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♪♪ with a hat tip of love to andrea mitchell, good day. i'm chris jansing live in msnbc headquarters in new york city. the speech, the stakes and the symbolism. the new dele stays about kamala harris' closing argument, on the same spot where donald trump once urged a crowd to fight like hell on january 6th. a police officer who was brutally attacked that day and will be at the speech tonight. joining me live to talk about what he is hoping to hear. plus, donald trump's version of damage control. how he's addressing the backlash over a racist joke at his rally. not with an apology, but with his rally guests tonight. and bannon's back. the former trump strategist walks out of prison and in front

microphone. the role that one of the rabble-rousers might play not just in the final days of this campaign but after election day. buttle we begin with kamala harris' closing argument in this deadlocked presidential campaign. now, just hours away and given some apparent help from donald trump. while she's on offense with a major speech tonight with just a week to go, he's on defense, after racist remarks at his own closing rally, remarks calling puerto rico an island of garbage that trump himself has yet to personally disavow. and with his running mate downplaying it. >> i haven't seen the joke. i -- you know, maybe -- 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 offended at every little thing in united states of america. i'm so over it. can we all just take a chill

pill and take a joke from time to time? this is ridiculous. >> that's an opening for harris when she makes her speech tonight which comes at a time when as "the new york times" puts it, there are signs privately and publicly that the former president and his team are worried that their opponent's descriptions of him as a racist and fascist may be breaking through the segments of voters. and we may have gotten a preview of harris' pledge to united americans with former president barack obama crystallizing that argument against division. >> 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. they're people.

and that is the reason why this election should not be close. it should be clear. >> i want to bring in nbc's yamiche alcindor at the ellipse in d.c. where harris will speak tonight. nbc's garrett haake is in allentown, pennsylvania where the former president will be later today. devin reynolds is the former speechwriter for vice president harris. and maya rupert helped lead presidential campaigns for elizabeth warren and julio castro. yamiche, let's start by talking offense. what does harris say tonight? what does she want to accomplish with this speech? >> reporter: well, vice president kamala harris is really hoping to lay out her vision for america in the closing argument speech, as you said, at the ellipse, which is, of course, where donald trump stood on january 6th just moments and hours before his

supporters broke into the u.s. capitol. so she really wants to lay out what her campaign officials say that is an optimistic speech. and also here's my to-do list, and she's casting him as a threat to democracy. she's going to be saying that a second trump presidency is going to be more dangerous than the first one talking about the fact that he's going to be unhinged and unchecked. and going to be talk be about former republicans, former chief of staff john kelly who said he was a fascist and she's really making this case that donald trump is the wrong person for this moment. and that he would threaten the very principles that america stands on but she's also going to talk about what she wants to. the priority she's going to lay out is the economy, lower costs for americans. and also freedoms, restoring the rights in this country, the fact

that roe versus wade was overturned. it's not going to be a dark speech in which donald trump had his speech. 53,000 people out to see donald trump, before that capitol riot, the harris had 20,000 on the permanent application yesterday, they upped that to 40,000 people. so a big crowd is expected here, chris. >> that is a big crowd. okay, garrett, in those terms of trump being in defense, from madison, wisconsin, we have reports on how he's going to respond in allentown, pennsylvania. it doesn't sound like an apology. >> reporter: no i don't think you'll hear an apology from him or anyone else on this, chris. from everything his campaign is doing publicly and his advisers are saying privately, they're

essentially trying to blow past. and a mini rally, similar to what we've seen in front of larger crowds what hi characterized what we all witnessed at madison square garden like this. >> i don't think anybody has seen anything like what happened the other night at madison square garden. the love -- the love -- the love in that room. it was breathtaking. and you could have filled it many, many times with the people that were unable to get in. but politicians that have been doing this for a very long time, 30 and 40 years said there's never been an even so beautiful. it was like a lovefest, an absolute lovefest, and it was my honor to be involved. >> reporter: chris, that characterization, obviously, contrary to what we saw so much of that event, especially in the prespeakers. trump comes to allentown, a majority latino community in

