Florida latest track, and we'll take you inside this inter, also, secret calls and special deliveries. What donald trump was reportedly sneaking to vladimir putin as a pandemic was ravaging the united states. And how many calls they've had since trump left office. Cnn has the new details from bob woodward's new book and vice president harris tonight initially drawing a blue blank when she was asked what she would do differently than president biden and then one notable change came to mind. I'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source battered for the second time in about as many weeks that much we know for sure tonight as forecast are saying that this storm could weaken, but it is expected to double in size what we don't know for sure tonight is exactly where this monster storm is going to make a direct hit twice tonight, more than 1 million people have been ordered to evacuate forecasters. Florida's governor, mayors, up and down that state are pleading with people not to mess around with this one. The storm is now expected to hit as early as tomorrow night, but floridians are going to start to feel that way before then. And tonight you're seeing roads and highways jammed about a fifth of florida's gas stations are now with now gas. And fort myers up to 70% of the stations there have run out of fuel altogether. That's before the storm has even hit. So if you're watching right now and you're in an area that has been ordered to evacuate officials say that now is the time that if you try and wait until tomorrow, you may end up trapped with no power for days are long we're are your home or your car swept away by a storm surge? cnn's isabel rosales joins me now from tampa, florida, which obviously is what we've been talking about isabel, that it is expected to be one of the hardest hit ones we heard from the mayor last night people are still cleaning up from helene. There how concerned are they about? another bigger storm hitting this close behind that one and that's a major concern and a race against time to evacuate that window is narrowing kaitlan listen, this is a onetwo punch for the tampa bay area. Sure. Helene went forward up until the big bend area up north, and that was a wakeup? call for just how devastating that could be with landfall nowhere near this area. Now, with this storm, with milton some here in the tampa bay area are wondering, is this the storm that they have been dreading for decades? it could come right here to the tampa bay area, will know soon enough as those tracks can continued to shift. And that's normal as we get closer to this thing. But what we have seen is major concern about the figures of storm surge, right because with helene that was five to eight feet of storm surge around the tampa bay. Well, with milton, we're looking at double that potentially we're looking at ten to 15 feet that is unsurvivable conditions. This is why people have been so concerned. Let me also show you a hidden danger here. This house that looks totally charred, burned down. Well, neighbors pointed me to this house. They told me that an ev caught fire here and burn this to a crisp. We confirm with the tampa fire fire the rescue who told us here and davis island home did go down. They couldn't confirm the exact address because of an electric vehicle. So as people are evacuating, if they're leaving behind electric vehicles were there hunkering down. This is a big concern because saltwater and ev batteries do not mix. This can cause very dangerous and sudden battery the fires and we're seeing right here the impact somebody lost their home, kaitlan yeah. This was something i didn't even think about earlier until i saw the warning from officials in florida saying, if you have an electric vehicle, get it out of the way because of exactly that house behind you, isabel rosellas on the ground in tampa will check back in with you as we get dates throughout the hour. I want to also go to chad myers, who is in the cnn weather center and chad, the track of this storm has changed and shifted a little bit from when we spoke last night, i think a big question that people at home are watching is how much more could it change before it makes landfall? well, it's all about the wobbles at this point in time earlier today and wobbled about 20 miles farther to the south. That wobble, if you take it 20 miles farther to the south and then you take it on the same track. You've moved your landfall 20 miles farther to the south that could still happen to, again, to the north later on tonight, this is a very compact little storm i know we talked about it maybe is getting larger in size as it gets closer to the coast. But for now, this is 165 mile per hour, category five hurricane. That's getting more and more compact, but you still have to watch the cone its north of tampa. It's all the way down to naples. So that's the left on the right, that's still could happen by the time it makes landfall sometime tomorrow night. I mean, we're talking from now, we're talking 35, maybe 33 hours for landfall. We know that it's still very strong because an airplane has been flying through it. We've been talking to these pilots, these captains, these majors. Oh, night and then what a harrowing story phrase they talk about, man, it was really shaken. I bet it was shaken if you're looking at a wind speed of 135 miles an hour, and that's a crosswind because you're flying through the middle of the eye. Here is what we're going to worry about. We're talking about storm surge and it's not just a lake of water that rises in your house, gets wet. This is moved thing water