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Then, Asia markets are rebounding. Will the U.S. follow suit? And this. It tells us the strength of this movement because they put millions against us. It's the second most expensive House race in history. Can the squad's Cori Bush survive today's primary? All right, 6 a.m. here in Washington, a live look at the White House on this Tuesday morning. Good morning, everyone. I'm Casey Hunt. It's wonderful to have you with us.

It's official. Kamala Harris has won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Overnight, the DNC announcing she won 99% of a virtual vote. Harris is the first black woman and the first Asian American to lead a major party ticket, a historic moment that will pass probably pretty quickly in this whirlwind of a news cycle. In just hours, Harris is set to announce who she's chosen as her running mate.

Sources tell CNN Harris is focused on two top contenders, the Pennsylvania governor, Josh Shapiro, and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota. Harris has not commented publicly about her decision-making process, but on Monday, allies on Capitol Hill offered these insights. I know that she's going to be looking at both who is going to be great on the campaign trail, but also, again, that person who could be ready on day one. It's a question of who she feels the most comfortable

comfort level with in terms of governance. People say, "Well, who can help us win?" But it's about who can help us govern more than that. So with so much attention focused on Harris' campaign, Donald Trump trying to grab the spotlight back with new attack lines and insults in a series of social media posts last night, Trump misspelled Harris' first name as Ka-Mabla, claiming that she wants to defund the police, ban fracking, and cause an economic depression.

All of the people that she's looking at are considered much better than her. These were people that were thinking about running. They would have run, except that they didn't want to go through this roadblock with her. And, you know, because you're the vice president. So they wanted to go pick them. And I think virtually every one of them is considered better, smarter, would be a better president than her.

So that guy that he's sitting next to, Trump made those comments in an interview with a highly controversial video game live streamer. His name's Aiden Ross. Ross has hosted a white nationalist and neo-Nazis on his show. Later, he gave Trump a Tesla Cybertruck that was plastered with a photo of the former president raising his fist after the assassination attempt against him. I'll tell you about TikTok. Trump is going to keep TikTok going.

There was a lot going on in that video right there. Joining me now to discuss all this and more, our panel's here, CNN politics senior reporter Stephen Collinson, former federal prosecutor Elliott Williams, Megan Hayes, the former Biden White House director of message planning, and Brian Lanza, former deputy communications director for the Trump 2016 campaign. Welcome to all of you. Thank you so much for being here.

Stephen, I want to start with you kind of big picture because this is going to be a big day on the campaign trail. We are anticipating learning who Harris's running mate is basically any minute now. But it's taking place in a very volatile environment. Obviously, Trump doing what he's doing, but you also have this massive stock sell-off. You have fears about what's going on in Israel, a wider potential crisis in the Middle East. Yeah, presidencies are about making choices. And today we will find out

Perhaps more than we've already known about Vice President Kamala Harris, how she's going to define her campaign. It's the biggest choice a nominee makes as they head into their convention. And as you say, this is taking place against a swirling backdrop of events. The crash of stocks around the world or the plunge of stocks around the world crashes perhaps too much.

It underscored the fact that once the euphoria of the pick is over, the convention is done, it's possible that outside events could come back into this campaign. And we don't really know what's going to happen. And perhaps they could give Donald Trump, who's been grappling for a way to deal with this transformed campaign and this new opponent, an opening. As you see, he's tried to exploit the stock market issue.

unrest in the Middle East. Trump is saying World War III is mechaning. He's trying to play into a sense of insecurity among Americans at the moment, at home and abroad. That is one of the questions that Vice President Harris has to answer in the next two months. Yeah, I mean, Elliot Williams, this...

This kind of underscores and sharpens the reality that she needs a governing partner, right? And that's kind of been the argument we've been hearing. Nancy Pelosi was making it with Dana Bash yesterday as it seems like Tim Walz may be starting to become the center of this conversation.

