kristen holmes. is it west palm beach for us with the trump campaign? jeff, let me start with you. you're down there. are tech would campus kicking the tires and everything? how's it looking down there? and what are you hearing about? what we're going to see tomorrow night good morning, jim. >> the stakes could not be higher, really for either candidate not only are we just four-and-a-half months away from election day? we're also in battleground georgia. this of course was one of the most narrowest margins four years ago, joe biden defeated donald trump by some 11,000 votes. so that is the backdrop here. and the issue who's are so different from four years ago, if you think back to those debates, the last time that joe biden and donald trump encountered one another onstage, we're in the middle of the pandemic. this was all about trump's record. now, of course, biden's record is front and center as well. so both men will be explaining and defending their records as well as trying to draw sharp contrast with one another. so much has changed in the world as well. of course, the invas

kristen holmes, thanks so much. want to go to atlanta or cnn political director david challenge, it has more on the format as kristen holmes just mentioned, the set of rules, the two sides agreed to, and how different this debate night we'll look because of it. so talk, to us about the rules well, anderson, one of the biggest changes i think the view we're at almost is no audience will be a part of this debate. there'll be the two candidates and the two moderators in the room. there kristen, you heard mentioned that the microphones will be turned on for the designated speaker at the time they are designated to speak in the debate his opponents microphone will be turned off at that time timing lights are visible to the candidates throughout the debate. so they'll know when their time is running out and the two candidate podiums are eight feet apart from each other. obviously, that's a lot closer than these two candidates were to each other on the debates. stage compared to four years ago when we were in the height of

they want to see youthful, aggressive joe biden and you heard kristen holmes that talk about this the trump campaign was to see a more subdued donald trump. donald trump in the second debate in 2020, if he shows up on thursday night, it's going to cause very big problems for joe biden because he was constrained. he stuck to the topics he was policy focused, and he clearly want to debate. nobody remembers it because i didn't watch because he did so poorly in the first debate. the second debate, he did very well if that guy shows up, w for the trump camp. yeah, but but david, i mean, how cillian is getting when we're talking about jacked up on mountain dew. i mean, come on this is just pass the laugh test where he bought listen, so i think first you're last maybe, maybe by drive around the cougar in his car. we don't know what the trump campaign is trying to do is just paint a picture like the president when people see him, when cpsc president by now kind of shuffles along a little bit, doesn't look like the most robust sky at the state of the union. he was a pretty robust fell up. peop

kristen holmes is in west palm beach, florida. kayla tausche is at the white house and kayla, let's start with you first because you've got new reporting this morning about the advice that biden is getting from some top democrats. what are you hearing? >> manu several senior democrats who have the biden camps ear have in recent weeks been urging them to change pack on the economy. instead going directly after trump's economy, instead of taking credit for biden's own. now they say is a lifelong politician that biden is naturally inclined to seek credit where it's do, but they say that it's currently at odds with the way voters feel as so long as the cost of living is so high, no amount of good data would be able to sway them. otherwise, in the words of one senior democrat, i spoke with, he said of biden, he wants the credit, he needs to just stop. and while it's true, mater that everyone in washington has advice, what was so striking about these conversations was this synchrony of them and that there seemed to be a widely view amon

kristen holmes and kevin lift tech guys. thank you very much. join me now as president clinton's former director of speech writing, michael waldman, he's written nearly 2000 speeches, including for stay the unions prepared president clinton for the 1996 debates. he's the author of the super majority, how the supreme court is dividing america michael, thanks so much for being with us it has been the case in the past that incumbents sometimes performed poorly during their first debate what do you think? i mean, obviously do you heard kevin and kristen there are a few moments ago talking about all these expectations and where the bar is being set and the trump team first might've been setting the bar too low for joe biden and now they're conscious of that. where do you see things heading into this debate? >> well, it's definitely true that almost every incumbent president has lost the first debate. there, rusty, the surrounded by people who tell them everything they say it's brilliant. when they walk in a room of marine band plays hail to the chief

