and good -- if you are wondering what it looks like when the white house truly goes all out to get something done, here is the result. the confirmation vote on amy coney barrett's nomination to be the newest member of the supreme court. truly, sparing no effort focusing on the goal achieving it. if all goes as expected, judge barrett will be sworn in tonight at the white house. yes, you heard that right. the white house, the site of her nomination/superspreader event last month. o oh, and the site of a new covid cluster as well. at least five people close to vice president pence now have the virus, including his chief of staff and two sources tell us his so-called body man. which only underscores how, even what his supporters might see as a triumph by the president is affected literally in this case by his greatest and most consequential failure.

new coronavirus infections are now averaging close to 70,000 a day, and that figure is rising. as you can see, the number of people sick enough to need hospital care has been climbing as well. and if you look at a map of the country, you will see there is not one single state in which case numbers are dropping. 13 states are holding steady. 37 show rising infections. 6 show them spiking by 50% or more. it's a picture of failure, and you might think it would result in a call to action. but there isn't any such call by the president, not even -- he's not even talking about making an effort. instead, at one potential superspreader event, after another, he is modeling the most dangerous and selfish kind of behavior imaginable. and saying things like this, just today. >> and we're rounding the turn. you know, all they want to talk about is covid. by the way, on november 4th, you won't be hearing so much about it. covid. covid. covid. they think they're going to inflict harm in bad numbers. our numbers are so good. our comeback numbers are the best in the world.

>> unclear whether he was referring to virus numbers or economic figures because he muddled them both together in the moments surrounding that clip. but neither is true. he is, again, trying to gaslight everybody. which brings us to white house chief of staff mark meadows, who took a different tact, he said the quiet part out loud to jake tapper yesterday. >> so, here's what we have to do. we're not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics, and other mitigation. >> why? >> because it is a contagious virus, just like the flu. >> yeah. but why not make efforts to contain it? >> well, we are making efforts to contain it. >> by running all over the country, not wearing a mask? that's what the vice president's doing. >> jake, the back and forth. let me just say this is what we need to do is make sure that we have the proper mitigation factors. whether it's therapies or vaccines or treatments. to make sure that people don't die from this. >> we're not going to control the pandemic, he said, yesterday

morning. now, here's what he said today. i won't indulge him by using traditional washington speak and say he tried to walk it back. that's bs. what he did is, first, mock mask wearing. and then, lie repeatedly. >> the only person waving a white flag along with this white mask is joe biden. i mean, when we look at this, we're going to defeat the virus. we're -- we're not going to control it. we will try to contain it, as best we can. and if you look at full context of what i was talking about is -- is we need to make sure that we have therapeutics and vaccines. so, any suggestion that we're waving the red flag -- i mean, the white flag, is certainly not in keeping with this president. you know him. he doesn't give up. and he's not going to give up until all americans are safe and we've defeated this virus. >> he doesn't give up with superspreader events. and he doesn't give up mocking masks and encouraging people not to wear them. not really to social distance. keeping him honest. what mark meadows said there is

just not the case. you notice, there is no evidence the white house is really trying to defeat this virus. he said they can't control the virus. he now says, oh, they'll contain it with the therapeutics and the vaccine. but the vaccine is not going to end the virus. the therapeutics will treat people who already have it, hopefully. he wi will get more effective treatments. that's what we all want, of course. but there are ways to contain the virus that the white house doesn't talk about. that mark meadows, there, doesn't talk about, because he knows the president doesn't believe it. the president doesn't do it. wearing a mask. distancing. pushing scientists to come up with a vaccine and treatments. that's a way to contain the virus. for -- to -- to stop the spread of the virus. but another way is encouraging mask wearing and distancing. it would, also, help defeat the virus or contain the virus to have a national testing and tracing policy and aid for states to hire contact tracers. there is no sign the president even takes his own covid task force seriously, anymore, if he

