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thank you guys thank you so much well SEI guys we got some sounds like we got some fans and some haters that's okay listen listen to what I have to say here and I'll make my pitch yeah that's uh awkward to say the least needless to say it is not going great for the Trump Vance campaign as JD Vance continues to hit the campaign trail with the energy of the guy no one wants on their dodgeball team Donald Trump faced with KLA Harris's growing post DNC momentum and his own shrinking campaign crowds is melting down on social media literally lashing out at vice president KLA Harris with posts that range from sexist uh and crass to dangerous and of course just straight up weird The Washington Post reporting that quote Donald Trump Amplified a vulgar joke about vice president KLA Harris performing a sex act he falsely accused Harris without evidence for a security lapse that enabled a rogue gunman to try to assassinate him he shared a call for Barack Obama to face a Military Tribunal he promoted explicit tributes to the qanon conspiracy theory he hogged digital trading cards in an online infomercial along with pieces of his debate night suit and that folks was just in the span of 24 hours in response Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline levit accused The Washington Post of focusing unfairly on a few social media posts and negative stories about Trump instead of Trump's highly successful policy speeches in Battleground States over the past week calling them policy speeches quite honestly is a stretch in contrast the Harris campaign is using the time they have saved by not spending their days reposting Q andon memes to release a slew of ads highlighting her policy positions while she and Tim wals are barnstorming Georgia talking to voters ahead of their first interview together later this evening joining our conversation this block NBC News correspondent Von hilard out in Potterville Michigan where Trump is holding an event later this hour plus democratic congresswoman Barbara Lee of California of course basil and the Rev are still uh back with us um Von let me start with you can you preview for us what we expect to see from the president today obviously if we just followed his social media posts it is an insight into a mind of someone who is extremely troubled to say the least right usually the social media presence of Donald Trump is not wholly reflected up on stage that's not to say that he has a focused message when he is on the campaign Trail but for Donald Trump you could say that it is a little bit less explicit than the the sexist degrading memes that he posted about comml Harris and Hillary Clinton and of course we have never heard him publicly speak the words about military tribunals for the likes of Liz Cheney or Barack Obama we have not heard him explicitly say that the likes of Jack Smith should be prosecuted and charged or the January 6 select committee members yet at the same time that is what his social media posts have said and I I I think that the Republican campaign would agree the social media post that kamla Harris makes as well as uh those she's made in the past which they frequently cite themselves are words of the nominee and words of that individual and so I think on our role as journalists here is to take Donald Trump seriously and legitimately for the words then which he speaks or the repost in which he uh does on his social media account we are expecting him to take the stage however here at a steel plant here between Lancing and Grand Rapids Michigan in a matter of moments before he makes his way to Lacrosse Wisconsin here later on this evening for the campaign they are trying to set up an operation that gives Donald Trump the opportunity to win and that is building out campaign events like this in these Battleground States but as you noted he's having to go to places also like Georgia like North Carolina this is an expansive map here and with just under one month until early voting begins it becomes not only a finite amount of resource es but also time in which a candidate is actually able to spend on the trail and that's why I think locations like this are noteworthy we are in a more rural area and this is a type of a place where he's going to have to juice his turnout among the particularly white electorate here in Michigan in order to try to match his 2020 numbers and overcome kamla Harris and the numbers that she is seeking to pull from other places across the state um congresswoman Trump has famously uh and problematic to say the least um had a very uh tumultuous relationship with women he goes after them uh in vulgar ways he attacks them in racist ways uh and they're very telling those are his words you know unlike other candidates sometimes where the social media is somewhat manufactured by AIDS or advisors or strategist we know that when Trump posts on social media they are his own words they are his own unfiltered thoughts not like when he was speaking at a campaign event and it it feels like we have reached even a new low for somebody like Trump and it's hard to imagine there is low but he has even gone lower your reaction to him amplifying these uh disgusting posts that we were just talking about you know uh first it just um shows us once again who who he really is these are disgusting post uh it's disgusting it's sexist um it's racist it's it's as low as any human being can go and I think what's important is that um the vice president uh as she said she knows his type I know his type I've been in rooms with with men like this and it's a distraction of course of this campaign but I think what's what's so important to recognize here is this is who he is and to