WEBVTT - Gov. Tim Walz, Timothy Snyder & Steven Mazie 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.200 Hi, I'm Molly John Fast and this is Fast Politics, 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.200 where we discussed the top political headlines with some of 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.600 today's best minds, and one in eight women say they've 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.160 secretly voted differently than their partners. We have such a 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:19.800 great show for you today. Vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.040 Tim Walls stops by to tell us what it's like 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.720 in the home stretch. Then we'll talk to Yale professor 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.159 Timothy Snyder about how the media is playing into the 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.280 fascist handbook. Lastly, we will have a bonus conversation with 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:43.240 the economists Stephen Mazie about the courts. But first the news. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.879 So, Mollie, I was scrolling through Twitter last night. I 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.080 heard Donald Trump's talking to Tucker Carlson, which always fills 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.160 my heart with sadness, and then I heard what they said, 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:54.280 and it horrified me. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.280 Is it weird for you to see Liz Cheney? That'd 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:04.520 be Dick cheney repulsive little daughter running against you with 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:05.480 Kamala Harris. 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:10.400 Well, I think it hurts Kamala a lot. Actually, Look, 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.240 she's a deranged person. But the reason she couldn't send 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.880 me is that she always wanted to go to war 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.080 with people I don't want to go to war. She 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.680 wanted to go. She wanted to stay in Syria. I 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.760 took him out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:25.000 I took him out. 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:28.040 I mean, if we're up to her, we'd be in 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.520 fifty different countries. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:32.640 She's a radical war hawk. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.000 Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.640 barrel shooting at her. Okay, let's see how she feels 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.040 about it. You know, when the guns are trained in 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.800 her face. You know, there were all warhawks when they're 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.520 sitting in Washington in a nice building, saying, oh, gee, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.520 you will, let's send Let's send ten thousand troops right 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:55.040 into the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.880 And I used to have I have meetings with a 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.480 lot of people, and she always wanted to go to 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:02.320 war with people. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.440 So the point of that is that it certainly sounded 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.120 to me like Donald Trump was musing about having the 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:16.520 guns pointed at Liz Cheney's face and threatening her life. Now, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:21.560 Trump's defenders, which is everyone on Twitter and all of 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.440 the conservative media, were furious because they said it was 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.840 clipped and that the full context, which we actually played 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:32.960 for you earlier, shows that in fact, he was not 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.440 threatening Liz Cheney. He was talking about how much he 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.440 hates wore. I don't know. I mean, I feel like 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.280 you should just stay away from talking about killing people 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:45.680 by a firing squad either way. And the fact that 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.640 you know, again like so much Trump's plaining, he didn't 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.480 really mean to say that, he said it this way. Also, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.080 I want to add that Trump has a group of 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.600 really angry fans, many of whom have a lot of weapons. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.600 So when he muses about shooting people, it's not good. 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.960 It's not good. That is this is my hottest take. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.520 He should not do that. It's not good. It's really scary. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.919 It feels like an invitation to something bad. 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.920 Sure does, So what's shift gears too? Instead of bad? Too? 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.840 Stupid as all hell. Trump loves filing lawsuits famously. He 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.960 files more of them than almost anyone in public life. 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:28.960 What do you see here, Molly? 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.000 This is a little bit the same. Trump gets angry 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.600 when his quotes are taken out of context. If he 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.760 can take offense for something that he will, And he 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.840 and his people are suing CBS for ten billion dollars 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:48.360 in damages. It seems like a lot for alleged partisan 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:52.160 and unlawful acts of election and voter interference. Now, Trump 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.000 says everything that he doesn't like his voter interference, right, 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:01.160 like the Russian investigation election interference, because that's sort of 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.160 his thing. So he said that CBS, you know, they 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.920 sort of edited a question in sixty minutes that Harris 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.839 had a sort of snappier answer to. I don't even 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.600 really get the drama here, but his people got very 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.760 angry about this. He is suing in the North District 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.320 of Texas, and he's alleging that there were two different 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.000 versions of Harris's response to a question about the Israel 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:31.560 Helmas War. He's suing in this North District of Texas 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:35.360 because he knows he'll get a judge that is favorable 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:41.400 for his rulings because Trump has Trump judges who do 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.320 what he wants. The judges in Texas have done a 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.200 lot for Trump. So you know, maybe this works, maybe 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.839 it doesn't, but I don't think judge shopping is not 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:51.480 how any of this is supposed to go. 