His base, which is why many people were shocked when he muddied his position on abortion this week remarking on a florida ballot amendment that could overturn that state's ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy i think the six week because to shore, it has to be more time and show that. And i've told them that i want more weeks you'll vote in favor of the amendment on voting that i am going to be voting that way need more than six weeks after backlash from conservatives, trump's campaign tried to clarify his position saying quote, president trump has not yet said how he will vote even though we did just hear how he said he would vote at that moment in time on the ballot initiative in florida, he simply reiterated that he believes six weeks is too short, then yesterday, this is what president trump said. Are you voting yes or no on amendment four in florida? so i think six weeks you need more time than six weeks. I've disagreed with that right from the early primaries my marriage when i heard about it, i disagreed with it at the same time, the democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation that where you can do abortion in the ninth month and, you know, some of the states like minnesota and other states have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So i'll be voting no for that reason. Again, a lot of untruth in that statement as well. The harris campaign now trying to seize on trumps back and forth stance on abortion over this last week by announcing a new bus tour across several key battleground states the campaign saying the tour is aimed at advocating for women's rights productive rights, and highlighting this issue heading into november, priscilla alvarez joining us now for what more can you tell us about this bus tour? they're putting together and what they're trying to accomplish here. We'll just get it's been the strategy from the beginning that reproductive rights was going to feature prominently in the harris campaign. And before the harris campaign. And then biden campaign, they see it as an issue that really galvanizes voters and that they can get some momentum on, especially as they tried to make inroads with female voters. Now, this reproductive rights tour is going to kick off on on tuesday and it's notably going to start in florida, of course, that is a state that an abortion is on the ballot for president donald trump saying that he would vote no this week. So expect that to come up quite a bit over the course of the coming week. Now, this is going to be a tour that includes surrogates, mostly that includes electric did officials, for example, on tuesday, senator klobuchar will be in florida to kick this off. And also, the cacampaign says celebrities and others along the way, this is going to be 50 or at least 50 stops. Now, we don't have details on all of the stops just yet, but what this tells us is that they very much plan to keep this issue front and center note that it is an issue that the vice president has been the voice on for the biden administration just at the beginning of the year, she had kicked off a reproductive rights tour. I was at that first often followed it thereafter and it was during that tour that she coined the term trump abortion ban. Now, that has been used to describe by the campaign and debris for crowds, all of the abortion restrictions across the country, putting the onus really on former president donald trump for the overturning of roe v. Wade. So this is going to be a theme over the course of the next two months. And certainly one that the campaign is leaning on with this reproductive rights tour kicking off next next week absolutely right. Priscilla alvarez for us in washington, dc. Thanks so much for that reporting. Former democratic senator from alabama, doug jones is joining us now to talk about this and other issues. Senator. Great to have you thanks so much for coming on. This saturday afternoon. We know as priscilla just reported, the harris campaign trying to make abortion front and center in this race. And honestly, it was an issue that republicans and former president trump at the rnc when president biden was still on the ticket, had seemed to kind of felt like they had put it to bet. They'd put it to the side and we're going to be able to kind of press on focusing on other issues. But do you think it's as potent of an issue for voters? as it was in 2022, especially now with vice president harris at the top of the ticket, who's been really the chief communicator on this issue for the biden administration? yeah. I think it's a much more potent issue right now. Or earlier in the year and in the summer, i think the thought that they could just kinda leave it alone, not address it. It would go away because there were other issues when president biden was on the ticket now they've got probably the administration's chiefs chief spokesman, person on the abortion issue this has been the issue that kamala harris has gotten her voice gotten her platform and they see that across the country and all of a sudden now they're having to scramble and you see answers that are just all over the board. They know exactly know what to do also since that time, you've also had things like the alabama ivf ruling that put ivf and contraception front and center. I think republicans along the way and especially donald trump and j. D. Vance, are really struggling to try to find answers to these questions questions that satisfies they're very conservative prolife base. But at the same time doesn't alienate so many women across this country and that's a, that's a very delicate balance that i don't think they're doing a really good job of right now. And so much of the data is