>> i'm going to sub-l in paris. and this is cnn the stage is set the day is here and just 15 hours, joe biden and donald trump will be squaring off and what could be the most fateful presidential debate in us history. >> good morning, everyone. >> cnn this morning his live in atlanta. it is 6:00 a.m. here on the east coast. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us when president biden and former president trump take this age tonight here at cnn's world headquarters in atlanta, a sitting president and an ex-president will be debating for the first time ever. and it is just shy of four years since they last song each other face-to-face before joe biden beat donald trump. and in a modern first, trump refused to stand on stage and hand power to his successor at the inauguration. >> so help you god. so help me god. congratulations, mr. president trump, flying away from the white house in his helicopter, leaving washington for the last time as president, i remember watching that helicopter fly over us as we stood on the lawn as president biden was inaugurated, it was happening right at the time at the same time that joe biden was standing on that stage alone. they're both now trying to return to the oval office and we want to remind you there is no love lost between these two men. they do not like each other and tonight, they are going to stand just eight feet apart from each other. still, the rules candidates microphone will be turned off if it's not their turn to speak. it may prevent contentious exchanges like this one i'm not here to call out his lies. everybody knows he's a liar, but you i just want i want to make sure that you wanted lasting it lasts, for instance i want to make sure. can you let him finish, sir? he doesn't know how to do that. >> joining us on this most consequential of days, cnn senior political analyst mark preston and cnn senior white house correspondent kayla tausche, the former white house communications director kate bedingfield, jonah goldberg is the co-founder and editor in chief of the dispatch, and we also have cnn political commentator sure. michael singleton joining us as well. good morning to all of you. you on what is going to be a very consequential de mark. let me start with you. you are one of the people who worked so hard to make days like this come to fruition on behalf of cnn. in addition to all of the editorial work that you do as well the rules, the format are a huge focus, but for a reason, not necessarily just because i'm not focusing on the process here right. when we were talking about two men who are going to interact with each other that way. how this is actually going to physically play out. they're gonna be as about as far apart as you and i are right now. >> first of all, let me say, i apologize for putting us in this situation today i take no responsibility. what happens that like 1044 or when this debate is over tonight, you know, this is really gonna be interesting to your point. these are two folks often in politics, you will have politicians on opposite ends of the spectrum challenging each other. but behind the scenes, they can be friendly, right? i mean, there is some comedy. we're not going to see that here tonight. and even though those mics will be will be muted just remember inside the debate stage, they can hear each other. so the question will then be, can, you know, joe biden or donald trump if the other one tries to knock them off their game, tries to confuse them a little bit, even though they can't be heard by the viewers, will we see that happen? yeah. kayla tausche, take us inside the biden campaign and the biden white house on this most consequential day, which donald trump to the expect to show up and how were they in particular, considering the rules? thinking about and i know this has been part of it how to basically provoke the other guy two into a moment. sure. that's damaging. well, i know that in the words of one adviser, expect the unexpected you have to prepare for every single version of donald trump that could potentially be on that stage. but i know that the rules are figuring prominently in the way that president biden and his team are preparing. mark just mentioned that too. that response time that has been a big factor in the mock debates with moderators. putting very strict time constraints on the president. they don't want him to get into a situation where he's just about to make a great point. and then the mics go dead and he's not able to get there. and so they want him to distill that message into a shorter period of time and that's something thing that has been a focus for some of these mock debates that scheduled today. i'm told is fluid with the potential for one more mock debate before the president, his team come to atlanta and then there's also, he might do an entire mock debate today. and then i was told last night at 10:00 p.m. but there's a potential to do another mock debate today. is that a good idea? mean that's normally candidates are why it down hanging out. i think it just depends on how he's feeling. i mean, there's, you know, if he's feeling energetic, if he's feeling like he wants to go through one more run through will make him feel calm then, right. it's really i think you just have to gauge where your candidates energy level is and where their head is. jonah goldberg. so first of all, there's there's three of you are sitting with us in many ways, you represent the three pieces american political thinking. we were surprised to be clear because my bonds we have two republicans. but as we've seen in these elections, i mean these people keep voting for nikki haley, jonah, you have expressed that you're not supportive of donald trump's sure michael basically worked for him, but but jonah, i just kinda wanna go to you on in that as i'm thinking about this day. and the reality that the three of you represent an underscore the historic nature of the de can be kind of hard to wrap our heads around. but in many ways this was election is going to be different from any we have had before. stakes are in some ways very much higher at what is, what are the stakes on that stage tonight and your view? >> yeah. so i'm generally you very much a skeptic about the importance of presidential debates. but i actually think this one matters. i mean historically, there's a lot of data to show. they don't tend to matter that much. they tend to emphasize stop hi, all intelligence, stuff over substance, you know, the the one that everyone always talks about is kennedy versus nixon. and everyone says, well kennedy, won because he had