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and a more joyful. >> but the consequences of him being president of the united states are brutally serious. >> i don't think she is qualified to be running. i really don't. >> sandra: here we go. 15 days out from election day. both candidates are hitting the trail hard. they are in key battleground state speared former president trump is on the ground and store moundridge north carolina while vice president kamala harris is trying to win over moderate republicans by hitting the trail with former congresswoman liz cheney. spewing good to start another week with you. i'm john roberts and washington. the closing strategies of both campaigns taking straight. former president trump trying to connect directly with voters from the barber's chair to the fryer while harris goes on a three straight battleground blitz for blue all states. she hit pennsylvania earlier and is now on the way to michigan. >> sandra: what will the winning strategy be?

jessica tarlov and john duffy are moments away here in new york. >> john: but to bill melugin who is in north carolina. what is the latest from where you are? >> good afternoon to you. former president donald trump is making three separate stops here in north carolina today. he wrapped up a short time ago in the western part of the state visiting areas that were completely devastated by hurricane helene. take a look at the video. a little over an hour ago in swan and noah north carolina over by the asheville area which was hit hardest by hurricane helene. ongoing recovery efforts still happening. he visited with state and local officials and while he was out there he surveyed some of the damage and he expressed amazement at the early voting numbers out here in north carolina despite all the storm damage according to the associated press about 1 million ballots have already been cast already. take a listen to trump responding to that. >> the thing that amazes me most

is areas such as this and others where it is so hard to vote. people have lost their homes, sometimes lost members of their family. they have set a record in voting. can you believe it? >> yesterday former president trump had a major viral moment visiting a mcdonald's in pennsylvania where he traded in his suit for an apron and he got to work working a shift making french fries peered he worked the drive through. a bunch of his supporters were there cheering. it was a very obvious way for him to troll vp kamala harris who he claims never worked at mcdonald's. trump said there is no evidence of that and he had a quote where he said now that he did his little shift, he has worked at mcdonald's 15 minutes longer than her. but that wasn't it for pennsylvania. he made a stop by the pittsburgh steelers game as they were taking on the new york jets. as soon as the fans saw him there, big chance of usa, usa as supporters cheered him on at the

football game. he was joined by former steelers star wide receiver antonio brown who has been on the campaign trail with him in recent days. back here live in concord, donald trump is going to have a roundtable event here at about 7:00 p.m. local time. you can see over my shoulder people are starting to line up here but just to give you an idea of how busy the president is, he has three events in north carolina today and then he flies to miami tomorrow for a roundtable and then he will fly back here to north carolina for another rally in greensboro tomorrow night. he is putting on a full court press up with these battleground states with just a couple weeks left to go. back to you. >> john: bill melugin for us in concord. >> sandra: our panel is here. okay. super pumped for this. welcome you guys peered fun to start a new week with you. first off, trump working the fry station over the weekend. watch. >> take from these ones first.

>> keep it tight. but the salt on it. never touches the human hand. nice and full. this guy is a good instructor. look at that. just pouring out. how good is that. >> sandra: how effective is this on the trail? >> this is political gold. i spent years on the campaign trail. >> sandra: i thought you were going to say at the fry station. >> to control the internet for a whole day and to mock a kamala harris. there is no record of her for mcdonald's working for the corporation anywhere also no one has worked with her. he's mocking her and mocking the media for not covering the story and the man looks great not just in a suit and a red tie but an apron and a red tie. how many millions of americans have worked or do work at mcdonald's that love donald trump. >> sandra: or in a job like that. we have breaking news at the

white house appeared real quick i'm going to stand you by. >> i cannot get into that from here. that is something i see and it doj can into on the specifics. anytime we see any type of classified information that is leaked and is out there in a public domain of course we are concerned. of course. but they can speak to how authentic, how real, any of those pieces. they can speak to that. i won't speak to that from here. >> a quick follow-up. i know you are figuring out the election day plans but given the potential for political unrest in the days that follow, will the president be here question what does he plan to be here in washington in the days to follow? >> the president is the president no matter where he is. the number one priority of this president is the american people in the security of the american people as a priority of his as well. i don't want to get ahead of where he will be.

