night? next four years behind closed doors, president biden is huddling with advisers at camp trump were that s according to some of the sources we re talking to for his part, trump s debate prep appears to include posting on his truth, social official account. consider this rant that says, quote, drug test for crooked joe biden. i would also immediately agreed one that s from the former president and club. it s the latest bizarre and baseless suggestion for trump and his allies that biden will need some sort of performance enhancing drugs for the cnn showdown, recovering both campaigns this morning with cnn s kristen holmes and kevin lip tack. kevin, let s begin with you. there s a new ad from the biden campaign. what s it say? yeah, i think it does give you a preview of the economic message that they re going to focus on the debate because as you mentioned and as is typical, the president and his team are getting a lot of incoming from democrats. they re concerned about t
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they feel very good about this but there are very serious questions to wonder about this as they try to figure out they work around these spacewalks. they have going on up there. they can stay up there for quite some time. it s not like the clock is running out really fast. but you know, there have to be serious questions here about is there any inherent danger and bringing it back do they have the autonomous ability to bring the spacecraft back? this one back without these people on board. and then somehow change the entire schedule to get those two back later on. this is more serious than it appears older to be fair. nasa and boeing are trying to say right now, they re working through it. they hope it s not serious at all all right. tom. form. and thank you so much. a new our cnn news central starts right now. three days to go until earliest presidential debate in general election in history. it is right here on cnn every minute between now and then counts a pro
mexico sunday at age on cnn welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper this hour. it s hard to forget the images of a cargo ship crashing into the baltimore bridge in march causing a devastating and deadly collapse. but while the cleanup and investigation have moved forward, those 21 crew members have been stuck on the ship for almost three months. today, there was a hearing about letting them return to their families, mostly in india and sri lanka. and we ll bring you those updates plus is the united states at risk of being pulled into yet another global conflict. the white house is issuing a stern warning after video emerges of a major clash in the south china sea and leading this our supreme suspense as the country he waits for blockbuster decisions from the highest court in the land. the justices issuing four rulings today. but we re still waiting on the three janiot highly consequential ones that we have talking about for weeks now, former president trump s claim that he has
weapon designed to kill everyone on earth. so, you know, how is that for a tease? episode 2 is out today and wherever you get your podcast, i hope you listen. that will do it for us tonight and now time for the last word. i do have episode two meant to look forward to because, like you, i spent today engrossed in anthony fauci s book and i will do an event with him thursday night, which i am sure, by the time you are halfway through your first comment tonight it was sold out for thursday night. rachel, the book is so rich, as you know and that was a tip of the iceberg discussion. i could do an hour with him just about what he went through at the beginning of the mystery of the hiv-aids investigation and those chapters where they don t know what they are dealing with and it brings us all back to that time and all the work he did long before he ended up, once again, saving so many lives during the covid-19 pandemic. even what he tells you about the zika virus, that is some