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Tomorrow night, Alex Wagner is hosting a Special Edition of her show from Swing State michigan. She spent the Day Today with Union Members in saginaw. Joe biden won that county last time by just over 300 votes. But Alex Wagner tomorrow from michigan at 9 00 eastern will be really good. That does it for me for now. Bernie moreno sound out of ohio and what in the entire what and we will talk about that later in the show but second and most importantly, congratulations on your documentary from russia with lev. It is fantastic. Thank you for saying that and a lot of people watched it and it got fantastic ratings, which is great and i am doing at another theatrical Screening Tomorrow which i am excited about in the reception for it has been heartening. Thank you to everybody who watched it. You may be surprised but everybody else is not surprised and you deserve all of the kudos and accolades. Thank you. There are 43 days left until election day. Today, once again the Stock Market hit another record high and even Fox Couldnt resist celebrating another win under the harris biden administration. The dow is making It Rain and lets drop the Dollar Bills and the third straight Record Close for the blue chips with the S P 500 also closing at all time highs. The financials did really well as we watched over the last several months. While fox, Donald Trump and the Republican Party want you and their viewers to believe that crime in america is up and the biden harris administration, and Fbi Report released today proves that is alive. Data shows that violent crime including reported Rape And Homicide and Property Crime have declined across the united states. Today Vice President harris issued this statement saying before President Debiden and i took office, too many families were experiencing crime as the nation witnessed the highest increase in murders in recent history. Todays new data submitted to the fbi confirms that are dedicated efforts and collaborative partnerships with Law Enforcement are working. Americans are safer now than when we took office. Last year, we saw the largest ever Oneyear Decrease in the homicide rate, which now stands 16 percent below its 2020 level. Violent crime is that a 50 year low in the progress is continuing this year and builds on substantial decreases during the previous years of our administration. Before heading to the general assembly at the United Nations, president biden met with the president of the United Arab Emirates and shake the hand of him. We also want to discuss our efforts to end the war in gaza and i have been briefed on the latest developments in Israel And Lebanon and my team has been in constant contact with their counterparts and we are working to deescalate in a way that allowS People to return to their homes safely. Vice president met separately and this week Kamala Harris will visit pennsylvania, arizona and california and returned to Nevada On Sunday and this weekend Vice President harris accepted the invitation to Debate Donald Hatrump again october 23. Lets have another debate and there is more to talk about and with the voters of america and these are the conversations we should be having a substance issues and policies and what is your plan in my plan and we should have another one before election day. Donald trump, who lost the first debate against Kamala Harris said this. It is too late to do another. I would love to in many ways. It is too late in the voting has been cast. It aint too late. That was Donald Trump on saturday in North Carolina where he continued to not respond to the shocking reporting about his favorite candidate for governor of that state, Mark Robinson. That Cnn Report revealed Mark RobinsonS Prohitler comments on a site as well as this disturbing anecdote. Robinson graphically described his own Sexual Arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly peeping on women in public gym showers as a 14year old. Robinson recounted the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about. There were also extremely graphic descriptions of an alleged affair with his wifes sister. Today, Mark Robinson hit the Campaign Trail in North Carolina. He has denied the report and threatened to sue cnn. Today the republican Governors Association announced that it would no longer Spend Money on advertisements to elect Mark Robinson. This follows yesterdays reporting that four top Campaign Staffers had stepped down. And as we found out Donald Trump has yet to rescind his Tr Endorsement of the man he called Martin Luther King on steroids. On saturday trumps running Mate Jd Vance said that he is not even sure that he believes the allegations against Mark Robinson. The allegations are pretty far out therE Of Course And R whether they are reality. Took do believe those werent hiS Posts . I dont not believe them E O believe them but sometimes these thingS Play out in the court of public opinion. In a statement the Harris Walz campaign said it shouldnt be hard to condemn someone who calls themselves a Nazi But Trump and vance are standing by their man because they know Mark Robinson will be a loyal Maga Soldier in their crusade to rip womens freedoms away from them. Joining us now is Anderson Clayton the chair of the North Carolina democratic party. Welcome back to the last word. Jd vance held a rally in North L carolina today. I do