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cnn's kristen holmes is covering trump's event in the key battleground state of arizona right now, kristin, tell us, first of all, more about trump's message yeah. >> you can hear people booing right now. i'm not sure what donald trump is talking about, but he spoke for about an hour, which was supposed to be 15 minutes. it is an intro and now he's taking questions from voters in arizona and most of what he talked about focused on immigration, a problem that here in arizona incident space. very much very often because of the fact that they are on the border. so it's really hammering that messaging home. now the other thing he talked about, of course, was because they're trial in new york saying it was a rigged system and talking about how much money they re, is actually a giving a figure that we hadn't heard before. take a listen to what he said. >> it right after the announcement of this more campaign, funds were given to this campaign than any campaign they think in history almost $400, 400 no, it's never been nobody's ever seen okay so, first of all, the campaign told us that they raise

kristen holmes for us, kristen. thank you very much. so as kristen pointed out, the trump campaign clearly celebrating after last night, cnn presidential debate, but president biden's poor performance doesn't necessarily mean that trump gave a good one. the former president would not commit to accepting the election results it's and he lied over and over again. our fact checker, daniel dale tract more than 30 blatant falsehoods. my friends and colleagues are back scott jennings, the reality is they're were a lot of falsehoods from donald trump and then there was this answer when he was asked pressed about whether or not he would accept the results of the election. watch if it's a fair and legal and good election absolutely. >> i would have much rather accepted these. but the fraud and everything else was ridiculous that if you want well, have a news conference on it in a week or we'll have another one of these in a week. but i will absolutely. there's nothing i'd rather do. it would be much easier for me to do that then i'm running agai

. >> let's cnn national correspondent kristen holmes is following the former president. he was just at the headquarters of the national republican senatorial committee. >> he didn't speak for very long. >> kristen, but she got a warm reception, applause from these senators yeah, boris and breanna not only did not think for a long, but he also didn't take questions even though he was looking directly at us reporters shouting at him, but he clearly had a message you wanted to put out there which was that the party was unified behind him and just given the indication of what we saw with the senators on that warm welcome, the party is rallying behind the former president as the presumptive nominee. >> now, when all that talk about unity, we heard a very different tenor from donald trump, or at least according to our sources, earlier this morning when he met with house republicans, they described him as bouncing around from topic to topic at times, airing his grievances, talking about the justice system insulting some of the congressional republicans who had impeached him and

wolf kristen holmes reported for us, kristen, thank you very much. i want to bring in more of our political experts right now to assess what's going on. scott jennings, a massive hall, massive amount of money coming in, especially since the conviction on all of these counts, what's your takeaway? >> it's reminiscent of the period of the republican party of 2018 during the kavanaugh hearing during honestly, where you had all corners of the party basically in unison that someone was being railroaded. and so they unified around that. and obviously then kevin all got confirmed regarding this hall. >> this is exactly what they needed because they've been running behind biden on the money chase. >> and what they need to do is jakob turnout, ground game operations are expensive. finding the kinds of voters and registering them, turning them out that they've got to do cost a lot of money. so this is a shot in the arm they needed. >> well, let me get maria to react to that. a huge fundraising for the republicans right now, including trump, of course, should d

cnn's kristen holmes has more from washington. >> we have to take this this beautiful place and we haveo make it really something very special again, right now, it's not special. >> former president donald trump returning to capitol hill as the presumptive republican presidential nominee, and a convicted felon this is an outstanding group of people. i'm with them 1,000%. there was me 1,000% hoping to rally congressional republicans and streamline the messaging ahead of the presidential election. house republican leadership on surprisingly, giving the meeting positive reviews morning we just concluded a very successful special political conference with our special guest president donald j. trump. we are at 100% unified behind his candidacy. the trump team said his meetings were expected to focus on policy, but sources inside the house meeting told cnn at trump tore through a list of complaints lamenting about his legal woes, calling the justice department, quote, dirty, no-good wondering about taylor swift's endorsement of president joe biden, quote, why would she endorse this dope calli

