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holding mock debate sessions as he prepares for this high-stakes debate. meantime, trump? well, he's skipping the traditional debate prep in these spending his saturday on the campaign trail, right now, he is speaking to a gathering of christian conservatives in washington, dc before traveling to philadelphia for a rally tonight cnn's kevin lip deck, it's covering president biden's preparations and even mechan does at the conference where trump is talking to the crowd right now. so let's get started with you. what is trump saying so fred the former president, he's just getting started here. >> he was introduced by ralph reed, who leads the faith and freedom coalition. >> and he mentioned that this is actually trump's ninth time addressing this row two majority conference. >> he thanked him for keeping his promises to evangelicals during his presidency that seemed to be a reference to the three supreme court justices that trump appointed that ultimately led to the reversal of roe versus wade. this is an important group and this former president knows this he said, millions this group will be responsible for turning out the vote of millions of christians across the country. he also notably rattled out a series of early voting dates in different states that is really a departure from when he casts doubt on the mechanism of early voting before he told people in this crowd that they should vote early if, if they will, as a way to compete with democrats. >> we also know that the debate is on the former president's mine. >> listen to what he told his crowd nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right? >> no nobody will anybody be watching so, we know that, trump has really been downplaying the need for him to debate prep, but he is debate prepping. fred, he has held over a dozen policy discussions with people high up on his vp contender list. and we know that he is expected to focus on this issue of inflation in his attacks against president biden on the debate stage next week fred alright, even again, i thank you so much. >> let's check with kevin lip deck now, i was more in present the bidens debate preparations taking place at camp david, what do we know about what he's doing? >> yeah, it's gonna be an intensive stretch of days for the president out there in western maryland. the way it's been described to us as it will begin somewhat informally going through binders of potential questions, potential answers, some of these policies let's see differences between president biden and president trump. eventually culminating in some of these mock debates that the president will engage in before he heads down to atlanta on thursday, the president has surrounded himself with a group of very close aides that will help him over this stretch of days. they aren't necessarily all going to be there the same time, but it will reflect sort of the closest people to president biden as he helps as they help prepare them for this debate led by ron klain, who is the president's former chief of staff, but perhaps more importantly is the most seasoned debate coach in the democratic party. he's worked with president biden, but he's also worked with president obama, president clinton's. so he does have a wealth of experience getting ready for the showdowns. also out there at camp, david is bruce reed, who is sort of the top policy hand to president biden and he was one of the ones who helped compile these binders ahead of this intensive debate camp out in maryland so out there, jeff science, the president's chief of staff, two of the top messaging gurus for president biden mcdonald and needed done. and also steve or chetty and cedric richmond who are very close to president biden and a lot of ways this overlaps very closely with the team that helped prepare president biden for his 2020 debates. they feel like they had a good thing going there that they want to replicate this time around. i think for this debate, the team has a number of objectives. one is to turn out a very punchy performance that can show president biden is aggressive and is willing to go after president trump. they really do want to hold trump accountable for some of his past statements. and comments and certainly that is something that they will be practicing out there at camp david ordinarily, i think presidents like to get outside when they're out there in the woods. i looked it up the high out there is 98 degrees today, so i think they're probably doing their prep indoors, but certainly an intensive stretch of days for the president. >> that's arrived most likely. >> all right. kevin the attack even mechan thanks to both of you. appreciate it all right. >> let's talk more about all of this joining me right now, keep president about this key presidential debate is kadena go, but she is a political reporter for semaphore also with me as michael gold politics reporter for the new york times, who's covering the 2024 presidential race. great to see you both thank you. >> all right wonderful, michael, let me begin with you. >> since you are in philadelphia covering trump's rally, which will be happening later on today. for this debate, there will be no audience in this presidential debate. and i wonder if you think trump is kinda using today's appearances to kinda gauge possible debate material. i mean, just now when he was in washington dc at the christian conservative conference, he says, nobody will be watching, right? i mean, i'm not sure if that was a question or if it was kind of, a statement. maybe he was gauging the audience there to, to know what the energy level might be like ahead of the debate for him well, i think trump generally views his rallies as good debate prep. >> it's where he hones his leinz. that's where he hones his attacks on biden and attacks on biden are such a major frequent teacher of his speeches that there isn't extent to which he is sort of testing material every time he's on the the trail. i will say he spent months essentially trying to challenge biden to debate and lately with the debate approaching, he seems to be casting doubt that the debate will be fair he jokes with his supporters who's going to watch while at the same time saying that he gets good ratings for cnn and that's why they agreed to do it. his words, not mine. >> but i think we're going to see today the beginnings of what he might say when he's on stage on thursday and he's really been honing his attacks on biden over the last few rallies biden's debate preparation is, of course, very different here he's doing what presidents traditionally have done. >> they have mock debates and a lot of times it's at camp david. so does this symbolize anything to you about how biden i guess his discipline toward this debate and how his preparation will put him i mean, is this a speak to his confidence about being able to be policy driven? >> yeah. as you mentioned, president biden, is that camp david? he is with a big team along with ron klain, his former chief of staff. >> but i think he is the norm here in former president trump is the outlier, not doing the debate prep or i should say, taking a different approach by talking to a number of different people around a policy-specific for the, for the debate. >> this is this is typical because even throughout his presidency donald trump was very much kind of didn't follow rules. i think biden is right on on track and consistent with what previous presidents have done in the past