Fall is finally in the air. I hope youre feel the same thing wherever you might be this morning. Were grateful to have your company here at new day, im christi paul. Im Martin Savidge in for victor black well. Always great to have you here, martin. President trumps nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court sets up a tight timeline for republicans. Who are insisting that they fill the seat before the november 3rd election. Cnns Sarah Westwood joins us now from the white house. With the election so close, the timing has to be considered crucial. Yeah. Good morning, martin and christi. Theres simply no room for error for Senate Republicans who hope to get it done for the white house before election day. Theyre setting themselves up to do this in a little over a month. Lindsey graham quickly released a tentative schedule for that confirmation process yesterday after the president unveiled Amy Coney Barrett to fill that vacancy. They want to do it quickly. Three or four days of hearings. Tuesday, november they want to begin questioning her with the senators. That will be an exciting day to watch there. Democrats were quick to oppose the nomination yesterday on saturday. They described it as a power grab by republicans. Opposing her both on ideological and procedural grounds. The way that the republicans are trying to go about this, they say, is filled with hypocrisy. It was late Justice Ruth Bader ginsburgs wish, one of her last wishes that her vacancy not be filled until the next president was elected. Amy Coney Barrett speaking yesterday here at the white house after the nomination said she will not forget whose vacancy shell be filling. I am be mindful of who came before me. The flag of the United States is still flying at halfstaff in memory of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg to mark the end of a Great American life. This should be a straightforward and prompt confirmation. Should be very easy. Good luck. Its going to be very quick. Im sure it will be extremely noncontroversial. We said that the last time, didnt we . Trump referencing the historically divisive confirmation proceedings for Justice Brett kavanaugh. Mitch mcconnell was a proponent of Coney Barrett throughout the time that trump took the time to nominate her. He described her as exceedingly wellkwofd for this job and vowed that she would get a floor vote in the senate in the weeks ahead. Sarah westwood, good to see you this morning. Thanks for the update. The Supreme Court will be just one of a number of topics headlining the first president ial debate on tuesday. Both sides are managing expectations with similar attack lines. Basically saying of each other, that guy is not very smart. Dumb guy. Dumb guy. Always known as a dumb guy. But we look forward to seeing him in a debate. Hes got a lot more experience. Hes got 47 years. Ive got 3 1 2 years. So well see. It is going to be difficult. I know my guess is its going to be straight attack. Theyll be mostly person personal. He doesnt know how to debate the facts, hes not that smart. Cnns jessica dean has more on bidens debate prep. Good morning. Former Vice President joe biden, spending this weekend preparing for tuesdays debate against President Donald Trump in cleveland, ohio. Were told that he likes aides peppering him with questions at rapid speed as opposed to a full mock debate. We know that previously in the weeks running up to this, he had been studying briefing books and told the traveling press thats paying attention to what drop has said and what hes not said. Really Holding SmallGroup Meetings with policy advisers drilling down on a lot of policy. As we get to the weekend, biden is focusing fully at debate preparing. His team also expressing the idea that, look, it may be that donald trump is going to be up predictable on that stage. They dont think its wise or possible for joe biden to be Fact Checking him the entire time hes on the stage. Theyre hoping that the moderator, in this case Chris Wallace of fox news, will do some of that Fact Checking. Shed, the key idea here is for the former Vice President to continue to trau the focus to talk about what that is the Health Crisis and the economic crisis that were facing as a result of the covid19 pandemic. Tying President Trumps response to that as the reason why the nation is suffering. Making the case that President Trump was not up to the job and that his failures on that front are what has led us to this moment with the crisis, both the economic crisis and also the Health Crisis. As for the debate itself, its going to be different because of the pandemic. Its going to be 90 minutes. Thats typical. Were also told that instead of the average of 900 attendees, there will be about 60 to 70 people within the debate hall. It had to be moved from notre dame which pulled out because of covid. To casewestern in cleveland. Were told that everybody in the debate hall will be covid tested before they get inside. A lot of precautions being taken as we get closer to tuesdays debate. Martin and christi. Jessica, thank you so much. Appreciate it. When this debate happens on tuesday, that is going to mark the fiveweek mark to election day. Early voting is underway already across most of the country. The race is at the moment clearly tilting bidens way. A new polling we have for you here from the New York Times shows that biden is holding on to his steady national lead. That same poll shows 7 of voters are undecided right now. The first debate offers this giant stage to reach those people and maybe even change the minds. Who knows . Joining us now to discuss how to do that. Former communication director john and political respondent. Good morning to you. I want to look at those numbers again. Biden at 49 in this new New York Times poll. Trump at 41 . So theres pan 8point difference there. When you look at 2016, candidate trump then was in the low 40s. But so was hillary clinton. So, alex, how much dot numbers matter at this point . You know, christi, i think they matter a lot. I think its a real challenge to this president that both in our National Poll this morning and in almost all of the swing state polling that weve seen recently, the president is stuck in the low and at best the low, mid 40s. Youre not seeing polls with President Trump pulling 46, 47 support virtually anywhere thats truly an undecided spot in this race. Thats particularly important because you alluded to 2006. In 2016, we had a couple significant thirdparty candidates. The president was able to win in a lot of places without hitting 50 or getting particularly close. Thats not the case this year. This is a much more binary case this year. The challenge for the president , one of them anyway, in the first debate this week is to make it clear to voters who are maybe not entirely sold on