Was released, particularly because it touched on the president s age and memory, two issues that they anticipate Congressional Republicans are going to attack the president on over the course of this mornings hearing. And again, the white house, when they pushed back on this, they took issue with the way that the president was characterized, and the president himself was clearly irritated in a Press Conference that occurred in february, just after its release. Thats thats my memory has gotten worse, mr. President. My memory is not. My memory is fine. My memory. Take a look at what ive done since ive become president. None of you thought i could pass any of the things i got passed. How did that happen . You know, i guess i just forgot what was going on. Do you fear that this report is only going to fuel further concerns about your age . Only by some of you now, notably casey. Since then, the campaign has released a new ad tackling bidens age head on, where he says and acknowledges that hes not a young guy. So clearly, since then, they have developed their strategy to use the president s age to their advantage. But its still going to be a sensitive issue when it comes up this morning. Yeah, im not sure to. Their advantage is going to be totally possible, but certainly to try to neutralize the issue. And priscilla alvarez, thank you very much for that reporting. I really appreciate it. Doug. Hi, karen finney, Sasha Eisenberg are back with me now. In fact, lets lets play a little bit of that ad, because look, theres a stark contrast between the president that we saw in that Press Conference after this report came out and the president , the president that they want to present to the country, watch. Look, im not a young guy thats no secret. But heres the deal. I understand how to get things done for the american people. I believe the job of the president is to fight for you, the american people. And thats what im doing. Im joe biden, and i approve this message. Can we do one more take . Look, im very young, energetic and handsome. What tell am i doing this for . Thats cute. So now we got us all laughing, right, saying oh its cute. Big difference from that Press Conference after the her report dropped. Yeah. Well you was that Press Conference a mistake, person only as a comms person, i would not have done it. However, thats easy for me to say sitting on the outside when instead of on the inside, when youre trying to convince the president of the United States not to do something that you know he wants to do. But look, heres the other thing ill say. You know, obviously, internally, weve been testing a lot of different clips, clips from the state of the union, for example, and clips and looking at how what is the best way to talk about his age. And one of the things we found is and by we, i mean this is some of the outside groups. When you talk about it just head on, straight forward. It actually does do better. It actually mobilizes people and kind of gets people to shift away from the age and more to about the ideas. So i suspect thats why the white house did that, because i think the campaign rather because i think theyre seeing the same thing that just take it head on and then move on. Well, and sasha, when you were looking into kind of how voters interpret this, its really about a question of weakness, right . This idea that is President Biden weak. Whats the best way . I mean, whats your understanding of how the campaign, the Biden Campaign could push back on that idea . Yeah. And in my book, I Quote A Pollster in 2020 who did all this research on the subject, and they they identified the underlying worry as voters thinking that joe biden wasnt going to be the author of his presidency. In the pollsters words, that that the age thing was not that he was, you know, physically or mentally. You know, damaged. It was that he was a politically weak figure. I think that has to do something with being Vice President as your sort of Primary Identifier to voters. And the way he kind of, like, stumbled into the nomination, never really being the center of attention. And so they saw that the way to counter that in 2020 wasnt as they tried for a time to show him bicycling and photo ops and like, running up the stairs of a plane, but really like basic, even banal fixes like these 15 second like digital ads that they were putting out in front of sort of right leaning audiences. They were just biden, unedited and speaking to camera about his values. They thought that thats what would assuage the underlying anxieties that voters had that manifest in concerns about his age. What do you how do you think about that, doug . Joe, joe bidens charming tells jokes. Theyre funny. Weve known that for a long time. To me, whats whats critical in that ad is when he says, this is about you, this is about the american voters. And i go back to 2016 where we all thought, donald trump couldnt do anything and couldnt beat hillary clinton. And when he said, hillary has these signs that say, im with her, well, im with you. Thats when i sat back and said, oh, Wait A Second here. He understands