and david sanger, i just want to thank you very much for being with us this morning. no no person better to start us off on a day like today than you. so thank you very much all right. coming up next here the gender gap that has come to define this stubbornly tight presidential race ahead. which way could women tip the scales in this election plus fans around the world mourning the death of former one direction member, liam payne. we're going to dig into the new details surrounding his death and presidential candidates going after each other, not on policy, but for laughs. >> don't say anything negative about catholics. >> i would never do that no matter where i was, that would be like criticizing detroit in detroit tested for mental fitness except the commander in chief, who has the most responsibility in the world. and when a moment of crisis strikes, is this what we want in a president unsure the oranges of the unstable hamas terrorist aggression unpredictable, anomalous. >> it's time every president is required to prove their mental fitness, sign the petition for

david sanger wrote in the weekend _ dragged in.nd, is if she embraces the strike as a justifiable act of self defence, she risks a run—in with the progressive side of her party, but to criticise the israeli action she will be accused by the right of being weak and defending israel. you can see when we talk about an october event, 29 days until the election, this has big ramifications for american politics, doesn't it? it ramifications for american politics, doesn't it? it really does, politics, doesn't it? it really does. you — politics, doesn't it? it really does, you have _ politics, doesn't it? it really does, you have described i politics, doesn't it? it really. does, you have described the situation very well. i think the biden administration is in a very difficult position on this. ifind it unlikely a very difficult position on this. i find it unlikely that really whatever israel does against iran that she can detach american support from israel. so i think that the diplomatic channels will be hot with american pressure not t

david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst, and white house and national security correspondent for the new york times. david, good evening, president biden, vice president harris. they want israel to take the win, but prime minister netanyahu says, this war isn't over what happens now what are remarkable day and unpredictable? >> what i mean, this man had been the subject of the biggest man hunt of the past year american special forces that drones that you saw satellite tracking in the end, he runs into a training operation of israelis were training local commanders and they're the ones who trip upon them, literally trip upon him and didn't know it was him this could change the face of the war, but it may not necessarily changed the face of the war as you heard in those clips, both vice president harris and president biden said, okay this is the time to move to the next phase. but when we heard from prime minister netanyahu he said, the war goes on and that raises a question will he now pull back or proceed with the attack on iran? will he continue to bomb inside lebanon and pa

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 s

cnn national security analyst david sanger is standing by what to start with, ben wedeman in beirut. ben, tell us what you've been can seeing there this morning midnight, we have seen steady bombardment by israeli warplanes. >> they seem to have taken a bit of a respite for the moment, but basically in about an hour and ten minutes ago, we saw another strike perhaps it's been the most intense night of strikes since the night that hassan nasrallah was killed in an israeli strike perhaps as many as 25 individual strikes, taking place we don't have any word on casualties from these strikes, but we know that the hospitals here apparently are struggling at this point with the number of casualties that they're getting. now there's continued speculation about the whereabouts of hashem safieddine, who was believed to be a possible successor to hassan nasrallah the other night, there was a massive israeli strike the israeli said the target was safiya at the end, but cnn has, we haven't aid for one thing. we haven't heard anything from his hezbollah itself however, a lebanese security source t

leap honor he probably thinks he's got a few weeks passed that's until the election all right. >> david sanger for us this morning. david so grateful to have you on the show today. i hope to hope to have you back soon. >> always great to be with you, kasie. >> all right. >> see you soon. all right ahead here on cnn this morning, donald trump backing out of a 60 minutes interview, why he is passing up one of the final hopper it is for voters to see him in a primetime event before the election. >> plus thousands of americans are still grappling with the devastating destruction left behind from hurricane helene to jumpstart this recovery process people are scared to death. people wonder whether they're going to make it. >> you're still haven't heard from this is urgent can you do this as early as your 40s? >> you may lose muscle and strength proteins supports muscle health in shear max protein has but 30 grand blend of high-quality protein to feed muscles for up to seven hours. so take the challenge, insurer nutrition for strengthened energy do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need?

