Lee free text now im bill weir on the California Coast and this is cnn trump needs to debate. Harris needs to debate. They both have something the proof the American People deserve the opportunity to hear from both candidates on the issue. Im not spending a lot of time on. I think my whole life. Ive been preparing for a debate where the four lucky ones that get to go on this right in the not too distant future. He means were going to finally reach another planet in our own. We are all really confident that, you know, some iteration of it is going to be worn by Somebody Walking on mars someday. And that just makes it even more of a privilege to be part of it hes been called the Mark Zuckerberg of russia, Tech Billionaire pavel durov. Now in custody in france in a statement, the company said, during froth has nothing to hide live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and Christina Macfarlane hello, a warm welcome to our viewers. In the u. S. All around the world. Im max foster and im Christina Macfarlane. Its tuesday, august 27, 9 00 a. M. Here in the uk, where oasis has Just Announced a Reunion Tour Details up details on that coming up soon. Yes. Worldwide apparently, its 3 00 a. M. In wisconsin where donald trump plans to campaign this week with 17 days to the president ial election here in Kamala Harris. Are laser focus on battlegrounds likely to determine the winner . Now on wednesday and thursday, the u. S. Vice president s campaign will visit georgia, which polls show has been leaning towards trump, but the democrats believe they can flip it as they did in 2020. And alter trumps swing through michigan and wisconsin. The former president will hit pennsylvania later this week, three states are crucial to the democrats, socalled Blue Wall Trump toppled in 2016 and President Joe Biden flipped back four years later meanwhile, during a stop in detroit on monday, trump cast doubt about whether he will in fact debate harris as scheduled on september 10 cnns Kristen Holmes has the details the debate over debates continues both campaigns, the harris and the Trump Campaign appeared to be at an impasse this time over whether or not the mic the will be muted while the other candidate is speaking at that september 10 abc debate. Now originally, donald trump and President Joe Biden had agreed to terms that were then similar to that of the cnn debate. That first debate in which the mics would be muted as we saw that cnn debate, while the other candidate was talking now, the harris Camp Campaign and say that they want those mics on muted. Now trumps team says thats not what we agreed to, but a lot of this here is just posturing as each side tries to figure out whats best for their candidate. However, donald trump himself talked about this while he was in virginia at the commemorating third anniversary of the afghanistan withdrawal, and he seemed to essentially undercut his own campaign. Take a listen, show or within good about where they get about it. Also want to change the rules you know, the deal was we keep the same rose download was saying they want to make a change in the rules because she cant answer questions and youre going to hear a lot of posturing, a lot of spin. For example, i will remind you that it was just three weeks ago and Kamala Harris was brought into the top of the ticket when Donald Trump Backed out. Kamala harris steam saying you cant do that, it doesnt matter whos at the top of the ticket. You already agreed to the debate. Donald trumps team saying, no, everything has changed, obviously now, were almost in a complete opposite. Situation in which Donald Trumps team is saying, we want to agree to those original rules that we were already agreed to with President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is saying, nope, im at the top of the ticket they get now, things have changed again. All of this posturing, all of this, the campaigns trying to make sure that their own candidate looks the best when they take the stage at the big question shan force, will they take the stage at that september 10 debate . One thing we know is leading up to that, Donald TrumpsCampaign Says that he is going to be pounding the pavement. Its going to be but unquote trump on steroids. They say is ramping up his travel is going to be in battleground states. We have heard this before. We will wait and see if it actually comes to fruition. Kristen holmes, cnn, detroit, michigan now this whole will they or wont they debate debacle and trumps possible hesitation is providing some humorous fodder for the Harris Campaign. Yeah, it released an edited version of trumps remarks that includes some special Sound Effects but why not debate her but because they already know everything dropped. She around not doing the debate. Thats something i mean, right now, i say, why should i do a debate of leading in the polls and Everybody Knows who, Everybody Knows me too soon as political commentators weighed in earlier with predictions about the debate and arguments over keep your microphones muted American