don't talk about that. >> i think even the church, those that are truly spiritual, will understand the film. people that are into the politics of the church will not. we can't see that because it is hard, this is about finding your higher power. i think there are a lot of fraud in the church. this film will expose. >> that does it for us this saturday morning. turn -- tune in tomorrow. ask for joining us. hope you have a great saturday. ♪ ♪ saturday. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ good morning. it is saturday, august 17. ibm alicia menendez with

symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. the democratic national convention kicks off in about 48 hours. the breaking details on what we will see from president biden and vice president harris. we will talk to the director of the consumer financial bureau. as trump sinks in the polls, already, not surprising, laying the groundwork to question the results of the election. congressman eric swalwell joins the table. grab your coffee. settle in. welcome to "the weekend". ♪ ♪

we just 80 days until the election, vice president harris is turning enthusiasm into action. tomorrow harris and governor tim walz will launch a bus tour in pennsylvania. the campaign is already put $90 million worth of ads. on friday, harris availed her economic plan . >> as president, i will be laser focused on creating opportunities for the middle class and advance their economic security, stability and dignity. together, we will build what i call an opportunity economy. [ applause ] >> harris reminded voters that donald trump lacks serious economic plants to compete. to be clear, i don't think he had any plans. just this week, he posed outside his private country club in an attempt to appear to connect with everyday americans but instead, he just, as usual, lied. joining us is our panel, greetings and good morning.

>> let's talk about what that visual looks like on the price is right. >> that is what it was. >> he got the numbers all wrong. [ laughter ] >> he doesn't know how to play the game. let's start with you. to alicia's point, you have these officials trying to be created by donald trump's campaign. the messaging right now that he is trying to create a what is clearly a very strong, out-of- the-box, vibe by vice president harris over the last few weeks. i will play for you a little bit of the messaging donald trump is trying to do right now in trying to figure out, this was wednesday in asheville, north carolina.

>> they wanted to do a speech with the economy. a lot of people are pretty devastated by what has happened with inflation and all of the other things. we are doing this as an intellectual speech, we are all intellectuals today. you have windmills all over the place and birds. you want to see a bird cemetery, just go under a windmill and you will see dozens of birds step. if you kill a bald eagle, they will put you in jail for years. yet, these windmills knocked them out like nothing. >> he is weird, just a soundbite and she called jd and i weird. he is not weird, he was a great student at yale. >> what the hell is this weird man talking about? i don't understand. yeah, they rolled out a message on the economy. he has the prices wrong with a bunch of groceries and numbers but again, no real, clear messaging. you have this mishmash of, yeah, they will give us the economy and then start talking about dead birds under

windmills. >> he is not cable. i am startled, michael, about the word you use, campaigning. she is campaigning. the democratic ticket is out there, campaigning to be president and vice president of the united states. he is not campaigning. he is playing golf and doing some sort of news conference at his golf clubs and calling at the same thing. i am struck by this, one campaign is campaigning to be president and the other one is not really campaigning. >> let's talk about the candidate campaigning in a way that her economic plan is so different than donald trump's whatever that was. here is harris talking about middle-class principals. i want to get your take on this. let's listen in. >> the middle class is one of america's greatest strengths . to protect it then, we must defend basic principles. such as your salary. it should be enough to provide you and your family with a good quality of life. [ applause ]. such as, no child should have to grow up in

poverty. [ applause ] such as, after years of hard work, you should be able to retire with dignity. >> that is an economic message but it is also a values message, right? she is asking people, who do you want to be? what kind of country do you want to live in? i know as you do outreach to conservative voters, it is hard for pretty much anyone to argue the message she is putting forward that no child should live in poverty that americans should be able to retire with dignity. that is not a partisan message. that is a message meant to bring new voters into the fold. >> you know, what you said there is exactly it. you know, when i see them trying to try her as this radical liberal, what is so let radically liberal about wanting to empower the middle class? what is so radical about wanting to support american

families? she rolled out her plan what she plans to do in her first 100 days of her presidency. she talked about reducing costs, protecting medicaid and medicare, you know, protecting social security. she is talking brass tacks here instead of, you know, that is in direct contrast of trump. you know, he is just sitting at the country club. donald trump, what he is saying in terms of the economy is tiktok and tictac, right? [ laughter ] >> the vice president, when she gave the speech, she went through and gave her proposals as we compare that with donald trump's plan and she would have specifics but also on donald trump's plan, it is just very light on what he had to say.

