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Thanks for joining us. The news continues now here on cnn and the fed makes a Jumbo Rate Cuts what it means for you and the global economy are now just 47 days away from the us president ial election. You polling is giving us greater insight into which way voters or leaning in three critical battleground states, according to a set of postdebate Quinnipiac University polls democratic president ial nominee Kamala Harris is leading her republican rival, Donald Trump, among likely voters in Pennsylvania And Michigan her Onepoint Lead in wisconsin is within the margin of error on wednesday, both nominees sort to get their messages out. Harris was In Washington where she slammed trumps Immigration Proposals or trump criticized his democratic rival at a Campaign Rally in New York its time to stop the lives, stopped the hoaxes, stop the smears, stopped the lawfare, the fake lawsuits against me, add stopped claiming your opponents will turn america into a dictatorship. Give me a break. Because the fact is that im not a threat to democracy. They are move our nation forward to a brighter future. Donald trump and his extremist allies well keep trying to pull us backward. We all remember what they did to tear families apart and now they have pledged to carry out the largest Deportation Mass Deportation in american history. Both candidates also reacted to the move by the federal reserve to cut Interest Rates for the first time in four years harris called it a welcome news while an adviser in the Trump Camp called it a political decision yes it shows the economy is very bad to kind of buy that much assuming theyre not just playing politics the economy would be very bad, or theyre playing politics one or the other. But there was a big Guy Economy remains top of mind for many voters, the Quinnipiac Poll shows trump has a slight advantage on that key issue. Well, james, his union has announced its not endorsing anyone in this years us president ial race. Will this marks the first time in nearly three decades the teamsters have withheld an endorsement and those sense have been in support of the democratic nominee. Despite that the Harris Campaign is touting the endorsement of Local Teamsters Chapters in several key battleground states. A republican rival meantime is cheering Survey Data from the union indicating about 60 of its members supported him over harris, Donald Trump claims that amounts to an endorsement earlier today, i was honored to receive the endorsement of the Rankandfile Membership of the teamsters. I love that president of another major union, the united auto workers, had this response to trumps claim its not a trump endorsement. I believe their union just like argument in most other units i know of in this country are going to vote heavily for Kamala Harris and tim walz trumps comments on wednesday come as the republican nominee took his campaign to New York, cnns alayna treene, is there with the details spent his Wednesday Evening in uniondale, New York as surprising choice that many people kind of raised their eyebrows out Given Clark is not a battleground, Donald Trump actually lost the state both in 2016 and in 2020 by 20 percentage points. So despite all that, trump on wednesday argued he believed that he could win New York even while acknowledging that some people, including his allies In Washington dc, question him why he was choosing to come to such a Blue State so close to the election. Take a listen to how he put it when i told some people In Washington the going up to New York, were doing a campaign speech. He said, what do you mean New York . You can ever, nobody can win. Republicans can win. And said i can win New York or weekend when New York, were going to win now when i talked to Donald Trump senior advisers about this decision, they argued that a lot of the reason he came to New York, to Long Island specifically is because this steeped in personal history for Donald Trump. He grew up in New York and hes always wanted to do a large Scale Rally in New York arena. This was kind of checking off that box for the former president , but they also acknowledge that they dont necessarily believe that New York is going to turn red in november now. Q. Notable things that trump spoke about on tuesday one is that he had dressed an endorsement from a major Union Group that teamsters, a union actually, i should say not endorsement from the Union Group. However, Donald Trump falsely claimed that they had endorsed him. Ill note that their decision not to endorse this cycle is a big deal. They would going they have endorsed the democratic president ial nominee for the last several Election Cycles. Every Election Cycle really since 1996 trump also vowed to visit springfield, ohio. Of course, the place where both he and other republicans have been spreading baseless rumors about haitian migrants eating pets. He said he wanted to go visit that city as well as a War Or Colorado at another place where he has claimed that venezuelan gangs are taking over the City Something officials on the ground argue is grassley overstated so a lot of harsh rhetoric on Wednesday Night and again, not necessarily in a state that is crucial to the election come november, alayna treene, cnn, uniondale, New York worried the fighting between Israel And Hezbollah could escalate following at twin attacks involving Booby Devices targeting the militant group, the lebanese Foreign Minister tells cnn, he fears the consecutive attacks could signal a Quote Introduction to war with scores of walkietalkies exploded across the country on wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 450 others. It comes a day after hundreds of pagers blew up nearly simultaneously across lebanon in an unprecedented attack which winded about 2,800 people. The Death Toll rose to 12 on Wednesday Israels Defense Minister tacitly acknowledging his Countrys Role in the exploding devices that we are at the start of a new phase in the war, and we must adapt this is true for everyone i think what i have said it before, we will return the citizens of the north to their home safely and thats exactly what we are going to do and israeli source tells cnn, israel carried out the Pager Attack after it believed hezbollah had discovered the devices capability, the u. S. Says it was not involved in the Operation Elliot Gotkine is following developments from london. Elliott, as we know, his bluff its reeling from these multiple attacks, not just the Death Toll, but the staggeringly high number of casualties. And then on top of that, this is completely humiliating for hezbollah it is a humiliation, anna, as you say, its members will be not unreasonably wondering what devices, what other devices, gadgets, gizmos they have in their homes, workplaces, cars, on their persons, which could also have been booby traps. So theres a kind of psychological Warfare Element to this. And as you say, this Death Toll by all accounts, something