The cost already off the charts. More than the gdp of some entire countries. And the dramatic rescue of a 52yearold israeli hostage grabbed from a tunnel in southern gaza, raising new hopes for the 108 people still being held by hamas. What were learning about how the idf pulled it off. So much to get to but we start in georgia where democrats are suing the State Election Board over new rules they say will sow chaos and uncertainty election day. The rules allow Election Boards in 159 counties to make what they call reasonable inquiries about the vote count before certifying the results, but the rules dont explain what reasonable actually means. The lawsuit alleges that even individual Board Members can have the power to delay certification while they hunt for Election Irregularities and then a Battleground State like georgia that could mean holding up not just the state results, but potentially, then, National Results as well. All of it coming as trump keeps fueling the idea that the only way he can lose is if democrats cheat. Our primary focus is not to get out the vote, its to make sure they dont cheat because we have all the votes you need. You can see it. Every house along the way has signs, trump, trump, trump, trump. Theyre vicious people but they are not talentsed people other than in that way n that way theyre talented, theyre very talented on cheating in elections. If we win nevada were going to win the whole thing and i dont know how the hell we can lose it. Ive never seen such support. Make sure your vote is eek ur because, remember, they cheat like hell. I want to bring in msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin. And nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is with me on set. So, lisa, the secretary of state said this is a recipe for chaos. What do we know . What can you tell us . Well, first of all, chris, this is a potential recipe for chaos because georgia has 159 counties and the lawsuit is about, as you noted, two different rules passed by the Georgia State election board that impact how county Election Boards conduct their own processes prior to certifying Election Results. Not only would it allow individual County Boards to conduct reasonable inquiries prior to certifying their results, but it also would empower local Board Members, again, in each county to demand any and all electionrelated documentation prior to certification and that bumps right up against a provision of georgias statutory law that says counties must certify their Election Results by a time and date certain. So through this lawsuit the Democratic National committee, the Democratic Party of georgia, a variety of countylevel election Board Members, even voters in two Georgia Statehouse candidates are asking for a declaration that to the extent that these rules are inconsistent with that certification mandate, that they be enjoined so that the election can go forward without any uncertainty about when these countylevel results must be certified. Okay. Vaughan, just to complicate this even further, its not just democrats filing this lawsuit, you have lucy mcbath, a member of congress who are calling for some republicans to be taken off these boards, they say they are anything but looking for a free and fair election. They think there have been actually ethical violations. Even the republican governor, brian kemp, is looking into this situation. So lots of moving parts. Its a Republican Brian Kemp who may be the one standing in the way yet again for these maga republican election Board Members. You are looking at Governor Kemp who at the urging of democratic lawmakers and Brad Raffensperger has also pushed back against the actions of these republican Board Members, Governor Brian Kemp in the last 24 hours asking his Attorney General whether he under Georgia State law is constitutionally obligated and has the ability to seek the removal of these Board Members and if the ag comes back to him and says that the state law does do that at that point in time Governor Kemp could go and hold a hearing through an administrative judge to have both sides Hearing Arguments on this and potentially remove those republican Board Members. Worth reminding 70 days until the election. Maya, the state Republican Party chairman tried to defend these rules telling news week, quote, these Common Sense Changes will benefit all georgians regardless of political affiliation and they are designed to increase transparency and Public Confidence regarding our election. What do you say to that . I say, look, i mean, what we have seen, i think, over and over and i think its important that we look at this not just as an individual, this set of rules and this lawsuit, but as a part of really what is a larger effort to actually undermine Public Confidence in our elections over and over again weve seen in the clips that you just played donald trump going out of his way to sow the fear that peoples votes wont be secure, that something is going to happen. What we are seeing is an effort and this is where it slots in with what really becomes this almost sort of constellation of disinformation that is to undermine faith in our democracy and in a fair and free election. So, lisa, this is, indeed, part of a much larger effort, we played all of that sound of donald trump casting doubt on the 2024 election, but even back in july the Executive Director of the heritage foundations oversight project said, and im quoting here, as things stand right now there is a zero percent chance of a free and fair election. The Washington Post also wrote that according to rnc cochair lara trump before any ballots are even cast the rnc has 90 active