them obviously are elon musk fans i'm curious whether that $100 offer that he put out there had anything to do with any of the letters you saw choosing to come to the event these supporters who were out here for this event told us let's that they would be out here either way, there was one woman who said that she likes that cash incentive, but she wasn't really looking at the fine print when she signed a petition filled out that paperwork meanwhile, musk's next event is coming up tomorrow night in the harrisburg area, 7:00. erin right. it's gonna be interesting and he's doing this and whether that continues our danny. >> thank you so much. from pennsylvania tonight and thanks so much to all of you for being with us as well on this friday night. let's hand it off now my friend anderson cooper and ac360

exhaustion. and trump earlier r today, he says, abraham lincoln should have cut a deal to end the civil war also tying former president obama campaigns and arizona, one of 22020 blue states for the harris campaign is fighting up hill. and later at the impact of elon musk's millions and his conspiracy theory falsehoods and supported the man he wants dismissed. good evening. thanks for joining us. take a look on the left. vice president harris expected to speak any moment now in all important oakland county, michigan, which encompasses much of detroit northern suburbs on the right, that former president in detroit he was in oakland county as well earlier today, the second of two michigan appearances for him and the third for her in grand rapids this afternoon, nbc's peter alexander put her on the spot with a question she's been criticized lately for not fully answering. here's how it went this time president biden said this week that every president has to cut their own path. what is one policy that you would have done differently over these last three-and-a-half years than president biden i mean, to be very candid

mike pence vice presidents are not critical of their president. i think that really actually, in terms of the tradition of it and also just going forward, it does not make for a productive and important relationship but she went on to lay out how she would differ on policy if elected pointing to or plants for medicare, affordable housing and small businesses earlier today, she sees on reporting and politico that her opponent turned down a recent interview with the shade room because this reportedly of exhaustion reading now from the politico piece, quote, a trump advisor told shade room producers that trump was quote exhausted and refusing some interviews, but that could change and quote, at any time according to two people familiar with the conversations, when asked about it by politico, the trump campaign called the story quote, unequivocally false as for the vice president who has talked to the shade room, here's what she said today in grand rapids, michigan been hearing reports that his team, at least the saying he's suffering from exhaustion and

that's apparently the excuse for why he's not doing interviews. and of course he's not doing the cnn town hall he refuses to do another debate and you know, look being president united states, probably one of the hardest jobs in the world. and so we really do need to ask if he's exhausted being on the campaign trail is he fit? to do the job? >> but late today he had a reply one event did i can't i haven't she doesn't go to any events. >> she's a loser. she doesn't go to any events. she didn't even show up for the catholics last night et though gel it was itself. they all, they are sound bites. i've gotten 48 days now without arrest. and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy do you have a rabid taught me when you've seen me take even a little bit of a risk, not only am i not i'm not even tired really exhilarating, you know why we're killing her in the polls? >> well, more on the former president shortly specifically his remarks today about the civil war and how he thinks abraham lincoln should have cut

some sort of a deal with the slave-owning states of the confederacy. first, cnn's priscilla alvarez at the harris event in the detroit suburbs. what else has harris said about form president trump? >> boy, anderson, we're expecting the vice president only minutes from now, but certainly she has been trying to elevate and highlight his anti-labor comments going so far as to show clips of some of those comments, something that we are recently seen. the vice president, do to put him in his own worlds. now the vice president britley ramping up her attacks of former president donald trump in three key counties, the counties that she has visited today, one of which voted for donald trump in 2016, then voted for joe biden in 2020. those other two counties, counties where biden was able to widen his margins. and so certainly the campaign is trying to emulate that and build on so the vice president is going to target her messaging not only trying to criticize the former president, but also trying to showcase her own agenda and trying to make

inroads, especially in the suburbs with those white college educated voters. somewhere where the campaign officials, i've talked to say they see an opportunity to lock in her coalition, but also build on it. now, also tell you, anderson, that the campaign is capitalizing on early voting tomorrow the vice president will be attending a get out the vote event with lizzo bringing in that star power to again, get people to vote and vote early later in the day in atlanta, she'll later in the day she'll head to atlanta and do a rally with usher with this similar goal in mind. so now in the final stretch of this election that campaign clearly trying to fine tune their messaging attacks on the former president, painting him as unfit. and what we've heard the vice president say before, quote, unhinged stable. and then also make sure that they can lock down their coalition. and especially capitalize on the early voting. and those states where they can anderson and what about next week? >> and it's on her schedule other than the cnn town hall?

