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breaking news so counsel jack smith files a reworked indictment and donald trump's federal election subversion case. >> why prosecutors are now slimming down the allegations against the former president superseding indictment comes on the heels of a new twist in the simmering feud over the upcoming presidential debate, donald trump now says, he's agreed to participate in the face off with kamala harris using the original rules a source confirms to cnn that does include microphone muting while the candidates are not speaking. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world will flits or is off today. i'm alex marquardt and you're in the situation room the scheme is cnn breaking news but first to some other breaking news in the presidential race,

we are learning that cnn will hold an exclusive interview with kamala harris are first since becoming the democratic party presidential nominee for running mate tim walz will join as well for the first interview. >> this is also their first interview together as the democratic ticket we and are seeing in football record, david chalian's david, what are we learning? >> yeah. i mean, we have been waiting to see this next sort of important hurdle for kamala harris and her campaign to jump, which is after a very successful six weeks here since she became the democratic nominee, coalesce the party behind her raised a ton of money injected enthusiasm, got a running mate pulled off a convention. all of that though alex, very scripted. now, a couple other things coming up. they said they were going to schedule an interview of sit-down interview and extensive interview before the end of the month that now is happening on cnn with our colleague dana bash, our anchor and chief political correspondent, down in georgia harris and walz are going on

this bus tour starting tomorrow in georgia. the interview will take place on thursday. it will air as a primetime special and 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn on thursday. and as you noted, it is of course the first joint interview that the democratic nominee and the vice president nominee are doing together. but it's also her first interview. the vice president as the democratic candidate. this is the first time she's going to take questions in a, in a concerted effort like this in an interview format since joe biden six weeks ago up ended this entire race by making that historic decision to bow out of his campaign endorsed his vice president, kamala harris. and that center on to these lasts six weeks here. and there are a lot of questions that didn't lingering out there for her to answer as we go into this fall campaign, speaking with the campaign, they've made the point that you just did. it's been a busy 30 plus days. she's had a lot to do, not least of which was last week at the dnc, but as you note, that was all very scripted. so how much more? revealing cannon

interview like this before the voters and i guess more importantly for those undecideds who are still going to be making up their minds in the next few. yes. >> so i don't think voters look at it like we do and say, oh, you do an interview, doing interview, take more questions afterwards exactly. >> but i do think voters learned valuable information from candidate seeking the highest office in the land about how they think in these unscripted moments and how they think through a pressing challenge or question that they are being asked. so they are valuable to voters. and in fact kamala harris had a bit of a rough go with one of these big interviews out of the gate as vice president, she sat down with nbc's lester holt and she had some answers about whether or not why she hadn't yet visited the border and her response to those questions have been obviously area of republican critique. but throughout her first-year as vice president and area of democratic concern about harris's performance. she obviously has worked to address much of that and we've seen a far different harris in these last six weeks on the campaign trail, a far more surefooted

harris. but now is the opportunity to hear her ruminate allowed with dana asking her about her policy positions, her plans for the future, her plans for the country in an unscripted setting. and of course, to see the democratic ticket with each other interacting with each each other and as political director, you're certainly going to have a hand and helping dana with those questions and formulating those. >> what do you think are some of the issues that dana is going to have to focus on? >> listen, i think it is pretty clear from all the surveys out there what the american people are focused on the most important thing shoes, time and again, we learned in every poll, the economy is number one above all, the cost of living. those are things that kamala harris herself addressed in that speech in north carolina, a couple of weeks ago but to flesh that out, no doubt and it is what we hear day in and day out from donald trump and j.d. vance on the campaign trail on the issue of the economy. it's what we see put the harris and trump campaigns, spending all their advertising money on

right now, sort of going back and forth in these battleground states on the airwaves over the economy. so that's issue number one for voters, but there are a whole host of issues of policy positions, both foreign policy and domestically that we just haven't heard from her yet in this capacity as the democratic nominee. so this debate is can be happening on thursday, which is an interview, yet, excuse me. but it's happening just two weeks before the september 10 debate. so this will be her first unscripted moment essentially, since the dnc and in this in this interview fashion but david chalian stay with me. i want to turn to kristen holmes, who covers the trump campaign. and kristen, something we've heard time and time again from donald trump is that she has not sat down for an interview. she has not faced tough questions we should note she has been getting some questions kind of an ad hoc manner from reporters on the campaign trail. donald trump has held these press conferences in which he's actually been quite rude about it, saying that she did not martin enough to sit down and and face these tough questions.

