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tonight on "the reidout" -- >> watch his rallies. he spends full time engaged in grievance about what has happened to him. he spends full time perpetuating lies and misinformation. he spends full time talking about fictional characters, you know, i mean -- >> name calling. >> and name calling and demeaning people, belittling people. what he does not talk about is you. >> vice president kamala harris on "the view" today with a strong rebuke for donald trump. part of a wide-ranging media blitz that included 60 minutes last night and howard stern and stephen colbert today. meanwhile, donald trump skipping 60 minutes because he didn't want to be fact checked. plus, stunning revelations in bob woodward's new book including details on how trump

secretly sent covid tests to vladimir putin when those tests were still so hard for americans to obtain. and then trump secretly stayed in touch with putin after leaving office. and the texas senate race is surprisingly close. we're going to talk to ted cruz's opponent, congressman colin allred. we begin tonight with just four weeks to go until election day. a number of states have already begun early voting and as the candidate make their final sprint to the finish line, now is the critical time for each to get in front of as many voters as possible to make their case. today, vice president kamala harris continued her media blitz in an effort to reach a wide variety of audiences on different platforms. this morning, she joined the ladies of "the view" where she rolled out a new policy about expanding medicare to cover the cost of long term care at home. >> to your point about being in the sandwich generation, there

are so many people in our country who are right in the middle, they're taking care of their kids and taking care of their aging parents. and it's just almost impossible to do it all. especially if they work. we're finding that so many are then having to leave their job, which means losing a source of income. not to mention the emotional stress. and so what i am proposing is that basically what we will do is allow medicare to cover in-home health care. >> finally. >> right. >> she then went on the howard stern show on sirius xm, discussing an array of topics including what she thinks this election is all about. >> i do believe that this is an election that is about strength versus weakness. >> yeah. >> and weakness as projected by someone who puts himself in front of the american people and

does not have the strength to stand in defense of their needs, their dreams, their desires. the work that must happen to make sure that we are a secure nation, that we are nurturing and protecting our alliances around the world, that we are supporting america's military, that we are fighting to bring the cost of living down for working families. that we're building businesses, building growth. >> she will also appear on the late show with stephen colbert tonight. this comes after harris already appeared on the podcast call her daddy, one of the most popular podcasts in the country, especially among women. and after appearing last night on "60 minutes." an interview that all major party candidates for president have done for more than half a century. that is, until donald trump canceled last week. among the various reasons why,

according to truffle's campaign, is that 60 minutes, a news program, would have the audacity to fact check the interview. here's the reality. trump could do the interview because at this point, he requires the safety of his maga security blanket. yes, trump may have done a number of interviews but they're almost always with conservative outlets and trump supporters. most recently with fox's laura ingraham last night and right wing podcaster ben shapiro today. all trump is doing is speaking to his base and his die hard supporters as he faces softball questions with little to no pushback or no follow-up at all. allowing him to just regurgitate alternative facts and misinformation with each breath. the two campaign strategies couldn't be more different. one is trying to reach out to diverse audiences while continuing to roll out substantial new policies. the other is remaining in his

echo chamber, repeating the same debunked lies in an effort to inflame voters with his deceit. joining me now is fernand amandi, democratic pollster and msnbc political analyst. molly jong fast, vanity fair special correspondent, and tara setmayer, cofounder and ceo of the seneca project and a former gop director. my thanks to this fantastic panel. i'm going to start with you, molly. we're going to play scott pely. his explanation of why trump pulled out of the "60 minutes" interview. >> the campaign offered shifting explanations, first, it complained that we would fact check the interview. we fact check every story. later, trump said he needed an apology for his interview in 2020. trump claims correspondent leslie stahl said in that interview that hunter biden's controversial laptop came from

