As he signals his campaign ive heard these are people that love our country. Strategy. Im the only thing standing between the American Dream and total anarchy, madness and Kristen Welker, are there chaos. My guest this morning, trump folks behind the president . Campaign Senior Adviser jason miller and former democratic i think thats the right word for it, apluplectic. They want him to firmly denounce president ial candidate buttigieg this the next time it is brought of indiana. Up. The baseless attacks on mailin they point to the fact that Vice President mike pence was asked voting. This is just a way theyre about this and tried to put it to rest. But for a lot of people inside trying to steal will the the president s orbit, that is election. Dont pay any attention to what the president is saying not good enough. They want to hear it from the president himself. It underscores a pattern weve because it is all designed to seen from this president is they like me, so whats wrong with suppress the vote. Anda a Bipartisan Panel it . We heard him use similar details russia and the 2016 language in the early days when he was asked about vladimir Trump Campaign. Top democratted amount of putin, for example. This seems to be in line with the way which the president responds the these sorts of on the Senate Intel Committeein things. It is not really clear he understood what qanon was or how analysis are nbc news white dangerous some branches of house correspondent kristen government believe it is. There is an immense amount of welker gerald saeb of the wall pressure within the president s inner orbit to denounce this street journal and scott walker. Firmly the next time hes asked welcome to sunday. About it, chuck. Its interesting, ben sasse its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history. Qanon is nuts. This is meet the press with and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories. Chuck todd. Good sunday morning. Liz cheney qanon is dangerous. The democrats came out of their firstever Virtual Convention making their case against President Trump both by looking scott, im aware that when to the past with luminaries like politics can attract some president obama and to the future with the woman they hope oddballs. Fringy on the left, fringy on will become the next vice the right. President Kamala Harris. Sometimes it does seem that the president is always a bit too joe biden delivered what may slow to denounce these fringy people. Have been the speech of his life well, conspiracy theories putting to rest the caricature have no place in the republican President Trump has painted of him as mentally and firmnd not party nor in american politics in general. Up to the job and democrats made but lets be clear the headway in uniting their often president s initial response where he said he didnt know divided party reaching out to about them is like most voters i talk to. Republicans and stretching their i have been traveling around wisconsin and i was on my tent without ripping it yet. Motorcycle yesterday in iowa and in short, theyre coming out of minnesota, as well as wisconsin their Convention Running the talking to voters. Same campaign they did four theyre not talking about this at all. Years ago, more on character and they dont know about this at all. Decency than on policy although something that is largely an this time against an uncompany obsession on the media and what bent president and with a they were talking about joe nominee with lower negatives. Bidens statements this weekend that if he was elected president now its the republicans tomorrow. He would shut the entire country President Trump will not have the tens of thousands of down by as early as january if supporters packed into an arena thats what advisors told him. That he so desperately wanted. The coronavirus settled that. Thats what people get worked up he will have four days to about, not things like this that rewrite the democrats po are largely a focus of the portrayal of him as the Great Washington public. Im not asking from a public. Threat to american democracy into one of a president who made America Great again is tougher on joe biden and more trusted on it seems as if the president , i the economy, but President Trump take your point. Enters his convention trailing maybe some people arent talking in the polls with the coronavirus still out of control about it. But a domestic Terror Threat and and the economy in tatters, and social media is the tool that hes sounding increasingly recruits these people. I want to make it clear, like i said, i dont think there is losing, describing a dystopian any place in the Republican Party nor in politics in general view of america if biden wins for these kind of conspiracy with the president as the only eo out there. Thing standing between us and but what i am saying in terms of the end of american the obsession of this, this is civilization. If our opponents prevail, no not something were hearing out talking to voters. What they are more worked up one will be safe in our country about is joe biden going to keep and no one will be spared. Us locked up in our homes for President Trump ratcheting up months and months and months his rhetoric after a week when next year or a way to be healthy democrats painted a bleak future and safe Going Forward . Scott walker, Kristen Welker, for the president if the president is reelected arguing a tremendous panel. The american democracy is at i appreciate all three of you today. Stake. Character is on the ballot. Terrific conversation. Enjoy the convention. Compassion is on