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15 days to go. >> donald trump and kamala harris ramping up attacks as the race for the white house enters its final two weeks plus she never worked at mcdonald's. in other words, she's lying. kamala he's loving it. >> trump takes a step behind the mcdonald's fried counter to baselessly cast doubt on whether harris ever worked there and you're just signing something, you already believe and you want to million dollars. that's awesome. >> billionaires giveaway, elon musk's latest strategy to boost support for trump sparked calls for an investigation. and then saying, i really bad right now out of ground beat campaigns collide and the great lakes state of michigan, we're going to speak live with secretary of state, jocelyn benson east coast. >> a live look at new york city

on this monday morning. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us. election day is two weeks from tomorrow, just 15 days away, more than 13 million ballots have already been cast across 45 states early voting begins today in florida, and of course it's a sprint to the finish for kamala harris and donald trump harris plans to appear with former republican congresswoman liz cheney in the suburbs in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. today as the wall street journal reports or campaign has zeroed in on a group of undecided voters. they've identified to be quote soft gop voters and moderate independents, including voters who backed former south carolina governor nikki haley over trump. in the gop primaries her sounds like this he's becoming increasingly unstable and unhinged. and it requires that response. i think the american people are seeing it witnessing in real-time. and we must take note of the fact

that this is an individual who wants to be president in the united states. and i think the american people deserve better than someone who actually seems to be unstable trump campaigns in north carolina today was in pennsylvania over the weekend, his strategy in the final days unconventional, sometimes funny, often crude there was the former president wearing an apron working the deep fryer at mcdonald's this is what i could do this all day. i wouldn't mind this job then there's the rally that trump kicked off by telling a crass story about the late arnold palmer there's genitals when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, oh, my god against harris, which new york times described as trump descending quote to new levels

of vulgarity harris that you've had enough that you just can't take it anymore we can't stand you. >> you're at vice president the worst the worst vice president. kamala, you have fired, get there at a year, fires get out of here all right. >> joining us now to discuss all of this and more. alex thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios, kristen soltis anderson, cnn political commentator, republican pollster and strategist, and meghan hays, former director of message planning for the biden white house welcome to oh, have you on this monday morning, there's so much to talk about. but let's start with i, you know, honestly, we have gotten a bit in your two the way trump has brought vulgarities into our politics in ways that are not you know, historically

prohibited. >> but i think it's worth kind of stuff up in kristen, on what he said and did at this rally because the times put it in context this way, mr. trump has always enjoyed shocking people. and in addition to cursing voluble, he enjoys talking about sex and men's and women's looks. but in the past, he has refrained for the most part from being overtly crude, publicly as a candidate or as president now, however, as he makes his third run for the white house and it has become visibly angry or since ms harris during the race, there has been a notable uptick in such behavior, especially in the campaign's final weeks and days. and at that rally in latrobe, pennsylvania he actually kind of explained some of this because he had said and he often tells the story about a letter he got from franklin graham the notable conservative religious figure who said you need to stop swearing. he's sort of explicitly said, well, i'm not doing that today. let's watch that part too. >> i'm in big trouble tonight.

you know why franklin graham wrote me. you heard this like two months ago. he said, president, we love your stories, we love you speaking, but sir please. please don't use any bad language, bad words. i wrote it back. i said, i'm going to try and do that, but actually the stories won't be as good because you can't put the same emphasis on so tonight i broke my rule. i've done it for weeks, but i tonight i just said, look, i'm in pennsylvania. what he's in pennsylvania, what the hell does how do you view what he is doing here in these final days and whether it matters? >> i think he is somebody who enjoys being out on the campaign trail. he treats his rallies like entertainment, like it's pro wrestling. i mean, that's very much what you're seeing out there. and i think for these voters that he's trying to win, who are on the bubble it depends which type of swing voter you're talking about. if you're

