channels working and maria already asked her budget reminder, a better, smarter, which won by morning. >> got it. >> got it. boss, daughter, and you've got this eva mckend on the road with the harris-walz. >> can cnn welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper this hour, brand new details about the death of yahya sinwar the hamas leader behind the horrific attacks on israel on october seventh, 2023. what happens now and what role will the united states play, if any, plus a group with links to elon musk is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a device of ad campaign trying to damage vice president kamala harris with key groups of voters. but they're completely contradictory messages still. will they be effective? we're

going to start this hour however, in battleground michigan, a state that could decide who wins the white house. both kamala harris and donald trump are campaigning in the great lake state this hour we're voting already is underway. data from the michigan secretary of state shows that more than 944,000 almost 1 million mail-in ballots have already been cast in michigan. cnn's priscilla alvarez is in water number township governing the harris campaign, alayna treene is in detroit covering the trump campaign. priscilla, you're learning more about the harris campaign's plans for more outreach to republican voters in michigan source that the harris campaign is planning for another joint event between vice president kamala harris and liz cheney in the days to come that could come in the form of for example, a fireside chat or a town hall. again, part of his broader strategy to try to he'll off republican voters from former president donald trump. that is some of what the campaign is also trying to

achieve. here in michigan the counties that the vice president is visiting today are all notable. for example, one of which voted for, for president donald trump in 2016, biden won in 2020. the other two biden won by wider their margins. in 2020 are the harris campaign is trying to emulate that and build on it a campaign officials telling me that where they see opportunity is white college educated? voters in the suburbs. so the vice president, turning those voters today, but also importantly, union voters and talking about manufacturing and labor and try thank to draw the contrast there with former president donald trump earlier today. she, her message was essentially that the former president did not deliver on his promises when it comes to labor, and that the vice versa because it would do so. and pointing out the investments out the biden administration. so certainly, we're going to hear more of that here today. but another important part of this jake, as you were just mentioning, is early voting. michigan will have early voting in person for the first time in this presidential election,

starting tomorrow. and the vice president will be joined by some star power, including lizzo to do a get out the vote event. now again, the campaign hoping that they can peel off those republican voters also locked down the coalition and do all of that by capitalizing on the early voting in the state, tried to get those folks to the polls earlier. so certainly the campaign really doubling down on michigan fortify that blue wall. looking ahead to election day, jake. >> alright, i know alayna meanwhile, trump is also in michigan. he's in auburn hills just over an hour away from where kamala harris is. he's going to hold a rally in detroit later tonight. and alayna didn't trump just insult detroit last week? >> he did. i was actually at that event as well where he was speaking to the detroit economic club, jake, and it was interesting. i mean, he insulted detroit in detroit, i want you to listen to some of what he said we're developing nation to just take a look at detroit at the whole country is going to be like you want to

know the truth, it'll be like detroit, our whole country will end up being like detroit if she's your president much. >> a good strategy when you're criticizing the city that you're giving remarks and it's a bit reminiscent actually of when he said that milwaukee was a horrible city despite the republican party holding their convention in milwaukee, he later came out and said, i love milwaukee, so we'll see if he tries to do a similar type of cleanup here in detroit this evening. but look, i cannot overstate enough how important mission again is the trump campaign? very much acknowledges that not only does it have 15 electoral votes, but when i talk to donald trump's senior advisers, they tell me that of all out of all the three blue wall states, of course, in addition to michigan, that's pennsylvania and wisconsin. they are the most confident about their chances. in michigan. that's why you've seen him aggressively campaign here in recent weeks. i'm told he'll be back to the state multiple times before november 5. now, part of the reason that he's

