rfk jr. in phoenix amid reports that the independent candidate could suspend his campaign today and endorsed for president trump, who is set to speak in battleground nevada next hour. >> sandra: right now you are looking live at pictures of both of those events. john, split screen right now. phoenix on the left, las vegas on the right. they are going to take it each of those places as soon as they begin speaking. >> john: welcome back to "america reports." i'm john roberts in washington and we have got a jam-packed 59 minutes and three seconds ahead of us. >> sandra: i was thinking as i was laying out the split screen, john, we've almost had a split screen every day this week. we had live events with all the candidates, almost, and now rfk jr. to top off the week. i'm sandra smith in chicago. thanks for being with us. the dnc blasting out a memo calling rfk jr. nothing more than a "maga recruited and funded chaos agent." >> john: they like saying nasty things about him. now the big question b

rfk is a very controversial person. it is possible that he can wholesome trump for trump, it was support from trump. and then of course there's basically someone handed donald trump and unpinned hand grenade no one, no was what robert kennedy is going to do. no one knows what else is going to come out about him. i think it's likely something else will and then all of a sudden, trump is accountable form. until this point, trump could say he's not my guy. i have nothing do with him. >> now as team. >> okay. so here's the thing on this in five to 6% in the swing states dave wasserman from the cook political report senior editors. there. he was talking to the new york post and he told them this was interesting when i said made point that these polls are all post harris being in the race, right? he said most of kennedy's left-leaning support had already disbursed to harris so this could represent a meaningful benefit to trump. he's talking about the rfk endorsement what do you think about that i mean, he's saying in these fi

and rfk jr. could really spoil it because trump likes to go on tangent yeah. >> you know, from the harris campaign perspective is doug said it's sort of interesting. how would you fit him into an administration i don't see how you really would in that perspective. so perhaps not surprising that he went with the better deal for himself, which would be trump while and i've been reaching out to campaign sources to learn more about this approach that says that he did to the campaign see if he had a position in a future administration, should the vice president, when i will note though, it's worth remembering that when it was president biden as the democratic candidate, he actually coalesced the kennedy family together for a formal endorsement. and earlier this year, because even at that point, the campaign was well aware that this third party run could influence the outcome of the election. and so they, knowing this legacy name, brought together this family to formally endorsed president joe biden at

boris with rfk jr. expected to drop out of the race the big question now is, how will his supporters vote? >> we're joined now by cnn's tom foreman. tom first, what does the polling say about his support generally, what the polling says is that in a race, this close, it could make he could difference. let's say that this poll of polls of ours, most recent one where there's no clear leader. let's say that that was the exact case, two points behind. look at the cbs yougov poll with everybody in there. there it is 2% of donald trump could scoop that up. he would be tied in this poll. look at this new york times sienna poll, where it had a three-way race. look at this here. they're showing donald trump head if he grabbed 6% here, even more so and as kristen mentioned a little while ago, swing states like arizona look at that. that's where the support for jfk is. >> that's a really tempting goal out there for the trump campaign to try to grab a hold on, but there are counterfactuals to this. >> now you're go

rfk for sale. the conspiracy theorists with the famous last name who also happen to be running for president of the united states is now no longer running for president tonight, he is endorsing donald trump appearing on the stage with the republican nominee and nakedly angling for a cushy cabinet gig in the future, trump in a future trump administration they use the principle causes that persuaded me to leave the democratic, democratic party and run as an independent now, to throw him, my support yeah, president trump our panel is here in new york with us and rfk junior, now confirming what i think a lot of people suspected, which is that he supports trump kind of his aligned with trump. how much do you think this actually helps him? >> i think this helps trump hugely. i mean, tony fabrizio, who's trump's internal pollster, said, and every battleground state that trump has an edge with rfk voters when it comes to arizona or when it comes to georgia? states that there was only ten or ten or 20,000 v

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most of rfk, jr.'s, supporters are independent swing voters.ednesday, he was polling just under 5% nationally. most of his support is made up of independent voters who either didn't want to vote for donald trump or joe biden. in fact his support almost halved when joe biden quit the race in july. you can see on this graph that huge fall, that big drop in his support as soon as voters were given an option that either wasn't donald trump or joe biden. polls suggested a large portion of those voters switched their support instead to kamala harris. but what about those voters w remaining loyal to rfk even after joe biden quit the race? have a look at this, this is in august poll from reuters, kamala harris leading donald trump by five points nationally, just 4% for rfk, jr., 15% undecided or voting for another candidate. so if those same voters are forced to choose between ms. harris and mr. trump, this is how a good look. her leadership is to just 2% over donald trump - lead shrinks to just 2% over donald trump. those few present could make a huge

