be sure to join us tomorrow night here on the reidout. one week from election day for vice president kamala harris' closing argument speech in its entirety in the ellipse in washington. the great rachel maddow will join me. you do not want to miss it and that is tonight's reidout. inside the jen psaki starts now. . okay, everyone. we are just eight days out and

right now, vice president harris is wrapping up a big rally in ann arbor, michigan. in the closing days of this campaign, she's trying to make the contrast as clear as she possibly can. >> we understand the opportunity that we have before us to turn the page on the fear and divisiveness that have characterized our politics for a decade because of donald trump. we have an opportunity to turn the page and chart a new and joyful way forward where we tap into the ambitions. and we will tap into the ambitions and the aspirations and the dreams of the american people. let's be clear. we are all here because we are fighting for a democracy. and for the right of people to

be heard and seen. we're not about the enemy within. we know we are all in this together. that's what we are fighting for. >> that was vice president harris speaking at a campaign rally in ann arbor, michigan, just moments ago. she definitely offered quite a contrast with the headlines you may have seen from the rally trump held in madison square garden last night. now, overall, since i hope you didn't spend your sunday night watching it, that rally was basically six hours of racist hate speech. that's my quick summary. with a brief interlude in there that included an extremely awkward interaction. i encourage you to go watch it online, between melania trump and her husband. beyond that, it was pretty racist and hate-filled. coverage of this rally though has largely revolved around two

things. first, a racist comedian who was part of the program before trump even spoke who said some truly vile things. targeting latinos, calling puerto rico a floating island of garbage, that's a quote. mocking black people, jewish people, palestinians. really horrible stuff across the board. now none of this should be surprising. trump has built for himself quite a body of racist and seine xenophobic work. overall t overall, the reaction to last night has been good for the harris team because it sparked an outcry even though it's not surprising. the truth is, just like harris said today, this is really nothing new. >> i think last night, donald trump's event in madison square garden really highlighted a point i've been making throughout this campaign. he is focused and actually fixated on his grievances on

himself and on dividing our country. this is not new about him, by the way. what he did last night is not a discovery. it is just more of the same. and maybe more vivid than usual. donald trump spent full-time trying to have americans point their finger at each other. fans the fuel of hate and division. and that's why people are exhausted with him. that's why people who normally have supported donald trump, have voted for him, are supporting me, voting for me. >> sure, it might have been more vivid as she just said, but just another reminder. just eight days out from the election exactly who trump is. the harris team also didn't waste time putting it on the air saying exactly that. >> a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean. i think it's called puerto rico. >> puerto rico. >> i never forget what donald trump did. he abandoned the island and

offered nothing more than paper towels and insults. puerto ricans deserve better. as president, i will always fight for you and your families and together, we can chart a new way forward. >> now, besides all the racism in those six hours, the other big headline that seemed to emerge from last night is about a secret plan trump said he has with his little buddy, speaker of the house, mike johnson. >> i think with our little secret, we're going to do really well with the house, right? our little secret is having a big impact. he and i have a secret. we'll tell you what it is when the race is over. >> now, when the two major takeaways from a six-hour long big closing message rally eight days out from election day or nine days out i guess yesterday, are about how racist you are and speculation about your secret plans to steal an election, it's pretty clear you don't have a

whole lot else going for you. at the end of the day, this is all very revealing about what trump and his team are thinking right now. it tells us they think they can win like this. they think they can close out the campaign on fear and hate. they think that will win. they think it will work. but if it doesn't, then don't you worry. trump has a secret plan with mike johnson. that's what last night told us. hatred is the closing message and conspireing with mike johnson seems to be the back up plan. joining me at the big table tonight is george conway, politico white house correspondent, eugene daniels and former spokesman for hillary clinton. the vibes over here are, because you're a journalist. you don't have any vibes!. >> i'm tired. >> these are pretty calm. it's eight days now. nine days last night. what is last night's rally tell you about trump? those were the headlines. >> this is more of the same except he's accelerating,

getting worse, and people around him are getting worse because thaer just catering to his desires. the comedian was the perfect warm up act for him. you saw some of the headlines you put up there before. he's the guy who basically said we should trade puerto rico for greenland because it's full of dirty people. he called, talked about haiti as a shit house country. people said shit hole and the republicans denied it and they said he didn't say that. you know, he said that he didn't want, had this crude remark about watermelons last night and he was to say he didn't want guys with yamicas counting his money and not black guys. this is racism. he is a racist. called me once moon face. he loves, he is a complete racist. >> some of this is why the notion that this is new or