ever did. except, that is, for one member, radiologist, scott atlas, who is not an expert on pandemics at all. and the president, who likes to undermine confidence in everyone and everything, except for him and himself and, perhaps, his daughter, ivanka, is now targeting doctors in this country and claiming the covid death tolls are fake. >> you know, some countries, they report differently. if somebody's sick with a heart problem and they die of covid, they say they died of a heart problem. if somebody's terminally ill with cancer and they have covid, we report 'em and, you know, doctors get more money and hospitals get more money. think of this incentive. >> not only is that not true, it is just such a punch in the gut or a slap in the face, or however you want to term it, to anyone who has been working grueling shifts trying to save people's lives. to doctors and nurses and technicians and lab techs. people who've been holding dying

people's hands. the hands of strangers because their own loved ones aren't allowed to be in the same room while they're dying. some doctors and nurses and medical personnel are even being laid off. far from making more money, doctors, nurses, and staff, in some areas, are losing their jobs because hospitals can no longer do the kind of elective procedures that keep them afloat. so, no, what the president said is worse than not true. and so is this. as all those truly essential workers are dealing with this new surge, the vice president is now flouting the recommendations of his own task force, under the guise of being an essential worker. the vice president is campaigning, today. apparently, that's an essential job of the vice president. he's not quarantining, which is what anyone should do with five close contacts infected with covid, including, reportedly, his body man or close, personal assistant. the white house says pence is, quote, essential personnel. essential to what? he's the vice president.

he was, once, the head of the task force but that seems to have been abandoned or relegated to a meaningless job, now. that doesn't seem essential to anyone in the white house, anymore. that whole task force. mike pence. the former head of the task force is now, himself, modeling dangerous behavior, as he and the boss he's so proud to serve keep holding dangerous, mass gatherings in one hot spot after another. it's just complete recklessness. and make no mistake. they are dangerous. not for mike pence or the president because, as you know, the president has said, he's far away from the crowd. but it's all those people that don't have the health insurance mike pence and the president have. officials in minnesota, today, said they have not linked three outbreaks to three separate campaign rallies, including this one in duluth, in which the president, himself, might have already been infected. it's the one hope hicks got sick on the flight home from. three rallies. three outbreaks. and the white house no longer even pretending they are trying to keep the virus under control. and that's with the limited contact tracing that's being

done in this country. there's -- contact tracing isn't being done for a lot of these. there's just too many cases. states don't have the resources. don't have the organization to do it. we'll go to cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house, shortly. but first, the senate has just voted to confirm amy coney barrett's nomination to the supreme court. phil mattingly joins us at the capitol. >> the gavel just dropped, 52-48. amy coney barrett is now or will soon be sworn in as an associate justice for the supreme court in the united states of america. it is a cornerstone achievement for the trump administration. it is a cornerstone achievement for senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. the republican leader who's now ushered in, over the course of the last three and a half years, more than 220 judicial nominations, including three supreme court justices. anderson, those three supreme court justices have now tilted the court in a conservative favor. amy coney barrett has been confirmed by the united states senate. all republicans except for one,

senator susan collins, voting for the nomination. collins joining every single democrat, including senator kamala harris, to vote no. collins making clear she was voting no on procedural and process grounds, not the nominee, herself. but anderson, all that's left now before being seated on the court is to be sworn in, in just a short time. >> kaitlan, what more are you learning about what's taking place at the white house tonight? >> well, anderson, they are eager to celebrate that confirmation phil's talking about. they want to tout this in the days leading up to the election. of course, you're going to see them hosting the celebration out there on the saugt lawn tonigou. we know that cabinet members have been invited, as well as lawmakers and other officials in the administration, as well as allies of this administration. and you are going to see justice clarence thomas swearing amy coney barrett in. as phil noted, that is the last step left. and of course, we should note this comes exactly one month

after the white house held a similar celebration, when the president announced he was going to be picking amy coney barrett to be on the supreme court. >> and any word on the setup? i mean, i don't know. social distancing? are people told to wear masks? are they encouraged? are there masks available for people to wear? >> the white house is telling us that masks are going to be required. the question is we've seen that before so do they actually keep them on while they're at the event? because before, they've come through security. they keep the mask on then. and then, they take it off when they get on the south lawn. two things will be different than the last event they held for barrett, soon-to-be justice barrett. there is going to be social distancing. the chairs on the south lawn. we have seen them. they are spaced out from one another and of course it's on the south lawn, not in the rose garden like that last event. but they are not testing every single person who comes to this event. and by my count, looking at a picture my photographer just sent me, there's at least over a hundred chairs on the south lawn. and so, they say they are only going to be testing people who come into contact with the president. and, of course, anderson, you

