her teammate jordan chiles got bronze after her initial score got revised. she broke into tears. that one bronze for her means as much as any medal for any of her teammates. of course she has the gold from the team competition too. you mentioned noah lyles, just that incredible moment when he leans in and managed to win that 100 meters. it took some moments before it was decided because it was that close. a photo finish. we did it, we did it, he shouted. and katie ledecky, a golden day at 100 meters. i have to go. it was great. >> i wish we had more time to discuss. it was electrifying, so fun. keir similar mono, thanks very much. that does it for us this hour, i'll see you back here at 3:00 p.m. eastern in for katy tur again. first, josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. ♪♪

and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm josé diaz-balart. we begin with two major breaking stories. the first hurricane debby hits florida this morning as a category 1, dumping several inches of rain across the state. and then the storm on wall street and markets throughout the world. the dow seeing huge losses as there's growing concern of an economic recession. let's start in florida where debby has just been downgraded to a tropical storm. at least two people have died as debby batters the big bend region for making landfall as a cat 1 hurricane. it's unleashing historic rainfall, with winds up to 80 miles an hour, with some areas breaking the record for the wettest day ever. the southeast now bracing for up to 30 inches of rain and a life-threatening storm surge as debby moves into florida. joining us now, jesse kirsch and

nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> reporter: the conditions here have calmed down dramatically, but you can still hear and see. we've got some good wind gusts coming through here. the rain is really at this point just a trickle. earlier, though, it felt like i was getting pelted with hail essentially in those peak wind gusts as we were in the eye wall of debby. this has been downgraded from a category 1 hurricane to a tropical storm. the real concern from debby isn't even what we think of when we think of traditional hurricane impacts. yes, there are wind gusts that are powerful. yes, there is storm surge. but the real concern here is the rainfall in the aftermath of the landfall because this storm is moving at a snail's pace compared to other hurricanes. it is at a crawl. that is going to allow for a lot of rain to keep falling over portions of the southeast. florida, georgia, and south carolina's governors have all declared states of emergency, and as you mentioned, we're

looking at the potential for up to 30 inches of rain in some local areas. that could be like some officials said getting half a year's worth of rain in a matter of days. what i can tell you as far as debris goes around here, pretty minimal, we've got some blown around trees from earlier but largely things have stayed impact here. there's some leaves scattered along the route. it is still certainly wet out here. i can tell you we are among those experiencing power outages, and there are reports of more than 200,000 power outages across the state of florida. jose, i can't stress this enough. we are really just at the beginning of debby's impact right now. >> thank you very much. so bill, this is mostly going to be a water phenomenon. >> exactly, jose. the messaging is difficult on storms like this. they see the headlines that say it's been downgraded. it's a tropical storm. that doesn't even matter. if we had categories only describe the wind. if we had categories for rainfall, this would be like a category 4 or 5 rain event, you know, we just don't do that. we only do categories based on

the wind speed of the storms. that's a different argument for a different day. so the storm itself is located right over the top of day, florida. the wind is not going to do too much more additional damage here. we'll have isolated trees come down. the power outage numbers are not growing like they were earlier today. now we turn to this huge rainfall event that's going to last five, six days. this is the latest from the hurricane center, down to 70 miles per hour winds. the rule of thumb is usually over 50 miles per hour is when you start getting power outages. they'll be isolated into southern georgia through this afternoon. we could see isolated tornados, numerous showers and thunderstorms are rotating from the i-4 corridor, tampa to orlando, daytona beach. this is the new forecast from the hurricane center. it just came out. i haven't to show you it anyways. just pay attention to the line here. it brings it over southern georgia, comes off the coast somewhere between brunswick and savannah. it's going to weaken while it's over land. eventually it will get back in

the water. the hurricane center thinks it will get stronger. it's close enough to the water to steal that energy from the ocean, throw it in the atmosphere, make rain and pour it on the surface. then it takes that turn back up towards myrtle beach area, and now we're acceleraing it. now we're bringing it up the coast into virginia impacting areas in the mid-atlantic. this isn't just going to be a southeast are problem. that's the case the next three days. by thursday, friday, the flood threat will go up the east coast, maybe as far north as southern new england. that's a big change for some people. our squiggly spaghetti lines, they'll linger it down here. then they almost all go up the coast. new york city, d.c., philadelphia, possibly long island getting involved. we're not talking a hurricane, but a heavy rain event in an area that's going to get soaked anyway. when you see rainfall totals like this, i'm sure you've been in beautiful charleston on a summer afternoon in a thunderstorm, and it floods. you know, when you're talking 18 to 20 inches of rain, isolated

