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all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with decision 2024.101 days to the election and a flurry of campaign activity and get out the vote efforts around the country. right now vice president kamala harris is in massachusetts for a fundraising event. first gentleman doug and hafiz in wisconsin. governors josh shapiro and andy beshear are out on the trail for the harris campaign while former president donald trump will speak today in tennessee and his running mate j.d. vance will join him in minnesota. trump is raising new questions and outright concerns today with this electoral comment to a gathering of religious conservatives yesterday in palm beach, florida. take a listen. >> and again, pistons, get out and vote! just this time. you won't have to do it again

anymore. four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine. you won't have to vote anymore my beautiful christians. i love you christians. i'm not christian. i love you. get out. you've got to get out and vote. in four years you don't have to vote again. we'll have it fixed so good you don't have to vote. >> meanwhile democrats are writing a wave of exuberance with more than 300,000 people across demographic groups joining zoom calls this past week, all to show support and raise money for the harris campaign. >> kamala harris clearly is capable and is the most qualified individual to run for president. in fact, more qualified than the last four presidents. >> when donald trump is on the attack, personal attacks against people, it shows he's afraid, and he is afraid of

kamala harris. can you imagine the two of them on a debate stage and how she would prosecute the case against him in front of the american public 2 >> we have a number of reporters in place, covering all these new developments for us. we're going to begin with nbc's allie raffa at the white house. welcome on the saturday. we have the vice president now looking for her own vice president. who is on the shortlist to join harris on that ticket? >> the harris campaign for the first time this week publicly acknowledged that this record fast vetting process is now underway for her running mate and they say that they won't have any updates until she finally makes that decision, and that's a decision that we expect to be made by august 7. room number that's that dnc deadline to be able to get her and whoever she chooses as her running mate on ballots across the country. and we are told from sources familiar with this process that we expect her to take all of the time that she can write up until that august 7 deadline. know as far as who we know is being considered at this moment, we know the campaign has requested vetting materials from five contenders. most of them are democratic

governors, some from battleground states that would be critical to vice president harris's path to victory. these are people like north carolina governor roy cooper, michigan governor gretchen whitmer, pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, just to name a few. but we know there are others being considered, for example senator mark kelly from arizona and illinois governor jb pritzker. pritzker joined our colleagues from msnbc on the weekend this morning and this is what he had to say when he was asked whether he would accept the role of vice president if harris decided to choose him. listen here. >> look, i have so much respect for kamala harris and it would be hard not to consider it seriously. i do love being governor of the state of illinois. so much of what we've accomplished here is what is needed for america. so i'm going to go out and advocate for kamala harris. i'm going to advocate for these issues across america, and we've got to win in november because donald trump would be a disaster for american families. >> and as harris prepares to

make this pivotal decision, she's really hitting the ground running, trying to make up for lost time with this campaign that she has now inherited, trying to keep the momentum she's built over the last six days going for the next 101, until election day. we know the second gentleman doug emhoff is also helping in this effort, as well. he's campaigning in battleground wisconsin today. the vice president herself heading to massachusetts for a fundraiser that's expected to raise almost $1.5 million and that's more than triple the organizers goal, alex. >> okay, allie raffa at the white house. thank you for the latest on that. let's go from there now to nashville, tennessee and cnbc reporter mackenzie secular. you're at the biggest bitcoin conference, mackenzie, and we know that donald trump is the keynote speaker there. what can we expect from him? what are you hearing from the attendees? >> so alex, 20,000 people have come to nashville and many of them are here to see what

promises former president trump is willing to make to the crypto sector when he takes the main stage in just a couple of hours. that speech comes two weeks after he survived a failed assassination attempt so security here is tight. you heard it from front last night in a turning point usa event, saying that he's fully healed from that shooting. >> i think you can see i recovered well and in fact, just took off the last bandage off of my ear. i defended this law, this constitution and they say he is not for democracy. i took a bullet for democracy. he didn't. >> as for what we can expect to hear from the republican presidential nominee today, there is speculation that he's planning to call for the u.s. government to go on a buying spree, giving up hundreds of billions of dollars in bitcoin. you can think of it as a crypto

