aside from this grand entrance at the republican national convention, she hasn't been on the campaign really much at all. i mean, she was only at the rnc that one night and she didn't even speak for melania. a lot of it is about making money, right? >> a spokesperson for melania, trump declined to comment in response to cnn's questions about the payment for at least one log cabin republican event sources who are supportive of the former first lady who attended the log cabin events, but who did not know that she got paid for at least one of those defended her, saying she has a right to decide how to spend our time and right. to get paid for her time. wolf, brian todd reporting for us, brian todd. >> thank you very, very much and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now

breaking news, kamala harris, weighing a major decision tonight, one that takes on trump's biggest lines of attack as the race is getting tighter this hour, john king think tonight with new paths to 270 plus more breaking news, new calls for mark robinson too quick, the north carolina governor's race as robinson lashes out publicly. and tonight hi, new reporting outfront from where it all started. kfile and he faked a back injury to get out of fighting on the frontlines in ukraine. the story of ivan and how deserted the army, the russian army, and still made it out alive. an incredible story. >> let's go outfront and good evening. >> erin burnett, outfront tonight. kamala harris to the border breaking news right now from our priscilla alvarez, she is reporting that vice president harris may travel to the u.s. border. this week on friday the trip and attempt to take trump head-on on an issue. he is very happy to pound the

table on i believe his open borders. she is a marxist with open borders for she is thrown open our borders. she does not care about the deaths. sex slavery, drugs, criminals coming across our border according to the latest national poll, harris trails trump when it comes to securing the border and this is the widest margin that there is. so it's a crucial issue, 54% in the most recent polling, say trump would be better at controlling immigration 33% say the same for harris now the context of this very big decision that harris is making tonight comes as trump is about to take the stage at the rally that you see on your screen in pennsylvania, a make-or-break state for both campaigns, harris will be in pennsylvania on wednesday and tonight with just 43 days to go until formally election day we've got new battleground state polls in arizona. and that this is actually kind of flip from what you heard last week on the, on the swing state polls. so you've got trump with a slight lead in arizona, 48, 43 in

georgia. same thing, slightly three points. other polls last week that showed the opposite and north carolina, just two percentage points separating trump and harris, north carolina, of course, a must when state for trump for his path to 270, it has quickly though turned into chaos for the campaign after cnn's kfile uncovered disturbing comments on a porn website made by the trump-backed candidate for north carolina governor. today, mark robinson was defiant as he returned to the campaign trail. and we have new reporting from kfile coming up this hour front but as trump prepares to take the stage, as pennsylvania rally, any moment, he is reeling tonight from another big financial hit. his truth, social media stock hitting an all-time low today, his investment in truth, social has lost 80% of its value since march the dramatic fall after trump had this to say just a short time ago truth, social is doing very well. >> it's hot as a pistol and doing great. the stock has gone through the roof and really this is i think in the true

sense, this is really a great sign of where the people in this country standards almost like a poll. but you see all what it is, it's one of the hottest stocks anybody who's ever seen well, obviously that is not the case tonight. >> and the value of truth, social, just like whether trump ends up in prison may rest upon one thing, whether he wins this election. priscilla alvarez is outfront, live in washington tonight and priscilla, you are breaking these new details. what more are you learning about the fact that the vice president here? harris may go to the border this week, will erin and certainly tells you that this remains a top issue among voters, one, that they are trying to make a pitch on with the vice president. now sources tell me that some harris campaign officials remain concerned about the lead that former president donald trump continues to hold in polling on this very issue, but they also tell me they see an opportunity they feel as though the gap is closing and that they want to close that even further by doubling down on

their message, encountering those republican attacks that she does not visit the u.s. mexico border nearly enough. now, of course, the vice president has visited the u.s.-mexico border during this administration. she also did so once he was california senator and attorney general. now, no final decision has been made on this visit, but should it happen, it would happen when border crossings are at a low, the lowest they've been since 2020. of course, this has been a political vulnerability before the biden/harris administration, after multiple crises over the last few years. but after executive action this summer, those numbers have plummeted. this visit again, would come when the border crossings are low and also erin, when republicans continue to hammer her as the borders are falsely claiming that she is solely responsible for border security when her portfolio was focused on the root causes of migration. now, either way, this is a visit to arizona, a battleground arizona, which as you mentioned in the polls, the former president holds a slight lead

on, but it would be significant if during that visit which we anticipate on friday, the vice president also added that border stop absolutely, priscilla. thank you very much with your breaking reporting all right. a panel here with me, but christo, let me just start with you look, the numbers are low right now, and that's something that biden administration has been trumpeting. however, during the overall biden ministration, the number of illegal border crossings is north of 7 million. that's a lot. just to state the obvious. so the question is bill, whether a trip to the border will help her or not? what do you think think it could help us get hurt. >> biden so badly on the border was partly that a lot where people were coming across it. it's very difficult issue. but also he seemed not to care. he didn't want to address it. people didn't visit it that often. there's a sense that while he just doesn't take this issue seriously, i think if vice president harris goes to the border it shows that she's taking the issue seriously. the actual solutions are very complicated obviously, and policies can be debated. but i

think it would be a swipe gesture i was talking to someone in western pennsylvania the other day. he was watching the steelers game actually a little friend and he said he's seeing nonstop ads, of course, political ads and they're mostly on immigration and the border from the trump people. they are pummeling harris on that. i don't think it's been quite as effective as they had hoped but it's probably done some damage. and i think showing just that she's takes that concern of ordinary citizens seriously, not just an arizona, but a pennsylvania and michigan and elsewhere i think it would be wise. so i shouldn't harris as vice president has only been to the border once and it actually was a couple of weeks after she had this exchange with lester holt, which some may remember, but if not, let me play. >> this is back in 2021 have any plans to visit the border i'm here in guatemala today at some point we are going to the border. >> we've been to the border. so this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. we've been to the border.

