Death is okay. It is something i am. Thanks much to all of you for being with us tonight. Anderson starts now tonight on 360 down to the wire on the debate, how both candidates are preparing for their first ever face to encounter. And the stakes could not be higher. Also tonight on friday, trump said jessica leeds, who accused him of groping her she would not have been the chosen one. Leads joins me tonight to respond later, historian doris kearns goodwin, on the first very first televised debate, the presidential debate inside the inside view she had of it and the lessons that holds for tomorrow good evening. Thanks for joining us. Take a look. This is the first picture just released by abc news from inside the national constitution center in philadelphia, 25 hours from now it happens the first and so far only scheduled debate between vice president harris and former president trump, not just their first debate of the campaign. There'll be the first time they've ever actually met vice president harris arrive late today after what the campaign said it was a long weekend of debate prep and campaign appearances in pittsburgh and a conversation with nationally syndicated radio personality rickey smiley, which aired this morning in it, she laid out her plans for helping small businesses if elected and talked about what she's expecting tomorrow night he plays for this really old and tired playbook, right? where he, there's no floor for him in terms of how he will go and we should be prepared for that. We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth the campaign today also unveiled an ad which will be airing tomorrow in philadelphia, as well as the maralago area, featuring unflattering clips from trump's own former top officials it should come as no surprise that i will not be endorsing donald trump this year. This defense secretary, do you think trump can be trusted with the nation's secrets ever again? no. I mean, it's just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation's security at risk is national security adviser donald trump will cause a lot of damage the only thing he cares about is donald trump new polling from the new york times with good news for the former president and his 48 to 47% advantage among likely voters is within the poll's margin of error. Meaning no clear leader. The times describes it as the first lady's hadn't a major nonpartisan national survey in about a month additionally, 28% of likely voters say they need to learn more about candidate harris, which certainly raises the stakes considerably for the former vice president tomorrow night. If as the polling suggests, she'll be making a first impression on so many voters. Now, in that same polling, just 9% said they need to learn more about the former president trump's spent much of the weekend on familiar ground suggesting, yet again, with no evidence yet again, that this election will not be free and fair. And threatening campaign and election officials quoting from his social media post when i win, those people that cheated will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, which will include long term prison sentences. So that his depravity of justice does not happen. Again, he went on those involved in unscrupulous behavior will be sought out, caught in prosecuted at levels. Unfortunately, never seen before in our country. He also had this to say about his plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants in colorado. There was so brazen they've taken over sections of the state and, you know, getting them out will be a bloody his story should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked it a lot to talk about tonight, cnn's priscilla alvarez starts us off. She has been traveling with the vice president. Is at the debate site, so what more do we know about how the vice president is prepping? well, anderson, one source describing this to be as robust debate prep, of course, the vice president has sorted those debate preparations last month, but she hunkered down with her inner group of advisers over the last few days in pittsburgh. Now, it's down to the wire sources telling cnn that her debate team is preparing bring her for potential insults, name calling, and derogatory comments from the former president. But they also want her to stay on message and stay focused. You mentioned there are some of the polls and voters wanting to know more about who she is well, one, harris allies telling me earlier today, the vice president is keenly aware of this. She also sees this as an opportunity to introduce herself or reintroduce herself to voters and her own vision for the country, knowing that she needs to reach those persuadable voters, those undecided. So this is going to be another opportunity that they're going to use to try to do exactly that. But of course, all of this is going to call me in that first facetoface it's encounter one that aides and allies say she has been waiting for, for a long time. Anderson show alvarez thanks very much now to cnn's kristen holmes in the trump campaign. What are you learning about? the former president's strategy for tomorrow night? well, anderson, have you talked to the trump campaign? they say everything donald trump does is debate prep whether it be taking questions at the new york economic club or sitting out for a town hall. But that also means no actual debate prep in terms of mock debates, known as sitting in playing the vice president know isn't sitting in playing the moderator. We do know, obviously we've reported that he has these policy sessions in which he talks to his leading advisers about various policy and how to pivot away from specific questions to the topics they want him to focus on, like immigration, like inflation and the economy like crime and whether or not that works, we'll see on the debate stage on tuesday, but i can tell you this talking to a number of his allies, the big concern they have is not what he says about a policy, but it's whether or not he lets kamala harris get under his skin and whether or not he loves those personal attacks, they want him to stay away from all of that. They are very keenly aware of, obviously of his tone and temperament and think that it could be bad if he has any reactive moments to kamala harris. They have stressed this to him. They are just hoping that donald trump, who shows up on tuesday bides by this, listens and stays calm. All right. Kristen holmes, thanks very much. We touched him, the former president's renewed amplification of election conspiracies at the top of the program. In another example, he focuses on pennsylvania and'm quoting is posting now an interview by tucker carlson of an election expert indicates that 20% of the mailin ballots in pennsylvania are fraudulent here we go again. Where's the u. S. Attorney general and fbi to investigate? where's the pennsylvania republican party? we will win pennsylvania by a lot unless the dems are allowed to cheat the rnc must activate. Now perspective now joining us former virginia republican congressman scott taylor and ashley etienne who served as communications director of vice president harris and former republican congressman adam kinzinger, who served on the january 6 committee and has endorsed vice president harris scott. I mean, he's lying about this in pennsylvania. There's no widespread election voter fraud. There's no evidence of it in mailin ballots people just discount this. It just like at this point is just like, oh, this is what he does. But is this an acceptable? i mean, he's basically do do you think this is acceptable? let's not listen, anderson, there are a lot of folks out there, literally millions of americans who