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Tonight, the Obama Factor or the boosters could give it the Harris Campaign when he hits the trail next week. And the Trump Elon Musk romance, 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 this afternoon, Vice President Harris speaking detroit and flint, michigan Hurt Campaign and getting a boost from unexpectedly good Job Creation numbers and a dip in the Unemployment Rate over 250,000 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 storage with the states republican governor. Also a briefing a Hurricane Recovery at which she repeated a false said that hes 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 nobodys ever seen anything like that. Thats a shame. Well, it wouldnt be ashamed 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 or not. He repeated the lie later today. This is maybe the worst Hurricane Weve ever had and hes got no money and we said what happened to them and they were given billions of this he spent it on illegal migrants coming into the country so that was twice moments ago in his Town Hall, he did it again theyre missing 1 Billion that they gave to migrants coming into our country. So this is not the first lie hes told about the Relief Effort here he is on monday suggesting falsely that president biden wasnt taking calls from Georgia Governor Kemp Suggestion as youll see, is debunked or more accurately Pre Bunked . By kims own words just hours before the governors doing a very good job, hes having a hard time getting the president on the phone, i guess not responsive. The federal government is not being responsive. The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need . And i told him we we got what we need. Well work through the federal process. He offered that if theres another things that we need just to call him directly, which i appreciate that so georgias republican governor, telling the truth, it seems the Partys Leader lying about it just hours later for political advantage and not for the first time to former Trump Administration officials recently spoke to politicos environmental news unit, quoting from that story, mark harvey, who was trumps senior director for Resilience Policy on the national Security Council Staff told e any news on wednesday that trump initially refused to approve Disaster Aid for california after deadly wildfires in 2018 because of the states democratic leanings. But harvey said trump change 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 Harveys Account and they both told the publication they believe that their old bosss approaching Hurricane Helene with a similar mindset. Even though hes not president now and therefore not making decisions about relief, Money And Disaster declarations these falsehoods still have impact in the wake of a storm thats 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 maintaining 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 but 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 thats North Carolinas governor and he is a democrat. So some people automatically doubt him, but its not just democrats doing the debunking republicans are as well. Heres North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis well, ill be silent in any areas where we could do better know. But right now, im out here to say that were doing a good job and those who may not be on the ground who are making those assessments ought to get on the ground so. Hes, republican center recognizing what has always been with rare exceptions, the nonpartisan, nonpolitical reality about Disaster Relief, namely that its a story of hardworking people of all stripes trying to do their best. It may be imperfect, best under difficult conditions to help everyone they can this morning, glenn jacobs, the republican mayor of knox county, tennessee, posted on social media. Hes the retired wwe wrestler kane, by the way. The first part of his post and poor people to quit spreading false rumors about fema and it stayed counterpart confiscating supplies. The second part reads simply if everyone could maybe please put aside the hate for a Bit 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, its 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, its 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 didnt call Liz Cheney stupid. He didnt call Kamala Harris stupid. So 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 bright and maybe his points even went up on the immigration front and that in my mind is why hes doing this at a Disaster Site because he wants to blame it on Something Thing that he thinks will get bigger turnout for him in the election. Actually, i mean, do you think trump would be bothering with these baseless claims if the storm didnt hit two key Swing States what would Donald Trump has a pension for is really exploiting peoples pains. Loss of lives, disasters like these for his own political purposes. I mean, you rattled off a couple of great examples. Theres others where he denied democratic Governor Cooper were after a hurricane matthew, 99 of what the state needed because 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 peoples pains. He did it after the Train Derailment and in East Palestine and thats really his thats his mo. So rather than doing whats in the interest of the american people, its always about scoring political points with Donald Trump and thats really unfortunate. And im 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 didnt cause this hurricane a b, hes 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 theres legitimate, but hes hes basically trolling the Disaster Relief and recovery hes not really like adding anything to it. Hes basically just making stuff up for political reasons. No well, i mean, he his campaign as far as i know, it start a gofundme to raise money for victims of it down there with Brian Kemp today. And he was praising Brian Kemps actions on the recovery in georgia okay. And kemp thanked him for bringing right. Been a lot about brian earlier its okay. 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. Its Donald Trump. He has things to say about the things that happened in this world. And its october of a president ial election. So i, you know, i dont know what you want. What do you want them to do . Not comment on it, but just not be sleazy. I asked basically, mean, is it different argument actually because its 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 its 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 and i listen. Theres been i just want to point out theres 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 im not saying nobody should criticize this thing. I just think you dont need to make up stuff to criticize. I mean, if you want to talk about some things that are factually correct, and that would help the recovery ever get better. I think thats good scott. Yeah, i probably have a jaundice view. This anderson because because i i literally lived through Hurricane Katrina in the bush white house. And as i know, you lived through it, anderson covering it and i dont i dont 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 well remember it, its seared into my brain. And so now all these people are out here saying, we cant politicize this, we cant criticize this. We, you know, nothing can be said about Biden And Harris 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 place in more foreign posen 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 theres no money for them and thats proven not to be true today. I mean, i guess that would be my question to scott jennings. Is were 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 legal immigrants. Thats 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 requests to overturn the election results. You think the Harris Campaign should be worried about a popular republican Governor Campaigning with the former president , a Battleground State its very concerning, but the reality is this governors take, hes taking objection to Donald Trump and how he his antics, his lies, his desk, and misinformation. I mean, you know, that a campaign has an opportunity to really continue to utilize kemp to point out the fact that its not just democrats, its also these republicans that are, that have had enough with Donald Trump. You know, i think you pointed it out accurately here. Its its not that people have any objections. Its not think he has any objection with how the current administrations handling the recovery, but its more about these lives and east creating and its not just him, its his Vice President. Theyre just making up stuff and its not an i love scott to death, but like its no excuse to say that its october and this is what we should come to expect from not just Donald Trump, but from any of our leaders. I mean, i dont want to know a liar, let alone let one run my nation then it my country. I mean, what are you to trust with Donald Trump . So i think the fact that the two of them are campaigning together allows the campaign the Harris Campaign is 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 or were going to take the break Coming Up next, well look ahead at the former president s obamas upcoming Campaign Marathon to Vice President Harris and their shared journey through political history plus the impact multibillionaire, Elon Musk is having on his friend Donald Trumps campaign ever done this For A Living James was famous for winning races, teams believes that change waves its the economy stupid apologizing to know what that man is it to fisted catcher . I say publicly what people are saying . I have enough money. I could just shut up Car Winning is everything stupid tomorrow at seven on cnn . 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