jackson, chief white house correspondent and anchor for msnbc live with hallie jackson , and philip rucker, white house bureau chief for the washington post. mollybi, you wrote story for "time" about biden did he meet this moment after dedes in politics? moy: you know, it almost seems liket the moment him, right? his strengths as a politician have always been about empathy, storytelling, poetry, comforting people in times of need, and that might not have been the right vibe, say, foears ago, but i think it was very fitting, and hislepeech was. it was powerful. it w empattic, ande drew that contrast very effectively. robert: and, molly, a quick follow-up. you have written this great biography about speakerelosi. when you speak to sources in her

kavita patel and phil rucker, pulitzer prize winning writer. does donald trump want relief for unemployed americans? >> you know, nicolle, he says he does and he's threatened by the way to take executive action to try to create some of that relief if congress doesn't come to an agreement here but we have to underscore how striking it's been these last few weeks to see the president largely absence from these negotiations on capitol hill, certainly his chief of staff mark med douse and his treasury secretary steve mnuchin are negotiating on his behalf but that is not an active president involved in these talks, they're trying to use whatever political muscle or capital he may have at the white hou house. in past crises for the government, the shutdown i'm thinking of at the end of 2018 and other instances was very involved in day-to-day conversations with legislators. he's been an absent leader. >> i'd love your thoughts on the breaking news that new york governor cuomo has given a green light for district to district decisions on school reopeni

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robert: so, philip rucker, what about the way he framed this in such an?c sess philip: we have seen a lot of speeches that obama has given. i covered the obama white house for a whe and have never seen him address one like that one. f there wasr in his voice. he was delivering an urgent warning to all americans, basically saying this is not a normal election. this is not a choice between two ideological visions in the country, not a choice about whose health care plan is better or who will do what do your taxes. it is about whether youanthe whether you want this country to remain the country it has been for so many years, and effectively saying four more years of donald trump would seriously jeopardize all of that. robert: yamiche, years ago, we sought senator bernie sanders and his supporters cause a ruckus, frustrated with the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign. this timeen around, a of unity. why was that? yamiche: i think was for the same reasons that phil just laid out. democrs feel real sense of emergency that president trump is dangerouso america an

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>> you know, phil rucker. >> that's the reality. >> so, phil rucker, let me just give you a last word on this. i mean, failure on covid is their brand. i mean, what are they taking to the country? 175,000 destroyed american families was the best we can do? is that it? >> well, we'll have see what that argument looks like. i suspect the argument is going to have some happy talk and talk about the virus is coming -- or excuse me, the vaccine is coming. trump has repeatedly tried to promote the idea that there would be a vaccine in this country before the election, even though a lot of health professionals say that it's a very rosy and all too optimistic timetable, but the president will want to try to make people forget about the troubles and the difficulties and his management of this pandemic and somehow feel optimistic that with him at the helm for another four years, americans are going to get out of this year of despair that the economy is going to be booming again, and so forth. and i fully expect that that's the case he's going to make, as well as his surrogate speaker. >> phil r

, juanita toliver, michael steele, and from "the washington post," white house bureau chief, phil rucker. so, juanita, just give me your big picture. as you look at that scene right behind mike memoli. as you see the people who they can't go in, there's no big crowds that are going to be gathered for this event. and yet you know what people have been putting on social media, the niaphone calls and t messages that have been exchanged over the last 24 hours. what do you think as this scene unfolds? >> i think people are excited and ready to engage with senator kamala harris as this historic vp selection. she is the first black woman, first south asian woman to be named on the democratic ticket in this capacity and people are excited. i think the other detail that you mentioned, chris, is this was an undisclosed location. so people did some online sleuthing to even find this out and are ready to show up. because this representation goes a long way. and we conducted some recent focus groups with women of color in key states, and this is explicitly what they named. they wanted a woman of colo

phil rucker, trump has combined two things. he's had a long-standing, somewhat misinformed, misguided disdain for the united states post office and now he's figured out a way to use the post office essential by defunding it, about you to use the post office to help him win an election that he's otherwise knotts he a he's otherwise not on track to win. >> that's exactly right. our reporting shows almost immediately after coming into office, he started labeling the postal service as a loser. in private meetings with his advisers, he would rail about the finances. he actually came to believe, because allies told him there even though there's no evidence to support it, one of the reason he lost the popular vote was because of the problems with the postal side of and mail-in balloting. of course, there's no evidence to support that. and his grievances with the postal service increase over the years, especially as he fixated on jeff bezos, the billionaire founder of amazon, and he had in his head that amazon had some sort of sweethea

