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so thank you both for being with us, matt and scott. i want to read you what ezra klein wrote this morning about how the harris team is approaching trump may be differently here as a wrote biden's communication strategy was designed to make trump bigger harris. his strategy is to make him smaller. and then ezra klein goes on. the result is that trump is starved for the resource he craves most attention, as is often the case when he loses control of the headlines, he's making lhuillier and more self-dtructive arguments. how do you think that describes where we are this morning? matt i think that's exactly right. >> look, i think one thing that's important to emphasize here is there's a difference between trump lying, which he does all the time in his press conference last week, he just lied continuously and trump living in a fantasy world. i mean talking about the ai generated crowds is insane there is no basis in reality whatsoever. and i think we have to recognize here that this is a 78-year-old man was substantially diminished mental

strategy, starting this week joining us now cnn senior political commentator scott jennings and democratic strategist, mattennett. thank you, gentlemen for coming in. i'm going to start with you, scott. you heard those words trump on steroids. all hands on deck. what does that mean? what is trump on steroids mean? >> well, it sounds like it means he's going to be pretty aggressive on his campaign travel schedule. he hasn't done as many events in the cycle so far and now that's going to increase. i think that was to be expected as we get to labor day, but i think it's obvious that they now realize the race that they're in today against harris is like different race than they were in against biden. it's going to require a lot more effort. i mean, they were on a glide path to a landslide and other in a real dogfight. so i would expect them to be out there and j.d. vance as well. and really probably focusing on the core states that we know we're going to make up the election results. >> matt harris has you know, she's had this very long. if you will a honeymoon really that people keep waiting for it to be over

matt gorman former tim scott campaign advisor and david carlucci former democratic state senator from. david, do you first. isn't it about time she sits down and not only answers some questions but at least put your policies out there? there is not a single policy on her campaign website. >> well, the kamala harris team is on a roll. we're coming off of the democratic national convention. it was an awesome time. i was there. there wasn't a room to stand, it was so packed full of energy. they are talking about policies. that's not the place to get into the nitty-gritty details. just as the previous reporter said look, the opportunity is to debate kamala harris. what i have been reading is donald trump is now second guessing talking about how he might not show up to that planned debate and kamala harris has said nothing about not showing up. she is saying look, we should have live mics during the whole time. if donald trump doesn't agree to that she will still show up and debate. that's what we want to see. have the opportunity to ask your opponent those questions. get into it. but dona

political commentator, maria occurred dona and former senior adviser to sit her to tim scott's presidential campaign. matt gorman matt, i'll start with you the vice president is proposing tax cuts for lower and middle-class americans. and she's cracking down on price gouging. meantime, trump is proposing more tax cuts for the rich and the very, very rich and praising the elon musk for firing workers who are on strike are you concerned about that splits screen no. >> because frankly, that's not what trump is doing. he wants to extend the trump tax cuts, which gives tax cuts to everyone. but also, i mean, look, i got c's and b's and math and even i know what commonly harris is doing. it's bad policy may look a $25 subsidy, all that does is increase the price of housing by 25 25 k if you know that you're going to tack it onto everything and look, even washington post is calling out her price controls and saying could lead to rationing shortages, even black markets, it's absolutely ridiculous policy. so we've been waiting all time for any sort of policy, new policy farmer. and this is it, it's pretty lacklust

matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign welcome to all of you yesterday. quite a quite a show. matt gorman, in terms of what we saw from from donald trump. but i think the thing that i was struck by a couple of things. i mean, one, it seemed like he is still acting like he's running against joe biden, that sort of the posture and second, like the contrast, the energy contrast on display between trump and biden really worked in trump's favor, but between trump and harris, it doesn't couple of things. >> i mean, yeah, i think republicans are going into this day saying, look, how do we find a way to arrest harris has momentum. >> how do we find a way to kind of staunch that a little bit and it also how do we find a way to get her out of her bubble, right? >> throw her off a little bit in a way to, you know, we all we believe that she's best in unscripted possibly more politically vulnerable scenarios is supposed to be event that was going into this day. and i think there were the news the top as we as you started with here, was okay, the plan is we're going