cnn's kristen holmes has more do we have to take this this beautiful place and we have to make it really something very special again, right now, it's not special. >> former president donald trump returning to capitol hill as the presumptive republican presidential nominee, and a convicted felon. this is an outstanding group of people. >> i'm with them 1,000% there was me, 1,000% hoping to rally congressional republicans and streamline the messaging ahead of the presidential election. house republican leadership on surprisingly, giving the meeting positive reviews morning we just concluded a very successful special political conference. with our special guest president donald j. trump. we are at 100% unified behind his candidacy. the trump team said his meetings were expected to focus on policy, but sources inside the house meeting told cnn at trump tore through a list of complaints lamenting about his legal woes, calling the justice department, quote, dirty, no-go. >> good wondering about taylor swift endorsement of president joe biden, quote, why would she endorse this dope calling mil

kristen holmes, pardon me. thank you for that. let's go now to cnn's priscilla alvarez priscilla, what are you hearing from the biden campaign look, biden advisers acknowledge it was a lackluster performance last night, but they are standing by him and they maintain that he is staying in this race. and sources tell cnn that he is still committed to debate in september, but there is no doubt that over the course of the day the biden campaign payne has had to contend with criticism from all part from everywhere from allies of the president, from democratic officials and lawmakers who were deeply concerned by the president biden that they saw last night. in fact, i had talked to folks heading into thursday's debate and they told me that they hope that they would get the state if the union president biden, who was showed, for example, the strength and was able to quell some concerns about age and mental acuity, what they got instead though, just raised more questions about the president's age and yes, advisers have pointed to the firs

. >> and the wake of the verdict, adding that one-third of those donors are new, cnn's kristen holmes has more if they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone i defined donald trump lashing out friday a day after a new york jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. we're gonna fight. i'm wired in such a way that a lot of people would have gotten away a long time ago, trump aired grievances with a trial and leveled attacks at the prosecutor and the presiding judge, juan merchan. >> it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where we could have a fair trial. we didn't get it. we wanted a judge change. we wanted to judge. it wasn't conflicted and obviously he didn't do that even as the former president remains under a gag order that blocks them from speaking out about witnesses, jurors, and others closely tied to the case. >> trump's singled out ex-attorney michael cohen, a key witness in the case, without using his name, not allowed to use his name because of the gag order but you know, he's just sleazebags everybody knows that. took me a while

century or more in america, everything is at stake let's bring in our national correspondent, kristen holmes. she's joining us live from capitol hill right now. kristen, what are other republican lawmakers saying and what are you hearing from the former president himself behind closed doors? >> yeah well, if i will remind you that this was set up as sort of an introduction to donald trump or reintroduction. this is the first time he's meeting with these large groups of lawmakers. first it was hill republicans later today it will be with senate republicans behind me since he became the presumptive nominee and since it became a convicted felon, the way it was explained to us is that donald trump was going to spend the time talking about how he was going to be joe biden in the fall as well as talk about 20 25 agenda. now, according to our sources in the room, that's not entirely what happened. he did talk about one policy issue, in particular, he talked about abortion, something we know that his weighed heavily on the former president and he's tried to walk a fine line between both taking credi

. >> cnn national correspondent kristen holmes is tracking it all for us. so kristen, tell us about this interview and what it entails. >> so there's nothing normal at all about the fact that a former president is sitting down with a probation officer, that being said, this is a totally normal procedure and routine theatre for somebody who has been convicted of multiple felonies. this is part of the sentencing procedure. he is going to sit down for this virtual interview with a probation officer who is based in new york, donald trump will be down in mar-a-lago with his lawyer, todd blanche and essentially this will all go into a report that this probation officer makes and gives to judge juan merchan before that sentencing that could impact the outcome of what that punishment is. because remember, one more shawn is the one who is going to eventually be making that sentencing or announcement. >> yeah. it's not an obligatory thing that trump has to appear four, so you have to imagine that his desire to actually show up may have something to do with what you ju

but first, let's go to kristen holmes. she's near mar-a-lago down in florida kristen, you just got off the phone with trump's campaign advisers. what did they tell you? >> yeah. look, there was a lot of level setting wolf, they talked a lot about how they believed that president joe biden can show up, that he has proven himself a formidable opponent and that he showed up at the state of the union that in debates past, he is also shown up. this is very different from what we have heard from president former president donald trump and his advisers for several months, as they have painted biden as incompetent. donald trump often mocking joe biden as he tries to get off the stage saying that he can't find his way to the stairs. now, all of a sudden, they are changing the expectation level. this is something that we anticipated would happen particularly as over the weekend, we started hearing from more and more of donald trump's allies talking about how the ball or was set too low for president biden. now the other thing i want

