presidential election, cnn cybersecurity reporter sean lyngaas has the details shot john, last week we reported that donald trump and jd vance were among the targets of this hacking campaign. now, we can report that the targets include jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, and eric trump, the president's son but like you said, this is a bipartisan spying operation that also targeting staffers with senate majority leader chuck schumer's office. and this has officials here in washington who focused on national security, on edge just days before the election, this doesn't appear to be focused on influencing the election, but it is a very sensitive investigation for the fbi to be carrying out as we enter close to election sunday, john. and one person familiar with the investigation told me that they were very concerned. they liken this to we might as well let huawei, the chinese telecom giant, install communication is our networks, so they can spy on us because it's that

serious. john were talking about a number of senior us government officials and folks in the democratic and republican party who've been targeted now, all just before the election, you can understand why people are on edge. sean lyngaas, thank you very much. a new hour of cnn news central starts now counting votes. >> kamala harris is warning her rival is obsessed with revenge and her big speech. and donald trump responds accusing her of being fooled wise donald trump's shortlist looks like he right now is already trying to lay the groundwork work to contest the results in pennsylvania already stoking voter-fraud fears without evidence just in new data, americans economy, is at a historic point ahead of the presidential election i'm kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman this is cnn new central

everywhere, just moments ago, we heard from governor tim walz, aware he sees the race this morning he says he believes his ticket is winning and added this my biggest concern is that donald trump has brought up by pessimism to folks. i think you're going to see donald trump continued to spiral downward in this really difficult and hateful rhetoric. we saw our fellow citizens in puerto rico go have to endure this. we've seen it in ohio with vote. that's what's going to end. so i think for me it's for us to get out there to show them an optimistic, better way on american way forward where did so that's let's just get this done for six days all right. >> let's get to cnn's kevin liptak, kevin the governor walz going to try to take the message from kamala harris last night that big speech on the ellipse and move it forward to these final few days. >> yeah. and i think that's

what you'll see that candidate herself doing today as well as she hits the battleground states, she was really trying to hit a couple of boxes in that speech last night. sure. it was a fiery broadside against donald trump. she called him consumed with grievance. she called him a petty tyrant, but it was also something of an introductory speech trying to lay out her vision of the presidency for the american people and for so long there's been this debate in the democratic party. should you focus on democracy and the threat to democracy? should you focus on the economy sort of meet voters at the kitchen table. this speech i think tried to bridge that gap. it is a distillation of the harris campaign's theory of the case in this closing think, stretch that voters do care about both of those issues. and in fact, they're both intertwined. and so you saw her do that in the speech last night, every aspect of it was really designed to drive that message forward including the visuals you saw her speaking there right in front of the south portico of the white house. that's exactly where donald trump spoke on january 6, those clips have been seeing so many times over

the last four years, but it was also evoking this crucible of american executive power. only 500 yards from the oval office to that end. she did tick through a number of policy areas, but she intends to focus on when she's president, including expanding medicare to include at-home care tax it's credit for homebuyers. she talked about immigration and a path to citizenship. she talked about the necessity of restoring the protections included in roe versus wade. and it really kind of all boiled down to this argument in her mind that donald trump would be sitting in the oval office ticking off his enemies list while she would be ticking off her to do list, listen to a little bit but more of how she framed that someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power. >> unlike donald trump, i don't believe people who disagree with me or the enemy

he wants to put them in jail i'll give them a seat at the table i am not looking to score political points. i am looking to make progress an introductory speech for the vice president, which is so extraordinary in the final week of the campaign, it gives you a sense of just how abbreviated her own campaign for president has been. >> she talked about her motivations, what inspires her, and that will be the argument that she now is taking out to the battleground states today she'll be in pennsylvania and north carolina, and wisconsin all trying to convince with the campaign calls these conflicted voters, those who aren't necessarily sure about donald trump might be turned off by his rhetoric, but aren't necessarily sold on kamala harris to try and convince them to come into her camp in this razor thin election, john yeah, three stops in one day, a sense of what we will see for the next several days. kevin liptak. thank you so much. sara all right.

