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RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Who is sitting in a bar saying, we really need to ban animal farm. Nobody is. They are talking about real things. When these guys given situations in front of real people, and trying to pretend like they know what people are going through, got nothing to offer. And no one can picture them in their own lives. I brought this thing up the Donald Trump tries to mock vice president Harris for laughing, and I made the point, you never see this guy laughed. You see them do normal things. I go home at night, I pick up the frisbee, my dog catches it and he gets a Belly rub for being a good boy. Victor these guys doing that stuff. They just can’t. We hear where you are coming from. And I made the pitch that I watched that rally in st. Cloud, Minnesota, where he lied about the election and lied about everything. But the thing that I thought was so joyful was Kamala Harris is going to be there to provide reproductive health care to the women were standing behind him. He’s going to be there to make sure their Social Security for the seniors were standing behind him as he talked about nonsense. Going to be there to make sure those workers can unionize to get a good job. That’s a politics of this. Whether they vote for us or not, that’s irrelevant. Taking the country forward with a positive message on things that work, that’s what people are inspired about. What are they going to tell us about? They are not talking in the legion clubs about banning books and things. They are wondering why this project ’25 cuts va benefits. Why would they do that? Why is Donald Trump doing that? So this is a golden opportunity. Yes, they are weird. They prove that every day.

Harris: “Some of what he and his running mate are saying — well, it’s just plain weird. (laughter)” WALZ: “These guys are just weird. That’s what they are.” Swalwell: “— as weird and creepy as J.D. Vance.” MURPHY: “Super weird idea from J.D. Vance.” UNKNOWN: “Yeah, I mean, it’s quite weird.” MATTINGLY: “Just plain weird.” PSAKI: “Just plain weird.” SIDNER: “Just plain weird.” WALZ: “That stuff is weird. They come across weird, and then they start being weird. Yeah, they’re weird.” WAGNER: “ — being a really weird —“ UYGUR: “He’s such a weirdo.” PSAKI: “Donald Trump and his weirdo running mate —“ Wallace: “They’re weird. Deeply and profoundly weird.” McCaskill: “They are weird!” HOGG: “These Republicans are just being weird. It’s just weird. It’s really weird.” Wallace: “Republican weirdness goes even deeper.” Buttigieg: “He’s said a lot of things that are weird — weird style that he brings — weird policies.” MATTINGLY: “I want to start with the weird thing because it is a thing.” BROWN: “Just plain weird.” BESHEAR: “What was weird was talking about Diet Mountain Dew. Who who drinks Diet Mountain Dew?” WALZ: “You ever seen the guy laugh? That seems very weird to me, that an adult can go through six and a half years of being in the public eye. If he has laughed, it’s at someone, not with someone. That is weird behavior.” Wallace: “Weird and cultish.” WALZ: “These are weird people on the other side.” PSAKI: “— kind of double down on his weird ideas.” UNKNOWN 2: “I think ‘weird’ is probably generous.” Wallace: “Simply weird.” PSAKI: “These guys are just plain weird.” UNKNOWN 2: “Vance is weird.” Lee: “You know, as the campaign said, weird.” SELLERS: “It really is just plain weird.” Dean: “J.D. Vance, plain weird.” JENNINGS: “ I mean, I don’t know how, if you can read it.” Dean: “No, it is kind of weird. It is kind of weird.” WALZ: “We’re not afraid of weird people.” PRITZKER: “The other side, they’re just weird.” UNKNOWN 3: “Why are you being so weird?” Schumer: “Vance has done something more extreme, more weird.” EMHOFF: “No matter what kind of weird stuff they keep saying.” LEMIRE: “Trump and Vance are just weird, in addition to being dangerous to democracy.” Steele: “(laughs) It’s the ‘weird’ part that’s the most engaging.” Velshi: “— whom he addressed as ‘my beautiful Christians,’ which was super weird.” MADDOW: “Weird tech bro J.D. Vance.” UNKNOWN 4: “He’s a weird guy.” CARUSONE: “J.D. Vance, uneasy and sort of weird.” UNKNOWN 5: “Frankly, for lack of a better word, that he’s weird.” UNKNOWN 6: “Sarcastic remarks that aren’t even funny, and he kind of shows that he can’t really deliver a one-liner.” LEMIRE: “So, Sam, ‘weird’ is the word here in terms of initial impressions from Vance to the American public.”

