the historic candidacy of kamala harris sparking some very ugly reactions on the right. gop congressman tim butcht calling her a, quote, dei candidate, a phrase that's become a fan favorite for republicans. used against public officials who are people of color. used as a shorthand to impugn someone's credentials. even when their own resume is a lot thinner. before he went to congress, tim butcht was a mayor and a state lawmaker. before becoming vice president, kamala harris was a senator, the attorney general for california, the district attorney for san francisco, and a local prosecutor. burchett got 141,000 votes in his last election. kamala harris got over 81 million votes as part of the biden/harris ticket.

sometimes the dog whistle on the right is more like a bull horn. a quick programming note for you all. be sure to catch the katie phang show saturdays at 12:00 p.m. eastern. that does it for me now. "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. tonight on "the reidout" -- >> we have doors to knock on, we have phone calls to make. we have voters to register. and we have an election to win. so wisconsin, today i ask you, are you ready to get to work? >> a raucous crowd for vice president kamala harris at her first campaign rally since crossing the delegate threshold to clinch the democratic

presidential nomination. also tonight, new york attorney general letitia james joins me. she knows all about prosecuting donald trump and will tell us how she thinks kamala harris, a former prosecutor herself, will make the case against america's first ever convicted felon candidate for president. plus, you may have heard vice president harris pledged a certain sorority when she was a sunt at howard university back in the day. well, i have two of her sisters from alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated with me tonight to talk about the kamala harris they know, and they know her best. >> but we begin tonight with the remarkable and historic speed in which vice president kamala harris went from being president joe biden's running mate to the de facto nominee for the president. in the 53 hours since president

biden aannounced he was no longer running for election and endorsed vp harris, she has raised more than $100 million from more than a million unique donors, according to her campaign. she's had the best single day fund-raising haul in presidential campaign history. and has recruited 58,000 new campaign volunteers. she's received an outpouring of endorsements from hundreds of members of her party as well as the backing of several labor groups. as of today, vice president kamala harris has earned the support of enough delegates to win the party's nomination. all in just 2 1/2 days. that is historic. the vp also held her first presidential campaign rally near milwaukee, wisconsin, today, where she began to make her case against trump to voters in a crucial swing state. highlighting project 2025, as well as donald trump's support for abortion bans, and tax cuts for the super rich. she even walked on stage to the

song "freedom" by beyonce after getting permission from queen bey herself. a theme she touched on several times in her speech. >> generations of americans before us led the fight for freedom. and now, wisconsin, the baton is in our hands. we who believe in the sacred freedom to vote will make sure every american has the ability to cast their ballot and have it counted. we who believe that every person in our nation who should have the freedom to live safe from the terror of gun violence. and we who believe in reproductive freedom will stop donald trump's extreme abortion

bans because we trust women to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do. >> harris also received another major endorsement today from the two democratic leaders on capitol hill. senate majority leader chuck schumer and house democratic leader hakeem jeffries. >> we're going to hold the senate, we're going to win the house. we're going to elect kamala harris as our next president in november. >> today is a great, great day for the democratic party and the country. vice president harris will soon be our nominee, and will be elected president in november. we are brimming with excitement, enthusiasm, unity. >> and with the democratic national convention just a few weeks away, vice president harris has already begun the process of choosing a running

mate. today, nbc news is reporting that harris' campaign has requested vetting materials from five potential vp candidates. roy cooper, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, senator mark kelly of arizona, michigan governor gretchen whitmer, and minnesota governor tim walls. two other names under discussion are jb pritzker and cedric richmond of louisiana. a source tells nbc news the campaign is also actively considering kentucky governor andy beshear. in the meantime, president biden returned to the white house today after testing negative for covid. he will be delivering an address to the nation tomorrow night where he will explain his decision to bow out of the race and outline how he plans to use his final six months in office. joining me now is errin haines, and john nichols, national affairs kraubt for the nation,

and fernand amandi, msnbc political analyst. thank you all for being here. i'm going to go to you first, errin. what do we know about the vetting of candidates? before we get to that, let's take a moment and ruminate on this speech today that the vice president did. this was her opening, it was a pretty big deal of an opening. let's talk about that first. >> donald trump is relying on support from -- okay, go ahead? >> yep. >> we're seeing kamala harris is just so much more confident and comfortable in her own skin than she was when she ran for president four years ago. coming out to "freedom" by beyonce is definitely a choice. it says a lot about the tone. i think we can expect to see over the next 100 or so days. she's already acting like the nominee. she's not waiting. she's introducing herself to the