makeup and nixon looked like he woke up in a motel room and like it's like, okay, you're making my point. this things emphasized style over substance. this is about reassuring people for two candidates that people have a lot of misgivings about, right? for biden, it's not misgivings necessarily about his character is misgivings about his age is whether he's up to the job and for trump, it's misgivings about dear god, are we going to go back to four more years of the kind of chaos on him being in our head space, again, can i handle that? can i make peace with that? or is it going to be four more years of him tweeting like an escape monkey from a cocaine study and so like i need to give, this is why your mic here he has to be reassuring to a certain extent to give people permission to voting against biden. and whether he can do that or not. i have no idea envision that the cocaine case a look. i think the past four years under president and biden, the previous four years under donald trump showcase series, is integration across our country. and now i think you have a lot of democrats who aren't enthusiast casting about the president you've got too many republicans, you aren't enthusiastic about donald trump. and i think the question tonight is, can either one of these men showcase that if given an opportunity, they can address some of the most critical issues at most, voters are concerned with a for president biden, he needs to showcase that he can continue going for another four years. yeah, he made me a little older, but season he's experienced. he knows how to do the job for donald trump. it's all about the temperament. if people perceive them as being the chaos guy, again, they're going to say, you know what, i'm going to step back and i'm going to probably give my vote to downward joe biden, last word cake. >> yeah. i just think this is also a powerful moment from immediate landscape perspective. i mean, so much of this campaign, so much way people consume information now is so siloed. you kind of choose where you want to see your candidate and how there aren't, there just aren't that many moments where the two of them are onstage together in a side-by-side comparison. so it's going to be really powerful, exciting night. you know, president biden very well. how do the personal dynamics of this? he does not like donald trump donald trump as someone who tried to not just an election i can from him? yes. yes. and and fundamentally tried to alter the fabric of the american constitution. know, he he absolutely dislikes donald trump i think for him, part of, part of what he's trying to put on display tonight as we've discussed you, here is an energy. and so in some ways, i think the kind of the net, just a personal animus like, oh, i'm gonna go out and try to embarrass donald trump, but just kind of feeling a sense of the stakes is a good thing for him. it kind gives him that extra fire that i think if it's on display tonight for the american people will be a good thing for him, all right, well, we're gonna find out soon enough. all right. our panel sticks around coming up next, a critical supreme court ruling on a board portion accidentally posted online prematurely, and the co-chair of the biden campaign is here to tell us about the president's last-minute strategy for tonight's big debate baked in america, as biden and trump meet and only cnn has complete coverage with unrivaled access and exclusive pre and post of beit analysis. >> follow cnn for every countless moment followed debate night in america, tonight, it's 7:00 p.m. you've got better things to do than clean out clog gutters, falling filter today. and never clean out clog gutters again, we filters technology keeps debris out if you're gutters for good, guaranteed. colleague 33 lee filter today or physically filter.com nothing dems my light like a migraine with nortech ott. >> i found relief. >> the only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent all-in-one to those with migraine. >> i see you for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults don't take if allergic to nortech odi team allergic reactions can occur even days after using most common side effects are nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain it's time. we all talk to a health care provider about nortech ott from pfizer. how could anyone possibly know that every single one of these pistachios is guaranteed to be wonderful by reading right here. >> wonderful pistachios. are the pistachios that are wonderful. but the word wonderful on them. >> and the furniture business, things move fast. ziprecruiter helps us hire qualified candidates who keep up. we needed a project manager yesterday, we posted a job and ziprecruiter and had our guy on-site and five days, he was qualified and everyone zip recruiter finds the best candidates for all our jobs and they helped us build our dream team and then they did it fast does that too fast for you 44 out of five employers who post on ziprecruiter get a quality candidate within the first day, try for free at ziprecruiter.co m slash higher when your cat's hungry, you definitely know when you want your attention, you makes it clear when he wants to be left alone. he makes it obvious. but if your cat has ole pain also known as osteoarthritis pain, he may be saying out in different ways, it's a long-lasting condition that makes it painful for your cat to move like they once did, like when walking or climbing. red flags are everywhere, but cats are really good at hiding their pain. so you just need to know what to look for. visit cat red flags.com to learn about the signs of oa pain and how your vet can help cities industry-leading global payments solutions help their clients move money around the world seamlessly in over 180 countries and help a partner like the world food programme as they provide more than food to people in need. together, city in the world food programme empower families across the globe it was unnecessary, no neither is missing your daughter's competition to do payroll with pay com employs do their own payroll. so you don't have to miss your daughter's big day time to shine get pay when we're young, we're told anything is possible... ...but only a few of us go out and prove it. witness the greatness of anna hall on a connection worthy of gold: xfinity mobile. only xfinity gives you the most powerful mobile wifi network, with speeds up to a gig in millions of locations. and right now, xfinity internet customers can buy one unlimited line and get one free for a year. get the fastest connection to paris with xfinity. checkout