Anytime up here to new central least always great to see you the lead with jake tapper starts now isnt there some kind of famous quote about elections in the economy . The lead starts right now were just 70 days until the president ial election in both campaigns are putting your wallet front and center today, trying to make the case that only they can lower costs and make living more affordable. Its something theyll surely debate in their first face off, which we just learned new details about plus reber friendship bracelets. And you are thats concert fits. Swifties are finding a way to make their voices heard in this Election Justice the Harris Campaign announces a new plan to target young voters and colleges across the country. And finally, free three Israeli Forces rescue a hostage in gaza after more than 325 days in captivity. The latest on his condition and what this could mean for the more than 100 others hell being held by the Terror Group Hamas welcome to lead. Im Phil Mattingly in for jake tapper today marks seven im going to days until the 2024 election this week, Vice PresidentKamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Theyre Hitting Key Battleground States while also preparing for the september 10 debate and at least pretty sure that the paint is actually going to happen now, trump Just Announced he would agree to the rules after the 24 hour burst of backandforth that will apparently include microphones muted when its not a candidates turn to speak more on that in a moment, the Harris Campaign today, once again, insisting she will schedule a sitdown interview by the end of the month for those counting, thats only four days away. And are campaign emphasizing, thats just scheduling the interview, not necessarily sitting down for tomorrow. Harris and tim walz will kick off a Jury Georgia Bus Tour while trumps vp picks and her j. D. Vance deliver remarks on the economy in michigan today, blaming harris for not fixing the Inflation CrisisKamala Harris is the candidate of american decline. She cast the tiebreaking vote for the Inflation Explosion Act she cast the tiebreaking vote to send Interest Rates and mortgages through the roof. Start talking about what you are going to do right now. Because here the Vice President now vance may be trumps running mate, but theres a good chunk of buzz today in the political world about two new members of trumps Transition Team, rfk junior and former democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. We lead things off with cnns kristen holmes, who is following the Trump Campaign. I want to begin kristen, with that september 10 debate on abc. Trump says hes agreed to the debate rules what are the rules and is this settled now well, i wouldnt say anything is completely settled until we for sure here from the harris died as well and until both of them show up on that stage on september 10, but it does feel as though donald trump is accepting the terms of the debate, which were the same rules of the debate that we saw in last month or two months ago now and it was donald ill trump versus president joe biden. Hes a top of the ticket on cnn. That means no studio audience, that means no crib sheets. And of course, that means that those mics well be muted while the other candidate is speaking as we reported yesterday, the campaigns had appeared to come to an impasse over this issue. Harris, his team saying that they did not agree to the mics he muted Donald Trumps team saying, we always said all along it was going to be the same rules as the cnn debate. And we want those mics muted. Now, donald trump is saying that they have come to an agreement. We are told by sources outside of Donald Trumps campaign that those mics well be muted. So now The Big Question is how are they preparing . Which of course were diving in . Do right now, trying to find out from our sources and to whether or not they both show up on stage. This has been a weird 24 hours. We all know theyre going to debate you, talk about the preparation one person involved in that as youve reported, is Tulsi Gabbard i guess for the questions that ive had today is in the grand scheme of the election. How big of a deal is it that rfk junior and the former congresswoman are now on or at least honorary members of trumps Transition Team well, The Big Question is what theyre going to do for donald trump in november in terms of getting voters to the polls, weve long reported that Donald Trumps team wants to expand the electorate and that includes bringing in these independent voters, not necessarily these independents in the general term that weve used in the past as somebody who is not not a democrat or republican, but these kind of outside of the box thinkers who would have voted for rfk, would have voted for Tulsi Gabbard and the big movement here, as you can see with them putting them on the Transition Team, its taking their endorsement one step farther. The one thing i ive heard over and over again from both democrats and republicans when it comes to rfk voters in particular, you dont know so if theyre actually going to show up at the polls, will the trump team wants to fix that . And they specifically want to fix that. So they show up at the polls for donald trump. Its one thing to get an endorsement, but its quite another to say that this person is going to help shape the next administration. If i am elected, so they are clearly banking on that, or at least using that as part of the way to drive these rfk he voters who made up at least a somewhat substantial portion of the vote of the polling in states like arizona and michigan to the polls in november to try incentivize them to actually cast their ballot for donald trump. An important point, kristen holmes, as always, thanks so much. Well have more on a debate in a moment. But the other major story for the campaigns today like concerns your money. Lets go and take a closer look at why the campaigns are so focused on the economy. Now, right . Obviously this is something any campaign is focused on, but lets take a look at the 2020 map. If these campaigns are being honest with you and most of them are, and if theyre not, you can just look at where theyre spending or whether theyre sending their candidates, they care about seven states right now. They care about they care about arizona, they care about georgia, they care about north carolina. And of course they care about the blue wall. Now lets look at the polling. The most important issues in each of those states by far, if you look at the latest New York Times timessiena polling, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, all seven of those states the economy is number one by far the closest other issue. Its usually either immigration or abortion, 56 or seven points behind that is why you have seen a bareknuckle brawl breakout over the course of the last couple of days on air in campaign advertisements, why you saw j. D. Vance today in michigan talking about the economy, the former president was to michigan would be in pennsylvania, will be back in michigan, will be in wisconsin talking about the economy, other issues as well. But its always the economy that theyre focusing on with their visits, with what theyre saying on the Campaign Trail and with their advertisements, its also why youre going to see the Harris Campaign in their bus trip the first trip after the convention, both Kamala Harris and tim walz in the state of georgia. Now we all know this is a critical state that joe biden flipped back in 2020. This bus tour that therell be taking know is fascinating. The southern part of the state, and it will end here in savannah, georgia, in chatham county. This is a traditionally democratic county, is also a county that white house officials in the Current Administration 0. 