talking about the kind of republican who has found trump's influence on the party to be noxious. you look at this and you go see i can't vote for that. hi, i can't do this. but at the same time, is there somebody who doesn't care at all about politics but sees these clips in his life for how that is kind of funny. i mean, those voters really do exist as much as you may want to think that they don't, they really do exist and they are part of trump's coalition and they find them entertaining. they find this entertaining. >> i'm gonna, in many ways, it explains maga right in, i mean, meghan hays, what do you think yeah. >> i mean, i think he's an entertainment person. he knows how to entertain people. i think that he's talking to his base, which is men. this is locker room talk. this is how you discussing democracies, i would assume i haven't been in the men's locker mean, i think that these undecided voters or this is not presidential, you don't want someone out there talking like this. you're going to go talk to world leaders like this. we don't want you on the world stage and i just think he's becoming more and more like an entertainment figure and not an actual serious presidential

candidate. >> i mean, the question to me, alex seems to be whether what he is doing here is exciting the people that already liked him enough you know, more to get out to vote versus, i mean, these are kamala harris is basically out there making the argument that when he does that, this is awful and suburban women who clearly are not likely predisposed to light this should go out and vote because they don't like it in this part of the reason why you're seeing a historic gender gap and why kamala harris is really trying to drive turnout in those suburbs. polls show actually that while she is weaker than joe biden in some areas, talking about like black men. she's actually much stronger with white woman than joe biden. and this is part of the reason, but this has been always the critique of donald trump is that he is always run a base strategy and not a strategy to the middle and to kristen's point this is not a bug, but a feature for a lot of the people that loves donald trump is that hill like go and he'll just be a little inappropriate. he'll be a little entertaining. and it'll

say stuff that you're not supposed to say. >> well, and we're going to talk a lot about the various things because we just have a little taste there at the top. we haven't really considered what he had to say about arnold palmer yes it feels a little early for it, but we've got to do it straight ahead here on cnn this morning, a more direct line of attack to this anymore, folks? how how the harris campaign is trying to sharpen their case against donald trump, plus nearly 1 million votes have been cast in michigan. we're gonna speak live with secretary of state jocelyn benson about how she hopes to combat election misinformation. and elon musk's latest attempt to drum up support for donald trump raising significant questions election were giving out $1 million prize. >> and all you have to do is sign a petition in support of the constitution. >> when you start flowing this kind of money into politics, i think it raises serious questions

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swing swing-state voters and then gabe away the first giant check the next thing we'd like to do is to announce today's winner of the million-dollar prize where do you like to come up the stage, musk explained how you could be the next one every day from now until the election were giving out $1 million prize. that is an all you have to do is sign a petition in support of the constitution it's very straightforward you don't even have to vote give away though now raising questions about whether it is even legal since federal law makes it a crime for anybody to quote, pay or offer to pay or accept payment for registration, to vote or for voting i think there are real

questions with how he is spending money in this race, how the dark money is flowing, not just independence of anya, but apparently now into the pockets of pennsylvania ends at is deeply concerning. but when you start flowing, this kind of money into politics think it raises serious questions that folks may want to take a look at so kristen clearly bribing people to register to vote or two vote is illegal i don't think any of us are campaign finance experts. >> if you are correct me, if i'm wrong, but what do you make of what? musk is doing here? it does seem to be, i mean, not that there's any real teeth and the penalties that could push back against him here. >> but he clearly has put a new twist. shall we say, on supporting a candidate? sure. i mean, what i say earlier about the strange kind of leaning into the entertainment factor that is also what's going on here.

