happy. they were targeted by china, but i'm very angry at china, because they let this horrible disease -- they let this horrible plague come into our country and come into the world. they should have been able to stop it. they stopped it from going into china. they should have been able to stop it. i'm very angry at china. thank you very much. >> reporter: why are you saying it's $400? all right. you've been watching president trump's briefing, weighing in on joe biden and kamala harris' first meeting, also hearing about the coronavirus. we're going to break it down and of course talk about this crucial day, as you saw them together for the first time. i'm joined by gloria borger, daniel dale and jonathan martin. gloria, you know, let me start with you. when you look at what's

happening here and what the president, you know, just said, obviously going after kamala harris again and again and again, and in personal ways, right, saying she's angry, mad, her polls went down. he spent quite a bit of time in that press conference talking her down. >> he did. i don't think he used the word nasty today, but there's always tomorrow. i think the thing he said that struck me was that he was surprised that joe biden picked her because of what he said was the horrible way she talked about him. and in the donald trump world view, if somebody criticizes you, then you bash them right back, you don't say, okay, you did that, it was a campaign and we're going to work together for the greater good in the future. so trump said, you know, he was shocked by this, and in saying that, i think, he's trying to portray donald trump -- i mean

he's trying to portray joe biden as weak. >> exactly. that was clearly the point of what he was trying to do there. jonathan, sitting there and watching that, what did you take away from it? >> i'm still struck by the lack of strategic thinking when it comes to trying to define kamala harris in the first 24 hours after her selection. you would think that the president, and all his surrogates would want a pick a way to go after her, and i think what the trump campaign would like to do is portray her as a far left california liberal whose policies are out of at the time with mainstream america. that's probably the most fruitful line of attack for the trump campaign. but the president as we saw clearly prefers to sort of, you know, address this issue as more the a spectator, a bystander, who watched it tro iing to troll joe biden a bit about -- which

maybe like an effective way to sort of tweak joe biden? i don't think political it's going to drive away many voters from the biden/harris ticket, as opposed to a more coherence strategy trying to define her as a liberal. >> right. exactly, which of course, you know, doesn't add up with a lot of her background where she's been mercilessly criticized as a prosecutor by the left. >> so daniel, when you heard that, i want to do some fab checking here -- what stood out as most inaccurate? >> there is just so much lying, i don't know where to start. when the president says that tremendous growth will fund social security in the absence of a payroll tax, that is so dubious, and i think it's worth noting. the president also repeated his usual lie that mail voting is

rife with fraud and corruption. it is not. he said there were ballot fraud in the new york primary. there's no evidence of that. he suggested that evictions would be prevented by an executive order. that does not prevent eviction. he also suggested that the u.s. is doing better than other european countries. one of those countries, south korea, had 54 new cases in the last report. u.s. has more than 40,000 already. they do not compare. so it's on and on about this pandemic, and much of what the president is saying is not even close to true. >> he also again said, gloria, the only reason you have more cases is because you do more tests. obviously tests do not create cases, but merely put a

spotlight on the cases, which already exist. i have to say that every day. >> and, again, going against the science, going against his own science continue advisers, going again the are you guys going to appear together, and joe biden said, well, it depends on the science and what the science will let us do. that is not what you hear from the podium inside the white house. >> so, you know, jonathan, it's interesting, as you cover that, and you heard the president, right, to your point, he's really trying to find a lane, and first criticizing her position in the polls and then her position on fracking, and you know, saying that she was mean, and i'm sorry, mad and angry, his words, so yet today, what we saw, what we saw, was a very different thing between the two of them, with kamala harris and joe biden, and also, her talking about, you know, his

son, beau, who she knew, right, as an attorney general, i just want to play a clip of that. >> sure. >> sorry, okay, we don't have that one yet. we will get it. i apologize for that. let me talk about something elson that that just happened while we're awaiting that, and the president was talking about the economy, and the social security fund build through the tremendous growth we're going to get yet we still have stimulus talks and all of this handled by executive order which is challenged by both sides of the aisle. that's not the tone though at all. the tone for him is everything is great, the day after election, everything is going to open up because all of this is politics. >> yes, there he only knows one speed which is happy talk when it comes to the economy but erin, that's a good point from the sense that biden/harris ticket, it is getting attention today, that they deserve, that they're unveiling the ticket,

