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a very good day to all of you from our headquarters in new york and we are a few minutes late because we have had breaking news. it was supposed to be a eight day mission and it has been months in space that we will learn will last into next year. nasa announced this hour that the boeing astronauts will remain at the international space station now until february which is when they will return home. bill nelson said they worked with nasa to make this decision
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and the top priority has always been safety. >> spaceflight is risky and even edit safest. even at its most routine. and a test flight, by nature, is neither safe nor routine. and so the decision to keep them aboard the international space station and bring the starliner home is the result of a commitment to safety. and our core value is safety. and it is the north star. >> they have been stranded because of issues with the starliner and as you just heard that will return to earth without a crew.
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let's now talk about the race to the white house and a new assessment of the democratic national convention from trump campaign. his officials told us that her big moment will be a sugar high and claiming she will only get a temporary bump in the polls. the numbers show harris beating trump in the ratings but the vice president's acceptance speech drying 28.9 billion viewers more than donald trump's and they left voters and surrogates energized. >> it is our turn to stand up and preserve a democracy. i will tell you, there is a whole generation of leaders, who are ready to fight for the country we love, who don't buy into donald trump's nonsense, that we are a crappy place. this is an incredible country. our work is to make sure every single person can benefit from the greatness of this nation. we are ready to fight for that.
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>> also today, we are reporting the democratic candidates will do their first interview next week and here as part of their report. >> reporter: they are also slated to sit down for their first joint interview next week after mounting pressure on harris to lay out more of her policy positions. while it isn't clear yet who it will be with and when, interview, no doubt, provides an opportunity for the new standardbearer of the democratic party to prove those doubters wrong. >> trump picked up the endorsement of rfk junior with more reaction in a moment. trump spent most of the week veering off script ranting about the dnc on social media and at his campaign stop in arizona yesterday complaining about his own advisors who counseled him to not personal. >> i call it my people. i say they are knocking the
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hell out of me and you say i shouldn't get personal and i have to get personal, don't i? they called me names that are so bad , or great first lady says that you are not that way, darling. >> reporter: he spent time upcoming his wife new biography. >> we have reporters coming up and we begin with aaron at the white house. how does harris campaign plan to build on this post dnc momentum? >> reporter: they don't want this to be just a sugar high and they want to put that sugar in the tank and burn it all the way to the election to a win in november. we know that vice president harris is back here in washington for the weekend with nothing on her schedule in terms of being out in the public, but we do know that next week the campaign plans for another bus tour. they were in pennsylvania in the pittsburgh area last weekend hitting a blue and red county in that area and they plan to be in southern georgia next week on wednesday and
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thursday making several stops as we understand it and probably looking similar to what we saw in pennsylvania last weekend where we weren't given a lot of details on what those stops were and the vice president's stop at the high school and spoke with the football team and stop that if you retail places and field offices as well and that could be a similar scene we see in southern georgia in addition to a rally we know as planned in the savannah area next week. this was a state that her vice president and running mate intended to get to during that week of barnstorming the battleground states and because of the storm and hurricane that came through, they couldn't do it then. they will do it now next week with the goal of reaching out to a part of the state that is incredibly diverse where they believe they can build up the coalition similar to the one that helped president biden win in georgia in 2020 with a coalition of black and rural, suburban voters, working-class folks. this is a little bit of what the deputy campaign manager
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said yesterday about the plan for the campaign in this really final stretch and traditional campaign season we are in that are coming up on labor day. listen. >> we will be using all of these that we had over the convention and we have to make sure we are doing everything we can together and how we will do that is for folks to turn out to vote and continue to advertise and do those things but we are comfortable where the campaign is and we are running this is if we are the underdog because we are. we have more work to do. nobody on this campaign, including the vice president yourself will be complacent. >> this does have a shortened time period to work and obviously, president biden when he was running announced he would seek reelection last year in the spring and the vice president has had only a little over a month at the top the ticket. over the next few months, they
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will do a lot of work to reach out to that small percentage of undecided voters in these battleground states in particular to sway them to earn their votes four in order to win reelection. as you noted earlier, we do anticipate that the vice president and tim also do a sitdown interview at some point next week and we don't exactly know when or with whom, but that will be the first opportunity to hear somebody ask her pointed questions about the ideas and policies she wants to advance that perhaps could convince those voters to decide on whom they want to vote for. >> let's bring in alex joining us from phoenix, arizona which is where rfk junior spoke after dropping out of the race. welcome. now that he has endorsed trump, how big of a role do we expect kennedy to play, and how do voters feel about that? >> reporter: friday really was a historic a day here in arizona with the kennedy name associated for decades with the democratic party. and they sell one of their own
