good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a call back to january 6th in a pitch for november 5th. kamala harris' plans for a major speech at the same site where donald trump spoke before the

capitol was attacked. the message she has crafted for the final week of the campaign. plus, ring the alarm after beyonce's dreams were dashed at the dnc. the pop superstar will make her campaign trail debut for real this time. we'll tell you when and where. and at a time of heightened election press, arizona police say they arrested a man with a machine gun, a grenade launcher, and a quarter million rounds of ammunition. what else we know about the suspect next. but we start with the campaign's closing messages coming into sharp focus. arguments they hope will break through in a way that months of rallies and millions of dollars worth of ads haven't. kamala harris, once again joined by star supporters, high-profile help in the final stretch from the boss to barack obama tonight in georgia, to the queen bey herself, beyonce, who will make her first appearance on the campaign trail in deep red texas tomorrow. sources tell nbc that beyonce will perform at harris' houston

rally. it's her song "freedom" that's become the anthem of the harris campaign. and we've learned that the theme of freedom is inspiring harris' major speech next tuesday against the backdrop of the ellipse in washington. that, of course, is same place where donald trump gave his speech on january 6th. so a visual reminder of the threat she says that he poses to democracy. >> i think one has to think about why would someone who served with him, who is not political, a four-star marine general, why is he telling the american people now? and frankly i think he's just putting out a 911 call to the american people. >> let me ask you tonight. do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. >> trump himself is holding events in the battleground states of arizona, michigan, nevada, and pennsylvania. all leading up to a sunday evening rally at new york's madison square garden where he'll be wrapping up what he dubs the greatest movement in

political history. i want to bring in nbc's aaron gilchrist in clarkston, georgia, and we have a correspondent for politico, and maya rupert, who helped lead presidential campaigns for julian castro and elizabeth warren. maya, lots to get to, but let me start with just the idea that typical presidential candidates have a year, sometimes two, right? to win over voters. kamala harris has had roughly three months, and no primaries. some of that, of course, was in the summer. people were barely paying attention in july and august, right? does that raise the stakes for this closing argument? >> i think truthfully, it's raised the stakes for this entire abbreviated campaign, and so what we've seen is her making really, really good use of exactly what you're saying, what everyone normally has at least a year to get through, her condensing it to such a small amount of time, and so i think

she has done a really masterful job of taking advantage of those moments. they obviously only had one debate where she performed well, but she didn't get to repeat that performance in those kind of big moments where everyone's tuning in. so i think she's done a really good job with the town halls with these speeches, and yes. i think with this closing argument, she is going to have an opportunity to make the stakes as plain for people as she possibly can, and i think taking advantage of this moment reminding people of what is really at stake, for someone as dangerous as donald trump, is exactly how she should be using these final few days. >> so eugene u wrote today about how harris' task in these final days is tricky. how do you balance a negative message aimed at trump, the most negative we've heard arguably, bun that is simultaneously positive about harris herself and what she can do for the country. how does she pull that off? >> yeah. to you and maya's points, you know, trying -- she's doing something that no one has had to

do before. by this point, all of the bio work, right? all of the biography work that a campaign needs do for their candidate and their nominee has kind of already been done, right? if this was joe biden, he wouldn't have to talk about, you know, his faith from a stage to kind of give people an idea of how he works in that way. donald trump doesn't need to do that. harris does have to do that, and it is going to be difficult, right? i think the biggest thing this campaign has tried to do is the contrast, but using it as images, right? when there was the hurricane having harris go out and meet with fema while donald trump was talking about some of the conspiracy theories that he has about fema and how it works, right? those kinds of things. what we're going to see and we got a preview yesterday is that closing message, right? harris is kind of at the beginning of her campaign and even at the dnc, talked about donald trump as kind of an unserious man who if he's elected, will have serious

