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washington, dc, where just moments ago, president biden made a surprise visit during the white house press briefing. >> his first time ever taking questions there as president and he took quite a few. >> he seemed to relish his exchanges with a report. >> yeah, they got to drag him out of there. the president spoke about everything from the ongoing crisis in the middle east to the latest positive jobs report numbers. he was also asked if he believes the upcoming election will be free and fair and peaceful. >> and i'm confident be free and fair i don't know whether it will be peaceful things that trump has said and the things that he said last time out would he didn't like the outcome of the election? we're very dangerous have you notice. i noticed that as vice presidential republican candidate did not say he'd accept the outcome of the election and have you accepted outcome of the last election?

so i am concerned about what they're going to do okay, so let's bring in cnn senior white house correspondent, kayla tausche and senior contributor for axios, margaret talev. so kayla, tell us about the moment in the room. this abroad when president biden walked in and what he said well, allison, there were audible gasps in the room when president biden biden walked through the sliding door from lower press into the briefing room for the first time in his presidency. it that's customary thing for his predecessors to have done, but it's the first time that biden himself has stepped out to take questions from reporters in that format in nearly four years time. and so you can imagine that there was quite a clamoring of hands raised and his press secretary, karine jean-pierre moving along quite quickly to get to a handful of questions before ushering him out of the room. he appeared in good spirits. he really wanted to talk about a couple of economic wins it's not only the positive jobs report, surprisingly. so earlier today, but also the tentative agreement between dock workers and foreign port operators to

have a 90 day pause on any the potential strike and to try to work out their differences. but the bulk of the questions that he got from reporters concerned the middle east considering the fact that the region is still on tenterhooks and there's a possible it's ability of a response by israel and a for tat engagement that could further inflame the region. and he was asked about what he believes would be appropriate for israel to do. and he said that the israelis have not concluded how they're going to respond. and when he was asked specifically about comments that he made earlier this week that set markets into a tizzy and spiked the price of oil that essentially left the door open to them striking iran's oil reserves. he said, if i were in their shoes, i'd be thinking about other alternatives. so certainly suggesting that he would prefer that israel did not strike those oil reserves. just as he said earlier in the week that he would be opposed to israel striking iran's nuclear facilities. he said that the u.s. and israeli team teams are in constant contact more than

12 hours a day. but as for potential call between him and the israeli prime minister, he said it, he's not necessarily jonesing for that, but it will happen if and when it happens and when the u.s. feels that israel has made a conclusion about how to respond he seemed to shave at a reporter the way she phrased the question. >> he felt that she was suggesting that he wanted to talk to netanyahu than yahoo didn't want to talk to him. the president clearly wanting to be as explicit as possible about where that relationship stands margaret to you as a former president of the white house correspondents association, i imagine you were surprised to see president biden come out there for the first time in his presidency. with just a few months left in office the old school way. >> that things you stop right? unimaginable that you have to present, wait that long to come address reporters from that briefing room and there different rooms that are appropriate for different conversations. obviously, you

know, you might have an address from the oval office or from these room or something like that. but what he did today is precisely what a president would do when communicating with the american people in the press corps on daily developments. but remember this it is a president who's successful campaign in 2020 came amid covid and sometimes dubbed the basement campaign. and then after the debate performance in june, there's just been very little incentive to be out there. his team for most of his presidency has sought to minimize his given take exposure with reporters to try to avoid gaffes and that strategy has not always helped, but today is something different. he has only a limited number of days remaining in his presidency and a rare moment where really good news for him and his legacy and the white house is also very good news. for vice president harris, who is on the campaign trail today. so this

combination of the port strike being suspended or ended while they go back to the table that will last through the end of the year and into january. and this jobs report, both good in terms of numbers and good in terms of wages that in theory could ensue spire, not just americans confidence, but voters confidence what president would not want to get out there, make some good news for himself and try to make some good news for the person who he hopes will carry on and win. another term in his in his place. >> yes, but the timing was interesting for us, as we noted, because that would be exact moment when vice president harris was speaking in detroit about the port workers strike being resolved. so she wanted to talk about it and then the president made this surprise appearance and kayla, i'm just wondering, i know this is an insult way question before us and i were wondering do with their communications staffs coordinate. i mean, did he know he was stepping on you know,