have this man in the White House it says a lot about uh you know his uh voters who I think are beginning to see uh who he really is and women especially Independent Women women who haven't made a decision uh men who have female family members uh how can anyone tolerate someone like this in the white house uh this is not about uh respect it's about disrespect this is not about uh ensuring that um women are respected in a way that men are respected and this is a denigration of of women and girls and who wants to have someone to represent this country on the world stage who has these horrible views but it's again a distraction I think he thinks to turn the tide against a winning campaign and we have to focus on what the agenda is the message is of Vice President KLA Harris and Tim W so that we can make sure that every voter understands that they have to get involved in this campaign volunteer in this campaign and get everyone to the poll to vote because this is another example of why we cannot have a Donald Trump in the white house are you at all congresswoman surprised um and I and I know it's hard after um eight years of trump basically hijacking the Republican party but are you at all surprised that Republican colleagues have not come forward to condemn his comments calling for a former president to face a Military Tribunal among other things no I not surprised because I said earlier I'm in the room with a lot of these men and uh in many ways uh they may not agree but their their views about Donald Trump are such that they're afraid of him they don't have any backbone and they don't want to call him out and they just uh allow this to take place and so that's not very patriotic if you ask me they are being truly unamerican by allowing this type of an individual ual to to run on an agenda that really is a very unamerican and unpatriotic agenda and they should say something they should do something and in fact the campaign of kamla Harris and Tim Walls are moving forward in a positive direction talking about the cost of living the cost of gasoline and groceries and housing making uh sure that people understand that they want to ensure that the middle class in our country is grown in a way that uh tax cuts for the middle class will help not only people and families survive but thriv and so their agenda is a positive agenda it's not filled with hate like Donald Trump's agenda is and his his Republican colleagues who won't step up and say something uh you're known by uh the associations that you keep and by the company that you keep van let me get your thoughts on whether or not we expect the former president to talk policy at all I mean you're on the ground down there is he showing any signs that he may give some kind of policy or is it just the usual Rift of Grievances and going after certain Medal of Honor recipients and just kind of the same old usual great hits of trump is he actually at some point going to say anything of substance right I I want to I think we should be clear here to your question aan in terms of policy well Donald Trump has been highly critical of the Harris campaign for not releasing a stable of policy positions if you will Donald Trump in his own campaign especially when you're talking about the economy have put forward very little outside of calling for 10% pair off on all goods from any country into the United States 60% on goods from China and of course we at a steel plant he's going to tout we should expect the tariffs that he put in his first Administration on the steel industry and yet of course when we're talking about tariffs we're talking about attacks on American companies and consumers when we're talking about the goods that are being brought in parts that are being brought into the country but Donald Trump has been quite light on policy positions otherwise of course he has continually talked about inflation and we should note two years ago is 78 9% it is now down to under 3% here and so I think that this is sort of a a moment here where Donald Trump is looking at an economy that has stabilized to a certain degree you know were folks will recall two weeks ago there is a day that the stock market uh went uh uh fell by several percentage points and yet he called it the commona crash uh he and his campaign they even put out a video touting the stock market falling but then we've seen in the 3 weeks since it continued to climb to record highs and so I think this is a campaign that you have seen try to find its stable footing and yet it is a struggle to find some of its exact policy positions and messaging around economy that is relatively stabilized especially when you look comparatively to two years ago per saying yeah I was going to say and you also have the one perhaps most notable policy proposal is that of project 2025 something the campaign is now adamantly trying to distance uh itself from after it got a lot of negative attention rightfully so uh V thank you so much congresswoman thank you no one else is going anywhere though when we come back I'm going to show you how the Trump campaign is responding to his busy 48 Hours spent on social media we'll be right back hey there everybody it is 4:00 in New York I'm am mine in today for Nicole Wallace uh this afternoon we are monitoring two campaigns going going in two different directions employing two decidedly separate strategies on the one hand there is that of Vice President kamla Harris she is still in Georgia as we speak having spent the last 24 hours there speaking directly to voters uh in a redder more rural part of the state and should her schedule hold we're going to see her address supporters in Savannah before the end of our program in what amounts to the culmination of