>> this campaigns joy versus exhaustion, what are you talking about tomorrow? >> tomorrow we are doing a wrap up of this convention, we have some of the stars on the stage, malcolm kenyatta, the bench is deep and we will have a lot of folks on. >> is michael steele still behaving? >> i think he took these cues from you, he likes to get up in the middle of the break and take his jacket off. >> that's it for us, we will see you monday morning. right now on are special coverage, kamala harris makes history. >> i accept your nomination for president of the united states

of america. >> the democratic nominee's opening statement to the country, laying out her vision for america and scorching her republican opponent. >> plus the gop nominee lashing out on fox. >> also ahead the final sprint begins inside the strategy of both campaigns with just 10 weeks until election day. >> later rfk jr. speech on his presidential bid, could a potential trump endorsement shakeup already unpredictable race? >> good morning, it is friday, 10:00 eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera along with my colleague jose diaz-balart.

vice president kamala harris reintroduced herself to the country last night as she formally accepted the party's presidential nomination and she used the speech as a chance to contrast her life story with that of her republican rival, donald trump. >> and painted trump's vision for america as backwards looking, and bitter. countering with her own view for the nation and its future. >> my mother had another lesson that she used to teach. never let anyone tell you who you are, you show them you -- who you are. america, let us show each other and the world who we are, and what we stand for. freedom, opportunity, compassion, dignity, fairness, and endless

possibilities. >> joining us now nbc, on the scene in chicago. and former senator carol moseley braun. she was also a delegate. beyond the politics of this moment, how did harris use the speech to share her personal story with america? >> one of the biggest goals of the speech at the dnc was to really introduce herself, reintroduced herself to america, sure, people know her as the vice president but she wanted to come out and explain to people how she sees the world and why she sees the world and a lot of it has to do with the way she was raised by her mother, she taught her daughter that she should have grits but also make sure she should be able to go out and do whatever

she wants to do. i want to play more about what she said about her mother. >> my mother, she worked long hours. and like many working parents, she leaned on a trusted circle to help raise us. she taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it. do something about it. that was my mother and she taught us, she also taught us, and never do anything half-assed and that is a direct quote . . >> and what really was interesting about this is that she did it explicitly about the fact that she is the first woman of color to accept a major party's nomination but she said her mother told her don't let people define you, and in this speech over and

over again she was showing america she is the daughter of a middle-class immigrant who met at a civil rights rally. >> yamiche , harris addressed specific policy goals and americans wanted to hear that from her? >> this speech had a lot of policy in it. she did talk specifically about a number of them. she talked about the fact that she believes israel should have the right to defend itself that she also has a goal to bring the israeli hostages home and to get them released from hamas and talked about the fact that palestine should have the security, freedom and self- determination so she was leaning in on the fact that all the things that we've seen, the innocent lives lost in gaza and that was something that should not be happening and she talked

about the border bill, the bipartisan border bill that we saw democrats and republicans come together, she laid that at the feet of president trump saying he is the reason why we don't have the bipartisan border bill and talked about the fact that she wants to sign a bill to have women, to ensure women the access to reproductive freedom and abortion in this country and she said donald trump would pass a national abortion ban and she would do the opposite, to restore those freedoms and she also talked about ending amount of -- america's housing shortage and talked about the fact that her mother spent more than a decade saving for her first home and she wants to make sure all americans have the opportunity to have a home and one of the policies she talked about was giving $25,000 to first-time homebuyers, so those are all the policy things

. >> she laid out markers and there are days ahead for her to fill in the details about how they would be implemented. senator, taking a step back and looking at this historic moment, you helped to pave the way, you were the first black woman elected to the senate, harris was the senate, she's now the first woman of color to get a major party nomination. what is your take away from this moment? >> i could not be happier, i'm so thrilled about this, and i was there yesterday to listen to the accolades that she received, she deserves, and the audience loved her to death. we were all loving on her, so it was wonderful. and it was a great to see for me. because, i wasn't the only one, obviously a lot of women have gone before to pave the way to make this happen for kamala, and she is so well-qualified and so capable and so ready for