they're kind of walking away from it, give me a break. let me ask you because it's hard in these campaigns at all times but certainly the last weekend. especially running against donald trump, which you have been in these rooms a week out of running against donald trump. it's like evil whack a mole. you have to decide what you respond to and what you don't. what kind of discussions if you're the harris campaign, are you having? what are you deciding day-to-day? >> you know, i think he's helping that process along because if someone just came out of an induced coma yesterday and they had to decide who to vote for in the next couple of days, this is a great encapsulation of it all. last night as you said, in six hours, it's really been a perfect reflection of the last not just six years, but nine years since he started his campaign by knocking rapists and other criminals coming from mexico. today, we saw the clips that you

have of vice president harris who is talking about the future. talking about ambitious. talk about looking forward. it was interesting. i don't know why, probably because i spend too much time on these s, but i went back and read the debate transcript from last month and you know what word donald trump never uses? future. and i started thinking, you know what, i don't remember him saying it because he's too busy rewriting the past. that's what we see in nights like last night. and tomorrow, the vice president's going to be standing pretty close to where we are talking about what happened on january 6th. and that is an incredible reminder of this is a choice between two people. if this guy gets elected, he's going to pick up where he left off. where he left off was applauding people who overran the capitol. left off where he was doing everything he could to just throw out ballots basically. you know, to answer your

question, like, this 72-hour window, 48-hour window is putting everyone's, putting her best foot forward and his accurate foot forward. donald trump's true enemy is within his own head and you know, but we should be thankful for it because it's great he can't pretend he's anything else. look, his team has been so happy about how last night went. let's do a rally every night for the next eight days. i'll chip in to help get madison square garden. >> you can air it on your feed. let me ask you this. mentioned the speech tomorrow tonight. there are always many -- you could say it's a closing message. many closing messages of a campaign. the harris campaign is doing basically split between abortion, economy, and democracy turning the page. what are you hearing about the speech tomorrow night? what should we expect?

>> it is going to be both from a lot of voters, an introduction of harris. she's still having to do a lot of that and she's obviously going to talk about donald trump. the way she has done a longer speech -- >> i heard it's going to be personal, too. >> sleepier. but it's not just going to be about january 6th, right. what we've seen over the last two months as her campaign has come to this end is that she started not talking about donald trump that much. but what her campaign and what she is feeling is that they feel like he's getting worse and darker. in their eyes. and objectively, his words are getting worse. and getting darker. when you look at his speeches and we did a check for politico, 20 of his speeches, darker, more racist language than we've seen before. experts have watched these things. you're going to hear that from her and something she loves to say. >> and in calling that out.

>> it's gotten worse and that you don't have to choose to reflect this. one thing she ves to point out is he doesn't talk about you the people. >> you heard her say that tonight, too. >> a lot of the approach they've been talking, george, now, you've been along with her, but is appealing to conservative republicans like yourself or independents or moderates or people who may not always check the box for democrats by having liz cheney out there. by talking about democracy. what do you think is personal in her background compelling to that group? what else do you hope to hear from the speech? >> i think all of it is compelling. everything she is talking about compelling because of the contrast with donald trump. now, i have to say, it's just gratifying and wonderful to see how they are closing this campaign with these attacks on donald trump by saying see, we told you so. look, you go back four years,

you know, you had the lincoln project basically pointing out this guy is bad. he's bad, he's bad, he's bad. and you know, that's important to do because he is bad. we tend to get used to how bad he is and that's the reason why he still exists the way he does. we've gotten so used to him but fortunately, he kind of receded from the scene for a couple of years because he was deplatformed after january 6th. now, we're seeing him in his full glory. he's crazier, more obnoxious and dangerous. >> donald trump runs like he was never president. like he doesn't have a record. and whatever the phenomena is of people having not so terrible memories of his first term is very dangerous that they think that way because they think okay, we've already seen that movie. i can live with it for four more years but it's not the same movie. it's the sequel to scream where

it's that much bloodier. the trajectory he's on -- >> worse actors. >> the trajectory that he's on with his oughts, language, health, cog nisty, if he, god forbid is elected, a year from now, joe biden is going to have the biggest i told you so laugh in american history. that's what you have to think about. not just the guy who throws paper towels sometimes. oh, that's funny, that's stupid, whatever it is. this guy is saying what he wants to do. i've been sued once in my life and it was by donald trump. and you know, there are people, i mean, you're a journalist. you and i might be sharing a cell in six months from now. people laugh it off. it's not funny. they need to listen to what he's saying and they need to realize this time that there's an apparatus around him. that is more competent and more focused than 2016. they were the gang that couldn't shoot straight when they first came into the white house.

