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mohyeldin. let's get started. ■ç president biden is heading the fundraising trail today with events in new york and new jersey. he and the first lady visited the hamptons for an event hosted by the hedge fund billionaire before making an appearance at the home of governor murphy. this is an attempt to end anxiety after bidens lackluster debate performance on thursday. it is also necessary after the campaign watched its cash advantage vanish over the last two months, so how did trump manage to out raise biden? one successful and cynical strategy has been raising money off all of his legal■ç troubles

including his 34 felony convictions. the fundraising email this week said quote, they tortured me in the fulton county jail and get this, took my mug shot. bizarre subject lines from the emails in the maga faithful, do you need a hug? i love you. but there may be even more cynical and effective fundraising strategies reserved for the donor class -- auctioning off his potential presidency to the highest. in may, the washington post reported that donald trump solicited $1 billion in donations from top oil executives. trumps promise, giving these oil executives the opportunity to shape his environmental agenda including going back biden administration achievements and clean energy and electric vehicles and now, trump has gone full crypto■ç gr after calling cryptocurrency a scam and calling the u.s. dollar the only one real currency. after meeting with trump in mar- a-lago this month, one executive told cnbc that is

industry is committed to raising over $100 million in turning out more than $5 million to help trump win this fall, and it is not just domestic policy up for grabs. the new york times reported this week on what they call the pro-israel donor with $100 million plan to electronic. they are referring to miriam edelstein, the widow of former republican mega donor sheldon adelson, whose donation to trumps first campaign helped result in trumpeting the u.s. industry in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem. in a new york magazine story about his demands and a second trump term, ■çquote, top of tha list, israel annexing the west rank in the u.s. recognizing its sovereignty there. given all this and bidens disappointing debate performance last week, the biden campaign is trying to project strength, announcing they have amassed $27 million in the aftermath of the campaign. that's compared to the trump campaign who announced they

raised $8 million on the day of the campaign. as we wait for the official filings to see which campaign has actually gotten the postdebate financial bump, one thing is for sure, trump's willingness to put his presidency on sale threatens the very systems of checks and balances required for free enterprise to thrive. it is not a democracy, but in autocracy. joining me now to discuss this is molly, nbc political analyst, and■ç his brown, write and editor and national politics reporter at the new york times. you just came from the hamptons for you were witnessing what biden is doing to make sure that donors feel he is a candidate for them. how was it? >> yes, i have been one of a few reporters following him since yesterday and they have really tried to project confidence that he is the one who is the one who is going to

protect democracy, civil rights, they are really trying to underscore the stakes of the election and you are really seeing the president strike this defiant tone that he has been down before and gotten it before, and last night, as i was watching him at this pride■ event, lgbtq gala at the manhattan center, i just had this flashback to 2020 when i was covering him during the 2020 presidential debate. there was this moment in the campaign where he was really down in the polls. he was about to come in with a devastating fifth-place finish but he grabbed -- he positioned all these reporters around him in these drab offices in new hampshire and he basically told us you know, don't count me out, don't count me out and we were hearing from media strategist at the time, pundits at the time were saying it's

time, it's over. this is the end of the line for him and it wasn't. many of us in the room were proven wrong later when he went on to win the primary so i thinç that is the same kind of position he's trying to take no . whether it works after so long, after this mood, you know, every single folder that i spoke with, donor and voter i spoke with yesterday was just echoing the same message of dread and anxiety, so it is just a very different landscape for him now. >> one of the thing that strikes me though, molly, is that the same establishment was counting him out. what do you say? >> it's so interesting because i wrote the piece after he losses two primaries in the washington post that said he should drop out, and you know, i read the day i wrote that piece but everyone said he's going to drop out, he should drop out. he has lost his two primaries and you know what? i was totally wrong and in fact, ■çwe have seen historically

again, anything can happen. i think we should preface this with we don't know what is going to happen. we don't know what voters are going to say, but you know, everything we have seen with joe biden is he has moments like this for you think all is lost. he's never going to be able to pull it out and that tends to be when he does the best and if you looked -- the next day in north carolina is like a completely different person and obviously there are different circumstances and that cnn debate was hermetically sealed with no sound and we can talk about that but i'm just saying like this is a man who enjoys being counted out. >> talk a little bit about this. one of the things we have discussed in the past is that it gets to the point where you are talking billions,■ñthe second dollar becomes diminishing returns. >> i think that what is interesting is that even though biden had this terrible night, and it is fair to say it was a terrible night for him. >> he said it.

