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at Philadelphia International Airport. Why are we showing you this? A worldwide IT outage has caused dozens of flights around the globe to be grounded this morning. Major airlines, including Delta, United, and Spirit, all impacted at this hour. So if you are planning on traveling today,

You might want to check on it before you get out the door. Good morning, everybody. I'm Casey Hunt. It's wonderful to have you with us. We have just learned that American Airlines, which had been grounded, saying that they've been able to resolve their technical issues. They put out this statement just minutes ago saying, quote, we've been able to safely reestablish our operation safely.

We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience. This issue is not just impacting airlines, also banks and stock exchanges in Europe and Asia. CNN's Mark Stewart following all of these details for us from Beijing. Mark, what is the latest? I understand we're learning more about what may have caused this.

Casey, since we last talked about 40 minutes ago, we are getting a little bit of clarity as to what appears to have happened. We are hearing now from the CEO of CrowdStrike. This is a cybersecurity firm that Microsoft uses to help provide cybersecurity for its online products. And now we are hearing from this president and CEO, George Kurtz. He says that CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike is actively working with customers to deal with a defect found in an update for Microsoft Windows. He goes on to say this is not a security incident or some kind of global cyber attack, making a point of saying that this issue has been identified and

fixes, if you will, repairs are now being deployed. So the good news in all of this is that this potential problem, this problem has now been identified. The issue is that it has had a lot of ramifications worldwide here in Asia. But as we are seeing as people wake up in the United States, it's also having

far reaching problems in Europe as well as the US. As you mentioned, airports and airlines are being affected, including Delta, Allegiant. It appears that American Airlines is having some resolution with its flights, but a lot of carriers, not only in the US, but also worldwide have been dealing with problems.

such as Cathay Pacific here in Asia, as well as KLM in Europe. So we could see some lingering effects from the problems there. Banking and finance also seen a big impact. It was this afternoon in Asia when a lot of people working in offices suddenly saw blue screens. But this is impacting so many sectors of life. Casey, in particular, we learned of a grocery store chain in Australia that was having problems taking orders.

So the problem's big and small, but if it's happening to you, it's certainly significant. For sure. And our Tom Foreman was also reporting that even if you've got a doctor's appointment, you might want to check on that because some hospitals and other places are being affected. It's a very widespread problem across, as we've been saying, the world. Mark Stewart, thank you very much for that report. Do keep us posted. I'm sure we'll be talking to you throughout.

the hour. But let's get back to our big political story here in the U.S. The drills are running behind us as they are breaking down the set here, the stage where for the third time in a row last night, Donald Trump officially became the Republican nominee for president of the United States with that bandage still covering his wounded ear. The former president walked onto that stage last night in cinematic Trumpian fashion.

At one point he stood right in the center of that Trump in lights. And what followed was not the speech that Trump had planned to give even a week ago. Saturday's assassination attempt did change everything.

What was with the story of that fateful afternoon in Pennsylvania, that is where Trump began his remarks. When I heard a loud whizzing sound and felt something hit me really, really hard on my right ear, I said to myself, wow, what was that? It can only be a bullet.

There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet, in a certain way, I felt very safe because I had God on my side. I felt that. When I rose, surrounded by Secret Service, the crowd was confused because they thought I was dead. I raised my right arm, looked at the thousands and thousands of people that were breathlessly waiting, and started shouting, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

And those chants of fight, fight, fight, they started, honestly, in this room before Donald Trump even got to them in his speech. And they continued on the floor of the RNC. It's really become an unofficial battle cry. Trump then honored the memory of Corey Comparatore, the rally attendee and firefighter who was killed during the shooting at the rally on Saturday.

Former President Trump used that powerful moment to call for national unity. In an age when our politics too often divide us, now is the time to remember that we are all fellow citizens. We are one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Remarkable. Now, let's imagine if Donald Trump had stopped there. We would have heard that message of healing and unity.

But he did not stop there. Trump spoke for another 75 minutes. His speech often deviated from the teleprompter. I could see it. I was sitting right here last night and you could see it, the screen, and it just froze for minutes and minutes at a time. And we heard a series of things like this. I watched the other day on a show called Deface the Nation. Has anyone seen it? Every week they get another subpoena.

From the Democrats, crazy Nancy Pelosi, the whole thing just boom, boom, boom. The election result, we're never going to let that happen again. They used COVID to cheat. It's nice to get along with somebody who has a lot of nuclear weapons or otherwise, isn't it? If you took the 10 worst presidents in the history of the United States, think of it, the 10 worst, added them up, they will not have done the damage that Biden has done. Only going to use the term once.

