Tonight, a Monster Storm about to make landfall. This hour, Hurricane Helene slams into floridas Big Bend as a category four. Plus, new York City mayor Eric Adams is defiant as he faces multiple federal Corruption Charges including Bribery And Wire fraud. We will get into it with the former manhattan prosecutor. And then, how Wall Street is responding to buys president harriss big economic addresses the 11th Hour gets underway on this thursday night. At evening. Once again, i am stephanie ruhle. Good to be back in new York City where tonight we are tracking Breaking News in the southeast is the incredibly powerful Hurricane Helene is heading the florida coast. Im going to bring in our own Bill Karins with the latest. Whats going on down there . A horrific storm. The Storm Surge is in areas that people have never seen the water on the West Coast of florida. The Big Bend is now getting 20 foot Storm Surge and the storm itself is now moving inland with destructive winds. This is the shoreline right here and wants half of the eye crosses the coast we will get the official landfall from the national Hurricane Center so what is historic about this is that this big Bend Region here of florida and our recorded history of hurricanes which goes back to the mid1800s, weve never had a category four or five make landfAll In this area. That has never happened before. That is why we are talking about Storm Surge values that are the highest ever recorded in this portion of florida. This destructive eyewall is where the intense winds are. It goes from tallahassee. Perry, florida is right in the middle of it and in the thick of the most intense wins. This is the northeast quadrant, almost the North Quadrant now. The northeast is headed here in between Perry And Mayo and you see those bright purple colors. Thats where we could get the guest of 130 to 140 mph. That will tear the tops off of houses. Trees will be down everywhere. Everyone in this box has been getting alerts on their devices telling them to seek shelter, almost like a tornado is coming through and they will be in that situation another two to three hours. The Water Levels are rising rapidly. Apalachicola, the wind is blowing water out to the golf but up along the coast the water is trapped and rising quickly. Cedar key has broken its record for the highest Water Levels theyve ever seen. Down in areas of tampa, water continues to rise. Now, we are at 6. 5 feet in clearwater beach. What these numbers mean is that if you are on the edge of the water with your toes, this is how much higher than the water should be. We are 6 feet now all through the bay areas here along the coast. We are seeing water going into businesses, into homes, and in coastal areas we have Wave Action on top of that, too. These are the latest wind gust. We just hit 76 and perry. Were going to disengage what will likely break here and still gusting 50 to 60 around it but that is where the eye is, in the center of it. As far as the Hurricane Center goes, this is the new update we just got in. Landfall will be officially at 140mileperhour winds, strong category four and the storm is flying. 20 mph is extremely fast for the speed that the storm is moving. As we go throughout the night, the Storm Races up through georgia. By 8 00 tomorrow morning, it is over atlanta or maybe just east of atlanta still was 65mile perhour winds. The we are focusing now on where the most extreme damage will be, all throughout the night people are going to be losing power throughout the state of georgia then finally by a noon or so tomorrow it will begin to weaken enough as it adds to tennessee and southern portions of kentucky. We have 60 to 70 mph gusts in the mountains of the southern appellations from this storm. This is a devastating, historic multibilliondollar disaster taking place right now. Thank you. Later in the hour we will go live to perry, florida for the storm is expected to make landfall within the next hour. Now, with the election just 40 days away, tomorrow, Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the southern border to talk about her bipartisan border security plan. Donald trump is attacked harris nearly every day on immigration, trying to make it the centerpiece of the election. Tonight, trump spoke to reporters ahead of Harris Visit calling her weak and incompetent on immigration policy. Meanwhile, both candidates are meeting with World Leaders during this years u. N. General assembly. Reporter tonight, Vice President harris standing Side Byside with ukraines President Zelenskyy. My support for the people of ukraine is unwavering. Reporter accusing former President Trump of wanting ukraine to surrender. There are some in my country who would instead force ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory. They are not proposals for peace. Instead, they are proposals for surrender. Reporter later today, former President Trump surrendered. It is not a surrender. What my strategy is to save lives, i will meet with President Zelenskyy and we will see what happens, but i believe i can work that out. Reporter saying he can