Because he's run a state and gotten reelected there. I mean, Shapiro has two. I was going to say, well, that's where I was going next, which is that Josh Shapiro also has. But that would be, Casey, under the conventional wisdom that someone would pick an individual who was ready to lead on day one or rounded out some aspect of their resume that they need to clean up. That throughout history, that's how vice presidents have been picked. But just look at the volatility of the last, I don't even know, month.

if not, you're ranging from an assassination. Has it only been a month? Because I feel like it's been a year. But an assassination attempt on the former president, the debate performance of the current president, the switching out of a candidate, the replacement of another candidate, and

Lord knows what happens between now and October. And so it just seems to me that the rules that would typically apply to how you pick a vice president just may not even apply here. And it might just be what works for the vice president at that given moment. - Yeah. Brian Lanza, let's talk a little bit about what we saw from Trump yesterday.

because here's how the New Yorker talks about Ross, this streamer that he talked to. 23 years old, a Twitch streamer, Feroost became famous for playing NBA 2K online with LeBron James' son before he was banned from the platform after repeated use of slurs. As he has grown into his fame, the Gen Z streamer has grown more conservative, hanging out with Andrew Tate,

and hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes on his stream. Now, clearly, that dance he was doing is like a TikTok, you know, kind of for TikTok. He's talking about, well, Kamala Harris is the one that would end TikTok. There is an appeal to Gen Z voters there, many of whom have been engaged with the Harris campaign because they have found some traction in some of those

spaces. What do you make of Trump doing this with this guy in particular? Is that what you think the party needs to be doing as they try to win this general election? And what does it say about how they're running against Harris? Well, first of all, thank you for having me. Listen, I think, you know, if you look at the Trump campaign in the last year, they've done a lot of nontraditional media. You know, they've done podcasts, you know,

people we haven't even heard of in the podcast space. This is just another person. But the message is still the same. The message is, you know, inflation is driving bankruptcy to the working class and the middle class. Immigration is a serious threat of our border. And the Biden-Harris administration have done nothing to address it. And you have these two wars abroad that could potentially lead a third. I don't think the platform matters. At least he's not thinking where the platform matters, where he's delivering this message. He's just delivering the message to sort of an external platform that we're not used to. Is he delivering that message?

or is the campaign delivering that message? Because I don't think that's what the people are hearing. And also, that's great that he's appealing to Gen Z voters, but this is going to be one with independent suburban women in these battleground states, and I don't think that they are listening to this very extreme podcast person.

Yeah, I mean, I will say it doesn't seem like it's just any other person here. I mean, clearly there are a lot of questions here if he's being banned there. But Megan, let me ask you kind of a big picture here for Harris. You know, Stephen touched on the potential looming controversies for her. This is going to be the biggest day for her campaign so far of 100, what, 110 days total. 16 days in. Yes, exactly.

Exactly. What do you expect to see from her today? Do you have any news you want to break? Your friends at the White House told you who this is going to be? I have no news to break. However, I do think that this is an important... Blink twice. Josh Shapiro is... No? No.

I'm like trying to point. We won't tell anybody. No one will see. I think that this is an important pick for her, as we've all discussed. It is an important person. But to Elliot's point, this could just be for a moment in time. She needs to win Pennsylvania. You cannot govern unless you win. So they need to be thinking about that. And I think that they very much are thinking about that. I also think that Walls is more progressive than people are...

probably tracking or giving credit for at the moment. So I think, you know, there's been a kind of attack on Josh Shapiro, but I don't necessarily know that it's warranted with the Walls having a more progressive stance. Yeah, but how could you be more progressive than Kamala Harris? She comes out of San Francisco politics, which is the far left of the American spectrum. So everybody to her is mainstream. And so whether it's Tim Walls or even Governor Shapiro, I mean, that is a more conservative position than what she came out of San Francisco, which is what she's selling as a campaign. She's doubling down on Biden, which the voters have rejected. Well,

Well, I just don't think that she has defined all of her issues yet, and I think that she's probably an evolving candidate, which I, but I think she, to your point, she has- We have video of her defining her issues. But I don't think that she has defined herself as the presidential candidate, and I think that she needs to do that, and I think that there's a lot of room for her to do that, right? She needs to do interviews. She needs to be out there, but her pick will be important to do that, and they will go reintroduce themselves to the people and let the voters decide.

