make sure they are getting think to the polls. so if the trump campaign can then work with the kennedy campaign in the battleground, states use the data they already have on their supporters to try to mobilize limb, then that's very powerful because trump's team is outstanding at using digital to connect with people and get them to the polls that will give you a point on that. >> i understand there's questions about the signatures in the state, you know. >> but but putting that aside there were sizable number of people who were supportive of this, right? and they extensively because of by virtue of getting signatures, do have a lot of data well, yeah. >> i mean, but there's a difference between having dad and they're having politically useful that i'm he's got to look any campaign had stuff that they're going to voter database of their calling in order to pick up anything other than a name exactly. there may be an email address which isn't not useful, but it much it isn't already made. >> alright, we'll all thank you very much. appreciate it on this friday night following the democratic national convention

thanks so much to all of you for being with us good evening. >> former president trump is in the key swing state of arizona this hour receiving a potentially crucial endorsement and trying to take back the spotlight, who democrats who were riding a wave of enthusiasm after their four-day national ben sheehan, former president's newest supporter is robert f. kennedy jr. the namesake of one of america's best-known democratic icon, who today suspended his independent presidential bid and did what no one in his famous family has ever done, embrace the republican nominee for president tonight's joint appearance comes hours after kennedy announced his decision to suspend his campaign and throw his support behind trump, kennedy, once environmental lawyer, who was primarily known for conspiracy theories about vaccines and more recently for his rather bizarre revelation in 2014, he left a dead bear in new york central park, has at times alleged plot is more familiar to the former president and his backers,

including the unfounded charge of their having been a coup against president biden and how the dnc align judges tried to quote, throw president trump in jail in quote. now it's unclear what effect kennedys announcement will have on an already turbulent race. and part because according to kennedy, he's not completely abandoning his campaign i want everyone to know that i am not terminating my campaign i am simply suspending it not not ending it my name will remain on the ballot in most states, but in about ten battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler, i'm going to remember my name and i've already started that process and urge voters to vote for me well, also unclear tonight is what role will kennedy will have in the remaining months of the trump campaign? >> whether trump and kennedy

have agreed on a job for kennedy in a second, trump administration, should the former president win in november. what is clear is that can be supporters in battleground states now, without a standard bearer could potentially swing an election in a close state like arizona august, new york times and siena college poll found harris with the edge over trump among registered arizona voters by three points, 45% to 42% but that is within the margin of error with no clear leader kennedy drew 6%, joining me right now is kristen holmes, who's at tonight's rally in arizona. so talk more about how the trump campaign is feeling about this endorsement and do they think this changes the race they certainly do. >> anderson, they believe that this is a very big when they started according kennedy's orbit right before the rnc. but those talks really escalated in recent weeks after kamala harris took the top of the ticket. remember there was a lot of talk early on the election cycle about where kennedy actually drew votes. trump did he take them from joe biden, didn't take them from donald trump know donald

trump's team seem to think even then that there was likely some votes coming from their team. however, as kamala harris ascended to the top of the ticket, this became more urgent to get rfk to back donald trump because what they were noticing was that in swing states in particular, all the votes or at least most of the votes were being drawn from donald trump. and that is something we heard kennedy say earlier today. he said, he came to the realization that particularly in battleground states, he was taking from donald trump and not from democrats. and that was something that he didn't want to do. so just moments ago oh, we saw him take the stage of this kind of almost crazy arrival that had fireworks music, and the crowd was cheering. it's clear he is popular among republicans, but how much is actually moves the needle seems unclear. >> here's what he said when he took the stage with donald trump the best way to build a safe america is to rebuild our industrial base and rebuild the middle class and that's contrary don't you want a

president who's going to get us out of wars and who's going to rebuild the middle class in this country just to be very clear, he did talk about getting us out of endless wars. donald trump has said that he would, but we have no indication of how exactly he would do that, but just the last thing i want to point out here is what you said about that polling particularly in arizona, that is not the only battleground state in which kennedy was pulling around 5%. they believe that 5% could make up a razor thin margin and give donald trump an advantage in states like arizona, in states like michigan. and that is what they are hoping with this endorsement. >> so what do we know about the behind the scenes campaign to get rfk junior to endorse the former president mean, do we know what kind of a deal was done? what promises were made? >> what kind of a deal is done? >> did here are paid today essentially say that donald trump has said he wants to in his administration, donald trump he has not gone that far. >> i asked donald trump earlier

