will be the runner we're looking at, favored to win gold here, doing great throughout the olympics. we're in skateboarding today, the finals in park, so, if you think about skateboarding, park is an empty pool that they created, the skateboarders have 45 seconds to get into the pool, do a couple of tricks and see how they do. they'll get judged by the stunts they can perform. one we're watching here, we have three americans that could sweep the podium. but tate karou, he could win gold. we'll be out there rooting him on. skateboarding is such a fun event, it is an event that is bringing younger viewers to the game. >> the sports broadcaster, i see it. thank you for bringing us all the details. and that's going do it for us today. i'll see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. catch us online around the clock. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. jose diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now.

good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. today the harris/walz battleground blitz is officially in full swing. the vice president along with her newly announced running mate minnesota governor tim walz are hitting key swing states after kicking off their tour in pennsylvania yesterday. at a rally in philadelphia, governor walz gave a preview of what the campaign's message could be in the next couple of months. he wasted no time attacking donald trump. >> he doesn't know the first thing about service. trump weakens our economy, to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws, he sows chaos and division, and that's to say nothing of his record as president. >> all this as the campaign says that it raised over $20 million

yesterday after governor walz was announced as harris' running mate. joining us now, nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, peter alexander and zerlina maxwell. so, monica, you have new reporting about how governor walz went from being a dark horse in the vp race to the vice president's running mate. >> and that was probably something that helped governor walz in this process, jose. the fact that he wasn't as well known to all americans and he wasn't even really well known to vice president harris. they had met a handful of times, but they hadn't spent any kind of significant time together. when they were able to sit down at her residence here in washington, d.c. on sunday, we're told that essentially the connection that they had, the chemistry that was apparent, was a factor in her decision. she was looking for somebody who would be a good governing partner, but in the end, you have to make some of these choices we're told really based

on your gut feeling, is this going to be somebody who is loyal to me, shares my mission and my agenda and who also will, because she knows very well because she has been in the position, will know the responsibility of what it means to be a vice president should they win the white house. and could they sit down and have lunch together every week for four years? all of that goes into making this decision, but we're also told that the vice president really liked the governor's background, what he has been able to do in terms of public service as a veteran, as a former teacher, and as someone who was a lawmaker for years as well. so all of that combined seemed to contribute to this. and then when you stack that up against the other top contenders, we're told that simply the vice president didn't have as strong of a connection with governor josh shapiro, with senator mark kelly and that's what she really came away with, that there was this sense that her conversation, the harris vetting team's conversation with

governor walz was something that surprised some of them because he certainly was the dark horse heading into this. but when you look at his longer record, and what he brings to the table as a midwestern governor who represents both rural voters, but has a progressive record, they felt that was an important complement to what vice president harris has done in her own background. so, last night i think you saw a little bit of that energy and enthusiasm for the ticket on display and now their challenge will be trying to carry that momentum forward, but they're able to do that with the help of $20 million, which the harris/walz team raised yesterday, just since announcing him as the running mate. >> those are incredible numbers. peter, by choosing walz over, for example, monica was mentioning, you know, shapiro in pennsylvania, arizona senator mark kelly, what are we learning more about what those potential candidates brought to the table or didn't bring to the table, according to the vice president? >> well, i think as we look at

this right now there has been some conversation about why she passed over these others, that's the question i've heard from my reporting about passing them over as it is the affirmative choice for tim walz in this selection. monica laid out the bio, him being an effective messenger, i think worth noting these two are generational peers. he's six months older than her, he's 60, she will turn 60 next april right now. so obviously she believes he's someone who will not overshadow her, but also someone who can deliver home that key message, the idea of this sort of weird or weirdo label he's used to brand not republicans, but trump and vance, something that resonated with harris and her allies, certainly those people during the vetting process, that was something that struck them. it was language that went viral right now and it is his ability to deliver that plain spoken punch line they also believe will help them a lot. particularly not to win back necessarily a majority of those noncollege educated white voters, but certainly to try to

