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RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WITT: “Which lead me to this question, because you report that Democrats are hopeful Harris can reignite the magic of Obama’s 2008 run. What about Harris? Is there enough magic for Harris to win North Carolina, like Obama did?” KORECKI: “It remains to be seen, but what they are seeing on the ground right now, they are really liking, and they are engaging a lot of women, engaging young people and engaging African Americans, and there are in places like North Carolina and Georgia, there rural counties are very diverse, unlike some of these other states, so they like what they are seeing there. And, if you look at some of the other markers, it’s not just that it feels like 2008, this is a gut feeling. There is data supporting this. There are first time donors, who are donating five dollars. There are first-time volunteers coming out. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have come forward once Kamala joined the campaign, and you look at the fundraising. We had a source tell us that Kamala Harris could raise $1 billion just from July to November, and that is unprecedented.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BAIER: “Yeah. To be fair, Dana Bash, they were given 20 minutes, she got 27, but 16 with Kamala Harris. Remember, Tim Walz was there. She did have some follow-ups to pin Vice President Harris down on some of those flip-flops and other aspects of it. The Walz answers also, after all of this build-up to this interview to say that the whole military dust-up and his history was because of grammar didn’t seem like it met the moment but that’s just what a lot of people seemed to say one day later.” CONTINETTI: “A lot of people are right. Kamala Harris had 39 days to prepare for this interview, Bret. Whatever preparation she did didn’t show. She couldn’t answer the first question which is a Gimme if you are a presidential candidate, what will you do on day one? As much as Dana Bash tried to provide her options to answer some of these questions, Harris seemed, I think, lacking confidence and uncertain in many of her answers. But her fundamental problem is that she is running as a change candidate while still in office. And you can pretend that she’s somehow going to chart a new path forward but nothing she said in that interview suggests that a Harris administration would be any different than a Biden Administration unless it’s a little bit more to the left than the four years under Biden.”

WHATLEY: “We want to make sure that we have volunteers and attorneys that are there any time votes are being cast or counted.” MICHAELSON: “Should people trust that their vote is going to be counted fairly in California?” WHATLEY: “Yeah, and that’s why we want to be here. And the thing about California law is it does allow anybody who is interested in serving in that capacity to go serve in that capacity, which I think is really good.” MICHAELSON: “Whatley’s comments just days after Dr. Phil aired this interview with former President Trump.” [Clip starts] ” Trump: “If Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California, OK? In other words, if we had an honest vote counter.” [Clip ends] ” MICHAELSON: “What does that mean?” WHATLEY: “Well, I think that he feels like California, there are a lot of Republicans and there are a lot of votes here, I think he was probably, you know, a little bit of a stretch.” MICHAELSON: “Trump lost here by — by close to 5 million votes. Do you have evidence that he actually won this state, that there were 5 million more people that voted for him that weren’t counted?” WHATLEY: “No.” MICHAELSON: “So that claim about Jesus is — is —” WHATLEY: “I — you know, we — we’ll see. You know, I mean, and the president can tell stories at any time. But that’s — look, I think the key is that we want to make the point that it is very important for us to have election security protection in place, that we are going to protect the ballot.” MICHAELSON: “There is danger, isn’t there, of some people hearing that from the president, thinking they don’t count my vote. It’s not fair. And then they don’t vote. And then you could lose, right?” WHATLEY: “Well, look, that’s why we set this program up. That’s exactly the conversation that we’re having.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BAIER: “What was the biggest takeaway on that interview from your campaign’s perception and your perception of how the media digested it after a day of digestion?” MILLER: “Well, Bret, simply put that Kamala Harris’ values have not changed. So, all of the crazy ideas, whether it be completely repealing the Trump tax cuts, whether it be banning fracking, whether it be legalizing amnesty and decriminalizing illegal entries into the United States, cashless bail, defunding the police. All the radical positions that Kamala Harris has put out there is still what she believes. She might go try to nibble around the edges and say well, I’m going to describe it a bit differently, but she said that her values have not changed more often than any other policy position that she discussed in that interview. Another thing, too. Is that Kamala Harris is going to have to own the fact that she is the one who has taken the country in the wrong direction? She can’t get up there and talk about turning the page and going to a new chapter in the U.S. when you are literally in the White House right now. For the last three and a half years, she could have taken action on all of these things. But it’s on her. So there has to be some accountability there. She doesn’t deserve a promotion, she deserves to be voted out of office.”