do you think that that is what she's doing now sitting down with cnn for this interview is going to take away that argument, mute some of that argument. >> i think you might start a new argument. i think that what they're looking for is any sort of mistake, any sort of misstep. and that's partly why they are pushing her to do something sort of debate. they are interview. we know that she has yes. taking questions from reporters. but as you said, it's been sparse. it's been here and there. sometimes it's in response to something in those settings. she can be whisked away at any time that's how a campaign is. she's underneath a wing of an airplane. usually they want her to sit an answer for some of the questions austrian particularly on her policy for example, the fact that she had ran actively against fracking and now says she's not that opposed to fracking. that obviously comes at a time where pennsylvania might be one of the most critical states in the 2024 election and fracking is something that is important to a lot of voters. there they are hoping that she will get grilled on these various topics because what they have seen is

that she has not been out there in the spotlight. now, if you talk to democrats, if you talk to a lot of people who know different person than she was when she made those first gaps early on in her tenure as vice president, when she was not as exposed. but if you talk to republicans, they believe there's a reason she hasn't sat down for an interview that democrats are really trying to capitalize off this moment there might be some fear and again, this is talking to republicans that there's something there that she might make those same mistakes, stuff that she made back in 2020 or in 2021 during those interviews, david mentioned the lester holt interview, for example. just a reminder that lester holt interview is played on repeat when republicans run ads against kamala harris, particularly on immigration, party what they're looking for here is another opportunity on that, because right now what she's hot is a pretty great six weeks and a lot of momentum and a bounce they're looking for anything that might shift that and the opportunity to

have her answer for some of those policies are looking essentially for new fodder because they've had a political campaign. >> of course they are, yeah. >> trying to go after her after after the president dropped out eva mckend, you follow the harris campaign. there has been this discussion over to what extent she actually needs to sit down with a journalist, take these tough questions. she's essentially saying, this, that yes, this is a vital part of the process. so what did you think that she and her running mate are going to be looking to accomplish in this interview. >> so i think that this will answer to some of the criticism that she's faced. this will be an opportunity for her to show that she has a good mastery of the policy issues. most important to most americans, i haven't heard this clamoring for her to do this interview as much from her supporters as i heard from my colleagues here, but certainly i understand why there is this appetite for this, but i also think that she's going to use this interview to try to connect

with americans. you know, she has talked a lot about her economic policy and what really strikes me about that is so much of the polit, so much in talking about the policy is her trying to connect with everyday americans, talking about growing up in a working class family really being intentional about saying, hey, i know what it is, like to struggle. i worked at mcdonald's as a young person and i saw some of my colleagues back then when i was a college student try to make that salary work to raise an entire family. so yes. she is going to now be in a position where she has to answer for some of these reversals on key policy issues but i think she's also going to use the platform to try to be relatable and try to get more people to really like her, understand her empathizing, connect with her david the there they're doing this together which is which is quite notable. they've been trying to play up their, their relationship and how they get along quite well. what are the

advantages and disadvantages of sitting down to this, to this joint interview? >> well, first of all, this is a pretty traditional play out of a media playbook in a campaign. once a, nominee has chosen a running mate. we've often seen fall in the following weeks. i'm sitting down for joint interview kamala harris was in the other role, just four years ago when she and joe biden sat down for a joint interview after he put her on the ticket. so that's something we see, but i also just think this in addition, everything we've discussed about she just hasn't done this yet and we're going to be able to see her think in front of us about these policy positions and what she wants to communicate to the american people, but also, there has been nobody in our lifetime that has been put in a position in presidential politics like kamala harris has in these last six weeks that's just a fascinating thing to understand about what she's been experiencing as she had this big change of her plans moment at the end of july when joe biden stepped away from this

and endorsed her and she immediately stepped in and coalesce the party behind her. we just haven't seen anything like alex and so also just understanding how she is processing that is going to be an interesting i think part of just hearing her in this moment. >> yeah. >> i'd best she thought she wouldn't be in this moment for years from now and then she was thrust into it. so there is certainly a lot to ask her about is certainly going to be a fascinating interview. guys stay with me. we have a lot more to discuss. you will be able to see this exclusive interview in a cnn special, kamala harris and tim walz joining dana bash this thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn monday night, a two-hour whole story special, the candidates and their record on the key issues of the election season. >> what does their past tell us about how they will meet the whole story with anderson cooper monday starting at 8:00 on cnn recipes. recipes written by hand. lost to time are now