consequences. now because the campaign says it feels like his language is getting darker and worse, she has become -- she is escalating that language to calling him a fascist, whether or not she does that again on tuesday is yet to be seen, but she is going to have to continue to tell people what she wants -- who she is, what she's going to do as president, and also talk to them as what she believes and the danger her and her campaign and democrats and some republicans believe donald trump is to the country, and doing that quickly is difficult. i will say at this point, their biggest audience, including last night is going to be those moderate middle-of-the-road voters, women that are non-college educated because they feel they can move those women more not just on abortion, but some of the other issues. >> i wonder, maya, if she's in the same place she was at the beginning of the campaign and frankly the same place joe biden was in when he was running, which is this. how tough is it to convince americans to base their vote on

an argument? this is what's going to happen if donald trump gets elected, and it's bad versus their life experience, what they're living, the economy, immigration, the things that worry them. and they're feeling frankly, in a lot of the polls, they think especially with the economy, it was better and will be better under trump. >> right. i think, you know, i think that drawing the contrast is an incredibly important one, but i think what she's able to do, and i think what she needs to continue to do, is to make it clear, this is not how bad it will be under trump. it's, this is the plan we have for you for your family, and i think she has been able to make that point really clear, but i think when we're dealing with someone who represents the kind of threat that donald trump represents, it is impossible to do any kind of a split screen, to say anything like, this is

what i would do without immediately also bringing in the comparison that not just does he not have a plan for you and your family. this is the threat he represents for people. i think it is impossible to almost separate those two arguments that go hand in hand. she is making an affirmative case for herself, but part of that affirmative case is based on the fact that right now we have one ticket that is talking about a future, and one ticket that is talking about not just a pass, but a genuine threat to the democracy that we have. >> and a lot of what we've heard from her over the last several days, eugene, is responding to donald trump and what they see as his dangerous language, right? but then let's look at the other side. according to nbc, trump's campaign wants him to lean into issues, especially the economy, because quote, a shift to the personal narrative could distract from the substantive issues that trump aides believe are giving their candidate a leg up over his democratic rival. but i mean, i don't know.

is that directive from his campaign, which is based on polling, which i'm sure the based on their own internal research, a closing message he's already rejected? how much do you think he cares about what the people in his campaign are saying, this is what's going to work? >> he rejected that in 2015. the way he's been running for president this entire time -- this is his third time, you know, his campaign, the folks on it, they know what he is going to say and do. he feels that his gut, he trusts hi gut more than anyone, right? he will tell you that he has said that. he has talked about even while he was president, listening to people in the room and then making his own decision no matter what any of them say, and he was going to do that anyway, right? it's sometimes hard to know if he was, but that is how he has always operated, is my id. he's not always moved by policy descriptions unless it's the top ones that he sees move his

voters, right? immigration, he's talked about the economy a lot. one of the issues that the trump campaign is facing, that if you look at polling now and where biden was before he dropped out, they have done an interesting job of kind of de-fanging the economy as bad issues for harris. she has done a better job at threading the needle and talking about, you know, the threat that donald trump faces in her eyes, but also more importantly that prices are too -- prices are too high, right? that was not something that you were hearing from the biden campaign, and they are moving forward with that. now trump himself, he is probably going to get -- he's going to get a playbook. they're going to tell him what they think works best. they're going to show him the polling, but when he gets on the stage, that changes, right? that has always been the case, and, you know, folks like chris lacivita, they have done a better job than any of the other campaign managers of trying to push him to talk more about

policy, but even when he's doing it, it only lasts for a certain amount of time. you can think about town halls when people ask him questions about policy, and then he veers off into talking about something that has nothing to do with it, and so that is a struggle they're going to have to deal with as this campaign moves forward, but also voters have already seen this from donald trump for a long time. >> yeah, and so aaron, let's go back to where you are, georgia. there's going to be a couple of gentlemen there, barack obama, bruce springsteen, along with kamala harris who's scheduled to leave for atlanta sometime this hour. we just got word as well about beyonce tomorrow. so tell us about the plan in the end of the next to last full week of this campaign. >> yeah. 12 days left in this campaign cycle, and the gates behind me at the stadium behind me are going to open here in a couple of hours. this will be how the vice president's campaign believes

