>> thanks for sharing time with us today. busy news day. stay with us. brianna keilar picks up our coverage right now. have a good day. hello. i want to welcome our viewers here and around the world. as the country is still losing almost 1,000 americans per day the president has been falsely questioning whether coronavirus has really killed that many people. the very real death toll stands at more than 183,000. and the case count in the country is now at more than 6 million but the president would like you to train your attention elsewhere, stoking tensions as violence erupts between his supporters and protesters and today once again concern that the president is pressuring the fda to fast track a vaccine before it's ready. first, though, the heart ache and the struggle. today the u.s. crossing over into record territory again. as you can see there are the

dates that the u.s. hit those grim milestones of 1 million, 2 million cases and now crossing into the 6 million mark. across the united states, at least 36 states have reported coronavirus outbreaks at colleges and universities and those are accounting for more than 8,700 cases. there's good news that the weekly average of cases is going down. but as the coordinator of the white house coronavirus response reminds us this is a fragile statistic. >> not only is the virus real, the consequences of the virus is real. the hospitalizations that we still have every week is real. the number of americans that we have lost to this virus are real. but what is also real is we have a way to prevent its spread and i think that this really needs to be a balanced message of we have power against this virus but it requires all of us to exert the power together. >> and alarming new signs that

the president is fomenting misinformation about the coronavirus and putting political pressure on the race for a vaccine. twitter pulled a post that the president reposted. and now the president's preferred expert on the white house coronavirus task force dr. scott atlas not an infectious disease expert pushing the president to embrace a herd immunity strategy. this is happening as dr. fauci the nation's top infectious disease expert is sidelined and cause for concern about a potential coronavirus vaccine, the head of the fda is telling the financial times that an emergency authorization or approval of a vaccine could be considered before phase three trials are over. i want to bring in senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen to break this down with us here. you know, this is serious but also two different things,

emergency authorization versus approval of the vaccine. so tell us what it would mean to skip over the parts of a phase three trial. >> right. so what dr. hahn was saying is that we may not -- we may be able to consider getting a vaccine on the market or doing an emergency use authorization even before we finish this trial of 30,000 people. the experts i have been talking to say, yes, technically that's true. really for any vaccine application. they do 30,000 people but they may do fewer checking in on it and see and if the vaccine is working really, really well they might say, hey, we should consider putting this on the market but the chances of that happening according to every expert that i have talked to are so incredibly small one called it ludicrous and wondering why in the world is dr. hahn bringing this up in interviews, not just him, other officials. technically that can be true of any drug or vaccine trial but

they're wondering why is he doing this? because it is just making americans distrust the vaccine even more. when americans hear we might finish early they think that they're doing an incomplete trial. >> yeah. they want to be safe. they don't feel safe now and want to be safe taking a vaccine. assuming that we see one. tell us because we're learning about a flight of folks who were ordered to self isolate. >> yes. this is interesting. this was a flight from greece to wales, a 3 1s-flight and after it landed hay found that 7 people had covid. about 193 people on that flight and now all of those passengers have been told to isolate. there is a passenger on the flight who said the flight was quote a debacle, the people with respect waeiearing the masks an wandering up and down the

aisles. >> all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. i should let our viewers know we are waiting for a speech set to happen soon coming from democratic presidential nominee joe biden asking voters, quote, are you safe in donald trump's america? his very clear response to the president's assertion that americans will not be safe in joe biden's america. last week trump painted a picture of a doomed america devoid of law and order if democrats take of the white house. the president and his party are seizing on recent cases of deadly violence in protests against racial injustice and police brutality. on saturday someone gunned down a man. an eyewitness will join us in moments to tell us what he saw there. but this is a killing that comes days after a 17-year-old trump supporter was arrested and charged with killing two people in kenosha, wisconsin.