american people. she's positioning herself as a prosecutor making her case against donald trump and casting him as a creminal and threat to our democracy, and there's excitement. you saw it from leader schumer and today in the crowd in milwaukee. the momentum seems to be with her. we're seeing it in the record fund-raising since sunday in events like the marathon history making call with women with black women, i know you were on that call, too. we had a story on the 19th about how the call came together and the energy and excitement that came out of that. black women, literally 44,000 strong, ready to not only show their excitement for kamala harris but to get to work for kamala harris to insure that she is the first woman elected president of the united states. >> for so strong was that call that the brothers decided to try to overtop it last night and do their own call. we'll talk about that later in had show. they said we can do a call too. john, let's talk about the other piece. while the excitement among women is clear, the excitement among

black women huge, the excitement among women broadly, huge, because dobbs has fueled this desire to sort of do a revenge election. people talk about roevember. where joe biden was strong in a way most democrats has not been was with white men, white guys. more voted for him in larger percentages and numbers than voted for hillary clinton, barack obama, you have to get back to i believe jimmy carter to get the kind of percentages he was able to get, specifically with white men. that's a place where kamala harris wants to try to, you know, vice president harris wants to try to rebound and working class voters. sort of gauge for me her appeal there and whether or not some of that crossover can take place. >> it can take place. there's simply no question of that. remember, when you list people in the past who ran for president that did quite well among white men, we have to put barack obama high on that list. >> yes. >> he did very well in a lot of

rural areas where he was winning people that, you know, democrats have had a hard time with. so don't necessarily assume that because kamala harris is a black woman that that's going to be all that hard for her. she can make connections with people in all sorts of ways. now, one of the things to note is her speech today in milwaukee had a heavy duty economic justice component. she was going right to those issues and she's excellent at talking about them. also, remember, the unions, not just the unions you might think would be quick and easy, but a lot of industrial unions and unions in the building trades are stepping up. the afl-cio has endorsed her very rapidly. why? because although the media doesn't carry labor very well, over the last few years, kamala harris has been the white house point person on working with unions. she actually has headed the group within the white house that works with unions.

she's talked to all of these folks, all the leaders, but also she's appeared at the conventions. she's been in the union halls. i know unions are multiracial and multiethnic, but i can tell you it is working with unions you can cross a lot of lines that are sometimes difficult. so i see harris as actually very well positioned to get a substantial portion of the white male vote as well as the broader working class vote. multiracial, multiethnic. and i'm talking to leaders in rural counties because i write a lot about rural. and i'm telling you, there is excitement there. there were people at this rally in milwaukee who had driven from rural counties around wisconsin because they wanted to be a part of it. in fact, there were so many people who came to the rally in milwaukee, they had to move it to a bigger venue, and they even then had a challenge dealing with the crowd. so something is going on here. and it isn't just big city. it's small industrial towns,

places that have been left behind, and it's also rural areas. now, this is a challenge for her. she's got to talk about this. she's got to do speeches like she did today where she blends it all together. brings reproductive rights, brings all of the other issues, butthen gets that economic justice in there. if she does, she'll be very successful at it. >> it doesn't hurt that she's running against somebody, jd vance, who wrote a whole dis track book about appalachia and who with his partner donald trump is promising to get rid of obamacare which means rural hospitals will continue to disappear and who wants to cut taxes on the super rich and tax basically people down the scale more than their ceos are getting taxed and their economic plan is all trickle down economics. fernand, let's talk about this combination. i want to circle back to the vice presidential pick. there are different ways to think about it. you can think about it as you pick somebody who can help you bring a state. josh shapiro, critical

pennsylvania. mark kelly, astronaut, a wife with a really compelling story. you know, people are like, put two women, win michigan and also just maximize women. somebody who can debate the heck out of jd vance, which basically anybody breathing because he's an easy target. from your point of view as a data guy, is there a particular pick that would help her the most? >> absolutely. first up, what an amazing 72 hours it's been. democrats went from the depths of despair on saturday afternoon and here you are now thinking the race is within grasp again, and it frankly is because of this extraordinary roll-out of the campaign. they always say the best days of the campaign are the roll-out, the introduction days. kamala harris has taken that to a new standard. i don't think anybody has ever had a roll-out like this. to your question on the vice presidential pick, this is critical because this is one of the key tests that americans are going to judge her on between now and when the voting starts, joy. as to whether or not they're