for her to join with these popular figures and push people to go vote. they hope to generate enthusiasm around the vice president's candidacy, but now is the time to take that enthusiasm and translate it into votes cast at these polling sites around the country, or in many cases, cast by mail, and the activity that we'll see tonight with former president obama, with bruce springsteen, with tyler perry, with samuel l. jackson and spike lee, this is really an effort to say to people, those folks will say to people, we want you to pay attention to what vice president harris has to say, and then the vice president has to actually step up can close the deal to make her case known to people who haven't been paying attention up to this point, and also encourage them to go vote. we also know the vice president will appear in houston, texas tomorrow with beyonce. that was an event on her schedule to talk about reproductive rights, and we learned that beyonce will appear

with her on stage and she will perform as well. this obviously is a woman who has a music following, but she's a businesswoman as well. there are people who are the most voracious beyonce fans who cut across age and gender and race, and so here again, an opportunity for people who pay close attention to everything that beyonce does, to now see vice president harris and potentially hear her message as she works toward her closing argument in this election cycle. chris, it's also worth noting that we've learned from sources the vice president will make that closing argument speech if you will as you noted earlier, on the ellipse, on the national mall right in front of the white house right at the same location where donald trump was speaking on january 6, 2021, before the attack on the u.s. capitol. the vice president taking that opportunity to try to draw a contrast between donald trump's worst day in office, a campaign official argues, and the positive vision that the vice president has for what would happen in a harris administration. >> so again, that balancing act.

all right, maya. so let's talk strategy. as somebody who's been on the inside of that with campaigns, so harris' event today is in a county that won by almost 70 points in 2020. trump, on the other hand, is going to maricopa county. he lost there. what does that tell you about kamala campaigning about a deep blue place and trump campaigning a place he's trying to flip? >> i think what we'll see is we're making sure she is capitalizing on the excitement we've seen for her campaign and make sure that translates to driving upturnout and making sure people get out. in a deep blue place where she has a big big announcement, and she has people that are going to be incredibly excited hearing that she's going to appear with beyonce, that, you know, she's continuing with these big-name

endorsements and the goal there is to make sure that people who are early voting right now are turning those ballots in, and sending those in. they're doing everything they can in these final days because basically what she has with that enthusiasm is a bunch of organizers who can go out and do a lot of this work. she is trying to make sure that this enthusiasm translates into votes. i think what donald trump is showing is that yes, he is -- i mean, he's going somewhere he wants to try to flip, but that it is a much -- he doesn't have the ability to sort of capitalize on the enthusiasm and momentum. he's trying to build that up. so i think that's -- it's just a different orientation of the campaign. they're both playing into where they think they can be the strongest. >> maya rupert, eugene daniels, and aaron gilchrist, thank you all. our brand-new poll about the battleground states including a question that had donald trump leading kamala harris by 18

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candidates. exactly what we're hearing from the candidates themselves. >> i do believe that donald trump is unstable, increasingly unstable, and unfit to serve. >> kamala harris can't say one thing that she would do differently. you saw that? what would you do differently? i can't think of anything. this is the worst president in the history of our country, and the worst vice president in the history of our country. >> and our new cnbc survey shows a divide among racial, gender, economic, and educational lines with movement underneath the surface that appears to show some important gains for former president trump nationally. nbc's steve kornacki joins us from the big board, of course. it's not a national poll that decides who becomes president, but tell us what the big takeaways are from this survey.

>> as you say, nationally, this is what the cnbc poll finds. trump, 48-46 over harris. there is a breakout here just of the seven core battleground states. it's not quite as extensive a pool of voters so the margin of who for just the battleground states is a little bit higher, but what it shows is trump at 48% across those states. harris at 47% across those states. obviously they don't vote as a block. they vote individually, so just giving you a sense though, in the battlegrounds, a result that looks like the national result here, although even a point closer. so, you know, a notable finding that way. i think the bigger picture story, this was suggested as we in our own nbc poll and the cnbc poll that asks about the basic perception here of the two candidates. do you have a positive or negative feeling toward trump, toward harris? you can see right here, neither

one of them has a greater positive than negative. they're both not that popular, but trump, you can see the gap here, 42 positive, 6 negative. he is six points underwater on this question. harris, ten points negative on this question, and the significance here is the trajectory of the harris campaign on this sort of feelings thethermometer. when she first got in the race, when she first entered, she was, you know, basically in the same ballpark as trump on positive/negative. after about six weeks as a candidate, she had actually moved above water on this question. a couple of weeks ago, we were polling this and she had higher -- a higher positive than negative, and she established an advantage, but now our own nbc poll a couple of weeks ago, and now this cnbc poll, both find that that advantage she seemed to have established here saying back in september on this question, is gone, and she's back in that underwater territory with trump again, and again, you take that and you

