That trump will face accountability if he loses at the polls and that is something to hold onto. Joyce vance, thank you for your time tonight. That is our show. Now it is time for the last word with ali velshi. Good evening. Good evening. I'm glad you brought up tina peters in colorado because that story is bonkers. It's not on everybody's radar, but it is worth watching. As bonkers as it is and stuff in arizona and michigan and pennsylvania and georgia were last election, there are still people with plans like this and they are still pedaling, as the judge in that case says, the same snake oil, so it is useful to know about that. I think it is important that the judge is aware of it and thinking of the future, not just the past. That's exactly right. Have a good evening. Thank you. This is the good news that fox and friends viewers woke up to. Fox news alert. The september jobs report was released and shows the u. S. Added 254,000 jobs last month. That is significantly higher than economists expected and the unemployment rate fell slightly, now at 4. 1%. This comes with the election 32 days away and the economy remains the top issue. It is really amazing. Those are really good numbers. They look so sad. It's okay to smile. More of your fellow americans are working and more good news for americans and the harris campaign, santa claus and the allimportant holiday shopping season will not be stopped by a port strike. We will have more on the october surprise that won't be and how the white house averted a fourthquarter economic catastrophe later in the hour, but first, we may be 32 days away from election day, but many voters already made their voices heard. Nearly 1. 8 million mailin and early inperson votes have been cast nationally. In michigan where vice president harris campaigns today, more than 103,000 ballots have been cast. A new michigan poll shows kamala harris and donald trump tied when thirdparty candidates are included. Vice president kamala harris began her day in detroit speaking to union workers about the economy. Look, our economy while we are making good progress, just this morning in fact we got a solid jobs report. Over 250,000 jobs created last month. Unemployment fell and a few weeks ago the federal reserve cut down interest rates, which is going to be great for a lot of folks, but there is still more work we need to do. Vice president harris rallied in flint, michigan for a campaign with prominent michiganders including governor gretchen whitmer. As president, kamala harris knows that when we make more in america, more energy, we are stronger and the middle class grows. After four years of donald trump as president, thanks to leaders like kamala harris, we are finally investing in america and in americans. And los angeles lakers basketball legend and michigan native magic johnson. I'm here because i've known kamala for over 20 years. Cookie and i supported her run for attorney general in the state of california. Her run for senator and now we support her as the vp, but now the biggest moment for all of us. November 5, we have to do all we can to elect kamala harris as the next president of the united states. Now there is a lot of black men in here and i don't mean to not talk to other people, but this is important. Our black men, we've got to get them out to vote. That's my point. Kamala's opponent promised a lot of things last time to the black community that he did not deliver on. And we've got to make sure we help black men understand that. Liz cheney campaigned for harris, appealing for independent and republican votes. Former president barack obama will campaign with kamala harris, starting in pittsburgh, pennsylvania next week. In flint, michigan tonight vice president harris shared her plan for american manufacturing. We know we cannot have a strong middle class without american manufacturing. So over the last 3 1/2 years we have brought manufacturing back to america, creating 730,000 manufacturing jobs. We announced to the opening of more than 20 new auto plants in the united states. And then there is donald trump. So donald trump has a very different approach. So, donald trump makes big promises and he always fails to deliver. He said he was the only one who could bring back america's manufacturing jobs. Remember that? and then america lost nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs when he was president. Including, including tens of thousands of jobs in michigan and those losses started before the pandemic. Making donald trump one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in american history. Donald trump signed a $2 trillion tax cut that mostly went to the wealthy and big corporations, not to working people. And now he is making the same empty promises to the people of michigan that he did before, but we will not be fooled. We will not be gas lighted. Donald trump's task record is a disaster for working people. And if he wins again, it will be more of the same. Vice president harris closed her speech in flint with this appeal to michigan voters, including the millions who have already cast their ballots. In these 32 days out from the election, it is important that we remind people how we got here. Donald trump handpicked three members of the united states supreme court with the intention of overturning roe v. Wade and they did and now more than three more than one in three women in america live in a state with a trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions. Which is immoral. We will restore reproductive freedom. As president of the united states i will proudly sign it into law. Proudly. And that is not our only battle. Across our nation we are witnessing a full on assault on hard fought and won freedoms and rights, like the freedom to vote. The freedom to be safe from gun violence. The freedom to join a union. The freedom to love who you love openly and with pride. And the freedom to breathe clean air and drink clean