want to play for you what he said about Mark Robinson In Charlotte today. What he said or didnt say is also between him and the peoplE Of North Carolina. The peoplE Of North Carolina will make that decision. Look, i have seen somE Of the statements. I have not seen the mall. SomE Of them are pretty gross to sit mildly. Say it mildly. Its up to Mark Robinson to make his case to the peoplE Of North Carolina that those were his statements. I will let him make that case. A Sex Scandal in North Carolina is between the Lieutenant Governor and the peoplE Of ol North Carolina. Anderson, what you hear t about voters linking those disturbing comments to the republican, Mark Robinson . North carolinians know this is the same man who is been the current Lieutenant Governor for the last four years and r fortunately. It isnt a surprise here. Jd vance and Donald Trump will have to defend why are they touting around his endorsement and why are they not rescinding it. Mark robinson is an extension of Donald Trump and represents the Republican Party right now in this State And One that takes us backwards if you were to be ever governor of the state. But also the fact that we are now under a republican Super Majority right now in the general assembly and if they were to keep that last year it will further enact policies that Mark Robinson has endorsed on the governors trail this year. What impact you believe this will havE On josh Steins Race . It will be sure to see a successful democratic victory like we have seen in the last seven of eight races and we want to make sure it carries it down ballot candidates to like people who have tied themselves to Mark Robinson. The Guy Running for Lieutenant Governor right now in North Carolina has tied himself by putting himself on Yard Signs with Mark Robinson across the state and he has yet to comE Out and said he will resend his endorsement of somebody who calls himself a tran06 in the state. Whereas you have a Rachel Hunt with a legacy of Public Service in the statE Of North Carolina who is running to make sure we propel the state forward in terms of Public Education in our state. I think it is crystal clear where voters will go and we will choose experiencE Over extremism every time in our state. Do you see this having an impact on the race for Vice President harris in North Carolina . Absolutely. Mark robinson and Donald Trump fully endorse t a state wide Abortion Ban in North Carolina. You heard Donald Trump say he would like to leave this decision up to the states while he endorses a plan that our state instituted in 2023. Right now we see a republican Ri Party that doesnt represent an actual Conservation Party and they are more about taking rights away from people than they are about the real Kitchen Table issues that people are dealing with in our state like whether or not we have affordable housing or minimum rages wages are rising. ThosE Of the issues we hear people talking about. Mark robinson doesnt do anything for those and neither does Donald Trump. Vice president harris drew massive crowds this month in North Carolina with 17,000 people attending in greensboro. Can you tell us about the democratic Ground Game in the Tar Heel State . We are making sure to run a full State Strategy and not leaving a county behind when it comes to getting the statewide turnout we need to get Vice President harris across the line. In a state were Joe Biden lost by a one Percent Margin and 74,000 votes is what that looks like. And that is that one percent to three percent. Were making sure to get that back we are doing this every weekend and we hit many doors this weekend and a judicial day of action we had highlighting the supreme Court Race with justice rigs and the Court Of Appeals races and the commissioner running to take three seats on the Court Of Appeals and making sure we are getting democrats elected in our Court Races because we see how that is impacting every other level of the ballot right now and in North Carolina. The North Carolina democratic chair Anderson Clayton coming to the last word. Thank you. Days after the republican Mark Robinsons campaign began imploding, the Lincoln Project released this advertisement which perfectly captures the absurdity of a republican scandal in the era tof trump. Have you heard the latest about the North Carolina Republican Candidate for governor, Mark Robinson . It is all true. He has been seen in public with a convicted felon and not just any felon but one found liable for Sexual Assault by his Hometown Jury in the even praises the felon. On this Stage Today i am endorsing donald j. Trump for president of the united states of america. The weirdo, he loves the felon, and the felon loves the weirdo. This is Martin Luther King on steroids. Everything you heard about Mark Robinson and Donald Trump is true. They deserve each other. But North Carolina, america, deserves better. Joining us now is stuart stevens, a veteran of five president ial campaigns and a Senior Advisor at the Lincoln Project and the author of the conspiracy to end america, five ways my old party is driving my democracy to autocracy. Stuart, it is great to see you. If you accept trump, you have to accept anything and is that the moral of the story of Mark Robinson . You take the senator from North Carolina and this is a normal Human Being who had a very successful business career. I cant believe he doesnt feel