michael hardaway, _ conversation about that. indeed. michael hardaway, democratic.ocratic strategist, kind of you to join us on the show, thank you. the search continues for six people missing after a british luxury yacht sank in a freak storm off sicily on monday morning. as we reported, the british tech tycoon mike lynch, known by some as the british bill gates, is among the missing. it's being reported that morgan stanley international bank chairman and chair of hiscox insurers, jonathan bloomer, his wifejudy, and clifford chance lawyer chris morvillo, are among the missing. theo leggett has the details. jonathan bloomer was a member of the uk financial services aristocracy. he was the chief executive of the potential insurer for five years, for example, at the company for a total of a decade in various roles. he has been chair of a number of other countries. as you say, currently chair of his cocks, the insurer, and chair of morgan stanley international, a division of the us giant, so a real pillar of the uk financial services establishment. another person who w

michael hardaway is back with us.ember whether it was '84 or '88 but i did go to a rally when jesse jackson was running for president. he gave a speech that was i guess his standard stump speech. it was one of the greatest speeches i have ever heard in my life. the man was gifted. but what's his role in what we see today in the democratic party? >> well, i think in many ways he laid the foundation. i knew reverend jackson since i was 12 years old, my mother brought me to the movement in brooklyn, new york, and i became one of many mentes of him, he was always dynamic, always visionary. i think what he did laid the whole predicate that we are working on today. let's not forget not only did he make it believable that a black could run and win millions of votes. >> yeah. >> he changed the rules. in '88 they changed the rules for primaries at the behest of jesse jackson. put people on the rules committee and we went from a winner take all state primary model to a proportional representation, meaning that if you ran in a s

he's the former chief strategist for the bush/cheney 2004 campaign, and michael hardaway. o start with you, michael. the new poll here shows that this is a tight race, right? look at the results. you have about 46% supporting harris, about 42% supporting donald trump right now. this is a state that was decided by more than 81,000 votes in 2020. just 81,000, who do you think or i should say what do you think is going to determine who wins this election and could it be even tighter? >> you know, it's really interesting because she brings the good things that we got with joe biden in this administration in terms of 15 plus million jobs, 800,000 manufacturing jobs, and this litany of good things they've delivered. however, she also brings the energy that he could not, and so for that reason, i think she's in a very good position in pennsylvania in battleground states and around the country because she can get the young people to come out. she can get people who may have decided to stay home with joe biden was at the top of the ticket. she delivers those people, and that's why w

joining me now is my political -- michael hardaway, founder of hardaway -- and former staffer at theleader hakeem jeffries and democratic senator durbin. and we have also jennifer rubin. columnist for the washington post. jennifer, let's start with the situation. we could be seeing perhaps the first real foreign-policy crisis vice president harris has had to -- -- he wrote a lot of national security -- how can she meet this moment? >> i actually think that this may be containable as you pointed out, reverend, the is really forces struck lebanon because they had anticipated some 6000 missiles that were going to be launched towards israel. the united states provided surveillance and reconnaissance information to the israelis. i think the first step is to make sure that both parties understand that they should not get out of hand. that has been the message that the vice president and the president both communicated that when we have these interactions, if you will and i ran had one earlier this year, that they can't spin out of control, neither side wants to have a full-blown middle eas

michael hardaway's with us as well. michael in a pew research center poll of rfk supporters conducted before the democratic convention, 18% said they had a favorable opinion of trump while 81% had an favorable opinion on harris, 21% saw her favorably to 75% unfavorably. looking at these numbers, is there an opening for the harris campaign potentially to reach out to kennedy's supporters i think absolutely there are many key points that they should sell. but at the foundation is should be her populist economic agenda of attacking these sky-high cost of living. she should tell that story of how that helps those working families and people who have supported rfk junior she can win those voters, but she has to tell that story. and in proper way. and i think that she will we will see anna act blue. it's an online democratic fundraising platform, announced it raised 7.2 million during kamala harris is convention speech and $100 million during the entire few days invention. what does that tell you about the momentum she has rig

michael hardaway worked for house minority leader hakeem jeffries and dick durbin, and an msnbc political analyst. can we take what we saw from harrison in the cnn interview and give us a sense of how this could set the stage for that debate coming up in september? >> i think you can look at this as an indicator of what we might expect from that debate on september 10th. i had a former administration official who worked closely with vice president harris he told the me this is a woman who is masterful when it comes to staying on message. i think that's a lot of what you saw in this interview west didn't learn a lot of new information about what vice president harris would do were she to win the election but we did get to see how she handles a direct line of questioning, how she might handle a back and forthwith former president trump on the debate stage. she has spent the last several weeks preparing for the debate and will ramp up those efforts next week going into the weekend and the debate that will be in the following week, and we also understand that the campaign has really been focu