source tonight s substance and stammered out. we have no reporting on the final phase of president biden s preparations as trump world is doubling down on a ridiculous accusation 48, hours away from the historic debate right here on cnn, house speaker mike johnson will join me live. plus the polls have just close in the most expensive house primary ever. a member of the so-called squad is fighting for his political life. and it s also judgment time for republican lauren boebert, bu for members switch districts when it looked like her congressional career was about to go up in smoke. and i m brand new reporting breaking here at nine on steve bannon and a notable change and the judge for his upcoming fraud trial i m kaitlin collins, and this is the source the polls are in a dead heat and the insults or flying expectations are being gamed. and the accusations about getting juiced up on drugs are frankly ridiculous and getting out of hand. that all means that one of the mos
let me tell you, i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. no, no, no, he does not have the right. to keep america s most closely guarded secrets. and look how he kept them, in overturned boxes alongside newspapers, keepsakes and maybe junk. also tonight, julian assange is set free to some, he s a champion of truth. to others, he s a dangerous and reckless criminal who put many lives at risk by revealing sensitive information to the public. plus, the polls remain open in new york as progressive democrat jamaal bowman faces a tough primary battle to keep his seat in the most expensive house primary ever. but we begin tonight with the continued efforts by a trump appointed judge to defy legal norms in order to show deference to the man who put her on the bench. of course, i m referring to one judge aileen cannon, who for a third day has decided to give donald trump and his lawyers a forum to put on his newest form of a reality show. and
assange to sign a blockbuster plea deal. another big hearing in donald trump s classified documents case. how his lawyers are trying to get a raft of damning evidence thrown out. and a new view inside president biden s strategy for this week s debate against former president trump. how he s preparing to take on two trumps. we re also tracking deadly flooding in the midwest, straining dams and levees and causing thousands of evacuations with more rain on the way. good morning, thank you for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. right now, wikileaks founder julian assange is on his way to a remote u.s.-controlled island in the pacific where he ll plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the u.s. justice department. now, under this deal, as we understand it, assange will become a free man, ending a 14-year legal odyssey sparked when his organization posted nearly half a million classified military documents, one of th
we re going to start small today to get a bigger picture of where this country is headed from two really interesting and telling primary races testing the strength of democratic progressives along with any republican who s trying to mimic donald trump s insult-fueled politics. that persona. one in colorado where lauren bobert is fighting accusations that she is an ineffective legislator who is trying to carpet bag her way into a district after almost losing in a close race to a democrat in 2022. the count took so long because it was so close. the other race is here in new york where the member of the squad could be the first to fall to a moderate democrat. the polling shows he s losing. jamal bowman who won in 2020 is now fighting for his political life against democratic moderate, george lattimer. a race being defined by accusations of racism and antisemitism. not to mention money. with $14.5 million in ad spending along from aipac. what has he done to make some suspect he i
now and we re told he will stay at camp david preparing to take on former president donald trump at the cnn presidential debate. president trump has called for biden to take a drug test before thursday night s event. trump also says he would take a test. a new editorial piece predicts biden will go after trump on abortion rights and try to paint him as a threat to our democracy. the columnist with that op-ed rights former president trump will take aim at biden s border disaster, inflation and make note of any odd moments that biden has on stage which could further fuel the questions about his fitness to lead. trump s team is also keeping an eye on fairness from the left-leaning host network and you might understand his point after you watch this interview from yesterday. president trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network on cnn with debate moderators who made their opinions about him well-known over the past eight years and biased coverage of