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here is jeanne moos. >> reporter: it's definite. mr. president, what's your thinking about 2020 at this point, sir? >> reporter: he's running, literally running. here he is running from the side, running from behind. people at the pittsburgh labor day parade were urging joe biden to run for president. >> we need you, brother. you can do this. >> reporter: but who knew if he would run immediately, even if all he was running for was to catch up to his assigned position in the parade after stopping to meet and greet folks. true, we've seen biden run before. for instance, in a let's move fitness video with president obama. ♪ what was running from my mind? have we ever seen president trump run? critics crack that the only thing he runs is a golf cart. but we found him semi jogging over to police to shake hands. and remember when a greenpeace protester and a paraglider buzzed president trump's golf course in scotland? no wonder he ran. a few steps to shelter. trump and biden have already exchanged blows. >> no, i wish you were in high schoo

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if that star could talk, our jeanne moos knows what it would say. >> reporter: stars are supposed to twinkle. but me, i spark, when he's mad at my namesake. this star was born in 2007. i've been pulverized twice. comedian george lopez relieved himself on me. and now, a street artist put bars over me. twinkle, twinkle, little star, how i wonder who would do this to me? and why would you put bars on me? >> well, because you're going to jail. >> reporter: says the street artist, plastic jesus, who wanted to be incognito. when he placed the bars in broad daylight, using double-sided sticky tape. >> that's my president, bro. >> reporter: two years ago, the same street artist, mad about trump's border wall. >> leave it. >> reporter: at least plastic jesus doesn't believe in torture. >> i try to do my pieces that doesn't vandalize the walk of fame too much. >> reporter: someone came along and put a pizza box over me. and then, he deployed spray paint with a stencil. what self-suspecting star wants to have a mute symbol. this is not the walk of fame. it's the walk of pain. jeanne moos, cnn,

he considered himself to be one of -- ♪ the luckiest people >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i interviewed him a couple times in arizona and i can't tell you what that was about either. a little too much. >> the turtleneck really sells it. >> so good. >>> we have one second. i have to say happy birthday to my favorite lady, it is her birthday. i don't think the picture came through. i posted it. >> how old? >> 9. the last single digits. >> happy birthday, sadie. >> sadie lady, i love you. thank you so much for sharing your morning with us. we always appreciate it. we hope you make good memories today. >>> "inside politics" starts now. >>> the final fall sprint to election day. with just nine weeks left, a big primary win for progressives in florida. >> we don't believe we should have to shrink from the things we believe in in order to win. >> plus, the president slams the mueller probe and issues a new threat. >> our justice department and our fbi have to start doing their job. at some point i'll get in there if i have to. >>> and the nation bids farewell

cnn's jeanne moos has the story. >> from dorothy's feet to fbi evidence. >> under the rainbow. >> the ruby red slippers stolen 13 years ago have been recovered. 13 years of police asking -- >> the ruby slippers, what have you done with them? >> we still don't know who done it, broke into the judy garland museum in grand rapids, minnesota smashing a display case, leaving one thing behind. >> a single sequin off the shoe. >> reporter: the author of the ruby slippers of oz say. >> the holy grail of all hollywood memorabilia. >> reporter: there are at least four pairs used in the wizard of oz. these, for instance, at the smithsonian. the yellow brick road was a dead-end for investigators despite loads of tips. >> everything from they're nailed to a wall in roadside diner in muse sorry when i was with my boyfriend when they threw them in an iron orr pit. >> last summer authorities got a credible tip. they said someone tried to extort the shoe's owner. the slippers were finally recovered this summer in a sting operation. >> tap your heels together three times. there's no place like home. >>

jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a lot of cleaning up. burt reynolds, at the age of 82. we celebrate him tonight. thank you all so much for joining us tonight. anderson cooper is in "ac 360" starts right now. >> good evening from washington, where one by one today, senior administration officials spoke up and denied being the senior administration official, the one who wrote the opinion for the "times," and one thing he does not fully grasp is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. i would know. i am one of them. it has rocked this town and with bob woodward's new book has shaken in anyone's imagine nation this

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> you're live in the cnn news room. thank you for being with me. tonight a decision that could change the course of history. in less than 48 hours the senate will begin confirmation hearings for president trump's supreme court pick brett kavanagh and the stakes couldn't be higher. if confirmed the highest court of the land could be conservative well into the 2040s. you can expect a lot of questions on abortion. you will likely hear democrats grill kavanagh on other issues like does robert mueller have the power to subpoena president trump in the russia probe. and can a sitting president be indicted. let's bring in boris sanchez at the white house. this hearing starts tuesday. there is already a fight over kavanagh's records. what is going on? >> an attorney charged with determining how to process more than 660,000 pages worth of documents from brett kavanagh's time as a staff secretary for president george w. bush determined that about 100,000 pages worth of documents should not be released to the general public. he cit

