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tonight on 360 a cnn exclusive, our kfile has uncovered startling comments on a porn site made by the man now governor of north carolina, mark robinson. he denies the charges, vows to stay in the race. the latest tonight, also, just a few moments from now, oprah winfrey is scheduled to appear with vice president kamala harris just outside of detroit and swing state, michigan. will bring you some of that live and breaking news in kentucky, a judge shot dead in his own chambers. authorities say a preliminary investigation indicates it was a sheriff who killed him, were expecting a news conference with more details. we begin tonight with our cnn exclusive 47 days before the election, a bombshell report from cnn's kate files about north carolina's republican lieutenant governor mark robinson, who's also his party's nominee for governor.
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newly discovered comments that he made on the message of the message board of a porn website between the years 2008 in 2012 comments that follow an already lengthy history of controversial past remarks about abortion 911 people who are transgender. tonight, the naacp, north carolina as raleigh news and observer is calling for robinson to drop out of the gubernatorial race with at least one congressional republican agreeing. and more starting to distance themselves from robinson this comes as polls suggests, the state is the state the former president has won twice, maybe up for grabs. cnn, excuse me, see, a senior editor of cnn's kfile, andrew kaczynski joins us now talk about first all, where did robinson make these comments? >> well, anderson cnn found a series of highly disturbing posts made on the message board of a pornographic website. and more than a decade ago we trace them directly to mark robinson. now we did interview him today, any categorically denies making these posts. i'll get to that in just a moment. but first, i
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want to walk people through just some of them take a look at this right here in one post, robinson called himself a quote, black nazi. and when discussing then president barak obama in 2012, writing quote i take hitler over any of this that's in washington right now. it even really goes beyond that in another disturbing posts robinson defended slavery, writing in quote, slavery is not bad, and i wish they would bring back slavery. i would certainly buy a few. now, all of these and many other comments you can read on cnn.com were made of the message board of a porn website called nude africa. and anderson, in addition to those posts, he also expressed views on nude africa that sharp lee contradict his current policies as a socially conservative candidate for governor, for example, he has been vocally anti-transgender, but look at what robinson wrote on the porn message board a decade ago, writing that he liked, quote watching transgender porn, adding quote, that's effing
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hot and calling himself a quote heard in another thread that was discussing the story of a woman who said she had been raped by her taxi driver while she was drunk, robinson wrote quote, and the moral of this story, don't eff, a drunk white so he wrote this all this years ago. he was i guess i'm not sure what he was doing that and it was a citizen before he got into politics, how do you know that it's him? >> well, anderson, we found that robinson consistently use that same username. many soldier that he used on nude africa in all of his social media. you can see it on pinterest black planet, youtube. he even previously used it as his twitter candle and his full name was also listed on nude africa along with an email that but he used on nude africa that he used on several other websites. now the biographical data from multiple sites using menary soldier also matches robinson's, his exact date of birth, his hometown. the fact that his mother worst in hbcu, even having his
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favorite episode of the twilight zone as number 22. >> and what is robinson? so now saying about all this so robinson calls this trash. >> he says it's not him. we ask that campaign for comment and we gave them 48 hours to respond. that deadline was this morning and that's when lieutenant governor robinson agreed to do a brief interview with us. here is just a bit of that robinson. thank you so much for being willing to talk to us. i think we'll just jump right into it. do you deny that this account is you? >> well, first off, let me say. thank you so much for allowing me to come here and clearly here, we absolutely i do. i do. this is not us, these are not our words and this is not enough then his characteristic of me nor has it ever, has it ever been the people here of north carolina know i have been completely transparent about my history all the wards and we put them all out. we let folks know about it but the folks here also know my character. they know who i am, they know
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my voice so to speak that this is not my voice is not things that we would ever say or even think. so absolutely we do. >> how do you explain all of the matching details on this profile? the profile on nude africa lists your full name as mark robinson, the email listed on the account is an email that you used us. you have used elsewhere? they're on the internet, including with your photo. you have used that name many soldier on multiple social media accounts, including twitter, pinterest, black planet, and youtube. how can you deny with all of these matching details that this is you? >> look, i'm not going to get into a new sheriff house on my manufactured their saw these salacious tabloid lives. but i can tell you this. there's been over $1 million spent on me through ai by billionaire son who's bound and determined to destroy me. the things that people can do with the internet now was incredible. but what i can tell you is this, again, these are not my words. this is simply tabloid trash being used
