kamala harris mocking donald trump for saying that he won't commit to debating her right now. we'll tell you the reason his campaign gave. plus, a big endorsement to cap a whirlwind week, barack and michelle obama backing harris saying this is going to be historic. what does it mean for her campaign, and fundraising going forward? an extremely rare fire tornado spotted over california. can you believe this as the biggest wildfire of the year grows. the destruction already reported as 25,000 people are urged to evacuate. and sabotage in france, just as the olympic games kick off. the arson attacks affecting train travel, stranding passengers and causing outages that can last for days. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. let's begin with nbc's jonathan allen, covering the back and forth between the trump and harris campaigns over the debates. what's the latest there, john? >> well, chris.

we had debates scheduled. there was going to be a second presidential debate on september 10th on another net work, and now we've got former president trump questioning whether he wants to do it on that network, whether he wants to do it at all. says he has agreed to debate joe biden but not kamala harris, and i think we got a statement from his campaign that we could show folks. a little bit long. i won't read the whole thing on the screen there, but they're basically saying that the democratic nomination process is not finalized and while that's technically true, it's pretty clear that kamala harris will be the democratic nominee sometime between now and august 7th, as early as august 1st, and the harris campaign, harris herself is accusing trump of back pedaling on his promise to debate. he said he would debate joe biden anywhere, anytime, and now is not, you know, sort of not adhering to that now that there may be a different democratic candidate. my guess is we may see one more

presidential debate. we're getting back to the sort of normal jockeying between campaigns about debate rules and timing and which network to do them on. >> john allen, thank you so much. now let's go to the big endorsement, long awaited endorsement by the obamas. the news came in the form of a video. tell us what that was all about, and what it might mean? >> reporter: this was an almost minute long video that captured a phone call between former president barack obama, former first lady michelle obama, and vice president harris in which they told her that they were endorsing her in the 2024 race. a moment that so many democrats had been watching and waiting for. listen to a bit of their exchange here. >> i can't have this phone call without saying to my girl kamala, i am proud of you. this is going to be historic. >> we called to say michelle and i couldn't be prouder to say we

endorse you, and get you everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. >> oh, my goodness, michelle, barack, this means so much to me. i'm looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both, getting out there, being on the road. >> reporter: and we're told from sources familiar that former president obama had been in touch with harris since sunday when the president announced he was dropping out of the 2024 race and having known her for over 20 years now, he has been serving as a sort of sounding board for her as she starts this unprecedented role. but he held off on announcing in endorsement for a few reasons. he didn't want it to overshadow

president's big moment from the oval office when he explained to the nation why he was dropping out of this race. he wanted it to stand as its own. he didn't want to appear as if he was putting his finger on the scale for her and waited until democrats had the time to rally around vice president harris, and you heard her on video saying she's looking forward to getting on the road. we're told by aides to both of them, both harris and obama that they're trying to figure out the logistics, the scheduling for when they would be able to appear on the campaign trail together, but no formal date has been set yet. lots of eyes are going to be on when that happens, as well as what role he's going to play, as well as former first lady michelle obama when democrats

have their convention starting on august 19th. of course in their hometown of chicago, chris. >> i'm going to predict they figure out the schedules. but allie raffa, you'll let us know when that happens. thank you so much. let's go out west where california's park fire continues to explode in side. nbc's david noriega is live in los angeles. this is now officially california's largest wildfire of the year. we're learning about the cause. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, chris, and also one of the largest in several years. as far as the cause, there is a suspect in custody in butte county jail. his name is ronny dean stout. he's 42 years old of chico, california. he was observed pushing a flaming car into a gully. the exact charges against him are not yet known because he will be arraigned on monday, and what he is charged with depends

on whether anybody else is injured in the fire and the extent of the destruction of the fire. the fire is growing very fast. just two nights ago it was at about 1,500 acres, yesterday, 45,000, and today more than 160,000 acres. it's moving north away from chico and the surrounding towns, which is better than if it were move south, but there are still people up there in small, rural communities in the mountains north of chico. this fire has destroyed structures, and it is still very dangerous. cal fire listed it as 3% contained this morning. but they then resigned that down to 0% contained, chris, which just tells you how much of a hard time crews are having containing this fire. chris. >> david noriega, thank you. let's go to france now and a rough start for the paris olympics. richard engel is standing by for us. and, richard, you had your umbrella up for a second there because it's a little drizzly there i think in paris, but the

