Trump campaign desperate to keep their own candidates microphone muted in debate

. >>> IN 13 DAYS, AMERICANS COULD GET THEIR FIRST AND, PERHAPS, ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS AND EX-PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ON EQUAL FOOTING ON A DEBATE STAGE. YESTERDAY, MR. ANY TIME, ANY PLACE, SAID HE WILL BE THERE ON SEPTEMBER 10th. BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE ONE BIG ISSUE THAT'S STILL UNRESOLVED. WHETHER OR NOT THE MICS OF BOTH CANDIDATES WILL BE LIVE FOR THE ENTIRE TIME. NOW THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE THEM TO BE ON SO YOU, ME, EVERYONE WATCHING CAN HEAR ALL THE CRAZY THINGS HE SAYS. FOR THE TRUMP TEAM, THEY ARE LESS KEEN ON THAT, SAFE TO SAY, FOR THE EXACT SAME REASON. CORNELL, SARA AND ERIN ARE BACK. I WANT TO START, THE WONDERFUL TEAM AT "DEADLINE" PULLED UP SOME PAST PERFORMANCE MOMENTS OF TRUMP TO REMIND US ALL ABOUT THE MICROPHONES. I WANT TO PLAY THOSE AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT. >> UNDER THE CURRENT MAYOR CRIME HAS CONTINUED TO DROP INCLUDING MURDERS. >> YOU'RE WRONG. YOU'RE WRONG. >> NO, I'M NOT. >> YOU'RE TELLING THE ENEMY EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO DO. >> NO, WE'RE NOT. >> NO WONDER YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING -- NO WONDER YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING ISIS YOUR ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. >> THAT'S A -- GO TO THE -- PLEASE, THE FACT CHECKERS, GET TO WORK. IT'S JUST AWFULLY GOOD THAT SOMEONE WITH THE TEMPERAMENT OF DONALD TRUMP IS NOT IN CHARGE OF THE LAW IN OUR COUNTRY. >> BECAUSE YOU WOULD BE IN JAIL. I WANT TO MAKE SURE. >> CAN YOU LET HIM FINISH, SIR. >> HE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. >> I'M NOT GOING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. >> WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION -- >> RADICAL LEFT. >> WOULD YOU SHUT UP, MAN. >> THAT'S THE PERSON WITH VERY LITTLE SELF-CONTROL. SO I FEEL PRETTY STRONGLY THAT THE MICS BEING ON IS A REAL KEY THING HERE. BUT I WANT TO START WITH YOU, SARA, WHAT DO YOU THINK AS TO -- ABOUT THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN PUSHING SO HARD FOR IT AND WHAT IT WILL SHOW THE PUBLIC? >> YEAH. LOOK, ABSOLUTELY THEY SHOULD FIGHT FOR HIM TO HAVE THE MICS UNMUTED BECAUSE THE MORE THAT VOTERS SEE OF DONALD TRUMP, THE LESS THEY LIKE HIM. AND EVERYTHING, WHETHER IT IS KICKING TRUMP OFF TWITTER OR FACEBOOK, WHETHER IT'S HAVING THE MIC FEUD, WHETHER IT'S NOT SHOWING HIS RALLIES, THE MORE YOU HIDE FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, THE MORE YOU ALLOW THE RULES OF THE GAME TO PROTECT HIM FROM HIMSELF, THEN THE LESS VOTERS ARE ABLE TO SEE HIM CLEARLY. YOU WANT PEOPLE TO SEE HIM CLEARLY. DONALD TRUMP, IN THAT CLIP THAT YOU JUST PLAYED, AGAINST BIDEN WHEN THEY DEBATED IN 2020, THAT WAS IT FOR TRUMP. I REMEMBER DOING FOCUS GROUPS WITH VOTERS AFTER THAT DEBATE AND THEY THOUGHT TRUMP WAS UNHINGED, OUT OF CONTROL, AND THAT WAS THE THING THAT TURNED A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO AT THAT POINT WERE ON THE FENCE, THAT WAS THE THING THAT PUSHED THEM AGAINST TRUMP. YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND, THE BIGGEST COALITION IN AMERICAN POLITICS IS IN THE ANTI-TRUMP COALITION. YOU DO HAVE TO REMIND PEOPLE WHAT IT IS THAT THEY DON'T LIKE ABOUT TRUMP. YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT SO MUCH POLICIES. THEY JUST THINK TRUMP IS CRAZY, NUTS, UNPREDICTABLE AND WHEN HE SHOWS THEM THAT, THAT'S THE THING THAT PUSHES UNDECIDED VOTERS TO THE PLACE I CAN'T VOTE FOR THIS GUY TOO MUCH. >> WHICH IS SO INTERESTING BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A KNEE-JERK MOMENT WATCHING IT. I WANT TO PLAY SOME OF HARRIS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, IT'S DIFFERENT WHO YOU DEBATE AGAINST, PLAY THAT AND TALK ABOUT THAT TOO. >> THIS IS IMPORTANT -- >> I -- >> MR. VICE PRESIDENT, I'M SPEAKING. >> I HAVE TO WEIGH IN. >> 15 MORE SECONDS AND WE'LL GIVE THE VICE PRESIDENT A CHANCE. >> THANK YOU. I WANT TO ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HOW [ INAUDIBLE ] WHEN YOU WERE PANICKED WHEN YOU WERE GOING TO GET YOUR NEXT ROLL OF TOILET PAPER. HOW CALM WERE YOU WHEN YOUR KIDS WERE SENT HOME FROM SCHOOL AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHEN THEY COULD GO BACK? >> SO TO PUT IT MILDLY, DONALD TRUMP IS NOT AS POLITE AS MIKE PENCE. NOT A LOT OF OTHER THINGS. IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE BEING MATCHED UP IN A DEBATE. WE HAVEN'T SEEN HARRIS AND TRUMP MATCH UP. TRUMP HAS DEBATED A LOT. IF YOU'RE THE HARRIS TEAM THEY'RE PREPARING FOR THIS EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE ON THE BUS TOUR. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT AS YOU'RE WATCHING PAST DEBATES AND TAPES OF TRUMP. >> I HAVE TO UNDERLINE WHAT SARA WAS POINTING OUT HERE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S MISSING FROM THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN BIDEN AND TRUMP IS SORT OF OVERSHADOWED BY BIDEN WAS ALSO TRUMP'S REALLY POOR NUMBERS COMING OUT OF THAT DEBATE. LIKE, FROM THE RESEARCH THAT I'VE SEEN ABOUT THAT DEBATE, VOTERS DIDN'T LIKE TRUMP AT ALL, RIGHT. TRUMP DID NOT DO HIMSELF ANY FAVORS IN THAT DEBATE. ALL THAT GOT OVERSHADOWED BY BIDEN. TRUMP WAS NOT LOOKED AS FAVORABLE IN THAT DEBATE. AGAIN, LET TRUMP BE TRUMP. TO THAT POINT WHERE MORE VOTERS SEE TRUMP, THE LESS THEY LIKE HIM, THE MORE THEY SEE HE'S UNHINGED AND THE MORE HE RAMBLES AND DIVISIVE, THE MORE RUDE HE IS. AMERICANS ARE TIRED OF THAT AND KNOW IN THEIR REAL LIVES THAT'S NOT REAL ADULT BEHAVIOR. DO WE WANT OUR COMMANDER IN CHIEF BEHAVING LIKE THAT. IF I'M THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN MUTE THAT MIC. >> WE DIDN'T PLAY THIS, BUT I THINK EVERYBODY MAY REMEMBER THE MOMENT WHERE TRUMP LIKE CREEPILY CAME UP BEHIND SECRETARY CLINTON DURING THE TOWN HALL DEBATE IN 2016, AND THAT WAS A VERY WEIRD GENDERED POWER MOMENT IN MY VIEW. IT'S NOT -- THE DEBATE IS NOT SET UP THE SAME WAY, BUT HE COULD DO WEIRD PHYSICAL THINGS. IF YOU'RE THE CLINTON TEAM AND REMEMBER THAT MOMENT, I MEAN I'M SORRY, IF YOU'RE THE HARRIS TEAM AND REMEMBER THAT MOMENT, HOW ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT THAT, LIKE THE PHYSICALITY AND THE GROSS GENDERED WAY TRUMP APPROACHES THINGS? >> YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING. I ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT MOMENT, TOO, WHEN I WAS WATCHING THE TRUMP-CLINTON DEBATE AND, YOU KNOW, FUNNY STORY, YOU HAVE THE VICE PRESIDENT HARRIS ACTUALLY REMARK ON THAT DEBATE, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL YEARS AGO. SHE CALLED THAT MOMENT WEIRD. THE WAY THAT HE WAS STALKING HER. SHE CALLED THAT MOMENT WEIRD. YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD -- THAT WAS KIND OF WHAT SHE THOUGHT HER STRATEGY WOULD BE TO TRUMP WHEN HE, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY GOT INTO CLINTON'S PHYSICAL SPACE IN THE WAY THAT HE DID, WHICH CERTAINLY DID FEEL VERY CREEPY FOR SO MANY PEOPLE WHO WERE WATCHING THAT BACK IN 2016. NO, THOSE WILL NOT BE THE DYNAMICS OF THIS PARTICULAR DEBATE, BUT ABSOLUTELY, I THINK THE DONALD TRUMP THAT WE SAW ON TRUTH SOCIAL LAST WEEK, YOU KNOW, POSTING DURING THE CONVENTION, VERY AGITATED BY WHAT HE WAS SEEING ON THE SCREEN NIGHT AFTER NIGHT AND WITH, YOU KNOW, HARRIS AND WALZ AND THEIR MESSAGE OF JOY, WANTING VOTERS TO SEE THAT IN REAL-TIME ON A DEBATE STAGE IS CERTAINLY THE GOAL OF THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT WE SAW LAST MONTH AT THE CONVENTION WHEN DONALD TRUMP IS SHARING THE STAGE WITH A BLACK WOMAN IT USUALLY DOES NOT GO WELL FOR HIM. SO THAT -- HE DOESN'T REALLY HAVE AN ANSWER, AND HE TENDS TO UNRAVEL. THAT IS CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY, AND SO HAVING THAT HAPPEN IN REAL-TIME WITH AN UNMUTED MIC, I THINK COULD CERTAINLY ADVANTAGE THE -- KAMALA HARRIS WHO HE KNOWS IS A STEEL DEBATER, SHE PROVED THAT IN 2020 AND PROVED IT WHEN SHE WAS DEBATING VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, HER RECORD AS A SENATOR IN THE SENATE HEARINGS. PEOPLE ARE LOOKING TO SEE THAT KAMALA HARRIS AGAIN ON THE STAGE ON SEPTEMBER 10th. IF WE GET THAT, YOU