back to you. >> neil: thank you very much. >> the response to rfk junior throw throwing support by rfke need a lead their will fight for you and bring us together, not tear us apart. vice president harris wants to earn your support even if we do in the agree on every issue. kamala harris knows there is more than that unites us than divides up. protecting freedom and opportunity for all. without ever mention, rfk junior by name, that campaign goes out pretty much as it was in the beginning with rfk junior, ignoring him completely. we will have more of there. ( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. this summer, there's no better time to experience the latest mercedes-benz has to offer. make your dreams come true. but the choice won't be easy with exceptional offers on the e-class sedan, c-class sedan, cle cabriolet and cle coupe. hurry, these dream offers won't last forever. come in now through september 3rd. hi, my name is damian clark. and if you have both medicare and medicaid, i have some really encouraging news that you'll

i don't know what's worse, that rfk jr.ear cub in central park, or that he said he only did it because he didn't have time to eat it. let me just back up here. this happened back in 2014, and i remember when they found that dead bear. because you find dead bodies in central park all the time, but they're usually tourists, so nobody cares. [laughter] but a bear? now that's memorable. >> a decade ago, a central park mystery baffled new yorkers, captured headlines across the country. >> police now want to know how the bear died and how it got into the park. >> now we know. robert f. kennedy jr., the independent presidential candidate, says he brought the dead bear to central park. in the videotaped confession, kennedy recounts the strange tale to controversial comedian roseanne barr. >> michael: i'm sorry, he's admitting this to roseanne barr in a kitchen over a plate of flinstone's ribs? i mean, what is happening? does he think it will sound more normal if he's telling it to a crazy person? but you know what, let's not judge

vance now he said and put j and put rfk. i'm sorry, rfk junior on the ticket. can i just ask you elicit knowing trump as you do? >> and knowing that among some of his supporters, he certainly perceived j.d. >> vance to actually be a success, although not among the broader public, maybe at this point do you think he would ever dumped j.d. vance listen, i think that if kamala harris gets the post-convention bump, we think if she successful on the debate and she's ahead outside of the margin of error and enough swing-states, i wouldn't rule anything out. >> donald trump is, is desperate to win this in some ways, his freedom is on the line in light of this new court the filing related to january 6, i wouldn't rule it out less than he loves rfk junior because he's a kennedy. he loves the cache of kennedy name. i think he would love the idea of a trump kennedy ticket. but the reality of this to eric's point error comes from the conservative wing of the gop. i come from the centrist wing of the republican party and everyday donald trump is giving think people like me

trump will be in michigan as he enjoys a campaign boost from rfk junior's endorsement. kennedy posting this on x. in an attempt to mend ties between political parties and explains the term of maga really means. recalls a nation brimming with vitality with a can-do spirit, hope and belief in itself pretty also posted this photo of himself and trump shaking hands. the caption make america healthy again. maria spoke with lara trump and ron johnson on "sunday morning futures". they gave their takes on the endorsement and what it could mean for a second trump cabinet. watches. >> i think it is huge. i think the democrats are very upset about that, that is great i think oc in the swing states where he's taken himself off the ballot. the percentage pump that it will give donald trump is going to be huge and i think you'll see that in the next round of polling. >> the only thing important doctrine is uncle administration, chronic illness is at 6% now it's at 60%. chronic illness drives our massive healthcare industry the trillions of dollars that we spend on it. it's been large

rfk jr. suspended his campaign and endorsed former president donald trump. how does that impact the race in 2024? where will his votes go? rachel: plus, coordination versus c competition. gavin newsom laughs off the process of kamala harris sailing to the presidential nominee without a single vote. >> wins in a very open process. >> it was a strange process. it was bottom up. you know that . >> yes, that's what i've been told. rachel: wow, he's a little bitter about this. pete: but today is national waffle day. we'll celebrate with wafels and dinges. we'll phygoyuri colins out what that is. waffles and din generation winter storm din generation winter storm is not like a dinkle berry. it's a topping. it's a topping for waffles. dinges, you've never heard anyone say you're a dinges? rachel: no. will: never called anybody on his phone. pete: no, i've never called anybody a dinges. rachel: have you heard of a dinges? pete: a donkey. will: a donkey? pete: i say that to my kids all the time, you'r

not the same rfk that you said this about just in may, right rfk junior is a democrat plant, a radical left liberal, a big time tax, or he wants to tax you and open border advocate. >> i'd even take biden over junior because our country would last about a year or two longer than it would wood junior, he is not a republican, so don't think you're going to vote for him and feel good. he's a radical left democrat okay. >> so what happened since may, which is when that was to change all of this is i rfk junior underwent any sort of transformation since then to the contrary, his polling has actually plummeted down to just about 5%. and if anything is campaign it got a little stranger. shall we say? once he admitted to dumping a dead bear in central park several years ago, i can't make this thing up but trump now sees something in them until we brought them out tonight at his rally in glendale, arizona rfk's walkout song my hero, by the foo fighters. and i can, i just for a second, read those lyrics. you just don't have them there goes my hero. he's ordinary so suddenly according to trump, r

