vance, mark mckinnon. >> here's the problem with jd vance yes.last couple of days, he's been he's been echoing in and touting the story about immigrants eating pets. >> we have a whole segment on that coming up to be free black immigrant from my point about it is that he is echoing what they said in the 2020 election, which is instead of like getting to the truth, they said, oh, we hear from people, so that's why i'm saying it. i'm hearing it from constituents. your job as a leader, as not to report what you're hearing from constituents is to tell constituents what the facts are. >> and that's what my client where did those constituents here? >> well, this is why trump picked j.d. vance that clip right there is exactly why he is now the top ticket because trump, who is not over 2020, who really, if you really listened to him, does not believe he lost that election and believes that mike pence is part of the reason he did lose the election. he wants someone like j.d. vance who will do his bidding now, one under appreciated you know, accomplishment

thank you for getting up early after a very late night mark mckinnon, i think you're focusing with your microphone. so it's just got this second of mourning is that right. we'll figure it out marc, you have worked for candidates at this incredibly high level. >> you know what it's like to prepare them, you know what it's like to sit and watch your person, your guy do something like this on the debate stage last night, i and between what we saw on stage with trump and then what we talked taylor swift moments after the debate stage your big picture takeaways here absolutely dominant performance, just a tko. >> i mean, i've seen watch prepper does and dozens and dozens a debates. i just can't remember one that's that dominant sense of what she achieved, what she needed to do. and i mean, we can go through the points and we'll go through and how she damar how he baited him. i mentioned just put cheese on the trap, cheese on the trap. he took it every time. >> but i mean, if you just stand back and think about what she was trying to do, which was introduced herself to 30% of the electorate w

also back with us is mark mckinnon.ration numbers in, including key battleground states like georgia, north carolina, pennsylvania, so dish, what have you got for us? >> this year we're seeing a record number of young people participate and register to vote. right now, we have increases, post national voter registration day in georgia and pennsylvania, but notably, one of the things that we're really watching is that 18-year-olds are spiking this year. at vote.org, we registered 300,018-year-olds, and that's more than this point in 2020. >> carolyn, does that match the energy you're seeing? >> absolutely. we've registered nearly 1 million voters so far this year, and we're focusing on efforts primarily on that, the 41 million members of gen z who are eligible to vote, 16 million of which are able to vote in their first presidential election. >> you've got so many partnerships at rock the vote, looking at the list, beast mobile, miami heat, running a mini election with the peanuts gang where people can vote, i guess, for

it's mark mckinnon the biggest stories this week, amara, and again, i'm going to show you you a clip package referencing a major news story from this past week and youtube have to tell me what's the story here we go. all right, it takes place in pittsburgh, pennsylvania and radical was buying something at a store with an atm. oh, this is a cult this is a waste of paper and i've got an idea. how about we all just stop yeah. i believe we're talking about kitchen table what do we buy in? like how much does stuff cost and in pencil well, dana, there was a presidential candidate and pennsylvania unveiling her economic point. >> well, that's to my right this is his going of vice president kamala harris, given a speech in pittsburgh on wednesday that finally laid out her economic vision for the country. >> you are correct mark points common, of course, laid out her economic plan called build back better, aka belbek mode, better momentum, oblak anyone tell me why kamala chose pittsburgh to shoot a shadow on this issue? >> does it have something to do with the fact that pennsylvania is the mo

institutions and that is something that's hard to explain to the american people turning us now is mark mckinnon adviser to george w bush and john mccain's campaign, also creator of paramount's. >> the circus mark. thank you so much for being here. always great to have you. although of course, the topic today, another difficult one what do you how do you see what we saw happen on the golf course yesterday? >> this is obviously the second time in two months. and as we face down, these final days of the campaign, and we've been noting here that the rhetoric seems unlikely to cool down. a considering the source circumstances well, isn't the bad news kasie, is that it happened and it's just tragic. >> the good news is that the system worked, but the bad news is we need more protection and but the good news again is that there has been a truly bipar, bipartisan response to notion that we need additional resources. people like ro khanna, the most progressive member of the democratic caucus, is out there saying we need to look at this. and if we need more resources, we need it immediately. so there's a

