Hopefully they get a day game for you. I might buy a Jason Kelce Jersey to make the guy feel better. Right . Thank you, andy. Thank you for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad you are with us. Theres a lot of news to get to this morning. Lets start with five things to know for this tuesday, september 26th. President biden hits the autoworkers picket line today an historic first for a sitting president. Also trump will be there tomorrow as he skips a Republican Debate to also speak with Union Autoworkers in the motor city. Breaking overnight the debate stage is now set for the second gop primary debate the one trump will not attend. Desantis, scott, haley, rama ramaswamy, burgum. Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson painting a chaotic picture of the last days of the trump presidency. This all in her new book where she says trump told his Chief Of Staff, quote, i dont want people to know we lost. This is embarrassing. And police are looking for this man in connection with the fentanyl day care death. Prosecutors say he fled through a back alley carrying two bags. Cnn this morning now. So its interesting. Biden is leaving washington today. The house and senate have to figure out how to keep everything is great. But the fact that hes going to michigan to the picket line with autoworkers never happened before. There is no historic precedent for this. Underscores the importance not just of one Labor Dispute but the role politically, policy and macro economically that this is all playing out right now as we head towards an election year. To be followed by trump. Yes. Who by the way said he was going there first. He did indeed. Well watch that closely. Hours from now president Bide Listen Go to the picket line. He will be with those workers in michigan for their continuing strike against the big three automakers. This is unprecedented for a sitting u. S. President. Comes just one day as poppy noted before donald trump is planning his own visit to detroit to speak to autoworkers. These dualing visits to a Battleground State could be the clearest biden trump rematch th unions crucial endorsement. Notably, the president of the Workers Union will be joining biden on the picket line, but the union is not involved. Jeremy diamond live at the white house with a lot more. This is interesting because a week ago the white house was pulling back their advisers on this issue to not go to michigan. Now the president is going. Whats he going to do and say . Yeah, no doubt about it. It shows one sign is that theres been progress in these talks. Thats perhaps why the president is choosing this moment now to go there. But it also shows this potential contrast with former President Trump, who is going to michigan tomorrow to address current and former union members. White house officially denies there is any connection between the president s visit and the former president s plans to deliver speech in detroit tomorrow. But, look at this White House Fact Sheet the white house released just this morning talking about the fact that former President Trump talked a big game but did not deliver in the way that President Biden has for Union Workers. Contrasting President Bidens economic record, his record on manufacturing and his record specifically with unions with that of the former president. Talking, for example, about bringing manufacturing back to the United States, policies that incentivize union work to be done with that manufacturing, comparing that to the trump tax cuts which is Biden Administration says did not benefit the Working Class. But this will certainly be one of our first signs of a preview of this potential 2024 matchup as boets of these candidates have repeatedly tried to vie for that Working Class vote. President biden has called himself the most pro union president. He has racked up a series of union endorsements. The one endorsement he has yet to secure, though, is that of the uaws. Thats part of the visit today to do the work to try to get that endorsement. Shawn fain the president of the uaw is expected to be with President Biden as the president goes to the picket line in wayne, michigan. We dont know where that will be. An opportunity for President Biden to out the his pro union bonn fieds. The president is standing with Union Workers but would not say whether she endorses positions in these negotiations. Do they stand behind the specifics or not. Jeremy, thanks very much. Right down the road on pennsylvania avenue, the house is back in session today with just four days until the government shuts down and pressure is continuing to mount on House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy who must decide between shutting down or working with democrats and risk losing his job. The Biden Administration is warning of dire consequences if the government cannot fund itself. Saying the speaker has to do his job. Today lawmakers are scheduled to at least start the procedural route of voting on four Spending Bills but each one still faces very real uncertainty on the house floor. Cnns lauren fox joins us now. I dont want to focus on the procedural hurdles or the messaging bills theyre trying to move this week. You dont . I do. But im cognizant fox and i could do this for three hours. Tell me the end game here. The senate is starting