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:55.000 So we have some early voting data. You want to 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.479 explain it to the listeners, Molly. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.760 I want to like caution on early voting data. All 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.919 you can tell from it, and it depends on the states. 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:03.960 Some states you can't even tell this, but a lot 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.599 of states you can only tell the partisan breakup. And 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.720 for example, some states like Nevada, if you have a 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:15.000 driver's license and you're newly registered, now we have automatic 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.960 voter registration with driver's licenses, a lot of times those 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.719 kids get registered as independents. That doesn't necessarily mean that 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.880 they're independent. It just means they don't have a partisan 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.960 affiliation yet and maybe never well, so I would say 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.200 it's too early to know anything. But one of the 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.080 trends that we're seeing reported by NBC Newses Decision Desk 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.160 is this that they analyzed this state voter data as 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.440 of October thirtieth, and there are signs of an influx 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:49.320 of new female Democratic voters in Pennsylvania. And this is 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.160 the part that's not as good new male Republican voters 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:57.320 in Arizona. So these are voters who did not show 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.159 up in twenty twenty, so they would not have been 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.080 polled for right, because this is shifting electorate. Remember they're 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:11.320 basing their turnout model these posters on previous general elections, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.720 not midterms, previous presidential elections. So a lot of times 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.640 the twenty twenty electorate is what pollsters are using for 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.359 this election, and these new voters would not necessarily have 0:06:22.360 --> 0:06:26.080 been pulled, so that may change the way the results 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:31.000 turn out. And they so, and we don't know about before, 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.520 So we'll see what happens. This could be a very 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.960 good sign for Democrats because Harris has to win Pennsylvania, 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:39.200 but it could also be a good sign for Republicans 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.640 because Trump needs to win Arizona. Now that said Harris, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:48.800 as long as she wins Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, she can 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.839 lose either Arizona or Nevada. I think so. I don't 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.520 think she has to win all the sun both states, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.520 but anyway, so we'll see what happens. But again we'll 0:06:58.560 --> 0:06:59.159 know soon. 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.080 There is another horrible, horrible story in the aftermath of 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.640 Donald Trump helping set up to have ro fall. What 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.040 are you seeing in this horrible story that I wish 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:10.840 I could forget? 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:16.200 So? Pro Publica has been doing really great reporting on 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.400 these women who have died in Texas because of the 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:23.240 abortion ban. Remember the Texas abortion ban was enacted a 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.720 year before the fall of row SB eight. State Bill 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.880 eight was put into action in twenty twenty one because 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.680 the Republicans in the state legislature were so hot to 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.760 get it in there. And remember, it actually went to 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:41.120 the Supreme Court on the shadow docket and they let 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.840 it stand. So there's just a lot more horror stories 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.200 coming out of Texas because they've had a much longer 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.680 abortion ban than other places. So this is another story 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:58.080 of a woman. She's eighteen years old, pregnant, miscarrying, and 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:04.960 she ends up dying of sepsis because she can't get 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:11.240 treated and they finally admit her, and they wouldn't treat 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:15.360 her because they thought that baby was still alive and 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:17.600 they didn't want to go to jail, and it's just 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.000 really dark. There's a really important point in this, which 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.280 is if you're a woman in a state with a 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.480 band like this, you end up getting bopped around from 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:30.160 different hospitals and people don't want to treat you and 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.679 you really don't get the care that you need, and 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.320 now we're seeing women die from it. 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.840 So Maali, one of the things we come to realize 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:40.959 is a lot of the young voters in the selection 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.400 were ten or eleven years old when the Access Hollywood 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:47.280 tape first hit. So they were not aware that mister 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.959 Trump talked of women in such a way of grabbing 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.840 them by the pussy. But now TikTok is making them 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.200 aware of this. What are you seeing here? 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.160 I hate this story because it's like how anyone could 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:03.360 forget this is just beyond me. But basically, Republicans, young people, 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.040 you know it was eight years ago. The guy's been 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:10.679 running for president for almost a decade. Now TikTok is 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.600 resurfacing this video and the audio of Trump musing about 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.680 if you're a star, they let you do it, you 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.800 can do anything. We all know this sort of really 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:26.120 dark and grim monologue about sexually assaulting women. 