russia. she never said that. trump has said his opponent doesn't do interviews because she can't handle them. he had previously declined another debate with harris, so tonight may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and election day. >> i mean, molly, that was a doozy, number one. but let's be clear. if kamala harris were to pull out of that "60 minutes" interview, the media would lose their minds. many in legacy media have been super critical of harris for not doing a lot of interviews, so they say. when in fact, the truth is donald trump is the one who continues to refuse to sit down with anyone who is not a friendly face. sounds like yet another double standard. >> yeah, i mean, look, trump is always compared to -- always given a pass, compared to a normal candidate. he always gets away with stuff that a normal candidate would

not. what's important about harris and her strategy which i think is very smart, she's going to where voters are. where the voters she needs are. for example, howard stern has a lot of white non-college educated men. that's a demographic that she's going to. can call her daddy was actually a really brilliant strategy because those are women of child bearing, reproductive age largely, though older women listen to it too. and they need to know about the project 2025. and the plans that this republican president would enact if he were elected. >> fernand, trump refuses to do the 60 minutes interview, complaining he's going to be fact checked. he complained about being fact checked at the debate. looks like he's never going do another debate. is it because he's a pathological liar and can't tell the truth or is he just too scared to be in a format or platform where he's never going to be able to just run his mouth with impunity or both? >> he was a pathological liar in

2016, in 2020, and has been ever since. i'm not so sure it's that as much it is trump showed in that debate that there was a way to get to him. which is to make these crazy kind of appeals to ego that he quickly jumps on. he also understands if he's in any kind of what you might call a legitimate media journalistic environment where he's called on the carpet for a statement he made in the past, he falls apart. i think this is as much a campaign decision by the trump campaign as it is a trump decision. >> you think he's listening to people telling him not to do this? >> i absolutely do. and i think trump even himself recognizes the more people see him, the more people hear him, the worse he's going to do in this campaign. they're trying to hide him now and see what they can do to get him across the finish line. that debate was revelatory, that's why kamala harris is desperate to have more debates and why trump has backed out of

any opportunity to go one woun again with kamala harris. >> like his campaign is like weekend at bernies getting him across the finish line. it's not just interviews. axios did a study of how many rallies trump has held this campaign cycle compared to 2016, and you can see it up on the screen right now. this was back in september, and it's substantially less. even in the friendliest environments when he has a tell aprompter, a crowd of fans and no interruptions, trump still doesn't perform on the level he once did. i want to emphasize the verb perform. are his advisers, to fernand's point, telling him to limit his exposure or in my opinion, i don't think the guy can do it anymore. >> yeah, i think it's a combination of both. it's clear that donald trump is not the same guy that he was in 2016 or even '20. it's deteriorated considerably. even his bronzer isn't as good. he's struggling and we see it happening in the way he talks, the way he misspeaks.

he's rambling more, slurring his words more. trump is not well. and his advisers see that. the more he's out there, the more people see it. he just physically cannot do it. he tries to blame everybody else. he blamed the secret service. he's blaming the venues, blaming democrats, blaming the weather. whatever. instead of the fact he can't handle it anymore. and he is the oldest person now in this race. he does not have joe biden as a crutch to blame for being the one that is too old and unfit to do the job. that's why he's obsessed with constantly bringing up joe biden and constantly projecting about how come they just switched him out? because now you're the old guy and everybody can see it. it's more pronounced. and the other thing too about this is i don't know necessarily that he's listening to his advisers, that he understands and recognizes that he can't do it. i think they know how to stroke his ego enough because he will never admit that he's not good enough. he'll never admit he's failing.

he'll triple and double down. he'll say he's the best, that he's better looking than harris, whatever nonsense he was saying. he'll never admit that. instead they're putting him in areas where he is adored. we know that the adulation is his fuel. so they're limiting the rallies by manipulating it in a way that makes it seem as though he's in friendly territory so he's still around people who adore him. i don't see how this straltagy is adding voters. the more he's out there, the more people are repelled by him. the other people who are the boot liquors that are just there to make him feel good about himself, they're figuring out a way to shield him so he doesn't have to look in the mirror literally and see how terrible everything looks for him. and that is something that i think there's a double standard here because we're actually talking about kamala harris maybe making a couple missteps during her view interview today or she's out on a media blitz

