hello everyone, thanks so much for joining us for this hour, where we bring you tomorrow s news tonight. we have our great lineup of reporters to share our secrets. here when we have harry enten, , shimon prokupecz, and sarah murray. thank you all for being here on the couch tonight. okay, another texas town is reeling after another mass shooting at an outlet mall over the weekend, killed eight people, wounded seven others. tonight, we re learning more about the 33-year-old gunman and his actions leading up to the shooting. shimon prokupecz is following the story. let s start with what s next in the story. ultimately, right now, as much as we know about this individual, really the hate, the heat keep believed in really there is still this thing they need to do, authorities need to figure them out of. is there something else going on here that perhaps sparked this? so, that s investigators are now doing. you know, we learned so much about him through his social media.
out his pizza etiquette. and john stuart was particularly offended by this and you stop your slices no disrespect. i apologize. let s let s continue with the meeting. is and thank you for watching these night. laura coates live starts right now. good evening. i m jim acosta and for laura coates on this monday night, ten days out from the highly anticipated debate between joe biden and donald trump right here on cnn and tonight, a moment from this past weekend is leading to questions about a candidates mental fitness for office i took a cognitive test nih docx, ronnie dr. ronny johnson does everyone know ronnie johnson, congressmen from texas it s actually dr. ronny jackson, not johnson, donald trump there for getting the name of his own doctor while challenging biden to a cognitive test. if you ve been watching right-wing media, that s probably not the moment you were expecting us to play. no. instead it is this clip that they ve been circulating to question biden s menta
guess it s gonna be this guy. my question is in those instances when there is so much dislike, this being the second time around, how close is abc tracking enthusiasm? because how many those people are just going to sit out? certainly among younger people who are becoming discouraged, and i think some of the numbers they noted were about people who supported biden last time around, and his approval being soft among people under 30, people living in cities, that sort of thing. how much is they re tracking how likable they are to ultimately vote, to make a pick? yeah, this is something i ve looked at for a long period time, which is trying to understand how enthusiasm converts into actually voting, right. and what we know from the poll data we ve seen so far, there is this cornell college poll come out, done by and selzer, done in march, i believe, and what it actually showed is that biden voters were about as likely to say they were to vote as trump voters back in 2020. despite the
we will see fiery speeches from democrats today. then the focus will no cause back to biden s infrastructure plan. that is what s on the white house again do you, not voting right. the president is headed to scrantop this afternoon to talk about the agenda on the social and physical infrastructure. even as democrats are pairing down his bill. we re going to have the very latest on what s in and what s out. at least for the moment. that will come up later in the show. the awkward reality is that amid this erosion of democracy, president biden is struggling politically. his polar rating continues to slide, down to 37% in a couple national polls, one is quinnipiac, you may have scenttism scenttism, it s at 37% from grinnell and selzer.
and the political reporter for the associated press in des moines, iowa. thanks to both of you for being with us. steve, let me go with you first. in terms of the meaning and significance of this poll there s been all this talk for a while now that warren has momentum and is climbing. now here is a poll, a quality poll showing her in the lead in the first in the nation caucus state. i guess here s the skeptical question to ask you. is she peaking too soon? well, that is a great question. the des moines register poll is the gold standard in iowa and selzer has been the gold standard pollster there for a couple decades. the caucuses are in early february. they are a long way away. she wouldn t be the first person who opened up a lead however small in this case, a statistical tie essentially with joe biden, she wouldn t be the first candidate to open up a lead in the fall leading up to the caucuses and see that lead not hold up by the time you got to caucus time. there s a lot of campai