the world's news network right now on cnn this morning i've done it. i'm the opposite of a nazi quite a declaration. >> donald trump on defense as democrats compare his madison square garden rally elie to 1939, pro-nazi gathering, plus this if he were elected on day one, is going to be sitting in the oval office working on his enemies list some symbolic speech. >> kamala harris speaks in the same spot where donald trump urged his supporters to fight on january 6. and this i think a lot of puerto ricans day, they disappointed major fallout. the trump campaign facing backlash after an offensive joke about puerto ricans, could it give harris the opening she needs with latino voters?

fire. >> the arson investigation now underway and how officials are trying to make sure that every vote is counted coast. >> a live look at philadelphia, pennsylvania later today, former president trump heads to the crucial commonwealth with election day, just one week from today morning, everyone, i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us one week, one week from election day, and just hours. kamala harris will make her closing argument to voters in an address on the ellipse here in washington there is a huge contrast in this election and i'd ask us to just imagine the oval office in three months. >> okay. so just picture it in your head so either it's donald trump sitting in there

or me with your help working for you, checking off my to do list chosen is not an accident. >> the ellipses where donald trump spoke on january 6 before a crowd of his supporters violently assaulted the capitol and attempted to prevent the certification of his it's defeat. >> out of your we will never give up. we will never concede. it doesn't happen. you don't concede what steps all vice president pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president. and you are the happiest this people. >> you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> you have to show strength and you have to be strong harris as advisers telling cnn that the vice president plans to try to strike a hopeful and

optimistic tone to try to contrast both with trump's words at the ellipse three years ago and with his rally at madison square garden on sunday she is the level whoever screamed that out she is the anti-christ. she's a pretender her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country kamala harris, she's just she got 85 million votes because she's just so impressive as the first samoan malaysian low iq, former california prosecutor ever to be elected president. >> i don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle the ocean right now. >> yeah. >> i think it's called puerto rico >> there could have been more cnn reporting that trump campaign aides did review at least some of the jokes that the comedian, their planned to tell and that they did flag one that called vice president kamala harris the c-word. they

said it was quote, in poor taste and they nixed it from the set all this comes as the new york times writes overnight that harris campaign aides are growing more bullish on her chances of winning the election. readiness, quote, ms harris is aides believe the argument tying mr. trump to fascism is helping her sway moderate republicans even though the leading super pac supporting her bid has raised worries that it's not the democrats most effective message so perhaps that's why just one week out from election day and with polls continuing to show a deadlocked race, the former president felt the need to say this they use that word hitler and then they say he's a nazi of that adachi. i'm the opposite of a nazi. >> i don't know thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios, fully brightness former adviser to

hillary clinton's presidential campaign and mike dubke, former trump white house communications advisor. >> welcome to all of you. one week to election day. who would like to take the nazi issue should i do it better? i don't know what the opposite of a nazi is but, you know what look mike and i have planned this kind of vents. you guys have covered these kind of events. >> you are asking for it. if you put it someplace in a venue like that, it is not like they suddenly stumble into ancient bail ground you pick the venue knowing the history, you pick the people who were speaking knowing what they have said in their history. you've given them the open mic and then you say, oh oh, my gosh, i can't believe they said it. i don't i don't agree with that joke where there's a joke or not, whether it was in the teleprompter. not really, isn't the point if you have an open but mike and you invite eddie murphy and it suddenly profanity laced. you can say, oh, my god, i mean, how did that happen and what is the

point of it? what is what is the point of it that is not what they need being discussed and it's not just on what they will call the liberal media. this is what's being discussed on fox and on the right, this since we're the week left, thank god, it's only a week left. you don't want that that is not a closing argument. he can say whatever he wanted later on it doesn't matter. it wasn't worth it. it wasn't worth the risk well, they're go ahead. i was going to say there's a question of whether or not this is intentional to your point to try to rally the aguiar parts of the base or this is just sloppiness and a consequence of arrogance on the behalf of the trump campaign. that the way to rally that part of the base. >> well, so it's you mentioned what the discussions on more right-wing outlets, even megyn kelly, of course, formerly of fox news had this to say about the madison square garden rally earlier this week, watch it was too bro task stick it was you're trying to win an

