a.i. is the first technology in history that can actually make decisions by itself and create new ideas by itself it can create text and images and videos and so forth. we are just seeing the beginning of this new wave and the other thing that a.i. is capable of doing, which no previous technology could, is create intimate relationships with human beings, hold conversations with them. >> that is it for us this saturday. we are back tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. eastern for a sunday episode of morning joe weekend. for now, stick around, up next is msnbc the weekend. weekend. good morning. it is saturday, september 7, i am alecia menendez with symone

sanders-townsend . 59 days away from election day 2024, we are going to talk to the democratic tears of georgia and north carolina and the state of the race and this crucial swing states. donald trump gets his wish as a judge moves to sentencing in the art. we find out what that means for holding them accountable. >> senator amy klobuchar grabbed a seat at our table for crafting a winning message on the economy and abortion. grab your coffee, acetylene welcome to "the weekend".. >> we are 59 days away from election day and three days away from the first presidential debate between vice president harris and donald trump. tuesday's debate will also be the first time they meet face- to-face because donald trump did not support the peaceful

transition of power and did not show up to the inauguration in 2021. harris has been preparing for the debate in pennsylvania and trump spent part of friday attacking women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. the ex-president perform for the tv cameras at trump tower in new york after appealing a court decision that found him liable for sexual abuse. while we are just under two months until election day, americans will start casting their ballots very soon. early voting kicks off in battleground states like pennsylvania on september 17. that is less than a week after the first debate. joining us now is msnbc political analyst basil's michael he is a professor up practice at columbia university. >> welcome. we get into crunch time. are you feeling the groove? everybody's juiced up dust like >> i am juiced up. >> we are ready for tuesday.

how do you think this narrative that donald trump was putting out there? who is kamala? we don't know who she is. i want to play some quick sound for you about harris being locked in a room and how do you think this is resonating with voters? >> now, kamala is an unusual name, at least you know who you're talking about, when i say harris nobody knows who i am talking about. they say who was that? maybe we will refer to her as kamala, it is a little friendly, it is hard to be friendly with someone who wants to destroy our country. she is right now practicing, did you know that? she is in pennsylvania and she is practicing for the debate. she has locked herself in a room, she has got a lot to learn. >> perhaps he should lock himself in a room and learn a few things. how do you see his approach to kamala -- >> the vice president.

>> -- going into this campaign? >> they become more more personal. when you combine that with the way he has been speaking in the last week, particularly the economic club of new york, he sounds more incoherent than i think we have ever heard him. it sounds desperate, it clearly sounds like he and his team know they are behind and they are losing the narrative. i think if he feels and the team feels that they cannot grow the support the best way to win is to diminish her. >> that is an important point. >> the way they are doing it is trying to tap into a sense that this woman of color is not qualified for a role, isn't smart, does not do her homework is not up to the task. we have heard that 1000 times

before. if you are a person of color, a very common attack by your opponent who is not a person of color, is that you are not qualified. it is a very old tactic. you can see him doubling down on that language every single time that he talks about her. not even using her name correctly. that is textbook for him, it is also textbook in ways that people of color are diminished but i'm not even going to say your name, i'm not even going to give you that kind of dignity. we see that more often. i said when she became the nominee that his attacks would get bad and they are. what i like is i do not think they are working, it is not sticking. the enthusiasm, the sort of juice from the last two months, everyone feels deputized to be able to push back and that is what we are seeing. >> just a quick, you made an important point that i do not

want people to skip by, donald trump has a ceiling, she does not. he has got to bring her down to his ceiling or below and that is what you are seeing as part of that. >> you have to play in the gutter and she is not going to do it. >> sometimes when they are that low you have got to kick them. you know, you got to pop them in the shin real quick and maybe we will see that on the debate stage. i think it is an opportunity, he talks about her being locked away, i think she is in debate prep and she is going to lead debate prep and i think it is smart what they are doing the vice president said no, i don't want to be at the observatory i want to be at pittsburgh. i want to be in the battleground state it puts me down the street from philly and it allows us to get media and frankly have to go out, it is off the record stop that will create more news. something that you said made me