east central p.a. and we understand that the undercard speakers are going to have a heavier make-up of latino trump supporters. i'm less convinced that's a reaction to madison square garden, and more believing that it's a reference to where we are, marco rubio will be one of the speakers, of course, a cuban-american senator for florida and someone who is a validater for trump in the latino community. we'll work to get how those remarks played, the prevails is while that joke was certainly offensive, folks say they're not voting for the comedian. they don't think trump say racist. they're willing to let it slide. how it plays here, the whole question in the race that's going to come down to very, very slim margins based on what we know, early voting here at the polls in pennsylvania. >> yeah, the only critical yes. thank you, garrett.

maya, donald trump has said a lot of incendiary things. but ian sams saying, we've seen movement and growth over the added support from puerto rican voters in battleground states. do you think this might be the thing that does move voters? and if so, how can the harris campaign try to maximize that? >> i think what we're seeing very clearly, as it is one of the thing that's moving voters. i think the challenge with someone like donald trump because he says so many incendiary things. it's easy for people, i think we've seen it, people acting as though he can say anything and get away with it. i think voters or more sophisticated than that. i think people are seeing, not just this one remark as a sort of -- you know, that somehow crossed the line when other things didn't. i think what they're seeing is the totality. and i think they're also seeing

that at this point in a race, if those are the types of comments that his people is able -- because, let's be real. maybe the comment came from someone else. but the campaign 1,000 percent signed off on everything that was going to be said on that rally stage because that's how campaigns work. people don't just get to go up there and go rogue. if that is the message that he thinks is valuable for a closing argument, people are just starting to see they're not part of the coalition that he's trying to build. donald trump let everyone know that latinos are not a part of the coalition that he is building. that was the message that came out on that rally. that's why we're seeing that movement. and what the harris campaign needs to do to capitalize on this moment is exactly what they've been doing. she is running an incredibly inclusive -- the idea is we need to be -- you know, this can be a campaign that all people can feel at home in. her message has been i will be a press for all americans.

and that's what she needs to keep leaning into, because that is the easiest way to draw a contrast with what donald trump is doing. >> and, gavin, it does seem that the political landscape, what's on the minds of voters is different than it was 36 hours ago. you just look at the google searches and ian sams is saying, as you look at the headlines, right? so help me understand, what do her speechwriters do with that? >> so, i think her speechwriters continue to do exactlies that they've been doing. the goal is for the vice president to really deliver her closing argument. as i've been listening to her speeches over, what, the past three months, however long she's been in the race, i see her speeches have a strategy, in three phases, first to utilize the vice president or in some cases reintroduce the vice president to the people. i was part of that at the dnc.

to make sure the people at home came away knowing who kamala harris is as a person, what motivates her fight for the american people. and we've seen her lay out bold and comprehensive policy visions for the next four years. home ownership, small business creation. and even laying out plans specifically for black men who are seeing the polls as a result. right now, it's all about laying out that closing argument. i think the backdrop of being on the ellipse where donald trump staged let it do some of the talks of its own, and sort of painting that destruction and damage that donald trump will do to our democracy if he's sent back to the white house. but she's going to focus on here's my vision for the next four years when it comes upon me. when it comes to actually fixing the border crisis. here's the thing, can donald trump is great at going up there and spewing rhetoric and

problems. but only one candidate has actually come up with solutions. in the last stretch, the vice president will continue to use her speeches to continue to lay out that policy, lay out that vision, while in tandem, hitting the ground game and going to communities that need to hear from her. >> but the location, potentially, 40,000 people, who knows how many watching on tv, would make it arguably the biggest speech of her political life. so, take me behind closed doors. harris said over the weekend, i let the campaign people deal with all. other stuff, meaning polls, you know, research. i am responding to what i'm seeing. so, as someone who has worked with her, how involved is she in crafting the final word of this speech? >> no word comes out of the vice president's mouth that isn't hers. that is a fact. i was constantly blown away by her political instant. she's been doing it for a very long time. and she says it often, her