soiled by this. It is what being a republican now demands of you. How much of yourself in principles and values in Dignity And Selfrespect are you willing to sacrifice to, what . Elect Ithe Felon . When i was first in thiS Party back in the reagan area there is this truism that republicans like to tell that Character Counts and character is key was the titlE Of the book about reagan. It haS Proved to be true. The party has not decided that character does not count and they cant rewrite the world. People see this. There is not a School System that would hire him and he couldnt get a job as a coach or a board in america that would approve him being hired as a ceo. And yet the Republican Party is still with him. I think they will lose Arand Lo badly. According to a new newS Poll, 57 percent of voters have a negative view of project 2025 versus four percent to see it in a positive light. Donald trump is trying to distance himself from it. Is it working . No. Because it waS Put together by people he believes and he believes it. The idea that Donald Trump isnt going to take the bemost extreme view on an issue is contradicted by everything we know about Donald Trump since he started running for office. This is the guy who said that mexicans were and called for a muslim ban and if there is an extreme position, he will take it any brags about overturning Roe V wade playing an instrumental role appointing these judges. People are not that dumb. They see these people in these candidates and they get a sensE Of them. That was the result of that debate more than any specific exchange. One person is a normal sane Human Being who cares about governing and thE Other is thiS Person who will Say Anything who is becoming an increasingly sad figure in american life. I do have a video that i want to play for you, a Donald Trump Throwing Bills at patrons of a Grocery Store in pennsylvania today. Watch this. Here. It is going to go down a little bit. It just went down hundred dollars. We will do that for you in the white house. Nice seeing you, everybody. Beautiful. Are they your kids . Yes, they are. Perfecto. He seems to be competing with a graphic announcing the great Stock Market news but did he violate Campaign Finance Law . Look, the entire campaign has been a criminal enterprise from the Getgo And Anybody who works in campaigns, republican or democrat can see that and that iS Playing out and look what they did to the rnc. They turned it into this money laundering operation. When you talk about Ground Game as you did in the previous segment with that incredible chairwoman of the party and good gosh, she is amazing. Not only does it hurt you at the polls but it is very dispiriting to people in those states who are republicans who helped Build Organizations and they were completely abandoned i the Trump Campaign when they came in and took over. That is just incredibly demoralizing to a party and to the Get Out The Vote efforts and i think that exhaustion is sinking in with republicans. Stuart stevens, as always thank you so much for coming to the last word. 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With democrats facing a tough Election Map and the parties efforts to maintain control of the united States Senate, democrats are cautiously eyeing two possibly for livable Senate Seats. Texas where congressman all red and florida where the next guess the former u. S. Congress woman Debbie Powell is hoping to unseat another popular republican, senator Rick Scott. Powell has made her story is both an immigrant and a Latina A featurE Of the campaign is gaining support from hispanic voters over the past month and in the latest Headtohead Poll of all florida voters she trails Rick Scott by only four points and 42 percent to 46 percent. That leaveS Plenty of undecided voters still to be won and puts Rick Scott squarely below 50 percent, which is bad news because more undecided voters tend to break for a new candidate. Keeping Senate Control will be key for a potential harris administration. Cabinet positions, federal judges and Supreme Court judges are federally decided and the Dobbs Decision which overturned Roe V. Wade is also adding to the challenges for Rick Scott, senator scott. Florida will bE OnE Of many states this november were Abortion Access is on the ballot when the Nbc Affiliate Talk to voters in boca raton, conservative leaning, north of miami, they found most voters were in favor of amending the State Constitution to protect Abortion Access. I think women should have complete control over their bodies. End of story. It is their body and not the politicians and for that reason i vote yes. A womans right to choose and talk to her doctor is an issue we have to respect and take carE Of and definitely vote for. That is thE Only way we can protect reproductive choice and needs to be in the constitution. Joining us now is the former democratic congresswoman of florida running for the united States Senate in florida against Rick Scott. Congresswoman, welcome back to the last word. You are watching in the green room but i want to play with you something again that rachel broke from thE Other Senate Race, this one in ohio. It is a good reminder of how republicans talk about abortions and this is thE Ohio republican trying to defeat the incumbent democratic senator sharon brown. You know the left is a lot of things in family by the way there is