Brian with the line that I'm sure Chris Lasavita and Suzy Wiles wish that their own candidate would actually stick to in talking about Kamala Harris. All right, we've got a lot more coming up this morning. How yesterday's market tumble could shake up the race for the White House, plus this. This is a once in a thousand year potential rainfall event.

Debbie soaking the southeast as it stalls, dumping an unprecedented amount of rain on the region. And Donald Trump's surprising compliment for one of his harshest critics? The congresswoman, AOC.

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Overnight, a sigh of relief in the economy as Asian stocks tick back up after that global sell-off on Monday. Financial markets here in the U.S. are on track for a positive start after the Dow dropped over 1,000 points yesterday, the worst day on Wall Street in nearly two years.

This morning, though, millions of Americans still nervous about their 401k and fears of a recession are still growing with just three months to go ahead of the election. Stephen Collinson, you put it this way in your new piece, quote, in a tightened election likely to be decided by a few thousand votes,

in a handful of swing states any issue can be decisive any economic shocks in the weeks to come could prove treacherous for Harris given she's tied to the current administration at you also go on to discuss that she doesn't she might be tied to the administration doesn't have the same power that the president has but the economy at the end of the day we talked so much about

what's in the control of the various candidates biden's decision to not run for reelection was in his control who she's going to choose as vice president within her control what happens in the economy not within her control and no matter how either of these people run their respective campaigns i mean this could be the entire ball game

That's right. And administrations probably get too much credit when things are going well and too much blame when they're not. But this is a central issue of the campaign. This is not 2008. There's not an impending financial crisis. As we know, the banks are sound. Growth has been decent. Unemployment has been low for a long time, even though it's now rising.

But any sense that in the weeks before the election, Americans in those key suburban districts which will decide the election are looking at their 401 s cratering, if there's an economic shock that occurs, that's going to put the focus on what is a key issue in the election and one that the president and the vice president really trail Trump. That's possibly his best bet.

to win back the White House is to play into this sense of great insecurity among Americans. Prices are high every time they go to the grocery store. It's possible that could just overwhelm anything we've seen in the last few weeks. - And the funny thing is that people don't quite understand the mechanics of how these things work. They understand this is what gas prices are, this is how much a gallon of milk is. And if you think back,

To tie this to the campaign or a campaign, think back to 92, a big moment in the debate, Clinton versus Bush, was where a woman gets asked a question. I think it was about the deficit or the debt, not knowing that she was asking them about prices. She didn't understand the question she was asking, and it actually tripped George W. Bush up. People really don't. H.W. Bush in 92. H.W. Bush, pardon me. Yeah, yeah.

But people don't really understand the mechanics of this. It really comes down to something visceral. How do I feel? - But I would say they certainly understand inflation. - No, that's what I'm saying. - The Democrats have talked about, they feel that every time they make a purchase, they feel it. I mean, the Democrats have talked about wages have gone up and that's a positive sign. Oh, the unemployment rate is at a historic low, what's now rising, as you said, it's gonna continue to rise.

But the reality is it's sort of, they're speaking a different language to what the voters are concerned about. The voters like, what are you doing about inflation? And the Democrats are, we have low unemployment. Okay, what are you doing about inflation? It's wiping out our middle class. They're saying, oh, but wages are gone. So there's a disconnect, which is why you had Joe Biden request the debate as early as he did, because he knew there was a disconnect and he was trying to sell it and he failed at selling it. - Conversely, that's also why Donald Trump is able to say inflation's up 25% this year, misrepresenting the numbers.

because he knows, I think, that people are caught up about inflation or concerned with inflation. - But neither person are talking about this issue and neither side right now is talking about the actual issues.

the the Trump campaign is just throwing insults and personal insults at the vice president which that's I get that's his style but until we start talking about the economy until we start letting people in the voters understand and like getting that issue in front of them we're not gonna have people deciding on the economy well I and that's like I would say this and we were all political your players here most times in the presidential year voters make the decision on the economy in July

which was if they made a decision in July, Joe Biden and Harris, it is an abject failure to their pocketbook, it is an abject failure to their future. And so we're gonna see what this new thing with Kamala coming in at the last minute, if it's able to reset it. The reality is, is pocketbooks are still drained, they're still in the red as a direct result of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden administration.

