tim miller, also joining us democratic strategist and columbia university contributor. we're all veterans of either participating or covering the 2016 election. things can change on a dime. but if you take this map and couple it with the breaking news at this houring that russia is actively working to denigrate joe biden, what word other than desperation describes the russian/trump effort? >> i'm so glad you're trying those two stories together, you take a look at this map and this analysis and there's no deanying that joe biden is in a very strong position, natural circumstances that could change a change economically, a change in this virus, you could see white voters return to trump which would mean biden would need to shore-up his support particularly with voters of color, particularly with latinos and younger voters, there's still work to do, we're not in a normal environment, we have one candidate who's actively working to undermine this election, to say nothing of the fact that we're in the midst of a pandemic and so in some ways how people plan to vote, who they

joining us now is former rnc spokesman tim miller. he has worked on campaigns for everyone from john mccain to jeb bush and also with us mark mckinnon, co-host of showtime's "the circus" and former george w. bush advisor. tim, the president has said he doesn't want the prerecorded speeches. he told sean hannity he thinks that's boring. we just saw this week he was willing to hold events with few masks and no social distancing. even though we are now in the middle of this pandemic, what do you think we're going to see? >> well, i think the president has had a pretty big problem over the past six months and it's the fact that he gets bored very easily. he's like an adhd child who's been spending his time complaining about joe scarborough and making up conspiracy theories and defending q t. what the nation is looking for is what joe biden has to offer. how are we going to fix this pandemic and fix this economy? so i think it's a good sign for democrats that the president is concerned about the boringness of the convention. honestly the be

let me announce tim miller for the presidential campaign.ll of a sudden, this virus is headed to washington. the lack of alarm sounding bells on the republican elected side of the aisle has been just shocking. >> well, deja vu, i guess, with the president, the lack of alarm bells that were sounded with him. there's been a single tweet from adam kinsinger criticizing the qunon conspiracy. he was dunked on, i guess you would say. by the trump campaign who didn't know why he was not supporting, or why they would call out this qanon conspiracy. it is colorado's third district, they're in a competitive race the take the republican seat. that would be two qanon members. in this whole bait about the future of the republican party, they'll have more of they will than trump skeptics in november. >> i want to put up the president's tweet. the president has continued to wink and nod toward qump anon. congratulations to marjorie taylor greene on big a win in georgia against a very smart poem. marjorie is strong on everything and never gives up. a real w

to get into all of it i'm joined by tim miller, political director of republican voters against trumpa communications director for jeb bush's 2016 campaign. thanks for staying up with us. >> hey, ari. anytime. >> here we are late night, an echo of last week. your view of who has the better side of that argument i mentioned. >> well, i think that having ronna mcdaniel make the unity argument leaves a little bit to be desired seeing as how she had to change her maiden name so as to not offend the president about the fact there's a sitting senator who is her uncle. that is not -- that is a republican that's not in good graces within the party. look, i think that her point is taken, that yes, donald trump has a stronghold on probably about 75% of the party, really. i think 40% are passionate red hat trump supporters, another 30% are tacit supporters. but here's the deal. hillary clinton won over about 4% of republicans last night. if joe biden moves it to 6% or 8%, this is a landslide election in his favor. and i think that is what they're missing and i think that is why the stronger side

. >> tim miller is a long-time operate >>> miller spoke to us from his home in oakland. >> the president came tonight with basically one goal, i think. and it was to win back the people he lost to his own base. it was a no stalgia act, and i think it will be successful winning over some of those people. but i don't know if he is winning over anybody new. >> protesters outside the white house could faintly be heard in the speech, biden was tweeting in real time responding to the speech. >>> all right, liz thank you. >> and we have complete coverage of the republican and democratic national conventions on our website, abc7 news.com. there you can find a fact checker for the speeches as well as the speeches for each night. >> the threat for laura is far from over. officials say, at least six deaths are tied to the storm including that of a 14-year-old girl sadly. here's marla carter from our sister station in xa >>toni million mes a'puh. the storm slamming in to the texas/louisiana coast overnight, just shy of a category 5 hurricane. >> this was the most powerful storm to make land fall in

i'm joined by tim miller, aid to jed bush. director of the group republican voters against trump. cing a theme here? and back with us is victoria. tim, walk us through what something like this means to that tiny sliver, some viewers may think it's hard to even imagine it's a sliver, of people who remain somehow undecided, have a republican history. what does this do tonight? >> i'm going to answer the second part first. because we wouldn't be here tonight if hillary clinton had won just a fraction of the republican voters who do not like donald trump, didn't like him in 2016, but just couldn't bring themselves to cross over and vote for a democrat. if you look at the three midwest states, had hillary won a third of those votes, she would be president today. biden can win the presidency on the backs of those voters. so it is important, kasich standing up and being the face of that tonight is important. we were pleased to see republican voters against trump, there was a segment where they had regular republican voters who are switching sides. many of them are on our website, republic