my take on this whole thing, i mean, we can talk about the economy with donald trump, i actually think it does not do good service to the voters. the economy is a real issue for people across this country, with her they are democrats, republicans, independent floors, or no party affiliated. when donald trump got up there and spoke about the economy as if it doesn't matter and it was a waste of his time to talk about what people are dealing with in their everyday lives as we sit here and chat, it seems to me he was out of touch. i juxtapose this with vice president harris talking about working at mcdonald's. listen to this. >> later, in college, i worked at mcdonald's to earn spending money. some of the people i worked with were raising on -- families on that paycheck. they weren't second or even third jobs to pay rent and buy food. that only gets harder when the cost of living goes up. when i am elected president, i will make it a top priority to

bring down costs and increase economic security for all americans. >> um, joe, to me, that sounds like someone who does understand the plight folks are dealing with, somebody that understands you can either be dismissive of the eye, i mean, the demonstration was more than most, given that we are talking about transitory inflation, he uses air quotes. >> as a member of republicans for harris, a proud member, there are certain aspects of her plan i have issues with, but it is a plan. at least, as you said, a hopeful, positive plan. we don't talk about this enough

. trump was supposed to talk about the economy this week and he did it because he couldn't. i don't know he is capable. it goes back to my thought, he is not out there campaigning. is he really capable of talking about and focusing on an issue like the economy? i don't think he is anymore. >> to joe's point to, you know, the campaign itself, what do you see as what is going on right now with the trump campaign, you know, you've got, i was laughing with joe this morning about this, you've got magda heads out there calling on members of the deep space >> deep state sabotaging trump's campaign, which i find laughable be on words. there is something to be said that since kamala harris has moved into this new space of actually challenging the presidency, the republican campaign, as a campaign has been less than stellar and less than engaging voters, around the things that they clearly have been talking about, would

have been talking about, clearly, if joe biden was still the nominee. >> everything has imploded. i think they have nothing to counter this terrible ticket of those people and these two relatable people in the campaign talking to voters everyday. they truly identify with the challenges. vice president harris has been a prosecutor, she talks about having worked her way through schools like many of us did. i certainly did, i had to work my way through college. the former coach, former teacher, what does donald trump have? i guess, you know, i don't know, country club owner, maybe, lots of bankruptcies, convicted felon and then you have jd vance, who denigrates women and talks about menopausal women, crazy cat ladies, i don't know where they're going with that. you see a lot of that and i

wonder how long some of these people i get to stay in their roles. i think trump is grasping here, trying to figure out what to do. he really has no plan, no actual policy objectives. you know, i'm surprised he is letting jd vance on the ticket. [ laughter ] >> that seems to be the word around town, amusing to watch. stick around. vice president harris has energized a potentially surprising part of the electric. we will talk about evangelicals for harris, evangelicals for harris? did i just read that, symone? >> yes, honey. >> evangelicals for harris. we get into it after the break. you are watching "the weekend". e through the chase mobile app. jen x is planning a summer in portugal with some help from j.p. morgan wealth plan. let's go whiskers.

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♪♪ evangelicals for harris held an online rally this week attended by more than 70,000 people with the goal of urging fellow members of the party to back vice president harris over donald trump. also, evangelicals for harris released a new ad targeting christians in swing states. let's take a look. >> have you ever asked god for forgiveness? [ applause ] that is a tough question. i am not sure i have. >> i don't bring god into the picture. i don't.