showing us that what is driving harris's momentum right now, enlarged it's part are a lot of female voters of all ages, but especially young women as well. I'm curious what you, how you think strategically. The harris campaign or democrats writ large are going to use president trump's backandforth on the proposed florida abortion legislation that we were just we're hearing about. There to their benefit i think they're going to continue to hammer that home. Not just in florida i think they're going down to florida for this because the media is going to be there. They're going to cover this, but they're going to go all over the country with the same message that's the thing about democrats right now. We have got the same message that speak to women, to speak to america about this issue republicans don't. They are trying to struggle and that's exactly what you see so i believed that you're going to see the harris campaign continuing the same message. It's going to be front and center wherever they go, whether it is georgia, whether it's pencil mania, wisconsin, michigan, it is going to be front and center on this issue to remind people constantly remind people of how the republicans have taken away so many freedoms of women in this country and the rights that are being taken away, and the rights that are being threatened in the future regardless of what donald trump sat trust say to folks right now, those freedoms are threatened in the future and vice president harris sat down with our colleague dana bash on thursday for her first interview since she became the democratic nominee, she was asked about some of her previous policy positions. I just want to listen to these clips and we can talk about it. In 2019. I believe, in a town hall, you said you were asked, would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office and you said there's no question. I'm in favor of banning fracking, so yes so it changed in that campaign in 2020, i made very clear where i stand. We are in 2024 and i've not changed that position nor will i going forward kept my word and i will keep my word what made you change that position at the time well, let's be clear. My values have not changed. Something that you set in 2019 when you first ran, there was a debate. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the borders should be decriminalized do you still believe that? i believe there should be consequences. We have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally. And there should be consequences. Dana, i think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed senator just first, you think all of this is a pivot to the middle on a lot of these issues i don't know if you could say it's a pivot to the middle. I think it is an education process that the vice president has gone through as vice president of the united states. It's one thing to be in the senate to have one view representing a state, a very large state, by the way. And then running for president, it's another thing to be able to be vice president united states working with it administration on all of these issues, getting all of the information, educating yourself, and being able to modify positions as you see that they are effective and that you want to do. This is not a political flipflop as much as it is an education no process. The political flipflops or what you're seeing on the other side. But between j. D. Vance and donald trump on every issue, it's very transactional if they get, if they get hurt by veterans for some of the crazy things. And weird things at donald trump says about veterans. He tries to do something at arlington cemetery foot are photo op which also blows up in his face. So i think the vice president has done what we expect. Our political leaders to do. And that is to educate herself and be able to work with the educate and the things that she sees that works best for the american people. That's what i think we're going to see in this campaign. But what would you say to the voters out there? who watch this and say, well, but isn't she flipflopping like is it the same or they've all flipflopping, what would you say to them? i hear what you're saying is that in in your in your view, this is more of an education and she's evolved over time but you can understand that some voters have a hard time kind of separating all of that out and making the destruction i see that on one level. But i'd like for folks to listen to what she change everyone should even political leaders should be able well, two not only change their mind, but also to evolve with changing circumstances and an education. We don't want somebody so dogmatic. They are not going to listen to the other side and potentially be swayed by what they here that's what i think kamala harris has done. She has been in the room where it happens for three can i half, almost four years now. And she has learned a lot. She has seen things that she didn't see as an attorney general and prosecutor seeing things that she has not seen as even a united states senator for a couple of years so i think people should appreciate up politicians, public officials public servants, who will listen to people and get to know the issues and make adjustments to what they want to do going forward, because that's the key now, what is she saying that she's going to do as policywise, going forward. And i can assure you that what she is telling folks now, policies that she wants to see implemented going forward, she's not saying one thing and a bait and switch and going to try to pull something else that's what i believe folks are going to be seeing from the trumpvance team. She's telling people where she is now after the experience that she had