vp pick behind walz. and during walz's time in office he has enshrined abortion rights into state law, legalized rescue military marijuana, required paid family leave, expanded background checks for gun purchases. he's a supporter of tuition-free college and universal meals. would that help harris or give ammo to trump's claim that harris is a, quote, radical liberal? >> well, when you look at the three finalists that she interviewed in person, it's clear walz is closer to her politics. you look at it, there's sort of -- there's a variety of ways you can look at a vp pick, you can reach another wing of the party. that's what reagan did by picking george h.w. bush doorchlt what donald trump did, he wanted to find an heir apparent, somebody who believed in his wing of the party on that front. and when you look at the three she was interviewing, two of the three arguably were to her right. walz and her share the same -- drive in the same lane. i don't think either of them are bernie sanders progressives, but

what is the main difference between walz in congress and walz is a governor?it out pretty well. he was not a blue dog democrat, he was idiosyncratic, he was fairly populist and he was conservative on guns. aggressive on lgbtq+ issues. he had a profile that was perfect for this district which was moved to the right since he left it. and he did change, he ran in 2018 in a primary against a more conservative attorney general, he was sort of the electability candidate. the progressive tim walz record that is the basis of a lot of democratic excitement about him is really only a year and a half old. that is from when democrats flipped the state senate were able to pass progressive hills and he was able to sign them. so he moved left in stages over his career. he is not, i saw some republicans talking about him being progressive in congress. he really wasn't. this is somebody who is one of the most bipartisan members of the house and had relationships with republicans and they don't quite recognize that a version of tim walz and the guys running right now. >> how sh

why tim walz?the thumbs up and there you see her with the second gentleman who has also been very productive even before joe biden stepped down on the campaign trail and almost certainly will continue to be a big part of this campaign. can we just talk about relationships, joe? i know you've watched a lot of presidential campaigns. i've mentioned this a number of times on the show, but when joe biden first decided to step down and kamala harris went to what was now her campaign headquarters in delaware, doug told a story about when she was chosen to be vp and going over to the home of the bidens and how welcoming they were. there were cookies. and how joe biden called his parents. and i don't know if you can like put that aside when we hear that a relationship, chemistry, was important to them to whoever she decided to pick. and what does it mean out on the campaign trail to be with people who you trust? who you like? who frankly you can stand to be with 24/7 sometimes. including on a small campaig

tim walz is a great pick. i predict american will fall in love with tim walz.o this guy is. he is from the midwest. he grew up on a farm. he was a high schoolteacher. he was a high school coach. he has been a veteran for i think 24 years, serving in the army. his dad was as well. he won in a congressional district that had previously been held by republicans, which meant he had to cross over. he became a governor of a state and has done an unbelievable job. he has common sense solutions. he is a regular guy. he is really smart. he brings the credentials. i think he will do very well in all of the battleground states along with, of course, the vice president as she seeks the presidency. >> being, as i say, a do no harm choice, middle of the road guy, gray hair, white hair, a teacher, popular with the unions. was there a decision -- there clearly was a decision not to take any risks. there were a couple of risks. there were women's groups upset about a cabinet member in pennsylvania, or one of the advi advisors. there was the risk of in the middle of the fighting

so, let me say, about tim walz. he has shown up to stand against these attacks long before he stood on the stage with me. after roe v. wade was overturned, he was the first governor in the country to sign a new law that enshrined reproductive freedom as a fundamental right. and with tim walz by my side, when i am president of the united states, and we win majorities in the u.s. congress, we will pass a bill to restore reproductive freedom, and i will promptly sign it into law. tim walz has also defended the sacred freedom to vote. as governor, as governor, he signed the most significant expansion of voting rights in minnesota and over 50 years. and with governor walz' help, when i am president, we are going to finally pass the jon lewis voting rights act and the freedom to vote act. we are going to get it done. so, tim is a hunter and a gun owner who believes, as the majority of gun owners do, that we need reasonable gun safety laws in america. so, as governor, he expanded background checks and increased penalties f

