And welcome to our viewers, joining us here in the united states around the world and streaming us on cnn, max i m rosemary church, just ahead. Pulling back from the brink after a flurry of attacks between israel and hezbollah, the threat of a wider war seems to have cool for now. He was vice president kamala house is riding a wave of momentum coming out of the democrats convention as her campaign announces a record breaking fundraiser raising pool. And donald trump s team signals and aggressive new phase of the campaign comparing it to trump on steroids live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie church good to have you with us we begin in the middle east where there is a tense calm, following a heavy exchange of fire between hezbollah and israel. It appears the two sides want to avoid escalating the situation into a wider war after launching a barrage of strikes on sunday the idf says it destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launcher barrels across dozens of launch sites
Were to tell you what this signals about the war and what was supposed to be an eight day trip will now last eight monthsworth. Tell you what nasa is when nasa is saying it will finally be able to bring to astronauts back to earth. I m omar jimenez with sara sidner, john berman, and kate baldwin around this cnn news central this morning, the new dispute over the presidential debate, kamala harris, donald trump s scheduled to face off september 15 on abc, but now a battle over debate details may have put that a bit up in the air at issue, the microphones, the harris team wants mics lie for both candidates during the entire debate, but the trump camp i m says that s not what they agreed to before trump. Now, putting the whole event in potential doubt, questioning on truth, social, why he should go through with the debate? keep in the first place, cnn s priscilla alvarez and alayna treene are joining us now, priscilla first to you what are you hearing about this debate drama while that th
Cnn with alex marquardt in for wolf blitzer in the e situation room happening now, the race for the white house heats up as the debate over the debate now take center stage trump and harris campaigns battling tonight over crucial details as trump, once again cast doubt on whether he ll even show up for the showdown on september 10, plus breaking news the justice department just filed a brief urging a federal appeals court to revive the classified documents case against donald trump while defending the role of special counsel, jack smith. And we re also keeping an eye on the middle east tonight after a major flareup tensions there, israel intercepting hundreds of hezbollah drones and rockets while striking back at targets in southern lebanon welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is off today. I m alex marquardt in you re in the situation room our top story tonight, donald trump, back on campaign trail and taking aim at the democratic blu
We re two up, actually, you re one down if the poll is correct. Yeah, you lose. The other thing is, trump, when he is on the ballot, chronically under polls. Wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, came back, which showed biden winning by seven or eight. Meaning trump will do better than the polling shows. Traditionally, he under polls. Means he ll do better in the election because people are too ashamed to tell a pollster they re going to vote for him. I don t know. I m just saying traditional i will, with trump on the ballot, telling democrats, oh, james, debbie downer, what is he talking about? i m just telling you, you have to win by three. I think we the debate on september 10th will be consequential and will have an audience that we can t believe. What does america love? a train wreck. Democratic strategist james carville with the word of caution for democrats on friday. Meanwhile, jd vance was pressured on abortion and whether donald trump would veto a federal ban if he wins a second
Missiles, drones, et cetera. There has been a lowgrade conflict up theyre going back really to october 7. But the idf is saying they detected planning for a more extensive attack and that is what has led to these, what they call Preemptive Strikes inside lebanon tonight that the video youre seeing there on our screen from moments ago, thats from Northern Israel. What youre seeing there are israeli air defenses going up into the air and im told by the idf to take out incoming fire from hezbollah. Another measure of the level of alert in this country right now, the idf has confirmed that the israeli Chief Of Staff and the higher command, they are in the military headquarters here in tel aviv right now. And have been there all night this is something wolf that that folks are in. Israel. Certainly my contacts in the u. S. Have been on alert for for some time. And that is at least a potential escalation by hezbollah of fire into israel in retaliation for israeli strikes inside lebanon that