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so kayla, you are in that room? watching these final preparations for the president of the united states to come out for this press conference. what are you learning right now here in the room is just starting to fill up as we await the president of the united states against this backdrop, we expect him to hale some of the achievements of this particular summit, marking the 75th anniversary of the the alliance. >> but the president is going to have to engage in a high wire act to try to shore up confidence among members of his own party that he is the candidate that they should unify behind for reelection. and to beat donald trump earlier today, his top advisers held their daily call that they hold at 9:00 a.m. where they discuss the president's prospects in the race. i'm told as of this morning, there had been no change of heart according to a senior administration official, they now do that call twice a day since the debate, adding a 9:00 p.m. call as well, to just sift through what's happened during the day and f

kayla, congressman schiff urging president biden to leave the race. the campaign is saying, president biden isn't going anywhere. what's the latest or unless democratic leaders like hakeem jeffries in the house are chuck schumer in the senate, come out themselves against the president that he is safe. and today should the biden campaign's message has been one of staying the course. they believe in their heart that president biden just needs to stay out there immigration i interviews with major media outlets and outlets that reach those constituencies specifically, he said that only a medical condition would cause him to reevaluate his candidacy. and he called it game time. right now, we're expecting the president to take the stage in about an hour's time. we'll bring that to you developments and david chalian, let me start with you. adam schiff clearly the most high profile democrat yet to publicly call on the president of the united states not to seek reelection. how big of a deal here's one reason why i think it's a very big deal and i know manu rep

i mean, kayla's got great reporting, jeff on kind of how the white house is feeling. nancy pelosi has suggest that this press conference is important. steve cohen was on with me, the congressman from tennessee was on with me yesterday and he said that how biden does in this press conference will be really important to how much could this shake things up? >> located. it's definitely important. there's no question about it. i mean, as kayla was just talking there, if president biden were to have another moment as he did in italy, just sort of scold the press and say, stay on the question at hand that certainly would not be reassuring to many democrats but even if there's a strong performance, even if president biden hits it out of the park, if you will, that is not going to put this genie back in the bottle according to all the conversations or most of the conversations we're having with democratic lawmakers and leaders the reality is, this has moved beyond that, but there's no question every time the president now appears in public and is answering questions, there is

cena is kayla tausche is there, kayla you get this sense that the president and the white house knows then the next few days are crucial they absolutely know that john and in this lengthy letter, two pages single-spaced president biden lasered at the feet of the voters as his decision to stay in the race, saying that the nominating process already took place. >> he received 14 million votes, 87% of those votes cast. and by the number of delegates that have already been pledged to him, he's the presumptive nominee by a wide margin. he goes on to say, do we now just say that that process doesn't matter? i declined to do that at the close of the letter though, he says this, the question of how to move forward has been well aired for over a week peak now, and it's time for it to end. we have one job and that is to beat donald trump. he knows that they're 42 days before the democratic convention, 119 days before no november 8. and he warms the party against any weakening of resolved between now and then that could be seen as cracks or fissures from there opponents. and that could open them

let's now go to the white house and cnn's kayla tausche, she kayla, i mean, there are some fresh polls out just this morning showing biden is hanging in in this race with donald i'll trump, despite that shaky debate performance, we'll see what the reviews are like coming in after last night's performance house, the president's team looking at all this. >> well, you referenced some of those polls last night, jim, when he was asked specifically about his vice president kamala harris and what he would think about reconsidering his candidacy polls showed that she could beat donald trump. and he said, yeah, he'd entertain it, but that he would only entertain it if it seem also told him that poll showed that he couldn't win and then he whispered into the microphone and no poll is saying that so clearly, the president believes at this point that the data are on his side and the white house and the campaign for there part when i was in touch with officials in the last 12 hours or so, it's clear they're pleased they're relieved. they feel like the president hit some of the marks that they had s

cnn's kayla tausche has more from the white house kayla, what do we know about this meeting him at the beginning of the meeting vice president harris smiled, signaling her support for an a critical ally of the united states. >> but did not reveal where she stands on policy. we're expecting her to give a readout of this meeting, which is among the most critical for her as she begins the most consequential political period of her life, for he's into her campaign and sharpening her attacks on her opponent we choose freedom kamala harris ready to bring it on rallying teachers and releasing her first campaign ad less than a week after trump's call for unity, the gloves are off. >> i get a kick out. one thing they say, sir you just got. >> hit with a bullet. maybe he's changed me nice and i'd love to be nice, but i'm dealing against real garbage. >> and for days into her presidential campaign, harris refining her case so project 2025 is it plan to return america donald trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back do failed trickle-down economic policies that to union busting to

