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tonight on "the reidout" -- >> donald trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged. ♪♪ >> new questions about trump's mental acuity after he seems to get stuck on pause. during a town hall. and begins swaying to music for nearly 40 minutes. meanwhile, vice president harris is in detroit holding a town hall with charlamagne tha god in her attempt to reach more black voters. plus, the false and twisted republican narrative that trump is being hunted by democrats. in an effort to stifle legitimate outrage over his

bizarre, violent, fascist ruminations as a second time presidential candidate. and we begin tonight with early voting in georgia and utah now under way. joining almost 20 states that are already voting. which comes as the two candidates are leading two distinctly different campaigns. the september generian candidate donald trump spent yesterday in pennsylvania hosting one of the most bizarre events in modern american political history. he showed up an hour late after his supporters had already been waiting for hours in a room that was entirely too hot. by the time he made it on to the stage for a q&a, not with a journalist, or anyone from pennsylvania, but rather with the original canine killer south

dakota governor kristi noem. people were fainting. audience members shouted the room was too hot. here's how trump responded. >> personally, i enjoy this. we lose weight. no, you lose weight. we could do this, lose four or five pounds. it's okay with me. some people have been waiting here for two days for this. >> it only got weirder from there. what followed was more than 30 minutes of trump swaying on stage, aimlessly, to his favorite tunes. noem clearly wasn't on the same page because she tried to close out the event, but trump had other ideas. >> you don't have to go so fast. you can sit and listen. we'll play a couple songs. go and vote. let me hear that music, please. >> everyone, let's thank president trump. >> nice and loud. >> god bless you. let's send president trump back to the white house. ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪

♪ they have everything for you to enjoy ♪ ♪ you can hang out with all the boys ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ >> nobody is leaving. there's nobody leaving. keep going? keep going. should we keep going? ♪ it's been so lonely without you here ♪ ♪♪ >> yeah, okay. that happened. a person who was attending her first trump rally called it the weirdest church service i have ever been to. but his die hard supporters loved every boiling hot second of it. trump was clearly angered by reports that he's lost his marbles and that the event was a sign of his rapidly declining memental acuity.

and cognitive, you know. he was so rattled by the response he stayed up late into the night, when he probably should have been getting some rest, lobbing insane lies about his much younger, healthier opponent. those lies included claims at vp harris' seasonal allergies are a deeply serious condition that clearly impact her functioning. okay. trump's campaign says they aren't bothered by questions about his mental acuity and cognitive health, but the state of his campaign would suggest otherwise. his events tend to be held in safe spaces because his die-hard supporters don't care what he says or does. but those who aren't in the tank for him have serious questions. which explains why he's declined a second debate and interview with 60 minutes, and an interview with cnbc, which he abruptly canceled this morning. the reason they try to hide trump under a bushel is because when he is pressed on his

concepts of a plan, you get incoherent ramblings that make no sense and are not grounded in reality. that was on full and disturbing display earlier today at a chicago economic club event with bloomberg news. >> we actually have a great military. we don't know how to use it. >> with great respect, i was asking about tariffs. you are running up enormous debts. >> the "wall street journal," i'm meeting with them tomorrow. they have been wrong about everything. so have you. this is big stuff we're talking about. >> you have gone from the dollar to macron. >> let me tell you, i said -- no, i'm telling you basic -- it's called the weave. only stupid people put old. you don't put old in because they're there for two years or three years. >> you're a 78-year-old man running for president. should google be broken up? >> i just haven't gotten over something the justice department did yesterday. where virginia cleaned up its

voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes, and the justice department sued them. >> the question is about google, president trump. >> when he shows his true self, you not only discover how weirdly he is aging but also how deeply dangerous he is in his dotage, which is why kamala harris shared it with her rallygoers last night in a move i don't think we have ever seen at a political rally. >> listen to his words. he tells us who he is. and he tells us what he would do if he is elected president. so here tonight, i will show you one example. >> enemies from within. the enemy from within. those people are more dangerous, the enemy from within, than russia and china. these people should be put in jail the way they talk about our