the ballot, before we go, before we say decency, science, democracy, goodbye a quick programming theyre all on the ballot. Do not let them take away note. Please join lester holt, suvena your power. Guthrie and Andrea Mitchell and do not let them take away your myself for coverage monday democracy. As he prepares to fight for through thursday eervening. Another term at his convention we begin on peacock and news now this week the president is at 8 00 p. M. Escalating his assault on biden dont miss that either. Who he has struggled to you next effectively attack. I am the only thing standing week because if its sunday, its the press. G with golf ce. Between the American Dream and total anarchy, madness and chaos. It is a darker version of a line from four years ago. Nobody knows the system better than me which is why i alone can fix it. But can the president make the case the election is a choice rather than a referendum on his own precedence. If you want a vision of your life under the biden presidency, think of the smoldering ruins of minneapolis, the violent anarchy of portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of chicago. But mr. Trump is president and those images have happened on his watch. More than 70 of americans say the country is on the wrong track. The Trump Campaign has struggled to come up with a tone and a message to counter with democrats focus on the pandemic. Donald trump hasnt grown into the job because he cant, and the consequences of that failure are severe. After all this time, the president still does not have a plan. Well, i do. This week the optics of the virus may be challenging as the president tries to draw a crowd with an audience on the White House South Lawn for his speech and President Trump appears to be growing more agitated. If we dont win its all gone, okay . Its all gone. Attacking the post office, and escalating his attacks on nbc sports, home of the mailin voting. I dont like this mailin olympic games, the nhl, the ballot deal. Indianapolis 500, the tour threatening to use Law Enforcement at the polls, something he cant legally do. Championship and prime times were going have sheriffs and number one show, sunday night were going to have Law Enforcement and were going have football, only on nbc. Hopefully u. S. Attorneys and were going to have everybody, an attorney general. And embracing qanon, a welcome to the u. S. Bank nbc Conspiracy Theory the fbi has called a domestic Terror Threat. Sports report. I dont know much about the hello, everyone. Movement other than i understand we have a huge day of sports they like me very much, which i ahead on nbc appreciate. Ive heard these are people that indy 500 comes your way at 1 00 love our country. Big mistake. Eastern and out to the aig these are a group of nuts and womens british open i cook kooks and he ought to disavow them. Joining me now is jason miller. Let me start with how you plan to present your convention, the partys convention. You have nearly 180,000 dead from this virus. Wo weve got 30 Million People receiving some sort of unemployment benefit, the initial jobless claims went back over a million last week as these benefits have gone away, so thats a tough thats a tough environment to present an upbeat convention and yet the president says so. How do you do an upbeat convention with those numbers . Well, chuck, good morning and thank you for having me on. Were going to see a very optimistic and upbeat convention this week from President Trump and our republican allies and from our democratic and independent allies as well. One of the things you will see this week is a complete change in the perception that i believe the media tries to tell what a trump supporter looks like or who a trump supporter is. We will talk about the american story and the accomplishments that weve had over the last four years with President Trump and what the secondterm vision is going to look like and this is a big difference, chuck, between President Trump and his convention this week and the democrats last week. Last week it was a massive grievancefest. We didnt hear about the vision for the future and how their policies would help people and theres a reason for that. The reason is they didnt want to talk about the 4 trillion in tax hikes and a Green New Deal and at a time when we couldnt stop our Economic Growth, they want toy there it to policies of the past. Youll hear an uplifting message from the president and when i tell you some of the stories youll hear, there will be braukobrau breakout stars and supporters of the president and it will be a beautiful story. When we hear about the unexpected about the president , we are hearing with somebody the unexpected with the last name of trump. I want to play a quote from the president s sister. This is from the president s sister recorded by his niece mary trump, mary ann trump, his older sister did not know she was being recorded, but it was a legally made recording according to new york state law. Heres what she said. His [ bleep ] tweet and the lying oh, my god, the change of stories and the lack of preparation and the lying and the holy [ bleep ]. You just made a case here that were going to hear from unusual people that you wouldnt normally hear from perhaps that are republican convention. These are the people that know the president best. They have the last name of trump. Are you concerned that this is going to have an impact on those swing voters who are, like, its confirmation that yeah, even his own relatives think he lies too much. No, chuck. Sibling rivalries are nothing new in the world. Its