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jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a lot of cleaning up. burt reynolds, at the age of 82. we celebrate him tonight. thank you all so much for joining us tonight. anderson cooper is in "ac 360" starts right now. >> good evening from washington, where one by one today, senior administration officials spoke up and denied being the senior administration official, the one who wrote the opinion for the "times," and one thing he does not fully grasp is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. i would know. i am one of them. it has rocked this town and with bob woodward's new book has shaken in anyone's imagine nation this white house runs as the president says it does. >> we run everything straight by the book. >> not sure what book he's talking about but not much book on governance that seems to be going on in this white house or anything this anonymous official describes. the president is said to be volcanic about it and said nothing this afternoon going to a trip

hero ♪ jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ you're everything, everything ♪ new york. >> and tonight cruz's campaign is having a little fun with this as well giving us this statement. "breaking news, the airline passenger paparazzi captured the senator reading news clips about his campaign." well played, senator cruz. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. today one of the biggest celebrities of the last half century was handcuffed and taken to prison for sexually assaulting a woman. bill cosby's sentencing, a landmark in so many ways, is not our lead story. it is part of a conversation about women, justice, and politics and the perception so many people are having right now. we begin with another part of that conversation, and the sfakz could not stakes could not be higher. we're talking about the fight over supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and the two accusers who say he assaulted them. today republicans on the senate committee who control the process scheduled their first vote on the nomination for 9:30 a.m. on friday, a day after thursday's testimony from judge kavanaugh

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. who do you think wrote "the new york times" op-ed? >> very smart people. >> reporter: new york. >> i am going to leave that there. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening from washington. anderson is off. i'm jim sciutto. after raging about it almost nonstop since it was published, president trump now wants to make a federal case out of that critical opinion piece written by one of his own senior officials a criminal case. and he is also talking about sicking the feds on the newspaper that published him. there is also breaking news out of the white house with sources telling cnn they have narrowed down the list of who they think wrote the op-ed to just a few people. details on that in just a moment. the piece ran, as you know, in "the new york times" under the headline "i am part of the resistance inside the trump administration." the president has called the unnamed author gutless, a coward, and demanded that "the times" turn him or her over to the government, though it is unclear what precisely that means or for

>> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >> there's no place like home. >> reporter: new york. >> there's no place like home. >> thank you so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >>> good evening. we have new details on the book that has shaken the trump administration by all appearances, rattling the president. the title is "fear: trump in the white house." the picture that "the washington post" bob woodward paints is, frankly speaking, terrifying of a president whose own defense secretary compares time thoim a fifth or sixth grader. a president the chief of staff reportedly calls an idiot and unhinged. also saying of the boss, it's pointless to try to convince him of anything. he's gone off the rails. we're in crazytown. telling staffers as well i don't know why any of us are here. this is the worst job i've ever had. remember, that's the current white house chief of staff who denies calling the president an idiot. more on that shortly. the book describes a president reportedly seen as so dangerous by one cabinet member, he actually swiped a document off the president's desk, in his words,

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jeanne moos, cnn -- >> you're a loser. >> reporter: -- new york. >> thank you for joining us. i'm jim sciutto. "a.c. 360" with anderson cooper starts right now. >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with a warning from the governor of south carolina. this is a real hurricane we have coming. hurricane florence is getting stronger, bigger, and closer to the east coast. satellite imagery gives an amazing look at the eye of the storm right there. that was earlier today. a mandatory evacuation order goes into effect at noon tomorrow in eight counties along the south carolina coastline. there's also mandatory evacuation orders in virginia and north carolina. hundreds of thousands of people affected. i want to get the latest from tom sater in the cnn weather center in atlanta. so talk to me, how much stronger is this storm expected to get? >> reporter: anderson, yesterday it was a category 1. so it jumped to a 3 to a 4. it is very difficult for storms this size to maintain this strength and this forward movement. i expect some fluctuation to take place. but i thin

. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> so he is running, right? thanks for joining us, everybody. "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening. a full holiday night including a new attack by the president on his own attorney general and critics say on the rule of law. one republican lawmaker using the words banana republic in his criticism. >>> we begin with breaking news on the tropical storm that is expected to become a hurricane, hurricane gordon when it hits the gulf coast. louisiana's governor has just declared a state of emergency, activated the national guard. we've also just gotten new information on the storm. our meteorologist tom sater joins us now with the latest. this could into a hurricane and new advisories just in. what's the latest? >> the latest is just moments ago, they have dropped the warnings for south florida, anderson, which is good news, which means the system is moving northward now. the center is about 95 miles just to the west of ft. myers, which has been inundated with heavy rainfall. the pressure has been dropping, whi

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