j.d.hether we want to or not. so let's get right into it with another installment of "indecision 2024." ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] kamala harris is crushing it. she's up in the polls. she's raising tons of money. she collected the "white man" infinity stone. it all poses a big problem for donald trump, who's been trying everything he can think of to stop her ascent. he's been insulting her race, insulting her race even more, oh! insulting her gender... even more race stuff... blah, blah, blah. but somehow, it's not working. so his allies have some radical proposals for him. >> the winning formula for president trump is very plain to see. it is fewer insults, more insights, and that policy contrast. >> donald trump needs to focus on the issues. >> hit her with her policies first. >> don't call her stupid and all kinds of names. stay on message. >> stop questioning the size of her crowds and start questioning her position. >> quit whining about her. it's not going to win talking about what ra

j.d.ce became trump's vp we were able to sit down with his wife, usha vance for next exclusive interviewed. we discussed all kinds j.d. as a family man. how their life has changed dramatically and take on her controversial childless cat laid comment. >> what is he really saying it can be really hard to be a parent in this country and sometimes our policies are designed in a way that make it even harder. and we should be asking ourselves why is that true? >> brian: wow. and the veepstakes watch. here we are, hours away. kamala harris could announce her running mate any moment and that doesn't bother her opponents. >> i don't care. let them do whatever. >> whatever she chooses, the problem is going to be kamala harris' record and kamala harris' policies. >> steve: okay. meanwhile, look at that. we are tracking hurricane debby. the cat 1 storm is expected to make landfall perhaps this hour in the state of florida. all right. so, ladies and gentlemen it, is the monday episode of "fox & friends

j.d. vance, it kind of pushed me over to having an open mind. >> i don't want to be taken over by christian nationalists with project 2025. the debate was a disaster, and the rnc looked like a wrestling match. >> it's just amazing how savvy and how much attention voters are paying. some of it is the calender, yamiche. we're getting closer to a general election if you've been paying attention all four intervening years. some of it is the drama. it's been an extraordinarily dramatic summer, and a lot of it is vice president kamala harris. and she deserves the credit. and this hand-off that we've been talking about is just something so extraordinary in american politics. i would pause at unpres dependent. >> it's interesting because mara was talking about the fact there's no drama in the democratic party now. it's such a smart point to make because there was so much drama the last few months. you couldn't look away. i had family members and voters that i know in florida who don't cover politi

j.d. vance is a creep. idea that they are trying to get very direct and effective with the language here. that all was the things that went into it. they were supposed to roll it out this morning. our reporting got ahead of them a bit. it was broke before they were ready to roll it out. they did roll it out. we see merchandise, a new website. we expect to see a video soon. we will see both tim walz and vice president harris behind me here in philadelphia. they will come here to a crowd of people waiting in anticipation for them to make their debut. >> chuck, let's talk about this. when you talk about battlegrounds, minnesota is not battleground. it usually goes democratic, even went that way in 1972 when nothing else did. it's adjacent to the media market in wisconsin which is a swing state. i was talking to two former governors last night. together, they were saying that walz would be the do no harm, take no risks. josh shapiro would be a home run. they both preferred him because they thought he was more o

j.d. vance is, dare i say, really weird week. why he is receiving the wrong attention. i'm charles coleman in for ayman mohyeldin and we have a lot to talk about so let's get to it. >>> within the last hour, vice president kamala harris touched down in nevada and set to speak soon at our rally in las vegas, she and her running mate, tim walz, crisscrossed the country beginning with a key battleground state. less than 90 days until election day, this is the typical grinding travel schedule of a competitive presidential campaign. donald trump, on the other hand, was mostly at home at his florida country club. when he did emerge, it was to give a rambling press conference on thursday and for a friday campaign stop in the non- battleground state of montana. it is unclear what the trump campaign is thinking. it could be laziness or it may be lack of stamina, after all, donald trump is now the oldest presidential nominee in u.s. history. whatever donald trump's excuses for not visiting a single