their first appearance, and that's going to drive the news today, and i think that they sort of stalled talks between the administration and congress, it represents a reminder that by this time, the sort of stalled talks between the administration and congress, and unless there is something with senator harris, we will be back on what is the driving issue of this campaign which is the coronavirus, and its impact on american life, and the american economy. i can't remember an election for president who that was so dominated by a single issue like this is going to be, and look, there is no question that senator harris helped joe biden raise a lot of money in the last 24 hours, got attention. >> yes. >> but these vp selections don't usually matter a whole lot. and when the country is facing month six of a pandemic, the economy is where it's at, i just think we're going to be focused on the same thing here pretty soon, that we've been talking about for the last six months. >> i want to bring in sonny,

co-host of "the view" and known to our show and many years of working with you and i want to give you a lance to respond from what we've from the president and particularly the way he chose to go after kamala harris in that press conference, calling her angry and mad, and you know, the word angry, i heard it, i was very glad you were coming on, because i knew that you would, you would have something to say about it. >> well, that's a trope that is usually used against african-americans when of course the angry black woman, i'm not surprised that this president did that, because he likes to trap it in those sort of trope, racial tropes and other sorts of trope, but i know kamala harris is up to the task, but we knew she would be attacked in this way, not only by the president, but certainly by many of his supporters and many of his surrogates. but think about how historic this pick is. we have a woman vice presidential nominee, but also a

woman of color, a black woman, also a woman of southeast asian descent, this is historic, and quite frankly i think this is what joe biden needed, to take his ticket over the line, and the energy that i have seen, within the past 24 hours is unprecedented. it has made me so very hopeful quite frankly about the future of this country. joe biden started his campaign by saying that we needed to restore the soul of this country, and this ticket reflects the diversity of this country. it reflects the future of this country. so using tired racial tropes, while no surprise, i don't think it's going to get this president anywhere at all. >> gloria, so when you had harris and biden appear together today, they made it clear, as jonathan said, this is all, this is going to be an election about coronavirus and its impact on american lives, the soul of

america, and the american economy, and it is going to be an election about donald trump's handling of coronavirus, right, and they went straight at president trump, directly, right now, on the economy, here's what they said, as they appeared together for the first time. >> donald trump has already started his attacks, calling kamala, quote, nasty, whining about how she's quote mean to his appointees. it's no surprise. because whining is what donald trump does best, better than any president in american history. >> the case against donald trump and mike pence is open and shut. just look where they've gotten us. more than 16 million out of work. millions of kids who cannot go back to school. a crisis of poverty, of homelessness, afflicts black, brown, and indigenous people the most. a crisis of hunger, afflicts one

in five mothers who have children that are hungry. and tragically, more than 165,000 lives that have been cut short. it didn't have to be this way. >> gloria, at the end there, she was emotional and i think that showed something, right? i saw that and thought, all right, that's a really important moment, because it was a woman being emotional, and it was a moment of power and empathy. and not a moment of weakness. right? and that was an important moment there. >> first of all, it was an important moment, first of all, as you say, they both went after donald trump, and in a very direct way. i think joe biden realized, there were a lot of eyeballs on him today and he was going to make a campaign speech even a week before the convention. number one. number two, it was also in an interesting way very personal between them.

obviously, there was talk about beau biden and talk about how she had been very close to beau biden, but it was joe biden who defended her against the attacks from donald trump. and he said, you know, he's called her nasty, he's been whining about how she is mean, whining is what donald trump does best, and then he said, any surprise there is a problem with a strong woman, and then he defended his running mate, saying kamala has had your back, now we have to have her back, so get ready, this is his message, you can't just attack her, donald trump, because women will hear this, and i think that was very, very direct and very important. >> so what did you, as you watched them together, jonathan, what did you see? >> oh, you can see this sort of, you know, contrast between who they are in terms of generational differences, i mean this is is a return era to an

earlier day of presidents and vps, presidents and running mates where you select the understudy, somebody who is younger, who can sort of be a part of that next generation to come after you, you know, we've gotten so used to dig chen, dic cheney and joe biden himself in recent years, washington sages serving as vice presidents for younger presidents and this has kind of returned to an earlier moment where the president for nominee himself is the one who has more experience, and the vp is the one who is sort of the up and comer, and i think that was striking today. and being a reporter, i couldn't help but think of not just this election, but what could come next, and of course, kamala harris supporters thinking the same thing, by being on the ticket this year, she will have a leg up to be a nominee for her party in eight years and perhaps even four years. and a really good shot to be the