People deserve the opportunity to hear from both candidates on the issues whether its Trump Interjecting against harris or harris interjecting against trump its really difficult to do that when and under as a jumping in, interrupting the other person when theyre trying to answer these questions, were talking about the most consequential job of the country, the rules that any one of these individuals will make have given this job will be consequential for years and decades to come. So keep the microphones muted. Everyone benefits. Weve benefited in the previous debate, i think will benefit in the next debate. Trump needs to debate. Harris needs to debate. They both have something to prove. Trump needs to prosecute a case against harris thats not me. Hes not going to get any help. Lets be honest. I mean, hes going to have to do it himself, pointing out all the discrepancies between the supposed moderate today, Kamala Harris and the extreme liberal that shes been for her whole career. So hes gonna have to do it himself. He needs to show up and she hes got to show up to honestly, its pretty rich for her campaign to be using Chicken Noises against donald trump when you consider that all this time, she has been in the race, her campaign has been too scared to put her in front of even one journalist so far. But my belief is theyll both show up on the tenth and its going to be a Pivotal Moment for the fall campaign. Well, the u. S Justice Department is trying to reopen the classified documents case against donald trump after a judge appointed by the former president himself through it out. Yeah, judge Aileen Cannon Claim that the Justice Department didnt have the authority to appoint Special Counsel. So Special Counsel jack smith submitted a brief to an Appeals Court arguing that her decision lacked merit and set a dangerous precedent. Chat was charged last year with several counts of mishandling sensitive government documents taken from the white house at the end of his administration, hes also facing several obstruction charges spacex has pushed the launch of his Polaris Dawn Mission to wednesday after finding a helium leak in ground equipment, spacex posted an update on x late on monday evening saying teams were taking a look at the piece called the Quick Disconnect umbilical both were going to find out exactly what that is both the crew Dragon Capsule and falcon nine rocket are in Good Condition according to the posts max and i are rapidly reading up on the details of this to bring you this live hopefully tomorrow, they fiveday Polaris Dawn Mission will attempts the first ever commercial spacewalk. The crew of four civilians i headed to the highest altitude of any crewed Space Missions since the Apollo Program ended more than 50 years ago here with some substantial more details. This Cherelle Habad what do a billionaire, two engineers, a former air force pilot, and a couple of nasa astronauts have in common. Theyre all a part of two of the most exciting and Risky Missions in the universe. Space is hard and you better not mess it up. I spacex crew Dragon Capsule is set for its next mission, called polaris dawn, a fiveday spacex private trip manned by for civilians, jared isaac men, the billionaire, his friend in the mission, pilot, retired air force pilot lets scott poteet and two spacex engineers, anna minin and sarah gillis of polaris is all about accelerating the technology development. The crew is set to do roughly 40 science experiments. Attempt to a highrisk spacewalk and test some brand new space x developed space suits were all really confident that now some iteration of it is going to be worn by Somebody Walking on mars someday and that just makes it even more of a privilege to be part of it. The four plan to travel as far as 870 miles from earth, 620 miles farther into space than the International Space station. Thats where astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore are stuck after problems including the thrusters on their boeing starliner spacecraft stopped working, nasa announced saturday that a spacex crew9 Dragon Spacecraft will come to their rescue. And nasa always has contingency options. The nasa astronauts now slated to return next february. Im sure al hubbard reporting ukraine is assessing the damage from another night of deadly russian attacks across the country authorities report at least five people have been killed in strikes on central and southeastern ukraine. Rescue workers are still searching the rubble. But a hotel where two people are still unaccounted for, it follows a major missile and drone strike on monday targeting ukraines Energy Infrastructure that claimed at least seven lives Rolling Blackouts are now in effect for many regions across the country, the Russian Defense ministry claims it hit all Designated Targets including Storage Sites for weapons sent to ukraine by western countries are ukraine as being bracing for an attack . Weeks after his forces launched, an incursion into the russian kursk region. And now kyiv is once again asking to allies