water. Friends, you know all too well. That clean water should be a right for everyone, not just for the people who can afford it. And as president i will continue to work with communities like flint to ensure you not only have clean water, but the opportunity to recover economically and thrive. So, election day is in 32 days. And already nearly 2 million ballots are in the hands of michigan voters alone. So if you have received your ballot, please do not wait. Fill it out and return it. Early voting starts statewide on october 26. And now is the time to make your plan to vote. Because, folks, the election is here. The election is here and we need to energize, organize and mobilize. And remember, your vote is your voice and your voice is your power. Joining us now is the michigan democratic party chair who was at the flint rally tonight. Nice to see you again. Good to see you, too, ali, how are you? i am well, thank you. That last point about your vote is your voice is important, but there is a particular message to voters who have ballots and i don't know, you tell me, is this a game of convincing people to vote for kamala harris or is it a matter of convincing people who will vote for kamala harris to actually cast those ballots, preferably early if they can? it is some of both of those things. We have to walk and chew gum at the same time. We are calling and texting and reaching out to those voters and helping them walk through that plan to get that ballot turned into their clerk. That means if they need some convincing, they will get some convincing. If they just need reminding, they will get that from us. We have a full team of volunteers. Thousands of volunteers doing this work every day, making sure that the folks who have their ballots have everything they need to get it done, no wind to take it, how to mail it, whatever steps they need to make sure those votes get turned in. It was a close race last time. Michigan is always one of those places where it is going to matter every vote, getting every vote out. Tell me about these rallies, because you and i have talked after a couple of them. What does it do? generally speaking i would think the people attending are probably there already. Maybe they are there to hear what kamala harris is saying, but you're bringing out heavy hitters. You've got the governor, magic johnson, senators. Tell me what happens and how that process of these remarkable, energized rallies translates into voting and voting early. Aside from the fact that they make great television, but we have hundreds of volunteers and staff at these rallies, signing people up to be volunteers. To knock on doors, to talk to their neighbors, to take the energy they get in the room. They are excited because they got to see magic johnson, they got to see the governor, they got to see kamala harris. They get to go home and talk about that and also talk about the issues brought up at this rally and talk about the importance of participating in this election. Yard signs, signup sheets. Whatever folks need to become part of this team and part of this process and we do sign up thousands of volunteers and rallies who then turn into super volunteers who show up and do the work we need to do every day to get kamala harris elected. Let's talk about magic johnson for a second. He had a specific pitch to the black men in the audience. Donald trump made promises that were not kept to the black community and he said it is our job to make sure people understand that in order to motivate the vote of black men. What you make of it? it bodes well to have magic there and to say those words. Thanks for coming home, magic, to do that. Very important to speak directly to his fellow black men about this. We know there has been some specific targeting to black men from the trump campaign and we are working hard to push back on the lies about who donald trump is and what he has done, because he has not done those things. He makes promises. He makes promises over and over again. Magic is a great messenger to tell the truth about the fact that you can't believe the words that come out of donald trump's mouth, frankly and we should not have believed them in 2020 if we did, but we absolutely cannot believe them now and we have to do what we did again. Lavora, great to see you as always. Thank you for always agreeing to join us. Happy to be here. Stack in 2020, joe biden beat donald trump by 154,000 votes in michigan. In february, more than 101,000 voters in michigan, a state with a sizable muslim and arab population voted uncommitted in the primary as a protest against the war in gaza. This week vice president harris was endorsed by a democratic muslim voting group and today she met privately with muslim and arabamerican leaders ahead of her rally in flint. That is after governor tim walz made a direct appeal to muslim voters on a zoom call last night. We all know this war must end and it must end now. The vice president is working every day to ensure that. To make sure israel is secure, the hostages are home, the suffering in gaza ends now and the palestinian people realize the right to dignity, freedom, and selfdetermination. Joining us now is my colleague and nbc news 2024 campaign embed. Good to see you and thank you for joining us tonight. Thanks for having me. Let's talk about this conversation. It is in michigan. It is important across the country, but given the numbers we stated, that uncommitted vote, people dissatisfied with joe biden or kamala harris's response to this could make all the difference. Tell me what has happened in the past 24 hours. I think you hit it on the head. It absolutely can make a difference in a state like michigan where there is a sizable population that can influence the vote in democratic leaning cities in the state. You have seen increased engagement by the harris campaign to muslim and arab american leaders. They have long sought to facilitate direct engagement between