>> reporter: leslie rossi created the trump house where she pushed voters to choose trump. >> we gave people a place to come to to believe they could win. >> hi. welcome to the trump house. >> reporter: now, trump supporters show up daily for swag and yard signs and help registering to vote. >> we need trump in there again. i'm 65. i think it's time to register. >> reporter: have you not voted ever? >> no. >> reporter: rural westmoreland county is seeing a surge in republican registrations. they help abowith that too. >> changed my registration from democrat to republican. >> why? >> from what i've seen in the last past couple years, i was ashamed to say i was a democrat. >> reporter: but joe biden isn't giving up here. campaigning in westmoreland county last month. hillary clinton didn't come here in the general election. >> it's not an area democrats come and campaign very often, but you're here. why? >> i'm here because like i said, we are not taking any vote for

granted. >> reporter: gina ser rilly is county commissioner of westmoreland, pa. ten years ago she was miss pennsylvania in donald trump's miss usa pageant. now she's been elected democrat working to blunt trump's advantage here. >> in 2016, donald trump was a fresh face. he was new to politics. everyone was excited. he made big promises, bring back jobs. but frankly donald trump broke those promises. >> reporter: in small town pennsylvania, signs matter. trump's are everywhere, big and bold. but biden's are out there too. >> when you see signs like this, it makes the republicans and democrats that voted for trump in 2016 realize i'm not alone. >> reporter: a big biden challenge, his supporters are being covid careful. >> never did we think we would be meeting by zoom. >> reporter: phyllis friend, head of democratic women of westmoreland county, organizes from home. she's clear-eyed about the democrats' goal here in trump country. >> we can't win pennsylvania for

him, but he can add to the total numbers. >> hey, david, this is joe, and i volunteer with the trump campaign. how are you doing? >> reporter: as for republicans, they never stopped traditional ways of getting out the vote. new yorki knocking on doors, walking in neighborhoods with masks and using a data driven app to target voters. given the president's struggles in the suburbs, boosting the vote here is rcritical for trum. >> how important is it for him to get his numbers even higher than four years ago? >> i do think we need to increase our voter turnout here to offset what might be happening in the southeastern part of pennsylvania. >> back at the trump house, leslie rossi shows us the log of visits from thousands of trump supporters. >> what do you think this year? >> my numbers have tripled. four years ago my work was really hard here.

hi to convince the voters to vote for the candidate. i had to convince them president trump was the best choice for them. this time, i don't have to do any of that. they're all in. >> reporter: whether enough are all in could determine whether trump wins pennsylvania and a second term. and republicans we talked to in rural southwest pennsylvania were really candid that they expect the president to do even worse in the suburbs in pennsylvania than he did in 2016. so they feel a lot of pressure to deliver even bigger margins than ever if he has any chance of winning the keystone state again. of course, anderson, that would be crucial to his path to victory. >> i'm glad a lot of people in the line waiting to get into that house were wearing masks. >> a lot of masks there. >> dana, thank you. the news continues. >> coop, thank you very much. i am chris cuomo. welcome to "prime time." we learned today that trump's teenage son had covid. good news, they say he was asymptomatic and is now negative. but here's why i bring it up.

how can trump keep holding potential super-spreader events that will sicken other folks and maybe their kids after what his own family has been through? i can relate to very little when it comes to trump's motivations. we may have grown up in the same place, but we are very different people. but this i can relate to. i got my wife and son sick just like he did. but with me, it crushed me. it left me ashamed and super sensitive to keeping people safe. now, with trump, not only does he not really talk about either of them that much, but he's parading around like superman and saying he understands covid better now. well, if he does, why is he only doing things that will make it worse for others? not only did he fail to keep his own family safe, like i did, but it's what you do after you make that mistake. it kills me that the shame and

the fear and what might have happened, the way it plagues me to this day, and yet he doesn't seem to give a damn. that's why i'm floored that after what he has lived, he's insisting on making more people sick. listen to him. >> barron trump, you know, he had -- he had the corona 19, the china virus. he had it for such a short period of time. i don't even think he knew he had it because they're young, and their immune systems are strong, and they fight it off. 99.9%. and barron is beautiful, and he's free, free. get the kids back to school. we've got to get the kids back too school. >> none of this makes sense to me as a father. i got to be honest. he doesn't think his kid knew that he had it. yeah, he did. wouldn't you know?