vice president harris is big moment of being able to talk about that on national television. >> well i think that he would feel that because, you know, he's the sitting president and his administration is currently in office that he also deserves the right to talk about it too. considering that it was his officials who were at the table with both parties are urging them toward a deal. i'm told there was a five-thirty. am zoom call yesterday for essentially, they floated the idea of an extension. so certainly, i think he believes he has the right to take credit for something like that, but he also fielded a question about vice president harris and he he used the opportunity to give her a lot of credit, equal credit for all of the work that his administration has done, saying that the team's work very closely together and that she's had a seat at the table for nearly every the thing that they've done. so at some point that there will be a lot of oxygen being taken up out of the room by vice president harris, her campaign, and then as we now now, no president obama campaigning for her next week. but, he also wants to be

able to tout his record and his accomplishments, which is why i think we saw him i'm out there today. >> you have to imagine that there were some folks on the harris campaign that we're not so pumped to hear from president biden at the moment, especially because she's in michigan, margaret and she's trying to tout this major port worker deal as significant unions, the firefighters union, the teamsters union have declined to endorse a candidate for president, seen as a blow to democrats i'm wondering what you make of that. and also the fact that she herself hasn't actually done a press conference. like what president biden just did since she became the democratic nominee. >> as a journalist and as a member of the public, i think presidential nominees should be available for questions from the people who represent the public and can voice the

questions of the public. so on a personal, professional note, i'd like to see more of it. i think manage jane the political relationships with unions especially unions where a large portion of the membership are white men has become increasingly difficult for the democratic party as republicans have sought to sort of subsume that, that place and have had success culturally, even among union members who say okay, maybe the republican party doesn't always represent my union interests, but culturally i'm in more agreement with them. that's a challenge for her, but i think the end of that strike is good economic news. there could have been major spillover effects of that. it continued through the end of this year. and the jobs report numbers are good news. and that is good news for harris. it is also good news for the sitting president and i'm would kill on this one, i think there's protocol. a lot of political protocols behind the scenes for who goes first and who waits, but the president gets a talk when the,

when the president wants to talk and anyone including his running mate, his campaign also has the ability to delay. their own or rearrange their own start to the speech. i don't know what the behind the scenes communications were yet at this point, i'll say one more thing. you flagged it in showing the video clips at the beginning of this segment it is noteworthy that president biden addressed his concerns about about former president trump, i think part of his thinking on this messaging and you'll hear it from vice president harris as well. is that former president trump's messaging jd vance's messaging and the gop messaging has all been the economy's terrible and it's not getting better. and it was better during trump. and it's really on democrats at this point of the closing last weeks of this campaign to try to reframe the narrative, not just by talking about good indicators and stats, but by reaching people emotionally and

saying, you don't have to feel that way. it isn't really that way. and i think that is what you're seeing him try to do. we'll see how successful it is, but trump still holds the lead perception-wise over harris in terms of handling of the economy. and if she can and not shrink that much smaller, it could be a problem in crucial swing states, including michigan. >> okay. margaret talev, kayla, thank you both very much. >> meantime, on the other side on the campaign trail right now, we're about to see a remarkable joint appearance involving former president donald trump and a popular republican governor that he's had a tense relationship with since he lost the last race for the white house. just moments. we're going to see trump's standing side-by-side with georgia governor brian kemp in, an area that's handling the aftermath of hurricane helene. you might recall, kemp refused to go along with trump's push to overturn the election results in georgia in 2020. and that resulted in a simmering

