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>> sean combs let and participated in criminal activity, including trafficking, forced labor kidnapping arson, bribery and the obstruction of justice. lebanon still on edge after deadly waves of -trapped pagers and handheld radios exploded earlier this week. robinson declared in one post, i am a black -- some people need to be slaves. >> are you and death store before you give her help ? a doctor or nurse has to say, she might die any minute. better give her now care. otherwise i might go to prison for life in some cases. >> i want to save two people that think a woman's world is measured in her baby count do not need to push out a baby to help push humanity forward. this is the moment where people who are tired of all of the bickering and all of the name-calling, maya angelou

always said when you know better, you have to do better. let us do better and vote for kamala harris. it is 45 days until election day and early voting in certain states is already underway. on friday voters lined up in south dakota, minnesota and virginia, where officials say they saw tripled the number of voters turnout on day one compared to day one in 2020. meanwhile out west in arizona that state's supreme court is allowing full ballot access to 100,000 voters of following a dispute over a clerical error. both candidates are storming crucial battleground states this weekend with kamala harris on friday holding a big rally in atlanta focused on reproductive rights while

donald trump is due to speak in north carolina in just a few hours. it is who won't be by trump's side in north carolina that has tongues wagging. mark robinson, trump's indoors pick for governor is not expected to attend the rally following the bizarre reports of disturbing and racist post by him on a pornographic website post that robinson has denied making. trump reportedly has no plans to pull his endorsement of robertson yet. apparently robinson may be too toxic for even trump. the irony. joining me now is alexi johnson, senior adviser for joe biden for president 2020 and founder and chief impact officer with 1063 west broad. valencia, i get you unsaid. let us get into it. i have to start with this completely -- it is lies, lies

and more lies and with the state of woman with abortion reproductive rights. it really screams as to how unhinged and crazy, like a fox, valencia. you know kamala harris and reproductive rights is getting under his skin. >> it is all getting under his skin. he was tweeting or truth socially early this week and now as we have seen around abortion , this is someone who from the moment he came in on the escalators in 2015, we have known he is the opposite of women's rights progressing in the country. he was championing that he overturned -- he over -- it was not until i started losing even in red states with the issue of abortion rights. the way that he talks about it still is quite concerning. you have republican women saying we do not see ourselves in this party when you have someone who was going back and

forth championing the supreme court decision that has actually led to what has happened to the two women that the propublica report has talked about in georgia. as unfortunate as we are losing lies in this country and women are losing lives and yet this is also the political galvanizing issue that i think is going to be the deciding issue for vice president harrison democrats. i have set on the show time and time again republican women get abortions too. this is not a party specific issue. i want to say the messaging that is coming up that is effective from the harris/walz campaign but more specific kamala harris. that town hall with oprah winfrey, we have heard the first-hand accounts from the women themselves with the next of kin from those women that have died as a result like we see in places like georgia. there is nothing more personal

and you have someone like donald trump -- for years we have been hearing him tout his love to make sure he has the right judges on the bench to ban and get these laws into place. is this the moment where women and not just women of color but all women will have their voices heard from her >> it is also the test of what is too far? let us be very clear. when the axis hollywood tapes came out, he still won that election but for some women it is not enough. i think culturally we have shifted to a space where people actually are talking about the support agency about this is around reproductive healthcare. which is why you saw the conversation on the oprah winfrey style show unite for kamala harris. this conversation that brought family there and have a conversation, a very real moment

that, quite frankly, our culture has not really been ready for up until this presidential election. >> these are conversations that need to be had. >> that is right. i will say before this propublica report, i was on this network last week. it is a blur. last week after the date and the other gas was somehow kamala harris did not have enough specifics on the debate made. we will talk about that, right? i reminded the viewers that if she was not talk about specifics of her plans she was humanizing a lot of critical issues including the issue around abortion care, ivf and reproductive rights. she was painting the picture, not a fiction, painting the picture of what is literally happening to women in states because they cannot access abortion care and that, quite frankly, moves people more than policy specifics. she understands. they trust her to make the decision when she is in the oval office that she will make