kayla tausche, she is our white house correspondent. you're there on the south lawn of the white house. kayla, tell us what to expect well, if this is the first official event for the vice president's since president biden withdrew from the race and formally endorsed her for the top of the ticket. several prominent democrats have come out in the wake of that endorsing her as well. but the party and others in in leadership, like house speaker emerita nancy pelosi, and the top senate democrat, as well as the top house democrat, hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer also have stopped short of providing an explicit endorsement of harris. of course, she's been serving as vice president for the last three-and-a-half years. but this morning's event will serve as something of an audition for for american voters as they consider her through a new lens, one, as president of the united states, where they will have to make a choice in november. of course, much of the messaging for the campaign up until this point has focused on the choice between trump

okay, kayla tausche for that.nks for that report and a brand new abc news washington post poll that found a staggering 67% of americans, 62% of democrats and democratic leaning leaners and 54% of biden his supporters believe that president biden should step aside. and yet that same poll found the race tied nationally, 46 to 46. that's basically unchained since before the debate, according to this poll. so what does all of this mean? joining me to at this table to break this all down, are cnn's gloria borger, cnn's david chalian, and the washington post's leigh ann caldwell. good to see you all so let me first, just on the news of this, another member are coming out today. tenth democrat in the house, hillary clinton saying that in to step aside as 11 now, in both the house and the senate, how long can the biden campaign sustain this day by day more and more members coming out, assuming it continues, which it's probably safe to assume unless he has an unbelievable job tonight, but they'll probably be some criticism

kayla. we've learned that the house democratic leader actually met with president biden last night. what can you tell us? >> well, if that meeting happened at the white house after the president's conference yesterday evening, minority leader hakeem jeffries releasing a statement to all the democratic members of the house, saying, in part, this in my conversation with president biden, i directly expressed the full breadth of insight, heartfelt perspectives, and conclusions about the path forward word that the caucus has shared in our recent time together, a jefferies has been getting an earful from his colleagues in the house throughout the week. there was a formalized meeting of all well democratic members on tuesday where the lawmakers emerged with no consensus. but after that members continued to raise concerns with him despite the fact that jeffries publicly reiterated his support that he he had publicized the day after president biden's debate debacle that inspired this crisis of confid

and so i'm let's go so kayla tausche, she where are we on this? >> there was of course supposed to be a debate on abc early in september, trump seems to be saying yes, he'll debate her, but won't agree to that place in time. >> well, donald trump does things on his own terms and if there's an opportunity to change the terms and he will try to do that the first debate that took place was done on terms the biden campaign thought would benefit their candidate. we have a safe seen how that turned out. but in this situation, most of the terms were brought to the trump campaign and they had very little input on them. and so i see this as having covered trump's presidency before as him trying to get a better deal out of it, whether it is a deal over how much time each answer is are trying to pick the moderators for the debate. this is him saying, i'm not going to do it. i'm not going to give you the ratings. bonanza unless you come and meet me on my terms. yeah. >> of course. he knew he loves an audience. for example, we didn't have one in debate with bi

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toosii kayla, tell us what you're hearing about that tau she sorry tell us what you're hearing about the obamas it's endorsement and also we will talk a little bit about whether or not this debate is going to happen sara, it is. >> there are a lot of questions at this hour. it has been a fast-moving week for vice president harris with no shortage of developments but she is ending this week on a high note with that highly influential endorsement from the democratic party's power couple listen i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, camila, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can good through this election and into the oval office my goodness michelle brock, this means so much to me it comes as the campaign is trying to ramp up its organizing in short order, planning a so-called weekend of action with more than 2000 events after sprawling across the battleground states throughout this week, just today, the campaign has various events planned with surrogates in critic

