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days to be traveling around our country. talking with folks about the issues that matter most and offering them what i believe sienna college poll essentially shows a coin flip in two key swing states. the polling has vice president harris with a slight edge in pennsylvania, though it is within the margin of error. while former president donald trump holds a narrow lead in arizona now, according to that poll today's campaign schedule is highlighting the contrasting strategies for these candidates. harris will be in the storm-ravaged swing state of north carolina this weekend before going to pennsylvania monday. meanwhile, trump is passing up on opportunities to spend more time in those critical battleground states. and instead, he's holding a rally in coachella, california, of course, a solidly blue state when it comes to presidential elections. yesterday, he was in colorado, a state which has gone blue for democrats in the last four presidential elections. he's also going to hold a rally at madison square

garden, new york city 1984 was the last time the state of new york was won by a republican presidential candidate. >> still the trump campaign remains adamant these events, regardless of where they're held, will draw national attention joining me now from the harris campaign headquarters in wilmington, delaware is senior spokesperson and senior advisor for the harris and walz campaign. >> ian sams. ian, good to see you. thanks for being here thank you. wake but yeah, it is. and we have lots to discuss. i first just want to ask you generally we just heard from the vice president there saying this is a tight race. this is what she's doing to win your own campaign manager said back before the convention that this was going to be a margin of error race and yet democrats, some democrats have started to panic in the last week. there's been concern maybe to all the way to bedwetting. what do you say to them? >> well, what i'd say to them is that we've always said this is going to be a really close race. and that the country is

divided and that taking that anxiety, taking that concern and channeling into real energy to work to win this election is what's most important. people can go to go.com while harris.com to sign up to volunteer, were working very hard every day and the vice president, as you just mentioned, is on the campaign trail every single day trying to earn voters support. we still have undecided voters out there three weeks left, who are trying to make up their mind between these two candidates. and so the most important thing that the vice president is doing right now and you just heard her speak to this. and the most important thing that i think any nervous democrat could do right now is to roll up their sleeves and get to work on behalf of this candidate and make sure that we win this race in three weeks and david axelrod said this week about harris that she made steady incremental progress in the ten days after the debate but now the race has plateaued. >> do you agree with that assessment? >> well, look, i think that we're in a moment where people are trying to make up their minds, both candidates have consolidated a lot of the

support from within their own parties. and again, there's this small sliver of undecided voters out there who are going to tip the election one way or another. it's why the vice president is in north carolina today and tomorrow campaigning very hard to earn people's support in a state like north carolina, where we think that the vice president can win and earn the electoral college victory. and so she's there today in raleigh. she's going to be meeting with black faith leaders as well as working with low local community members to package relief supplies that are being sent to western north carolina. that's the kind of leadership that you see from her right now while donald trump, as you said, is going to coachella, california, which is not exactly a trump stronghold for him electorally, because he wants attention for himself. he wants to have a big rally ali with attention for himself. it's a real contrast between the two candidates of what their priorities are we also saw the vice president release her health records today with her doctor saying she's in quote, excellent health

according to a release from the trump campaign, they don't plan on releasing anything beyond these updates that they pointed to from ronny jackson? >> then do you think this this this sort of information? i hear you saying you've gotta convince these persuadable voters. is this the sort of information that you think is key is helpful in doing that absolutely voters are sitting there thinking about which of these two candidates they're going to vote for in three weeks. and anyone who's been paying attention to donald trump knows that this is not the same guy from four years ago and certainly not the same guy from 2016, even republican governor chris christie, a former top ally just yesterday, talked about his decline. it's interesting that the campaign is refusing to put out more information on august 20 in an interview with cbs news, former president trump said that he would quote, very gladly released his medical records and information. the public has a right to see whether he's fit for the job. if you just listen to his own former national security advisors, his own

former chief of staff, john kelly, his own former chairman of the joint chiefs, mark milley. these are the people who know him best and they're saying that he's not fit to serve and that he's would be a dangerous figure in the oval office. i think that for trump who rambles in meanders at his rallies saying things that often are nonsensical for him to refuse to disclose his medical history and health information to the voter three weeks ahead of the election that that should raise alarm bells for voters who are trying to make up their mind. i think that they have to wonder what he's trying to hide. he's pulling out of 60 minutes it's interview for example, last week because he doesn't want to face that kind of scrutiny. he's done 27 interviews in a row on conservative media outlets that treat him softly and so he's hiding in a safe space instead of going into the belly of the beast and taking tough questions. and i think it raises questions about whether he's up for the job i'm curious. >> we've seen this has been such a wild election season. i

