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it is the top of the hour. and for two days now, president trump has been unable or unwilling to condemn white supremacists in a way that would make it clear he does not welcome the support of white supremacists. he danced around this in the debate when he fold a far right group to stand back and stand by. and today the white house flat out wouldn't denounce white
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supremacy, when asked by multiple reporters. and since they're asking why everyone is asking them to do so, as election day nears, president is escalating his campaign of fear and falsehoods, refusing to specifically condemn white supremacists, while stoke dg vision during his latest rally in minnesota. democratic freshman, congresswoman omar and refugees. >> what is going on with omar? i've been reading reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. let's get with it. then she tells us how to run our country. can you believe it? how did minnesota elect her? what the hell is wrong with you people? another massive issue for minnesota is the election of joe biden's plan to inundate your
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state with a historic flood of refugees. biden will turn minnesota into a refugee camp and he said that. >> now, congresswoman omar is a somali refugee who has been an american citizen for two decades. this is her country. and trump made those comments on the same day his white house announced it will cut refugee admissions to a new low next year. something biden has pledged to reverse if elected. but this latest round of racist rhetoric is sending off alarms around washington and beyond. telling "the new york times" he will vote for biden. calling, trump, quote, dangerous to the existence of the republic as we know it. and a cnn national security analyst and former obama homeland security official. fbi director wray said that white supremacists are the biggest threat. both the president and his chief
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of staff have said, essentially, that wray misspoke. how do hate groups interpret that? >> it doesn't malter what trump says, if it's coy or confusing a or whatever. so, we are beyond the point where we wonder what donald trump is doing. he is promoting terrorism, right? it is violence to effect political consequences. in this case, he wants violence around the election. and he is supporting white supremacy groups and racist groups. once you accept that, his explanation, his press spokeswoman's explanation, his silly apologies, his attempt to explain himself, they don't matter. and so, a month away from an election, we have a supporter of white supremacy a supporter of terrorism who is running to seek re-election and once you accept
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that, then what he says doesn't matter and not what we can do to get governors and mayors ready for potential violence because he knows what he's doing at this stage. >> i do want to fake about that and what people can do but it appears that people have their own ideas about what they can do and john, director wray said he's worried about clashes between the far left and right at protests nis fall. this fall. you've increasingly talked about how african-americans are arming themselves, which would be an indication they feel more unsafe. what are the numbers showing? >> the numbers are showing a record increase of black americans who are buying guns. comes long with two different groups. you have armed groups forming in the black community.
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but you also have private citizens, who are also buying guns, saying they need protect themselves against racism, need protect themselves against racist police officers. and i think what this is doing is creating this explosive mix. you have these armed white groups showing up at racial p protests and more african-americans that say i need to be armed. so, what happens when these two different movements collide? and i'm very concerned there will be some kind of confrontation where there will be a video or photograph taken of an african-american using a gun, in self defense, but it won't be seen that way. it will be seen as a black person being violent and it will provide a willie horton 2.0. a new image of a black person as a violent person and that could
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change everything. >> what can be done to counter the possibility? it sounds like you ecpect there will be violence. what can be done from the establishment and from people who are trying to make sure this doesn't happen? >> right. and i'm glad you asked because there's obviously a lot of tension and fear. i think you hear people talk about -- use words like civil war. we're not at a civil war. we have agency. and there's lot of things we can do. so, i want people to leave optimistically, because it is scary to have a president that promotes terrorism and violence. he's promoting a minority viewpoint in america. a small group of pathetic men who arm themselves for a cause that the president gives voice to. we are greater than them, we are lot more than them. we can support law enforcement,
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as well as mayors and governors, who are preparing for this. they are setting up command posts, getting the national guard prepared in case they need deploy. they are surveying and watching public sites to make sure these pathetic men do not try to congregate. there are ways in which individuals can support voting and be out lawfully to support voting. the media can stop trying to explain donald trump and recognize the support he's giving to white supremacy and terrorism, as we lead into an election season. and i think once you do that, then whatever he does, doesn't matter and it's calling him out. and i think republican, who can and will, need come out. they have constituencies at this stage. i do think it's a big deal. it's a big deal when someone like tom ridge a former governor of a swing state like
