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>> good morning. welcome to cnn this morning it is saturday, october 19th. i'm victor blackwell and i'm amara walker. >> good morning. bring everyone. our colleague, kaitlan collins is in tel aviv as we follow developments in the killing of hamas leader yahya sinwar will have more with kaitlan throughout the hour here's what's also happening today. both presidential candidates and their high profile surrogates on the campaign trail this weekend the argument they are making to voters with just over two weeks until election day. what we know about just how many votes have already been cast following breaking news out of israel, a drone was launched toward prime minister benjamin netanyahu's home plus we're now hearing from iran after israel killed yahya sinwar's said at the top of the shed, there are new details about the death of one direction star, liam payne. we are live in argentina with what we have learned from police. and the message pains family has for fans

tight in the key battleground states both campaigns are spending a lot of their time right there, former president trump will be in central pennsylvania vice president kamala harris will be in detroit and atlanta so far more than 11 million americans across 42 states have already voted in this year's election. >> now the harris campaign is leaning on star power and the closing weeks to draw more attention and get people to the polls. she will be joined by lizzo in detroit and usher in atlanta. >> today meanwhile, former president obama will be in las vegas and former president clinton will continue a four day tour through the south. trump and harris held dueling rallies in michigan, hoping to secure the state's 15 electoral college votes. now, trump campaigned in detroit a week after taking a swipe at the city, cnn's alayna treene reports on this about face well, that juror an amide,

donald trump, returned to the crucial battleground state of michigan on friday the same day that vice president kamala harris was there at offered a bit of an interesting split screen, but last, i actually saw something on friday that i hadn't seen while covering donald trump's campaign thoughts far and that's that just a couple of moments into his remarks. >> his audio and his mic completely cut out. you could see him trying to continue on with his speech, but nobody could hear him. watch up taking place for about 18 minutes during which donald trump has paste up and down this stage while the crowd was chanting and cheering for him. but once they had resolved the issue, donald trump picked

right back up again and continue with his remarks now, it was pretty much a typical stump speech. he spent a lot of time talking about energy, touting his tax cut proposals, talking about immigration, all things we know that trump's campaign believes will help him win in november. but one thing that i was watching for was whether or not he would directly address some of the comments that he had made when he was in detroit just a week earlier speaking to the city's economic club and that was really when he had insulted detroit while being in detroit, he called it a more developing city, then countries like china, donald trump did not specifically get into those comments, but he did repeat them some way. he said quote, we're going to detroit has such great potential, but kamala and the democrats have been wreaking havoc on this place. trump went on to say that he would make detroit great once again in his campaign had put up signs as well as a showed this on some projectors with the sign, make

detroit great. again, now just to take a quick step back, victor and amara and tell you why this state is so important to the trump campaign. it's not just because it has 15 electoral votes, which is of course so important in their pathway to reaching 270 electoral votes. but it's also because out of the three so-called blue wall states the trump campaign, i'm told believes that michigan will be the easiest for them to win. so that's part of why you've seen him aggressively campaigning here in this final few weeks before november 5, trying to shore up support with these voters victor amara. >> all right. alayna treene baer. thank you so much. now, vice president harris also looked to shore up support in michigan. cnn's priscilla alvarez was there as harris tried to appeal to key voting blocs in the state the vice president's trip to michigan on friday provided a glint, so what's the harris campaign sees as their path to victory in this push all battlegrounds, st vice president visiting three counties, one of which voted for donald trump in 2016,

but then for president biden in 2020, it was two other counties, ones that president biden won by wider margins in 2020 vice president her campaign tried to emulate that, but also build on it. >> now, there messaging on friday was more pointed union workers and manufacturing vice president, again trying to appeal to union voters has some rank-and-file members have laid your former president donald trump. now the vice president, were elevated and criticized some of them the former president is anti comments and also talked about the former president making big promises, but not delivering on them as she talked about manufacturing, the vice president also kicked off her remarks here at her rally with a message for the arab american community. of course her campaign trying to make inroads with that community, which has grappled with the israel hamas war at some of whom have that peeled off and at least hesitated to vote for the vice president or

