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good morning. welcome to cnn this morning, sunday, october 20. >> thanks for joining us. i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm amara walker and our colleague, kaitlan collins is in tel aviv this morning with new developments out of the middle east, we will check in with kaitlan, of course, in just a few minutes. >> we're starting this morning on the campaign trail, election day 16 days away, the candidates are sharpening their attacks on one another. now, we say election day is 16 days away, but the voting really is happening right now, most states early voting has begun nearly 12 million ballots have been cast so far. the election could ultimately be decided though, in just a handful of those battleground states. and that's where both campaigns are focusing their efforts. >> vice president harris it's more attend church services outside of atlanta while tim walz will start his day attending church in michigan

meanwhile, former president trump will hold a town hall in lancaster, pennsylvania, while jd vance, the attends the packers game in green bay and a campaign event yesterday, harris campaigned in michigan and then in georgia, where she made the argument that trump is unfit for office while trump held a rally in pennsylvania, where he called for harris to be fired and for about ten minutes, he also told a meandering and at times lewd story about golf legend arnold palmer now yesterday, former president barack obama continued his campaign tour in nevada. he told crowds that trump's rhetoric is not funny, nor is it a sign of strength adding quote, everything a president says is serious a-bomb also explained why he believes trump only cares about himself you can sell you a trump bible up for free.

>> he wants to sell you were to god, don't trump addition he's got his name right there next to matthew and luke the reason he's doing it is because all he cares about is his ego and his money and his status. he's not thinking about, you this is vice president's 60th birthday today, and she'll spend it in atlanta. cnn's eva mckend was at a rally yesterday in atlanta where she's stepped up her attacks on trump's handling of key issues. eva. good morning. >> victor amara, here in battleground, georgia, vice president harris, elevating the issue of reproductive rights, acknowledging amber nicole thurman, family in the crowd, and how she died because of her inability to get lifesaving care in this state with restrictive abortion ban now, trump still refuses to take accountability to take any accountability for the pain and the suffering he has caused or

even to just acknowledge the pain and suffering that has actually happened. >> it is my pledge to everybody here when congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law democrats say it's all about boosting energy and enthusiasm on the ground. >> usher here to lean into that sense of momentum, the vice president going to continue to make her case to voters at a predominantly black church in georgia, as well as in a souls to the polls event victor amara, eva mckend. >> thanks so much. former president trump will hold our town hall in pennsylvania is dave is also expected to work the fry cooker at a mcdonald's. he continues to baselessly claim that vice president harris never worked at a

mcdonald's restaurant, and trump made the announcement yesterday during a rally, but that was not the most unusual part of yesterday's campaign stops cnn's steve contorno was there, steve victor and amara, donald trump campaigned in western pennsylvania on saturday for what his campaign described as the beginning of his closing arguments of voters that closing arguments began though with about 15 minutes story about local native arnold palmer including a somewhat graphic description well, the hall-of-fame golfer in the men's locker room. >> but when you've got on script, he talked about this race in very stark terms about what would happen if he wins versus if vice president harris wins would, you support will bring back our nation's strength dominance, prosperity, and pride. we're going to do it. this will be america's new golden age, 100 years from now, the presidential election of 2024 will be looked upon as

america's greatest victory. i hope that's true. >> donald trump also played for his voters clips of kamala harris repeatedly saying that she was support a ban on fracking those clips are from her 2020 campaign for president. however, she has since distanced himself from them, but they are continuing to be used by donald trump in a critical state, like pennsylvania were fracking is key issue. he also continued to attack her in darkly and deeply personal terms. take a listen. >> so you have to tell kamala harris that you've had enough that you just can't take it anymore. we can't stand you or your vice president president. kamala, you're fired, get the hell out of here, fired get out of here. >> trump on sunday will remain in pennsylvania. he's attending a pittsburgh steelers football game. he also hold a town hall,