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as a distraction from the substantive issues that the people of this state are facing we have addressed it. we have said it's not true, and we wish we could move on and get busy with the business of the people of the state okay. >> well, these posts, they do take place over a five-year period from 2008 to 2013. you mentioned ai. are you saying that somebody was somehow manufacturing biographical details to exactly match you using your username i have no idea how this was done i have absolutely no idea how it was done. >> i have five weeks left in this campaign to focus on the substantive issues that nor karelina's price. i did not have time for tabloid trash. >> there have been rumors that some of your campaign staff have have quit. can you tell us if that's true or not absolutely not. >> and we are not getting out of this race. there are people who are counting on us the win this race because again, we don't want a governor who's going to be a person that can't be counted on to tell the truth. and i can assure you my opponent has been taken to
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court for not telling the truth in campaigns and he's been completely dishonest. in his ads against me, his camp is so desperate to destroyers. it's just like clarence thomas years ago. this is a high-tech lynching back long years ago. they used to use ropes, nauta using table now, lieutenant governor robinson released a video on x shortly after our interview underscoring that he plans to still stay in the race, anderson. >> all right. andrew kaczynski. thank you. there are a lot of questions obviously tonight about what impact this might have on other candidates on the ballot in north carolina, especially the top of the gop ticket, going i go to alayna treene, who's covering the trump event tonight in washington are you hearing anything from people in the foreign presence orbit about this? >> yeah. we've we've begun to hear some things about this. so many people in donald trump's orbit had actually been preparing and had heard rumblings about a controversial story about mark robinson prior to that, kfile reporting
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dropping today. now, i've been told that they had not donald trump's campaign it had not invited robinson to a rally that is scheduled for this saturday in wilmington, north carolina. and now they are saying that that decision is expected to hold, but of course very notable that donald trump is going to be in the state just days after this bombshell reporting from our own andrew kaczynski. now, i've also been told that many people within it donald trump's campaign and those close to the former president has long had reservations about robinsons gubernatorial candidate, particularly because this isn't the first time that he has made very controversial and pretty damaging remarks. remember, he has previously mocked victims of school shootings. he has been very demeaning to the civil rights rights movement. there's a lot of other examples i can point you to, but that has already led to a lot of unease within trump's orbit, but that hasn't stopped. i should argue donald trump for from continuing to support robinson, he endorsed him earlier this year, so there's a lot of questions
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about that now, i am told that donald trump's team wants to continue to try to distance him distance the. former president from robinson. but at this moment in time, they say that there are no plans to try and pressure him to withdraw from the race himself. >> anderson. >> thank you. i'm joined now by cnn's eva mckend, jamal simmons, former communications director for vice president harris, met maori and former official in the trump administration and former rnc communications director doug heye jamal. there's a lot to unpack here. i'm not sure how much we actually want to unpack, but this is still the family out and apparently there's other things that were written which are have not been put out there. what what is the impact of this? >> oh i. think it's going to have a big deal in the state of north carolina. >> he's already down in the polls. she's already down. but one thing has gotten politicians in trouble in the past and maybe will continue to is hypocrisy. the fact that he said things in public, that he does not seem to believe in private. the same also gets politicians in trouble as being hateful and going against american institutions and right
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now, i think most americans consider martin luther king to be an american institution. they're proud of slavery to be something that they're against and don't want back. and hitler to be something they despise someone they despise so to be for those things is actually not really a great place for the candidate to be. now what we're going to see is whether or not trump's style politics will apply to any he body else other than donald trump. we've been waiting to see if a candidate who is iconoclast, it's like trump, who was his hateful or says things that are maybe as hateful and can be a separate critic of trump. if that person will still win, what we don't know, but we might see with mark robinson even, i mean, you spent all the time being stage. do you think this story like this resonates? >> well, i think the harris campaign is eager to try to tie the former president to mark robinson. we're already seeing them do that tonight on social media. and it leans into a broader argument that they have been trying to make that the former president is too extreme that people like mark robinson and by extension, the republican party is too extreme. and i think it is
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having an effect. so we see them really investing in this republicans for harris trying to peel off these conservative voters that just cannot stomach supporting the former president. i met a voter in vegas who has never supported a democrat for president ever in his life. and he is supporting vice vice president harris this cycle. and i asked him why and he said the most important issue to him, his character and so those are the type of voters that the harris campaign thinks that they can reach in the wake of stories like this one that, i mean, this is a person that a foreign prison trump once called martin luther king on steroids. do you think the former president should revoke his endorsement? do you think it's likely that he would because the statement put out by the campaign today didn't directly address cnn's reporting on robinson yeah. >> i mean, look from a strategic perspective, what donald trump needs to do is if he's asked address it, say if it's true, he doesn't agree with it and try to pivot and move on. i think at this stage, trying to withdraw and endorse