phil rucker, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief for "the washington post," who is the co-author along with his very stable colleague carol leonnig of the best-seller "a very stable genius." jon karl, chief white house correspondent over at abc news. we get to talk to him because he too is an author. the must read "front row at the trump show." and melissa murray, an nyu law professor, clerked for judge sonia sotomayor while on the u.s. court of appeals. good evening and welcome to you all. phil, i'd like to begin with you and your beat. what was the real west wing reaction to the four-night democratic show, to the final speech by joe biden, and give us as much of a preview as you can of the rnc convention. >> yeah. so, brian, publicly the president's advisers and aides are saying that the democrats put on a convention of doom and gloom to use the phrase that we hear out of the trump white house. they believed it was too negative of a tone and a message from the democrats. but privately there is an acknowledgement among the president's advisers that he is behind in this race, that joe

joining us now from "the washington post", phil rucker., and our friend, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan is back. phil rucker, this was first reported by your paper, by you and your colleagues. take us through what you've learned. >> well, nicole, the president is looking for sites to give his convention acceptance speech and is interested in doing it on the south lawn of the white house, which of course, would break precedent, past precedents, including george w. bush tried to avoid doing any sort of political activity at the white house, in part because of the hatch act, which prevents using federal property or federal employees for campaign purposes, although the president himself is exempt from that act. nonetheless, the president -- trump, that is, seems to be wanting to push the envelope here and do the speech there. they're also looking at other historical venues around the country for other elements of the convention week festivities, according to my colleague's reporting. and so we'

rucker, i'd like to begin with your beat specifically. again this was supposed to be -- after criticizing the darkness as he saw it of the democrats' gathering, this was supposed to be positive stories. are you reporting, are you hearing even a hint of remorse over the use of the levers, the symbolism, the real estate that comes with our presidency for this television presentation tonight? >> brian, i'm hearing zero remorse. you know, this was a controversy in the weeks leading up to the convention when the president made it known that he intended to use the south lawn of the white house on thursday night for his formal acceptance speech. and, you know, he almost invites the controversy. he's almost daring the authorities that exist to try to challenge him on the law here and on the ethics here. there's no question in my mind and based on my reporting that all of the uses of the white house buildings, secretary pompeo's trip to israel, all the other uses of federal resources behind this convention, that the people making those decisions k

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let me start with you, phil rucker. this contrast, it seems to be widening. the democrats building on that searing indictment of donald trump monday night from michelle obama, one of the country's most -- i think one of the most respected public figures in the world. president obama really campaigning like our lives depend on it and making clear that's his view of this election. the introduction of kamala harris, and donald trump gett g getting, to be blunt, weirder by the day, endorsing the fringeiest elements and smallest aspects of his coalition. >> i think that's right, nicole. and we're going to be seeing tonight president obama lay out that case against donald trump, but really underscore that he thinks the very democracy of this country is at stake. there's a belief that the president -- that the former president shares, but also that a lot of the people who work for him, including vice president biden, that a lot of these profound changes over the last four years in the country and the erosion of our institutions can be reversed after four years. but

. >> starting us off this hour is phil rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post." also with us, donna edwards, former democratic congresswoman and contributing columnist for "the washington post." and elise jordan, former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department. lucky for all of us, all of them are msnbc contributors. phil rucker, take me through the reliance that this white house has on what kellyanne conway, who's getting a lot of play here at the top of the hour, described the very first week of the trump presidency as alternate facts. that's all they've got, pld appeit would appear based on those public interviews and the president's tweets today. >> and you know, nicole, you can arrive at that conclusion based on, you know, more than 3 1/2 years of this presidency. but just look at the. convention last night, where speaker after speaker in prime-time and on television all around the country spewed falsehoods. said things that simply were not true and in some cases were outright lies in an effort to recast how voters would view this presiden

phil rucker, thank you as well. the polls looking worse than they did in 2016. joining mess from the big board is steve kornacki. the trump campaign will say, hay, listen,al polls showed you behind, everyone counted us out. it's just the same for this election. can you make that claim honestly? >> at this point, this race looks very different than 2016 did. the question is will the two converge? the democrats this their convention this week. this average right now, not any sign of a bounce for pipeden, but it is a sizable lead for biden, a seven-point, six-point lead in the average for the polls. let's put it in context, 2020 verse 2016. we're going to take you through a cup 8 different categories. this is polls over the summer months, basically from june 1st of 24 year until now, compared to june 1st to this date in 2016. in the summer of 2016, hillary clinton's average lead, if you look at it every day in the average of polls, she averaged a lead of 4.3 points. joe biden's summer lead has been basically double that. 8.3 for biden now. a bigger steadier late. h