judges and our justice system. if you had one really violent day, one rough hour, and i mean real rough. >> honestly, i wish it was just funny. watching trump glitch out to the beat. but this election is deadly serious. because what awaits us on the other side isn't fun little music concerts but rather violent raids across the country to round up immigrants at gunpoint and herd them into internment camps. national guard members patrolling city streets ready to snuff out peaceful protesters. nationwide stop and frisk, and police officers with full license to kill because trump has promised to grant them the same total immunity the supreme court granted him. if you don't believe me or trump, maybe listen to a guy who worked for him. and denied one of trump's insane requests to shoot protesters in the legs. >> do you fear that he would try to utilize the national guard,

the military, against u.s. citizens? >> yes, i do. of course, because i lived through that. and i saw over the summer of 2020 where president trump and those around him wanted to use the national guard and various capacities and cities such as chicago and portland and seattle. >> and if shooting american citizens doesn't bother you, then maybe you should pause and think about what retired general mark milley told journalist bob woodward about trump, which is that no one has ever been as dangerous to this country as donald trump. he is a total fascist. he is the most dangerous person to this country. unquote. joining me now is ashley etienne, former communications director for vice president kamala harris. matthew dowd, former republican strategist and msnbc senior political analyst, and paul rieckhoff, founder and ceo of

independent veterans of america and host of the independent americans podcast. thank you for being here. ashley, i'm going to come to you because you have worked for vice president harris, but you have been in the biden/harris administration. imagine for me what you think the media landscape would look like for joe biden had he stood on stage at what was supposed to be a town hall and glitched for 40 minutes to the tunes -- to his favorite tunes. what do uthink the media would be saying about him today? >> we actually don't have to imagine much because you remember, we saw joe biden in that debate and the media seized on him like incessantly seized on this question about whether or not he was mentally prepared to handle the office of the presidency. but here's the way i see it, joy. this is just classic trump lunacy. he intentionally pushes the boundaries, and for me, there's

something much more sinister at play here. it's not just that i think he's mental, not just that i think he should release his medical records, which i'm not sure i would trust at all, but for me, it feels like he's intentionally making -- driving this point about making a mockery of our democracy and our institutions, making a joke of the office of the commander in chief, to really serve the benefit of his real bosses, and i'm not talking about the american people. there are still these unanswered questions about his relationship with vladimir putin, there are still questions about why he sent covid tests to putin. for me, there's something much more sinister at play, why the former president is really going to these extremes to really, i think, you know, make the point that the joke is on us as american people. it's a slap in the face of voters and also to the american people. the other thing i would point out, too, is this feels like to me a base vote strategy on the part of donald trump. it's clear to me that he thinks

he's not going to get those nikki haley voters, the disaffected republicans so he's doubling down on a base vote strategy and trying to turn out low propensity voters who are more inclined to think this stuff is funny. >> he also apparently lied at the american economic club forum when he said he's winning the early vote. matthew, i suspect the answer to ash law's questions are the same answer to why he glitched to 40 minutes to various tunes in some cases the artists said never to play again. it's because donald trump is an aging, potentially senile old man who has no impulse control, who has no command of the facts or no command of the issues. and is simply sort of acting in the moment. he's sort of an espirit decorps sort of aging man. his worst impulses pour out of him. here he is at the economic club. and he is asking about whether

or not -- he's asked whether or not he would respect a peaceful transfer of power. take a listen. >> will you commit now to respecting and encouraging a peaceful transfer of power? >> well, you had a peaceful transfer of power. >> you had a peaceful transfer of power? come on, president trump. you had a peaceful -- you had a peaceful transfer of power compared to venezuela. >> people were angry. and i'll tell you what. they never show that. the primary scene in washington was hundreds of thousands, the largest group of people i have ever spoken before, and i have spoken -- and it was love and peace. and some people went to the capitol. and a lot of strange things happened there. a lot of strange things with people being waved in to the capitol by police, with people screaming, go in, that never got into trouble. you know, i don't want to mention names, but you know who they are. a lot of strange things happened. you had a peaceful, very peaceful -- i left.