LUNTZ: “Can you name a single Harris accomplishment or result from the time she was elected vice president? Three and a half years, can you name just one? Seventy percent cannot name anything.”

NAVARRO: “So I think we’re being really kind and gracious by just calling you weird and frankly J.D. Vance, ‘Just Dumb Vance,’ is pretty weird. (Laughter) Because he’s —“ (Applause) Goldberg: “Where did you get that from?” NAVARRO: “No, no. I tweeted it out two days ago.” Goldberg: “Where — yes, but where did you hear it the first time?” NAVARRO: “Well I heard it from you today.” Goldberg: “Well you heard it from me last week.” HAINES: “You?” FARAH GRIFFIN: “I heard it, yeah.” Goldberg: “Oh, yeah.” NAVARRO: “I — I — I did it.” Goldberg: “Mm-hmm.” NAVARRO: “But — but let me say this, you know they’ve given him like Megyn Kelly, on Fox News, everybody. They’ve given him, J.D. Vance, all these opportunities to clean up his childless cat lady comment, and he hasn’t been able to. Like he ended up apologizing to the cats instead of to the ladies. That’s not how it — that’s — because he — he means it, because that’s his intention. He has said in more than — more than once, that he thinks people without children that that’s bad and must be punished and people with children must be rewarded. He wants people with children to have more voting rights. He wants people with children to pay less taxes but —“ Goldberg: “Yeah.” NAVARRO: “— here’s what I want to tell him.” Goldberg: “Yes.” NAVARRO: “There are two types of women in this world. There are women who have no children because they are free to choose so, and there are women — (Applause) — like me who have no children because we couldn’t. And how dare you try to tell me that I am lesser than.”

LEMIRE: “... this morning. Let’s talk about this new race and that new talking point, weird or weirdos or wherever you want to put it. Tell us, do you agree with that assessment and why do you think it’s breaking through?” Whitmer: “Well, it’s quite a jarring segue, weirdos and freaks. Here’s Governor Whitmer.” (Laughter) LEMIRE: “I’m sorry.” Whitmer: “You know, I — I think that my colleagues are pointing out the obvious, that the agenda, the way they talk to people, the way they address people, it is bizarre. And it’s — it’s weird. It is weird. I also don’t want to diminish the fact, though, that it also presents a very real risk for us as a country. And weird is kind of a funny phrase to use because it’s bizarre, but at the same — at the same moment, we’ve got to say this is a serious moment as a country. I am proud to be a co-chair of the Harris campaign because my candidate is offering us a brighter future, a focus on how she’s going to make people’s lives better. This — this perpetual, I think, aim to divide us and to inflame us and to anger us and to stoke hate is what’s so dangerous in this country right now. And so, I want to focus on what does the future look like for my kids, for your kids, for the next generation of Americans, for all of us.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Themselves so seriously do you have a favorite vice presidential pick for her or vice president, presidential pick among several names being disgusted, you think would he is a smartest pick for the Democrats when it comes to the vice presidential sweepstakes, there‘s one name that I keep focusing on. J.D. Vance. He absolutely cannot be the vice president of the United States. And so anyone she picks will be eminently more qualified than a guy who thinks that if you‘re a single hard working woman in America, you should have to pay more in taxes. Again, this is just bizarre. Doesn‘t make can you sense? And by the way, if you are single and you meet somebody you want to start a family J.D. Vance doesn‘t support you using ivf to start that family and say unfortunately you start a family and your spouse becomes violent. He has said that he thinks that you should be forced to say and a violent marriage. So I don‘t Kamala Harris is going to pick anyone as weird and creepy. Is J.D. Vance she has a blessing of talented candidates to choose from. And I look forward to hearing from that selection