because she has to have more policy. but donald trump has said a series of insane things in it last five days including talking about bad genes for migrants and lying about hurricane disaster relief that can cost lives but we're not talking utthat. we're nit-picking kamala harris' policy positions. i think that has a factor also, it plays a role also. it's a double standard. >> let me be clear. there's no nit-picking going on from me when it comes to that. and let me be clear, the rally goers are also leaving his rallies too. so even in the rallies they're not staying. quickly before break, you know, one of his friendly interviews, though, was last night with fox's laura ingraham, and he actually did get some pushback on the misinformation he's been spreading about the biden/harris hurricane response. molly, if he can't even get a friendly face in laura ingraham on fox, if you lose your fox crowd and you're fact checked on fox, do you think it's making a difference to the people watching him on that place?

>> that was an amazing moment. i actually didn't believe it, and i had to fact check it myself because i couldn't believe that that had actually happened. you have to wonder, like, how many lawsuits, at what point does fox just say, we have to fact check this? and look, it was about the hurricane. he and his allies have spread a lot of misinformation about the hurricane and cnn had a piece about all the sort of the whole week of lies about that last hurricane. which is really dangerous. and really, really scary, and there is another hurricane coming, so it really is just so perilous, and i did think it was an incredible moment to see her fact check him, and again, the lie was harris wasn't in north carolina and in fact she was. >> that was also important, too, because it's impacting his voters, and fox news viewers. i think they were giving him a mulligan on that because they

don't want to see their viewers and his voters suffering also, trying to give him an out on that. that's my cynical take. >> we don't want anyone suffering. don't go anywhere, we have much more on kamala harris' media blitz. that's coming up next. ow white . and let me tell you, they feel amazing.

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my panel is back with me now. fernand, molly, and tara.

fernand, kamala harris was on "the view" today, and she actually responded to trump's lies about fema on "the view." take a quick listen. >> it's profound and it is the height of irresponsibility, and frankly, callousness. people are losing their home with no hope of ever being able to reconstruct or return. and the idea that somebody would be playing political games for the sake of himself, but this is so consistent about donald trump. he puts himself before the needs of others. i fear that he really lacks empathy. on a very basic level, to care about the suffering of other people and then understand the role of a leader. >> fernand, as a fellow floridian, we have been preparing for a category 5 storm. kamala harris has such a great point, though. as a leader, you don't just represent republicans, if you're a republican.

you represent all fellow americans. but the absurdity we have been hearing is that the whining and complaining from the republicans that this has been a completely political or this has been the politicization of these storms and yet we even have ron desantis that won't take kamala harris' phone calls. >> this is divide and conquer politics. their used to be some safe zones you would never politicize, foreign affairs especially when the american president was traveling overseas or natural disasters, anything that impacted at home. the trump philosophy has always been as follows. democrats are incompetent. joe biden and kamala harris do not know how to administer so they have to create this lie world, this alternative reality where the economy is in the tank despite the fact the economy is stronger than anywhere in the world today. that the administration is incapable of responding to events, which is absolutely untrue. we have seen the response in western north carolina. it's massive. it's unprecedented. and it was immediate, unlike what we saw in the trump years

where the responses to these natural disasters were slow and halting and president trump -- >> if at all. >> then he would play favorites. we know of circumstances, in north carolina when he was president, he didn't want to send money because it was a democratic governor he didn't want to give a win to. this is part and parcel of the trump playbook. divide and conquer and lie, lie, lie. the problem now, katie, is you have other sources that are amplifying that, willingly. elon musk and x is using his platform to disseminate and triple down on these lies. so that's the problem that we're seeing today, and they're being protected also by the right-wing media systems. fox news and other that are amplifying these lies. >> i want to make sure people understand this is exactly the truth. fema has provided more than $286 million with an additional $180 million in mission assignments to federal partners with nearly 7,000 federal personnel deployed