real problem has to do with getting from place to place. tell us the latest -- >> reporter: you caught me. >> i did. >> if you're going to have a rainy day, you might as well be outside the lark, let's not feel too sorry for you. >> reporter: mostly i was saving myself from not looking all wet. it's just a little bit of rain. and there are these disruptions. we are seeing these transport disruptions because there was an act of sabotage. that's the way they're describing it here. they're not calling it a terrorist attack. they're calling it an act of organized coordinated vandalism against the high speed rail line, and around 4:00 this morning, a group of people, one person, probably a group of people because there were three simultaneous attacks carried out this attack against the communications network, the fiberoptics network that governs the high speed trains line, and

they did them strategically. one was to the north. one was to the east. one was to the west, in order to shut down the system. and there was one attempted attack, arson attack. they said fire in the communication boxes to the south, southeast. but that, police say was thwarted and, the thinking here, according to u.s. officials, french media, is that this was carried out by the far left, either environmentalist groups who have long opposed the olympics, long opposed high speed rail or anarchists, people on the far left. and that is just one of the concerns that the security forces have in this country. the government that has in this country. the united states has. that's why you've seen so many people flooding in, why there's such a heavy security presence in the city. but i must say, paris has seen many many disruptions before,

acts of political violence or disruption. the streets are often shut down by protesters. shop windows along the champs-elysees are often smashed, and people clean it up and get on with it. i don't want to call it an accepted part of the political discourse, but it's certainly normalized and even in that station today, i spent most of the day in the station watching people looking up at the big boards, learning that their travel plans were disrupted. they were not angry or irate. they were not yelling at the counters. they're all going to get free tickets reimbursed so there was frustration, but the games and the opening ceremony is still underway, and i think there's still a pretty up boat mood here in paris for the people who are still here. a lot of people left. the people who were trying to leave and mainly being disrupted by these train stoppages are

generally french people who are going on vacation or getting out of paris so they would avoid the olympics crush. >> i think the last time i was in paris there was a train strike, and i couldn't get where i needed to go because, you know, as you've pointed out before, these disruptions are a way of life there. richard engel, thank you so much. and in 90 seconds, the battle for nikki haley voters. can kamala harris win them over? >> it was just thrown on her. i mean, she's getting prepared, of course, she ran at first. so she wanted this in the first place. but i don't think she knew. i think it just dropped in her lap. i think it just dropped in her lap. way to fake how upwork can help your business. search talent all over the world with over 10,000 skills you may not have in house. more than 30% of the fortune 500 use upwork because this is how we work now. you didn't live this strong, this long to get put on the shelf

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changing 2024 race. here's some of what they told us. >> how many of you feel like you don't have enough of an opinion about vice president harris to render an opinion one way or the other? >> wow, nearly all of you. >> that's one of the things that i dislike about her is that we don't know enough. she's been vice president for almost four years, and we still have no idea what her platform is or what she stands for. >> i think people are just sick of trump, and i think that america is just going to say enough is enough, and they're going to go with harris. >> she's younger and she's not trump, and -- because he's not a real republican. >> i would vote for her if she pick a unity ticket or maybe some other moderate republican, liz cheney, something like that, i would be strongly likely to vote for her. >> anybody else have a dream person that if she picked them, it would move you closer to

harris? audrey, you have one? >> yeah, if she picked nikki haley. then i would vote. >> here to talk about it, nbc's mark murray in d.c., and symone sanders townsend, former spokesperson for vp harris. haley was actually the person who said the first party that retires its 80-year-old candidate will win this election. where does the passing of the torch create opportunity for democrats and are you worried at all that democrats are getting ahead of themselves and feeling a little too over confident right now? >> so i think that there is a -- so, look, chris, there's the voters and how the voters feel about the passing of the torch, and what we are seeing is voter enthusiasm. that's what all the zooms are for. by the way, my prayers are with the tech staff at zoom this

week. they are working overtime. every group has a zoom for kamala harris supporters where they are getting on, raising money, and organizing. so that is excitement and energy that is needed because people that are engaged like that, those are people that organize. those are people that call other folks, knock on doors, give money, and those are people that turn out to vote, and bring people with them. this is a turnout election and the margins are going to matter. when it comes to the campaign and the presidential campaign, the harris campaign, and also down ballot democrats, they, i believe are tethered to reality. i had not heard the vice president herself in these -- you know, it hasn't been a week, but in the couple days that she has been the presidential candidate, talk about the historic nature of her race. i have heard her talk about project 2025, the economy, middle class families, child care.

