folks are hearing across the country. >> my opponent has said that he is 100% opposed to abortion rights. i am trying to lead the way to restore roe versus wade so that we don't see prosecution of women who have miscarried or doctors who are providing healthcare. women are dying because of the current situation. >> the first thing i would do is pass the border protection act. my opponent was against that bill before he could have read it because the text was not out because president trump said he wanted to use it as a political football. >> i am so sick of people who do not understand women's health and do not understand reproductive rights and who do not understand that this is the same one thing and doing another. michiganders do not believe him, he will not protect you. >> it is about my work in the

united states senate and he doesn't like the fact that i talk about his record as a hedge fund ceo. >> you are a threat to democracy. i was on the senate, the house for when we went through the vote. >> just a couple of the key senate races across the country. in colorado, there was a pointed debate. talk to us about , we talked a lot about the presidential understandably so but every single member of the house of representatives is up for reelection and democrats are defending 22 seats and looking for some pickup opportunities in places like texas. >> as a former house guy, i love getting into the nitty- gritty on the house and the senate races. i have just campaigned with bob casey, -- bob in pennsylvania. i was just with tammy baldwin in wisconsin. i was down in texas with colin

allred and monday and tuesday, i will be with debbie down in florida. i have been with tony vargas in the house race in nebraska. not only am i doing presidential but i am making sure that we are helping our down ballot candidates. i just recorded 47 videos for the house, senate and state health candidates to encourage folks to go out and vote and support them. it is important that we are not just focused on the presidential but that we are focused on the senate, the house, the statehouse raises across this country because when we say democracy is on the ballot, that democracy is not just relegated to the white house, it has to be defended all across the board. so i am proud of what we have done at the dnc. we have transferred $25 million thus far to the senate house, the statehouse, the gubernatorial campaigns to support our candidates up and down the ballot. >> that is an important aspect of how you win. it is a bottom

up strategy because a lot of folks to focus on the residential level. the reality is that you have got to have background game and i would even say sir and ask you, you did reference those statehouse races, what has been the effort, there, to drive out the vote that could upswing a vote for kamala harris with a voter who would otherwise maybe driven by more local issues or ballot initiative maybe around cannabis or around abortion. and while they are in that voting booth, okay, i vote for the president -- check the box for the presidency. it is part of what we did in 2010. it is not a matter of winning those big races and state wide races but if that local race for county executive mayor, state legislator plays an

important role in driving your vote of because it is not just down. >> that is exactly right and you are spot on, michael. that is the reason why i pushed early on with our state parties and i challenged them to recruit as many candidates as they could for the down ballot races and the hardest job of a chair, a state party chair or a county chair is recruitment. you can always raise more money but it is hard to convince someone to run for a race on the democratic side that is our +15 or 20, right? when you know that the numbers don't say that you have a real shot at winning but when you recruit people there, you give people hope and therefore, they turn out. and even if you are cutting the margins by which you would normally lose that race, that helps the top of the ticket. in a state like florida, this is why i often say don't give up on florida and don't give up on texas but in florida, we

were able to recruit a candidate for every statehouse, state senate and congressional race so that gives our ticket a shot because you have candidates running on small campaigns, getting people out and getting more volunteers and pushing people to the polls and that helps everybody at the top of the ticket. it is really important and i want to go back to colin allred . i am so proud of him. he and i chatted about that debate before, a few days before the debate. and he dragged ted cruz around that stays like it was garbage. i was just so proud to see him just lean into that because this guy, how can a man say he is going to fight for his constituents when he did not even stand up for his wife? you cannot let another man talk about your wife and call her ugly. >> come on, genie harrison! >> i am just saying and then

you go to cancun when your constituents are literally freezing to death and you go to cancun and you blame it on your daughter's. texas needs colin allred because he has the strength of conviction and targets to really represent that state. >> that pertinently -- certainly puts that state more into play then we thought. i got a note from a brother out in detroit. you know there was a microphone issue for donald trump for about 17 minutes at his rally yesterday and the brother just wanted everybody to know, you cannot go and disrespect my city and expect your microphone to work. just saying. next time you have some smack about detroit, you better think twice because you are going to come up short. that is all i have to say. >> thank you so much for being with us. tomorrow, senator elizabeth

warren will continue this conversation. you do not want to miss it. up next, some of the largest unions getting out the vote for the harris campaign. you are watching "the weekend."