I'm not going to use the name anymore. Just one time or twice. Who's counting? He did mention Biden does that. It was that one instance to two uses of the name. But of course, he launched numerous jobs at Democrats in total. He spoke for an hour and thirty three minutes. He broke his own record for longest nomination acceptance speech ever. He said that at 2016 at the RNC.

And what began as a convention speech in the mold that many of his advisors previewed became a classic Trump campaign speech. Here was my colleague Chris Wallace, who I was sitting next to last night, about how this all went. I couldn't help but think.

The people that are going to be happiest tonight are not the people at Trump headquarters, but the people, the Democrats, maybe at Biden headquarters, maybe at the headquarters of other people who think they're going to replace Joe Biden. But, Jake, we have ourselves a presidential campaign again.

Presidential campaign again. All right, our panel's here. Joining me now, Stephen Collins, a senior politics reporter. Brad Woodhouse, former communications director for the Democratic National Committee. And Scott Jennings, former special assistant to President George W. Bush. Welcome, all of you. How much sleep collectively do we think we've all got? Maybe four hours among us? I'm simply running on adrenaline and Hulkamania at this point. That's it. That's all I got. Yeah, well...

Scott, I will say the energy that you had as we were up in that booth earlier in the evening when Hulk Hogan did take the stage. Amazing. I'm still feeding off of it here this morning. My childhood hero. Stephen Collinson, I want to start, though, with Big Picture. And you paint these so well for us. I mean, going into this, I mean, I had talked.

to advisors to Donald Trump who had said, he is a changed man. What happened on Saturday is going to completely change his speech. He's not going to say Biden's name a single time. The message is going to be unifying. And, you know, I think we laid it out there.

If he had stopped, you know, 20 minutes into that speech, that's what we would have gotten. But at the end of the day, it seemed pretty clear that the man that was on that stage was still giving us a lot of what he has been giving Americans for the last eight plus years. Right. And Donald Trump knows what his people want. I've heard a million times that Donald Trump has changed during his presidency. He was always just about to pivot to be more presidential.

But he is who he is. I thought the speech was moving. We saw a side of Trump that we don't usually see. He was vulnerable, which he really does not like to project on most occasions. And for anyone slightly disposed towards him, I think it could have been quite effective and

I doubt that people sat there for an hour and a half if they don't like Trump and watched all the other stuff. But there's plenty for Democrats to work with. But inside the hall and for Trump's fans, this is almost a spiritual experience at the end of a campaign, of a convention, which has many of them thinking they're going to win this election. They're even going to win the popular vote is what some people are telling me. So they're pretty happy.

Brad, you look like you want to joke. Well, look, I agree with Chris Wallace. I thought it was a good night for Democrats. And if you did tune in late to that speech, what you got to see was a typical Donald Trump rally speech. It was grievance. It was rambling. It was incoherent at times. It was angry. And you know what? One of the things that has hurt Republicans the most since the insurrection is President Trump and Republicans continuing to

this election denialism. And we saw it all over again last night that somehow we weren't in charge, but COVID robbed him of second term that we cheated. He attacked Nancy Pelosi. I mean, it was not a unifying speech if you tuned in after about 15 minutes. Right. I mean, and that's absolutely fair. I want to spend a moment, Scott, because I think this is something you remarked on last night, the showmanship and the

You were just looking and you guys, let's put some of those pictures back up. I mean, we can begin with the Vegas style Klieg lights and Trump's silhouette is against his name in lights. And then you're also looking at the, that's the White House, right? Like they built a, basically a stage of the White House and,

uh during many of these moments where he was talking about i mean there's the the firefighters uniform of course corey compator who was killed at the rally he had pictures from the assassination attempt plastered on these massive video screens as he was talking about what happened there's his

his entry into the hall that, of course, just resulted in the whole place erupting. I mean, this was Trump, the showman at its very best. And we can also... Scott, I want to get your thoughts. I know you're also obsessed with what Hulk Hogan did in the convention itself. We can watch some of that as well. Do we have to? This is...

Do you guys not know what Hulkamania is across the park? Hold on. Turn him up. Turn him up. Let's listen. And I said, let Trumpamania run wild, brother. Let Trumpamania rule again. Let Trumpamania rule again. All right, Scott. All right. Oh, no. No, no. It's too early. It's too early for that. All right.