biden is charging the president to condemn the violence and he did not do. the president set off a war of words with portland's mayor, expressed support of the militias at the protests and embraced more fringe beliefs, retweeted a false claim by a qanon conspiracy theorists that the cdc is overreporting the coronavirus deaths. and we should add very inaccurate because experts say that the u.s. death toll is higher than the official number, not lower. the president retweeted a comment saying anarchists are leading a coup attempt against him. no evidence of anything like that. this morning the president again attacked portland's mayor over the saturday shooting calling him a joke. the mayor blames the president saying that president trump helping to incite the violence. on saturday an eyewitness was there to capture this gun fire as it all played out on camera

and a warning that what you're about to see is disturbing and so you know what you are about to witness if you choose, the video freezes at the moment that the man is shot and cnn has blurred the victim's body. >> don't get up! >> go, go, go! >> what the [ bleep ]. >> help him! >> i got mace in my eyes. >> joining me now is justin dunlap, he actually recorded that video. justin, i want to thank you for being here to talk about what you saw and what was going on that night. urn filming the area.

in this intersection but also a little ways away. describe what you were seeing right before you heard gunshots. >> right before i heard the gunshots i was walking from the area where the food carts are on 3rd and washington and there had been a truck, little white truck driving around with the windows down shooting paint balls just coming from the back windows towards the street. and so, that truck drove down towards the justice center and decided to follow it and on my democracy field trips i try to point out the beautiful art in portland and as i was walking up the street the event occurred i noticed some new stuff on the buildings and stopped to -- stopped to check out the art for a second and the cars were revving and always got my head on a swivel because of what happened a couple weeks ago when the truck drug the motorcycle

and i was there when that happened, too. that draws my attention and when i turned to cross the street, the yelling started, the mace was shot, two shots rang out and that tragic thing had happened and right after that, the mace that he had sprayed hit my eyes and that's where the pain started. >> okay. that's what we heard. we heard you saying that. that's you on camera and from that cloud of mace. >> yeah. >> so you couldn't -- i know you looked at this. to try to see where exactly who exactly the shots came from and you can't make it out. but tell us about the man who was shot. because what we see is we do see that cloud of mace. what was he doing buffalo before the shooting and before the mace? >> i didn't register that trio of individuals until the yelling started and he raised his hand

and the mace came forward. i don't know what he had in his hand, mace, something else. but that's the direction the mace came from was him and it was a huge cloud and then the cloud just exploded and the shots rang out. he turned around and took four steps away and fell face down and the other two guys went the other direction. >> and who was there trying -- we see that. we see the other folks who that's a possibility for the gunshots came from and seemed to be in an altercation with them. a lot of people came to the man's aid. who were those folks? could you tell? >> there were street medics. that have been dealing with this protest for months on end. and those volunteer medics come in to situations without even

thinking about it. they don't care who they're helping and just need to help and those wonderful people trying to help and then see the guy's buddy come in and shove the medic off of him and then there's another person that says she's a medic. he says, okay, okay, then. help. all of that i have seen on other streams because i was dealinging with with my eyes and trying to save the string to get it boo the hands of authorities. >> we appreciate you talking to you. this is obviously a very difficult thing that portland is going through and it was difficult for you i'm sure. thank you. >> you're very welcome. thank you. >> thank you so much. one of the groups that the president is targeting with his rhetoric is you sur ban women, especially coming to violence in

cities. i'll speak with one who voted for president trump in 2016. nba legend robert horry will join me live on the emotional conversations with his sons on police and race. >> it's hard to tell your 14-year-old son that i worry about him when he walks out that door.