>> today, donald trump also on the trail heading to battleground, north carolina, and wisconsin as he says, he's running a quote, campaign of positive solutions and still trying to fend off the backlash over a comedians racist comments about puerto rico cnn, steve contorno is on the trail in north carolina. what can we expect from donald trump today? >> sara donald trump as two stops today with two very different goals in north carolina, where he will be speaking right behind me in just a few hours. he is trying to defend a state. he narrowly won just four years ago, meanwhile, and wisconsin, he is trying to win a state that he narrowly lost and it's interesting if you look at the advertising spending in these two different battlegrounds, you can see the different approaches in north carolina democrats are outspending donald trump by nearly 20 million, trying to flip this state, but look at the spending in wisconsin, it's nearly even both sides spending about 45

million trying to win that key battlegrounds. so it's really interesting to see the two different approaches as we head into this home stretch here, north carolina is a state that donald trump never expected to have to spend so much time in yet because of the way that kamala harris is campaigning he has made a strong push for this state much stronger than joe biden had been shaped, looking like he was going to be able to compete for its been forcing donald trump to spend a lot of money time and appearances here. and we are seeing him in just a few hours, continuing that push steve where we're seeing some tweets or whatever truth social's by trump, sowing doubt about the election already this time pointing to who pennsylvania, what he's claiming widespread voter fraud already happening. in pennsylvania yesterday, speaking directly to some concerns about what's

transpiring in lancaster county, pennsylvania, saying they already started cheating heating in lancaster. now let me explain exactly what's happening there because the details here are very important on friday, authorities in that county's flagged about 2,500 voter registration forms for potential fraud. detectives. they're found that some of the applications had inaccurate addresses. they had miss identifying info, they had duplicated handwriting and signatures that did not match these applications. again, not ballots. these are voter registration applications. they were flagged and they went through the district attorney's vetting process where they did indeed find have some concerns turns about about some of those ballots. now, the people involved in this process of checking this, the authorities, they said that this was all caught during their normal review process that every county in pennsylvania goes through. and they said it is a sign that quote our systems work donald trump saying it's a sign that

there's going to be fraud, obviously trying to sow doubt about the outcome in a very, very tight battleground all right, thank you so much, steve contorno there. live for us joining us right now is a former vice chair and dnc, michael blake and republican strategist and former communications director for the rnc, doug heye. gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. so both candidates, let's start here today. both candidates have a surrogate issue today for kamala harris, it might be joe biden for donald trump. it might be nikki haley. let's start with nikki haley she is supporting donald trump. she has not been out there on the campaign trail. she really hasn't been doing many interviews and that's why when she does it's noteworthy. she's on fox news yesterday and let me play what she said last time i talked to him was back in june, but they're very aware that we're on standby. >> they know that we would be there to help i've helped with some fundraising letters and text messages those types of things. so we've done that, but

look, we're on the same team. it is their campaign's decision on what he needs in these last final days, it does not bother me at all. they also need to look at how they're talking about women. i mean, this bromance in masculinity stuff. i mean, it borders on edgy to the point that it's going to make women uncomfortable. you've got affiliated packs that are doing commercials about calling on uncommon or the c-word, or you had speakers at madison square garden you know, referring to her and her pimps. that is not the way to win women that is not the way to win women, doug, she's 100%, right? the last time i saw nikki haley was actually outside of the newsroom at fox where she was doing an interview with brett baer. she's it's been a regular presence on the airwaves, but not on the campaign trail. think it's a big mistake for the trump campaign. and i say that because i was at nikki haley's third to last rally when she was running. it was in raleigh, north carolina. they move the venue to larger venues twice because that's how many people were interested in her

campaign, doesn't make sense to me both campaigns our fighting for nikki haley voters, why wouldn't you want her on the trail with you? >> would either of you want to offer me up or reason i think with donald trump personal grudges always lean in heavy with what he wants to do and how he operates clearly, that's a part of this now, but it does not make good political sense. yeah. i mean, like donald trump can't handle competent women of color. it's really that straightforward you, have a woman in nikki haley who has served at government and every possible level who is literally saying she wants to help him get elected. and his incompetence and his absolute insecurity, who he is, can allow that he is losing to a black woman and kamala harris, he is struggling. about the fact that nikki haley is actually a better candidate. him he has his surrogates calling puerto ricans garbage, like this is who this man is. and so we can't ignore that at all. if you choose, we're going to have the comedian that nobody's ever heard of make terrible jokes over been for me versus popular governor who can appeal to an