>> olivia troye and joy -- joe walsh are with us. i will just leave that there and you can pick and choose which one of those. talk to me about the republicans, iran, for harris. you are one of the voices involved in this effort at you moderated that evening, 70,000 folks showed up. >> wow. >> it says a lot about the movement within the republican party. these are, again, the wide spectrum of republicans who participated in this call, give us a sense of what is happening here and how effective this outreach, i know i hate that term but it does apply here, by the harris campaign, to actually engage republicans? they will need them. they will need them in the swing states, not enough democrats to get you across that line. so talk to us a little bit about that. >> yeah, i think this call, as

evidenced, show the coalition is growing. i was incredibly honored and glad to be able to moderate the call. we had several moderators, lieutenant governor jeff duncan talked about traditional values and this is not the party he recognizes anymore, as you and i both know. we talked about and he can definitely identify with, you know, some of the audience members, there were a lot of conversations going on during the chat. i found those very hopeful and heartwarming. there were republicans saying they had voted, you know, for the republican party, they had done that since the ronald reagan era and they are supporting kamala harris. i think that is a sign that, you know, people are tired they are tired and exhausted of madoff. i think republicans are sort of announcing we want a better future for our party, although a lot of the comments were made

that way, i said thank you all for doing this but the best thing forward for the republican party right now is to support the democratic ticket and continue to defeat donald trump because that is the only way that the republican party will change its ways. >> i am, i was struck by the 70,000 number. every time someone says that, i say wow i think i just did and i thought it was on mute. 70,000 republicans is a lot of people. you look at the evangelicals for harris call that happened, it took place on wednesday. there were 3000 attendees . this is-this is-i don't even know. it is a thing. >> symone, it is absolutely a thing. >> by the way, joe was a speaker. >> on the evangelicals for

harris or the republicans virus? >> republicans for harris. >> we are working on the evangelical piece. >> i spoke at the republicans for harris call. it was amazing. this coalition is growing. i can't tell you because i talked to, like you, michael, i talked to republicans every single day. the number of republicans every day that approach me to save he is unfit, joe, i want to come out and vote against him. i want to vote for kamala harris. that number of republicans coming to me every day, you are right, we have to get in the battleground states because a local republicans in these states that are afraid to come out. they need support. >> it is interesting to me, olivia, the articulation on the part of evangelicals for harris why they are supporting her, this is with a tweeted out. no political party or leader could ever hold our fold

devotion. that can belong to jesus alone. our hearts are drawn to a pet that reflects his teachings. we are choosing the peace that comes from joy, the strength found in loving our neighbors and the grace in showing compassion. it is not just a vote, it is a reflection of our faith. i think there are a lot of evangelicals who share their frustration, the subtext of that. we talk about these voting blocs as though they are just evangelicals and there is the black vote and the latino vote. you want to reach latino voters. you want to reach latino voters, a demographic you want to care very much about. you want to reach evangelicals, right? there is a lot of overlap between these groups but they still have room to grow. >> yes, absolutely. i think, you know, as we have been discussing, it is about shared values. i think a lot of the people era watching what is happening under donald trump and how he sort of disparages everyone. i am so happy to see that evangelicals for harris happen. for two long, i feel like the

far right has taken advantage of pushing these messages and co-opting the evangelical voices out there who, quite frankly, have succeeded. it is a misrepresentation of their values and their religion. i want to be clear, alicia, too. i saw donald trump pray zero times in the white house. i say that because i attended a lot of meetings where i saw mike pence pray, sometimes he would have everyone on his team pray. i would say, in really crisis situations, when you really show your faith, i did not see that ever when it came to donald trump. his administration, he targeted immigrants. he targeted refugees. don't forget about that. i was the person who got the phone calls from these groups saying, what is going on? these are not the values we support. i talked to evangelical groups and the way they are doing

this, this is not the way, immigration cycles and patterns, also, national security reasons, right? what you are seeing here, i think, all of these groups are saying enough. enough. stop using us as a political ping-pong, donald trump. we don't stand for what you stand for. >> i know we have to go, but as a person of faith, it has always bothered me that it felt like the republican party had a monopoly on, like, faith, jesus, the lord and i love seeing people of faith just take back the mantle and say, we are not worshiping anyone but whom our creator is above and we will not allows anyone to exploit us. that is what folks are saying about donald trump. >> olivia troye and joe walsh, thank you for getting us started. next, the director of the consumer protection bureau walks us through the new economic harris-walz plan. mark your calendars. you can join the three of us