election in which you're hemorrhaging female voters maybe when you present in front of hundreds, of thousands, at least at madison square garden, you clean up the bro talk just a little. >> so you don't alienate women in the middle of america who are already on the fence. about republicans were trying to get him elected. we don't need to rally the base or guys anymore my issue right. >> look, the last ten days of an election, last week of an election, its do-no-harm. that's generally what you're trying to draw. i think to your to your point. so i understand why they did madison square garden. i think it had more to do with the president with president trump's desire to be at madison square garden, then that was nothing about with trump it it is to a certain extent, but this is this is also where this is also where the campaign should step in and say, okay, we're going to control this environment because you don't have ten days out, nine days out, you don't have the ability to

right the ship after that. now, i don't think that this is fatal, but i think making kelly is absolutely correct. let's be smart part in the last ten days, that's what i heard her side. >> so speaking of bros. alex, joe rogan is actually apparently the person who recommended to the campaign back in august that they use this comedian watch this from this from august it would be who've him to hire a few great comics to just tore with them and just write one liners about all these different people. >> i mean, if he could remember them, i mean, i know he likes to go off his own head. sure. you could remember a few hinchcliffe bang or hires hinchcliffe to take him on the road? egan saying that would be well, you know what it turned out to be pretty insane like joe rogan and that comedian and actually fairly close and he promotes him often and so there is this feeling that it was a little bit of a critic quote pro, with joe rogan apparently had trump on his podcast than they included this. this can mean this is something that's

going around the trump circles about how this happened. that being said, i was talking about taking responsibility for being their own choice. >> i know it's shocking that someone on the campaign when that tape response water, there was, you don't know where we was i was talking to somebody who's involved in the campaign. this base hear what they said about it, is that the trump campaign is both confident and air again and that the main pollster, tony fabrizio, basically as trump's numbers ahead in all seven swing states. but within the margin of error. and as a result, they are basically feeling arrogant to the point of hubris and that's how you get get mistakes where all the headlines are about this comedian who is literally the first speaker of the entire eight hours i spent a massive square garden on sunday but now we're all talking about this speaker because of his crude and racist jokes, right? >> i mean, there are next games and rangers there and the circus is there, doesn't inherently make the circus you know, a nazi gathering of

elephants. it's how you put it together. and they, you know, they put it together this way and that's the thing. i mean, there are times i say something that i offend someone in. yes. sometimes i think okay. we're living in a world where i've known you a long and every now and then they confirm out there on the i think. okay, we're living in a woke society, but i'll go along with it sometimes i honestly realize i shouldn't say it, and then i don't and this was a slow moving it's almost the opposite. it's like, oh msm mess square garden triggers them all the better. but if they really think that this is great, i would, i'll chip in on renting the venue every night for the next seven days at the end of the day, the trump campaign is focused on turning out the base and finding voters that don't normally vote to come out. and especially in these seven states that's their goal. so i understand where they were coming from by doing weighing a as it was put a protesting rally, but it was too far. and again, this is one of those things the hubris that's what

you've got to run scared at this point. >> alex, the times story has generated a lot of discussion among kind of my sources because they're, it seems to be a little bit of a divide on where things stand in the harris camp. i'm just curious where for your reporting lines up in terms of them coming out and the times reporting that people inside the harris camp are more bullish than they were. >> yet. there is this sort subtle cold war between the super pac, which has spent for, were just paid for most of the ads feature forward and the actual harris campaign over the final message is also not an ideal way to go into the final and days with them basically planting subtle stories about what you should be focusing on if you look at the ads, future forward is much more focused on an economic populist message, framing trump as a billionaire who is going to give tax cuts to other billionaires. if you look for himself, he's not out for you. >> yes, exactly. you look at the harris campaign, both paid advertising and earned media is much more focused on trump being a bad person, being a potential fascist, going to take control and there is a