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endorsed former president donald trump, a republican. this sounded like more than just an endorsement. kennedy said he would be joining the trump campaign and later joined him at a rally on friday night. trump said that his influence would be huge on the campaign. the question that a lot of people are wondering is, will kennedy supporters now also be joining the trump train? i talked to some that said they are and they plan to vote for the former president now and i did talk to others who are more skeptical and really kennedy's base isn't very big and a lot of these battleground states and he is pulled in the single digits. these battleground states are decided on the margins. here in arizona, president biden only beat former president trump by about 10,000 votes in 2020. this endorsement, it leads to kennedy converts voting for trump could have a large scale
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that was good and now we have that. >> vice president harris taking a break this weekend but will return to the campaign trail next week. on wednesday the vice president and the governor walz will embark on a bus tour of georgia. it was once a republican stronghold that flipped to biden in 2020. joining me now is robert garcia, a member of the house homeland security and homeland committee and welcome back to the show. i am curious your thoughts on georgia being harris's first stop. democrats, they confident they can get that state again this year? >> the campaign is doing everything it can to make sure we win all of the swing states and georgia is an important piece of that map and this last week of the convention delegates were fired up from across the country. i did speak to a lot of
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delegates and volunteers and leaders from georgia who are organizing working every single day and they believe they are building the single best operation to ever have been for presidential campaign for the ground in georgia and if you look at that map and where they are going, we are solidifying our support in places like wisconsin and michigan and what does that mean for democrats? it means we have to pick up pennsylvania or georgia or north carolina or, hopefully, all three to win the white house. so georgia is critical and absolutely the right place for the vice president and the governor to come to right after the convention. but we will compete everywhere and in every one of the states and the plan is to win and win big in november. >> let's talk about d&c. you are there and addressed the democratic faithful and what was the energy like in the united center? what is the prevailing sentiment now that it is over? >> having been to prior
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conventions in the past, the energy was incredible. i have never seen anything like it. in that first day, it was every night leading of course to vice president harris's speech. what you did here over and over again from delegates is they were fired up and they have not been this excited, many of them their whole political lives. the other thing that was interesting was use of people who have been in gauge for the first time and volunteers who had just shown up to help because they had never been involved in the campaign and they wanted to get involved in that is being replicated and not just of course of the convention but looking at the grassroots fundraising which is smashing records and the tens of thousands of new volunteers is smashing records with the amount of people they are trying to work for the campaign. that energy is truly magic. it doesn't just happen. it is because of a candidate that people are inspired by and a team ready to meet the moment
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of this campaign. there is a lot of work to do and i told the folks at the convention, yes, we are definitely leading a bit in these states and polls but we do have to win and that shouldn't stop us in any way of working harder every day. >> speaking of the candidate, before the vice president took the stage on the final night, use of the country is about to get to know the kamala harris we know in california and you are the former cochair of her campaign in 2020. explain who that is, and you think americans got to know that kamala harris? >> i think millions of americans got introduced to her in a way that us californians and those of us who have known her for a long time do know her and we saw on the stage somebody who was tough, a prosecutor who has spent her career representing one client and that is the
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people. she did talk about her experience as a prosecutor and about how she will take that case to donald trump and how she has been tough and taken on sexual predators and the big banks and cartels. that is the story we saw and many people for the first time. we saw the kamala harris who is compassionate and all about supporting people especially those who need more support and also people got to know her family and family values and how critical her own family is to her but also her mother and her middle-class upbringing and what they taught her and the values they taught her about always fighting for the people in the community. in california we know her and are excited and fired up and it is great to see the country getting to know the person we respect so much. and one thing that did come across very clearly is we do have a brilliant person at the head of this ticket who will take that experience and