a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like listen, abortion is it. If i can have an abortion in this country whenever i want, i will vote for anybody else. Okay. Its a little crazy by the way, especially for women that are like past 50. Im thinking to myself i dont think thats an issue for you. Congresswoman, i love your reaction but what is it about republican men and this issue . The complete disconnect Cut Arrogance and the fact that they dont understand the Power Women have in this country to vote, to vote against these far right extreme petitions, including Rick Scott who have no respect for women and i wish you wouldve shown, jonathan, a video of Rick Scott spreading disinformation in a classroom full of young men and women, spreading these disturbing disturbing tropes that democrats somehow are for ending abortions at nine months. It is completely false and misleading. Rick scott has been avoiding me as you saw. We are tied in the polls. There is another poll that camE Out last week which is a point below for me and florida is in play. You heard the voters. For them, onE Of the top issues in this race is making sure they protect a womans right to choose. The choice is clear in the selection. People will see the contrast between me and Rick Scott, somebody who supports a six week Abortion Ban. I need everybody watching to go to my website and support my race and we are within the margin of error and we started communicating. Floridians want Somebody Fighting for them and not against them. I think we want that energy on the ground of everybody making sure that we bring the change needed. I will come to florida being in play because you are not thE Only one who thinks that. How do you think him sagging this, especially for women who are past 50, i am thinking to myself, i dont think that is an issue for you . How does that play with women voters. He is acting as if as long as from hiS Perspective a Woman Isnt able to have children, they dont care about this issue. It is bigger than that. It is. First of all, the man doesnt understand how a womans body works and women can have children at the agE Of 50 and maybe he needs a coursE On the reproductivE Organs of a woman, which they are completely out of touch. We do have daughters. I have two daughters. I have a son. This is an issue extremely important to me as a mom and i want to make sure my daughters are protected from these attacks. Living in a state with an extreme ban on abortion we know there is more violence against women when these go into effect in their higher rates of maternal mortality. In miami, a few weeks ago, we heard of another story of a woman turned away and lost half of her blood and almost died. Pregnancy is a very critical piecE Of healthcare for a woman and also many women have to face complicated pregnancies. We have talked to Healthcare Providers now forced to turn away women and Traveling Thousands and thousands of miles away to virginia. Let me tell you one thing i tell floridians. We do have this opportunity to vote for amendment 4 and we need 60 percent of the votes to pass it and enshrine it into the State Constitution. It wont mean anything if Rick Scott gets his way and gets reelected and pushes for a national Abortion Ban. He voted against access to ivf twice and has advertisements all over the state telling floridians he wants to protect it. This is the fraud i am running against but this is the fraud that floridians are ready to retire in november. A moment ago you said florida is in Play And Steve phillips agrees with you. He wrote in the nation that Data Shows Vice President harris could win states like florida and North Carolina and help down ballot democrats like you along the way and as was the case with obamas candidacy, harris is electrified the electorate causing a surgE Of enthusiasm and an excitement across the country, especially galvanizing peoplE Of color and women of color who have demonstrated their excitement about the prospect of sending someonE Of their background in Life Experience to the white house. Do you see that from voters . I wish, and i tell everyone, you need to come down and see whats going on. I had four different Events Yesterday in different areas of the state and those rallies were packed. We had an event with Haitian Americans who are extremely offended by the hateful rhetoric coming from the former president and Rick Scott has remained complicit by not saying anything. We have almost half 1 Million Haitian Americans who call florida their home and Kamala Harris is the daughter of immigrants and a lot of people in florida relate to that story. She is within two points of Donald Trump. We see women, men, students and all of the different universities organizing, mobilizing and registering to vote at rates we havent seen in a long time. One thing to remember is that florida has always been a Swing State. We won in 2008 in 2012. It shifted to the right and we see that shift back to us. We see that in august with a lot of special elections in School Board elections. We won against the desantis funded Liberty School Election so we have all of these State Appointees and democrats have been winning since the Dobbs Decision. We will show the country who we truly are in florida. The primary in august was a thunderclap in florida. Just the enthusiasm on the democratic side should ring Alarm Bells for republicans and your opponent Rick Scott. Thank you very much for coming back to the last word. Coming up, President Zelenskyy is in town for the United Nations general assembly. This weekend he went on a Field Trip to scranton, pennsylvania, where Governor Schapiro Led A Tour of a factory that is a vivid examplE Of how american support against vladimir Putins War in ukraine is supporting local communities with the jobs and investment. That is next. I thought i knew a lot about our irish roots. I was surprised to learn so many more things from ancestry. 