It is to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. At this hour, that Breaking News, the judge delaying Donald Trumps hush Money Sentencing until after the election. The reasons he laid out and the implications which could be big for the president ial race. Also breaking, the legal issue now delaying the start of Mailin Voting in North Carolina. What it all has to do with rfk junior weeks after he suspended his campaign. And a pivotal Jobs Report considered one of the most consequential in years, what it signals about the u. S. Economy and how it could affect your bottom line. Our Nbc News reporters are following the latest developments. We begin with Breaking News. Donald trumps criminal hush Money Sentencing now delayed until after the election. I want to bring in msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. What did we learn from tHe Decision, what went into it . Reporter chris, what we heard from Judge Merchan Today is that hes postponing Donald Trumps sentencing until november 26th. Obviously weeks after the election. But hes also postponing a decision that was expected on September 16th on whether or not the verdict reached by The Jury on those 34 Felony Counts can stand. Trump had moved to set aside that verdict on the grounds of the supreme courts immunity decision, arguing that evidence of his official acts as president were inappropriately admitted by Judge Merchan, and that The Jury relied on it so much so that the verdict has to be vacated. Judge merchan saying in his decision today, that the reason He Decided to postpone these things is not because hes making a political decision but rather because he wants to avoid the appearance that he is making a political decision. As i just said to one of our colleagues off camera, its as if Judge Merchan is making tHe Decision in his own head that He Does not want to be the Jim Comey of 2024. Lisa rubin, Thank You for that. I want to bring in Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard who covers the campaign, vaughn, how are they reacting to all of this . Reporter this is a moment here for the campaign where their candidate is in control, chris. For Donald Trump, he is in the air, here to charlotte, North Carolina. To address the fraternal order of police, the largest Police Unit in the country here. Of course this comes after the nearly hour remarks that He Delivered at trump tower. It was initially billed as a press conference, he took no questions, instead, after leaving that Appeals Courtroom there, he talked extensively about tHe Details of the case. He brought up the other women who made allegations against him, other than e. Jean carroll, when it comes to evidence, it could potentially have been brought into the courtroom as a part of this appeal. Donald trump talking extensively about it. I want to let you, though, look at the statement here from trump campaign spokesperson, steven chung, talking about the sentencing being delayed after after the election. There should be no sentencing in the Election Interference Witch hunt, this case, along with the other Harris Biden hoaxes should be dismissed. Of course we should wait for that sentencing. We should wait for Judge Merchan to determine whether or not Theres Credence or enough validity to the claims that trumps attorneys had made to dismiss and nullify the 34 counts this may. Trumps attorneys have argued that some of the evidence should not have been admitted before The Jury and it could have tainted their decision making process. Of course tHe District attorney, alvin Braggs Office pushed back and said overwhelming the evidence and the Witness Testimony is paramount to the case and The Jurys decision, and that if any of the evidence, even if Judge Merchan were to find some of it in admissible would be minuscule in what would have amounted to The Jury making the guilty Verdict Decision here. We will wait to hear from Donald Trump, not only here in charlotte, North Carolina, this afternoon. He will then have a Campaign Rally in wisconsin tomorrow, and i want to be clear here, chris. We have continually, over the course of the last year and a half, Donald Trump, not run away from any of the trials or the indictments against him, but instead tried to use them to turn out and mobilize his most faithful supporters. Now with a sentencing coming after election day, we could expect after the 50 minute remarks at trump tower, him to contend that they should be The Jury and if he is not returned to the White House, that democrats and unfair prosecutors in his words will do whatever they can to ensure that he goes to prison as Kamala Harris goes into the White House, chris. Vaughn hillyard, Thank You. Lets go to North Carolina now where what was supposed to be the first Ball Lot sent out in 2024 has been delayed. Nbcs Trymaine Lee is reporting from durham. What happened here . Chris, ill tell you what, a court of Appeals Judge earlier reversed an earlier Judges Decision Yesterday saying Rfk Jr. Could not take his name off the ballot and has thrown what is usually an uneventful process into uncharted territory. Its tHe Deadline for Absentee Ballots to be thrown out. Statewide, 130,000. Now, the Appeals Court Judge said that, you know, there is still a stay. They have to go back, reprint every single ballot. Mail them out, right, in due process. Again, its not just about, you know, the work it takes to reprint the ballots. Theres other costs involved as well. I spoke with Derek Bowens who runs elections in durham county. Check it out. A Familyrun Job for us. Were going to have to go to our Board County commissioners and ask for additional funding. How frustrating is this . As an election county official, i