her trip in that state she'll do so having just recorded a sitdown interview alongside her running M governor Tim Walls a fact that is for some reason a sore spot for those in Donald Trump's orbit of course should we get any advanced look at that interview we're going to pass it right along to you as it comes in meanwhile on the other hand Donald Trump is spending his afternoon making lwd remarks about Harris on social media and promising to no one in particular to make the United States the crypto capital of the planet whether or not that will resonate with most voters is as of yet unclear but what is plain this SE a week after the Democrats made their nomination of Harris official is that this race is a certifiable dead heat who could have predicted this just a few months ago vice president Harris now up Five Points over Trump nationally in the US USA today's suffk poll an impressive number that we should note is still inside the margin of error but put it up against the latest Sun Belt swing State polling from Fox News Harris and Trump essentially tied a among registered voters in critical States like Arizona Georgia Nevada and North Carolina a state by the way that'll begin sending out absente ballots a week from tomorrow so it is ready or not election day here we come and that is where we start today with NBC News White House correspondent Mike memy who's in Savannah Georgia at the site of tonight's rally here with me at the table Democratic strategist and professor at Columbia University and MSNBC political analyst basil schichel and the Reverend Al Sharpton host of MSNBC Politics Nation and president of the National Action Network it has been quite the 24 hours Mike m I'll start with you you have been there in Savannah um at this event where the vice president expected to speak if her schedule holds as I mentioned we're going to be hearing from her uh before this program is over but preview for us the message she is making in Savannah to those voters well a you can get a sense of the general message of the Harris campaign here in Georgia by looking over my left Soldier you see the banner that says a new way forward the vice president may be the sitting vice president but she is absolutely running as a change agent here and it's so interesting because what we when she does get on stage the Harris campaign saying she is going to lay out very clearly what voters have to choose between in this election what she is going to call the Dark and Dangerous vision of project 2025 the governing blueprint for uh former president Donald Trump and her patriotic optimistic Vision that she says she is going to be putting before the American people she's offering some more policy specifics as she does so it was a week ago she gave sort of an overarching view in Chicago at the Democratic Convention of the way she would take this country forward but just as she's continuing her bus tour leading up to this rally here tonight she told some uh voters some small business owners in fact that she's going to be laying out a new small tax credit uh for startup companies next week so this is all her parting to put some of the economic specifics on the table as she is very late to the party here as the Democratic nominee obviously a late shift but you also can feel the energy the momentum with this very large venue this Arena seats 9,000 not every seat is full but it's still about an hour before the vice president arrives people are still making their way in the bus tour that she's been on with Governor walls has been really about trying to show the momentum that the Harris campaign feels that they have in this campaign when President Biden was leading the ticket they were increasingly narrowing their focus to those blue wall states where they are playing Defense Michigan Wisconsin Pennsylvania states that Biden won four years ago and absolutely had no path to Victory unless he won again Harris starting here in Georgia not just a place that only recently joined the Battleground map but a part of Georgia that hasn't seen Democrats campaign here for the presidency since 1992 so that's what the Harris campaign is putting forward of course the big headlines that may come out of the day though may be from that CNN interview when you don't do a lot of interview am in that raises the stakes and puts an extra Spotlight on those that you do uh and certainly we're all looking forward to hearing what she has to say in that conversation with the scen of z b yeah and we'll certainly bring that uh to our viewers as soon as we get any sound from that but Mike I got to ask you about the enthusiasm here for a moment and we mentioned that new polling numbers that Harris campaign will be happy to see undoubtedly what now I mean this Georgia trip was a big one they've captured a lot of this momentum coming out of the convention any indication what their strategy will will be um where they go uh with the limited amount of time that they have left because of the fact that she entered the race a little bit late well yeah the campaign does feel that it has this momentum and so that it can continue to press the envelope a little bit Governor walls uh leaving uh Georgia here now to go to North Carolina a state that Donald Trump won four years ago where the Harris campaign and the Biden campaign before it always felt good about the chances of maybe flipping that map you even have the Harris campaign going on the airwaves in the State of Florida this week now it was a very targeted campaign advertising by in the Palm Beach media Market we know that former president Trump lives there and they were probably trying to send a message to him directly but there have been even these conversations among the Harris team