atmosphere, how are fans going? >> reporter: it is wild. it is a wonderful scene. as you can tell, we are not allowed to show the game per our rules, we have a front row seat to this game. the energy in this building is incredible. certainly, that has to help those french players. >> yeah. there you go, there's a little bit of it right there. >> that is great. again, i'm hoping that paris loses, i hope that you enjoy your time in and grab all the bread and cheese that you can. again, we are hoping for gold for the u.s. thank you so much, stephanie. >> reporter: fingers crossed. that does it for me this out in this edition of alex witt reports, i'm yamiche alcindor. i was in for alex, i will be back tomorrow so join us again. thank you so much.

welcome to "the beat" the weekend, let's get to the headlines. busy week in politics comes to a close, three weeks since the news broke that kamala harris was entering the presidential race when joe biden exited, driving headlines that shifted from the democratic panic and infighting to sheer party exuberance. her campaign achieving a lot these past three weeks, reshaping the race in contrast between the familiar and unpopular donald trump, who often looks like he is doing political equivalent of airing reruns from seasons past. contrast between that and this newer face for many voters, especially the non-news junkies, kamala harris. even though the reruns seem lower energy, he is holding fewer rallies in previous campaigns, less than half the rallies he did in the summer of '16. democrats are all in on the

race with harris with the donations and manes and big crowds, trump seems stuck in the matchup that is over, fixating on the history of his duel with biden. he addressed reporters yesterday in attempt to shake up a week that has seen harris dominating and dominating the news cycles and the message but then during that set of remarks, he ended up talking about biden, again and adopting the stance that even his supporters do not buy, do not believe. trump trying to express the narrative where he says that he feels bad for how biden was treated and left the race. quote, the presidency was taken away from joe biden, he had a rough debate but that does not mean you just take it away like that, trump said yesterday. the delegates have formally voted to make here is the nominee. trump has been posting online how he imagines or wishes that president biden could still somehow come back and beat his

democratic opponent again this year. that has been driving headlines about how trump can't get over this. does anyone miss biden as much is trump? that is how the new yorker is raising the question today, noting how for 18 days, trump has refused to let go of his grief, alternating between anger and denial at the loss of his favorite target. clearly freaked out by harris' rise in the polls. he all but demanded biden return to the race. look, these are not the headlines trump's campaign team wants, they do not make trump look strong, they do not offer voters anything. these are not headlines about your life or the choice in november or policies, obviously. these headlines do not address trump's current opponent, of course, in a campaign, you have to deal with the current opponent, not the one you wish you still had . this is trump's

opponent. trump lost his presidency to biden, defining rejection of a single term in political life. he thought he could beat biden this time and he was not alone, many democrats saw the same prospect and trump has lost in a different way, he lost his remake -- rematch. political revenge. if he does lose to harris, he lost the opponent he might have beaten. trump is fixated on biden for those reasons, he seems upset, undisciplined, unable to move on . he is hung up on this figure from the past. trump verging on his own to stands up moment from seinfeld, living in the past. >> maybe you should forget it, you're living in the past, man. you are hung up on some clown from the '60s, man. >> it is hard to live in the past. most campaigns about the future, harris and walz making the case about going back.

you've heard that mantra, today they are campaigning in the battleground state of arizona. we have been monitoring it, this is time-lapse of the very, very long lines of people waiting to see this new ticket. we should note, it is over 100 degrees there and people are queued up and waiting to get in to see it. arizona is one of the places trump lost to biden when fox news called the state for biden, all heck broke loose at the trump campaign. harris released a new ad linking her middle-class story to americans priority with the future of housing, healthcare . >> she grew up in a middle- class home, the daughter of a working mom and she worked at mcdonald's where she got her degree. kamala harris knows what it is like to be middle-class, why she is determined to lower healthcare costs and make housing more affordable. donald trump has no plan. >> those are the harris campaign priorities talking to voters about policy and their future where donald trump tonight,

montana. curious call, it is another day donald trump is not in a battleground state, as he hosts fewer rallies, trump is there to link up with the republican senate candidate. this is the contrast, some of it is kind of permanent or unshakable, there are things people know about donald trump and his policies and style, there are things the democrats come first under biden and now under harris are offering, policy consistency. the new contrast from harris to track is clearly so different and scarier for trump, he is not fully absorbed it yet and he is living in the past, exactly is that clown, called george costanza, told him not to do. the democrats recent past involves kamala harris evolving into the role she is holding today, where people feel as vice president, she has governing experience and is a

candidate, more experience and polished than the last time she has run for national office. you think about the dnc, here is harris at the last convention when she was the vp nominee. >> my mother taught me service to others gives life purpose and meaning. oh, how i wish she was here tonight but i know she is looking down on me from above. she probably could have never imagined i would be standing before you now and speaking these words. i accept your nomination for vice president of the united states of america. >> we will hear something similar at the next convention, maybe more applause if it is not a covid festivity get we are joined by analyst and juanita tolliver.