think that there is a donald trump strategy and then there is the campaign strategy and i feel like the two are not messing. i feel like his campaign would love for him to talk about the issues, that's why they sent him to the economic club. they set up this whole thing for him to talk smart about the economy. it was a gibberish. childcare is childcare we will pay for it with tariffs and i was like, no writ that -- i took a little economics in school and that is not computing, server. he is attacking and playing on a field that i don't think his campaign wants him to play on because he is more comfortable over here in the gutter than he is with the issues. >> that is right. if we were dealing with a typical candidate who has discipline and actually reads policy and is actually interested in trying to grow his support and his base and go beyond that, you would see him answer questions. you would see him at least attempt to describe some policy

position that he would have, some vision for the future, he doubles down on the hate and the anger and in fact, so does his vice presidential candidate. so does jd vance. a campaign -- let's be clear about this, if donald trump were to ever win, his campaign, they will be the ones governing, not him. in some ways he really is just a vehicle for all of the other stuff that his campaign and supporters want to get through. >> a vehicle that is aware. allowing donald trump to be a passive figure, at the end of the day he has to sign the thing. at the end of the day he has to say yes. he is the one that gets on the stage and attacks e. jean carroll and everybody else. >> it is interesting that we have hit the point where his campaign is normalizing and it is going back to looking more

like what a campaign would normally look like. there this of trump's scaling back his campaign, he is placing less emphasis on new hampshire and minnesota and virginia and pouring resources into the blue wall states pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. i want to hear you talk, basil, about how he is getting in the gutter. part of that is out of desperation he knows his path to victory is narrowing. >> it is narrowing, north carolina is in play, i'm getting emails that florida is in play in texas is closer, no illusions about texas and florida, but there are people who are starting to get excited that they are seeing the race get closer. if you consider the money that she has raised, that means she can force him to spend money and places that he did not think he needed to. >> 300 million in the month of august. >> that is a crazy number. >> i do not want to skip past

florida and texas. >> they are senate races. >> important senate races number one, number two, we have florida texas, we are good on the republican side, we don't think about that. this campaign and their internal numbers are showing them that they will have to do a little dancing, to your point there is no illusion of winning texas or florida, if they have got to spend money in texas, republicans in texas and florida , my prediction about battleground state texas 2028 it is coming, i'm telling you. >> texas is the new georgia. >> you have gallego in arizona, there are democrats who are contesting areas, when biden was running we did not think he would come close she has made the race close.

the money enables her to go deeper into her base to pull out, that is very important since early voting is about to start. that makes her more viable. when the campaign sees this and would donald trump sees this, he is like, i got to find a way to diminish her. that is only path to victory for him is to diminish her. from the very beginning i said, the biggest challenge she would have as a candidate is not going to be the map, it is not going to be donald trump and texas, it will be this part that we can't win that we can't elect a woman. to get over that hump and the turnout, the donald trump attacks don't hit and i think that is what we are seeing. we are seeing people get over that. >> i think it is 24. do i trust her? and can she be president? it is a dynamic. i appreciate you bringing back to us. thank you so much.

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the justice department message is clear, we have no tolerance for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our democratic system of

government. >> the attorney general making a major announcement this week saying russia is once again trying to influence america's presidential election. the justice department seized more than 30 web domains that are part of a broader effort of the russian government to spread this information and influence voters. the doj also announced charges against two russian citizens who directed a $10 million campaign aimed to influence the election through online platforms. the biden administration announced new sanctions on russia. folks, if this sounds vaguely familiar to you, it should. in 2016 russia spread this information online and hacked campaign emails in order to bolster votes or donald trump. guess what, donald trump cheer them on >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the