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tackling inflation. harris laid out plans to stop price gouging, top on housing in medicine and plans to bring more to the child tax credit. joining us is consumer financial protection bureau and one of my best friends, rohit chopra. hello, director. it is good to see you. >> you are in your official capacity right now but a lot of things the vice president announced, if you will, on friday, some of them were squarely in the camp of the consumer financial protection bureau . in your official capacity, can you just talk about this lowering cost for consumers? some of our friends, not michael steele but other republican friends i have, have said this about communism and these are just not things we should be doing but america does this every day. >> yeah. we are constantly focused on junk fees, big prices people are

paying on everything from groceries to credit cards. i think we have to be clear with each other. i don't care if it is a hurricane or a pandemic, that should not be an excuse to jack up prices. that is really what we have seen since 2020-2021. we even have grocery ceos, one ceo of kroger saying, they're making more money, more profit when there is inflation. they can use it as an excuse to hike up prices. often, they want to consolidate more and more power to do that. we have taken lots of actions against companies like wells fargo. there are more and more we have to do to push down prices. that way big companies can exploit their monopoly power. >> there are a lot of aspects to this conversation, which i think democrats have missed over the past 18 months, while the economy was recovering and

growing, an important point to me to consumers, as we recover, these are things we are looking at as an administration, these are 30s we are -- things we are concerned about, you will feel a downward pressure on your wallet, on your kitchen table goods and things you are to be able to buy. the other aspect of this, which i am curious how the administration is going to lean into the conversation is this idea of landlords and capping rents. you have the vice president on housing costs. let's take a listen to her in raleigh yesterday. >> some corporate landlords collude with each other to set artificially high rental prices. often using algorithms and price-fixing software to do it. it is anti-competitive and it drives up costs. i will fight for a law that cracks down on these practices.

>> that, to me, is leveling up a very interesting conversation. i think the biden administration is looking at putting in place some type of measure that will put a cap on the ability of landlords to do this. talk to was a little bit about what this would look like and what are those algorithms you guys are seeing inside the administration that lead her to think that maybe putting a cap on some restrictions on landlords and what they are able to do, beyond what we see already in places like d.c. and new york that have caps on rental units, et cetera. >> we have seen a big shift in the past several years, where it is not just on the coasts, but all over the country. private equity funds, big corporate real estate

investors, not mom-and-pop landlords, buying up so much of the housing stock. often, setting up really sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms to coordinate on pricing to be able to personalize rent to extract as much out of you as possible. i do think we have to do something about these big investors and how they may be colluding with each other. there is a lot in the past few years we have been looking at, these tenant screening companies they use. a lot of state and local governments, too, are saying the rent is too high and soaking up too much income. we have to lower it. >> i was in the grocery store and standing in an aisle of chips, it was about $7.00. i got the bag and there were about three chips in the bag.

why are they doing that? >> that is because there is so much air in the bag. >> why are they doing that? >> here is why they can get away with it. you might see 30 different chips, but it is two or three companies, the diapers, the diaper manufacturers said, we've got to raise prices because there is a shortage, there is a supply chain problem. the supply chain problem went away and they did not lower their prices because there are only two big makers of diapers. so we have to do a lot when it comes to, i think this monopolistic pricing, in all parts of the economy. that is going to be a way where we can squeeze out some of these excessive profits and help people. >> how do you open up that door? i think the issues we have put on the table, i have to say, just for the moment, it is so good to actually talk about public policy. >> i know it. >> now we can get into the nitty-gritty here. how do you, you know, as a conservative, you here, you