if he's going to be here or not. we'll have more to share as we get closer certainly to novembes schedule will look like but he is president wherever he is. his number one priority, his number one priority is the american people. >> thank you. elon musk is pledging to give away $1 million every day up until the election to voters in battleground states. some experts are saying this is clearly illegal vote buying. does the white house believe what he is doing is illegal. >> i'm going to have to refer you to the fec peered i'm not going to comment. >> can you talk about how the president is reacting to this? does he believe it is appropriate and does he agree with what governor shapiro is saying on how this needs to be investigated? >> i will leave it to governor shapiro and the legal authorities to speak to this. i'm just not going to speak to it on here and we need to leave it to fec. >> can you talk broadly about what trump has said about making elon musk at the head of the government efficiency commission. does a white house event is a conflict of interest given the

fact that his companies have so many contracts with government agencies and potentially given the power to regulate the agencies that hold sway over his own question marks because sunset is a campaign item there what they are planning to do next or what it will look like under their platform for his campaign, i will respond from here. >> any reaction from the president or the white house on elon musk's role at this moment at the clinical discussion? >> no comment on that at this moment. >> on the apparent leak of classified information, how concerned is the president in the message it says to the allies about the way the u.s. handle some of the most sensitive top-secret information. >> what i can say is we take this very seriously and as i've said many times already we are very concerned. this is why the dod, this is why i see, this is why doj are all looking into this. i would have to refer you to them. as i stated many times it is

being investigated. we need to get to the bottom of it. we need to get answers before i can give you anything further from here but it is being investigated by the appropriate authorities who are looking into it. are we concerned? yes. are we very concerned? yes. we are very concerned. the appropriate authorities are looking into this. >> the president is going to be making a campaign eight related stop tomorrow in new hampshire. he has only campaigned alongside vice president harris an official campaign event capacity wants. we have a reporting that we don't expect to see the two of them together in these final two weeks. what is the reason for that? >> i would remind folks that he was in philadelphia just last week doing a campaign event. just last week on his own. would remind folks that he was doing that. there's going to be a campaign related event as i just mentioned tomorrow and there will be more to come. i think there will be more to come. we can't forget what we have seen this past couple weeks.

two historic hurricanes, let's not forget that. the president was able because of his leadership and what his administration was able to do, we avoided a port strike. that is something he was able to do. and there are many other pressing issues that are not just here domestically but around the world and the president has led on those issues. the most important thing that the president believes his job is to continue to be there for the american people, deliver for the american people and that is what you have seen him do. he's going to be out there i would say stay tuned. more to come. i just mentioned new hampshire. there's more to come in the upcoming days and he will share that with all of it. >> former president trump is in north carolina today. he was talking about some of the fema efforts there. he called the rescue effort "nonexistent." he repeated some misleading information about where of the funds have been directed to. how concerned is the white house

about what that might do to not just people taking in this information that is misleading but to voters specifically in key states where the devastation of the hurricanes has been eminence. >> i'm glad in your question you said misleading information which is true. misleading information that is being put out there and it's not just from a spirit you have heard from republicans and democrats. in north carolina who have said, who have made it very clear by pushing these types of conspiracy theories they are dangerous, they are unhelpful, and it is not what leadership looks like. i will say it like that. it is a time when you see something like that, these types of hurricanes that have impacted community is the way that they have, both of them, hurricane helene and hurricane milton, it's time that you bring a community together and stand by each other. you heard from the governors of

all of these states, in particular certainly as we are talking about governor in north carolina. he spoke to this today and he said the biden-harris administration has responded quickly and positively to our request peered the federal government has been responsive to their call for help. that is coming from the governor of north carolina. we also heard from the mayor of asheville as well. we have seen a bipartisan reaction to this. appreciation for what the administration has been able to do and the reason we have been able to do this work on the ground is because we have had a good partnership with local and state officials on the ground. in this type of conspiracy theory that is out there, it is dangerous to your point in your question. it is dangerous, it is unhelpful, and it gets in the way. >> secretary blinken is headed back to the middle east today. does the white house have any