the job,. >> senator, you ran for president recently in 2004, do you think the country is different now than it was in 2004 or are there still a lot of barriers and hurdles that remain? >> the barriers are still there but the country is different. i'm glad you point that out. that is exactly the difference, we've got a different moment, the country is ready to move forward, i think and we won't go back. i think that is precedent about the times that we are in. young people are ready to support a woman for president, and i think it's high time, it's been 174 years since virginia woodall ran. so it's

been a long time coming, but it is well worth it, this woman is so well-qualified, so highly principled, so ready for the job, and she's been the understudy to joe biden for the last what? four years, yeah, so she has it going on. i'm just delighted. >> stay with me, i also want to bring in professor michael eric dyson. it democrats around vice president harris had mentioned the glass ceiling and the racial and gender barriers that she could break if she is the next president of the u.s., but it's interesting that vice president hasn't really leaned into that narrative as much as the middle-class narratives that she talks so much about at her speech, let's listen. >> my mother kept a strict budget, she expected us to make the most of the opportunities that were available to us. and to be grateful for them. because, as she taught us, opportunity is not available to everyone, that is why we will create what i call and

opportunity economy where everyone has the chance to compete and a chance to succeed. >> her message there, not about her being the first and that being the standalone but more a message of my life was like millions of americans lives, what is your view of that approach? >> i was there all week, just arriving here in bc and i was there last night and it was a remarkable speech, her strategy was well taken and well advised. people know she's a black woman and a woman of indian descent, people know that people are arguing about the pronunciation of her name, arguing about her blackness, there's plenty of racial dialogue around vice president kamala harris, her job is to reassure people that her journey is their journey, that they can see themselves in her. that her particular predicament

is a reflection of a broader swath of the american public more than we know. yes the particularity of it is something she has never avoided, a number of alpha kappa alpha sorority, a graduate of an hbcu, all of the things as they say, resonate in blackness around her, the roll call for the states had blackness implanted over it, the music that was chosen, so in this sense it's like the cosby show in the 80s and 90s, you saw the paraphernalia on the wall, you saw them in their family settings but they didn't have to re-articulate the necessity of paying attention to the blackness because the blackness was pleasant and it was taken for granted and as a result of that, she's able to forge connections with other people and that strictly different than her policies which address the particularity and specificity of black

vulnerability and suffering but as for her, i think the message and strategy are quite powerful. >> harris prosecuted the case against trump and the trump agenda particularly when it comes to abortion access, here is some of that. >> he and his allies would limit access to birth control, band medication abortion and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without congress. and get this, get this, he plans to create a national antiabortion coordinator and force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions, simply put, they are out of their minds.

>> senator, you recently told the washington post that sexism is even more ingrained than racism. how do you think the vice president is threading the needle on these issues? >> well they are both equally powerful in their own rights, sexism is a war ancient malady that we've confronted because the genders male and female as we've constituted in them was from the beginning, race comes along centuries later but the reality is in this country that race makes sex count more, makes gender count more, there's a multiplying effect there but having said that, she's done brilliantly, she understands who she is, she is comfortable in her own skin, she's arrived at a moment when america has understood or is beginning to understand her fitness with the job, her greatness in her own right, and her comfort ability speaks volumes that she's able to talk about women, able to talk about people of color, able to talk about my nora ties to populations, she is comfortable

with being presidential and order to be presidential, you've got to deal with the intersection malady of all those normality's but also draw from them the possibility that together we can do far more. >> senator i'd love to get your thoughts on that, the threading the needle, we already mentioned that there are still barriers there, how do you think that she is doing in threading the needle talking about the racism and sexism that still exists today? >> i think she has learned from the lessons of the past, and she really is moving forward to explain, and let the american people know that race and gender notwithstanding, that she understands the situation. i was delighted and surprised that she went as much into policy as she did last night. she talked about what she would do about things, and that was a

part of the speech that i thought shown most brilliantly, that she was able to take all of the information, painting the picture of who she was and what she wanted, and pointing out what donald trump has done to this country, she was able to say, this is what i would do to fix those problems. and these are steps i would like to take and i could not have been more thrilled. >> thank you all, great to have you with us today, thanks so much. up next, new reporting out just in the last few minutes, secret service agents put on leaves after the attempted assassination of donald trump. and trump is responding to harris's acceptance speech as

