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US POLITICS A VERY ENVIGORATED DEMOCRAT PARYY Dreza Crochê: The Rachel Maddow Show 7/27/2024 \| 🅼🆂🅽🅱🅲 Trump Latest News July 27, 2024 PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In_rFuVfy-0 Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
The Rachel Maddow Show 7/27/2024 \| 🅼🆂🅽🅱🅲 Trump Latest News July 27, 2024 Dreza Crochê Jul 27, 2024 103K subscribers Transcript 0:00 [Music] it is the weirdest thing to me Democrats say that it is racist to believe well they say it's racist to do anything I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today I'm sure they're going to call that racist too but it's [Music] good I love you [Music] guys okay uh if you're wondering how the Trum how the Trump campaign is handling the developments in the last 36 hours or so you could just listen to JD Vance absolutely rocking the house on the on the stump today is first full day of campaigning um or you could consider these couple of headlines less than two weeks apart both from the deeply sourced reporter Tim Alberta at the Atlantic magazine uh just a couple of weeks ago earlier this month Tim Alberta published this important piece the result of months of reporting from inside the Trump campaign Trump is planning for a landslide win note the subhead here quote and his campaign is all but praying that Joe Biden doesn't drop out that was a couple weeks ago this today is Tim Alberta's latest piece for the Atlantic after Joe Biden did drop out and endorsed his vice president kamla Harris quote this is exactly what the Trump team feared a campaign that had been optimized to beat Joe Biden must now be reinvented in the new political world that has cracked open in the last day and a half there is a specific regret bubbling in Trump World that that may be a far-right freshman Senator nobody's really heard of who was created in a lab by eccentric Tech billionaires who are literally on the record as being opposed both to democracy and to women having the right 1:52 to vote maybe that guy wasn't the ideal choice to be Donald Trump's vice 1:59 presidential pi especially now that it looks much less like the Republicans have this thing in the bag Tim Alberta 2:06 writing today that quote the most striking thing I've heard from Trump allies was the second guessing of JD 2:12 Vance a selection they acknowledged that was born of Cockiness meant to run up 2:17 margins with the base in a blowout rather than persuade swing voters in a 2:22 nailbiter Alex Wagner over to you uh thank you Rachel I too was struck by that particular line in Tim's reporting 2:29 today and joining us now is the man himself staff writer at the Atlantic the great Tim Alberta Tim I I would love it 2:35 if you could please elaborate on the buyer remorse uh in the Trump campaign 2:42 around JD Vance that you're hearing inklings of but also you know seeing as you have a magic eightball none of us 2:48 possess what kind of vice presidential pick do you sense they that team Trump is most concerned about as presumably 2:56 nominee Harris is making her deliberations hey good evening Alex that's a really 3:02 good question let me take uh the first part about the buyer's remorse I mean I think that that's overstating it I I 3:08 don't I don't see anyone having sort of a meltdown inside Trump HQ at this point 3:15 but I think certainly what I've detected in in conversations here over the last 24 hours is is a little bit of a second 3:22 guessing and a little bit of a counterfactual that everyone is thinking about here because if you really place 3:29 the selection of JD Vance in the context of the last couple of months look Donald Trump was always operating on sort of 3:36 parallel tracks and thinking about his running mate on the one track he was 3:41 thinking about kind of a a vanilla non-controversial caretaker type someone 3:47 who like Mike Pence did in 2016 could sort of provide some reassurance to voters who were on the fence about him 3:53 and that's where people like Doug beram for example were really appealing and on the other track it was the thought of 4:00 picking someone who was kind of a bold someone who was more ideological someone who had more of an edge and who could 4:07 frankly be kind of an Aira parent to the magga Empire and that's obviously where Donald Trump became sort of enamored of 4:14 the idea of picking JD Vance what I was told you guys is that for much of the 4:19 campaign Trump was really leaning in that first direction towards a Doug beram like candidate uh to to to 4:26 nominate as VP but I think it's not coincidental that as the campaign more recently like 4:32 over the last six weeks or so as the campaign really felt like it was pulling away and getting into a position not 4:39 just to defeat Joe Biden but to potentially blow Biden out and to have 4:44 the house have the Senate be in a position to really pass dramatic uh 4:49 governing agenda populist agenda that they had never been able to accomplish in a first term that's not 4:55 coincidentally I think when Trump really began to convince him s and people around him that hey we could go with 5:02 someone like Vance and so now with Biden getting out and with the race really resetting in this way I think that 5:09 there's certainly now some second guessing because if in fact kamla Harris is able to piece together a much more 5:16 viable competent campaign and really take this down to the wire against Trump then they're going to think to 5:22 themselves well does JD Vance really help us with a lot of these suburban swing voters who were on the fence in 5:29 the way that someone else could have now to that same point this is where kamla 5:35 Harris if in fact she's the nominee her selection of a running mate is going to be hugely significant and I