shoutout, tom vilsack. >> well, that's what we do on this program. the idea the biden campaign is really enlisting in earnest messengers seems like an important development. one would hope and assume that will extend beyond the cabinet secretary? >> yes, i have never seen a party united. they feel very passionately about wanting a permanent cease-fire in gaza. what did she do last night? she held up a small sign to protest. we all understand what the stakes are even as we're concerned about individual issues. i think the party is united. there is a very effective cabinet that is well known because a lot of them ran for president themselves in democratic circles. phenomenal governors that, you know, we won tough races in georgia, nevada, arizona, i was making wisconsin and michigan one word. both of those states, and pennsylvania. we won tough races there in 2022. they are fresh from battle. they are ready to go back in again. so that is all. it was the same in 2020, right? it was a big tent. but i do feel proud of him from last night, his performance

tom vilsack is headed to arizona. transportation secretary pete buttigieg is going to philly. and energy secretary jennifer granholm is making stops in ohio, wisconsin and michigan. president biden's most aggressive next steps are ones that can be best measured in dollars and cents. the biden team has already been running ads targeting voters of color, like the administration support for historically black colleges. but the washington post reports today that the president is planning to launch a new $30 million ad campaign with ads on tv, radio and digital platforms running across eight battleground states. some of those ads are designed specifically to target those key parts of the democratic coalition, including black, latino and asian voters. the post also reports that the biden campaign plans to hire at least 350 new staffers across those key battleground states. that is more than triple the number of staffers currently employed on the biden campaign. so the surrogates are fanning out. the field teams are stacking up their clipboards and getting ready to knock on doors. th

stephanie: now, i know that you have been in touch with the agriculture secretary, tom vilsack. usda is offering some loans to ranchers. between that and any other disaster assistance that may become available, is that going to be enough for these businesses and ranchers to be on the road to recovery? sid miller: well, yes, but the road is going to be long and hard. it'll take at least two years for the grass to come back on these places. we have got, out of my estimate, not official, probably 3,000 to 4,000 miles of fence to replace at $15,000 a mile. all will so we desperately need hay and fencing materials in that panhandle area. we lost seven grain and seed dealers, completely wiped out. so it wasn't just the farmers and ranchers. we had the railroads go through that part of the state. we lost railroad trestle. so the railroad was down for a while. i think they have got it repaired, at least where they can use it and keep the trains running, but a lot of things you don't think about when you have a fire of this magnitude. stephanie: you are a cattleman yourself, i understand

this speech, you see other members of the president's cabinet there, the secretary of agriculture, tom vilsack, the secretary of commerce, gina raimondo, and on and on. is it deb haaland, who is the designee, voted no or we do not know yet. >> we just saw a picture of her. oh, so it's not her picture of deb haaland. she just posted a picture with the many members of the cabinet. so it's not one we don't see is gina raimondo. i'm not saying it's her. >> no, we just saw her on the floor. we just saw gina raimondo . we are sorry, folks at home. we're trying to figure out a nerdy d.c. parlor game, which is, there's the secretary of the interior, deb haaland. so not her. who is the designated survivor? kind of a dark, thing. a dark tradition in this, in this country about who will maintain the continuity of government should the worst possible thing in the history of the known universe happen to this building that we're looking at right now, there is always somebody from the cabinet who does not attend. there's the secretary of the department of homeland security, alejandro mayorkas, who was a, imp