in the week if he would consider are paid ford administration post. >> he said yes, although he also said he hadn't thought of that yet. >> seems less than happened in the last couple of days that rfk might have had some kind of conversation or at least it might've been communicated between the two camps. we also know this came to be, as i said, is there was a sense of urgency around kamala harris sending to the top of the ticket some of the people who are pushing this the hardest were tucker carlson don junior, and a man named omeed malik, who is a donor and friend to both rfk and donald trump. >> they believe, again, that this was something that would help donald trump in the long run in november. so they began pushing as orbit, talking to orbit before it moved to an official stance of rfk suspending his campaign, as you know? but it dropping out and endorsing donald trump, it was kind of a strange moment. i agree when we were sitting in that room with our katie said he wasn't ending his campaign. he was just suspending it, but then went on to say that he was taking his name off the ballot,

reversing some of the challenges that he had made, particularly in these battleground states, some clear what exactly he meant by that not suspending, not ending his campaign, but just suspending it, but clearly, he has something in his head there and i will tell you i was told that he is going to be on the campaign trail for donald trump. >> and with donald trump in the coming weeks. all right. kristen holmes, thanks very much after robert f. kennedy jr. endorsed trump, five of his siblings issued this statement, which i'll read in entirety and i quote, we want and america filled with hope and bound together by a shared vision of a brighter future, a future defined by individual freedom, economic promise, and national pride. we believe in harris and walz are brothers. bobby's decision to endorse trump today is a betrayal of the values that are father and family hold most dear. it is a sad ending to sad story. that's from kathleen kennedy townsend, courtney kennedy, kerry kennedy, chris kennedy, and rory kennedy, joined now by another member of the kennedy family, robert f. kennedy junior's cousin, former congressman patrick kennedy, son of the late senator ted

kennedy patrick, it's good to see you, congressman, thanks for being with us what what is it like to i mean, on a personal level, seeing your cousin? >> with the former president and do you agree with the statement of his siblings that this is a betrayal of the values your family holds dear so i love bobby a lot of his we got to spend a lot of time this summer together. we all live next to each other and on cape cod and the summertime and my kids for playing over at his house and were on the beach together. i think of him as a cousin. this case of him supporting president trump. obviously, there's nothing about donald trump that is anywhere close to root reflecting the legacy of rafah robert kennedy's father and my uncle, president kennedy, my dad. anyone in my family our family believes in democracy. we believe in the fact that my uncles, one of whom laid down

his life in world war ii fighting hitler over germany, got shot down i mean, there were many veterans who were laid to rest in arlington cemetery who took on fascism. and as we know in the oath too office, we have to protect our country in its constitution both foreign and domestic. and i think we thought the foreign wars against fascism but now of course, where waging a war, if you will, against fascism here at home, because this is a campaign by donald trump that wants to really terrorize people with the notion that government can easily come after them. this is so far afield from what we in the united states 800m to be part of our very makeup. you go to other parts of the world. we worry about government coming in and gone. and you when arresting you middle of the

night, like the idea that we would have a government under donald trump that could threaten the very nature of what our democracy is all about, isn't it? >> do you talk to i mean, you're talking about seeing your your cousin. i mean, you you believe he's joined a ticket which is promoting fascism? and leading may lead to fascism in america. do you talk to him about that i mean, all families look, have difference of opinions and we all sat around dinner tables with relatives who think completely differently than we think so. everybody can relate to this. but is that something you talked about or is it not worth engaging on? >> you know, to me, it's not worth engaging on. i did talk to him earlier in the campaign about not competing in those swing states where i felt that he could cost us the election. he chose not to do that and at that point, you know, my effort to try to keep them from jeopardize saying in that case