values have not changed. throughout the whole span of political service she's been committed to fighting for the american people through what she's had with everyday people, whether in san francisco, when she was district attorney, or in michigan, or georgia, wherever she's traveled to since then, she incorporates the stories of everyday americans into the words of her speeches. >> can i interrupt you there for a second, because i am curious, she didn't get a lot, most prosecutors didn't. most cases get settled in some sort of plea deal. but i wonder how much of her experience you've seen, as a prosecutor who gave closing arguments in forms, how she deals with crafting those speeches? >> absolutely. so she's a courtroom prosecutor for a number of years. and during that time, she -- almost every day, laying out facts to tell a story and to move people to action. and i saw her deploy that same approach when it came to crafting her speeches.

she understands through other people how to do that. i think she recognizes that today will be the most high profile and consequential set of closing arguments that she has and arguably will ever deliver in her life. i know she's up to bat. >> maya, there's a balance. i wonder if there's a risk that she will go into a so-called joke, overshadowing issues, of course, that's abortion, the one on the mind of voter which is is the economy, how does she balance all of that? >> right. look, i think she needs to make her affirmative case for this country which i think is what she's been doing. but i also think that it would be silly to think, that in a moment like this, drawing the contrast with trump is not a huge part of that vision for the country, right? we have two choices. by its nature, a comparison is

going to be a part of what she's laying out. so, i don't think that she needs to shy away from that. i think that what she can do is remind people of what he is doing that is so divisive. and remind people what she is doing that is about bringing people together. i think you can do them both at the same time without it feeling like she's leaning too hard into one thing or another. that donald trump did. >> maya rupert, devin reynolds, it's great talking to both of you. thanks for being here. in 90 seconds, trump ally and agitator steve bannon now a free man. introduced from prison introduces into an already heated campaign. and i'll talk with the january 6th officer who suffered the consequences of the big lie that bannon helped spread. vil t, the only topical with 4 powerful pain fighting ingredients that start working on contact and lasts up to 8 hours. have you ever considered getting a walk-in tub?

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tonight, as kamala harris makes her closing argument that it's time to turn the page away from the divisiveness that led to january 6, i want to make two important notes. one of the officers who was attacked on that day will be back on the job at kamala harris' speech tonight, near where donald trump fanned the anger of a crowd. and so close to where he stood at the front of a police line, at the capitol. his helmet ripped off by one rioter. another blasting him with pepper spray, as he was crushed with the stolen police shield. rioters trying to stop the

certification of the election. but also told, one of the loudest voices of election denialism, known agitator steve bannon has been released from prison. this picture taken by our next guest, capturing his early moments of freedom, it comes in the closing day of the campaign that has been so strongly definedgy the issue of democracy and about questions about whether he'll head straight to a trump rally in pennsylvania to further fan the flames. nbc's vaughn hillyard is here until studio. jeremy peters who spoke to steve bannon this morning after his release. and the officer i mentioned who will be working the speech tonight, metropolitan police officer daniel hodges, who is joining in his personal capacity not on behalf of the department. and we'll talk to officer hodges in just a moment. but jeremy, because you're outside that federal prison in danbury, connecticut, when bannon was released. i wonder what he said to you

suggests he is not going to go quietly for the next seven days or beyond. >> i would not expect him to go very quietly. in fact, within several hours of his release in the early morning hours today, he was already on his podcast warroom, which has been, of course, one of the primary sources of election denialism in the country. it's also one of the most popular -- one of the largest following among political podcasts. and in an era when conservative media doesn't have the giants like rush limbaugh anymore in the audio space, guys like steve bannon have filled that vacuum. and now carry a tremendous amount of influence and power in the maga sphere. what i expect to hear from bannon, right after he was released this morning is focused

