s interviewing somebody named Bender who is in favor of defunding the police. And Alison Camerota asked this question which I think is on all of your minds. And here's the question: What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into? Who do I call?

Now here's what you need to watch. In that question, Alison Camerota is a CNN host, I think, and the way she words the question is personal. That's important. All right, because you're trying to understand what she's thinking as well as what she's saying. We can't read minds, but how we receive the communication makes you think that they're thinking a certain way even if you're wrong. So she puts it in a personal form of a question. What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into? All right, this is very important. She's putting herself in the movie. She's not saying what if something happens to somebody and somebody needs to do something. No, Alison Camerota said what if my home is broken into. She put herself in the movie.

Now watch the response. And Bender said, yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors and I know, and myself too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege. So that was the moment that Democrats lost CNN. They lost CNN because you could watch, you had to see the look on Camerota's face. Now again, you can't really tell what people are thinking by a look on their face, but I'll tell you the impression I got. Because remember when I talk about persuasion, it's not about what's right. It's what impression did you get. And the impression I got was Alison Camerota saying, thinking that doesn't work for me. That doesn't work for me. That's what I saw in her face. Again, I warn you, you can't read other people's minds. She may have had a completely different thought, but that's how I received it. It looked like CNN was lost on that day because seriously, one CNN host with a good income is going to say, yeah, that's a good idea if somebody is trying to break in my front door that there's nobody to call. There's nobody on CNN, no, not even Don Lemon, is going to get behind that. If you've lost Don Lemon, well, you've lost the election.

Now of course Don Lemon is not going to side with having more police, but I don't think even he could say directly and on camera, you know this would be a better world if somebody's breaking into my house and I don't have anybody to call. That would be an upgrade. I don't think he's going to say that. So I don't know how they can recover from that.

But despite all that, it turns out that the latest poll numbers on Trump versus Biden is that Biden is just blowing him away. So the difference between Biden and Trump in the national polls just widened. It widened. Trump just had the best week of his life and the polls widened. Now when I say it's the best week of his life, I don't mean that people realize that. I'm just saying I realize it because he did get us through the pandemic and I think he called the timing about right, pushing for the opening looks like exactly the right thing. He was criticized for it. Being tough on China looks smarter every day. The economy will probably pick up and Trump is very directly involved in at least the psychology of that. I don't think Trump's ever had a better week, but I also don't think it registered that way to everybody. I'm not sure that intellectually people realize what a good week this was.

Now when I say a good week that includes the looting, because although the president did not do something directly to stop the looting, think about the fact that you brought in the National Guard and it kind of stopped at the same time. Am I wrong that the looting kind of went from a lot to not too much immediately upon the National Guard showing up? I think that's true. I mean it feels true even if it's not. And if we're talking about persuasion, what feels true is right. So I think the president actually had one of the highest, almost borders on gifted honestly, performances. With the exception, just so you know that I'm not just praising Trump for everything, I think they completely blew the messaging on a lot of this stuff. Everything from the pandemic messaging to the protester, the George Floyd stuff. I don't think the messaging was good. So I'm not just complimenting everything he does just mindlessly. I'm telling you that if you're watching looting on television and your choices are the pro-law-and-order guy or the who-knows-what guy, the pro-law-and-order guy is just going to get a bump from watching crime on TV that has nothing to do with his performance. He's just had to exist and be that guy and it's going to help him. Likewise the economy going up will help Trump. Likewise the coronavirus just getting in our rearview mirror at least a little bit will help him. So I think he had his strongest week, but his poll numbers are the weakest.

And I have speculated that this is the biggest practical joke in the history of politics, that Republicans are literally lying to pollsters in massive numbers. I feel that's true. Now I can't prove it. It's just an instinct, but I feel it's true. I also feel like it's a long time until election day and I don't know the polls are telling us as much today as they should because they're pretty frothy at this point.

All right, so let's talk about those protesters washing the feet of Black Lives Matter leaders. And I guess police were washing the feet of Black religious leaders as well. Not all the police, not all the protesters, obviously. But here was my take on that. It's pretty good persuasion because you can't look away. It gets your attention and it sh