and eleanor clift. from the daily beast. welcome to both of you. eleanor, the past is something to learn from but not live in, what you think of the contrast and the way that donald trump lies a lot, we've covered that fact checked that, sometimes he emotionally blurts what he is feeling and he seems to feel that he does not want to deal with running against what seems to be a harder opponent? >> he feels aggrieved, cheated, he was supposed to run against biden and he will run against somebody else. he hardly knows her, that she is incompetent and he is suggesting there is constitutional funny business that she has no right to be occupying this position. it always sounds unhinged but he is always salting the water for arguments he will make later on. he does not know how to run in

any other way than him being aggrieved. first, the courts were getting him, now the country has confused him because he has a different opponent, he has to start all over. the thing is, after a while, people want to hear what the election means for them, they are tying -- tired of hearing about him, people are leaving early. he keeps him waiting our hats in 90 degree heat and he goes on hour and a half and says some of the most absurd things. in the press conference yesterday, talking about taking up martin luther king jr., saying that his, trump rallies, have gotten more people than king did. king got 250,000 people in a country that was a whole lot smaller than it is today. i'm waiting to see what the republicans have. i think the wrap on walz , that

he got out of the reserves because he did not want to go to a rock -- iraq, he thought that back before. just because the attacks worked in the past does not mean they will work this time. the liberal agenda supposedly so radical, you go one by one, most things poll very popularly and most people would like, like childcare, lunches that don't discriminate against poor kids who have to identify themselves as poor. everything is so good right now, i almost don't want to jinx it. i'm going to go with the joy but like reagan once said, trust but verify. there is a lot of hard work ahead . >> right, the fact there is more enthusiasm than there was, it is a start, campaigns have

to end, a lot of voter turnout, some cases registration and other work to be done, that is true no matter what happens. juanita, we can see the warning signals coming from the right. the wall street journal, part of rupert murdoch's media empire shared with fox, they have a piece that says trump might blow another election thing in public, republicans talking about in private. trump has lost a step , it has become a bundle of personal grievances, floundering, he lacks any consistent message. they cite not only he could blow the election, he could hurt other republican candidates. >> honestly, welcome to reality . this has been the case for years that donald trump is doing this. when you did your intro about trump being upset about, harris as opponent, thinking of lil wayne, show me my opponent. harris and walz say hi, we are here and ready to dominate the race. we see that with the line you showed in arizona, 105 degrees heat, people lined up here

people willing to do the work for the campaign, donations that have been historic, two- thirds from first-time donors, 200,000 new volunteers signed up for the campaign, they're ready to knock on doors, make the phone calls, contact the voters all based on motivation or hope, i think you were alluding to, that is presented with the new ticket. and the way that harris and walz campaign together in a joyous way, in direct contrast of the ramblings that make you question what is actually happening in donald trump's mind, or as he announced recently, not campaigning again until after the dnc. you have the harris/walz campaign, get your rest, old man. we know you don't care about anybody or anything except playing golf so go rest. >> we appreciate lil wayne, he can speak to the harris campaign fundraising, he did say that too much money ain't enough money. >> they will keep raising, i promise you. that is a little bit of the contrast. tim walz has been new on the

scene. i want to look at the reception, it is striking, he gets as much love for his relatable style as his policies. there have been jokes from fans that imagine him as the everyman good samaritan neighbor, the washington post wrote, people saying that he might take minnesota nice to the next level. quote, tim walz beeps at you at the red light, motions you for put to window down, tells you that you are right rear tire could use some air. the kind of guy he is. a comedian riffing with new material with tim being a new candidate on the national stage about how walz could fit in making classic dad jokes. >> i'm so excited for tim walz so that we finally have a vice president who is giving us midwestern dad stuff. after he finishes his blooming onion, he was there later, it looks like i hated it. a vice president that loves the

