captioning brought to you by meso book.com are firm only represents mesothelioma victims and their families. if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now today on inside politics, donald trump's massive fundraising haul. >> could it reshape the final months of the 2024 campaign? >> and why is donald trump singing a new tune about joe biden's ability to debate. plus disarm the supreme court keeps in place gun restrictions that stopped best to abusers from owning firearms. but the justices keep the country waiting on the other big case is on the dog gay, and which donald trump do you believe the former president who? talks about by american higher american now says foreign students who graduate from college shouldn't be rubber stamp for a green card but erasure in for dana bash let's go behind the headlines and inside politics more on today's major supreme in court decision in minutes. but up first, donald trump is preparing literally and seriously, you might say trump is deepen policies, sessions, and rehearsing answers including on questions about the january 6 insurrection. after months of question, joe biden's mental fitness, he's suddenly talking up. joe biden's debate game i will say he beat, he beat paul ryan, who still years ago, but he people orion pretty badly and i assume he's gonna be somebody that will be a worthy debater. >> yeah, i would say i think i don't want to underestimate him cnn's jeff zeleny has more on the historic rematch the historic rematch between joe biden and donald trump is anything but a rerun a vastly different set of issues are driving this race as the president and former president come face-to-face for the first debate of the 2024 campaign. >> four years since they shared a stage, the worst perez in america has ever had lifetime ago back when the coronavirus pandemic was raging understand if you look, i mean, i have a mask right here. i put a mask on when i think i needed this is his economy as being he shut down in the biden trump's sequel, an entirely new fight has been brewing on the campaign trail no, you could end up in world war three with this person is the worst president ever. >> and in tv ads, this election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for him no and a president who's fighting for your family that offers a window into the new issues and fresh lines of attack. a reminder of just how much the country, the world and yes, they have changed from an insurrection and all its fallout to a new fight on abortion rights in the wake of the us supreme court overturning roe versus wade to russia's invasion of ukraine and a war in the middle east to the very stark question of america's role in the world. yet the economy inflation, and immigration are still at the center of it all trump's record was at the heart of their last debates, even as he sought to deflect if he gets in, you will have a depression the likes of which you've never seen your foro. one case will go to hell and it'll be a very, very sad day for this country while those warnings didn't come to pass, biden's record is now under the microscope, complicating is effort to make it a referendum on trump. >> the fact is that everything he's saying so far it's simply a lie. i'm not here to call out his lies. everybody knows he's a liar, and america's oldest presidential candidates, or even older, trump's 78 and biden 81 with age and fitness for office. now a central issue in the race public opinion for president's can be punishing biden's favorability has fallen 11 point since 2020, with nearly six in ten americans holding an unfavorable view, perceptions of trump have changed less with more than half still seeing him in an unfavorable light. televised debates have long been a storied part of his presidential campaigns three making moments for candidates. >> here you go again. >> yet this showdown is without parallel. the nation's 45th and 46 president's still seeking to define one another in the earliest general election debate in memory and old dual being fought on new ground all right, i want to bring in some very talented reporters to share their insight. >> cnn's mj lee, political is heidi press below and maryanne levine of the washington post. nice to see you all mj starting with the a euro, you cover the white house, you're there every day. what are you hearing about? what's happening with president biden this weekend at camp david? >> yeah. you know, it's interesting, just the clip that you played of former president trump talking about how president biden is going to be a worthy debater. i just think it's such a reminder that the expectations game is really the whole game at this point. and i do think we've seen the former president and his team really lower the bar for president biden and a lot of ways, i mean, they've so leaned into this strategy of trying to paint the president as somebody who couldn't possibly stand on the debate stage for 90 minutes, can't string sentences together. it's just not all totally there. so in some ways, for president biden, as he's preparing at camp david you could have imagine that he gets on stage and does all of those things. he makes it through the 90 minutes, does have a coherent sentences that he's putting out there. and it's all there. and he clears the lowered bar. i think that the former president has said, and i just don't think it's a coincidence. that a new again, the babies are what did they the and it's funny you mentioned that in fact, role all of these leaders are at the top of their game. mentally there at the top of their game. and they dealing with somebody that's not at the top of their game, his game. and obviously he never was. >> he wandered off the g7 and europe. he the stage he looked like he didn't know where to hell he was, but he didn't know where it went if we win wisconsin now, you know, biden