version of ft. knox, using bitcoin to back up the value of the u.s. dollar. robert kennedy jr. is running for president as an independent, committed friday to signing an executive order on day one in the oval office directing the treasury to buy bit going daily and that the u.s. has reserve of at least 4 million bitcoin. i spoke to a few people here about what they think of trump showing up today. take a listen. >> he's maybe doing it for votes or not but i think we all go on a bit going journey end a lot of people have found that they didn't really know what it was about. when you start studying it you learn a lot more about it so i think he's probably done that and learned he could probably help the chances for america's future. >> i think it's great that he's recognizing the importance of that going to the economy and he made it today. >> and amelia, who you just heard from there, told me that she believes the biden administration, that the president and vice president, has been hostile to crypto. i sat down with democratic congressman riley nichol from north carolina today. he believes the harris campaign is going to reset their crib strategy in a major way. meanwhile the ft reporting today that the vice president's team has begun to reach out to people close to crypto companies to set up meetings.

>> as that first gentleman said that you had interviewed, there is something, or a lot of people are not that familiar with yet and they need to become more so. so well done. thank you very much, mackenzie. let's bring in peter baker, msnbc political analyst, chief white house correspondent for the new york times and co- author of the divider, trump in the white house, 2017 to 2021. welcome my friend. so let's get into this, because after the assassination attempt, trump vowed to be a unifying candidate. but then with harris in the race, he's returned to his typical rhetoric of insults and name-calling. what are trump insiders saying about this, peter? have any tried to reel him in? can they reel him in? and if his confidence that he could beat biden is now shaken going up against harris, will his actions then start to reflect the instinct?

>> i don't think anybody who's worked with donald trump for more than five minutes thinks that they can actually restrain him. they may be able to point him in a direction for a little while, but the truth is his instincts always of course take back over, and the idea that he would be a unity candidate was never a plausible theory of the case. and yeah, you are seeing obviously the comments yesterday he made about the christians and how jews and catholics shouldn't vote for democrats and so forth. let's plan on old themes of his work is a divider. that's why it is the title of the book because he divides people into categories and pits them against each other rather than trying to bring them together. he doesn't have a unity message because that's not how his politics have played. the idea is to make people crazy or angry or upset at the other side. now that's politics, not just his, but he happens to have mastered it so i think you're

obviously not going to see him go easy and i do think that they're trying to recalibrate, trying to think how to take on a very different candidate than they expected. they don't have the generational argument anymore. they can't make the age argument anymore. she has obvious energy and momentum and whatever energy he had coming out of the convention has now been eclipsed by hers. and obviously the problems this week with j.d. vance have made people on the republican side rethink whether that was a good pick in the first place. >> so you've ironed out a lot of things that essentially have all changed in this past week, right? everything has changed now and you contributed to an article that i think you were alluding to. let's get into it a little bit more. the article is described as the kamala harris vibe shift so how do you see this historic moment, peter, whether history has witnessed anything like this before. >> we obviously haven't, not just because she's the first woman of color to apparently get the nomination for a major political party, but also because she's coming in, 100 days left before a campaign. in modern times we haven't seen that, and she has that burst of energy. and because she can say things that biden can't, she can make the case in a way that biden obviously was struggling to make, you saw that in her very first rally in milwaukee this

week. she had more people there than any biden rally you have had in this election cycle, in that very first rally. and you could tell from the crowd that there was electricity there, that i never thought when i was at a biden rally. the biden crowds i saw when i was covering them were very polite and respectful and they admired joe biden. they thought he was a good president but they didn't feel excited by him, the way they now feel excited by her. no part of that is her and part of that is not him, that they feel this sense of relief that they don't have to kind of say, oh gosh, well i'll have to vote for biden even if i'm concerned about his age or his capacity. now there is none of that, it's just an ability to say i want to vote for her and all the concern people have about her, and there are of course drawbacks that she has, have been put to the side for the moment. >> what about the transition? because the transition from president biden to vice president harris felt almost seamless. her campaign just jumpstarted this whole thing with

