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donald trump is unstable, increasingly unstable and unfit to serve. kamala harris in a cnn town hall painting donald trump as a threat to the nation. plus my administration will not be a continuation of the biden administration. >> reporter not no. biden 2.0. the vice president telling undecided voters in pennsylvania she'll take a different approach to the job and cyber attack thwarted, georgia fends off an attempt on its absentee ballot site. it's a threat that several swing states are facing >> here on the east coast, a live look at capitol hill on this thursday morning. good morning everyone. >> i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us as we enter the final days of this campaign. kamala harris not mincing words. she's calling donald trump unstable and unfit to serve. this was

during last night's cnn town hall. the vice president's primary focus on the pennsylvania stage. warning americans, especially undecided independent voters and moderate republicans, that the former president poses a threat to the core principles of the country by asking you, though, do you think donald trump is a fascist? yes, i do yes i do. >> and i and i also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. >> harris repeatedly pointing to new reporting this week involving former trump chief of staff john kelly. kelly described the former president as a fascist who has spoken in glowing terms about the loyalty of hitler's nazi generals. >> why would someone who served with him, who is not political, a four star marine general why is he telling the american people now and frankly, i think of it as he's just putting out a 911 call to the american people understand what could

happen if donald trump were back in the white house. >> trump pushing back against general kelly's comments with this post on truth social. he wrote this quote, thank you for your support against a total degenerate named john kelly, who made up a story out of pure trump derangement syndrome. hatred. this guy has two qualities which don't work well together. he was tough and dumb. the problem is his toughness morphed into weakness because he became jell-o with time. all right, let's bring in michael chanel. she's a congressional reporter for the hill. michael. good morning. nice to see you. the final days here of this campaign it's very clear that kamala harris's strategy is coming into sharp focus. and it is to go after donald trump repeatedly. she was very quick to answer anderson's question about whether she thought donald trump was a fascist, quicker than she has been in previous interviews she called the press to the naval observatory yesterday after she had previously planned to just be holding prep for the town hall

is what is the fact that they are using this strategy here in the final days? tell you about the state of the race. i mean, it's been clear for a few weeks now that the harris campaign is trying to target these right leaning independents, these disaffected republicans, folks who may have voted for donald trump in the past, but don't want to support him this time. and i guess they have some sort of data that shows them that this message and argument against trump, that trump is a danger to the country resonates with those specific voters, because the folks who are voting for kamala harris are already in her corner. the folks who are voting for donald trump are already there, but who are those independents still undecided folks who could potentially be picked up? the harris campaign clearly thinks that some of those right leaning folks, and they clearly think that this argument that trump is a danger to democracy, it's what's going to resonate with them it's also worth noting that, as you mentioned, she talked about liz cheney a lot last night, and dick cheney. she's been campaigning with liz cheney in some of those districts, those counties where nikki haley won during the gop primary. she's very clearly trying to target this subset of voters that may still

be undecided. and she thinks the winning message there is this democracy message. >> yeah. and michael, let's talk for a second about how republicans have responded to this. obviously, this reporting came out this week. twin stories, one in the atlantic and then of course, kelly going on the record in audio with michael schmidt of the new york times that we compiled a few reactions from republicans asked about this. let's watch that going to say extreme things. >> i have all the respect in the world for john kelly. half the country doesn't think they're voting for a fascist. >> i'm not agreeing that trump is praising adolf hitler, because all you have are the comments from general kelly again, who did not mix with president trump, who did not get along with president trump. >> and then he obviously has frustration. and i could absolutely see him go. now, you know what? it would be great to have german generals that actually do what we asked him to do, knowing that to maybe not fully, fully being cognizant of the third rail of german generals were nazis or

whatever that last clip of course, a media host, but that did raise some eyebrows. >> what do you make of how republicans have responded to this? i think this is part of what kamala harris's argument is, is that the republican party is really firmly behind donald trump and it's something that she's talked about, that if donald trump is elected president, he won't have those guardrails that were in office during his first administration. people like john, people like john kelly, john kelly, general mattis, other folks who pushed back on him and have publicly spoken about their concerns. he kamala harris is voicing concerns now that those people won't be in office. and i think that's something she can point to, is how the republican party has defended and justified these previous comments. really, really being apprehensive to come out and criticize the former president. it shows that the republican party is firmly behind donald trump, and that's something that adds to kamala harris's message that he is a danger to democracy because of what he said. >> all right, michael chanel, starting us off this morning

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does seem to i mean, kirby's argument there is that this shows that russia doesn't have the troops that they need, right? >> so, of course, it has direct implications, potentially for that particular conflict. but there is also i mean, this this is an increasing sign of the way the north koreans and the russians and i think my question is, what does this say if anything, about china and how kind of that, um set of alliances of, you know shared interests potentially does have implications more broadly? >> i mean, there are fears that this is a major escalation that goes well beyond ukraine and that is that, you know, you've got to ask what does north korea get out of this well, presumably they're getting money for a start. they're also getting knowledge in how to use russian battlefield equipment. so they're being trained. more crucially, if they do go into ukraine, they're going to get battlefield experience, which they don't have, as we understand it, these are elite