don't have to tell you that a wild campaign season you've lived through it with the rest of us. >> and so many things have happened and yet there is this slice of voters, a very small slice and a handful of states that do remain persuadable what is the harris campaign's theory of the case about how you move those voters well, what our campaign is saying is a couple of things. >> first, we're seeing that voters still want to know what these candidates are going to do for them. vice president harris has been vice president for three-and-a-half years, but she's only been the candidate at the top of the ticket for a couple of months, people still want to hear from her. that's why she's out there talking two major audiences this week on the view on coal bear ron howard stern show on call her daddy podcast on 60 minutes talking about her vision for the country, bringing down costs for people in her plans to do that plans to expand affordable housing, plans to cut taxes for the middle class and american families plans to protect reproductive freedom. these are all the top issues

that voters are telling our campaign and are telling independents pennant pollsters from cnn and everywhere else are the top issues. so she's going to keep talking about that. but there are voters out there who are still saying, i just don't know if i can vote for donald trump again and maybe, maybe they think i voted for him in 2020. i voted for him in 2016 and they're trying to make up their mind about whether they're going to support him again this time when they see that he won't release his medical records when they see that he's backing out of 60 minutes to not talk to the american public in a large platform when they watch a donald trump rally where he rambles about the wind or rambles about hannibal lecter or says that that immigrants are eating cats and dogs. these are things that are alarming to those voters. and as they make it's up their minds here in the homestretch of this race. i think that they're going to have a choice. they're going to say, do we want to go back to that? do we want to go back to the day-to-day chaos and the risks that this guy poses to our country? or are we going to turn the page on all that and pursue a new way forward because vice president harris

is talking about how to make my life better. that is going to be fundamental choice in three weeks. and that is why the vice president is out making that closing argument to voters very aggressively across the battleground states and we're seeing you all deploy your surrogates as well. >> of course, we saw president obama on the campaign trail in pennsylvania earlier this week where he really gave a very stern talking to a very emotional talking to two black men specifically in terms of the choice between vice president harris and president trump. can we expect the vice president to speak to that as pointedly as, as president obama did well, what the vice president has said and what she's doing is she's saying, you know, i don't i don't automatically get everyone's vote. i don't expect to automatically get everyone's quote, i expect to earn people's support. and so when she's out there on the campaign trail, she's explaining whether it's to a black man or a white woman or alive i tino or any american, because she

wants to be president for all americans. how she's going to make their lives better. she's talking about lowering their cost. she's talking about small businesses, for example, helping people be able to better afford to start a small business by expanding tenfold the tax credit for new small business owners. these are resonant issues with black men in the black community, but also with all americans. and so i think when she's out there and she's talking to black voters when she's talking to all voters, she's trying to try to earn people's support by saying, here's how i'm going to help make your life better. and that's her commitment in this race is not to take anyone's vote for granted, but in fact to go out there and work really hard to earn people's votes let's and so here we are, we're about three weeks left you now as a campaign, have to do two things at once, right? you have to convince anyone that can still be convinced and also get out the vote. how is the campaign prioritizing those two things? >> well, you raise a good point with that because of the historically compressed timeline of this campaign, you

have to do both at the same time. you have to introduce the vice president to voters who may not know her that much. it may lead to more voters toward the end of this race here we are three weeks ago still being undecided about who they're going to vote for. you are still doing that persuading. you are still talking to voters who are making up their mind. but at the same time, we're mobilizing our voters. i mean, you've seen some of these rallies that the vice president is doing that governor walz is doing that president obama is doing today, for example, also, former president clinton is in georgia campaigning for for vice president harris. and we're trying to turn out voters in a lot of states, a number of states people can already vote whether you're mailing in your ballot, whether you can go to in-person early voting. that's already happening. and so we have a very robust effort right now in states thousands of volunteers and staff, hundreds of officers and communities across all the battleground states working right now to go ahead and turn out our voters, whether it's through early voting or for mailing in their ballots. and so that work is also going to

