one one performance. what you're seeing now may not be the best of what these b girls have to offer and then the b boys, the male competition, happens tomorrow. how about that? >> looks exciting. thank you so much. before we go today, the celia commemorative cruz is now available. queen of salsa was an extraordinary voice. she had the voice she used to entertain us but also to call for freedom and democracy in cuba. i'm honored to have been able to know her for so many years and call her a friend. take a look at this video from 1990 when i accompanied celia to the u.s. naval base in guantanamo. that wraps up the hour for me.

i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on social media and watch clips at youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> and right now, the debate over debates is ramping up as former president trump says he's game for three in september. >> we'd like to do three debates. we think we should do three debates. i just look forward to these debates. i think it's very important that we have them. i hope she agrees to them. i think they'll be very revealing. >> but so far, vice president harris is sticking to her commitment to a single debate next month. >> i'm glad he's finally agreed to a debate on september 10th. i'm looking forward to it. hope he shows up. >> also, new revelations from pennsylvania police officers body cam video capturing the

chaotic moments after the attempt on mr. trump's life. >> post the guys over here. no. we're inside. in the building. i talked to secret service, yeah, no problem. but his guys over here. >> and another stunning day at the paris games with noah lyles medaling on the track after testing positive for covid and team usa overcoming a double digit deficit in men's hoops to defeat serbia and advance. good day. i'm garrett haake in washington in for andrea mitchell. you can mark your calendars for september 10th. the first and perhaps the only debate between trump and harris. trump dropping his threats to not show up and proposing two more debates while trying to bring the attention back to himself. during a rambling news conference yesterday at mar-a-lago, trump lobbed personal attacks at harris saying she was quote, not smart

enough to take questions from the press. he also made a bizarre claim about his january 6th crowd size and stated falsehoods and abortion, the economy, and a death defying helicopter ride that apparently never happened. here are the campaign schedules for today. harris and walz are in arizona while donald trump is in boseman, montana. harris picking up an historic endorsement today from a political arm, the league of latin american citizens. members plan to stand with them at their rally tomorrow in las vegas. we begin with vaughn hillyard in boseman ahead of trump's event there later today. yamiche is covering the harris campaign. she's with me onset. and "washington post" political investigative reporter, josh dossier, joins me as well. vaughn, trump seems frustrated with all the focus on harris. none of us knew what to expect from him yesterday until it

happened then called him a stupid question. that's why he's not out campaigning more. he down played the importance of abortion in this cycle. what was the motivation behind yesterday's press event and does his campaign think it was effective? >> reporter: i think it's more so of whether donald trump thinks it was effective. for him, he believes he painted a contrast with kamala harris in terms of setting the stage for what the future under a democratic administration would look like. you were there in that room there and i think this is the part that is emblematic of trump here in the 2024 cycle. with less than 90 days left, yesterday's press conference was i think indicative of where we should expect him to go moving forward. that was painting a dark picture about what the united states would look like under a kamala harris presidency. but when it comes to actual substance and policy, your two questions to him i think were prudent. you asked him about mifepristone and whether he would use the fda

to restrict abortion medication. he gave a very nonspecific answer. then when it came to his proposed mass deportation program and how he would do it, again, very unclear. when you set that contrast with that of the kamala harris presidential campaign, it is one along with tim walz as they have hit five battleground states this week, it is clear in deferentuation. he is going on the personal attack. attacking transgender americans. harkening back to the crowd sizes. comparing his january 6th crowd size to that of martin luther king's speech on the national mall in 1963. for in so many ways, donald trump's campaign right now is lacking a coherent theme or clear message or policy prescription for the united states going forward and the question here is whether the way that the campaign is currently

operating of whether they are going to be able to activate enough of the trump loyal support around the country and the key battleground states because right now, when they look at polling, the campaign still believes they are in a good position despite the crowds that kamala harris is garnering and despite the new enthusiasm this new ticket has brought to the democratic side. >> yamiche, the trump campaign thinks they can kind of dare kamala harris to do more interviews and press conferences. how does the harris campaign view that push to get her in front of cameras in an unscripted way and are they concerned at all about how she'll perform? >> let's first start with the fact that in talking to sources, the sense i get is that the harris campaign is ready for hand to hand combat. they're not going to do the ignore him and hide. >> no more we go low, we stay high. >> this is they go low, we're in the gutter and underground with

