Coverage and exclusive pre and postdebate analysis. A cnn special the abc News President ial defeat tuesday at nine eastern on Cnn And Streaming on max youre in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Jessica Dean in New York, the first first debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Now, just three days away, and the Uk Campaigns are bracing for what could be could be a pivotal moment in the race with just two months until election day. Since thursday, harris has been preparing with a small team of advisers in pittsburgh, pennsylvania or shes been taking part in mock debates and combing through possible attacks from trump. Shes also been taking breaks. Today. She made a Surprise Appearance at a Spice Shop in pittsburgh, which turned into an emotional moment with voters you know were gonna be smiling were going to be fine trump is spending his prep time talking to his base. He held her Campaign Rally in the battleground, State Of Wisconsin a few hours ago he appeared
Pass a specific decided for ive been appointed by numerous Justice Departments to investigate cases and prosecute them if necessary, where there might be a conflict of interests, Molar Being also another recent one elie, i just want you to explain to our viewers when i started reporting from the White House many years ago, there were independent counsel now there are Special Counsels. Whats the difference . Exactly right. So we had a law on the books of federal law from 1978 to 1999, creating the position of independent counsel. And we had a good number of them. The most famous or infamous one of those was Ken Starr in 1999, that law lapsed. It had a legislative sunset that was such backlash over the Clinton Impeachment that congress just said, lets let it die in its place in 1999, arose the current set of Special Counsel regulations. Under those regulations, weve seen robert muller, Jack Smith, robert hurr, david weiss, as kara noted, who has prosecuting Hunter Biden right now. And th
Sorts of people that theyve got to take care of for the next 50 years, right . Young people, theyre in jail for years. If you call him people, i dont know if you call them people in some cases, than not people in my opinion, these are bad. These are animals cnns alayna treene, its tracking all of this for us and alina, you were at you recovering this rally when this all happened this weekend, how did those remarks come off at the rally . How are they looking . De republicans are having to answer for them right . Well, kate, donald trump, very much use dark rhetoric to paint this Doomsday Picture of america. If he were not to be reelected in november and its the same type of Fear Mongering we heard him use in the lead up to his First White House bid and something that he used successfully and effective really to claim the white house back in 2016. But look at that rally, it was unclear what exactly donald trump was referring to when he argued that there would be a bloodbath if you were
The white house was quick to respond to trumps latest aymen saying quote, as antisemitic crimes and acts of hate of increased across the world among them, the deadliest attack committed against the jewish people since the holocaust, leaders have an obligation to call hate what it is and bring americans together against if there is no justification for spreading toxic false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. None unquote that was putting it nicely compared to what the Biden Campaign had to say, which was the only person who should be ashamed here as donald trump, donald trump openly demeans Jewish Americans and reportedly thinks adolf hitler did some good things that last bit is a reference to comments trump made in private to his then Chief Of Staff retired general john kelly. According to cnns own jim sciutto cnns Kristen Holmes is here with more kristen, shocking comments by trump, offensive comments by trump are just going to be what were hearing from now until november or p
Talking specific points to House Republicans in that audience tonight, then this could be a tough crowd for President Biden, the House Speaker Mike Johnsons asked all all the Members Of Congress to be civil, but manu caught up with Marjorie Taylor greene or oyoun earlier and she didnt she didnt make any civility promises. What do you think is going to happen well, certainly weve seen over the last several years House Republicans going out and attacking the president as he is giving the state of the Union Address and certainly House Republicans have struggled with decorum over the last several months. Youve seen since the beginning of this new congress. So we heard from republicans today at votes who made no such promises. That they were going to sit there quietly. Heres Marjorie Taylor greene earlier that you mentioned talking to manu while if hes a liar, he should be called out. Thats important to do and people really care about that. So you might call them out today. Its on the flori