real divergence in terms of democrats strategy going into the final stretch. >> all right, coming up here on cnn this morning just staying behind closed doors in a reluctant endorsement michael tackett, the writer of the book of prices it's a power joins for his first cnn interview about his new reporting on the strained relationship between donald trump and mitch mcconnell fox ballots burn, the arson investigation after a second ballot box was set on fire. and president biden cast his vote one, just a few months ago, he thought he would be casting for himself >> you want to answer astute political analysis you have questions biden said, the right call stayed away why did trump pulled out of a 60 minutes? i love pulling out moos network or by got news for you saturday at nine on cnn have bombus, we

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morning from friend of the show panelists, alex thompson, suggesting the president would like to be campaigning for harris in the final days of the race. but the harris campaign's not exactly embracing the offer thompson writes this for axios, quote harris's team believes biden is a political liability at a crucial time in the campaign, but is reluctant to directly hey, they don't want him to campaign for her alex, i mean, look, if they did want him to campaign for her, he would be campaigning for her? yes. >> even when he campaign in pittsburgh on saturday, the campaign sends out a daily email of all the surrogates includes actors and actresses and members of the cabinet they, did not mention that joe biden was going to be in pittsburgh on saturday, even in that email. >> so they just left the president of the united states off the way. >> they did and they could claim oversight, but the fact

matter is like they don't believe that the president is helpful in this final stretch. now, joe biden, even some of the people on the kamala harris campaign, formally of the joe biden campaign? in believe that actually the kamala harris committee is underestimating his appeal and some of these smaller communities, they understand he's unpopular, but they still feel that he has appeal with some of these, especially older voters, older white voters, voters, yes. yes. in pennsylvania and they think they're making they're making a mistake and that's why you see this you know he may say it was not bittersweet, but there's certainly people around him that find it more bitter than i mean, look, i give them that right. i mean, of course it's a little bit bittersweet for him. it's he's been gracious by not saying it out loud, but fully border. you think is going on here. >> well, i think joe biden more than anything does not want donald trump back in the oval office that is why he stepped aside and if whatever he's doing now are not doing now helps that. i think he's going to get the last laugh and i think he's okay with it, whether or not should the

harris campaign be using him more or than i trust the harris campaign, the people there, whether it's jen o'malley, dillon, or stephanie cutter, brian fallon, or david plouffe. they know oh, what works and what doesn't i don't also he has been out there and he has been out there with her. >> i just want i believe he's done you know, we haven't had a situation in 24 years where you have that question of a vp using their boss and it will complicated with who, but also to some extent you want to be we're on parson. i don't know that there's often as much thought about it, but bottom line, joe biden has done more to help kamala kamala harris's chances that anybody anywhere take a guarantee you the harris campaign thinks about this every day about what biden is going to say, should we use them? >> should we not? i mean, he is a look i can look at the guy now and not think dana carvey, i when when you had that quote up there, i was like, i was picturing in a carrier that's a compliment that is a compliment

and they probably wish dana carvey would go out as biden and campaign for vice president harris but he is a gaffe machine at this point. every time he has been out, there's only been out there once for with her. he's been out there multiple times. he had the lock lock him up. there's other things that he has done. he has gone to the white house briefing room once and it's stepped all over her event that day so i can totally see the tension here, but he's not on the ballot. he's not i'm sure he wrote it myself in delaware when he voted >> all right. we were going to take a quick break here still ahead on cnn this morning, the trump campaign does damage control following his madison square garden rally you know what i do when i think a joke is dumb or not funny, i don't laugh jd vance downplaying a rally joke about puerto rico, but do voters in a key battleground state feel the same way plus trump allies? >> steve bannon, just released from prison seven days before