don't appear to have a real cohesive one that is doing any damage to harris. >> and indeed, phil rucker, biden and harris come right out at the president for his calamitous response to the pandemic and he played into that with his daily briefing which always seems to be a briefing on a pandemic unlike the one we're living. >> that's right, brian. this is of course a president who has been prone to magical thinking throughout this pandemic and in fact has promoted magical cures. but he consumes data like no one we have ever seen. we see death going up. we see the u.s. lagging behind. and to hear trump tell the story, he thinks that the response here has been great. in fact he calls it historic and wonderful that he should be getting applauded for that and that's not what the science shows, it's not what the data show and that's certainly not what candidates biden and harris were arguing today on the campaign trail where they really laid out the case against trump and harris in particular used her skill as a prosecutor to make a very sharp and cogent prosecution against the president that

joined by philip rucker, white house bureau chief for the "washington post."tart by asking what happened to your knowledge at the white house today that caused all the drama and the president to be whisked off stage. >> yeah, extraordinary scene. president in middle of coronavirus briefing and midsentence, a secret service agent stepped on the rostrum and told him we need to get out of the briefing room. brought him to the oval office. apparently what happened, according to the president's telling, somebody, a suspect, tried to enter the white house grounds and was shot by a secret service agent. it's unclear where that person was shot, or what the injuries were. but trump said that was only injured person and said he did not feel personally endangered in that moment but nonetheless it speaks to the security breaches we've seen at this white house over the years. you'll recall at end of the obama years there was a fence jumping incident and there have been other attempts as well. we'll learn more from the secret service tonight probably, but president did say

but there is a great gulf between the two sides right now. >> phil rucker and kristen welker starting us off, thanks to both. >>> let's turn to that news from russia. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel on the news from moscow this morning. richard, what is vladimir putin saying and what is the credibility? it's not matching up to the test of american medical officials. >> reporter: well, the problem is russia is not releasing a lot of data. russia says that it has this vaccine. this came from vladimir putin himself. vladimir putin came out today and said the vaccine is safe, it's effective, it provides long term protection from the coronavirus. he said that one of his two daughters, and he's very protective, he doesn't talk about his two daughters hardly at all, there are very few photographs of them, one of his two daughters, he said, he didn't identify which one, took this vaccine, two shots, that she got a slight fever of just one centigrade extra after each shot, but that it went down and otherwise she's feeling well. and russia says it still needs to do phase iii

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"washington post" bureau chief phil rucker is back. heather mcghee from the color of change and reverend al sharpton, the president of the national action network. rev, what did you think? >> i thought that joe biden not only rose above expectations, i thought he really energized this party, because he went right to the core of the problem and that is the lack of real love for the people of the country that this president has. and his air of darkness. i mean, we are in the middle of a pandemic. we're in the middle of all kind of racial division. we're in the middle of the president not only questioning the election, but questioning the post office. i mean, it is unthinkable before now that anyone would question the post office. you can't get more of an array of dark seeds planted all over the social landscape of this country. and i think biden was very correct and strategic to address it and put that in front of the american people because people in the dark can look and say, yeah, he is right. i'm feeling the darkness, i need light. a

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phil rucker, it strikes me that the undoing of donald trump's floor was by being awol on the pandemiclicia says effects every person in this country because their business is boarded up or juggling everything she ticked off, teaching their kids, doing their full-time job, taking care of their family. now it is going to be harder to get a covid test because of new cdc guidelines. but he has been most awal on the reckoning. more than 70% of americans associate themselves with goals and aims of black lives matter. that number up, upwards. the public, at least 70 plus percent think it means justice for everyone. i wonder if there's any effort to rip up the script tonight and address the unrest. >> there may be, nicolle. we have to see. vice president pence is giving his formal acceptance speech at fort mchenry in baltimore tonight, we'll see if he addresses issues playing out in wisconsin, but i would argue that president trump actually hasn't been awol on this issue. part of what's dragging him down, he has been talking about it in an off tone way. we all remember what happened in lafaye