been vice president the united states and obviously this is early, it's not even labor day yet but of course there's always speculation about if x candidate wins, then who might they fill their cabinet with? axios has reported recently, your name has been floated as a potential attorney general and a potential harris administration i know at least well enough to know that you're not going to go down any road there, but i am curious if you are interested in doing something like that, serving with her and if you've been contacted by anyone working on a transition plan well, yes. Good luck. The first things first, you know, my goal right now is to do whatever i can to help kamala harris and tim walz get elected. I think they will be a great president and vice president, united states. That's goal number one. Then we'll just see anything i can do that might help this administration to the next ministration be successful. That's what all americans should be wanting to do. And that's where i've got my eyes set right now, making sure that someone i knew and served with that i think is a great leader and will be great for the united states is both elected and as successful as president united states senator doug jones. Thanks so much for being here with us. We appreciate it thank you. Jessica. Still ahead. How once of intelligence work? let american and rocky forces to an i. S. I. S. Hide out in the desert and a raid that injured separately u. S soldiers plus, you're going to see a new inside look at ukrainian troops pushing deeper into russia. As russia makes major advances of its own into ukraine you're in the cnn newsroom monday night to our whole story special the e candidates, and their record on the key issues for the election season. 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This is it's an early statement by the idf, but it does seem that they are preparing the way here for more details which are clearly going to be absolutely brutal, harrowing, and horrible for the families of these but is that they say that they've discovered we don't have any other details about who these hostages may be or whom they may be indeed, the idf is urging people stay away from speculating about it, but they are clearing the way here for what we're going to say what we know from the idf i've just to be very clear what we have from the idf. They're not saying specifically these, these are hostages. They are saying that they have found bodies. This is what the idf is saying. Clearly that they have found bodies and they're working to retrieve those bodies. And identify them. So this is a very early signal at the moment. The idf has of information, new information in gaza. And i think we're going to what will clearly be waiting for the updates from the idf tonight okay. Nic robertson stand by for us there in jerusalem. We also have alex marquardt, who is standing by in washington dc you see. And so alice for getting this information, the idf again, just just to remind everyone, it's very sparse information at this point, but the idf saying that only that it's found both bodies in gaza. Of course, this is coming as these talks continue as the u. S. Continues to try to pressure both sides to come to a ceasefire and hostage deal. What more are you tracking right now? well, this is just obviously extremely difficult situation for the families to be in because they start to hear these rumblings and they start to wonder who it is who has been found. Now you can be certain that the idf is going to be telling the hostage families first who it is that they have found out just this comes on the heels of an israeli bedouin hostage who was rescued alive just a few days ago. He was the eighth israeli hostage to have been rescued since october 7, alive in the past ten months of this war. But there have been more than that, who have been recovered, who have passed away either because they were killed on october 7 and their bodies were taken into gaza by hamas and other militant groups. Or because there were killed during the course of this war in the past ten months. But this will really really underscore the need from for so many people for a ceasefire deal to get the remaining hostages home. Both those who are still alive, we believe there are dozens of those who are still alive. And the remains of those who have been killed there more than 100 hostages all told, israel tends not to the differentiate between those who are alive and who are dead in terms of the actual ceasefire negotiations right now, the talks are ongoing, but it does not appear that we're on the brink of anything imminent in speaking with sources from the region, as well as here in the united states, they're trying to work out those final details that korea nagasaki, of how this would play out. But there's still some significant sticking points. And as this drags on, we see not only the desperation of the people in gaza who really need a ceasefire who really need aid to get into gaza, but also the anger growing in israel against prime minister netanyahu and his government who many accused who many say are focused more on the military operation and trying to go after hamas than they are in, than they are to bring those israeli hostages home. Jessica and aleksey can't help but think of these families of these hostages and the loved ones who have spent nearly a year now wondering how they they are, where they are exactly. And now of course, with news again, that we don't know exactly if it is hostage bodies, but simply that the idf has found several bodies there in the gaza. The gaza strip nic alex was just talking there about where these negotiations stand. And of course, the international community watching