual loyalty trump. >> it's unacceptable speech. he should be ashamed of when self for claiming to oppose antisemitism and then engage in anti semitic tropes like that all right. >> joel rubin for us this morning, joel, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thanks, kasie. all right. still the come here on cnn this morning, a cnn investigation throwing the north carolina why not governor's race into chaos, how the porn-site scandal could also impact the presidential race in that battleground state plus the kansas city chiefs beating out the atlanta falcons because yesterday just barely, we're gonna have that and more coming up in the bleacher report the edge sunday at nine on cnn can you do this as early as your 40s, you maine's muscle and strength proteins supports muscle health in shear max protein has a 30 grand grant blend of high-quality protein

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incredibly exciting newfound energy for the harris-walz campaign here, north gallant said 25,000 people at a rally week ago so she's got momentum. i think she's going to win that was north carolina democratic candidate for governor josh stein, who is predicting a win for kamala harris in the tar heel state. >> that's where our battleground beat heads this week, new polling out. just moments ago but shows harris may be closing the gap in north carolina, the new york times, sienna college poll found that harris trails trump by just two points in that critical state that is within the margin of error. and interestingly enough, she seems to be doing better with voters in north carolina than she is in two other sunbelt states, georgia and arizona. those are two states that biden flipped in 20 the 20. and this, of course all comes as north carolina. north carolina governor's race was rocked by scandal this past week, cnn's kfile uncovered past inflammatory comments. mark robinson made on a porn website more than a decade ago.

donald trump has praised robinson in the past, which of course kamala harris's campaign was quick to hide? i like robinson now facing mounting pressure to drop out of the race should ever republican in the country be held responsible for this guy, i would say no is him not me? >> it's not trump, it's great news for the democrats i mean robinson is actually, he's the new dream candidate to run against. and this is the problem for us republicans. as long as donald trump is you recruiting agent? four candidates in swing states. we're going to continue to get our rear ends handed to us joining me now to discuss the latest in this battleground state former south carolina state rep. >> and cnn political commentator bakari sellers. bakari, good morning. wonderful to have you. look. you have been you and i we've been talking about this race in north carolina. well before what our kfile reported and you have been insistent that

there's no way there could be such a gap in the gubernatorial race that robins could be doing so badly and not have kamala harris pull out this race. now, the new york times polling still shows that harris has a little bit of a gap here, but it's within the margin of error. we had this reversed on the screen for our viewers who may have been watching a couple of minutes ago, but harris is 47, trump is 49. it's correct. there. what impact do you think what happened with robinson? and this new cnn report is going to have at the top of the ticket because the reality is that while north carolina has sent democrats to their governor's mansion in recent years, it has not voted for democrats is 2008 in the presidential race yes, certainly. but north carolina is one of the state's this prime to be flipped this time i think north carolina has an interesting combination for the harris campaign. >> it's one that has a ton of college educated white voters. it's that quarter between charlotte, north carolina and

the research triangle, which is raleigh, durham. and it has a lot but black voters, one of the things that harris campaign has to do is go outside of those areas to the eastern and western portion of the state. but you asked about mark robinson in the thing is mark robinson is running against an extremely good candidate. and josh stein, but the steady drip, drip, drip last week wasn't the first time that mark robinson has been marred some type of scandal i mean, he is an anti-black anti-semite who has said things such as holocaust denial. and so it's amazing to see that last week, all of a sudden because of post on nude africa.com or whatever it was was a bridge too far. when he has been taking bridges too far for so period so long a period of time that is kind of baked into the cake in north carolina. now bakari, what do you think is the real difference between georgia and arizona? the other sunbelt states here in north carolina.

i mean, why is it that north carolina is more in play? i take your point about educated white voters, but there are some similarities in terms of georgia and the suburbs around atlanta. like why was biden able to win georgia and arizona lose north carolina, but then the polling show this today well first of all, this polling showing this today is just a snapshot in time. i want everybody to understand that and these other polling that actually shows kamala harris leading in north carolina and probably tied particularly some of the local polling in north carolina. but i would say that one of the things that makes georgia so appetizing the number of black voters they're inside atlanta inside of the savannah area, inside of richmond county, augusta and so when you when you look at that, you say that she's always going to have a puncher's chance there before very long period of time before joe bide and i just think that georgia was very you saw what stacey abrams was labeled to do instead of

