They used clip art to show somebody actually making a note, actually saving that date in their date book, but that clip art shows that person penciling in that date on a monday. That was very awkward from the start because that day he were askings to save is a saturday. Why is that lady writing it down on monday . Considerably more awkward, even though there were 5,000 plus of these billboards all across the country and 20 other big rvs and buses and other vehicles that were vinyl wrapped with this same message, save the date, may 21st, the return of christ. Despite all of that nationwide advertising alerting us all that the end of the world was coming, despite that multimillion dollar very visible ad campaign in 2011, sure enough, saturday, may 21st, 2011 rolled around and the world did not end. It was not apparently that date on which we would experience the return of christ. Chances are you heard this was predicted to be our last day on earth. A doomsday scenario from a california minister who spent millions in contributions from his followers to advertise the end of days all over the world. Nbcs george lewis reports now on what did and did not happen. Times square, new york, at precisely 6 00 p. M. Tonight. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. The world did not end. That had been the prediction of Oakland California pastor Harold Camping, spreading the doomsday word through billboards, pamphlets and radio, tv broadcast. It will begin with a huge earthquake and probably on the other side of the world where the day begins. But on the other side of the world in the philippines, cammings followers waited and nothing happened. Pastor Harold Camping. His outfit called family radio out of california, near oakland. He emphatically promised and broadcast that on 6 00 p. M. May 21th, 2011, christ would return to earth, all the good people would be raptured up to heaven. All of those of us who were left behind, the earth would immediately become a fatal hellscape. Harold camping and his ministry were very successful in persuading people to go along with his prophecy. Some of his followers spent their life savings paying for these billboards and these rvs and advertisements to spread the word about the end of the world. And the end of the world did not come. And so the next day, an sunday, may 22nd, 2011, reporters staked out the home of this apocalyptic preacher from family radio. They went to his house down by the airport in oakland, california, and for most of the day the preacher would not come out. Eventually had did open his front doors and he told the reporter standing on his doorstep, that he was, quote, flabbergasted, that the world had not come to an end. He told the San Francisco chronicle, wrote, it has been a really tough weekend. Yeah, but not as tough a weekend as you said it would be. So saturday was supposed to be the end of the world. Sunday he was flabbergasted that it wasnt the end of the world. But monday, though, he had recovered. He got on the radio once again to do his regular radio show. Bet they were surprised to have to do that one. He said on sunday after the world was supposed to have ended that weekend sorry, he said on monday that he had basically become unflabbergasted since sunday. He just needed a day to think about it and when he did think about it and he checked his notes, turned out he did his math wrong. Kind of a prophetic typo, what pastor Harold Camping explained the monday after the weekend the world was to end, the world had secretly invisibly started to end exactly on the day he said it was going to, but it turns out it was going to take a few more months for the whole thing to play out, it would take a few more months until we got to actual physical doomsday on earth, but he did have a new date for that, the new end of the world was going to be october 21st, 2011. New york times ran a story about it a t the time. An autumn date for the apocalypse. When october 21st rolled around and the world did not end then either, Harold Camping and his family radio ministry, they didnt talk about it at all for a very long time. It was not until the following spring, the following march when they discovered a little bit of humility on the subject. They put out a statement that said, quote, we humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing. Quote, we ve no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world. So stop calling. Its one thing to come back from making a bad prediction about who is going to win an election or who will win a grammy award or something, coming back from predicting the end of the world twice, thats like the definition of humbling. And that experience five years ago with family radio in alameda, california, i mean, theres a reason thats the last anybody ever heard of family radio in alameda, california. If they ever wanted to gin up another swindle like this and get people to spend their life savings donating for advertisements and billboards and rvs spreading the word, how would you ever persuade anybody to do that again after it happened