first president in american history -- >> which is a stunning thing -- >> and sonny, what do you make of the fact that the president in his press conference, and obviously you're 24 hours away from her announcement of being on the ticket and it is on his mind but he kept returning to is which i thought was interesting and talking about coronavirus, and talking about the economy, and then back he would go, you know, get a little bit more kamala, right, kept going after her. what do you make of that? >> i think he understands what a game changer adding kamala harris to this ticket is. no democratic nominee for president has won the general election without the black vote. in over 50 years. you must have the black vote. and think about trump's win, it was by the slimmest of slimmest of margins and that is because in large part, black voters did not come out in the way that they came out for barack obama. this changes things dramatically.

the black vote is now energized. the black vote just wants to see someone like kamala the white house. and what you have to think about, this is not only just about the black vote, this is about being black voters, this is about black women, finally having a seat at the table, finally having representation. black women are the very backbone of the democratic party. we are the ones that get not only our children, our spouses, our neighbors, you know, our family and friends to mobilize out to vote, and joe biden knows that, and donald trump knows that, and that is why you hear, about the attacks on kamala harris. but to be clear, she is not only a black woman, she is the most qualified woman, we're talking about someone on all of the most important committees, she served on the intelligence, the

judiciary committee, the attorney general of california, one of our largest you know, criminal justice systems in the country. she is ready to serve day one. and he knows that. >> thank you all very much. and next, socially distanced masks, it has been a vice presidential rollout, like, well, we've never seen. plus harris making history. her husband obviously would, too, if she is elected, he would be the second man, which would be another first. >> you're going to have to learn to be a barrier breaker yourself in this job you're about to take on. >> and the last-minute push for kamala harris, she said she didn't want to pressure joe biden, so then who was behind the bush? i will ask harris' friend and ally, california's lieutenant governor. she's up.

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breaking news. former vice president joe biden appearing for the first time with his new running mate senator kamala harris since the announcement, the 2020 democratic ticket came out swinging tonight, taking the president of the united states head-on on a host of issues and today's event was obviously unlike any vp rollout we've seen historically, they came out wearing masks as they entered a

high school gymnasium. obviously no screaming supporters. no signs. none of what we all associate with this moment. jessica dean is out front. >> the first look, an historic ticket. >> i had a great choice, but i have no doubt i picked the right person to join me as the next vice president of the united states of america. and that's senator kamala harris. >> newly-named vice presidential candidate kamala harris, joining the presumptive democratic nominee joe biden today in wilmington, delaware. >> i couldn't be prouder to be by his side, running to represent you, the people. >> biden also taking president trump's criticism of his pick head-on. >> is anyone surprised donald trump has a problem with a strong woman or strong women across the board? >> after the event, harris and biden, along with their spouses, headlined an online fundraiser with grass roots supporters. >> yesterday, we had our best grass roots fundraising day of

the campaign. more than double our previous record. and in doing so, we set a single day record for online political fundraising. and i think i know why. >> today's events come just one day after biden announced his historic choice. >> you are ready to go to work? >> oh, my god, i am so ready to go to work. >> a campaign video today, showed the moment biden told harris she was his pick, 90 minutes later the decision was announced to the world. >> first of all, is the answer yes? >> the answer is absolutely yes and i am ready to work, to do this with you, for you, and i'm just deeply honored, and i'm very excited. >> biden's decision to choose harris follows the months-long vetting process that began with at least 20 women. over the last ten days, biden conducted one-on-one interviews with the final 11 prospective nominee, either in person, or over video chat.

>> the attorney general of the state of delaware -- >> during her interview, harris spoke at length about her friendship with biden's late son, beau biden. >> harris and beau biden served as attorneys general together. >> i learned quickly that beau was the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. he really was the best of us. and when i would ask him, where did you get that, where does this come from, and he would always talk about his dad. >> now, with the vice presidential search behind him, biden believes he has the right person by his side. >> kamala knows how to govern. she knows how to make the hard calls. she's ready to do this job on day one. >> and we learned tonight, joe biden saying that they, his campaign raised $26 million in the last 24 hours, since kamala harris was announced as his

