van jones: i think that bothered biden. i think biden felt that he had promised his son that he was going to run and he didn't do it. joe biden: that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. jeff zeleny: when biden finally got into the race, there was excitement in some quarters of the democratic party, but there was also some apprehension. evan osnos: a lot of people thought that joe biden was a voice from the party's past. he wasn't their idea of what the party's future could be. bernie sanders: thank you, new hampshire. subject 1: joe biden was on the side of the credit card companies. it's all a matter of public record. van jones: people were excited about other candidates. subject 2: there's a lot of people who are concerned about joe biden's ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. van jones: it just seemed like yesterday's guy clinging the glory. and so the circle around biden was pretty small. his campaign was pretty small. there weren't big crowd

i'm joined now by cnn political commentator van jones. he's also a former obama administration official, and meridith mcgraw national politics of correspondent for politico. dan to you, we have to see if there is a swifty effect. i am coining the phrase yes, a swifty effect she certainly had an effect on people being interested in registering to vote. we don't know if they actually did. they did click on the link do you think she could make an impact because you and i have talked about this for usually celebrities don't really, they don't really change people's minds. >> well, here's the thing. what she can do is to motivate people who might have been kamala curious to actually look at kamala harris as an option? you do have a whole different world. you and i, we watch television. we were we know the news, we hopefully everybody at home watching us every day. a lot of people don't wake up calls and political class, a lot of people don't follow every donald trump press conference, everything calming here and so, and so, when they're on in

first up, political commentator van jones, three facts it's about van jones. he was once rumored to be dating kim kardashian he's appeared as a newscaster in the dark knight rises. he once performed the heimlich maneuver on mike huckabee which one is the truth? >> my strategy for this is always the same it's just whichever one i want to be true that's what i go with. >> so i want him to have given the heimlich to mike huckabee. i want that more than anything. >> number one, the answer is vance was once rumored to be dating kim kardashian met at a criminal justice reform summon any helped her out when she was getting her law degrees. so people thought they were hooking up, but they put the rumors to bid when kim guessed it on his podcast. we're van called the experience the best rumor ever. and kim called it funny him kardashian has a law degree. oh, yeah. yeah. i didn't know that she went back to law school about 78 years ago and then fault for the advocacy your friend wrongly convicted black women in prison when she passed the bar, as far as i don't know if n

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still a substantial gap, but in a lot of the polls we're seeing that the gap is getting smaller van jones, donald trump, as we all know, has made the economy under his presidency is central part of his 2024 presidential campaign. >> so how big of a deal is this for harris? even if most voters won't necessarily see any really major tangible benefits of this rate cut between now and election day. i think we it's a psychological blow to donald trump, but for donald trump to say this is politics. >> if it's politics, we would have gotten the rate cut. we were begging for over the summer if trump is mad, democrats are matter because we've been begging for this for a while i'm glad that it's here people at home know, but a lot of people don't biden has no control over the fed. calm. harris has no control over the fed. donald trump has no control over the fed, apparently nobody in world has control over the fed except for jerome powell and he waited till the very last minute to do anything and it's not going to help us very much economically if it makes trump upset, i'm happy for it. >> he did i

alright, that van jones, gretchen carlson, scott jennings. thank you very much. we're going to return to our storm coverage after the break in here from michael bobbitt, who saw the island he lives on. he says devastated, also with israeli airstrikes into continuing what they say are hezbollah targets in beirut will get a live report from the region life changing medical breakthroughs. >> every second counts. >> but without investment, those breakthroughs our often past cities seamlessly connected banking, markets and services businesses deliver global financial solutions. >> so our client can keep investing in innovations for patients around the world without pause for the love of moving our clients forward. >> for the love of progress he's coming in the driveway daughter. >> is being treated for leukemia i hope that she lives along great happy life and that she will never forget how mommy and daddy loved her st. jude mean this is what's keeping my baby girl a lot this september, you can join the battle to save lives during childhood cancer awareness month by su

swipe at harris saying that she quote, doesn't have anything keeping her humble joining us now is van jones, cnn political commentator and former obama adviser. >> van, thanks for being with us tonight so what we saw from harris, they're not a conventional sit down interview. she hasn't done many do believe that sort of thing is the right strategy to reach voters. >> like i think she's doing a great job of using unconventional media to get to folks. a lot of people look, you know, the best people are watching cable news right now tonight, of course, of course. but it turns out there are some people that don't watch cable news. and wouldn't even catch a normal interview. and those are the persuadable people, the people who need to be moved. so she did that very unconventional interview with wired, but it was really fascinating because what they did was they took all the normal internet searches at regular people are doing and they had our answered the questions off the internet. and it was really fascinating of what she said about her family. i thought was beautiful because frankly, a lot of

