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now, i want to go to our media euro meteorologist chad myers, chair. >> chad, give us the latest forecast is there an sdo quickly becoming a hurricane not yet wolf, it doesn't have an ai yet. >> we're not seeing that development at least at this hour when the sunsets things get a little bit more calm in the atmosphere. i suspect that we will get that certainly to ramp up very heavy rainfall now expected for the u.s. and british virgin islands could be some way we end as well, 50 to 60 miles per hour over puerto rico. we know what that can do to the power grid, but i want you to do is look at puerto rico right here and how much rainfall could fall tonight from ponce all the way over 12 oceangate, there could be flash flooding with ten inches of rain. so yes, there'll be wind, but i think the biggest threat will is going to be flooding chad myers. >> thanks very much for that update. appreciate it very much. and to our viewers. thanks. >> thanks very much for watching erin burnett outfront starts, right now outfront next

breaking news, new reporting into outfront on trump's spiral allies, worries, losing focus, telling him to quote, snap out of it. >> this is tim walz and his first solo campaign event goes because into attack mode just moments ago. plus tonight and crane making major gains inside russia. and they are doing it fast tonight. i'm going to speak to an award photo journalist who is there with those troops on the russian line saying firsthand what happened when ukraine invaded russia, catching putin by surprise. and elon musk are going all in the non maga pushing trump's talking points and even finishing his sentences for him. is it good for the richest man alive? >> let's go outfront and good evening. >> i'm erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news. he better snap out of it. that's a direct quote from a trump insider who is just one of many voices from trump's inner circle tonight worried that the former president is spiraling and losing focus, that he's veering off message and event after event after event and in

fact, according to new reporting just out this hour from our kristen holmes and steve contorno sources close to the former president say this race should be easy for trump. they're telling their telling cnn, quote, talk about the economy and talk about immigration. of course, trump likes to talk about other things. instead, he has dabbled and conspiracy theories, claiming that thousands of supporters that we saw in this picture at a rally in detroit were doctor of course, we were our cameras were there are photojournalists were there. it was not doctored. and just moments ago, trump made this comment where he again focused on purposely mispronouncing harris's name kamala harris. >> nobody knows her last name. it's harris. know everyone thinks you have his kamala. so it's kamala harris he does know how to say it correctly. >> yes. said it correctly before so let's just not not beat around the bush about that. this is part of pattern for trump from questioning

harris, his race, to other baseless charges he wants to release all the president is that are in detention and some of these guys are really bad. >> i didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. she's barely competent and she can't do an interview this is why the former president's allies are frustrated. >> the bulwark marc caputo puto tonight is reporting that the trump campaign starting tomorrow, that campaign has planned a series of many rallies and they're calling them any rallies because they basically want to focus on one specific topic at each one. so tomorrow's mini rally kicks this off its north carolina hello, iowa, a state where trump is still ahead in polls would they want to zero in on the economy which sounds great in theory because it's an area where trump of course, in poll after poll does better than harris. but trump has made it very clear, even in recent days on the campaign trail that he is proud to stay off message john miller gives the exact

same speech over and over again over and over the same exact words. >> i don't do that. i got to give you a little bit of variety right change all these speeches but. we don't like to read teleprompters, right? it's not as much fun it's not as exciting that somehow it's never as good as it well tonight harris is running mate tim walz made his first solo appearance on the campaign trail kamala harris is running mate tim walz going after the former president trump and j.d. vance for attacking waltz's military record these guys have are even attacking me for my record of service. i'm going to say it again as clearly as i can. i am proud of my service to this country and i firmly believe you should never denigrate another person