i left the morning that i was supposed to leave. i went to florida. >> matthew dowd, he said it was peaceful. he said that people were peaceful, it was love and peace. he said i left, i left the morning and i was supposed to leave. i went to florida. that was on the 20th of january, not the 6th of january. i'm being honest, those of us with aging relatives understand, it is not clear to me whether he even knows the truth of what happened on january 6th. i'm being honest. there's a part of me that thinks he now lives in a hallucination of what he thinks happens on a day-to-day basis and he really doesn't know. >> you know, as i watched this and listened to this, part of me wants to treat this like a monty ython movie, and you want to laugh at it and say there's no way this is possibly be true. but the reality part of this is this feels like what you read in history are the last days of a

dictatorship. this is what the darkness that happens, the dementia that happens, the depravity that happens in the final days of a dictatorship where they go further and further and become more and more isolated from the people that are supposed to be normal, and he gets worse and worse. to me, this would be like if there was an iphone in the bunker in 1945, this is the kind of things you would hear, the stuff he's saying on stage in the course of this. and you know, obviously it's incredibly dangerous. i actually think the point he is trying to make in his weird way is that he feels like he can get away with saying and doing anything. that's -- it feels like because he's never in his life fundamentally been held accountable yet, for all the stuff, from the 1970s until today, everything that's happened, january 6th, people have been held accountable, he's never been held accountable yet for january 6th, for stealing for people, for the sexual abuse, for all of the stuff. as of yet, he still walks free.

and still acts in his abnormal way, and i think he's just at the point with his age that he basically has decided i can get away with anything, and the only thing at this point ubfortunately for me most of the media still treats him like an absurdity and they have a standard of normalcy for everybody else, but they don't have a standard of normalcy for him. they don't hold him accountable for it. the voters in the end are the only people in america that can hold this man accountable. and stop him from doing this stuff. >> and part of the reason that that happens, paul, is that people like glenn youngkin, who is supposedly a normal republican, the governor of virginia, pretends to join the hallucination. here he is denying that trump said what he said about the military. >> what do you think of this idea of, quote, we have some sick people, radical left

lunatics and i think it should be very easily handled if by necessary, the national guard or if really necessary, the military. is that something you support? >> jakeerse first of all, thank you for having me. i guess what i want to just make very clear is that it's my belief that what former president trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, bringing drugs. >> that's not what i was talking about. he was talking about sick people, radical left lunatics who should be handled by the national guard and military. later on in the same speech, he said that one of the lunatics he addressed was congressman adam schiff. that's who he was talking about using the national guard and military against. >> again, jake, i don't think -- again, i can't -- >> i'm just reading you his words. >> i do think you're misinterpreting and misrepresenting his thoughts. >> he didn't say it, he didn't mean it. paul rieckhoff, do american

members of the american military, would they even have a choice if donald trump ordered them to go and grab adam schiff and haul him off to an internment camp? >> well, they will always have the right and the obligation to reject an unlawful order. and let's hope it never gets to that point. and the scene about that weird wedding singer scene is disturbing and maybe funny, but i think it cuts to the core of what might be kamala harris' most persuasive argument, which is he is unstable. he is unhinged. you can't trust him. you don't know what he might do. and i think it's effective because it really does move independent voters in places like pennsylvania and ohio and georgia, because they care about national security. they care about the economy, and they care about having a level of stability and predictability. and they may not like either candidate, but when you compare the time-out together and have that dancing ridiculousness on one side and a stable thoughtful person on the other, it does

draw a contrast. and when they can emphasize spokespeople that aren't politicians like general milley, like general mcchrystal and others, i think they can start to move people. when you close your eyes at night, who do you want as your commander in chief. who do you want leading your sons and daughters in the military? do you want this or this? trump continues to reveal himself. that's why i believe he is right aboutp one thing. the enemy does come from within. it's him. he's the leader of the american insurgency, our allies say it, people like general milley say it. we have to explain that to more people in the next 30 days. it's more than politics. he's not just a political threat. he's a threat to our national security, whether he wins or not. that's something we'll have to contend with after november and for months and potentially years to come. >> even in the end whennee was giving two and four hour speeches, fidel castro didn't glitch and dance around. donald trump is a crown and an extremely dangerous man.

