Seven. And meantime, thanks so much for joining us. Ac360 begins right now president lying about disaster relief while the death toll climbs from hurricane helene and even some fellow republicans are speaking out, keeping them honest. Also tonight, the obama factor in the boost and could give him the harris campaign when he hits the trail next week the trump elon musk bromance, just how much money is must pumping into the campaign good evening. Thanks for joining us 32 days until election day. The candidates now making to swing state campaign stops a day. The former president just wrapped up a town hall in fayetteville, north carolina after visiting georgia at this afternoon, vice president harris speaking detroit and flint, michigan, heard campaign we're getting a boost from unexpectedly good job creation numbers and a dip in the jobs created last month unemployment fell in just a few weeks ago, the federal reserve cut down interest rates, which is going to be great for a lot of folks over the last threeandahalf years, we brought manufacturing back to america. We created 730,000 manufacturing jobs and announced the opening of more than 20 new auto plants in the united states and we did it by investing in american industry and american workers the former president's georgia visit showcase to reconciliation of sorts with the state's republican governor. Also a briefing, a hurricane recovery at what she repeated a false said that he's been spreading lately about fema and disaster relief money a lot of the money that was supposed to go to georgia and supposed to go to north carolina and all of the others is going and has gone already has been god for people that came into the country illegally and nobody's ever seen anything like that. That's a shame. Well, it would be a shame perhaps if it were true, but it is not keeping them honest while fema does manage grants for shelters, housing, and helping migrants that money comes from a separate and unrelated account, which is a former president. He probably knows whether he does. Actually, you're not. He repeated the lie later today. This is maybe the worst he's got no money and police say what happened to them and they were given billions to this he spent it on illegal migrants coming into the country so that was twice moments ago and his town hall, he did it again and then missing 1 billion that they gave to migrants coming into our country so this is not the first lies told about the relief effort here he is on monday suggesting falsely that president biden wasn't taking calls from georgia governor campus suggestion as you'll see, is debunked or more accurately prebooked? by kemp's own words, just hours before the governor's doing a very good job, he's having a hard time getting the president on the phone, i guess they're not responsive. The federal government is not paying the president just called me yesterday afternoon. I've missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you you need. And i told him, we we got what we need we'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's another things that we need just to call them directly, which i appreciate that so georgia republican governor, telling the truth, it seems the party's leader lying about it just hours later for political advantage and not for the first time too. Former trump ministration officials recently spoke to politico's environmental news unit, quoting from that story, mark harvey, who was trump's senior director for resilience policy on the national security council staff told any news on wednesday that trump initially refused to approve disaster aid for california after deadly wildfires in 2018 because that state's democratic leanings but harvey said trump changed his mind after harvey pulled voting results to show him that heavily damaged orange county, california had more trump supporters than the entire state of iowa. Olivia troye, a former trump homeland security adviser, backs up. Mark harvey's account and they both told the publication they believe that their old boss's approaching hurricane helene with a similar mindset even though he's not president now and therefore not making decisions about relief, money and disaster declarations. These falsehoods still have impact in the wake of the storm that's already killed more than 200 people without regard to politics politics, and politically driven rumors and lies are now so common that fema is spending some of its finite resources and limited time containing a webpage, this one dedicated specifically to debunking lies, spread most notably by donald trump, his running mate jd vance and their supporters. Again, these are lies well, the misinformation is damaging because it can hurt our relief efforts. It also demoralizes national guard soldiers who are out here for days and days and, people who are working in emergency management, who are working around the clock to help people. So that's north carolina's governor and he is a democrat. So some people will automatically doubt him, but it's not just democrats doing the debunking. Republicans are as well. Here's north carolina republican senator thom tillis no. Well, i'll be silent. And any areas where we could do better no. But right now, i'm out here to say that we're doing a good job and those who may have may not be on the ground who are making those assessments ought to get on the ground tell his republican center, recognizing what has always been with rare exceptions, the nonpartisan, nonpolitical reality about disaster relief, namely that it's a story of hardworking people of all stripes trying to do their best it may be imperfect, best, but under difficult conditions to help everyone they can. This morning, glenn jacobs, the republican mayor of knox county, tennessee, posted on social media. He's the retired wwe wrestler kane, by the way. The first part of his posts important if people to quit spreading false rumors about fema and its state counterpart confiscating supplies. The second part reads simply if everyone could maybe please put aside the hate for it and pitch in to help that would be great so a lot to talk about tonight with former harris communication director ashley etienne, also journalist gretchen carlson cofounder of the nonprofit lift our voices. And cnn senior political commentator, scott jennings, it is gretchen. I mean, it's i guess, not surprising. But again, in a storm like this with people who are dead, people still missing, people suffering to have falsehoods put into the mix is just, it's kind of icky and i was about to say that his advisers had a great day today because he actually was very reserved for trump, right? he didn't call liz cheney stupid. He didn't call kamala harris stupid he was on his best behavior, however these lies, i think are for one reason, only, and that is he is currently women winning on the immigration front and they saw that when