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nine days to go until election day with tens of thousands of nervous voters already casting their ballots, in just a few minutes we'll talk about kamala harris' closing message with mitch landrieu. then in our next hour, donald trump's former personal attorney michael cohen on why this race is so close and whether describing trump as fascist is accurate. good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin with decision 2024 and the race for the white house and control of congress. the final countdown is on we election day nine days away. right now vice president kamala harris is working battleground pennsylvania. former president donald trump is gearing up for a rally at madison square garden in new

york city. here's a look at early returns according to nbc news. more than 41.6 million americans have already voted. and here's part of a report on nationwide polling from steve kornacki on meet the press. >> harris continues to lead nationally. want to stress that. but we've been tracking this every week on the air here. couple weeks ago this number was at 3 for kamala harris. her lead in the poll average now down to 1.2 because of some of the numbers that i just showed you. of course the swing states, the battleground states are going to be what decide this election. >> tomorrow vp harris will be in battleground michigan. tuesday she will speak at the ellipse in it washington, d.c. wednesday she goes to north carolina, pennsylvania and wisconsin. and to nevada and arizona on thursday. the harris campaign obtained a permit to host 20,000 people at the ellipse. the same site where trump held the january 6th rally that proceeded the capitol attack. >> i think it is very important

for the american people to see and think about who will be occupying that space on january 20th. and the reality of it is that most americans can visualize the oval office. we've seen it on television. this is a real scenario. it's either going to be donald trump or it's going to be me sitting behind the resolute desk in the oval office. >> former first lady michelle obama yesterday added her star power to the harris campaign in michigan, raising questions about a double standard for vp harris. >> by every measure she has demonstrated that she's ready. the real question is as a country are we ready for this moment. we expect her to be intelligent and articulate, to have a clear set of policies, to never show too much anger, to prove time

and time again that she belongs. but for trump we expect nothing at all. >> trump meanwhile campaigned saturday in michigan and pennsylvania. today on meet the press his running mate sought to clarify trump's characterizization as political rivals as the enemy within. >> do you believe that adam schiff and nancy pelosi are more dangerous than russia? >> those folks pose a greater threat to united states as peace and security. what he said and i do agree with this, what he said is the biggest threat we have in our country, it's not a foreign adversary. >> as we prepare for a nail biter of a finish, voters are making their final decisions and talking to our nbc news crews around the country. >> i've heard so much about trump being angry and he's a fascist and a dictator, but

problem is when i listen to him i don't hear any of that. >> this is a huge thing. as a child growing up i never thought i would see a woman be a president. a black woman at that. this is a game changer. she's going to open doors for other women to come. >> and we've got reporters and analysts in place across this country. we're ready to go over all of these new developments. we'll begin with ali from philadelphia where vice president harris is campaigning today. what can we expect from her tour in this very critical swing state? >> reporter: yeah, alex, that's right. vice president harris is criss crossing the city of brotherly love trying to generate love around her. today she's focusing on predominantly black and latino communities. i'm here outside of the venue for her last event today outside this youth basketball facility.

that event isn't until roughly the 5:00 p.m. hour. as you can see, hours before that event starts this line is extending almost to the end of the block here. and now we saw her earlier today at a black congregation courting philadelphia's faithful. trying to really talk about how important it is to get out and vote. then we saw her gaggle with reporters and answer their questions and that's where she really talked about the importance of philadelphia and pennsylvania in this election. listen here. >> we have nine days. nine days until we decide the future of our nation. i will tell you what feeds my spirit, what feeds my spirit as i travel around our country from state to state and church to church, i see -- but let me

share what i see. i see faith in action all over. >> now the reverend at that church service even said that there were 20 buses waiting outside waiting to take the congregation to the polls. we then saw the vice president go to a barbershop talking with black male small business owners trying to court their support as we see more and more of them express an openness and a willingness to voting for former president trump. she is then going to visit a puerto rican restaurant to talk with community leaders there. to wrap up the day we'll see her deliver remarks here as well as speaking with families here. this is all part of her effort to really finish this closing message. especially were that big speech she's expected to deliver on tuesday on the ellipse. the same place where former president trump spoke on january 6th before the rioters

