president trump just now launching a new attack on kamala harris. >> he made a choice, he picked her. i watched her. i watched her poll numbers go boom, boom, boom, down to almost nothing. and she left angry, she left mad. there was nobody more insulting to biden than she was. >> the democrats' new pick clearly making an impression at trump's on impression. "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. it was a moment for the history books today in wilmington, delaware, with the debut of the democrats' long-awaited golden ticket. one-time rivals joe biden and kamala harris shared the stage in their first joint appearance as running mates. one day after naming harris to be the first black woman and the

first asian-american on the presidential ticket of a major party, biden said he had full confidence in her. >> i have no doubt that i picked the right person to join me as the next vice president of the united states of america. and that's senator kamala harris. her story is america's story. different from mine in many particulars, but also not so different in the essentials. >> for her part, harris painted a clear picture for voters of the choice between biden and president trump. >> this is a moment of real consequence for america. everything we care about, our economy, our health, our children, the kind of country we live in. it's all on the line. america is crying out for leadership. yet we have a president who

cares more about himself than the people who elected him. >> the choice of senator harris has already generated a jolt of electricity into the campaign. black women hailed it as a resonant home of being written into history. and biden underscored the historic significance that harris brings. >> this morning, all across the nation, little girls woke up, especially little black and brown girls, who so often feel overlooked and undervalued in their communities. but today, today, just maybe they're seeing themselves for the first time in a new way. as the stuff of president and vice president.

>> underscoring the breadth of what kamala harris represents, there's also been an outpouring of support both here and abroad over the ascension of harris, the daughter of j jamaican and indian descent. >> i've had a lot of titles over my career. -- about the first biden that i really came to know, and that of course is joe's beloved son, one of his beloved sons, bo. he would always talk about his dad. and i will tell you the love that they shared was incredible to watch.

>> today's event was billed as the beginning of the bat toll restore america's soul. and in making her opening statement, the former prosecutor was very clear about the case against president trump. >> president trump is also the reason millions of americans are now unemployed. he inherited the longest economic expansion in history from barack obama and joe biden. and then, like everything else he inherited, he ran it straight into the ground. this is what happens when we elect a guy who just isn't up for the job. our country ends up in tatters. let's be clear, this election isn't just about defeating president trump or mike pence. it's about build thing country back better. >> i'm joined now by

congresswoman evette clark, who represents the same area in brooklyn as shirley chism, the first black woman to seek the presidential nomination. the reverend al sharpton, and editorial page editor at "the boston globe." thank you all for coming here. congresswoman, i have to go to you first. for those that don't know your mom, una clark was a legend in brooklyn and you inherited that great legacy. i hope everyone is now googling her. tell me what this means to you as someone before redirecting actually represented the same district inherited that district. and just tell me what it means to you to see this woman who has caribbean-american heritage becoming the vice presidential nominee. >> absolutely. just elated. i just kept thinking how cherylly chism is probably

dancing right now in heaven, seeing it come forth. i congratulate my sister in service. everyone is taking claim right now, but she's a real leader. and i think that that is what -- has us all risen up so much in this moment, where we need real leadership. and joe biden could not have picked a stronger, more diligent woman to stand by his side to bring this victory home in 2020. >> yeah. and rev, i know that when you were a young man, you were -- you were actually the youth director for shirley chism's presidential campaign back then. tell me what it means to see this woman who wrapped herself in shirley chism's legacy as she ran for president, placed in this great position on the biden ticket. >> it certainly means a lot.

i was 18 years old in 1972 when mrs. chism ran for president. and the fact is that when kamala harris and i went to sylvia's restaurant in a well publicized launch, we talked about ms. c, that's what we used to call her. she dedicated her presidential campaign, kamala harris did, to what shirley chism started as the first black woman to run for president and the first black woman in the united states congress. when shirley chism ran for president, she ran in '72, because we had seen that year that richard nixon, who had been elected in '68, was finishing his first term and being challenged to not turn back the clock on civil rights from the johnson/humphrey years that was his immediate predecessors. we're at the same point now from a nixon the a trump, and kamala

harris has kind of closed that circle more that mrs. c started by going against what president trump has done who, in many ways, has a nixon type of administration. and this time we made it to the vice presidential nomination and we certainly have mobilized it further. but there are parallels from nixon to president trump to shirley chism to kamala harris. and kamala harris is able to bring us another step in that trajectory of being able to assume a nation that could elect people, that will not be limited by gender or race. >> yeah, president trump has managed to be richard nixon and journal wallace at the same time. >> a little more wallace than nixon sometimes. >> a lot more wallace. let's play what kamala harris said today about the women who came before her.