remarkable speed. was the harris team prepared for this to happen, and if they weren't, how did they get it together so quickly? >> there is still more to learn about that. the last three weeks after the debate when he was still insisting he was going to run, she had to remain completely loyal and not do anything at least overtly the people could see that looked like she was preparing to run because it would've been seen as disloyal. but of course you can't start a presidential campaign from a standing start without some sort of preparation. so i think we're going to learn more about what was going on. you're right, it has been very seamless. that was one of the things joe biden said or the people around joe biden said he wanted to see if he was going to be talked into dropping his bid. he wanted to see first of all that there are polls showing he could or could not win, that there are polls showing that she could win and thirdly, that there could be a seamless transition, and there seems to have been one, very clearly. she got right out of the gate without any kind of missteps of any kind and a lot of everyday some sort of energy, some sort of a new phone call, an ad, a

speech, what have you, that has kept this going for the last week. >> i mean look, the fact is that you could see the handwriting on the wall if you chose to look at it that way. so they would have been foolish not to at least look at that and talk about it and percolate on it but how much campaigning do we expect president biden to do? what is his role now in that regard? and do you think it's settling in that stepping aside was the right thing to do? >> well we did a poll at the new york times and siena college did a poll that 90% of the american voters think that was the right thing to do. that republicans and democrats alike, so i don't think there's a whole lot of regret there among voters. i think most people around president biden, even those who really respect and admire him, were with themselves concerned about whether it made sense and i think they have been heartened to see that kamala harris has in fact done well. part of the reason that they stuck with president biden was the concern that nobody else could beat trump. well that no longer seems to be

the case. doesn't mean that she's going to win but she's currently doing at least as well as biden was doing, at least better. our polls showed a five point bump between her first ranking against trump versus biden's last ranking. that point has been eased but i think that he wants to get out there, but he canceled his events this week. he hasn't campaigned this weekend. he's not getting a fast start. maybe he wants to leave the stage to her for a while before getting in but he does feel strongly about beating donald trump this fall so i expect we'll see him. >> 100%. on thursday vice president harris sat down with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for the first time since becoming the presumptive nominee. afterwards she expressed concerns about the humanitarian crisis in gaza. in your latest article, peter, you described this moment as harris seeking her own voice without raking with biden. what message is she sending as her approach is a little cooler toward netanyahu? is it potentially an asset electorally how much do you think that's part of the calculation? >> she has to be able to distill with herself and be her

own person without looking disloyal, to come back to what we were just saying. and one way she did that was in her comments she made after her meeting with prime minister netanyahu. now her policy views, the substance of it was similar or same as president biden's. she said they had to agree with the cease-fire that would release the hostages and eventually wait to the end of the war but her tone and emphasis were different. she used words like i will not be silent about the suffering in palestinian territories and gaza and while president biden has expressed concern for civilian suffering, clearly he hasn't used the same forceful way that she did and it surprised the israelis. they walked out of there surprised that she was so strong and bothered by its and you heard some people on the other side, people who are more concerned about palestinian civilian suffering, satisfied or at least relieved that she would be more emphatic about that then president biden has. so you may minimize some of the backlash against president biden on the far left or the

left in his own party. people may assume that she's going to be tougher on netanyahu than he was. i don't know how big a factor that is in the election but clearly it's noticeable. >> okay. peter baker, i hope we have a date next weekend. thank you so much. jonathan swift once said a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on issues. next, the one thing donald trump said about kamala harris this week that's getting lots of frequent flyer miles. we are back in 90 seconds. seco. (restaurant noise) allison! (restaurant noise) ♪♪ [announcer] introducing allison's plaque psoriasis. she thinks her flaky, gray patches are all people see. otezla is the #1 prescribed pill to treat plaque psoriasis. over here! otezla can help you get clearer skin

