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new this morning, former president trump making a rare in-person appearance on fox and friends. he was asked whether he would recruit his wife, melania trump or former gop rival nikki haley to help him as he continues to try to appeal to female voters on the campaign trail. here's his response. >> i think i do very well with women and i think it's all nonsense. i see the polls and we do well, what about the new have one issue. you have the issue of abortion without abortion, the women loved me now, they like me anyway, because what i've done is so good i've taken this issue, either the federal government and put it back to the states where they're voting he was pressed a little further on that nikki haley question, a little bit later in that interview, alayna treene joining me now so alayna in terms of this focus, it is fascinating to see that he showed up not on the phone, but actually sitting on that couch this morning and the fact that he was he was pressed. they came back to and said, but what about nikki haley? will you call her in? keep a grudgingly answered eventually

>> he did and he said he likes haley. how do what he has to do. that is what he told fox and friends this morning. i think there's no question that donald trump and his campaign recognizes that they need to make inroads with women voters, particularly as they acknowledged that widening gender gap apple with vice president kamala harris earlier this week, of course, he did a fox news town hall with an all women audience. so this is really where some of that is coming from. and i think to take a step at back, it's very clear that both campaigns are trying to really gain support from some of these core demographics, not just women voters, but also black men, hispanic think voters, they recognize that this race, this election is going to be incredibly close and really this could be won on the margins. so that's where a lot of this rhetoric is coming. i do want to note that we actually have some new reporting that the trump campaign and nikki haley are in talks to potentially meet or excuse me, appear together on the campaign trail. nothing has been finalized. i'm told. but

they are in discussions to do that. so i keep an eye out. for that, but i also erica want to turn your attention to some of what we heard donald trump say last night at the al smith dinner, of course, kind of a political or a moment for a lot of political presidential candidates to appear at this dinner. donald trump spoke. he try to land a number of political jokes to a lot of last i should say from what seems like a pretty friendly crowd, but he also spent a lot of time airing his grievances complaining about what he said was him being persecuted in the months after he had left the white house are the years i should say since he had left the white house and also lobbed a series of personal attacks against kamala harris. take a i'm supposed to tell a few self-deprecating jokes this evening. >> so here it goes i've got nothing

don't see the point of taking shots at myself when other people have been shooting at me for a hell of a long time, we have someone in the white house who can barely talk barely put together to coherent sentences, is a person that has nothing going no intelligence whatsoever, but enough about kamala harris just got onto something. >> but unfortunately, governor walz is in here. i'm self, but don't worry, he'll say that he was he's going to say he's the only piece of advice i would have for her and event that she wins would be not to let her husband, doug anywhere near the nannies. chuck schumer is here looking very glum, but look on the bright side, chuck, considering how woke your party has become if kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president

attacks on his political foes. >> and i will know that this is kind of typical of what we've seen of dollars not trump in recent weeks, he is really been ramping up his rhetoric going after harris and walz in the final days of this election cycle. but i do also just want to give you a sense of where i am today. i'm currently in detroit and we know that donald trump, but also kamala harris, are both going to be in this key battleground state of michigan. i note that they have 15 electoral votes. it's really the center of the so-called blue who wall. and donald trump was also here just last week, he spoke at the detroit economic club and during those remarks, he had actually kind of insulted detroit while in detroit, he called it a developing country. he said it was more developing than countries like china. so i'll be watching today to see what he says regarding detroit wait today and how the audience response to that. >> erica, a lot of people wondering what those comments will in fact be this week, alayna, appreciate it. thank you. >> what vice president harris

did not attend the al smith dinner in-person, but did send in a video message for attendees with an assist from a well-known snl character is there anything that you think that maybe i shouldn't bring up tonight we'll don't lie vow shall not bear false witness to the debris neighbor. >> indeed, especially their neighbors election results just, you know, there will be a fact checker there tonight oh, that's great. who? >> jesus and maybe don't say anything negative about catholics. >> i would never do that no matter where i was, that would be like criticizing detroit in detroit now. some funny moments there i was told it felt a little may have fallen a little flattened, the room being taped, but she sent it in the detroit dig is something given the fact that as alayna was pointing out, they are both in michigan today, a real blitz for her in the state they end a real push to to reach more voters. eva, what's the plan?

