middle. east, more airstrikes in lebanon's capital city days after the assassination of hezbollah well as leader. plus helene's destruction hundreds reported missing millions without power as communities across six southeastern states are left devastated and i got to tell you i can't wait to debate the guy for 90 minutes. >> governor wolf's and i are going to debate the issues that matter to the american people. one day away, how tim walz and j.d. vance are readying for tomorrow night's vice presidential debates. >> and joe biden became mentally impaired kamala was born that way personal attacks, donald trump doubling down on insults, leaving some gop allies urging him to stay on message

live look at the capitol, wanting everyone. i'm manu raju in for kasie hunt. it's so great to be with you now, just days after taking out the leader of hezbollah israel strikes, israel strikes more targets in lebanon. and earlier this morning, an airstrike hitting the center of beirut for the first time in nearly a year. the lebanese government blaming israel. cnn has reached out to the idf for comment. now, hezbollah vowing to keep fighting still firing missiles into northern israel, where more than 60,000 residents have been forced to evacuate this morning, a hezbollah official saying that the group will appoint a new leader as soon as possible president biden, wary of a wider regional war breaking out, saying that this must be avoided at all costs really happy with what you've already taken precautions relative to our embassies and personnel will want to leave but we're not there yet, but we're working like hell with the french and many others. now

with five weeks to go before the election israel's war with hezbollah also becoming a focus of pointed debate in washington with some republicans urging israel to quote both for the kill now is not the time for a ceasefire or to de-escalate as joe biden, kamala harris want hezbollah is on its knees. united states should help israel drive hezbollah to the mat and choke it out and finish it off once. and for all all right. >> let's bring in david frum, staff writer with the atlantic, cnn senior political analyst, mark preston, meghan hays, former biden white house director of message planning, and scott jennings, former special assistant to george w bush thank you guys all for being here. this early morning. meghan, since you worked at the white house, i'm going to start with you how president biden navigate this moment. he's calling for a ceasefire, but he's not on the same page when netanyahu, on this, how is it going to deal with this? >> i think that they're looking to de-escalate through diplomatic channels. obviously, i think they are walking a fine

line here also, the vice president has to walk a fine line here. she has to support the president while still running. i think they're going to continue with their diplomatic efforts, but there were going to be having this conversation in 20 years probably because we need to be stability, but i just don't know that we're going to find it before the election so yeah, i think we'll be having the same conversation if we try to stop israel from finishing the job here, i totally agree with tom cotton. >> i mean, netanyahu is doing something extraordinary. he's wiping out all the worst people on the world systematically. they're taking it to these terrorists who have done terrible, terrible things to israel, israelis and american citizens by the way, for a very long, long period of time. and i think the u.s. government ought to rhetorically be as supportive as we can possibly we've been not trying to slow walk this way. we did ukraine in the beginning. we won't give them the long term missiles they want now to it's like we're constantly pulling back on our allies who were trying to defeat the people who hate our way of life and hate western civilization. i don't understand it, but, but, but what's the risk and the us getting deeper involved in this

conflict i mean, obviously the risk is that we're going to see that more come over here to the streets in the united states. where to see hezbollah trying to operate here in the u.s. look, i agree with scott that israel has to do what it has to do to protect itself. but to not think that there's gotta be some kind of two-state solution at some point. it means that we're going to be fighting this forever and i would say this no, honestly, i do agree with scott on a few things, but but anyway, but you're now for us well, i would say this is kind of like reading rainbow this morning. if you look around, everyone grabbed a newspaper except for me, you know, but scott, i would say this, you are wiping out people and you are killing their leadership. you can't wipe out an ideology she though, and i think that's where the u.s. and israel has got to figure out how to walk that fine line overnight, hamas confirmed that israel killed the head of hamas in lebanon that man's day job was his principal of a un school and head of the un teachers union. >> now, in a very short time to this point had completely