service record to anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country including my opponent. i just have a few simple words. >> thank you for your service and sacrifice kristen holmes begins our coverage. >> he has in washington outfront tonight. so kristen, i know you've got new reporting here from your sources. what are you learning about? what's going on inside the trump campaign tonight? >> well, erin, look, there's three different things that are happening here. one, you have donald trump dabbling in these conspiracy theories so that is talking about the crowd size is talking about kamala harris is ethnicity, then you have him completely off message one instance that was pointed out to me by a number of conservatives was him at a rally in atlanta, georgia going after governor brian kemp be very the popular republican governor in what is now a very critical swing state that's a message that they would not like him to be sending. and then the third is that people are really paying much more attention now when you talk about him going off message on these fringe theories, he really runs a risk and this is

what his allies are telling me. they're concerned about people remembering her voters, remembering why they shied away from him in 2020 when he was pushing all of those lies about the 2020 election. now if you talk to people who are close to him, who are outside of the campaign, they are encouraging him both privately and publicly to stay on message. and i want to read you one exchange we larry kudlow, who served on the trump administration and kellyanne conway, who obviously was part of the administration and led his successful 2026 or 2016 campaign. she says to kudlow, the winning formula for president trump is playing to see its fewer insults, more insights, and that policy contrasts were larry kudlow says, don't wander off don't call well, her stupid or all kinds of names and stay on message. now, partially what's been alarming to people who are close to donald trump, is this picking up of these fringe conspiracy theories? it is something they've seen before and they worry that he is particularly susceptible when

he is in a state of vulnerability, obviously, donald trump has held at a lot of upsets in the campaign recently particularly as we have seen, the enthusiasm boost for kamala harris, the polling boost for kamala harris and his advisers really blamed the accessibility that people have to him, that these kind of fringe conspiracy theorist have to him, whether it be at mar-a-lago, whether be on the golf course, whether it be the fact that they have of his cell phone number many times these advisers don't even know who donald trump is speaking to on a regular basis. and so that is where he's getting some of this and now he's at a point where he is promoting it. and that is where they see a problem, particularly when they want him to stay on message as this race seems incredibly tight. >> all right. kristen? thank you very much with that new reporting and interesting just to, you know, when you hear the inner circle weeks ago, right? you had heard how strong that inner circle was. and obviously there's a very professional campaign manager team there. this frustration is very telling astead herndon, you just heard kristen talking

about that. and as i said, it is telling junior hearing people on the inside have this is there any chance he will be able to stay on message and we just take this this rally tomorrow. north carolina, the economy, that one should be a layup for him. yeah. >> i mean, they're clearly putting him parameters in place to put this candidate in positions where he can succeed. but i would say like this is donald trump. we've asked this question so many times over the last year, and honestly, i think we should reframe the idea of message discipline with donald trump. i mean, when there is a person like joe biden across from him, he's more willing to talk about the economy. he's more willing to talk about the substance when there's a person of color and there's a woman with someone who kind of puts him on edge. he has consistently been someone who leans into those personal attacks in the ad hominem leaned into conspiracy theories. and i think to kristen's point reaches out to whoever is kind of giving him the most affirming pieces of information. and so i think it's actually been fairly consistent that we get this version of donald trump when there is a kamala harris on the other side. and i frankly think

he's just wrestling with the with the race that he did not expect the have at the republican national convention. i think about that last speech on the thursday, there was such promise of donald trump kind of find to get different version of themselves. republicans were signaling that this was going to be a different version of donald trump. and we got the same rally version that we get all the time. and i really think that's indicative of someone who was thinking they were operating from a place of strength, but was really he operating from a time in which she was only doing he was only looking strong relative to his opponent. now that that has changed, i think a lot of that has been up into i mean, it would be hard for anyone to have this situation go from what it was for him where he was seen as a shoo-in to what it is now, right. that be hard for anyone, but now, you've got the specific person here and the personality that matters so much. he could be out there, jamal saying x million people have come over the border while kamala harris was charged with being one of the people leading that policy, he could be doing all that. >> what he's not that's right. >> i think on one hand, i said is right. donald trump is donald trump? and he's an

