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right now on cnn this morning she's lazy as hell 13 days to go. >> donald trump hammering kamala harris as lazy as hell for taking time off the trail donald trump said i need the kind of generals that hitler had. >> team harris hitting back, getting help from trump's former chief of staff. he says the republican candidate fits the definition of a fascist plus democrats preparing for if and when the former president claims he won the election before all the votes are counted east coast. a live look at capitol hill on this wednesday morning. good morning, everyone. >> i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us we are now 13 days out from

november 5 tonight, camp kamala harris joins our anderson cooper for a live cnn town hall held in must-win, pennsylvania. >> her republican opponent, donald trump, we'll be focusing on faith in georgia. >> this afternoon following a tirade from him yesterday yesterday against the vice president harris is typical campaign travel schedule was replaced yesterday by a series of interviews going to sit down with telemundo. she worked to appeal to latino men while also expressing concerns about the possibility of post-election violence during an interview with nbc news and i believe we should raise, of course, this is a person donald trump, who tried to undo a free and fair election, who still denies the will of the people who incited a violent mob to attack the united states capitol. >> and 140 law enforcement officers were attacked some were killed this is a serious matter the former president

joined a roundtable with latinos in the miami area and held a rally in north carolina. as he baselessly suggested that harris has a drinking or a drug problem while criticizing her for not being out on the trail on tuesday she's sleeping right now. >> she couldn't go on the trail you think when you have 14 days left, you wouldn't be sleeping. she's not doing anything today. she's lazy as hell, and she's got that reputation she's a radical left lunatic as election day nears, we also have new reporting on donald trump around his fitness for office. >> there's a new story in the atlantic and its sights, two stories, who heard the former president say? >> did he needed the kind of generals that hitler had during private white house conversations in the new york times quoting former trump chief of staff john kelly on the record, who says trump quote, met the definition of a fascist would govern like a dictator if allowed. >> and had no understanding of

the constitution or the concept of the rule of law. let's bring in julia manchester. she's national political reporter for the hill julia, good morning. always wonderful to have you. we of course, have seen donald trump here in the final days. tell lewd stories about arnold palmer. go that sling french fries at a mcdonald's at kind of do some of these lighter things. but as that's been going on, he also has continued to double down on comments that he made about the enemy within america. he calls he refers to them as quote-unquote left-wing lunatics he mentioned adam schiff and nancy pelosi, and that's why the times explains in this story up overnight that john kelly decided he wanted to go on the record at this point in the campaign because he was concerned about those comments. this is obviously something that we have talked about with regards to trump at for years now when he was in the in the holding the office and in the

campaign, since the question, big picture question is, will this matter to voters in the final days, especially as frankly everyone i'm talking to feels like trump has the upper hand in the campaign right now. yeah. and it seems when you look at polling averages, polls in the individual swings states, for example, he seems to be closing the gap. and as sometimes at some points, maybe a little bit ahead of harris look, i think this is obviously in the margin of error talking to democrats. they say, look, this doesn't help him in swing states, but i think there is a lot of nervousness from democrats. maybe some political ptsd in many ways go going back to 2016 when donald trump also made controversial comments, the access hollywood tape that was leaked leaked to the comments about john mccain. it seems that donald trump is in a way able to get away with these comments with voters because it seems that his supporters in particular maybe even some swing states are able to almost compartmentalize this stuff. they don't let, they may not like trump particularly swing voters. they may not like his

personality, but they like his policies. they liked how things were during his administration terms of the economy for example. so they're able to separate those two things. >> let's look, let's look at kamala harris's vice presidential nominee, tim walz was on the trail talking about this new reporting from the atlantic. let's watch what he had to say donald trump said, i need the kind of generals that hitler had pulling water and think this is okay as a 24 year veteran of our military, that makes me sick as hell. >> and it should make you sit know, it's important that we underscore that trump's team says that these comments, they deny that these comments were made. jeffrey goldberg, the editor in chief of the atlantic, has the byline on the story he cites two sources who say that they were in there room when trump said this. but again, trump says he didn't. >> i. >> interesting to me that walz is putting it that way on the