>> well, a source tells me that the vice president is expected to do a joint event with former republican congresswoman liz cheney. of course, this is part of this continued push to try to reach gop voters. now this is going to be potentially a town hall or a moderated conversation so again, this is part of a push by the harris campaign to peel off voters for former president donald trump. in addition to that, sources tell me she will be visiting those battleground states and doing multiple stops a day. so certainly an aggressive travel schedule ahead as she tries to walk in this poll but shan come election day and very much been listening to vice president shortly first in form presidents mike phone does not seem to be working right now. >> these are live pictures. he seems just be kind of wondering around. the stage, waiting for them to fix the problem we'll check in with him a little bit later, joining us now, cnn political commentator scott

jennings and jamal simmons also politico's meridith mcgraw and cnn senior data reporter. harry enten. harry would have pulling an areas fine, whatever you want, you can feel free to wander around the state what does that current polling in michigan liquid, that would be quite a scene, wouldn't it be right on your show me wandering around, look i am michigan. you can't get any tighter than it is right now. man. i mean, a month ago, kamala harris was up by two points. you look at the average of polls today. she's up by less than a point. if that holds until the final day of this election cycle, it will be the closest polled race in michigan in history. i went back in my spreadsheets, you know, i loved doing that since 1,972. there has been a closer poll. the race than what we have going on right now in the wolverine state now, in terms of sleep and a bit of spreads to actually true. i actually got a bad if spreadsheets actually fell asleep and my suit on monday night, but that's a whole other thing. anyway, you look, michigan is so important to both of these folks, map to 270 electoral votes. the chance that kamala

harris wins if she wins michigan is north of 80% the chance that donald trump wins the election if he wins in michigan is north of 90%. the bottom line is donald trump knows that if you can go into michigan when a state he won in 2016 that joe biden won in 2020, kamala harris's path to 270 electoral votes is awfully, awfully difficult jamal, i mean, you heard vice president harris, once again declining to say what she would have done differently from president biden. >> this is the third sort of publicly time that she's been asked that question is is her answer the right one at this point, you know, i think it is the right one because the attack on kamala harris right now is about comparing past statements to current statements. what is she what is she believe? if she changes something about what happened with the president, the former the current president? >> i imagined the republicans within attack her about that, right? >> so the idea here, i believe is that this is about loyalty and is better for her to be loyal even if they think it might cost her a little something in the beginning, it doesn't open up another line of attack. here's what she is doing. that's very good though,

in michigan, she's going after donald trump is on the front foot. she's going after him for being in hostage, going after him for not showing up. she's traveling around the state, you know, when you're a kid in michigan, you learn geography very easily. she started out over here in grand rapids. she went here to lansing and now she's here in detroit, right? it's been moving across the state that shows a level of activity either campaign and some of us were worried about a couple of weeks ago, the campaign, just wasn't doing enough events every day. she's now doing two or three event today and that i think is also going to compel the attention to what to the campaign that she needs murdered essentially in jamal's point previously, she made her different from joe biden initially, it seemed like that there was no difference. now, she's saying, well, this is a loyalty thing. i'm just not going to speak about it it is a fine line that she has to walk and you saw it play out just in that clip with nbc, where she is trying to say, i'm respectful of the man that

i'm serving with, but the same time i am the change candidate. >> and who is the change? candidate in this election? how voters perceive who it is, whether it's harris or trump is really the whole ballgame. and so she is trying to convince voters that, yeah, i'm the vice president, and yet i do have all of these policy differences with biden. the question is whether voters are going to buy that just see what if the ferocity person trump is speaking on stage wondering whirlpool, come back this very quickly. in the harris campaign analysis, this is because about a change from donald trump, not joe biden. they've got to keep the attention on trump if they think that she has a chance to win scott, we mentioned the reporting that a trump adviser told the shade room that trump was, quote exhausted and backed out of an interview which harris already seized on the trump campaign is denying it i mean, is that a mistake for him to skip out on multiple interviews with just a little more than two weeks to go or, i mean, it's not a site this on

instagram sort of targets an african american audience what do you make of that yeah, i don't really buy it. i mean, trump's done more media interviews and he's done more events than harris. number one, number two, kamala harris herself didn't show up for the chicago economic club. she bailed out on time. i mean, look, i think what the campaigns are doing is they're picking and choosing what makes the most sense for them to spend their time at the and to the campaign. it's not uncommon to schedule some things, take other things off the schedule. trump looks pretty vigorous to me. he went to the al smith dinner last night and did 30 minutes to stand up. kamala video. i think trump is in fine shape and he's doing plenty of events and media opportunities right now, far more than harris has done i don't really think he needs a larger up the schedule of his campaign doesn't think it's critical to winning. >> harris eris harry already whatever man where does harris were to harris and trump need to pick up voters in michigan you know, both were more an oakland county today. why were