limit the deficit that the democrats have had among that community. he's someone they believe can go into rural communities with his small town midwestern roots and really deliver a message in the language that those -- that those americans are familiar with and really understands their experience. jose? >> yeah, zerlina, what do you think it is about the governor's record that you think stood out to the harris campaign? >> i think his record of public service, and you really have a contrast set up where you have two public servants, two people who have dedicated decades of their lives to serving the public, and the contrast on the other side could not be more clear. i also think that his record as a veteran, as a teacher, as a coach, a coach is a natural leader, somebody who can inspire people and i think that the energy and excitement that you saw on display at the rally in philadelphia is something that

democrats are fired up about right now, right? three weeks ago we were in disarray and feeling very dejected and uninspired and yesterday, what you saw is joy, and joy translates into the momentum and the mobilization that you need the base of the democratic party to have in order to turn out a multiracial, multigenerational coalition. so, i see this pick as a base first strategy, that the harris/walz campaign is utilizing, and then you build out from there. and instead of only focusing on those more moderate swing voters, you want your base of support to be fired up, and i can tell you, jose, the kids are fired up and there are 41 million gen z eligible voters, plus 72 million millennials, that's a big proportion of the american electorate in 2024. >> and so when you say that the kids are fired up, what are you

basing it on, and what do you think that the kids are seeing in walz that maybe others haven't seen? >> i don't know if you spend a lot of time on tiktok, i try not to spend too much time on there, it is quite an addicting platform, but the organic nature of the kids making memes, first, the coconut tree memes and also tim walz, his weird comment and also the cat lady comment, his pushback to the jd vance comment that upset so many people, that is now a trending audio on tiktok. i don't know if you're familiar with how it works. but i think that when you see folks like david hogg and march for our lives talk about how excited they are about this choice, you can see his -- the kids, as i call them, really adults who are old enough to vote in this election cycle, those folks are fired up, not just about this choice, and this ticket, but also the issues that vice president harris and

governor walz support, right? we're talking about abortion rights under that freedom umbrella, talking about gun safety and talking about climate change, all issues that resonate with these young people and they're not necessarily affiliated with a particular political party but they're issue-based first. so when you're talking about the issues, they agree with what the vice president is saying, and they like what governor walz has done in minnesota as you see on the screen here, doing many progressive things in a state that has folks from all different walks of life. >> yeah, zerlina, all this as donald trump is hinting at a potential debate with vice president harris. here's what he had to say on fox news about that. >> we'll see. we'll be debating her i guess in the pretty near future, going to be announced fairly soon. but we'll be debating her. i'd like to see it on fox, by the way. i would like to see it, my preference would be fox, but we have to debate.

>> so it looks like he's going to debate. what do you make of that? >> well, i think it is particularly interesting that he is preferring fox news, his quote, unquote safe space with a large crowd and his hand-picked moderators to have this debate instead of the agreed to debate that they agreed to prior on abc news. and i think that he is a little bit scared, otherwise he wouldn't be throwing out an alternative option in a space where he has handpicked friendly moderators and a crowd to cheer him on. >> michael, what is the likelihood the harris campaign would agree to a debate with trump but on different terms than what was originally agreed to? >> you saw vice president harris lean into this in the last couple of days saying, remember, that it was donald trump who had stipulated anytime, anywhere, anyplace when talking about debating joe biden at that point, so the harris campaign has really been saying, we agreed to that, now it was under the different terms of facing

joe biden at the top of the ticket, but they have effectively said, they plan to be there for that abc debate on september 10th and that they will take the air time, that's their understanding, whether the gop nominee shows up or not. so i think this discussion will continue and this is really something that is going to play out before we know for sure where it is going to land. but the other big question here, jose, is when we're going to see now the debate between the vice presidential nominees because that's something that had been up in the air as well, and we know jd vance has said that he would debate tim walz, once that is more formalized. so that's another date they have to add to this. but certainly from the harris/walz campaign perspective, they want to be participating in these showdowns, and they are essentially daring the trump/vance team to not show up because they say they're happy to have them. jose? >> peter, some of the harris campaign events have been postponed due to tropical storm debby. what does the next couple of days look like for the