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wants to be on the defense cleaning up missteps with seven days to go before an election. but that does seem to be where team trump finds themselves this morning, two days after this unfortunate and ugly moment during the former president's rally at madison square garden sunday night i don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now yeah, i think it's called puerto rico severe. >> we're gonna get more now from cnn's danny freeman, who was out talking to voters vice president harris's campaign wasted little time monday morning. they did us a favor. >> they woke up. they woke up. they woke, goes up there. what goes up? >> assembling a host of puerto rican surrogates in philadelphia. >> i hope that people are angry and they turn that anger into interval pennsylvania has more

than 480,000 residents of puerto rican descent according to 2022 data from the u.s. census bureau. that's the most out of any of the battleground states. and the philadelphia metro area is among the top regions with puerto ricans outside of new york and florida, philadelphia city council member and harris supporter gets the lazada news she had to speak up. >> i think that what folks don't realize is that when puerto rican get angry we turned into action mode, right around phillies largely puerto rican fair hill neighborhood voters. >> we spoke with had heard the comments in what he's talking about. puerto rico is a beautiful island. >> 32-year-old christian hernandez is voting for the first time this year for vice president harris. the trump rally remarks only solidified his vote you think puerto ricans? heard those words from last night? >> yeah, for sure. >> alaa a lot of bari was there

matt i'm disappointment. >> marcos pagan didn't like the comments at all when you hear stuff like puerto rico as a floating island of garbage, what goes through your mind? >> they'll be honest. i feel disrespected because he doesn't move. >> we go through now, we've been through a lot, but marcus still is not sure who he's voting for. >> when you hear comments like that, does that change your perspective about who you might vote for no. that's not enough to see it to believe that, you know, everybody has actually found words for number santiago already cast his vote for former president donald trump. >> but now he and his whole family are mad. what did you think about him calling puerto rico floating island of trash that's my stuff because that's my island. >> you know, i don't want to i don't want people talking like that this is not right

because of this lack of respect towards puerto ricans that settlement really interesting for harris campaign now, trying to tie that island of garbage remark again, which was made by that comedian to trump himself i want born recall on island of garbage now, these are fellow citizens. >> he's talking about here in philadelphia. >> they are your neighbors trump's running mate, jd vance, had this take on the so-called joke again, i haven't seen the joke i you know, maybe maybe it's a stupid

racist joke as you said, maybe it's not. >> i haven't seen it. i'm not going to comment on the specifics of the joke, but i think that we have to the stop getting so offended at every little thing in the united states of america. i'm just i'm so over it right. >> our panel is back at mike dubke. i haven't seen the joke. i mean, i'm flashing back to all of the senators who never saw the tweets. but this is, of course is running mate but look, i'm most fascinated by what we heard from those voters that danny freeman talk to in the philadelphia area very about whether this is going to matter ultimately, it seems like it has the possibility to it does. >> and again, we talked about this earlier in the hour. do no harm at this point, the election. but what i was interested in listening to those voters, the folks that were interviewed, were they harris voters to begin with? and are they going to stay to be harris voters? i keep feeling this election comes down to being five election or an issue election. if it's a vibe election, i think harris has a really good shot because that's what her campaign is about creating this vibe of donald trump is too dangerous for democracy, too dangerous for america if it's pointing

out what happened on jane first, it's an issue election. >> if it's an issue election, then can you go into that ballot box thinking about your economy? can i afford my groceries? can i afford my rent? you think about inflation. you think about other issues. so i'm not sure if this is going to be more of a blip from a monday, tuesday, or if this is going to run throughout, but i guarantee you the harris campaign's going to be talking about this for the next seven days. >> they've reminds me of that old kellyanne conway line of does it offend you or does it affect you write and what do voters care? care more about that being said to your point, do no harm. there is no reason when there are many puerto ricans in very key swing states, nine days for the to hire a roast comedian who most recently did the tom brady roast and insulted every single person on stage. and often like using their race or their religion to insult them, to then have them as the first speaker after the star-spangled banner. there and also i can say as someone that was in the