audience that you need that's a campaign choice. choice that they're making actively, that the campaign has made a decision that they would rather motivate racist and actually engage with realist. >> let me ask you about kamala harris is surrogate issue today republicans are jumping on the remark coming from president biden saying that republicans saying that he is calling trump supporters garbage he says he's talking about the comedian that we're talking about here, who made the racist puerto rico joke? tim walz, this seems to be really the first public response from the campaign out just this morning, governor tim walz, on this morning, let me play what he said the president's clarified his remarks, but let's be very clear, the vice president and i have made it absolutely clear that we want everyone is a part of this donald trump's divisive rhetoric is what needs to end. >> he called this a garbage country and continues on from the enemy within which you heard vice president harris say and what i say is there's a place for all of us here. and i think that's the one she's

running for president. she's making the message. she delivered that speech on the ellipse that showed what we can be as a country that's response from walz is biden getting kamala harris his way today? no, not at all. if the biggest surrogate issue is that the president united states is campaigning for you, i think we're going to be okay. the reference around garbage it is clearly around the racist foolishness they came from any other side and what you have a candidate and donald trump, who has still not rejected what was said that day, not only was it referencing puerto rican is being garbage, it talked about latino is being baby makers and black people carbon watermelon and so the holistic conversation is that, and it's distracting us that they don't have a policy and i want to also tied together around the dynamic of sunday night as well. this rhetoric was not just coincidental, the joke was in the teleprompter. they all knew what was about to go down. they can't when they are losing, they understand that. and so it's a big he strategy to distract us from actual lack of policy that they're winning.

they're going to and tim walz keeps talking about underdog energy though. i mean, i guess it's under doug energy run like an underdog girls are going to lose let me ask you one thing about if donald trump, if donald trump wins, we've heard from rfk jr. now that he's told supporters, and i want to get this right, but that donald trump is going to give him control of several health agency it's public health agencies, including hhs, usda, to remind everyone of the alphabet soup of what is under those critical agencies we know of like the cdc, the fda, and nih rfk has been one of the leading proponents pushing anti-vacs conspiracies over the years is rfk helping donald trump by promoting this even if this has been discussed, know and when these people like this, when they are the topic of conversation, there distracting from what the camera payne wants to talk about, i would say one of the good things about donald trump is that he doesn't always follow through on the promises that he makes if he made this one as a catholic, i think of what we say quite often during mass lord, have mercy, because if this were to happen, i think would be a terrible direction for the country and health care like rfk jr.'s disaster is the same man who tried to frame

black and brown people for a murdered in and commit people. forget that truth about him. he has no business to be around health care. it's part of the reason why his entire family has endorsed our campaign and shout out to families and all today's my brother's birthday. son will be a good son and their brother, rfk jr. nikki haley, all of them are distractions from the reality donald trump six days out does not have a policy argument on why he should be elected. >> six days to go can you last until then? we will see a coffee and something else. good to see you guys alright we also have breaking news this morning. new economic numbers have some experts saying that the united states economy may have officially pulled off the soft landing and we're gonna break down the fight over the balance of power in congress. >> the key congressional races that could decide the leadership on capitol hill

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squad now trump. >> i never cared for. >> but at least he'll keep us saying, hey, i've never voted republican in my life. >> i am voting trump and mann are jcb victory fund is responsible for the content of this message selection stay with cnn with more reporters on the ground and the best political team in the business yes follow the candidates, follow the voters, follow the facts, follow cnn the elections gonna be here six days. that's it. so much focus of course, on the race for president, but there are several key congressional races to watch that could have a really big effect on the balance of power. and speaking of the powerful cnn's harry enten here with me now senior data reporter. he's got somewhat of an arm there harry, my girlfriend like what are we looking at here with the senate so the math of the

senate is really simple, right if donald trump wins the presidency, the gop just need one seat for senate control of kamala harris needs it then of course, tim walz would break the tie in the senate. >> so republicans would need a gain of two. let's sort of look at the map right now what you see is a lot of blue seats going in purple, independence that also caucus with the democrats. in fact, of the 34 seats that are up, 23 belonging to the democrats or the independent who caucuses for just 11 belongs to the republicans. so republicans have a wide open playing field. and at this particular point, we think that in fact, they are going to get up to that 51 seats. why is that? well, let's go first to the wonderful state. take me home, west virginia, of course, joe manchin, the independent caucusing with the democrats is retiring at this particular point. jim justice, who's the popular republican governor, is heavily favored to pick up that particular seat. let's go out west to maury povich, his home state of montana alright. this of course, jon tester, the popular or used to be popular democratic incumbent, not so popular anymore facing a very tough challenge from tim sheehy, we expect that in fact,