harris/walz team? >> well, there is your map right there, five states in five days. it was supposed to be seven states in the course of those five days. but they had to postpone the stops they were scheduled to take place in georgia, north carolina instead, and importantly today they're in the neighboring states for tim walz, wisconsin and the earlier part of the day, michigan a little bit later. these are key rust belt states, part of the blue wall the democrats know they need to be successful in for kamala harris to be america's next president. here we have some new reporting this morning that president -- that vice president harris and walz are expected to participate in some engagement tomorrow with union workers there, remember the uaw has come out in support of kamala harris as well after previously supporting joe biden in the past. and they head out west to nevada and arizona, two key battlegrounds there, interesting to see whether arizona senator mark kelly participates in that event. he was not selected as the vp, but much the same way that josh shapiro wasn't selected in

pennsylvania, harris aides and allies are hopeful he'll do a lot to help support her and walz on the ticket to drive -- to drive up the democratic turnout coming up this fall. >> and, peter, i know the president has been very involved in the situation in the middle east, what may or may not be happening soon with iran and israel. what is on the president's schedule and what has he been up to? and really this whole issue of what could be happening in the middle east is of such concern. >> we know the president has been regularly briefed by his national security team about the situation there. in fact, during kamala harris' private visits with her team and with some of those vp contenders earlier this week, our first sighting of her when she was sort of invisible, wasn't doing any public events, she was in the situation room with president biden and his -- and their national security team preparing for any possible scenario there right now. he has no public events scheduled today. there will be another briefing

by karine jean-pierre on that. he doesn't want to overshadow any events as they relate to kamala harris and this big rollout to try to carry forward his political agenda going forward, but specifically on this event based on my conversation with those in the national security office here at the white house, the president has been deeply involved in the conversations they are having behind the scenes preparing for any possible scenario. >> monica alba, peter alexander, zerlina maxwell, thank you for being with us this morning. up next, jd vance on the attack. we'll play for you what he just said about his new rival. plus, why beto o'rourke says governor walz is born to run. we'll talk to him about their long time friendship and shared love of bruce springsteen. and later, in a major upset overnight, another member of the squad loses their primary. we'll look at the reasons behind the results next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. we'll be back in 90 seconds. dia.

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riots. he's a very, very liberal man, and he's a shocking pick and i'm thrilled. i could not be more thrilled. >> with us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake with senator vance and mark short, former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence. what did we hear from vance this morning? >> well, jose, this event just concluded a short time ago. you see i'm standing in front of a police station. there was a heavy focus on law and order issues, the bread and butter campaign issues that the trump campaign likes to talk about, immigration, how it is related to crime. vance hit those points on the nose and took a number of questions from reporters that covered the gamut, everything from the campaign's reaction to the vice presidential running mate pick from kamala harris yesterday, to defending the comments that donald trump made on stage at the nabj last week and took a question about tim walz and it will be an increasing attack line from the trump campaign criticizing walz

who served for decades in the national guard for retiring from the guard before his unit was deployed to iraq. here's what vance said about that, just a few moments ago. >> well, i wonder, tim walz, when were you in war, what was this weapon that you carried into war given that you abandoned your unit before they went to iraq and he has not spent a day in a combat zone? what bothers me about tim walz is the stolen valor garbage, do not pretend to be something you're not. >> the republican ticket has started rolling out this attack this morning. but i would not be surprised if we don't hear amplified significantly by other republican, veterans, jd vance served in the marines, other republican lawmakers to try to take a strength on paper of the running mate tim walz and turn it into a weakness by getting folks to talk about his military service, not in an admiring way, but to question why he wasn't deployed overseas into an actual

