early. it will tell us a lot about where this race is headed. >> i have to say, i love going on voting day, on election day and getting the sticker. my last question is this, are there any trends we should watch closely? >> yeah, well again, i am looking to see how the parties are pivoting, looking at these key states, one thing i have looked at, michigan, over half 1 million people have voted already in michigan. obviously, we know how important michigan is. at this point, something interesting to me is seen the high turnout from african american voters. we are what donald trump said about detroit a few days ago so seeing that turnout actually surpassing the vote shared from this point back in 2020 among african american voters, certainly a good sign for the harris campaign but again, it is early. >> okay, something we will watch. thank you so much. that will do it for me on this

edition of aid. we will be back in new york next saturday and sunday. prime weekend is next. ♪ ♪ welcome to prime time we can. i'm nicole wallace. let's get to the week's top stories. >> what is undeniably a heart pounding white knuckle tight, tight, tight presidential race. that can mean one thing. it is time to bring in the closers, time to unleash the democrats' singular talent to make an urgent case for this moment. >> what i cannot understand is why anybody would think that donald trump will shake things up in a way that is good for you, pennsylvania. i don't understand that. [ applause ] because there is absolutely no evidence that

this man thinks about anybody but himself. [ applause ] i have said it before. donald trump is a 78-year-old millionaire who has not stopped whining about his problems since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago. you've got the tweets in, the ranting and raving about conspiracy theories. >> the speech is, the word salad, just, you know, it's like fidel castro just on and on. constant attention and attempts to sell you stuff. who does that? selling you gold sneakers and a $100,000 watch and, most

recently, a trump bible. you know, he wants you to buy the word of god, donald trump edition, he's got his name right there next to matthew and luke. [ laughter ] i mean, you could not make this stuff up. if you saw it on saturday night live, usa, that is going to far. no, he is doing that. it's so stick it -- it's crazy. the reason he does it is all he cares about his ego and his money and his status. he is not thinking about you. if donald trump does not care that a mob might attack his own vice president, do you think he cares about you? no.

>> president barack obama at that rally last night in pittsburgh doing what he's does just about anybody, shrinking donald trump way down the size, puncturing trump's toxic, divisive, self-centered nonsense, spelling out the facts and using humor president obama didn't just deploy humor, he also did something rather rare for him, he showed a flash of anger, frustration, deeply relatable. here he is talking about trump's lies over hurricane relief efforts. smith the idea of intentionally trying to deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments. my question is, when did that become okay? i am not looking for applause right now. i went to ask republicans out there you know, people who are conservative, who didn't vote for me, i have friends who

disagreed with me on every issue. we did that become a problem? why would we go along with that? >> you know who he is talking to . when did that become okay, guys? rep? what obama did last night and will continue to do is campaign is a barnstormers for vice president kamala harris in the coming weeks. that is to rally enthusiasm and support from her campaign, yes, and also give voters a structure to do what he did, to shrink trump down to size, a permission structure to call out what has gone on nine years now and the normalizing of trump's pathological need to, as president obama puts it, deceive people in their most desperate and vulnerable moments. and then, again, this is the only thing up political athlete

of his caliber can do, political strike and decided to speak at a public event directly to african american men in pittsburgh. >> we have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all of our neighborhoods. now, i also want to say that seems to be more pronounced with the brothers. on one hand, you have somebody who grew up white, -- right, nose you, went to college with you, said if you work hard and work, and overcome, that is on

one side. on the other side you have someone who has consistently shown this not just for communities but for you, as a person. and you are thinking about sitting up and coming up with all kinds of reasons, excuses. i got a problem with that. because, because part of it makes me think, i am speaking to men directly, part of it makes me think that you just aren't feeling having a woman as president. that you are coming up with other alternatives, the reasons for it. these are not ordinary times and these are not ordinary elections. [ laughter ] >> straight talk.

