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voting later this month. it means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including sun belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks? joining us now at the big board, nbc news national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. so where are we today, steve? >> look at it from two vantage points. nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that labor day weekend. harris, 48, trump, 45. three-point advantage for the democrats. they're happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when joe biden was their candidate. he was basically trailing donald trump all year. but for republicans, there's solace in these numbers, too,

because donald trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. labor day. being a little behind. that was the case in 2016. he trailed hillary clinton by five points at this point. won the election. 2020, he trailed joe biden by high single digits at this point. didn't win the election, but came awfully close in the electoral college and that's the next level. we'll take a look at this thing. this is where it's won or lost. seven core battleground states. you see them in gray. we're going to be returning to them over and over the next 63 days but there's all sorts of paths for each candidate here. at least potentially. let's just show you the simplest and most direct. we'll start with harris. the polling in these states, obviously it is close. it is exceedingly close in some but it's been a tick better for democrats in wisconsin, pennsylvania michigan. harris' simplest path is probably just winning these three states.

let's turn them blue to show you what that would mean in terms of the electoral college. 270, the magic number. in the republican standpoint, what would trump's be? they would have to win one of these three. the one they're most invested in is pennsylvania. they think maybe the fact that harris didn't take josh shapiro, the governor there. maybe that was a missed opportunity for democrats. the republicans certainly right now spending extremely heavily here. if trump were to succeed in flipping pennsylvania, take a look at what that would do. first of all, you see harris would then have to compensate. even if she had wisconsin and michigan, she would then need to take at least two of these sun belt states. that's because pennsylvania is the largest of the swing states. 19 electoral votes. but then trump's path would be reasonably simple from here. what would he have to do if he gets pennsylvania? north carolina, it's the one battleground state he won in 2020. he would need to hold that. then georgia.

the margin was just under 12,000 votes. trump won it in 2016. if he can win it back in '24 along with holding carolina and flipping pennsylvania, he'd be the one sitting at exactly 270 electoral votes. so all sorts of different paths here. i think you see for each candidate. i think if there's one big takeaway, first among equals when we talk about swing states is pennsylvania because with 19 electoral votes, it's larger than any of these others and if you can get that, if either candidate can get pennsylvania, the path from there for them each becomes very simple. so pennsylvania of all the swing states looms probably as the most crucial. >> keep hearing that. pennsylvania, pennsylvania, pennsylvania. if i had a white board, maybe i'd write that down three times. thank you. joining us now, democratic strategist and pollster and msnbc political analyst, cornell belcher. changed and close. two words that mark murray our

elections guy here is using, our polling guy, is using to describe what he's seeing in the numbers. you took issue with that this weekend on this site formerly known as twitter. explain. >> well, look. if you one, this is why i hate the national average polling. because the national average polling stuff is how we got the red wave that wasn't a real red wave, right? and it's a lot of bad polling out there. mixed them all up. let's look at the abc poll that recently came out. or actually the abc polling over the last couple of polls here. donald trump is consistently at roughly 46%. where is donald trump on election day? oh, he's consistently at roughly 47, 46%. so donald trump has shown over time not in polling, but on election day, where he has a

ceiling. and he desperately needs to grow that. but it seems as though he has a pretty capped off ceiling. and what we see and i love the reference to 2016. here's the difference between 2016. you had real viable third party candidates on the ballot in these states in 2016 and real third party voting in 2016 and in a force two-way race, yes, hillary was always up. you know, well in the force two-way race. it wasn't in 2016. so those third party voters you saw breaking off and getting in the way of her ability to get to a majority. what you see in all polling right now is third party candidates really shrinking. when harris got in the race, a lot of the, especially those younger voters who were holding back for biden who were just not energized around biden, they began to move away from the

third party and consolidate around her. so she has room to grow and she has to introduce herself. and grow out that support and keep that, the rest of the vote out there because again, not polling but actually what we've seen on several election days, donald trump is a 47% proposition. and the case is can she consolidate the majority of the rest of the electorate around her or does she lose off to third party voting. again, let's look at pennsylvania what steve just pointed out. again, go to 2016. hillary was off of barack obama's mark and pennsylvania and wisconsin almost by precise number of voters who were breaking third party. that's how donald trump wins. by subtraction, not addition. because again, i think we know where he's going to be on election day. he's going to be at roughly 47, maybe 48%. >> does harris at some point need to break with joe biden on one issue or multiple issues? just to a little bit more

