our scott mcgrew breaking down the key takeaways. but first, here's what's coming up on california live. good morning everyone. jobeth devera here. and today on california live. may the best player win. i'm going to introduce you to the bay area trailblazer, who's a techie by day and novelist by night. so make sure you watch us on california live. coming up next at 1130. does mark farrell have the right experience to shake up city hall? in nearly ten years as supervisor, mark grew the bureaucracy by authorizing or creating a commission almost every year. he rubber stamped hundreds of millions to homeless nonprofits with zero accountability and orchestrated a pay-to-play scheme that sold out taxpayers to the highest bidder. mark farrell has all the wrong experience for the change we need. believes the city's efforts to reduce crime levels are working. i spoke to her and she tells me added programs are helping, including new crime cameras and help from the chp. we have our cease fire program that obviously it works. we have crime is tr

our scott mcgrew is breaking down that legal decision. also breaking the superintendent of santa clara county schools is fired. our investigative unit breaking down the many questions surrounding the surprising decision. good morning, and thanks for joining us for our midday news. i'm laura garcia. and i'm kris sanchez. marcus washington is off today. we want to begin with our climate weather alert. our microclimate weather alert. another day of triple digit temperatures on tap. and meteorologist kari hall now tracking just how hot it's going to get and for how long. kari. yes. we've had some really hot temperatures and today, another day without any fog at the golden gate bridge and looking at a temperatures quickly heating up, we're under a heat advisory in the city and along the coast, away from the coast, we're seeing the excessive heat warning once again, in effect, that has actually been extended into tomorrow evening. so we do have a couple of more days of the really dangerous temperatures that we are seeing that are already in the

i'm scott mcgrew. i suspect you know how large language models ai is trained. it's basically fed a huge amount of language books and magazines, newspapers, really whatever. they can get their hands on. the new york times discovered that openai was using their newspaper articles to train its chatgpt. google's gemini scrapes the web. elon musk's grok reads every tweet on the former twitter podcasts, youtube videos, wikipedia, you name it. you would think there's a nearly infinite supply of human writing out there, but in fact, ai is probably already seen it. the new york times report meta was so desperate for language data it thought about buying simon and schuster simply so the ai could read all of its books. pablo villalobos and his colleagues at epic predict that ai will have scanned every piece of data. worthwhile information on the internet in the next 2 to 4 years. pablo, let me start with that. what happens if the language models run out of things to read? well, for a while we could repeat the same data we have a bit of time and that gives you some extra a

though scott mcgrew millions of americans have already voted. that's right.ey're estimating around 15 million americans now. we can't draw many conclusions from that number. we don't know how those people voted, only that they did vote. both trump and harris are trying to scoop up the remaining votes from wherever they can. groups with which they may not have a lot of strength. donald trump this morning speaking at a latino business roundtable, though he took less than a half dozen questions. trump claimed many american voters don't even know who his opponent is. nobody knows who she is. you say? harris. her name is harris. who the hell is harris? nobody, even political people, don't know. rick scott has no idea who the hell harris is. no, people don't know who harris is. harris, of course. the vice president of the united states. a democratic candidate for president. she campaigned yesterday alongside republican liz cheney for the second time. not only is cheney a republican, she is one of the most conservative republicans in modern times, which she says is

scott mcgrew here. and you've been reminding us, scott, that's not when voting starts, but it's really when voting ends at the end of election day, it's over, right? so tens of millions of americans have already turned in their ballot. so next tuesday is the last chance to vote, either by dropping off your ballot or showing up in person. used to be we all went to the polls on election day. these days, many americans get it done early. looking at the campaigns this morning, the trump campaign distancing itself from some of the speakers at trump's madison square garden rally, particularly the speaker who called puerto rico a floating island of garbage. while puerto rico is part of america, it does not have electoral votes. but americans of puerto rican descent are going to be important in places like pennsylvania. here's vice presidential candidate jd vance. i think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the united states of america. i'm just i'm so over it. georgia going to be a

scott mcgrew joins us now. she called him a fascist, at least at last night's town hall. yeah.this is the vice president of the united states. a word partizans have been throwing around for a while, but not the vice president. this comes after trump's former chief of staff once again warned trump would act as a dictator. here's harris last night. do you think donald trump is a fascist? yes i do. yes, i do. and i and i also believe that the people who know him best on this subject should be trusted. people who know him best. he's talking about john kelly and mike pence and mark esper and john bolton and rex tillerson, but mostly kelly, who, as you will remember, told the new york times that trump was not fit to be president. the former four star marine general, also discussing trump's apparent admiration for german generals of the second world war and their allegiance to hitler. here's audio of that conversation with the new york times commented more than once that, you know, hitler did some good things, too. well, i tell him that. i said, you know, it's very easy if you first o