can tell you 5:41 that the Trump folks are especially worried about two people Mark Kelly the senator from Arizona and Josh Shapiro 5:48 the governor of Pennsylvania both of those gentlemen are able potentially to 5:53 put into play a Battleground state that the Trump folks were confident had already been taken off the map so JD 6:00 Vance doubles down on some core strengths of trump but Ohio is already in the bag and yes he's got some appeal 6:06 perhaps in Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin those Rust Belt states but frankly the Trump people 48 hours ago 6:14 about expanding the map about playing in Virginia Minnesota New Hampshire trying to run up the Electoral score up into 6:20 the 320s 330s at this point now they recognize that if kamla Harris really 6:26 gets her act together if she really unifies Democratic party if they if the Democrats start firing on all cylinders 6:33 and if she adds someone like a Kelly or Shapiro to the ticket suddenly that map 6:38 is quickly Contracting back down and potentially Trump is playing defense in some of these states that he thought 6:44 were already put away wow there a lot of a lot of and there's going to be a lot more reporting that needs to be done and 6:50 I'm going to look to you Tim Alberta to do it in terms of what is happening inside a campaign that was as you report 6:56 optimized around Joe Biden Tim Alberta staff writer with the Atlantic thanks so much for your reporting and thoughts Tim 7:03 Rachel we are very lucky that Tim Alberta was like embedded in that campaign and developed those 7:08 relationships before all of this happened so that we can see through him the way they have reacted to it it's 7:14 fascinating on the record deep inside the campaign with Chris levita and Susie WS the two sort of sengali of the whole 7:20 Trump operation yeah if you're just joining us it's just coming up on 900 p.m. eastern time we thank you for being 7:27 with us for our special coverage in this this incredible moment in American politics we were speaking earlier about 7:33 vice president Harris having made two public appearances today for the first time since President Biden left his 7:41 reelection bid to her effectively stepping down from his effort to achieve 7:46 a second term and instead endorsing her in that time we've seen this remarkable consolidation of support for her in the 7:53 Democratic party um and also an incredible wave of energy uh and on ly 7:59 money fundraising from donors large and small trying to build her campaign into 8:05 what looks like is going to be a juggernaut effort against Donald Trump and JD Vamps her first public appearance 8:11 today was at an event at the White House with NC uh NCAA athletes um her second 8:16 appearance was in Delaware at Campaign Headquarters it was an interesting Dynamic there because she gave a little 8:22 bit of a stump speech a little bit of a pep talk to the gathered staff but so did President Biden President Biden not 8:29 there in person he is still isolating at home in Delaware with covid uh but he 8:35 appeared at that event sort of virtually or audibly um and said this to the 8:42 staff I know yesterday's news was surprising and uh it hard for you to 8:47 hear but it was the right thing to do it's uh I I I know it's hard because you 8:53 poured your heart and soul into me to help us win this thing help me get this nomination the name is changed at the 8:59 top of the ticket but the mission hasn't changed at all so I'm hoping you'll give every bit of your heart and soul that 9:06 you gave to me to come on President Joe Biden appearing effectively on speaker phone at his 9:12 campaign headquarters today again still isolating with Co although we have learned since we've been on the air tonight that President Biden is due to 9:20 leave Delaware and return to the White House for the first time since his Co diagnosis as of tomorrow afternoon like 9:26 we now we don't know what that means in terms of expected remarks from the president we do expect that he will make 9:33 some sort of speech um after having made the announcement that he was abandoning his reelection effort via a paper 9:39 statement that he posted online we don't know when that speech will be but again President Joe Biden will be back at the White House we're told tomorrow 9:45 afternoon when he thanked his campaign staff today for for pouring their heart and soul into helping him win he asked 9:53 them to now transfer that to give the same to kamla Harris that transfer does appear to be happening basically at 9:58 every level of democratic politics from the state parties which are one by one now pledging all of their delegates to 10:06 vice president Harris uh all the way to Congress where we are seeing just a flood of endorsements um for her and 10:13 only her among the many endorsements for Harris thus far uh is one that has just come from the Congressional Progressive 10:20 caucus pack the Congressional Progressive caucus pack saying quote KLA Harris will defeat Donald Trump not only 10:27 because she offers a stronger economic Vision but because she will defend the fundamental rights and freedoms that 10:33 Maga Republicans are attacking Across the Nation congresswoman premila jaipal 10:39 is the co-chair of the progressive caucus pack uh and she's standing by with Joy Reed Joy over to you thank you 10:46 very much Rachel and uh welcome congresswoman jaia Paul thank you so much for joining us so I I do want to 10:52 jump right in on that exact point Progressive Democrats a progressive caucus really I think surprised a lot of 10:58 people by standing so firmly with President Biden as so many other groups were pushing him to exit the race the 11:05 progressives stuck with him um and so tell me the level of excitement about this shift and