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rfk shows up. that is what we're waiting to see the trump campaign has been alluding into a special guest, but we'll wait and see well, we know it's not beyonce. all right. >> kristen holmes live for us there in arizona where there's lot that's rfk junior news. thank you so much. we'll be following along with you. let's talk more about this with aaron perini. she was pressed communications director for the trump 2020 campaign. she's now a republican strategist for axiom strategies. and we're also joined by former press secretary for then vice president joe biden, kendra barkov okay. we saw aaron the moment of trump calling in to fox, but we wait, there's more because i mean, the way it works is the show's wrapping up. so they have they have to kind of send him off. but then another show starts. greg gutfeld show trump calls him not to the control room to do really like a proper phone interview, but to gutfeld cell phone. and gutfeld puts him on speaker. here's the moment they threw joe biden out of

if rfk junior who and focused in this campaign. if rfk junior who is— and focused in this campaign.ampaign. if rfk junior who is due to _ and focused in this campaign. if rfk junior who is due to speak _ and focused in this campaign. if rfk junior who is due to speak at - and focused in this campaign. if rfk junior who is due to speak at an - junior who is due to speak at an eventin junior who is due to speak at an event in the next few minutes, we are showing everyone the images we are showing everyone the images we are getting from that as people gather. there has been speculation that he might pull out and possibly declare for donald trump. would that help the trump campaign, is it possible to say that those voters will go with him?— possible to say that those voters will go with him? when this race was biden versus — will go with him? when this race was biden versus trump _ will go with him? when this race was biden versus trump i _ will go with him? when this race was biden versus trump i think _ will go with him? when this race was biden versus trump i think kennedyl biden ver

rfk, jr.anna hand because they were thinking about endorsing donald trump if were worried if they stay in the race they would so i lidfy a kamala walz presidency. if you heard the rfk endorsement would help him out of the race, virginia is on the board. trump is currently tied in number of places, polls in virginia. rfk takes 7% in virginia. that could put trump over the top there same goes for arizona. i think he has a 5% poll in that state. so donald trump could really use a significant percentage of those voters if they're willing to shift their votes over to trump if rfk, jr. were to endorse him on friday. larry: alex, how do you read it? rfk's running-mate whose name i've forgot en, she was very clear in the "new york post" yesterday and elsewhere i think, she doesn't want kamala harris to be president. she doesn't want harris and walz. she vastly prefers trump. she made that very clear. now you know a little bit about robert kennedy. i know robert kennedy. we had dinner not so long ago,

the second thing rfk is on about his medical freedom. want him to be charged from of the fcc for the cdc but put him in charge of one of them. >> and let's get them so stay on the media the dnc trying to tell people rfk junior's weird and media tech got even weirder. >> that is a very low bar. >> this showboating crazy. there's one movie for me summed up the whole thing, dumb and dumber. neither one of these men are serious political actors in this phase that will move the leader. this is cuckoo for cocoa puffs. try to get logic, good luck with that because you can't understand what he says and if you can, you can't understand what the house, let's gibberish and that is exactly what that is. >> cnn killed on social media cutting away from rfk junior and talking about media censorship and dnc ratings the process so they proved his points. >> cut him off and let him speak in wouldn't allow people and to mock him, for the party of joy? they are downright mean to people. heaven forbid you disagree with somebody they are all about inclusion u

rfk endorsing donald trump today.ckabee on that as well as paul mauro to discuss several secret service agents being suspended based on what happened in pennsylvania. tammy: wonder what that's really about. and ben ferguson, of course, host of the ben ferguson show and kevin brady, the former congressman from texas. we've got you covered. we're all good to go here. not that a there's anything to talk about. ♪to ♪ so you can get back to your monster to-do list. -really? -get a quote at progresivecommercial.com. when we started feeding bogie the farmer's dog, he lost so much weight. pre-portioned packs makes it really easy to keep him lean and healthy. in the morning, he flies up the stairs and hops up on my bed. in the past, he would not have been able to do any of those things. (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪) i was only 23 when i was first diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer. 40 years later, i've had almost 20 mohs surgeries. i had just accepted that the pain and the scars were going to be part of my life. but when i was diagnose