feud between the two that led to insults from trump to camp as recently as september. >> so we're standing by for that. and then later tonight, donald trump will travel to north carolina, another state that is of course, dealing with the aftermath of helene's devastation. cnn, steve contorno is live in fayetteville where trump is set to hold a town hall later tonight so steve, first let's talk about as we've said, this georgia moment between the former president and governor kemp, what will that look like yeah, that's right. >> these two have not been in a room together there since donald trump tried to pressure republicans in the state of georgia to overturn the election in 2020. and he has had a fractured relationship with republicans in that state. ever since the membrane, many republicans in this state actually blamed donald trump for the way he acted after that election costing them, they believe two senate seats in georgia, and he has continued to feud with the republicans. there in the state, especially brian campaign has recently as

earlier this year, he said that camped wasn't to, blame for the terrible crime rate in the state of georgia, blaming him for the state's quote, average economy calling him quote, a bad guy, a disloyal guy a very average governor. i can't think of a worse insult donald trump could throw at someone, then disloyal. and yet here they will be together. in the aftermath of this tragedy, in this natural disaster, trump as well has been leaning on brian kemp's political machine in georgia. so they have been trying to bury the hatchet and move on for the sake of the republican party steve contorno live for us in fayetteville, north carolina. >> steve, thank you so much so vice president harris is in battleground found michigan where she's going to speak at a campaign event in flint later tonight. an earlier she was in detroit making her pitch to unions during that stop if reelected, he intends to launch a full-on attack on unions and

the freedom to organize he will ban public sector unions rolled back workplace safety protections. and a appoint a union buster to run the department of labor on top of that, donald trump will give billionaires and the biggest corporations massive tax cuts like he did last time enters its final weeks, the vice president is getting some help from democratic heavyweights. >> the popular former president barak obama will hit the trail to rally support for the vice president. kicking off a 27 day blitz through key battleground states. next week, i quickly want to give you some live images from georgia where we are seeing former president donald trump shaking hands this is in columbia county. you see governor brian kemp there in the background let's actually listen to the former president. this maybe the worst

president donald trump. he was describing the damage from hurricane helene as he's shaking hands with folks on the ground, there are not the first stop for former president trump in the southeast since this hurricane swept through rue killing at least 120 plus people were going to monitor this sit down between former president trump and the governor of georgia. and of course, we'll bring you the headlines as we get them. so stay tuned for that. we want to open up the conversation now and discuss all all the recent developments with democratic congressman of florida, maxwell frost. he's a member of the harris campaign national advisory board. congressman. thank you so much for being with us we were all surprised this afternoon to see president biden in the press briefing room engaging with reporters for the first time in his presidency and we haven't actually seen that from vice president harris, a formal press conference since she became the democratic nominee,

she has done way fewer one-on-one, sit down sounds with the press compared to former president trump, do you think it's time that the media strategy change for the vice president, would you like to see more of that? >> i think she's doing a great job. i mean, look, you see what she's been focusing on as having a very aggressive agenda of going out into communities and speaking directly to the american people through these huge rallies in these big events that she's doing big events, but also small events where she speaking with people, especially students young people, seniors, folks with different demographics and very closed settings as well. and i think this is really part of the reason we're seeing her helping our party with enthusiasm all across the board right now. i think she should continue what she's doing. we're seeing a lot more interviews come out. yes, it's not always what traditional press. we've seen her do a lot of it interviews with a lot of cultural media organizations and places like that because she's trying to reach out to

voters who might not pay attention to politics right now. but i think she's doing a good job and i think we will continue to see her do that congressman the vice president, has been attacked repeatedly for the biden administration's immigration policy. >> can i wanted to ask you something regarding her plans if elected, she said that she is going to get that bipartisan senate bill that failed earlier this year through congress, and that she will sign it one of your colleagues, the chair of the progressive caucus, congresswoman pramila jayapal, said that she had a hard time believing democrats would focus solely on that, or even start there. do you have a hard time believing what the vice president is promising? she'll do on the campaign trail many of us had different disagreements with that bill, was put forth in a bipartisan way in the senate, and we got to, we can't just say that it fail. >> we'll leave to say why it