his new ep "bettie james" is a collaboration with a range of stars including brad paisley, darius rucker with the name "bettie james" the title of the new ep where's the title from >> i named it after my grandma bettie that died in 2014 and my father james who died last year. so i kind of wanted to just leave a trail of their legacy through my music >> a tribute a tribute to them. how did they impact your life? how did they impact your music so i wanted to be patient in choosing k >> man, greatly. my dad listened to nothing but country music, so that's all i learned from him growing up. my dad always told me to take risks. my grandma bettie, she was a fisherman just like my dad was she always told me to be patient. so i wanted to be patient in choosing kind of songs and people from this project but at the same time i wanted to take risks just reach out to people that i love and kind of mix artists on songs together so it was a good time. they both taught me a lot. >> you're going to perform in a moment "why things happen. i was listening to the album on the way in this is my favorite tra

thinks he has to have this for any chance at reelection. >> well, let's pick up on that point phillip rucker. it's clear to me in conversations with republicans behind the scenes over the last several weeks that they certainly think that the only open for president trump getting reelected is to get a vaccine before november and dr. emanuel raises a good point. this is going to be something if it is announced there is a vaccine, obviously millions of americans will get it but if it's not safe, if we don't take the proper precautions, the risks are enormous because of how wide spread its use is likely to be. so what's the thinking behind the scenes at the white house on this? i mean, do they feel like they need to convince americans there is going to be a vaccine around the time of election day to actually pull this off? what's your reporting say? >> yeah, kasie, my reporting is very much in line with yours. the single most important thing for president trump right now in his mind is winning reelection on november 3rd and so he is using every lever of executive power he can, every tool at his

a guy called phil rucker from "the washington post" apparently is one of the people who broke the rulesorder to hurt you. why do you think they did this? it's because you know what, i think they did this to hurt the president. i don't think they cared about me at all but they did care the president. they cared about hurting him and that's exactly what they did by sharing the information. i've decided over the last year that it's honestly no longer worth my time to question how these comments got shared. but i will ask a broader question which is, what does off the record even mean anymore? >> tucker: right. you wish you hadn't trusted members of the national press corps? rhetorical question. >> of course, yeah, absolutely. >> tucker: i mean, i guess just to put a finer point on it, the irony of your story is this is a white house if we are being honest and as a number of people in high positions who are leaking against the guy they work for. who aren't on board with his program. you are one of the people who actually led to many agreed with him. it's a little weird that you got destroye

. >> dana: darius rucker is that with the new single. it's a great song.of a million dollars for charity through darius and friends, a benefit show for st. jude. $255,000. it's normally done during the week of the country music awards. everything got screwed up big because of covid that they still came through so congratulations to everyone who worked on that. i hosted a special fox news rundown podcast with trey gowdy and we talked about his new book which is called "it doesn't hurt to ask." we talked about recent criticisms of law enforcement and why has so much respect for law enforcement. >> greg: i have an article on foxnews.com in the opinion section called "share the risk." how to end cancel culture. also it's time for something n new. "greg's what did he step in?" take a look at this video. this dog enjoying himself with a great view and then... something happenedpened. all i'm assuming is he must've stepped in something that shocked and surprised him. perhaps disturbed and dismayed him. i'm wondering if you stepped on a lego. do you think somebody

i want to bring into the conversation susan delpersio and phillip rucker white house bureau chief for the "washington post." susan, let me begin with you. this was a powerful speech and offers a contrast between a biden/harris administration and how they would deal with the pa pandemic. she went after president trump by name and said his failures have led to the deaths of americans. it did not have to be this way she said. talk to us about what stood out for you in this speech from kamala harris. >> first of all, ayman, what a spectacular takedown of the president. people wonder why she may have been chosen to be the vp, despite her qualificationqualif was also for this political talent. harris knows what she's doing. she started off the conversation talking about jacob blake and talking about how we have to work together and listen to people and move forward as one nation. then went to donald trump on the handling of that, then the pandemic. i think if anyone was going to get into donald trump's head before his speech, it was senator harris. she did it magnificently. >> phillip, let

joining mow now is white house correspondent for pbs newshour yamiche alcindor and philip rucker. phil, let me begin with you. we'll start with tonight, what are you watching for, what are you looking to happen tonight given the backdrop of what we're seeing play out in this country? >> well, first of all, ayman, congratulations on the new show at 3:00. tonight, you know, the democrats are showing the diversity of their party and they're trying to bridge some of the ideological divide that really defined the primary campaign so i'd look for senator bernie sanders to see what he says in terms of extending a connection to the biden coalition and giving all his supporters on the left to really rally behind biden. michelle obama has been re relatively quiet, when she speaks out, she speaks out with conviction and resonates with the people. i'd really be curious to hear what she has to say not only about the presidency but the pandemic we're going through. >> yamiche, we're expecting to hear from governors cuomo and grech inwhitmer from michigan, this is happening against the backdrop