the first time and the second time . And i think that humiliation principle holds. You would think, at least, the world over. One of the hallmarks in al qaedas evolution as a terrorist organization was when they started publishing a fairly high quality english language online magazine. The al qaeda magazine included lots of al qaeda propaganda. It was used for official al qaeda positions and obituaries for leaders who had been skilled and scary things like bomb making recipes. It was meant to inspire al qaeda wannabes all over the world. And it was fittingly, therefore, titled inspire. Thats al qaeda. When isis decided they wanted to do something similar, they wanted to do a magazine with the same aim, they wanted to inspire isis wannabes all over the world, they wanted a venue to put out official statements and spread their propaganda, memorialize their fighters when they got killed, isis, interestingly, they did an english language magazine but they did not pick an english language title for their magazine. When isis created its magazine they called it dabiq. And dabiq was their isis equivalent of prof fessying the end of the world. Shortly after isis started taking territory in the part of syria that included a small village called dabiq, its propagandists seized on an obscure islamic prophecy that declared not a specific date for the end of the world but a specific location where the end of the world would start. This little unassuming town of 3,000 people in syria called dabiq, nine miles from the border with turkey, that was supposed to be the site of an apocalyptic end times battle between the true believing muslims of the world and a Crusader Army of infidels. This is not a mainstream part of islamic theology. This is as radio preachers proclaiming dates for the end of the world in christian theology. Sure, you can kind of get there, but thats not where most people go with it. Isis made it a central part of their theology and their propaganda. After they captured the actual city of dabiq in 2014, they started closing out propaganda videos with an isis fighter carrying the banner on a hillside overlooking dabiq. They brought their captives from other territory that they controlled. They brought them into dabiq so they can be executed in dabiq so they can make their freaking execution porn videos where they bragged about killing these people in dabiq. They named their english language magazine dabiq, th the even named their press agency amaq and thats the region in syria that includes dabiq. Now, raqqah, a city in syria called raqqah thats still reportedly the headquarters for isis. In iraq, the city of mosul is their biggest stronghold on that side of the iraqi syrian border. But dabiq is also important. Dabiq is the spiritual bullseye for isis theology and isis propaganda and who they say they are and why they say they matter and, not incidentally, how they say the world will end and how their followers worldwide can get on the right side before the apocalypse theyre going to bring about in dabiq with their final battle. Theyve been telling their followers for years that when they finally get to fight a battle in dabiq as isis, that will be the definitive battle of earth. That battle in dabiq, if they fight it as isis in dabiq, that will start the global apocalypse. Well, on sunday this past weekend, did you save the date . Because on sunday isis did actually have its battle in dabiq and now isis no longer controls dabiq. They lost it. Turkish forces and a Syrian Rebel Group took dabiq from isis control this weekend. And you know what . The world did not end. And so since then, its been theologically awkward. Isis reportedly published a do not worry message to their followers in their arabic language newsletter telling their followers that the great battle of dabiq that will start the end of the world, theyre still expecting that, thats still going to happen, theyre still promising it will kick off the end of the world when that battle happens but this just wasnt it yet. Hmm, minor setback, but we promise dabiq will still be really important some day. So now theres this question of what this does to isis whole propaganda message, right . People are angry when theyre asked to sacrifice a lot on your promises. But one thing when youre promising them jobs or election win or the return you get in a ponzi scheme. Another thing if you literally promise them the world, the end of the world and you go to the good place and everybody else burns, if thats what youre promising and then you cant deliv deliver . If this were not election season in the United States, biggest story in this country right now would be whats happening to isis. The biggest city that isis controls, its one of the largest cities in iraq, mosul, is now facing an assault between 80 and 100,000 iraqi troops. The previous battles to take back big cities fallujah and ramadi and tikrit those involve 15,000 troops this one is 80,000 to 100,000. This is the biggest operation in iraq since years before u. S. Forces left a war in iraq. Its the last major