that's why i see kamala harris featuring republicans like barbara comstock. but celebrities won't get her there. she has to tell people that she totally disagrees with her positions of 2020. she were announced as i'm in the left is wrong, that she's got to appeal to right-of-center voters with a right-of-center message. she's not done that yet. what do you mean the persuasion versus mobilization is fascinating and this usually by this point of a campaign, persuasion is over, but the harris campaign has extended the period using in real time with the former president is saying on the campaign control every day, they believe his current comments, even though everyone knows everything about what he has said. >> the father of ivf and other things they are trying to persuade in the final weeks, or are getting some of those republicans that brads talking about. they don't need a lot but a few could certainly help. yeah, i read with some interest the new peggy noonan column as well, making she's making me you're making which is hey, make more space for these republi

an independents are supporting our campaign republicans for harris, former gop congresswoman barbara comstock joins us to talk about what, she calls the silent majority that she thinks will help the vice president to victory. and battle of the billionaires. >> you on musk and mark cuban hit the campaign trail stumping for their chosen candidates berlin. we do expect to hear from him this hour. we will bring that to you live as we cover all this breaking news out of the middle east. good morning, everyone. i'm kasie hunt. it's wonderful to have you with us on this friday morning. this just in senior hamas leaders have confirmed the deaths of their bare leader and the mastermind of the october 7 terror attacks yahya sinwar is dead. israel's military announcing yesterday that sinwar was killed in gaza on wednesday, according to israeli sources, the hunt for sinwar came to an end when israeli forces came under for fire during a routine military operation in southern gaza, the idf returned fire and one of the militants fled into a nearby building. what you see now is drone video edited and release

an independents are supporting our campaign republicans for harris, former gop congresswoman barbara comstock joins us to talk about what, she calls the silent majority that she thinks will help the vice president to victory. and battle of the billionaires. >> you on musk and mark cuban hit the campaign trail stumping for their chosen candidates

. >> turning our coverage, former virginia congressman barbara comstock is here. ed the vice president in pennsylvania. barbara, the speech was -- sort of in this new mold, right? almost a post-partisan moment in our politics. you've been part of that moment. tell me how the speech landed with you. >> i think it was very well received here. you have a lot of women, a lot of veterans here. this is a suburban area that, as you know, when we worked on the bush campaign was an area with a lot of republicans, but these are the kind of people who voted for nikki haley, but they're not going back. they're not going to vote for donald trump and the vice president has a great message for these disaffected republicans that she wants to be open to bring the country together, doing things like supporting, you know, our allies overseas, supporting families with the child tax credit that george bush expanded and now she wants to expand more. she wants to support our election officials, something that i work on with the national council on election integrity, a bipartisan group,

. >> jennifer wexton and barbara comstock were once political rivals. >> my opponent is a masterful political chameleon. >> my opponent is right at the most, left-wing state senator in a hard-fought race to represent a northern virginia district in congress i stand before you tonight as you're congresswoman, a lack one comstock, a republican now joining wexton to campaign against donald trump. now says she was secretly relieved to lose jennifer didn't realize how kind of what a relief it was for me to be out of the trump world while i loved serving my constituents, i love doing the work. i got to pass some great legislation, but being part of what had become the trump party of really was a burden. >> if you told 2018 me that i'd be sitting here with barbara comstock on cnn and that she was one of the biggest supporters of the democratic nominee for president in her race against donald trump. i wouldn't have believed you in 2023, wexton was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, known as parkinson's on steroids and announced she would retire at the end of this term. >> i'm here today s

also joiningis me former virgin congresswoman barbara comstock, who has endorsed vice president harris and appeared on stage alongside her in pennsylvania today. thank you both for joining me. i'm so eager to get your perspective on everything that's transpired today. congresswoman comstock, i'd love to get your thoughts. first, on this exchange with bret bair, i've not seen the vice president that angry andno that incensed in an interview maybe this entire election cycle. and i wonder e ifnt you think h comments break through with the verygh republicans she may be trying toep target ongoing on f in the first place. >> well, i hope so because fox doesn't have republicans on very often. they certainly don't have me or republicans like liz cheney or adam kins 'inger. i don't imagine they invite sarah on very often anymore. because if they do invite people like dothat, they get attacked donald trump. and bret bair himself has gotten attacked by donald trump so much that the morning after the election -- i believe it was the morning after the election, bret bair was shown in e-mails during

