pete: did you know there was a song allentown? no, my song is 15 now and had to look up billy joel for his chorus concert and i guarantee he doesn't know that song. it's not a top ten hit. rachel: i know uptown girl but know more about christie brinkly. pete: we'll set until 20 minutes when brian kilmeade joins us at 7:30 a.m. and get his insight. billy joel writes about his neck of the woods. rachel: allentown is a beautiful town and working class town and the people i met were awesome. pete: glad you talked to them. check in with our own will cain not on the couch this morning and more important duty and thinking about it, will, i just ordered starbucks and you're wearing green t-shirts and i'm wearing green socks and i've got a relaxing easy morning and i want to know how you're feeling and i've been in junior shoes before and it's fun, there's anticipation that's building and it's a great cause and have to have nerves running right now and you're about to jump in the drink and i hear it's a little dicey in the water this year.

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie, they don't tolerate being ripped off.mericans are hard-working honest people. that is what we have been fighting for. we are fighting for honesty. i am fighting for it. kamala harris is fighting for it. will you fight for it? all right. let's go out and win this thing. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> please welcome massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] sen. warren: you know what i love about kamala harris? kamala harris cannot be bought. she cannot be bossed around. [cheers and applause] now, i first met kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. the banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people and stolen homes. . millions of americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. i was setting up the consumer financial protection bureau, the cfpb. [cheers and applause] kamala was protecting families as california's attorney general. you bet. and donald was scamming students at trump university and trying to make money off people losi

>> i know it will become guides and tips were higher owns a barbershop there and allentown. people get haircuts less frequently. defendant le leavitt lesson tipi spoke to another guy who owned a jewelry store and he said before people would pay in cash. now it is on credit card or layaway. people feel and it trickles down. i spoke to one voter in use are in the package he sent a registered voter she's a democrat. she said -- and by the way really like this lady she was so honest she said you'd be surprised how many people are registering a republican or tell me they went about for trump. then he started to ask, she's coming out of the grocery store to we talked about the economy she said it's really tough we are having to do leftovers i'm making everyone turn up the lights in the house all the times of them keep the utility bills down. so i start to question her a little bit more about the economy. this might show you a little bit of what trump might be up against in terms of harcourt democrat voters, listen. >> you voted for biden over trump? >> yes because you say the econ

arizona, huge hispanic population, people don't realize 15% of the population is latino and allentownanic and starting to trend toward trump. we went down there to talk to them, here is what happened. ♪ >> we're standing in know front of a grocery store, how has inflation affected your family? >> very much, very much so, going up high. >> excruciatingly high. >> i can't afford anything. >> grocery prices go up and everything goes up. >> i don't feel there is balance with income and spending your money. it affects everyone, gas is high and people pass on expenses to people. >> rachel: what do customers tell you? >> everything was middle eastly cash and pay in full. what we notice here, a lot is fin financing or layaway. >> under president trump, it was better, people were spending, get are haircuts more often. >> rachel: what adjustments have you made to make ends meet? >> cooking different, you can't eat what you want. >> work on the side doing other work. >> rachel: this town is 54% hispanic, you are peru vian. what are you hearing from neighbors? >> latino and indian voters are movi

voice of america's chief national correspondence and also of behind the white house couldn't, isn't allentown, pennsylvania, and in burlington vermont, all shed has signed as a democratic political strategist and founder of convoys, communications. thank you. all 3 of you for joining us. we're doing this program today, i think to look at the liked it, sheds this interview on to very powerful people, their relationships, and the big challenges they currently face. but let's 1st look at the interview itself and the content of the interview. braun, your very experienced print and broad cost reports. do you agree with me? there wasn't much news in it. and frankly, some of it was a bit though. yes, a 2 hour long conversation between 2 men who really like each other, but don't have a lot in common. this reminded me of a typical conversation between a billionaire donor and a candidate because mosque was trying to push trump throat towards certain policy directions, trying to give trump advice for how to win the presidency again, trump was indulging mosque the way the politicians often indulged donor

rachel: yeah, a lot of people, listen, when i was in philadelphia -- sorry, in allentown, pennsylvaniaast week, a lot of the voters said their neighbors won't tell people publicly but people still in very blue areas that are like that and can hah have social stigma ma like that and they live in certain blue drugs and certain communities and that might be partially why that's happening but i think in the end, if donald trump sticks to the policy and sticks to the issue and people are feeling the pain and they're very worried not just about their bottom line but about what's happening in other countries and the possibility of war. jowski this is about preventing world war iii and stop ago 1929 style depression. that's what's going to happen. with your vote, you're going to reverse the kamala crash and kamala chaos and stop the biden harris invasion of people that don't belong in our country. they're invading our country. she's refused to do a single interview. you know why? because she's dumb. or hold a single press conference. she won't hold a press conference. she went do it. if you ca