breaking with him to propose herself more as the change candidate? change candidate's going to win this election whether the change candidate is somebody changing from not this last administration but the one before that, from donald trump or donald trump changing from this last administration. would it behoove her to make a break and be the true change candidate in this current state? >> well, you make a fine point. we're going to go to another election cycle where voters in america are yet again looking for change. i think the very idea of harris is change, right? she's a woman at the top of the ticket. she's a woman of color at the top of the ticket. voters are arguing and clambering for someone younger and more youthful. she's clearly that. she's got to walk a tight line because she can't get too far away from biden because to a certain extent, she's tied to biden so she's got to talk about their accomplishments. as we've talked about before,

there are plenty of accomplishments that this president has moved over to finish line that are really popular. more popular than he was. so she's got to tie herself to those but also pivot to the future. i think that the pivot to the future and the conversation about a better america, a more unified america, a more free america is a perfect contrast with donald trump who is trying in many ways to take the country back and move our freedoms back. i think that's the change but it's a tight rope to walk because she can't pull herself too far from the guy who brought her in the first place. >> it's like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time. you can do it. i can't do it. thank you. joining us now from florida, marisa para. talk to us about what's happening in florida today. i'm not asking you about donald trump. i'm asking you about a democratic bus tour.

>> reporter: hey, katy. so as we know, the campaign kickoff of this bus tour for harris walz kicked off here in palm beach county. and it was no coincidence that this is in the same county that former president trump and republican contender called home. in fact, it was something that has been mentioned several times not just today, but in the press release announcing today and the kickoff here. there's a couple of key reasons for that. you see right there in the images, reproductive freedom is a huge part of the harris walz campaign and we have here in the state of florida, amendment four. this is one of roughly a dozen states where abortion rights are either on the november ballot or considered or in consideration to be on the november ballot. to recap amendment four, there was initially a 15-week abortion ban in florida then the florida state supreme court decided on may 1st, that would become a six week ban but deciding voters who have the chance to potentially

vote to instead replace it with a roughly 24-week abortion protection. so we are looking at amendment four, which is something democrats are doing a full-court press on right now. but then the optics, too. as mentioned several time that is the overturn of roe versus wade as well as this new law change here in florida is a direct result of the former president's actions. so i want to take you to what we heard today. did a couple of interviews including with anya cook, a reproductive rights story teller. she said here in the state of florida, she had a medical emergency. she was pregnant. she did not get the medical attention she needed because of the hesitancy from doctors because of the law change. you'll also hear from debbie wasserman schultz on why florida matters. take a listen. >> this is her future. and i wanted to make sure she doesn't have to fight like how many other countless women have had to fight for my reproductive

rights. i wanted to make sure she doesn't have to do the same thing. >> we have been fertile for the election, modern times and there were 30,000 volunteers that stood up and volunteered after harris became our nominee. we have been close in every election. national polling shows we're in striking distance. less than the margin of error. don't sleep on florida. we have a shot here and kicking off this bus tour proves that the campaign believes that, too. >> reporter: so we had this kickoff here in palm beach county, florida. that bus now on its way to jacksonville, florida, where that will be the location for their second event tomorrow and when we talk about why florida again, that full-court press amendment 4, but there is also aspect of this where democrats are trying to show strength and trying to combat and challenge this idea that republicans are going to have the stronghold here in november. >> we're going to ask a simple

question of our friend, why are there seemingly more die hard republicans in florida lately. thank you very much. still ahead, more potentially damaging comments from jd vance have surfaced. what he said in 2017 that could add to the campaign's problems with women voters. female voters. and what is real and what is hyperbole. david rhode on what a second trump administration could do to our justice system. plus, what protestors flooding the streets in israel are demanding of prime minister netanyahu and why so many of them are coming out right now. we are back in 90 seconds. t now. we are back in 90 seconds.

