Campaigning for a second day. At his rally last night, the president in numerous attacks at his democratic rival. Joe is shot. Lets face it, okay . Hes shot. So not that he has anything to do because you wont know whats happening. Hell just be locked up in a room some place and the radical left is going to be running our country. Joe biden slugged off attacks this morning telling cnn the difference between he and trump is up to the American People to decide. Come to donald trump versus me, just look at us, okay . Just look at us. Who seems to be in shape . Whos able to move around . Whos, i mean, this idea of you know, slow joe. Donald trump, just look at us both. Watch us and determine whether or not you think im misleading anyone. With me now is ian sams, a democratic strategist and former spokesperson for the Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton. Lindsey johnson is a political strategist and aide to elizabeth warrens president ial campaign thank you all for joining me. Ian, id like to start with you. How much does joe biden get under trumps skin . I think a lot. I think you can tell that by the way President Trump has spent the nine months lobbying attack after attack at Vice President biden. None of it is really sticking. I think he had a really hard time defining Vice President biden on his own terms just like he has harris on his terms since Vice President biden selected her to be on the ticket. I think that you know, donald tru trumps sort of exhibiting classic behavior of somebody whos drowning. Flailing around a, waving his arm wildly and seeing if it sticks. Its not working. No surprise why. Our country is an Historic Movement of uphee value. These are the head winds hes facing every time he gets a chance to throw a pot shot at biden, you have to imagine that most voters who are personally impacted by these very serious issues sort of roll their eyes and say thats not what we need right now. This is not 2016. Hes the incumbent president and hes not offering solutions. So, lindsey, i want to bring you in because i think that what ian is saying is right. We are face iing the most civil unrest in our nations history, recent history, at the same time, apandemic and were on a verge of democratic, of a recession. But when fox was polling, when fox polled their viewers, they found that they still believe that trump is better off for the economy than joe biden. Is at the end of the day, will people come out for the economy versus the social unrest, the pandemic and Health Issues related . I think its a combination of both and one we have to look at whats happened in our history. It is hard to unseat an incumbent president , however, this is one of the most unpopular president s weve seen in history. Weve seen him fumble the football many times with the economic recovery in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and hes also been benefitting his friends and his comrades, the top, top 1 as they would say, and so, i do think there are voters who are finally realizing that donald trump is not the president for them. On the flip side, you have the Biden Harris Campaign not only make iing that argument, but building the Strong Coalition of young people, people of kocolor people who have been forgotten about in the midst of this pan as well as before. The Vice President and Kamala Harris are addressing students who are concerned not only about the economy, but about their safety as young, black kids. You have them addressing the poor peoples campaigns, who are marginalized folks in rural areas, in southern areas, who in addition to the economy, theyre just focused on their livelihood and being able to exercise their right to live with dignity each day, and so i do think the Biden Harris Campaign is taking this into consideration, but they are having this more intersectional approach of its the economy and all of these other issues to ensure that people of color, especially, are a abble to reac that Economic Opportunity people are talking about. When i suggested you as a guest, folks were scratching their head. Youre a comedian, but youre also a texan and we have seen that the polls in texas specifically are polling towards biden unexpectedly for folks not in the know. Can you tualk about the opportunity biden has in texas whthen i want to talk about you own personal eck appearance youre witnessing with the covid epidemic. First of all, thank you so much for having me. I think this is something that i realize happens in most elections. Which is we always talk about the at hand, but dont really take a moment to understand and appreciate what has happened in the past. So when we talk about the 2020 election, we always compare it to the 2016 election. Granted, it is a president ial election, but we also had 2018 mid materiterms and that was sh shift in numbers. Right now, we live in a time where i think more work needs to be done to actually contact the disinfranchised communities, the communities that feel negative legisla neglected. I am latina. We havent had the chance to really feel heard. So i think thats one thing we need to do to get voters out. We need to acknowledge that theyre there. And not only that, but going back to what you were saying about the economy, people forget that the economy is tied to every issue. Its tied to racial issues. To social issues. So, when someone wants to brag about the economy, what does that really mean . What does that entail . So i think that right now, trump has successfully neglected the Latino Community and really trying to understand us as individual. You know, were a very good, a lot of people, they dont, there arent familiar with the