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Mesobook. Com if you or a Loved One have mesothelial, will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you im ready to 14000 back on the trail and headed straight for Georgia Vice president Kamala Harris and governor Tim Walz kicking off a Bus Tour through the Peach State looking for votes in reliably republican towns and preparing for there her first sit down interview with Cnns Dana Bash as her opponent, Donald Trump faces a new legal crisis and a Behind The Scenes look at how former House Speaker Nancy pelosi handle January 6 and its aftermath as the insurrection was unfolding and afterward, she kept her focus on trump vowing that quote, hes got okay. To pay a price for that. Plus stressed out lonely and facing money troubles. Being a parent in this Day And Age is tough Surgeon General is sounding the alarm, is actually going to be joining us live talking about what he feels needs to be done. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. E Cnn News central first stop, Georgia Vice president Kamala Harris returning to the Campaign Trail and jump starting a two day Bus Tour in the critical Battleground State Harris and governor Tim Walz are about to come facetoface with voters and reliably republican counties and about 24 hours from now facetoface with Cnns Dana Bash for the tickets first major interview, while harris is focused on 2024, former President Trump is facing new legal fallout over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Were following both campaigns today. We have cnns Priscilla Alvarez live for us from savannah, georgia. Priscilla, tell us how the Harris Campaign seeing her chances, especially there in South Georgia well, thats exactly right. Brianna, where they are going today tells us a lot about how the campaign is strategizing in this critical Battleground State and how they plan to close margins with republicans. Now, this is a strategy from the senator raphael warnock, 2022 runoff, who by the way, the person leading that campaign was quentin fulks, who is now the Deputy Campaign Manager of the Harris Campaign when he tells me is what they found to be a successful was doing the best that they could in Metro Atlanta and then peeling off voters from republicans in South Georgia, essentially losing by less in those counties, which if they look at a president ial Election Year when they already anticipate higher turnout and they see the Harriswalz Ticket as appealing to a broader base of voters, then they feel like they could pull off what warnock did in 2022. So that is why they are hitting these counties on this bus door. Now what democratic strategists also tell me is that there is a tim waltz factor. Of course, he has a role upbringing, he has his football and military routes so the other question here is how he resonates with voters in these areas and how he can help boost the ticket. Now of course, coinciding with this swing is also a lot of money being poured into ads in the Savannah Area Media Market with that, we have a new Ad Today thats the thing weve been talking about quite a bit over the course of the week, the economy earlier this week, now, project 2025, thats that Project Campaign has tried to tie directly to former president Donald Trump as some of his former administration officials have worked on it take a listen its called project 2025 a 922 Page Blueprint to make Donald Trump the most powerful president ever overhauling the Department Of Justice Giving Trump the unchecked power to seek vengeance eliminating the Department Of Education and defunding k through 12 schools now you can imagine that thats going to be Coming Up over the course of the bus. The Bus Tour today, but also those Kitchen Table issues especially in these rural counties and what the ultimate goal here is, brianna, of course, the campaign trying to do what president biden did in 2020 . He only won the state by less than 12,000 votes so it is critical for them to peel off as many voters as they can from republicans. And that is exactly the strategy theyre trying to employ in South Georgia. All right. Priscilla alvarez live for us from savannah. Thank you for that. And be sure to watch tomorrow is cnn exclusive interview, Kamala Harris Tim Walz sitting down with our Dana Bash for the first time since launching their ticket. Thats tomorrow at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Boris so former president Donald Trump is making some wild claims during an interview with tv therapists, dr. Phil even name checking Jesus Christ while pushing unproven election fraud, conspiracies. Cnn national correspondent Kristen Holmes joins us now. So kristen what did trump say during this interview was a wide ranging interview and it was very much Donald Trump fashion at one point, he railed against Mailin Voting saying it promoted Fraud Odd that it should be outlawed. Just a reminder yesterday, the rnc put out somethings saying that the we should encourage Mailin Voting and talked about how consistently Donald Trump has supported Mailin Voting, which obviously we know not to be the case on top of that, he said that biden and Kamala Harris were at fault or at least to a certain extent . For the Assassination Attempt. And as you said, he essentially said that if Jesus Christ were counting the votes, he would win in california. Take a Lesson Vote because i gave a speech i had so i added crowd so big. I said theres no way i could lose california, but automatically they marked it down. If youre republican is a loss that you lose by 5 Million votes. I said 5 Million votes. I guarantee if jesus came down and was the vote counter, i would win california. Okay . So you went on to say that essentially it would have to be the most honest person in the world. And if they counted the votes, you would want. But obviously as we know california goes blue because of those major cities like san francisco, like los angeles, those are democratic cubs. They are widely populated by democrats right now, Donald Trump has spent time there. Hes going to go back there. But usually when he goes, its not for campaigning. Its for fundraising exactly. But this again was just Donald Trump talking like Donald Trump does. Yeah. Notable given what we saw yesterday about Mailin Balloting from the republican party, bakley, he says he wants republicans to win so they could change its those rules. And Thats Something that he has said edben convinced by his team that thats why that they are promoting it. We hear this a lot. Its the same thing that Donald Trump essentially says about abortion at some point he says that we