30,000 emails that are missing but i think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. >> joining us now, former cia director, john brennan. he is msnbc senior security analyst and senior intelligence analyst. >> dr., good morning. pull back the curtain and help us understand how this type of misinformation is identified and flagged within the u.s. government create >> there has been a concerted effort on the part of the u.s. intelligence community to try to uncover and reveal and report these russia misinformation and disinformation operations. we have had many expenses in the u.s. government having to deal with first soviet and russia disinformation activities. the deal now, with the development of the digital domain and so many social media platforms and other opportunities in terms of

podcasts and youtube videos and other things, the russians have a wide array of capabilities that they can use to try to influence u.s. public opinion and u.s. elections. i must point out, this election in 2024 is much more important for vladimir putin than any of the previous ones. this is the first u.s. presidential election since russia invaded ukraine. clearly , it is a debacle for russia in terms of 2 plus years that they have lost over 100,000 soldiers and i do believe putin is counting on donald trump getting elected so that u.s. support for ukraine will not only be lessened, but donald trump, i think, has every indication of trying to cut off that support that we have been giving to ukraine. >> it is not just what we are seeing happen with russia and what we are seeing with vladimir putin and the russians meddling here, it is also

donald trump's relationships with others like victor or von and how he sort of frames are elections for them it is almost like a playground praising these individuals, what impact does that have? do you see those types of words or hear those words coming out of the former president now, how does that shape the narrative for the american people? are we paying attention or is this just one of those things where russia is playing are elections i don't believe it that's fake news? >> first off, trump is following the authoritarian playbook which is try to co-opt the media, try to co-opt public opinion by using individuals who are very sympathetic to him. the same thing with vladimir putin and viktor orban and others, they have totally suppressed any kind of open media in the country's. this is very worrisome.

the "new york times" had a very good editorial the other day talking about the importance of having a free and open media. if you have individuals like donald trump who really believe in the authoritarian strongman model, they want to make sure that there is no voice of opposition or criticism of them . again, donald trump flatters these authoritarian leaders, viktor orban, putin among others because he really does see that is the type of leader he wants to be in order to ensure it is his way or the highway for critics. >> director brendan, in this charging document the department of justice unveiled, they charged folks connected to rtp you have john kirby the spokesperson for the national security advisor from the white house saying on wednesday rt is not just a propaganda for the

kremlin, kirby said the rt network was being used to funnel disinformation throughout let's as social media influencers that social number americans find credible, we will not stand for that. the scheme that is alleged is a vast that this company was a front and they paid influencers, people who have large social media followings to say these things to infiltrate our discourse, some of it showed up on other news out networks, a lot of it has showed up on large accounts on the site formally known as twitter people follow and engage with this is a really expensive issue that is not unique to the election. >> no. the russians have tremendous cyber capabilities that they will leverage for things like this. they have also poured many many millions of dollars into different types of news outlets

. there was a report overnight a news outlet in tennessee hosting some very conservative speakers and there was tens of millions of dollars poured into it. the russians see this is a open society here in the united states and they can in fact use the capabilities to influence, popular sentiment, and voter choices. to use whatever cam abilities they have and also, they have a number of unwitting and also winning players that work with them and want to make sure their message gets out. it is very clear, just like in 2016 and 2020, the russians have a clear preference for donald trump to be in the oval office. to quote vice president harris, to have a unserious person in the oval office is a real coup for vladimir putin who really is trying to use his power and influence in order to ensure u.s. national security, u.s. prosperity is going to be countered by these russian

efforts. >> we have about a minute left. i want to dig deeper on a point that symone made , it got me thinking about these influencers , how gullible are they? are they just patsies, or do they know who these folks are that they are dancing with? now that they are getting caught there like, i do not know, oh my goodness, russia? i am a little suspicious i will just put it on the table this morning because i have not had a full cup of coffee, so i am suspicious. what say you about the influencers are actually a significant part of the propaganda somewhat willingly, in my view. >> i think a number of them do it willingly. take carson who had that absurd video of footage when he was in russia and basically flattering the russia system and society. none of these individuals know what they are doing, they

continue to take russia money through various indirect sources and they continue to spout the russian line. i think some people are unwittingly and ponds of the russian intelligence services. i think others do not care because they are going to accept funds and support from whatever quarter and unfortunately i think they are doing it to the great detriment of u.s. national security. >> director brennan, thank you so much for your time. >> i had, the democratic chairs of two swing states will join us with 59 days before the 2024 election right here on the weekend. d. ...to that whatever this is moment... your moments are worth protecting against rsv. if you're 75 or older, or 60 or older with certain chronic conditions. you're at higher risk of being hospitalized from rsv. and there are no prescription rsv treatments. you have options.

