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we have breaking news tonight. ohio governor mike dewine has just tested negative for coronavirus after testing positive for coronavirus before he was scheduled to meet with president trump today. here's what we're told. dewine was supposed to meet the president on the tarmac, but the rapid testing that trump relies on detected that dewine was coronavirus positive. so they never crossed paths. good. thank god the governor is okay. and a second test just came back negative. this is part of the problem. okay? now, how do we deal with this? better testing. more targeted. having rapid testing, which may not be accurate. that's why they got a false positive on dewine, we believe. but if you did that every day, you would still get a higher percentage of people who have this. say, i just spoke with dewine on
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the show yesterday about rapid testing. and he is actively trying to secure it for his state, combining with other governors to do it because the federal government isn't making it happen for them. they are making it happen for themselves. trump has rapid testing for people like dewine and people who are going to be around him and his staff. and the congress called for it for themselves and the media and the essential workers who are there. but what about the rest us? more rapid testing, more quickly getting results, means more freedom. it is the key to getting back to school. and of course back to normal. let's bring in andy slavitt. welcome back to prime time. obviously you understand these kind of government protocols. people will hear this and say rapid testing suction, gave him a false positive. you need the real test. but it is a compromise isn't it andy, because you will never get the results back as quickly. what is the compromise for this.
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>> first, chris, happy birthday to you. >> thank you, brother. >> it is a big one. i think we have some hopefully good testing news around the corner. it's easy to people impatient with where we are today, which is not in a good place. i suspect in a few months this is going to turn out to be more and more like pregnancy tests. we will be able to use saliva. we will be able to use paper. i think the fda is about to approve a test the nba has worked on that will have -- that will use saliva that will be easier. most importantly, it will just be a few dollars a test. the problem now with the $100 pcr tests that take seven or eight days -- we will never get there. i don't know what the truth is about what governor dewine had with those two tests. i would take another pcr test if i was him. >> pcr test is what? >> sort of the big granddaddy test that all the major commercial labs run that's
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currently now taking seven or eight days. >> swab test? blood test? >> typically, swab. although i think we will be able to move to saliva because we have some data now which will show that saliva can do this. we are going to want to find that -- you probably want to use different types of tests for entry into places that's low cost, you can use at colleges, versus more rigorous tests if somebody is actually sick. given someone a quick antigen test and following it up with a pcr test is not a bad protocol. the problem is it leaves you confused. >> they ran this granddaddy test on two different platforms today. and they got results today. obviously, you can get this stuff done fast if you are willing to, what, pay for it? limit the amount of testing they have to process? i mean what's the quotient here?
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>> two questions. one is can you do it physically as an individual, yes. as a country, though, when you have hundreds of thousands of cases and 50,000 to 60,000 more every day, there is just no testing capacity in the world that will take that. so until we start wearing masks, contact tracing, social distancing, closing bars, we are just going to be overwhelmed. when we bring that down, we should be able to get back to a place where even the pcr tests can be done in one or two days' time. >> that's why i like the rapid tests for school. look, that's where i am. i don't mean to be selfish. i know we have lots of aspects of this affecting our lives. no question. i don't see a bigger metric on the table right now than schools. because i believe it is interconnected to everything else we want. if you can't get the kids in school you ant get people back to work the right way. they have to make compromises they are going to be most likely to be fired unless we get them protection.