We've had enough testosterone for one night. All right. All right. A couple of things. Number one, when I saw that Trump in lights, remember the old Elvis staging? Like the red Elvis? I mean, it reminded me of that. B, Brad, I appreciate everything you said. Literally, as Donald Trump

uh was ending your most vulnerable senate candidate in montana was putting out a press release begging and demanding joe biden get out of the presidential campaign here's what we learned last night is that the trump campaign is putting out feelers to americans who aren't really all that connected

Or maybe just a little bit connected to our political system. And that's the point of these speakers and some of what they did this week. I mean, Hulk Hogan speaks to a whole group of people that, you know, maybe they don't ever watch political conventions. Right. And that's the point. And that's how Trump wins ultimately here. Remember, he polls best among the people who are least politically engaged. This whole convention...

throughout people that were designed to reach those audiences. I think they did that last night. The retelling of the shooting was incredibly effective. And what we learned at the end of the night and at the end of the week is that Donald Trump was ahead and remains ahead, probably by a little bit more, and that the Republicans are the party of fun.

And the party of democracy, Brad, is organizing a coup against the president of the United States. That's what we now know. Well, speaking of, I don't know if it's fun. Exactly. Wait, we have a dog in a wagon. No, no. We have Hulk Hogan. We have. Try to throw to a soundbite, Scott. Let me tell you, the dog was the highlight of the convention. I will give you that. Jim Justice's baby dog. Oh, my gosh. I know. We'll have to dig. I mean, let's see if we can dig out some some video. But let's look at. I'll take baby dog over Hulk Hogan. Okay.

Fair enough. We put together some moments that I think perhaps Scott will identify as fun. Yes. I'm going to play them for you. You all can decide if you agree with Scott or not, but let's watch them. How good was Dana? Was Dana good? She said, you can't turn him down. You just can't do it. You have to go. That's a good wife. Jason Aldean, he's good.

I like his wife even better, by the way. She's here. And Green Bay's going to have a good team this year, right? And how about the Hulkster? How good was he when he used to lift a 350-pound man over his shoulders and then bench press him two rows into the audience?

Slightly different than what I was expecting. I we you know, we also had Kid Rock Come down here and play a song that was let me tell you way different from what we heard when he played for Mitt Romney I was like very struck by that disparity as well Steven, you know Republicans have had trouble getting celebrities to their conventions over the years Democrats, you know, especially in the Obama era everyone want to get on stage with the Obama's

So I guess it's an improvement. Donald Trump is a showman. I think you can learn a lot about Donald Trump and his politics by thinking about Hulk Hogan and wrestling, and that is the kind of smash-mouse politics and showmanship that Trump has. Unity! Chris Wallace called it testosterone. Right. That's how he appeals to a lot of people, as you say, that aren't into politics. I didn't think Hulk Hogan was particularly unifying, as you say,

Or kid rock. I mean, fight, fight, trump, trump. The lyrics, you know. Wait a minute. One moment from Hulk Hogan to Franklin Graham, which was kind of a bit of an odd moment. That was a real swing. If you grew up in rural or exurban Midwest, southern states, the idea that you watched wrestling and then maybe went to church or vice versa, believe me,

That is an experience that was very, very familiar to you. But think about the Republican coalition, about what they're trying to put together. And ultimately, that was like the message of the week. We got a big tent. We got union. I'm sorry. We stole your union boss. Sorry, Brad. And he attacked one last night. Said he should be jailed. We got union bosses. We got Instagram influencers. We got professional wrestlers. We have singers. To your point.

I've been going at Republican conventions for 24 years. We just don't normally have this kind of popular culture star power in a convention hall, and it made the vibe in here pretty cool. Well, the vibe may have been cool in here, but I have to say that that performance last night, Hulk Hogan, the head of UFC, Kid Rock, I don't think that that is turning out suburban women in the selection the way that this—

convention planners maybe think that it will. But, you know, we'll see. Brad, who are you running for president? I mean, I think the question in the morning is, who is your candidate for president? Well, I will tell you who our candidate for president is. Joe Biden, until he says different. You heard it here first. Until he says different. Great caveat. Yeah, well, we're going to dig into that in some detail in a bit. I mean, we finally found this was Kid Rock last night. We can listen to him. Let's listen to him for just a second.

I'm playing this just to kind of underscore Scott Jennings' point that this is, I mean, someone else, I think it was, I think David Urban quoted our colleague John King by saying, Toto, we're not in Kennebunkport anymore. And then, again. That, of course, a reference to George H.W. Bush.

