trump focused on a message of fear, harris casting trump as a threat to the nation's democracy.a series of interviews with "the new york times" mr. trump's longest serving chief of staff retired marine corps general john kelly warned the former president would rule like a dictator in a second term. >> looking at the definition of fascism, it's a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism and suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy. so certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running america. so he certainly falls interest the general definition of fascist for sure. >> vice president harris joined by high-profile surrogates including barack and michelle obama is leaning into a closing argument centered on attacking former president trump as a danger to the country in an approach campaign officials believe will help her win over the small sliver of undecided voters. and motivate her base. >> d

who was trump? were the people around trump did it seem like they were actually interested finding this fraud that they claimed. so confidently or. were they just talking about kind of changing the rules around elections? so did seem like they were really into the investigation. were they into the cyber ninjas results or anything like that? well, i think that was a big disappointment the ultimate findings for them. but when you watch somebody like like mike lindell, who held that these held these cyber symposiums, he was, you know, he and a cohort of other far right people were writing checks, support some of this. you know, they in some ways were constantly in search of any sort of evidence or any kind of answer that would prove what believed even if they i think just going circles and, it still feels that way with some of it, you know, with different reports or how you know, people are able to manipulate data in different ways and it does often feel like they were in circles searching for an that

donald trump's former chief of staff, a retired four-star marine general warns trump would govern likeictator and praised hitler's generals for loyalty. >> certainly falls into the general definition of fascist. >> do you think donald trump is a fascist? >> yes, i do. >> and 2024 doubts. >> got to make it too big to rig, right? >> donald trump still hasn't conceded the 2020 election. what will that mean for the 2024 results? >> did donald trump lose the election not by the words that i would use. >> my guest this morning, republican vice presidential nominee senator j.d. vance and independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson. jonathan martin of politico. symone sanders-townsend, former chief spokesperson for vice president kamala harris and sarah fagan. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press". >> from nbc news in washington the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >>> good sunday morning. the closest presidential contest in modern histo

saying trump derangement syndrome is only true insofar as you work for trump and he now suggests trump is deranged. nevertheless, diehard trump supporters are discounting kelly is just one disgruntled ex-employee. >> how do you get your head around that? >> it's one person stating a series of things. >> 28 people who have worked for the president, not just in close proximity, but in the oval office with him, have come out publicly and expressed things of this sort. >> it's hugely important point. trying to think of some former trump cabinet members and close white house aides who have endorsed his run for president this year, or out on the trail, for instance. not a lot. right? now how many can you think of that called trump a fascist, threat to democracy, dangerously ignorant? said he shouldn't be anywhere near the oval office ever again. there's a lot of those. back in june columnist john harwood detailed a dozen former trump officials who sounded the alarm against their former boss. the numbers have kept growing since then. it is a who's who of conservatives and silver servants and

jamie dimon has not endorsed trump for president. but trump went out and said that he did. presumably hoping that nobody would notice that he just made it up. i mean, if you're making your business decision on the election based on the perceived relationships between the candidate, healthy consultation between the candidate and business leaders, this is not just a theoretical thing. you do have stuff to go on, right? and a track record of it, like trump's big meeting with ceos that was organized for him by the business roundtable this summer. remember how that worked out? headline, ceos at trump meeting say ex-president is, quote, meandering and, quote, doesn't know what he's talking about.he former president donald trump failed to impress everyone in ae room full of top ceos this week, multiple attendees told cnbc. one ceo who was in the room said, quote, trump doesn't know what he's talking about. several ceos, quote, said that trump was remarkably meandering and could not keep a straight thought. and was all over the map. but maybe that's not how you're making your busin

why make excuses for president trump when he's been attacking trump voters for years? tonight, radio host mark simone is going to break it down. also this -- >> something we're very proud of, i must tell you, because bidenomics is working. it's working. and today's jobs numbers made clear bidenomics is working. bidenomics. [cheers and applause] and bidenomics is working. bidenomics. [laughter] and bidenomics is working. [applause] if. elizabeth: no, it's not working. it's the not. inflation is up more than 20% compounded under biden and harris. and inflation is hitting the swing states hard. by the way, government spending is fueling and powering gdp growth, also job growth. we've got that data. we're going to talk to iowa farmers on what happened to them under the biden-harris white house. lots of action this hour. you won't want to miss it. we'll be back in two. stay right there. >> so i'm in this beautiful plane, i'm enjoying myself, i have a wonderful suit on on -- [cheers and applause] and one of my people came in and said, sir, you know, the word garbage is the h