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multiple secret service officials that have been put on leave, that's because of this ongoing internal investigation, one of many that were launched in the wake of the assassination attempt in butler pennsylvania, among was put on leave the special agent in charge of the pittsburgh field office, that was the field office in charge of coming up with the plan that allowed the roof that the shooter gained access to to be outside of the perimeter, they left that to local law enforcement and it's not clear they had any conversation with local law enforcement to make sure that they themselves would be on top of the roof and securing the rooftop in any way, this is something the acting director recently said that he would make sure that if anyone in the course of that investigation were found to have violated policies that they would be put on leave and they wouldn't wait until the end of the investigation to happen. the exact number, we don't know

yet, i'm heard it's around 5 to 6 but the number could change as they continue the investigation. it's not clear if these officials may come back into the agency later on, if they've been cleared but for now, they have been put on leave which is a form of disciplinary action and as a result of their actions taken in the planning and response to the assassination attempt on july 13th. back to the 2024 race, while vice president harris broke barriers and made history last night, her opponent is helping to deliver a compelling counterargument today, trump is headed to las vegas where he will host a no tax on tips event this afternoon. >> but the former president has had some difficulties staying on message after harris delivered her speech and he dialed into fox news for an interview that was ultimately cut off idaho's, here's part of that. >> you know, she's not having success, i'm having success. it's all in your eyes that they have that, we are doing very well in the polls, leading in most of the polls, and in the

swing states, we are leading in almost every one of them. >> mr. president, let me interrupt -- >> they threw joe biden out of the party. >> thank you very much sir, for the time. we appreciate the live feedback. >> that wasn't my fault, donald trump! he still talking, by the way. >> joining us now is jonathan allen also, washington post bureau chief, jonathan, what did the timing and the substance of trump's rebuttal signal to you? >> i think he's angry that he's not the center of attention and has not been for the last few weeks. he's going more and more to the most desperate bag of tricks that he has to command attention. it was on the disarray of democrats after the late june

debate, and it has been on kamala harris for pretty much every moment since she was elevated to be the nominee and certainly during her convention, and trump has difficult -- difficulty without any can't stand it. last night was a moment of, a historic moment, the nomination of the first lack one and -- women, and she was reaching for history and he was reaching for a gaslight? >> before he piled into fox, he was live reacting to the speech on his social platform, literally dozens of posts, we don't have any more room on the graphic to show them all but they were kind of all over the place, at one point he went back to the argument that undocumented immigrants are taking black jobs. trump has downplayed the calls from the allies of his to be more disciplined in his attacks. what are the risks for him politically in continuing to go to those kind of same old

playbook moves? >> this is a truncated campaign, it is shortened, it's a 100 a sprint to the presidency and every day that donald trump spends flailing on the different issues, not having a clear line, his campaign advisors know this and they are trying to set up these events that are supposed to be policy focus but when he can call into fox news and just start spouting off at the mouth, it'll make it difficult for them to come up with a clear line of attack against kamala harris and a clear rationale for why she should be the next president and he is losing his advantage, the advantage that he had against biden and he is clearly rattled by it and it's making it hard for him to stay consistent and stay on message and it seems like every day we are getting a different message from him.

it'll be difficult for him to be able to showcase why kamala harris should not continue this momentum that she's had over the past few weeks. >> and trump post one tweet on x during his bow social media blitz, thanking georgia governor brian campa for all your help, you'll remember that trump picked a fight with him during a rally a couple of weeks ago. what is this, what does this show you? >> it shows me number 1, that his aides have had some influence and told him it was pretty dumb to attack the popular governor of georgia at a time when he is vulnerable to losing georgia again, and it tells me that he is using you know, using twitter, his home back on twitter to do some of the communication outside of his own base, people outside of the base that follow him on twitter that will not follow him onto social, he does damage to himself and this is an attempt to repair and you wonder how many voters in georgia decided to heck with him the last time he went after

brian kemp. >> vice president harris made an effort to make her pitch not just to democrats but republicans and independent voters. are there any signs that it is breaking through? >> >> you can also look at the people who were on stage before including representative adam kinzinger, a republican who is in congress and broke with trump when he was in office, and we saw during this convention, a number of outreaches to republicans and moderate voters and harris continued that with her speech and it's clear that there are voters who don't like trump and aren't sure about harris and they weren't in biden's camp but they are giving an open air to harris and thinking that maybe they would cast a vote in support of her if she can push back against these attacks that

