Kelce loses to the new york jets, that relationship is over. Its based on that . I would say, you dont want to lose to the jets if if youre trying to hang out with a woman you might fancy. Thats right. Were going to leave it ere. See you tomorrow. Cnn news central starts now. Thanks, guys. Uncontrolled and messy, the gloves were off at the second gop debate, the border, tiktok and donald duck came up but the winner may have been candidate who wasnt there. So with the government due to shutdown on saturday, House Republicans roll up their sleeves for the first hearing of the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Out of north korea and back on u. S. Soil. What happened to Army Private Travis King after he crossed into north korea and what happens to him now . Im kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman, this is cnn news central. This morning we know who mike pence is sleeping with, because he told us. But what else have we learned from the Republican Debate . Seven candidates not named donald trump were on stage in what may have been the last best chance to derail his runaway cond candidacy. According to the poll, donald trump is leading the candidates on stage combined by 21 points. All of them combined. Hes beating the field by 21. This morning we get our first sense of who the pundits and the fundraisers and the voters think might have changed that dynamic, if any of them did at all. Were at the debate site in california. Good morning. Reporter good morning, john. Were hearing a lot of spin from the various pundits, campaigns. Were not hearing of any change from any of the candidates. All of them basically saying what they did before. But what we did notice during the debate is that there were a few more pointed attacks at that front runner. The front runner who has this tremendous gulf between the seven inside the debate hall as compared to where donald trump is currently standing. But i want you to take a listen to some of these notice some of these moments that we noticed when donald trump was mentioned directly by name by some of his competitors, take a listen. You know who else is missing in action . Donald trump is missing in action. He should be on this stage tonight. My former running mate, donald trump has a plan to start to consolidate more power in washington d. C. , consolidate more power in the executive branch. This is where President Trump went wrong, He Foe Cused On Tra with china, didnt focus on the fact theyre buying farmland, theyre killing americans. Youre ducking these things, you keep doing that no one is going to call you donald trump anymore well call you donald duck. Plenty of name calling, finger pointing. Pointing to records. But we didnt hear a lot of specifics about the indictments that donald trump faces. What these candidates are trying to do still is try to gather some of that support that trump has and move it into their column. So in the context of this entire two hours we didnt hear the news involving the former president and didnt hear his name much over the entire two hours. There were discussions about ukraine and the divisions with the larger party and causes of the uaw strike and the various remedies. But this campaign is still moving forward, the semantics, broad trends not changing at this moment and these candidates are continuing to move full steam ahead. Thanks very much. Kate . Instead of debating last night we know that donald trump was in michigan. Making his appeal to Union Workers and effectively counterprogramming the food fight that played out on that debate stage in california. Trump only dismissively addressing his republican chall challengers. Listen. Theyre all job candidates. They want to be in the they want to theyll do anything, secretary of something. They even say vp. Does anybody see any vp in the group . I dont think so. We have much or on this. Elena, interestingly enough, he was trying to appeal to blue collar voters, yuan yub workers, speaking at a nonunion Auto Parts Company in michigan. What did he say . How did it land . Reporter right. Youre right. His goal with the speech was to break further into the working class Voter Coalition he knows he needs to win over in order to be successful in 2024. Thats true in states like michigan, which he won in 2016 with the help of some of these workers and people in the room last night, but he lost that state to biden in 2020. Hes also trying to do the same things in states like wisconsin and ohio. His speech was a bit dark. He was talking about a dire picture of the future of american jobs. He described President Biden as a cu a vulture and warned his policies, particularly related to electric vehicles, could be damaging for the Auto Industry, and tried to paint himself for a savior for auto workers and the Auto Industry. Now as part of that pitch he called for the members endorsement. Lets listen to what he said. Leadership should endorse me. And i will not say a bad thing about them again and they will have done their job. They will have done a proper job. In fact, if they endorse me, they will have the easiest Labor Leadership Job anywhere in the country. They have to sit back and watch as our Auto Industry reignites. Reporter now, kate, you dont typically associate donald trump as a prounion leader. Thats a title more associated with President Biden. And you did see biden got a warmer