-- that accurate legal analysis was forward to a trump white house staffer five days before trump amplified lies in the lawsuit. that same rnc lawyer was highly critical of rudy giuliani, who was trump's personal lawyer and spearheading the very public legal campaign boosting false allegations in court. the rnc lawyer said, what giuliani and others are doing is a joke. and they're getting laughed out of court. according to smith, rudy didn't like that and threatened to have trump fire him. days later, rudy called rnc chair ronna mcdaniel and had him relieved of his duties. all these examples link individuals who were working on behalf of trump, in his private capacity as a candidate. and they all knowingly lied to undermine the election with the goal of de-certifying on january 6th, which brings us to former vice president mike pence. in this newly unsealed document smith explains to chutkan how he intends to prove that conversations between trump and pence were not conversations about pence's official responsibilities but rather in private capacities as running mates. this will be a key ar

trump: no charge. is that okay? >> okay,, great! >> mr. trump: this is all on trump.od to do that, right? >> it's everything you said it would be! >> mr. trump: animated myself, it'll be the best steve ever had. i might come back and do it again! i like this job. >> mr. trump: nice to see! how are you? >> is thank you mr. president. you help all ordinary people like us. >> mr. trump: a you are not ordinary! >> please don't make us like brazil. >> mr. trump: and we will make it better than ever. >> jesse: a photo is worth a thousand words but in politics it could be worth a million votes because this image at a pennsylvania mcdonald's, was taken out of far from another iconic moment in bachelor, fight, fight, fight. and in fulton county jail. now the american psyche like a sizzling quarter pounder, and branded like a steer in to the american culture. certifying the 2020 election as the most mesmerizing race of our lifetime. there is something aristocratic about a billionaire president taking your order at a fast food drive-through pick he kept his tie on, did not prete

now, trump thaw by his office yes. and said so she did call me a fascist and everyone knows that's not true. >> they call me everything until, you know, something sticks. he made a statement that i'm like hitler just couldn't be further from the truth. it's just the opposite actually with. >> me now, kristen soltis anderson, cnn political commentator and republican strategist. bryan lanza, senior adviser that trump/vance, presidential campaign, and karen finney, a cnn political commentator, glad to have all of you here look karen obama and harris are hitting trump on being a fascist. you even heard from hillary clinton tonight with kaitlan collins, the same thing. you've heard other people make this comment as well, is that the strongest closing message to voters who are persuadable at this juncture know, but that's why that's not her full closing message. >> her closing message, as you alluded to in the open is he's got an enemies list. i've got to do less and i think what you're going to hear our this is sort the sta

in trump's entourage.ot only did they charge them, they charge them at rates two, three, four, five times the government per diem, and a lot more than they were charging other private customers, including foreign governments who came to pay their tribute to donald trump illegally. >> have you been able to ascertain, because the immediate question that comes to my mind is why did the secret service not find this earlier? because the secret service, of course, when they have to pay a bill after having their agents stay at a hotel, gets the bill like you and i, like any corporation does, and sees wait a minute, hour per diem rate is xyz. this is 300%. we are not talking about a percent of an up charge. >> there is a process where in a necessity or emergency they can override the per diem rate. and in that handful of cases they actually did that. the other times they just blew right past the per diem rate. but i will give you an example. one of the trump sons stayed there one night, and they charge the secret

trump. >> some would argue a vote for jill stein is a vote for donald trump. that's a moral decision i'm going to make, that i cannot put a vote behind a man that, obviously, have this nefarious intent. >> i could not find a kamala harris voter to go on camera. >> yasmin, thank you very much. that's going to do it for me this hour. "deadline: white house" starts right now. . >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.c.. i'm alease ya menendez in nor nicolle wallace. interviews canceled, angry outbursts about his critics, diatribes of everything from world leaders to sharks and fictional serial killers. 18 days to election day here in the united states and concerns they are mounting about the mental acuity of the oldest presidential nominee in american history. the red flags they are being raised not just by the media or democrats, donald trump's own allies they are now worried about his ability to stay on track. "the new york times" reporting at a time when his foents vice president kamal