have to win the election and then we can change the rules on Mailin Voting. His team and republicans as a whole believe is a detriment to the party to not support Mailin Voting, to not support early voting because they believe theres a large Swath Pause of voters who cant get to the polls on Election Day while it is true that republicans in general are the ones who are going to show up and wait in line on Election Day. There are also republicans who cant do that and they think that it will take votes away from them. Donald trump just hasnt really gotten that night message. Kristen holmes, thanks so much for the reporting. Brianna former President Trump is facing a new Superseding Indictment. The special counsel, jack smith, rewriting the original federal Election Case against its trump, as to take into account the supreme Court Ruling that gives trump some immunity for official acts that he took as president. That distinction between official acts as president versus private acts is central to the new language in this Court Filing Weve cnn senior crime and Justice Reporter Katelyn Polantz joining us live on this tell us what is different in this Superseding Indictment well, brianna, its the same for criminal charges that Donald Trump has been facing for more than a year now, in Federal Court in washington related to the 2020 election but it is tightened. The language which and less evidence than what the Justice Department originally wanted to show to a jury. Thats because the Supreme Court has said that theyre going to have to not use anything that Donald Trump was doing while he was officially in the presidency either as evidenced or as the allegations that backup the charges does in this case. And so the Justice Department, in bringing this new version of the indictment through the grand jury. Theyve cut out a lot of what Donald Trump was talking to and hearing from and doing in the West Wing of the White House, talking to officials in his administration, telling them to do things refocused him as a Kid Candidate who was giving direction to private attorneys and hearing from people on his campaign about this effort to bring ideas of fraud across the country in courts, et cetera. The way that the Justice Department phrases this brianna is that they write in this indictment where they see the line between president ial immunity and Donald Trump, just a guy. Heres how they phrase it. The defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interests as a candidate and being named the winner of the election all of the conversations between the defendant and Vice President described below focused on the defendant, meaning training power. So thats how the language in the indictment looks. Now, that wasnt there before, and it sets up whats very likely going to be months of Court Fights over what can stay in this indictment. Can this case even go to trial and can things like those discussions between Donald Trump and his Vice President , mike pence, who was presiding over were the senate in the certification of the election. Can that say in the case or is that something that the courts want to have protected for the presidency as well . Brianna Katelyn Polantz. Thank you so much for the update joining us now to discuss all these headlines, we have meghan hays, she was the director of Message Planning for the biden White House and republican Strategist Matt hours, he was a Trump Administration Official and now runs a strategy firm, valcour. Thank you both for being with us. Matt, first to you on this Superseding Indictment trump calling it an act of desperation by democrats. Weve seen how hes used his legal issues in the past to benefit him specifically with fundraising. How do you anticipate hes going to utilize this to his advantage . Well, okay if past is prologue, its going to supercharge his base. Its going to unite his base. Hes going to raise a lot of money as a result of this. And it is going to have an impact on the election because of those reads hes in so i mean, if you ask anyone during the republican president ial primary, what was the moment you knew Donald Trump was going to become the republican nominee . He had a Iron Grip over republican party. It was after that first round indictments and the spring of last year so this is just going to continue to do it, doubles down on the message hes been telling his supporters as well, which is that it doesnt matter whether its Biden Or Harris there. One of the same and they havent entire government, they oversee and right now theyre trying to keep me and therefore, voters like you away from it. And thats the message hes telling them. I wonder meghan because he had this new interview that i know you both watched it. He had with dr. Phil and in It Trump says mail in voting should not be allowed. Its actually something hed want to rectify if he were reelected. And now you have the rnc chair, michael watley, really trying to course correct here he said, quote, as President Trump has consistently said, voting by mail, voting early in voting on election they are All Good options that is not what he said in the interview and just yesterday in pennsylvania, the rnc actually rolled out a new website, re voters can request mailin ballots. Theyre banking on on people voting mailin. Oops. I mean, i wonder how long the chair of the rnc is still gonna be the chair after he just corrected his boss, but well see how that goes, but i do think hes just trying to create more discontent and more chaos to people when he, when he loses, he can just say, oh, i told you the mailin ballots werent a good idea or this is fraud and this is isnt, you know, now Jesus Christ means account about, hes just trying to create a reason for why hed think to lose. And its just its not its falling flat and its going to continue to fall flat. I will say this. Youve seen Donald Trump in 2020 was very skeptical mailinballots told voters not to use them and you saw the result of that. He has since changed his tune largely understand his comments here. But what theyve said, its been almost a nuanced type of messaging and clear from Laura Trump from the rnc and others, which is, you need to find any way to vote this year and then we can change the rules, but thats not and so well and i expect you will see him come out. Thats my point to you mount though, is he really needs these mailin votes. Does he do you think . He understands what he might be doing here and if you look at some of the late primaries, are seeing some key states, florida and you saw similarly in pennsylvania, youve actually seen an uptick in republican requests for Absentee Ballots<