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Going into the november election. It's a thrill to have you on here. Congratulations on this book. The book is titled america's deadliest election the cautionary tale of the most violent election in american history and its out today. Thank you dana bash. That's our show for tonight. Now it's time for last word with ray lawrence o'donnell. Good evening. Why did they make some are shorter this year , alex? they did. Would you call about the timing of labormac like doesn't have to be the first or 6 september? i had six or form week of summer plant but here we are. It's daylight savings. The calendar should be open to constructive, you know, a constructive process to find the dates that work for us all. Someone around here , i have to turn off my phone. Pardon me. Someone around here has to keep reminding me what day it is. That might help. It's september 15, labor day was late this year, does that make you feel better? it feels much better. Thank you. With only 64 days of the campaign, candidates are usually campaigning hard but not donald trump. The laziest presidential campaigner in modern history. Yesterday there were only 64 campaign days left but donald trump did nothing. His running mate, james david vance, he did nothing. Of course, campaigning on labor day isn't easy for republican candidates like donald trump and jd vance who are so antilabor because they cannot say things like this on labor day. Everywhere i go i tell people look, you not you may not be a union member but you better think a union member. A five day work week. Thank a union member for sick leave and thank a union member for paid leave. You better think a union member for vacation time thank a union member for vacation time. Because what we know is when union wages go up everyone's wages go up. When union workplaces are safer, every workplace is safer. When unions are strong, america is a strong. That was vice president kamala harris campaigning on labor day in detroit before going to pennsylvania to deliver her prolabor message to a pittsburgh labor day audience where she was joined by president joe biden. The president and vice presidents labor day began as a work day in the white house, a very serious work day in the situation room. President biden releasing a video yesterday saying, vice president harris and i met in the situation room with the u. S. Hostage deal negotiation team following the murder of the hostages by hamas. We are devastated and outraged, make no mistake, hamas leaders will pay for their crimes. We also discussed the next steps in an effort to secure the release of the hostages to bring them home. Before the meeting, president biden said this to reporters. Reporter: are you planning to present a final hostage deal to both sides? we are very close to that. Reporter: what makes you think the deal will be successful in a way that the others weren't? reporter: hope brings a turn. Reporter: do you think it's time for the prime minister to do more? do you think he's doing enough? no. Reporter: what your reaction to the demonstrations across israel and reactions ? i'll get details when i walk into the front door. Yesterday there were mass demonstrations including a general strike led by the israeli pro ministers protesters who blamed the prime minister for failing to negotiate the release of the hostages. The justice department charged six leaders of hamas with conspiracy to murder the u. S. National and other criminal charges in a 38 page criminal complaint unsealed today in the southern district of new york. Today the attorney general garland said that the charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of hamas operations. These actions will not be our last. Donald trump issued a written statement on social media this weekend blaming hamas's execution of the hostages on president biden and vice president harris. Donald trump never mentioned the israeli prime minister in his statements and did not say whether he agrees with president biden that he has not done enough to secure the release of the hostages or whether he agrees with the israeli people who say the prime minister has not done enough to secure the release of the hostages. Donald trump did say that he looks forward to discussing this issue at the debate next week but you can be absolutely certain that donald trump will not say one coherent sentence about what his policy would be involving israel and hamas. While donald trump did nothing on labor day, kamala harris wrought her boss with her brought her boss with her to campaign in pennsylvania. So proud of the greatest job creation record of a president during their term in american history. It was all about jobs and economic development and joe biden's labor day speech which supported kamala harris for president. I'll tell you something, we are proud that we protected the pensions of over 1 million workers. Union workers are rebuilding the american infrastructure and building factories here in america. They told me we couldn't get anything done in infrastructure, $200 billion we've got going. Remember, trump, in four years he promised every month infrastructure week over four years he promised. He didn't build a dam thing, nothing. I mean it, not nothing. Will thanks to our infrastructure law, pennsylvania is so far receiving $17 billion, $17 billion. Over 2000 projects of clean water and affordable housing, for every pennsylvanian. The projects include $858 million to expand the montgomery block to accommodate better barges and get her get better goods and create thousands of union jobs. Joe biden was very much at home campaigning in that union hall in pittsburgh. When you're in pittsburgh, you are standing with steelworkers, let's be clear, i believe in american steel companies, american owned and operated steel