what are the messages that those taught maduro? do you think he could respect election results? >> i don't think maduro is willing to respect. i think he might be forced to respect the results. the difference is going to be huge. it's going to be -- if maduro pretends to present a fraud, it's going to be very obvious. in the case of venezuela, even though the elections are through an electronic process, every single voter gets a receipt of their vote. it's cast into a physical box. we are preparing to have presence of witnesses for the audits of those boxes in every single one of the 16,000 voting centers in venezuela. maduro could be hoping -- could be planning to steal the election. but there will be pushback.

i believe that there will be a reaction of people that will feel that they were stolen their vote. >> thank you so very much. appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," closing in. less than two weeks before the dnc deadline to choose a vice president, kamala harris is reportedly narrowing her choice and gets a big boost from michelle and barack obama today. >> to my girl, kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to endorse you and get you into the oval office. in florida, israel's prime minister netanyahu meeting with donald trump after he had separate d.c. meetings yesterday with president biden and vice

president harris. notably, harris, not the president, was given the role of speaking for the u.s. afterwards, acknowledging israel's right to defend itself but also focusing on the civilian toll of the war in gaza. >> the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, we cannot allow ourselves to be numb to the suffering and i will not be silent. today marks the official start of the paris olympics with an opening ceremony like no other. 100 boats carrying 10,000 athletes from notre dame to the eiffel tower and coordinated arson attacks on three high speed rail lines have caused travel chaos across france. ♪♪ good friday, everybody.

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the weekend marks 100 days until the election, with new dnc rules that kamala harris needs to find a vice president by next thursday. the newly minted presidential candidate is spending today in private meetings as a search for her running mate intensifies. former attorney general eric holder, who ran obama's vice presidential vetting in 2008 is leading the process. many aides leave critical battleground governors. another possibility, minnesota governor tim waltz. it's being bolstered by former president obama and first lady obama kicking off a weekend of action. when it comes to the next presidential debate though, the trump campaign now saying they agreed to debate joe biden. they want to reset the rules

they agreed to for a possible face-off with kamala harris. what happened to any time, any place, and egging on the former president? >> i have agreed to the previously agreed upon september 10th debate. he agreed to that previously. now it appears he is backpedaling. but i'm ready. the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. i'm ready. let's go. >> we begin with kelly o'donnell. peter baker, nbc news correspondent garrett haake covering the trump campaign, and sam stein. welcome all. kelly, for the first time, the harris campaign is officially weighing in on the vice presidential search. what are they saying? >> saying what we have known but now they're saying it officially, that there's work to be done to respond to what the

vice president is looking for, vetting that needs to take place to give her the best choices to review their public and their financial and all of their background so that she can make a good choice. i'm particularly struck on a day like this when the candidate kamala harris is not out publicly. that means there's a lot of interesting stuff happening behind the scenes, especially when you have an abbreviated schedule. meaningful work can happen when she's not doing public appearances, when she's not making a speech. we know it is a limited window of time. she has a deep bench of democrats. every cycle presents its own list of potentials. this has a strong list of people from key states, people that she has worked with before as an attorney general of her state in california. some of that is on the resumes. some with capitol hill experience as well, which can be

certainly very helpful when it comes to dealing with congress in the governing part. right now, focused on the campaigning part. one of the things we have seen is that some of the notable short list contenders are now in the phase of taking events in which they appear without the vice president doing the kind of sort of auditioning but important work within their own statements. governor shapiro is one of those. he was speaking out in a way that was challenging the trump campaign. this happened in the last hour. >> i'm sick and tired of this guy going on tv every day [ bleep ] talking to america. i got a message to donald trump. stop [ bleep ] talking america! >> not every day that we have that with a bleep on your program. the governor of -- governor shapiro is calling out donald trump for the way, in the governor's view, denigrates the

united states, talks down the strength of the country. that's a trumpian style, his brand of being forceful. it's one of the things that kamala harris and her team will evaluate as she looks at candidates who could be a running mate. >> kelly, that was striking. that is not the m.o. that you come to expect from the former attorney general, the current governor in pennsylvania. we have had bleeps before but usually associated with donald trump. one of the things that we can go around the table on is that in years past, you and i were staked out watching cars going up to see which senator or governor was coming to be interviewed by hillary clinton. is there any sign of meetings? it would be hard to tell since this -- they have a lot of entrances we can't see. >> yes.