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they are going to have care for kids costs if somebody is willing to pick that up. there is none of that on the horizon. if we were able to do the cheaper rapid tests like the uk has, i know they have their problems but they are getting it more right than we are. each if it is 90%, every day you are getting a decent call on who you have in the classrooms. even if it is at 40% and you can get it off in real time you are better off than doing the stupid hybrid stuff right now. >> that's right. i think what we are excited about is what the nba has done with yale. a test that's going to be approved in the next day or two. they test every player and everybody associated with the nba every day. they are down to zero cases. the test is about $4 to run. even if you make a profit, it is a $10 test not a $100 test. you can imagine if you are a teacher going to a school, saying i want all 25 or 30 kids
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to take this. that's fine, i will show up in class. if that doesn't happen, how do the teachers do that safely. >> they are in a bubble in the nba. and doesn't that -- that's why they are having success or whatever, lack of cases the way the nfl and the mlb are not having. nhl is also doing well. but they are also in a bubble of their own. isn't that as important as the testing? >> it is all important. i think what they tried to do is show there is a protocol you put together which essentially for the rest of us would feel like good social isolation, getting rid of hot spots and making sure when cases happened -- cases will happen. we shouldn't be said scared of a case or two. it is the case or two that happens that we don't see that a week later is ten cases and then another week later is 100 cases. you still have to test while you are in the bubble because people do come in and out. it's been -- they still find the
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odd case every now and then but they immediately isolate people. >> let me ask you about one other thing, then i will let you go andy. and thank you. covid-19 patients not showing symptoms may have similar viral load as those who do show symptoms. i thought that -- now i'm confused again. because when people don't have the anti-bodies or the anti-bodies go away quickly, you guys have been saying -- yes i am blaming you andy. you have been saying that's because you didn't have such strong symptoms. now this study says symptoms aren't correlated with viral load. >> you are referring to a study out of south korea. very interesting study. let's remember, every study is just one study. we are this the middle of the scientific process. we are going to get studies that appear to be conflicting. i think what this says is a little bit surprising. it says that you are shedding the same amount of virus, ie, you are just as infectious
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whether you are showing symptoms or not. i don't think that's what people thought. people thought if you are infectious and sneezing you are more infectious than otherwise. this study indicates otherwise. but it is one brick in the wall of our knowledge base we are going to keep building. >> andy slavitt, thank you. i thank you for helping us understand this situation. i think the saliva test brings us to another step. look, you know, why do i keep naming the president? because he's our leader. he labelled himself a wartime president. and his war is coronavirus. he defined this challenge for himself. not us. we see how that's turned out, right? how would the commander in chief handle threats from abroad if he were given military options? remember, this election is about who is most fit to help us deal with these big problems. did you know that his own
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advisers were afraid to give him the military options? because of what they thought he would do with them? how do we know? jim sciutto uncovered it in reporting in his new big deal book. what it is, why he has it, next. wabba wabba! all new, plant powered creative roots gives kids the hydration they need, with the fruit flavors they love, and 1 gram of sugar. find new creative roots in the kids' juice aisle.
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so, we are in the middle of a pandemic. it is literally making us sick. it is literally killing us. millions are out of work. no matter who the president is, that person needs to make the most informed decisions possible. so, that's where our own jim sciutto comes in. you know him as a cnn anchor in the morning. he is all over the place, especially with his international news. he has remarkable insight into how vital information is handled with this particular president. it's part of his new book, must-read. the madman theory. trump takes on the world. goes on sale next week. good to see you jimmy. >> good to be on. thank so much, chris. >> give us the headline. what did you learn about how people who ordinarily give everything they know to a president handle this president?
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>> this was one of the most remarkable and telling instances in this presidency. and it was repeated frankly. but at the height of tensions with north korea in late 2017, the president's military advisers were so concerned about his decision making and his unpredictability that they hesitated to give him military options because they were concerned he might use them and he might take this country on the path to war. you might remember the time, there was discussion of a bloody nose strike, some sort of limited military action that would send a message to the north koreans, right, and kind of bring them to the table. the fact is, no one this the pentagon thought that such a thing existed, because any attack would likely be interpreted by the north koreans as an attempt to end the regime. so they hesitated. and beyond that, chris, they even conveyed to their north korean counter-parts that they didn't know what the president was going to do.
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because they were concerned that the two countries were on the path to war. and it didn't stop with north korea. at some of the most tense moments with iran, the same thing happened, hesitation to give military options. but also communication to adversaries in the midst of this, in fact our toughest adversaries that they did not know what the president was going to do. and they were concerned what path that would lead this country on. >> the quick counter would be, yeah, that's why trump's good, because you are able to go to your adversaries and say we don't know with this guy, he might come out swinging. so you better check yourself. people will say, yeah, trump, strong, thanks, i like him. >> here's the thing. this is the origin of the title of the book, the madman theory. it relates back to nixon, who attempted to outside a similar strategy against the north vietnamese. he had henry kissinger to communicate that he was just crazy enough to order a military
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strike on north vietnam. he didn't intend to do it but he wanted to gain leverage in the negotiations. fact was, it failed. you know how that war turned out. trump's madman theory, the difference is that he applies it not just to adversaries but to his own allies in these interacts and often to his own staff and advisers, he keeps them on -- they don't know what the next play is. and therefore, they are playing catch up. the national security decision-making process follows the president's decision. it doesn't -- it doesn't come in advance. and i spoke to senior intelligence officials -- >> that's an important point. they can't hit you over the head with the unnamed sources thing. bannon, navarro, mcmaster, see san gordon, fiona hill, and others went on the record for new this book. >> that's right. i made a point in this book -- i spoke only to current and former trump administration officials because i wanted to get a view inside this administration.