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have been going through this revised indictment that was just posted. walk us through it. what do you seeing what alex what the justice department did was they got that supreme court ruling a little more than a month i think almost two months ago, and they went back to the grand jury to rewrite the four charges against donald trump. >> it's the same four charges that trump was was charged with a full year ago in federal court in washington, dc related to the 2020 election. but what they did was they cut out the stuff the supreme court said, yeah, that can't go to trial things like what trump was accused of to do with the justice department. so that's no longer part of this case. when if and when this case goes to trial, there's not going to be anything about jeffrey clark that senior official. what the justice department was doing and saying to interact with donald trump, none of that will be presented before a jury. it's no longer in this indictment or in the allegations against him also, nothing about what the intelligence agencies were doing, either to tell donald

trump that he was wrong about election fraud, and that is something the prosecutors need to prove in other ways to show he knew he was lying to the american public that's a core piece of the case. the where the way they're going to do that, alex is that they are going to show that he was working with coconspirators who were all private people. this is what they write in this version of the indictment. the defendant enlisted coconspirators to assist him in his criminal efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and retain power. these coconspirators included the following individuals. none of whom were government officials during the conspiracies and all of whom were acting in a private capacity. that private capacity is crucial here to move this case forward. the other thing they're saying, alex is that they do want mike pence to still be in this case very likely as a witness, but the way the prosecutors want to do it is it's not mike pence as vice president. it's mike pence as the president of the senate. the person who's supposed to sign off on or

oversee that congressional proceeding to certify the electoral votes boats and the presidency. the results of the election, the way that they describe it in the indictment now has updated language all around what mike pence was doing and how he was talking to donald trump. they write in furtherance of these conspiracies, the defendant tried but failed to enlist the vice president, who was also the defendants running mate and by virtue of the constitution, the president of the senate, who plays a ceremonial role in the january 6 certification proceeding that is going to be something that the courts are going to have to look at going forward. it's also going to be something that the trump team is very likely going to be challenging going forward as they try and continue to hope to get this case dismissed, but it's all going to be handled in court, not just in the coming days, but in the coming months, maybe even years ahead those challenges from the trump's, the trump team are certain to come katelyn polantz, stick around. >> there's a lot in this

revised indictment, so i want you to stay with us as they bring in our legal experts who are joining us now for more for analysis, karen friedman, agnifilo, want to go to you first, i wanna get your reaction to this move by special counsel, jack smith, essentially cutting out what the supreme court believes that president trump did. former president trump did in his official capacity making it more about what he was doing in his campaign capacities, capacity as a candidate, how effective do you think that that's going to be to move this case forward i think what they did here is they streamlined things and really just pared it down to the president, the former president, when he was acting as candidate trump or in his private capacity? >> because they point out in this new indictment and the superseding indictment, which by the way is very common for prosecutors to do to supersede an indictment. this just cleans it up and takes out any of either the evidence or the facts and the allegations that

the supreme court ruled in july were official acts and part of his official acts. so they took all of that out, including the department of justice and jeffrey clark that he was coconspirator number four that has been removed. there were six coconspirators in the initial one that was pared down than anything with the department of justice's out. and this is just all about candidate trump now trying to subvert the results of the election. >> so norm eisen, this is as we've been saying, it's slimmed down, its revised. but at the same time, you still have the same four charges by removing everything that trump would did in his official capacity to so what he was done, he was just doing in his capacity as a candidate. does that neutralize do you think the concerns that were raised by the supreme court and they're ruling when it comes to presidential immunity. >> alex, while i strongly disagreed with some aspects of

trump vus, the supreme court decision the edits that the prosecutors have made here speak to the concerns of the court that unofficial conduct may be prosecuted like political candidate conduct it's not just what they cut to meet the supreme court's test, which i think judge chutkan will now apply that test to this indictment, this superseding indictment. it will ride through they made cuts, they went from 45 paragraphs to 36 paragraphs from 130 pages, 206 pages. but if you look, they also made subtle additions before they said the defendant made knowingly false claims. now they say that defendant used his campaign to repeat and disseminate knowingly, false claims. they have cleaned in