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:29.200 What are you talking about? It's just locker room talk, And. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.600 Now younger people know about it too because of TikTok. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:37.520 Congratulations to the Chinese government for allowing it to air. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.560 Tim Wallas is the governor of Minnesota and the vice 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.679 presidential nominee Molly How are you, hi, Governor? 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:51.360 I'm standing tall, steel, tons of energy, went out running 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.360 in Detroit this morning already and ready to bring this 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:54.880 thing home. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.320 What do you think about what Donald Trump said about 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:58.559 Liz Cheney yesterday? 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.400 Look, it's horrific. Not surprising. He's done this, whether it's 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.880 subtly or backhandedly, his whole time chaos division, you know, 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.800 violent rhetoric. We saw it, of course, what he did 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.280 to our fellow citizens in in Puerto Rico over the 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.839 over the weekend. But look, more than anything, I think, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.000 and I hope voters hear this. We don't have to 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.679 live this way we have And you saw it on 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.640 the National Mall with Kamala Harris. How a president talks, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.120 how a president talks about unifying us, How a president 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.480 lays out plans to do list of things for the 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:31.319 American public. How the grace and the dignity and the 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.920 you know, the inclusiveness of that. So I think when 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.240 Donald Trump says this, I think take him seriously, and 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.440 I feel, you know, I feel the pain that comes 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.440 with for Liz Cheney because this is dangerous rhetoric. But 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.800 it also inspires us that the alternative is so much brighter, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.720 the alternative is so much more hopeful, And those who 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:52.480 are just tired of this drama, just tired of seeing 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.800 him on TV and doing these kind of things, the 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:56.719 antidote lies right in front of us. In the next 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.080 one hundred hours or so, to get out the vote. 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:00.400 And let's just put an end this. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.040 I knew you when what's it like? You know, you 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.480 are the governor of a big state, but now you 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.920 are a phenomenon. What is it? Is it very different? 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:10.520 What's it like? 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.360 No, it's a privilege. And what it's done, Molly, is 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.520 it just reinforced to me what I already knew. We 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.160 have so much more in common. The Vice President says that. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.360 But I'm telling you, I've had the privilege of traveling 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.160 to every corner of the country to get out with folks, 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.000 to listen to them, to hear their hopes and dreams, 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.600 to hear their frustrations. And this campaign is just in 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.720 every corner. Our ground game is so good, the volunteers 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.160 who are working on at the enthusiasm and the thing 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.640 that I said, we talk about when we see our supporters, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.920 it is a sense of joy, It is a sense 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.240 of hopefulness. And I feel like I'm the same guy. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.320 I got a few more miles on me, I know 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.040 a few more people. But I think what I always 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:49.000 believed is is that people just want the goodness of 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.600 this country. And I'm really pleased about this that I 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.760 won't lie The teachers have been showing up in pretty 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.840 big numbers because they said, you know, it's only taking 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.520 us two hundred and fifty years to get a public 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.360 school teacher on a ticket, so they've been excited. But 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.560 it's a lot of just regular folks that look, this 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:04.520 can be this way. You got two middle class kids, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.280 one from Oakland, one from real Nebraska trying to take 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.080 a positive message. So thanks for asking. It's been great. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.240 I think I'm the same guy, but I'm even more 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.720 optimistic than I was before. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.440 How are the kids as distressful being on the trail? 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:18.920 I mean, what is that like? 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:22.400 Well, you are kind to ask. No, they are fantastic, 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.280 and I appreciate justin the one thing I said was 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.079 is especially like with Gus, this country's just wrapped their 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.719 arms around Gus. I see people that they're like, I'm 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.800 voting for Gus's dad, and you know, I still see 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.000 them say that. And Hope has been a morale captain 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.560 is what she calls. She took her to leave of 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.880 absence to come with me. She's out on the trail. 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.440 She keeps me grounded. I think you know she's connected 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.600 with the twenty somethings, the gen Z. She's been along 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.640 with this team. You know, these campaigns are run by 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.920 youth because they have the ability to stay up all 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.320 night and sleep on the floor. But my kids have 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.320 been great. Gus is living a senior in high school's lives. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.680 He's playing varsity volleyball, trying to get through another algebra 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.760 cloud and that kind of thing. But they've been great. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.600 But the American public has just been so great on 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.480 how they embrace them. And of course Gwen is a 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.280 phenomenon in herself out there just going everywhere across the country. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.440 I think she's really connecting. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.640 Are you scared? Does it feel scary? I mean there's 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.800 like a part of this country that is really wants 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:23.600 this other vision. Is it scary? No? 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.720 And I said, for us, is that we know what 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.000 our vision is. We know what the positive piece of 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.800 this is. We feel confident in this and it's a 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.240 privilege to be a part of this. Look, it's always 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.800 going to be difficult, those who fought to protect this democracy, 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.360 those who fought to form it. We're at a critical 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.160 stage and I tell people the anxiety and I would 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.760 encourage people of these next four days that the surest 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.040 care for this anxiety is to go into action, even 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.080 if it's right, you know, knocking on a door, making 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.440 a few phone calls, if you can drive people to 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.120 the polls, if you're there to do anything, that's action. 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.600 And I think for me and my family, we have 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.480 been in constant motion. You know, since early August on 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.240 this we have been able to do things. And I 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.679 have been in front of the American public that just 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.000 inspires me. You know, we were in Asheville a couple 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.280 of nights ago. We've been down there right before Helene, 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.199 and you know, we waited and the community said, no, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.760 come back. They packed the Orange Peel, a music venue. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.480 We had bands playing. We had that community turn out 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:20.880 in huge numbers. A resiliency of Asheville is just the 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.680 embodiment of what this country is. And Donald Trump wants 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.080 to tell us his country broken. Donald Trump said, it's 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.840 the garbage can of America. Donald Trump said, you know, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.920 we have to have him to make things great. Ashville 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.440 doesn't need Donald Trump to make them great. They're great 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.200 right now. What they need is federal government and others 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.120 to continue to provide the resources necessary things that Donald 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.800 Trump never did cut the funding, threatened to not give 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.440 Blue States Resources. Kamala Harris has reinspired people that are 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.200 our politics can be good, hopeful, joyful and effective. And 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.640 that for me, that keeps me going. So anybody out 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.960 there's got any anxiety, just go down sign up for 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.040 a Shifted calling. It'll reinspire you. 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:02.400 Pennsylvania is the most stay and they have more volunteers. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.280 In Pennsylvania they have I think six volunteers for every 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:06.920 door that needs to be knocked. 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:08.760 Yeah, it's awesome folks that are out there. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.000 Do you feel like there's grounds well when you talk 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:11.480 to people? 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.840 I mean yeah, yesterday morning I was in Bucks County 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.360 and stopped by Temple at de Vali with you know, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.760 some of our South Asian are Hindu American folks. Huge excitement, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.040 huge optimism, you know. I think it's the timing of 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.479 that was right, that's the victory of lightness over darkness, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.320 of knowledge over ignorance. And they were there together. So 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.840 I feel it out there Bucks Counties, you know, kind 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.720 of ground zero. We all know about it. I'm just 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.480 seeing the volunteers and it's the attitude of the volunteers. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.440 You can't fake this stuff. I've been doing this long 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.920 enough that do you do rallies and things like that. Look, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.680 rallies don't necessarily win the election, but rallies are a 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.600 place where people gather as community and express their joy 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:50.000 and optimism. And these things are rocking. We're in ann Arbor, Michigan. 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.000 I think there's about twenty thousand people. The other night, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.920 beautiful fall night. The trees are lit up, they're golden. 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.240 Maggie Rodgers is singing that community is out, arm in arm. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.640 This is the way it should be. And the contrast 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.960 to that, to Madison Square Garden. Man, it couldn't have 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:04.440 been greater. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.880 When you got this job, you didn't know how to 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.960 read a prompter. I spent a lot of time thinking 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.480 about reading a prompter for obvious reasons, because when I'm 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.760 on television, did you learn how to read the prompter? 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:16.920 I mean, what did you find? You know? You were 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.440 like thrown into the deep end a little bit. How 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:20.440 do you do it? Well? 