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Smith: “The trial in the 2022 murder of a 24-year-old UCLA grad student Brianna Kupfer is now underway. Shawn Laval Smith is accused of stabbing Brianna to death while she was working alone at a furniture store. Police say he stabbed her 26 times. Let’s bring in Leo Terrell, Fox News contributor and civil rights attorney. Leo, the elements of this story and this case are just so gruesome, so horrible. The sounds in the courtroom drove the parents right out. They couldn’t even tolerate it. Just — want to get your thoughts on what the public should think about this happening.” TERRELL: “What should have happened? It should have never happened. This young girl should be alive today. What is the problem, Sandra? It is progressive criminal justice. This murderer, he’s going to get convicted, has been on the loose for 15 years, arrested, released, arrested, released, arrested, released. North Carolina, South Carolina, California, assaulting an officer, misdemeanor crime, shooting a weapon into a vehicle where there was a young little boy, and now you have this situation. He was released by the District Attorney office in LA regarding a misdemeanor possession of stolen property. Why is he on the streets? Because of progressive policy. George Gascon, George Soros, and guess who? The founder of progressive leadership in California, Kamala Harris. That is why this young lady is not alive today. You know what he’s wearing right now? That monster is wearing a spit mask right now. That’s not a Covid mask. That’s a spit mask, because of his outrageous conduct. And the defense attorney, Sandra, did not do an opening statement. Why? Let me be as clear as possible, 35 years of practicing law. That guy is going to be found guilty. Not even a question. He left a recording of his — of his horrific crime at the scene. DNA, forensic evidence. It is a slam dunk case. But this goes much bigger. It is an indictment against progressive District Attorney. And one last statement. The progressives want us to coexist, to live with criminals in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in our retail stores, in our hospitals. They want us to coexist. That doesn’t make sense, Sandra.” Smith: “6’2,” 190-pound male. He basically walked up to that girl working alone in a furniture store, told her she never had a chance, turned on a video. The video recorded almost everything. I mean, the evidence against him. I mean, he left the bent knife there, but there is digital audio recordings, there’s security camera images. And we just had a second ago up his — the number of mugshots dating back over the decades, how many times this guy has been arrested for absolutely abhorrent behavior. These — this is Brianna’s parents. They spoke to a local affiliate about what it has been like since they lost their daughter.” [Clip starts] L. KUPFER: “Your brain honestly wakes up from a nap, from a sleep, and you jolt like someone electrocutes you because your brain suddenly realizes, my daughter’s gone.” T. KUPFER: “You wake up. You think about it, you can’t help it. You take a walk, you think about it, you do anything. You — she comes to mind. She was really a good, good girl, good living example of what more of us should be like.” [Clip ends] Smith: “So, will that — will this be a wake-up call to some of these cities that allowed this to happen, to allow someone like that out on the street?” TERRELL: “No, not in California. I’m going to be honest. I’m not going to lie to your viewers. No. Is that a wake-up call? We got a progressive mayor. We got a progressive governor. We had a progressive U.S. senator who’s now vice president. Progressive district attorneys currently exist in California and throughout the nation. We need a complete overhaul. And one other point about this monster. This monster was looking for a one-on-one situation, he was basically lying in wait looking for a victim, and he found the victim. And more importantly, he not only showed his hatred towards this young girl, he had a hatred towards women. He had a hatred towards women. He’s a monster and yet he’s allowed to roam the streets. Makes no sense. It’s very frustrating to live in California.”