sure to sign abortion access into law if it comes across her desk. >> abortion is healthcare. let us talk about character. we have to talk about the fact that trump will be in north carolina later today with this rally. mark robinson, you know, i will emphasize he is denying he made these posts. allegedly saying he is up black -- and all other stuff including racist statements and homophobic statements and completely misogynistic statements. this is the first kamala harris /tim walz focus from that campaign for a down ballot race that they are actually tying donald trump to read we have to remind people this is not just the race to the oval. there is some down ballot races that count and other critical states. >> if we could get the governor 's seat in north carolina, it will be monumental for us. especially when there are state that we need more states to protect some of our civil

rights. we have to type mark robinson to donald trump and he had a prime spot at the rnc. that is some of that donald trump -- to be honest, i know he's not speaking with donald trump or with donald trump today but if he had his way, he would stand there with him. these are some of the same things that donald trump has gotten away with. he is tying himself -- they are both tying themselves to this egregious behavior. we is not that far from the herschel walker campaign this reminds us of the similarities. donald trump is not the picture- perfect poster child for morality. this is someone who got away with -- he was found liable for sexual assault. this is the republican party's stance around being the party of morality when he is someone who's had three wives and several affairs. it actually is not a surprise that he is so aligned and that we can tie them together closely. the republican party has some reckoning to do that they are

allowing this. >> they are not saying enough. why is that? >> let us be clear what this is about. this is not minority rule and power. they do not care that mark robinson is up there saying all of these things. it is interesting with republicans who arcing about mark robinson, they're not concerned about donald trump the rap sheet is so long with things that we know about. for them it is about power for wealthy -- i will be honest -- for wealthy white men and a matter who they get it through. >> that is what i have you own -- on. thank you for being here. coming up on "the katie phang show." on the brink of war, the latest from beirut, lebanon come after the airstrike that killed two top commanders. as a region becomes even more of a powder keg. keep it right here on msnbc . and 5g solutions from t-mobile for business. t-mobile connects 100,000 delta airlines employees.

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iran, which backed the militant and political group hezbollah is warning the region is, quote, on the brink of war. chief international correspondent keir simmons has more. >> reporter: the israeli bomb that landed in beirut was about three miles away from here. we heard the israeli jet overhead and then some minutes later began to see the pictures of destruction. the numbers killed in that bombing have been going up over the hours. among them, three children, seven women. and the israeli defense force says that 16 hezbollah members including 12 senior commanders were among them too. including a commander called abraham. it is the american embassy and barracks, a series of bombings

that are still remembered. jake sullivan has just been talking about the death of ibrahim aqil and he had american blood on his hands. any times someone like that is brought to justice, that is a good outcome. this is not the same as being brought to justice. he was not pressed on that. the human rights chief has described another bombing here in beirut, another series of bombings with pagers and walkie- talkies as of violating international humanitarian law. the number who were injured in those walkie-talkie and pager bombings here in lebanon has risen to 777.

>> achieved international correspondent keir simmons, thank you so much. for deeper insight joining me now is retired four start u.s. navy and or james. chief international security analyst, former supreme allied commander at nato and the author of to risk it all, nine conflicts and the crucible of decision. admiral, it is always a pleasure to have you but we need to have a very serious conversation about what we are seeing happening over in the middle east. how close are we to seek an all out regional war right now? >> we are closer than we were just a week ago, katie. what i mean if you had asked me a week ago i would have said, maybe a 10% chance of a wider regional war, which i will define as iran entering the fight alongside has the law, hamas and the houthis. and then probably united states getting involved. the chances of that were about 10%, still kind of hide. unfortunately, katie, after the

events that you just described a moment ago, i would say that chance is now elevated to somewhere around 20%. that is significant, even in a volatile region like the middle east. >> admiral, if the -- after the immediate weeks of october 7, you and i talked about this being a multi-front war for israel. one that is not ideal for that country. i want to shift the focus to talk about even the united states. ibrahim aqil, the commander of the force, the man who was just killed yesterday. he was sanctioned by the u.s. for being involved in two attacks in 1983 that killed more than 300 people in beirut and the u.s. marine corps barracks. that is americans that were killed. this was 1983. we are still talking about him 20 something years later. what is going on here?