>> although it's easy for me to imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and you had some sort of prominent progressive billionaire who was handing out million dollars checks. >> it's not hard to imagine trump really seizing on that being like see, you have to pay people to support you it sounds like here he's saying it's just a petition not actually registering to vote so that if that's the case, do have to be registered you go to sign the petition, apparently legally, i don't know what lines this crosses, but i feel like it's just trying to be more of that entertainment factor and what is a game show. >> this is like so unserious and it's so offensive to people. this is the person who's running to have the nuclear codes to be the commander-in-chief, chief of our military, like this is so offensive to people and voters should be horrified that this is what our politics have come to, that we are now paying people 1 million to sign a petition and elon musk is just out there, just like giving them money like i would be interested if those checks cash that'd be my first question, but i mean, it's just like this. is this is so offensive to me and so this is a game show and the president united states should not be a game show contestant. well elon is

approaching well over $100,000,000 investment in this late stage of the campaign isn't investment because of donald trump wins, his companies are set to make billions of dollars. >> starlink every requires fcc sort of tweaks spacex tesla, and electric, electric vehicles. the vectors that ilana is set to be part of this administration in a way, their government efficiency role that donald trump has talked about. and that can make $100,000,000 investment mean billions. >> yeah. no, it's a good point, but also, seems like a significant risk, right? in the event that he that harris word win because those companies do rely so and that's why he's so all in right now. right. all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning trash interference, texas fans littering their own field over the weekend. this is one of five things you have to see this morning, plus alec baldwin returns to saturday night live, not though as donald trump

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two people were killed. hundreds more had to be rescued. let's go to our meteorologist derek van dam with the latest on this. derek, good morning. >> yeah. good morning, kasie. we sure are grateful for the chavez county sheriff's the brave men and women who go out there and are performing and have performed these rescues. but when you see a video like that, when you see a sheriff stuck on top of his vehicle unknowingly with the water overtaking his own suv who rescues the rescue, right? i mean these are the real he'll life situations that they have to be thrust themselves into in order to make these daring rescues that you see on the video behind me. but again, we are so grateful that they were able to pull those individuals, at least out of that rushing water. now this is just incredible to see how much water fell from the sky over four times their entire october the monthly average. this is their wettest day. they've ever recorded in roswell, new mexico. no wonder, we're seeing the damage pictures this morning and all weekend long, frankly, of cars piled up across the bridges and

impacting some of the local roadways. there a lot of precipitation falling just to the southwest of roswell. that's where the hardest hit areas korea's have chavez county was actually impacted. another storm system is moving away from new mexico. that's the good news. we'll get an opportunity to dry out, assess the damage. but this will also bring the chance of severe thunderstorms today, just a marginal risk, but something we need to be aware of across the nation's midsection from nebraska south where you, kansas and into open oklahoma, damaging winds, large hail, and a tornado or do quite some rescuing or heroin video, i should say coming out of chavez county indeed. >> all right. derek van dam for us this morning, derek, thanks very much for that. coming up here after the break election officials in michigan, a critical battleground combat and concerns over voter fraud. secretary very of state jocelyn benson joins us live, plus donald trump taking his love for fast food to the next level, manning the fryer at mickey days

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deniers in michigan has this history, is there any reason to be concerned about this in 2024? >> well, you know, misinformation, not just from candidates in the united states, but from foreign bad actors and adversaries into our state through social media. and so that does generate the potential for threats and violence. and among all is you're hearing from the clip you just showed diminishes citizens since trust in a very secure election process. and so all of that has created challenges for us as election administrators, especially because we have in-person early voting, which is new this year. as the result of a citizen amendment passed in 22. but at the same time, the fact that so many people are voting over 1 million people have already cast their ballots. now to weeks out, more than two weeks out of election day is a great sign that many voters are actually not just trusting the system, but participating in it including thousands of detroiters who showed up to vote early this weekend.

>> do you have concerns about some of the history and potentially culture around politics and threats of violence in the state of michigan. i mean, we saw what happened at the state capitol during covid obviously there was that terrible plot against governor gretchen whitmer that was quite troubling. >> is your office preparing for anything based on some of these past incidents, how do you think about that? yeah. we always say we plan. we hope for the best, but we plan for every contingency we've passed laws since 2020 to make it a crime to threaten an election official in their line of work. and we've built robust partition or partnerships with law enforcement and first responders holding scenario planning exercises with election officials, law enforcement at first responders all around our state to make sure we planned through every possible iteration of how this