RADFORD: “Do you feel some kinship towards her as a mixed person?” UNKNOWN FEMALE: “Not personally. I find a lot of her trajectory to not be my brand of woman, leader. We’ve got three major international crises going on and someone applying to be commander-in-chief. As a woman, I want to see you do more than, you know, appeal to giggling and having a girl moment on the stage.”

PHILLIP: “ — sense in parts of America that there’s a cultural antagonism against people who live in places where fracking is an issue that matters. So, yes, it’s about whether or not she cares about people like you, but I think this is a proxy for that.” SINGLETON: “I mean, it’s thousands of jobs for people who live in Pennsylvania. And when you say that you support the Green New Deal, but you also support fracking, those two ideals are not consistent. The end result of supporting the Green New Deal is to end fossil fuels. You can’t say, ‘I support this, but also, by the way, you can have your fracking too.’ So for people in Pennsylvania, those skeptical folks that are in the middle, that five percent that may determine which way that state goes, they’re going to look that and they’ll say, well, is this political pandering, is this political expediency, is vice president saying whatever she needs to say to potentially win, but she doesn’t believe it? And we weren’t clear. She didn’t give a clear or decisive answer in that regard.”

Harris: “He even called for termination of the United States supreme — the co — the supreme land of our nation, the United States Constitution.”

RAJU: “Brad, Republicans had hoped that she’d do this interview, in part because potentially she could stumble, which could change some of the trajectory in this race we have seen over the past month. Did anything change in the aftermath of last night?” Todd: “I think we saw why it took her 35 days to do an interview. She was mushy, she was weak and it was artificial. It felt contrived the whole way. In her second sentence, she said, ‘We need a new way forward,’ but she‘s the incumbent vice president, so she made the case for change in her second sentence into the interview I don‘t think it worked out very well for her.”

PHILLIP: “CNN’s Daniel Dale joins us now with more. Daniel, let’s listen to these comments that Vice President Harris made about her position on fracking.” [Clip starts] BASH: “When you were in Congress, you supported the Green New Deal. And in 2019, you said, quote, “There is no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.” Fracking, as you know, is a pretty big issue, particularly in your must-win state of Pennsylvania.” Harris: “Sure.” BASH: “Do you still want to ban fracking?” Harris: “No. And I made that clear on the debate stage in 2020, that I would not ban fracking. As vice president, I did not ban fracking. As president, I will not ban fracking.” BASH: “In 2019, I believe, at a town hall, you said — you were asked, ‘Would you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking on your first day in office?’ And you said, ‘There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking. So, yes.’ So, it changed in that campaign?” Harris: “In 2020, I made very clear where I stand. We are in 2024, and I’ve not changed that position nor will I, going forward. I kept my word, and I will keep my word.” [Clip ends] PHILLIP: “So, Daniel Dale is here. Daniel, she said there that she’s made her position clear in 2020. Tell us what the truth is of that.” Dale: “The fact-check bottom line, Abby, is that she did not actually make clear at a 2020 debate that she had changed her previous support for a fracking ban. So, let me take you through this kind of saga. So, here’s what she said at a CNN climate town hall in 2019 on the subject of a fracking ban.” [Clip starts] UNKNOWN: “Will you commit to implementing a federal ban on fracking your first day in office, adding the United States to the list of countries who have banned this devastating practice?” Harris: “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking. So, yeah.” [Clip ends] Dale: “That was quite clear. So, she ended her 2020 presidential run in December of 2019. The only debate she participated in in 2020 was the general election debate with then-Vice President Mike Pence. And I went over the transcript of that debate tonight. Nowhere in there does she make clear that she had abandoned her previous support for fracking ban. Rather, she repeated that Joe Biden, the head of the Democratic ticket at the time, would himself not ban fracking. So, listen to what she actually said in that 2020 debate.” [Clip starts] Harris: “Joe Biden will not end fracking. He has been very clear about that. (...) I will repeat, and the American people know, that Joe Biden will not ban fracking.” [Clip ends] Dale: “So, it makes perfect sense that at the time she was speaking on behalf of Biden. The president, not the vice president, sets administration policy. But maybe other people feel differently. I certainly did not hear anywhere in there Kamala Harris saying that she personally had abandoned her previously expressed 2019 view. Rather, again, she was speaking for Joe Biden.” PHILLIP: “All right, Daniel Dale, thank you very much. Donald Trump, he’s been giving his thoughts about tonight’s interview on Truth Social, he spoke to some reporters. I mean, it’s gone about how you would expect.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: About something that you set in 2019 when you first ran. There was a debate. You raised your hand when asked whether or not the border should be decriminalized? Do you still believe that I believe there should be consequences we have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally. >> Consequences. Let‘s be clear in this race, I‘m the only person who has prosecuted transnational criminal organizations who trafficking guns, drugs, and human beings. I‘m the only person in this race who actually served a border state as attorney general to enforce our laws. And I would enforce our laws as president going forward, I recognize the problem generally