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i spent or something like that. it's just going to continue this story and i'll say, having done politics now for almost 20 years, rarely do you see a down-ballot race impact about above it you often see an impact from top to the bottom if you have a bad federal election year for republican or democratic party, maybe down-ballot. it has an impact, but very rarely do you actually see an impact up ballot. so i'm not sure how much this is truly going to impact donald trump's campaign in north carolina, except to say that he's got to somehow find a way to keep republican volunteers enthused while also trying to show some distance between him and some of the obviously extreme comments and rhetoric of mark robinson i'll just say one quick point, where he stands today is not a surprise to the point you made anderson. i mean, we pulled this race. my firm pulled this race about a year ago for a different client. he was down a couple of points already earlier this year. he was already down by five and that's because of some of the controversial comments that the stein campaign has been playing for the better part of a year now doug i mean, we're monitoring the foreign
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presence event and i just in case he weighs in on this, meanwhile, north carolina democratic governor roy cooper just weighed in trying to tying robinson to trump as eva was indicating writing on social media, donald trump and north carolina gop leaders embraced mark robinson for years, knowing who he was and what he stood for. >> putting disrespect for women inciting violence. they reap what they so i'm wondering what you make of that. >> well, anderson, north carolina's my home state. i've worked a few senate races there and spoke to more than one north carolina current elected official and an former elected official today. and i'm reminded of being in north carolina in chapel hill and raleigh, north carolina, the day of when the day after the access hollywood tape came out, big difference though, we've had a lot of these little access hollywood tapes from mark robinson and mark robinson isn't donald trump match, right? he was probably toast before today. now he's just a bigger piece of toast. the problem is that this isn't about the governor's race. that race is over. josh stein will win the question is does this affect up ballot? and i think
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potentially it does. and i know for a fact that the trump campaign is and has been worried that it does because not just these comments that distract donald trump, he obviously make some weird comments from time to time as well. but also this campaign has no money. it has no ground game. it can't drive out their own voters. they're not all wrong boeing in the same direction. and that's a real problem. offer trump. and i've heard this on the ground, not just for the past day or a few weeks. i've heard this months and months ago that they were worried about what would happen when the robinson comments came out. they were worried about what effect it might have if donald trump were to cut mark robinson loose and you can certainly understand why would trump wants to win. he cares about his own winning first and foremost, no surprise. so that's where republicans have put themselves in. and ultimately, yeah, this is a making of donald trump because he endorsed him. donald trump's endorsement doesn't determine who the nominee is, but it sure helps end. this is another example, anderson and i'll wrap up. i'll shut up here in a second. and this is another example of republicans
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taking their own fists and saying stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself. we saw this in the pennsylvania governor's race. we saw it in the maryland governor's race. this cycle, last cycle, the cycle before these kinds of candidates sink republicans. >> jim, to your point earlier about the hypocrisy, if if he had been on some porn site foreigners incredibly popular in america. i don't know anybody would really care that much. it's so contradictory. his stance on transgender issues they taxis made and apparently interest on transgender people on this porn site, it's obviously seems a stark contrast. but i think when you are saying things in public that don't hold up in your private life. that is the kind of thing when you're running for office, comes back and it hurt you in a bad way that is the place where he is right now. but remember, he was bad from north carolina before this started. this is a guy hi, who wanted a total abortion ban. he said get them down to zero, is the guy who said he
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wanted to restrict birth control for women and girls. and this is a guy who said he wanted to unwind the medicaid expansion which affects hundreds of thousands of people in north carolina who have health care because of this. so i think the sigh campaign, wants people to focus on the fact that this is not the person you want to have given during the judgment or having the judgment to make decisions for any north carolina family, i mean, do you think it's over for him? >> he was pointing out ten points down in the polls i would not want to be working on that campaign right now, the trans thing is i think the most jarring thing for me, right? because the policies that he supports and the rhetoric he espouses puts these, this vulnerable community in danger, right? and so that is, i think the most drawing point of all of this. but democrats will seize on this. they already thought that they were in a strong position in north carolina north carolina to be clear, anderson is a purple state. it is a state with a lot
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of hbcus. and so they are investing in organizing in those spaces and this just helps they can appeal to conservative and republican voters who just think that this is going to be a bridge too far. >> i've also never heard of anybody going to a porn site in order to make comments. i was unaware that there are comments sections doug, i want to play some of the republican reaction today on capitol hill. let's listen pretty sad to go this far along and then the paper supported in all the money that he's raised. and i think he needs to drop out today. >> i definitely want to read what the allegations and the comments on it. i myself can't support anyone if that all turns out to be true for all the allegations are very concerning my hope is that the governor can reassure them people north carolina, that the allegations are true obviously disappointing. do you think he should resign, drive out of the race?