any intensive stopped by a mcdonald's? to work at the fry basket? victor and amara steve contorno. >> thank you. all right. joining me now, national politics reporter for the washington post, sabrina rodriguez. >> sabrina, good morning to you. let's start with trump. he's going to be in pennsylvania for a second day today, but let's start with where he kicked off his speech yesterday, where steve and shunned trump spoke for an entire ten minutes about arnold palmer golf and other things. listen i say that in all due respect to women and i love women took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, oh my god

what you all think he was referring to. there. look in all seriousness, you know, some of his supporters may dismiss what trump says and these tangents as he goes on as typical, trump, trump may spin it as a technique that he calls. he has called the weave in some interviews but doesn't this raise some questions about his mental acuity? >> and i guess also the question is, does it become a liability at some point, especially when we're talking about a few thousand votes and a handful of states that can determine the election that's the clear difference in calculations between the harris campaign and trump's right now. >> i mean, trump's advisers would would of course privately admit that they would love to see him focus more on the issues they would love to see him focused on a message of we know what is it exactly that? harris has accomplished in the last four years and talk about the economy and immigration.

but in these rallies and town halls, the trump's doing were hands up talking for an hour and-a-half, two hours by contrast, harris is campaign's harris's campaign events. you see her speak for roughly 20 minutes, maybe 30. that's the standard on the campaign trail. when you're hearing donald trump speak for an hour-and-a-half, two hours on end. i mean, he talks about anything and everything. we saw earlier this week, which now feels like a lifetime ago, but we saw them earlier this week end a town hall and stop answering questions and just spend 39 minutes listening to music and just kind of walking around on stage and not taking questions, but really just listening to random songs yes, it is seen as a traditionally a liability with a general election audience to not focus on the issues and have these anecdotes and these moments where you sort of question his mental acuity or you just question what? exactly is that the point of what he's doing. but again, that is classic

trump. this is not a new person that were being introduced with harris is really banking on that sort of bringing voters home to her. >> yeah, and the vice president is going on the offensive with trump's rambling in those attack ads we've seen, but also on the campaign trail here as a part of what she said last night and in atlanta speak at a rally. have you noticed? he tends to go off script and ramble i mean, harris husband asked about her sharper attacks against trump and portraying him in a more and more lately as unstable and unfit. >> how effective are we getting

indications as to how effective this strategy has been so far? >> when the reality is that we're seeing polls continue to be a dead heat. this isn't a race that we're seeing movement in the polls in any of the battleground states or nationally and any kind of dramatic fashion so that's the reason that we see the harris campaign leaning into this argument. i mean, we're in this final stretch where she is out on the road. she's attacking trump more directly while still talking about her message. >> and i think one of the clearest differences we've seen in the last few days is just how much harris now is engaging with interviews. >> that is clearly after weeks of criticism that she wasn't and engaging enough with the media that she wasn't doing more off the cuff interviews. we see her doing one today on her 60th birthday and that has set her up to be able to criticize trump more directly for her to now say with authority, will i'm out on the

road talking to people. i'm doing all these interviews, whether it's with media or podcasts or more informally, where are you why are you now so exhausted? the reality is both of them are having insane schedules on the campaign trail on this final stretch. but it does give her the opportunity to really answer that question that a lot of americans have had about who is commonly harris and why plain to see her speak more directly to the american people. while in this final stretch, trump is maybe pulling away a little bit more. >> 16 days left. that's it and we've already seen nearly 12 million americans vote. i'm just curious what you think of these early voting numbers i mean, just in these battleground states here in georgia georgia, more than 1 million people have already early voted. early voting started on tuesday. georgia doubled its day one record and then you also have north carolina, another battleground where you're seeing records being set on the first day of early voting. are you seeing any anything that shows that

perhaps republicans or more democrats are turning out earlier is just to show that there's lot of enthusiasm for this election i mean, i think the first thing we can definitely bank on at this point is that show of enthusiasm or just that show of it's not necessarily enthusiasm, but this feeling of the stakes of this election. >> i think every time we say how high the stakes are every election. but when you see numbers like the ones we've seen in these states in recent days, amid really they shows that that has resonated with people and that people do feel a responsibility to vote in the election. and i think we can slice and dice the data around early voting at this point, you know you look at in georgia, it's, it was about roughly 53% women. so if you look at women, then you think, oh, maybe does that benefit kamala harris with her message so tailored on on reproductive rights and women's rights. and that distinction with donald trump. but ultimately, i mean, i hate to be the person to say, we won't know until we know. but