j.d. vance. [cheers and applause] [background sounds] their project 2025 the will make things much, much harder for people who are just trying to live their lives. they spend a lot of time pretending they know nothing about this but, look, i coped high school football -- i coached high school football long enough to know and trust me on this, when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they're going to use it. [cheers and applause] and we know if these guys get back in the white house, they'll start jacking up the costs on the middle class, they'll repeal the afford,, care act -- affordable care act, they'll gut social security and medicare -- [background sounds] and they will ban abortion across this country with or without congress. [background sounds] here's the thing, it's an agenda nobody asked for. it's an agenda that serves nobody except the richest and the most extreme amongst us. [cheers and applause] and it's an agenda that does not nothing for our neighbors in need. is i

when he chose j.d.er to having an open mind. >> the rnc looked like a wrestling match. >> even if i don't agree with all her policies i trust that she will have good judgment. >> tear ration i think this is huge. i philosophically don't tend to believe in swing voters, i think most people if you push them feel one way or the other but these are people who are talking to frank luntz who are saying, yes, i voted for trump twice and now i'm switching. what is the harris campaign, harris/walz campaign offering that's making people switch sides? what's making them say i don't agree with her on anything but i would rather vote for her than bring donald trump back into office? >> yeah, they're offering hope, joy, normalcy, sanity to denver's point. they are bringing back normalcy to politics and to american every day life, as opposed to the really dark, ugly, regressive view that donald trump and j.d. vance are presenting. i mean, the whole maga vision is about bringing us back to a time where you and i didn't

what donald trump and j.d. vance want are the ceos of those companies to make astronomical amounts of money when the workers rates have never gone up and so if that was what the strike was about, the ceos of the big four auto companies, they were getting constant races and their workers on the line. >> we're not. and so because of collective bargaining, because of union rights, because of what joe biden going to the picket line did was protecting those folks even if they you don't vote for him. so i think what the vice president's team is going to have to do is going to have to go into those union halls and say, i know it doesn't feel like someone is fighting for you, but i am and i won't leave you behind and we don't want these jobs to go overseas. we want the chips act to stay here so we can have chips in our cars and we can build and have a strong working class that's the argument. >> i also, i also asked him about where are the unions are, where he is on this question of kamala harris, his vice presidential

j.d. vance is the single strangest republican candidate for vice president in history, including spiro agnew who ultimately pleaded guilty for tax evasion from the bribes he took and had to resign from the vice presidency. j.d. vance has said that single women or married women who do not have biological children disorient and really disturb him and he does not want them to be teachers. all of my elementary school teachers were women who did not have children. they were all in the catholic order of the sisters of st. joseph. they taught me to read and write. j.d. vance has been a catholic for about five years, so he may have never met a nun. he certainly was never taught by nuns, but he is willing to condemn them because he is so profoundly weird. as tim walz would put it. republican candidates for president and vice president used to both be named donald. now only one of them is. james donald bowman is the name on j.d. vance's birth certificate. his mother changed his name when she remarri

he speaks for himself. >> today j.d.in distance donald trump from project 2025, the far right authoritarian playbook spending 900 pages for a new trump administration. what makes it harder for vance to pretend the campaign has just nothing to do with his meteor that flew in from outer space is that j.d. vance himself wrote the forward to an upcoming book the guy that put project 2025 together, okay? now in a panic because this looks so bad, publication of that book by the project 2025 guy is being delayed until after the election. even as that book is being delayed, another book vance has publicly endorsed has just been published. this one is by a guy named jack for soviet. he's the far right activist who promoted the conspiracy theory that democrats run a satanic child abuse ring under a popular pizzeria in washington, d.c.. in her latest piece in the new york times, michelle goldberg writes this new book, titled, by the way, and humans, tells us that leftists and progressives don't deserve the status as human beings, t

and j.d.'t allowed at west elm. [ laughter ] president biden warned in a new interview that people are not taking former president trump's comments seriously that there will be a blood bath if he loses the election and added, quote, you can't love your country only when you win, a lesson australians have learned all too well. [ laughter and applause ] at a fund-raiser over the weekend, former house speaker nancy pelosi compared the 2024 election to the olympics and said, quote, we want democracy to win gold that day. whatever. as long as we don't get stuck with the bronze. [ laughter and applause ] it's been a long time since we made a bronze spin joke. according to a recent financial disclosure, minnesota governor tim walz owns no stocks, bonds, or real estate. yeah, of cour -- look at him. at best -- at best he has a coffee can full of fives on top of fridge. [ laughter ] former president trump is reportedly considering hiring his 2016 campaign manager, kellyanne conway. reporters are just w

