It is good to be back with you on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, will it be one and done . What Donald Trump is saying about the chances for a second debate after a performance that got bad reviews from even some of his closest allies. Plus, get the Friendship Bracelets ready, the Harris Campaign starts churning out the merch after Taylor Swift proclaims that she, as a childless cat lady, is in her endorsement era. The big money that poured in right after she did it. And millions watched but did the Debate Change minds . Were taking the pulse of Battleground State voters. And a bipartisan moment after a bitter faceoff. How the candidates marked todays 9 11 anniversary. Our Nbc News reporters are following all of the latest developments starting with, though the dust has barely settled from the first debate, Kamala Harris is pushing for round two. Nbcs Dasha Burns is in philadelphia. So, what are the chances, dasha, that Donald Trump agrees . Its. Reporter its unclear at this point, I Cant believe were debating about debates again. Heres where we stand right now. Look, the former president s advisers, as recently as Last Night in the Spin Room were telling us, of course Hes Game for a second debate. Hes going to do a second debate. We already agreed to one. Lets do this. Then the former president comes to the Spin Room on Fox News this morning, and says, maybe not so much. Take a listen. You dont know if you want to do another debate. It sound like youre a no. Well, i would be less inclined to. We had a great night. We won the debate. We had a terrible network. Reporter yeah, and the Harris Campaign is putting out a Statement Today saying that of course sHes Game for a second debate. Lets do this thing. The chances of it happening, look, behind the scenes, advisers are saying, listen, this is up to him in the same way that we never know if a Press Conference means if hes going to take questions, we dont know if hes going to say, lets do this, if harris succeeds in baiting him into a second bait the way she succeeded on baiting him on points Last Night. Tbd, September 25th is the date proposed, october. Theyre fighting over the date. The former president says, i dont know, i dont think we need to. Well have to see, chris. Time will tell. The clock is ticking. Dasha burns, Thank You. Maybe you didnt stay up late enough but the debate ended with a mic crop, not from the candidates but the most famous singer in the world. Following taylor Swifts Endorsement of Kamala Harris. I guess the campaign is already selling Friendship Bracelets. What do they think the endorsement could mean for the race . Reporter it certainly doesnt hurt the Harris Campaign at all, chris. Obviously it brings in enthusiasm, swifts Die Hard supporters, and also we end up seeing the democratic Fundraising Platform Act blue handle more than 20 Million just right after the swift endorsement. Of course that was also in conjunction with the debate, and so we dont know if that was the Endorsement Or Debate that was energizing all of that. Certainly good news for democrats. And, chris, you know, it is arguable that maybe Joe Biden needed Taylor Swift more than harris does, with all the enthusiasm we have seen in polls, but certainly, the Harris Campaign will take it. Just to read you what swift says in her endorsement of Kamala Harris, she ended up saying, im voting for harris because she fights for the rights and causes, i believe a warrior to champion them. Then said, i believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are lead by calm and not chaos. Chris, just the latest twists and turns in this president ial race. A debate, and then a big endorsement. From the childless cat lady. Mark murray, Thank You so much. The latest poll has michigan as a one point race, harris just ahead of trump, but thats of course well within the margin of error, which is why we sent nbcs Shaquille Brewster to talk to voters there. What are they telling you, shaq . Reporter well, chris, those who were locked into the decision before the debate, i havent sensed much shifting with them, including one person who said hes backing Donald Trump, though he didnt like the conversation about dogs and race that you heard on the debate stage yesterday. For those who said they were undecided, there is some movement there. I spoke to one Person Yesterday who said he was going in undecided. He texted me today saying he will be backing the Vice President. I want you to listen to other conversations ive had with folks here in grand rapids. She mentioned about 6,000 a year, i dont know if thats on top of the Child Tax Credit that well get. I wish i knew a little bit more details. They talked a lot about russia and ukraine. Im 50 ukrainian, i have family in ukraine, so hearing trump talk a lot about, im friends with putin, hes my homey, that made me nervous. What did you think at the beginning of the bait . She seemed unsettled, seemed to trip over her words, and then hit her stride quickly. I thought she did a great job. Reporter you know, there was a broad desire from folks to hear more from the candidates, to hear more detailed Policy Proposals than what we heard on the stage yesterday, and chris, ill say, out of the conversations i have been having as ive been approaching people asking if they watched the debate, a lot of people told me they didnt get to watch the debate. Some said it was too late or they had children or needed to go to sleep for work. Just a reminder that its going to take time for this to filter through to most of the