wall street journal, molly ball, former senior communications adviser to senator tim scott's presidential campaign. >> matt gorman. and cnn contributor and new york times reporter and podcast or lulu garcia navarro, welcome to all of you so a binder that would make mitt romney proud. i think he has been prepped for that. i know it's silly to poke front of it, but it is remarkable because he is a person who believes himself to be great off the cuff, right? can give these like long stem winding speeches and he made this crack this week about being asked to give intellectual speeches by his campaign. so what did you think of that attempt today? >> i mean, look, it's probably as good as you're going to get when it comes to kind of stick into pure policy from from trump i mean, that's just a fact that it was firstly like pure policy. >> well, the first eight to ten minutes we're pretty on the ball and then he asked two questions here and there. >> but that's probably as good as you're going to get if you're a republican, whether it's kevin mccarthy, vivek ramaswamy, swami, nikki haley recently who've been the o

yeah, we heard from scott earlier with the fire weather lab. alana matt king also joined us on this fuel moisture test. that's her right there. in 2017, she and her family survived the tubbs fire there in the north bay. she points to that as kind of a career defining moment. she wanted to better understand wildfires and fire, weather, meteorology and coming up today at 5:00, our own garvin thomas had a chance to talk more about her experience and why she chose san jose state meteorologist, fire weather lab to better understanding of how climate change is impacting wildfires around the state. i think in her hands and scott hands, the future of fire weather meteorology is in good hands, but again, we'll find out more about her story coming up today at 5:00. we're looking forward to that. rob. all right. thanks so much. that was a wonderful class, by the way. i enjoyed that very much. all right. robots on market street. look at that. they just started appearing in san francisco this afternoon. our marianne favro went to check out what exactly is going on the

meghan hays, former director of message planning for the biden administration and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. good morning. bright early, quick turnaround from the late night now that we're here, we've been waiting for this moment. she's finally sat down and answered questions. matt, you're republican strategist. you look at what happened here. does her answers, does it change the race at all? >> no. i mean, it reinforced what i thought going in is when she looks, you can give a very good speech when she can control the variables and she's prepared. but when she gets any spontaneous interactions, these spontaneous scenarios she has on her feet and it gets a little harder for i thought she'd have a better answer on the fracking and the flip-flops. and i thought she had a better answer. >> i. she would have a bad you would have a better we knew these questions were coming a month ago where there's a flip-flopping on fracking flip-flopping and immigration. >> i thought walz would have a better answer on the question around his military service blaming and grammar. so i was

spokesperson to vice president kamala harris and host of "the weekend" and matt gorman, former communications adviser for tim scottk it off for us because boy, this is going to be a different convention with president biden at the top of the ticket and now you have vice president harris and her running mate, tim walz. set the stakes. >> there are usually years of planning and it's all condensed into a re-worked, remade process, and what you will see is sort of a love letter and a thank you note to joe biden, and that will be a way to honor his service and talk about his accomplishments and words of joe biden that will decorate the scene and part of that will make the transformation. it will be his decision to step aside and that this will be a chance to honor him and it is different than other conventions because normally from the get go it's all about the nominee. not in this case. they want to give him a moment and then show that he is, in fact, the one responsible for choosing kamala harris as his rining mate and endorsing this to make it possible and it will be very emotional starting monday. >> and the optics

the stuff about if we lose, there'll be a blood bath joined now by matt gorman, republican strategist, former senior adviser to tim scott'sntial campaign, and rachel palermo, former deputy communications director, associate counsel to vice president harris. it's good to see you guys. >> matt trump and some of his allies, they've repeatedly dodged questions or refused to commit to accepting results when asked over and over again about this, it becomes kind of a frustrating refrain in speaking with some of his surrogates what impact do you think that has on how trump and or harris are operating this in this campaign. >> now that we see what we hear from biden yeah, i think the biggest thing that it is a tell for me is when biden-harris met switch happened, suddenly that democracy argument and it was one look, i think it had dubious affected electorally as an issue when biden raised it is kind of been jettisoned by harris. >> i think it tells you a lot of the efficacy of this. now look, joe biden can say he wants to say, i think he might be a little bit remiss that he's not getting headlines and he's not part of the exciteme

biden white house director of message planning, and a consultant for the dnc and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's 2024 presidential campaign welcome to all of you on this monday, a week before the democratic national convention, david frum, the kind of swirl around donald trump this weekend, that truth, social post. he ranted against yours as well. he clearly seems very rattled by times piece by the polling. what do you see here? i mean these two campaigns are now so starkly different what would i see here is a story we've been living with for a decade. >> and 2016, donald trump got a smaller share of the vote, than al gore john kerry than mitt romney. in fact, he finished of the 12 people who've run for president in the six elections from 2000 to 2020, he finished second from the bottom and in 2020, donald trump got the less a smaller share of the vote than john kerry and mitt romney and al gore. and finish this time. third from the bottom of those 12 people, there was not a day in his presidency when according to any reputable poll, donald trump had the support of even half the american people.

