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bets are off or the other think kamala harris has a better chance at winning this election? >> the most talked about thing, the way harris laughs chinese social media users nicknamed harris. sister ha-ha some call her dramatic laughter, crazy, cringe. others say it's enduring and even a sign of good fortune this is actually china allowing this their sensors allowing this is an effort to kind of dismiss camilla's candidacy is weak and state media has described her white house performance, his mediocre, interesting also, the simpsons are so popular in china that people went back and found that episode aired to point to the similarities it's pretty amazing, hasn't it? >> all right? well, thanks so much and thanks so much to all of you for joining us. ac360 starts now tonight a 360 vice
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president harris camp five days growing support from her party with former president barak obama and michelle obama is endorsement. >> there's also breaking news in the form of new polling, both nationally and state-by-state, that shows harris erasing former president trump's also our gary tuchman with voters in michigan county that democrats and republicans have split 50-50 over the last 20 presidential elections. for the vice president's rise to the top of the ticket changes for them and how they plan to vote. plus breaking news and the key question was donald trump hit by a bullet or not during the attempt? on his life, the fbi, has just weighed in good evening. thanks for joining us for vice president harris. it has been the kind of week that every new candidate wishes for, but few ever get in tonight. there's new polling that reflects it. one is from the wall street journal, the vice president is trailing donald trump by two points nationally within the margin of error, not in the lead, but six points better fareed than president biden did in the last journal poll. last night in new
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york times poll showed similar gains. also tonight from fox, the first new polling and key battleground states since the harris-biden changeup, it shows no clear leader in head-to-head matchups and wisconsin, pennsylvania, and michigan, and the vice president is up by six and minnesota in michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin were comparable pollings available. numbers are roughly the same as president biden's were the vice president's day began with the final crucial piece of democratic party support falling into place. former president michelle obama is endorsement delivered by phone captured in a video released by the campaign i can't, have this phone call without saying to my girl, kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. >> oh, my goodness michelle barak, this means so much to me. >> i'm looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both the obamas took
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five days to give her the nod. >> but as you mentioned it, as will look at shortly, they're active support down the road could make a difference at the very least, there endorsement rounds out a week that appears to have done what president biden i had not been able to, namely energize the democratic campaign for president. as for donald trump, he's expected to speak shortly at a conservative event near mar-a-lago. earlier today, he met with israel's prime minister, after which he had this to say about vice president harris's remarks yesterday underscoring her support for israel while recognizing civilian suffering in gaza and calling for progress toward a ceasefire deal i think current remarks were disrespectful. they weren't very nice pertaining to israel i actually don't know how a person who is jewish can vote for her but that's up to them his running mate meantime, tried doing cleanup today from his past remarks about democrats and childless cat ladies, you can decide for yourself whether he was successful people were focusing
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so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what i actually said in the substance of what i said, meghan, i'm sorry. it's true. it is true that we become anti-family. it is true that the left has become anti-child, but the simple point that i made is that having children because having a father becoming a mother, i really do think it changes your perspective and it pretty profound way. this is about criticizing the democratic party for becoming anti-family and anti-child. >> a lot of liberals and a lot of people on the left will say, well, we can just replace american children with immigrants lot to get to tonight, cnn's kristen holmes is at the turning point, believers summit where the foreign president is going to speak tonight. >> so what's your sense of how trump and his campaign feel about j.d vance tonight? >> right well, there's different orbits of donald trump, right? there is donald trump himself. there is this campaign and then there is trump's orbit overall. >> if you talk about people who are outside of the campaign, sure. >> there has been some quiet
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questioning of j.d. vance. was he the right choice? is he to green, but all the indications that i'm getting from trump's actual campaign and his senior advisors is that they're very happy with jay at events that they believed that this was going to happen. they knew there was going to be stuff that came out that he was going to likely take a lot of incoming fire from previous comments he might have made for just as people were learning about him. now, the big problem for j.d. vance right now is not necessarily just these comments, but it's just the idea that this is not what they wanted him to be doing now what he wanted to be doing in this span, what he should he doing is introducing himself not only to the american people, but to the republican party. there are still so many voters, anderson that i talked to on a regular basis who say they don't know anything think about j.d. vance. and this is supposed to be the opportunity for him to get out there to be doing these rallies, to be talking to people to retelling his story and instead, he has spending all this time playing cleanup for remarks he made in 2020 you yuan is dumped from still spit-balling lines of attack on
