know. >> i hope no one uses it to describe me. thank you so much for joining us today. the lead with jake tapper starts in three seconds. >> tuffah nasty are nice and calm. belief starts right now we're just three days away from the 2024 first general election presidential still debated airs right here on cnn and former president trump is taking his debate prep to the campaign trail, asked me supporters what approach he should take on thursday night? biden is preparing with his closest advisers behind closed doors over camp david had it's been two years since the supreme court decision that overturned roe versus wade setting off fight in states over reproductive rights were to take a closer look at what has happened across the country since roe fell. plus the violent scenes out of los angeles is pro-palestinian supporters. the city ended up on a synagogue in a predominantly jewish neighborhood to protest the war in gaza. now, several lawmakers and president biden's and demonstration was that that's submitted welcome lead. >> i'm phil mattingly in for jake tapper and we start today with, of course, are 2024 lead because we are just three days so away from the biggest event of this presidential election cycle so far. on thursday night, right here on cnn, president joe biden and former president donald trump will face off in their first debate, a matchup moderated by our own jake tapper and dana bash. today, we're getting new details about how both candidates are preparing behind the scenes. >> but today also marks the two-year anniversary the supreme court overturned roe versus wade president biden, make it clear how he may go after donald trump on the issue of abortion and a new campaign video released just today. maga republicans row is just the beginning. we're going to try to ban the right to choose a nationwide for coming for ivf and birth control next, replicating this extremism without trial p previewed his potential response on the topic during the faith and freedom event over the weekend thanks to these justices, we have also achieved what the pro-life movement fought to get for 49 years and we've gotten a bortion out of the federal government and back to the stack we start things off with cnn's mj lee at the white house and cnn's kristen holmes down in west palm beach, florida near donald trump's mar-a-lago home, mj. >> i want to store with you because the president has holed up in camp david with his closest advisers makes the building behind you a little quieter. perhaps didn't normal. >> what do we know about what's been happening behind the scenes? well, phil, i think an undeniable feature of preparing to debate donald trump is preparing for the unpredictable at trump himself. we saw over the weekend teasing that question of which version of himself is going to show up on thursday night was going to be asd or was he going to be calmer and let president biden speak and i think the truth is the biden team has no idea which version of donald trump is going to show up. and that is precisely i see why the team is trying to prepare the president for all possibilities, including as one senior adviser, put it the possibility of a very disciplined donald trump's showing up this adviser was saying that they basically see the trump campaign so far this cycle as being a lot more disciplined than the last time around or even going back to 2016 and all that could translate to the president being a little bit more on message and restrain this time around, particularly when compared to the first time that donald trump and joe biden squared off in that debate in 2020 when the debate was really overtaken by the former president interrupting a name-calling and insults. and i think all of this sort of makes for the best okay, drop of the mock debates that we expect the biden team to engage in. in the next few days at camp david, where aides have said really recreating the experience of going up up against donald trump is a key feature of those exercises, including capturing the relentless nature that donald trump chins can show. and i think one of the the most important issues at the trump the biden team, excuse me, is preparing for is the issue of reproductive rights. and today on the two-year anniversary of the dobbs decision, it's very clear that what the biden team is preparing for the president to say on this issue, on the debate stage is really lay. the blame for the overturning of roe view wade squarely at donald trump's speed. a central focus of their campaign. kristen, it's been fascinating. trump's allies for months, if not longer, have kind of framed the current president is doddering and borderline senile on some level, maybe in more aggressive terms now though, his surrogates making very clear, they've they think he can debate what's going on here yeah, they couldn't have set the bar lower for president joe biden then now all of a sudden there is an effort to try and backtrack some of that. >> you saw governor doug burgum over the weekend talking about how joe biden has been running for election for decades that he knows how to debate you her jd vance, when a podcast earlier today saying that the bar was set too low for president biden, that anything that donald trump did, he'd have to really wu everybody in order to actually, when we have heard complaints about everything thank from the coverage to the moderators to essentially every possible scenario saying that the system is essentially rigged against donald trump in boosting up present biden, something that we have not heard for some time just to reminder it is president trump himself or former president trump himself who has been setting the bar so low for biden, as you said, basically saying that he isn't competent now, we are hearing this from all of trump's allies really trying to set the table here saying that biden is a great debater at some cases, hearing that this isn't going to not work out and donald trump himself, which donald trump is going to show up. you heard mj saying the preparing for any donald trump well, as senior divisors don't know which donald trump is going to show up. i can tell you that they have been prepping him. they don't use the word prep. they say policies, sessions to stay on message to talk about the economy talks about immigration, those issues that he pulls ahead of biden on. but as anyone knows, donald trump himself is going to show up and be whichever version of dollars trump he is that day. and anyone close to him who says they know that he'll stay on message or that he's going to be on the attack simply is not telling the truth because if you really get to the heart of the people we'll close to donald trump. they don't know who's going to show up on thursday. >> that is very true. kristen holmes, mj lee. thank you, both. >> well, the two years since the dobbs decision has drastically changed the landscape for many women seeking abortion and reproductive care in the us. make tirrell takes a look back at some of the women and families cnn previously met and shows us just how much things have changed in the two years since roe v. wade was overturned. we've crossed the country hearing from women and families about the transformation and access to reproductive health care. >> i continue to feel this baby move and knowing that i'm going to give birth and watch my child pass the effects of the dobbs v. >> jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion have stretched