these threats could materialize on election day or beyond and so we are planning for every contingency and i've been very grateful for our law enforcement and election officials in the communities all across michigan who have really they stepped up and embrace this moment to be ready for anything. but at the same time, we want to communicate to everyone that this is a moment to be happy, joyful. we get to choose the next president of the united states. let's respect to the process. stay within the bounds that god guardrails of the law and ensure no matter who someone's voting for, that, they can cast their ballot but and be hurt when you say you've done scenario planning exercises, can you give us an example of what one of those might look like yeah, we bring local election officials, law enforcement, sheriffs, sheriff staff, first responders, fire firefighters, and emt officials into a room and we have an expert come in from sisa, the federal security agency, or other non-profit non-partisan

partners to kind of go through this. >> let's say this happens someone calls in a bomb threat or something like that. or there's a disruption and a polling place. these are the steps each of us will take in order to mitigate the damage of that particular issue. and also ensure there are consequences involved. then we also tried to send the message to everyone just turn the temperature down a little bit. this is a moment to respect a process and respect our election officials, not disrupted. and we hope those mitigation factors, as well as our pleased to but the public right now to respect each other come together and participate in our, in our well secure election process will rule the day it has in the past. and i hope it will again. but if not, again, will be ready for everything. >> do you have any concerns about the election certification process that actually will certify your resume? salts and get the electors to washington, dc yeah, we do. we saw in wayne

county where detroit sits in 2020, what can happen if you have pressure on these four individuals whose job it is a ministerial role to simply look at the math, confirm the numbers, and then certify the election but we can move forward with any audits and recounts in the like. so we do have concerns and we have eyes on every location of a certification board in all of our 83 counties, as well as the state, will have law enforcement there protecting the process, but also people in the room to try to again de-escalate things if things if things do escalate and we hope it's we are entering this season that again, everyone will stay within the boundaries of the law, but will be there to make sure there are consequences if anything occurs. >> alright michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. thank you very much for your time today. i really appreciate it. hope you'll come back of course, thanks for having me, kasie. all right. >> let's go now to this story. let's turn back time a few decades before donald trump's

presidency, before the apprentice back two when the world knew trump simply as a real estate mogul and a new york city tabloid fixture a big, tasty for just $1 how do you do it? >> what's your secret this town the counter at mcdonald's this time for a campaign stop in the battleground, state of pennsylvania i'm looking for a job and i've always wanted to work at mcdonald's but i never did i'm running against somebody that said she did, but it turned out to be a totally phony stories so if you don't mind, i want to work the french fry counter so trump there. once again, claiming without evidence that kamala harris never worked at the mcdonogh at mcdonald's in the 80s that dispute inspiring this campaign stop over the weekend. trump, of course no stranger to the golden arches, his love for

fast food, well-documented in 2019, trump hosted clemson's football team after they won the national championship and served up this spread of french fries and burgers at the white house. and during his sunday visit to mcdonald's trump again, put on the apron he manned the fries station. he handed out food through the drive-through window to customers who according to the washington post, were pre-screened by the secret service. the restaurant was closed to the public for the event so wait a minute. i smelled so a very superstitious a panel has returned so i have to say, when i first saw that image of trump kind of hanging out the drive-through window a part of me thought, wow, is that real? >> i never thought he would do something like that. >> the trump that we saw in 1999 in that old ad is the one that was much more familiar to me like, look, we're going to run this town right? >> like someone who owns a mcdonald's on, someone who works in one i mean, clearly, they have a strategy to try to appeal to working class voters, try to twist the knife on

harris but i still i still find these images to be jarring part of what is so striking about them is that he's not trying to not be donald trump like some politicians go in, they tried to dress up as somebody they're not, he's still got the red high. he's still got he's still so clearly himself. and i think this was an unbelievably smart move because one thing that is differentiated donald trump from other really wealthy politicians is that he has never been seen as the aloof, the billionaire who had never deigned to hang out with the commoners like he is always sort of portrayed himself as on the rich guy who doesn't really like the other rich guys. i'm one of you and this is part part of this. i think this was insanely smart. >> well, to that point, is part of a larger effort on the trump campaign to sort of soften trump's image. it's why you've seen his grandkids sort of being appearing at the rally and also spoke at the rnc there is a larger effort going on by the trump campaign to appeal to some of those suburban women