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nearly a third of registered voters have cast their ballots in just the first nine days of early voting, but along with voting, conspiracy theories are in full swing. "the new york times" reports that after a voter accidentally selected the wrong candidate using a touch screen, it was their mistake, not the machine's, and that it was quickly corrected, the story nevertheless, blew up online. trump ally marjorie taylor greene, pushing a false narrative that voting machines were flipping ballot selections. in other words, changing votes. election officials very quickly debunked that. >> there is literally, zero, zero evidence of machines flipping votes. >> joining me now, tia mitchell, washington correspondent for the atlanta journal constitution, and communications director and senior adviser for the lincoln project. good to see you both. tia, what more can you tell us about these conspiracy theories

circulating around voting in georgia? >> well, i think they have the same root as many election conspiracy theories, that's people trying to, i think, already cast some doubt just in case their preferred candidate doesn't win, and they can start pointing the fingers. it's not always -- it's rarely based on truth. it's based on conjecture and conspiracies, but i think it's to that end, but they're already casting doubt, laying blame in case things don't go their way on election night. >> and just to be clear, this is something that does happen. people make mistakes. when it was paper ballots if you filled in the wrong one, you could take it back and say, i made a mistake, and they would take that ballot away from you, destroy it, right? so it's not like it's something that never happens. people make mistakes. >> right. right, and we can get into the ins and outs of why georgia doesn't have hand-marked paper

ballots, but that's a discussion for another time, but that goes to our republican lawmakers, but yes. it's a touch screen, so there could be human error there. sometimes voters might touch it before they print that ballot. sometimes once it prints -- >> i need to interrupt you for a second because kamala harris is speaking. i'll get back to you on the other side. >> but two leaders in the republican party, the mayor of wakesha and of course, former senator fred upton. this continues to be, i think, evidence of the fact that people who have been leaders regardless of their political party understand what's at stake, and they are weighing, courageously in many cases, in support of what we need to have, which is a president of the united states who understands the obligation to uphold the constitution of the united states and our democracy. as for last night, yet again, trump not showing up, refused to be a part of a cnn debate, and clearly his staff has been saying he's exhausted, and the

sad part about that is he's trying to be president of the united states. it's probably the toughest job in the world and he's exhausted. i said last night what i mean, which is the american people are being presented with a very serious decision, and it includes what we must understand will happen starting on january 20th in this choice. either you have the choice of a donald trump who will sit in the oval office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list, or what i will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night with a to-do list. understanding the need to work on, lifting up the american people, whether it be through the issue of grocery prices and bringing them down, or investing in our economy, investing in our small businesses, investing in our families. happy to take any questions. >> madam vice president, you will be back in philadelphia with members of your team on monday. former president barack obama as well as bruce springsteen. >> yes. >> can you tell us where that

may be? and secondly, any other as you would say, heavy hitters in your campaign in philadelphia to lead up to election day? >> well, i'm very honored to have the support of former president obama. as you know, he's been on the campaign trail, and has been really wonderful and extraordinary in terms of the time and effort that he's putting into our campaign, and people like bruce springsteen to have their support and of course, he is an american icon, i think it just shows the breadth and depth of the support that we have, and also the enthusiasm that a lot of people are bringing to the campaign and feel about our campaign. >> any other names? >> i have nothing to report at the moment. stay tuned, however. >> what do you make of the gender gap in this election? why do you think you have stronger support among women than the former president? >> well, i have to be honest with you. it's not what i see in terms of my rallies, in terms of the interactions i'm having with people in communities and on the

ground. what i'm seeing is an equal measure, men and women, talking about their concerns about the future of our democracy, talking about the fact that they want a president who leads with optimism and takes on the challenges that we face, whether it be grocery prices, or investing in small businesses or homeownership. so i'm not actually seeing that kind of disparity, and i intend to be a president for all americans, and that includes paying attention, yes, to a fundamental freedom that has been taken away because of donald trump, the freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body, and in equal measure, to prioritize the economic needs of individuals and families in america, and we also must do in terms of upholding our strength and standing on the global stage. >> madam vice president. >> y'all sort that out. okay. >> how are you going to vote in california and do california and other states need to punish drug crimes more harshly?