remember chris christie said that was one of the reasons he was lulled into this false sense of security at the last event because he thought everyone around him had been tested and people were not wearing masks. they were not social distancing. they were shaking hands. they were hugging. so we will see in they actually change their behavior given how many cases ever coronavirus were later tied to that event. >> why are they not testing people coming to the white house? i mean, why not. >> >> they only test the people they say who come into contact with president trump. they don't really say why they don't test every single person who walks in the door. but that could be a precaution the white house could take. but that's something that really is not a changed protocol since the outbreaks we have seen at the white house. they've been doing that and testing people who come into contact with the president, they say. of course, remember, they also said they were testing the president on a daily basis and we later learned that was not true. >> kaitlan collins, thanks very much. perspective now from cnn chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. our cnn medical analyst and former baltimore health

commissioner, dr. leana wen. and john king. dr. wen, you were very candid last month. potential superspreader event, which could have been, turned out to be. as we wait for this event at the white house to begin tonight, i mean, the white house, masks are going to be mandatory and there will be social distancing. but as we saw before, there have been mandatory before and once you get in, people take them off. >> yeah. and, anderson, i just cannot believe that this event is taking place at the white house today. i mean, there are active outbreaks that are ongoing at the white house. the white house, itself, is a hotbed of infection. if this were a business or a school and they had this many cases linked to it in recent weeks, it would be shut down. there would be case investigations that are going on, until practices could be changed. and that's not what's happening. so i really worry about the individuals who are going to be there. i worry about the people they'll come into contact with. but i, also, worry about the

message this is sending the american people, too. i mean, we are on the verge of exponential spread, here, in the u.s. we're asking people not to see their loved ones, and not to have social gatherings. how is it that the white house can have this kind of event today? >> yeah. and, sanjay, i mean, the vice president came in direct contact with at least one person who's sick. he's disregarding cdc guidelines. refusing to quarantine. claiming he's an essential worker. i mean, is that what the cdc had in mind? i kind of thought they meant doctors and nurses and frontline workers, firefighters, police officers, grocery store workers, et cetera. >> all the people who keep the country running and take great risk to do so. no, i don't think that's what they had in mind, at all, anderson. i mean, he -- he -- he would not be considered an essential worker, by the cdc's criteria. one thing to keep in mind, as leana was just talking about, that previous rose garden event which turned into a superspreader event. there was always this concern

vice president pence had close contact with people who were then, subsequently, diagnosed with covid. at that point, they said he didn't need to be quarantined because remember, at that point, close contact was defined as at least having had 15 minutes of close contact with somebody, within six feet. his doctor said he did not meet that -- those criteria. now, as you note, the criteria have changed, you know, even since that time, that rose garden event. saying it can be a cumulative sort of exposure of 15 minutes over a 24-hour period. and obviously, the vice president has had that, as so many member of his staff have been infected. but let me show you. the definition of essential worker, critical-infrastructure worker, basically has to do with carrying out responsibilities that protect and preserve national security and public health. now, interestingly enough, what he's doing, you know, not to sound too ironic here but what he is doing is probably the opposite of that. to your point, anderson. it's not preserving public health. i mean, he may be a source of actual spread, here. negative test, which he's had,

we're told, does not -- does not, basically, say for certain that you could not still be carrying this. you could test positive, the next day after you ever test've negative. so he should be quarantined. he knows that. the doctors around him know that. as leana said, many people in the same position would be in quarantine right now. >> yeah. john, seems like vice president's essential work would be chairing the coronavirus task force in some emergency meetings or something, as opposed to out campaigning. so, the decision, john, to have him defy the administration's own recommendations, certainly plays well with trump's base, i suppose. does it help them with, you know, undecided, moderate voters, that the campaign would still like to attract in the next week? >> there is absolutely zero evidence that it does. dr. wen and dr. gupta make the very important, critical points about this. but if you want to make the political point, this is why kamala harris, senator harris, came off the road for four days