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pennsylvania says, not only is he not voting for trump, but he's voting for biden. if they want to make a statement about the racism, there's only one statement to make at this stage. donald trump's not worth our outrage anymore because we have agency. we've been living in fear and trying to explain someone for the last four years. we don't need to do that anymore. he knows what he means. he does it every single time and he tries to apologize or his people explain. we're done. we're done. we have a month of this. so, prefapare yourself. but it's not a civil war. it's a small group of hapless men who are supported by president who has no other game to play. i've been in terrorism a long time. shaming it and calling it out is how an ideology ends and that's what will happen. >> and you mentioned that black
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americans are increasingly arming themselves legally. they are practicing their second amendment rights. are you seeing the second amendment playing a significant role when it comes to black voters at the ballot box? >> i don't ning that's a primary motivation for black voters. i think the primary motivation is trump. i don't think they need anymore motivation than that. what i'm concerned about with the second amendment and african-americans is if hasn't traditionally been reserved for black folks. we haven't been traditionally allowed to practice it like white americans. what i say often is if you have armed white men in public carrying guns and waving the american flag, some people will see them as patriots. but if you have armed, black, brown men in public, people call them thugs and a threat to public safety. >> we've seen that play out
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historically when it come tease race and bearing arms. thank you so much to both of you. president trump is planning to hold two rallies, despite the state's alarming new coronavirus numbers, wisconsin has a record-high number of deaths reported in a single day. both rally locations, green bay and lacrosse have been deemed red zones by the white house coronavirus task forces. cnn's omar has more detames from green bay. >> reporter: here in wisconsin, we're coming off the deadliest single day we've seen. >> coronavirus since the pandemic began. and just days after the state set a single-day case record over inweekends. even in june, we were see acsteady increase.
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but now an absolute spike. the white house coronavirus task force siting it as one of the hot spots of the country. covid fatigue and increased relaxed activities. and the take away was that it was all about optics. cnn national security correspondent, who wroelt this report is joining us now. and you detail how officials in the west wing didn't think masks were a, quote, good luck. which is infuriating. because that's not the point. death is not good look, extreme sickness is not a good look. >> reporter: i took on this deep dive after finding out one of the most senior national security council officials got a
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bunch of masks and was trying to advocate for them to use it and that was as early as early february. we only had a couple dozen cases in the united states and they were bracing for something severe hitting the united states and they wanted to protect the government. but if you walk the halls of the executive office building, you don't really see people wearing masks anymore. i tried to understand what happened during the initial push and despite seeing people without masks for the most parted. essentially, when national security officials, and not just the one, many together, started insisting in january that this -- we are bracing for a storm and that the united states could face something severe in terms of the pandemic. the white house, the west wing started pushing back on them and saying we cannot enforce mask wearing, make it mandatory. it's not legal.
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and it's also not a good look. they didn't want to under9 the president's message of confidence, that he has everything under control, it's nothing to worry about. his praise for xi in china, who, in midjanuary, he didn't want to rock that boat. we have to go back to january and remember, in those days the president was still going through an impeachment trial and the economy was still doing pretty well and his political team ultimately didn't want anything rocking the boat. they wanted to avoid any crisis. so, for them having national security officials walking around campus was going to send the wrong message. and i heard this from dozens officials that it was a huge problem with regard to messaging and particularly with regard to wearing masks. >> such a shame. thank you so much for bringing that report to us. the senate just voted down a
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bill that would protect people with preexisting conditions, even if the supreme court strikes down the affordable care act. this measure fails. we expected that. there were some republican whose crossed the aisle though. >> reporter: i ning that is really the important point here and this is why chuck schumer went to the floor a couple of days ago and brought forward this bill. very surprising to folks watching on capitol hill. but the reason is he wanted to put some of the members up for re-election in a tough spot. you had a handful of republicans, six total, five of whom are up for re-election this cycle voting with democrats. i want to go through who those were. lisa murkowski, a republican from alaska, independent minded, as well as susan collins, a republican from maine, who is up for re-election. cory gardner from colorado, as well as joni erntz, from iowa,
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voting with democrats. and martha mcsally a republican from arizona up for re-election. and still far from actually moving this pieces of legislation forward. it's important to note this essentially said the trump justi justice department should not be involved in the aca lawsuit after the election in november. they wanted to make sure they tied the supreme court nomination of amy coney barrett to the health care law. that's what they did this afternoon and while they fell short, they forced republicans to take a tough vote. >> reporter: thank you so much for that report from capitol hill for us. next vaccine maker, moderna, gives his timeline and it will not be by election.
