september 26, right now on cnn this morning you need to have a plan and he needs to get now now catastrophic and life-threatening hurricane helene rapidly intensifying, expected to be a major storm when it makes landfall tonight. >> and this i have pledged that building a strong middle-class will be a defining goal of my presidency a direct appeal. >> kamala harris, making her pitch to them it'll class are undecided voters buying it. and this it's charges would be entirely false based on lack indicted the mayor of new york facing criminal charges after an investigation into corruption and illegal campaign donations and later so nevada dead out and vote. we win this state. we are going to win the whole thing. >> we were in our battleground been taking a bet on red or blue with only six electoral

right 6:00, a.m. on the east coast. a live look at clearwater, florida on the west coast of florida as hurricane helene barrels through the gulf of mexico, gaining more and more strength through the day today. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. the latest update from the national hurricane center, just a short time ago shows helene is getting stronger now with 90 mile an hour winds the storm though, expected to get much stronger than that. helene is forecast to arrive as a major hurricane along florida's big bend later this evening, bringing life-threatening storm surge and catastrophic winds widespread power outages are also expected. recovery teams already mobilizing across the state to get the lights back on once the storm passes many people will lose power depending on where you are in the state. so just prepare, be

prepared for that understand that that's something that could happen and have a plan in place. so you're able to whether that alright, let's get to our meteorologist, allison chinchar, who is tracking all of it and has the latest allison. good morning. what are we seeing now? >> yeah. good morning, kasie. what we're seeing exactly what we expected to see the storm is continuing to strengthen. it will continue to do that and go through the rest of the day today, sustained winds right now, 90 miles per hour that makes it a high-end category one for some perspective, 95 miles per hour would be that threshold. will we start talking about category two storms? now the storm is over the golf well, mexico now it is very warm water here, so we anticipate that going to continue to strengthen because this warm water is fuel for storms like this. so now what's expected to happen is it will continue to increase eventually making it to a major hurricane, likely sometime today when it does, it's going to continue its track off to the north and make landfall late tonight. if somewhere along the big bend region of florida now, at the time of

landfall, the forward speed of this storm could be around 25 miles per hour, or even faster than that for some perspective right now, it's moving at 12 miles per hour. the thing is when it moves, that fast, especially as it will at landfall, that means it can move pretty far inland before it weakens back down to a cat or back down to a tropical storm. you can see still expected to be a category one hurricane across portions of southern and central georgia. this means a lot of cities that are hundreds of miles away from the ocean, like atlanta, greenville, spartanburg, and even nashville are likely to pick up significant impacts from this storm. obviously, the highest impacts are going to be along the coast. you've got the potential for 15 to 20 feet of storm surge right there in the big bend region, not to mention incredibly heavy rainfall and strong winds through the day all right. >> a lot to watch out for their allison chinchar for us this morning, allison, thank you very much. we're going to be keeping an eye on this storm throughout the hour, but with just 40 days to go until election day. >> it's still the economy stupid. >> and vice president kamala

harris was in western pennsylvania, deepen the rust belt in a must-win state, trying to explain to voters who say that they need to know more about her, just how she would handle the economy as president i promise you, i will be pragmatic in my approach. i believe we shouldn't be constrained by ideology. and instead should seek practical solutions to problems. look, i'm a capitalist i believe in free and fair market that was some not so subtle pushback against donald trump's consistent attacks against harris as quote, comrade kamala and then she's a marxist, were not ready for a marxist president and we never will be, we don't want marx's to be running our country because it's a short way to well, so we pass socialism. >> she's a communist her views are communist all right,

joining us now to discuss any linskey reporter for the wall street journal, elliot williams, cnn, legal analyst, former federal prosecutor karen finney, cnn political commentator, former senior adviser to hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. >> marc lotter, the former's special assistant to president trump and former press secretary for vice president mike pence. welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. elliot, when i was listening to this speech yesterday and kind of reading some of the headlines it really did strike me that she had these lines in their machine, called herself a capitalist. she he was the word pragmatic, the pushback against the way donald trump has been framing this race seems very clear to me. i thought it was very interesting. what was your take, right? >> it's not a surprise that she used the word capital. it's not surprising. she mentioned last week, but she's a gun owners speaking to a seven segment of the population that i think she thinks she needs to target. i would also note that the speech took place in pittsburgh, another part of the incident with the vice