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kamala harris and he's still trying to figure this out. does it seem like he's settled on the main ones yet? >> it's seems as though he is settled on what the messaging is, not necessarily just his lines. he's been testing out one liners at various events. he said staff during the meeting today with netanyahu, he said some stuff i heard at a rally in michigan most of it is just trying it out. but as one consistent message, which is that kamala harris is a radical liberal from california liberal than joe biden. and it's going to up end everything that donald trump's administration stood for, even go even further than joe biden. >> they also tried to paint her as mastermind behind all of biden's policies, particularly the policies that are less popular, light policies on immigration, like policies on crime. >> and you're going to see more of this anderson. we really are in a race here to define who kamala harris is obviously she is doing her part for republicans are trying to
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do their part as well two painter and negative light as they can. so we'll see what donald trump says tonight. remember this is kind of a fait event. it's about believing in the ballot. donald trump isn't pushing for evangelical voters. so how far he goes remains to be seen been, but obviously we know donald trump doesn't really care about that kind of thing. >> kristen holmes, thanks very much perspective now from brian lines in 2016, trump campaign deputy communications director also, cnn political commentators, kate bedingfield and maria cardona and then tausche alford, senior correspondent for the grio natasha, just it's early polling. what do you make of the numbers that we're seeing now? now tonight, i think that people have been craving something to be excited about, to vote for a rather than feeling like they were just voting against donald trump, kamala harris is energetic. >> she's passionate. she has that edge, this sense that she is a prosecutor or somebody who's skilled at calling out people whom i feel like the truth and donald trump has been able to get away with so much he's been able to spin and
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sort of talk his way out of a lot of the criticisms about him in the courtroom and outside of the courtroom. and so this sense that she can be a fighter. i think people are really rallying behind that. >> the former president obviously is trying to define kamala harris before she can do it for for herself harris has had by all estimations, a very good rollout thus far, probably better than anybody could have expected, but obviously past statements that she has said are now starting to emerge and are gonna be used against her no, that's true for any candidate. i mean, this is a critical period where she has the opportunity to really define herself. she has a record of having served as vice president for four years. she obviously has her time in the senate. she has a career as attorney general and a prosecutor. so there are going to be things that are are gonna be surfaced from particularly her 20 the 19 primary campaign. i think she and her team will have to make a choice pretty quickly about how they want to handle that. i think we've obviously seen some of the tax
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coming with suggestion that she supported defund the police. i think she can be very, very clear that she has spent her life in taking being tough on crime, but also the she's now had four years in the biden white house where she's supported biden budgets that increased funding for police. so there is absolutely runway for her to establish herself where she wants to be on these issues, but they do need to make decisions. i think quickly about how they want to tackle that because there's no question that trump van the republicans are going to do everything in their power to try to distort things that she said and they need to be quick to get on top of that brian foreign prison trump does not like turning on the television and seeing his vice president daughter getting a lot of coverage for statements he has made over the years which we have raised a lot of questions. >> but talking about childless cat, ladies, do you think he's having any buyer's remorse? >> absolutely not. first of all, thank you for having me anderson, i think just
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yesterday, president trump did an interview where he said he was proud to have jd on the ticket and he would do it again. let's look at the rollout in the past week since jd has been rolled out, his book hillbilly elegy has sold 600,000 new copies. it's become one of the top rated films on netflix. so clearly there's an instance in interest in jd. it's a positive interests and you'll see it expand. he's got his comments to address. i was a consultant on his senate campaign. i helped launch the super pac verge ad, but we you, so we've got to clean up comments. obviously the media is going to do the best to distort those comments. we've seen that happen in the past week, but it's hard to distort the trial let's cat ladies stuff. i mean, it's sort of no, but i'm talking about the distortion is does criticizing jd saying that people have families who have more kids should receive tax credits. that's actually a thoughtful answer if you really think about it, most western countries are having huge populations declines. they're having to figure out how to address it. you have japan that's suffering tremendously from a population of the crime and hungry, hungry has actually he found a solution for that by incentivizing families from having kids. that's love, you guys love hungary. >> viktor orban, but i mean, look also talking about replay,