but tonight the questions are going to beat solely for president biden. >> and very quickly, kayla, i'm just curious. i'm just wondering originally the white house announced the press conference would be at 5:30 p.m. eastern, but now they've announced it's been moved to 6:30 p.m. eastern. do we know why they moved it we're still waiting on the exact details of what led to the delay. >> in that press conference. there are a lot of events taking place here at the convention center today. a lot of things on the schedule and certainly nothing usually when there are many moving parts runs exactly on time that being said, there are a lot of dynamics at play for the president, his team and the people that they want to speak with before the president steps out on stage. so you have to imagine a lot of those conversations are going to be happening this afternoon to our senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche. yet the nato summit here in washington. thank you very much. she's joining us now, democratic congressman jonathan jackson of illinois, congressman. thanks so much for joining us. a

kayla tausche at the white house. thanks so much joining us now to discuss new mexico's democratic governor michelle lujan grisham. governor. thanks so much for joining us so ahead of president biden speech today, the house speaker mike johnson said, these new proposals to reform the u.s. supreme court are dead on arrival, he went on to say, quote it is telling that democrats want to change the system that has guided our nation since its founding, simply because they disagree with some of the court's recent decisions. what is your response to this argument that this is about democrats trying to change the rules because they keep losing in court well, plenty of republicans have lost in this same court as well. i think it's a desperate response for folks that know that the american public has lost total faith in the supreme court. the bedrock of our productive, safe democracy the issue here is they're riddled with ethics complaints and a number of issues that don't give americans confidence that you are in fact receivin

there is no doubt the democrats are expecting more defections as kayla was just reporting, but again, we'll these party elders, as well as senator schumer, perhaps jim clyburn and others have a conversation with president biden or that's fraught as well. this is his decision to make, of course, but there are still these conversations going on behind the scenes, kate, i was just looking down. sorry, jeff, because i was just looking at jim clyber. was on the today show this morning and asked about his i mean, he's clearly critical. he saved biden's primary in 20 he's a huge he's he his opinion matters. he was asked about what the fallout is in the impact and i'm seeing some of the quotes from it. essentially, he was asked, should the conversation about the president getting out of this race, should that cover? recession continue. jim clyburn says no, it shouldn't. and it's up to saying he's heard he's earned the right. and i'm going to give him that respect if he decides to change his mind later on, we will respond to that. we have until the 19th of august to open our convention. jim cl

hello, kayla. >> reporter: hi, juliette. i am standing on what's called view lane, but the view right now is just scorched earth and there are some homes around here. some have been lucky, some not so much. >> like perfect conditions basically for a fire. >> reporter: and those perfect conditions are what's making things challenging for firefighters to get ahead of the thompson fire. it's burned nearly 4,000 acres so far and has injured eight firefighters. flames began on thompson flat road tuesday and quickly spread up through the mountains, into neighborhoods and even to the oroville dam. >> we knew it was going to be a very bad summer and the fire season started early. >> reporter: flames crept up near feed from paul and karen raymond's home. >> we seen the fire coming from the west and it was coming fast. >> reporter: paul wasted no time. he grabbed a garden hose and bucket before being joined by firefighters to stop the flames from reaching his house. >> ever since yesterday i've been up over 24 hours, all last night ru

our correspondents are covering all of the latest developments and we start with cnn's kayla tausche, who is at the nato summit. kayla tell us more about this new reporting you have jessica, we spoke with dozens of democratic strategists, aides, officials across the biden administration and across the party at large. >> and there was one consistent theme. and that was widespread anger and sadness at seeing the president's decline on full display on the debate stage two weeks just to go after what they chalk up to careful choreography among the president's closest advisers to shield him from public view over the last year or potentially before that democrats here in the u.s. tells cnn that when they tried to raise concerns about biden's age, they were dismissed or worse, an overseas it's officials tell us that when biden attended events on the world stage, he appeared exhausted, sometimes needing scheduled downtime or a in response to just like we're having some technical issues there with kayla tausche. she's signaled will of course, get back to her if we get that fixed and we'll get

and cnn's kayla tausche, she is following president biden at the nato summit here in washington. and kayla, you have some new reporting about how some top democrats are now beginning to point fingers at biden's closest advisers. what are you learning? >> jessica, this has been a dynamic that's been simmering for some time and really spilled out into the open after the debate, my colleagues and i spoke to more more than two dozen top officials, aides, strategists within the democratic party, and the biden administration and the common theme is anger and sadness that the president since decline, they say was kept under wraps by his top aides shielded from the public for the better part of a year, democrats tells cnn that when they tried to raise concerns about the president's aging, that they were those concerns were dismissed or worse, we also spoke to several overseas diplomats who noted that president biden's exhausted jin on the world stage was apparent when he attended multilateral summits as recently as the g7 last month now, in response, andrew bates, the spokesman for the w