vance, using those two things together to deliver this attack on tim walz. >> i wonder, tim walz, whenu in war, what was this weapon, given you abandoned your unit before you went to iraq. what bothers me is the stolen valor garbage. if he wants to criticize me for getting about ivy league education. my ma maw supported me, i would be ashamed if i was shim and lied about my military service like he did. >> reporter: interestingly, vance himself was a marine. he served as a public affairs officer in iraq, and earlier today on this network, wes moore, the governor of maryland himself, an army captain who served in afghanistan suggested that vance probably should have known better than to go down this road. here's how moore the democrat defended tim walz. >> i think j.d. vance knows being a corporal, you don't get to sergeant major just because. you get to sergeant major because you have been served this country. you get to sergeant major because you were willing to put on the uniform and put the flag of this country on your shoulder. so if j.d. vance is going to go after tim walz, i woul

and again, the biggest problem with the tim walz pick -- it's not tim walz himself.s what it says about kamala harris, that when given an opportunity, she will bend the knee to the most radical elements of her party. >> reporter: senator j.d. vance on a tour of his own through the battleground states, saying he reached out to his new rival. >> i actually called tim walz. i left a voicemail. i didn't get him, but i just said look, congratulations. look forward to a robust conversation, and enjoy the ride. >> linsey: let's get to rachel scott, at the harris/walz rally in philadelphia. and rachel, it seems the harris campaign is really banking on walz helping to deliver voters in key battleground states in the midwest and in pennsylvania. >> reporter: exactly, linsey. in fact, this democratic ticket, vice president kamala harris, governor walz, they're continuing their swing through the battleground states next, heading to wisconsin and michigan. a source close to the vetting process tells me they believe walz will appeal to the midwestern blue collar voters in the crit

walz: whoops! can't wait for all of you in america to get to know my incredible wife, gwen, a 29-year public school educator! [applause] don't ever underestimate teachers. [cheers and applause] and our two beautiful kids, hope and gus. i couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket and to help vice president harris become what we all know is very good for us to think about, next president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] from her first day as a prosecutor, as the district attorney, attorney general of the great state of california, a united states senator, and vice president of the united states. [applause] vice president harris has caught on the side of the american people. she took on the predators. she took on the fraudsters. she took down the transnational gangs. she up against powerful corporate interests. and she never hesitated to reach across the aisle if it meant improving people's lives. [applause] and i want all of you to hold this and don't ever underestimate the power

it's a camo harris/walz hat.e hat that tim walz was wearing when he got the call asking him to serve on the ticket. but the young voters were quick to an serve that the hat also bears some resemblance to this midwest princess hat sold by the iconic pop singer chapell roan. fans of the harris/walz ticket and the chapell roan fans did not waste a second snatching them up. sold out in 30 minutes. if you're like me and none of this makes sense to you, that's okay, it's okay. i didn't know either of those two names six minutes ago. but here's a handy guide to the campaign's newfound pop culture residents. kamala harris is brat. and that apparently is a good thing, unlike when i was a child. tim walz is midwest princess. and that's also a good thing. it appears that harris' choice of running mate has added fuel to the campaign's viral internet advantage over the trump/vance ticket. the question is, does that energy translate to votes in the critical swing states that are needed to win this election? joining us now is p

walz learned nothing from it.the past two years, 2023 and '24, i sat on the house public safety committee as the democrat trifecta in the state shuferred through some of the most radical public safety legislation impacting the ability of police officers to engage with the public to protect the productive and the virtuous and innocent from the criminal element and the overriding premise that the democrats under tim walz have brought to the state of minnesota. is that when you come upon a crime scene, the question you should be asking is what did society do to this poor perpetrator to drive them to this act and how can we -- and this is the phrase they use, wrap around services in order to reform that poor some and make them a contributing member to society read a democrat voter. that's been their premise over the past two years when it comes to public safety. >> laura: wrap around giveaways. representative hudson, john, both of you, phenomenal appearance. thank you so much. and, coming up: the worst border czar in

i've talked with governor walz a few times.cher, coach, reservist, legislator, governor, you saw burst onto the stage in philadelphia after vice president harris named him her running mate, is exactly who he is, a joyful no-nonsense man overflowing with that midwestern charisma that draws you into a swirl of caring kindness and dad joke goofiness. walz said "we'll sleep when we are dead" he could have been my north dakota and father-in-law who says the exact same thing. and when you look at the minnesota governor's record another glaring midwestern trait comes through, pragmatic common sense. here is what walz said last month to jake tapper when asked if he is progressive record could be used against harris if he got the vp nod. >> you passed universal background checks on guns, you expended lgbtq protections coming of implemented tuition free college for low income minnesotans. there's free breakfast and lunch for school kids. do you think you are record is an asset to the ticket? or would it risk fueling trump attacks as you