trump allies sought to create chaos, including one unnamed trump supporter shortly after the electioncouraging protests, even to make them riot. the filing says at least nine times in the days after the election pence tried to convince trump to give up his fight to prevent the certification, saying he could run again next cycle. trump allegedly replied, 2024 is so far off. smith tries to make the case trump was acting as a candidate, not as president, when he claims the election was stolen. pence had testify to the grand jury that first charged trump in this case last year. trump's campaign responded to this saying the special counsel's argument was unconstitutional and falsehood-ridden. this case, if it survives, will not go to trial before the

trump obviously doesn't want that. he wants the military to swear loyalty to him and military individuals, those who wear the cloth of the country will not do that because they understand what our nation and our values are all about that's the key difference. but again, anderson, going back to your original question if we haven't seen it yet, i'm surprised because this is what former president trump has been doing all during the time he was in office and all during the time he's been campaigning for office. so if we haven't seen it shame on us so secretary cohen, general hertling. i appreciate your time joining us now is perine, who served as director of press communications for the trump 2020 campaign. ashley etienne, former communications director for vp harris republican strategist anna navarro, who's now supporting the vice president and cnn political commentator van jones ashley, what do you make of this latest reporting it seems like to me we've sort of lost sight of what makes donald trump so dangerous. >> so i'

a message for europe is that, you know, president trump, president trump has been the -- president trump has been a great friend of nato to make sure that nato alliance is actually funded by countries in europe. and the pop lift nationalist movement there that's on the march is on the rise. look at what's happening in the united states of america, particularly against the elites in this country and how with very little money, every day we're building, we're building, like i said, we're going to move past race here. you're going to see historic numbers i think of african-american and hispanic men that do not vote for a democratic candidate. so we can move past these things of -- that held us back in the past and get to the sunlit uplands of talking about power and control and money. reporter: i have a follow-up. why is europe looking at these elections and why are they so afraid of a donald trump win? steve: i'm not sure europeans are so afraid. but that european elite are so afraid. there'sthers a big difference. number one, the european elite, the elite and the -- have not paid their fa

instead, trump allegedly looked at him and said only "so what?" tonight, trump lashing out, saying releasing the brief just over a month before the election amounts to election interference. david? >> david: pierre, thank you. >>> meantime, on the campaign trail, vice president kamala harris in the battle the ground of georgia tonight. she's there tonight to visit the storm zone, visiting the emergency operations center in augusta, georgia, there with the red cross, distributing food. her visit comes after last night's vice presidential debate, and the moment last night between tim walz and j.d. vance that the harris campaign has immediately turned into a new campaign ad. and donald trump tonight praising j.d. vance on his performance. mary bruce from georgia. >> reporter: in storm-ravaged georgia tonight, kamala harris comforting victims of hurricane helene, serving meals and handing out water to community members in need. >> the coordination that we have dedicated ourselves to will be long-lasting, to get families, to get residents, to get neigh

trump's not acting like it is. the trump campaign wants to happen is to get this story out of virginia and start talking about it in every state and tell his voters, some of whom are still, i wouldn't say not motivated to vote, but still worried about the count to say you need to get out there and overwhelm these phantom voters who are going to steal the election. this will fit right in whether or not it's true. >> $80 million that we know of from elon musk to trump in the last couple of months. just imagine for a moment, close your eyes and imagine, imagine if george soros bought twitter, pushed pro-democrat narratives and lots of misinformation all day, every day, yesterday, and tomorrow, and pumped 80 million bucks in the last two month of the campaign. can you imagine the outrage? all right, let's talk about georgia's early in-person voting. it kicked off today, huge record turnout. errin, what's your takeaway from that? >> just to give you perspective, over 300,000 people casting ballots in georgia, that break

and trump didn't stop there. he doubled down. >> it is the enemy from within, and they're very dangerous. they're marxist and communist and fascist, and they're sick. they're dangerous for our country. we have china, we have russia, we have all these countries. you have a smart president, they can all be handled. the more difficult part, you know, the pelosis, these people they're so sick, and they're so evil. they're the threat to democracy. >> this is a question -- >> i'm glad i got that out. >> glad i got that out. quite clearly trump's authoritarian rhetoric here is not a mistake, it is his sales pitch. and kamala harris' strategy in these closing weeks of the campaign is to use trump's sales pitch against him. today "the wall street journal" reports that harris has told her campaign staff that with less than three weeks to go, she wants to turn trump's own words back on him. that strategy was on display last night at harris' rally in erie, pennsylvania, where harriy spent alv portion of her speech playing tr