>> yeah, more latino voters in particular, erica, we have seen this outreach take place in a variety of forms. what their latest push includes an ad featuring mega entertainer mark anthony, in which he essentially ticked through former president's history, arguing the former president has a legacy of demonizing latinos. and this comes at a time when there is concern widespread in the democratic party about the erosion among latino and black men. the interests that this constituent see is showing in republican voters well mark anthony tells voters, this is not about political parties, this is about selecting someone in his view who's going to unite the country. >> take a listen this is mark anthony, even though some have forgotten. i remember what it was like when trump was president. i remember after hurricane maria devastated our island, trump block billions in relief, while thousands died, i remember when our families lack of clean water and electricity

trump through paper towels, and cold it's a rico dirty and poor so clearly they are hoping that this resonates with latino voters. >> it's part of a 370 million television and digital ad buy. but listen, i've been on the campaign trail with the vice president erica. they are leaving no stone unturned here they are in every battleground state she was in wisconsin yesterday, michigan today lives will be here in georgia and she's leaning on voters if they can in their states, to vote early, turn those absentee ballots in, make a plan to vote is what you'll often hear or in the states where it same-day voting is available. i take advantage of that get getting the game, get involved in the process really what you're seeing from the campaign is them lean on every conceivable constituency. we know that the message in michigan today is really going to be pushing on union workers to morgan mobilize, organize and turn out

the vote. >> erica, and we'll see how those messages land eva. good to see you. it's always thank you this morning. >> it's the first admitted stupid. that is the message. a federal judge has for florida governor ron desantis, the judge granting a temporary restraining order against florida's surgeon general after the state health department threatened to bring criminal charges against tv stations airing a pro-abortion rights ad hadas gold joining me now with more on this. so hadas, first of all, can you walk us through the backstory here of how we got to this rather unusual dispute. yes. there was a group that aired this pro choice ad which featured a brain cancer survivor saying that she needed to receive a life-saving abortion when she was diagnosed with brain cancer at florida's six-week abortion law, which bans most abortions after six weeks, which is when most women find out there, even pregnant, that that would have prevented her from getting her life-saving abortion now, the florida department of health, part of the florida government

tried to claim that this was false and dangerous, that the information they were showing was false and dangerous. they claim that under the law there would there are exceptions for the health of the mother and they sent a cease and desist letter to some of the stations that were airing this ad. and that was enough for some of the station's to be fearful, worried about criminal charges, possibly, and they holds the ad so the group behind the ad then tried to get a restraining order from a judge that would allow them to keep airing the ad that would allow the stations to keep airing the ad without really fear of some sort of prosecution in pretty quickly and pretty clearly this, judge, it was essentially a slam dunk for them. as you noted, he said, to make it clear for this data, florida or sorry, to keep it simple for the state of florida, it's the first amendment stupid. he also said the government cannot excuse. it's indirect censorship. he said of political speech simply by declaring the disfavored speech is false. but then this gets even more interesting because the lawyer who helped pen that cease and desist letter to those stations he actually

resigned just about a week ago and listen to what he said in his resignation letter. this is according to the miami herald in the tampa bay times that obtained this letter, he says, a man is nothing without his conscience and he said that it has become clear in recent days that i cannot join you on the road that lies before the agency. so that leads one to believe that he resisted i'm partly because of what he was asked to do, which was to send a cease and desist letter to the stations on what was very, very clear. first amendment grounds. and i should note this is part of a broader strategy by ron desantis is administration. they are putting a lot of the state government's power behind trying to prevent this amendment that's going to be on the ballot that would allow abortion until fetal viability, which is right around 24 weeks. they're trying to prevent that from passing. they're putting a lot of state power behind that and that's raising a lot of eyebrows. >> it's also just fascinating. the judge coming back to this is the end of the day. the first amendment it is, it is quite a story. hadas really appreciate it. thank you. >> still ahead here. new video