michael trump, he's skipped all five republican presidential primaries than accused biden of being afraid of debating him. >> biden turned around, challenged trump to a pair debates, and now here we are trump is trying to lower expectations even saying i think biden is going to be very prepared what is he laying the groundwork for in your view? >> i think there's an extent to which trump's standard attack on biden is that he can't put two sentences together. he said it for months, if not a year, or more at this point there's an extent to which all the preparation that biden's doing might strike back at that. but when i speak to people in the trump campaign, their debate strategy is to let biden b. they point to recent speeches. they point to his track record of gas. i think there's an extent to which even as trump is downplaying the importance of this debate, he also doesn't want to make sure his followers are watching because he has created this narrative that biden is going to flub somehow. and if that happens, then trump gets to say he was right. and if it doesn't happen, then we'll be having a different conversation on friday good. >> dhea, what do you think each candidate needs to accomplish during this debate i think both candidates in their campaigns are going to be looking for breakout moments on both sides. >> i think they'll need that too for campaign fodder going forward, but i think we talked about what. the, rules are, and we talk about cutting the mics off when the other person isn't speaking. i was a little bit pennsylvania four years ago and i remember how contentious it was, and i remember being at a trump event where even trump's supporters were very dismayed about the performance. i think there'll be careful to let people actually talk. >> i think that's probably beneficial, but i also think it they're going to people on pretty dug in at this moment. >> and if they're going to change anything or they're going to change any minds. it will be based around policy and attitude on how they approach one another okay. >> well, thank you so much for your points of view and of course, we're all gonna be watching could kadena gaba, michael goal. thanks to both of you and you can watch in a variety of ways. you can tune in right here to cnn and watch the presidential debate june 27th. that's thursday, 9:00 p.m. eastern. and of course, you can stream it on max as well coming up new details on how the white house is prepared 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senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. always a great pleasure to see you how important in your view is this show of support i mean, i think it it suggests, that the administration is extremely worried that he's really a lebanon front could easily explode into a conflict that could easily morph into a regional war and i think whatever problems the administration has with the netanyahu government, and there are many for sure with respect to the conduct of its war in gaza i think the administration is doubling down on the reality they want to make an unmistakably clear to iran and hezbollah that if in fact it escalate the us will essentially have israel's back and could i think it may be likely get involved in this confrontation? itself? we saw friday, april 13, 14 iran launched 300 plus higher trajectory weapons toward israel us mounted with others a significant air defense. and i think it's presages. i think a more robust involvement by the united states should that war i'm not predicting, it'll happen, but should that we're actually escalate is it your view that these incidents with hezbollah could continue indefinitely even without it erupting into a sizable war. i mean, i think you broke broke the code here as long as the israeli hamas work continues, then you can count on the fact that he escalatory cycle that's been building between israel and his ball along the israeli lebanese board is going to continue as well and that's 18 years, for instance, is bulla and israel less tangled in the summer of 2006? that is bowl only had 5,000 nitrogen, three weapons and they shut down the northern half of israel from heifer to the lebanese border for 33 days. now mla possesses 150,000 hydrogen to your weapons and very ranges and mythologies we're talking about being able to cover most major cities in israel and israeli infrastructure. >> and of course, the israeli response it's going to be devastating both in terms of hezbollah's assets and lebanese infrastructure. >> and the loss of lebanese civilian life. >> so i think this is a war that everyone's still has a stake. i would think, in avoiding, but the longer these really hamas war goes on greater the chance of an errant missile, a stumble an accident i will listen to what a senior spokesperson for the idf said this week about the war in gaza hamas hamas is an idea and those who think we can make hamas disappear are wrong i'm not talking about the alternatives this is a decision of the political echelon and the idf will implement kliger with talia. same, but the issue the issue of eliminating hamas is silly. the throat dustin the eyes of the public what does this tell you now or what do you read into what the israeli defense forces are saying, particularly as it pertains to support for the prime minister benjamin netanyahu i think it's fascinating me at local level. >> i think the idf and israeli intelligence is as whole as hell does fever quite some time that amash may not survive as an organized military force, but it will survive as a political organization, as an insurgency but even more important and consequential is the fact that the idf's chief spokesman, admiral daniel hagari is openly saying that there are those who are quote, trying to throw sand in the eyes or the israeli public and he links that to the political echelon. so i think pressure on the myth, no government is going to build and the israeli defense forces the reserve is the active combat duty forces that are participating in this war, 300 dead since october 7, additional 200 israeli military killed on october 7 i think that this presages the one pressure point on the netanyahu government that may actually have an impact on altering israeli government political behavior. but again whether this is a headline, fred or trend line remains to be determined. >> and what kind of impact is being made with netanyahu dissolving the war cabinet i think he is all about knesset arithmetic rata to 120 knesset is really part of me, you need 60 plus one to govern the prime minister has 60 plus four. >> it's a pretty cohesive, tightly bound coalition to alter or religious parties. and two messianic zionist parties and right-wing, extreme right-wing. >> and i think as long as that prevails the netanyahu government is probably safe. >> on july 25th which is the day after benjamin netanyahu addresses a joint session of congress, the knesset goes into rhesus it doesn't resume until i believe two weeks before our election which in my mind means that if mr. netanyahu's government can make it to the 25th you'll probably be around through most of the fall and in a position to judge on november 5 and would follow who the next president of the united states is going to be. i suspect bad leader and bad circumstances that have very bad time. it's possible mr. netanyahu will be with us into early 2025 all right. aaron david miller. thank you so much. >> thank you for it coming up. >> the 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