you know, combinations. so roy this week actually yesterday, trump was at the al smith dinner brian stelter was sitting where you were sitting last night. he said trump was pretty funny. do you think it was smart for kamala harris to skip it? >> i think it was very smart for the vice president to skip the event because then it just becomes a battle of name-calling between her and trump. have trump was completed game straight up and do jokes and destruction to jokes and actually have some degree of angle to them versus him. just talking about a man in the last couple of weeks has called her stupid. has called her like just so many different insults with no punchline, with no structure to it. if i'm the madam vice president, i'm trying to go and get everybody else's votes. i know the purpose of that event is to raise money for catholic charities. she contributed a video that's just that's just got to be what it is we talked about it. who didn't show up to the correspondents dinner for a couple of times. >> that's right. yeah. the correspondents dinner

rave, and looking forward to the show tomorrow, have i got news for you, everyone else? thank you very much for joining us. laura coates live starts next race for the white house is neck and neck and things today begin personal trading jabs as they go head-to-head tonight in the midwest, biggest battleground state. >> i'm talking about michigan there according voters are cleaning up messes of their own making and well, going for the jugular, remember, just a few months ago, president biden was pressured out of his reelection bid we all remember that because of his fears, a fears that they had about him that he wasn't mentally fit for another four years in office. >> well, tonight, a similar sentiment is being used by kamala harris in her closing

argument against donald trump. ducking debates and canceling interviews been because of exhaustion are exhausted from the campaign trail it raises real questions about you are fit for the toughest job in the world there to politico reporting that says that trump backed out in an interview this week because he was quote, exhausted a trump appears. >> well, frankly, quite ticked off. he's denying the reporting and he is firing right back at harris i haven't she does he go to any events because he's a loser. >> she doesn't go to any events. i've gotten 48 days

now without arrest and i've got that loser who doesn't have the energy of a rapid i'm not even tired really exhilarating. you know, why would killing her in the polls? >> because the american people don't want her. >> she didn't pass a bar exam. she's not a smart person she didn't pass the bar exam. >> that's why she became the attorney general eventually. but, you know the day started with trump not doing much to help his own case during a 40 minute uninterrupted interview on fox and friends. and listen to how he answered a question. by the way, a question from a child about who his favorite president was when he was a kid thought he was luck. i didn't love his trade policy. i'm a very good i've made some great trade deals for us great president's. well, lincoln was probably a great president, although i've always said why was in that settled here, not my guy that it doesn't make sense. we have a civil war.

well, have 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 hello i'm just i'm bouncing back and forth through different areas of american history. knows the person who leaned in to say, well, half the country left before he got there historical details, we should probably burden ourselves with for this moment, for all of you were playing at home, you've got reagan. okay. and this way then you've got lincoln was good, but not good enough. and then putin and zelenskyy somewhere fitting here again the question was, who was your favorite president when you were young? and by the way, look, trump was fully in his 30s when reagan was president anyway, former president obama getting the last word in on this topic tonight, we'll on the stump for harris in arizona i do have to point out that along with his intentions there is also a

question of his competence have you seen him lately? >> you would be worried if your grandpa was acting like this tucson? we do not need to see what an older luna hear. donald trump looks like with no guard rails full day of jabs, setting up a friday night showdown in michigan, a state which has helped swing the last two presidential elections because it will be crucial, of course, this time around as well. >> well, joining me now, republican strategist, liam donovan, cnn senior political commentator and former obama administration official, van jones, and the host of life out loud with lz granderson, the podcast, lz granderson, he attended one of harris is rallies in michigan tonight good to see you all here. lz. i'll begin with you. who was you're afraid of? no kidding. i wasn't asking the same

question different what it extent do all appearances in michigan as the candidates fight for every last vote? you were at the harris event in grand rapids. what was the energy like in that space? >> it was very similar to when i covered her first appearance first full day appearance, and he went with governor walz at the airport very diverse, very large crowd, very energetic crowd. and when i say diverse, i'm not just speaking in terms of race, i mean generationally diverse i mean gender representation diverse. i'm talking about unions and non-unions able body of people in wheelchairs. i need really a kaleidoscope of america showed up today in grand rapids, and it just reminded me laura of what i saw in detroit when she first announced with our tim walz, had you seen any lapse of enthusiasm since then? obviously, we're talking about the kamala mentum at that point. was there a significant downgrade now, these days