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie, they don't tolerate being ripped off. americans are hard-working, honest people. and that's what we've been fighting for. we're fighting for honesty. i'm fighting for it. kamala harris is fighting for it. will you fight for it? all right. let's go out and win this thing. thank you. >> please welcome massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. >> ♪ >> you know what i love best about kamala harris? kamala harris can't be bought, and she can't be bossed around. now, i first met, let in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. the banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people, and stolen homes. millions of americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. now, i was setting up the consumer financial protection bureau. go cfpb! yeah! kamala was protecting families as california's attorney general. you bet. and donald was scamming students at trump university, and trying to make money off people losing their homes. kamala harris stepped up. she enforced the law. she fought the giant banks. and she delivered billions of

i don't care if rio grande or al allentown, bronx, milwaukee, they pretend they are someone else.eal open border policy, or education or soft on crime policy or about trans gender policy for little kids in school, they hide who they are. it is important for donald trump and his team to say who they are and pull the curtain back and talk about what they stand for. inis caof kamala harris, she can't run from the agenda she's part of. it is still biden-harris. the president is not capable of acting as a president, we don't know who is running the country, a whole other problem. kamala harris could change policies right now. no tip -- tax on tips, do it now. close the border? do it now, you're in power. >> lawrence: she's had every opportunity to do that, they don't want to. if the republican party wants to win, grow the party. hispanics and black males, as well, see what they do. thank you, rachel. we love that view. love it. >> lawrence: actor tom cruz sky dives to end paris olympics, would you do that? we sent doos on the loose to find out. hey there. are you looking to grow closer

in allentown, gary, who is with you? what are they saying about the speech?anderson, we come to you from allentown in the heart of the beautiful lehigh valley in eastern pennsylvania. we are with eight residents of the lehigh valley who have been watching television with us tonight and watching kamala harris' speech. they all have something in common as he said, anderson. none of these people for tonight have made a decision about who they will vote for in november. one person before tonight wasn't sure she was going to vote at all, because she doesn't like either of the candidates. also, five of them are loyal union members from uaw local united autoworkers here, in the lehigh valley. thank you all for being here. i want you to grade the speech okay? a, above-average-- f, we all know that. >> b+. >> b. >> a. >> b+. >> a. >> see. >> mostly a's and b's with one c. we start with scott with the president of the uaw . >> i gave a b+. i gave her the high grade, because i thought she looked very confident. i liked how she spoke from her heart. i liked her message o

rachel: allentown. florida florida if i don't know if that's how you pronounce it.urg, right in the middle. bucks county. if i know a county. [laughter] rachel: see, we actually learn something -- pete: this is where you come for hot political analysis. will: -- kentucky. pete: that's not a real name. rachel: you guys need to learn more geography, i think kamala harris needs to learn more about economics. here she is unveiling what donald trump is calling the maduro plan. she's calling it the opportunity economy. listen. >> as president, i will be laser focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their economic security, stability and dignity. together, we will build what i call an opportunity economy. [cheers and applause] an opportunity economy. an economy where everyone can compete and have a real chance to succeed is. everyone, regardless of who they are or with where they start, has an opportunity to build wealth for themselves and their children. and where we remove the barriers to opportunity. pete: is so lots of political words there

that's something i heard a lot about when i was many allentown, pennsylvania.ther job just to keep up with grocery prices, represent increases, the utilities going up. it's interesting to me, nilsa, hispanic women are the demographic that most wants to be an at-home mom. and it -- >> yes. rachel: -- they just simply can't do it. not only do they have to go outwork a job, they may have to work two or three jobs now. >> yeah. so in response to all of this, we've been helping our faith leaders and our hispanic pastors in encouraging and engaging the citizens in our congregations to be registered to vote and to speak up on all these issues. they're showing up at school board meetings, at commission meetings, they're meeting with legislators every single -- or every single opportunity they have in order to the voice their faith, family and biblical values. and we're seeing interesting trends. rachel: yeah. well, good luck. faith, family and freedom, those are definitely hispanic values. we wish you luck. thanks so much for joining us this morning, nilsa. >> thank yo

i was just in allentown, pennsylvania, earlier this week, and it's a 54% hispanic district.- in that town voted solidly for joe biden. i can't tell you how many people said they're voting for trump or they don't know yet, they're on the fence. why? because i stood outside of a grocery store. that's what people are thinking about. just as madison said, they're thinking about housing costs, and those things are in the going to change before november. i hope the american people are smart enough -- speaking of smart -- to actually demand someone who wants to be the ceo answer questions. stuart: out of time, but that was fun and thanks very much for your passion. >> you got it. stuart: rachel campos duffy. she'll be back, if she's not careful. [laughter] >>> newly-uncovered video from 2020 shows staffers for the biden-harris campaign discussed how they hid biden's mental campaign from voters. lauren: this was four years ago. they started flagging the it as a disinformation. his digital team had social media companies flag stories that were related to to his cognitive decline from