i heard her talk about housing, this election is a choice. i heard her talk about her history as a prosecutor. those are important for the bio, because these voters are saying they don't know who the vice president is, they don't know what she does. that's the nature of the vice presidency. name is number two on the door. you shouldn't be walking around as though you are, in fact, number one. she has to do a little bit of that bio. also, that is to anchor in the issues. while donald trump may not talk about the issues, the voters are looking at that. i'm not concerned about this enthusiasm, honestly, it's needed. isn't that what everybody said, democrats need enthusiasm. now that the president has passed the torch, now the democrats are being admonished for their enthusiasm, i don't understand. >> there's always, mark, two big chunks of voters. one is your base. you have to get your base going. we know donald trump has that. and now it appears kamala harris has that. i mentioned the op-ed in the "washington post" in the last hour that says, you know, kamala harris has made politics fun again. so she's definitely fired up the

base, but then there are those middle people, including the nikki haley voters. what else do we know about how they are feeling right now besides what we just heard? >> yeah, chris, you're exactly right. we end up looking at the base and also the middle of the elect electorate, independent voters, double haters, and the nikki haley voters. what struck me in the focus groups that we ended up observing was, one, how a lot of these voters still wanted to hear more and know more about the vice president. they still said that they didn't know her all that much. they ended up saying some things that were positive and some things that were negative, and also they ended up talking about whether she's prepared enough for the job, and listen to this clip from the focus group. >> by a show of fingers, who feels kamala harris is prepared to become president? >> vice president harris, first

word or phrase that comes to mind, everybody have one? >> interesting. >> jennifer. >> condescending. >> ronny. >> lanky or word salad. >> dale. >> radical. >> intelligent. >> loyal. >> i would say a feminist. >> june. >> sometimes caddy. >> audra, giggly. >> simone was talking about how harris has really fired up the democrats, and, you know, the next kind of challenge for her is going to be to kind of introduce herself to voters who haven't been as familiar with her, and i think, chris, that focus group is really instructive on that, on the middle of the electorate that's going to be so crucial to deciding who wins in november. >> there's so much at play here, simone, one is this idea that -- and she's not the first vice president who i've covered who's run for president. and people don't always realize

that their job is to reflect their boss, right. his positions, where he stands on the issues. it is not their job to go out and have their own platform and to make their own independent statements. on the other hand, she does have now the opportunity to put the issues out there as you talked about it, to make her views known. what do you think that she can do to pull those voters in? >> so, i think it's going to be critical, chris, and i don't actually envy any campaign that has to do this in literally less than a hundred days almost. monday, we were 100 days out from election day. i think part of what -- and, you know, the vice president isn't new to this. every vice president by nature of being the vice president has accomplished something in life to the point that the person who is now the leader of the free world or wants to be the leader of the free world wants to ask you to join their ticket, and so she comes with a record of her own. every vice president does. when i worked for the vice

president, one of the things we often talked about was, okay, this is the president's policy. maybe this is something that she has said different in the past. how can we marry the two. how can the vice president adequately and authentically advocate for the president's policy, the administration's policy, that is, in fact, her policy but not forgetting that she had an entire record, you know, prior to becoming vice president. that was something that was on her mind from, you know, the early days of the biden/harris administration, and i have to imagine now the conversation inside that camp is, okay, what is my vision for the future, the kamala harris vision for the future, if in fact i'm elected president. how does what we did with the biden/harris administration translate to what i would like to do, and that's where it gets kind of tricky because joe biden is the president until january 20 of 2025, and kamala harris is that vice president until then, and she still has to be a good,

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the harris campaign is now publicly acknowledging that the vetting process for her running mate has begun in earnest. and while the candidates themselves who you see here are being careful about what they say, not so much their allies. that's especially true in pennsylvania where the philadelphia democratic party has endorsed not just harris for president but a ticket that includes governor josh shapiro. the vp race coming up at shapiro's event this morning. >> if you want to win pennsylvania, there's no other candidate in this nation positioned to help us win the white house than our governor josh shapiro. >> it sounds like a great and winning message, doesn't it? that's a question for the harris

campaign. >> let's bring in nbc's yamiche alcindor. jeff mason is the white house correspondent for the reuters. symone sanders townsend is back with us, and you know, yamiche, you've gotten reporting on the vetting process and what harris is looking for. tell us about it. >> can't we all just pause for a minute and just realize that we're sort of in this space where people are publicly sort of trying to try out for the job. we're seeing all sorts of interviews and things. it's just really funny to see josh shapiro say it's up to the harris campaign. he's doing what he can out there. in talking to the campaign this morning, it's the first time they were publicly acknowledging that they are campaigning and that they are vetting people in earnest that the process has began in earnest. it's interesting because we have been hearing for a long time from sources. you have the graphic where we were listing the contenders. that was all from sourcing, calling people close to it. the campaign is saying yes, we are starting that. i got information from a

