to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us and imminent and an important deadlines for the justice department. it has until one p.m. one hour from now to respond to a late night filing an abortion court battle that could impact women coast to coast plus family ties and college controversy. the top democrat on the house says he hardly remembers his uncle s flagrant anti semitic remarks. but cnn s k file uncovers an opinion piece from a college age takeem jeffries defending his uncle and defending louis farrakhan from his in his words, quote. white media. and tim scott feels out of presidential run today. he s in iowa as he stands up and exploratory committee is opening message. heavy on biography heavy on faith, the biden agenda but makes no mention of the republican frontrunner donald trump. today our country is once again being tested once again, our divisions run deep and the threat to our future is real. joe biden and the radica
he s boasting about the fact that he that he canceled roe v. wade. i think joining us thank you to our viewers. thanks very much for watching our special coverage of debate night in america continues right here, right now on cnn with anderson cooper and erin burnett good evening from cnn headquarters in atlanta. we re just two hours from now. history will be made joe biden and donald trump s squaring off on the stage. we are showing you in the earliest ever presidential debate, the first ever between the president and ex-president the first in which one of the candidates is also convicted felon awaiting three other criminal trials and so much sets this debate apart from others, including rules tailored just for this occasion in and agreed to by both candidates. but there are so many unknowns about what will happen tonight. anderson, can president biden overcome the difficulties that so many incumbent presidents have faced in their first debates, can donald trump do what
is that the field of play is focusing on president biden s failures. okay then step zeleny live for us in marion, iowa. at the moment, day one. i guess you might call it jeff. even though it s exploring. what are you seeing? well senator scott clearly has been going down this road for a while, john, but he did make it official today with an exploratory committee and look, he s trying to present himself as more optimistic republican candidate someone who will unify the republican party , you know, not talking about the anger or the grievance, so the translation here is he s not donald trump. but boy, he certainly does not want to talk about the former president who looms large in this race on this very windy day here in iowa. senator scott is very popular within the party. there is no question about that. he also comes to this race with something that his rivals do not. that is more than $20 million in federal financing that he can use in this race that s left over from his very