Transcripts For CNN Debate Night in America 20240911 : compa

Silhouette. Thats the one like that to the lead with Jake Tapper starts right now. Welcome to plead live from philadelphia, the site of Tonights President ial debate. Im Jake Tapper. The big moment is just a few hours away. We just got some video of tonight stage setup. Vice president Kamala Harris will take the podium. That is screen, right. And former President Donald Trump will be screen left. Not only will this be the first debate between these two president ial nominees, it will be the very first time that commonly harris and Donald Trump have ever met facetoface you might remember Donald Trump boycotted the inaugural in 2021. Today, cnn is learning that Vice President harris has spoken multiple times now with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton the democratic nominee, eight years ago, Who Thrice Debated Trump in 2016, clinton advised harris, were told to Bait Trump into who selfdestruction. This evening, creating what clinton calls low moments for Donald Trumps such as in her view, this exchange over Russia And Putin from 2016 what might, from everything i see has no respect for this person. Well, thats because hed rather have a puppet as president for trump. Sources tell Cnn Allies are cautioning him, do not take the bait and they are advising him to not to respond if Kamala Harris tries to get under his skin, well get into all of this. Were going to speak with two people who ran communications for harris and for trump in addition, were going to talk to the mayor of this great city, Cherelle Parker is here and shes pushing hard for harris in this part of Mustwin Pennsylvania where Kamala Harris must rack up huge margins in order to make up for the expected Trump Turnout in less populous, more rural parts of the commonwealth. Also, this hour, a big interview with House Speaker Mike Johnson. Ill ask him what he expects tonight. And well talk about much more. Lets kick things off with the panel. And aaron, let me ask you, advisers are cautioning mr. Trump dont take the Bait Stick to policy, stick to the issues thats easier said than done. Its always easier said than done when it comes to politics. But this is an opportunity for Kamala Harris to try and define herself. But because that a vacuum exists, its also trumps opportunity to do the same as well. People know what theyre going to get with Donald Trump. There arent questions sir. Confusion about his policy or his positions. So he has a bit more of an upper hand here and he should be held to high expectations for this evening. She should as well. Shes the Vice President of the united states and a former prosecutor. This woman will do very well on this Debate Stage tonight. But for Donald Trump to be able to stand there not only to litigate what hes done, but to try to pull her into far left conversations and make her look like she is the extreme radical thats the opportunity has tonight, if he doesnt get into the personality attached, it stays policy focus. Jamal, the Vice President , Vice President harris and the campaign. The Harriswalz Campaign, made a big issue out of wanting the microphones to not be muted. They were muted in the last debate. Theyre going to be muted tonight despite the Harris Campaign protesting why, why did they want the microphones to not be muted so i think they believed that the microphones werent muted. People were here, Donald Trump, sigh and adhere. Make. No asides from the other side of the stage this is another reason why they did it to light trolling Donald Trump. And every day as you keep Donald Trump focused on some Minute Issue like this, the day hes not listening to his advisers about how he should be trying to win this race. I think thats a big chunk of what it is this campaign is doing every day. I think what you see from the Vice President today is from what im hearing. So its going to go out and tell or story. Of course, you hold Donald Trump accountable when he says things that arent true, shell tells the story about why hes not the right choice. But theyre more interested in telling the story about why she is the right choice what she wants to do, how she wants to lead the country. They know theyve got a little bit of a gap to fill to get through that. And i think youll see some of that tonight so jasmine, were told hold that Kamala Harris has sought the advice of not only Joe Biden, her boss, and the man who debated trump in 2020 but Hillary Clinton, who debated him three times. She did luse, i mean, she did ultimately not win the election what kind of advice does Hillary Clinton have that could be useful . Well, i think she has incredibly important advice because she is the only woman to have done this before to have only did the Showdown Face down with the former president and so her advice with the Vice President is really invaluable. Its actually something that shes been doing over the course of harris, his vice presidency. She is often called her to ask things Hillary Clinton has called the Vice President , talk about things. But of course in this debate i think what harris has been practicing from the folks ive talked to is trying to confront Donald Trump, not necessarily get for tat for him, but goad him into attacking her, into showing the country