moving with the surf, moving with the surge. And if you get it to eight feet above, what is normal sea level, you're going to start to lose all the houses that aren't built on stilts. And we're looking at ten to 15 feet and again, that's just not something calm body of water that's going to just kind of get your house wet it's going to push your house into the bay behind the island. And then we're going to see winds everywhere. That's purple, 110 miles per hour or greater. We're going to see winds all the way across the entire state of hurricane force, power lines gonna be down in many big cities and likely even cord kissimmee and in orlando. And then you have the potential for ten to 20 inches of freshwater flooding. Here with this rainfall to an already floods in tampa when it's just raining much less when it's a hurricane coming. And just to see it reaching across the whole state, i think that's what is so scary and why you're hearing things that from warnings from florida officials, they say they've never had this before. Myers thank you for keeping an eye on it. And my source tonight is the mayor of treasure island, florida, tyler pager. Thank you so much, mayor for being here. I know you're very busy and your entire community is under one of those mandatory evacuation orders that were talking about. I want people to just police are playing as they are driving through this streets of your community tonight that most people are listening to those warnings i'm i was out on an island just a couple hours ago and had an opportunity to drive around and it is a ghost town, so i was very happy to see that people are heeding the warnings because and as you guys have sent, this could be seriously life lifethreatening the storm surge our residents experienced it firsthand. And i think that that has gone along way as to really drive home the message that it is not safe to stay on ireland when we're considering or when we're looking at potential devastating storm surge like this, well, given given you just experienced a storm surge, i mean, what would you say to people who may be think maybe thinking, i can ride this out? i've dealt with this before. I mean, as someone who just went through it, what would you say to them? yeah, i'm walking into my parents house the next morning after the storm hit and seeing literally all of the furniture, it looked like a washing machine inside the house, nothing was where it was supposed to be and that was only what, two feet of water in the house. The house is completely destroyed i was receiving pictures and videos from friends that stay and friends and neighbors that stayed on the island and singlestory homes of them sitting at their kitchen counter with their knees up to our water, up to their knees and like we've discussed, if there's an electric vehicle or any sort of fire hazard in the foam. It's really extremely unsafe conditions. And if we're talking ten to 15 foot storm surge but they entire home would be underwater. There's nowhere safe to go. Yeah as chad was saying, the whole house could be pushed, you know, as a result of this onetwo punch that we're seeing between helene and now milton, the state i know florida has been surging resources to pinellas county to try and get rid of the debris from hurricane helene. I mean, you see the pictures of treasure island, these videos of drones it's flying overhead and the amount of debris still in the ground, is still remarkable right now, what is the latest in terms of how much you're worried about these debris becoming very potentially dangerous projectiles in the storm absolutely. That's the biggest threat right now and our city crews, as well as our contractor and the governor mobilize state resources to assist with debris cleanup, which was incredible seeing lines of dump trucks being escorted on the island by state highway patrol vehicles was really a sight to see, but there's just so much of it is impossible to clean it all up before can hit. And like you said, those are going to extremely dangerous and i've worked saying hundred mile an hour winds, that's why these evacuation orders are so important, not just for the eighth so treasure islands and by also b and c because those things can fly a very very far distances yeah. Mayor. Thank you so much for joining. I know that you and your team have to be so exhausted from still dealing with the aftermath of wants torme and now dealing with another. But i really do appreciate your time. I know your community does as well. Thank you so much, mayor thank you. Have a good night. And you heard chad mentioning people who were flying through the storm. My next source is one of the few people who has actually see the force of it up close because captain nate ortal was at the controls when the hurricane hunters flew into the heart of hurricane milton as it still off the coast of florida. And captain morial joins me now. Thank you so much because chad was saying essentially, you know, maybe you think you know what turbulence feels like and then you fly through our hurricane. Can you just tell us what it was like and what it felt like to actually be flying through the storm up close having me yeah, a lot of people will describe it as a roller coaster going through a car wash it. Can be extremely jarring. Everything is strapped down and we can have severe turbulence, severe updrafts, downdrafts. And you really just fighting to maintain control of the aircraft as you go through the eyewall one is you're flying through this storm. How did it compare to the other ones that you've gone through before violent intensity very