them. this is the sense that i get from talking to harris campaigns and people close to her. because frankly, we've now had years and years of donald trump and what he's done. so i think it's not really a criticism of michelle obama. something that's going to be really important to the strategy of democrats especially in georgia and north carolina, they're saying we now have more information on this and as a result, we're going to do this a little differently. that being said, you saw yesterday the vice president took requests from reporters. from my understanding, that was the first time that she was the candidate that she's taken questions. but i think it's going to be a while before we see a substantive interview with her and tim walz. a source close to her told me it would quote be a few weeks. there was talk of maybe doing it before the dnc but that person told me it's unlikely they'll have a big interview before the dnc. another thing is when it comes to debates, she's ready to debate donald trump and i think she's ready to debate him more than once. they've only said they want to do the abc debate on september

10th but she has said all along i'm open to other debates. her campaign has said we're open to talking about other debates. the september 4th fox news debate is likely going to be the one she doesn't want to do. possibly our debate on september 25th, that could be something where they agree on. there might be a debate later on where they try to get her to do the fox news debate. again, i'm very skeptical she's going to do that with that network, but i think what we're going to hear and see is the harris campaign that's going to continuously answer every single thing, almost every single thing, because donald trump says a lot of stuff. >> one of donald trump's superpowers is that he does drag people down into the gutter with him. how does the harris campaign balance being basically in a fistfight with donald trump and trying to keep up this joyful tone. how do they balance those? >> a lot of laughter, right? we've seen a lot of laughter. >> mockery as a tool.

>> i think what you're going to see is them leaning in on the idea this is weird and creepy that language that tim walz, that was part of the reason why they liked him as a running mate because he was seen as an effective communicator. they're going to sort of mock all the different things donald trump is saying. also when it comes to something like questioning her race, they're going to respond to that. they're going to have a dual track, which is we have a vision for america. that's what you're going to hear from the harris campaign over and over again. that's going to be stuff like paid family leave. codifying roe v. wade. decreasing medical debt. all these things they're going to put forward. but both at the same time. >> josh, the trump campaign has a strategy here and theory of the case as well. it's largely to go after harris for some of her past comments when she ran for president before. and yet yesterday, we had trump making all of these baseless claims, false claims like saying that nobody died on january 6th and that that was a peaceful transition of power. how does the campaign balance their own strategic imperatives

and a candidate who does not always want to follow them? >> yeah, well the campaign has said their argument would be about inflation that's gone up under the biden presidency. immigration, that she had a role in trying to secure the border. biden gave her responsibilities there and the numbers havegone up. and they'll be making policy arguments as she's the california liberal, in their words. the problem is, they have a candidate that's not happy with her. that she's getting good crowds, raising a lot of money. what he does often when he's unhappy as we've seen since 2015, 2016, is he lashes out, right? so you see the attacks on brian kemp in georgia. his campaign. you see him questioning her race which was not helpful. yesterday, he's talking about oh, on jan 6, they say you know, do you want to pardon these people. was there a peaceful transition of power. he said something about how his

crowd size was larger than martin luther king jr. i have a dream speech. none of those things are helpful to his campaign and his advisers know that. they believe that he is in a good spot right now in some ways and he's still, you know, tight or even slightly ahead in some of the polls. his pollsters and campaign aides are claiming this is a honeymoon period for her and that he can still win this race. the last three weeks have not been the most focused or the best of the trump campaign. even the most optimistic folks would say they need a recalibration even as trump says i don't need to recalibrate at all. >> i asked him yesterday to what he attributes harris' polls as of late. >> well, she's a woman. she represents certain groups of people. but i will say this. when people find out about her, i think she'll be much less, and