actually in oakland county, he's going to be an obviously it's a suburb of detroit is he's really trying to make inroads with if key voters and suburban voters, particularly suburban women, is one of those core demographics. i think you'll see some of that messaging. and then when he's here later tonight, you'll hear a lot of him talking about the economy, talking about wanting to reinvigorate the us auto industry. but i also think you can anticipate some of that dark rhetoric and more of his personal attacks on harris that we've really heard him escalate in recent weeks jail, right? >> alayna treene priscilla alvarez, both in michigan for us tonight. thank you so so much to both you. let's bring in my panel of political experts and van jones. do you think the harris campaign is doing a good enough job in michigan especially? with the arab american and muslim american community and especially with the african-american community the fight there ordinarily buying now with the black

community, it's literally just a turnout operation. >> and in some ways it still can be because black folks are going to vote for kamala harris, more than anybody else. black people are going to be voting in our big majority. but there is still a persuasion operation for black voters. as you guys know in campaigns, you have persuasion and you have turnout, right now, you should be in turnout mode for the black community and turnout mode for the mother. some community, you're still in persuasion mode for a lot of places. so that is a struggle at the same time it's a neck we know for sure, arab, muslim and black voters are going to vote in their big majority for kamala harris. but the number matters and we're still trying to get to the right number. and both michigan and pennsylvania jasmine, you follow the harris campaign. what are you hearing from your sources how are people feeling on the campaign yeah. >> well, i think people are concerned about the tightness, but they feel like they should be concerned because they want to be running this campaign as the underdog, not running it as though they feel that they're ahead. they've seen these

numbers be very, very tight, but what they said they're not seeing which is giving some folks hope is that they're not seeing donald trump move away from her there, seeing them kind of stay neck and neck. that's giving folks on the campaign hoped, but they recognize that they really have to do more in these last week weeks and maybe they've even done before that, i think was really interesting, jake is that they're attacking this on multiple fronts. first so of all, they were really criticized in the first few months of her campaign, even though of course it's only been 100 days or so by the fact that they were being kind of media verse. now you're seeing them adopt a more donald trump throw anything at the wall and see what sticks risky kind of media strategy that i think is leading a lot of the messaging with the campaign you're also seeing her kind of tick up campaign events. obviously, we're going to see her really focused on the blue wall of the next few weeks. but we're also seeing her tried to do different things, not just make this a base election which we all believed it to be, but also expand the base. someone whipsaw was talking about talking to republican voters,

not necessarily that were trump voters. or maybe they were trump voters in 20 please, 16 and 2020, but also voted for nikki haley in the primary. so they have a multi-pronged strategy here? yes, as van jones sank, still focusing on perspiration particularly on there people of color of voters, what they're seeing some softer numbers maybe than what biden had before, but also with what would originally be thought to be hard to get voters for a democrat. >> david whatever you thought of. kamala harris on fox. she went on fox and i don't think donald trump has done an interview with a non-friendly to him outlet since i don't even know, i can't even think of it, but let's say at least since the last debate, is it time given the tightness of this race is a time for him to step outside of his comfort zone and come on cnn or do a town hall with cbs or nbc is the time for him to do some of the things that the trump campaign has been yelling that harris needs to do yeah. >> jake, look, i think if you asked all chump that he'd say

every every media interview he does is with an unfriendly outlet. right? but i hear your concerns. i think the trump campaign feels that they are doing plenty there doing is jasmine said non-traditional. the harris campaign's doing non-traditional outlets. are trying to get to people and voters where they are i think the trump campaign is trying to do the same kind of thing. they did. david ben patrick i believe is how i always get his initials wrong, but they're doing they're doing, you know podcasts and things like that where, you know, they feel like they're reaching voters, where they are in there getting to them is van and jasmine, both point out correctly this is this is a very, very tight race in michigan and pennsylvania, but but you know what i don't hear this, these are blue wall states where democrats must-win. these are the states that democrats should be ahead in comfortably at this point in the game is vance said they should be focusing on their turnout efforts at this point. they're still in persuasion and that just not a good i think can't be a good thing. i know. and jake and our in our home state in the commonwealth