trump supporters.t recently with fox's laura ingraham last night and right wing podcaster ben shapiro today. all trump is doing is speaking to his base and his die hard supporters as he faces softball questions with little to no pushback or no follow-up at all. allowing him to just regurgitate alternative facts and misinformation with each breath. the two campaign strategies couldn't be more different. one is trying to reach out to diverse audiences while continuing to roll out substantial new policies. the other is remaining in his echo chamber, repeating the same debunked lies in an effort to inflame voters with his deceit. joining me now is fernand amandi, democratic pollster and msnbc political analyst. molly jong fast, vanity fair special correspondent, and tara setmayer, cofounder and ceo of the seneca project and a former gop director. my thanks to this fantastic panel. i'm going to start with you, molly. we're going to play scott pely. his explanation of why trump pulled out of the "60 minutes"

a trump aide as saying, "make them riot." but the bulk of new revelations involve trump's alleged interactions with vice president mike pence, based on five pages of notes by the vice president. the special counsel saying pence gradually and gently tried to convince the defendant to accept the lawful results of the election including a private lunch in december where pence encouraged trump not to look at the election as a loss, just an intermission. smith arguing trump and pence were political running mates discussing private acts, not office holders contemplating official ones. after pence decided not to stop the certification and trump denounced him in a tweet, smith recounts aides allegedly telling trump that pence was in danger. as trump sat in a white house dining room watching the capitol riot on tv, smith wrote, an aide said pence had been rushed to a secure location. smith says trump looked at the aide and said only, so what? in a statement the trump campaign spokesman called it false-hood ridden, unconstitutional and

from trump. listen to this any jewish person that votes for her, especially now her, the democrat party should have the head examined. >> anybody that votes for her. you should have your head examined i'll tell you what any african american or hispanic and you know how well i'm doing there that votes for kamala. you gotta have you ever seen he's a bad people. we have a lot of bad people but when you look at shifty schiff and some of the others yeah, they are to meet the enemy for whether we'd like a garbage can we'd like a garbage can read like a garbage can for the rest of the world to dump the people that they don't want aaron, is this a double standard from the former president? >> what's your assessment? >> i think that the comments by a four by president biden were just to get out the vote gift for republicans. this is going to motivate the trump base to get there on election day or ahead of it. and of course they're going to make hay out of it. i don't think it's going to move any persuadab

and you hear trump's campaign saying this is false president trump never said any of this. i mean, trump though tonight, praised authoritarian leaders. china's xi, china's xi, russia's putin. >> listen to this can you imagine what president xi, you know, i got to know him very well. he's a fierce individual. he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. am i allowed to say he's smart he's smart? she's a smart man he's a fierce man. i got along with him very well putin these are people that are tough people when many people have an authoritarians and the f leadership does that is that deniable at this point? >> well, in the clip, you shownot but it's not praise either, which is what you said it was which it wasn't. but according to the jeffrey goldberg article which we've talked about this entire night, you can't trust that article because the quote 60,000 for an ethnic mexican funeral, the only two on record sources both said that he didn't say that the only source is an anonymous source and the family of the deceased soldier, so that he was lovely to them. and in fact, the

>> well, not trump supporters. they like hearing what trump has to say.why he's having this big rally today at madison square garden. but what is important and it may be late to the party is that we're finally hearing pushback on how harris and trump are not treated equally. trump says something off the wall bonkers and we let him get away with it because that's just trump whereas if harris makes one tiny error she gets hammered for it for three days. i was happy to see the pushback. and the real difference is -- i wish i would have heard the pastor say. there's no question in my mind that harris and biden are patriots. i can't say the same about donald trump. >> to your point michelle obama was all over that last night to your point about that. but as i go to you, david. michelle obama also focused part of her speech on men. looking to spur them to action. listen to this. >> anyone out there thinking about sitting out this election or voting for donald trump or a third party candidate in protest because you're fed up? let me warn you, your rage does not

for trump this time is the same secretary of state who recorded trumps phone call to him in georgia which prosecutors have declared to be criminal, will still be in office at the same phone number. trump will not there called george's republican secretary of state once again with the same criminal conspiracy that got trump indicted in georgia and washington dc with brad testifying against him in the grand jury. trump will have no luck calling the governor of georgia who is the very same republican governor who refused to consider any of trumps crazed attempts to criminally interfere with the election results in georgia four years ago. it is impossible to exaggerate how important today was for the harris campaign in georgia. imagine what the doomsday coverage would be tonight for the harris campaign if the early voting numbers in georgia were lower than they were four years ago when biden took georgia. it is possible to imagine what the coverage would be today if any presidential candidate in history but especially a older one like biden abruptly ended a so-called public town hall me