. >> joining us now, josh doffey, "washington post" political investigations reporter, and mark mckinnon bush and john mccain's presidential campaigns. mark, as someone who worked on those campaigns, can you imagine how it is like right now, how to make a strategic decision about the candidate that balances both safety, the recommendations sure to come from the secret service if they haven't already, and their need, the calendar that tells them they want to be out there among the people? >> sure. glad to be with you. the effect this has on the campaign is serious, but they can deal with it. they have -- what their goal is to have -- is to have rallies, to have venues, and they can have indoor rallies. it doesn't really -- their primary mission is to get his message out. he can do that in all kinds of venues that aren't huge outdoor stadiums. the real impact this has is on the candidate himself and his own psyche. he is the guy that loves the outdoor rallies. he is the guy who loves the huge crowds. so the impact really is not so much on the campaign as it is on the candidate himself, and

. >> joining me now is mark mckinnon. he's a former adviser to george w bush and john mccain. paramount's the circus. mark. thank you for joining me this morning. these are two people come from the midwest. they have different backgrounds, different political stances. how do you see that? it's playing into their narratives tomorrow night good morning, manu. >> well the primary mantra for a president, vice presidential pick is to do no harm. and today the difference is a j.d. vance has done a lot of harm to the republican ticket so far. >> and with his, you know it's all about cats, women who single women who own them and haitian immigrants who he says eat them or then he says, no, we made that up to draw attention to it. >> but and so that's that's my my advice for tim walz's look at this guy is loaded for bear because they're both trying to validate that they are the right pick and vance's the guy has been under the gun. everybody in the republican party knows that he's been a problem he's created dissonance. he's done a lot of harm. so he's going in there to prove two donald

again, that he'll knock her out, either kill eventually capitulate all, right joining us now is mark mckinnona former adviser to george w bush, john mccain. he has also creator of paramount's the circus. >> mark wonderful to see you. >> thank you so much for being here. what do you think is christie right? >> good morning, kasie. yeah, he's right on point. and debates are the one opportunity in the only opportunity left in 45 days where you can really move the dial and i guarantee you that if trump is losing, he's going to be looking for any lifeboat that he can to get back in the race. so i think i'm unquestionably he's got to look to it. i think cnn your platform he was pretty pleased with the last resort. he liked the moderators. he thought it was a fair, a fair debate. so i think that he will absolutely be jumping on board because there's the old politician that you remember, haley barbour from mississippi who had a great saying. he says good get better, bank gets worse and that's when that phase of the campaign, right? now, things are going well for harrison thank you. gone bad for trump

political strategist mark mckinnon.the newsletter "the ink," anand with his piece, "kamala harris won by being all the things." >>> first, from conspiracy theories to exaggerated claims, fact-checkers kept busy during tuesday night's debate during donald trump and kamala harris. joining us now, former treasury official, "morning joe" economic analyst, steve rattner. is he at the southwest wall? >> yeah. >> we have to race him to the southwest wall. there he is. >> he made it. >> good hustle, steve. there he is, stepping onto the stage. all right. steve, let's -- >> dun, dun, dun, dun. >> it was like "the tonight show." we needed the curtain, though. donald trump's claim about the rate of violent crime across the country, especially crime involving migrants. let's watch. >> sure, willie. >> despite the fraudulent statements they made, crime in this country is through the roof. we have a new form of crime, called migrant crime. >> all right, steve, what's the reality there? >> so the reality there, and we've talked about

