Make a deal between President Putin and President Zelenskyy quite quickly. What does that look like . What does that i dont want to tell you what that looks like. Okay, thats one way of answering the question. I dont want to tell you what thats like. Donald trump remaining coy when asked what a deal between Russia And Ukraine would look like. Were going to show you more of what the former president had to say ahead of a Meeting Today with the Ukrainian President , who appeared alongside Vice PresidentKamala Harris Yesterday at the White House. Wasnt that kind of like nixons Secret Plan . Secret plan to end the vietnam war, yes. Oh, there are a lot of polls. Every morning, theres new polls. I didnt see them today. The Bloomberg Polls. Key, new polls from the key Swing States that crossed overnight. [ laughter ] we will show you how, once again, the New York times Siena Poll is a dramatic outlier. That is what happens when you have voodoo, witchcraft. Welcome to Morning Joe. It is friday, september 27th. Along with joe, willie, and me. Lets get to talking. Lets go. We have way too earlys jonathan lemire. Pulitzer prize winning Columnist And Associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. U. S. Special correspondent for bbc news, Katty Kay. Can i do this one . Its impossible she was on a Red Eye. Come on. I dont believe it, katty. Were you really . Im never doing it again. Theres no point, and im too old. You, of course, are not too old, but there is no point for people born in the decade that we were born in to do a Red Eye. My son has come home for a few days, and you will fly anywhere at any time. Youre right. Yes, you will. We also have New York times Washington Bureau chief elisabeth bumiller. So happy to have her here as we go over polls and talk about the difference between the New York times Siena Poll and every other poll. And Sam Stein from the bulwark. Oh, sam. Dont worry. We do have breaking news. We have the latest on the tropical storm. Willie, youve got that. Yeah, it is now a tropical storm, helene, downgraded this morning after a hurricane, after making landfall in florida as a category 4 storm. Right now moving farther inland over georgia. Helene is the strongest hurricane ever to hit floridas Big Bend region. Were still Waiting For The Sun to come up to assess a lot of the damage overnight. Forecasters warn it still could bring lifethreatening winds and an unsurvivable surge with water reaching 20 feet in some places. Its led to at least three deaths. One in florida, two in georgia. At least One Million florida customers remain in the dark this morning after strong winds knocked down power lines. Lets go straight to Nbc News national correspondent marissa para. She is live in tampa. Marissa, whats the latest there . Reporter willie, good morning. Well, i will say, i think you put it very well. Its difficult to tell the full scope of Helenes Damage because it is still so dark. Let me report for you what we can see on the ground behind me, then what were getting online. First, to give you a little perspective, that is Bay Shore Boulevard down there by that stop sign, if you can believe it. Its a little hard to tell where The Street Ends and where the bay begins. Thats because you can see, even though this water has significantly receded from where we saw it Last Night, because we were here yesterday when it was raging, the Storm Surge was happening as we were speaking live on the air, it has receded. Clearly, not enough. This is clearly not drivable. This is not passable. So what we have heard from people who live here, because this is a residential street, it sounds like it was several feet higher. We have heard, more or less, the same across the region, which is people, homeowners, have seen Water Go places theyve never seen it go before. This is in line with what we expected. Record level Storm Surge. Record Level Flooding here. Again, the full scope of it remains to be seen. I know that i have gotten videos from people that i interviewed over the last couple of days showing just how much water there was, guys. And i will point out a couple things. Tampa general hospital, the Aqua Fence seems to have held up well overnight. You can see the water on the other side of it that did not penetrate the hospital. Then i want to point out one other thing. This image, this strong image of a rescue happening outside of santa bell island. A man and his dog. Boat sank 25 miles off the island. The Coast Guard coming to his rescue, the chopper behind him. An incredible image. We know there are water rescues happening as we speak in panellis county. St. Petersburg Fire And Rescue have seen several fires because People Cant cut off the power and electric there as houses flooded. A lot of things people will be waking up to. Well be here to report the full scope as we learn it. The governor of florida pointing out theres likely to be more fatalities as they wake up and get out across the state. Well