on closing the deal -- helping donald trump close the deal with voters. i think that they realize, as bannon does, and the trump campaign, the election is extremely close. they're not taking anything for granted. and the way that they see closing that deal is to focus on the economy and show voters, convince them that what trump did when he was president, put them in a better off financial condition. that things weren't as expensive and life was generally better. so, i think that's kind of the positive messaging that you could expect to see from them. now, on the flip side of that, i think that's up to trump. and he is always so unpredictable and so volatile. and cannot help but put his foot in his mouth, in delicate moments like this when he needs to be on his best behavior. so, really, it's up to him, how

disciplined his campaign is for the next week. >> so, vaughn, you've talked to steve bannon before, you've interviewed steve bannon before. but mike davis told "the new york times" that bannon would come out of prison the week before election like a roaring caged lion. what you have heard? >> right, jeremy's been on the front lines of tracking steve bannon's trajectory. up to this point, i went into the conversation the day before he went into prison for the four-month sentence. and it went back to 2020 in his efforts to overturn the election. he had four phone calls with january 5th and january 6th with donald trump. he refused to tell the committee what the contents of that call or me. and installed as president in 2021, by forcing several electors from several states to not be certified by mike pence and have their for the u.s. house vote for the next

president. and because of the make-up of the house at the time, they would, therefore, in his mind, select donald trump. and that's what takes us here going for the future. because for steve bannon, i'm told come election day he's going to be at the willard hotel where he was january 6th. he has been instrumental in keeping all of these maga world allies to donald trump together and in cahoots to ensure that donald trump is able to get back into power. i want to let you listen to a part of his podcast just a bit ago. >> on november 5th, we have to crush them at the ballot box. all that matters right now. in places like pennsylvania. and in michigan. and in wisconsin. nevada, arizona, georgia, north carolina, obviously other states, but these seven battleground states is to deliver something that takes us to where ohio and florida are today. we have to put this beyond their ability to steal it. >> and where bannon is trying to

win this election is by getting those trump faithful supporters and turn them into voters. because steve bannon, really, dating back now to the last two years is on the front line of the strategy. the way that donald trump wins this election is not so much convincing women voters to come back to the republican party. or winning over the independent voters or the suburban voters. but instead, to juice that turnout of the rural -- perhaps not college-educated white part of the electorate. >> literally every donald trump supporter. >> every donald trump supporter to the polls. and a few more black and latino voters and then you win the election. that has been the bannon strategy and we're seeing the trump campaign deploying in the last several days. >> i don't want to get ahead of myself, jeremy. but i wonder what his thoughts are if it doesn't turn out to be crush them at the ballot box. if that doesn't happen or if donald trump finds that she has similar numbers to 2020 and loses by whatever margin.

what role did steve bannon play and what did he say today? >> when i spoke to steve, i asked him as the person first and foremost suggested that trump deny the results of the election 2020, steve was the guy who said trump should go out there and declare victory no matter what the numbers say. i said to steve, will you suggest that trump do that again? he said, if he thinks -- trump thinks that he has the numbers that he had in 2020, he absolutely should get up there and say, i won. and that will set in motion, you know, depending on the outcome of the election, if indeed trump has not won, a course just like we saw in 2020. where donald trump does not accept the fact that he lost. does not accept the results as they have been certified and validated. so, that say pretty precarious and, you know, quite frankly, dangerous situation. to be facing.