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vice president kamala harris was in detroit, michigan, today, one of several visits she's making to the critical swing state this week. she just finished a live town hall with the popular nationally syndicated radio show, the breakfast club, cohosted by

charlamagne tha god. it's part of her amped up media blitz to reach out to black male voters. >> it's two very different visions for our nation. one, mine, that is about taking us forward and progress and investing in the american people, investing in their ambitions, dealing with their challenges. and the other, donald trump, is about taking us backward. >> it's about fascism. why can't we just say it? >> yes, we can say that. >> joining me now is jason johnson, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state university and host of the podcast, a word with jason johnson. just to prove that we actually can exist in the same place at the same time. sometimes i have to get you on here because sometimes we swap out. but let's talk about this. there are some people going, why would she go on charlamagne or she's going to go on joe rogan's podcast. she's going on because that's where the people are. these are the top podcasts among black weekly listeners.

number one is rogan, number two is the breakfast club. that's why she's there, right? >> right. yeah, joy, that makes perfect sense. the last time i looked at numbers, literally, the number of black listeners that skroe rogan has is larger than i think the entire audience of charlamagne. he's that big. and look, it's a great movie. also good campaign strategy. everywhere, everything all at once. the best way to win is by going where people are, communicating in different kinds of environments and hoping that important segments end up getting broken down into little pieces here and there. i am old enough to remember a time when going on howard stern as a presidential candidate would seem controversial. now he's tame. i had to explain to my morgan students who howard stern was. he matters to generation x and boomers. what harris is doing, it makes a tremendous amount of sense. she's trying to re-create the moment she had in the burst she had in the polls right after beating trump. so if she is go on fox and

handle bret baier, if she can go on with joe rogan and charm him, she may not win over voters but she may make people decide she is better than staying home on the couch. >> i think the thing is, it's showing she's not afraid into what people might perceive as hostile audiences. the call her daddy podcast used to be connected to barstool sports. she's going on with bret baier, on fox. she's going on with charlamagne, somebody who, look, that is the morning show a lot of black folks listen to in the morning. not only did she get an interview from charlamagne himself, but she also took questions from the audience which is important. let me play one bite. this is vice president harris and this is about outreach to black men. this is her taking a call. >> what would you say to the people that would consider the timing of this proposal as political timing, and how would you speak to the sentiment that support for black men is only sought out during election cycles? >> i have been in this race

about 70 days. you can look at all my work before those 70 days to know that what i'm talking about right now is not new and is not for the sake of winning this election. this is about a long-standing commitment, including the work that i have done as vice president and before when i was senator and before that. >> i also love that she did a question in which she called out her pastor, reverend amos brown, who i actually interviewed for my book because he was like a teen-aged medgar evers acolyte when he was a kid in mississippi. that's the kind of realness i think helps her with people who might otherwise sit on the couch. >> look, i'll be honest with you, joy. when vice president harris was on all the smoke podcast, i felt like i was in the room with her. she does very, very well. her retail politic skills are fantastic. this is a key disinformation thing out there. i know for a fact because of sources i have and you have, that the harris campaign had been working on a blan for black

