Okay, Kamal Harris is continuing to ride a wave of momentum after the Democratic Convention

in Chicago. And big bad, Donald Trump seems increasingly terrified to debate her.

We have a lot to talk about tonight.

We're going to get into all of it.

And in just a few minutes, Senator Elizabeth Warren is going to join me live from the campaign trail in Wisconsin.

We're also going to hear from Ian Sams tonight, who is a senior advisor for the Harris Walls campaign.

And we're going to talk to Don Lemon, who has been traveling around the

country, interviewing people about the election. He was also on the ground in Chicago, and he knows

a thing or two about tangling with Donald Trump. But I do want to start tonight with the debate

over the debate that we watch play out today, because I think it tells us a whole lot about the state

of the presidential race right now.

I mean, it all started late last night when Donald Trump suggested he may skip the scheduled

September 10th ABC News debate. Yep, if you're taking keeping track here, that's the one he

already agreed to, then tried to back out of, then agreed to again. This time, he cooked up a new grievance against

ABC News as an excuse to weasel out of it, writing in a lengthy post I'm not going to bore you with,

but part of it was, why would I type debate against Kamala Harris on that network? If you didn't

buy that clear cop out from Trump, neither did the Harris campaign. Today, they actually

shared the behind the scenes back and forth they've been having with the Trump campaign over the

rules of that debate, and in particular, one specific rule. Basically, over whether or not the

candidate's microphone should be automatically muted when they are not speaking.

Brian Fallon, the spokesman for the Harris campaign, said this.

We have told ABC and other networks that we believe both candidates' mics should be live throughout the full broadcast.

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