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late arphiladelphia city commissioner fact checks the claims that election fraud is happening there. - [narrator] ordering chipotle for the family?
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taste may test positive for covid-19 antibodies, which means they probably had the ilinize. they looked at 167 people in london with a recent loss of smell or taste. of them, 78% had covid-19 antibodies. among those with antibodies, about 40% had no history of cough or fever. the study also found loss of wa loss of taste. people with loss of taste were three times more likely to have antibodies than those with just loss of taste. brianna. >> and another new study shows cardiac arrest is common among patients with severe patients of coronavirus. and when cpr is performed, survival is low. they studied 5,000 patients
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early in the pandemic and of no those, just 12% survived and 7% survive would normal or mild impaired function. they were more likely to live. and this brings me to dr. austin bates. it is great to see you, doctor. i hope you're hanging in there. this is a study that showed these people that they looked add, at, who were sick in the early stages of the pandemic. do you think cardiac arrest, as an issue, is the same today as it was then? >> so, yes. so, cardiac arrest, unfortunately, is a very big risk of people critically ill, period. particularly this virus. which causes low oxygen levels in the body, nat places people at high risk for cardiac arrest
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and appears to attack the heart and cause inflammation, also increasing the risk of cardiac arrest. as the study highlights, it's a slow prognosis. and i think what is really important to highlight, is only 7% actually good neurologic function. we can often times bring the body back to life. but bringing the brain back to good function after it's gone without oxygen for so long is the most important outcome to look at. >> moderna is saying its vaccine, if goes as expected, won't be available to the full public until spring. what do you stay to patients about the vaccine?
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what are nair expectations for when and what it will mean for them. i know some must think it's a silver bullet. probab probably the number one question i get is are you, doctor, going to take the vaccine? and i think that's because they're worried about potential meddling or other incentives for these pharmaceutical companies to push this vaccine flu before it's ready. starting with the bad news is yes, there's going to be a delay before we have a proven effectival and safe vaccine proven for mass distribution. the good news is they're being transparent and making a commitment, which i think all the pharmaceutical companies are going to do, make sure they're
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not going to release until it's ready. and hopefully that will increase confidence, so we can increase the percentage of americans and the rest enough world to get the vaccine. >> it is wonderful to see you. you are very much on the frontlines in the middle of all of this. and appreciate the time to talk to our viewers. the debate commission says new rules are likely coming over the debacle of it debate. the president cast doubt on. on the award-winning ww app, you can take a personal assessment and get matched with a customized plan. the assessment takes into account the things that matter to you the most. on my plan, whole wheat pasta and potatoes are zero points.
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moments ago, president trump tweeting about the next debate and he said this, quote, why would i allow the debate commission to change the rules for the second and third debates when i easily won last time? we have kaitlan collins and bryan to talk about this what we need to know is the debate commission, if they propose changes, they have to be accepted by both sides. >> reporter: and you saw from the rnc chairwoman, saying they should not make any changes unless both parties agree to the changes ne' changes they're suggesting. the president seems to be saying if he does not like the changes, he may not participate in the
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next debate. the press secretary was asked if the president would commit to doing the debate. they essentially said no, we're going to wait to see what the changes are. their argument has been they're making the debates easier for joe biden. the reason they put out that unusual statement saying they're considering making structural changes is because of what you saw devolve on the stage because donald trump was repeatedly interrupting as joe biden was trying to answer questions. joe biden telling the president to shut up. no one walked away with anything substantive, any noticeable change in their positions on who they were going to be voting for. the question is going to be whether or not the president is going to attend the seconds debate, depending on hwhat the
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changes are. frrltsz it's supposed to be town hall-style debate with voters asking the questions. >> the other part of that tweet is he's claiming that he won the debate, which is very odd. i mean, no one won that debate. >> nobody won that debate. all the scientific polls have shown the president did not gain an advantage at that debate. but he sees fan polls and makes him feel good. he used to do this with the primary seizeden baits. so, there's precedent for him challenge nothing debates. the problem is they're old-fashioned. it does not want to do anything to ruffle anybody's feathers. it wants trump to be on that stage. so, it is true they have a lot of power to negotiate the rules and what might change. trump is saying he doesn't want any changes by the commission.