know, we've got to control, you know, rental prices -- >> it is not actually controlling prices. it is actually trying to make the market work like a real market. >> that is what i want to get to. how do you do that from the government's position? the market is the market, right? that is how people look at it. what is the role of the government in a harris administration related to the market? i know folks, you know, on main street, i know folks on main street who are little bit curious about what that may look like for them, as well. all things filled in and all the polls on main street, it is not wall street, sometimes the puddles are full of stuff you don't want to step in. how do you control for the government overreacting in the market and trying to create this new space for consumers? >> well, i think we should ask,

how do we save the market from exploitation and make it a real market? >> we are putting in place rules and making it easier to switch your bank account, switch your credit card, fire some of these companies that are giving you bad customer service and lousy rates. you look at, from the labor market, the ftc has put in place banning noncompete agreements, which sell on the face anticompetitive. i do think, sometimes, when a market just on its own, it can tend to work, it can do consolidation and exploitation. that is the role of us as regulators. >> we have heard a lot about medical debt from this administration over the past couple of months. medical debt is something i think a lot of working class families, regular folk across

the country deal with. medical debt can count against you on your credit report, but the cfpb is leading the effort, in terms of rulemaking around this, what can you tell us about that? >> medical debt has turned into the number one item of peoples credit report, in terms of unpaid bills . what we did, we looked at it, tens of millions of people had this on their credit report. many of them had already paid it but many of them are stuck paying their insurance company and their hospitals and debt collectors are using the credit report two worst people to pay on debt they do not know. medical debt is full of inaccuracies. we will not permit those credit reports to be a weapon. yes, we proposed a rule to ban the coercive credit reporting and and the reporting of

medical bills on credit reports. other states have done this and we are looking to finish the job. >> i know we've got to go but can you explain to folks at some point, maybe not now, we don't have time, white banks charge 30 percent on interest and everyone is complaining about consumer debt? when you are paying more in interest than you are in principle, it is harder to pay down that debt. can we look at exactly what impacts moms and dads out there every day, when they have to use their credit cards, in order to care, in order to get things they need but then they say they can't afford to write

that check to pay off the thousand dollars they just put on the card and they are staring at the interest accumulating on that. can we find a better balance? thanks right now, i am sorry, it's not like we have 1000 banks out there. we have just a small, if you are talking about in those areas, a lot of areas in banking -- >> yeah, we have over $1 trillion in credit card debt. many of these people are experiencing higher prices and inflation through that credit card bill. your right. many people are charged 28, 29, 30%. credit cards are just a handful of that. they have all raised interest rates way more than the fed has raised interest rates. >> i am going to propose that director chopra comes back every other week and we will talk to your staff, we will talk about the real, i am serious, the economy is a tough issue for voters and people across the country. the people who are protecting the consumers, we should check with them. director rohit chopra, we love you so much. tomorrow we will talk more about vice president harris' economic platform and more in the hour. we have another hour. next, looking to turn north carolina blue for the first time in years. josh sign is here to talk about what it will take for vice president harris to win his

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♪♪ did you know democrats have not won north carolina in the presidential election in 16 years? it is very clear the harris- walz campaign is hoping to change that. the vice president visited yesterday and released part of her economic plan. democrats in the state have expressed hope this time could be different. a hope outgoing governor roy cooper shared on this network earlier in the week. >> i have that 2008 feeling, like i had when barack obama won north carolina. there is enough force here to win up and down the ticket and turn this purple state blue. >> joining us now is north carolina attorney general josh stein, democratic candidate for governor in north carolina.

we have looked at the numbers. democratics have not one in north carolina in 16 years. in 2016, democrats won the governor's seat in north carolina so there's something there going on. >> attorney general, do you have the 2008 feeling? >> i am very excited about what is going on. i have traveled the state, obviously, from the mountains to the beach, regularly. there is a change in the energy, the excitement and the enthusiasm, you can absolutely feel it. that is what governor cooper is talking about. even though north carolina has not gone to a democratic candidate since 2008, we were the state that was most narrowly red in 2012 and 2020. i just find that to be a small percentage. we are always in the game. with the excitement we are