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that claiming that democrats want to replace american children with immigrants. i mean what does that even mean? >> no, listen, i think if you expand the army, he says he says the democrats wanted place american workers with foreign, with illegal. >> he said that american children with immigrants, i don't know what that means. >> well, i'll tell you what it means. you're asking me to explain what he what he intended to say or what's what you guys are interpreted differently. he's talking about the american people. don't want to be displaced and they're being displaced by the illegal immigration that's coming in, whether it's whether it's children of illegal immigrants. are you going? the league roads that are coming in? that's certainly displaced and you can you cannot say that 15 million illegal immigrants we've come in this country have not displaced workers in this country. that's just, that's just since dire mentally false. >> so maria, from early strategic point of view, what incentive does j.d. vance have to double down on the childless cat, ladies thing? >> i mean, that is the question, right, anderson, because you would think that the very first rule of being a vice presidential candidate on
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a ticket is first do no harm. he is doing harm to the trump-vance ticket because of everything that we're talking about now. >> and i have to say it's fact that trump is not happy with that because he's kind of outshining trump himself as he's getting all of this press. and it's not good press and the whole childless cat lady thing. and i'm sorry, brian, but this has nothing to do with substance and nothing to do with good ideas that has everything to do with j.d. vance looking down on families that in his eyes aren't traditional. he is looking down on families that are blended. he's looking down on families that include stepchildren. he's looking down on americans who choose to or cannot have children. he has alienating millions and millions of americans. and at the heart of this anderson, let's be very clear about why he's saying this. he is saying this because he is absolutely against reproductive freedom. this has everything to do with his
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hatred of women having the ability and the right to make decisions about their own bodies and guess what? some of those decisions might be that they don't want to have children. some of those decisions might be that it's not the right time to have children if they get pregnant. that's something he cannot stand and i think that's going to be a huge issue in this campaign. >> natasha, how, how important do you think the obamas endorsement actually is? i mean, it's obviously a given that they're going to endorse her and i mean, there's a lot of young people who today who can vote, who don't really have much memory of the obamas. >> well, there were people who were actually quite upset that the obamas didn't come out and endorse kamalaharris right away. so there were people who were looking for that validation, that confirmation that they were standing with her i think that their cultural impact this is beyond even even people who were children at that time remember the stories of people celebrating in the streets. >> when do you think they're really going to be aggressively out there? because i mean, often the past it's been sort
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of just toward the end of a campaign, then do some big events. >> i mean, they said we have your back and it remains to be seen how much they will show up at even vance are or how much they will speak at events, but i think that there is power in backing them and i think people want that connection, the same feeling they had during the obama years that there was something to be hopeful about that obama was president for everyone, not just blue america, but he was somebody who was trying to reach out to people that is a feeling that people want to capture again, when i talked to shannon watts, who organize the white women answer the call 200,000 people showed up to that. she's saying that the energy she felt on that call surpassed what she felt in the obama era. so something special is happening. >> we're going to continue the conversation a moment, including about new cnn's kfile reporting on what we've been discussing have been already namely kamala harris's past position on police funding, what kfile found, and whether campaign is saying about it. now, also later, the fbi weighs in on whether donald trump was hit by a bullet or
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over liberal position she embraced during the 2020 presidential primary and kfile's andrew kaczynski joins me now with one of the sets of comments after she dropped out, which could make her vulnerable to criticism. >> would you find well, we all remember those protests in the summer of 2020 after a police officer murdered george floyd, many progressives and liberals were talking about defunding police departments nationwide. >> one local radio show asked to then senator kamala harris, where she stood on the defund the police movement. take a listen to this defund. >> the police the issue behind it is that we need to re-imagine how we are creating safety and when you have many cities that have one-third of their entire city budget focused on policing. we know that is not the smart way and the best way or the right way to achieve safety. this whole movement is about rightly saying we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out