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>> last night he repeated his claim that, harris is ultraliberal. senator bernie sanders had something to say about that earlier this week. take a look. >> if kamala harris gets in, she will be the most extreme radical liberal president in american history. as a senator, harris was ranked number one most far left democrat in the entire senate, and that includes bernie sanders. do you believe that? she is more liberal than bernie sanders. i didn't think you could get more liberal. she is substantially more liberal. >> it is just possible for the 83rd thousandth time that frump is lying. no i don't think that is the case. i think that the vice president had a very strong record in the u.s. senate, a strong record working with president biden in

the administration, but no i don't quite think that her record is where mine is in terms of being progressive. >> joining me now, democratic congressman from california, robert garcia. he is a member of the oversight committee and as i welcome you, you are a member of the progressive caucus, as well. so here's the question. what do you think of donald trump and republican attempts to define harris? do you described her as progressive or ultraliberal? >> i mean first, look, i think republicans and donald trump are just scrambling, trying to actually put together some type of attack on the vice president, and they can't do it. they are clearly in complete disarray. their vice presidential pick is a complete failure and what they don't understand is that vice president harris has a record that she should be proud of. she absolutely has a record along with president biden that has been progressive, that has been smart, that has been

dedicated and uplifting working families. and since her time as attorney general in the u.s. senate and as vice president, she has always centered the people. she's always uplifted women, protected and fought for women's right to reproductive health care, always supported the lgbtq+ community, has a smart approach to immigration and is always the same with labor. that's a record that we can be proud of. donald trump i think is completely just scared and frightened. he's now possibly trying to pull out of the debate. i mean give me a break. donald trump is a coward and he just does not want to face kamala harris because he knows that she will absolutely prosecute the case against him. >> look, this progressive ultraliberal thing, senator sanders has not endorsed, harris yet but by holding back is he hoping to maybe influence her agenda? do you think it needs influence and, despite all the accolades you just quoted there? >> look, i'm sure that bernie sanders will end up supporting

kamala harris. i'm not concerned about that. but look at her record and look at his who has endorsed bernie. you have essentially almost all of the progressive caucus has come on board. members of congress, everyone of course from congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, throughout the whole caucus, and so she has -- bernie sanders has in the past, i think, wanted to push folks a little bit. i think he's doing that now and that's okay. he'll come on board but the truth of the matter is vice president harris has already electrified the progressive movement and democrats across the country. the amount of money she's raising, $125 million in just a few days, tens of thousands of volunteers, grassroots donors all across the country for the first time chipping in. thousands of people trying to apply to work on a campaign, and i see it every day on the ground. democrats are fired up and i'm also hearing from independents. i'm hearing from some republicans that are looking at the vice president. i'm seeing someone that they could vote for and certainly a

contrast to donald trump. >> so we know that she met with benjamin netanyahu on thursday and it gave us a first look into her stance on the israel/gaza issue. here are just some of her comments after that meeting. take it was in. >> israel has a right to defend itself and how it does so matters. what has happened in gaza over the past nine months is devastating. the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. we cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and i will not be silent. >> this has been a divisive issue among democrats and you, for example, didn't attend prime minister netanyahu's address to congress. you instead attended with

hostage families. are you satisfied with harris's message on this point? >> absolutely. i think that vice president's comments were exactly spot on. she recognizes the complexity of the middle east. she also has an enormous amount of foreign-policy experience and i'll also say what i'm hearing on the ground from folks on the progressive side is really a excitement about the vice president, about being able to energize young people. we need young people to come out in big numbers to win and i think she's doing just that. i think the tough love on netanyahu i think -- that is being displayed by the biden administration more broadly speaking, is important. i am no fan of netanyahu myself so i think the more that he can get pushed, the more that we can ensure that we are saving civilian lives and ending this war, that we have a cease-fire immediately and rescue the hostages, that's an important message. i think the vice president is doing exactly what she needs to

do to move it forward. >> let me ask you about those republicans, some of whom are targeting kamala harris as a dei higher. speaker mike johnson is urging republicans to steer away from those comments but has co- opting that term already done harm to her or to republicans for attacking her race and gender? by the way, former speaker and republican kevin mccarthy called those comments stupid. >> well for once in his life, kevin mccarthy is right. they are -- not only are they stupid, they're absolutely racist. the reality is that donald trump and j.d. vance in the republican party are absolutely using racist dog whistles in trying to label not just the vice president but other folks in power, other folks that are people of color, particularly folks in the black immunity, with this bizarre obsession with dei. and the reality is we have a historic nominee. vice president harris will not only make history, of course, as the first woman president of