had a big problem with 2020 well, i know, but it's just factually they don't have any evidence like courts looked at it. I know a lot of people because it's promoted on a lot of networks and a lot of radio networks. But just saying a lot of people feel this doesn't make i can true. I think, you know, it's not true, i assume, but there's no evidence look, as i said before, there are tons of irregularities in the 2020 election that never happened before, right? there are people who have problems with it and that's something i think it's a good topic. What are the tons of regularity? sure. Suspension of state law, state laws that didn't have before covid drop boxes that are unsecure. There's tons of things out there that change in 2020 that are still there. Now, i think this is, as i said, look, i ran in 2020 and i lost in 2020, but there are many people to include folks in my family who had issues with the way the 2021 was handled, had issues with zucker bucks, for example, hundreds of millions of dollars being sent through nonprofits to do get out the vote. So there's people who think the earth is flat. Again there's people around the dinner table. We think the earth is flat or does that make it anyway, congress, to you, those are facts. Those are facts. Congressman kinzinger i mean, is this normal? i mean, it's amazing to me how this is now just like, oh, of course, he's tweeting out this stuff about this denigrate, the election it's disgusting. And ma'am, scott, i love you, but come on dude, are words have an impact on this country? the country that you and i both thought for people look up to people, even besides donald trump, for a taste of what's going to happen, the selection when donald trump is saying this is exactly what he did before 2020 when he is saying that the election is going to be stolen all he's doing is setting up so that when he loses, if he loses, he can then turn around and say, see, i told you it was going to be stolen. It's gonna be stolen. Let's be clear about dropboxes to what dropbox is are not is a box that you open up there's just a ton of unlabeled ballots with loads on it. And he thrown through a voting machine, you have to put your name on your ballot, you sign it when it goes into the secretary of state's officer, whoever is counting, they can compare and seat this person vote on by mailin ballot or any other way, if not great, if it's legitimate accounts and if you show up the vote on election day, you'll be denied because you voted in this dropbox all of the secretaries of state that ran the same. This is secure. In fact, the trump campaign should be encouraging people to vote early and vote convenient time, but instead it's more important that really i ashley ashley, let me go to you i mean, what's interesting? is that yes, there actually, there, are, people who committed election fraud and they were attorneys allegedly working for the former president who actually orchestrated a plan to get voting machines, get voting machines, take them to hotel rooms and break into them and they're being prosecuted right now in states throughout the united states absolutely. And those people have some of them have pled guilty and the others have been indicted, and those are those staffers as close to the former the former president at one of whom was actually his former chief of staff. But, but interesting the reason i wanted to jump in here because you talked about evidence of cheating and there is actual evidence of trying to cheat the election. It was president trump. He called georgia secretary of state and asked for 11,000 votes. You could actually cue that video. There's audio of it. He doesn't even deny it. He was impeached the first time for attempting to try to cheat the election. And then to your point even launched a national scheme to actually do that. And when he did not odd succeed, what did he do? he threw an entire tantrum and incited an insurrection, a deadly insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. So the only evidence of trying to cheat the election to your point is coming from donald trump and i'm not sure how republicans can defend his actions and called themselves patriotic. I think that is really what's confronting them now, it's the truth is in front of them. They're denying it to the former congressman's point and we need to actually just be honest with american people. It's donald trump who consistently draws the g20 election. Scott, if you want to respond man. Yeah. I mean, of course, let's not question each other's patriotism. That's ridiculous and absurd. But the reality is there are folks who have issues with this. They want to have a safe and secure election just like anyone in the present former president is highlighting that and every time you make the argument every time every time you start your argument with their people who believed this it weakens your argument. I mean, that's like classic high school debate stuff. Like if that's your thesis, there are people interested leave this anderson, that's what all that means with all due with all due respect with all due respect. And that would be the same the steele dossier, hunter biden's laptop, lag lab leak theory, dismissal, jussie smollett, and so on. And and so on on this network. To beat, to be honest, i mean, you guys didn't have the facts, correct there. Right. And people believe those things with all due respect. Well, that was not attempting to overthrow an election. There's also things that are something wrong and people say what is proven really adam this, russia, russia wasn't an hunter biden laptop, wasn't attempt to be fair, i'm save of course, it wasn't i'd have stayed the same and election is going to be stolen and lying about it is the equivalent of the steele dossier, which was disproven after the election quickly was not used in 2020. And even the hunter biden stuff, who was not running for president, he's never run for president. He's not attempting we go into the oval office, but he's an obsession. The people actually, i mean, do you see this as the president basically just trying the former president, just trying to kind of throw everything against, see what sticks election. There's election fraud, there's all this stuff or is it kind of lead kind of preparing the way for if he loses challenging i mean i think it's a d all the above. I think he's trying to muddy the waters. I think he's trying to confuse the issue. I think he he's misleading the public, obviously, because as i said, it was him who actually made the phone call trying to get 11,000 votes when he didn't win, georgia. So but he's also setting up a dynamic and excuse for when he loses. So i think all of these things are true, but i think what's most disappointing is that some people keep perpetuating all of these lies that donald trump put out there, that he puts out there. I mean, they're not telling the american people the truth, which is there was, there was a failed attempt and it was at the hands of donald trump congressman kinzinger, you're former house gop colleague liz cheney announced she's going to be voting for vice president harris. I just want to play a little bit about her talking about coming to that decision. And then we're also would serve sanders, the arkansas governor said in response to a vote, i ever cast was for ronald reagan in 1984 and i've never voted for a democrat. Wow and it tells you, i think the stakes in this election donald trump presents a challenge and a threat fundamentally to the republic. I'm not trying to be rude, but you don't get to call yourself a conservative or republican when you support the most radical nominee that the democrats have ever put up, frankly, i d