>> after the most competitive primary in history, the country received a resounding message that joe was the person to lead us forward. and joe, i'm so proud to stand with you. and i do so mindful of all the heroic and ambitious women before me. their sacrifice made today possible. >> you know, among the other firsts that kamala harris represents, she's also the first aaip asian american candidate to be vice president of the united states. there was a piece in nbc news how she might impact the asian american and pacific islander vote. both parties have overlooked the impact of the asian-american vote, but it could be significant in 2020. battle grounds like michigan, texas, arizona, have become asian-american populations. she talked about one of the heroic women who inspired her

being her mom who was an immigrant from india. your thoughts? >> yes. i have to say the indian-americans i've been listening to have been exploding. my nieces two are 7 and 4, are watching the video of kamala harris and my grandmother comes from the same neighborhood that kamala harris' grand parents come from. so i think there's a lot of pride. people wants to claim part of that story, but i think it can be broader. hers is a child of immigrants story, a story of black americans. and i think there's an energy to her that transcends those identities, as well. young voters are inspired by the way she's forcefully advocated for lbgtq rights, the way she comes out on racial justice in the senate using her voice there. and even from the perspective of seeing a woman of color, seeing a woman in public life who

squared those impossible circles, of balancing strength with warmth and likability, these impossible calculus that women in public life have to kind of master. she's done that. she's mastered squaring the circle of balancing knowledge and competence with diplomacy. so for her to rise and to be on this ticket represents that kind of hard work, but also just the empathy and warmth that she brings to the work that she does is actually being rewarded and recognized. i think that has great symbolic value and probably will energize voter turnout, including the asian-american vote. >> i talked to latinas who are like, wait a minute, everyone is excited here, because she's an immigrant story that anyone can relate to. congresswoman clark, as we're going to show a picture of you and your mom, as well. new york is not a state that needs to be energized.

there's an idea that she could deliver -- the vice presidential pick doesn't necessarily deliver a state but can deliver a constituency. we've seen members of black fraternities raising huge amounts of money, creating momentum around her. do you see this as something that will energize broad swaths of black voters who hadn't been into the process and hadn't been energized after barack obama, except for with barack obama? >> absolutely. kamala harris not only talks the talk, she walks the walk. and i think that, you know, the american people will feel her, will see her, will identify with the fight that she's putting up to redeem the soul of america. i think about the fact that at the center of it all, it is a woman who has compassion, but is also extremely strong and

focused on the well-being of the american people. her leadership in terms of the executive position she's held from a local d.a. all the way up to the attorney general of the state of california, what she was able to do to really mitigate the damages of the foreclosure crisis by holding the line and forcing banks to think again about how they were going to treat the american people in the wake of the disaster that they created. she's already proven that she's a leader, and that she will take the fight to whomever comes up against the american people. and that's what the american people are looking for right now. we need a champion. and between her and joe biden, we couldn't have asked for a greater champion. >> yeah. and rev, you've done this process before. you've run for president and you know both of these players very well. talk a little bit about the top

of the ticket. what did this pick say about joe biden, you think? >> it showed a real political maturity and security. one of the most compelling things i heard today when joe biden was speaking and when senator harris was speaking, is he said that he had told president obama when he was questioning, what did he want was the question, and he told the president, he told the president-elect then -- well, candidate then, he would want to be the last one in the room to talk to the president if they were successful, when there was a hard decision to be made, and that's what kamala harris said to him. that gave a lot of confidence to people like me, because if she's the last one in the room, when he's going to make a decision, we know from the debates that she's someone that will tell him the truth, even if it's something he doesn't want to hear. and he's mature enough to

receive the truth because he picked somebody that stood up to him in the debates. that's what we need is some grown folks back in the white us congresswoman evette clark, reverend al sharpton, thank you all three very, very much. up next, on "the reidout," trump's worst nightmare. now he's facing two democrats and he's completely unable to define them. >> she was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing, the way she was. i thought she was the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful of anybody in the u.s. senate. pectful of anybody u.s. senate. >> congresswoman karen bass, who was on biden's short list, joins me next. and after last night's primaries, house republicans will soon have a qanon caucus.