hope that this will be more successful than past trips given that this comes after the death of a yahya sinwar? >> i know the state department and my colleagues spoke to this in greater detail about the secretary's trip which starts tomorrow. he will be going throughout the region, he will discuss the importance of ending certainly the war in gaza, securing the release of all hostages, alleviating the suffering of the palestinian people and he will underscore the importance of getting the food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid. it's important to get that delivered it to civilians in gaza. and he will also discuss and continue to have the discussions we have been having for the past several months now about the diplomatic resolution to the conflict between israel and hezbollah. we will reaffirm what you are going to see from this trip that the secretary is having throughout the region is reaffirming our commitment to what i just laid out to our partners across the region and

we do want to de-escalate the tensions and also obviously provide lasting stability and that is the commitment that we continue to have. i know you have a question and your question was do we think this will have an effect. we believe in this president believes in diplomatic resolution, diplomatic conversation is key to dealing with issues that we are seeing across the globe. >> does the president have a reaction to former president trump using this rhetoric about the enemy from within and specifically tying it to former speaker nancy pelosi and adam schiff this weekend? >> that type of language is un-american. it is dangerous. i was just asked about misinformation that we have been seeing certainly before the hurricanes hit and certainly now after the impact and what we are

seeing on the ground and how we are trying to work with our partners on the ground to make sure we get relief to folks on the ground. that type of misinformation, conspiracy theories is only hurtful. and that is not what americans want to see as a leader. that's not what they want to see as a leader. it's also disrespectful to our military. to ask our military to react or to do something and such a political way. we should respect our men and women. they should be respected. they put their lives on the line for us and we should respect them. and it is incredibly disrespectful to them as well. so it is un-american, it is dangerous, and it should stop. >> is there any understanding from the white house on when israel is going to respond to iran's attacks?

>> we've been pretty consistent on that. this is something for military operational decision is up to israel. we've been very clear our commitment and our commitment to israel's security. that continues to be ironclad however that is something for the israeli government to speak to. >> is there any word on what that response would look like and is there a redline? >> i'm not going to preview that from here. us proving that from here would give a heads up to the iranians as something that we are not going to be doing but that is aside from that it is something for israel to speak to. >> i wanted to ask about the contraception ruled that the administration is putting out today. as you mentioned at the top. >> sandra: a lot to take in as we continue to have our political panel onset in new york. jessica, a lot of different ways we could go. we were discussing the former president's visit to mcdonald's a moment ago.

maybe i jump on this question about the enemy from within. this is also coming from the other side. this is joy behar calling trump a fascist last week and "the wall street journal" takes it on in a new headline. >> to say that he has a fascist is completely accurate. it does fit the definition peered he wants to send the military and to attack his opponents. what more do you really need to hear? >> sandra: there's questions about this on both side. >> she's responding to things that donald trump set peered not the other way around. and you've seen donald trump himself and j.d. vance this morning on our own air with bill hemmer and dana struggling to talk about the enemy within comments peered he's been given the opportunity to walk it back and say maybe i shouldn't name check adam schiff and the pelosi's and he continues with it. he thinks that democrats are the enemies within and he doesn't have a problem sending the national guard after them. joy behar is responding to the

comments that donald trump started. i want to go back to what sean was saying about the mcdonald's thing. that image surely won the day yesterday and i think for people who are fans of donald trump, that is something that will resonate. but if you look at what was happening on social media on saturday for instance, the dominant thread that i was seeing was that donald trump could not help himself but to talk about how arnold palmer was well hung. on friday he was saying abraham lincoln should've settled the civil war. that's the art of the deal that he could've made a better deal. and then you have the enemy within comments. if you look at the totality of that for the weekend, i don't think it speaks that well to donald trump. >> sandra: they said the fear of fascism would have more credibility if democrats did not abuse power themselves. if they lose the election against a flawed mr. trump it won't be because he is a want to be much illini, the reason will be the biden and harris record. >> they've shattered all the norms. a half a billion dollar lawsuit and settlement in new york city