thank you very much, kayla. meanwhile, former president trump returns to the campaign trail this week a week where he was slated to be sentenced first conviction in the new york hush money case. but the judge, as you know, press pause just last week on the heels of the u.s. supreme court's immunity decision. see you in a national course kristen holmes is joining us now, live from miami. kristin, the former president, slated to hold a rally there. i'm told. will this be the week that trump announces his vice presidential pick? >> well, wolf, it's likely to be because they've given themselves a deadline of next monday, which is the start of the convention in milwaukee. so we're likely to see some movement on that front, but i will note that at least one source has told me that it could be as late as monday, meaning they would make that vice presidential announcement at the convention before that official nominating process. process began. but when they start this two-week critical period, they are in a place that

kayla, all eyes turn now to this press conference this evening at nato. what are you learning about how the president than it is preparing for his solo press conference jessica, we got a glimpse of the president just a few minutes ago when he held a bilateral meeting with you cranes president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> each leaders spoke. president biden briefly, he appeared steely and serious as he pledged continued support for ukraine and a desire to the end the war as quickly as possible. the president, according to the pool, ignoring a question that was shouted from reporters about the future of his candidacy. and whether he would answer those calls to step aside. but of course that is the backdrop for this entire summit, an event that was supposed to celebrate the achievements that president biden has set are a hallmark of his presidency of the uniting and expanding this 70 75-year-old alliance and standing up to aggression over now the questions are about the president's own fitness and his capacity to continue serving in this leadership role in the un

tausche, live for us from the white house. >> thank you so much, kayla. let's go to capitol hill now with cnn, congressional chief congressional correspondent, the anchor of inside politics sunday, manu raju, manu, you have some new reporting about a meeting between biden campaign officials and senate democrats. what do you learn it yeah, that's going to happen tomorrow afternoon. this comes amid anxiety majoring zaidi in the ranks among senate democrats about joe biden's chances in november 3, senior campaign officials and biden advisors will be coming to brief senate democrats, all sight not far from the capital to talk about the state of the campaign. this comes the aftermath of three democrats going behind closed doors yesterday and saying flatly that they believe joe biden will lose one of them came out publicly last night on cnn. michael bennet of colorado saying that saying that not only he will biden lose it, it could be a landslide and the house and the senate can go along with it. that concern still is prevalent within the democratic circles, ev

reporter kayla mueller is inside the burn area with a look at the devastation.h my gosh, this is the moment julia jarboe saw what's left of her home. >> yeah. there, there. really? there's no rhyme or reason. our house gone. their house. okay house next to it. you can see it's gone. >> flames ripped through her neighborhood off cohasset road overnight, and she watched her house burn down. live through her home. security camera. >> it it really is almost a numbness, right. it's surreal probably won't hit me til later. >> i'm pretty sure you know, 30 years in the military and i've been overseas and i've seen some devastation. and i thought this was a war zone, this man lives just a few houses down from julia. >> but his home made it. >> i'm so happy. my neighbor's house survived and that everybody's okay. >> after leaving their neighborhood, we went further in. this is what we saw at the end of cohasset loop road. cal fire and other agencies are using every resource available to get this fire under control. flames were creeping up in someone's backyard when we had

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uh, kayla gardner, tyler pager. thank you both for being with us this morning. i really appreciate it okay. now, there's this story. the supreme court's ruling on donald trump's claim of absolute presidential immunity expected to be released this morning at issue is special counsel, jack smith's prosecution of trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election, including transactions before and during the january 6 attack on the capitol. trump's main argument is that he can't be held criminally responsible. for anything he did during that time period because they were quote, unquote, official acts as president. the house minority leader hakeem jeffries, holding out hope that the court doesn't rule in trump's favor. >> america is not a monarchy, would not an autocracy. we don't have kings or rulers are dictators we are a democracy in a democracy one principles should be clear. no one is above the law that includes presidents and former presidents is certainly includes donald trump. and so i'm hopeful that at least five justices on the supreme court will make the righ