not just harris and these leaders, but also senior leadership of her campaign and we saw that over the last 24 hours. You mentioned how engaged they were. A virtual meeting with governor tim walz. We know that today before her rally she gave time to some of these leaders and had conversations. She not only sought their perspectives on the election, the state of the race in michigan, but also communicated her efforts to prevent a larger regional conflict in the region. Empathize with them over the suffering as she framed it going on in gaza and emphasize that she is on a mission to not only support israel and facilitate a hostage deal, but also ensure the suffering in gaza ends and ultimately this ends with a situation in which those in gaza are able to operate within dignity and have their own territory in that region. One that allows them to be independent and comfortable, which is something she has gone out of her way to communicate in the last couple of months. This is part of a larger effort from harris to facilitate engagement with the community. It is interesting because as you mentioned, it has not fundamentally changed from her. She has generally speaking articulated of you that would be more appealing to that population, particularly as it relates to the self determination of palestinians. So it is an engagement issue. She is not saying different things in these meetings. Tim walz isn't saying different things and kamala harris said at the convention or elsewhere, so what is the disconnect? i think it is twofold. I think for harris and her campaign it is about at least making it known even if they will not agree to all of the demands from these activists, that they are willing to listen. That they are taking into account the demands and requests that they have and they came out with the statement after the meeting with harris. They said they at least hope if elected she will consider resetting u. S. Policy in the region. On the other hand some of this criticism has come from how far harris is willing to go. We know another propalestinian group in michigan, the uncommitted movement, they were invited to that meeting and they have been calling for an arms embargo, something harris said is a nonstarter. Some of this criticism is over how far the campaign is going, but as a minimum the campaign does want to demonstrate interest in continuing to have a dialogue and ensuring they will have a seat at the table, should she be elected. Nnamdi, good to see you, my friend. We miss you here, but good to have you on the show. Nnamdi egwuonwu is an embed for the campaign, joining us tonight from the harris campaign. Coming up, anyone with visions of shipping chaos and empty shelves is sorely disappointed today. America one. The dockworkers one. Crisis averted for now. The october surprise that won't be his next. Ext. Ame. Crest 3d white removes 100% more stains for a noticeably whiter smile. New personal best. Crest. My name is brayden. I was five years old when i came to st. Jude. 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We are building it here and sending it overseas. As of last night the porch strike that could have put all that in jeopardy was ended. We averted what could've become a major crisis for the country and a tentative agreement which includes record wage increases for dockworkers and shows the importance of collective bargaining and represents critical progress toward a strong contract. I especially want to thank the carriers, the port operators and the union for reaching this agreement. At a time when the nation has experienced terrible devastation from hurricane helene. Today's washington post tells the story of how this white house did it. It involved furious negotiating behind the scenes, but it identifies two key moments of public pressure from president biden. First, before the strike when the president laid down a redline. Reporter: mister president would you intervene in a dockworkers strike on tuesday? no. Reporter: why not? because it is collective bargaining. I don't believe in tafthartley. And then on tuesday after the strike started. Incredibly consequential. The last thing we need on top of that is a manmade disaster, what is going on at the ports. We are getting pushback already. Look, there is a consortium of basically six owners that control all the ports from the east coast down to the gulf and they have made incredible profits, over 800% profits since the pandemic and the owners are making tens of millions of dollars. The last thing they need is to profit off of this. It is time to sit at the table and get it done. While the u. S. Chamber of commerce among others was demanding the president use the antiunion tafthartley act to force the dockworkers back, president biden flipped the script. The owners could make the choice to end the strike and help the country. The owners have plenty i need to be greedy, especially during the recovery from a natural disaster. Joining us now is the white house national economic advisor who was directly involved in these negotiations. Great to see you. Thank you for being here. Congratulations on getting this done. When it is done it looks like of success for a time, but how serious could this have been? i think this could have been very serious. That is why the president was so definitive about telling us we needed to get this resolved. Obviously we have devastation from hurricane helene. We needed to keep supplies flowing for recovery, rebuilding and of course we know already from the pandemic what happens when the ports seize up and it is hard for us to get farm exports out, food imports in. So we knew we were racing against the clock. In fact before the pandemic, people like you have been involved in this and understand supply chains. For most of america we learned about it when we went to buy something for the first time and it was not there. Did the experience of the pandemic add more urgency to this, because we