the united states, she will also make history as the first black woman in southeast asian ever to hold the presidency. and that something that the entire country to be able to unite behind and uplift. both donald trump, we already know, is a racist. it's no surprise. he's a racist. he's a criminal. he's a con man. he's all of those things. so women have to prepare ourselves for the onslaught of racism and attacks that are going to come our way and come the way of the vice president, and stand over her every single time. >> california congressman robert garcia, always good to see you. thank you so much. veepstakes excitement. how important name recognition will be one, harris makes her decision. plus, it hasn't even been two weeks. is donald trump having buyers remorse over j.d. vance?

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new today, several vice presidential hopefuls set to hit the campaign trail this weekend in support of the presumptive democratic nominee and current vice president kamala harris as her team races to vet and select a running mate for the convention. meanwhile, donald trump's vp pick, j.d. vance, attempting to explain previous comments labeling harris as a child was cat lady. >> obviously it was a sarcastic comment. got nothing against cats. i got nothing against dogs.

i got one dog at home and i love him, megan. this is not -- people are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what i actually said, and the substance of what i said, megan, i'm sorry, it's true. it is true that we become anti- family. it is true that the left has become anti-child. >> joining me now from former ohio governor and presidential candidate john kasich on news now and msnbc political analyst. welcome, sir. don't you love that he apologized to the cats and dogs on that one? i'm going to ask you about the low ohioan j.d. vance in just a moment. first, though, who do you think kamala harris will choose for her running mate? is there one person republicans should fear most from an electoral perspective? >> well alex, i think the question is do you want to pick somebody who is in a state that they have two win. and so you can figure out whether it's arizona, whether it's pennsylvania, michigan, so on, or you want to pick

somebody that will fit with you that will be able to go out and communicate effectively, and i had to do that in picking a lieutenant governor. i wanted to pick somebody who i thought could do the job, somebody who could represent the administration and somebody who came from a part of the state that could be helpful to me. but at the end, we always think about vice presidents, alex, and that's a little parlor game now. doesn't really matter at the end, no. because what people are going to decide is who do they want to be the president, who do they want to be the leader. so i don't know if they'll make a decision to go to one of these states that's really in play, that they have to win, or do they say well, let's find somebody who's got good chemistry with her, and that will be really a decision they have to make internally. they're owing to have fun doing it. it's going to get them a lot of attention, too. >> 100%, but let's make the point that that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. a state that could help them with someone with good chemistry. let me take a look with you at the pbs marist college npr poll. it asks democrats who they want

to see as their veep nominee. it has trepidation secretary pete buttigieg at the top, 22%, tied with governor gretchen whitmer, who as you know, has taken herself out of contention there. you have governor josh shapiro, senator mark kelly taking second and third respectively. so this early, name recognition carries a lot of weight. but with the time crunch, is name recognition more important than usual? you said look, we don't vote for the vice president, we vote for the top of the ticket. but kind of all bets are off on this one. >> no no, alex, nobody knows who these people are. they don't really know much about the buttigieg and even with, harris, she's a blank slate in the mind of most voters. that's why there's now a rush for her to define, and her team to define who she is, the republicans to divine. us in the media, we like focus on this. most people aren't -- if you ask people who is the governor of pennsylvania outside the state of pennsylvania, no one

would know. that doesn't mean that he wouldn't be viable, that he wouldn't be a good pick. i'm not saying that but it's not about name recognition or anything like that. it's back to what i said, those critical states that they need to win and that issue of chemistry. and is you appropriately corrected me, it could be both. she could have somebody she likes that comes from a critical state. absolutely. >> i'm going to correct you and tell you i was not correcting you. >> okay. >> anyway, how do you view this contest between, harris and donald trump? how different a dynamic with president biden now bowing out? i'm going to remind our viewers that in 2016 you were one of the last major challenges to donald trump for the republican nomination that your. >> i think is just really early. james carville is warning democrats, don't get giddy. think of it this way. trump has been on the track for a long time running around and she's just now entering the track so there's a long way to go but you're seeing a great amount of enthusiasm towards her. i think there was pent-up