his Handover to vice 11:13 president Harris well joy uh it's great to see you as always look I think that um the 11:21 progressive caucus has been President Biden's largest block of votes through 11:26 his whole bill back better agenda that whole first two years and everything we got done we saw President Biden lay out 11:33 something that was really remarkable a progressive economic Vision that lifts up working people that taxes the 11:40 wealthiest that makes sure that no matter who you are no matter what your income is no matter what your races no 11:45 matter where you are in the country you have opportunity and I think that was really um a a huge effort for all of us 11:53 to come together and to help get those things done and so yes there was a lot of loyalty to President Biden I also 11:59 think that there were concerns it wasn't like everybody was completely on the same page but I think you know you can't 12:05 just look at who the nominee needs to be in isolation you need to look at all of the paths so I never believed that we 12:11 should be having that conversation in public I thought we should be having it in private but what happened happened 12:17 now I think what you have seen is a remarkable coming together now that President Biden has made that decision 12:25 to step away to endorse kamla Harris there was just a an 12:30 incredible um level of excitement and support for her because she is the candidate that was actually voted for 12:37 just like President Biden was by millions of people across the country delegates voted for the Biden Harris 12:44 ticket and so they know her and they know that she is a part of President Biden's agenda as well as the past 12:51 agenda as well as the 100 day agenda that he's laid forward that he spoke about in Detroit she's obviously going 12:57 to put her stamp on that but I think we all feel very comfortable that she is 13:02 going to be able to build that same fragile Coalition that we had in 2020 13:08 with progressives with swing voters with women black brown young people um there 13:14 is really that energy now and so I'm just really proud to be all in for her 13:19 as I said to her when she called me yesterday right after the president made his his announcement I'm 1,00% in we got 13:25 to win this and she is the one that is uniquely capable of Prosecuting in every 13:32 sense of the word Donald Trump on our rights on our freedoms and presenting 13:37 that that workingclass agenda that agenda for poor people um that is really going to mobilize people to know how 13:44 they're life will change when kamla Harris is president of the United States so Congressman I just want to pick in a 13:51 couple of those issues that we know that there was obviously a lot of hard work that the progressive caucus did with the 13:58 president one of the issues that there was a divide on was obviously Israel Gaza uh the Gaza conflict has been a 14:04 source of consternation for many younger voters and it kind of started to peel them away from him Tom Harris got a much 14:12 better reception on college campuses around that issue her presentation seemed to be less divisive we've now 14:19 seen that she will not be in uh sitting in the well of the house when the Prime 14:24 Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives his joint address which he was invited to do she will not be there there she will actually be in Indianapolis uh 14:31 presenting uh to The Zeta beta um sorority Incorporated she'll be there 14:36 doing that instead she's going to meet with um prime minister Netanyahu as will the president but she's not going to be 14:42 there that's a a big kind of deal I've heard from a lot of Palestinian Americans and some who are in an 14:48 activist role who say they feel relieved that she will be the head of the ticket 14:53 because it actually reopens the door um for some of those voters who were turned away on that issue what do you make of 15:00 that well I think that's absolutely right you know I had an opportunity to speak with the vice president um when 15:06 she was in Seattle a couple of weeks ago about Israel Gaza we spent about 45 minutes talking about it and I do think 15:13 she has a deep empathy for the situation of Palestinian Americans is more natural 15:19 to her I also think she's hearing from a lot of black clergy as you know Joy this is one of the top issues in the black 15:25 community is this war and um I think that there is some real resonance with 15:31 the Palestinian people in a very different way obviously she doesn't have Joe Biden's long history with Netanyahu 15:38 um she she was not on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee um you know for all those decades um things that shaped him 15:46 um on that issue and I think that she has shown time and time again that she 15:51 is able to call for a ceasefire for example to talk about the plight of 15:57 women Palestinians um women who are who are being killed the fact that 85% of 16:03 children in Gaza have not had food for uh over a day in many cases and so I 16:10 think these are things that she feels very comfortable talking about and I think there's a new opportunity to 16:18 appeal to and I'm not saying it will be easy but I do think there's a new opportunity to appeal to Muslim voters 16:24 to young voters to Arab American voters to Black voters to labor voters these are all folks who care about this issue 16:31 and think that Benjamin Netanyahu has uh you know has basically done everything to stop any kind of a ceasefire or peace 16:39 agreement and so I think that's a huge opportunity and um uh I I think she is 16:45 going to be able to really shift the calculus on this congresswoman prila 16:50 jaal I'm gonna have to have you come back I want to talk to you about the uh the AI communities