walz: whoops! can't wait for all of you in america to get to know my incredible wife, gwen, a 29-year public school educator! [applause] don't ever underestimate teachers. [cheers and applause] and our two beautiful kids, hope and gus. i couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket and to help vice president harris become what we all know is very good for us to think about, next president of the united states of america! [cheers and applause] from her first day as a prosecutor, as the district attorney, attorney general of the great state of california, a united states senator, and vice president of the united states. [applause] vice president harris has caught on the side of the american people. she took on the predators. she took on the fraudsters. she took down the transnational gangs. she up against powerful corporate interests. and she never hesitated to reach across the aisle if it meant improving people's lives. [applause] and i want all of you to hold this and don't ever underestimate the power

why did they choose walz?are in the prison of identity politics come he's not a speech when he six come he's a white male. maybe we will get my white males as a group. i don't think you are going to get that with him. we don't like arson. >> jesse: not just white males. >> greg: we don't like snitches. as a white male, i don't like snitches, i don't like tampons and poise bathrooms. i don't like trance surgeries for kids. just because he is a white male, he's an individual. i'm talking about walz, not him, but you see my point. everybody is an individual with their own traits. democrats make the mistake of describing it to the group. so then they have special traits. does it work? that is why they are in trouble. >> jesse: judge jeanine? >> judge jeanine: i agree with you and i will tell you why. there are democrats in congress who believe that is the reason he was not picked up your eye said this in the a block. pennsylvania is a swing state. it is a must-win state for her if she is going to win the white hou

governor walz is not steal any valor. he served the country for more than two decades, unlike say donald trump who reportedly avoided the draft by claiming he had bone spurs. liked i said that's just one o the potent lies the trump campaign and vance are pushing about tim walz right now. here's line number 2. >> everyhe voter in minnesota needs to know when the violent mobs of anarchists, and looterss and marxists came to burn down minneapolis four years ago, remember me? i couldn't get your guv door to act. he'sor supposed to call in the national guard or the army, and he didn't do it. i couldn't get your governor, so i sent in the national guard to save minneapolis. >> trump claims that in the civil unrest that came in the wake of the pleats t killing of george floyd, trump claims that governor walz refused to send in the national guard and that t trumpe himself had to do it. again, that strikes me as the kind oft attack that could be incredibly pote want with a lot of americans, if only it were true. but, again, it'sit

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and can't do anything that would make her appear islamaphobic. >> under a walz-harris ticket given walz'sally just the worst kind of radicals from within the muslim community, one could only imagine this be replicated at the white house level. walz clearly doesn't want to know about the extremist he empembraces. state records we have tracked down so the muslim-american society of minnesota received grants totaling over $100,000 from 2021 until now and another grant for almost $25,000 is promised in the next fiscal year. we did get a statement from the harris walz campaign reading governor walz does not have a personal relationship with him and governor walz strongly condemns hamas terrorism. back to you in new york. liz: great reporting michael tobin, thank you for joining us. coming up we've got a minnesota small business owner here on how he and other mom and pop shops struggled under far left governor tim walz. they say walz gave big corporations a pass, but gave them a hard time. that small business owner with us tonight to speak out but first, time magazine getting criticized for its

minnesota governor walz.'s what former president donald trump said about harris' vp pick just this morning. >> i can't believe it. i never thought this was going to be the one that was picked. i know i'm a little bit, i helped him very much during the riots. he's a very, very liberal man, and he's a shocking pick and i'm thrilled. i could not be more thrilled. >> with us now, nbc news correspondent garrett haake with senator vance and mark short, former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence. what did we hear from vance this morning? >> well, jose, this event just concluded a short time ago. you see i'm standing in front of a police station. there was a heavy focus on law and order issues, the bread and butter campaign issues that the trump campaign likes to talk about, immigration, how it is related to crime. vance hit those points on the nose and took a number of questions from reporters that covered the gamut, everything from the campaign's reaction to the vice presidential running mate pick fr

tim walz takes the phone call from him. he's wearing a camouflage hat right there, right and he's not this is something he also seems to wearing his normal life. >> they start selling these hats on harris hq website, like right away, they apparently spell out immediately. i mean, jonah, this is something that like walz can do authentically, but not a lot of democrats and national office can these days. >> yeah. >> and i don't think people should get ahead of themselves. >> they're not going to win the white non-college educated working class vote, right? >> they're not going to take that demographic away from trump. but they might limit how much how bad the damage right at this whole election is going be at the margins in a handful of states. if you can just keep trump's loss games to put a ceiling on them. that's and i think that that sort of helps. >> yeah, really interesting. alright, coming up next here on cnn this morning, a very striking result in a closely watched primary they did was radicalized vowing to fight back