frustration. now she's carrying a torch of people are saying, yes, that's our person. now we've got a fighting chance. we'll go through this period of time . then we go to the convention. but i think, alex, we won't really know where she is. these polls are really not that important at this point, until sometime around labor day. that's why it's so important that this liftoff they have for her is so critically important in defining her in a way that can get people excited. i listened to the last guest, i know young people are excited and all that. are they going to vote? i don't know. we always say they're going to vote and in the end they don't but in the end it's definitely going to be a competitive race and the republicans have made some real mistakes here. it's really shocking that they weren't ready for this. somebody was saying the other day in some column that they didn't think it was going to happen. well it's happened. you think they would've been ready and they've been distracted here. you brought up vance, his comments about it was a ridiculous comment about these

women. it's really thrown them off their game so instead of them being able to move forward, they are kind of explaining things or apologizing for things. that's not where you really want to be in politics. but again, we're in july. we are not even in august. >> look, you brought it around to j.d. vance so let's go there because there are republicans who seem to be souring on j.d. vance as the vp pick. one political strategist pointed out that vance wasn't a political pick. he wasn't chosen to help trump get more votes which begs the question, why was he chosen. but did seem trump pick vance thinking that he'd already won and did he think he picked the wrong guy? >> well i'm not going to tell you how they should pick their candidate. obviously trump actually got down very close, i'm told, to glenn youngkin in virginia, which is a state that now seems to be in play, versus vance now, who represents ohio, which is definitely going to go for trump. what the numbers are going to be, we don't know.

but political analyst and all that stuff, they get paid to talk. i think probably inside the campaign they're owing to work with him and they're going to say, look, just be careful what you say. and here's the thing, alex. you know i was in elected office for like 30 years and it's easy to make a mistake. it's easy to make a mistake on tv today for me. it's easy to. so you have to be yourself. you've got to have some fun at it. you've got to be able to laugh, right? but at the same time, be careful what you say because it could come back and haunt you and that's basically what's happening with vance, and he's going to keep correcting himself and the media will dig for more. we'll just see where this goes but i think their regret now is there sort of off-kilter. can they get back on kilter? sure they can. and again, it's not the vice presidents that are going to win this election. it's going to be harris or trump. >> yeah, 100%. but no chance that trump will drop vance. what do you think? >> know that's not going to happen. absolutely not. i'm not that good at

predicting, although i did say not six weeks ago that biden -- i was really not sure that biden would be the nominee, and people thought i was like way out there. will it turned out to be true. there's no way he's dumping vance. that's not going to happen. >> okay, good. my clairvoyant friend apparently, john kasich, we look forward to seeing you again. thank you. all of you grab a croissant in a cafe because we're taking you to paris next to see who won the first medal for the u.s.. u.s..

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the 2024 paris olympic games officially underway after that spectacular opening ceremony where athletes floated down the river seine. americans already winning their first metals just hours into the day. this as france still deals with travel disruptions one day after that coordinated arson attack on the trains. joining me now from paris is nbc's tom llamas. big welcome to you from overseas. i mean those opening ceremonies, your coverage of it, absolutely breathtaking. it went off without a hitch last night. talk about security today, and how about the weather? it looks cloudy, definitely was raining last night. is it affecting the events? >> it is. it's all affected events. you were right, the opening ceremony was completely

incredible. i think everyone was surprised and amazed all over the world. let's start with security. uc security everywhere around paris now, especially around the venues and near any type of tourist site. there literally on every corner. on that train attack we do have an update. rail service has resumed somewhat normal but there is still severe delays. 800,000 travelers were affected. the interior minister of france tells nbc news that was in, this was an attack on the french people but not necessarily on the olympics. they are saying they are far leftist radicals and this was a type of political attack. let's get back to the olympics now. the big headline today is the rain. maybe you can see behind me, maybe you can't, but it's been raining all day. they had to postpone skateboarding because of all that rain and because of the rain there is of course runoff. there has been pollution issues in the seine. concerns about that. will an official say listen, right now we can't have any practices in the seine river because of possible contamination. but the triathlon events should be okay. we're going to have to wait and see. let's get to the action, right? team usa's first medal so far, this is in synchronized diving. take a look at this duo, right? they won the silver medal. not only do they dive together, they are best friends.