GOWDY: “I’ve heard from many women, most of whom who are conservative and they would very much like to vote for President Trump and you, but, senator, they are disappointed. So, nuns and priests aside, do you agree there are people who very much love this country and are invested in its future, but they also happen to be childless?” Vance: “Oh, of course I believe that, Trey. And if you look at the full context of what I said, it’s very clear the Democrats have tried to take this thing out of context and blow it out of proportion, which is what they always do, Trey, because they don’t have an agenda to run on themselves. And if you look at what the American people are most concerned about, Trey, it’s not an out of context quip that I made three years ago. It’s the fact that Kamala Harris, the border czar, opened the American southern border, it’s the fact that the Democratic Party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies. In fact, you just heard Kamala Harris in a surfaced clip recently talk about how it was a bad idea to have kids because of climate change anxiety. So really what I’m trying to get at here, Trey, is that it’s important for us to be pro-family as a country — of course, for a whole host of reasons, it’s not going to work out for some people, we should pray for those people and, of course, have sympathy for them. I still think that means we should be pro-family, generally speaking as a party, and I think that our country has become particularly hard for parents, especially under the policies of Kamala Harris.”

GABBARD: “She’s the same person today, now, as she was then and as she always has been, Trey. And this is frankly what makes her an even more dangerous potential president than President Biden has been. I think it’s important for us to focus on this as they’ve made this change midstream. And the reason why she’s more dangerous is because she is an ideologue and her ideology is rooted in extreme policies that are far worse for our country than Joe Biden’s have ever been. I’ll point to two major examples. The border is one of them. She really believes that the real problem with our open borders and this massive illegal immigration is crime and poverty in other countries, and so therefore she believes that instead of taking immediate action to secure our border, she must first go and solve poverty and crime not only in Central and South America, but in countries around the world because this is who we have flooding across our borders now, people from all over the world. Obviously, this is a very, very dangerous idea. And secondly, she’s already shown, in the Biden-Harris Administration, that she is not going to hesitate to weaponize the Department of Justice and law enforcement to go after her political opponent to get what she wants. So what we’ve seen over the last three-and-a-half years has been so brazen, their abuse of power, it’ll be worse with Kamala Harris, who herself touts her record and what kind of president she will be, as a prosecutor president, when we already know she will be a corrupt prosecutor president.”

BREAM: “That was their explanation of her having some sort of leading role on the border. It’s only gotten exponentially worse. These are not right-leaning organizations or media outlets. So what do you understand her role to be, and has the situation on the border improved or worsened?” Buttigieg: “Yeah, let’s be very clear about this, because there has been a lot of mischaracterization. She was not in charge of the border. The Homeland Security Department is in charge of the border. She did do something important, though. She was assigned to conduct diplomacy with Central American countries knowing that that’s part of the bigger picture of what’s affecting the border. And you know what? Those Central American countries are among the few countries to see their numbers go down in terms of the source of migrants who were seen at the border.” BREAM: “Not by much.” Buttigieg: “The point is, what she did was engage diplomatically and effectively. And of course, the bigger issue on the border and migration is that the Biden/Harris administration supported a bipartisan compromise to actually do something about it, one that had very conservative provisions that was hard for many in our party to support. There was that bipartisan deal, even Mitch McConnell was for it, the head of the CBP union was for it, and then Trump swooped in to kill it, not because he that it was bad policy, but because he did not want that issue to get better, because if it got worse, it would be better for him politically.”

It a serious time over in Israel. Are you confident senator that? U s and lead lebanese efforts to cool tensions between Israel and Hezbollah will be successful. No, because I think Iran is behind all of this, and until we put Iran on notice that we’re gonna hold you accountable for tax by Hezbollah and Hamas against Israel, you’re gonna get more the same. The attack by October, seventh was designed to normalization, in my view, between Saudi arabian is Israel so until the Iranians believe they’re gonna get hit, that we start putting their oil refineries own a target list. You’re gonna get more this when it comes to Iran. Buying hairs have been a colossal failure in terms are controlling diet, cola, they’ve enriched him and Israel ‘s paying the price. What do you believe will happen? Now? Could this conflict spiral and couldn’t open up a second fraught yeah yeah, what I worry the most about as a sprint to a nuclear weapon. The director of national intelligence gave that Senate report last week about the status of the Iranian nuclear program and their malign activities, helping their proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas throughout the mideast. It was stunning I am very worried that not only you could open up a second front, but they could use these three or four months before election to sprint to a nuclear weapon, and we have to put them on notice. That cannot happen