continue at the same time that you see the vice president helping to encourage voters who may not have decided yet, who to support in this race. and so it is a historic and interesting opportunity to do both those things at the same time. we've built a massive infrastructure of this campaign to do so as you mentioned at the very beginning of this interview, if there's people out there, especially democrats, who might be nervous or anxious would encourage them to go, to go, to, go.com, harris.com and sign up to be a part of that organization to both turnout voters and persuade people who are still making up their minds because we can leave it all on the field these next three weeks and when the election alright. >> and sam's thanks so much for being here. we appreciate it thank you. still ahead, flooded rivers, blackouts, and gas shortages, just a few of the problems people in first responders in florida right now, after milton carves its way across the state, plus new warnings from iran about what they think will happen israel responds to their missile attack during the cnn newsroom

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what are you saying just one agency conducted 300 of those rescues and that was right here, the hillsborough county sheriff's office? >> i do want to show you what this area is still experiencing. if you can see behind me here, this home where the water up to not just the front door, but also inside the garage. we went on a tour of this neighborhood on an airboat earlier this morning with the sheriff's office and saw that what is happening here is pretty widespread miles in this direction, miles in this direction, as well as blocks so that's pretty significant about how little this water has gone down in the last 48 plus hours since hurricane milton made landfall we also did talk with some people in this area that told us that in the 50 years they've been here, they haven't seen anything like this making matters worse has been the gas situation.

jessica, we do know that there's been a shortage. we have seen the long lines at gas pumps around this area. it is getting better. we are seeing that fuel tankers are showing up, being escorted by police after having issues at the port with some equipment being fraud i delaying the efforts of getting gas to people that need it most. so though that is improving people, they're having to use word of mouth in order to find out which gas stations have gas. take a listen to what one person said in la oh, my goodness. >> i've been going to all morning, went down to legia to get some gas, stayed. somebody told me about it i'm on mobile. the 711 i went over there everybody is on the on the on the pump. itself, but there's no guess. they but so i went in side is something that that i don't know. i said to them misses its guesses comment. since we don't know nothing nobody knows anything, but

everybody is waiting at the pump about the state of florida providing public fuel sites. we do know that there is three of them in the tampa area and bradenton and st. pete with more about to come online i'm for free gas and also we did just see about a mile or so down the road here, a church providing a free food pantry so jessica, as we say, time, time and beginning situations like this, you know, the worst situations really do bring out the best in humanity a silver lining in this, seeing that unfold for sure, brian abel. >> thank you so much for that. when we come back while iran urgently tries to shore up support in the middle east, israel holds a cabinet meeting to consider retaliating against iran. you're in the cnn newsroom week and asked questions like, what does a comedy show doing on cnn? >> that's too much but i want donald now, can you slice that

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lot going on, expanding and that military operations in gaza are underway they've expanded military operations inside of lebanon declaring another closed military zone on the border with lebanon, telling another 24 lebanese villages, that's 136 now that they need to evacuate a move 30 miles north of the border. but i think the big issue that is going on and the one that really has for country on edge at the moment is how israel is going to respond to iran's barrage of ballistic missiles two weeks ago, it was expected that israel might have responded sooner. they had a cabinet meeting last week where this was discussed and that would just before that cabinet meeting, prime minister benjamin netanyahu had a direct, as it was described, 30 minute phone call with president biden where there was a real effort from the white house to get israel essentially to limit the possibility of an

escalation you need to select targets in iran that we're proportional late. they're targets around hit here, abby, a military basis intelligence headquarters. a lot of focus will be from the outside, at least of that cabinet meeting to try to get a hint of what israel is planning, how big the strikes will be, and when they'll come and the whole country and the region on top of that is waiting for that certainly, certainly they are already rock nic robertson for us in tel aviv. >> thank you so much for that reporting i want to bring in hagar chemali, former national safety council director for syria and lebanon, and former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to un hagar, thanks so much for being here thanks for having me nic just kind of laid out what we're looking at in the next 24 hours. we know that the cabinet will meet. they're expected to discuss israel's options as they weigh their response to iran's missile attack. when it comes to that that response once how do you see where do you see the state of play today sure.