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frankly, if you do me the honor of reading the book you will see that i give credit where credit is due. and i give every opportunity to the president's critics and supporters to explain what they support and that they don't support. and there are instances in this book where the president, frankly, deserves credit. standing up to chinese malign activities, stealing of intellectual property, things that were tolerated before he drew a red line under. the question is -- this is a question i attempt to answer in the book on all of these national security challenges is, are we in a safer place today than we were four years ago? the sad fact is that when you look at a north korea or an iran, who have made progress in the nuclear sphere, no, we're not. when you look at russia, it is more aggressive, not less aggressive. and that's the real test here. you can claim that the madman keeps everyone on edge. but if you are not making your country safer, then that strategy has failed. >> the one thing that troubles me that's in the book is that
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you document that intel officials intentionally reduced briefings to bullet points because he only really reads the first two and they also intentionally keep they gotive informing about russia from him. the second is more troubling than the first. why would they do it? >> let me start with the first, because it is telling. when h.r. mcmaster was his national security adviser, i spoke to him as well, they realized the president was not reading their materials. they could tell as they were discussing north korea, iran, et cetera that he was hearing the information for the first time. they would boil the briefings down to three bullet points and hope he processed all of the information. what they came to notice is he wasn't reading all three of them. they adjust and concentrate the most salient information in the
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first two bullet points and make the third one a throwaway. they realize he is not reading those either. if you are making these kinds of decisions, you need to be informed. the second question. the president bristled on intelligence he didn't want to hear. particularly on russia. so often his briefers would talk about a russian threat not just to elections but to other areas of interest, he didn't want to hear it. that sadly led them to brief him less on russia. if the president closes their eyes and ears to them, they are not doing their job either. what that led to is then the president became less aware of the threat. that of course is not what you want your commander in chief to do. >> they want want to add some phonic on the flash cards so he gets the tie in thailand instead
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of saying thigh-land, which is something you can't fix in briefing. jim sciutto, congratulations, and thank you for doing the work to help everybody else understand this situation better. the back is called "the madman theory: trump take on the world" on sale next week. thank you jimmy. okay, we could see nearly 300,000 of us dead from covid before christmas. these the projections that are coming through the white house. and in that context, how does the president spend his time? is he all-out and urgent about these rapid tests? because they are probably our best chance to stave off that fate. no. he is busy making wild accusations about joe biden hating the bible, wanting to hurt the bible, and hurt god. does he really want to get into a faith contest? with someone who actually has it? biden just answered back minutes
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ago. where this campaign is going, next.
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now, something occurred the me earlier today. see if it fits with your own perspective. every time someone comes on my show to defend the president, they say, you tonight kndon't k in his heart. yet trump is saying he knows what is in joe biden's heart. listen. >> he's going to do thing that nobody ever would ever think even possible, because he's following the radical left agenda. take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything. hurt the bible. hurt god. he's against god. he's against guns. >> look, even by the standards of political desperation, this
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is pathetic. hurt god? is he thinking straight? is this really the same man who haas no answer for his favorite bible verse. he just didn't even know what it was? a man who said, i have never needed to ask god for forgiveness? does that sound like a christian to you? down any christian who has ever said that about himself? even jesus asked god for forgiveness. the man who you must examine through the lens of what he does -- he gassed protesters for a photo op with a bible. he put kids in cams because he liked the message of harshness. and now he wants to talk about vote for me, i'm the christian? listen, let's talk about this from a reporting perspective with one of our best. i'm only saying that not to hurt
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everybody else's feelings. dana bash joins us right now. good to see you. i am glad that the family is healthy. >> thank goodness. >> tell me, what is the play? what is going through his nutcracker that -- go after him about the god thing, faith, devoutness. that's our play. why? >> he started out with the radical left. and that is still the biggest play that they have, accusing joe biden of being part of the radical left. he clearly -- you could kind of see the wheels turning, right? he clearly took that and took it way further than anybody in his camp had hoped or intended. i mean, yes, you can say he wanted to take away your guns. that's kind of a standard republican line. but on the god front, it absolutely made no sense. as you said, for any reason. number one, given the messenger. but most importantly, given who he is talking about. because you can say a lot of
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things about joe biden. you can't say he's godless. he has a very, very deep faith. as you know. the same faith -- you share the faith that he does. he's a very staunch catholic. has been his whole life it did get him through some very, very tough times -- losing members of his family, two chirp andldren wife. >> everybody who knows joe biden knows questioning his faith is a fake. probably to the deep sand for this president. also another play they are making that i want to hear what your perspective is on it from the reporting -- the idea of questioning whether or not the election will be legitimate. it didn't work for me as a logic play because if you are so worried about how thing will be in november. now thing are good but in november they may not be then