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whether it reflects the right priorities for too long. the status quo thinking has been you get more safety by putting more cops on the street. well, that's wrong. >> now, in another interview that same week, harris praised then los angeles mayor eric garcetti for removing $150 million from there police budget and investing that in social services. listen to this that's a legitimate conversation and it requires a really critical evaluation. i applaud eric garcetti for doing what he's done now, some important context here is even in 2020, polling showed that reducing police budgets was not popular. >> pew found that just 25% of adults supported reduced do you think police budgets that year and by 2021 that had decreased to what, 15%. now, it's also important to note that the biden administration, which of course includes then includes
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vice president harris passed the american rescue plan, which includes billions of dollars for cities to boost. there budget for local police still, harris is trying to run on her history as a prosecutor and republicans are going to use some of these comments to portray her as soft on crime. >> how is the harris campaign responding? >> so after harris was selected by biden to be vp, we really didn't see her mentioned the defund, the police movement again, in fact, the campaign explicitly put out a statement where they said it was a lie to suggest that she did. they said that she supported more funding for police, so we reached out to the harris campaign. we asked how do you square those comments in 20 in 20 and now and they give us this statement where they said whether as a district attorney attorney general, senator, or as vice president kamala harris has led the way to keep our community safe, to take on violent crime, and helped lead the nation to historic drop in violent crime to a 50 year low because there's kyiv. >> thanks so much. with the panel. brian. obviously this is
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something which the trump team would see as a vulnerability back then, it was interesting because the criticism among liberals, some liberals against harris when she was running that primary was that she was too conservative. that as a district attorney and former prosecutor, theater for those who wanted and believed in defund the police. she was viewed as probably too far on the left. i'm not sure which is an accurate representation of what she actually believes, but clearly this must be seen by republicans as a vulnerability oh, 100% of vulnerable i mean, she praised governor. she prays mayor garcetti for reducing the budget of the police department. at a critical time. so that's dangerous, that is different. and police, there's almost make certain radically liberal at this point. it's going to be something we hit. i mean, she can't claim that she was tough on crime than her vision of being tough on crime was prosecuting low offensive it's drug offenders of people of color. but when she had a chance to prosecute a cop killer and give him the death penalty she chose against it
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when she had a chance to prosecute a murderer, an illegal and illegal alien. ms 13 person who murdered three people in the streets of san francisco. she refused to do the death penalty against the wishes of the family. so yeah, not only she weak on crime, but she's weak on defund the police and that's a dangerous position for everybody. we've learned. we've learned the consequences of that certainly democratic party has learned the concepts. so i'm not surprised to try to backpedal and i expect we'd see more moon-walking on to that effect there are a lot of republicans by the way, who right now we're talking about defunding the fbi. >> so they're republicans spar for law enforcement is a question as well, but what do you make of this line of attack? how vulnerable do you think vice president harris is yeah, i think a couple of things. >> i mean, first of all, i think at a 30,000 foot level, if this campaign, if the republicans want to make this campaign about the question of who is more extreme. i think that is a fight that harris and the democrats are going to win because you have in donald trump and j.d. vance you know, people who are saying things like women shouldn't be able to make decisions about their own bodies. they're not
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actually families if they're not defined exactly the way we define them. i mean, what what vance and trump are doing is reaching into people's day-to-day lives and offering a vision that's about controlling the way they live. so i think if the republicans think that moving this race to a contest, a question, a framework of who is more extreme. i think that is a fight that republicans are going to lose on this specific issue of crime. we sort of talked about this a little bit few minutes ago, but i think vice president harris has a record that to run on, as you noted, anderson 2019 in the primary, she was actually attacked from the left for being a cop. so you know, she has a record of being tough on crime that she can run on. she has her record in the biden administration of supporting more funding for police, of rejecting out of hand the notion that we need to defund the police. so i think she and her campaign can take this on directly, refute it move forward and then get back to the framework that they want this race to be about. and i think they have an opportunity
