Had fabletics. Com, cnn this morning with kasie hunt. Next its tuesday, august 27, right now on cnn this morning hes not a good debater, shes not a smart person. She doesnt want to debate the debate over debates 14 days from the first scheduled president this will debate the two campaigns are needling each other about how to negotiate, what will happen on stage. And russia launches what ukraine says is the largest air attack since the beginning of the war, leaving over half the country in the line of fire. And the state that may decide the outcome of the election battleground, pennsylvania, were going to break down where both candidates stand in the commonwealth. Just a few weeks out from early voting 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive, looked at the Nations Capital on this Tuesday Morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie its wonderful to have you with us were now just 70 days away from election day and just two weeks out from the first scheduled president ial debate between Kamala Harris and donald trump but the two campaigns are currently already debating before the candidates take the stage. Cnn reporting that the harris team wants microphones to be kept on throughout the debate while the trump team wants the microphones to be muted when its not a candidates turn to speak that would mirror what happened in the first president ial debate earlier this year between trump and President Biden that is until trump told reporters this yesterday doesnt matter to me. Id rather have it probably on but the agreement was ever would be the same as it was last time that case, it was needed trump now saying he probably rather have the microphones turned on. Thats prompted this response from the harris team i think her position is the same as Donald Trumps position on this because he went on to say in that same interaction that he doesnt care, doesnt matter to him whether or not the mics are hot and frankly that he would prefer if they were hot so i think this issue is resolved unless donald trump allows his handlers to overrule him. Well have a fulsome debate between the two candidates with live microphones, where both candidates will be able to lay out their vision for where they want to take this country all this of course, also playing out on social media with both campaigns, posting videos, looking ahead to this planned september 10 debate why not debater will wait but because they already know everything drops around not doing the debate thats same thing now, i mean, right now i say, why should i i do it the leading in the polls, there is not much left at the end of the month, bidenomics is working, the price of housing has gone up. It feels so hard to just be able to get ahead and we are very proud about all right. Joining me now, National Political reporter for the washington post, Sabrina Rodriguez and axios capitol Hill ReporterJuliegrace Brufke. Good morning to both of you. Wonderful to see you wanting sabrina, you can see the Harris Campaign literally trying to push Donald Trumps buttons in the statements that they are making. They are. Calling him a chicken in this ad. The way that the spokesman, Michael Tyler talk about this that started yesterday morning about this time with a statement from brian fallon. Basically saying that trump should he didnt use the phrase man up, but that was the implication, right this of course it has them both going back andforth. Donald trumps also criticized abc news saying he doesnt want it to be on that network necessarily are questioning why he might go on that network. How does this all resolve itself and ultimately what difference does it make to have the microphones on during a debate i mean, i have to laugh because it feels like we always have this conversation about the debate over the debates and its just fascinating to see. I mean, at this point, were a month into the Harris Campaign and you can just see that they are enjoying this. They are leaning into to it. I mean, the video with calling him a chicken and everything that is coming from that but the reality is, i mean, they do want to see a debate because they feel like they have such a contrast to drive home in a debate with donald trump and part of what they were saying yesterday with all of this news around the debate, around the debates, was this the idea that trump cant be president ial for 90 minutes and thats why they dont want the mike saw. Thats why the trump side of the camp does not want the mics on. They would like to see the mics on because they feel that it is going to turn into trump trying to speak over overheard, trump making little comments, them having backandforths that they feel that she will be able to handle better than he can. So i think at this point its like again, this backandforth about the debates. I think we ultimately will have a september debates. I would say fingers crossed that i hear voters talk about so much, then wanting to see them on a stage and i would like to get to cover it, but it is just this open question because he keeps going back and i think clearly is showing that that she is getting under his skin. Well, i will say to your point about the debate over the debates, there had been sort of this long running narrative that debates dont matter or why do we spend some time focused on this . And then this debate with joe biden and donald trump happened. And reprove to all of us that. Well, no, actually debates matter and are very much, or at least they can matter very, very much and julie grace, one of the reasons why the Harris Campaign is pushing this Behind The Scenes is because they remember moments from when she debated mike pence when she was the Vice President ial candidate. And it works to her favor some of the moments that really sparked the most viral were all attention, if you will, was written out on tshirts in the aftermath. This was when she of course, told mike pence eventual Vice President mike pence, quote, are actually a