this for the court. and i think we're going to see a series of court proceedings now, adjudicating this, which will be of the utmost interest to the public, because that's what the supreme court asked judge chutkan, apply our test. so look for a series of briefings and hearings here in dc federal court. >> jim trusty, you're a former attorney for the former president. it was a victory for the trump camp when the supreme court made their ruling. almost two months ago on july 1 granting are essentially stating that the office of the presidency has these sweeping powers of immunity but now this is yet something else that the trump team has to contend with. what do you expect the reaction from his legal team to be? >> well i. think there's a couple of things. i mean, look, the devil's in the details of that immunity ruling in the ruling, they set up essentially practical landmines for jack smith to deal with. it's not

just a question of whether immunized information is inadmissible at trial. that's easy to deal with. you keep the. same indictment you go to trial, but you're not allowed to ask questions about jeffrey clark, for instance. but it also said you can't contaminate the grand jury with immunized information and that's what this is trying to address. this is jack smith being very aggressive, trying to get out in front before there's a hearing with judge chutkan where she'll be called upon to decide i which matters or admissible and which ones aren't. if he's lucky, if he's right and if he's not being too creative by saying mike pence wears two or three halves than his indictment will survive that hearing. judge chutkan will sign up and say, you're right. everything that's left is a personal act. but if there's even a single one where he is wrong if the defense can convince judge chutkan, hey, this is a bridge too far. mike pence doesn't wear a special half. it says president of the senate. and she agrees, guess what happens? he goes back and tries to get another indictment. this is not

really a great moment for jack smith. that is slimming it down because of the way the immunity ruling came out. it's not a win at all at this point. what to see how that hearing goes? norm was talking about kaitlan on that note about the vice former vice president's role. >> that's something you mentioned as well. so essentially, as far as i understand, jack smith is now talking about mike pence, not as vice president, but as the president of the senate. and that there therefore is not part of the that is not part of trump's official relationship with his vice president. that's more a campaign issue. is that right? >> a campaign issue or actually alex, it's that mike pence under the constitution the way that the prosecutors are framing this is part of a different branch of government. on january 6, he's part of the legislative branch overseeing congress. and so that is how they're trying to make sure that the bubble isn't so wide over pence that they can't use

him at all. now, this is one of those things that the judge is very likely going to have to look at it trial-level, judge chutkan and then it is very likely something that the appeals courts and even the supreme court will want to look at. because not only remember, is it that they can't have that as part of the charges one of the things that supreme court said as well was you can't use it as evidence in the case. things that were happening. and so when you see in this indictment conversations on the phone in person even between mike pence and donald trump, those are still here. but other things that trump was saying to people in the oval office, that's cut out now because that must be something the justice department does didn't want to have to fight over. there is very likely going to be a big fight over pence, specifically, as the vice president, what that role is, and we are as we are so many times in these trump's related to donald trump cases, we are

in truly uncharted territory where the court it's are having to figure out things they've never had to figure out before karen, how do you expect the trump team to go after that argument? >> that pence was acting in a different capacity and the other arguments that jack smith is now making, now trying to redefine things. i should say, not from a campaign stance, but, but from an official stance on official rather yeah. >> i mean, it all boils down to whether donald trump was acting in his official capacity, whether these were official acts, if you will, and mike pence is similarly situated because as kaitlan some pointed out, he's part of the executive branch when he's vice president. but this ceremonial role that he was playing, or that he has in the constitution where he's where he has to certify the election as the vice president. and the

president of the senate. that's what he was acting in that capacity at that time. and so they're going to emphasize that as part of as part of this case, i think and of course the trump case is the trump team is going to make the counter argument and say no, that's his vice president who's part of that branch. so that's what they're going to say and it'll be up to the judge to make those determined my nations that it's official and therefore, it's covered by presidential immunity. it is a fascinating move by jack smith going to make for a very interesting few weeks ahead. thank you all for breaking that down with us up next, we'll be getting reaction to all of this breaking news when a former member of the january 6 committee, democratic congressman, jamie you're asking to say what the polls for have i got news for you? a pretty yeah. >> what are the kinds we could run on the news before then would never happen if i got news for you. the mere saturday, september 14 at night on cnn and streaming next day