president happened to be in the swinging at city swing state in this election. that that was deliberate as well. and so it's part of a very disciplined message from the campaign. it really just depends on whether voters buy it a big criticism has been that voters don't know. in the media do not know enough about what the vice president's economic policies are. and again, it remains to be seen how much this moves the needle about whether people are comfortable with what they do know. >> yeah. i mean, it looks sounds like we've got an 80 page plus policy bag that they're now going to point to and say, well here we have this my question. i mean, look, hillary clinton put out a lot policy papers, didn't mean to voters really kind of bought what she was selling, you know what i haven't been struck by when the economy with these two candidates is that both of them have degrees and economics, which is the first time in this certainly modern history, they both went to college and focus on economics. so they have, both have a strong background and, you know, there are in some ways and i know i might get some pushback from the panel here they are both saying

similar. there book is similar message, which is investing in countries and in manufacturing and industrial policy. they're going about it very different ways, but they are both essentially saying that they want to bolster manufacturing an american jobs what harris is saying, we want to do this through tax credits donald trump is saying we want to do this via tariffs, but it's the same goal, right? >> so forgive me because what andy just said, in fact correct. >> but it does in fact sound as though harris is the republican in this scenario and donald trump is the liberal in terms of the nature of the policies. >> i mean, mitch mcconnell, marc lotter looks at donald trump's policies and says these are not conservative well, i also, i think the one thing when we talk about tariffs, we have to remember as he's talking about free and fair trade, reciprocal trade. >> so he will talk about tariffs if a country is not treating us fairly or well, he's a manufactured on dear a manufacture. >> if you take american jobs and then ship them overseas to mexico and expect to sell it back here in the u.s so it's protecting american jobs. but

the thing i took him from the speech last night with vice president harris, as she said, she's a capitalist, followed up by government price controls and rent controls, which isn't capitalism well, trump has talked about price controls as well. i think that the challenge in what he's talking about is, you know tariffs can work if it's very strategic, he's not talking about them in a very strategic way. it's, it's much more of a like what audience am i talking to? okay. you get something, you get something and think about if you think about 200% tariff on john deere, that's a tax on farmers, people who really cannot handle more taxes he talked about tariffs in a way that doesn't actually clarify that the companies pay the tariff, which means they pass on the cost to us versus i think what harris is talking about in the other reason i think she wanted to lay this out as pragmatic was to say, look, i'll work with business, i'll work with, you know, the private sector or we will work with economists to figure out

what's going to be a smart strategy not i can't be don't want to be defined by, you think this is liberal, you think this is conservative, but rather well, what's going to make sense i'm sorry, one second. >> i just want to play mark cuban ben was at this event that harris held, right? and he was defending her right this businessman, i want to play a little bit of what he said after and then elliott feel free to jump in, watch donald trump really is the one that should be worried when it comes to the economy. she was 2030 points behind 45 days ago. now, the trend is her friend and she's catching up. look at donald trump. he's threatening one of the most legendary companies in america, john deere with 200% tariffs that would make buying from china cheaper than buying from john john deere. that's insane. so he's looking to just throw just beat down american companies while vice president harris is saying, look, we want to work with you. i want to talk to you yeah. >> so a couple of things, what he's saying there and it's a fact kamala harris has cut into donald trump's lead on the economy, which is, which was in

certainly is to some extent will look at he's going to win the election, that's happened and why the plane was gonna make before, is that tariffs sound like such a great idea when you frame them in terms of this does not protecting american business and american consumers the problems that when you start talking about slapping tariffs on goods that might be coming from england and our allies are countries that we trade a tremendous amount with. that that can carry as karen was saying, a tremendous cost to actual consumers and erica, but the material point though, it does sound good. and this is about messaging jake. it's great and that's what he's greater. and you start talking about tax credits. it's a target for people to understand. and i thought her point of saying, what trump is saying is not serious, was an interesting one. it's a way for her to ratchet down the rhetoric. we've talked about before on this show, but also poke trump get. at this point that this is a broad based concept that he's trying to challenge kamala harris faces, is that the american people's hopes

and aspirations are to not get sticker shock at the grocery store and the gas station. and she has no answer for that. and that's going to be really ultimately her undoing i was going to be we unfortunately have to go to break karen, but, you know, she has been separating herself from biden in certain ways. and i think some of the stuff maybe out of her direct control and is going to have a huge impact. i think you're right about that. all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning new york city mayor eric adams is defiant, insisting that he is innocent and refusing to step down after being indicted. plus calls for a ceasefire. the u.s. and its allies are banding together, asking israel and lebanon to ease tensions and we of course, continue to track hurricane helene. it's a monster of a storm expected to have catastrophic consequences expecting eight to 12 foot storm surge. that is catastrophic, life-threatening. floodwaters brought to you by mirror lags free your gut and your mood will follow