running mate. and erin, just to give you a little context around that, that's more, $26 million, that he was raising in some months of fundraising earlier in this campaign. >> wow, all right, the context obviously means a whole lot. jessica, thank you very much. and i want to go now to john kasich, two-term republican governor of ohio who will speak next week at the dnc, a keynote smoker and bakari sellers former member of the south carolina house of representatives who knows both biden and harris here well. so governor kasich, let me start where jessica finished, the $26 million, that they raised in one day, she said more than biden on his own had raised in some months. what does that say to you? >> the democrats are really excited. and you know, i think what joe biden had to do here was to make a pick that would be viewed as solid. he took a long time to make this selection. secondly, it is another interesting thing, i don't know if anybody's mentioned it, she in that debate really kind of hammered him, but you know,

joe's an interesting guy, he didn't hold it against her, he looked past that, and said, look, i think that together, we can get something done. and that's what i've been particularly interested in, that you look for areas to agree with people, not to disagree with them, and i think it is a very good solid pick, and i don't know, it's pretty hard to start criticizing her, and just don't go around and call her nasty and that, that is not going to change anything but if you think about the selection of dan quayle and sarah palin, they were controversial and it kind of took the focus off the campaign. with senator harris, that is not the case. she's been tested and tried and has been in the debates and all of that, and i think that joe played it the right way. and they now have a team together that seems to click. >> it seems certainly a moment of the debate, he is a graceful winner and having admiration for someone who lodged a very successful attack, you want that person on your team, it would seem a big thing to be able to pick that person.

bakari, we saw them together today. you could see them looking at each other, as they spoke, and sort of a chemistry a bit, and it is hard when you think about it, we'll show the video, but it is hard to think about it, coming out in masks and you don't have all of these people in the room and yet there was this interaction, and it felt very personal, and warm, and what did you think about the chemistry as you watched the event? >> well, the chemistry was definitely there. and these two have those emotional traits that we look for in leaders, those things that when you watch today, democrat or republican, black or white, it doesn't matter, you can see that they were sincere. you know, the president of the united states, donald trump, doesn't have traits like compassion, he doesn't have traits like empathy, but what you saw today, with kamala harris, actually talking about the relationship, the adoration she had for beau biden, the adoration she had for joe biden, what she believed and how she

represented family, and giving that word meaning, you had two individuals today that were a stark contrast in what we view american values to be. and it's worth saying that this election is about covid-19, the impact that it has had on our economy, the impact it has had on the hundreds of thousands of individuals who have died, but each more importantly, it is about a contrast, it is about a clear contrast about what america deserves and what we want to be, and somebody who can actually display a level of empathy, somebody who can actually display a level of compassion, not the 12-year-old behavior of donald trump, i think it will resound loudly with democrats and republicans. >> bakari just mentioned beau biden, and we know the role, you know, obviously when you see joe biden calling kamala harris to say i picked you, you know, you you see the picture of both, right in front of him, on that

desk, he's always there, for his father, and there is obviously harris, and biden, and beau biden knew each other and she spoke about that today. here she is. >> let me just tell you about beau biden. i learned quickly that beau was the kind of guy who inspired people to be a better version of themselves. he really was the best of us. and when i would ask him where did you get that, where does this come from, he would always talk about his dad. and i will tell you the love that they shared was incredible to watch. it was the most beautiful display of the love between a father and a son. >> so she made it personal there, governor and it felt very authentic and i think that in and of itself is significant. these are two people, joe biden

and kamala harris who themselves haven't spent a ton of time together, right, they don't know each other that well personally and yet you did feel, you felt a genuine connection. >> yes, a chemistry, and let me just say that joe biden's been through a lot, you know, when he was first elected to the united states senate, there was a terrible accident, automobile accident, where he lost his wife, and one of his children, and imagine the grief, i mean i've been through something like that myself where i lost a mother and father in one accident, and he got through that. and it affected him forever. and then he loses his son. you see, this grief, and how you overcome, it and how you deal with it, it changes you, it affects your character deeply. and so when people run around and say that joe biden doesn't believe in god, and all that kind of stuff, that's just so low, to be honest with you, erin, because this is a man that

has seen it all and been through it all and that's probably why, even though harris laid a glove on him during those debates, he just didn't take it too personally. that's what i like about joe. i think he can take people who are his rivals, and be able to bring them in, to produce good. and the generational difference is great, it's obvious that he respects her, but it's also obvious that she really respects him, gaining that respect through her relationship with joe's son. it was a powerful moment. no doubt about it. >> and certainly, bakari, it was clear that she had respect for him. for anyone who is saying what did that moment signify at the debate, it certainly did not signify that she did not have great respect for joe biden. >> i mean, no and i just want to say, and i think they actually do have a relationship that dates back, these aren't two people that they just measured together yesterday with a phone call.

