Good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. I m jim acosta in washington. We begin with president biden just hours away from what may be one of the most important moments of his political career later today, the president will face the white house press corps, holding a lengthy news conference for the first time since his shaky debate performance here on cnn. And this afternoon, top campaign officials are set to meet with senate democrats as some senators are hitting the panic button, worried that biden will lose to donald trump in november and possibly take the rest of the party with him. Now another democrat on the senate side is speaking out, senator peter welch saying president biden should step aside for the good of the country. These sudden erosion of support comes amid a torrent of bruising headlines marking a brutal 24 hours for the president s campaign. One donor telling cnn, quote, everything is frozen top chicago donors in the meantime, halting a fundraiser using launche
Hours away from his first news conference since the on the line potentially his. Party support. What we know about where democrats stand on an important day plus donald trump claims he has no idea who was behind project 2025. Controversial policy plan, but a cnn investigation piece of very different picture. How the former president is actually deeply tied to the ultra conservative proposal and a patrol essentially deadly combination in texas, more than 1 million people without power amid rising feet. We re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central thanks so much for joining us. We begin this hour with brand new reporting just into cnn about how president biden s closest advisers may have been shielding the public from the full extent of the president s decline. This news coming just hours, of course, before the president is set to give a major news conference to ramp up the nato summit here in washington, dc. Our correspondents
On this new hour of ayman, the attack on democracy known as project 2025 and why you should not believe trumps claim he has nothing to do with it. Plus, new movements in trumps classified documents case. The judge responding to efforts to toss it out. And trump, biden, or us, the american people. I am ayman mohyeldin. Let s do it. Democrats are not the only ones trying to manage a crisis this week. Trump allies are in complete panic mode over the public s growing awareness of project 2025. A 900 page, authoritarian second trump term blueprint to institutionalize trumpism that would roll back lgbtq rights, detain undocumented migrants and put them in camps and staff government institutions with loyalist s. Now that the public is becoming aware of this nightmare that donald trump is claiming ignorance about, posting on his failed social media, quote, i know nothing about project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they are saying and some of the thin
Why you should not believe trumps claims that you have nothing to do with [ inaudible ] plus the judge responding to his latest efforts to tussle the classified documents case. Plus, when it comes to the worst of the week, we ve had it. I am ayman mohyeldin. Let s do it. Democrats are not the only ones trying to manage a crisis this weekend trump allies are in complete panic mode over the public s growing awareness of project 2025, 900 page authoritarian second trump term blueprint to institutionalize trumpism that would rollback lgbtq rights, detain undocumented migrants and put them in camps, and stop government institutions like the doj with mega loyalist another the public is becoming aware of this dystopian nightmare that donald trump is claiming ignorance about, posting on his social media quote, i know nothing about project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they re saying and some of the things they are saying are absolutely ridiculous and
Crime. And now, begins in california, as embattled governor gavin newsom two bites to save his job. What you need to know penn new york hospital plans to stop delivering babies after numerous nurses quit over vaccine mandate. And staffing at hospitals across the country could play out. We begin with ongoing fallout and chaos in afghanistan is the secretary of state faces the music over botched u. S. Withdrawal. White house correspondent kevin corke taking a closer look. Good evening, shannon, this was ripped out of the biden administration playbook. All else fails, blame the trump administration and usually speak in the media will give you a pass. Arguably secretary of state antony blinken beginning of this fiasco in afghanistan happen. And frankly it didn t change awful lot today and republicans on capitol hill. I don t want to hear from the secretary. In front of the camera. The gentleman s time has expired. The gentleman s time has expired. On a day of heated exchanges and blame shi