weren't you talking to him about it? weren't you in constant contact the way i was and every other parent because you're scared to death, even when they're asymptomatic? god forbid what will happen. where does this nonchalance come from, and they've got to go back to school? no kidding. everybody's been saying that for months. and every time you've said it, i've asked you the same damn question, and i know you heard it. and i know people have come to you to talk about letting them do more, and you say, no. how? how do they get back to school? i got three kids with three different schedules, and my family's lucky. i got money. i can pay. i have can have people help us. they don't even have internet in some of these places. where's the better testing strategy? where is the protection for the people who need it? where are the better ideas? instead he's at his third maskless masquerade of the week in iowa.

the positivity rate is 20% there. cases are up 37% just from last week. this is what we want? did you see the sign? over here, this way to the trump covid super-spreader event. it's mocking, but it's also the truth. directly across from tonight's maga rally in des moines. you know, people still going. why? well, a big reason is they believe that covid is nothing to fear because he keeps saying it. >> you can't live your life in fear, and i'm not really scared of this virus. there's all kinds of other viruses out there that could jeopardize your health as well. so can't stop living. >> it's a 99.9% survival rate, and i am going to continue to live my life. >> trump getting the virus shows

that we are all human and anyone can get the virus. and you can be cautious, and you can get the virus. >> if i'm going to get sick and die, i guess it's my turn. but i trust god, and i'm not scared. >> but if you don't put yourself at risk, you might not die. >> i put myself at risk every time i go to the grocery store, i go to mcdonald's, i go to work, i do anything. i'm not going to stop living. >> if you would just tell them to wear masks, they would do it. it can't hurt them. it can't hurt you. can you really care this little about anyone else? you know what they're saying doesn't make sense. you know that their confidence in it is so largely founded on you having said it first. look, to the reasonable out there, just look what the lack of leadership is doing to us, to

all of us. just look at a map. there's no green. there's no covid good zones. you see the green, 10% to 50%? i know i say it every night. i know it's repetitive. how can i stop getting this message out when the pandemic is getting worse, and worse than the spread of the virus is our inaction. can you not notice that our federal government is bringing nothing new to the task? no better ideas? ignoring it is not a plan. no state is trending in the right direction. there's a sea of red on that map. 36 states with covid exploding. that is on you, mr. president. where is your wall mentality to keep us well? where are the better ideas? where are the better ideas for testing and tracing? hey, look, if you want to mimic

this idea about herd immunity and selective protection, then let's have the discussion. bring us the ideas. how would you change things so that we could be safer, so that our kids can go to school because right now they can't. because for every barron, for every mario, my son, who gets sick but they're okay, there's a teacher. there's somebody pushing a broom. there's someone making lunch. there's someone driving a bus. and they're not those kids. and they're not as blessed and as lucky as these kids with the infrastructure around them to make everything okay. and not all kids get lucky. how can you say to send them to school when you know it's not safe? and, look, i read the same research that you get talked to about. i know that kids are in better shape. but everyone around them, they live in a community, not a silo. you're barely making better

something to give lip service to. why don't you do something that isn't just making it worse? it may be not just the best way to lead, but it may be your only way to win. and obviously that's all you care about. it has to be because you're willing to lure people into these lurid maga madness masquerades, but i guess the fact that you're doing these rallies, the fact that you'd do them at all knowing what you know from your own family and from all the research and the experts who tell you you're doing the wrong thing, i guess you' you holding these rallies gives me my answer. that making a positive difference, surrendering the me to the we is not what you're about. you're about a war of attrition. you're about scorched earth. you're about everything and everyone else loses so you can

win. anybody who voices opposition, every institution, every truth, all of it, you'll tear it down if you think it elevates you in your own mind. sure, i'm a liar, but they all lie. sure, i'm bad, but he's bad too. you can't trust anybody, so you might as well trust me. sad. maybe sick. but it may also be successful, at least in your mind. how else can i explain to this audience that you decided to spit on our navy s.e.a.l. heroes who took out bin laden, that lunatic responsible for 9/11? the only closure so many in this nation got. for what? to prove to your base that you alone can be trusted? you pass around this b.s. from a conspiracy group that the fbi labels a potential domestic terror threat. a group that claims that you're going to save us from some cabal