maya wiley, president is the leadership council on civil and human rights and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. welcome to all of you. wonderful to have you here. isaac, those that that soundbite from nikki haley, it really stuck out to me honestly, like did over this, like stop whining was the word that she used. what do you make of what she had to say? there i mean, how many times are we going to have republican officials go on the air and say, please, donald trump? >> we focus on policy, stop talking about all the things you're talking about they go through this over and over again every couple of weeks. it feels like and it seems like donald trump feels very clear of the kind of campaign he wants to run here. it's kind of campaign that worked for him in 2016 it is not at least according to the most recent polls, working as well for him at this moment against kamala harris, will see what happens here with it, but it is the way that republican officials seem to have resigned themselves to deal with donald trump. >> well, and david frum, you capture it this way in your l

meghan hays, former director of message playing for the biden white house, and matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign. alex, i should formally welcome you to the cnn team. thank you so much for being part of it. we're thrilled to have you on board. let let me start with you because again, i mean, we are entering this critical phase. it's the last week of august, you know, the labor day sprint starts a week from today, early voting, as we noted, really very close really very close here. and now you have trump raising questions about whether or not he's going to participate in the abc he news debate, right? he posted on truth, social criticizing jonathan karl, some one of the interviews he did on sunday said, why, why should i do a debate against kamala harris on that network? do you think this debate is actually going to happen? and what are you looking for as the sprint starts? >> i mean, it'd be irresponsible for me to predict, but donald trump will do with regards to, this? debate, a lot of this is him working the rafts and that's typical of his just the way he goes about it.

matt gorman, former senior adviser to tim scott's presidential campaign welcome to all of you this morning. marcus, i'm grateful that you are here at the table with us today because you i've spent so much time working on the january 6 committee. really understand so much about that day? can you help us understand? >> i was really struck by what nancy pelosi was saying. >> there, that she takes responsibility, that she feels like they should have done more to make sure the national guard was already at the capitol. can you help us understand what this means? >> yes. >> so at this point, it appears i don't have the exact time stance by believes is right when she leaves she's being escorted out to a secure location. and what i think you really just see, there's the raw emotion of that day of speaker pelosi feeling like we should not have allowed these rioters to stop our official proceeding from moving forward. look, there were tabletop exercises prior to january 6 of 2020, just like there's tabletop exercises going on right now preparing and for the 2024 election. and i feel like members wer

matt bradley, thank you. >>> an explosive new docu-series, scott peterson is speaking out for the first time from behind bars deserves a new trial. here's kaylee hartung. >>> two decades after going to prison for the murder of his pregnant wife, laci, scott peterson is breaking his silence. >> i wish i could say i was stronger, but all this stuff did take a toll on me. >> reporter: in "face to face," the 51-year-old speaks out from behind prison walls, arguing police ignored critical evidence that exonerates him and describes the moment he was convicted. >> i was totally expecting to go home that day. i was staggered by it. >> reporter: peterson was sentenced to death in 2004 for the murders of his wife laci and their son on connor after their bodies washed up in san francisco bay near where he said he had gone fishing months earlier. >> certainly times i've become a wreck. >> reporter: at times emotional, peterson pushing back on the portrayal of him as an uncaring and detached husband. >> i was so angry at media because their reports just weren't factual. i strived not to show the emotion in the courtroom