definitely, and i conic image kayla, but i just want to ask about the reaction. obviously we've heard from joe biden. well, what other reaction has that been from across the political spectrum in the us? well, it's worth noting that tucker carlson, the former fox news host who had the top rated television program was getting the most viewers before he had his jo removed from fox news tucker carlson, made a prediction roughly a year ago. it's something like this might happen. these are tucker thousands words a year ago that sound almost prophetic to song. and are they going to let trump be president? of course me look. if you know they protested them. they called the names he won anyway, they impeached him twice on ridiculous pretences. they think fabricated a lot about what happened on january 6th in order to impeach him to get it didn't work. he came back, then they indicted him. it didn't work, he became more popular. let me advise him 3 more times and every single time his popularity rose to begin with criticism, then you go to protest, then you go to a piece

we have cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche here with us kayla, what are we expecting to hear from this primetime address? >> brianna, when president biden said that he would be exiting the race, he promised the american people more detail on exactly what led to his change of heart, which just a few weeks ago, he had said that only the lord almighty could convince him to step aside. but in the weeks after that, fundraising all but dried up and prominent party leaders ratcheted up their pressure on him to step aside, but both of those dynamics reversing themselves in dramatic course and just two days since vice president harris assumed the reins of the democratic candidacy for president hear the campaign says that more than $100 million in fundraising singh has poured in the majority of which it says is coming from first-time donors she's racking up new endorsements and more than 58,000 volunteers have signed on to the vice president's ground game for this sprint to the finish line, when harris visited the campaign's headquarters yesterday, that's now being in rebranded

what are you learning, kayla? >> erin sources tell us that now president joe biden is expected to be the headliner on the democratic national convention's opening night, just about three weeks from now, the goal of having sitting president be that first nights keynote is to allow biden an opportunity to highlight the work of his administration before the programming officially transitions the harris's candidacy this according to multiple sources familiar with the planning, one of whom told me this monday is going to be joe's night, then he's going to hand over the keys. there's some precedent so we're doing this back in 2000, president bill clinton had the opening keynote that year before he transitioned the convention to his vice president, al gore. but of course the circumstances are much different here with biden having been forced decide by members of his own party, as you mentioned, he was supposed to be the final speaker on the final night as the nominee, something that he was not able to do in person back i

let's get now to cnn, senior white house correspondent kayla tausche all right. kayla, give us a sense of given biden's decision to drop out of the race for the white house, concerned about what kind of leverage he may have is he's trying to pressure netanyahu here exactly. >> biden plans given the fact that like address laying out the three parts ceasefire framework, in essence, trying to lay out all of the facts of that potential deal. and tried to strong arm them into reaching it and then it was just two weeks ago when during a press conference after the conclusion of the nato summit, that president biden said that hamas and israel had agreed to a framework of that deal. and shortly following that, secretary of state, tony blinken said that they were inside the ten yard line, and now senior administration duration officials say they have never been closer than they are today to reaching such a deal. but of course, it is not only the details of such deal, but also the political will of netanyahu himself that are critical to actually reaching one. it's no secret

cnn's kayla tausche. she is at the white house and kayla, what did we expect vice president harris and the prime minister to talk about? >> jake? we expect the vice president and the prime minister to talk about broadly the relationship between the u.s. and israel, but also the state of ceasefire talks device president was among the first members of the administration to call quite aggressively for a ceasefire deal as early as the first week of march at that time, she was seen as being he's somewhat at odds or at least going slightly further than other members of the administration in doing so. but since there than there has been a broad push within the white house to get a ceasefire deal reach. it's been two months since president biden laid out the framework of the deal that was being discussed to try to push both israel and hamas on the negotiating table. and it's been two weeks since president biden said on the sidelines of the nato side, that a framework had been agreed by both israel and hamas. and

let's bring in cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche. kayla calabria, essentially doubling down on kind of what pelosi said, that it is up to joe biden and he would prefer that people just stopped talking about it and move on. what are you hearing this morning? >> well, this morning, sara, the white house and campaign, the people i'm talking to inside of both of those buildings say that they expected more defections after last night because of the pressure that had been building up into last night. although they remain relieved and pleased with how the president handled his time on stage, nearly an hour fielding questions from ten questioners it's a time in which they say that he was able to make some jokes, exhibit some personality show some substance on foreign policy and hopefully put some questions to bet on it. his fitness and his acuity, although they acknowledge that there will be more questions, more conjectures and yes, more defections. even in the coming days. but one thing that president biden and did last night that we haven'