the fear of trump is a tool of trump's arsenal.s that everyone was covering the bad-ass days of the kamala harris candidacy, when he burst onto the scene and something that he's been able to sustain. but just to make clear, again, not my view, these are views about whose fault january 6th really is. from cnn, in a series of reposts on twitter, donald trump's campaign manager shared comments calling january 6th an insurrection that was fueled by trump's baseless election lies. some of those posts have since been deleted from his twitter feed, but cnn was able to review them on the internet archive way back machine, which archives internet web pages. in a statement to cnn, trump's campaign manager said his retweets on january 6th were not supportive statements. "retweets and likes are not endorsements. i'm focused on winning the election two weeks from now." he's lying now. he was telling the truth when he described the january 6th insurrection as an insurrection and blamed donald trump's lies. i mean, just the cynicism of these peop

washington, dc that will vote for trump-— for trump. yes, it won't be decided — for trump.in the district - for trump. yes, it won't be decided in the district of i decided in the district of columbia that we can safely say. we talked about christopher steele if you are watching in the last hour. if you were watching in the last hour you will know we have been talking to the former mi6 intelligence officer, christopher steele about his new book which hasjust been published in the united states. it is his memoir of what happened back in 2016. and why he still has some confidence in the central thrust of the intelligence work he did. the so called "steele dossier" has been largely discounted in american circles, despite the fact special counsel robert mueller discovered "numerous links between the russian government and the trump campaign". including his campaign chair paul manafort who had secretly worked for a russian billionaire with a plan to "greatly benefit the putin government". here's steele explaining why he felt it necessary to document his side of the story, three

trump. and i understand you're trying to talk about something different so i'm not sure ultimately how much this is going to have an impact at the end of the day, i think people have already decided what they think about donald trump and his numbers have rained relatively strong throughout all of this. it's kamala harris has done numbers have been going up and down well, governor whitman, i wonder you were governor of new jersey republican, who no longer supports donald trump, doesn't support donald trump. >> i do wonder though about those wavering centrist republican women and places like the suburbs of philadelphia and so on. let's show a poll from over the weekend. this is choice for president to abc news ipsos poll harris 19 points she is leading donald trump among women that is above where biden was against the president at that time in 2020 years thoughts, a governor whitman well, frankly, that comment of his, whether they like it or not, is just infuriating. >> and i think there are a

it means that's donald trump's mental acuity. >> you know, you and i've talked a lot about trump's view of the constitution and general. kelly had something interesting to say about that is interview with the times. listen to what he said surely the only president that has older. >> rejected what america is all about. >> and what makes america america in terms of our constitution in terms of us our values you know, what we're looking at. everything to include family, government he certainly the only president that i thought it was certainly, it might certainly in my lifetime that was like that we'd hear john kelly saying that that he's certainly the only president that has all but rejected what america is about you know, ambassador bolton, you have said publicly here, you're not voting for donald trump, but you're also, i'm voting for vice president harris when it when it comes to this decision what about people who are sitting at home listening to john kelly say that trump meets the definition of a fascist that he said nice things about hitler, the reporting that he didn't want to pay

he's been attacking trump voters and trump for years.cutors have been going after trump in court. just about a week ago biden said we've got to lock up trump. jail trump. now today, former president trump is responding. here is this. listen. >> j joe finally said what hed kamala really think of our supporters. he called them garbage. >> booooo. >> and they mean it. even though without question, my supporters are far-higher quality than crooked joe or lying kamala. >> [applause] >> my response to joe and kamala is very simple. you can't lead america if you don't love americans. liz: joining us auto workers for trump leader and first to you, p ray. when you heard a sitting president say this , that half the nation 80 million trump voters are garbage, what was your reaction? >> well initially, i thought to talk about the fact that we call him pro joe because he is the a failed president and legislator but then i thought we could just keep it simple and give him a really quick chicago public school response, which is, yo momma. next question