community. They seem to generalize us as one. Latinos do not come from the same country. We do not come from latino. We are puerto rican, mexican, cuban. Theres a variety of us. I think the moment people start treating us as individuals, we can have change. Its right there. We just really need to want to have that effort made. To reach those people. I want to talk about what she just mentioned and something Hillary Clinton has done quite successfully in the Latino Community. That was really speak to them. What are the opportunities now that biden has to close the gap, particularly in florida, to address the issues that she said, that we are not a monolith as a community, but that the issues out front and center very much disproportionately affect this community. Absolutely. You see the Biden Campaign sort of beefing up their focus on this community and making sure theyre doing everything they can in the next 51 days to engage the Broad Coalition that is latinos especially in a state like florida. Theyre a very Diverse Community across the state. And i think one thing that is just always so clear with President Trump is he does, he likes to paint people with a broad brush. He likes to think that you know, you see him tweeting about suburban housewives as if thats a Broad Coalition that he needs to reach out to. He doesnt understand the nuances of different communities where as i think biden and harris do. I think right now, you see biden and harris speaking to the issue issues that are important to the Broad Coalition in the communities. You see them coming out this past week with a new focus on the economy talking about the need to support small businesses. The need to support black and latino owned small businesses. Senator harris was in miami last week talking about the little round table there. So i think as we get into this home stretch of the campaign, i think that everybody should understand this thing is not going to be a blowout. The country is polarized, were very narrowly divided. Sure Vice President biden has a lead in these polls and heartening for those of what that want to see the next president , but this is really a toss up election in a lot of these key swing states. The more that we can do, if youre watching this now on a sunday ooempk watevening watchi msnbc, you need to engage in this election an make sure youre not taking anything for granted. Just as easily as last time in Hillary Clinton where people thought Hillary Clinton had the lead and donald trump was a joke and wasnt going to get reelected, we could be waking up in that situation in 52 days or maybe longer because it will take longer for the votes to get counted this year, with the same reality. Thats why i think when it comes to the Latino Community, africanamerican community, anybody who cares about whats at stake in this election, we need to be doubling down our efforts to reach everyone and talk to everyone, no matter where they live. One of the things that people ask me is what can campaigns do differently and i keep encouraging them to follow the doug jones strategy. He called all the voters. At the same time, were hearing a lot f the fact that joe biden, folks dont really see him. Should he be more on the Campaign Trial having these conversations, talking a about how he differ frs the economy . What happens on november 3rd when hes elected president of the United States . Should he be on the ground talking more to these isssnissu . I think for all of us who have worked oncaps, this is a unique experience and senator harris and Vice President biden are trying to talk to as many people as possible and the safest way possible. Not having these big rallies, which weve seen, our super spreader events, but they are talking to a as many voters as possible. Bringing in about 2500 volunteers a day to phone banks to reach out to nonengaged voters. Vice President Biden as well as senator harris, are talking to a lot of Coalition Groups from your, you have the working Families Party who are has do s endorsed the campaign, which is super majority which has endorsed the campaign as well sochlt they continue to talk to a lot of these coalition voting groups in order to get their message out and you know, to expand upon anns point, they are going to be doing a big event this week in honor of hispanic heritage point and for those who celebrate as well as continue to go to florida and michigan and wisconsin, pennsylvania, my state where im at right now, virginia, because theyre not taking this for granted and theyre having those conversations to get those people who not only themselves can get out, but they know they need their surrogates and ambassadors and Community Leaders who can call their everybody thats at the hair salon or church with them, or your college alumni. Youve got to get all these people excited, too, and theyre doing those coalition calls. I want to leave you with the last word. I know oftentimes on twitter, you talk about your own mother and her preexisting conditions and the trials of being worn brown in america. What do you have to say to that audience, the folks in our community that we are most marginalized and sometimes feel like voting isnt for us. What do you tell them . You know, this is actually, this is a very simple thing and i think that simple lessons are the hardest to learn. Is that a lot of times, in the community that i grew up with and the family that i grew up with, i realized that a lot of times, we dont tell each other that were powerful. Because were so busy trying to survive. So what happens is that in my family, we were living paycheck to paycheck. Living well below the poverty line, so