support her. and this is what she had to say listen, i know this year has been very difficult given the scale of death and destruction in gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in lebanon it is devastating and now sinwar's death can and must be a turning point opportunity to finally end the war in gaza. >> bring the hostages home and end the suffering once and for all. and i continue to believe diplomacy is the answer to bringing lasting stability across the israel-lebanon border. and as vice president. and when your help as president, i will do everything in my power to achieve these goals he's got vice president

and of course, also delivering what it attacks of former president donald trump saying that he was quote, on sirius that's the type of messaging that campaign officials say will be part of the closing weeks of this election as the vice president also notes that he has been quote, ducking debates and canceling interviews. >> so again, the vice president trying to lock down the coalition in michigan as they tried to fortify the blue wall. but also trying to peel off those republican voters from former president donald trump. amara victor priscilla alvarez for us there. >> thanks so much. let's bring in stef kight, politics reporter at axios. good morning to you he went, i want to start where priscilla left off in large part on this attempt to bring those air by american voters who supported biden in 2020 back into the fold of the democratic party. and for her campaign, is there any evidence that the outreach and we're seeing more pointed language from her there than we've heard

in a while that it's working with those voters know we haven't seen very clear signs just yet. >> we know it's so important for harris to be able to win over arab american voters, especially in a state like michigan, where they do, where they are a large voting bloc for that stay and when you're talking about a state like michigan, where the polls show harris and trump really neck and neck tied right now when you look at the average of the polls in that state of winning over these voters who have historically been democratic voters will be critical. we're talking again about turnout. it's not as likely that some of these he's voters would turn out and vote trump. however, it's about turning out every voter that harris, the harris campaign can to ensure that they can win in november. and if harris can't win, michigan, that essentially closes off her easiest path to the white house for that population. maybe there's more than just turnout it's now she

still has some convincing to do before she gets to them the turnout. all right. let's turn now to the former president back in detroit a week after he called detroit a developing. you compared it to a developing nation, warned that if the vice president wins the whole country will look like detroit here's what he said last night potential, but kamala and the democrats have been wreaking havoc on this place, this very, very, in many respects, it's a sacred place. >> so many things happened in detroit and it's been treated so badly and they've been talking about comebacks for so long, but we're going to bring it back better than ever was better than it was many, many years at lethal harris campaign ran with those comments from a week ago, how problematic did the trump campaign and trump's allies believed those comments

about detroit were in detroit i mean, the fact that trump himself seemed to be addressing those past comments, trying to clean it up himself indicates that they felt like it was a huge issue that they were not they did not like the fact that the harris campaign pounced on those comments and have been using them on the campaign trail. and again, when you're talking talking about races, this close, any kind of hiccup like that, any kind of, you comment that's going to turn voters away from someone like the former president is going to be perilous for their campaign and the same way that harris has been trying to woo over air american voters who has been critical of the biden ministrations here handling of the war in gaza trump hasn't very focused on winning over working class union voters. union voters, of course, have historically voted democratic, but trump and republicans over the past several years have been making a concerted effort to try to convince those voters that they are, they really

should be voting for the republican party congresswoman marjorie taylor greene has now saying that of the more than 1 million people in georgia there reports that some million people in georgia who voted early, i should say, there are reports from some in her district according to her that the dominion voting machines it's are flipping votes, of course, is what we heard after the 2020 election but what is the theory or at least the justification before the election? >> i mean, i can't imagine that this motivates their voters to get out if she's saying that your votes won't count because the machines our are not working and we should say it's been debunked. fox paid more than $700 million. as part of a settlement because these were lies. but what's the strategy here? 17 days out before the votes are counted? >> i mean, it's hard to see what the real strategy is when it comes to turning out republican voters. so we know

that marjorie taylor greene has repeatedly questioned the 2020 election results and it's notable that she's already beginning to plant those seeds. now as we get closer to election day, it's something that she has been consistent on. she is one of the most prominent voices that have been kind of sowing distrust in the nature of our elections in the west and they have been debunked and apparently there was one small issue that was user error according to dominion, who responded in some of the local election officials who responded to the allegation patients there. but it just goes to show that this is going to continue to be an issue as we move closer and closer to the november 5 election, we still have yet to hear widespread commitment from some republicans that they will accept the election results we've seen a lot of people being very careful with the way they respond to questions like that from the media. and so as we get closer and closer to election day, we are going to