of satan worshipping pedophiles and cannibals? i guess that's enough for you, right? it can't be all bad if they think that about you. this group claims bin laden is still alive. our government used a body double. and then you re-tweet that insanity, that insult? all the men, all the women, all the treasure, all the blood to find that fiend and take him out, to salvage the dignity of this country and the strong message that if you mess with us, you lose. you spit on that? tonight we have one of the s.e.a.l. team heroes. he's going to remind us of what heroism is. he's going to remind us of the reality because he lived it. he took the shots, and they landed. and he knows who he took down no matter what trump has to say about it. retired navy s.e.a.l. rob o'neill is here. and, look, he's no biden

supporter, and i don't care. i'm happy for him to support the president. my problem is why doesn't the president support him? i told you yesterday trumpery is not a joke. it's a word in the dictionary that means worthless nonsense. look it up. it derives from old english and french from a word meaning "to deceive." you cannot make it up. this is the truth. and the only remedy to this kind of deception is reality. so let's get after it. we got dr. ashish jha and david axelrod. we're going to talk pandemic and its cleaving into and conflating with the politics of the moment. dr. ashish jha, you know the map better than i. you give us guidance on how to understand it. how big a problem is a lack of new and adaptive strategies to deal with the continuing spread of the virus? >> so, chris, thank you for having me on. we have two sets of problems.

the federal government has largely given up. they have decided that this feels like there's nothing useful coming out of the white house at this point on the pandemic. and every state is on its own. and the problem is a lot of states are getting tired, and they don't -- they're not implementing the kind of plans that they need to. so i am getting more and more worried that we are heading into a fall and winter without a national plan and without the level of sort of state resolve. some states are doing it. i think new york is right up there as a state that's very focused. but too many states are letting their guard down. >> even if they're on their game, okay? and, again, i'm happy to get the call from my brother after this. they've got problems in zip codes in new york. he does not have the data the cdc has. he does not have the pocket that the federal government has to be throwing testing into different communities. it's up. it's up. they're doing more testing. i get it. but it's not always the right kind of testing for the right

situation. and there seems to have been no increase in our intelligence despite the months of additional experience. how should i understand that? >> yeah. look, no doubt about it. even the best states -- and i do think governor cuomo and the state of new york right now is a model for how we should be doing this. but our country wasn't designed for 50 different pandemic respons responses. it was designed with a single federal response with states being a central part of that. so i agree. like at the end of the day, states cannot do this alone. this is why we're at 215,000 deaths. but states can do a lot. and my general feeling is if the federal government is going to be absent, let's help states do as good of a job as they can. >> axe, the operative theory has to believe that the president believes this strategy is working for him. look at the size of the rallies. look at the numbers in the states that matter. people are resonating with the idea that, yeah, "f" covid.

look, he beat it. you know, these lefties, these democrats, these mushy heads in the media, they're afraid of all this stuff. not him. live through it, baby. can that win him the election? >> no, i don't think so. you know, he's responding to be in a big hole by digging deeper here, chris. and this is really a microcosm of what we've seen throughout this whole ordeal from the very beginning. he thinks that he can impose his version of events, his version of the truth, his version of fact on this virus just as he has imposed his version of the truth and facts on every problem that he's encountered in his life. but the fact is the virus is the virus. it is unimpressed by his effort to spin. and now people are paying a tremendous price for it. you know, it was striking to hear all these people as they have night after night say, i'm not afraid. i don't care. god will take care of me. but they're not just speaking about themselves here.

they are -- they become a threat to others who may not want to make that same decision and don't know that they're exposing themselves -- that these people are exposing themselves to this virus. but, no, i think that he looks at those crowds, and he does think they're a reflection of enthusiasm. but the reality is if you look at the data, he is digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole, and it seems like he is spiraling into sort of a mad finale here that's going to end badly for him. sadly, it's going to end badly for many americans too, who are impacted by this virus. >> suffolk county where i live in new york, you know, somebody has a sweet 16 party. 40 people get sick. now they're getting fined. but obviously the confidence to do something like that, it's going to have some kind of connection to the dialogue and the dynamic in this country, doc. then a study comes out that we're dying more and not just of covid. what do you make of this story? why are we dying more across the

board? >> yeah. so two things, chris. i mean first on the issue of that sweet 16 party that you mentioned, there is this sort of narrative settling in that if you have a gathering at your house, if you have a party at your house, if you know everybody who's coming to visit, it's safe. it's not. it's not. and that's where we're seeing a lot of spread happening across america is those house gatherings and parties. so people really have to be far more careful than they're being. in terms of the deaths, what we're seeing is now more and more data that the covid deaths that we have counted is surely an underestimate, that there are a lot of people who died in the last six months who probably almost surely died of covid. they died at home. they didn't get tested, and so the excess mortality we're seeing in our population is really striking and says that we've actually underestimated how bad this has been. >> this is like the same b.s. we dealt with in puerto rico, axe.

