them as they recover from all of them the gravis and great to see you this morning. thank you very much. and new hours. cnn news central stars right now history will be made on several levels when president joe biden and former president donald trump take the stage for the cnn debate in atlanta with polls showing there in a dead heat, we have new details on the candidate strategies and the u.s. embassy in moscow fighting back as russia puts detained american journalist evan gershkovich on trial for what the state department says is a sham espionage charge and cities swamped by a deluge of flooding, roadways washed out and river gouges still at major flood stage across the upper midwest when will that water some side nine sarah side or john berman and kate bolduan, this is cnn news central the big day is here nearly here basically, here, joe biden, donald trump preparing to make history the first time a sitting president and debates a former president. in this first debate
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fast. people aren t going to sit down and watch the whole speech. if you are the biden administration, you have to figure out, what are the big take aways. the laundry list of policies wouldn t be that useful. if there is not a war and not the supreme court, you know what we d be talking about. the former attorney general under donald trump came out with a book where he scolds trump. he says trump lost his grip. these extraordinary revelations coming out about the former president. and not to mention the bill barr book. these stories about trump that would be so stunning, they don t even get played largely because of ukraine and russia and because of the supreme court. we face the same thing ourselves on podsave america. we did a story on all of trump s
though, obviously fidel son his last legs but raul castro is in charge. it doesn t seem the transfer there was any weakening of the state, the central power. what makes you think even if raul castro was to go, the policies wouldn t continue? you know, i think, anderson, that the cuba regime, the castro regime is very fidel-centric. very castro-centric. when it disappears, i think it will weaken the government tremendously because so many people, it s the cult of fidel. the same way it was the cult of chavez and we have seen maduro is nowhere near as capable of keeping that government under control in venezuela and let s face it. raul castro is pretty elderly himself. they re both in their 80s. dan, how hard is it for president obama to move forward this? i mean, you have marco rubio saying he ll block funding for cuban embassy and hold up an ambassador role. i think it s important to disassociate those two things.
so now when we are so close to the end of the castros, the end of that regime, whuchbt seen fidel castro react because if he s alive, he s too weak or too senile to know this just happened and react. now that we are so close to the end of those two dictators who have oppressed these people for over half a century, now we re going to change and do it unilaterally without them lifting the oppression? ana, what sign do you see though, obviously fidel son his last legs but raul castro is in charge. it doesn t seem the transfer there was any weakening of the state, the central power. what makes you think even if raul castro was to go, the policies wouldn t continue? you know, i think, anderson, that the cuba regime, the castro regime is very fidel-centric. very castro-centric.