you know what biden would say? good, say, if we win iowa or sir, urine, wisconsin 00 so how does trump a raise months of saying the opposite, but he can't string two sentences together. >> oh, by the way, he's amazing debater. he doesn't, by the way, because they've invested so much like mj said, in this narrative, that this is joe biden's chance to have a performance, perhaps similar to the state of the union look, they've been pounding this narrative for quite some time and that was one of those moments where people said wow, he really over-performed expectations, expect potentially a similar scenario here. >> however, if he does have even the slightest hesitation or what they could call senior moment expect that to be completely blown up and fanned on social media because the truth is, a lot of the folks who are undecided or who may be under motivated voters are not going to necessarily be watching the entire debate, but they will be getting a lot of information on these mediums where these mems and these even deceptively edited videos have helped fan that narrative. and that's something that i know that the biden people are very concerned about, which is even if he does great right what's going to happen afterwards on these social media platforms? >> yeah not a bad thing. exactly. you took cover the trump campaign. there's a lot of expectation or there's hope among republicans that he can remain discipline what are you hearing about how his preparation is going? and i was going to deal with the biden is mental but to get under his skin and clearly, but by trump will have to rein it into some extent. can trump rein it in? >> i mean, i think that's the open question. i mean, i think his allies and they campaign or prepping him more in these kind of informal policy sessions with some of his allies, jd vance, marco rubio, eric schmidt have all worked with the former president. i mean, it's interesting because it feels like the trump campaign is trying to downplay the amount of preparation that they're doing and an expectation setting game themselves i think they want to go in with the argument that trump is used to these rallies. he's used to combative interviews and he doesn't need the level of preparation patient. yeah. >> then biden needs yeah, it seems like they're trying to play it both ways and that's go for it, go figure but it's interesting, we'll see if he's ready. he is not debate the primary debates will see how he does next week. this all comes, of course, as there has been a massive fundraising haul, really up on both sides, but even more so from trump in the aftermath of his fiction. he is now dwarfing, but they remember for months by trump has been struggling to keep up with biden's fundraising machine. it's not a little bit of the other way around in may, the fundraising haul, 141 million for trump compared to 85 million for biden. so mj does the biden campaign lick concerned at all about this surgeon trump fundraising? i mean, they certainly don't want to be lagging behind trump ever. >> i do think that there was a sense of expectation that once the trump trial was over and new york, that yeah, it was very much possible that momentum with pickup for them in terms of their halls. but i do think with the biden team would argue at this point, is that yes, we are working as hard as possible to raise as much money as we can. we don't want trump to catch up, but the one way in which the trump team cannot catch up is getting time back time that was wasted or was diverted to focusing on the president, the former president being in a courtroom for weeks and weeks when at the same time the biden team was really trying to lay the grounds. the foundation for having a traditional campaign in place to really hit the ground running and the general election. i think they would argue that that is something that the trump team can't compete with because part of this big fundraising haul came from billionaires. in fact 19 million michael bloomberg, the former new york city mayor to do helping out joe biden's campaign to the biden victory fund into a trump the timbaland who's a reclusive billionaire and error to a banking fortune $50 to a pro trump super pac. this has been a shift you've seen these billionaires, even more so open up their wallet. >> so trump racing took them a while in 2016. here they're getting there sooner. and the key moment seems to have been the conviction because we saw a huge influx of both individual donors and also some of these billionaire is coming off the sideline. also the widow of sheldon adamson as well, talking about putting a lot of money and its look, each slide has their billionaires, the question here we need to ask is what are the agendas and interests of those billionaires and a lot of the billionaires supporting trump are some of these hajj fund magnets oil and gas magnets. and with biden, it's mike bloomberg. it's melinda gates foundation. the key is how are they going to spend that money? because to mj is point biden has already had months that you cannot replace of creating all of these grassroots office this is across the country when we all know that advertising dollars are worth less and less in this fragmented environment. so even if the trump campaign pours a lot of this into advertising, it's hard to say that this gives him a big advantage or even brings them to parity because of all the investment that's been made already by the biden campaign and the trump campaign relying on bilinears, i just want you to look at this graphic on your screen, billionaires backing trump. this is all from 40 is someone who is at a 47 billion in net worth is jeff yass all the way down to john paulson within paltry $6 billion. >> there. i'm being sarcastic if you couldn't tell, but i significant amounts of money, these are the people backing donald trump. so i