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only hinder our healing, i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward tokt. the city has been rocked of course by protests after the police shootling of jacob blake, a black man shot seven times in the back by a police officer last weekend. president trump's visit coming a week after police arrested a 17-year-old accused of killing two people at a protest over blake's shooting. and more than three months after george floyd was killed by police in minneapolis. that police killing setting off the summer of racial unrest that led to violence and looting at times. i'm joined by mary anderson who lives just outside of minneapolis and someone that voted for president trump in 2016 and, mary, i thank you so much for joining us. there are many people certainly curious about your thoughts on politics right now. as you are aware, there's so much focus on suburban women and saw that in the conventions by both democrats and republicans.

your vote is so coveted by both candidates, i wonder with the election coming up very soon were you swayed by the conventio conventions at all? >> thank you for having me on first of all. i hope that president trump is listening. i hope that some of the establishment who may want my vote is paying attention to what i have to say. i did watch some of the republican convention. and i caught just snippets of the democrat convention. i had turned my tv off for a couple of years because i couldn't handle the rhetoric anymore and needed to focus in on local issues, issues with my business, with my children. then when the pandemic hit that need to stay afloat and stay alive became critical so i really, really tuned everything out and just tuning in again.

i have been following things in print and trying to make up my own mind. the situation in minneapolis is as many of you know has been just absolutely devastating for many of us that live in the community and now everything going on in kenosha i feel like that's our twin city sort of sadly and what i wanted to say most today was i wanted to urge president trump to not travel to kenosha. i want to urge him to send someone that can do something constructive. i think that person is dr. ben carson. he's hud secretary, he is a respected member of the trump administration. and i would love to see him just let's change the tone of this thing now. president trump can retreat and be presidential and look to the

debates and do his thing at the debates but what's happening in our communities is not to be toyed with. and i do feel like we are being toyed with at this time. >> you feel like you're being toyed with. i know that you have concerns of crime and safety, about the economy. >> yes. >> could you vote for president trump again? and if not, would you vote for joe biden? >> i think that when president trump was first running for office and the reason i voted for him was i expected him to surround himself with the best and brightest people and i expected him to be an administrator and didn't expect a micromanager and what i would like is for him to show me that he can be a statesman. he's already -- the country's so polarized as it is i think that

many people have already made up their mind who they will vote for. i'm not one of them and i'm going to need him to show me that he can do this differently and he can secure his place in history if he simply takes a few steps back and lets people that are in his administration take care of their jobs and he just needs to retreat to the white house and make good decisions. and i do think joe biden is a good man. he is not the man for this hour in my opinion. i just think that it's as simple as that. >> why is that? why do you think that? >> to me, kind of -- where he is at is comparable to where president reagan was at the end of his second term in terms of

his cog anition. i think his mental acuity is down and i think that he would be handled and led and steered in ways that i don't think would be helpful for ow conditiur cou. this doesn't bring me joy or pleasure but watching people in my state in the service business have their lives impacted incredibly and i feel like no one's listening. i feel like, oh, the stock market is at record levels. what you're not realizing is that service people, i'm in the hair business. people in the restaurant business are losing their jobs. companies, small business is going out of business. i think we're going to lose half

of all small businesses here in the state of minnesota. there's very little confidence in coronavirus testing. it's quite tragic. the other thing i think that president trump can do while he is being a statesman and retreating to the white house and letting others handle his agenda, we need testing. we are desperate. i have people in my business who they don't make money if they don't work. and they -- if they're in contact with someone who is ill, they need to be tested and they need to quarantine. if they can be tested and get results within a day or two or three, they can get back to work. it is taking six, seven, eight days to get test results and they lose that revenue. they don't see clients.

they don't get paid. >> they do and you -- i do want to mention that the cdc downgraded their guidelines on that saying if people have come in contact with someone positive for covid-19 they don't fit the bill for getting tested so that's the opposite of what we are hearing from you coming to practice. >> yeah. >> one question before i let you go. you brought up the issue of mental acuity with joe biden and certainly it is no surprise that as these arguments are lobbed that these are things that stick with voters. i wonder why for instance this is an issue that's been maeds of both candidates. why do you have those concerns of joe biden and not donald trump? they're both up in years where you have questions raised about this at both at them. why is that?

