Counter kim jongun's nuclear buildup at this point, analyst on kit ponder believes the u. S. Needs to stop focusing on nonproliferation. Forget about trying to stop kim from manufacturing more nuclear weapons. Ponder believes the u. S. Should now focus on deterrence and mitigating the risks of a new clear confrontation involving north korea. Brian todd, cnn, washington all right. Brian todd, thanks so much for that report. The next hour of cnn newsroom starts now are in the cnn newsroom. I'm jessica dean in new york. We're now just over 50 days from election day. We're entering a critical phase in this race as the trump and harris campaigns ramp up, efforts to win over undecided voters in key battleground states. And today, harris this is running mate tim walz holding a rally in wisconsin as former president donald trump and his vp pick j. D. Vance attended events in nevada and north carolina. Vice president harris just been several days trying to peel away voters from trump campaigning in the deep red rural counties up pennsylvania, where trump won in 2016 and 2020 she also gave her first postdebate interview there with a local news station where she talked about being and gun owner and i am a gun owner and tim walz, my running mate is also going on or we're not taking anybody's guns away. I support the second amendment and i support reasonable gun safety laws tonight, harris is back in washington, russia will join president joe biden on stage at an event hosted by the congressional black caucus, cnn reporter isaac dovere, joining me now with more details about the harris campaign strategy but she with less than two months to go until election day. Isaac, good evening to you. Thanks for being here with us. I know you've been talking to people inside the harris campaign about how they see things postdebate. What is their sense of where this race stands? their senses that this is still a coin flip, or they feel very good about the debate but they are looking at an electoral map that they stay still, gives them not one shore path to 270 electoral votes. And obviously winning in that case. They think that this is a race that if the election were tomorrow, donald trump my win. But they believe that they can do things. A lot of things over the course of the next seven weeks to get to the place of winning. And that though they may not have one short path now that they might have six or seven or nine pathways to get there by election day and it is worth reminding as all this is a very condensed campaign we're now at the halfway point for it, where i they go from here and best maximize the time they've got left well the big question is, how do they keep up the good vibes and energy and enthusiasm that was there for the first month of the campaign, right? all through the end of july and into august, building up to the convention in chicago after she took over from biden that was what was going on. It's been a sort of quiet or twoandahalf weeks since then, in part because of labor day and then because she was in they prep for awhile, not as much on the trail, but she will be out more and more over the course in those couple of days. And beyond. Tim walz and their spouses as well. And it's also about looking at things that they can do to try to keep up that feeling of this is bigger than politics. There's energy and enthusiasm and people getting drawn in. That's about trying to tap into that energy from the taylor swift endorsement. People have talked to me about maybe trying to get taylor swift out on the trail in some way, maybe getting beyond say, out on the trail barack obama will be out on the trail, but doing things in addition to rallies like talking to all sorts of influencers online and things that they say an obama aide said to me, they're looking to have fun the idea here is that there are a lot of voters that they think are either saying that they're undecided, but very sure what they think of trump, yet feeling they want to know more and feel more about kamala harris, or that there are people who are just disengaged from politics in the normal way, and they need to get through to both those groups in a way that gives them the turnout that they need to counter what they know will be very high and very devoted turnout for donald trump yeah. And we mentioned earlier she is in dc tonight speaking to the congressional black caucus at their dinner this evening, president biden will be there with there. It's interesting because the black caught the congressional black caucus really stuck with biden when it was all all kind of unraveling for him in those weeks after the debate. And now of course, are solidly behind kamala harris. What do we expect to hear from her tonight this is a group that is obviously very excited for her. She was a member of the congressional black caucus when she was in the senate, they were as you say, sticking with biden, very strongly, but then very quickly, we're all in for kamala harris as soon as she switched to be running for president and became the nominee. So this is as friendly and hometown crowd is. There could be, these are committed democrats in washington. For the most part and people who are there for harris, she will speak to them as folks folks that she needs to talk to it because of their connections to their communities back home all across the country and trying to drive up them whose he has muslim among black americans, which was a real problem that joe biden was running up against when he was running that black enthusiasm was not there for him at the same numbers it was for him in 2020 or had been for previous democratic presidential candidates. They want it to be up at those levels. The dream scenario of course, for kamala harris is that black voter turnout is at the levels that it was in 2008 for brock obama, 2012. And if that's the case, of course it matters because a lot of the black population is country is centered in states like michigan again pennsylvania, wisconsin, north carolina, georgia, all five of those states, states that kamala harris would like to win absolutely. All right. A special saturday night appearance by isaac dovere. We are very thankful to you. Thanks for being with us thank donald trump appears to be distancing himself from his most viral moment in the debate. But she cleaned with zero evidence that haitian immigrants in springfield, ohio are eating people's pets. At least 67 million people tuned in on tuesday and now trumps words are having realworld consequences immigrants in springfield telling scene and they fear for their lives yesterday, schools were evacuated for a second day in a row after receiving bomb threats tied to trump's conspiracy. And on friday, trump sought to downplay those threats today, he denied any knowledge of them do you did ounce the bomb guards in springfield, ohio? i don't know what happened with the bomb threats. I know that has been taken over by illegal mining migrants, and that's a terrible thing that happened. Springfield was this beautiful town. And now they're going through hell. It's a sad thing, not going to happen with me. I can tell you right now as trump claims, ignorance over the realworld impact of the conspiracies he spewed during the debate, polling shows his performance on tuesday may be costing him with voters. Cnn's harry enten is joining us now to break down what the postdebate polling is showing us. Harry, what does the electoral map look like with about 