of pennsylvania, i would say that donald trump's probably up by percentage point, right now and that he's gone to the steelers game this weekend, going to be spending a lot of time. they're doing kind of nontraditional things, trying to motivate folks who might not be reachable otherwise showing, you know, elon musk is in pennsylvania, so lots of things going on in the blue wall states and at least in pennsylvania, i think trump is up now. bye bye a bit. >> van tomorrow. kamala harris is going to be with lizzo in detroit that's just going to meet up with usher at a rally in atlanta next thursday. she's going to return to georgia but this time with former president obama the next saturday, she is going to appear with michelle obama on, in michigan what does this star power do if anything? does it just about turnout and excitement of us who are involved in politics 24 hours a day, forget most people are not most people have real lives a, culture we

can bring in culture than people who may not care so much about what's going on in the tick and tock of election. >> they make care about lizzo, they make care about something funny that lizzo says or does and suddenly you're reminding people, hey, is it's a collection going on. kamala harris is out there. look as it is interesting in your creation a bigger conversation about kamala harris as it gets very, very important jasmine, what are you saying? i think that this is something that democrats do all the time, particularly when we know that we're in that final stretch, they bring out folks who are popular, not just with black americans, but with young people, try to get this effort for to drive them to the polls, right? i think we had a discussion about persuasion and get out the vote, bringing lizza when bringing us. and these are really get out the vote tactics. i know that the campaign wants us to focus on having people go to the polls and goal to the polls early so that they have that really hard data and lieu of maybe the statistical polls walz being

all over the place, they have that hard data of where to know where to surge money in the last week or two. and so i think that these are the tactics that democrats lean on when they get to that final stretch, hoping that it breaks that kind of third wall and gets people to go turn in their ballots to go to the polls in a more efficient way that maybe kamala harris or some other older democrats, even though she's a younger democrat, comparison to president biden can do themselves david trump said today he's going to go ahead i was going to say. i would just be mindful you probably remember this jake because it was in your hometown of philadelphia the night before the election in 2016, you had barak and michelle obama know you had jay-z and beyonce, you had bruce springsteen and jon bon jovi, j bill clinton yeah. yeah. that is an incredible jake i was there on the mall 35,000 people. >> i was i had a i had a pit in my stomach. i was sick to my stomach because i thought, wow,

this is the end for us. this is the end for the trump campaign. and the next day i woke up and things, as the sun came up and donald trump won that day. so much star power what a turn out, voters still vote. >> well, david, i would love to see beyonce come out on the stage. i don't know about you. >> i want to play some sound of what trump told a group of men at a barbershop in new york yesterday taking listen you guys are the same as me. >> it's the same stuff we were born the same way i grew up in queens and all of that, i mean, you know, it's i had a great father at a father was a great guy. >> i know you people so well without knowing you, i know you so well, when i walked in here, i said this is this is home territory that's donald from queens hanging out in, in the in the bronx. there. would you make of that van i listen. >> i you either charmer either charmer you all those guys grew up with, you know,

multimillionaire dad's gave them billions of dollars you know look, he's he's, but listen, that is the appeal of a donald trump. and people like us can laugh it off, but it can be very effective. it can be very endearing and the fact that he's there trying, i think is a good thing now, people fall for it either world's most famous con man, if you fall for it, that's the shame on you. but i think that people should take seriously. he does have appeal and he is trying and that's one of the reasoning here. a lot of knees knocking among democrats right now, absolutely. van david he's great pr kind of things. >> jake, he connects go ahead, van yeah. >> but the best thing we can do as democrats can somebody locked the door and don't let david urban out of wherever he is because he's the one driving up with all these numbers in pennsylvania. keep david urban off the campaign trail. him, please. david van jasmine. appreciate it. still had seen her talking to dr. identified the body hamas