fast. And we saw some incredible wind speeds out there today, 148 miles an hour. I believe we saw some storms are not so bad and some are just worse than others in this just happened to be one that was pretty violent on us and a few other crews that have flown into it so far. So were taking a lot of precautions when we go through and ask them along that info to everyone else, falling behind us yeah. And you can see right now, we're showing video from the flight that you can see the lightning inside the store of i mean, was that would you say that was it was increased. Was there more of that than what you're used to seeing? what was that like i would say that the amount of lightning was probably on par with what we've seen in most storms but lighting can be very serious if it does hit the aircraft, we can lose our weather radar and then we have a serious problem not knowing exactly where the strongest part of the cells within the storm are and really how to get out of it safely. So it can be quite a problem, but so far what i saw today wasn't anything beyond out of the ordinary given what you saw and talking about how violent this was, if you live somewhere where you are in an evacuation zone would you evacuate very real killer. A lot of people just focus on the wind and the rain and really thinking about the shingles on their, on their roof when in reality it's a waves coming through their door, not only through their front door, maybe their windows as well for talking nine 15 feet, whatever it may be, it's absolutely critical to get out of that area if you need to. I highly suggest anyone that staying line evacuated captain nate wardle. Thank you so much thank you up next, vice president harris is on a media tour cracking a beer with stephen cold bear, as he says, he believes this election will be won on vibes will take you to that. Also tonight, there's some mustsee reporting from bob woodward's new book, including what donald trump alleged totally gave vladimir putin at the height of the pandemic black people had an explosive reverberation they after kanye said it, this was a lot of people's faces because it felt like he said the quiet part out loud. That moment. 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Com, newsnight with abby phillip tonight at ten eastern on cnn just in tonight with exactly four weeks to go before one of the craziest elections and many of our lifetimes, vice president harris is out doing a media blitz tonight late show with stephen colbert are cracking open a cold one or at the vibesession everywhere, all the vibes were all good. But elections i think are won on vibes because one of the old saw is, is i they just want somebody they can have a beer with so would you like to have a beer with me so i can tell people what that's like time because i can't just be dealing a drink to the vice president. I'd states but asking you asked for miller i was at a baseball game with doug shares. There you go city of milwaukee and beers tonight side. Have any beer for you guys, but karen, i mean mean, we're watching here as doing this, you know, she was criticized for not doing a lot of media. Chitlin traditional media, but she's out, she's doing these interviews. You did howard stern earlier she did the view. We'll talk about that appearance in a moment. Alyssa. But but to see her in that moment tonight, what what do you think that there if you're a her adviser, what's that strategy look like behind the scenes? it's in impound the fact that we live in a very fractured media environment where people are choosing where and how they get their information unfortunately, it's not always from cnn, although i wish it was there watching, there, on tiktok, they're watching late night, they're listening to podcasts that they loved their religiously, right? they're doing all kinds of player watching the view so you really got to be everywhere. And i will say as a communications professional, my job has changed dramatically over the last 1020 years because you really have to say to candidates know really you do have to go on this podcast. Yes, really we're going to take this real for instagram and yes, i promise you it's going to matter because that's where voters are and you have to be where the voters are. Yeah. Well, i mean, brian, just as the chief media analyst, what's your view? two of the strategy and what it does look like in 2024, it's an all of the above strategy, right? a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I just must alyssa, you had brought beer this morning on the view is it too early to drink on the view? i guess it's too early maybe not really collins. It's actually interesting the beers interesting because has biden doesn't drink right? because trump does not drink very famously, does not drink. So in a weird way, we're back to the george w bush test about who you want to have a beer with the old adage. And she was at the table with y'all this morning. First, what stood out to you during your conversation and listen, we say not to regret the view, but the road to the white house, sr the view every president since george bush has come on the show, that's gone on to be elected, including donald trump. I mean, we've invited trump officials on. Listen. It's your reaching a different audience were in more than 3 million households are audience skews heavily toward women and it's women who don't necessarily follow politics day in and day out, but they want to know the key stories people are talking about. It's about reaching voters who maybe aren't glued to every detail of this election. I thought it was