in now the power panel richard fowler, fox news contributor and matt gorman targeted victory executive vice president and former tim scott campaign advisor. richard, you first. when harris's aides say the fractured media landscape where trust in traditional news outlets have fallen and that's why we haven't seen her in an interview, abc, cbs, nbc, what does that mean? she won't sit for anybody then, just tiktok? >> no, listen. >> harris: that's what they said. >> as a member of the media i think it is important she does sit down for an interview and i do believe that she will likely do so. with that being said, in all fairness i think it is worth pointing out it is not like kamala harris was the candidate of four months ago or five months ago or six months ago or three weeks ago. she was the candidate -- hold on. hold on a second. she was the candidate of last week. there is a lot of things that have to happen between last week and this week and next week as we go toward the convention. i think she will sit down with the media but talk to party officials, get to all the battleground states and in contrast donald trump is

they're also hoping captain scott barrett will be fit to face the world champion springboks following a finger injury. and australia's cycling governing body has said it expects mattart in competitive events for two years after he switched nationality to great britain. the 25—year—old track cyclist won three medals for australia at the paris olympics, but announced his change of allegiance last week. however, under rules from the cycling union, cyclists who change nationality are not eligible to compete at the next edition of the world and continental championships which follow the date of their switch. head to the bbc sport website for more on all of those stories, including the latest on the cricket, and the football transfer rumours. that's it, thanks forjoining us, goodbye for now. some breaking news from the search operation going on off the coast of sicily. these are live pictures from porticello. wejust sicily. these are live pictures from porticello. we just had an update from the coastguard. they say their search operation has continued without stopping since the early hours of dawn. they say they are using naval, air and underwater resources, all being c

so matt richards, james guy, duncan scott and tom dean, they they backed up the relay.h just to see that from that team perspective, that gold medal. but my big, big one was a guy called ben proud. oh, ben proud, 50 metre freestyle silver medallist. he came fourth in rio, fifth in tokyo and then he won this time. but he'd won everything else. but this was the one and this is in my eyes, i'd be biased because it's my event. the 50 freestyle is the hardest event in the swim calendar because everyone wants to sprint freestyle. it's the shortest event, the small touches, but everybody wants to swim sprint freestyle because as a kid, when you ran, you wanted to be quick, right? yeah. and then along the way you kind of 9°, then along the way you kind of go, okay, i can't do that event. i've got a bit further or i can't do that again. event i'll jump. >> i'm using athletics, kind of like starting as a striker in football and ending up at the back as a left back. >> exactly. everyone wants to be the glory one. the fastest swimmer. so that is the hardest event. and it came away

matt gorman is a republican strategist, former senior communications adviser for tim scott for americar as well as aide to jeb bush and mitt romney. good to see all of you. okay, vaughn, in one of those very beautiful cities in a very beautiful state, but nobody's idea of a swing state. i think 2020 trump won there by 16. so what does his campaign think he can really accomplish by going there? >> reporter: right, they should be out here in montana hanging out with me. when you're looking at the senate map, look, this is one of the senate races that could change whether republicans have the majority come 2025 or not. if you look for republicans, all they got to do is pick up one or two senate seats. if donald trump and j.d. vance win, j.d. vance could be that tie breaking vote. if it is a 50/50 even split in the senate. when you look at west virginia, the expectation is the republican governor jim justice will pick up that seat left behind by joe manchin. that's where republicans see here tim sheehy, a veteran, somebody who they believe has a real shot to take down the likes of incumben

in cnn senior reporter, edward-isaac dovere, matt gorman, former communications director for the national republican congressional committee, and tim scott's presidential campaign. and meghan hays, former special assistant to president biden welcome all lovely to see you this has been sort of i was off last week on vacation well, full disclosure. i am probably not as sick of veepstakes bridge as all of you sitting here. but look, it really does seem like isaac the knives have really come out in the course of the last 72 hours as it seemed as though shapiro was really the strongest contender for getting this nadh. people who he in fetterman have had this kind of home state rivalry for quite some time. what is the latest thinking? your latest reporting about what's going on in the harris camp as she makes this, but it's the biggest decision she has had to make so far. yeah. look it and the shapiro attacks actually started at the end of last week donald trump and j.d. vance also attacking him. it is very clear that a lot of people feel like he is the leading candidate. and there are a lot of reasons why shapiro should be seen as a strong cand

