Kevin madden, you are still us with. A chance to respond . Look, you know, if you are going it to make a Campaign Manager switch, do it in the summer because the real big full tilt of this campaign, which is going to be the fall and into the winter when get to the early primary contests in places like iowa and new hampshire, thats when your campaign has to be hitting its stride. Make a campaign you know, get on sync with the Campaign Manager now. This is the last of the resets. The Desantis Campaign is not going to get any more opportunities to sort of change the leadership at the top. Instead, its going to have to be about making the case right now to voters and proving to donors and supporters they are in it to win it. Kevin madden and nina turner as well, thank you both. Cnn this morning continues right now. 1is. A busy hour ahead on clcnn this morning. Victor blackwell here. Good morning. Breaking news out of hawaii. Evacuations underway. A hurricane is whipping up destructive wildfires. People have been jumping into the ocean to escape. Ohio voters a huge victory for adoption rights advocates. A measure that would make it harder to protect access to abortion when it goes on the ballot in november. The New York Times obtained a secret trump internal memo that laid out the strategy to overturn the 2020 election. This is a key piece of evidence in the special counsels probe. We will dig into all of the details. This hour of cnn this morning starts now. Breaking news out of hawaii. Evacuations right now underway this morning amid fastmoving wildfires. Officials say powerful wins from Hurricane Dora are fueling the flames burning structures in maui and the big island. Their emergency 911 and other Phone Services are down. A lot of people cant use 911. Huge hurdles in terms of getting it residents. Thousands without power as fires continue to grow in maui. Thelet governor of hawaii just to told us this is an unprecedented disaster. Our Hospital System on maui, they are overburdened with burn patients. People suffering from inhalation. We are already in communication with other Hospital Systems about relieving the burden. The reality is that we need to fly people out of maui to give them burn support. Lets go to Meteorologist Derek Van Dam in the weather center. What is described there is dire. The governor says that never happened before, wildfires created, spurred by a hurricane. Yeah, victor, its important to clarify its kind of a direct cause of the hurricane. We will get to the details on that in a moment. I spoke to the chief Emergency Management operator from maui, and what she told me is this an allhandsondeck situation for their firefighters and the state personnel as well. There are three active wildfires on the island of maui. The western side of maui is where they are focusing a lot of attention because the wildfire that is there is currently burning near residential and hotel districts. So some of the more Populated Areas of the island. They are currently, there are 14,000 people without power. Thats roughly 20 of the entire island. We expect that number to continue to grow because we have seen scenes just like this. Look the Wildfire Smoke just billowing out and later on in the imagery you can see some of the residential neighborhoods being impacted by this ongoing wildfire. Again this is on the west side. Here is a look at the current wind situation. Fanning the flames right now, the airport on Maui Reporting 25mileperhour sustained winds. However, there have been wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour. That is, get this, equivalent to a category 1 atlantic hurricane. So very strong. Very gusty. Its not expected to let up anytime soon. We have another 12 hours of this at least. A Satellite Image that we captured from noaa. What youre seeing right here, that orange area on the center of maui is actually one of the current three hot spots ongoing across the island. Then you can see the smoke that is billowing and moving in an easterly direction because of those powerful winds being directly created by Hurricane Doras passage to the south. The problem is that 30 of Hawaiian Island under drought conditions, and we have moderate drought right now over the hardest hit areas of maui. The western side of the island of maui. Here is dora. High pressure to the north putting that squeeze with the Pressure Gradient and that is creating strong winds across the islands as we speak. Important clarification there and explanation. Derek van dam, thank you. This morning ohio voters have spoken and Abortion Rights advocates have won a critical victory. A republicanbacked measure was defeated in a high stakes special election. It would have made it harder for voters to change ohios constitution and protect womens access to abortion this fall. Voter turnout was shhuld. It would have changed the rules and required a 60 Super Majority instead of a simple majority to pass abortion amendment when it goes on the ballot in november. Critics call it a gop power grab. It comes after lawmakers in ohio and other republicancontrolled states passed sweeping Abortion Bans instead of letting Voters Decide at the polls. Our senior data reporter harry enten is here with numbers that we need to know. What is the morning number related to what victor was just telling us . Look, we are talking about ohio here. I want to give you an idea. Ohio is a state that joe biden lost by eight points to donald trump and he only won, get this, seven counties in the state. Just seven counties. Look at issue one. 22 counties, more than three times as many counties, the no issue here appealed to voters it in the Middle Of The Road as well as the number of voters on the right who traditionally vote republican. This republican Trending State this 14 part of a trend whereby we have had a number of Ballot Measures, six Ballot Measures since roe v. Wade was overturned and look at the proAbortion Rights side. They won on all of them. Red states, too, which is important. Blue states like vermont and red states like kentucky, like montana, like kansas. This is something Abortion Rights has been popular all over the map. We have a new cnn poll that came out this week. It shows this strong support since roe v. Wade was overturned for not overturning it. That remains. That absolutely remains. Does approve of the Supreme Court overturning roe v. Wade. All voters 63 . You get 93 of democrats. Look at that. 69 of independents. You also get nearly a third of republicans here. Those are the types of voters who went in Ohio Last Night and voted no on that particular ballot issue. Its not just about abortion. Its about going to the rest of the ballot box. I want you to look this is complicated. This the average special election and this is the democratic margin. In 2021 and 2022 before roe v. Wade was overturned, the Democratic Candidates were doing three points worse than joe biden on average. Look where we were since roe was overturned. Look here. They are doing about six points better than joe bidens been doing on average. So its not just about abortion. Its other issues. What you are seeing is democraticleaning voters more likely to turn out and support Democratic Candidates. Abortion, its not just about abortion. Its giving democrats a boost at the polls on other issues as well. Thank you. Victor. Joined by White House Press secretary car even jeanpierre. Good see you this morning. With the president s reaction to the outcome of the