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
Welcome to the amine for our, heres where were headed this week this week, we examined power and all the ways it affects our lives. First, were going to compete with china were determined to do that. Todays big Power Conflict between china and the United States. My conversation with veteran diplomat us ambassador To Beijing Nicholas Burns, then people have always been interested and now theyre sort of worried. And concern about oh, no Luck Power unchecked power. And the fact that it might be coming for america, the writer who examined a man named Robert Moses who had the power to build and trample over new York Pulitzer prize winning Author Robert Kara joins me. Why 50 years on his seminal book is still flying off the shelves now its safe, you know, so people stay in the deadly Power Struggle in El Salvador between a Strongman President and the criminal gangs. And what it all means for the United States and then in our letter from london, he unleashed her as his secret Weapon Kingmaker
Not commit his conviction was overturned, as we have covered, he joins me live in studio today. Hes going to explain how hes trying to make what happened to him does not happen to Anyone Else plus brandnew polls from a handful of states likely to decide the president ial election. What voters in these battlegrounds are saying about Vice President hello, harris and former president Donald Trump, and leading this hour, the clock is ticking and failure is almost guaranteed as dysfunction continues to rain on Capitol Hill, the House Of Representatives is getting ready to vote on what is said to be a doomed government Funding Bill. If and when this fails, House Speaker Mike Johnson is not revealing as of now what Plan B is that . Coming he has a Plan B. Republicans are aware of the timing and are warning about the repercussions of federal Government Closing for business just weeks ahead of the president ial election. Complicating all of this Donald Trump this afternoon putting out a social
Breaking news, major Breaking News out of lebanon right now hundreds of people have been injured and an attack thats targeting the pagers pagers of members of the iranian back militant group. Has valla, according to sources arounds ambassador to lebanon appears to be among the injured data according to an iranian news agency, cm has been wiedemann is joining us right now. What do we know about this attack then . This happened just a couple of hours ago, wolf, where there Was a series, perhaps hundreds of explosion small explosions in the southern suburbs of beirut in other areas of lebanon where his bella is present. It appears that these explosions were pagers exploding it simultaneously. These pagers belonging to we believe members of his butler causing hundreds, perhaps more than 1,000 injuries. Weve seen live pictures from the American University Of Beirut hospital where many of the injured have gone lebanese hospitals have called on staff to return to their places of work because
We might not know. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is 59 days away. That used to mean wed be that many days in a couple of hours away from figuring out who would be the next president but maybe not this year for at least two reasons. First, by all accounts, the race is razor thin. New Cnn Polling of six Battleground State shows a dead heat while harris has the edge in michigan and Wisconsin Trump has the advantage in arizona, theres no clear leader in pennsylvania, georgia, and nevada overall too close to call and its not just cnn, a variety of other respected pollsters have similar results. The real clear politics average for pennsylvania as of yesterday, trump 47. 2 who harris, 47 point to the washington post, just by illustration of another measure, nevada is a tie North Carolina and arizona, its trump by less than one. Georgia trump Plus Two michigan, harris Plus Two Pennsylvania Harris plus three Wisconsin Harris plus four curiously, youve got Pollin