you know, you have to understand that obama, that kamala's relationship back to the obama administration, you think about those relationships that were cultivated, she ran the second largest justice department in the entire country, and so she wasn't, she's not someone that was out in left field, and did not have a relationship with joe biden, but what you're seeing, though, and i have to go back to this, that sense of family, i mean these american values that we always talk about, that sense of compassion, you saw the vice president, and i have to stop calling him the vice president now, but you saw joe biden get emotional while kamala harris was talking about his family. you know, we just don't see that type of empathy out of the white house today. that was refreshing to see. as for the pun thatch she landed, i always tell people, if you want to know how hard somebody throws a punch, you need to ask somebody that they've actually hit before and she hit joe biden and joe biden knows that she can throw a punch

which is going to go extremely far in this election season that we have up and coming. >> right. all right. thank you both very much. next, kamala harris's sunday was by her side today. we are going to be seeing and hearing a lot more from him, about him, get used to the name doug emhoff, that's who that is, and what happened behind the scenes as biden is making his decision. california's lieutenant governor will tell you about a very telling and important call she was on in the final days before the announcement. next. is mealtime a struggle?

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kamala harris officially takes an historic step forward on the presidential ticket. with a man who posed with her at the end, paving his unique side behind her. president emhoff tweeting this with joe biden ready to go. >> let me introduce the woman i love. >> he was an ever-present plus one on the campaign trail as his wife ran for president. >> the quiet guy. >> kamala, kamala. >> cheerleader when needed. active on social media. as mr. kamala harris. and sometimes the unscripted husband. >> hey, hey. >> in a security scare last year at a campaign event, a protester got this close to harris, the female moderator got in between, and then one of the three men to charge and drag him away was emhoff, the look on his face unfiltered, unmistakable, and when her presidential hopes ended, he was her source of comfort. >> they were a couple going in

and i think we came out of it all right. >> a modern husband now wading through barely charted territories. >> this is only the third woman vice presidential nominee and so he will be navigating terrain that we haven't really seen in any recent history. >> i don't know if we're ready for a first lady named doug. doug, huh? >> the couple met later in life, set up on a blind date by friends. emhoff an entertainment lawyer and millionaire elevated the salary into the 1% and brings to grown children in their 20s in their blended marriage. >> i have had a lot of trials in my career and certainly vice president will be great, but mama will always be the one that means the most. >> they are reflective of america. their story is common to a lot of americans and i think that is something they can draw upon on the campaign trail, saying we're

real humans just like you and voters tend to like that. >> what is notable to gender politics watchers is how emhoff is changing the norms for american men. >> he talks to other voters and particularly other men the need steams to step back and lift up women's voices in this process and the symbolic nod that emhoff seems to be giving will be important to perhaps influence future generations of men. >> women candidates have historically not brought their husbands on the trail, or emphasized them too much, because of the perception that their accomplishments would overshadow the woman candidate, and that is something that men generally don't worry about in politics but that is not an apparent fear of kamala harris and doug emhoff, and that is progress, but erin, as we should point out, today is day one for the harris train on the vp ticket.

>> all right, thank you very much. who follows kamala harris all the way through on the campaign trail. up front now, eleni kounalakis, a close ally and friend of senator harris and i appreciate your time, you say senator harris explicitly told you not to pressure biden and did not want the phone call and made it clear and you did what she asked and two weeks ago, you went rogue, you set up a meeting with the biden campaign. tell me why. >> well, erin, it's great to be with you, i've known kamala for a very long time, it's an incredibly exciting moment for us, out here in california, her friends, her supporters, her colleagues, we feel we have a great ticket, so it is incredibly exciting. yes, so several months ago, when there were people coming together, trying to figure out what do we do, how do we help, she made it clear that she respected the process, respected