going to trust her with being a potential president of the united states. there are three factors that have to go into play on this. number one, is the person chosen ready to be president in the event that anything happens? i know that is paramount for vice president harris. she knows better than anybody on the planet how critical making that type of a choice is. second is, is this person going to help me get to 270 electoral votes? because that's all that matters. they don't win the election, democracy is lost, and dictatorship is upon us. so that political calculus is going to be paramount in the thinking. third and most important, maybe the most underrated part of the vice presidential selection process is chemistry. you have to have someone that you feel comfortable, that you can partner with and have a relationship. why? if that is not real and if it's forced, the american voters will sense that. it will come across during the campaign, it's got to be a good

chemistry fit. the good news for vice president harris, i think she has an embarrassment of riches from which to choose from. all the names you put up earlier are folks she knows, that she trusts, and all of them are viable presidents and one way or another can help deliver votes and segments of the votes that's going to get democrats to 270. because if it's not about 270, it doesn't matter. >> yeah. and i will note there is a reuters poll out today that has her leading donald trump, so she clearly got a bump out of her roll-out that donald trump did not get out of his rnc weird fidel castro-like convention. let's go back to you, errin, if there's any reporting as far as the selection process. is anyone ahead, looking more likely than anyone else? >> look, i'm no fernand amandi, but let me say i have made the case that the person that fernand amandi describes like michigan governor gretchen whitmer.

i say why not? the other side has already come out with an all-male ticket. why not have a two-woman ticket for 2024 and really make history in an unprecedented year in our already unprecedented politics? right? gretchen whitmer and kamala harris already have a relationship. you know, she's coming out of the midwest so she can take on a jd vance, especially on a debate stage. that would be interesting, right? this is somebody who is among the most popular democrats among engaged folks in the party. so i think this is a combination that could certainly be a winning ticket, and i don't know why we're not talking about two women or dismissing that as if people wouldn't necessarily elect two women. electability is about who the voters are willing to elect. why not see if it's not this ticket? >> well, there we go. the gauntlet has been thrown by errin haines of the 19th. let's see if the campaign picks it up. then, who month us is fernand

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the attorney general is a racist, letitia james. >> you borrow, you pay it back, and you get sued by a political animal. >> the fascist and racist attorney general of new york state, letitia james. >> we have a racist attorney general who is a horror show. >> oh, that's just some of the language, and not even the worst that trump used in going after the prosecutor who proved to be quite adept at holding him accountable. new york attorney general letitia james. she brought and won a civil fraud lawsuit against trump who was found liable for business fraud. it came with a penalty to the tune of $464 million which is still accruing interest. and now this is how trump's allies have reacted to vice president kamala harris. both leading up to and following

her becoming the new de facto democratic nominee for president. >> are you suggesting she was a dei hire? >> 100%. she was a dei hire. >> she does not speak well, she does not work hard. >> she's a dei hire, right? she's a woman. she's colored. therefore she's got to be good. >> a lot of democrats feel they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background. >> i wonder what these two women have in common. i can't put my finger on it, but i'm sure i'll figure it out. anyway, new york attorney general letitia james joins me now. you know, i'm going to thing about it throughout the segment. if you can think about what these ladies have in common, you have in common with the vp. anyhow, what do you make of the way that republicans have followed donald trump's lead in just the tone of their attacks, not just on you, but also on the

vice president? >> they're running very scared. that's what i think. they're running very scared, and they have nothing else other than racism and sexism. so when you have nothing else, unfortunately, you just appeal to the racists among us, the white nationalists among us. that's all. the reality is kamala harris, vice president harris, is qualified and you know, oftentimes she's underestimated but she's an overachiever. and that's why i have wholeheartedly endorsed her. it's unfortunate that individuals are just amplifying racism and sexism, and it's totally inappropriate, and i will not dignify it with a response. >> indeed. dei is actually a good thing, whether it's dei in its original form or duly-elected official, which you are, madam. you have been a very successful state-wide elected official. people need to understand, being an attorney general means you were elected state-wide, as was vice president harris when she was an attorney general. what unique skill sets does that

bring in terms of holding donald trump accountable? both the way that you have done it in court, but then on the campaign trail, what do you expect to see in terms of the messaging about that? >> so it's critically important. oftentimes attorney generals just don't get the attention that they deserve. and it's important that individuals understand, as we analyze project 2025, we have been here before. four years ago, when the former president was in charge, we had new york, the new york state attorney general, my office, we filed over 100 cases against donald trump. we were successful 80% of the time. and so his playbook, project 2025, is something that we are familiar with. and so when individuals want to distance themselves from project 2025, do not believe them because in fact four years ago they litigated a lot of the same claims and they're coming back. it's important also to understand that vice president harris, when she was the attorney general, was responsible for going after