that will also be a republican pickup at this particular point, tilting republican, but it's not just these seats that are easy, right? go into all ohio, a state that donald trump's easily expected to win sherrod brown in a very tight race there. so another republican pickup opportunity the bottom line is across this map pennsylvania, again we haven't tilting democratic inside elections has tilting democratic, but that's another republican pickup opportunity. you just go across this map and there are so many republican pickup opportunities. it's tough to think that recruits could take control. one little last nugget on the senate side that i will note, this is a very interesting rates dan osborne who says he wouldn't caucus with either party. there was a new york times called the head deanne osbourne only down by two points against deb fischer. if in fact osborne was able to win in that state? while all of a sudden republicans would be at 50 seats, not 51. so it's not a short thing on the senate side yet, but the bottom line is at this particular hour i would definitely think given all of the potential republican pickup opportunities that they have a

much better shot of gaining control of this part of congress than democrats do at holding it. >> so we must ask about the house. what does it look like there? yeah. alright. so we just spoke about the senate. let's talk about the house. >> let's why make it nice and enlarge for democrats to win house can show they need a net gain of four seats. alright, can they get it? well, let's play with our little gadget here and we're going to go over to the house battle for control. and at this particular point the answer is we don't know, we don't know if you look at the inside elections ratings, republicans get up to 212, democrats are 200, away. i think there are a couple of key races that i want to look at. actually, there was so little opportunity to talk about competitive races in new york. so i'm going to take that opportunity in my own home state, there are a few interesting races i'm interested in here's one in, let's see if we can pick up that we go jon mannion, a leaning democratic pickup opportunity, then we'll go down state this is another

democratic pickup opportunity. if democrats can win and seats like this, especially that last one right here. josh riley, if you can pick it up, that'd be a good sign for democrats moving forward. but again, the house way too close to call the senate, leaning republican. >> all right. harry we enten thank you so much. thank you. all of those numbers and all of those faces and all of those racist john. >> all right with us now is beto o'rourke, former democratic congressman from texas, former presidential candidate, also a senate candidate and texas, let me just start there. since harry was just talking about the race for the senate colin all red democrat in texas running against ted cruz, trying to beat him. you got close in 2018 in a pretty democratic year. why would it be possible for calling all read to do what you could not? >> you know, better year. we were in a midterm cycle. this is a presidential cycle, greater turnout and traditionally democrats turnout at a higher margin in a presidential cycle. and they do in a midterm. and then you add to that, since i last ran against ted cruz, this

guy has been responsible in part for the insurrection attempt on 6 january 2021. and then as you probably know, when our state face the worst winter freeze cost the lives of more than 700 of our fellow texans, ted cruz went down to the ritz-carlton in cancun, mexico. that is who call them already one of the most bipartisan members of the united states house of representatives. that's who he's running against right now. and he's running an incredible campaign outraising what we put together in 2018, which at the time was the record for most race in a senate race. >> and his discipline, his focus, the case that he's making against cruise and for texas is wonderful. >> and as you know, he's polling holding within the margin of error. he can do this. you will be the first democrat since lloyd bentsen in 1988 to pick up a senate seat for democrats, one that we badly need to retain control of that chamber at least get to a 50, 50 split this morning? the harris campaign, the white

house, a lot of democrats doing a lot of work to try to explain the comments made by president biden overnight where he referred to supporters depending on where you put the apostrophe there of donald trump as garbage, she had to do with the racist joke that was told about porn rico at that trump rally. >> my question to you is president biden, how much of a burden is he on the harris campaign asset. >> i mean, he's arguably one of the most effective presidents that we've had, at least in the 52 years, that i've been on this planet, what he's been able to accomplish on a bipartisan basis to invest in america to reduce inflation, to create economic opportunity is wonderful and that's part of the record that kamala harris can claim, but she he's also turning the page on the president's who preceded her and making a case that she did last night for doing an even better job in bringing costs down and offering opportunity to first-time homebuyers to