human, excuse me, he was Vice President at the time that im speaking, lets watch the im speaking moment he said because the president wanted people to remain calm well, lets go. I dont know, but it isnt, this is important. I want to add mr. Vice president s speaking. I have im speaking before hundred thousand a year appeal to trump tax cuts. Mr. Vice president , im speaking well okay. That moment is impossible if the microphones are cut absolutely. And i mean, i think speaking to people in trump world and gop lawmakers, they felt that the mics cut off for for trump worked to his advantage last time around, but i mean, hes facing a very different opponent. I mean, i feel like there have been a lot of concerns on their end about him attacking her personally and making comments that could be perceived as sexist are going making comments about race that theyre worried about interrupting him. There i guess well see if he does show up to the abc debate, but i think theres a lot at stake. She just a very different dynamic than him going up against joe biden yeah. So speaking of him going up against joe biden lets watch a little bit from back in 2020 when trump was periodically interrupting joe biden again this was an a situation where the microphones were open as the candidates were able to have these backandforth and it led to another moment for biden, i obviously, biden was a different candidate at the time. Lets watch the question, is just as the rational left, will you shut up, man, who is on your list . Joe this is on you right . Gentlemen. I think pack the court. We are not going to give now those course. My colleague chris wallace, trying to kind of get things back on the rails a little bit there. But when they went into this debate back in june between trump and biden was actually the biden team that thought, well, this might work to our advantage as theyre thinking about the candidate they were trying to manage, then its really interesting how that is kind of been flipped on its head absolutely. I mean, the biden team really thought that it was their opportunity for biden to shine. They thought earlier this year with the state of the union, they thought if they could just give him an opportunity to squarely be addressing the American People and answering the questions that would be better than risking crosstalk with trump, where then he might lose the train of thought or it might just not land well, but now with commonly harris, its i mean, its a complete shift. She wants to engage with donald trump and especially around the sexism and racist attacks and him questioning her intelligence and stuff. Its obviously not that she wants to hear those things, but she is prepared to address those things. And in a setting like a debate if those mics are on and that is happening, she gets to engage with it in a way she wouldnt alone. Juliegrace does the sort of poking the bear that is donald trump is going to work on this question. I mean, it could, i mean, weve seen just during the dnc how hes responded to things on truth, social on going after mike walz calling him an Assistant Coach instead of coach and putting out, wheres hunter . And i think hes kind of struggled to kind of find a line of attack thats kind of clearly worked on going after Kamala Harris. So i think theres still kind of trying to figure out how to figure out their strategy on how to define her in these months moving forward, thats going to be important for them as they head into the debate. Yeah. And of course, referring to tim walz, tim walz, the Vice President , nominee, Juliegrace Brufke spraying rodriguez. Thank you both very much for being here. All right. 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And also can dig into what zelenskyy means by no restrictions on their weaponry well, i mean, a massive we had one wave of attacks from russia and is one of the biggest waves as attacks, theres been on ukraine that we had another wave attacks the next day. So it feels like its ramping up, but this is all part of of a pattern that russia has been falling into, which is attacking key bits of Civilian Infrastructure inflicting broad pain across ukraine effectively. So is it part of a pattern . Has it been ramped up because of ukraines incursion into russia. Its not entirely clear, but what zelenskyy is talking about here is his inability he feels it to defend ukraine because he isnt allowed to fire longrange missiles into russia to take out some of these places where russia is attacking from. And in terms of the defenses, he cant go into Russian Airspace under the current agreements with the u. S. For example, hes looking for more flexibility on that so he can attack back harder effectively so max, we basically looking at a situation where the balance is between avoiding escalation i mean, that seems to be the goal here, right . Of the policies that prevent him from using these weapons in the way he says, he wants to. Hes implying, well, if he was allowed to, he could win the war outright. But clearly theres some greater fear from western countries yes, its just purely the u. S. Is wondering if you allow him to go into russian air space, deeper into russia. Does that escalate tensions with russia . And what are the wider repercussions . How does russia respond to that . So that is the big concern, but i think there is an acceptance but has been all along that ukraine doesnt have the advantages of russia has because it doesnt have the same restrictions are what russia doesnt have the restrictions that ukraine has. So, but there has, as you know, kasie throughout this whole Wall Zelenskyy has always been asking for more and the u. S. Has often adjusted to it using certain types of weaponry for example, the planes, for example. And of course he didnt go into russia on his own accord, and he got away with it. We didnt have a big backlash from the u. S. And the european states. So thats if he does want to go deeper into russia. Im not saying it wont ha