we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border? >> and i haven't been to europe. >> and i thought i don't understand the point that you're making so does it make sense for her to go now when she's clearly going now because she's, you know, she's receiving the tennis ball over the over the net from trump, right? she's not gone since a visit right after that. so does it make sense for her to go now, do you agree with bill? >> i just wonder if we're having the wrong conversation, right. so i think that it absolutely makes sense that kamala harris talks about the humanitarian crisis that we are experiencing, where people are wanting to cross the border. there is a massive implications to that right? and we're seeing that play out. her job was to figure out what the root causes of migration our to the united states. and what is it that we could do about it? that conversation has gotten lost in what trump has been doing by saying, look those evil, awful people are coming and they're doing really bad things. and i

don't think that this is a criminal and allies conversation. i think we need to remember that it was actually donald trump that was displacing families. that was literally taken babies and putting them in places that warrant where their parents were. there's a whole humanitarian crisis that i believe that kamala harris is poised to talk about at the border and the implications for all of the americans who are around. they're trying to deal with shermichael should she do that? i mean, obviously that that is true. what i you she says trump will point to criminal and criminal gangs. and another side of this story, we will hear more of that from him. so should she go on friday and what did she say if so? >> i mean, look politically, of course she should go she's been beaten on the issue. i mean, donald trump holds a 21 point lead as you showed at the very top of this segment also that same nbc news polls suggested that 65, 66% of the american people believe the country is on the wrong path and so while i agree with ayisha that the

vice president was tasked with figuring out the root causes of immigration. the available data that we have not just from the nbc poll, but a times sienna poll cnn poll that came out two-and-half, three weeks ago suggests that most americans don't believe whatever suggestions device president and may have on this issue are the right suggestions to actually solving the problem erin is so strategically speaking, it absolutely makes sense for her to be there. will it make a difference? i'm not convinced based on the numbers i've seen so far. all right. so shermichael, want to ask you about the big dinner this weekend presidential candidates you usually attended, gets a lot of coverage. it's called the al smith dinner may sound esoteric to some, but it's a usual rite of passage. it raises money for catholic charities harris has come out and said that xi is not attending. trump is attending. so he posted today in connection witon with harris's decision not to attend the quote, catholics are literally being persecuted by this and in any catholic that votes for comrade kamala harris should have their head examined. so shermichael, what is he what is he saying here? i mean, is this

something about he's assuming all catholics aren't for i mean, what is the point that he's making like a mac catholic, but i assume that perhaps the former president is talking about that most catholics are pro-life clearly the support of democrats and the vice president is not politically pro-life. >> i certainly understand the argument there. i know the campaign for the vice president said that she's going to be in battleground states. i get it. the election is going to be close. she wants to spend her time there but erin, this is a charity that raises money for children and i don't think it would have harmed the vice president to be there. she could have made some jokes about the former president just as he did with clinton, a couple of years ago, it would've been a great night and you also doing something for a great cause. and so i think this is a missed opportunity. >> aisha, 40,000 christians through an event for kamala harris throughout through zoom call. you've got 16,000 black clergy that came together in support of heart. you have catholics for calm la, of course, you have jewish women for kamala, what donald trump always does is tries to create

divisiveness in this instance, he's suggesting that christians, that evangelicals, that people have faith shouldn't support the democratic candidate. and the reality is, is that people of faith are tired of the evil, nasty, hostile, divisiveness that he has perpetuated at our absolutely lining up for good and for something that is far more better that connects us. and so this dinner, be it as it may certainly lee isn't a reflection of where people in their values are in america and people who believe in various face, but certainly christians absolutely who are christ-like are going for hamas. it's interesting. it is a break with tradition though, you know, bill cnn is reporting tonight that melania trump and we really have not we haven't seen anything on the campaign trail this year, very, very a little you know, she she had posted something for sale. now, she's posting got a six-figure paycheck, price we've just confirmed this bill for, quote, unquote speaking engagement in april

and trump's latest disclosure form tells us what this says. he says that she was paid by the log cabin republicans for that april fundraiser. she appeared at again, $237,500 for that bill clinton kate paid speeches after hillary clinton announced her candidacy in 2016. i will put that out there. this you know, and i'm assuming he gave them at the rate that he would have gotten before i don't know in the world who speak engagements if her rate would be $237,500. but bill, what's your reaction to this that's in italy, it's foolish of her not to go to the hospital center candidates of both parties have done it forever. >> i don't think they've ever miss that except in 2020 when there was the pandemic and it just it just an easy talking point for trump, whatever you think of the dinner, whatever you think of her merits on various issues. i think it's silly on this thing. i mean, the grift never stops with the trumps. it's really unbelievable that you can buy the trump coin, melania trump gets paid to go to a dinner for republicans. when i was a republican, i spoken a couple of functions for the log cabin people. i didn't know i could