men long, long before this rollout. you can't come up with these things in 15 minutes. if you come up with a plan for black people in 15 minutes, you end up with the platinum plan, the nonsense donald trump came up with four years ago. this required policy, effort, and i'll aalso add this because i think this is really important. no matter what you may think of this plan, no matter what you may think of how it can be implemented, you cannot argue that from a policy perspective that donald trump is offering more to african american men or african american women than the kamala harris campaign is. she just -- it's just not true. what she's offering are things that will help black people and for the bad faith people out there who are like well, it's not exclusive for black men, hey, the supreme court said it's illegal to pass laws that only target one group of people and exclude others. of course, it has to be available for anybody, but it's still targeted to black men. >> the other thing she's offering people is respect. you know, i mean, i think the fact that she's going to charlamagne to ask for black

men's votes, the fact she's going to joe rogan's audience to say hey, you may not be naturally my supporters but i want to ask for your vote, the fact she's doing rural outreach today. it just shows respect for these various groups that says i am trying to be everybody's president because i respect you enough to offer you something concrete and ask you for your vote. >> well, also, joy, it's just good campaigning. we have seen a contrast, and we talked about this before. you have one campaign where a guy is swinging in the wind. i'm sorry, when we saw mitch mcconnell do this, we called it something else. when an older man seems to lose himself for minutes at a time, and won't do interviews and won't sit down with people, you would think that donald trump would have been calling in to joe rogan for the last four or five years but he doesn't. the fact harris is recognizing i have to fight for every vote is a testament to her campaign. >> people really need to think about if you want a president who every once in a while we

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summer, trump and maga world have tried to sell the narrative that it is democrats who are whipping up violence against trump through their rhetoric or even trying to kill him. it's a line that's being pushed at all levels, from trump's adult children to republican elected officials. for example, after the shooting in butler, which left one man dead and others injured, chad bianco, the sheriff of riverside county, california, wrote, the lies, propaganda, and speech inciting riotous behavior from our right politicians including the media who can truly complicit has caused this to happen. the inconvenient fact was the 20-year-old who opened fire in pennsylvania was a registered republican. then last month, when another man was arrested after lying in wait outside one of trump's florida golf clubs for 12 hours, purportedly waiting to take a shot at trump, the suspect wrote that he voted for trump in 2016, but became disillusioned with

trump's foreign policy decisions as president. and then you get to the weirdest case of all. here again, is sheriff chad bianco, who endorsed trump for president on camera, after his deputies arrested a man over the weekend at a parking lot outside of trump's rally in coachella, california, for possession of two unregistered firearms in his car with multiple boxes of ammunition. >> if you're asking me right now, i probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt. >> mind you, he seems to be a rather lonely voice claiming it was an assassination attempt. something a federal law enforcement official has told nbc news is not the case. and this time, the man in question, vem miller, is not just a republican, he's a staunch maga devotee, who claims to be helping with trump's re-election campaign, and who has appeared in photos with many in trump's inner circle

including steve bannon, roger stone, and stephen miller, among others. the sheriff and vem miller also have other connections. here is miller in the back seat of a car with conspiracy theorist -- with a conspiracy theorist names ivan, a guy you have like lenever heard of but who on the right is known for having created a deep state target list of trump's supposed enemies in politics and the media, and who has chattered about what he called the benefits of a trump assassination on right-wing outlets like alex jones' loony podcast. the idea being such a thing would trigger retaliatory violence and allow maga world to install their youthful dictator of choice, in this case, jd vance. wild stuff. rakeland is one of just 14 people that sheriff bianco follows on x-twitter. these people live in the same

world of maga. vem miller could hardly be the kind of person sheriff bianco is pushing democratic hate speech targeting trump. and the narrative that the right is trying to spin is being undercut by the very people law enforcement officers like sheriff bianco are arresting, who keep turning out to be on their idealogical side. but suffice it to say it won't stop them from continuing to push the lies because little things like facts and evidence have never stopped them before. joining me now is charlie sykes, msnbc contributor and columnist. charlie, what struck me about this was that venn diagram, the fact he's been loud and proud in blaming democrats going back to butler, pennsylvania, and now, the guy he arrests is somebody that's in his small circle, including among just 14 people that he follows on twitter. what's happening here? >> well, this is wild stuff.