lawsuits, cases, and is publicizing them even if they didnt file the case themselves. So is it clear how much of this is legal wrangling and how much is political wrangling . Its not and i think, chris, like many things with former President Trump they collapse into one here. Because on one hand your right to say that these two new rules are sort of being offered to give individual county Board Members the pretext or the evidence the evidence necessary to delay certification, which could prevent even georgia from sending all of its results to the country, but i do think that there is another piece of this that is in search of evidence for a national narrative. You will recall that during the 2020 election there were over 60 lawsuits in the post election phase designed to help former President Trump overturn results in one way or another. All of those lawsuits failed largely because they had no evidence. The second of the two rules thats been contested in this election, the one that allows individual county Board Members to demand any and all electionrelated documentation, that may be far less about georgia and individual countylevel results than it is about fueling a stop the steal narrative once again in advance of the election not just after it to try and give folks the tools or the evidence that they think they will need to show that the election was rigged, even in the absence of any evidence that it, in fact, was or will be. Lisa, thank you for that. Vaughan, give us again a look at the bigger picture. I mean, donald trump obviously fits into this in a very big way, but to lisas point those suits that came after the 2020 election failed one after the other after the other after the other. Do these folks think that somehow this time it could be different . Are they more convinced now that they might lose and theyre getting their ducks in a row, so to speak . Give us the lay of the land. Right. Number one, donald trump was criminally charged for allegedly trying to overturn georgias Election Results, number one. Number two, in 2022 he tried to house brian kemp as governor by backing a republican challenger to him in the primary. That challenger lost to kemp by 55 percentage points. So donald trump lost again on that merritt. But when you are looking here at just take fulton county, there was one Election Board Member who refused to certify fulton countys primary results this last may here. So they are very well understanding of the levers of what it takes to certify Election Results and i want to let you listen to donald trump because its not just the levers, but its also the names of the individuals in those very positions. Take a listen to him at the Georgia Rally earlier this month talking about those three republicans. Now we have two things we have to do. We have to vote and we have to make sure that we stop them from cheating because they cheat like dogs. I dont know if youve heard, but the Georgia State election board is in a very positive way. This is a very positive thing, marjory. They are on fire. They are doing a great job. Three members, janice johnson, Rick Jeffries and janelle king, three people, are all Pit Bulls Fighting for honesty, transparency and victory. They are fighting. Those are three otherwise very not Public Officials and yet donald trump was very well aware of their names and at least one of the individuals who was at that very rally in georgia earlier this month. And the marjory he was referencing of course was Marjorie Taylor greene. Maya, i talked to the chair of the georgia Republican Party congresswoman Nikema Williams at the dnc last week and we talked about the preps for the election as your cat makes yet another appearance on Chris Jansing. I love this so much. I think it was the last time we were talking about cat lady. Anyway, lets go back to the chair of georgia democrats and this is how theyre getting ready for what they know is coming. We have Volunteer Attorneys in all 159 counties making sure that when voters turn out to cast their vote theyre actually counted. So 159 volunteers, are you looking at potentially hundreds of attorneys who are ready to go on Election Night . Hundreds of attorneys already ready to go. So they are trained, were already fielding questions as people are hearing about maybe being dropped from the voter rolls. We can make sure were addressing that in realtime leading up to the election. It raises the question what the heck is Election Night going to look like. I think we have to sort of steel ourselves for some chaos because truthfully that is what seems to be part of the strategy that the republicans are trying like hell is that if they can they can sort of sow enough chaos, they can create enough of the fear that, you know, this potentially you throw enough stuff, something might stick, at least enough to delay. So i think what we have to prepare ourselves for is the possibility that results are coming back right away, that people are going to need to be patient, theyre going to need to you know, if theyre being told that they are not on voter rolls but they know that they are, to, you know, sort of stay, to work through the process to make sure that their votes are counted. But i think the other issue to think about, and this is the tough part, is thats Election Night. I think part of the concern that were dealing with is that in advance of that this is all part of a strategy to also further suppress Voter Turnout because people feel like no matter what, its not going to be fair, things are you know, things are going to be thrown into disarray, theres going to be, you know, lawsuits regardless. That makes people less likely to participate. So whats really disturbing, i think, in this moment is that some of the damage is already being done and thats what we have to guard against. Maya rupert, Vaughn Hillyard, i have a feeling we will be talking about this yet again. Thank you so much. And coming up, the Advertising Battle between Kamala Harris and donald trump. We have the latest on the mindboggling amounts of money being spent and where. We will explain in 90 seconds. W. We will explain in 90 seconds. Since my citi custom cash® card automatically adjusts to earn me more cash back in my top eligible category. 