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welcome back. when joe biden announced senator kamala harris as his running mate, he was choosing from a long list of powerful and talented women candidates. among them, susan rice. senator elizabeth warren, who called harris an inspiration to millions of women. and congresswoman karen bass, who tweeted a picture of harris and herself with the words, let's go. joining me now in her first interview is congresswoman karen bass, who, like harris, hails from the great state of california. great to see you, congresswoman. >> good to see you. >> what was your initial reaction to learning that senator harris was chosen?

>> well, very exciting. i mean, go, california. my junior senator from california who i worked with when i was speaker and she was d.a. in san francisco. so we have a history of working together on child welfare reform and criminal justice. and i think she's going to do a fantastic job. >> you mentioned that she's the junior senator. if they win, that will mean that the governor of california gets to replace her. do you have any interest in that job? >> you know what, joy? for the next 83 days, i have one thing on my mind, but after that, we'll see. i'll keep all my options open. >> yeah. this was -- i want to let you listen to ari fleischer, who is sort of a bygone era republican voice. and here he is talking about what he thought of the pick. >> i just question whether or not this is going to boost

african-american turnout at all. i don't think it will. she's just not that historically exciting to african-americans. >> i wonder how many african-americans he knows personally? this is a few instagram posts i saw. as you tell me what was the reaction in your circle among people you talked to, to this pick? >> well, absolutely people were thrilled. and so i don't think he knows a darn thing about black folks. so he shouldn't even be commenting at all. but it's not just black folks, it's black folks, it's women, it's asians, it's latinos. this is just exciting all the way around. i think the rollout today when they walked across that stage, it was electric. and i believe that they both are going to energize the vote and i think that senator harris in particular, the idea of having a

woman vice president, the idea of having an african-american asian woman vice president, and then you know what? cbc has produced a president and soon to be a vice president. >> yeah, it's amazing when you think about the fact that of all the 45 presidents, most of them come from the ivy league and other schools and howard university, the storied university, has not produced a president or vice president. so she would make a first for that, as well. i want to let you listen to joe biden talking about the reaction in terms of fund-raising. >> sure. >> yesterday, we got our best grassroots fund raising day of the campaign, more than double our previous record. and in doing so, we set a single day record for online political fund-raising. and i think i know why. >> you know, typically african-americans have -- other than the obama campaign e when

you saw people throwing barbecues and raising $10 a person to attend, there's always been an idea inside of political fund-raising that african-americans are not as prolific in terms of givers. do you think that will change in this cycle? >> absolutely, i do. i'm not surprised by that. i think that's going to continue and it's going to be african-americans and everybody else. people know what's at stake. joy, every day i think about the fact that over 160,000 americans are dead. the role of commander in chief, the first job is to keep the people safe. and we have a commander in chief that doesn't even care. so we have to think about this election. we need to think about it in honor of all those souls that were lost. many probably didn't need to die. and we also need to think about representative john lewis. and we need to vote, but we need to vote really early, because they're doing everything they can, i believe, to mess with the vote. because they know he's lost support. and i don't want to see them mess with the post office and

that wind up compromising our ability to win this election. >> yeah, absolutely. president trump called kamala harris nasty and angry. he went for all the typical tropes. i'm going to listen to romney mcdaniel, here she is. >> joe biden made it very clear, i'm going to pick a woman. he didn't say i'm going to pick the best candidate, i'm going to pick a woman. he's doing this to get the woman vote. she does not appeal to moms and women across this country who want to see the american dream continue. and don't want to give health care to illegal aliens and stop deportations, and least of all, we don't want to see the police defunded. >> i guess it tells you what kind of moms she knows. but your witness as a prosecutor might say. >> exactly right. i think that's ridiculous. i believe that senator harris is