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there's in the video, there's an israeli tank, which fight around, around into the building where we later learn is where sinwar was hiding dna testing would confirm later on that the body found was in fact his it marked an end to israel's year long man hunt for sinwar. the final clash had begun moments earlier when he and two other militants, it shotted is really forced it says, when sinwar were treated into a building, israel's military sent in this drone, you see the video that it captured. it capturing sinwar, who at that point had not yet been identified, but clearly wounded, sitting amid the rubble alone in a chair. he's holding a piece of wood at one point, throws it at the drone. sinwar's death, of course, has massive implications across the middle east and for israel's war in gaza. president biden this morning is calling for a return to diplomacy. cnn, national security correspondent kylie atwood, joining me now from the state department. so kylie i'm the president calling for this, we're hearing from italy blinken, how is the administration? intending to use this to perhaps pressure these really prime minister to in fact

pursue a ceasefire yeah, it's a great question, erica. >> and right now, in terms of the public comments that we're hearing from across the board for biden administration officials, as you said, the secretary of state, the secretary of defense the national security advisor, even president biden himself, old saying that the major obstacle to securing an end to the israeli hamas war is now gone with yahya sinwar's death and they believe this is a massive opportunity to dry and for dropped to try and drive forth and end to this this conflict. we know that is what they're saying publicly. we also know that that has been privately conveyed to israeli officials during the phone call yesterday that president biden had with prime minister netanyahu he made that abundantly clear in his conversation. listen to how he described his message to the israeli prime minister the deciliter hamas represents a moment of justice. >> the blood of americans israelis, palestinians in germany and so many others on

his hands i told the prime minister visual yesterday let's also make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace a better future in gaza without hamas what us officials are saying even more in their private conversations with israeli officials. what more pressure can they put on the israeli sides to come to an agreement that they also view this as the moment to drive the fourth an end to the conflict. >> we know netanyahu said yesterday, this is a moment to secure, of course, the release of the hostages that are still in israel. but he also said that the task before us is not complete, so it's not clear if netanyahu is yet or if you will be on the same page as the biden administration here, this is why the next few days here for incredibly critical biden said that he would be sending as secretary of state, antony blinken to israel. so we'll be watching those conversations incredibly closely, erica. >> absolutely. kylie,

appreciate it. thank you. let's continue the conversation now with cnn global affairs analyst mark esper, who of course served as defense secretary under president trump. it's good to have you with us today. is kylie noted? look, there are a lot of questions today. there are questions about his leadership that will emerge for hamas and who will. but just in your view, this morning, is hamas weaker today? >> well, good morning and yes, the answer is they they certainly are weaker today with, sinwar gone. he was the military leader in gaza on the ground. and as of a few months ago, once israel had killed ishmael haniyeh in tehran, he became the political leader also. so you now have an organization without either a military great work political leader. and i think who they pick next to be the political head of hamas and likely somebody outside of gaza will determine how, what type of opening is there for some type of negotiated settlement. now, i think at this point in time a ceasefire leading to some settlement will be different than what looked like two the

three months ago, weeks ago, because sinwar is now gone and i think obviously israel has the upper hand and it's important to point out this is where i think it gets really tricky is what president biden said was, we want to see a future of gaza without hamas. so how do you strike a deal with hamas? that is consistent with what president biden just said when they'd have to write themselves out of gaza once and for all that, to me, that's very unclear what also is unclear what we need soon now is a statement from bibi netanyahu of what does the future of gaza look like? and there's a lot of competing tides and currents there as well within israel the either certainly are there's so much talk to this morning about from officials across the board that this is a window of opportunity we keep hearing the word opportunity in terms of coming to some sort of agreement for the return of the hostages for a potential ceasefire the words are out there, who and what will you be watching though in the coming days to see if there is it's actually some movements, momentum, some

action behind that well, i think it's important to begin with the palestinian people in gaza, right? >> there were at least a majority supported hamas some time ago. there have been reports in polling that maybe their support has fallen as a sinwar has taken a deeper into the conflict has been unyielding in terms of striking some type of deal. so i would look to see what's happening there with the people next will be is who does hamas pick to lead them militarily and political, politically. i think folks think that sinwar's brother muhammad, who is in gaza, might lead them on the military side within gaza, but importantly, more importantly, maybe is who will lead them politically and they think there'll be more of a moderate who is based in qatar, who might be willing to come strike some type of deal with the netanyahu government. so to me that is really the most important next step is who will lead hamas. and then we need to see will bibi netanyahu set out his vision of the future? is it a gaza controlled by israel, which some on the far right want a rerun the occupation is at something where the arab