get 237,000. i did it for free because i was a republican they were republican group. that's kind of what republicans do. what democrats do for democratic groups i mean, it is amazing the hucksterism and the grift even what, what do we have six weeks out from the election, neither of them neither mr. trump nor mrs. trump stops with the with the attempted we got the gold coins and trump trump's are michael putting out gold coins june with his face on it and selling them. but shermichael just on the face of it. what do you think mani a trump $237,500. who appear to speaking engagement for republicans i mean, you know, look, i does it make the best sense in the world considering this political climate, aaron? probably not in the ordinary set of circumstances. i'm not necessarily against politicians or their spouses for that matter getting paid to speak at public events of a group decides to spend the money. but i think just during the climate, right? and now in the midst of the campaign, it probably wasn't the most

logical thing to do. i probably would have advised the former first lady to wait until after the election. let's just see how this thing goes first. we're talking about it, right? and that's the last thing you want this type of a distraction in the midst of what will be a very close race. >> all right. well, thank you all very much. and next, a crime our favorite at harris rallies specific line is working? john king is outfront next. plus breaking news this hour, some big name republicans tonight, speaking out, calling on mark robinson to step down after kfile's explosive reporting that of course, he should step aside. >> outrageous, disgusting file and more breaking news caught on tape. the editor in chief of a news network caught in the middle of an israeli airstrike you didn't sit back like this

and watch oakland he shot like that. this ship was the highest rated oprah winfrey show of all time, all these years later, we're still talking about it oprah really opened the door for us to have discussions about way in a way that we had not before she added this confessional, intimate aspect, making television a friend tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture sunday at nine on cnn when it comes to amgen, life changing medical brings first every second counts. but without investment, those breakthroughs, are often paused cities seamlessly connected banking markets and services, businesses, delays for global financial solutions. so our client can keep investing in innovations for patients around the world without pause for the love of moving our clients forward. >> for the love of progress luma phi, it's kind of amazing

wow, my go-to is lima by eyedrops, luma phi dramatically reduces redness in one minute and look at the difference. >> my eyes, the brighter and wider for up to eight hours, limma five really works. >> see for yourself hcm is a serious heart condition affecting as many as one in 200 people like me and me, i was still short of breath on my beta-blocker. so i talked to my cardiologist and asked about treatment advances in hcm that talk made a real difference. >> it gave me new hope talk to your cardiologist today visit atm real talk talk.com t.com ton more very different visions for our nation one focused on the future and the other focused on the past when the middle class is strong, america is strong lowering the cost of living will be a defining goal of my

president. >> our lower the cost of goods glenn and prescription drugs for everyone. and i will work to pass the first ever federal ban on price gouging on food. more than 100 million americans we'll get a tax cut. we will end america's housing shortage by building 3 million new homes and rentals that are affordable the middle class together, we will build an economy where everyone can compete and have a real chance to succeed now is the time to chart a new way forward i'm pamela harris and i approve this message i'm ali man down the newest ambassador funny story, how i became an ambassador. >> i went to the store and i lied and said i wasn't ambassador. do i get it? this count the owner called me and said, would you like to be an ambassador for yes. you're and i said yes, try sketcher, slip-ins. >> it's time to feed the dogs

real food in the right amount a healthy weight can help dogs living longer, happier the farmer's dog makes weight management easy with fresh food management easy with fresh food free portion for your dogs san francisco's been through tough times. london breed led us through the pandemic, declaring an emergency before anyone else, saving thousands of lives. from growing up in the western addition housing projects to becoming mayor, london has never given up on the city that raised her. london is getting people off the streets and into care. london never gave up on me. i found a home, and my life is on the right track. london made it super easy for me to open my small business, by cutting city fees. and she's reinventing downtown to make our city vibrant again. she's building 82,000 new homes and helping first time homebuyers, just like us. and london's hiring hundreds of police officers, and arresting drug dealers. san francisco has been through difficult times, but our hard work is paying off. working together, we're building a better future

for the city we all love. ad paid for by re-elect mayor london breed 2024. financial disclosures are available at sfethics.org. 231231 now anderson cooper 360 tonight at 8:00 on cnn tonight, donald trump hitting a major snag his hopes to change nebraska's election law, which could get him one more electoral vote running into opposition from his own party nebraska republican state lawmaker refusing to go along with trump's push. >> as i mentioned, this is all over one electoral vote, which frankly could be what it all comes down to in a race that's in a dead heat right now. new polls that i mentioned at the top of the show, showing just how close this race is at this moment, john king is outfront at his magic wall mean john, incredible moment. you got polls. one day look one way the next, a different way tonight, trump showing some of his strongest numbers in swing states, arizona, georgia, and north carolina. it's a new