going to appeal to the rainbow. she's going to appeal around the country, and also because how could they possibly talk about moms when you have a president who is not taking care of the american people? i think she's going to do a fine job. i think she will appeal, and the fund-raising was just an example. the only thing, joy, it's going to be so frustrating this year, because we're only going to have to deal with this campaigning through zoom. so i know i'm going to be zooming day and night for the next 80 plus days. >> we're all getting to know this technology. i will note that as you are a californian, senator harris is also the first nominee from west of the rocky mountains. that's wild to think only republicans have nominated californians. a big win for california. congresswoman karen bass, a big win for having you on tonight. >> thank you. as kamala harris makes history, president trump and his

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the biden/harris ticket brings together two powerful candidates. confronted with the reality of facing a candidate they have been unable to redefine, who americans feel intuitively like they know, where people refer to him as uncle joe, and a running mate who embodies the potential of america fully embracing its status as a multiracial democracy, president trump is turning to the past, to the old mid 20th century fearmongering about block busting, and unleashing attacks that conjure up trump's america. he tweeted this -- >> this is his america. an america in which white suburban housewives need to fear the integration and invasion of their all-white neighborhoods.

an invasion that, according to trump, will be led by new jersey senator and neighbor rescuing vegan cory booker. once again, making clear that trump no longer needs racism or sexism dog whistles, and the cultural references are weirdly stuck in the 1950s when "father knows best." >> we missed you, dear. sorry you had to work so late. >> seemed like everybody in springfield had insurance problems today. >> for more, i'm joined by valerie jarrett, former senior adviser to president obama, and author of "finding my voice." and jennifer palmeri, author of "she proclaims." two ambitious women i shall say, and we love it. you've got to love it. >> proudly, proudly ambitious. >> yes, we love to see it.

amen, amen, amen. i've got to go to you first, jennifer. apparently, president trump believes that white women are cringing in their homes, cooking their husbands dinners, wrangling the kids, cree d'ing l the financial decisions to men, and terrified that cory booker will move next to them and bring with him all the poors. the people that you know who are white married women in the suburbs, is that what they're fearing right now? >> you know who cory booker is really popular with in new jersey? suburban housewives. it's true. he's very popular among white women in new jersey. it is -- the notion of suburban housewife is a term in 2020, it's ridiculous. the idea that you would put that in quotes is ridiculous. i think the women that they're

trying to appeal to are going to be turned off by that. i'm sure there are some women that love president trump to death and they'll have suburban housewife sweatshirts made. but it's a losing fight. they have been trying to scare women into supporting president trump's ticket. and they've failed. now they're trying to use kamala harris, and you know what's been so smart, she's a suburban mamala, in her speech today. and i think they are mistaken if they think that kamala harris is not prepared to tell america who she is exactly, and to foil them in their attempt to brand her. her mom always told her and her little sister, do not let anyone tell you who you are, you tell them who you are. she's been planning for this moment for decades. he's decades too late. >> yeah. you know, valerie, this is going to seem familiar to you.

axios wrote that they wanted biden to pick somebody who would be an avatar for the far left, an unpeachable proof that biden was the leftist puppet they're trying to brand him as, and harris didn't particularly help that endeavor. i laugh at this story. i remember when joe biden was the perfect pick for one barack obama because here is what they were doing to president obama, that then senator obama, they tried to depict him as this spooky, scary black man, you know, who wasn't really american. they even darkened his picture to try to make him in their mind look scarier. that's what they tried. and biden was the antidote. now they want biden to be scary. your thoughts on this strategy? >> it didn't work with president

obama, either time they tried it i might add. and i don't think it's going to work now. and our country has moved way ahead of where the current administration's philosophy is. people who live in the suburbs are worried about whether they can send their kids back to school. whether or not there's going to be a vaccine. they're profoundly troubled how this entire process has been mishandled at the federal level, and the 165,000 people who have died around the country and their families are devastated. whe whether they've lost their jobs, whether they are essential workers. that's what i hear from my friends who live in the suburbs. and so i think -- and i loved you showing the show from back in the 'fif50s. he's time warped back then. i think the shockwave that is going to come, if the momentum we saw today by the announcement

