communication director and special assistant to the president and vice president mike pence and simon rosenberg, a democratic political strategies and veteran of two presidential campaigns let's continue this conversation. first, i want to play simon and indeed mark a video the sound of president biden after the debate, after he got off the stage, looked to me like a different guy. >> i can't think of one thing he said that was true i'm not being facetious. but look we're going to beat this guy. we need to beat this guy i need you in order to meet him. your the people i've run we're the finest nation the whole world let's keep going see you at the next one. i guess both of you might think that if that person had turned up on the stage, it would be a different dynamic but simon, where was that person? >> listen, joe biden had a bad night. i mean, there's just no way to get around that. i mean, as i said earlier, i think he's been a very good president and he's got a strong case for his reelection. he didn't do to that he didn't wasn't effective last night and making that case, but it's just one

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with the first debate 10 days away we are joined tonight by simon rosenberg for his assessment of thes because i do rely on you to do it for me and tell me what matters and whether it be polls or any other factors affecting the state of the race tonight. >> i think a few things and it is great to see you again. one is that we have seen -- with this advertisement is doing is establish this basic choice of modern pragmatic democrats fighting to make things better and in joe biden's case has made things better and the extremism of maga and when we put that choice in front of voters going back to 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and early parts of 2024, we had another good special election last week and we can we -- keep winning and we take this new information and there are voters who haven't checked in and making sure they know that donald trump of 2024 is a very different candidate. he is a sex offender and fraudster and convicted felon and this is important information for voters to have and if you live in the battleground states you will have it in your face in the coming weeks and the second

democrats be as hardened as maybe simon rosenberg says they should be. >> well, simon rosenberg has the democrats big o meister that says, look we all, all of us who follow politics and read these tea leaves. we love special elections. we think they give us unlock clues. the predictive clues of the universe they're not a bad barometer. i think they can tell us some things about the environment. we have seen that democrats have over-performed in elections since president biden won in 2020. so there is a bit of a trend line there. but the reality is, people are going to be voting. next fall, early voting, of course, we'll start in september, not now. you know, there's some lessons democrats can take from here. i think we have seen with simon is talking about there in that quote that they have rejected some of the anti-democratic tendencies, certainly the anti-abortion plank of the republican party, whether that is still the dominant issue, come next fall with economic concerns, immigration concerns foreign, a very, unstable foreign policy environment. we just don't know that we, that is u

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down the road they are with me this morning, republicans rogers, doug hi, democratic strategists simon rosenberg, simon first you that was the vice president volunteering. her opinion on these possible candidates and going right to the issue of abortion why well, there's no question that reproductive freedom and the stripping of rights and freedoms away from more than half the population from the women of america is going to be one of the central issues of this election. >> it was in 2022 because it is one of the most important issues in the country. i mean, we're seeing an extraordinary backsliding a fundamental rights and freedoms that are common throughout the modern world here in the united states. and it's putting not only is it stripping rights and freedoms away, but it's also putting tens of millions of women at risk when they become pregnant. and if they have a miscarriage and so i think you're going to see this issue continued to be central to everything that we talk about and it creates this basic contrast between a party that was fighting for freedom, an opportunity for the american p

i'm joined by democratic strategists and consultants simon rosenberg and alyssa farah the griffin cnn political commentator and former white house communications director for donald trump. all right. i'm gonna start with you, simon, the supreme court decision on mifepristone it basically leaves things as they were. so that it is available to women around the country. but in a round about way, does this help donald trump? do you think? >> first of all, welcome back, sara it's great to have you back i think the no, i don't think any of this helps donald trump. i mean, because donald trump will be in this election the person who's singularly responsible for stripping the rights and freedoms away. the women of the united states, i mean, women today, many, tens of millions of women today in the united states have fewer rights and freedoms than people women who live in mexico or brazil. i mean, there's been a huge backsliding in america on fundamental rights and freedoms. and what the president is still supporting is this notion that it's okay for politicians to decide about reproductive fr

government, gubernatorial, they should be invalid i think heavily in hispanic media on this, simon rosenberg dugata, who could play brown, brian's gala brainy in the celtics mobile. congratulations. thank you. thank you very much. >> it's great to see you so you guys look, we were just talking about this historic debate right here on cnn. it is next thursday night, the earliest general election debate in us history. dana bash and jake tapper, moderate live thursday, june 27th at 9:00 p.m. all right. and i was just talking about brian scallop or any cell to straight and i am wearing a green tie for reason that reason the celtics are now 118 nba titles, no other team has ever won more than 70 so this is a big deal. this was eighth great team and it was a great victory cnn's caroll amino gets to share in the joy of it. all. good morning to you good morning. >> and if you're not here on friday, john, we all know why because you called in sick and you're gonna be at the duck boat parade, the streets of boston are going to be flooded. this is what they've been waiting for for the first time since

we examine that contentious presidential debate with democratic political strategist simon rosenberg, trump's former special assistant, marc lotter. >>> then iran decides. as the country heads to the polls, fred pleitgen brings us the

>>> simon rosenberg gets tonight's last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. >> tonight president biden in france for the d-day anniversary. his plan to tout american leadership on the world stage and highlight the stark contrast with donald trump. >>> then my keynote conversation with charlemagne the god, skipping the small talk and getting real. >>> plus, senate republicans block a bill to protect access to birth control as "the 11th hour" gets underway on this wednesday night. >>> good evening once again, i'm stephanie ruhle. we are now 153 days away from the election, and it -- that means it is exactly five months from today. and as we get closer to that day, president biden is trying to show the sharp differences between him and donald trump. right now he's in france to mark tomorrow's 80th anniversary of d-day. and while he is there for a very important occasion, he is also trying to reassure our allies about america's place on the world stage. and what will happen when voters go to the polls in november. as

write down for more, is veteran democratic strategist simon rosenberg and bryan lanza, who's deputy communicationsnald trump's 2016 campaign. >> there is this news about tiktok, but i also want to start with this addition. >> this morning's addition of who will accept the election results and who will not, and who is willing to say that? publicly and who is not. here's kevin mccarthy, no longer in office and tom cotton still in office just abundant up should trump except i think every american should accept the results. >> he would be an american. >> i don't think congress has the constitutional authority to reject electors that have been certified by a state i will accept the results of the election and certify them if it's a fair and a free election brian mccarthy versus cotton on this one, i'm craving i'm creating this face off as you can tell, cotton with caveats mccarthy, not so much is this war games, is this a sign of a litmus test for anyone who might want to be donald trump's running mate? >> or is this something else this time around no, it looks like i think this is something else. >> i