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here to do that tasha besides donald trump calling her garbage and nasty and all sorts of names at this morning crazy as he calls many women that he disagrees with, he called her more left or more liberal than bernie sanders. >> i just want to play bernie sanders response to that a couple nights ago no, i don't think that is the case. >> i think that the vice president had a very strong record in the u.s. senate strong record working with president biden in the administration. but no, i don't quite think that her record is is where my nose in terms of being progressive this is clearly going to be a major line of attack. yes, it is. >> but we live in to america's because on my page right now, people are arguing about kamala harris throwing black men in jail. thousands of black men and they say that she's caught mullah and then on this other side, you kapila right cop, cop mullah, like they've come up with a nickname for her. and on
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the other side, she's two radicals. so which one is it actually think kamala harris answered the question of defund the police in a very nuanced way. she was talking about investing in communities to press violent crime, right occupy a young people's time, give them something to live for, to work for. and when you looked at her conversation on the view with meghan mccain, that was actually the stance that she took. it was defund the police, the actual words that was so controversial, the idea itself, there are a lot of people who actually support the idea of investing in communities think that, she will be able to navigate this. i think that she'd always been really careful about the way that she answered it and she just needs to be clear about the fact that she supports both communities. >> maria, how do you see this playing out? >> i agree with tausche that the vice president has already proven that i think she can thread this needle and do it well, because even in the clip that you played anderson, the way that she answered the question was a way in which a lot of leaders were thoughtfully trying to approach
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this issue of what are our budgets there for? how do you actually keep communities safer and in fact, during that whole debate, you had a lot of law enforcement officers themselves saying that they did not want to show up at calls and feel like they had to play the role of the social services. and so what she ended up doing with if at the side of joe biden during the biden-harris administration is they did both. they increased budgets for law enforcement and they also increase budgets for social services to be able to make it all about how do you actually keep communities safe? and i do think it's hugely hypocritical for republicans who then go after her for being anti-law enforcement when you had donald trump himself siding with the insurrectionist, who actually caused the loss of life of law enforcement officers. and republicans don't seem to care about that on the border. i
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mean, how much of a liability is the the border issue? legal immigration, obviously, republicans are calling her the borders are democrats replied by saying, well, you look, there was a bipartisan border deal that the most conservative james lankford from oklahoma had, had helped get get together and trump put the kibosh on it because he didn't want biden to have a win. anything that could be perceived as a win during an election year, even if it would be beneficial and help the problem of illegal immigration yeah yeah. >> i think that's an important argument and a compelling argument that democrats can make because you're, you're really putting the ball back in the republicans court and saying, you know, if you believe this is a serious issue and you believe this is a serious problem, put serious solutions on the table, but you don't, you haven't donald trump has been at the forefront of ensuring that this is simply a political game. for republicans. and we know that voters don't like that. they don't like what to feel like their elected officials are not
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working in good faith to try to solve problems. and i think, by pulling that bill, but that bill down trump really put on display the fact that he views this as nothing more than political gamesmanship, and that is really a turnoff particularly to moderate voters, to independent voters. people who are not hyper-partisan on either side and really dug in their invested. but the people who are ultimately going to help decide the outcome of this election, they find that kind of political gamesmanship really off-putting. so i think that is actually really powerful argument for the democrats i think for her on this question of, you know, being in charge of the border, first of all, i think it's important to note that wasn't the role she was given. she was given actually the same portfolio that vice president biden had when he was vice president, which was dealing with the root causes of immigration in the northern triangle as a foreign policy oriented portfolio that she was given important work but not her responsibility to oversee the entire border. so i think that is an important clarification here but writ
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large, i think the argument for democrats is about putting this back on the republicans will also noting by the way, that illegal border crossings have dropped over the course of this last year. so they have facts democrats have facts on their side here too, as they're making this argument. >> thanks, everybody up next are there tuchman heads for a battleground county in the battleground, state of michigan voters, they're picking trump twice obama twice. how vice president harris entering the race may affect their votes coming up. what's the effect from prison? obama and michelle obama have already had in past presidential campaigns as they get ready. pretty to help out vice president harris will be right back greeting tab it. dizzy happen frenemies happened pets happened there with ring, learn more at read.com slash pen, name of phi. >> it's kind of amazing oh, my go-to is lima fbi eye drops, luma phi dramatically reduces redness in one minute and look at the difference.