And the policies have caused that. You can say long term presidents don't have control. They have controls over policies and those have long term effects. I think when you talk about the IRA juicing up inflation, we can talk about even college debt relief. Now you're juicing up more money into the market. That's creating more inflation.

I disagree with you. Policies actually do lead to inflation, and it's been these policies that have led to out-of-control inflation for the last three and a half years. I think what's going to be really interesting is Democrats have a new chance with a new candidate to try and address this. That's the test for the vice president, if she can find a way to talk about the economy that the president didn't come up with. We are at absolutely unprecedented times on all of this. So buckle up. All right, coming up next here on CNN This Morning. We are going to unify this community. It has been devastated by this race.

Squad member Cori Bush fighting to keep her seat after the ouster of Congressman Jamal Bowman just weeks ago. And this, a tornado taking the roof off a building in Buffalo, New York. That is one of the five things you need to see this week.

All right, 25 minutes past the hour. Five things you have to see this morning. Europe's largest and most active volcano erupting again. Mount Etna in Italy now spewing lava and sending ash clouds six miles into the sky. The local airport delaying flights to clean up piles of ash buildup.

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Alright, let's take a close look at a small tornado tearing the roof off a building in Buffalo, New York. It started as a water spout over Lake Erie. The twister damaged buildings, flipped cars, sent debris swirling over the downtown area. Debbie weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm making its way through the southeast United States. In Sarasota, Florida, the county saw record rainfall on Sunday, putting entire neighborhoods underwater.

And that brings us now to weather as other parts of the southeast United States still on alert with Debbie continuing to threaten historic levels of rainfall on parts of Georgia and South Carolina. The severe weather leading Kamala Harris to postpone events in both Raleigh and Savannah where she was supposed to be joined by her yet to be announced vice presidential pick. The slow moving storm also expected to produce life threatening flooding.

Historic or unprecedented rainfall totals for our area with a probability of less than 1% happening on any given year in our area. This is a once in a thousand year potential rainfall event. All right, let's get straight to our weatherman Van Damme. Derek, good morning. What should folks be preparing for down south?

Well, Casey, what I'm seeing right now is a concerning situation unfolding in Charleston with a fire hose of water being aimed directly at the city. So what you're looking at here is the remnants of Debbie, center of circulation still over southeastern Georgia. But look how it's pulling in the moisture from the Atlantic Ocean, creating these tropical feeder bands.

and directing them right at the city. You add that in, so that's inland rainfall that's accumulating, but you've got the surge component with that onshore wind as well. So we still have two to four feet of storm surge into Charleston Harbor. So both of those work against each other and the water rises very quickly downtown Charleston. I've been in that city several times covering tropical systems.

It doesn't take much to flood, so that is an ongoing threat going forward today. Now, it's not just southern South Carolina. Look how the moisture overspreads much of the East Coast. It's going to interact with a cold front, and that is going to bring an uptick in rainfall across Philadelphia, where the VP will be today, into New York City. We have flooding.

Flood watches located across that location. And we have our very rare multi-day high level risk of excessive rain leading to flash flooding across coasts of Georgia and South Carolina because computer models depicting again over a foot to upwards of 20 inches of rain from this system, but it doesn't stop there. The moisture all gets strewn across much of the eastern seaboard for the rest of the week. Casey, it's going to be a long, drawn out process.

For sure. All right. Derek Van Dam for us this morning. Derek, thank you. I really appreciate it. Coming up next here on CNN This Morning. Everybody should maybe just go off Google, not use it. Why Donald Trump is fuming about Google in an interview with deeply controversial video game live streamer. Plus, the NTSB looking deeper into why that door plug ripped off the Boeing passenger jet. It's a new ghost burger from Carl's Jr. It's a juicy char-boiled Angus beef burger. Yeah.

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Yesterday, Donald Trump also criticized Google, but for very different reasons. And in that interview with the deeply controversial live streamer, Trump suggested that his supporters should abandon the search engine altogether over accusations it's hiding information about the former president.