city of chicago but not as much as he loves the band chicago. a vice president that wants to know what the secret ingredient is. tim, it is caprica. >> it goes on like that, lol. he made it -- makes his beat debut later tonight. walz is a political popsicle mixing western appeal and liberal policy, fire cracker popsicles, right on the top and so much blue. heartland symbols maga has tried to seize from the color red, the flag pins, cultural signifiers, they somehow claim are only owned by republicans, they are not. there is the popsicle comparison, people of learned he was a football teach -- coach, teacher, hunter. fitting right in making a dad joke it denny's . >> he has great one-liners, mind your own dang business,

that goes to the heart of a lot of his policies. you don't need policies that discriminate against people. he is able to deliver taglines with a smile. >> i want to turn to both of you and the other big issue driving all of this, women's rights, choice, and a big contrast this week. you both are going to stay, we have you on the hook for that. s . like a free 5g phone, when you switch. don't miss out. get started today.

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when our next president walks out here and she talks about freedom, she means the freedom to make your own health care decisions. >> we trust him to know what is in their best interest and not have their government telling them what to do you. >> harris and walz been on that big issue, we are back with juanita and eleanor, the abortion rights issue is big on the campaign trail. trump is on defense, he would not say how he would vote for

what his stance is as a leader of the florida referenda board, he lives there, desantis has abortion ban that could get overtime in november, even in that relatively conservative state. in the remarks asked yesterday, he was asked about banning abortion medication, this was his answer. >> reporter: would you direct your fda, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? >> you can do things that would supplement, absolutely. those things are open and humane but you have to be able to have a boat. all i want to do is give everybody a vote and the votes are taking place right now as we speak. there are many things on the humane basis you can do outside of that. >> no. >> i don't think he knew what mifepristone is. i don't want to call it winging it because it was word salad. >> his first word was, sure. we

know in project 2025, it says overtime access to abortion medication and stop allowing access by now of abortion medication it is all written there can you add that to the czechia pointed anti-choice supreme court justices with the explicit intention of overturning roe. >> on policy they did this, those are his judges and he campaigned on. politics, even donald trump seems aware, you saw it in the body language, don't make a headline about that, you are already losing on this issue . >> right. if he had it his way, abortion would be a word not allowed to be spoken on the campaign trail. conversely, you have harris and walz drilling this home every time the address voters because they know how much a mobilizing issue this is, it has been 2022 in 2023 one voters crossed partisan lines and demographic lines to support state

constitutions. >> trump is stuck with the fact he named the three supreme court justices who did this. he wants to portray it as a victory, everybody wanted roe overturned, which is not true. he would be happy if they say, leave it to the states, forget about it. too many states will push it further in the draconian direction and he will be with that. he seems to think it will not be a volatile issue in november. it will drive a lot of votes, it is the number one issue. i really do think the women of america, and men too, because it is part of the freedom issue. i love the fact that the democrats, there's a broader umbrella freedom issues, freedom to mind your own business is also part of that. they talk about abortion as reproductive health care. the democrats have an advantage on this. the republicans have an advantage on immigration. and harris went directly at them with an ad this week, she

is not afraid of the border issue, just because we are compassionate does not mean we are not strong. that is a karl rove technique, you go right at your opponent's strength . >> don't wait for them to bring that. >> i'm pleased to see that as well. up next, we turn to something you will not see anywhere else and that is tonight, see you soon.

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here you are september 14th talking about the electoral fraud, has been charged in many states, you refer to it, and be accurate, alternate slate of electors, december 14, 2020. take a listen. >> we have more than enough time to write the wrong of this fraudulent election results and certify donald trump the winner of the election. as we speak today, ultimate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we will send the results to congress.

>> you were quite clear on air about that, we have the headlines about all the different states with independent separate authority, separate jurisdictions, federalism. they all moved toward the same issue, i want to be clear, you are not named as a defendant in these cases. the people doing what you're talking about in that clip, you had knowledge of in that -- of that in advance, in staking out donald trump loss, appealed, those are being dealt with as criminal cases. what you say to your prior roll and can you do not, you just claimed 2025, can you disclaim these kind of efforts in the next election or not? >> of all of the ridiculous, most ridiculous, communist, loftier schemes, the top of the list is going after republican lawyers and activists who

served as alternate electors so that congress, on january 6th, could lawfully in due course of their duties, consider election fraud claims. it is a patriotic act for a citizen to volunteer themselves, to stand as an alternate elector so congress can hear and consider claims of illegality and constitutional in the states and congress can decide if they want to ratify the claims or not. >> i will let you finish, the fact check false. >> outrageous -- >> fact check false, elector fraud is a crime. >> what is a fraud is that your contention that the michigan alternate electors were not self-described as alternate electors, they held press conferences, everybody said, these are alternate electors. they will be considered by congress . >> i'm going to address you and let you have time.