all of this, but you're there in israel and it's, it's saturday night. We've seen those protests in tel aviv almost every saturday, especially with hostages, families trying to convince the government to accept a deal and get these high such as home. One is what is the feeling where you are when it, when it comes to getting these hostages back the majority of people here would like to see a deal that brings the hostages home. And that's that's about more than 60 he percent of the country, almost 70% of the country believes that that is the right thing to do. But actually within the government, that's not the opinion and in fact, the tensions within the government really getting getting bigger and bigger and bigger over this so as a huge blow up on thursday when the prime minister forced a vote on his plan to offer a slightly reduced number of troops along their contentious philadelphi corridor radar that almost nine mile long border between gaza and egypt had put forward as part of the u. S. Bridging proposal a plan that would offer to reduce it's the number of israeli troops along that borderline. Now the bus stop, when the when this came to a vote was with his defense minister, yoav gallant, who said, look, you just don't need to push this issue. If you push this issue right now than hamas is not going to go with it after six weeks of a truce to get the hostages out, then you could just put the troops back in. There is essentially what he was saying and his comments really showed the gap between him and the prime minister. He said this is being essentially micromanaged by the prime minister. It's the prime minister who put forward and has forced on everyone his map of where the troops should be along that border. He is dictating the terms of how they negotiate she so should go. I'm one of his top negotiators, david barnea, the head of mossad, head of israel's intelligence, who's doing the actual negotiating here? even he said he didn't see the point in having a vote at the cabinet over this on thursday night. So those tensions within the government and they're the signals from society the protests that you're seeing on the streets in tel aviv that want netanyahu right now to do the deal, the majority of people within the country one to deal that this has not saying they want to roll over and let hamas habits wave far from that, they want to see hamas destroyed, but they do want to get the hostages home and the take the way when you listen to that, what what the defense minister had to say was even this latest hostage deal. And we've heard this from john kirby at the white house saying this as well, really, this multiphased potential hostage deal is really now come down to a single phase of six weeks. That's the best that they hope that they can do to get out about 33 hostages the women, the elderly, and the sick, and the very young, to get them out in those first six weeks. But it what where we're at right now, it appears to be a moment of intransigents, both hamas on their side, not accepting to keep any israeli troops troops. It appears along the border with gaza and egypt, the philadelphi corridor. And it appears the prime minister of israel insisting, according to his defense minister that. He is setting the agenda to keep the troops there, which is the thing that is not allowing the talks to proceed. So this is an inch incredibly contentious time as the idf works to recover those bodies and we don't know what bodies they are, but works to recover those bodies we should be very clear at the moment. The idf is only reporting that it has found bodies that it's working to retrieve them and identify them at the moment but as it works to do that, and more details may become available that i think will help inform the picture that we have about the negotiating patients right now, the prime minister has insisted all along that the way to get the hostages home is to destroy hamas's to keep the military pressure on them there was a comment by by one of his hard line ministers, just a few days ago saying that we will get all the hostages home, but you just have to keep that military pressure on this is going to be a very, very difficult evening for all the families of all the hostages and many more people in israel besides doubt about that, nic robertson and alex marquardt, we want you to stand by again. We're continuing to monitor this breaking news that is coming out of the middle east, the idf locating a number from bodies in the gaza strip were told that troops are still operating in that area. They are carrying out a process to extract an identify those bodies. And that's going to last several followers again, that is from the idf will continue to track this. We will have the latest for you as we get it. Let's take a quick break tv on the edge p premiere sunday, seseptember 22, didid n onon cnn sometetimes all t the tenanacity greatat. And the e w can ovovercome thehe boundariei faface m morgan salmlman thinkn partnenering with h the women'' tetennis associatition to remom them b because thihis game i is everyone when yoyou're a a smal bubusiness ownwner, you toto do can bebe a lot that's why progreressive makekes it easy y sesee with a comommercial auaut quotote ononline. So y you can on all y your otheher two duese already. Y. 