before the election if there was it didn't make it wayne, in michigan? >> i can tell you that it took me hours to get out in large part because people wouldn't leave even after the vice president had lauft, there was like a carnival sort of event at this particular campaign stop. and so there was opportunities to buy more merchandise too. hello, ship. there were a lot of buses, people bus staff model, but a state to attend the event and there was food free donuts, apple cider. it was true pure michigan moment. and so it took hours for us to leave because of that energy. so if there is a lack of energy elsewhere, i can't speak to that the rallies that i've covered so far, i haven't seen it mainly me turn to you. >> harris is speaking out about the war in gaza and the death of course, of the hamas leader yahar sinwar. listen difficult given the scale of

death and destruction in gaza, sinwar's death can and must be a turning point opportunity to finally end the war in gaza suffering once and for all van she needs the support of arab americans could yahya sinwar death and look, i think what you're seeing here is true world-class leadership you have someone who was in a position. this coalition includes muslims and jews includes palestinians and israelis. it includes people who care about peace and people who care about security. so she's managing a much bigger, broader coalition. but look at how she's handling herself. she's coming down clearly on the side of peace, clearly on

the side of the hostages coming home. and she's calling on bibi to use this moment. bibi netanyahu them use this moment going forward, don't forget, you've got muslims in michigan, but you also have jews in pennsylvania. the philadelphia suburbs have jewish voters in very large numbers. and so she's doing a masterful job of managing a very, very difficult situation, which he says, bring the hostages home jewish voters like that, which he says in the war, muslim voters like that. and both those or principled positions he's taken. and meanwhile, donald trump's all over the place completely unreliable. she is showing world-class leadership on this issue well, liam, i mean, trump is technically in the same place. >> of course, where harris is the state of michigan. he was in detroit he had a significant audio issue though today, which took about 18 minutes they're so to resolve, listen to what happened now what happens is i won't pay the bill for this

stupid company that let me know and if it goes out again, i'll sue. >> they asked if that company i mean, clearly, you lose 18 minutes of time i'm talked to a crowd 18 days before an election. forget that he spent 39 minutes dancing last time with perfect audio available. this is a pretty important moment for him, though, and the idea of having a disruption like this and his response. how does that play for the electorate? >> i think there's only so much that an actual rally matters you know, we pick it apart and that kind of thing. but if you're thinking about why he's in michigan, this is a really critical state that math, the 15 electoral votes that represents, that is devastating to the electoral math for kamala harris. that's why she's there as well. it's been overshadowed by the focus on pennsylvania, which may well be the tipping point state, but michigan is really important. and if you look at what's happening in the polls, there's been a shift of about a point and a half for the last month. most of that happening in last week's the polls have been really, really good for him. so whatever is happening on a day-to-day basis, he is

gaining and the real question is, what is going to be the it's kind of threshold for victory. can he get over that 48%, 49% that he's shown team get in 2020. but he hasn't quite and got over that hump. so being out there, making i'm sure that he can communicate with these last voters actually keeps voters away from kennedy to remember, kennedy is still on the ballot. this could be the place where he closes the deal and it really would be hard to come back for harris. >> lawyers were still be casting about for kanaani, even though he is clearly not in the race just as it kind of maybe a protest or not you vote just as stray votes, things happen. any any vote that could be theoretically cleaved away from a person who otherwise be voting for trump would be problematic. it's wide. bobby has been on the trail with him saying, don't vote for me, but it's just one of those confounding factors in the same way that kamala harris has to contend with things like the gaza situation that dynamics with the american community the kennedy issue, i think is one that trump has keep an eye on here. >> he says he's not exhaust, he's not even tired, but the