they were like, only a handful of people died. yeah, until you start taking into consideration who couldn't get to the hospital, who couldn't get their medicine, whose medicine went bad, who didn't get their treatments, who didn't go to dialysis, and like those deaths don't count. we just never frickin' learn, but we're in an election, so the people get to decide what path is going to make sense. thank you for being with me, fellas. barron trump, the president's youngest child, his son, tested positive as well. now he is fine, they say. melania trump says she's encouraging everyone to live their healthiest life. how can she even say that with what her husband is doing? i don't care about, oh, well, she has to do her own thing. if you can't get your husband to do what you're telling everybody else to do, why would they listen to you? now, is this really about her? no. it's about him. and i want to bring in his niece. not only is she a pedigreed

psychologist, but she knows the guy, and she knows the people who made him. and i want her to help us understand how his head can arrive at where he has all of us right now. mary trump, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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i told you at the top of the show president trump's youngest son, 14-year-old barron trump, also got coronavirus, we are told. the first lady wrote in an essay posted today, quote, luckily he's a strong teenager and exhibited no symptoms. in one way, i was glad the three of us went through this at the same time so we could take care of one another and spend time together. he has since tested negative. thank god for the kid. that's got to be a relief to his mother. now, let's be clear, though. the president wasn't with them. he was in the hospital getting experimental treatment and care that almost no one else can get. trump's wife goes on. i was very fortunate as my

diagnosis came with minimal symptoms though they hit me all at once and it seemed to be a roller coaster of symptoms in the days after. it was an unfamiliar feeling to me to be the patient instead of -- >> two things. god willing it stays that way. a lot of people had cases like that and then wind up getting long haul symptoms. god willing that doesn't happen, but mrs. trump, you should keep an eye on yourself. keep in close contact with the doctor. if anything doesn't feel right, stay in touch with them so you can somewhat track what's happening. now, the second problem is what she says doesn't add up. she wants to encourage other people to be healthy. start with your husband, okay? start at home with the "be better," all right? these maskless displays, these super spreader events, that's

how you got sick. that's how your kid got sick, and that's how your husband is making other people sick. and if you're going to speak up, then you've got to speak out. and you should start with him. ask there's no indication that that happens. he's holding these mass rallies, and you know it's wrong. so why does she say it, but more importantly, why does he do it? we didn't elect her. i want to bring in someone who knows personally where his mind takes him and his motivations, his niece mary trump, author of "too much and never enough." and just as much as the niece, she's a highly trained psychologist, and that's a nice combination to have in understanding anybody's family, let alone this one. mary, it's going to have you once again. >> thanks, chris. it's great to be here. >> so the normal mind says, well, listen, if i want to lead these people, i can't be not telling them to do the right things and then having them do the wrong things just because i want to feel good about myself. he comes to a different conclusion even after having

covid because? >> first of all, we can't apply logic or rational thought to anything donald does. that's not going to get us any answers. secondly, when i learned that he was ill, i was worried that he would get a mild case and/or recover quickly, not because i thought he needed to be sicker, but i think it would have been better if he hadn't gotten sick at all because this way, this worst-case scenario would allow him to emerge triumphant against this virus because he's such a tough guy, and he would then go on to tell other people that they don't need to worry about it, they don't need to be dominated by it, they don't need to be afraid of it. and interestingly, melania kind of echoed this in saying luckily

barron is a strong teenager. first of all, i am inexpressably relieved that my cousin is okay. but let's be honest. he was put into a dangerous situation by his parents, who have not been taking adequate precautions. and, secondly, children are dying from this very deadly virus. so the only thing i can say really about how donald is handling this is in order for him to course-correct when he realized that his initial way of dealing with it wasn't working would have been to admit that he was wrong. so he needed to double down by saying it wasn't that big a deal and it was just going to go away. and we see the results of that, and it's pretty devastating. >> is it odd that he didn't mention that his son had it? i mean ordinarily parents worry more about their kids, you know? and it's not like he's been that