for permission to strike deeper inside russia you cogently the record, nash partner, every leader, every partner of ours knows what strong decisions are needed to end this war and to end it justice there should be no restrictions on the range of weapons for ukraine. While terrorists have no such restrictions on measuring, defenders of life should face no restrictions salma joins us now, what, what did you make of that sort of interpretation of this situation from the president , there so youve had the most massive aerial assault on ukraine since the conflict began, according to president zelenskyy. And were seeing this occur now for a second day in a row. And this is something that is part of russia strategy to take out Energy Infrastructure, to take out power plants, to take out water plants to make it difficult to just exist in live in ukraine. And president zelenskyy has very little he can do to fight back against this strategy. He can put up his Air Defense Capabilities and i do have the numbers here. There was 127 missiles in 100 good in nine drones fired at ukraine. Ukraine was able to shoot down 102 of those missiles and 99 drones. So theyre taking out a huge number of them. Still enough for getting through to create so much damage to cause people to be killed to send families into bomb shelters. So president zelenskyy saying to the west, to his allies, to nato i need permission for two things to fight back. The first is i need to be able to use my longrange missiles to strike at the source inside russian territory to these drones and missiles and secondly, i would like to use these Air Defense Capabilities that you have given me, right up, if not, on Russian Airspace that is concerning, of course, to the west, who do not want to escalate this conflict with president putin, but who are also desperate for games. And this was an appeal from zelenskyy to President Biden. I mean, how are the white house slightly to respond to this and how do they see that . Tactically playing out in this war, whether thats a good strategy or not, you can look at this war basically as long haggle president zelenskyy going to the west, going to nato, going to President Biden and saying, i want acts and he gets to know and then he gets a maybe and then he gets lets talk about it in through that hes been able to get from no tanks two tanks, longrange missiles, planes. So you can continue to expect that he will keep pushing that line and that that line will likely keep moving inchbyinch okay. Salma. Thank you so much. French president Emmanuel Macron says the arrest of a Telegram Founder pavel durov In Paris On Sunday was quote, in no way, a political decision, support to of the russian born ceo says hes a political prisoner. And that is arrest is an attack on free speech french officials are quick to shoot that down though the paris Public Prosecutor says, do spacing 12 separate charges as part of a broader investigation into criminal activity on the popular messaging app. Alex marquardt explains hes been called the Mark Zuckerberg of russia Tech Billionaire pavel durov, the creator of the globally popular messaging app telegram. 12 billion messages delivered now in custody in france after French Police arrested him and a paris airport, french Authorities Say that durovs arrest is part of an investigation of charges that telegram was allegedly complicit and aiding money laundering, drug trafficking, and distributing Child Pornography french prosecutors also say that youre off refuse to comply with demands to help intercept potentially elicit communications in a statement, the company said durov has nothing to hide. It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform. I truly believe that privacy of our youth there is and what they had trust to us in our responsibility for them is the most important thing in our business. Giraffe was flying to paris from azerbaijan, where russian president Vladimir Putin also visited last week. The kremlin has denied that putin and durov met. Durov had also created the russian app. Im going to talk to you known as russias facebook. He fled the country in 2014 after refusing to turn over user data from the app to the russian government, russia tried to ban telegram in 2018, but lifted the ban in 2020 with 900 million users worldwide, telegram is used by everyday people, governments, and companies descend official messages, but the Apps Encryption also makes it popular among criminals and terrorists in france, it was found on the phones of the terrorists who attacked the Bataclan Concert Hall in paris harris they will see using iphones and android phones and microchips kind of u. S. Leading to say that we responsible or any other tech company is responsible for that durovs arrest has revived questions about the responsibility is of social Media Companies to moderate their content and assist Law Enforcement versus protecting their users privacy and freedom of speech. French president Emmanuel Macron said in a statement on social media, france is deeply committed to freedom