program, has campaign called to quote, haul out the good gene in a fundraising emails, cnn's kristen holmes and lauren fox or standby up on capitol hill kristen, tell us more about this meeting. what's going on yeah. >> jim, i didn't it's significant for the number of reasons that you laid out, but i will remind you that despite the fact that these lawmaker said that after january 6, they have long come around to donald trump, or at least most of them, the republican party really rallying around their nominee, decide what happened on january 6. this is significant so again, for a number of reasons because this is really the first time he has met with a group, a big group of lawmakers like this since he became the presumptive nominee, and also since he became a convicted felon, when talking to trump's team, they really want this to be about, quote, unquote unity, getting the party in line behind donald trump and really getting the messaging in sync before what is expected to be several very contentious month ahead of november. now, the way the donald trump's team waited out to us was that he

cnn's kristen holmes is talking to our sources in the trump campaign. so kristen, tell us more about that meeting and what else donald trump has on his schedule today? >> well, monday, i'm going to start with reiterating what you just said that there's absolutely nothing standard or routine about the fact that a former president is sitting down with a probation officer, but that being said, it is pretty routine for someone who has been convicted of a felony before their sentencing to sit down with this probation officer, have this pre-interview that is going to form really the report that is sent to juan merchan that could impact how donald trump is sentenced or what his punishment actually looks like. so donald trump will be down in mar-a-lago. they're doing this virtually sitting with his attorney, todd blanche, talking to a probation officer in new york as they put together this report before that july 11, in sentencing. >> now the rest of his de it looks like kind of a campaign trail. >> he's going to be delivering remarks at the dan barry institute

that everyone sees on thursday night i'm jay, i want you to stand by also want to bring in cnn's kristen holmes. >> she's done in florida covering the trump campaign for us. kristen, what about the former president? what is he doing and saying just ahead of this major matchup? well, just to go off of what i'm jay was saying, i think donald trump's own senior advisers would acknowledge that they don't know which donald trump is going to show up on thursday. >> but what they have been doing is trying to hone his messaging, having what they call policies sessions, any senior adviser that you talked to will tell you that they don't use the word preparation or prep when it comes to donald trump and the debate instead, they have these small meetings with senior advisers, with allies, with lawmakers who can shed particular insight into various issues because they've had more than a dozen, they have talked about everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy. what they're really hoping that donald trump will do is focused on those issues like immigration gracian, like the economy, things that

i also want to check in with cnn's kristen holmes right now. he trump campaign first, kristen, how is the former president of preparing? with less than what, three hours to go until this debate well, donald trump just landed in atlanta. >> he and his team, he was surrounded by some of his top advisors, chris lacivita, susie wiles, jason miller, who has been running point on the debate. they headed into the motorcade and they should be here at the debate. cite any minute now in terms of what they are doing to prepare, we are told they're going directly into the room that is designated for trump and his team. they'll continue to watch the debate coverage. the lead up, and they will maintain conversations about what to expect later tonight according to one aid, it is now all on the former president's shoulders. there's not much else, but they believed that they can do to drill into him ahead of this debate course as we know from these senior advisers, they have in enormous amount of time focusing on things like immigration, like crime, like the eco

really talented people that president trump's 78th birthday, i want to go straight out to cnn's kristen holmes, who has been morning on drawing for years and has live in west palm beach, florida. >> kristen, how is trump celebrating his 78th birthday? i know he's done a big fan of that number, 78 yeah. i mean, he's very aware of the fact that that's just right behind joe biden, that most of america believes that both candidates going into november are very the one thing he doesn't want to focus on it. >> all you almost never hear donald trump talking about biden's age only instead of attacking his mental fitness for office. but donald trump trump is spending this day like he spends most days surrounded by people who really support him. this is called trump 47. this is the club of some of his biggest supporters in florida but and jake, i do want to add one piece of new reporting that we have just gotten it and it's how he spent the de before his birthday, you mentioned that upcoming debate. we did learn while he was in dc, held a quote, unquote, policy session with close advisors, as well as se