about if this polling swing continues if they get even more of a bounce out of the convention that maybe that's a state that they can maybe put into play forc the Trump campaign to have to continue to spend resources uh where it shouldn't have or at least it doesn't think it should have and so consider this aan four years ago yes we were in the middle of a uh Public Health Emergency covid crisis but President Biden only made one trip to the state of Georgia vice president Harris's running mate then at the time made two separate trips here vice president Harris has already been to this state seven times this year and the campaign is indicating that she'll still find time here very often in the reing 69 days of this campaign yeah as you suggested a state that is now fully in play for her and her campaign mikee memoy thank you very much for starting us off and almost on Q as we mentioned we now have that uh first clip from the interview that the vice president KLA Harris has given to CNN's Dana Bash I'm going to play that for you we'll get the reaction on the back end of it this is her talking about her policy positions how should voters look at some of the changes that you've made uh that you've explained some of here uh in your policy is it because you have more experience now and you've learned more about the information is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary and should they feel comfortable and confident that what you're saying now is going to be your policy moving forward Dana I think the the the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed you mentioned the green New Deal I have always believed and I've worked on it that the climate crisis is real that it is an UR Ur matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time we did that with the inflation reduction act we have set goals for the United States of America and by extension the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as an example that value has not changed my value around what we need to do to secure our border that value has not changed I spent two terms as the Attorney General of California Prosecuting transnational criminal organizations violations of American laws regarding the passage illegal passage of guns drugs and human beings across our border my values have not changed my values have not changed a powerful answer there from uh the vice president baz I'll get your your thoughts on that because that was something uh that we knew probably was going to be brought up uh this questioning of potential change in policy and a very powerful response that while you may change solution to a problem the value on issues like climate being a real threat like immigration being a serious issue that needs to be tackled has not changed yeah it's and let's get one thing out the way too because there are a lot of critics who have said well it was taking her too long to do this interview and so on why is she doing vice president let's guess what George W bush did an interview with his vice president Donald Trump did an interview with his vice president KLA Harris is extraordinarily accomplished leader she can do an interview um so I'm glad that she's saying she's she's done it I I think the answer is powerful because even if she is not terribly specific on the details you should always always address the larger values that are at play here because then you can actually talk to people you can fill in the gaps and the blanks with those values down the road with the details as well and so it really it is I think imperative for the campaign to kind of continue to push values because as people get to know heard that's what they're going to want to understand yes the policy details are important but but but can I trust you yeah do you do you share the kinds of ideas and values that I share as a voter and the more she can communicate that the more I think uh voters will feel more confident in her leadership it's a stark contrast because as I said it's a sign of a pragmatic politician somebody who knows that things are changing we're learning more about climate change we're learning more about new Solutions there's no technology on how to deal with the Border pragmatism suggests that you how to address these issues with the core value being the same as opposed to just completely pivoting and changing 180 degrees to something unfounded and and we also gain confidence when you have someone that deals with their values being firm but that will respond in time in the time that you're dealing which may be different than it was 3 years before so I think the Nativity of some that question that she may have changed on some things they're comparing something that may have been four years ago with something that was four years later the situation changed and I think that that is why it was so powerful for her to say my values haven't changed the same values I said that in 2019 is what I'm saying uh in 2022 but I'm reacting to a different set of circumstances and I think that that just uh uh eliminates that and I think the political side of that that is is powerful is she's running against people that have no back if you remember who change who Chang every 180° you running against a guy JD Vance who called uh uh Donald Trump a man like Hitler and has and uh uh said how how he was of of no consequence no moral values and all now he's running as his vice president say ought to be president of United States so you going to talk about a timetable with climate change and talk about a man who's talking about the same guy and the same politics 180 not to mention a President Who uh you know ran on overturning R versus way drew a sense of Pride from it and then once he overturned it realized