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i'm pamela brown and your in the situation room skis cnn, breaking news. and we begin with breaking news on president biden set to speak tonight about the supreme court's ruling in the trump immunity case. let's go right to cnn's mj lee at the white house. what are you learning? and j, pam, we've just learned in the last five minutes at president biden will be giving remarks here at the white house addressing the supreme court's ruling on the question of presidential immunity. this is so significant, of course, because this is the first time that the president it will be giving remarks ever since he returned to washington, dc after thursday night's debate, debate. and importantly, we are learning that this is going to be a pooled event, meaning that only a select number of reporters will be in the room. we don't know, of course, whether the president is going to be in the mood to answer any questions from reporters. of course, we know that our colleagues will be paired to throw questions his way this could be a pam the first time that we get some fulsome a

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pamela brown, we're all going to be watching. thanks a lot. really appreciate it. let's continue this discussion. let's bring in meghan hays. she was director of message planning and the biden white house. and as a consultant democratic national convention also with us republican strategist and cnn political commentator shermichael singleton mehgan. you heard pamela brown is reporting there just a few moments ago, but earlier this morning, i was talking to veronica escobar. was a national campaign co-chair. jen o'malley, dillon was on one of the shows this morning. i mean, really insisting that the president is staying in this race. and i have to wonder after watching donald trump's speech last night, whether the president might have been more motivated to stay in this race? >> yeah, absolutely. he's always been wanting to drop a contrast. and when trump goes back out there and it's very trump and does his trump thing and talks for over an hour and-a-half and tells him until life i think that invigorates the president and draws the contrast of who he is. i think th

week starts sunday at eight, and discovery stream on max you were in the cnn newsroom and i'm pamela brown washington great to have you with us on this saturday night. >> while president biden is pushing forward with his reelection campaign despite growing calls for him to step aside last night, more than the week after his shaky debate performance, the president sat down for his first televised interview with abc news, where he once again dismissed the debate as a quote, bad night and denied concerns from members of his own party everyone it all said i should stay in the race, stay in the race. >> no one said no, let people i should leave. but if they do it's like not do that you sure. yeah. i'm sure look i mean, if the mortal mighty kim acid yogurt out the race, i gather race and lord, on monday is not coming down and tonight, the biden campaign is responding to a new controversy surrounding the pair of radio interviews he did on thursday, cnn's or lead signs joins us live with the details. >> so what's the latest are led wall panel, lead this controversy centers around some radio interv

how long will it take to get things back up and running welcome to the lead pamela brown in for jake tapper on this friday and we start with our 2024 lead there are now 32 democratic lawmakers publicly calling for president biden to drop out of the 2024 race. >> the growing list today includes a few high-profile figures on capitol hill, including senator martin heinrich and former january 6 committee members. zoe lofgren, and who wrote a letter to biden saying, quote, pretty directly, as i'm aware, that you have been provided data indicating that you and all likelihood will lose the race for president. i will not go through it. again, simply put, your candidate the sea is on a trajectory to lose the white house and potentially impact crucial house and senate races down ballot. well today a source tells cnn that house democratic leader hakeem jeffries is not discouraging members from speaking out against biden's candidacy the president biden for his part, is publicly remaining defiant, saying in the statement that was released today, he looks forward to getting back on the campaign tr

. >> i'm pamela brown in washington and we begin with breaking news in the middle east and new fears i mean, wider conflict. this morning, hamas and much of the arab world are accusing israel of assassinating the group's political leader, ismail haniah was killed bold and an airstrike during a visit to tehran, iran supreme leader now is vowing revenge, quote, you killed our dear guests in our house, and now have paved the way for your harsh punishment. we consider it our duty to ask for the blood of our dear guest, the israeli military said, it is not responding to reports about the attack and the u.s. says it will defend israel if it's attacked, but hopes the sky high tensions in the region can be defused i don't think war is inevitable and we'll work hard to make sure that that we're doing things to help take the temperature down. >> and address issues through diplomatic means. >> israel is claiming a strike hours earlier in the lebanese capital of beirut. the blast killed a top hezbollah military leader who israel blames for the weekend attack that killed 12 children in the golan