direct called action from president obama to black men. a call to action to anyone who cares about the truth and empathy, the messenger who is second to none in terms of rallying a winning coalition and speaking to the conscience of our great country. it is where we start today with democratic strategist and president of research, cornell belcher and president of the national action network, host of msnbc's politics nation, reverend al sharpton. what did you think? >> i thought he was great. i really think president obama spoke directly in both settings that you showed. i think it was in a way he only could do it. let's not forget he was the president during the good times or better times than donald trump tries to take credit for. he handed donald trump a stable

economy that he undermined. you have to say to that man is look at what it went down to under trump, look where student debt went, look where criminal justice went. trump was president during george ford, during breonna taylor, arman aubrey, all of this. what did he do? what did joe biden and harris do when they got in office with cases? so if you look at the facts, they primarily can't say there is a reason to go with donald trump or sit this out and let a guy who has been antithetical to the center of our fiber to have people executed and never said anything different and stands by it now, call for other countries, on and on. as ladies yesterday say, the whole country would be like detroit, there are racial

overtones there. i understand why people feel disaffected but you are going to be disaffected by somebody who has done everything but call you the n-word in public? there has to be some misogyny there. there has to be some of you against women. i think president obama was the right one to bring that message. the other thing i think we keep missing here, if donald trump does is, he is not a newcomer. he has a record. why do you think he will do now what he didn't do in the four years he was there. he is telling the blocks he will do what? you have four years to do it but you did nothing but call us names and endure -- ignore george floyd and others. you never said a word about the police who took a man unarmed. >> if i could, sort of, just try to turn this over to both of you because i have a problem whenever it falls, maybe this is my own status as a political

refugee but it shouldn't fall to black women or black men to save the country from donald trump. when you look at where this contest is, it might. i want to get you to speak to, with your knowledge, how big of a political problem this is right now that president obama did that so publicly. he knew exactly what he was doing, exactly where the cameras work and exactly what he was saying. it seems like it was a strategic moment, as well. just lay out what the strategic exercise is over the next 25 days. >> thank you for that. first of all, there is a lot of ridiculous this out there. first, before i want to level set. if you go back to 2008 and 2012, i was part of the obama campaign. what you saw and rev knows this

better than anybody. you saw for the first time in our history that black voters became the most likely voter and electric meaning black turnout outpaced white turnout, which was historical. especially in the shadow of the anniversary of the civil rights, the voting rights act. but americans turned out in 2008 and 2012, it was higher than that. 2024 was three points higher. what has happened since? go to 2016. it dropped back down. you know, three or four points below that. go to 2022. it is 11 points. so you do have african americans pulling back from turnout. what do we do in 2008 in 2012? what does the campaign need to do now? give these people something to vote for. i hear the conversation about donald trump is horrible and racist but i can tell you right now i sit in focus group sometimes and i hear about

african americans who are still on the fence. this is not about donald trump, i will never vote for donald trump and i am hurting economically. what i would simply say is, just like any other opening move, you know, the african american, i think it is more than just man, i think it is more the younger african american, cohorts where it dropped off the most is they have needed economic argument for why to vote for her, right? just like you would do with any group, give them a inclusive economic message that speaks specifically to their angst and their hopes and the challenges they have in their life, which is different.

i think you will move those voters, just like you move any other voter. now to your last play, yes, it will come down to, i think, african american voters. in michigan and pennsylvania and in wisconsin, if you tell me what the african american turnout is on election day, if you tell me that african american turnout in wisconsin and milwaukee, which has seen the most dramatic rock -- drops in turnout, if you tell me they are turning out in milwaukee at the same rate white voters are turning out, i will tell you she will win wisconsin. the majority of voters will not vote for her. like we have seen, what did biting get? he got roughly 42, 41% of the white vote for in the vast majority of white voters voted against him. now we have a browning

electric, this black, asian and hispanic voters are more important to the coalition and can define what states we win or lose. >> still have for us today, policy and empathy on full display last night at a town hall in nevada from vice president, harris, where she was seeking to strike that balance before finally important hispanic voters. she had some of this to say last night. ♪ ♪ ht. ♪ ♪ ( ♪♪ ) my name is jaxon, and i have spastic cerebral palsy. it's a mouthful. one of the harder things is the little things that i need help with: getting dressed, brushing your teeth, being able to go out with your friends by yourself.