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>> the american people are entitled to know when a foreign power is attempting to exploit our country's free exchange of ideas in order to send around its own propaganda. we will be relentlessly aggressive in countering and disrupting attempts by russia and iran as well as china and any other form a line actor to interfere in our elections and undermine our democracy. >> yeah. it is not just russia and iran, it is china. there was news within the last week about cuba, there are many people who would love to disrupt the selection that i think with the justice department did this week was very important. interference within campaigns, it is not like a spy movie where they come in with the machines, maybe that can happen, i think our elections are to secure. >> our lectures are to secure.

>> the social media influencer is crazy. the talking points that people had if you merit them up, they did have a lot of things that people like jessie waters were saying on fox news and i think people have to be vigilant this is something that is actually happening right now, don't get caught up, don't get misinformed with disinformation. >> that goes to the question that you asked, are they willing participants or are they -- >> they are useful idiot participants. the thing that kills me is it is a pretext. when you look at jessie waters and tucker carlson and what they are saying, it is pretense, somehow this is within the political process that i am going to go out and i am going to embrace vladimir putin and i'm going to go sit down and do interviews and open ourselves up to their influence as if this is something normal.

this is not normal. this is not how elections have been conducted. that is not to say that the russians and chinese have not tried to interfere in the elections in the past paid by the past i mean the 80s, 90s, et cetera. you did not have u.s. media personalities, you did not have public influencers , they were not known that way at that time, people who had sway in the public, albeit, touting their direct action and interference in our elections and then sit back and pretend like they had nothing to do with it the more merrick garland is catching them, the better it is for us. >> you think these consequences, sanctions, any of it works to deter them disclose the election? >> no. >> really? well maybe not russia, because that's what they do. >> not the russians. >> but the influencers come all

the people that have been named , they have been posting on the social media sites trying to do the backstroke. it is just, it is very concerning. it is very concerning and i am glad they did this because after the fact, you have to claim to the american people, one of the lessons from the afghanistan pullout in 2021 is that they did not, the administration did not give the american people enough information on the front and. they applied that lesson when it came to ukraine and russia. there is a lot of information that they declassified within reason to tell people what was happening about the actions that americans were taking and what vladimir putin was planning to do, this is being proactive. >> the proactive part is important. now, you are getting in front of the american people further out from the election. this is not mid to late october two or three weeks before the

election and people are like, what are you talking about? the timing is perfect and the influencers being exposed the way they are, more, please. there are more and we see you. >> all money ate good money. >> let's talk about the timing and the money. the harris campaign is funding millions of dollars into the racist. two swing state talk about the push to november. we will have a special coverage of vice president harris and chomps first and possibly only presidential debate hosted by abc news and simulcast on our network. our coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. michael, symone , and i will all be with you.

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the democratic national committee are sending nearly $25 million to support house and senate candidates. funding includes $10 million to the d triple c, and 10 million to the the sec. the unprecedented investment is more than they have sent a past election years. that shows you how important the ballot battleground races are. joining us now is anderson clayton and georgia democratic to representative nikki williams. >> i feel good with all of these chairs in the house this morning. >> from chairs to chairs, two chairs. >> the money going to parties like both of you, it has to be it has to be a boon to your efforts. you have raised money on your own, formidable fundraising for the georgia democratic party as well as the north carolina democratic party, a little

extra change from harris and the dnc and the harris-walz campaign has to be helpful. >> i will take it all, symone. in battleground georgia we have motors to reach and the way to do that is pounding the pavement. people think there is a secret sauce, there is zero substitute for right voter contact, the more volunteers we have the more money we have, the better we can get our message of freedom community and opportunity out to the voters in battleground georgia. >> chair, i'm trying to look at this from the perspective of, as a former state party chairman , i know how hard it was to symone's point to get dollars flowing in to your estate, and to put those dollars to use. $25 million reported last week, alecia noted $10 million flowing out from the dccc and