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by hetero sexual parents and that hunger is a good motivator for employment. speaking of the times, the spokesperson said it was bizarre the paper was writing an entire piece attacking vance for other people's opinions. joining us now, nbc news correspondent, garrett haake, who covers the trump campaign for us. i think what's interesting about this is that it's from the heritage foundation and they have had deep ties with donald trump regarding the supreme court. it was part of how donald trump compiled a list of who he would put on the supreme court if he were elected back in 2016. but he's trying to move away from the heritage foundation right now because of project 2025. what does this show us, this vance introduction, about how closely the heritage foundation is tied to the trump team and to trump himself? >> ironically, i think it shows us they're more closely tied to vance than they probably ever

were to trump. vance, before he was a senator, and in politics, was a writer and sort of thought of himself as a conservative intellectual. a conservative thinker. he was very engaged with the kind of work that the heritage foundation does. whether it's producing policy or this kind of conceptual essays. trump has never been someone associated with any particular political ideology except his own when it works for him. trump made use of the foundation's recommendations for supreme court justices. vance is kind of right in the thick of that movement that's behind the heritage foundation. that makes it harder for donald trump to create the distance he's trying to create between himself and his campaign and project 2025. he says look, i had nothing to do with it. i don't know these guys. vance is very much a part of that movement. >> yeah, and the people so close around him, the ones that were staffed in his last administration, the ones that

advise him, a lot of them are part of this heritage foundation broader group and the vance example as you suggested makes it harder for donald trump to walk as far away from it as he wants to or is trying to. there's also a new interview donald trump did with a podcast, lex friedman podcast. and the podcaster asked him a lot of questions about whether or what he thinks about what happened in the last election. this idea that donald trump perpetuates there was fraud. this false idea. the podcaster says i'm an independent, i've got a lot of friends that are independents. they like your policies, many of them. they like that you're a deal maker, that you end wars, but they're troubled by what happened in the 2020 election and statements about widespread fraud. what can you tell us the podcaster says to those independent voters about what happened and here's what donald trump answered with. >> the other side, i think the

election was a fraud. and many people felt it was that. and they wanted answers. and when you can't challenge an election, you have to be able to challenge it. otherwise it's going to get worse. not better. and there are lots of ways to solve this problem. go to paper ballots. do it the easy way. >> so, garrett, the podcaster goes back at him at least two more times and says a lot of people think there was shady stuff that happened with the election but the claim of widespread fraud bothers people. he said i don't focus on the past, i focus on the future and tries to move on. the podcaster asks again, for this election, what can we do to avoid the insanity and the division of the previous election whether you win or lose. donald trump says i hope it's not a close one, but i think in the end, it's not going to be a close election. so he doesn't answer the question. >> no, i don't think we should

expect him to. there's a lot to unpack, which is that donald trump is not willing to conceptualize any ending other than him winning. he doesn't want to look at the future consequences of him losing politically or legally. all those legal cases are still hovering out there potentially to come due in 2025 if he doesn't win. that's part of his future denial ism and win bigley as he might say. as regards to 2020, what made me shake my head is that no one has ever told trump you can't challenge the results of the election. he did it dozens of times in court cases. there were multiple recounts in almost all of the major states that were close. the problem for trump is that none of those went his way. none found the fraud he thought was there. none of the court cases passed muster. it's not that you can't challenge. it's that when you lose those challenges, most all other politics would move on and

donald trump is right now in september of 2024, still unwilling to let go of what happened in the election almost four years ago now. i think this continues to be as that podcaster rightly suggests, a barrier for folks who might otherwise want to support donald trump but are just sick and tired of hearing him talk this way about an election he should know that he lost. >> he was teeing it up for donald trump but he just wasn't swinging and hitting the ball. there's another election two months away and there are certainly concerns about what he might to if he loses then. he's been laying the foundation to say there's fraud. garrett haake, thank you. come up, what would the justice system look like in a second trump administration? david rhode will join us on how donald trump changed the doj and fbi. and in a nationwide display of anger and grief, israelis are on the streets in numbers we haven't seen since the judicial reform chaos from more than a

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day three of mass protests across israel. in tel aviv alone, hundreds of thousands of people are once again on the streets demanding a cease fire. and while the anger has been simmering in israel for nearly a year, mass protests on this scale, the ones we've seen over the weekend and today, have not

been seen since prime minister netanyahu's proposed judicial reforms from before the war. but this time, the protests have more heft as the powerful and influential union that runs the airport also went on strike. all but coming to a head after six hostages were found killed over the weekend including israeli american, hersh goldberg-polin. nbc news international correspondent, raf sanchez, has more from tel aviv. >> reporter: hey there. this is the third consecutive night of large scale protests on the streets of tel aviv. these demonstrators demanding that prime minister netanyahu make a deal to bring the remaining hostages home. this is part of a wave of public anger sparked by the murder of those six young hostages in gaza at the end of last week. but many of these people say