still work with iran, despite his campaign saying u. S. Intel briefed him on iranian assassination threats. Would you try to make a deal with iran of some kind if you were reelected . Sure. I would do that. I believe in getting it doesnt i have a great memory but it is a memory that wants to serve the people with that, lets get smarter with the help of our Leadoff Panel tonight. John allen is here, the tosha correctly and hayes brown, columnist and editor. What do you make a Vp Harris going on offense when it comes to immigration . I think her campaign is made a decision that it is an issue theyre going to have to address. She is getting hammered on it by Donald Trump. It is one of the top issues alongside the economy that voters say they care about, and particularly, the group of voters that may be making a choice between the candidates. There is some risk in that. She is hanging a lantern on her problem, as her friend Chris Matthews would say, saying heres the issue. I know im not doing as well on it and im not going to go address it now so you know, some risk in it but also a lot of risk and letting trump continue to hammer her. He says some things that are outlandish. Today one of the things he said is, you know, that basically she is the worst Border Enforcer in the history of the world, and i think that there are plenty of examples in World History of borders being far more porous than the u. S. Border with mexico. In the history of the world, planet, universe most just ever, the baddest there ever was could be, and then some. Natasha, it is a bold move on Vp Harriss part. But, is that a risk because there are a lot of difficult questions shes going to have to answer. Right. I think what she is doing is continuing a strategy that democrats have really begun months ago, actually at the beginning of the year which is excepting immigration is a huge liability for them, and we saw that with biden coming to this agreement at bipartisan legislation she is surely going to bring up tomorrow and surely going to bring up the trump pretty much that he blew it up and did not let it happen for political purposes. So, i think because of all of the different dynamics in our country this year, including migrants flooding into blue cities, it really shifted peoples opinions on immigration , and democrats were really hurting in that area. They are seeing that and i would expect her to very much come out tomorrow and be really tough on immigration and the border. I mean, whether it is believable, whether it is too little too late, as trump is trying to frame it now, is going to be up to the voters but there is no surprise shes going to be talking about arizona quite a bit. Hayes, there are all sorts of people in this country in red states and blue states, blue cities like ours that are unhappy about illegal immigration, but trump going All In, right . Does that say that almost half the country, assuming this raises neck and neck, his only Policy Solution is mass deportation, and people are down with that . I think people hear mass deportation and if you like despite the fact its what he has been talking about for so long, it has not really sunk in for people what that means. I feel like when they hear mass deportation they assume that there is a specific number of people who should not be here, who are going to be kicked out. They have not wrap their heads around the sheer Size And Scope of what the gop with Stephen Miller at the head of it, Trump Adviser at the White House on immigration, what they would do if they got the sent chance. Millions of people will be at risk of being deported. The economy will be destabilized. How is it that they dont actually think that trump is going to go as big as he says he is, because he talks a big game, but they like, dare i say it, the direction he is heading in. They like the tough talk. Theyre taking it on and they think oh no, hes not really going to do that. I mean, they can think that all they want but they are saying that is what theyre going to do, and in this case you really do want to believe that if they are not going to succeed they at least are going to try and that in itself will wreak havoc on this country. You know what else is wreaking havoc on this country . This hurricane. Hurricane helene is about to officially make landfAll In florida. It is extremely dangerous. This thing is a category four. I want to bring in my colleague, jesse kirsch, from perry, florida. What can you tell us . We are in the eyewall of helene right now. We are seconds away, if not experiencing landfall right now. I can tell you we have had intermittent moments of powerful dust. We are getting some right now again. I want to point out i dont know if you can even see it off in the distance but there are cars out here. I can tell you first responders of been saying that 45mileper Hour winds, anyone who is out here should not be out on the road. The winds are really picking up right now. We have some debris flying. We are going back inside. Stay with us, stephanie. There is some debris that is flying now. We are getting back