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logically his argument would be to move the election up. what is their play in questioning the outcome of the election? >> yeah, no, there is no logic about it. it's pure politics. and there is absolutely no hiding it. there is not really much of an attempt to. it is the president feeling as though he needs to lay the groundwork for an attempt to call it rigged. he's already calling it rigged, even before any votes are cast. that's the way he was acting, if you remember, in 2016, when he thought he was potentially going to lose. and then he changed his tune immediately afterwards, if you remember. and so, look, you know, chris. you know him better than i do. you have known him for a very long time as a new yorker. that's the way he operates. he attacks systems. attacking a system got him to the presidency. because he fed into a very, very real feeling out there that the
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system is messed up and needs to be attacked. but now he's a big part of the system, and he is not only attacking it, but he's not doing anything to help it if he claims that it has problems. and as president, that is a responsibility he has, too. >> you know, i have changed my posture. i no longer recognize the man who is the president of the united states. i have known him a majority of my life. the families have known each other. i have seen him in a lot of different iterations of his life. i never saw any of this in him to this pronounced degree. when his niece came on and said you are wrong, he is not just a demagogue, he is a bigot, i heard how he spoke about, blahs and jews. he is a bigot. you are wrong. where i live, you don't run down minority, jews and people like that in queens and look the same for very long. it was surprising to me. i don't recognize what he's
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about right now in his desperation. what i do recognize, greatness -- the reason that i pmp you up so often is you deserve it in your work and how you do your work. it is not just me saying it. watch this film on hbo plus about -- hbo max about dana and others on the trail. watch. >> when i got my job on air, i was 31. and that still felt young to me. i went on the road. i worked my butt off. by the time i got to really focusing on having a family -- so hard. the idea of having kids late, it just kind of happens to a lot of women in my business. it's not intentional it. know how hard it is to be woman in this business. you can have it all, but not always at the same time.
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this is what we call hell week. oh, my god this feels so nice. on a normal day i do three events a day. hello, amy and noah. this isn't going to work. i need -- i stalk presidential candidates for a living. let me just get in there. i run around with a 20 pound camera seven days a week, 24 hours a day. oh, there she is. documenting everything that a presidential candidate is doing. right now i am covering senator elizabeth warren. i have been traveling the country with her for eight months, full time, non-stop, providing the base for coverage to our company. >> i want to bring in dune yella diaz right now. you saw her there in the film on hbo max. so this is a beautiful way to
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capture the reality of what brings coverage together. the reality of what you do. nobody works harder than the producer pjs out in the field reporting and capturing the raw material that allows us to shape our understanding that dana, nobody brings home better than you with your sourcing and perspective. so i love that the film is capturing this dynamic, specifically through the experience of being women doing these jobs. dana, on a wide scale, the difference in your experience from male counter-parts, what matters? >> a lot. a lot. but i'll tell you, the thing that has been so terrific and it has happened more and more as the years have gone on, chris, as i've covered -- just been a journalist in general, but specifically campaigns is that there are so many more of us. we're not there yet. there is not parity. we don't have total equality,
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but we have a lot more numbers, and there is a real sisterhood. and i get to work with and really learn from people like daniela, who has a completely different perspective than i. yes, she's a woman. but she's a lot younger than i am and a lot more fearless than i am. and has perspective of being -- and you can speak to this, daniela, a mexican-american. and that's an important perspective that we geed to have from her. just like other perspectives from others who come from all different walks of life. >> daniela, give us a sense of two thing. one, this is a first for you, covering it in such a deep way, but just being around this process in this way. what has it changed in you, this duration, this depth of that process? >> you know, chris, i feel like it's changed everything about me, to be able to cover a campaign from the ground. i have been -- i learned how to
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multitask. i learned how to shoot. i never knew how to shoot on a camera. i was only a digital reporter before this. it was a new skill i added to my resume. i wanted to say that -- dana talks about the fearless women. she's incredibly fearless as well. i want people to know that us embeds we look up to women like dana who paved the way for us. this is a new generation of embeds that are covering this election, super diverse. and it couldn't have happened without reporters like dana. >> and the ethnic experience. the goal of tie versity in journalism is not to just have people who look different on camera. it's to have people who bring different life experience to the questions they ask of people in power. what does that mean to you in doing your job, daniela? >> chris, it means everything to me. i mean, i can't do my job without always considering my background. i am a latina. my parents are from mexico. i grew up in mccallan, texas.