>> i think that he got better as the night went on but based off of that performance, money poured in for biden. people open their wallets and said okay, we know you were not at your best but looking at you next to the other guy, we still think you have to be the person to move forward and that trump has to be defeated, and the fact that the trump campaign raised $8 billion, which is a good amount postdebate for someone who spent the entire time lying and not really answering questions, it would be interesting to see how much of that -- how much that increase stays flat moving forward and whether with the fec ■çfilings for the month, if we can pinpoint if there is a bump at all. if there is, though, they're going to have to hold onto that bunk for a very long time. there are months until the next debate. we have all summer where things could happen and donors could make the decision about whether

they want to open their wallets now or hold on to see what happens with biden and i think that could come into play down the line. thankfully, the biden campaign has a lot of money in the bank right now. the trump campaign is catching up in terms of total fundraising but in terms of spending on what matters, the biden campaign is still ahead. >> why an indication of where the classes, is often how many donors are writing checks but i often find great■ç indicator of where the photoresist the small voter donor, the one that spends that small dollar, so one of the things i'm looking for is whether we see a difference bringing more people into the biden camp by the number of donors. when you are in the hamptons, when you are talking to these different high net worth donors, what were you saying that about his candidacy, but whether or not were they going to write that check?

>> well, so actually my colleagues have been doing some great work looking it behind the scenes you know, the panic that's been taking place behind the scenes, and it's taken a while for people to come around again on biden but i think today you are beginning to see a little bit more of that coalescing around him again, you know. liz and bronstein today■ç said you know, we have compare -- it is important to compare meaningful -- we should compare the meaningful presidencies over one debate night and i think you're going to be hearing that chorus a little bit more whether that translates down to the small dollar donor, i'm not quite sure yet, and i will say this, too. some of the donors i was speaking with yesterday, some of them did not watch the debate because they knew it was going to be a painful experience and they said they turned on their tv or started scrolling the next morning and were just devastated to find out that

what they had feared had come to fruition. but it didn't change their mindç >> that's important, right? i was talking earlier with rick wilson and we keep talking about what biden didn't do and then we look at it and say but who did trump win over? i don't think he won over donors. i also think that a lot of this anxiety is, can we use this guy to beat trump, right? so the question is, can this guy beat trump? not is this the guy of my dreams because he's never been the guy of some of these donors' dreams because democrats have crazy dreams. let's be honest, they want the perfect candidate but nobody can agree on the perfect candidate. there is a real feeling, i think, that people know trump really could win because he won in 2016 and i think there is a lot of anxiety and i think people are not over 2016 on some level and so you know,■ç i

heard -- >> i think literally watching the debate if anything for me, it was anxiety again. you want that anxiety because every other word was absolutely cruel and mean and it was all dark anti-america but how do you contrast that to the editorials coming out of the new york times, for example? how do you respond to that when they are saying step down? >> i think if you are the biden campaign, you continue to say look, we appreciate your input however, we will continue to run this campaign as best we can to try to defeat donald trump because we are, as of this moment, still the nominee for the presidency. we are still supporting the president of the united states and his re- election. whether that calms down votersñ who are a bit shaken by the performance -- >> but are voter shaken? >> to your point there like look, we did not expect him to be the superstar but -- so i

turned it off. i spoke to plenty of people who said the same thing. he performed as expected but i still know democracy is on the line. >> there is potentially one business executive who asked him, can i ask you about the debate and he just gave me this deep exhale and you could see the frustration in his face and he took a moment before he went on to say you know, in my line of work i actually took a mentoring position because there are some things i just can't do anymore but he said the stakes are just too high. >> today understand them unlike the trump■ç voters were there okay with the authoritarianism, to those folks understand that he is a vessel for democracy? >> yes, i think they do and again, calculus is, can democrats beat trump? is this the best guide to beat trump and what i am saying anecdotally is people furious

at editorial boards. they're not mad at biden for his performance. their matted editorial boards for not having his back and i think back to gavin newsom, who right after the debate, was out there being like you know, how dare you abandon our guy, and i thought that was lousy but now i am seen it, i think a lot of voters feel that way. >> i feel like you are in our editorial meeting and you know exactly what were going to cover when we get right back. because, ■çnext, we look at and use them on how he was able to break something other people were not paying attention to. r