continue to see some of these questions raised from people including marjorie taylor greene, but also even elon musk, gun to raise concerns that they didn't make sense they don't make sense. now, i mean, they were lies after the 2020 election, but i don't know how these get voters out. if you're saying, well, the machines are changing your votes anyway, which has been debunked, i should say every time stef kight of axios. thanks so much. anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall with vice president kamala harris will face voters and take their most pressing questions wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >> alright. so the candy israeli prime minister, his vacation home in northern israel has been the target of a drone attack, will have the details of the incident after this break before election day. vice president harris bases voters and takes to pressing questions, lie anderson cooper

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iran supreme leader ayatollah khamenei is burning morning the killing of the hamas leader yahya sinwar this morning. and in a post it's on twitter, he called sinwar's death a painful loss for the resistance front. but he also founded the movement would continue israel believes that sinwar was the main planner of hamas's deadly attack on october 7 that began the war in gaza. israeli forces killed sinwar during a routine ground patrol and rafah on wednesday. and tonight we're learning new details about his autopsy that were not previously revealed by the idf. cnn's chief global affairs correspondent matthew chance is here with me now and initially, there was a bit of confusion over how exactly sinwar die, but now there's been an autopsy report and we've gotten confirmation of what exactly happened, yet, there's still a bit of a discrepancy between what the israeli military say happened and what the pathologist who carried out the autopsy says but he's been speaking to cnn and he said that basically the cause of

death was a shock to the head that's sort of contradiction to what the account the israeli military was earlier, who told us that he died at yahya sinwar after a tank shell was fired into the house, destroyed house where he was where we saw him in that remarkable drone video. we've also learned some other grisly details from the pathologist as well. for instance, your after he was dead one of the soldiers cut off a finger sinwar, because they didn't know who it was, and they needed to be identified through dna. dna analysis and they said that finger to the lab to double-check who we who we actually was also for my sources, i've learned that these rains the authorities are potentially looking at the body, the remains of yahya sinwar that hamas leader as a bargaining chip for a potential swap with israeli hostages, more than 100 of whom are still being held inside gaza. so a lot of little developments taking place, in which wouldn't be extremely unusual for it. israeli officials, i mean, they've held the bodies

of palestinians before, but this one obviously carries so much more weight insignificance, especially in the eyes of a lot of palestinians how do they make a decision on what are they weigh in when they're calculating whether or not to send his remains back to gaza. >> it is a dilemma that they face. so i mean, yes, you're right. they routinely keep palestinian bodies with a view to swapping them at some point in the future. sometimes they useful trading assets if i can put it in that way but they haven't had anyone for years of such seniority. and so that presents its own challenges and its own opportunities as well. it's a challenge because it's if give the body back, there's a possibility that could rally support at the funeral. his burial site could become a shrine, which the israelis say to us that they want to avoid. at the same time, it is obviously significant he more valuable in terms of what he can get in exchange for this set of remains if they can get israeli hostages out for the remains of sinwar than i've been told by my sources, than that something that'd be prepared to consider. >> all right. matthew chance.

thank you for that reporting obviously, big questions. what's going to happen next now, i'm joined now by daniel levy. he's the president of the u.s. middle east project and cnn military analyst, colonel cedric leighton, joining us now, daniel, obviously this is a big question here in this moment because initially when sinwar, i've been killed, there let's hope for a ceasefire for a hostage release for what that was going to look like. as we're getting away from the immediate reaction of this let me bring you in, colonel cedric leighton on this as well, because as we're getting further away from sinwar's death, that seems less likely as of this moment based on what we have heard from hamas and what we have heard from the prime minister's office here in israel. as you're looking at this moment strategically, what do you think it means for where this goes next this is a really great question, kaitlan, because it looks like everybody is entrenched in their positions in spite of sinwar's death, in spite of the death of all the other leaders in hamas and hezbollah, there is this

