Will the bevy of big stars jumping on Board Help . Plus, president biden hints at a huge Decision Israel is about to make. When, where and how to retaliate for Irans Missile strikes. Is there anyway to keep the war from getting worse . A week after helene tore through the south, basics, water, food, medicine, still hard to come by. More fears of how the storms impacts could be felt nationwide disrupting everything from semiconductors to Iv Fluid. Kamala harris trying to flood the zone in this final month before election day, bringing in politicians and celebrities to get her message out. There are a slew of headlines about campaign stops and endorsements from Bruce Springsteen to Jennifer Garner to the most popular democrat in america, president obama, who will campaign for harris in pennsylvania starting next thursday. Harris herself will do more interviews in the coming weeks, on 60 minutes on Latenight Talk shows according to her campaign. Is it too late to silence her critics and, more to the point, motivate potential supporters . Yamiche alcindor is in michigan. Michael steel is former Rnc Chairman and host of The Weekend here on msnbc. Welcome. Yamiche, im wondering if what were seeing when we talk about these interviews, is it a genuine strategic shift for harris to do them with 32 days to go, particularly given the similar angst we heard from democrats in the closing weeks of Hillary Clintons campaign that she didnt take enough questions in the press, or is this just a final push, nothing more . Reporter its a great question. Good afternoon, of course, from flint, michigan, in this critical Battleground State of michigan. When i talk to my sources in the harris campaign, they push back on the idea she has not been doing a lot of media. But there are a lot of critics within the democrat party, people close to harris, people who have worked on past campaigns of hers, who tell me they were getting worried that they felt she was not doing enough interviews or things to engage with reporters. That being said, we are, of course, going to be seeing her do the 60 minutes interviews. Theyre saying part of what shes trying to do is go to voters directly. That means holding rallies like the one tonight in michigan, holding Events Yesterday like the one yesterday in wisconsin with liz cheney. Shes been doing a lot of nontraditional media, going to Social Media and other places to talk to content creators as well as celebrities. So their strategy has been that they dont really think they only need to do traditional media, that there are a lot of undecided voters in critical Swing States who arent going to be reading traditional media and instead will be gathering in those other spaces. I think were going to see her do more and more engagements, whether thats traditional media or podcasts. We also will see how aggressive she gets in talking about former president trump. Shes already talked about him being a sexual abuser, a fraudster, a conman. Were watching for her to go even more negative specifically when it comes to paid media. I dont need to tell you theres a big difference between doing a podcast and sitting down across from a 60 Minutes Interviewer or a Press Conference. This past week ive talked to half a dozen people who are political insiders and i asked them the question, how many undecided voters do you think there are . Their answers ranked from. 5 to 7 . Thats all were talking about here really, right . I think if youve got your people, theyre going out. Right. Are you worried, as some democrats are, shes not putting herself out there in the right ways . I dont think anybody is saying shes sitting at home watching Soap Operas and eating bonbons, but is she doing what she needs to do . I go back to the statements Michelle Obama made at the dnc where she actually previewed this sentiment where she said, look, if you dont get a call, if the campaign doesnt exactly touch you and you dont hear exactly what you want her to say, rest assured shes doing the work and the campaign is doing the work and you have a clear choice between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. One is looking backward, the other is looking forward to improve your lives. She said that. There was a lot of applause. Everybody agreed that was the right statement and the right sentiment. When she took Donald Trump to task on the debate stage, everybody talked about how brilliant she was. So how are we turned around in such a short period of time afterwards that shes not doing the right things . Shes been doing this for two or three months now. She didnt have a year. Shes doing a lot in a short period of time. If she doesnt do traditional media, those undecided voters, we need podcasts, a lot of digital media. You can go hyper, hyper local and be super targeted in that approach. If you want her to have that conversation with undecided voters, in many ways thats the best way to do it. I understand the concern and the Need And Desire to see her in these major platforms, but you have to imagine the campaign knows where those voters are and knows how to talk to them. Michael, i had our Crack