80-year-old, almost 80-year-old version of donald trump. so it may be a little tougher for him to make the pivots, but i think also he's a, his strategy of how he attacks people. it's pretty consistent. and one thing that he does, he goes after people's strengths. he goes after the thing that he thinks is going to actually wound them in the public mind, right? and so for him, he's got to go after kamala harris on something. he's got to make her dam. he's going to try to make her not appealing in some way that he thinks people already find her to be appealing. i think in his mind, i'm just playing down on trump's mind for second was a dangerous place to be. but if he can do that, then he has a chance to win. on the other issues. but i think he knows something else. what does that he can't actually went on the issues because although they won't talk about the economy, people care, they weren't talking about inflation and people care even though we're starting to the polls now, even up for kamala harris is some of these polls ultimately people aren't voting for him those questions, if people aren't going to vote for the democrat because they care about their freedom. they care about democracy, they care about abortion those are the

questions. and he can't compete on those questions. >> well, it may be also that they're voting on some sort of emotional connection, which something he does understand, right? and maybe, maybe better than anybody marc caputo, you have some new reporting on on what they're doing in the campaign to keep him on message as he's back on twitter and off of truth social or truth, social not being his primary home. that's actually really significant from what you're learning well that's an example of donald trump saying, look, let me grab the mic and he knows he's got the biggest megaphone on twitter that is a double-edged sword for her. however, because when he started questioning the when he raised the conspiracy theory of the ai generated crowd who did on truth, social, it got a lot of attention, but is going to let get a lot more attention on twitter if he does that. in addition to that, they have the minnie rally ideas here. let's put it in a smaller setting have it more policy focused? one of the things that you'll notice from that clip you played earlier of donald trump talking about being at a rally and not wanting to be on script. he's a performer as

well as a candidate. one of the people i spoke to said, look, he likes to be at the center of attention and he wants to give his crowds, his people show there's going to be less of a pressure doing that at these mini rally. there are also bring back a top aide, taylor budowich, who is good at messaging and is well liked both by trump and by vance, j.d. vance, vice presidential running mate. so those are some of the things that they're doing to sort of more insulate him and give him more of an opportunity, i think as a stich said to be the better version of themselves the question is as kani. so far, there are a lot of doubts that that's going to be the case. he is gonna be doing more local press interviews. he's doing them from mar-a-lago. they have a satellite pack there where there started to dial in a little more and i wouldn't be surprised if they started doing more press conferences as well. yeah. it was a bit of a dumpster fire last thursday, but they really liked it because it meant that donald trump was at the center of attention does a small rally and mini rally that almost seems like, you an oxymoron in trump's world. >> stephanie, is that something that he can thrive in?

>> so the short answer is no. >> i imagine he will do some of them and maybe for a week kill attempt to stay on message. >> it depends on how his staff as being with him, but he will get he doesn't like those small he never has he was demanded to do a large rally sooner rather than later. and it's funny because everything but hearing is all these people are saying to do the best version of himself, they want him to be a fake version of himself donald trump is a bombastic narcissist, and he loves attention and he is not going to be happy being quiet or being on message is not who he is. and so they all know that look, we did this 1 million times. we did it in 2016. we did it throughout our time in the white house. we were all trying to keep him on message. everybody was frustrated all the time. we went through tons and tons of staff, you all know that this is just version 27. >> now so astead, obviously j.d. vance came up in this and he has been on message right. pushing the specifics for

trump, tim walz is also out there now on his own for the first time for harris and i want to just play something he said a few moments ago with this first solo rally i happened to be the first union member on a presidential ticket since ronald reagan but rest assured, i won't lose my way you heard the story. >> you knew vice president harris grew up in a middle-class family, picked up shifts at that mcdonald's as a student, i keep asking this to make a contrast here. can you simply picture donald trump working at mcdonald's trying to make a mcflurry or something. it's oh, he knows. >> he knows is he knows as he couldn't run that dam flurry, mcflurry machine if it does so many things, so does that work is done? >> i think that this is a cohesive message that you're seeing between harris and walz