and i want to bring in david sanger, a cnn political and national well security analyst. he's also the white house and national security correspondent for the new york times. also hear david hale, former us ambassador to lebanon pakistan, and jordan, also major john spencer, the chair of urban warfare studies at the modern war institute and the co-author of understanding urban war fair. ambassador hale, let me begin with you this evening. how do you think iran is viewing this move by israel tonight will rhonda suffered a series of blows, obviously because of the successes of israeli operations against their most precious proxy, hezbollah after a long period in which the iranians felt they had the upper hand. >> but i can't discount anything but the pattern of the past has been such that the iranians would be loath to get themselves directly involved in the confrontation with iran. we saw that with israel, excuse me. we saw that in the earlier this year when the iranian revolutionary guard commanders were killed in damascus iran law did bunch of missiles and drones into or

how and when israel will respond remains unclear, but many including "the new york times" david sanger now argue that the long-feared wider war in the middle east is here. joining me now is david rhode, national security editor for nbc news. does biden have to pull what he wants, which is a proportional response from israel? >> the answer is no. and all of this in politics is local. for biden -- the biden administration is now four, five weeks away from an election. and cutting off to aide in israel in any way would right now simply hand a giant cudgel for trump and other republicans to attack and say you are not supporting israel enough. and then for netanyahu he wants to win this war. he's got a tremendous big victory with hezbollah and he wants to punish iran. >> bill cohen from the clinton administration, former secretary of defense, told andrea mitchell, our colleague today that biden is handicapped and bibi netanyahu is going to exploit that. obviously this is domestic politics for netanyahu, but it is obviously -- dove tails greatly with whoever is going to be in charge here in

how and when israel will respond remains unclear, but many including david sanger now argue that thewar in the middle east is here. joining me now is 1048, national security editor for nbc news. great to see you. does biden have any leverage left to pull to ensure what he wants, which is a proportional response from israel? >> the honest answer is no. all politics is local. for biden, the biden-harris administration is four or five weeks away from an election and cutting off israel in any way right now would simply hand a giant cudgel for donald trump and republicans to attack biden and say you are not supporting israel enough. and then for netanyahu, he wants to win this war. he has a tremendous victory with hezbollah and he wants to punish iran now. >> do you think, bill cohen from the clinton information -- administration told our colleague today that the biden administration is handicapped and netanyahu is going to exploit that. how cognizant or how much calculation is being done inside israel vis-a-vis the american presidential election? obviously these are domestic politics for

let's bring in cnn political national security analyst, david sanger. david is the author of new cold wars, china's rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. also joining us cnn military analyst, colonel cedric leighton, great to see both of you colonel leighton, let's start first with you as nic was just reporting the idf now investigating how this drone entered israel without triggering an alert, how might that have happened and how significant is that? >> yeah jessica, it's extremely significant in one of the things that could have happened and there's indication that this might be the case the drone in question may have flown along the surface of the earth is very hard for radar to pick up things that are really low flying. i not impossible, but very difficult. and did do what we call a nap of the earth. and navigation that would then make it very difficult for any defensive system to pick the drone up and actually eliminated, shoot it down. that so that's what i think may have happened in this particular case. and it's cert

. >> all right, let's bring in cnn political and national security analyst david sanger. s also white house national security correspondent for the new york times, david, welcome this. of course, an incredibly somber day as we mark one year since 1,200 israelis were killed, obviously hundreds were taken hostage, over 100 still remain in gaza. but the region is flame. >> today. >> what are your reflections and reporting about what we expected in the wake of this as we mark the anniversary and where we are today well, first i think just the sadness of this day sort of sweeps over all of us, you know, you have the images in your mind which will never lose of the wonderful young people israelis americans many others who were killed. that morning and the kibbutzes that we're obviously invaded. and it makes you wonder, you know, sort of toward what end did hamas think that they were going to destroy the state of israel doing this? i mean that was as crazy a thought as the thought that al-qaeda had 20 three years ago that taking down the world trade center would somehow destroy t

let's bring in david sanger of the new york times. he's also a cnn political and national security analyst, and he's the author of the book, new cold wars. china's china's rise, russia's invasion, and america's struggle to defend the west. david, how are you looking at the different information coming out from israel and the u.s. about what blinken and netanyahu are engaging on well, first, brianna, no surprise here prime minister netanyahu has not been on the same page with president biden or secretary blinken for most of the past year second the prime minister is looking at the calendar and he sees that if in two weeks donald trump wins all of this pressure, the kind of letters that you saw blinken and secretary austin san last week saying that there could be a cut off in aid if there's in american aid if more relief and humanitarian goods didn't make it to people in gaza those letters are likely to come to an end. >> he's not going to have to worry about that. >> so he has been playing for time this entire period of time last wedne

david sanger, bob baer. thank you both very much. israeli officials, we are told at this moment, looking at fingerprints and dental records of the body believed to be that of sinwar. that's according to a person familiar with the matter, talking to cnn's kevin liptak, he's reporting that a much more news coming up on all of this as israeli officials continue to look at whether or not the hamas leader yahya sinwar has been killed, will be back after a short break like that before election day. vice president harris faces voters and takes the pressing questions, lie anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town hall. >> kamala harris, wednesday at nine eastern on cnn i'm out here telling people how they can save money with experience, really like someone who has a lot of subscriptions, i have a lot to many i'd say you can see yours inscriptions, all they want place. it cancel the ones you don't like do that so easily. >> we need that gets started now with the experian app the medicare advantage and prescription drug plan annual enr