reacting to her 16:56 because all of my friends who are indian-american are losing their Minds because she is also a part of theun 17:02 excited I'm telling people how to pronounce her name it'sa and it means 17:07 lotus in his I'm telling you all the aunties in the uh in the API Community 17:12 are going wild from Mill jaul congresswoman thank you very much back to you Rachel thank you that was excellent yeah the first person first 17:18 time I mispronounced then Senator Harris no I think she was then attorney general 17:24 Harris's name I got like 17 calls from Friends of whom were indian-american who 17:30 were like just think comma comma it's okay your pneumonic is comma I was like 17:36 right never forget it again it is burned into me all right um over these last few weeks of sort of stur and Drang and the 17:42 Democratic party over what was going to happen with their presidential ticket one of the key dynamics that I think was 17:47 noted by a lot of sharp observers of the process sharp observers of this President is that President Biden keeps 17:54 the circle around him tight Joe Biden has been in politics a very very long time he has held on to 18:02 key advisers for a long time held on to key staff for a long time over long 18:09 portions of that long record he's had the same people very near to him and that creates an intense circle of trust 18:16 around him that is nevertheless small one of the Biden lifers who has been a 18:21 key man particularly in this phase of his career in this Administration is Ron Clan longtime 18:28 adviser and former Chief of Staff to President Biden and Ron joins us now 18:33 live Mr Clay it's really nice of you to be here with us tonight thank you so much thanks for having me Rachel first 18:40 let me ask you um about the president's Health um I know you've been in touch with him he's um he has covid we have 18:46 heard from the president's physician that he's finished his course of pax lovid and he's doing better can you tell 18:52 us anything about how he's doing well I'm not a doctor but I talked to him today he sounded better and um uh and 18:58 very excited about the vice president's campaign and excited about calling into that event in Wilmington and you know 19:04 coming back to Washington and and when the time is right getting out on the campaign Trail on her behalf he was very 19:10 fired up about her race he sound his voice sounded strong I have to say phoning into that event um which I was 19:17 which I was happy to hear and then when we got the news that he's going to be back at the White House tomorrow that seems additionally like further good 19:22 news um all that said um and I hear the sort of comp confidence and the sort of 19:28 optimism in your voice this has to have just been a searing few days um 19:34 particularly Sunday particularly yesterday for for the president um how 19:40 what can you tell us about how difficult this was for him personally and the level of confidence he had in the 19:46 decision once he decided he was going to do it look the president's a fighter he wanted to fight uh to win this election 19:54 and he was uh had been out on the trail since the debate I thought very effectively in North Carolina in Michigan uh doing a press conference 20:00 after the NATO Summit and wanted to fight and win this campaign but I think he came to the conclusion that it wasn't 20:06 just it wasn't possible he has a tremendous degree of confidence in vice president Harris he obviously endorsed 20:11 during the statement that he withdrew from the race and has gone all in on her behalf as all of us have and I think 20:17 she's going to be I think the American people saw today in Her speech why she's going to be a great candidate I can tell you as the person who was her next door 20:23 neighbor In The West Wing for two years and saw her in action in The Situation Room in the Oval Office she will be a great president she's ready to do this 20:30 job she'll do great on the campaign Trail she'll do great in the Oval Office next year Ron how much effort planning 20:38 forethought sort of gaming things out was done um about trying to make this a 20:45 smooth transition trying to make this what what my colleague Lawrence odonnell earlier described as effectively a 20:51 seamless transition the statement that came out from President Biden yesterday at 1:46 p.m. Eastern initially did did 20:58 not include the endorsement less than half an hour later he then set out a second statement unequivocally and 21:04 clearly endorsing vice president Harris that set off a remarkable consolidation 21:10 and wave of energy in the Democratic party that has very clearly established that she will be the nominee and nobody 21:18 has obviously come out and said that they should be the nominee instead how how much of that um was natural and 21:25 organic how much of that was orchestrated was planned was was gamed out in advance well I think it was 21:31 almost all natural organic look the president as he said today loves the vice president uh his first decision as 21:37 our party's nominee was to pick her to be his running mate that meant he believed she was the right person to take over if he couldn't and he worked 21:43 with her every day for the past three years and saw her in in action saw the advice she gave in The Situation Room in 21:49 the Oval Office the work she did on Capitol Hill to help pass this agenda that you and congresswoman jaapa were 21:55 talking about before that Joy Reed and congresswoman jaul were talking before and so you know she was she's been a 22:01 partner in getting all this done his support for her is natural and look the reality is she's the only person other than Joe bid to get 80 million votes in 22:08 this country and this is not some kind of Coronation