see either way. >> brynn gingras, thanks for the latest on that story. it all ends here. join us for specialized coverage as only cnn can bring it to you. from the first critical votes, can you understand what's happening in your state and across the country. that is election night in america. special coverage at 2:00 in the afternoon at 4:eastern. i'm brianna keilar. we're picking up coverage on countdown to election day right now. special addition of "outfront" next. two days to go, a frenzy of activity in key starts as we're learning the trump campaign plans to be very aggressive on election night preparing to declare victory if trump is close to 270 electoral votes but still shy. plus global security experts issuing a warning about a bitterly divided america, about danger in coming days. cities across this country

preparing for possible unrest in the wake of the election. the doctor on the coronavirus task force who has the most influence over the president apologizing tonight for an interview with a russian propaganda network. what he said in the interview was absolutely bizarre. let's go outfront. good evening, i'm erin burnett, welcome to a special edition of "outfront." tonight the final stretch. the campaign trail, candidates going into the night as they close in on the finish line. joe biden wrapping up his second event in pennsylvania. the president in north carolina right now. this is his third rally today. he still has two more to go in georgia and florida. these are all crucial swing states tonight. he has got to win these states. with just 48 hours until the first polls close, stakes could not be higher. here the final argument this sunday. >> they want to close down your factories, ship your jobs to china, eliminate private health care, destroy the suburbs.

they want to abolish oil, coal, natural gas and send your state into a -- you know what's going to happen here? you'll have a depression. the biden/harris, a war on workers, faith, police, to defend your god-given right -- >> abolishing suburbs, gas, coal, war on workers, faith, police. biden's message on the other hand starkly different. >> we cannot afford four more years of anger, hate, and division that we've seen under this president. i'm running as a proud democrat but i will govern as an american president for everybody. i will work as hard for those who don't support me as those who do support me. i mean it. that's the job of a president. >> so where the candidates are

spending their final hours says everything. today biden going all in on pennsylvania, even making an unplanned stop on the streets of philadelphia about an hour ago. it comes as cnn is learning trump's campaign plans to be aggressive election night. they say they are prepared to declare victory if trump is close to 270 electoral votes but hasn't been confirmed or announced as the winner, which, of course, would break with all precedents. just a short time ago biden responding. >> my response is the president is not going to steal this election. >> and we have a team of reporters on the ground and across the country. we'll be going to them the next two hours. polls are closing. jcpoa king standing by at the magic wall. start with kaitlan collins who is with the president in north carolina. we heard a little bit of a clip there. what was the president's closing message as you heard it today? >> well, basically a

distillation of what they have been saying for weeks, laying this groundwork to have doubt on the vote on tuesday if it doesn't come out in the president's favor. so you saw the president, he just got off the plane. he's literally about to make it to the helicopter. he says he's in the going to declare victory early but made it clear he's displeased with the supreme court rulings about allowing those ballots being mailed in legitimately to be counted in the election. he talked about the supreme court decision. he said as soon as the election is over, they are going to go in with attorneys. you can see the president is preparing to mount this aggressive fight to push back on what they see as an illegitimate vote. it is not an illegitimate vote. it is people legitimately casting ballots by mail as the mail comes in it's going to take a little bit longer, of course, because we are in a pandemic. >> all right. thank you very much. kaitlan. i want to go to jessica dean

with the biden campaign, which means she's in philadelphia. going all in. >> that's exactly right, erin. he's on stage speaking to a drive-in rally in philadelphia. he, jill biden, kamala harris and her husband will fan out all across the state of pennsylvania, one extra trip for biden in the morning. their focus on pennsylvania tells you everything you need to know about where it plays into their strategy. it is absolutely critical they believe in getting 270 and beyond. a biden aide telling cnn pennsylvania is really representative of the coalition they are seeking to build. that looks like suburban women voters. black and latino voters. white working voters, union households. can you find that all here in the state of pennsylvania. they really want to be getting their message out to all the voters in these closing hours as

biden is doing today here in philadelphia. as you mentioned he's been around this area all day today speaking with voters here. if you remember back in 2016, president trump won the commonwealth of pennsylvania by just some 44,000 votes. so the biden campaign very focused on making sure that all of their voters get to the polls, erin, make sure their vote is counted. they are hoping here in pennsylvania and in other states as well to not just turn out their base but to expand it. >> absolutely. thank you very much, jessica. certainly that's the strategy there. let's go to john king at the magic wall. john, when you look at pennsylvania, joe biden wants to win pennsylvania. he would probably like to if he wins, win before pennsylvania gets all its numbers together, right, which is not going to be on election day most likely. you've got a lot of new battleground polls out. in these key swing states what do they show? >> let's walk through the polls and then run through scenarios. let's look at them in the context of the 2016 map.

that's what it's about. here is how donald trump won. can joe biden change it enough to take the white house away. west to east, a new poll in arizona. 4 point biden lead. if biden can start turning trump states blue, he's on a path to victory. we'll have to wait for arizona. record turnout so far. biden hopes so, 50-46, you're in play. back east. north carolina has a lot of attention today. our new poll there joe on the top, a six-point lead. that's comfortable. the trump campaign thinks they can surge. that's what tuesday is about. you see biden there. the blue wall, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin. these are interesting in the sense that in michigan we have trump up double digits, 12 points. that's a blow to the president. 12 points. more importantly donald trump at 50, incumbent president at 41. erin, you know this well, voters don't break late for an incumbent.