york times sienna poll. what what's in them that stands out to you? >> so let me echo your point as i bring them up with flashes away or breaking them up. this is just one poll, don't overinvest in one poll, but these are trump's best poll numbers in quite some time. now, as i've before, i show them to you, there are other polls that showed a little bit different. is there a noted so don't overinvest in this, but let's just walk through where we are beginning with this. this is where we have the map right now, harris with 225 electoral votes likely or solid trump at 219 likely or solid. so what does it matter when you bring these? and let's look, forgive me for turning my back. i just want to stretch this out as the new york times sienna poll. i'm including here the third-party candidates on the ballot in these states. you see trump at 48 to 43 in arizona. that's just outside the margin of error, five point lead, 47, trump lead he's in georgia to 44 for harris. that's within the margin of error, but trump's best number in a long time. and in north carolina, 47, 45, trump on top. again, there's been some other polls that are less favorable to trump and better for harris in those states. but just imagine this health, right? trump's leading in arizona, georgia, and north carolina. let's say

trump wins them not out of the realm of possibility. erin trump won north carolina twice it's friday, morning, about 20:16 to 2020. so let's make that red let's say he wins georgia again, joe biden flipped in 2020, but trump won it in 2016. same with arizona. biden won it in 2020, but just barely. so it's not out of the realm at all. if trump held those sunbelt states and everything else we have in their map, that would get him to 262. so that what is the point here? number one, don't the best in one poll, but number two, this is why the blue wall is so critical for kamala harris. if trump were to win there across those three sun belt battlegrounds. and as a to 262. she has to win pennsylvania. he's only eight votes shy, right? so she has to keep this blue. any one of these states would put trump over the top. she has to keep this blue and she has to keep this blue sheet it has to win the blue wall and then we're she she's a to 69 which gets you to your point about nebraska's second congressional district. if she won those three and trump won those three he would nevada would not be enough for trump. let's say trump won nevada it

would put her over the top, but would only get him to 268. so there is a scenario. it's most unlikely there, but there is a scenario where it comes down to one congressional district right here. but if trumps swept the sun belt battlegrounds harris would have to win the three blue wall states and what they in nebraska call it the blue dot to get there. so again, this is a hypothetical, this is one poll. what it tells you though, is we have a very, very competitive race and watch when the next one's come out because these are trump's best numbers in quite some time. yeah, they are and they do stand out from what we saw last week, which really did look quite different. >> right which i find fascinating. i know you can't compare one polling organization to another, but it is fascinating when you look beneath this neck and neck horse race such that it seems to be right now, john, what stands out to you most right now, to me, this is most important the horse race numbers is going to bounce a little bit. so you've got to look into the bones and you see what's happening happening on the issues here, right? so let's look at the top issues in these three states. again, forgive me. i just want to stretch this out. the economy is the number one issue in all three states, not by huge

margins, but 26%, 28%, 25%, arizona, georgia, north carolina immigration second in arizona abortion, third, immigration and abortion kind of trade almost in a tie for second and third when it comes to the other battleground states. so the issues economy, immigration, we know there are trumps issues, and abortion is a harris issue. so voters were asked in this poll, whose care, what candidate best represents you on your issue? so it could be the economy for any voters that might be something else just generically, who is the candidate you trust in your top issue and look at this again, i'm just going to stretch this out. on just the generic top issue question it's narrow, but trump leads in all three states, right? so people are saying, i'm with him, he's best for me on my top issue. here's what's even more. erin, we know issue number one is the economy and just look at this and we've seen this again, this is only one poll. don't overinvest in any one poll, but we have seen this data in other polls. this is a constant problem for the vice president who's best on the economy. trump by 14 points leads in arizona, trump by 12 points leads in georgia, trump by 13 points leads in north

carolina. it's the top issue and trump has a huge edge that's a problem for the vice president, right? >> and i guess when you look when you look below the numbers at the top of the poll that actually bolsters at least in this one poll what the, what the overall outcome was. all right, so i mentioned before the commercial break, john, that we are not going back, but we hear it all the harris rallies on his become a rallying call for many of her most ardent supporters. it's on t-shirts, it's on bumper stickers okay. so you know, there's a certain group of people for whom it resonates very well but is it working big picture? >> i think that is a giant open question on the abortion issue, which is part of where it came from. yes, it does. that issue plays well for the vice president, but look at just look at this numbers in the new york times sienna poll, they asked people, would trump policies and harris policies helped or hurt you would do if they were elected president, you think it would help or hurt you, trump comes out on top help in all three states, 46% to 34% say trump would help in georgia is 433013 points in north carolina. it's 9.46% say

help, 37% say hurt. i'm not going to throw that away. i'm just going to slide it over there. so again, not but jordi, but a plurality say if trump wins, that would help me write, well, that's an interesting psychological dynamic. look at the flip side though. again, the vice president has to do a better job of convincing people. she's on their side. look in era's, she's underwater, hurt 43 to 36% help in georgia hurt 43 to 39% help. and in north carolina hurt 41 to 37% helps. so on the who do you trust who's on your side, who would make my life better in this one poll, trump has a clear advantage and that's how a lot of people vote if they're not quite sure. but he has an advantage on the economy. and i'll call this more of a who's on my side issue. trump has a bit of an advantage there. again, one poll, but it does tell you how competitive this race is. and as the vice president tries to introduce herself more, she's got some work to do. >> all right. john. thank you very much. as always. >> a next, we do have some breaking news. a republican pile on now happening. some major names now calling on mark robinson to step down you're