but it is those numbers. i mean, there's no denying that it's shows how engaged people now are in these final days leading up to election day. yeah, many seem to understand just how how stakes this election is. sabrina rodriguez. thank you. anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall where vice president kamala harris will face voters and take their most pressing questions. that's on wednesday, 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn the newest really airstrikes in beirut and gaza and the u.s. says highly that's a fight intelligence about israel's plans to retaliate against iran have been leaked. kaitlan collins is live in tel aviv. she's leading our coverage there will go back to her for the latest plus most of cuba is still in darkness after the country's national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours, will tell you what we know about why this is happening. stay with us

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that israeli strike and that the area around the hospital is still under direct gunfire. the idf responding saying those numbers those are exaggerated and that it's targeting a hamas terror site. there tensions have been running high as israel is expected to respond to iran's missile barrage that happened back on october first still at any moment. and this is coming as leaked us intelligence is shedding more light on what that could look like, what that response could be, how extensive it might be as american officials are trying to figure out how this information became public cnn's matthew chance is here with me in tel aviv. matthew, obviously when we got word last night, these these documents had been posted, two of them on telegram aside, they were being widely shared by iranian voices online. first off, just tell us what's in these documents, what we what we learned from this. >> well, just briefly, i mean, we're talking about two documents that describe satellite images but but third, show the actual satellite images of one of them is

talking about recent exercises that israel carried out, which looked like planning for certain elements of a potential strike against iran the other document is talking about a weapons and equipment movements are around israel. also in preparation for a potential strike. so it offers some insight these documents together into what israel may be may be planning but it's not specific it's been described to me by one israeli source that i spoke to earlier today as embarrassing rather than damaging minor league, which opens this opens up all sorts of questions as to what the source of it might be, what the motivation of it, maybe as well. >> what i mean, there's really official those that you've spoken with the sources who've spoken with, how are they viewing this in terms of does it change their response at all or are they saying not really well, they're not they're not sort of, you're sharing with me? >> you know, what this does to any timing of a potential iranian israeli strike on your random. and as far as officials are concerned, that this is

something that is likely to happen, no wants to touch come to us about, about the timing of it. but they are saying that they are waiting to see what the outcome of us investigation is into what the source of this leak walz, again, they're describing it as a minor league if it is a sort of for instance, an iranian spine in us intelligence, which is one of the possibilities. i think that's being looked at what my sources are telling me is that it seems very old but something, of this small significance that would be leaked and potentially risk exposing at that asset inside us intelligence. another thing that's been speculated about here in the israeli media, and it's being talked about ran water coolers in israeli official him as well. is was this a deliberate leak in order to try and deter or delay any kind of israeli strike on. israel. it's not clear that it was, but it is something that israelis are kind of thinking about and talking about in speculating about, yeah, this same kind of not amused but irritated in a way then it's out there. and obviously as

we're waiting for this attack to happen, matthew chance. thank you for that reporting. i also want to get some analysis here from cnn, political analyst, and new york times national and all security reporter david sanger. david, you've been reporting on this as well in terms of just from the u.s. view and looking at how severe this leak is, what are you hearing from us officials first on what they think the extent of the damage of this information becoming public is from the information itself. it didn't go to the timing or the targets of any potential israeli attack on iran instead, it described what the u.s saw mostly from its spy lights about israeli preparation. and they were exactly what you would expect to see the assembly together of missiles that dispersal of potential targets of iranian retaliation.