intransigent cell college. >> did that we see not only within the proxies, but also within iran itself usha, i showed the tweet from the supreme leader i earlier and that kind of indicates where things are at at least publicly. now underneath that in the diplomatic phase, there is the possibility that there might be some negotiations that will start, but there's really basically an ice jam that is right now present where negotiations would normally be and that ice jam would have to be broken before any negotiations can have any meaningful results. but we can see outside of that, i think it's going to take a long time in spite of the biden administration's efforts to get these negotiations going and to really reach an end to this terrible conflict in gaza. and in other places what's your view on sinwar's body could be used as a bit of a bargaining chip in this situation when it comes to

getting the hostages back that's, you know, i was talking to a hostage family last night their son, omer neutra, 23-years-old. he's been held there now for two birthdays of his. he been in gaza and they said, do whatever it takes, essentially was their view on this matter. if you're an israeli official though, what are you waiting and that situation? >> well you're looking at several different factors. obviously the hostage families that do play a role in this. but the way prime minister netanyahu has been handling this you really look at the military piece as well, and you want to make sure that the, that hamas in this case is going to be at a distance vantage in any negotiation clearly they are at a major disadvantage with sinwar's death. the death of others but what you're doing as an israeli official would be to make sure that you have almost bargaining chips, including sinwar's body, are ready to go. and matthew, i think it is reporting has been spot on in

this case. but body being in essence a bargaining chip for this, i think will make a really big difference in what happens next. but it's going to take some time and we may not see those results very quickly. >> yeah. and what sinwar's death and the death of other senior political leader or in hamas. we've seen other senior figures who have been taken out by israel we're still waiting to hear who is going to be next, who, who were they are going to elevate that is going to be the new senior leader who is speaking for hamas actually, even conducting these negotiations because us officials had seen sinwar as this major obstacle i mean, what does it say that you were here, you know, now 48 hours out from this and they have not we haven't heard anything on that front. what does it say about hamas right now? >> well, they are in big just re kaitlan right now. when you look at what has happened to them, it's no wonder that they don't have a succession plan

in place, at least that were publicly aware of i think what when you have an empty seat across from you in a negotiation that gives you an inherent advantage and the israelis of that at the moment hamas will certainly have a leader will have somebody will be a negotiator, probably someone who is in qatar currently there there's a spokesman that has shown up and we'll probably be in a position to be that negotiate for or someone close to that person on the military terry side, possibility of sinwar's brother sinwar will be a possible. i've actually come hamas and what will be possible replacement for them on the military side in gaza, if if he's still alive secretary blinken here where i am right now to, to tel aviv this weekend to meet with israeli officials what are those conversations looked like on blinken then because, you

know, it's a big question of the level of influence the u.s. has on what israel does here. obviously, there are a critical mass hang out with the election happening in two-and-a-half weeks in the us, but what kind of message is blinken able to bring here because they very clearly wanted to leverage this moment. it's just a question of whether or not they can yeah, that's going to be really difficult. i think kaitlan for them to do for secretary blinken to do clearly what the united states wants is an end to the fighting, especially in gaza, but also in lebanon. so the message from blinken is probably going to be, let's use this opportunity to declare victory as and say, you know, israel has created a situation where they've decimated the leadership, both of hamas and hezbollah and that is a big advantage. both these groups are going to reconstitute in one way or another. but this is their moment of weakness and it's up to the israelis to take advantage of that. both mattingly as well as militarily and certainly from a pr

perspective. so blinken is going to try to use that to convince the israelis to move in this way. they're of course, are domestic political imperatives on the israeli side and those domestic political imperatives include prime minister netanyahu's desire not only to prosecute the war, but to survive politically because the longer he stays is prime minister, the less chance he is going to be charged criminally and that of course, also has an impact on what happens next. >> yeah here's political implications here for him as well colonel cedric leighton. thank you for that. daniel levy, we'll reconnect with him later on. victor. obviously big questions here of what's going to happen next. a lot of basically still to be decided as of this moment, there are lots of questions and increasing tensions there. kaitlan. thank you. you for being there and you're reporting. are liam payne's fans are mourning his death and there are lots of questions about what happened during the final moments of his life. we have details of the investigation next

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