Who would not fit in here? Let me draw a line. It's going to make Brad's head explode. Let me draw a line between Donald Trump 2024 and Barack Obama 2008. Two candidates, one similarity. They each have the capacity to change the composition of the electorate. Obama, his superpower was bringing people into politics that no one else could touch. It is the same power that Trump has, and that was what you saw yesterday.

in the design of his convention. I don't know how Trump has that power. I mean, he lost the popular vote. He has a lot of people, a lot of people voted for him that don't vote for another election. But he's never won the popular vote. He lost the election by 7 million votes in 2020. I don't know what this massive coalition is that he has. And then every election that he was involved in after he won in 2016, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24,

Republicans lost with Donald Trump's influence. Yeah, although I will say also, look, your point is very well taken. However, Donald Trump was not leading in either of the presidential elections before in the polling, and he is this time. All right, we got to move. Coming up next here, how the race for the White House has changed, has it, after Trump's off-teleprompter RNC speech, plus...

We're covering this breaking news, a major tech outage grounding flights causing issues around the world, banks, stock markets, television networks. We're going to bring you the latest. And we'll have a conversation with the former Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan. He joins me live as we sit and wonder what is Joe Biden's future.

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All right. Breaking news impacting people around the world. This is a live look at Philadelphia International Airport where it doesn't seem. I'm sorry. It's Atlanta International Airport, which honestly, there should be a little bit more activity going on there. I would think this airport is one of the many experiencing major tech issues.

issues around the world causing delays and issues for travelers. The FAA saying that several major U.S. carriers, including Delta, United and Spirit, are under a full ground stop. American Airlines tells us that they have reportedly resolved their issue. We're also learning that public transportation, including trains and buses in Washington, D.C., have also been impacted by the outage.

In Europe and in Asia, airports, banks, hospitals, news outlets, and stock exchanges all suffering similar outages. The tech disruptions appear to be

appeared to stem from a software update issued by the firm CrowdStrike. The company's CEO says that the issue has been identified and a fix is in the works. CNN's transportation analyst, Mary Schiavo, joins me live now. She is the former inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation as well and can help us understand the impacts here. Mary, this seems like a very remarkable event. How often does something like this happen? And what can people expect?

in terms of trying to get back, you know, when things are going to get back up and running in a normal way.

Well, in terms of how often this happens, unfortunately, the answer is rather vague, but important more. We have seen various outages with different systems. If you recall, last year we had a number of outages concerning air traffic control and the ability literally to control and separate the aircraft. This is different that it includes data and transmissions on the cloud and cloud storage systems and connectivity issues.

and communications, so that affects all the scheduling, the timing, the crew scheduling, getting the planes up and out

So it's a little different than what we've seen sometimes in the past. But this is a massive outage. And obviously, it's software that affects other companies. Getting back to normal, well, for aviation, if you have a hiccup in the morning, by the afternoon, you're in total meltdown. So it won't be back to normal today. But the good news is, is the company has said, software company says they have rolled out a fix. So, you know, by tomorrow, things should be normal.

So, Mary, I'm going to ask you a selfish question, but I guess it's on behalf of the thousands of other people that are starting to wake up in their hotel rooms here in Milwaukee trying to get out of the Republican National Convention. If you had a flight booked this morning on one of these airlines between now and noon, what would you do?

I'd be on the computer trying to find if it's really going to go. I'd be looking up a backup solution. I'd be booking something else as a backup. And of course now, I mean, a lot of airlines now, especially newer airlines, allow cancellations even up to the last minute. So people can find a backup.

But it looks like for most for several airlines in the U.S. and elsewhere, other places in the world, operations won't be back to normal until they apply this computer fix that they know what they have to do. But it hasn't been applied at all. The airlines yet. All right. Mary Schiavo, thanks for scrambling to get on with us this morning as we cover this briefing news. I really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Let's turn back now to this.

That's right, Biden has COVID. Luckily, he can't spread it, 'cause Democrats have been distancing themselves from him since the debate.

No. Come on. As a COVID... Our panel's a little reacting to that. A COVID-positive President Biden is reportedly weighing whether to stay in the presidential race. A second sitting Democratic senator is calling for him to step aside. In a statement yesterday, Senator Jon Tester of Montana wrote this, quote, I've worked with President Biden when it has made Montana stronger, and I've never been able to afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong. And

And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek reelection to another term. Why is this so noteworthy?

Tester is a vulnerable Democrat facing an uphill reelection bid, and his concerns highlight how Biden's candidacy could hurt the party's chances in the House and the Senate this fall. One widely circulated internal memo said this. Defending Biden's fitness for office is an untenable position.

for down ballot Democrats. Joining me now is former Democratic Congressman from Ohio, Tim Ryan. Congressman, good morning to you. Thank you very much for being here. You, of course, ran for the Senate against the now vice presidential pick in Ohio. The other Senate seat in Ohio is going to be on the ballot. Sherrod Brown is defending his seat in November as well. What is your reaction to what Tester said here? Are you

looking to see, do you think that Sherrod Brown will follow suit? And do you agree that it's untenable for down ballot Democrats to be able to defend the president right now?