president biden's reelection, it was a non-starter that said, i think we, you know, we all are fighting each other in this country is one of the major problems that we have and i don't want to have that all spill into my family he lives next door to us. as i said, my kids, we have a good time together when we're on the ocean. i really don't want to get into bashing my cousin i understand and so i just i have a feeling is i mean, my big issue as you know, anderson because you've had me on talking about his mental health and addiction and why i'm so pumped about harris and walt is harris as part of the biden-harris, have done more for mental health than any other president in our history governor waltz keynoted the kennedy forum last year. it's just before you saw, obviously

even in the thought of anybody at being a future vice president, he spent five hours with the whole mental health advocacy community talking about mental health, we now know his personal passion having watched all of us with great emotion as his son, gus, embraced him and governor walz, you soon could it be vice president waltz will carry our nation forward with mental health and addiction policies. we can count on that. >> i did would like i do i do want to just want to inform our viewers something that jack schlossberg, prison kennedy's grandson, posted online about this. he says, never been less surprised in my life. been saying it for over a year, rfk junior's for sale works for trump bedfellows and loving it. kamala harris is for the people, the easiest decision of all time. just got easier i don't know if he formally endorsed harris-walz. i a.i.

>> i. am a huge fan. i'm going on the road to campaign for the next president and vice president united states, as i said, i know governor walz, i served with them in congress. as i said, we've been friends over the years and, he spent five hours. we had a day-long event and around how to improve our mental health and addiction system 90% american screen for mental health within ten years, 90% treated with evidence-based treatment, 90% supported in recovery. we wouldn't expect any less if there were any other illness. and yet we look for less than 20% of americans getting any of that today in this country so much more needs to be done. >> former congressman patrick kennedy, i really appreciate your time. thank you thank perspective. >> now, from david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama, ashley etienne, her former communications director to vice president harris, and scott jennings, former special assistant to president george w bush, david does it make sense

to you that he says he's not ending his campaign, he's just suspending it and he's going to be on the ballots in some states, but not a battleground states because he doesn't want to hurt donald trump in those states. well, first, anderson, let me say i watched some of his press conference today and there were a lot of things he said that didn't necessarily make a lot of sense to me. but from what i divined, what he was saying is he will continue to compete in states where he doesn't think he'll have an impact on the outcome of the race. compete, in, blue states and red states, but he won't compete in battleground states. >> i mean, that's just seems like a vanity thing. like just he wants to stay in the game, wants to have supporters out in the streets waving his name around. it just seems kind of authentic. >> i mean i don't think you have to be i don't think it's a great leap to suggest that it might be a vanity thing. i think this whole exercise has been a vanity thing. the thing that's concerning, it should

be concerning but it does give you a clue as to what impact he might have is the fact that the trump campaign, he said at the press conference don junior and others have been soliciting him and he's had a series of conversations with like j.d. vance confirm that they believe that he's going out of the race in these battleground states, can yield the presidency to donald trump. and i think we have this discussion the other night with john king. i think that it may be a point that that is gained in these states for trump. but these states may be decided by a point and or less than a point so the fact that apparently he's talked about taking a position in the administration, something that harris wouldn't do the whole thing kind of stinks in a away. >> scott, i mean, you're not with the trump campaign, but how concerned? what do you think about this? and will it

help in those in some of those swing states? is this, is this a deciding factor you think i mean there's going to well, great question. i look i think by the way, it was wonderful to be with you both in chicago all week we had we had great convention together i think that comment can be had here yeah. >> thanks. eggs. i think there are votes to be had here. that's why trump's doing it. i look at some of the polling and the trump campaign has some analysis at the polling. >> they think most of the people who are still with rfk are going to come towards trump if they vote. >> so obviously the transaction is, i got to get, i got to get some votes that's number one. however, what you can't no. but what i think is probable is the other side of the algebra, which is getting embed with a looney tunes, may have consequences. i mean, there may be people out there who know rfk junior's history of being a complete liberal provocateur before he became a conservative provocateur and say i'm not sure i want to be embed with this at all. so i see the impulse to do it. i understand

