higher. the president and the former president the cnn presidential debate thursday night at nine live on cnn and streaming on max cnn good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta and washington, we do start with breaking news at any moment, the supreme court is expected to hand down more opinions with just one week left and it s termed the court still has to release a number of decisions that could send shockwaves through american society. in addition to a bombshell presidential immunity case the justices have yet to rule on the prosecution of january 6. defendants. a key emergency abortion rights case and gun rights for domestic abusers, but less so the week before cnn s highly anticipated presidential debate, the question of whether donald trump is above the law, looms largest of all as the former president relentlessly demands total immunity out on the campaign trail do you have to have a guaranteed immunity for president otherwise, the president is
militants when in fact they accidentally kill civilians. and that happened just last year in may of 2023 when us central command said that it was targeting getting an ice, an al-qaeda operative. and in fact, they ended up killing a farmer in syria. and of course we all remember that botch drone strike in kabul in 2021 when the us was withdrawing and said they were targeting isis operatives there. when in fact they killed a family of ten civilians. and so well isis does a while, the us does say it s going after these isis militants, these al-qaeda operatives it is always important to ask the question of how they can be short. these are in fact al-qaeda and terrorist operatives and not civilians. in this case, they say there s no indication that civilians were hard hi, i m sarah for tran. thank you for that. another hour. i ve seen a new central starts right now it, is like cramming for a test, but it s still not making the honor roll, but the future of the country, if not the
Security forum, we will break down with what both candidates said. Debate expectations. A majority expects Hillary Clinton to out perform trump. Will they be the most watched president ial debates ever . From dangerous Close Encounters with American Plains to blocking american ships, what is behind the blazen new acts. Were following Breaking News in the race for the white house. Her policies produce ruin and death. Trump says clintons performance showed she is unfit to be president. Clinton saying the same thing about trump. Calling his criticism unpatriotic. New polls show clinton leading trump in pennsylvania and ohio. The candidates are tied in florida. Also following growing concern over russian and iranian apartment. The pentagon said there has been dozens of sdpents this year. Including a russian fighter jet coming within ten feet of a navy plane. Were covering all of that and more this hour with our guests. And our correspondents and expert analysts are standing by. Lets start
deliberating a verdict could come this morning breaking this morning, a suspect arrested for stabbing for americans in china the video censored on chinese social media. new questions this morning about what happened and why health experts expressing concern that a bird flu outbreak in the united states could become a much bigger problem there are a assignor is out today. i m john berman with kate bolduan. this is cnn news central happening now alive, look at the federal court in wilmington, delaware, where everyone is waiting for work when the jury now they will be resuming deliberations in hunter biden s federal gun trial. they met for only about one our yesterday. so maybe they have hours of work ahead, but word could come any moment really, the jury is weighing three felony gun charges against the president s son. that together here gray maximum penalty of 25 years if convicted, cnn s evan perez is outside the court, and then it was a big day of closing arguments yeste
Populous and 40% of its voters are african-american. our lunch conversation with four undecided democrats included discussion of their debate expectations. you ve got 20 democrats in your city this week trying to make their case. anybody have a firm candidate yet? not at all. no. it s too early. too early. you re all planning to vote in the democratic primary? yes. absolutely. you say you don t have a firm candidate yet. who has impressed you? it doesn t have to be one, it can be two, three, four, and what are you looking for? right now i believe my top contender, if i could pick one, would be elizabeth warren. i think she s an incredible woman who really speaks to the issues that i m passionate about. kamala harris surprisingly is someone that i m also looking at. i wasn t quite sure just based on her history as a prosecutor, but the more that i ve listened to her as a candidate, i think that she s a bold woman. i think that she commands the debate stage so she s s