happens to be the co-author along with her very stable "post" colleague phil rucker of the best-selling book "a very stable genius." good evening, and welcome to you all. so, kim, is this the new re-election strategy, promising a virus to an anxious nation in the midst of a pandemic with what happens to be a delivery date of november 3rd or thereabouts? >> well, this seems to be the latest attempt to deliver some sort of magic pill to make this virus go away or to make people less worried about it. the president is clearly trying to deliver a campaign deliverable. he says that he wants it in order to end this pandemic, but it's quite interesting. even though he was asked about this date, that he took that and ran with it and made it a november 3rd promise. of course from what we've heard from dr. fauci and from what we know about vaccines that have been delivered for everything from ebola to the common flu, that coming up with a vaccine takes much longer and that the estimated date of a vaccine being found by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, which dr. fauci claimed, d

trump will be shortly after visiting ohio is nbc news colleague kelly o'donnell and with us is phil ruckerwhite house but owe chief for "the washington post" and dr. bedelia, a msnbc medical contributor. kelly, the president when he does travel is largely traveling to states that he needs to win in november. today one of those states was ohio. was this anything more than a campaign stop? >> reporter: well, katy, as you know there are times where they align an official event and campaign stops like fund raising tonight in ohio and it gives the appearance of being government business and a president visiting a state and speaking on behalf of all the people but the president's also able to use it as a way to get his campaign message. remember, in states are the key battleground, ohio today, there's local coverage, opportunities for the president to be seen in the community and those are things that any campaign views as valuable currency. so the president more than past presidents tends to blur the line between the official event and the official event so he uses what is a white house taxpaye

joining me now, nbc news investigations correspondent tom winter, "washington post" bureau chief phil rucker and nbc's geoff bennett at the white house. geoff bennett just out of the oval office. geoff, i'm going to start with tom on the details of bannon and then come to you because you just had these exchanges with the president. talk to us about steve bannon. what's in this indictment and when will we see steve bannon in court? >> andrea, to answer your last question, we don't have a specific time just yet on when we expect him into court. he is expected to appear in lower manhattan later today. a couple of details that myself, pete williams have been able to confirm, while the president was speaking, that bannon was taken into company without incident. multiple law enforcement officials tell nbc news this morning, along the coast of connecticut, the long island sound, a 150-long boat, let's call it what it is, a yacht, testifihe was taken into company by the united states postal service without incident, as i said. he was on his way to the courthouse in new york city. then at that time h

you're looking at brad paisley, nelly and darius rucker, all performing in nashville, st.ouis and indianapolis where people were actually able to be socially distanced but they had to stay outside in their cars. the organization that put it all together says it's optimistic about the return to live concerts where you are next to the person next to you, getting all geeked up about elo or peter frampton or whoever. you know how old i am. joining me in a fox business exclusive, live nation president joe berchtold. great to have you back on the show. the last time we spoke, it was, you know, all quiet on the western, the eastern, northern and southern fronts. tell us what live nation is doing right now today as you inch closer and closer to live concerts once again. >> yeah. thanks for having me on, liz. nice to join you. as you saw last quarter was a near shutdown of our live business but globally, we are now starting to see signs of reemergence. we operate in 40 countries and through asia, europe, new zealand, taiwan, germany. several countries are starting to find a way the

joining me now, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief for "the washington post," phil rucker.rough this. in one single day, the president railed against mail-in voting, said he was actually trying to make the post office great again and say only way he would lose is if this election is rigged. is president trump's strategy confuse and create chaos? >> well, steph, it's just another monday, i guess for the trump white house. look, the president has been railing about mail-in balloting and predicting widespread voter fraud without any evidence for months now. but the problem for him politically is that right now, this postal service story is penetrating all across the country. the postal service is something that every american, every business, every family, every community relies upon and these mail delays, the removal of the sorting machines, the end to overtime pay, the fears from the usps that they'll not be able to administer the election properly by the fall because of all of these delays is causing a great deal of concern. it's why you see congress rushing back to hold th