>> i have watched joe biden over the years and i just think he's lost a step, a half step. that doesn't mean that he is a bad person. i think that he is a good man at his core. president trump is consistent since he's been elected. as i said before, i had just hoped that he would kind of take a step back and let others handle their jobs in his administration. i just reviewed some of his tweets in the last couple of days and they're just not helpful. kenosha needs calm. we needs somebody else to head to kenosha and i hope that he'll consider sending dr. carson. and then i hope dr. carson will come here to minneapolis and tour the devastation and help the small business people who they can't even get the debris

cleared away from the damaged buildings much less think about rebuilding. we need some positive news. we need help. and i'm just asking the president to please just don't fan the flames. i can just -- you can just feel people wanting to converge on kenosha to do battle with president trump. it is not helpful. i know that donald trump's instinct is to win. i'd like to see him win in a different way. if he can. and he's going to have to do some things differently in order to win my vote. i don't know who i will vote for but i'm going to maintain my dignity when i cast my ballot. i can assure you of that. >> mary, thank you so much. mary anderson, appreciate it. >> thank you. we have some breaking news. house democrats will issue a subpoena to the postmaster

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and my wife walks in. she's like, are you crying because you turned 50 today? i started laughing. i said, did you see the video of this guy getting shot? at first, i saw it. i thought maybe they will tase him. right? because that's what they do with white people. tase him. i didn't have the volume up and christian walks in and said, no, dad, they shot him. i play it again and i'm like, wow, they shoot this guy seven times in the back and then i have this conversation with christian. and he's like, that's not -- that that's wrong. i said it's beyond wrong. it is flatout evil. it's hard to tell your 14-year-old son that i worry about him when he walks out that door. i have a 21-year-old son. i worry about him because black men are an endangered species.

people, these cops killing because they feel like if they don't have the body cams on they have a right and i tell my kids all the time. i said, i don't care what's going on. because at the ends of the day i want you coming home to me. if you have to lay down on the ground and they can kick you, beat you, least you going to go to the hospital and come home to me. whatever they say, don't take it upon yourself to let that rage you have against that cop come out. because he has the gun. he can end you and i don't want him to end you because if he ends you that means i will end him. >> robert horry is joining us now. thank you for being with us. it is incredibly emotional to watch you describing this conversation. i want to just get back to the

moment watching the jacob blake video, the video of him shot by police and just tell us what it was like for you to watch it. what was it that -- i mean, to you, you seem like you were in disbelief watching it. >> first i want to say -- i don't want people to think i condone violence because a lot of the sinterviews because i sad if he ends my son and after that i said that's wrong of me to say but that's how i feel. i don't condone violence. i would never do that. but having that conversation with your son and saying it because i have walked up on my 21-year-old son in handcuffs, my son has a flat tire and coming to help him in a white neighborhood and the cop immediately gets out of the car with the hand on the gun so i have those moments and i have those moments of fee aar and wh you grow up in the south you know what to do. it is not a thing to go in the

classroom and teach you what to do. you know what to do to survive. >> you know. in a way you're telling your son, look, you may think it's wrong and may know it's wrong and i agree it's wrong if you find yourself in a situation if a police officer responds to you differently as a black man or a black child even but telling him essentially to forego sort of dignity, right, or even just his right to say this is wrong because you have this fear i think a lot of parents connect to, the idea of losing a child. >> and you said it right. the dignity. that's the thing with it comes. every man in this world is proud and when you know you're right you want to stand up for you rights and what we fight for is our rights. if a police officer comes at you

and jump -- if they jump to the conclusion and a lot of times you are right and want to boast that but there's a way to do it in order to come home and a calm way and tell my kids, you know what? god has blessed me with some talent to make me have some money and figure it out and get lawyers and a lot of families don't have that and they say what is my situation? how can i handle this? i'm going to stick up for my rights at this moment and people don't understand that. it is like we are proud, proud black people and when we're wrong we want to tell you at that moment and sometimes police officers don't want to hear it because they got a lot on their plate. >> and have you had conversations with your kids like this before? >> yes, i have. it's a part of black culture. you know? goes all the way back to, you know, the slavery and all these