that the control over these types of terrorist and militant forces seems to be not within anybody's grasp. >> 40 years ago in 1983, one of my naval academy classmates vince smith was killed in that bombing. the first member of the class of 1976 to die in action. he certainly was not the last. we remember him, the military remembers him with national security adviser jake sullivan is quite right. to say that ibrahim aqil has significant american blood on his hands. taking him off the battlefield is a good thing. on the other hand, the collateral damage here appears to be significant. civilians, that is always terrible. part of the blame is for the way that hezbollah and hamas does as well, uses

civilians and shields, effectively putting their command centers in populated civilian apartment buildings, under schools and in a moss. it is incumbent upon the israelis to do all they can to minimize that collateral damage. and it is always tragic when civilians die even in my view, the worthy objective of ending the reign of terror brought about by aqil for 40 years, with engagement. >> israel is calling this a new phase of the war. it is exploding pagers, exploding walkie-talkies and other electronic devices. to your point, the damage is extensive and includes civilians. do you think that this actually spurs the united states to get even more involved? i know president biden speaks about still achieving a cease- fire but does that seem to be an actual reality before he leaves office?

>> i do not think it is. i get full credit to the president and his team, jake sullivan, secretary of state antony blinken, frequent flyer in and out. lloyd austin, former ambassador bill burns. all of them have done extraordinary work here. it appears we will not get the cease-fire, at least on team invited's watch. what the united states can do at this point is to ensure we continue to press israel to care for that civilian population in gaza. repress the israelis to do the minimum amount of war fighting that they need to as they pursue their quite legitimate war aims with taking hamas off the battlefield and ensuring hezbollah does not launch further rockets. we can do all of that while still supporting israel. katie, we ought to be very

concerned about how close this region is tipping towards a wider war. >> admiral james, there is a reason why i called a powder keg. you and i both know there has been regions that are like that and what happens thereafter is disastrous. thank you for spending your time with us and share your insight. i appreciate you. coming up after the break, trump trauma. mary trump's new memoir on the drama and dysfunction of the trump family and how she says the child neglect by donald's parents contributed to the relentless cruelty he is an acting across an entire nation today. a conversation you are not going to want to miss. that is coming up next. xt is life changing. you're building this foundation to set you up for life. all you have to do is listen. get started today and lose 15 pounds in 15 weeks. leo! [whistling] ever since we introduced him to the farmer's dog, it's changed his quality of life. leo's number 2's are really getting better.

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donald trump needs mary trump writes, quote, nobody likes donald when he was growing up, not even his parents. as he got older the personality traits harden, the hostile indifference and aggressive disrespect that he developed as a toddler to help them withstand the neglect he suffered at his parent's hands. she did tell donald trump's widening cruel streak and cruelty that is not on display for all of america and the world to see for the third general election in a row. trump while at anti-semitism event i'm jewish voters who do not vote for him. promise to reinstate the gravel trick -- over not having biological children. is it three strikes and 34 felony convictions you are out? will america finally say goodbye to trump in november? training that is mary trump, the host of the mary trump show, then east of donald j. trump and the author of the new best seller "who could ever

love you." mary, it is always good to spend time with you and upland village. we will get in just a couple minutes but you have such keen insight into decision 2024. i have to ask you, we hear complaints from republicans about hateful rhetoric it from democrats. that is a gop specialty something that trump has taught his minions well. do you think there has been enough of a clear response from democrats saying, sometimes you have to punch a bully in the nose. >> katie, it is wonderful to be here with you. i know we should not be surprised at republican hypocrisy anymore but it is still pretty shocking that the party of anti-immigrant hatred and anti-semitism and anti- lgbtq rhetoric and misogyny has the audacity to complain about democrats rhetoric. specifically what they have

