Donald Trump And J. D. Vance are pushing debunked lies about haitian immigrants today. Ill discuss how its having an impact with Keisha Lance bottom, and congressman Jared Connelly of virginia. Protesters gather in florida as Theat Fight over an abortion Rights Amendment gets uglier. Ill ask the Executive Director of the florida womens Freedom Coalition about Intimidation Efforts that could backfire in november. And its really very simple. Lets check the board. I am glad you have decided to sit down somewhere, eat your jello, watch The Price Is Right andpr go to bed. Cat lady for kamala joins me live onset to talk about a lot of things including Donald Trumps not to debate again. Imat jonathan capehart. This is the Saturday Show. There are only 52 days left until election day. In this president ial race we can expect the unexpected and the unimaginable. Tonight the contrast between the democratic and republican candidates for President Couldnt be starker. Today on earth one, Vice President harris spoke at a Campaignen Reception here in washington. Her Running Mate Governor tim Walz Waste in the Swing State o wisconsin, making his pitch to voters. You know, the normal things you would expect from a serious president Ial Campaign. Yet, over on earth two, Donald Trump and his running mate, senator j. D. Invance, who were also campaigning today, are still falsely claiming that haitian immigrants are eating pets in springfield, ohio, and dont care about the Pain And Chaos its causing. I mean, everyone about this is insane, but its an ugly and very serious turn in a campaign that promises to get uglier still. Watching all of this happen, i Cant Help but think of another racially fraught moment in president ial politics. In 2008 smack in the middle of then Senator Barack obamas quest for the democratic president ial nomination, a recording surfaced of the reverend Jeremiah Wright where he said, quote, no, no, no, not god bless america, god damn america. A Fire Storm ensued because obama and his wife were married by him, had their daughters baptized by him. Obama stopped going to his church and was compelled to Deliverll One Of The Best Speecs In American Politics and the best speech ever on race. Obama did all of this to save his Highflying Campaign from crashing to the ground, a campaign that led him to become the first black person elected President Of The United States. My how things have changed. Today a former president whos the current republican nominee for president is saying this about haitian immigrants who settled in springfield, ohio, legally under temporary protectedmp status. In springfield theyre eating the dogs, the people that came in, theyre eating the cats. Theyre eating theyre eating ther pets of the people that le there. This is a reprehensible lie. This is racist. This is xenophobic. Its being met with a shameful silence from republicans. The insistence that the lies stop from the mayor of Springfieldyo Hasnt moved them nor have the Bomb Threats, or the School Evacuations or the fears of theat embattled haitia community. When trump was asked about it yesterday in los angeles, he doubled down and said that his longpromised Mass Deportation in american history would start in springfield. Explain why trump is woefully lying, Greg Sergeant wrote, its an open assertion to lie about immigrants as a prelude to the bloody removal of millions. Mass deportation is a priority of project 2025, the 900page Blueprint of trumps dystopian for america. Vice president harris and democrats have been h raising T Alarm on project 2025 for months now, even as trump tries to distance himself from it. Shes taking her campaign to redder districts in the hope of gaining the support of Republicans Whoor Cant Stomach another trump term. Harris went into the debate with momentum and came out of the debate with some national polls showing her ahead, albeit within the margin of error. Those polls show a stubborn and frightening reality, despite his reprehensible lies about springfield and other issues, nearly half the country is buying what hes selling. Defying that reality is the challenge from our leadoff guest. Earlier i spoke with Keisha Lance bottoms, senior adviser to the Harris Campaign and former mayor of atlanta. Thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for having me. Thoughts on Donald Trump doubling down on the lie about springfield, ohio, and the haitian immigrants, quote, unquote, eating the pets. Jonathan, its really disappointing that the hatred that Donald Trump seems to show on Aem Daily Basis is being normalized. Unfortunately were not surprised when he says outlandish things. My heart goes out to that community. I read a Story Today about the woman who posted something on Facebook And Shepo apparently i mortified that its taken on a life of its own. Its a reminder for all of us that we have to be careful when we stereotype, when we make assumptions, when we post things because theres so many waiting to capitalize on this hatred and the thought that this man is poling Neck And Neck with Vice President Kamala Harris should be a Itwakeup Call to us all. Even with the hatred that hes spewing, this is still a tight race. Igright, and i mentioned tha in my opening comments. Its just sort of stunning to me that given everything that we know and that weve seen, especially oute of that debate that this race is essentially tied. You know Whats Something else that i find startling, madam mayor, the silence from the republican party over this. One way to stop this is for responsible leaders to step forward and say this is wrong, this is not right, this isnt who we are. Lets move on. Theyre not doing it. Why dont you think theyre doing it . You know, i think thats a questionnk we all find ourselve asking because they walk amongst us. We have coworkers, neighbors, registered republicans and yet they dont see the danger that Donald Trump is to this country. We have to ask ourselves what is it that we are missing . I can tell you. We cant make assumptions about who supports Donald Trump. Ive sat in the Hair Salon and heard my Hair Stylist say he wasnt that bad. I heard people in my community say, you know, i dont know who im goingno to vote for. I think what he has done i always say a broken clock is right twice a day. Hes been speaking to people, especially via Social Media for the past four years. He in many ways has capitalized on being this Marketing Genius and he has normalized his behavior. Hes made people feel so disappointed in politics in general that they are willing to stay home. So we cant put it all in the laps of republicans. We got to make sure that we are turning out our base, that we are reminding people what a danger this man was to our country and what a danger hes already told us he will be if reelected. To your point about Donald Trumps speaking to people, one thing that i found very interesting it was brought to my attention. Its why i reached out to you. Your son, your black young son has been getting mail from the Donald Trump