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kamala harris, have donald trump are holding dueling events in the pivotal battleground state of michigan tonight. >> trump this now lashing out at harris as she seizes on a report that he's exhausted by the campaign. also tonight, sources to the trump team is in talks with nikki haley for her to appear with the former president trump publicly sounded frustrated that he may have to deploy is what has been a gop rival to try to boost his support among women. plus new video of the israeli attack on a building where the leader of hamas was found dead. this, as we're learning, the israelis may use who's the akio sinwar's body as a bargaining chip to try to persuade hamas to release its remaining hostages welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room

let's get right to the breaking news, the fight for michigan with 18 days to go in the razor close and very combative presidential race. our correspondents on the ground is both candidates make their pitches to battleground state voters. first, let's go to priscilla alvarez in waterford township, michigan, where kamala harris, as a campaign event coming up very soon and priscilla, how is commonly harris sharpening her attacks on trump those attacks again, to republican rival donald trump while also trying to fortify her own coalition. >> the vice president here in battleground michigan, we're she is going to three county so what has already been too, one of which voted for donald trump in 2016, but that biden won in 2020. and in two of the other counties, biden won by wider margins so the vice president, trying to emulate that and build upon that to win this

state and fortify the blue wall states. now over the course of the day she has criticized for president donald trump going after his fitness for office and extension of an argument we have been hearing from her that he is quote, unstable and unhinged take a listen it should be a concern if he can't handle the rigors of the campaign trail is he fit to do the job? >> i think it's a legitimate question now, he is ducking debates and canceling interviews if you are exhausted on the campaign trail, it raises real questions about whether you are fit with the toughest job in the war now we expect to hear more of that from the vice president when she arrives here for her rally. but i've also spoken to campaign officials who say that part the strategy in this state is to also try to make inroads with the suburbs, with the white college-educated voters as they try to lock down their own coalition. also trying to

peel offs some support for former president donald trump. and they're trying to do all this by also capitalizing on early voting. of course, here in michigan, early voting in person for the first time in a presidential. and that tomorrow will be marked by the vice president alongside lizzo and a get out. the vote events. so certainly this is going to be a photo look yes, over the next 24 hours for the vice president and we'll probably do it next week. i am being told by a source, the vice president may also do joint events with liz cheney. so clearly a continued push there too, also so appeal to republican voters are priscilla. >> thank you very much. i want you to stand by. i want to go to see you, alayna treene right now. she's in detroit where trump has a rally later tonight. alayna trump was asked about harris is recent attack attacks on him citing reports he's canceling events because he supposedly exhausted what's the latest that's right. >> he was asked directly about this by reporters and he

completely denied it. he said that he isn't canceling any events then he tried to flip the script and argue that it's kamala harris who doesn't have energy and argued that he is actually feeling exhilarated. i want you to take a listen to what he said. >> i haven't she does he go to any events he's a loser. she does. he go to any events? i've gotten 48 days now without arrest and i've gotten that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rapid i'm not even tired. really exhilarating. you know, why would killing her in the polls? because the american people don't she didn't pass the bar exam. she's not a smart person >> so a bunch of falsities in there. but one thing i do want to make clear is that he has canceled events. we know that next week he was actually supposed to talk to them nra at an event in savannah, georgia that was recently canceled, the trump campaign told me it was due to a scheduling conflict because they are adding more event but didn't really offer a

specific reason you know, what events would be replacing that. >> he also i'd remind you, hold out of two recent interviews. >> one was seeing nbc, another with nbc news and then earlier, this month, he also pulled out of an interview with 60 minutes with cbs. and so he definitely has canceled events, but look, i do want to talk about what he is trying to do here in michigan because obviously this state is incredibly crucial to the trump campaign. not only because it has 15 electoral votes wealth, but because when i talked to the trump campaign, they tell me that out of the three blue wall states, they're actually the most competent now michigan. so he is going to be here aggressively already has been here about at least once a week this past month. and so we'll see what he says tonight and if he tries to continue to joe or shore up some of that support here, wealth. >> all right, we shall see alayna treene. thank you very much priscilla alvarez. thanks to you as well. i want to get some more with our political experts who are joining us right now here in the situation room. and gloria borger, i'll start with you. harris seems to

be taking a page out of trump's old playbook against biden as you know, saying that trump is now exhausted and unfit well, i think she now is talking about what a risk donald trump would be, you know, at the beginning of the campaign, she had to introduce herself to the american people, re-introduce herself. >> she had to reassure them that she had the competency to become president of the united states. and i think that part of the campaign is over. i think she's not talking about her biography anymore. what she is talking about is donald trump's biography. and talking about how he is unstable as she calls him unhinged, et cetera, et cetera. and his health refusing to release his his health records. and she is making the case that the american people should be alarmed at the prospects of four years of donald trump is president of the united states. the campaign believes that that has a lot of resonance with voters, and that's where they should be going right? >> she's clearly a lot younger