i see it right now. i see her going way down in the polls now. >> what does that answer tell you about his understanding of the race he's now in, josh? >> tells me he's in a closer race than he was. he's been quite displeased about joe biden. he thought after that first debate, he was on a fast glide path to victory. and then wanted joe biden to stay in the race. and then right after the convention, he picked vance as his nominee and biden drops out of the race and they have a whole different race. i was in milwaukee for the convention. you had trump folks discussing what cabinet positions people were going to get. they were sort of measuring the drinks of the administration and now he's up against a totally different opponent and i think tim alberta wrote in the atlantic a really good piece about how trump's campaign had been built to take on joe biden. not to take on kamala harris. you see them sort of trying to

adjust a fight plan en route while trump is sort of doing his own thing and showing clearly how unhappy he is. >> he's been running against joe biden for four years. vaughn, before i let you go, you're in montana. there's a big senate race going on there. trump is there in large part to support that republican senate candidate. what's the state of the race there for jon tester's seat? >> reporter: right. tim sheehy is trying to take down jon tester. when you do the math of the senate, it's the democrats that are on defense right now. all republicans need to do is win one or two senate seats to flip the map. one, give donald trump and jd vance win the white house because of course vance could be that tiebreaker vote as the president of the senate. but in the scenario the democrats win the white house and it is tim walz as vice

president, then they need to flip two seats to take control of the senate. if you look at west virginia with joe manchin retiring, republicans believe that governor jim justice, their candidate, will be able to pick up the state of west virginia. so then you look at the rest of the map. you have sherrod brown in ohio. casey in pennsylvania. guyego is trying to hold on to sinema's seat. they see montana as very fertile ground. they won the race here just two years ago under similar circumstances. so they see this as a real key pick up opportunity and donald trump, if he were to win the white house, of course, he would want a republican senator senate majority. >> vaughn, yamiche, and josh, thank you for your reporting. coming up in 90 seconds, you'll hear the shocking things pennsylvania officers were saying following the attempt on former president trump's life. you're watching msnbc. n former president trump's life.

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we're getting a new look at the assassination attempt through body camera video. less than a minute before the shooting, an officer gets hoisted on to the roof and comes face-to-face with the shooter who police say took aim at that cop. the shooter isn't seen on video from this angle. moments later, the same officer

is on the roof after the shooting questioning the secret service who were not on the same radio frequency as the local police. y as the local police the body cam video also shows the team of officers baffled at why the location wasn't secured with one officer even saying he warned the secret service days before the rally. ken dilanian joins us now. he's been covering this story. ken, what stands out to you from these videos? >> yeah, two huge takeaways. one, the videos show the shots were fired 40 seconds after that local officer saw the shooter on the roof. not 30 seconds as the secret

service director testified. now, 40 seconds would be plenty of time for donald trump's detail to swarm him, put him on the ground, perhaps move him to cover, but that director testified they never reached the men protecting him on stage. that seems like the biggest failure. 23 years after communication problems led to needless deaths on 9/11, law enforcement agencies still haven't figured out how to communicate across different agencies the second major revelation is we hear a local officer saying he told the secret service days before to post people on that roof. that's a significant piece of evidence but we don't know the context. we don't know who he spoke to and what action did that person take. the secret service says they assigned local officers to cover the roof, but they either never checked to make sure that was happening or made a decision to leave that roof empty. either way, that's a grave error. in a statement, the secret service say in response they didn't really address specifics but say the attempted

assassination of former president trump was a u.s. secret service failure and we are reviewing our policies and procedures in order to ensure a tragedy like this never happens again. there are four separate investigations looking into what went wrong and who was responsible. >> thank you for that reporting. joining me now is clint watts. he leads microsoft's threat analysis center. so, chris, or clint, what was your reaction to this body camera video and as a former fbi agent, how does it change or direct or supplement what we know about the investigation that's underway is this? >> as ken points out, the first thing i immediately thought back to is my military experience. anytime you're trying to secure some place, it's build the perimeter, make sure it's secure. the second part is communication. third part is chain of command. what is the order of operation. chain of command for all

entities on that perimeter. those basic three things there, i'm sure is what's going to come up in this report. you can see that from just conflicting accounts as ken noted between testimony and this footage. and then just comments that are there. i'm sure they need more time to do a more thorough investigation, but i think we're going to find consistently that people wanted to know about this roof. they had seen it, were worried about it. just didn't have the processes in place to adequately protect the former president that day. >> you have a new report looking at foreign attempts to influence the upcoming election. it's from the microsoft threat and analyst center. you found iran is stepping up it efforts. how so? >> that's right, garrett. it's interesting. we've seen this playbook before in past election cycles and right on cue, we see the iranian entering into the fray for election 2024. russia is always a constant.