some of this and voters are very selfish people. We all are. We want to hear about ourselves, and we want to hear about what we deal with in our lives every day. And if biden gets to that, hes in a stronger place because he talks about those issues very passionately. Yeah. And the what im going to do for you and to that point, i mean, one of the things i think will be critical in the election, you know, people, if you you know, how you feel about donald trump is pretty baked in. The thing that the Campaign Needs to do is connect. Why is the fact that he may be corrupt or selfish . How is that bad for you . Because if because many people might say, well, its okay, as long as you kind of knew that about trump, right . As long as the markets okay. I mean, you even hear voters say things like in some of the pieces john king has done. Right. Well, i dont like all the things he tweets and says, but i thought the accounting was better. So i think right, right. So the key is to make the argument. And this is why its bad for you when hes looking out for himself. It means things arent getting done for you. All right. Well, we havent even talked about my colleague jim shooters reporting about how he said great things about hitler. So theres that to. What a day. All right, coming up next here, donald trump shaking up House Republicans by opposing a ban on tiktok. Plus, how safe is selfdriving technology in cars . I personally find it terrifying, but well talk about it. Cnn news central next so i can take all these trips because priceline has all these amazing deals. 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Former President Trump agreed that tiktok is a National Security threat, but said that Banning Tiktok would increase the popularity of facebook, which he considered to be the, quote, Enemy Of The People. You think facebook is the Enemy Of The People . Dude, have you been on facebook . Everyones uncle is on there and they love you. All right. The house is on track to vote tomorrow on the fate of a bipartisan bill that would effectively ban tiktok in the United States. But there is a potential new roadblock. Donald trump, the former president , has republicans on edge after he flipped his position, insisting a ban on the app would make people, quote, go crazy. Here is what the bills republican cosponsor told cnns manu raju. Well, hes wrong. And by the way, he had his own what Executive Orders in his own actions he was doing. And now, you know, now hes suddenly flipped around on that. I mean, its not the first or last time that ill disagree with the former president , the tiktok issue is pretty straightforward. Its not even about tiktok. Its about ensuring were protecting the data of the american people. All right. Cnns alayna treene, who covers donald trump for us, joins us now. Alaina, i mean, this is a straight up flip flop. Why is the president doing this . Former president . It is. Although i will say from my conversations with Donald Trumps team and going back through the audio, its more of that. I think he has skepticism about this than its a straight up reversal. But theres a couple reasons for this. One is that he really does hate facebook, donald trump. Weve known this for a long time. Hes, you know, railed against Mark Zuckerberg for years. He believes that they had some role in influencing the 2020 election. Of course, theres questions over that, and also, he is worried that if tiktok were to be banned, that its users would migrate to facebook. I loved that seth meyers clip, because i think a lot of people recognize, like, young kids dont really love facebook anymore. They look at it as more like the boomer thing. Exactly. So im not sure if thats, you know, that concern is well placed. But the other part of this is as well is when i talk to people close to the former president and his aides that they would they think that it would be great if biden were blamed for tiktok being banned. They know that so many young voters specifically love tiktok and that people, as he said, would go, quote, crazy. They believe that if this was something that could be placed on biden, if people are really upset with biden over losing one of their favorite apps, that will only help donald trump. And of course, young voters is a key demographic or a key demographic that his team are trying to peel away from joe biden. So thats part of this as well. It can be political. Yeah, yeah. Sasha, as our resident disinformation expert, a big concern here is how the algorithm, the tiktok algorithm, which, you know, is basically the Chinese Communist party, the company that owns tiktok, has to respond to them. Right. So we dont exactly know the true details of their influence, but we know that its a possible city that perhaps it exists and there are certain kind of instances where we can point to things. But for example, videos that are critical of china get fewer views than things that are viewed as divisive here in the United States. What is the actual threat to our politics from how tiktok is able to influence people just through their phones . Yeah, i mean, so it functions