against trump. multiple cases against him. the two impeachments. but if you talk about what is happening in the government, you have republicans putting half of the committee on, the democrats but the other half. they did this on russian collusion and only put -- only allowed nancy pelosi to put members on. >> that's not true. >> it is true. because kevin mccarthy put his an end nancy did not take it and they put adding kings a year and linds cheney put on so republicans but not the ones that the leader picked. i don't think -- let's get back to normalcy. >> it like how big arnold palmer was? are you kidding me? you told me if joe biden stood up there and said i saw arnold palmer and a shower once and boy that guy has it going on down

there. what would you have said question work that he isn't fit to lead. >> the way the government auctions. >> that you have an insane person at the head of the government? maybe the guy who got indicted is the one that shattered the norms. >> maybe it was the law fear used to indict him. >> we need to leave it there but the response on the fema thing was interesting by the way after we just had that couple on that said they have called and had not heard back. >> i want everybody to get the help that they need but it is notable that congressman chuck edwards, a republican who was standing there shoulder to shoulder with donald trump was the one who had to release the statement after the hurricane debunking all of the junk. >> sandra: what does that have to do with getting people help on the ground? >> went donald trump and their allies tell people that help is not coming that the government does not care about you and they gave your money to undocumented people. >> people are getting crushed. >> sandra: i appreciate the debate.

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so. so. listen. what he is talking about, it's real. that is not the subject i came to discuss the day but it's real and i respect his place. >> john: he said you won't call it a genocide. and she said what he's talking about it's real. >> it it's a disgrace and she's turning her back on our most precious ally, israel. you can see it look way out. jewish voters overwhelmingly voting for president trump who strongly had israel's back and arguably i believe was the strongest american president we ever had in history when it comes to our support for israel, when it came to the abraham accords. but the really sad and concerning sickness of that statement i would say is it is hamas and hezbollah terrorists chanting death to israel, death to america who committed

atrocities just over a year ago. what she should have said, would anyone running for president of the united states should have said is israel is our closest ally, our most precious ally and we stand with them and we will support them in their efforts to defeat the iranian-backed terrorists. >> john: there suffering on both sides but it is hamas that triggered it and hamas continued it. >> and hamas is using civilians as human shields. they have brutalized their own people not just the genocide and the atrocities they have called for and committed against israelis. >> john: hears with the former ambassador to the united states that peered a very dangerous president. i was disturbed if use the video and where vice president kamala harris appears to confirm the charge that israel is committing and gaza. this threatens israel's legitimacy and security and i call in the u.s. to issue an immediate and complete denial. the harris campaign walked it back think she wasn't agreeing with that and israel does remain

our closest ally in the middle east but when you take a look at the biden-harris administration and how it deals with israel you wonder who do they support? >> they've done everything that they can to appease the iran regime and turn their back on israel. take the u.s. military aid that we passed in a bipartisan basis. this administration with joe biden and kamala harris slow walk that aid and they are still doing everything that they can to undermine israel's ability to fight for their own country, to fight for their very existence. this is the most important time in modern history for the u.s. to stand strongly with israel so again, here at every opportunity has chosen to turn her back on israel, to show a lack of support and even to appease the pro-hamas talking points. these are the same talking points that the pro-hamas agitators are using on college campuses when they are committing anti-semitic statements and physical assault against jewish students. she is siding with them rather than a siding with american

principles and values. >> john: and there is a troubling leak from intelligence gathered by the national reconnaissance office about israel's preparations to launch a retaliatory strike against iran. john kirby was asked about it and here's what he said earlier. listen. >> we are keenly focused on what happened here and learning how it happened and preventing it from happening again. in the course of that work, that investigative work, we will certainly keep our antenna up in our eyes open for any potential future disclosures. >> john: as we were listening to karine jean-pierre, you said you detect a real lack of urgency about this. >> there's a lack of urgency. this is very serious but it doesn't get more serious than this particularly when israel is fighting for its very existence and conducting important operations every day. the fact that this classified information was leaked, not only does it really hurt our credibility with our allies around the world in terms of

