these the deals on happening before there shot with georgia, a key battleground state in the race for the white house in just moments, the current us president will debate the former us president as their parties presumptive nominees a first in american history, we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world to our studios in atlanta. this is the cnn presidential debate this debate is being produced by cnn and it s coming to you live on cnn cnn international, cnn.com, cnn max, and cnn espanol. this is a pivotal moment between president joe biden and former president donald trump. in their rematch for the nation s highest office, each will make his case to the american people with just over four months until election day good evening. i m dana bash, anchor of cnn s inside politics and co-anchor of state of the union. object, tapper, anchor of cnn s the lead and co-anchor of state of the union dana and i will co-moderate this evening. our job i