to move on something. The house is continuing to negotiate, four days left. Where do things actually stand . Yeah, phil. Lets start with the senate. That is the piece of legislation that if it can get passed out of that chamber could potentially stave off a shutdown on saturday at midnight. The Senate Negotiators between minority leader Mitch Mcconnells staff and minority Chuck Schumers staff they continue to work into the night last night, trying to find a path forward that would fund the government for just a matter of weeks at this point. It would not be a oneyear Spending Bill but just a shortterm stopgap to get them over that deadline. The expectation is that bill may not be able to include the full supplemental funding for ukraine aid. That is because you have warnings from conservatives, like senator rand paul who are arguing they will slow down the process to get this bill moving through the senate and given the fact there are time constraints because this deadline is coming saturday night, that is a big consideration here for republicans and democrats. Even though there are plenty of members in that chamber who would like to include disaster aid and ukraine funding. So those pieces are still being negotiated and worked out, but given the fact we dont have much time left, phil, you may see a situation where that bill may be unveiled as soon as today. Meanwhile, in the house of representatives, there still is not a clear path forward. There is still not consensus among House Republicans on what a shortterm solution would even look like. That is setting up the scenario if the senate can pass their bill quickly and out of their chamber, they could potentially put mccarthy in a position where he would be jammed, as we say, in congressional speak, by the United States senate. Then would have to make that very important and impactful decision, does he put this negotiated piece of legislation on the floor . And would he risk potentially ending his speakership over that . The inevitable end game here of if House Republicans dont pass anything, theyre going to get jammed by the senate. And everyone knows it. And yet here we are. Four days, 17 hours, 52 minutes left, i believe, on the clock. Lauren, probably wont sleep until we get through all of that. Lauren fox, thank you. New overnight, donald trump fighting back against the Special Counsels jack smiths request for a gag order in his federal election probe. His lawyers say it would violate his right to free speech. Theyre accusing prosecutors of trying to silence trump as he is running for president. The Special Counsel requested a gag order to block trump from threatening or intimidating witnesses on social media and to prevent him from tainting the jury pool. Trumps legal team is urging the judge to reject that request. In a court filing overnight, they claim it would strip trump, quote, of his First Amendment freedoms during the most important months of his campaign against President Biden. Lets bring in cnn katelyn polantz. What happens next here . Reporter well, the judge will have to determine what to do here because this is actually a pretty important debate to be had. It is one that Donald Trumps team is framing as political censorship. Theyre saying he shouldnt be restricted. Its not fair. Hes running for president. There was an indictment against him that allowed the Special Counsel to levy the charges. Theres joe biden out there also campaigning for president , not the same thing because trump is a criminal defendant here. But thats the plane they want to be talking about this on. Where as the Justice Department, they want to be making sure that the trial that donald trump is going to have in washington, d. C. In Federal Court scheduled for march is fair so that witnesses arent chilled in some way and so that jurors come into that courtroom trusting the judge and having an open mind to the witnesses that are testifying. One of the things that trumps team said in this filing overnight the proposed gag order is nothing more than an obvious attempt by the Biden Administration to unlawfully silence its most prominent political opponent. Now, it isnt as broad as saying donald trump cant speak at all about the case, at least what the Justice Department is asking for. We dont know what the judge is going to do here, but what the Justice Department wants, they want some limitations on what donald trump can say about the specific people in the case, witnesses, judge, the prosecutors, things he could say that could damage their credibility or possibly be inflammatory or harassment toward them. Thats the restriction they want. But it will be in the judges court. And when ever this judge, tanya chutkan, does to respond to the jus it departments ask, there will be a question of what the consequence could be for donald trump. His lawyers say in the filing lets be clear, the prosecution hopes to create a Contempt Trap for President Trump and his attorneys so at the end of the day, theres going to be a question that if there is Something Like this put over donald trump, a limited gag order, is that legal first of all . And second of all, is it something that could chill his rights and could be something that could cause him or the judge to want to put him in jail or restrict him even further if he doesnt follow it. Yeah. Huge questions. No precedent. Uncharted territory for sure. Katelyn polantz, keep us posted, thank you. So the City Of El Paso is now grappling with about 2,000 migrant encounters at the border a day. Officials warning this influx is not stopping any time soon. Shelter capacity now running out in that city. For the First Time Since the deadly wild fires ravaged hawaii, lahaina residents are returning to the burn zone to see the damage for themselves. Its hard to process. Its weird. It looks like out of a horror movie. Welcome back. Well, this morning, the migrant crisis is escalating. Theres a new report that says the u. S. Immigration courts have a backlog of 2. 