denied this mans involvement in hamas, but amman us itself converted a very little while american taxpayers are going to be asked to pay billions and billions of dollars to reconstruct gaza. and that money is going to flow through the same un that has been an employment agency for hamas or front for hamas and one of the questions as we look forward, one of the questions, whoever is going to be the next president is what guarantees are you going to give americans? when they are asked to rebuild gaza from the war, hamas started that you're not simply paying the un to employ hamas people in the future as speeding because this is during, obviously a consequential presidential campaign, which is of course five weeks away. >> what is trump's plan to? >> and the war in gaza. but you laid it out yet, specified been i don't know what his plan is to end the war there. my hope is that his plan is to do everything we can do to support israel and what they're doing right now, wiping out systematically all these people who are committing terrorism have committed terrorism against the united states and

not constantly be pulling on our enemy is trying to pull them down. i just fundamentally, this two-state solution idea. i mean, that's what biden says. >> how do you have two states when one of the state's, once the other state to cease to exist, to wipe them off the mat, to murder them i don't understand. people living side-by-side in this sort of, fantasy where one side lays down its ideology that the other side cannot exist. and so i just i think the plan ought to be let the israelis do what they need to do to be secure, let them killed the terrorists who by the way, have done fundamentally terrible things to people in the united states and american citizens. and as he just said, fundamentally rigged the international system in their favor in a way that is allowed all kinds of money to flow to people who do very, very bad thing. >> does harris need to? >> speak out? i mean, she's didn't make a statement over the weekend with the killing of hezbollah leader, but does she need to do more to speak out, respond to some of these

republican congressmen. >> i don't know what wiping away his below. i don't know what more she can respond. right. i don't know what we're not doing to be supportive of israel. there one we held back, one shipment of us munitions, so i'm not sure what the what you're saying that the u.s isn't doing to be supportive. so i'm just i'm not sure what more she can be saying. it's also she's the vice president to the president's making the decisions. so i just i feel like she's in a little bit of a hard bind here, but i don't think her support israel has been unwavering. she has made that very clear. she continues to make that clear. so i'm not what more are we looking for her to say here? >> alright, we'll see if they decide to weigh in more as the campaign continues to unfold and up ahead on cnn this morning, the latest on recovery efforts after hurricane helene, the wake of the storms devastation and destruction across the southeast plus gop allies urging donald trump to stick to the issues under that before, after repeats, more personal insults aimed at the vice president and ahead of tomorrow night's vice presidential debate, kamala harris is challenging her opponent to another debate of their own listen also, their

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take the war to them inevitable at least 95 people are dead following hurricane helene's deadly path through the southeast western north carolina is dealing with catastrophic and historic damage were at least 30 people were killed. >> when record good flooding

overwhelmed areas in and around asheville. now, officials say the he, also have reports of hundreds of people unaccounted for there but they hope those numbers will go down as communications knocked out by the storms slowly get back online. now, more than 200 people have been rescued from floodwaters across north carolina. but teams from 19 states coming into assist. but north carolina is just beginning to tackle what will be a long road to recovery this is a devastating catastrophe of historic proportions. >> people that i talked to in western north carolina say they have never seen anything like this. >> this is just true unprecedented in the devastation that we have seen here, the good thing is that we are prepared for disasters. we have 24 shelters that are up now providing assistance to people. >> the biggest issue we're finding now is getting the food and the water to people because we're having to do so much that by air omary bell gonzalez

is in asheville, north carolina. the sight of all that devastation somewhere about what are you seeing morning, mano. >> that's exactly corrected. this is a dire situation here in asheville. it's eerily quiet except for the sound of those bulldozers working through the debris trying to clear out those streets. now, people here are thousands are without power, but there also without water. internet, electricity, including right here where we're standing roads remain closed, hundreds of them. this one right behind me as well, where we're standing just days ago was covered in water and you can see this by just looking down at the ground, all of the debris was pushed over, fry the street onto the, hill where we are now standing. and of course, this is yet to be over. this is just a starting, as you mentioned, this is now a, also a public health emergency, as we know, people have been now