pace of the rallies trying to make it swing in that way, this might contribute to any of that well, i think he's obviously pretty grouchy. >> mean you watched him on fox and friends and i think you're seeing two things happen. number one, both campaigns to understand that less is more for donald trump, the less he does, the better that is for donald trump. she's trying to needle him. she's trying to draw him out, provoke things that will cause him to do himself farm. he's his own worst enemy right now. and i think both campaigns understand that seeding the floor to kamala harris, the trump campaign thinks that's good for them. the harris campaign thinks they can close the deal that one lz speaking of his own worst enemy. i mean, trump was back in detroit after dissing the city during a visit earlier this month. i mean, just remind people, here's what he said then and then he tried to clean it up tonight the whole country is going to be like, you want to know that joe, it'll be like detroit, our whole country will end up being like detroit if she's your president, you're going to have a mess on your hands. >> you know, detroit has such great potential, but kamala and the democrats have been

wreaking havoc on this place. this very, very in many respects, it's a sacred place. so many things happened in detroit and it's been treated so badly and they've been talking about comebacks for so long, but we're going to bring it back better than it ever was. >> i mean, when he made those comments, lz i have to play this because there was that video that went around to that was voiced over, i think by courtney b. vance and he ends the video just showing all of the gains and the joys of a place like the motor city. and here's what he had to say at the very end. >> what donald trump doesn't understand or care to learn is that when he said our whole country will end up being like detroit if she's your president, that he should be so glad lucky i'm sorry. >> that and it was of course, i'm the kamala harris. >> i approve this message. certainly she did. was his comments now tonight enough to make amends? >> well, first of all, in for disclosure, i'm born and raised

in detroit. >> there we go so this is very personal to me. >> he's, going to campaign trail with kwame kilpatrick a disgraced former mayor of detroit, whose crimes were so prolific that they were blamed for accelerating the city's pay into bankruptcy so when donald trump goes on tour with kwame kilpatrick and tragic, the city of detroit. he's doing so with an accomplice in trash and the city of detroit, and he doesn't know that because he doesn't care. he doesn't care about black people in detroit. he doesn't care about people of color in any other major cities that each crashes all he cares about driving up rates as white people to vote for him. that's it. he doesn't ever show up with any policy. he is yet to actually point to anything of success in the urban city. all he does is use those as a prop and so as a born and raised

detroit or i'm just asking him to stop buying another city to pick on because it's cool. plenty be banned, says, you don't know it's about us ma'am the statements he made and then going back it's not what you would write as a playbook for the average politician to try to heal that self-inflicted wound. first of all, was it a mistake the way that he came out and talked about it. and did he his efforts to try to fix the blame on harris and biden, did it go even far enough to try to placate those who would have been offended this isn't the first time he's done. >> this has gone to cities all over the country and said this, i think the interesting dynamic and it goes to something else he was mentioning most of the people he's speaking to the audience that he's seeking to get votes from probably agree at someone level. i mean, if you think about the flight from these cities over time, the people who he's going for a probably in the collar counties, people that do think of detroit or philadelphia or, you know milwaukee as the city that they don't want to live

in anymore. and whatever the underlying dynamics there, it's not necessarily a devastating message i think he is donald trump. he's never going to apologize. he's never going to try to fix the issues that he's he was never wrong. it was always somebody else's fault. but i think isn't going to be damaging. i think for the voters, he's seeking to get votes from. again, it's not necessarily something that's going to hurt him i mean, his peers policy or steam is always been what make america great again however, i don't know someplace they shouldn't be awfully offended to be used as some sort of a poster child van for all that is wrong. >> and a country when certainly there is not only people who love their cities, they appreciate where they are, and they don't appreciate politicians coming in who give them platitudes and then don't do anything about it to help uplift i think what's interesting is that the last few speaker basically said the same thing in a different way he doesn't care about the people he's defending. he's

trying to get the people who are have a racial bias now he's trying to get the people who do have a low opinion of detroit. he's trying to get to people who do have a low opinion of milwaukee can you try to the people who do have a low opinion of philadelphia and pittsburgh that's his strategy. and that's why he talks the way that he does. that's why he actually that he does and we just eat. that's a very polite way. we just heard a very polite way of saying he doesn't give a dad gum about the people who live in those places. and it shows well, we'll see how the electorate fields about that 18 days from now. everyone standby ahead. donald trump, trying to call in a favor with fox news founder rupert murdoch. >> no more negative ads. >> he's saying calling in there. >> so secret weapon. former president obama hitting the campaign trail in arizona this time, his message to young men as trump claims that manhood is