banks who were responsible for the foreclosure crisis. she defended the affordable care act. she went after major corporations that engaged in deceptive business practices. she went after those individuals who abused the law, both as it relates to women, who engaged in sexual abuse of women. she went after individuals, again, who violated the criminal code, the civil code. she is overqualified to be president of these united states. she sat in the united states senate on the intelligence and homeland security. she's traveled the globe. she is a woman who has the receipts, has been in a position, the best position to go after donald trump and to defend the values that we hold so dear, most importantly, reproductive rights. she's been a champion on reproductive rights. as someone who just visited texas and who listened to the women in texas, it's unfortunate

the only way some women can get health care is to bleed out in their bathrooms. it's totally unacceptable and women should rise up against this effort to really control our bodies. it's our body and our choice, and no one knows it better than vice president harris. >> let me play vice president harris, this was her yesterday, about knowing trump's type. >> before i was elected as vice president, before i was elected as united states senator, i was the elected attorney general. i mentioned, of california. before that, i was a courtroom prosecutor. in those roles i took on perpetrators of all kinds. [ cheers and applause ] predators who abused women. fraudsters who ripped off consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.

so hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. >> as do you, madam attorney general. we know in addition to the e. jean carroll settlement for sexually abusing her, the judge said raped her and doing what he said he could grab in real life, there's your case in terms of civil fraud, almost $500 million when the team is appealing. there's more. tell us more about what you have known as somebody who has prosecuted this man. there's also his fake university. his charities. >> but i also know, i have spoken to some individuals who used to live in some of his buildings in brooklyn, who he and his father discriminated against because they were african american. those individuals tell me the types of tactics they engaged in. it's critically important that individuals understand the karth and the type of individual that donald trump represents. and the fact is that he is a no

respecter of title and an individual who will stoop to certain lows obviously to achieve his objective. it's really all about donald trump and no one else. he's not concerned about the rule of law. not concerned about the interest of working class people in this country. not concerned about uniting us. it's all about how he can benefit himself and his family. and that's why all of us, all of us must march to the polls in quiet dignity and vote, because there's so much at stake. it's really critically important that individuals understand that he represents an existential threat to all that we believe in, all of our rights, all of our privileges. and all of our freedom. and that's why we must stand together and elect vice president harris. >> your name has been thrown out there by the folks in the world, yourself as well as jack smith as potential attorneys general in a harris administration. i think people are just dreaming

now, putting lots of impossible dreams and possible dreams out there. would you accept a role inside of a harris administration potentially if offered? >> i'm focused at this point in time in securing the nomination for vice president harris and ultimately getting her elected. that is my singular focus at this point in time and continuing to stand up for the rule of law and representing the citizens of the great state of new york as we do each and every day. we're in the midst of a trial against the nra today. we will pursue that trial, continue that trial through verdict. and get benefits and continue to get benefits for the residents of the great state of new york. standing up for the lgbtq community, standing up for reproductive rights. standing up for our environment, for seniors, marginalized and vulnerable populations. standing up for what is right. that's what i do each and every day. that's what i am focused on in addition to electing vice president kamala harris, and also because she's a proud

graduate of howard university, as am i. >> i knew you were going to get that in. i'm not surprised that was going to come in and you did not mention your shared jamaican heritage. i know that is a fact as well. new york attorney general letitia james, thank you so much. and coming up next, some of the women who know kamala harris better than anyone. her sorority line sisters will tell us about their friend of 40 years. we'll be right back. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with all the money i saved i thought i'd buy stilts. hi honey. ahhh...ooh. look, no line at the hot dog stand. yes! only pay for what you need. ♪liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty.♪ for more than a decade farxiga has been trusted again and again, and again. ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ ♪ far-xi-ga ♪ ♪ far-xi-ga ♪

