Donald Trump has just walked on stage at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina.

The former president has been campaigning today in the key swing state.

Stick with us, we will bring you any key update from the rally.

During one tense exchange during that daily press briefing, a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre if Kamala Harris had the "green light" from the White House to express a different point of view on policy than President Joe Biden.

The reporter continued: "Or is she required to be a loyal vice president to President Biden?"

The comment reflects the criticism Harris has received from Republicans who are seeking to cast her as a Biden 2.0, responsible for many of the administration's perceived failures. When he was running for president, Biden had historically low favourability ratings.

Jean-Pierre said she disagreed with the question, adding that Harris "has been a partner" to Biden and loyal to him in the same way that Biden was to Barack Obama.

"She is certainly going to cut her own path. That's what we're seeing from this vice president," Jean-Pierre said.

The idea of Iran gaining access to leaked classified documents about Israel's plans of attack is "very concerning", White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has said during the daily press briefing.

Jean-Pierre was asked to confirm if the documents were obtained by Iran and whether the documents were in fact "classified", a high-security designation.

"I can't get into specifics," Jean-Pierre says, adding that the Department of Defense and other US agencies are handling reports of the leak.

"We take this very seriously, we're very concerned," she says.

But, she adds, "we need to get answers before I can give you anything further from here. It's being investigated by the appropriate authorities".

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At the daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has just dismissed multiple requests for comment on tech billionaire Elon Musk's increasingly prominent role in Donald Trump's campaign.

Musk has said he will give away $1m (£766,000) a day to a registered voter in key swing states until the US presidential election on 5 November. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, one of the key battlegrounds, is calling on investigators to look at the legality of Musk's political stunt.

In addition, Trump has said he would enlist Musk to run a “government efficiency commission” if he wins a second term as US president - as the bond between the two continues to grow.

When pressed on these developments during the White House daily briefing, the answer was:

We can now bring you fresh reaction from the Trump campaign to the Central Park Five lawsuit - which we reported on a bit earlier today.

As a reminder, the five men - known as the Central Park Five - have filed a defamation lawsuit today against Donald Trump over comments he made about them during a presidential debate.

The men were cleared of attacking and sexually assaulting a jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989. They were falsely accused and wrongfully convicted when they were teenagers, spending between five and 13 years in jail.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung has called the lawsuit "frivolous" and claims it was filed by "desperate left-wing activists".

Brandon Drenon
US reporter

Trump's appearance on the podcast of a former WWE wrestler may seem unusual, but it's part of very deliberate strategy by his campaign to boost the former president's appeal to young male voters.

He is leading considerably among the demographic, polls indicate, including a New York Times/Siena poll which suggests Trump is ahead of Harris by 17 points among males aged 18 to 29.

In an attempt to extend that lead, Trump has increasingly been hitting the unconventional air waves. This includes Flagrant, co-hosted by comedian Andrew Schulz, and Bussin' with the Boys, a sports show hosted by former NFL players Will Compton and Taylor Lewan.

In the process, Trump has been willing to dismiss some legacy media interviews, which he acknowledged with a twist of humour in his interview with The Undertaker on Monday.

"I turned down 60 Minutes, and I'm doing your stupid show," Trump said with a smile, referring to CBS News' flagship news show.

Sam Cabral
US reporter

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It has been more than 10 years since Donald Trump last appeared on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) programming - but his latest campaign for president is bringing retired wrestlers off the sidelines.

As we've been reporting, a rather friendly interview with Trump and former WWE wrestler Mark Calaway aka The Undertaker was broadcast this morning.

Others on Trump's side have included Hulk Hogan, who ripped off his shirt for "Trumpamania" during the Republican National Convention earlier this summer.

But these unusual interventions from the pro-wrestling world have not been universally well-received. One former wrestler, Dave Bautista, went viral earlier this month with an ad mocking the former president as "a weak, tubby toddler".

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent travelling with the Harris campaign

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Kamala Harris is sitting on stage with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, an outspoken critic of Donald Trump. While this event has been billed as a pitch to disaffected Republicans and independent voters – and Cheney’s opening remarks warned of the danger Trump presents to American foreign policy – the two audience questions have been on meat-and-potatoes Democratic issues.

The first question was from a young mother struggling to raise her child and care for her elderly mother who has dementia. The second was from a 22-year-old student concerned about the decline in maternal health.