dont have an opinion, and its an anomaly with previous electionings. Election officials know how to roll with the punches and well get it done. Reporter have you ever experienced anything like this before . This is a first for me in my ten plus years. Reporter i want you to take a look behind me. Theres no action, no energy. Earlier today, this room was buzzing. Folks were preparing for the earliest Absentee Ballot in the country. Now with everything on pause, all the work to be done. All the man hours, the preparation, its all out the window, chris. Trymaine lee in this unprecedented election year, Something Else to add to that list, Thank You for that. Well, the markets are heading for the worst week of the year after a highly anticipated Jobs Report came in weaker than expected. Nbc senior Business Correspondent Christine romans joins us now. Give us the Top Line Numbers and what it means for all of us. It means the red hot Job Market in the past couple of years is cooling. This is by design. The federal reserve raised Interest Rates over and over again, and kept them there to quell inflation. We knew that could slow the Job Market. Its still healthy. You know, 4. 2 Unemployment Rate is down a little bit from last month. And 142,000 jobs created while lighter than the average for the year, its a decent performance overall. The question is where Do We Go From Here . Often times, recessions start with a spike in the Unemployment Rate, which is why everyone was watching this number so carefully. Wages inside this number are up 3. 8 . Wage growth. That means the family Purchasing Power is improving. Inflation is now below 3 here, and also were watching Gas Prices continue to decline. While we look at the overall number, i think some of the other household financial indicators are turning favorable for families. The Big Question is Job Losses in manufacturing, Job Losses in information technology. Are those the start of Something Else in those industries . There was Job Creation in other parts of the economy. Well take this as a mixed report. An Unemployment Rate thats ticked down to 4. 2 . The Headline Number was less than economists thought. When you look at july, the number was revised down. When you look at the trend there, that was a couple of things. Hurricane beryl and remember how hot it was . Actually, it was so hot in parts of the country that there were industries that stalled hiring. Thats a climate story that i think bears watching. Interesting numbers there. Christine romans, Thank You. Coming up in 90 seconds, new reporting on how Kamala Harris is spending her final days before tHe Debate, including a major push to reach 1 Million voters this weekend. Well talk to a Senior Adviser to the campaign next. Next we always had dogs, theyre like my best buddies. Yep, had them my whole life. Cmon bo so we got him and he is a, an absolute joy. Daddys puppy. Once we got on the Farmers Dog he just attacks it, its incredible. Theyre so tuned into you and they have such, such personality. Being without a dog, i dont know, cant imagine it. [laughter] Tmobiles 5g Network connects a Hundred Thousand Delta Employees so they can make every customer feel like theyve arrived before theyve left the ground. This is how business goes further with tmobile for business. The Harris Campaign is gearing up for a Big Weekend of action ahead of next weeks debate. The plans include more than 2,000 events, canvas launches, phone banks, cookouts, more, with a goal of reaching 1 Million voters. Were also learning the Vice President is participating in extended mock debate sessions, and brushing up on Briefing Books ahead of her faceoff on tuesday with Donald Trump. Thats according to three sources familiar with Debate Prep. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is reporting from pittsburgh, where Vice President harris arrived yesterday for these final Debate Practice sessions. Kelly, Big Weekend for the campaign in more ways than one. Tell us about it. Well, the Big Weekend and what you just outlined does not include the candidate herself, because Kamala Harris is here for what will ultimately be a Fiveday Period arriving yesterday, staying until she moves over to philadelphia for the big debate tuesday night, using this time, taking up shortterm residence in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. One of the most significant battlegrounds up for grabs. And her team wants to do that outreach, and to use all tHe Different levers they have of trying to energize voters, get volunteers on board, and do all the things that make up the nuts and bolts of how you get across the finish line. For the candidate, its about the work in tHe Debate sessions. Key advisers are here with her. She has the ability to do runthroughs of sections by sections of topic areas, anticipating what questions there could be, how she wants to handle certain issues, and how she wants to handle Donald Trump, and the first time the two of them will meet Face To face on tuesday night. Part of what the campaign tells us is they are concerned about how the interaction goes. They had believed that having open microphones the entire time would work to her strength as a former prosecutor and allow her quick action with responding or calling out any of the comments that the former president might make. We have watched a lot of debates and know sometimes he speaks when its not his scheduled turn, reacting to the other candidate, whether its Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton, and republicans during primary season. So they wanted the advantage of that. That is not how its going to play out, according to the rules. Some of her advisers are understandably