When you put up the word assassination, it also sent you to Kamala. And people were really angry at it. Look, something wrong with Google. It's so illegitimate, they have to do something about it. And I mean, the market speaks. Everybody should maybe just go off Google, not use it.

All right, panel is back. So let's just kind of dig into what this is about, right? So Elon Musk tweeted about this a couple days ago, I believe, July 28th. And he says, wow, Google has a search ban on President Donald Trump election interference, question mark. So he shows that we all know that it pot

It populates automatically, right, when you start typing in Google, suggesting things that you might want to look for. Now, Google told CBS in response to this that the issues due to anomalies that are causing autocomplete not to work as intended for some searches about the names of several past presidents and the current vice president. Google didn't specify the anomalies but said that they were technical in nature and that we're looking into these anomalies and working on improvements.

which we hope to roll out soon I'm let's just put up what our intrepid producer found when she plug Kamala Harris into at the search engine or or rather vice president K which is you know mirrors what you on did with Donald Trump and here it seems like Kristi no might be higher up to get vice president killed dog I which of course she was being considered for Donald Trump's vice president at one point then there were allegations she killed her dog but vice president Kamala Harris

does not appear here. Brian Lanza, obviously Donald Trump complaining about these companies often, I think you would say, probably yields a phone call to folks like yourself who might be able to help the company in question. But what do you make of this controversy that, you know, Musk has sort of ginned up here. This is something that's been percolating on the online right about Google suppressing information. They've sort of

escaped scrutiny that like Facebook and Twitter came into under when Trump was still president? You know, listen, I would say if you go back to 2020, you know, during the presidential campaign, and I hate bringing up the word, but sort of Hunter Biden and how social media companies and tech media companies sort of suppressed the information of that going out. Sort of that stands in the back of President Trump's mind is social media companies and tech companies putting their thumb on the scale. And he probably viewed it the same thing here. You know, it's anybody, you know, I...

I saw that pop up, I went to my phone and I went to the Google app and typed up and saw the same issue. And so President Trump and his supporters clearly feel that tech companies are putting their thumb on a scale and trying to either cover up what took place or hide what took place similar to what they did in 2020. And you're gonna continue to hear that grievance because 2020 is still fresh on everybody's mind of how the media and social companies suppressed valid information towards the election and then claimed that it was Russian misinformation, which adamantly proved false.

Stephen Collinson, I mean, I will say, they seem to have fixed the problem. I can't get my Google to do what Elon was able to do with Donald Trump. The issue still seems to persist for Kamala Harris. It's true that these companies have a lot of power. The courts are saying Google has too much power because it's directly built in here. Does Trump have a valid complaint or not?

Well, the complaint has been one that is very resonant among, as Brian was saying, Trump's supporters, because it plays into this idea that there's this

deep state this liberal structure in society and in the government that discriminates against conservatives. So whatever the truth of what was going on with the algorithm and when it's fixed, this is something that's going to carry on living in the Trump campaign because it fulfills so many goals of the former president.

president's political project. It's not just his legal problems, but it's everything else. The cultural sense that there is a force attacking Trump and victimizing him and lots of millions of Americans out in the heartland. So it's a very powerful political argument. So as with many things in the Trump era, it doesn't really matter if it's

If it's true, the perception that it's true is the key to its political power. And don't give Elon Musk a free pass here. He's got 193 million followers and he can tweet a baseless statement like that. Just putting it out there, I think Google's got a search problem. And then, you know, legions of people

will pick up on it and run with it. Now, setting aside whatever grievances conservatives may have had in the past about how algorithms were set up, those have gone to court, those have been largely resolved to some extent, but what he did there only makes the problem worse, I think. Yeah, Eli, can I ask you about this ruling specifically against Google? Because I will say...

if you wanted to not use Google in your life, it would be basically impossible. Right. And I think just to sum up antitrust in a sentence, competition good, monopoly bad. And what they've done here and what the court has found is that Google, in effect, has a monopoly on search engines in phones. They're built into the technology. And so this isn't going anywhere anytime soon. There will be appeals. This is months, if not years, to sort of sort out the question of,

what is the remedy for Google? What will they have to do? Maybe it's allow other people to get into phones. Maybe it's when you get a new phone, you can decide which search engine is the one, whether it's Google or Bing or AltaVista or Netscape or whatever, something like that. - Wow, you have a better memory than I do.