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>> now we take the war to them all jews we'll be entirely false based on lie but they would not be surprising always knew that if i stood my ground, all of you but i would be a target or the target. >> i became new york city mayor eric adams, expected to surrender to authorities early next week. >> sources telling cnn he's being indicted on at least one federal criminal charge. the indictment follows a months-long federal investigation into possible campaign fundraising violations. and foreign influence the exact charges are not known at this time. some local leaders are calling on atoms to step down among them,

new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez it is a very unfortunate time we do not want to see this happening in our city, but unfortunately it is. and i think for the best of the city. and so that we can continue to staff the administration of the city it would be best for near out of state or jeffries so elliot williams, what do we know about what's going on here? >> the foreign influence at piece of this. and we've seen a number of resignations across his aides. i mean, this has all fallen apart. >> it's not just resignations. it's even before the resignations, the searches of people's homes, the searches of people's devices. this season i'm eric adams's own cell phones and personal devices and so on. it was clear that something was brewing. now, what's going on is allegations, at least right now, the rumored allegations we haven't even seen the indictment yet in effect, influence peddling with the turkish government. it's the fund raising and providing things to individually vigils. there, including through some staff in his office. the thing that i was thinking about just this morning, anybody watched

and you've got baltimore connections, the wire know what i mean not even joking aside, two things let's tend to really do big city mayors in its, the fundraising as happened to clay davis in the show, but also the cronies around them that will not tell them know when people show up with bags of cash and asking for favors and so on it now there's no bags of cash in new york, but it's the same general pattern of conduct. its not getting in the way of either the mayors or other people's impulses. it's happened before. and just given the proximity that we've seen to the mayor of the kinds of people that were being searched charges here probably inevitable. >> yeah. i mean, this is just like a shocking when i woke up tomorrow, i'm sorry that they did what i they indict in the mayor of new york but karen finney were also apparently hearing that if in fact he does step aside for small i'm interested to have you think he should step aside, but we're also hearing that if there's a special election, one, andrew cuomo, according to our reporting, has been telling

those around him, he would run if adam's left office and a special election were scheduled if adams resigns before the last week in march, the acting mayor has to put one on the calendar yeah. >> good luck with that. andrew what a stupid idea. i mean, he just jones and for power or attention. i don't know. he doesn't realize it's like just shut up and go away. we don't we're not interested that being said, i'm sure i'm going to get your some blowback on that one because i think we just had a little little tweeted clip i know something about some of the charges against him and it's quite disgusting but again, we're talking about andrew cuomo with regard to the current mayor. >> i think, you know, we don't know what's in the indictment and we don't know the charges. i think with more information, i mean, i understand his instinct to try to do damage control and which is what you do. you go out and you say if i'm being attacked and but if indeed the charges are as

serious as they sound, and this has been coming for quite some time. as elliot pointed down, and we've seen also people around him you know, with investigations and their homes being raided and such. so he might have to step down. i mean, it may get to that, particularly because as tends to happen, look at bob menendez, it becomes such a distraction and it takes away from actually doing the job even in the absence. >> of his getting charged the amount of people around him, including the school's chancellor just yesterday or the day before, it puts a cloud over his administration making it impossible for him to serve. and koch, who might be one of the more iconic modern american marins in new york. sister history serve two very successful terms, but his whole third term was clouded by all this nonsense around him with the people around him all getting indicted. one man ended up committing suicide. it was it was sort of a mess and when we look back at the college years, that final term, it's