about their upbringing. and most importantly, the fact that their policies reflect their upbringing. they're going to say that it's not just that they came for middle-class families, but that they are pushing an agenda that helps middle-class families. and so even if j.d. vance comes from a working class his background and certainly down trump does not, that they're pushing policies that don't benefit those type of people and that's so that's the thing that i think reflects the reason why she chose him in the first place, greater than kind of progressive or moderate are things i think people are doing. it's about a cohesiveness of message that i think is going to be able. that's just going to serve them well. but to your point about j.d. vance, he is landing these attacks hakh lines, but he's only doing it, i think from a place of kind of throwing bombs from a afar. and i think war with walz has an opportunity to do, is to find himself for the country and what this ticket in the unique opportunity that democrats have is that while republicans are busy talking about whatever messages of the day or whatever ad hominem attack of the day they are going out to voters and trying to define themselves until republicans are in a race against time, to be able to

beat them to the punch. >> alright, so jamal, there is, of course now going to be more and more coming out about walz and i know there's the whole the whole issue of the military service that's now been widely discussed. there is a now video of walz in 2018 praising a muslim cleric who has spread anti-semitic propaganda and i just want to play this video. this is back from 2018. governor walz i would like to first of all, say thank you to your mom i am a teacher, so when i see a master teacher, i know it and over the time we spent together, one of the things one of the things i've had the privilege of seeing that things in life through the eyes of a master teacher to try and get the understanding listening today to the stories and what it means so jamal, since october 7 at a mom has saved many anti-israel posts on social media. but at the time when tim walz said that he had shared a neo-nazi propaganda film and hamas press release on social media. so was that not an unknown position at the

time? and he appeared with his imam multiple times as governor. it wasn't like this is a one-off does this matter? >> there's like, bad staff work right? and his team like bad research, they didn't know he wasn't maybe he did. i don't know. it wasn't in his team here's the question though, is, will people judge the top of the ticket by what they see at the bottom of the ticket. and i don't know. that's always the case mostly people vote for the person whose name is at the top. and this is the reason why you have these contests is because all of these things after come out and you really kind of fight your way through it as a campaign. and they got to find a voice to answer these questions. >> mark, i want to ask you one question before we go last night, james carville hall begala both came on the show and said they thought that trump would find a way to get rid of j.d vance with your sources inside trump world. i see the look on your face. is there any chance that you see that happening or you think that's just a pipe dream? >> well, i was saying i was wrong about biden stepping down. i'll cop to that. >> sows the trump campaign. >> i would just find this highly unlikely. the trump campaign and trump himself are

thrilled with him by all accounts i mean, if you look at the past week the, two messages that trump has had that have broken through and that a forced to reaction by harris's campaign have both been primarily driven by j.d vance. he kept harping, he kept talking about kamala harris, not talking to the press. she finally did now trump lend to handle that, and then he spoke about vance. did this is stolen valor issue and it wasn't walz misrepresenting his time of a better said it wasn't attacking walz's time of service. it was attacking walz for misrepresenting his time of service. it's a finely way to slice it, but nevertheless, those broke through. trump is happy. the campaign is happy with him. but then again, and it's trump, you never know what he's going to do. >> all right. all thank you very much. i appreciate it. and next, kamala harris finding support among a crucial group of voters. when you slice and dice that this is a fascinating group, but harry enten's gone into the numbers. you're going

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brain, why to 231231. now the lead with jake tapper tomorrow it for us cnn tonight, governor walz, the attack dog on full display tonight in his first solo campaign event donald trump and j.d. >> vance, they see the world very differently than we do.