this is his first return to the campaign trail since that conviction, cnn's kristen holmes is traveling with the trump campaign and is in phoenix. thank god, indoors instead of in the 110 degree heat. kristen, what what is the trump campaign saying is going to be the main theme of this event yeah. >> take before i get to the theme you talked about that we have just learned that 11 people were transferred because of heat exhaustion from outside of his rally. there were thousands of people outside trying to get in, but it is again 112 degrees here in phoenix. and they've clearly impacting some of the crowd. now when it comes to today's bet, basically what we are expecting to see is a few minutes of a campaign speech and then this turns into a town hall. i don't expect this to be any kind of voters who are on the fence let's tripping donald trump up. this is a very favorable crowd is turning point. a group that is associated with donald trump at affiliated with dog junior as well. now the ends of those short remarks are expected to focus on immigration is going to bash biden's executive or

let's get straight to cnn's kristen holmes and phoenix, where donald trump holds a town hall meeting tomorrow. it will be his first campaign events since being convicted in the new york criminal hush money trial. kristen, let's start with your new reporting. trump is actually talking about a future behind bars yeah, jake, this just goes to show you how hard it is to be a communications person around donald trump and try to control the narrative because trump himself always controlled the narrative. >> now if you talked to any of his senior advisers, they are making no plans for him to go to present his lawyers believe they have a good case for him not to go to prison. they think is age, the fact that he doesn't have any kind of criminal record, make that case and they are insisting that he will not go to prison. however, donald trump is making his own personal phone calls privately saying that he thinks he could very well be behind bars and that he is okay with it. i will note that almost anyone you talked to, who knows donald trump does not think you would actually be okay with going

cnn's kristen holmes is working her sources for us. she's over it. a trump event in florida and cnn's arlette saenz as details on president biden's plan to take on his predecessor once again firstly, you, kristen trump is expected. i take it to speak at any moment now, give us the latest yeah. >> this is actually his 78th birthday celebration with some of his biggest supporters called club of 47. it is a group committed to getting donald trump re-elected. and while you are likely to not hear donald trump take any jobs biden's age, she will probably make some self-deprecating jokes. he is turning 78 meaning that if he does win in november, you would be the oldest person to become president of united states, something that the former president is very aware of that is why, when you hear him attacking joe biden, he often talks about his mental fitness but avoids the actual comments about biden's age, knowing that he is just a few years younger now, you mentioned that debate prep. that's part of how he spent the de before his birthday when he was in washi

mcconnell saying that the entire meeting was entirely positive, wolf, address the arctic. >> kristen holmes. thank you very much for that report. let's break all of this down with our political experts right now and david the chelyan, let me start with you. you saw that picture of mitch mcconnell and donald trump today shaking hands after both of them over the past few years, we're blasting each other repeatedly. what do you make of this? well, first, godless doug mills, the photographer from the new york times, who just as documented, so many historic moments. but i think he captured here an amazing depiction to me this it's encapsulates the modern day today republican party because we know what mitch mcconnell stood on the floor of the senate. and said about donald trump's culpability and responsibility as it related to january 6 than that the justice system would catch up to him when he made the decision that he was not going to support conviction and impeachment at the time. we know they haven't spoken since december of 2020 when mitch mcconnell believed donald trump's behavior was out

i want to bring and see it as kristen holmes, right? because she's covering donald trump's post debate rally today. kristie, the former president, sees done. president biden's performance during his campaign event, just a little while ago in virginia. tell us about it. >> this is the first time that we had seen him actually react to the debate. we had heard from senior advisers who had worked to paint biden as week get an old and senile, i'd saying that they were celebrating the fact that they believe donald trump one. now obviously we won't know who photo. won the debate unless we see this from voters, but that is how donald trump's team is characterizing last night. now, here is how trump himself talked about the despite the fact that crooked joe biden spent the entire week at camp david resting working studying, he studied very hard. >> he studied so hard that he didn't know what the hell he was doing he got to debate rules that he wanted he got the date that he wanted he got the network that he wanted with the moderate. she wanted n