the polling equation. he's got some boats you want to try to capture them. >> but there may be a cost to it because obviously he says and does things that are kind of weird and has done that for a very long time. >> and i would just caution the trump folks don't get so deep embed you can't get out of it because take you down rabbit holes, you you don't want to go. yeah. actually, again, i just find remarkable that he's still going to he still wants his name on the ballot in a bunch of states, not in the one towards going to hurt trump. >> he still wants i mean, i drove by a group of rfk junior's supporters last night i believe in the convention and 1:00 a.m. they had a van they were playing music and had right waving around flags like, i guess he likes that there's people out there who are actually dedicating days of their lives to waiving his name around, but it just seems to what affected this point other than supporting donald trump well, i mean, i think you're absolutely right. >> i've always thought that this was a vanity project, but, you know, also, i thought he was in the race to not just

disrupt the race, but to disrupt it in a way that supports his own interests. i mean, now he's been shopping himself around to both campaigns, trying to get a cabinet position, but i think scott is absolutely right. this creates an opportunity for democrats suffer. define republicans as extreme as conspiracy theories or as governor walz says, just plain weird. i mean, you have someone who says that he believes that there's chemicals in our water that's making kids transgender, that he things broadband is causing cancer. this is this is the democrats like a it's like a wish list. it's like a dream for democrats. it's like continue down this path of defining the new republican party, the maga party, as extremist and conspiracy theories that are just out of step and auto line and with american people. so this, i think to some degree place to harris in her favor if she can take advantage of it. but also, the polls show that there's a sizable number of kennedy supporters that are

independents and never trumpers who she could still play for. the campaign, put out a statement today saying that they're going to they're going to make overtures to though those voters. >> do you, david, do you think that there are rfk junior voters that this may that harris could get i think she's gotten most of them. >> if you see after she entered the race or his vote really deflated and a lot of those votes were democrats who were parking themselves over with rfk and they came back to the democratic party when there was a switch at the top of the ticket, there may be some that she can get but again, i don't think that trump would have made a deal with bobby kennedy if he thought that it wasn't going to help them. anderson, i just have to say one thing. my political hero in one of the formative heroes and my life was bobby kennedy his father, who was a guy who was incredibly thoughtful at the

end of his career about justice. and you get economic justice this and civil rights and really was a global leader for human rights and as his family said, he you know, it's just antithetical to everything that he stood for. it's sad to me. i mean i listen that press conference today and he is not a well man. i mean, i'm not a professional. i can't make that judgment. and after listening to patrick kennedy, who is a champion of mental health, i don't want to use that term lightly, but you can listen to him and say that everything's okay. and the fact that he was out on display hey, by donald trump tonight i agree with ash ashley, it's it is it reflects something about that campaign, but at the end of the day, it's still, i think he's there because they think he's going to help them win ashley, do you

think it was a mistake? i mean, there there are reports that the harris campaign wouldn't even really talk to him that he made outreach to both trump and harris was that a mistake for the harris campaign to not you know, entertain something with him? >> absolutely not. there was more downside than there was upside to her talking to him. i mean, none of their they're not aligned in terms of their vision for the nation, in terms of policy, in terms of the challenge facing the american people today. i mean, i saw today, when he tried to co-opt a lot of her messaging on freedom and supporting the middle-class as but the reality is that's not where his policies are. that's not where donald trump's policies are. so i don't i didn't see any upside for her to have that conversation. it just would have done more damage than good. >> scott, how do you think he'll be used on the campaign trail? >> well it sounds like he's interested in going out there and being part of the public display, you have surrogates in every campaign. and look, let's be honest with his last

name. he's going to be one of the most famous surrogates. i mean, that's ultimately what makes his candidacy interesting if his name were bob johnson of idaho no one would care i mean, the bag of his last name is kennedy and he carries with him everywhere he goes. it makes him a draw. so my suspicion is there going to put them out there. but when you put somebody out there as a surrogate, you got to live with everything they say and everything this guy says could be problematic out on the stump. so am again, i think the polling anderson shows that acts is exactly right. the democrats had already fled back to harris. there's probably a few trump supporters in here, but the downstream consequences here are hard to quantify and it would worry me a little bit if i were managing the campaign. >> interesting, everybody. thank you. appreciate it everybody stay there, were going to come back more on how critical robert f. kennedy junior's endorsement could be for the foreign president putting some sound i'm from the rally that is still going on as we speak because how this endorsement fits the way that harris-walz campaign has framed the former president and his team, which can be summed up in that word, they use a lot weird