>> the only thing those two guys knows about working people is how to work to take advantage of them that comes as kamala harris is making gains with key swing states with a surprising and crucial voting group. >> and harry enten is here with me to go beyond the numbers so harry, you know, we know obviously you look at the overall polls, you see these swing state polls, the ones over the weekend, sienna did stand out. we'll see if that's really where this goes. but you found something very interesting in terms of one group that stands out, white working class voters, white voters without a college degree. that is donald trump's core group. that was the reason why he was able to break down that giant blue wall, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin in the great lakes and look at their support now versus where we were a few months ago when the matchup was between donald trump and joe biden. look donald trump still leads, but look at that margin has shrunk significantly, which 25 points back in may, it is now 14 points now here in august nearly been sliced by half those numbers that harris is putting up amongst that group right now are actually slightly

better than joe biden did four years ago. amongst those voters in those key states, those are the types of night numbers that kamala harris needs to put up in order to win. and of course, joe biden was like, i don't want to drop out of the race because i'm not sure that kamala harris can break in with this group, but it turns out she absolutely can, which is fascinating because originally when they started, right, it was an immediate map expansion. they started looking at georgia, north carolina, even it not giving up, but it seemed like sort of accepting that yeah, conventional wisdom. and now it's fascinating that may not be the case. so also, the economy, when we look at that, we've just were talking about that, but that's an issue trump has been extremely strong on. is that changing? >> it is i mean, again, look, we're still looking at trump having a clear advantage amongst white working class voters in the great lake battleground states. but again, the margin issue drinking and elections are all about margins. you see a shrinking at a 36 point advantage. and it's now down to 24 points here in august, these are the types of numbers that kamala harris needs to put up and more than that, it's about the economy. this is also a change election,

and it's also about change as well. and she's breaking through among white working class voters on the issue of change. so the economy and change working for her cohesive, your take on michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, there obviously those are crucial. that's that blue that blue wall but when you look more broadly, does this tip the scale as you look at other crucial must-win state? >> absolutely, absolutely non-college whites are a key group across the board. they are plurality of voters in the electorate when you compare them with college educated whites, or if you compare them with african americans and hispanics, and especially in michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, look at that. they're the majority of voters. the fact that harris is closing in on trump with them is the big reason why she has those advantages. he has now in those new york times-sienna, absolutely fascinating and not what, what probably anybody expected now, from what joe biden was so well competing for democrats, definitely. >> all right, harry, thank you. so now let's go to kate bedingfield, former biden white house communications director. kate, when you hear this and see these numbers that harry was just going through in wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, non-college

educated white voters seeing a move this significant in such a short period of time why do you think this is well, i think that the trump agenda is actually not as palatable to these folks as people might have thought. >> i think his sense of kind of chaos as sense of only being out for himself. i mean, i think you heard governor walz really effectively driving that point just a few minutes let's go in that soundbite you were playing from his remarks tonight. i think that there is a fatigue with trump. i also think that kamala harris is representing an economic agenda that does connect with these folks. if you look at what xi and president biden did and her four years in the white house they capped the cost of insulin other able to say that they beat big pharma on that, which i can tell you from my time in the white house is something that absolutely pulled through the roof is a bipartisan accomplishment that people are. i should say there's bipartisan approval for that

accomplishment a strong manufacturing record as a result of the chips act junk fee work that she and president biden have done. i mean, there are a lot of things things that she has to talk about here that are broadly popular, that go into making life more affordable for working people. so i think it's a combination of those two things, but there's no question it is great news for the democrats to see these numbers moving in that way. >> well, and also i guess so i'll say, you know, president biden expressed caution about this happening. we know but there are many who had said that that group of voters would not turn to kamala harris some democrats believed they would say because there was no be an inherent racial aspect to this it seems that that bass expectation that some people had is wrong which is a phenomenal thing to hear. and i certainly hope that that's true. i hope for the sake of our country, that's true. if you look at joe biden's performance and wisconsin in 2020, he narrowly won wisconsin while losing white working class voters by a 40k 14 point

margin, which is what we see from from kamala harris right here. so again, we have to remember, right? he doesn't have kamala harris doesn't have to win working class whites. they still remain a core pillar. obviously, if donald support, but bringing those margins down in these blue wall states is incredibly important, but also don't forget. i mean, ultimately the reason for sample that joe biden won pennsylvania in 2020 was his solid performance with black voters in philadelphia and an allegheny county which is pittsburgh, that is still going to be a fundamental piece of his coalition. if kamala harris is going to be successful. >> all right. thank you so much. great to see you i mean that you do cranes forces making major gains inside russia. it's just amazing to think that we're actually saying this at this point in the war, i'm going to talk to a photojournalist who's in the town that ukraine invaded in russia. his incredible images are plus elon musk is now going all in on donald trump but he was not always a fan far from it. so what specifically changed with car gurus?