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to my line sisters, the 38 jewels of iridescent splendor. oh, you are such an incredible part of my journey and i love you guys. thank you for being here. to all those who serve alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated, it is an honor. and a joy to be with you today. >> just two weeks ago, when the election felt very different than it does today, vice president kamala harris delivered a keynote speech during alpha kappa alpha

sorority incorporate's sorority. she's a member of the divine nine, the nine black sororities and fraternities started in the midst of jim crow, the time who black collegiates faced a very different america. the sorority was founded on the campus of howard university in 1908, making it the country's oldest historically black sorority. vice president harris joined a 1986 as an undergraduate student at the institution of the sorority's founding, the great howard university. in some ways you might say the women she pledged with, otherwise known as her line sisters, are some of the women who know her best. two of them join me now. monique and laurie. thank you so much, ladies, for being here. resplendent in your beautiful pink. look at us looking so fabulous, and thank you all for being here. i want to start right here at the table, monique. >> yes. >> i hope we have great photos of you guys from back in the

day. i have been strolling through a few online. back in the day. we want to see back to howard university. there are some of you all together. >> yes. >> tell us what the vice president was like way back, before she was vice president. >> oh, my goodness. kamala is authentic. she's genuine. a trail blazer. always involved in social action. just an amazing person. and we love her so dearly. she is someone who she's a public servant and dedicated and will continue as she has to serve the american people and the american citizens alongside president joe biden. >> laurie, did you anticipate -- i mean, is this a situation where you said to yourselves back then at howard, oh, yeah, that lady's going to be vice

president, president, she's going to be senator? was she that person that people looked at her and said yeah, that's where she's going? >> she was absolutely that person. absolutely. we are not surprised that we are here today. >> at all. >> vice president harris was very active on campus. she was dedicated to her studies. i mean, a true stand-out among stand-outs. and because of how she has excelled at howard university, we knew not even the sky was the limit. >> absolutely. you know, the thing about the sisterhood in these organizations, in these greek letter organizations, the sisterhood and then the brotherhood for the brothers who are involved, it really is a lifetime bond. >> absolutely. >> your line sisters become your sister sisters. >> absolutely. >> i text mine all the time. it becomes a part of your life. is that the way your relationship has continued? >> absolutely. we continue to communicate with

one another. it could be, you know, we followed her really from her ascension to district attorney and attorney general, senator, of course, vice president. and now, the baton has been passed. and you know, we have to be grateful to our great president joe biden who understands how historic this is. we are in that moment. and we have her back. and so that is what the sisterhood is about. and it is a lifetime commitment. we do not end in college. it is something that, you know, we have known each other for over 35 years. >> yeah. and you still look less than 20. >> oh, well, thank you. i'll take that. >> listen, black don't crack. and laurie, i need one good story. give me one good howard university just kamala story.

give us a good one. give us a story you remember from back in the day on the campus. >> back in the day on the campus, i have to refer to back when we were in the spring of 1986, we were all young, excited, and everybody was bringing their talents and gifts to our process. one thing that stood out about vice president harris, she was always cool, calm, and collected. many of us were like scrambling around, we were given assignments. we were running around scrambling. but she was always cool, calm, and collected. and one thing that i always remember, we always wore black coats, i think we have seen pictures of us in our black coats. we had to scramble, and we would have to go somewhere, and everybody is grabbing a black coat. she would always, always, without fail, end up with that really cool peter pan collar black coat. don't know how she did it, but

she figured it out, and she shows up in every image in that really cool black coat. we know she was very focused. she was very diligent. and i think we're continuing to see that today. >> yeah. >> absolutely. >> favorite memory? >> favorite memory. let's see. oh, we had an assignment to cook a dish. and we chose curry chicken. and so kamala, that was our assignment. >> makes sense given her dad. >> and so interestingly, and her mom, correct, and that's two different styles. >> two different kinds of curry. >> so she and i started this task. and then i kind of said, okay, is that the way you cook it? that's not the way my mother cooks it. this is the way my mother cooks it, you know. it was a delicious dish. it was a combination, a

collaboration. we negotiated how we would prepare it. and that's one of my favorite moments. >> i have to tell you, i am not surprised we got to a food memory. when i tell you, the vice president, if you're around her more than ten or five minutes, she's going to talk about a recipe. she's going it tell you how to cook something because she loves to cook and she'll tell you about how the food should be cooked. monique and laurie, i'm sure you're so proud of your line sister. >> yes. >> we would love to get a peek at your group chats because i know they're fire. >> they're fire, but they're private. >> amen. that's the way they're supposed to be. hallelujah. hallelujah. thank you all for being here. still looking like you could be on campus right now. we love it. up next, this was fun. up next, it is not just black women who are fired up for kamala harris. an astounding number of black men are rallying to raise money as well. and we're going to talk about that right after the break. whe'?