Yeah, I suspect you're going to see more. I don't know what Senator Brown's going to do, but I suspect you'll see more today. And I do think it is untenable. I think Democrats, especially after last night's debacle, I think Democrats are dying to get back on a more elevated message. I think there's a huge opening for Democrats, both in those Senate races, a key across the country.

but also for the presidential race, if Democrats can articulate a big vision for the United States of America, an inclusive vision of one that's letting go of basically everything that happened last night, everything that Trump talked about last night. People don't want to live in that kind of country. That was a speech to that room, but I think a lot of independent voters want

something different and it's incumbent upon the democratic party to give them something different i think that's what john test was saying give me that give me the leeway here in my own state where i've gotten elected uh... against conventional wisdom uh... because i'm able to talk to folks don't distract me with with something that i can't defend congressman do you think that comal harris at the top of the democratic ticket could be former president from the fall

I think she would smoke him, honestly. And I've been saying this for three weeks now. She is the candidate in my mind. She will absolutely smoke him. She will rally our base. She'll pull in young people. She will energize Democrats. She will prosecute not just the case against Trump, because I don't think we want to talk about him too much, but you've got to be able to call out his lies.

and who better to do that than a prosecutor? But I also think talking and elevating that vision, generational change, people are so tired of the Vietnam era politics, which is just toxic, it's been going on forever.

Kamala Harris will elevate the American conversation. People will be drawn to that. Independent voters will be drawn to that. The Never Trumpers in the Republican Party will be drawn to that. You can run on choice. You can run on reindustrialization. And look, J.D. Vance was a venture capitalist.

Donald Trump cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the world. He just did an all-out assault on the autoworkers. I don't know. I've been running for office in Ohio. A lot of autoworkers, a lot of retired autoworkers in Ohio, in Michigan, in Wisconsin. Terrible politics. So Kamala will appeal to those folks. We just got to get her on the ground here in these Great Lakes states. And I think she's going to have great appeal to those working class voters, whether they're white or black or brown or men or women. She will have appeal to them.

Congressman, who do you think, if we end up in this point, who might round out a presidential ticket? What names should be in the conversation in your view?

uh... we would get some great big state governors uh... right here in the great lake states uh... obviously we got a lot of stars so deep deep bench on the on the democratic side so i think she's going to have no name is her uh... yeah i mean i i'm not even getting into this because we still have a sitting president we can have that conversation maybe if if things unfold the way we think they may uh... happy to have that conversation but i think she would be very very strong at the top of the ticket

All right. Fair enough. I will say I think those names are flying in text chains. And of course, we're reporting that the Harris team is starting to kind of feel this out as well. Former Congressman Tim Ryan, I'm very grateful for your time this morning. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you. Take care.

So, of course, Trump has been celebrating this week. The Biden campaign has found itself on its heels. Stephen Collinson, this is from your newest piece. Biden this week has been forced to retreat to his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with a case of covid-19 at a moment when many senior ranking White House and campaign officials have come to believe the president must abandon his campaign for a second term.

The next 72 hours are big. One Democratic governor in close touch with party officials relayed to aides on Thursday. This can't go on much longer. So, Stephen, I mean, talk to me about where where things stand. This reporting is moving fast and furious about where the president may be. I will say that in my own conversations, people that have been talking to the White House, to the campaign, oftentimes supporters of the president want to know, hey, what do I say? How do I defend him? How do I get out there? Say that there has been a real change in posture.

from the campaign in the White House about how to deal with these things, whether they're getting a different vibe, so to speak, or they're not getting a response at all, etc. There is something that is different about this point in time. Right. We do seem to be getting to a critical point. The last two weeks, things have seemed to boil up, and then the president managed to...

establish a beachhead almost, and allow himself to sort of wait a couple more days, buy a couple more days. I think that's what a lot of the tactics were about. But look at the comparison we saw last night. We saw Donald Trump walk out here embraced by his party, the party he made in his image.