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Well, despite harris massive fundraising haul an npr analysis says that trumps team is Outspending Harris in four of the seven states you a through when you factor in National Advertising in the last month harris drastically outspent team trump by 54. 3 million. Bottom line, there has never been ad spending like this, more than 1. 6 billion worth already running or theyve been booked through election day. Nbcs Aaron Gilchrist is covering the white house for us, also with us john kasich, an msnbc political analyst. Lets start with that slice of the ad money which is defining Kamala Harris. Look, there are people out there not paying attention and while defining a candidate is nothing new in politics, defining someone who has come to the race this late is a new challenge. So talk to me about what you see and what you think money might be able to buy. Well, look, first of all, there isnt any reason to define donald trump, everybody in america has an opinion about him. No reason to spend a lot of money talking about that. When it comes to Kamala Harris shes largely unknown still, shes sort of shes really not defined. So as a result of that people can attach whatever feelings or thinking they have to her and say, well, thats who she is. So now what the trump people are beginning to do is to say, no, let us tell you who Kamala Harris s let me give you the whole script here. Let me give you the whole history. So thats the battle that we are on to. Of course, the earned media is going to matter a lot. Pretty soon kamala is going to have to sit down for interviews and run the Media Gauntlet and see how she can carry herself. If she does well thats going to be big kudos for her, if she stumbles and doesnt do well thats a whole new ball game. We have to wait and see. Its all about how people are going to define who she is and how is she going to define herself in specific terms. Like the New York Times said here are 21 questions she should have to answer. Its all interesting. There was also really interesting article today in the times by nate cohen who goes through trumps many attempts to define harris in a negative way, race, gender, her intellect, arguing none of them have landed, but he points to a new line of attack that shes just more of the same failed Biden Harris Administration policies. Could the Harris Campaign run into trouble trying to show she is a change agent if trump is able to tie her to for lack of a better phrase the same old joe biden . I think shes going to try to distance herself from joe biden in a number of ways and were beginning to see that happen. You know, on one hand she said i was there for every crossed t and dotted i, but now shes beginning to say, well, this is where i am on, for example, inflation. Ive been arguing for months now that the Biden Administration was in denial about the problem of inflation and how it affects average folks. Shes not doing that. Shes saying prices are too high. So shes sort of and thats not disloyal, she is the Vice President not the president , but she is now trying to lay out an agenda. She said she is not for medicare for all anymore but people are going to ask her that. The other thing theyre going to ask her in my opinion, you were there for three and a half years, why didnt you do more then and she will have to answer that. There will be tough questions and some roads for her to cross but we will see how she does. If she stumbles shes got a problem. The next month is going to tell us a lot, interviews, the debate, obviously. Aaron, let me go back to the Governors Point which is part of this is about who she is and we saw at the convention theyre trying to show her as relatable. She understands your problems. Tell us a little more about the specific issues. Well, that really is the message that the campaign is focusing on getting out there. Showing both the Vice President is relatable but also that she understands peoples problems and has ideas on how to address some of those issues. Look, the reality is the campaign is about to open the floodgates when it comes to advertising. We know from the campaign that they are spending 370 million on tv and Digital Advertising starting one week from today. So from labor day to election day, that is the planned spend. We also know that thats when sort of the nonpoliticos are starting to pay more attention to whats happening in these campaigns. Theyre going to be seeing harris walz advertising during sort of highinterest tv programming, season premieres, big sporting events, things like that. And then there is a 200 million spend just on Digital Advertising, we are not talking about social media here, were talking about youtube and hulu and spotify, places like that and they believe that they can get into those places early before the Trump Campaign can, buy up the most significant time around these tv and digital moments and thats how they can get their message out, one, the Vice President says she wants to talk about how she plans to build an opportunity economy, lowering