i want to play this from rfk junior. the -- he dropped out of the race or suspended his race and he went off the media and blamed them in collusion essentially with the white house for making it very hard to for anyone else to enter the race. >> during the 16 months since i declare, abc, nbc, cbs, nsnbcs and krcnn gave only two live interview. they ran headpieces with in, a rats and often vile per jor tifs and defamatory smears to keep me off the debate stage. >> martha: very strong wordses for the media and pointed to the reporters in the room said look in the mirror and ask yourself if you feel ok want the cooperation between the network and the whites house, what do you say? >> i in i it is sad to see i think it is sad seeing bobby scapegoating the interview. fox has -- given him airtime. he has been a fringe candidate with no applause, way or prospect of becoming president and whether it is -- he has been a colorful candidate, talking about vaccines, or brain worm or covering up the dead bear that he put in his car s

there are a lot of similarities between donald trump andlo rfk junior.family does something you don't like, you can pointat out statements against them. wnow?ea uses or does something, speaking on behalf of of the waters, i'm sure my mother said, mice on, jesse watters, made a joke about kamala harris being manhandledsn by generals in a situation, and desecrated the memory of our grandfather and his conduct is disgusting, echo to see my mom doing that and i wish i had aoud political dynasty so i can take shots as well. [ laughter ] >> judge jeanine: i appreciated that. jesse is hat kind talking about,e you mentioned unity. isn't that what donald trump wha seems to be on, hope and unity? you have rfk junior k. donald trump, tulsi gabbard, democratsn joining? before i think the democratshe don't understand this kind of unity because if you are going to have a different people, the have to represent a group. the have to say, like tulsi gabbard should come up and say as a female veteran of samoan heritage, she will not say that it. she just as and when it am

and tonight that is just what rfk junior did. suspending his campaign, throwing his support behind former president don -- donald trump and taking aim at a core theme of this week's democratic convention. >> don't you want a president who is going to protect america's freedoms? >> but first, know that the vice president is officially her party's presidential nominee, focus is on seven key battleground states, including arizona where former president trump today, took his message directly to sunbelt voters. >> gone forever is the old democratic party of fdr, jfk and that's right, even bill clinton. kamala harris his democrat party is the party of free health care for illegal aliens, communist style price controls, defunding the police. >> jonathan: our business correspondent is live in arizona as the former president tries to get the last word at the end of a week dominated by the democratic convention and the coronation of kamala harris. good evening. >> jonathan, good evening to you. and this evening we saw a moment that in past

rfk jr. endorses donald trump, and what members of his own family are calling a sad end to a sad story. rfk jr. sister, cary kennedy, is speaking and she joins me in just a few minutes. >>> well, that was one hell of a democratic convention. like so many of you sitting at home, i laughed, i cried, i cheered. i was inspired. it overall felt like the message and the vibes of a winning campaign. and then, just this morning, the harris campaign announced a new numbers behind all their momentum. $540 million raised since the vice president took the reins of the campaign. that was a month ago, by the way. volunteers have signed up for nearly 200,000 shifts since the start of the convention. but beyond how things felt in chicago, one of the things that is really been on my mind and really stood out to me is the dramatic contrast with what we just saw a few weeks ago at the republican convention. >> i will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. >> we are, indeed, a nation in dec

plucked at rfk junior commit a felony? kennedy's daughters, as he once beheaded a whale driving it from massachusetts to new york on the roof of a minivan environmentalist are saying he broke the law, a bizarre tale. let's go outfront good evening. >> i'm erin burnett, outfront tonight. the breaking news, a new indictment for donald j. trump in a total surprise to trump, apparently he was given absolutely no warning special counsel jack smith filed this. this is the new indictment and now all in its 36 pages it indict trump for january 6. so you might when you hear me say that be a surprise, does trump thinking, didn't the supreme court say that trump had immunity and shoot this entire case down? went into the garbage. >> well, yes. except in this indictment, smith says it's going to hold up to the supreme court's immunity ruling. it is not as long. okay. like i mentioned, 36 pages, the original indictment that smith had filed that fell to the immunity decision from the supreme court was 45 pages but 36 pages is still a lo

