>> for absolutely free doctors preferred better science, better results welcome to all viewers watching in the us and all around the world. >> by max foster in london, ahead on cnn newsroom, we aren't counting down to the first us presidential debate. >> of this election season happening right here on cnn this week joe biden and donald trump, how they're preparing plus deadly attacks on churches and synagogues in russia has no claim of responsibility so far, but authorities believe they were coordinated and the end of a pga tour event interrupted when climate protesters carrying smoke bombs invaded the 18th green cnn's a stored presidential debate is now just three days away. us president joe biden will debate his predecessor donald trump for the first time. since 2020. mr. biden and mr. trump had very different approaches to debate preparations whilst trump hit the campaign trail this weekend, courting christian conservatives president biden has been hunkered down at camp david with his advisors. now, some republicans are mocking the president's intense preparations he has to be in camp david for 78 days to prepare himself to be in a 90 minute debate with donald trump. >> that does not bode well for a man who says he wants four more years. >> sin as kevin, let tack now has more on mr. biden's debate strategy president. biden has now completed three days of debate prep out at camp david, and we are getting some new insights into the biden campaign's strategy heading into this week and heading into thursday's debate in atlanta, they've released a memo spelling out some of the things that they're doing to boot boost enthusiasm among their supporters ahead of this showdown that includes 300 debate night watch parties and 1,600 events in battleground states to try and ramp-up energy around president biden's appearance on that debate stage against president trump. >> and i think this memo really lays clear the three most important items that president biden will want to hammer home on that debate stage. one is the issue of abortion, and this is one that democrats really believe will be galvanizing for their support. supporters come november, president biden really wants to lay at donald trump's feet the overturning of roe roe versus wade. and in fact, on monday, the biden campaign plans 50 events around the anniversary of the dobbs supreme court decision that stripped the nationwide right to abortion, really trying to rally their supporters around this key issue, the second item on the debate stage that you're going to hear from president biden, is this idea of democracy and the threats that he believes donald trump poses to american democracy. threats of political violence. this of course, has been an underpinning of the entire biden campaign and certainly he wants to hammer that point home on thursday night. the third issue is the economy. the number one issue for many odors. president biden wants to claim that trump's record and agenda would only benefit the wealthy. of course, this is a vulnerability for president biden. many americans don't see the economy is improving despite indicators that suggest the economy is doing well, it is something that he will have to talk about on but debate stage on thursday night. >> now, the other items that i think are likely to come up and that we heard from biden surrogates on sunday, is this idea of trump as a convicted felon. >> we did hear from one key voice, mitch landrieu, who's a co-chair of that campaign. he talked about this idea of which trump would show up on the debate stage, would be a restrained presidential trump. would it be a bombastic, ferocious trump like we saw in 2020? listen to what mitch landrieu said today. >> it really doesn't matter how donald trump shows up if he comes in unhinged like he is most of the time, or he sits there and his quiet people are going to know that he's a twice-impeached, convinced it did felon, who has been found to have defamed somebody sexually abused somebody and gone bankrupt six times. they will always know that and that is something that the american people have to think about. >> so you here. they're a preview of sorts of what you might hear from president biden on the debate stage when it comes to all of the legal issues that have been surrounding president trump this is certainly a major backdrop to this entire campaign and will be a major backdrop as well to this debate. this face off on thursday night kevin lip tech, cnn washington meanwhile, donald trump says he has decided in his mind who he is going to be running. oh, who's going to be his running mate. but he added that the person doesn't know yet, and he would reveal his vp pick pretty soon north dakota republican governor doug burgum is one of the top contenders for that post. here's what he told cnn he's very strong across the board, so he can pick someone that you can focus on like, hey, let's, let's get someone gets stuff done. >> let's get someone who helps him govern he's got a lot of great choices and i think everybody, everybody the whole country maybe knows my background, which is both both success in business and success as in the executive branch, as governing. but that's his choice on what criteria that he wants well, the former presence, was at the annual road to majority conference in washington this weekend, the event was hosted by the faith and freedom coalition, a group founded by leading evangelical voice ralph reed. >> here's what reid had to say about donald trump's upcoming debate performance i was with the president, meaning trump former president trump yesterday, he was at our faith and freedom conference, disguise in the zone he's ready and by the way, i expect you biden to be ready. oh, for more now we're joined by thomas gift, director of the center on us politics at university college london. thank you so much for joining us. thomas, which trump do you expect to see when we were considering in that report whether it be the bombastic trump or the the, presidential trump, as we can call it well, it's great to be with you, max. >> thanks so much for having me. i'm more expect the bombastic that trump simply because that's a trump. all americans are used to. i think a lot of his campaign strategist want him to show up presidential side, but one thing that we've team from trump is that he just can't help himself. he loves the limelight. he loves coming out hard and being an attack dog. and i think that that's just his personality. that may be neutralized to some extent by this mute button that is part of the campaign where he can't talk over biden, but think absolutely trump's is going to come out and he's going to come out hard what do you make of the preparations of biden's making? he's a different kind of politician isn't here is more he doesn't put much more into his thought, perhaps when trump is much more instinctive, we do have to prepare for someone that really thinks on their feet and the way that trump does. so it's a sensible thing to do, isn't it? preparing? >> oh, absolutely. and there's nothing unusual at all about biden taking