that it's bad for him politically now he's trying to distance uh himself from that uh uh disastrous decision let me get your thoughts on the polling because this this is important here for a moment when we look at the polling five weeks ago this was Unthinkable this new map that has emerged for uh the Vice President in her campaign um you know five and six point deficits in some of these races also nationally erased overnight completely different landscape how does the campaign sustain that momentum well some of it's built in in part because before Kam Harrison was at the top of the ticket was Joe Biden it was a very different campaign to to Res Point earlier circumstances were very different Joe Biden was saying you know let's let's keep the Sheep the ship running in the in the right direction this is now a change campaign is as Mike alluded to earlier this is a she's a change candidate in a change campaign and I think as a result of that people's motivations are different people's enthusiasm is very different because they know through kamla Harris they can this country can go in a different direction than what Donald Trump is proposing so having said that um it goes back to the point from before she had been going out into these communities and and making these trips beforehand the fact that she's doing it now again at the top of the ticket and going into areas that Democrats may not have been as great going into before uh but making sure that they're contesting everywhere I will say Georgia specifically I know that Stacy Abrams did a lot when she was running for governor to go into some of these rural communities talked a lot to Black Farmers for example um and make sure that they're included in these conversations um but I think if we see that strategy across more of America um as they have been doing more people get to know her and the more they know her the they trust her and that that is what we're seeing reflected in the numbers right now so rev you probably are more familiar with that part of Georgia um what is the message that she should take to to rural parts of Georgia that are perhaps traditionally more redder uh than the areas where previous campaigns I mean Biden Went Down to Georgia in uh in 2020 focusing mostly on the Metro Atlanta area um you also had the important Senate State uh sorry the Senate races there which obviously adds momentum to the race they don't have that this time so she has to come with a different message I think she's got to talk about things that they're concerned about uh in terms of the cost of farming those that are still dealing with that kind of economy uh the cost of of how they deal with travel there you know when you're in the in rural areas you're not talking about mass transit so gasoline prices mean a lot different there and I think she can uh address that uh I I I know those areas because of the armad Aubrey case which happened in Brunswick uh we kind of stayed there for a while the the other thing you have to keep in mind though in terms of her addressing these rural counties in in Georgia is she addressed rural counties in California she ran twice and one for the Attorney General of the State of California and for the US Senate so it's not like you know people think California they think Hollywood Los Angeles San Francisco in between there you might be in a place like Georgia and she ran in all of them and got elected each time I I add to that because even if you go to Upstate New York it looks a lot like aot like some of these parts of the country there are at least 30 counties in the state of New York that consider themselves Rural and when I was up there as executive director of the party you know just going and talking to those Farmers you know when they're giving out uh squash at the end of events to their neighbors you're like why are you doing that say some of it we can't take to Market because it's not shaped properly it doesn't look properly we can't sell it so I was like talk to me about the economics of that just being there and showing up and trying to recruit candidates from those communities to contest in all of these spaces everywhere from California to Georgia West Virginia and yes even Upstate New York all of that matters yeah it certainly matters and it's also a sign of confidence in the campaign that they can take that message and try to win fundraising exactly and compete for every vote in every part of the state everyone stick around we've got a lot more to discuss we're going to be watching uh that big rally with the vice president of Savannah that is expected a little bit later on we'll bring it to you uh if it happens during this program when we come back while vice president K Harris and Tim Walls are out hearing from voters well the Republican candidate for president of the United States is spending his time sending out dozens of crude sexist misogynistic and conspiracy Fu social posts about the opponent and other Democrats why this meltdown feels different than some of the others we've seen this comes of course as his running mate tries to sell trumpism to a room full of uhep IC union workers today whether they bought it is still up for debate we're going to show you some of them booing from the crowd the Vice Presidential nominee and later in the show explosive new details about what happened when Donald Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery this week the Army says an official there was pushed by an aid on the Trump campaign all those stories and much more when deadline White House continues after a quick break don't go anywhere foreign foreign fore spe foreign e spe foreign speech fore fore around for spe spee spe spee down MO for thate e e spee foreign spee spee