they have between 30 and $75 million in assets in u.s. ps competitors or contractors. concern? >> it is a concern. the one reason why we're concerned is if you look at the statements that president trump has made and the kinds of actions, we understand he wants to privatize the postal service. he doesn't want it to operate as doing right now. that raises another long list of questions that we need to ask. >> senator peters, we'll stay on this. you are welcome here to use the platform to argue the case. all right tonight we have a special second hour of "prime time." happy to do it. because there's a lot of news. yes, don lemon is off. thank you for spending friday night with me. friday night brings no relief.

not from the president. he insists on pushing false narratives and we cannot fatigue on the fact finding. i know the temptation. i have to check it every time. every time he says the pandemic will disappear, somebody believes it. and nonchalant and can make them sick. cases are up because of testing. that is b.s. all right? and now there's a new line of deception that maybe the most dangerous in way. here it is. >> we will be pursuing a major executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all of the customers. this is never been done before. >> i'll tell you what bothers me. somebody wrote that for him. somebody thought it was okay to just lie to you.

it has been done before. obamacare. we have protection for preexisting conditions. why does he need an executive order? he's not giving it to you. he's trying to take it away. he just said -- no. he's lying. okay? he doesn't have to give you preexisting condition protection in an executive order. you have a law. it's in the aca now. he's trying actively to over turn that law. which would take away the protection. somebody wrote that. the lack of shame. it's staggering. 161,000 dead in this country. we are desperate for protection and he's lying to us about helping us when we have what he says he's offering. do something. take the mantle that you were given and exercise your power to help us with rapid testing. make it all you talk about.

between now and the election. it will help you most. we have former obamacare administrator. back with us tonight. i have to tell you i don't often say i don't get it. usually i get why he's doing what he's doing. not this. somebody wrote that for him. someone like you. like a policy person atop a pyramid. said say this. is there any truth to the idea that we need an executive order for preexisting conditions to be protected? and this has never been done before other than never been done meaning somebody lying about something that's obvious in law. >> of course not. the lawsuit that he's joined to get rid of preexisting conditions. to to have 23 million people lose healthcare. to essentially cut raise the price of prescription drugs. those could be done if he said

to the 19 attorneys general in the case let's drop this. this is not a good time to take health insurance coverage away from people. this window dressing is may play to the base and convince people who barely skim the news. it's complete crap. >> how is it window dressing? it's a lie. he's not giving you anything. that you don't already have. he may take it away with the lawsuit. what's he giving in the execive order that we don't have? >> nothing. it doesn't do anything. it directs an agency to do additional work and they would be doing work that is already been done. the thing is people don't know that. he's believed since the first day he got there he can sit in the office behind the desk, sign a paper and make americans think he was actually doing something for them. or accomplishing something. it's a hoax. >> what's your best guess at

this understanding the players and machinations of policy movement in the white house. i'm signing an executive order today that i'm directing the task force and all the applicable agencies to unleash the power of the production act and create everything we need for rapid testing, give money to companies, source the reagent. which i don't believe. get them the reagent. give them the capitol. give them ran out put contract. and we'll have a syndicate with the state. give us a representative and make sure you get the test. i'm running it all. from here until the election. i'm getting the kids back in school. could he do that? >> i'm surprised that he hasn't done at least the first part of that. he hasn't said here at the stroke of the pen.

americans you have testing. the reason he doesn't do that is because he's already told people they have enough testing. and doing that would be an admission he didn't. further more he is very low to take accountability. i talked to white house aids today and they never present him an option where the option he chooses has him holding accountability for whether it works or not. all that has to stay with the governors. because in the end of the day he's not confident he can succeed because the team isn't willing to do all the work. >> that's the problem with policy guys. you're not sneaky enough. working with governors they stink. haven't gotten it done. they don't know how to make it happen. i do. i gave cuomo and newsom time. they know where they need to be. i'm going to get us the rapid tests. i let them do it. they didn't come to me. that's a lie.