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Cnn senior international correspondent frederik pleitgen is in ukraine's capital of kyiv and fred this attack on kharkiv is coming after a week of aerial attacks on russia that ukrainians have been describing as massive yeah, they certainly i've been massive and they really started on the monday of this past week with a giant barrage of missiles drones that the russians fired off and just on that, one day, on monday, they used over 100 120 ballistic and cruise missiles and over 100 drones as well. It's really something a thing and carried over throughout the entire week and you can see the result of that as a power outages in large parts of the country that do go on for an extended period of time. But the situation there that you were talking talking about in kharkiv is certainly one for the ukrainians. That's very difficult as well. If we look at that bombing yesterday, that happened in the city of kharkiv. The authorities there are saying that the russians used glide bombs, dropped opt by some of russia's frontline bomber aircraft is very, very heavy bombs that killed several people on the ground in kharkiv and badly damaged about 20 apartments in that area as well. Well, today, less than 24 hours later, another town in the kharkiv province was apparently hit by one of these bombs again ukrainians are saying it was a bomb that's called a fab 500. And the 500 stands for half a ton of tnt being indoor of explosives being inside that bomb so a very heavy weapon that's making things very difficult for the ukrainians, not just on the front lines, but as we can tell, for ukrainian civilians in the cities as well, the frontline troops are also saying that they're getting hit by these bombs. And one of the things of course that has been going on as over the past two days, that senior ukrainian officials including the defense minister traveled to washington and asked the united states to lift some of those restrictions are longer distance weapons that the ukrainians want to use to hit the air bases that the russians are taking off from so far, there hasn't been a decision by the us. And if we look at the situation on the ground jessica, the ukrainians are still making gains into russian territory territory in that incursion that they're doing. But they are also under a lot of pressure in the east of the country. And one of the main reasons there again, is their use of russian airpower. Jessica. We're also seeing new images of ukraine's attack on russia with its troops actually crossing the border into the russian territory. Of course, what more can you tell us about that yeah, exactly. So this is video that we obtained a couple of days ago and it's really from the early stages of when the ukrainians crime austin to russian territory. So in the beginning of august, but it was video that has not been seen before and shows just how quickly they crossed the border and then moved into russian territory. Those ukraine bringing forces then coming under fire after a little bit of time, but still managing to further advance into russian territory. And one of the things that's been really remarkable about that incursion that ukrainians have been conducting is that they say even more than three weeks after they initially started, they are still gaining ground inside of russia, the ukrainians in the past couple of days saying they've gotten mean one to three kilometers further and deeper into russian territory. This, as the russians are scrambling to try and put together a force to counter all this and to hold the eu cranial up so far the russians not really managing to do that. Their air campaign has become more intense. The ukrainians are acknowledging that it's getting more difficult, but they are still making advances. But at the same time, of course, the ukrainians do remain under pressure on other fronts where the russians are not letting up at all. Jessica all right. Fred pleitgen for us in kyiv tonight. Thank you so much for that reporting. I want to talk more about all of it with cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton colonel, thanks so much as always for being here with us. Let's talk more about what fred was just describing to us. He mentioned that the ukrainian defense minister was at the pentagon yesterday. Asking the us to lift these restrictions against using long range weapons inside of russia do where do you think that's ultimately going to land? is this going to potentially be one of those things the u. S. Starts off saying no to, but comes around on or do you think this will be a firm? no. Yeah jessica, i think it's going to be one of those things that in part the u. S will come around on. And as fred was pointing out in his report, there are a lot of aspects to this war that are basically fought from a distance. And what do the russians are doing is they're using what are called standoff ranges so they are not as close to the ukrainian border or the ukrainian front line as ukrainians would need them to be in order to push them out of the sky. In the case of airplanes so what the ukrainians want to do is they want to be able to hit air bases where these planes are being staged out of and if the ukrainians get the gold ahead, the greenlight to do that, that will make a major change to the war effort. And it could signal a big change for ukraine's fortunes. Right now, we're dealing with a war of attrition that could change that, that could potentially, potentially move things forward. But i think what the united states is still concerned about is the possibility of reaching some kind of russian red line, which would then precipitate the use of weapons like in the ultimate case, nuclear weapons i don't think that's likely, but i do that the russians are certainly going to threaten that kind of usage in the united states. Of course, wants to avoid that escalation yeah, they certainly they certainly do. There are some though that have criticized this administration for being too cautious in a way not not giving ukraine the ability to use some of these weapons in this way or slow to say yes on, f16s