of this incredible ticket, with the two of them together for the first time, when that momentum continues, as i am sure it will, because they're going to work hard at it, i think there's going to be a real wakeup call for not just president trump but many of those participating and perpetuating these racist and sexist tropes, which don't work any more. >> jennifer, you're a former comms person on the campaign and for hillary clinton. it makes no sense for the communication strategy to say both biden is a tool of the left wing, radical left, but also, you know, kamala harris is a cop, but also the left wing, they can't decide whether they're going portray them as leftists, or mean right wingers. i don't know what they're saying, but they're trying to say both, that they're of the left and against the left.

>> they have a very fractured message. so it seems they have not landed on the best way to go after kamala. i really do believe that -- i am a white woman, i'm talking to my two black friends. you all know far better than me. all your life you've had to define who you are, right? so president trump is not going to catch you. and i think that this is why he's never really been able to define her and particularly during the primary, didn't quite know what to do with her. they have had -- the biden campaign, amen, all praise be to them, because they have had a phenomenal rollout, a great pick. it's a generational pick, great in the beginning, they're sort of the personification of the future of the country uniting. but president trump is good at fractured messages. they are good at taking some messages and delivering them discretely through digital means to particular populations. so don't be surprised if they're

going after kamala harris as -- for being a tough prosecutor. biden on the '94 crime bill. i know those ads are running and trying to dampen enthusiasm and they could beful by a fractured message that's operated on many different levels. so i know that the biden campaign is aware of that. they're attuned to it. but in some ways that can work. >> yeah. i mean, one of the ways they're trying to do that, valerie, is to try to question kamala harris' blackness, which is, again, going to be familiar with you, having worked on the successful obama campaign in 2008, trying to somehow say well, she's not black because her back ground is caribbean-american. your thoughts? >> well, i don't think it's going to work to have the people that look like president trump defining who is and who is not black. she defines herself as black. the black community defines her

as black. that is what is important. another point i want to make here is she doesn't have to defend herself. for too long, women who have been attacked with racist, sexist tropes have had to suck it up and deal with it. they thought they didn't want to complain or look weak. so they just kind of powered through it. we certainly saw secretary clinton have to deal with outrageous attacks. nothing to do with policy. purely on appearance or made-up stuff. and the difference here is that there is now a group of women who are going to hold him accountable. we wrote a letter to the press before the announcement of who the nominee was, because we wanted to send a message that we're not going to tolerate that behavior from the press or anybody else. we have another letter coming out now that we have a nominee, now that senator harris has been named, and we want to use our

voices in defense. there's safety in numbers and we're going to call it as we see it. we think that will resonate not with just women around the country who are sick and tired of the double standard, women being described as mean or nasty, but i think a lot of men are fed up with it, as well. >> absolutely. i will note that kamala harris has a secret weapon at her did po disposal. thank you, my friends. appreciate it, very much. great to see you both. up next, how qanon conspiracy they are yiss are finding their way into main stream politics. "the reidout" continues after this. stream politics. "the reidout" continues after this find your keys.

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liability, shifting production to thailand. >> given trump's frequent blunders, it's a wonder he and his republican cohorts still have the nerve to question joe biden's mental acuity. here's what they said in a video last night. >> voters rejected harris, they smartly spotted a phony. but not joe biden. he's not that smart. slow joe and phony kamala. >> wait a minute, president trump calling anybody slow is the height of hypocrisy. here's a short refresher. >> they sacrifice every day for the future. to measure and other measures taken by iran. a lot of work has been done, a lot of -- if you look at some of it. by an anonymous -- god bless the united states.