she's a radical leftist and a san francisco liberal and she wants to be extreme and vote communism, she presented a very different message, a very different profile to those voters and it's clear from what we've heard so far in the few hours after the speech that those voters are listening and they are considering voting for her and it's one of the things that is driving trump crazy, that kamala harris is reaching into his base, the people who would have voted for him if it was a trump and biden match but all of a sudden are drifting away from trump. despite the fact that he is citing a number of polls that we have not seen that show that he is ahead. it seems like the polling is showing the momentum going in the opposite direction. >> he falsely claims that he is leading in all the polls. >> thank you for being with us. up next, entering the final campaign sprint, how does vice president harris take the fight

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today in phoenix, robert f kennedy junior is planning to give an update on his path forward, after two sources told nbc he planned to drop out of the race and endorse trump. >> donald trump will be in glendale tonight but it's not clear if the two will appear together. dasha, what more do we know what they could say about an endorsement today? >> sources are cautioning us that nothing is final until its final but he will be here in downtown phoenix, trump will be in glendale, trump said last

night that they will be in different parts of the state, they are about a 20 minute drive from one another so they could have him come over very quickly and the trump team has been teasing a very special guest but what we do know is the former president is very interested in an endorsement in his own words, take a listen to what he told garrett yesterday. >> i would love to have his endorsement, that would be a great honor. >> that's despite what he said about the vaccine, >> it doesn't mean that. certainly having his endorsement. >> it just a reminder of some of those things that eric was referencing about rfk jr.'s positions, he spread conspiracy theories about covid-19 throughout the pandemic, he is behind one of the most well- funded anti-fax organizations, he said he wanted to dismantle

the cdc and the nih and the fda, he recently talked about having a brain worm, he admitted to leaving a bear carcass in central park. >> national polls show harris slightly ahead of trump with or without kennedy in the race so how much of an impact could this endorsement have? >> what we've seen in our polling is the majority of people who view rfk favorably are republicans, democrats and independent voters show a negative view of rfk so his numbers have gone down since harris went to the top of the ticket on the democratic side, which means it's likely that the 5% or so of folks that are still supporting rfk jr., lien republican, and that means that it could benefit former president trump and we are not talking about a huge percentage here. 4 to 5% if that but we expect such a tight race, it could be

a difference maker. >> we will be watching closely for those moves today. to 73 days left until election day. and really, it's even short of that, north carolina becomes the first state to begin mailing ballots in just over two weeks, the first presidential debate is on september 10th, widespread early voting begins september 20th, the vice presidential debate is on october 1st. >> and then you blink and it's time for america to decide who they want in the white house for the next four years. john, it seems that harris has the momentum right now, had it for the last couple of weeks, what do you think the trump campaign could do going forward, to change that or, do you think that's just not possible? >> i think is a, first of all the democrats had a great convention. it was upbeat, it was positive,

they had light, it was hopeful, and her speech last night, i think it was designed to show that she is strong, and she has strength. and she introduced herself to the american people and she obviously did a really good job. the question now is, she's going to have to go through the gauntlet, the prescott lint which i know, you and your family have been familiar with. as she goes through the gauntlet, pressing on the specifics and details, and if she's able to talk about the economy, she will be really tough for trump to beat. but we will have to see how that plays out and for trump, they are trying to say well, there making fun of him or whatever and he's a serious guy, trying to get into name- calling or anything else, that won't work. you've got to focus on his positions, and he's not somebody that you laugh that because he is serious and they tried to say that but to some degree, let trump be trump, let him, you know, he can bury himself, if he's not smart, so

at this point, i think it is waiting to see how harris does through this really additional scrutiny, the countries, they don't know her skill enough and she will have to answer questions like taxes or what she's going to do to capital gains and those kinds of things that will be important. >> i think a lot of people are looking forward to that debate on september 10th. we saw vice president harris really lean into her prosecutor credentials and attack truck as someone who is not patriotic. how does she keep the momentum going, and how should she approach that debate? >> well, the fact that she is you know, a trade prosecutor, who was noted several times over the course of the week at this convention, that she knows how to hold the person she is questioning, her opponent, politically, really hold their feet to the fire, and i think that she is going to have to demonstrate that with him, in