companies. Joe biden told the pittsburgh audience about what he called the single best decision he made as president. Let me tell you about her. I know her, i trust her, not a joke, i trust her. Number two, the first decision i made to name her as the nominee in 2020, selecting her as my vice president. The single best decision i've made is the president of the united states of america. I've watched her with all the experts in foreign and domestic policy. She has a backbone like a ramrod. A moral compass of a saint. This woman knows what she is doing, folks. I promise you, if you elect kamala harris as president it is the best decision you will have ever made. Kamala believes as i do, unions are the spine of this economy. She would be a historic pro union president. We have one more job due together. Let me ask you are you ready to fight? are you ready to win? are you ready to elect kamala harris for the next president of the united states? in the process, are you ready to make donald trump a loser again? i've never been more optimistic than where we are in the united states of america, there is nothing, i mean this from the bottom of the bottom of my heart, there's nothing beyond our capacity when we do this together. That means, elect my friend, a great vice president of the future president of the united states, kamala harris. Vice president harris vice president harris began with remarks by thanking the man who introduced her. I've spent more time with this extraordinary human being when the cameras were not in the room and when the stakes were high and when the heat was intense, joe biden has always stood with the workers of america and the labor unions of america. Always. Always. I say to all of the friends here, the press that is in the room, history will show what we hear no, joe biden has been one of the most transformative residence in the united states that we have ever witnessed. This comes from his heart. Vice president harris outlined the stakes in the election this way. You know, in this election there are two very different visions for our nation. One, ours is focused on the future. The other, focusing on the past. We fight for the future. We fight for a future of dignity, respect, and opportunity for all people. We are 64 days out from the selection ballots in pennsylvania will begin dropping in 14 days. As we fight to move forward donald trump is trying to pull us backward including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize. We will handle november. How about that? we will handle november. Let the courts handle that other thing. We are not going back. One of the ways we will guarantee that we don't go back, we remember, it's important to remember what that was and what it is. Remember, as president, donald trump locked overtime benefits for millions of workers. He opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage. As the president said, he appointed union busters to the national labor relations board. Don't forget, he supported so called right to work laws. If donald trump were to be reelected, he intends to give tax cuts to billionaires and big corporations. He intends to cut social security and medicare. He would like to impose what in effect would be a national sales tag, i call it comes to national sales tag on everyday products and necessities which would cost a typical american family, almost $4000 a year. He intends to repeal the affordable care act and he intends to take us back to what we remember because it wasn't so long ago, a time when insurance companies could deny coverage. Children with asthma, breast cancer survivors, grandparents with diabetes. Well, look, america tried those failed policies before. And we aren't going back. We are not going back. Quinton folks, the principal deputy campaign manager for the harriswalz campaign. I told the audience of the program for most of the last year they could ignore poles and wait until august and wait until we get into after labor day to begin to look at the polls because that's when they begin to reflect voting reality. I'm looking at the swing state polls, your candidate, vice president harris is ahead of donald trump and pretty much all of the swing states were tied according to one of these polls in arizona. What do you expect to see in terms of any more movement in the polls? is this the way it's going to go from here to the finish line with the polls? first of all thank you for having me, lawrence. What i would say is, we are going to run through the tape. This will be a close election and we remain the underdogs in the race regardless of how it's out there, the best course of action is to continue all that we've been doing. Campaigning and being out and speaking to voters about issues that matter the most. Fundamentally the election is about who is looking out for you. The vice president has a vision for the future of this country. We will continue to campaign and make sure we are putting in the work to speak to all the voters across the country with both democrats and republicans because we have a story to tell, a vision under the vice presidents leadership so we are focused on the polls or what they are saying. We will campaign for the next 63 days to make sure we win this in november. No one in american politics knows more about winning swing states than you do. You helped one senator win how many elections in georgia? it was a handful. Obviously you could move those skills to other states but as you look at the swing states map, does it look the way let's say, the georgia electorate looks to you as you were approaching those elections in georgia for the senator? it does. Every single one of these states, we treat them as individuals but we know the goal is to get to 270 electoral votes but the campaign made sure we have invested in every single one of these states to build