but the bad news is that this sort of thing is not just simply confined to the fringes. this is really very much part of the narrative of this campaign and will be part of the post election narrative as well. because the maga world and donald trump himself have embraced this image, this narrative that donald trump is the victim, but he's also the hero. and that's why they are coming after him. that's why they impeached him, they charged him, they indicted him. they stole the election from him, and now they're trying to kill him because he's standing up for you. and part of the danger -- obviously, this is the image that he wants, why they're marketing bobblehead dolls with that image. but it also goes to this larger theme about the enemy within. that they are dangerous. they are violent. they want to kill the champion of the people. and you know, you put this

juxtapose this with the rhetoric you got from donald trump over the weekend. his threats to use the military to go after radicals. his description of the enemy within as more dangerous than russia or china. this is the way that he is stoking the division, this is the way he's playing the martyr card, but this is the way he's also preparing his base to fear and hate and distrust the other side. and i have to put this in a little historical context. there were assassination attempts against gerald ford, an assassination attempt against ronald reagan. we had numerous assassination attempts in 1960s, but they were never -- >> people shot into the obama white house, charlie. literally, people fired into the white house when the obamas weren't home, but go on. >> that's right, so this is the first time that we have seen this weaponized by a political party the way it is being done. and so part of this is the cynicism of donald trump and

trying to portray himself as the martyr hero. but it's also part of this larger and really dangerous attempt to divide americans by saying, you need to fear them, them, this other group. and as you point out, the facts don't matter. the facts will never catch up with the narrative. we saw this with the haitians. we saw this with the hurricane recovery. they will continue pushing this, not just up until the election, but after the election, because they, of course, will also try to steal the election from donald trump. >> and let me really quickly, i don't know if i have time to play this. this is trump and some others doing this. >> over the past eight years though who want to stop us from achieving this future have slandered me, impeached me, indicted me, tried to throw me off the ballot. and who knows, maybe even tried to kill me. >> first they tried to censor and silence president trump. then they tried to indict and

imprison president trump. now they tried to kill president trump. >> they tried to imprison him, tried to take him down, tried to even kill him. >> then they tried to kill him. they tried to kill him. and it's because the democratic party, they can't do anything right. >> and something you said i think really has to be drilled down on a little bit more, charlie, because what they're doing is they're conflating a jury of donald trump's peers, that's who convicted donald trump. the prosecutors who were doing their jobs in the justice department. they're conflating judges and people who are part of the civil service in this country with those people who are quote/unquote trying to kill donald trump. so they're saying think of these people all the same way. the prosecutors, the people who count votes, the people who declare elections to be valid when he doesn't win. put them all in the same category, as a potential

assassin. that is setting up not just his political opponents but ordinary citizens including people who sit on juries to say they are a part of this dangerous other. >> and besides that, it's also the media, it's also politicians, it's also critics. it's also anyone that donald trump does not like. and the other piece that's really crucial, though, is when donald trump talks about these attacks on him with the rally, what he's saying is they are really coming after you. you are their target. i am simply in the way, so again, he's trying to associate his martyrdom with all of his base. and this is what is throwing a match, pouring care seen and throwing a match on these divisions. >> when it is he who committed the crimes he was convicted of, not his supporters, not his base other than the ones who stormed the capitol, but he's saying throw yourselves in with me even though he's the one who is a felon. it's something scary, scary

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military rather than oil or nuclear facilities. the signal is being seen in washington as a sign of restraint. though signs of a wider war persist. the u.s. announced that it is sending an advanced anti-missile system and a number of troops to israel, deepening america's involvement in the spiraling conflict, as the region readies for israeli retailiaatory strikes against iran. it marks the first significant deployment of troops to israel since the war in gaza began. vice president kamala harris has kicked off a campaign tour in closely contested michigan where some arab american voters are threatening to withhold their support over the biden administration's handling of the war. and joining me is the executive vice president of of the quincy institute. i have to tell you when i heard about the u.s. deployment of troops to the middle east, my sort of fear meter went up because this is deepening u.s. personal and direct involvement in a war in which we are sending bombs that are dropping on gaza and lebanon.