You have a politically and 10 policy antenna. I’ve been listening device president Harris this week, speak about Israel and, what’s going on with the war with Hamas, you’ve been listening as well, do believe. There is any daylight between her position in articulation of the policy on Israel versus president violence. I, don’t know what what I think about vice president Harris’s approach here is that all the elements of President Biden, s approach are there. She supports them. She’s been part of that, so Israel’s right to self defense, the fact that how the war is conducted matters how mosque and have have no control or governance after this war. No more October, seventh, but also, very importantly, that the Palestinian Authority has to be the nucleus of governance in a postwar Gaza. They are lots of flaws. They need lots of help to reform the also need resources. Very importantly— and you mention this with the congressman- mccall a path, although he left out this park, a path to waste two state solution to assure that the great majority, the Palestinian people who have nothing to do with Hamas, can have some light at the end of the tunnel. We need equal, security, equal dignity, equal rights to self determination for Israelis and pounds to his like and the present his couple that with what you did talk about, which was a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia, which would be very good for the security interests Israel and she, of course, will remain. President Biden vice president for the rest of the term, but she’s also now the presumptive democratic nominee one hundred days between now in the election. Would you council her in. Any way to separate or differentiate herself, or at least define herself on the Israel issue on her own terms quickly or just to keep going along, as is well. So I believe the elements of her policy are are the same, but the question is how we succeed in achieving that else. Most of the pulse, the I have been critical of the vita ministration at times for not using all the levers of influence we have to achieve President Biden, the stated goals, including what a war in Gaza looks like. So I was pleased that, after her meeting with prime minister Netanyahu, the vice president made it made a statement, a public statement, not a written statement, and she did it with clarity

PEREZ: “I worked under three Democrats, two Republicans. Everybody talked tough on the border. Only one president actually backed it up. That was Donald J. Trump. (Cheering and Applause) Joe Biden doesn’t care about the border. Border czar Harris doesn’t care about the border. Do you guys remember the interview when they asked her if she was going to go to the border, and she laughed about it and said, ‘Well, I haven’t been to Europe?’ There’s nothing funny about border security. Tell that to the families that have lost loved ones to the victims of illegal alien crime. President Trump is the only one that has stood with them. I’ve seen it with my own eyes, he’s done it. He is strong on the border. Border Czar Harris needs to go.” (Cheering and Applause) Trump: “Thank you very much.”

Bennett: “Republicans are trying to paint Kamala Harris, the vice president, as being far more progressive than President Biden. This line that she’s a San Francisco liberal, I keep hearing over and over again. Unpack that strategy for us, the Trump campaign strategy, and trying to define the vice president.” BARRON-Lopez: “They have been really rushing to try to define her after — and some of it is repeated attacks that they used on President Biden. But one thing that they have been doing a lot, Geoff, is they have been calling Vice President Harris a DEI hire, diversity, equity, inclusion hire, including — and that’s included some Republican lawmakers, allies of Trump. And Trump has also himself called Harris ‘dumb as a rock.’ He did that this week on Truth Social, really questioning her qualifications for the job. And a lot of the Black Democratic organizers that I spoke to said that calling Harris a DEI hire is just another dog whistle. And then Donald Trump again, recently on the campaign trail, repeatedly mispronounced Kamala Harris’ name.” [Clip starts] Trump: “So now we have a new victim to defeat, lyin’ Kamala Harris, lyin,’ L-Y-I-N-apostrophe. (Audience booing) (...) For three-and-a-half years, lyin’ Kamala Harris has been the ultra-liberal driving force behind every single Biden catastrophe. I used to call it Biden migrant crime, but now I will probably change it to Harris or Kamala.” [Clip ends] BARRON-Lopez: “Her name is Kamala. And this is something that Donald Trump did in 2020 as well. He and his surrogates repeatedly mispronounced her name. And a lot of Democrats have said that it’s just another dog whistle.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Scott: “Alright, so you are satisfied with the resignation?” FALLON: “Yes, she does not need to be running the agency anymore because as you pointed out when you said you’d never want to see this happening again, you’re absolutely right. We have to figure out the how and the why so we can get to the never. So this will never happen again. I want Kamala Harris safe, I am glad that Barack Obama was safe when he was president. We need to keep President Trump safe, J.D. Vance, any national political figure because if we don’t we are going to devolve into being a banana republic.”