>> well, on one hand, we know that israel is very, very seriously considering targeting iran's nuclear facilities. and that is not something that to take lightly, that is something that there's a reason israel is considering that, and that's because we know and i can tell you having been on the us side of things, on the side of what we were working on the iran nuclear deal. we know that iran, in part is creating its nuclear weapons in part to annihilate israel. that's a stated goal of theirs. and they have their proxies, their quote, ring of fire around israel to enhance that threat to load appointed gun at israel's head so that is something usual considering in beating a denounce particularly in bold and right now, as we see with how, how the shape of the war is taking out, the escalation in lebanon, of course, he's feeling emboldened because these really government has significantly decimated hamas and also has significantly weakened hezbollah in a way that i think nobody anticipated, particularly by by killing its leadership off so it is a very

real possibility, but they are very seriously considering also the u.s. view on this. and that's why it's taking this long. they have been closely coordinating with the united states, taking in their perspective to us has been very clear that they don't want israel to target the nuclear facilities because they're worried it could escalate into him into a much broader war at a time of first certainly when the u.s. doesn't want to be roped in, but also at a time when israel significantly engaged in lebanon something i'm pursuing this type of strike of this kind. this would not be the same as pursuing the strikes they're pursuing in lebanonn. why? because iran has defensive missile systems so israel would have to make a very concerted serious effort to target its nuclear facilities i'd give it a 50-50 chance. it's possible, but i also think it's much more likely that they're going to target other military infrastructure and leadership in iran and you mentioned the u.s. role in all of this. we know that prime minister netanyahu and president biden did speak for the first time in

many weeks recently that it was a very direct phone call. where do you see how much leverage do you think that the u.s. has here and how much is israel and prime minister netanyahu listening to the u.s. because obviously we have seen that is a very difficult relationship between those two minutes this point was one of the things i can tell you when i worked very closely with the israeli government throughout my government career and what how you're seeing it play out now, doesn't entirely surprise me because for my entire career, we worked very closely with them. we would brief them. we would coordinate on policies. we would share our goals and so on but when there were disagreements and there were numerous disagreements at the end of the day, the israeli government will do what it feels is best for its survival, even if the u.s. government disagree and this is a scenario where you're seeing that the u.s. government views a different strategy that we believe are the u.s. government believes would be best for

israel's long-term security. and we've seen numerous examples where the israeli government has clearly disagreed, but that's not too dissimilar from other partnerships and alliances. you could look for example, at at our support of the saudi war in yemen and our support for way we gave them and stole the many arms and weapons we gave them technical and intelligence assessments and urged them not to target civilians in yemen when they were going up to the houthis and they still did and they cause one of the worst humanity during crises of the last 20 years and so what you're seeing play out now doesn't surprise me the way i would sum it up is that these really government cares very deeply about the u.s. perspective. and they seek it, they seek us guidance, often. >> but at the end of the day, they're going to do what they feel is best for their own survival, even if the u.s. all right hagar chemali. thank you for that context for that analysis. we really appreciate it thanks. still ahead. what new polling reveals about the state of the race for the white house with just weeks to go until election day you're in the cnn newsroom

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>> and we asked to go. >> yeah. all right. so we're here to the final three weeks of this race. and in this last, i know isn't it crazy? this last week, the harris campaign it has really hurt seen a lot. we've seen a lot of democrats who are just kind of, for lack of a better term freaking out at this point, even though the harris campaign has said all along, this is going to be a margin of error race. >> why do you think democrats are so worried all of a sudden? well, i mean they're worried in part because the stakes are so high. i mean, i think not only democrats, but many people who used to work for donald trump, including we just saw the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when he was president believed that he constitutes an existential threat to american democracy and really is the most significant picking figure who is not committed to the basic principles of american democracy that we've seen in us politics, probably since john calhoun before the civil war, the anxiety among democrats is centered on the three states that trump knocked out of the blue wall in 2016, michigan,

pennsylvania, wisconsin, biden put them back in there. that's largely why he was president that's when their governorships in 18 and 22, they hold five of the six senators in those states and they've been leading in polls in them pretty consistently since harris got in the race. in fact, they are still probably slightly ahead in most public polling there, but there's no question that particularly in those states hate using sports analogies because the stakes are so high. but i will trump has landed a punch with his ad about immigration and crime and transgender rights but if you look at the polling, it's not a knockout punch by any means. and the real question is, what is harris's response in the final few weeks, i think the big anxiety among donors democrats, the big concern among democrats is that her arguments have been very successful and she's made a lot of ground with him, but with them, but they maybe they have taken her as far as she can go, and she has to sharpen her message for the final stretch of the race.