kind of becomes his legacy and eric adams has to think of the interesting things i'll be interested though, is in a special, if this comes to a special election i mean, andrew cuomo comes in with massive name id and massive fundraising abilities and in a shortened compressed, obviously it's basically a democrat primary are you able to sneak through that way because you have the name id and the fundraising advantage that some of these other candidates may not have a lot of important people in new york. >> i mean, you don't know who else is going to jump in but i think like just taking a step back for a second here. i mean, you know, two years ago, eric adams was just flying so high, particularly in this town. i remember seeing him at the gridiron dinner. he was driving in the bun with biden last night event in the bet yes, he was an important garland. biden's ig was letting him my gosh. >> right. and the turkish government was there to i believe i'm not the event, but in new york, they're forgot representatives are here for unga. yeah. >> yeah, there they are there for unga. so i just kinda think

about that. you know, he was a lot of democrats saw him as a leader on messaging on crime and also on immigration issues that they were having a difficult time after most are moving to the center on. and so just for me to see this like incredible fall from grace, this or he was like a promising national leader. i might just, it's an incredible, it's really remarkable. it's a really good point. i'm glad you brought that up. alright. still to come here after the break, hurricane helene making its way to the florida coast. we're tracking the latest on this potentially catastrophic storm is forecast to make landfall later on this evening, plus, the controversy over baseless claims on haitian migrants continues on capitol hill special event the vice presidential debate tuesday at nine dive into crypto for the first time but you're a little worried about the fine print and feeling intimidated about

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strengthening as it barrels through the gulf of mexico, it is currently about 350 miles southwest of tampa, expected to make landfall as a major hurricane later on this evening officials warning the storm surge in some areas could get as high as 20 feet. >> we're going to keep our eye on it throughout the morning and the day today. but let's turn now to this story from capitol hill. republican congressman clay higgins of louisiana facing backlash after he posted this yesterday, he wrote quote lol, these haitians are wild, eating pets, voodoo, nastiest country in the western hemisphere. colt's slapstick gangsters, but if they don't feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our president and vp all these thugs better get their mind right? and there ass out of our country before january 20 higgins deleted the tweet after his democratic colleague, the chairman of the congressional black caucus, steven horsford

confronted him about it, leading to a heated exchange on the house floor how speaker mike johnson later weighed in on the controversy he was approached on the floor by colleagues who said that was offensive. >> he went to the back. i just talked to him about it. he said he went to the back end. he prayed about it and he regretted it and he pulled the post down. that's what you want a gentleman to do. i'm sure he probably regrets some of the language he used, but you know, we move forward. we believe in redemption around him higgins, however, does not seem to regret the post in a statement to cnn, hagen said this quote, it's all true i can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. >> i mean, we do have freedom of speech. i'll say what i want it's not a big deal to me. it's like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. just scrape it off and move on with my life panel's here, punchbowl is also punchbowl news is reporting this morning that black colleague on the republican party, marc lotter, byron donalds, also told him to take this down. that's not, cnn reporting but it is punchbowl

reporting is this. i mean, why why do this? >> no, there's no reason. there's no reason to do this i mean, i get the larger argument about immigration and problems. this is it is not it and i said last night with our jake tapper shaw, i'm like this is a reason as a communications professional, i never want my member or principle to be have control over their own twitter account control right. >> now, it's horrible thing you know, get our own gary tuchman has done some reporting talking to children in springfield who are haitian and it's heartbreaking. >> they're terrified and their parents are terrified. and so it just shows how this has gotten so out of control is so irresponsible and it's spreading to the haitian community in different parts of the country, frankly, where certainly kids are thinking, or do people think we do that up? of course not. it's ridiculous. but this is, we

have to be more responsible with our language and someone who is an elected official we said this many said it before. we'll say it again. you you have to be responsible with your language because you are putting people in danger when you act like this. >> i unfortunately, i let i'm sorry, we have to go, but i do want to just it kind of underscore the impact that some of this language is having on our political debates because cnn asks people in our polls to say whether or not increasing the number of races and ethnicities and nationalities, whether it is enriching or threatening to american culture. and just look at what they say. they said is 33% say it is threatening versus 66% who say it is enriching. that is a dramatic change from 2019 when we ask the question, when 11% said it was threatening an 82% said the diversity was