they are so incredible. this is cassidy cook and sarah bacon. and think about that. their team name is cook bacon. it does not get better than that. their best friends, the friends that dive together when together. this is then after winning silver for team usa. >> it means everything in the world to me. i'm so stoked. i know that we were so capable of making that podium but to actually do it, to have these dreams come to fruition just makes me feel all the joy in the world. like i'm overcome with emotion right now and i get to share this experience with one of my best friends ever. >> what a great way to start these olympics. let's get back to some other action. we are all watching swimming tonight is of katie ledecky. so today she set the fastest time so far in the 400 meter prelims. remember we are watching her literally chase history. if she wins three metals here in paris she will become the most decorated female american athlete ever at the olympics. if she wins two gold medals she

will become the most successful, the best, the greatest female athlete ever in an olympic sport when it comes to women's events, so that's pretty incredible. we're going to be watching her. finally, though, we were talking about the rain earlier, alex. we do want to talk about, this is the medal count, this is just in. this is the first time i'm seeing this so this is the latest information right now. let's take a quick look at this. looks like china is doing pretty good. they have two gold medals for continuous a, we are just getting started. a couple days and, once over, one bronze. not bad, we'll take it but we're going to have more ventilator. i do want to talk about the rain before i finish because there was a nasty fall in road cycling and team usa's chloe dye gert, she was great. she was going to get the gold medal. she was the favorite and then she slipped because of the rain. she ended up winning bronze but listen, that's the olympic spirit, right he'll she did not give up, she kept going and she

won a bronze for team usa. >> okay. i'm glad she got that metal, considering the circumstances. all right, tom llamas, people should know we go way back so there you go. thank you. >> way back. alex, thank you. it is not even a week old yet so much has changed, grading the, harris campaign, and asked. and asked. for maximum air flow. so, i breathe better. d we both sleep better. and stay married. this is remington. ...he's a member of the family, for sure. we always fed them kibble— it just seemed like the thing to do. but ...he was getting picky we heard about the farmer's dog... and it was a complete transformation. his coat was so soft, he had amazing energy. he was a completely different dog. it's a no-brainer that (remi) should have the most nutritious and delicious food possible. i'm investing in my dog's health and happiness.

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less than a week since the birth of the, harris campaign for president, two national polls show the vice president closing the gap on donald trump. in a head-to-head matchup a wall street journal poll shows an essential tie, with trump leaving harris 49 percent to 47% among registered voters, that is within the margin of error. earlier this month president biden trailed trump by six points and a fox news poll of registered voters in battleground states show harris and trump tiding michigan and pennsylvania and trump ahead by just one point in wisconsin, all within the margin of error. harris is up by six in minnesota. that's right at the margin of error. this as the harris campaign acted quickly to rally key

demographics. this week thousands and thousands joined calls in support of kamala harris's candidacy, and as we sweep across these different groups, and there are more calls scheduled for next week, joining me now we have megan haze, former special assistant to president biden and former director of message planning. welcome. good to see you. you have certainly been on the inside of biden world so how shocked are you at the speed with which the harris team has launched this campaign? it is almost like they were waiting. they were just ready to go and do you think the polls are a good sign that whatever they are doing is working? >> i'm not surprised at all about that saying it's an incredible opportunity. i think the enthusiasm was always there. i think people were waiting for the last couple weeks for the president to decide what he was going to do after the debate. i think people were really waiting for that to take place. he made his decision and the vice president really kicked into action. it was spearheaded by the president endorsing this right out the gate that she should be the nominee. so it's really exciting to see

all this enthusiasm and all this excitement, all the money that was being raised, all the volunteers that were signing up. it's really great for the party. it's really great to move forward to november and we have a huge task at hand to beat donald trump so i think it's great to have all this momentum. i do think the polls are a good sign. i'm always conscious of polls. you can't live or die by the polls so it's great to see a little bump for her and i think young into the convention it's great to see this bump for the party when she picks her vpn her running mate. it will be exciting and we'll get another bump and i hope we can carry that enthusiasm into the fall. >> 100%. during your time at the white house, megan, how much did you interact with kamala harris? have americans gotten the chance to see the real harris while she's been working in the president's shadow? >> i don't think people have really seen her. i think she gets to define herself a little bit more. she's extremely capable and wonderful governing partner to the president. i just don't think that she had the spotlight as much as the president on some of these things and while they were making some of these decisions and moving through the policy. she was there by his side in