that's one of the things we are trying to get a sense of, schedules of the short list people. what are their public events? where might there be a moment for meetings, not having official things on the books for the vice president today leaving open some of the space. it may be easier to work backwards once we know a decision to know when these moments happen. having existing relationships helps. unlike other cycles, zoom is at play now where you could actually have a conversation -- there will be personal interaction. but you can have an introductory type of conversation where you wouldn't have to be in the same room. we will be tracking that. it makes a real reporting assignment for us. >> indeed. but you are up to it. if anyone is, you are. peter baker, you called harris' meeting with netanyahu her debut on the world stage as a candidate. i want to play another portion of what she said afterwards.

>> israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. i also expressed with the prime minister my serious concern about the scale of human suffering in gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians. it is time for this war to end, and end in a way where israel is secure, all the hostages are released, the suffering of palestinians in gaza ends. >> it was really striking. she came to the microphone. netanyahu did not. the president did not give remarks after his meetings. she did. their meetings were separate. she said they were frank and constructive. you know what that means diplomatically. she said all the right talking points. hamas is a terrorist state. she emphasized the civilian

toll. >> yeah. it's the first time we have heard her as the punitive democratic nominee talking about foreign affairs. she was laying down her own line. as you rightly said, she was the one put forward by white house, not the president. that's very striking. that's almost unheard of except in this kind of a circumstance, very interesting. while she stuck to the biden policy, favored the cease-fire on the table that would release the hostages and eventually lead to the withdrawal from gaza and an end to the war, her tone was different. her tone was sharper on the palestinian question than president biden's has been, even if biden said some of the same things. her emphasis sounded for empathetic toward the suffering of palestinians than the president's has. people noticed that in the past. i think israelis were surprised when they heard her make that statement. they didn't expect her to say quite what she said there. it's a beginning of a new 100-day sprint for her in which she had a chance to distinguish

herself without necessarily breaking with the president she serves but finding a way to speak in her own way. >> garrett, donald trump meeting with netanyahu perhaps right now. there are suggestions -- we have been watching motorcades and things around mar-a-lago. he has a different pitch. he said he wants this war over soon. but he wants it over with a massive military presence. he doesn't want an immediate withdrawal and dialing back. >> that's right. donald trump said almost nothing about how he would manage the conduct of this war as president differently than joe biden has thus far. he has said it would never have happened under his watch but given no specifics why that might be the case. he has suggested that prime minister netanyahu, the israeli government needs to go in harder, wrap this up quickly and they are losing the public relations battle, essentially, around the conduct of the war.

i don't know if that's the meat of the conversation here between donald trump and netanyahu, who donald trump has had an on and off relationship with. trump believes he deserves more credit from the american public for the way he handled the relationship with israel during his presidency. in this case, wants to be seen as a player to some degree on this massive world stage issue here. it is striking we are not seeing cameras go into mar-a-lago for this. we might get some readout from the campaign. i'm sure they will put something out online. we haven't seen that much of donald trump since kamala harris has become the de facto nominee. he is giving a speech tonight. he will have a rally tomorrow with vance in minnesota, a state the trump campaign would love to put on the map here. we are watching his campaign try to grapple with the change in the environment. how to define kamala harris. they are setting on going after her record on the border.

a lot in flux as the former president is in his south florida residence. >> notable that he focused on wrapping up the war because it's bad pr for israel. it's hurting their reputation. arguably, it's true but not because of the suffering of the palestinians. >> a lot of things in terms of the world stage. >> sam, the obamas endorsement, that video, they put that out. we heard from michelle obama before barack obama. she might be the bigger draw on the campaign trail. i think they would both admit that. she was very cool to campaigning if at all for joe biden. there was a certain friction there which related to family matters, because she was very close to hunter's first wife. that was a very, very painful process over those years with the biden first family. >> yeah.

