13 days out from election day, 5 hours out from the Kamala Harris Town Hall.

The lead starts right now.

Vice President Kamala Harris calling out Donald Trump after he reportedly dismissed a fallen

army soldier as an effing Mexican not worth a $60,000 burial and long for military generals

like the ones Hitler had the Trump campaign

denying all of these words coming from his longest serving chief of staff.

The Atlantic Journalist out with this new reporting is here with what he learned.

Plus, counting down to the big CNN presidential town hall a critical moment for Kamla Harris,

who has the money, but is struggling to get a clear upper hand in this race.

And CNN's Clarissa Ward and her team held captive in war-torn Sudan,

thankfully released, and she'll be here to share what that experience was like

and to talk about the humanitarian crisis overwhelming

that region.

Welcome to the lead up Jake Tapper. We take tapper. We're in just a few hours

CNN will host a town hall with Vice President Kamala Harris who is hoping to win

over undecided voters in this critical battleground Commonwealth with only 13 days until election day

but before Harris takes the stage this evening we need to take a beat because so much has happened

since I last talked to you a mere 22 hours ago, first, stunning reports that former

President Donald Trump said he wanted the kind of generals that Hitler had.

This is just one revelation in on-the-record interviews from John Kelly, the retired Marine General, who was

Donald Trump's law serving White House Chief of Staff. Kelly says he's speaking out now because of

Trump's recent comments, calling his political opponents the enemy within and suggesting it would be

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