things. you tell your kids about this because like i said in that video i want my child to come home to me at the ends of the day. that's the most important thing. you can figure things out and i think a lot of times people don't understand that. you know? like i said, the problem only steps up but you have to figure it out because if someone pulls a gun on you, they have the authority and you don't want that. you want to comply pretty much. >> robert, i know that you know this isn't hype thetd caothetic a child. you lost your 17-year-old in 2011 so you know what it is to lose a kid. for you how pervasive of a fear is this? how much do you think about it that you could lose one of your sons like this? >> i didn't think about it until here of late, with social media.

when social media came in to play and everybody as soon as you get pulled over by a cop or see someone, you break out the camera and now it's in your face, on your mind constantly and reminds you. you forget about it but this thing is in your face every day and reminding you every day to remind your kids because we know the children sometime, what i call the superman syndrome. they think they're invincible. i know they know we lost a sister. anything can happen. so you try to -- you stay -- keep that on their mind and this is what can happen so you want to come home at the end of the day to laugh, watch tv and enjoy your video games. that's what teenage kids like to do and enjoy life because we just call want peace. >> yeah. robert, thank you so much for joining us for this conversation. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. democratic presidential dom

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in the early days of world war ii franklin roosevelt told the company, quote, the news is going to get worse and worse before it gets better and better and the american people deserve to have it straight from the shoulder. straight from the shoulder. the job of a president is to tell it straight from the shoulder. tell the truth. to be candid. to face facts. to lead not to incite. that's why i'm speaking to you today. the incumbent president is incapable of telling us the trurt, of facing the facts and of healing. he doesn't want to shed light. he wants to generate heat and he is stroking violence in our cities. this is a tragic fact of the matter that about his perilous hour that how he's dealing with this perilous hour in our nation and now we have to stand against violence in every form it takes.

violence we have seen again and again and again of unwarranted police shooting, excessive force, seven bullets to the back of jacob blake. ne neon the neck of george black. killing of breonna taylor in her own apartment. militias. >> all right. we are having some technical difficulties there with joe biden's remarks. but this is something that -- a speech from pittsburgh. let's listen in. >> i want to make it absolutely clear. i'll be clear about all of this. rioting is not protesting. looting is not protesting. setting fires is not protesting. none of this is protesting. it's lawlessness. plain and simple. and those who do it should be prosecuted. violence will not bring change.

it will only bring destruction. it's wrong in every way. it divides instead of unites, destroys businesses, only hurts the working families that verve the communities. no, it is not what dr. king or john lewis taught. and it must end. fires are burning and we have a president who fans the flames. rather than fighting the flames. but we must not burn. we have to build. this president long ago forfeited any moral leadership in this country. he can't stop the violence because for years he's fomented it. he may believe mouthing the words law and order make him strong but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he

is. does anyone believe there would be less violence in america if donald trump is re-elected? we need justice and safety in america. we are facing crisis that under donald trump kept multiplying. covid, economic devastation, unwarranted police violence, emboldened white nationalists, a reckoning on faith and the birth of the right american future. there's no reason why we can't just do so much more hathan we' doing. the common thread, the incumbent president. an incumbent president who sows chaos rather than cultivating order, fails in the basic duty of the job that we're all born with the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

that's right. all of us. the moms and dads in scranton where i grew up who worked and scraped for everything they have ever gotten in life. the auto worker who michigan who makes the best automobile in the world. the single mom in ohio working three jobs just to stay afloat who will do anything for her child. retired veteran in florida who gave everything he had to this country and now just wants us to honor the promises made to him. lord & taylor sales person who just lost their job, a store closing after 194 years in business. nurses and doctors in wisconsin who have seen so much sickness, so much death in the past six months. and they wonder how much more can they they take and still they muster up the courage to take care of those patients in

this pandemic while risking their own lives. researchers in minnesota who woke up this morning determined to find a breakthrough in treating cancer. she'll never give up. white, black, latino, asian americans, native americans, everybody, i'm in this campaign for you no matter your color, zip code, politics. when i think of the presidency i don't think about myself. it isn't about my brand but you, the american people. we can do better. and we have to do better. i promise you this. we will do better. you know, the road back begins now. in this campaign. you know me. you know my heart. you know my story. my family's story. ask yourself, do i look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?