campaign aid talking about what harris herself is thinking in this moment. this is new because people around her had been telling me what they thought but to hear sort of what the candidate is thinking is really important. i want to read part of it. it said she's looking for someone with shared values of fighting for the middle class, protecting democracy, and freedoms, treating people with respect and dignity, and creating an america where somebody gets a fair shot, and everybody gets a fair shot. they also say she's looking for a governing partner that's going to be ready to be president on day one. it's really interesting to hear her say that. she's also interestingly saying she's looking for someone with similar qualities president biden was looking for. a lot of sources have been telling me this is more like obama looking for joe biden, but to hear her say she's looking for someone who can be a partner who can have the same relationship she has with joe biden, is telling of how good of a relationship she has with the president but also what she's looking for and who might end up being on her short list and at

some point a finalist here. >> i think because you were up close and saw how a relationship with the vice president works, i thought when she went to campaign headquarters and when doug emhoff was introducing her and told the story about how they went over to their house when she was chosen and he called his parents, and you could see, right, you could see in the interchange even with the president on the phone the warmth. but can we talk about that because so often we talked about, well, what state do they live in, and that's important. and, you know, what are their policies, do they have anything in their background that could be sketchy. that's important. shared values, respect, dignity. similar qualities. you're going to be in a pressure cooker how important are those things? >> those are most important. when choosing a running mate, you're not choosing someone who will help you win x state, but really you're choosing a governing partner, who you want

to spend the next four, maybe even eight years in meetings with, calling them up on the phone in very tough moments. who do you want to do the work with? and i was not surprised to hear how the campaign aide came out and transcribed this to yamiche, and it seems to me as though the campaign thought they needed to speak up and say something. usually you do not speak about a vetting process. all of these folks that are, you know, saying, i saw somewhere, not yamiche, but another outlet said a white house official named a couple of individuals from this list as these are the top contenders. you know who knows who the top contenders are, the candidate. vice president harris is the only person who knows who her top contenders are. it's a choice she is going to make. just like in 2020, this was a choice that joe biden made. his advisers and committee had suggestions and thoughts but at the end of the day, it was he who chose vice president harris

for many of the reasons that she named in what she is looking for in her running mate. that is what's going to be crucial and critical. chris, usually this takes about like two months where you do the interview process with the potential running mate. and then you go out and do more background checks. they don't have two months, they have about a week. i don't envy this process at all. look at what happened with j.d. vance. now, all of a sudden he's written the forward to kevin roberts book. >> you have been on the trail of presidential campaigns. i think you and i might have first met on the mccain campaign. >> we did, i think, too. yeah. >> as you look at this, how does the first few days of the harris campaign compare to every other campaign you've ever covered? >> well, there are just so many differences in terms of timing and in terms of the situation, but what i will say about her first week, you can say neutrally, she had a great first

week. she had amazing fundraising, in terms of the dollar figures that started pouring in. she gave some very robust campaign speeches. both at the headquarters and then in the rallies. the rally she had and the events in houston. she came out yesterday in an official role after her meeting with prime minister netanyahu, and gave remarks that also made a lot of news. and that may have shown a little bit of distance between her and president biden on gaza. although they were consistent with what she has said before. it was just the setting and tone of what she did, and how she did that. added, i think, to a week in which she has shown a lot of democrats that she can do the job, not only as the candidate but as the president if she wins in november, and that's the hurdle that she needs to cross to get over. i guess the next question is how long does this honeymoon last because it is at least on some level a honeymoon. the positive sort of momentum

that she has seen may continue all the way into november, but it may not because certainly the other side will be coming out as it already has with some attacks against her, and there are things she will be facing that may blunt that momentum. for now, to get back to your initial question, chris, she's had a good week. >> i would say by any standard this has been quite the rollout. you know, there's another part of this that we didn't talk about, jeff, top vp contenders do seem -- i don't want to say falling all over themselves, they're working hard to save money. fundraising is part of the job. look at this invitation. you've got pete buttigieg's husband, the second gentlemen who are going to cohost a rally or fundraising event on fire island next weekend. we mentioned in the last hour

that gabbie giffords, somebody named as a possible vp, is giving $15 million. i mean, it can't hurt, right? it's part of the job, although i don't remember it being quite so overt in the past. >> the role of the attack dog, the clip you played of governor shapiro going out strong is a demonstration that's the role he would be happy to jump into if he were offered the opportunity. already a lot of factors that go into a decision on choosing a running mate, which my copanelists have eloquently outlined. the ability to raise money and have chemistry with the candidate and be able to govern are top of the list. >> yeah, i put shapiro under the category of how to run for the job without looking like you desperately want the job. some clever little lines he had