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they were here before i was even born. they have worked their whole lives. but with the way immigration laws change over time, i was only able to help my dad did his legal status squared away, but not my mom's. my mom passed away just six weeks ago. >> i am so sorry. >> she was never, ever able to get the type of care and service that she needed or deserved. sorry. >> take your time. take your time. >> so my question for you is, what are your plans or do you have plans to support that subgroup of immigrants who have been here their whole lives were most of them and have to live and die in the shadows? >> i am so sorry for you. >> thank you. >> you must remember your mother as she lived. i have enough of a feeling

about your strength that it probably comes from her to know you know that she would want you to remember her as she lived and that she how she died, okay? >> you don't get to rehearse for moments like that. politicians go to town halls and they don't know what they will face. not everybody would react like that in the face of someone's unbearable grief. they lost their mother six weeks ago. and it was an important thing for everyone to see and take in. was an incredible moment last night at vice president harris' town hall with univision. harris used the night, the format and the unscripted questions to the intense and emotional question she faced giving her a chance to do all sorts of things, to share her policies, to show her empathy and her humanity while making her case to a vital block of voters ahead of this election. i had read that, you know, i

had not seen it, what people are dealing with is so much more important than anything that donald trump is offering. i understand the conversation. i understand that people don't feel spoken to, we are not talking in the microphone, i will still that in use that,

what people are really dealing with deserve serious people. i thought back to the vice president's line in her convention speech, he is an unserious man. >> and to see that moment of connection between them happen so early in the town hall. it really set the pace for the rest of the town hall, really thoughtful and considerate, talking about immigration and inflation, about price gouging, things that, you know, voters care about. what i found so interesting is that donald trump would never have been able to communicate or face a similar question. this was a reminder the entire conversation about immigration has shifted to the u.s.-mexico border. that is, in fact, an important issue. a lot of voters care about what is happening at the u.s.-mexico voter but their arm millions of immigrants on the interior of this country like that young woman's mother who lived here and lived their lives here. it shows the discord around immigration in this country and the extended answer the vice president gives beyond connecting with that voter. she did it with the by portis and -- bipartisan border, about cartels and her role in california but she chose not to lean into the things the biden- harris administration has done for immigrants just like that one's mother. she didn't talk about protecting daca recipients at a time a

gees are suing to rescind daca. she didn't talk about the efforts in place to allow undocumented folks married to an american citizen to stay in this country legally. she didn't talk about tps which project 2025 was to get rid of. she didn't talk about the fact that at the national convention you had a sea of people holding up signs that say mass deportations. those were not homemade signs. those were signs that were produced and paid for by a political party and in the image of donald trump. this was a beautiful moment. i think it is a reminder of where we find ourselves when it comes to talking about this incredibly complex issue and also a reminder we have sniffed

into their frame. immigration is not just what is happening at the border, it is also about the people who make this country alive and vibrant, as well. >> what you think she didn't talk about those other things? i think she believes there is a political price. she is not able to maintain her strength on the border while simultaneously saying we can be a nation that is totally warm and welcoming to immigrants. smack ronald reagan, john mccain and george w. bush were all for amnesty at different points back, different negotiations and different failed, i mean, i think it is an opportunity to show how extreme and radical the republican party is. what mccain and bush were four in 2004 and 2005 was comprehensive immigration reform. at that time, there were 11 to 70 million people, as her mother was, living in the shadows. is that you're feeling that the politics are shallow? >> yes. that is correct. and i think she knows she is walking a tight rope here.

you ask a lot of americans, the polling around this gets very murky, right? i think we have sat here and talked about this number about what people think when they are asked if they want to see mass deportation. they say yes and i don't think they are being specific enough about whether we are talking about 11 million people already in the interior of this country. they lived next door and your kids go to school with them. i happen to feel differently than those folks about the desperate people coming to the u.s.-mexico border, but i think we have misunderstood what a lot of american borders are trying to tell us when they are asked that question about immigration. they want to see people do something. they want people to be serious which is why she pivots to the bipartisan opportunity, there was an opportunity to do something, opportunity to be serious -- >> donald trump killed it. he killed it and bragged about it. it is also donald trump bragging in the eugene carroll deposition where he bragged

about grabbing women between the legs. in 1 million years that is what famous people can do. he is going harder and darker because he thinks the shallowness and, let's just say, it is dehumanization. he thinks dehumanizing legal residents, legal immigrants living in springfield, ohio, he is also targeted all sorts of communities in the battleground states as a winning political strategy. what, in your view, is the best response? >> i think the best response is to lay out exactly what he is saying and why it is against