welcome from Union Leaders on tuesday when he was in michigan than trump did last night. But he was speaking to a crowd, donald trump, of an invitation only, a curated group of people and a lot of people in the room, the auto workers, current and former union members, including some on strike right now are supportive of donald trumping, you can hear that in the room last night. tha thank you for that. With us to discuss, Joseph Pinion and sarah matthews. Thank you for being here. First to you joseph. When you look at this field was there someone who stood out who you think voters are going to say, hey, thats a possibility . I think they all distinguish themselves in their own way. I think nikki haley had some shining moments. But ultimately i believe the person who had the best night was President Trump. Most of the candidates on the stage were talking about him. He had the opportunity to give husband own direct appeal to those auto workers and i think while much has been made about the fact that it was a nonunion shop, i think you have to remember all the people leading those auto unions have been endorsing democrats for quite some time, did not endorse trump in 2016 or 2020. But its about the Rank And File members, according to some estimates 25 to 30 of those workers still support President Trump. So at the end of the day, certainly there were candidates that spoke well that made some points about the republican agenda but it comes back to, again, the man who was not present, donald j. Trump. Rliterally the elephant in te room. I want to talk to you about nikki haley. Lets listen to some of what happened last night. She probably had the line of the night when she was going after Vivek Ramaswamy over the use of tiktok and she went after him, she said, look, its a Chinese Social Media Company you shouldnt be using it, we should ban it, this is what she said to him after he pushed back. Honestly, every time i hear you, i feel a little bit dumber. That was sort of a line that everybody can remember. Sara, now to you. Did she have another moment . Do you feel like she had another moment with that argument back and forth . I definitely think the pressure was on because she had a Strong Performance in the first debate. And i think she continued that in the second debate, delivered another standout performance. Obviously i think she does best with Vivek Ramaswamy. It was another moment to draw contrast between the two, Show Off Froreign Policy chops and i think it was a strong moment for her. Tim scott challenged ron desantis on what the school board had decided on slavery. Basically new middle School Curriculum said that teaching about slavery should include how slaves developed skills that were helpful to their personal benefit. Desantis shot back and heres how he responded. There was an exchange with tim scott that ended in a way a lot of people werent expecting. Black families survived family, poll taxes and Literacy Tests be with we survived discrimination woven into the laws of our country. What was hard to survive was Johnsons Great Society where they decided to take the black father out of the household to get a check in the mail and you can measure that in unemployment, crime, and devastation. So tim scott is making the argument that welfare was harder to survive than slavery. Is that going to play well with sort of the trump base, the voters . I dont know if thats necessarily what he was saying. He probably could have executed the delivery better. But i think we do know that the fatherless epidemic is real. We know for a fact we have pass policies as a country that left African American families and minority families at large struggling from the aftermath of the red line, all of those things are documented. Every four years we pretend its not real when it comes to president ial elections but i dont think the American People are ready or want to hear this false notion that slave have you go slavery is going to be e k kuwai equatable. Its a different type of pain but we should not dismiss out of hand the real reality that there is economic despair and personal despair brought around by decades of policy that we pretend dont matter because the policy that brought us those policies pretend theyre the only friends back people have. I want to go to talk about the border. Because thats one thing it seems all of the candidates agreed on. Lets take a listen to some of the excerpts. He said he was going to build a wall across the whole border. He built 52 miles of wall, said mexico would pay for it. If mexico knew he was only going to build 52 miles they may have paid for the 52 miles. Does this differentiate them at all . It doesnt from each other. They said to militarize the border. Does this have an effect on the front runner, donald trump . Obviously what Chris Christie said is true. But i dont know if a lot of voters feel that way, especially when you compare it to President Biden who they feel has been totally absent on this issue. Obviously this was a top issue for donald trump and he spoke about it often and frequently. Whereas it seems like the Biden Administration refuses to acknowledge the crisis at our southern border. So i dont know if thats the strongest place you can draw contrast between yourself and donald trump. And at the end of the day, obviously donald trump wasnt on stage but it is hard for those candidates to break