All he did to try to bring peace between israeli and palestinians. Happy birthday, president carter. I will see again in a few minutes as a guest on inside with jen psaki, which starts right now. I know it seems like every single day we are talking about some incredibly wild split screen between the two candidates running for president i know it feels that way boy, we got another one today. On one side of the equation donald trump bumbled and lied his way storm damage in court nestor georgia. On the other, kamala harris the things you might hear from president about a tragedy like hurricane helene at fema headquarters in washington. Here is just a sampling of headlines from trump's trip today. Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigned in an air ravaged by hurricane helene. Trump falsely says georgia's governor was unable to talk to biden about storm damage. My personal favorite might be, trump says no one could have predicted hurricane at peak of hurricane season. Were definitely going to talk about all of that tonight. We will also preview tomorrow night's vice presidential debate with my friend joy reid. And with the last guide to debate j. D. Vance. Tim ryan, later in the show. I will begin we will begin with some very important context to keep in mind for everything that you will hear and we talk about tonight about the ways in which donald trump is currently trying to smear kamala harris. And that context is this. Kamala harris embarrassed donald trump in front of 70 million people during the debate. What happens, he knows what happened. Everyone knows what happened. You might not agree with everything else think she said or every policy proposal but one thing is fairly disputable by anyone watching she looks smarter and more in command than him in front of the entire country. I mean, much smarter. To steal a phrase of harris' from that debate, he is clearly having a hard time processing all of that. Clearly. In some ways, i think that embarrassment on the debate stage broken in a way. Even before the debate the man was failing, that was clear. He was expecting to run against an over 80yearold joe biden. Instead he ended up with opponent 20 years younger than him. He needed a different strategy. He tried the racism route using kamala harris lying about being black, i guess. That one did not take. No surprise there. He tried the sexism route, reposting some disgusting sausages stick means that we are definitely not going to share on the show. They also did not take. But since the debate, it seems to have gotten much worse. The man is losing it. And he is lashing out. As a part of that, he is kind of wrapped all of this gross attacks into one. Along with the new flat out lie about harris' intelligence. Kamala is mentally impaired when joe biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. If you think about it only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country. Anyone would know this. I am playing that obviously, it is just disgusting and offensive. It is a schoolyard gross insult. By one estimate there are more than 7 million americans living with an intellectual ordinal mental disability in this country. It is gross and everyone needs to see it. Donald trump should be running to be there president as well. Let me state that. Setting that aside, i'm not sure donald trump is the candidate shumake should make any jobs about mental acuity. You look at the mob pictures, gangster pictures, a drug dealer pictures, these people are far worse. There is no one in hollywood like this. If you want to do a movie and some of these people that you are going to look at in two minutes if you wanted to do a movie, there is no actor in hollywood back at play the role. There is nobody these actors are a little bit shaky. They will bring in a big actor. He has no muscle content. He has got no muscle. We need a little muscle. They bring in another one. He has a weak face. He looks week. These guys have the whole package. I love watching the people behind him. They are awkwardly laughing. Some of them are looking in the other direction. No is really following him, that is clear. Is called trump was crushed by what he previously dismissed as dumb as a rock. Which raises the question, what does that make him? by the way, that is why he is so scared of doing another debate. Of course, all of this is protection for every accusation is a form of a confession. All of this nonsense, this child is lashing out is because of embarrassment, in my view at least. You can see where this goes. The race racism did not work on the sexism did not work on these latest attacks will probably not work either. It just gets crazier and crazier. The question is, what is next? when all of the outrageous attacks fall flat, what does he do next? what is the backup plan when the country sees through all of the bs? we note the backup plan is because we have seen a version of this movie before. Back in 2020, not that long ago. Trump's next step is to prime his base that the election will be rigged. And to go with the election process with itself or try to. He is already trying to do both of these things. His allies are bombarding the courts with lawsuits to do just that. In these six or seven see kate he states where the election will be won or lost. What if it does not work? we have seen that movie before too. Now he is showing is another example of how open to violence he is. These are smart people. They are not so stupid. If you had one really violent day. A guy like mike kelly, put him in charge. Congressman kelly, put him in charge for one day. Would you say, mike, you would say, please do not touch them? let them rub your store. All of the stores go out of business. They do not pay rent. It is a chain of events that is so bad. One rough hour, and i mean real rough. The word will get out and it will end immediately. So, the attacks are not landing. There is a plan b most concerning of all, there is a plan c too. Joining me now here at the table consider attorney george conway, senior national political correspondent for the washing voice, ashley parker. Eugene daniels and senior adviser to the harris/walz campaign, adrian elrod. There is a lot to digest. You may all disagree with me here. You never hold back. I wanted to start with you because you called him a sociopath, a psychopath and all of those things. He continues to demonstrate himself to be. Sometimes we get numb to some of the things he says. It all seems like the same. Is it the same or is he getting worse? he is getting worse. He will not get better. I cannot imagine the next few weeks if he feels that everything is slipping away from him. This is a man, basically, creates his own reality. He is lying about everything. He has talked to the governor of georgia. He lied a few weeks ago about kamala harris' crowd sizes. He said they were all a. I. This is insane stuff. He is not well. He has never been well but he has been worse now because, precisely because, of the narcissistic