states come in and provide governance and security while not irs or some other type out there the fact that this this was really a chance encounter. >> it was not a targeted operation. does that reveal anything to you about both israel's efforts in gaza and even the intel that it may or may not have on hamas i think that's the nature of war. so much of war is luck and chance. good luck, bad luck. the question is, what was he doing outside of the underground tunnel network? maybe he was trying to escape a tunnel had collapsed. he is trying to move to another location, unknown, but it's just remarkable and how it came about and the footage that for showing with regard to the drone that spotted him has just another indication of what the future of warfare looks like, not just in israel, but we are seeing the same type of scenes play out in ukraine as well. so it's quite dramatic. >> i also want to just get your take really quickly this morning, we learned israel is actually calling up an additional reserve brigade to northern israel for combat operation against hezbollah do you see any impact in sinwar's

death on those efforts well, it's interesting hezbollah, i think in the last 24 hours has doubled down saying that despite sinwar's the killing of sinwar, they're going to continue the fight to struggle, even though week ago week, there was some murmurs that that hezbollah was going to de-link from any type of agreement. >> so i think at this point, hezbollah of course, is another iranian proxy group that's been decapitated and on its heels, i think israel is going to go in. they're going to try and push back hezbollah out of southern lebanon. and my sense would be an outcome would be a restoration of un resolution 171, which does hezbollah has to go back to litani river 18 miles north. there have to be some type of peacekeeping. another keeps my other once and for all, but they may have greater ambitions. israel may have greater ambitions. now that now that what's happened in hamas with hamas, hezbollah, and iran, we should see that attack happened, counter attack with iran happen, i think he missed few days, so all it's things are connected, they're related. because in my view, it's always going back to tehran. >> secretary mark esper, good

to have you this morning. thank you thank you this just into cnn, a special counsel, jack smith, it just was a massive trove of heavily redacted documents in his 2020 election subversion criminal case against former president trump, cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez, joining me now. so evan, there is a lot to go through thousands of pages as i understand it what are we? learning? >> yeah, these were about 2000 pages, erica, that have been released by a judge tanya chutkin. she released she rejected donald trump's request for this to be continued to be sealed while the election is going on. and she had this released. now by the court this morning. now, we're looking again at about 2000 pages that really are like the underpinning the evidence that jack smith has collected to support these it's four counts that he has charged the former president with. this is the january 6 related case, and what we are seeing a lot of

documents that are actually redacted completely redacted. we can't see what they say, but there's a few pieces of evidence that are in here. one of them is a number of tweets that some of which were sent by donald trump on january 6. there's one, for instance, where he treats at mike pence saying, quote that mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done, which would have been to, of course, not certified the election results back on january six of 2021 there's another document that it's essentially the memo from john eastman who's a lawyer representing donald trump at the time, and his memo reads the outline this plan for for the vice president to not certify the election results. again, this is all part of the evidence that jack smith has collected as part of this investigation? this prosecution that they're trying to move forward with, despite what the supreme court ruled last summer. now, one thing that we should note is that the former president has argued that i releasing these documents were 18 days away from the election,

that this is election interference. and judge judge tanya chutkan actually address that in allowing this hour. i'll read you what she said in her ruling. she says if the court withheld information that the public otherwise had a right to access solely because of the funded potential political consequences of releasing it that that withholding itself constitute or appear to be election interference. she's saying essentially, if i don't release this, it would be interpreted as interfering in the election. erica it is really something all right. i know you need some time to comb through all of that. appreciate the headlines. we know there's more to come, evan. thank you. stay with us. we'll be right back love because of asthma get back to better breathing with the senora. >> an add-on treatment for eosinophilic asthma that has taken once every eight weeks to semra is not for sudden breathing problems or other uses. i feel like conditions, allergic reactions may occur, don't stop your asthma

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