failed and failed because donald trump picked up the phone called republicans in the the senate and said, don't let it pass because i want to campaign on the issue. i don't want to solve it. i want to campaign on it. make sure that bill doesn't pass. we can't give joe biden or kamala harris await and that's why that bill failed because of donald trump. and i think it's important to know that the other thing is in a democratic house, and democratic white house, the leadership's will, the leadership will work with the white house who identify what are the priorities going forward. of course, immigration is something that's top of mind for people right now. and i'm sure we'll have fruitful discussions once kamala harris is elected president united states in figuring out, how do we have both a humane but also ordered truly process at the border to make sure that we're still in touch with our values of a country the human right to claim asylum. but also making sure that that process is orderly as well congressman, i want to play a clip for you of fascinating conversation between cnn's audie cornish

and mma store jorge mosque, middle he's an outspoken trump supporter and she asked him why the former president is appealing to young men like him. >> here's that clip we're going to work two of our 14 hour shifts every day and then at the end of the week, i'm going to kind of see how much money i got. it doesn't take a rocket scientist these same hard work and dogs. i'm going to be like, no matter how many hours i put it now, still coming up considerably short. things are considerably more expensive congressman trump has made gains with both black and hispanic young men what's your pitch to try and change the minds of voters? like we're hospital i've been telling young voters, especially young men of color across this country, is number one, we got to look at the record here and we gotta understand that donald trump and jd vance keeps saying, think about four years ago thing about four years ago. >> i remember four years ago. >> i remember how donald trump completely mismanaged mitch

this pandemic which put us in a situation we were in in terms of the economy. >> and i remember president biden and vice president kamala harris coming in fixing that mess making sure that everyone was vaccinated, had what they need so we can go outside of our homes, get out of lockdown, and come back to normal life. and i always encourage people to remember that sometimes it's difficult to think back to that time it was a very traumatic time, but in the midst of all this death, all this chaos, our economy in a freefall. donald trump was going up and telling people to put bleach in their arms when we changed the leadership under the biden-harris administration, we got our act together contrary, we were able to go back outside, be with our families who had a conscience, go to work, started small businesses as part of the reason we're seeing this jobs report that just came out, it's because of these policies actually work at sometimes it takes a little time for the policies of a president to actually come to fruition. so we can all feel it. but i always encourage people to really think about where we

were at the end of donald trump's presidency and where we are right now. and the fact that kamala harris is talking to the anxieties of a lot of young men for me, i just said it back-to-school tour every young men of color i spoke with one of the top issues was housing they said, man, i can't rent. i'm having a hard time with barriers to entry. what housing i'm scared one day i'm not might not be able to own and i'm gonna be honest. i've had criticisms for both parties in terms of not having a comprehensive housing platform but kamala harris is the first major presidential nominee to say, you know what, one of the first plans i'm putting? for is a major plan to make sure that we help both tenants and homeowners alike. and when i speak with young men of color, black and brown men about that plan, they leave saying, you know what, that's someone who's speaking to a direct anxiety that i have. and i think as long as we continue to get that message out there, i'll be on the trail doing it. the vice president i'm just doing it. tim walz, a bunch of surrogates are doing it. i think we're going to see that the vice president is not only

going to win men of color, but have that highest youth voter turnout in the history of our country? >> congressman maxwell frost, we have to leave the conversation there. appreciate your perspective to come. new cnn reporting showing how donald trump and his allies are using the same strategies they used four years ago. to cast doubt on the upcoming election plus country music star garth brooks has new allegations against him are all lies. after being accused by a former makeup artist of sexual assault and battery and later how climate change could have fueled hurricane helene's devastation in the north carolina mountains those stories and much more still to come. on. cnn news central capable more practical be able to perform here make a state

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has new reporting about how donald trump may be planning to test election results. >> again, if you want to know what's ahead, just look to the past the 2020 and the attempts that were made in key battleground states to overturn the election cnn zachary cohen has been doing a deep dive into all of this. so zach, what are some of the similarities between today and what happened then you guys if you look at that recent court filing from special counsel, jack smith, a lot of the tactics that he says trump and his allies tried to use a challenge the 2020 election results they seem to be back in play here ahead of the 2024 election. and one of those is this attempt to spread widespread claims about noncitizens to vote in the senate. something experts say is incredibly rare, but we're already seeing donald trump in several of his republican allies banging that drum just 32 days ahead of the election. as you mentioned, the other thing we're already seeing is an avalanche of lawsuits challenging voter rolls. this is things like taking issue in key states claiming that there are dead people on those voter rolls that states are not maintaining them the way