mean, he obviously is going to be well-funded heading this campaign. what are you hearing? >> yeah. i mean, i think it definitely shows the transactional nature in which trump approaches fundraising. he's made lots of promises to billionaires in these private meeting saying, for example, that he's going to roll back biden's environmental regulations and he's and i think what we're seeing is a lot of this, some of these billionaires, dr. wave from trump's shortly after the 2020 election and spoke out against his efforts to overturn the election results. but i think we're seeing obviously a shift here and that's enlarged part, i think because of their own agendas and the hopes for the 2025 to see the tax cuts reenacted in the end of 2020 25 that's what you hear oftentimes it's someone's put aside their personal differences. we'll talk about the policy and for some of these billionaires, it has to do with tax cuts. all right, next, it's a rare thing for the supreme court uphold any restrictions on who can own a gun but that's exactly what happened this morning the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't we behind the president and the former president. >> one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana bash to cnn presidential debate thursday night at nine live on cnn and, and streaming on max whether you're moving across town or across the country. >> you can count on pods to deliver when we say we which, is why we were voted on america's number one container moving company will cure move today at pods.com. >> we just shipped are million monthly coffee subscription box. so we're sending custom thank you. gifts to our team, our customer and grab is just as excited as we are and knows what great quality problem products to get celebrate your milestones with custom gear, get started today at customer.com. >> want the effects of viagra, but faster meet row sparks. they contain sildenafil and the dalla fill let's sparks dissolve under the time dissolvable work faster than old-school hills cia sparks are right for you at row that coast last sparks our right to reproductive health care is being stolen from us. >> the rights for ourselves, our kids, and our grandkids gone just like that. i can't believe this is the world we live here, where we're losing the freedom took control our own bodies planned parenthood fights for you every day we need your support now, more than ever, visit this website call or scan the code on your screen with your $19 monthly gift, help us when the fight for the constitutional right to control our own bodies there's never been a more urgent time to join. >> so go online all or scan this code now, sign up with your monthly gift today and we'll send you this care no matter what t-shirt it is, your right to have safe health care. that's it. >> we need you now more than ever, go online, call or scan right now. >> did you know you can save with goodrx even if you have insurance amount of medicare had chairman rx because it can be my coping who won like that even if you have insurance. >> we've got our x cannot be saved another good reason to check, good our x. >> this is remington. he's a member of the family for sure. we always fed them kibble. it just seemed like the thing to do, but he was getting picky we heard about the farmers dog and it was a complete transformation. his coat was so soft, he had amazing energy he was a completely different dog. it's a no brainer that ancient have the best nutritious and delicious food possible and investing in my dog's health and happiness get started at long-lived dogs.com shallow cancer is it's hard, but st. >> jude has gotten us through singer is hope for every child diagnosed with cancer because the reason they're just being shared all over the world why choose asleep numbers smart bad? 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what are the implications of this? rolling? okay. >> first of all, just on the ground, this is an important ruling for people who care about domestic violence. >> and this is reinforces the federal government's ability to keep guns away from people who are subject to domestic violence restraining orders but for the larger second amendment question that we have here, the chief justice is highlighted in what you just showed, that there was a credible threat that this is a temporary measure against someone who was assessed to be dangerous in some way or a threat, a menace. and the reason he highlighted those two elements is because since 2022, when the justices expanded, second amendment gun rights, lower courts have been really torn about what kinds of gun regulations can be upheld. and to finally have a court, the supreme court, uphold any regulation is notable, but the chief really stressed the reason why, because you're this 2022 precedent gun regulations have to have a historical be part of historical tradition precedent. and the chief pointed to laws that were intended at the framing of the second amendment back in 17 91, there were intended to keep weapons out of the hands of people who could be a menace to society. but only because of that. i mean, this is the new rules are awfully restrictive and the chief was joined. he had a majority, but he was joined only in his full opinion by justice alito five other justices split off. justice clarence thomas dissented outright, but the center of the lone dissenter here wanting to strike down this law, but five other justices split off to talk about how they would interpret the tradition in history of gun regulation in america. and i would say the three key ones our justice gorsuch kavanaugh and barrett, who were originally part of that majority. two years ago, that expanded gun rights and they were talking about just how future regulations should be assessed. so there's just lots more litigation to come former law enforceme