brilliant. She went on call her daddy. That's that's 5 million downloads a week i think what they're realizing is they have to flood the zone and they're going for broke at this point. I think she should have deployed this strategy over a month ago to be reaching more voters. It feels like it's a little bit late, but i expect she's going to keep doing that it's sort of interesting. It's like they're almost running what would be a yearlong campaign in the man of weeks we have because normally, first off you are it's all about the vibe and the feeling and the row, row ron, you get momentum right? then you start to lay out policy, right? because you definitely want to have policy app before you're at the debate because you want to, you want to be able to refer to your point alice, you, when you're at the debate, they have to still keep rolling out policy obviously because the condensed timeframe and then you start to do more interviews. So i actually think it's if you think about what a traditional campaign over a year is like it's like a condensed little accordion version. Well, and that's interesting. And we'll see how voters view this and what they think of it. But these are obviously these moments are important because she's asked questions and today she was asked about what she would do differently than president biden would if she were president. And this is what she said initially comes to mind in terms of, and i've been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact moments later, harris didn't think of something and she followed up with this biden and me move that will be one of the differences. I'm going to have a republican in my cabinet because i don't i don't feel burdened by letting pride get in the way of a good idea. I think karen, you are a democrat at the table. Yeah. I think some people watch that and really, there's differently, but really you're going to go on national television and dime out. You're both i don't think so, ladies, i love the view too, but nice. Try right? i mean, ironically, she was actually there to talk about a policy that is a differentiator theater from what president biden has done, one that i can tell you, having taken care of my father when he was dying would have been tremendously helpful. So i wish you would have referred to that but yeah, i didn't expect that she was going like, okay, here's my list of things. She wouldn't home help, but i think the question for some is she's still trying i appeal to those moderates, maybe disaffected republicans. They may have actually wanted to hear her say something she's a sixyearold woman of color just everything about her radiates a difference from president biden. I would have loved to hear her be a little more honest about the last 3. 5 years have been like, the reason why so many democrats are excited about her is because she is not president biden. And i had to ask you, alyssa, though, because there was this speaking of those disaffected republicans who are not voting for trump, but not yet voting for harris mitt romney said something super interesting today when he was asked about whether or not he's in a vote for her. This is what he had to say. I made it very clear that that i don't want donald trump to be the next president or the united states. And you're going to have to do the very difficult calculation of what that would mean. My own view is that i want to continue to have a voice in the republican party following this election because i think there's a good shot that the republican party is gonna need to be rebuilt and reoriented. Either after this election or donald trump is reelected after he is the president. And believe i will have more influence in the party by virtue of saying, as i've said, it just say you're going to vote for i know. Listen, i think it's a perfectly defensible position. I feel similarly as a republican who can't support trump, i think a lot of us feel like our voices are most powerful and calling out the dangers of trump and why he shouldn't be back in the white house will leave it to people who are diehard supporters and one defend kamala harris's policies to talk about why she should proactively be elected. But here's the thing. What she is doing that smart is i already saw harris at republicans for harris shared that and said we'll take it they're not trying to do the like. You have to full throatedly endorsed us or we don't want you they want this big tent, they want the tent that's dick cheney to, you know, members of the squad. So that's the cracy oh, illyshin, i know we're not used to talking in those terms in the united states, but that's what is forming in this country, will see if it's brought enough. That's what's forming. Mention one thing this york times sienna poll that came out over the weekend, 93% of democrats are with kamala harris was about 80% have a favorable or you're protrump viewpoint. There's still about 20% of republicans who are not completely inclined to support trump. We have seen this since the primary that might be this undercurrent that we're not really measuring in this election that could actually be what means that he's going to lose. He's on a media blitz right now, but he's not trying to appeal to that 20% yes. Ben shapiro and bringing in new shapiro newsmax, local radio stations. I've never heard and he's on the air saying has been to gaza. He's saying things that in any other campaign we would say is that i can divide and answer this a more significant a significant worry. We're going to take a little, was that a team? we're going to take a stroll down fact check lane on the gaza. Thank you, brian, for setting that up. 