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from the previous four years here. >> thank you. >> my administration will not be a continuation of the biden administration. i bring to this role my own ideas and my own experience. i represent a new generation of leadership on a number of issues and believe that we have to actually take new approaches some voters might ask, you've been in the white house for for four years. >> you were vice president, not the president. but why wasn't any of that done over the last four years? >> well, there was a lot that was done, but there's more to do. anderson and i'm pointing out things that need to be done that haven't been done. but need to be done. and i'm not going to shy away from saying, hey, these are still problems that we need to fix while harris tries to separate herself from biden, in some ways her opponents say her message from the start of the campaign is quickly changing campaign was that they were the joyful campaign and my friends, the joy is gone. the joy is

gone. she was kind of scolding people. she was, she was, she was scolding people for thinking that donald trump is funny but she really was. she was like, how can you how can you dare have a sense of humor about american politics? it's one of the things i love about my running mate. is he does have a sense of humor. you can fix the country, but have a good time >> joining us now sabrina rodriguez, national political reporter for the washington post. sabrina, good morning. thank you so much for being here. i don't think there's any question that the harris campaign has oriented itself differently here in the final weeks. what was, you know focused on on joy. they were ebullient when she first ascended to the top of the ticket, has now turned to presenting all of the reasons why. and democrats have been talking about this for years. why president former president trump presents a danger to the country, what have you. >> i know you've been out on the trail quite a bit with trump actually, but what do you see in this messaging shift,

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honing in that message as well in these final days is key. but there you see the trump administration saying, oh, well she's leaning in so much into this negativity after, you know, as we heard jd vance saying, after all the joy that was in those first days, they're trying to frame that as if oh, they feel that momentum is on their side and as if they're winning. and that's something we've seen as well where republicans are kind of projecting this image of winning while we're hearing democrats saying, you know, they're fearful and they're the underdog, right? >> well, and so to that point, there is a new wall street journal poll out this morning it's a national survey but it does give donald trump a two point edge, harris lead of two points in the journal's august survey of the same that number seems to track certainly with what i'm hearing from sources and, you know, some are texting me this morning pointing to this as further evidence that donald trump is in a stronger place, even perhaps than harris. now, of course, it's the

battlegrounds that really matter. and we're also getting some concrete data. you know, the closer we get to election day, the more early vote numbers that we have, the more that we really know about what's actually going on. but what do you make of of this? and does it track with what you're hearing from your sources as you cover this campaign on the ground? >> absolutely. i mean, i think it tracks with what i'm hearing from strategists as well as just what you hear on the ground talking to voters and sort of where that momentum is, where that energy is. i think you're hearing more and more voters feel like the vibes are shifting towards trump, or i'm feeling a little more concerned about this than i was a few weeks ago. so that energy is clearly there. i think for trump right now, he wants to ride that momentum into a victory, but it's just unclear. like even just looking at early vote numbers, i think we can slice and dice the data right now where it's oh, well, this looks promising for harris or depending on how you look at it, this looks promising for trump. all these polls at the end of the day, just underscore how tight of an election this is going to be. and

battleground states where, oh, one week we're seeing harris up 0.5. and then, you know, trump's up 0.5. so it's just within the margin of error all within the margin of error within the margin of error. >> all within the margin of error. and and really it just comes down to that's sort of the point of like, okay. and this is why people have to actually turn out to vote because it's going to be so close. >> all right. sabrina rodriguez for us this morning sabrina, so grateful to have you. thank you. good luck in the final weeks. all right. >> foreign actors apparently trying to interfere with or hack into election systems in the u.s. microsoft reports iranian government hackers are targeting election related websites in multiple swing states, a u.s. official tells cnn a federal investigation is underway in georgia election officials successfully fended off a cyberattack last month this month? excuse me? they suspect a foreign country was trying to knock the state's absentee ballot website offline despite the attempt, officials assure the state's machines are safe now and in the past there

is literally zero. >> and i'm saying this to certain congress people in the state zero evidence of machines flipping votes. and that claim was alive through 2020 and is a lie now let's bring in cnn senior national security analyst juliette kayyem. juliette, good morning. always good to see you. georgia is interesting because these officials who are trying to assure voters that the systems are safe, are republicans. and of course, there are other people who are aligned with trump who have been raising some questions about this, but let's let's talk about what we know about this attack. the fact that this was fended off are you confident the systems are secure? and this is obviously state by state, right. it's hard to really know. so are there are there weak spots that we need to be worried about. >> there are inevitably going to be weak spots just because of the sort of distributed nature of how we run elections. you have states, you have