totals in this region could hit up to 25 to 30 inches. we're going to talk about significant flooding. i'm looking at this storm almost like a harvey type storm, florence when we're right in areas of south carolina. these are areas that can't handle this much water. so you know, i'll put it this way to you, jose. if i had to estimate the amount of damage that's been done to what's going to happen. i think we've only seen 10% of the damage so far. i think we have 90% to go. >> let's talk about savannah, charleston, wilmington. all these low lying areas. when can they expect this level of rain to start coming in? >> well, it's going to start during the day today from like, you know, the jacksonville area northward. so the first things will be tonight and tomorrow. that will be all through areas of georgia and then as we go throughout tuesday and wednesday is the biggest concern days here. they call this the coastal plain here, savannah to charleston, wilmington heading up here into

new burn, washington, greenville area of north carolina. that's going to be mostly tuesday, wednesday. there's an onshore flow with the storm sitting here. the water's not going to be able to escape the rivers like it normally does. we just got past a new moon yesterday, they've issued what they call a high risk throughout the middle of the week for flash flooding. flooding kills more people in this country than tornados, than any other weather phenomenon. this is life-threatening possibly catastrophic flooding. it would be surprising to me, jose, if we don't have neighborhoods, towns, possibly even some cities under water or in water, that's how serious potentially this could be. >> bill karins, i thank you so very much. we're also following breaking news from wall street this morning. right now the dow jones industrial average is down, it's been down as much as a thousand

400 points. it's now down about 1,050 points. standard & poor's is down 155. nasdaq down 558 points. a thousand drop this morning is just extraordinary. this follows a selloff in other global markets as well blamed on worries the u.s. economy may be heading for a recession after last friday's jobs report. with us now is cnbc's dominic chu. when we look at what's happening in japan and some other markets in asia, this is really massive selloffs. >> yes, you put the point numbers on the board to tell listeners and viewers about. let me put it in percentage terms for those people who get a better grasp about the percentage side of things. we're talking about declines in roughly the 2.5 to 3.5% declines

for that tech heavier nasdaq composite index. at this point, there are a number of contextual superlatives that are currently in play given the severity of the selloff. with things currently standing the way they are, if we hold near these declines for the dow and the s&p, those indices would be on pace for their worst three-day stretch since the declines in mid-june of 2022. if it gets markedly worse for the day, if the tech heavy nasdaq composite index, at one point this morning, it was going to be the worst one of those stretches since the big selloff in stocks during the early days during the covid pandemic. i bring up the nasdaq specifically because it is arguably the epicenter of the big selloff that's been happening over the course of the last week. mega cap technology stocks like microsoft, google parent company, alphabet, computer chip giant nvidia have seen hundreds of billions of dollars shaved off their value since the recent highs we saw in july.

now, the market story is evolving from one where good news is bad news and bad news is good news to one that is more focused on a straightforward good news is good news and bad news is bad news scenario. what i mean by that is it's very much about the economy as you point out and interest rates by extension. the story shift has gone one from where inflation remained the primary worry in this country to one where there is a -- is it worse to have an economic downturn or have stubbornly high inflation? for now the inflation story has seen a lot more of the air let out of it. we're seeing drops in the stock market in certain parts of the real estate market, copper prices, which are used as a proxy for building and construction have hit the lowest levels since march. now all of this is happening as traders wonder if the federal reserve will act more forcefully

on lowering interest rates at some point. it was not that long ago, you may recall that markets were pricing in maybe one interest rate cut, maybe at the end of the year after the election. now that probability is almost a certain interest rate cut at the next meeting in september with multiple interest rate cuts for the balance of the year. that's where we currently stand, jose. it is one where a lot of folks on wall street are trying to figure out if it is worse to have a recession or worse to have that lingering problem of inflation, and that's what the markets are pricing in right now. >> so dom, just looking at people who have 401(k)s in some way and almost everybody who has a 401(k) is directly tied to the stock market. you're saying that this kind of drop, in japan i think it dropped more than 12% just today, the value of the entire market, but i'm just wondering, you talk about how that last time when there was covid and everybody panicked, how big of a

