final thoughts, walter. >> as i watched elections over our history, i've never seen one with so many surprises. we talk about an october surprise, we had it one after another, from biden dropping out to the assassination attempt. i'm looking at what will be the disruptive things. i think a war against iran in which china and iran and saudi arabia start aligning. that could be a really bad october surprise. if it's avoided, i think then things will be better for kamala harris. >> molly. >> i think he was on earlier today on the program, mike schmidt has a really important piece in the "new york times" about how donald trump could weaponize the justice department to go after his enemies. it's pretty horrifying and definitely worth reading. >> thank you, guys. we appreciate it. and thanks to all of you for watching us this morning all week long. that does it for us. we'll see you on monday.

ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. former president obama to hit the campaign trail for kamala harris. details of his 27-day battleground politics for the vp. new reporting on donald trump's high profile weekend rally returning to the site of the first assassination attempt in pennsylvania. also ahead, the death toll from helene climbs over 200, as hope fades that the missing will be found alive. and breaking news, israel launching massive strikes into lebanon overnight, this time, targeting the new head of hezbollah. good morning, you made it to friday. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and with just over a month to go, the presidential campaigns are seriously picking up the pace in the 2024 race. vice president harris in michigan this morning after campaigning late with an unlikely ally, former republican

congresswoman liz cheney, and we learned just this morning that one of the biggest names in the democratic party, former president barack obama, will head off and leave to the swing states, the blitz that's going to happen with vice president harris. he'll be in pennsylvania next week. and donald trump, meanwhile, is planning on his own high profile rally in pennsylvania this weekend, returning to the site of the attempted assassination in butler. nbc's peter alexander is covering the harris campaign this morning. our dasha burns is in butler, pennsylvania, ahead of trump's event there, and also with us, tara, democratic strategist and former apprentice candidate, and maura gillespie. what is the latest on the harris campaign's swing through the midwest? >> reporter: we know she's going to be in flint, michigan, later this evening. going to start her day in detroit, one of the three key blue wall states that's critical for her. be interesting to see who she

brings alongside her today after that historic moment where she was there in rippon, wisconsin, the neighboring state of wisconsin, obviously another key state there alongside liz cheney, the former cochair of the january 6th committee, the prominent daughter of the nation's staunchly conservative former vp, dick cheney, and she described this, alongside kamala harris, as a critical moment for this nation right now, and she was blistering in her criticisms of donald trump saying that he is petty, that he is vindictive, saying he is cruel and basically saying he is not fit to lead again. notably, she didn't just say it by herself. as i said, she did it alongside kamala harris from the first time a major prominent republican sharing the stage with harris like this. here's part of what we heard from her just yesterday. >> as someone who reveres our institution, i am honored to join her in this urgent cause.

what january 6th shows us is that there is not an ounce, not an ounce of compassion in donald trump. i served in the united states house of representatives for three terms. in other words, i was a republican even before donald trump started spray tanning. >> reporter: that punch line, obviously a laugh line for the democratic crowd, and the audience there. the hope is, by standing beside liz cheney, that kamala harris and tim walz are really able to reach out to some of those swing state republicans, those who may be undecided, specifically on the topic of january 6th. she said it was evidence that donald trump was not fit to lead and could never be trusted to lead the country again. in her words, quote, that was depravity. >> so, dasha, let's turn to trump and his campaign. he's in georgia today. then he'll return to butler, pennsylvania, on saturday, where you are now.

what more can you tell us? >> well, look, ana, the trump campaign is hoping to make this a monumental event. the guest list, the speakers list is long. it includes first responders. it includes the family of corey , and elon musk who says he's going to be attending. the biggest change is the security. the u.s. secret service is telling us that it will be significantly ramped up, that he's receiving the highest level of protection, they're using federal resources to staff up with personnel, to ramp up technologically, and local authorities are telling us there's a lot of focus on the communication which was the biggest failure back on july 13th. as we've been making our way around the site here, look, last time, you could walk around pretty easily. people could roam in and out of the rally site.