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israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is at mar-a-lago right now meeting with former president trump for the first time in nearly four years. the two did exchange a warm greeting despite a year's long rift that happen began after netanyahu became one of the first world leaders to congratulate biden on his 2020 victory. at the time, trump commented f him. the meeting comes after president biden and kamala harris, both biden and harris are pushing netanyahu to get a gaza cease fire deal done and done fast. overseas, friction over israel's war in gaza is on full display at the olympic games. a soccer match between israel and mali was overshadowed by boo and protests. a bomb scare caused security to close off areas near the stadium. israeli media says 15 members have received e-mails warning of a repeat of munich massacre in

1972, when 11 israeli athletes and coaches were killed by a member of a palestinian group. raf sanchez has more on this story. >> reporter: israel's olympic committee tells us they have been inundated with threats heading into these games, they are not deterred. israel's athletes are under 24-hour protection by the french security services but israel has sent agents of its own to provide the tightest, innermost circle of protection and their absolute determination is to prevent a repeat of what happened in munich back in 1972. the olympics have always been a pageant of sports and celebration, held amid heavy security and inside consecutive rings of steel. and this year, no national team is under closer guard than israel. with the war in gaza now in its ninth month, inflaming passions

around the world, israel is preparing for its athletes in paris to face protests and potentially worst. mickey zohar tells us these games require an unprecedented security operation. >> we have done a lot in the security issues because we understand there's a big difference between this olympics and other olympics before because we have a lot of threats coming from a lot of places around the world. >> reporter: for israel, olympic security planning is haunted by the 1972 games in munich, when its athletes and coaches were taken hostage by the palestinian terrorist group black september. a stunned world watching in horror as a rescue mission failed. 11 israeli olympians were killed. the massacre depicted in stephen spielberg's movie, munich. israel's 2024 athletes have already been receiving threats by text and e-mail, specifically warning of a repeat of 1972

according to the israeli olympics committee. etan ben david is a veteran of israel's shinbat security agency and once led the unit tasked with protected israeli and foreign political leaders as well as securing israel's team at the olympics. for people responsible for protecting the athletes, the shadow of what happened at munich hangs over everything you do? >> all the time, yeah. you know, in the dignitary protection unit, you know, this is a legacy. you must understand the legacy. you must understand the past. nobody lives in the present without knowing the past. >> reporter: israeli security was already tested this year at the euro vision song contest in sweden when large crowds turned out against the war in gaza. and israel's contestant was inundated with threats. but the olympics is on a far larger scale with nearly 100

israeli competitors taking part in dozens of events. >> how do you protect these athletes but also give them the space to train, give them the mental space, not frighten them? >> we are not pushing them. we are all the time around them. if they are looking for us, they will see us, but we are not jumping all the time. we are all the time around the delegation, around the athletes, and it's very quiet. nobody have to see us. >> among those killed in munich, 27-year-old fencing coach, andre spitzer. his daughter was born just two weeks before the massacre. >> so this is the only picture i have of them together. >> reporter: half a century later, his widow, anki continues to tell his story. >> after what happened in munich, after the murder of the 11 israeli athletes, the olympic village turned into like a military camp, and especially

the israelis, they never hang their flags outside like all the other countries did. >> reporter: and despite saying she'd received threats herself, she'll proudly be in paris for the games. >> i'm not going to stay home because they're threatening and saying, you know, you're going to make a second munich because when we give into terror, that's when it will continue. >> reporter: now, we have been tracking what the french government says is a series of arson attacks on train lines earlier today. the israeli foreign ministry is saying those attacks were planned and executed under the influence of iran. now they haven't provided any evidence to support that claim, and at this point, french authorities say they're still investigating. back to you. >> raf sanchez, thank you. we can only hope for a safe games. the grand curtain raiser to the olympics is happening right now with paris's iconic seine river serves as the stage. it's the first time ever that the opening ceremony is taking place outside of a stadium, with

