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No. Dont know if unlimited premium wireless for 15 a month power there still people paying two or three times that much im sorry, i shouldnt be victimblaming here the lead with jake tapper today at four on cnn counting down to the debate, the September Showdown between donald trump and Kamala Harris is only two weeks away, a potentially make or break moment for these two president ial candidates, as long as they find a way to agree on the rule lets first and a daring raid leads to the rescue of a father of 11 held by hamas, marking the first time the idf has helped a hostage escape alive from the tunnels under gaza. But a deal to bring home the hundred plus hostages still in captivity remains elusive. And a troubling new studies suggests the average person has more and more plastic in their brain about twice as much as just eight years ago. What could that mean for our health cant be good, right were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. The Cnn News Central we are 70 days away from the election and there are just two weeks until Vice President harris and former President Trump face off in the president ial debate. And as the race for the white house sprints ahead, trump is beefing up his political coalition. Cnn is learning that former democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and robert f. Kennedy pretty junior have now joined trumps Transition Team, both have offered their endorsements here in recent days right now, both campaigns are laserfocused on battleground states. Of course, trumps vp pick senator j. D. Vance is in michigan today ahead of trumps visit to the state later this week. And while harris and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz will set off tomorrow on bus tour of georgia. Cnns Kristen Holmes is with us live. Kristen, what are you hearing from the Trump Campaign about the new additions to his Transition Team well, brianna, trumps team has long said that they want to expand the electorate, and that means casting a wide net, trying to get more voters than what traditionally vote for just donald trump or would trigger israeli vote republican in part of that clearly is trying to court these rfk supporters as one of the things weve talked about when rfk endorsed donald trump was what the actual polling looked like and what this could mean for the general election in some states, he had 6 or 5 . Well, the thing you have to remember about these rfk supporters, and its also the same likely please supporters of Tulsi Gabbard. Its kind of independent mix summer democrats, some are republicans. Theres some crossover is that there is a belief, or at least an uncertainty that they show up at the polls in november, particularly if theyre candidate is not on the ballot. So what youre seeing here in some extent is taking this endorsement and trying to use it that in a way that will drive people to the polls. Its one thing to say that you were endorsed by rfk junior by Tulsi Gabbard. Its quite another to say, they will have an impact on personnel and potentially even policy. If i am elected. So clearly a way to drive people who support them to the polls. And heres what we have in statement from the campaign. They say, we are proud that robert f. Kennedy jr. And Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the trumpvance Transition Team. We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team as we work to restore americas greatness. Again, these are two politicians who at some point have been very progressive and democrats who have now come out for donald trump, they are clearly trying to ride these endorsements and turn it into votes at the polls all right, kristen, thank you for that update. Cnns eva mckend is joining us now. So eva harris, pitching her plan for the economy. This isnt a new campaign ad. What is happening here with her message . Brianna, theyre leaning into this economy first message, we see that with particular emphasis on lowering housing costs the Vice President says the countrys Housing Shortage can be addressed in part by building 3 million new homes and rentals. Lets listen to how shes making this argument in that new ad. And on the Campaign Trail as president , i will be laserfocused on creating opportunities for the middleclass that advanced their Economic Security stability and dignity and brianna, this of course comes at a time when the campaign is trying to thwart persistent criticism from all corners regarding the lack of a sitdown interview and the absence of answering aggressive questions from the press. Though a Senior Adviser tells us harris will schedule a City Down Interview by the end of the month and pointed to her engagements with the press while on the trail, harris and minnesota Governor Tim Walz, her running mate, launch that bus tour across south georgia tomorrow, concluding with a thursday night rally in savannah, georgia, of course, remains a critical battleground state. And while theres tremendous focus on voters yana in urban centers, theyre also focused on capturing voters key to democratic coalitions in rural parts of the state as well. Brianna. All right. Eva. Thank you for that. We appreciate it. Boris lets expand the discussion now with jamal simmons, whos the former Communications Director for Vice President harris, and a cnn political commentator. Were also joined by alex thompson, a National Political correspondent for axios and cnn political analyst. Thank you both for being with us. Jamal, you were on the Vice President s press team . Why is her campaign waited so long to schedule a sitdown interview with boris, you would be shocked to understand that perhaps people arent press politicians are running to do Media Interviews just for the sake of doing them usually when a politician does a Media Interview u. S. Because theyve got something to say. Theyre going out there to quote, advance something, right . To push out a piece of policy, theyre talking about, to talk about maybe shes going to talk with tim walz about his join the ticket, which we are understanding that perhaps hes going to be in that first interview theres a reason for a politician to grounds speak to the media. So the Vice President s had a lot to do. Do over the last few weeks, right . She had to pick a vp nominee. She had to get ready for a convention completely reoriented convention during Convention Speech preparing for debates. Theres a lot happening, so theyre fixing to do a Media Interview in the middle of a lot of other things that the campaign has been trying to get done and sometimes media gets pushed to the side, despite but our best intentions and best designers alexander, im curious what youre hearing about what this interview may wind up looking like in terms of a platform and in terms of whether she does it with her vp nominee or solo these are the internal debates and conversations going on. Is it going to be live . How long is it . Is it on tv . Is it