kayla tausche, she is outfront live outside the white house to begin our coverage tonight, and kayla, you know, we just saw harris at the new harris campaign headquarters, which were the biden headquarters. we heard him call all all-in and i know you have new reporting on that tsunami of support that i referenced behind harris tonight yeah. >> erin, there was real energy in that room tonight and it is not just the for strata of the democratic party or the cash coming into coffers that donors are providing. there's a real on-the-ground infusion of energy at this hour, a campaign official says but in the last day, more than 28,000 new volunteers have signed up for their effort. that's a 100 times the average of daily sign-up in you know, in prior days for a campaign that's been going on for over a year at this point, the campaign now has 250 offices hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and thousands of full time staff members. and tonight, vice president harris said that she has asked biden's campaign chair jen o'malley, dillon glen, to stay on and dylan has accepted that. that's certai

kayla tausche and priscilla alvarez. thanks to both you. i've seen as mine mirage is live on capitol hill, redfern air manu, former speaker pelosi waited until today to endorse vice president harris while house democratic leader jeffries and senate majority leader schumer put out a statement this afternoon saying that harris to a quote, great start to earn the nomination, but notably neither of those men endorsed her. what is going on? in top democratic leadership circles right now, well, initially right off the bat yesterday, jake, the democratic leaders did not want to put their fingers on the scale as they were grappling with this news, literally blindsided by this news that happened yesterday afternoon and trying to assess whether or not there any rivals with jump into the race against kamala harris. >> but in the last day or so has been very clear that those rivals, potential rivals, have endorsed kristen harris and it's very clear that harris as well on our way to securing the democratic nomination, those two leaders jeffries and schu

let's get you out to the white house with cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche and kayla well, the biden campaign is trying to move on even with this growing group of nervous democrats boris within the halls of the white house and within the biden campaign, there is a desire to move on from the debate, get back to what one official called business as usual, but it is hardly business as usual for democrats with domino's continuing to fall and support continuing to erode from some powerful corners of the party even now, 13 days after the debate, where many democrats walked away from that, unsure of how biden would proceed as the nominee. >> and just today, george clooney writing in the new york times about his change of heart toward president biden writing this, it's devastating to say it, but the joe biden, i was with three weeks ago at the fundraiser was not the joe big effing deal biden of 2010 and he wasn't even the joe biden of 2020. he was the same man. we all witnessed at the debate and cloning who included who co-hosted that fundraiser that raised $14 million in los

kayla tausche. thanks very much. turning now to project 2025, a conservative policy plan that could radically change the future of america as we know it, the mandate would overhaul parts of the federal government and replace civil servants with trump loyalists if the former president wins in november, donald trump insists he's done this time and again, he knows nothing about the nearly 1,000 page playbook crafted by the heritage foundation or who's behind it but a cnn review finds that at least one hundred and 40 people involved in this republican blueprint actually worked in the trump administration. cnn's steve contorno joins us now from florida, steve tell us what you found out jim with donald trump said that he didn't know who was behind project 2025. we decided to take a look at who exactly was involved and we read through the list of authors, contributors who that staff pages of all these advisory groups that have been working on the project. and we found more than 200 people have some sort of tie to donald tru

cnn's kayla tausche. cnn's eva mckend and leigh ann caldwell of the washington post hello. hi happy thursday. >> or just a day that ends in y knows what day is it? >> i know it will just go with it let's talk a little bit more about what we just heard from the vice president. you saw it on our air live she she's clearly crystallizing the argument that she's making and she will continue to make against donald trump and against republicans more broadly. i want you to hear a little bit more of her case against donald trump donald trump and his extreme allies want to take our nation back to failed trickle-down economic policies back to union busting back to tax breaks for billionaires to cut medicare and social security to stop student loan forgiveness for teachers and other public servants and i say to aft, they even want to eliminate the department of education they say that was a very focused speech, but that line about department of education for her audience the union that represents teachers, kayla, you represent you represent us. you covered the white house and the biden