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knowledge and defeat donald trump in november. >> you have been an outspoken critic of donald trump. during the dnc we saw prominent democrats with the obama's and clinton's and president biden and the candidate herself who were typically less direct in their comments but they went directly on offense and talking about donald trump and what caused that change? and are democrats united in this approach? >> we are united. we are in a different phase and we have to make the case against donald trump and why he is a danger to the country and he is a convicted felon, a criminal, a con man. and in my opinion, the worst president to ever be in office and he will take our country backwards in ways that are scary and dangerous moving abortion rights and lgbtq+ rights backwards and illuminating the department of education and treating immigrants and people who are
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working class or poor less than other people in our country. we should be crystal clear this is a choice for people to make and a choice between moving forward and the choice between going backwards with donald trump. i am glad to have heard people going after him directly and i did during my remarks. we will continue to do that throughout the campaign. >> harris touched on the issue of immigration and border security and let's listen quickly to that. >> i know, i know, we can live up to our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants and reform our broken immigration system. we can create and earn the pathway to citizenship and secure our border. >> what did you think about this approach to the border? did satisfy critics on both
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sides? >> what the vice president said was right. i was given the opportunity for earned citizenship and there are so many immigrants like myself who just want that opportunity to get back to their country in the country that is given back to them and those that are here working hard need to have that. she talked about that. she then spoke about the importance of having a secure and safe and orderly border. democrats want a secure border. we also want to make sure we treat people humanely and for those here working hard and doing good work that there is a pathway to citizenship that is earned over time. i think she really has the balance in place. i think she has been able to speak to issues that are complot and a lot of folks have different perspectives on this country. and present them in a way that is simple and we can understand unlike donald trump who immediately just goes to
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attacking people and demonizing immigrants or people in this country. she wants to take a smart approach, which could by the way, is an approach she took when she was attorney general and the prosecutor which is when i think a lot of people will react to positively. >> lastly, crime. it is a major talking point for donald trump saying there is a crime wave even though crime has dropped since he left office. why does he continue pushing this provably false narrative? does he think nobody will check the numbers and say, that isn't right? >> it is because donald trump is a liar and the biggest liar to be president of the united states. i have been in congress is the freshman member and i was the mayor in my city for eight years before that and i work with 600+ police officers and law enforcement and the idea that somehow crime has skyrocketed is false. and mayors and police chiefs across the country will tell you that crime has decreased
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and has decreased over the last few years since we have the spike during the pandemic which impacted everything. crime, over the last few decades is going down overall and this is true these last few years. the facts are the facts. police department across the country have released their client data and they do it every year. crime has decreased under the biden/harris administration. it was hired during the donald trump administration. we still have to keep the community safe and work with law enforcement and community on the ground to make everybody feel safe all the time with a lot of work to do but crime is lower and donald trump continues to live. >> okay. good to see you again, robert garcia. it is woodstock for political nerds and we will take you there next. there next. but no matter what business i'm in... my network and my tech need to keep up. thank you, verizon business. (kevin) now our businesses get fast and reliable internet
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you of woodstock. it is exactly what the pennsylvania democrats are going for with some modern-day political adjustments. it is an annual gathering of hundreds of pennsylvania's world democrats and a key swing state bloating -- voting block with just 73 days until the election. let's go to emma in brookville, pennsylvania. welcome. for those of us not familiar with this tradition, what does the day there and tail? >> there is camping, fireworks and s'mores and politics. there are about 300 democrats from rural pennsylvania who do come here which started six years ago as a backyard barbecue and it was actually called swine stock because it was a pig roast and they have rebranded and it is a tradition
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where world democrats come together and they have booths behind me and they have different representatives from all different kinds of rural counties in pennsylvania and talk about what needs to be done in order to help democrats winco election statewide in pennsylvania. senator fetterman will be here later as well as others running state wide to talk and encourage world democrats to show up and help get their neighbors to show up this election cycle. listen to some voters i spoke to on why having this camaraderie event like this is important to them? >> we do feel like we have kind of been neglected with part of the party being rural and the signs are not just taken down but shot up. >> it feels great to be with people who have the same challenges politically but we will still be what we hold true
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to the democratic way. >> she said while she loves her neighbors, a lot of them or not democrats and coming to an event like this where she gets to meet other world democrats who understand the challenges of living in ruby red areas, it helps her feel excited and energized by this election. >> can you give me a quick 411 on why this area of rural pennsylvania is so important for the ticket for harris-walz? >> the county that woodstock is taking place in, trump won by nearly 60 points which is a huge margin. democrats do know the ruby red counties won't all of the sudden turn blue. but the goal is to push the margins because in the state wide race like senator casey is facing or vice president harris is facing, they can make a huge