want to bring in senior political correspondent for puck, tara palmeri, cnn political commentator van jones, and republican strategist joe pinion here as well. i begin with you van look, she's been criticized for not giving enough interviews that there is a risk of her going off the cuff. this is a 45 minute interview. she takes it right to donald trump. she talked it's about his history as well, and renting or not renting the people of color as an example, how effective why she thinks she was great and more and more and more. i think honestly, the polls show the more you see calm, let, the more people like calm. i think that she did a great job, a unifying our party. she got a lot of people excited and then the other people, she has not closed the deal with yet. and so when you hear from her, she's not some crazy radical person. she's somebody who has obvious empathy. she is g is standing for everyday folks and we just need to see more of her. i want to see that every day you're nodding your light, cocking your head like no i agree agree with you because i hear but even for people in my fa

we can be using those as well right now on that specific topic. >> free any van jones, david axelrod. thank you. all i appreciate it coming up more on what the former president widely criticized debate performance may mean for his campaign. i'll speak with someone he's repeatedly and baselessly criticized for the january 6 attack on the capitol, including once again, last night house speaker emerita nancy pelosi next if you are shopping for a home realtor.com is real commute tool lets you find homes close to work school, even grandma's house, don't all apps do that? >> not really. >> trust the number one app, real estate professionals trus t need new glasses by one? >> what free up vision works i'm just telling everyone by one pair, get one free for back-to-school. vision works. see the difference my life was full of questions. yellow light or dark. >> i don't see any least thankfully, five dancers it's almost all of them. >> why do we even by napkins goldwater, it can what do i need to preach? >> you called kamala a time. >> this is chocolate, right? >> just hard no matter who's doin

scott jennings and van jones. always a pleasure.hank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> on tuesday night, vice president kamala harris and former president donald trump sharing the stage for that debate that america is waiting for, you can follow cnn for complete comprehension an exclusive analysis before and after that debate that abc news presidential debates simulcast starts tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn ahead. >> new video obtained lucidly by cnn appears to show russian soldiers killing ukrainian troops in cold blood after they surrendered. why one ukrainian official says this is part of a growing pattern kamala harris, donald trump, the debate everyone's been waiting for follows cnn for complete coverage and exclusive preempt post-debate analysis. a cnn special event, the abc news presidential pick tuesday at nine eastern on cnn, and streaming on max at the cabin for three days. >> i'm trova are short on weekends was that necessary? >> know either as a blonde weekend would pay calm employees do their own payroll.

we can be using those as well right now on that specific topic. >> free any van jones, david axelrod.l i appreciate it coming up more on what the former president widely criticized debate performance may mean for his campaign. i'll speak with someone he's repeatedly and baselessly criticized for the january 6 attack on the capitol, including once again, last night, house speaker emerita nancy pelosi next is keratin debris were nail fungus grows non-sex nail gel cleans out fungus by removing keratin debris using non 90 percent of nails improve, get clinically proven results. >> so effective, it's money-back guaranteed and then i get a little bit tie grinnell distinct a decimal, never come mount and refreshes formulate to remove odor better than detergent alone with no rewatch nails. >> so clean, downey, iran's and refresh it's a jury. >> donie it's a refresh fights odor in just one wash. >> guaranteed take control of your health by boosting your force field the immune system, or a tells you when your temperature is higher than and if smarter, stronger, healthier with the aura ring don'

we're told van jones, the former new jersey republican governor chris christie says he thinks the harris campaign is making a mistake in calling for another debate. listen and watch this i saw her campaign put out a challenge for a second debate right after the debate please stop yeah, that'll do it. they're not toilet professional do that really seriously. like you can in the ring against a guy who has had more presidential base than anybody in history. and you knock them around. >> yeah raise your arms. go to two rallies today. >> raised some money and go home. man so what do you think? >> what what's your reaction? do you agree with him? >> well, i mean, i i'm still just so happy from last night is hard to even think clearly they call there a deal each candidate well, the dei hire worked the trust fund baby and people are still just giddy. and so i don'f she wants to do it again, i think she could she could whip them again honestly, donald trump is a diminished player. he was not people to do the stuff he's usually able to do near the end of the debate, he was almost incoherent as he