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: You. I want to ask you a question about how you‘ve described your service and the national guard. You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone, a campaign official said that you misspoke, did do well, first of all, I‘m incredibly proud to have done 24 years of wearing uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom whether it‘s Congress or the governor my record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I speak like they do I speak candidly. I wear my emotions on my sleeves and I, speak especially passionately about about our children being shot in schools and around, around guns. So I think people know me, they know who I am, they know where where my heart is. And again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to be for itself the idea that you said that you were in war. Did you misspeak as the campaign has said, I said we were talking about in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war and my wife, the English teacher, told him, I grammar is not always correct. But again, if it‘s not this, it‘s an attack on my children for showing love for me or it‘s an attack on my dog. I‘m not I‘m going to do that. And the one thing I‘ll never do is I‘ll never demean and other members service in any way. I never have. And I never will.

BASH: “Generally speaking, how should voters look at some of the changes that you’ve made, that you explain some of here in your policy? Is it because you have more experience now and you’ve learned more about the information? Is it because you were running for president in a Democratic primary? And should they feel comfortable and confident that what you’re saying now is going to be your policy moving forward?” Harris: “Dana, I think the most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is, my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed, and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time. We did that with the Inflation Reduction Act. We have set goals for the United States of America and, by extension, the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, as an example. That value has not changed. My value around what we need to do to secure our border, that value is not changed. I spent two terms as the Attorney General of California prosecuting transnational criminal organizations, violations of American laws regarding the passage, illegal passage of guns, drugs, and human beings across our border. My values have not changed.”

[Clip starts] HAAKE (voice-over): “Kelly Barnett invited the former president to Arlington. Her son, Marine Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover, died at Abbey Gate.” [Clip ends] HAAKE: “What would you say to people who may be pro-Trump, anti-Trump, whatever their politics might be, who just feel like that’s not a place for politicians or for politics?” BARNETT: “I would have to say, are you in my shoes? I invited him. My son was — was murdered under the Biden-Harris Administration.”

BURNETT: “Will everyone have to drive electric cars?” Harris: “Well, by my plan, by 2045 we will have basically zero-emission vehicles only, 100 percent.”