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i'm pamela brown and you're in the situation room let's get right to the presidential race. donald trump just revealed plans to return to the scene of the attempt on his life. let's go straight to cnn's kristen holmes, right near mar-a-lago, following all the new developments on the republican side, kristen trump says he he's planning another rally in butler yeah that's right pamela but we have no idea what exactly this would look like. in fact, he says stay tuned for details on when i've asked several of his senior advisors if this is on the books, they said that everything is still in the works, but he did just put this on true social saying he's going to be going back to butler, pennsylvania for a big and beautiful rally honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero corey obviously at talking about corey comperatore, who was killed during that assassination attempt on donald trump. but again, pamela, we still don't have the details tell us what this is going to look like. we know that he's expected to be in harrisburg, pennsylvania next week on wednesday, but i do wa

consequential cnn debate in the fallout that led to president joe biden stepping aside, cnn's pamela brown, sit down with representative jim clyburn of south carolina and to talk about what happened after biden's poor performance before the debate when did you sense like he's not going to be able to do this i don't know. >> i don't know when it was not just i just said something is something i got from my mother i have no idea what it is but it's something my mother had she always knew what was about to get in trouble did you cry? yeah watching the debate? before the debate had even concluded, the white house puts out information that the president is suffering from a cold i remember getting a text messages on my phone from very high-ranking democrats saying that he's going to have to be replaced. this is a crisis pamela brown has more now on our reporting, pamela well, jessica, it is so hard to believe that just a month ago there really was no question whether joe biden would be the democratic party's presidential nominee. >> and then the cnn debate happened and everything changed. so we

the news continues on cnn next, pamela brown, infer wolf blitzer in this situation room. and during happening now, breaking news, president biden takes his fight for political rival to wisconsin and insisting he is staying in the race for the white house and will beat donald trump this as he is facing another critical test. >> and i'd given his first high-profile interview since his debate fiasco also breaking senator mark warner reportedly is trying to put together a group of senate democrats. you will ask the president to exit the 2024 race. will he succeed? and donald trump just ask for a pause in the classified documents case as he tries to use the supreme court's immunity decision to his advantage, we are breaking down this new request and what judge aileen cannon may do next? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. what blitzer is off today, i'm pamela brown and your in the situation room skis cnn breaking news and we begin with the breaking news and the race for the white house president biden hitting the campaign trail. >> and once again,

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pamela brown is with us here in the cnn newsroom. you're getting new information. what are you learning that he did confirm one spectator is dead, that this shooter is dead. >> a second spectator isn't serious condition. importantly, former president trump is going to be ok. we know from the trump campaign statement that he is going to be fine. the district attorney confirms that he is going to be okay. he was removed from the scene as we know from the u.s. secret service. now, the district attorney did not know if the shooter died through a self-inflicted wound or not. we also don't know more details about what kind of shooter this was. i think we need to be really careful until we find out more. i asked you know, was this did the shooter have a gun? is that what you're saying? he said i can't confirm that right now. i can't confirm from anything about bullets or anything like that. so i think we need to be really careful till we get the actual confirmation of what kind of shooter this was. but the butler district attorney, richard goldfinger, is confirming that o

alzheimer's patient tomorrow at eight on cnn you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday, and pamela brown and washington president biden i didn't is digging in on his reelection campaign resisting calls from members of his own party. the step aside and the first televised interview since his shaky debate formance last week, by called it a bad night and said the muted mics did not help having a bad night. >> and i realize that even when i was answering a question, even if they turned his mic off, he was still shouting and i let it distract me my blaming on that. but i realized that i just wasn't in control cnn's arlette saenz is live in wilmington, delaware, where the president is spending the day before heading back to the campaign trail. >> so our lead does the biden campaign think that that interview was enough damage control? how are they viewing it well, pamela biden's aides really view that interview as one of the key opportunities to try to ways some of the concerns of americans voters after that debate, performance is presence, trying to make his pitch that he is up for a second te