they oakland county where part of it is, is that there are more whites with a college degree he is in oakland county than anywhere else in the state. and whereas kamala harris doing very well right now, she is doing very well among white voters with college degrees, doing ten points better than joe biden did four years ago, donald trump wants to stop that bleeding, bring that back to where we were back in 2020 where of course he did lose the state, but the reason he wants to bring it back to 2020 it's because he's doing better amongst other groups if you know anything about the great state of michigan union households are so important in that state. and although kamala harris is still leading amongst those were in union households her margin is smaller than it was four years ago at this particular point are small and joe biden's was at this 0.4 years ago. so the bottom line is, he harris is doing better among those with a college degree, while trump is doing better among those in the working class, and it's going to be interesting to see how those two balance themselves out at the very end right now, they're balancing them out very closely. and that's why we have such a tight race number of arena. kamala harris is just taking the stage in michigan

and i don't know. >> i don't think president trump from trump speaking at we'll bring you bring live remarks when they, when they both start to start speaking, it's going to live and train and who is actually at the trump event? alayna, what is going on? >> well, anderson just a couple of minutes into donald trump having taken the stage and beginning his remarks he was in the middle of speaking when all of us sudden his audio completely cut out, you could actually see the former president trying to continue speaking and you couldn't hear anything. and this has been going on now for over ten minutes. he has absolutely no audio. i watched his staffers here on the ground, brought him another mike, that one didn't work as well. i'm not sure if you can see behind me, but they have two screens, major screens up flanking the stage where donald trump is. they have put up essentially an announcement saying that they are having technical paul difficulties in the meantime, the former president has just been kind of

pacing around on stage, looking around noch, the crowd shaking his head but that's kind of the state of how things are right now. it's unclear when he is going to get audio back. and also just to give you a sense of what he was saying at the time he was trying to say that one of his favorite words or his favorite word in the dictionary january is tariffs, but he didn't even get to deliver that final line before his audio to bring back some audio will play some of what he says. >> let's go back to how harris, let's listen in a little bit with her community has deep and proud roots in the detroit metro area. >> and i am proud to have the support of arab american leaders like wayne county deputy we need a medic. okay. we need a medic. >> let's figure out a way to part a little bit so that we can bring a medic in over here, please okay

>> it looks like we need a medic over there too. that what we're saying people standing up their knees, they're not, you know, these are not buckled. her knees are not, but they don't have water. they don't make it it something. he saw the other night with donald trump. again here i think we're seeing more of women's health let's continue in terms of she's she was just talking about support among arab americans in michigan. >> obviously, this has been a big issue for her where do you think she actually stands on in terms of support? because i mean, there's a lot of people whether they're whether people who aren't and happy about the

biden administration's policy vis-a-vis israel and gaza it's not it's not clear would they vote for trump or were they just stay home or vote for another candidate in protests but it doesn't look like they're going to move toward trump as he is in danger of losing, losing some of the arab american vote from what i'm hearing in detroit and detroit metropolitan area. >> but in that area, you know, it's a very diverse community. there are people who are arab american or muslim. there are called dns who are christians. there are people who are 11. so there are all sorts of people who are there. they feel differently about the issues it's about a 1%, maybe a little bit less than 1% population in the state from the middle east. so let's say she loses 35 or 40% of that. that's going to matter in a very close race. but this community, i want you to know is changing alliances and oakland county, one of the things harry was just mentioning, the college educated whites. detroit has lost a lot of population over the course of the last decade or so, allow those people now live in oakland county. people like my brother and his family

who left the city of detroit, but they now live out. note when county but she's not just talking to college-educated whites, but also african americans, arab americans who are, who have now moved out to more suburban area. >> we've got to take a quick break next, the phone british new weighs in on suggestion than abraham lincoln should have his word settled the civil war. later, more breaking news, we'll take you live to the event in arizona with former president obama with you and all your dreams. >> oh, yeah. >> only pay for what you need >> every day introducing new iraq's on joe, the first fda cleared ed treatment available without a prescription. >> a rocks on jealous clinicalroven to work within ten minutes. so you and your partner can experience the heights of intimacy new iraq's on eateries in jail some days you can feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine 15 or more headache days a month each lasting four