they blame not just hamas, but also the israeli government for failing to bring those hostages home. i want to give you a sense of the geography here. we're gathered outside of israel's defense ministry and we're standing on what is normally one of the busiest highways in tel aviv. instead, it is not just a sea of flags and protesters and these people are absolutely determined, you can see they're holding up lights. speaking right now is the father of one of the young israeli soldiers who is being held in gaza is among the 101 hostages still there. the question is will these protests force netanyahu to change course. back to you. >> thank you. joining us now from israel, independent journalist and "new york times" chief white house correspondent, peter baker. noga, i'll ask you what raf ended with. is this going to change things?

>> for now, there aren't any indications that as massive as they are, that these protests are going to influence netanyahu. in fact, he has seemed to kind of stiffen his back since half a million israelis took to the streets on sunday night. but you do have a feeling this country that something has got to give. netanyahu is caught in a stickier and stickier web for the first time, president biden has openly expressed his disappointment with him. tonight, he's been accused of tampering with official protocols and you just have a feeling that somehow as he's holding on to power, it's just not sustainable. >> an editorial today saying that part of the responsibility for this going on as long as it has is on the israeli public. that they haven't protested in these numbers since judicial

reform, but when they do, they get things done and use judicial reform as an example. they use the defense minister getting reinstalled as an example. why is it the argument that the israeli people haven't been, what do you think of that argument? do you think the israeli people haven't yet gotten angry enough publicly enough to force change? >> look, i think it's a problematic argument and i have to say that it also echoes one of the sentiments which netanyahu himself said yesterday in a sort of strange press conference he held in which he said that he hadn't retaken the philadelphia corridor. this area of gaza he now says israel can't live without. he hasn't taken it in the last 17 years in which he's been in power, because quote, there wasn't a public consensus to

support it. so he was blaming the public. i think the media or blaming the public is a little bit -- >> it was elon pinkus. not the editorial board. >> i think i know elon and i think, i understand why he says that the israelis haven't gotten angry enough and the reason is that the israeli opposition has failed to bring forces together and force them out from power, but even the judiciary has sort of soft pedalled netanyahu who has been acting more and more brazenly against the law. i think there's a feeling, and that's probably what elon was expressing, that if the israeli people don't simply bring this country to a halt, that nothing else is going to do it. >> so the u.k., peter, has pulled back on some of its weapons shipments with this new labor government to israel saying they're not confident they would be used humanely. yesterday, president biden was

asked whether he thought netanyahu was doing enough to get the hostages out and he said no. do you foresee any change in protocol though and policy toward israel from the u.s.? >> well, look, it's possible. president biden did halt one weapons shipment as we remember back several months ago. 2000 pound bombs and 500 pound bombs that could be used in rafah and it could be devastating to civilians. he hasn't done that since and other weapons shipments have been going forward. but the pressure is riding. having the british do what they've done begs the question of president biden as well. they have said they're putting together of what they say will be the final bridging proposal for a cease fire to get past whatever differences remain to get to the cease fire deal. this is not the first time they've said they're putting together a final.

the question is whether if it really means final. there is talk for the first time in the administration we haven't heard before the idea that this proposal is not accepted, that would be the end of it. there would be no point of further negotiations. they're closer to throwing up their hands than they have been in the past. they have worked so hard to get to a cease fire, but haven't been willing to pull the trigger on the issue of holding back arms on a more sustained basis. >> noga, do you think that would be effective if the americans did that? what would that do? what would that mean in israel? >> it would be huge in israel. in fact, today, a study was published in a tabloid newspaper today saying that the israeli air force could not actually function for more than a few months if it lost american support. this of course would be a very, very radical move on the part of the united states and it would have significant implications

also for u.s. national security that sort of depends on this alliance with israel. but even having the threat of that sort of netanyahu is significant. i think the only reason we are hearing a more severe reaction is that the israeli public space right now is too overwhelmed to react to that particular threat. >> just another horrifying weekend. noga, really good to have you. peter baker, thank you as well. what democrats in florida with doing to respond to a surge in republican voter registration in that state. first though, david rhode joins us with his new book and a warning. what he says the doj could look like under a second trump presidency. k like under a second trump presidency for a total value of twelve hundred and fifty dollars. only on verizon. (jalen hurts) see you sunday! have you ever considered getting a walk-in tub? well, look no further! safe step's best offer, just got better! now, when you purchase your brand new