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That was senator jd vance, trump's running mate responding to a stunning new details about the former president's contact with russian president putin after he left the white house, which has raised new questions question is about trump's relationship with him just weeks before this election this is all detailed in the legendary journalists, bob woodward's new book, war, that is out next week. I should note woodward has been credibly breaking news since before he first reported on watergate. Cnn's special correspondent, jamie gangel, obtained an advanced copy of the book and is here with more revelations and jamie, obviously, that was one of them about all the conversations that he's add up to seven with putin since then. But the other part of this that you reported on this morning that was so fascinating as that in the height of the pandemic when americans are struggling to get covid, test putin actually, trump actually sent some to putin and russia, right? and i think there are two key words here, not only according to woodward's book, did trump send some to putin, but it was a secret shipment for putin's personal use what woodward has in his book is a verbatim phone call between trump and putin at the time in which they discuss it. So putin says to trump please don't tell anybody you sent these to me trump. I don't care. Fine putin no, no, i don't want you to hello anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don't care about me it's just a remark. Is remarkable to have that verbatim exchange, which would word has there, there are a lot of transcripts, documents, other things that the backup this book but it is sort of interesting just to hear russian president putin, former kgb agent. I mean, what is going on in that exchange is he really concerned about donald trump is he still the kgb agent plane? seeing him is reverse psychology to write and then that they've spoken 77 times. Woodward reported. So this is a fascinating story. This comes woodward writes that a top trump aide told him that this is postpresidency so a top trump aide tells woodward that trump sends him out of the room and tells him he has to leave because he's about to have a phone call with the russian president and according to woodward's book, the top ad he'd said to woodward that there have been as many as seven calls between trump and putin since since he left the white has no look, it is true. What jd vance said that former presidents do speak to other foreign leaders but normally it's not the secret, or they give the white house or state department a headsup, a courtesy of what happens. That's a very, very good point, good reporting. Jamie gangel. Thank you. Sure. And joining me now is the former supreme allied commander of nato and retired fourstar admiral james stavridis, who has a new book out today, the restless wave. And we'll talk about that in a moment. But given you're someone who has actually been sanctioned by the kremlin i just wonder what you make of both of those revelations that jamie reported on today, including the national security implications of donald trump's speaking to putin, given that was at the same time, he's urging republicans not to give ukraine any more money for its war. Jamie's husband danny silva, is a marvelous novelist. You couldn't make up fiction like this, frankly and secondly, i think as an american you wish that instead of sending covid tests. He would have sent him some bleach, which was his recommendation. Trump's to take bleach to get through everything in all seriousness. I worry about it a lot as a national security practitioner, number one, what intelligence is putin? a trained interrogator, a former kgb operative? what is he getting number two what a missed intelligence opportunity for the united states if trump is having these conversations and not debriefing them, and number three, now that the story breaks as it inevitably does kaitlan the optics of this are terrible for our efforts in ukraine. Here's our former president, allegedly having seven phone calls with arguably enemy number one or the united states. And i covered trump when he was in the white house. I remember he wanted to prosecute john kerry for conversations he had with iranian officials that he did brief thensecretary dario state, mike pompeo wants so just just to see this is what's really remarkable about this revolute is and recall the course trump's loose casual, carelessness with the highest levels of national security. He has multiple high level documents recovered from maralago so it's not as though he's someone who is protecting the classified information to the united states and he's in allegedly multiple conversations, again, with a trained intelligence operative leading a nation with whom we have fundamental disagreement. That's a good point. And as we're in this 2024 election, you heard from harris saying that she thinks iran is the biggest threat to the u. S. Right now, jd vance said, today he disagrees with her that iran is a threat that he thinks china is a much, much bigger threat. And i was thinking about your book, the restless way, because it is written about world war ii. And these great powers and this battle in the pacific and modern technology and modern technology algae for then, yeah, it just made me think of the moment that we're in right now and that we could be on the precipice of very soon. That's exactly why wrote the book, you know, winston churchill, world's most quotable man said, in order to look far to the