trail. you heard the crowd's reaction there. but again, when he says, i'm a 20 year veteran of the military, this makes me sick. there are also a number of repeated examples of trump denigrating the service of members in the mill, in the military as well, right? >> but we've seen what once again, going back to 2015 when he was running this doesn't seem to necessarily hurt his chances. i mean, i'm sure it turns off some voters, but it certainly doesn't turn off his base. and once again, those independent voters may not we'll see what they do in this election. one thing i will say that could hurt trump with these comments is that it allows people like tim walz, his opponents to talk about that. i think a lot of trump's supporters or those around him would like it, him to talk more about policy instead of these distractions really, because it just comes up again in again, the question is, will it make a difference with voters love to see? >> indeed, we will. all right, julie manchester for us this morning, julia. so grateful to have you. thank you very much

for being here all right. >> tonight, we've got to cnn special event, vice president harris facing voters taking their most pressing questions live. anderson cooper moderates a cnn presidential town kamala harris tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. it's only here on cnn or streaming on max. >> all right, coming up here on cnn this morning, the british are coming. >> donald trump protesting a parade of brits were heading across the pond the campaign for kamala harris bus? gets his back, brock obama hitting the trail for harris likening donald trump to a loony grandpa and the former president trump i'm still refusing to say whether he'll accept the outcome of the election election day is almost here and there are two possible outcomes trump win he's in harris concedes or harris wins and trump claims that people in ohio at the votes they're eating the votes they're eating

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the campaign writing quote, those searching for foreign interference in our elections need to look no further than ms patel is linkedin post the interference is occurring in plain sight, joining us now cnn international anchor, max foster. max, good morning. you are course in london, very familiar with the labor party in your country. i'm curious what you hear from your side of the pond. is this something that's happened before? >> yeah. there's a long tradition that's effective or care starmer saying, volunteers will quite often go from the labour party to support the democrats as conservatives are sometimes done with the republicans as well. you've also got take into account that niger farrar, she's now an mp here in the uk, has had a huge part and donald trump's campaign liz truss, a former conservative prime minister, has also come out and said that she supports donald trump so it does happen on both sides. does that make it forgivable? well, if you didn't know that this

was happening than perhaps you would see it as a british government taking size. labor party is in power. they meant to remain him partial. and already there are lots of people in labor very worried that donald trump is going to come into power anyway. so they are doing nothing to help themselves really are they by showing how much support they have for kamala harris before the result comes out well, yeah, of course that's always the knife's edge that a government has to balance on, right? >> i mean, it's interesting because there's also a formal, i mean, i remember when when i was on the plane with mitt romney, we were frequently joined by someone from the british foreign office who was there to build relationships with the campaign aides with the candidate in the event that they would win. now this of course, was something that they were doing fairly with both sides because again, it was the official government, it wasn't kind of political situation, but the barrage question is really interesting to me because of the kind of figure he cuts. i mean, he is trumpian in so many ways. the two of

them have spoken to each other and it does seem if they are going to be frustrated with these activists two were coming over here and doing this that your point about well, he's getting help from this foreigner. it seems relevant well, i think that's probably the argument that people delayed party are saying that they have been doing this for a very long time and they just feel like they're being now is not being addressed. >> i mean, the bigger problem here really is that if donald trump does it's question about the british special relationship. how, how special is it when you've got labor leader who clearly would favor kamala harris, i think he hasn't come out and said that, but most of his party believe that's what he wants but also you know donald trump doesn't have the queen here in the uk, which has always his fascination with the uk in the past, he's got king charles as well so that the two figureheads aren't natural trumpians indeed. >> all right. max foster for us this morning, max, always great to have you. thank you so much

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good morning to you. thank you so much for being here so there has been a lot of discussion here in washington about how there have been reforms to the electoral count act. i've certainly spent time talking to members of congress who've been very focused on trying to make sure that something like what we saw on january 6 doesn't happen again. but there is a lot of concern in terms of the certification process about how that plays out in all of these states across the country. and that seems to be what you're looking at here. can you explain this initiative and help us understand what places in particular we should be watching on election night. >> yeah, well, it's great to be here with you this morning state legislatures are the foundation of our democracy. they determine how people participate. they're voting rights, their timelines for voting, and the counting and so having secure elections means that we've got legislators that care about our democracy. we are looking at passes pros and the rhetoric around this election, sowing the doubt as we just saw and using our voice