ended up attacking the u.s. capitol. >> a lot of people in line already for that big event though. thank you so much. let's go to von hillyard in new york city. welcome to you, my friend. what can we expect from this event later today? win pretty extraordinary nature of him campaigning there in perspective. >> reporter: right. we're nine days away. donald trump is choosing to come back to his first home state of new york. this is a calculated decision under the lights of madison square garden. i'll have dan give you a better sense of what the scene is looking like. madison square garden has capacity of about 20,000 people. we have met people that are not only from long island, staten island, queens, some folks from new jersey here. this is a perimeter that has been established here around a couple blocks. 7th and 8th avenue. to the left there, the cars are still coming up and down the

roads there some with trump flags. of course it's hard to start stop traffic completely in manhattan. you'll see there's a small gathering right now of some counterprotesters, anti-trump folks. donald trump is not slated to take the stage until about four hours from news. he has a series of speakers from it robert f. kennedy jr. to elon musk to tulsi gabbard. we're about to head inside of this arena. i want to give you a sense. of course new york is a blue state. let's be very clear. donald trump lost it in 2020 by 23 percentage points. i want you to listen to the governor of new york earlier this morning. >> kamala harris is in pennsylvania today. she's in philadelphia. donald trump is coming back to his known familiar environment and if he wants to stay here for nine days, i'll make sure he's got tickets to broadway, he can go see suffs. maybe that'll help inspire him to do the right thing. here's the thing. it means he's giving up because

why else would you come to new york city. row you are not going to find undecided voters walking the streets of manhattan today. >> reporter: now for the trump campaign of course not only is this the state where donald trump grew up, but also it there is a viral part of this. there is a showing much like his decision two weeks ago to hold a rally in california that he's eager to go into blue states. eager for people to say he's going to go everywhere. he has suggested he can win the state of new york. he lost by 23 points in 2020. 21 points in it 2016. donald trump is not running a campaign, an ordinary campaign. he made the decision to hold this sunday rally here nine days out in the heart of manhattan. he has other stops in battleground states planned in the upcoming days. >> 100%. i have one question. new yorkers are typically an undeterred bunch. have you seen anyone who is an overt harris supporter try to walk through that crowd that's

pretty densely packed with trump supporters next to you? >> reporter: no. to answer the question. i saw one person frustrated who was a resident of new york and just wanted to get the heck out of here. other than that though, things have been very mild, calm, the counterprotesters are essentially on one street corner here. we didn't know what to anticipate today. so far at high noon manhattan. 65-degree fall day, things are calm here at this hour. >> good. there has been some bad language displayed on shirts behind you, but we'll just leave that right there, my friend. thank you. joining me now is mitch landrieu, national cochair. mitch, welcome to you. i would like to ask you first about what we are seeing at this trump event. james carville, hillary clinton said it echoes the nazi rally held there in 1939. harris in her town hall said yes when asked whether or not trump is a fascist. how do you perceive this rally? how does the campaign perceive

it? are there echoes of 1939? >> well first of all, history is what history is. there was a rally there. it was a very dark rally. because of who donald trump is and how we spoke about that, the fact that you even having to ask the question actually answers the question. so donald trump, for people who are listening to this dialogue. a fascist is a person or a group of people that want to seize power for a few. use that power to hurt other people and take their rights away. it wasn't us that called donald trump a fascist. it was a description that was given to him by a four star general who actually worked with him every day. his chief of staff john kelly. it was also given to him by the joint chiefs of staff. the top military person in the world warning us donald trump's view of the world is very dark. and that he really does not believe in democracy. he doesn't believe in the rule of law. and of course out of donald trump's mouth himself he has said that he's going to go after his political enemies,

he's going to sic the military on civilians in the united states of america. he thinks people like me and other individuals who disagree with him are enemies of the people. he doesn't believe in the free press. if the shoe fits, you have to wear it. what they're doing is people who know donald trump best. 13 people, including his vice president have warned us away from giving him power. look, i'm from the neighborhood. this is real simple for me. if you give a guy a bat and you think he's going to hit you with it, you might want to think about giving him the bat. whether or not he's going to use it to hurt you or use it to help you. i think we know the answer as it relates to donald trump. >> mitch, you heard vaugn remind us donald trump lost new york by 23 points. >> yeah. >> why would he be at msg in new york city in a state he has no chance of winning? >> you know what, i love new york. i go to new york all the time. it's one of the great cities of the world. he's going to get his rump handed to him in new york. if he wants to go to the ballet