including fema staff. there's been a huge, as you say, response from fema. so molly, trump also said in an interview with hugh hewitt yesterday that he's been to gaza. but "the new york times" fact checked trump's worst nightmare here, fact checked what trump said. they said there's no record of trump going to gaza, and when asked to clarify, a campaign aide said that gaza is, quote, in israel. and because trump has visited israel, well, you know. molly, trump lies like he breathes. at the same time, and this is the double standard we have been talking about. tim walz gets dinged because he made comments about visiting tiananmen square in the '80s, which was a while ago. molly, trump's comments about visiting gaza, why are they not getting the same treatment? >> it's a false equivalency. the difference between making a mistake or you see a news outlet will make a mistake and

apologize, versus brazen lying propaganda. and it's really unbelievable. it happens all the time. look, i thing it's important to mention, if harris had done this, people would be losing their minds. and i also think, we talked about this earlier. trump is diminished. he's the oldest person ever to run for president now. he's the oldest person ever to run for president. so he is not the person he was in 2016, and i think you see that with questions like this, with answers like he's been to a place he's never been to. >> yeah, and tara, here's the thing. you keep on hearing criticism coming from the republicans and the gop about the fact that kamala harris is going to untraditional media platforms to be able to speak to americans. i think it's been a brilliant strategy to be able to reach voters that maybe aren't the typical person that would be somebody listening to her in the immediate sense. but the hypocrisy is so rank in

my opinion. just because it may be an untraditional place like a podcast, like call her daddy or even the howard stern show, in my opinion, and i'm asking you, if it's a conversation where she doesn't get the questions in advance and there's no issue that's off the table, why does it make it less of a quality conversation? >> it doesn't. it is a smart strategy. she's legit meeting people where they are. the call me daddy podcast gets 5 million downloads a week. donald trump is ranting like a lunatic on a fake social media site that he created as a way to like hide money. are you kidding? they're talking about that? they're going after kamala harris, who has gone on 60 minutes, been interviewed by cnn, who hasn't refused to debate, who does real interviews and is also employing a new modern day media strategy. meanwhile, donald trump is doing

things that are not appealing to mainstream voters. and he's on alt-right social media outlets. like, the false equivalency here is laughable, and they're just matt because they can't put donald trump into these other venues because he can't handle it. period. and she can. >> it would go down the toilet super fast for donald trump. my fantastic panel, thank you so much for being with me tonight and getting us started. coming up, legendary journalist bod woodward is providing yet another behind the scenes look at the presidency with shocking revelations from both trump and biden's time in the oval. that's coming up next. ♪♪ four — i want options — nonsurgical options. and five... and if nonsurgical treatment isn't offered? ♪♪ i'll get a second opinion. let's go!

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. a new book by legendary journalist bob woodward spares no one. the book titled "war" revealed candid behind the scenes conversations with former president trump, president biden, vladimir putin, and benjamin netanyahu. but the particularly damning sections show just how cozy trump got with putin even after trump lost the election. per woodward's reporting, trump while still in office secretly sent vladimir putin what were then rare covid-19 tests for the russian leader's personal use. in early 2024, trump ordered an

aide away from his office at mar-a-lago so he could conduct a private phone call with the russian leader. the unnamed aide for trump cited in the book also indicated that trump may have spoken to putin as many as seven times since trump left the white house in 2021. joining me now is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard and tom nichols, staff writer for the atlantic. good to see you both. vaughn, we have less than four weeks until the election, and amid risha's war in ukraine, we're learning new details about trump's relationship with vladimir putin. what have you been hearing about this book? >> i think first off, when it comes to those conversations that donald trump reportedly based off bob woodward's reporting had with vladimir putin, seven conversations bob woodward says since he left the white house in 2021, i have reached out to three different campaign officials for donald trump and asked them specifically to deny that