i'm pamela brown. and your in the situation room let's get straight to our top story tonight this our president biden still trying to contain the fallout hello exactly one week after his debate against donald trump's set off alarm bells inside the democratic party. cnn's priscilla alvarez has the latest tonight, white house officials and president biden himself are stumbling on damage control. a week after that poor debate performance, we've got to be honest about that, so we need a reset, we need a course correction. we've got to acknowledge that this was not just one bad night biden telling democratic governors gathered at the white now this wednesday, his plan is to stop scheduling events after apm so he can get more sleep. that comment according to sources, leaving some governor privately frustrated biden was also asked about his health by hawaii governor josh green according to the new york times quote, mr. biden replied that his health was fine. it's just my brain and attempted humor according to

i'm pamela brown and you're in the situation room first up tonight, president biden's race to shore up support from top democrats amid these growing concerns, his debate against donald trump might have been a fatal blow to his reelection campaign. i'm going to go straight to cnn's priscilla alvarez. she's at the white house, so priscilla is the president's stumbling when it comes to damage control while pamela, it has now been a week since that debate and the president and his team are still on cleanup duty now, the president has tried to reassure his allies and even his campaign staff joining calls yesterday alongside vice president kamala harris and also convening those democratic governors at a meeting here at the white house. >> and we are now learning more details about that candid conversation that happened behind closed doors. for the president's telling governors that he would stop doing events after 8:00 p.m. saying that he needs more sleep, that according to sources for frustrating some of those in the room and also making some self-deprecating jokes. let me read you some of

i'm pamela brown and washington and we begin with breaking news tonight. the number of democratic lawmaker first calling for president biden to step away from his campaign is growing yet again, tonight, i'll president biden was campaigning and pennsylvania house democratic leader for ship held a meeting to discuss joe biden's future as a candidate. now this meeting was with ranking members. we have new details breaking this aber on who was on the call, who is now calling for president biden to step aside. i want to go straight to cnn's priscilla alvarez live right outside the whitehouse and brucella, we are both talking to our democratic sources on the hill and we're hearing that there are more members calling provided a step aside and notably, some of them are ranking members. tell us the latest yeah, let me put it to you quite simply, pamela, one of the sources that i spoke to said there were more people on this phone call explicitly saying that president joe biden should step aside as the candidate than those who spoke in favor of him saying that really

and a pamela brown, i know you're getting more reaction as well. what else are you hearing? >> yeah, i'm just text seen and trying to call sources as well. i think everyone's anxiously awaiting this press conference, wolf, that's coming up really any minute now there is a lot of jock, frankly, among my sources, law enforcement officials about how this happened. we've been talking a lot about it, but from the information we have where that gunman was compared to where donald trump was on stage. there's only about 500 feet. and we know the government was on that elevated surface how that happened is still you know, people just can't believe it. right. how did that happen or hold on. the news conference is beginning right now, let's go to butler, pennsylvania is everyone ready all right so my name is kevin roe, jack. that's r0 je i'm the special agent in charge of the fbi pittsburgh field office the first thing i want to say is that the fbi stands with the people while they're county in western pennsylvania. on our hearts go out to the victims of this heinous act which occurred

the newsroom continues with pamela brown right now you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday on pamela brown and washington and it is a busy day. we begin with president biden pushing forward with his reelection campaign, despite growing calls for him to step aside. last night and more than a week after his alarming and shocking debate, frankly, by many americans the president sat down for his first televised interview with abc news for heat he wants again, dismiss the debate as a quote, bad night and denied concerns from members of his own party everyone you all set. >> i should stay in the race stay in the race. no one said not on the people. >> i should leave. but if they do not do that you sure yeah. i'm sure look i mean, if the lotto mining came acid, you get out of the race. i got the race. and lord i might he's not con but even as the president doubles down on state in that race, more democrats are probably calling on the 81-year-old candidate to suspend his campaign with one lawmaker telling cnn, quote, where screwed. >> cnn's are led signs joins us live, a wilmington, delaware

i'm pamela brown and you're in the situation room skis, cnn breaking news. >> and let's get right to the breaking news, a new window and to kamala harris has fast-tracked back presidential campaign. the vice president's speaking on a call with donors just a short time ago, cnn's mj lee has details from the white house. what are you learning about this call and jay? >> yeah, the vice president called into a meeting of her national finance committee this afternoon where she thanked some of the top donors to the party for their support. i spoke with one donor who was on that call and they said that the call was really about the vice president and top campaign officials sort of laying out their vision for the 100 plus days that are now left left until election day. they made clear that when it comes to the vice president's calendar of course, a key priority is going to be the vice president traveling to these key battleground states. they also made clear that they are quickly reshuffling her schedule and the events on her calendar and given her new role that it's now just five days old i