been saying is that by warning americans that donald trump is an anti-american candidate that he is a danger to the future of american democracy, which is absolutely true. the man is a traitor who incited and insurrection against his own government that the democrats calling it like it is is what is endangering donald trump and what is putting this country in a precarious position. it is complete and utter nonsense. i think democrats need to do more about calling out what is happening in the republican party and specifically and especially with donald trump. let us face it, the problem has become that his hatefulness, his cruelty, the danger he presents to this country is said to be quote, unquote, baked in and we need to

highlight it every day and every opportunity. >> this is a perfect segue to about your new book. all books have been amazing. one thing you major about this new book that came out in one picture is clear, this is not a political book let us dispel any idea. part of this book speaks to your childhood but also the trump family childhood present like donald trump. let me be clear, no passes are given to donald trump to justify his behavior. the insight you provide in your new book is spectacular. it speaks to how donald trump was raised by red sr. do you think that that childhood that donald trump had, the psychopathy that we see the social apathy that we see coming from the childhood of donald trump is really being seen in a manifestation the things he does and the things that he says.

>> it is an excellent point. the apps are is absolutely. we should absolutely have compassion for the child donald was. he had a terrible childhood. he suffered enormously as did his other siblings. and as have many of us. the problem is two fold. the traits about him that we see is problematic. the tendency of bullying and the cruelty, the delusional excesses were valued by his father, my grandfather, fred. i think we could say with some confidence put to good use. the second problem is that donald is exactly the same person now as he was when he was a teenager and we should always, always beware of anybody , especially people in power who do not involve as human

beings. and he never has. >> a huge portion of your book that really resonated with me and will resonate with millions of readers is the trauma that you sustained through your childhood. and then the double whammy of covid and donald trump. covid affected so many of us. the lockdown really amplifying a sense of isolation you write that you were warped i covid in donald's continued presence in our politics. you are a private person who has been forced and almost voluntarily being put out in of public way because you believe in the defense of democracy you know so much about the psychosis that is donald trump. you say that this book is not a political one but it clearly impacts politics because america has been traumatized by donald trump. you have been traumatized by him and raised growing up as a trump. talk about why he was so

important to be transparent and honest about what you have been through over the last few years and what you hope it means something to other people. >> it is always difficult to locate precisely why one writes a particular book. i kind of hit a wall a couple years ago. i realize that i was very broken . obviously, i have a complex post dramatic stress disorder. the traumas i suffered from are quite old. we now live in an america which we are individually and collectively traumatized on what seems like an almost daily basis. it was very, very important to me as an individual to figure out why i was struggling so much but also to look around and recognize that so many of us were in the same vote . how are we going to find a way through if they continue to be subjected by the

kinds of cruelty and backsliding we have seen in the last four years. one impetus what this recognition that although in many ways we are better off than we were because president biden and vice president harris have really pulled us out of the darkness of covid and snatched democracy from the jaws of autocracy, it does not feel all the time like we are better off because our politics are worse and american democracy is in much more danger than it was. i really wanted to have a conversation with myself and other people about why that is and what we can do both individually and together to get through this and get to a place where we are no longer traumatized constantly and we can actually start to heal ourselves. >> my admiration, as always to you for being so honest about

what you been through. "who could ever love you" already a best seller. i urge go out and read it. it is an honest conversation with mary trump . thank you, mary. >> thank you, my friend. vice president kamala harris has just accepted cnn and's invitation to debate donald trump on october 23rd. the harris campaign says donald trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate. it is the same format and set up as a cnn debate he said and wanted when he praised cnn my seat moderators rules and ratings. let us see if he takes the bait. coming up, the rising majority. how the app the white house will be determined by how well the canids court the growing hispanic vote and what they have to do to get it. that is next.

