Ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. Former President Obama to hit the Campaign Trail for Kamala Harris. Details of his 27day Battleground politics for the vp. New reporting on Donald Trumps high Profile Weekend Rally returning to the site of the first Assassination Attempt in pennsylvania. Also ahead, the Death Toll from helene climbs over 200, as hope fades that the missing will be found alive. And breaking news, israel launching massive strikes into lebanon overnight, this time, targeting the new head of hezbollah. Good morning, you made it to friday. It is 10 00 a. M. Eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from new york, and with just over a month to go, the president ial campaigns are seriously picking up the pace in the 2024 race. Vice president harris in michigan this morning after campaigning late with an unlikely ally, former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, and we learned just this morning that one of the biggest names in the democratic party, forme
Developments in Donald Trumps ongoing legal battles. In a newly unsealed brief in response to the supreme Courts President ial Immunity Ruling, special Counsel Jack Smith gives us the clearest view yet of his 2020 Election Interference Case against the former president. Smith asserts trump acted as a private candidate and not as president , when he tried to overturn the Election Results and resorted to crimes to stay in office. It also provides new evidence about Trumps Phone Usage and the conversations he had on the 6th Of January, as the riots were unfolding at the capitol. Quote, beginning at about 150. 30 p. M. , the defendant settled in the Dining Room off of the oval office. He spent the afternoon there reviewing twitter on his phone, while the Dining Room television played Fox News contemporaneous coverage of events at the capitol. Citing testimony, the filing says that when trump was informed his Vice President had to be rushed to a secure location after trump attacked pence in
Dangerous. Im sorry to anybody who had Money Riding on Fat Bear Foro to the news continues On Cnn with Wolf Blitzer right next door. In the Situation Room News whos a federal judge has just unsealed the huge trove of new evidence from Donald Trumps federal Election Subversion Case prosecutors outlining in green they detail trumps alleged crimes as he schemed to quote, perpetuate himself in power. The Special Counsels filing is already becoming a major issue in the race for the White House with Trumps Team claiming the u. S Justice Department is trying to interfere in the election on the heels of last Nights Vice President ial debate between Jd Vance and tim walz were also keeping a very close eye on the Middle East one day after a runs unprecedented ballistic Missile Barrage against israel amid Israels Incursion into Southern Lebanon our Cnn Team is in the lebanese capital of beirut which has just heard three loud explosions following an apparent israeli strike, will have a live report
Council is holding an Emergency Meeting about Israel Planning Retaliation against iran and that massive ballistic Missile Attack from overnight. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, met with The Heads of his countrys secret Force Security forces as they consider what a strike could look like. The idf, israeli Defense Force has sent more fighters into lebanon. Remember, they are doing what they had called a limited ground incursion. The limit obviously was more than 24 hours. They are still going and fighting hezbollah terrorists on the ground. Lebanons military is hezbollah. Israel confirmed eight soldiers have been killed in combat today. Israel is facing three terror proxies. Those are those Terrorist Groups that iran funds and in some part has to be coordinating now. October 7th, hamas Hit Israeli Citizens. October 8th, hezbollah Hit Israeli Citizens from the north. Now the houthis and that proxy paid for by iran in ye
Was a direct fact check to j. D. Vance he did complain that cbs was violating its own rule. It is the top of the hour. Super grateful to have you watching our coverage of the Vice President ial debate. It started as a Slow Burn. Not sure what is happening on the substance, the pace was slower at the beginning and then about midpoint it really took off. And then we had what i think was a almost knock out. He wobbled on guns and then when we got to January 6 He Was out cold. There was stonns, too. I remember that lieberman debate, they were sitting next to each other, it was, we agree on stuff. Some of that vibe. You saw a little bit of this is j. D. Vance that made a lot of friends at yale this is tim walz that won a republican district in difficult times including 2010 when every other democrat got kicked out. You saw an heability i can talk to people who dont agree with me, right . But the thing that really Sort Of like cut it was the democracy question. Walz apologize for it. This is