. >> cnn's kristen holmes has more from chesapeake morning viktor and isabelle, what we heard from former president donald trump for the first time post that thursday night debate at a rally and chesapeake, virginia, he addressed what happened on the stage. >> he did a victory lap and he went after joe biden and take a listen despite the fact that crooked joe biden has spent the entire week at camp david resting, working, studying, he studied very hard. he studied so hard that he didn't know what the hell he was doing he got to debate rules that he wanted he got the date that he was he got the network that he wanted with the moderate. she wanted no amount of rest reagan could help him defend his atrocious record now one thing of course to note is the fact that donald trump agreed to the same rules, format and network that president joe biden did. >> but the other thing that i want to point out, donald trump stop short of saying this was about age. in fact, he said he didn't think it was about age. he thought it was about mental fitness. obviously, as we have reported before, trump himself

he blames for the verdict seen as kristen holmes has bore on what trump is saying and doing on this his first full day as a felon they can do this to me. >> they can do this to anyone. >> i defined donald trump lashing out friday a day after a new york jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in his criminal hush money trial. >> we're going to i'm wired in such a way that a lot of people would have gone away a long time ago, the trump aired grievances with the trial and leveled attacks at the prosecutor and the presiding judge, juan more merchan. >> it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change where we can have a fair trial. we didn't get it we wanted a judge change. we wanted to judge. it wasn't conflicted and obviously he didn't do that even as the former president remains under a gag order that blocks them from speaking out about witnesses this is jurors and others closely tied to the case. trump's singled out ex-attorney michael cohen, a key witness in the case, without using his name, not allowed to use his name because of the gag order. but you know, he's just sleaze bag. everybo

. >> well, we'll hear more from cnn's kristen holmes. he was covering the trump campaign in florida, but first, cnn's mj lee has this report on what biden is focusing on as he prepares at camp david even though domestic issues are really top of mind for the biden team, i'm told by a source that the debate prep sessions at camp david have also focused on foreign policy with jake sullivan, the president's national security adviser, taking the lead on those discussions as the president is repaired for the possibility of foreign policy issues coming up one campaign official telling me that when it comes to foreign policy, the contrast that president biden it will try to draw against donald trump, but really could not be more stark. >> this is what the official said. they said president biden stands up to dictators and defense freedom. trump is a loser who is too dangerous and reckless to ever be anywhere close to the oval office? office again. now, one famous line from donald trump, that one source had said could come up on thursday night is

well 11 people not is a lot. >> kristen holmes. thank you for that report. i want to turn now to this news about steve bannon. we have sarah marie out front in washington. sarah, i know you spoke with bannon's attorney they weren't actually expecting this result. folt now, i think even though you saw steve bannon playing it, cool in front of the cameras when he left court, sounding very defiant, his attorneys were stunned by the fact that the judge ordered bannon to report to prison by july 1st and begin serving his sentence. >> i think his attorneys felt very confident that they would have more time to exhaust all of theirs. they're appeals and to keep bannon out of prison for the foreseeable future. now, bannon is not out of options, although this tight time frame is definitely working against him, he could go to the us court of appeals. he could go to the supreme court. he could ask for emergency intervention, but just to give you an idea of where they were in regrouping when i was talking to one of his attorneys after court, they were saying we still don

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let's get straight to cnn's kristen holmes and phoenix, where donald trump holds a town hall meeting tomorrow. it will be his first campaign events since being convicted in the new york criminal hush money trial. kristen, let's start with your new reporting. trump is actually talking about a future behind bars yeah, jake, this just goes to show you how hard it is to be a communications person around

journeys now seen as kristen holmes and west palm beach. >> so what have you learned about the former prisons debate prep so far? >> has he been doing it? >> well there is no traditional debate prep when it got down and drop it. in fact, weeks ago when i asked the debate prep was going to look like a senior advisor actually said we don't use that where that word being separation. >> donald trump himself is actually having some versions of debate, brad, whether they call it that or not, they say things like hidden i'm taking questions at the turning point event in arizona is part of debate grab. >> i will let you think about what those questions are and how those might compare two debates and those are some before voters that are in that room, but they do all of this as different ways to prepare him to be on this date with president joe biden, part of the reason they don't do it for additional the vapor up is because donald trump isn't know does sit through or have the patience for that. it's not going to be like what we've seen in past years or past cycles, where someone six in for th