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what we are seeing right now is the emmy award winning actress -- she just got an emmy for her role in the bear. she is speaking at campaign event in allentown, pennsylvania with tim walz as the event is geared towards latino voters. some of the star power is liza colon-zayas, she just won an emmy for her role in the bear and helped him -- hamilton anthony is due to speak at the campaign event that is happening in allentown, pennsylvania.

this is important is because the road to the white house runs through a handful of key swing states, which could be decided by their large communities of hispanic voters. that is the case in a state like arizona where one in four voters are hispanic. and nevada where hispanics represent around 20% of the electric during this hispanic heritage month, we take a look at the efforts of the harris and the trump campaigns are making to court this keep voting block, which is among the fastest growing in the country. as someone who knows more than me and is smarter than all of us, maria. always great to spend time with you. >> can you send that clip to my husband when he basically says we should go toe to toe. no, she is the smartest one. i am happy to clarify. >> he needs to take a seat. let us talk about this latino foundation with this masses drive to mobilize the latino vote.

i am based out of miami. i get it. had a great conversation the other day about the importance of the latino vote we talk about this every cycle but talk about why it is so critical. >> what it is siding about the latino community is we are such a young community. we are helping change states that people thought were not up for grabs. simply because you have tens of thousands and in some cases hundreds of thousands new latino voters that did not exist four years ago. even in pennsylvania, where it is close, you have a good third of the latino electorate that is under the age of 35 in arizona, it is 40%. in nevada it is 30%. in texas it is close to 50% of latino vote is under the age of 35. you have a massive amount of groups that are not registered to vote. it is all about saying, the water is warm come in and register to vote and participate in the selection is

going to be decided by young people in these key states. even when you see a place like wisconsin. the reason that we got a supreme court was because all of the young people, young people of color, came out and said we want to revisit the supreme court. >> when you drill down is there, denomination of the issues ? talk about the, quote, young vote. is there some kind of, i guess, common denominator issues but is resonating with the younger latino vote that we see in other demographics? >> the number one issue back in april among 18 to 29-year-olds was housing the cost of housing. as we got it is because you want to move away from your house and parents. you want to live by yourself because you're tired of her mate. in our focus groups there was a young man who was 22 years old, a baggage claim carrier in phoenix, arizona. i speak about housing, i'm trying to balance my budget to see if i can afford my rent of

four one or two meals a day. that is really deep. it was not a surprise that kamala harris' campaign two weeks ago kate out on signature housing she recognizes that this multicultural generation of young people are facing issues that often times single mother's face. when we did the same survey, 35% of latino youth in the last year had to add government subsidies to their daily living. 22% went on to find another job they are not slackers. they are bearing the brunt of an economy and kamala harris is saying we are forgiving student loans. we are helping but we will also build out affordable housing for you. that sounds like a dog whistle for older people but this was literally 18, 20 and 29-year- olds. >> disinformation and misinformation campaigns are

happening on the spanish language. i am blessed to speak, read and write spanish. i am concerned that there is no real fact checking is going on. it is allowed to happen unfettered. our members that are being made by both campaigns to try to capitalize? fast language is the way that information is disseminated. >> on one side they are the perpetrators of this information. what of the things that the campaign is doing with kamala harris is they are like a lot of tiktok artists there bring in individuals to start about her agenda. one of the things that we have done since 2022 is that we actually started combating preservation identify everyday people who are here and say, what makes you think that? and then we do counter messaging. we found that by counter messaging, it is incredible intervention. not only can we convince people that the government works for them when they vote but they start spreading this information as well. at the end of the day what we find is that we live in such about a nice community of information sources that unless

we have people either constantly talking about the issues that they care about and you do have nefarious actors that fill that vacuum. >> i want to ask you about what i think is a patronizing and gross way that donald trump thinks he can court a minority vote. donald trump calls nikki jim a woman before they take the stage. was you don't know nikki jim is a man. he had endorsed donald trump to his millions of followers but then he took it down and delete it he got so far to say he is withdrawing the endorsement. it seems to be pandering i know there is a fine line between the sincerity trying to court a vote and the pandering with republicans. is there an insult to the intelligence to think that you want to put a star on the stage and that means i really understand you, latino vote ? >> this is one of the reasons why when he came out and called