respond to any action or quote misstep by israel cnn, political and national security analyst, david sanger explains the significance of the pentagon's announcement i think president biden was looking for a way to help the israelis make the case that a another iranian missile attack on israel would fail as the previous two have failed. to do much damage and by putting this additional patriot system together he's got the moment to go do that but i think what what else we're learning here is that the president tolerance for having american troops in the way. here in even defensive positions in israel is increasing a little bit that he is thinks it's a relatively small risk to have 100 americans. >> there. >> obviously there are thousands of americans on board the ship's. and in nearby basis to try to help defend israel as well. >> this is not the first time the u.s. has sent the anti-missile system to the middle east, but it is rare for american troops to deploy inside israel and israeli airstrike on a hospital in central gaza killed four people and wounded dozens of others. just a short time

cnn, political and national security analyst david sanger explains the significance of the pentagon's announcement i think, what, what else we're learning here is that the president tolerance for having american troops in the way. here in even defensive positions in israel is increasing a little bit that he is thinks it's a relatively small room this to have 100 americans there. >> obviously there are thousands of americans on board the ship's. and in nearby basis to try to help defend israel as well. >> israeli officials say hezbollah launched a drone attack on sunday, killing at least four soldiers and wounding more than 60 people. it's one of the bloodiest attacks on israeli soil since the war broke out last year, the drones targeted an army base about 40 miles from the lebanese border. the idf says, it will investigate why the attack didn't trigger an alarm. hezbollah called the retaliation for israeli strikes on lebanon on thursday, which continued into the weekend. lebanese health officials say israeli strikes on saturday killed 51 people and wounded more than 170 others while c

our panel here to discuss we have with us cnn's kayla tausche, she, evan perez, and david sanger of thek times, who has a book called new cold wars, which we have interviewed him about before. david, let me start with you. woodward reports trump has been on the phone with putin as many as seven times according to an aide since leaving office, since trump left office and that the saudi crown prince had a burner phone to give to trump just for trump to use these sound like national security issues. >> oh, they are national security issues. first, the saudi crown prince has a bag full of 50 burner phones. i don't doubt in fact i tend say only 50. right okay. but for the seven conversations are up to seven conversations, it's based on the recounting of of one aid he may be right. you would think the united states intelligence services would pick up conversations back-and-forth with trump if they he did, it would get reported with a mask name. in other words, it wouldn't say donald trump, it would say person number one or something like that. and it would be up to the white house with an unm

david sanger cnn analyst, new york times at correspondent wrote a piece in the wake of these iranian attacks that the us election, that these, these few weeks that we have left before voters go to the polls is potentially something of a period that netanyahu can take advantage of the israeli prime minister because it's part of why i was surprised to see president biden be so direct there because because there is this perception that democrats will be under pressure to back israel to the hilt no matter what, that this would potentially open some space for netanyahu. it does seem like these strikes have opened domestic political space for netanyahu. i mean, he's been under so much pressure, but he seems to have more support from the public. now, how do you understand that dynamic i think watching missiles coming from iran is what everyone was fearing and a full-blown war with iran, because that would be the moment where we do have a full middle east crisis there was celebrations in lots of israel when you saw these, when, when you've seen a lot of the military actions that the idf has

israelis closer together i do have some questions about that presidential campaign i was talking to david sanger, one of our national security contributors, long time times correspondent about this because he was he reported this morning that the israeli see an opportunity in this five-week span here because it's hard for democrats to go out there and criticize israel. and they obviously feel they'd get backing from republicans. so very difficult time, erin. thank you. we'll be back with you shortly during last night's first and only vp debate, the candidates addressed one of the top issues this election cycle, of course, abortion, it's an issue democrats have leaned in on during the campaign. walz last night, blaming trump for the overturning of roe versus wade and jd vance falling in line with trump's position of leaving it to the states. >> and americans have donald trump put this all into motion he brags about how great it was that he put the judge's in and overturned roe versus wade 52 years of personal autonomy and then he tells us, oh, we send it to the states. >> now of course, donald tr