the debate. and he is going to do all of the blustering, all of the line, all of the things and she's going to have to be really good at making sure that she's communicating a message and definitely hitting him hard when he is trying to you know, be physically intimidating as he was in 2016, and emotionally intimidating when he was on the stage with hillary clinton. so i think there's so much momentum here, having come off of the convention myself as a delegate on the floor, the excitement, the joy of this historic occasion, her qualifications, the fact that she is reflective of a lot of people's experience, daughter of immigrants, blended family that she's married into, you know, a black woman, an asian woman, she speaks to so many demographics and then in her vp pick, amazing, you know, amazing man, representative of the midwest, but also good,

aggressive values. i think as long as they carry that sort of energy as they continue to travel, i think this will be one heck of some weeks going into the debate. >> chuck todd said unlike what the democrats have done in chicago, republicans didn't make a direct appeal to the center of the american electorate. the gop did little to assuage the fears of some voters that it was moving too far right. outside of inviting haley to speak, it's hard to point to a single night that seemed dedicated to expanding the tent of trump's gop. do you think the democrats made a good effort to expand their tent and how can republicans rewrite the script? >> i think they did do a good

job of trying to project a positive, you look at the speeches of michelle and barack obama and last night with her, particularly on the national security issues, she was projecting strength. what the republicans need to do however, is to focus on the record, the last 3 1/2 years of what's been happening, okay, kamala we know you want to do something about inflation but what exactly are you going to do and what have you been doing for the last three and half years. we know what you want to do on immigration but where were you on that? they need to focus on her changing positions and they need to focus on the facts. i had a discussion with some really smart people about people voting on personality or confidence and in the old days, people would vote a lot for who they liked in personality but things have not been good in voters minds for the last couple of decades and now they are voting on competence. it's always going to get down to the pocketbook. do they think that kamala harris can give their family

economic security, or do they believe that donald trump can give economic security and that is going to be the most essential and critical debate, whoever wins that debate is going to be president. >> maybe that will be a topic at the debate that we see in a couple of months. or weeks, i should say. atima, i want to touch on something that we heard from the governor earlier because we had sound last night from the vice president giving us a preview into the democrats new method of trying to handle trump, let's listen. >> in many ways, donald trump is an unserious man, but the consequences, the consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious. >> you know, mocking trump is something we didn't see a whole lot from president biden when he was in this race. could it be an effective strategy for vice president harris? >> i want to say first off, i

think that being unserious is not entirely inaccurate, and the reason i say that is because most of the things that we are saying about donald trump while they sell my they are mocking are actually true. he is obsessed with these narcissistic things such as crowd size, such as who loves him, who doesn't, so just being on top, such as beating up on folks who are in his party or don't bow to his ways and pointing that out and the dictatorial tendencies, it's not mocking him, it is pointing out facts, so i think people have seen his record over the last four years and they need to be reminded because folks like myself like john, they need to be reminded. >> former governor -- we have

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let me be clear, i will always stand up for israel's right to defend itself, and i will always ensure israel has the ability to defend itself because the people of israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called hamas caused on october seventh. at the same time, what has

happened in gaza over the past 10 months is devastating. so many innocent lives lost, desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety over and over again. the scale of suffering is heartbreaking. >> vice president harris addressing the war in gaza. the war is one of the most contentious issues that she faces among democratic voters being -- you watch the final night of the convention with a group of uncommitted voters. >> i did. it was fascinating because i sat with uncommitted voters

during the michigan primary to kind of get their gauge of which way they were leaning when it came to then president biden at the time who was running for reelection. and kind of going into this thing, they felt a renewed excitement when biden decided to step aside and harris was going to be the nominee for the democratic party and i wanted to get a gauge now of how they felt about the speech, what they wanted and what they wanted to hear from her over the next 70+ days or so between now and election day. let's take a listen to some of what they had to say. all of these folks voted on commitment except for one, sherry, was in the right front, who voted for biden during the primary and plans to vote for harris in november, everybody else so far, undecided. let's take a listen and we will talk on the other side. >> she walked the line, for she talked about israel and how october 7th mac was horrible,