MELBER: “All right, I got your answer on that. While I have you, and we’ve been giving you time, I do want to turn to something that came up in the last time we did an interview. It’s been a few years. You’re back as a representative of the campaign.” LEWANDOWSKI: “That’s a wayback machine, baby.” MELBER: “Well, Corey, when you were on here, we asked you point-blank about these reports that Donald Trump as president had tried to use you as a kind of improper cutout to shut down an open federal probe, which is a big deal. We have some headlines on that. We asked you about it at the time. And when you went in and were facing the House investigation, it also came up, including our interview. Let’s take a listen to that.” [Clip starts] LEWANDOWSKI: “I don’t ever remember the president ever asking me to get involved with Jeff Sessions or the Department of Justice in any way, shape, or form.” (...) UNKNOWN: “That wasn’t true, was it, sir?” LEWANDOWSKI: “I heard that.” UNKNOWN: “And that was not true, was it?” LEWANDOWSKI: “I have no obligation to be honest with the media because they’re just as dishonest as anyone else. (...) Perhaps I was inaccurate that time.” [Clip ends] LEWANDOWSKI: “The wayback machine is amazing. How good did I look back then?” MELBER: “Let me ask you, I’ll give you the question, you give me the answer. We heard you on the campaign, 2024. Now, I want to turn to this, to deal with it. First time you’ve been back since then. Do you want to state for the record that what you stated on air was false? Because people are listening to you about the campaign, and why should they believe you if you’re lying about other things?” LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, if we’re going down this road, are you doing to say that Donald Trump had a bandage on his ear just for spectacle? Are you going to say that that was false? The guy got shot in the head, and you said the only reason he had the bandage on his ear — I can read you the quote if you want. You said it was just for spectacle. So if you want to apologize — “ MELBER: “Two things. You’re not answering the question, Corey — “ LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, do you take back your statement?” MELBER: “I know what you’re referring to, and at the end of the interview, we can touch base on that. We’re gonna finish this question. I will return to that. But the question on the table is, do you admit now for the record that when asked — “ LEWANDOWSKI: “That you were wrong. Do you admit that?” MELBER: “I said I’ll go to it at the end and I will, I’ll do that for you.” LEWANDOWSKI: “Okay. So which one is it?” MELBER: “You agreed to come on and be interviewed. You got time.” LEWANDOWSKI: “I absolutely did.” MELBER: “Now I’m asking you this: Do you admit that you were stating that falsely at the time? Because the investigation was about whether Donald Trump was trying to get you to get Sessions to shut down a lawful probe.” LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, if you tell me that you admit that you were wrong that Donald Trump wasn’t having a bandage on his ear for spectacle, I’ll take you for your word. So you tell me that you were wrong — “ MELBER: “So you’re not — I told you I’ll come back to that at the end, because I will, but you’re not going to answer the question?” LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, listen, here’s the deal, man. I’m with you to answer questions, but you can’t ask me something when you’re not willing to say that you were wrong too. Right? So, admit — “ MELBER: “I told you I’ll come back to that. Again, the viewers are smart. Corey, the viewers are smart. They understand that having been busted, under oath, you admitted that. You said, ‘I have no obligation to be honest with the media.’ So this is relevant because even though I’m being fair and giving you time, if you admit under oath that you were not telling the truth, it is relevant now, and now you seem to be unable to address that. I’ll play one more exchange from your House hearing. Take a look.” [Clip starts] UNKNOWN: “So, the reason why you didn’t admit that the president had asked you to deliver a message to the attorney general about investigations is because you knew it was wrong, and you were concerned about your own exposure, and you didn’t have immunity in that interview, isn’t that correct?” LEWANDOWSKI: “Which interview?” (...) UNKNOWN: “So you can’t give me any other explanation except you’re concerned that you or the president could be criminally exposed on what you attempted to do on his behalf, is that correct?” LEWANDOWSKI: “I didn’t say that. I don’t recall that particular interview.” [Clip ends] MELBER: “Final chance to address this. The Trump Administration had an open investigation. Then-President Trump did ask you to interfere with Sessions, and you did lie about it in public, yes?” LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, listen, we’ve been down this path, okay?” MELBER: “We haven’t. This is your first time back since the path.” LEWANDOWSKI: “That interview was four-plus — almost five years ago to the day, to be very honest with you. You guys want to re.litigate something from half a decade ago, and I think what you would rather have is me talking about what the future looks like for the next president of the United States and the policy differences between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.” MELBER: “Corey, let’s be straight. You’re a clear, straight speaker. I gave you time. I didn’t lead with this. I gave you time to talk about 2024. You got that time. And this is now your chance to address this, and you’re not addressing it. That’s fine.” LEWANDOWSKI: “Ari, you’re not addressing the fact — you’re not addressing the fact — MELBER: “You want me to respond to you? Now we’re at the end of the interview. You want me to respond to that? Okay, I’m happy to, since we’re on live air — “ LEWANDOWSKI: “Do you agree that you were wrong?” MELBER: “I’m going to respond to you on live air. I quoted a New York Times article that said, at the convention, Donald Trump was his own biggest prop. It was a New York Times quote about how he had become such an important figure in rebounding from what was a horrific assassination attempt. Fox News — Corey, I said I’m gonna address it, I’m gonna finish. Fox News, many viewers may not know about this, but apparently you do, and some do, Fox News, which has been taught caught in defamation, ran a false piece falsely stating that I said something else that I didn’t say. So, I stand on that. I stand on The New York Times quote.” LEWANDOWSKI: “So you didn’t say, ‘This bandage was a prop, a spectacle, from a candidate who’s obsessed with spectacles?’“ MELBER: “I did not say that. Mr. Lewandowski, I did not say that. That is a false quote.” LEWANDOWSKI: “I have it right here.” MELBER: “What you have is a false quote. And I’m putting you on notice: If you continue to repeat falsely that I said that, you will be potentially in a defamation situation, because I didn’t say that. But I understand that you’re working off the internet, which has a lot of false information. I wish you luck with that. Corey Lewandowski, we gave you time, I appreciate you coming on.” LEWANDOWSKI: “So you would apologize to the president?” MELBER: “Thank you for joining me.” LEWANDOWSKI: “You bet.” MELBER: “Corey Lewandowski, Trump 2024, and we will be right back.”