there's been friction between the bidens and obamas at various levels. you are right about michelle obama and hunter's first wife. obviously, there's some friction between barack and joe biden over how 2016 did not play out, about some of the commentary during the current presidency. biden referring to himself as the most consequential president since lbj, which skips over barack obama. ultimately, they would have gotten there and had biden remained in the race, obviously, the obamas were supportive of the candidacy. they would have played their role. their endorsement underscores the degree to which we reset this contest where everyone has an expression of support, issue a new round of endorsements, make new trials for the vp spot and a convention that not so

long ago seemed like it could be a political disaster, an embarrassment for democrats, with protests, now looks like it could be one of the more celebratory political events in a long time with not just the obamas speaks, clintons speaking, but biden going up for his farewell address in which he hands the baton figuratively to his vice president. it could be a tremendous moment for harris that helps boost her more than she's being boosted right now. >> sam, such good points. i think kelly, garrett, peter, we would agree this has moved a lot faster and more smoothly, her coalescing support, her getting the endorsements, she was working the phones, but there was a lot in play that was below the surface that we weren't seeing during all those weeks for the democratic party, for members of congress. thank you all. great to see you. happy weekend. happy olympic opening. in 90 sends, new details on

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this comes after the prime minister had meetings at the white house, first with president biden, then with president biden and hostage families and then with vice president harris. the hostage families, of course, pressing him to accept a cease-fire and do it now. which would release the host hostages, they say, before it's too late. those are israeli government photos. those were israel government photos with some of the american hostages whom we know so well for such tragic reasons. president biden wants to get this deal done before he leaves office. he is in a hurry. he made no public remarks after he saw the israeli leader. instead, he let the spotlight shine on his vice president who said hamas is a terrorist organization, israel has the right to defend itself but how it does that matters. she called the civilian death toll in gaza devastating. >> let's get the deal done so we

can get a cease-fire to end the war. let's bring the hostages home. and let's provide much needed relief to the palestinian people. and ultimately, i remain committed to a path forward that can lead to a two-state solution. >> joining me now is ambassador pinkus. welcome. thank you for being with us. >> always, andrea. thank you for having me. >> it's been a consequential week here. no question. netanyahu's speech, a lot more deiant and aggressive, fiery, than at least had been previewed last week by his closest advisors and with the caveat things change. there was the horrible attack on the houthis against tel aviv.

it was always going to be iran focused, but it was clearly focused, very angry about protests, some of whom were violent and disgusting and anti-semitic. there was a very broad mix on wednesday at least. what was your takeaway from what you saw here this week and the way the white house handled all of this? >> to begin with, andrea, it's not clear why he even went to washington. he was not invited by congress. he invited himself. it started with the republicans in the house of representatives who wanted him to come in order to turn this into a wedge issue during the campaign in order to highlight the divisions within the democratic party about israel in order to position themselves as the rain or shine, pro israel, whatever it is, whatever may be party. mr. netanyahu for the better part of the last decade has been

colluding with this and abdicating. once he decided to come to address joint session, he did not expect, nor did you, nor did i, nor did our viewers, that president biden would announce he is not seeking re-election. that more or less upended everything. his speech was -- it was -- there was nothing achievable, there was nothing tangible, there were no deliverables. it was an eloquent speech, but it was in essence, andrea, such a series of cliches. then he met president biden. i'm sure you will get to that, he met vice president and presidential nominee to be kamala harris. >> at this point, kamala harris was laying out a policy which

was identical to joe biden's but with a different emphasis. her emphasis was on the suffering, not on the military necessities. there's some acknowledgement by people inside the administration that they took too long to get from here to there after october 7th, which the massacre was -- the war was started by hamas. what's your take about how netanyahu handles this? why he was here -- his national security advisor endorsed donald trump. >> that's not surprising. >> trump, during the speech -- now he is at mar-a-lago. what netanyahu is going to hear from trump, if he is consistent, is, get this war done but do it massively. get it over with, which is not the message from -- >> let's start with kamala harris, andrea.