it's fully locked down. it's very difficult to get anywhere near the area. they're putting up physical barriers, barriers to block line of sight from outside the rally. just a massive difference here. we've also spent some time talking to people who went to the rally on july 13th. some of the folks that i interviewed in the aftermath that day, i was at that rally, and i was talking to people right after it all happened. i want you to hear from donna and her son joe, a mother/son that we interviewed on july 13th to talk about their experience since that day. so the last time i saw you guys was under very different circumstances. how are you doing now? >> i'm doing a lot better. i will say when i got back from the trump rally, it was very tough for me emotionally. i ended up in trauma therapy. the way i described it to my therapist, i says i can't get out of the bleachers. >> the words i had was i work in industrial, and banging of a

hammer, someone would drop something would make me jump, you know, almost started to run out of the damn building. >> reporter: so, ana, they are both coming back on saturday. they feel like it is part of the healing process. they want to go, but understandably there's still a lot of anxiety there, and donna says she's going to be looking around and watching the security protocols but she's excited to kind of take that final step in healing, ana. >> dasha burns, peter alexander, thanks for the reporting. maura, picking up where dasha left off here. we are 32 days out from the election, and pennsylvania is perhaps the key state, right, and we're hearing from a trump ally that he's a little worried maybe having the second rally in butler isn't the right place. it's just an opportunity for him to do a little bit more than the average rally. i don't have a ton of faith that it will be different. that's the part that gives me worry. >> this is following what could

have happened at the rnc convention. he could have taken the opportunity, maybe he will, i doubt it, he could take the opportunity to rise above the fray. he has been leading the charge of inflammatory rhetoric and disparaging comments. when it comes to this, you could take the charge here and say, i have made mistakes. now is the time to tone down the rhetoric, tamp down the political ire and he could use this platform to do that. i wish he would. i don't think he will. if this was an opportunity to do it, and reach people in the middle who don't love when he does that stuff, calling this person a bad guy, brian kemp included, that's not helpful down ballot, and also to the political discourse in this country. i would hope he would use his platform to do that. i guess i'm not too confident. >> also headed to pennsylvania next week, former president barack obama, how big of a boost could he be for harris on the

trail, given his popularity? >> they used to call him the campaigner in chief. that's his sweet spot. he was a great president, also excellent on the trail. what the harris/walz campaign is trying to do is continue the momentum and excitement. you want, as a campaign, what you want is your voters to vote because they want to go out and vote. they're excited to go out and vote. they're okay with waiting in line for two, three hours, which will happen because of the voter suppression laws that we're not talking enough about. you want people to do that. then you know they're going to show up. so what barack obama brings to the trail is just more excitement, more coverage that allows -- because you want to penetrate, too, right? it's really important. just because we're talking about it, and we're immersed in it doesn't mean everybody else is. you want to leave no stone unturned in reaching people so they know about your campaign and to continue to build excitement? >> so there's revving the base, and there's also expanding the base, right, and we saw vice president harris rally with liz

cheney yesterday. the harris camp also launching this new digital ad campaign geared at moderate republicans, and take a look at one of these ads shared exclusively with nbc news. >> i believe in small government, low taxes, and stay out of my life. i am a republican. i voted for donald trump and i went to his inauguration in 2016. we tried it for four years. it just didn't work. all of these billionaires are coming out of the woodwork to support trump, well, no shit, they want their tax breaks on the backs of the middle class. >> so, maura, do you think republican voters could be convinced to vote for harris with messages like that? >> i think they could be convinced not to vote for trump with messages like that. i don't necessarily think they're going to go ahead and vote for harris, and that's okay too. truthfully, i know that a lot of people have opinions about write in, when people go to the election booth, they don't have to hit the r button and go all the way down.