been going on since the beginning of time and we heard some pretty poignant commentary from malik obama and you have family members who sometimes decide to voice their sibling rivalries or frustrations. Nothing new, but its going into next week and its not something thats going to be an issue. But mary ann trump is no ordinary trump. Shes basically a retired federal judge, someone who has sort of been senate confirmed. She comes with credibility. Chuck, i can tell you that my conversations with the president over the years have only hear him say positive things about his sister and hes very proud of what she has accomplished. I want to point out this past week the president and mary ann trump lost their brother, robert trump and he was just laid to rest and had services for him at the white house on friday and i really do think that its shameful that the Washington Post came and ran the story yesterday, literally the day af robert trump just in an attempt to tear down the president and right after they laid their brother to rest i think is shameful. I want to ask you about another development that happened late this week involving another member of the president s 2016 campaign. Its somebody that youve worked quite closely with. Its steve bannon. I think folks are quite familiar, hes been indicted on what appears to be perhaps he misled a charity and may have taken some money that wasnt meant for salaries and things like that for we build the wall. First thing i want to ask since you did a podcast with him, have you been interviewed at all by the Justice Department in this investigation, jason . I have not, and from public reports it looks like this investigation was going long before the podcast even started. The podcast and radio show they cohosted with steve. These allegations are very serious and i hope he has good answers for thecued of. Its not something ive worked on and i dont know anything about the financial dealings of this organization and how it worked and i hope steve has the opportunity to tell his side of the story. I want to put up this image. Quite a few people who worked in 2016 have had indictments and conventions, steve bannon, paul flynn, papadopoulos, roger stone, all people involved with the 2016 Campaign Team and somehow or another found themselves on the wrong side of the law, and why shouldnt voters look at this and say the president seems to surround himself with people with shady instincts. I disagree with that. I think you take a look at some of the brilliant women and brilliant leaders that we have within this administration and the cabinet members and overall the president has had a good track record of hiring excellent people. There are a number of folks wo have made serious mistakes in their life that have nothing to do with President Trump and theyll have to be accountable for all of that. When you take a look at the president and the people that hes brought onboard and take a look at his senior staff at the white house, whether it be chief of staff meadows and kellyanne conway, these are solid people who i think work very hard for the American People every day. Im proud to call them teammates in this broader protrump efforts and the president is proud, as well. You were brought back into the campaign i want to say its about four weeks time and the pandemic sometimes are a little off. Maybe it was a little bit longer, i may have that wrong, but before you got there the Trump Campaign had a massive fundraising lead, advantage over the Biden Campaign. They began this campaign in the spring with 182 million cash advantage. That is now gone and now the Biden Campaign is outspending your campaign on television. What happened . Was there money that just disappeared . Did you guys waste this money in the summer . Is this why theres a new Campaign Team . No, not at all. Were conserving money right now and focusing a little more smartly and effectively on the states voting early and the important thing for folks to keep in mind is the calendar looks differently. The calendar starts differently in different states and we are smartly targeting our efforts here. We have reserved 200 million in Television Advertising from labor day to election day. The Biden Campaign said theyll reserve 20 million and theyve only placed 8 million of that, but chuck, you look at the polls over the last couple of weeks and the 51 approval and were gaining four points over the ia advantage is two to one over the biden camp and this is because you like to look at the numbers and the pathway to victories and we only need to win the upper midwest with minnesota, wisconsin, michigan and pennsylvania to reelect the president and we have many more pathways to victories than democrats do and i would rather be in our shoes than theirs right now. Your pathway there assumes you carry florida. We will. Floridas trump country. Every single night of the convention President Trump will speak. You will have President Trump speaking at various parts through each of the nights and we have some big surprises lined up and make sure youre tuning in, chuck. I will be there as all of nbc will. Jason miller, Senior Adviser with the Trump Campaign. I appreciate you coming on and sharing your perspective. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And joining me now on behalf of the Biden Campaign is former president ial candidate Pete Buttigieg of indiana. Mayor buttigieg, welcome back to meet the press. Let me start with the following sort of assumption here which it certainly appears to me that the Democratic Campaign coming out of this conventio