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and make no mistake, donald trump is no friend of labor. let's be really clear about that. no matter what the noise is out there, he is no friend to labor . just look at the record. instead of his rhetoric, look at the record. >> breaking this morning, some of the nation's largest unions are launching a new get out the vote effort to support harris. it comes on the heels of harris' trip to the union hall yesterday and the effort starts in detroit where early person voting begins at the top of the hour. joining us is leigh saunders as well as the president of the

american federation of teachers, randi weingarten. >> randy, when you have the ex- president talking about how he wants to dismantle the department of education, how motivating is that for your members? >> it is huge. first off, thank you for having us and having us together but it is huge. yesterday, he doubled down because he said first, we want to get rid of the department of education and not have the feds involved at all and all of the money that we get, get rid of it. cut it from disabled kids, cut it from poor kids, kids going to college. and yesterday, they said they wanted to control education so if there is a school or something he doesn't like, he is going to close it down or defined it. so banning books, what is happening is my members understand that what that is is not only a fear of knowledge but a stripping of the letter

of opportunity and they are really excited about this race. they are all over the country. we are on a bus for the last 47 days and they understand the stakes of this election. >> it is a very dynamic race for sure. there are some interesting trendlines that have emerged in the conversation between not just the presidential campaigns and the unions but between the leadership of the unions and the members. the rank-and-file members themselves. you got ap reporting unions facing a moment of truth in the state of michigan meaning midwestern unions wants court to the labor union have shifted to the right in recent days off and sparking concerns such as the re-industrialization and the removal of trade barriers and you have the 2004 college graduates were more democratic than working-class voters and

donald trump's conquest of the gop accelerating this realignment. the rightward drift of the american working- class disconcerting progressives who generated an idea for reversing it so you have this shift of the country, those of us who have been in this space for a while have said the country tends to be more center to write. that seems to have manifested itself in the response to this political cycle between the union leadership moving in one direction seemingly in the rank- and-file members who are at least standing up and saying, we are with this guy. how do you account for some of that? how do you address that as union leaders to sort of hold the line for a presidential candidate who as kamala harris that at the very beginning is more aligned with you in her policies than donald trump's record would demonstrate to rank-and-file members?

>> i think it is real simple michael and what we have got to do and what we are doing is we are going back to basics and we are talking with our members every single day, those one-on- one conversations, meeting them at the doors, going to the worksite and educating them about the importance of this election. now labor is not a monolithic institution. we have democrat, republicans, independents, conservatives and progressives but it is our responsibility as leaders to educate our folks and then listen to what they have to say as far as what their concerns are and what needs to be done to improve their lives and the lives of those living within their communities and that is exactly what we are doing. our labor program across the country does not start two or three weeks ago. we have been doing this now for a year. we are knocking on doors constantly. we don't just go into an area when it is campaign season but

we are communicating and talking with our community members talking about the issues and they will make an educated choice that we have a responsibility to talk about. the differences that exist between kamala harris and trump and there are extreme differences. make no mistake about it and when you talk to them, they understand and they get it. >> here is harris talking about union and why people should think a union and be grateful for unions even if they are not a union member. >> everywhere i go, i tell people, you may not be a union member but you better think unions for the five-day workweek , the sick leave or paid family leave and vacation time. collective bargaining benefits our entire nation. our entire nation! because here is the deal: when union wages go up, everybody's

wages go up! when union workplaces are safer, everyone's work laces are safer so thank the union. >> is you are speaking, it made me think about the fact that where vice president harris gave these remarks yesterday at a general motors plant, that is a plant that will get a $5 million grant under the inflation reduction act, right? and that is so it can transition from doing gas to electric vehicles but if donald trump gets his way and he is elected, he has promised to resend the funds and that is 650 jobs so you talk about the difference and i can imagine for the bulk of you going out to talk about union membership is also boiling it down to the key specifics. >> you have to be real with people and you cannot speak in