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ticket is kamala harris and tim walz. the campaign has been quickly turning out new logos, new teachers, you posters to prove exactly that over the last hour, the harris campaign, of course, has been also busy in forming supporters of the vice president's choice. they have been sending out text messages and emails. and this last tweet from kamala harris, i think really does boil down her choice tim walz, as her running mate. she wrote in this tweet as a governor, a coach, a teacher, and a veteran. he's delivered for working families like that like his it's great to have them on the team now let's get to work the vice president did, of course, make that important phone call to the minnesota governor earlier today. and i am told that in that brief phone call he did inform him, but she still believes that they are the underdogs, but that she also thinks that they can have a winning economic message that is aimed at the middle-class and also winning message when it comes to protecting freedoms. so that certainly gives you a s

kamala harris and tim walz. their failed week and dangerously liberal governor walz previewed how he will respond to trump painting him as ultra liberal in an interview with our own jake tapper on state of the union, just a little over a week ago what a monster kids are eating, eating and having full belly so they can go learn and women are making their own health care decisions and we're a top five business state and we also rank in the top three of happiness. >> look, they're going to label whatever they're going to label. he's going to roll it out, mispronounce names to try and make the case the fact of the matter is where you see the policies that vice president harris was a part of making democratic governors across the country, executed those policies and quality of life is higher. the economies are better. all of those things wow the panel is back. he called it. he said pretty much everything that they would do about him including the fact that even in this there intentionally mispronouncing her name. i m

walz refused. it wasn't until night five thatt the governor finally decided to send in the guard and restore ie order. but by then, it was too late.oos entire neighborhoods were burned to the ground. blocks and blocks of businesses were totally te. three americans were dead. governor walz didn't carhee. he said that the people of minnesota deserve this violence ofcause of their lack of equity and inclusion. y can' can't make it up. you really can't take all. we saw large peaceful protests focusing on the systemic changes that get to the heart i of why we're in this situation. and when i say we, minneapolis, saint paul, the state of minnesota nationally, and aoe seen over the last 24 hours internationally. a societ3 4y that does not put' equity and inclusion at the center of it is certainly gointh to eventually come to the plac at.here we're oh, and it gets much worse from here. ethe first lady of minnesota, gwen walz, well, she basked in the riots, telling local media that she actually opened the w

_ what's tim walz like? it's funny because in _ what's tim walz like?e? it's funny because in right now, the entire world has investigative reporters trying to figure out, what is tim walz really like? the answer is very simple — tim walz is exactly what you see on television, when you see them out in the community, he's a regular guy with an irregular ability to talk to people — and very irregular ability to reach out to people beyond just those who agree with him. i think it's also important to say that tim walz is also, has also always been a leader. you seen vice president harris to someone who rose to the top. the biggest thing is that when he was a come november we are going to see another minnesota man with another e—mail president of the us do you feel they have the ability to take on the significant leads that donald trump had, calmly harasses eaton into those poll leads already so do you think they are the combination to do that with mac i would say the minnesota leader helps break down the leader of wanting to be vice president and now people

it's a huge night for governor walz.o months, nobody could have anticipated. if it weren't for the june 27th debate, tim walz would not be standing here on this stage tonight. he did well, everybody is holding coach walz signs, talked about how he peps up his team. mostly about being a good neighbor. that's a lot of his focus, is on relationships and treating each other well. >> he says neighbors need to mind their own business, republicans pointing to his effort as governor in minnesota, telling people to snitch on their neighbors. he said that the democrats in this hall have to do the blocking and tackling in order for the ticket to win in november. he pointed to -- that he's a veteran, he knows guns, he's a hunter and he said i was a better shot than most of the republicans in congress and i have the trophies to prove it. one of the interesting or at least notable things as you see his wife clapping there and his family on the stage, was his son gus, you know, overcome with emotion, pointing at the stage saying that's