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building where sinwar was already injured, was what dell to the fatal blow and ultimately killed the mastermind of the october 7 attacks. but i spoke to the chief pathologists who actually carried out the autopsy himself. on sinwar's body just yesterday. and he told me that he was killed by a bullet to the head the cause of death is gunshot wound in the head here's a bullet in his head and there's a severe traumatic brain injury missile injury in his right forearm fallen masonry on his left leg ty moral and many sharpness that shrapnel entered his body. >> but only in the chest. they caused the severe damage. but the cause of death is the gunshot wound to the head that he is very confident in

his assessment, which he reached before being told by the israeli military what their version of events was the israeli military for their part told me that they believe that there was an exchange of gunfire and that this battle ultimately ended with this tank shells being fired into the building. >> but they are still looking into the details of exactly what happened. but certainly this jake is raising more questions, jeremy, the chief pathologist, also told you how they were able to confirm that the body was absolutely sinwar's and using a finger actually images of sinwar's body in the rubble yesterday. >> some of them where he had his left index finger and others worried appeared to have been cut off and dr. kugler actually confirmed for me that that finger was indeed cut off and sent to israel before sinwar's body was used for dna identification. listen you have a suspicion that this is a uk sinwar and they sent a sample a finger that they cut from his body in order to make the dna

profile and after the laboratory here made the profile compared it with the profile that sinwar head in the term that he was serving here as a prisoner so then we could identify him. >> finally, by his dna. after the final unification, then the body arrived here it's about 9:30 yesterday. >> what percentage of certainty do you have based on that dna analysis? >> 100%. 100%? yes me some insights into how sinwar may have spent his final days. >> he said that despite the fact that the belief is he was in tunnels and in a besieged part of the gaza strip that sinwar appear to be of a healthy weight. he was showing no signs of malnourishment as he examined his body. now, as for sinwar's body, it was taken to an undisclosed israeli military location and as these israeli government now decides what to do with that body, and whether or not to use it as some kind of a bargaining chip.

in negotiations with hamas, jake, jeremy, thanks so much mj, we're hearing that the biden administration is jumping on this current power vacuum after sinwar's killing to see if they can kick start the ceasefire and hostage deal talks. what are you hearing on that? >> yeah. i mean, first of all, jake, it really did come as a big surprise to us officials that he ended up getting killed our reporting is that there had been real leads in the past. there were moments when they thought that they had actually gotten quite close. so it's really remarkable that these were the circumstances under which he ultimately ended up dying. he was hiding in this vast network of tunnels that may intelligence gathering really, really tricky. it's really clear that the biden administration would like to seize this moment as an opportunity to turn the page on the ceasefire and hostages negotiations, which obviously has been stalled for months and monson, most recently, the administration had largely blamed sinwar essentially saying, look, until this guy gives a green light nothing move out. essentially,

everything had been really stopped but i do want to make clear. i think celebrating his death is not the same as having delusions about this war is suddenly going to come to an end. they know that this is very difficult and i think there are a few things that are basically outstanding. hamas and the question of what is next, who ends up? seeding sinwar? what does the new leadership ultimately want for this next stage of the conflict? that is entirely unknown. we also have israel's retaliation against iran. we expect that that's coming in a matter of days. we don't know the scope, we don't know the timing. we don't know how iran is going to respond. so that's a big area to watch. and then of course, the biggest question marc is over israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. does he actually see this as an opportunity to end this war? can he hold up sinwar's head and claim victory and say, you know, we've done everything we wanted to do and we can now move on. i don't think that us officials have a clear read on that. i was told that his conversation with president biden just yesterday was brief

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palestine and trying to get away with it. >> i will not be silent about the scale of human suffering in gaza. >> kamala harris stands unequivocally with israel. she always has. and does president xi always will so just to explain, i'm back with my panel here for people who know i know, you know the first part of that ad is aimed at jewish voters in pennsylvania and it's kamala harris, which they mispronounce saying that she's concerned about the human rights problem in the humanitarian crisis in gaza. >> second part of the clip we showed is aimed at muslim and arab americans in michigan. and it's kamala harris standing strong for israel from the same organization, the same super pac. you don't work for the super pac. i'm not asking you to defend it, but this is one of the things people hate about politics that kind of thing, that kinda sleazy i would say this, i think it's a strategy we've seen it take different forms and reminds me a little bit when democra