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what happened in 2020. and ultimately, one, voting rights group called this the maga playbook for overturning an election. all these things taken together, and it's, it's hard not to notice that some of the same lawyers, especially that were involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 results. there back in the forefront again, doing so, laying the groundwork for these things in 2024 will also notable that it's not happening in other states. the majority of this activity is happening in battleground states. so that tells you a lot absolutely the key states that will determine who the president is zach cohen. >> thank you so much. special prosecutor jack smith's stunning filing this week is being called election interference and a hit job by the trump campaign. >> it's also getting some criticism from legal scholars like cnn, senior legal analyst, elie honig, who joins us now. elie, you wrote an article for new york magazine's intelligencer, where you called jack smith's filing a quote, cheap shot how's it a cheap shot? >> so allison, the justice

department has long had a written policy that says federal prosecutors shall take no action that may impact an election to close to an election unless you cannot humanly avoid it. and what jack smith has done here has filed a 165 page opus that includes information the first of all, has not been tested through the rules of evidence that jack smith actually concedes some of this would never be admissible at trial. it includes all evidence that has never been subjected to are tested by cross examination. but what happened here that's really unusual. allison, is the way that jack smith and to an extent, judge chutkan manipulated it in twisted the ordinary procedure ordinarily, a defendant makes a motion. first to dismiss the case or to do any other type of thing, and then the prosecutor responds, but here, jack smith said, first of all, judge, i want to file a brief that's four times the normal maximums that are the normal 45 pages. i want one at and second of all, i need to go first, judge chutkan even said that's an unusual request, but then she granted it. so i don't think that jack

smith's conduct here has been consistent with doj policy elie when it comes to doj's policy that the action portion of what you're talking about, not a new prosecution, but action that could impact the election i understood to be within 30 days of an election. >> we were just outside of 30 days. how do you think judge chutkan has approached the timeline of this case overall, seeing as how this was a disclosure in her court, not necessarily an action carried out by the department of justice i'm glad you raised that bar. >> so there's a lot of confusion about the number of days i've heard 30. i've heard 60, i've heard 90. a lot of that is just doj urban legend. we used to say, well, 30 days, six, you ask someone from two different districts, they'll tell you two different numbers. the rule i'm citing does not give any specific number of days. it says likely to impact and election close in time to an election with respect to judge chutkan, she has generally been in agreement with jack smith about trying to expedite this case? not quite

as extreme. for example, jack smith initially wanted a trial date five months after the indictment. judge chutkan said it for seven months after the indictment, but it's important to note in its ruling on immunity the supreme court actually went out of its way to excoriate judge chutkin for quote expediting this case without conducting adequate fact-finding and adequate legal analysis. >> okay. so if you'd take out your issues with the timeline and your issues with the style that of the way they've done this. do you think they still have a strong case against former president trump >> i want people to understand this. has been my public opinion, spoken many times on cnn, which i hold now that donald trump deserved to be indicted for january 6, he deserves to be indicted for the classified documents case at mar-a-lago. the evidence on both looks quite strong to me. but i just simply don't subscribe to the view that well, if a person has done something bad, we can bend or change the rules. maybe i'm a prosecutorial purist in that sense. but i do think these two

indictments, two federal diamonds are well-founded. i just objected. jack smith's tactics here in the stretch run before the election we may or may not see how jurors feel about it someday, i guess we'll find out sometime shortly after november 5, elie honig. appreciate the analysis. thanks for joining us thank you both coming up allegations of sexual assault against garth brooks. >> how the country music star is responding next stupid. >> tomorrow at seven on cnn my name is drug-food and i have spastic cerebral palsy it took mouthful little things that i need help with get dressed brushing your teeth, able to go with few