war zone. >> mark, what do you think of that line of criticism against the governor of minnesota? >> well, look, jd vance served in the marines, i think it is -- he's entitled to make that attack. but i do think that in the last three weeks there has been an enormous upheaval in all of this and the polls, but prior to biden withdrawing, one of the biggest vulnerabilities for democrats was the border and the economy and i think that's still the case. i think that unfortunately much of the trump campaign continues to be personal, whether or not it is questioning kamala harris' heritage or this attack or, you know, frankly going to georgia and deciding to attack very popular republican governor. so, i think that harris and walz have enormous vulnerabiliies on their records in their progressive positions they have taken and i think a policy attack would be more effective than the personal attacks that have been transpiring. >> senator vance's schedule

mirrors that of candidate harris and her running mate. are they following each other here? >> to marc's point, i heard this from so many republicans begging donald trump and his campaign to focus on the policy, they think there is such fertile ground to turn off voters in the middle who may not like a more progressive democratic ticket. that's what vance was trying to do here with law and order remarks here in michigan, he's going to wisconsin later today where he's expected to talk about inflation and the economy. this is old-fashioned bracketing. this is a way to at relatively low cost force your candidate, your ticket into the conversation, with a focus on local news. at this event here, vance took a dozen questions from reporters, he made sure to call on every single local news outlet from here in the detroit metro area before calling on national news reporters. that's where most people get their news, even their political news. and insert yourself into the story that way on the same day that the top of the other ticket is going to be here. it is good, cheap, smart,

tactical retail politicking. >> and so, garrett, so this issue that vance mentioned about what he called stolen valor, that wasn't part of the scripted aspect of this campaign stop, rather this was a question that he answered? >> well, it was interesting, jose, it was a pivot off of a question that he had taken. i think it was a scripted answer in the sense that this was clearly something the trump campaign had discussed, this was something that vance wanted to make sure he got out, it wasn't part of his prepared remarks, but he took a question that was tangentially related to walz and turned it on to this topic very intentionally trying to get this attack line out there. >> and so, marc, is this something that knowing donald trump and the way he campaigns and his, you know, what he says, is there any possibility you think that the attacks would be limited going forward on policy versus personal attacks in that

political world, marc? >> i think there have been short periods where it has been more disciplined and focused on policy, but it is hard to see that that's been the track record necessarily forecast, that's the way it is going to be for the next 90 days. you're at an event for law enforcement, there is enormous vulnerability for governor walz, but instead the story today will be attacking the service of 24 years of the national guard. and maybe they have polling that says that's a vulnerability. but it seems like you have a great message on law enforcement, and you're stepping on that accidentally. >> garrett haake and marc short, thank you. appreciate it. up next, tropical storm debby responsible for at least six deaths in the south. it is actually re-energizing over the atlantic as we speak. where it is going next. we'll look into that. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. ot you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. sa goldmine. well she doesn't know that if she owns a life insurance policy of $100,000 or more she can sell all or

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26 past the hour. happening now, tropical storm debby is spinning off the coast of south carolina. the storm especially dangerous because it is moving so slowly. take a look at these images. this is sarasota, florida, where entire neighborhoods literally just became rivers and water everywhere. at least six people have died since debby made landfall in florida on monday. take a look at this. manatee county, there is this

incident of someone being rescued after being trapped in her car by rising waters. joining us now, nbc's erin mclaughlin in north myrtle beach, south carolina. good morning. what are you seeing there right now? >> reporter: hey, jose, when it comes to tropical storm debby, much has been made of the storm as a super soaker. officials talking about the flooding, talking about the rainfall, but right now here in north myrtle beach, we're feeling the wind, pretty strong winds now on the shoreline. and as the storm is off coast, building up speed before making that second landfall. and it is hitting places like south carolina, the coastline, this is a beach coastal community, really relies on tourism. as you see behind me, normally this ocean would be absolutely packed with tourists, the height of the summer season and it is pretty empty in comparison. speaking to local business owners, they're talking about how they have been hit hard. take a listen. >> it is just the height of the summer season and people are