50 days to go, you know, we talk about those national polls, national polls are good, nice whatever. But look, this is a race for 270 electoral votes. So let's deep, deep dive into that electoral map because that's what ultimately matters. And this is basically what we're looking at, right? it's a race to 270. You get to blue states for kamala harris to red states for donald trump, and those yellow, or the tossup states, the states that are within three points in the polling. And what do we see right now? we see really a race in which no one's anywhere close to 270 electoral votes. We got kamala harris to 26, donald trump at 2:19. And you've got those seven key battleground states. You've been talking about them over and over and over again that are still not anywhere close to being decided. Of course, those key great lake battleground states right up here here wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, and of course done in the sunbelt, down in the southeast, north carolina and georgia, nevada, and arizona in the southwest. That's where this election is going to be decided. And even postdebate, there is no sign that those states are moving anywhere out of the tossup range. The bottom line is this race has continued to be the closest it's one in a generation, certainly since i've been alive consistently and there is no sign that's anywhere changing. And with 52 days and flexion day, the bottom line is this race continues to be way too close to call jessica and so bearing that in mind, what currently are the easiest pathway is not that it sounds like there's easy pathway for everybody to victory for both with harris and then also for the former president. Easy as a relative term, easy as a relative term. So look, if we get the polling, if the polling right now matches the result perfectly, right? what are we looking at? we got kamala harris to 276 electoral votes, donald trump to, 262, and kamala harris path really runs right through these great lake battleground states right? we're talking wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, but of course, as i mentioned earlier on, all of these states, they're all extremely tight. She also gets nevada, but that's extremely close as well. But let's just say let's just say donald trump outperforms his polling by just a single point, just one point, he gets to 287 electoral votes look, he gets nevada, he gets arizona like he had before. Georgia, north carolina, but then this is what we're talking about over and over and over again pennsylvania pennsylvania, pennsylvania. That race has been consistently so tight, it's well within a point whoever wins pennsylvania, jessica, my guess is is gonna be the next president united states. And at this particular point, that state is way too close. Close to call. And that's why this race is way too close to call. It just continues to be the center of the political world. Pennsylvania why is the trump campaign and really the former president's so insistent on highlighting and moot and moving through lies about the migrant situation in springfield, ohio yeah. They're trying to connect it to the larger immigration picture that's really what this is about. And why is that? because they just feel they can win on the issue of immigration better on immigration, look at this, 44% of americans say donald trump, just 34% say kamala harris and keep in mind that immigration has consistently ranked as one of the top issues. And last month gallup poll 19% said it was the nation's top problem ranking number one, that's why they're talking about this so much. Whether or not that works, i think we'll find out and say, but i think that is sort of the math behind this equation that's going on in trump's camp campaign's minds, at least that's probably, i would assume, i think are going to tell us translating into google searches people are looking up words the phrase's what are they that are increasingly associated with former president trump online you know, i've covered a number of campaigns and i certainly have looked up those that i haven't covered. I've never seen this quiet before. Phrases that are increasingly googled with trump pre debate versus postdebate. Look at this, eating pets eating dogs, eating cats. Of course, that's all garbage. It's all a bag for gazi, not doing any of that in springfield, ohio. But the bottom line is trump said that during the debate, people have got an interest in that. I think that's bad news for the president. Some of his campaign officials, some of his supporters might say it's good, but i can tell you this. It's certainly something we i've never seen before. And in this unprecedented campaign, the google searches, jessica, are also on unpreceded. I mean, just look at this. This is crazy stuff that's going on here. Yeah, this is where we are in the year of our lord, 2024, right? harry enten, always good to see you. Thank you for breaking down the numbers for us. Thank you. Still ahead. The biden administration unveiling new evidence against russia's state media network. 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Today, we're announcing that these kremlin back media outlets are not only playing this covert influence role to undermine democracy in the united states, but also to meddle in the sovereign affairs of countries around the world our kylie atwood has more on this stage carpet rolled out a major effort to try and blunt the global influence of rt, the russia state media network, and also to expose it as playing a key role in russian intelligence and influence operations globally with the secretary of state saying that much of the new information came from or t employees notably, we also know is declassified us intelligence at the state department provided publicly on friday, one of the key details is that a russian cyber and intelligence unit was imbedded in rt that started back in 2023. Officials wouldn't say if that unit is still embedded within our t, but it was able to collect information and then share it back with russian intel elegance. Now, the state department is engaged in a global diplomatic effort now to try and share this information with allies around the globe to warn them of the risks associated with rt globally. And this comes on the heels. Of the biden administration and the department of justice going after the influence that rt was seeking to have here in the united states to try and influence the 2024 presidential election? kylie atwood, cnn, the state department kylie, thank you. And we're joined now by jill dougherty, a former cnn moscow bureau chief and professor at georgetown university. Jill, thanks so much for being here with us. I know you've written extensively about russian disinformation. You're actually teaching a course on it right now. What's just your they shall response to this news that we're learning i'm not surprised i know margarita zoom in yan, who is the head of rt, editor in chief, and you know, rt was founded, you have to go back to almost 20 years, 19 years ago, 2005 remember talking with her? she was very young when she took over actually starting it at the age of 25. And i remember talking to her and she said, you know, jill, we really want our rt to be kind of like cnn, an international news organization. But in the same breath, she said early on in that period, there wasn't a lot of interest in russia at all. So what they did was they rebranded and instead of russia today you had rt a