stronghold that isis has in the whole nation of iraq. Its the largest city they hold anywhere by far. Iraqi and u. S. Leaders have been telling us for months that this attack on mosul has been coming. Theyve been fleeing this and other places that isis was holding and theyve now lost, places like, for example, dabiq in syria. Theyve been losing territory in iraq and syria ahead of this massive operation against mosul and there are lots of reports that isis has been basically been fleeing, been sending its fighters and its fighters families to their last stronghold stronghold, the city of raqqah. There are reports that after mosul is taken back, the next pras will likely be in the last major place isis is, raqqah because by that point theyll have nowhere else to go. Theres nowhere left that they control that they can retreat to. There are about 5,000 American Service members in iraq, about 500 of them are reportedly involved in this operation to take mosul back from isis. American involvement has been described as some imbedding by American Special forces but also artillery support and importantly air strikes. And american air strikes in this battle for mosul, that means not just drone strikes but u. S. Piloted aircraft attacking isis sites from the air in support of this iraqi ground operation. No matter how about the iraqi forces on the ground or the isis forces on the ground, no matter how good either force is on the ground, the fact that theres american air power in support, thats almost impossible to overstate in terms of the advantage its going to give the iraqi side as they go to take back this huge city from isis. So lets imagine this really big, really important military effort against isis goes well. Lets say they get wiped out of their last stronghold. What remains of isis is a retreat back to one last power base they have in syria. Lets say this goes well and isis gets consolidated inside syria in raqqah, whats going to happen then . And this was the part youre going to have to really listen to hard for at tomorrow nights debate because both of our american president ial candidates, both Hillary Clinton and donald trump, they both love to talk about fighting isis. They lub to talk about being tougher on isis than weve ever been before, but one of those two candidates lives inside an elaborate fantasy world where his conceptions, where what he thinks about whats going on in the world about fighting isis is not just not true, it makes no sense. Put opinions going wild with bombing isis and thats a good thing, not a bad thing. Who needs to take the credit . Let him have some credit. Russia is not a fan of isis. Russia is bombing the hell out of them. If you look at syria, russia wants to get rid of isis. Maybe let russia do it. What the hell do we care . What the hell do we care . In tomorrow nights debate watch, watch, watch for Donald Trumps answer when he inevitably starts talking about fighting isis. Just watch for it. And then remember this. Today the Washington Post reported that russia has completed its elaborate interconnected comprehensive antiaircraft system in syria. Its a system of antiaircraft missiles, an air defense system. Its designed purely and only to shoot down airplanes. Isis does not have any airplanes in syria where russia just set up this antiaircraft Missile Defense system. Isis does not have any airplanes. But we do. Were using american aircraft to help this big iraqi ground operation against isis right now right next door in mosul. Donald trump believes that russia is our great ally against isis in syria, but what russia is doing in syria is setting up missiles that only shoot down planes, which isis does not have. Donald trump does not appear in the Mainstream Media all that much anymore. You might have noticed. He doesnt really do normal cable or Network Tv Shows or interviews anymore. He mostly on tv now he just does the Fox News Channel and he pretty much does the late night show thats hosted by a guy thats explicitly a donald trump supporter. Beyond that hes blacklisted so many that hes reduced to doing really out there conservative radio. He just did a show with radio host Michael Savage that after he wins the leaked on november 8th, hes planning to meet with Vladimir Putin personally one on one, even while barack obama is still presiden thats how much he likes and trusts Vladimir Putin because trump either believes or at least hes prepared to say that russia is our great ally in fighting isis. While u. S. Pilots right now tonight actually are fighting isis. And Vladimir Putins russia has just finished electing a massive antiaircraft Missile Defense system to shoot them down. This will come up at the debate tomorrow unless the debate is completely insane. Donald trump has previously been bizarre and sometimes impenetrable on isis and russia, but tomorrow night in the third and final president ial debate, this has got to be his last chance to start making sense on this issue. While american pilots are in the battle. I mean, im not going to say its the end of the world if he doesnt start making sense on this issue, but its the end of the world if he doesnt. Save the date. For lower back pain sufferers, the search for relief often leads to places like. This. This. Or this. Today, theres a new option. Introducing drugfree aleve direct therapy. A tens device with high intensity power that uses technology once only available in doctors offices. Its wireless remote lets you control the intensity, and helps you get back to things like. This. This. Or this. And back to being yourself. Introducing new aleve direct therapy. Find yours in the pain relief aisle. Using 60,000 points from my chase ink card i bought all the framework. Wire. 