you are seeing it in it fits into that the message of turn the page on donald trump is the oldest person to ever run for president of the united states in the history of this country. >> and not only that, but you talk about the medical records, you talk about cnbc you talk about nbc 60 minutes, the shade room where this actual, the story actually emerged from him being too exhausted. i mean the american public see this with their own eyes. i mean, he rambles, he oftentimes goals off on tangents when he's talking about different things. i think he's come up with a name for it, calling it the we've i believe that's what he calls it. he fuses to give out his medical records. he's incoherent. he's babbling. and i think that he moves a lot slower than he did in 2016. the fact of the matter is this person who's running for president at 78-years-old. and i'm not trying to be ages. this is just the fact, is not the same person who ran for office in 2016. you mix that with the chaos in commonly harris has a good message that will land with voters about whether or not he's fit to run for office lance trover look at this juncture of a campaign. i

look at the outward body language of campaigns and look, donald trump has the best team he's ever had in all of his campaigns, true? he, he is as on message for donald trump as he ever has been in all of his campaigns. and i would argue when i see to me it's a level of confidence coming out of this campaign because at this point, you're saying i don't need to go out there and make mistakes and i think canceling interviews is not uncommon with you feel confident and comfortable where you are in a race. there's no need to go out and take take issue with you the notion that he's on message because i don't think he's on message. i think he's off message. i think it goes off message every single day when he goes off on these wild tangents. and when he criticizes kamala harris, personally calling her dumb and stupid, i think that turns off women voters and the people i talked to in his campaign want him to talk about the eu shoes they want him to talk about the biden economy and all the rest of it and he keeps on talking about other things. and i don't think that's right. >> to your point. to your point. and where he is tonight, what we've heard from the

former president of the united states multiple times, even in detroit, michigan is castigating the people of detroit, right? i mean, it's kind of like when you have one of those very, very tired celebrity rock stores in there in philadelphia. and they say, and hello, hello, detroit, right? and they're in the wrong city, they don't know where they are. but he continues to lambaste the people of detroit and you're starting to see that resonate. and so this all ties in because what, you know, and what gloria and everybody else knows is that these candidates are about to move into their final message. they're about to move into what in the last ten to 14 days they're moving into that closing message. and as you continue to lay out the barbs, this message that this man may not be fit for office is not just the chaos. it's like look at him. i mean, you don't you don't don't look at what you're lying. >> look at the 39 minutes of dance music at the town hall instead of answering questions, well, again, i go to the outward body language. i think the trump campaign is is projecting confidence and i would argue that the harris campaign has less confidence over the course of the last week. if you look at last week,

they sent barack obama out to admonished black men for not voting for kamala harris. you've seen this week her rushing to do interviews with any podcast and anybody who will talk to him 60 days of that, she thought she didn't have to do because she thought she had wrapped up. they're still trying to bait him on debates two weeks out. that's not the sign to me of a competent campaign. and if you look at the rust belt, let me just add, if you look at the rust belt, alyssa slotkin in michigan running for senate is sitting there waving the red flag saying she has problems bob, casey and tammy baldwin in pennsylvania sitting democratic us senators are using donald trump's in their political advertising right now. so to me that's not a sign that democrats feel like they have this raft democrats and never confident let me just explain that. >> we are preferred meal bedwetters who clutch-the-pearls every night at there now saying, look at, look at the body, but look at the body language. but ai think that you have a very confident kamala harris right now. she's hitting her stride. she's attacking him. she's doing the work she was in three cities yesterday. three cities today i mean, she's literally outworking donald trump. what we do know though is this is a jump ball. so i think people

better. >> the only question waves in american politics you either run unopposed or you run scared and so a lot of democrats are running scared. market always run his if they're way behind correct the polls. the only way to do it. but bakari, i want you to listen to another striking moment from trump's fox news interview, where trump was asked why the civil war, our civil war wasn't settled. listen to this lincoln was probably a great president, although i've always said, why wasn't that settled here? not my guy that it doesn't make sense. we had a civil war half the left already got there. yeah. yeah. but you don't must say like, why wasn't that as an example, ukraine would have never happened then russia, if i were president israel would have never happened. october 7 would have never happened go ahead. >> what's your reaction? >> well, first, i'm trying to translate because he meandered a great deal. it also shows a lack of sensitivity and a lack of grasp of american history. and i kinda tie that into when he referred to january 6 as i

kind of like a day of joy or exuberance, a day of love. and you know what i remember about january 6, wolf, is there a lot of different things people remember, but i remember these people carrying the confederate flag through the united states capitol. i mean that tory piece of my heart out coming from south carolina, we know what the confederate flag stood for. we know why the war was fought this is not the war of northern aggression and some of my friends want to call it this was because black folk were in bondage and we built this country, if you tie that into the department of education answer where he said if you teach about slavery, we're going to defund your schools. i mean, that should strike a chord with the american public. not only is he unstable but it's scary. >> well, but this is donald trump saying that he is a better president than abraham lincoln was and that abraham lincoln didn't settle, settle. this is a problem. >> he said probably a great probably a great president. >> he didn't say he was president right? >> by settling the civil war, does that mean he would have had the north would have had to

accept at least some slavery it's like ukraine would have i am, i am certainly not a trump campaigns i'm not sure what was said. >> look at this leans into its e says a lot of things. and then i would just say and point to the continual polling that is out there. people know that he says things, people that they go to his rallies because they're fine and his boisterous. and does these things. but if you look at the polling, they are voters are very clear eyed about who donald trump is out there right now. he is on the verge of winning. i would almost argue he's almost in the driver's seat this point in the election, voters are clear eyed about who he is, and that's what this next couple of weeks are going to be about and, you know, go either way, i'm clear-eyed about who he is, but you are correct because kamala harris isn't underdog and so that underdog mentality is going to rot the november 5. let's see what happens. our guys. thank you very, very much. just ahead tonight, cnn learning more about the campaign plans for barak and michelle obama, including when and where the former president it will join kamala harris out there on the campaign trail, plus a fox news anchor now

