billion with a b. we ve got this honore got this. we don t force in america thursday, july 4 x 70s dirt on cnn hi, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we are just five days away, people from the first presidential debate of 2024. and today, we re seeing a pretty stark difference between incumbent president joe biden and his republican challenger, former president donald trump, as the two men prepare for this high-stakes face off, while biden is holding intense, meaningful, a closed group of advisors at camp david trump is skipping the tradition no route for now and is instead hitting the campaign trail. here is just a few hours ago at an event and washington rallying his supporters for the big showdown with biden nobody is going to be watching the debate on thursday night, right nobody. will anybody be watching cnn s steve contorno, we ll be watching him in person soon live in philadelphia where trump is expected to hold a campaign rally
today. i ll see you back here next saturday at adm. eastern smerconish is up next setting the bar i m michael smerconish in philadelphia, thursday here on cnn is the first of two scheduled debates between president biden and trump. jake tapper and dana bash will moderate the debate will last 90 minutes with no live audience. there will be no opening statements, answers will be two minutes rebuttals will be one-minute closing statements will be two minutes based on a coin toss, trump will go last. there will be two commercial breaks and perhaps the biggest wrinkle microphones will be muted when it s not someone s turn the stakes are high. the racist tight weather measured in national surveys or by battleground states. so the debate is a very big deal and opinions as to who won will no longer be influenced by expectations advantage joe biden. and here s why call it, be careful what you wish for in the last two weeks, president biden traveled overseas to participate in a
with us. our biggest hour of cnn news central starts right now all right. new york times, maggie haberman says donald trump is prepared to go after president biden on hunter. biden cnn s historic debate. now, just a week away, new details on the final preparations. that s ahead. plus were standing thing by for a possible a huge supreme court decision. many decisions major questions involving trump s immunity and of course, abortion rights unlinked the line and repeatedly reckless with guns, how prosecutor planning to go after alec baldwin, kate bolduan, out today. i m sarah sided with john berman. this says cnn news central just one week to go until the first presidential debate here on cnn no general election debate has ever been this early or potentially this important. and we re you are getting details on how the candidates are getting ready. president biden is headed to camp david. we re told that donald trump is talking to his vice presidential hopefuls, outside alli
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