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biden campaign before about how dangerous they say donald trump is democracy but campaigns are long and memories can be short so when warnings start to sound like a stump speech, it is helpful to look back. in a new book, david rohde does just that. digging into donald trump's first term and his dealings with the doj and fbi in order to help us understand the difference between hyperbole and sober, fact-based predictions about what trump could do with a second term. joining us now, author of where tyranny begins, the justice department, the fbi, and the war

on democracy, david rohde. david is also an nbc news senior executive editor for national security. really good to have you. >> thank you. >> congrats on the new book. >> thank you. >> i want to go back to the beginning because you say early on, the fbi and doj was essentially shell shocked by what donald trump was willing to do. he gets sworn into office late january of 2017. only a few days later, he institutes the travel ban. the muslim ban he had talked about during the 2016 campaign and you write the order though exposed how ill equipped the justice department was to respond to trump's disregard of basic facts. for the next four years, trump's seeming indifference to public shaming would allow him to undermine the department. how fundamentally did donald trump change the doj and fbi?

>> i think he changed the mentality. not to make them pro republican or democrat, to make them fear handling a highly political case. they're seen as lose lose cases that no matter what you do, you're going to have democrats criticizing you for not prosecuting trump fast enough. if you do go after trump, you're going to be labeled part of a deep state. one of the main characters in the book, jodi hunt. he worked as jeff sessions' chief of staff. he really believed in the institution of the justice department and democracy. so when trump instituted the travel ban, he felt it was his duty to carry out the travel ban. a democratically elected president, to make a long story short, hunt thought the presidency would change trump. instead, trump changed the presidency. >> so in looking and reporting on what he did within the doj, what he tried to do over the

four years he was in office and now looking ahead to what he could do, there's been a big change. the supreme court ruled that he's got presidential immunity when it comes to his dealings with the doj. meaning the norms that were established beforehand of being hands off, that they don't matter any longer. he can do whatever he wants. >> it's a sea change. again, i didn't find either extreme the justice department officials were somehow out to get trump or that you know, they were secretly helping him. they're bias if anything is towards defending the doj or fbi. >> he can get rid of career people. >> he can. that's one of the things that project 2025 is pushing for, to get rid of them all and have thousands, possibly tens of thousands of more political appointees that trump can put in. as you mentioned, the supreme court came out with the immunity decision recently. that's unprecedented. all these reforms came out of nixon using the justice department to go after his enemies, investigate

embarrassing leaks. for 50 years, no sort of president has dared but the supreme court has now ruled that conversations between the attorney general and the president are immune from being part of a criminal investigation by the president. >> is it hyperbole to suggest he might want to imprison people he feels have done him wrong? there's a new picture book out. trump picture book out today. in it, there's a picture with him and mark zuckerberg. it says if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. he's talking about meddling he believes that zuckerberg meddled in the 2020 election. >> he does. he's made that claim before. in the book that came out, trump said that zuckerberg would spend the rest of his life in jail if he interferes with the 2024 election. the difference again is that based on this ruling which is

vaguely worded, trump could call his attorney general if he's re-elected and tell him to prosecute mark zuckerberg and it would go forward. the case could begin. they could request he be jailed for some reason and that could work for a while. clearly, zuckerberg would appeal this to the supreme court and if there is no probable cause for the prosecution, you would hope the supreme court would throw that out but this broad immunity ruling has changed all that. then trump has the power to remove an attorney general who refuses to carry out his orders. whether the orders are illegal or not. it's again, it was a big surprise i think to many people. >> is it hyperbole to worry about what he might try to do if he loses the election again? what he might try to foment in the american public? >> i think you'll see lots of legal challenges that happened. i found that most people who work in government in the federal government are doing it because they believe in public

service. and so we need nonpartisan election clerks to count the folks. we need judges to do what they did in 2020. there were over i think 60 judges, federal judges, who rejected trump's claims of fraud. they were republican appointees. democratic appointees. appointee of trump and they all stood by the election results. this new supreme court ruling is going to create new challenges. >> you talk a lot about these career officials, these career agents who were just trying to do their job and feel like they have been tasked with the impossible right now. which is sorting out our election problems. stuff that should be sorted out at the ballot box between parties. it's being thrown on them and the frustration they're being made to look like a partisan body when at heart, they don't believe they are. david rohde, really good to have you. congrats on the book. where tyranny begins. out today. go and buy it.