the article quotes former rnc official tim miller.sum up kamala harris is a cop, anti-police, radical leftist and causing a revolt among bernie voters. a phony too nasty to joe biden. got that? what do you make of that response? >> that response is just like the president's tenure in office. muddled and disjointed and makes no sense to anybody. he cannot get a message across. that is a lot of concern to republicans running, especially down ballot. the president doesn't know where he is going. we know he is the one who is the campaign manager and dictator in what he says. he doesn't listen to his strategist. at the end of the day, this is a race against joe biden. if he is going after kamala harris this way, that is a big mistake on trump's part. not surprising, but a big mistake. >> courtney, at the end of the day, the meantime the president followed his gut in 2016 and won. >> yes, you know, i think that's true. i think a lot of tactics he used in 2016 feel a bit dated. they just don't work in 2020. we saw that earlier this year when

. >> tim miller, and former rnc deputy press secretary and reporter at the guardian.ll me what your reporting tells us about the timing of the announcement? >> i think what we are seeing here is that the president is trying to get ahead of what will be, you know, a worsening fall. a worsening fall with the virus and a momentum shift in terms of energy from the dnc convention and speeches. this is getting ahead of the rnc trying to build up momentum and speaking about a party he is against than what policy he is for. >> tim, is it like getting ahead of the rnc and responding to what happened last week at the dnc. a number of big speakers pummelled him on the handling of the crisis and comes out today and calls it a breakthrough treatment. you just heard from two doctors that said while it is a treatment, it is by no means a breakthrough. why come out with this tonight in advance of tomorrow's first day of the rnc? >> his whole career he has been a get rich quick schemester. he used to sell fake vitamins. this is what trump university and the trump institute is about. l

. >> reporter: its founder tim miller tells us that the coronavirus has been a tipping point. >> aboutroups with these soft trump supporters, a lot of them were making excuses for him on the coronavirus response. in the last month you've seen people really start to get frustrated with him. >> reporter: former bush administration officials are now piling on. >> what do we have here? the greatest nation in the world on its knees, because of failed leadership, we can't have four more years of this. >> reporter: gaelen is more blungt about his long-term goal -- riping out trumpism. >> i do believe that a philosophically driven center right party is healthy for the united states. senators who have reporter: tht sided with the president. >> it's not about just donald trump, although he's the prime target, it's about all those people who failed their oath of office. >> you'd be gutting your own party. >> it's not our party. for us it's not about the party it's about the country. >>> and with that let's bring in our senior congressional correspondent mary bruce who's joined on the roundtable b

all of this, my friend, assistant dean at the university of texas school of public affairs and tim millerers against trump, former communications director for jeb bush's 2016 campaign and contributor to the bulwart. we heard voter after voter say he might not have done anything for me but makes me feel more comfortable. somebody said i like he's not in it for himself like those swampy democrats. what do you think when you watch that? >> well, i'm upset that i'm not doing this interview from the pool, steph, but here is what the reality is about florida, which is that joe biden is doing much better on seniors than hillary clinton was doing. he isn't going to win 100% of the vote. donald trump has a good hold on people in that community like pasco county. here is what we've seen. since march, donald trump has lost about 8% of the people who voted for him last time. and about 4% go in the other direction. this convention is about clawing some of those people back. we'll see if he's successful in that. right now his handling of the coronavirus, his handling of the economy, his handling of the

and tim miller, republican strategist who worked on jeb bush's 2016 campaign, the political director of republican voters against trump. adrian, i'll begin with you, as the daughter of immigrants, first black woman and what do you think the her impact will be? >> i think we're already seeing it. the level of excitement that i'm seeing both in conversations that i'm having with people, obviously all over twitter, the text messages that i'm getting, just about not only excitement about this historic moment, and it is really important, we just came out of the week that saw the anniversary of -- the 55th anniversary of the voting rights act, we're going into the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, and then we have this amazing historic announcement with senator harris becoming the running mate. so i think people are incredibly excited. i think people see this as an opportunity to really think about and envision and imagine the multiracial democracy that people know that we can get to, we talk about a more perfect union, this ticket allows us to believe that that is possible. and the

tim miller is a political operative in oakland. >> these voters are just looking to be reinforced that joe biden's not going to pick somebody that's going to push him to the far left, the aoc wing of the party, and kamala doesn't do that. so i think that if biden picks somebody like kamala harris to be the vp, he is still very much in play to win over these voters. >> reporter: of course there are many other women that biden is considering outside of california. the one thing that every single person i spoke with agreed on is that they think biden should choose a woman of color. live in ma inare, liz kreutz, abc7 news. >> liz, during the primary, critics of senator harris when she was running for president went after her record as a prosecutor. is that going to be a factor, do you think, in biden's decision? >> i mean obviously everything like that, right, dan, will be a factor. but the democratic sources i'm talking to who support her, they actually feel like it's an asset, that it will help get some of those anti-voters. one thing that some sources are bringing up is biden is close w

