Much for being being with us. Heres whats happening today. Former President Donald Trump takes his message to the critical Battleground State of North Carolina. The visit comes as a republican backed candidate for governor resist calls to drop out of the race after cnn exclusively on earth lewd comments made on a Porn Site while some members of the advanced team were very diligent there was complacency on the part of others that led to a breach of Security Protocols also, the Acting Head of the Secret Service is vowing to hold agents accountable left but he called a breach of protocol before trump was shot at a rally in pennsylvania back in july. The quote, failures, he says made it difficult for officers to respond and the aftermath that shooting i wasnt particularly impressed by what i saw and i told them in their were very nice people he wellintentioned. I just said it looked to me like a lot of this stuff was not quite ready for Prime Time damaging testimony in the search for answe
Welcome back, everyone. Top of the hour here On Cnn this morning, youre looking at a live picture from st louis. Thank you so much for joining us for this Special Edition of cnn this morning. Yes, i am not victor blackwell. None of us are im Amara Walker alongside danny freeman, Allison Chinchar, of course. Andy scholes of victor is off. First of all, will be back on october 5th. It really feels like the Holiday Season is applied i dont say that all is that what you made in terms that will that to one person is taken off now, but like halloween and you go to the source any already . And i was like Christmas Decor its our its going to feel a lot more like fall real soon for some places i hope it has said so holding on to summer as long as we can. No. No, not here all right. Well, were glad to have you with us. Heres whats going on today former President Donald Trump takes his message to the critical Battleground State of North Carolina. The visit comes as the republican going back candi
There, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, and we begin with breaking news. We are learning that seven us troops were injured in a raid that killed 15 members of the islamic extremist group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening on thursday in iraq two of the seven were evacuated from the area for further medical treatment u. S. Central command says that the operation was targeting i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan for their attacks. Cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh is joining me now. Live from london. So nick, what do we know about this operation? yeah alex, quite extraordinary development here. Essentially, because of the number of u. S troops injured in this instance, seven 75 of whom apparently during the operation to it seems from a fall separately related to that one of whom requiring followon care outside of theatre. Now we re getting a statement to iraqi military high co
That. It s right back to you ax yeah, just remarkable hitting it from so far out repeatedly, patrick snell, thanks very much. Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with the legal showdown in former president trump s election subversion case, he new latenight filing last night, setting the stage for a potentially contentious hearing. Next week in d. C. s federal court, where a judge will decide how and when the case will move forward. The standoff comes as special counsel, jack smith resurrected the january 6 case against trump with a new superseding indictment this week, both trump s lawyers and the special counsel are at odds about how this this case should now proceed. Trump s team is pushing for his schedule that would carry the pretrial disputes through the beginning of next year long after the 2024 election, cnn s holmes lybrand is covering these legal developments and joins me now. So homes, where
Sometimes great challenge is right under your nose i hanako montgomery in tokyo, and this is cnn you are in the cnn and newsroom. I m jessica dean in new york and we begin with breaking news from the middle east where the israeli defense forces say they have located, quote, a number of bodies during combat in the gaza strip, seen an international diplomatic editor, nic robertson is joining us now, live from jerusalem with the latest on this, nic reminding everyone details now very scant. But what are you learning yeah, i have to say as well, this is unusual for the idf to put out this sort of statement to say that they ve located bodies during a combat operation. They don t normally sort of comment on things as actually happening and unfolding and that s what they so as precisely happening at the moment. They re saying that they are working to extract an identify the bodies in this ongoing operation and that asking for people to refrain from speculation, which appears to perhaps indica