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Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. All seems beautiful to me. In 2012 two days before the president ial election, an irish bookmaker called paddy power made just an incredibly bold, brash, cocky move. They started paying out on their bets that barack obama was going to beat mitt romney in that election and they started paying out on those bets two days before the election was even held. And it got all sorts of headlines and recesentment from republicans at the time. The election hasnt happened yet and youre already paying out the bets. Theyve done it again. They did not wait until two days before the election. This time they did it 21 days before the election. Paddy power believes its a done deal and Hillary Clinton is a nailedon certainty to occupy the oval office. Three weeks out. When it comes to forecasting elections, bookmakers and political Prediction Markets, they have grown steadily in stature and the amount of attention they get over the last few years. A lot of people see their crowd source wisdom as maybe more reliable than traditional polls. Well, for what its worth, like the polls, the Prediction Markets right now believe that Hillary Clinton has a very high chance of winning. The bookmakers maybe even more so given that one of them is already paying out. That said, this year has been a god awful year for the Prediction Markets. They have two really bad failures this year. The first thing they were wrong about this year was donald trump. Prediction markets absolutely failed to anticipate him marching to the nomination this year despite all the polls that consistently showed him ahead. Prediction markets still in february had marco rubio with a 58 chance of winning the nomination. That was even after the iowa caucuses. Prediction markets were wrong about brexit, about the urkk vo to leave the european union. But the Prediction Market said there was next to no chance that britain would vote to leave the eu. Hours before the results were announced Prediction Markets pegged the probability of a vote to leave the eu at just a 12 probability. And then, in fact, britain voted to leave the eu. Well now today in colorado donald trump is clinging to those failures saying thats what we should expect to happen next. Now, even though were doing pretty good in the polls, i dont believe the polls anymore. I dont believe them. I dont believe them. And if theres ten and if theres one or two bad ones, thats the only one they show. Believe me, folks, were doing great. If we keep our spirit and if we go out and win, this is another brexit, believe me. Theyre so worried. Are they so worried . Are you worried . Either direction . Who do you believe what do you believe your gut 21 days out from this election . What counts as good data for you . Do you believe the latest polls which show Hillary Clinton with a healthy lead nationally and in most of the swing states . Do you believe the election forecast models which boil the race down to a single odds of winning number . Do you believe the experts who look at that same data and then tell you what they think. Today polling expert stu rothenberg declared the race definitively over. It would be a mistake to call trumps path to an Electoral College victory narrow. It is nonexistent. Maybe you go with that. Maybe you go with the kids. The actually kids who cant vote. Kid voters have taken part in the quadrennial scholastic poll saying who they think will win the election. Theyve correctly predicted the last 13 elections since 1940. The kids in the scholastic poll have predicted the president ial race wrongly only twice. They thought it was dewey over truman in 1948 and in 1960 they thought it was over jfk. Maybe do you trust the kids . They have a pretty good track record. Maybe you trust texas. Weve now got two news organizations in the last couple of days tilting texas from solid republican to lean republican. Texas is pink . How do you guys feel about that in texas . First, nbc news, now fox news saying that texas, yes, texas is now lean republican. I dont know if texas is ever going to get to tossup status with any news organization. But if it does, would that settle it for you in terms of what you expect . What do you believe . What is worth trusting at this point . Joining us is a senior Political Writer at 538. Com. Thank you for being here. My pleasure. You do this