for several days without water and that also means they cannot cleaner. their areas the trash not being taken out. we know the food in the fridge is now beginning to rot, so people are in desperate need. we know that here also in asheville, so many people evacuated their homes three shelters open here in the area. one of which we're now learning this morning is completely full. so the need is definitely there. we know oh, federal aid is coming in. but as we mentioned earlier, the biggest challenge is trying to access those homes. you mentioned those power and those internet, cell phone outages over the weekend. we know there were at least a 600 reports and counting of people calling desperately trying to find their missing seeing loved ones. but authorities are saying, please remain calm because when those internet and cell phone services are restored, that's hopefully when you can begin to be in touch

with your loved ones. we also know that across a several states, there's been millions of power outages here in north carolina loan remain without power. the situation is a desperate one, but we can hear it in the very early morning hours. there are emergency crews out right now at this hour trying to get to those folks, trying to clear out those hundreds of road closures to hopefully not old and get people out, but also get emergency supplies in. >> its governor said a tragedy of historic proportions, just unbelievable pictures that are on your screen, maryville gonzalez. thank you for that live report from on the ground and asheville in coming up on cnn this morning, an airstrike in the heart of beirut. what when more than one moon, people in lebanon now displaced following ways of israeli airstrikes plus the running mates are set to take the stage just one day away from the vp debate will discuss how both camps are readying themselves

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fighting off nerves, that's according to our reporting from our colleague, cnn's isaac dovere, vance, also engaging in intense prep sessions but he downplayed them in recent rallies there, you talked to people you talk about the issues that matter. >> we don't need we don't need to prepare for a debate with tim walz all right my panel is back, so david, you write in the atlantic, you say, jim, the headline is jd vance's thin skin. >> make him vulnerable. >> why presidential or vice presidential debate is not like a spelling bee. >> you're not asked to name all of the 50 state capitals. what it is, it's a contest where each trial i still reveal the inner character of the other. that's what vice president harris successfully did to donald trump, that she put the mirror up to him and show america what is inside this man and it's horrible and

so that is the tactic that each of them are going to try to do with vance. you've got someone i've known him for a long time. you got someone who's very brittle you've got someone who's public persona is a fake. that's the reason he keeps attacking tim walz's a phony. tim walz, whatever you think of tim walz, he is what he is. but vance's a phony and that is that is the amino that he is someone who, when that is exposed, becomes very petulant, very peevish, very angry, and very controlled and that's going to be the task at this debate is can watch successfully, hold the mirror up, keep it there, and let america see what his choices. >> well, vance take the bait the way trump did. >> i think it'll be a much different kind of debate and i agree with you about walz, actually, he he is what he is and he is probably the person who is most in over their head in american politics right now, there's a reason they don't let him talk to the press. there's a reason he doesn't have any extended interactions where he's answering complicated questions, like what he should

face at this debate. and so i think there's a lot of pressure on him here. honestly to prove that he is up to this now, being up to the job of vice president, it's a lower bar for most people who will be watching it. and i don't expect this to move. numbers are to have huge impact on the flow of the water. in this race. but i think vance is far more schooled at the issues at the core of this campaign than walz's and he has an opportunity we show that walz was a fundamentally weak pick by harris. and i think that's would be his goal for tuesday night. let's show viewers about what they have debated and what they look like in the past. and their past debates, walz and vance i'm proud of minnesota is response. i'm proud of minnesota is first responders who were out there from firefighters to police, to the national guard, to citizens that were out there. >> you heard it here governor walz just told you, i am proud of minnesota as response referring to the riots in may and june of 2020 wow in