i'm pamela brown in washington, jim acosta is off and we begin this hour with breaking news out of the middle east the world is watching as the region inches closer to the very real possibility of a widening war. this morning, hamas accuses israel of assassinating it's political politer, it's smile hugged me airstrike, taking place during a visit to tehran. and now iran supreme leader is vowing to avenge the killing, quote, you killed our dear guest in our house and now have paved the way for your harsh punishment. >> we consider it our duty to ask for the blood of our dear guest when asked israel's military said it is not responding to reports about the attack which would not be unexpected the us says it will defend israel if attack, but hopes at the sky high tensions in the region can be defused i don't think war is inevitable. >> we're going to work hard to make sure that we're doing things to help take the temperature down. and address issues through diplomatic means. >> israel is claiming an airstrike hours earlier in beirut, the capital of lebanon. this blast killed a top hezboll

for action item hi, more liebermann at the pentagon this while you were in the cnn newsroom, i'm pamela brown washington and we are following some breaking news coming into cnn. >> sources are saying more than a handful of top house democrats are now calling on the president to suspend his reelection campaign. this came during a call today with house leader hakeem jeffries. and as president biden hit the campaign trail on pennsylvania, telling supporters today he's quote never been more optimistic about the future of america. and when someone asked him, do you still have the support of the democratic party, the president and radically said, yes. but are reporting it suggesting otherwise at this hour, let's go straight to cnn, white house correspondent are arlette saenz, who was traveling with the president today, are let well, pamela, the pressure is growing on president biden from within his own democratic party to step aside in this race. now, this afternoon, house minority leader hakeem jeffries held a zoom meeting with the ranking members of the committees to kind of get a feel their temp

i'm pamela brown. and your and the situation room we are keeping a close eye on the white house right now, was the president it's urgent meeting with democratic governors is just about to get underway. cnn's mj lee is they're following all the breaking news on the fallout over the president's debate performance and what what may happen in the hours and days ahead, mj give us the latest pam we are seeing the biden white house and the biden campaign in full crisis mode with the president trying to reassure everybody that he can, that he is absolutely saying in the race, there is no scenario where he is not going to be the nominee. this includes campaign staff and white house staff and not just the president and the vice president calling into a campaign call today, but also we are seeing a senior staff at the white house. senior staff at the campaign are all holding calls to try to reassure folks that are working both at the white house and the campaign that despite all of the panic and all of the uncert

pamela all right. brown. uh, thanks so much. liberal justices on the high court say this decision sends a very different message, chilling words from justice sotomayor's descent, who said the decision makes a mockery of the principle that no man is above the law. a portion of her dissent reading quote, let the president violate the law. what him exploited trappings have his office for personal gain. let him use his official power for evil ends. because if he knew that he may 1 day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. that is the majority's message today. for more on this historic decision. let me bring in cnn political commentator and former defense secretary during the trump administration mark esper, his book, a sacred oath, is out now and he serves on the board or as a strategic advisor for a handful of aerospace and defense related companies. secretary, welcome to the show so just to recap for our viewers then president trump fired you in part because you oppos

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inside the corridors of power starts now good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday, i'm pamela brown and for manu raju. well, this morning, president biden is set to hit the trail again, taking a defiant stance amid growing calls from members of his own party to drop out of the race. the president's friday interview with abc news doing little to calm those nerves. and while most members of his party have not broken with the president publicly, there are signs that could change the top democrat in the house, hakeem jeffries is convenience senior democrats. this afternoon to talk about the president's future a day before members of congress congress returned to washington after their holiday break. and a source tells cnn democratic senator mark warner, the chair of the senate intelligence committee, blends together senators tomorrow to discuss biden's reelection bid. the white house and campaign team are racing to regain democrats shrinking confidence promising more unscripted appearances. a press conference this week and today, a visit to the battleground state of pennsylvania. and th