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it is not about one quick clip. it is about all the things stacked together that represent not only what he said tonight but what he said over his entire career. he does not have your back period. full stop. >> that was democratic california governor gavin newsom pointing out a cornerstone of donald trump's brand, his demonization of immigrants. the ex-president launched his campaign run in 2015 by referring to mexicans as and drug dealers. his anti-immigrant rhetoric at the debate was no different,■ç casting immigrants as a threat to american jobs, national security and the social safety net joining us back is jazmine ullola, who has pointed out that biden offered little rebuttal but still himself to him as a better candidate than trump. viewers told univision that they would still vote for

president biden despite what some are calling his disastrous performance. i want to start with you, jazmine. you've been doing a lot of reporting from on the ground in key states like arizona and you have been hearing from activist and latino community saying biden did not do enough to address what trump was saying. >> going into the debate they were really hoping for biden toç clarify his message on immigration to present this vision for americans about what immigration means to the country , about how he can deliver an orderly system at the border but still provide these compassionate legal pathways for immigrants. instead of what they saw was more of the same, democrats struggling to talk about a very thorny subject when they talk about it at all, and republicans filling that vacuum with fear, anger, frustration and prejudice. >> in the earlier segment -- i want to pick it up because oftentimes even the folks that are the latino boat experts are not latinos themselves were voting. every once in a while, we missed anyone so i want to ask

you, governor newsom was the only one that picked up on the demonization of latino voters owt&%■ of the latino voters who were on the fence according to univision, so did we miss something? did we miss something that night while trump didn't win anybody back, was biden able to achieve winning back folks who were on the fence? >> yes and no because if so, it was not through president biden's own actions. one of the points during the debate that frustrated me the most was how willing biden was to accept the premises trump was heading out there. the one that stood out to me as trump was asked question about addiction and how to get help to people with addiction which should've been a lay-up for biden on rebuttal. instead, biden chose to stick with the same theme as trump■ç

border security on the immigration bill, which is true but it granted the idea that if we want to talk about addiction we have to talk the border instead of talking about how to actually treat people who are addicted that i think was a huge missed opportunity so yes, hearing trump go off again about how dangerous migrants are, how he wanted to deport people, that, i think, did help tilt people who may have been more on the fence, who are more concerned with immigration and not in love with biden's immigration policies to remember oh, wait, this is the alternative. >> i guess i can go back to this because i have to save when we were looking at the coverage,■ç a lot of folks are saying what did trump say, what did biden not say, right? but the fact that i think when listening to newsom, i think he did encapsulate this idea that so many latino voters heard the very first time that trump went

down that escalator. when he talked about immigrants coming out and being , most latino voters heard him say you are actually talking about me and it was almost like ptsd listening to him on stage again that thursday night. do you think this nuance is not that biden said anything but all of the stuff that trump did say will have an impact? >> i do think it will help alleviate this collective amnesia over what is happened on the border. i think the challenge with immigration is that it is just such a complex issue, and neither party is been able to solve it for 30 years or overhaul the nation's immigration laws, which is whatç voters want. polls are showing that a lot of latino voters want actually tougher enforcement at the border and it is really complicated when you dig down deeper about what that actually means. it is not necessarily mass deportations, but there does need to be a process, so what they have not been able to see either president biden or

former president trump really address the issue with a comprehensive legislation that they want, it kind of neutralizes the issue for them, like a cynicism seems to set in the neck i want to okay well, neither candidate will be able to solve this issue, what's going to matter? well, the economy, and that is why you see the economy jumping to the top of the list■ç and every one of these polls for latino voters, so it is more of that frustration like again, that same frustration with both candidates that is leading them to think about other issues and other third-party candidates, as well. >> i think what is interesting is that when folks are watching the debate and a lot of folks are saying you know, i can't watch this right now -- my best friend literally said i can watch -- i watched for 10 minutes, but i already know who i'm voting for. did that debate, for the folks who did not know where they were voting for, just like it

triggered emotion, did it trigger the emotion of how chaotic trump was perhaps for other voters? >> one of the things that has really blocked out the sun about this debate is how crazy trump was. we are going to have the cleanest h2o.■ç i mean it was not even -- like those are not sentences. he was freelancing in ways -- and the ring about trump's like we talk so much about biden's age and how ryden is four years older. you know who else is four years older? the guy who it's all the junk food and you see him and sometimes he is very good and sometimes he makes no sense and that has always been sort of how he rolls but the thing again and again his message was, because he has watched so much fox news and he is in such a conservative news bubble, his message was again, immigrants are coming for your jobs. they're coming for black jobs. remember that? that was insane.