trump's running mate j.d. vance sitting down for an interview with our jonathan karl, insisting he would be ready to be president on day one. >>> and tonight, the trump campaign claiming it was hacked by foreign sources saying the intent was to interfere in the upcoming election. we have team coverage tonight. abc's zohreen shah leads us off from the campaign trail in las vegas. >> reporter: tonight former president donald trump's running mate forcefully defending his place on the gop ticket. last week trump would not say if j.d. vance would be ready to serve on day one. vance responding in an interview with abc's chief washington correspondent jonathan karl. >> most people -- 99% of the country, they don't vote on who the vice presidential nominee -- they're voting for donald trump or kamala harris, not j.d. or tim walz. but what i think he does believe, because he made it the main focus of his vetting process is, do i think this person could be president on day one if, god forbid, something happened, yes. ye

j.d. vance tried to play it off as a media created furor. >> you are acting like donald trump film the tv commercial at a gravesite. he was there providing emotional support to a lot of brave americans who lost loved ones they never should of lost and there happened to be a camera there. >> oh, there happened to be a camera there. how stupid do you think we are? he was called to provide emotional support, a thing he does all the time away from the cameras. looking back, i camera. ra this is the video trump posted to social media that day. oc >> we lost 13 great, great people. what a horrible thing it was. we didn't lose one person in 18 months and then they took over. the disaster. >> that is a campaign ad film that arlington, obviously. also, dozens of u.s. service members died in action under donald trump. no ceremony for them. no ads. that is trump going to a military cemetery to film a video reminding viewers of u.s. deaths during the withdrawal th from afghanistan, without mentioning

that is what they wanted from j.d. vance. they have not had an opportunity for the last several weeks because j.d. vance has been under his own enormous amount of scrutiny. he hasn't really been able to be on the offense because he's been so much on the defense about his previous comments. this is what they planned on using him for. now, of course, as you said, this is also a strategy because they want to continue drawing attention to the fact that kamala harris is not sitting down with press that she is not having interviews but a lot of this really was preplanned in terms of vance to be the person arguing the policy proposals. remember, donald trump is out there spewing all of these conspiracy theories. he's never going to be the guy who sits down with interview with you and stays on message about policy. he never has been he's never going to be that was part of the reason they liked j.d. vance. they thought he'd be out there attacking democrats, attacking democratic policies, and do it in a smart way. now he's actually doi

you have j.d.o has really terrific ideas but is very, very good, as you pointed out, we saw in philadelphia today is marvelous at answering questions. and interacting with people and defending the policies that he wants to provide and elected for to help the country. and it's just going to make it all the more glaring that literally she is not allowed to go off script for five minutes or she imperils her entire campaign. >> laura: one thing that i was howling at, it was hilarious tonight unintentionally so was when walz tries to question j.d. vance's middle class, working class, you know, credibility. watch this. >> like all regular people i grew up with in the heartland, j.d. studied at yale. [laughter] >> had his career funded by silicon valley billionaires. and then wrote a best seller trashing that community. come on! that's not what middle america is. >> laura: that didn't even make sense, charlie. i thought they were all about people pulling themselves up by their boot straps. going to these

i mean, j.d. vance has taken his opportunity and good for him, gone to silicone valley, some people would argue stephanie i think you included that one of the reasons why he is on this ticket is he could bring big silicone valley donors to the trump campaign. and, you know, fine, good on him. don't pretend you are one of us and that you live a life experience similar to, you know, how i grew up in north dakota you do not and tim walz did. >> his approval rating has been climbing since he joined the ticket and vance has dropped do you happening the trend will continue or are we in a bit of a honeymoon phase that will end for walz? >> stephanie i think all of these polls are going to plateau. we are back to where we were probably in 2020 in terms of who is going to turn out, who has the enthusiasm. that is really why the existing or the former president has been so critical of crowd sizes because he feels the momentum shift away from him. and instead of righting his ship he list out the grievances a

according to one tweet, in his book, j.d.ing sex with a rubber glove secured between cushions on his couch. where does someone even get an idea like that? i blame those filthy ikea instructions. [laughter] fugelbord. fugelbord. reportedly, a pdf search of vance's book yielded ten references to "couch" or "couches," but at no time is the furniture engaged in coitus. of course not! of course not! j.d. vance is a religious he knows it's adam and eve, not raymour and flannigan. this just shows how big a problem misinformation can be. even a well-meaning fact check can wind up amplifying a false story. so all of us, all of us, please have a responsibility to stop the spread of vicious rumors like j.d. vance had sex with a couch. because it's simply not true. which is why we have to refuse to use the hashtag #cushionpushinjdvance. and that's why i certainly won't ever perform the juvenile chant, "j.d. vance is sittin' on a couch. his pee-pee hit the zipper and ouch!" here's the thing. there is one troubling twist to this story, bec