future, you have to look to the past and your point. As we look back at years ago, to them at world war ii, we don't have to imagine how apocalyptic a war between the u. S. And china, great power war in the pacific was we observed that we can look at the history. We can then reverse engineer it. Hopefully and avoid it. And by the way, i think china is an enormous strategic challenge to the united states iran is a tactical and operational challenge. It's quite possible to have two challenges at the same time. Yeah, which could also be a challenge in and of itself. Indeed in rostov, read as the book is amazing, thank you for joining on it. Thanks, kaitlan and up next, we're going to speak with a republican lawmaker out of north carolina who wrote a detailed letter to his constituents today, debunking conspiracies about the government's response to hurricane helene. 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He represents western north carolina and thank you, congressman for being here because i was struck by your post today and you wrote that you don't think the fema response has been perfect, but you said the rumors are just so outrageous that they had to be addressed and you shoot down that helene was somehow engineered by the government that you say fema is not stopping trucks and confiscating supplies. The epa there is not restricting airspace from recovery operations. Fema is not diverting disaster funds to the border, to foreign aid. How much of this were you hearing from your constituents? well, the rumors certainly have been growing no. I'm i'm not going to defend famous honor. They've made a lot of mistakes. They continue to make a lot of mistakes. And our recovery efforts here but i'll simply finding that all of the rumor, the falsities were more getting in the way of us trying to help the people here in western north carolina recover from helene. Well, i think you can there was a world where you could not like something fema has done or criticize it, or asked him to do better. But also not spread bed blatant conspiracies and lies that you had to debunk. I just how bad was it that you felt the need to put this information out there calls and emails and texts from folks that claimed to have firsthand accounts that they were turned away with supplies are not able to help and every single one of those rabbit holes, i went down based at trying to find contact information and i was enabled corroborate one single one of those stories and again, there are a lot of things i'd like to see. Fema do differently, but they're not out guarding roads and turning people away and conference skating whitmer and merchandise given that so much of these myths and lies are being spread by members of your own party. Does it anger you because it makes your life harder? well our life here in western north carolina is a difficult to enough, right now. I can't speak to what anyone else's experience has been. Any other member of congress or political candidate i can only say from my perspective of the boots on the ground down here in western north carolina that i don't see the things happening that folks have been out there on social media saying and have been happening. Yeah. I just think the first thing you fact checked was something i've even heard from people in alabama where i'm from, you know, this idea of this storm being go engineered by the government. I mean, that was essentially something that your colleague, marjorie taylor greene was arguing, you know, saying they can control the weather, it can be manipulated. Obviously, trump was saying the money was being used for undocumented immigrants. It's just i mean, it's like nothing you've ever seen before well, i think that we all agree there is money being used for undocumented immigrants that should not be happening and as far as any any other member of congress, i'm not i'm not sure their perspective. I'm only speaking from my perspective here sure. In western north carolina and trying to help so many people that are affected by storm recover. There was a great concern by a number of folks that if they were led to believe that female was conference gating much needed goods and water that folks might quit sending goods and water to western north carolina. And i certainly don't need that to be taking place right now. And what i was saying earlier, that it was what was being spread is was that was from marjorie taylor greene, us shot that down obviously immediately, but but quickly you said that fema is not doing a perfect job. What specifically would you like to see them do differently? oh my goodness that that louis gets pretty long first first of all, it took way too long for them to get here to western north carolina we knew this storm was coming two days ahead. It still took more than three days. My calculation is it took about 80 hours before we saw the first representatives from fema one county that i represent, it took six days for them to get there we still don't have mobile trailers that folks have asked for. That my counties have asked for. We still don't have fema stations set up where folks can come in and make applications and getting answers. I have one constituent. I told me they made an application. They were initially denied, and then they got three additional letters from fema and emails. All contradictive total to one another. Okay. Congressman this obviously will we'll check in with you. We want to follow up with those things. I do want to thank you for your time tonight. 