there were some states with careful language about saying, if a court decision or something changed the outcome, that was one thing. many states, as you know, this is why there are cases where people not only in the 14th but all the way up through january 6th, continued to maintain in states they lost, they wanted to be the fraudulent representative of a victory and they lost, submitting false information in election context or other context to the government is fraud. >> you really believe, as you sit there today, there was ever any doubt or question as to which was the slate of electors that the state had chosen versus which was the ultimate slate of electors being sent to congress? >> respectfully, again, we want to have this dialogue, respectfully, that is the whole problem to you, we showed you on air talking about it, your team and your plan, was to create that doubt and use it as a pretext to overthrow the certification on january 6th. people are asking, i will you finish, i've given you a lot of

time, stephen, people are asking if you're going to do that again this cycle, the selection? go ahead. >> there's not a more clear-cut case in the country of the ruthless weaponization of government against innocent people than going after people who stood up, patriotically, and volunteered themselves to the alternate electors so congress can perform its duties and electoral count act. why did they change the electoral count act? specifically because they knew and understood that every action taken was consistent with the letter and text of the law. you want to talk about democracy, you brought up the issue, yes, i will go back there, the ebb and flow of illegal immigration. >> stephen, given time, not going back to immigration. take a listen to what trump allies were saying about the vice president on this topic, take a listen to epstein and others. take a listen. >> the remedy was for vice president pence and the green

base to remand the votes back to the six battleground states. >> the vice president has a lot of power which is important to recognize. >> if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. >> you sat with the january 6th committee, you participated, some of the people didn't, that is part of the rule of law. they wrote, on the morning of january 6th, the president spoke with you, stephen miller, about what he would say hours later. 11:30 a.m., stephen miller assistant emailed the speechwriting team, we can put this up, reinsert the mic tends lines, the final written draft, the following pence reference, quote, we will see whether pence enters history as a truly great and courageous leader. your position that, you worked directly with donald trump that day, arguing the call was up to pence, is that right, the vice president? >> by definition, that is true. over this ground again, that is fine. that is true because that is why congress came back and

revised the law to make the vice president's role ceremonial rather than official, which what it was in the original version. all of this nonsense, all of the lies and hoaxes, january 6th and the days leading up to it, was a legal process to raise objections to congress, congress, if the objections were validated, would send back to the states the opportunity to ratify alternate state of electors . >> unfamiliar with that. you said again and again, to be clear, your first time on the program, it is not again and again for us discussing this, this is us discussing newsworthy items you have not always been asked about, if you thought the vice president has that role and it is legal and you recognize that, that stems from the constitution, i guess you must be fine with vice president harris making the call this january. >> not just the vice president, the congress itself has to vote

on and ratify the propositions as well. there's a role for the congress, the house, the senate. >> you're good with vice president harris doing it this time. >> more importantly, they rewrote the law. the vice president's role has been downgraded from official to ceremonial. i want to underscore -- >> you feel differently, pence is a vice president it is fine comparison of the vice president, it is not. we want to know what you think as people make decisions on what to vote for. >> they rewrote the law. i care about my democracy. every bit as much, if not more than you do. what is happening -- >> i'm not getting answers from you, we are not in a personal dispute about democracy credentials. the rest i don't pence can you plaited up to january 6th, you know what happened after that. a lot of other people convicted of crimes, stephen. >> a lot of innocent people have been persecuted by a