out and have a moment without him there. And i think that while we might see a bump in the polls for nikki haley, she had a Strong Performance last night, until the field narrows down, no one is going to challenge donald trump for the nomination. His lead is too dominant right now thats why folks need to drop out so we can coalesce support around someone else. Thank you for coming in this morning. John . With two days left before the government runs out of funding and shuts down. House republicans decided today was the best day to hold the first Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. Theres no evidence that we have seen yesterday that President Biden profited off of his sons activities. Sara murray is in washington with a look at what we might be hearing shortly. Reporter yeah, john. This is a hearing thats going to set the stage for the republicans Impeachment Inquiry into joe biden. They put out the framework last night that gives you an indication what they want to focus on as the Impeachment Inquiry progresses. There are four questions here. The first has to do with whether joe biden, at any point, decided to trade access, the appearance of access, or perform any sort of official acts in exchange for money, for him or for his family. And then the last one has to do with his son hunter biden and the ongoing investigations and whether joe biden ever interfered in those investigations. And as you point out, we should reiterate, House Republicans havent found any evidence of this yet. They havent found any evidence that joe biden profited off what his son or other Family Members were up to, they havent found any evidence that he performed any official acts when he was Vice President in exchange for money for some kind of foreign interest. This is what theyre looking to dig into with the first hearing today. The panel of witnesses they have, theyre not fact witnesses. These are not the irs whistleblowers who raised concerns about the hunter biden criminal investigation. These are not people doing business with hunter biden. Theyre a forensicccountant, a former doj tax official. People who say these could raise concerns or the plea deal should be rejected as it was by the judge. We are days away from a Government Shutdown and we expect to see democrats hammering their republican colleagues about focussing on this Impeachment Inquiry today rather than working on the budget. Kate . Coming up for us, President Biden preparing for a big speech today. Set to lay out the threat he thinks donald trump continues to pose to democracy and the country. And really setting up for his most direct attack on donald trump ahead of a rematch against the men. And Bob Me Mennendez is bac capitol hill today. What hes going to tell democrats this morning on in a closed door meeting. A majority asking for him to step aside. And a man hunt is over in baltimore for the man accused of killing a tech ceo. What police are saying now about this arrest. Well be back. Looming and days away, the senate did something the house cant seem to do right now, come to a bipartisan agreement, approving a Stop Gap Spending Bill which could be headed to the house. But hard line House Republicans threw cold water all over it quickly. Which leaves us, the federal government, military members expected to be paid, millions of federal workers leaves us where. Lets get to lauren fox whos tracking it for us. Lauren, what now . Reporter House Republicans are huddled Behind Closed Doors right now behind me in a Conference Meeting where we expect to get more details on what their plan for the rest of the week will look like. We know right now, tonight they start voting on a series of individual one Year Spending bills. All of which would not prevent a Government Shutdown. Instead it is intended to try to get some of those hard liners to build trust with leadership to show them were voting on these individual Appropriations Bills like you wanted will you help us rally around a republican shortterm bill to prevent a Government Shutdown. I asked if the plan is still to vote tomorrow as House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy has been saying on a shortterm plan. But rights now mccarthy doesnt have the votes he needs to pass the shortterm measure. The hope is after tonight perhaps that will build momentum for leadership but thats not the case. In the United States senate they have a bipartisan agreement theyll start the process of voting on that today. Later. Well be waiting to see if nay can get it passed in time before that saturday night deadline. But you have the house and senate talking past each other right now with no clear resolution there wont be a Government Shutdown. When employees of the federal government wake up on monday morning. Kate . All right. See what they say when they come out of the meeting. Good to see you, lauren. Quickly before i go, lauren. On the other side of the capitol, in the senate sorry i forgot i wanted to ask you about this Bob Me Den Nendez back on the hill since pleading not guilty to bribery charges. The majority of the democrats have come out saying they think he should resign facing the charges he is. What is he going to say . What are you hearing about this . Reporter yeah. This is obviously a very important meeting for Senator Menendez, who has been defiant against calls asking him to step aside. There are 30 democr