she is the product of a popular process that put her in the vice 22:14 presidency uh and and she is a choice of I think the Democratic voters and we'll see that as this process unfolds and 22:21 people saw her campaign today and she's a great campaigner and I think I think it's absolutely natural that people 22:26 rally behind her Ron today the DNC chairman Jamie Harrison announced um 22:32 that the party will deliver a Presidential nominee by August 7th uh 22:37 which means there's not going to be any choosing a nominee at the convention this is not going to be 1968 um in establishing the the the the 22:45 plan setting out the rules memo about how this is going to happen it seems pretty clearly that this is going to be 22:52 not only not chaotic but an orderly um fashion that's that's within the rules as everybody 22:59 understands them as as far as the the DNC is handling this the plan to do a a a virtual nomination virtual roll call 23:06 ahead of the convention itself does that all seem seem right to you obviously there's different ways they could have approached this but does this seem like 23:12 the right approach from the party it is the right approach I think Rachel first of all uh it's it is functionally the 23:18 same as doing at the convention the same people the delegates will vote they'll just vote early why are they vote early 23:23 so that we can make sure that vice president Harris's name is on the ballot in all 50 states we have you know our 23:28 convention is unusually late this year because of the timing of the Republican convention the timing of the Olympics it's unusually late as a result to make 23:35 sure that she is on the ballot and all 50 states we need to confirm the party's nominee before the early August 23:40 deadlines in a handful of states and particularly in Ohio where there's been all kinds of chicanery around this in the state of Ohio and so I think being 23:48 being careful about it uh again it doesn't change the outcome here the delegates still vote uh they're just 23:53 going to vote uh in a by using a different mechanism than they would in Chicago same people same votes same 23:59 delegates same way of choosing a nominee just a couple days early to make sure that our candidat is on the boutot in 24:04 all 50 states one last question for you Ron what should we expect from President Biden in terms of campaigning with his 24:11 vice president this is an unusual circumstance where you've got effectively a reelection campaign with 24:17 the incumbent president in what will be a supporting role on the campaign what will that look like what should we 24:22 expect from the two of them uh in terms of joining forces to try to win in November well look I think this is her 24:29 campaign people are going to want to see her out there bringing the message like she did today in Wilmington uh I think the president will join her when that's 24:35 helpful and effective uh and whenever she asks uh he has a job to do he's president of the United States he'll do 24:41 that job first and foremost but I think when she wants him on the campaign tra he'll be out there just like President Obama campaigned in the closing days of 24:48 the 2020 election for President Biden just like uh you know there were some appearances by President Clinton on behalf of Vice President Gore in 2000 so 24:55 I think it'll be the same kind of thing we've seen in the past that when it's the time and the place and it's effective and helps rally voters uh 25:02 she'll ask him to come out on the camray and he'll do it he can make a very strong case for her he's worked with her 25:07 every day these four years he's seen how effective she is and he feels very strongly about her election so he'll be 25:13 out there with full voice and full throat uh telling voters what he knows that this is a person who's a great 25:18 candidate for president and will be a great president next year President Biden's former white 25:23 house chief of staff Ron clay Ron thank you so much for your time tonight I'm sure you haven't slept in a few weeks uh 25:29 I really appreciate you being here with us tonight thank you thanks for having me Rachel all right since last night 25:34 kamla Harris has been piling up endorsements from the major labor unions 25:39 in the country of incredibly important constituency in this country and Democratic politics one where the 25:45 Republican party is trying to make a play um with the notable exception of the United Auto Workers Union a lot of 25:51 labor unions have already come out and endorsed kamla Harris now UAW previously 25:56 endorsed Joe Biden we're going to speak with the president of the UAW about that next we've also got Minnesota senator 26:02 Amy kashar who's going to be joining us here live on set we have so much to get to stay with us thanks for being with us 26:07 here for this special coverage we'll be right back fighting to protect the sacred right to organize we are 26:15 protecting the sacred right to organize because we know when unions are strong 26:22 America is strong 26:29 it was vice president kamla Harris just two months ago addressing SEIU the service employees International Union 26:35 one of the biggest labor unions in the country after President Biden announced that he would no longer seek reelection 26:41 and endorsed vice president Harris SEIU was one of the first big unions to announce their endorsement for Harris 26:48 for president as well since then there's been a wave of Labor support for Harris with endorsements from Big labor unions 26:56 and labor groups including the American Federal ation of teachers the International Brotherhood of Electrical 27:01 Workers the United Farm Workers The Amalgamated Transit Union the international Union of painters and 27:06 Allied trades