reporting. and there has been silence over the course of these last hours to that very specific report. they have issued a blanket denial of all of the stories but this is a lengthy book here. i think it's important context because donald trump throughout the last, especially two years, has maintained conversations with other foreign leaders and former foreign leaders including the likes of president zelenskyy and now based off bob woodward's new book, vladimir putin. of course, there's concerns around potentially the logan act which is what got michael flynn, led to his resignation in 2017 for having back channel conversations as an incoming national security adviser during the 2017 transition with the russians here. now, there are questions about the extent to which there could be potentially a violation of the logan act which is private citizens improperly influencing u.s. foreign policy. >> you know, tom, i thought this was an important conversation to have with you specifically because the alarm bells always go off when it comes to the

putin/trump bromance, and putting aside my own personal opinion, which i get troubled by woodward having the book come out less than 30 days before the election, which this information would have been beneficial a while ago, but how should americans going into the election in november and especially ukrainians, how much should we be worried about now even bigger red flags about the relationship between donald trump and vladimir putin if trump gets back into the oval office? >> what more does trump have to do to make it clear that his sympathies lie with one of america's greatest enemies? you know, it's just remarkable that he does this, and there is simply no blowback within a party that used to be the party of national security, the party that was about holding back the kremlin and russian expansionism, and i think people ought to be deeply concerned, if he's calling putin or putin is calling hip, and they're

maintaining this relationship, you know, while trump is out of office, this can't possibly be a healthy thing. no other president would do things like this, certainly not without backfilling and talking to the current president. america only has one president at a time, but apparently, trump thinks it's him. >> you know, vaughn, something that was equally as alarming at least for me is this idea that trump has this cozy relationship with repressive men, but he's giving them burning phones? i'm reading these excerpts where i'm seeing there's a burner phone for mds and a phone that says trump 45. there's all these things coming out which means it's not just the trump/putin kind of angle. it's trump and mbs and it's very troubling to see that these strong men are yet another bromance for donald trump. >> and donald trump has been quite public about this, if i may. he's talked about viktor orban

and their relationship and also has welcomed viktor orban to his mar-a-lago estate twice. of course, two weeks ago at trump tower, he held almost a dueling bilateral meeting with president zelenskyy, and the ukrainian president, and the ukrainians are under no guise that there could very well be in 2025 a president donald trump that they will rely on not only financial aid for but also regional support. and for donald trump, you know, two weeks ago i asked him about his meeting with zelenskyy and whether he explicitly urged zelenskyy to be prepared to cede ukrainian territory to russia in order to bring russia's war and aggression, invasion of ukraine to an end, and he refused to answer that very specific question. we still do not have a good understanding of exactly what donald trump told president zelenskyy behind closed doors, and you can make the case that

it's not in zelenskyy's interest to publicly broadcast the words of donald trump either here. there are serious conversations about what the former president and the individual who is not currently occupying the white house is engaged with diplomatically and potentially promising to these foreign leaders as to what a trump administration would look like in its posture towards u.s. relations with them. >> we know what that would like like, right, tom? one of the more alarming allegations came from an on again/off again ally, lindsey graham. it quotes him asaying going to mar-a-lago is a little bit like going to north korea. everybody stands up and claps every time trump comes in. as a reminder to our folks at home, this is how kim jong-un is greeted in north korea. lindsay graham in describing trump's residence in florida is invoking, all kidding aside, a brutal cult-like forum of authoritarianism which again i'm not surprised is happening at a

place like mar-a-lago. >> yeah, and it suggests that aside from sort of the kind of weirdly comical nature of people at a golf club standing and clapping every time donald trump walks in, it also tells you that in a second trump administration, these are the people that are going to surround him. these -- you're not going to have people who say, mr. president, this is a bad idea. mr. president, this is a dangerous idea. you're going to have people that every time trump walks in, they're going to clap and coddle him and make sure that he feels properly appreciated. and that's really a bad thing in a white house because you need honest advice. you need sober and solid people around you. and that's clearly not what this is going to be. the whole point here is to get donald trump re-elected as some form of revenge, as well as to keep him out of jail. and that's just going to be completely unhealthy environment, and dangerous for this country.