1892. Oh and heres the boat they camE Over on. 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It kicks off an important week as he prepares to address the United Nations and travel to washington to meet with Vice President harris and biden to advocate for more assistance for ukraine. President Zelenskyy First Met with pennsylvania leaders and josh shapiro. We are blessed to have so many ukrainians living here in the commonwealth in the second largest number in the entire united states of america and we feel a special kinship to them and to all of you in your work to defend ukraine and we stand with you. I wanted to say thank you to all the people and i think today we will have such possibility from Snl Ukrainians to say thank you to all americans for the support. He toward the factory not only crucial to his Countrys Defense but also boosted a local economy, a Point President biden has made repeatedly. While this bill sends Military Equipment to ukraine, it spends the money right here in the united states of america. Places like arizona where the patriot missiles are built in alabama where thE Other muscles are built in pennsylvania, ohio, texas where the ultra E Artillery shells are made. We spend our money replenishing our Stock Pile so the military has access to them. And stockpiles Made In America By American Workers and it not only supports american jobs and communities but allows to invest to maintain and strengthen our own defense manufacturing capacity. Joining us now is the u. S. Ambassador to russia from 2012 through 2014 and an Msnbc International Affairs analyst. Thank you again for coming to the last word in President Zelenskyy said he will present a Victory Plan to Biden And Congress as they report, he has been pushing for the u. S. And other allies to grant permission to use the long range weapons to strike targets further insidE Of russia. Is there any idea what thiS Plan is . He has hinted at it in variouS Places and it means he wants a greater commitment from us to help with their security in the longterm and ukrainians fear and the president fears there could be some shortterm ceasefire. There wont be permanent peace until they have Security Guarantees from the west. Remember putin invaded in 2014 and he took crimea and started a war and people thought, well, maybe he will say that is enough but eight years later he upped the ante to take more Territory Support of the Peace Plan that President Zelenskyy will propose is a requirement we provide Security Guarantees. The best way to do it from hiS Point of view is to bring ukraine to nato. Ambassador, listen to what trump said tonight. If i win this election, the first thing i do is call a President Zelenskyy and call up President Putin and i will say, you have to make a deal. This is crazy. It is our fault because it is a war that should never have been allowed to have happened. Trump Lanes America and not putin for putin invading ukraine . That piece is absolutely shocking. We are not responsible for putin invading ukraine. That is revisionist history and makes no sense to me first and foremost. Second, thE Other claim iS Preposterous, the idea that he will call putin in President Zelenskyy to make a deal. Why didnt he do that when he waS President . I think President Trump forgets that the war in ukraine started in 2014, not in 2022. This is when putin upped the ante and for four years he waS President. For four years he was biting and occupying crimea and President Trump did nothing to stop the war. So why this time around would anybody believe he has the power to do so now . That is an excellent point. The war started in 2014 and did nothing for the four years he waS President. Ambassador michael mcfall, thank you, as always, for coming to the last word. 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Mark Robinsons Site Scandal greeted with shrugs by some trump backers and the revelations surrounding the candidate tests Voters Tolerance for disturbing allegations in the trump era. That story includes this quote from one fan who said, and i quote, we have all done things in our past that we are sorry for and somE Of the things are crazy. I mean, he added, if we just went on that, we wouldnt be here for trump, would we . And the antithesis representing something bigger than yourself is representing just yourself and in the casE Of trump, a small, petty rotten self. America has had nine years of Watching Trump Political Ethos And Action starting with the ride down and literally down the escalator. It stands in stark contrast to wiley political ethos. By friend has my friend haS Published a new memoir which describes her lifE Of growing up in a family where her parentS Prioritized activism and inspired her path to a lifetimE Of advocacy work. She writes, neither of my parents sit in but for different reasons. Dads Origin Story and what it meant