for a living . I try to. Let me ask you first about the brexit thing that donald trump said today. He doesnt believe the polls and the polls were wrong when it came to brexit. Anything we should be looking for to see if a brexit misfire is possible . This election . Mr. Trump is wrong in this case. When it comes to the polling, brexit, 17 had brexit passing, 14 had them remain winning, then 3 were caught. And it was in fact a close result. Here we have the polls agreeing with the Prediction Markets and thats an overwhelming advantage for Hillary Clinton. What is your take on the Prediction Markets and the bookmakers which is sort of another way of aggregating peoples predictions . Is there any reason to believe those things are anything other than prejudice and common wisdom. Is there actual wisdom there . Not really. Theyre gathering the same data we are. I will say they understand the polling that theres probably going to be more allegations made against donald trump, whether it be Sexual Assault or maybe perhaps something crazier and they take that into account. The markets may be a little ahead of our forecasts in this instance. When it comes to actual polls, if we want to be better consumers of polling information at this point, what do you look for in terms of the fourway race versus a twoway race, likely voters versus registered voters, what are the variables . I like to look at the fourway race. I also do look at the likely versus the registered numbers, but i will point out theres not much of a difference anymore. As you might expect democrats are really enthusiastic about that debate. And right now theres just not much of a difference. All of the numbers suggest that Hillary Clinton is a heavy favorite. With those texas numbers i think a lot of democrats are sort of chortling over those numbers. They love it. They love it going pink if not blue. Do you see that sort of thing, that sort of i guess what we call outlier states, do you see it predictive of a landslide or do we see that as specific as whats happening in texas . It backs up what you see in utah. Traditional red states are leaning a little pink, perhaps theres a chance that Hillary Clinton might win or a Third Party Candidate might win, but the abc news poll that has Hillary Clinton up by 11, maybe theyre not too far off the mark. It bolsters what youre hearing. Exactly. Harry enten, thank you. Recently, a 1954 mercedesbenz grand prix race car made history when it sold for a record price of just under 30 million. And now, another mercedesbenz makes history selling at just over 30,000. And to think this one actually has a surroundsound stereo. The 2016 cla. Lease the cla250 for 299 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. I spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the president gave the order, we had to launch the missiles. That would be it. I prayed that call would never come. Self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. I would bomb the [ beep ] out of em. I want to be unpredictable. I love war. 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Then on friday he got his first one. This is from a small paper in Santa Barbara, california. Then last night our official tally of donald trump endorsements by daily newspapers in this country rose from one to two when we learned that, after getting the Santa Barbara news press endorsement on friday, he then got the st. Joseph newspress endorsement out of missouri on sunday. Well now today we can report he just got number three. Today a nice viewer named rob sent us a third donald trump endorsement which we otherwise would never have found. Its from a place that is 30 miles south of dallas, texas. Its the waxahachie daily light. And they say trump for potus. Here in part is their argument. No candidate is perfect, but in mr. Trumps case we believe his willingness to surround himself with nose that know what theyre doing and reverse course from every direction down which weve been dragged is exactly what America Needs at this point in her history, which is about as easy to trip off the tongue as the word waxahachie. Ip getting better. Saying it all day. With this endorsement the waxahachie light moves Donald Trumps from two newspaper endorsements to three. I want to thank rob in harrison township, michigan, on this tip on this one. If you, fair viewer, if you, my friend, if you see something out there that we ought to know about particularly for this campaign, please tell us. You can do to so via sendittorachel. Com. We check it all the time, i swear. Well be right back. At walgreens, youre free free to seize the savings on Medicare Part d. From onedollar copays on select plans to rewards points on all prescriptions, its easy to save big at walgreens. Just stop by walgreens. 