are fill in the blank of other things that they've ultimately given ukraine. What do you, what do you make of that criticism but i think that criticism is at least partly correct. You take the case. The f f16s, jessica, one of the things that you need when it comes to f16s is you need a lot of training. It takes about after initial pilot training for the u. S. Air force, two in essence graduate f 16 pilots and then they still go through a large training process once they're assigned to their units and the same is true, really, any pilot in any nation the ukrainians are trying to fly these airplanes with a minimum amount of training and a lot of the training that they is really the bare basics and it's not even sufficient to deal with the kind of environment that the ukrainian finding themselves in this is an environment where there's a lot of electronic warfare, a lot of jamming that goes on, and that can really hurt the ability of the pilots to achieve their operational goals. Colonel cedric leighton. Thank you. As always, we appreciate that context and analysis. Thanks so much you bet jessica. Still ahead. A pause in the fighting in parts of gaza this weekend is the u. N. Works to prevent a polio outbreak now, hundreds of thousands of children in that region. 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Agency in gaza plans to vaccinate over 600,000 children during a series of pauses fighting that's been agreed to the highly infectious virus was found in sewage samples in june. And a case was reported earlier this month. That's the first case of polio in gaza in 25 years. Cnn's elliott gotkine joining us now and there are a lot of moving parks to make this work, elliott, walk us through this complicated process jessica, i think you said the operative word there complicated because even in the best of times, carrying out the vaccination campaign of this nature, are they're aiming to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of ten would be a tough task. But these are clearly not the best of times in gaza as of sunday. In fact it'll be entering what its 11th month of fighting since the hamasled terrorist attacks of october the seventh. So there are a lot of challenges, not least, the the security situation, then you've got to deal with damage to roads and infrastructure and the like as well. And then also of course, so many people in gaza, most of the population, in fact, has been displaced multiple times. So it could be challenging for them to get to where they need to be vaccinated, to be fully aware of what they need to do or where they need to be at particular times. And i suppose even though hamas has said that it will observe these three threeday pauses in fighting. And israel has said that it will do so as well. It's always the danger, the concern that perhaps hamas will use this for cover, or perhaps to launch attacks. And likewise that israel may see assets on the ground, whether it's militants or military equipment used by hamas, which it feels that it just must take out in order to avoid the risk of danger to its own forces or two israelis. But there is hope that this will proceed smoothly. But of course, even if all of those challenges can be overcome, they then have to do this again in four weeks time because it's a two dose vaccination. So the first days will be given in the central part of the girls gaza strip for the first three days of september than the southern part, then the northern part, then they'll have to do it again in four weeks time. That said, if does proceed according to plan over the next 12 days, there will be hope that look, they've managed to do it once and everything went smoothly. So there's no reason that it shouldn't be able to be done again for the second dose of the vaccination, jessica. And then separate from this vaccination campaign, elliot, there seems to be a major dispute that's brewing between israelis prime minister benjamin netanyahu, his defense and his defense minister yoav galant, what more can you tell us about that dynamic? quite it's very hard to describe just how how detailed and how angry the exchange between prime minister netanyahu and his defense minister yoav gallant seems to have been in this has been reported widely in israeli media, including by cnn affiliate channel 12. Now, there's no secret that netanyahu and golan loathe each other. Netanyahu tried to sacked gallant. In fact, he did sack him. Then and sacked him during the controversy over the government's judicial overhaul plans last year, what is at the center of this dispute is that you have golan and the defense establishment is saying, look, israel can withdraw from the socalled philadelphi corridor. This 14 kilometer border strip of land between southern gaza and egypt. If it means getting a ceasefire deal with hamas, getting some of the hostages home in exchange, prime minister netanyahu is adamant that israel will not withdraw from control of the philadelphi corridor. And so you have these quite astounding exchange of words golan saying to his prime minister, you've got two choices effectively, either to stay in the philadelphi or to bring back hostages. You decide to stay in philadelphi. Does that make sense to you? there are people alive here the point being that hamas will not accept a ceasefire deal if israel stays in control of the philadelphi corridor. In fact, even herzi halevi, the head of the chief, the chief of staff, saying that israel could quite conceivably relinquish control of the philadelphi corridor in order to get a sixweek temporary ceasefire in the beginning of this threephase ceasefire talks that we've been talking about for so long. 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