san francisco home. the attack was intentional. quote, not random. new details are emerging about the suspects blog posts. multiple senior law enforcement officers firmly with the case are telling nbc news that the posts take aspects of liberal anti establish ideas to more recent posts. they espouse positions typically associated with far-right extremism. both sides of the aisle are reacting to the attack. that includes vice president harris. i think that we are looking at a time in our country where there is so much discourse fueled by hate and division. anyone who professes to be a leader, they have to really understand the meaning and impact of there words, their posture. also developing, vice president biden voted earlier today in wilmington, delaware. he was alongside first-time voter and granddaughter. the midterms were ten days away. more than 20 million americans have now voted early. let s lk at the breakdown by party. you can see it right there. 35 republican, 4
states and around the world, i will blitzer a, you re in the situation room a live view from cnn studios in atlanta, where anticipation is building for a presidential debate. hello, like any other think if you re donald trump is going to take away this sort of circus-like atmosphere that we saw in previous debates. the interrupting that s what a yellowing the surface now alpha off of the crowd energy. and i think in some ways it didn t poses a seriousness to donald trump that he wouldn t get otherwise if it was a sort of crowd like atmosphere. and so in that way, i think that advantages him, right? i think the disadvantage for somebody like donald trump is you have to be serious. you have to fill up the time with coherent arguments, coherent talking points. so we ll see if he s able to do that. it s a two-minute he has time to respond, but he s got to talk policy and he doesn t often like to do that. listen, i think biden is an experienced debater. he, if you lo
night, there was high energy among the crowd that came out to see former president obama. we spoke to people who had waited in line for hours just to get inside. this was a first come, first serve of. and we were told there were about 7000 people in that room. if you were there, you would be forgiven for thinking the momentum, based on that crowd energy, is all with the democrats in georgia s key races, but that s really not the case right now. that is why former president obama is on the trail here. democrats are struggling in the senate race. stacey abrams, who is challenging incumbent republican governor brian kemp, is behind in the polls, and georgia s senate race, you have two candidates there who are essentially at a statistical tie. right now, neither candidate, incumbent senator raphael warnock and his republican challenger, herschel walker, neither one of them are above the 50% threshold required to avoid a runoff in this state. so what your shirt democrats are hoping is that
process. it s been a long year. reporter: the team s hope of gold turned to silver. stephanie apstein covers gymnastics for sports illustrated. they were a little surprised by how different it would feel to get here and have no crowd energy to feed off and especially not to have the people they love in the stands. reporter: in another shocker, home country tennis star, naomi osaka, who lit the olympic cauldron after withdrawing from the french open in june because of her own mental health concerns, was knocked out in straight sets. meanwhile, the cloud of covid continued to hover, with more than 150 olympics related cases now. and tokyo recording its highest number of new infections since the pandemic began. yet, team u.s.a. pulled in second behind japan overall and is tied for first with china in the gold medal tally. carissa moore took home the first-ever gold medal in
that is where the president is at his most comfortable and it was interesting to see his speech at the united nations last week on the very day that nancy pelosi announced this impeachment inquiry. he was very kind of low energy, actually to quote the president. you could tell he was not in his most natural environment. but when he gets to these rallies, you can tell that he just kind of lights up and feeds on the crowd energy. and that s where you re going to see the true president trump come out. and you re going to see what he actually thinks of the process. and how he thinks the american people should understand it. anna, thank you so much. we ll talk to you again. thanks. and former vice president joe biden has a 20-point lead in south carolina that is according to a new early state poll. biden sits at 37% in the latest winthrop university poll. he s head of massachusetts senator elizabeth warren at 17%. and vermont senator bernie sanders who rounds off the top three, he com