the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union communication workers of America asme 27:12 American Federation of state county and Municipal Employees America's largest Federation 27:18 of unions the AFL C they have all come out explicitly in the last 30 hours and 27:23 endorsed kamla Harris for president of the United States now one big important 27:29 influential high-profile Union that has not explicitly endorsed kamla Harris yet 27:34 is the United Auto Workers UAW earlier this year the UAW endorsed President Biden after he became the first sitting 27:41 president ever to walk a picket line the Striking Auto Workers ever since the uaw's endorsement of Joe Biden 27:48 Republican Donald Trump has been lashing out at the union and specifically at UAW president Shan Fain Donald Trump even 27:56 made a weird nonse adlib in his discursive unending convention speech 28:02 that sha feain should be fired and all the RNC delegates were like are we clapping for that what is this in a 28:09 statement after Joe Biden's announcement that he would no longer stand for reelection the UAW made a point of 28:14 saying this quote vice president kamla Harris walked the picket line with us in 2019 and along with President Biden has 28:21 brought work and jobs back to communities like Lordstown Ohio and badier Illinois quote the the path 28:28 forward is clear we will defeat Donald Trump and his billionaire agenda and 28:34 affect a champ excuse me and elect a champion for the working class to the highest office in this country again 28:41 that statement from UAW Jen saki over to you all right thank you so much Rachel and joining us now is United Auto 28:47 Workers president Sean feain thank you so much for joining us this evening so Rachel just gave a very long list of all 28:55 of the unions that have endorsed kamla Harris the vice president who is now going to be likely the nominee United 29:01 Auto Workers is not on that list are you ready to join that list and make an announcement 29:06 tonight so thank thank you for having us and look we're uh look we have a process we follow and just like anything let's 29:13 be real I mean this last couple weeks has been a very um you know just a very uh emotional few weeks and especially this 29:20 last few days um you know seeing uh uh President Biden uh make a sacrifice for 29:27 this nation and uh you know look I mean uh I got to tell you it's a Bittersweet moment you 29:32 know my love President Biden greatest president in my lifetime the most PR labor president of my 29:38 lifetime and uh you know obviously he did The Honorable thing and uh you know think about that I mean uh can you ever 29:45 imagine Donald Trump putting his ego aside and and and doing what's right for the country it would never happen so you 29:50 know with vice president Harris um we have a process we follow the membership put the international Executive Board in 29:56 charge of this and um we're going to be discussing things over the next few days and uh and then we'll we'll choose that 30:02 path forward and then we'll we'll make announcements as as we deem fit so uh but um you know uh one thing I do know 30:10 uh you know President Biden first president in history to join striking workers on a picket line KLA Harris was 30:16 right there with us in 2019 When Donald Trump was President you know where Donald Trump wasn't in 2019 he sure as 30:22 how wasn't on a picket line no no question about that and I've traveled with with President B and to visit union 30:29 workers and I know that the support and the response is is really incredible tell us a little bit you said it's a 30:34 couple of days maybe for this process is there a deadline or timeline we should anticipate and what exactly is your 30:41 executive committee looking for as they're considering this because vice president Harris was of course it's the 30:46 Biden Harris agenda and everything they fought for are the things that I assume they supported when they endorsed Joe 30:53 Biden yes so we're looking at a lot of things right now we have our team looking at at at other people not as not 30:59 as I don't believe as presidential candidates but other other possible vice president candidates and things like that look we feel like we have an 31:05 obligation to represent working class interest so when we when we meet and we have those discussions with uh with uh 31:11 vice president Harris's team and uh you know we want to you know have input and and talk about what we're seeing and 31:17 what we're hearing from our members and uh from our board and so uh we're not going to rush in and just you know throw 31:23 it out there we want to have uh fruitful discussions when we meet and I think it's important we do that we we owe that 31:29 to them Absolut absolutely now let me ask you I know there's been a lot of calls that have been happening President 31:35 Biden vice president Harris have you had the chance to speak with either of them over the last uh day and a half um 31:42 unfortunately uh I believe vice president Harris tried to call me yesterday and um I was in the uh the 31:49 unfortunate situation with the airlines a couple flights were canceled and when she did try to call I was in the air and could not take a call so uh we've 31:55 reached out and express you know anytime she's ready to talk glad to talk with her and look forward to it well thank 32:02 you so much uh president president of the United Auto Workers Sean Fain we'll all be waiting to hear what happens with 32:07 your endorsement process really appreciate you joining us tonight back to you Rachel thank you you know Sean 32:13 Fain I will say every time I've I've hosted Sean Fay on my show show before and I've talked a lot about United Auto 32:18 Workers and that remarkable strike effort that they had