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kyiv's troops press ahead, who did she do? we left the chickens at home. this woman says, we gave them two bags of grain, some water, and left. maybe there will be nothing to return to what seemed to be russian prisoners of war transported in a ukrainian pickup. as a ukrainian soldier spray paints the ukrainian spelling of a towns name inside russia kyiv's lightning offensive caught not just its allies off guard, but moscow as well russian president vladimir putin trying to publicly brush off ukraine's incursion, meeting with the head of the palestinian authority in moscow after earlier berating his generals to oust kyiv's troops from russian soil. >> they should stay visit sloane, the period ministers don't the main task for the ministry of defense is, of course, to drive and squeeze the enemy out of our territories russia has vowed a massive retaliation key fears

moscow could launch even larger missile strikes that ukrainian cities. but ukraine's president vowing not to back down. >> or actually you put ribnopil, russia needs to be forced into peace, especially if putin is so set on fighting and vladimir putin's grip on power may not be as strong as some believe russian opposition activist vladimir kara-murza was recently released from a russian jail and a prisoner swap said on cnn's outfront, i don't think i don't really believe i know that russia will change and i will be back in my homeland and as i told him, it's going to be much quicker than you have but for now, moscow says it will bring more reinforcements to its southwestern regions to try and oust ukraine's invasion force before it can dig in. for pleitgen, cnn, berlin, and outfront. >> now, david guttenfelder, he's in a award-winning photo journalist on assignment in ukraine for the new york times. he just returned from suzhou, russia, which is one of the towns here. he is one of the

rare restaurant journalists to have seen the ukrainian army's incursion firsthand. and he joins me tonight from sumy, ukraine about five miles from the russia border. and david, i'm really grateful that you're here and able to come on. obviously, i know it's late or shall i say early in the morning where you are? i want to show some pictures you took. this isn't obliterated border post in the town where ukraine surprise incursion into russia began and in the foreground of this image david is a dead russian soldier lying on the ground. how clear was it to you when you went and saw this with your own eyes that the russians were taken completely by surprise well, we, i think the whole country has been taken by surprise. the russians and ukrainians, all of us when we arrived at this border, crossing, the first thing i saw was just utter destruction of the border post a sign in russian huston sign riddled with shrapnel marks and debris

everywhere. and russian casualties still in their uniforms, lying in the rubble there were a russian dead russian soldier still lying and what looked like the immigration counter or the customs booth of the border crossing. so clearly taken by surprise i mean, just incredible as you described that though, that there's a customs boo that there's actually someone, who apparently at least seems to have been on some duty, i guess possibly from the way you are describing it you took a picture, david, ukrainian soldiers riding on a tank and this picture is up the screen right now i know this is near the main road into russia from where you are and obviously this invasion was risky. >> and incredibly audacious right? when it would be generous to say at this point that the war was stagnant, right? and certainly in terms of international perception for ukraine right now, what has this done for morale from the

morale of the soldiers and civilians that you're speaking to? >> yeah. i mean, there's all this speculation. every ukrainians asking one another, what's the end game? why did this happen? they speculate it was this about what was this about diverting russian troops away from the front line or seizing territory that they can using negotiations. but i think what you said is what is really what's happening right now among ukrainian military cranium people after months of being on the backfoot, being ground down on the frontline. >> this is ukraine on the offense, and i think ukraine has wanted to make russia fight this war and feel this war on russian soil so that has whatever the the tactics are the end game of this. >> it's had an immediate impact on people's morale. i think really it's incredible