counties, you have, you know, all sorts of subdivisions. so the bad news is, is that creates vulnerabilities that we're clearly seeing enemy states try to take advantage of. and i want to say you know, microsoft coming on this strong about what's happening is really important because then it sort of triggers lots of people to make sure that, you know, that either the russians, the iranians or the chinese, that they are they are protected. the good news on this front at least, is, is that it is hard to bring the whole system down. in fact it would be impossible. our election system, there's not what we call a single point of failure. so it's the very fact that there's all these, you know, different factions that actually makes people more confident in our system. but finally, that doesn't go to the perception that, you know pushed by various you know, political operatives, including donald trump and jd vance in terms of was the election secure? that doesn't that that's really not a cybersecurity issue. that's a

that's a disinformation issue. >> yeah so let's hear a little bit more from gabe sterling in in how he talks about the multiple layers of security around around their system. let's watch but we have multiple layers of security around several systems. >> and there's a misunderstanding. that is one of the reasons disinformation can take root so easily is people think oh, hackers are doing something to the voting system. the only thing that's ever online is the voter registration system. several layers of security around that. the actual voting machines themselves, all across the country are not on the internet. they aren't really hackable at distance, and people have never understood that. but that lack of understanding has been exploited by those who want to undermine people's confidence in our systems so again, this seems like a key point. >> also, the voting machines obviously became a huge issue in the 2020. or rather, i should just say they didn't become a huge issue. republicans in many states made them an issue obviously, there

was the question about dominion voting systems. et cetera. he's careful to make this point that, look, these machines are not connected to the internet and we do not have to worry about these things. no right. >> that's exactly right. so he was talking in sort of what, what we call sort of layered defenses. so you even if there is sort of penetration sort of into oh, you can see the voter rolls you have to get, you'd have to be successful in so many different ways without being detected, which happened in this case that it makes it difficult. the most important thing, though, is that our, you know as we learned in the dominion lawsuit that fox news had to pay a lot of money, is those systems are essentially offline. it's why it sort of takes a while for us to get the voting that you want to take them off of the system, because you just want to reduce the the possibility that that a nefarious actor would come in. once again, though, this does not address the disinformation that is that is as likely as sort of a cyber security hack

as we head into the next two weeks, disinformation from both domestic sources and, of course, what we're seeing in foreign sources. >> right. all right. juliette kayyem, very grateful to have you this morning. thank you so much for that. >> see you soon. all right. thank you. ahead here on cnn this morning, it has been six weeks since the miami dolphins quarterback suffered his latest concussion. but yesterday at practice, he returned to the field for the first time. we're going to have that in bleacher report. plus our battleground beat it takes us to pennsylvania. and donald trump's plan to put cracks or attempt to put cracks into the blue wall >> saturday at nine on cnn. okay everyone, our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with 30g of protein

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>> here we have the trump cookies and then over here we have the harris cookies. and then just to sort of keep it, um, fun and light and loose, we have a third party this year, which is just the keys. donald trump is leading a 21 000 cookies individual cookies. kamala harris is at, uh, 6200. >> i think a lot of people, a lot of people are getting the candidate that they're supporting. but then there's some people that are just like, oh, i'm going to get this, this candidate just so i could you know, chomp into them huh all right. >> we're going to be on pastry polling in our battleground beat this morning southwestern pennsylvania is home to some of the most influential counties. this election cycle, and the area represents an opportunity for donald trump to knock pennsylvania out of the democrats so-called blue wall. and it's a must win. pennsylvania for kamala harris to secure the white house. our next guest recently spent some

time in a small southwestern pennsylvania mill town charleroi, where he saw firsthand the dynamics shaping next month's election and the atlantic's george packer writes this, quote, the convergence of working class decline, corporate greed and nativist anger will shape next month's election in places like charleroi and throughout the rust belt. joining us now is george packer, staff writer for the atlantic. george, i'm so grateful to have you on the show. i'm a long time reader and a big fan of your work, and you did what i always find to be some of the most textured and interesting reporting, especially in the final days of a race. spend time on the ground talking to voters, and you write that there were really three factors that you found that you think are going to decide this election. we took a little bit of a look at it there. can you explain more about what you saw when you went and reported out this piece charleroi is a town that has made glass, including pyrex ever since. >> like the late 19th century and like so much of the rust

belt, it's been on a steady decline for about half a century now. so its population has dropped by two thirds, down to about 4000. >> its democratic party has gotten weak. union membership has declined, and it's become a republican stronghold. >> um and yet in the last few years, the population has swelled again with about 2000 immigrants, mostly haitians, who've come legally in search of work, mostly finding work and causing both a lot of resurgence of economic life and of, uh simply people out on the street of a town that had become a ghost town as one person said to me, but also a lot of resentment and tensions and so all that was roiling in this little tiny place on the monongahela river, um and so two things have happened in the last few weeks that made it, uh

