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john messina: the fire was moving at a football field per second. and the way it did that, of course, was by jumping ahead and starting these fires. they would immediately take hold and rapidly grow into a 100-acre, 200-acre spot fire. that was happening all through town. alexander maranghides: that resulted in the town starting to burn all at once. 30,000 people were trying to be evacuated while being overran by fire. police officer: go forward and turn around. turn around and go north. turn around and go north. [bleep] this is bad. larry laczko: a firefighter told tamra to follow him down pearson road. cindy christensen: tamra was behind them. but the traffic stopped. tamra fisher: no! [honking horn] larry laczko: everything around her was burning. tamra fisher: look at that. cars on the side burning. and nobody was moving. tamra fisher: go! it's so hot. todd abel: these fires, they can be well over 2,000 degrees. they melt metal. they melt cars. and you can hear her dogs panting in the back. [dogs whimpering] tamra fisher: ugh! and her despair. t

they say the underwater investigations are being conducted by divers from naples and messina and theyperated vehicle which they say has high performance characteristics. they say the robots are capable of operating up to a depth of 300 metres. the wreck itself is lined 50 metres down so it is well capable of operating at that depth. it can operate on its own for between six and seven hours. the robot is equipped with advanced technology that allows for the investigation of the sea bed. interestingly they also say that recording detailed videos and images that aim to provide useful and what they describe as timely elements to reconstruct the dynamics of the accident for the benefit of the public prosecutor's office. that detail coming from the coastguard, they say that remote controlled vehicle that is the robot that is down at that depth, also recording videos as part of the investigation that of course has been launched by prosecutors, and also we have heard that british investigators are also there, a team of four british inspectors from the marine accident investigation branch has

there was a report earlier that she had made her decision, jim messina and we got this text from the harris campaign later saying that she has not decided yet that they are still making this call. i mean, i think part of this also is her trying to really juice get as much juice and coverage out of this as possible, which is what we saw four years ago when she was the pick caitlin, you're exactly right. >> and there's so much to go into this. we've never had a vp selection this fast. i mean, two weeks ago, she was still the vice president, not the nominee. they've had to vet these people. they're trying to figure this out very quickly. glee and so i believe them when they say she's still trying to think about this, i wouldn't get as excited about pennsylvania in the shapiro camp. i think pennsylvania having there is about pennsylvania being the ultimate swing state. you got to win pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin and so it makes sense no matter who the candidate is. to start there. that said, i agree with the mayor a very popular governor of a big swing state makes a lot of sense

it's not going to work the way it did in 2016. >> jim messina, you've been invoked.at harris is so unbothered by trump that she doesn't even mention the one bit of news he made and the debates, is to me, the greatest insult of all that the act is old and tired, not driving the conversation anymore. definitely not the campaign or the candidate with the momentum. the vice president does describe herself, she did in philadelphia tuesday night as the underdog. tell me what it means to you to do what anthony just said to run her own race. >> yeah. i think it's absolutely crucial as anthony said. the most important thing when you have momentum is to just continue what you're doing. she's staying high to quote michelle obama while he goes low. right now that's exactly the right thing to do. don't take the bait because part of trump's genius is he takes us to message by saying all of the crazy things and we as democrats chaes all of them because they are whack job things to say and meanwhile, we get off message and she and her campaign are being incredibly disciplined and it

also joining us, former campaign manager for barack obama's 2012 reelection campaign, jim messina iseline bean of pennsylvania is here. i will let you go first. what do you do if you are married to someone who over the natural course his wife will be a post-menopausal woman and you are married to someone who thinks your only purpose is to take care of future grandchildren? it is a world view that puts him so much outside the mainstream of even republican -- sort of, i guess, former republican thinking. this is a very, very extreme and radical and bizarre guy. >> so as an indian american post-menopausal woman myself, i've been waiting for this moment, nicole. man, what an embarrassment. this guy is a total embarrassment to his family, to his -- their community, my community, the indian-american community. his mother-in-law is an accomplished academic and professional. she took a year off of her life to help raise their baby and this is the kind of racist, misogynistic nonsense she has to hear. look, i can't speak for her and her family and what they knew and didn't know about j.d. van

yamiche alcindor and vaughn hillyard are covering the campaigns, and also with us, jim messina, and formerior republican congressional adviser, rina shah. trump back on the trail, facing heat from republicans for his light campaign schedule. what do we know? >> right. he added a campaign event in montana last friday night. that is where today it is notable he is going to asheboro, north carolina, for a campaign rally. and on saturday, wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. you look at those seven states. the trump campaign had been talking about new hampshire being in play, virginia being in play, and this is the difficult part for a campaign less than three months out. suddenly you're working with upwards of nine potentially battleground states, and you have to pick not only where you spend your time but also spend your resources and when you compare it to the democratic side with their ticket appearing with down ballot candidates, there are senate candidates, within north carolina, there's gubernatorial candidate who right now has lower polling numbers with donald trump. there's a lot taking place