Reporter: “The district attorney of San Francisco, Kamala Harris, appeared in the courtroom during your trial twice.” TRULOVE: “Yeah, the two times that Kamala Harris showed up to my trial was when I got convicted and also when they laid down the sentencing.” Reporter: “When you saw her on the day that the verdict was handed down, did you take that as a bad sign?” TRULOVE: “It felt to me that she was well aware about my case, and she was there to set her presence, almost take pride in getting a conviction. When I put in my appeal, the people that’s fighting against my appeal to keep the conviction is the attorney general office. I learned that reading, you know, their reply to my appeal, and you see Kamala Harris’ name at the bottom. And now it’s starting to feel a little personal.” Reporter: “When you win the $13.1 million, it’s a massive settlement, did you feel like that was enough?” TRULOVE: “There’s not an amount that could get back those seven years, it was six-and-a-half years that I spent in prison. But instead of me coming home feeling like I was a victim. I wanted to prove that I’m a survivor and I will not let my story go unheard. You know, I’m not necessarily saying I’m looking for an apology, but some acknowledgment from her that she could have messed up would be — of course, that’d be huge. You could have made some mistakes. You could have missed some things. I mean, it was a big miss, you know, I had life in prison.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: SHARPTON: “Earlier this week, senator, House Republicans literally had to hold a closed door meeting, instructing their members to refrain from attacking vice president Harris over her race or gender after several members did exactly gthat after the candidacy was announced. The common refrain being that the former state and urban prosecutor, U.S. senator and sitting vice president is a so- called dei hire. How did you think voters will react to these kinds of attacks on Harris from Trump and his allies if they continue?” OSSOFF: “It is clear that the former president and his allies in Congress are having esa very difficult time restraining themselves from levying these kinds of overtly racist and sexist attacks against vice president Harris but I can assure you, reverend al, that here in Georgia, that strategy will backfire in rea spectacular way. It is a sure path to mobilizing outraged, indignant, and determined voters to get out to the polls, to send a message that this is not what Georgia is about, that is not what the United States is about. And act, vice president Harris’ candidacy is a symbol of what America can be as we realize our highest ideals and open opportunities at the highest levels for people of all backgrounds.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: WITT: “Focusing on race and gender and not bearing children. Jd Vance called her a childless cat lady. The vice president has stepchildren, the second gentleman’s ex-wife strongly supports harrison said her kids have three parents. Are these attacks that firing and how do Democrats combat them while refusing to give them oxygen?” CROSS: “To give them oxygen in America were over 60% of women under 40 do not have children and many do not plan on it. The other part is that we have a significant segment who are having fertility issues and you have a Republican Party that’s also pushing against in vitro. A party who is saying if you do not have children as a woman, you should not even be able to vote because you have no understanding of or no real value in the future of America. That’s a problem and that’s not only extremely offensive as somebody who does not have children, mind you, I also don’t have cats but it’s a situation where they’ve made their bed and they have to lie in it. For Harris, for many of the stepmom’s across the country they are saying at what point did we – it’s something that is offensive to women. And the fact that the Republicans have essentially always had a problem with women, to dig their heels in deeper when women are one of the largest voting blocs in the country, it’s a fatal mistake for the Republican Party.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: PHANG: “I’m not going to put you on the spot unless you’re coming the invitation to be mi able to say who you think the vp pick should be for Kamala Harris. But I’m going to read a little bit of tea leaves because Andy Beshear, his name has been ea bandied about. We know that he’s being vetted. He’s heading to Atlanta tomorrow, to the battleground state of Georgia, to campaign for Kamala Harris. What are your thoughts about this kind of vp process we are seeing right now?” BOTTOMS: “Name we’ve heard will run circles around J.D. Vance. They are all exceedingly qualified and as someone who’s been through this process before, it’s a very stressful process. So God bless them all going through this. But at the end of the day, each of the people whose names we’ve heard mentioned have said whether they are the VP or not, they will support Kamala Harris in making sure that we defeat Donald Trump. And I really don’t think that you can go wrong with any of the names who have been mentioned.” PHANG: “I don’t think it’s diplomacy to say that it is an embarrassment of riches in terms of the veepstakes that’s going on right now.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Sanders: “General James, as we were talking in the last block about the way in which Donald Trump attacks those that he views as his opponents or that are trying to hold him accountable, he specifically has gone, he has a specific ire, I feel like, when it comes to certain individuals and you are one of the people that he has also attacked for attempting to and successfully in many respects holding him accountable. I do want to ask you about one of those things, Donald Trump has an appeal given the Supreme Court ruling that essentially says, you know, president and former presidents are kings, that there’s absolute immunity for official acts. Donald Trump is appealing and a spokesperson for your office said there’s nothing new in his appeal arguments. And the defendants are raising arguments that were sanctioned for. We are confident we will prevail on appeal. Are you concerned that given just the maid — makeup of some in the country,’s that there is a chance for him to skirt some of the accountability that your office has attempted to bring?” James: “This is a state case. We are confident in the state of New York that we will recover over $450 million for the residents of the great state of New York. He’s engaged in name-calling but unfortunately the reality is I will not dignify his comments and I will not amplify his racism and sexism. We’ve got to focus on issues. Americans are struggling right now. Inflation has gone down under the leadership of Biden and right now we are experiencing one of the lowest unemployment rates in history. And it’s critically important that the number of illegal border crossings has come to one of the lowest points again because of pathways that President Biden and vice president Harris have created through executive order that Republicans oppose. We have an opportunity to create bipartisan immigration but Donald Trump killed it for political purposes. Again, I will not fear Donald Trump. I have steel in my backbone and the reality is, I will not allow this person, Donald Trump who unfortunately is a broken man, to get in the way of progress and separate us. It’s important that Americans understand that we need to stand up and defend our liberties, our rights and the reason why countless numbers of individuals are flocking to the country is because of our liberties and freedoms which are under attack from individuals led by Trump who only want to attack us based on grievances. And a number of those grievances are issues that we have addressed in court, and they are laid out in project 2025. Individuals need to understand they should not vote against their economic interests and that people need to stand up. We also need to recognize that Kamala Harris has been a great defender of unions and working- class people in this country and as a proud defender of unions, it’s important that individuals understand that we need to grow at the middle class and we need to hear from young people. Right now she’s leading the polls for young people by 20 points, because young people are sick and tired of the racism, sexism and they are tired apparently of the grievances they want a functioning government and right now you have Republicans in Congress, Congress is paralyzed by their leadership. We need to make progress for all Americans and not engage unfortunately, in name-calling. Kamala Harris represents the future and that is why this attorney general and all democratic attorney generals are supporting endorsing—“