this is what they do. with 2016, 2020, 2024. in 2020 was how significant the iranian interference was in the u.s. election with them trying several different stunts. what we see here is some of that initial reconnaissance. setting up websites, putting up new sites they can maybe use later for a hack and leak operation. that's on time with what they did in 2020. so really some new dimensions as we go into the last 90 days before the election. >> how has ai changed this kind of disinformation from these foreign players? >> yeah, what's been fascinating, garrett, is whether it's russia, iran, or china, all three of which are you know, showcased in terms of what we've seen in this report and two prior to that. ai has come up. we've seen all actors try ai. but we've actually seen them move back to more simple techniques. the ai they try and use with deep fakes is oftentimes quite complex. the technology isn't quite there. and audiences in the public space are pretty good with it.

we do see some effectiveness when they use audio. meaning they take real audio and mix fake with it and russian actors are more prolific at that. the simplist manipulations tend to travel the farther. like a real news report with a real logo thrown on top of it sent across social media. those travel further than new ai developments. >> are there tips for how to spot this kind of thing when it shows up in your news feed? >> always look for several dimensions when you've got information coming in. whether it's an election or not. one, what is the actual source of that information. there's a lot of content credential programs. we have them at microsoft. many of the tech companies have it and they have joined in to try and go against these deep fakes if they try and interfere with an election.

look for the source of the information. where is that source physically. oftentimes, if it's dubious, it's coming from an unknown source. then how is the operation? are you just receiving it, can't trace it back to a website or news site? it's indicative of some disinformation and deep ai that's being put inside of it. >> msnbc national security analyst, clint watts, thank you for your expertise on this. up next, a new push to free israeli hostages held for more than ten months by hamas. and tropical depression debby slamming the east coast with heavy rain bringing flash flooding and tornado warnings including here at the capitol. you're watching msnbc. the capit. you're watching msnbc. claritin clear. yeah. powerful allergy relief that won't make you drowsy. live claritin clear.® - so this is pickleball? - pickle! ah, these guys are intense. with e*trade from morgan stanley, we're ready for whatever gets served up. dude, you gotta work on your trash talk. i'd rather work on saving for retirement.

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leaders of the u.s., qatar, and egypt are calling on israel and hamas to return to the negotiating table next thursday to finalize a cease fire deal in gaza and bring the hostages home. writing in a statement, quote -- this of course comes after the lead negotiator for hamas was assassinated and replaced by the master mind of the october 7th terror attacks who's been hiding in the tunnels under gaza. joining us now from tel aviv is raf sanchez. for months, these three countries have been trying to mediate a deal to end the fighting and bring the hostages

home. what may be different this time? >> so garrett what's different this time is the mediators for the first time they're prepared to bring their own to the table. previously, it's been the mediator going back and forth trying to close the gaps between israel and hamas. for the first time, you have egypt, the u.s., and qatar saying if the two sides cannot reach a deal on their own, we will write out the agreement and then we will aim to get both sides to agree to the text we have written. now, there is in guarantee, garrett, this that is going to work. the idea is that everybody will head to either cairo or doha on thursday. the biden administration would like to see a breakthrough there. but they're also setting expectations. they do not expect everyone is going to emerge from the room next thursday and that there is going to be peace and the hostages are going to come home immediately, but they are hoping

for progress because time is running out for palestinian civilians. many of whom have been living in tents for ten months. israeli hostages held in captivity in tunnels for ten months. then the political clock in the united states. the days are ticking away until the end of the biden administration and this is a real priority for the president to get done before he leaves office. the other difference is the one you mentioned. that hamas has had a change in political chief assassinated ten days ago in tehran and now the undisputed leader of that group is the hard liner, the master mind of the october 7th attack. the u.s. says he was always the one in charge in these negotiations but for the first time, there aren't those outside slightly more moderate voices in the political wing of hamas who appear to have been more eager for a cease fire. >> raf, thank you for that. and we're tracking the path of tropical depression debby. mid-atlantic and northeastern