. >> vance, donald trump and j.d. vance sara david fisher, among many other people we talked to in the city and elsewhere in brevard county who have made the same decision, you like vance the fact he's from here, i don't love that. >> i feel he's one of you. >> yes. but what about this political twist that breath at county and the nation are now well aware of does it bother you that vance has spoken out was separately against trump at 1.0? no, i did in the beginning to until i started really listening to both sides maki richardson hasn't yet decided who he will vote for him. >> he's talked about childless cat ladies what are your thoughts about that statement? should he stay away from that or is it okay to say something like that? >> i believe that stay away from it and nourish how many people that have flack or fashion so much for this nation in one way or another that don't have children the mayor of jackson, lower time as prefers not to be public about who she supports for president. but if good things can happen b

the j.d.ce, totally they started by liberals fact checked to get more reach but someone who gives out sex tips for living, has anyone asked you how to love and loveseat? decides link. >> does have a good time. [laughter] >> you didn't tell me yes or no but i bring this up because i was picked up a guy in my taxi said he made love to his furniture every day but never got pregnant because it was a pullout couch. [laughter] >> we are not the only ones telling furniture jokes, kamala harris unveiled her pp pick, timberwolves went biden on the false narrative that vance is by sectional. [laughter] >> about the title, i can't wait to debate the guy. [cheering] if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. [laughter] >> oh no you didn't. this is the only big story said to be peddling with veterans accusing the 24 years national stolen valor claiming multiple times throughout his career he went to war in iraq when it turns out he retired just before his unit was deployed. i'm not going to pretend

j.d.f ohio the republican vice presidential nominee. and exit stage right. robert f. kennedy, jr., suspends his campaign and endorses donald trump. what does his departure mean for the race in joining me for insight and analysis on anna nawaz from pbs news hour, cornell belcher, and marc short, former chief of staff to vice president mike pence. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning. the 2024 campaign is now in its final sprint to election day with just 72 days to go, and this week vice president kamala harris made history becoming the first woman of color to accept a major party's presidential nomination. >> on behalf of americans like the people i grew up with, people who work hard, chase their dreams and look out for one another. >> on behalf of everyone whose story could only be written in the greatest nation on earth, i accept your

and the j.d. vance family is in the spotlight. >> brian: j.d. was chosen les than a month ago. >> ainsley: we sat down with his wife usha, at their home. thank you for sitting down with us. >> thank you, happy to have you here. >> ainsley: your life has changed dramatically, how are you dealing with that? how is your family? scombl i think everyone is doing well. it's been an adventure, this is like nothing we've done before. everyone has been kind, volunteering to help us and understand how to do everything. i can't thank people enough for that. >> ainsley: what has been the biggest adjustment? >> the secret service has been a change, they have been amazing and taught us how to deal with security detail. that is a change. we have code names now. our kids had fun with that. >> ainsley: were they able to pick their own? >> they were. >> ainsley: when you started dating j.d. vance in law school, did you think this is where the path would take you two? did you ever discuss politics? >> we talked about what we're interested in and issues of the day,

and that is where you see j.d. vance at least going to michigan and wisconsin, pennsylvania, and at least providing counter remarks that local papers, local news are going to play to. but i think that this is also going to be a real decision points here for the trump campaign about how they posture. there are several key battleground states. as you and steve were talking about, minnesota is like a state like virginia where they thought they could make a play. there are internal conversations taking that are going to take place about where they can best idlize their resources -- utilize their resources and to ultimately win this ticket. >> charlie, i'm curious to get your thoughts on this pick, tim walz along with kamala harris, and how you feel that stacks up against the trump-j.d. vance ticket. >> well, look, i mean, one of the big questions we have is does this ultimately make a difference, do people actually ever vote for the number two? look, tim walz has a very impressive biography. he is a gifted communicator