kayla tausche is outfront live outside the white house, and kayla, we talk about those. the cook political report. you talk about the senators to talk about mikey cherelle, but the nato summit coming at a very high-stakes moment for biden. he gave a very big speech there. does the white house believed that the effort to get rid of him off the ticket has stalled for now well, erin, i just spoke to a few white house officials to get their takeaways and their summation of the president's remarks tonight. >> and they described it as going as planned smoothly, know stumbles with a few high marks that they pointed to when he delivered that point about ukraine standing up to putin he received and does standing ovation in the audience according to those who were there, he also had a surprise moment where he delivered the medal of freedom to yens stoltenberg, who's these, who's the outgoing secretary? janet general of nato, and even the pool reporter, david sanger of the new york times, said that as he was in the room for this speech, she said it was a smooth forceful, delayed li

kayla tausche. great to have you on all the morning's. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> the presidential campaign getting curiouser and curiouser, donald trump hitting the pause button on a debate with kamala harris after originally agreeing to one with president biden that was supposed to be on september 10. harris wasted no time accusing trump of backpedaling posting on x quote, what happened to anytime any place? cnn's alayna treene is with me now she's certainly troll donald trump there with that tweet. why is trump failing to commit to this debate with kamala harris? >> look, i mean, there's a number of things happening behind the scenes, but their official statement is that there's still so much chaos happening within the democratic party. but look as you said, sara, they are refusing donald trump and his team refusing to commit to another debate with kamala harris of course, as you mentioned, they had agreed months ago to two debates. the first of which of course was on june 27 with cnn and set off that distinct chain of events that led to biden

let's get now to cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche. all right. kayla, these harris vp contenders are out there sharpening their attacks very clearly they are, they are spread across the airwaves. brianna, and they are increasingly describing donald trump and j.d. vance as weird. it descriptor that minnesota governor tim walz himself, a contender for vice president said as a way to take down the temperature from what democrats had previously been doing, which was issuing these very dire warnings about what trump's policies would do to americans if he were re-elected. but now with reproductive rights in focus, again this week, those warnings are back on the harris campaign, putting out a statement calling trump's views, in particular weird and extreme, and pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, who is headlining that harris campaign an event in his state today tweeting this another abortion band brought to you by donald trump. we cannot let him back in the white house and we must restore every woman's freedom to choose. the harris campaign is now laun

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let's begin this hour with this new endorsement from the obama cnn's kayla tausche is over at the white house. kayla, this endorsement is not a shock, obviously we knew it was going to be coming soon, but it is another another huge boost to the harris campaigns momentum right now, which is surging and jim, it speaks directly to the ground work that has been laid for this campaign, just five days in and we're already seeing this careful choreography that succession of democratic leaders rolling out their endorsements in some cases as a standalone basis like this we know that the obamas did not want to come out with this before the party itself went forward with its rules committee and harris clinch the nomination. >> essentially with the number of delegates required. but certainly this is a major deal, a major momentum shift of four vice president harris day five of her campaign and the obama is saying not only that they support her candidacy, but they're planning to head out on the campaign trail with her to lend their political firepower directly to her and her effort out on the trail

cnn's kayla tausche at the white house for us. kayla what is going on in the white house right now? what are you hearing kate, the mood inside the white house is fondant. >> it is anxious. aids are reeling from the disastrous debate that the president had just a little over a week ago. and there's widespread uncertainty about what but the course for word looks like with the president keeping up an ambitious official schedule, digging his heels and saying that he is not going anywhere, even as calls are growing for the president to step aside and to allow himself to be replaced on the top of the democratic ticket. later this week, the president will be hosting world leaders from more than 30 nato countries here in washington before heading the campaign trail and going to battleground michigan on friday, all in attempt to shore up confidence in his presidency and his reelection bid and to prove that he is up to the task of reelection that coming as many on the other end of pennsylvania avenue are starting to raise serious concerns about the future for the democratic party and down-bal

aaron. >> all right, kayla, thank you very much as promised. now, i want to go to the democratic governor of minnesota, tim walz. he's been mentioned, of course, as a possible vp candidate. and also the head of the democratic national convention rules committee, which governor i'm sure is not usually listed on your accolades in an interview, but now of course is front and center but, let. me just, start, obviously, this is your first national interview since you came out and quickly endorsed vice president harris she said moments ago in that back-and-forth at the campaign headquarters, which president biden was a part of that she intends to earn the nomination and i know though governor some in your party at advocated for sort of a mini primary of sorts, which all sorts of ideas have been out there, but everyone should compete with some town halls and then you do it on the convention floor or some iteration of that. do you support a process at this point or do you think this a done deal? >> sure. >> know we have an open process, erin, and thank