private about his personal life. is there anything to that for you? >> yeah. unfortunately in my family -- and this started with my grandfather -- illness of any kind, whether it was a physical ailment or an addiction, was seen as weakness. and being weak, certainly in terms of, as my grandfather understood it, was unacceptable. so donald -- one, he doesn't want to be associated with covid at all even if it's somebody else having it. so there's no way that he would admit willingly that anybody in his family had it. and i continue to believe that if he had been asymptomatic, we probably would never have known that he had tested positive for it either. >> it's just interesting to hear how he said it. barron trump. barron trump had the corona -- he didn't know what to call it. instead of "my son." i thought that was weird. you know, i gave it to my wife

and my son, and i would have gladly put an icepick through my eye to have spared them. i'm the weak link in my family, but it changed me forever in terms of how i felt about myself in that moment, and i can't conceive of ever putting people at risk the way this president is doing no nonchalantly after what he learned from his own. why doesn't that natural kind of shame reflex take hold and be like, i got to learn this? you know, i can't -- i can't risk this after what just happened with me and my own. >> because he doesn't have that reflex. he would deny it as long as he could, and as you mentioned, he was lucky enough to have at his disposal world-class medical care and experimental drugs that are not available to practically anybody else on the planet.

so, you know, the idea that he would have shame or that he would learn from the experience is, you know -- it's not going to happen. and that's why we continue to be in this situation we're in because partially for donald trump, it's kind of a power play too. he's getting all of these people to show up. >> mm-hmm. >> to these rally, these super-spreader events. and that makes him feel powerful. it makes him feel invincible that he's out there on the trump again after having been ill. and, you know, putting people at risk doesn't matter to him if, i think you said this earlier, the crowds are still showing up because he thinks that's the metric that matters in terms of the election. as for the people who are showing up, you know, some of

them maybe are just taking a risk because they're irresponsible. but, you know, a lot of these people -- >> they believe him. >> right. >> they believe it's okay because he's saying it's okay. they parrot his own words. we had a woman at the rally last night say, hey, look, if he told me to wear the mask, i would. >> that's right. >> i don't know how he lives with that. here's the last question for you. if he is willing to do something that he knows is dangerous for these people's health, there's no way he believes that everybody will handle it the way he did. he knows better than that because he's on tape saying that people get sick and people die. so he knows. what does that tell us about what he is willing to do in the next three weeks? >> i think that tells us everything we need to know. but i will add one caveat. covid-19 is a very tricky, deadly disease about which we don't know that much still. so there's no way to know if the -- if he's over it, right?

we don't know what the course of his illness may continue to be. but that aside, he'll do anything. if he feels that it will help him out in the election to continue putting people at risk, continue to downplay the virus, continue in person to get people infected, he is going to do that, and my advice would be for people to stay away from him whenever possible. don't listen to him. listen to your doctors. listen to actual epidemiological experts. and, you know, just keep your heads down because it's going to get really, really bad if things continue to trend as badly for him as they are right now. >> mary trump, thanks for the memories. appreciate your insight into what's going on. i mean i honestly don't know what to say anymore, you know. i mean i know where you come from. i know your family. we grew up around some of the same people. you've got a great reputation.

it's just family's crazy enough until you then see it lived out on the national stage like this. so thank you for your insights. i'm sure there are other conversations you'd rather have. be well. >> thanks so much, chris. you too. >> all right. i mean seriously, what kind of mess are we in? and in terms of what they're willing to do, we know what he did to his niece, right? his own family. now we're going to turn to an estranged friend of the first lady. it's one thing that you have a falling out between friends, okay? the friend is volunteering to help her friend melania. things get sideways. that happens. but now trump is having the department of justice sue that friend, the author of a melania trump tell-all. federal suit. why? because they say you were supposed to keep quiet, and now that you didn't, it's a national concern. she's planning to fight back. how? why? next.