inside. The eye is coming to us any moment now. All right, jesse. You get back inside, be safe. Stephanie, i dont know if you can still hear me. I cant see you but i can hear you, jesse. We just locked the door. Okay. We are good. We are inside now. We had to get that door locked. That is what we are dealing with. That is incredibly powerful. Okay, we are good. I smell some gas outside. Okay, we are okay. Our team is good. We are good. Again, there are cars out there. They should not be out there. Hold on, those cars out there, are people in those cars . Yeah. They were moving and i am seeing the vehicle backing up right now. There are people driving on the roads and they had asked for mandatory evacuations here in Taylor County. The sheriff and told me earlier he thought 10,000 of the 20,000 people here had not heeded those warnings including potentially around 200 people who live in coastal lowlying areas for the Storm Surge could be reaching 20 feet. I dont know if you can hear the wind howling, but you can hear it howling through the windows, through the glass. We have staff prepared in an internal room because when we are dealing with this kind of wind it is effectively like having a Tornado Overhead for over an hour. When you have that kind of Wind Force over a prolonged period of time you me out of breath. This is not easy to be walking through. If you have one like that it can weaken structures and going back to the coastal areas, about 200 people, the sheriff estimates may not have evacuated from coastal areas where the Storm Surge could be getting up to 20 feet. That is unfathomable and i can tell you that officials here told people bluntly with their warnings about evacuations. They ask people who are not going to evacuate from Taylor County that they should be writing their name, date of birth and other information about themselves on the body in permanent marker so they can be identified after the storm. That is what we are dealing with here and again, im still seeing vehicles out there on the road. Something seems to have a Flickering Light so im hoping that might be a first responder of some kind but there are definitely people who have chosen, it seems, to stay in these communities, which we often talk about in the storms in the headlines we have the days after can often be quite grim. We are waiting for landfall. It mightve, through. This is now the third hurricane i have covered in a matter of weeks. No question this is the most powerful. The other thing to note, this area has been hit now with three hurricanes in a matter of about 13 months and this one is demonstrably stronger and that is one of the things im picking up from talking to people out here is they have seen storms before. This is a different kind of storm and not something to be playing around with in terms of deciding whether or not to evacuate. Hopefully many people heeded those warnings. Did you speak to People Today who said we are just going to stay put, we dont think its going to be so bad . We were here yesterday, here again today and anecdotally, someone we met who was working at a restaurant where we were able to get food before it was shut down, i asked him if he was leaving town. He said he was planning to stay and write it out and i said you should really consider leaving and he told me he was staying because his grandma was going to stay and he was going to be with her. We got her on the phone and try to convey as much as a cut that this is a different kind of storm and they told us they were changing their plans and going to leave and i hope more people had those kinds of decisions throughout the day. By the way, aaron from our Climate Team says no landfall yet so we are still waiting for official word on that but it is close to the coastline if it is not there yet. To answer your question, there are people who i think were planning to stay here, multiple people who were planning to stay here. At the Gas Station across the street from where we were, a person told our team they were going to stay open and continue to be there. The light eventually went off over there but this happens. Whenever we come to storms there are people who dont plan to evacuate and then there are people who learned the lessons from previous storms. We met someone at a sandbagging location. Stained through Hurricane Debbie and that was a Borderline Category two, but a much weaker storm in terms of wind strength, and that scared that man enough that he decided he was leaving town this time and never going to take chances again. Hopefully, or people had experiences like that. All right, jesse. I dont know the name of the person you met in the restaurant with his grandmother. I am assuming you do so please say a prayer for both of them tonight. Stay safe. We are going to check in with you later in the hour. Thank you for being down there. Lets head back to my team up here. John allen, Vp Harris met with Vladimir Zelenskyy today. Donald trump says he is meeting with him tomorrow. Donald trump is not even said if he wants ukraine to win. How is this meeting going to go down . Is a great