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the group behind that ad, tim miller. robert gibbs and a.b. are still here. hink is going on out there that so many people want to be count and. it used to be like the witness protection program coming out against president trump. not so much anymore. >> for sure. i think in 2016 there was a lot of folks that didn't think he would win and thought they could shri sling by quietly. in 2016 there was a lot of residual hatred over the on thes. people are fed up with virus, the protests, racial division. people are ready to speak out. we're happy at republican voters against trump to be the vessel for that. in arizona running to that az is the ad for elizabeth newman inside the white house and in charge of threat prevention at dhs talking about how disasterous his response to covid is. i appreciate the tough questions you gave her last night. bush and romney and mccain staffers are against him and trump's own homeland security there's a segment of voters that will breakthrough with. we're trying to elevate the voices. they can hear how dire the situation is. not wi

i think you covered tim miller's career, he worked for jeb bush and is now running one of the most effectiveoriented campaigns for joe biden and against donald trump. and he writes this -- he says, quote, the rnc taken what the party's worst critics had to say about them and decided to wear it as a patch of pride, the orange man badge, of political platforms, we're trumpists we believe in nothing, love it or leave it. could you think there's any shame to feel about that. bu rr is dealing with his own dell challenges, but anyone left not okay with that? portman is obviously fine to let this become his legacy. is there anyone in the mold of paul ryan, i remember all the careful reporting if your book about his policy-heartbreaking. as trump came in and was obviously ignorant and indifferent to all those conservative principles that paul ryan adhere to but are there any paul ryans left? anyone who cares? >> you know, nicole, i'll say this, it's not an accident that paul ryan retired after 2018 as i reported about at the time and wrote about in the book, he talked to people around him plainly an

in moments, i will speak to senator tim kaine and then reaction with stephen miller.

sarah miller, i will start with you. tim cook, jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg, what did you hear from one of the four ceos that really caught your ear either positively or negatively? sarah: the one thing that really struck me, and it was early, i think in one of the first sets of questions, is mark zuckerberg essentially admitting that they purchased instagram in order to prevent a competitor from rising up that could threaten their dominance. he admitted that in it email that the subcommittee had in the file, and then he also admitted that in the hearing yesterday. bezos made a similar statement, saying they had purchased corporations to achieve market position. these are mergers that should not have been approved in the first place, and we have to make sure we enforce against it in the future, and then i think congress is taking a very serious look at it. host: congresswoman comstock, your former colleague, jim jordan, called out tech companies for having an amplified conservative bias. -- an anti- conservative bias. do you

sarah miller, we will begin with you. tim cook, mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos for the first time on hill for mr. jeff bezos but what did you hear from one of those poor ceos that really caught your ear, either positively or negatively? >> one thing that struck me and was very early, i think it was in one of the first questions was mark zuckerberg essentially admitting that they purchased instagram in order to prevent a competitor from rising up that could threaten their dominance. he admitted that in an e-mail that the committee had and then he also admitted that in the hearing yesterday. jeff bezos made a similar mention when he said he's purchased other corporations to achieve market suspicion. these are mergers that essentially should not have been approved in the first place and that we need to make sure we can protect against in the future. i think congress enforcement will taking a very serious look at it. >> host: congresswoman comstock, your former colleague jim jordan called out the tech companies for having an anti

sarah miller, we will begin with you. tim cook, mark zuckerberg and jeff bezos for the first time on the hill for mr. basis. what did you hear from one of those four ceos that really kocher here in a positive or negative way? >> guest: one thing that really struck me and it was very early, again one of the first questions was mark zuckerberg essentially admitting they purchased instagram in order to prevent a competitor from rising up that could threaten their dominance. he admitted that it e-mail that the subcommittee had in files and also admitted that any hearing yesterday. jeff bezos made a similar much waste of a purchase of the corporations to achieve market position. so these are mergers essentially that should not an approved in the first place. we need to make sure we can force against them in the future and i think congress will be taken very serious look at. >> host: congresswoman comstock, your former colleague jim jordan called up the tech companies for having an anti-conservative bias. do you agree with that? >>

in moments, i will speak to senator tim kaine and then reaction with stephen miller. we also have jacqui heinrich in delaware with the biden team, the fallout from the russian matter that happened just hours ago but first, chief white house correspondent john roberts kicks off our coverage from the north lawn. good afternoon on this friday. >> good afternoon to you. and just the last couple of hours upping the pressure on democrats to come back to the table and sign a coronavirus relief bill in a series of tweets outlining what he is prepared to do immediately said that democrats are holding him up but the president said he is prepared to do more direct payments to all americans to the tune of $3400 for a family of four, that mirrors the first direct payment and also additional paycheck protection plan payments to small businesses and spend more money for states and local governments including $105 billion to schools. one of the main sticking points in getting the deal has been mining the democrats are demanding from the post office, $25,000,000,000.03 and a half bill