panic is it today to see this around the world? >> so one of the ways that many traders and investors in wall street look at how much panic or fear there is is in a volatility index that's tied to the value of the s&p 500. levels that we haven't really seen since some of those days in the pandemic. now, the issues becomes how long it stays in that kind of an elevated volatility regime. if you are looking at this from your retirement savings, 401(k) perspective, a lot of times what this will do is lend financial advisers and their clients to talk about just how much risk tolerance there is for them at these levels. for example, if you are getting ready to retire imminently in the next one or two or three years or you're looking to use the money for a college education or buying a home, putting a down payment on one, then your risk tolerance is a

lot less than those who have maybe 20, 30, 40 years before they need to use that kind of money. so in this kind of a downside scenario, it is one where many folks will be looking at talking to their financial advisers about what this means for their track to places like retirement. it is not one where there is panic yet but it is definitely elevated with regard to the uncertainty level around the economy over the next 6 to 12 months. >> dominic chu, thank you so very much. we'll keep monitoring how the dow jones and all of the other indices do throughout the day. up next, our other top story this morning, we're down to the final hours until presidential candidate vice president harris decides on her running mate. what we know about the contenders. plus, the latest on the middle east and the tension s there. the pentagon sending aircraft carrier and warships. and later u.s. gymnast

simone biles will leave paris with a new title after what could be her last olympic routine. we're back in 90 seconds. you're watching "josé diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. a.

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walz and senator mark kelly. tomorrow the vice president and her running mate will kick off a major swing state push with just three months to go until election day. it comes as yet another round of battleground polling shows vice president harris and former president trump locked in a dead heat and all within the margin of error. joining us now yamiche alcindor, and nbc news correspondent garrett haake. yamiche, the vice president set to reveal her running mate by tomorrow night. how do we expect her to make the announcement? >> our sources at nbc news tell us we know it's going to be within the next 24 hours, which is obvious in some ways because she has to be on that stage in philadelphia, but our understanding is that we should be looking at how similarly other announcements were made. you think of joe biden where there was a wide text message sent to a number of democratic supporters, and then there was a video rolled out. it's not confirmed that that's what she's going to do. the other thing to note here is sort of that this is going to be

a very big moment, so they're going to really try to elevate this decision and roll it out over several different parts, and of course it's going to be the crescendo will be going to philadelphia where they'll be on stage kicking off that tour that you talked about, focusing on battleground states. from my understanding, she's looking for someone that's going to be both comfortable -- that she's comfortable with, there's that chemistry, but also someone who's going to be a governing partner and someone who's going to be a bulldog. someone who can push back on republican attacks, including not just on her background and her time as a prosecutor, but as you saw last week the issue of attacking her race and identity will also be a place they're looking for that running mate to do, jose. >> garrett, which potential running mate is the trump campaign concerned about? >> officially they say they're ready for any of them. when harris was first nominated the name i heard from trump's advisers was josh shapiro, and the only name out of trump's mouth has been shapiro. he sort of suggesting that

picking shapiro might cause problems for harris on the issues of israel and gaza, suggesting there could be some daylight between them. it almost sounded like he was trying to wish that into existence here, elevate someone but make a point of what that person's strengths or weaknesses would be. they're not trying to interrupt this process too much. >> and garrett, meanwhile, former president trump said no to an abc news debate, instead proposed another debate on fox news. what's behind that? >> he's been complaining about this abc news debate for a couple of weeks now. he's angry at george stephanopoulos who would presumably have been the moderator on the abc news debate. wants perhaps friendlier territory on fox news. as indicate instead this truth social post saying he wanted to do the fox news debate, wants a live audience. that's something he's found has been useful for him in debates in the past. kamala harris and her campaign have said that's not happening, that they expect to show up in

new york for the previously scheduled abc news debate and perhaps take the time for themselves if donald trumpnot there. a little by of a standoff here. trump aid he wasn't going to commit to a debate one way or the other until there was an actual democratic nominee. that process will be concluded two weeks from now. we'll see if that changes anything. >> so yamiche, is there concern within the harris campaign about the possibility of there not being a debate or that, you know, if this abc debate goes forward, with just one person, is that something that can benefit whom the most? >> well, she certainly wants to debate former president donald trump, vice president harris has been clear about that on the campaign stage. she said over and over again that she wants him to show up to that abc debate on september 10th. if he doesn't show up, it has been made clear to me she will still be going forward. there is a little bit of troll -- they're definitely mocking the idea that trump would skip the abc debate. first, there's the fact she said