- Gen X right here. - Ask James. - Dancing hamsters, like we can go to deep cuts here. But needless to say, there'll be some remedy, but we're far off from it. - Yeah, I was an Alta Vista girl in the late 90s. - I remember this well. - All right, let's go now to this story. A member of the progressive group called The Squad fighting off an expensive primary challenge today, Congresswoman Cori Bush,

has three challengers in her missouri district she's become the target for millions in pro-israeli super pac spending after her comments criticizing the israeli military actions in gaza during their war against hamas in the wake of october seventh

In June, there was another progressive, Jamal Bowman, who lost what is the most expensive House primary in history, where pro-Israeli groups spent $14 million to try to oust him. Bush says that the money being spent against her is a signal that she's winning.

It tells the strength of this movement because they put millions against us. Millions. If we were so effective and if people didn't like our message, if people didn't like this movement, this movement, this pro-democracy, pro-diplomacy, pro-peace, pro-humanity, pro-love, pro-hope, anti-war movement. If they didn't, if people didn't like it, then they wouldn't have to spend so much money trying to shut it down.

all right megan hayes uh obviously each of these races is unique jamal bowman's race in some ways he had sort of come out of step with the district on many things it was not just israel that kind of got us there in this case the st louis post dispatch has actually endorsed bush's most likely opponent most likely to win of the three opponents saying that even more outrageous has been bush's stance on the israel hamas war israel's conduct of the war has been far from

perfect but it remains a democracy fighting for survival against an evil terrorist organization Bush's tendency to equate both sides even side with terrorists they write when she cast one of just two house votes against a resolution to bar Hamas members from the U.S

should in itself be disqualifying for reelection. What are you looking for in this primary? - Yeah, I think this is why we have primaries, this is why we have elections. When you become out of step with your district, people are able to vote you out. And it seems like she's become out of step with her district. I would say out of step with a lot of Americans. I think she also voted against funding for the Iron Dome. I don't think that that's where most Americans would stand.

in defense of Israel. So I think this is why we have elections. I think that, you know, she's saying that people are spending money. It's because people don't agree with her views and don't agree with her policy. So I, you know, this is she could really lose her seat here. Yeah. Well, and then this is what Cori Bush had to say to Armanu Raju back in May when he pressed her on this Israel issue. Let's watch this. Do you unequivocally condemn Hamas for October 7th?

I say how many times have you not looked at my statement? So we'll look at the statement.

I mean, Elliot, that seems to indicate how much pressure she's under here. I think she's under a lot of pressure. Again, the idea of a person, the knives coming out for a person for falling out of step with their party is nothing new. It's happened in the Democratic Party. It's certainly happened in the Republican Party, particularly in the years under Trump. It'll be fascinating to see how this plays out. All right. Coming up next here, a warning from the Secretary of State that an attack on Israel could be imminent. Plus this. She's got a spark. That's pretty amazing, actually. She's got a good spark.

A compliment from Donald Trump. We'll talk about who he's talking about there. All right, 48 minutes past the hour. Here's your morning roundup. We are engaged in intense diplomacy pretty much around the clock with a very simple message: All parties must refrain from escalation.

The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging calm as Israel's war with Hamas threatens to plunge the region into a wider war. Iran is vowing to retaliate for the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran, possibly within the next 24 hours. Happening today, Boeing in the hot seat. The NTSB expected to question Boeing about an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight earlier this year when the door plug blew off and left a gaping hole in the plane mid-flight.

And no joy on the south side of Chicago this morning. The White Sox losing their 21st consecutive game last night, tying the American League record that was set by my Baltimore Orioles in 1988. The National League record is held by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies. They lost 23 straight.

All right, let's turn back now to the 2024 race. Kamala Harris, now the official Democratic nominee, set to name her vice presidential pick in just hours. Just 16 days ago, President Biden was the one presumed to be at the top of that ticket before ending his reelection bid. One of the figures said to be key in persuading the president to bow out. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now acknowledging she's yet to speak with Biden, who is, of course, a longtime friend and ally since that decision.