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what we do know is this bipartisan group of old-fashioned political pros, they're planning to announce changes in the next day or two. >> it's interesting because he needs a win, right? and this was not a win. even folks around him don't think this was a win. he needs these debates and needs to do them differently. >> yeah. maybe he's threatening to not show up. pretty hard to picture he wouldn't show up to debate joe biden because they know that would look weak on the president's half. he's been getting rave reviews on this and his aids know he needs a stronger performance because they know that first one amounted to a train wreck. >> a train wreck is not a win. thank you so much. major companies are making tough financial decisions six
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more signs the pandemic is hitting the economy hard. 800,000 filed for first-time benefits last week. the rate has nevr been this high going into an election. some of the biggest cuts are from some of the biggest employers, including disney, shell and major u.s. airlines. all are laying off thousands of workers. american said they had to let go of 8,000 flight attendants.
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american and united say they will recall furloughed workers if congress passes an immediate relief package. ian is a flight attendant for american airlines. tell us about how your life and career has been impacted. >> wow, incredibly. back when the pandemic started, we were deemed essential workers. so, we continued to put our uniforms on every day, shuffling the american people back and forkt to get them where they needed to go. and when we knew the extension was coming to an end, we've had so many people pushing for congress to pass an extension for this. and as you get closer and closer, you're left like, what's going to happen? and i walked off my last flight
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about an hour and a half ago? i took two flights, passengers where they needed to go and now i have no job. so, i'm kind of flabbergasted. >> i mean, that's so distressing, ian. how are they doing this? are they doing this by seniority? do you get a sense of that? >> they initially offered some ear early out packages and leave options for flight attendants to take and from there you have to start from the bottom up. so, your most junior people up to whatever their magic number is. and we had a number we were given a few months ago and at that point, i thought we might on the cusp and the passenger bookings were not increasing at the rate they needed. so, now i have just, me specifically, i have almost
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frae4700 flight attendants before i get my job back. >> what do you want them to know? >> i need them to know that they are forgetting the human factor in all of this. the pride has fto be puts aside. this is not about politics. they're losing, not just their income but their health insurance. how many of us are getting ready to go jump into an up employment line? my best friend is an army veteran and a flight attendant. he's being furloughed and now he's go took be an unemployed veteran. i have people who have just purchased houses and we're left wondering what am i going to do? and what happens if i catch covid, what am i going to do? they need to pass something and pass it quick to have the true
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economic recovery that they really need. >> i appreciate you speaking with us. there's so many people in your position. thank you. >> thank you. next president trump falsely claims bad things are happening in philadelphia when it comes to elections. one of the city commissioners a republican, to set the record straight. ♪ (music) hi, i'm dorothy hamill. even as i look toward 65, one thing hasn't changed i still love getting on the ice. which means i need to stay healthy. now, as i'm thinking about selecting a medicare plan, i know i want one that has the kind of coverage that takes a total approach to my health. one that connects all the different parts of
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join firefighters and emergency responders in voting 'yes' on 19. hours before he took the debate stage in ohio, he pushed a baseless claim of election fraud in pennsylvania.
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after trump supporters were turned away from a polling site, he tweeted this, wow, won't let poll watchers and security into philadelphia voting places. there is only one reason why. corruption, exclamation points, we must have a fair election. >> i'm encouraging my supporters to go in the polls and watch very carefully because that's what has to happen. i am urging them to do it. as you know today there was a big problem. in philadelphia they went tine watch, poll watchers. very safe, nice thing. they were thrown out. they weren't allowed to watch. you know why? because bad things happen in philadelphia. >> thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. >> so, i want to be clear because there are pennsylvania state laws that make it very clear. they govern when and where poll
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watchers can observe voting. and they did not meet the guidelines. explain what happens. >> poll watchers have a very important function on election day. they receive surticertificates allows them into polling places to observe and make sure the election is running smoothly, that there aren't people inside advocating for candidates or anything like that. that's a totally different circumstance than the other day. they were entering board of elections offices in philadelphia. >> so, he's saying it's a very nice, safe thing when you're looking to the letter of the law. that doesn't seem to match what we're seeing here. so, tell us what they're supposed to do if they find they're confronted by someone claiming to be a poll watching. >> we never want voters to be intimidated. we want every eligible voter to exercise their right to vote.