he should be able to say anything he wants to say to my face, say it to me is what she's been saying on the campaign trail, and in talks with reporters. i also was in atlanta where the crowd there started chanting and jeering he's scared, he's scared talking about donald trump being scared to debate her. there's also the language that you hear coming out of the campaign, just this weekend i was -- a source shared with me michael taylor, the harris campaign's communication director saying stop playing games and show up to the debate. they also say mr. anytime, anywhere, anyplace should have no problem with that unless he's too scared to show up. there is a lot of mocking and criticism that the harris campaign is leaning into as they make the case that the debate should go forward. if he doesn't show up, you can expect vice president harris to mention that and really accuse him of just not wanting to face her, jose. >> yamiche alcindor and garrett haake, thank you both so much. up next, tensions in the middle east coming close to a boiling point. we'll get a live report from our

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25 past the hour, right now the middle east is on edge as the world awaits a potential retaliatory attack by iran following the assassination of two militant leaders last week. today president biden is set to meet with its national security team at the white house to discuss the developments in the region after he speaks with the

king of jordan this hour. secretary of state blinken told his counterparts from fellow g-7 countries that an attack by iran and hezbollah could start as early as today according to "axios." joining us now is nbc's richard engel from jerusalem. the situation is so tense, what are you hearing today? >> well, israeli official think that something could come sooner rather than later, but it's really all speculation. i've been speaking to military officials for the last several days, and senior military officials thought that an attack could come -- could have come on friday. others thought it was going to come on saturday. we've been on kind of a state of alert ourselves for the last several days, and u.s. and israeli officials are talking and they are preparing for the eventuality that some sort of strike could come at any moment, and they don't exactly know where it's going to happen. they assume that israel will be

a target, but they don't know if other sites across the region will also be hit potentially u.s. military bases in iraq, u.s. troops in syria, northern lebanon, northern israel. there are many flights to this country and other countries around the region that have been canceled. so there is a state of alert. there's a state of preparation, but really at this stage, it's a guessing game, and israel is trying to do its best to prepare the reports in the israeli media that senior officials have been given sat phones in case communications are disrupted. other supplies are being sent to northern israel in case transport or communication routes to that part of the country are disrupted. hezbollah has said it will

retaliate. iran has said it will retaliate. earlier today, a leader from the iranian revolutionary guard was somewhat mysterious. he said that iran must respond to assassinations, particularly the assassination of hamas's political leader in tehran in order to reestablish deterrence. otherwise israel will feel that it could carry out attacks iranian territory whenever the presidents. he only said that the attack would come, quote, in due course. >> richard engel in jerusalem, thank you very much. up next, a live look in the tampa area at the florida skyway bridge closed right now due to hurricane debby, which has been downgraded but it's still dumping a ton of rain in the area.

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swimming to victory in the 800 meter free style to become the most decorated american woman in olympian history. keir simmons is with us again from paris. always great seeing you, but what a weekend and what are we expecting today? >> yeah, it's a great monday morning, isn't it, jose? we'll see noah lyles in the 200 meters. if he takes gold in the 200 meters, he will become the first sprinter to win gold in the 100 and the 200 since carl louis in 1984. that will be an astonishing achievement. it was pretty astonishing to see him race in the 100 because of that photo finish. we didn't know who had won for a few -- a moment, and then he's such a character, isn't le? he's jumping around. he shouted into the camera, i told you i could do it. and then of course he wasn't even sure whether he had done it in the end of the race there, so

i suspect we will see more theatrics, more fun from him later today, and then you mentioned it through the weekend, incredible, katie ledecky getting gold in the 800 meters, making her the most decorated u.s. female olympian in history. amazing, and simone biles getting silver on the floor. now, that still means she has three golds and one silver. a real accomplishment for her. amazing, jordan chiles getting a bronze and bursting into tears. for her that medal worth all the medals because at one point it looked as if she wouldn't medal, until they re-evaluated the points and she came then in that bronze position. so it's been an incredible weekend. i think we will see more of it through this week. i should just mention one more thing, jose. djokovic versus alcaraz in the gold medal tennis final.

i was there for that. it was astonishing. neither man broke each other's serve in any game, both sets went to a tie break, and then djokovic for the first time in his storied career gets that olympic gold medal. maybe towards the end of his career now, of course, so it was good to see that. >> it is indeed. keir simmons it was probably the coolest backdrop of everybody on this hour. it's always great seeing you, my friend, thank you. >> you bet. >> take care. >> up next, we're going to talk venezuela, the maduro regime cracks down, and it cracks down ruthlessly on protesters as we get a look at the tally sheets the opposition says proves their candidate won and won by a landslide, and here in the u.s., what pennsylvania senator john fetterman's warning the harris campaign about picking the governor of his state as her