to let people know that voting up and down the ballot for democrats secures our democracy and insurers that people continue to trust they're voting laws. the process, and ultimately the results so talk to me a little bit about which states in particular, you're focused on here. yeah, the core states for us this year are this blue wall, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, arizona. these are all places where power is in the balance, where there are incredibly competitive races up and down the ballot and where we're encouraging people to get involved. >> so kamala harris was asked yesterday during an interview about concerns about whether or not trump will declare victory, whether he will concede. let's watch a little bit from that interview president came out on election night and declared victory before all the votes were counted. what is your plan if he does that again in two weeks, we will deal with election night. and the days after as they come. and we have the resources and the expertise and the focus on that as well.

so you mind game is ready to go. is that what you're saying? are you thinking about that as a possibility? of course so she said my team is ready to go. >> what does that actually look like? she obviously didn't get into details in that interview. but when you say there are teams ready to take a look at what will happen if trump doesn't concede, declares victory, et cetera what does that look like? >> means that we're looking out for places where doubt is being cast in real time at polling places where people's vote is called into question and ensuring that every vote is counted accurately and that the winner is declared and the loser concedes can we dig into michigan for a second because you've seen a couple of incidents. first of all, it's expected to be extraordinarily close there were covid era incidents with people at the michigan state capital. obviously, there was a kidnapping plot against the governor there, gretchen whitmer. how do all of those things at play together in

terms of the work that you're doing? >> yeah. i think michigan is a prime example of a place where it is incredibly competitive, where it is absolutely essential that michiganders believe in the process. they believe that their vote will be counted, that it matters, and ultimately that they we'll be able to determine who leads them up and down the ballot. and i think what we've seen from republicans right? and donald trump is that they are leading for themselves and their own power. they don't care about the american people. they don't care about whether or not people's votes are accurately counted. they just care that it counts for them. and that is a problem. people in this country need to believe in their system they need to get out and vote. it matters. it will be counted, it will be a free and fair election and the winner will ultimately be declared. >> all right. heather williams for us this morning, heather, thanks very much for coming in. i really appreciate it. >> all right let's turn out of this donald trump going after kamala harris in the final two extract of campaigning during a latino roundtable event in miami trump criticized his opponent for not being out on

the trail. >> instead, harris optics do sit down interviews with nbc news and telemundo on tuesday she's sleeping right now. she couldn't go on the trail you think when you have 14 days left, you wouldn't be sleeping. she's not doing anything today. he's lazy as hell and she's got that reputation. but she's radical left lunatic trump went on to claim that harris is off today as well though she will participate in a cnn town hall. this evening. his comments come as both campaigns are trying to make inroads with latino and black voters, especially men. the harris campaign, turning to former president barak obama to try to close the gender gap with male voters for the democratic ticket look think donald trump's behavior is somehow a sign of strength. when i hear folks saying, yeah i'm i'm thinking about both born just because and i say what? and they said, well, i don't know. he seems strong.

he seems tough i saw him at the ufc fight not what real strength is it never has been joining us now to discuss is gerald gainer, white house correspondent for thegrio during thank you so much for coming back. it's great to see you. so you saw what obama had to say there. you also heard at what trump had to say a criticizing harris i'd actually like to start there because he called her lazy. he also suggested she is a drug or a drinking problem. let's watch a little bit more of that bite she gave an answer that was so bad that they changed it they took it out through what they took the entire is a long stupid kid in a wetter, how she was going there she drink issue on drugs

i don't i don't know. i don't i have no idea so there are christie was talking. about the editing of this cbs 60 minutes interview when he is calling her lazy, when he is making this insinuations about those things. what's he actually saying? >> you know, i think this this campaign is really center on the differences between the two candidates. and one of the big differences is the fact that kamala harris is a woman. and while she personally has not really leaned so much into her identity as a woman, as a black woman, suggesting that she's lazy, has his undertones of suggests and that is this sexism, racist undertones that i think doesn't help the former president and his ability to try to expand his base. this might work for his base of supporters, but i don't think that latino voters and black voters necessarily will be turned on by this type of rhetoric. i think that people want to see who want to hear about policies. what are your ideas to help me in my

