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CNN Anderson Cooper 360 September 5, 2024

Tonight on 360, the race is now a race. How the postlabor day sprint, the White House got off to a start and Breaking News that a top Trump Volunteer was his barred from the campaign for saying a key Battleground State is no longer a Battleground State also tonight, why the entire race could end up like this tied at 269 electoral votes at peace. And how one district in one state might unlock it. Also tonight, as protests continue in israel after the execution of six israeli hostages In Gaza, we look at the long brave efforts and Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg bring their son hersh, and all the hostages In Gaza home good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with Breaking News. The Trump Campaign Tonight flatly denying report that it is effectively writing off the state of New Hampshire word came in an email from a top campaign volunteer. Now, a former top volunteer in it, Tom Mountain writes that the campaign has quote determined that New Hampshire jurors no longer a Battleground State. He went on to say this means the campaign is suspending all resources, staffers, supplies, speakers, et cetera, to New Hampshire. A Trump Campaign Spokesperson tells cnn what he said is not true. Well have more on this shortly. Its happening 63 days until the election and just seven days until the first and so far, only debate the two sides have actually agreed to, which takes place in philadelphia in a sign of how much pennsylvania matters this time cnn has learned the Vice President harris will be preparing for that debate in pittsburgh, arriving on thursday and staying five days there until tuesday before traveling to philadelphia for the event itself day. She was just in pittsburgh yesterday, reminding voters that Ballot Start going out in two weeks and saying this when some of the crowd started yelling that the former president was going to jail handled that november on that note, two major legal developments for the former president , his lawyers in a Court Filing late today signaled to hell be pleading not guilty to the revise Election Interference Indictment that special counsel jack smith, secured last week, and a federal District Judge also late today, denied the former president s request to move his hush money case, which ended in 7 42. 34, Felon Felony convictions to federal court. The judge finding there is nothing in the supreme Courts President ial immunity ruling that altered his view that the payments were private on official acts mr. Trump has also focused heavily on pennsylvania. Hell be there for a televised Town Hall Tomorrow with foxs sean hannity, who air to conversation with him today on his radio show. In it, he talked again about his trip to Arlington National Cemetery last week with the parents of troops killed in the pullout from afghanistan. During the visit which he made into a Campaign Video, the army as his people were made aware of federal laws against that. And that the Cemetery Worker who reminded them was quote, abruptly pushed aside. Heres what the former president said about it today to sean hannity. Everything was good and i left and we said goodbye to everybody. I always love love. It was no conflict. There was no fight. It was no anything. And i get home that night and i get a call from one of the people that is press sir, theres a story that your people got into a tremendous fight with people representing the cemetery. It was totally false i get enough publicity, but id like to get the less publicity well, to be clear, the former president was there at the request of Family Members, and as hes mentioned many times, some are upset and the biden administration both for how the afghan pullout was handled and how they personally were treated by the White House in the wake of at all, none of that changes the fact that Donald Trump is saying that the united States Army is lying, or that he has a long record of bad mouthing, serving and retired retired officers. Some of whom he referred to inaccurately as my generals and others according to one of those generals, former Chief Of Staff John Kelly as suckers and losers. Now, some of whom like the late senator John Mccain, endured years of torture. And in North Prison even turning down his captors offered to release him early because his father was a Navy Admiral well, at the time hidden be a war hero, moore, hes a War Half years, hes the war. Here are because he owns caption on jim, Whos Veteran is that are buried there. Its a violation because these rules are set in place. The people who are buried there dont have an opinion where the point of Arlington Cemetery is to go and show respect for the men and women who have given their lives for this country. When you make it political, you take away the risk expect of the people who are there to mccain recently became registered democrat and now says hes voting for Kamala Harris, joining us now cnn political commentators, david urban, kate bedingfield, also, zolan kanno youngs, cnn political analyst and white House Correspondent for the New York Times so david, what do you make of this idea that New Hampshire may no longer be in play for the Trump Campaign. That Campaign Saying is not true, multiple republican operatives in