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venezuela's electoral authority which is controlled entirely by maduro claims he won with 51% of the vote, 46% for opposition candidate gonzalez. the opposition has posted online tally sheets they say prove that gonzalez won 67% of the vote. maduro lost with 30%. with us now from caracas, a reporter for "the washington post." anna, thank you for being with us once again. so appreciate what you do and how you do it. now, i don't know you were part of a "washington post" investigation that was just published about the vote tallies put out by the opposition. what did you find? >> all right well, what we found is basically what the opposition has been saying. we did this independently. we as you all said, the electoral council says nicolas maduro won with 52% of the vote, still not showing the tallies. what in venezuela we call what

you have on screen right now. this electoral tallies, they tell you who voted, how many votes each candidate got in each electoral center. so what we did, we analyzed 79% of the 80% of the tallies that the opposition got during the elections night, and all of those, 97% show that the results are just outstanding for edmundo gonzalez. we're talking about when 67% for edmundo gonzalez and just 30% for nicolas maduro. this is the center of the discussion right now, the political discussion in venezuela. for the first time, it is not about the protests. it is not about people on the streets just asking to leave because of economic crisis or insecurity. right now it's a matter of showing the numbers.

the opposition did a remarkable job, outstanding job, and really smart job collecting each and every tally they could get with a lot of difficulties that we portray there in the story, and what this ended up with was an amount of tallies that come directly from the machines, the electoral machines that show that edmundo gonzalez could have won this election, and still the government is not showing exactly this. >> so the maduro controlled government elections committee was supposed to publish within 48 hours any and all of the official results. it has yet to do that even today, a week and a day after those presidential elections. now, maduro in a televised rant yesterday blamed the president

of chile, elon musk, tiktok, and instagram for all kinds of different things. what's the situation like today in caracas and throughout the country? >> well, it's still very much the same as the end of last week. we are still waiting for the supreme court to say something about the elections. let's not forget that nicolas maduro went to the supreme court to ask them to intervene in the situation, and still they're not showing the numbers. did show up in a rally this saturday after -- for the first time after admitting that she was in hiding fearing for her life, and we still don't have any words from her right now or from edmundo gonzalez. we know they're guarding themselves. the attorney general said that there are no arrest warrants against them.

there's a lot of tension. yet, no protests. remember that venezuela is militarized right now. that happened immediately after maduro was proclaimed as president and protests erupted organically on monday. so now no one this week is protesting, but the tension, you can feel it on the streets. you can feel it on the little stores. they're still closed. they're uncertain of what's going to happen, and the international community is all asking for the same thing still, show the numbers so we can recognize the winner. >> the importance of a free press is always top of mind, but when you're in a place like that, i just want to applaud you and please take care. it's important that you continue being the eyes and voice of those who maybe don't have a voice and aren't being given that voice. thank you very much. take care of yourself. >> thanks so much. up next, home state

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make a highly anticipated announcement revealing her running mate. the list has been narrowed down to these contenders some of which met with the vice president over the weekend. a source familiar with nbc news says she's trying to find a partner, has chemistry, shares her core values and demonstrates competence. joining us now, steve kornacki. great to see you. what are the advantages of each running mate? >> let's look at this from the standpoint of home state, home regions. i think have gotten the most attention, start with josh shapiro, governor of pennsylvania. mark kelly, senator from arizona. we know pennsylvania and arizona. two of the premier swing states. biden winning by a point, winning arizona by just 10,000 votes. so the question there is if you put a kelly on the ticket in

arizona, shapiro from pennsylvania, does it give democrats the state? is there a home state advantage? these are recent democratic running mates and what you're seeing is take as an example here, tim kaine. he was hillary clinton's vice presidential candidate 2016 from virginia. now, what you're seeing here is in the 2016 election nationally, hillary clinton versus donald trump, the popular vote nationally relative to the 2012 election before it moved two points in the republican direction. 2016 nationally. popular vote, two points more republican. in virginia, tim kaine, the vp nominee's home state, the popular vote in that state became one point more democratic. so a more democratic trend in virginia with kaine on the ticket suggesting maybe there's some role there for tim kaine in that democratic overperformance