and go to broadway and waste his time there, you know, because it is a waste of time for him. he's not going to win new york. there are nine days left. we have a choice to make in this country. it's the most critical choice that we're going to make. of course kamala harris is criss crossing the battleground states. she's been in wisconsin, she's of course in philadelphia today. she will be in michigan and she will go everywhere, talk to anybody to make sure that they know what the consequences of this choice are. i could care less where donald trump is today. i know where our candidate is and she's working really, really ard to make sure the american people are in a position to make a great choice in less than nine days. >> let me ask about the campaign seeming pivot toward attacking donald trump and his mental fitness. take a listen to michelle obama. >> i hope you'll forgive me if i'm a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore donald trump's gross incompetence while asking kamala to dazzle us at every

turn. i hope that you'll forgive me if i'm a little angry that we are indifferent to his erratic behavior, his obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon. >> hard to argue with anything she says there. but is trump's fitness to serve, is that a message that resinates more with potential undecided voters? is that something the campaign has discovered? >> well, democrats, independents and republicans all have a stake obviously in the next election. do you have the capacity to do the job. do you have the right character to do the job. and you know sometimes we get into these campaigns, we get into the details. we forget the very basic simple things that donald trump is a 34 time convicted felon. he's filed bankruptcy six times. not once but six times. which means it's a strategy to screw people.

that in his personal life and professional life and his political life he has always used power to help himself and his rich friends and let's please not forget this and the vice president will remind us next tuesday. donald trump got in the way of the peaceful transition of power. the most sacred gift that a democracy can give itself. he as an ex-president would not only not step aside but he actually is the one that instigated an insurrection against his own country which in my opinion makes him a traitor. he instigated the insurrection at the capitol where 146 law enforcement officers were hurt and many were killed. i think it's appropriate to point out that the person you're running against is that person. while simultaneously talking about what you're going to do to save democracy, what you're going to do to protect peoples freedoms because they are under threat by the supreme court that donald trump appointed and how you're going to provide more economic opportunity for people going forward. kamala harris is promising people a new way forward. i happen to believe many people

in america are just exhausted with donald trump's chaos. exhausted with waking up thinking what the hell is this guy going to say and exhausted at the fact he's representing the united states of america in any capacity. we will not let that happen. one of the calling cards of this campaign is we are not going back. i believe that's going to resinate. >> let's take a quick look at a new abc news ipsos poll. the vice president with an 83 point lead among likely black voters. does the campaign believe that more reflects reality and are other polls overestimating trump's appeal to black voters? >> i've been interested. i grew up in the city of new orleans. i've been elected state representative, the mayor, lieutenant governor. i would not be here politically without the support of the african american community. i've giggled at us worrying about the black vote is 90% or 80% while not focusing on white non-college educated men or women. the fact we are beating him

much more exponentially in those areas. folks not concentrating on that. i feel very comfortable that kamala harris has spoken to the african american community. tried to earn their vote and is going to do very well there. she's going to beat him badly amongst women because of the fact he appointed three supreme court justices that have obliterated for the first time in their life rights their mothers and grandmothers had. i don't think women in america and men in their lives who want to be good stewards are going to vote for donald trump. >> let's just tell you mitch to the left of the screen we're look at kamala harris and she's in philadelphia at a bookstore making a stop. she will do that despite a very busy day. going one on one with people. probably about a 30 second hug to someone that looks like potentially a grandmother. has vice president harris established herself as enough of a change from joe biden? we have been reporting her

campaign has tried to put some distance between them. has harris been reluctant to do that perhaps out of loyalty? >> no, i don't think so. i think she's said many times and you know she's going to be her own person. she is significantly younger than him and she represents a new generation. obviously she supports the policies that america supports, passing the infrastructure bill, the inflation reduction act, the chips act, bringing manufacturing jobs back to the united states of america. creating 16 million jobs. all of those things are important. you have seen her distinguish herself by saying i'm going to lean in on reducing peoples cost. inflation is too high. that i am going to fight really hard to give a tax break to 100 million americans. i'm going to work hard to make sure that oh, by the way, the prescription drug costs are low, which by the way the republicans want to take away. to make sure we protect the affordable care act which donald trump wants to take away. after ten years in office all this man has now is a concept

of a plan. you remember them saying kamala harris didn't have a plan. she's got an 82 page plan. donald trump has zero, nothing. nobody calls him on it. that's what some of the frustration is. they said about her, you're looking at her right now. she doesn't go places. she doesn't talk to people. she's outpaced donald trump every day since she has been in this campaign. talking to voters individually like she's doing now. she has hit as michelle obama said, every mark that we have set for her. she has jumped higher than any bar we have sat for her and people keep raising the bar. she's going to keep jumping over it. and she's going to get elected and she's going to be the president of the united states in nine days. >> there you have it. duly noted from you mitch landrieu the national co-chair of the campaign. we appreciate you. >> great being with you. thank you. what to make of the undecided voters in this election. will they show up or just talk about it? plus what some republicans are whispering among themselves. we're back in 90 seconds. we're