we were just talking to david sanger in the earlier in the show and he was looking at how this is overlapping, right on top of the presidential campaign. this conflict potentially exploding with less than in 30 days to go. i mean, how are each of these camps? i know you cover you've talked to campaign aides and operatives every day preparing are thinking about the possibility that this could explode here in the final weeks. >> yeah, this issue divides the democratic party. and so what you're seeing is that kamala harris is trying to straddle both those sides. the party she met with muslim and arab groups in michigan and a private meeting last week. she's going to speak out about october 7 this week in her 60 minutes interview. that's premiering tonight. she has also basically saying that we are allied with the israeli people, but not necessarily allied with netanyahu. now, donald trump has basically said, i want an end yahoo, not only not to deescalate potentially escalate and get it over, as he said quickly, know democrats argue that could then further spiral the conflict know it's true. >>

israel understands this psychology and john, as david sanger put it in an analysis of the new york times today, the long feared wider war in the middle east is here. >> and you think that reality is an important one for the biden administration to acknowledge quickly why yeah. >> you know, you don't. thanks, kate. >> a year ago when we were talking about what's happening, getting in the middle east, just about a year ago we were talking about the concerns over a wider regional war. >> but what did that look like? it looked like a spread of hostilities the lebanon and the south and the north, we looked, it looked like a spread of hostilities into iran. it looked like what we're seeing today, this larger regional conflict, the administration has been doing a very good job for working behind the scenes to try to negotiate a ceasefire, to try to calm hostilities in the region. but we are there. >> kate. i mean i think what's the clark sack? absolutely right. we're at a point where we're israel needs to take a look at this next response. and it needs to be one that is focused on weakening ira

proportionately locate their facilities in place where margaret sanger would have recommended them. let's change it out where. does david duke want the abortion clinics to be placed? planned parenthood today would be in the same locations that david duke would ask we should ask ourselves, why are taxpayers was funding this? and last point on this abortion issue is the abortion rate, which is so in the black community, we're not black americans would actually today be the second largest ethnic group. we're not the second largest ethnic group. we're the third largest ethnic group. and we are rapidly declining in california. we're the fourth largest ethnic. you can't slaughter as many people without having the impact. how many members of congress. how many how many doctors are no longer here? because we have systematically encouraged people to skew life rather than to say it's valuable and precious. what could we do to make it a success and achievement and you report that the black population in america is about 13% of our overall population, but 30 to 40% of all abortions are done on african-american women. if that's the

proportionately locate their facilities in place where margaret sanger would have recommended them. let's change it out where. does david duke want the abortion clinics to be placed? planned parenthood today would be in the same locations that david duke would ask we should ask ourselves, why are taxpayers was funding this? and last point on this abortion issue is the abortion rate, which is so in the black community, we're not black americans would actually today be the second largest ethnic group. we're not the second largest ethnic group. we're the third largest ethnic group. and we are rapidly declining in california. we're the fourth largest ethnic. you can't slaughter as many people without having the impact. how many members of congress. how many how many doctors are no longer here? because we have systematically encouraged people to skew life rather than to say it's valuable and precious. what could we do to make it a success and achievement and you report that the black population in america is about 13% of our overall population, but 30 to 40% of all abortions are done on african-american women. if that's the

proportionately locate their facilities in place where margaret sanger would have recommended them. let's change it out where. does david duke want the abortion clinics to be placed? planned parenthood today would be in the same locations that david duke would ask we should ask ourselves, why are taxpayers was funding this? and last point on this abortion issue is the abortion rate, which is so in the black community, we're not black americans would actually today be the second largest ethnic group. we're not the second largest ethnic group. we're the third largest ethnic group. and we are rapidly declining in california. we're the fourth largest ethnic. you can't slaughter as many people without having the impact. how many members of congress. how many how many doctors are no longer here? because we have systematically encouraged people to skew life rather than to say it's valuable and precious. what could we do to make it a success and achievement and you report that the black population in america is about 13% of our overall population, but 30 to 40% of all abortions are done on african-american women. if that's the

proportionately locate their facilities in place where margaret sanger would have recommended them. let's change it out where. does david duke want the abortion clinics to be placed? planned parenthood today would be in the same locations that david duke would ask we should ask ourselves, why are taxpayers was funding this? and last point on this abortion issue is the abortion rate, which is so in the black community, we're not black americans would actually today be the second largest ethnic group. we're not the second largest ethnic group. we're the third largest ethnic group. and we are rapidly declining in california. we're the fourth largest ethnic. you can't slaughter as many people without having the impact. how many members of congress. how many how many doctors are no longer here? because we have systematically encouraged people to skew life rather than to say it's valuable and precious. what could we do to make it a success and achievement and you report that the black population in america is about 13% of our overall population, but 30 to 40% of all abortions are done on african-american women. if that's the