campaign apparatuses to communicate to voters in every single of these states. It will be won and lost on the ground in the states. When we are traveling across the country we're going outside of the major metro areas, urban areas were people expect democrats to be. Communicating with voters in smaller markets. We are doing that in places across arizona, nevada, michigan, pennsylvania, we have to communicate with voters. It raises margins so thin. You've got to communicate on these issues. I'm proud of the type of attention that our campaign pays to the states on an individual level. The things they are seeing in their life will ultimately matter to them as they go to the pole to make the decision about who will be elected for the next president of the united states. Donald trump gave away liberty yesterday. They stayed home to do nothing. That seems to open up the day for the campaign on a strong economic emphasis and in particular infrastructure emphasis with the biden harris administration and what they've achieved there and what that means for jobs. Is that the way that argument is going to be made for the rest of the campaign? we can't control what donald trump or jd vance decide to do but the reason they are campaigning is because they don't have anything to say to american workers because honor donald trump he left the job with fewer jobs than when he came to office. And under that leadership she and president biden created 16 million jobs. The vote that saved hundreds of thousands of pensions and doubled the investment into thousands of infrastructure projects creating jobs across the country and now she's running for president of the united states and rolled out economic policies which would do things like lower costs and stop corporations, particularly food suppliers from gouging prices because they can. She's also making sure she's capping the cost of prescription drugs and on top of that, building more affordable housing units. Making sure rent and mortgages are cheaper for americans and that's what her focus is and made it clear. That they will be the priority for the administration. You are one of the people who managed the transition from the biden for president campaign to the harris for president campaign and i have to save management so successfully, what was it like for you personally to see joe biden up there on the campaign stage in pittsburgh? you were here last time for the biden for president campaign. My first thought is man he is as good as i remember, it was great to see him there. The reason the transition went so smoothly with the campaign because of his november election.<\/a> It's a thrill to have you on here. Congratulations on this book. The book is titled america's deadliest election the cautionary tale of the most violent election in american history <\/a>and its out today. Thank you dana bash.<\/a> That's our show for tonight. Now it's time for last word with ray lawrence o'donnell. Good evening. Why did they make some are shorter this year , alex? they did. Would you call about the timing of labormac like doesn't have to be the first or 6 september? i had six or form week <\/a>of summer plant <\/a>but here we are. It's daylight savings.<\/a> The calendar should be open to constructive, you know, a constructive process to find the dates that work for us all. Someone around here , i have to turn off my phone. Pardon me. Someone around here has to keep reminding me what day it is. That might help. It's september 15,<\/a> labor day was late this year, does that make you feel better? it feels much better. Thank you. With only 64 days of the campaign, candidates are usually campaigning hard but not donald trump. The laziest presidential campaigner in modern history. Yesterday there were only 64 campaign days left but donald trump did nothing. His running mate,<\/a> james david vance,<\/a> he did nothing. Of course, campaigning on labor day isn't easy for republican candidates like donald trump and jd vance <\/a>who are so antilabor because they cannot say things like this on labor day. Everywhere i go i tell people look, you not you may not be a union member <\/a>but you better think a union member. A five day work week.<\/a> Thank a union member <\/a>for sick leave <\/a>and thank a union member <\/a>for paid leave. You better think a union member <\/a>for vacation time thank a union member <\/a>for vacation time. Because what we know is when union wages <\/a>go up everyone's wages go up. When union workplaces <\/a>are safer, every workplace is safer. When unions are strong, america is a strong. That was vice president kamala harris campaigning <\/a>on labor day in detroit before going to pennsylvania to deliver her prolabor message to a pittsburgh labor day audience <\/a>where she was joined by president joe biden. The president and vice <\/a>presidents labor day began as a work day <\/a>in the white house,<\/a> a very serious work day <\/a>in the situation room. President biden releasing a video yesterday <\/a>saying, vice president harris and i met in the situation room <\/a>with the u. S. Hostage deal negotiation <\/a>team following the murder of the hostages by hamas. We are devastated and outraged, make no mistake, hamas leaders will pay for their crimes. We also discussed the next steps in an effort to secure the release of the hostages to bring them home. Before the meeting, president biden said this to reporters. Reporter: are you planning to present a final hostage deal to both sides? we are very close to that. Reporter: what makes you think the deal will be successful in a way that the others weren't? reporter: hope brings a turn.