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difference elect poorly and we have seen it done before the perfect example is the speaker will be here later tonight, senator fetterman and his strategy in 2022 was going to 67 counties and making sure the voters show up because it does make a difference. >> it does look like these and i saw one guy wearing green which was vintage and showing that off. and how democrats plan on keeping up the momentum after a memorable convention plus this new headline and why the barrier breaking bid by kamala harris feels nothing like hilary clintons. that is next. is next wondered, could these be warning signs of something bigger? thank goodness we called his cardiologist because these were signs of attr-cm, a rare and serious disease... ...that gets worse over time. if you see any of the warning signs, don't wait, ask your cardiologist about attr-cm today.
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73 days until election day as vice president harris works to keep up momentum after a high energy democratic convention. joining me now is the former advisor to the obama campaign and our political analyst who previously served as press secretary to the former vp campaign of paul ryan. welcome. this week we heard serious warnings about the danger of another trump term, but also there were efforts to cut them down to size. harris combined those arguments like this. listen up. >> in many ways, donald trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of putting donald trump back in the white house are extremely serious.
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just imagine donald trump with no guardrails. and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the united states. >> did harris accomplish what she sent -- set out to do? painting trump as both unfit and a threat to the presidency? >> she did and knocked it out of the park doing so. donald trump forgets to realize that we have seen what four years of him have done and we have seen 2025 and have a strong understanding of what it means to create a unitary executive and dismantle the checks and balances that exist for that office and make them addict later. she set out to do a few things in her speech. she needed to narrate her story and talk about yourself and introduce herself to the american public. jan that, she also had to really toe that line of what a
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donald trump presidency could do and mean but remind people of what donald trump has said he plans to do. he wants to be addict later on day one but he also has with him a lot more smart people than he did this time around and they are dead set on dismantling our democracy. i think she message that really effectively. she knew this was her speech time prime time and knew the world was watching and really did make sure that the message hit and it was strong. >> we won't go back and that has become the tagline and a memo points out that despite the vice president harris has made trump into the incumbent with her at the challenger running on a campaign message to turn the page. how did they accomplish that and will it be helpful giving those sentiments we have seen in other countries? >> yes. i think it is exactly right.
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it is amazing the degree she presented herself the challenger in this race and basically said she wants to turn the page on what feels like the last eight years. it is unpleasant she wants -- implicit she wants this. there has been a foul mood in the country a long time and she presents herself as a fresh face and the vulnerability of course for her that she is currently the sitting vice president, everything is forward-looking. this was a speech where she had the contrast with donald trump that was great but i think she achieved something special. you had democrats in that hall cheering it also people like me felt like it was a speech for me. so republicans who don't like donald trump, it was the mainstream speech and she was periodic -- patriotic. she said it was a privilege to be an american. i am from the suburbs of
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atlanta, georgia. there are a lot of people like me who don't like donald trump you want to make sure you don't have somebody who is a radical liberal but she presented herself as mainstream and down the middle and that was smart. >> i didn't expect to hear this from you because i do know you are a republican. when you call her special, what is it, brendan, about her that you think a special that you think will most appeal the like- minded republicans like you who just don't like donald trump and say we just can't do this again? >> i am not asking her to be special but i am asking her to prove she isn't a far left progressive and basically going back to her campaign in 2019, everything you heard about her is she is further than the left of joe biden and completely
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remade yourself and how authentic that is, i don't know. but if you are trying to get a campaign like this and there are people in the middle who aren't democrats but potentially more conservative but they won't be a trump supporter, and speaking to those people and making sure that they feel welcomed for what she is doing and democrats had a really big party this weekend and it did look like a lot of fun and the question i had is are other people welcome?'s can other people join this movement? i am certainly not going to become a democrat or support a lot of things that she does, but i think she gave permission to a lot of people to say, you can oppose donald trump safely and not think you are being a socialist. >> well said. the historic nature of her nomination was everywhere but not from harris. she didn't wear white which is the color associated with the suffrage movement and she didn't mention she would be the first fema president and the former dnc chair tom perez said i don't think she has to remind people she is a black woman. how do you think she handled
