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to an abortion chen will talk about where abortion access stands in america since that monumental decision, we're following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. >> to cnn news central hello i'm brianna keeler alongside boris sanchez, and we begin this hour with the most anticipated moment of the 2024 presidential election so far. >> and that is that here in three days, president biden and former president trump are going to face each other for their first debate in nearly for years right here on cnn, the stakes couldn't be higher as both candidates prepared to make their pitches to voters right now, biden is hunkered down at camp david doing some intense debate prep. we're learning that he's getting ready for all possibilities, including even the chance that we could see a very different, more restrained donald trump on the debate stage come thursday. >> meantime, the former president has a different strategy. he's been hitting the campaign trail, also working with close advisers and allies on his policy positions. joining us now, more with more on both. how both sides are preparing cnn's kayla tausche is live force at the white house. we've also got cnn's steve contorno with us steve, what do you hearing about donald trump's week ahead? >> well, he's going to a fundraiser tonight and louisiana and these can spend the rest of the week at mar-a-lago, where he will be meeting with divisors, advisors, and prepping for this debate. however, he's not going to be holding mock debate sessions like joe biden and i was with him this weekend and philadelphia and it's very clear that he enjoys playing hang up this fact that there's a very clear juxtaposition between how he is preparing and joe biden's more studious approach. but there's also been a very interesting sort of resetting of expectations going into this debate. know for months, they have been telling their supporters and swing voters that joe biden isn't up for the task anymore, that he is not physically and mentally up for the job. well more recently, he has sort of been changing his tune. he said that tro biden is quote, a worthy debater at the debate last weekend, he made it a bunch of, or sees me at the israeli last week and he made a bunch of suggestions that joe biden might be taking some sort of performance enhancers. obviously, a baseless accusation there, but it does suggest that they are there, doesn't necessarily project strength or confidence going into this debate that they have sort of raised these questions you have before he was saying held debate. joe biden, anytime any place, anywhere. now there's all these sort of like caveats about this week. >> yeah, he may be some fear about it. we'll have to see. so let's go to kayla tausche at the white house. kayla, tell us a little bit more about what biden plans to focus on. >> well, we know from the communications director of the campaign, michael tyler in a memo that he sent out that there are three sort of tentpole topics. the president biden expects to focus on. number one, democratic values and the daemon injured and democracy that he believes donald trump poses, expect him to reference comments that trump made where he would be a dictator on day one. second, trump's economic plan with an x spec patient that president biden is going to talk about how trump's plan would serve the wealthy and corporations, whereas his plan would do otherwise. and then finally hey reproductive rights with the administration and the campaign blanketing the airwaves. this week, marking the second anniversary of the reversal of roe v. wade earlier today, vice president kamala harris davis speech where she appeared to be workshopping some newer and sharper language. she said that if she were prosecuting the case, she would easily find donald trump guilty of being the one who revoked those rights from women and appeared to play into some of the parlor game around trump's vice president search, saying that she knows that trump has selected his vice president, but it doesn't matter who it is. and harris's words, she said, any one of them would be known to support abortion bans at the federal and state level. and said that that outcome needs to be stopped, guys so steve what are some of trump's biggest of vulnerabilities going into thursday. >> and how is his campaign sort of navigating? potential concern? well, they certainly expect to be on defense on questions about abortion. his criminal convictions, what happened on january 6. >> those are areas where obviously joe biden is going to go on offense, but there's also this question of which trump shows up and that's something that trump's team has been very aware of. and trump himself has been as well. listen to what he asked his own audience at a rally on saturday night how should i handle him? >> should i be tough and nasty or should i be should i be she said no, should i be tougher, nasty and just say you're the worst president in history or should i be nice and calm? and let him speak now i'll note that there was one person who cl doubt be presidential, one person once a good point. all right. so kayla, neither candidate has debated since they last met in 2020, right? it's been a minute here. what lessons can be gleaned from the previous meet-ups that we've seen. well, first of all, if anyone knows the different variations that trump could take on, on stage, it's, it's joe biden because he debated trump in two different scenarios in 2020, where trump had a jekyll and hyde type of appearance in the first, which we now know that he had been diagnosed with covid he was combative. >> he interrupted the president at one point, leading president biden, who was then the candidate to tell him to shut up and voters there's by enlarge left that debate with not, not feeling favorable about either candidate, then fast forward a little over a month later, there were muted mics in that situation and there was a much more well-mannered at mild-mannered up president trump at that time. and so biden had experience with both of those options? shinzen, his advisers have said that they're prepared for both of those both of those outcomes, if that were to happen. but cnn nose from its reporting and covering all of these debates going back for decades that first debates for sitting president's can often trip them up. sometimes they feel too comfortable in the job. they've been living in it for so long steeped in the content and the challenge here for biden will be to not let history repeat itself in that way. >> kayla tausche, steve contorno. thank you both so much. be ready. for anything as you joined cnn thursday night, former president biden, rather president biden, former president trump, meeting for their first debate of the 2024 election. jake tapper, dana bash moderating. it's all live from atlanta. >> again can thursday beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern. and his former president trump