It allowed Harris to tout her proposal for extending government support for in-home care of the elderly and to blame the rise in maternal mortality to abortion restrictions imposed by some states after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v Wade.

And that was it for this abbreviated town hall question-and-answer format. Now it’s off to Michigan for another, similar event.

Tim Walz appeared on ABC's The View not too long ago, and was asked how Kamala Harris's administration would differ from Joe Biden's.

Walz points to health policies, saying a Harris administration would expand Medicare funding to cover homecare costs for Americans looking after aging parents and children simultaneously.

“I think she’s really leaning into these issues that impact people first,” Walz said, “Those are pretty big differences.”

He was also asked about previous comments he made in which he's admitted to having "misspoke" - including talking about his service in the National Guard and past travel to China.

"I do think it’s important that we’re careful about how we speak,” he said.

“But I think the public sees just the massive amount of misinformation that gets out there."

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Trump is now speaking in Swannanoa, North Carolina, with mounds of debris high above his head slightly out of focus in the background.

The area was one of the hardest hit by Hurricane Helene in September.

Trump criticises the Biden administration's response to the storm, saying there's "nothing you can do about [the hurricane], but you've got to get a better crew".

He then introduces a series of local residents to speak, many of whom had stepped up to assist with relief efforts in the storm's immediate aftermath.

Some of the speakers use their platform to criticise the federal government's response, including Republican congressman Tim Moore, who thanks Trump for being there, adding: "I've not gotten a single call from the White House, but this man and his team have been in touch from day one."

Since the storm, Trump has sought to politicise its destruction by repeating false claims, suggesting that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) stole money "just like they stole it from a bank, so they could give it to their illegal immigrants that they want to have vote for them this season".

Trump repeated the allegation in North Carolina on Monday, saying: "They don't have any money... It's all gone. They've spent it on illegal migrants, many of them are murderers."

Kamala Harris has called the comments "irresponsible".

Last week, a man was arrested for allegedly violently threatening Fema workers in North Carolina.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent travelling with the Harris campaign

Kamala Harris’s first event of the day, in Malvern, Pennsylvania, just started.

The vice-president has packed arenas for traditional campaign rallies in the months since she launched her presidential bid. This is something different.

In a small theatre, Harris is seated on a stage with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney and Republican Pollster Sarah Longwell. She’s surrounded by several dozen people, seated in chairs in front of large placards that read “country over party” and “a new way forward”.

While this town hall is clearly a controlled environment with a friendly audience, it might offer more unscripted moments from Harris than we normally get from a stump speech.

In this morning's Six Feet Under interview, Mark Calaway asks Trump: "What possesses you to put your life on the line when you don't have to," shortly after bringing up the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July.

Trump started on a light-hearted note - talking about his rally crowd sizes and how he could be at exclusive beaches instead of on the campaign trail - before becoming more serious.

"I feel I have a purpose, and that's to rebuild our country," Trump says. "This country is doing so badly, the border... we have murderers pouring into our country, drug dealers."I think the border is worse than inflation, I think to me it's the biggest thing."

Criticising the border has been a focal point for Trump on the campaign trail, as polls suggest voters trust him more on immigration than his opponent, Kamala Harris.

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In the last few minutes, we've been hearing from Donald Trump as he joins WWE wrestler Mark Calaway aka The Undertaker on his podcast to discuss his concerns and plans for the 2024 election.

Trump says he “feels like I have an obligation” to run again as he insists the US had “the strongest borders” under his administration.

Speaking about the 2020 election, he claims: “I got more votes than any sitting president in the history of the country by millions,” after saying he would not discuss the 2020 election to avoid “any controversy."

“They say we didn’t win," he adds - alluding to false statements he has repeatedly made that the 2020 election was rigged.

He calls the Democrats’ decision to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as “unfair” as he adds: “They took away his presidency, if you think about it. They call it a coup.”

Brandon Drenon
US reporter

Donald Trump will be making campaign stops in the storm-battered areas of western North Carolina on Monday.

It's the part of the state where Hurricane Helene caused the most devastation and where some people are still without clean water, internet service or power.

The area is also a Republican stronghold, Michael Bitzer, chair of Catawba University's Department of Politics, told the BBC.

"If you take those 25 counties that were designated by the administration as disaster counties, and you add up all of their votes, they're basically 61% Republican to 39% Democratic [for the presidential race]," he said.

