It is good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, a blue wall battle ground blitz with just 90 days to go, tim walz declares, we ll sleep when we re dead, continuing a campaign sprint across the u. S. With kamala harris. They re standing by for their live remarks in wisconsin, set to begin in just moments. Plus, as a former teacher and coach, tim walz knows practice makes perfect, the sinkers and one liners he s testing out on donald trump. And trailing them on the trail, where harris and walz go, so does j. D. Vance. His new remarks questioning walz military service and what he calls stolen valor garbage. We re also live in the critical state of michigan, democrats say it is a must win. So what do voters think about a race that s gone through very topsyturvy weeks. Our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we begin with a little more than 24 hours after becoming compares s vp, tim walz who s showing off his abili
Hi, everyone. It is 4:00 in new york. I m michael steele in for nicolle wallace. Vice president kamala harris s run for the white house is about ten days old. And the big question for team harris in their second week, how do they keep the momentum going after raising $200 million, signing up hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and shaking up the race by firing up democratic voters. Well, the answer to that in part is a $50 million ad buy. The campaign s first television ad and it issen titled fearless and highlights her career as a prosecutor. The one thing that kamala harris has always been, fearless. As a prosecutor, she put murderers and abusers behind bars. As california s attorney general, she went after the big banks and won $20 billion for homeowners. And as vice president, she took on the big drug companies to cap the cost of insulin for seniors. Because kamala harris has always known who she represents. This campaign is about who we fight for. We believe in a future where eve
The same kind of major support from gop lawmakers as we saw on january 6. In fact, new cnn reporting reveals republicans are trying to distance themselves from the event. No sitting member of congress is scheduled to appear. A former trump campaign staffer organized the event and despite concerns that attendees could be armed he said that will not be the case. We ve got a largely peaceful crowd. We ve had two events in washington, d. C. So far at the department of justice and the prison and there have been to incidents so far. No one is going to be bringing a weapon that is part of our crowd. Coy assure the police that. Witty wild joining us live from washington. So we do know security has been increased ahead in advance of this weekend. They re not giving saul of the details for obvious reasons. But we can see some of it out there. Reporter: well that is right, erica. So we re here at constitution and delaware northeast, right outside of the capitol. Here is this fencing, that familia
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This is all in an effort to capture what happened on the ground that day and show the afacts attempt to whitewash what happened that day from many of the forces of allegiance to former president trump. Our potential of experts is here with me standing by to discuss what we expect to haeshgs the politics of it all and more. Let s start on capitol hill. What more do we know about the opening statements? the opening statements are expected to set the tone for an emotional and dramatic day of testimony from the four police officers, two capitol police officers, two d. C. Police officers who defended the building that day throughout the day s testimony will be neverbeforeseen footage, body camera footage of what the officers experienced and this is all part of an effort of what the democrats say and the two remembers who are a part of the committee saying in an effort to tell the truth about what happened that day. Pushed back on the conspiracies about we re hearing from a lot of folks on t