scott mcgrew rallies are almost turning into concerts. they really are a lot of energy. good morning. we got word that beyonce will perform with kamala harris tonight in texas. eminem joined the harris campaign last weekend. the boss, bruce springsteen joined harris during her campaign stop in clarkston, georgia, just northeast of atlanta. rally was really long because it included harris, springsteen and for the first time, obama on stage with harris. unlike the first time, he won't have people like john kelly around to stop him. he'll be surrounded by people who are just as loony as he is, and who will let him do what he wants. and so my question to you, georgia, is, how is any of that going to help you? vice presidential candidate tim walz featured james taylor at his rally. he led the crowd in a rendition of america the beautiful, joined by his wife and son, willie nelson will join harris and beyonce at a rally in houston this weekend. donald trump, meantime, agreed to go on the joe rogan podcast taping that today. this is something the harris campaign has at least co

well, google is rolling out new updates to its google maps and waze this midday, and scott mcgrew is here to explain for us. and scott maps just got a little smarter, got a little smarter. and, you know, it has something to do with ai, right? google calls its ai. gemini says it's folding gemini into its map. so instead of just typing a location into the map, you can now ask the map to give you a recommendation, like a fun place to go in the evening. they're using boston in this example. google maps will then offer suggestions with i double checking the places open and well rated, and you can ask a follow up question like is there a full bar? for instance, what can i do with kids this weekend in san francisco? you can even say, what can i do on a rainy day in san francisco? you could say date night in san francisco, fall activities in san francisco. you know, you can just be creative because that's the power of generative ai and the gemini models. it can take all of that natural language, complex query and process it and come back with something that is unique and maybe inspirational.

scott mcgrew joins us now. we've already actually seen some examples. yeah, some minor violence people on social media, for instance, reacting with threats of violence when they find out they can't wear their caps, supporting a candidate while they are in line to vote. we got word of people setting ballot drop boxes on fire in portland and in washington state. american intelligence agency warning election workers and election volunteers. they will be the most likely targets, something called a joint intelligence bulletin that just went out to local law enforcement around the country. video of the line to vote in new castle, delaware, this morning. you may recognize one of the fellas there in the sunglasses waiting for his turn to vote, helping push another elderly relative of one of the other voters in a wheelchair and taking phone calls on people's cell phones as they wait direct from the president in delaware. also this morning, we got an update on early voting in michigan from the secretary of state there. this is the state's first time trying out in

scott mcgrew joins us now. fema trying its best to help get those people the help they need, including money immediately in their pockets. that's right, $750 immediate money to get gas, baby formula, flashlights, whatever is most important for evacuees. now, you may have heard politicians trying to politicize that money, claiming it's a loan it's not, or that it's just $750 for people who lost a whole house. well, it's not the end of the money. it's the beginning. there are lots of claims that fema is out of money, but it isn't. or that it spent it all on immigrants. it didn't. former president trump claiming wrongly there are no helicopters in north carolina. there are hundreds. here's vice president harris speaking last night on the stephen colbert show. what just upsets me so is the idea that any politician would play political games with these folks, with people who are in the midst of such suffering, loss of life, loss of their homes, loss of normalcy, and then for the sake of political gain, tell these li

scott mcgrew has highlights. good morning. preparations underway. just outside the white house for vice president harris's speech tonight on the ellipse. that's the same spot where trump declared he and his supporters were going to march on the capitol. some pictures of those preps underway as we speak. earlier, harris campaigned in ann arbor, michigan, while bruce springsteen and barack obama campaigned for her in philadelphia. here's a good rule if somebody does not respect you, if somebody does not see you as fellow citizens with equal claims to opportunity, to the pursuit of happiness, to the american dream, you should not vote for them. barbara bush, the daughter of former president george w bush, granddaughter to the late first lady barbara bush, is knocking on doors this morning in pennsylvania campaigning for kamala harris. donald trump, meanwhile, asked the press to attend an announcement at his home in florida this morning, but that announcement contained no new information. the trump campaign meantime distancing itself from some of the sp

