>> the news continues on cnn with wolf biden campaign slam donald who's only out for himself in a scathing new at this that's trump has been plotting 2024 strategy with house speaker mike johnson were tracking the rising tensions and the sharpening attacks just ahead of the historic biden trump debate on cnn. also tonight, a potentially ominous meeting revealed as russia's vladimir putin is set to hold talks with kim jong-un and moon in north korea, the us raising concerns as two of its fiercest adversaries looked to strengthen their alliance against the west. i'm a very fast movie california wildfire explodes in size, fueled by hot, gusty winds and forcing evacuations. extreme weather in dangerous millions of americans, including large swaths of the country at risk of records heat. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room tonight the 2024 presidential race is shifting into an aggressive new phase as president joe biden, former president donald trump are getting closer and closer to their high-stakes debate right here on cnn just ten days from now. cnn's alayna treene is covering the trump campaign. cnn's kayla tausche is covering the biden campaign for us. first, let's go to kayla. how is the biden camp kayla sharpening it's a strategy a wolf. >> the biden campaign has for months, been talking about the so-called split-screen between what president biden and former president trump have been doing these last few months, but a new ad that is just outputs into stark relief and into stark new messaging. exactly what the biden campaign feels that split screen screen should look like. that's part of a new $50,000,000 ad by across all battleground states, as well as on cable, television. and here's a little sample of that new ad in the courtroom. we see donald trump for who he is. he's been convicted of 34 felonies, found liable for sexual assault, and he committed financial fraud. this election is between a convicted criminal who's only out for himself and a president who's fighting for your family now this ad previewing some of the amped up rhetoric that we could expect from president biden on the debate stage next week, as he goes directly after trump, as a convicted criminal. >> and the two presidents vie for support from independence as well as more dollars from donors over the weekend, the biden campaign raised more than 30 million as part of a star-studded fundraiser in hollywood where biden appeared on stage with president obama and it was co-hosted by george clooney and attendees say that president biden gave an impassioned plea about the future of the supreme court being on the line, among other things. but even despite that fundraising, wolf the biden campaign's suggesting it needs more a text message blasted grassroots donor this afternoon from vice president kamala harris, suggesting that trump has raised $141 million just since the conviction and asking donors to help them match that, a president biden is going to be spending the federal juneteenth holiday in rehoboth beach, delaware, then he'll be trapped leveling to camp david to start some of that debate prep, hill, he and his team will be refining his messages and some of those attacks wolf address thing kayla, what are you learning about this important meeting that the former president had with the house speaker today? >> while take that one for you. well, for us so today, donald trump met with house speaker mike johnson, as well as richard hudson, the chairman of house republicans campaign arm, and i'm told that the two really walked donald trump through the key races that they think are critical to helping them not only keep their majority come fall, but also expanded. and that's really critical as well, to donald trump, who will want to enact his policy agenda if he is to reclaim the white house, if they can expand the majority. donald trump, we will do a lot more regarding policy then with the majority, this slim majority i should say that they current l0 have now i also just want to take you through this weekend where donald trump was really aggressively campaigning in michigan. he first spoke to black voters, although i will say the audience was predominantly white, but he was courting black voters in detroit. >> he also had some interesting words talking about crime, something that i know some of the rhetoric eu saying that the city of detroit was hellish, saying that many black communities are the ones that are rife with crime. >> this is rhetoric that we've heard from other black voters in the past that hasn't sat right with them that they argue has racial overtones of the same kind of language donald trump used over the weekend, but i do so want to touch on what he said at the turning point action conference later that day, he talked about wanting to guard the vote while simultaneously trying to convince his voters really two buy into the early voting and mail-in voting that republicans had really taught them to be skeptical the club back in 2020, listen to how he put it we need to watch the weekend to guard. >> we need to talked treacherous the election in order to change it they had these boxes or local place people walk now, clearly you could hear donald trump. >> they're repeating a lot of the rhetoric about the election being stolen in 2020, but also laying the groundwork for republicans to try and claim that the upcoming election could it be rife with election fraud as well. and what i find really interesting about this is it's very contradictory. we know that his campaign and groups like turning point are trying to convince republicans to buy into mail-in voting to do early voting, even though donald trump continuously criticizes those processes on the campaign trail. it also, i think it just gives you some insight into the inner workings of what the republican party is trying to do behind the scenes and how donald trump is sometimes getting in the way of that. >> well, cattle is clearly heating up alayna treene and kayla tausche to both of you. thank you very much. let's get some analysis right now with our political experts and jeff zeleny, there's new biden campaign ad is what part of a $50,000,000 advertising blitz that's going on right now in several of the key battleground states. but almost everybody knows about trump's conviction. so how effective is this going to be? >> i mean, we will see there are certainly investing a considerable amount of money behind this ad and they've obviously have tested this out. but what they're trying to do, clearly there phrase draw that contrast. you can see the beginning of the ad is black and white, but donald trump in the courtroom, the ending of the adh is president biden around with the union workers signing legislation, other things. so again, trying to draw this, stark comparison between the two, it's really what the biden campaign has been trying to do for months and months and months. since with limited success. i mean, the polls have been remarkably stable given everything that's happened in the race, 34 felony convictions. i mean, we couldn't have even imagined that i once upon a time, the polls have barely changed but they really believed the biden campaign talking to their advisors believed that what they need to do is bring some democrats tom and brings some biden voters home. so by shining a light on this, so stark difference, they think that's necessary in clearly, they also want this to be part of the conversation going into the debate next week, our debate here on cnn and just ten days. well, let me give actually the way you should president biden be leaning into this argument during next week's debate? you should definitely talk about the contrast between himself and the former president trump. in addition to talking of painting a feature, a picture for the future of america. one of the ways to bring democrats back to jeff was talking about is not just what have you done for me lately, but what i will continue