and what i found out is that tim walz got a lot done as governor.d marijuana, [cheers and applause] yeah, it is a weed crowd. he passed family-and-sick leave, codified abortion rights. [cheers and applause] and provided free meals for all school kids. [cheers and applause] which makes him an ironic vp pick. democrats said, man, you've done so much as governor. we'd like to promote you to a position where you'll do absolutely nothing. but if you ask me, his appeal to this ticket isn't just his record as governor. it's his overall vibe. you know? and that vibe, it's midwestern dad as [bleep]. >> hey, everybody, tim here. 11 days to the election. but it's my pro tip of the day out on the road. i got to show you this. this, right here, is the headlight harness on a 2014 ford edge. ford, this is unacceptable. it burned out hot on the connector. so for $7.99 at napa auto parts here in the city, you can replace this. just clip off the back, use some shrink wrap connector, tape it back together, and put it back in. it's about a five minute fix and you're ba

they did it to tim walz in 2006. for minnesota governor, as you mentioned earlier in this program, and they are now trying to do it again. this is the reality, chris -- we've asked less than 1% of our country to serve in the longest wars in american history. tim walz answered that call. he deployed to italy. you don't get to choose where the army sends you. the army sent his battalion of field infantry artilleryman to italy, 173rd airborne division is where it's based out of, after 9/11. he left his family. he left his job. he did what his country asked him and his brothers and sisters to do. he did it with distinction. he got an honorable discharge. for these jokers now to attack his military service, it is beyond the pale. this is one of the reasons why, chris, we had the least amount of veterans serving in congress in the 21st century, because when you go in there they try to attack your military service, something that is so sacred, and just wrong. >> patrick murphy, former congressman from pennsylvania, served t

tim walz is a great man. tim walz is an outstanding governor. tim walz is a teacher.t. he is. and i'll tell you what else. i'll tell you what else. tim walz is a dear friend. and i want you to know, lori and i feel blessed to have tim and gwen in our lives. they are outstanding public servants and i can't wait for you, philly, the rest of this commonwealth and our entire country to get the chance to know the walzes, the vice president and second lady of this nation. now, i think it is fitting and it is special that kamala harris and tim walz have chosen to launch their campaign right here in philadelphia. in the city of brotherly love and sisterly affection. and importantly, they chose to launch their campaign right here in the birthplace of real freedom. you know, the other side, trump and his sycophants, let me tell you something, they love to talk a big game about freedom. they love to cloak themselves in the blanket of freedom all of the time. they love to talk a good game. but hear me on this. it is not freedom to tell our children what books they're allowed to r

and that's what tim walz is. he is a hunter and the fact that that is one of the first things that they are selling that tells you a lot about the way that they are trying to get the white i might get one way to sow that had him with the culture, you know, i think that is actually what is happening, is that it can already got you. i think that's what at my point is like there's a way to say the same thing and speak to a lot of people and that's what tonight felt like is that i know you don't agree and peptic, but i think that i think they give you one of those hats as a reward for when they confiscate your guns, they give you a heads right here. the thing he got on stage and talked about, he is a gun owner. he believes in the second amendment. he's talking to all of americans, i think in this campaign we've done this thing where we could say this word, progressive as though with a slur or it's a bad thing. the reality is, is that when you actually look at what progressive policies are now, all of them, but about

walz's geography class. >> byron: walz inspired frank to become a geography teacher.is former teacher. >> you're going to see that passion that he had in the classroom on the debate stage for sure. >> byron: many voters wondering how walz will size up against the man he could be facing off against on a debate stage. >> i got to tell you, i can't wait to debate the guy. >> byron: j.d. vance. >> that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. see what i did there? >> byron: vance already on the attack at his own rally in philadelphia today. >> i think what tim walz's selection says is that kamala harris has bent the knee to the far left of her party, what she always does. >> they're both from relatively humble upbringings, grew up in relatively rural circumstances. and they've both served in the military. the way they came to prominence is much, much different. i do think the clarity with which they can communicate their commitment to their values does make them kind of two sides of at least a similar coin. >> you have two candidates who wanted to double down

walz said about himself congressman, so the sound from walz saying that he carried a weapon in war. >> do you take issue with that i mean, he probably shouldn't have said it. >> but keep in mind when an italy he was actually probably technically under operation enduring freedom, which was anybody that deployed to that area, was part of a contingency operation which is warren afghanistan. so i guess technically, you could say it, you obviously shouldn't have said that, but that's one comment after 24 years of military service, when he retired honorably and i look, i agree with scott. you can expect to have your military record looked at, but where you should be attacked as if you were dishonorably discharged, if you lied about what you did for a job or if you're running for president of the united states again. and when your country needed, you, you let your country down by running away from the draft. you want to say that tim walz, some avoided leaving, deploying with his unit and lead his unit down fine. i totally don't agree. that's crap, but listen donald trump fled the dream craft