really? i want a safe america, safe from covid, safe from crime and looting. safer from racially violence, safe from bad cops. let me be crystal clear. safe from four more years of donald trump. i look at this violence and i see lives and communities, and the dreams of small businesses being destroyed. and the opportunity for real progress on issues of race and police reform and justice being put to the test. donald trump looks at this violence and he sees a political lifeline. having failed to protect this nation from the virus that killed more than 180,000 americans so far, trump posts on all caps tweet screaming law and order. to save his campaign. one of his closest political

advisers in the white house doesn't bother to speak in code. just says it. quarter t quote the more violence, chaos the better it is for trump's re-election. just think about that. this is a sitting president of the united states of america. he's supposed to be protecting this country but instead he's rooting for chaos and violence. the simple truth is donald trump failed to protect america. so now he's trying to scare america. since donald trump and mike pence can't run on the record that has seen more american deaths to a virus, this virus than the nation suffered in every war since korea combined. since they can't run on their economy, that has seen more people lose their jobs than any time since the great depression,

since they can't run on the simple proposition of sending our children safely back to school, since they have no agenda or vision for a second term trump and pence are running on this. i want it fascinating. quote, you won't be safe in joe biden's america. what is their proof? the violence we are seeing in donald trump's america. these are not images of some imagined joe biden mek in the future but donald trump's america today. he keeps telling you if only he was president, it wouldn't happen, if he was president he keeps telling, if he was president you would feel safe. he is president whether he knows it or not and it is happening. it's getting worse and you know why. because donald trump adds fuel to every fire. because he refuses to even acknowledge that there's a

racial justice problem in america, because he won't stand up to any form of violence. he's got no problem with right wing militia and white supremacists and vigilants with assault weapons often better armed to respect their rights, to hear their concerns or to protect them. doesn't have to be this way. when president obama and i were in the white house, we had to defend federal property and we did it. we didn't see it -- you didn't see us whipping up fears around the deployment of secret federal troops. we just did our job. and the federal plauroperty was protected. when president obama and i were in office, we didn't look at cities as democrat or republican run. these are american cities.

but trump doesn't see himself as president for all of america. frankly, i believe if i were president today, the country would be safer and see a lot less violence and here is why. i've said we must address the issue of racial injustice. i've personally spoken to george floyd's family and jacob blake's family. i know their pain and so do you. i know the justice they seek and so do you. they've told us none of this violence respects or honors george or jacob. i believe we can bring these folks fighting for racial justice to the table. i work with police in this country for many years. i know most cops are good, decent meanal. i know how they risk their lives every time they put the shield on and go out the door. and i'm confident i can bring the police to the table as well.

i'd make sure every mayor and governor had the support they needed from the federal government but i wouldn't be looking to use the united states military against our own people. if i were president, my language would be less divisive. i'd be looking to lower the temperature in this country, not raise it. i'd be looking to unite the nation. and look, if donald trump wants to ask the question who will keep you safer as president? let's answer that question. first, simple facts. when i was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. we did it without chaos. and disorder. and yes, we did it with democratic mayors and most of the major cities in this country. the murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year underden don. do you really feel safer under

donald trump? covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 -- look, the lives -- it's just -- i mean, you think about it. more lives this year than any other year for the past hundred years. more than 180,000 lives in just six mungs. an average of a thousand people dying every day in the month of august. do you really feel safer under donald trump? bui mr. trump, you want to talk about fear? if you know what people are afraid of in america? afraid they're going to get covid. afraid they're going to get sick and die and that's, in no small part, because of you. we're now on track to more than 200,000 deaths in this country due to covid. more than 100,000 seniors have lost their lives to the virus.