it's obviously unclear where those rfk jr.very single one of them goes to former president trump, then that could tip the scales in the grand canyon state which is one of those key swing states where rfk jr. has taken himself off a of the ballot. it's a state that former president trump won in 2016, and it was a deice we've state which president biden -- decisive state which president biden carried back in 2020 to that helped him get into the white house. i will say this, kelly, to wrap things up, at the very at least even if this does not have any major significance on election day, at the very least, it feels headlines away from vice president harris after the biggest speech of her career with trump taking the stage tonight in several hours from now presumably with rfk jr. kelly? kelly: grady, i think it's really interesting that you bring up that a 5% because i'm also thinking about rfk and trump. hay overlap on their crypto -- they overlap on their crypto policies, right? both very pro-crypto. do you think having both of t

it's not rfk's democratic party can we expect to see rfk junior on the campaign trail? >> this fall? and a lot will there be a lot of rfk junior appearances? >> i had about how much but you can definitely expect to see him. we and we reported this that they are planning to use him as a trump surrogate to send them out on the campaign trail. >> i have him up, try to appeal to some of his own supporters luck. >> i will say, despite you know, all of the media stories about him, some of the opposition research that people have been sharing about rfk junior. he did have some polling like if you look at arizona where but they had that announcement on friday. he was polling at 6%. of course that is completely different from the low to mid 40% that both harris and trump are seeing right now in arizona. but in a race, particularly in states like arizona, where they're expecting it to be so close if if trump's campaign can even safe in some of those >> and harris became kind of the person to succeed joe biden before there were questions about who whose candidacy does rf kidron, y

where does rfk live?wife is a hollywood person which was interesting, part of the hold up on this was people thought he would endorse at the rnc convention and there was a kerfuffle, the rumor is the biden campaign put in saboteurs in the jfk campaign, it didn't happen. then it was moving forward in this direction, his wife who was a hollywood person is a big deal and he put out a tweet that this is difficult for my wife because she's going to be blackballed for being associated with rfk who is endorsing donald trump who is considered the evilest guy on the planet by hollywood. pete: ten swing states, removing his name from the ballot in pennsylvania and arizona, the 5% margin, those polls came after kamala harris got in the race. if you didn't want biden and went to kamala harris it is already baked in. 5% is a meaningful number. you will see how that translates because there's only one candidate willing to embrace rfk junior, kamala harris and president biden, the democrat party thought him in every way

>> jon, rfk jr.'mpaign was over about 12 the days ago when a court in new york said he couldn't be on the ballot because he lacked residency. it underscored how the democratic elites first set up the rules to make sure no one can get the nomination other than president biden, and now they are determined to make sure that rfk jr. couldn't get on enough ballots to be able to get the 270 votes that you have to have to be president. it's the ultimate sign of weakness. and it could be an underscoring of the fact of how weak vice president harris is and that she may have already peaked in this election. because keep in mind you have a state like wisconsin where in 2016 and in 2020 it was decided by one percentage point. you take a candidate like rfk and maybe he doesn't have 1% that goes towards trump, but maybe trump picks up another 2,000 votes or 3,000 votes. in an election in wisconsin that's going to get decided by 25,000 votes, all little things matter. rfk getting out may seem like a little thing, bu

even if trump gets 70, 80% of rfk's voters, rfk, jr.or donald trump what does that do for the democrats, you're completely right. they screwed the pooch. you can't cast people aside like tulsi gabbard not to expect to have a boomerang. larry: there is a whole edge of that party has been reignored. you have the crazies in the middle. walz speaks last night. the whole thing. the obama's, chuck schumer, i have will end the filibuster, we'll have unlimited abortions including partial-birth, come on. mark simone, i know you've been glued to your tv set. >> i have. larry: really fascinating. what did you take away. >> i thought this would be 2004 all over again. john kerry had a convention, two overproduced, too theatrical, a convention not only no bounce he took a drop. this thing i think was offensive to a lot of americans. too glitzy, too glamorous. lighting was too good. too many speakers, too muchness of it. like the oscars, grammys, tony's all in one, if you're in the middle of america struggling to pay your bills, watching this. one bi

they look at a state like this, arizona, which rfk is polling six 6%. donald trump, however, polling at 42%, and kamala harris at 45. and a recent new york times school they believe that this will help boost donald trump's numbers and it's not just arizona. they see this across the united states and i will tell you a source told me that they expect rfk to be campaigning with and for the former president moving forward, we shall see our kristen. i know that trump just spoke at a separate event in las vegas. how did he react to rfk junior anti-communist harris is convinced convention speech last night what do you make the same thing that we've heard from him over and over again about rfk since this endorsement was really in the works, he was praising him. >> he was saying how he was a terrific guy. >> but when it came to kamala harris, there's a lot of attacks. we know that this has gotten under donald trump's skin. he obviously watch this each last night we saw his reaction in various interviews afterwards on true social and it was a very aggressive reac