you can go across the aisle if you vote for a democrat at the top of the ticket, go senate, house, r, that's okay. we need to give a permission structure to republicans to let them know they don't have to go one down the line there. this is an important opportunity to reach moderate voters but also independents who aren't sure how they feel about either candidate. reminding them that donald trump sits in his ivory tower and espouses all of these things that he's not impacted by, housing prices and i think making things more relatable and recognizing what's really at stake with liz cheney talking about january 6th and things like that, that's how you could potentially reach them enough to vote for trump. >> still, there are some democrats who have expressed concern that vice president harris and her campaign are playing it too safe down this home stretch. quote, they are very cautious, person involved in harris's race said in her campaign. sometimes it seems like they can't walk and chew gum at the

same time. harris is willing to do whatever they ask her to do. she's in the wind me up and let me go. she's willing to do whatever it takes. tara, do you think there's more the vice president could be doing to reach voters? >> i think the campaign is leaving no stone unturned. i think the thing people miss is it's not enough to rev up your base and have a high turnout there. you also can't get blown out with certain groups of voters. when i was on the campaign trail with my candidates, we would go into areas where we knew we weren't going to win. but our goal was to keep the other person from getting as many votes. obviously we have electoral college at the presidential level. it's a bit different. it's not different when it comes to groups of voters. you cannot get blown out with white working class voters. no matter how many people say don't worry about that, you can't get blown out there. the numbers support there. biden increased his percentage there, and just by five points, and it made a difference. in an election like this, it's all about the margins. >> as we head into the weekend,

hard to believe we'll be under 30 days when we all come back to work and school and whatnot on monday. nice to have you both here. breaking in the middle east, israel unleashing massive strikes on lebanon overnight, the new hezbollah leader israel was targeting. plus, health after helene, we're on the ground with the latest efforts to get aid to the hardest hit areas. also ahead, congressman eric swalwell on jack smith's new filing on donald trump's federal election interference case. and later, the menendez brothers back in the spotlight. the new review of their murder case that might lead to resentencing or release. we're back in 90 seconds. clark. if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll definitely want to hear. depending on the plans available in your area, you may be eligible to get extra benefits with a humana medicare advantage dual-eligible special needs plan. most

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writer and nbc news contributor, human maj. so raf, give us the latest on the situation. >> reporter: ana, every day, israel's military is issuing new evacuation orders to lebanese civilians and while israel says that this is a targeted, limited operation aimed at hezbollah infrastructure just on the other side of the border behind me, many of these evacuation orders are for lebanese communities deep in the country, far away from the border. i'll give you an example, the regional capital of nabatia, a mid-sized city has been issued within a evacuation order, and this city is north of the letami river which is supposed to be the marker of the u.n. buffer zone to separate. the israeli military is telling people to evacuate. on this side of the border, we

are continue to go see evidence of a growing israeli military buildup. this operation began on monday, with relatively small groups of israeli commandos crossing the border. as we drive around northern israel, we are seeing dozens of tanks of armored personnel carriers, increasing evidence that this military operation is going to grow and grow. now, some 1,400 lebanese have been killed in israeli strikes over the last two weeks. that includes around 100 children. and hezbollah is fighting back. at this point around eleven israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting on that. it's taking out both senior and lower level hezbollah commanders and it is taking out hezbollah infrastructure on the other side of the border, including tunnels and weapons depots. i can tell you anecdotally, it does feel like there is less rocket fire now than there was a

couple of days ago. >> we saw some of the destruction there and the images of those strikes overnight. this morning, the idf is saying it was targeting hezbollah's new presumed leader. raf, what do we know about nasrallah's apparent successor? >> reporter: his name is hashem. he is a cousin of nasrallah. he is around 60 years old, a member of the militant group's top decision making body under nasrallah who was its supreme leader, and an israeli official tells me that in a series of major strikes last night, those southern suburbs of beirut, israel was targeting safadim and other surviving hezbollah leaders. as we speak, the israeli military is carrying out what they call a battle damage assessment, trying to figure out whether or not they killed safadim.