mr. netanyahu listened to what she had to say and then came out hiding behind his usual but now defunct alias as a senior diplomatic source saying what she said was concerning and very disconcerting and it could actually, no less, derail the hostage deal, which is complete and utter nonsense. he was looking for a fight with her. he was looking for a fight with her not because of what she said, because what she said, by the way, she said previously. in her credit, she hit all the right notes and said all the right things, which he said in january in a speech in dubai. there was nothing new here. you could say he said what he said about her, again hiding behind a senior diplomatic source, only to grease his way to this trip to mar-a-lago or

whatever it's called, a gated community where he is meeting mr. trump. there's a more sinister ploy going on here. he is trying to do to kamala harris like he did to obama. he is framing her as anti-israeli, putting the onus on her to prove she's not. i don't think she's going to fall for that. he is trying, at least. this is why he came here. as i said earlier, to become a wedge issue. now he is going to see mr. trump. as you mentioned, mr. trump said, israel needs to finish this. this needs to get over. the war must end. hostages must be released. then he said, this is killing them in terms of pr. they are very bad at pr, quote,

unquote. this is a jibe from trump -- former president trump. this is a jibe between the eyes of mr. netanyahu. pr is what he is. pr is what his claim to fame has always been. i don't know about this meeting. i know there are a lot of grudges that mr. trump bears against netanyahu. netanyahu will play the repentant sycophant. biden is the president. there's still six months. there could be an israeli election called within that period of time. i don't know how much deliverables mr. netanyahu can achieve from that meeting today. >> finally, i want to talk about the ambassador, the first jewish american ambassador. he was a middle east negotiator.

he led think tanks. he was a friend. he was extraordinary. a wonderful man. you worked with him. talk to me about martin. >> i have to say, there are more people in israel, obviously in the u.s. who have known him better and have worked with him more extensively. i did work with him for long periods of time in the late '90s and the early 2000s, since the mid '90s with the clinton administration. i have to tell you something. few people actually combine both vast knowledge and profound understanding of foreign policy with a very passionate and a very deep commitment to peace. a peace that alluded all of us. he was angry about it, i imagine, to his last days. he and others in several administrations have failed to

achieve that. it was not his fault. it was not for lack of trying. i think he was a diplomat of the kind that is very rare to see diplomats like him anymore. >> he was extraordinary. he just passed after battling cancer. our thoughts with his wife and his children. >> yes. >> all the family. may his memory be a blessing. alon pinkus, thank you. >> thank you. how the fight for the white house has shifted as vice president harris narrows her choices for a running mate. the controversy surrounding j.d. vance. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. restoration is still possible.

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vetting a candidate for vice president can be politically perilous as john mccain found out after announcing sarah palin. j.d. vance is in the eye of a storm for something he said in 2021 about childless democrats have no stake in the country's future. at the time, it was a dig at none other than kamala harris. among those outraged is former congresswoman gaby gifford who

is married to mark kelly. we were trying to have a baby through ivf before i was shot. that dream was stolen from us. to suggest we are lesser is disgraceful. joining me now is adam jefferson and susan del percio. susan, this whole vance childless comment continues to reverberate. they are trying to get swing voters, women voters, close the gender gap. how does this play? >> i think this is going to be a narrative that doesn't go away. it's powerful. people are really upset. like i said, i don't think this is going away soon. republican women who don't have children, who could vote for

him, will be turned off by this as well. >> adam, i want to ask you about senator mark kelly and what transpired with this as well. let me play minnesota governor tim walz. he was on last night. he laid into j.d. vance about not just that, not just the ivf, but also the whole characterization of himself as representing small town america. >> they gutted middle america. mind your own damn business. i don't need him to tell me about my family. i don't need him to tell me my wife's health care and her reproductive rights. their plan is to give tax cuts to the wealthy. my cousins didn't go to yale, but they contributed to our community and they are proud of it. >> you have been in politics a long time. what do you think of him as a potential nominee?