question, stephanie. I think zelenskyy is going to be Begging Trump that if trump becomes president again that trunk continues to support the ukrainian efforts to repel russia but it does not look like trump has that in mind at all. He talks about wanting a quick piece as Vice President harris pointed out today. That strategy is largely contingent upon handing over to russia most of ukrainian territory, so you could not have a bigger distance between two candidates meeting with the same person back to back. You have Vice President harris, who wants to continue what the united states has been doing in the President Biden, continue to help ukraine fend off russia, and then you have President Trump, who never exactly says he wants russia to win, but to your point, does not say he wants ukraine to win , and has a Vice President ial running mate, jd vance, who has consistently questioned the value of the united states continued to back ukraine. There is a real contrast here. Im not sure how many voters will make the decision based on that but certainly a contrast of values in the contrast and worldview. Donald trump is said that europe should be kicking in more money because they are physically closer to russia than the united states. The united states Foreign Policy for basically since World War ii, has been to bolster europe so that other countries in europe are not a threat to the rest of europe and the united states, so huge contrast between these two candidates. Before we got a break i want to take a moment and acknowledge that with 40 days out from the election, what else Candidate Trump is focused on. Today, melania trump, who we have barely seen on the campaign trail, made an appearance on Fox News because she is selling a new book. When asked about Kamala Harris and the state of the country, here is what she said. Will, how i see it as the record speaks for itself. The country is suffering. People are not able to buy usual necessities for the families. Not four hours after talking about that americans can barely afford necessities, her husband, candidate Donald Trump, announced his new line of watches, some of them the cost 100,000. On monday, he launched a silver Commemorative Coin for 100 Bucks that has a Teeny Bit of silver in it and those are just the latest in his line of merchandise over the last two months. Bibles, trading cards, Coffee Table books, sneakers. His publicly traded Media Company and his newly formed crypto exchange. Meanwhile we also learned from and s. E. C. Filing that 90 of his Sonin Law jared Kushners Investment Fund is financed by foreign entities. He is running i mean its like the Trump Campaign is the home shopping network. 40 days to go and this is what we are seeing Donald Trump doing. Absolutely, because he knows hes got to have some money in his pocket if he doesnt win, right . Is got to put something in there. This goes back to his roots. Donald trump, he says hes a real Estate Magnate but really and most of his career hes been a brand. He loves to not invest money in building buildings because that is to but people pay him to use his name on things and that is what we are seeing here in the middle of the campaign season, him taking advantage of being in the spotlight the summer he always has and trying to turn that attention into money, and whether that is to the detriment of his political campaign, we will see. It is very clear from all of the little labelings at the bottom of all this merchandise, its going straight to his pocket. They are making that very clear. What was his campaign . Did they ever acknowledge any of this . Im thinking imagine if Vp Harris is doing anything else, how that would be taken. How does his Campaign Respond to any questions about the qvc Trump Campaign . Just 40 days left to buy at this price, stephanie. Just 40 days left. His Campaign Responds to him. This is not a campaign that operates you know, that comes up with what he is supposed to say. He says that it is very much the opposite to whatever he says goes and then they kind of try to support that is much as they can. Sometimes they answer questions about the merchandising and the business stuff, but for the most part, his campaign is focused on the election. For the most part he is very easily distracted by a small shiny objects are small shiny objects with small amounts of silver in them. The question for voters is whether he knows what time it is. 100 grand. All right, gang. When we return, look at the Corruption Charges against new York Citys mayor and the decadeslong pay to play scheme hes accused of running. Later, the dangers of Donald Trump as told by the people closest to him, the 11th Hour just getting underway on a serious thursday night. Way on a serious thursday night. San franciscos been through tough times. 