them as they recover from all of them the gravis and great to see you this morning. >> thank you very much. and new hours. cnn news central stars right now history will be made on several levels when president joe biden and former president donald trump take the stage for the cnn debate in atlanta with polls showing there in a dead heat, we have new details on the candidate strategies and the u.s. embassy in moscow fighting back as russia puts detained american journalist evan gershkovich on trial for what the state department says is a sham espionage charge and cities swamped by a deluge of flooding, roadways washed out and river gouges still at major flood stage across the upper midwest when will that water some side nine sarah side or john berman and kate bolduan, this is cnn news central the big day is here nearly here basically, here, joe biden, donald trump preparing to make history the first time a sitting president and debates a former president. >> in this first debate of the 2024 presidential general election all happening and atlanta, georgia all happening on cnn this morning. there's also new reporting on not just what the candidates hope, hope to do onstage, but also what they plan not to do onstage for biden sources say that means going on the attack against donald trump, but also not announcing any new policy for trump. that means perhaps not interrupting so much during the debate and instead, allies are pushing him to focus in on issues they believe he has the upper hand on like inflation and immigration cnn's arlette saenz, kristen holmes, they're speaking to the campaigns of joining us now, chris, let me start with you. talk about the approach and plan for donald trump. what are you learning today? >> donald trump's approach to this entire thing has been completely on traditional. he has not sat in for any kind of real mock debate sessions. no one has played joe biden, no one has played our moderators, jake tapper tapper and dana bash. it has been just a series of interviews and what they call quote, unquote policy sessions, discussions. that is how i will drop picks up information. now, he was interesting because he did a series of interviews of last several days in which he's been very candid about his debate prep up. one time, he actually said the debate, debate prep was hard. he did some reflections saying that in 2020, he thinks he was too aggressive with joe biden. he also talked about how he believes he's been preparing for this debate his whole life. take a listen i think i've been preparing for it for my whole life. >> if you want to know that cheers 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. >> now, that's clearly a reference there to joe biden, who has been at camp david preparing for this debate. but we are told by advisers that there was some concern, particularly around the fact that biden was going to be really in this intensive prep. what did that mean for thursday's debate? and it led to a, lot of tempering of expectations from trump's senior advisers after months of saying that joe biden was in competent, that he couldn't stream together a sentence yesterday, we had a call with reporters and senior advisers who essentially said that they believed that joe biden was going to show up on thursday. so clearly they are trying to manage the expectations while still getting at least attempting to get donald trump to stay on message, particularly to talk about inflation, immigration, and crime are let talk now about the approach and plan for president biden in this debate, what are you learning will k president biden remains at camp david running through these mock debates practicing at a podium as he has tried time to prepare for every possible scenario in this matchup against donald trump. now, as you noted, sources have told cnn the president's not planning to unveil any new policy or personnel announcements. a strategy he did try to use back in 2020 during the democratic primary debates instead, biden's focus heading into tomorrow is trying to draw that stark contrast with donald trump, his campaign has said abortion rights, democracy in the economy are really key issues. they expect that biden could tie up in this debate, but they are also cognizant of the fact that foreign policy will loom large over this contest between the two men. advisers say that they expect foreign policy to come up in some sort of manner in this debate. and they really believe that that is one of the key contrast points that they have between biden and trump heading into this debate. now, a campaign official said that in the contrast that will be on display. he said, quote, president biden stands up to dictators and defends freedom. trump is a loser who is two who dangerous and reckless to ever be anywhere close to the oval office again, so the president is expected if things do veer towards foreign policy to try to warn of what trump's vision has been on the world stage of appointing to some of his comments when it comes to supporting are saying russia can do things like do whatever they held they want to dado countries, allied countries when they don't meet certain obligations, it all comes as biden course is facing his own foreign policy pressure as well as there is frustration within the democratic party progressive base of his party over the president's handling of the conflict between israel and hamas. but in addition to foreign policy, the president is also really expected to lean into making that democracy contrast with trump. it is one of the central reasons why he ran in 20202020 for this morning, the campaign is rolling out and endorsement from former republican congressman adam kinzinger, who has warned does that trump is a direct threat to democracy? and so these are all efforts the biden campaign is trying to highlight heading into tomorrow's debate against trump are let kristin, thank you so much for your important as always, in a reminder of this historic debate, all happens here on cnn live in atlanta, georgia. >> see it on cnn. and max tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern, john. >> so there's that tomorrow, but this morning we are standing by at the supreme court were huge decisions could come down within an hour or more than a dozen cases are still outstanding, including immunity surrounding donald trump and an important abortion case seen as job biskupic is outside? no, she's not. despite what i was told, she is not outside the