Kamala harris is making headlines for what she said and her first sitdown interview since becoming the nominee. And donald trump is making headlines for his incoherence on the trail and his deranged posts on social media. Plus, another clip of jd vance resurfaces. Once again highlighting his bizarre obsession with people who don't have children. In this one, he calls out the president of the american federation of teachers by name, and randi weingarten is here to respond with and later, as the paralympics get underway in paris, we will show you my conversation with two of the most inspiring people i have ever talked with britta paralympian's mckenzie cohen and oksana masters. [ music ] okay, so tomorrow is labor day, which for many of you it likely means parties, picnics and parades, hot dogs, watermelon, whatever it may be point it is also usually the start of the political season, but this year, it is safe to say it came a bit earlier. Take a look at what has happened in the past few months. An assassination attempt against the former president, a change at the top of the ticket on the democratic side, it has been a lot. Now, we don't know everything that will happen over the next two months. We do know some things about the state of the presidential race right now. A new poll to show harris taking the lead nationally, but far more important in my view is the one showing harris closing the gap with trump in the battleground states. It is all going to be won and a handful of states but and a different poll shows harris winning back young voters, they moved from supporting trump by 11 points to supporting harris by 15 points. Latino voters have moved from supporting trump by two points to supporting harris by 16 points but and black voters and now support harris for 64 points, up from supporting biden by 47 points. This is all good news, but it means is democratic and cleaning voters are coming home. That is a good sign for the harriswalz team. It is also important to remember the race remains close. And a lot is happening on the campaign trail, too. Harris and tim walz wrapped up a bus tour, and she is holding an event with president biden tomorrow in pennsylvania. Trump and vance also hosting events and battleground states. And harris and troubled debate in just over one week. While the trump's team and digital advertising may be targeted on immigration and crime and pretty closely targeted on that, we shouldn't ignore that, it appears that trump, vance, and the rest of their madoff crew are still struggling to land an effective line of attack against kamala harris. Think of it this way, for weeks, they have seized on the fact that harris had yet to do a sitdown interview, saying she was hiding from the media, unwilling to take questions, which also wasn't true at all. But this week, harris and tim walz sat down with cnn's dana bash to do just that. One, i am so proud to have served as vice president to joe biden, and two, i know proud to be running with tim walz for president of the united states, and to bring america what i believe the american people deserve, which is a new way forward, and turn the page on the last decade of what i believe has been contrary to where the spirit of our country really lies. The last decade, of course the last 3 1/2 years has been part of your administration. I'm talking about an era that started about a decade ago, where there is some suggestion, worked, i believe it to be, that the measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you beatdown. Instead of where i believe most americans are, which is to believe that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based on who you left off. That is what is at stake as much as any other detail that we could discuss in this election. That is just one click, we are going to show you a lot more clips, talk to some of my favorite political people, but just to give you a summary, physically harris and her running mate tim walz fielded questions on past positions, on foreign policy, on the border, and what they would do on day one, who they want in their cabinet. They talked about a lot of things in this interview. That should settle this question, right? everybody should be happy and move on to the other important debates of the day. Of course not. Instead of dropping it, the target has simply been shifted. Now the attack isn't over whether or not harris did an interview, but over whether or not she did it right. Many trump fans are apparently angry that this was a joint interview with harris and tim walz, they're outraged. First of all, it is extremely common for candidates to do joint interviews. Barack obama and joe biden, hillary clinton and tim kaine, or even donald trump himself. It is all even sillier when you compare these attacks with what trump has been up to this week. First of all, he was re indicted on charges related to his effort to subvert the last presidential election. His campaign was rebuked by the u. S. Army after an incident at arlington national cemetery earlier this week. He also reposted while the crude remarks about kamala harris on social media and shared dozens of other dark, derogatory, disturbing posts this week, posts that cover the jailing of people who have tried to hold him accountable, like special counsel jack smith and the lawmakers who investigated january 6th. And a. I. Images of his perceived enemies in orange jumpsuits, and he went on conspiracy theories, just to name a few. That is kind of what is facing voters in just a few days. You can take issue with the logistics of a television interview, that can be the you want to die on, or you can take issue with all of that. Maria is the president and ceo of the vote