Is your job and thank you all so much for joining us. This is seen under central as johnson said its metal coverage of the trump trial starts right now, this was Cnn News Central us federal a live view of the criminal courthouse here in manhattan, where we are told doctors legal team will be on a mission today, zeroing in on Michael Cohens admitted and allege lies before president and all it is on his way to the courthouse right now is the defenses preparing to up where it left off, grilling trumps longtime fixer. You can see them there waving to the cameras as he gets into his motorcade. Over the last 24 hours, trumps legal team its been preparing for this moment for colins returned to the Witness Stand. Im told and plotting their strategy to undermine the prosecutions star witness. The question is whether they can the jury, but also their client im Kaitlan Collins here in new york. Object. Saverin, washington dc. Youre watching special seen in live coverage of former president Donald
your money s good, you feel good the number one want to win earth with leah primer sunday at nine on cnn the first presidential debate of 2024 is in the books and at this writing, it s likely to be remembered as the defining moment of the race good morning, everyone. cnn this morning is live in atlanta. it is 5:00 a.m. here on the east coast. i m kasie hunt. it s wonderful to have you with us to stakes last night, we re extraordinarily high and in the eyes of many democrats, their candidate failed to meet the moment he failed to prove that he has the ability to lead for four more years. they say because of moments like this thank you. sure. that we re able to make every single time person eligible for what i ve been able to do with the covid excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with if we finally beat medicare president s performance marred by a frequently inaudible voice and several instances where he struggled, seems to struggle to complete a thought or
more energetic, hope and change. that sounds to me like what they want. and i want to just play this one sound bite with regard to what the president will have to do. this is an interview i did with victor davis hanson. the longer form is going to be in my podcast. here is what he says is the president s ticket to win. trump s message is pretty sophisticated. you can already see it s forming. in 20162 was i m not hillary clinton. whatever i am i am not hillary clinton. now it s going to be hillary clinton was not that bad compared to what s here. i m the only thing between you and socialism, whether you like me or not. if you are an independent voter you have me or these people. martha: richard, what do you think about that. that s obviously a caricature. i m sure that s exactly what donald trump is going to say. in the house of representatives, for example, where nancy pelosi is older still and the republicans try to run against her, the democrats picked up 40 seats and of those
welcome back, everybody. officials in maryland are holding out hope the national guards man who was washed away in the devastating flash flood in maryland is going to be found alive. 39-year-old eddy hermand was swept away sunday while trying to help a woman find her missing cat. witnesses say they saw him go under the flood waters and never resurface. this is the second catastrophic flood to hit a historic ellicott city in two years. in 20162 it was called a thousand year flood only for it to happen again over this past weekend. one of the biggest questions now is whether the city founded in 1772 should once again try to rebuild. so there was a lot of weather stories to be tracking out there. we are also tracking tropical storm alberto which is threatening to bring floods to the southeast. for that we want to turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill? good morning. between 16 tornadoes yesterday,