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inspection today called a33 lee filter or visit lee filter.com tv on the edge, moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn the 2024 election could likely be decided by just a few key battleground states. in fact, he likely will including michigan, which president biden won by a close margin in 2020, and the former president won by an even slimmer margin, 20 he's 16. a new fox poll shows no clear leader between vice president harris and the former president with both polling and 49%. but in the fox poll, with a third party candidates are included,
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45% say they would vote for trump. 43% say they'd vote for harris would still falls within the poll's margin of error. our gary tuchman went to a battleground county in the state and that's here's what voters, they're told him about the upcoming election just north of detroit and mccomb county, michigan a concert, a woodstock tribute band it's where we find laura cinzia, who says she wants considered yourself a hippy, and it's now over tyre defense department employee, you are a republican? yes. >> and in 2020, did you vote for donald trump? >> yes. >> 2016 also? >> yes. >> and now this year, had you plan to vote for donald trump? >> well, i did now tables might turn with kamala harris. >> yes. >> you're not sure? >> not sure. >> i got up i got to research a little more what you like kamala harris? yes, i do mccomb county were nearly 900,000
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people live has gone for donald trump the last two presidential elections barack obama for the two before we're that in the last 20 presidential elections republicans have won ten, democrats have won ten so we took a tour of this key county to see what voters make of the dramatic developments in the presidential race. >> what we saw was a lot of reflection john a bear is a retired marine of vietnam war veteran. political independent. before kamala harris got in the race were you undecided or did you know who you were gonna vote for for president? >> i was definitely leaning towards trump before she got in and now how do you feel now that she's in waffle and a little bit at a beach park at lake st. clair over the fence we find a family with three generations enjoying the day mark crook because the patriarch, you're an independent. but after the debate, you were considering voting for donald trump, correct? >> yep. it just just at the buckle of it. it was a disaster for not a conille.
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>> a harris is in the race. are you still leaning towards voting for donald trump? >> nope, i i think i'm going to go camila and it isn't just those who are leaning towards and donald trump who are having second thoughts. >> you're a democrat where you can, but you were considering voting for rfk junior? >> yes. >> and not joe biden, right we met done a charlton it escape park where she watched her grandson test his limits now, the kamala harris is in the race. >> how do you feel that great. >> i'll vote for her at henriksson driving range we meet a golfer who says he's a left-leaning, independent who had been leaning towards not voting for president but now rob abrams feels he will vote for kamala harris. i like that she's young. i like to she can put two sentences together. i like that. she can she can speak with conviction at the sterling heights stellantis assembly plant and mccomb county, where they assemble the ram 1,500 it shift change time for the union workers while many are enthused about kamala harris as they give her a chance to see what she can do.