Bitzer said that reality could make "a very narrow margin of victory for Republicans even more narrow".

North Carolina is one of seven key battleground states that could determine the election, and it's a place that Democrats have invested into heavily this election cycle, having barely lost the state in 2020 - by just 1.4%.

Recent polling suggests the race in North Carolina is a tie between Trump and Harris.

"Flip a coin," Bitzer said.

"That's the best predictive model that any of us have right now."

Donald Trump is predicted to have a slight edge over Kamala Harris in the Economist's electoral win model for the first time in two months.

The weekly newspaper now projects Trump as having a 54 in 100 chance of winning the election, while his opponent is shown as coming out on top 45 times out of 100.

The August edition of the model indicated many undecided and third-party voters were leaning towards Harris, but with only 15 days to go before polling day some of them now appear to have thrown their support behind Trump, the poll suggests.

Trump's chances of heading back to the White House is now 8% higher than it was just last Friday, according to the Economist's predictions.

The BBC is also tracking national polls to keep track of who's leading as we approach decision day.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent travelling with the Harris campaign

Here in Philadelphia, the Harris team is packing up and getting ready to start another full day on the campaign trail. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that, in the last few weeks of the race, she is visiting states that could be the difference between victory and defeat.

Who she is campaigning with, however, is quite unusual.

The vice-president has scheduled town hall appearances in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin with former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, moderated by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell and conservative commentator Charlie Sykes.

They’re the kind of events that a Republican presidential candidate like Mitt Romney or George W Bush might have held in years past.

Harris is trying to convince independent and Republican voters in the suburbs of those states’ largest cities – Philadelphia, Detroit and Milwaukee – to support the Democratic ticket.

If she can make progress among the college-educated professionals who in the past have backed the Republicans, it could offset gains Trump appears to be making among blue-collar, minority and union voters.

It’s a sign of just how dramatically the coalitions supporting the two major parties are shifting in the era of Donald Trump.

Five men, who were cleared of attacking and sexually assaulting a jogger in New York's Central Park in 1989, have filed a defamation lawsuit today against Donald Trump over comments he made about them during a presidential debate.

Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise were falsely accused and wrongfully convicted of a brutal assault when they were teenagers, spending between five and 13 years in jail.

They were known as the Central Park Five and were exonerated in 2002 by DNA evidence and another man's confession.

The lawsuit refers to comments Trump made during the debate in September, when Kamala Harris stated that he “took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling for the execution of five young Black and Latino boys who were innocent".

Trump then responded by stating that the Central Park Five "admitted – they said, they pled guilty. And I said, well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately".

In fact, none of the Central Park Five pled guilty and nobody was killed during the assault.

The plaintiff's lawyer said the lawsuit alleges Trump "defamed the Plaintiffs, cast them in a harmful false light and intentionally inflicted emotional distress," adding they wish to correct the record and clear their names once again.

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Elon Musk this weekend pledged to give away $1m (£768,000) a day to registered voters in key swing states until election day on 5 November.

The billionaire, who has pledged his support and financial backing firmly behind Donald Trump, has since delivered two cheques to surprise attendees at town halls in Pennsylvania.

"You don't even have to vote. You don't have to vote," he said in McKees Rocks, near the city of Pittsburgh, on Sunday.

"You just have to sign a petition saying you believe in the Constitution, which if you already believe in the Constitution, you're just signing something you already believe and you can win a million. That's awesome."

But as we reported earlier, Musk's proposal has been met with opposition from Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Josh Shapiro, who has called it a "deeply concerning" scheme that needs to be investigated.

Watch him present the cheque below:

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Speaking on Fox News this morning, Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says "Democrats are panicking" over polls that Leavitt suggests indicate Donald Trump is beating Kamala Harris in the race for president.

Leavitt also criticises Harris's plans to travel with Republican Liz Cheney on the campaign trail on Monday as the pair seek to appeal to "anti-Trump Republicans".

Leavitt says: "That type of Republican doesn't exist anymore except for Liz Cheney who lost her race... [in the] largest defeat in American history.

"I don't think the American people are listening to what she [Cheney] has to say."

On Monday, Harris and Cheney are scheduled to participate in a series of moderated conversations across the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Cheney, a former congresswoman, has been one of Harris's most visible and outspoken Republican supporters.