going concentrating on sub precinct that the sub precinct and able to flip that state and make it purple. you saw warnock and ossoff win, but it still is a very hard not to crack for democrats one of the things that you see an arizona is the fact that immigration looms extremely large. and although we've made up a lot of ground on the issue two, the immigration, we still have work to do, but i will tell you arizona with ruben gallego versus carrie lake means that we have a chance because throughout this maga movement the candidates that the republican party have put up has just stopped. kari lake is getting destroyed by ruben gallego. >> and then you don't have any other races on the ticket in july georgia. >> and so it just makes it ahead of race without anything else in the state of georgia. so all of these races or just slightly different with north carolina probably being the best target to flip no. >> nobody better to talk about it within you, bakari really appreciate your time this morning. thank you so much for being here. >> all right. >> all right. >> time now for sports for

kansas city chiefs remain undefeated and they have the defense to thank for that. carolyn manno no. has this morning's bleacher report, carolyn, good morning good morning. >> it has not been pretty for the two time defending super bowl champs. that's for sure. they've won their three games by a combined 13 employees, but they've won and it's good to have a good defense. patrick mahomes, shaking off an interception to throw a pair of touchdown passes, but the falcons, we're able to stay close in fourth quarter of this game, they were down by five with just over four minutes remaining. atlanta quarterback kirk cousins, throwing a tightening kyle pits on fourth down, drawing heavy contact in chiefs safety brian cook know pass interference flag thrown. thousands would get the ball back for one more dr. in the final minute, once again, it's kansas city's defense rising to the occasion stuff upping them for a three or loss on fourth and one, the chief saying onto win a nail-biter 20 to 17 >> i mean, that's how this season we've been in these moments before. we're going to try to not have them every single week. but i'm glad

anytime we get a win and we had to fly home and whether tough vote at this next week. so we'll get ready for it. >> nobody was giving the winless rams a chance against a 49 years yesterday, la missing a handful of offensive starters, they fell behind by double they just in the fourth quarter, but quarterback matthew stafford kept grinding in this game, leading his team to three scoring drives in the last ten minutes, kyren williams rushing four yard score is third touchdown of the day with 151 left on the clock to tie it up. and then adult came down to the leg of pecker, joshua carney connecting with 37 yards out with two seconds completing the 27, 24, come back the oh, into ravens went to dallas with their backs against the wall and ended up looking like they're normal dominant self csm are jackson and company lead 286 after three quarters. now the cowboys did rally in the fourth quarter to cut the lead and make this one really interesting. to just three points with less than three minutes that's left with a comeback not to be ultimately the final dr. lamar jackson

gets the ball back through a clutch third down tass, and then threw a nifty fake to serve a ten yard run for a first it's down to baltimore, holds on to win 28, 25, and avoid the second on the restart in team history things looking very bleak for the eagles early against a saint squad that had put up 91 points in the last two games, not nearly that many sport on sunday, this is a defensive affair, the birds coming away with a hard-fought win, thanks in large part to save money barkley, a lot, what wrong in this game before it went right, but the running back, taking matters into his own hands with a pair of fourth border scores and 65 yard touchdown to give the eagles on the board. and he also i managed a four-yard run. we're just over a minute to play as philly grinds out a 15 to 12 when and after being traded in late august from tennessee to green bay, malik willis showing the titans just what they gave up up in his second straight start, filling in for jordan, love, the packers quarterback, ran for a touchdown through for a score in a 30, 14 route over tennessee. so the packers score 20 straight to go up big midway

through the third, it seemed that eight sachs which forced three turnovers. well as finishing with over 200 yards passing and 73 rushing really happy for our guys and part of their effort going, keep firing away they told me that this specific is going to burn if we came in here and want a game. so i guess it is he's just love a, random fire alarm going off. kasie in the middle of a press conference, everybody. okay. no big deal. and a lot of football tonight, by the way, two games on monday night football. so it is that time of year it is indeed has got a lot of carolyn. thank you. i really appreciate it are coming up here on cnn this morning, israeli airstrikes in lebanon are underway as civilians, there are warned to evacuate, plus donald trump tried to close the gender gap. his pitch to women women will be happy,

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have i got news for you, saturday at nine on cnn? monday, september 23, right now on cnn this morning, a razor thin race, new polling shows just how close things are in battleground states now, just six weeks out from november 5. >> and me on the debate say, let's have another debate a debate day or accepting cnn's invitation for a rematch. why donald trump claims it's too late. >> in this israel warning civilians to leave parts of lebanon as strikes ramp up and later we're going to win north carolina in our battleground beat is north carolina really back in play, democrats