Staff look back at the last four president s going back to george w. Their campaigns lasted, on average, 553 days. So far, Kamala Harris has had just 75. We do continue to hear from voters i hear it saying they dont know enough about her. Endorsements are great, but theres also ads. Theres that connection you have to make with voters, whether its on an issue, whether its on a personal basis. Do you see her doing what she needs to do . Is she being smart with not a lot of time left, 32 days . Yes, yes, A Thousand times rest. So its democrats being democrats. Yes, its democrats being democrats, and its the mainstream media being the mainstream media. They want to be coddled. They want to show they got the connection. The New York Times, the major networks want to sit down, 60 minutes. Yeah, everybody wants to sit down. Do you think theres a difference between a sitdown im not saying 60 minutes is not going to do a great job. They will do a great job. Why not do a Press Conference . Im not asking a question as a journalist let me just get to the point. Yeah. If i can get in a local Media Market in wisconsin, pennsylvania, south carolina, North Carolina, anywhere in the country, i dont need to do a Press Conference. Im talking directly to the people as theyre driving home on the car radio, or im sitting in their Living Room if ive done an interview with local Latenight News or whatever. We have to stop looking at this campaign through the traditional lenses. This is not that Race. 107 days shes been doing this, and shes got 30 more left. At the end of the day, youre talking 140 days to run a national president ial campaign. Shes got to be particular with her targets. If she had an extra 400 Days Everybody would get touched in the mainstream media and the democratic party. This is not Hillary Clintons campaign of 2016, this is not Joe Bidens Campaign of 2020. I think shes doing what she needs to do now. There are some components of this she absolutely needs to focus a little bit more time on, certainly among younger voters, africanamerican voters in particular, and they are starting to do that. Their ground game operation, their Organization And Networking across the states, particularly the Battleground States, are in place. Donald trump doesnt have any of that. I dont see Donald Trump Doing Sitdowns and Press Conferences with the mainstream media every week. So lets hold her to the same standard were holding Donald Trump, because Donald Trump is not giving you anything except a rally in which he dribbles and nods off and just goes off on tangents. And the press accepts that. And yet they look at her and say, well, how come youre not, you know, giving us more of what we want . Well, as soon as you get it from Donald Trump, shell give it to you. In the meantime, i think shes focused where she needs to be, and the democrats need to stop acting like democrats, get your behind on the ground, organize, turn out your vote. You need to overwhelm the Ballot Box on november 5th, because thats the end game. Dont worry about a Press Conference today. You need to worry about how many voters youve got turning out on november 5th. Believe it or not, as someone who was in local news for 17 years, 20, actually if you include radio and newspapers, i totally agree with you. The headlines are different if she does a national interview and if she does a local interview, 100 . I guess my question was more because i dont want this to be about the media. Its about how you reach voters, right . So to that point, i agree with michael totally. Can i ask you then about tone and some questions about whether she needs to be aggressive now in these final days, she really needs to go hard . Listen, i think shes gone hard. But what i think she needs to do in this really short period of time is engender trust. By doing that, you have to be able to speak to the future for those voters, particularly the undecided voters. So, yeah, the Anger And Frustration that michael talked about that, ive talked about, that democrats seem to be holding onto, i get that, but we need to get over that point. Lets i think youre right. What ends up happening is, you want folks to go hard, but at the same time you also need to get information about how your life is going to be better under her leadership. She needs to spend the time to actually go and do that. Some of the Donald Trump anger and sentiment is baked in. This new sort of conversation about January 6th thanks to this release i think resurfaces a lot of that. Even then, its not about looking backwards. Youve got to talk more forward in more aspirational tones to get out some of those voters. So the other people reaching out, thats the Bruce Springsteens of The World. It wasnt by coincidence he was sitting at a diner and theres the american flag there and he looks very bruce. [ laughter ] but for a lowengagement voter, michael, is that where again, we keep talking about how small the margins are here. Yeah. Does that make somebody Sit Up and think, maybe i will vote after all . Not because Bruce Springsteen said it. Almost it reminded them that something is going on. Its hard for people to watch this program, people i hang out with in new york and even my family, because they of course have to watch me. Its genetically engineered that way. There are people out there who are not thinking about this every day. Right. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Youre not going to get them necessarily in a 60 minutes interview. Where youre going to get them is very small local spaces where theyre getting information directly from a friend, a neighbor, a colleague, theyre seeing something on their laptop, theyre Hearing Something in their group chat. So there are a lot of different ways in which campaigns can get their message to people. Weve been in an asymmetrical space since 2016. I still see people trying to force these campaigns into these straightline operations. And thats just not The Way its done. The ad buys Today Arent on necessarily just on television. In fact, they arent just on television. So they really go to the heart of what youre saying about that local market, that Bruce Springsteen kind of voter. Ive got a piece up on msnbc daily talking about what i call intentional voters. These are people who have the intent to vote, right . When you ask them in polling, yeah, i may vote, i may not vote, and if i did vote, im thinking about this person. Guess what . This is the period when all that comes together for them. Little moments like you just showed with a figure like a Bruce Springsteen or an everyday blue Collar Guy or gal theyre familiar with, turns up that light a little brighter for them. It cant be a straight line, because if its a straight line, youre not going to reach every voter you need to reach, which is why the Turnout Model for this election is greater and more intensive, because Donald Trump has already corrupted the process. Hes already told us if he doesnt win, its rigged. And his voters believe that. Theyve got operatives already on Election Boards who are planning to disrupt the process. You need to overwhelm the Ballot Box on election day. Because the argument is, well, we were leading and now were losing so the system is rigged. No. Youre losing because we got more votes than you did. And that has got to be the end game. The way you turn out those voters is to reach them where they are, and theyre not all sitting in front of the television watching us or watching 60 minutes or the New York Times. The campaign is astute to that and doing everything they can to reach those voters where they are and not having to work to find her. So my Executive Producer just suggested in my ear that my Theme Song better be born to run. So i got to run, guys. You can catch Michael Steel tomorrow along with Symone Sanders Townsend at 8 00 a. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. 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What are the plans to allow israel to strike back against iran . First of all, we dont allow israel. We advise israel, and theres nothing going to happen today. Well talk about that later. So the decision of whats next is ultimately in the hands of israel and prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has blindsided the biden administration before. I want to bring in Ross Sanchez on the ground in israel as well as peter baker. So raf, what do we know is on the table . What is israel considering right now . Reporter israel has a number of options in terms of striking iran, all at different rungs on the escalation ladder. The very top of that ladder would be a strike against irans nuclear facilities. That would be the reddest of Red Lines for iran. That is Something President biden has explicitly said he does not want to see, and there are questions about whether the israeli military, for all its prowess, would be able to carry out an effective strike against nuclear facilities that are heavily fortified. Many of them are dug into the sides of mountains. But if prime Minister Netanyahu is looking to trigger some kind of allout war with iran that he believes might lead to regime change, which is something he has cryptically suggested in public addresses, that could be the option. Another possibility, as you mentioned, striking Irans Oil production facilities. That would be a much softer target than its nuclear program. Iran is a massive country. It is very, very difficult to defend all of its air space. You heard president biden acknowledging there had been discussions about that. And when weve seen the Israelis Strike back against those houthi militants in yemen, they have often targeted Oil Facilities. And from a kind of symbolism perspective, that sends an enormous Fire Ball into the sky, a pillar of black smoke. It is a very visible way to signal to your enemies that you are able to hit back at them. We have seen oil go up a bit. Another possibility, of course, would be to strike at iranian military bases. We know several of those iranian military ballistic missiles did hit. That was the sound of outgoing missiles firing over the border in southern lebanon. We do know several israeli Air Bases were hit by those iranian missiles. Israel insists they were not severely