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powerful nation on the face of among the many reasons. and it's not protection as this pro-worker is really not protection as we've had people ripping our country for years, decades destroying you look outside, you see all the hawks, you see the empty buildings for years and years. they've been ripping us off now it's time for us to get it back. we're going to get it all back. >> if the former president his day in new york on the fox and friends couch where he suggested abraham lincoln should have cut some sort of deal with the slave-owning confederate states. trump said lincoln should have settled the civil war is happened after a ten-year-old from oklahoma asked trump who his favorite president was when he was little trump said ronald reagan, who was president. when trump was 34-years-old, not a child, but then he turned abraham lincoln john. i liked ronald reagan. i thought he was

look, i didn't love his trade policy. i'm a very good time. i have made some great trade deals for us. lincoln was probably a great president, although i've always said why wasn't that settled here? not my guy that it doesn't make sense to wait a civil war, half the country left before he got there. yeah, yeah. but you, almost say like, why wasn't that? as an example, ukraine would have never happened in russia if i were president foreign president, as you know, says, he'll quickly end the ukraine war without actually saying how and recently blamed ukraine's president for russia's invasion. today's remarks about settling the civil war, by the way, were not his first here he is back in january. january it takes actually to be precise so many mistakes were made see there was something i think could have been negotiated to be honest with you, i think you could have negotiated that all the people died. so many people died. abraham lincoln, of course, if he negotiated it, you probably wouldn't even know who abraham lincoln was again, he said that on the anniversary of the worst attack on democracy since the civil war and separately, he also weighed in today on the people in

prison for attacking the capitol, comparing them to japanese americans in turned unfairly during world war ii scott jennings is back joining us also cnn political commentator bakari sellers, a former south carolina state lawmaker bakari does it make sense to you that donald trump thinks abraham lincoln should have negotiated and settled the civil war. >> well, first of all, nothing he said makes sense. i think what we're seeing is a very, very diminished man. i think that the person who is running for president of the united states today isn't the same person? who ran for president of the united states eight years ago. i think he, he calls it the, we've but for most of us who were listening, it's nonsensical he referred to abraham lincoln as probably a great president. and in this morning, i mean, what he did was he went to his campaign headquarters and met with his campaign volunteers here's in court at fox news. look, there's nothing about this campaign that makes much sense from donald trump but the unique problem is for the harris campaign and my good friend and people in democrats

is that this is already baked into the cake people know that he's not making sense people know that he is sometimes unintelligible. people know that he doesn't have a grasp before american history, people know that is makeup doesn't blend well, like these are all things that people know. but yet and still commonly, harris as a woman running for president of the united states has to run the oneten hurdles and do a backflip in heels. and the standard is completely different and she recognizes that and she's going out and outworking him day in and day out. she's actually making sense while donald trump is meandering and doing the, we've talking about the civil war and how maybe they should have given a little bit of slavery away to the north this is a just somebody who is not fit to be president of the united states. and no matter what pretzel anybody turns himself into we our eyes can tell the truth. >> scott, i mean, guard said this is baked in. this is not going to move the needle at

all, but i mean does it, is this doesn't make sense to you that he thinks abraham lincoln should have settled the civil war no, not really. >> i mean, look, i think he has a general disposition that war is bad and that he's running as an anti-war type candidate and he believes that you should try to avoid war. i think that's a general baseline position. i know he said this earlier this year as well. lots of politicians did try to settle it, and never compromises and punts and all the way down the field. and then obviously we had the civil war for the very obvious reason of eradicating slavery, because you sit on the war, it's, you, let's look, keep slavery in the confederate states it's not in it. it just seems to be arguing for yeah. >> i mean, look, it's sort of this sort of irrelevant historical meandering. i mean he got asked a simple question by a kid who's your favorite president? i'm, and i'm from kentucky, i would say abraham

lincoln to and that would also be my answer. then i would have moved on to other republicans that i revere like teddy roosevelt and dwight eisenhower. so no i look, it's sort of esoteric or irrelevant historical kicking around what could have been, might have been, should have been, but no. >> i mean, maybe maybe somebody maybe i like history a lot, but i mean, i know it's maybe it's an esoteric, but he is running to be president united states. >> and if the model is, if there's a if there are confederate states that have slavery, which are seceding from the union, that should have been negotiated and settled yeah, if it was just a guy in a bar, are having this argument, it wouldn't matter but wanting to be the president noted states, i mean, i don't know, maybe maybe maybe he thinks, maybe he thinks that politicians could have negotiated an end to slavery without the bloodshed. i mean, that would be a charitable look at this, right? maybe they could have settled it and gotten the south to agree to go. but again, look, we're sitting here kicking around

things that have happened so long ago and that have long has since been settled when we have so many pressing problems in this country, which is why he's actually winning the election today, because the pressing problems that people are blaming on biden, that's why he's winning, not kicking around history, but kicking around the present day we've got to take a quick break. scott. >> thank you. bakari sellers, please stick around coming up more breaking news from a former president obama. questions donald trump's mental fitness during a rally in arizona >> the news sports a little family gaza maybe. >> now, you don't do that, right here's another top. >> as they get older, their risk of getting really sick from a respiratory virus. >> lake flu, covid-19 or ours to be goes up a lot so talk to them about getting the season's vaccines because you've still got so much to talk about

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