like 33 hezbollah members according to releases by the militant group, have been killed since the Pager Attacks on tuesday. We dont know specifically how many were killed in those Pager Attacks, but certainly this is the biggest loss of life for hezbollah since last october since hostilities began between hezbollah and israel, when hezbollah began firing on the country in support of the hamas Terrorist Attacks of october the seventh. So theres a psychological element, theres the physical element that deaths and injuries to its members. Theres also, of course, the damage to its ability to communicate, its ability for its fighters to communicate among them cells. Not least, since has Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah earlier this year, told them to effectively bury their Cell Phones for fear of them being hacked or surveilled and encouraging the use of pagers. Nasrallah, by the way, due to speak later on today, we do know of course that hezbollah has vowed retaliation as how does its main backer, iran, whose ambassador To Lebanon was also wounded in tuesdays attack, although hes said to be recovering there are concerns that tensions are heating up and we know that just as another indication of that and concerns for a full blown war between Israel And Hezbollah, which has been in the main fear for months now, lloyd austin, the u. S. Defense secretary, having three calls with his counterpart, Yoav Gallant In Israel since tuesday, The Americans were aware that israel was planning an operation in lebanon against hezbollah, but werent aware of the specifics. But as you say, after tuesdays attacks from those pagers, Wednesdays Walkie talkies, there are concerns and questions and wondering as to what is coming next, what could happen on thursday . What could happen in the days ahead . Ana Elliott Gotkine In London. Thank you for the update joining me now, is Seth Jones senior Vice President of the international Security Program at the Center For Strategic And International Studies said, thank you for joining us. Lets start with the impact of this attack. Extensive casualties, obviously, but also that the psychological damage that this has done this attack has had at least two major effects. One is its actually killed and wounded a number of individuals connected directly to hezbollah. And then even some innocent individuals. The second it has had in at least a shortterm psychological impact of theres just a sense of hezbollah, right now, whether its Pagers Walkie talkies, potentially you even Cell Phones, that theyre vulnerable as you say, first, it was the pages. Now walkie talkies. I mean, what else could have been compromised well, i mean, any any technology right now, i think the there are other options Hassan Nasrallah has already encouraged hezbollah members not to use Cell Phones, sold, abuse computers. So i think theyre arranged. There still a range of other Technology Options that i think has what has to be a little bit concerned about now where He Hezbollah is at now is in some ways where alqaeda ended up being at, including osama bin laden, which is having to resort to couriers to pass information along because any kind of technology was too dangerous, it could either retract or it could be weaponized, like what weve seen this is obviously highly embarrassing and humiliating for hezbollah how do you expect them to react there are three options. These are mutually exclusive, but one is hezbollah is a an international organization. Its conducted attacks against israeli embassies. Israeli and others around the globe in latin america, in africa, in europe, In Asia so one option is theres a retaliation somewhere else around the World Option Number two is hezbollah has between by our count, hundred and 20,000 to 200,000 standoff weapons, including short range ballistic missiles that they could fire on israel. And then a third is hezbollah, partly through its iranian connection, the islamic revolutionary the Guards Quds Force has allies across the region in syria, in iraq, the houthis in yemen we could see some kind of coordinated activity as well. Again, these arent mutually exclusive, but i think there are a range of ways has blocked could respond now hezbollah, we understand believed that the israelis had developed technology to hack into phones. Your activate microphones, and cameras, spy on users. Ironically, the israelis had opted for an Old School basic tactic in catching his villa completely off god, i mean, what do you make of israel doing this and doing this now interesting is were at a period right now where the israelis are starting to wind down the war in gaza, its not over, its not going to be over in at least a short term but israeli leaders, including prime Minister Netanyahu have said repeatedly that they are going to turn their attention To Lebanon and to hezbollah firing of antitank guided munitions and other standoff weapons from south litani river, north so the blue Line And Area that has caused the israelis to evacuate individuals even hotels that i was in recently when i was in Tel Aviv so this is really the israelis starting to focus on both direct Strikes Aircraft and other drones that theyve been firing inTo Lebanon. And now these sort of unconventional irregular types of activities, covert action. So i think what were really seeing is this combination of the israelis i expect hezbollah do the same of varying both conventional and very unconventional attacks against Each Other as we heard from us Secretary State Anthony Blinken saying that the u. S had no knowledge of these attacks, had nothing to do with them. He said that the Audit States is trying to work for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, not escalated i guess so i ask you what has taken Place Israel doing this to hezbollah. How can it not escalate tensions in that region . Yeah i think since october 7, weve seen the war. Im going to call it a war between Israel And Hezbollah creep up the escalatory ladder. There have been thousands of standup weapons fired from both sides at Each Other killing both civilians and military officials. I think this is just another step up the escalatory ladder, but it is still well below fullscale war. 2006 was the last real case where these really put some boots on the ground, including in southern lebanon. We havent gotten that stage yet if we do look out for a lot more weapons flying at israel from lebanon, and probably also syria and potentially iraq and even, even yemen. And then on the other hand, i would expect to see the israelis really pummeling parts of of lebanon, including beirut. So theres more war rings up. The escalatory ladder. If they continue to go up not quite there, but it is concerning it says jones. We appreciate your analysis. Thanks for joining us thank you very much still to come a big news for the u. S. Economy were the first Interest Rate cut since the start of the pandemic and its the first of several to come and later,