youngstown on the stage donald trump said to j.d. vance, all you do as kiss my to get my support he said that that's bad. >> how am i going to take lectures on dignity and self-respect from a guy caught on video kissing up to chuck schumer and begging him for promotion to his next job. >> i mean, is it just setting low expectations when the walls people people close to saying, well, he's not a good debater. he's not, he's nervous about it or is there a concern, but he's not a good debater. >> i mean, i think he's on that. he was not a good debater, but i also think that that's what we do, right? everyone setting the expectation level, it doesn't matter that it's not going to move the numbers which is true. but a lot this campaign cycle has been dictated by some comments at jd vance's made in the past. and so i think, this could drive a news cycle for a couple of days, just like his childless cat lady comments, and he keeps doubling down. so i don't think it matters to move numbers. i do think that they have the opportunity to drive them a new cycle with 35 or 37 days left. i just i

don't think that's a good place for them to be, so i think if they can stick to the issues and we can move on, i think that they will do no harm. >> do no harm has really the ultimate goal here. >> it is the ultimate goal. and look, i do think walz is probably nervous i do think that that j.d. vance is not nervous and is pretty confident in whether or not he does it says he does or predicts what you guys will see what happens tomorrow night but i do think that he is the most aleuts know. >> the rule is do harm and do it on the other guy the clip that people need to see is the moment where it was in detroit and the local fox news affiliate game j.d. vance, a total softball question what makes you smile and as that report revealed, he was when he was a friendly reporter, he just he was looking for a soft angle and vance suddenly turned angry, accused, called the man names, and then emitted this kinda cackling, self-congratula tory laugh afterwards. and you think that is a troubled soul,

and that's the thing what would america has to see is the oldest president ever, the man who would be the oldest president ever has a 40-year-old vice president, and there's something wrong with them. >> let's say how voters ultimately reactor they agree with him or disagree with you. we just say, all right, sell the come on cnn this morning, strikes in lebanon overnight as tensions in the region reach a boiling point, cnn's ben wedeman is live hi, from beirut plus donald trump's latest attacks against kamala harris get personal again, despite warnings from his political allies saying and publicly what people say and turns out i have enough money. i could just shut up, but you back i can't car saturday at seven on cnn

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drones destroyed by israel over the last few days, there's no question that the hezbollah today is not the head of hezbollah that was even just a week ago. now, a us official tells cnn that the biden administration suspects that iran is preparing to retaliate as working with israel on defenses. cnn's ben wedeman is live on the scene of one of the morning's strikes in beirut. so ben, tell us what you're seeing on the ground an area of mono that is not normally under the control of hezbollah, but last night at 1:00 in the morning, i'll just step out but the way. there was a very targeted airstrike on that. the fifth floor of this building, according to the lead but he's ministry of health four people were killed. the popular front for the liberation of palestine has said that three of their members were killed in that strike. now, it's interesting that the pflp has not been

particularly active in recent years, and it appears that perhaps israel is simply slowly, slowly eliminating its enemies beyond his butler, beyond those factions who have been firing into israel. and then impacted this building behind me, it looks like it's structurally unstable. we see one of the columns sticking out. now in the meantime, at midday local time, just about an hour-and-a-half ago, naim qassem, who's the one of the senior deputies of hassan nasrallah, came now, and gave a recorded speech. we believe for just about 25 minutes long. he did say that as regarding hezbollah, we did not collapse we are own nate where going on despite the pain and sacrifices, he said that hezbollah will continue to confront israel port the palestinians and gaza and her lebanese people. so the message seems to be from his butler

that despite these repeated body blows the elimination of almost the entire military hierarchy, senior hierarchy within the origin station they are, the least, they say they're going to continue now above me right now we hear a very low flying is real kelly drone. this has become sort of the background sound to beirut particularly the southern suburbs where of course hezbollah has a very strong presence. meanwhile, we heard mano from the lebanese caretaker prime minister najib mikati, that they estimate now there are 1 million people in lebanon who have had to flee their homes. that's just a little less than 20% of the entire the population of this country ben wedeman on the ground in a dangerous moment in