that's what he does. i'm doing it now. i'll get us the rapid test and make the uk look slow. i'm mag. bringing manufacturing back. we'll make the tests here and the world will buy our tests. there it is. i'm home. >> you're 90% right. the only thing he's waiting for is he wants it to happen first and he'll claim credit for it. as soon as those tests are out there, you can be sure that whether he signs an executive order or stands up in a press can frens, he will claim he was the one that did it. you're right. but i think he wants always claim the latest success. he knows we're failing. right now it's probably too early for him to do that. >> we have to get to scale. that's what the georgia picture means. the governor kemp he is on the trump train. he's trying to do it the way the president ready or not open,

here we come. this is what you get. i don't blame the kids. i have a few of those animals. 17 year-old and 14 year-old. i expect them to do no differently. go to school the mask is optional, it's fine. who knows. if enough friends are this way they'll be this way. how can people have confidence to send kids to school if you can't count who is sick in any kind of realtime? >> we are seeing across the country seeing princeton, georgetown, american university, we have a son who is a freshman next year in philadelphia. they have yet to make the same decision. given that now kids their age are seven times more likely to be contracting the disease. and we know they spread it just as quickly. it's hard to believe you'll gather in places like atlanta or philadelphia and new york city with a bunch of kids in the 20s and do that.

schools are probably going to get tuition checks and then maybe think differently. >> or start giving money back. the two scary things, new jersey governor says 45% of the people called by new jersey covid-19 contact tracers are not complying. that's half. what do we do about that? >> i talked to the governor about this. one of the problems is, it's actually related to ice. you call people in certain communities and tell them name your friends you have been around. and sprids, surprise people are scared of the government. we have to try a different tact. including churches and trusted organizations where people can talk. people are in no mood to trust the government. >> i tell you what, i can feel the fringe right hitting key boards and saying it's the brown menace making us sick.

you just said it. they're not complying. they're making us sick. i'm telling you that's what they'll say. >> they have reason to now they'll say. i don't know if you watched. a friend of mine was on. she was gold to me when i was sick. we face timed all the time. she was sick. she was with me stride for stride. and then some. she kept getting tested and said she didn't have it. she had an antibody test and didn't have it. only now, months after, she still carrying some symptoms. now she has the antibody. we know as a matter of science, she had the virus. how can testing stink that bad and why should people have confidence in testing after her experience? >> glad to see she's looking well. >> she's getting there. >> she's looking better. i think the reality is, we

are -- dr. fauci said there's no excuse for where we are with testing. the chinese tested 11 million people in a weekend. so, there's something we're not doing right. we're not doing well. we are we have a few lab companies that are holding up as we talked about before, a lot of the labs. and the state of the art on the tests isn't what it should be. we talk about the governor in ohio last night with that mix up. we're sort of at that stage. further more they are not testing for the important things. which are t cells. we have to develop a test to see whether people have the t cell. the most important ingredient in immunity. >> isn't the most important test you have it or you don't have it? in terms of keeping the population safe. >> in term of reducing the spread the ability to test is critical. if after you test, you can't isolate people and contact

trace, testing is a limited value. if you want to go back to school, if you want to vote in person, any of those things, testing will make you feel safe. it's a testing that tells you whether you have it or not. >> god bless her. she knew she had it. it didn't matter what she said. she wouldn't be around her parents and being careful about things. a lot of people wouldn't have been. if they were told three times you don't have it. or whatever it was. who knows how many people she could have contacted. let me say as always, thank you. giving us a straight read on where we are. appreciate it, stay healthy. another culture conflict. sturges in south dakota. they'll have it. a quarter million people expected. this is live picture. this isn't about the helmet

debate. let face it, you wear a helmet and seat belts for you. masks are for other people. you have this culture conflict. it shouldn't be one, but it is. thanks to trump. a symbol of freedom colliding with the as yet unstoppable fury of covid-19. we'll talk with a city official about what they expect and frankly what they're bracing for. next.

when you walk into an amazon fulfillment center, it's like walking into the chocolate factory and you won a golden ticket. all of these are face masks. this looks like a bottle of vodka. but when we first got these, we were like whoa! [laughing] my three-year-old, when we get a box delivered, screams "mommy's work!" mommy's work. with this pandemic, safety is even more important to make sure we go home safe every single day.

sturges, south dakota. it is a huge piece of american. the place is a population of 7,000. every year is flooded with hundreds of thousands of bikers. this year is the 80th annual motorcycle rally. it is happening. whether the locals want it or not. one quick step sideways. it's not about me not liking motorcycle culture. i love bikes, i have a motorcycle license. i have had many bikes. my son has a motorcycle. my wife didn't like it, it was too bad. we made a compromise. i love the culture.

it's about safety. covid-19 cases have been low in south dakota and for obvious reason. they don't have a daeensity. so many people showing up will put a strain on a place without a lot of resources. especially if the visitors are infected and don't know it. that takes us to daniel. he's been thinking about it, he's the city manager. we welcome him to "prime time." again, brother, i'm not here to bring the hate. i love it, i love what it's about. i love bike culture. how can i not be in a mild state of panic about what will visit the community? >> well, of course there's concern i think for everyone. there's a lot of concern for the residents here. but really what we're trying to do is be as proactive as possible that includes trying to encourage residents not to take part in the festivities. it's a significant potential.