who the campaign believes that xi is, that he is, and that is something that the that Hillary Clinton was able to do in the Past And Something that Homo Harris is going to try to do again on the Debate Stage. According to see, go ahead. One thing i just on this point, i think trump has to be careful on this point because one thing about attacking Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton had 20 years of people not being very favorable about her. So she didnt have the same kind of goodwill. Commonly, harris is a newer figure on the scene. She doesnt have the same builtin negatives clinton did. I think him treating Kamala Harris The Way he treated him like Hillary Clinton, were blow back on Donald Trump. A lot tougher. So lets talk about the fact that Kamala Harris is not as wellknown as Hillary Clinton because ammonia, cnns latest poll shows an average of 15 of likely voters in six key Battleground States are still undecided. Yeah, so thats, thats a big pool of people who know Donald Trump pretty well. Yeah. And still dont know what theyre doing. Theyre waiting for Kamala Harris to give them a reason to vote for her or against her. And even in that New York Times Sienna Poll from over the weekend, roughly 30 30 of voters nationally we still dont know exactly what she would do if she were president , the views about Donald Trump are largely baked in, which is why this is such a key moment for her will be interesting to jake is how much does she represent a change from Joe Biden that will be one of them shot one of the questions that will ultimately come up what does he do policywise . Of course, hes a different candidate. She brings her own historic nature to her candidacy, but that same poll from New York Times over the weekend, 60 of voters want a major change from Joe Biden. And what is, how does she balance that . She doesnt want to distance herself too much . It was president of course but she has represents some level of change, convince those voters who are commonly curious to come her way. Shes got the basin line, but those undecided voters was soldiers were skeptical of trump, still an open question she has a, she has a challenge as she needs to. Shes trying to present herself as more centrist. Than some of the positions she took, for instance, in 2019, when she was pursuing the democratic president ial nomination, usually what happens is people run to the left or the right during their partys process, get the nomination and then run back towards the center. She didnt really have a chance to do that, right . She hasnt it. Neither of them really had much of a primary and i say that because for Donald Trump, he didnt get very involved in republican primary process. Hes stayed out of it the same with comments. There wasnt a democratic primary process. So for both of them, well, there was wanted to say it was just Joe Biden and democrats made their choice. It just wasnt kamala originally but if you look at that, both of them normally would get those kind of Policy Evolutions at jitters kind of out already, but neither of them really had that opportunity to do that. But for harris here, really the Big Thing is going to be to manys point. This is like the toughest night of her professional career, but what she is looking at is, wow, okay. Ive got to keep the democratic coalition just got back together, held. But if they believe im too close to Joe Bidens foreign policies. I could see that propalestinian break again in the voting box, especially in a state like michigan, that could be a big problem for her, but then shes got to be your own percentage. She Cant Walk too far away from the Bidenharris Administration because if she does that, shes still the serving Vice President of the united states. Sound like america for her in that speech. And the Barbie Movie oh tough woman the bigger issue here in pennsylvania is a commonly harris saying she opposed fracking. Now, she says that shes not going to do anything to stop fracking. She hasnt really given a full detailed explanation and The Way thats like a shapiro Governor Shapiro might do, which is fracking as part of what we need to do in order to get away from fossil fuels, go to natural gas, blah, blah, blah, blah. But she hasnt really done that. Yes, she gave an answer in that interview with Dana Bash Week or so ago. That was it kind of meandered a little bit, but then it landed exactly where i think she wanted it to be and where it should be about the explanation is what im talking about. But the explanation which was ive seen that we can grow a green Energy Economy and its not ban fracking yeah, thats why the answer. So she could do both that. We could do both, but she hasnt yet is what im saying but thats what she said in the interview with dana. I know, but she didnt give the full detailed explanation. Like ive learned as Vice President its a risk for her not doing all these interviews. One earlier, if he does head down from a stick around, were going to talk a lot more with you guys, dont go anywhere. Just hours before tonights debate, trump is making specific demands of republican lawmakers on capitol hill. He wants them to help shut the government down unless he gets what . He wants and the House Speaker is here. 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