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bush white house and an nbc political analyst and our good friend. thanks for joining us. i mention this new abc news ipsos poll. 5% are either voting for someone else or they're undecided. how unusual is it to see voters undecided this close to election day? >> this was always what the election was going to come down. the elusive 5, 6% of people who are undecided and could potentially switch from who they voted for in the last election. this abc poll though should have the kamala harris campaign jumping for joy. it shows that trump has a problem with white voters. he still leads but only by about 4%. white women now are plus 4 for -- he's gone down so much when white women were plus 20 and now he's only plus 4. that is a huge jump for kamala harris. it shows she's keeping her support with black voters. keeping her support with hispanic voters. black men, hispanic men are a

huge emphasis of the trump campaign. this might be one outlier poll. it certainly is different from the trends where trump seemed to be having an uptick and gaining and now it does seem to be settling in her favor. >> speaking of gender, nationally among early voters by gender we have seen a larger number of females than men and then by political party democrats currently have a slight lead. is there anything to glean from this or is it still too early to read the tea leaves? this is a gender divided election. to some extent given that abortion is such a huge issue and so many women are really motivated and charged because of they want to preserve their right to basic healthcare. the divide isn't so, i don't want to go too far out there and say it's a historic gender divide. you see where gender is the dividing line more so than race even in this year. if i had to pick if i'm a campaign and i have to pick a gender to come out and vote, i

would want women because they tend to vote slightly a couple percentage points more than men. >> so pennsylvania, obviously a big battleground state. the harris campaign is reportedly launching a ground operation in philadelphia suburbs to find winnable republicans. what do you make of this strategy? is there enough winnable there to make this worthwhile? >> well, the harris campaign is gambling that it's easier to get republicans who are fed up with donald trump and they just don't -- they might like his policies somewhat but they can't stand his character. they don't like his values. nikki haley protest voters that they are going to come over and they're banking more on that than low propensity voters are going to turn out. it's a gamble, but from that abc poll i would say that maybe what they decided to do the strategy is working. if you have so many white women dropping from donald trump, you know, that 20 points to plus 4,

that's a lot. >> give me a sense of the whisper caucus. the whisper campaign. disaffected republicans that may not say in advance right now that they're going to vote for donald trump because they're republicans and will actually vote for kamala harris. what are you hearing about that? >> i think that the silent trump vote is certainly over. trump voters are proud of their vote. there's not -- this isn't going to be 2016 to so say. i do wonder if there could be some kind of hidden female vote, hidden right leaning vote that maybe hasn't come up yet. i do think if there is some kind of, you know, bubble that we find out about post election. >> many thanks. donald trump's closing argument. whether a key part will make any sense to voters. the author of this new article and it's a very relatable

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the final push for votes is on in the race for the white house. kamala harris doing a lot of retail politics just a few minutes ago. what you see here, she stopped by a bookstore in philadelphia. she was greeted with hugs, with one shopper so excited she didn't want to let go. harris also visited a barbershop, taking moments to talk to voters about the economy. donald trump for his part is gearing up for a rally at madison square garden in new york city. advocates going on the sunday talk shows delivering these messages. >> america is ready to move differently and donald trump is the best hope to put out the fires in the world, to end the war in ukraine, to bring about peace in the mideast, to restore broken border. >> how does it happen that a billionaire cannot support raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to a living wage?