kristen holmes. thank you for that. and history tells us the debates they can really make or break candidates joining us. now we have harry entin with some of the past defining moments, how they impacted the race. so let's do this. let's get in the delorean. yes, let's accelerate to the nece necessary at eight miles per hour. good. and go back not to 1985, but 21976, carter versus ford. >> let's do it. let's get that the lorien various no domination of eastern europe and there never will be under a ford administration okay, so this is the 1976 campaign that was the second debate before the second debate, jimmy carter had a two point lead after that moment from gerald ford, in which he denied the obvious that was soviet domination over eastern europe. >> look at what happened. carter's lead went up to five points. what's so important? here was that jerry 4, the incumbent president at the time, had been chipping away at carter's lead after the first debate, this being the second debate he seemed to have some real momentum

let's go now to cnn's kristen holmes, who has lived from the cnn spin room or at christian former president trump is expected to arrive here in atlanta in a couple hours. what's he doing in the lead up to the debate? >> a lot of what he's doing, right. i'm briana as attacking joe biden on social media. he's spending time at his mar-a-lago resort. we has been for the last several days. he's surrounded by some of his top advisors, chris lacivita, susie wiles is campaign managers and he's watching a lot of the pre-debate covers one of the things that we have in told by senior advisers is that they are closely monitoring what is coming out of camp. david. they've been watching that reporting on what biden tends to focus on or is being installed? drafted to focus on what he wants his messaging to visa that they are prepared to counter attack. you heard mj. they're talking about both democracy and abortion this is something that donald trump has focused on with his team. how to respond to questions on democracy on january 6, on his role in january 6, and also so what he has said about pardoning t

cnn's kayla tausche at the white house and cnn's kristen holmes down in west palm beach, florida near trump's mar-a-lago home. kayla, let's start with you. walk us through these mock debates house everything unfolding for a very, very leak-proof operation at this point yes at least that is the goal fill the bind team has now been hunkered down at the rural mountainside retreat for nearly five days, going through the motions of going through material surreal culminating in those mock debates that i'm told began yesterday where the team felt like they had enough of a sense of how to run those practice debates of what i'm i told we're varying lengths to practice what they think will come up in the debate and what they want. president biden to be both reacting to and pro who actively bringing up on his own, i'm told that at camp david, the team is undergoing long working days as the preparation is geared toward both of this substance on stage as well. well as the stamina required for a pretty busy stretch with the 9:00 p.m. debate going late into the evening, followed by at traveled to no

so what does it matter of finding the government, the american people don't give a cnn's kristen holmes joins us now a christian, let's start with the trump team's legal strategy here. what do you hearing from your sources about the sentencing scheduling july 11, well, there are two schools of thought, so just a reminder before we actually landed on july 11, or the judge did todd blanche trump's attorney, had asked for the end of july to be the sentencing which would have been after the convention. and i will tell you that they had been concerned about the convention and this case running up against it for quite some time, even when they were doing their delay tactics they were worried at a certain point that if they were to successful, that he could actually be in court while that convention was supposed to be going on. >> so this has been an ongoing issue for them. so now the political team is assessing whether or not this actually helps him or doesn't help him politically. part of the reason that it could potentially help them is because what we've seen, these outrage i just fund rai

in particular, coming out of yesterday yes, indeed, kristen holmes live frehse, florida.ch for that. and i want to bring your my great panel reporters the boston globe, jacky coaston, cnn's isaac dovere cnn's eva mccann, and romesh per neuro of the national review, nice to see you all. i want to start off with where chris ingest left about that show of support on capitol hill yesterday, i spoke a lot of house republicans and senate republicans instead was did anyone raise any concerns? were there anyone any dissension? the answer uniformly was no, whether it was a vulnerable republican, wasn't people who are upset about we, donald trump handle generate six generally six didn't even come up in the conversation. you will, that was a chief concern of admission mcconnell on this issue but what do they tell you? it tells me they know where their basis i know where the republican voters are, and they know where where, who the party is. standing behind and that person is former president trump and you know, this better than i think any of us mitch mcconnell wants to win mcconnel