they couldn't get anything done. now they've learned. they've also learned how to really just make him marginal. they're going to get the things done that they want and he's just going to sit there and say go ahead. >> there were no real plans eight years ago. >> or the people in the white house were trying to stop him from his worst impulses. like like john kelly that were running the traps, not giving him the paperwork because he wanted to change something that they knew was illegal or would be bad for the country or headlines for him. so those folks are not around him. the people who were able to reign in donald trump's worst impulses and everybody has them, right? those things they want to do. >> i don't think everybody has the donald trump impulses. >> everybody has impulses. that they want to do and you think oh, maybe that's not a good idea. he doesn't have that. and right now, he's so angry. you talk to people around him. and they say he's so angry. they're not sure how serious he

is about the things that he's saying so that means taking seriously. >> and he's scared. >> this is what kamala harris would say. watch him, he might say watch me as well. so that is an interesting, crazy thing about this closing eight days. thank you all so much. good vibes over here. just going to project that out to people. coming up, kamala harris just wrapped up a barn burner of a speech. communications director for the harris walz campaign, michael tyler, is standing by and joins me in just 60 seconds. joins me in just 60 seconds. when i have customers come in and ask for something for memory, i recommend prevagen. number one, because it's effective. does not require a prescription. and i've been taking it quite a while myself and i know it works. and i love it when the customers come back in and tell me, "david, that really works so good for me." makes my day. prevagen. at stores everywhere without a prescription.

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garbage. during a rally today in wisconsin, his running mate's reaction was about what you would expect. >> i haven't seen the joke. you know, maybe it's a stupid, racist joke, as you said. maybe it's not. i haven't seen it. i'm not going to comment on the specifics of the joke, but i think we have to stop getting so e fended at every little thing in the united states of america. i'm so over it. >> hear that, everyone? jd vance is so over it. case closed, i guess. joining me now is the communications director for the harris walz campaign, michael tyler, who is not sleeping much, eating pizza. first, i want to get your reaction to that comment from vance that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing because he's so over it. nothing was a surprise, it was a reminder. what do you make of his comments? >> first of all, thank you for

having me this evening. you're right about the lack of sleep and gluttony of pizza certainly has been the diet of late. i think what people are sick of is exactly what they saw in madison square garden throughout the day yesterday. you heard, you've been through the litany of the racist, hate-filled rhetoric that you heard before even donald trump took the stage. i think the tone was set. what you saw was the cementing of what is essentially donald trump and vance's closing argument. it is nothing more than than more rate, more fear, more division. but i think what's equally important is what you did not hear at all in madison square garden, which was a single solution to improve the lives of the american people and for us over the course of the final eight days of this campaign, that is the contrast that we are going to present to that slice of the electorate that is still undecided, still deciding who they're going to vote for, if they're going to vote at all. that you have one campaign in

trump's and 's, which is all about fear and division, serving donald trump's interests at the expense of the american people and the other side as the vice president will lay out tomorrow night, you have somebody who is offering the american people a new way forward. we can finally turn the page on what we saw in madison square garden and actually have leadership that is solving the problems of the american people. that's what she'll do when she talks into the oval office every day. >> every day of the campaign matters, but it really matters in the final days and tomorrow, the vice president's giving a speech at the ellipse. a lot of people think that means it's going to be a speech about january 6th. what is the speech going to be about? what do you guys hope people will take away from it? tell us what we should watch for tomorrow night. >> well, yeah. i think the backdrop of the speech absolutely does matter. but it's about the building the vice president will be standing in front of. on january 20th, one of the two candidates is going to be