. >> tim walz's record is a joke. one of the most far left radicals in the entire united states government at any level. i think what tim walz's selection says is that kamala harris is to the far left of her party can which is what she always does. >> the argument is that perhaps mr. shapiro, like joe biden, a staunch pporter of israel, and that has been losing the democrats votes. helena: the u.s. vice president kamala harris chooses the governor of minnesota, tim walz, to be her running mate for november's presidential election. he is in philadelphia, where kamala harris is going to hold a rally shortly. we will be live in philadelphia. hamas announces that israel's most wanted man has been chosen as the new head of the group, taking over from ismail haniyeh, who was assassinated in tehran last week. u.k. prime minister holds the second emergency meeting in two days after anoth night of violence and unrest on the streets in parts of the country. and the u.s. southern city of charleston extends her curfew until wedne

peter doocy had governor walz on his investigation, it was coach walz. robert, what'd you think?p back then, but i would play for this guy. i'd love to play for him. martha knows, he wasn't my top two choice. i thought it should be shapiro or kelly. i really didn't know this guy. but over the last few weeks, tim walz, i love the guy. he just has a great spirit, and i think he left it on the field. i think what dana said, he did better than what anyone thought, and i thought it was fun and enjoyable. martha: a lot of football analogies. bret: he kept it under midnight, harold. >> he wins the night for, if nothing more he was 15 or 16 minutes speaking, and he crammed so much in. let me give you three points. bret: can we make it two? >> he made it fine. he did a fine job. first, he listed accomplishments as governor. he talked about cutting taxes for the middle class, he talked about creating affordable housing opportunities, paid family and medical leave and free breakfast and lunches for children in schools. these are things that governors are able to talk about, executives are a

walz: wow, thank you, philadelphia. thank you madam vice president for the trust you put in me, and may be more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. i did not be prouder to be on the ticket and help vice president become what we all know is very very good for us to think about. the next president of the united states of america. now, donald trump sees the world differently than us. first, he does not know the first thing about service. he does not have time for it because he is too busy serving himself. again and again and again. donald trump weekends our economy to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws. he creates chaos and division. that is to say nothing of his record as president. he froze in the face of the covid crisis. he drove our economy into the ground. make no mistake, violent crime was up under donald trump. it's not even counting the crimes he committed. j.d. vance literally, literally wrote the forward for the architect of the project 2025 agenda. like all regular people grow up with in the heartl

walz -- i am sorry mr. shapiro favors oil and gas fracking and fossil fuels as governor of big oil state. and national democrat can't handle that our own william lajeunesse outlined the tim walz left wing social policy, donald trump, and jd vance are going to make mince meat of them over this story in pennsylvania. david mccormick stands a good chance of winning u.s. senate seat from robert kc jr., with you i think that biggest problem for new harris-walz ticket economic recession is not yet here, the risks are growing. and they have no growth strategy at all. i'm not ignoring border czar harris a open border catastrophe, not ignoring the related crime wave. not ignoring consumer price increases. roi'm ignores the break out and mishandling of foreign wars, but, mandating an end to fracking with carbon taxes, ev mandates, bans on gas powers cars, killing pipelines, all of these measures are job killers, not job creators, promises to raise taxes by 4 or 5 trillion dollars is a job killer. not a job creator. m

tim walz is a communist sheep.eft wing marxist socialist who is also a sheep. >> michael: so republicans think kamala should've picked a more moderate vp, like josh shapiro? >> no, he's also a communist. a marxist communist kosher sheep. he's exactly the type of socialist that democrats love to pick, instead of blue-collar heartland people like tim walz. >> michael: but they did pick tim walz. >> i know, it was a big mistake picking that marxist socialist. >> michael: troy, i'm sensing a pattern here. it seems like republicans just label every democrat as a communist. i mean, what if her vp pick was captain america? >> the guy who fought hitler, like joseph stalin? sounds like a communist to me. >> michael: what about mr. peanut? >> okay, every peanut is the same. same shape, same color, same taste. communist. >> michael: what about the geico gecko? >> anyone that sells insurance is a communist. it's a shared risk. the gecko, jake from state farm, limu emu and doug -- all communists. and don't even get me started o