At the same time, the president was isolated down in Rehoboth watching the Democratic Party desert him after a long career. And he's a beloved figure. It's very poignant. So of all the elections I've covered all over the world, the party that's a

that is at war with itself has always lost. If the Democrats don't get this sorted out pretty soon, time is running out, right? Your convention is in, what, four weeks? You don't even know who the candidate's going to be that's going to walk out on the stage. I couldn't agree more. A party at war with itself. This party should not be at war with itself. Look, President Biden has said

repeatedly his campaign has said repeatedly i was with quentin folks about four hours ago this campaign has said this president is running the white house has said this president and you don't think that that's changing right now i mean because it feels like something is changing well you know what you know what's changing is there's a lot of anonymous reporting there's a lot of leaking there's a lot of backstabbing that you know a lot of a lot of these conversations uh that supposedly been had with president biden have not been put on the record

And so look, here's the thing. Here's the thing. I've heard this from a lot of people. They'll say their advice to the president. But at the end of the day, they say it's one person's choice. And I'll just ask you, Scott, if you won...

If you won the primary of your party, if you ran in a primary, if you got 14 and a half million votes, if you got 87% of votes that cast, would you, and you saw what you saw last night from the other party and this candidate, would you bow out? No, no, of course you would not. No, my message to Joe Biden in Delaware. Don't be careful. Stay in the race. Be careful, Brad. Stay in the race, my friend. You earned it. Look, you earned it. And Brad and I are in agreement. Stay in the race. Look, you,

You know, go ahead and keep mocking Joe Biden. People have mocked him his whole career. And he's come back and he's come back and he's come back. And look, we've lived through moments. Casey, you've lived through moments. Look, I was at the DNC when Obama's debate performance. We walked into the... It's not the same. I understand that. I'm sorry. I'm just telling you the feeling. We walked in the next morning. We didn't think he could win. And he fell. But nobody thought that he would be incapable of serving another four years. I understand that. He fell seven times.

seven points in the polls after that, after that debate. Yeah. So I'm just saying, I'm saying there, but campaigns are dynamic. We don't know what we didn't know that somebody would take a shot at Donald Trump. We didn't know that Joe Biden would have the debate performance that this has been a historic three weeks that I'm still trying to figure out what no one has. No one has a crystal ball about the next thing. No one knows yet what,

how the American people react to the speech they saw last night. Yeah, well, that's fair. I mean, the one person I'm really watching, Brad, is Nancy Pelosi, who all of my reporting indicates she does not think that he should stay. And she has not yet said it publicly. The Hill is saying one Democrat said it's apparent that Pelosi has presented data to Biden that can't be dismissed or denied.

She's helping the White House understand the consequences that will flow if that data materializes in the election. The strategist says once she weighs in, it's done. He, Biden, wanted the Lord Almighty. Well, this Pelosi is the Lord Almighty. I had one member say to me, you know, she rarely loses.

If she wants him out, I mean, like at some point, how does this continue to be tenable? It's his decision. It's his decision. And, you know, we could we could wind up near the end of the first week in August. And there's a virtual roll call and he's the nominee. And I think people have to get on board. People have to get on board because this campaign, Democrats need to run a general election campaign against Trump.

Donald Trump and need to stop trying to rerun the Democratic primary. But if you have a candidate, the money's running out, the polls are going down. How can you gather at a convention? Yeah, but is the money running out in the and I don't look, I don't believe the polls. I don't know what data that anyone could show the president that he couldn't show some other data. But there are polls all over the place. I was looking yesterday. I mean, the swing state polling is pretty devastating.

Well, he's behind on average about two points in Michigan, about two points in Wisconsin. Look, the public data is one thing. The internal data that I am seeing from all of these outfits that I know that you all trust, you use it to make your decisions, it's showing like five-plus points in places that are in the best corners in Michigan and Wisconsin. I mean, it is ridiculous.

rough. How much of that, if you believe it, is accountable to his debate performance three weeks ago? And how much of it is accountable to the civil war that's going on within the Democratic Party and the backstabbing that is occurring against Joe Biden? I mean, there is a self-fulfilling prophecy here. It's you that has the Democrats in disarray, Brad. I mean, that...

It's my fault. No, I just mean anyway, I look, I take your point. It's a very tough it's a very tough situation. It's a very tough situation for a man in Joe Biden who has had a long and storied political career. Jamie Raskin wrote a letter to him that focused on how great he was at a leader before going on to say, hey, you know, Pedro Martinez didn't bow out at the wrong time. Maybe you should take a lesson from him from George Washington. We'll see if any of that's resonating with the president. All right. Up next here.

Breaking news. Delta Airlines now pausing all flights this morning as a global tech outage has airlines and businesses scrambling around the world. Plus, a look at some of the more lively moments from the final night of the Republican National Convention. This one's for you, Scott Penix. Let Trump-a-mania rule again. Let Trump-a-mania make a...