<\/a> Reporter: do you think it's time for the prime minister <\/a>to do more? do you think he's doing enough? no. Reporter: what your reaction to the demonstrations across israel and reactions ? i'll get details when i walk into the front door. Yesterday there were mass demonstrations including a general strike led by the israeli pro ministers protesters who blamed the prime minister <\/a>for failing to negotiate the release of the hostages. The justice department <\/a>charged six leaders of hamas with conspiracy to murder the u. S. National and other criminal charges in a 38 page criminal complaint <\/a>unsealed today in the southern district of new york.<\/a> Today the attorney general garland said that the charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of hamas operations. These actions will not be our last. Donald trump issued a written statement <\/a>on social media <\/a>this weekend blaming hamas's execution of the hostages on president biden and vice <\/a>president harris. Donald trump never mentioned the israeli prime minister <\/a>in his statements and did not say whether he agrees with president biden that he has not done enough to secure the release of the hostages or whether he agrees with the israeli people who say the prime minister <\/a>has not done enough to secure the release of the hostages. Donald trump did say that he looks forward to discussing this issue at the debate next week but you can be absolutely certain that donald trump will not say one coherent sentence about what his policy would be involving israel and hamas. While donald trump did nothing on labor day, kamala harris wrought her boss with her brought her boss with her to campaign in pennsylvania. So proud of the greatest job creation record <\/a>of a president during their term in american history. It was all about jobs and economic development and joe biden's labor day speech <\/a>which supported kamala harris for president. I'll tell you something, we are proud that we protected the pensions of over 1 million <\/a>workers. Union workers <\/a>are rebuilding the american infrastructure and building <\/a>factories here in america. They told me we couldn't get anything done in infrastructure, $200 billion we've got going. Remember, trump, in four years he promised every month infrastructure week <\/a>over four years he promised. He didn't build a dam thing,<\/a> nothing. I mean it, not nothing. Will thanks to our infrastructure law,<\/a> pennsylvania is so far receiving $17 billion, $17 billion. Over 2000 projects of clean water and affordable housing, for every pennsylvanian. The projects include $858 million to expand the montgomery block <\/a>to accommodate better barges and get her get better goods and create thousands of union jobs.<\/a> Joe biden was very much at home campaigning <\/a>in that union hall <\/a>in pittsburgh. When you're in pittsburgh, you are standing with steelworkers, let's be clear, i believe in american steel <\/a>companies, american owned and operated steel companies. Joe biden told the pittsburgh audience <\/a>about what he called the single best decision he made as president. Let me tell you about her. I know her, i trust her, not a joke, i trust her. Number two, the first decision i made to name her as the nominee in 2020, selecting her as my vice president. The single best decision i've made is the president of the united states of america. I've watched her with all the experts in foreign and domestic policy. She has a backbone like a ramrod. A moral compass <\/a>of a saint. This woman knows what she is doing, folks. I promise you, if you elect kamala harris as president it is the best decision you will have ever made. Kamala believes as i do, unions are the spine of this economy. She would be a historic pro union president.<\/a> We have one more job due together. Let me ask you are you ready to fight? are you ready to win? are you ready to elect kamala harris for the next president of the united states? in the process, are you ready to make donald trump a loser again? i've never been more optimistic than where we are in the united states of america, there is nothing, i mean this from the bottom of the bottom of my heart, there's nothing beyond our capacity when we do this together. That means, elect my friend, a great vice president of the future president of the united states, kamala harris. Vice president harris vice <\/a>president harris began with remarks by thanking the man who introduced her. I've spent more time with this extraordinary human being <\/a>when the cameras were not in the room and when the stakes were high and when the heat was intense, joe biden has always stood with the workers of america and the labor unions <\/a>of america. Always. Always. I say to all of the friends here, the press <\/a>that is in the room, history will show what we hear no, joe biden has been one of the most transformative residence in the united states that we have ever witnessed. This comes from his heart. Vice president harris outlined the stakes in the election this way. You know, in this election there are two very different visions for our nation. One, ours is focused on the future. The other, focusing on the past. We fight for the future.<\/a> We fight for a future of dignity, respect, and opportunity for all people. We are 64 days out from the selection ballots <\/a>in pennsylvania will begin dropping in 14 days. As we fight to move forward donald trump is trying to pull us backward including back to a time before workers had the freedom to organize. We will handle november. How about that? we will handle november. Let the courts handle that other thing. We are not going back. One of the ways we will guarantee that we don't go back, we remember, it's important to remember what that was and what it is. Remember, as president, donald trump locked overtime benefits for millions of workers. He opposed efforts to raise the minimum wage. As the president said, he appointed union busters <\/a>to the national labor relations board.