it is a sign, one, that israel is prepared to attack beirut on almost a daily basis now, something it refrained from doing for the first ten months of the war, and, two, it is absolutely determined to keep hunting down hezbollah leaders. >> raf sanchez, thank you for your reporting. stay safe, my friend. iran's supreme leader gave his first big speech and morning prayers that he had in the past five years this morning, in response to the strikes, in response to nasrallah being killed. talk to us about the significance of that, and what stood out to you in his message? >> defiance stood out in his message. it's very significant because the last time he gave a speech and did the friday prayer sermon was in 2020 when president trump ordered the hit on qassem soleimani, the irgc general. they considered that important enough for him to come out and do the friday sermon. again, today with the killing of nasrallah, it was important enough for the supreme leader to

come out. and it was a show of defiance, really. i mean, his words were very defiant towards israel, but it also illustrated his -- iran's support right now, the regime's support by having thousands upon thousands. i don't know if you have seen any of the photographs or video, literally hundreds of thousands of people came. spread out along a big distance to hear him speak. and among those people there were people on the reform camp, people who had been in a jail, who had been jailed by the regime. we're united, if israel decides to attack us because there have been rumors in the last few days, oh, israel is about to bomb iran, it's going to bomb residential areas, bomb oil fields, it's going to bomb infrastructure, it's going to bomb the nuclear sites, and this is where iranians have come together inside iran. the defiance is shown by the fact that today the foreign minister, along with the delegation flew into beirut.

they flew an iranian plane into beirut. israel controls the skies over beirut. >> and they have been doing all of these bombings in beirut. >> all of these bombings and they prevented an iran air passenger plane a few days ago from flying into beirut. there have been no flights other than middle eastern airlines going in and out of beirut for a few days, a few charters. this is the foreign minister of iran, along with senior parliamentarians, meeting with lebanese officials to show support. so this is also an act of defiance toward israel. >> so as we're seeing all of the fighting that israel is on the northern front in lebanon, in gaza, to its south. obviously they're preparing potential attack against iran as well. >> of some sort. >> of some sort. you talk about defiance, you talk about unity amongst allies of iran and iran leadership, is a new generation of extremists

being emboldened right now? >> it's possible. in terms of the resistance iran a has created, anti-palestinian sentiment that has been, the resistance to that, i think, yes, more people are going to be on the side of iran, especially if israel bombs iran. because iran is showing that it is not going to stand down whenever israel does something, which is either kill one of its allies or kill hamas leaders in teheran. so i think that's the message that iran is trying to get across, that we're not standing down. >> again, it's anybody's guess at this point, when and how israel is going to strike back against iran, but all signs point to something is coming. >> something is coming. >> thank you so much, great to have you, i appreciate it. up next on "ana cabrera

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developmentings -- developments in the aftermath of helene.

vice president harris will travel to survey the damage. on the left, how things were a week ago before helene carved a path of destruction through the southeast. on the right, scenes of that total destruction in some areas. this morning, the death toll from this storm stands at 215 and is still climbing. on the ground, rescue teams are race to go reach remote communities, still isolated desperate for water and supplies. in georgia, the governor describes almost a complete loss of crops. nbc's antonia hylton joins us from asheville, north carolina, and are we seeing any improvements, especially in the water crisis? >> reporter: ana, there have been some, and officials here have been working on that around the clock because of the harm done to the water treatment plants here, but the reality is that thousands of people are still without water. those who are getting some are in most cases boiling it before they use it because there's a lot of fear about contamination.

to give you a sense, look behind me here. there's devastation in areas. the buildings behind that you can see are still structurally sound, when you go inside them, they are caked with mud. some cases so much mud and so much flooding that furniture has been pushed up to the roof of those buildings. so as you see people working behind me here to clean the debris. there are also artists putting on hazmat suits and going inside this, to try to salvage what may be left. it's overwhelming. take a listen to a conversation i had this morning with one of those artists. >> the river arts district is my second home. i live a little ways north in weaverville, but i spent a lot of time in this studio, and i went in there. it's hard to look at. there's just mud on everything. there's just paintings laying outside on the ground here that people have pulled out. i know all of my artist friends are struggling right now, they

have lost their life's work. it's hard. >> reporter: and to give you a sense of just how hard it has been for first responders for the national guard to actually reach people and bring them supplies, our team got the chance to travel yesterday in a black hawk helicopter to see some of this, you know, from the highest and best vantage point you possibly could, and when you look down and see in the mountainous regions, ana, you can see how challenging it is. to find survivors, you can spot the roads that have been blocked off, the communities that have become landlocked. it's hard to find a place a helicopter can safely land, check on who's there, bring them supplies. while there's thousands of federal workers here supporting all the other private and local community groups here, there are these immense sort of physical and geographical challenges. so it means getting water bottles, getting supplies and support, medicine to people. it is an hour-by-hour situation and it's going to take days if not weeks. >> all of that behind you, here we are a week after the storm