sitting behind the resolute desk inside the white house. if it's donald trump as the vice president has said, he'll be walking in there every single day looking to cross off his enemies list. he has talked about what he wants to do if he's able to regain power. going after the enemies from within. as he said again last night. the vice president on the other hand is going to walk into the oval office every day with her to do list focused on actually solving the problems and speaking to the aspirations and the dreams and the hopes of the american people every single day. getting to work. to lower the cost of groceries and housing and healthcare. restoring women's reproductive rights since donald trump ripped them away. making sure that we actually speak to entrepreneurs across this country looking to innovate and grow their businesses and communities across the country. that is the vision she is going to lay out in contrast to donald trump. we know about the harm that he caused, yes, on january 6th, but frankly, it's about the harm that he caused every single day when he was sitting behind the

resolute desk looking out for nobody other than himself. that's the fundamental contrast from voters still trying to make up their minds eight days out. i think the vice president is prepared to lay out that vision and the american people are prepared to receive it and elect her on november 5th. >> what i'm hearing from you is it's broader and more forward looking. i appreciate you joining us on a very busy time for you. hope you get some sleep. better pizza. thank you. michelle obama and her husband are still pretty good at this whole campaigning thing. i've been on a lot of events with them. my old boss is speaking in philadelphia and he just sounded off on donald trump's rally. first, elizabeth warren is standing by to talk about the two different closing messages from trump and harris and she joins me after a very quick break. and harris and she joins me after a very quick break. and they don't "circle back" they're already there. they wear business sneakers

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>> define it as somebody who bleeds black and gold, works hard, cares about their family and hometown. donald trump does not care about the working man whatsoever. this guy's not looking out for my family. talk about giving tax breaks to billionaires and he's going the sell out working families to pay for it. cut our healthcare. cut our social security. he's a little rich kid, too. he ain't me. little silver spoon boy, donald trump. how is he relatable to me whatsoever? the guy literally lives in a country club. >> joining me now is somebody who knows a thing or two about economic vision and is quite good about communicating these issues. democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. i know you're not a steelers fan. i'm not trying to claim that, but what did you make of that ad kind of drawing the contrast on the economic choice here in the election eight days out? >> those guys nailed it on the economics. i mean, they just got it.

so right. i don't think i can improve on it. because they drew the contrast and they really show that they understand who donald trump is. you know, this guy literally lives in a country club. this is a guy, come on. he's never had to save up money for a down payment for a house. he's not somebody who has ever worried about what it's going to cost to have the car repaired. he's guy who watches out for what he says are his rich as hell donors. and that his principle economic plan is to cut taxes even more for billionaires and who's going to pay for that? middle class families. donald trump has said it. project 2025 says it. jd vance says it. believe them. but that's where we go to the, excuse me, to the contrast with kamala harris. she's somebody who's fighting for working families.

and she has a real plan to do that. >> absolutely. >> excuse me. >> are you okay, senator? we need your voice out there for the next several days. let me ask you as long as you're okay, because there are eight days left. >> i'm sheer.here. >> i think everybody's relieved to hear that. i'm sure you weren't watching it b u we've been talking about trump's rally last night. the headlines that emerged from it about a racist comedian, about a secret plan he has with mike johnson and it just raised for me, you're working your tail off as so many people are to get harris elected but it's also right now, i think the moment is about preparing people for what kind of things he might try to do if she wins. and i ask this because there were reports of burning ballot boxes today. we heard about the secret plan. what are you preparing for in that moment?

>> so, i look at it this way. we all have lanes that we need to work in. there are a group of people who are working to make sure that the election integrity is followed who are ready to fight the battles over republicans who are trying to deny access to the vote. or deny what happens when people vote. but our job right now is to focus on getting that vote out. getting people to the polls. making democracy work. because understand this. the best way that we can prepare against whatever terrible things donald trump wants to try to do is to run up the biggest margins we can in every single state in the country. to make it clear that the american people don't buy donald trump's version of the world. that the american people want to

see women able to make their own healthcare decisions and they will vote for that. and want to see an economy that works from the middle out. an economy that works where we take on price gouging, where we lower costs for families. where there's an opportunity for young people to buy a home. where we make the investments in universal childcare. we need to show that by showing up and voting and getting our cousins and our friends and uncles and everybody to come and vote. we do that, that is the best way to insure the strength of our democracy. >> what a powerful message. nobody is powerless. the american people actually get to decide and in most states you can vote even now. senator elizabeth warren, i wish i could get you a cup of water but i'm so grateful for you for joining us. thank you so much. come up, we're going to show you what barack obama said moments ago about donald trump's