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breaking news, the revised indictment against former president donald trump in his federal hello election subversion case. the allegations slimmed down in response to the supreme court's immunity ruling in july, even as the core charges against the former president do remain the same. four of those charges remain the same. door me now is maryland congressman jamie raskin. congressman raskin, thank you so much. for joining us on this breaking news. now, of course you investigated the former president on his role on january 6. what do you make of this revised indictment slimmed down, but with the same charges. do you think it will be successful in moving this case forward? >> well, he's clearly tailored to the supreme court's decision and helps to demonstrate why the decision was so ridiculous. but i think that jack smith has operated with surgical accuracy and precision to identify all

of the private actions did candidate trump in his campaign engaged in to try to overturn the election. the reason i think it's doctrinally unnecessary is because it's not part of the president's role in any way to oversee the presidential election our framers were not idiots. they didn't put the president at the center of counting ballots in georgia were collecting electoral college votes on january 6, and the joint session of congress so really all of this demonstrates the silliness of the supreme court's decision and what a departure it is. but nonetheless, i think that jack smith has very studiously conformed. this indictment statement to what the supreme court is asking for so it's making clear that when he called up secretary of state raffensperger in georgia and said, just find me 11,780 votes. he was not acting to implement a core function of the executive branch. on the contrary, he was just acting as

one presidential okay. candidate and a particularly lawless one with criminal intent using dishonesty, fraud, and deceit, which is the refrain that keeps reappearing within this new indictment that everything was really outside of the law end. he was acting in a private capacity i do want to read a new line that was not in the original indictment. >> this is from the revised indictment that just came out, quote, the defendant had no official responsibilities related to the certification proceeding, but he did have a personal interest as a candidate in being named the winner of the election. so i basically take that to mean that in trying to overturn the election can trump was not acting as the president, but as the candidate. is that how you read that? how effective do you think that argument is going to be to your point and essentially trying to neutralize how the supreme court ruled on presidential immunity we'll get to perfectly obvious to everyone no president has ever done

anything like that in terms of calling up particular state election officials to tell them to recount the ballots or just find me thousands of ballots that go my way. >> no president has ever been involved in a plan cooked up to organize counterfeit electors in order to defraud the united states and to deny people of their voting rights and they do zero in on the final aspect of the plot, which was trump telling pence to step outside of his constitutional role just to unilaterally nullify and vaporize electoral college votes from pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, arizona and nevada just make them go away. that obviously is not within the president's core functions in the executive branch or any official duty that he's gotten. so they're making clear that he's operating as an outlet in doing all of this, even if he tried to clothe himself in the image

are the aura of the presidency. i mean, that's clearly how he got secretary of state raffensperger on the phone. it's clearly how he intimidated mike pence, but he was operating as an outlaw throughout all the actions on january 6. >> and pence was operating as a member of the legislative branch as president the senate, not as donald trump's vice president. and that official capacity, but congressman, what about the question of the timing here? this filing coming on this tuesday, jack smith filing this days before each side was supposed to give their proposals for how to proceed after the supreme court immunity decision back in july, why today during donald j. trump well, look if donald trump doesn't like how late this is happening, he should not have been delaying and postponing voters for many, many months here jack smith is playing the cards. he's been dealt by donald trump and by trump's supporters on the

roberts court, who have made this go as slow so as possible, and i think there's something quietly heroic about jack smith insisting on going forward to make sure that this plot come to light donald trump tried to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power with the counting of electoral college votes. he tried to violate the voting rights of the people who was expressed through the electoral college process. and he tried to defraud the united states, all of us out of a free and fair presidential election so jack smith is trying to make the law work in the way it was intended to. >> it congressman, even with these revised charges, this slim down superseding diamond experts for saying that it's pretty much impossible for this case to make it to trial before the election. do you think that the former president will ever stand trial for these alleged crimes well, yeah, i don't want to speculate as to what's going

to happen in judge chutkan's courtroom she's an excellent judge. >> she's a public defender who has always stood up carefully for the rights of criminal defendants at the same time, she clearly believes in the rule of law and that everyone is subject to the rule of law. so i'm hopeful that it's able to move through. meantime, of course the real remedy to this outrageous and egregious sequence of assaults on our constitutional democracy is going to be the people, the people acting to make the constitutional meaningful. i mean section three of the 14th amendment says, if you have sworn an oath to uphold and defend the constitution of you violated it by engaging in insurrection or rebellion. you shall never be allowed to hold federal or state office again. and ultimately it's the people who are going to have to enforce the meaning of that constitutional command. >> all right. congressman jamie raskin of maryland. thanks so much for your time. your thoughts this evening you bet. just ahead. a lawsuit over new election rules in georgia. why

