Seema, I want to ask you about,
you know, this, this shift because there is
there is so much reverence in our politics for for
President Biden
in Hollywood is and I don't mean this in AI
guess I do mean in a derogatory way.
It's more transactional. And some of that anger was they
didn't feel like they were getting what they were putting
in.
Just talk about how the the hope and the optimism
around Harris might activate parts of of sort of entertainment
and culture that might have never been available to either
the other two gentlemen,
the tops of their tickets.
I mean, this does remind me of when President Obama,
but when he first ran and once it became clear
that he'd be the nominee over Hillary Clinton in 2008
as well as in 2012.
In terms of the the excitement among Hollywood donors
and just, you know, donors in California.
California is a huge donor state.
It usually gives the most.
It almost always gives the most to put,
you know, the presidential candidates of both parties.
And the level of excitement
recently has not been so great.
I mean, there, you know,
there was certainly some very large fundraisers here.
Hi, I'm Savannah. And a very big one for Joe
Biden recently.
There were some others, but
it didn't feel it felt more
like sort of status quo per forma.
And there does really seem to be a ramped up
sense of excitement.
And in terms of not only I think because of
her candidacy,
she's younger. You know, she's she's more,
I think more energetic. But the idea that I think
they think that there's a better chance of winning and
there's a real concern about
not being successful.
She's also from California. Let me show you,
Rev, some of the early praise
for the vice president from Oprah and others.
There's a great District Attorney in San Francisco whose name
is Kamala Harris.
She's she's brilliant, she's smart.
She doesn't look anything like anybody you ever see on
law and order.
San Francisco's District Attorney pressed Congress to repeal a law
that she says makes it much tougher to fight crime.
This will shackle the hands of law enforcement
and government in our ability to be able to detect
where and to whom guns are being sold with a
90%
conviction rate. Superstar prosecutor Kamala Harris made history when she
was elected
California's first African American female District Attorney.
I mean, it's an interesting point that Cornell makes sort
of the most famous unknown person I know some political
strategists are,
are angsty about getting her up on television.
Her her bio is, is extraordinary.
And I think some of the excitement in in in
Hollywood is a is a,
you know, they know her and you heard Steph Curry
there say she's always supported us.
We're going to support her.
But but talk about making sure that story scales across
the entire country.
No, I think the story has to be brought across
the country and,
and no one knows better how to do that than
Cornell
Belcher. But I think that when you look at the
fact that she was able to have a law enforcement
background in terms of District Attorney in San Francisco,
you state attorney general in California,
then on to the Senate.
Every time she had some effort
by others opponents to say,
oh, she's with the cops,
which is what Cornell was referring to,
she won anyway. Because first of all,
I think they underestimate the fact that people understand we
need somebody that is in those positions that will be
fair.
But at the same time,
we need to put that message out there so it's
not distorted as some are doing.
Because if you put her record up against Donald
Trump's and put a record up against JD,
it's almost a joke to try to compare the two.
And when you look at the fact that she's had
such a way of winning across racial and age lines,
I've known her since she was ADA in San Francisco.
She has shown the capacity that if a message and
background is put out there,
that she can bridge more of the gaps that customarily
frighten people in politics.
Yeah, I, I think that the idea,
Cornell, that that the Trump campaign will remain in its
sort of flustered Crouch would be foolish.
And I'm sure the Harris campaign isn't
lulled into any complacency. But they have this moment where
she's dominating the earned media cycle so completely.
And one of those issues is around the debate.
I mean, he is sort of shriveled into,
you know, a ball of fear at the idea of
debating her.
Let me show you how she's responded.
I'm ready to debate Donald Trump.
I have agreed to the previously agreed upon September 10th
debate. He agreed to that previously.
Now appears he's backpedaling. But I'm ready and I think
the
voters deserve to see the split screen that exists
in this race on a debate stage.
And so I'm ready. Let's go,
I'm ready. Let's go. I mean,
full of tag lines and,
and slogans. But to that Donald Trump says,
I don't think so.
Well, first I, I at first,
I do have to give a nod to I,
I like the, the clip where you showed the,
the late great Gwen Ifill.
And I know all of us in the business still,
still miss, still miss her.
But it, it, it looks it,
it's something that Donald Trump never wants to look and
because it's at the core of his brand and his
existence.
But right now he looks weak
and he particularly looks weak like he's running from from
a woman,
which is something that you know,
the pseudo tribe, they go big bad tribesman never wants
to do.
And I think when that's why I think he's in
a really awkward position.
But at the same time,
he knows, in fact, if he if he has a
debate with with her,
this the prosecutor, she's going to prosecute the case effectively
against him.
So he's kind of in a no win situation.
But right now it looks really,
it looks really weak on his part for him to
be
running away from the debate.
And she is doing the absolute right thing.
The campaign's doing absolutely right thing,
not letting him get get away with it,
calling him out for because the last thing he wants
to do is seem weak.
And right now, Nicole, he seems weak.