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sure she earns every single vote and while we know that pretty much, it's been taught hi in the polling, what i'm hearing and seeing now is a real burst of energy and volunteering. >> we have more people early voting, then the trump side, we have more people engaging. and so it's going to michigan is never easy. that's for sure. but i feel competent. she's going to win is just going to continue to take a lot of work you know, it's interesting that nearly 1 million michiganders have already voted senator, what do you think should, should kamala harris, her closing message? >> what should it be in order to when you're critical battleground state all, it's not by accident that 1 million people have already voted and we have one of the best democratic organization it's on the ground in the

country. >> we have absentee ballots where anyone can smc valid vote. we have early voting because citizens in michigan put that on the ballot a couple of years ago, and we feel very, very good. first of all, about that $1,000,000 or 1 million vote number and then what she's got to do is close it out with how she's going to turn the page and move us forward and move on jobs and lowering costs. and middle-class tax cuts and also that we can do better then, frankly, a scary, deranged 78-year-old man who has no business being president united states and i think every day now he's showing us that he does not have the mental fitness and when he says he wants to lock everybody up who doesn't agree with them, guess what? nobody here agrees with them. they are so does that mean he lacks up every woman who wants reproductive freedom,

every person who wants to live their own life and love they love every worker who wants to be in a union, every senior that months their social security and medicare protected. i mean, this is this is really really the ultimate decision for people in michigan and our country. we got to take it seriously. and understand what's at stake. and i think kamala harris is earning votes of people in michigan every day. >> and lots of stake. there's no doubt about that. a gop group center with links to elon musk he's now spending a lot of money on very divisive, contradictory ads targeting arab american jewish american voters, including in michigan. listen to this example tampa, listen to this kamala harris stands unequivocally with israel. >> she always has and does president xi always well to faced kamala harris is secretly campaign mean for palestine and trying to get away with it. >> but i will not be silent about the scale of human suffering in gaza so senator,

how does the harris campaign go about combating these kinds of ads? well, first of all, let me just say that huge amounts of money coming in now should worry all of us and everything has been and don on dirty tricks and ai, that's, that's creating ads and so on. and so it's complicated, but they're doing the right thing by first focusing on who she is, what she believes in, how she cares her people, and then what the record really is. she's reaching out to all the groups and michigan, we're in a very challenging, tough time and there's no question that what's happening the middle east and the loss of lives in the violence and so on is a heart ensuring issue. and she's listening. she's somebody that will move forward in a way that i believe respects and understands and wants to protect human life on all sides but it's we're in a

battle here. we're in a battle where folks are going to put any amount of money say anything, anything. and we have to be able to move forward and show fact from fiction. and that's why what we're doing on the ground is so important. talking to people phone calls having personal relationships in communicating. that's how we'll win all right. >> senator debbie stabenow of michigan thanks so much for joining us and take a look at this a live look at arizona right now, former president barack obama about to hold a rally there as we get new who details on how the former president and his wife will be spending the final weeks of this campaign week and asked questions like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn too much now can you slice it? >> the bodyguard news for you tomorrow at nine on cnn.

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pentagon. >> this cnn we're following the fallout after a legendary new york charity dinner steeped in political history, donald trump is getting heat for letting the insults fly at the event while kamala harris is getting some criticism for being an in-person no-show brian todd is taking a closer look at this for us. >> brian, how did trump's remarks play in the room? first of all, last night, wolf, the reactions range from laughter to nervousness, to outright discomfort. but in reality, neither candidate performances are really drawing rave reviews at a dinner once known for good natured ribbing, donald trump brought the insult now we have someone in the white house who can barely talk fairly put together to coherent sentences, but enough about kamala harris at new york's annual white tie l smith dinner, the former president leveled barbs, ranging from cringeworthy. >> the only piece of advice i would have for her and the

event that she wins would be not to let her husband, doug anywhere near the nannies to me too crude. i used the thing that democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods but then i met tim walz to outright nasty and profane against former new york city mayor bill to blasio, sitting just a few feet away. >> he was at terrible mirror. i don't give if this is comedy i was terrible he did a horrible he did a horrible job. >> vice president kamala harris wasn't at the dinner, but recorded a video for the event with actress molly shannon playing her old saturday night live character, the excitable catholic school girl, mary katherine gallagher sometimes when i get nervous, i stick my fingers under my arms and i sit on like that character her advice for the evening. maybe don't say anything negative about catholics. >> i would nevero