>> i have not yet voted and i have not yet had a chance the read through the ballot. i will keep you posted on that. >> this topic was brought up last night, but will construction of a southern border wall continue in your administration? >> i will tell you that my highest priority is to put the resources into ensuring that our border is secure, which is why i have been very clear. i'm going to bring back up as president, the bipartisan border security bill and make sure that it is brought to my desk so i can sign it into law. the biggest issue that we have right now is that donald trump has stood in the way of what would have been a proven part of the solution to the bigger problem which is that we have a broken immigration system in america, and we need to fix it, and we have the tools at hand, but we have on the other side of this election, donald trump who would prefer to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem. i intend to fix the problem in a way that is just about practical solutions that are within our arm's reach if we have the commitment to do it.

>> vice president kamala harris in the closing days of this campaign, 12 to be exact, as we said several times already in this program. taking advantage of the assembled media to answer some questions as she heads to georgia. a couple of things talking about heavy hitters, on one side, you have something that she's really been leaning into, which is republicans and former republicans who have endorsed her including now the former congressman, fred upton, and the mayor of wakesha, who is also a former republican, obviously in a battleground state, and then the celebrities that she's going to be with from barack obama to bruce springsteen, to beyonce. so the three bs, let's call them. i want to bring back maya rupert and tara setmayer. let's start with the former republicans, and obviously republicans have been out on the

campaign trail with kamala harris very, very publicly. does it make a difference -- do you think that is appealing to the small sliver of the undecideds still out there? >> absolutely, and the internals must show that for her campaign or else she would not be investing this amount of time and resources into speaking to those former republicans. i mean, that's what we have been doing also at the seneca project as a bipartisan women's organization. we have been really focusing in on those right of center women, suburban women, giving them the permission structure to vote for kamala harris this time around. that's really important. negative partisanship is a really powerful thing, and breaking through that is -- it can be difficult, but we have never seen -- it's unprecedented, the amount of former republicans, cabinet officials, congressmen, generals now with generals kelly and

milley speaking truth about working with donald trump. they worked very closely with him. the chief of staff is probably closer to the president of the united states than his own family as far as access. sounding the alarm about donald trump and his fascist fantsys and the fact that he's a danger to our democracy. all of this should speak volumes to those republican voters, the ones that are uncomfortable with donald trump. it should speak volumes to them that it's okay. this is bigger than just some policy differences that we may have. this is life or death for women. republican women need reproductive health too. either you trust women or you don't. all of these issues are large, big issues that the american people need to focus in on, and what the consequence is, what's at stake for the american people if donald trump were to get back into office. so i think it's a smart strategy of her to do this because of how close it is, particularly in these battleground states, to speak to every voter that's gettable out there, and her approach is twofold.

you have the big celebrities in georgia that will help with her base, that you need to make sure that you get out, and then you have her appearances with liz cheney and these endorsements from other republicans, helping to talk to those margins -- those voters in the margins in these battleground states, and women are the majority of these early voters in these states which goes to show you how motivated and galvanized women are given what's at stake for women's rights in this country as well. >> maya, let's talk about the other heavy hitters and by that i mean the famous faces that you will be seeing with for the first time, hsieh going to be -- she's going to be next to barack obama on the campaign trail, bruce springsteen, beyonce. we've talked about how much information the campaign has, that they know who to bring where to attract a certain voter base, right? although, who wouldn't want to see springsteen or beyonce? i'm not really sure. when she asked that question,