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>> we did run into plenty of fervid trump supporters who say the new challenger has only made them more enthused about the former president. >> does kamala harris getting in the race, changed the equation at all? for either of you change it, ruins she gets in, were done so i don't know the what america has done for and back at the 60s concert, i'm a stronger supporter of donald trump because kamala harris is in the race meanwhile, the vietnam vet who has been leaning toward donald trump says he will be paying close attention to the news in the days and weeks to come. >> her getting the race though, has basically opened up your mind? >> yes, it has. >> and, gary tuchman joins me now, it's interesting you found evidence of sort of her entering into the race, energizing to people on both sides of the political aisle in terms of thinking, energizing them to support trump more or to switch support very energetic people we talked to in michigan and that's what's really interesting. it's not just people who like kamala harris has also people who
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don't like kamala harris, they all wanted to be heard when we travel around the country over the last several months talking about this race and interviewing voters there's a lot of voters who are shy or reticent and just don't want to appear on camera we didn't see very much of that. >> people really wanted to talk about it. the very interested in what's become of this presidential race on an know what the cover band they are going to very excellent. >> magic bus barack obama not only won mccomb county twice, he won the state as well in 20 28 and 2012. >> today as we reported, the top the former president and his wife, michelle obama endorsed kamala kamalaharris. there's another look at that i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl, kamala, i am proud of you. >> this is going to be historic. >> we call to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office my goodness. well, sources tell cnn that former president obama has been serving as a sounding board for
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harris over the last two decades. he'd also been supportive of president biden's reelection bid. now, here's randi kaye with a look at how the obamas have helped other presidential campaigns i want those of you who've been with me from the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to know that i'm with her i'm fired up i cannot wait to get out there and campaign for hillary i'm with her. >> with those words then president barak obama throwing his full support behind hillary clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. >> i don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office soon after that vote of confidence, obama hit the campaign trail together with clinton this is a choice between whether we are going to cling to some imaginary past or whether we're going to reach for the future. then first lady michelle obama, through her
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weight behind clinton to at the dnc convention we need to get out every vote we need to for every last ounce of our passion and our strength and our love for this country. shrey into electing hillary clinton as president of the united states of america the obamas amped up their own stars our power at this pennsylvania event where bon jovi join them and the clintons on stage, just days before the 2016 election, michelle obama appeared with clinton in the battleground state of north carolina this was the first time the two women shared the stage. hillary has done her job now, we need to do our job and get her elected president of the united states part of michelle
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obama's motivation to campaign against donald trump, his false claims that barak obama wasn't born in the united states she wrote in her book that trump's claim carried with it bigotry and xenophobia adding donald trump with his loud and reckless and you windows was putting my family's safety at risk and for this, i'd never forgive him she spoke with oprah about it in 2018. i don't think he knew what he was doing that for him. it was a game that motivation continued in 2020. >> i'm so proud to endorse joe biden for president of the united states. i believe joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now, an endorsement then stump speeches even in the midst of the pandemic, i love joe biden and he will be a great president. >> this was flint, michigan. >> my friend i'll real leave it. >> the next president of the united states of america joe in
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october 2020, michelle obama, lintner, voice to the closing argument for biden search. your hearts and your conscience and then vote for joe biden like your lives depend on it. >> and on the eve of the election, barack obama fired up voters in miami. >> we will elect joe biden had kamala harris and we will leave no doubt about what this country we love stands for. let's get to work. florida let's bring this home. i loved your miami hoque up. you're fired up randi kaye, cnn, palm beach county, florida well, just ahead, breaking news on the fbi's investigation to the assassination attempt against the former president and what they've concluded about his wound that day the athletes in awe are pushing the limits of what is capable ready to show the world how good i train all over the globe. and that's what
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wait. >> ask your cardiologist about att rcm today were how solomon in new york is cnn tonight we have breaking news in the investigation of the assassination attempt against the former president, the fbi tonight released a statement saying that trump was in fact struck by a bullet, either whole or a fragmented in smaller pieces. >> now, this comes after fbi director christopher wray this week said there were still some questions about whether trump was hit with a bullet well, it or shrapnel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller is with me so talking about what the latest is, well, the latest is that the director put the put to bad this tempest in a shell casing which is was it a bullet, was a trap. know the standard is if you're grazed by a bullet, you were shocked. if you're hit by a bullet but fragment, you were shocked so that is kind of a day long battle about semantics that seemed to get way out of hand, which is the reason for the statement that came out late this afternoon there's still