struck, and cars toppled, the furniture up to the ceiling of the buildings, still standing because of the mud. antonia hylton, it's like where do they begin. the need is so great there and beyond. antonia hylton, thank you for that reporting. joining us now, someone who's trying to help, rob gode, who leads the ground force aid volunteer group, on the ground in spruce pine, north carolina, about 50 miles northeast of asheville. rob, i don't know where to begin when we think about where we're at a week after hurricane helene came through. what are you seeing? what are your biggest challenges? >> well, and i'll just start off by saying i'm at the eoc meeting in spruce pine right now. just ten minutes ago i heard they're still doing rescue. it's been a week. rescue means there are still people unfound that they believe could be alive, and that's a strong statement. i've never heard anything like that being a week into a

disaster. what we're seeing is roads closed. we had to map a route that added an hour and a half to our journey for our volunteers to get here to understand how to tell volunteers to come in to help, and the people here, you know, the trees fall across these -- the hollers in the roads that lead into these communities, and, you know, if they don't have cell coverage, they can't call and say, we're trapped. you have to find them, know where the roads are, and you need local community members that understand those roads, and when there's 100, 200 trees across the roads, it's an incredibly difficult task. >> do you have any sense of how many people are in those areas still trapped? >> you know, i don't think anybody does. there's still people being found. there's still bodies. a lot of -- there's still a lot of volunteers coming in that want to help. again, a weekend we have never had this -- i think this much of an outpouring of volunteer

support that just want to come in and help. that's really what needs to happen. i can tell you, our group has been welcomed. we have come in, we have met with officials, and they have opened the door for us. they actually came and invited us to come to this meeting today here in spruce pine, which is only 10 minutes from our location. >> what do you think is the best way for people to help, and where does your organization fit into kind of the bigger picture given all of these different organizations, government agent -- agencies that are trying to approach wan all hands on deck mentality. >> there's the commercial side, and then there's the nonprofit side. we're on the nonprofit side, you know, our partners are already here. the guys running the air show, the helicopter, operation air drop, they're partners of ours, and they all work together. we're the last mile.

we're called the ground force now. ground force humanitarian aid. i was one of the original founders, from lafayette, louisiana, we're now ground force because that is what we are. we come in, and we know how to make things happen. we do it in a measured and thoughtful way, and we work with authorities to do that. that's so important to understand that you're a much more effective when you understand what has already been done, and how you can help, rather than just showing up to help. in the early days, all hands on deck, i think as time goes on, it's really important to -- and you save your volunteers time, you save your resources. the best way people can help is to donate, and volunteer. supplies are coming in by the plane, shim, truck, helicopter, but volunteer hands are going to be needed for the long term. and really volunteerism is probably the best thing that can

be done. we have a strategy for engaging hundreds of volunteers. >> rob, thank you for what you're doing, and for taking the time with us this morning. good luck as you continue to help these communities. to all of you out there listening to these stories, you can see how you can help those affected by hurricane helene by scanning that qr code that's there on your screen right now. we're following two breaking economic stories this morning, starting with a block buster september jobs report. the labor market growing by 254,000 jobs last month, far out pacing projections, and a tentative deal to suspend the dock worker strike from maine to texas, getting more than 60,000 longshoremen back on the job. here to talk about both of these stories, nbc senior business correspondent christine romans. this job report far exceeding expectations. what does that mean for the economy overall, and interest

rates just now coming down? >> it means the economy is sturdier than we thought. we were worried about the down shift, and we're not seeing it. if you look at the year, the monthly average is a little over 200,000 jobs added a year. that is quarter million jobs in one month. sturdy job market. when you look inside these numbers, again, the unemployment rate at 4.1%, near a 50-year low, and some of the wage growth, 4%. some of the sectors are quite strong. this is leisure and hospitality. this is restaurants and bars added quite a few jobs here. health care, government, and construction, all jobs added there, pretty widespread, so, i mean, i would say the federal reserve with all of those months of high interest rates, still seeing a job market this sturdy must be, you know, must be thinking -- they were worried they were going to hurt the job market with high interest rates, and it's still hanging in there. >> the other big news, dock workers reaching a deal,