<\/a><\/a> Don't forget, he supported so called right to work laws. If donald trump were to be reelected, he intends to give tax cuts <\/a>to billionaires and big corporations. He intends to cut social security and medicare.<\/a> He would like to impose what in effect would be a national sales tag, i call it comes to national sales tag <\/a>on everyday products and necessities which would cost a typical american family, almost $4000 a year. He intends to repeal the affordable care act <\/a>and he intends to take us back to what we remember because it wasn't so long ago, a time when insurance companies could deny coverage. Children with asthma, breast cancer survivors,<\/a> grandparents with diabetes. Well, look, america tried those failed policies before. And we aren't going back. We are not going back. Quinton folks,<\/a> the principal deputy campaign manager <\/a>for the harriswalz campaign.<\/a> I told the audience of the program for most of the last year they could ignore poles and wait until august and wait until we get into after labor day to begin to look at the polls because that's when they begin to reflect voting reality.<\/a> I'm looking at the swing state polls,<\/a> your candidate, vice president harris is ahead of donald trump and pretty much all of the swing states <\/a>were tied according to one of these polls in arizona. What do you expect to see in terms of any more movement in the polls? is this the way it's going to go from here to the finish line <\/a>with the polls? first of all thank you for having me, lawrence. What i would say is, we are going to run through the tape. This will be a close election and we remain the underdogs in the race regardless of how it's out there, the best course of action is to continue all that we've been doing. Campaigning and being out and speaking to voters about issues that matter the most. Fundamentally the election is about who is looking out for you. The vice president has a vision for the future of this country. We will continue to campaign and make sure we are putting in the work to speak to all the voters across the country with both democrats and republicans because we have a story to tell, a vision under the vice presidents leadership <\/a>so we are focused on the polls or what they are saying. We will campaign for the next 63 days to make sure we win this in november. No one <\/a>in american politics <\/a>knows more about winning swing states <\/a>than you do. You helped one senator win <\/a>how many elections in georgia? it was a handful. Obviously you could move those skills to other states but as you look at the swing states <\/a>map, does it look the way let's say, the georgia electorate <\/a>looks to you as you were approaching those elections in georgia for the senator? it does. Every single one of these states, we treat them as individuals but we know the goal is to get to 270 electoral votes but the campaign made sure we have invested in every single one of these states to build campaign apparatuses <\/a>to communicate to voters in every single of these states. It will be won and lost on the ground in the states. When we are traveling across the country we're going outside of the major metro areas, urban areas were people expect democrats to be. Communicating with voters in smaller markets. We are doing that in places across arizona, nevada, michigan, pennsylvania, we have to communicate with voters. It raises margins so thin. You've got to communicate on these issues. I'm proud of the type of attention that our campaign pays to the states on an individual level. The things they are seeing in their life will ultimately matter to them as they go to the pole to make the decision about who will be elected for the next president of the united states. Donald trump gave away liberty yesterday.<\/a> They stayed home to do nothing. That seems to open up the day for the campaign on a strong economic emphasis and in particular infrastructure emphasis <\/a>with the biden harris administration <\/a>and what they've achieved there and what that means for jobs. Is that the way that argument is going to be made for the rest of the campaign? we can't control what donald trump or jd vance <\/a>decide to do but the reason they are campaigning is because they don't have anything to say to american workers because honor donald trump <\/a>he left the job with fewer jobs than when he came to office. And under that leadership she and president biden created 16 million <\/a>jobs. The vote that saved hundreds of thousands of pensions and doubled the investment into thousands of infrastructure projects <\/a>creating jobs across the country and now she's running for president of the united states and rolled out economic policies which would do things like lower costs and stop corporations, particularly food suppliers <\/a>from gouging prices <\/a>because they can. She's also making sure she's capping the cost of prescription drugs <\/a>and on top of that, building more affordable housing units.<\/a> Making sure rent and mortgages are cheaper for americans and that's what her focus is and made it clear. That they will be the priority for the administration. You are one of the people who managed the transition from the biden for president campaign <\/a>to the harris for president campaign <\/a>and i have to save management so successfully, what was it like for you personally to see joe biden up there on the campaign stage <\/a>in pittsburgh? you were here last time for the biden for president campaign. My first thought is man he is as good as i remember, it was great to see him there. The reason the transition went so smoothly with the campaign because of his leadership and service <\/a>to the country making the ultimate sacrifice, putting his money where his mouth is and doing ultimately what is the selfless thing, on the flipside of that, vice president harris's leadership coming in to take over the top of the ticket and how she kept the team together because at the end <\/a>of the day we are united behind a common goal to make sure donald trump doesn't get into power. Yesterday was a special day for me to see president biden on the trail <\/a>and look he gave me the opportunity to play politics on this level and for that i will forever be grateful. My task now and what i need to do now is to make sure i do everything i can over the next 63 days to elect kamala harris is the president of the united states. Thank you very much for starting off the discussion tonight.