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our breaking news. robert f. kennedy jr. lending the kennedy aura to the former president, he endorsed the former president earlier today, moments ago, we saw him ascend to the stage at a rally in arizona with trump accompanied by fireworks and played onto the stage by the song my hero. by foo fighters here's kennedy explaining his endorsement don't you want healthy children don't you want the chemicals out of our food and don't you want the regulatory agencies to be free from corporate corruption and that's what president trump told me that he wanted. >> also told me that he wanted to end the grip of the neo-cons on u.s. foreign policy back now with our panel, david, i mean, you were working for then candidate barack obama and in 2008 when the kennedy family endorsed him over hillary clinton, that was a huge moment

for, for obama i'm wondering, just seeing rfk junior on that stage. >> what goes through your mind that he's trying to defeat? kamala harris, who is obviously been compared to barack obama in many ways look, i mean, as i said earlier you know when ted kennedy stood up in 92,008 and caroline kennedy with him and patrick for the three of them. >> it was a it was a watershed moment in that campaign because they stood for the ideals of the democratic party. and it was like a torch passing to a new generation of leadership. that's stood for the ideals of john kennedy, of robert kennedy and ted kennedy that's not what this is. this is a guy selling out selling himself out to donald trump, apparently for a

job if he can get one who is, who has sort of gotten around the bannon is a conspiracy theory provocateur dangerous on some issues like vaccines but has a following and they think he can help them win last night, kamala harris said that trump was not trump was an unserious man. this is, this is but he could have very serious consequences if he's elected. this is an unserious move, but can have very serious consequences in this election. >> scott, what's so interesting to me about it is that it's rare in this day and age that you see something so transactional so obviously transactional just played out publicly. i mean, usually it's like behind the scenes and it's not the idea. i think robert f. kennedy junior's son videotaped his father talking to trump on the phone and i

know his father was allegedly upset by a didn't know about it and it was taken down. but it's interesting. i mean if this has all played out publicly, the idea that he reached out to the harris campaign, reach out the trump campaign. obviously trump's smelled a reason to do this has sort of embraced him for now. who knows what promises were made? who knows if a promise will be kept given the folks we're dealing with, but it is just it's so interesting, just kinda see it so publicly play out yeah i mean, i think there's a reason it played out publicly because the person who's in the middle of it, rfk junior, wants it to play out publicly because he wants the attention i mean i mean, someone's is just about ego attention that you know, the search for relevance in a world of our politics right now that, you know, in a close election, i guess he thought he could find it you know, it's i look, i do think this there are lots of american voters who are very, very anti-institution. >> they think the institutions

have failed. they think they're being lied to by government and corporations and, et cetera, et cetera, and so on. he actually there is an audience for what he is selling, at least on some fronts. and it's that kind of anti-institutional sentiment that i guess he sees more of himself in trump than he sees in harris. so you sort of get the marketing appeal of it. but when you really look deeply into it and you see what's probably motivating him the personal search for relevance in the personal search for influence and an administration maybe some of his supporters won't see him. as pure as they once did but i totally agree with you, anderson, that the idea that this whole spectacle is playing out in front of us in the transactional faced by the way, i think there are kind of laws against promising people jobs before you get get into an administration like this, they do have to be careful about that ashley, it's so interesting because michelle obama spoke and i don't have the direct quote,

but about the affirmative act about people like trump, who she said had failed forward and just talks about the affirmative action of inherited wealth. i mean robert f. >> kennedy jr. is the poster child for anybody can look up his past that at harvard, there's just an article about alleging he was selling okay. and to the students. he's talked he's been very open about his own struggles with addiction but i didn't go much on the brain worm story because i felt, you know, i feel bad for him that he had a worm in his brain as unusual is that that may be but i mean there's the 2014 he said he placed a dead bear cub in new york central park after he founded on the side of the road and the hudson valley, which i'll play a clip of that maybe really early like seven him woman in

