President Kamala Harris to speak together at a Labor Day Rally in the key Battleground State of Pennsylvania President stepping up his new role as a top Paris Campaign surrogate also this hour, israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowing hamas will pay a heavy we price after the bodies of six hostages were recovered In Gaza. And hes asking for forgiveness amid huge protests over his failure to secure a hostage release deal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. Im Alex Marquardt and youre in the Situation Room we begin with the race for the White House we begin with the race for the White House as Labor Day, marks, the unofficial kickoff to the final sprint to Election Day. Were standing by for Kamala Harris to make her pitch to Working Class Voters in pittsburgh with a high profile assist from president Joe Biden, cnns kayla tausche. She is on the ground for us and joins us now, kayla, pennsylvania is a mustwin for K
That. It s right back to you ax yeah, just remarkable hitting it from so far out repeatedly, patrick snell, thanks very much. Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with the legal showdown in former president trump s election subversion case, he new latenight filing last night, setting the stage for a potentially contentious hearing. Next week in d. C. s federal court, where a judge will decide how and when the case will move forward. The standoff comes as special counsel, jack smith resurrected the january 6 case against trump with a new superseding indictment this week, both trump s lawyers and the special counsel are at odds about how this this case should now proceed. Trump s team is pushing for his schedule that would carry the pretrial disputes through the beginning of next year long after the 2024 election, cnn s holmes lybrand is covering these legal developments and joins me now. So homes, where
Is detected in the United States just as there are new predictions of a much higher potential death toll. Donald trump left the white house, but many republicans are refusing to leave him. We have the latest as some Party Members swear their loyalty to the former president. And the sub reddit page that has wall street in a spin. The latest on gamestops Crazy Ride On wall street. Live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, canada and around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. A new forecast warns that more contagious strains of the coronavirus could cause an additional 85,000 deaths in the u. S. By may. The first two cases of the variant first detected in south africa have now been confirmed in the u. S. Its already circulating in at least 30 other countries. Two americans who have it dont know each other and havent traveled abroad. Now this variant may make at least one potential new vaccine less effective. Drug
Ch change. The types of things youre looking for change. Is austin the right person to handle rooting out extremism for the military . He absolutely is. Secretary austin is someone who because of that experience and because he came up through the ranks and served as an officer, first africanamerican secretary of defense, he does have a unique understanding of the challenges that we face here. I think theres some very specific things that he needs to do and i think he understands that. I think he understands that he needs to be more intrusive. We need to be more intrusive into the lives of our service members. I think he understands we need to be absolutely sure we are using the uniform code of military to prosecute people on active duty who engage in these activities. And i think he gets we need to fully understand the full nature of the problem. s important to point out the vast people in the military are not interested in this. They want to do the right thing. Secretary austin gets t
negotiations are continuing at the united nations in new york to agree a new resolution on gaza. a vote had been expected in the last hour, but its been postponed as diplomats try to agree a form of words that the united states may sign on to. on a visit to israel, the u 5 defence secretary lloyd austin has reaffirmed support for its ally, but demanded the country do more to protect civilians. from jerusalem, lucy williamson reports. they say there s nowhere safe in gaza. the children s unit at nasser hospital hit by a shell yesterday. doctors and parents who once raced to get wounded children in here now scrambling to get them out. the epicentre of the dust and panic, a children s bedroom on the second floor. translation: we were seated - on the bed when something exploded and all the ceiling fell on us. i couldn t do anything. debris fell on us and we couldn t see anything. ijust grabbed my daughter and escaped. i don t know what happened to the others. this was 13 year old