scott mcgrew has some of the highlights at this point. the candidates are reaching out to whoever they can find. good morning to you. harris campaigning with republicans yesterday before appearing on fox news. trump speaking to an all woman audience and then an hispanic audience. here's harris with the central question how is your presidency going to be any different than your boss's? my presidency will not be a continuation of joe biden's presidency. and like every new president that comes in to office, i will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. i represent a new generation of leadership. now, the interview did get contentious from time to time, but reporters are supposed to ask hard questions and pin the person into answering it. it's how a good interview is done. politicians don't want to answer the question. they want to pivot or ramble. baier particularly aggressive, and that was frustrating to harris at times. 2021 it was essentially a pathway to citizenship for the. yes, ma'am, may i fin

scott mcgrew has the highlights from that. an interview to which donald trump was also invited and said yes to before backing out. 60 minutes has been running presidential candidate interviews in october since before many americans had color televisions, and each time there were two candidates. this time, though, just one. cbs's scott pelley explaining off the top of the show, the trump campaign had at first agreed, then backed out partially because it was worried 60 minutes would fact check trump. we fact check all of our interviews. pelley explained. cbs also said trump demanded an apology for something lesley stahl had said in a 2020 interview with trump. but the records show stahl never said it and said both sides understood the election special would go on whether a candidate dropped out or not. you are sitting here with us. the trump campaign canceled an interview that they had agreed to participate in this broadcast. what do you make of that? if he is not going to give your viewers the ability to have a meaningful, thou

scott mcgrew says early voting is a sign of enthusiasm, enthusiasm for your candidate or against the other candidate. both campaigns are encouraging their voters to vote early. that's a turnaround for donald trump. in the past, he's criticized early and mail in voting. he was campaigning in atlanta. you see the big banners, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. well, the wall street journal surveyed american economists. a majority, 68%, said trump would raise run up prices faster than harris, 12%, answered harris. the issue is that plan for government deficit spending, lower taxes and tariffs, deficits caused by the many ways that trump wants to cut taxes. trump at the chicago economic forum proposing a new 2,000% tariff on foreign cars. it was a contentious interview with a no nonsense editor in chief of bloomberg. how about this, gavin newsom? he's the governor of california. newsom. he signed newsom. i call him. yeah, but do you do you think? no, he corrected me. he corrected me. i said, that's the first time i've been corrected. there are ceos out here. if they said those sort of t

the election, one of the people who knows donald trump best said down with the new york times, scott mcgrew joins us. john kelly was trump's chief of staff, his right hand man for a third of trump's presidency. good morning. trump had three chiefs of staff general kelly was from july of 2017 to january of 2019, and he's long warned about trump but just spoke very frankly with the new york times, saying if trump wins, he'll likely rule as a dictator and that trump met the definition of a fascist as well as reconfirming that trump had called american soldiers who laid down their lives losers and suckers. kelly said recent comments from trump that he could use the u.s. military against american civilians was so disturbing he had to speak out. kelly is just one of several former trump officials to speak out. he's a former marine four star general who served as secretary of homeland security. trump's former defense secretary mark esper, his former national security adviser john bolton, his former military chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, have all also warned about another trum

trump white house staffers say general john kelly is right to warn americans about donald trump scott mcgrew. kelly was trump's longest serving chief of staff. right. that's right. yeah. one of three. good morning. so kelly really has spent more time behind closed doors with trump in the white house than any other person. and you've heard the allegations kelly has made that trump fits the description of a fascist, that he praised the loyalty of hitler's generals. well, this morning, 13 white house staffers have released a letter backing kelly's claims. all life long. republicans who applaud general kelly for stepping forward. they include former trump press secretary stephanie grisham, the chief of staff for homeland security, and mike pence's national security adviser. former president obama, campaigning with kamala harris yesterday in georgia, warned that if trump became president again, he would not have people like general kelly around to hold him back. unlike the first time, he won't have people like john kelly around to stop him. he'll be surrounded by people who are just as loony as h