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donald trump made at least eight objectively false statements in his press conference yesterday. he mentioned it was a lie nobody died on january 6th but the president also falsely claimed a vast number of americans will vote for him. while accusing abortions in the eighth and ninth month and beyond. joining me now, mara gay and charlie sykes. mara, i was at that news conference yesterday and i tried to press donald trump on whether he would ban mifepristone. he ducked. let's watch. >> would you direct your fda for example to revoke access to

mifepristone? that's one of the things that's been discussed. >> you can do things that will be, that would supplement, absolutely. those things are pretty open and humane. but you have to be able to have a vote and all i want to do is give everybody a vote and the votes are taking place right now. >> is that something -- >> there are many things that you can do outside of that. but you also have to give a vote and the people are going to have to decide. >> we didn't take out anything that would somehow make that answer make more sense. mara, what do republicans, what did donald trump get wrong about the potency of this issue and what do you make about the answer of the question specifically? >> i'm so glad that you asked the question in the way that you did. listen, americans know no matter what their view is on the issue, and most americans, the vast majority, do support reproductive freedom. americans know that donald trump is personally responsible for

the supreme court appointments that led to the fall of roe v. wade, to the dobbs decision. we can only look at his record to see what he's done which is to see he's attacked and clawed back women's freedoms whether than protecting them to that is a known entity. we also know that donald trump is going to do whatever is politically expedient for him at any given moment. i think the way he answered your question, this is a man who was initially before kamala harris became the front-runner, he was trying to distance himself from abortion bans, from the dobbs decision. he was trying to soften the party's platform. on reproductive freedom. i don't believe that was working with voters. but listen, now that he, it's clear that harris has such momentum, the harris walz ticket, he's really doubling down his base. we saw that when he attacked black women at the convention. we are seeing that as he's

attacking kamala harris with racist attacks and now we're seeing it on abortion. he's signaling to the far right, i need your support and i may be willing to do whatever it will take to get that. even if it's doing something extreme like banning mifepristone. >> interesting. charlie, the republican party is desperately trying to get donald trump to focus on some of harris' missteps. some of her past policy positions that they believe might be out of the mainstream. but he's doing things like talking about crowd sizes and some of those other points that mara made. how do you view the delta between the republican playbook to take on harris and trump's ability to execute on it? >> it's pretty dramatic, isn't it? all comes down to the candidate stupid. i read all these analysis of what his campaign strategy is, and ultimately, it doesn't matter if donald trump comes out and has a performance like

yesterday. i think that what was on display yesterday was just the pure incoherence. his unfamiliarity with the policy issues. his lack of interest in the policy issues. you know, i actually read the transcript of your question and answer five times this morning before coming on. and one of the questions i had in my mind was did he even know what he was talking about. i remember in seventh grade when you don't read the book and you have to write the book report or you're asked about it and you just come up with this kind of word salad. i think this is the problem with donald trump. he doesn't give five minutes of thought to any of these substantive issues. now, however, going back to mara's point, she's right. clearly, he thinks that he can throw out certain things about abortion, but he's uncomfortable about it, but where he goes, no one has any idea and this is going to be the case from now until november. now that joe biden's out of the race, we have to have these serious conversations about what

is going on in the prefrontal cortex of donald trump? what is happening with his cognitive coherence? because you're not even seeing basic sort of connection of the dots. i think the question you asked and his absolute failure to answer is a pretty good indication of the problems the campaign has trying to say they have a logical, coherent, consistent policy or proposal on anything. >> mara, to charlie's point, the answers are very telling, but this was the middle of the day on a thursday in the summer, the olympics were on. maybe not that many people saw any of what donald trump said yesterday. people are going to see the debates. how important do you believe these debates, i say plural, but at least one we'll have next month will be in deciding this race? >> i don't know that they're going to be determinetive. i do think it's going to be a