this year I he 32:24 agitates people in power so much in such exactly the way he wants to agitate them 32:30 I get people he the way he talks about economic issues the way he talks about class the way he talks about 32:35 billionaires the way he talks about the improper influence of money in politics so gets under the skin of people who 32:42 feel entitled to say that they want to pick a bone with have a bone to pick with me about my coverage he doesn't do 32:48 it in a class Warfare sort of way he does it in a completely practical way and you just can't wiggle out of it he 32:54 is a very very very effective Union Leader and a very influential figure in 32:59 Democratic politics and he drives Donald Trump absolutely crazy the fact that he 33:05 mentioned him by name spec specifically and it wasn't in Trump's prepared remarks he ad libed an attack on Sean 33:13 Fain in his convention speech it was yes under his skin and a very strange 90minut speech we all watched that 33:19 included Hannibal Lector as well as we all remember he went after Shawn Fain and what Shawn Fain did in response was 33:25 issue a direct lengthy statement def I mean he went after him on Lordstown Ohio 33:31 and not and not failing to deliver on his promise there he went after him over and over and over again in his statement 33:37 that's the right way to take on a bully that's the other thing for people day Donald Trump went on to talk about who 33:44 he was going to deliver for Elon Musk Donald Trump in the last three days said Elon Musk is giving me $45 million a 33:50 month we got to make that guy happy you know what Elon Musk doesn't like Auto unions yeah I mean like absolutely not 33:56 that's what Tesla is known for and it's why it was almost puzzling last week when you saw the head of the teamsters 34:01 up there on the stage of the RNC the audience was sort of like yay we want your vote but we're 34:08 anti-union and and the vice presidential candidate saying we're for the working class not for Wall Street the the 34:14 cognitive dissonance on from the top of the ticket to the second spot on the ticket is well the the real estate 34:20 developer and the venture capital guy obviously For the Working Man but that's why this campaign needs to educate the 34:27 American voter because in this age of misinformation JD Vance Spiel and Donald 34:32 Trump saying I'm coming to your town and I'm working for you kamla Harrison her campaign need to show people what they 34:38 are doing and what Donald Trump will not be doing that's exactly right still ahead tonight we will speak with Democratic senator Amy kashar she's 34:44 going to be here live on set we've got more ahead as our special coverage continues stay with 34:50 us I am firsthand witness that every day our President Joe Biden fights 34:58 for the American people and we are deeply deeply grateful for his service to our 35:03 [Music] nation tomorrow vice president kamla 35:09 Harris will hit the road for her first campaign event since President Biden has endorsed her to replace him at the top 35:16 of the democratic ticket we have just learned since we have been on the air tonight that the Harris campaign will 35:22 put vice president Harris tomorrow afternoon in Milwaukee Wisconsin notably 35:28 the city that just last week hosted the Republican National Convention where they clearly thought they had this thing 35:34 in the bag surprise this will be kamla Harris's fifth campaign stop in Wisconsin this year this time it is 35:41 likely to land a little bit different joining us now here on set is our friend Senator am Clin nice to see you good to 35:47 see you Rachel the last time we were here in person I had a coughing fit and you had to take over my show secet that 35:52 actually happened I think you were on the floor and I just kept talking you kept talking so they could keep the 35:58 camera on you while I fell on the floor coughing just try not to I had layers of 36:03 points about Healthcare that no one know exist and I just kept going everyone said wow Rachel must really I mean to 36:11 let you talk that long that's such the tail um so um what is your reaction to 36:18 President Biden's decision both his decision to uh remove himself from consideration for for reelection but 36:24 also his endorsement of Vice President Harris well first of all he took the honorable path and he did it with Grace 36:31 and you think about his incredible career and to me it's not just the Legacy which Jen knows so well of the 36:38 infrastructure of the bringing NATO making it stronger uh most important to me bringing back the rule of law putting 36:45 katangi Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court but it's also about moving forward and for him moving forward is he's next 36:51 six months uh but it's also passing the torch on uh to the next generation of 36:57 leaders I've had my own experience with him I gave one of my first speeches on 37:02 the senate floor and it was about domestic violence and the only time slot I could get there was no one there ex so 37:09 maybe the pages I don't know so I give the speech and I get off the floor and the phone rings and I think oh maybe 37:16 it's my mom and then I thought no my mom didn't even stay up to watch this it was Joe Biden he was a Senator and he called 37:23 and said so I give this speech and I get off the floor and the phone r rings and I think oh maybe it's my mom and then I 37:30 thought no my mom didn't even step up to watch this it was Joe Biden he was a Senator and he called and said hey kid 37:38 really good job and I noticed today uh when the vice president and what who I 37:44 believe will be the future president addressed the campaign crowd he said good job kid yeah and it just reminded 37:52 me of that role that he is playing and has