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whether it's on election day or requesting a mail-in ballot, which we now have in pennsylvania or showing up to a board of elections office to request a mail-in ballot in person. it's simply the voter requesting a mail-in ballot, us looking up to see the voter is an eligible voter, printing out their ballot and provide it to the voter. they can take it home, fill it out at the kitchen table, in the hallway and return to us if they want. if there's any challenge to the eligibility of these ballots, parties have the opportunity to do that. but they don't have the opportunity to roam around board of elections offices where voters are seeking services from the city. >> so, you hear the president raising these suspicions, which are baseless about your city or he can do it about any city. what is the impact? what is your reaction to this? being someone from philadelphia?
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>> so, philadelphia's my adopted home. i'm from pittsburgh and i sometimes say the only bigotry my parents raised me with was bad things happen in philadelphia and it's bad place. and that's simply not true. i love philadelphia. we have more than 1.1 million eligible voters in philadelphia. republicans, democrats, independents and others. we want all of them to cast their vote. >> there is a rivalry between these two cities. there you are bridging the gap in pennsylvania. al schmidt, thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you. as the president is raising doubts he'll agree to changes to the next two debates, the moderator is about to speak.
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a new cnn original series "first ladies" is looking at the live of some of the most influential women to have that role. the first is michelle obama. >> she's the first first lady in the age of social media. prrls a and that too has transformed the landscape. >> i'm pretty certain there was
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some consternation by the east wing because it was not in anybody's playbook. >> there are all kinds of people in the white house there to say no. don't do this, don't take a risk. never been done before. >> people pay a lot of attention to what the first lady looks like, what she's wearing and of course, what the first lady says. and you could easily see how a phrase could be twisted around. >> as a lawyer, i was one of the strong nay sayer against the president of the first lady having a twitter account. >> but we had a young staff who realized that social media was where a lot of the young people we were trying to connect with were going. >> don't think of connecting to your child with email. if you really want to get their attention, use symbols.
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little symbols. >> the first lady was, in a sense, a guinea pig. >> can you do a little dougie. there we go. >> they came to realize there's an energy vortex in the east wing that's a little different than they'd seen in previous administrations. >> after seeing michelle's success, the west wing follows suit. >> and we're with kate anderson brower and she's the cnn contributor and author of "first women." she was the first black first lady, which was a hugely significant milestone and brought challenges she had to navigate. >> it did and there's a great scene where david axelrod advised her and take her aside and say watch yourself on the campaign trail, with the sound off. so, she sees herself in a way
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she hadden't before. she was criticized for being angry. she thought she was passionately making the case for her husband to be elected. as a first black first lady, she had this incredible feeling, the sense that the other women that came before her were given leeway she wasn't going toby given. you see the things said about her that were really unfair and the way she felt her family's safety was on the line. president obama was given secret service protection before any other candidate in history. so, dealing with those threats with two young girls in the white house, i think the series captures what her emotional reaction, as a mother, was to living in the white house. >> and tell us what is ahead for her. because she's written a best-selling book. she has a huge deal with netflix hosting a podcast.
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the list goes on. what's ahead here in her post-first lady years? >> she went back the garret anderson school in london where she talked to gurlts. girls. and she said look, i want to keep up with you. you were just like me. i want you to see that you can do what i did. so, i think we're going to see more of that. like you said, she's this pop culture icon. i know a lot of people would love to see her run for office but she's not going to do it. she does not like politics. so, i don't think we'll see her running. >> seems like that is a no full stop. great to see you. and again, do not miss the premier of this. "first ladies" sunday night at 10:00 eastern. hello everyone. i'm kate baldwin, thank you for
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joining us this hour. today, it was the president's spokesperson straight from the white house podium. offering up yet another vague response during a heated white house press briefing where kaley mackenaniy did try to condemn white supremacy during tuesday's debate but you have heard and seen the tape and the debate. let's be honest, if it was, why would republican law makers be telling the president he needs to clear it up? she decided not to answer that question today. in fact, now he's taking another step. launching into racist and xenophobic attacks in minnesota, this time at congresswoman omar, who came to the united states as an refugee. i'm quoting here, telling us how to run our country.