This tuesday night. Good evening once again, im stephanie ruhle. Tonight were tracking Hurricane Milton, the extremely dangerous Category 5 storm thats likely to make landfall in florida in just about 24 hours. Well have much more on the storm in a moment. But we are also just four weeks out from Election Day as they say game on. If you have not registered to vote yet, youre running out of time. Today is the deadline to register in new mexico. Tomorrow is the deadline in missouri. A new poll from the New York TimesIn Sienna has good news for Vice President harris, showing her leading Donald Trump by three points, which is inside the margin of error. More voters see her as the Change Candidate over Donald Trump. 46 to 44 also within the margin of error. My colleague, Garrett Haake has more. Reporter tonight, Vice PresidentIal Harris telling abc she wouldnt Change Anything President biden did. Would you have done something differently than president biden during the past four years . There is not a thing that comes in had mind of being a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. Reporter later saying she would name them to his cabinet. Calling it her dumbest answer so far. And biden, the worst president in history. On cbs, harris was pressed on her record about the border. Was it mistake to loosen the Immigration Policies as much as you did . It is a long standing problem. We have been offering solutions. But the numbers did quadruple . The Numbers Today because of what we have done, we have cut the flow of illegal immigration by half. Reporter new data obtained by Nbc News showed there were 54,000 Illegal Border Crossings last month. The lowest number in three years. Bob woodward wrote in a new book that former President Trump secretly sent russian Putin Covid tests for his personal use in 2020. Please dont tell anybody you sent these to me, says putin, who told trump. I dont care, trump implied, citing an unnamed aid who claimed he may have spoken to putin as many as seven times since leaving the white house. They have not confirmed his reporting. The Trump Campaign responding in part, none of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true. Harris slamming trump today. Everybody was scrambling to get these kits, the tests. This guy who was President Of The United States is sending them to russia to a murderous dictator for his personal use . With that, lets get smarter with the help of the lead off panel tonight. Jonathan martin is here for politico. David rutgers joins us, Senior Writer at dispatch, and the reporter for owe tis. All right, evan, vp harris, everywhere, all at once. She is talking about the different audiences from call her daddy, to The View, to howard stern, to stephen colbert. What do you make republican arguments that it is only the friendly viewers . She went on 60 minutes last night, and republicans jumped all over it, saying she did a terrible job . I mean Donald Trump decided not to go on 60 minutes to take the tough questions. Vice president harris is doing a strategy that makes a lot of sense. You speak to a number of voters, where you find them, things like that podcast you mentioned. It has a huge audience of people, young women, specifically who harris needs to speak to. This is what youre used to seeing from the president ial candidate at this time of the year and talking to the audience, which is less normal for this time of the year and for this campaign. I dont see anything too surprising about them getting out as you can and anywhere you can right now. But there is a double standard, right . All the Media Pressure on v. P. Harris. Last year Joe Biden skipped the Super Bowl interview, and he got absolutely e crushed for it. How come with Donald Trump skips 60 minutes, a 50yearold tradition, nobody blinks . Well, i think there should be more coverage of trump for not doing 60 minutes, for not doing a debate in october, and mostly doing some sort of a Home Team Interview on a different cable network. And that said, lets go back though. I mean the biden was facing questions about his capacity to run for reelection and serve four and a half more years as president , doing very little Tv Interviews at the time. Thats the reason why biden faced questions about why wont you do even the Super Bowl interview, which is kind of the Layup Interview with a huge audience. I think its the context of the moment that mattered then. Thats water under the bridge now. But i think at the time of the issue is biden proving the capacity for four and a half more years where they will turn out to be a pretty good one. And lets talk about his book, which says Donald Trump sent covid tests to Vladimir Putin for his personal use during the pandemic. The height of the pandemic. Since leaving office, Trump And Putin have spoken a whole bunch of times. How can any voter believe that he would stand up to putin and put the american people first when you learn something like that . I dont know if you need to learn something like that to question whether or not the president is going to stand up to putin if he is reelected in office