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Were Eric Adams has officially been charged with Bribery And Wire fraud in an alleged pay to play scheme that prosecutors say is spanned 10 years. Reporter tonight, the first sitting new York City mayor in modern history indicted on federal bribery charges. Eric adams vowing to fight and stay in office as prosecutors revealed allegations in the sweeping 57page Indictment unsealed today just hours after a predawn search of his official residence, Gracie Mansion. The foreign money, the corporate money, the bribery, the years of concealment as a Grave Breach of the public trust. Reporter adams accused of accepting free or deeply discounted trips to china, sri lanka, india, Luxury Hotel stays and more to the tune of Tens Of Thousands of dollars. Bribes prosecutors say adams illegally excepted from wealthy foreigners and at least one turkish Government Official All In exchange for political favors. Year after year he kept the public in the dark. He told the public he received no gifts even though he was secretly being showered with them. Reporter among the obligations allegations of favoritism, in 2021 he was informed it was quote, his turn to help turkey so he pressured the Citys Fire Commissioner to Greenlight Approval of this building despite Safety Concerns from the turned city all because turkey wanted it open in time for that years united nations general assembly. After approval went through, prosecutors say that the name Turkish Official wrote adams, you are a true friend of turkey. These are bright red lines and we allege that the mayor crossed them again and again. Reporter prosecutors also accused the mayor of masking illegal donations from foreigners, secretly routing their money through small dollar donors based in the u. S. , socalled contributions and they say his campaign took advantage of a new York Program that matches smaller contributions to quote, steal public funds, breaking in more than 10 Million but his Defense Team says the evidence will exonerate him. Mayor adams is telling his staff, telling all of them, do not take foreign money. Reporter the policeman turned politician is lived under a legal cloud for more than a year, one growing darker in recent weeks as members of his administration have come under increasing scrutiny in several different investigations. The citys police commissioner, top lawyer and Schools Chancellor have all resigned, but adams has steadfastly maintained his innocence. Some democrats now calling for adams to step aside. As he headed back inside Gracie Mansion today, protesters shouting after him. Only in new york. For more, i want to bring in criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. The u. S. Attorney here, Damien Williams, he aint playing. This indictment is 57 pages long. What is stuck out to you . I want to take off my glasses like you because it is serious and chronological, a Narrative Setting forth a lot of really bad acts. For example you hear about the 7000 bentley Hotel Room suite. You hear about upgrades and flights. Well maybe should make it 50, we should make it sound real, make it 1000. Time after time we just heard before the reporting about the 36 story building. We are going to pass it for the fire code. You are a great friend to turkey. There is so much her going on but not just directly him, and part of his defense is going to be, it is my staffers. I told them not to do things that they deleted the messages. They were up to no good, possibly, but it is more of a deflection defense. We are going to go through the process for sure. Once we get through that, Due Process and all that but i think at The End of the day, the sitting mayor will not be a sitting mayor at The End and maybe sitting with his heels in jail behind bars. We hold our electoral elected officials to higher scrutiny standards. In the last month weve lost our police commissioner, or top lawyer, art Schools Chancellor now the mayor is facing criminal charges. Who is running new York City right now . Mayor adams is running in new York City. Really, do you think you spent one minute of his day today, one single minute focused on the people of new york . No one said it was necessarily the most effective running of new York City but yes, he is running new York City. There are many, many problems. Thats a separate movie but that all being said, what we are dealing with now is you have a mayor who i think is using a Trump Card of your coming after me because of who i am. The doj is being weaponized against me, throwing some race in there, as well, then turns around and says low weight, if you see the evidence, im innocent. Well, why are you coming at it from the perspective of your coming after me . If that is your defense it does not stand consistent with a factual evidentiary defense and why are you bothering making this thing personal . Of course Damien Williams is in charge of the case against Bob Menendez and sean combs. The guy is serious. Im sure you will be coming back. When we return, a live report from florida. Hurricane helene has just made landfAll In perry, florida as a category four. Strengthen the dangers of Donald Trump from 91 people who know him very well. The stunning list of names, those who have criticized the former president and what they had to say when the 11th Hour continues. Ay when the 11th Hou continues. Sleep more deeply and wake up rejuvenated. 