and i'm joined by msnbc senior political analyst, matthew dowd once again.m tim walz in wisconsin, what did he say in response to donald trump's comments there? >> reporter: that's right, we just heard from vice president harris's running mate, governor tim walz who's campaigning in battleground wisconsin, specifically in eau claire, wisconsin, with senators klobuchar he was speak to go students when he reacted, when he called for the military to be used against american citizen, claiming the enemy within is more dangerous than foreign adversaries like china and russia, governor walz saying the former president crossed the line. listen to his comments here. >> he crossed a line that i have to tell you, in my lifetime, i would have never imagined because we know our history. donald trump over the weekend was talking about using the u.s. army against people who disagree with him. just so you're clear about that, that's you. that's what he's talking about. this is not a mythical thing, he called it the enemy within. to donald trump, anybody who doesn't agree wi

matthew dowd is back with us. i'm interested in energy.nergy, frankly, was extremely high. it was long. more than five hours, but it seemed to build the closer you got to donald trump. but what if anything does that tell us. you also see that when kamala harris packs a big venue? >> chris, i think people -- you need to understand what's important in a big event is not actually what happens in a big event unless you make mistakes, like the trump world did in the madison square garden, the press you get, what are people talking about. everything that people were talking about in the aftermath of the madison square garden event was the sort of racist, just outlandish, crazy, fascist stuff that was enunciated and talked about not only by the comedian but others. that's a problem. and most everything people talk about right now after a harris rally is positive, let's go do this. the other aspect is are you recruiting volunteers to have the energy and move on and work on a campaign, especially in those seven swing states in the aftermath of this

matthew dowd is back with us. dasha, speaker johnson was pushed -- we only played a little bit of it -- repeatedly whether he agrees with trump's claim about the only way democrats will win the election is if they cheat. johnson wouldn't do it. he says, again, he's focused on the future. trump makes that same claim regularly, including yesterday, even this morning. what more can you tell us about this? >> yeah, chris, republicans who go on these shows and who get asked this question are really in a pickle, because they say they want to focus on the future, but it's former president trump that keeps making these claims about the 2020 election over and over and over again. and the reason is also tied to the future, because there's a direct line between his claims about 2020 and the election being stolen and his claims about 2024 and november and the election being stolen from him. he says this, makes these claims, i think, at every rally that i can recall, so far. and here's what he said in just the last 24 hours, l

joining me now is msnbc senior political analyst matthew dowd. as of now, more than 200,000 people have quit their subscriptions to "the washington post." liz cheney talked about doing so. i no longer subscribe. there are lots of people walking away from it. >> i don't either. >> there you go. and so what message does that send, do you think it sends a message that's useful? and what do you make of jeff bezos either capitulating in advance tos you the tim snyder phrase or making a business decision to play ball with the autocrat? >> you know, first, i want to say something about the 1939 sort of lead-in you had here. i mean, people forget the roots that a lot of the fascism had in america. i mean, the biggest industrialist in the world, henry ford, was part of this. charles lindbergh, that international hero, was part of this. there was a radio priest, father coghlan, i knew of him because he was based in detroit, who was buried where my mom and sister are buried. he had one of every four americans listen to him. one of every four americans liste

. >> with us now matthew dowd, an msnbc contributor who served as chief strategist to the bush campaignthis the ad and issue that could motivate soft republicans who don't like trump, but are hesitant to back harris? >> reporter: you never know at the end of a campaign that could cause a shift. in my opinion this could cause a 1 or 2-point shift in the campaign. when the information came out about the dui for bush, it didn't -- that to me is the likely scenario. it demotivates some republicans who don't like trump and say i'm not voting for him. >> we've seen more and more republicans endorse harris, including former michigan congressman fred upton who called trump unfit to serve. also mayor sean riley in a red county. liz cheney who's already campaigned with harris now set to go on the trail with democratic nominee alyssa slotkin. how impactful are these endorsements? >> reporter: there's two fold in why they matter. i wouldn't say on their own they'll shift votes. it sends a signal to independent voters who don't like either party, here's a candidate, the vice president, who's willing

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. >> with us now, nbc news correspondent dasha burns in butler, pennsylvania, matthew dowd, senior msnbc political analyst, and juanita tolliver, msnbc political analyst and author of the upcoming book "a more perfect party." dasha, you were at trump's event in butler in july when those shots rang out. i remember that it was just right before the beginning of "nbc nightly news" and everything happened in real time. what is the symbolism behind donald trump returning to butler? >> reporter: well, look, jose, the trump campaign wants to make this a significant moment for the former president, and for this community. so many people impacted here, so many of those rallygoers impacted. the list of speakers is long and it includes first responders, it includes the family of corey comperatore who was shot, this is something that is a bit of catharsis, a bit of a healing process for the people who were here. i interviewed several of the rallygoers right in the aftermath of that event and i went back and spoke with some of them including a mother and son, donna and joe, they're planning to come b