population, chris. Shaquille brewster, Thank You, on a Beautiful Day in michigan. For a few hours today, the divisiveness of the president ial race was on pause as the nation marked the 9 11 anniversary. Mike memoli is reporting from shanksville, pennsylvania. We have seen all of the key players here in politics today. Harris, trump, President Biden. Give us the latest. Reporter after you saw that bipartisan show of unity this morning at ground zero, New York, with Vice President biden and harris, alongside President Biden, were seeing separate appearances at the shanksville memorial. Former president Donald Trump is coming back from the large Sand Stone Boulder in The Field behind me, which marks the Point Of Impact of flight 9223 years ago today. The former president just arriving barely an hour after Vice President harris and President Biden were here to lay a wreath in honor of the 40 passengers and crew who perished here. It is notable that there was a solemn Moment Of Silence during the Biden Harris Appearance here. As Donald Trump emerged from behind the Memorial Wall here with the names of the victims, there was an immediate burst of applause from some of those who are here. This is open to the public. After the former president laid the wreath here at the wall of names, somebody shouted we love you, trump, and he gave a thumbs up. This is a little bit more of the split between the two parties, as the former president , you see him now alongside the wall of names. We saw President Biden and Vice President harris after they visited this memorial visit a Fire Station nearby, a Volunteer Station where they have a Steel Cross made of beams from the World Trade Center in washington. We know President Biden and Vice President harris will be finishing their day visiting the pentagon. It appears Donald Trump is making comments now. The camera is some distance away. Im hearing more applause from those who are here. You see the Fist Bump from the former president. A very different kind of appearance now, than what We Saw just an hour ago from President Biden and Vice President harris. Mike memoli, Thank You. Coming up in 90 seconds. How a baseless rumor took Center Stage at the president ial debate. Theyre eating the dogs, the people that came in, theyre eating the cats. You didnt start a business just to keep the lights on. Lucky for you, shopify built the just onetapping, ridiculously fastacting, skyhigh sales stacking champion of checkouts. Businesses that want to win, win with shopify. We really dont want people to think of Feeding Food like ours is spoiling their dogs. Good, Real Food is simple. It looks like food, it smells like food, its what dogs are supposed to be eating. So if you havent seen this billboard, take a look. It says eat less kitten, vote republican. If your first thought is this is democrats mocking Donald Trump and j. D. Vance over a baseless rumor that immigrants are eating peoples pets, think again. This billboard was bought and paid for by republicans in arizona, a critical battleground for both white House And Senate control. Its meant to be a play on chickfilas eat more chicken ad campaign. Trump is clearly on board with the kittens idea. In springfield, theyre eating the dogs, the people that came in, theyre eating the cats, theyre eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is whats happening in our country. Talk about extreme. Joining me now, victoria defrancesco soto. Matt gorman with me in studio, former Communications Adviser for tim scott, and former aide to jeb Bush And Mitt romney. Its good to see both of you. My colleague, yamiche alcindor, just spoke with the president of the haitian community in springfield, ohio, and this is part of that conversation. They are scared for their lives. Some of them are even yesterday i got a Friend Calling me yesterday asking if he has to leave because hes scared for his life. So another friend told me that it seems that he would have had some family coming to visit him, but it seems that he will not welcome family in columbus because it is not safe right now for him in springfield. So, victoria, for people who would dismiss this as ridiculous, what would you say . This has the effect of further dehumanizing immigrants, right, so we have seen this rhetoric of criminals, of the bad guys, the bad hombres, and this adds a whole other layer. Vice president harriss reaction of laughter was one many people shared, but we have to remember that there are folks who very much will believe whatever Donald Trump says. They believe this, and that feeds into the narrative of not just being bad people or people breaking our immigration laws, but people who are subhuman, and this is of dire concern, because then we really get into the human rights piece. What we heard from this gentleman about folks actually fearing for their lives because theyre labeled as something disgusting who would do things as horrible as eating peoples pets. I want to bring in Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez at the white house, and i think its important to go back to talk about how this started and give us a fact check here, gabe. Reporter well, chris, this is a little complicated, but as you have been discussing, springfield, ohio, is a town of about 60,000 people, and for the last several years, it has seen this huge influx of haitian immigrants, and by many counts they filled jobs there, boosted the local economy. There have been claims that have popped up in Commission Meetings of, as you described, the wild claims about immigrants eating pets. The City