<\/a> Thank you lawrence, i appreciate it. The latest defendant trump <\/a>news and there's a bunch of it, that is next. have you always had trouble losing weight and keeping it off? same. Discover the power of wegovy. with wegovy, i lost 35 pounds. And some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. Wegovy helps you lose weight and keep it off. I'm reducing my risk. Wegovy is the only fdaapproved weightmanagement medicine <\/a>that's proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events in adults with known heart disease and with either obesity or overweight. 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Lawyers asking a federal judge this morning to throw out his criminal convictions on 34 counts of business fraud <\/a>and his payoffs to star stormy daniels.<\/a> The lawyer's argument was based on the supreme court's recent immunity decision. The federal judge issuing an opinion five hours after receiving a trump appeal.<\/a> The judge wrote, nothing in the supreme court's opinion affects my previous conclusion that the hush money <\/a>payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority.<\/a> The judge ruled against donald trump last year. At that time the judge rejected his attempt to move the case to federal court <\/a>saying hush money <\/a>paid to an adult film star <\/a>is not related to a presidents official acts. In their motion today <\/a>the team once again asked for the case to be moved to federal court <\/a>if the judge did not overturn the whole thing in the judge once again denied this request which means the case now awaits a trial judge <\/a>based on how the immunity ruling <\/a>might affect the status of donald trump's convictions and case. The judge promised to release his decision on that decision prior to the currently scheduled sentencing date <\/a>for donald trump in that case which is september 18.<\/a> Near midnight <\/a>on friday night,<\/a> donald trump's criminal defense lawyers <\/a>filed their suggestions. Donald trump is accused of a conspiracy against the united states of america to overturn the results of the last presidential election. The judge scheduled a hearing in that case for thursday of this week to consider how the supreme court decision <\/a>on the presidential immunity affects that case which he says fits within the evidential limits imposed on the case by the supreme court's immunity decision. Joining now is a former fbi general counsel <\/a>he's a co author <\/a>of the new york times bestselling book the trump indictments. Let's begin with the judge today,<\/a> the federal judge in new york come of the first one to actually issue a ruling based on the supreme court's immunity decision and said it has absolutely nothing to do with stormy daniels. The judge used to say i have two words for you, denied. This was a repeat motion <\/a>as he pointed out which was the motion already that donald trump made saying that this case, the new york criminal case should be tried in federal court, moving it from state court,<\/a> federal court <\/a>was denied by the judge. This was another hail mary.<\/a> I think what you are seeing here, judges who really take the oath of office seriously for equal justice and are having none of these shenanigans of donald trump. It doesn't matter if you are rich, white, or powerful, you will get equal justice. No more and no less. This was a frivolous argument that was denied in a cursory fashion and sent back to the judge as you said in front of the judge there's that issue that's pending. Whether the certain types of evidence the supreme court said you cannot use word under rhymes the trial so he would get a new trial and seeing that's denied there's another issue which is that he has a motion pending before the judge to put off the september 18 sentencing date <\/a>so these are the two things before the judge we are waiting on. And washington, in the courtroom on thursday, what will we see? we are going to see anything but we will have it reported. Exactly, we are in front of an experienced judge. It's not someone who's experienced like judge cannon.<\/a> No sense of bias one way or another. Saying we are ready to go and we could filed a brief now. They literally said we have the brief and we are ready so we are ready to move along so tell us to proceed and we will go forward. Let me just keep on filing additional briefs. He doesn't want to see any filings by chuck smith <\/a>before the election. The schedule he proposed, it's basically you could file after the election and even after the inauguration so he really wants to see things put off. I don't think that's where he's going to go. She's been waiting eight months for the case to be sent back to her. It's a routine scheduling matter.<\/a> The supreme court said she needs to deal with this so i see her setting the schedule. What jack smith <\/a>proposed which is that he's got i could see her filing it. Giving trump time to file his response and it's necessary to have the hearing after she sees the papers. 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Bobby is also a champion of pennsylvania's energy communities. 