him a woman, everyone was like, that actually tracks with you, donald trump heard you do not know who we are or the person that endorsed you. there is also backlash among the latino community against that endorsement and an incredibly popular band around the country said, we cannot work with you because this man, donald trump, is a direct threat to the likelihood of who we are as humans here in the united states. >> just as people. >> when we have these conversations and we do focus groups, the number one reason people were even interested in voting for rfk because he said trump is too racist for us. >> but then rfk -- >> that was when we were trying to figure out the moment this is what really exciting, the moment that kamala harris went to the top of the ticket, we saw a huge move from the third

party, which we expected. 80% kamala harris, 7% rfk -- they went 29% donald trump donald trump has a for middle opponent because she was taking from him. we are going to see a real political realignment and closing registration gaps in places like nevada, arizona and pennsylvania because she is on the top of the ticket. her story is not just something that they identify with. she is speaking to the issues that they chorally care about. >> maria teresa kumar a pleasure to spend time with you. thank you for coming here. coming up, republican rhetoric. my latest sidebar on white trump and the larger gop's concerning comments makes him uniquely unfit to govern in any part of what we call the united states of america. keep it right here. t here

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that disgusting scene has become the dna of the gop. what i now call republican rage rhetoric some republicans who through their actions, if not their word show that they do not respect women and they certainly deplore immigrants. >> we will get them out of our country. i will ban refugee resettlement from terror infested areas like the gaza strip. and we will seal our border and bring back the travel ban remember the famous travel ban at? we did not take people from certain areas of the world because i did not want to have people ripping down and burning our shopping centers and killing people but we are not taking them from infested countries. >> from infested countries. that is the cult leader and a publican nominee for president of the united states, donald trump that saying is true the fish rots from the head down. any credible thing is the racist and xena phobic rhetoric

is used as a tool and a scare tactic to convince people to vote. just listen. >> a lot of people coming from jails and of the congo in africa where you come from? the congo. were in the congo? we come from jail. what do you do? we will not tell you. they are coming from the middle east. the air coming from all over the world. asia, a lot of it coming from asia and what is happening is we are just destroying the fabric of life in our country. >> give me a shot, he says. it is like the line out of the division song all of confusion, vote for me and i will set you free. free to do what? to be racist? to be anti-immigrant? we owe so much to immigrants who helped build the foundation of this country. the operations manager seating is dangerous red meat for the republican base and some republicans do not care if it is true. here is j.d. vance on cnn discussing the baseless story about the immigrant community in

springfield, ohio, eating their neighbor's pet's. >> the american media totally ignored this stuff until donald trump and i start about cats. >> it was not just a -- >> i have to create stories so the american immediate pays attention to the suffering of the american people and that is what i will do because you guys are completely letting kamala harris coast. >> you said this is a story that you created. >> yes. we are creating -- it comes from first-hand accounts for my constituents. i say we are creating a story meaning we are creating the american media focusing on it >> so, they needed it. they created the stories. in springfield, ohio, officials say this the city has faced dozens of bomb threats preschools and buildings have been sheltered. and patient many, many interpret j.d. vance one of the two u.s. senators justifies perpetuating

the stories because, quote, the media was not focusing on their campaign enough. these are not the menu at running the nation. these are not the manual representing us on an international stage. >> if i do not win this election and the jewish people would really have a lot to do with that, if that happens. 40%, that means 60% of the people are voting for the enemy, israel, in my opinion will cease to exist within two years. >> the people voting for the enemy? kamala harris has been a prosecutor, and attorney general, u.s. senator and now the vice president of the united states in this climate of violence donald trump has reduced her to, quote, the enemy. i cannot tell you how to vote but i can show you who you are voting for. some of the republican party do not embrace the words inscribed on the statue of liberty give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. instead trump says that immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country trump says that some immigrants are not

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