campaign, several pieces of mail sometimes in one day, we see them here on the screen,on basically asking asking him for his vote. What do you think Donald Trump do you think this these mailers will have any impact on your son or on your sons friends . Well, thankfully my son doesnt check the mail. I do. What it does say to me is that Donald Trumps i not taking anye for granted. It was my son who told me two and a half years ago that the democratic party had a problem with young African American men. This was before it was showing up in the polling. When heth tells me we have a problem, i now listen. What it says to me is not only has he been flooding his Social Media feed, hes been flooding a lot of peoples Social Media feeds because ive asked other people who Havesk Children Arou the same age as mine, are they getting these mailers . Are their kids getting targeted on Social Media . Ng The Answer is yes. Hes flooding their Social Media feeds. Hes sendingci it in the mailbo. Again, hes normalizing his behavior. What i would say to anyone who cares about this country, not to take for granted that just because someoneed looks like yo because someone lives like you that Donald Trump is not talking totr them, that hes not tryingo sway them. What iot say to my son is, evenf you are so disgusted that you stay home and dont vote, thats still a win for Donald Trump. Keisha lance bottoms, senior adviser to the harris walz campaign, thank you. Joining me now congressman Jeremiah Connelly of virginia and senior member of the house oversight committee. Congressman, welcome back. Were seeing this antiimmigrant rhetoric flowing from the president Ial Campaign trail into the halls of congress. Speaker johnson had to remove a sixmonth A Cr because it had attached to it the Save Act, which was requiring people to show proof of citizenship. Democrats werent going to vote for it. Then republicans were also against it. Can you talk about what is going on on Capitol Hill and will we end up with a Government Shutdown . I dont think we will because its in no Ones Interest Tose that. We only have two weeks left in this session before the election and a shutdown would be devastating to republican prospects, and they know that. I do think what youre witnessing at the president ial level and in the halls of congress is the deliberate demonizatione of immigrant populations for political gain. It is hate mongering, fearmongering. Its a sad old playbook in american history and its counter productive in terms of our needs. Why iss Speaker Johnson goi along with this . By pushing the Save Act and other things, i mean, hes helping to perpetuate this. I hope youre right that there isnt going to be a Government Shutdown, but what responsibility does Speaker Johnson have in all of this and what you were just saying . I think he has a large responsibility in terms of moral leadership. I think hes failing that. Hes pandering to the far right elements of his own party to save his own neck. Remember, it was over the issue of a clean Funding Bill for the government that toppled kevin mccarthy. Mike johnsond learned from tha. Pandering to the right might save his neck. He has to face his own caucus to get reelected as speaker when we return in november or december. N assuming republicans hold E Majority to be speaker. Lets switch gears on something else involving the speaker. In response to the department of Homeland Security designating the January 6th certification of the president ial results, a national special security event. The speaker said, quote, it sounds like politics to me. Lets keep in mind, as you well know, he was an architect of correct me if im wrong the stop the steal movement in the capitol. Sounds like politics to me . He actually litigated the whole issue of the certification and the legitimacy of President Bidens clear win four years ago. I think Thats Rhetoric that is very dangerous. I was on the floor of the house on January 6th. I saw that crowd. I was there minutes before Ashley Babbitt was shot trying to getho into the house floor. It was a very, very grave and dangerous moment. For him to play politics with that is just, to me, reprehensible. Shame on him. You are a member of the house foreign affairs committee. A Big Thing happened yesterday that hasnt got a whole lot of attention. Thats the new british Prime Minister had a meeting with President Biden where the Agenda Iteme Number one was ukraine. Front Page Story of the New York Times was about how ukraine wants the united states to grant permission to use longer range missiles to attack inside russia. The british want to do it. Europeans want to do it. The british pm came to washington to meet with the president to say can you say this is good . Can you give us any update, any intel on how that meeting went and how close the biden administration is to saying to thes british, give them your weapons and thenem saying, american weapons can be used too . I think youre absolutely right. This was a very important meeting that got overlooked. Its the first sitdown with the new british government and our government. Theres a lot of compatibility between the two teams. The british in nato believe we have to take the handcuffs off the ukrainians and allowing them to use weapons we provide to respond to russian aggression. There are no handcuffs on the russians. There are very tight handcuffs on the ukrainians. Its time to lift that. Im really glad that the british Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister brought that message to the white house. I have reason to believe President Biden isto listening that message and might very well act soon to lift the handcuffs off the ukrainians. One more question. President putin said if this happens, he will consider the united states and Nato Beingon War with russia. Bluster or should we take that threat seriously . At i think were all tired of putins bluster. I think it is bluster. His brutality make him unqualified to be lecturing the west about what we can and should t do. Virginia congressman, gerry connolly, thank you very much. Ly coming up, Donald Trumps dangerous rhetoric is having real impact on real people. His hateful lies about migrants have triggered Bomb Threats and School Closings in ohio. Ill talk with my political panel on why trump keeps doing this. Governor Ron Desantis is accused of d trying to intimida voters over a Ballot Measure on abortion. How it could backfire on him. Dont go anywhere. Youre watching the Saturday Show On Msnbc. The Saturday Show On Msnbc grease getter. Its Book Club in the wayborhood, yall. Grease getter. Eddie this table. I got this At Wayfair after the last Book Club. Every Book Club should have this much shopping. What did everyone think of the chapter the right Area Rug for every budget . Ill say it, the section on washable rugs was thrilling. Thoughts, richard . The part about the floral rugs really spoke to me. [ sigh ] i want to know whos going to play the rug in the movie . 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