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Harris: “It has to be about a goal of saying everybody should end up in the same place and since we didn’t start in the same place, some folks might need more equitable distribution, giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality. But we also need to fight for equity understanding that everyone starts out at the same place. So, there’s that big difference between equality and equity. Equality. Suggest often everybody should get the same thing. Well. That often assumes there by started out in the same place. As opposed to equity, which is everyone, should end up in the same place, And, if you then understand that everybody started out in the same place, you understand some people need more. So, we all end up in the same place, right. We are proud of the fact that equity is one of our right guiding principles. Proud of the fact that we understand equality is important, but not everybody starts out on the same base. We see that people in our country are having an experience that is not equal. So, when we talk about the work we are doing here, together, it is recognizing that and being guided by this principle of what we must do in the spirit in in the interest of equity. To put equity firmly at the center. Of our economic policy, but you know if you’d look at the the reality of who will benefit from certain policies when you take into account that they’re, not starting at that, that the same place and they’re not stand there not starting on equal footing, it will directly benefit black children, black families, black homeowners.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Sanders: “Madam attorney general, thank you for being with us, there’s been a lot of talk about this call that happened last week, when black women called, it is a call that has happened every Sunday for the past couple of years but last Sunday was very specific, can you give us insight as to what went down on the call?” James: “I was not one of the organizers, I was one of the participants but I did send it out to my network of friends in the great state of New York. It’s important that individuals understand what is at stake right now and everything is at stake. I think the attorney general, I and my other colleagues have endorsed Harris, and an attorney general, it’s in the best position to know what a former attorney general is capable of and Kamala Harris clearly is capable and is the most qualified individual to run for president in fact more qualified than the last four presidents. And it’s important that individuals recognize our basic liberties and freedoms right now are being jeopardized as the attorney general, I have joined with others to analyze project 25. And this is not new to us, this is something which Donald Trump is true too, why? Because when he was president of these United States, I, and other attorney generals, Democrats, we had to sue him in fact under my leadership, my office suit Donald Trump over 100 times and the basis of all of that was, project 2025. So he cannot distance himself from something that he has attempted to implemented when he was president of these United States and we were successful, 70% of the time. We were the firewall, democratic attorney generals, and she, Kamala Harris, given her experience, given her background, someone who was obviously concerned about liberty and freedoms in this country and our democracy as a whole, she is the most qualified candidate to be president of these United States and it’s my singular focus to have her elected president of these United States, organizing, mobilizing and educating individuals about all that Trump did to divide us on constructs such as race, class, gender and as Eleanor Roosevelt said because we are—“