45 pennsylvania counties were energy jobs such as coal for coal mining <\/a>had been before and disappeared. The credit provides incentives for the companies to build new battery factories <\/a>and more. Creating highpaying jobs in those natural gas <\/a>communities and on top of that, over $4 billion with private companies committing to investing in the energy. $4 billion. Senator casey spoke at the same campaign event <\/a>before the president and vice <\/a>president spoke. We've got a lot of's take a lot at stake in this race. The choice has never been clear between my opponent and me and between kamala harris and donald trump. All that is left is what you all are doing every day. You're knocking at doors, making phone calls <\/a>and contributions. You are going to events and engaging your neighbors to get the vote out. That's all we have to do over the next 60+ days to continue to fight for these values and continue to make sure people know we are on their side against these powerful forces and to work at getting the word out. Join me. Senator casey's reelection campaign has released a new ad about his trump endorsed republican opponent. Can we believe dave mccormick <\/a>about fentanyl? don't let them fool you. Here's the truth, mccormick invested millions <\/a>of dollars in the company that makes 90% of china's fentanyl. 90%. He saw a way to get rich off of chinese fentanyl. A drug that is killing our kids and now he's lying about it. I'm bob casey and i approve this message. Joining is now is bob casey, the member of the senate finance committee.<\/a> Thank you very much for joining us tonight. That was quite a day in pittsburgh yesterday <\/a>and i noticed your job seemed to be one of the roles you play, a campaign coach <\/a>explaining to people what needs to be done in this campaign. It was a great day because we had an opportunity here from the president who spent many labor days and pittsburgh. He understands the struggles people have in their daily lives and has a sense of how valuable it is to have a unionized workforce which strengthens our economy as he has said so many times, unions have built the middle class and i think that's true today. He also made clear and kamala harris made this point as well in addition to their remarks is that their labor rights <\/a>are on constant attack. Corporations, leaders and politicians have made attacks on unions the centerpiece for the political agenda. They've tried the kneecap unions <\/a>for a whole generation so the protect organize act. Not only to protect union rights <\/a>but to protect and expand on them. If you want to protect workers and win the race, please help us. Bob casey. Com. We need your help. The reason we don't have the famous bob casey pennsylvania <\/a>map, you're in a hotel room <\/a>in erie pennsylvania.<\/a> I want to go to the credit we heard, joe biden talking about, giving you the credit for getting that credit in legislation tell us how this works. As you know we passed the inflationary reduction act,<\/a> the single most important to invest in clean energy by doing this to push back against climate change <\/a>and one of the ways we do that is to have layers of tax credits <\/a>so all kinds of credits to make an investment in clean energy. I wanted to add an additional layer, a 10% credits. If you have a clean energy investment,<\/a> these are investments that have to be in communities that need these investments, unionized workforces.<\/a> To also add to that and investments so that the investments would be directed to those communities that are sometimes left behind. The ones that used to be coal mining <\/a>or an energy economy.<\/a> Sometimes the job would fortify those communities so this would be an additional credit. A lot of these energy companies <\/a>are not just getting 10% to 20% but 30 to 50% credits. Vice president harris is catching up with you in the polls, one point behind you, 51% in pennsylvania. I've seen you are at 52%, your opponent is down to 44, donald trump is at 47 so the vice president has a four point lead <\/a>and you will make an eight point lead. Is that the way polling <\/a>will look in pennsylvania from here until the end? is it possible for a wider margin to open up their there. I hate report this to you but i'm going to be outspent because my opponent has his own super pack <\/a>in addition to his own personal wealth so we will be outspent badly in september so we will be in a one or two point race <\/a>by the end <\/a>of september. So i would ask people to help us. Bob casey. Com. We need a lot of help. Senator bob casey <\/a>of pennsylvania thank you very much for joining us once again. Next you will hear from one of the women, one of the many women who has suffered under the trump abortion ban <\/a>that now controls the lives of more than one in three women of reproductive age in the united states. That is next. No hose? just sleep. Yeah but you need the hose, you need the air, you need the whoooooosh. . . Inspire. Sleep apnea innovation.<\/a> Learn more, and view important safety information <\/a>at inspiresleep. Com () i'm getting vaccinated with pfizer's pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine.<\/a> So am i. Because i'm at risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. Come on.<\/a> I already got a pneumonia vaccine, but i'm asking about the added protection of prevnar 20. If you're 19 or older with certain chronic conditions like asthma, diabetes, copd, or heart disease, or are 65 or older, you are at increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia. 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Book banning <\/a>and other forms of censorship that threaten our right to learn. And here's something truly shocking, right now in our country hundreds of thousands of people are incarcerated simply because they couldn't afford bail. That's not free and it's not fair. But there is hope for change. It lives in people like you and in a great organization called the american civil liberties union.