probably just tuckering down and hunkering down and trying to get ready for the storm like everybody else. >> not good for business. >> it is not, no. but we can't stop god, you know. it is what it is. >> reporter: well, you heard that business owner there is a how people are staying inside, staying home and that's exactly what authorities want people to be doing at this point. they have issued no evacuation orders for this area, in fact, over in charleston, the second largest city in south carolina, they lifted a curfew that had been placed since monday night. they're still urging folks to be careful, again, warning of that potential for additional catastrophic flooding once that second landfall happens, jose. >> erin mclaughlin, take care. thank you. joining us now, nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, so, where exactly is debby going and, those images out of sarasota, bradenton area, they were -- and she was talking

about this water phenomenon which it continues to be. >> yeah, definitely when the storm was about two days ago, west coast of florida, and north florida, that flooding has been worse than anything else we have experienced. the forecast of the form was to have the initial landfall and then the potential for historic flooding. i have to say, to this point, i think the people of south carolina and north carolina and even in georgia had to feel a little fortunate. this storm sucked in a lot of dry air and has not produced the epic historic rainfall amounts like we had with florence. so that's good. no one is complaining. we some areas with neighborhoods that have gotten flooded. lower levels of homes have water. this has not been horrific. now most of the rain is off shore. this will change later tonight. we had a little break this morning, no flash flood warnings in the area, we have bands of heavier rain in spots. the center of the storm is so weak that the highest winds and heaviest rains are far from the

center. we show you the landfall north of charleston, that means nothing because the strongest winds are almost like 100 miles away from the center. the winds will be stronger up here in north carolina. we show you where the center is going to go. in this case, it doesn't matter when a storm is this weak. the center matters when you're dealing with a major hurricane in the eye, which this does not have. then this storm will accelerate northwards and will bring some bands of heavy rain, isolated tornadoes thursday into friday. and once we get the storm -- mountainous areas of virginia, heading up through the appalachian, through central portions of pennsylvania, through the adirondacks of new york, the green mountains of northern vermont, that's where we have a problem if we get a quick four inches of rain and get some flash flooding problems. as we go throughout the night tonight into this evening, we'll see bands of heavier rain, we'll still get isolated cases of significant flooding. because where the rain is falling, it already poured half a foot in some cases, up to a foot. and tomorrow, the storm moves up in to north carolina, there is the heavy rain threat in the mountains of virginia, we'll watch that closely thursday evening.

additional rainfall, we're just about done, you're almost in the clear from savannah southwards, heading up to raleigh, charlotte, winston-salem, greensville area. that will be this evening and tomorrow at this time, that's the potential for significant flooding. and then as far as the flood watches go, 15 million people included, but there is no flash flood warnings. that's fantastic. if you told me no flash flood warnings, jose, about two or three days ago at this point, i would have laughed. i would have said no way is that possible with this setup. but that's why i said some people feel we have been fortunate to this point. here is the threat into friday, the moderate risk of flash flooding for the mountainous areas. already twice this year vermont from beryl and heavy thunderstorm event has significant flooding. vermont is mountains. and then a road, and a river that goes right along the road, and so this storm heads up there next, i'm sure they're fearful of what's coming. >> so, bill, so just -- because i was thinking about my time in

wilmington when the hurricanes struck there and cape fear was so flooded, that whole area was flooded, are the folks all right in wilmington? >> they'll have to deal with some isolated tornadoes, they'll have to deal with potential for bands of heavy rain, another four to six inches of rain, but it does not look to be devastating, jose. whatever we're going to see from here on out will be isolated flash flooding, this won't be a floyd or florence. so, we're not going to be comparing it to some of the worst floods ever, so that's good news. >> good news indeed. bill karins, thank you very much, appreciate it. up next, a major blow to the progressive wing of the house, why congresswoman cori bush is the second member of the squad to lose a primary. how the feds foiled an alleged murder for hire plot. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. et you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc.