folks who are raising families to people who are trying to start a business and making sure that we stop this the attempt to turn our country into an authoritarian or fascist state, which is the future of donald trump. john, i figured you might ask me this question and one contrast, i just like to point out, within minutes of president biden's statement last night, he clarified what he meant and added that a posture fee and said, look, i was just talking about the comedian who was dumping on the people of puerto rico when donald trump was offered the opportunity to clarify his enemies within comment, where he talked about essentially turning united states military against democrats and opposing political party. instead of clarifying or apologizing, he doubled down and was very it clear that he means to use force and violence against people with whom he has a political disagreement. that's the contrast, and that's the choice before us right now robert kennedy jr. who is supporting donald trump for president was speaking and

claims he's been promised quite a portfolio in a trump administration. >> listen president trump has promised health agencies which are hhs and the agencies. >> cdc, fda, nih, and a few others and then also the usda which is which is key to making america healthy that's, a, what it's talking about. >> usda, the part of agriculture hhs. how do you feel about robert kennedy in control of all those things fact that he refuses to operate within the realm of facts or the truth, that he has gaslit and lied to the american public about a host of different issues. >> he's just somebody who plainly cannot be trusted but as scary as that is, it pales in comparison to everything

that trump has promised to do himself, whether it's turning the military against his political enemies, whether it's the project 2025 plan that includes a national abortion ban, whether it's the violence and the polarization that he is certainly going to stoke. whether or not he wins this election certainly as president, he will have absolute untrammeled power to fundamentally change this country to upend the constitution, and to destroy this democracy so again, i think the choice is really clear. i think vice president harris laid that out beautifully and powerfully last night we can turn the page, we can refuse to go back and we can pursue an ambitious, aspirational future for america right? >> beto o'rourke, former congressman from texas. we appreciate your time this morning. thanks so much for being with us. hard already, to stoke voter fraud fears without evidence while he tries to lay it the groundwork to try to contest

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egan is here. >> he's been tracking this and this is tied to the new gdp data that's out this morning. walk us through this economy, just keeps cruising along. >> it is relentless, sorry, it won't be stopped by high inflation, up by high interest rates, not by these crazy election cycle. it just keeps going and going. so these new numbers out measured gdp, that's the broadest measure of economic growth is kind of like a quarterly report card for the economy. and it showed that the u.s. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.8% during the third quarter. that is very solid growth and it's being driven by the fact that everyone keeps spending money. the government's those spending money businesses are spending money. and perhaps most importantly, consumers are spending money because there's been a lot of concern about consumers being under pressure right now. but look these new numbers show that consumer spent nearly growth was nearly 4% for consumer spending. that's the biggest part of the economy. so that's huge rsm economist joe brusuelas said that the u.s. economy is firing

on all cylinders and the timing here is really critical because a lot of people two years ago thought the economy would be in recession right now. not at all. no signs of recession. in fact, yes. a number of what kind of are saying they are increasingly confident that the fed has pulled off what once looked elusive, right? a soft landing, taming inflation without crashing the jobs market of former st. louis fed, james bullard, he told my colleague brian mena we should declare a soft landing right now. >> at the same time there's still problems with affordability all over the country. we know that because it's such an issue with the election. so how does this, how does this square? >> yeah, it's a great question. listen, none of this is to say the economy is perfect, right? there are real challenges ashley aune affordability, dig care groceries, rent car insurance, home insurance. there are real issues there when it comes to affordability. now the rate of inflation thankfully has come down, right? it was at 9% two

years ago. it's much closer to that 2% target right now. but the problem of course, is that prices are not going back to those 2019 levels, right? i mean, that was never going to happen. but the good news is because as the economy keeps growing because the jobs market keeps growing, wages are up. and so now we're in a situation where paychecks are consistently beating prices. and so hopefully that helps people catch up to these higher prices and start to feel better her about things undressing. >> thanks. great to see you. thank you. thanks. john. >> all right. pennsylvania officials trying to reassure voters as donald trump pushes new unsubstantiated allegations but election fraud and the yankees not dead, just mostly dead, which does mean slightly alive trying to grab the momentum like literally against the rules and offensively i'm on team mickey, interference