everyday life, especially as it relates to the economy and speaking about, speaking of the former president's visit with latino voters in miami. yeah, he didn't talk a lot about policy. instead, he took the opportunity to come go through his normal grievances, his greatest hits and attacking the vice president personally. but he didn't talk a lot about what he would do for latino communities so let's talk for a second about barack obama, because he obviously is out there. >> that message around strength that you heard him. giving there aimed it seems at men who may see donald trump as the stronger, the strong man type of candidate how do you look at and how do you understand know you've reported on the harris campaign, you've traveled with her. >> how they view obama, and the way that he can talk to black voters, especially black male voters. >> president obama remains a rock star in the black community. so obviously him

coming to detroit was a big deal because detroit is essential for the harris-walz campaigning for winning michigan black voters in detroit are really, really crucial in that regard. >> and so him going out there and talking about as a man, now, this is not what strength looks like strip is about leadership, is about having good ideas at about bringing the country together. >> and i've spoken to a number of democrats and civil rights leaders who also believe that president obama can rally up black boulders, but they are concerned about his ability to reach younger black men because they are seeing on the ground that he's not having the same effect with younger black men as he is with older black man. and that they need to have other surrogates joining president obama. they see that it should be an all hands on deck going to influencers, hip hop artists eminem. but he's older, rapper. they believe that he should, that the campaign should be going to younger rappers and influencers

and maybe having president obama joining them on stage and saying as a introductory here, here is such and such. and letting that be the focus, because young people are like i've mentioned in last week but on the internet, they are really enthralling with entertainment and reality television. and that's why we have former president trump as the first reality of the television president. and so you have to kind of cover all of your bases, but president obama is certainly an effective surrogate. yes. well, i mean, the millennials who were obamas how many people, the young people in obama's coalition are now middle aged. so there's that are during gaynor. >> thank you very much for being here. >> all right. straight ahead. here on cnn this this morning, an american reckoning, jonathan alter is here to discuss his new book about three seismic political events that triggered what he calls a black swan summer. we'll explain. plus, father, son moments on the ndas opening night our bleacher report's ahead

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these summer, heading into the 2024 election was nothing short of historic, as you saw there in the span of 52 days three events completely shifted the political landscape. >> it started with donald trump's felony convictions on may 30, 2024 then there was the assassination attempt against trump in butler, pennsylvania that was july 13. then joe biden's withdrawal from the 2024 race on july 21 and his subsequent when address to the nation. these three seismic events constitute what our next guest calls. a black swan summer in his new book titled american reckoning, the journalist jonathan alter describes the summer of 2024. this way, quote it's a historic period when the political world turned on its axis in just a few short weeks, he calls all of the e events, quote extremely rare they're extremely impactful and in spite of being outliers, explainable, and even predictable after the fact joining us now to discuss is jonathan alter, he is the author of the new book, american reckoning. inside trump's trial. and my own,

jonathan, i'm so grateful to have you on the show to see a case. really remarkable the way you lay all of this out. let's start with, i mean when i when i look at that, when i read that, you think that these were predictable, i want to know why you think that we could have predicted any of this, but well, black swan event is something that is extremely rare. there's a famous book called the black swan. but in retrospect, you go, oh, we should have known that the classic black swan that was 911 it seemed like a bolt out of the blue. but when you look back on it, we should have connected the dots. so we should have known after his long criminal life donald trump, like violating laws willy nilly, that there could be a conviction of an american president, but still and i was just a few feet away from the jury foreperson. >> i was in the courtroom every day seeing this guy go guilty. >> guilty. guilty. this was one of the most dramatic events i've covered in 40 years of

journalism people couldn't see it on tv, so i tried to convey in the book the drop the high drama of this event. so it seemed like something that you know, the idea of an american president being convicted seemed like something a bolt out of the blue. but in some ways it really maybe aaron, so i would have written it but we never would have lived exactly for this just to give you a quick example, only two presidents had any connection to the justice system. >> ulysses s grant got a ticket for driving too fast, and harry truman got a ticket for driving too slow that was it until donald trump. then then you have these other black swan events where where you have an assassination attempt, which it's some kind of a miracle that donald trump wasn't hit but again, we should have been able to predict in some ways that this would be part of our life as political efforts, it has been in the past.