with that being said, we're trying to keep people away as much as possible. a lot of residents were doing shopping for them. if they don't feel comfortable going to the grocery. we're trying to make it easy for them to stay home where it's safe. >> i have you on the 7,000. that's cool. it will be interesting to figure out how to scale up to buy groceries for 7,000 people. how do you do that? >> we have a lot of city employees. a tremendous number of volunteers. everyone is pitching in. that's the western south dakota way of life. helping your neighbor and everyone is doing that. >> respected. you have a problem. 250,000 people coming in there who are not just going to necessarily listen to you as locals. what have you done in terp terms of protective measures for the

wave of humanity that's coming in there? >> sure, the things we can try to do are reduce the activities that cause the mass gatherings. we can do that inside the city. this takes place beyond the city limits. we can gotten rid of city activities. military appreciation activities. everything else that draw thousands of people into a small crowd. we got rid of it. we're earn couraging people to be on bikes and riding. >> sell masks that say support the military. and give the money to the local vfw. >> there's masks available everywhere. >> how has it been received? >> i this i people are being mindful than the past. people are keeping further distance. without a doubt we attract a lot of people that are freedom loving coming from states that have been heavily locked down.

and they're looking forward to coming to a play where they can have freedom. in south dakota. there's inherently risk with that. >> what's interesting about this, you couldn't stop it. people were starting to bubble up and say this city manager this is the mayor. they're dopes. you didn't want it. you were unable to stop it. explain that. >> sure. as a city we're not able to put up blocks or anything else and keep people from coming in. there's nothing we can do to stop it. especially looking at the it has eight decades of tradition of people coming here. and that was originally what the thought was. we were talking with venues that are next to the community that also host rally activities and we saw that really no one was interested in postponing the event for the year. it became obvious. we were getting e-mails and texts and all sorts of calls

from people around america. people were coming. we had to be prepared. >> we're seeing footage now. there's not a mask in sight. there's a good amount of trump signs around and they almost go hand in hand with people without masks. what do you make of that marriage? no mask and supporting trump. >> you know, i'll leave politics to the side. at this point. we're trying to protect the community as much as possible. the reality is that there's a will the of visitors who come here and one reason or another feel like they have been locked down an awful lot in their state and community and this is the chance to be free. with that, we're trying to encourage people to stay apart as much as possible. and we have hand sanitizer available everywhere. as much as possible. we have introduced regulations for the temporary vendors. with that, it is obvious that some of the people coming here

are not as careful as what we'd like. >> the opposite of freedom is not a mask. it's sickness. somebody ride motorcycles and has been sick, i'll tell you what. i'll take the mask any day of the week. listen, good luck. i hope it is as uneventful as possible. i don't want to see anybody sick or hurt. it's a beautiful part of america that happens. this is some scary business. we're not looking for footage of people without mask, it's all around us. >> stay well. >> all right. look, the president i don't get it. i rarely say that. if i were he, you'd be all over the pandemic. it's all people care about. instead, where is he? started the weekend early. r at a golf resort.

maybe because there are new polls out that he might actually believe. i have the wizard of odds on a friday night. about what there are in new poll numbers and why trump could have reason for hope. next. ♪

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president trump is in bad shape when you look at the polls. you don't see really more than maybe one, two, pulling out anything like where he is now. don't count him out. why? this is a different period than we have lived through before. things happen quickly. so many of you are so disaffected. so little reservoir of any type of hope that one thing is better than another.

he trails biden in poll after poll nationally. and, yes, in a bunch of key battleground states he's down in places he needs to win. there is an important upside for trump. i mentioned before. i think this is really important. we have seen in about the last month of so as horrible as things are, more clear that we're on the wrong course largely because of his inaction, he's not losing ground anymore. the wizard of odds is here. the question that i put to you is, is he not losing ground anymore because there's only so low you can go? or is it a sign that maybe perspective on him hasn't bottomed out and there's room for improvement? >> look, i think the key question -- first of all the screen. what we're talking about.

he was down ten a month ago. now he's down eight. what happened is that what you saw was a steep decline from mid-may to mid-june. right when the protests started after the killing of george floyd. and what's essentially happened is race relations has shifted away. protests quieted down. the press quieted down. that was his worse issue. he's bad on the coronavirus but not nearly as bad on race relation. and the economy is still in poor shape. it is getting back jobs. a slight improvement on the economy. less focus on race relations. and the result is what's on the screen. >> let's look at it by race. >> right. >> this is the most fascinating thing that's going on right now in the political environment. look at the live interview polls. what you might expect, trump is winning white voters. biden is winning african-american and hispanic.