>> twitter or x was at its best on debate night. everybody was like ■çwhat the black job? >> you know, the whole thing was like literally like a new york post editorial and it was like, this guy watches one channel, he reads one newspaper and all his thoughts are that one thing. >> i do think it will fire up a young progressive base in places like arizona where they have already gone through something like this. i've been doing a lot of interviews with the voters there, and i have asked people about trump-biden on immigration and i don't know how many hispanic voters i've talked to have remembered that, i've remembered either being targeted by law enforcement, having the family members targeted, so i do think in places like nevada and arizona where there is that memory,■ç i

needs to be sparked. i do think it could make a difference in the long run. >> well, and places in arizona for biden won by less than 11,000 votes and you have latino youth waiting in the wings, that's opportunity. thank you so much for joining me. i look forward to seeing you join us again. molly and hayes, you will be back for the worst of the week after this. ek after this. the only migraine medication that helps treat and prevent, all in one. to those with migraine, i see you. for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults. don't take if allergic to nurtec odt. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. it's time we all shine. talk to a healthcare provider about nurtec odt from pfizer. no one should have to choose between good vision and great value. that's why america's best is slashing their prices. during the wise buys sales event, get two progressives and a comprehensive eye exam for just $129.95. book an exam online today.

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is time is time now for our worst of the weekend boy, is it a blowout. republican lawmakers want to go back to the good old days when it was more difficult to leave a marriage. it's a growing movement in states like louisiana, oklahoma, nebraska and texas and it's coming from some of the most prominent members of the republican party. earlier this year, former trump official ben carson argued quote, for the sake of families we should enact legislation to■

remove or radically reduce incidence of no-fault divorce. in 2022, ohio senator and leading trump vp jd vance suggested people should stay in half and happy marriage for the sake of their kids and even expressed skepticism about whether violent marriages should and then of course there is house speaker mike johnson who has been advocating against divorce for decades. he said no-fault divorce laws contributed two, completely amoral society where young people go into their school houses an open fire on their housemates. molly, i don't even know where to start but what does -- what is it about the republican party that is so angry with women's freedom and women's agency? >> i just don't get it. ■ç i mean you know, my mom was a second wave feminist and so like this is my life. no-fault divorce -- i was like wait, they're going back to mess everything up, the few

things that were fixed in the 1970s. roe v. wade and no-fault divorces and in the 60s they're coming for the birth control pill after that but basically you know, it is such an insane bit and by the way, the reason no-fault divorces were passed by a republican named ronald reagan in california when he was governor, by the way, they love ronald reagan so maybe they should remember that. >> they don't love ronald reagan today. they like what he was but he would not be -- like remember, he married a divorceeç . >> the reason they did this no- fault divorce thing is because women could not leave marriages. they would get murdered by their spouses. there were higher incidence of domestic violence, abuse, murder and this was an easy sell for women in domestic violence and by the way, the ideal that school shootings could be because of divorces

but not because of the proliferation of guns is insane. >> and they don't want to take responsibility. they want to be able to do prayers. it's disgusting. when we talk about these days one of the things we find is that once again shockingly, the republicans are on the extreme right of the american people. how do they keep winning ■çwhen the majority of americans don't believe that you have to take away a woman's right to choose, that you have to take away a woman's right to freedom? >> i think one of the greatest gifts of the republican party is because of the two party system, it's easy to blame the person in power matter how much control they actually have, to be like i am hurting economically, therefore [ inaudible ] however is not enough as right now on because that you see people back candidates that go against their interest fully, or say just the craziest things like you know what, i think it is no-

fault divorces that are running the country. when you explain this to people like know people are for this there like but wait, why? then■ç there like okay, what would happen if this were to pass, if they were to get rid of no-fault divorce laws. you think about people like donald trump has multiple divorces under his out. how many of those would be contested? you have to think about who would in effect from this and how many of them have been in situations where there like no, i need to get a divorce but without penalties if i cheat on my spouse, for example, because it was a faulty divorce. >> i don't think that's the right question to ask, who benefits. one of the things folks don't realize is that it was no-fault divorce that allowed women to be economically independent. it has been more impactful on the ability for a woman to succeed more than abortion, more than [ inaudible ] laws