attacks on tim walz's military service.t says the unfounded accusations have caused outrage among veterans. it says that senator j.d. vance's evidence-free accusation that his democratic counter part, minnesota governor tim walz, dodged serving in the iraq war has earned fact checks, but condemnation by veteran groups and former president mike pence's one-time chief of staff says vance claimed walz served in his home state's national guard for 24 years and deployed to italy as part of the u.s. war in afghanistan before retiring in 2005, abandoned his unit and even asserted that walz had "stolen valor." the attacks had been used against walz in both his 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial campaigns, which he won. he says several publications soon corrected it, as noted by cnn, it was two months after walz retired in 2005 to run for congress when his former unit received orders to deploy. nevertheless, right-wing commemorators have insisted on pushing the basis claimed as media matters for america pointed out. criticism of walz's rec

governor walz is not exactly a household name. a new poll taken just in the last few days, asked harris supporters about their impression of governor walz, 64% we're unsure if they'd ever heard of him or never heard of them. you have some new reporting on why vice president harris went with this relative unknown so jake, first of all, the vetting team actually believes that he will help that he will play well across battleground states. >> i spoke to one person, a source familiar with the vetting team, who told me, quote, he hunts, he fishes. you want to have a beer with him? he will play well in michigan, wisconsin western pennsylvania, georgia, and north carolina. so they do think the most important thing is that they get elected and that he will help. the other thing we now are learning key moments from his vetting when he met with the vetting team i'm told it was a home run that he was fund he was humble. most important. he was loyal. one source said to me, when walz was asked how he saw the role of vice president, he said he

walz, this story coach walz taught social studies and to his former high school football players, he was coach. >> it's like matchup between the varsity team and the jv squad under those friday night lights coach walz so moments ago we got our first out loud response from donald trump. which shaye my reaction is i can't believe it. i never thought this was going to be the one that was picked. he's a very very liberal man and he's a shocking pick. and i'm thrilled. i could not be more thrilled well, i could not be more thrilled to have cnn political director david chalian with me this morning first, let's start with like i said, no subtlety in politics, coach, coach, coach, chance. >> i mean, they really want to make coach happen here. david they do and notice there was not like a recitation of what tim walz accomplished in congress are what tim walz accomplished in his years as governor of minnesota it was a leaning into the biography here. >> the coach, the high school social studies teacher the national guardsman, of course, far more. you heard kamala harris painting this picture o

we haven't seen tim walz.ave a camera on his residence for most of the day and you will see him with the vice president kamala harris in philly later this afternoon. big rally there at 5:30. we'll cover that. meanwhile, how does this change the map? does it change the map? trying to figure it out. the power rankings where we are. trump 219 and harris 215. what we're trying to pick up over the past really going back to milwaukee and the republican convention. if you were to take these four states up here, okay, minnesota, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, right? they seem to be pretty much the focus before joe biden dropped out. the reason i say that is i will show you what the polling has shown us. if trump is at 219. if the polling favored him in north carolina and georgia and arizona and nevada, he is right up against the number 268 but not at 270. that's what we thought going into milwaukee. then we thought well, if that's the case, joe biden has to run the table in the upper midwest. now we make the argum

governor walz is the real deal.ook forward to continuing to work with him to bring normalcy back to washington. joining us at this moment is steve kornacki. good morning. so if you would break down for us the governor's background and what do we know about him? what impact does he bring to this race? >> i think that background small town background, the military background, democrats are hoping it's going it help him. as we look at our battleground map, they are hoping it's going to help in the three familiar battleground stauts. we talk about pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. and the reason why obviously you know from the electoral college standpoint why these are important, but the challenge for these democrats has been pretty straight forward for a long time now. democrats have been cleaning up, increasingly so in the suburbs of philadelphia, suburbs of pittsburgh, suburbs of droilt, suburbs of grand rapids. used to be hard core republican, much less so in the trump era. so democrats have been doing well in t

walz: think about this leader -- gov. walz: think about this leader. she stands with the national worker. she fought the transnational gangs. she stands up against the billionaires and the corporate greed. this is who it is. and she has a long record of delivering for union members and organize labor. -- organized labor. everybody in this room knows, this is a bit of preaching to the choir but the choir needs to sing right now. the choir needs to sing. we know that unions know the middle class. the rest of america has to. you know who doesn't? donald trump. he sees the world entirely differently. it really starts with this when i look at communities and neighbors and unions and the word that sean said, unity. he doesn't know the first thing of unity or service. he is too busy serving himself. again and again you've seen it, he put himself above us. he weekend our country to strengthen his own hand. he mocks our laws. he swes chaos and division -- he sews chaos and division. we lived through it. in the face of covid, our neighbors died because of it. an