because two people around her, in her orbit, tested positive. so she followed the guidelines and did virptual events. the vice president could do virtual events but the president wants him out there. tough it out. president says i got covid. i'm good. jared kushner said earlier today, most of the cases are benign. most people in america don't have access and care to the doctors the president and vice president have. but, anderson, remember. the president of the united states said, everybody calm down. we have 15 cases. we will soon be down to zero. testing is fine. don't worry about it. that was exactly eight months ago, today. from the beginning to now, they have defied the science, defied the facts, and defied the recommendations of that i ever o their own people. as dr. wen just said, the cdc is telling us do not go back home for thanksgiving. don't do that. it's dangerous. it's risky. the president's inviting people on to the south lawn, steps away from what was a superspreader. >> dr. wen, you wrote mark

meadows' statement isn't going to control the pandemic can be summarized with one word, surrender. i mean, the fact that he -- he -- he meant to say, you know, we're going to try to contain it. you know, looking at therapeutics and -- and vaccines. he doesn't mention masks. he doesn't mention distancing. he doesn't mention all the things that are something that all americans can do. and we know will save tens of thousands of lives just in the next couple of months. >> that's right. the trump administration has been pushing out this false choice between shutting everything down, being locked in a basement for months. versus, literally, doing nothing. and that is a false choice because we know that there are simple actions that we can be taking that other countries have successfully implemented. that we, in this country, have done, too, with great effect. including wear masks, practicing social distancing, avoiding crowds. we can do these things. we have a very narrow window of opportunity, right now. and it's just heartbreaking that

we know what needs to be done, but the administration is meeting this public-health moment with a shrug. and history is going to look at this decision with shock and horror. >> yeah. sanjay, dr. leana wen, john, thanks so much. we're going to go back to kaitlan collins, just a bit, when they let her on the lawn so she can see up close. john king is going to stick around because we want to go to the magic wall to talk about pennsylvania, which is obviously an incredibly important battleground state. whether president trump sees an opening there despite being down in the polls. made three stops in the commonwealth today. then, joe biden scheduled one at the last minute this afternoon. what does that tell us about how the campaigns view pennsylvania? later, they are public figures and they're supposed to be public servants. so, why is ivanka trump and jared kushner threatening legal action over a billboard? accusing them of doing a lousy job against covid? details, ahead. red. if you still have symptoms of crohn's disease

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so explain why both candidates are now focused on pennsylvania. >> joe biden wins it there, he is leading now, he thinks he blocks it. let's discuss pennsylvania now. the president had three rallies in one state. that is out of the question, usually, in the final week of a campaign. why did the president do that? because he is getting shellacked. 70%. doesn't mean all those democrats voted for joe biden but we know from polling, most of them did. the president is getting whooped in the early voting. he is there trying to find new voters and turn them out. here is one way to look at it. this poll from elections research at the university of wisconsin came out today. shows joe biden winning pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. all those states carry bied by president trump four years ago. early votes, it says joe biden has a lead of 78 points. this is not rocket science. if you have a 78-point lead,

now, you need a whole lot of people to turn out. if you are winning 21% to make that up. most pollsters think the math isn't there. we'll see. but the president's losing. that's why he spent three stops in one state. he is losing badly right now. >> what other key states are you looking at? >> so let's take a couple quick things we look at. again, we will use the 2016 map as our template because we're heading into the very final week. first, nationally, i often say at this point of the campaign, stop watching the national polls, right? but joe biden has a ten-point lead in our poll of polls so this is significant. four years ago, it was five points, right? you you'd rather be ten than five to be simple. but ten states here on this graphic. all, carried by president trump four years ago. he leads in only by a tiny margin in two of the ten, ohio and texas. joe biden comfortably, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. looks like he is leading in arizona. competitive but he's ahead in arizona. >> wasn't hillary clinton, though, ahead in a lot of these same states?