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>> i'll live in north carolina, so it's up to north carolina. people of north carolina i mean, it does not all but some congressional republicans starting to distance themselves. >> do you imagine that? i imagined do you imagine that is going to increase absolutely. >> richard hudson there, who you showed we went to college together. i've known him for a long, long time. the outrage in the state predated this this just brings it all all further to bubble, and this is why it's toxic and republicans need to learn stopped nominating, stopped voting for these cartoon candidates. these addams family candidates who sink your chances in november. this is just the latest most outrageous example. >> doug heye. thank you, everyone else stay with us. we'll have more from the panel coming up the state of the president if a race a slew of new polls dropped, including four for pennsylvania state critical to both campaigns. harry enten is going to walk us walk us through the latest polls. and again, we're also expecting to see by frozen harris appear live on stage with oprah winfrey tonight, a major campaign event and other must-win state michigan will take you there the ability to get ahead
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50% off now at very.com, eva mckend on the road, harris-walz can cnn any moment we're expecting to see vicident harris appeared at a major campaign event outside detroit, hosted by oprah winfrey. michigan obviously must-win state for her campaign officials telling cnn, they view this as a big moment in
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their words, they're hoping that oprah star power helps them reach a broad range of voters the event is being live streamed across harris and winfrey social media accounts will bring you some of it once harris takes the stage, this comes the same day as this new national poll from the new york times and sienna college has harris and trump tied 47% a piece coincidentally, as we mentioned, the exact same number of days until the election. we also have four new polls. on the state of the race in pennsylvania, a must win for both campaigns, while more than that in a moment, and a short time ago, the foreign president spoke at an event on fighting anti-semitism. that's what it was billed as. it was sponsored by republican billionaire donor miriam adelson may remember last month when the president praised adolf sin, he said the civilian award he gave her an office, the middle of freedom was both actually much better than the medal of honor. the nation's highest military decoration. today, speaking before jewish americans about anti-semitism, he said this 47 days from now, we're going to defeat kamala harris. you have to defeat kamala more than any
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other people on earth israel, i believe has to defeat her. you know, that i and i've never said this before. i'm thinking myriam more than any people on earth, israel has to defeat her. i really believe that its disaster for israel i'm joined now by washington post columnist philip bump and our senior data reporter, harry enten and back with us, even mckend, jamal simmons, and matt, hour or so. harry mentioned new polls out of pennsylvania where they said, yeah, we got a buffet, an assortment for you last night we were talking about that quinnipiac university poll. i said that there was going to be more pennsylvania paul's. i deliver for and what we see in those polling is sort of a range, right? quinnipiac is the most friendly to kamala harris with a plus five what? the bottom line is, you look at all of these polls. what you see as anything from a tie and marris up to a li plus five, the average shear is pretty good for kamala harris, write the number of those would be within the margin and they are within
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them margin of error. that's why we show all of them, and that's why i take the aggregation because that of course gives you a better idea of where the race would be. and so you see that range. but the bottom line is if you take the average of all of them, which you see is essentially kamala harris up by two or three depending on how exactly you take the average and why is pennsylvania so important? look, we've done a number of segments on pennsylvania, pennsylvania pencil silvanio pennsylvania, and the bottom line is this. if you win pennsylvania, your chance of winning the presidency is quite high. so for instance, for kamalaharris, it's 88% if she wins the state of pennsylvania, if donald trump loses state of pennsylvania, it's a 94% chance of winning this particular election. so the bottom line is pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania. if you win pennsylvania, probably going oh, not to win the white house. but i mean, does it matter the national issues? apparently, neck and neck. i mean, look, there are a lot of people were saying earlier which he's gotta be ten points up nationally. >> this is going to be one of the great questions of our time, which is what's going to be the gap between the electoral college and the popular vote. the large belief generally out there is that kamala harris has to win the popular vote by at least two
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points in order to win in the electoral college. however, there was a very interesting analysis today for my dear friend nate cohn at the new york times, which actually suggests that kamala harris is doing particularly well in those northern battleground states better than you might think based upon the national vote. and these polls, i think kind of proved that because in pennsylvania, she's actually at least in the polls released today, at least matching in her national numbers, if not exceeding them i mean, do we think these polls i think that they are still running scared is what i'm hearing from them. >> they don't want to get overconfident here, but certainly it is a good sign in. it is an endorsement of the strategy that they are employing. i think many of us it's in the media are frustrated because we want to be able to question the vice president. we want to be able to get a better understanding of her evolution on some of these key policy matters. but they're running a very tight ship there, running a very disciplined operation. everything is very strategic they are meeting the voters where they need to be. and i