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going to do the work though. the fbi shooting reconstruction team has been on the ground, they've used the the 360 degree total station platform that takes measurements from every point of the crime scene, which is quite large, to where the shooter was, to where the stage was to where donald trump was, where the other victims were and they do that so that if there's a measurement they need later that they didn't take, they can go back into that system and task that measurement down to the small, like an actual machine, they bring in it's a digital machine the nikon total station or other brands that will do this 360 up and down pictures. so you can literally go back to the crime scene and get anything that was recorded on the day you recorded that is still there in the measurements. and everything else. but they'll look for beams, bullet impact mark. they'll look for bullet holes. they will take swabs four lead residue, copper residue and they will match that to the
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bullets that were still in the magazine. to the bullets that were fired through the gun and they're going to go through all this you know, to document as much as they can. >> and i knew chris wray testified that the shooter had looked up how far away was oswald? from kennedy. that investigation is still very much underway yes and that is about his preparation. >> he in his phone had numbers for the trump headquarters, had numbers for the biden headquarter has had multiple pictures of both men and lots of pictures of other political figures. but we know that just a few days before you know, in early january when they announced that trump rally, he began the planning for that place. you did a reconnaissance trip there days before the rally. he purchased a ladder in case he needed it, but discarded it he flew his drone for 11 minutes, 200 yards back to get a complete picture of that roof so he was doing what
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a 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries competing in 32 sports. and our harry enten joins me now with more what excites you about this this event. you know, one of the things that's really exciting to me is we're going to have a first-time event break dancing, which has very fun for me because breakdancing from the bronx, i don't know if you knew that or not. were you a big break down? so i was i was a huge break dancing the early 80s back in the early yeah, that was definitely want maybe the maybe the late 80s, maybe. but you know, i think the real thing that a lot of people would love about the olympics is that in fact, how could you measure yourself as an average person against these olympians have any idea how good they are. but fortunately, we have a wonderful example of you doing exactly that how about if i get to dive and i get to do freestyle? >> one lab you go into war in the hallway. >> you can't breathe and you can't and you'll still be okay i'll take your maher.
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>> we didn't take a single scroll down. he just did the dolphins. >> what does it feel like to raise michael phelps? i couldn't tell you it moved by me so quickly and never even saw on but i want you to fascinate because you see them running and they're all kind of so close to each other. but when a normal human, a normal human being, you just can't keep up with them. you dedicated yourself to science, but i want you to not feel so bad. so i decided to try and do my best. read glue. ghana's we have here we won. >> wow come on, right there. is that not a regular game that was i know that's not it's not greg, louisiana's i thought i could go for the olympics diving. >> yeah. no, that doesn't look good. it doesn't look so what are some of the other first is your percentage breakdancing? yes. so you know, one of the other first this year which i
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think is so interesting, is that for the first time, the summer olympics will close with the women's marathon instead of the men it's marathon we closed the fortnight with the women's marathon, basically closing out the festivities. and, you know, i think that people don't that's really compelling to me. that's very compelling, but it's truly compelling because i have a really good understanding of how strong these women are. because you once again dedicated yourself to science. let's go. >> i see what this segment is about ready is just always about that jumped out front at first, but within sheline with or even pac flowing strike blew right past me, kind of laughing she completed the quarter mile in about 79 seconds almost there but you know, if that was truly know why i do these segments for six months. i don't know why you do those segments or 60 minutes. i
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don't know why you do them with me, but i myself have actually try ran a mile for charity. i want to raise money for my girlfriend who is running. and so i want to give you an idea that you're not alone and god i'm sure inability to run a guise wow hey, yes. >> are you actually running? they're is that a run kind of iran and are you carrying gatorade? i am i'm carrying a gator, right. >> i didn't want to collapse. i will note i was wearing these ground cobble shoes during that run though, same exact who's that? i wear it here you can see them right down there. and the same socks. >> same socks right? they're not i'm not exactly a nike shoe wearer. i'll put it that way. >> all right. harry enten. thank you very thank you for allowing me to have fun with you and with america as well. you put yourself on the line we share the harry m. >> who weekend the news continues the source with kaitlan collins starts now straight from the source tonight, donald trump battling for attention, testing out new attack line it's against his