beirut, ben, stay safe. >> thank you for bringing us that reporting. and now to continue this conversation, i want to bring in former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, joel rubin. joel. thank you so much for coming in this morning. this is those are some incredible pictures that we just saw on the ground there when he's israel's end goal here as they tried to, the us is trying to push to ceasefire. you heard president biden over the weekend. what is israel trying to accomplish? >> yeah. look, this was without a doubt the most stunning israeli military success since the six-day war. quite frankly, flip the narrative in the middle it'll east and what we've seen now is israel on the offense, but there are a lot of lessons learned from the six-day war. one of which is that israel did not secure a diplomatic gains immediately after. and i think that's what the big question is. what is the diplomatic strategy to complement these military success is how is israel 11? this? for stability in the north, an agreement potentially with the lebanese government to provide that stability. what's it going to do to obtain a

ceasefire in gaza to get the hostages back. that's not clear so right now, what we're seeing is essentially a military first and only strategy. and that's the big yellow light, right now. strong military action effective good, but there needs to be a way to lock in those gains. yes and there's obviously real concern about iran and retaliatory strike. what does that look like and what are the implications of that happen? >> well, i think right now iran is on its back heel. i think that there were many analysts for many years looking saying that could be the big one that israel versus iran, and that will blow up the region and certainly that is a concern. but iran has to be taking stock right now of what the risks are too, if it were to engage militarily. not only does it have in israel which clearly sees freedom of action, and it's decimated the northern hedge that iran placed in southern lebanon but iran also has to stare down the barrel of american military power in the

seas, in the persian gulf and in the mediterranean saying if you do attack israel, we will, we will respond on their behalf. and i think for iran, they have to really recalibrate whether it's worth it and just very quickly, is it possible is some republicans are calling for simply decimate wipeout has block, don't stop till they're gone hezbollah has been entrenched for 40 years. >> there is a way to decimate its leadership capacity as is being done right now, and to try to undermine its military network of rockets. but that is, that is a hard, fanciful idea to measure and ensure that it does so without creating a devastating situation in lebanon. and that would be destabilizing for the entire region of questions so much. >> thank you so much for coming in, bringing neurospora expertise. really appreciate it. >> and straight ahead on cnn this morning, we're just one day away from the one and only vp debate, j.d. >> vance and tim walz meeting

in new york tomorrow. i'll speak with a longtime political adviser, mark mackinnon about what they each need to accomplish. plus stay on message. what some gop allies urging the former president to do in light of his latest insults. and kamala harris and here's what i would tell president trump. >> when people look at the state of play, they trust you on the economy, the border, inflation and foreign policy by wide margins. tim walz and j.d vance in their first and only face-to-face debate. and cnn has it with the best political team in the business a cnn special event, the vice presidential debate, tomorrow night on cnn seeing customers come in every single day, are using battery equipment making the switch to battery with one of the best decisions that we made as a company

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speech that this week and that was otherwise centered on immigration. >> donald trump veered off into personal attacks against his opponents, kamala harris he first called her quote, mentally impaired during an event in wisconsin on friday, and then repeated that attack in pennsylvania yesterday joe biden became mentally impaired, said, but lying, kamala harris honestly, i believe she was born that way there's something wrong with kamala and i, just, don't know what it is, but there is definitely something missing and you know what everybody knows it right. my panel is back scott jennings, effective line of attack. would you encourage the leader of your party to continue this route? well, i would not use the term mentally disabled i think it's fine.

>> i mean, people in politics called their opponents stupid all the time. or they're dumb, they made bad decision. i mean, i was just doing a quick review of headlines in the last few weeks this morning, trump blind being led by the stupid trump voters, they're stupid. trump unveils idiotic new strategy to win over harris supporters, lazy, stupid, childish while donald donald trump is losing a simple example, the bigotry and terrible nature of donald trump's reporters herself donald trump unable to comprehend anything so it's not uncommon for people to call donald trump, his supporters and the people around him stupid or idiotic or whatever. so it's kind of rhetoric is not uncommon. the term mentally disabled, i would not us. and i think they should not go down that road, but i just think i just i mean, everybody is up in arms about this when it's pretty common for people to do this to trump in the same vein, i don't think it's the same thing as reporters and is making these comments versus that two candidates doing that? i think it's disrespectful and i think you expect more from your leadership. i do agree with you on the mentally disabled, i think that's like

