Escalation of tensions in the region that presents new challenges for leaders in the white house and around the world welcome to this special edition of erin burnett outfront. Erin is on his side i m in i m anderson cooper and i m jake tapper. We re covering the breaking news in the middle east are counting down to tonight s vice presidential debate that candidates will take the stage age and less than two hours and iran s attack is certainly to be a key line of questioning that s only adding to the pressure on ohio senator j. D. Vance and minnesota gov tim walz as they take part in what could be the most important vice presidential debate in modern american political history. Vance and walz are tasked with delivering closing arguments for their running mates, donald trump and kamala harris, since there are currently no plans for another presidential debate. What the vp nominee say tonight could potentially make a real difference in this razor close race for the white house with electi
Wednesday night. Alex Wagner Tonight begins theres no Play Book how to react on stage when the person to your right is talking about the consumption of cats and dogs and Gender Reassignment Surgery on illegal immigrants in prison. I dont know how i would react. Lets hope that doesnt happen again. Pp yeah, me too. Thank you, my friend. Last Nights Debate was full of important and defining moments. Almost every second of that debate showed an unbelievable contrast between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. E so much so choosing just one moment to focus on is almost impossible. But if you hadal to pick one moment to show an undecided voter it might be it might be this i question to Donald Trumpn Thep issue of Health Care nine years after you first started running, do you have a plan, and can you tell us what it is . Obamacare was lousy Health Care. Always was. Its not very good today. So just Yes Or No, you still do not have a plan . I have concepts of a plan. Concepts of a plan. Its kind of
Do you react on a debate stage when the person to your right is talking about the consumption of cats and dogs. And gender reassignment surgery on illegal immigrants in prison. I don t know how i would react. Let s hope that doesn t happen again. Thank you my friend. All right. And last night s debate. Showed an unbelievable contrast between donald trump and kamala harris. Choosing just one moment to focus on is just impossible. Obama care was lousy health care. Yes or no do you have a plan? i have concepts of a plan. It s kind of like if you ask a high school student if they started their book report and they tell you, they have an idea of how they re going to write it. The difference between donald trump and a high school student is donald trump has been attacking the health care for almost a decade now. And he still doesn t know a decade later. When there s a double standard existing and still exists for these two candidates going into this debate. For weeks these have been the head
Blitzer in washington. Ill be back in two hours, 6 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. Starts right now cnns Breaking News. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and we continue to follow the Breaking News out of manhattan and where the man at the center of the Hush Money Payments Scandal is testifying right now in Donald Trumps criminal trial, Michael Cohen is detailing exactly how he came to pay 130,000 to Adult Film Star In Director Stormy Daniels, who came forward about an alleged episode with donald trump in the days before the 2016 Election Cohen testified, not only did trump know about the uh, hundred 30,000 payment, but trump directly approved it and said that he would pay cohen back and the prosecution is using cohens testimony to present both an offensive and defensive case offensively by establishing the cohen was the man behind the payments, not just to Stormy Daniels, but also to 1998 playmate of the year, Karen Mcdougal and defensively by trying to establish that co
half an hour and they have been taking breaks? that is true. they have been brief breaks, but as we have seen in the past week, they have been taking a length of a break between 11:00 and 11:30, but we don t know the motivation of this break yet. over to kaitlan collins on the courthouse steps. kaitlan? i think that this is going as poorly as it could potentially go. no one thought that it would go well with donald trump on the stand, but the fact that they have taken a break, and they are less than an hour into the testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could, that is not good. that is essentially trump not appearing or taking the fifth, because the judge s discretion here is quite high in making the determination, and the highest actually in making the determination of what these damages are going to look like, because at the heart of