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As you can see we are getting these heavy bands of rain. These are probably the worst conditions weve seen so far. Winds have started to pick up, as well. Here in tallahassee really the big concern going into the storm is the possibility of extreme Wind Damage because there were so many trees in this area. Roughly 55 of the city is under Tree Canopy and officials were worried what 100mileper Hour winds could do if it stayed in this area so they were concerned about toppled trees, downed Power Lines which would ultimately lead to prolonged power outages. Earlier today we went to an Emergency Shelter nearby, several of them open in this area. A lot of folks were utilizing them throughout the day and really, No One should be out in these conditions right now because like i said, this is probably the worst we have seen it. Here in tallahassee, officials have been preparing in advance of the storm and they were worried this would be a possible direct hit which would have been the worst storm the region has ever seen in its history. Unprecedented. Obviously the coast is not clear just yet. Once again the rain is really coming down. We have seen some transformers explode behind us. We are hearing all sorts of noises so we are not out of the woods just yet but tomorrow when the light comes out and we have daybreak and the folks around here assessing the damage, we know thousands of crews are at the ready. They are leaving on resources pretty much from all across the country but once again, tallahassee we were bracing for a direct hit but appears we have just missed of the eyewall. That is goodness. Stay safe where you are and we will be keeping an eye on the storm. Now lets turn to the 2024 president ial race. The New York Times Editorial Board is not yet endorsed a candidate but they have made a case that the former president is unfit to lead in the photos dont want to take their word for it, today The Times released the dangers of Donald Trump as told by 91 republicans who know him. One of the conservative voices they quoted is with us now. Charlie sykes, Msnbc Columnist and analyst along with former new York Congressman max rose, now Senior Adviser to [ inaudible ]. Charlie, this list includes quotes from people who currently support the former president like ted cruz, Lindsey Graham and nikki haley. You obviously do not. Help us understand the clear division in your thinking versus theirs. People you would one point agreed with. Lets start off by noting how incredibly unprecedented it is, its a Word Weve used over the last few years, the number of people who have been in Donald Trumps cabinet, his chief of staff, the people sitting in that room with him were flown on Air Force one with him, who know him and work with him who are saying this man is not fit to serve and then you have this large group of republicans who may say that privately, but what they decided is that the tribal partisan loyalty trumps their judgment of Donald Trump. They are deeply invested in the idea this is a binary choice, and for many of them, the only route to relevance in the republican party or perhaps a return to power is to kiss the ring, but again, as you scroll down the list of people who have commented on Donald Trump, you get an extraordinary picture of his presidency and what people saw up close and personal in that White House from him, and it is an amazing historical record whether or not the republican rankandfile is paying attention to it. Nikki haley endorsed Donald Trump but i want to share a bit of what we heard from her in a recent interview. Youre not going to hear me say glowing things about Donald Trumps personality. I have issues with him, as well. I have not forgotten what he said about me. I have not forgotten what he said about my husband, or his deployment time or his military service. I have not forgotten about his or his campaigns tactics from putting a birdcage outside our Hotel Room to calling me birdbrain. I have not forgotten any of that but politics is not for thinskinned people. Then you have retired general Stanley Mcchrystal announcing he is already cast his ballot for harris not because of her policies, but because of her character. Is that what this election is coming down to, whether you Value Policy versus character, because i will tell you im sure there are lots of people in your district to say i dont like him, but he cut my taxes. Look, its about both and that is not does this president ial election. Its about every president ial election. You are voting for and electing somebody not just to address the crises of today but the unforeseen crises of tomorrow. With the Trump Campaign, the 91 former colleagues of the president who now oppose him, the Trump Campaign will try to position that is the deep state they have always opposed and stood up to. That is not who these people are. Those are maga republicans. Those are people who signed up to work with Donald Trump and tried to advance his policy of things that i and millions of others adamantly disagree