j.d.ce clean-up on aisle 7 as well as they figure out what they're going to do with this black women who they don't think it black running for president. >> rev, i want to play a little bit of trump. he was on fox business this morning talking to maria bartiromo, who once again, not seeming enthusiastic about the idea of debating kamala harris. let's play that. >> right now, i say why should i do a debate. i'm leading in the polls. and everybody knows her and everybody knows me. >> she's trumping you now. saying he doesn't want to debate me and say it to my face. that is what she said the other night. >> look, she's a thirty rate candidate. >> that is the thing. when you are facing a third rate candidate, who wants to debate a third rate candidate. you don't want to do that. you would think, if you really thought she was a third rate candidate, he would warm to the notion of devastating her and beating her senseless in a debate. but he somehow doesn't. what do you think? do you think he's

if j.d.uggest he take from his military training, his military experience, do not start with trying to attack the fact that someone raised their hand to serve this country. they deserve our respect. we need to make sure and especially as a veteran, you must make sure you respect that. >> we should point out the biography alone, he enlisted at 19 and then went to college on the g.i. bill. his family, had his father died, they were living on social security benefits to make ends meet, according to the biography. >> that's exactly right. you are right. we enlisted at the same age. we both joined the military at 17 years old. this is a person who decided at an early age that he was going to enlist in the military and make the military part of his future, part of his life. this is a person who believes in patriotism, he believes in the goodness of the american people. he believes in the goodness of the documents that we fall under and that we served under. i do think it's important that if j.d. va

j.d.his new remarks questioning walz military service and what he calls stolen valor garbage. we're also live in the critical state of michigan, democrats say it is a must win. so what do voters think about a race that's gone through very topsyturvy weeks. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with a little more than 24 hours after becoming compares's vp, tim walz who's showing off his ability to be an attack dog. here's nbc's alex seitz-wald following this for us. what exactly has he been saying, alex? >> yeah, chris, attack dog has been a traditional role for any running mate. the idea is they can get their hands a little bit dirtier than the nominee, on the trail constantly. walz is doing it in his own unique sort of mid western way. take a look. >> you feel it, these guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell. that's what you see. that's what you see. over those next 91 days and every day in the white house, i'll have vice president harris'

and i think j.d. is, i think that all of them would have been. but -- but you're not voting that way. you're voting for the president. you're voting for me. >> reporter: trump not answering whether vance is ready on day one. i also asked trump about his pledge to pardon those convicted in the january 6th riot. when "time" magazine asked you if you would consider pardoning all of the rioters, you said yes, absolutely. >> sure. >> reporter: you called them patriots. 140 police officers were assaulted that day. were the people who assaulted those 140 officers, including those i just mentioned, patriots who deserve pardons? >> well, let me bring it back to modern day, like about five days ago. >> reporter: trump then talking about the recent anti-israel protests in washington. protesters defacing monuments. but i asked him again -- would he pardon the january 6th rioters convicted of assaulting police officers? my question is on those rioters who assaulted officers -- >> excuse me. you have to -- >> reporter: would you pardon those people? >> what's

j.d.ance as the former president's runningmate. from the american enterprise institute, this is about an hour and a half. pleased to say is te longest running. is this true? how many years? john: 1982, began. chris: the longest running item of this nature, election analysis. we have been in the tech space before it was cool, and we appreciate you being here. this is -- i am going to use a word i deplore. it is a historic election cycle this year. and it is unlike, in many ways, what i've covered in my 25 years as a political journalist. we are extraordinarily glad you are here and extraordinarily glad we have such excellent friends and colleagues to do it with. john: thank you, chris. chris stirewalt and i, john fortier, are the cohosts of the election watch. we are joined by rotating panels, including some ai people --aei people, including ruy teixeira. he spent a number of years being an expert on election demographics, worked with us on the states of change, a great project which really