joe biden but who dont care for the incumbent that they have some reason still to consider voting for him. He needs people who are currently supporting joe biden to switch sides. Its not enough just to go after undecides. He cant make it on his base alone. This is interesting. Part of the other poll here, the pollsters, they were asked, should the winner of the president ial election fill Ruth Bader Ginsburgs vacancy or should President Trump make an appointment before november . The winner of the election got 56 , President Trump doing so before november got 41 . So clearly, people want him to wait. He is not doing so. As we know yesterday, he announced the nomination of Coney Barrett and Kamala Harris tweeted this after that happened last night. She said trumps makes it clear they intend to destroy the Affordable Care act and overturn roe. Speaker pelosi said something similar voting to dismantle health care is what it equates here. The democrats seem to be setting biden up with connecting three very important issues. One is the fact that there is this nomination of barrett. Two, the expectation that with that nomination will come the dismantling of the Affordable Care act. And three, that its happening at a time in the middle of a pandemic when people need their health care. With all of that said, how potent is that connectivity that biden might focus on, on tuesday in this debate . Well, i think the democrats are pivoting very fast to these two key issues. Even in the poll that alex is talking about, the New York Times poll, its clear that americans support the womans right to choose, abortion. And we know that health care is a critical issue and President Trump in that poll is given a lot of blame for where we are on the covid crisis. I do think that they are setting the Vice President up, biden up to be able to pivot to the issues. If you stop a minute and think about what this debate is, its one gigantic competitive job interview. In the case of trump, its a question to use his words of whether hes hired or fired. In the case of biden, its a question of whether or not hes the replacement for probably the most important hiring decision the American People have ever had to make. Which is who is going to be the next president to move us out of this Health Crisis were in. The covid crisis and to move us out of the economic crisis that were in. These issuers that this Supreme Court nomination have put front and center are going to have a real opportunity to help the biden campaign. So when we talk about health care, alex, we know that is a big issue for so many people right now. It was a prime talking point in 2018, obviously. That was how democrats to a house majority. We know its important. President trump said this about health care and a plan he might have when pressed a couple of weeks ago with george stephanopoulos. Take a listen. New health care. But youve been promising that i interviewed you in june of last year. You said the Health Care Plan would come in two weeks. You told Chris Wallace in three weeks. You promised an cuexecutive ord ee snief i have it already. Its a much better plan for you. Its a much better plan. What is it . You say obamacare. I got rid of the original mandate. Does he have to bring a detailed proposal for health care to this debate . I think hes not going to bring a detailed proposal for health care to the debate. Weve been pressing him, the press corps for years to do exactly that. To say what he would replace the Affordable Care act with. I think we rile have no reason to believe at this point that the president has any intention of laying out a Serious Health care agenda that meets the standards that he has set. Now, his administration does have a health care agenda, including this challenge to the Affordable Care act in front of the Supreme Court. I do think that if the president does not win this election, were going to look pack on this choice, not just right now but over the last four years as a problematic political vulnerability for him throughout his presidency, he was going to attack the aca from the beginning and was never going to lay out an incredible plan to replace t the bluster that you heard, that may have worked from a point of the 2016 campaign when a lot of people were willing to say, i will take a chance on this guy. Its a different thing when youre the president of the United States during a Massive PublicHealth Crisis to not really be able to articulate anything substantial youre going to do in the way of improving Americans Health care. Don, do you get demeanor may outmaneuver health care. Is trump going to come off as a bully and overbearing and will biden be able to stand up and not seem like hes fumbling through this . Some of the basics are through. If you go back to my model of this being a sort of job interview. The first thing youre looking for is what kind of person is this . The second thing and more importantly, frankly, do they understand the job . If they understand the job, that they have a plan for how theyre going to address the job. To alexs point, donald trump has shown no plan for addressing the covid crisis and awe how well recover from it and the economic crisis and how we recover from it. Bidens response is to pivot. Heres a handful of thing were going to have you do and well do to solve this as we move foorpd and recon. As the economic crisis, here are the things were going to do. I dont think that trump has shown anything in the years weve seen him where hes able to do the fundamentals of governing. Don baer, alex burns, we value your perspectives. Thank you for being with us this morning. And to you. Absolutely. Dont forgts. President trump, joe biden facing off. First president ial event plays out live on cnn. The special coverage on tuesday starts at 7 00 eastern. And still ahead, a debate on faith and the law. Should Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett have to face questions about her personal beliefs. Well hear from a historian and thee loejian for facing criticism. The death toll from the coronavirus is approaching now a Million People globally. Who is usaa made for . 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More than 200 people showed up. Theyre a hate group, protrump people who showed up with weapons. They applied for a permit from the city of portland. They were denied due to covid19 concerns but they came anyway. As a result of that, you did have several hundred left leaning protesters. Counter protesters come to a separate rally and fortunately, no clashes between them. Police fanned out across the city. They did their best to keep the groups separate. Well have to see what happens. Dan simon, cnn, portland, oregon. Thank you, dan. Employs in louisville, kentucky arrested people during a fourth night of pro tes over the death