differently than than other social platforms that are more dependent on you choosing to follow things. You know, it is queuing up content for people, and it makes it very difficult for political campaigns to get a handle on, not just whats on the platform, but whos seeing it. Are they voters . Are they in the United States, and so if you are bidens campaign, youre running for office at any level. Youre trying to set policy. Its a fairly Opaque Communications medium. So like we can you know, go and see what Television Ads are running. We can see whats in the newspaper. It is very hard to get a handle on what voters are actually seeing on on tiktok. But can we just remember trump loved facebook in 2016 because remember, it was those algorithms that were getting people into all the disinformation about hillary. In fact, they had facebook people literally embedded in their campaign. So this i mean, talk about a flip flop, right . He loved them. Now he hates them. I also think the timing is interesting, considering he met with elon musk of x, and x is about to launch. What a video app that is similar to. Youtube. So i would continue to watch this space on that one, doug, the politics of this, i mean, i take elenas point, right . If joe biden signs this legislation and again, just to back up for a second, we say it would ban tiktok. It would be an effective ban. It would basically say that unless the parent company, which is owned by china, divests tiktok, sells it to someone else so that someone else controls it, it will not be allowed in app stores, the google play store, the apple app store, etc. If its biden who signs this, is that a big political problem . I mean, what is the like . Whats the calculus there . Well, biden very much wants to sign a bill that he hopes doesnt come to his desk is sort of the reality of the politics on this. But i think i think the internal republican politics are more interesting. Here. You have donald trump saying, we got to get rid of it. Chip roy, as Big A Trumper as you can get, says hes wrong. Youve got rand paul out there, on on that side with chip roy as well. Youre exposing some republican divides that i think we didnt really expect to see as recently as 3 or 4 weeks ago. Yeah. How do you think this actually plays out in the senate . Do you think theyre going to be willing to do something along these lines . Because, i mean, i will say there does seem to be a lot of bipartisan buy in around the idea that, like, there are very real dangers in this app having as much influence as it does now. One thing ive learned about the senate is rand paul is going to rand paul and i think we need to figure out how far hes willing to go to stop this as to whether or not the Senate Passes it. But biden is very proactive. I want to sign this bill and then very quietly, dont send me this bill. I will add to it just in my conversations with Trumps Campaign that they say this isnt like the bipartisan border deal where donald trump very much wanted to blow it up and was glad that he sunk it. They say that hes not going to put as much effort into trying to tank this bill as he did with that, that hes going to he believes that congress will make the right decision here. They can do with what with this bill, what they want. And i think that also shows that donald trump is an obsessed with this issue. Like he was with that immigration issue. Again, political reasons for the other bill for wanting to take that, and he was successful in those efforts. Im not so sure that his influence and his comments yesterday on cnbc are going to change the calculus for this. And in the house, at least, its in many ways its easier for him to just have his hands off of it. If they do this without him, then fine. Theres no ramifications there. All right, thank you all. Were going to be back with you guys in just a moment. It is 47 past the hour. Heres your morning roundup. An faa audit finds dozens of problems at boeing. 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And now this a poor rating for selfdriving cars from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety of the 14 systems tested by the agency, 11 earned a poor rating, including teslas autopilot and full selfdriving systems. I got to tell you, karen, i find these things like terrifying. I mean, i get to decide whether or not im gonna put myself behind the wheel of it, but like, what if im crossing the street with my kid 100 . I think there is. Weve seen this time and time again that these questions get raised. Im going to go for like an old, you know, stick shift myself without any computers, i think, and get a hard line the way this is going. Yeah. No were talking i got an 89 corvette that, like is very dumb and i love it for that reason, theres all these other issues too. Like i mean, the Insurance Companies collecting your data, apparently. Yeah. Look i still drive a 2004 chevy blazer that i bought on the Richard Burr Senate campaign in North Carolina in 2004. 