the senatorial committee , you have this great coordination, the money on the ground is important, how is that money being spent to deal with some of the roadblocks that are placed in places like georgia that make it more difficult for you to reach your voters, to get them registered and to get them to turn out? in many instances, the deck is stacked against you. >> absolutely. while it should not have to be this way and we should not have to organize our way out of the suppressive tactics and these laws being put into place or attempted to put into place to overturn the will of the voters, we saw what happened in 2020 when georgia won by 11,780 votes and donald trump tried to steal the election and try to overturn the will of the voters. we are prepared for this and we

have an attorney and all 159 counties in the state of georgia ready to do what is necessary. the largest line item in my budget at the democratic party of georgia is my legal expenses. while it should not have to be this way, i know i am in the deep south and i know what i'm up against and we are battleground state. when we tell people to show up and vote we want to assure them that their votes are counted and certified. now they have taken it to another level. we are doing everything we can between now and election day to make sure that we are ready for whatever legal pursuits we have to take so that the votes of georgians are actually counted. >> speaking of being ready and making sure votes are counted, there is big news out of north carolina friday, an appeals court blocking ballots with rfk junior's name on it, the court issued a ruling that blocked the state board of elections for mailing absentee ballots listing rfk junior as a

residential edit. what does that mean for voters in north carolina? >> mail-in ballots was supposed to go out on friday and unfortunately that means the republican court of appeals actually overturned decision from a lower court that made it so we have to haul to ballots, so we have to reprint ballots, that is the guidance from our republican court of appeals that is allowing rfk to get off the ballot after he fought to get on the ballot and stay on in north carolina, he is also fighting to get on it in other states. we are seeing a messed up in the election system and someone is really trying to mess with that right now in our opinion. we will make sure election officials in north carolina do all they can to get ballots out as soon as they can. >> chair clayton, how does the delay affect your efforts in north carolina? i am very interested in this debate in the beltway when it

comes to north carolina and the republican candidate for governor, who is mark robinson, who is the current lieutenant governor of the state, folks are saying in north carolina mark robinson is dragging donald trump down and democrats feel there is a boon to josh stein and vice president harris. i have heard from people in north carolina that it is not necessarily the case and it is still a fight and it is going to be a fight for the vice president versus donald trump, can you make it plain for us? >> it is a fight everywhere in north carolina. i think joe biden losing our state by 1% margin in 2020, 74,000 votes, we know those votes are out there in counties across north carolina and the democratic party is working hard with the campaign to make sure we are reaching out across all 100 counties in our state and we are not leaving one voter behind. mark robinson is our current lieutenant governor and he is someone who has been a

holocaust denier, abortion denier, he would take north carolina backwards then the state legislature already has. we are also seeing a very strong fight from heart democratic nominee and -- we will make sure that we fight for every single vote. we are just trying to make sure that democrats and voters across north carolina fundamentally understand to congresswoman williams point what is at stake in this election cycle which is fundamental freedoms across north carolina and abortion- rights. >> let's just stay in north carolina for extra moment. i found north carolina to be more of the sweet spot in the south than a lot of people would say virginia, that's where it began in the 90s, you saw this demographic shift and the voting shift. north carolina for me has always been an intriguing opportunity for both parties, quite frankly, to level up a solid campaign and

with all due respect to your gubernatorial candidate on the republican side, that brother has got some issues he has to work out with the voters, that makes that spot sweeter. you have forbes noting why north carolina suddenly is a key swing state, vice president kamala harris could be the second democratic presidential candidate to win north carolina in more than 40 years as the state has shifted slowly to the left over the past decade thanks in part to a growing high-tech corridor. i do not like that framing because it is not a shift to the left versus the right. it is a shift in how voters are looking at their votes and how votes align with their values, how those votes align with their heritage and a bunch of other things. >> i was going to say some of it is demographic some of it is the number of black voters. >> exactly. >> chairman, how do you see it?