room, get those jokes did not play in the room, but doesn't matter because those clips are going viral to every single puerto rican pennsylvania right now. >> it's not, it's not just puerto rican sky imagined because look, there are people who say nothing matters this point or there are people like me and probably all of us say everything matters so in that situation, don't give the other side anything and they both both camps need some people from the others or just this undecided jump ball folks. and there are a lot of people who had had reservations about trump, whether his age, whether it's january 6, is a small subset of voters in republican party but people have conveniently forgotten about the noise he creates. >> and this is not helpful and it's not just puerto ricans. >> it could be any one of any dissent who who's like, i just don't want this guy for another four years. that's the guy that i didn't like. that's not i thought it was interesting i went back and i read the transcript of the

debate and there's one word he never uses and its future. and i think it really encapsulates the fact that he's only looking to rewrite his own past. he's not looking forward. and if you watch the vice president's club, she is talking about the future. and at the end of the day, donald trump talks a lot about the enemy within its, within his own ahead. i mean, he's the one that is doing himself the most harm. and again, i'm all for it. let him do it every day. but making this kind of mistake was seven days left is very different than doing it with 30 days or so 90 days where he can benefit from the typical dynamic makes alluding to of it's just another thing that people forget. >> this is it, it's nothing someone is getting up today and voting in wisconsin. >> someone is getting up today and voting and pennsylvania. and they're not doing it. and then i'd saying i was on the fence but you know what, i'm gonna vote for trump now because that was a really funny joke that that guy told. it is a garbage island if you're an

undecided voter, you're not voting early. >> you are waiting to the last second to try to gather as much information as you can. that's why these last days matters so much. >> i think what we're saying is that it was a bad idea rare all right. still coming up after the break. >> jeff bezos defending his decision that plunged the washington post and the controversy. just a week ahead of the election. plus mitch mcconnell and his strained relationship with donald trump, the subject have a new book. the author joins us live next the mob was fed lies they were provoked by the president we do have to do something about mitch mcconnell he's a disaster >> and it all comes down to this we can now make a major sure for jack. the way only cnn can bring it to you. election night in america, special coverage begins tuesday, november 5 at four on cnn life

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horse families from kentucky across the nation paid tribute to mitch mcconnell a special thanks you. >> for a special man senator mitch mcconnell, on the job for kentucky's future wow, that is a throwback for much of his as you can see lengthy career, kentucky's longest serving senator mitch mcconnell has wielded perhaps unmatched control in the senate and the gop a p until 2016, that is when donald trump took the reins of the republican party and transformed it into something that mcconnell now admits is almost unrecognizable throughout the trump presidency, mcconnell's swallowed much of his disdain for the man he would later call a narcissist and a sleazeball until he reached his limit on january 6, 2021

responsible for the deadly attack on the capitol but stopped short of convicting him in his impeachment trial there's no question. >> none there president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day no question about it. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one was mutual and trump's attacks got increasingly personal we do have to do something about mitch mcconnell he's he's a disaster. >> these washington republicans

like mitch mcconnell has the absolute worst. i had a fight to mitch mcconnell and other beauty mitch mcconnell and his wife, coco chao. coco we gotta get the mcconnells of the world to do their job mitch mcconnell is a loser as republican presidential primaries though throughout 2023 mcconnell got behind him i said capitol was attacked i would support our nominee regardless. >> who was included i support him. he's earned that nomination by the voters all across the country. >> as our next guest puts it, mcconnell quote, tried to stop the gop from heating the darkest impulses of trump. but it must be noted that he never put himself or his job in jeopardy to do so. and joining

us now is michael tackett, deputy washington bureau chief for the associated press and the author of the new book, the price of power. how mitch mcconnell, master of the senate, it changed america. and lost his party, michael, i'm so grateful to have you on the show. congratulations on the book thank you. i've obviously i've spent years covering mitch mcconnell and he is really one of the most enigmatic figures and has been one of the most powerful and has had just this fascinating arc. and you report poured out in this book. many of the things that he said in private about donald trump that when you stood in front of him at a podium and you asked him about it. you knew he was probably thinking, but he would never actually say tell us more about what you learned about this man and why when you call it the price of power in, why did he make this decision to send sacrifice so many of the things that he clearly seems to hold dear at the feet of donald trump. >> so my, my point going into the book was not to defi him or crucifying. it was trying to understand. mcconnell tried to