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these are all things that contribute to everything i do every single day. i think it is a strength of mine. i see it as a positive of being a bilingual woman covering politics. move to d.c. and be able to cover the election across the country and bring the skills to what i do every day. >> he want to say this. you should watch the film. it's called "on the trail: inside the 2020 primaries". it's on hbo max. it's streaming now. dana, daniela, i want to thank you, and congratulations on the great work. i'm very proud of you that you are having it represented in the film. and dana, i have known you a long time. i was raised in the business by your father. and this is something that will matter to him. so i am going to say it. for a parent to see their values encapsulated and improved by their kid is the blessing that every parent wants for their children. and your father, stu, has seen that in you. and he must be so proud. and i hope you know how proud you have made your parents, and
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all of us in your family here at cnn. i wouldn't want to work with anybody else. to both of you, congratulations, and thank you for representing us at our best. >> thank you chris. >> thank you chris. >> all right. be well. the president is so worried about this upcoming election, mail-in balloting specifically. why? it is access, access to the masses. it makes it easier to get in the game. that he didn't bother to see where it's actually the norm. he got out over his skis. colorado's governor is here to tell us why he's shocked that anyone would have a problem with what they are doing. their entire election is done this way in colorado. they are not alone. the reality next. shishito. burrito. raw kitfo. fried shiso.
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the president doesn't want you to vote by mail unless you
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live in a place where he needs more votes. now what is this about? ugly politics from someone who increasingly is going to lose to the scrutiny of whether or not he is hitting on all cylinders with some of the things that's coming out of his mouth. they make no sense. they don't even benefit him. five states have been voting almost entirely by mail for years. i am sure he doesn't know that. they have no substantial fraud. and more people there vote as a result of their process. my next guest runs a state that's been called the gold standard for voting by mail. colorado governor, jared polis. welcome to prime time, gov. >> a pleasure, chris. >> can't vote by mail. wracked with fraud. don't know who anybody is. can't verify the signatures. you send all the ballots out all over the place. absentee, that's good. but what you do, horrible.
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>> it is bizarre coming from a state that has been doing this for years to hear this as a national discussion. it is the way we have been voting the default since 2012. and long before 2012 a majority of voters voted by mail. i voted by mail essentially my entire adult life. i think i have been to a precinct maybe twice. we are happy to vote that way. republicans, democrats, independents. when we put it on the ballot in 2012 and we went to the doe fault being mail-in it got 70% of the votes. nothing gets 70% approval. >> the person showing up is sneaky and you don't know who it is that's signing that ballot. can't make sure. response? >> we have signature verification on all of the mail-in battle. we have secure drop boxes all over town. you can also put them in the mail also.