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I hope im not sounding like a jerk when i say i think this was possibly the best interview ive ever done on camera, but tonight we have reason to go back to it. Because tonight it ends up being back in the news for the president ial race for a reason i really, really, really did not see coming. Thats next. Ose new glasses . They are. Do i look smarter . Yeah, a little. Youre making money now, are you investing . Well, ive been doing some research. Let me introduce you to our broker. How much does he charge . I dont know. Okay. Uh, do you get your fees back if youre not happy . dad laughs wow, youre laughing. Thats not the way the world works. Well, the worlds changing. Are you asking enough questions about the way your wealth is managed . Wealth management, at charles schwab. The election of 2010 was the Great Tea Party wave of leaked. So many great congressional race to cover that year. At one point i took a crew all the way up to alaska. This was our video i shot from the plane. We got all the way to alaska in advance of that election to cover a weird turn in the senate race up there. A tea party pac called joe miller knocked out the incumbent senator Lisa Murkowski in the republican primary. Joe miller just scrambled the entire race. Thats me and joe miller on an escalator. And senator Lisa Murkowski was trying to hold on to her seat but she had to do it with a writein campaign. It was wild. Totally worth the trip. While we went up there to alaska to cover what was going on, i did what i thought would be run of the mill man on the street interviews with people explaining what they thought about this crazy election. But instead of having run of the mill interview answers, i got an earful about, woo, a lot. The voter intimidation, with the black panthers. Thats what im upset about and Lisa Murkowski supported him. When they had those people out there in their military uniforms and their night sticks and he refused to prosecute them because they were black and thats whats happening in our judicial system right now. You think the new black Panther Party made a difference in that election . In that precinct, you bet ya. People were there and they were intimidated by it. Do you think black panthers are having an effect on this election . We havent heard the results yet. It could, you it could. We havent heard yet. You think the black panthers are making a difference . You wont have them up here. Its the way the state is set up. Its not conducive for what theyre trying to do. You think the black panthers are active in a lot of the lower 48 . In major cities. Because i doubt theyll have support in the suburbs and the counties outlying the cities. You can see my thought process evolving during that conversation, right . That was in alaska in october 2010. Those were folks that wanted to oust Lisa Murkowski, republican senator, get her out of the senate, replace her with a Tea Party Guy joe miller. And their main reason, what they were most upset about when it came to their home state senator was this video. Its about 80 seconds long taken on election day 2008 outside a polling place in philadelphias 14th ward. And it became one of the great boogiemen of the american right. And the whole thing was pretty much what you see here, two kind of crazy looking half homeless guys who braid their beard hair standing outside this polling place in a black neighborhood on election day. They were there for maybe an hour. Somebody called the cops and they went away. And when george w. Bushs Justice Department looked into that video, they decided it was not worth pressing charges against anyone. Kind of a local thing. That weird thing happened for an hour at a precinct. But thats something nuts happened. That video, that little 80second video taken in a philadelphia neighborhood 2008 became such a Huge National issue not just in local voting issue resolved in an hour in philadelphias 14th ward, it became such a huge issue people were talking to me about it 3400 miles away in alaska two years later in the 2010 leaked as evidence that Barack ObamasJustice Department was a monstrous plot under eric holder to have militant black people steal the election all over the lower 48. They couldnt probably pull it off in alaska this video, this one squibb of video of the guys with the braided beard hair in philadelphia turned into the rallying cry of Tea Party Supporters all across the country, including alaska. It was a remarkable thing, a remarkable study in something called how the Fox News Channel works. Because that tiny squibb of tape didnt look random and inconsequential on fox news. Two members of the black Panther Party, one brandishing a night stick intimidating poll watchers, race and politics are driving doj decisions when it comes to enforcing the law. These men were accused of intimidating white voters but the state department dropped all charges against them despite the evidence. As i just mentioned 2008 in philly serious allegation s today that the decision to drop a voter intimidation case against members of the black Panther Party may have reached all the way to the white house. Whole squads of the Fox News Channel were built on this story. For a while you could not avoid that tape on the Fox News Channel. In 2010, the liberal watch dog media matters counted 95 different