injury he suffered at the debate when kamala harris wiped the floor with him. You see for the big debate a shift? he does not know how to deal with it. He is being told a lot of things, i am sure. For example, someone must have gone out to maralago, an expert i don't know who that was and say, you are losing and you need to do more to appeal to women. Women want to see the president as a protector. I'm going to be your protector. He gargles everything. He does not follow directions. What i always like to say about him, he can be manipulated but not controlled. He is completely out of control. The people who are working for him, they're going along for the ride. Actually, you have covered trump longer than anyone else at this table. You have probably been to more events. You recently wrote this piece talk about a little bit of what george is talking about there. It includes this line, in donald trump's imaginary world, americans cannot venture out to buy a loaf of bread without getting shot, mugged or raped. Do you feel this is different or darker than 2016 and 2020 or is it going back to the same tactics? yes and no. We can go back to 2015 where trump would be, as i described him, playing on tilt. He is frustrated. He cannot be controlled. It is no longer in this moment postdebate. Let us trump the trump it is let trump be utterly out of control and hope they win anyhow. You can find other moments like this. I was struck by the pervasive darkness. It was not just a risky trip to buy bread but it is the idea that kids as he says, that kids go to school. They leave on the bus and come home gender affirming surgery. Visitors to the nation's capital come to see the monuments and they go home in body bags. Of course, famously, the lie that haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs in springfield, ohio. It did feel like critical mass for this kind of grotesque caricature that donald trump has been pushing recently pretty consistently. It rallies on social media in interviews. I'm trying to understand for myself. Is it getting worse? is it different from 2016? it feels like it but a lot to digest. The other side of this campaign as you cover, here's quite a bit. You are on the harris campaign. I want to play something that eric holder said yesterday, which stuck with me. He was on our show. Former attorney general. He said what i am betting it there was an anger translator remember that? let us play that and then we will talk about it. I think it is both projection on his part but also an indication of again, that cognitive decline. He does not have the ability to mount a substantive challenge to the person who he is running against. I think that is something that the american people need to take into consideration. Donald trump made a great deal of the cognitive abilities of joe biden. I want to ask you about it because i know adrian cannot speak about the secret things on the campaign. Maybe she can. You talk to a lot of people on the campaign. You are talking about, what do we do about the fact that donald trump seems to be in cohesive he cannot form clear paragraphs. Do you raise it? do you do what he just did or do you run your own race? i think they are running their own race, which is probably the right thing. Are there debates or discussions internally? you have conversation about how trying to run against all trump i think where they live and where we see them go , right or wrong, is that they are going to let him do his thing. I was talking to someone yesterday to show how crazy he is. Vice president harris and as she has been you talk about the split screen with her going to fema and having those remarks and him lying about the governor of georgia cannot get in touch with president biden. The george's governor sang, i talked to him. I think that is where they are sticking. They will let that service to all the messy stuff. Which is probably the best way. You do not want to get into a backandforth with donald trump. The alligator or whatever. He is better at it. He is better at being in the muck and he likes it down there. He is having a hard time running against him and who's not getting in the muck with him. He has a hard time running against vice president harris. She is a black woman. When he would tussle with the women that were asking questions , our colleagues on the right house beat reporters, he held his most angry some for black women. They asked him a question, he would have the worst things to say about them. You are seeing that. When he talked about joe biden got worse, harris was born like that. That is a dogma focus to say, the right guy just got older and worse the lack lady was bore down. That is the kind of thing that donald trump is saying. It does feel it is a different type of attack. Adrian has dealt with working for a female presidential nominee. I have been on three campaigns against donald trump. This is my third. That is a lot. What do you take it? or what two people who work from hillary clinton take from that campaign that they can apply now cure you agree the attacks are different? may feel different. They are obviously racist and have a different hinge to them. When we ran against donald trump in 2015/2016, no one knew what to do with him. He was no other candidate than we had seen before. There is a perception by a lot of voters that he is not going to do the things he said he was going to do when he came into office. When he said he would act the national abortion ban or get rid of roe v. Wade. I certainly believe it could happen but a lot of people did not think he would go forward with that. When he said he would focus on dismantling the affordable care act, the people said, he is just saying that right now to get votes in his coder but he will not do it. But then he did it. He tried to get rid of the affordable care act and he overturned roe v. Wade. 2020 running against president biden. We took the case to the voters. It was an effective strategy because donald trump had something to run on. It was not a popular record. Going forward in 2024, we now know and we make it clearer project 2025, this will be a far worse, a trump 2. 0 would be far worse than a truck 1. 0. We look at the project 25, and they made it clear that not only does one get rid of the affordable care act that they want to raise prices on prescription drugs for american families. They want to make sure there is a national abortion ban. They want to raise taxes by an average of $4000 per family. We just put out this report today to make sure the american people understand what a trump concept of the healthcare plan will look like. We put together over 200 page report laying out what it would look like. Very dangerous, from 2. 0 would not be something of the american people want. Who says she does not have plans ? we will talk about project 2025 and the piece in there that relates to fema , disaster assistance and response. We have to take a very quick a 62nd break. 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