meantime, back to tim walz, erin to you, instead of accusing tim walz of being a radical progressive, here test on socialism. he said this eight days ago. >> don't ever shy away from progressive values. just do the damn work. >> trace: certainly not trying to hide anything here. >> governor walz is a socialist in sheep's clothing, looking like your neighbour, uncle, but in reality, pushing not only bigger government spending by radical left ideologies in the state of minnesota. they saw a budget surplus, and instead of giving it back to the taxpayers, he tried to raise taxes on minnesotaens for more government spending. this is what we need to be talking about as runs. radical ideologies that american people are going to have less money in their pockets with economy the number 1 issue. >> trace: here he is on mandating parents to allow their kids to become transgender. >> we want every minnesotaen to grow up safe, celebrated and free to exist as their authentic versions of themselves. protecting and supporting access to gender-affirming healthcare is a welcomed and supportive state to

who is tim walz? >> so tim walz is the guy that grew up on a farm, work down the firearm ended up going to sign up with the army national guard at age 17, something that i think a lot of americans can relate to kids growing up ben in the nash was in the national guard for years and years and years, moves to minnesota becomes a teacher and a football coach in high school ends up in 2006 deciding to run for congress and was just an incredible blast on the scene and that he was like, so okay, i'll say it normal he was so optimistic and interesting and he never he would speak without a note. he would talk about his military service and what it meant to be an american and what that meant when we were looking at a iraq war and other things at the time. and then he got elected to congress. he chose to go on the agriculture committee on i'm services on veteran friends so when people get to know tim walz and they get to know his story and how he came from. nothing and just decided to serve our country first in

>> i think progressives saw the agenda that walz was able to move, the relationship between walz and the grassroots infrastructure and the labor infrastructure in minnesota as an example of the type of co- governing that they want to see, where the movement helps set the agenda, the messaging, that was all about being greater than fear, and saying that, you know, people who are struggling are not scapegoats, but they are our neighbors, right? all of that came up from the grassroots, and walz was really kind of the person who gave voice to what was ultimately a grassroots vision and i think that made a significant difference in what we saw, in terms of progressive enthusiasm for walz. >> we will see him on the trail. he looks pretty good today. >> i mean, they look so happy! [ laughter ] >> they look happy. it is good to be happy. look, democratic politics is tough, but it is also about the nonviolent resolution of our conflict, it is about human flourishing, in some elephants. upon it is also about crafting other elements that should be enjoyable. heather mcgee, michelle goldberg, th

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you do not and tim walz did. >> tim walz's approval rating has been climbing since he joined the ticket. jd vance sticks has dropped. do you think this trend is going to continue, or are we in a bit of a honeymoon phase? >> i think all these polls are going to plateau when you're already seeing it for the harris ticket. we are now back to where we were probably in 2020 in terms of who is going to turn out, who has the enthusiasm, and that is really five the existing or former president has been so critical of crowd sizes, because he feels the momentum shift away from him and instead of writing his shift, he list out the grievances and really some bizarre kinds of discussions that he is engaging in now, so he has not figured out how he's going to write this ship, and i think the next big moment in this campaign is going to be the debates and if she comes through a strong, as clear and concise as i know, leqembi, i've known her since she was the attorney general of california, if she gets on that debate stage and cleans his clock i think you're going to see polls once again reflect that b

he's aawol too. >> governor walz! governor walz, governor walz, governor walz. ignoring me right now. elizabeth: yeah, that's tim walz with. he's ignoring the immediate immediate -- media just like kamala harris. more than four dozen senators and lawmakers today called him out for falsifying and embellishing his military record. those lawmakers are military veterans. he's got a big dnc speech tonight to. we're going to take on his latest falsehoods. and we've got dnc protesters speculating -- heckling nancy pelosi. this is another embarrassment for nancy pelosi. we've got the sound is. but first, my buddy dagen is having a ball at the dnc. let's see what's coming up on "the bottom line." dagen: thanks, e-mac. congressman michael waltzes bringing some sanity to this event. he's not -- well, nice chicago. he will be joining me to talk about, well, kamala harris has now borrowed joe biden's tax a plan. that's destruction for the united states of america. we have monica crowley. ben domenech weighs many on the head of the uaw calling people who are pro-life despicab