dig deeper into all of this, pulitzer prize winner and bureau chief for "the washington post," phil rucker, also the author of "a very stable genius." looking back on the last couple of weeks, do you think this is where we were headed all along? congress was going to get nowhere and the president was going to come in and blame them? >> well, it certainly is something that people might have predicted. remember, these negotiations on congress had been going on for weeks. in fact, house democrats had put together a plan for this stimulus a few months ago, and it's taken a long time to get to this place. clearly last week as they were negotiating, the two sides were not able to see any middle ground. the president was really an absent negotiator throughout. he was somebody who campaigned as being the ultimate dealmaker. "the art of the deal" is the title of his book, and yet he was not able to make it happen here, which is why he did these executive actions over the weekend. but as carol was just explaining and garrett as well, there are a lot of dubious assertions in these memos that he signe

house correspondent peter alexander and white house bureau chief for "the washington post," phil ruckere of the president's best communicators, surrogates. when he won in 2016, she was standing right next to him on that podium. he thanked her personally. will her absence be felt today, and who could you see stepping in to fill this void? >> it may be, steph. kellyanne conway is one of the longest serving aides in the white house to the president. she made history herself as the first female campaign manager of a winning campaign and has been responsible for a lot of the messaging and communications from the president over these last few years. she's taking a back seat to focus on her family. there are only two months left in this campaign so i'm not sure any particular adviser is going to come in to fill that role. but we should keep in mind there are a number of other people who play similar roles around the president including hope hicks, his longtime communications adviser who is now a counselor inside the white house. >> yes, but does that mean that hope hicks would be filling the v

"washington post" bureau chief phil rucker. former congressman david jolly. and jen palmieri, contributor to showtime's "the circus." peter, the packed crowd today is getting just as many headlines, about the lack of social distancing, the very random spotting of a mask if at all. what is the calculation behind that, that the pandemic is over and we can move on? >> yeah, andrea, you're exactly right, it was the most striking scene there, not just the fact that it happened on the south lawn but what the scene looked like, the 1,500 supporters or so gathered together, no social distancing, very few masks being present there. we're told that only a limited number of people were tested, those who would have been in close proximity to the president. but what does that say about all the others there? they were certainly trying to create this illusion that the pandemic is in the past. it's no surprise the president has sort of provided us with this revisionist history in terms of his own handling of the virus here. what was striking to me, even as you looked at the

and we've got another new country release this morning from one of our favorites darius rucker this onebefore we play it, we have to warn you this song may want you to take off the rest of the day. ♪ everybody in a world gone crazy ♪ ♪ don't know how to fix it but think maybe ♪ ♪ turn on the good times ♪ turn off the tv ♪ the only b.s. i need is beers and sunshine ♪ ♪ oh beers and sunshine >> so he could sing turn off the tv except for the "today" show that didn't have the same ring >> craig, you've got your connections there. >> you're buddies. >> i was actually listening on the way in, that's going to be the song of the summer >> it's good >> a little late in the summer, but it's fantastic >> will we see you on stage singing with him >> probably not. he said after the first time never again. >>> and finally, "a league of their own" is getting a tv reboot they have picked up a full season after shooting a pilot episode months ago a newly released image teasing some of the actors in the show including abby jacobson. this is described as a fresh approach a set of characters as they make

that is right behind megan thee stallion and darius rucker so the boys giving phil collins a boost. >s it's oh lord. >> heathens. >>> coming up, the bread baker turning everything that we thought we knew about sour dough on its head. bryan ford's creations are going viral on instagram especially during quarantine. he's going to show us how he does it. he's made sour dough cool again. >> was it ever not cool? i always loved sour dough. >>> coming up tomorrow on "today," orlando bloom he is out with not one but two new movies and is getting the nursery ready for his child with katy perry any day now can't wait to hear about that. >>> first, something caught our eye, craig did you know that you are in the september issue of "men's health" magazine you must know because you wrote an essay >> i did >> there it is >> it's a good one i hope people check it out it's about your hopes and fears as a black father in america and i'm sure it was very personal to write it >> yeah. i wrote it kind of in the middle of all we were dealing in the country a month or two ago yes. hopefully someone gets s

. ♪ >> thank you, darius rucker. he was once on our show. i like to thank everybody for watching. miss us and want to play us back. see the same thing in playback and follow us on the radio. wave, guys. >> sandra: tropical storm isaias turning deadly. north carolina governor cooper confirming at least one person was killed after a tornado hit a mobile home park overnight. now the east coast bracing for damaging winds and flash flooding as the storm moves north after lashing the carolinas as a category 1 hurricane leaving hundreds of thousands without power this morning. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the storm making landfall near ocean aisle beach north ca