she immediately started smiling. her body language changed, and in a campaign where she's responding to the things that donald trump says in a very forceful way and in, you know, the space that those things exist in, is by nature, negative, and scary for a lot of people, how important is it that she's out there with some of these, you know, folks not just because, again, who would want to stand on a stage with springsteen or beyonce? but the message that sends when we just played a little bit of the -- not stock foot angage, but recent footage of her on a stage and she's laughing and seems to have a good time talking to the people in that audience. is that an important part of the appeal in these closing days? >> absolutely, it's an important part of this. in the closing days and honestly since she's been running, so much of what she's done. she's talked about, you know, bringing joy back to politics,

right? there is -- it is a difficult -- donald trump is an incredibly difficult person to run against because by its nature, it makes it so that everything is so serious and so tough because what he represents is such a serious threat to the country, and when you're running against that kind of existential threat, it is difficult to find those moments of levity and fun, and that is for a lot of people what they're looking for. especially young voters, they want something to believe in right now. they don't want to vote out of fear. they don't want to vote because they feel like they only have one option, and the other person is fascist. they want to feel like they're voting for something. the opportunity for her in these cloing days is the stakes are higher than they've ever been, and we're running against someone who represents an existential threat to democracy, but also look at the coalition we're bringing together.

music transcends so much, and these are, you know, bruce springsteen and beyonce, you know, present such big swaths of america. this is not one group of people who necessarily like them both. this is -- they loom so large, and have such big fan bases that it makes people feel that sense of, this can be a place where people come together, and i think that message alongside how big the stakes are, is an incredibly powerful one for the close of this campaign, and i think that's why she was smiling. that's a fun message to be able to deliver, to remind people that this is something that can bring people together. >> maya rupert and tara setmayer, thank you for sticking around to talk to us about that little impromptu q&a by the vice president. appreciate it. still ahead, disturbing new details about this suspect accused of firing shots at an office used by kamala harris' campaign. the massive pile of weapons police found at his home,

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in arizona, police believe a man who fired shots at a dnc office three separate times was planning a mass casualty event. prosecutors say they found more than 120 guns, 250,000 rounds of ammunition, and a grenade launcher at 60-year-old jeffrey michael kelly's home. those disturbing details

emerging as the justice department announces it's moving forward with four other cases involving election threats in other parts of the country. nbc's alex tabitt is on the ground in arizona, and nbc's ken dilanian joins us as well. what else can you tell us about this suspect and what do they know about his plan there? >> reporter: well, chris, after this suspect was taken into custody, the atf searched his home, and as you noted, they discovered more than 120 guns including ar-15s and machine guns. they discovered more than 250,000 rounds of ammunition. they discovered a grenade launcher, body armor, scopes, and silencers, and law enforcement officials are pointing towards this massive armory to -- they're pointing there to say that this man was planning what they're describing as a mass casualty event. they believe that what you might be able to see behind me, which is six bullet holes through the windows of a harris-walz dnc

coordinated campaign office was just the beginning of this man's plans. chris? >> and ken, the doj's election task force now has brought at least 20 cases -- 20, since it was formed in 2021. four very recently, right? talk about that in the bigger picture of all of what we have been seeing happening. >> yeah, chris. law enforcement and election officials say it's uglier than it's ever been out there in terms of election threat. so you have a california man indicted wednesday and charged with bombing a santa barbara courthouse, accused of throwing a bag that exploded in the courthouse lobby, and injured five people. you have a colorado man who pleaded guilty wednesday to threatening state election officials including saying that an election official has to hang by the neck until she is dead, dead, dead. in alabama, a man was sentenced on monday to 30 months in prison for sending messages threatening election workers in 2022, including one that said you will all be executed for your crimes, and a philadelphia man was charged monday with allegedly threatening on september the 6th to quote, skin and kill a

representative of a pennsylvania state political party who was recruiting official poll watchers. that's just a sampling of the madness. >> madness may even be an underdescription of that. ken dilanian and alex, thank you both very much. and coming up, the new court ruling that could affect thousands of ballots in battleground pennsylvania. and how is the harris campaign planning to use its major cash haul to win over undecided voters in these crucial final weeks? a harris campaign spokesman will join us in our next hour. a harrl join us in our next hour

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