that he's currently losing the most humanizing moment in that clip was when he threw this all over his shoulder was like such a normal reaction that anyone is like, oh, like we all do that when you're cooking or whatever into that was the most like normalizing and humanizing the moment i think in this clip. >> but to your point, he still has a shirt on his tie on, like most politicians would have showed up in like a collared shirt or something that said mcdonald's and tried to like more fit in. i did find it striking that the whole restaurant was shut down and it was a sort of a staged event. but i do think it is definitely like poking it the vice president will also say though him showing up with grimace in that old ad they get some more traction because grimace is like a thing with gen, gen z like yes, yeah. >> it's tucker's. >> yeah. >> it's a thing. oh, you guys are close to me. i up here on cnn this morning, the final 15 days of the race. mark mckinnon joins us to talk about trump, harris and how they sound very different. speaking of, hear donald trump say way too much about arnold palmer arnold palmer was all

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turnout in swing states that will decide the election when the harris campaign's started off. that was just back in july joy seemed to be the central theme, but with the poll showing a dead heat, harris and her running mate now attacking their opponent in more direct and stark terms. >> look, they pulled him out of interviews and his team admitted he's exhausted canceled another talk show this week. look, give him a break. he's nearly 80-years-old. he's out there rambling, moving around. we'll give him a break, but look folks. he's not up to it our next guest writes this in his latest piece for vanity fair, quote, trump's suddenly seems not just lazy week by dodging and other debate, for instance, and old, but also truly out of it. >> some days he makes it seem like the 25 in project 2025 there's a secret plan to execute the 25th amendment if he actually gets elected paving the way for lord help, u.s. president, jd vance joining us now is mark mckinnon, the

writer of that piece, former adviser to john mccain and george w bush. mark always grateful to have you on the show. thank you so much for being here. >> i honestly, we've been sitting here in the break talking about what we saw from trump at mcdonald's and kind of what he accomplished by doing that he's clearly trying to troll vice president harris over what she has made a central piece of the biography she's trying to sell to voters, but it's also a place that he obviously has loved in public for quite some time. >> what is your assessment of? this campaign move i moved for trump. >> i thought i thought it was really good. >> i mean, to your earlier guests pointed nations just seemed down to earth he's still trump, but he's hanging out with mcdonald's with real people talking about stuff that real people like that definitely good move. >> but my point that vanity therapies is that this thing is baked. there's not really many undecided voters at all. this is going to be decided. i think there's, this is about the

gaps and this is the reason why i think that com irs is going to win when it's all about turnout, what's key is enthusiasm, right? whose voters are more excited about going out? >> and harris has a ten point advantage. >> so that's one gap. there's a gender gap. she also has about a ten point advantage on women voters. and then i think there's an early voting gap as we see from the data coming in, like you just showed in michigan, there's huge numbers of early voters turning out. now, we'll wait to see until after the election what that really means. but generally what that means is the democrat, democrats vote early. and so those numbers are up. it's likely more democrats. >> i've seen a lot of signs that polling is not picking up that are advantages for harris. >> and i think that she's going to win so marked just i absolutely take your point. and obviously i put a lot of stock in kind of how you think about these things. >> i guess i have two questions. you mentioned the gender gap. we're also seeing a historic, it's really a double gender gap, right? men are really going for trump in