the interest of the american people. when you talk about 11 million people, let's also talk about the cost. how are you going to pay for that? who is going to pay for it? the guy who was going to be used building a wall that mexico was gonna pay for that still isn't there? you need to be able to take it down, you need to take down his arguments, take down the absurdity of what he is saying and then the humanity of what he is saying, his questions, i would, i would head out tonight, if i was in the harris campaign, showing her compassion for that young lady and him throwing paper towels the people in puerto rico after the hurricane. i mean, he literally threw towels at people like you could not touch him. you have to show the reason their policies are so bad and they don't care about the people. they don't care about any people. her empathy came through which, i think you are right, you couldn't rehearse that. kamala harris not only has a policy message better track record i agree they had better be concerned about when they are playing on the right wing

and fox news saying she said this, that or the other, but they also have empathy that is really hurt, anybody that knows her. >> bombshell new reporting about the disgraced ex- president's bizarrely intimate relationship with vladimir putin. it comes from bob woodward's new book that donald trump sent covid tests to vladimir putin for his personal use in 2020 while the people he led scrambled to find them. that really happened. there is more where that came from. the latest examples of trump's inexplicable obsession and affinity with one of the world's authority. we continue right after the break. don't go anywhere. n't go anywh. and calms the nerve down. and my patients say you know doc, it really works. hey, scott. this stuff's perfect for fall, right? yep! it feeds your lawn now to strengthen roots all winter for a better lawn next spring. how do you know all of this? says it right there on the bag. yes, it does. download the my lawn app today for lawn care tips and customized plans. feed your lawn. i'm adding downy unstopables to my wash.

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♪♪ everybody was scrambling to get these kits, the tests, the covert test kits. spent coding get them. >> couldn't get them anywhere. this guy who was president of the united states is sending them to russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use? the point being, that is just the most recent stark example of who donald trump is, that he secretly sent covid tests kids for the personal use of of

russia, an adversary to the united states when he was talking about american should be putting bleach in their blood. >> if you made it out, nobody would believe you. that is vice president harris today reacting to this unbelievable, surreal new reporting in the forthcoming book by bob woodward that at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, while donald trump was the president of the united states of america in 2020, trump, quote, secretly sent putin a bunch of avid point-of- care covid tests for his private use. he was the dictator of russia and terrified of contracting covid. as vice president kamala harris pointed out, americans here were struggling to get access to tests themselves because there was a shortage at the time. woodward writes that putin was worried about how this revelation would damage trump

politically. putin telling trump this, quote, i don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. the personal relationship between the two, donald trump and vladimir putin has persisted and even deepened over the last four years with woodward reporting that donald trump has secretly spoken to vladimir putin as many as seven times since leaving office. the trump campaign dismissed woodward's book. in a statement today they did not address any of the specifics reported in it by woodward. joining our coverage nbc news chief international analyst former supreme allied commander of nato admiral james stavridis is here, the author of a new book, the restless wave and also joining us rick stengel, former under secretary of state

for public diplomacy and public affairs during the obama administration. seven times. i don't think melania has appeared with him seven times in public in four years. >> i have two immediate reactions. this will sail modest but you will get my point i received 50 medals over the years. the decoration i am proudest of is being sanctioned by the kremlin. so i back up to nobody in my loathing for vladimir putin. you know, i just published this novel and it is impossible to think about the fictional element of this. you'd have to really struggle to come up with a plot line like this and outrageous doesn't begin to get at it. >> you know, it was seven times in the four years since trump left office, he was charged with stealing documents and

vladimir putin publicly waged war on ukraine. do you have any concerns? >> absolutely. who is vladimir putin? he is a murderer, he is someone who has absolutely used every tool to suppress his own people. he has kidnapped americans and effectively held them for ransom, evan gershon was. it is an absolutely loathsome individual. why the former president of the united states would be in frequent communication, yes, i have national security concerns. let me close with this, let me tell you for sure the russians have recorded every bit of that conversation and i vowed to my -- bow to my good friend, harris, in terms of the public relations of this, but can you