and trump. that speaks to who his true north is. when kelly is saying, and i hope american people are listening, he is a fascist through and through. one of the thing that i found striking, kelly was talking about how, what was concerning with him. that trump has told the american people that he will use the military against us and against his enemies who are american citizens. and i need to remind everybody, he deployed the national guard in washington, d.c. against peaceful protesters when they were protesting george floyd. these were peaceful protesters. if you remember, many of our colleagues in the press got caught in the dragnet. they had to wear bullet proof helmets. trump was deploying tear gas. it is refocusing on what he already did and how he plans to double down on american values against our constitution and so much more. >> what do you think? >> i think that, one, it is important that someone like a general four star come out and says something. there's a lot amongst military leade

alencia johnson, and brian the trump campaign, as we heard in that report, is denying this will trump himself publicly address these newest allegations. >> he doesn't need to listen. we're two weeks within the election, you get a lot of these fake things coming out. you know, we've addressed this. you're going to have something coming my next couple of days, i suspect that in something how to come out next week, this is a long playbook that the democratic party has done and they tried to come up somebody to last-minute to try to distract from the fact that they have yet to make their case of why kamala harris run for actually be president. so no, we're not going to address it. we're going to we're going to move on. we're going to talk about the issues that matter. so do the american people, which is immigration and the economy, alencia, what do you see is the impact of this latest allegation against trump? >> well, i think it continues to remind the coalition that we are building of what vice president harris as for and who donald trump is as stacy, she was so brave enough to share he

trump tower, that is, on the territory donald trump. trump now acts as a private person, and he has a very good relationship with putin, as he said. if donald trump wins, america first. hardly anyone else in america could have uttered those words after two years of russia's war against ukraine. you are watching radio svoboda's weekly video podcast, state situation. today we are talking about what does donald trump mean by a fair deal for ukraine? and why was ukraine not mentioned at all at the vice-presidential debate in the usa? well, the navigator in a full-time situation will be a professor of political science serhii kudelya of baylor university in texas. sergey, congratulations. hello, rostislav. greetings. so what do we have? we have the fact that volodymyr zelenskyi's visit to the united states became politically balanced precisely because of the meeting. at the last minute with republican candidate donald trump. by the way, trump said after the meeting that he and zelensky both want a fair deal. moreover, trump repeated twice, s

catholics for trump, jewish voices for trump. latino americans for trump. they rolled out ladder day saints for trump. the reason, there are enough voters in arizona and nevada to make a difference in a tight race. and, you know, trump has the mormon vote. his campaign. the campaign was selling latter day saints cozies or for exactly or coffee. and they posted a leader of the church without the church's position, they are neutral. they planned events on sundays. they are not supposed to engage in politics on sundays. it is bizarre. you would assume the republican campaign would know how to speak to mormons. this is a fundamental part of their base for 50 years but they just completely bungled it. >> i am out of time. but i have to ask you, as long as we are talking republicans and mormons have you talked to mitt room no lately? what is he is a something. >> he is not, he is not saying anything on the record. i will let you know as soon as he texts me back i will, you will be the first to know snow i am -- you will be the first one to know it. >> thank you,

trump has hit on that.people will say, well, he will just do to them what they did to him and get back at them. >> a lot of people say that is what should happen. >> but you are not to do that. when you get in office you are gonna look at your political enemies -- >> i want to make this the most successful country in the world. that is what i want to do. >> woodward then reporting how donald trump used his office, the powers he gets from being president, to apparently try to sweeten the pot with someone that most administrations, including republicans, have seen as an adversary, the dictator of russia, vladimir putin, telling woodward that trump and putin have been speaking on the phone repeatedly since he left office, up to seven times. we can tell you today trump's spokespeople say these allegations are just, quote, made up. woodward is standing by his multisource reporting. he will be speaking, i am sure. we will be tracking that, as well. now let's turn to the special guest i mentioned, sarah matthews.

trump more on the economy.in not trump more on the economy.lvania, voters trust prestrump more. that's down from an 8 point lead last month. in michigan, voters say they trust trump more on the economy, 50% to 48%. earlier this year trump was up by 11 points in that poll. tell me about the election five days away and how see it. which battleground states are you focused on. >> listen, i think a lot of it comes down to pennsylvania. i'm hardly a political expert. i'm going to pennsylvania right after the show. everyone i know that is pulling for president trump, a lot of us are going to pennsylvania to try to get out. if they're sending me, clearly it's an important -- you know, they're reaching the bottom of the barrel here to get people out there. every vote counts. maria: it's like 19 electoral votes. >> it's critical. i think if president trump whips pens vein -- wins pennsylvania, he wins. to me, that's the most important one. wisconsin is important, president trump was there yesterday but it's the blue wall. i think if we can maintain tha