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define some of us as more american than others. we respect the past but we don't pine for the past. we don't fear the future, we grab for it. >> president obama's soma speech, which discussed american history and the ongoing progress toward that elusive, more perfect union. today, the dnc is moving forward to officially make kamala harris the first woman of color atop a presidential ticket of either major party. that is a first. we mentioned that because that is a first, regardless of what happens in the presidential election. just as the barrier fell for women with ferrero, palin, clinton, goddess of it happened, another one of these steps. there is general controversy, even when america gets to the point it feels it can make this

step. john f. kennedy remembered for many things that young people today don't realize all of the controversy over him being the first catholic president and how that was a major issue he had to address, complete with obama -like speeches about not taking orders from the pope or jeremiah wright or the black panthers. i say that to say that some of those things seem silly or quaint now but they were big issues at the time. ferrero, who i mentioned, broke the barrier as a running mate in 1984, the first woman to do it. she was attacked on many things, including her husband travis business dealings. of course, obama, who faced birther is him that came from many corners of america but revived more during his presidency by one famous celebrity than any other, member of congress or prominent figure, donald trump. here is obama, his barrier breaking and past discussions

of what it meant for kamala harris to have experience as a first. >> with profound gratitude and great humility, i accept your nomination for presidency of the united states. >> one thing we learned over the last several years is that the challenges that women face as women are profound, just as racism profound issue in our society. >> america, we cannot turn back, not with so much work to be done, not with so many children to educate, so many veterans to care for, not with an economy to fix. >> women of color have to deal with both. the good news is, kamala is accustomed to it, she has been a first before. >> she has been a first before. join by michael beschloss, nbc

historian. >> thank you. >> i want you to walk us through the living history today, i will say something that i really need, i recognize many people will not accept it, that is, how can we understand this as important barrier breaking for women of color, women and girls around the nation watching it, as i mentioned the dnc formalizing it this week, as separate from the political parties and the great partisan divisions we face, who may or may not win the election? it seems like something good in history just like it was good for catholics to break that area, separate from which party you might prefer. >> absolutely. everyone should celebrate this whether they support kamala harris or not because the whole idea is to open the promise of america to everyone. even if you disagree with her, people not voting for her should say that america's

system is working in one sense, that is a woman who is black and of asian descent is able to be nominated for president, at the moment, according to most polls, is the front runner. that is something many people might not have predicted. it does not run in terms of physics, as you know, women got the vote in this country in 1920. most black voters were empowered only as late as 1965, at the time of the voting rights act. yet, there was a black candidate in 2008, obviously nominated, barack obama, that brings us to the key here, these are impressive people. it was barack obama who got that nomination. kamala harris was elected not only vice president and served with distinction for four years, she was elected numerous times in one of the biggest

states of the union, california, with 40 million people. she was a prosecutor, attorney general, u.s. senator. looking aside from her origins and race and creed, this is someone who has one of the most impressive records, i think we have to fairly say, anyone who has run for the democratic or republican nomination for president. >> i mentioned that in a good way, young people today might not understand why kennedy's catholicism was such a big deal. and yet, also feel that the barriers and divisions today, the ones that are big, would be very understandable. i don't think you have to explain to young people, particularly in certain communities, why it is a big deal we might finally get a woman president, woman of color president, or not, it is up to the voters. what you make of that, it takes

a certain amount of time in history to turn the unthinkable into the possible and then into the ordinary? >> 1928, the democrats nominated their first catholic nominee al smith, who lost by a landslide at a time the ku klux klan in this country was at its peak and considered to be impossible for catholics to get elected. only 32 years later, just as you are saying, john kennedy was nominated. if you look at his acceptance speech that night, the first couple paragraphs, he says, you referred to this earlier, he says, i understand this is a difficult thing for my party to do and i appreciate what you have done. and the cleaning power of dawn. watch it make soap scum here... disappear... and sprays can leave grime like that ultra foamy melts it on contact. magic. new ultra foamy magic eraser. ♪ (man) oh, come on. ♪

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and actor, one of the most influential people with aoc and the like. quickly claim sold out broadway show, just for us, earned him special tony award and first emmy award nomination. >> she goes off on how kushner and his friends are ruining the trump administration and the country, i so had to stop myself from doing what i desperately wanted to do, which was go, i hate jared kushner, he is so god loud! and he is arrogant. they call him up to the torah, he walks up like he wrote it. >> streaming on max now. and joined by our friend, michelle goldberg, award-winning writer, new york times columnist, great gig if you can get it, most people don't. 2018, she was part of the team that won a pulitzer prize for public service for reporting on public issues of workplace sexual harassment.