the vice president, felt that he knew that she was there and that she was entrusted, and that we should just allow him to go through with this process. but a few weeks ago, we just grew concerned that the kamala who we know wasn't necessarily coming through in the media, and we wanted to call the biden team, the highest -- >> was this related to, specifically, so everyone understands, something did happen a couple of weeks ago. >> well, yes, and again, you know, we just felt that it was our opportunity to step forward, and talk about this person who we respect so much, who we know so well and we just know is the ultimate team player. so that's what we did, and they gave us a hearing, there were about 15 of us, everyone took two minutes, to very quickly tell stories, cooperation, collaboration, partnership, and

it really was, an incredibly moving thing to be a part of, just the way that kamala built relationships while she worked in public service, it is really profound. >> so and she knew nothing about this call? >> no, no, it was a couple of us talking, and then i reached out to the campaign, and said, look, we'd like to do this, and then i just started calling some of the people who i know she's closest to, and it came together really quickly. >> and so what were you trying to explain? you were trying to explain, this is the whole kind of, the criticism that came out, that people were somehow painting her out to be ambitious in a bad way, the sexist connotation with ambitious and -- >> erin, we're breaking glass ceilings now. and so there are a lot of things about gender stereotypes that really need to be talked about, head-on. and i think that we're going to be doing that, as we go through the next few months. but for us, it was really just,

we know her, she's a team player, she's an extraordinary person, you don't become the only black woman in the senate right now, the highest-ranking black woman in the country, that doesn't happen without being a special person, and so our ability to tell these stories really i think made an impression on them. >> so she got personal today. she talked about her back ground being a child of immigrants, you know, part of her story, and here's what she said. >> my mother and father, they came from opposite sides of the world to arrive in america. one from india. and the other from jamaica. in search of a world class education. but what brought them together was the civil rights movement of the 1960s. and that's how they met, as students, in the streets of oakland, marching and shouting for this thing called justice, and a struggle that continues today. >> so you say you've known her

obviously for a long time. how important is her background, is being the daughter of immigrants, is core to her story? >> you know, erin, it is, and in california, 27% of our very large population of 40 million people, 27% of us are foreign-born, and so this is part of what makes california the innovative, optimistic, aspirational place that it is, and i think she really comes out of that kind of a culture. so i think we're going to see that, as she campaigns. bringing that kind of optimism, and purpose that she brings to everything she does. >> lieutenant governor, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you. and next, president trump's new adviser is a man who thinks like he does about coronavirus, dr. sanjay gupta has something to say about that, and schools, and his own kids. >> and trump praising the winner of a congressional primary, a

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tonight, president trump insisting schools can reopen safely, he says that schools aren't reopening because of politics. >> i have a feeling that on november 4th, somebody's going to announce, schools are open, the country's open, everything's open. i really believe a lot of it is done for political reasons, if you want to know the truth. i think so. >> dr. sanjay gupta, and you heard that the president says keeping schools closed is politics plain and simple. you are a doctor and you wrote today very detailed why you decided at this point not to send your kids back to school, and i would assume it's not about politics. >> no, i mean, you know, the specific criteria by which schools should open is the white house released, the coronavirus task force released sometime ago, and these were criteria that i think many in the

community have been paying attention to in some way to better give guidance and the way i approach, it to be fair, it wasn't an easy decision, i have three pre-teen and teen girls and they would very much like to see their friends and be back in school and get that in-person education, they want that, the problem is the numbers are going up where i live, i live in georgia, the numbers have been going up. one of the criteria, again, from the white house itself, was in numbers. you want some sense that the virus is coming under control. also, the positivity rates. i think we can show you some of this, but the positivity rates where i live have been well over 10%. some of the highest positivity rates were just a few, about a week ago where it was closer to 17%. so that's concerning. it means we're not doing enough testing. i visited the school. they are dog ting masks mandate and distance so people can physically distance but when numbers are going up like that, i don't think it's comfortable putting kids into an area where

viral spread could start to really propagate. keep in mind, erin, when we decided to pull kids out of school, there are about 5,000 infections in this country and under 100 people had died. we think about putting kids back into school, 5 million infections and 160,000 plus people have died. what have we done different? why was it important at that point to bring kids out? numbers are higher and going up faster than at the time we pulled kids out. that's a concern. >> it's like one of those things you take a step back, what you said, you laid it out very clearly. sometimes we don't always cut through the clutter and hear it that way. i know you said it not an easy decision. you wrote my girls want to go back to school and placing enormous pressure on us parents to make it so. they miss their friends, social structure and humanity kids need and crave at this age. virtual learning is not a substitute for in person learning and i know you've said look, you're looking at the 14-day trend so things could