lockstep with him for the national security decisions, through the major domestic policy decisions. she was always around. she was always at our events. she was always speaking. she was always front of mind for the president. her input is extremely important. she is a governing partner and i think as we look into the vp stakes for her, i think she'll be looking for the same thing as he was into that in choosing her running mate. >> you work for president biden so how hard do you think it was for him to make that decision to drop out? >> i think personally it's it's really hard, he was being the president. he said that the other night in his oval office address. he loved being the president, he loved serving the american people. he is so good at governing and it's what he spent his life doing. but i think at the end of the day the president wanted to do what's best for his country and wanted to do what's best to move democracy forward and to keep our democracy stable. and i think that that takes a lot of self reflect, and i think it was a hard decision but at the end of the day i don't think it was that hard of a decision for him because he wants to do what's best for his country. he knows him stepping aside for the vice president to run and he can be donald trump that

way, that's what he's going to do. he got into the race in 2020 because he wanted to stabilize democracy, because he was fighting for the soul of the nation and he wouldn't have done that if trump was running, if trump is into the oval office. so i think that knowing that the vice president was the best choice forward, i think it wasn't that obviously it's hard because it's a hard job to give up. it's the best job probably in the world but i think the president is such a patriot that i just think he did what's best for the country. >> so president biden didn't poll so well on the economy, despite the falling inflation, the shrinking unemployment, higher wages, the economic growth through his a ministration. trump is trying to capitalize on this. he's got new ads saying kamala harris owns bidenomics, the without her name on it, and trump directly blaming biden up until this week. that seems like a hard sell. that said, can harris turn american sentiment on the economy around? >> i think that people are going to be one issue voters, either. i think there are a lot of different things that people are going to be voting on. reproductive freedom is going

to be a huge thing, our place in the world and how we are seen in the world is another thing that's externally important to people. so i do think the economy is taking a turn. is shifting. inflation is going down. they have created more jobs than any other administration in modern history in our first 3 1/2 years so i do think there are things to message that she can own and move forward. i also think that she has an opportunity here to lay out her vision for her next four years and how she can improve the economy. so there is a lot of opportunity here but i think people aren't one issue voters and i think there is a lot to vote on and a lot of things they did together in the administration that people will start to take more note of. >> megan haze, always a pleasure. thank you. the desperate situation unfolding in california, that's next . next . which is why downy does more to make clothes softer, fresher, and better. downy. breathe life into your laundry. to advance the future of golf, pga of america chose t-mobile for business. with a 5g powered innovation hub to analyze player performance and expand coaching tools.

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right now california's largest wildfire has been expanding even further, the park fire reaching over 300,000 acres making it the eighth largest fire on record and officials say arson is to blame, this man was arrested after he was seen pushing his burning car into a ravine the day the fire broke out. meanwhile evacuations are underway in parts of california, alert are in place across the west and steve patterson is on the ground for us in chico. how are conditions there? >> reporter: alex, the only thing more alarming about how much this fire has already grown is how much more it could grow.

the exponential growth that we've seen since wednesday, starting at 40,000 acres than 140,000 acres and 170,000 acres, now more than 300,000 acres. the eighth largest fire in california history, burning across multiple counties. it's just incredibly scary for residents with fresh evacuations overnight. now the entire town of paradise has been evacuated once again. if that sounds familiar, it's because six years ago that was the site of the deadliest and most destructive fire in california history. 85 people dead. so the trauma is quite fresh and firefighters are dealing with incredibly poor conditions, incredibly tough terrain, trying to do all they can to put some containment on it. they were successful for a short period of time but in that containment, it all but disappeared as a fire continues to grow north but every front north. we got a briefing. listen to this. >> the fire quickly began to

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