attends a new orleans fundraiser later today, his attorneys are in federal court in florida for yet another hearing in his classified documents case. >> they're arguing against the special counsel's request for a limited gag order which would bar the former president from comments prosecutors say endanger the safety of law enforcement who are involved in the case cnn's evan perez is outside court in fort pierce, florida, and evan tell us about how this is going too far. >> well, brianna, that that hearing is just now getting underway. and what prosecutors are asking for is for the judge to order a gor a gag order on the former president and have it be part of his release conditions, essentially putting the probation office in getting getting the probation office it's involved in all of this and what they're concerned about is according to their filings, is that they say that the former president's rhetoric, that some of his claims about the 2022 search of mar-a-lago, that some of those comments are endangering federal agents. some of the, some of whom will be witnesses in this case if it ever goes to trial and that it is endangering federal officials in general, they're pointing out that there was an attempt by an armed person to armed man who said he was inspired about the former president to attack an fbi office shortly after the mar-a-lago search and more recently, another person who claimed to be a supporter of the former president, who threatened to slaughter federal hello, agents involved in another case. and one of the things they pointed out in a filing, just did over the weekend they turn the former president's words against him. they said that he often boast about the impact that his words have on his followers. but they say justice predictively he will, he will avoid any responsibility for anything that may have happen as a result of what they do yeah important data point there, evan, thank you for that report. let's talk a little bit more now with former us attorney harry litman. so here we prosecutors in this gag order hearing are pointing to trump's false claims that he was at grave risk from federal agents searched mar-a-lago two years ago that's something that really animated his base. but they're saying that this could lead to threats and harassment against those in law enforcement who were involved, judges and other cases they've said the gag orders make sense for this defendant. so why is this a question here? >> well, first, as you say, trump's statements were barely escaped death and he wasn't even in mar-a-lago at the time and basically that joe biden was coming for them. and the real worry that caused the attorney general's speak out as you go to execute a search warrant and people think they're, coming in with deadly force and that's when violence can happen. what's different here in a word, nothing. the, what they've asked for is what's been approved again and again, that is any statements that trump makes. it could have specific imminent and foreseeable harb to an agent involved in the case. that language is not an act it's been approved repeatedly, and there's an interesting dynamic here because we've been watching for months to see whether judge cannon might make a ruling that would expose her to oversight on the 11th circuit and maybe even a recusal because the special counsel is saying this is exigent and already 0.2 to tax verbal attacks on fbi agents. if she doesn't rule, as has been her want it's possible that this motion gives jack smith an opportunity to say i want to appeal her because she hasn't ruled. i want to go to the 11th circuit and say she's got to do something here and that would give the occasion that he hasn't had yet to try to recuse trump's attorneys argue that the waste smith the way the special counsel is being funded, that it's in violation of the appropriations clause of the us constitution because it's not part of doj's budget. what's your response to that it's rare. >> first, it's totally bint already defeated before it makes your head spin. they've got over $1 billion. they could spend on this. and what they're really saying is it the original appointment as smith was invalid if that if she were to rule that, by the way, that would be an appeal and recusal in a skinny minute because it would basically undo the entire special counsel regime. so it's a way of trying to get at just what's happening in this case, but it's consequences would be huge i just can't see it flying at all. >> you have a really interesting background and that you worked for the doj under attorney general jan or reno just before she put in place the current regulations for appointing a special counsel was kind of a reaction to that. i guess i could call it mission creep the can store investigation of clinton. could this hearing potentially whatever the outcome is affect how special counsels are appointed 100% if judge cannon rules that way, it really is even though they tried to cabinet a frontal attack on special counsels except i think we're she to make that kind of ruling that trump would like. >> it would be reversed pretty quickly above her and she would be out of the case. so i don't it's been so well decided by so many courts. i don't see any real prospect of that. but in her hands temporarily, you could have a kind of catastrophic motion this could this decision undermine whatever it is, undermine jack smith's other case against trump, which is, of course the dc election subversion case you back. so if she were to hold this, it would equally apply to that other case where he's being paid in the same way has the same authority, but again, there as in every quarter around the country, that her the challenges already been rebuffed. so if she did it, it would have be far-reaching except i think it would be very temporary because i think a court of appeals would quite quickly say no, that's not the law. and by the way, maybe you shouldn't be on this case any longer. >> and by the way, i wonder if that's i like how you put it. i like how you put it here. it's subtle, but it wouldn't be so subtle if they didn't. harry litman, great. to have you. thank you so much. >> thank you. briana and still ahead the israeli defense minister at the state department greeted by shouts of protesters outside the building. what we're learning about his meeting with secretary of state blinken this afternoon as an israeli source tells cnn, they're still committed to the ceasefire proposal with hamas was some major snack in space. nasa calling office spacewalk at the last minute because of a leaky space suit and two other astronauts are told that their trip back home, that was supposed to happened last week is delayed until july. >> and emergency whether a flooding emergency in iowa plus record setting heat when the worst of it could the over those stories and much more silica the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher the president 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