6 million cases. Thousands more migrants arriving at the border each day. Hundreds of them already sleeping on the streets in el paso, texas. The mayor says his city is just tapped out. Meantime, in eagle pass, texas, the mayor there is pleading for help as he plans to extend the citys Emergency Disaster Declaration today. We need bigger, better action from our federal government and the Mexican Government as well. Its impacting our safety. Its impacting our economy. Its just a mess. Rosa flores following all of this. She joins us live from houston. Youre on the ground. Youre seeing this. And for people who want to put context to that number, almost 3 million cases waiting to go through the imgrmigration cases. Those are asylum cases. When those get backed up, Everything Else gets backed up. Reporter when they were arriving at the u. S. Southern border, they probably dont know, their entering this backlog system. As you mentioned, there are about 2. 6 million Deportation Cases that are on the docket right now. This is according to a Syracuse University group that analyzes federal data. They found that from october of last year to august of this year, 1. 2 million new cases. Now, what this means, poppy, this is important, when migrants cross the border illegally, what happens is Law Enforcement process them. They have to determine at that point if these individuals have a legal basis to stay in the United States. If not, they are deported. If theyre able to stay, they get something called an nta, a notice to appear. Thats a notice to appear in immigration court. These individuals have to go through Immigration Proceedings and in essence, they have to defend themselves. Tell the court that they have a right to stay here. A lot of them in many cases do seek asylum. Now, where are these individuals going . According to this analysis, theyre going to all 50 states and the district of columbia. Some of the states that are at the top of the list are california, florida, new york and texas. Now, i could talk about this all day, poppy, but i want to leave you with this. This group usually estimates the number the amount of waiting time for these cases. And now theyre not even estimating this waiting time because they say that a lot of these cases dont have hearing dates. What i can tell you from talking to a federal Law Enforcement source in the Rio Grande Valley of south texas is this individual has witnessed migrants getting some of these ntas right now. And this individual says that some migrants are getting some dates as early as november and as late as 2028. 2028 . Reporter 2028. Wow. Before you go, we talked yesterday about this new agreement the u. S. And mexico have where mexico is agreeing to deport people who come right up to the border in mexico to their home cities. Has there been reaction to that on the ground . Reporter Immigration Advocacy Organizations and human Rights Groups have condemned this move. What theyre calling it is they say that this is mexico doing americas dirty work south of the border. Here is what one organization said. Quote, for years the United States government spent billions of dollars forcing mexico to do its dirty work preventing Asylum Seekers fleeing for their lives from ever stepping on u. S. Soil. U. S. Law allows migrants to go to a Port Of Entry and seek asylum. Right now thats not happening. Thats one of the issues that they have. Now, poppy, what were also learning is what the u. S. Is doing as part of this agreement. I know you and i talked about this yesterday. We knew a lot about what mexico is doing. What is the u. S. Doing . Right. From talking to a senior official, this individual says that one of the things theyre doing is mirror patrol. What this means is that mexican Law Enforcement and u. S. Law enforcement are going to have are patrolling the border at the same time. So when ever an individual is apprehended, if theyre apprehended by u. S. Immigration authorities, u. S. Law applies obviously. But if theyre apprehended by mexico, as we talked about yesterday, mexico has pledged that theyre going to return these individuals to their home countries. Helpful additional information, rosa. Thank you for reporting for us live from houston this morning. The mayor of el paso, oscar lesser, will be with us in just under two hours time in the 8 00 a. M. Eastern time. Well talk about all of that ahead. Phil . This morning, residents of lahaina, hawaii, are returning to the burn zone for the First Time Since the catastrophic august wild fires that devastated parts of the island of maui. After more than six weeks of waiting, families are being allowed back in. The