2 as critical in their economic recovery. And one where the Harris Campaign knows they need to turn out bigger voters as for whats happening on air. Well, this is what the advertisements look like bidenomics is working. Thats just not true. Families are struggling with rising prices. And camillas lying i will be laser theyre focused on creating opportunities for the middleclass that advanced their Economic Security stability, and Dignity Barnea unknown who someone cares about look who they fight for. Donald trump fights for billionaires and large corporations i will fight to give money back to working and middleclass americans is cnn Breaking News we do have major Breaking News. Special counsel jack smith has just filed a Superseding Indictment in the federal Election Interference Case against the former President Donald Trump. Lets go straight to cnns Katelyn Polantz, halem. This is just happening right now. What . What do we know . Thats right. This is the Special Counsels effort to get this case Back On The Road toward trial. This is the january 6 federal election case in court in washington, dc against donald trump. The charges, the four charges that donald trump has been facing for quite some time now, theyre the same in this. Whats called a soup for ceding indictment. So a rewritten version of the criminal charges against the former president for conspiracy and other counts related to what he did after the 2020 election. But what the Special Counsels office is saying theyre doing here is they needed to go back to the grand jury, phil, and rewrite those charges so that they would incorporate what they need to say. Thats in line with what the Supreme Court told them. They must do. Remember the Supreme Court just in june, made that decision on president ial immunity, saying that some of the things in this case had to be cut out, such as things that were allegations that may be part of Donald Trumps official shell duties as president , especially his interactions with others below him in the administration. So im still going through the superseding Indictment Documents that we have. Its a 36 page document. And so what we have here now in this filing is that there are coconspirators listed, but one one of those peoplthat we had before that would have been heard by many people on the jury if it had gone to trial, there would have been a lot of information about that official, Jeffrey Clark. Hes not one of the coconspirators any more. He was Justice Department official now, it is six different private people, five private attorneys plus a private political consultant. Those are the people that are called coconspirators here before the grand jury. And now in this indictment against donald trump, kaitlan, you kind of walk through the process how we got here on some level. I think my biggest question given how closely you follow this did you expect this when youre i know youre still going through it right now. Youve just started reading through a pretty lengthy document what about this is surprising based on what weve known coming up to this point. Well, whats surprising is the timing here. We are right before the election were not in that window where the Justice Department doesnt want to do anything that disrupts the election. The 60 day period, but were nearing the end of august. And at the end of this week, we are expecting fill the Justice Department to tell the judge what they want to do for the path forward. This appears to be one of the steps to take to move things forward and to set up the next phase of this case. And the way the Special Counsel describes this in sending this out to the public is that they say that they brought this indictment before a new grand jury, one that had not heard about this case before that it approved the statement against donald trump previously, that they approved it that is the process for an indictment. It has to go before a grand jury of more than 20 people and it reflects the efforts to implement the Supreme Courts holdings and what to do next. And what this next its phase so that the hat Justice Department can continue attempting to prosecute this case in a way that they have said for some time now, they want to happen as quickly as possible as efficiently as possible. Theyre not waiting to friday to tell us what theyre going to do next. Theyre saying now, heres the plan, and then were going to be working forward from that in court or Katelyn Polantz, i know youre going to go back to reading what was just filed and talking to your sources as well, please flag when you find new interesting nuggets that we definitely need to focus in on the meantime, i want to bring in cnns senior legal analyst, elie honig. Elie, break this down for us after the great reporting from kaitlan then theyre going through very quickly. This filing what exactly did jack smith do here was this expected . So phil, what jack smith has done here is paired down the original indictment dramatically in an effort to save it. So the original indictment youll probably recall charged a broad ranging conspiracy that essentially julian held a whole bunch of different buckets of conduct by donald trump, his Pressure Campaign on mike pence, his Pressure Campaign on the Justice Department, his attempt to pressure state officials, the fake electors scheme. Well, in this new indictment, which is called a Superseding Indictment, and now essentially replaces the old indictment. The part about the Justice Department is out. The part about mike pence is out and all were left with in this Superseding Indictment is the charges relating to trumps effort to pressure state and local officials and to submit false slates of electors. Now, if youre wondering why would jack smith pare back cutback his own case . The answer is because of the the u. S. Supreme courts Immunity Ruling, which came down in july. And in that ruling, the Supreme Court said that many of the things that donald trump did while hes in office, including specifically his interactions with doj, some of his Public Communications likely his interactions with the Vice President , the Supreme Court said, those things are likely going to be immune and therefore out of this case, jack smith has now made a tactical decision. Im not going to fight the battle to keep those things in the case. Im going to take them out of the case. Im going to focus on the pressure that donald trump put on state and local officials and the fake elector scheme. And im going to try to move ahead with those pieces. The case still in place . Elie with full disclosure that i have not read this yet. Weve been live on air. This sounds the way kaitlan was describing the way you are describing it. Jack smith is essentially testing the proposition put forward by Amy Coney Barrett where there is the official acts are one thing and then theres some middle ground there, theres some gray area there that there could perhaps be a path forward for this case on it . Is that a Fair Assessment of things . I think it is, phil, i think this is a tactical retreat of sorts. I think jack smith has made the decision, given the Supreme Courts Immunity Ruling i dont want to spend the time and resources to fight for inclusion of those other parts of the case. And so what jack smith has done is sort of retreat brac to the safest ground, to the part that the supreme in court actually said is probably okay. Is probably not immune. They said its very likely not the job of the president to interact with and pressure state and local officials. And therefore, jack smith has said, okay, very well, im going to stay with that part of the case. Im going to build my case around that. And so i think this is again, a tactical response. To the immunity decision, but feel reall