Fox News Channel segments in the span of just over two weeks all based on that 60second, 80second video. That video became a study in how fox news works. But its also a study in the roots of the Donald Trump Campaign because fox news got that video from a man named mike roman who describes himself as a veteran political consultant and private investigator. He shopped that video to fox news where they ran 90 seconds of it over a twoweek period and beat that dead horse for years. Mike roman wrote lots of articles how the new black Panther Party was undermining american elections, those two guys. And the Justice Department was turning a blind eye because, well, you know why. We tend to think of the new black panther thing as a ridiculous fox news story and rightly so, but if you were looking for the root of this, how people in alaska were telling me that eric holder and barack obamap part of a black conspiracy to steal elections all over the country and black panthers are operating in every city of the country, how it gets its start with accusations of scary black nationalists and if you are looking for the root of all that, you are looking at this guy, mike roman. This merchant of doubt, this guy mike roman who started that whole thing. And mike roman is who the Donald Trump Campaign has just hired to run its nationwide Election Protection operation for the president ial election this year three weeks from today. The Guardian Newspaper reporting that mike roman is the guy who will oversee all poll watching efforts for donald trump. What could possibly go wrong . Ou. No one surface. No one speed. No one way of driving on each and every road. 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And then they say, theres no voter fraud in our country. No, no, theres no voter fraud. Take a look at st. Louis. Take a look at philadelphia. Take a look at chicago, and then i have even the republicans saying oh, this is a wonderful look, look, if nothing else, people are going to be watching on november 8th. And now we know whos goal to be in charge of that watching for the Trump Campaign to oversee their Election Protection efforts they have hired a guy named mike roman best known as the conservative activist who promoted the fox news theory that the black panthers stole the election in 2008 along with voter fraud conspiracy theories. Ben jacobs was the first to report this hire by the Trump Campaign. Thanks very much for being here. Thanks so much forehavifor h. We reached out to the Trump Campaign for them to confirm the hiring. Have you heard anything from the campaign about this . They havent officially confirmed it. But this is something that has been reported from a number of sources confident that mike romans been brought in, that hes, since the new black panthers worked for the Koch Brothers putting together their now disbanded intelligence unit. But he is definitely overseeing their Election Protection efforts. With all trumps talk about philadelphia, mike roman is from the philadelphia area, which adds a new edge to that. What do we know about, or do we have any reason to have expectations in terms of what the Trump Campaign is going to do for its Election Protection operation . Do we know what trumps version will be . Thats still a little unclear, that theyve been actively recruiting people to be election watchers, this is a far more active effort than almost any other campaign has been doing, because normally on election day the priority is that people knock doors or do phone calls to turn people out, rather than showing up at a polling place and staring at the people who do show up and vote, that its not necessarily a top priority and that normally its biggest use is for monitoring things, to get a sense of turnout earlier in the day so you can distribute resources. As far as the reporting of this and what you understand about his history, for those of us who werent familiar with him. Clearly i was familiar with how fox went hogwild on that new black panther story. I didnt know much else about him before reading your reporting about it. Is there anything about this hire that says to you about the direction that the Trump Campaign is taking or what parts of the conservative movement in the Republican Party theyre tappinfo this last 21 days . Well, it certainly says something with the level of the rhetoric that hes put out about sorori voter fraud in the last week, two weeks, its not something that weve seen in modern American History and this is something seriously being pursued. And mike roman is a writewriter written for breitbart, that trump is appealing to this doubling down, tripling down, going for the most hard core message, and this is a Campaign Running solely on right wing id, and were not going to see a softer trump, a moderate trump, a more responsible trump, this is one howling about voter fraud until the polls close and afterwards. Ben jacobs, reporter with the guardian. Congratulations on the scoop. Thanks for being here tonight. Thanks for having me. 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