>> governor walz would be a strong pick. i think he has shown he has a really sharp ability to throw some elbows, which is something that's valuable in the vice presidential nominee. traditionally, that's the person who does a lot of the attacking of the other side, which allows the presidential nominee to rise above the fray. he has shown a knack for that, a real presence. going directly after his would-be counterpart on the other side is a heck of a way to audition for the job. i think he is showing that he can do it effectively. >> susan, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro in philadelphia earlier was poking fun at trump over debating kamala harris. he is going to be campaigning with kamala harris in pennsylvania, all important state, tomorrow. what do we read into that? is that an audition? >> it definitely is. no question. it's also to check the chemistry between the two of them.

josh shapiro is an excellent choice because of pennsylvania. he is one of the most popular governors pennsylvania has seen in a while. i think he will -- he could add to a ticket. right now, i'm leaning towards mark kelly. i know it's a problem because he is a senator and we worry about the balance of the senate. mark kelly puts a lot of different places in play. his story is amazing. he is a former astronaut, after all. i see him being -- kelly and shapiro are the top two. >> i want to explain now, i heard the campaign is clarifying there was a misreading of the announcement they made that he will be campaigning for her but not with her. she's been isolated today. she was very busy yesterday, went to houston to give the speech to the teachers. came back and met with netanyahu. today she's been doing the pressing work. she has to have a running mate

by thursday. i guess that's what she's doing tomorrow also. our apologies for that. shapiro has been out there, out front and showing off his chops. adam, on "morning joe," pete buttigieg also a potential vice presidential judge called donald trump weak for trying to pull out of the debate. they seem to be wanting to taunt him. >> yeah. i think that's an excellent strategy. i think trump does not do well with being taunted. he is a classic case of someone who can dish it out but can't take it. i think secretary buttigieg is a strong candidate. one thing you are seeing is what a wealth of talent we have. it's an embarrassment of riches in terms of who vice president harris could pick here. everybody is trying to show what they can do. lobbybing attacks at trump and vance is a way to put yourself in the front of contention. you are seeing a lot of folks

show they would be excellent picks. my honest opinion is that i think vice president harris can't go wrong. they would be amazing picks. we are lucky to have such a wealth of talent on the democratic side. >> have a great weekend, both of you. sunday marks 100 days out from election day. we will break this down when it comes in the historic election. vice president kamala harris becomes the front runner for the democratic nomination. watch sunday beginning at 8:00 eastern on msnbc. the battle to get wildfires in the west under control. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc.

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. the whole world is centered on the city of lights with the opening ceremony for the 2024 olympics set to begin less than an hour. it's the first time the ceremony is open to the public, not taking place in a stadium as 10,000 olympic athletes will sail on their boats down the river seine. with more than 300,000 people lining up to watch this incredible display. it comes hours after france's high speed rail network was paralyzed by what officials are calling a massive attack consisting of a series of coordinated arson attacks severely disrupting service. joining us now from paris with the latest, nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. how lucky you are to be there, but aside from all the excitement, tell us about this rail disaster. paris without the -- well, france without the trains is really challenging. >> reporter: you're exactly right, and you know, you think about it, all of the security forces, all of the attention on

paris on the olympics for the next couple of weeks and these attacks happened outside of the city, and these rail lines for people to really understand, they are crucial. they are the arteries of transportation in this country. it would be like dallas, chicago, and new york airports suddenly shutting down. that's how many people it would affected, and you have upwards of 800,000 people whose travel plans are affected, not just people coming for the olympic games but also just people traveling around the country. and according to two u.s. law enforcement officials who have spoken with french officials, they believe it was leftist radicals that staged this coordinated, what they call coordinated, premeditated attack. they wanted to hit all four high speed rail lines, but the rail line to the south, that attack was thwarted. what they did is they targeted the fiberoptic cables which disrupted the communication. it has had a knock-on effect. you've had to move security. you've had to move intelligence and law enforcement forces to