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If your cats sprays outside the litter box, fights with other cats were scratches the furniture, they could be telling you they're stressed to help them feel more calm, try field the way optimum this just in to cnn tonight, ethel kennedy, the widow of robert f. Kennedy, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke in her sleep last week. Her grandson, the former congressman joe kennedy, the third, said that mrs. Kennedy was brought to the hospital where she is now receiving treatment. She is comfortable and getting the best care possible but while surrounded by her family, ethel kennedy is 96yearsold when donald trump was asked about gaza during a recent radio interview, he made a curious claim about once visiting the war torn location the best location in the middle east, best waters, the best everything. It's got it is the best i've said for years. I want i've been there and it's rough, it's rough place before the before all of the attacks and before backandforth. What's happened over the last couple of years. And i said, wow, look at this you might have also noticed when he said, i've been there well, we looked into trump's claim that he's visited gaza, but so far, we haven't been able to find any record of trump ever doing so. Not as president of the united states, not in his previous life, is a business mogul. But when we asked his campaign if he simply misspoke, they insisted he did not instead, campaign spokesperson told cnn this quote, president trump has been to gaza previously and has always worked to ensure peace in the middle east but, we asked followup questions, including whether there was any proof about trump's alleged trip including who we went with, which year and by a trip like this obviously would have been extraordinary given it's very difficult for anyone to visit gaza, much less a president. And of course, hamas has been in power since 2007 the campaign declined to provide any evidence that trump has ever been to gaza my source tonight is cnn's chris wallace, whose new book, countdown 1960, is on the leadup to the 1960 election and is out now and is really interesting. And i want to talk about that in a moment, but chris, on this story and just the idea that at one point the campaign was saying to the new york times that they've gaza was was in israel, which obviously it's not. Then they're just saying yes, he was there, but but they're not providing any evidence of that. Just what do you make of that that this entire saga, i think it was a good story, got caught up in it. We've seen other candidates like tim walz get caught up and suddenly he was there and you know, it there. Two things that i find kind of extraordinary butter. One was the original response from the campaign, which was, well, he's been in israel and gaza is in israel, which is at complete misunderstanding of the fact that gaza has always been a separate territory. And secondly, the whole premise of the question, which was, could you turn gaza because it's right there in the mediterranean into another monaco and other monte carlo. And he says, oh, yeah, it's got everything kaza is one of the most densely populated territories on earth. The unemployed i meant rate for young people is 70% it's, it's a place wrapped with poverty wracked with overcrowded about the fact that it's got hamas terrorist organization controlling it other than that, it's a real garden spot. Yeah, it reminded me of when there was the commonwealth beachfront property and that trump made previously jared kushner also made a similar claim about gaza, but on your book, it's really interesting because this is all about the leadup to the 1960 election. But as you're reading through this and looking at this, it has so many striking parallels to what we're about to experience the next 28 days also reminded me a lot of 2020 obviously in the election should there, because essentially what you're writing is that the 1960 election may very well have been stolen yet when you look at how these two leaders then nixon and kennedy handled this, it's very different than what we saw four years ago. Well, that's i wrote it for two reasons. Kaitlan. One was it's a great story you've got these two fascinating figures, richard nixon and jack kennedy. It's filled with the mob getting involved to help the kennedys kennedy is kind of a love triangle with what the head of the chicago mob, sam g, and giancana, frank sinatra's and had fidel castro's in the story. But in addition, it struck i made that there was tremendous relevance to 2020. And what we're going through right now because it really turns 2020 on its head. That was an election that really may. I'm not going to say it was, but may have been stolen and richard nixon, hardly a hero in american history, decided in the end to do the right thing. Which was not to contest the election and to engage in the peaceful transfer of power. Yeah, it makes you think of nixon's legacy a little bit differently as you read the steps that he's taken, what he certainly could have done and the other interesting part to me was you talk about how that really became the modern era of politics that we see with televised aides that people were watching. And it made me think of the televised debates that, that we're watching now, or maybe not many more, you want hosted a presidential debate in the last election. Obviously that was why you must write. But the 2021 was just i would say out of this world, i don't know, i guess 2016 was as well chris wallace, the book is fascinating and very timely. Thank you so much. Thank you thank you all so much for joining us. 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