see shoreshortly. Marissa parra, thanks so much. Lets turn to Meteorologist Angie Lassman for a look where the storm is now. Willie, were seeing improvements in places where marissa is. The state of florida, things will get better and, of course, quieter, time to assess the damage of what they dealt with yesterday, in the overnight hours and into early this morning. Places like the southeast of georgia stretching to the carolinas, things are just starting to ramp up. Heres the latest details as of the top of the 5 00 a. M. 70 miles per hour, so it is, of course, a tropical storm, but it is moving at an incredible pace. 30 miles per hour. Thats why it kept its act together as a hurricane and ultimately still a tropical storm, even though it is well inland across the state of georgia. Couple things happening right now. We have the kind of prime environment for some of those tornadoes. This morning while its still dark out, really concerned about those tornadoes ramping up. Weve seen the Tornado Watch Stay in effect all morning long. Itll stay with us through at least 8 00 this morning. We already have some of the tornado watches happening north of charleston, across south carolina. Theres more of that likely as the morning goes on. Notice the Heavy Rain ahead of the center of the system. Places like augusta, you are finally starting to see some improvements as far as rainfall. Again, thats going to continue as the morning goes on. But ahead of it, across the appalachians, thats where were really concerned, especially if we get what we call the orographic lift, where the Air Flow works up the mountain. Then we wring out the atmosphere on already saturated ground. The Flooding Concern is there along with the tornado risk. Greenwood stretching to athens, all of that area is going to continue to see these really incredible rainfall amounts through the morning hours as this system works through. 42 Million people under these flood alerts. Flash flood warnings going on. There will likely be some of the rescues, willie, throughout the morning hours. Thats going to be our biggest concern as things improve around the coast for the state of florida. Itll be concerning across this region. Downgraded to a tropical storm but still dangerous. Angie lassman, thanks so much. We appreciate it. Joe, youve been through a bunch of these things in the panhandle. Category 4 slamming into the coast is no joke. Category 4 is next level. It really is. Weve been through them. I went through one in pensacola. Here, we were fortunate, fortunate overall, it moved toward the big Bend Area. Tallahassee, inland, was impacted by it to the west. But, yeah, the big Bend Area, if youre looking for the least amount of damage and for everybody thats in florida, also, the least likelihood of further homeowners cancellations, which is the Insurance Crisis. Its there because storm after storm after storm keeps going into florida. The big Bend Area will probably rack up the least amount of damage. Though, of course, devastation for many people still really great. Lets turn to politics now. With less than six weeks to go until election day, polling from bloomberg News And Morning consult continues to show a tight race in every battleground state. In the latest survey, Vice PresidentKamala Harris holds leads within the margin of error in every Swing State but georgia, where she and former president Donald Trump are Tied In this poll. Harris leads by three points among likely voters in arizona, michigan, and wisconsin. Shes also up by seven points in nevada. By two points in North Carolina. And by five points in pennsylvania. And The One race shes Tied In, georgia, theres the latest Fox News Survey of likely voters in georgia. That has harris ahead of trump by 3 Percentage Points. That, too, of course, falls within the margin of error. If you look at all of these, all of these polls, its a tie. You talk to both campaigns, they will tell you its a tie. Gene, the Harris Campaign is very interesting. Theyre sending out messages. You can tell the specter of The Great Pumpkin 2006 continues to rise over the pumpkin patch. Nobody is saying, we feel good. Theyre like, i dont know. I dont know. That, you know, had a large crossexamination Last Night, mika and i, with a member. After about 30 minutes of breaking it down, you know, couple drinks, they finally broke and said, okay, we feel okay. But nobody is going to say that, all right . How many drinks did it take . Not many. Two or three in and a spotlight on top of them. Chained to a metal chair. Sounds fun. Please, come over and have a drink with us tonight. Thursday night in washington. Seriously, they are so scared because of what happened in 2016. Who wouldnt be . Everybody was mocking Donald Trump. Who doesnt have ptsd . Right. You talk to somebody in the Harris Campaign, and you have to go deep to hear someone say, polls are breaking in our favor. Except for one poll, which i wont name, the Trend