spell compromise, the ability of russia to potentially blackmail a former and possibly the next president? it is quite shocking. >> we are back to, i guess in 2016 it was a pee tape but you know it is something that has hung over donald trump since he stepped into public life. >> i often try the thought experiment. it goes as follows. donald trump is an agent of vladimir putin. prove the opposite. i mean, there is no evidence. >> i usually go with useful idiot but keep going. >> there is no evidence he is not a kind of oligarch out of the country for vladimir putin. the seven phone calls, i don't understand why he was not

talking about the logan act. the logan act is a clear violation, talking to the leader of a hostile foreign power and may be affecting u.s. foreign policy. that is something people should think about but you know, this goes so far back, goes back to the 1980s. goes back to the fact he married a czechoslovakian woman when czechoslovakia was behind the iron curtain. they are not only recording those phone calls, they have opened a file for him back in the 1980s by the time he was trying to open trump tower in moscow, when he bought the miss universe contest in the 1980s and said putin loves me. it is really strange. someday, when some kgb officer defects, we will find out the true story. >> seven phone calls with vladimir putin, i mean, what are your, if you could listen to all seven of them, what is the theory on it? >> you know, it is funny. we have heard from calls we have known he has had with foreign leaders like vladimir zelenskyy. there was the -- >> yeah, we had that yesterday.

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up next, donald trump knows the importance of the state of michigan and the voters there. so we are wondering what he was thinking and why he would insult people in michigan who live there when he trashed the biggest city in the state. how the harris campaign is answering that and responding. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ transform your everyday with new downy comfy cozy. it not only combines softness and scent. it breathes life into your laundry.

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♪♪ the whole country is going to be like, you know what the truth? ike, you know what the it will be like detroit. the whole country will end up being like detroit if she is your president. you will have a mess on your hands. >> the comment is nasty and undertones of racism as the reverend al sharpton said, it is unnecessary and cruel. we you think about it in the context of what happened, it is

a massive political story and scandal. because it happened in detroit. [ laughter ] he is currently campaigning to lead the united states of america. he went to a major american city, the biggest city in michigan, and disparaged that city to its own residents. as expected, those who live and work and called detroit and michigan home snapped back with pride from the city's mayor, quote, detroit just hosted the largest nfl draft in history. the tigers are back in the playoffs, the lines are headed to the super bowl, crime is down and our population is growing. lots of city should be like detroit. we did it all without trump's help. michigan's attorney general said this, quote, this guy is calling us ugly and asking us

out on a date. we all know that guy. the state's governor, gretchen whitmer to say this, detroit is the epitome of grit defined by winners willing to get their hands dirty to build up their city and create their communities does stick something donald trump could never understand. so keep detroit out of your mouth and you'd better believe detroiters will forget this in november. donald trump repeatedly criticizes new york city while he was here for his fraud and criminal trials. this summer he called milwaukee horrible right before the city of milwaukee hosted him and the republican national convention. at least that time he did that

before he physically arrived in it. his detroit attack makes no sense, even for him, given we are 25 days from election day. michigan's 16 electoral votes are key to clinching victory in the presidential race for both campaigns. trump knows how important the state is, he won it by only 10,000 votes in 2016 and lost it to president joe biden in 2020. right now polls in michigan showed trump a vice president harris locked in a dead heat for that state. a new survey out this week shows donald trump with a 3 point lead and the other shows the two candidates todd. at this moment, every vote, especially in michigan and even in detroit, counts mightily, except to donald trump. vice president harris making sure trump's comments are not missed, the brand-new ad will air during the detroit lions and detroit tigers games this weekend. watch. >> they said we were dead. spy detroit waving the white flag? the city is filing for bankruptcy. >> that our best days were behind us. that living here is like -- >> living in hell. >> you know what we said? we said [ bleep ] that. we rebuilt ourselves. we look out for each other's. we get our hands dirty and put in the hard work. and this guy, he don't know anything about that. we are a city of winners, of up and comers, of builders, the motor city. bigger and better. here, we

believe in freedom. we don't bow down to nobody and we never will. and to what donald trump doesn't understand or care to learn is that when he said this? our whole country will end up being like detroit if she is president. >> that he should be so [ bleep ] lucky. spent michigan state center and michigan attorney general join us. madame attorney general, start with you, your reaction. >> um, wow. it is just really interesting tactic to try to get people