>> so on that point, some prominent democrats, including longtime strategist, stable david axelrod our concern momentum is slowing. he said harris made steady incremental progress in the ten days after the debate. but now the race has plateaued. do you agree with that categorization? >> yeah it's interesting you know, why did harris make progress immediately after the day part of it was the strength of her performance but i think a lot of it was that trump's performance reminded voters of everything they didn't like about him when he was president you know, clearly, most americans think the economy was better under trump than it has been for them under biden, largely because of the cost of living. but when they were living through that economy jessica trump was the only president whose approval rating never reached 50%. and there was a reason for that because of everything else that came with it the chaos, the division, the vitriol, you know, immigrants are stealing and eating pets, their vermin, and so forth now, if you look

at that wall street journal poll that came out yesterday in the swing states, we still had harris by the way ahead in enough states to win. nonetheless, it showed that the retrospective job approval of trump was rising. and in fact, was at 50% or more in all of those states. and what that says to me is that the impact of the debate has faded. and that while harris is predominantly focus as you saw in all of those media interviews, she did on reassuring people that she is ready to be president, that she's moderate, that she will protect them at the border for it's pretty clear, i think from these data that she has to remind them or democrats have to remind them of what they didn't like about trump's presidency. because if it's just a question of who is going to be better for your bottom line. that is going to be a hard argument for them to win just as it was for biden yeah and it speaks to as well like why there not being another debate really matters? >> because there isn't this like natural inflection point like you're describing. i also

want to ask you, what has been interesting to track is to see the former president really triple quadruple down on these anti-immigration themes. >> this really extreme rhetoric, right? >> and we're not hearing him talk about the economy nearly as much. it's really, that's kind of at this point seems to be his closing message what do you make of that? >> yeah i wrote about this week in the atlantic. i mean, he is dredging up the most venomous anti-immigrant arguments that have occurred regularly throughout our history you know, when he's talking when he's saying that immigrants are bringing crime and disease and taking away jobs. these were the arguments made against the irish in 1840s and 18 he 50s against chinese immigrants in the 1870s and 1880s at the first couple of decades of the century against polls and italians and jews. in fact, i quoted from a book in 1917 called the immigration problem, or america first, that was the

title of the book and the crowning accusation in the book was that the chinese immigrants were eating rats and the european immigrants were boiling dogs into soup so there is nothing new in what trump is arguing here. it's something we have seen periodically through american history. what's striking is that democrats really have not pushed back that much. harris has been very focused on emphasizing her credentials to keep to secure the border, to restore order to the border, and she really hasn't taken on trump at all on the policy that is the end point of all of these arguments, which is mass deportation. there are 4 million us citizen kids who have at least one undocumented parent. so for all the backlash that there was against trump's policy of family separation when he was president mass deportation is family separation on industrial scale at a vastly greater magnitude than anything we saw when he

was president. but again, in that univision townhall, even when questioned by a woman whose mother never achieved legal status harris chose not to challenge trump order say that this was the kind of voter kind of voter. this is the kind of person in the country who would be in turned and deported. so clearly they have made a decision that that challenging trump on this front interferes with their message that they are also committed to keeping the border safe. but the result is that trump is getting the best of both worlds politically. he is energizing his culturally conservative white base with these very venomous arguments. and at the same time, he seems on track to improve among latino voters around other issues but principally the economy and inflation. >> yeah, and trump is in coachella, california today. he was in colorado yesterday. blue states when it comes to presidential elections we see harris in more traditional