scott mcgrew joins us now. they're coming from rallies in pennsylvania. yes. which is a key state. the key of all key states. nickname. the key, nicknamed rather the keystone state, may live up to its reputation. when there, you'll likely win the election. let's start with trump. he had an unusual rally just outside of philadelphia last night, started when somebody in the crowd had some kind of medical emergency. so trump stopped his question and answer session with south dakota's governor and trump campaign play played ave maria, the song while the person was attended to. but then another person fell ill. so they did it again and at that point trump said, let's just keep playing music. so put on pavarotti singing ave maria nice and loud. turn it up louder. we want a little action here. turn it up louder. love. erriyon grassi r velena maria grassi. this went on for about 30 minutes. trump, by the way, started selling a crypto coin this morning, similar to his trump nft, where he sold superhero art digitally. the crypto coins have no intrinsic value. then again, neither do any other

scott mcgrew continues our coverage here. israeli ambassador danny danon, one of the many speaking today marking one year of war with no end in sight. here's the ambassador and then senate majority leader chuck schumer. when the massacre of october seven unfolded, the un refused to act. it couldn't find the most basic morality to condemn. one condemnation of the brutal murder of innocent civilians. and it could not bring itself to call out the atrocities for what they were. instead of standing with the innocent, this institution remained silent. october 7th is a day that will live in infamy. rarely. never. almost. has the world seen such viciousness coming from the evil terrorists of hamas who killed little babies, beheaded the elderly, raped women with reckless abandon. it was reminiscent of the viciousness of the nazis during the holocaust. both vice president harris and former president trump have observances scheduled today. harris will plant a tree in washington. trump will attend an event in miami. back to you. well, ju

i'm scott mcgrew. here is a statistic for you if us healthcare paperwork and administration, not all of us healthcare, just the paperwork. we're a country. it would be bigger gdp than 195. other countries. it did not take long after the invention of the large language models for healthcare administrators to think, maybe i can do some of this work. among them doctor abdelmahmoud, co-founder of anterior, which just received $20 million in series a funding. the company's got an i nickname. florence made by doctors, they say for doctors now, sir, we were talking about healthcare records. but there's also something the industry calls prior authorization, which is something that insurance companies deal with. i want to start with that. are we talking about ai deciding whether or not i get authorized for healthcare? well, i'll get straight into it. no, i should not be deciding what you get for healthcare, scott, but what it is prior authorization for your audiences. i mean, and i hope you know, sadly, those t

scott mcgrew with a brand new update with ways to make your commute even easier.v, xumo, and streaming platforms, and that includes nbcbayarea.com. have a great halloween! ♪♪ >>> okay. get fired up. >> let's go. >> the crowd is lit in the halloween spirit. cutis. so many creative costumes out there. i cannot wait to get dressed up. we're moments away now from joining them for our -- >> we're counting down. >> -- epic review. >> that's the only hint we're giving. you'll know soon enough. >> that's in just a bit. >>> we've got a lot of news to get to including just this really wild story from florida where a man is recovering from a brutal shark attack and incredibly it's not the first time. >> that same surfer was attacked on the very same beach over a decade ago. nbc's joe fryer is here. he's got that story. hey, joe. >> reporter: here's a story for you. good morning. so cole was 16 the first time he was bitten. that time on his hand. it did not keep him out of the water then and he says this latest attack, not going to stop him now. >> what? >> i knew instantly i

scott mcgrew joining us now. and scott, she's booked on three major shows today.this is after that 60 minutes interview last night. last night. good morning to you. to which donald trump of course was also invited. and said yes before backing out. 60 minutes has been running presidential candidate interviews in october since before many americans had color tvs. and every time there were two candidates. this time, though, just one. cbs's scott pelley explaining off the top of the show the trump campaign had agreed, then backed out partially because it worried 60 minutes would fact check trump. we fact check all our interviews, pelley explained. cbs also says trump demanded an apology for something lesley stahl had said in a 2020 interview with trump. but the records show stahl never said it. both sides understood the election special would go on whether or not a candidate dropped out. you are sitting here with us. the trump campaign canceled an interview that they had agreed to participate in this broadcast. what do you make of that? if he is not going to give your

there's all kinds of activity this morning as we close in on decision 2024 scott mcgrew with us this morning. and scott, former president barack obama, governor tim walz also campaigning together in wisconsin, in wisconsin, in madison. good morning to you. jd vance. meantime, arizona trump will be hosting a make america healthy again rally led by gia robert f kennedy jr, who has made a number of incorrect claims about medicine. meantime, the latest calculation by cnbc says 93 million americans could escape federal taxes if there are tax breaks for tips, overtime and social security proposed by trump. the lack of income for the u.s. would shatter deficit records. a new calculation by the nonpartisan center for the responsible federal budget says shortfalls would drain social security in just six years under trump. to be fair, most economists say social security will be insolvent in ten years. one way or the other. just days after shocking some of his fans with tales of owner arnold palmer's anatomy, trump was speaking to evangelical christians in north carolina. it's also great to be b