oh a former classmate of rfk jr . accusing him of being a cokecc dealer at harvarurrem d in the , saying he bought a gram from him for 40 bucks, which is 300 in today's dollars. >> not a bad price, said one man. price, meanwhile the secret service has ended protection for rfk jr following suspension of hisr campaign. this is a move experts sayfoll will addowsuspensi years to his >> meanwhile, joe biden is still keeping a low profile on vacation. here he is relaxing in thes sti. selfie. s awesom i approve that joe the trump and harris campaign are arguing the rules to the upcoming debate. >> the trump campaign wante args mics to be turned off and thedee harris campaign wants the debate.ump camp take place h open field in front of a sloped roof. ron, maybe. nice. "the washington post" has declared that doug emhoff is symbol and if you don't believe the post, just askif his kids nanny. oh, wow. meanwhile, his wife kamala has now gone five weeks without holding a news conference, but she did go on yelp to write a scathing

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i mean, who knows with rfk jr.t i did want to ask you, governor, your thoughts on how kamala harris handled herself last night that convention speech, and the way this this party has been trying to reach out to independents and moderates inside the republican party. you were here at the dnc. how do you think they pulled that off well, i think he had an effective convention. >> they had to do a couple of things. i want to show that they're normal not to engage in rhetoric that scares the middle of the political electorate away. >> and i think they sit, were successful in that. >> and how many? times did they say independents, democrats and republicans trying to have a welcoming for those that are just not satisfied with the normal choices they have on the republican side, i thought kamala's speech last night hit the right tone in terms of of her background, identifying with common americans and then also really separate herself in some ways from joe biden policy-wise, cutting her own path. i was disappointed that sh

more on rfk junior endorsement and let's bring in our political panel.now is lauren tom wilson. welcome to both of you. >> thank you for having us. let's start with rfk junior. from his day job in the future trump administration. >> no. there has been no commitment spirit i met with president trump with his family with his closers, advisors and we just made a general commitment that we would work together. >> what do you make of the timing of his dropping from the race and the impact potentially in november. >> this will be really pivotal full. i think he mentioned a couple of things that were really crucial. he will take himself off of the ballot in some of the key swing state races. most of the voters registered independent voters where rfk would potentially make a difference. you look at north carolina as well. the fact that rfk has announced he would be taking himself off of those states, trying to make an impact in terms of the deep red, deep blue states to show what he mentioned to families. not being able to participate in the debates. i make of i

earlier, trump offing nothing but praise for rfk. >> we just had a very nice endorsement from rfk jr.oing to be going to arizona. we will be talking about that and a lot of other things, too. i just want to thank everybody. i want to thank bobby. that was really nice. he's a great guy. respected by everybody. >> judge jeanine: all right, jesse, you know, what was most interesting about rfk's speech was how he literally took down the democrat party as a party of censorship, the party that did everything to negate free speech, that sued him, that fought him and ridiculed him and engaged in lawfare. he makes a decision, though, to drop out only in the primary states, it seems, so will that little bit help donald trump? >> jesse: the trump campaign saying this helps trump come in the seven battleground he was polling between 3% and 5%, and if those boats now go away, they say trump gets about 60% of those compared to what harris would have gotten. and that translates to this, judge, and this is big. arizona, that would mean 41,000 additional votes toward donald trump. that's like a lot bi

the downstream thing i worry about for trump is that rfk does have to trackers. he's prone to saying weird thing sometimes. and when you take on someone as a surrogate, you sort of own everything they do. so there are some downstream risks, but you can see why he would want to pull them in because they need to they need to build ballot share. he's running a little bit behind harris in the national polls right now. so i guess it makes sense for his campaign today and if you're willing to assume some of the downstream risk that you don't know about tomorrow. >> what do you make of that? how can the harris campaign maybe frame this as an opportunity? >> i think it is an opportunity. i think i don't think that jfk rfk junior is going to be actually much of a benefit to the trump team. i think a lot of his voters are low propensity voters. they are anti-establishment, they don't really have a true sense of commitment to the candidate. it wasn't like rfk was going out and people were cheering his name and he had a real movement behind him. he was attracting a lot of th

rfk jr.'s sister is speaking out and she joins me live in a few minutes. a few minutes. >>> well, that was one heck of a democratic convention. like so many of you sitting at home, i laughed sometimes, i cheered, i was inspired, but overall, it felt like the message and the vibes of a winning campaign, and just this morning, the harris campaign announced some new numbers by their momentum, $540 million since the vice president took the reins of the campaign, that was a month ago, by the way. volunteers are signed up for nearly 200,000 shifts since the start of the convention. but beyond how things felt in chicago, one of the things that has really been on my mind and really stood out to me is the dramatic contrast with what we just saw a few weeks ago at the republican convention. >> i will be a president who unites us around our highest aspirations. >> we are indeed a nation in decline. >> >> you can always trust me to put country above party and self. >> we have become a dumping ground for t