the state told cnn that this Volunteers Assessment is accurate he understood, i know better than the second guess. Anybody whats going on in a state other than pennsylvania my my My World is solely focused on the commonwealth of pennsylvania. And if the campaign says New Hampshire is in play, i believe its in play kate, how aggressive do you think the Harris Campaign should be in New Hampshire well, look, i think ultimately New Hampshire is a state that is going to come home and vote blue. I think. But i think what were seeing here is a reflection of the fact that the trump, the map for trump, the path for trump have dramatically shrunk since Kamala Harris went to the top of the ticket now that mean that Kamala Harris has the election in the bag that doesnt mean im even saying she has New Hampshire in the bag, but it is demonstrably true as you look at where the campaigns are spending, you see that harris clearly has potential path through the Rust Belt and also through the sunbelt trump. Its looking less and less than looking at fewer and fewer options. So i think for the campaign for the keras campaign, thats an opportunity to be on offense as an opportunity to force the Trump Campaign to spend in places where they might not otherwise want to spend places like North Carolina where the Trump Campaign is being forced to ramp up their spending because theyre seeing harris making moves there. So i think what Harris Campaign hes doing doing overall is putting in place an aggressive strategy to try to put the Trump Campaign on the defensive in some of these states that, you know, just six weeks ago, they felt really confident they were going to be able to win. Zolan. Does it surprise you that the former president is still talking about what happened at arlington picking up its like picking a fight with the army now. I mean, is that going to win him new voters i guess theres two questions. There doesnt surprise me not necessarily. Right. I mean, this is sort of Groundhog Day and in a sense, we often hear from republican strategists, allies of the former president , that they want the Trump Camp Campaign and the former president to focus his messaging on the political vulnerabilities of the biden administration. Whether that be the economy, whether that be immigration or even in this case with this visit the withdrawal from afghanistan and often they that discipline is not there. The focus on on that messaging does not stay, but you see it devolve into personal attacks or distractions at which seemed to occur with this case. Look, the fact is this statement that he made on sean hannity, does undermine the initial statements that his campaign made in the wake of this evidently clash with this official in Arlington Cemetery right after that event, his campaign said that they were going to release footage showing the physical blocking here criticized that employee at the national cemetery, that that doesnt align with the comments that we heard from that clip released from hana the today. I mean, they said the person who is mentally unstable, david, i mean, does it make sense to you that he would still be out there talking about this . I mean, is there something that he gets out of it . Look, anderson, heres what i the only thing to echo what zolan said. You know, what i find amazing is that were talking about this, this kind of shuffled back and forth between staffers rather than the issue the larger issue of how these young men and women got killed or why they got killed in the first place . The disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan, the fact that the current Vice President id states Kamala Harris, has been asked for threeandahalf years to meet with these Family Members by their Family Members themselves, and that shes denied to meet with them. And so the fact that david thats not what thats not what your candidate is talking. Thats not what Donald Trump is talking about. I mean, he hes talking, hes hes talking about the Campaign Video that was put out claiming that he doesnt want published today when clearly they did want to get this this, this thing out there well, you know, anderson, the families asked, ive watched the videos now. The families asked for the cameras to be there so they can memorialize this i understand that ant that arlington does have a policy, the army does have a Policy And Kate and an eye and anderson, youve seen not president ial, when the president is walking, there are people 30, yards in front of the president and behind the president , i am sure that what he said is true. He did not see any of this. He probably wasnt aware that there was a there was a shuffle if there was one that took place, he came and went without notice. Im certain of it, and im sure the Family Members didnt know either. And yet kate, i mean, they did put out a Campaign Video of it it with image. Its not just pictures and it was texts on top of it you now have the Activity Son of late republican senator John Mccain speaking out against the former president s actions at arlington, endorsing harris mean, do you think that endorsement like that kate actually has any impact on independent voters . Well, i think what it does is remind people of the long history that Donald Trump has of demeaning people who served obviously very personally, as we heard in the