BAIER: “Let’s bring in Karl Rove, Fox News contributor, former deputy White House chief of staff. Karl, good afternoon. I know you wrote about enthusiasm on the Democratic side. They are fired up. They’ve removed some of the baggage of President Biden when it comes to age and mental competency. And there is a challenge for Republicans. This is The Wall Street Journal editorial board. ‘Kamala Harris confounds the Republicans. Democrats are newly energized as they rally behind Kamala Harris for president, which is no surprise after the weeks of despond over President Biden. Yet, Republicans seem suddenly and oddly on the back foot as they didn’t think this could happen.’ How do you see it?” ROVE: “Well, I think that’s right. I wrote about it in my own column, as you alluded to. She’s got a lot of vulnerabilities. Let’s not kid ourselves. But she’s also got a momentary strength, which may be durable. She’s energized black, brown and young voters. Democrats are alive again. She’s going to be far more articulate than Joe Biden was in making the case for a continuation of the Biden-Harris policy. She’s going to attack on the abortion issue far more effectively than Joe Biden ever was, and Republicans had better get their act together. We’ve seen the momentum close this gap. I suspect by Labor Day, if she has a good rollout on the VP, she has a good Democratic National Convention, if she hits the road hard right afterwards and spends the last week of August campaigning, I would not be surprised to see her ahead in the polls on Labor Day. And the only way to reverse that is to stay focused on the policies that she has advocated and the policies that as vice president she has helped put implement that have given us high inflation, a gigantic mess at the border, lack of respect around the world, anti-energy policies and increasingly government interfering in the lives of American families, American communities and American businesses.” BAIER: “As we get closer to elections, I’d like to listen to the grizzled veterans of political races gone by. You’re one of them. Another one on the left is James Carville, and he’s issuing his own warning to Democrats.” [Clip starts] CARVILLE: “This is too triumphalist, ok? This is — everybody’s giddy. Everybody should feel good and liberated and everything else. But if we don’t win the election, we haven’t done anything. This kind of giddy elation is not going to be very helpful much longer because that’s not what we’re going to be faced with. And I think the vice president, put it in athletic terms, needs a really good cut man in a corner because she’s getting ready to get cut.” [Clip ends] BAIER: “Yeah. And talking to Alex Castellanos earlier, Karl, saying, you know, there’s this image and voice of Kamala Harris as a political candidate on all these left ideological issues that lives on social media out there. And how is she going to deal with that and reconfigure herself prior to Chicago and the convention there?” ROVE: “Well, I have two things. First of all, I didn’t take offense that I was called grizzled, grizzled political veteran because there are a lot of grizzled journalists as well. But anyway, she’s got to have a message that is forward-looking and she has also got to have a more effective attack on Donald Trump than Joe Biden has been able to mount. And it’s got to be focused. It’s got to be deliberate, it’s got to be laid out, and trying to do two things at once is harder than you might expect. Reintroducing herself and painting a vision of the future at the same time that she’s mounting from essentially, you know, Ground Zero, an attack on Donald Trump, is going to be a challenge for her. Look, she’s not a great candidate. We know that from 2020. She was a flash in the pan. She did well in a couple of debates, but she was not an effective candidate. She’s not good on the stump. She has a weird manner about her, the cackle is sort of off-putting. And she’s very, very, very left-wing. She was to the left of Bernie Sanders, for example, on the question of Medicare for All. And there’s a lot of material there that the Republicans can take advantage of, but they have to be disciplined. No talking about how this is a coup because Biden withdraw and she was elevated and people don’t care about that. What they care about is what affects them in their everyday lives, rising costs, the border crisis, respect for America and so forth.” BAIER: “So, you’re saying stay away from the process, stay away from the DEI, stay towards the policy —“ ROVE: “Right, that’s counterproductive.” BAIER: “— and the listing?” ROVE: “Yeah, totally counterproductive. We’re now at a point, think about it, we have just over 100 days before the final day of voting. We have in some instances 40 some odd days, 45 days before people start to vote. So every moment is precious at this point in the presidential campaign, and you better be focused on what really matters to voters. And particularly what matters to that small group of voters who are weakly linked today to either candidate or are up for grabs in the battleground states because they’re truly undecided.” BAIER: “All right, Karl Rove, thank you. And by the way, grizzled was a compliment.” ROVE: “Thank you. Same to you.” BAIER: “Alright, see you.”