court. and then she's outside the court insofar as you're bureau is technically set up somewhere outside the supreme court is not inside the supreme court building, but tell us what we expect to see our work. we don't know for sure, but the boxes are coming soon, right? >> they are. and i'm about to rush over their john. so that's why you thought i was probably already outside there, but i'll get they're in a few minutes to be in my place in the courtroom. for the 10:00 eastern time announcement of opinions and john, we're about to see how the supreme court robot regards its place in american life. we've got social policies are lemons over abortion, homelessness, but probably the weightiest case that we've got going is, you one over former president donald trump's immunity should he be shielded from criminal trial for trying to subvert an election back in 2020, we know that special counsel jack smith is trying to bring that prosecution on behalf of the u.s justice department essentially on behalf of the american people. and that trial has been delayed and we're expecting a decision on whether president former president trump has immunity starting today or possibly tomorrow. we know the justices will be in john and also on friday and there's a chance that they will boss deadlines here and not finish up until early next week. but we do not know yet what they're going to do just as we do not know how they are going to rule on these cases, as well as other important pending ones on federal regulation of social media. the end, the environment. john we do not know what they're going to do. so it's hard to know which way the decisions go, but you're getting to such weighty cases here. do you expect that there will be dissents read from the bench, which is relatively rare i do, john, this is the season for those kinds of oral statements from the bench. >> usually it's just the justice who wrote the majority opinion who reads extra but first of all, they have shown so many divisions already and the kinds of cases we have left total 14, probably 12 rulings as they combine various cases, i expect maybe as soon as today to hear another dissent from the bench so far, the only one we've had is when justice sonia sotomayor really protested how the justices overturned a federal prohibition on machine guns that would have included bump stocks, dangerous bumps, stacks. so i think we're going to hear some liberal descends coming soon maybe within the hour, john all right. >> you will be their job is keeping. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. ahead this morning, a big loss for a key progressive democrat in tuesday's primary ways and today, american journalist evan gershkovich trial on espionage charges has begun. he's been in jail in russia for more than a year already the u.s. state department and his employer slamming the whole thing as a sham trial, the harsh reality he is it's spacing ahead and a trail of devastation in the upper midwest, catastrophic flooding swallowing communities as multiple rivers reach their highest levels in ten years the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher. the president and the former president, once dave moderated by jake tapper and dana bash to cnn presidential debate tomorrow night at nine live. i'd cnn and streaming on backs. >> this is the easiest nontoxic swapped. you'll ever made women to case with 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wasn't just that bowman was calling for free palestine. it's that he it was the way he went at it and his take on it. he was calling it a genocide, 75 years of occupation. he was denying that there was any of the violence or the really extreme violence that beheadings and the rape that took place on october 7, on hamas as part, he doubted all that it really just set a very, very bad tone with it's not a huge jewish population in westchester county, but it's a very moderate district. and george latimer been around for decades. he's the county executive, a very powerful position. they're very, very well-known here's how he put it to cnn last night when you lose touch with your district, when you're not on the ground enough. and when you are more concerned about your national profile that you're on the major media outlets what you're not in the neighborhoods that you need to be in all the neighborhood you need to be in, then you lose the focus and you lose support in your district. well, let's be clear. i'm a progressive. i have done a number of things in my home county. we passed a clinic access law. we've done a wide range of things to help the lgbtq community. we've had a black maternal health care initiative. we've lowered the cost of childcare for people. we've electrified a bunch. all those are progressing whereas the gold and look, the progressive left is enraged over how much money aipac and it's super pac put into this. it was a $25,000,000 raise. aipac put in more than $15 million just blanketing the airwaves in this district and the mailers just shoving them through the door but what was most interesting is that both these candidates, none of those ads, none of those mailers mentioned israel and gaza. they talked about biden and whether or not jamaal bowman we could work with biden latimer said he could work with them better. what came back to haunt him was his vote against the infrastructure bill that biden put forward because the squad wanted something bigger, if you remember. so they voted against it as a way of gaining in leverage in the house and that at the end of the day sunken back to you. >> i'm just curious because of that huge amount of money and because this is one of the most expensive races, congressional races that we have seen in recent times, does aipac had their sights set elsewhere? >> cori bush in st. louis, they will her rhetoric has also been very, very strident and very angry over the conduct of the war in israel. i think they'd like to see her. it's a much different district. i think progressives are now beginning to raise money for her and looking for that fight as the next one. bite at where they believe aipac will we'll we'll focus. its attention, sarah. >> miguel marquez. thank you so much for that this morning. okay. >> a warning from 16 nobel prize winning economist about donald trump and inflation and a race to evacuate people living in central oregon. now, wildfire, tripling in size overnight and still 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