and it really inappropriate term to be using here. and what i also understanding is trying to make a contrast. i just think that there are other ways and better ways that he could show his leadership and making a different contrast and sticking to the issues like the economy, which should he said to say, look, i want to talk about the issues. i want to talk about my plan to allow health insurance companies to deny coverage again, to people with preexisting conditions i want to talk about my plan to build a network of concentration camps told 10 million people, and then dumped them all in mexico or wherever they came from before. and without regard to what the mexicans think i have i have a plan to make social security finances less stable because of the issues are not going to work for him. that's why the gene yes. if donald trump was understand, look, the paul ryan message doesn't sell. what does sell in america is racialized contempt. so that is what i'm going to offer. i mean, plus paul ryan, but racialized contempt. and that is always been the core of the message. that is the message. so when he is not off message, he's on it and he's always understood television better than any of the other people in

republican party say, what does galvanize the people who support trump, who rejected better, cleaner, more decent, more intelligent republicans in the past were rejected. mitt romney or the rent mitt romney got more of the vote what is trump's special sauce racialized contempt. of course, he's going with that isn't supposed an argument what do you think? >> i feel like i'm forgotten, fallen out of a coconut tree because that i am that i'm outraged that he said this this weekend is absurd at this point because we at a point in politics where unfortunately yes, it is disrespectful and yes, it shouldn't be said in yes, we should the expect more from our leaders, but the reality is that's not what we're getting. so sometimes you have to play the field that you are given. >> but even though you say this is somewhat common near view, people disagree, are the real risk is that this becomes a race about character, right? for trump. >> instead of focusing on policy, do you want this race to be about donald trump's

character versus harris is character. >> every presidential campaign has raised about character. and i disagree that it's because i also think it's a race about issues and i disagree with you that the issues aren't working for trump and in fact is in all the polling we've done the gallup poll, everything that's come out in the last few days, they trust him more on the economy. they trust more on immigration but immigration, they trust him more on foreign policy. so the issues actually are working for him to what extent this is the correct vector right now, when you have this issue said there's quite clearly working for you i think that's a debating point for a campaign strategy, but i just disagree. i think the issues are setting up quite nicely for him. >> i think they're working for his base and i think these comments are working for his base. i'm just not so sure they're going to be working in the battleground states for the undecided voters, i think a lot of people tune this type of rhetoric out and i just like, i don't want to hear any anymore of this and they'd rather hear about what he's doing on immigration, what he's doing on the economy. so we're does work for his base. i don't think it works in donald trump got 46.1% of the vote his first time out in 2016, he got 46 point something a little bit more in 2020, there was not a

day in his presidency when he had an approval rating at 50% in any reputable poll, he's always been a minority president and he understands that. and his problem his challenge has always been, how do you activate some of the angriest people in america to enter politics which they normally abstained from. the message of contempt is what pulls them. they're not the paul ryan agenda, which is not going to work and that's what he's offering. but he's he's offering it plus the contempt. and that's what sells. well, what today you said he he was a minority president in our own poll last week, 51% of americans said he as successful presidency that was true in usa today this summer, only 37% say the same. >> so he actually has achieved its job in retrospect, strategy is to get to 47% and pray that the electoral college works it's magic. that's always been the strategy and that's the only strategy there could possibly be. >> and really continue to talk about that, are talking about other things to veer off script as some republicans are concerned about night, we're going to discuss a little bit more about that in a minute. but first now communities

across the southeast reeling from hurricane helene in the aftermath, the powerful storm making landfall late last week, at least 95 people are dead across multiple states and hundreds more have been reported missing. 30 people are dead in just one north carolina county it was crazy. >> the water came all the way up to the top of our driveway and usually, you might see a little bit of flooding down at the bottom of the street but it came up i mean, another 15 feet more than that. it was pretty i mean, all those houses down there had water up to their kitchen cabinets more than 2 million people in the south-east are still without power this morning. >> so let's go to meteorologist elisa raffa. elisa, any relief in sight? are there more concerns? along the way? >> the rain is stopping, but rivers will still continue to be aggravated in rise in spots because this water has nowhere to go. that's how it destroyed so many roads that have just become impassable, cut off all

