but it wasn't and marc caputo is going to be with me in a moment with more reporting because here's the thing. even as those staffers tonight insisted caputo that they did not spot the other horrific comments and hinchcliffe prepared remarks. many more comments were set at that rally about harris and others like these country. >> she is the devil, whoever scream that out >> she is some sick that hillary clinton, huh? what a sick son of a the whole party, a bunch of degenerates those were other speakers, all invited, all of whom scripts had gone through an approval process danny freeman is outfront in philadelphia and danny, i know you've had a chance today to be just just talking to voters in the, in the immediate aftermath of that to get their reaction shan, what are they telling you erin, quite frankly, we spoke to a lot of puerto rican see you in philadelphia today and they told me that they're mad, they're frustrated. many of them told me that they took these remarks personally and listen, erin, we are in a democratic city speaking with a normally democratic coalition. so it's not t

only got a few days left in a lot of people have already cast her ballot early marc caputo but thank you so much for stopping by thanks, laura hey, we've got an update for you on a story that we just told you about earlier in the show during my discussion with congressman jamie raskin. so really it turns out that elon musk's super pac is still proceeding with its million dollars giveaway to registered voters despite the doj's morning that it might very well be illegal. now, there was no winner announced wednesday. but tonight, we've learned that super pac has given the million dollar prize to one registered voter in michigan and another in wisconsin. we still don't know why they paused on wednesday in a spokesperson for the pack declined to comment well, the los angeles da recommending re-sentencing the menendez brothers, giving them a chance at freedom for the first time in 34 years. >> i believe that they have paid their debt to society saturday? >> so yet nine on cnn the world can be a big, complicated place with opinions and hot takes everywhere, but would tiktoks keyword filter,

with us now, marc caputo, national political reporter for the bulk work. marc. thank you so much for being with us. look donald trump said all these things this weekend talking about all palmer vulgarity. a lot of stuff. now, one of the explanations that you here and there were some reporting from politico last week. is that trump is exhausted. he is saying things like this because he's exhausted. he's worn out you've got some new reporting on this, which has sort of an interesting take on that based on your conversations with trump insiders, what are they telling you? >> well yeah i mean, of course he's tired. i just had our story move on. saturday morning, so i just tallied up the beginning of the month october 1, to friday. it's 18 days. he did 28 events and 26 cities in 12 states he had done 21 media interviews, including seven long form podcast. now, all the media interviews were not challenging. there were generally with friendly audiences are friendly media reporters but nevertheless, it's a lot of work and in addition to that, he's flying across the coun

it's a fantastic is going to be fantastic national political reporter for the bulwark, marc caputo. >rks. good morning. nice to see you. ai clearly this is something trump is fixated on. he always taught when he does these events in new york, you can hear it in his voice that he is really focused on the place and madison square garden occupies a very unique spot in that. tell us a little bit more about what this means. and i mean, clearly new york's not in play at the presidential level. there are some house races that might flip on this, but i also keep coming back to the reality that at this point all politics is national. now 100% we do have not only national politics, but national media is essentially headquartered in new york. >> so trump knows that having a big splashy rally in madison square garden not only kind of fulfills that childhood dream of being a kid in queens who looked across the river and saw manhattan and saw new york and said, i want to take over the place and build buildings. but he said he always wanted to garden. he's probably going to do it the campaign said t

marc caputo for "the bulwark" did a story on this. truth of the matter, it's two-fold.ted. he is 78 years old. he is keeping a really insane schedule, going all over the country. battleground states. he went to coachella, set to go to madison square garden. he is also up at odd hours because he is addicted to his phone, and he likes to post. he watches a lot of tivoed tv. he is not the pinnacle of self-care, let's put it that way. so, yes, he is exhausted. frankly, he should be exhausted. i'm exhausted. you're probably exhausted, too. that's just how it works. does that suggest serious cognitive decline? no, not necessarily, but i will say, and people who have been around him and have observed him have said, you know, he's not as sharp as he was. you know, you look at any clip from 2016 to 2024, and it's clear what the differences are. he's 78 years old. he is old. this is what happens. this is the exact criticism to biden had to face. it is something that trump has to face. i think it's been exacerbated by the fact he's on the trail in this critical moment and is getti

analyst and axios political reporter alex thompson, a national political reporter at the bulwark, marc caputogood to see both of you great to bear mark. >> let's start first with you were watching vice president harris there in the overflow room with former first lady michelle obama. we are seeing the harris campaign really bring out some serious star power in their surrogates to close this election, bruce springsteen beyonce, michelle obama. i just had james his car alon. he was making the case that he thinks that those types of surrogates can really be effective in motivating voters to actually vote. what is your sense? >> i'm assuming? i don't know what motivates people anymore. >> don't get me wrong at the end of the campaign you want at the end of a campaign, you want your candidate to have big splashy rallies with lots of people attesting to why people should vote for them. and so in that respect, this is a great idea for kamala harris and if donald trump had the ability to muster a relative amount of star power to that, he would do it. he just can't that having been said, what we've se

shape or form in order to sort of blunt this attack against david, i want to read you a quote that marc caputo from the bulwark got from steve shale, who is a democratic strategist in florida, and he went up against the now trump campaign manager, susie wiles in the past in florida. and here's what he was saying. hang about the strategy inside the trump campaign. it's pretty simple. drive up the negatives on the opponent to the point that the choice comes down to one thing that her candidate has an advantage on in this case, the economy i suspect what's that's what's going on here with their ad strategy. dr. harris, negatives down into the barrel with trump trump and that's a real thing. my side has to guard against and we see it having some impact, right. >> i mean, her if you look at his favorables and her favorables in our new poll today, they're about the same. her on she's upside down. she was upside down before she was a candidate. she flipped it around in a dramatic turn of events when she became but you see the effect then they went heavy on ads and they went after her and that of cour

himself for 2028 no matter what happens in very interesting they go ahead well, you know, i think marc caputo, one thing is pretty important there and that's that tim walz was not has not been doing the combat that jd vance has been doing on the trail. i think partly that's because kamala harris is not doing many interviews and they don't want tim walz out doing interviews when she's not doing that and i think you saw that last night, jd's already been kicked around by hostile journalist for two months, and tim walz was in the hot seat for the first time i thought that was a detriment to him and that's kamala his fault? >> i just want to jump in. kasie, if i may god, there are a couple of things that we forget. first, let's level set for a moment and recall the fact that even in his interview with kamala harris when he was going through the process of being vice president tim walz, look, kamala harris in the face and say, there are two things. i don't do well. one you're going to have to teach me how to read off a teleprompter. your team is and two, i don't debate well. and so that's somethin

. >> they cut out pieces that speech according to marc caputo is reporting from the bulwark. they saw the speech and cut out some pretty offensive language. they didn't want to have in it and kept in it. what was there? it took them hours before they actually began a robot or push back or whatever it is they did to say something about what was in the speech because they waited to see how everybody else was going to react. this isn't a party that is showing leadership on this. here's what's happening. hold on second, donald trump is betting on bigotry and that's the sad part about it is an american politics sometimes that's not a bad bet in our history. now, the difference is usually, it's something we wink at, right? it's you know, a criminal gets let out of jail and we talked about that or welfare queens and we talked about that. this isn't that this is hardcore, just straight up bigotry. and i'll tell you, i've done a lot of politics, particularly in the south. and one of the things that i learned working in this out is there a lot of really good people who live in the subu