feeling here, the fact that the choice is so clear that the stakes are so high, both in my race for governor and at the national level, they are two competing visions. ours is positive and forward- looking, the vision of my opponent is one of division, violence and hate. he says awful things about people. he told teachers women are not called to lead. he, from a church pulpit, about a month ago, said some folks need killing. he wants to cut money for schools and wants to make it hard for people to vote and completely ban abortion. the people of north carolina one hope, not hate. they one opportunity, not obstacles. that is the vision i am bringing and i know the vice president is bringing at a national level, as well. >> there has been a lot of talk, obviously, about what

happened in the past in north carolina. i have been looking at this stage, along with a number of others, as a bellwether of what is actually happening across the country. it seems to be some bearing out of that in new york, a poll has vice president harris leading trump right now by two points back, 49% to 49%. that, to me, is part of a long growing trend in which democrats have been making some gains in the state of north carolina. certainly, you know that. let me also play, just so we know what we are talking about here in this race, your opponent, the lieutenant governor robinson, his comments, the comments he has made and what trump thinks about those comments from this past wednesday. >> there is no reason anybody anywhere in america should be telling any child about

transgender is in, homosexuality, any of that filth. yes, i called it filled. abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers. it is about killing the child because you weren't responsible enough to keep your skirt down. >> i actually absolutely want to go back to america where women could vote. >> we know he is a fighter. the next governor of north carolina, mark robinson. >> so, my sense is that north carolinians are saying to themselves, what the hell? why would we? what is going on? do you get the sense with candidates like this emerging in states like north carolina, that it becomes a little bit easier for the case to be made for commonsense governance, commonsense leadership, in the face of such extremism? >> yeah, i have been an attorney general for eight

years, before that, i was in the state senate. i could fight for you. we led a bipartisan coalition of states to court and we won more than $50 billion. we helped eliminate one of the largest problems in the entire nation. as a result, we are delivering justice for victims. we are making our community safer. i worked out a bipartisan basin -- basis to protect our kids from sex abuse, to fight the fentanyl epidemic that is killing too many people and to address other important public safety issues. it is about getting things done in a practical fashion. you just saw mark robinson. he just speaks hate and violence and anger. i don't

believe voters want that for the future. they want a governor that will address public education, public safety, the economy, get costs down. that is a kind of future we can deliver for people in north carolina but we've got to win. the way we win is by making sure voters understand the stakes, understand the choice. we are huge state, 11 million people. it is hard to get that kind of information in front of people. if folks want to help, we can take the volunteer time. we can obviously take the resources. just go to my website and help us educate voters because if they know what is at stake, i have absolute confidence they will make the right choice. >> attorney general josh stein, thank you for joining us this morning, really appreciate it. coming up, 48 hours , not the movie, no, that is until democrats descend on the windy city. we will preview the dnc ahead, yes we will, also, be sure to follow our show on social media, you know, that little thing on your phone x @theweekendmsnbc. ♪ ♪ @theweekendmsnbc. ♪ ♪

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goes, republicans statewide would likely win. when you have it broken into the two districts, it is a different game. it is crazy rules because we can't play by the court rules and actually win on the merits of the arguments we make as a party and as candidates for the presidency. >> i think it is the strategy, on its face, you want those electoral votes but it also is the fact, those voters may feel they have moved away from the democratic party, for whatever reason, all of a sudden do have a trusted messenger like tim walz to come in and say, not only can i relate to your life but we will put campaign resources and energy into the places we need it. >> support the national popular vote, this is just a way that candidates and campaigns behave at the presidential level. every voter matters. >> i can't believe i endorse this proposal. >> don't do it on the show.

>> in nebraska, too, you are talking about certain counties, people talk about the heartland in the plains, i don't think black and brown people, i don't think they think they live there. >> you know, kind of a plains girl. >> i am from the great plains. >> there is so much trouble with the plains because everybody is so nice, 6:00 a.m., they're like, good morning. i was like, i need my coffee in the morning. >> you need some midwestern yawls lives. we need to cool things off. we need to set up a visit. the electric is not painted with a broad stroke brush as

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