cnn's k file reporting on a must-win state of north carolina robinson, though, just moments ago, defiant new folks want to focus on tabloid trash. >> and quite frankly, i'm sick of it. >> of course he posted it. therefore, maybe tabloid trash, but it's real tonight. our kfile has new reporting plus it's been two weeks since jt fans learned his claim that haitian migrants are eating pets was a lie. but he repeated it again today things. >> listen wherever you get your podcasts as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers longer than five minutes. this isn't a small that's the goal meanwhile, now vrbo, when other vacation rentals make your share your turf with a host, try one that's all yours with priceline vip family, you can unlock deals five times faster. >> you don't even have to be an

actual family he's a, dad on the day, physically, it's clear that i'm the dad. >> okay. >> so which dad is paying you it was structured settlement it's your money. >> usually when you need it cash now begin to $100 gift card for a free quote, liberty mutual customizes my car insurance, so i saved hundreds but to money i saved i thought i get a wax figure of myself cool right look at the craftsmanship. >> i mean, even got my nostrils right it's just nice to know years after i'm gone this guy will be standing the test. it

is melting know only pay for what you need football on friday. it's dallas cowboys take home the new york giants. thursday hey night football prescott in the forest facing an old run again, this anywhere street, thursday night football 00 ron her qt until they're not forgive me your best friend. it's not clean until it stanley steamer clean one thing we know is true, no matter race, gender with this city

need to screen when do work, colon cancers, a priority everyone, 45 plus at average risks. >> it's screened for colon cancer. these folks are getting it done at home with me, cologuard cologuard has a one-of-a-kind way to screen for colin cancer. >> that's effective and non-invasive is for people 45 plus at average risk, not high-risk false positive and negative results may occur. ask negative results may occur. ask your provider ok, 500 deluxe garden gnomes. wow. i only meant to order five. there's not enough money in my account for these. i'm gonna get charged. two things i just can't deal with. overdraft charges. and garden gnomes. but your bmo smart advantage checking account gives you an extra day to avoid an overdraft fee. nice to see a bank cutting people some slack. mistakes happen. and we give you time to correct them. so, you don't like gnomes huh? what about that one? that one i like. a lot. ♪ bmo ♪

truly believe it. >> look, everything you hide about me. it's true what's mine cost beginning streaming exclusively on max breaking news tonight, senate republicans turning on mark robinson in north carolina in light of kfile's investigation

into this history, robinson's history of discussing singing offensive posts that he made on a porn website. >> here's some of what gop senators told cnn today if you're not wrong if he can't credibly rebut these accusation, he's a zombie of course, he should step aside. outrageous, disgusting vile and his efforts to say it wasn't him need to show a good deal more substance than just saying it's not me and this came as robinson was defiant on the campaign trail today while this country is literally facing a crisis situation on the world stage, while our border is wide open, while our businesses are struggling, while folks are dying from fentanyl while crime is spiraling out of control you folks want to focus on tabloid trash. and quite frankly, i'm sick of it. >> while the republican governors association has

announced now that it is cutting off all funding for robinson's campaign. it is a massive blow in a state that donald trump, as the republican at the top of the ticket, needs to win. tom foreman is outfront ordered to put the people first. we've got to concentrate on this campaign and exactly what we're going to do on a mile day in north carolina, republican mark robinson is a man in a hurricane after cnn's kfile unearthed a history of him posting graphic and sexual comments on a porn website supporting the reinstatement of slavery and calling himself a black nazi all of which he calls salacious false lies. >> we are not going to let cnn thorough us off of our mission. our mission is to win. >> both the accusations seems to have former president donald trump's team on high alert. he did not mention his handpicked candidate while visiting the battleground state this weekend. even though trump had

enthusiastically endorsed robinson, i said, i think you're better than martin luther king. i think you are martin luther king times two he was running mate jd vance's take on robinson's denials. >> i don't not believe him. i don't believe him. i just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion. >> it certainly playing out among robinson's campaign staff were more than a half dozen key players have resigned and in vice president kamala harris, his campaign, which has rolled out a new to add scorching trump's ties to the controversial robinson abortion. this country. it's about killing a child because you weren't responsible enough to keep your i've been with them. >> i've gotten to know him and he's outstanding democratic gubernatorial contender. josh stein says, it's all proof. his opponent isn't fit for office. >> look robinson exists because donald trump has lifted him up throughout and yet robinson for now is pushing on. we are

confident that we have a team of people that were going to be able to put together. they're going to be able to carry this off campaign to victory polls, had robinson well behind in his race before this story broke, it's still a little too early to know if this scandal will affect him or if it will affect trump. >> and this we do know erin, the trump team says, he really needs to win this state to get the white house back. and this is about the last thing they wanted fair. that is for sure must-win state. and when you've got the republican gubernatorial candidate below you in that kind of a state not good andrew kaczynski is with me now, tom. thank you. and andrew is with me now. obviously, this is your reporting kfile. so more fallout tonight because of all of the reporting you have done on robinson, what are you learning? all right. >> we'll leave learned today. that robinson is no longer running ads on facebook, google, and youtube. all of those digital ads for robinson stopped over the weekend on friday he might not be running them because as we mentioned right there, he doesn't even really have a campaign staff

