Debate Night In America: Harris - Trump

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris face off tonight for the first time in ABC’s presidential debate in Philadelphia. Our team of experts break down the candidates and their key policy issues as polls show it’s a tight race just eight weeks before Election Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're not going to be here. It is debate night in America and we are now just a few hours away from what will be an historic presidential debate and the first face-to-face meeting between Vice President
0:24.0	Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
0:26.5	Good evening to all, I'm Aaron Burnett.
0:27.9	And I'm Wolf Blitzer in Philadelphia.
0:31.8	Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world.
0:35.3	This is a special edition of the Situation Room.
0:38.1	Aaron, the unprecedented showdown tonight will be taking place right here in Philadelphia. These are
0:44.1	brand new pictures we're getting right now at the debate stage. Former
0:47.6	President Trump now making his way to the city of Brotherly Love.
0:51.1	CNN is learning. He will be joined by two family members,
0:54.7	Eric Trump and his wife, Lara Trump. And well the stakes obviously couldn't be higher.
1:00.8	This is a razor-tight race from every single poll. Early voting is
1:04.7	about to start 56 days until actual election day. And both candidates are trying
1:10.8	to use this moment to frankly try to get under the other skin to
1:14.5	unsettle them we've seen what can happen in a one-hour debate.
1:17.4	Harris bringing with her two of Trump's former aides in attendance and her
1:22.0	campaign also just releasing an ad featuring
1:24.4	former President Obama mocking Trump's obsession with crowd sizes.
1:27.8	Meanwhile, Wolf, Trump's campaign is telling reporters the bar is quote, very high for
1:31.8	Harris. They released a list of 47
1:34.3	former prosecutors who are now backing the former president instead of Harris who of
1:39.2	course Wolf is a former prosecutor.
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