what in the world is going on? >> you are quite right to be worried because biden is sending troops to a war zone, another countries war. what we are seeing here is a pattern in which the biden administration says they don't want to see is real! late, -- c israel escalate, yet every time biden rushes in to protect israel from the consequences of its own escalation. this has the result of reducing the costs for israel while adding costs for the u.s. it actually makes it easier for israel to escalate. if biden were not doing this, israel would have to think twice. the cost would be higher, perhaps even prohibited and we would not have seen the steady escalation in the region in which from gaza it is now a wider war and we may soon see

american soldiers killed, which would further drag the united states into yet another needless, senseless war in the middle east. >> you wrote that the biden strategy appears to pace israel's escalations while softening its edges to avoid the international outcry and pushback from becoming prohibitive. biden is managing israel's war rather than ending it. meanwhile you have kamala harris in this awkward position of being supportive of the administration, but sort of distancing from the policies. she tweeted that the u.n. reports no food has entered northern gaza in nearly two weeks. israel must urgently do more to facilitate the flow of aid. civilians must be protected and have access to food, water and medicine. international humanitarian law must be respected. she has not used that term, international humanitarian law regarding israel before and

also if there is not more food aid going and it could result in limits to the military assistance they receive from the u.s. does it feel like there is a difference between the two policies and maybe a little bit of distance? >> there is a difference but it is deeper behind-the-scenes than what we are seeing on the surface with the statements. i think of it were up to kamala harris herself she would have taken a different course, similar to what she started to chart out when she had the press conference with netanyahu. a stark difference from the position that biden is taking. i find it regrettable that she has gravitated to biden's position, because it is a position that will make it much more difficult for her to be successful in michigan. also one that unfortunately puts her in the same boxes biden, as someone who is complicit in what is taking place in gaza. whereas she has been somewhat removed from this and the more

that she does not create differentiation with biden, she will be seen as the same and bear the same responsibility. >> in the region is there any doubt that not and you who -- any doubt that netanyahu wants trump to win? >> i don't think there is any doubt anywhere that that is the case. the question that should be asked is why is biden, who probably recognizes this as well, playing along with what netanyahu is doing? the window to escalate this conflict is precisely now before the elections and what does biden do? he since the missile system to israel, which makes it easier for israel to escalate to get trump into office. >> and he is welcome to send somebody onto the show. we have tried and will keep trying.

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if the state of georgia is any indicator, voter turnout is going to be massive. georgia is reporting a record early vote, which officially kicked off this morning in the

important swing state. take a look at these lines from earlier today, where more than 300,000 ballots were cast. nearly three times the record turnout in 2020 which psalm 130,000 people vote on the first day of early voting. with 21 days to election day, georgia is one of several battleground states where in- person early voting kicks off this week including north carolina on thursday and nevada on saturday. taking a step back and focusing on georgia reminds us that it is a state that was central to handling -- to handing democrats control of the senate and white house and was also central to trump selection denials. it is the state where trump ordered the georgia secretary of state to find him 11,780 votes in 2020 and where the state election board has tried to influence rules in ways that would allow county election officials to delay or refuse

certification, including one where county officials can do so by unilaterally declaring fraud. a georgia state judge ruled today, however, that certification of election results is a mandatory duty irrespective of concerns that a county election board may have. quote, if election superintendents were free to play investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge and because of a unilateral determination of error or fraud refused to certify election results, georgia voters would be silenced. in other words the record number of people already early voting and those who plan to vote by mail including a man from plains, georgia. the former president of the united states, jimmy carter, who turned 100 years young earlier this month and told family and loved ones i'm only trying to make it to vote for kamala harris. he can feel more confident now that his vote will be