>> yeah, she was. i can show you a couple of those. let's look at pennsylvania, florida, and north carolina. you're right. you're right. this is why democrats get nervous about these things. in north carolina, joe biden's up three. hillary clinton was up four, at this point, four years ago. in pennsylvania, joe biden's lead is bigger. you are absolutely right. the pollsters say this race is different. remember, donald trump is the incumbent. if you go deep into the polls, white, blue-collar workers, gender gap and everything else. but this is a different map. deep in the polls is different but, yes, democrats are nervous. but make no mistake, it's advantage, biden. >> john, stay with us. we want to bring in cnn political director david chalian and abby phillip. david, what do you think -- talk about this comparison to clinton. with this many days left, was it that she was ahead in pennsylvania? >> she was. he's ahead by a little bit more.

>> close enough. close enough, trump would say. democrats say it's different. >> so, david, why did she lose pennsylvania if she was ahead five points with this little to go? >> i mean, she rolost pennsylvaa because donald trump was able to go into rural territory, into that t across pennsylvania, and drive up turnout, especially among white, non-college educated voters, like a mitt romney did when he lost that state. >> so the trump campaign clearly believes that joe biden's, you know, talk about fracking and oil that, that is an opportunity in that area in pennsylvania. >> they do. and -- and here's the thing. john just said he made three stops in pennsylvania today because he needs it, right? and here's, also, a difference if you want to look at 2016. when you look at where they're traveling, right, joe biden popped up in pennsylvania today, briefly, because i don't think he wanted the headlines that he

was off the trail entirely when president trump was campaigning aggressively all day. but he did and he's been to pennsylvania more than anywhere else because of the proximity to delaware. he's also announced that he is going to wisconsin. now, that is something hillary clinton did not do. so while joe biden is clearly going to places like georgia and iowa to try to expand the map. he's also not forgetting that he has to, still, work those great lake states that are going to be the thing, if he keeps them, if he makes them blue again, to prevent donald trump from a second term. >> yeah, abby, wasn't there a lot of talk in 2016 about hillary clinton expanding the map, too? i mean, weren't they playing in states they didn't normally play in? >> yeah. i think they wanted to actually play in the same way that i think democrats are eyeing georgia and texas, and even north carolina, four years ago. but the biggest difference between now and four years ago was that there was a tightening of the polls in the final days of the campaign four years ago. there was a late shift. and some of these late deciders broke for trump.

that might be the biggest difference between four years ago and -- and today is that there is not as much evidence that there is a late-breaking shift underway. if there is any momentum for the president, it is small. but the -- the trump campaign doesn't have many options out there. they really do have to work with a map where they have a lot of holes that they've got to plug. the most important of them is, probably, in pennsylvania where, maybe, they have a chance to kind of tighten those polls. they've got to try. and so, these rallies are just massive turnout machines for their campaign. it's one of the last resorts they have, at this stage. >> and john, to people who say, you know, in the ballot box, they decide to vote differently. >> so assume there is a small percentage of that, right? assume, maybe it's a point. maybe, it's two, depending on the state we are talking about. that's why that ten-point national lead matters so much. it just does. i know it's a different race.

i know we lived through 2016 and trump came back. but this is just a different map, anderson. yes, there are some of those people. but, look. we lean arizona joe biden's way. wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, leaning his way. yes, we had them leaning that way four years ago. but we studied more deeply, the pollsters have learned, data people have learned. they are looking at this all the more closely. let's assume there is a secret trump vote out there, right? and so, i showed you those states that were close, like florida, like north carolina. with biden ahead, let's assume he wins them all. if donald trump carries all the toss-up states we have on our map, ohio, north carolina, georgia, florida, holds texas. all conceivable. he won them four years ago. even if he did that, he would be 22 short. which again, if you are joe biden, as david just noted, first, you protect. you are leading in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. if you are protecting and you're confident about that, you have this huge fundraising advantage, you can take a little bit of time to test. he's going to texas.