joining us to discuss is the former lieutenant governor and mark mckinnon is here.ge w. bush and john mccain. what do you think of james carville's advice? and what he think about what instagram is saying? >> i did my first campaign with james carville four years ago and i've learned more from him than anyone else i've worked with in politics. at 80 years old he's really good. you can still be a good consultant. what is really smart is and has been a mistake for democrats to constantly talk about how dangerous trump is. it makes him bigger. would james is saying is laugh at him and it diminishes him. make him weird. that thing is really working. and i think there's a lot of value in that idea. and he makes it clear that the challenge for harris is she's in the position of saying, it's time for a change, stay the course. but i think she's done an artful job separating herself from joe biden respectfully and coming out with new policies and torching her own way and it's the freedom agenda and it separates her and that's really smart. >> what you think? >> i think he's

lieutenant governor of wisconsin barnes, now senior fellow at people for the american way and mark mckinnon adviser to george w bush. what do you think of james carville's advice? look forward. what do you think about what lindsey graham is saying? >> i think it's good advice from both of them. i did my first campaign with carville 40 years ago and i've learned more from carville than anybody else i've worked with in politics. at 80, he is still really good and he's not running for president but can still be a good consultant. the thing i think that is smart that he said is that it has been a mistake for democrats to constantly talk about how dangerous trump is because that just feeds his superpower. that makes him bigger. what james is saying is laugh at him and that diminishes him. just make fun of him. make him weird. that whole thing is really working, i think, and i think there is a lot of value in that. he also makes it very clear that the challenge for harris is that she is incumbent but she has to be the change candidate. >> that's tricky. >> very tricky. she is in the position of s

our compass toward values, traditional values, family values should we speak up with us now, is mark mckinnon, whom you saw in that clip. he's a former adviser to george w bush and john mccain, the creator of the circus and apparently an avid murphy brown fan, would it aired on television? look, you said in that clip it wasn't what dan quayle intended. there. how so trying to make a broader point about just the importance of parenthood in her culture. >> but as i said, there in the clip, you know, what's important? what you have to understand, what you're unintended consequences are going to be in politics. and that threw a huge brock and in the culture war palm that the ripples or continue until last week with murphy brown at the emmys, which is amazing that this has come full circle. >> but in a way it was described it as the fort sumpter of the culture wars when republicans start talking about how we, how we should live, or how women should live their lives, or what they should do, or if you prefer a revolutionary war metaphor, john, it's the, it's the shot heard round the world but i thin

campaign and former adviser to former president george w bush and the late senator john mccain, mark mckinnon who spells out his ten pointers for kamala harris and vanity fair. so really excited to have both of you guys at the magic wall. let me begin with you, marc, what does harris need most? host to accomplish? >> well, first of all, this debate is consequential for kamala harris, much more than for donald trump. people know donald trump sharpens not going to change one vote one way or the other but kamala harris is still not well-defined. and so the race right now is to define harris. she wants to, in her term, strong, wants to do and is in his the most important thing she can do is exude confidence people. the most important as an attribute that people want and that president is a perception of strength and confidence going into debate is the thing that she should really focus on most of all and having a lot of supreme confidence is key she's got to talk about change and going forward, the problem is that most voters in this country believed that they want to change the direction of the

joining the conversation, mike barnicle, senior columnist, jonathan martin, political strategist, mark mckinnond "the wind by being all the things." we will get to that. first, some conspiracy theories to exaggerated claims. fact checkers kept busy during tuesday night. joining us, morning joe economic analyst steve ratner, is he at the southwest wall? good hustle, steve. there he is, stepping onto the stave. let's start with donald trump's claim. it was like the tonight show. we needed the curtain. donald trump's claim about the rate of violent crime across the country, especially crime involving migrants. let's watch. >> despite their fraudulent statements they made, climb in this country is through the roof and we have a new form of crime, it's called migrant crime. >> steve, what is the reality there? >> the reality is and we've talked about this before, for some reason donald trump can't process the numbers. he prefers to deal in his alternate reality. the reality is, in fact, violent crime has dropped 26% and the biden/harris administration. it has gone from 398 per 100,000 people to 294