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challenge is right under your nose what's your name again a new lawsuit accuses country music star garth brooks of sexual assault and battery. >> the anonymous woman who

filed the complaint says she worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the award-winning singer garth brooks denies the allegations. he calls them extortion. cnn's elizabeth wagmeister is following this story. so elizabeth give us the details here hi allison. >> so this lawsuit filed yesterday, as you said, from a woman who says that she was a hair and makeup artists for garth brooks in her lawsuit, she alleges that these incidents allegedly occurred in 2019 after she had started working for him in 2017, but she first met him back in 99 99 because she began working as a makeup artist for his wife, country superstar trisha yearwood. now, this woman who filed a misley as a jane roe, alleges that in 2019, she was raped in a hotel room in los angeles when they were traveling for business where garth brooks was doing a grammy tribute performance she also alleges that that same year, one time at his home where she

was to do as hair and makeup that he walked out of the shower completely naked and forced her hand on to him. the allegations are very detailed, very vulgar. but as you said, allison garth brooks is denying this he says that this is extortion and i obtained a lengthy statement from his publicist. i want to read part of that to you. here's what garth brooks says. >> quote, i have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tails of what my future would be if i did not write a check for millions of dollars, it has been like having a loaded gun wage in my face. >> i trust the system. i do not fear the truth and i am not the man. they have painted me it to be. now, there's an interesting twist here, allison, hours before this lawsuit was filed yesterday, i reported on a totally separate filing that was filed in mid-september and mississippi, it came from an anonymous select library plaintiff who filed as a john doe. we now know that john doe was garth

brooks and he was asking the court to prevent this lawsuit from ever coming out because he claims that his sexual assault accuser was defaming him and extorting him. now, i reached out to the attorney for her and he says he cannot talk about settlement but quote, the discussion made by brooks that he was unwilling to pay millions is simply not true elizabeth wagmeister. >> thank you very much for all of that reporting. i know you'll stay on that well, meanwhile, asheville, north carolina is no one's idea of hurricane alley. it was considered safely tucked away in the mountains far from the effects of extreme weather in hill hurricane helene changed all of that. how climate change could be making impacts like this worse, that's next camera for only $41 on deal that deal dash.com online auctions since 2009, this playstation 5s sold for only $0.50.

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will come to you 800 a31, 3,700 we're following breaking news this afternoon in evans, georgia. there we find georgia governor brian kemp alongside former president donald trump. these two have had a contentious relationship ever since the 2020 election. the governor is outlining efforts locally to recover from hurricane helene let's listen. >> but i told him how much we were glad to happen and we appreciated the work that they were doing the next morning, we tried to go see a bunch of lime there were having breakfast at one of the tent cities they had set up at a stage inside the head over 500 trucks and over 1,000 people we got out of the car at 6:30 a.m. before the sun was even up and most of these hard work and people had already in breakfasts. and we're walking out to go to tranq. can't crank their truck to start working to get people's power backup, whom they'd never met those same linemen were going to keep working well into the night.

that is the kind of response that we have seen after this crisis from georgians and from people far beyond in this state resilience and hope had been on full display everywhere. we've gone, including right here in columbia county we're grateful for those incredible people all over this state. but we're also mindful that every moment of every day since the storm pass of the loss of life and the devastation that it brought, we knew it was going to be bad, which is why we prepared early just like they did here in columbia county. declared a state of emergency two days ahead of the storm which gave us time to mobilize and prepare for the worst. and i'm so glad that we did because it impacted literally every part of our state many communities have been scarred with major infrastructure damage. and at one point, at least 1.3 million power meters were not

functional. in many more georgians were without power that number incredibly as down to 225,000 as we speak in atlanta, we saw record rainfall with 11.12 inches of rain in a 48 hour period. the previous state record it goes back to 18 86 when we had nine 9.6 inches as many people around the country know, we are in an agricultural state well, the agriculture servant is not number one industry. hurricane helene is wiped out much of this year's crop across the board. our agriculture commissioner tyler harper nurtured governor of georgia, brian kemp, talking about just the devastation that he's saying in his state. i mean, those stories about young children in their homes, in their beds, a young mother sheltering her kids who were killed. it's off. >> they've seen i mean, as well as of course, north carolina and beyond helene has just been well, we know it's