Overnight, Dunkin's pumpkin spice coffee has sent folks into a cozy craze. I'm Lauren LaTulip reporting live from home in my hand-knit turtleneck that my Nana made me. Mmm, cinnamony. The home with Dunkin is where you want to be. All right, we've been covering breaking news this morning. You're looking live at Philadelphia International Airport. It is one of many experiencing major tech outages. Airports around the world dealing with this. This outage has caused delays.

So many issues for travelers. You can see not that much movement at that airport at what should be a relatively busy time. Delta, we have learned, has paused all flights Friday morning, citing a vendor technology issue. American Airlines is saying that they have reportedly resolved their problem. United is apparently resuming some flights at this hour.

We've also learned that public transportation, including trains and buses in Washington, DC have also been impacted.

Around the world, in Europe and Asia, airports, banks, hospitals, news outlets, stock exchanges, all experiencing similar outages and problems. The largest hospitals in the United Kingdom and in Germany have been impacted. CNN's Tom Foreman joins us now with the latest on this. Tom, good morning to you again. What are we learning at this hour? Well, I'm learning that you might have a 12-hour drive back to D.C. That's what I'm learning. We're

I'm secretly dreading that. I have a backup flight on Southwest, okay, if I might have to drive to Chicago. Well, and the truth is there may be workarounds here. Look at what's happening in Europe right now. What's been happening over in Europe, over in Asia, has been rolling this way as this problem has progressed. So all sorts of things here in this country you may want to check.

as you try to move forward. Looking at Madrid right there, but American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Allegiant Airlines, Sun Country, Frontier Airlines, all have had some kind of impact from this, and they're trying to move past it. Importantly, the issue seems to be, at least part of it seemed to be, an update by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm out there, a big vendor to Microsoft. They said they had a single content

update to Windows and there was some kind of mismatch, some disagreement. They said this is not a security incident or a cyber attack and they say this issue has been identified, isolated and a fix

deployed. So what we have right now is kind of a Denzel Washington action film going around the whole globe right now as this fix is trying to catch up with the problem. And as Mary Schiavo mentioned earlier, one of the issues is when you start talking about transportation and all the other things,

There's a rolling impact. Even if you solve the problem right now, you still have a bunch of people who have had flights delayed so those planes didn't show up somewhere else on time and on and on. It's not going to be a good Friday for travel in all likelihood, no matter where you go, Casey.

Oh, the understatement. I was really hoping. We haven't had a lot of sleep here at the Republican National Convention. I was ready to be out of here and home and time to take a nap. I didn't get much sleep here either because this cut loose and we took a nap. You know, even Hong Kong Disneyland was having trouble selling tickets. And now you're looking at all sorts of vendors, grocery stores, health systems. Think about every place in your life where you potentially encounter Microsoft.

And you might want to double check. They're not all affected, but a lot of them might be. And you might want to check to save yourself the headache of going somewhere and being told, oh, well, we can't do that. We can't, you know, sell you a soda or we can't get you some ham or we can't have you in for your X-ray because we're just the systems are not working. All right. Everybody just hunker down for the day, I suppose. Tom Foreman, very grateful to have you. Thank you very much for that report. You're welcome.

All right. It has been quite a week in politics. It's a historic week in politics, quite frankly. There was an assassination attempt. We were here for this convention. And there is a president sick with COVID-19 who could decide to drop out of the 2024 race and leave us with a fundamentally altered campaign that, you know what, it's hard to believe. It looked like this just one year ago today.

A third indictment of former President Donald Trump could be coming and coming soon. We're running a campaign. We expect to be the nominee. Right now, the affirmative case for Ron DeSantis, and there is one to make. He won re-election with 60% of the vote. When I become president, we are going to impose our will on it. It really does make a difference in terms of the good work that we do together for the sake of our country. I'm Mike Pence. I'm from Indiana, and I'm running for president.

Well, that's a throwback. Here to help us make sense of where all this stands with the 2024 race is Michael Smirconish. It's a Smirconish Friday. He's the host of CNN's Smirconish and a CNN political commentator. Michael, good morning to you. This is a little bit of choose your own adventure. So you tell me we've got Trump's speech last night, which started off on that really unifying note that we expected yesterday.

from him that his team had been saying this sort of changed man was going to give us that then devolved, I think you could say, into a very traditional campaign speech that was full of misrepresentations and falsifications and some of his particular grievances. And then, of course, you have, you know, as we were watching that, we're all frantically reporting, is President Biden about to step aside from the top of the ticket? It's just a remarkable situation.