what's so interesting is the big biden gains from 2016 are actually among white voters which i think again is with the idea that the protests after the death of george floyd the killing of george floyd, a lot of white voters who might have stayed on the sideline you saw them in the protest. biden struggled with younger african-american and hispanics. the key take a i way is the political lines we're used to might be crossing each other in way that to be honest we haven't seen in recent political history. >> i have to say, the black vote is fundamentally important for joe biden. and yes, the president sweating whites is not going to help. joe has to he needs an all in strategy with his base. and if there's attrition not only is it shocking given the state of play in society. that's a problem for biden.

battleground states. 35 counties that we should look at. what are you seeing? >> the three most important states in my mind are in the great lakes. michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. part of the blue wall back in 2012. that trump busted through in 2016. i think the key nugget here is look at white voters and white voters without a college degree. that is trumps base. we see a significant movement towards biden among those. he's leading among white voters in the group. a double digit attrition from trump support back in 2016. again i think this is consistent with the national picture and the idea maybe biden is losing a bit of base. but trump is losing more of his. especially in places he can't afford to lose. >> margin of error. >> this is interesting. i spend my days in spread

sheets. one of the things that is so worrisome the polls were that accurate in 2016. the average error since 1972 is plus or minus three percentage points. there is potential of a large margin of error. 95% plus or minus nine points. even at the end i would never feel so secure if i were a democrat. even if the lead is as large as it is. strange things happen. >> biggest x factor for you. and i have a different question. what's the biggest factor to watch between now and the election that could make the biggest impact? >> it's coronavirus. >> why. why not biden saying something kind of like what he said whatever it was today or yesterday. about how latinos are much more diverse a community than blacks. >> look, obviously. here's the thing.

both of the nominees are not exactly say any of the greek guys who knew how to speak. i'm not that either. the fact is we saw joe biden run for how many months in the primary saying strange things every day that weren't necessarily couth. and didn't effect him. those types of things don't necessarily matter. meme care about whether or not they can carry on every day lives as normal as possible. and coronavirus cases is the large on election day as they are now. i'm not quite sure trump can pull it off. >> i don't think it's just the pandemic. i think there's a little bit of everything else. fatigue. with the pandemic. it's schools. schools, you're a young guy. in the family game, your kids, their safety, their connection to your ability to do what you need to do for them is everything. the school picture gets screwed up, it will have major

implications. you look really put together. you have the bookcase behind you, your hair is brushed. the jacket is on. do me a favor. move the camera about seven feet off your right shoulder. >> i know what you want to do. show this. which is over here. >> that's what i want people to see. okay? you are fake news. do you understand. you are not a buttoned up professor. you don't know the books behind you. >> i have no idea what the books are. are you crazy? >> i try to make myself stronger after covid-19. i want the full picture of your reality. >> i'm the nutty professor. >> have a great weekend. >> happy birthday. >> you see that? not everything is as it seems. the man in charge of getting your mail out vows there won't be slowing down of election material.

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as we reported earlier, top democrats are calling for the inspector general to investigate the u.s. postal service. why? the agency announced a number of proposed changes including a hiring freeze. times are tough. is that the answer? the agency top official says the changes are needed to cut cost. jessica dean took a look at what the costs cutting measures could mean for you. >> reporter: more changes at the

u.s. postal service. under new leadership from trump ally and donor lewis dejoy. announced today it will be instituting a management hiring freeze and requesting future buy out. the moves are the kind of thing democrats have asked the u.s. ps not to do. >> i'm proud of the postal workers across america. they have a hand tied behind their back with the leadership. >> congressional democrats led by warren called for the inspector general to investigate oer operational changes. >> we have little faith they're not trying to politicize the post office. >> the measures were to cut costs. but postal workers and unions claim it's led to a slowing of the mail. and could impact vote by mail in the fall. something the postmaster general denies. >> despite the contrary we're

not slowing down mail. >> the lawmakers say the postal service has become a political football and describe the services response to congressional requests as quote seriously lacking. they want the ig to look into business conflicts dejoy may have. he took the helm june 15. he's the first postmaster general in decades to come to the job without any prior experience working within the postal service. he contributed $1 million to the trump victory fund. dating back to 2016. >> i can't imagine the post office could do it. they're supposed to be dealing with millions of ballots. >> nominated to be ambassador to canada. also show potential conflicts of interest incolliding a financial stake in ups. a competitor. and tens of millions of dollars in income and assets from holdings in shipping company

xpo. which acquired dejoys former company in 2014. a current contractor or the u.s. postal service. he responded to accusations of political influence publicly today. >> i certainly have a good relationship with the president of the united states, the notion that i would ever make decisions concerning the postal service at the direction of the president or anyone else in the administration is off base. >> a u.s. postal service spokesperson tells me as postmaster general he is not required to divest a particular asset. if a conflict arises he maybe required to divest if the postal service determines he cannot recuse himself. dejoy has followed all ethics regulations. >> all right. thank you. i want to play something for you. we'll take a commercial break. and this is my tease for you to come back. it is very important that you