for imprint.com for certain surprise. seen as hosting shark shark week, his back who is the alpha matte again? >> asu brought to get my shams shark. we hosted by me, john sina, started sunday, july 7 on his government stream on max there's been of course, so much attention here in atlanta for tonight's cnn presidential debate. >> we also though in washington, have the supreme court set to potentially make major news and just a couple of hours, we are still waiting on several outstanding decisions, including the ruling on donald trump's claim of presidential immunity. that decision could come down today if it does that, a whole, of course be before president biden and donald trump take the stage the court is also this morning grappling with an astonishing breach of protocol, according to bloomberg news, the supreme court appears poised to take temporarily allow abortions in medical emergencies in idaho after a document was posted on the court's website and then quickly taken down. the court has acknowledged inadvertently posting the document. they say that they have not officially rendered a decision in this case. our panel is back and kate bedingfield, the abortion decision in question would be a victory for abortion rights supporters there, of course, saying, well, this is just a delay of something that they view as a terrible policy because again, we're talking about women going to emergency rooms and idaho and they're having medical situations for themselves, whether or not they can be denied treatment is the question at hand. but let's talk talk about how this issue is or isn't likely to play out on stage tonight. i mean, how much of this do you think is going to be what president biden is trying to talk about? i will i think the abortion issue writ large will be huge piece of what biden's tried to talk about because it's an issue where there's a clear through line from donald trump having been president the united states to the situation that we're in now where women are being denied healthcare across the country. so it is a incredibly potent argument for him to make about the consequences of donald trump presidency. it's a good argument for him to lay at the feet of donald trump, who has tried because trump recognizes this is a political loser for him and for the republicans, trump has sort of tried to give six for an answers to this, but he has bragged about putting the three justices on the court who overturned roe and biden can really be aggressive. and i also think this case illustrates gives biden an opportunity to say we shouldn't be here. we shouldn't be here. and the reason we're here is because of donald trump. so i think this will be very, this will be very prime target for i agree with kate. i think that may be one of the more stronger moments for president biden on this issue republicans have got to figure out a way to change tone on this, casey, i've advised a whole bunch of members of congress, other state legislatures that this issue will continue to seed victory in races that we could potentially went and donald trump continues to say, well, it should be returned back to the states. well, that has occurred and it's not moving in the right direction for republicans. and so i've advised his campaign he needs to go further and say states should have referendums allow the voters to vote on this issue because we've seen in ohio, we've seen in kansas, we've seen in wisconsin even counties in kansas, for example, i think 80%, that one for trump voted with democrats to protect reproductive rights. this is an issue that most americans do not want government encroachment on, and republicans need to respect that jonah goldberg, i want to touch briefly on the immunity question here because the court they want to keep a perception that they are above all of the politics, all the things that we're talking about today. >> there's no question in my mind anyway that they know what's happening tonight. they can they can read the room, so to speak what do you expect in terms of this immunity decision and how how do you think it's going to impact the race? what we see here tonight, if at all? >> yeah. so i expect that they're going to get as close to a unanimous decision on this as possible. i can see thomas maybe dissenting, but that's what robert wants to do. this is historically unified court, despite all the demagoguery about this court, they've had 49 unanimous decision so far this year and the court i think is going to claw back a little of jack smith's requests. but at the same time, there is no way this court is going to give donald trump what he thinks he you get, which is total and complete immunity to kill all my photos. right? even even trump's lawyers didn't argue that in court. they said there were certain things that he was that he was not immune four. so i think it's gonna be it's gonna be sent back and lower courts with some instructions maybe to pair it back a little bit. but jack smith is going to still be able to prosecute on most of the stuff, incredibly high-stakes all the way around, panel is back in just a few moments, but coming up next on cnn this morning, we've got new reporting on how president biden is preparing to debate with less than 15 hours to go and how each candidate might handle talking about the january 6 capitol riots at tonight's debate the cnn presidential debate tonight at nine live on cnn and streaming unmet this forth. we're throwing a 4 for the 4th celebration, spotlighting 4 power sofas that will charge up your relaxation. 4 best-selling mattresses, four bedroom sets worth dreaming about. and for trending dining it's bi-annual 4 for the 4th celebration. >> we just signed the lease on our third shop, my assistant went accustoming.com to get new uniforms with all the locations. he found great products, uploaded new art, and had boxes sent to all the shops customer makes it so easy. get started today at accustoming.com this is maryanus first time visiting paris before mary packed your bags, before she attempted her first sentence in french she downloaded babble. so when it came time to tell the cab driver to take it to the hotel pierre sh'ma re ally aloe gel pier yeah babble focuses on natural conversation. you can speak and pronounce with confidence starts speaking a new language and three weeks at babele.com the only godaddy arrow, once you get your business online and minutes with the power of ai, with the perfect name great level and a beautiful website to start with the domain, a few clicks and you're in business. >> make now the future at godaddy.com slash arrow lactate is