even before. and -- election day. and we're talking about, you know, a guy here who in 2016 trump was not saying that he would accept the results of the election when he was asked. so, you know, i think -- at this point, we shouldn't expect trump to do anything reasonable or rational, because everything that we have seen points to one reaction from donald trump in his history. and that is, if he is losing, someone else has to be cheating. and i see no reason that that won't be the outcome, regardless of what the votes say on election day. >> jeremy peters, i know you were up overnight to get that picture. and to talk to steve bannon. so, i thank you for staying up to be with us, vaughn hillyard, thank you so much. joining me now, officer dan hodges who defended the capitol

january 6th and who has been campaigning for kamala harris. thank you for being here. officer, what is it like for you, knowing that steve bannon is free and can help the election denial caused not just in the final weeks before the election but also in the weeks and potentially weeks after. >> honestly, i don't give thought to steve bannon. he's out of prison and i wish him all the luck he deserves in his upcoming criminal trial. >> you were punched, kicked, pushed, beaten. hit with your own riot baton in the head, if i'm recalling. you said someone tried to gouge out one of your eyes. i wonder on a personal level tonight what it will be like for you to be at harris' speech on the ellipse, when she's trying to make the case, we believe, that donald trump should not be given a second term for all of the reasons that she's talked about before, but pointedly, what happened to you and others

on january 6th and what it did to democracy? >> yeah, there's obviously going to be a lot of mixed emotions tied to it. the last rally i worked there obviously did not go very well. but at the same time, i don't think harris is going to send an armed mob to the capitol and tell them to fight. i think, like most americans, i just have a law enforcement of anxiety about the election and really would like to know what happens next. >> a lot of people have a lot of anxiety. there's even been polling on that the stress levels of americans, i think given what happened in 2020 is very, very high. and steve bannon told his followers on his podcast today to prepare, if, quote, the pelosi apparatus wins. and i want to play exactly what he said. >> if you're not prepared to go to a federal prison, then you got to ask yourself, are you prepared to defend your country and drive his maga -- the maga

philosophy, the maga movement forward? >> what do you see as someone who has lived it, as the potential level of danger after the election? >> yeah. there's always the potential for danger after any election in d.c., especially in recent years. however, i'm honestly, personally, not too worried about the january 6th scenario playing out. i'm grateful to our federal partners for continuing to make arrests in the case of january 6th, i think that's been a deterrent, and i'm more concerned with what happens at the states at the ballot box and i hope the appropriate authorities are giving it the attention it deserves. >> let me ask you about the message you hope that kamala harris shares with the country. what would you like to hear? >> i think kamala harris know what is she's doing and i think that's the message that she should be giving people.

that she's been part of an administration that elevated our economy to new heights. that she is for the constitution. that she's pro-democracy and that her opponent isn't. it's really -- you know, there's so many other issues that she is superior in. but when you get down to it, you know, preserving the republic is so much more vital than anything else. and i hope that people that people are able to see that issue for what it is. >> daniel hodges, thank you so much for coming on the program. and thank you for the work you do, appreciate it. >> thanks, chris. still ahead, long lines for the critical senate race in ohio. and why split ticket voters may be the best shot for democrats to keep control of the chamber. with downy unstopables, you just toss, wash, wow. for all-day freshness. hi. i'm damian clark. i'm here to help you understand how to get the most from medicare. if you're eligible for medicare, it's a good idea to have original medicare.

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that's a third of the totally from 2020. what's going on there now? and what are folks telling you? >> reporter: yeah, i'm going to start calling this the chris jansing state. of course, you're the person i always think of every time i make a trip to ohio. my friend, it has been busy out here. we've been out here several hours and this line, this is typically where it's at when it's shortest. take a look at where we are, i'll spin around so you can get a sense of how many people are here for this critical day of early voting. in my conversations with them, we're in a reddish county at the presidential level. but this is an interesting area, because just last year, it's an area that voted overwhelmlying to enshrine adoptions in the state of ohio. there are split voters, we could probably find them here. most of the people we spoke to are voting down the ballot to the very way they're voting at the top of the ticket. listen to some of the questions. do you vote for the person over

the party? >> well, i think that's what it's come to, person over party. >> we need good candidates. and i don't think donald trump or bernie moreno are good candidates. >> i think it's important to be informed about more local elections, it too this would affect us as much as the presidency in ohio. >> reporter: that last voter there it was her first time voting. she voted for commercial commercial and senator sherrod brown. but one of her classmates next to her did the exact opposite. his first time voting he voted for donald trump and bernie moreno further down ballot. those were the conversations we were having on camera. we did manage to speak to one voter off camera voting for trump but also sherrod brown. that's the kind of voter brown is going to need here. because if you look at the way he's managed to keep his seat in past elections in 2012, he outperformed barack obama here when obama won the state by