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. 37 past the hour. congresswoman cori bush of missouri lost one of the year's most highly contested primaries, a member of the progressive group of lawmakers known as the squad, bush has been a vocal critic of the israeli government and of israel's response to the october 7th terror attacks. pro israeli groups poured millions into the race, making

it one of the most expensive house primaries in history. she's the second member of the squad to lose this year after jamaal bowman lost in june. joining us now is nbc's steve kornacki. what happened in this race? >> take a look, jose. you see the overall result here, what are we talking about, we're talking about the city of st. louis itself, and then outlying st. louis county, the county more suburban, the city, the urban core, and it is a tail of two different places here in these results. this is the city of st. louis, this is cori bush's base. she won this by eight points when she first won this seat four year as go. she unseated a democrat incumbent william lacy clay. she also did that by running up a similar margin in the city of st. louis. now, when she won this seat four years ago, she didn't win the st. louis county portion, but she kept it close. she kept it within five points. last night, though, look, the floor fell out for cori bush this is st. louis county here.

she loses this by 14 points to wesley bell her challenger. it is that bell ran up much bigger margins in the st. louis county portion of the district and then there is just a little bit from redistricting a couple of years ago and a little bit from basic population changes. the city of st. louis has been shrinking, a decades long story. the county made up 60% of all votes cast in this primary. the place where wesley bell was the strongest, 60%, when cori bush first won this seat four years ago, the county portion only made up 53% of the vote in that primary. so, a little bit more political weight in the suburban area, and bush just not performing anywhere near where she used to there, that adds up to the defeat that we saw for her last night. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. appreciate it. later, one topic not covered in last night's harris/walz event, immigration. we'll talk about that and a whole lot more with beto o'rourke next. good to see you. we'll chat in a minute. o'rourke next.

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night for a call for good news. the pit in my stomach, when the phone rang, and the agony when we heard the treatments hadn't worked. so it wasn't by chance that when we welcomed our daughter into the world, we named her hope. >> with us now is someone who knows tim walz well, former texas congressman beto o'rourke, democratic presidential candidate in 2020. great seeing you. i appreciate your time. i know you've known governor walz since your first day in congress. what do you want people to know about him? >> i love tim walz. he's just one of the best people i've ever had the pleasure to know. and in a business, politics, that is almost inherently transactional, he's the real deal. i sat next to him every single day for those six years on the house veterans affairs committee, he was the first one in that committee room, he was the last one to leave and, jose, you know how politicians work, most of my fellow colleagues

would come in for their two minutes to make a grand standing speech, and then leave, that guy dug in, wanted to help veterans and he did. he made their lives better by, for example, opening up mental healthcare appointments for veterans who had what is known as an other than honorable discharge. it is not sexy, doesn't make the headlines, people aren't reporting on it, on cable news, but it mattered to the people that he served and he was true to them. he's been true to me as a friend, checking in with me when i'm high, checking in with me when i'm low, he's come to say hello, just because he wants to make sure that i'm okay. and that's why people love him. his former students, when he was a high schoolteacher, his athletes who played for him when he was a football coach, the colleagues with whom he served in congress, and republicans and democrats alike across minnesota who have seen the good that he's done for them as a leader of

that state, that's why i'm so excited that kamala harris has picked him to be her running mate, and why i know that when they're in the white house, they're going to bring positive change for this country that we desperately need and all of us have been waiting for. >> and, beto, i want to talk to you about one of the issues you're so passionate about, among the many that you are passionate about, the issue of immigration, immigration reform, and certainly the humanitarian crisis that -- at the border we have been seeing for nows. i'm wondering, beto, what is your understanding of what vice president harris and governor walz have as far as policies and as responsibility to actually get something done when, as you mentioned, in politics, many times words matter more than actions. >> kamala harris and tim walz are real leaders, and what i mean by that, jose, is they