significant ways and i'm interested to know how you think that interacts, but also this question of, now when i talked to my smartest republican sources historically, they would say, if you're getting a voter off the couch who basically never gets off the couch. that person is a democrat and that that is going to be different this time, that it's likely that that person is a republican. i'm curious what you think that means in terms of early voting and how that impacts things greg great question. >> let me handle them both. >> number one, i'm in georgia today and i'm going to athens tomorrow for charlie kirk turning point rally so just sort of counter to my own narrative there's a reality out there that there are huge numbers of young men turning out for trump and he's charlie kirk, campus rallies you to see a sea of young men in a sea of red hats. >> so this conventional wisdom that on college campuses as all women and they're all voting for harris will go to a charlie

kirk rally. i'll be there tomorrow and i can report next week about what i actually saw low information voters is a good point too. but i just don't think i understand that everybody is going after those low information voters but not a lot of them vote. i mean, that's why they're low information voters. they don't normally turn out and i just don't think if they if they're not excited about donald trump before i don't know why they would be now so efficient upon where the fish are. and i think that's where harris is going and again, i just see a lot of signs that when you net it all out women i think are going to make the difference in this election. women are, you know, you'd think about hrc ptsd, hillary clinton ptsd from 2016, and roe you add that up. i think that creates a real advantage among women and a bigger gender got yes, there's a gender gap with mit, with trump but it's a much larger gap for harris. and i think they're the ones who are truly excited. kasie, mark. what do you make of i again, i take your point that you think

harris is on track to win here. i'm not trying to take away from that at all. what do you think is going on with harris, people who are saying behind the scenes in a way and you can see it in the changes they've made in their strategy, right putting her out in these interviews, making her more accessible, taking more risks. that's usually how people who are behind behave in a campaign, right? it's trump, that's pulling out of interviews, try to do more controlled settings to take fewer risks. what does that say to you about where they think they are it says to me that it's a smart campaign, kasie, there's only one way to run a campaign. i mean, you can either run scared or unopposed. >> she's opposed. so you run scared. you always run like you're 20 points down the problem of 2016 is the clinton campaign didn't do that that's why i say there's hrc ptsd. people are not going to make that same mistake. they're going to run like they're behind. you got to run through the tape. >> and that's exactly what the harris campaign is doing. and i think it's really smart it really interesting. all right.

mark mckinnon, i'm anxious to hear what you see in athens, georgia come back next week, we'll talk soon unfortunately sounds great okay well we have to talk about i look, i'm just i'm never going to quite look at an ice tea with lemonade the same way ever again after this very special hello to let drove. i love latrobe. you know why? >> the hub of arnold palmer, this is a home of my friend, arnold palmer. i said when i come here, i'm going to tell them the real story of arnold but arnold palmer was all man and i say that it all due respect to women that i love women. but this guy this guy is is a guy that was all man, is man was strong and tough and i refused to say it. but when he took showers with the other

pros, they came out of there. they said, oh my god say it we were talking earlier about locker room talk mean this is literally this is not just a figure of speech was less than you can drive straight line for 2016 too, when there was a lot of talk about size and size of his hands and marco rubio and go back to 2016 where the size of his hands obama cracked mean, this i guess just goes back to the exactly what we were just talking about. >> this double gender gap. how each are talking to the other. but it does seem to me, meghan, if harris is in the suburbs of you know, philly trying to hanging out with liz cheney, trying to convince women that

they should not that they should bother to go and vote against donald trump as much as they're she's trying to convince them to vote for her and trump is not exactly hurting that cause with this. >> no, it's so and dignified and i think that it's not even getting people to go out and vote for her. >> it's these people the low information voters. it seems like just stay home and don't vote for him either. like kind of situation i think is also at play. we've talked about a lot of times. i just don't think any of this helps him. i think that it just reminds people that he's not a serious person and not to be left with our nuclear codes. but i mean, i guess what i will say, one republican who wasn't man yesterday and just said like he bounded hilarious and there are some people that actually just find it funny. >> well, that's the thing he's going to its base. he's going to men this is like for social media as like he is very good at playing to his base and plaintiffs social media. but are those people who are gonna decide the election? i think that most people in most relate martin talented pollsters have decided that's not who's going to decide the election. so i've just don't know why he keeps doubling down in some ways. >> it's the difference between maga and the classic conservative republican, who