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friday night we're in the

middle of a pandemic. you might think the president is in the situation room figuring out how to get testing. he's at a golf club. why did he call the press conference? to lie to you. about the nature of the coronavirus threat which he really believes is his ticket to winning again. lying to you in a way that actually threatens your children. that's his bread and butter. his best play. it's terrible. there's such a better play for him that's the truth and his responsibility. but he doesn't want to play it. the question is why? i keep asking people. why is he doing this? ignoring this? i don't get good answers. why would he take time to talk to you about a b.s. executive order to protect people with preexisting conditions when people will blow it up. we have protection for preexisting conditioning. he's trying to take it away. why sign an order that means nothing when there's a law in place at the same time he's

fighting to take it away. he's lying. manipulate and distract from the desperation of the reality. now, what is that say about him? nothing that he doesn't say about himself. he gave us the answer to how he sees where we are right now. and what matters when he didn't know he was being or if he did, he is really whacked to thailand. he was talking to a crowd of true believers before a news conference asking them to come in. he was caught on a hot mike. there is no video, but hear where he is coming from talking to these people. >> hello, everybody. hello, everybody. thank you. so we are going to do a press conference and i thought you

were here, you might as welcome in and see. you get to meet the fake news tonight. all of my killers are there. so you will get to see some of the people that we deal with every day. it's like a history lesson for your children. tell your children about it. but we have a lot of good news about the economy. otherwise i wouldn't have a press conference. enjoy it. and we'll be out in a little while. >> so you wouldn't have a press conference in the middle of a pandemic and people were desperate for your help, and you wouldn't have a press conference unless you had good news. he lied to you about giving you protection. he is trying to take it and refusing to act in a way that we

desperately need. i don't care what he says about the media. that's okay. he is free to feel that way and so are you. but inviting people in at a time when we are wearing masks, he never said anything about the reality. it is what it is, a pandemic and you are who you are, and you don't give a damn. i will be back with the final installment. i turn 50 today. next. shishito. burrito. raw kitfo. fried shiso.

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i am going to be 50 on sunday. thank you so much for making me feel good about it. in truth, i am not worried about

it. i have other things to worry about, building myself back up to where i was before i got sick. here is the fifth life lesson. two most important words in life. thank you. every day for me is a form of prayer. for me it is about god. for you, whatever you value. thank you, god, for my health, for the health of my kids, for another day, for the challenges, for the stress, the failure, the moments of despair, darkness, the moments i had recently where i was not sure about why i needed to be here. because in those moments i was forced to dig deep and find a

rationale for why i am here. it is for things bigger than myself. i am not here for popularity. i am here to help people with their best sell starting with my kids and wife and family and family i choose. thank you for the ied in iraq, the bombs, deaths, disaster and smells i have suffered through with families. i know the darkness and i thank that opportunity so i can face it and help you face it when our world is at its worst. thank you for, for whatever reason, for allowing me to have more than i deserve. and i am not special. i am not unique. nothing entitles me to anything more than anybody else. i'm flawed and too often fixed in those flaws. so thank you for a life of opportunity and the grace to continue it to this day. thank to you my team that makes

this show what you get to see every night that held me up when i was down. i say thank you to my mother for showing me to this day how to love and be loving. and thank you to my father for continuing to be a light in my life. and a constant hope i can be anything like he was. i thank my siblings for putting up with me. i thank my brother for putting up with me. i thank my wife for everything of value in my life. if not for her, there would be nothing of value here. to my kids, wife, everything i do, thank you. and to all of you. i may not be the smartest or get it right, but i swear to you,

nobody will outwork me in doing the job for you. i owe you. you have given me an opportunity i never thought i would have an opportunity to have. and you have embraced this show in a way i never thought anybody would. thank you for watching. and we have laura coates in for dee lemon. >> that was beautiful. i did make you a cake, but i love cake so i thought of you while i ate it. >> i did me a favor. that is the last thing i need. >> i did think of you as the frosting was getting everywhere. you are so