anymore. his campaign manager is deputy campaign manager as director of operations since finance director, all those handful of staff have resigned. so robinson is essentially not even advertising right now. >> i mean, it's incredible. so your reporting led to the republican governors association to pull all of their funding for robinson's race, which is a huge blow, whether it's linked specifically to a facebook ads in the moment it means, it means hw huge, huge, negative things for his campaign. what more can you tell us about that? >> yeah, erin, what you just said right there is absolutely true. it is a massive blow to his campaign. and i want to run, i'd write down some of these numbers. so again, run people through them because it's actually really, really remarkable through tuesday, the republican governors association and their affiliated pac had spent almost $16 million on the north carolina governor's race. that was means they since july, they were spending $1 million per week and then it wow, look at all of the groups combined. they have spent $87 million on this race. that is the most expensive governor's race in

the country, and it doesn't just stop there. what's really, really remarkable here now to is look at the data showing spending going into election today, starting on wednesday ad time that are reserve 12 $12.5 million for democrats, republicans have $0 being spent right now bruhat election day to elect mark robinson. so nothing on the air, nothing on facebook, nothing on youtube, nothing on google. >> it's incredible. i mean, and maybe they look at his case, have don't throw good money after bad, but just to look at the money they had spent 1 million a week, 87 million, the most expensive government race in the country. and they said all that, obviously before your reporting, but i just want to be clear. some of the things that he had said we had reported on and yet they were spending all this money. >> that's right. one of his opponent, josh stines ads, used an ad, a comment from me and you talking the clip was a clip of me talking to show that made it into the ad when we were talking about mark robinson's

comments on abortion that we exclusively reported on this show earlier in the air, right? >> i mean, it's your reporting all the way through kfile. thank you so much. andrew kaczynski. and also tonight, religious leaders have been slamming the trump campaign specifically for one thing. and that is the fake stories about migrants eating pets in springfield, ohio. christian, jewish, and islamic leaders gathered together in springfield say cry fire in a crowded plays. and if you do, and people get hurt then you can get the charges for that and so what we have is somebody doing that and what has done now is unleashed bomb threats j.d. >> vance today, again, though, refusing to admit the story is not true i wish the american media was half this interested in the stress on the local schools, that stress on the hospitals and unaffordable housing as they are in

debugging sorry, that comes from the residents of springfield. >> did you ever think about listening to people speak their truth instead of listening to some bureaucrat and assuming that everything that they tell you is true the city is under a state of emergency. this situation there is tense tonight. the mayor of springfield, rob rue joins me now. mary, you just heard j.d. vance basically saying why, why should we listen to elected officials and government officials and just listen to the people of springfield you know, obviously he knows the facts, he knows that the story is not true. but how does hearing him say that make you feel well? >> i think it's important to know just our governor has trusted the local government here because we are here and we do know what's going on and we hear concerns about the community. but, you know we have told the america that this story isn't true. there's no reason for us to other than to tell you the truth.

>> we care about our community and we don't lie spread around like that. >> it has happened after the last 12, 13 days. >> in that time, governor dewine, your governor, who's also said the story is not true, has said that foreign actors though, are the ones behind the bomb threats that has so disrupted your community schools, government offices grocery stores what do you know about where the threats are coming from there? >> yeah. i think that's been answered. that's something that i believe the fbi is looking into and we'll just let them continue to investigate where they're originating from just to be clear, though, you're not you're not hearing that it's some sort of right-wing trump's supporters who are doing this. >> i mean, right, that that's not what you're hearing we're hearing threats from all kinds of ways. >> so like i said, it's being looked into. i'm confident with those that are looking into it are telling us what we need to know right now. >> so senator vance had something to say about the legal status of the majority of the haitian immigrants in the

country. here's what he said i'm thrilled to have governor dewine support, but there is one thing that he has just wrong about when the media says that people are here legally here's what they mean. >> that kamala harris has granted mass amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. now, i happen to think that what kamala harris has done is not just wrong it is illegal summaries referring to the policies of the biden administration, which of course the immigrants in your community, i understand almost all of whom are legal, increase the population of your city by a third. >> do you think that the biden ministration made a mistake by granting legal status? to some of the immigrants who ended up in your community i think it's just important to note that those that are here are human beings and we want to make sure that they are not anything other than cared for and they are here under a legal status based on this administration

and that's what is a local leader as a one of five commissioners and the mayor is dealing with people who are here. >> we don't want people to be harmed. we want to secure community. that's our focus in springfield, ohio. i know you've personally received threats how is your family doing and managing that? >> thank you for asking my family's doing well and we are staying strong just like the rest of springfield is staying strong we've had strain like the rest of springfield has, and we will persevere springfield's a resilient community all right. >> well, mayor wu, i appreciate your time. i'm glad to speak to you again. >> thank you so much for having his own passport from a safe inside russia, waiting here, how did plus israel unleashing new strikes on hezbollah tonight, killing nearly 500 people injuring many more in lebanon. including the editor in chief of a news network mark

during the middle of an interview got news for you are pretty odd yeah. what are the kinds we could run out the news before then i would never happen for i got news for you saturday they have nine on cnn and streaming next day on max my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture with sky resy feel significant symptom relief at for weeks. many people were in remission at 12 weeks here and even at two years, serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, how vaccine or plan to liver problems may occur in crohn's disease or uc as your gastroenterologist about sky resy

