At the white house. And this is cnn you. Are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. Im jessica dean in new york. The us made its first humanitarian aid drops over gaza today, and a joint operation with jordan, us aircraft delivered some 38,000 meals. Us official saying they chose the drop zone based on me believing a large number of people to be sheltering mirror that location at the same time, a senior us official now saying, israel has quote, basically accepted the terms of a Ceasefire Deal to release more hostages how the. Decision falls to hamas to accept the deal for Scylla Alvarez is joining us now, live from washington, priscilla, the white house seems to believe this was a big success. This airdrops of aid today, thats been the resounding message from Senior Administration officials, though, while theyre touting it as a success, they are also cautioning that much more is needed as this dire humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in gaza. Now, as you mentioned, there, there were 38,000 meals that were dropped in this region of gaza that was delivered in 66 bundles. Now only included food. There was no water or medical supplies. But since that has happened they have noticed they being officials that civilians did approach the assistance and have begun distributing it to factoring into them, deciding that this was a success, but this is certainly not enough. And that was the message from Administration Officials today. Theyre trying to flood the zone and theyre doing that through these humanitarian aid drops. Also exploring other avenues, like a maritime corridor, but theyre still saying that even with all of that, they need the land crossings to be available to continue to surge aid into gaza. Thats one of the hurdles that continues to remain as this unfolds in gaza, the president himself saying hang in a tweet earlier today that this is not enough. Now, we expect that there will continue to be more humanitarian aid drops. But again, The Big Question is how much is The Big Question is how whether this can meet the needs of the people of gaza Senior Administration official saying this is just one of many steps that needs to be taken and then persona, lets also talk about these ceasefire talks. Where are they standing at this hour . Well, there is still ongoing hour by hour, minute by minute, but there was a bit of optimism today about the direction of talks Senior Administration official saying that israel has quote basically accepted the temporary the proposal that is on the table which includes a sixweek ceasefire in gaza. Now, what would happen over those six weeks would be that hostages that are deemed most vulnerable, being women, the elderly and the wounded, would be released and aid into gaza could be searched and then also officials could continue to talk about some of the stickier points like the release of hostages that are idf members, while also talking about quote, an enduring plan in the region. But of course, all of this is very sensitive and has been for some time, so no deal is done. Deal until it crosses the finish line. But of course, this also comes as Vice PresidentKamala Harris is set to meet with israeli war cabinet member benny gantz on monday. Now, during that conversation, theyre expected to touch on the hostage deal that humanitarian aid going into gaza, but also critically the day after planning for gaza that has been a priority for Vice PresidentKamala Harris since the attacks on october 7. The war cabinet member also expected to meet with National Security adviser Jake Sullivan while hes in town. So everything moving very quickly to try to meet that ramadan deadline that us Officials Say they want to see. This hostage deal come together by then big question remains that if it doesnt, what happens after that theyve got just about a week now, Priscilla Alvarez for us. Thanks so much. Also today, donald trump trying to put the republican nominating race to bet. And the former president making a pair of Campaign Stops or voters will go to the polls on Super Tuesday, which is in just a few days now team trumps hope that their candidate collects enough delegates to signal once and for all that, nikki haley does not have a mathematical path to when trump adding to his probable insurmountable delegate lead today well, Steve Contorno joining us now from richmond. Steve, whats the campaigns strategy heading into the biggest day of this election so far, Super Tuesday jessica, i spoke with the Trump Adviser at this event today and they are very confident going into Super Tuesday either projecting a sweep of all the, places that are at play on that day and trump himself is speaking behind me right now. He said, quote, we dont need your vote, but he also said, we want to send a big signal on Super Tuesday. And so we encourage people to go out there and vote here in virginia. But he also varied he quickly pivoted to the november election, making it very clear that they already have their sights set on president joe biden. You see the screens behind me. Were they displaying from speech . These have also been flashing statistics about immigration. The board sure and joe bidens agenda and trying to get this crowd hampton ready for november 5 election. This is a states that trump has now won in all the two elections that he has so far in his two white house bids. However, he said, quote, were going to make a big play for it in november all right. Steve contorno traveling with former President Donald Trump tonight. Thanks so much for that reporting. And lets bring in cnns Ron Brownstein to the conversation. Its always good to have raanan and get your thoughts. Lets start first with what you write about today that joe biden still has an opportunity to change the narrative on the biden economy me but these poll numbers were seeing from the New York Times sienna poll are pretty bleak. 