>> the blessed to be able to forget this part of our history. yeah. >> and then the final one, of course, is nancy pelosi's. i think her heroic efforts to maneuver joe biden off the ticket. i tell the inside story in american reckoning of how that how that happened and when you think about that, that's also just enormously dramatic. the only time it's ever happened before in recent history was lyndon johnson in 1968. but that was in january. this was in july and again, high drama in the 2024 election. and i tried to convey that in the book. >> yeah, it certainly was earlier in the year what about the pelosi maneuvering behind the scenes? do you lay out in the book that you think most of us don't know at this point? >> so the way she approached by, so she went over in secret to the white house not long

after the disastrous debate and she opened a channel of communication with a kind of i'm here for you tone. she didn't try to at first off the ticket and as one of her very close friends told me, she could cut off your head and you wouldn't even know it. and but she at this point was a little bit upset because she considered the men clinton, obama, jeffries schumer, to be mia. and one of her friends said why? >> we're hers. the only bloody fingerprints on the knife and, you know, it cost her this 40 year friendship with joe biden, who hasn't spoken to her since then. some of the other things that i discovered about what happened is that covid was the last straw. if it wasn't for joe biden getting covid he was going to run out. the string, run out the clock because there's only about ten days

before the delegates would vote virtually for the nominee and the dnc, the white house, to campaign. they all wanted him to run out the clock. but when he got covid that then change the dynamic and contributed in a significant way to his decision really remarkable. >> all right, jonathan alter, you're going to come back and you can stick with us, through the top of the hour. very grateful to have you today. don't forget the book is american reckoning inside trump's trial and my own it's on shelves now? >> yes. yes. just come right. >> time now for sports lebron and bronny james make history the nba's first father-son duo to play together. andy scholes has this morning which report andy? good morning. yeah. good morning. kasie still the brian bronny, you both calling it a moment. they will never forget lebron entering his 20 22nd season last night, bronny, his rookie season in early on in the game with tim walz, the braun for giving bronny some advice on the bench already

for you though we're about mistakes. guam play all right. >> then with four minutes to go in the second quarter, the moment we were all waiting for lebron and bronny checking in together, becoming the first ever father, son duo to play together in the the nba. they've got a standing ovation from the crowd. the family there to see it happen moments later, lebron here the past of bronny, he puts up the three, but it was no good now, bronny didn't score and is three minutes on the core of the broad finished with 16 and hear his dad afterwards on the historic night family has always been a family over every day again they don't want me on how lost a lot of time because it is committed to this league being on the road at times missing a lot of his theys right. >> sustained surge things so it'd be able to have this moment where i'm working sale, and i'll go work alongside my son is one of the greatest gifts i've ever got from the man above. and i'm to take full advantage of it. >> it's going up that's going so my dad checking him for the first time that's crazy, mom, i

will never forgive before the game. >> lebron and bronny taken a picture with ken griffey junior and his dad on the court. the griffeys, the first ever father, son duo to play together in baseball. they were there for the historic night as for the game, anthony davis, he was dominant, he scored 36 points, grabbed 16 rebounds. jj redick wins lakers coaching debut. they beat the table 110 to one, our three, the celtics, meanwhile, raising their record 18th championship banner, td garden. they also got their rings during the pre-game ceremony. jayson tatum it's all the crowd. they're going to do it again. and during an after the olympics, you know, the story was tatum not getting to play well, he looked like a man on a mission in this when he point in 2037, points dished out ten assists for 11 from three point raise the celtics. they actually made an nba record 29 threes in this game. and they reached that mark with nine minutes to go the crowd was chanting one more three to set the record for get this the celtics 13 straight they still

a great night there at boston though they walked the next one 32 to one night, but kasie aldai, i ever heard fans chant one more three and again. but the celtics fans, there were having a grand old time is as i said, they'd be the knicks pretty easily in that one and they couldn't miss early, then could make anything laid. it was got a funny indeed all right, andy, thank you very much for that really appreciate it. >> all straight ahead here on cnn this morning, the mounting distrust in congress from gen z voters, how this frustration with capitol hill from a key demographic may shape the balance of power plus 13 days out more than 20 million ballots already cast their campaign's closing arguments in the final days because 17 million voters have already cast a ballot these people have already voted. these are the same people have already done their christmas shopping already have their next britt of filter soaking

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