of these landslides in the mountains there. this is what's left of helene. you still have a couple of showers in northern virginia up towards washington, but you could see a lot of it is light. we are done with the heavy rain, but it was unprecedented for parts of north carolina. i mean, here in the mountains from asheville up towards boone, just even this bright, bright purple we're talking about rain totals that were well over a foot for all of these communities, 30 inches for one place in north carolina, mountain homes, 17 inches, greenville, almost a foot of rain. so just incredible. the rivers again continuing to be at moderate and major flood stage because the water has somewhere to me it has nowhere to go, and it will continue to work its way down the watershed towards the coast. so not just the mountain problem will continue to find that right? green again, trying to move east, the water in the rivers. we do have that slight risk for excessive rain in parts of virginia today, we're another inch or two of rain is possible. >> manu all right. elisa raffa. thank you for the latest from the weather center and turning

back now to the vp debate tomorrow night, were tim walz and j.d. vance tube midwesterners on opposite ends of the political spectrum will face off in their first vp debate, the two perspective vbs, never before debating on a national stage. the last time each of them formally debated was when they were running a for their current offices in 2022 scott was very clear in may. he mocked me and said, no kidding, sherlock, i'm running for governor, get things done. we're going to ban abortion, not on our watch. i trust women, i trust them to make their own healthcare decisions it's actually pretty, pretty funny tv commercial. tim crank your team. thank you. where he says that he only agrees with his own wife 70% of the time. yeti votes in agrees with nancy pelosi, 100% of the time. let's make things a little awkward. in the ryan household, i suppose all right. >> joining me now is mark mckinnon. he's a former adviser to george w bush and john mccain. he's also the creator of paramount's the circus. mark. thank you for joining me this morning. these are two people come from the

midwest. they have different backgrounds, different political stances. how do you see that? it's playing into their narratives tomorrow night good morning, manu. >> well the primary mantra for a president, vice presidential pick is to do no harm. and today the difference is a j.d. vance has done a lot of harm to the republican ticket so far. >> and with his, you know it's all about cats, women who single women who own them and haitian immigrants who he says eat them or then he says, no, we made that up to draw attention to it. >> but and so that's that's my my advice for tim walz's look at this guy is loaded for bear because they're both trying to validate that they are the right pick and vance's the guy has been under the gun. everybody in the republican party knows that he's been a problem he's created dissonance. he's done a lot of harm. so he's going in there to prove two donald trump and the republican party that he was the right pick so i mean, i think he's going to be loaded for bear and that's my advice

to walz's look at this guys coming in and loaded and he's coming in strong. >> so you write in your latest article for variety vans to be fair smart, just ask them, yell educated, bestselling, author venture capitalists needs are probably propping hard the gulf or walz should be doing whatever he can to preserve, enhance his own stature as genuine. he's not going to outsmart vance and he should not try, but he can easily out human vance. the recipe for successful night on tuesday for vance are walz is simple, do no harm, but walz should be aware he's facing a pitbull raring to come off the leash that says simply, this is what you're suggesting right now. here, mark, i'm wondering, do you think that vance, who's hurting are helping their ticket right now, is vance hurting are helping trump? it's the making no difference in this race. and what about walz? >> well, i think walz has exceeded expectations and vance has not risen to expectations as i said, i just i think he has done harm. >> i think the whole cat lady think i mean there's just