explain him how did he acquire power, how did he accumulate power? and then how did he wielded? and what was the consequence for the country and he found that the consequences for him was a loss of power really in the rise donald trump so michael, what of all of this mean when we heard there the insults that donald trump level that his wife calling her coco chow in this kind of racist attack you write that because she obviously was part of the trump administration before she resigned in the wake of january sixth. and you have this kind of anecdote that chao quote had asked her husband for some tips about talking to trump before her interview for the transportation post. this is before she becomes transportation secretary in an oral history, mcconnell said that he told her, quote honey, just get your hair done up and your makeup and everything will be fine. he said trump called and while she was because in his office and said, wow, she's really good looking. he clearly, i mean, this seems to

demonstrate that mcconnell has a rather sharp understanding of donald trump knew exactly who he was dealing with and he worked as well as he could e he could but as he found out, like so many republicans who tried to work with trump, it was difficult and it was difficult because at some point, you brought up against the trump ceiling and you can no longer work with him that january 6 and impeachment trial afterward, and his decision not to vote for impeachment. >> now he obviously used to legal argument if you can't impeach someone after they're out of office, do you think that that was the he really believed that legal argument or was it a legal argument that served his political argument is probably more of the latter but it is also true that nobody has ever been impeached after they've left off? so he had to deal with that he was also thinking as a lot of people were he was going to fade from the scene. so he didn't want to lose the energy of the trump base for the midterm elections by going after trump in a

conviction vote. >> do you think he regrets that decision? >> it's unclear whether or not he regrets it. i mean, he's a he's a rational actor. like he does a cost benefit analysis and he decides is the benefit worth the cost in this particular case, he thought it was not. he also thought, remember, you had to get 67 votes to convict and i think you could see the numbers getting to 63, 64, getting the 67 different question. >> michael in that moment he talked about in a speech that the u.s. still has a criminal justice system that could hold donald trump accountable how does he view what's played out or not? >> terms of that system holding him accountable for what happened that day, trump accountable. well, clearly, trump knows how to run out the clock and he's done that throughout his career. he knows how to make something go away, or at least delay it so i think it's been frustrating for him and probably for a lot of republicans who behind the scenes you know, if you took a secret ballot and asked them

about donald trump, you'd come out with one set of numbers and if you take a public ballot, you come up with another set of numbers. >> you think he wants to see trump convicted i don't really know that. >> i mean, i think he i think he felt like the criminal justice system should hold him to account. >> all right. i'm like okay, go ahead. >> no, i was just say one last thing. he and joe biden served together for decades in the senate. and he writes in his memoir that he loved joe biden loves talking to him. how does he view joe biden's presidency? >> i think that they got along where they could get along ukraine aid is probably the primary example of that, but also the infrastructure bill. all of those were moments where the personal relationship between the two lead to a deal really old-school hold school indeed in a new school world, or something like that what michael tackett congratulations again, book is fascinating. i'm not finished with it, but trust me, it's actually very hard to put down the book is the price of power. how much mcconnell master of the senate

changed america and lost his party all right, 53 minutes past the hour. here's your morning roundup. new this morning. steve bannon is a freee man. be former trump adviser, finished his four-month stint in prison. just a few hours ago, telling the new york times, as he left, quote i'm not broken. i'm empowered fan was sentenced for contempt of congress after refusing to comply with a subpoenas in the january 6 investigation some relief for. travelers ahead of the busy holiday season, airlines in the u.s. are now required to give you a cash refund for flights that are canceled or significantly delayed hey they must give you your money back even if you don't ask for it. this is one of the things that drives me the craziest about canceling a flight. you they say it's refundable and then they say, but you've got to fill out this form to get your refund no longer alright. >> police now investigating fires set at several ballot box locations in oregon and washington, which destroyed hundreds of mail-in ballots a