and scott mcgrew with this morning. and scott, statistically speaking here, a little chance of new york being the winning state for donald trump. yeah, but and yet there he was in new york, right? new york state, solidly blue. but he got national attention over this rally. not all of it positive. shadowed at times by some of his lead up speakers, the rally itself, though absolutely huge, selling out madison square garden, which has been home to the ali-frazier fight, john lennon's last concert, elvis presley and the pope, as well as other moments in american history. here's former president trump addressing the crowd with your vote in this election. i will end inflation. i will stop the invasion of criminals coming into our country, and i will bring back the american dream. we need the american dream. trump the last to speak behind elon musk, doctor phil, hulk hogan and others. his top aide, stephen miller, told the crowd what america would look like under a future trump administration. who's going to stand up and say th

scott mcgrew here with us right now. and scott is known as the keystone state and pretty much living up to that reputation for sure. it's going to be critical, right? the candidate that wins pennsylvania could very well win the presidency. both candidates had unusual moments in their rallies. on monday, donald trump had a kind of dance party started when someone in the trump crowd had some kind of medical emergency. so trump stopped his question and answer session with north dakota's governor. and the trump campaign played ave maria while the person was attended to, and then another person fell ill. so they did it again. and at some point trump said, let's just keep playing music. so put on pavarotti singing ave maria nice and loud. turn it up louder. we want a little action here. turn it up louder. robin. erriyon grazi of velena maria grazi of trump, by the way, started selling a crypto coin this morning, similar to his trump nfts, where he sold digital superhero art. the crypto coins have no intrinsic value. then again,

scott mcgrew with us this morning. scott, his staffers have indicated that trump may withhold federal funding from police departments that don't help with immigrant roundups. right. so this is something kind of similar to what he tried the first time around, this brand new reporting, by the way, from nbc, three sources on the trump team telling our reporters in washington that they've adjusted their policies to better survive court challenges, particularly in blue states that would presumably include all of california. california will jail undocumented immigrants, of course, for crimes committed here, but does not alert federal authorities of the prisoners immigrant status. we'll keep an eye on that democratic candidate for president, kamala harris, delivered her last major address before election day on the ellipse outside the white house last night. the crowd size was enormous. remember five years ago, harris dropped out of the presidential race after her campaign ran out of money and generated very few supporters. s

scott mcgrew is here for us this morning. and scott. democrats are just one seat away from losing control. that's right. and they've got a retirement on their hands. and jon tester, the democrat from montana, falling behind on his reelection effort. probably the best democrats can hope to do in november is keep 50 seats, making it a 5050 tie, then win the white house, meaning vice president tim walz could break the ties. donald trump making more tax promises, this time to end taxes on americans living abroad. you still have to pay income tax in america, even if you live in, say, france. meantime, republicans calling into question the validity of ballots sent in by americans overseas, even military ballots. here's trump speaking about kamala harris in pennsylvania. she's a no good liar. but you know what's you know what's more important about her? i don't like her. you know what's more important about her? she's just led the worst rescue operation in history. in north carolina, the worst. now, that's not true. the efforts in north caroli

scott mcgrew joins us now. the numbers show one candidate's plans, though, adds far more than others. yeah. far more. good morning to you. the nonpartisan committee for a responsible budget warning donald trump's plans for tax cuts and tax breaks on things like tips and overtime could add as much as $15 trillion to the national debt over ten years. that's a much bigger number than we've heard from other economists who also agree. a trump presidency would grow the debt faster than harris. harris's plan, too, would cost us that. same group estimates 8 trillion. about half that same group warns that trump's plan to put tariffs on imported goods would cost american families the middle class, paying about $1,500 more per year for imported goods in that tariff system. mr. trump suggested a 20% tariff on all imported goods, 60% from china. now, trump insists china pays the tariff america puts on chinese goods. but that just is not the way tariffs work. tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter. if china were