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think that they are getting the results that they want to get. >> let's quickly listen to vice president harris's interview with oprah winfrey, which is happening right now and let's open the door let's open the door and invite everybody else in and everybody actually came or organically. >> you organically like this is the beauty of our country. there's so much at stake in this election. and ultimately the question before us is, what kind of country do we want to live in? and the beauty of the democracy, as long as we can hold onto it. the beauty of democracy is each of us has the power. each of us has the power that's right to answer that question, right? >> everybody on this call and beyond has the power. but can i just start with this? >> yes, please. i have to say this because in all of my private conversations yellen i've said this 100 and everybody is saying, you all have said, i know you have. >> it seems to us that something happened to, you the
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moment joe biden, president biden stepped aside and withdrew his candidacy? that a veil are something dropped and you just stepped in good at a speech like the week before, which was a great speech and then then that's week walk in in the each have those moments in our lives where it's time to step up, time to step up on the set while the moment you heard i mean, i really have been saying to people that felt like a veil dropped and you sort of stepped through that veil. did did that
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actually did you feel like that i felt a sense of responsibility to be honest with you. >> and with that comes a sense of purpose but i mean, we're all here and you all are taking time out of your busy lives. everyone here, everyone on the screen because there really is so much at stake. you know, i have spent the majority of my career being concerned about the well-being of other people as i've said in my career as a prosecutor, i never looked at a victim or witness and ask them, are you a republican or a democrat? the only thing i ever asked him are you okay? >> are you okay? i know when i heard that touched me and traveling this country and knowing what is at stake in terms of fundamental freedoms what's at stake in terms of fighting against hate in those, those efforts to divide us and i do know that i'm in a position to do something about
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it. so i felt a great responsibility and the incredible power of the people right? who i'm not the only leader in this. we're all leaders in this. this is so much bigger than me it's about who we are as americans. and it's about making clear what we stand for and what we stand for as it is about the ideals upon which we were founded, including the importance of freedom and the importance of independence and the importance of dignity and purpose. but it is it's also about what we stand for in terms of our values i think of it this boils down to values i just said values. here does i mean think about it, oprah the idea that someone suggesting that my opponent and suggests which is at the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beat down come on the real measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you lift up it's important for
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ever since the debate, we feel for our fellow citizens in springfield, do you not think about the fellow citizens in springfield, ohio, the haitian families the non haitian families, everybody having to deal with this lie that has endangered the lives of haitian people at anybody who looks haitian everybody in america fills for that. >> and i also everybody in america left, right, middle has concerns about immigration. and i'm told that justin justin, where are you in the audience? justin? >> hello, in audience. >> madam vice you live in michigan? yes, ma'am. don't you love sen. hello, madam vice president what's your question? >> it's an immigration issue. is when you become president, what would be your specific steps? yeah, of course, will be a specific steps to strengthening the border so
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it's wonderful and important question i, you know, my background was it as a prosecutor and i was also the elected attorney general for two terms of a border state so this is not a theoretical issue for me. >> this is something i've actually worked on. i have prosecuted transnational criminal organizations for the trafficking of guns, drugs, and human beings. i take very seriously the importance of having a secure border and ensuring the safety of the american people are now can be traced most recently back to the fact that when the united states congress, members of congress, including from the most conservative republicans came up with a border security bill and here's what that border security bill would have done. it would have put 1,500 more
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border agents at the border. let me tell you those border agents are working around the clock. it would have just been about giving them some support and relief, which is probably why the border agents actually endorsed the bill it would have allowed us to stem the flow of fentanyl. and i'm looking at people from all over the country here so i don't need to tell the folks who are watching this what fentanyl has done to families to kids in our country and the need to take seriously stemming the flow coming into to our country and addressing that extraordinary and tragic issue in terms of its effect, the bill would have allowed us to have more resources to prosecute transnational criminal organizations and it would have been part of the solution and donald trump called up those folks and said don't put that bill on the floor for a vote. he blocked the billing because he preferred to run on a problem