when you think about when there was that first explosion in belgorod and then when the drones over moscow and everyone that was oh my my gosh, you're crossing a red line, crossing some sort of a line. >> now now, here we are and it is such an incredible moment is the first time since world war ii that russia was invaded by a foreign army obviously a major development in this war, and it was done david with such incredible secrecy. so what have you learned about that? what are the soldiers tell you about 100, how under wraps this was kept. i mean, i guess even from them yes, it was so it kept secret from the whole world. the pentagon didn't seem to know about it. >> but the ukrainian population didn't know the people in the ukrainian villages all along the border didn't know that his resulted in a kind of a scramble to get people evacuated now from the border but the military didn't know even the soldiers who are in there fighting now we were told that most of them were notified

72 hours before they rolled over the border wow, 72 hours. i'm mean, amazing though that even with that, that it didn't it didn't leak out. that that's an incredible testament to their belief in their mission even now, for some reason, another 72 hours, that's a long time. oddly, from that perspective. but david, thank you so much. i really appreciate it. and again, thanks so much for staying absolutely. getting up early to do this. thanks yeah. >> thank you very much all right. >> next, elon musk turning maga, the billionaire ceo now sounding so much like trump that the two were even finishing each other's sentences it would only take a few percent of the rest of us to overwhelm everything that we're all already overwhelmed. >> eylon were overwhelmed plus record rain has left in time hi, our towns underwater in north korea. >> but what does kim jong un actually say is happening amid what could be an incredible disaster the democratic

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musk tweeting his support for a border wall as he made a livestream visit to the border, a flow of people that is of such magnitude that is actually what leading to a collapse so if social services in rhetoric, and we don't want to have crazy forms of counting of we want to have paper ballots, same-day voting, voter id musk, tweeting. >> we should mandate paper ballots and in-person voting only. >> and the push of far-right maga tropes in alt right ideas i'm simply saying that there is a center of here if legal immigrants wish, i think have a the very strong bias to list everything it's very strong bias to vote democrat the more, more that the country, the more they're likely to vote in that direction that the two are now almost finishing each other's sentences. it would only take a few percent of the rest of us to overwhelm everything that we're already overwhelmed eylon, it's were overwhelmed, making masks for endorsem*nt the night of trump's shooting

last month? not at all surprising that endorsem*nt meant a lot to me. not all endorsem*nts mean that much to be honest your endorsem*nt meant a lot, but this political moment for musk is a long way away from where he was just a few years ago for years, musk has described himself as politically moderate. he says that he is voted for barak obama, hillary clinton, andrew so fighting in the past, he said the other day, oh, i've never voted for a republican. i said i didn't know that he told me voted for me so he's another artist in 2022. >> he says he voted republican for the first time, something trump both celebrated and mocked. musk says the left has become more extreme and he meta political shift in part, he says, because of his now transgender daughter, who he still refers to on social media by her male birth name. >> i lost my son, essentially, the reason it's quote, dead naming is because your son is dead so my son's eva is that

killed by the woke mind virus. so i vowed to destroy them the woke mind virus after them and we're making some progress and trump during that over to our live stream signal. >> and his openness to give elon musk a role in his administration should he win the white house. and musk grazie idea of creating a government efficiency commission and said he'd be happy to help out with that. trump erin answered that he would love that all right. sunlen. thank you very much. so i want to go straight from sunlen's reporting to dana hall. she's a senior reporter for bloomberg, covers elon musk and his businesses extensively. so dana, you know this from what appears to be such, the central angle for elon mush, you pointed out in your latest reporting that the top three states in the united states, that cell evs are all reliably blue, reliably blue. i mean, to state the obvious california washington, colorado now 20% of all cars sold in those states are evs. the bottom three are the red states and less than 2% of those cars are evs. so is