governor walz looks forward to debating j.d. vance if he shows up. fox news last night where he did not confirm whether or not he'd be attending. >> we're certainly going to debate tim walz. we just heard about this thing three hours ago, so we're going to talk to them and figure out when we can debate. i actually think we should do more than one debate. hopefully we're going to see him either before or after that because i think it's important for the american people to actually see us discuss our views. >>> meanwhile, donald trump has lost his latest attempt to replace the judge in his new york city hush money criminal case with just weeks until his sentencing. judge juan merchan declined to recuse himself from the case yesterday, dismissing claims from defense attorneys that he had a conflict of interest. because his daughter works as a political consultant for some prominent democrats. that's now the third time that the judge has rejected such a request from trump's lawyers. the former president complained about the ruling in a post on social med

still, the message tonight from trump's running mate, senator j.d. vance -- let trump be trump. >> to the people who say that donald trump should do something different, they had an opportunity to make donald trump do something different by challenging him over three separate primaries, every single one of which he won. so i think that donald trump has earned the right to run the campaign that he wants to run. >> david: let's bring in rachel scott, with us again tonight. and tim walz says he's now ready to debate j.d. vance? >> reporter: exactly, david. tonight, we're learning that governor tim walz has accepted the invitation from cbs to debate senator j.d. vance on october 1st. vance has long said he's looking forward to that debate, but tonight, no word on whether or not he's accepting this invitation. and david, i don't need to remind you, but the very first presidential debate between vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump will take place right here on abc news on september 10th,

j.d. vance will speak to press in philadelphia tomorrow afternoon and then shadow the democrats from michigan to north carolina. former president trump has backed out of the scheduled september 10 debate with abc news. he proposed a fox news debate instead. the harris campaign said, quote,, we are happy to discuss further debates after the one that both campaigns already agreed to. with that, let's get smarter with our panel tonight. susan glasser, staff writer for the new york per aaron haynes, editor at large. political contributor henry squirm and -- you have been covering hass -- harris day in and day out. we hear this rollout will be major. how will it unfold? >> look, it's a process she knows well. she just went through it herself four years ago. right now, it's a lot of us sitting around waiting for the big news. we are trying to read the tea leaves. what's it going to come down to? the campaign has said there's going to be this digital rollout at some point tomorrow. that's not unl

j.d.xactly. walz appeals to the older white guy who always tells the same joke to the server at denny's. the one where he points to his empty plate and says, "i guess i hated it!" >> michael: that's a great joke, because he clearly loved it! [laughs] >> meanwhile, j.d. vance appeals to the older white guys who say things like, "i'm not racist, but..." and then say the most racist shit you've ever heard. [applause] tim walz appeals to white guys who hang an american flag. j.d. vance appeals to white guys who hang a bunch of american flags. you know what i mean? tim walz appeals to white guys who call pbs to make a donation. j.d. vance appeals to white guys who call fox news to say their gold coins haven't arrived in the mail. >> michael: you know, i was too close to the situation that i missed the nuance. there's different white guys, just like there's different black guys. like, there's the kind of black guy who -- >> i'm going to stop you right there. [applause] michael, you write. but as

this week served -- j.d. vance was trailing the vice president literally throughout the country as she was holding rallies and he was holding press conferences calling for her to speak to the press and talking about the policy issues that we mentioned. this week served as a reset for him. to be clear democrats are still going after him with the labeling of weird. he hopped off of the plane when we were traveling with him on wednesday and harris' plane was right there and he walked over to her plane and republicans of course said that is exactly what he needs to do and he needs to be aggressive and point out to the press that she is not taking questions. the democrats said that is weird, why is he doing that? they are still going after him. but this week served as a reset, i think. host: let us talk to some callers. starting with john in florida, republican. caller: is important to understand that 90% of the communication industry certainly, the news, the print and internet and cable tv and cable news is prett

i'm citing him write j.d. vance is lying about that on top of that, i think it's hilarious to talk about crime in new york mentioned gangs of new york about a movie that insults irish american immigrants who are the backbone of the new york and police, like boston police. >> but can i just say one more one thing to the biggest criminal in new york city is donald trump. he's a convicted criminal running for president in the united states. and you guys are in the republican party defending a convicted criminal hello, hello right. so let me go to people who jail for, a. paperwork crime. people go to prison for these crimes that donald trump is convicted felon, you can make double standards because if a black person like myself was convicted, yes. so it was convicted of the same crime, donald trump wants to do i would not be a candidate for president. i will not be i could not even be a serious candidate for any public life no i look, this is going to be a question, i think for republicans, they were planning on r