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biden seem dug in so the question is what finally changed his mind over the next hour, cnn's pamela brown examine the rise and fall of candidate joe biden from his motivations for running against donald trump to the final days and hours before his history making decision it was summer 20 2017 joe biden was out of the vice presidency out of washington, dc sea. >> and in his home state of delaware, joe biden found himself in a place he hadn't been in his entire adult life. frankly, his politics had defined his identity to now all of a sudden, he was a man without a purpose. >> there's always hanging over the question, would he get back in? and run? >> he single day with come up to me at work or in the grocery store or the pharmacy, people on the street, strangers that i didn't even know would come up and say, you have to talk your husband an into running. he has to run. he has to run and then came the unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia then the president's reaction from trump tower in new york city. you also had people that were very fine, people on both sides, biden was wat

i'm pamela brown in the situation room, erin burnett outfront starts now outfront next, the breaking news, vice president kamala harris about to take the stage in her first presidential campaign event in georgia for team is now all in to win over that state as we are learning new details this hour about harris, his pick for vice president, plus quote, more sociopathic deranged and psychotic. our kfile uncovering even more remarks at j.d. vance has made about people who don't have children and more breaking news this hour, the director of project 2025 is out but is that really the end of this controversial blueprint for trump's second term. >> let's go outfront and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett, outfront tonight. we begin with the breaking news live pictures of georgia state university that's the atlanta and it is where the vice president kamala harris is about to speak to that crowd. it is her first event in the battleground state of georgia since becoming the democrats presumptive nominee. and the harris team sees an opening in georgia. they see crowds like this and they see a p

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. >> mind pamela brown and washington and we begin this hour with breaking news sources. tell cnn more than a handful up top house democrats are calling on the president to suspend his reelection campaign. this came during a call between ranking members and house leader hakeem jeffries earlier today. and as president biden hit the campaign trail on pennsylvania today, telling supporters he's never been more optimistic check about the future of america, insisting he's got the backing up his party we're going to bring in cnn's dana bash in just a moment with what she's hearing from her sources. but first cnn's are led signs is live outside the white house tracking >> in all these breaking developments, it's really quite incredible. the split-screen arlette of a president digging in his heels and members of his own party telling him to step aside. yeah. pamela, you know, president biden when he was traveling today, it said that he does believe that the democratic party is behind him, but you are consistently seen the public and private pressure grow on president biden to ste

. >> i'm pamela brown in the situation room. >> erin burnett outfront starts now outfront next, the breaking news, harris closing the gap with trump, erasing the lead he wants had over biden to brand new polls out tonight show harris with the momentum right now plus trial and error trump unloading a series of new attacks against kamala harris. >> which ones are real? which ones are lies? >> we go through them and breaking news, the fbi tonight revealing what hit trump's ear during his attempted assassination let's go outfront and good evening. i'm erin burnett on this friday, outfront tonight, breaking news on kamala harris. she is surging a brand new poll out just moments ago showing harris is now in a statistics well dead heat with donald trump surging ahead of where biden was just before he dropped out of the race earlier this month, trump had a six point lead over biden, six points in electoral politics in this country is a chasm. the wall street journal's numbers now though tracking with the trend we've been seeing from other polls from cnn and the new york times and when it comes to th

i'm pamela brown in the situation room. i'll be back here with you tomorrow. erin burnett out front it starts right now >> i have a great night getting a boost today from some new poll numbers is this a honeymoon or is this the real deal also breaking a wake-up call, new reporting from inside trump's team about how they were caught flat-footed by biden dropping out. and now scrambling to get back on track. plus the backlash building over jd vance's childless cat ladies comments. as trump maintains, vance will help him in the rust belt, but will he so harry enten has a deep dive on those numbers. let's go outfront and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett out front tonight. the breaking news, the vice president kamala harris, just speaking at the white house after meeting with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu now, these remarks were not originally on her schedule, and they were actually more extensive remarks and president biden made after his meeting with netanyahu, harris revealing details about what she called a frank conversation with the israeli p

can listen to the show all two hours once you get your podcasts, the news continues on cnn with pamela brown in for wolf blitzer in this situation see, you later happening now, breaking news, president biden is about to meet with democratic governors who won tharros about his shaky debate performance, that thrust his campaign into crisis mode. >> i'll ask one of those governors what he wants to hear from the president just minutes from now. the white house press secretary says, president biden is absolutely not thinking about stepping down, but tonight, we're getting some new information about a potential succession plan. if biden were to exit the 20 24 race. also, this our donald trump's legal troubles apparently will go away should he win in november, the justice department reportedly plans to pursue the criminal charges. the case says against trump