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terrible in there. i don't give a if this is comedy well, this morning trump for billing may be something he shouldn't have. >> who helped write those jokes for him i've, had a, lot of a couple of people from fox actually, i shouldn't say that, but they wrote some jokes and for the most part, i didn't like any of them well, a spokesperson for fox news says, quote no employee or freelancer wrote the jokes unquote now, there are people familiar with the matter telling cnn's hadas, gold, comedian nick di paolo, who has written jokes for fox news host greg gutfeld. helped trump with the speech, but to palo does not actually work for the network. >> i want to bring in fox news, whisper cnn anchor, and my colleague and friend outflank errata she previously anchor at fox and friends and spent 16 years at fox news. >> and its news to her this evening that she's a fox news

whisper the lab balance well, let me ask you, i've never been called that, but i assume the role there's a first time for everything and it's happening tonight. >> and i do wonder, did it surprise you to hear that trump say that a couple people from fox helped write some of the jokes not at all. >> it did not surprise me at all. >> i know that he routinely speaks to various fox hosts. they all many of them have relationships with him and i assumed when he said that that t it was greg gutfeld because bragg is there resident comedian. and so i assumed it was greg gutfeld or someone on okay. steph. now, as you say, laura fox came out and said no, it was in fact someone who writes jokes for greg gutfeld who's not employed by the network, but it's hard to know what to believe because both fox and donald trump do not have great track records with telling the truth as you'll recall, a few months ago, had

to pay $787 million because of the lies that they broadcast about the 2020 election. donald trump obviously on a daily basis, makes fact-free comments. so it's hard to know who to believe. but the point, the larger point here is that no journalist for any legitimate news channel would be able to write a speech for a political candidate. >> and that's why fox had to immediately come out and deny that what donald trump said was true. so it's hard to know what the real truth is. >> and of course, even in a comedic setting even off of their network, it's still would not be appropriate to do so, which is why they had to come out as well, you know, trump's interview. it actually ran for 40 minutes, 40 minutes before running for office. he was weekly fixture on fox and friends. i want you to talk about relationship there. what do you remember from your time on the show about his report and what it was like when he would come mon so when i was at

fox and friends starting in, i think around 2011 or 2010, they had a designated slot for donald trump. >> it was every monday for about 15 minutes. >> and they used him basically as a political pundit. >> and it's funny, laura, i hear people now say that it was the apprentice that allow donald trump to become president. and really put him on the map, made him a household name. i personally think that it was more fox and friends because yes, the apprentice depicted him as a successful ceo businessman, but it was fox and friends that put him in the political arena because he would come in and offer political punditry. they would ask him about president obama's policies and he would opine on the policies and that was to me where he found his sort of political voice so what happened was every time they put him on the ratings going up, so they would book him again for the next week. and then the ratings would go up. so they develop this very mutually beneficial

relationship between fox and donald trump that continues to this day very self-affirming and so many ways, the idea of what that would lead to for political credibility and capital later iran perhaps was predictable in some respects. >> but you know, live tv and almost hour long conversation can lead to some pretty regulatory moments, moments like, well, this one allison i'm going to see rupert murdoch accept big event. i don't know if that is said, i'm going to tell you i'm going to tell him something very simple as i can't talk to anybody else who don't put a negative commercials for 21 days, don't put them and don't put on there. they're horrible people that come in ally i'm going to say rupert, please do it this way i mean, talk about blowing up someone spot. if even if he were inclined to help trump and putting them on the spotlight, that very counterproductive. >> how is murdoch likely to respond?

>> in my experience, what i know of rupert murdoch, his guiding principle is the bottom line. so he will continue to put on democrats ads if they continue paying for it. so i think that, you know, rupert murdoch is mostly driven by the profit model. so democrats pay for time on fox because they want to cast a wide net and reach the fox viewers. >> and rupert murdoch is happy to take their money and he's also, i believe, happy to put on democrats who get ratings for them. >> so vice president kamala harris just went on fox and got two-and-a-half to three times the ratings that donald trump did that in that same 24 hours. i believe that rupert murdoch will continue to put on democrats because again, the business model works and when it works, that's what i think his guiding principle is gordon gekko, greed is good and thorough. you, allison camerata, nice to see you.

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