in other words, moving some of israel's assets that are normally at bases that could it'd be struck in response, getting them out of the way. so then the big question, as matthew said, is why did we see this it looked a lot like the leaks that we have seen before from came out of disgruntled lower level military who had access to some of this. it was classified, but not at the highest level. and so i think us officials biggest concern is is there more of it? >> yeah and you're jack teixeira, of course, the u.s. airman who is charged after he linked a trove of documents online. still something that is a bit of a stinging and died the u.s. intel community but david, as far as what this response looks like, you know, wasn't it was just a few days ago when president biden was traveling abroad, he was asked if he knew what israel had

planned, what they decided to do in response to that attack by iran. he said yes and yes, that he knew when and what it was going to lose look like. i mean, obviously the u.s. had big concerns about just how far israel was going to go in that response, whether or not they target iranian nuclear sites or oil facilities, those were all concerned. they had, in terms of how escalatory that response could be in this region president said? >> yes and yes, the other day that he knew when and where the site these attacks would happen it strongly suggested that he was had already sort of signed off on the nature of the strikes. we don't know that for sure but as you said, he wanted to avoid escalation and that meant avoiding the nuclear and energy related sites but there is some pressure inside

the israeli government to go big here to use the moment you heard that from some of the right-wing members of prime minister netanyahu's cabinet and they would like to go after those sites. there is a bit of a middle ground, kaitlan one we don't know that this will happen and that is that iran is believed to have hidden some of its nuclear facilities, not declared them inside some military bases. in iran. and it wouldn't be shocking if those bases war among those hit which would enable the israelis to say, we didn't go after anything nucleic >> and that's the question of how imminent that response could be. what that could look like. i mean, from what we've seen from the prime minister's office, i mean, after the death of yahya sinwar, he only seems more emboldened and his decisions and on that front,

david, i'm just curious as you've been reporting on this and at length, we heard from former president donald trump talking about in the phone call that he had with netanyahu. netanyahu called him sinwar was killed. he said they finally did connect. listen to what trump said about that conversation at a rally last night and bb call me today and he said it's incredible what's happened. >> they said, it's pretty incredible. but he wouldn't listen to biden because if he did, they wouldn't be in this position caught my ear, david, where he said that netanyahu told him he was not listening to, to president biden. >> what do you make of that comment from trump? problem well, you always have to take things that donald trump says with some skepticism. >> but in this particular case, i am inclined to believe him because if you just look at the set of behavior every time

president biden has asked prime minister netanyahu to take the win, consolidate his military victories, and turn them into longer-lasting political victories the prime minister has pretty much ignored yet we saw that happen time and time again. when you talk to israelis, they frequently say these days that vice president harris urged them not to go into rafah in southern gaza. they went there and that is how someone accidentally they tripped across sinwar and ended up killing it. so their view is, had they listened to president biden that both the leaders of hamas and hezbollah would probably be alive today. now, the american view of this is know when not to get into overstretch and know when to take your victory and turned it

into something permanent because otherwise you american argument is, you'll end up looking back at this era as a series of tactical military victories that, did not ultimately make israel safer. and that's the dividing line. there is a moment. >> we just don't know where that is. >> and of course, as an attack on iran, that'll raise the question a knew >> and of course the fighting has not stopped. are seeing it right now, continuing in northern gaza and lebanon as well. and now waiting for what that is rarely response to iran i was like david sanger, as always, excellent reporting. thank you for that, amara and victor, obviously big questions here about what is going to happen next and how netanyahu is going to use this moment. but most notably this intelligence just raises real questions about what israel's response on iran is going to look like if it's deterred by this, that does not seem to be the sense that we are picking up from when we speak to you, israeli officials here on the ground. yeah. thankfully, it looks like this league did not

cause a lot of damage as you've been talking with our correspondents and analysts. but of course the concern is that it happened. kaitlan collins. thanks so much. we'll check back with you later. all right. coming up millions of people across cuba are entering another day without electricity after a major power plant failure will have the latest from havana after a break face of american foreign policy is going to be lonely america how did we get here and all the lessons of history, america first up the weeds of korea special tonight at 8:00 on cnn. ryan reynolds here for, i guess, my hundreds mint commercial and then and then no, no. no. >> don't know. >> but it's unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month power there still people paying two or three times much. >> i'm sorry, i shouldn't be victim-blaming here and the furniture business things move fast. ziprecruiter helps us hire qualified candidate who kippah, we needed a pr