most of the people who are anti-trump are pretty hard core anti-trump. they feel comfortable putting liz cheney out there. i think if you put a single surrogate who would rile up the left some way it would be liz cheney who was a big part of the iraq war not that long ago, but at the same time the argument kamala harris is making, as she said, is the two of them have more in common than they diverge and as a result, they're able to stand together against trump. the smart things for campaigns to do if they can get away with it is both fire up their bases and reach out to the other side at the same time. most of them aren't good at doing. that's what i think kamala harris is doing now. >> susan, new topic, what is a bigger deal, a more impactful one, kamala harris' huge fundraising numbers or the fact that the majority of donald trump's money is coming from just four people and they're writing four giant checks and doing more than that. you got elon musk out there campaigning every single day. now he's thrown in a $1 million giveaway. so what matters more?

trump seem morse confident. and more knowledgeable about policy than he was in 2015, he never appears lost in his thoughts the way that joe biden did in the crazy june debate. rich lowry notes that kamala will not talk honestly about the illegal immigration catastrophe because the first biden-harris action was to an amnesty bill, promot promote citizenship among immigrants. kamala harris mentioned president trump 23 times in the fox interview, when trump spent a couple hours with editorial board he mentioned kamala's name, once, in other words he would rather talk policy, stay on message, close the border, stop the crime, grow the economy. and restore american peace through strength in the world, that is why he so the favorite. coming down home stretch, camp ca-- kamala harris and her democrats can call him every bad name in the book, they are desperate because they know he is the leader, that is the riff. joining us jason chaffetz, former utah congressman, florida condition man mike waltz. -- congressman mike w

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trump had his tv shows. he was very close friends with some major hollywood producers and had always aspired to be a hollywood producer himself. at one point he thought about going to film school. so he is somebody who has always had one foot in the broader real estate and business, but also in the world of media. and they approached him about founding this media company and this was right after trump got down to mar-a-lago. they started his brainstorming ideas for different shows that trump could have or different media ventures he could have. if it was a paula deen cooking show or a golf show with tiger woods. and they started hatching out this plan and there were some conservative stars, who at different points, got involved and they were, at the same time, competing with another social media company that was also trying to appeal to conservatives. but what the formation of truth social and the story of the book shows is so much about how trump does business, how he does dealmaking. some of the struggles

you cannot go back to donald trump. i think it's a convincing argument. >> and, you know, tara something that happened was the washington post refusing to do an endorsement. refusing to do the thing. it's disheartening to see people sitting on the sidelines. your thoughts about whether or not the billionaire bros club is actually putting their finger on the scale of this 2024 election. >> oh, without question. it's obvious in a lot of respects. not just this one. the malpractice and cowardice of the washington post and the legacy of that newspaper in this moment right now is really unspeakable. how irresponsible because these billionaire bros are worried about their bottom lines. as women in particular, we don't have the option to opt out. we don't get that. you know, our lives are at stake. our democracy is at stake. we don't get that option. but they are going to opt out of this now? it's shameful. and you look at this not only from this perspective but also the infusion of money. what elon musk and peter thiel and al

he says he agrees with trump on most policy. know, he agrees with trump tampa most policy. he disagrees with trump on, but how trump views his role in the fascism and the authority i don't buy that jake, i don't buy that because if you actually look at john kelly at folks like liz cheney, the fundamental disagreement they have with donald trump is even though they say that they're conservative, they're conservative in the sense that they want america to get involved in a ton of ridiculous military conflicts. >> they want america to police the world and donald trump wasn't. >> john kelly lost a son and afghanistan, you why are you saying that? i've never heard john kelly say whether she supports of iraq or afghan. honor, his son's sacrifice and i honor his family's sacrifice. that doesn't mean he's not wrong about policy talking about what is he said that is your argument that a person lost a son and afghanistan can't be wrong about public policy. i'm asking why bring that up? let's talk about public policy as you are as ever criticized, his service because you're acting as

and donald trump.ight at about 11:45, vice president harris will be joined by jennifer lopez for an event in las vegas. on c-span 2, vice president harris speaks at a a rally and just a reminder and watch our life coverage on c-span our free mobile video app or online at c-span. org. this election night, not just the presidential race, but the state races that will decide the balance of power, no political pundits, no spin, just the candidates, the results and you. follow c-span beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern, live eastern. f a k american reckoning, inside trump's trial and my own. before we get to your book, let's begin with your column in the new york times yesterday. what if democrats win the white house and congress tuesday? your title is posed as a question. how do you answer it? >> just briefly, this is a piece about what would happen if the democrats swept. and you would get a lot of a kamala harris has promised for the middle class actually enacted into law. i go through the various legislative