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Now, what was her qualification . Other than being in the love boat . I dont know of any. So a lot of this is actually business as usual because its donald trump. We go a little crazy, but i appreciate you saying that. But there is history there. There is precedent there. And theyre theyre doing some House Cleaning. Well see if its too much or not. But theyre also trying to cut costs and save some cash, which this rnc needs to do. But doug, you know, i mean, having been at the dnc, we had the same Communications Director roles at different agencies, at different places. I mean, to gut it so close to the election, though, you know, as well as i do when you are supposed to be in a mode of building up the Campaign Operations in the states and coordinated campaigns with senate and house and other races in the states, it does seem a little bit odd, and it feels a little bit like theyre trying. Yes, theyre trying to cut costs because they know theyre going to have to spend a lot of money on legal fees. But if they underinvest in field, and that seems to mean its going to be paid for on the outside by the outside groups rather than on the inside, which thats part of what our politics have changed on this. And i dont think we know when i was at the rnc in 2010, was the rise of the superpacs were just starting and our fundraising was down and everybody freaked out about it. But its because you could put money elsewhere. Thats right. So, sasha, i mean, how do you look at this . I mean, lets lets show a little bit of sound of these two. So theres two new officials coming in. The top chairman is a former North Carolina gop chairman, Handpicked Plus lara trump. Heres them talking about the rnc. I would like to thank President Trump for his trust and support. There is no one who has been more focused on fighting for the american people, and i am grateful for the opportunity to work with him to win and help revitalize our great nation. I know how important this role is, and it is truly an honor to be here, to work alongside all of you over the next 241 days. The goal on november 5th is to win, and as my father in law says, big league, were going to win on november 5th. Bigly. How much . How much impact does the committee actually have here . I think the committee and its State Parties can have a lot. When you look at our resources, is going to mobilize voters who are going to vote the whole republican ticket, or are they working to turn out Trump Supporters . And you look at a state like ohio or pennsylvania where there might be some ticket splitters, there might be some people who would vote for Sherrod Brown and donald trump, those part of his appeal. If republicans are serious about creating a working class coalition, people who might vote for bob casey in pennsylvania and vote for trump is the rnc and the State Parties in october are going to be making tactical decisions are about turning out trump voters, but might also be turning out people who will vote for democrats, for senate or for governor. All right. Fair enough. All right. Im going to leave you with this, which is what were all really talking about this morning. Internet sleuths having some photoshop fun with the royal familys photoshop fail. The photo released by Kensington Palace of catherine, Princess Of Wales and her children had so many errors that she apologized yesterday and she blamed it on experimenting with editing. The photo was our first look supposedly at the princess in months, and it set off an internet frenzy. A Senior Editor at the verge pointing out metadata, shows it was shot on a standard canon dslr camera and that it was edited twice on photoshop for mac. Other users claimed that they found the original image replacing kate with a Sad Oompa Loompa from the disastrous and viral willy wonka experience in scotland, which kate was also apparently found missing at. That was another conspiracy, the user claims. It was really kates children who were photoshopped to hide their real identities. Taylor swift, Robert Downey jr mr. Bean Stephen Colbert claims he found the original. Today, kate admitted that she had edited the photo and to put this scandal to rest, the palace has released the original image of Princess Kate skateboarding over a tiger. I mean, karen, there is also, you know, people who are juxtaposing it with a picture that was on a vogue cover that was taken. Definitely not since the surgery happened. Like, yeah, youre a pr professional. What on earth . Indeed. What on earth . How did this get out that would be my question. Because when you know that the whole country is wondering what really happened to kate, the whole world. Sorry. Youre right. The whole world is wondering what happened to kate. You cannot put out a picture that has been touched up in this environment, period. Full stop would not have done it. Yeah. And again, were kind of showing, detail after detail after detail here, all right. Heres just hoping that the princess is, is recovering well and that well see her soon for real. Thank you all for joining us this morning. Im casey hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now
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