different place in voter's minds than that debate we saw that was disastrous for president biden. because you know, i think that vp kamala harris is certainly up to the task. so it's going to be very difficult for donald trump. the onus is going to be on him. he doesn't sound coherent. he sounds less coherent than ever. if that's how he looks in this debate, it's going to be disastrous for him. i hope we can get into these issues. that's another area where the democratic agenda is far more popular, starting with reproductive freedom. which is why i believe it's one reason why you haven't seen the republican party and donald trump keenly on message. as much we want to say let's have policy debates, i don't know that his policies, including the 2025 agenda, which he's trying to distance himself from, are unpopular with many

americans. >> charlie, if we take that premise then that this is a debate that has a lot of risks for trump. the kind of thing we expect to see harris perform well. what would you say are the potential pitfalls? what does the ticket need to be looking out for to not trap themselves in this moment that's going to be about donald trump's weaknesses? >> well, you know, it starts with the fact she's going to have to sit down with reporters for a long form interview. she's going to have to have press conferences and go off script. now, she's exceeded expectations time and again, but clearly, republicans have the sense that once you get her away from the telepromter that she's going to be more vulnerable. i am a long time skeptic about the impact of debates on campaigns but i do think that in a campaign like this, which is really at this point, pretty much a jump ball, it could be decisive because i think that people are going to tune into that. i think that the contrast you're

making with the conversation we're having today and those debates is really important because i do think that people are going to be watching that because they want to know what are these candidates saying, what are they going to do. but also there's going to be the morbid curiosity of are we going to see a car crash? a meltdown? what is going to happen. these debates may be the most consequential since the 1960 kennedy nixon debate although i don't think donald trump should be compared to either kennedy or nixon. >> i think it's fascinating to hear you both down play the potential importance of these debates given that after the last debate, democrats changed the candidate at the top of their ticket. but we could do a whole other half hour on that and we don't have the time for it so we got to end it there. thank you both for joining us. and next, we go out west for a preview of vice president harris' event today in phoenix and take a deeper dive into the fight to win arizona and nevada in november. you're watching msnbc. evada in november. you're watching msnbc.

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aaron, how important do you think it will be for the harris walz ticket to win over those independent voters in arizona who make up such a huge percentage of the electorate there? >> reporter: i think it's hard to overestimate the importance of the independent voters here in arizona. there were some numbers released that indicated registered independent voters make up about 33% of all registered voters in this state. so it is a critical group to try to get to and to try to win over. the harris campaign for its part has indicated that it has seen a ground swell of support for the harris walz ticket. in particular since vice president harris became the candidate for the democrats, they've seen about 20,000 volunteers up online to participate in one way or another with the harris campaign. at the same time, when the vice president and her running mate are here tonight talking to arizonans, they're going to have to make sure they tackle some of the big issues that are important to people here. as we talked to independent

voters, they say that the abortion issue is one that's important here. it's likely to be on the ballot in november, along with vice president harris as well as issues related to the economy. that really has been the number one issue for so many voters here. i want you to hear what some independents told us about their money. >> and the economy's not in a great spot. just some kind of a plan. i know when you're borderline in a recession like we are right now, it's not easy to swing yourself out of it. >> for me like i said, who's going to put money back in my pocket, making things more affordable. not necessarily lowering prices but maybe wages being higher. >> reporter: the other big issue here in arizona has been immigration and border security. i talked to one strategist yesterday who said that really is something that the vice president might want to stay away from, that it's sort of a third rail for democrats in this area because it's not an issue on which they've been able to win. they've talked mostly about former president trump tanking the bipartisan border security

bill earlier this year. the harris campaign has released a new ad that tackles border security that says she will add border agents if she becomes president and that she would also crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking. it's going to be interesting to see to what degree she talks about that tonight when she's got a stadium filled with arizona voters. >> very interesting indeed. gabby, how important are these states to democrats? how important should they be? the biden campaign seemed to be almost writing off the western states. now you're hearing talk about a western wall, the idea that democrats should pour more resource into both of these western states. >> when the biden team was on top of the ticket, that was not something nevada strategists want to hear. they feel like they have the best organized in the country. they feel like with vice president harris now at the top of the ticket, her strengths particularly relative to president biden, they feel like align exactly with the demographics of the voter base