print it with someone that is a little bit softer, a little bit friendlier, and ideologically aligned person, and that she does something thats more partisan or more liberal leaning, does the press give her credit for doing that interview . Now, jamal is right and theres two Different Things going on. Theres basically should she answer questions. And i think he as a reporter, i would be biased and saying yes, she should. But is it politically smart thing to do . And thats the debate also going on within Democratic Party circles. The fact is that some of her worst moments as Vice President were when she did interviews on camera that she got a little flustered. She did these roundabouts in answers about immigration or about covid19 and so thats the other thing that democrats are thinking. Can you basically only do a few interviews . Is it strategically sounded . Just do a few interviews before then in november i have heard from folks on the other side, republicans who have pointed to this and said, this is an example of why shes not ready for prime time if her team has district how did you guys who to sit down with him when then it shows that theres something that shes insecure about or is looking to sort of soften her message on what do you make of that line of attack . Well, coral with that a little bit vice presents been talking to reporters, i think just about every time he travels, hes going over to the polls to taking questions. Shes going back on the plane and talking to people on the plane off the record so i think theyre talking to reporters quite a lot the question is, are you going to pick up a bunch of time to sit down and do a 30 or 40 minute interview with a reporter or maybe you going to do not just one report and maybe you got to do two or three of them. Are you going to do them every couple of days . The question is, when do you do that . And i think as a campaign or as a political office, what theyre trying to decide is, what are we going to say and how is this Media Interview . Help us communicate with the American Public . Because despite however much they may love cnn or one of the other networks are outlets youre really not talking to the outlet. Youre talking to the public and talking to the voter. And is the voter watching or listening to that outlet when you make a decision to talk to them . Alix, another line of attack from republicans is aiming to characterize harris as a flip flopper, as someone who has changed positions on several issues and you have some new reporting about her stance on the border wall does this constitute a flipflop or is this sort of a shift a slight shift perhaps in the semantics of what she supports no i mean this is a significant policy shift in how she views immigration. The fact is that when she was a senator and running for president , she called the idea of a border wall on american. She said that she would block funding for it. And by fullthroatedly endorsing the bipartisan border bill that was negotiated earlier this year with senator lankford, senator chris murphy, sinema, and senator murphy. That bill includes hundreds of millions of dollars to continue building the border wall. So the bill that she that she now says that she will sign includes building more border wall. Now, you can say that circumstances have shifted. You could also say that, you know, that you actually dont support the border wall, but it was necessary in order to get a compromise them. But the fact is that her campaign didnt tell us those things for that story. And again, as part of the reason why its important for her probably to do interviews to answer these questions could be explanations for not supporting medicare for all anymore, not supporting banning fracking. But the fact is that we have not heard anything on the record from her or her campaign about those changes and so that point, jamal, how would you advise the Vice President to approach that kind of conversation where she has to answer for what are different positions, then she used to hold on certain issues heres the real truth about this. Boris is Vice President , was part of a government that joe biden led for a long time that was really a coalition government, right . This coalition of people who believed in democracy, who believed in, they didnt believe in maga, they didnt want trump to be in office anymore. And that coalition sort of goes all the way from aoc and Bernie Sanders on the left, all the way to liz cheney on the right and so the Vice President and the president looked to pass bipartisan legislation. They passed a lot of it when they were in office. And now youre seeing the Vice President come out of Kamala Harris and say that she is going to also support more bipartisan legislation, even though it may contain things that she doesnt necessarily agree with. So my understanding of the border bill is not that shes allocating new money for the border and said, heres money that was already present from the Trump Administration and it hadnt been spent yet. And theyre going to lengthen the amount of time that they have to spend that money for the border and so on the border wall and so thats a little bit different, but still, if youre running a bipartisan and kind of coalition way of a political movement. Youre going to have to sometimes compromise and cooperate with republicans on things that arent necessarily your core values. I mean you just gave sort of a reason thought through response as to why theyre there might be a difference wouldnt it be easy enough for her to do that to reporter that were asking that question when that tamp down the ability for republicans to point and say, well, look, shes flipflopping, isnt it a good defense oh, republicans are going to say whatever theyre going to say, regardless of what she does. But its actually incumbent though upon the Vice President s talked directly to the American Public, including through big media. And so ive think youre going to tier, do an interview. She said she is now the mixed between that, whether its local or national as a printer on television or radio, there may be a variety of thing theyve got to figure that out in the office. I wouldnt try to second guess them here on tv. I hate it if somebody tried to do that to me when i was the vice presents Communications Director, but they do have to talk to the American Public, i think are going to get to it pretty quickly. And they have an open invitation to do it right here on Cnn News Central monday through friday one to 4 00 p. M. Eastern were more than happy to accommodate them. Jamal simmons, alex thompson. Thank you both for the time. Second that motion thank you. Jomana. Appreciate that. Still ahead this hour on news central after nearly 11 months in hamas captivity and israeli hostage is back with his loved ones today. What were learning about the special operation that rescued him plus meta Ceo Mark Zuckerberg, laying out some big regrets. 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