costs, creating jobs and one way that they are doing that is with two new ads that came out this week. I want to play a little portion of one ad that came out this week that talks about both what the Vice President wants to do and how shes contrasting herself with former President Trump. I will be laser focused on creating opportunities for the middle class that advance their Economic Security, stability and dignity. If you want to know who someone cares about, look who they fight for. Donald trump bites for billionaires and large corporations. I will fight to givemoney back to working and middle class americans. We also know today as we talk about contrast here that the former President Trumps running mate j. D. Vance senator from ohio plans to go to be out in wisconsin, a Battleground State, talking about the economy, talk being inflation and tying what they see as bad parts of those things to the Biden Administration and to Vice President harris in particular. The Advertising Blitz that we will see from the Harris Walz Campaign is going to be in those Battleground States but theres also an eightfigure buy nationally over the course of the next nine and a half or so weeks before the election. Governor, you know what it costs to run a campaign and i have yet to meet a current or former Campaign Manager who felt they had more money they could possibly use. It was interesting to me to read in the bulwark that Trumps Campaign is Spending Tens of thousands of dollars to run cable news ads, we know he watches a lot of cable news, this week in South Florida so they can be seen in and around the expresident s maralago club. What can i tell you . I dont have a question. I will just wait to see to hear what you say about that. Its a waste of money, to be running them there so he can see them. You know, thats donald trump, right . But, chris, we have to realize let me tell you a little story. Jim rhodes was once the governor of ohio, very wellrespected, very you might remember, youve heard that name. He brought george bush, h. W. Bush, the father of bush, into his office and he said to bush, the only thing that matters and he reached in his pocket and he slammed his wallet down on the desk, and he said thats all that matters in elections, dont forget it. So we have a lot of uncertainty with the economy, tax cuts are going to expire, that means taxes could go up, that creates uncertainty. I believe that election is going to come down to the debate. Who is going to provide and specifically the best chance for American Families to get ahead and to be financially secure . Whoever wins that debate, whether its harris or whether its trump, that is the person thats going to win this election. All the other things are secondary. I mean, the border may matter to a large degree, but it all gets down to how do i feel about my financial future . And thats where this thing is going to head over the next, what is it, 70 days. So let me play for you something that we just got. So j. D. Vance right now, governor, and this is a live picture in big rapids, michigan, of course, a Battleground State, i think the last poll i saw Kamala Harris was ahead there, but within the margin of error, so its a deadeven race basically. J. D. Vance was talking about the upcoming debate. Let me play that for you. In fact, i have heard that for her debate in just a couple weeks shes going to put on a navy suit, a long red tie and adopt the slogan make America Great again. I think thats what but were not were not going to let the American People forget that Kamala Harris is the candidate of american decline. She cast the so i think that last part im not sure i really understand the first part, but the last part where where the candidate of american decline hey, he is a fellow ohioen so i will let you speak for well, for both of us, i cant get out of it. But the candidate of american decline i think speaks to what you were just saying, right . What they want to say is dont you feel bad or maybe you do feel bad about your current economic circumstances or your prospects, and blame her. Is that what you hear there . Yeah, i mean, its going to be inflation is too high, shes already said its too high, she wants to work on that. People are going to ask what are you going to do about that . Theyre going to be asking questions specifically about what are you going to do with these Tax Increases or if you are going to have all these programs how are you going to pay for it. Shes going to have to answer that. The situation is inflation is high, its evened off but the prices are high and still going higher and that is thats a real issue and secondly, the wages, the real wages, of middle income people have declined. Trump is going to have to talk about how it was under him and how it was under biden and tie her to biden in the ways that are negative. She will have to refute that. Now, i think its worthwhile for all of us to take a very serious look of the economic comparisons and i have somebody actually doing that right now because i want to call it like i see it. How was it under trump . How was it before covid . How was it after covid . How much money did they all spend which causes inflation to the largest degree and how did the biden people do . Thats the way that i think they need to go if they want to make this competitive on the trump side and Kamala Harris has got to say im not joe biden, im my own person, i have a right to be my own person and these are the specific things that im going to do to provide that Economic Security that families are looking for. Governor john kasich, Aaron Gilchrist aaron, you are not from ohio, are you . Im not, no. Too many ohioans on the show. Move here, aaron, the water is great here. Good to see you both. Coming up, some celebrating in israel after Special Forces rescue a hostage held by hamas. The latest on that after the break. Plus special counsel jack smith looking to resurrect a trump case that a florida judge threw out. We will have the latest on that as well. Youre watching Chris Jansing reports only on msnbc. G hrcisg reports only on msnbc mu doug. 