rocket money today erin burnett outfront week nights at seven on cnn you are in the cnn news remind pamela brown in washington, will president biden is pushing forward with his reelection campaign. he is digging in his heels and resisting calls from members of his own party to step aside. and the first televised your interview since his shaky debate performance last week, biden once again dismissed the debate as a quote, bad night denied the polls showing him losing to trump and wouldn't commit to taking a cognitive test the american people than watching yet their concerns about your age and your health are growing that's why i'm asking you to reassure them. >> would you be willing to have the independent medical evaluation? >> watch me be to use a lot of time left in this camp over 125 days. so the answer to the right answer right now is no. you don't want to do that, right? i've already done that what tonight more democrats are calling on the 81-year-old candidate to suspend his campaign with one lawmaker telling cnn, quote, we are screwed seen as our lead sign joins us live from wilmington, d

i'm pamela brown in washington, jim acosta is off today and we begin this it's hour with breaking news at any moment on capitol hill, acting secret service director ronald rowe will tell senators that he is quote, ashamed of the botched security that led to the near assassination of former president donald trump roe took charge last week after the sniper attack on the trump and trump forced the resignation of embattled director kimberly cheatle and his prepared remarks released ahead of his testimony this morning is saying, quote, what i saw made me ashamed as a career law enforcement officer and a 25 year veteran with the secret service i cannot defend why that roof was not better secured and quote, roe, we'll discuss how the secret service is improving security and trump will likely put those new protocols to do it to the test very soon because he is saying that he will continue to hold outdoor rallies and will even hold an event at the site he was shot i think it's important symbolically i don't think we should be stopped by somebody that has severe mental problems or whatever his p

. >> i'm pamela brown. i will see you back. at sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the news continues on cnn now with wolf blitzer and the situation beijing have a great weekend happening now, breaking news, the pressure on president biden to drop out of the president the national race intensifies by the hour, with top democrats feeling caught in what some are calling a doom loop. this, as donald trump is getting ready take his convention show on the road with this first campaign rally. since the attempt on his life also tonight, a russian court sentences american journalist evan gershkovich to 16 years in prison on espionage charges that his allies in the united states call a sham. and a massive global tech outage creates chaos around the world disrupting air travel, health care, banks, media outlets, and more welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room the is cnn breaking news. >> let's get right to the breaking news on the state of the biden campaign as some democrats suggests, that calls for

i'm pamela brown in washington, countdown to election day. we now have only 99 days left. the presidential race that has been turned upside down in the past week to say the least kamala harris, the democrats presumptive nominee, and her surrogates are road-testing, a one word attack on their republican rivals. >> weird some of, what he is running mate or say well, it's just plain weird box. you put that in these guys are just weird. >> that's so it is much but we're not afraid of weird people we were a little bit creeped out, but we're not afraid it's not about her or her opponent really is no matter what kind of weird stuff they keep saying, it's the weirdest thing health, he'll go in like literally haugen american flag now, i loved the flag, but i mean it's like weird what he does right well, donald trump is also sharpening his attacks on his presumptive rival, but also couldn't resist a dig at biden if a crazy liberal like kamala harris gets in the american dream is dead, she made bernie sanders looked like a moderate. >> we have a man that can't put two sentences toget

i'm here with karen finney, pamela brown, dana bash, scott jennings, and jim sciutto want to get some serious analysis of this horrible situation that unfolded an assassination attempt against the former president of the united states it's beyond horrible. and you know, watching the secret service jumped to actually when you're white house staffer, you actually have to go through training so that you know, it's going to happen when you were there as but actually she had been in person is just stunning. i can imagine. and obviously the additional injuries and loss of life, it's absolutely horrible i agree with what has already been said. it's completely unacceptable. and we have to say that over and over again that what you're doing a lot of reporting on what you're getting we more information, what else you learned? >> that's right. i've been in touch with the butler county district attorney who is getting information from his lead investigators, right now, we're trying to learn more. but what we are learning is that you have one spectator there who was killed or died. i should say, w