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here in wisconsin because we process our absentee ballots, because some communities process their absentee ballots at a central location, those numbers won't be reported until very late on election night or early the next morning. and some folks are claiming they exercise of fraud when actually it's just a sign of how we do things here i do want to ask you, how long do you think it might take to get the ballots counted this year as opposed to 2020 when we saw biden won by just 20,000 votes just what you're thinking because from what you're already seeing with early voting there in wisconsin we have had tremendous early voting turnout our early voting is technically early absentee voting. >> so when folks in wisconsin go to vote early, there actually filling out an absentee ballot at their clerk's office and it goes directly to the clerk. as a

result of that amazing turnout, it looks like we're going to have a lot of absentee ballots to count on election night i suspect it will not take quite as long as 2020 because we don't have some of the covid concerns that we did have then however, i would expect that you're probably not going to see final tallies coming out of wisconsin until very early in the morning. on november 6. >> the next day. okay. i do want to ask you about this. did donald trump already you heard he's already accusing pennsylvania of voter fraud, which officials they're say they caught an are looking into and it was really the registration that they're looking at and he's still insisted he won in wisconsin in 20 2020, which played a key role in donald trump his attempts to overturn the 2020 election because it's where two attorneys working for him orchestrated the fake electors plan. are there guardrails and

what are your concerns about this possibly happening trump's claim that he won wisconsin in 2020 is pure fantasy not only did we have a free and fair election, we had a recount of the two largest counties in the state, and the numbers stayed for all intents and purposes exactly the same. he lost wisconsin in 2020. >> he won it in 2016, but he lost it in 2020. >> the guardrails we have in place is repeating to the voters out there that we know what the process is going to look like on election day. >> we know about the time when results are going to come in. so rather than indulging in fantasy is about bamboo ballots or italian thermostats controlling our elections they can go to our state elections website and look up the faqs we

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answer that. are react to it, but i will tell you that we don't know who this artist is at this point. nobody seems to want to take credit publicly, but it's getting a lot of attention. these statues here in the nation's capital, just a week out from election day. so the one you're seeing on your screen that was the first statue? that's suddenly appeared last week. this bronze replica of nancy pelosi's desk on the national mall, right by the capitol. and you can see on it there that basketball sized i'm going to call it a swirl,

john, a basketball size swirl on it. and there's a plaque at the base of it that says, quote this memorial honors the brave men and women who broke into the united states capitol on january 6 to loot urinate and defecate throughout those how'd halls in order to overturn an election, president trump celebrates these heroes of january 6 as unbelievable patriots and warriors this monument stands as a testament to their daring sacrifice and lasting legacy. if it's not clear, it's a sarcastic message, poking fun at the former president's. so then on monday, another statue pops up, this one at freedom plaza across town, right by the white house that as you can see, is up a tiki torch. it is titled the donald j. trump enduring flame. and there's a plaque on that one that says this monument pays tribute to president donald trump. and the quote, very fine people, he boldly stood to defend when they marched in charlottesville, virginia, while many have called them white supremacists. and

neo-nazis, president trump's voice rang out above the crest to remind all that they were quote, treated absolutely unfairly. and john, a lot of people we were there yesterday, crowds of people taking photos, getting a lot of enjoyment out of it the tongue in cheek messages really resonating with people as we approach election day, take a listen energy and anger that has faded over time. >> i think the message couldn't be more clear that you know, we have to do our part to make sure that another january 6 doesn't happen again, we don't know who the artist is, but we were able to obtain a permit from the national park service. >> they chose to names civic crafted, llc, and julia jimenez, pi zick who quested and then receive permission john, to display that art. we've reached out to them for comment, but at this point nobody is claiming it as their own but it does need to be

approved, gabe, right? >> it is interesting. this does deep public approval before going out yet. >> so the national park service will allow individuals, artists to put art like this out expressions of their first amendment rights, but they do have to get permitted. and we got a statement in from the national park service that says for works like this, they do not consider the content of the message to be presented. so people are able to do that to be clear though these works are not even going to make it to election day. the desk is scheduled to be removed today and the torch tomorrow, guys. >> got it. gabe cohen. thank you very much. >> i looked at best dad jokes politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason see see that's good. >> i like not as good as yours john. >> thank you so much for joining us as a cnn news central with john berman, kate bolduan are comedians and sarah sidner, the person that lost their jokes. cnn newsroom up

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