more cops have died from covid this year than have been killed on patrol. nearly one in six small businesses closed in this country today. do you really feel safer under trump? what about trump's plan to destroy the affordable care act? and with it, the protections for preexisting conditions? it impacts more than 100 million americans. does that make you feel safer? or how about trump's plan to defund social security? the social security administration is chief acchaer just released a report saying if a plan, like the one trump is proposing, goes into effect, the social security trust funtd would be, and i quote, permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023 with no ability to pay benefits thereafter.

put it plainly. trump's plan would wipe out social security, period. you feel safer and more secure now? the fear that rains under this president doesn't stop at our shores. the kremlin has put bounties on the heads of american soldiers. and instead of telling vladimir putin that there will be no putting up with this, that there will be a heavy price to pay, they dare touch an american soldier, this president doesn't even bring up the subject in his multiple phone calls with putin. russian forces just attacked american troops in syria, injuring our service members. did you hear the president say a single word? did he lift one finger? never before has an american president played such a subservient role to a russian leader.

it's not only dangerous, it's humiliating and embarrassing for the rest of the world to see. it weakens us. not even an american troops can feel safer under trump. donald trump's role as a bystander, in his own presidency, extends to the economic plan and pain. the plan he doesn't have and the pain being felt by millions of americans. he said this week, and i quote, you better vote for me or you're going to have the greatest depression you've ever seen. does he not understand and see that 10s of millions of people, who have had to file for unemployment this year so far? people who won't be able to make next month's rent payment, the people who lost wages, while the cost of groceries have gone up dramatically? president obama and i stopped a

depression in 2009. we took a bad economy that was falling and turned it around. trump took a good economy and drove it back into the ditch. through his failure to get covid under control, his failure to pull together the leaders in congress, his failure to deliver real relief to working people has made our country's economic situation so much worse, so much worse than it had to be. when we talk about safety and security, we should talk about basic security and being able to look your child in the eye and tell them everything's going to be okay. don't worry, honey. we're not going to lose our home. we're going to be able to put food in the table. it's going to be okay. it's the job of the president. i've laid out an agenda for economic recovery that will restore a sense of security for working families.

we won't just put things back the way they were before, we're going to build them back better with good-paying jobs, building our nation's roads, solar rays, windmills. with investments so they get the pay and dignity they deserve while easing the financial burden on millions of families. with the clean energy strategy that has a place for the energy workers right here in western pennsylvania. i am not banning fracking. let me say that again. i am not banning fracking. no matter how many times donald trump lies about me. this future, the future, that's what this is all about. donald trump's self-centered rants and rifts but the voice of america should be heard. the person you should listen to is julia jackson, the mother of

jacob blake. hers is a voice of courage, character and wisdom. looking at the damage done in her city, she said, quote, the violence and destruction doesn't reflect my son or my family. these are the words of a mom, a mother, whose son had just been shot seven times in front of his children. badly injured, paralyzed, perhaps permanently. and even as she seeks justice for her son, she's pleading for an end to the violence. and for this nation to heal. she said she was praying for her son. then she said something to me that surprised me. said she was praying for all police officers. said she was already been praying for america, even before her son was shot. she's publicly asked all of us to examine our hearts, citizens,

elect elected officials, police, all of us. then quote, we need healing. more than anything. that's what we need to do as a nation. we need to heal. and the current president wants you to live in fear. he advertises himself as a figure of order. he isn't. and he's not been part of the solution this far. he's part of the problem. the problem that i, as president, will give you my all resolve to solve. i'll deal with the virus. i'll deal with the economic crisis. and we'll work to bring equality and opportunity to everyone. we've arrived at a moment in this campaign we all know, including the president in front of me, knew we'd get to. the moment when