texas? really? democrats say the early voting is off the charts. go for it. he's going to iowa. a state that leans republican but also has a key senate race. yes, the clinton people get haunted by this. he's also going to georgia. she did that. but as david noted a key point, he's also going to wisconsin. he's not ignoring this to test that. we have a week left. it's going to be fun. >> and, john, the events that the president is sholdinholding know, people who believe covid exists and are concerned about covid and believe social distancing and believe the scientists will look at those and say this seems incredibly reckless. and is emblematic of the president's recklessness on this issue. his supporters say, you know, he is estrostrong in the -- in the of a life-threatening illness and he is immune. do these work? do these kind of big rallies work for him? >> the polling tells you -- i talk to a half dozen republican pollsters and campaign managers. people involved in the other key

races, not the presidential race, they see a little movement on the margins toward the president. so, they go off late in the campaign. then, come back and say i'm a republican, i got to do it, and they vote for him. they do not see any fundamental shift. and we know in from the polling, it's the number one issue in the campaign. the president's own illness made his poll numbers worse. the case numbers are going through the roof right now. the most inconvenient truth to this president is covid is surging to new heights. not just heights but new heights. smashing records at a time he says it's over. we have turned the corner. no, there's nothing in the data. his only chance is to bring more new voters than most people think is possible out of the woodwork with these rallies. who's at a trump rally? not an independent. they're true believers. >> john king, fascinating with the map. thank you so much. abby, david chalian as well. coming up next, one of president trump's go-to attack lines but with a new twist. attacking kamala harris over her

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helping neighborhood businesses survive. scott wiener will never stop working until california emerges from this crisis. the bay area needs scott's continued leadership in sacramento. because we know scott is fighting for all of us. re-elect scott wiener for state senate. president trump's campaign speeches these last few days and weeks have included some rather unsubtle attacks against vice presidential nominee, kamala harris. for instance, going so far as to attack her for being a woman. >> biden's running mate, the most liberal member of the united states senate. and by the way, kamala will not be your first female president. she will not be your first female president. it's not the way it's supposed

to be. we're not supposed to have a socialist. look. we're not going to be a socialist nation. we're not going to have a socialist president. especially, a female, socialist president. we're not going to have it. we're not going to put up with it. >> now, keeping him honest. harris is not a socialist, although that's not really the point of the attack. quoting the president who appeared to be laughing as he said it, we're not going to have a socialist president, especially a female, socialist president. you may have also recognized something he did in that clip that's become popular among both the president and his allies, be it senator david perdue of georgia, and that's to mispronounce her first name. >> by the way, you know who's further left than crazy bernie? kamala. kamala. kamala. biden even chose as his running mate the most liberal senator in america. kamala. kamala. senator kamala harris is a sponsor of the socialist, green

new deal. biden's running mate. kamala harris. you pronounce her name wrong, she goes crazy. kamala, like a comma. the biden/harris kamala. you like kamala? >> obviously, not something he's done just once or twice. it's like kindergarten. remember? everyone used to make fun of other people's names. happens again and again and again. much like how, to this day, he still emphasizes president obama's middle name, hussein. perspective now from congresswoman sheila jackson lee of texas. congresswoman, when you hear these comments about not going to have a socialist president, especially a female, socialist president. the whole, you know, name mispronouncing intentionally. what's your reaction? >> well, thank you, first of all, anderson, for having me. desperate people do desperate things, in desperate times. unfortunately, the american people are facing desperate times with covid-19. but this president is in desperate times. the inner circle of his administration are suffering

from covid-19-positive tests, including the chief of staff of the vice president. the nation, as joe biden has said, is not living with covid-19, they are dying with covid-19. so, what you do is you use mockery and sarcastic humor. and you don't recognize the storied and history of senator kamala harris. we know her history. we know the successes, anderson, that she has had. she is an outstanding lawyer, a proficient and compassionate prosecutor, and as well, a successful elected official who secured many victories as attorney general for the state of california. that's who we know her to be, and a patriotic american. >> the president made one of those comments just minutes after pleading for suburban women to love him, which is something he does at almost every rally, lately, it seems. it's -- i mean, there's such a disconnect. this whole idea of, you know,

literally, pleading for suburban women to, you know, who he often has termed suburban housewives, to love him. and then, going after a prominent, female candidate, using her gender against her. i mean, it -- it -- it very much -- i don't know that it -- what he thinks it gets him. >> well, add to that, anderson, a woman of color. descendent, if you will, of indian heritage, indian-american heritage, and african-american. her father was a professor at stanford. her mother was a cancer researcher. and they raised their daughters. the mother raised their daughters, beloved mother, raised their daughters, myra and herself to be success stories. but what stuns me is how kind the biden-harris campaign has been. and that is, we are reminded of the remarks coming out of a trailer in the 2016 election. some of us still remember