some time out with his advisors, getting ready for this debate. >> it's a big moment. and so of course he wants to perform as well as he can. and it is difficult to predict which donald trump is going to show up by virtue of the fact that you just asked that question joe biden needs to be prepared for both. i do think that joe biden is quite a good debater, or at least he has been in the past. he's very good particularly calling out audience members and sort of showing empathy one-on-one with individuals. and so i think that biden is going to do what? on this debate simply because he shown himself effective in previous years is his is the answer here, not to react too much to trump, or is the answer to play him his own game a bit? >> right that's a big question. i'm not sure exactly what his strategists think is best. i do think he wants to show himself as presidential and not get caught into all of donald trump's given take and back-and-forth because it could really just digress into something that's not helpful. for americans. he wants to show a presidential side he said back in 2020 that he wanted to be healer and chief, that he wanted to be bipartisan, that they wanted to work with republicans on the other side of the political aisle. this is a good opportunity to show that if he's elected for four more years, he's going to continue to make overtures and try to heal some of those device will go through some of the issues with kevin. let dac economy is always essential issue, isn't it to any election and it sounds like biden's gonna go in hard on trump on that, but trump's actually probably the better position is neat by simply arguing this was the economy that he'll be inheriting from biden what the economies are really tricky issue for biden certainly because he can't come out and say that everything is great. >> because if you just look at the polls, americans don't believe that fair or unfair there's still a relatively pessimistic sense among many voters. at the same time, he can't say, i haven't done anything for the economy because that's basically just admitting defeat. so i do think that a lot of the framing around the economy is going to be important and what he has tried to do to an extent is kinda frame the economy as being in combat mode and saying i know, i can feel your pain. i know that inflation was 10%, 11% during my presidency, but we're on an upswing and if you can make the case that the trend is upward and that americans just give him four more years. i think that that could be the most effective way to deal with the issue it does biden have an advantage on the abortion issue because he's got a much clearer stated policy, at least, whereas we're not entirely clear on where trump's stands. right donald trump is really equivocated on the abortion issue mostly he has come down by saying, you just need to live this up to the states. but i certainly think that abortion is gonna be a big issue for democrats and it's something that they can rally their base around despite the fact that biden himself doesn't know this is sara lee, inspire a whole lot of enthusiasm among progressives abortion is one issue where he can really speak strongly to his own credentials and what he would try to do in office. we saw in the 2022 midterms that a lot of americans said abortion was one of the biggest issues. it's why democrats let's outperformed expectations. and we saw that also in a number of state referendum across the country as well. so abortion, abortion, abortion is definitely the issue that i think biden is going to drive home okay. >> thomas gifts. appreciate your insights as over. you can tune in to see the city presents a debate, of course, right here on cnn coming up on the 27th of june at 9:00 p.m. eastern time will also replay the debates in its entirety. just a few other times as well, you can watch it at 7:00 a.m. london time. that's 2:00 p.m. in hong kong, or 12 hours later? 7:00 p.m. in london or 10:00 p.m. in abu dhabi authorities in russia's dagestan province have declared three days of mourning. arthur attacks on sunday on churches and synagogues. at least 15 police officers and a priest were killed in what appear to be coordinated attacks. so the cities bend and my color. but the total number of victims remains unclear. tasks is reporting that russian authorities now say counterterrorism operations there over at least so far, there's been no claim of responsibility, but officials told russian news that the perpetrators were quote, adherence of an international terrorist organization are seen international correspondent ivan watson is in hong kong with more on this. we've got a fuller picture now that it's over exactly what happened, ivan sure. >> i mean, it was a very deadly and violent night in these two cities on the coast to the caspian sea on sunday in the russian republic of dagestan the authorities there say that the counterterrorism operation, it ended about two hours ago. that's monday morning. in russia. and that at least as you pointed out 15 law enforcement officers were killed, as well as a 66-year-old russian orthodox priest who a dagestan official says his throat was slit by the militants, the authorities, they also say that at least six gunman were also killed in what did appear to be coordinated attacks roughly at the same time in these two cities, the region's capital, makhachkala. and this other coastal city of deir bent. they say that there were attacks mounted on to russian orthodox churches and to synagogues. and we've seen images from the synagogue in deir bent indicating that that was actually burned. and reports of molotov cocktails being thrown at these places of worship to, to start the fires. and we heard a harrowing report of at least 19 people barricading themselves inside a church in maha chica law, russian orthodox church, to try to protect themselves. they were eventually able to make it to safety. what we're waiting to now find out is why this, these acts of violence who carried them out, there has yet to be any claim of responsibility. we do know that the synagogues reportedly had extra security ever since an angry crowd stormed the airport and maharajah law at the end of last october uber, they were protesting what they believed to be the arrival of a flight from israel. these were pro-palestinian demonstrators there were a number of injuries caused in that incident and security was reportedly ramped up at jewish places of worship after that, there was another really terrible terrorist attack that we do not know if there's any connection between what happened on sunday and dagestan. and last march at the crocus city hall concert hall there terrorists, attacked a packed concert hall, killed more than 140 people, set fire to the place, and ultimately it was isis that claimed responsibility. the russian authorities detained afterwards a number of citizens of tajikistan and accuse them of being behind that attack so waiting to find out more what exactly will the kremlin say about these deadly act of violence? 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