you now have an amazing anchor in the south between north carolina and georgia. i think, again, that sets up texas 20 20th, you will hear me dance on that. >> the south has something to say, michael. >> i think what is important to note about north carolina is we are the most rural of all the battleground states. unlike georgia, we do not have an atlanta metro area that is a majority of our population. north carolina has huge amounts of dense rule communities. the majority counties in the state 18 our rural counties in eastern north carolina. the first time barack obama won the state was 2008, democrats still have control of the state legislature. in 2010 we lost the state legislature, republicans gerrymandered north carolina and we have been under that republican gerrymander ever since.

what we have seen is a decline at the federal level for us to win back the national races. i fundamentally think we have to chase after the state legislature hard, which is what we are doing this year in north carolina, we are contesting 168 out of 170 legislative seats across the state trying to make sure we pull out every voter possible in districts that may have felt like their votes have been disenfranchised and especially at the level were politics and packs most which is the state legislative level. >> the rule point is very important. in broadband, internet, that is one of the things that the biden administration and biden- harris campaign, now the harris- walz campaign has leaned into. the money that has gone to states like north carolina and georgia to be able to lay fiber optic cable so that folks have wi-fi and internet in their community is literally life- changing. >> it is also revitalizing rural economies for the first time and people ask why did this need to happen?

i grew up in rural north carolina and the entire time i grew up i thought i had bad internet because i chose to live out here or my family chose to live out here. is a ministration sing for the first time, everyone deserves this opportunity, it is the great equalizer. it is the way to have telehealth , it is the way to have economic opportunities for people who live anywhere across the country, that is something that our parties should be proud of. >> representative williams, i want to make sure that we talk about the horrific shooting at a georgia high school that happened this past week, a 14- year-old suspect used use of a ar 15. we have seen this before and i think part of what makes this story difficult is this is an issue that has come to be intractable both in terms of our willingness to examine gun safety in this country and to develop communities of care for communities that x-ray strategies like this. i wonder as we barrel towards

election day how you are seeing what happened on wednesday through the lens of what will happen in november. >> i have been on a reproductive freedom bus to her throughout georgia for the last two days and it is headed to north carolina now. at the beginning of each launch and press conference, that is at the top of voters minds. it is not just an impact on the trinity in barrow county and winder, not just those at the school, but this impacts all parents. when i got the news i was in the phone with someone and i heard in the background there was a georgia school shooting and they said grady hospital is where victims were being transported and that is our local hospital here in atlanta. my heart sank. i just took my nine-year-old to school that morning and i did not know what school it was. this is the fear parents live with every day. yet, we have republican leaders

in the united states congress who are not willing to do something to save our children. when we saw the children were massacred in kindergarten, first grade at sandy hook and nothing was done, that showed me the nra had control over the republican party and they have not gone back. what i know, we need to elect a leader in this country who will do something to save lives read every day, i live in fear on if my child will come home safely. carter does intruder drills at school and has little nine-year- old mind is afraid that the little girl who talks too much is going to get them caught in class because the intruder might hear them. he should not have to live this way. as a member of the united states congress, i will continue to introduce policies like i have the safe act, that will give a tax credit, not taking away any was gone, but require them to be stored in a safe. you get a tax credit to buy the safe so that children, 14-year-

old, like the 14-year-old in georgia, will not have access to your family's guns. that is the start. it is not the end all be all, but it is a start we must do something in this country to save our children's lives. they are in a continuous trauma cycle dealing with this. parents, communities and it does not have to be this way. these are policy decisions. >> congress on williams as someone who put her five-year- old son on the bus you just hit me in the heart. thank you for being with us yet >> still to come, senator amy klobuchar is going to join the table fresh off of a visit from pennsylvania. follow our show on social media are handle everywhere is at the weekend msnbc. weekend msnbc. for the whole family. vicks vapostick. and try new vaposhower max for steamy vicks vapors. i still love to surf, snowboard, and, of course, skate. so, i take qunol magnesium

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