i spent a few days around allentown, north hampton county, the bellwether lehigh valley last week, and what really struck me was not just the energy that harris-walz is seeing and the relative sort of grateful dead tour trump has been doing in the state, being a big contrast to that, but the fact that the harris campaign and before that the biden-harris campaign since march has been taking out spanish language ads and really doing hispanic outreach to what is the fastest growing democratic, 600,000 spanish speaking -- well, hispanic adults in pennsylvania. but trump is simply not touching that demographic. there are republicans saying, well, this is an english speaking country, why would we cut ads in spanish? that to me is a real sign, if you are not targeting the fastest growing demographic then you are not serious about winning. i did come away with the distinct impression pennsylvania is slipping from trump's grasp. >> that's an interesting point to make because after i saw close polls in florida i called friends down there, i said, is this real, what is going on? i saw an fau poll

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie they don't tolerate being ripped off uh ron brownstein is, of course, here with us you famously coined the phrase blue wall some years ago to describe this phenomenon here. >> um, let's dig into where this race stands right now in these states. >> yeah. >> so, look, i mean, when i coined the blue wall, it referred to the 18 states that ultimately voted democratic in every election from 92 to 2012, which was the most states the party had won that often since the formation of the modern party system in 1828, donald trump in 2016, famously dislodged michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin from the blue wall. and i think when most people say blue wall now, they actually think about the three bricks that fell out of the wall. now they are very likely to be the decisive states. again, i think the harris campaign's view views their chances in those three as significant. it's like kind of off the table the next, the next tier of the of the sunbelt states, you know, and when you think about why, it's almost like a twilight zone episode. no matter wha

i don't have the annual on those issues that people in the allentown media martin example we should, note there's plenty of space on our calendar. if she wants to see cnn news central, that'd be great. one. we could absolutely make room for her on the rundown lands. final question to you. she mentioned some of the swing states, north carolina is one example. folks are going to start getting ballots pretty soon. how, how much time do you think these campaigns actually have to start making an impression on voters of folks are going to be casting ballots next month the democrats have had three big moments they switched out their candidate. >> she chose her vice president there through the convention. now's they've kind of had their three points. it's kind of the high watermark, i think right now, voters are going to start really tuning in after this. i don't know where labor day came from, but it does. that's when people start really paying attention. i think that's why it is critical and an julian, i agree on one thing here. i think by not doing the interviews and not being more forthc

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie, they don't tolerate being ripped off.we have been fighting for. we are fighting for honesty. i am fighting for it. kamala harris is fighting for it. will you fight for it? all right. let's go out and win this thing. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> please welcome massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] sen. warren: you know what i love about kamala harris? kamala harris cannot be bought. she cannot be bossed around. [cheers and applause] now, i first met kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. the banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people and stolen homes. . millions of americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. i was setting up the consumer financial protection bureau, the cfpb. [cheers and applause] kamala was protecting families as california's attorney general. you bet. and donald was scamming students at trump university and trying to make money off people losing their homes. kamala harris stepped. up she enforced

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie, they don't tolerate being ripped off.for it? all right. let's go out and win this thing. thank you. >> please welcome massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. ♪♪ [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> i got this. you know what i love best about kamala harris? kamala harris can't be bought, and she can't be bossed around. now, i first met kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. the banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people, and stolen homes. millions of americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. now, i was setting up the consumer financial protection bureau, go cfpb! kamala was protecting families as california's attorney general. you bet. and donald was scamming students at trump university and trying to make money off people losing their homes. kamala harris stepped up. she enforced the law. she fought the giant banks. and she delivered billions of dollars of help for families. and that is the difference between a criminal and a prosecutor. you know what else i love about kama

the people i'm talking to from allentown to erie, they don't tolerate being ripped off.we have been fighting for. we are fighting for honesty. i am fighting for it. kamala harris is fighting for it. will you fight for it? all right. let's go out and win this thing. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> please welcome massachusetts senator elizabeth warren. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] sen. warren: you know what i love about kamala harris? kamala harris cannot be bought. she cannot be bossed around. [cheers and applause] now, i first met kamala in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. the banks had flat out broken laws, cheated people and stolen homes. . millions of americans had lost their jobs, their savings, their homes. i was setting up the consumer financial protection bureau, the cfpb. [cheers and applause] kamala was protecting families as california's attorney general. you bet. and donald was scamming students at trump university and trying to make money off people losing their homes. kamala harris stepped. up she enforced