more than 10,000 athletes floating in a parade that will disembark in front of the eiffel tower. already the crowd has been thrilled by everything from rooftop ballet to a performance from lady gaga that included pink pompoms and an interlude of la vien rose. nbc's stephanie gosk joins us from paris with the latest on the festivities. i understand it's been pouring out there, but it's always a party in paris. >> reporter: yeah, oh, i mean, lady gaga, pink feathers, piano, a boat, fantastic. right, and the best thing so far was the liberty section of ceremony took place at the grand palace, it included lots of revolutionary scenes, marie antoinette holding her own head and an opera singer belting out songs. a heavy metal band playing at the same time. you know, when you watch this, we knew back when it was

announced that it was an ambitious project to do the opening ceremony, which normally takes place in a stadium, along 4 miles of the seine river, and what the artistic director has done is played out scenes along the grand palais, and notre dame and the louvre, it's remarkable to see it come together, even though it has been a little soggy, chris, which was a bit unfortunate. >> i have a very serious question to ask you, how many days have you been there and how many french pastries have you eaten? >> quite a few. actually, i love the baguette, and, in fact, i actually pitched a story all about the baguette, which is basically just me eating really great baguette. we woke up at 4:00 in the morning, and went to a bakery. we matched up with the baker who won one year the best baguette

in paris. a good baguette is fantastic, but when you eat a baguette straight out of the oven, it's magic, pure magic. >> you're killing me right now. i have to give you props but not only pitching that but convincing them to let you do it. stephanie gosk, enjoy the games. and still to come, donald trump trying to cement himself as the crypto candidate. not if kamala harris has anything to say about it. ala has anything to say about it

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former president donald trump is making a play for big money at a bitcoin conference this weekend. a trump campaign aide told cnbc he's already raised over $4 million in cryptocurrencies, while he was in office, trump actually blasted bitcoin. take a listen. >> bitcoin, just seems like a scam. i don't like it because it's another currency competing against the dollar. i want the dollar to be the currency of the world. that's what i've always said. >> cnbc reporter, mckenzie sagalis is live at the bitcoin conference in nashville, and also with us mike memoli. what should we be watching for? >> so the big thing we're looking out for tomorrow is just how aggressive donald trump gets in his pro crypto agenda. he said things like he wants all future bitcoin to be made in america. he's been entertaining

recommendations for a crypto friendly chair at the s.e.c. but the 20,000 people who came into town for this event want something even higher stakes on a level of having the u.s. central bank buy bitcoin and hold it as a reserve asset, and then there's the money angle. the trump camp is hosting a fundraiser tomorrow where the top ticket goes for almost $850,000. last i heard, they hadn't sold all of those tickets yet, and then the organizers of this bitcoin conference committed to raising $100 million for the reelection effort for donald trump. they haven't gotten back to me yet on just how much they pulled in so far. i'm sure the trump camp will be looking to see whether the time pays off. and added to the millions of donations he's gotten from pro crypto silicon valley types. we've seen it coincide with the shift to the right in no small part because there's a lot of overlap between the two groups of people. venture capital investors, david

sacks, the billionaire winklevoss brothers giving money to the trump campaign. you have massive crypto super pacs, fair shake has raised over $200 million for the current election cycle so the crypto voting bloc is really opening the purse strings of this election cycle. >> there's always a lot of money in silicon valley, mike. you have new reporting about how vice president harris is trying to attract interest from silicon valley. what are you learning. >> some long time allies of kamala harris are pushing back on this idea that this is now an area in silicon valley that's more fertile for republicans. they say not at all, and they have seen that just in the few days since kamala harris has been elevated as the de facto democratic nominee. a lot of big donors had been sitting on the sidelines. they were part of the pressure campaign to push president biden out of the race and just within the first day or two of harris being elevated to the ticket there, there has been just a

surge of support. i spoke with steve wesley, a long time democratic donor, former office holding in california. he got tens of thousands of commitments of support for her campaign, within hours of sending an e-mail. he said we don't have an event on the books. they're going to have to do bigger events because there's a compressed time line. it's not just the fact that kamala harris represented this area. remember, she got her start in politics in the bay area, but it's where she stands on the issues, not just what the biden administration has done, things like the chips and science act. but she supported for a long time the policies and regulations that allowed this tech industry to thrive. there's an interest here in doubling down on that support, and really showing that this is not -- that republicans are not making the kind of end roads. >> mike memoli, that's going to do it this hour, be sure to join us sunday 4:00 p.m. eastern for a special report, 100 days for election day. we'll break down what's next in this historic election now that vice president kamala harris is

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