places. you would think they would be right now. she is in north carolina the trump campaign is making the case that they can go anywhere and make the end it is these immigration pushes really and make those cases they're gonna be in new york city. and that's going to go to the battleground states. they don't have to physically be there. do you think that it's a smart strategy? do you think that's true well, he's using our campaigns are more nationalized. >> no question about it. and he is using these communities as a backdrop for the national argument that he wants to make. although as you know, the republican mayor of aurora, colorado yesterday was saying that what he was saying was wildly inaccurate. and basically, i had no basis in fact, what he surrenders is that local media in those in those environments the harris campaign was putting out the front page of the arizona republic. that talked about her speech yesterday. that was really emphasizing her willingness to work with republicans, which is critical the prospects there are former

republicans in the phoenix suburbs. that's the cost trump is accepting by doing this. but from his point of view, it's not an irrational decision because trump is someone who is pretty much defined the same way everywhere. and he does reach his voters, i think largely through national media media, but the bigger question is, what is what he is saying in these places remotely connected to the reality on the ground in them. and what you heard from the republican mayor in this community outside denver yesterday was a very emphatic note all right. ron brownstein, always good to have you. thank you so much for your perspective thanks for having me look calm with just weeks until election day, republicans in battleground states are challenging every aspect mail-in voting is some states are already taking invalides. you're in the cnn newsroom tomorrow. >> as harris and trump fight for crucial votes from black man dana talks with three key lawmakers, democrat senator raphael warnock and congressman jim clyber, plus republican

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ballots republicans have already made this the subject of litigation in multiple battleground states in pennsylvania a pivotal state in the 2024 race, the rnc has sued challenge procedures that allow voters to 40 issues like missing signatures or incorrect dates. their ballots can be counted concerned the harris-walz campaign back the dnc and state democratic party quickly intervening, ultimately, the state supreme court rejected this challenge and another over counting ballots that arrive in envelopes with out handwritten dates or have incorrect dates. but these types of issues could be revived after the election. >> we knew that he would try his same old tech thanks again. and in fact, we've already begun to see some litigation to try and make it harder for certain people's votes to count officials are working to educate voters about how to properly fill in their mail-in ballot through videos like this. make sure you sign it and

write the current date in the right spots on the larger envelope back in north carolina election officials are preparing for the litigation over these ballots to ramp up especially if former president trump is behind in the vote count if you have close elections, i think both major parties are lawyered up and they're ready to go to court if they if they feel like there's something to be gained strategically from its how likely do you think it is that the election? >> anything related to our carolina wind up in court i think it depends on how close it is that's always the case alright. our thanks to paula reid for taking us behind the scenes. there and this week's the whole story. cnn's omar jimenez, it takes us takes viewers rather inside spring springfield, speaking with lifetime residents, business owners first local authorities, and the immigrants. now facing harassment and safety threats after former president donald trump and his running mate jd vance spent a large portion of their campaign spreading misinformation. omar also speaks with ohio's republican

governor mike dewine about how the haitian immigrants have been good for springfield. >> here's a preview. >> if we did wake up the next morning and all of the haitians here, we're gone. what do you think happens to springfield? >> that's not good for springfield. i would not like to see them gone. i think it'd be bad for springfield. i think it would be bad for awhile. >> you've voted for donald trump in 2020. he's now saying that if he is re-elected, he's going to deport these haitian immigrants mean, do you still plan to vote for him? >> i think it would be a mistake. to get these people out, not enough of a mistake to change how you plan to. >> well, look, i think the decision to who you support for president isn't paste up on multiple issues. >> given that what do you say to a haitian who will see these comments and say, i thought this governor had my back and he is now going to support the person who wants to kick me out

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florida at this, you see i'm jessica dean in new york. we are exactly 2024 days from election day in america. vice president kamala harris has arrived in north carolina with plans to step a pr outreach to black voters as the campaign continues to hold it in on swing states that will decide this election. meanwhile, former president donald trump is opting to spend crucial time in a solid blue state for presidential politics. as for a rally in california's coachella cnn's kristen holmes, is there kristen big crowd behind you? what are we expecting to hear from trump and also a big crowd? >> out to the side of me as well. i mean, the big hope here for donald trump was to draw as many people as possible, even though it is a blue state. remember one of the things that he's trying to do is turn out the popular vote even so we know of course, that doesn't matter in the end, and there is no real it is really 0% chance that he coul