there a link? does musk going all in on maga impact is bottom line, does it cost him votes? in those blue states well, i think that there's sort of two things at play here, right? >> first of all, musk is a donor to trump's reelection campaign. i think a lot of people are missing the fact that musk started a super packed called america pac. and he has pledged millions of dollars to help trump get re-elected did it return? trump is going on x, which is the media platform that musk owns. and musk is very eager to have more folks on that platform. so it's like a mutually beneficial arrangement between the two. but your point, there is a sense that the electric vehicle market is saturated in places like california tesla, tesla's global california accounts for 12 12% of tesla's global sales right now. and if you live in california and wanted to buy a tesla, you probably already have one. there aren't that many

fence-sitters left, but we live in a very vast country and there are lots of states in the middle of the country. red states, as you pointed out, where the ev adoption curve looks quite different. and if musk can get trump to support tesla and kind of make a pitch for tesla cars in the rest of the country. i mean, i think that that is an upside for him. >> well, you know, it's amazing though, is biden loved evs. you've got the $7,500 credit to buy an ev that's why a lot of these were sold car plants are being converted to evs. all because this is like biden supports. trump doesn't. i mean, here's what trump has said about evs further protect michigan auto workers? i will end the biden-harris electric vehicle mandate on day one. who wants to drive an electric car for the rest of your life? does anybody you don't want to drive for 45 minutes and then stop for three hours. is that what they have so many electric

vehicles nobody wants to buy them. they're expensive so i mean, does he stick with that or as musk literally backing trump, even though it would be bad for musk well, i think he did listen to their two-hour conversation last night. >> i mean, musk was definitely sort of pitching tesla cars to trump. he made a lot of points that listen like our cars or sexy they drive well they're fun. like trump was sort of chiming in like maybe you should put solar panels on the roof. i mean, i think that musk was using the opportunity to kind of make the case that tesla cars are not that bad. and i think you've seen trump kind of lower the temperature of his rhetoric when it comes to tesla. i mean, he's, he's still sort of slams evs as a whole, but will say things like, well musk, evil, and you've got an incredible product. >> alright, well, dana, thank you very much. i appreciate it my pleasure. >> all right. and next we've got new images of catastrophic flooding. and this is a north korea entire towns underwater. and it, kim jong un is

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declaring with confidence, north korea is fully self-reliant, rejecting offers of international aid, even from allies, china and russia, at least for now all get that some fear. kim's deepening military partnership with fellow strongman vladimir putin could be giving his economy and confidence a boost. perhaps emboldening kim to shut the door on international aid and diplomacy. >> we are prepared to have an open dialogue with the north koreans without preconditions. we want to pursue diplomacy. >> us ambassador to the un, linda thomas greenfield visited the korean demilitarized zone this spring, telling outfront at the time, any top-level meeting like former president trump's summits with kim would require lots of legwork before any meeting like that could happen. we have to have engagements at other levels. >> we met in singapore we met also in vietnam and i got along

with him great trump touting close ties with kim in his conversation with elon musk we were not in danger with him because to me that he had a lot of nuclear things that you can do plenty of damage vice president. kamala harris, taking a decidedly unfriendly stance during her visit to the dmz in 2022 in the north, we see a brutal dictatorship rampant human rights violations. >> and an unlawful weapons program that threatens peace and stability him blasted south korean media for speculating about massive flooding casualties, calling it a smear campaign from a dirty rubbish country north korea even tried sending another round of trash balloons following south korea's offer of humanitarian aid. >> south korean media reports shifting winds blew all but ten of them back this is what north korea wants the world to see.

kim visiting flood survivors living in tents under the sweltering summer heat. as many wonder what state media is not showing. how many people may be suffering for the sake of self-reliance you've got thousands of people who've lost everything they're living in damp, stuffy tents for going on weeks now. and kim jong un com stands in his trained, gives a 5,000 words speech, laying out the priorities of the party, which number one distribution of newspapers and televisions. so people can keep abreast of the party party's intentions. oh, yes. also food and clean water, also relocating all of the children to the capital pyongyang and only nursing mothers allowed to come along the rest of the parents stay behind and help rebuild erin incredible all. >> right, well. thank you very much and thanks so much as always to all of you ac360 begins right now tonight on

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