imprint for certain it's wednesday, june 26, right now on san and this morning in less than 48 hours, president biden and donald trump face off in a historic debate, rematch, new reporting on the rules and the final preparations the trial for us reporter evan gershkovich underway in russia sheltering details from inside the courtroom, and all eyes on the supreme court as the nation waits for ruling on donald trump's claim of absolute immunity. midi all right, 5:00 a.m. here in washington. >> look at a funeral sunrise on this wednesday morning in new york city morning everyone and kasie hunt, it's wonderful to have you with us. we're just a day away from the first presidential debate of 2024. it's going to be hosted by cnn at our role headquarters in atlanta. and it's gonna be a rematch like no other the first time in history a sitting president it was debating a former president the last time either candidate participated in a debate was nearly four years ago and was of course, against the other, both men preparing for thursday's primetime event in their own ways, president biden meeting with a team of his closest aides and advisers at camp david on monday the fourth day of prep, biden and his team began holding mock debates of different lengths. the source telling cnn of preparations are focused on both subject and stamina donald trump, taking a less formal approach, conducting numerous interviews over the past several days i think i've been preparing for it for my whole life. >> if you want another tooth and i'm not sure you can lock yourself into a room for two weeks or one week or two days and really learn what you have to know. >> and new reporting just into cnn two sources say president biden does not plan to use the debate to announce any major policy or personnel changes. okay joining me now is rescore man. >> he is politics reporter four. notice, forgive me if i'm pronouncing it correctly, reese. good morning. thank you so much for being here. thank you. >> so this of course, incredibly high steaks moment for both of these men. they are preparing very much in ways that line up directly with the personalities of each. what is your latest reporting on how particularly trump them? and he says he's doing it with these media interviews. but there is more to it going on behind the scenes. >> definitely, yeah, a lot of it is just him just kind of talking to his advisers, kind of talking about what he's going to say. and also just a lot of expectation-setting, trying to get to the point to where people think joe biden is a great debater after multiple kind of the whole year of him trying to say that joe biden is the cni old man. i can't stand up straight for 90 minutes. and so it's a lot of expectations setting it's a lot of media interviews and has a lot of head talking with some of its closest advisers. he's worked with marco rubio at the rnc is done these little mock stuff with this advisers since the lacivita susie wiles and so that's really where he's honing in on. and obviously he does not do normal debate prep as biden is probably doing down at camp david wright wright, very traditional. >> even having when i have covered presidential campaigns in the past, usually do take a week off the trail to huddle in if you're the president, it's camp david. if you are not, it's your favorite vacation locale of choice so this was what mark prieto reporter with a bulwark at reported about this. he writes, unlike four years ago, trump won't be taking the stage while so sick with covid that he land in the hospital three days later, i had almost forgotten about that reality of this first debate the polls essentially she tied president biden, weighed down by four years in the white house and low approval ratings. this from a trump adviser, i would never say this to him. trump. but this is a good guardrail to stay on track. said one adviser, he's waited for years for this. it's not going to be an sh t show that does seem to be the real question for donald trump. can he stayed disciplined? >> and obviously you mean he tends to go even when he has a teleprompter front of me, it tends to go off of that. a lot of times, add these hit own rallies and this is going to be no teleprompter he's going to be next to the man for the first time since their last debate that he has continuously attacked and ridiculed on the campaign trail and so that is a big question. will we be able to stay disciplined? his advisers shirts seem to think that he will be able to, but obviously you mean you put trump in a room with joe biden. you don't know what's going to happen? >> you really don't so our maggie haberman was on last night, the new york times. maggie haberman, but she also works for us here at cnn. we're very lucky to have her she talked a little bit about the moment from 2020 where donald trump talked about the biden family, talked about hunter biden and obviously his his struggles with drug addiction. >> so i want to remind everyone play that moment about hunter and then kind of her analysis of it i thought was interesting. let's watch first that moment and then maggie you talking like, are you talking about my son, beau biden, your ti don't know. i don't know. i know throne hunter got thrown out of the military. he was thrown out dishonorably discharged. that's not true. was it? can use my son like a lot of people like a lot of people we know at home, had a drug problem. he's overtaken his fixed it, he's worked on it, and i'm proud of them. but why was inevitably when the question of trump's criminal conviction comes up, there is a real chance trump is then going to turn it around about hunter biden. trump is aware that his his own attacks on hunter biden in that first debate in 2020, humanized president biden basically gave president biden an opportunity to say, my son is an addict and he has a struggle that a lot of americans have and trump came off looking incredibly mean and belittling so again, this question about if trump decides to go there, how that might present an opportunity for the city precedent especially now that hunter biden has been convicted on these federal gun charges and so i mean, you've seen i mean, he was on the tarmac up in i think it was wilmington like width by when he's get off the plane. so i think there is definitely these things that could definitely humanize joe biden is just the father figure of this person that loves his family. if trump does say go off to heard about it, especially with his own conviction of themselves, where it's kind of would be a little pateman kettle situation question yeah for president biden here at the reporting, we have this morning. >> is that one of the things are practicing here is stamina and this, of course, again, the bar four what voters are looking for in this debate is which one of these men is capable of doing the job of the presidency. they are not that far apart in age, but are pulled show perceptions that president biden comes across it's a bigger problem for president biden. what does it say to you that the stamina aspect of this is something that they're working on. >> i think it definitely is telling you saw that the state of the union, it was a very log saved the union. he was able to stand up and kind of get this kind of really strong speech for the entirety of the program. then this is also me, the trump campaign is focusing on. i mean, they held a press call yesterday with jason miller said that just because joe biden can stand up for 90 minutes is not meeting should get a participation trophy. and this is part of the expectation that they're setting to where they're trying to say that just because biden does do this is not mean that he won the debate or whatever the expected he should be able to do this. but i think it is telling that i mean, biden was obviously this will be he the longest televised event that he really has done since state of the union. and you will see that he is also going to be the most intense because here he's actually debating is opponent. >> yeah, it these moments are always incredibly high-stakes this one something about this, this one exit particularly at risk. thank you very much for your time. we appreciate you being here. >> all right. coming up next, charged with espionage, us reporter on trial right now in russia plus a major hit to the squad, jamaal bowman losing his seat in the house plus protests in kenya turning deadly. that's come up in our morning roundup the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher. >> the president and the former president, one stage two very different visions for america's future the cnn presidential debate tomorrow. net it live on cnn and streaming on max has a gynecologist. i'm embarrassed to say this. we use deodorant on our armpits and we kinda make women feel bad about body odor that they get on other parts of our body. that's why i created lumi whole body deodorant for pits price i've it's and beyond. it's clinically proven to block odor all day controls odor for 72 hours. soap can't do that. and since your pits and privates go everywhere, you go, keep them competently fresher with lumi, that reassurance is priceless to learn more, go to lumi do.com i got this thousand dollar camera for only $41 on deal that deal dash.com online auctions since 2000 9 this playstation five sold for only $0.50. >> this ipad pro sold for less than $34 this nintendo switch sold for less than $20. >> i got this kitchen aid stand mixer for only $56. >> i got this barbecue smoker for 26 bucks and shipping is always green go to deal dash.com right now and see how much you can save the diary. this did i get it where are my keys? 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