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plea to men on abortion rights. donald trump ranted in his rally about how quote nasty she was and here's president obama moments ago in philadelphia letting loose on donald trump's racist, hate-filled maga rally at madison square garden last night. >> the man holds big rally at madison square garden. and warm up speakers were saying the most -- were prodding out and peddling the most racist, sexist, bigoted stereo types. one guy called puerto rico quote, a island of garbage. now -- hold.

the, these are fellow citizens he's talking about. here in philadelphia, they are your neighbors. they are your friends. they are your co-workers. their kids go to school with your kids! these are americans. >> joining me now is tommy vitor. he worked for barack obama when he was a senator. he worked for his 2008 campaign for president and in the white house. he's co-host of pod save america. first of all, how are your vibes this close to the election? >> unbelievably anxious. barely sleeping. just a mess, generally. how about you? >> well, that's not lifting me

up. okay. let me just start by asking you this. we both worked for barack obama. you worked for him before i did. we know how good he is at this. but one of the things you're deciding in a campaign is how to use people like him. it's not about moving everybody who likes him over to support her. that's just not possible. but talk a little bit about what they want out of him. they may be want him to do that, but they also want him i think to excite and engage people and get them off their coaches.uche. >> jen, i feel that every way in october every election. so didn't mean to freak anybody out there. i think barack obama is the most popular democratic elected official in the party. he's someone who can get out a big crowd. rally the faithful. convince democrats to get out to vote if they haven't already. i think he's also been speaking directly to african american voters. i also think he's someone who's known kamala harris for a very long time.

and in an election where you have a bunch of undecide d swin voters who say they need more information about her, he can credential her. he can say when i was a senator, she fought me to be tougher on banks because that's who she was when she was california attorney general. it's a compelling compilation of messages from him. >> no question. i wouldn't say, i guess we're saying this on tv. you may agree with me, but michelle obama might even be better than barack obama at this. they're both very good, and i mentioned this. we've texted about this. her message appealing to men on abortion rights, a lot of what she said was really appealing. but i know for you, this is quite personal. but it was very powerful and i think people underestimate the broad audience of people who care about it. but i know her remarks struck you. what struck you about her remarks? >> yeah. she had this eight-minute section at the end of her speech

that was all about the stakes of the debate over women's reproductive healthcare freedom for women and men in this country. i thought it was incredibly powerful. i've never heard a politician speak that way. as someone who has experienced pregnancy loss with my wife. as somebody who's been in a doctor's room when you get the most devastating news imaginable. to then imagine a scenario where a doctor says they can't provide her ife saving care until she's on death's door because of trump's abortion ban? that really was powerful emotionally. i think that's something that a lot of men need to think through. because it is not a choice. it is not something rare. these complications happen to a lot of people and the consequences can move quickly and be deadly. and so she laid out the stakes in a way that i thought was incredibly emotional and

powerful and i hope it reaches a lot of people. >> a lot of people wouldn't be as comfortable talking bout it as you are so i know that's very powerful. let me also just ask you. there's so little time left here and the vice president is giving a big speech tomorrow night. it's a choice to give a speech at the ellipse. it's a very powerful message. there's expectations it's all about january 6th. the not going to be, i don't think. what do you think is the most powerful thing she can do in that speech tomorrow? you've been a part of these crafting of messages in these final closing arguments. >> i think the speech is going to be the frame is it being at the ellipse and that will be sort of the context through which it's reported on. i think at the end of the campaign, you're trying to frame a choice. everything has to be a contrast of how kamala harris will fight for you. and care about you. and try to make your life better. versus what donald trump will do.

and the way he is more focused on sucking up to corporations that will give him big pack checks. billionaire donors who want a tax cut. so she's got to hammer home that choice and i also think she has to fill in what's left of an information gap about her. people want to know more about her values, where she's from, her bio. there's a lot of people that just have not thought about this election yet. that's impossible for people like us to fathom sometimes but there are these late breaking, undecided voters who were literally thinking i don't know who i'm going to vote for so i'm going to figure it out this week and these last messages are critical for reaching them. >> david plouffe said about 4% was just hard to fathom, but still. just reassure everybody, tommy is always anxious every october. so don't make that freak you out. there are positive signs of life. tommy, it's great to see you. thank you so much. we'll all be listening to your next several episodes between now and election day.