perhaps you don't have been to the country club membership. there was quite the exchange between my colleague jake tapper and the speaker of the house, mike johnson on this over the weekend. let's watch that why is he talking about arnold palmer's in front of pennsylvania voters jakey seem to like that line a lot. >> let me tell you that. i donald trump is doing rallies around the country. just say something i don't want to be talking about, right donald trump is out there saying it but you continue to let's talk because you won't wait a minute. hold on. address it. he is out there talking to i'll address it live don't have to say it. i get it. there's lines in a rally when president trump's is that a rally? sometimes you'll speak for two straight hours. you're you're questioning his stamina, his mental acuity. joe biden, couldn't do that for five minutes. >> we don't have to say it, but he's again, i mean, it's

like there's a reason why this kind of stuff is not usually in our politics. >> like can we let our kids watch these two things? their job is not running. so that's number one. so i don't know why we're talking about joe biden's age again. and number two, here is this entire show. and like over the weekend, we were not talking about the issues. we're not talking about how the candidates were talking to voters about the economy and immigration and abortion. and it's like, why are with mcdonald's, but we're not with this but it's like the entire news cycle has been totally co-opted by him, inappropriate. >> trump is forcing us to talk about this. this was a choice to talk about this, right things we could be document, but he knows the bait will be taken and i just exactly and i just think it's so it's such a disservice to voters and it's so, but again, he's playing to his base and paying playing to social media. and that's what is capital what he's capitalizing on in the last couple of weeks, do you think it's a net positive for him those particular codons? >> yeah. no joy. think that they matter at all beyond

making us all like lose our minds for 24 hours no. i don't i really don't. okay. >> fair enough. one interesting thing about johnson he's talking about as there has been, democrats have been really trying to attack donald trump's stamina or his age lately. >> and that could have been a much better argument. abandoned, spend a democrats and spent the last two years at basically defending biden's stamina. and so but it is this very late push to try to make donald trump's age and his lack of health transparency d an issue in the campaign interesting. all right. >> let's look at this. if you were up late this weekend, you might have seen alec baldwin return to saturday night live, but he was not impersonating trump as he did in 2016. i'm sure so remarkable portrayal instead, baldwin, over the weekend was fox host bret bair, alongside my rudolph's commonly harris and james austin johnson's trump map. please finish. >> i'm asking you to well, then you have to listen. what am i can't because i'm talking

you stop. and maybe when i go to bed, madam vice president, are you here to answer questions you're just looking for a viral moment. >> oh, please. i am not looking for a viral moment. see how i don't let man interrupt my answers very demure, very mindful not kamala harris has called you unhinged and a danger. >> what do you say to that you know, i heard about that. >> they said i was threatening not true. i would never threaten anything except perhaps violence but investigations. okay. i've been investigated more than alphonse capone famously did nothing wrong. scarface. >> kids are going back to school and they're coming back at different gender, you know, they're going dissolved tarr's in the coming back big switching bodies doing freaky friday's and hannah montana we're failing country america is a terrible place for the jerks and idiots. >> but we love it. it's really bad >> alec baldwin or that performance there for? >> just thank goodness, are sending lived during election

season and because it's very funny, very entertaining, it clearly does mean that we are, we are entering the final, the final weeks, especially with the tiktok to turn to the camera very mindful, very demure. >> i think that trump impression was great the oscillating between america's terrible americans greatly does do that he's captured the weave, right this jumble of things where it's sort of makes sense. you sort of know where he's going, but it actually, if you were to read a transcript, it is fully under south from i'm decipherable yeah. >> i will just say that this weekend. i think between what we saw on snl where they did their version of capturing what was going on here. >> each candidate really fully themselves in all ways giving us a very does distilled version of what this campaign is going to be in the final two weeks. thanks you guys for being here at this morning. thanks to all of you for joining us as well. i'm kasie hunt. don't go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now