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in the battleground state of nevada, the state supreme court just ruled that mail-in ballots without a postmark can be counted, up to three days after the election. it is the latest legal woe for republicans who tried to block those ballots from being counted. and on that issue of mail-in ballots, the u.s. postal service is warning that today is the deadline for voters to get their ballots in the mail if you want them delivered by election day. a small-town race in michigan has become an unlikely battlefield in the war against election denialism. a county clerk can face death threats for an error that was quickly corrected in 2020 is putting off her retirement plans, worried what might happen in this critical battleground. nbc's gabe gutierrez reports. >> reporter: sheryl guy never

dreamed she'd be thrust into a national political firestorm. >> i was appalled, i was betrayed and used. >> reporter: she's the antrim county clerk here in michigan. fall here is typically tranquil, the 2020 election was not. >> in one michigan county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from trump to biden. >> reporter: weeks after the election, former president donald trump seized on what guy acknowledges was human error, temporarily miscounted thousands of ballots here. she and her staff discovered the mistake on their own, the morning after election day. >> i just went, how can that be? >> reporter: they fixed the problem within days but the damage was done. guy, a republican who voted for trump twice, was accused of rigging the election. she said she and her staff got death threats that solidified her decision to step down as county clerk after the 2024 election. but then a business woman named

victoria bishop won a crowded primary for the position. what concerns you about her victory? >> she's an election denier. >> reporter: so guy changed her mind and is now mounting a write-in campaign. >> i grew up here, after the 2020 election, i felt that horrible error that i owned was my legacy. >> reporter: bishop's campaign declined our repeat requests for an on-camera interview. but in a letter to the local paper, she said she was running to restore election integrity to antrim county. she added, i believe we still have dead people and people who no longer live in antrim county on our qualified voter files. >> she's capable. >> reporter: tom stilling supports bishop, he's a former chair of the republican party who still questions the 2020 election. he downplays the dozens of trump campaign cases that failed. and 2022 that defunct the false claims of voter fraud. with no evidence of wide spread

fraud, isn't it dangerous to still be casting doubt? >> you know what it's my right as a citizen could be skeptical. >> reporter: for sheryl guy, that skepticism cuts to the core of our democracy. >> facts don't matter to these people. >> reporter: as you mount this campaign, in 2020, you messed up. >> big time. >> reporter: why should voters trust you again? >> well, we've learned. the fact is, it's that we even put even more safe guards in place. >> reporter: if you could speak to former president trump, what would you tell him? >> maybe you need to take a good look at the accusations you made. how it affects people and stay out of my county. >> reporter: and so, in this tiny michigan county, the battle over election integrity is now itself on the ballot. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, bell air, michigan. >> and the programming note, i'll talk to michigan's governor gretchen whitmer the next hour,

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there. nbc's stay tuned reporter maya eagland is at philadelphia city hall. okay, maya, 18-year-olds, they're about to vote in one of the most consequential elections in modern history. what are they telling you? >> reporter: hey, chris. well, a lot of them say they're excited. some of them are nervous. a few of them said they're actually scared for the outcome of this election. but there's this huge sense of pride for many of them casting their first ballot today. an organization, a non-partisan organization called p.a. youth vote actually hosted this event today. it started across the street in love park. we actually marched around with hundreds of high schoolers from 17 different schools out here in philadelphia. they landed here just an hour ago. they were dancing. there was some food, some snacks. and a lot of them casting their very first vote on the last day of early voting here in the city of philadelphia. here's what a few of them had to say. >> like a lot of pressure to vote. and i know that not only does my

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