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i would expect to hear about your kids long before you, no matter what was going on with you. that's how most of us work. how am i supposed to understand that i didn't hear anything about their son being sick until now? >> well, i'm -- you know, i'm glad that they're feeling better obviously. i have to say the way that you handled your experience and that you shared with all of us, i think helped everyone understand how catastrophic this is, and it touches all lives. melania's first instinct is to always keep a distance and to keep that steel wall barrier around her. i think this was an opportunity for her to show that empathetic side, to connect to the american people, to share her experience because no one's been able to connect in any way with her or donald. and this was a missed opportunity of our reality.

so, again, as much as they have incredible health care, unlike the rest of us, you know, there's over 215,000 people dead because of this. and unfortunately they did not learn a thing from this. >> now, she says in this essay, hey, you know, i'm glad we could take care of one another. that's an important message right now. i'm not used to being the patient. i'm used to telling people you've got to be healthy, you've got to take care of one another. how does she separate the power of that message and the need for it with the fact that her husband is a constant counterbalance? i mean why does she think that she has the position to tell other people the right way to be when she can't even get her husband to do it the right way? in fact, he is actively doing it the wrong way. >> because she doesn't do it the right way either. i mean she can do a psa and wear a mask and tell you that everyone should wear a mask. but the next day she's visiting a school without a mask on. i mean it's the same

contradiction. they're hypocritical. it doesn't make any sense. >> so the way she said in that tape that who cares about the christmas blank, you could fill in that with who cares about the covid blank? >> you know what, chris? i think it's a juxtaposition, right? we're supposed to look at the two of them and feel that melania is the softer side of donald. the reality and the fact is that she's not. she's just like donald, and it's unfortunate because we are in the middle of a crisis where we do need a voice of a first lady to come out and to help, you know, children and women. and, again, as mary was saying, mental health issues are of utmost importance. and, again, the first lady can say a lot, but it's the actions that speak louder than words. and right now there are none except donald dancing in the middle of the crowd, you know, making a fool of himself and the rest of the country when people around him are dying. >> now, not to get ahead of the audience, you have to read stephanie's book, and you'll understand why she's on tv right now.

i know stephanie is not somebody that is looked at as a disloyal friend unless she's been thrown under the bus. and if you read the book, you'll understand that that's exactly what put her in the position. you would never see her on tv talking about anybody else. i promise you that. but now not only is it about who did who wrong and how it exposed you to scrutiny, you have the department of justice saying that your decision to write the book betrayed secrecy in a way that creates a national interest for the department of justice to sue you. what do you make of that? >> look, the department of justice has turned into the trumps' own police force unfortunately. i expected nothing less from them. i didn't expect for them to waste taxpayers' money, you know, coming after me in regards to my personal relationship with melania over 15 years. little -- you know, i think that they've opened a pandora's box in reference to this contract,

and so there's a lot still to be discovered. but it's just -- it's so unfortunate that this is, again, law and order, you know, again according to donald trump, which is actually a racist term, is something that he should not be doing right now. >> why aren't you concerned about legal exposure? you did sign documents when you decided to volunteer and help out and be an adviser. why do you feel that you didn't breach any contract? >> so here's the thing. when i worked starting november 8th for melania and the presidential inauguration committee, i signed an nda for the presidential inaugural committee. i didn't sign an nda with melania from november 8th, 2016, until august 22nd, 2017. and in that time period, a lot of what is in the book is what's exposed. now, in addition to that, the things that i did talk about, i worked with a first amendment lawyer and a pre-publishing lawyer very carefully to make sure that i wasn't breaking any of my confidentiality

agreements, which ended, by the way, chris, when my contract was terminated, when i was severed from the white house. so in addition to that, the lawsuit has so many claims in it that are false, that weren't covered by the nda. so we'll see what happens. >> we'll be watching it. >> but i'm coming full speed ahead. >> i hear you. and as i've promised from the beginning, when i start a story, i don't stop covering it until it's over. you will have opportunities here to discuss it every step along the way. you deserve that because certainly the trumps will have a big platform to make their own case. stephanie winston wolkoff, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> be well. >> thank you. all right. now, this is heavy, okay? this is not joking around. this is not left and right. this is reasonable. this is all of us, okay? we know what bin laden meant to this country. we know how much pain there was, how much fear and how much hurt. and we know how hard it was to get him and how many men and women put their lives on the line and bled for that. imagine being part of that raid,