Manager, the local mayor said yesterday that the story originated in a different town entirely. There was a woman that was arrested for animal cruelty, and that has morphed on Social Media to the claims youre hearing now. Last night, my colleague, yamiche alcindor, asked senator j. D. Vance, trumps Running Mate about all of this. Take a listen to what he had to say. The City Manager said theres no verifiable evidence. A lot of residents on the ground have said there is. That just means the City Manager, i think, isnt fully in touch with whats going on on the ground there. I have heard from many constituents that have seen these things with their own eyes, have seen these abductions, geese taken out of a park. What i think is a bigger problem, insulting 20,000 people or my Citizens Cant live a good life. Reporter j. D. Vance acknowledging that there is a possibility that these rumors might turn out to be untrue, but of course, the local police department, city officials say that those claims are not true. Something i should point out, chris, there are some concerns in that local community about resources being strained by the large number of haitian immigrants that have come over the last few years. We should point out, though, that they are there legally, in temporary protected status, but it is part of a larger debate were having over immigration in this country, about some of these small towns having to deal with this large influx, but these claims, again, about immigrants eating pets, local officials say that is just not true, chris. We have seen no evidence, but, matt, first of all, these billboards are out, multiple in arizona, a crucial Battleground State, and Donald Trump posted an ai generated image of cats wearing maga hats and holding guns. Does this help republicans who are running in Battleground States . Does It Help Donald Trump . You know, i think from Last Night, it was a missed opportunity. Immigration is one of our strongest issues, one of Kamala Harriss biggest vulnerabilities and the handling of the biden administration at the border. By going down this rabbit hole, no pun intended, you left a lot of points on the board. We talked about would Donald Trump lose his cool. He didnt lose his cool, he lost his train of thought. It isnt losing train of thought. He thinks this is an argument against the way they handled immigration. He lost track of his actual argument. But i think thats why i would rather be talking about immigration policy, rather than trying to figure out pets or whatever, you know. So victoria, i want to play some of what we heard Last Night from voters who listened to all of this. When trump accused people of eating pets, it freaked me out a little bit that hes so insane that he would actually like make that claim publicly. With the dogs, I Cant believe this is happening in ohio and a person running for president would say that. I never heard that before, so i just kind of took it with a grain of salt. It really didnt distress me. So how do you think, victoria, the Harris Campaign should handle this . Do they ignore it . You know, voters know its ridiculous. Do they call it out . Do they talk as you did at the beginning of the segment about why it matters . How . It depends what segment of the electorate were focused on. I think that base of Donald Trumps that is with him no matter what, this is actually something that motivates them, could potentially mobilize them. I think where the window of opportunity is for the Harris Campaign is in that middle, those independent voters, those Swing Voters where this type of thing that might pump up the base on the republican side makes folks scratch their head and folks leaning slightly toward trump maybe question his judgment in saying these types of things. I think its not ridiculing but saying, hey, lets stop and think. This is nonsensical, and lets, instead, focus on a solution. What is the solution to match the earlier point. Lets talk about immigration and how we fix this. This wasnt the only issue where harris suggested trump was disconnected from reality. Let me play a little bit more from Last Night. You will see during the course of his rallies, he talks about fictional characters, windmills cause cancer, and what you will also notice is people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom. That last part, a little bit of a needle. The stuff that trump says that is verifiably untrue, he hasnt really paid a price. Hes still neck in neck in this race. Yeah. So is it the already baked in part of Donald Trump or could he start to pay a price . I think more than anyone else, lost Opportunity Cost. Folks dont follow politics as closely as we do. Not just cats and dogs, youre losing, ground, youre going down rabbit holes. That was the biggest missed opportunity Last Night. The Opportunity Cost of having 50 Million people watching you. You can say whatever you want. Were wait to go see what the numbers are. The early indications, at least anecdotally, it could be huge, has always been this Stream Of Consciousness speaker. It didnt matter to his supporters in the past. So how does Kamala Harris portray this as something different . There have been lots of headlines recently about how now its not Joe Biden. Its Donald Trump whose Age And Competence and coherence are in question. Well, and think about the contrast Last Night in the Policy Discussion where we would hear details, perhaps not as many details as folks would have liked from Kamala Harris, and what she wants to do with regards to the opportunity economy, where as with