soundbite, the top of the show demeaning his father in a really brutal way after he served as a Prisoner Of War on behalf of this country in uniform so i think what it does is it reminds people that Donald Trump is an unpalatable option. It reminds independent voters, you know, i dont like The Way this man speaks of people who have both given the ultimate sacrifice for this country and also made the sacrifice of putting on the uniform deploying, serving americans are proud of their military and their proud of veterans. And the idea that were going to reelect a president who says these kinds of things. I think that is a really offputting thing for independent voters. I think what John Mccain son did today was quite brave and courageous. And yes, i do think it matters because is it helps Paint A Picture of somebody that most americans would say thats not The Way i want somebody whos serving in the Oval Office to talk about people who served this country in uniform. Zolan, the former present, released a new video today, seeking to tie Vice President harris to president Joe Bidens record in the White House do you think how much do you think President Biden is actually going to be used by the Harris Campaign, moving forward were about to see a good sort of Sample Size of that this week the president is scheduled to travel for some of the visits, not necessarily next to the Vice President , but hes in the campaign trail. Hes getting back there and, you know, theres, theres an interesting balance that well be watching here when it comes to policy and Vice President harriss Policy Platform Right . She does represent incumbency. She was part of this White House and we have not seen much evidence that shes going to break obviously, from the present. There but she served with however you are starting to see some differences in tone. And lets be honest in a Campaign Tone matters. An emphasis on trying to lower consumer prices, which has been a concern for voters consistently in the past couple of years an emphasis not so much just on talking about Job Growth in manufacturing, but to address the cost of living that americans are feeling, that stuff that i would hear from sort of even allies of the White House democratic groups that they wanted messaging to focus on that Housing Costs as well. So im im curious to see though how much of this has exclusively even a slight change in tone, but still the same policy platform, or will we actually see breaks thus far . I dont think we are seeing that because once again, for as much as some summer framing the Vice President does a Change Candidate. And i understand that in some ways, this is also somebody thats been a part of the White House the past three years. So itll be interesting to see that balance, david, you talked on this program about things you have said to the foreign president about policy. And they came to policy last week he retweeted he reposted vulgar post, truth, social post about Vice President harris and Hillary Clinton talked about a sex act. It was incredibly demeaning for women who has massage antisemitic and all sorts of things. This is how we addressed that host on a podcast today. Lets listen i do a lot of reposting. The ones you get in trouble with, the repost because you find down deep there in some group that youre not supposed to be reposting. You dont even know if theres groups are good, better, and different so i mean, hes literally said this before about its just a repost, its i didnt post it. Its a repost and yet he continues to do it even though acknowledges seed has no idea who these people are and he didnt address the credibly demeaning text of this you dont have to dig deep to see how offensive and Massage Anesthetic it is anderson. Im going to im hopeful that hes going to start re posting. So of my tweets where i talk about the issues, right . About fracking. I dont think hes going to do that to me david do it unless im going to im going to ask him because i think lets im going to ask him to repost this olon. I like what zolan was saying, you know, Kamala Harris has tried to and run as a Change Candidate, but she Cant Run as a Change Candidate because hes trying to change from the administration that shes a part of. So im going to set them some zolans tweets and asked him to retweet some of those, right . I think Hes Spot on. Listen. Whether Joe Biden is going to campaign with Kamala Harris is something were enough to wait and see because i just heard James Carville a little bit earlier today saying his advices saw Joe Biden off, cut them away, float free, be a part of this. You cannot, if youre tied to Joe Biden, shes going to sink like an anchor. Hes going to be like an anchor around her because the Biden Harris Administration is incredibly unpopular and so her only shot is to change and to run as an independent candidate. So im going to hope donald shuffle we tweet my tweets zolans not kate. All right. Well, well see how it were checking tomorrow. We have to take a short break coming up next. Could a single electoral vote in nebraska determine who wins the White House thats the stuff of political fiction, but it has actually the potential to become reality. Jeff zeleny explains how pluses protesters in israel continued demand a ceasefire deal. 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