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last night, black men rallied for vice president kamala harris. with tens of thousands joining a video call to raise money and support for harris' presidential bid. it comes as republicans claim to be making an appeal to black men. while unleashing a flood of racist and sexism against this historic candidate, saying she's a dei vice president and worse. >> i don't know kamala. i served in the united states

marine corps and i built a business. what the hell have you done other than collect a government check for the past 20 years. >> she didn't earnerited it. americans like self made men and women. >> he chose her not because of her merit, not because she deserved her position. go back and look at what she's done as vice president, very little if anything, it was because of how she looks. >> people are going to say you're smut shaming and all that stuff. i don't care. she slept her way to the top. >> sometimes you got to keep your feelings inside because you're on the tv. joining me now, michael steele, former rnc chair and cohost of the weekend on msnbc, and roland martin, host of roland martin unfiltered and the host of last night's black men gathering for kamala. i'm going to come back to you in a second, but i have to allow my friend at the table -- dadonald trump inherited $317 million

from his dad, then promptly lost $900 million and got hooked up by banks and maybe some mafia folks to build himself back up. he's been bankrupt six times. he became president because he was on a tv show and an employee at nbc. megyn kelly, the things in the book that she said about fox news, i won't go there. >> i was going to say, didn't she work at fox? >> let's go to the guy who says she didn't earn it. i'm sorry, she got elected. she was a duly-elected incumbent prosecutor and attorney general and senator. sorry, is it just because she's black? >> yes. >> okay. >> yes. >> i'm just curious. >> yes, what is the threat here? if you disagreeyou disagree wit position she led on in the administration, then talk about that. oh, somebody is going to call this shaming and then you

shame. why do you have to make it so personal? you make it personal because you want to drive the negative narrative to the hard edge of the base that eats that -- >> also who are you bringing in? j.d. vance has no right to call this woman by her first name. she is not your housemate. you don't get to call her by her first name, j.d.. she is vice president of the united states. show some respect. j.d. vance was the house pet of peter thiel. he would not have a job or a career or anything. how did he earn being senator? >> before he became a senator he wrote a book. >> dissing his own people. >> roland. >> i'm sorry. please. >> let me say this to all of the white republicans. black people, we don't care

what you think. why am i saying that? every accomplished black person, we have had, you are an affirmative action hire. you are a dei higher. you got hit with quotas. we heard that in college, we heard it in jobs. we are not clarence thomas. we are not going to sit here and below my god, they are criticizing me, i'm not one of them. we don't care. her resume, politically, j.d. vance can't even touch. megan kelly, you can go to hell. jesse waters, you can go to hell and the rest of you. it is not appropriate. it is a dei candidate? i'm sorry, no. lastly, white women, you need to be calling out because they call you dei hires, the secret service woman trying to protect trump.

that is just the real deal. >> let's go to this event last night. it was actually really positive. talk about it, roland. you had a lot of women on. >> so here is the deal. the black women on sunday, they have been meeting for four years, every single sunday. after biden announced his decision i was playing at the classic in new jersey. mike blake called me. he was like, yo man, you have got to get the girls together. i was like all right, let's do it. that call came together in 24 hours. it was mike blake, as well as quentin james. we had never done anything together. we put this together. we used my network. we wanted it to be public and open. 53,000, this is the number of black men. 45,000 sisters, but 53,000 black men and here is what is so crazy.

i am actually live doing my show right now, joy. only for you i stepped away. he sent me a text and he said that black men are watching the replay and still registering, so we are now up to 55,000. >> that is amazing. >> looking for belonging. >> absolutely. as an electoral matter, this is an important thing to do because there is an attempt on the republican side to portray donald trump, because he has felonies as being attractive to black voters. >> that is so insulting. do you think so little of us that that is your go to? to take your white convicted felon and think we identify with him because he is a convicted felon? >> don't forget the shoes. >> roland, you know my mind.

i was about to go to those gold tennis shoes and the idea that you can say you will protect our access to menthol cigarettes. amen, lord have mercy. i feel like i can go to church now on sunday. >> eric erickson added that kamala harris is the daughter of indian and jamaican immigrants who married a jewish man. her experience is the american dream and melting pot, but not really the black experience. i doubt he knows any black people because this woman literally went to howard university. >> does eric erickson know the origin story of jamaicans? do you know where jamaicans are from? do you know the origin story? it is called africa. that doesn't mean that is where they originated. >> and come on, you are the king of mayonnaise, so please, let's not talk about seasoned chicken when you are unseasoned chicken. please.

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