because you were divorced you could actually have and split the marriage assets.■ç you can remarry and you could do so much because you are the decision-maker so in this scenario, who wins? >> i think this is the same as the 10 commandments right on the bible been taught in school. this is red meat for the base. once you open the door, once you have overturned roe, you have said to these people, you can have anything you want, and remember, they're not satiated. they wanted national abortion band. they have a wish list and you have students for life serious with donald trump who said it's a state's rights issue which i think he's lying anyway but he is insistent. >> and you have thomas and alito fantasizing about using the comstock act to make it so you can't mail the for preston so we know where this is going. >> i can't wait to see how they try to spin it the traditional ç family values means that women

who are married can't get credit cards, for example, without the permission of your husband because that is the sort of thing that note fall divorces ended in this liberalization of how women can have and handle their own property is a property rights issue that you would think republicans would really care about. >> i want to ask you one last question. why is it that the 1960s seem to be so avant-garde in the last century compared to where we are in the 21st century? >> i think that one of the things we have to think about is what backlash even is. i saw online, the question,■ç like wh gets to call experience backlash and it was an interesting question but thinking about it, you have to have backlash against the more progressive unit because the whole etymology, you think about the backlash is coming back that hit you so as we move forward some people are saying no, we have to move backwards and that is hurting people and

i think that is why you see people who are normally just fine are the ones who are pushing back so hard against progress. >> i keep reminding folks there are more of us and there are of them. thanks so much. next, an exclusive look at the danger of these new abortion bands. if you think it is all talk, we have the next story will open up your eyes. we'll be right back. l be right.

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this week, this week, the supreme court preserved emergency abortion karen idaho for now. this largely leaves the legal questions of life-saving abortion activists and answer. women like nicole miller, and idaho mother, and now sharing her horror story of boarding a flight to utah while 20 weeks pregnant and hemorrhaging. nbc news washington correspondent has her exclusive story. >> the iowa supreme court friday announcing a six week and will go into effect but as lawmakers across the country grapple with shifting laws, families and doctors are caught in the middle. >> completely confused. i was terrified. >> like ■çnicole miller and idao , the 39-year-old mother of two little girls was overjoyed when she found out she was expecting a son, but 17 weeks into the pregnancy she started bleeding. >> rushed me to the e.r.

. then my mom came. >> she said she could not believe what the doctor told her. >> a risk to his 20 year career and i was shocked. i was in the hospital with doctors who could help me, and nobody wanted to help me. >> because they were in idaho, which bans nearly all abortions, nicole was fun to utah. she is now part of a lawsuit or the center for reproductive rights. >> i just kept thinking that i may never see my girls again.■ç >> to be bleeding, to be worried about your life and then to be put on an airplane. >> it felt horrible. it felt like nobody was willing to take care of me and they were just kind of passing me off, and i remember that day saying that to almost anybody who walked in the room, i don't want to die. i want to be here for my kids and -- the fact that no one

would do anything until we got to utah was just unimaginable. >> many see navigating the shifting legal landscape is a challenge. the reality is that these draconian abortion bands, including the ones in idaho, doctors are afraid to give what is the standard of care. what happened to nicole shocks the conscience.■ç the fact that anyone suffering a pregnancy complication a serious as her circumstances had to be lifted out by plane to another state to get abortion care, is absolutely unacceptable. >> every case is different and we have this law that threatens us with jail time, so i think most people just aren't doing it. they are sending them out of state. >> earlier this year, idaho attorney general labrador said

that is not happening. >> it's really hard for me to conceive of a single instance where a woman has to be airlifted out of idaho to perform an abortion. >> i heard about that. anger. it makes me want to shout from the rooftops that this happenedç , and it happened to me. >> the attorney general tells nbc news he can't understand why a doctor would deny a woman life-saving treatment. the state has made it clear doctors are protected. back to you. >> thank you so much. next, the editor in chief of teen vogue on the papers new series, the united states suppression. we will be right back.■ç