to do ignite collagen. americans are still suffering and that the economy is improving, but it's not where we want it to go. and if you give me four years, we will get it there. so i definitely think you should draw the contrast, but also paint the picture of the future. >> sure. michael should republicans be concerned about the contrast that biden is now drawing between himself? and trump right now going into the debate next week, and part of the campaign that he's working for the american people. and trump is only out from self and he's a convicted felon? >> yes. >> not necessarily wolf. and i think we can expect the trump campaign. they do the same with the millions of dollars they've raised. and thus far to just point, both candidates, both camps are going to start pumping a millions and to add saying that i'm better than the other guy. so vote for me. what we notice in that ad, it was heavy on the criminality of some of the things that the foreign president has experienced. >> but we didn't really hear a plan or a path forward for how the president to ashley's point is going to materially improve the lives of working class voters, which is where i believe the former president has an opportunity to continue to hammer on that economic and immigration message, which most voters still currently believe they have not seen improvements under the current administration, are well, if the base is going to be lively and we're getting a better look right now at the terms for next week's debate that are both campaigns of apparently agreed to they've agreed to two. >> there will be no studio audience. you've got some notes up there in the screen microphones will be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate speaking no props or pre-written notes aloud, and candidates will be given a pen, a pad of paper, and a bottle of water. what are your takeaway, jeff, from this format, look the biggest thing is if we remember the last time these two two candidates met on stage, a friendly, it was last time either of them have debated in 2020, and the interruptions were so extreme, it was very difficult to hear what either of them were saying and it's one of the reasons that many republicans believe that donald trump actually did not do well in that debate, interrupting at the time, a former vice president joe biden, but so cutting off the microphones, that is the key difference here, really. but yes, there are a couple of commercials which is probably good for the candidates to rest a bit, but cutting off the mic so they're not speaking. it's interesting because it raised, if it works, it raises the burden. i think on both sides to make their coherent point and you can't necessarily a wind by having someone else out shout you. so the no. audience, the no studio audience is also very important. the white house insisted on that president biden did not want an audience and a donald trump wanted to debate joe biden. that's what they've been waiting for here. so again, the earliest debate in history and the biden campaign is really hoping that it sort of gives him a lift and the trump campaign is hoping it does the opposite. yeah, we'll see what happens next week. >> it's coming up as trump. yeah, sure. michael is stepping up his attacks against biden raising questions about hides mental status right now take a look at this as what this was with trump's said the other day. listen to this i think he should take a cognitive tests like i did. >> i took a cognitive test nih docx, rotting dr. ronny johnson does everyone know ronnie johnson, congressmen from taxes. he was the white house doctor and he said i was the healthiest president. he feels that history, so i liked him very much. >> the only problem is we all know it's not running it's running jackson. >> that's the name. >> doctor who did the investigation was pretty awkward. >> we offer get things sometimes, yes. president biden is older, is slowing down? yes. i think many people see that with their own eyes i'm not a medical professional, i'm not going to attempt to diagram can present number the name of floor that's my point. people forget what i think the message this campaign cycle should be on the issues that matter. >> this debate that's coming up and i'm happy there is an audience. people want to hear about how you're going to improve things for them. there are so many people in this country where there's young people, african americans poor white americans, other americans of color who do believe that there's this huge disconnect between a certain class as of americans are wealthy, well-educated, and the rest of them and both of those candidates next week, nice to drive that message home. i ashley is looking at me saying like throws rocks and he lives in a glass house like he couldn't get the man's name right. and he's talking about his opponents, cognitive ability, stop it also. i love the fact that they're going to cut off the microphone because i think this is like poisoning donald trump to actually throw a tantrum. on stage, because very rarely as he surrounded by people who check him and this is a way for our network to hold them accountable and keep the conversation on. it's going to be lively to be sure, guys. thank you very, very much. just ahead. news coming in. i just where steve bannon was. students start start to report to prison. and why the former trump adviser is in getting his wish plus controversial comments from a top contender to be donald trump's running mate will get reaction to what senator j.d. vance is saying from one of his fellow lawmakers senator chris murphy, he steady by-line they are unpredictable sleeping giants every volcano has its own personality, or if we don't understand they are windows into part of our planet lives will be lost violent earth with liev schreiber, sunday at nine on cnn recipes recipes that are more 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a club fed. it's known, as notice that because it is it low security work camp of types and it's the most comfortable option for federal inmates instead, though, we're learning from our source that bannon will have to serve out his sentence in a low security federal prison. this is a prison that is home to a lot of white collar prisoners like steve bannon, but it will also, it's also home to some violent and defender there's a difference print population that bannon will often serve out his time in prison when he reports on july 1, that's the date of a judge's order. bannon to report to start serving out his four months sentence. the reason bannon can't serve out his time in this lowest security, most comfortable option for inmates is because he's got another pending criminal case. this one's in new york. you might remember that he faced this is criminal charges for allegedly defrauding investors over the we build the wall scheme. this was essentially a fraud scheme that bannon and others were charged with several years ago. um, look, but he's gonna have to serve out his time in a federal prison as that case is still pending leading up to trial and september. and as you continue to appeal his contempt of congress ruling in bird flying a january 6 committee subpoena. he was convicted of that over two years ago. i want to go a little deeper into what this facility that he's gonna be reporting to his it's home to about 1,000 different inmates. it's also adjacent, but much smaller female prison that was really made famous by that show on netflix. orange is the new black federal, the federal facility that's well known. it's an danbury, connecticut and it's one that steve bannon will spend four months and when he reports under a month, interest exactly cohen. >> thank you very, very much. i even as steve bannon faces jail, he is rallying far-right activists and trump's supporters with a chilling battle. braille of quote, victory or death. let's talk about that in more 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