more is juanita tolliver, msnbc political analyst and author, and msnbc senior political analyst matthew dowd. matt, this is very important as juanita and i were discussing as she came on set, the fake electors plot, it started in the states the last time. it got out of the states and made its way all the way up to the united states congress, but what does this particular plot now, this plan that we see, what does this mean for election day and also the days after? >> well, think you're right to say in 2020 it was more happenstance and it sort of emerged a bit organically at times and didn't get organized until the very end. the difference this time is it's more funded and it's better organized and there's more people leading it in a state by state basis to do this, which is scary on one hand. so on one hand we have a more better funded, better organized nefarious actors in the course of this. the good news is, which we have to obviously protect dock and i people's right to vote, making sure their vote skounts and all of that, is we have a more robust system in place where laws have been pass

and matthew dowd. a former george weijia. bush strategist .his is very important as we were discussing. the collectors plot started in the states the last time. i got out of the states and made its way to the u.s. congress. what does this particular plot, the plan that we see, what does it mean for election day and the days after? >> you are right to say, in 2020 it was more happenstance and it emerged a bit organically at times. it did not get organized until the very end. the difference this time is that it is more funded and better organized and there are more people leading in a state- by-state basis to do this. it is scary. on one hand we have a more better funded nefarious actors in the course of this. the good news, which we have to protect democracy and people's right to vote, we have a more robust system in place where loss of been passed where secretaries of state and governors put in place things the hold this in place and we have better people running the systems at this time than we did the last time. we have better secretaries of

i went to florida. >> matthew dowd, he said it was peaceful.aceful, it was love and peace. he said i left, i left the morning and i was supposed to leave. i went to florida. that was on the 20th of january, not the 6th of january. i'm being honest, those of us with aging relatives understand, it is not clear to me whether he even knows the truth of what happened on january 6th. i'm being honest. there's a part of me that thinks he now lives in a hallucination of what he thinks happens on a day-to-day basis and he really doesn't know. >> you know, as i watched this and listened to this, part of me wants to treat this like a monty ython movie, and you want to laugh at it and say there's no way this is possibly be true. but the reality part of this is this feels like what you read in history are the last days of a dictatorship. this is what the darkness that happens, the dementia that happens, the depravity that happens in the final days of a dictatorship where they go further and further and become more and more isolated from the people that are

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matthew dowd is here senior political analyst, former george w.d founder of country over party. what did you think of the speech tonight? >> i thought it was pitch perfect. every note she hit was right. i think my only problem with it was that i wish it was a speech she had given earlier so she could have been more repetitive protest sunken for the voters. i thought it was perfect. the mix of the dire warning of what happens if donald trump selected and why that's a problem and with the opportunity we have for a different style presidency and a different vision for presidency. i thought it was pitch perfect and very well done. the visuals were excellent. my only question is, how much has any landing capacity over the next seven days. >> at least 60,000 people attended the speech. our last guess his daughter a college student went, hundreds of kids took buses. they waited two hours. it was massive. what does that tell you about the state of the race? >> it is called the big no. that's what you want at the end is momentum. a lot of folks have alread

and matthew dowd is here, msnbc senior political an let's, former george w., and founder of country over party. all right, mr. dowd, what did you think of the vice president's speech tonight? >> i thought it was pitch perfect. i mean, i thought every note she hit was right. i think my only problem with it was i wish this was a speech she had given earlier so she could have been more repetitive and it would have sunk in more with the voters. but i thought it was perfect. a mix of the dire warning of what happens if donald trump's elected and then why that's a problem and the opportunity we have for a different style presidency and a different vision for presidency with her pledge. so i thought it was pitch perfect. i thought it was very well done. the visuals were excellent. my only question is how much of it does it have any landing capacity over the next seven days. >> chuck, at least 60,000 people attended the speech. our last guest just -- his daughter a college student went. they were bused in. they waited two hours. it was massive. what does that tell yo

joining us now, nbc's ali vitali, msnbc host and associate editor, jonathan capehart, and matthew dowdlitical analyst, and former chief strategist for the bush/cheney 2004 campaign. talk to us as why the campaign sees this as right time to join liz cheney join the vice president on the trail. >> reporter: if she's elected in november, she would be a president not just for democrats but for all americans, and we have seen the harris campaign in recent months make end roads with independents, with republicans, but specifically with these never trump republicans, these republicans that have been disillusioned by former president trump, and the campaign's thinking now with just over a month until election day is what better time than now to really double down on these efforts, and so that's thing behind this event today that we're going to see vice president harris appear for the first time with former congresswoman liz cheney since her endorsement last month, and you'll remember a few days after her endorsement, we saw her father, former vice president dick cheney follow in her foot steps

i certainly agree with matthew dowd that this could have an impact on a small sliver of the electorateput up with this for another four years. >> amanda, what's amazing to me, is the disdain for the republican voter, the disgust for the trump base, that they will say in private, to reporters with tape recorders, trump is a despicable human being. he's a narcissist. that's what mitch mcconnell really thinks of him. america's hitler, cultural heroin, that's what jd vance really thinks of him. someone told him the 25th amendment was too slow of a process to rid the country of him, that's what kevin mccarthy thinks of him. and then go out like it's north korean state tv and say the opposite in front of cameras. what is that about those men? >> it's -- it's -- their conscious has been broken bipartisanship. i mean, this is what you see again and again in, you know, when you played the clip of liz cheney talking about dishonor and the clip of mcconnell, i was just thinking there were excerpts in this book coming out about his career how he cried in front of his staff after january 6th, becau