in nevada. that would be voters of color and young voters. those are two groups disproportionately large in nevada. nevada's a majority minority state. the southwest in general is younger than the upper midwest. they feel like harris's strengths dovetail with the nevada electorate. >> and even republican strategists or republican elected officials will say if a race is close in nevada, the culinary union, the democratic operation in nevada tends to have a way to find the votes. there could be another close race in the senate contest there too, jacky rosen is up for re-election. republicans love their recruit. sam brown. what can you tell us about the state of that race? >> you wasn't hear her say it, but i think jacky rosenen and other vulnerable democrats are the most excited about this shift at the top of the ticket. rosen was going to have to run five points ahead of biden. that's really tough in a state where catherine cortez masto in 2022 won by less than 1 percentage point. if harris can carry the top of the ticket, that makes rosen's job much easier. republicans are excited about their recruit.

they feel like some turnout dynamics could benefit them. rural voters turn out in higher rates. democrats are really hopeful about left leaning independents, true independents and low propensity voters. >> the trump campaign is all about finding these low propensity voters. they think there's a lot of trump vote out there that hasn't been activated. it's going to be interesting to see how that plays. thank you very much for that reporting. and next, a big day for team usa in paris as the olympic games enter their final stretch. we'll look at the standings and the key moments to watch. you're watching ♪♪ . msnbc. 2024 volkswagen models cost less to maintain than honda. get 0.9% apr financing or a $3500 customer bonus on a new 2024 atlas or atlas cross sport.

now to some breaking news, nbc news has just learned that judge chutkan has granted special counsel jack smith's request for delay in next week's status hearing in former president trump's election interference case here in washington. that gives prosecutors until the end of the month to finalize their position on how the case should proceed. now, with the 2024 paris olympics entering its final weekend, terrible news in my household, team usa continues to lead the total medal count with an impressive 104, looking to collect a little more hardware today. american runner noah lyles took home bronze for the 200 meter dash, and later revealed he had tested positive for covid this week. american sydney mclaughlin marrone shattered her record in the 400 meter hurdles, and the

women's basketball team is up big. they have a huge winning streak on the line there. joining me now from paris, nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk. the noah lyles story is making a ton of headlines. even without him in the rest of these games, team usa is looking to medal in several track events today. what are you watching for? >> we were watching that game, and it's amazing to see the women beat australia as handily as they've been beating them. there's another semifinal game that's going to be played later on today, garrett. it could be the u.s. and france in the women's final. that is the matchup in the men's final as well, which would just be a kind of wild weekend. in the last decade here in france, basketball, the popularity of it has just skyrocketed, and it will be so fun to watch those games, you know, france hoping that they can secure some gold medals, while certainly on the women's side, they're looking at a record. it would be eight gold medals in a row, which sets an olympic record. it's going to be fun to watch. >> talk to me about the men's

basketball team. obviously a nail biter against serbia. i feel like every mens a basketball team gets compared to the dream team. this one was compared as well. now they've gotten themselves into the gold medal game. obviously that's going to be a huge highlight for these games. >> yeah, look, they were supposed to beat serbia. even though nick la, they were supposed to win. at the end of three quarters they were not winning. they looked like they were going to lose. even though stph curry was having a fantastic game. they came back in the fourth quarter, realized what was going on and seemed to fire up on all cylinders. steph curry scored 36 points, nine of them were three pointers, garrett. >> a lot of basketball fans have been wanting to see this day with steph curry and lebron on the same team.

you finally got a taste of what that could be like. even olympics we get new events. this cycle we have breaking. talk to me about breaking and if you'd like to demonstrate, we have some time left. >> i'm not going to demonstrate for you just because it would pale in comparison to anything you might be able to do. >> there you go. >> reporter: however, i will give you -- and this is really interesting, you know, it's an art form, right? it's a dance, but they are being evaluated on a number of different criteria, and some of them are a little confusing. i'm going to read them off to you. there's technique, vocabulary, execution, musicality, and originality. now, i'm not sure what vocabulary is, maybe it's just sort of the spectrum of things that you're able -- that you're able to do, but it's interesting, it's one on one showdowns, and they -- which they call battles, and then the breakers actually don't know the music before it's played, so they have to do a little interpretation as they go. it's exciting. you know, listen, there's a lot of history in the olympics, but obviously organizers are looking to a new generat