also to miscarriage care as clinics have closed down, reducing access to lower cost procedures in critical moments for patients. >> i wanted to have that dan see, i didn't want to have to go through it at home knowing that it was gonna be horrifying and to in vitro fertilization after a state supreme court decision temporarily through alabama's providers into legal limbo by declaring that destroyed frozen embryos deserve protection under the state's 18, 72 wrongful death of a minor act now, there are so much uncertainty about the safety of growing embryos and storing embryos. now, 14 states have near total bans on abortion, seven others restrict it between six and 18 weeks of pregnancy. and the landscape continues to change. we went inside an abortion clinic in jacksonville, florida hours before six-week ban took effect. may 1. >> it's very scary that these laws are being put in the place affecting not just local patients like candace, who feared continuing a pregnancy would be risky to her health and requested anonymity. but also limiting access to care across the whole region. this changes everything for the entire southeast over the last two years. >> how has the number of abortions in the us changed while we see that there were on average 8,000 fewer abortions each month across all of the states that ban or severely restricted abortion nationally. the number is greater. now, total number growth abortions per month as compared to the pre-dobbs period of time. >> states where abortion is legal, have tried to improve access and use of medication abortion via telehealth has increased as well in the first of two abortion cases, it heard this term, the supreme court upheld access to medication, abortion, but it hasn't yet ruled on whether hospitals states with abortion bans can provide emergency abortions to protect the health of the person who's pregnant. >> many of my patients are scared to be pregnant. and idaho, it stems from a challenge to idaho jose abortion law, one of the strictest in the country, a law that meant jen and john atkins said they had to travel more than 400 miles across state lines to get a procedure. >> she needed and never wanted i want it to be pregnant i wanted to have this baby, but she wasn't going to live and my my health was at risk two and fill the estimates. are that more than 171,000 people have been in a similar situation to jen and john have had to travel across state lines and did so in 2023 to access abortion, we've also heard that doctors have left states with strict abortion bans because it's so hard to practice medicine there. so this is really he changing and it's continuing to change as we saw with florida, justin may and we are expecting net second supreme court decision potentially as soon as this week felt significant changes over 12 months, make sure all thanks so much and joining me now to discuss his democratic congresswoman susan, they'll been a of washington stage is the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee, congresswoman, thanks so much for your time. i want to start with a policy issue before we can dig into the politics of abortion, you tweet today i'll keep fighting to restore and protect reproductive rights for all here's my question is, is the position right now for democrats codification of row as it stood prior to dobbs, or is it perhaps going further a more expansive push for say, the women's health protection act, which passed the house when democrats last held the majority we absolutely want to pass the woman's health protection act and put back in place that protections from row this decision, the dobbs decision two years ago has been devastating and we have women all across the country feeling the impact of the dangerous decision that was made it's endangering the lives, the health, and the well-being of women across the country and as you've shown, we see story after story after story of the impact. >> so we need to pass that legislation and put those protections back in place. >> what do you say the former president has taken a position which he's repeated over and over is then very on message what which is not necessarily the norm for him when he says, look, yes, my supreme court overturned roe versus wade. >> however, we sent it back to the states. if you don't like the state, you're in, you can move blue states can do a blue states want to do red states can do a red states wanted to. why is that not a valid position here? >> because that isn't the republican position. the republican position is to put in place a nationwide abortion ban. and they've been very clear about that we've seen policy after policy after policy to take away reproductive rights even in blue states, to prevent people from getting access. even in blue states. so this has been really devastating for women across the country and we should be very clear this is not just a state issue and even this week, we're going to see in in policy that comes on the floor with the defense funding bill, they're putting in policy writers to take away reproductive rights from service members. so over and over again, just see what they do. their goals and nationwide abortion ban from a political perspective, obviously this is a cornerstone of democratic campaigns. its cornerstone, the issue and focusing on the issue as a cornerstone of the president's campaign as well. we went through this in 2022. were there are a lot of democrats are, weren't sure that that was exactly the issue they wanted everybody to focus on. it ended up being very effective for democrats. but if you've look at factors for people's votes, now, we can pull up the poll. it shows the economy is clearly at the top. they 2% inflation the top of everybody's mind, democracy, crime, border guns, all above, abortion. why do you think this will be an analog to 2022 and not a different moment for voters because it's been on the ballot many times, it's 2022. and when abortion rights are on the ballot, people turn out to defend those rights. and democrats, when we saw that, since november of 2022, we've seen elections in kansas, in virginia, in ohio so in wisconsin, i'm even recently a state legislative race and alabama where democrat one flipping that seat by 30 points after the alabama supreme court took away protections for in vitro fertilization. so it absolutely has been on the ballot and we have seen increase turnout because people want to protect reproductive freedom. and we know over 60% of voters across the country support abortion rights, right? so this is an issue today, just as much as it was in november of 2022, we would always sound like before i let you go, the interest to see outraised the detroit which you ron for the first time in the wake of donald trump's conviction. and i'm not saying onetime makes a trend or that that's going to be the way going forward. well, it'd be question is, do you think that that burst of donations after the conviction is something that republicans can continue to poll over the course of the coming months. are you concerned about their fundraising? >> you know, we've had strong support. we've got raised the nrcc by over $40 this cycle folks are engaged, they care about making sure that we protect their rights, their freedoms, our democracy, and our future. and so we're gonna have the resources to compete across a country. we only need for more seats to take back the majority. 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