17-plus women who challenged this president for baseless, basic sexual assaults or comments. so i don't know why he thinks he can go to a space that insults a woman of color. and as well, tries to get suburban women, who are collectively bright, energetic, and caring about their family, and role models for their children, to love him. because, as he speaks ill about senator harris, kamala harris, he speaks ill about women and we hear it. and it is a loud siren across this nation. and first of all, i think, as we move into this election, we've seen more women come out. but we've, also, seen women express their viewpoints on wanting a real covid-19 plan. making sure that they have insurance for pre-existing conditions. so, he's not speaking to any of our issues. and now, he wants to take us on with mockery, with humor, and

it's not funny. >> i want to play something senator harris told 60 minutes in an interview last night when asked if she views these attacks from the president as racist. >> well, this is not the first time in my life i've been called names. and it, you know, it was predictable, sadly. >> do you think the president is racist? >> yes, i do. yeah, i do. >> you know, again, this comes the last week's debate, the president calling himself the least racist person in that room. you know, or around, i guess. >> well, one thing about vice presidential nominee harris is a very honest person. she said it before and i am proud of her for saying what so many of us have said. but she is the vice presidential nominee. and what we want is someone who is fair and factual. and she is factual. he is racist. and there are too many listings of action, you know.

we could call the roll and i know you know them. from new york, making sure that individuals that were black did not get to rent his properties. not wanting a black man to count his moneys in his atlantic casinos, which don't exist anymore. and i was on virtual with the african community, african-americans, and i mean african-americans from africa, and they know that he called their continent s-hole countries. he's taken after african-american women, members, of congress. you know, we are all women. whether we're latinx, whether we're white women, whether we are southeast asian, whether we're african-american. and we have a kindred spirit together, and we find this particularly offensive. and i don't know who he thinks he is being attractive to, or whose votes he is trying to go after. but in actuality, the vice presidential nominee was very accurate. he is racist.

and to ask the question or to answer a question that he is the least racist person in the room is so offensive because all of the platitudes and the make-believe issues that he says he's done. that is destroyed by saying that good sides -- good people on both sides in charlottesville. and never having the capacity to condemn white racism, white nationalists, at all. >> yeah. >> and it's very sad. and as i said, desperate people do desperate things during desperate times. >> congresswoman sheila jackson lee, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> just ahead. more on that white house celebration of amy coney barrett's confirmation as at least five top aides to the vice president test positive for the coronavirus. are we turning our cameras on for this? my smile can't compete. anyone? mmm. nope! for a smile that's always camera -ready. crest 3d white removes 95% of stains in just 3 days.

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californians for safety and justice. and the california democratic party. they all agree that the size of your wallet shouldn't determine whether or not you're in jail. so, vote yes on prop 25. . i want to check back in at the white house and our breaking news this evening where amy coney barrett is expected to be sworn in any moment, giving the conservatives a 6-3 majority on the court. back with us, kaitlan collins. kaitlan, describe the scene. who's in attendance and is there social distancing? >> reporter: this is probably the first time at a white house event where you've actually seen the chairs are spaced out on the lawn. this is not what it looked like at the republican convention or other events we've been at out here. there are also people wearing masks. it seems like most people are though we should note we have seen a few people not wearing one. moist of the attendees standing

behind me are wearing them. that is something the white house said was going to be required but we were still questionable about whether or not they'd actually keep them on because at other events you've seen people come in in a mask and not keep it on while they're here. the chairs, there's about 200 of them. they're a little bit spaced out, but there are about 200 chairs out here. on the other side you've got a band playing. you can see the pageantry behind me as they're getting ready to have this swearing in for amy coney barrett. seeing this event, seeing amy coney barrett here is just going to remind people of the event that they had just exactly a month ago today where of course so many cases were later tied to that event where people were not wearing masks in the rose garden, a more constrained area, and also of course not social distancing at that event either, anderson. >> you mentioned earlier not everyone there was tested. it's obviously a pretty, i would j ma, highfalutin crowd in terms of folks from capitol hill and