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this moment?'s will it be more effective than hillary clinton who focused on it, being the first to go right up to the glass ceiling? >> i think she handled it like an olympic champion and i will go back to something we just heard. there is a different way that runs in a primary than one dozen the general and she is speaking to everybody and she is already expanded the states that weren't in play a few months ago when joe biden was visiting these areas. with that said, you don't have to tell america that kamala harris is a woman or a woman of color or black and of asian descent. they see it. sometimes you have to remind donald trump to hold back and quit hollering. but for her, it is i am leading in on what i can do and what is brought me to this point and introducing myself and how i got here. the immigrant family i came from and how the american dream has shaped up for me and wanted to make it inclusive and making sure that those for a long time
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who have been left out by the democratic party and we are talking about the south in the south has something to say and it was andre 3000 but it is true in general. beyond that looking toward evangelicals and christians and we have seen the republican party take a state on these groups and take a stake in patriotism and block it off. she is saying that all of these things can reside in this party and all of these things do reside there and we want to be welcoming for everybody. i think she is somebody who understands that she sits at a very interesting cross-section where you have to make sure you are speaking to everyone particularly women, but also to people of color but a growing demographic that wants to see that level of change and she doesn't have to explicitly stated and anybody can see it and she showed she is nimble enough to make sure america is seen in her and reflective of what she looks like. >> the dnc had several republican speakers that included adam kinzinger who said he has learned about some
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things. listen to this. >> i have learned something about the democratic party. i want to let my fellow republicans in on the secret. the democrats are as patriotic as us. >> what you think is the effect of republican speakers on independent and republican voters who don't like trump, especially combining with this renewed focus on patriotism? >> i do want to give the democrats some credit being there in prime time before kamala harris spoke and that is the time you want to send this message and i thought it was great. republicans have given democrats this incredible opportunity and it's been part of our party for years and years to wave the flag and be the most patriotic party in our minds, but donald trump has,
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instead of building up americans, he has been denigrating it and talked about how terrible he thinks things are and provides an opening and i think people of their country and they want to be able to be comfortable saying that. and i criticize the democratic party for years because i always felt they were the ones denigrating the party and that has flipped. i guess what you saw thursday night, it can be infectious and people want to be a part of this and something special and obviously she did lean into this and having republicans there to back it up i think it really spoke to that middle-of- the-road voter who feels like they can be safe voting for kamala harris. >> one last question to you and i think your camera has frozen but we can hear you. and governor walz gave his primetime address on wednesday, we did see his son get visibly emotional, which, unfortunately, but predictably was mocked by someone the right and an author wrote this about fighting toxic masculinity that
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he and his wife raised him to be joyful and the result of him that way is a young man who knows that healthy boys aren't afraid to cry and they are not afraid to show love. gus does have some learning disabilities, but can allies not help themselves from punching down? will that be their downfall? >> it absolutely is. as somebody who has a brother who is narrow divergent and on the autism spectrum, to watch republicans come out and make fun of him who was showcasing his love and admiration for his father, the father who has stood by him and the father who has stood by him and the father who has family values but to see somebody attack a teenager in the way they have, i think it is wild. it is who they are and this is the same person who made fun of people with disabilities physically or people injured after they came back from serving in the united states
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armed forces. this is it necessarily surprising. but i think in an era where they are trying to reach more voters and speak to people from various demographics across the country and people who are seeing their families like icy mine when it comes to tim walz and his family, and people who watch this, this is a hard thing for them to sell. weird is one thing but offensive is another and you are making fun of a young divergent man and that's not cool or loud in any part of our population and they can't stay away from it. >> okay. you know we will do this again and i will see you guys again soon. thank you. >> we can't be happy about it but what we do know about donald trump's media stock and why some say that is circling the drain. >> we are a society in crisis, --
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media plat forms parent company trump media reported over $16 million in losses and less than $1 million in revenue and even trump himself getting back earlier this month where he has nearly 90 million followers on truth social and he has just 7.6 million. here now is our political analyst who wrote the book trump nation the art of being the donald and good to see you. look. it does feel like things aren't going well for his social media platform but what is going on? he can't be happy about this and political reports a huge percentage of his wealth value is caught up in this company, right? >> maybe about half of his net worth i would think at least and that is all on paper. and he does carry a lot of debt but i would think at least half of his net worth is $2.7 billion or so into social.