suspending their strike. supply chains were feeling the pressure from a few days of disruption. when might we see them stabilize? >> those dock workers are going back to work. it will take days to clear out the backlog. a big sigh of relief for the american economy heading into the end of the year. i have been talking to small business owners, middle-sized factory owners who were concerned they had products on the ships, get them on rail cars and get them to their destination. this is really kind of dodging a big bullet, a risk in the u.s. economy heading into the end of the year has been eliminated and that is certainly a good sign, especially when we look and see these overall numbers that are still sturdy, still hanging in there. so two good beats for the economy today, i would say. >> thanks for that good news today, christie romans. next on ana cabrera, congressman swalwell will join us on special counsel jack

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welcome back, donald trump's legal team has more time to respond to his sweeping court filing by the special counsel in the federal election interference case. judge tanya chutkan granting trump's request to delay respond to go jack smith's bomb shell until after november's election. the special counsel filing lays out new evidence that trump, quote, resorted to crimes to stay in office. the former president is, again, accusing the special counsel and the department of justice of election interference. joining us now is california congressman eric swalwell who served as an impeachment manager in trump's second impeachment trial following the january 6th

insurrection. congressman, good to see you. let's start with the filing itself. what stood out to you the most in this trove of new evidence that was put forward by the special counsel? >> two things, ana, one was the amount of people around him in his inner circle who he was listening to, who were working overtime to try and defy the will of the voters. you know, individuals who were saying, make him riot as well as the president's own acknowledgment that he knew these claims were crazy, which shows you that this was never about a unique belief that he had actually won the election. it was just a selfish belief that he should remain in power, in defiance and counter to the will of the voters. >> trump says the timing of this latest filing by the special counsel amounts to election interference by jack smith and the doj, what do you say to that?

>> election interference is when the american people in a landslide, not just in the popular vote by over 70 electoral votes, elect joe biden as president, and you violently send your supporters to storm the capital to overturn the will of the voters. that's election interference. there's something i will never forget about that second impeachment is the managers were getting ready the night before the senate trial. an i.t. vendor, a contractor, is showing us a room just off the senate floor where we were to work, and they were showing us how to use the printers, how to use the remote for the television. i of course had to ask what the wi-fi password was and they told me the network was called managers, and i pulled this young man aside after he set up the room, and i told him it was so wonderful that we had just impeached the former president and they had put this room together so quickly for us to work out of. and this 23-year-old who was not a partisan at all, he looked at

me, ana, and he said, well, we were the team that did the first impeachment, and to be honest, we kept everything up because we figured you-all would be back. and that's what this is about is that we all know that young nonpartisan contractor knew who donald trump was and that he would, again, commit crimes. and so we have an opportunity as a country now in this upcoming election, knowing what he's done in the past, will we allow him to come back and commit more crimes against the country. >> the choice is up to the voters about who leads in the next chapter. the first time we have been hearing the former president alleging election interference, he's called the many legal cases, we have been covering all election interference. he suggested the secret service was interfering in the election when he had to move an indoor or outdoor rally indoors for the sake of security. he's claimed google is interfering, pointing to more bad stories he says that are about him, and good stories about vice president harris.

in fact, we have counted more than a dozen examples of claims like this. what do you think this is all about? >> what he calls election interference is either democracy protection or his own security measures. by the way, this timing by jack smith's filings in this case is a timetable that donald trump created because he believed he was king, and because he believed he had at least three supreme court justices who he put on the court, working on his palm, he challenged the idea of a president not being completely immune, and so he delayed his own trial, and the timing just so happened to be a couple of weeks before the election that this trial would restart up. this could have been tried months ago, and could have been resolved. if he was so innocent, he could have been acquitted by now. it was his own timetable, and he's paying the price for the colleague. >> liz cheney just campaigned