BARTIROMO: “Joining me now is ‘The New York Post’ columnist and Fox News contributor Miranda Devine. Miranda, great to see you. Thank you so much for being here. So they lied, right? What else can you say? They lied about the Hunter Biden laptop. Everybody knew that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. They lied.” DEVINE: “They lied. Thanks, Maria. And we know they lied. And I guess nothing in Mark Zuckerberg’s letter to Jim Jordan is a surprise. But I think it is a surprise that he’s written it and that he’s been quite — you know, I mean, it’s too little too late and it’s disingenuous — but he’s been quite open about the fact that the FBI pressured Facebook to censor our story, and that it was the Biden-Harris Administration that was making them censor stories about Covid-19 and satire and humor. If you remember, they were forced to — all the Big Tech companies were forced to take down sort of memes and things that were making fun of Jill Biden. That has nothing to do with safeguarding anything. It’s just about stifling dissent. So it was a disgusting period. And if you remember, a few months before the 2020 election, Facebook was slammed. They lost about $60 billion in market revenue after there was a hit on their ad revenue. And that was a subtle threat to them that they weren’t censoring Donald Trump and the things that the Democrats didn’t want seen enough. And shortly after that, Mark Zuckerberg coughed up his $400 million in ZuckBucks. So he seems to be pretty sore about that. But I would say he’s really coming clean now because he fears or suspects that Donald Trump is going to be president. He wants to get out ahead of his wrath.” BARTIROMO: “But I mean, if they censored information during Covid, they censored information right before an election about Hunter Biden’s laptop, your story that ‘The New York Post’ broke and did an excellent job with. Who’s to say they’re not going to just continue this up? This was the Biden-Harris Administration. So obviously, Kamala Harris’s —” DEVINE: “Yes.” BARTIROMO: “— fingerprints are on this. What is she going to do should she become president and get elected this November? Just censor any information on social media that doesn’t agree with her narrative?” DEVINE: “Well, look, this is a global censorship operation, and the Democrat administrations are fully on board with that. And you saw just this week with the arrest in France of Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, the equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg, the former Russian —” BARTIROMO: “Yeah.” DEVINE: “— for refusing to allow authorities back doors into his encrypted app.” BARTIROMO: “Yeah.” DEVINE: “And so that’s a threat that is being felt by all tech giants. At least we have the courage shown by Elon Musk to push back on it. And let’s hope Mark Zuckerberg comes clean on everything that happened. We need a Facebook files like the Twitter files.” BARTIROMO: “Yeah. I mean — and the courage of Fox News and Fox Business and ‘The New York Post.’ This requires incredible courage —” DEVINE: “Absolutely.” BARTIROMO: “— to pursue the truth. So, yes, thank — thank —” DEVINE: “Yes.” BARTIROMO: “— for you and your company, and Fox, as well as Elon Musk.” DEVINE: “And to you.”