Lines have been fairly positive over the past month. Theyve been positive. If you look at the Trend Lines, youd rather be Kamala Harris right now than Donald Trump. If you want to win the election, right . You look at the longterm Trend Line, and you see that it has crept up, has crept up, and then shes getting awfully close to that 50 . Right. Trump is basically steady. Hes basically got 45 , 46 . Right. Thats it. But hes overperformed his polls in some prior elections. Everybody remembers 2016. Nobody is going to feel confident, and no one should feel confident because its going to be a turnout election. Right. I mean, if harris gets her voters to the polls, theyve got The Machine out there to do. If they get their voters through the polls, then thats a very different story than if they dont. You look at the numbers. Obviously in the bloomberg News Morning consult poll, harris is doing well. The Trend Lines are very positive. You go back to before she was in the race, and it was Joe Biden. You started to see states like minnesota, virginia, New Hampshire, suddenly get uncomfortably close. Those races are no longer close. For those that say, oh, itd be the same with things dramatically shifted. Major difference. As gene says, the Trend Line is up for her consistently. We have Polling Showing that she is doing better on the economy than she was even two weeks ago. She is beginning to catch up with trump on perceptions of who would be better for the economy. Shes out there talking about what a rich guy he is and how shes, you know, a capitalist and Middle Class. In her speech, she made clear, im not a marxist, not a socialist, not a communist. Im a capitalist, showing friendliness toward business. She has a lot of these Tax Cuts, a lot of these plans for the young people. 25,000. I dont know where shell get the money for this, but talking about the 25,000 credit for firsttime homebuyers. 50,000 for startup new businesses. Shes beginning to make inroads there. But i should say, yes, theres a lot of concern about these hidden trump voters. I can tell you that there are more newly registered republicans this cycle than there are registered democrats, despite the stories weve been running about all the college kids signing up. Yup. And there is and trump is doing better in that group among younger men of color than you would expect. Right. Katty, The One thing we have heard from the Harris Campaign, even those that will be cautiously optimistic, is that pennsylvania is the new ohio. Pennsylvania has had a surge in republican registration over the past four years. They still believe they can and will win pennsylvania, but, you know, they feel good about michigan. They feel good about wisconsin. Relatively good. You know, maybe a landslide. Maybe theyll win by a full Percentage Point in both states. But in pennsylvania, they know its going to be a fight. It is going to be a fight because shes doing much better among women and most young voters. Older white men, just like people thought after biden left the race, more of a challenge. Older white men and younger white men, too, also a bit of a challenge. That Number Theyll like a lot, up plus five in pennsylvania. Youre right, its the new ohio. Its the new florida. Its the state where they see they have the most problems. Then, of course, either the concern or the upside, depending on how you look at this from the Harris Campaigns Point Of View, is that pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, people think, will break the same way. Thats what theyve done traditionally ever since 1980. I think theres one exception. If they lose pennsylvania, what would that then mean for wisconsin and michigan . If they win wisconsin and michigan, will they win pennsylvania . Theyre putting so many resources in. But its men. The struggle for the Harris Campaign is young men, older men, men of color, white men. Theyre doing all they can. I think the debate next week will be interesting to see how Tim Walz reaching out to that group. Doug emhoff, who i interviewed yesterday, and well have a clip later on the program, he is making a concerted effort in his own way to reach out to that group. They know thats where they have a weakness. Sam, its interesting watching trump yesterday. I dont know how long he spoke, maybe an hour, but it was Hatred And Vitriol toward, again, springfield and migrants and these people who are ruining our country. Doubling down on this rhetoric, on these lies. It must be working for them . Well, they would love to talk about immigration for the rest of the election if they had their druthers. The Problem Theyve had is theyve concocted a bunch of racial lies about haitians and distracted the conversation from immigration to whether theyre being truthful about immigration. Thats a different conversation. But i think its not particularly great insight. Theyve been banking on young men. They put trump on these platforms. Most of them are not tv pl