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most people drop them off at drop boxes or at voting sites. buck put them in the mail. no major instances of voter fraud. not controversial. all republicans democrats and independents are strongly supportive of voting this way. colorado is one of the states where we have a lot of initiatives on the ballot. if you are going to a voting booth you could be in there two hours. people like to do it at home, research it on the internet, cast an informed ballot and get it back in. >> it is not easy to answer in the negative. let's see if you can. do you have proof that you vice president had fraud? >> as you said, it is hard to have a negative. there are instances of fraud in any election system. i can assure you there is no more fraud the way we are doing it than the conventional way of people have to go in place. there is less fraud in a sense. there is two kinds of fraud. one is a fraud lieutenantly casting a ballot. the other fraud is you are denied the right to cast a
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ballot. we have less of that latter type of fraud in colorado without having more of that first type of fraud. >> what do you think this is about for the president? >> you are asking me to get in the president's head, chris. >> yep. >> i have absolutely no idea, as no one else does. but i tell you this is common sense in colorado. he should talk to republican friends in colorado that he has. they will all say of course we vote this way. we elect democrats and republicans. we are a purple state. we have a democratic senator, a republican senator. four hems of the house who are democrats, three would are republican. they were all elected this way. and there is wide support across the aisle. it is a simple reform that makes it more secure and safer to vote. >> i tell you what it would also do if he could got it in people's minds that it was bad. if you can keep people from thinking that mail-in ballots are the way to go you would drop participation. the irony for the president is there are a lot of places that
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have mail-in voters where he has voters. now his own people don't want to come out and use it because they think it is somehow supporting him. do you think this is something that could backfire for the president? >> i do. i don't think it is strategic. what you have is the people that might be inclined to listen to his so-called words of wisdom would be more hesitant to vote by mail and therefore less likely to vote. those who disregard his opinion about the sbreg it of mail-in voting are going to vote anyway. in colorado where we have had this method since the early 2000s, i think they strike it up to the president being innornt on the topic. >> thanks for joining us. god bless, stay healthy. >> thank you, take care. fourth installment tonight of life lessons. i'm turning 50 at the end of the week. can't have a big party. i am kind of celebrating with
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you with what i have learned over these years. they are lessons that i believe are as rational as they are relatable. i think they are things everybody figures out after some time on this earth. yes, i am trying to make so there is a little bit of a conflation a dovetail, with what we deal with personally and how it plays out politicly. i have a next one for you. ready? it's you only control your ability to do the next right thing. why does that matter? next.
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i'm going to be 50. i've spent a lot of time in my life regretting what i've said, what i've done, what i haven't said, what i haven't done. the past -- i've lamented it,
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damned it. i've dreamed of going back. i've talked to people about it. a lot of us do that, right? then we have a tendency to do from what you did and how upset you are about it or how you wished you did it differently and we jump to the future and we start to dream and project about how we'll be different and how it will be different the next time and what we'll do. what do we skip when we do that? the only thing we control. life lesson number four -- you must focus only and always on doing the next right thing. history, right, the past is a -- the past is history. the future is a mystery. but today is a gift, and that's why it's called the present. i goat that from "kung fu
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panda". now, what is the genius of it? all we have is the now. people talk about meditation and being here. you do that on your own. works for you, may not work for you. all you can control is doing the next right thing. we don't do that. why? because there's an indulgence to want to beat ourselves up for the past tom say, sorry, sorry, sorry. sorry is a word being better as an action. you are only what you do. if you're sorry about the past instead of projecting on a future you don't know what will be, focus on the now. do the next right thing. that's the only way you get away from a flawed past, the only way you get towards a better future. i hurt her feelingless i hurt his feelings. i broke his heart. do something good for him now. personally, i know this is true. it's not always easy, but it is more helpful than anything else.
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politically we see it also. we see politicians all the time -- this president. i did a great job. we're doing better than everybody else. we're going to have more of this. what are you doing right now? you screwed up. focus on doing the next right thing. he can't. he may not be able to. you are. i am. it's not easy, but it's easier than spending our time lamenting what we can no longer control and dreaming about what we don't know is going to happen. the past is history. the future is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it's called the present. focus on doing the next right thing. easy to say, hard to do. lesson number four. we'll be right back. find your keys. find your get-up-and-go. find pants that aren't sweats. find your friends. find your sense of wander. find the world is new, again.
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and there on the other side of your screen across from the old man is the upgrade, laura coates in for don lemon. >> i see a man with wisdom. i was talking to my parents and they said you got break the cycle. be the person you wanted to have when you needed something. if you're rejected, choose acceptance. it's like a bookend. that was my morning conversation with my parents. not that your my parent bus that was the bookend to my evening. >> that was the smart person's cultivation, the first part. i'm the simple man who made a lot of mistakes, idiot's guide going toward. we spend so much of our lives and politics criticizing lame lamenting the past when it's over. it's over. all we control is what we do next, the next choice, and in life, you want the focus on doing the next right thing. don't waste the emotional energy of bea

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