51 of voters rating the economy as poor. So how does the president breakthrough . How does he change the narrative . Well, you know, he, hes got a situation that is a little ominous for him where you have seen Consumer Confidence in the big measures, whether its the University Of MichiganConsumer Confidence index, Conference Board or the gallup Economic Confidence index. All of those have improved significantly since last september us last fall, you know, awareness that inflation is moderating is broader and yet his approval is not going up. In the past, we have seen particularly the cases of reagan, clinton, and obama, improvements in Consumer Confidence, foreshadowed improvements in their own Approval Rating, which ultimately carry them to successful reelections. And so the question really becomes, is there a point at which biden is going to benefit from a similar movement. And i think the view in both parties is that the cumulative weight of inflation, the fact that even though inflation is slowing the key, essentially because of life, groceries and rent are significantly more costly than they were when he took office that is the biggest impediment to him benefit from these other positive trends in the economy. Yeah, its interesting hearing you talk through that because its almost as if there are some americans that just think, i wasnt thinking about the data that we have on do your part policies, have they benefitted you . Thats also in this polling. And trump is beating biden on that as well. Its almost as if people want to go back. They think fondly of 2019 and then we had the pandemic and all of these things happened and we cant go back to that time because so much has changed. So in a way, is it that biden is facing a weird headwind in that he doesnt have a time machine essentially for well also for his age, but in terms of the economy yeah. No, i think part of his challenge on the economy is the baseline that people are comparing it against is not something in the distant past. Its what they remember from the first three years of trump when they fell youre in focus groups, that pollsters and both parties will say people will say that they have more money in their pocket at the end of the week in 2017, 2018, 2019 than they do know now, having said that, democrats think there is still a case to be made on the economy. Both a negative case that trumps agenda is tilted to watch too much for people at the time i plus that is 10 tariffs as nikki haley has been talking about, thats not going to bring down the price of groceries. Has the potential to obviously increase costs for americans and biden does have a lot of positive trends in the economy. You can point to including an absolute boom in manufacturing, construction of new plants tied to the big three bills, he passed its first two years, but that inflation is just as has been throughout his presidency, a cloud eclipsing all of these other trends that he might want to point to yes. And if we dig a little bit more into that polling, look at the top lines, arent, arent great for the president s campaign. And they would disagree with that. They think that theres ilan a good spot, but but if youre looking at that snapshot americans do seem to prefer donald trump based on these numbers. And we see the core of bidens coalition really softening women tied with women. Voters of color, hispanic voters. What is, what, what are you getting . Thank from looking into all of this a little deep you know, there are some quirks in this poll, like any poll, but this is a good pollster and the results are broadly consistent with what we are seeing and other state and national polling, which is that biden is behind right now, i think the scariest thing for biden in this poll is that only 36 of americans say they approve of his performances president , 47 say they strongly disapprove, as you note, only 18 , only about one in five roughly, say his policies have helped him personally. Those are the kinds of numbers that has spelled defeat in the past for incumbent president s, its hard to dig out of a hole that deep. He needs to improve perceptions. He needs to be really two things thanks to happen. He needs attitudes about the economy to continue improving the kind of stalled and one sideways in february in those big measures Like University of michigan. And then he needs more of those satisfy voters to give him credit. So far that really is the dynamic that could possibly get him into the 40s where the contrast with trump could become more valuable for him there are some democrats, obviously that, that are concerned about this. Theres a lot of them, but there are other democrats that ill talk to you that say, look, look at all the special elections, look at the midterms, look at the special elections, look how democrats have one even in this environment. And they say its gonna be okay. Do you i think thats true well, look, theres a whole debate about whether democrats are benefiting because they are now a more College Educated coalition. And those voters tend to turn out more in these kind of offyear elections i would say that the part that that is true and should give democrats some comfort is what we saw in 2020 two in unusually really an unprecedentedly large number of voters who are dissatisfied with biden, who thought the economy was moving in the wrong direction, voted for democrats anyway, because they view the republican alternative as too extreme a threat to their rights, to their values and to democracy itself. That dynamic think is almost certainly going to be there again in 2024. Its there even in this poll, but its not a get out of free card. I mean, if you look at this poll, biden is running further ahead of his Approval Rating and president s usually get to do, you know, people, young voters, only 30 of them approve of biden, but hes 80 in the headtohead with trump, with independencies the two to they have a negative view as performance, but hes even with trumps. So the contrast with trump is helping him, but its not an infinite ladder, right . I mean, if his Approval Rating is so low, theres a limit to how many people will say, i dont think hes doing a good job, but ill vote for him anyway because i find the alternative unacceptable. Clearly, there are people who will say that we saw it in 2022 but its not infinite. And if youre a 36 , thats a big hole to climb out of. All right, and i want to ask you before we let you go about some of these coxs that are going on tonight, just into cnn, we are projecting that trump will win the caucuses in missouri and michigan and idaho oh that makes his delegate count far and away ahead of nikki haley, 51 to four there. And now we had enron as you well know, we head into Super Tuesday on tuesday were so many delegates are up for grabs. What reason do you think haley should continue to soldier on . She said shes committed to staying in through through Super Tuesday. How will how do you think Super Tuesday could push this dynamic forward . Yeah. First of all, you know, republican other than an incumbent president has ever won every primary and caucus outdoor, did it among the democrats. So trump is on and in historic pace. But even as hes doing that, we are seeing this consistent 30 or so, a higher in some states when shes had time to campaign supporting haley, she has made that point there is a portion of the repub, republican coalition, mostly collegeeducated suburban that is still resistant to trump. Not sure theres much point in making that point beyond Super Tuesday. Shes demonstrated it. The question of what she does next, i think will be no different if she stayed in the race for a month and if she got out the day after Super Tuesday all right. More to come. Ron brownstein. Great. To see you. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. 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