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.800 I'll tell you. It speaks volumes to this campaign. And 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.600 how quickly this is, you know, unprecedented, how it had 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.520 to stand up. I'm surrounded by the best professionals that 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.160 you could imagine. They had me ready, they taught me, 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.440 they were briefing me and they let me be me, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.440 which caused them some headaches at times. I will acknowledge that, 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:39.240 but it also gave them some of what you know, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.600 this joy that I think part of this is is 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.440 the partnership. The Vice President and I have a good partnership. 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.560 She's the thing I wish more people would know is 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.960 she is so dang funny. I gravitate towards funny people 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.560 because I think it speaks volumes, and she is and 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.040 I just keep finding things about them. But no, I 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.240 think this is a testament to the team. It's a 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.280 testament to how they stood up a campaign in the 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.360 shortest time in American history. I think, on the grandest 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.560 scale at the most critical time, and here we set 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.760 on the doorstep of now executing this campaign. I want 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.800 to make that clear to everyone. We're going to win 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.520 this thing. We've got the we've got everything ready, but 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.320 we need to get the ball across finish line. Here. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:17.960 We got to get over the goal line. We got 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.720 to finish this thing, and that means the boat. So 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.520 I'm ready to go. I've learned a lot. I think 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.040 I've gotten better at that prompter, but we can all learn. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.520 You have all of these kids that you have mentored 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.359 and Fox knew is Wroten's story yesterday about how a 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.560 kid was struggling with drugs and alcohol and you told 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.520 them to play ball, and they misrepresented the story because 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.720 the kid was actually saying that ball had saved his life, 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.080 the sport had saved his life, and you had And 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.560 I'm wondering if you can just talk about with these 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:51.000 kids who aren't seem really committed to you. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.080 Yeah, this has been the I think the most gratifying 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.360 part of this whole thing. These kids were very organic 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.520 and came out. I know Dan who you're talking about, 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.520 and I had lost touch with him, and he just reignited. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.800 This was before I was in on this. For whatever reason. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.080 Earlier in the year we reconnected and he told me 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.520 for the first time. He came and got a meeting 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:09.840 with me and said in there and he said, well, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.280 I just need to tell you this. I think you 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:13.719 saved my life. When he came here. He was going 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:16.080 to drop out of school and I brought him back. 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.520 It wasn't about the ball, it was about not leaving school. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.119 It was about coming back. He turned out to be 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.840 a fantastic football player. But that's not why I brought 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.240 him back. I brought him back for him. He needed 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.560 to be around those positive influences of other kids. He 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.040 needed to not leave school. And he's successful now, you know, 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.240 he's dealt with all of us deal doing these things. 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.879 And I just, I mean, I did not see this story, 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.080 but I don't understand why Box News. You know, they're 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.480 always rooting for failure. This is a good story that 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:44.400 transcends politics. Just a really good story that the kid 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:45.919 was there, and I'm just glad there. And that's what 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.239 we do. Someone told me, you know, the mister Rogers thing. 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.480 We always try and find the helpers, and I hope 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.320 my job was to be a helper and so excited 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:55.320 about that piece of it. 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.680 And these kids did campaign for you and helped you 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:00.960 run when you ran for com gross right. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:02.760 Yeah, some of them did. This kid. I think they're 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.600 probably douking about didn't see the story, but it sounds 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.600 like the one probably did. Some of them did. They 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.480 helped me run the first time they came back. These 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.280 were talented people. My first campaign was four young women, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:14.480 reaching college graduates who were from man Cato. They knew 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.960 more about politics than I did. By far. They understood 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.479 others work. They had worked on campaigns I had, and 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.119 they just came back and help. They wanted to make 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:21.640 a difference. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.160 Thank you, thank you, Thank you, Governor. 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.040 You're the best, Molly, thanks for having me. Let's win 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:27.440 this thing. 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.280 Yes, yes, yes, good luck. Are you concerned about Project 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.320 twenty twenty five and how awful Trump's second term could be? Well, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:38.879 so are we, which is why we teamed up with 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.399 iHeart to make a limited series with the experts on 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.840 what a disaster Project twenty twenty five would be for 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:49.680 America's future. Right now, we have just released the final 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.720 episode of this five episode series. 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