rfk is coming right at that. tyrus, he is like.s something you can't look out there are like when we were growing out the -- up there was one fat kid in class. >> me and my doctor watched goonies the other day. she was like why is chunk why did they call him trunk. you know what i'm saying? what he is bringing up is he is going after the two biggest monsters in this country's that will not stand so they will tear him down probably because pharma and the food appear you meant -- food pyramid they are not going to change that is why europe and other countries are healthier and happier than us because they do not put [beep] in our food that our people due to profit. but screw everybody she does not need to talk to the media because the media is not her lane. she is the meta- candidate. all of her people are woke they do not participate in real life they participate in social media where they appear bigger than what they are. smoke and mirrors. she is going to that social media talk for her. she has the mainstream media and her back po

however you know rfk jr.hould know that now not omis he on donald trump's presidential team but now running mate j.d. vance thinks there could be even more room for him in a trump administration. >> i think he has a lot to -- if we win, i mean he's got some very interesting ideas and good ideas. i think he'll be a fantastic and influential person in terms of getting this country back on track. >> i hope rfk has a role because i think he's a smart guy, i think he's fundamentally a good guy, and i'm glad to have him on the team. >> yeah, that trump-vance ticket are already fighting allegations that they are weird. but is this the way to change that impression by bringing rfk into the mix? joining me now is tim miller, writer at large at the bulwark. tim, thank you so much for joining us tonight. so forgive the metaphor here, but what do you think of this trump-vance bear hugging rfk jr. like this? >> yeah, it's the whale that really gets me. i don't know. i just think about it the mini van and the juice. anyway

democrats couldn't deal with rfk.important democrat figure on their side going back 75 years. and the idea that the two -- these two men are uniting for all the right reasons to come to washington and change washington radically change the way that washington runs, so it works for regular people and makes people's lives healthier and better and more prosperous -- this is -- i really don't think, jesse, you can overstate what a big deal this is. >> jesse: that is so well said, charlie. and the fact that kamala couldn't see this coming. she could have orchestrated an actual coup. it would have been kamala to win the endorsement of rfk jr. that would have completely changed this election. and she blew the guy off. and now look! you are exactly right. the rebel forces have aligned, and they are coming right at the death star. >> yeah. but if they had -- if they had not killed the kennedy nomination in the democratic primary when they did, he would have been the nominee today. and kamala harris would have been taken out wi

and rfk junior was very critical of that vaccine. fred, throughout much of his campaign and then obviously trump feels like the endorsement from rfk jr. could actually help him in the race against vice president harris. >> is that with the campaign overall is thinking but certainly they're hoping, look, donald trump, excuse me, rfk junior's support has been dwindling, dwindling consistently over the past few months. he hasn't hit double digits and a poll since joe biden dropped out of the race. in fact, once cbs poll recently gauges support at about 2%, and many of these people full, who were intending to vote for rfk junior are people who don't typically engage in national politics. there are people who said that if they weren't going to vote for rfk junior, they'd probably wouldn't vote at all, but donald trump remains convinced that he can pull a large chunk of these people into his orbit, that they, that he can outreach this anti anti-establishment messaging to them at something he has tried previously with libertarians, with peo

rfk jr. said terrible things about president trump.hings about him 4 weeks ago. we have found commonality in common agreement. the democrats had a few republicans speak at their convention, i think it is a positive thing. you may not like the outcome, but you got to give people room and space to evolve and grow and hopefully come to your side. >> i want to go back to what greg was talking about. that is an election year. they all go to the metal. she says that she is fixing the border. the toughest thing that kamala has done since she has been vice president is basically -- she says this herself. she supported the toughest bill on the failed's border wall bill. the amazing part of this, she believes in as soon as people get over the wall, they can get free health care, free education, free housing. they should be able to get drivers licenses. they should get on the voting rolls on the welfare rolls. once you get past the wall. there is this temporary realignment to the metal. but then when she goes back into the white house if she's el

rfk junior helping of second trip to the white house.eam kennedys from the when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ pro wrestling game legends and now we've got the don else. former president trump and rfk junior faith or relationship instagram official in arizona after the independent candidates of spend as their candidate and claimed the dnc and allies and media rigid the primaries against them. i can't believe they would do such a thing nobody and bernie sanders campaign ever. will this clear terms wrote to the white house? let's talk about it and do some foot building, the most famous kennedy and history. >> by the way, if not suspended by campaign. i've had a lot of questions on x an instagram so very much wanting. going to take the swag and tell it where i have to. it doesn't have to move that much, it's not like trump needs 10% or 5% which is what he was pulling naturally, he needs 1% because he and kamala harris are tied even without rfk in the race. he benefited kamala about half a% so if he gets 1% from him in these battleground states, that