. >> kristen holmes in washington. christina want to start with you. you've been talking to trump's team and lawmakers. what what are you expecting to happen today? >> yeah, kyiv will look, this is the first time the former president and has had this kind of meeting with republican lawmakers, sends one becoming the presumptive nominee and two, since becoming a convicted felon. and on the trump side, they're really saying that they want this to be about quote, unquote, unity, rallying the troops behind the former president, getting them their messaging in sync ahead of what is likely to be a very contentious several months leading up to november. now we are told that he is expected to talk about one, how he plans to win, how to beat biden in november, but to what? 2025 agenda would possibly look like talking about his policies is proposals, immigration and the border economy, all the things that we hear him talk about regularly on the campaign trail, on the lawmaker side, it sounds as though they are in line with what donald trump is going to say. they

kristen holmes, mj lee. thank you, both. >> well, the two years since the dobbs decision has drastically changed the landscape for many women seeking abortion and reproductive care in the us. make tirrell takes a look back at some of the women and families cnn previously met and shows us just how much things have changed in the two years since roe v. wade was overturned. we've crossed the country hearing from women and families about the transformation and access to reproductive health care. >> i continue to feel this baby move and knowing that i'm going to give birth and watch my child pass the effects of the dobbs v. >> jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion have stretched also to miscarriage care as clinics have closed down, reducing access to lower cost procedures in critical moments for patients. >> i wanted to have that dan see, i didn't want to have to go through it at home knowing that it was gonna be horrifying and to in vitro fertilization after a state supreme court

kristen holmes, the west palm beach florida tracking all things trump, thanks for that. and it's trump prepares to the debates. he's not shying away from his grievance fueled rhetoric. here he is on saturday before a group of christian conservatives the wounds, all of them body. if i took the share of you'd see a beautiful, beautiful person. >> but you'd see wounds all over all over me. >> i've taken a lot of wounds. i can tell you more than i suspect any president ever he told them he's been treated worse than abraham lincoln, who of course, was shot in the head, are great reporters are back, okay. >> so what do we this is obviously different than a rally because there's a live audience area and to defeat of the audience, he goes off script a rambles and the leg. this time, hizon be constrained by the time limits and the fact that there'll be a muted mike. and they'll not be a live audience. so you're talking to the trump campaign. what are you hearing about how he plans to approach this? >> well, it was interesting when he asked the audience at that philadelphia events

the jury spoke like a speaking all cases, and should be respected kristen holmes is outfront live in phoenix where trump just spoken sara maria is live in washington covering bannon's case. >> let's start with christians are christian, this is trump's first big campaign events since his conviction. how did we handle that considering he is still under a gag order oh, briana, this was very different than what we saw at trump tower when they're we're speculation that he might have violated that gag order. >> he was talking about michael cohen didn't mention him by name, but said that one of the witnesses was the sleazebags and it was clear who he was talking about senses then clearly he has learned his lesson today was much more vague. he did talk about the case of the terms. he you is does saying it's brig he said the judge was conflicted, but he didn't go into detail. he didn't mention him by name really, keeping it very short. usually, this is the big focus of everything he does and i will mention that a majority of his thesis she was on message. he's focused on the politics you talk

thank you let's go to cnn's kristen holmes, who's got new reporting from inside the trump camp. >> i understand you've got some new details on whether trump team has been focused on leading up to the debate particularly andrew serwer, the last 24 hours, they are looking at performance, the art of the performance, as well as visual. remember out as hard donald trump is a performer and he and many and his team believed that that's just as important as the substance of the debate his team on the ground here in atlanta has spent the last 24 bowers really honing in on every single detail i'm talking about the minutia, the steps it takes to get from behind the curtain to the podium, how far the podiums are part even the hype and where they are angled. one of the things that they were talking about was how the audio sounded from each podium to make sure that it was clear enough from the former president's podium, donald trump himself believes that these visuals like how he performs up on that stage, is going to impact how people view this. and so his team has really put in the effort to mak