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>> we are >> we are the voice of the voiceless. >> vote them out. ■ç >> the right to protest has always been foundational to our democracy but for many younger americans it's impossible to remember time when activists haven't taken to the street. most recently, jen z saw demonstrators on college campuses protesting the hamas war but now we're documenting a crackdown on what has become a normalized part of american life . there are currently more than 30 bills pending in congress that seek to limit the right to protest. turning me now is editor in chief of teen vogue. talk to me about it because one of the things that more older americans don't realize is that

if you were born after 2000, your whole life has been protest, whether it was witnessing the protest agains( the iraq war, protesting black lives matter, immigration rallies, abortion rights, marriage, occupy wall street. >> climate change. >> right, so this is a culmination of so many years and now all of a sudden protests of turned into votes. and now there are states that want to say no more. what do you say to that? >> i think any time with cms protest movement unfortunately with the product -- backlash to that so that is not necessarily new. what we saw four years ago after the murder of george floyd was one of the biggest mobilizations we've ever seen, especially for racial justice in the u.s. and around the world. what is interesting to me is the students who work■ç

protesting and organizing those protest back in 2020 say they were high school seniors and they are just getting into it, there coming-of-age. these are the politics there growing up in. four years later, a lot of the same students are protesting israel's war in gaza this semester if they went to a four- year college and it was their senior year of college so just as you mentioned, they've lived through this nonstop disruption especially since the start of the pandemic in 2020 and what is really frightening and one of the reasons why we decided to do this series now is because there is a very targeted crackdown on the types of protest that you can do, so if black lives matter, demonstrators are blocking traffic on the highway, now some state lawmakers want to call that domestic terrorism. they're using really extreme language to describe■ç exercisi your right to protest. >> i think one of the reasons that protest is so critical to our democracy is that it provides the person that may not have the big checks to gather and to demonstrate the something is off, and then organizing them to exercise

their vote. you mentioned george floyd and that was one of the first times we saw during the presidential election where young people did translate that protest to a vote, and so what is it about the adults in the room that fear a young person's participation? >> well, if you want the really cynical answer, i think there are a lot of adults in the room and a lot of adults in the republican party who are scared of this up-and-coming demographic■ç, of this new more diverse than ever generation that is really unafraid to speak their mind because of all the crises that they've grown up with. it's scary to a lot of the people in power in these institutions, and so that is when you have this new classification of certain types of protest is more extreme. there was even a new york state lawmaker, i believe, who wanted to say intentional interruption of a lawful event is a willful

misdemeanor that comes with up to one year of jail time, like you know, we're talking about the actual civil forms of protest, but responding to them with these very violent penalties. >> well, and these penalties are not of the united states' doing. it is not democracy.■ç what you are describing right now is more akin to what we see putin do in russia, what we see the chinese, when it comes to student protest, so how do you galvanize or move around this in a moment where young people are saying you know what? i've been protesting. change is not coming fast enough . where do they find help? >> one thing i love about this series of interviews, we did interviews with cops and atlantic -- the first thing they talk about is how much they love atlanta, how much they love their community so when you go to the heart of this, like yes, things are difficult right now. young people are faced a difficult set of circumstances

they have come of age into, but they, at the core of their protest, want to make their lives better, their neighbor lives better, their communities better so i think they find a lot of hope in that of the community they find with each other. >> i ■çthink of maxwell frost, was part of the parkland shooting. he ended working with much for our lives and now he is running for office. other other folks running perhaps now that you think are going to make it fast -- there at the local level or congress in november? >> absolutely. we are going to see more and more gen z candidates run for congress or offices at different levels than ever before. the organization, run for something, does a great job of encouraging young people to sign up and run and as you mentioned local races, that is

also something exciting. we see them running for city councils, even school boards in some cases and these are places that are real gerontocracy's, just like the united states is, unfortunately, but they are getting involved at the h(p& and community level and that is encouraging. >> we've been talking about whether or not young people are buying what the candidates are selling. what are these local correspondents witnessing among young voters? >> it is still a question for sure whether or not young voters will show up in november but i can tell you they are incredibly engaged, they are paying attention and just what they want to know and hear is candidates who are listening to them and respecting what they are saying, so we did a student correspondent piece of watch parties in phoenix and miami for this past thursday night and i was really interested in the responses to this piece because i actually felt some of the young people interviewed for this piece were much more measured and reasonable, and not hysterical than some of the people that we saw, you know, democrats or people■ç or pendan

on tv who are panicking a little bit so i think the interviews that we did talk about how both biden and trump are old, how they don't see themselves represented at the highest levels of u.s. politics right now but they also understand the stakes of this election. one person said if you are a young woman who cares about reproductive rights and access, president biden is the only choice, so i do think they understand what the stakes are. >> that warms my heart because we need everybody involved. thank you so much for joining me and thanks to all of you for spending some time with us tonight. have a good night. that helps treat and prevent, all in one. to those with migraine, i see you. for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura and the preventive treatment of episodic migraine in adults. don't take if allergic to nurtec odt. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. it's time we all shine.

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