Have you spoken to President Biden since he dropped out? No, I have not. Do you hope to? Yes, I hope to. We're all busy. Is everything okay with your relationship? You'd have to ask him, but I hope so. But he knows. Look, I have loved Joe Biden, respected him for over 40 years. Yikes.

Yikes. What do you see? Everybody turned to me. I mean, I think that the report, I mean, I don't know what the conversations were between her and the president during that time, but it seems that all the reporting has been true. It seems that there is some, there's not, there's some bad blood there. She's so good, too, and I just, the...

- You know, it's hard to imagine that someone who's that disciplined a politician doesn't know exactly what she's winking and nodding at there and dropping the suggestion that they're not speaking. Because there were many other ways to answer the question in that, look, he's the President of the United States and he's a busy man. I haven't had a chance to speak to him yet, but we will.

but she didn't say that stuff about a book and I think she's also trying to say that she is very much in power the Democratic Party and not that they've been acting proof and goes forth with that by saying that it's it's very much showing that she is in charge here I mean she she knocked him out of the race me 14 million people voted for Joe Biden Kamala Harris made 1800 phone calls and she's the nominee for the Democratic Party it clearly worked yep

Stephen? She's going to have to write another book and tell us exactly what went on, because presumably it's not in this version of her book. But I think it underscores yet again that while we've had several democratic presidents this century,

Nancy Pelosi is the key Democratic figure of the first 25 years of the 21st century. And she has extraordinary power. And once again, she's wielding it there. And to the point, you'd mentioned, Brian, a little earlier, the idea of the San Francisco liberal, right? Fair, it's a moniker, it's been around in America for- They are who they are. Well, making a different point that yes, it's a moniker, whatever you want to put behind it. But

But for someone who comes from that political world, she is still Nancy D'Alessandro from Baltimore. And her, if you look at number one, winning the House of Representatives in 2006 for the first time in a long time and shepherding that caucus through up and down, she's just an exceptionally skilled politician and knows what she's doing, even despite coming from this place of almost comical liberalism.

Yeah, I would say yes. But similar to where we had Newt Gingrich, you could easily characterize Newt. It's been very easy to characterize Speaker Pelosi. We've certainly won some congressional seats by highlighting the fact that the San Francisco liberal wants to bring their values to Michigan, Ohio, and these other states.

And they've gone more liberal with Hakeem Jeffries. He certainly is as liberal as Pelosi was. Hakeem's exponentially more liberal and certainly more militant with the combativeness of politics. That just goes to show you where we are today. - I mean, militant's a loaded word. - Yeah, there's a lot there. - And I think, well, no, it is, but I just think it's early enough in his tenure that we don't know how he's going to govern as a leader. I'm just saying shepherding a diverse caucus over the greater part of a generation

even setting aside what her personal politics deep down might be, and I don't even know what they are, because you don't, leaders are able to set aside what they believe and do what's in the best interest of the moderates, the liberals, whatever. She clearly had a very...

keen way of whipping her caucus and I think that that was on display with the president. Yeah, I mean whatever she may, you know, whatever kind of core values she may have, her demonstration of her sheer political skill has been on very clear display. We should stack that photo of her walking out of that Trump meeting with the sunglasses on. That's, I think, what really sticks out to me. The sunglasses of the Trump meeting. The other one, real quick, is after the Democrats impeached Trump, I want to say the first time, and then

There was applause in the room. Google this, everybody. Look at this. Nancy Pelosi takes an index card and goes like that. And it was just this. One, it was mom coming out. But two, it was Nancy D'Alessandro from Baltimore. It's this is how I'm going to run this caucus. I don't want to hear any of that gloating and dunking on something.

It was a powerful moment as a leader. - Yeah. I don't have time to play her moment. She also said on Sunday that Biden should be on Mount Rushmore in terms of her like trying to get this relationship back on track. As we all are sitting here discussing, I know Megan's wincing that we're talking about Pelosi being kind of the key democratic figure.