Harris: “Now it appears he’s backpedaling. But I’m ready and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen that exists in this race on a debate stage. And so, I’m ready. Let’s go.” [Clip ends] COMPAGNO: “Let’s go. That was Kamala Harris trying to get Trump to commit to a debate. And while America is bracing for a Trump-Kamala matchup this November, the Trump campaign is still skeptical she will be their pick. Donald Trump has said on Tuesday he has no problem debating Kamala Harris.” [Clip starts] MELUGIN: “If Kamala Harris does end up being the Democrat nominee, will you commit to debating her at least one time?” Trump: “Oh, yes. Absolutely. I’d want to. I think it’s important, but I have at least equal say, and I don’t like the idea of ABC. I would be willing to do more than one debate actually.” [Clip ends] COMPAGNO: “But his team will not schedule one until the Democrats officially nominate their candidate. Trump’s campaign releasing this statement: ‘Given the continued political chaos surrounding Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, general election debate details cannot be finalized until Democrats formally decide on their nominee. Therefore, it would be inappropriate to schedule things with Harris because Democrats very well could still change their minds.’ Tomi.” LAHREN: “Oh. The Trump campaign has already been put at such a disadvantage because the Democrats staged a coup on their own candidate and so the Trump campaign had to spend millions of dollars and over a year, two years campaigning against Joe Biden, who they thought was going to be the nominee, who they went through the entire primary process saying that he was going to be their presumptive nominee with the delegates to clinch that nomination. So they wasted all that time and money and now they’re expected to just debate Kamala Harris on her terms with liberal mainstream media. I don’t think so. The Trump campaign has every right to step back and say no, no, no, we’re going to let this play out. By the way, just a week ago it was J.D. Vance saying I’m not going to commit to a debate with Kamala Harris because I don’t know who your vice president is going to be. And they scoffed at that. A week later, they have a new presumptive nominee. And also, because of all of the changing out, what the Democrats have done to their own ticket, I think Donald Trump and his campaign have every right to say no, I want it to be on Fox News because you’ve already put us at such a disadvantage. Now you’re going to play maybe more so on my turf. Every right to do it and he should stick to it.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BAIER: “Mollie, surprised by 48 hours of consolidation and these poll numbers or not?” HEMINGWAY: “No, I don’t think it’s surprising at all and, in fact, the Trump campaign had predicted that there would be probably a much bigger bounce than you are seeing here. Democrats were in a very bad situation. They really did not like who their nominee was. They are very happy to have literally anyone else and if that’s Kamala Harris, that’s fine. I wonder though how things are going to go as this campaign advances? Kamala Harris has not really been talking about her record, particularly in swing states. You know, her opposition to American energy in Pennsylvania is probably not going to be a huge asset. Also, I think the Trump campaign has not yet had a chance to really identify her as part of the Biden-Harris presidency which is a failed presidency. And so those fundamentals of the race are going to come back in at some point here.”

FAULKNER: “Let’s talk about the border, and look, we can start right there with the dangers for Americans. 11 illegals known on the terror watch list. 375 with Kamala Harris in charge of the border, Biden put her there.” MACE: “Right. And I will not let mainstream media or Kamala Harris rewrite history here. She had one job as the border czar and she failed miserably. And look, even Joe Biden said that she was ‘in charge’ of the southern border. He was very specific about it. He said Mexico and the Northern Triangle, which is where the mass of these migrants are coming from. And she hasn’t done anything to stem the tide of terrorists coming across the border. We’ve had over 9 million people. It’s been epic disaster and she owns all of it.”