latino. Molly is a special correspondent for vanity fair. Miller is a writer at large printable work. There are some of my favorite people to talk politics with and they all join me now. Molly, i'm going to start with you. I want to play a bunch of parts of this interview because i think it is quite telling, especially with the comparison. Let's plant what i'm going to tell you is my favorite part of the interview, and we will talk about it afterwards. What i want to ask you about is what you said last month. He suggested that you happened to turn black recently for political purposes, questioning a core part of your identity. Same old tired playbook. Next question, please. [ laughter ] that's it? that's it. I loved that. First of all, i loved how she said yeah, during the interview, first of all. But it is interesting because there is a debate coming up in just a week, she is going to be attacked by donald trump molly, what did you make of that response or how to handle questions about these types of attacks? i thought that was the only way to respond to something like that, right? but why should she have to answer trump's a racist smear about her? i mean, that is a fundamental problem with a lot of these questions, is the goal of an interview, and i do a lot of interviews, you do a lot of interviews, i think about them a lot, the goal of an interview is to get information from the person. So, when she says donald trump says this racist slur about you and questions your identity, like okay. That's donald trump. It says more about donald trump than it does about her. My problem with this interview was that i thought that the harriswalz ticket did actually really well, but if you want information from people, if you want policy, if you want to know what they would do, the way to do that is to ask real, substantive questions, and not just these sort of very republican framed talking points or to ask them to sort of defend themselves against things that aren't i mean, that was just an attack on her. It wasn't a question, there is no question there, she is who she is, and it is pretty offensive. So, that moment, i thought she dealt with that as well as anyone could deal with something like that, but imagine if someone asked me are you jewish? i am jewish, that's it. Somebody says i'm not jewish, that's okay, but i am. Look, i agree with you, that is exactly how she should have responded to that. What's interesting to me that she is going to have to deal with this more and more as she does more interviews, also in direct attacks from trump himself. Tim, you have prepped republican candidates for debates. What do you think of how she dealt with that and what else stuck out to you about that interview? yeah, i thought that answer was really great and charming. So, i think that was definitely a highlight, i concur with you on that, jen. Look, these interviews are challenging, so this offer is less about the nitpick, but more about looking forward to the debate. She was having to introduce herself and having to answer for some of these things, so i thought she answered quite well, explaining her evolution on a range of policies and answering for some of the positions that she took in 2019 that are different from some of the position she is taking now. She seemed very well prepped for that and had to explain that, explained the rationale, and to build consensus. But in a lot of these answers, what you didn't see is what you do prepped candidates for in these interviews, which is you answer that and then you pivot to why your opponent is terrible. And she didn't do as much of that. I think maybe that was strategic as a first interview, she is focused on her own record and introducing herself to people. And i think that, of the debate, is a big question. For one example, in that clip right before you played it, dana said you have never even met trump before, the debate will be the first time. It might've been interesting to remind dana why they have never met before. It was because the donald trump didn't show up to the peaceful transition of power, because he was pouting like a child and flying home to his house in mar alago and his emotional support cougars, and he didn't actually show up. The first president in history not to show up to the transition of power, after the violent coup on the capital, that was why they never met. I think there is a lot of material to work with on trump, and going into the debate, you have got to refine answering your question, and then pivoting to but what about this guy. That is an interesting point. I do agree with you that i think strategically, she probably wanted to base her own record and answer some of those questions, but the counterpunching is a key part of the debate. Let's turn to where the race stands now, maria, because i listened to some of the interesting polling, i think it is democrats coming back home, when you look at latino voters, when you look at black voters, young voters, one of the things that jumped out to me is harris is leading low income voters 58 to 35%. You have been out there on the trail, what does that says to you either about the pole or what you are seeing out there right now coming into labor day and the path ahead? that's what i found really interesting was right before the convention, she was at 60%, independents were at seven, and trump was at 29. So, she is taking away not just from the independence, but she is taking from trump, and that was before the bomb. And this was a poll conducted with 2000 voters in battleground states, in georgia, north carolina, arizona, and nevada. What we have seen since then is even more appetite for her, but she is talking to them in a way that makes