>> trump's grasp of the english language may be weak, but nothing tops his pro-found ignorance of american history. >> we understand the disease, nobody understood it because nobody has ever seen anything like this. the closest thing is in 1917, they say, right? the great pandemic as certainly was a terrible thing were they lost anywhere from 50 to 100 million people, probably ended the second world war. all the soldiers were sick. >> nope, nope, nope. i cannot believe -- i cannot believe that i have to say this. but the job of a president's staff is to make sure he doesn't look like an idiot. first of all, the great influenza pandemic ended 19 years before world war ii even began. secondly, it is the 1918 flu pandemic that he's referencing, not 1917. and, yet, trump has made that

mistake dozens, if not hundreds of times, and nobody in the white house has dared to correct him. he said he was surprised to learn that abraham lincoln was a republican. >> the continental army suffered a bitter winter of valley forge. it ran the ramparts. it took over the airports. it did everything it had to do. >> abraham lincoln, most people don't even know he was a republican, right? a lot of people don't know that. >> frederick douglas is an example of somebody that has done an amazing job, that is being recognized more and more. >> had andrew jackson been a little bit later, you wouldn't have had the civil war. he was really angry. >> is donald trump an intellectu intellectual?

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biden biking in delaware. he even answered a shouted question from his bike. compare that with trump who can't even handle a short walk down a ramp. that's a pretty sharp contrast. howard fineman, nbc news analyst. thank you for being here, jason. you teach at a colleague. you teach the young people. in your mind, which of the two of them, donald trump or joe biden, seems to have more acuity, more mental acuity. >> well, you know, my pretext for all my students this fall will be person, woman, man, camera, tv and if they can do that, i know they're at least as smart as the president. here's the thing. joe biden demonstrated that he literally can ride a bike and do something else at the same time. like, i have always thought the argument that joe biden has lost a step or has some sort of mental deficiency was a complete lie. it's republicans just projected.

what's important to remember is that no matter how much they spout this nonsense, every single time donald trump opens his mouth, he looks worse. there is nothing joe biden can say that is more foolish or incoherent than donald trump in the middle of a substantive interview. >> and, howard, it's weird because every time that donald trump or his son or his friends try to do this attack, it just calls more attention to the times when he slurs his words, to the weird like bruise thing that was on his hand and people were talking about, what is that, to the way he was dragging his foot when he was walking. he keeps calling his attention to what he thinks are bad attention to joe biden but those things just seem to call more bad attention to him. >> let me talk briefly about joe biden. i was teaching at the university of pennsylvania, which joe has a relationship with, and i was teaching a journalism seminar and i invited him into my class with about 25 students and he just blew the doors off the thing. and these kids responded to him

and to his force of intellect and passion in a way that surprised me. and he said at the end to them as he was on his way out the door, he said, look, you 25 kids, you are at an ivy league school, but don't think you can isolate yourself from the changes in america and your responsibility to deal with it. you can't build a wall high enough. you can't make enough money. you can't do anything to avoid your responsibility to embrace america. and i think by picking kamala harris, he showed that. she's dynamite. she's going to be the defining story of this campaign. and joe biden's inference will be the second defining story because he's the guy who played in the band with barack obama, and he's the guy who then turned around and picked a woman of

color to be his help mate. it's a story of america today. it's the story of america of the future. and if you think the suburban women of america are going to reject that, i think you're totally wrong. we go through periods of division and unity. we're headed into a period of unity that i think joe and kamala have a chance to achieve. >> well, and, you know, jason, just from a historic standpoint, there is a certain lbj feeling where you did have lyndon johnson to balance it out. that's how this feels, right? it does feel like, you know, biden has given himself an lbj moment here. >> yeah. i mean, they balance each other out. they make a lot of sense one way or other. we don't have this batman and robin situation. these are both two functional

people that can be president. they're both somebody we can be excited about. >> thank you both, my friends. that is tonight's reid out. and "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on "all in," it's joe biden and kamala harris appearing for the first time together as the democratic ticket. 83 days to go to november 3rd. the march to take out trump begins as the impeached president and his cronies throw a kitchen sink of racism, sexism and dirty tricks, push a third party spoiler and sabotage the postal service to gum up the mail-in election. adam schiff is here on the campaign's corruption when "all in" starts now. good evening from philadelphia. i'm ali velshi in for chris hayes. today was the coming out party for the democratic ticket that hopes to bring an end to