trump, trump, trump! here we go! look at my old friend! we both took a poop on nancy pelosi's desk!n! what a dump we took in there. [cheers and applause] >> we are storming the capitol! >> i want to storm a schnauzer's vagina! who is with me? folks, we are on the verge of something very special. can you feel it? you know the other side will talk about record low unemployment. record high stock market, infrastructure, blah, blah, blah. but this election is more than about issues that "affect us." this election is personal. am i right? >> yeah! [cheers and applause] >> it is about sticking it to those elitist liberals! [cheers and applause] but you know what, on november 5th, those elitists, they are going to be the ones crying, and we are going to be the ones drinking. [cheers and applause] liberal tears! liberal tears! ♪ liberal tears ♪ everybody! ♪ liberal tears ♪ ♪ i love them salty ♪ ♪ liberal tears ♪ ♪ i won't have medicare in two years ♪ ♪ but at least i'll know that there's liberal tears ♪ ♪ liberal tears ♪ ♪ liberal tears ♪ ♪ l-i-b-e-r-u-l tears ♪ ♪ the world is in the shitte

trump is in to the end.nd indeed, he was, and who helped him see that through none other than steve bannon. so i come away from this filing with a new appreciation for potentially why steve bannon was so eager to avoid the subpoena that tim and his colleagues served on him with respect to the january 6th committee and for which he was then convicted of contempt of congress for avoiding. he was all over this thing in ways that were always rumored for perhaps not fully detailed until this filing. >> you're a student of the steve bannon arc of power. i guess in and out of alleged criminality to the degree that he's, i think he gets one of the last pardons of the last hours of the trump presidency for the crimes he's charged with in connection with lying to trump supporters about building a wall unrelated to january 6th. but is she in jail? sentenced or convicted of contempt. i guess willingness is the right word, eagerness to push everyone sort of a political woodchiper is one of the stories of this up to and i

but i think what you are hearing from the black republican is that look, trump's economy, trump goes out and says like, did you feel better when i was in office, did you feel like you had more money in your pocket? certainly folks bring up this idea about these stimulus checks. sometimes refer to them as stimmies. during the pandemic that helped a lot of people. i think trump gets a lot of credit for not only just having his name on those stimulus checks that went out to people during the height of the pandemic but he gets credit for selling it as if it was his idea. now, democrats say that was not his idea, give me a break. congress had to pass this. we should be given credit. members of congress should be given credit for this. but i don't see democrats selling that message as directly as some republicans do. i think that is what he's speaking to. you feel better because there were policies that trump highlighted that makes you feel like it was a better economy for black folks. >> i've got to leave it there. i'm over time. thank you very much. that's going to do it for me today. "d

donald trump cheated. replace duly-elected electors who vote for the president with this illegal scheme, running around the laws of each state to willy-nilly elect electors. that is cheating. you see this election integrity that the trump campaign talks about, that is election suppression and voter intimidation. that's what that's about. it's not about securing the vote. it's about securing the vote for donald trump. let's not be confused about it. joe biden is right about the second. and why wouldn't he be right? because they have already demonstrated their willful -- their capacity to be violent, not just violent, deadly violent. >> rick tyler and don callaway are sticking with us to play who won the week. but first, how is a '90s tv character maxine shaw inspired a generation of black women leaders? including vice president kamala harris? joy recently spoke to the actress who portrayed her, erica alexander. that's next. that's next. (children speaking) conflict is raging across the world, and millions o

and trump's not done.tion nationwide, restrict access to birth control and put ivf treatments at risk and force states to monitor women's pregnancies. just look at project 2025 and read the plans for yourself. look, i think we all know one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held beliefs to simply agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body. [cheers] not the government. and when congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom nationwide, as president of the united states, i will proudly sign it into law. [cheers] proudly and look. on another subject, politicians have got to stop treating immigration as an issue to scare up votes in on election. and instead can treat it as the serious challenge that it is. that we must finally come together to solve. i will work with democrats and republicans to work on the border security bill for donald trump killed. when i was attorney general of a border state, "i saw the chaos and violence caused by transnational criminal o