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attacking the heroism of the men and women that he leads. this conspiracy theory garbage that he decided to retweet is not me showing you. why? because the facts are not in doubt. osama bin laden was killed may 1st, 2011, by u.s. special forces in an early-morning raid in pakistan. one person who knows, firsthand,

is someone who was there. former navy s.e.a.l. rob o'neill. thank you for your service. >> thank you for having me, chris. it's great to be on your show. >> please, understand that i do not have you here to question the events of that night or what led up to it. but let the american people know that -- that mission could have gone sideways easy and almost did. what is the reality about the men who protect us made sure happen that night? >> well, the first thing i want to say is that every man that was on that mission, to include the aircrew and the pilots, are all alive. we all went in there, we all kissed our kids good-bye expecting death because of what happened on 9/11, and we were willing to do it. and right now, seeing conspiracy theories thrown around, due to politics, it's almost like -- it's an insult to real people because our brothers at s.e.a.l.

team 6, they were shot down in august. but just by doing this stuff on the internet and making such light of something like this, you're really trampling on graves of some of the best heroes i've ever, personally, worked with. and it's just a shame that we've gotten there because of politics. >> is it okay that you have to take one for the president? to help him make the case that you really can't trust anything, these days, you can just trust me. even that s.e.a.l. team stuff with bin laden, who knows if that happened? >> well, the thing is, he can go over to the cia, anytime, where there is a file cabinet with a picture of bin laden's head in a picture and i'm in the picture. also, in jalalabad, the first place we stopped across the border and realized we were going to live. and then, when we took him to bagram. so the letter agencies smarter than me could do all the tests.

president obama was waiting for the confirmation, how many people were left in the house. and for people to say that, you know, we flew -- on the way back, we realized the dna was wrong, we flew into the mountains. or speaking of conspiracy, my favorite is hillary clinton sends some missiles through qatar to keep us quiet. if there was some conspiracy with a body double, then they would have shot us down as we were flying up. none of the guys that were killed were on -- on the bin laden raid. and just the way that it spins politically. i, personally, like to use twitter for entertainment a lot. this is not the time for it. >> by the way, what you put out was funny. osama bin johnson. funny. it was funny. and you get to joke about it, absolutely. you are a hero. you put yourself out there. and you did something a lot of people thought would never get done, especially the way they were hiding him.

but the president knows the truth. this isn't about going over to the cia. it's about a campaign, where he wants people to feel confident that the only confidence they can have is in him. and everything else they think they know, they should doubt, even if it means making you guys look bad. and that's what he did, chief. left, right, that's reasonable. >> i -- you know, a lot of people reached out to me today and said i hope you're doing okay. and i said this is actually comical because, if you have the truth, you're going to be fine. and i have never lied about this mission, once. but i started getting texts from guys on the bin laden mission going, holy crap, i didn't know we were dead. what'd you do in there? all that stuff. i talked to a number of guys that were on the ground that night. and again, turning this political -- this is a mission. it's been brought up, before, by the president. there are other people. abu bakr al baghdadi.

90% of our people couldn't pick out abu bakr al baghdadi in a lineup. show anyone in the world a picture of osama bin laden, they know who he is. to make it -- if any time to release the photos is now. >> well, again, look. the truth isn't in dispute. you are a biden fan. you believe this president's done good things. and i would never keep you off the show because of any political opinion you have. you are always welcome here because you're a hero. but do you want the president to know this is not something to play with? leave you guys and the deeds you do for this country and its democracy out of the politics? >> i appreciate you saying that and thank you. i'll come back, anytime. but it's one thing for a wacko to be a conspiracy theorist but just to be retweeted by the highest-ranking person in the country. maybe, i'm a biden fan. maybe, i'm a trump fan. but i tell everyone i'm an american. and then, we had -- i mean, we

had the people on flight 93, the first americans to fight al qaeda. and what's so awesome about that is they took a vote. we're going to vote to fight. so there is a lot more -- you know, just our entire western ideology here. and i think it's bigger than a retweet. >> well, chief rob o'neill. the president often watches and he is almost always told about what's on the show. i hope he hears and knows that some things have to be kept clean. and what you guys do for us and keeping us free, and going after the people who want to take our freedom has to be appreciated. and it is certainly appreciated here, and always will be. sir, thank you for your service. >> thank you for having me. appreciate it. >> god bless and be well. all right. nothing sacred. when nothing's sacred, things get scary fast. okay? a trump doj investigation just reported it yielded nothing. okay. so that's good, right? no, it's bad. why? because, what they were

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