and scott mcgrew, a lot of important issues came up. you may even say more issue oriented than harris. trump. yeah i agree. good morning to you. abortion, the middle east, the deficit. now it doesn't mean necessarily that the candidates answered those questions, but at least the questions were there. minnesota governor tim walz squaring off against ohio senator jd vance. it's probably the last debate for the election. trump has indicated he will not debate kamala harris again. a lot of people talking about governor walz's performance, particularly off the top. the democratic candidate seemed unsettled. a split screen for you of how the governor reacts to crowds at rallies, enthusiasm and ease. and last night, looking at his notes repeatedly, surprisingly stumbling over answers, several pundits saying he seemed to overprepared. walz went on the attack over vance's claims that haitian immigrants are eating pets in ohio, something that's both incendiary and not true. but walz never really set the stage for viewers, explaining what vance ha

but scott mcgrew the numbers show that one candidate plan is worse than the other one much bigger number than the others. yeah, it's the nonpartisan committee for a responsible budget. they're warning donald trump's plan for tax cuts and tax breaks on things like tips and overtime, could add as much as $15 trillion to the national debt over ten years. those are much bigger numbers than we have heard from other economists, who also agree a trump presidency would grow the debt faster than harris. harris plans to, though, cost us that same group estimates about 8 trillion, about half that same group, warning that trump's plan to put tariffs on imported goods would cost american families the middle class, paying about $1,500 more per year for purchased goods. mr. trump has suggested a 20% tariff on imported goods, 60% from china. now trump insists that china pays the tariff on american goods, but that is not the way the tariffs work. tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter. if china were to put a tariff on an american product, say, ford cars, chinese car dealers and thus the chine

scott mcgrew is here to talk more about that. we're talking about john kelly here. he was trump's chief of staff right hand man for pretty much what a third of his presidency. yeah that's right. trump had three chiefs of staff. good morning. general kelly was july 2017 to january 2019. now kelly has long warned about trump. you've heard from him before, but he just spoke very frankly with the new york times, saying if trump wins, he'll likely rule as a dictator. and that trump met the definition of a fascist as well as reconfirming that trump had called american soldiers who had laid down their lives losers and suckers. kelly said recent comments from trump that he would use the u.s. military against american civilians was so disturbing, he had to speak out. now, kelly is one of several former trump officials to speak out. former marine four star general served as secretary of homeland security. trump's former defense secretary mark esper, his former national security adviser john bolton, his former military chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley, have al

donald trump is returning to the campaign trail today with two rallies in pennsylvania and scott mcgrew. it seems like kamala harris was everywhere else, everywhere else. yeah. good morning big media blitz doing the view and howard stern and stephen colbert all in the same day. we may see a pause ahead here from the people running for president as hurricane milton hits florida. could be terrible. here's the actual president. i've spoken to all the political leaders in the region, some of them more than once, and they they i've told them anything. they asked for. they can get. and we've given and we've gotten overwhelming response, positive response from everyone from the governors of florida up to north carolina, candidates for vice president tim walz and jd vance were also on the campaign trail. they spoke about the danger the newest hurricane poses. jd vance, acknowledging the false news about fema funds passed around by conservatives. fema is not out of money and says what it has, what it needs to handle. milton. but vance said what the fact checkers say, and we'll sort of, you know,

all kinds of activity this morning as we close in on decision 2024 scott mcgrew former president barack obama and governor tim walz. they will actually be in wisconsin. they'll be in madison. good morning to you. so and then jd vance is in arizona. trump's going to be hosting a make america healthy rally in north carolina, i think. meantime worries over trump's tax plans. the latest calculations by cnbc say 93 million americans could escape federal taxes if there are tax breaks for tips over time and social security. but the problem is that lack of income for the united states would shatter deficit records and a new calculation by the nonpartisan center for a responsible federal budget says the shortfalls would drain social security in just six years. now, to be fair, most economists say social security would be insolvent in about ten years one way or the other. just days after shocking some of them with his tales of arnold palmer's anatomy, trump was speaking to evangelical christians in north carolina. it's also great to be back in this incredible state with so many proud american pat

and scott mcgrew joins us now. it's known as the keystone state. and it's certainly living up to its reputation. absolutely. i mean, the person that wins pennsylvania could win the presidency. both candidates had unusual moments in their rallies on monday. donald trump had kind of a dance party. it started when someone in the trump crowd had a medical emergency. so trump stopped his question and answer session with north dakota's governor, and they played ave maria. while the person was attended to. but then another person fell ill in the same way. so they did it again. and at some point, trump just said, let's stop the questions and just play music. so put on pavarotti singing ave maria. nice and loud. turn it up louder. we want a little action here. turn it up louder. love. erriyon grazzi r velena maria grazzi. that went on for about 30 minutes at this trump rally. trump, by the way, started selling a crypto coin this morning, similar to his trump nfts, where he sold digital superhero art. crypto coins have no intrinsic value now. neither do any