change, right? if that positivity rate drops back below 5%, but, you know, how did you deal with this with your kids? >> well, it's on going. i'm a dad. this is a tough chapter for me as a parent. we've never been through something like this. i've had to sit down and explain to them my thinking and, you know, there are people who obviously their own friends, some of whom are going back to school. you have kids, erin. you know how that goes. that kid is doing it. what fund mentally i tiried to explain, i care about your health and the risk is low but you could get sick and spread this virus. my kids are 11, 13, and 15. studies have shown they spread the virus just as much as adults do. i'm sure they will be diligent kids. we've spent all summer thinking about these things but they're

not in a bubble. they will be going back and forth, and when you live in a place like this with as much virus as there is, that just fuels the concern. >> all right. sanjay, thank you very much. many parents obviously look to you for that guidance and how you're thinking and appreciate your sharing that. it's hard to put your personal life out there like that when you come on tv every day. so thank you. and next, president trump praising a controversial congressional candidate who is warning of an islamic invasion calling her quote a future republican star. this is an athl, twenty reps deep, sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protected, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you.

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at no additional cost. no strings attached. president trump tweeting congraco congratulations today to margry taylor green after she won a seat in the house called a future republican star and real winner. green is known for some extreme and racist views. she's warned of a quote islamic invasion. she did that after two muslims won office. she has described black people as quote slaves to democrats. manu raju is out front. >> reporter: it a conspiracy theory born on the dark fringes of the internet. something the fbi contends is a national security threat but the theory has been embraced by some house republican candidates. on tuesday night, one of them won her republican primary and

is on track to winning a house seat in november. >> i just want to say to nancy pelosi, she's a hypocrite. she's an anti american and we're going to kick that out of congress. >> reporter: margry green is the favorite to win a seat in a district in northwest, georgia. green has repeatedly praised the theory. >> q is a patriot. we know that for sure but we do not know who q is. people believe that q is someone very close to president trump. >> reporter: the movement sprung to life in early 2017 based on the belief there is a high level government official q who sprinkles clues on internet message boards about a series of massive deep state conspiracies at work in the country. in 2019, the fbi raised concerns over the potential for violence linked to such fringed theories. also one despite a history of racist remarks against muslims.

>> we have an islamic invasion into our government offices. they want to put their hand on the koran and be sworn in. no. you have to be sworn in on the bible. >> reporter: about democrats. >> they are trying to keep the black people in a modern day form of slavery. it's a slavery system to keep their vote. >> reporter: about blacks and confederate statutes. >> if i were black people today and i walked by one of those statutes, i would be so proud because i'd say look how far i have come in this country. >> reporter: and conspiracy theory about the liberal mega donor george soros echoing an anti ss-semitic attack against holocaust survivor. >> i will not apologize for standing up against george soros, even when they want to call me anti semantic. >> reporter: her comments put house republican leaders in an awkward spot with the house gop campaign arm refusing to endorse her. when videos were first unearthed in june, house republican steve

scalise vowed to back her primary opponent and called her remarks disgusting. a spokesman for kevin mccarthy said they were appalling. president donald trump was quick to herold her victory saying in a tweet wednesday morning that she's a future republican star and a real winner. a couple hours later a mccarthy spokesperson said we look forward to green and other republicans winning in november. asked on wednesday about green's victory in georgia and embrace of the fringe movement, house speaker nancy pelosi told cnn republicans seem comfortable with it. now as most republicans were silent today about green's victory, one republican congressman spoke out of illinois who called this movement a fabrication. he said there is no place in the halls of congress for such conspiracies, but that actually do a rebuke from a top trump campaign official who said they should be focused on democratic conspiracies instead.

if green wins, this unwelcome debate among republicans could be entering the halls of the capitol. erin? >> thank you very much and thanks very much as always to all of you for being here with me. "ac 360" with anderson starts now. good evening. joe biden and kahlcamillkamala appeared together after the campaign announced biden picked her as his running mate and that for the first time a black woman, also a south asian american woman would be on amajor party presidential ticket and the significance of the event can't be over stated in part because the political history being made but also, because this was the first time that american voters in particular democrats got to see what kind of message and energy these two former opponents for the nomination would bring. biden began the event and spent a significant amount of time hitting the president on his record and the coronavirus and environment, he spoke about the history that harris'ct