but i feel like she downplayed what's been going on the last 10 months. >> we do need a permanent cease- fire. for me, that would have been different. >> you are bombing our families with our money and just one good speech will win us over again? i don't think so. >> the arab and muslim community, we've been voting for democrats for a long time, we donate and fund raise for them and we've knocked on doors but at this point, our money is going to our families overseas who are dying every single day who need aid because of the direct results from this administration which she is part of. >> if they lose voters who put trump in the office, that's on them and not us. they are not listening to their constituents. it's on them, it's not on us. >> here's the difference guys, when i walked away after interviewing folks after the

michigan primary, nobody was voting for joe biden. this time around, they seem more open, at least two of them did aside from sherry who is definitely voting for harrison made it clear to me, they seem more open to a kamala harris presidency. they want to give her the benefit of the doubt to prove to them that she deserves their vote, even lindsay said at the end of the interview, she said i think i'm going to vote for kamala harris, i just will not go out and stomp for her but they really want her to differentiate herself from president biden in the next 70+ days to make it known where she stands on the issues and as they say, call for a permanent cease-fire and let her actions represent her words. >> thank you. up next, harris makes history, her spot as america's first black woman and south asian presidential nominee, now official and splashed across the front pages coast to coast.

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we know and we know what a second trump term would look like, it is all laid out in project 2025, written by his closest advisers, and its sum total is to pull our country back to the past, but, america, we are not going back! we are not going back! >> vice president harris spoke about history in her speech last night. the u.s.' first female vice president accepting her party's nomination by defining her vision and describing who she is to a national audience. >> but how history will define harris could depend on the road ahead to november and the

outcome of election day. nbc's presidential historian michael beschloss is joining us now. >> michael, great seeing you. you say that vice president harris' speech last night accomplished more than any other such address in recent american history. what did you mean by that? >> well, what i meant by that is that here, kamala harris, you know, she's only been on this presidential stage, presidential candidate stage for a month. a lot of americans thought that they knew her because they had seen her as vice president, and as i think both of you would agree, the vice presidency tends to shrink someone because a vice president always has to sort of submit, you know, in her case she was in the shadow of joe biden. so this speech had to do an awful lot of work that most acceptance speeches do not and i would say that it basically was a ten strike in every respect that i can think of. >> our own chuck todd points out that conventions can be pivotal points in races as was the case

for gore in 2000, or clinton in 1992. they both were trailing their opponents going into their conventions and both got huge boosts coming out. and really never lost the momentum. now, gore, of course, didn't win. we know how close he came to victory. what is the message or lesson about what can lead to lasting momentum? >> well, first of all, i think i probably differ a little bit because gore, that was 24 years ago and the country is much more divided. so, even if this is a hugely successful convention, probably it will be only a few points, not like 1988 when republican convention was able to overcome a deficit of 18 points. that having been said, i think if you look at that convention this week, they used every single hour to the maximum. you know, take, for example, the roll call vote which we all have seen for years, it is usually boring, just calling on state chair people, and in this case,

they made it into a dance party and a rock concert and people watched. i think this is going to be the template for conventions of the future. >> michael, the vice president focused a lot of her speech on her upbringing, and her family's american dream. listen to part of it. >> sure. >> she was tough, courageous, a trailblazer in the fight for women's health, and she taught maya and me a lesson that michelle mentioned the other night. she taught us to never complain about injustice, but do something about it. >> biographical moments from conventions can stick in our nation's consciousness. clinton still remembered as the man from hope, he referred to it in his speech. did you find anything this the vice president's speech that could maybe leave that kind of lasting impression? >> it was absolutely crucial that she do that last night because so few people know about

her, and her background. some people may think that, you know, she came, for instance, from a rich family in the bay area in california. one reason why clinton's was so powerful in 1992 was that polling showed the political consultants on clinton's team that a lot of people thought that clinton came from a privileged background, really helped, and it did last night too. >> michael beschloss, always a pleasure. >> it is. great seeing you. >> thanks for the broader perspective and context. thanks. coming up in our next hour, a harris/walz campaign official is going to join us on the state of the race and how they plan to bottle that energy from the dnc and take it directly to voters. >> we'll also be speaking to an immigration activist who came here from mexico as a child about the vice president's plans for the border. more special coverage after a short break. don't go anywhere. special cove short break. don't go anywhere. it looks like food, it smells like food, it's what dogs are supposed to be eating. ♪

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