front of me hitting there and killed it young there so i pulled over and i picked up the bear and put him in the back of my van because i was gonna skin the bear and it was very good condition and i was just going to put the meat in my refrigerator and you can do that or get a buret tight okay. killed there yeah. >> that's roseanne. he was talking to two and then he went on to say he'd gotten delayed at peter luger steakhouse with the dead bear in his car and then he remembered he had to catch a plane. so he drove the dead bear cub to central park to dump it there with a bicycle to make it look like the bear was killed by a bike i don't even have a question here. i just wanted to say all due laundered into central park bear. i mean, i did it just last night i mean, i grew up in the city. >> i didn't know there was an

option i raised this before what are the valet think what i mean, even rosen's face. >> i mean, even roseanne seem to think that was odd and i got to say that's exactly anyway, it's been a long week, ashley. thank you. david axelrod, scott jennings. thank you very much. coming up. the democratic party strategy to make the foreign president, it seems small. there were plenty of zingers. the dnc, is that a smart move former u.s. senator al franken, who knows a thing or two about satire from these years on saturday night live joins me next a perfect day for a family outing shingles. >> doesn't care, but shingrix protests. only shingrix has proven over 90% effective shingles which is a vaccine used to prevent shingles and adults 50 years and older, shingrix does not protect everyone who is not for those with severe allergic reactions to its ingredients are two previous dose and increased risk of dion bar race in rome it was observed after getting shingrix 19th and also happen the most common side effects are pain, redness and swelling at the injection site, muscle pain, tiredness, headache,

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here's what vice versa. kamala harris and minnesota governor tim walz said this week at the dnc in many ways donald trump is an unserious man but the consequences but the consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious. >> you know, when i was teaching every year, we'd elect a student body president. and you know what those teenagers could teach donald trump a hell of a lot about what a leader is join me now, someone who served as u.s. >> senator from governor walz, the state of minnesota comedian al franken and former senator al franken i want to talk about the commissioner that second. just in terms of robert f. kennedy jr. what do you make of him this choice that he's made? >> well, i think the the bear cub was was it that you think that was the breaking point? >> i think that was a breaking point i don't know what was he

had before, like 9% or 10% and then suddenly down the five and 6%, yeah maybe harris is entry my neck eye last summer. >> i didn't hear, you were talking about it. >> yeah. i was i was going to the details because he went to peter luger steakhouse with the bear in the trunk. >> yeah. well, that was a thing he found this bear cub on the side of the road. >> and aside, he might want to eat it for dinner, right? >> as does who has not thought had that after you've been falcons thing that we'll see other nice detail. so he goes into the city and then he realizes he has dinner where he's at luger as a steakhouse this guy like he likes his meets, he likes me and then he also realized hi, since he's, got a plane to catch after dinner so he really doesn't have time to he's got to have dinner a's haven't been in any way. so there is the bear. the bear is that's the bear.

that's him with his bare in the back. >> well, very he's got a sense of humor. you seeing he's right he's posing with the dead bear or pretending the dead bear is biting his hand yes. >> not quite as jacked up there, i will say as he is now, but it takes a bernie dumps it in the park, right? >> yes. >> yes. >> bike. >> so that because so that people would think think that the bike collided a bear. bear. yeah. i'm not sure where the bike came from. >> i think he must have been bobby's bike, but i don't know. >> he just like in juniors, it just had the bike in his car for those purposes to 10,000 you have a bite to move quickly. >> i don't know. yeah. it's it's it's it can't make it up do you think? will help trump in the swing states i don't know. i think it's hard to tell. >> i mean, who are the 5%, who are people who are left? are they people who are maybe are

going to stay home, right? >> yeah. >> or maybe they're going to equally divide between harris i mean, does his endorsement mean a lot to these people, right you know governor walz, you were like you for his first race. >> he talked about running for congress. he was he was a high school teacher a coach. everybody knows that most people know that story by now. but when he chose to run, he said he had no money, no real connections, but he just decided to go for it. yeah. i went to somebody's house for fundraiser my wife and i went there was nobody else there and they had to mortgages on their house. >> this is when he was running for his first campaign for his first for the successor, you have to understand this is the southern tier of message rural district and has a couple of cities and it has rochester where the mayo clinic is and it has mankato where he's show up, nobody's there except show