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instead of 50. a problem watching this jamaal, you know, her very well, former communications director for for harris, an event like this is how power, how important is this you think for her? oh, it's very important. she started doing these moderated conversations about a year. so after she was in the white house getting a 22 and to 2022 minutes, 2022 started doing these dead woman, kiki palmer at the essence festival. some other ones as he's been continuing to do them for the last couple of years. and what happens if she gets in the rhythm of being the able to have a conversation where you've lowered the pressure on some of these big speeches, but sometimes frankly don't always go as well as you might want. the lower the pressure on a big interview, but you have a conversation where you can see her personality come through and people respond really well to that because he's very comfortable in the space. and i think you'll see tonight that people will continue to think she's want to go job well, i just listening to hear here. she is continuing to thread the needle here on this immigration
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issue, talking about immigrants and a compassionate matter, but also needling the former president for squashing that bipartisan border enforcement bill. so she has that issue, i would say down pat and there'll be interesting to see how voters respond to so that if that's a sufficient answer for voters. but i think what was also important about this event tonight is they partnered with wind with black women. they of course are an organizing force in this country. they had that zoom calls several weeks ago when it was announced at the vice president would be the candidate more than 90,000 women tuned into that call, the raised one-and-a-half million dollars in just about three hours and black women are just going to play such an important role in this election. so many democratic women have often said that they don't feel as though they are invested in and when it comes to them being candidates will now the top of the ticket is a black woman. and so for them to be a partner in this event tonight, i think
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is a really important strategic choice thing that struck me is when we went to that to that exchange, the first conversation was about the effect that individual people what can half. and we were just talking about all these polls and pennsylvania that showed that it's close and i think one of the questions one harris became the nominee is why she can be able to close the gap that had grown between trump and biden. we saw that, yes, she was. and then the next question was, well, she going to be able to extend that gap and we haven't seen that that has happened. we haven't seen that she's taken a 5-6 point national leader in the state polls, as harry pointed out that means is that with seven weeks left, the key is getting people to vote. and so when she makes those comments to that group of people, they're in that room saying, hey, it's up to you the obvious point here is we need you to go vote and that's what it is. this is a turnout race. it's a turnout race because these polls are close. it's going to come down to who actually is coming out and casting a ballot over the course of the next early voting period. and then on election day, and that's what that event is focused on is focused on making sure that they know, you have to vote. this is incumbent upon you more than me
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at this point harry, this is harry's line of business here around the polls. >> but you know, it's interesting though, just said something. people keep expecting her to expand her lead in a way. but i think just might not hold up and there our modern context that would mean donald trump would have to lose support and he's really been a 47, 48% candidate. i don't know that we're ever going to see him dropped down to 45%. >> i tend to doubt it. look, we've had national elections in this country that have been decided by single digits since 1,988, it's the longest such stretch since we've had the popular vote being counted in the 80s 1000s, but just talking about kamala harris has strengths as a candidate, right? you go back two months ago when she was became the presumptive democratic nominee, her net favorability ratings or something like -14 -15 points. she has climbed all the way back. and now if you take an average of polls, her net favorability rating is actually positive it's because of events like tonight. the only other thing i'll mention you know, eva was mentioning black woman, one of the more interesting sort of nuggets that we've seen in the cross tabs seen in pennsylvania is
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kamala harris has certainly improved upon her standing with black voters overall versus what joe biden was doing earlier on in the year. but she is still falling short of biden's benchmark in 2020 i think one of the big questions going forward is, can she actually reach that benchmark that biden said in 2020? because if she does, she will likely win this election. >> met obviously donald trump would have loved to have had the support of oprah winfrey or taylor swift that did not happen how important do you think events like this action? julie are whether it's reaching out to people who maybe were on the fence are going to sit on the couch or does it change anybody's mind? >> dealing with what we need to do, what donald trump will claim oprah winfrey endorsed him the year of 2000. >> i don't know if you saw his campaign put out that letter that she had sent it back then saying would make a great team to run for office but look, of course, these are exciting moments that are meant to raise money generate attention but what i actually really took