to be a widely involved a silent expectation in imagination and that was achievement and that imagination was changing the society. The messagE On repeat was, remember, you are a wiley. One thing his early days taught me was that we dont know what we will become. And we are shaped as much by our experiences as our expectations. Joining me now is the President And Ceo of the leadership conferencE On civil and human rights, Maya Wiley and author of the new memoir, remember, you are a wiley. Available now. I havE One right here. Congratulations on your book. We have the same publishing company. We didnt know that until we knew that. Congratulations and lets talk about your book and you represent the family your parents said when you leave the house and what would your Parents Reaction to Mark Robinsons campaign be . I thought of your Book Title and the promisE Of your book as this Mark Robinson stuff is going down. That is such a good question but i dont know if i have the words for what they would say. I imagine my father laughing in a way about rage. I imagine my mother getting very serious and saying he is not okay because i think for them and my father being a Black Man in america who had a phd in organic chemistry in 1957 from cornell university, who had to constantly face down white racism but be comfortable in his own skin and insist on his equality. But my mother being a white woman who understood racism and understood it in the southwest but who really transcended the way into which she was raised to be a racist and demonstrated it could be transcended. It meant they both had a very sharp and keen sensE Of what it meant to understand what you have been given to be grateful for it and honor it. I think for both of them it would be like this is not honoring anything. But himself and some twisted sensE Of whatever his own sensE Of importance is is ugly and wrong. And we have to do better. We have at nine years to watch Trump And Maga republicans behavior. What would the Wiley Family Message bE On the party of Donald Trump . I have lived with the pain of Donald Trump in a very particular and personal way in addition to all the ways we have all lived with. And run away again was elected when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980 with the president using the strategy of Dog Whistle Racism and now to see his campaign near Philadelphia Mississippi and they were murdered there because they were helping black people registered to vote who had every lawful right to vote in using the Term State rights and when he was elected and i was in high school, my mother apologized to me and said, i am sorry and my response was why are you sorry and you thought the good fight and you have nothing to apologize for and i said it wasnt supposed to be this way now. I found myself in 2016 apologizing to my high School Student in my oldest born and saying i am sorry. Because Donald Trump became president that night, president elect. The fact that i had this a book and experiencE Of that conversation with my mother in this conversation with my own child reminded me that onE Of the lessons of my parents is you dont get to stop fighting for justice. How you do it depends on what gifts you have been what you bring to the table but you do have to bring it and we do have a renewed sensE Of understanding. It is our legacy and what we bring now because we arent done. I do wish we had more time to talk. You know what this means when we are back . A dinner . Exactly. The new book is remember. Maya wiley, thank you for coming to the last word. Thank you, jonathan. Coming up, the Senate Race expecting to mixup the u. S. Senate well before 2025. That is next. Is next control is everything to me and now im back in the picture. 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As you face low back from democrats them, or still, for running the race you are running . Yeah, jonathan, i can tell you, i certainly was not planning to step up to run for senate a year ago, and you know, look, i didnt do the usual thing of asking for permission or kissing any rings but you know we really need to make sure that we are showing theres a new era of politics in New Jersey. So yes, the last year has been very dramatic but what i will say is that we were able to change not just the coursE Of the Senate Race but to change the coursE Of politics in New Jersey, taking on the machine, changing so much of the broken system that leads to so much of the corruption that just is leading to so much of the distrust in government. Im proud of what we are able to accomplish. Local newspapers report that george held he will step down after the November Election and Governor Murphy will appoint the winner to the seat. Is it your understanding that you could become a senator a lot sooner than to the November Winners who will be sworn in, in january . Thats my understanding as well, its 50 years since my parents emigrated from South Korea and we hope to be able to celebrate that by hopefully me being sworn in as a state senator. I hope people visit. How excited are your parents . This is real, ill be the first Korean American ever in the u. S. Senate, the first asianamerican in the senate from entire East Coast of america and i will be the fourth youngest senator in the country sworn in at the agE Of 42. A lot of first, that you hopefully will achieve, New Jersey senate nominee, congressman