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jim messina, thank you so much for joining us.ent biden answered reporters' questions outside the white house, including about vice president harris's vice presidential pick. let's listen. >> have you spoken to vice president harris about her running -- >> yes. >> do you know who it is? >> you have been a vice president before, what two qualities -- [ inaudible question ] >> mark fog el, the pennsylvania teacher -- >> we're not giving up on that. >> what more can you do? >> what did you tell his mother? >> that was the president just moments ago as he left the white house for delaware taking some questions. i know it was difficult to hear because of the background noise of marine 1, but he was asked, one, about marc fogel who is an american still held in russia. he said he's not giving up on that. he was also asked about whether he's talked to vice president kamala harris about her vp pick. he confirmed he has, but said it's her choice. >>> up next on "ana cabrera reports," new jobs numbers, what they say about the health of the u

joining us now is former obama campaign manager and ceo of the messina group. jim messina, and cnn political commentator and republican strategist shermichael singleton. jim, let me go to you first. what was your takeaway from that footage that we saw from the former house speaker. it's just amazing, amazing footage jim, it really is in my reaction was kind of yours. i can't believe four years later we're still talking about this and we're still learning new facts and you have a gop led investigation trying to downplay the president's role in what happened on january 6 and we just got to put politics aside here, learn the lessons are lessons that everyone can learn on how to keep the capital safe and stop playing politics with january 6 yes. >> and shermichael, i do want to shift gears a little bit in place. some footage from an interview trump did with dr. phil last night. i mean, it has some relationship to where we're just talking about when it comes january 6. let's talk about this on the other side, let's play it i guarantee if jesus came down and was the

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joining me now , former campaign manager for bernie sanders 2020 presidential campaign and jim messinarmer campaign manager for barack obama's 2012 reelection campaign. thank you both experts for being here tonight. jim, let me get your thoughts about the fact that grassroots groups, republicans for harris and evangelicals for harris are popping up and what that signals to you? >> it signals, alex, enthusiasm. it signals grassroots support. when you look at the numbers i cared about as a campaign manager, i cared about enthusiasm. democratic enthusiasm about voting is gone from 46% in april two 87% yesterday. and community it manifested all over the place. my favorite ones are the ones you just showed, cat ladies for harris. that is historical and exactly the kind of thing you need. you need new people who have not been involved in politics who are organizing themselves and it is a great design. >> i don't need to wax poetic about it but it might be a good time for democracy that you have bridge building. this is the assessment of republicans for harris. "it builds on bridge building,

. >> you were right, messina was wrong, and we all know it. >> neil: it's a done deal and doesn't matter it? joe biden left the convention after making a speech that was pushed away past prime time on monday night. don peeples is with us, the former obama and razor, friend of barack obama, peeples ceo. close to barack obama, maybe you have no problem with this yourself, that he was the guy who helped orchestrate, along with nancy pelosi, joe biden quietly leaving this race. do you agree with that? >> well, i think it was definitely nancy pelosi. at some point barack obama told him that he did not have a pathway to victory. i think other than the party were also encouraging biden to get out. what they saw is a certain defeat and wanted to make an adjustment to go to their other option. and that was harris, who initially was, as you may recall, the least attractive of the two candidates initially between biden and harris. >> neil: are you surprised party has rallied around her and this ticket to the extent it has? there was a great deal of that, back and forth about the way this went down,

and kimberly atkins store and former campaign manager for president obama's 2012 re-election, jim messinar this. gabe, what's going on? i read just a moment ago the debate's back on. is it? >> reporter: technically was never off. former president trump just made it seem like it could be off. the debate over the debate as you put it escalated last night when he posted on social media and what he called a biased interview and suggested he might skip it. there is a separate issue here though which is that the harris campaign wants hot mikes the entire debate. in other words, they don't want them to be muted when the other candidate is speaking and that's the opposite of what president biden's wanted during the first debate in atlanta. you might remember they wanted the mikes shut off to sort of reign in donald trump and how the argument is reversed it seems. the harris campaign releasing this statement overnight. the vice president is ready to deal with trump's constant lying and interruptions. they say it's the harris campaign trying to change the rules by asking for opening statements, a s