from the state of michigan, who love the city of detroit to try to come out and vote for him by a disparaging a city that has been through some really tough times but is one that is really recovering incredibly. i would suggest this. detroit, unfortunately did go through a bankruptcy a decade ago but it has really rebounded since them. trump, however, has been through six bankruptcies and hasn't done nearly as well as we have in the city of detroit. [ laughter ] >> against every measure he shrinks. madame state senator, your thoughts? >> i mean, what a tactic. i don't think any of us should be surprised at this point, but every day it is still surprising. it is like inviting a friend into your house and they look around and tell you how much of a dump it is and then they expect to be invited back. what i heard here was dog whistling. trump is trying to divide americans against each other and michiganders against michiganders. this is the time when the city

of detroit is thriving in all of us, no matter where you live in the state of michigan, are benefiting from that. the fact we have had hundreds of thousands of people come in for the nfl draft to experience the city for the first time and share how lovely and wonderful it is, you know, i think that donald trump is trying to lean into a time that no longer exists here in michigan. we all have each other's backs and we will not let him divide us against each other. >> let me ask both of you, where, in your view, with your expertise and your knowledge of bumper stickers and yard signs and having stood before the voters of michigan, where do you think the race stands right now? you first, madame attorney general. >> i think it is tight, you know? there is a lot of enthusiasm for kamala harris and a lot of excitement for her and i will be interested to see, as, you know, the early vote, the absentee votes start to come in, you know, where those votes are coming from. i will say this, i was in detroit all last week and campaigning for kamala harris and i think people are really

energized to get out to the polls, but, as senator mcmorrow indicated, trump is really trying to divide us against each other and, to some extent, in some areas, unfortunately, his continual lies and misrepresentations sometimes have an impact and we just have to remember that in the state of michigan, it is a very purple state but there are more democrats and republicans. as long as people come out to the polls, michigan will continue to go blue in presidential elections. >> senator mcmorrow, the outcome in november will be determined by who turns out. so i view this just in a political malpractice category as a double foul. i mean, trump defended people in the state, i feel like it is your state but the city is sort of like your family member or you can tell them you don't like how they have done their hair but nobody else can. i want to tell you how governor tim walz is using this and deploying it. >> just yesterday, donald trump

was in detroit and he said, our whole country will end up being detroit. juergen have a mess on your hands. >> boo! >> i know that is not unexpected for him. that is exactly what he will do, tear down america. if the guy would spend any time in the midwest, like all of us know, we know detroit is experiencing an american comeback and renaissance. [ applause ] look, we know where this is. detroit is there. we know. the city is growing, crime is down, factories are opening up. but those guys, all they know about manufacturing is manufacturing [ bleep ] any time they show up.

>> this was as blunt as it is. i mean, everyone loves an american comeback story. senator mcmorrow, he is missing a lot of marks. i will show you part of that conversation, as well. this feels pivotal in a state that takes a lot of pride in its comeback, as well. >> i think that is exactly right and, to me, this is a really ugly example of what he is trying to do, which is, donald trump is actively trying to whip up white votes by convincing white people, maybe you don't live in detroit, that something nefarious is happening. we saw this happen in 2020 when donald trump pressured members of the michigan gop to descend on the absentee counting center in detroit. you saw those visuals of largely white people not from detroit banging on the glass, intimidating, largely black election workers, and he is

trying to do it again. he is trying to dog whistle but he is missing the moment because right now all of michigan is celebrating detroit's come back. we all are rooting for the tigers. we are all rooting for the lions and we are all rooting for our city and the beauty it is because if detroit doesn't 60, michigan doesn't succeed. he lost. he is trying to make america great again to a time long gone and he needs to stay in the ash heap of history. this has been "prime: weekend". i am nicolle wallace. please tune into all of our prime time shows weekdays on msnbc. ♪ ♪ msnbc. ♪ ♪ 's in order. these factory floormats, are they really as good as weathertech? you know, laser measured? [suspenseful music] no. nothing comes even close to laser measured weathertech floorliners. they offer the ultimate protection. front, back and even up the sides. for a full line of premium american made products order at wt.com nothing protects like weathertech. ( ♪♪ ) luke's mom: without easterseals, my luke would be a very different luke. look up. where you going? luke's mom: there's an incredible urgency to get your child into services,

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