>> absolutely, president trump and j.d. to make gasoline affordable, secure our border, make america wealthy, strong, safe again in great state of michigan, north carolina, arizona, battleground states. at the dnc, i expect to see liberal out of touch celebrities with kamala harris running same candidate different pant suit. american people do not want to hear from celebrities, that is why president trump and j.d. vance are taking it to the american people. you will see more of that and less division we will see coming out of dnc. >> carley: you are not only ones stopping in pennsylvania and other swing states. kamala harris and tim walz were in pennsylvania yesterday and their campaign released this video that showed them buying snacks at a sheets. watch. >> thank you. >> how many you want? this. >> this is my go to, the original nacho cheese. >> any corn nuts, tim? >> there you go. >> carley: reminiscent to donald trump at chick-fil-a, what do you think about that? >> i see members of press not asking questions of kamala

to be quite honest, i keep trying to google what j.d.e for ohio, and i can't find anything. it's just like he is some posterboard -- poster boy for our state. he is just using the great people of the state of ohio. it's just an opportunity, just to further advance his home agenda. -- his whole agenda. i'm not even quite sure what he is for. if he is power-hungry or what is going on with him. host: laura, for you a fan of kamala harris prior to joe biden dropping out? caller: yes. i have been a fan of, has. to be quite honest, i was on board with joe biden coming around for the second time around, for the selection. but when president biden stepped down and kamala harris of course, just thrilled. because i like the biden-harris ticket personally. so i am just thrilled. it's going to be a blue wave through, and i am thrilled come november. host: that's laura in ohio. this is diana in austin, texas, independent nine. hi. caller: thank you for your coverage. you guys always have fantastic coverage. i have to say, i feel so inspired by what i

j.d.'igning about is putting americas -- americans fist, knowing that we shouldn't leave any americans behind. but under democrat policies, we've lost manufacturing, we've gutted our middle class. we've seen inflation absolutely crushing working americans and seniors, so of course they want to change the subject to about two or three years ago because it's the all they've god. -- got. j.d.'s a great candidate and great human being, and i'm so excited about the ticket with frump president trump. jon: right now chuck schumer is the majority leader. he says that with kamala harris running for president, he expects to keep that job. in other words, he expects that the democrats will continue to control the senate after november. what do how you say about that? >> well, you know, he's delusional. the reality is the american public know that chuck schumer's not only been the absolute most extreme senate majority leader, he's been absolutely ineffectual. they can't get bills passed. this is a guy

j.d. vance has one job.many people as you can on behalf of the president. and yet we see very much so in the fashion of your governor, ron desantis, he continues to blow it. how could it be that he chooses, the former president chooses someone who seems to be so inept at the little things. when throwing a softball question for example about beer and drinking beer, this is what we get. >> charles, because the number one quality for donald trump is that someone be absolutely loyal to him. that is all he cares about. everything else is secondary. there were other candidates that donald trump could have chosen to be his running mate who would have benefited him politically. who would have helped him grow the tent, appeal to more people. the reason that he chose j.d. vance is because he believes they should another reason is because his sons told him that he has to choose j.d. vance is because they believe he is someone they can control, who will be loyal to the family under all circumstances. this is what happen

and that's why you hear j.d. vance really hammering on it but while there are many things that the biden and harris administration have to answer for on that. some of what j.d. vance said just does not ring true. for instance, he said that right now there's a terrible crisis at the southern border just to be clear, border numbers are actually down right now there to three-year low since january of 2021, since that executive order that president biden sign, they have fallen for four months in a row. he blamed biden and harris for the fentanyl crisis in america. and it is a crisis to be clear, i think look at any community do you see that? but he left out that it started during the trump administration during covid it was really an issue of closures at the border and drugs coming over any more concentrated way less could get through it became more concentrated that persisted into the biden-harris administration but certainly he also seemed to allude as well to it been a route the root cause of it being illegal immi

if j.d.s going to go after tim walz i would suggest his own military experience, do not start with trying to attack the fact that someone raised her hand to serve this country. >> your thoughts and reactions to all of this. >> as usual, westmore is right. he's a northstar for our country and i'm honored to call him a friend but i'm also honored to call tim walz a friend. i've known him for almost 20 years and he is a person of integrity comic character, honor, is one of the most honorable hard-working politicians i've ever met and i like him so much it's hard for me to believe sometimes he's a politician. we work together -- on the house veterans affair committee. his time in the national guard is very important. 24 years, as a sergeant major, he served his community and his country. he's trained, he understands what it's like to wear the uniform, but in many ways, what he did in congress was even more important. that was really transformative. he was there every single time we need him for o