vote in Ohio Last Night . So, as you all have been saying, look, this has been what we saw in Ohio Last Night is a clear rejection to amendment one, which really is a win for democracy. Right . It is a win for voting. It is a win or ohioans. It is so important. Think about this h and you have been talking about this all morning. I is have been watching the show. Ohio came out in aboffyear election and literally rejected what republicans elected officials were trying to do, what special interests were trying to do in the state, which is basically weaken voters rights. Weaken the rights of voters in the state. What what we saw is such an important victory. The decision that should be made by the people whchlt think about how women in ohio are going to are going to get they are going to go to decide if women in ohio is going to have the right, the freedom to make a decision on their reproductive rights, on their health care. So this is again a win for our democracy. We know its going to be a part of the president s argument closer to election day. Lets talk about why you and the president are there out west. You are talking climate and also economy. The latest cnn poll out days ago showed that americans are pretty sour on the state of the economy. They think its in a downturn or getting worse. About half of respond ints, the president s Approval Rating for his handling of the economy at 37 . 30 on inflation specifically. From the white houses perspective, why is their disparity between the good story, the narrative you think are you to tell and how its received by the American People . A couple of things. Polls dont show everything. They dont tell the full story, as you stated. We have to remember, if you look at where we were in the fall of 2022 during the midterm elections when the president delivered an historic midterms for democrats, when we think about how, as a democratic president , he delivered a victory that we hadnt seen in decades, right . He led that messaging throughout the months going into november o we are that stronger position now than we were back then in the fall. And so that is important to note. There is a lot begoing on in th country and we understand that americans are coming out of a pandemic. We are dealing with a lot. When you think about the economy, here is the thing. This is a president who spent the last two years turning the economy around. You hear us talk about bidenomics. You just mentioned how we are doing this kind of west coast swing, talking directly to the American People about how wages are actually going up, about how inflation is going down over a long, extended period of time, more than 12 months. That is important. That is important. Consumer confidence is up. So when you see unemployment is lower than 4 , has been steady for some time, this is what we are going to talk about. This is why the president is going out there, is going to talk to the American People to have that conversation. Polls dont tell the entire story. We are gonna continue to tell our story, tell what we have done in the past two years. When you think about creating 13. 5 million jobs that, is all important. This is why i am on with both of you to talk about that, to make sure that the president s message is reaching your viewers. You are telling the story. There is a mayortive that the numbers are changing. Let me ask you about something here that the branding you used the word. We have it on screen. Bidenomics. We know the s show that people are pretty urhalf of American People are sour on the economy. Isnt that just dangerous getting closer to the election if things take a downturn . As the cbo predicts, unemployment will get closer to 4. 7 by election day. You have a narrative of bidenomics and things going a certain way, but that could quickly turn the opposite direction. Why fuse the president s name with the economics that americans arent very happy with . Here is the thing. Bidenomics is indeed working when we say that you look at the data, right . Cost is going down, right. You think about inflation. When you think about wages going up, that is bidenomics. Look, the president has always believed not just as president , but Vice President , as senator, that we need to build an economy that is building from the bottom up, middle out, right . He came from a middle class family. You heard him talking about growing up in scranton, what ma means. He understands what the American People go through. Sitting at your Kitchen Table once a month, figuring out how to pay the bills. This is why we talk about it in this way, this is what he believes. And you have republicans out there, especially in congress, who want to do the opposite. You think about the inflation reduction act, thats going to help make investments. You were talking about what is going on in hawaii. Climate change is affecting so many communities and they want to repeal im glad you mentioned Climate Change because were watching whats happening in hawaii and these really dire pictures of whats described by thelet go the Lieutenant Governor who was on with us today, the wooirlds related to that hurricane. Of the president did an interview with the Weather Channel in which he was asked about declaring the Climate Crisis a National Emergency. I want to show a bit of that exchange. Are you prepared to declare a National Emergency with respect to Climate Change. I have already done that. Practically speaking, yes. But he hasnt done it. He corrected it saying, practically speaking. If the Climate Crisis is as important as this white house says it is, why hasnt the president declared a National Emergency . And if so, when will that happen . Here is the thing, victor. This is a president that has taken really an ambitious approach to Climate Change. I started talking about the inflation reduction act. That is a piece of legislation that is clearly now law that is so ambitious, that is going to make an investment in dealing with Climate Change that we have never seen. We have not seen before. And so you think about 369 billion of investment. Its into clean energy thats going to make a difference. You think about out ing pollution, creating clean energy jobs. You talk about the bipartisan infrastructure law, right, that will strengthen our power grid, thats going to actually make efforts to deal with an existential threat. You heard the president say that. You have heard him say that multiple times. We were just in arizona yesterday where the president announced his fifth national monument. What is that going to do . Honor the tribal communities and the Indigenous People by protecting land. Almost a million acres of land. What does that do . That protects clean energy. That helps the economy and the local economy and clean water, right . So all of those things are credibly important and the president has been credibly ambitious. What the president was talking was the defense production act. Thats something that he did very early on. What does that do . Makes sure when we think about the domestic approach, those Clean Energy Manufacturing sorry. I hear that there is a narrative, there is a story to tell. Specifically on what many advocates have asked for was the declaration of that National Emergency on Climate Crisis. The president corrected himself. He has not done that. We have to go. Thank you for joining us from albuquerque, new mexico. Thanks for the time. Very early here. 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