up. >> no one's there. me, my wife, and his incredibly great. and so as giving his pitch to you basically, those living room, yeah. >> and the host and so i just by wife and i fell in love with them. and i said, well, and then we max to him and i had a pac at the time, political action committee. and it max to them and then i hosted some kind of big fundraiser for what was it about him? because he the guy we saw on the stage, was he liked that already. are you as clearly not as polished know? but what was it about him? >> but his absence was as essence was not polished, but it is essence was there, right. and i immediately like thend we did a fundraiser where we got them enough money so he can keep going and i started campaign with him around the six and rahm emanuel was head of the d triple c at the time.

and i called him up and i go this guy is incredibly talented and he goes, he can't win he can't win. >> know. >> because it was it was a red district. >> it's a completely red district and i think no one had won a democrat, not one since the 1800s or something like that. >> and so i just kept going around the sixth district with them and introducing him and he and i kept calling rahm up or his guy, rahm's guy. and say, you got to support this guy and i'm one day, if finally got a call from rahm's guys, said we're going to put $50,000 in the mankato. and i said, mankato oh, i'm sorry. i got none. none. i'll call mankato. get $50,000 and so they did and then he he ended up winning and how was he able to do that in a red district? he's a great campaigner and it was also that

was 06 and 06 was the year that democrats took over the congress. >> so even though war, the war in iraq, even though this was his first campaign, i mean, you were out on the trail with him he was he was connecting with people. >> that's what that was. the bottom line here we go to college campuses and connect with the college kids and they volunteer me. >> he did it all the right way, but it took it just took a while to bill. >> what did you make of his of his speech at seeing his side convention was done there oh, yeah. in it saying that's my dad. i mean, as somebody who has to dads, like i dream that my kids will one day say that about me very well i doubt but he i know no, i was very moved by it. and of course, there are some people criticize, it, which is crazy and but no, what a beautiful moment. yeah, that's dad. yeah, it's the best we're out of time, but i would love to talk to you

longer okay you know, what let's go to. peter luger secant, u.s can't let's go there, find a bear yeah. >> well know, not on a day. i find a bear you know, he roasted a dog. >> did you hear this? >> i heard i saw some sort of a picture i was actually a dog according to jonathan alter who said he checked up on it? yes. >> he received where the worm from the brain worm could have come from. i would think senator franken, thank you for your time. you bet. i appreciate it up next, a cnn investigation and how donald trump's businesses are making millions of dollars from republican political campaigns, including his own nima it's kind of amazing. wow, are my go-to is lima fbi eye drops, luma fire dramatically reduces redness in one minute and look at the difference. my eyes, the brighter and wider to eight hours, lima five really works. >> see for yourself when life spills, heartburn, how do you spell relief or aids?

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>> that coincidence of this significant split ending nearly coinciding with a trump endorsement doesn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there has been a bribe. that pattern does and should raise questions in the minds of voters about what's really going on here. >> incredible carolina will do everything in my power to make sure this man gets back to the white house. >> we need him now more than ever, another republican endorsed by trump is also one of mar-a-lago top political spenders this year alone, arizona senate candidate kari lake's campaign spent more than $100,000 on lodging, catering, and facility rentals other top spenders at trump properties include retired football star and former georgia republican senate candidate herschel walker his campaign spent the most of any congressional candidate in the last decade, nearly two hundred

and $15,000 at mar-a-lago, trump's golf club in west palm beach and his las vegas hotel. >> there are shows not only georgia hero he is at american legend trump endorsed walker, who would go on to lose his race. political groups also dropped big money at trump's businesses. the rnc spending more than two million since 2016 but at the top spot by far is donald trump himself, whose campaigns and associated political committees have funneled more than 28 million and political contributions to his businesses from renting his ballroom to his campaign to using election donations to papers, private jet, trump force, one trump the candidate has been paying trump, the businessman. >> it's not illegal the law is that candidates can spend money at their own businesses provided that the businesses provide real goods or services at a fair market rate. but it's certainly raises at least

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