news babes might win again, we ll see see some good form out there. look forward to hearing about the results. the lead with jake tapper for starts right now, go press the stages set the stakes, could not be higher. welcome to the lead live from cnn s campus and atlanta, georgia, where final preparations are underway for tomorrow s historic presidential debate. right here you re on cnn, i m phil mattingly, info jake tapper, president joe biden, and former president donald trump will be here tomorrow night. and the most important event of this election cycle. so far. here s a glimpse at the stage where the two men will face off the first time in history, a sitting president and a former president will debate. i just walked the debate stage and i ll bring you an insight. i d look and just moments, but first, we re going into details about how those last-minute preparations are actually playing out. cnn s mj lee and kristen holmes start us off here and lana in jake, let s start
bret: good evening. welcome to washington. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, for the second time in a little more than two years, major u.s. supreme court ruling on abortion appears to have been leaked to the public ahead of its official release. this time the high court is apparently poised to allow emergency abortions in idaho when a pregnant patient s health is at serious risk. this happens as we await a major decision on presidential immunity from the justices who did issue some rulings today. fox news chief legal correspondent, anchor of fox news sunday shannon bream takes a look tonight. good evening, shannon. what do we know about this abortion case online posting? yeah. so the court said today there was briefly a document that was posted on the website but a spokesman for the court says it was inadvertent uploading of a document to the opinion itself out of idaho this case has not been released yet. bloomberg captured the document. it appears to show that the
reports, the supreme court is just moments away from handing down another batch of decisions. major rulings on abortion restrictions and donald trump s presidential immunity still in the balance. we have live updates. plus, as president biden is making final preps for tomorrow s debate, former president trump may be making final preps to unveil a running mate. will his vp announcement come before tomorrow s face-off? also ahead, he s been behind bars in russia now for over a year, now american journalist evan gershkovich is on trial behind closed doors. what we re learning about the kremlin s secret proceedings on spy charges. and then coming up, thousands still fleeing as devastating floods swamped the midwest. we will take you on the ground where a key dam is at risk of collapse. thanks so much for being with us, it is 10:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes are on the supreme court. today is the first of three decision days this week, 14 ca
joe biden and donald trump heading to a showdown, but traveling very different roads. new nbcs reporting on how biden is aiming to get under trump s skin, while team trump s wild pregame accusation may be revealing a case of nerves. we got details on what is happening behind the scenes leading up to thursday s big debate. plus, the debate in a florida courtroom over the raid at the center of the mar-a-lago documents case. eye opening new photos of exactly where classified documents were found in donald trump s home. the judge now makes a consequential decision. what can and cannot be used in court. and the end of the years long legal battle in the u.s. versus julian assange. after the wikileaks founder agreed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him more prison time. what this may mean for when something like this inevitably happens again. but we begin with new nbc reporting that president biden is in intense preparations for thursday s crucial debate. getting ready to f
tonight for the big debate. the manhunt in new york city focused on central park. and the famous actress now battling alzheimer s. first tonight, that severe storm threat from the midwest to the northeast. dangerous thunderstorms, possibly damaging winds. ginger zee standing by with the forecast. the high stakes earliest ever presidential debate, just 48 hours away now, thursday night. president biden and the mock 90-minute debates at camp david. donald trump and what he s saying about biden s ability on that debate stage. and about the new rules involving mics and no audience. tonight, special counsel jack smith revealing never before seen photos showing classified documents and how they were allegedly stored at mar-a-lago, amid accusations from trump s team that fbi agents mishandled the documents. and in new york tonight, the gag order partially lifted in the hush money case, where a jury convicted donald trump. so, what does this mean now that he can talk about