on spread from cms gummi bites and love him back eye, tired, itching burning my symptoms got worse over time. my eye doctor explained the ruble was inflammation, so he prescribed via drone. sandra works differently. zeida targets inflammation over countertops, don't do this the only hit pause and they symptoms. >> but twice daily zygar gives me lasting relief. >> sides are treats, the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease don't use of allergic desire dre, and seek medical help needed common side effects include in addition, discomfort, blurred vision, and unusual taste sensation. don't touch container tip your eye or any surface before using dodgers, remove contact lenses and wait 15 minutes before we inserted dry eye over and over it's time for zaida

down this election before it breaks you're, welcome good daily show on comedy central and watch next day on paramount plus put down some scopes turf been the winter guard is perfect for giving the law of the boost this fall. >> thank you. you mean perfect for repairing all the fund. >> i have this summer. no, it's perfect for strengthening routes to help protect the all winter, more like perfect for giving the grass a deeper green come spring. sounds like it's perfect for you neighbor yeah. >> he's going to take this back one hand, borrow your spreader thanks, guys. go enjoy going back condition, download the my lawn app today from one care tips and customize plans. >> he did law he did i have three halloween she copies me, but it michaels sleep can be different you're terrifying know your tariff, know exactly. you hear the most, hear me, look the same. >> i have moderate to severe

plaque psoriasis. thanks. the sky resy i'm playing with clearer skin. three out of four people well, let's keep 90% clear skin at for months and scares. he's just four doses a year after two starter doses, theory is allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections or a lower ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to let scott resy nothing on my skin means every ask your dermatologist about sky resy, learn how advocate help you save. >> you love this style of shoe. >> they're comfortable, casuals, stylish, but skechers is take them and made them even better because now the coming hands-free skin you're slipping. just slipping and go with no bending down and no touching. try hands-free sketcher slip-ins, meet the jennifer's gen x, gen y, and z each planning their future for the mobile app. gen x is planning a summer in portugal with some help from jpmorgan wealth plan. >> that's got whiskers. ten wife is working with the banker to budget for her birthday. >> you only turned 30 months

and gen z, her credits go then. >> hello, new apartment three jens getting ahead with chafe solutions that grow with you. one bank for now, for later for life, chased. make more of what's yours just need a moment self-care has never been this easy. >> gummy vitamins from nature made the number one pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand i'm dr. sanjay gupta in atlanta and this is cnn. tonight, the ukrainian president zelenskyy and the u.s. addressing the un condemning russia's quote, terror in his country stolen module ready? but he will never steal the world's future this comes as a new investigative report tonight reveals what's really happening inside the russian military right now, the reporter, sara topo, spending a year and a half to report out

this story and it is an incredible one. >> so she met a russian officer photographed here from behind and given the pseudonym ivan. ivan had faked an injury and stolen his own passport from a military safe and russia to escape the front lines and ukraine and then made the incredibly risky, courageous decision to share his story. sara topol is outfront now and he shared it with you. you spent an extraordinary amount of time with him just that that photo that we showed, i want everyone and to understand, you photographed him from behind to protect his identity from people watching. and of course, from people inside russia who could wish to do him harm. now, so he talks to you about being on the front lines and you write about it, sara, the front was squalid. ts trash everywhere, toilet paper bottles relations, slappers, boxes, boots in the grass ivan was baffled, didn't these men realized that the ukrainians would see this crap. they would throw their own back at them in the form of rockets at their heads it's amazing in the

ukrainian villages you've been to see all that. it's just, it's a desecration in so many ways how did he come though to the decision to desert? >> i mean, i think he came to the decision to desert because the alternative was his death i mean, this war has resurrected a culture of brutality in the russian armed services that stretches back to the soviet union and after he saw what was happening in ukraine, where soldiers, russian soldiers are referred to by their commanding officers as meat, sent to the front with no regard for like the strategy of any kind of operation. no intelligence he decided that he had really no alternative than to flee if you wanted to live in peace and to be with his family and so you obviously spent an extraordinary amount of time talking to him and his wife and he is with his wife and his child.

>> they are together he reenacted for you the moment and that he had to steal his own passport from a locked military safe. need to do that in order to get out of the country. so he swaps it with a fake that he had purchased on the dark web but he had to do it in a room right in plain view of a lieutenant who's sitting there watching him. and so you you write that he spent a day and night and a day at home practicing the movements. he timed it into he could do it fast, almost was his eyes closed. he wanted it to be quick muscle memory. so if you were nervous, he wouldn't stumble or shake. the trick wasn't just in the double handed swap, but in moving the pages and cover backward and forward with his fingers simultaneously, like a difficult piano piece. tell me more about this and what happened in that moment when he walks in that room because if you mess that up, he's dead he doesn't yeah. >> so he spent about a week casing the human resources office to try to figure out the best time to do it. he thought maybe he would go at night when