ARCEGA-DUNN: “A group of migrants tried to board a school bus this morning while it was traveling to a school. The superintendent for the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District informed parents of that incident earlier today. It happened at one of the stops on the school district’s bus route that heads to Oak Grove Middle School and Jumul Primary. Meanwhile, yesterday afternoon, in a similar area along another route, the superintendent says that a group of migrants tried to stop another bus. Border Patrol, CHP and the sheriff’s office have now been informed of these incidents. The superintendent says that for the safety of everyone, if a driver sees a group of migrants at a bus stop, they will drive past it and move on to the next.”

BALLASY: “Some of the celebrities we thought we’d see, we have not, like George Clooney, some of the other big names. But you’re here. What made you come to support Harris?” ASTIN: “I played a famous supporting character, Samwise Gamgee, in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, and people have told me for the last 24 years, since they’ve been watching that, how much they feel that Sam is a hero. We’ve been watching Kamala Harris in a very powerful supporting role for the last three and a half years. She’s now stepped out, she’s ready, she’s strong, and I just want to — I don’t want to miss this moment in history. I wanted to see a woman — since my mom was president of my labor union in the mid-80s, I’ve always thought a woman should be president of the United States. I’ve been married 32 years, I’ve got three daughters, and yeah, whatever I can possibly do with my — I hate the idea of platform, but whatever I can do with the fact that I’ve established an audience and a rapport with people. Mostly — I don’t know if you saw this Harvard study that came out last week that said that entertainment figures are actually having a much more outsized impact than you’d think they would, but not necessarily in a bad way, not necessarily — you know, if I travel to other states, I’m not trying to persuade people in their state how they should vote. I’m there to support the staff and the volunteers and to let them know that they’re — you know, that I believe in what what they’re doing. So the idea of civic engagement is a pretty important message from people, and that’s — if I can promote that and say, ‘Hey, regardless of who you’re gonna vote for, be involved,’ and then vote for Kamala Harris for president.”

Harris: “And I will tell you, I was in a band when I was your age, so I know a little bit about [inaudible], right? And all that you all are doing, it requires a whole lot of rehearsal, a whole lot of practice, long hours, right? Sometimes you hit the note, sometimes you don’t.”

KAY: “So we came out of Chicago with an enormous amount of enthusiasm, unity, the word joy being thrown around an awful lot and a lot of money raised by the vice president. We’ve seen the polls move, but not perhaps as much as the enthusiasm might suggest t the moment the candidates are neck and neck in most of the swing states. When would you expect to see more of a poll movement given the kind of shift in, I think the word of the summer is vibe, in the Democratic team?” LANDRIEU: “Well, first of all, the excitement has been incredible. Every day that Kamala Harris has been the candidate, we have won the election every day. You have to continue to build on that. You can see that she’s come from a position of being behind to moving, you know, fairly significantly even. We’ve never thought that this was going to be a blowout race, it’s always going to be close, which is why we organized the campaign around the institutional organizations in the battleground states that matter the most. So we expect this race to be close until — until the last day, but we’re built for it and we’re ready to go. And as you see, the vice president and Governor Walz are heading to the great state of Georgia to continue to campaign. I think they’ve made two rounds now of the battleground states and will continue to do that every day.”