biden's health and his ability to lead in recent days, cnn's jennifer hansler, kylie atwood, and pamela brown reported the diplomats around the world reacted with shock and concern over biden's calamitous debate performance on june 27th, and cited multiple diplomats as saying the president will be under enormous pressure to perform well at the nato summit this is a huge test and actually one of the rare instances where he is going to be interacting with a lot of people who don't work for him, right so four liters and their staff who are gonna be seeing him in these unscripted candid moments and making their own observations and impressions of how he's doing when asked by wolf blitzer today about what nato allies are most concerned about former us ambassador to nato, kurt volker said, it's the leadership the united states in nato is it's going to be president biden is he capable of that? >> is he going to run for reelection? is he going to get elected if so, what does that look like? volker pointed out, many allies were already concerned about the level of commitment the u.s. has to help ukrai

i'm pamela brown in the situation room. i'll be back here tomorrow with you. erin burnett out front starts right now >> outfront next, an exclusive interview with jd vance's former yale law school classmate and close friends, sophia nelson, who vance refers to as so sharing more than 80 emails without vance and those emails taking on trump, the police maga voters will share them with you. plus kamala harris is momentum raising record cash, doubling down on calling trump and vance flat-out weird, that's the word they're using. now republicans are trying to turn the tables will it work? and kim jong un's tonight preparing his daughter, his young daughter, to take over the country. this daughter is not even a teenager yet, and it comes as new details emerge about just how poor kim's health is let's go outfront and good evening. i'm erin burnett out front tonight. will the real jd vance please stand up tonight? an exclusive interview with jd vance's former classmate and close friend, sophia nelson, someone vance refers to lovingly as soaps in some of the more than

. >> so money plays a role in the party our colleague pamela brown and i did a story yesterday about big donors, megadonors, who said they were going all in one donor says to me, i'm going in big emphasized, big so they know she's someone who can raise money. but i also think at the end of the day they we can't ignore that she was the vice president. she is part of the biden-harris team. and there's also the structure of that i'm paying that she can inherit and so now it is the veepstakes. >> i mean, there is some mystery to what comes next and that is that would be if you we expect that she is overwhelmingly likely to be the nominee who then is going to be on the ticket with her. >> so what we keep hearing, we started yesterday, four names being floated, they all have one thing in common. they are white men. i think that the party feels that for balance and for swing states battleground states, they need that kind of balance and the for our senator mark kelly of arizona, who i'm told by he's president harris, knows very well and likes very much that certainly swing state. and then y

i'm pamela brown, situation room, erin burnett outfront starts right now >> out front next, breaking news, president biden defiant, vowing to stay in the race no matter what. as he sits down for a new window is closing for biden to turn things around. let's go out front good evening. welcome to a special edition of outfront onboard sanchez, in for erin burnett. tonight. we start with breaking news. president biden's make or break interview. we just got our first clip from biden's highly anticipated interview with abc. and in it biden speaks about his disastrous debate performance, which sparked serious concerns among members of his own party that he's not fit to serve another four years let's start with the debate. you and your team said, i've said you had a bad night, but your but your friend nancy pelosi actually frame the question, i think is on the minds of millions of americans was this a bad episode with a sign of a more serious condition is no indication of any serious condition. >> i was exhausted i did listen, my instincts in terms of parents, the bad night you say you were

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pamela brown and the situation >> situation room. i'll be back here tomorrow. thank you very much for watching and burnett outfront starts right now we're learning it won't be and donald trump's nephew is outfront speaking out, talking about trump's comments that he made to him about his disabled sun and does use of the n word and now he's breaking with the family going for kamala harris. let's go outfront good evening. >> i'm erin burnett, outfront tonight. trump asking quote, is she indian or is she black? the former president during a combative appearance at the national association of black journalists conference, went after the democrats presumptive nominee, questioning whether the first black president, vice president of the united states, is in fact block do you believe that vice president kamala harris is only on the ticket because she's a black woman. >> well, i can say no, i think it's maybe a little bit different, so i've known her a long time indirectly, not directly, very much and she was always of indian heritage and she was only promoting indian