with. They saw him facetoface and now despite their Policy Agreement with him, are coming out and saying, this man should be nowhere near the oval office. That is an absolute indictment, but there is a second step that these folks, particularly general mcchrystal need to take which is not just to show the courage of voicing your opinions in the New York Times, but also film a commercial. People there are only so many people reading the New York Times but now if youre going to be political, you have got to be in the arena today, film a commercial so that millions upon millions of people can also here. Throw it on tiktok. If he is not on tiktok maybe he will be. Charlie, The Atlantic wrote that for undecided voters it is not about whether theyre voting for trumper harris. It is about whether theyre going to vote at all. People who think the system does not work for them. They Cant Stand politics. Can anything change that . Can either campaign at this point get those people off the couch, engaged in voting . The reality is if you are on the couch right now and you decided you probably are not going to vote in the first place but there is a sliver of hope. Given how close this election is, every Vote Counts and i do think there is a sliver of voters who right now are thinking, can i put up with four more years of this . I think many of them are soft republican voters who look at Donald Trump and are hearing this backandforth and over the last next six weeks will recognize this is not a normal election. That is the dividing line. Is this a normal election or is Donald Trump somebody who is just off the map of acceptability not just in character but what he proposes to the constitutional order. We can rent for the sexual assaults, the call for the termination of the constitution, his various felonies, all of that. There is nothing normal about this choice so there are voters who are lifelong republicans, who may vote up and down the ballot for other republicans but i think there may be someone decided that i like to they want to vote one more time for Donald Trump . Do they want four more years of putting up with this Nightmare Scenario that we have been living with . It seems, since he came down the golden escalator. I think those voters are still in play. Thats the thing, charlie. Nothing is normal anymore. Weve gotten accustomed to abnormal. I had a completely normal interview, normal conversation with Vice President harris yesterday, when you would have with any normal president ial candidate at any time in history , but nothing is normal anymore. That is what made it seem so strange. Before we leave i do have to ask you your take on what is happening in new York City with Eric Adams, with top lieutenants. I just asked my last guest, does it concern you, as a new yorker, who is running this town . Look, its very difficult to break new York City. Im confident that the engine that is the new York City government with many heroes anonymously leading it will continue to run and Eric Adams deserves his day in court. But, these allegations are incredibly serious on the facts behind them are incredibly serious, as well and he and his team obviously have a tremendous amount of explaining to do and i think we can all collectively say that needs to happen as quickly as humanly possible. However quickly this case can get going, because we have got to get back to business in the city. The challenges are really significant. As long as were talking about great new yorkers, i do want to say tonight, i mentioned it earlier. There is so much traffic. It is a mess right now because of the u. N. General assembly. The new York City Police Department Tonight all over the city. Isolate every one of those men and women out there. There are so many protesters and they have the right to be peacefully protesting in new york, but it is so difficult. It is so crowded in those police officers, specifically one named jerry dowling, who walked me 25 blocks to get here tonight, i want to say thank you to all of them. When we come back, the Vice President is making it clear she is a probusiness capitalist. Is the Business Community Listening . When the 11th Hour continues. G . When the 11th Hour continues. man look at this silly little sailboat. These men of means with their silver spoons, eating up the financial favors of the 1 . What would become of them when they discover robinhood gold allows others to earn their very liberal rates on idle cash, unlimited Deposit Bonuses and handsome Retirement Matching . They would descend into chaos. Merciless chaos. Feedback from the Business Community is rolling in today after Vice President harris laid out her economic agenda in pittsburgh. This was, to some degree, for the world of business, A Sigh Of Relief. Yes, shes going to have higher corporate taxes than former President Trump would be pushing for but at the same time there is a sense right now that youre going to have divided government anyway and that is the other thing going on that people dont fully appreciate, which is for those people who are worried that shes going to be