when we think about voting, we dont think that v voting is for us. See, thats actually an interesting way that i think campaigns and the parties can actually appeal to communities like latinos. We have to not only tell them we want your vote, we have to teach them how to vote. And we need the teach them how to vote o so they can teach future generations. This whole plan isnt just about 2020. Its about making sure the 18yearold voters want to be voters for the rest of their lives. So how do we do that . I think a lot of times, civic duties, lessons to how we can do this. Theres a will the lot of talk about planning your vote. What does that mean . To me and my family, we went everywhere together. Every time we went out, we went as family. For me, i feel like we have to remember a couple of things. First of all, if your vote didnt matter, they wouldnt make it so hard for you to vote. If you werent powerful, they wouldnt try so hard to make people stop voting. And also understand theres some people that say, oh, but one vote is one voice. What can i do with that one voice . Remember, one voice, one vote next to another one is two. Thats how choirs are made. Choirs are different voices coming together. Trying to sing and thats exactly what this country is and thats exactly what democracy is. What is best for the majority of people. Also, id like to shoutout that i am hosting the biden hispanic operation that is coming up. I want to thank my panel. I want to thank the viewers, too, because what oftentimes people dont know about the Latino Community, for the first time, our biggest challenge is that we have a Voter Registration gap. Half of eligible latino voters are unregistered and to her point, were going to have 12 million more young voters for the very first time. Twothirds are young people of color. Lets focus on closing that gap. Thank you so much for joining me. Well be right back. U so much f me well be right back. Wildfires continue to devastate the west. Oregon, california and washington are all battling places. 33 are dead and sadly, dozens are missing. Thousands have had to evacuate their homes. Now, state lawmakers dealing with the crisis say its time for the federal government to take action against Climate Change. President trump suggesting to states on saturday they need to better force management. Take a listen. Floors you got to clean your forest. They have many, many years of leaves and broken trees and theyre like, like so flammable. You touch them and it goes up. Los angeles mayor Eric Garcetti today pushing back saying this. Well, i listen to fire professionals, not the president of the United States or a politician when it comes to actually what causes these fires. Its been very clear that years of drought as were seeing, whether its too much water or rain in parts of the country or too little, this is Climate Change and this is an administration thats put its head in the sand. Climate change has been here for a while. But what can be done now . With me now is max, a climate economist at uc berkeley. Thank you so much for joining me. Thanks. How are you doing . Youre in berkeley . Is that correct . I am. Its been an interesting week. Of course, communities all around us have been affected by these wildfires, both directly through the loss of homes and whole communities as well as smoke that basically covers the entire west coast. So this really does resemble a little bit the scenes from the Old Testament with heat fire in the middle of an epidemic. Its been very, very scary especially for the directly affected communities. I think one of the Biggest Challenges is when i phone home back to Sonoma County and i speak to my family and i have to tell you that the ptsd is very real. Just being reminded of having to evacuate their home at 2 00 in the morning, not knowing whether it was going to survive. So i am with you, but i want to talk a little bit about what were hearing from the president talking specifically saying that this is all about forest management. And not Climate Change. Can you speak to this . Well, if you actually speak to scientists who do this, we have many of them in the universities and outside of universities, Climate Change is clearly setting the stage here, so there are several studies pointing out that if you figure out what the world would have looked like in the absence of Climate Change, especially in california, we would have had more e precipitation, meaning more soil moisture, and we also would have lowered temperatures. So when its hot outside and the ground is dry, all you need is a match or you know, a spark somewhere and it will set things up. So the issue here is we focused a lot on focusing on that match. You know, the gender reveal party that set off one of those fires. But really, the much bigger issue is the fact that decades and decades of fossil fuel combustion led to already tangible Climate Change impacts and were now seeing really direct effects of that in the form of these fires and the smoke. So, the Science Behind both the pandemic, the president initially denied and has a result created havoc in our economy. He is now, he continues to deny Climate Change and that and you theorize will impact our economy. How so . So, there are literally thousands of papers out there showing that Climate Change has already had measurable effects on the economy, so, think of lower agricultural yields in the midwest. Think of stress on the power grid which we saw last weekend, where we were asked to turn down air conditioners or not use appliances to make sure we didnt have rolling blackouts. There are credible studies showing their negative impact on productivity