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vindman, i understand you have a long history of uncovering corruption. i reported president donald trump when he was sitting president, and he attempted to extort in a quid pro quo, president zelenskyy, who is now fighting a war against russia and president trump ended up being impeached i continue to suppose corruption wherever i find it. and i will not tolerate corruption from trump putin, or larry david trump, putin and larry david that's an unusual combination and joining us now is retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. colonel. thank you so much for being here. we enjoyed enjoyed seeing that cameo again what you're here for serious reasons, you have a new piece in foreign affairs and it's looking at the fate of ukraine depending on the outcome of the u.s. election, you say it may ultimately depend on american voters choice. in november explain what you mean and what

you think at zelenskyy should be doing about it? >> thanks for having me on kasie and i appreciate that, like humor to start off but switching to a very serious topic i would say that i tend to be probably a little bit critical of the current administration and some inadequacies in the kind of support that's being provided. my next book, that's coming out in february actually lays out the failure of six administrations along the way, missed opportunities to warn off putin and to harden ukraine. and i think the biden administration is probably fallen into that band a little bit on the more effective side of that spectrum what i wanted to do to get the right is some a piece that addresses two topics theory of victory for ukraine, because it's possible, it's within his reach. a change in policy and policy review for from paris administration that recognizes that the shortfalls provides more fulsome support, does some

key things like better training for the ukrainian military the funding that we provide ukraine almost all of it, every penny, just about comes back to the u.s. defense sector. >> some of it actually has to go into ukraine to do things like build drones. they're doing very well in that space. i space and we need to fix the things that we've provided to the gradients. and then ukrainians have some things to do themselves. they need to draw in more manpower to fight the war and they needed juice up their industrial base but all that really kind of pales in comparison to the alternative, which would be chaos. and a spiral towards a broader confrontation. we see the outlines of that already we see a coherence and a coalition of forming between russia, iran. this discussion of providing cruise missiles to the houthis, the houthis proxies of iran advanced weapons kind of circulating around the world from, from russia, the north koreans pitching in the chinese trying to figure out if they should

get off the sidelines. they are providing material support and we have a scenario in which we would really kind of almost fall off a cliff in which the trump administration would cater to our ag our enemies and being adversary to our allies be threatening to our allies. we saw that on display just within the past 24 hours in the way that donald trump top two and referred to russia as the good guide. the u.s is somehow precipitating this confrontation and then ukraine and president zelenskyy for doing what he needed to do in order to advocate for his country it is bizarre somehow, we hold one side to a higher standard and without recognizing that the utter chaos and really the brink of disaster that we would be that we are on if we make the wrong choice on election day sir. yeah. i mean, i think you may be referring in part to what donald trump had to say about

russia. let's watch that briefly and then we'll ask you about it in their side. take a look. >> by. until we win. what happens if they win that's what they do is they fight wars as somebody told me the other day, they'd beat hitler. they beat napoleon. that's what they do so when he's saying they, he means the russians, there. >> do you think ukraine will cease to exist if donald trump is reelected? >> first, i have to address this, this commentary. i mean just the other day somebody told him about world war ii. i mean, how preposterous is this it is, it is embarrassing that a former president would say even use that kind of language that he just learned about world war q and his false impressions of how the records of the soviet union performed really at the backbone was support from the west in massive casualties that they took. but i think i would say

that, that we would be facing a different kind of disaster. it wouldn't be a complete collapse of the ukrainians. the fact is that the europeans are spending more money on ukraine. they're putting more resources, resources in ukraine, but they don't have that defense industrial base to a really provide the adequate support for ukraine took gain ground. so we will probably see it's a shift to the russians being more effective in their offensive operations slowly grinding down the ukrainian military and making incremental gains. but that would result in the europeans recognizing that there's no longer us support doubling down and providing more aid, including troops. why? because they have to send a message to russia that a russian attack more russian aggression against your will not be tolerated. and the only way they could do that is by ramping up. they cannot be they couldn't be week need at that point because they know that europe would be the next target. >> so it's a recipe for spillover and that's what donald trump would be creating

you'd be creating a larger war to war that's already expanding in different hybrid spaces, including like i said, these cruise missiles these coastal defense missiles that are being for the movies. >> and donald trump would oversee that. he would oversee a much more dangerous world that should not be underestimated. the threat would not just remain overseas it would migrate over to the united states. and we would be in a precarious situation, but without allies we can cannot allow something like this happen. i can't underscore this enough at a time to make that decision will be november 5, everything kind of revolves around outcomes in our election that will drive consequences of both domestically and overseas all right, lieutenant colonel alexander vindman. >> thanks very much for your time today. i really appreciate your insights. i hope you come back thank you. >> definitely all right. >> coming up here on cnn this morning, a powerful and dangerous storm, the florida coast, bracing for a direct hit from hurricane helene in just