. >> let's bring in jim messina who managed barack obama's 2020 election campaign.s msnbc political analyst and here in studio, julie rabeinsky, co-founder of the non-profit organization lift our voices. david, we know donald trump hates to lose maybe even more than most people, so does he think he's not hurting his cause, that he knows best? what's happening here? >> chris, the vanities of donald trump have always been something that raises eyebrows and he can certainly repulse. i genuinely think the last three weeks have been one of the worst chapter of a presidential campaign in modern political history. it's that bad and it's because of the candidate. they could have done more to with vice president harris and the ads about to drop making her soft on crime, hitting her on immigration or as a prosecutor and in some ways they missed that opportunity and the candidate himself seems incapable of prosecuting any case. right now vice president harris has won the right direction-wrong direction conversation with voters and donald trump needs to make this race about a h

jim messina.ou for your time tonight. >>> still ahead this evening, newly released polling shows the swing states of pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan dipping towards vice president harris. i will speak to congresswoman elissa slotkin about democrats path forward and one of the main battleground states. what is happening there. that conversation is next. with 4 powerful pain-fighting ingredients that start working on contact to target tough pain at the source. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. new advil targeted relief. hi, i'm michael, i've lost 62 pounds on golo and i have kept it off. for up to 8 hours of powerful relief. most of the weight that i gained was strictly in my belly which is a sign of insulin resistance. but since golo, that weight has completely gone away, as you can tell. thanks to golo and release, i've got my life and my health back. >> at university of maryland global campus, getting a bachelor's degree doesn't have to mean starting from scratch. here you can earn up t

and jim messina who managed barack obama's 2012 re-election campaign and matt dowd, chief strategist on the bush cheney campaign in 2004, a senior msnbc political analyst. great to have all of you here. so, matt, what is your reaction to this choice and how do you think the addition of governor walz changes this democratic ticket in the race going forward? >> well, first, i know it was probably a difficult choice for the vice president because of the abundance of riches of candidates that were available to her. so, any -- i think any of the options that she had would have been good. i think this is particularly very smart because i think the battleground for this entire election is the midwest and i put pennsylvania in the midwest because it is grouped around those states in this and he has demonstrated a unique ability to relate in a values way, in an issues way and just a personality way to people in the midwest, whether it is wisconsin, minnesota, michigan, pennsylvania, whatever state it happens to be, i think it is a particularly really good pick and i think his election history

this is an important effort that's being headed up by jim messina.2012 reelection campaign manager. norm eisen, who of course, a long time democratic attorney, was part of the impeachment team against donald trump in 2019, an ally of stacey abrams who ran for governor in georgia twice. and t.j., coming over. >> the democrats have talked about thousands of lawyers and volunteers, they're ready to go, and they are preparing for potential legal challenges on election day and after. look, in 2020 in the aftermath, all of these suits that got filed, there was unanimity from the courts. joe biden won. but all of those delays, the angst, all the confusion, even before january 6th exacted a very violent and heavy toll, is there anything you're hearing to suggest there's something that could prevent that from happening again? >> no, aside from these efforts that you're talking about, when you do have the democratic party mobilizing attorneys to ensure to the best extent possible that they can, that everyone has ability to vote and cast their vote. i take issu