have been down this road before? we are still fighting the inflation that we started to see during the pandemic. We have actually now vanquished that inflation, so it is very important to the president that we not see those pressures creeping back in. People are just beginning to breathe a sigh of relief and absolutely we learned a lot during the pandemic about how vital our ports are. How vital it is for us to work with retailers. To work with exporters. Carriers and of course dockworkers to make sure that those goods keep flowing in and out. What is the distinction the president was making about the intervention that the chamber of commerce was looking for? clearly you all at the white house were involved in this, but what is the distinction between what it is you and your colleagues at the white house were doing to get these negotiations on track, versus what people were calling for the president to do, to tell the dockworkers not to strike? there is absolutely, during moments like that one a lot is at stake for the economy, for consumers, you will always hear calls to shortcircuit the collective bargaining process. To undermine it by using mechanisms like tafthartley, but you heard the president very clearly stating at the outset, we are going to support the collective bargaining process and the president, vice president, consistent strong supporters of the power of collective bargaining, so what he directed us to do was work with both parties to get them back to the table. They had not been talking for months. The last time an offer had been put on the table was in the middle of 2023, so we knew that we have to figure out a way to find mechanisms to enable the collective bargaining process, which is so important for workers to get back underway and that is what we set out to do. We've seen a number of examples of strikes or about to be strikes, like with the teamsters or the uaw strike where the president went out. We've seen examples of a lot of distance between what the union ask is and what the owners are prepared to do and we have seen resolutions through collective bargaining. This is not over. This is on hold until january. What happens between now and then and what level of involvement you and your colleagues have between now and january? what i would say is now the operators, the carriers on the one hand, the u. S. Maritime alliance and the union, the international longshoremen's association on the other, they have now agreed to give themselves 90 days, until january 15, 2025, to get a contract negotiated. What was the kind of deciding move was that the carriers put a big wage increase on the table, which the union was able to accept as the sort of starting gun to get these negotiations back on track. Now both sides will engage at the bargaining table, which is exactly how it is supposed to work and hopefully over the course of the next 90 days, they will be able to work everything else out and again if there are any breakdowns in that process, we now know how we can help them keep talking. Stay at the table. Really take advantage of that collective bargaining process that works. And you have built up trust in the process. Hopefully we avert this. Congratulations and thank you for joining us tonight. White house national economic advisor. Coming up, somehow donald trump has found a way to make the hurricane about the southern border. It is a lie of course and what does project 2025 have to say about natural disaster prevention and relief? we will talk about that on the other side. Whoa! how'd you get your teeth so white? you gotta use the right toothpaste! dr. C?! ♪♪ not all toothpastes whiten the same. Crest 3d white removes 100% more stains for a noticeably whiter smile. New personal best. Crest. When you host, your bathroom can feel like a revolving door. . . Keep things fresh with febreze small spaces. It's an outletfree air freshener that fights odors for 45 days. So even after every flush. . . You know your bathroom smells amazing. ♪ lalalalala ♪ if you're living with hiv, imagine being good to go without daily hiv pills. Good to go unscripted. Good to go on a whim. With cabenuva, there's no pausing for daily hiv pills. 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President biden and vice president harris have spent the past two days traveling to the southeast to meet with affected communities. Donald trump is also met with people and lied to them that the american government is not helping them, despite the fact that the administration issued major disaster declarations and deployed thousands of troops to distribute food, water, and supplies. Predictably, trump is exploiting the disaster as he does every event to push his own racist and xenophobic lies he thinks will scare people into voting for him. A reminder. When donald trump was president, look at this. He delayed sending disaster relief to puerto rico after hurricane maria. He was throwing paper towels, as you recall. Trump diverted money away from puerto rico. Project 2025, written by numerous former trump officials, tells us what would happen in a major hurricane under his watch. On page 664 it says the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration or noaa should be dismantled. That is a quote. Meaning agencies like the national weather service would no longer provide americans with free weather alerts and warnings. Project 2025 calls for decreasing federal support for disaster relief and recovery. Right now the federal government funds roughly 75% of disaster related expenses. State and local governments cover the rest. Project 2025 calls for congress to change the cost sharing agreement so the federal government covers 25% of the cost for small disasters. 