stuff. why wouldn't everybody get tested? >> reporter: it's not clear because it's a lot of white house officials, a lot of trump allies, republican lawmakers of course are invited though several have said they're not coming. people like senator ted cruz, which is kind of notable since it is supposed to be such a big cornerstone event for the administration. >> i just saw -- i think i just saw ted cruz. >> reporter: did you see ted cruz? >> well, there was a guy wearing -- he was wearing a big texas mask. i think it was ted cruz. i think we were just looking at him seated. >> reporter: yeah, we'll double check because earlier we had heard he wasn't coming and some of the republican lawmakers. one big question is the vice president mike pence going to come since he did not go to preside over that event -- >> sorry. i think that's ted cruz if i'm not wrong, yeah, that is ted cruz, so he did show up. kaitlan, i appreciate it. thanks very much. as all of this has been happening, the conservatives on the supreme court have issued a new decision on mail-in voting

deadlines in wisconsin. five conservatives say t-- last week in a similar case involving pennsylvania's deadline, roberts sided with the liberals on the court. here with his analysis is a cnn election law analyst and constitutional law professor at nyu. he's also a former clerk for justice thurgood marshall. wisconsin obviously a key battleground state. how significant is this, and why is this different than the ruling that we saw last week? >> so in terms of its significance for wisconsin, we have yet to see. we will have to see how many people vote in that six-day window that will now mean their votes are invalid. the biden campaign has been very conservative about this ballot deadline issue. they have been educatiing their voters to get those ballots back by election day regardless of these court decisions. so we'll have to see what the consequence is or isn't in wisconsin. in terms of the law, these are

very significant opinions. the most significant opinion the court has written since the april primaries in wisconsin. up until now, the court has been issuing stays or vacating stays, but it hasn't written opinions. this is a 35-page opinion, four justices writing, laying out their views on the law that will have implications for voting rights going forward well past this election. >> but does it applies to -- there are challenges in a number of states. does it apply now -- is this case law? does it apply now precedent? does this apply to other states or was it because in wisconsin it was a federal court, a lower federal court ruling as opposed to a state court ruling? >> well, i think we've known from a number of the actions the court has taken that it was not going to uphold the extension by federal courts of these ballot deadlines. that's the pattern over a number of these cases. this result was anticipated to the extent any of these still come to the court before the election.

i think it's clear the court's not going to permit lower federal courts to extend the election deadline for receipt of absentee ballots. >> and was that the rationale the court decided on, that the majority decided on? >> part of what's fascinating here is the last time they faced a similar issue, they were 4-4. no one wrote. this one 5-3. whose vote changed? chief justice roberts. what does he say? a kind of enigmatic paragraph that just says the action of the lower court, the district court, was improper. that doesn't tell you exactly what the legal reason was. there are opinions from other justices who tell us too expansive a reading of the right to vote, too late in the day for a district court to change state election law, and state legislatures -- and this is a very big issue for the future. only state legislatures can regulate national elections, including the presidential election, not state courts, not state constitutions, not federal courts, maybe not governors.

that's what justice gorsuch and justice kavanaugh were prepared to endorse today. >> all right. the bottom line is people should check in their own states about when they have to get ballots in or drop them off directly. appreciate it. thanks very much. next, the battle over billboards in times square, bim boards the president's daughter and son-in-law do not like. 133 million americans have pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma. this administration and senate republicans want to overturn laws requiring insurance companies

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york city's times square and you'll see jared kushner and ivanka trump smiling down at you. but the couple isn't happy about that. the billboards featuring them are the work of the lincoln project, a group of republicans fiercely opposed to donald trump and his re-election. the billboards went up just days before election day. >> if you're going to mess with the generals and the opposing army, do so on the eve of battle. >> reporter: that's how the lincoln project sees this, as warfare. the image of ivanka was taken from a tweet she posted back in july posting the goya brand. but instead of a can of beans, the billboard shows her smiling next to the growing death count of new yorkers and those around the country from coronavirus. kushner's adjacent billboard includes what looks like body bags under a quote that reads "new yorkers are going to suffer, and that's their problem." that quote is from a september "vanity fair" article citing an unnamed person who claimed kushner said it while criticizing new york's governor for his response