July, which certainly made it okay. For the former president to be engaging with his Justice Department Apartment to try to find ways to undermine the 2020 election. Thats the other thing that is on the attorney Generals Mind in some of the remarks here where he talks about the norms of the department and his effort to try to protect them and really the warning is wolf, if the former president does regain the White House if he wins the election in november and he cares through with his, with his with his vow to weaponize the Justice Department to go after his his critics, people including of Course Attorney general Garland And Anybody else on the democratic side . What the Attorney General is saying is that there are rules inside the department where anything that the former president tries to do will be known publicly. The Career Officials here inside the department are not going to just go along quietly. And so thats one of the reasons why you saw those Remarks Today from the Attorne
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. Both candidates are back out on the Campaign Trail after tuesdays debate. Vp Kamala Harris is in North Carolina holding two events in an effort to win that state back. The first in charlotte starts in just about 30 minutes. And well go there live when it begins. Former President Donald Trump meanwhile is in arizona trying to Hammer Border Politics to Swing Voters. But Immigration Policy is not the headline out of the Trump Campaign. The Headline Today is immigrants eating pets. A Fear Mongering Internet Meme that made its way offline and into the mouth of a president ial candidate on a debate stage. How did that happen . It could have been his Vice President ial pick, senator j. D. Vance, who has himself elevated and spread the allegation in online posts. Then again, it could have been Donald Trump himself who found it, and after all, he did say he saw it on tv at the debate. Or it could have been the racist conspiracy theorist, Laura Loomer who brough
Speaking out for the first time. Why . This is not a normal election in any way. Certainly not one defined by policy debate. In one fell swoop, Donald Trump laid the groundwork to dispute the 2024 election just as did he in 2020. He threatened mass arrests of election officials, political opponents and critics and it landed like a Thunder Clap in the Saturday Night truth social post. It read in part, quote, when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Which will include longterm Prison Sentences so that this depravity of justice does not happen again. Please beware that this legal exposure extends to lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters and corrupt election officials. Those involved in Inscrupulous Behavior will be sought out and caught and prosecuted at levels unfortunately never seen before in our country. And now you should know it includes a lot of nonsensical caps. A couple of long words that make me wonder who wrote i
Voting later this month. It means a good portion of you have made up your mind, but there are some still left deciding out there and we know that because the polling is changing. Harris is inching ahead nationally and in key battlegrounds including Sun Belt states so who are those folks and how much change is still possible in these next furious few weeks . Joining us now at the big board, Nbc News national political correspondent, the one and only, steve kornacki. So where are we today, steve . Look at it from two vantage points. Nationally, this is the average of the national polls coming out of that Labor Day weekend. Harris, 48, trump, 45. Threepoint advantage for the democrats. Theyre happy to be ahead and in a different position than they were when Joe Biden was their candidate. He was basically trailing Donald Trump all year. But for republicans, theres solace in these numbers, too, because Donald Trump is no stranger to this kind of a set up. Labor day. Being a little behind. T
The New York Times published its first article on the pentagon papers. Reflecting on the significance of the history it created, the New York Times writing today, quote, the lies revealed in the papers were of a generational scale. And for much of the American Public it seeded a suspicion of government that is even more widespread today. Remember a few years later came watergate, a scandal that forced a president to resign and raised even more distrust in government. And now, along with a republican assault on Voting Rights, we are learning more about efforts to dig up dirt on Congressional Democrats and others by Donald Trumps Department Of Justice. We have learned the current doj is revealing the ordeal. But today this New York Times article, trump subpoenaed apple about an account that belonged to don mcgahn. Apple was barred from telling mcgahn about it. Apple has not responded to the times. An attorney for mcgahn and the doj declined to comment. The Senate Majority leader wants an