Anyway, since we are talking about the House of Representatives, I want to talk about this moment from an interview that Donald Trump did yesterday with that controversial live streamer. The former president played a game in which the host presented him with photos of people and Trump was required to respond. He had a somewhat surprising response about one of his leading critics, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Fake, but in all fairness, look, but she knows it. She's got a thing going. It's a good thing. She's a good thing for her. But there's a certain something she's got. She's got a spark. That's pretty amazing, actually. She's got a good spark. So, you know, I give her credit. But she's got a lot of sizzle.

Stephen Collinson, is that the apprentice casting director talking there? Like what is going on? I mean, I guess Trump is someone that knows how to use the media and social media and AOC is expert at that, but not sure that's a compliment she is particularly likely to welcome. And you know, what she would say about him, for example, I think probably wouldn't be that he's got a spark.

- No, well, go ahead. - He started calling her fake too. It's not exactly the highest praise, but.

Yeah, well, so this is what AOC said about Trump in June. She did this interview with Kara Swisher. She says, quote, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn't be surprised if this guy threw me in jail. He's out of his mind. I mean, he did this whole first campaign around lock her up. That's his motto. It's unequivocal. If Donald Trump wins, we're looking at the potential dissolution of democracy in the United States of America. The question about what would happen to me or the Democratic Party is a joke compared to the question of what is going to happen to our country. Clearly, they're not on the scene.

No, I think she's probably not happy that she was even in the conversation, to be frank. But I think it's kind of a compliment sandwich that he's giving her. He calls her fake, then says she has a spark. Well, listen, I think what he's saying is she's authentic, right? You have politicians who sort of shepherd their way up from city council to state assembly to state senate and finally make it to Congress. And they sort of filter out what they're going to say because consultants have told them this and that. She came straight from the bar.

She was a bartender, she broke into Congress. There's an authenticity to that that Trump as this executive producer of television sees. And he was dismissive at first, but he circled back, he's like, how can you deny that she's a very authentic politician? Which is rare. You don't see that these days anymore.

All right, well, as we're wrapping up here, we've got two and a half minutes left in the show. We've got I don't know how many hours until we get this apparent video that's coming out of the vice presidential pick. So quick whip around. Who's Kamala Harris's vice presidential pick? It looks like Tim Walz or Josh Shapiro or go with the dark horse. Steven, what do you think? Certainly one of them. But at the end of the day, it's probably not going to decide the election, whoever it is.

- But you're not willing to say Walz or Shapiro? - I'm a reporter. I don't have to. - What is your reporting telling you? - Elliot. - It's not gonna decide the election. It never does. It almost never has except since 1960 with LBJ. However, 61% approval rating in Pennsylvania, electoral votes in Pennsylvania,

even setting aside the groundswell of concerns among some of the Democratic base, I don't see how you don't pick Josh Shapiro. - All right, we got one vote for Josh Shapiro. - I'm going with Shapiro as well. I think for everything that you're saying, I also think that people aren't tuned into Walls yet. And I think that probably came out in a vet that he's probably more progressive than she's willing to believe.

interesting that was I think she peer for the sheer chaos is in the cause in the Democratic Party and the genocide Josh you know there's clearly a faction there that just doesn't want this guy in there and she's not gonna have to put it together alright well with we hopefully only have to play this game for another another minutes maybe guys alright I'll leave you all with this this morning a new hampshire woman is celebrating quite a score Tony Papa says that she found

52 rare baseball cards while renovating her old barn home in Manchester. The cards are from the late 1930s and 1940s. Fittingly enough for the New England home, one of the cards in the collection

is a rare Ted Williams rookie card. The legendary slugger played most of his career for the Boston Red Sox, also fought in World War II and then again in Korea as a fighter pilot. Papa says that the collection could be worth tens of thousands of dollars, but she's just happy wondering about what her husband must be thinking. I think he's smiling down at us. I really think he's laughing and

Happy that we found them. That's amazing. It's so cool. I actually had a grandfather who had a Mickey Mantle rookie card that was destroyed in a fire. Really wish we still had that in the family today. All right. Thanks to all of you for joining us this morning. Thanks to all of you for being with us. I'm Casey Hunt. Don't go anywhere. CNN News Central starts right now.

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