investigate it. they say that they are hoping it won't disrupt too severely the games, but obviously there are people who are traveling here. for some people coming, for instance, from the uk who were going to use the euro star, they have to fly now. so there will be some effects felt and certainly more security in those train stations, andrea. >> we're about an hour away from the start of the opening ceremony. what are we going to see? it sounds so exciting. this was the vision, and it didn't sound possible when president macron first outlined it. now of course he's got political problems, but this is certainly a welcomed break if it goes off well. >> reporter: for sure. it would be a chance for people in france to talk about something else. that's for sure. you know, it's incredibly ambitious. it stretches along just over 3 1/2 miles of the seine through the center of paris, past some of the most iconic places in paris, including the louvre and

the cathedral of notre dame. it's going to be massive. you have 85 boats and it will be the ceremony normally inside of a stadium. outside of the stadium and on the water. it is being directed by thomas jolly, he's the art director. he comes from a theater background. he's normally used to tiny theaters and making that work artistically. now he has this entire river. there are going to be a lot of surprises. they like to keep things close to the vest for the opening ceremony. it is always a chance for the host country to show off its culture, its history, and you can certainly expect that to happen. and then you will have the parade of athlete, and for many countries they will be on their own boat. some countries will be in boats together. it will be so tremendous to see all of that happen. what they are a little worried about is the weather. it's supposed to be a bit spotty, andrea, there might be some showers. it could get a little soggy, but there's a lot of excitement. >> rain or shine, it's going to be great. it's paris.

it's the olympics and congratulations on being there. we look forward to all your reporting, stephanie, thank you. >> thank you. and right now i think we have some pictures of donald trump speaking with prime minister netanyahu at mar-a-lago. we don't know if this is a network pool -- i think can we hear donald trump if we have a minute? >> if you are reelected in november? >> we don't have to. we've had a good relationship. i was very good to israel, better than any president's ever been, and we did golan heights, we did jerusalem, the capital, we actually built the embassy, and the iran nuclear deal unfortunately the biden administration didn't do anything. we terminated the iran nuclear deal, which was a tremendous thing, maybe the best thing i did for israel. but unfortunately the biden nrgs didn't do anything about it. we could have had a deal one week after the election, we would have had a deal with iran,

and everybody would have been happy. they didn't do anything with it. they had all the cards. iran was not using terror at all. under the trump administration we gave them no money. they didn't have money. nobody was buying their oil. and now they're a rich country, so it's too bad, but we would have had a deal with iran, and it would have been a good deal for everything, including iran. it would have been a good deal. it would have saved the middle east. the biden administration, now she's taking over and she's worse than him. she's actually worse than him. so we'll see how it goes, but if it all works out -- if we win, it will be very simple. it's all going to work out and very quickly. if we don't, you're going to end up with major wars in the middle east and maybe a third world war. you are closer to a third world war right now than at any time since the second world war. we've never been so close

because we have incompetent people running our country. thank you very much, everybody. >> you could see that was president trump, of course, his netanyahu's wife sarah was there at the table. ron dermer, the former ambassador. there's no time to fact check this right now, but i know that we will be doing it throughout the day because there were a lot of misstatements in what he just said, but you can see where netanyahu is having praised donald trump in his speech, and his national security adviser endorsing trump on wednesday, and now donald trump blasting kamala harris and the biden administration. that does it for us for this week, this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show on social media @mitch@mitchellreports. just go to msnbc.com/andrea, chris jansing picks it up following up on what former president trump just said. owing president trump just said. awardg trading app makes trading easier. with its customizable options chain,

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good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. let's all roll up our sleeves and make it happen. that's former president barack obama as he and former first lady michelle became the latest high profile democrats to rally around kamala harris's candidacy. what that endorsement means as the campaign kicks off a weekend of action and what new polls tell us about the state of the race. plus, chaos in paris as the 2024 olympic opening ceremony is now moments away. france's state owned high speed rail network has been hit with several simultaneous arson attacks, potentially disrupting travel for up to 800,000 people. the latest on that attack and what it could mean for the games. and a new flurry of filings in the donald trump legal saga. the new developments in his efforts to get his hush