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latest election controversy there to stay election board. it's a mess brad raffensperger, a republican, is frustrated with members of his own party who are on the georgia state election board, three unelected republicans on that board, recently approved measures that would give local officials does the power to delay the certification of a county's election results? >> this november now, top democrats with the backing of kamala harris is presidential campaign are suing the georgia state election board, trying to block those new rules with passing this new rule they are creating barriers to counting votes and certifying the elections. so donald trump can once again attempt to throw our country into chaos total former president trump recently praised those three board members, janelle king, rick jeffares, and dr. janice johnston are all pitfalls fighting for honesty, transparency, and victory there, fighting was in an interview with cnn and one of those board members, janelle

king, denied working on behalf of trump resorts in the president i will ever be appreciated. >> any support but i'm not working on behalf of anybody but democrats and watchdog groups argue that those republican election board members don't have the power to give county officials the power to contest votes. there is not any discretion that has allowed for under georgia's election law that would permit these unelected officials to inject themselves in between the voters and the certified results who does have that power? the power vast was someone who is aggrieved in the election. so fred, so as a candidate, i candidate can say, you know, i think that i have the votes were not counted properly. >> this is just the latest election controversy to flare up in georgia since the 2020 campaign. donald trump lost the state that year by just over 10,000 votes, and georgia was at the center of trump's attempts to overturn the election i want to do, is this i just want to find 11,780

votes, which is one more that we have. no evidence was ever found to support trump's claims of voter fraud in georgia now, georgia democrats and voting rights advocates are calling on the state's republican governor brian kemp to investigate those republicans on that state election board. and one democratic state senator has filed an ethics complaint against those republicans for pushing to change the rules so close to the election governor kemp just recently this afternoon, issue the statement saying he is taking the matter up with the state attorney general, alex controversy and georgia, there's a lot more brian todd. thanks so much for that report. appreciate it. >> coming up. the latest on the hostage rescue in gaza, we have details on the israeli military operation to find i am and retrieve a hostage who's been held captive inside a hamas tunnel tv on the edge premieres

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dangerous complex of hamas tunnels is a first israeli commandos rescued guide for handle caddie from an underground tunnel following accurate intelligence his family had been waiting 326 days to receive the news they did today but there are still 108 hostages whose families are still waiting israeli officials declined to release further details for fear of impacting the safety of other hostages believed held nearby. >> but two officials tell cnn that the idf found al-qadri alone without his case captors. how cardi a 52-year-old arab, better when and father of 11, was working insecurity at a kibbutz in southern israel when hamas fighters abducted him on october 7 he was among several non-jewish hostages held by hamas is freedom is a rare

moment of relief for her hostage families in israel with good news, all too rare. just last week, israeli forces brought back the bodies of six hostages found dead in southern gaza tonight, the hostages families forum released a statement calling our cody's rescue, quote. nothing short of miraculous, but adding military operations alone cannot free the remaining 108 hostages a negotiated deal is the only way forward. i spoke tonight to a close friend of our carty, who when he met with him this evening, asked him if he knew that he was among the many protesters on the streets of israel over these past it's weeks and months protesting demonstrating for a hostage release deal he told them he was so cut off from the news. of course, he didn't know but that gives you a sense, alex, of the fact that there is an enormous amount of political pressure in this country to

strike a deal to get the rest of those hostages home. there's still 108 of them, although israeli officials acknowledge alleged more than 30 of them are now dead. but part of the pressure of course, is that the longer that deal is pushed off, the longer that the two sides can't come to an agreement. the worry is there won't be many more happy moments like the one we saw today as his friend told me, he called it unexpected an unbelievable such great news. and we are expecting those talks over that deal to continue tomorrow in doha after a feverish negotiations, jim sciutto in tel aviv thanks very much coming up. we have much more breaking news to dive into. cnn will hold an exclusive first joint interview with vice president kamala harris and minnesota g governor tim walz will have all the pros for have i got news for you were pretty odd yeah. >> what are the kinds we could run on the news before then?

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