platitudes. union members are real. they work every day to basically make ends meet and want a better life for their family. and what lee and myself and also crinkle, april barrette, the entire leadership of the union, we are talking to people just like in an organizing campaign, we are talking about the facts. this is a trust election, unfortunately, not a true selection but we are getting the details out to people and think about what donald trump's era, 200,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. think about what joe biden and kamala harris have done, they have re-created an industrial base in this state and what we are trying to do is make sure that the good union jobs and that we can train the skill of kids and young adults to get those jobs.

>> and i will just say this. randy is right about that and i would say look what donald trump is proposing to do or his allies and friends. you look at this 900 page document, project 2025, that would decimate union members in the public sector. they would no longer have a seat at the table. we could no longer represent them if that comes into fruition and if you look at what he has said about overtime payment and if you look at what he has said about striking workers should be fired, you know what, when we talk about that to our members and working-class people, they react in a way saying that can never happen, we cannot let that happen, we have come to bar and we are not going to go backwards on our rights being taken away from us and that is what we have got to do, communicate that every

single day, every single day. >> the stakes are high and the specifics need to be talked about. lee sanders -- lee saunders, i appreciate you both. good to see you. thank you. up next, when you get food at a charity dinner, you know you did something wrong, right? trump's weird speech at a house dinner after this and be sure to follow our on social media.

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crest. this week, donald trump attended a charity event that has been a stop for presidential hope was for decades. usually a time to poke fun at themselves and others. trump did not do that. >> someone in the white house who can barely talk, barely put together two coherent sentences, who seems to have mental faculties of a child. a person that has nothing going, no intelligence whatsoever but in the back kamala harris. let's get on to something. >> the problem i had with that as he actually displayed the very thing he was criticizing kamala harris for, the

faculties of a child, this dinner is a big charity event, catholic charities of new york. it is a big deal where you get all of the politicos and people come together. it is a fun evening and in the past, presidential candidates get up and take humor unto themselves. they rib themselves in lighthearted ripping of their opponents. this was personal, it was offensive. standing at the podium, cursing with the cardinals sitting there and with dignitaries sitting there, i don't know what the new york archdiocese was thinking. my view is that kamala harris said she could not be there. maybe you don't do the presidential thing and you know what, given the politics, we are going to bring it down. i don't know, it was for me as

a catholic, very disturbing. particularly, the behavior of the candidate and the disregard for what that event was about and what has been the standard used by other presidential candidates in the past. even a very heated campaign standing on that stage and have respect for each other, not the name-calling, the bullying and the cursing. >> also, he makes fun of men who are voting for harris. take a listen. >> there is a group called white dudes for harris. does anybody know it? i am not worried about them at all because they are wives and their wives lovers all voted for me. >> honestly, it is just tasteless at this point. and you know, if donald trump,

i believe what donald trump has said out there on the campaign trail, i believe he would like to be a dictator on day one or on for a day. i believe he wants to jail his opponents. i believe he would like to do the military. i believe you would like to turn the military onto american citizens including deporting 11 million people, people who are rightfully here. he believes in deporting american citizens, too. he believes in demolishing the department of education. i believe he believes all of that so because that is what i believe because i am just listening to the man and i watched what he has done for four years, i don't know how we can sit up in their and say we are going to come together for catholic charities. this is why americans, this is why people look at logicians

and elected officials and say that politicians are the same. this is why, if donald trump is such a threat, what the is chuck schumer sitting there? >> with donald trump in his fist in the air, donald trump got what he wanted. voters across the country are not talking about the smith dinner. it is for us to talk about but the image if we can find it, that is what he came for. >> that is what he came for. >> he even dragged melania trump out of the house. we have not seen her in a minute. well, we are just disgusted but there is another hour of the weekend, i had. eugene daniels, aaron smith, terrance woodbury and mary mccord. that is all coming up. . . what straps bold to a rocket and hurtles it into space? boring does.

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