i'd say, even a little bit explosive one is that the pyrex factory announced it was going to close and move to ohio, costing more than 300 union jobs. a huge blow to the community and the second was that donald trump discovered charleroi and started including it in a couple of his speeches, saying do you like your beautiful town? it's not so beautiful anymore, is it? these illegals are coming the crime is skyrocketing. there's gangs, there's terrible problems. you're going bankrupt. almost all of that was untrue. but that didn't matter because trump did his damage and moved on and now the streets are rather empty again because a lot of the immigrants have stopped going out. they're scared. some of them are talking about leaving. so it's just this very fragile place that had begun to put itself back together in a way that did cause tensions and now it's caught up in the gears of the american election and seems to have all the sort of

crosscurrents and countervailing winds that are affecting the election, all in this one small place yeah, really, really fascinating, george. >> i mean, it does seem like this is another example of donald trump's words having a material impact on real people and their own safety, their ability to to live their lives i think when a figure like that starts calling out whole groups and using uh, vitriolic language and repeating falsehoods about them, it's incredibly dangerous and it's going to have an effect on individuals. >> it's going to have an effect on the minds of people who may already be disposed to resent them. and um, let's hope it doesn't lead to actual acts of violence but it just creates massive social tensions in a place that was already tense and, um it and it's going to have long term effects that you

can't just use that kind of rhetoric and then move on and expect things to return to normal. i think it's going to create long term tensions and and anxieties and resentments in these communities that have been declining for years and then saw both an economic resurgence, but also a big cultural change with new immigrants. and those two things work against each other and sometimes lead to more division than unity yeah. >> for for real. i mean you write at one point in your piece passing drivers were emboldened to shout at haitians trump is coming, which i think says a lot about about the state of things. george packer, i'm so grateful to have you. i do hope you'll come back at some point with with more of your reporting when you have it. thank you thank you. >> all right time now for sports. the la clippers open their new $2 billion home with a hard fought loss to the suns in overtime andy schultz has

this morning's bleacher report andy good morning. yeah. good morning katie. the clippers owner steve ballmer. you know he built this arena for the fans. he wants everything seamless. he wants everyone in their seats cheering. and that's why the intuit dome has more than 1400 toilets. never a line for the bathroom which which is great. i can definitely get behind that now the suns kevin durant he called the new arena the best he's ever been in that scoreboard inside i mean look at that. it's just amazing. now the fans got treated to a thrilling first game. phoenix was down two with under 30s left and kd the tough fadeaway there to tie the game. we would go to overtime and three seconds left. clippers needed three but grayson allen steals the inbounds pass there. suns win 116 113 john morant meanwhile back for the grizzlies after playing only nine games last season due to suspension and injury. and hey, the guy. the highlights are back. look at that. behind the back hangs in the air gets the lay in to go john had 22 points ten assists. grizzlies beat the jazz last night 126 to 124. big

doubleheader coming up on our sister channel tnt tonight. you got victor wembanyama making his season debut as the spurs take on the mavericks at 730 eastern. that's followed by the nuggets hosting the thunder for the first time in more than a month. dolphins quarterback tua tagovailoa returning to the practice field. tua missing the team's past four games after suffering his >> i knew about this whole team missing and we love them from brother to brother. we love him like he's a huge part of this team cardinals this sunday. now in college football, nc state quarterback grayson mccall has decided to retire from football following his latest head injury that he suffered earlier this month. on instagram,

mccall said brain specialists, my family and i have come to the conclusion that it is in my best interest to hang the cleats up. >> mccall, who has a carted off the field after a hit to the head against wake forest on october 5th. he also suffered a head playing for coastal carolina. mccall says he hopes to get into coaching now that his playing career is over. and finally kennesaw state pulling off one of the biggest upsets of the college football season became an fbs team this year, taking down undefeated liberty. they were 27.5 point underdogs in this one. this was their first ever fbs win. all of the fans there in kennesaw rushing the field to celebrate. so happy times for them there. casey and lots of rushing the field this season in college football. i love it. it's one of the best parts of sports, right? >> some people have conducted themselves with higher standards than others, i will say. but when they do it right it's a blast. andy. thank you. i really appreciate it. all right. next hour on cnn this morning, it is the battle of

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of the 2024 race. plus they were the joyful campaign and my friends, the joy is gone. >> the trump ticket calling out harris for going heavy in the last days of this high stakes race. also what weaknesses do you bring to the table, and how do you plan to overcome them while you're in office? >> that's a great question. >> a simple question, often a tough interview question at the cnn town hall. harris's answer not so much. and our battleground beat. we look at two vital blue wall states with michigan democratic congressman dan kildee and pennsylvania lieutenant governor austin davis wonderful to have you with us