intelligence sharing, but i'm concerned about the lack of urgency from this administration and those statements from john kirby, he said we are absolutely committed to getting to the bottom of it. there should be an investigation immediately and he says we will try to prevent this from happening again. this should never happen again. there needs to be taken immediate criminal action and referrals to the department of justice and this person who broke the law by leaking classified information. to a pro-iranian outlet. there needs to be absolute criminal referrals when they get to the bottom of this but there was a fundamental lack of urgency. this needs to be handled and now immediately not we will try to prevent this from happening again. they should say we will ensure this never happens again. >> john: you would think that the american president says lock that down. >> and hold individuals accountable. congresswoman, good to talk to . >> we are working hard. >> john: we will see you again soon. now this.

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coalition that put barack obama and joe biden in the white house peered let's bring in deroy murdock. inc. you for being here. we will put up the harris support slipping along black voters peered this is what we are seeing. so, how real is this? >> it's a big problem. the black voters constitute such a big part of the democratic base. you take it out in the whole thing falls over. this is a result of a very simple question that president trump has asked black voters. what do you have to lose a customer they responded saying we keep voting democrat and things don't seem to get better. so the report has gone from 8% of the 12% in 2020 and now according to polls, 23% or 24% of the black vote and if that sticks, democrats are in very big trouble. a very large chunk of their constituency will lock out on them and the whole thing will come crashing down with those numbers. >> sandra: what we are seeing for the strategy on donald trump's part is to focus

on the economy. here is the barbershop moment with trump and lawrence jones. >> what was the rent five years ago? >> it was significantly lower. now it has gone up about $1200. and my issue was more of the energy. i've been paying $2100 since i first opened up in the last seven months at shot up to $15,000. >> a guy comes in. >> $30 or $40. >> what did it you've to be? >> $12 peered $15. >> make it make sense. >> a candid one about rent and energy costs. first so many americans it's about exactly that. >> a basic question. can you pay the bills. the economy is the number one

issue right now but the setting. he is giving talks at the new york economic club but he is in a black barbershop talking to black and hispanic voters. he is campaigning in harlem, campaigning in the bronx, at churches in atlanta and detroit over the years and a lot of what blacks and hispanics want someone to come and ask politely for our votes and trump is going and saying i would like your support and a lot of people just want to be asked politely. you've asked politely. >> sandra: they don't like the assumptions. and there was a question brought up in the white house briefing room a short time ago. we can roll the tape here in just a second but the press secretary was asked about joe biden's presence on the campaign trail. we know obama has been out there and will be alongside kamala harris but where's joe biden? >> we have a reporting that we don't expect to see the two of them together in the final two weeks. what is the reason for that?

>> i would remind folks that he was in philly. philadelphia just last week doing a campaign event. just last week on his own. and so i would remind folks that he was doing that. there will be a campaign related event as i just mentioned tomorrow and there will be more to come. there will be more to come. >> sandra: 15 days to go. is it because he helps or hurts the voting bloc we are talking about? >> the kamala harris people probably don't want to be reminded of joe biden and joe biden is resentful of the fact that he won 14 million votes in the primaries and she ten and yet she is the nominee and he is a lame duck. i think is very upset and he has every right to be. >> sandra: very wild side. thank you for joining us. always appreciate when you can. >> john: the white house responding to reports that israel's plans to retaliate against iran have been leaked. national security council director michael allen joins us coming up next.

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>> john: reported leak of highly classified intelligence documents, israel's plans to attack iran surface on ryan at a pro-iranian publication. u.s. officials now work to find the source of the week and try to stop it from happening again. michael allen former senior director at the security council joins us now. here's what axios said about the leak. the potential leak could be the sign of a very serious security breach within the u.s. intelligence committee. which resulted in top-secret document reaching a channel affiliated with iran. it sounds like someone in the intelligence community. we don't know exactly who or where is a sympathizer. >> it's someone in the intelligence community or a political appointee who is trying to undermine israel's