41%. see if he can change that number there. trump says it will overcome the polls. questions them and says overcome with turnout. in wisconsin eight-point lead for the president. pennsylvania. let me close there. other polls, one in florida showing biden up that much, another trump that much. welcome to florida, always a battleground. pennsylvania new polls, "washington post" abc poll biden plus seven. "new york times," biden plus six. average them out in cnn poll of polls, biden plus six. there as reason they are all there. we can do the math if you like. those 20 could be critical. joe biden is poised -- you look at the polls. he's poised for a big win, an opportunity for a big win. can he close the deal? he's in pennsylvania just in case he doesn't close it in north carolina, florida, georgia, doesn't close the deal there, maybe pennsylvania. >> that's the thing. autos got multiple paths, if he wins those states, most of which

count their ballots early, we may know the results early on. if you're waiting for pennsylvania, that means a lot of those states haven't gone the way biden thought they would go. as you say an insurance policy. thir teen events t-- thirteen e pennsylvania. >> nothing subtle. making it crystal clear. the president there for four rallies. both campaigns being career about 20 votes. this is the president's map from four years ago. let's go through this. the opportunity for joe biden, he's leading in those polls, close in those polls, if it breaks to the challenger in the end, some do, 2018 below late for democrats in the midterms. 2016 broke late for trump. if it breaks late joe biden can do something rather spectacular, which is redo the manipulator, flip arizona, north carolina, flip florida, probably this congressional district in maine. most of the polls show him leading there. you bring that up. now you're looking at

congressional district in nebraska. you're looking at the possibility of joe biden getting 330, that's if everything breaks his way late. what if it doesn't. let's go back to where we were. what if the president holds texas, holds arizona, holds iowa, holds ohio, pulls out narrow wins in florida and north carolina. what's the problem here? joe biden needs to pick up wins. let's assume that comfortable lead holes. let's assume that holds. gets back michigan and wisconsin, 280-258. winner of pennsylvania is them the next president of the united states. if joe biden can get it he wins. if donald trump holds it, go back to red, got to switch here. every now and then you have to touch the right button. conceivably pennsylvania. both making it clear. trump there four times yesterday, biden there trying to touch every voter he can. >> thank you very much. figuratively in the era of cnn, a. thank you very much. john will be with us for special

courage tonight. next a white house official now claiming the president's trusted coronavirus adviser was not cleared to do an interview with a russian propaganda outlet. hear his apology tonight for where he said it but not what he said. plus postal service taking more time than usual to deliver ballots in crucial swing states which includes pennsylvania. attorney general for keystone state responds. an unprecedented warning from global security experts. they are tonight warning of unfamiliar danger in the days ahead. the former director of the cia, john brennan responds. i am robert strickler. i've been involved in communications in the media for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen. it has helped me an awful lot.

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propaganda outlet, formally dubbed as such by the united states government, atlas's interview was filled with statements like this. >> will go down as an epic failure of public policy by people who refused to accept they were wrong. the public health leadership have failed egregiously and they are tilling people with their fear-inducing shutdown policies. >> up front now, david chalian our pretty cal director, senior political analyst, usa columnist and william haseltine former professor at harvard medical school who did pioneering work on hiv and aids. let me ask you, dr. hazeltine. you heard what dr. atlas said, a propaganda outlet with a country that engaged in those same shutdown policies. what's your response to what the

president's chief adviser on the coronavirus is saying? >> well, first of all, we should criticize what he said, not only where he said it. what he said is a policy that could double, triple the number of people every day in the united states, from 100,000 to 200,000 plus. ultimately it could lead to more than a million or more americans dying. it is a disastrous policy. for him to criticize public health officials is really outrageous. let's remember, as you pointed out, he was speaking to a country which has a universal mask mandate, where the president of that country has not seen another human being who hasn't been tested and then isolated for 14 days and only then seen very few people. it's a country where at least the leader understands what's going on and has now issued a universal mask mandate. this is a disastrous policy. for the president to be following this advice, rather than the advice of his trusted

advisers and national institutes of health and cdc is appalling, to say the least. >> david, we get this, dr. atlas came out later and said i did not know it was a russian propaganda outlet, so i'm sorry i did the interview. i want to make the distinction. no apology for anything that was said within it. but, again, i didn't know. this is a white house so neurotically controlled where dr. fauci appears, does interviews and dr. at last by accident appears on russia today. >> strains credibility a little bit. to your point, is what he said. when dr. fauci gave his interview to the "washington post" saturday night and is really concerned it's scott atlas day in and day out. that rt interview didn't exist yet. that had to do with scott atlas's point of view. it's not terribly surprising