they made up the lies about what was going on in springfield with the haitian immigrants that that probably got the base all ginned up, right. And maybe his points even went up on the immigration front and that in my mind is why he's doing this at a disaster site because he wants to blame it on something that he thinks will get bigger turnout for him in the election. Ashley, i mean, do you think trump would be bothering with these baseless claims if the storm didn't hit two key swing states what would donald trump has a pension for is really exploiting people's pains. Loss of lives, disasters like these for his own political purposes. I mean, you rattled off a couple of great examples. There are others where he denied democratic governor cooper we're after a hurricane matthew, 99% of what the state needed because his he was a democratic governor. You remember he mockingly, through paper towels in puerto ricans. And so this is what he typically does. He shows up into places like this and exploit people's pains. He did it after the train derailment and in east palestine in that's really his that's his mo. So rather than doing what's in the interest of the american people, it's always about scoring political points with donald trump and that's really unfortunate. And i'm glad both democratic and republican governors are calling him out on it. Scott, i mean, is this appropriate for the foreign president to be doing? i mean, look donald trump didn't cause this hurricane a b, he's not the current president's see, joe biden was at the beach and kamala harris was raising money with celebrities with this thing, hit. So i mean, i think there's legitimate, but he's he's definitely trolling the disaster relief and recovery i mean, he's not really like adding anything to it. He's basically just making stuff up for political reasons. No well, i mean, he his campaign as far as i know, did start a gofundme to raise money for victims of it. He's down there with brian kemp today and he was praising brian kemp's actions on the recovery in july georgia and kemp thanked him for bringing right. But he lied about earlier i mean, look if you guys want to call it, say that donald trump is messing up the hurricane while we have a current administration bidenharris that are in office, you go ahead it's donald trump. He has things to say about the things that happened in this world. And it's october of a presidential election. So i, you know, i don't know what you want. What do you want him to do? not comment on it, but just not be sleazy. Is basically giving us a different argument actually because it's something different from saying that democrats or republicans would handle this different and the relief effort i mean, have we ever had fema come out and have to say that the money is actually going to hurricane relief and not to where donald trump says it's going and they had to do that today. And i think that that is the classic difference here between how democrats might handle this or how republicans might handle this i mean, look, love to hear scott actually listen. There's been i just want to point out there's been plenty of criticism and reason to criticize fema during hurricane katrina in the wake of that, if he came under a lot of a lot of criticism and for very understandable reasons. So i'm not saying nobody should criticize this thing. I just think you don't need to make up stuff to criticize. I mean, if you wanted to talk about some things that are factually correct and that would help the recovery ever get better. I think that's good it's got i probably have a jaundice view of this anderson because because i you know, i literally lived through hurricane katrina in the bush white house. And as i know, you lived through it, anderson covering it and i don't i don't recall any restraint by democrats or the national media coming after george w bush and fema. And every other thing it was immediately politicized. And i mean, i well remember it, it's steered into my brain. And so now all these people are out here saying, we can't politicize this. We can't criticize this. We, you know, nothing can be said about biden and harris there are fame or anything else and i just think we have a republican were in the white house and the republican president were at the beach. And the vice president were raising money with celebrities. I guarantee you somebody would be mad about it gretchen general play some more from frozen had to say about the response we are poisoning our country. I can is being poisoned. Country is being ruined, is being ruined by these people and they took billions of dollars and used it for settlements of people that came in, many of which are criminals and the people in north carolina and south carolina and georgia and florida, virginia, tennessee there's no money for them and that's proven not to be true today i mean, i guess that would be my question to scott jennings. Is we're not talking about how different parties politicized different things. We all know that happens the question is, why does trump have to talk about a false lie today that this money is going to immigrants illegal phil immigrants. That's not happening. Ashley, i mean, the former president and kemp appeared together for the first time today since 2020 when camp rebuffed the foreign president's request to overturn the election results. Do you think the harris campaign should be worried about a popular republican governor campaigning with the former president, a battleground state it's very concerning, but, the reality is this governor's take, he's taking objection to donald trump and how he, you know, his antics, his lies his dismiss misinformation. I mean, you know, that campaign has an opportunity to really continue to utilize kim to point out the fact that it's not just democrats, it's also these republicans that are, that have had enough with donald trump. I think you pointed it out accurately here. It's it's not that people have any objections. It's not that he has any objection with how the current administration's handling the recovery, but it's more about these lies. They've east creating and it's not just him, it's his vice president. I mean, they're just making up stuff and it's not an i love scott to dead, but like it's no excuse to say that it's october and this is what we should come to expect from not just donald trump, but from any of our leaders. I mean, i don't want to know a liar, let alone let one run my nation my country. I mean, what are you to trust with donald trump's? so i think the fact that the two of them are campaigning together allows the campaign, the harris campaign has continued to point out the fact that there are republicans that still find donald trump objectionable and really open up the permission structure for more republicans to come in and support the ticket. 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