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this could be the worst storm in over a century. if you're under evacuation orders you should evacuate now. now, now. you should have already evacuated. it's a matter of life and death. that's not hipersonally. it's a matter of life and death. >> president biden joined the long list of officials warning residents of florida's west coast about the monster headed their way. hurricane milton. the extremely powerful category 5 hurricane is on track to roar into florida tomorrow evening. the national hurricane center is warning residents to get out while they can today. highways in the tampa area have been clogged with bumper to bumper traffic of people heeding warnings and fleeing inland.

tampa hasn't faced a direct hit from a hurricane since 1921. but milton is shaping up to be a once in a century storm. the kind that scientists have been warning about due to the climate crisis. one in a deadly trend of rapidly intensifying storms caused by warming sea temperatures from human caused climate change. i'm joined by john morales. you're very busy, so it's especially grateful for you taking the time. obviously, we know you got very emotional describing milton's intensity on monday. let's take a quick listen to what the mayor of tampa said about the storm last night. >> helene was a wake-up call. this is literally catastrophic and i can say without any dramatization whatsoever, if you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you're going

to die. >> i mean, john. that's not hyperbole. i had andrew in '92 when i lost my home. what do you want to make sure people in the path of hurricane milton understand about the intense tay and the strength of this particular hurricane? >> there's a lot of factors that are driving this system to be one that could be exceptionally damaging. perhaps even setting a new record that was just set two years ago for the most damaging hurricane in the history of the state of florida. that was hurricane ian, of course, just two years ago. keep in mind, folks in the tampa area had a seven-foot storm surge with hurricane helene. many people basically did not think that could ever happen. but it does happen, and this one could be double in size. now, the track is going to be extremely important in terms of whether tampa and surrounding areas in tampa bay will get that

extreme 10 to 15-foot storm surge or totally escape because they could. if it goes south of tampa, they're going to have an offshore wind flow. they're not going to get a storm surge, and they'll be happy obviously that that happens, but at the same time, downstate, along the west coast, will it be sarasota? will it be punta gorda, will it be fort myers again like two years ago with hurricane ian? we don't know. but i can tell you this. there are many more people in harm's way with this hurricane than there were with ian, and the storm surge could be equal or worse, and that's why the message is, if you live at the coast, you must run from the water. you must evacuate the coastline if you're asked to do so. set aside your bravado, set aside your past experiences. quote, i have lived here 30 years and nothing has ever happened. well, you know, sometimes the

worst does happen and you need to be ready for it. >> yeah, and complacency can be very dangerous, but also even worse, john, there's a lot of misinformation about hurricanes, especially in the wake of hurricane helene. for example, marjorie taylor greene, a repeat offender, posting this on x yesterday. that's on the screen. she's saying climate change is the new covid. ask your government if the weather is manipulated or controlled. john, it seems like an obvious thing, and yet, maybe not that obvious to some. how dangerous is it to be spreading these kinds of lies and conspiracy theories especially at a time when people's lives are in real danger? >> well, you just said it. it costs lives. this type of disinformation, lies, conspiracy theories, and spreading this type of junk, it will cost lives. why? because there is a subset of the population that will prefer listening to that than to listen to the authorities that are

trying to save your life. and by authorities, i mean from the national weather service and the national hurricane center and the great job they do, to your local emergency managers that are trying to get you out into a safe location. so it is my humble opinion that that type of activity, of spreading lies and conspiracy theories, will cost lives. it probably already has. it will do so in the future, and it's a disservice to our emergency managers. it dishonored first responders. it dishonors the national weather service and what your civil servants are all about. >> john morales, i want to thank you for joining us tonight and for always being such a steady presence for those of us, especially here in florida, when it comes to these storms. thank you for being here. >> thank you. coming up, how the republican push to restrict a woman's right to choose is

impacting that very close u.s. senate race in texas. we're going to speak to colin allred, ted cruz's democratic opponent. tic opponent to our careers,