let's watch j.d. genuinely feel bad that, for days, maybe even weeks, the guy actually had to run away from his jewish heritage because of what the democrats are saying about him. i think that is scandalous and disgraceful. whatever you believe, whatever disagreements on policy you have about somebody, the fact that the vice presidential race on the democratic side became so focused on his ethnicity i think is absolutely disgraceful, and it is insulting to americans, whatever background you are from. >> harris: jason? >> jason: that was a powerful statement, and i think it rings true for a lot of people, especially those people there in pennsylvania. what? and he will regret that he went through all those gyrations -- >> harris: josh shapiro? >> jason: yes. the governor tried to contort himself into the person -- and he's going to look at it and be terribly embarrassed. >> harris: emily? >> emily: i want to highlight for a moment, the amount of substantive topics he spoke about and on and with facts a

j.d. vance meanwhile, donald trump is going on the attack, slamming tim walz over how walls handled the door george floyd protests in minneapolis. we have audio tonight of a 2020 phone call, though, in which trump is heaping praise on the minnesota governor for his response despite what trump is saying today and also tonight, three taylor swift concerts have been canceled over an alleged terrorist plot that was foiled. we have new reporting morning on the latest. i'm kaitlan collins and this is the source moments ago, vice president harris and minnesota governor tim walz on stage for their second rally of the day. the democratic ticket working the crowds into the evening on their first full day of campaigning together, zeroing in on the win or go home states of wisconsin and michigan half of team trump did the same, but in reverse today with republican vice presidential nominee j.d. vance, right on their tail with his own swing through the midwest. and speaking of mirror images, look at th

j.d. vance and donald trump, and that, frankly, works to the advantage of democrats and leaves the republicans sort of unsure about where to go. just to give you a sense of the numbers here, if you look at the averages, before the debate, joe biden was running 1.5 points behind donald trump. after the debate, it moved about .5 points against biden. the big thing that happened was not the debate, it was the coverage after the debate and the democratic reaction after the debate. when your own people -- the famous book written by a leninist about how our own people were killing each other in the show trials and so forth -- here we have our own people going on tv and explaining why joe biden was not fit to be president. that hurt, hurt a lot. that is when we saw the race move to -3 for biden after relatively small action after the debate itself. now with kamala harris at the top of the ticket, it is back to 1.7. so a little worse than it was going into the debate. but a couple things to rememb

j.d.as joined by three republican members of congress. they were from other states. all veterans. j.d. vance continues to attack tim walz's military record while himself coming under scrutiny for comments he made about grandparents and abortion rights. in north carolina, donald trump blaming kamala harris for inflation. the economic speech veered off into personal insults with the former president criticizing her laugh. >> for nearly four years, kamala has crackled as the american economy has burned. it's the laugh of a crazy person. it's crazy. she's crazy. kamala, you are fired. get out of here. >> mark your calendar, i don't know if he will try that on the debate stage. but walz and vance have agreed to a vice presidential debate on october 1st. joining us now, vaughn hillyard in new jersey, phil rucker and back with us, susan page. vaughn, j.d. vance defending his comments about abortion. give us the full context. first, you have new reporting on trump campaign hires. >> reporter: righ

vance's election j.d.ng that election he was virtually unknown and he was running against a pretty well known candidate in tim ryan, a regular guy like slrd sherrod brown, and he got beaten it was six points, not nearly what the rest of the republicans in the state won by. i think brown is a little bit afraid of that but the game has changed look, if the democratic ticket comes to ohio and barnstorms the place to try to force donald trump to spend time here, i do expect sherrod brown will be on the stage with them. he's not going to shun the ticket there's an energy in the land right now that he could use. but maybe -- you're right, maybe he's staying quiet, he didn't think there would be national campaigning here because we're considered a red state, why draw that attention >> it is so interesting. i worked on the 2004 bush campaign and carey and bush weren't just in the same state or city. their buzzes would cross each other. they were traveling the same roads, and there are all sorts of images, i'll dig