sense. This year, we haven't covered it enough, but the fact that she is giving them a platform to say we are going to build more affordable housing, we are going to talk about rent controls all the way down the line, that is what we have found that young voters, black and latino, 18 to 29, housing is their number one issue. Normally, we think housing is something you struggle with in your 30s and 40s, but the fact she is hitting them exactly where they are speaks to not only who she is, this idea that she is a woman of color, she has an immigrant experience, that she can talk to them in code, she is also translating it and beating them where they are with their breadandbutter issues that are impacting them. Such an interesting point. We have long talked about this presidential race and not being about policy issues between harris and trump. But there are some issues, she was talking about rural healthcare on this bus tour. You're talking about economic issues that a lot of latino voters are responding to. How do you explain this kind of big swing among latino voters in this poll? so, what we found, again, when biden was on top of the ticket, not that people were going to the republican party, that we are more interested in a third party. They were aligned with the democratic issues, but they just felt they needed something fresh. And that biden, walt gray policy, they didn't know his policy. What we found was interesting, that's why her defining herself on this first interview last night was so important, was that people loved her, but they don't know who she is. So, she is a blank slate. That is the best thing for an opportunity for her, because unlike hillary who had 30 years of baggage because the right to find her, she has an opportunity to say this is what i stand for. And we haven't talked about it enough, but it also makes it harder for the far right and for foreign agents to define her on tiktok and on social media platforms, because she is speaking to them directly. That is a key point. We have to sneak and a very quick break, everyone is staying with me. We will talk more about the interview, the politics of the moment, and what happens after the sprint after we take a quick break. 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At the same time, the democrats are radical, because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation. So, i will be voting no for that reason. Amalia is back with me. Molly, this was quite a couple of days, 24 hours. I mean, the most important story here, which i said, and you often remind us of, is that women in florida will continue to suffer if this ban is upheld, and in far too many states across the country, there are you suffering under restrictive abortion laws. But i wanted to ask you, as a political mother, the 180 here, it seems shameless, even by trump's standards, doesn't it? yeah, i mean, you have a really good point and i think it is important to just lay this out [ inaudible ] he was going to appoint them because they would overturn roe v wade. So, we are in this mess because of trump, which i think is an important [ inaudible ] waiting to bleed out, bleeding out in parking lots because their doctors told them that they can't have an abortion because they have a heartbeat, even though this pregnancy is not viable. These are pregnancies that will never ever result in a living child. So, we got to this mess because of donald trump, but i think it is important to realize that the larger premise here is donald trump doesn't really believe in anything and will say anything. The point is now in this campaign where he is willing to say anything to get elected. Anything to get elected, but he is also willing to be manipulated by people who wanted him to name justices who are going to overturn roe v wade. Let me ask. It's clear to your point, he is making a bet here, i think, a political bat, that his conservative base is basically telling him what to do. They got mad, he responded, he did this statement. It is not aligned with the majority of the american public, which just seems once again, like he does with legal issues, he is counting on his face to win in the election. Yeah. Look at, you sort of painted himself into a corner, but remember, trump is never good at growing the electorate and he hasn't been good at crying the electorate since 2016. He had a chance, remember that speech he gave when he was elected, that first speech, could have been i will be president for everyone, and instead, it was like this scary thing that george w. Bush was like that was something weird. So, i do think the man has never been interested in growing the electorate, he always just appeals to the base, and this base really cares about this issue, in fact. Remember, we would not have gotten here if the space hadn't gone from overturning roe v wade to this idea of embryonic personhood, which is now why we are seeing a temporary ivf than in alabama, and we are going to see more of that, because the space has moved even further to the right after the repeal of roe v. Wade. So you see, trump has really painted himself into a corner with abortion and he cannot make the base happy and still have a popular view on abortion. Perfectly stated. I mean, the other side of the presidential run here, i mean, kamala harris said after this in response to his statements, he is not done yet. If he gets back into office, the plan is to turn 26 abortion nationwide, with or without congress. This is interesting, because as you said, it is unclear if he has any moral compass on a lot of things, including this issue, but i think the strategy from the harris campaign is to continue to paint him, given this statement and others, as the m