nervous and worried about how it goes because they recognize this is a high profile moment. Part of their goal is to include some of her biographical information, that she can work that into her answers. Talk about her accomplishments and credentials, past elected offices she has held and how that pertains to what shes doing, ideas she will have and how she will run as a candidate. Thats how theyre starting. The weekend will be active without Kamala Harris herself, although she may make stops in and around pittsburgh while she is in Debate Prep or debate camp for the next several days. Chris. Otr, as we say in the business, off the record stops but gets the publicity. Joining us now, adrienne elrod, senior spokesperson, let me pick up where kelly left off. We know the campaign has expressed disappointment in the rules specifically about muted mics, no audience. They think it will benefit trump. How is the Vice President adjusting . Whats the strategy for what could arguably be, if not the most important moment of this campaign, one of the top important moments . Chris, shes taking it seriously. You have Kelly O reporting live outside of the Debate Site where shes prepping in pittsburgh, really focusing on the prep, and making sure that she is as prepared as possible to take her message directly to the american people. She knows millions of people are watching. She understands this is a real moment in tHe Debate, in this campaign, to have a discussion with the american people about the fact that shes fighting for middle class families, she wants to take the country forward, not backward, and draw that contrast with Donald Trump. She knows this is a major moment to do that. She wants to draw the contrast on embracing project 2025, which would set us backward, give him more power than a president should have. It feels very unthinkable and make sure the american people understand that. They understand whats at stake, and again, shes taking this very very seriously, which is why shes, you know, spending a lot of time with those senior aides prepping. Given the fact that there will be muted mics, given that there will be no audience for trump . I mean, im not involved in the Debate Prep myself. Im here in wilmington, focused on getting our surrogates on the Campaign Trail, and we just have been meeting with senior aides here. My focus is here. She has a whole team focusing on that. Let me ask you about that. The campaign is coming off the biggest month of grass Roots Fundraising for a president ial campaign ever. Im glad you mentioned that. 361 Million in august. Im reminded that Hillary Clinton out spent Donald Trump by two to one in 2016 and still lost, so tell me about the money strategy. How does the Campaign Use resources in a way that you think will translate into success at the Ballot Box . Im glad you mentioned fundraising. This is historic, we did raise a lot of money. Three times more than trump raised in august. Thats very important to focus on. Look, first of all, the grass Roots Momentum and excitement youre seeing among volunteers on the Campaign Trail is translate to go dollars for us. 90 of tHe Donations were under 200. Demonstrates the excitement youre seeing. High turnout, savannah georgia, 9,000 people turned out, detroit, 15,000 people. Shes drawing large crowds of excited people, democrats, republicans, and independent. People are excited and thats translating into volunteer shifts, translating into small grass Roots Dollar donations. Were seeing that across the board. We have of course this historic weekend of action coming up where over 200,000 people are volunteering. We have a number of people knocking on doors, calling undecided voters, doing all of the things that you do traditionally, chris, at this stage of the campaign, which is making sure we are reaching our swing voter universe, that we are having those conversations with undecided voters. Were making sure voters who are supporting us dont stay home and sit on the couch. Theyre getting out, they understand whats at stake in this election. Theyre going to turn out and vote. We are focused on, you know, turning a very high level, High Stakes Volunteer Operation, using the momentum that we have coming, you know, throughout the campaign, to get volunteers out there, and to really make sure people understand whats at stake. Of course they have to be organized and the last numbers i saw, update me if you have something fresh, but that you guys have 312 campaign offices, 2,000 Staff Members in Battleground States. With all of that money, are you having conversations about expanding the number of states that youre in and the number of people who are on staff . Yeah, chris, were certainly taking every state seriously. Of course our Core Battleground states, The Ones where we have the most Energy And Excitement and the most, you know, expansive operation. Chris, its important to keep in mind, we have been making these Infrastructure Investments in Battleground States for a long time. Of course, president Joe Biden was the nominee. This campaign effectively turned into a campaign for the Vice President. We have been laying the groundwork. Unlike Donald Trump who has sort of had, oh, im going to run a digital ground game. Im not doing the traditional things you do in a very High Stakes, very close election. We believe these investments that were making in the states, the Volunteer Operation is historic. The fact that we do have thousands 2000, as you mentioned, that number is growing every single day, of paid staff in the states. We believe those investments are going to make a big difference in an election thats very close. You mentioned youre involved in surrogate operati