.>> former trump white house staff, sarah matthews and barbara comstock , doing the brave thing in the closing hours of the election, thank you for your time tonight.>>> still ahead this evening, donald trump often says he is a big fan of elon musk, this week he got 75 million more reasons to be a devotee and they are all in dollar signs. but first, have you heard, donald trump is the father of ivf, or at least that is what he told a room full of women this morning before explaining that he has no idea what ivf actually is. we will talk about that coming up next. up next. (children speaking) conflict is raging across the world, and millions of children's lives are being devastated by war, hunger, disease and poverty. we urgently need your help to reach children in crisis. please call or go online to give just $10 a month. only $0.33 a day. we need 1000 new monthly donors this month to help children in crisis around the world and right here at home. you can help us provide food, essentials, and lifesaving medical care to children in the most need. in the darkest times children suffer th

joined by someone who was there, former congresswoman barbara comstock. she was at the harris event at washington crossing. you can see the handshake right there. with the vice president. also seen with bill kristol, who is known to so many people who follow the news and full disclosure has been on this channel, msnbc, many times. also joined by professor jason johnson, msnbc analyst. welcome to both of you. >> good to be here. >> good to be here. >> barbara, tell us not only about the event yesterday, but i mentioned this republican political nostalgia for trump. i don't know if you are a big dua lipa fan. i mentioned her notion of future nostalgia. i'm curious about your nostalgia. what this means to you now and what you 10 or 15 years ago might have thought in this moment. what brought you and frankly many other republicans to this place? >> well, you're right. it was a great event yesterday. it was at that wonderful historic site where george washington crossed. so very, you know, patriotic event. it was about country over party. but there is a lot to

. >> barbara comstock as well as vick tore defrancesco, thank you for being with us. >>> up next, we'reoing to go to israel for details on a new proposal for a ceasefire and hostage exchange with hamas. >>> back at home, we'll talk to the mayor of a majority latino city in pennsylvania about his constituents and how they could very well be the deciding factor who wins that battleground state. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" on msnbc. . ...the worst call in the history of this sport. he should never be allowed to ref... (♪♪) ♪ i tell ya... ♪ (♪♪) ♪ how much i love you, love you, love you ♪ (♪♪) ♪ i believe. ♪ (♪♪) ♪ i believe. ♪ ♪ i believe in you. ♪ right now across the u.s., people are trying to ban books from public schools and public libraries. yes, libraries. we all have a first amendment right to read and learn different viewpoints. that's why every book belongs on the shelf. yet book banning in the u.s. is worse than i've ever seen. it's people in power who want to control everything. well, i say no to censorship. and i say yes to freedom of speech and expression. if yo

now, this was a tweet that he actually liked from a former republican member of congress barbara comstock was saying that, quote, twitter locked at real donald trump for 12 hours. now the cabinet needs to lock him down for 14 days hashtag 25th, and then now the 25th amendment basically says that the cabinet can basically keep the president and i take the powers away from the president if he's essentially incapacity, they were calling for him to do this after january 6. that's one thing his campaign manager like you also shared a lot of posts on his feed, some of which we found that he removed one of them was a statement from former president george w bush that laid the blame at the feet of donald trump, justice a couple of quotes from there that said, i am appalled by the reckless behavior of some political leaders since the election and added that the rioting at the capitol was quote, undertaken by people whose passions have been inflamed by falsehoods and false hopes again, seemingly pointing the finger at trump and then another post shared by lacivita was this text message that said, q

and there was a good group of other republicans, people like barbara comstock and adam kinzinger thatd of speaking to these philly suburbs, republican types, trying to squeeze any more votes you can out of that demographic. i think liz has been very important in kind of speaking to that group. our former friends, nicolle, and then on the other side, i look, mark cuban is out there fighting this battle for younger men, the elon musk and this kind of bro podcast universe. you have seen the numbers. trump is doing better among younger men of all races. i think cuban is out there as somebody hao can be a voice and push back. like, i'm not -- i'm a guy's guy, i own a basketball team. i made money. i cuss. and i'm happy to just give you the real truth about this. like, these guys are bs'ing you, and i'm telling you the truth about what -- who kamala harris is, what her agenda is, why it's better for you, why you don't have to be scared of it. that's a very important role and i'm grateful he's out there doing it. >> there's some evidence, fresh evidence that it's working. maris poll has whit