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early this morning, police in portland, oregon, responded to reports of an device set off

inside a sidewalk ballot box. luckily, inside that box protected the ballots. only three were damaged according to reports. but soon after that, fire was reported in portland. shortly after that happened, sorry, police in vancouver, washington, responded to another fire at another ballot box. according to the county elections, hundreds of ballots were destroyed. the investigation is being handed over to the fbi. police say the two fires are likely connected. this is obviously not all happening in a vacuum. these two incidents are just the latest examples of how elections in america have become the target of violence and destruction in the election. since 2020, election workers have had to deal with an exponential increase of threats and it's all led them to implement new security measures at polling places across the country including armed guards, bulletproof vests, increased

surveillance and panic buttons. needless to say, it's a lot to watch ahead of this election in eight days and a lot to be eyes wide open about. joining me now is mark elias, founder at the democracy docket. he's watching all of this and we're so grateful for you joining us. i just want the start with what the goal, i think the goal to me seems like it is not, this is not done by defenders of democracy, i would suspect. it seems like it is to throw some question into whether all of the ballots were counted out there. what do you think the goal was and is this something as you were planning you were anticipating? >> we'll wait to see what the investigation shows but this is not happening as you said in a vacuum. we have been watching for four years an attack on, a rhetorical attack on ballot drop boxes. in state after state after state, republicans have tried to remove them. they've tried to gislate them

out of existence. they've tried to sue them to get rid of them. all because they don't like the fact people return their ballots in a secure, metal container. this is insanity what we have been seeing. in 2022, we saw armed vigilantes with video cameras staking out ballot drop boxes in some places. clearly, in my view, with an effort to intimidate people from returning their ballots so now here we are in 2024 and it looks like it's escalated. the fact is people should have confidence that if they vote, their vote will count and that is still the case. the fact this is taking place in washington state and oregon, two states that have a history of bipartisan support for vote by mail-in ballot drop boxes makes it more disturbing. the people doing this aren't going to win and i'm confident law enforcement will hold the people who did this to account. >> reporting suggests these were

connected and as said, we'll wait for the conclusion of the investigation. for the next eight days, are you expecting this could be attempted in other places? >> like i said, we have been planning for and expecting challenges around vote by mail around the country. just today, nevada supreme court handed a loss to the republican national committee. i was proud my law firm was involved in that. we saw the republican national committee go to the u.s. supreme court today to try to prevent pennsylvania ruling that facilitates people who made errors from being allowed to vote. and we are seeing this unprecedented effort to restrict ballot drop boxes and in some instances, either threaten or use violence around that. so it's not unexpected but here's the thing. millions of americans have already voted.

their ballots have been cast. they're going to count. there are lawyers. there are election officials who are going to make sure that's the case so no one should be dissuaded. >> that's a very good reminder to people. officials in both counties to check if their ballots have been received and reach out to county offices if they need a new ballot. so there's already responsible action being taken. you have so much on your plate. thank you so much for joining us. i've got one more thing to tell you about before we hand it over to rachel. we're back after a very quick break. we're back after a very q break. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ it's nice to know you're free to focus on what matters, with reliable medicare coverage from unitedhealthcare. ♪♪ in fifth grade, i lost my front teeth. i was devastated.

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so president biden officially casts his ballot at a polling place near his home in delaware today and given that his name was not on that ballot, he was asked afterwards if the experience was bittersweet. >> bittersweet for you? as bittet >> bittersweet for you >> no, this is just sweet. that's what he just said. there's a certain symbolism in seeing a sitting president cast their last ballot before leaving office and not just because it's

a literal vote of confidence in his next successor, but because it's strikingly ordinary. the american president may be the most powerful person in the world, but they still vote like anybody else. that includes registering, showing up, and filling out a ballot like anybody else. in biden's case, it also meant waiting in line like everybody else. that's the commander in chief biding his time. he was posing for photos an helping push a woman's wheelchair. that's not all examples of american democracy and that's very joe biden by the way, to push the woman in the wheelchair, i don't know what is. that does it for me today. hey, rachel. for me today. hey, rachel. right now. hey, rachel. >> hey, jen. i love that image, those photos of joe biden today waiting there is part