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the summer's biggest pop sensations, chappell roan weighing in on the presidential election. but she says she's not making an endorsement so yeah, i'm voting for kamala so i'm not settling for what has been offered because that's questionable let's turn now to our battleground beat the big story at this moment in nevada with all the votes now tallied senator bill o'brien's lead over president selina meyer is now less than half a percent, which by nevada state law would allow for a possible recount. do we actually have a chance in nevada data? >> oh my god. >> i could to be president well, ma'am, we need to be sure that when we get shut up, can't you already lost nevada for me once a recount in nevada, maybe not totally off the table in this election year, given how tight the racism that state tunnel harris

is returning to nevada this weekend for another campaign rally. it's a key place to court the latino vote. some of nevada's hispanic voters telling cnn's john king what they're looking for this election media hispanics sharing that holds that. i'm not with her. >> i'm like, well, i even people that i know that they don't have legal status in this country i'll doing that. they think he'll make the economy better. there. >> that's exactly what it is that's exactly what that is it's 100% that we need a different plan to get over the hump with us it's inflation that has caused severe damage to a lot of businesses. >> my friend heard about you know, we've immigrants are the worst than were coming from mental institutions and glsen, everything else. it is very insulting all right, joining us now is nevada's democratic attorney general, aaron ford, a run for it, excuse me, sir. thank you so much for being on

the program this morning. i really appreciate it. we of course have talked so much about latino hispanic voters, such a critical piece of the electorate for kamala harris in your state, she's clearly doing better in the, state than joe biden was when he was at the top of the ticket. >> but you heard one of those voters there talk, especially about inflation, and that has really hit a lot of these communities so hard in your state, hospitality workers, et cetera. >> donald trump has been talking about not taxing tips. for example, what does harris need to do to convince those voters that they should stick with her after the years that they've been fighting with inflation well, good morning. >> from las vegas, nevada. grabby. are you pronounce it correctly? it was not here to be on the phone talking about the importance of nevada this election cycle but to your question, i think come the answers are exactly what she needs to be doing and that's talking about what she calls the opportunity economy. >> one that does more than just law people to make it.

>> that allows them to get ahead focusing on things like inflation that she's talking about, ensuring that price gouging has taken under control, ensuring that people are given $25,000. a first-time homebuyers talking about things are important for everybody to move to the next level, the next session in fives as one of the most important things that she could be doing and that she is doing here in las vegas, nevada and that's what's going to help sway this election in her favor at mr. attorney general, do you believe that she is leading in nevada right now? how concerned are you that trump might carry the state? >> i do believe she is leaving. i think we've seen a swing from mr. biden, unfortunately, being a little bit out below in the polls but in margin of error to call my harris being hit in the boats within margin-of-error to be sure state. >> and you have to run purple, so you'd have to ensure that as kamala harris has been doing, you pay attention it's into our state. she's been here more than a half a dozen times is coming here on sunday to continue to talk to us. and i think that again, that's going to push this election into her,

into her the wind bracket for her sir, the senate race is also getting considerable attention in your state and polling seems to show a much wider gap between the senate candidates it's not clear how much credibility that polling has necessarily. are you confident jacky rosen is going to run this race and issue running ahead of kamala harris. >> so you are correct that polling in nevada isn't notoriously and historically difficult to do and it's difficult to believe. oftentimes, but i do believe as do most folks here, that jacky rosen is indeed running ahead of the ticket, she will be prevailing. jackie isn't a tremendous job for the people who said in nevada, and she's being rewarded for that by the numbers the polls as they are showing. she's leading, again, a top of the ticket. she's leading more by more over sam brown band, kamala harris is right now over to trump. i do think those numbers are going to tighten up at the end of the day. jacky rosen will return as our us senator. >> and finally, sir, before i

let you go, are you confident in the infrastructure that nevada has set up in a situation where we've already had donald trump talking about the potential for rigged contests he, in a very close election, he is. there are clear signs that he may be challenging results. are you ready for that absolutely you know, i'm known to say that we stay rid of so we don't have to get ready my office alaska around in 2020 had two band off and defend against bogus and half a dozen frivolous, meritless a lawsuits that were filed against the state of nevada. >> argument that the integrity of our elections have been undermined in at the end of the day, we were able to provide those lawsuits because they were wrong and we view that as a test run for 2024. and we were correct about that. they've been suing us for months now and they've been losing in court again we will continue to lose in court because my lawyers again, understand the importance of what the law says. we understand the facts here on