alex and michelle, welcome to both of you. it is great to have you, we will get to you, political comedy, in the right place. we do unfunny political comedy . >> most of it is not comedy . >> the joke is on america the way it has been going. it has been zigzagging a couple years, michelle, hometown hero, what is on your fall back list? >> i think trump campaign manager, chris lacivita and his attempt to swift boat tim walz, which is the most predictable retread imaginable. this was the guy who made swift boating a verb by swift boating jim carrey, john kerry. >> he was in the mask but he wasn't . >> 2004, trying to do it again. not only does he need to fall back, anyone covering this as anything but demagogic smear,

questions raised about tim walz's military service as opposed to low blow by desperate trump campaign, also needs to fall back. >> michelle makes a good point. alex, the medians do a lot of callbacks, that thing from earlier in the bit, if it is a call back to one of the most shameful attacks on military service, maybe it is a call back we don't need. >> anyone that hasn't served their country to make fun of somebody else's, make fun of anybody else's record. if anyone does anything remotely in service of the country, they completely -- >> that is how it works, with george w. bush, he had evaded service so they wanted to neutralize what seems like an advantage and similarly, you have donald trump who had bone spurs, this is the ticket

because after this guy for serving only 24 years. >> well put, alex, your new, what is on your fall back? >> i think rfk, rfk's bear story has been very, very, although, i have enjoyed it so much. every week, it feels like he cops to any crazy, animal related mishap. the weather was a couple months ago, so funny, hysterical presidential campaign, it feels like college paid him 60 bucks to run for president. i remember when it happened, i remember when they found the bear, 1000%. >> to be clear -- >> there was no one, another bear, i worked at mar-a-lago, the bear of merrill lynch, everyone was surprised. >> to be clear for the national audience, it is coming up because of rfk. as you said, it was a big

enough story at the time, it was a mystery, no one knew who left the bear, it was weird a dead bear appeared in the park . >> you remember who wrote the article? >> it was his relative. >> the call was coming from inside the compound, it was completely family -- >> could not give her the tip. >> he told the story to roseanne barr, imagine roseanne barr having a weird day out with a kennedy, one of the kennedys and the camera goes on, i have to tell you this story. >> he tweeted it, see how you spin this, new yorker. this was a slam dunk >> credit the guy, i don't know if i'm allowed to say the guy is crazy, i'm massively enjoying the campaign. i think it is a hoot. it is nice, nice and light and takes the edge off. >> you are a comedian and respect your free speech, i had him at the desk where you're sitting. >> i don't think he is crazy, i think he has become a delight,

the companion is a real delight . >> where we overlap in agreement, sitting down with him as part of the job, michelle does and all of our colleagues do, you and up with roseanne barr and people with dialogue, otherwise as a human you might never. sitting with him, i'm curious of your view as a comic because you tend to have a psychological read on things because it is all emotion, sitting with him, you got the feeling that he was very, perpetually upset. that is what came through. >> yeah, i also feel like he has had a really weird last couple of years. >> the first couple years. >> absolutely. isn't he one of 11 children? he has many, many, i think is like highly not standard kit to go on tv, there was a worm in my brain, it ate some of my great aunt died, it will not affect my ability to be president of the united states. continue expect to hear for someone running for president

of the united states is very odd. i want to know what scandal at this point would make him drop out of the race, because i don't think there is one . >> the last question is basic, i'm not afraid to be basic, which candidate, of all of them , is the best for comedy right now? >> oh, man . >> rfk, donald trump is a classic, emily harrison is, we have all gotten to know her over the years, she is into laughter. she is a laugher. you're into comedy, you like laugher's . >> i like kamala, i have performed for kamala. i really enjoyed it, it is weird to perform for the vice president of the united states. the president, they crossed out some of my jokes . >> what did they cross out? >> a friend of mine, medically savvy, can't say that, can't say that, can't say that. >> president biden. >> current president. that is why we brought you on. >> what did your friend say was

over the line without going over the line? >> i said it was a broadway providing benefit, the president loves, all broadway people, the president, he loves hamilton because he knew him. >> that is funny. >> that is a pretty good joke, they said that after. thanks for watching "the beat: weekend." join us weekdays at 6:00 p.m. eastern for "the beat" on msnbc. ... and a great deal on galaxy z ... fold6... for a total value of twelve hundred and fifty dollars. only on verizon. (jalen hurts) see you sunday! lawmakers are trying to shut down planned parenthood. the health care of more than 2 million people is at stake. our right to basic reproductive health care is being stolen from us. planned parenthood believes everyone deserves health care. it's a human right. future generations are beginning to lose the rights we fought for. the rights for ourselves, our kids, and our grandkids. gone. just like that. i can't believe this is the world we live in,

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