there was video servicing every other day about with vance attacking women on some form or another, which has already been a problem for republicans i'm going to ticket so i again, i think that this is going to be i think he's really looking forward to this opportunity to validate that he was the right pick that they're going after each wallace's brand is authenticity. so that's what that's what vance is going to try and pick apart and of course, walz is going to do the same demands suggests that he's a phony that he's simply ambitious, abandoned his principles. there's also audio that surface recently about just how out much advanced thought trump was a bad, a bad nominee for the party. so he's going to have to answer for that. >> at the end of the day, maybe won't make that much difference for the outcome of the election, but it's going to make an outcome for the difference on just how people feel about whether or not this was the right pick for each candidate all right. mark mckinnon. appreciate you coming on. thank you so much for your

insight and expertise really appreciate it and continuing this conversation on the 2024 race and show it has been influencing our national conversation in i'm politics for half a century cool. >> i'm going to be president. that's wicked language there don't agree on anything donald said he was i'm going to be tough on mexico, but when he met with the president, he chose not russia, but he's basically putin's puppet. liar, klaidman sa'ar night live, returning to the air this weekend for as milestone 50th season. just in time for the last leg of the presidential campaign it star studded called open, taking on impressions of every 2024 election season candidate and character my campaign is like a

sabrina carpenter song espresso the lyrics are vague, but the vibe slaps i haven't been this excited since i got 10% rebate on a leaf blower from menards, i for one can't wait to decorate the white house for for christmas theme will be hanukkah they say that may blaming the democrats for inciting violence is the pot calling the kettle black? >> but frankly, i didn't know that gambling was black until very recently. >> i thought the carroll was india don't tell you what i'm doing here. >> getting this crowd right, why don't we thank my this is it was pretty funny. >> there was a good stuff. maya rudolph, i got to tell you, my wife is extremely happy that she is coming back. >> jim gaffigan is tim walz. >> he nailed it he didn't show,

but you know, who else was brilliant this weekend? dana harvey all having right. >> he absolutely clear pause right there and say we don't have have it. roll the tape by the way back. the matter is their fair share i got to pay a fair share. >> we've got to build back baron bill back to better the better he'll back to better kept. can't believe it's not barring be funny if it weren't tragic tragically true, but it can dana, thank god for danek garvey's with probably one of the top two or three of all time on this stuff. he really as he's done, george hw bush so well, joe biden so well, but you lead dressing thing is, of course, this comes, this could, you could reinforce people's impressions and we laugh about it, but they could have some impact about how people actually view these candidates. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, it's part of pop culture,

it's like the taylor swift endorsement. it's just been, we have a couple more weeks of it and it's entertaining and we fund to see how it plays out. >> what people know about sara palin. >> they know they know more about the tina fey impression of, you know what i mean? >> like, it can sit in like the image of you this can absolutely make a huge yes. so like on the gaffigan thing, he he nailed walz. i mean, the weird gesticulating and like he nailed it gaskins from the midwest to though he really he hasn't in his blood unfortunately the good donald trump impression would be actionable so no one does that because the idea that you probably, you play them is like don corleone who, which is what he is, that is something you can't do on tv. maybe it isn't even fawning. maybe smith just sad i mean, it you mentioned the sarah palin thing was viewed back then and right. >> it was right. people who are tuning into sara and live. yeah. there's real people who are knee deep in politics who know everything that's going on and watching every that's great. but some people are just

casual viewers, right? and then they'll tune in, they'll see someone being ridiculed. maybe they'll think, well, i don't like him or her that much and they're also getting their clips on tiktok and instagram and other places that has a long, long leg theory and that people are going to get their guns there, you know, less about the vp's. >> so the impressions of the vp's can take hold because often the performers doing them are just better than the vp's. >> i mean, the harris impression she was the vp and so the maya rudolph impression of harris is i think for a lot of people, a real thing a real burned. i think many people, many more people are seeing on tiktok, the remix of j.d. vance saying i'm a never trump guy and people dancing to it, that tiktok is so powerful and that we said, what is branding people is the site of hundreds and hundreds the women dancing to j.d. vance saying, i never trump guy, i'd never liked him. i'm a never trump. i never liked them and i was going on tv and be at trump guy. unlike am sure we will see much more of this and the weeks to come. alright, thank you panel for joining me this morning. thank you for joining us. i'm manu raju in for