. >> let me bring in jim messina. jim are the economy is good substantive issue for trump right now in a recent poll, 53% of americans say trump would do a better job with the economy compared to just 44% for kamala harris saw how does the harris campaign counter this? and did trump help himself? with his remarks today well, i don't think trump helped himself very much with his remarks because he can't stay focused on one message he was bouncing all over the place. >> every moment he's spending attacking president biden is a lost moment because ehrens, right, this has to be about kamala harris and he just can't get there. the other singh is like he's been capped at 46 or 47 and all of these polls he's not able to move. and the reason he's not able to move is that he hasn't offered the country anything new. it just more of the same attacks. and we've kind of seen that for a decade and voters sort of understand that they want to know what he's going to do on friday vice president harris is in the same state of north car

numbers look like for her to be able to pull off a victory in what has been fool's gold david axelrod messina, plov they actually were able to win north carolina and florida part a democrats have somewhat of a fool's gold mentality. is that something we can do? >> well, as you know, a bunch of obama veterans, just went in to the harris campaign. so we'll see how they look at the data going forward. and i would say this bakari, any conversation, you know, this everybody in this conversation noses any conversations today? they are theoretical. let's watch these conversations after the vp pick, after the democratic convention after people process the olympics and we come out of labor day, but you want to know you can't waste especially because she started to lay. you can't waste any day between now and then. so here's store that north carolina on 2020 biden was pretty competitive, 50 to 49, right? it's a very competitive state, but you need that extra magic, that turnout to do it. if you go all the way back to 2008 obama didn't crack 58, just barely beat john mccain. look how close that is, but

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pulitzer prize author, presidential historian doris kearns goodwin, and ceo of the mussina group, jim messinareelection campaign. jim, i will start with you. we haven't talked in a few weeks. there was early in the summer, after the debate with joe biden and donald trump, true doom and gloom among democrats about where this was headed. hopes that they could hang onto the senate and the house and sport donald trump as he went to another term. that has been turned on its head. how are you looking at this race with the stipulation that it is still the middle of august and there's a lot of road ahead? >> you are exactly right. there's a long road ahead. the two numbers i'm looking at the first is enthusiasm. that's the number you can track the best. put aside the daily polls. who has enthusiastic supporters? right now, it is the harris campaign. democrats were down 25 points in enthusiasm before joe biden got out. they now have a 14 point lead in enthusiasm. why is this important? you need people to do two things. you need them to vote and you need them to get their friends and supporters to also

joining our conversation is barack obama's 2012 came jim messina, and kim atkins-store, and president5:24? good afternoon to all of you. jim, this is an interesting point. right out the gate, kamala harris talked about hope, looking forward, and not looking back, and frankly in these dour times, while democracy is on the line, it's a good message. there is something to be said for donald trump to wallow in his own darkness by himself. >> absolutely, ali. i think part of what we need to do here is just remind people who donald trump is. part of him not going on social media, not doing a bunch of bur views that normal voters see, they forgot about some of these crazy comments. part of the theory of the harris campaign is about excitement, about hope, and also reminding people how crazy donald trump is, and do you really wasn't four more years of this? donald trump is just playing right into that narrative. >> yeah. the velocity of this nonsense, kim, is remarkable, right? this was yesterday, tomorrow night another rally, we'll have a lot of stuff to talk about saturday, saturday night t

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good, there's an outside group that was just announced, outside pac, that is going to be run by jim messinahat do you think the public should be focusing on in terms of what type of replay could happen if trump has his way? >> well t, you know, what i was trying to get at at the convention, jen, was that we were basically one mike pence away from complete constitutional crisis. had he buckled under to donald trump's orders to step outside of his constitutional role and just decree donald trump the winner s then we would have had a very serious problem at that point. trump was prepared to ride in on the shoulders of the mob as he kept pressing to do, to declare himself, i don't know, president or, you know, ruler for life or what have you, and he was prepared to invoke the insurrection act and to declare martial law, essentially, on the country. jd vance has said he would do what mike pence refused to do. he has said repeatedly that he also is an election denier and rejects the definitive rulings of 80 federal and state court judges in the country, and he would have essentially stepped outsi

jen psaki is here, john heilemann, doris kearns goodwin and jim messina, who served as white house deputyainly with joe biden and trump true doom and gloom among democrats about where this was headed, hopes perhaps that they could hang onto the senate and the house and thwart donald trump as he went into another term. it's still the middle of august, and there's a long road ahead. >> the two numbers i'm looking at, the first is enthusiasm. that's a number you can track the best. who has enthuiastic supporters? right now it's the harris campaign. they were down 20 points before president biden got out. they now have a 14-point lead. you need to do two things. you need to vote and get your friends and supporters to vote. in these orphan states that aren't part of the presidential landscape but will control the house and senate, democrats have exploded in the senate races. democrats are up four points since harris got into the race in the senate races and the house races, showing big numbers in the states of new york and california, which is where the biggest number of these house swing seat