been the deadliest since hurricane katrina. >> yeah. more than 120 people killed as a result of this storm, 33 of them in georgia will continue to monitor remarks from governor kemp and president trump as we get them, we'll bring you the highlights from that. we do want to point to some new satellite photos that show specifically how hurricane helene decimated the landscape. look at your screen right now, this is in the mountains of western north carolina, chimney rock you can see effectively what's a river now flowing through where that street and that parking lot used to be half of those killed by the storm died in north carolina. and in the state most devastated by helene asheville has become ground zero witnesses. they're described the scene in the city of 95,000 as quote, post-apocalyptic. cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now and build many people would considered asheville to

actually have been a climate crisis haven. and this is obviously given new perspective on the meaning of that exactly the idea that maybe there's no such place actually have some extended family, boris who left florida ten years ago for the mountains of north carolina, thinking, well, at least we don't have to deal with hurricanes anymore. >> and just last year, the asheville newspaper ran an op-ed head worried about the influx of climate migrants they're trying to get away from coasts thinking they would be safe and it's actually a climate city by profession between academic researchers and you've got government agencies there. there's more folks per capita working on climate in asheville than anywhere else. and ironically, if you go to check the list of billion-dollar disasters being kept by the national centers for environmental information. you get an error message because it happens to be located in asheville right now, this is just a real lesson. you heard brian kemp say in georgia, they prepare, they declared an emergency days

ahead of time if there's any lesson coming from helene it's we need more capacity to imagine the worst things that can happen. so far from our oceans where you think you're safe from a hurricane but this is every kind of weather pattern. if you live in a dry area, droughts could get drier flash floods get flash year depending as the water cycles on this overheated earth continued to astound us but can you just explain? >> i mean, it is asheville is so far from the coast. >> it's nestled in mountains. how was it how was helene supercharged when it arrived there? >> well, first you had the gulf of mexico incredibly warm waters. that's the engine that's the fuel that ramped it up. so it gave it a boost as it sort of hit land, made landfall in the big bend of florida. but then had had been raining. so intensely in the southeast for days before landfall that they were sort of what they're calling a brown see effect in that there was so much moisture on the land. it kept the hurricane alive for miles further inland than it would

have. maybe in ten or 20 years ago. and of course, buncombe county is like a big bowl and the mudslides that just filled in there. there's just it's it's not built to absorb this amount of rainfall in such a short amount of time a lesson and we have to adapt to these new weather events, hopefully, as the scientists say, while mitigating the cause of it, the fossil fuel pollution that's overheating the earth and making all of these things so much more intense. but of course this is experimental. you could, you could do in a seventh grade classroom, but the politics around it, especially i feel sorry to interrupt you were going to join former president donald trump speaking in evans, georgia yes. >> we've seen one like this, brian. this is the worst they've seen. some of them are looking back 25 years. that's a lot, but i want to thank the governor and everybody for having hello, put out to the extent that they've had to. and it's really incredible. the some of the people that we met just now, congressman rick

allen, terrific person speaker of the georgia house, jon burns who's here, former congressman doug collins. where's the collins? his ear out here collins what a nice guy he is. i haven't seen you in so long. >> you haven't changed. >> you look you look better actually feeling state senator max burns, who's here. and district attorney bobby christine and we want to thank you, but we want to thank the people that are working so hard and we're here in evans, georgia to express our support or love, and prayers all of the communities are suffering is not even believable when you look and you see the kind of suffering that's going on right now. but one of the biggest i guess question marks is the fact that there's so many people missing. i've never seen anything where so many the numbers are so large of those that are missing governor, right? so that's something that hopefully there'll be