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and we are in a very unusual position of having a publicly traded stock which is actually a barometer for trump's political fortunes because the business model for two social is nothing more than the cult of donald trump's personality and social media presence. it has never really gotten off the ground as an independent business as you noted and it has minimal revenue and loses a lot of money. the stock is down over 50 percent over the last six months. it is because his it has started to trend down and without him at the home of truth social, it is a magnetic force for a social media dialogue and it's basically nonexistent. you did see after the failed assassination attempt where the stock jumped in the first few days after that because there was a belief at the time in the
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wake of joe biden's bellyflop in the trump item debate and then the fascinate -- assassination attempt of trump that turned out to be heroic he had so much momentum at that point in time and even republican convention with that kind of momentum and since then all of the momentum has gone to the democrats and once he stepped out. you have seen truth social stock weakening again. >> i did my homework coming in to talk to you and it is down 63 percent since the day after it was made public. and 73 percent down from its very high. and that is a lot. my question is what happens to it and the value if you loses the election in november and then on the flipside, what happens if he wins? >> if he loses, the value in it and i can't sit goes to zero but it climbs even more
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dramatically from where it is and if he wins, i think the value of it goes back up but in the interim between now and november or late september, he has the opportunity and he gets about 60 percent of the company and he could sell his shares in late september if you wanted to which would also if you tried to unload that much. the prospects of this are good. >> let me ask you. he could sell this and i think september 20th the day after which she could cash out his stake in trump media that owns true social and he has racked up legal fees and has hundreds of millions in legal penalties and how badly does he need the money? be does cash out, where does that leave investors? when should they get out? >> i think investors, this isn't a normal stock and they aren't invested here because any of the numbers make sense. these are just fellow cultists
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with trump and it's a roller coaster ride that they should be aware of where that future value of the stock is but in terms of real personal finances, i think the counter cash flow he needed to pay legal judgments he has been able to do that and that would help with that. but the larger problem facing him is if he loses the election, he will have to still deal with lawsuits and they are perilous for him legally of beyond just this and those could carry prison sentences. a lot with his finances and his freedom relies on getting the office back. >> did he weaken the upside when he went back on x earlier this month? >> of course he did. but he did realize to reach that audience he wanted it's
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really minuscule. on twitter, he can speak to a larger group. >> i mean, he is certainly seemed agitated on the campaign trail and tweeting about polling numbers and your point making personal attacks on kamala harris and let's listen to a soundbite from yesterday's rally in arizona where he did talk about her speech at the dnc. here it is. >> if i say something slightly out of order, like she didn't do a very good job last night, please never ever mention and she did look really great and that is the end of your political career somewhat say. how about her opening where she said, thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. i said what the is wrong with her .
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>> did kamala harris get under donald trump's famously thin skin this week? >> i think she got under his famously thin skin weeks ago the second the mantel was passed on to her from joe biden because of the renewed energy in the campaign and i think the democrats have about 140,000 volunteers from out of the woodwork in the four weeks since she was named as the democratic flag bearer and she is getting all this enthusiasm that trump has lost in his deadly aware and also aware of her celebrity power and he isn't stupid and he isn't a student of many things but he is a student of celebrity and he recognizes that she brings an unusual charisma for the statement saying more about him than her and he has been very focused and made all sorts of comments about her beauty and smile about how she speak and he is clearly obsessed with it
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