kamala harris supports raising the minimum wage to at least $15 an hour. i would go higher. >> joining me now, politico white house correspondent and playbook coauthor eugene daniels and the wall street journal's political correspondent molly ball. molly, in it your latest article you describe a panicked nation on edge heading into this final week of the race. what are people from both camps telling you? how are their anxieties different from past elections? >> as i spoke to supporters of both candidates and also just regular rank and file voters at an early voting center outside of atlanta, there was really this common theme over and over they said this does not feel like a normal election. this does not feel like a regular four year event where everything goes back to normal and everything's going to be okay afterwards no matter what. and you hear that in the heightened rhetoric of the

candidates. we have polling data to back this up as well in our new wall street journal poll that was just released this past week. 87% of the electorate fear there will be permanent damage to the country if their candidate loses and pluralities of harris voters and trump voters say they will be frightened if the other candidate wins. so there's this sense of existential peril for our democracy, for the nation and you combine that with the fact this looks like it's probably going the closest election in history and nobody really has any clue which way it's going to go and it really adds up to a very, very tense feeling. >> yeah. thus the title of the article. let me tell you. so eugene, in her final pitches to voters kamala harris is leaning harder into warning trump is a threat to the country. on tuesday she'll be delivering her closing argument at the ellipse. precisely where trump held his stop the steal rally before the january 6th capitol riot. is this the right closing

message for her? >> that's a question for the campaign, but i think they believe it is. when you look at how her very short campaign has operated, when she started she wasn't talking too much about donald trump. she was talking about the things he'd done, but she wasn't leaning into kind of the he wants to be a dictator message. that started to change the campaign and aides tell me that changed because they feel like donald trump changed. if you do look at his language over the last few months, it has gotten darker. it has gotten more dystopian. even aides around him will agree with something like that. you can watch the rallies of donald trump and see that for yourself. now you have vice president harris on tuesday at the ellipse, obviously they chose that for a reason. one thing they're trying to do is remind people of the feelings they had during the trump years. when most people felt like it was at best chaotic from day-to-

day as trump was tweeting things at little rocket man to the dictator of north korea. they also continue to have to kind of explain one what she says she will do and two, more importantly, who she is. because of how much biowork they've had to do in such a short period of time. the message of, you know, look at donald trump, it has to be tied to the campaign. what she's going to do. so they're trying to strike this balance in this last speech here. we've seen some of this, friday at the beyonce rally -- excuse me, the kamala harris rally in texas. she previewed quite a bit of this as well. talking about if donald trump is in office then no one is safe from a national abortion ban. things that they're trying to make clear and tie together. >> i do understand the slip there with it being a beyonce rally. i think a lot of people would. molly, in a few hours donald

trump will be holding that rally and fundraiser at new york's madison square garden. many political observers are accusing trump of reenacting the 1939 neo nazi rally held there. do you believe the trump campaign is deliberately trying to associate itself with that? and does it even matter considering trump's authoritarian rhetoric? >> i do not think that is what he has in mind. this is something that trump associates will tell you he has been talking about in every campaign since the first one. simply because he's a new yorker and this is the big new york venue and he wants to make a splash. and you know, in this nationalized era of campaigns and of media, you see both campaigns trying to get creative about the venues are they have their events. kamala harris being in texas the other day, also not a swing state. there's the opportunity to make a splash in the media and get

attention nationally. and there by reach millions more voters than you would simply at a regular rally with the people that you see there. so of course both campaigns are campaigning vigorously in all the battleground states. we also see them going to these more unconventional venues as they just try to get peoples attention, to motivate their supporters t get that vote out and to get people off the couch. >> washington post and the los angeles times, eugene, both announced they will not make an endorsement. the paper's owner jeff bezos quashed it. are these news organizations compromised with owners who have business before the federal government? >> i mean, we still haven't figured that out. there's a lot of reporting that folks are trying to do to figure out why these things happened. both organizations say that that is not the case but when

you talk to even the reporters at those organizations, they themselves have questions about why. because this is such a long standing tradition in this country at those newspapers to do just what opinion and editorial boards have done for decades and decades. i think one thing that it speaks to when you talk to folks in those spaces is that the very best a chilling effect they feel about what could happen if donald trump does what he says he would do. he has talked about pulling licenses for news organizations on television and going after journalists in other different ways. he's talked about that for a very long time. people at the organizations, the reporters are feeling that. they feel like there could be a connection. we don't know. but it is different than has happened in decades past. >> molly, back to the title of your article. i mean everyone's anxious. how long do you think we're going to be anxious? is it going to take days for us to know the result of this

election? reminder, 2020 tuesday voting, saturday results. >> it's certainly possible. all the same states are in play. all the same states have broadly the same procedures in place. there had been efforts over the past four years to streamline some of the counting procedures in those states that were largely not successful. and then there's just the closeness of it. that is the main thing that's going to draw out the count. if this was a blowout election we'd know right away. because it's so likely to come down to the wire, because it could depend on a few provisional ballots in one of these states or even a legal challenge, it could be drawn out for much longer. i think the important thing for people to understand is that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the election. it just means that it's very close and they are counting the votes legitimately as carefully as possible. and we are waiting to know the answer until we are sure that the votes have all been counted.