racist, more of a conspiracist, and more damaging to the brand he says, poison live at the table, van jones madison, jesse auto, bomani jones, and ryan goodall ski welcome to a special edition of newsnight, state of the race i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. refusing a rematch. donald trump and vice president kamala harris returning to the campaign trail tonight after their ferry first and possibly only debate hitting the key states of arizona and north carolina. and despite trump saying that he faced his opponents anytime any place, it doesn't appear that that is no longer the case donald trump and i had our first debate it to the voters. >> have another debate as everyone saw two nights ago, we had a monumental victory over comrade kamala harris the president she immediately called for a second debate, which means that she was like a prize fighter that lost a fight. so because we've done to debate said because there were successful, there will be no third debate there will be no third debate. >> i'm not sure i follow the logic of what he's say

date it's just as purples pennsylvania, but they don't have the david urban in georgia david urban van jones, john king. >> thanks very much. more on our breaking news. part of florida on alert for what's expected to be a major hurricane will check back with chad myers next smartest somebody is ever done this for a living famous for winning races, teams believes that change in 20 it's the economy stupid apologizing to know want that man is it to 50 catcher, i am stay in publicly what people say and i have enough money. >> but i could just shut up car. winning is everything stupid? >> saturday, october 5th on cnn choose advil liquid gels for faster, stronger and longer lasting relief than tylenol rad release jailed because advil targets pain at the source of inflammation. >> so for faster pain relief, advil, the pain away. >> i'm holly man, they'll the newest ambassador stance here is plenty story how i became an ambassador. i went to the store and i lied and said i wasn't ambassador. do i get it this count, the owner column? hold me and said, would you like to be an ambassador for sketchers?

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baghdad joining us right now is cnn senior political commentator, former obama administration official van jones. cnn political commentator and former white house communications director for donald trump. alyssa farah-griffin, team. it is good to see happening friday in here. okay. so let's start with some of the news we saw this morning about these ads that the da and see is now rolled out digital ads in times square and in the las vegas strip of basit. basically leaning into the taylor swift endorsement saying we're in ads, saying we are in our kamala era the hollywood reporter is saying that tailors swift signed off on their use of their use of her appeal malpractice, not to kind of seems to be the general view, alyssa, but what do you think of the real impact of taylor swift? are people making too much of it or too little? >> so generally, traditionally celebrity endorsements don't massively matter, but i'd argue telles with falls into a different category. she's a pop culture phenomenon in a way that so few have been before her coming off of this huge global tour, somebody who can packed st

brian stelter, van jones, and scott jennings who served in the bush cheney administration. so scott, what does it say about donald trump, but about your party the georgia we bush's vice president, the epitome of the republican party for decades is now actively endorsing a democrat for president not only did i serve in the white house, i worked on both of their presidential campaigns. >> i helped elect this man vice president twice and dick cheney yeah, i revere this man and deeply respect his service to our party. i mean, look, it is shocking for someone like me, you probably for most republicans to hear it. i don't think liz cheney news is all that shocking, but the big, the big tiny news is somewhat shocking. i do think it underscores the split in the party over the old guard and the new guard and also some of the split over the old way of thinking about foreign policy and the new way that the trump group thinks about foreign policy. i look, here's what i think about the cheney endorsement or working class voters in pennsylvania thinking about what dick cheney has to say

scott rooks for jones is now from toronto, is preparing to cover the next film festival. well as to what van is with his spouse out in force today. so it's got who is grab the headlines sofa as well. i mean, you said it actually it's the stars because as we just heard last years of venice, film festival in the whole past festival season really was really impacted by the actor strike in los angeles. so, so many of the really big stars weren't able to attend, weren't able to walk those red carpets. uh, this years dentist was just crazy. you start practice. probably the most are packed festival i've ever seen. we have is you just saw a brad pitt and george clooney, angelina julie. lady guy got a walking thing. it's nicole kidman and on and on and on. it was an endless array of stars. and i think that really raised the energy and the excitement around the festival, which is exactly, i think what the film industry and what movie theaters really need. because uh the film industry has really recovered the box office hasn't really recovered from uh, from cobra. uh, and it's a still a little depresse

van there where we could see the very simple green coffin that was containing eisner's body. russell settled. thank you very much indeed for a moment. while joining us here in the studio is marco and jones, he's associate professor of media analytics at northwestern university. in cats are good to have you back. an enormous tribes there in the city of dating as the best. what was describing to us? this is clearly resignation significantly with the people that talk to you. and yet, as he was explaining to us, i shouldn't get any justice in terms of justice from the is really establishment is non existent. and as an, or obviously a holds both talk ation and american passports, citizenship in the us as being accused of double standards. but as we have been talking about over the last hour or so in previous situations where there has been people who've been holding american citizenship who have been injured or killed by the israeli military, the u. s. has invaded but he had this position where it will wait for on his very military investigation. and then to all intents and purposes, that's what it stops, that's what it accepts. and therefore there's an assumption to what these really mother