the ground. we have some other freest fairest, most open and secure elections in the nation. and we will continue to support that along with my secretary of state, who's my client, francisco aguilar. we worked very hard to ensure that people can trust in liam and the outcomes of this election. we will defend that in lawsuits is trouble as lawsuits that the gop continued to file alright nevada attorney general, aaron ford. >> sir, thanks very much for being on the program really appreciate the very early wakeup call. and i do hope it wasn't too bad and you'll come back and join us again down the road. >> thank you. anytime cares all right. >> let's turn now to hurricane helene because it's bearing down on florida and it's just weeks out from an election day. it's another reminder about how politics and hurricanes, weather, natural disasters can collide to create some presidency defining moments again, i want to thank you all for brown and you're doing a heck of a job famer directors working point you may remember that clip of president george w

bush praising his fema administrator, michael brown in the wake of hurricane katrina two decades ago. for many critics of themis response, brown was not doing a heck of a job. he resigned from that post just ten days after those comments from bush, donald trump had his own post-storm moment, including this visit to puerto rico, or he tossed paper towels waiting for two people waiting for assistance after her maria. and of course for king responses can be they can remain one of the last events that can cut through divisive politics and bridge partisan divides just two years ago, another florida storm brought together president joe biden and governor ron desantis, who was just few months away from announcing his campaign for the republican nomination. and of course, president obama had this notable election year moment just days before his bid for reelection, visiting new jersey after hurricane sandy, the republican governor at the time chris christie, putting aside election politics to praise the federal response.

>> this is so much bigger than an election this is the livelihood of the people in my state. but what they expect me to do is get the job done and when someone asks me and honest question, like even honest answer. house the president been to deal with he's been outstanding to deal with this very interesting set of old footage that sets up, of course we're not sure yet how bad the storm is going to be elliot, but i mean, i was covering the romney campaign when that was happening with superstar storm. sandy was happening. they could not have been angry or at chris christie for literally embracing president obama. >> and i say this is a proud son of the great garden state of new jersey universally chris it's christie was praised for his conduct and management following hurricane sandy. every on all political sides and but he got skewered for that hug it's called a hug, a warm embrace. brock obama. and i think particularly as it seems we're a little more polarized now than we weren't even back in 2012. it remains

it'd be seen what happens if a governor of one party and a president biden or president harris present trump, whatever else were to be seen embracing were never in camp. >> i mean, right now this rakhine it is barreling towards florida, towards georgia. georgia, of course, a swing state but there's a republican governor in charge. and you could sort of the political dynamics are somewhat similar to that, that but i it's interesting that you showed katrina it because jordan that was in 2005 in 2004 when george w bush was facing reelection, he sent his chief of staff, andy card, down to florida and said, make sure that this doesn't get aft up and we don't talk about the 2004 hurricane and so in a political year, i think perhaps it gives leaders a little bit more incentive to get their act together with the where she's doing quite well up until that point. just sort of that was the the attorney treatment, yes. >> yes i do want to wrap up our show.

>> very interesting conversation, but i want to wrap our car show on this because it's kind of a unique thing that we don't see every day. so we do talk about political polarization all the time on the show. we were just talking about it and it is natural to wonder whether the partisan divide among adults is affecting the next generation of voters. so cnn partnered with a political scientist from standard for it in a psychologist from arizona state university to conduct a study looking at polarization among get this fourth-graders with permission from their parents. cnn spoke to children at schools in new jersey, texas, and arizona, and his children often do. if you have them, you know they offered their brutally honest opinions of the candidates what's the first word that pops into your head when you hear the name kamala harris liar what's the first word that pops into your head when you hear donald trump? pure evil. >> i think all he does is complain and like, you donald trump he's given his life in his heart which one of these

two candidates do you think is more likely to do bad things? convicted felon? again, still higher have a black woman as president for the first time in history? >> yeah, but my vote is still on trump. the fact that she's a woman and she's black net could help kids who are like her or are different feel a lot more accepted. >> i just feel like a boys would probably be better as president but she's pretty wow. wow, wow. parents, your children are listening as if we didn't already know, right? i mean, they listened to us. they imitate us and the impact of our politics on them. like, let's not forget, i mean, there fourth-graders and these are the words that they're using about the