played and that's what you're going to see in these next few months of this 37:58 campaign and so many people he has fostered their careers and their lives and I'm just really excited about this 38:04 and of course having run with both of them I think you moderated one of the debates the very cold debate yes I'm 38:11 sorry you were under a vent it wasn't fair yeah you were colder than everybody else and it was moving your hair in a weird way I'm sorry yes and I was 38:17 standing next to KLA in that debate um I just think she's going to do a great job as a as a candidate and as a president 38:25 she's going to bring receipts to this she's on the world stage uh she's made 38:30 incredibly important decisions with the president that has gotten our country through this pandemic and a much 38:36 stronger economic position and I'm just looking forward uh to seeing her on the world stage um there are a lot of 38:42 debates I think we're all looking forward to you serve in the Senate with JD Vance as well and we know that uh 38:49 from reporting in the Atlantic from Tim Alberta that there might be a little bit of concern about JD Vance maybe being 38:54 too much of a own the libs choice uh to appeal to a broader section of the 39:00 electorate and especially now that the ticket has changed what do you think the Harris team should be looking for um in 39:06 a Vice Presidential nominee especially when you think about it in the context of JD Vance well I think it's going to 39:12 be first of all we got to get through our own process big tent I don't see many people emerging to run but we're 39:18 going to have to get through that and at the same time comma Harris is going to be uh picking a running mate and I think 39:24 it should be someone she trusts should be someone who augments her own skills and someone that could step in and 39:30 govern and there's just incredible choices out there so um I think it's she'll pick someone good and I think it 39:37 will continue this theme of generational change what I saw at their convention was kind of a doubling down on their 39:43 support sort of the Hulk Hogan situation and so I think literally metaphor 39:50 literally the Hulk situation just a metaphor it was it actually happened um 39:55 and so that's kind of what I see happening here it's just going to be uh able to reach out to a lot of people in 40:01 this country our colleague Joy Reed is in Washington and wants to ask you a question hey Joy hi Senator uh good to 40:07 talk to you so I I have just been sort of in a wormhole of the 2016 versus 2020 40:14 uh demographics of the election I think a lot of women in this country have their pant suits from the Hillary 40:20 Clinton campaign sort of embalmed in their closets and they probably weep over them every so often it was the 40:26 closest that we previously came to electing a woman president and while Hillary Clinton won by 3 million votes 40:32 her narrow margin of defeat in these three key swing States um you know was 40:40 because she had a huge deficit with particularly men um versus what happened 40:45 when Joe Biden won and Joe Biden over indexed on a few demographics men he won 40:50 them there was an 11-point Gap right Joe Biden did a he shrunk that Gap he did 40:56 much better among white men in particular he Aid into that um and while 41:01 Hillary Clinton barely lost white women she lost them 49 to 47% to Donald Trump despite all his issues um Joe Biden did better with white women as well but for for for that white women cohort it's a it's a small Gap that KLA Harris would have to make up is row enough to make up that Gap so that white women will come home to the Democratic party which is not a normal thing it's normally a mostly Republican vote how does KLA Harris close that Gap and and can she close the gap with men I think she can close many gaps uh difference uh we know a lot more about Donald Trump than we did at that moment uh we saw what he was like as President we saw the divisiveness um and we saw what happened the issue of abortion uh you can see it from the Prairies of Kansas to the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin you could see it in what we saw in the Virginia legislative races to what happened uh in the governor's race in Kentucky it made a difference all over the country in all these races and KLA 42:06 Harris who I watch cross-examine these very Supreme Court Justices who made this decision is going to be on the same debate stage I hope with Donald Trump who issued a video this year in which he said he proudly was the one who overturned roie weight I don't know how much of a stark difference you can have than that uh we know the chaos that it has Unleashed we know the women bleeding out in parking lots waiting to get their health care uh the problems where either where even IVF and Mya pyone and all contraception are at risk that is going to be a major issue and there is no better person to prosecute that case than kamla Harris you're also going to have the fact that she was a prosecutor and this is a guy with over a hundred felony indictments and number of convictions so you're going to see major differences on that senator Amy kashar um are you busy just a little bit busy much going on returning to Washington to the Senate 43:05 are you are you okay are are you too busy to stay for one more segment with us I would love to be on a segment okay we have to talk about this coconut tree thing and I want you here for it okay ready Senator globar and the coconut tree thing there's a lot to get to expl in just a moment we'll be yes Minnesota it's obvious choice we'll be right back speech speech forign 44:13 fore spee for speech foreign spe for spee for 46:39 speech spee 47:25 for for for fore

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