alongside vice president harris in wisconsin yesterday, in a town known as the birthplace of the republican party. here was part of her message. >> he told the justice department to lie for him. he conspired to have fake electoral votes cast. and he corruptly pressured his vice president to take illegal and unconstitutional actions. he summoned a mob to washington, d.c. with his lies. and he sent the armed mob to the united states capital in an effort to stop the counting of electoral votes. as the violent mob attacked our capitol, in donald trump's name. >> congressman, how much of an impact do you think she could make with conservatives who may just want this topic to go away? >> well, it's going to be a big impact, and i was raised in a conservative family, i married a girl from a conservative town in

southern indiana. and real conservatives believe in small government, a rule of law, and that the united states is strong in the world, and donald trump subscribes to none of that. i really admire what liz cheney is doing because she is risking her personal security. she's thrown away any chance of ever being elected again within the republican party because she's putting her country over party. and, ana, i'll never forget, right after january 6th, we had a critical vote around what had happened on january 6th, and liz was there with her father, former vice president cheney who has floor privileges to sit on the floor. and i watched as almost every single one of my democratic colleagues who probably spoke out when vice president cheney was the vice president for, you know, his role in the iraq war, there was a line on the house floor to go over and shake his hand and thank he and his

daughter for what they were doing. and so that shows, again, this is about not a political party but rather about our country and what we value. >> congressman eric swalwell, thank you very much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> we appreciate it. now to the boss weighing in from new jersey, music legend bruce springsteen thinks donald trump's glory days have passed him by. in a social media post, he officially endorsed vice president harris, and blasted trump. >> donald trump is the most dangerous candidate for president in my lifetime. his disdain for the sanctity of our constitution, the sanctity of democracy, the sanctity of the rule of law, and the sanctity of peaceful transfer of power should disqualify him from the office of president ever again. >> springsteen has a long history of supporting democrats. he says harris' vision for

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menendez brothers. erik and lyle menendez are serving life sentences for shooting and killing their parents in 1989. the los angeles district attorney says he will reveal new evidence in this case, after it was re-examined in a new netflix series and a high profile celebrity called for the brothers' release. nbc news entertainment correspondent chloe melas has more. >> reporter: the district attorney said he is looking at this with an open mind and revealing details about that new evidence. in another sign that the case returned to the spotlight, kim kardashian has been involved, recently visiting the prison where the brothers are incarcerated. and overnight, publishing a personal essay on nbc news for them to be set free. the menendez brothers' legal saga taking another turn this morning. l.a. county district attorney george gascone announcing his office will review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were sexually abused by their father, opening

the door to a possible re-evaluation of their sentence. >> i'm keeping an open mind. we have people in the office that are looking at this very carefully, very experienced lawyers that are looking at this. >> reporter: he says the potential evidence includes a copy of a letter allegedly sent by erik in 1988, and an affidavit from a former member of menudo, and kim kardashian saying the brothers had no chance of a fair trial and the media environment of 1990s los angeles. the media turned the brothers into monsters and sensationalized eye candy, she writes, two arrogant rich kids from beverly hills who killed their parents out of greed. while the killings are not excusable, she continues, i don't believe that spending their entire natural lives incarcerated was the right punishment for this complex case. the case receiving renewed attention, following netflix's scripted series "monsters." >> i came home and found them.

>> reporter: the show criticized by the real life counterparts with erik calling it a dishonest portrayal of a tragedy surrounding our crime. the series co-creator ryan murphy taking a different view saying we gave them their moment in the court of public opinion, now saying i think they can be out of prison by christmas, i really believe that. last month, kardashian visited the california prison where the brothers are serving life sentences, meeting with erik and lyle with dozens of other inmates. the actor who plays erik on the netflix show opened up on "today" about the experience. >> it was very emotional and they were all so vulnerable and so kind and i got to meet erik and lyle. >> reporter: after decades in prison, new hope for the convicted killers as evidence never seen at trial is now being looked at with fresh eyes. there is a hearing on the brothers' bid for freedom set for november. the d.a. says he's not going to pass judgment on how the case was handled in the '90s, but also mentioned that there is no question that there would have been a, quote, greater level of

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