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florida? msnbc finds out. >> sam gets his board out. >> reporter: in presidential politics for years, one word said it all. >> florida. >> florida. >> let me show you one more time. >> reporter: florida used to be an election night tossup, but now it appears to be ruby red. former president donald trump won florida twice. the state's governor, ron desantis, fashioned himself in trump's likeness. >> florida is where woke goes to die! >> reporter: and in 2022 one re-election in more than 19-point landslide. and now there are almost 1 million more active registered republicans than democrats in florida. >> the border speaks for itself. inflation speaks for itself. >> i don't believe in female abortion. i know it is the woman's right but it is the right of the baby to live. >> reporter: a rapid shift from just four years ago when democrats had a nearly 100,000 voter edge. how did we get to this point politically in florida? >> you know, it was a trend.

>> reporter: alex rizzo is a republican state representative and chair of the miami-dade county gop. he says two decades of florida republican leadership met the covid-19 moment. >> we will never do any of these lockdowns again. >> we saw all of that come to a head during the pandemic. we had a governor that said, we're going to remain open. we're going to look at numbers and science and everything else. you juxtapose that to other states where they had lockdowns and they doubled down on that. >> reporter: rizzo says those policies helped draw people to florida in a population boom that's still going. roughly 700,000 people moved here in 2022. last year florida was the second fastest growing state in the nation. but while governor desantis may position the state as a conservative haven, some may caution that voter advantage is not what it seems at first glance. >> that million lead for the republicans isn't as big as you might otherwise think. if you consider both the active

and inactive registered voters. >> reporter: political scientist michael mcdonald says some of those inactive voters will show up in the fall, but, he adds, the state still leans republican with a new law giving them an advantage. >> there's a real challenge here to get these individuals registered, who may be in the democratic coalition. you're seeing that activity right now in the state. >> reporter: democrats hurting under 2023 republican-bac legislation that cracked down on third-party mobilization, raising fines for things like paperwork mistakes from $1,000 to $250,000. in the florida keys, part of a democratic based newly energized with vice president kamala harris at the top of the party's ticket. how are you feeling in this moment about your party's chances this fall? >> i think we're going to kick ass. >> reporter: and energized by the belief that florida

absolutely could be in play. what issues are motivating voters in florida right now? >> right now amendment 4, abortion is on the ballot in florida. >> reporter: how big of a factor do you think that will play in the presidential race here? >> i think it's going to be huge. our freedoms in florida are being stripped away one at a time. we're over it. women especially are over it. that means republican women as well. >> reporter: she expects a recreational marijuana ballot measure to also bring out voters. >> i think we've got an amazing chance to make it a very, very close call. >> my biggest issue has always been equal rights for everybody. >> reporter: the question now, is it enough for florida to swing in a different direction? nbc news, miami. it has been more than two decades since an american man won a grand slam title. is this the year? could these be the guys? we're live in flushing, queens, with the latest from the u.s. open next. en next. stains happen to the best of us.

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they're playing tennis in queens. joining us now is nbc news national correspondent who's there, lucky girl. so, a lot of big names are out of the tournament, including some americans that we all love, but there are quite a few left. who's in it and what's going on? >> reporter: quite a few left. gauff, djokovic all out, which means it could be anyone's title. i was inside center stage watching a major match. right now they're into their third set between fritz and medvedev. we're two hours into the match and only into the third set. we have american dancing onto the semifinals, emma navarro winning in two sets. touch and go in the send set. she pulled it out to make it to the semis. the first ever to make it to the semis for her in a grand slam.

then, by the way, my personal favorite, francis tiafoe because of hi personal story. his dad a custodian at a tennis facility, alongside his brother, making it all the way here to the u.s. open. you think about it, you cannot reiterate this enough and you can feel the energy and the air here and on the ground, is that they really feel like this could be anybody's title with all of the favorites kind of the out of the game, any of them could clinch that title this weekend, katy. >> i love his love of tony goldwynn, who is great. yasmin, thank you. that's going to do it for me today. "deadline white house" starts right now. hi, everyone, it's