car is seen in these photos was spotted at both boxes before the fires broke out investigators believe the fires in portland and vancouver, washington are related we're concerned about that intentional act trying to affect the election process. >> we're dedicated to stopping that kind of behavior and very concerning all right. let's turn out of this. no endorsement. the washington post breaking with its modern tradition, deciding not to endorse a presidential candidate. this election cycle and now the papers owner, jeff bezos, is explaining his decision. are doing in a rare opinion piece that not endorsing is a step toward restoring public confidence in the media. here's what bezos writes, quote we must be accurate and we must be believed to be accurate. it's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. most people believe that the media is biased. anyone who doesn't see

this is paying scant attention to reality and those who fight reality lose. reality is an undefeated champion many people are turning to off the cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepened divisions the washington post and the new york times win prizes. but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite more and more, we talked to ourselves bezos references a recent gallup poll that found quote, the news media is the least trusted group among ten us civic and political institutions involved in the democratic process. the legislative branch of the federal government, consisting of the u.s. senate and house of representatives, is rated about as poorly as the media, with 34% trusting it comes as donald trump has repeatedly called the press fake news, and the enemy of the people that's only bad because of the thickness, because it

knows is really vague that's the one we really have to straighten it. >> we have to straighten out our for us because we have a corrupt press it's election interference, fraud and 60 minutes should be taken off the air they should and cbs should lose its license. >> their so it's so evil they are actually the enemy of the people. >> they really are so alex thompson bezos put out this op-ed. >> he also defended himself. he said that there was no connection between a business meeting that the head of his blue origins space company had with donald trump in connection to this decision not to endorse. he also did seem to express that perhaps the timing was poor of this decision for the post did not endorse that an endorsement for harris had already been written were of course now seven days out from an election what sticks out to you about this?

>> there's a lot of truth to what jeff bezos put in that op-ed, but as you noted, doing this 11 days before the election, when the op editorial been drafted versus doing it six months ago, think it's complete defensible position to like having newspaper not endorse a presidential candidate because a lot of readers in these days don't differentiate editorial boyd, board and the news side. and i think washington post's endorse kamala, all the news side is biased, but again, they could let six months ago and beyond just jeff bezos and blue origin, he has a ton of government contracts within his various businesses and raise a lot of questions well, look, i mean, i think even if 51% of that op-ed was truthful, there's 49% that is really an extension of what he said, which is that you can't fight reality and his reality is that trump is going to pick up where he left off and it wasn't just the ten billion-dollar contract

that dispute with the federal government, if you remember trump tried to get the postmaster general. >> if i'm getting this right, to go after amazon in terms of its abuse of the mail system and what's scary about this is that jeff bezos at times has been the richest man in the world. if that person can't get the courage together to stand up, then that is very, very unnerving. i hope there's no one from amazon watching because i have two packages coming today. >> but it's the point about timing and not just the timing is that they went ahead and endorse senate candidate. so we could have been here month from now. >> hamie conversation about papers should they endorse and i'd be the first to say they probably shouldn't just give us the news. >> but the reality that he likes pointing to is that it's a week away. >> it was ten days away bezos's it wrong here and absolute the timing of it is terrible. >> he should have done it a month ago. i don't think he

needed six months ago, but there are many newspapers across the united states have decided not to endorse i mean, this is a common refrain. you're hearing we heard the la times, but smaller newspapers doing the same thing. this is also very different than the teamsters deciding not to endorse. they decided not to endorse because they had they had a problem with their members supporting probably a candidate other than who the leadership wanted to support at the end of the day do you trust the news media? and i think to bezos's point here is if our editorial looks so slanted to the left that people will now question the other than non editorial portions of the newspaper and he's making a point, his timing is just off the ship is sailed. >> waking up today thinking, oh, the washington post is less, you know, less inclined towards liberals, democrats. the only thing that's happened is that fewer people are reading his paper. >> democracy dies in a one-party state. and that's what you've got at the washington post's so okay. >> well,ld