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The eighth hostage to be found alive, the first one to be found alive in a tunnel and he is 52yearold farhan alkadi an arabisraeli citizen from a predominantly Muslim Community in southern israel. He was working as a card in kibbutz in southern israel that day on october 7th. The idf not revealing too many details about how this operation unfolded, but lets take a listen to what the idf had to say about how this all unfolded. I can share that israeli commandos rescued Qaid Farhan Alkadi from an Underground Tunnel following accurate intelligence. His medical condition is stable and he will undergo examination in hospital. His family had been waiting 326 days to receive the news they did today. Reporter now, worth mentioning that the New York Times is offering a different version of events, citing two israeli officials, not authorized to speak on the record, they say that he was actually found by chance. That farhan alkadi actually escaped and was found by chance by Israeli Soldiers who were combing the tunnel looking for hamas fighters. Whatever the case, he is in stable condition. Those pictures and images are Heart Heartwarming as he is united with his family. Other Family Members of other hostages are going to want to know if he has information regarding the whereabouts and the condition of their loved ones. According to the idf there are 108 hostages left in gaza, two of them are from a previous from 2014, in fact, but a third of them are presumed dead. This is adding even more pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to get a deal done. There are so many Family Members who will tell you that they believe that he is putting his own political survival before the survival of the hostages or their best interests because it would be in his interest to prolong the war because he knows what would happen if the war ended because his coalition, far right coalition ministers, have told him that they would resign and bring down his government. So lowlevel delegates are working to finalize the details of the number of hostages and number of palestinian detainees to be released, but the big obstacles remain the two corridors in the gaza strip, still no resolution there. Hamas has said they will not agree to any deal that doesnt see the full withdrawal of Israeli Forces from the gaza strip. Chris . Danielle, thank you. And still ahead, why a judge a stopping a biden Executive Order on immigration and who it will effect the most. Youre watching Chris Jansing reports only on msnbc. 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His argument is in response to an argument that texas and these 15 other states wielded when they filed this lawsuit against the federal government. The states say that a program like this is harmful to the states and country because undocumented people in general are harmless in the sense that they cost the government and things like education and health care. Fotays response to that argument and other immigrants who filed to become litigants in that case is that by definition because of the iermts of this program there are people who have lived in the United States more than ten years r married to u. S. Citizens and typically tax players. He told me himself what he submit z as part of his allegation to prove residence in the u. S. For more than ten years are tax receipts. He says they contribute more than they take. That is an important part of the legal strategy for the federal government and the groups and immigrants defending this program is theyre going to say that texas and other states will not be able to show that they are harmed by this program and will not have standing to sue. For now the program is paused. Paul, republican states argue that the parole plan which is what people call this, right, the parole plan, is also unconstitutional. Do they possibly have an argument there . They might actually in the Fifth Circuit which has been the most hostile court to President Bidens proposals and laws, not just with immigration but also with abortion and with regard to gun rights. So the strongest claim that the proposal the strongest critique is that the states dont have standing, so standing is the legal term that means you have to have an individual interest in the outcome. Chris, its really unclear how texas and these other 15 states are harmed by this program which simply allows people to get married. I mean, thats a key question here, right, harm. The immigrant Advocacy Group that is involved in this is they just successfully defended the administrations protections for migrants coming from cuba, from haiti, nicaragua, venezuela, on the basis that those republican states could not prove it would do any harm. Is that a legitimate Legal Standard . I think it is. And it may even persuade the United States supreme court, the Fifth Circuit is actually more conservative than the u. S. Court. So the concern that the republican states have is that this creates incentive for people to illegally enter the country, but for it to apply you have to have been in the country already for ten years. The average beneficiary has actually been here for 23 years according to homeland security. Chris, President