found and there'll be found very healthy, but it never looks great, never looks great. our hearts break for the more than 200 american families who have lost their lives already officially, 200. and that number, unfortunately, he's going to be going up. it's one of the deadliest storms in america can history more than two dozen georgians have died, including a 27-year-old mother and her two precious babies who lived not very far from the from mcduffie county and father a lot of people knew these people. they're great as father and grandfather. i know that such sudden and tragic loss must be almost unbearable. don't know how you can even take it loved ones all over, all over your county, all over your state and all over a lot of other states, you have florida thank you ed, you have virginia, you have south carolina, alabama, north carolina, maybe hit the worst north carolina is so bad, i want to thank elon musk by the

way for its quick action with starlink supplied a lot of equipment to the governor, to georgia and north carolina in particular and he acted very, very quickly. they needed communication. there was no communication should the polls are down, the wires are down and he acted really, really quickly. in fact, i called him and i was getting thank you notices already from north carolina and georgia and i wasn't off the phone with them, so i don't know what the hell i guess he's got some kind of a little specialty he works he works pretty fast i'll tell you, but he's been great the larry ellison made a very big contribution and a friend of the governor's in mind is right here. steve witkoff, who also made a very big contribution. steve, we appreciate it very much. thank you. >> the homes and roads as the governor told you, are still being worked on, everything's being worked on and the good thing is when i just met a group and now i met two groups

and now i'm meeting a third. >> and i will tell you that i have no doubt that whatever can be done is going to be done. it's going to take time it's going to take a lot of effort and it's it's a very heart breaking situation. we're gonna go to north carolina now. we're going to see some of our friends and north carolina is a very good friends and they have just been totally devastated. they've never seen anything like this but i want to thank everybody for being here and will we have a big election coming up? governor of i'm involved. they're going to get the best treatment they're going to get treatment like like we did in the past. we always had we had a big farmers got hit very hard and i guess they got hit this is hard or maybe is this worse or is this of equal probably worse. that was a bad one but we worked two or three times together and big storms, but i don't think we've seen anything like this, but we got to take care of in record time

we will be very open and very committed to this state because it's a great state and you have great leadership and the governor again is doing a fantastic job. so thank everybody very much. for being here. i appreciate it and we may see you later. we may not, but we will be back and whenever the governor needs us, we will be here. and thank you over there. that's a nice group of people. thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you we've been listening to former president donald trump in evans, georgia after receiving a briefing from first responders to hurricane helene and after hearing remarks from governor brian kemp, it appears the former president may take questions. >> let's listen >> no, no, no, it's great now, we work together. we've always worked together very well, very really well it's its top. yes yeah. >> of course it's been a terrible response from the

white house they're missing 1 billion that was used for another purpose. and nobody seen anything like that? no. from that standpoint, it's been terrible right now. >> i'm thinking about lives to be honest, it's much bigger than anything else, but we're thinking about lives, lot of lives lost, a lot of people missing and that's what i'd be focused on. and right now is devastated. our economy, it's one of the big problems we have. and on jobs we have the illegals have taken more jobs and anybody else you have illegals coming in and they're taking the jobs and when you.

look at the numbers from that standpoint, it's a shame we have to get the job so the people that have lived here for a long time and they're great, great citizens of our country, but when you look good, the job numbers they just came out and then you look at who's getting the jobs and it's been very unfortunate from that standpoint. you have a legal you have the migrants, you're reading about it now, a lot of the money that was supposed to go to georgia and supposed to go to north carolina and all of the others is going and has gone already. it's been god for people that came into the country illegally and nobody's ever seen anything like that. that's a shame what he said. i only can hope that it's going to be free and fair and i think in this stated will be and i hope in every state it will be i think we're

going to do very well, but right now we're focused on this. we're not focused on the election we actually were very close last time. right now, the recent poll came up, were up n. so i think we're pretty far up and we seem to be going up and she seems to be going down. so i hope we're going to keep it that way ladies and gentlemen. thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you. >> former president donald, trump there answering questions from reporters in evans, georgia, making a number of false statements about a quote, terrible response from the federal government making accusations that money was misspent on the response also responding to comments for president biden? >> yes so fema has put out a response to this. i have not exactly he was saying but because he has said in the past, no money. they say is being diverted from disaster response needs so that