another thing that is likely that we saw four years ago is that trump and those around him will try to sew doubt in the vote count or even declare victory before it has occurred or when it has not actually occurred. and so i think it's important for people to understand that those votes may take a while to be counted and that's just because it's a close race and they're counting them carefully. >> the sewing doubt part has already begun on trump's behalf. >> indeed. >> thank you so much. hope i see you both next weekend. standing in line packing their patience. what people are saying as they take part in this early voting. an astonishing number from georgia. we'll share it. georgia. we'll share it. complete nutri, and the flavor you love. so, here's to now... now available: boost max! why use 10 buckets of water when you can use 1 fire extinguisher. and to fight heartburn, why take 10 antacids throughout the day when you can take 1 prilosec. for easier heartburn relief, one beats ten. prilosec otc.

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new this hour, an astonishing number from georgia. as of friday afternoon, georgia has surpassed 50% of all ballots cast in the 2020 election. wow. what a number, kathy. i mean it's remarkable. tell us what you're seeing there and are you as gob smacked as i am by those numbers? >> yeah. the numbers are quite remarkable, alex. we are seeing record turnout here in the state of georgia. absolutely the numbers reflect that. according to the secretary of state's office as of last night 2.7 million votes have already been cast. this includes absentee ballots as well as in person early voting. and the secretary of state believes this momentum will

continue. even as we round out the early voting period which wraps up on friday. he says he is seeing enthusiasm from both sides of the aisle and earlier today we had a chance to speak with some early voters about why it was important to vote today. take a listen. >> it's nice to see people of all ages and ethnicities coming out to vote. just everybody is so excited. >> it's always important to make sure your voice is heard. even more so in this election. we believe that down ballot and up ballot all of those effect georgians. people are ready. you can see throughout the state the robust turnout for the early voting. it's just a sign that people are engaged. they're locked in. >> alex, we should point out that this is last weekend before early voting wraps up here in the state of georgia on friday. you probably hear the blasting around me. this is an event we're at. a souls to the polls event sponsored by community leader,

church groups, fraternities and sororities. we're in front of the flipper temple ame church. historically this neighborhood the voter turnout is low so they're hoping their presence here will galvanize voters either today or on election day. >> the music sure will. anyway, thank you so much, kathy park. good to see you. what to make of a campaign event that's being called a giant trolling exercise. giant .

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new today, an abc news ipsos poll has vice president kamala harris with a slight national lead among likely voters just inside the margin of error. surrogates on both sides beginning to make their closing arguments today. >> the world is spinning into chaos because the biden-harris administration has been feckless. let me argue this, it's going to get worse if kamala harris is president of the united states. >> the trump campaign, donald trump, they have no way to respond substantively to the truth, to the facts that vice president harris has built a coalition that is unlike any other we have ever seen. we understand fundamentally that the defense of the rule of law, the defense of our constitution, those are the things that are at stake in this election. >> and with me now my sunday family. we have don calloway and ceo of pine street strategies. republican strategy susan del percio and david jolly.

msnbc political analysts. so glad you're here. here we go, don. how are you feeling? there's a lot of worry among democrats of being overconfident, maybe repeating 2016. but then again it's equally important for voters to feel like we're going to go to the polls and we can win. >> yeah, yeah, i feel pretty good. that's because of what i've seen around black america this week. i have not seen a whole lot of game changing from either of the candidates since our last conversation. what i've seen is a couple things. number one, the inside the ballpark stuff, folks are getting ready to figure out where they're going to be on election night and putting together closing arguments. it's homecoming season for black americans. people are going back to their colleges. home churches and what we're seeing is this congealing around each others spirit. we have two more weeks. at this point one more week of work to do. this notion we will be prepared if the lesser angels of america do what they did in 2016 and we'll be prepared, we still exist in community and as