the same quartet that won gold in tokyo three years ago — james guy, tom dean, matt richards and duncan scottain? it is really special, especially to be with the same i especially to be with the same quartet as last time and go back to back. swimming and athletics, it has not been done before. but i have raised almost every evening. it has been difficult to process emotionally and physically, i am pretty drained so i will take the next weeks to get a grip with what has happened. but really excited with what has happened. and buzzing with what has happened. and buzzing with the four by two. you with what has happened. and buzzing with the four by two.— with the four by two. you must all be exhausted, _ with the four by two. you must all be exhausted, but _ with the four by two. you must all be exhausted, but you _ with the four by two. you must all be exhausted, but you are - with the four by two. you must all be exhausted, but you are not i be exhausted, but you are not feeling your best yesterday but still managed to get the gold medal. how was it? you look at adam, as well~ _ how was it? yo

scott, is in the stade de france. thanks, sophie. i'm here at the stade de france, home of athletics at these 0lympics, where matt hudson—smith is onest medal of day 12 has ended in the last hour. with news of cycling success, our sports editor dan roanjoins us from the velodrome, dan. thank you, laura. welcome to a very noisy national velodrome on the outskirts of paris, the news in the last few minutes is that team gb have claimed silver in the event that they have dominated in the olympics for so long, certainly up 0lympics for so long, certainly up until the last games in tokyo. the men's team pursuit. we can show you some of the pictures. team gb, led by charlie big, they did so well. they were in contention with a very strong australian team throughout the race. the australians had broken the race. the australians had broken the world record in the heats. with our 600 metres to go, ethan hayter had a crucial slip, with the effort of it all. his legs gave way and he almost came off his bike. he managed to stay on, but it did cost britain a shot at gold. they had to settle for silver. australia, claiming the gold. the first time

matt damon and casey affleck play 2 robbers on the run after a bungled heist in the new flick. the instigators and just released friday border land starring cate blanchett and jamie lee curtis, scottas the entertainment report. >>we start here with a classic combination city of boston, matt damon and affleck not casey affleck in this case that his star in the new film called the instigators. >>your first i know what i'm away for a change to 60. the question if i'm given instructions not do enough to say i have a gun. >>thank you. notes. >>okay. so here's my review of the movie. i was looking forward to this one. a lot. matt damon and casey affleck back in a heist movie after ocean's 11, 12 13. but they're phoning it and as sam, and i heard him say this a lot about certain movies, the instigators is aggressively average i'm surprised it's streaming on apple tv. plus, because it feels like the kind of sporadically entertaining, but otherwise lazy on inspired by the numbers run of the mill and instantly forgettable heist gone wrong. action flick that quite frankly, usually find on netflix to that extent, the instigators is the kind of movie you can have on in the background. why are

matt gutman reports on convention security. rick klein breaks down our poll, and political analyst from former party chairs donna brazile and reince priebus, and chris christie, jonathan karl, and rachel scott join our powerhouse round table. it's your voice, your vote. >> martha: good morning, and welcome to "this week." we are live from the united center in chicago where in just a few days, vice president kamala harris will stand on the stage behind me as the democratic nominee for president. it is a far different convention than the one planned just one month ago when president joe biden was still on the ticket and many democrats were concerned about a potential donald trump landslide in november, but what a difference a candidate makes. our new poll with the "washington post" and ipsos out this morning shows some dramatic shifts in the race for the white house in the four weeks since president biden stepped aside. with harris now opening up a five-point lead nationally over trump among all adults. compare that to early july when trump led biden by a point. a spike in voter enthusiasm is helping to drive harris' momentum, but trump does lead on several major issues like the economy and i

scott, thank you. there will be heightened security at the dnc as tens of thousands of pro palestinian protesters are expected to demonstrate in chicago this week. there's a massive march planned for today. mattutman is in chicago with those details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the city of chicago will face its first major test in just a couple of hours when tens of thousands of protesters will be marching on just the other side of the united center. you can see the hardened check point here. those protesters will be meted weu officers on bikes like these. yesterday at the first major march of the dnc, we saw hundreds of those bicycle cops forming this rolling barricade along the protesters, basically penning them in. and the police chief who was there telling me this is a system that has worked for them because he doesn't expect violence. thousands of his officers have under gone e escalation civil unrest training. there will be many marches focused on gaza. federal official tells me the stakes could not be higher. 50,000 convention goers including a current and former president, most of the cabinet, celebrities, means chicago faces likely its highest threat profile event in abo