coming attack on iran. i think there isn't much other explanation for this. it might be a hack which would be more catastrophic over time if overtime each week you see a different piece of intelligence coming out. it would remind me of edward snowden, the guy on the kids website discord who put out information. but for it to be where it is about israel where we are on the calendar, in between attacks, i think that this is definitely ideologically driven. >> john: this was not information that israel would share with the united states. this is what speaker johnson sat on it. >> the leak is very concerning. there are some very serious allegations being made there. the investigation is underway and i will get a briefing on that and a couple of hours. their classified level briefing and other. we are following it closely. >> john: it could be true that the leak came from the u.s. as

was claimed by middle east spectator which is the telegram channel that put it out there. but that information could also be to try to drive a wedge between the u.s. and israel. maybe it came from somewhere else. >> because they are trying to lessen the confidence that israel has in the united states. this is an administration that has fought netanyahu tooth and nail at every corner of this campaign since october 7th. i would not doubt, and they might be justified in thinking so that this is an effort to prevent them from doing what they think they should be doing to protect themselves. and that is an ideological one that we can't tolerate. spew and he's headed over to the middle east again with a cease-fire in his briefcase trying to convince all sides to lay down arms. take a look at israel. they have hamas on the ropes. just having killed sinwar the architect of the massacre. they have hezbollah chasing

their tails on everything. they're planning a retaliatory strike. if you are netanyahu, why would you stop now? >> you wouldn't. he's winning. and our administration here in the united states, the biden administration needs to read the room. they felt like this was their own september 11th attack and they needed to increase the fear that the enemies felt about them. that is why they have been effective against hamas long after kamala harris asked them to stop. that's why they are prosecuting the case against hezbollah so intently to the point where we are degrading some of the financial infrastructure now and that's why they will go after iran any day now. to tell everyone it is a new middle east. israel is back and you all ought to be deterred before you take a shot at us again. >> john: there's a sense in this administration that sinwar sinwar's dad, it's over, let's fold up the tents and i don't want to say kumbaya but some sort of agreement to end the war. but israel is saying just

because sinwar is dead does not mean that hamas was to. >> it shouldn't and at every turn they have tried to urge this upon israel and i think israel is saying to them you have no more credibility with us. you tried to get us to stop months ago and honestly, i don't believe they should be going over there right now. it's embarrassing for the united states when our answer to every question is cease-fire. because we have been for it when the chips are down and now when the chips are up, i think that israel is thinking this is politically or ideologically driven by the biden administration and we need to do what we need to do to protect ourselves. >> john: and israel streams to be in a very strong position. great to see you. >> sandra: busy day on the campaign trail. 15 days out from election day. former president trump in north carolina and vice president harrison michigan. updates from both campaigns after this. ing these two every thursday.

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embark on a new generation of leadership. and needless to say mine will not be a continuation of the biden administration. i bring to it my own ideas, my own experiences, but it is also about moving past frankly what i think has been the last decade of the american discourse being influenced by donald trump. in a way that has had the effect of suggesting we as americans should point the finger at one another. in a way that has been using the power of the presidency to demean and divide us. part of my approach of a new generation of leadership and certainly a different approach, most of my career was not spent in washington, d.c. i say that with pride. [ laughter ]

in that most of my career was spent as a prosecutor making decisions that had a direct impact on people's lives. i learned at a very young age as a prosecutor that the things that i would do with a swipe of my pen could result in someone having their liberty or not. when i was attorney general of california which, you know, by estimate is the fifth largest economy in the world, i was acutely aware the words i spoke could move markets. i like getting things done. >> all right. that's how she answered that question,s john. and, you know, obviously you can easily make the case that voters may judge her on her career before the white house but also, you know, obviously her record while in the white house which is still right now. >> but this idea that over the last decade or maybe even more trump has been the sole person who has been demeaning and divided would neglect the idea that in 2016 hillary clinton put the country into a basket of

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>> i remember being out on the campaign trail, and you hit this point where there's two weeks left to go, and it would be buckle up, fire the jets. here we go all the way into election day. >> 15 days is a long way to go. great to start a new week with you. thank you everybody for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> and i am john roberts. we'll see you tomorrow when there will be 14 days until election day. the story with martha picks up our coverage right now. >> martha: the countdown is definitely on. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum, and this is "the story." we have 15 days to go. th