25%. Funding only one quarter of a disaster could bankrupt counties in places like the florida coast that are repeatedly hit with hurricanes and when it comes to assistance after a storm, project 2025 calls for privatizing the national flood insurance program and eliminating grants for states and groups to prepare and rebuild with more sustainable infrastructure. You would think elected officials, especially ones from states like florida which have repeatedly asked for and received, rightfully so, federalaid, would protest the heritage foundation project 2025 agenda. But here is what florida republican senator rick scott thinks. If you don't remember anything else i said today, the most important thing is i want to thank you. I've been in washington for a little over four years and the one group that cares about two things is heritage. They actually really care about good policy and they really push good policy. They bring up good policy. They promote good policy. They help you move good policy along. They work with your office. They do an unbelievable job with policy. Well there you have it. Joining us now is the former democratic representative of florida. She is running for united states senate in florida against the incumbent, rick scott, who really likes the heritage foundation an awful lot. Good to see you. Thanks for being with us. Good evening. Thank you for having me. Here's the trick, because what rick scott says is what most republicans believe. They know what the heritage foundation is. They know how critical it is to republican policymaking and only donald trump disavows them these days because everyone is talking about project 2025. He disavows them. It is written by people who worked in the trump administration. It has republican fingerprints all over it and it is a pretty specific plan of what it will do on every front, including disaster relief for states like yours. Absolutely and look, i just came back from visiting some of the disaster areas in pinellas county and the storm had a few hundred miles outside. I visited a family where they stop they saw the storm surge and within 20 minutes it was coming inside their home, causing electricity to start going off. We're not just talking about livelihoods. We are talking about situations putting families at risk. We have seen many families lose loved ones in the state of florida and we need action now. Look at what the other side is offering. Rick scott is a selfpromoting politician who loves to fuel the problem. He actually starts the fire and then shows up with a fire hat. In this case, a navy hat, and does absolutely nothing. He actually voted against disaster relief. He voted against billions in funding for fema after florida got hit by hurricane ian. We held a town hall in pinellas county offering solutions. A bipartisan town hall with former congressman david jolly, because that is what people want. They want people with solutions. What is rick scott doing? putting millions of dollars in ads against me. He is extremely dangerous. He's very much aligned with project 2025. He has a plan where he wants to eliminate the affordable care act. I need people to support me in this race. I need people right now to go to debbie for florida. He is putting $10 million against me. This race is tight. We cannot afford another six years of rick scott, not only for florida, but for the future of this country. I'm always fascinated because i spent a disproportionate amount of time because i cover these hurricanes, in the state of florida. People across this country have an intimate relationship of climate change because of the way it affects them. If you are 40 years old, 50, 60, or 70 years old in florida, you have seen the affect. Here is what rick scott said about climate change. He apparently admits that it is a thing, but here is how he frames it. What you have to do is understand, storm surges happen. For whatever reason, we don't know why, we are having more than in the past. Who knows what the reason is, but something is changing. Massive storms, so we have two figure this out. Actually the climate is clearly changing. Bingo. The climate is changing. He says for whatever reason, we don't know why. We've got to figure this out. Actually we've done that work. We know why. We have to commit to what you do about it. You have rick scott who was governor and he banned the term climate change from being used in any state agencies. He's been in government for 14 years and he has no idea why we are seeing storm surge? this man is a fraud and he is extremely dangerous. The reason he is now running around trying to justify why we are seeing storm surges that he knows he is in trouble. He repealed millions of dollars in funding for water management projects. The largest fish kill. He's dangerous. He is one of trump's puppets. He is now spreading disinformation, very dangerous disinformation about fema, so this is why we have to come together and stop rick scott right now would we have the opportunity to do so. Debbie mucarselpowell, thank you for joining us this evening. Thank you, ali. Coming up, one republican congressional candidate in virginia is taking weird to a whole new level. We will tell you about that, next. And found only in prevagen. 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We are effectively run in this country, the of the democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they've made, so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too. Republican candidates down ballot are dealing with trump advanced's unpopular views in different ways. In some cases, it's also getting weird, like the case of one republican congressional candidate who appears to have deployed a fake wife and family. Here is derek anderson. He's the republican running for virginia's seventh congressional district, in what appears to be a family photo used by the campaign. Except that's not his wife and those are not his kids. A spokesperson for derek anderson told the new york times that, quote, derricks opponent and every other ks candidate in america are in similar pictures and video with supporters of all kinds, end point. I can't even read this without laughing. A