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the election, one of the people who knows donald trump best sat down with the new york times, scott mcgrew joins us now. john kelly was trump's chief of staff. his right hand man for nearly a third of trump's presidency. that's right. trump had three chiefs of staff general kelly was july of 27 to january of 2019. he's long warned about trump, but just spoke very frankly with the new york times, saying if trump wins, he will likely rule like a dictator, and that trump met the definition of a fascist as well as reconfirming. trump called american soldiers who laid down their lives losers and suckers, kelly said. recent comments from trump that he would use the u.s. military against american civilians was so disturbing he had to speak out. kelly is one of former several trump officials to speak out. he's a former marine four star general, served as secretary of homeland security as well. trump's former defense secretary mark esper, his former national security adviser john bolton, his former military chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, milley. they've all warned about another trump presid

scott mcgrew. of course, fox is foreign territory for harris. yeah it is. so at this point, the candidates are really reaching out to anybody they can find. harris is campaigning with republicans. she did that yesterday before appearing on fox news. trump speaking to an all women audience and then a hispanic audience. here's harris with the central question how is your presidency going to be any different than your boss's? my presidency will not be a continuation of joe biden's presidency. and like every new president that comes in to office, i will bring my life experiences, my professional experiences, and fresh and new ideas. i represent a new generation of leadership. the interview did get contentious from time to time, but reporters are supposed to ask hard questions and then pin the person into answering it. that is how a good interview is done. politicians don't want to answer the question. pathway to citizer the. yes, ma'am. may i finish? may i finish responding, please? but you have to let me finish, please. the white house and the house and the se

scott mcgrew garbage has been the word of the week. the word of the week. maybe the word of the month because donald trump remember, actually called america a garbage can in speeches in both michigan and arizona earlier this month. then you had the garbage island comment from that comedian at the trump rally, and then biden appeared to call trump supporters garbage as well. how do you like my garbage truck? this truck is in honor of kamala and joe biden. so trump got his own garbage truck to drive him around in circles at the airport in green bay and wore a hi viz sanitation workers vest to his rally there. joe biden's comments were the direct result of kamala's decision to portray everyone who isn't voting for her, which is a lot of people, as evil and subhuman. and we know it's really what they believe because look at how they've treated you. they treat you like garbage. they treat our whole country like garbage with open borders, with all of the horrible things they've done to hurt our country. inflation. that should have never happened. allowing russia

scott mcgrew.e and vice president kamala harris are going to promise whatever the states need to recover. that's exactly right. and which is, you know, 100% what presidents say right after a disaster. and largely, they've kept their word in the past. vice presidents don't tour disasters as often, but of course, we're in an election season. and vice president harris has been taking a greater role in white house affairs. harris met with families in augusta, georgia, and announced the white house had approved 100% of the emergency funding. the governor of georgia had asked for. president biden met with the governor of north carolina in raleigh for a briefing. hurricane helene has been a storm, literally of historic proportions. the damage is still being assessed, but and many people are still unaccounted for. so i'm here to say the united states, the nation has your back, the nation has your back. we're not leaving until you're back on your feet completely. there's a lot of work that's going to need t

scott mcgrew. we've been able to vote for more than a week now, more than a week.nd i assume you're getting these right. i'm getting them. i'm stacking them up, stacking them up. recycle. i'm getting these mailers to this is a yes on two. yes on five. and the county voter information guide for santa clara county. these are just from yesterday in my mailbox. but they're not going to do any good because everybody in my household has already voted. so we mentioned georgia voting just got underway there yesterday, and within a few hours, the secretary of state said 134,000 people had voted. that's a new record, some waiting close to an hour to do it. in person, even though they do have another 20 days to do it. donald trump, not far away campaigning in atlanta, where he praised early voting. that is a turnaround for him. i'll tell you what, i'm hearing very good things now. it hasn't been going on too long, but we're seeing numbers there saying, wow, those are big numbers. so in fact, they set a record for the number of ballots today, right now, following his defeat in