on select stearns and foster mattresses cardenas rnas i and use capitol hill. and this two candidates, one historic moment we are now just two days away from the first presidential debate. the voter issue that president biden s team is now advising him to lean in on ahead of his match up with former president trump, plus could boeing soon face criminal charges? why federal prosecutors are urging the justice department to take action against the airplane giant and a big step by a major social media app to safeguard its teenage users were following these major developing stores and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central hello there i m briana cuellar alongside boris sanchez and we are on the count countdown to thursday night s cnn presidential debate, where we are now learning some new details about how several top democrats or war burning the biden campaign to shift strategy and to spend more time targeting former president trump and less time touting what th
white house, that was with the ohio governor john case i can and the president. john kasick has been a critic going back a year in their own campaign. they were meeting one on one in the oval office. the governor walked out of the white house and sounded more positive than he s ever sounded yet about the president. jake, he said this. he said, look, the man is the president of the united states. it s sort of like you re on a plane and you re rooting for the pilot. all of the governors from across the country also in town this weekend. the president will be meeting with them later. jake? jeff zeleny at the white house for us, thank you so much. the white house is pushing back strongly today gengs the cnn exclusive cnn reporters found that the fbi rejected a request made by the white house to try to publicly knock down reporting by both cnn and the new york times about contacts between president trump s campaign staff and russians known to u.s. intelligence. cnn s jim sciutto joins me
spicer, the press secretary, was asked last december if the trump white house would have the same policy that it had during the campaign when it also banned several outlets. here s what sean had to say back in december. we have a respect for the press when it come to the government, that that is something that you can t bannon entity from. conservative, liberal or otherwise, i think that s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship. so, that was then, this is now. today they are banning cnn, new york times, l.a. times, politico from this white house briefing. you re a communications director. you have had anger towards various media organizations. have you ever felt tempted to bannon organization the way that spicer and co did today? no, we had rows with faction news at times. president didn t ultimately interview with chris wallace his last year in office.
mislead and confuse you about this issue, such as this from the president today. we are fighting the fake news. it s fake, phony, fake. [cheering and applauding] a few days ago, i called the fake news the enemy of the people, and they are. they are the enemy of the people. [cheering and applauding] because they have no sources. they just make them up when there are none. just simply not true. so, don t misunderstand what s going on with that rhetoric and with today s action banning various media outlets including cnn, the new york times. this white house does not seem to respect the idea of accountability. this white house does not seem to value an independent press. there is a word for that line of thinking. the word is unamerican. now, the republican party is now the party of donald trump
war against fox news, the white house never banned fox from attending any sort of press gaggle or broiefing. this is clearly president trump punishing news organizations for providing basic accountability. reporter: well, jake, it was a little perplexing to see how this played out. it is not unusual for the white house to do something like that with a pool, which is of course a small group of reporters who represents the entire press core, or even if they wanted to do a private meeting, for instance, with a group of columnists. but what is bizarre to see the white house hand-selecting ava right of different news outlets across the board and blocking others. for instance, they allowed every other major television network except for cnn into this briefing, which is outside the realm of what we normally see from the white house. it s very bizarre to allow newspapers into a briefing like this, but to exclude the new york times. so, they did seem to opt for some outlets they believe are m