again. Whats really interesting here is if these reports are true. The united states is leading the effort to help ukraine defend itself against slaws invasion. Here you have a former president who has questioned the level of support from the united states and what theyre giving to kyiv, speaking to Vladimir Putin, who is a major adversary of the united states. And that is the more news worthy aspect of this president , the former president who was always very tight with putin in a way that he would not allow himself to be tight with the other autocrats. Thats just something that we already know. But the other piece of information will put into question how he would function if reelected, given he would take over a government that has been aiding ukraine by the billions in the state of policy has been were helping ukraine win and not just end the war. It looks like something the former president has been preparing for for some time. And jonathan, can voters be paying a lot more to that . They do not rank as the top priority for the Average American voter. Given what david just laid out, kind of seems like it should be . Yeah. I think for the certain kind of voter that im thinking of that david is quite familiar with because i think some of the readers will have to dispatch them in this category, which people who cannot abide the thought of voting for Donald Trump, but they are not quite sure they could get there to pull the lever for Kamala Harris. Right now theyre thinking about maybe i skipped the top line or perhaps write somebody in. I dont know if i could vote for somebody as liberal as harris. But boy, i think with that kind of voter, especially the more intellectually curious and sophisticated voter in that category. The Putin Story to me is enormously helpful because thats what the alternative is to Kamala Harris. Its a binary choice. If youre not voting for Kamala Harris, you are helping somebody who has a real cozy relationship with one of the worst authoritarian leaders in the world right now. And that is the question these voters, hundreds of thousands of them who were kind of traditional republicans might have voted for george w. Bush. What can they do . Can they bring themselves to actually a vote for harris . And actually voting for harris. Where i think that is the kind of thing that well speak to that in that demographic. When i close my eyes and i think about the profile of the voters, the picture of Mitt Romney will come to mind. We just learned yet again today that i heard it a few months ago that they do not plan to endorse v. P. Kamala harris. Does that surprise you in any way . Given exactly the Person Or Profile that he just laid out . Well, im not sure the Harris Campaign is too concerned about Romneys Endorsement specifically. Picking up a lot of endorsement specifically along the lines of the ones jonathan was talking about. Ill say weve had some reporting in notice recently. My colleague who went out to arizona and really did a story about how important this electorate is to harris, the state where the math has changed and it is more voting than it was in 2020 when Joe Biden won it. Now the campaign in arizona, it really needs these republicans who dont like trump to not just hold their nose and not vote for president , but to go for her. And they are doing the active steps to try to make that happen, but its the Uphill Climb and a tough thing to ask anybody to do. This is the biggest challenge hes facing right now. David, Donald Trump and j. D. Vance jumped on the comment that she couldnt think of anything that she would do differently than biden. And that is not his policy, but his age. That is not exactly true and they were really upset with the leadership on the Economy And Inflation that would wrangle down, having them rethinking how they thought about trump during the pandemic. When youre running as the Change Candidate, even though harris has a good case to make there as you pointed out the New York Times, that she has sort of reclaimed that mantle in that poll. When youre given that kind of question, you want to give voters the idea, even if Harris Wasnt in this position necessarily. Even if bidens numbers were hovering just under 50 as opposed to just above 40 that youre going to be a different kind of leader. Now shes indicated that in so much of the way she has operated the campaign and the policies shes proposed in the way shes going after the republican vote. But its the kind of thing when youre wanting to answer it in a better way as the matter of politics. Yes, but the reason why people werent feeling great about the economy six months ago when asked about it under biden because Interest Rates were higher and inflation were worse. Both of those things have changed without her offering dramatically different policy solutions. And prices had not yet gone down where they will over time. The cooling of inflation is a big deal as youre right to point that out and as they do and as we all do. And now look, Vice President harris will lead in most of the polls. But im in pennsylvania. Ive been talking to democrats the past