Im going to turn you over into the trusted hands of one mr. Wolf blitzer, who is in this Situation Room, which just is actually in Philadelphia Today it is Debate Night in america and we are now just a few hours away from what will be an historic President Ial Debate. And the first Facetoface Meeting between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Good evening to all im Erin Burnett im Wolf Blitzer in philadelphia. Welcome to our viewers here in the united states. And around the world. This is a Special Edition of the Situation Room. Erin, the unprecedented Showdown Tonight will be thank you. Place right here in philadelphia. These are brand new pictures were getting right now the Debate Stage former President Trump now making his way to the city of brotherly love. Cnn is learning. He will be joined by two family members, Eric Trump and his wife, lara trump. And wolf. The stakes obviously couldnt be higher. This is a Razortight Race from every single poll. Early
Still getting towards faults, darker in the morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us on this tuesday morning. Will they or wont say new questions about the Schedule Debate between Kamala Harris and donald trump. After the former president said this abc debate when you watch this weekend and its the worst of all networks. But when i looked at the hostility of that, i said, why am i doing it . Lets do it with but the network i want to do it. I think abc is really should be shut out. Id much rather do it. On nbc scheduled for just two weeks from today. That debate could be voters only chance to see and hear the candidates face off in person. And even if the debate does go ahead, just what the voters can hear is the sticky important right now what would you want the microphone muted and the debate whenever youre not speaking, we agreed to the same rules. I dont know. Doesnt matter to me. Id rather have it probably on, but the agreement was that it w
sandra: awaiting a press conference for students for fair admission who brought on this case after we heard from the president there just a short time ago. so that presser in washington will be underway any moment. we ll get there when it begins. the group brought two separate cases against the university of north carolina and harvard to the nation s highest court and asian-american student claims he was rejected from six elite universities by race. reaction out of it. thank you for coming. let me introduce participants of this press conference. on my far right is calvin yang, calvin is a participating member of students for fair admissions. he was rejected from harvard a few years ago. to my right is thomas mccarthy, typical spelling, thomas mccarthy. tom is the founding partner of a law firm consevoir and mccarthy, and chief trial counsel and students for fair admissions versus the university of north carolina. to my left is adam mortara. adam is with mortara law, forme
now. thank you for jumping on with us, our viewers have new seen it, what was your reaction when you learned this happened? well, thank you, sandra and john. thanks for being on with us today. yeah, this is a marine corps town, we were shocked, saddened and disgusted. john: we understand the marines were on leave from camp pendleton, some teens were lighting fireworks and i don t know if it was a simple request, or if it was some sort of pointed request from the marines to stop doing it. what happened then? lay it out for us, mayor. yeah, we understand that we had some local youth gathering down at the beach for the end of the school year, you know, getting kind of excited and then they had this confrontation with the marines, we understand that they were setting off fireworks and the marines did tell them to stop. and at that point these youth really turned on the marines and started attacking them. this is completely unacceptable thankfully we have fired four more dep
act. some of what we know about the suspect now. he worked as an i.t. specialist in the air national guard and held the highest level of security clearance granted by the federal government. harsh criticism coming over how any of this could have happened. how did a massachusetts national guardsman get access to this kind of classified and sensitive information? what general will lose their job? there ought to be bipartisan condemnation. the idea a 21-year-old kid can expose sources and methods of how we spy. the incompetence is stunning. this is a massive, catastrophic occurrence that should never have happened. harris: which part of that they need? he had the highest security clearance. was that the problem? was it the fact he was 21? a lot of questions there. investigators telling fox news as of now they simply believe teixeira acted alone. republican congressman chris stewart, member of the intelligence committee, will be p focus. let s start with alexis mcad