relatively speaking. there's other factors. but we see something like this in a lot of these cases here where either the democrats have a good trend nationally that gets better. that's the case for biden, delaware, 2008. wasn't a swing state, but just as an example. or a republican trend in the 2000 election nationally. it's less pronounced in a state like connecticut. so you see something of a home state effect there. exactly what it is, hard to quantify. probably very small, but again, if you're talking, if democrats are looking to try to get an extra point or two in pennsylvania, this says that might be within range of something that could happen with a home state effect. maybe arizona as well. the other one to talk about here, we mentioned tim walz, the governor of minnesota. if it becomes a swing state, that's probably a sign for democrats they got bigger issues everywhere else. what you hear from some folks is

hey, walz, has he demonstrated electoral appeal in minnesota to blue collar voters. white voters without college degrees. has he demonstrated that in minnesota that can translate to other states? the quick answer when you look at his race in minnesota, he basically performed well where biden performed well and terribly where biden performed terribly. no indication he had extra strength. >> thank you. with more on this, joining us now, tim miller. communication director for jeb bush's 2016 campaign. also with us, val demings from florida. tim, politico reporting today that senator john fetterman's advisers have relayed his concerns to the harris campaign, quote, that the senator believes shapiro's excessively focused on

his own personal ambitions. how do you think democrats could handle potential disagreements like this within the party? >> he might need to look in a mirror at that. congresswoman demings knows a little bit more about the veep takes than i do. this stuff just always gets hashed out unless the vice presidential selection is somebody that is totally you know, unacceptable like sarah palin because they don't feel they're up for the job. as long as harris picks somebody that seems ready to be president and is somewhere within the mainstream of the democratic party thought which all of these candidates are, people are going to get on board. there will be a small number of people, maybe fetterman, who have their feelings hurt if she picks somebody they didn't like, but most of these voters are excited about harris. when the convention comes in chicago, they're going to be excited about the harris whoever ticket. this happens time and again.

gore picked lieberman who was more moderate. obama picked biden, who was more moderate. some people were unhappy, but in the end, folks unite behind the ticket. >> yeah, val, what do you think the harris team should be considering as we're now already really just in the final hours? >> jose, it's great to be with you. and look, as i just listened to what tim was saying, i certainly know it's around this time you know people start kind of airing their laundry, if you will, and sharing their views that may be different from the people on the list. but look. if you look at the list of contenders as we've been, as they've been presented, i think that vice president harris cannot go wrong with either one of them. i served in the house with governor walz. we know his wonderful record. governor shapiro has over 60% approval in the state that he and senator fetterman both

share. pete buttigieg, of course he's doing the job as a cabinet member. at one time, the most popular member. governor pritzker. senator kelly who i've had the opportunity to work with him and congresswoman gifford. of course dealing with gun violence. i believe all of these men could rise to the occasion and as you know, this is an exciting time and we're all waiting to see just what vice president harris does. >> it's got to come soon. so, tim, meanwhile, over the weekend, trump congratulated putin on the recent prisoner exchange with the u.s. and its allies. take a listen to a little bit of what he had to say. >> i'd like to congratulate vladimir putin for having made yet another great dole. did you see the deal we made? now, look, we want to get people in. we've got 59 hostages.

i never paid anything. >> tim, what do you think this is for? >> yeah. it's a ludicrous lie for starters. he did several hostage trades just as president biden did. i don't know. i think it's for himself. he's bitter about kamala harris getting a lot of attention. he's bitter that joe biden did this deal that he had promised that he would do when he got back in and he's just venting. that same rally, he started trashing brian kemp, the popular republican governor of georgia. he's a narcissist who's obsessed with his own grievances. he did damage attacking kent and praising putin. that doesn't appeal to the key voters he's going to need in this election. >> val, how do you see it? >> look, bizarre keeps getting more and more bizarre. wouldn't it have been nice, you know, there's a saying a house divided against itself cannot

stand and at the end of the day, the person elected on november 5th will be the president of the united states. and wouldn't it have been nice if former president trump called president biden and vice president harris to congratulate them. you know, as someone who served as hostage negotiator on the police department, that was a pretty stressful time. it took a lot to do what those officers did, but imagine at this level. and so you know, wouldn't it have been nice if the former president had celebrated with the current administration those families and just all of america that these wonderful people are home. >> tim miller and val demings, thank you both so much. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on social media and watch clips on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now.