SHANAHAN: “Where we are right now is we have taken a year, Bobby’s been running for over a year. We have crossed this nation, we have talked to Americans, we have met people from all ends of the political spectrum, which is what you should be doing if you are running for a representative office.” CUOMO: “100 percent.” SHANAHAN: “You should be out there listening. And our job is to bring that voice to whomever is going to be sincere in their reception to hearing the American public where they’re hurting. What is going on? I mean, farmers. Like, farmers, are so underrepresented right now. And this is why I brought up some of my criticisms of Kamala Harris, is food cap economic policy, right, or food price capping. Farmers are on their knees in this country right now. They are not price gouging. To say that our farmers are price gouging when they are already on their knees. Who can I take that message to today? You tell me, Chris —“ CUOMO: “Yeah, that’s fair criticism.” SHANAHAN: “— who’s going to listen to me, because I have taken this message for years to the Democratic Party and I cannot get through to anybody. It’s not like this has happened overnight. I didn’t wake up one morning and say what a great idea it would be to leave the Democratic Party. No, I tried everything, everything in my capability to get through to someone who would listen and hear this actual science, to hear the people on the ground, to listen to American voices. And we’ve got to judge people by their reactions. We got to judge people by the people around them. And right now, Trump has some really good people around him and he’s willing, he’s — he’s more than willing to listen. He wants to listen, understand, verify and then say, alright, who’s going to help me get this done? And Bobby has been right up there next to him being, like, I will get this done with you.”

COOPER: “Is the line now going to be, well, why isn’t she doing it by herself?” JENNINGS: “Yeah, I do think people are gonna bring that up. Look, I have great confidence in Dana and CNN to do this. I think it’s incredibly weak, weak sauce to show up with your running mate. The fact that they don’t have enough confidence in her to let her sit herself, the actual top of the ticket, and do a single interview — in fact, I think the hand-wringing and the gyrations over this over the last month show a troubling lack of confidence in her political ability, which also makes you wonder as a voter, what kind of president would you be if this kind of a small-time decision, can we do an interview or not, what does that look like for your decision-making process, and so on? So, yes, I think Republicans are gonna think it’s pretty weak to show up with effectively someone to take up half the time.”

Varney: “Next one. Kamala Harris will finally sit down for an interview nearly 40 days after launching her campaign. However, it will be a joint interview alongside Tim Walz and it will air on CNN tomorrow. OK, Leo, why can’t she do this alone?” TERRELL: “Oh, that’s simple. She’s afraid. She — she — you cannot find a single one-on-one interview with a journalist where she’s able to articulate a viewpoint. She has no moral compasses to her policies. So she needs a helper. She needs a lifeline. She needs a backup plan. And that’s why Tim Walz is there. Because if Dana Bash does her job, Stu, she has an inventory of video and audio that identify Kamala Harris as a socialist. So the Democrats, the DNC, do not trust Kamala Harris, so they brought in backup and that’s the VP.” Varney: “That won’t work. That won’t work with voters if it’s perceived that she needs help and she doesn’t know what she’s doing in terms of policy. Won’t work.” TERRELL: “I agree with you. And you — you can have Donald Trump. Donald Trump will sit by it without any notes for hours, go one-on-one. Kamala Harris is a weak candidate. The American public knows that. And Dana Bash, if she does her job, will expose that. She has no compass as to what her policies are. And again, I can’t say it clear enough, Tim Walz is a lifeline. In case she gets in trouble with a word salad, he jumps in.” Varney: “It’s going to be taped, a taped interview broadcast tomorrow night. I just want — that leaves opportunity for editing, doesn’t it? Last word to you.” TERRELL: “Oh, you know — oh, absolutely. Thank you very much. It’s going to be edited. I mean, I guarantee you for CNN to get that interview, they had to submit to the conditions of the DNC. That tape will be edited. You and I want to see the raw footage if we get a chance to see it.” Varney: “And we won’t. Leo Terrell, thanks for joining us today. (Laughter) Good man. See you later. Thanks a lot.” TERRELL: “Thanks, Stu.”