pharrell and kendrick lamar said, we'll be all right. we're ready for the next seven days. one final push. i think that kamala harris is going to be the beneficiary of that. i've seen this resounding spirit of resilience among black america and other folks that we'll be okay with what happens on tuesday. >> speaking of churches, susan. harris spoke at a church in philadelphia today. vance also spoke with a pastor at a pennsylvania church event yesterday. but that's where he faced some pushback after talking about the biden administration's support for transgender youth in sports. take a listen. >> i think that it is such a terrible thing to take food out of the mouths of poor children because they don't do what the biden-harris administration wants them to do. >> with all due respect. >> please. >> harris and biden are striving to make america the best country that they possibly can. and up until this point we haven't said anything about the

opposing. and i think we should keep it respectful. >> is there growing frustration with how much the trump campaign has demonized democrats? trump calling them the enemy from within? do people get tired of that, susan? >> well, not trump supporters. they like hearing what trump has to say. that's why he's having this big rally today at madison square garden. but what is important and it may be late to the party is that we're finally hearing pushback on how harris and trump are not treated equally. trump says something off the wall bonkers and we let him get away with it because that's just trump whereas if harris makes one tiny error she gets hammered for it for three days. i was happy to see the pushback. and the real difference is -- i wish i would have heard the pastor say. there's no question in my mind that harris and biden are patriots. i can't say the same about donald trump. >> to your point michelle obama

was all over that last night to your point about that. but as i go to you, david. michelle obama also focused part of her speech on men. looking to spur them to action. listen to this. >> anyone out there thinking about sitting out this election or voting for donald trump or a third party candidate in protest because you're fed up? let me warn you, your rage does not exist in a vacuum. if we don't get this election right, your wife, your daughter, your mother, we as women will become collateral damage to your rage. >> this message, david, can the abortion issue especially motivate men to the ballot box in the way we've seen it move women? >> it can. as i said to katie phang this weekend. let me plant a flag for girl dads for harris. what you heard michelle obama do was a remarkable moment where she translated an issue

that ever since dobbs we have largely associated with women reproductive rights. she translated it to loved ones and family members, men who are related and care for women. where my own daughter now there are questions whether she might grow up with the same healthcare rights as my son. that's a real question for people. i think the question of reproductive freedom is the lone policy issue that can influence this race. alongside the broader question of democracy. which is why i think you continue to see vice president harris focus in her closing message on the danger of donald trump to our democracy. you cannot have reproductive freedom if you do not have a working healthy democracy. those two issues come together perfectly for vice president harris down the stretch. >> let me ask all of you this and we start with you, don. what do you expect or want to hear from kamala harris at the ellipse and what do you expect to hear from donald trump at the garden tonight? >> i expect to hear from donald trump the same thing we've heard from him as by marco

rubio. more fear, more patronizing and more fear mongering. that's all you're going to get. i expect to hear from harris. she's got to go into baptist preacher mode. democracy, better angels and reproductive freedom. three closing points and shut this thing down. >> susan. >> i agree with don as far as donald trump. he's just going to be full of hate. i'm really excited for vice president harris because i think she's going to make the comparison to what happened in 2021 and that's the past and it should stay there. and then her closing argument being and here's what we're going to do in the future. >> last word to you, david. >> donald trump, hateful, event immigrant, xenophobia. vice president harris is speaking to the last gettable voter in this election and that last gettable voter is a soft republican or republican performing independent who doesn't want to vote for donald trump and needs to be convinced finally to pull the lever for a democrat, perhaps for the first

time. she's right on message tuesday night. >> okay. i need my sunday family around me next weekend, that's for sure. i'll see you guys then. thank you. in our next hour, michael cohen, donald trump's former personal attorney on what he thinks could come from a second trump presidency. trump preside

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east. one person was killed and more than 30 injured after a truck rammed into a bus stop near tel aviv, israel. the incident happening outside a military base near the headquarters of israel's spy agency. police have not said if they are treating the incident as a suspected terror attack or traffic accident. israel and other negotiators are expected to meet for gaza cease-fire talks. among the options are an egyptian proposal for cease- fire in exchange for six hostages. look at the satellite images showing damage to iranian military bases before and after israel's retaliatory strikes on saturday. the attack avoided nuclear and oil strikes. the strikes appear to have been calibrated to stop short of provoking all out war with iran. >> in moments, a chilling message from the former first lady, michelle obama's impassioned plea to american men. ♪ ♪