Biden says hes just trying to keep families together. So, david, talk about the political context of this. A former Trump Adviser worked on it . Reporter yeah, this is very much not just a policy and legal story, its a political story and, yes, so the lawsuit was brought by Texas Attorney general ken paxton and the other 15 debates they were assisted by America First legal, the Legal Organization founded and led by Steven Miller, the former Senior Advisor to then President Trump and the architect of many of his administrations immigration policies. That is a very important player in the legal aspect behind this case. And were trump to win a second term it is likely that Steven Miller would be once again behind the controls when it comes to Immigration Policy which is why a lot of people think if trump were to win again this program would be rescinded. This is why for someone like fotay who we heard at the top this pause in the program is difficult. I talked to him after the judge ruled and he described it as feeling like a knife through the heart because he was really hoping that the government would process his application before november at which point it would be much harder for the government to take away that status once its been granted, given that this is likely to be paused for some time the future of this program depends not only what happens in court but in the ballot box in november. Thank you both. The first January 6th Rioter to enter the capitol was sentenced moments ago for his role in the attack. We have the latest after the break. The break. [introspective music] recipes. Recipes that are more than their ingredients. [smoke alarm] recipes written by hand and lost to time. Can now be analyzed and restored using the power of dell ai. Preserving memories and helping to write new ones. 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Michael sparks can be seen in these photos making his way into the building through a broken window where according to the evidence, he chased a Police Officer up the stairs while yelling this is our america. Ryan riley is following this story for us. What can you tell us . This is an interesting case because originally he was charged with the statute and that impacted the case. His Sentencing Guidelines range was a lot lower so the judge departed Upward Siggive in cannotly from the what the Sentencing Guidelines would have been for the seriousness of Michael Sparks conduct that day. Michael sparks addressed the court directly and address the judge and apologized to the officer and said officers werent their target that day and their target was members of congress and he offered no apologies for those individuals and he Still Believes and continues to this day, quote, to believe Donald Trumps election lies and says he believes that we are currently living under tyranny. We dont really know what the judge was going to sentence him to before he made those remarks, but i certainly dont think that those remarks about still believing in the election lies that have been long debunked and about the seriousness of the situation believing that we are currently living in tyranny certainly helped the situation there. So what he ended up with was a pretty significant sentence of over four years in prison, chris. Ryan riley always tracking these cases for us. We appreciate it. Thank you, ryan. Millions of americans right now have a new lower cost option for a popular weight loss drug. Patients using the drug zepbound could save hundreds of dollars a month and nbcs berkeley lovelace, jr. , is covering this for us. Tell us about this, the pros and the cons, the obvious pro is theyre going to pay less. Rate. Under this new pricing plan you can get the starter dose at 3. 99 and you can get the 5 milligram dose, after the starter dose for 5. 49 and thats much lore than the overall price of 1,000. Among the concerns, though, now that theyre in vials instead of Auto Injector Pens will patients be willing to do this. Doctors say the Auto Injectors are popular among patients and theyre easy to use and you can inject it and there are people that could be hesitant about using the syringe and there are people who go after these medications and those also come in vials and syringes, so there are people who do this. Lilly says theyll be providing instructions on how to use these vials, as well. There are a few caveats to keep in mind, as well. With this, you can only get the medication through lillys direct which is lillys Telehealth Platform and on top of that you only have to pay out of pocket and theres no insurance covering this and there are few roadblocks for this, as well. So many people are using these Weight Loss Drugs now, whether or not this puts pricing pressure on other companies who make more expensive now, Weight Loss Drugs. It definitely does. Novo nordisk, the maker of ozempic and wegovy. Next month the ceo is scheduled to testify before the committee over the pricing of its drugs, as well and actually in the last few minutes, senator Bernie Sanders released a statement on this news, as well. He says in part that lillys lillys modest step forward by loring the prices is helpful, however he noted there is still a lot of work to do to lower the cost of the medications including mounjaro, the Diabetes Drug as well as novo nordisk and ozempic and wegovy and this puts pressure to lower the cost of the drugs and eli lilly to lower the costs of other med kagds, as well. Berkeley lovelace, jr. , thank you. Always good to see you on the show. Meantime, speak of costs, hit a new record in june. The value of u. S. 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