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colin allred knows a thing or two about tough fights. he has squared off against january 6 insurrectionists. he's faced opponents on the football field with the tennessee titans and in courtrooms as a civil rights lawyer. this year he's facing another

tough fight, taking on ted cruz for the u.s. senate in republican dominated texas. democrats of made serious inroads in the past, but face challenges in a state where republicans have actively worked to suppress democratic votes. in four years since the last presidential election, texas has become unapologetically hostile to women. republicans banned almost all abortions, which has led to an increase in infant mortality. they successfully blocked abortion pills until the supreme court punted the case and yesterday texas asked the supreme court to allow them to block hospitals from providing emergency care for women who were in danger of dying, just because it violates their state abortion began. senator cruz is a rabid foe of reproductive rights. he called the repeal of roe a victory for life and he cosponsored a national abortion ban. cruz, who spends three days a

week hosting a podcast, has been oddly shy about his views on women's rights. meanwhile, colin allred has built a coalition that includes alexandria ocasio-cortez and adam kinzinger and liz cheney. colin allred, texas congressman and democratic candidate for senate joins me now. good to see you. ted cruz has not been shy about his antiabortion policies. take a look. >> i believe this is a moment for incredible celebration. this is a momentous moment. this has been 49 years coming. we should protect every life from the moment of conception. when it comes to rape, rape is a horrific crime against humanity of a person and needs to be punished severely, but at the same time as horrible as that crime is, i don't believe it is the child's fault.

>> i am kind of stuck on the rape is bad, but. it is disqualifying, but do you hear it? it is the sound of silence. it is crickets coming from ted cruz. >> thank you for having me on. as you said, he is a content machine. he is constantly podcasting and going on cable news and for him to be quiet on something means that he knows that what he has done is a problem for him and let's be very clear. he is singularly responsible for what we are experiencing in texas. he put the judges at the district court level, circuit court level and supreme court level knowing they were going to do this. he backed in primaries in texas, more extreme candidates often against mainstream candidates at the state level. as you just showed he called for and celebrated the dobbs decision and now when texas women, both friends of mine

came to the united states senate to testify before his committee. he did not show up. when texas outlets are reaching out to him to get responses to what is happening in our state, he won't respond, but on november 5 you will hear from those texas women and from our state when we beat him. >> last week, cook political report shifted its rating for your race from likely republican to lean republican. why is this race different from previous races that were democratic heartbreakers? >> well, it is about our future, it really is and we can't afford to six more years of ted cruz. as you have mentioned i have had tough fights in my life. it is actually unusual that i am speaking to you. i was raised by a single mom in dallas. it was a big deal that i got a scholarship to play football. made it to the nfl, became a voting rights lawyer and i ran

for congress against a 22 year incumbent. nobody thought i could beat him, either, so i have a track record of overcoming obstacles and i see this as something that for our state, we cannot have six more years of someone like ted cruz who goes to cancun when we need them most. who tries to overturn the american presidential election. who is only in this for himself and every texan knows that he is only interested in himself. it would be one thing if he were pursuing policies to help our state, but what he has done has put us in the position we are in now and that is why i hope folks will get involved with us. we are a big state. we've got to get out the vote and when we do, we win. >> i did want to ask you, how do you battle the voter suppression that is rampant in your home state of texas? because republicans have cornered the market in your state trying to make sure that those votes just don't count?

>> well, we have to make sure folks know how to vote in texas, not just to go vote and that is part of our burden, but increasingly texans are seeing how hard they are working to stop us from voting and if they are trying to stop me at must be that my vote is powerful. so i think they are triggering a backlash. whether it is houston that they have been targeting for so long or san antonio that they have been targeting recently or in north texas. there will be a backlash to this and we will overcome it together and we will be ted cruz and turn the page and give us a senator who will care about all 30 million of us and then we will get to work at the federal level on codifying roe v. wade and passing the john lewis voting rights act to prevent some of this nonsense from happening again. >> congressman colin allred, thank you for being here. it is good to see you. >> good to see you, thank you. >> and that is tonight's "reidout". "all in with chris hayes" starts now. tonight on "all in" -- >> 50 millibars in 10 hours.