<\/a> So please join me and other concerned americans in defending our civil liberties by joining the aclu as a guardian of liberty today.<\/a> All it takes is just $19 a month, only $0. 63 a day. When you're surrounded by oppressive laws you can't just sit back and be oppressed. You get up and fight and all of us <\/a>at the aclu are fighting for you. 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Narrator: when we, the people, rally for a common cause,<\/a> we become beacons of hope. Stand with saint jude <\/a>against childhood cancer <\/a>this september because our cause unites all. [laughing] donate now. I was in the i was in the bathroom of a hair salon <\/a>when i miscarried. The last thing i remember when i reached i hospital, i had lost nearly half the blood in my body. Doctors told my husband i could die in the operating room.<\/a> That nearly took my life a beautiful thing to watch. She was speaking today in florida at a harris and walz <\/a>reproductive freedom event. It will include women revealing what they have suffered in a country where more than one in three women of reproductive age are living under an abortion ban made possible by donald trump's supreme court appointees.<\/a> Our next guest will be joining that bus tour <\/a>after she told her story at the democratic national convention.<\/a> My husband and i were expecting our second child. Our daughter could not wait to be a big sister.<\/a> I was getting ready for her fourth birthday party <\/a>when something didn't you write. Two emergency rooms <\/a>sent me away because of the louisiana abortion ban,<\/a> nobody would confirm i was miscarrying. I was in pain, bleeding so much my husband. For my life. No woman should experience what i endured, but too many have. They write to me saying what happened to you happened to me. Sometimes they are scared to tell anyone, even their doctors. Our daughters deserve better. America deserves better. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thank you for having me. What made you decide to discuss this agony publicly? but again, thank you for having me tonight. What prompted me to start sharing my story was the vast majority of folks coming out of the deep south <\/a>speaking about the abortion ban and how they were impacted by them and i knew i had to lend my voice to the conversation and the overturn of roe v. Wade that donald trump brags about and leaving it up to the states. I know that approach has harm to so many women, especially women of color, so i would be remiss if i did not share my story and amplify the pain and agony <\/a>coming out of what has happened since the overturn of roe v. Wade. When i saw you delivering that story at the convention, i asked right away if we could get you on this program because obviously we've never seen anything like this because before the supreme court decision, these stories were not possible in this country. Do you feel that what you have suffered and what others have suffered is actually getting out there? i do. I had the honor of traveling this country in the last seven months with a few of my colleagues and counterparts that were sharing their story on the stage at the dnc and the vast majority of people we've met, anyone from either side of the political parties or what their affiliation is, what i'm noticing is that people are understanding and connecting the dots and they know who is responsible for the overturn of roe v. Wade and they know that it is donald trump for this healthcare crisis <\/a>we are facing in 22 states that have an abortion ban and we are hearing people saying they are going to vote for someone that aligns with their views and does not put their family members <\/a>and themselves at risk as a result of living under such a cecconi in law. So i am definitely hearing that folks are voting on this issue and they are concerned about abortion and it is a top priority. I know you were able after that miscarriage to have another child. I am wondering how worried were you to be pregnant again in louisiana? extremely worried. My husband asked me multiple times are you sure we want to do this and i understand my privilege in being able to have a second baby. Plenty of women have written me letters are sent me messages and said that their fertility has been compromised and they're looking for other ways to expand their families. I'm truly blessed and i'm not ignorant when it comes to the fact that a lot of women are faced with having to make very great decisions like i did. We elected to travel to new orleans <\/a>to deliver my son in a place where we felt believed in abortion care <\/a>and would provide the healthcare i would need right after the postpartum period.<\/a> I did my research and found a provider that believed in abortion care <\/a>and could provide that for me and my family but women should not have to go through that. We should be able to go in our backyard to hospitals that can provide real healthcare for us and operate with the expertise that they received in medical school <\/a>and being allowed to practice abortion care <\/a>should they need it at any point during the pregnancy. I certainly do not expect folks to have to travel or look at the expense in all 50 states should afford this operate this opportunity by allowing for us to have abortion care. I'm so sorry for what you had to endure in louisiana, and thank you for joining us. A great happy birthday to your oneyearold. Thank you for having me. We will be right back. Time out! only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. Now i have skyrizi. i've got places to go and i'm feeling free control of my crohn's means everything to me control is everything to me and now i'm back in the picture. 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