understand that the buck stops with them. they're not going to pass it on to the next administration or to a future generation as so many of the previous occupants of the white house have unfortunately done. i believe they will use all the political capital they have in those first 100 days in their administration to fix a challenge that has bedeviled the united states of america now for decades, namely to make sure our immigration laws match our values, match the reality on the ground, and match the national interests that we have in making sure that immigrants can come to this country in a safe, but importantly in a legal and orderly way. in fact, vice president harris was instrumental in negotiating a deal with republicans and democrats in the senate, and in the house to begin an important step in that process, only to have the deal blown up by donald trump, who has no interest in the solution, in solving the

problem. in fact, donald trump has been open about wanting to run on the problem, demonizing immigrants and communities like mine in el paso, comprised of immigrants, rang rather than fixing the problem and making sure we make the most of those who want to legally and safely come to this country and make us better by their very presence sfwli was thinking of the times i had to be with you, the primaries, the last time around, where you spoke in spanish. we were televising the primaries on nbc and telemundo and then i'm thinking back just to 2019, the 3rd of august, six days away from another reminder of the massacre that winning in so man. >> you are right. preceding that god awful attack in el paso, in the immediate aftermath of which i saw you here reporting on the ground,

talking to families who had lost loved ones. forever we will be grateful for the spotlight you shown on those who were suffering so we don't repeat these kinds of attacks. preceding that, donald trump was on a stage in florida and was talking about this invasion of immigrants coming to get us, people he referred to as animals and an infestation. folks, what are we going to do about them? someone in the crowd said, shoot them. donald trump smiled. the crowd laughed. he moved on. the signals he sent were picked up by people across this country, including a gunman who drove 600 miles to come to the walmart five years ago and open fire, taking the lives of 23 people. you could not have a more profound contrast in kamala harris and tim walz who want to fix the problem at our border, who want to rewrite our immigration laws, bringing democrats and republicans alike to get that done and who do not

refer to their fellow human beings in dehumanizing terms, do site insight chaos that be saw throughout the trump administration and in the wake of january 6. these are two extraordinary leaders who will bring the country together to do great things, including making sure we fix our challenges when it comes to the border and immigration. >> i think so much about those people that i got -- the privilege of meeting and listening to. i think of the mother who took her mom to that walmart and was having breakfast at the mcdonald's when she shielded her mother. i think of the gentleman in the hospital who lost who was like a son to him. the shooter shot the young child and looked at the father figure and shot him in the foot, kind of like with a message. those people remain in our

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have retained many. hours ago, chile's president said he will not recognize any results. he said maduro has committed fraud and human rights violations. now to a plot unfolding like something out of the movies. they charged a pakistani man with leading a plot to assassination political officials. ken, good morning. what is this all about? >> good morning. not only does this seem out of a spy thriller, it's a shocking coincidence that this man was

arrested a day before donald trump was shot in butler, pennsylvania. officials say they see no connection between this plot and that shooting. in fact, u.s. officials say this is the latest in a long line of what attorney general garland told me are persistent iranian-sponsored assassination attempts in the united states, including a plot two years to kill john bolton. here is more. his name asif merchant, a 46-year-old pakistani national who spent time in iran and faces federal charges over a murder for hire scheme targeting a politician or u.s. government official. this handwritten note now evidence. it's where the charges say merchant wrote down code words to discuss the plans with a confidential source in new york city. prosecutors say he handed over $5,000 in cash. a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news, former

president donald trump was a potential target. possibly retribution for the killing of a general in iran's islamic revolutionary guard. >> for years the justice department has been working to counter iran's brazen and unrelenting efforts to retaliate against american government officials for the killing of general soleimani. >> he was arrested the day before the attempted assassination of mr. trump. while his plot is not believed to be connected, it is part of the reason the secret service detail around the former president had been increased. republicans are urging the biden administration to call this an act of war and say what they're going to do in response. >> ken dilanian, thank you very much. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," vice president harris and her new running mate, minnesota gover