few days as i will the rest of the week, as i travel with my colleagues from west to east from pittsburgh to philadelphia. Everybody is working hard on the ground on the democratic side. They feel cautiously optimistic. But they tell me its a Coin Flip and not something in which they feel comfortably ahead. Understood though as they have not offered the single solution that would lower prices. Jonathan, today on The View, v. P. Harris was asked about all the lies they were spreading. I want you to watch this. What do you think the affects of these lives are . Why is he doing this . It is profound and it is the height of irresponsibility, frankly lives are literally at stake right now. The idea that somebody would be playing political games for the sake of himself, but this is so consistent about Donald Trump. Hell put himself before the needs of others. I fear he really lacks empathy on the basic level to care about the suffering of the other people then understood the role of the leader, its not to beat people down, but to lift them up, especially in our time of crisis. She may be right, but Donald Trump never promised or said he was ever going to be empathetic, where he is telling these lives for a reason. It may be deplorable, but will it work for him politically . This is what he knows and the common denominator in politics that trump didnt discover, but obviously hes tapping into it in an unsettled way, which is they are taking benefits from you deserving american, in your time of need, giving them to somebody who is less deserving. It is sort of an old school one Onone Type politics. They wouldnt do it if they think it worked. Whats different here, trump tells these lies in such an incredibly flamboyant and bold and frankly shameless way that, you know, it is just preposterous. And here is some of the stuff to find it, but find what hes doing to be somewhat offensive. The challenge is folks believe in this stuff, which is pushing out all kinds of crap. You know, does that actually have some impact on folks who are still up for Grabs Voter wise . I tend to think the people who believe what hes saying, stephanie, 90 of them were already going to vote for trump in the first place. If you believe that fema is Fore Saking American innocence in an hour of need for some political reason, then boy, youre in that column to start with. I would have asked you more questions. But the fact he brought the complex. Lizard brain to the 11th Hour tonight, hell get the last word in the segment. When we come back, many of the same people who just went through the destruction are preparing for another powerful storm. Lester holt is in florida with a look at how people are preparing and evacuating ahead of Hurricane Milton. Tonight, time is running out with a ferocious Category 5Hurricane Milton heading straight for the florida gulf coast. You must leave. Im not asking you to leave, but im telling you, you must leave. Reporter police blasting out lastminute notices to evacuate. There are signs many here are heaving the dire warnings. Absolutely youll need to leave now. Whatever we could get in my car. Reporter Bumpertobumper Traffic heading out of town, while some of the regions most iconic communities will look like ghost towns. In st. Pete beach, we found the streets mostly empty today, except for piles of debris from helene. This is amazing. The pile of debris is everywhere. Its mountains everywhere. They seem to be growing. Reporter jim Kill Patrick showing me what they are up against. The piles of debris and stacks like this here in the Barrier Islands were created in the aftermath of the last hurricane. Officials thought they would have time to get rid of it. But then they found out about milton. Reporter trucks are staged all over the area to make as much as possible before milton barrels in. But Chief Kilpatrick says there is not enough time to clear it all. This is amazing. Collected from the streets of the Barrier Islands. Thats right. All Household Items that were put to the curb for the first storm. Im looking at a 12inch long stick here. This becomes a Lethal Weapon . Yes, its a missile. With 175 miles an hour winds, that could kill somebody. Reporter mexico is being pummeled by Heavy Rain and intense winds. Its the strongest hurricane formed in the Gulf Of Mexico since rita back in 2005. Its stunning scale, apparent in this view from space. Its going to be a catastrophic impact particularly to two major Population Centers in florida. Reporter even orlando expects to be impacted. Disney and universal both closing their Theme Parks early tomorrow. While biden announced he has ankieled a planned trip overseas in order to cancel the storm. And they will look at us right now. Reporter that is exactly why some are leaving. This is debris from helene . Yeah. Reporter they closed on their new home three weeks ago just before helene roared ashore. What does this house mean to you . What does it represent . I mean, it was going to be like our future, our longterm house, so this is pretty disappointing. Reporter like so many here in florida, they dont have insurance. We