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away from this event and was where it was being held. it was held in farmington hills. this is a town in oakland county, michigan. michigan's a state i worked on in 2016 for the trump-pence campaign. in fact, took ivanka trump to invent not too far away from where they are tonight. and what it tells me based upon both the fact that's with oprah winfrey. if you look at that audience is predominantly made up of women, you'd bring, you go to a place like oakland county. this is a wealthier suburb of detroit. they are trying to run up the score with suburban college-educated women. and at the end of the day, more than anything else, this is likely to come down to. does donald trump is donald trump able to improve or does he lose compared to 2020? he's now numbers with educated, college-educated women, or does he is able to actually outgrow that pace of loss by gaining black and hispanic men. and that's likely what this campaign is going to come down to at the end of the day, especially in those rust belt states, saying, we're going to continue to monitor this injury for any comments about our cnn exclusive on north carolina republican gubernatorial
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campaign kicked off the fighting for reproductive freedom bus tour to support the fundamental right for women to make decisions about our own bodies. and here is a short tape on that i did something that nobody thought was possible. i got rid of roe v. >> wade after roe v. wade was overturned, tennessee for a ban that banned all abortion with no exceptions. abortion bans or knocked her life. they are pro poverty for when he spent over two years since a five to four ruling by i just supreme court ended roe versus wade, the landmark case that provided nearly 50 years of abortion rights across the united states since then abortion has been banned in over a dozen states. many women and doctors say the limits on reproductive rights have forced them into just check back in with this in a bit i mean, an event like it's
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so interesting how campaigns have changed now and evolved. i mean, from donald trump is sort of reset the bar for you don't have to answer the question you were asked. you can just answer the question you can just make the statement you want to make, and it's something i think the harris-walz campaign has picked up on as well and sort of has gone along with this kind of new dynamic and certainly like the oprah effect on an event like this, it allows her the candidate or candidate harris to you know, to be comfortable to your earlier point and to just sort of have this dialogue in a way that's f4 fans of oprah, for people are curious about kamala harris. i mean, it's, it's obvious why she would want to do an event like yeah, you know, it's changed campaigns on even more is social media because now we found is 50% of people are getting their news from scrolling on their phones with their thumb. and in 25% of them are getting news not just from scrolling it, but because somebody's tagged them, that got it dm to them in some
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fashion. so they may not even be in the algorithm. so part of the trick of the campaign in the office is do something that's going to be viral. it's going to make people pay attention to it we did an event when i was in the white house and the vice president with priyanka chopra, jonas we did the event. it was great. i got a lot of complaints from some people about doing the event. some of the older democrats, why are you doing this? it's not serious. she's the vice president that was the number one event or a political event on instagram that day, it was a priyanka chopra jonas, you feel because we saw donald trump do a because doing more sort of town hall-style things he did was said, sarah huckabee sanders with her name tulsi gabbard recently as well. >> obviously, not quite the same production values has when oprah is doing something but it's an effort to try to, i think probably rein in donald trump a little bit and not have him meanders much, although certainly the huckabee event he would meander a lot huckabee
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sanders was both his press secretary and is the sitting governor. >> so hopefully she, if anyone, is going to be able to do that, i think cj let's point this is an era in which not only are people getting their news through social media and through these fragmented channels work for newspaper. i'm sedan and cable news i'm cognizant but that said it is also a reality that a lot of people are sort of isolated in their own spheres of conversation, right? particularly on the right, i think it is more dramatic problem on the right, i think when you have trump doing these things and doing these odd little podcasts and things like that. part of it is about him being comfortable in that space. part of it is to the point i was making earlier that it's about engaging people and turning people out to vote. that is about ensuring that his folks are motivated and energized in the same way that we are seeing kamala harris do that tonight. i think that's a central and quite frankly, the people, if you are the harris campaign and you were trying to get your voters to come out to vote in november. it is better to do something that's gonna go viral on social media with oprah winfrey than it is to have a piece in the washington post, no offense to the
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while you save i've never slept the full night my entire life i was 5-years-old when my stepfather abused me for the first time i just felt like i was alone on a planet with a monster impregnated me i just remember thinking i have to get out of my skin i can't be me right now like this, can't be it. i didn't know what to do i was a child. i didn't know what it meant to be pregnant at all but i had options because donald trump overturned roe v wade, girls and women all over the country have lost the right to choose even for rape or incest donald trump did this he took away our freedom
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harris and i approve this message. my life was full of questions yellow light or dark? >> i do. >> pay any olise thing. >> thankfully, type the answer to almost all of them. >> why do we even by napkins goldwater, the it can with do i need to preach? >> you called kamala this is chocolate bright just hard no matter who is doing it on what cycle horn went, temperature tied works. >> so i could focus on one other questions. >> your craps are firebrand for all of lives, laundry questions it's got to be tied i'm ali man down the newest ambassadors dancers. >> plenty story how i became an ambassador. >> i went to the store and i lied and said i wasn't ambassador. do i get at this count the owner called me and said, would you like to be an ambassador for sketchers? and i said, yes, try skechers slip in let me started feeding bogey, the farmers dog who lost. so much weight precaution packs makes it really easy to keep him lean and healthy in the morning, he flies up the stairs and ops obama but in the past, he would not have been able to do any of those things it