taxing people like crazy or something like that, thats going to be very hard to put in place, too. The feedback i heard from the Business Community last night was very positive for her, pretty much across the board. They want to know more, but they were feeling better. I dont know if this was a vibes campaign, but the vibes were better. Joining me now, peter spiegel, u. S. Managing editor for the financial times. Peter, your takeaways from what Vp Harris is laid out for her economic plans. Maybe throw in Donald Trumps, as well. You are able to pull some meat on the bones that we hadnt heard of before but i think her plan in general is still kind of Biden Plus. She is offering 25,000 incentives on housing. Shes changed her capital Gains Tax Rate at differently from biden. Shes been a candidate for two months so maybe we should not expect the fully formed economic policy thats going to be different from her boss but i still think i found her much more compelling in your interview when she was criticizing trump that when she was trying to describe her own plan because 400,000 imac in the text that. Thats a by the mind so much of what she is presenting in my mind was still very much Biden Plus and not really a new plan. I dont disagree with that. She got a little gauzy on you when you asked her how she would get a republican Tax Hike through the senate if that comes to pass and she kind of dodge that but it wont happen as peter is indicating if we have a divided government youre leaning more toward gridlock and maybe up little potential Biden Plus, maybe none at all depending on how the election shakes out but she has been reasonably specific on a number of high priority topics manufacturing, homeownership. I would say the incentives for homeownership and the increase in building new homes is not a departure, but an extension that is not existed before. In the world of improv, like yes and do you believe, to end this point, that Business Leaders are breathing A Sigh Of Relief because not knowing that her policies are Biden Plus, and not hearing from her much, they can think i dont know where shes going. Maybe shes going super progressive. I think it was a very important point because there was a general perception on Wall Street and even Silicon Valley that biden is not listening to them. He was not listening to them on business whereas harris, given her background in Silicon Valley in california is open to listening. I think that is what you got out of her. She understands where theyre coming from. She may disagree with you but is willing to listen and i think biden was a different kettle of fish. This is a fair point. Im not disagreeing with the Stock Market and economic recovery but i spoke to one who said you know a persons priorities based on their schedule and President Biden and his own team is not spent a ton of time and im not saying he should or he shouldnt, with the Ceo Community and she knew who i was. She knew who my audience was. She went out of her way to say i work with Business Leaders. Ive always worked with Business Leaders. I am a free markets person. She said those things on purpose. Absolutely. Biden, from a practical perspective, was engaged in benign neglect. He did not do anything to disrupt the economy. In fact, he supported it. The regulatory regime might be a little bit harsher but by the same token, we produce more Oil Today than we ever have in the history of the world, so some of the things people were most afraid of like banning fracking or rolling back certain types of carbonbased energy, that is not been the case. Since you said that, we have all these economic winds under President Biden. Vice president harris is now offering Biden Plus, being more probusiness. Then why oh why she did not answer that question very well. Does Donald Trump pull better on the economy just because he has the sima Bosman Energy . No, i think it is because still prices and inflation. Prices are not coming down and people, particularly Working Class Americans who are prone to vote for trump are going up in their fuel and groceries are still expensive. Fuel has come down, but groceries are still. They are still very nervous on this. They know they Cant Win on this issue. Okay then do they need to find a way to talk about this . If we want people in lower Wage Jobs to get paid more, if we want them to have benefits, child care, then things are going to cost more. At the same time we are saying we have a problem with price gouging. We have a problem with things costing so much. If youre going to pay people in a pizzeria 20 an hour, there is a chance that peter is going to cost 30 and people are connecting those dots. For the last 18 months, wages have risen faster than the rate of inflation. That doesnt matter, even if you have more money in your pocket, when you go to the pre pizzeria and it cost 30 Bucks you are going now. Austin, texas, has seen a 17 drop in rents. That might be the canary in the coal mine. Strike that does it for us. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. 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