the duty officer was at the bath in the bathroom, pick the lock he decided that that would be too dangerous. so he decided to do it when the gun i was actually there while he was observing the office, he thought that maybe the best time would be in the evening when there were the least amount of people. he went in and he practices routine ahead of time, including exactly how he would walk up to the duty officer, what he would say, how he woue ports.o he takes the past for and he's walks with a limp over to the desk sits down with a piece of with this passport in notebook that he had cut a hole in and he makes the swap with his hands after he does that, he casually leans back he talks to the young lieutenant asked him about the morning formation walks back hands him back the fake passport, goes to his car,

opens the notebook and realizes that it really is his passport oh my gosh. >> and so at that point he knows again, he could still be dead at any moment. they could realize the passport wasn't really need handed back any of these things could happen he then gets to the belarusian border with russia and their passport control and all of a sudden the computer freezes. so what happens computer freezes and he starts to asks him whether he has another passport, whether he has an international oh, sorry. >> the computer freezes and then he she has to run them through the system again. she asks him whether he has an international passport. he says he doesn't and then she runs them through the computer. she resets the computer events and then eventually she lets him through, which is just an amazing moment, just before we go so 18 deserves you spoke to

obviously extraordinary amount of time with ivan, but do you think that there's a lot of this going on in the russian military, or is it impossible to tell i think that it is really difficult to tell, but for sure that number of people considered awol is a radical undercount. >> i think that people like ivan and the other deserters that i spoke to really want there to be some really want there to be a system in which deserters can have people who want to desert can fleet the russian military and enter some kind of asylum system. >> all right? forces does not exist right now. >> sara, thank you very much. incredible reporting. i hope everyone will read it and next, israel launching hundreds of strikes on hezbollah, the deadliest in two decades. are we on the branch of a massive war? >> millions of people have lost weight with 100m likely bossier, who found the perfect companion to his glp-1 journey

in fact the progress we open the app, they're definitely teaching me new habits. so i do not have to be on away last may its forever yet 100m glp-1 now available at noon.com hcm is a serious heart condition affecting as many as one in 200 people like me and make it can impact how you feel and what you can do. i still felt tired on my beta-blocker, so i talked to my cardiologist about treatment advances in hcm that gave me new options. he was a breakthrough for me. >> that conversation with big for me. >> talk to your cardiologist today and visit hcm real taught.com for more information. >> he told us who he was should abortion be punished. >> there has to be some form of punishment. >> then he showed us for 54 years, they were trying to get roe v. wade terminated, and i did it and i'm proud to have done it now, donald trump wants to go further with plans to restrict birth control, ban

abortion nationwide even monitor women's pregnancies. we know who donald trump is. he'll take control we'll pay the price. >> i'm kamala harris and i approve this message industry-leading global payment solutions help their clients move money around the world mostly in over 180 countries. >> and help a partner like the world food program as they provide more than food to people in need together, city in the world, food program empower families across the globe stretch the dollar with insurer if you can cut your car insurance bill in half, scroll through, doesn't a prices and tap to switch online that's it. >> no phone calls and no wasted time. go to terrify and save today some days you can feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine 15

or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more botox prevents headaches and adults with chronic migraine before they start and treatment is four times a year in a survey, 91% of users, which they'd started sooner. >> so why wait, talk to your doctor spread hours two weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as difficulty swallowing speaking, breathing, i problems or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue, and headache. don't receive botox if there's a skin infection, tell your doctor your medical history, muscle or nerve conditions and media occasions including botulinum toxins, as these may increase the risk of serious side effects, chronic migraine, we still keep you from being there. >> why wait talk to your doctor about both botox and get in th

watching at fubo tv.com. anderson cooper 360. next on cnn

of a lebanese news network injured in an israeli airstrike during a live broadcast don't know what happened. >> then the video is horrifying. it comes as us troops are now being sent to the middle east amid growing fears of an all-out war is rarely strikes targeting hezbollah today killed nearly 500 people in lebanon. the dead italy is day since 2006. ben wedeman is outfront tonight in beirut as dawn broke, israel launched the first of a series of punishing airstrikes, star in south lebanon pulmonary and what it claimed were his butler targets hitting hitting and hitting again while his butler battered over the past week it struck back as it did early sunday. >> its missiles reaching deep into israel to haifa and beyond

many others, intercepted through text messages and by breaking into local radio broadcasts israel warned people to leave and stay away from buildings where his butler might be operating but the bombing was enough to send thousands flee north. the roads but up play out on strikes, warplanes destruction says, are no one is left there. everyone has fled. we took our belongings and left. yet even those fleeing vowed they will return. we will be back god god-willing shouts this man, we will be back tell netanyahu, we will return when and how and to what unknown. the death toll for one day reached into the hundreds the wounded. well-over 1,000 coming after week of pager and walkie-talkie blasts and a deadly strike on southern beirut that killed a senior hezbollah commander. but also many civilians. all classes in

schools and universities across lebanon have been suspended with some schools being turned into shelters for the displaced seventy-year-old gemini yes. fled her village at 5:00 a.m. taking shelter in a training institute in beirut buried my son a week ago under bombardment. she says, my other sons stayed behind. he didn't want to leave our home with israel's air offensive intensive fine. it may be some time before gen. now sees her other son again if at all just to put today's death toll in perspective, the death toll 492 with 93 women and children among them. that's just a little less than half of the entire death toll for the 34 day war between hezbollah and israel in 2006 aaron absolutel