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wasn't hard with paula god, it did it my way cola got guard is for people 45 plus at average risk, not high risk, false positive and negative results may occur. >> screen for colon cancer and your home, you we're waiting as your provider for told the guard tv on the edge premieres sunday at nine on cnn still trying to gather some more information about a story we're about to bring you a surfer and now we're going to go back to vice president harris in her one-on-one interview with oprah winfrey she's being asked a question about reproductive rights and the family you're looking at it well, we appreciate so deeply you being here and i we're all watching you hear that tape and those words, we know how retraumatizing that is. and the strengthened it takes for you to be here to tell your story. and we deeply appreciate it. and i have to ask you as her sisters, how are
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you coping and what does knowing that this could have been prevented how does how does that sit with you? how do you cope with that on a daily basis? >> i mean, it's heartbreaking. you know, that was my baby sister i love my baby sister behind feel guilty. i wish i could've helped her, you know, because she was suffering and we had no idea. we trusted them to take care of her, you know and they just let her die because because of from stupid abortion ban, they treated her like she was just another number. they didn't care for her. is if you know, she was their daughter or their, you granddaughter yeah. she's not here. she'll never come back. yeah andrea, what do you want to say i want to stay that it is very disheartening that my sister was allowed to
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suffer for 20 hours she suffered it was nothing that we could do to help her. we trust it. they health care professionals to do their job and save her. but they failed her well, i think the most powerful thing that you've said here, ms jeanette, is that your daughter is not a statistic. she had a life she was loved by her sisters, loved by her family, loved by those who knew her. and she's not just to statistic. and we are happy to speak her name tonight. in in this room talking about what this country needs in terms of reproductive rights and freedom. what do you want to say? madam vice president i'm just so sorry that you all have shown is extraordinary because also you just learned about how it is
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that she died recently learned how yeah. >> and me that the word over and over again in her mind is preventable yeah. preventable. >> that word keeps coming to her and this story is a story that is sadly not the only story of what has been happening since these bans have taken place. and i'm you know so just a step back in terms of how we got here. the former president chose three members of the united states supreme court with the intention that they would overturn the protections of roe v. wade and they did is he intended and in
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state after state, including yours? >> these abortion bans have been passed that criminalize health care providers in a couple of states, prison for life oprah prison for life in a couple of states for a doctor or nurse who provides health care and so it seems very apparent when even when the mother's life is in danger. >> here's the problem with that. here's the problem with that issue on death's door before you actually decide to give her help it, then you're like literally, a doctor or a nurse has to say she might die any minute. >> better give her now care. because otherwise i might go to prison for life. in some cases think about what we're doing in terms of saying that certain
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people who are in these state houses and then starting with the former president united states, think they're in a better position than a doctor or a nurse? to determine when their patient needs medical care. this literally in an ampere story highlights the fact that among everything that is wrong with these bands and what has happened in terms of the overturning of roe v. wade. it's a health care crisis it's a health care crisis that affects the patient and the profession. and going back to hadley's story and hadley, you've been so remarkable in telling your story and being so strong in the way you do it. both of these stories really, i mean, the courage for it out of pain vice president kamala harris speaking with oprah winfrey at this live stream of event
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dropped. we were talking about the changing nature of a campaign. i mean, it's something like this is, it's a way for kamala harris to have extended conversations without going through a formal interview where she's going to there's gonna be a lot of pushback fact-checking. but humanizes her in a way and allows her to speak in a very emotional, and absolutely in a moment like this, you see one of the core strength of kamala harris as a public official. she spent years as a district attorney. she was sit and meet with families. i saw her do this. we were in buffalo, new york york after the tops market shooting and she sat with the families from that shooting and she looks them in the eye. she talks to them it's a really personal way that is, that really grabs the people in the room. and william makes everybody know that she's there for them and she's going to fight for them when this is over. >> i want to thank everybody on the panel tonight for being with us. thanks, everyone. really, for watching. i'll be back tomorrow night. i'll be joined me. the news continues right now. the source with kaitlan collins starts
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