. >> we just had a very nice endorsement from rfk jr., bobby. he is a great guy, respected by everybody. >> reporter: it's a major shift from the harsh words he had for him just a few months ago. >> rfk jr. is a democrat plant, a radical left liberal put in place in order to help crooked joe biden. >> reporter: kennedy a member of a storied damly -- family in democratic politics. jack schlossberg said he is for sale and bedfellows. and loving it. kamala harris is for the people. while kennedy is saying his wife, cheryl hines, is very uncomfortable with his endorsement, but supporters of rfk jr. telling us they'll follow his move to back trump. >> i have no choice but to. >> i will, yeah, because i trust bobby. >> reporter: and kennedy's endorsement could be critical. since vice president harris entered the race kennedy has lost 9% support in july to 5% in august. republicans view him favorably and independents and democrats have a negative opinion. though his endorsement could give trump a small boost that could make a big impact in a tight race

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jon, sources now telling abc news that rfk jr. reached out to the trump campaign, but we've also learned rfk jr. reached out to the harris campaign as well? >> reporter: here's what we know, david. we know that rfk reached out to try to get a meeting with harris, and there were reports he wanted to talk to her about getting a place in her cabinet in exchange for his endorsement. and we know that went nowhere because the harris team simply didn't respond. >> david: jon karl, we'll see you right here in the convention hall a short time from now. jon, thank you. >>> tonight, former president trump holding his first outdoor campaign event since the attempted assassination, speaking from behind bulletproof glass now before a tightly controlled crowd. set to focus on national security today, trump react together obamas who, of course, were right here in the hall last night. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: tonight, former president donald trump holding his first outdoor event in a battleground state since the attempt on his life. trump

does rfk junior's withdrawal? all an endorsement of donald trump change the race up ahead following her historic speech at the dnc, my next guest and others are calling on vice president harris to start answering during tough questions. could her campaign be making a mistake by not welcoming journalists into the fold and be sure to sign up for the daily newsletter at smerconish smerconish.com for which i want you to see this. so rob rogers he draws for us on a weekly basis. that's the cartoon that he drew. passing of the torch, take a good look. >> now, here's a different passing of the torch. >> this from steve breen with a totally different message thereby got news for you. >> ramir saturday, september 14th at nine on cnn what will you do when the power goes out? >> power outages could be unpredictable. andy inconvenient, but with a generale home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted because when you're generale detects a power outage, it automatically powers giving your family this security and pea

elizabeth: rfk jr. race, his running mate talking about joining forces with trump. president trump said he'd consider giving r -- rfk jr. a job in his white house if he's reelected. ford o'connell, it's good to see you again. rfk jr.'s campaign announced they'll talk to the nation on friday. word is he's going to drop out. what does that do to the the vote now? does it pull votes from harris? >> this is an extremely big deal particularly if he endorses president trump. when we look at the swing states that are going to decide this election, your pa pennsylvanias, your georgias, your nevadas, what we find out is 46 of rfk voters would vote for trump if rfk wasn't in the race and only 26% would vote for harris if rfk wasn't in the race. this is a very big deal on the lek or tomorrow map. elizabeth: so this has to be rattling the harris campaign, because i think in 2020 trump lost wisconsin, arizona and georgia only by, i think, about 43,000 votes. >> this absolutely is rattling the harris campaign because

like rfk jr., donald trump is at a low point and acting out of desperation, embracing rfk jr.hen he has nothing to offer but months of december qualifying revelations is not deck disqualifying ref laughses is not a decision a campaign makes when they're active. both candidates planning to lay low this weekend, neil, nothing on the schedule for either the trump campaign or the hearst campaign, or neil. ready for that big push after labor day, of course. neil: got it. how the heck were you able to piece all of that together with dolley madison and the burning of the white house? because i covered that 210 years ago today, and i know you're not that old. [laughter] >> reporter: just felt like the right thing to do. neil: bottom line, there is some crazy undoings here, aren't there? >> reporter: that's right. there's no question. i thought the perspective was important. neil: absolutely. dolly madison appreciates it as well. somewhere, i know she does. lucas tomlinson following all of that. you know, a lot of people are asking how the heck did we get to this point where a kennedy,