The only thing I know for sure, Casey, and good morning, is that at the New York Post, they went to bed early because the cover this morning is A New Dawn. And to your point, for 25 minutes, it was last night. But then he reverted to the old dawn. Big picture, if that's what you're asking me, for three nights in primetime, I thought the RNC was choreographed and compelling.

but they didn't keep it tight last night. He went off the rails and you could see the wheels turning in his head as you often do at rallies where he's on prompter and when he senses that the audience may be getting a little bit bored, then he throws in red meat.

which in the rallies has worked for him, but last night I think was a missed opportunity. Big picture, you'd rather be among the R's than the D's because of the vulnerabilities in that Biden White House. But I think that Donald Trump long term last night in that speech showed some of those weaknesses that still persist.

Michael, where do you think things sit with the Democratic Party? Meghan McCain, who I know, I think you know, she tweeted this in relation to something that had happened.

She said it as something was unfolding with Biden. Quote, this is the most insane, intense, dramatic election cycle of my life. And my dad picked Sarah Palin as his VP without the campaign, knowing her teenage daughter was pregnant. It it it it there's there's this. This is an incredibly dramatic moment. I say this with no glee in my voice, but two weeks ago I did a commentary on my program on CNN. I said it's a it's a matter of when.

Not if there's just no doubt in my mind that President Biden will not be the standard bearer for his party. I just don't know at what point in the next few days that happens. The data is just overwhelming. And the voices among Democratic leadership, there's no one missing. I mean, by extension, even I think President Obama is involved in this because of George Clooney having given him the tip off that he was going to write for The New York Times. It's just so overwhelming. And money talks in the end. I think it's dried up.

It's sad. It didn't have to be this way, but it is where we are. And the question of the day is now what? Is it going to be by acclimation that it becomes the vice president or is there going to be some type of competition in the next five weeks? That's the issue. Do you think Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump, Michael?

I think that she can, but I doubt that she's the strongest among the bench. I think that there's a lot of polling data out there that suggests that somebody from one of those three critical states, my own Josh Shapiro, Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, Wisconsin, you tell me who can keep those in the Democratic fold and I'll tell you who the strongest candidate is. I don't think you help the vice president nor the Democrats nor the nation if you just hand it to her. I think she'd be enhanced.

if there's some type of a blitz primary and she emerges from it victorious, I think it's in everybody's best interest. I think that it would be good for the country to have that level of competition. Very interesting. All right, Michael Smirconish, always grateful to have you. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Don't forget. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Don't forget to tune in to Smirconish tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. It's right here on CNN. He'll be there for his show if I was doing one tomorrow. Who knows if I would make it, but anyway.

All right. Now this. Let's take a look at the floor of the Fiserv Forum here in Milwaukee. You probably can't hear the drills because we've got these so-called Britney microphones on, but they are literally unscrewing the floor of the convention. They're packing up the stairs. They're rolling up the red carpet. That noise has been, of course, throughout the show. But just hours ago, all eyes were on former President Donald Trump as he stood on the stage. The stage is still standing.

The lead up to the former president's speech made for some memorable moments. We've touched on some of them, but let's walk through them. From an appearance by WWE's Hulk Hogan. The next president of the United States. Enough was enough. And I said, let Trump-a-mania run wild, brother. To a concert performance from the country star Kid Rock.

Formerly country. No, not a lot more than that. It was a night filled with fanfare for the former president. And, well, let's just let Hulk Hogan say it. Trump-a-mania, make America great again. Thank you.

Scott Jennings, this one's for you. Oh, God. Not again. Not again. Come on. Every time I see the Hulkster appear on the screen and I feel Hulkamania running wild. No, look. Keep your tie on, Scott. The floor of the convention. By the way, it's not been since July of 2000 that a Republican candidate for president, the nominee, had a lead. We're always behind in July. Trump's never been ahead.

This is an unusual feeling for all these Republicans to be ahead while at the same time peering over the hedge and wondering, well, heck, who are we even running against? And so to me, the big takeaway here was the Republican Party is the party of fun. By the way, there's two major political parties in America. One is functioning properly. Okay.

We got 10 seconds. Oh, come on. And, Brad, you've got the other one. I'll let you take it. No, no, no, no. We got no clock, guys. We're about to hit the other show. Right. Look, Donald Trump returned to American carnage last night. That's what people remember. Not Hulk Hogan ripping his shirt open. All right.

We're going to continue this conversation in what is one of the most dramatic and unprecedented election cycles in recent memory. Thanks very much to our panel. Thanks to all of you for joining us. If you're traveling today, good luck. I'm Casey Hunt. Don't go anywhere. CNN News Central starts after this quick break.

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