spokesperson said the video simply showed mr. Anderson, quote, with female supporters and their kids. No. If it were something every candidate on america does, it wouldn't be on late night tv. In virginia there is a congressional candidate named derek anderson. I guess he wanted to fit in with the j. D. Vance approved model of a family values guy but since he doesn't have a wife and kids, his campaign has been sending out photos of derek with a woman and three girls who are not members of his family. That is his friend's wife and their kids. He asked his friend to borrow his wife and kids. Which must have been a comfortable conversation. Just pretend you died it will be fine. Joining us, here is the irony of the whole thing, is derek anderson's democratic opponent in the race for virginia's seventh congressional district, the retired army colonel eugene vineland, and a friend of mine. Nice to see you. I always love when people who are in pursuit of public service get involved what you did. Remember talking to you before you decided to run. Campaigns are tricky things but this is very unusual. This is just i've never seen this. My family has been involved in politics for decades. I've been covering it for decades. I've just never seen anything like this. It's definitely weird. It's also creepy. But it's part of a pattern of behavior by mr. Anderson and i think the new york times got it right when they said, what does a maga bachelor do when they want to be more likable? i guess they borrow a wife and three daughters from a friend and make it appear like that's his family. The reasoning was really wild. At some point you get caught. Just say you get caught. This was strange. Everybody is posing with what did he say, female supporters and their families? nobody is posing with someone else's wife and children then he went on and made additional things that were also weird so he's being deceitful and dishonest and unfortunately he's doing that because he's trying to distract voters from the real issues at hand. He's trying to make himself likable. The family thing that's the problem with it. We actually have real issues we have to deal with in this country, abroad, as you know from your military history. This obsession with what your family looks like and what it's made of is an absolutely unnecessary diversion for presidential candidates. Absolutely, and for congressional candidates, at that. But if you're trying to distract from the real issues, which is where you stand on project 2025, which your previous segment was on, which is this extreme maga agenda to eliminate overtime pay, to reduce social security benefits, to reduce veterans benefits, to politicize a federal civilian workforce, which is a huge swath of our district. It would really hurt our district. This is what you do. And abortion. This is another area. It's one of the major topics in this race and we've had a series of debates. On wednesday we debated and he refused to answer whether he'd protect women's reproductive healthcare in the form of abortion. This issue about the federal workforce is really interesting because it's an abstraction for most people but if you read project 2025 and you listen to what the heritage foundation very specifically says, they're going to fire i think they've talked about in the ballpark of 50,000 people, replacing them with people in the civil service who have basically taken a loyalty pledge to donald trump if he's the president. That's not how the civil service works in this country. That's not how it's supposed to work but when you consider the fact that 50% of this district, the seventh congressional district, is federal civilian employees, another 6% are government contractors depending on those jobs, you talk about thousands, many thousands of employees that would be fired. It would be devastating to the economy in the district. It would be profoundly unfair and it would be damaging to national security. These are experts that understand the major issues at hand, whether it's ukraine or russia or even the weather. Noaa. So it's damaging national security and unfortunately it's the roadmap for the second from administration. You and your family come from a place where your ability to get a job in the civil service was about fealty to party and leadership, and it doesn't work. It just doesn't work. You want the best people who are prepared to work, probably for less money than they could make in the private sector, to be given you the best advice whether it's on fema or whatever. That is fundamentally i just hope enough people recognize that that is you can't roll that one back. That's right, allie. Infect we have even more direct exposure to this during our time in the white house. My twin brother and i, we saw partisan political hacks that replaced officials and how profoundly damaging that was due national security. Good to see you. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for being here in person. We don't get a chance to see each other in person all that much so it's great to be reunited. I think i've seen you once since but two times ago was in ukraine. Hopefully, as you and i said, we will meet again there in good times. Eugene benjamin is the retired army colonel, democratic nominee for congress in virginia's seventh congressional district. Th congressional district. Feels like a work of art! (marci) lovely. What about the app? (luke) uhoh! look what i did. It's ringing. Hello? hello? (marci) they can't hear you. (luke) hello? (marci) because you glued a frame over the microphone. (luke) i think i've glued the frame over the microphone. (vo) ding dong! homesdotcom. We've done your home work. Can you do this? as early as your 40s you may lose muscle and strength. Protein supports muscle health. Ensure max protein has a 30 gram blend of high quality protein to feed muscles for up to seven hours. So take the challenge. 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