what he said to rt. it sounds very familiar if you've listened to the president over the last several months. it is clearly this radiologist with though expertise in epidemiology is the one that has the president's ear on how to deal with the coronavirus. i would just add i think the american people are opt it because look how they rate the handling of the coronavirus. >> you see that. kirstin, he mentions "the washington post". this comment before the interview with russia today came out with the comments. he said of dr. atlas, i have real problems with that guy. he's a smart guy talking about thing i believe he doesn't have any real insight or knowledge or experience in. he keeps talking about things when you dissect it out and parse it out, it doesn't make any since. that came on this program when the president was holding a live rally and said people should wear a mask if they can't social

distancing. if they are, it's not a problem. model like that and so many like that. the president at this point, kirsten, has made his bed and only one other person in it with the coronavirus, and that's scott atlas. >> the question is which direction does the information flow? i think that scott atlas was chosen precisely because he doesn't have any expertise, because he's somebody who is a doctor. he's not the right kind of doctor. he's not the kind of doctor that would actually be an expert on the pandemic, on infectious diseases, on any of the things he's talking about. since he is a doctor, he'll go out and basically do the bidding of the president and say what the president wants him to say. that seems to be his role. he says things that don't make any sense, at odds with the

science, concerning at a minimum. i think that's by design. >> pretty stunning. you're talking to someone, neuroradiology with an incredible resume to be saying things he said, it defies cre t credulity. senior vice president task force praised the president's action through the pandemic to choose three days before the election to play politics. he has never praised president trump's handling of the coronavirus, he's praised his team, nor pledged to a political party. they are going all out on, by the way, a guy the president called an idiot in the last six weeks. >> it's the sixth time it's been

trump or the white house versus fauci. that statement, it's just rather absurd on its face. people clearly playing politics is the white house. they are trying to put anthony fauci with a political frame around this long serving medical expert and infectious diseases through many presidents of both parties. they are trying to make him a political figure so they have an enemy somehow, political enemy, to push against on the issue that's dominating the president's chances of re-election. clearly not dr. fauci you read "the washington post," it's the white house trying to politicize fauci to rally their own support. >> people should think about what it means. dr. fauci said for certain he doesn't care who is president, he wants to stay on and do his job. if president trump is re-elected, what will happen to dr. fauci and who will be running this. we can see a very significant change in the policy here.

professor haseltine, have you known dr. fauci for decades. i know he's a close, personal friend. what's your response to this, the way they are attacking him, but also what might happen to him. >> the first thing i'll say, i know him as a friend. for the last 35 years we've worked together. i know of no person less political than tony fauci. he's a servant of the american people. he has dedicated to six presidents, including the highest award ever given to an american, the american medal of freedom he has received. he's an american patriot. more than that, he would never deviate from the science. i want to go back to something else, though, we've been talking about, which is scott atlas. people like president trump pick the people who agree with their politi politics. it's like mbeki of south africa picking an aids denyer, denying

aids. this is not only murderous, people die. in america hundreds of thousands of americans might tie because of this advice, just like in south africa they died because mbeki decided to pick somebody who was way out of the mainstream and believed hiv didn't cause the disease. believing masks don't work, social distancing won't work, promote the idea of herd immunity is a recipe for real disaster. that's what we're looking at if this continues. >> thank you all very much. next voters in key states facing major thrace when it comes to getting mail-in ballots on time. there are laws. if it isn't in by election day in some states it doesn't count. a mail delay can mean disenfranchisement. what's going on? fbi investigating trump supporters trying to run a biden campaign bus off the road in

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does not believe that all ballots should count. >> we need every single one of you to get out a vote on tuesday. my message is simple. pennsylvania is critical in this election. >> everyone knows what happens in philadelphia. you don't have to say it. but i've read about it for years. i don't think it's fair that we have to wait a long period of time after the election. if people wanted to get their ballots in, they should have gotten their ballots in long before that. >> okay. this comes as the u.s. postal service says for the third day in a row fewer mail-in ballots are expected to be delivered to election officials on time. only 62% in parts of pennsylvania. let's go to philadelphia, sarah is there. are officials there concerned about the possibility that mail-in ballots may in the be delivered on time, which would, of course, mean those people, their votes will not count?

>> you know, i think they are concerned about all of these potential issues about mail delays and rhetoric we have heard from the president and other republicans about the validity of ballots in this november 3rd time frame. that's why we've heard officials say owe and over again you should not be waiting to vote. if you do not have your mail-in vote, go to your local elections office and vote on the spot. if you have one on your kitchen counter, turn it into a dropbox. you should not put it in the mail and hope it arrives by election day. they are concerned and aware there are still these outstanding legal inside that arrive between november 3rd and november 6th and that it's always possible the supreme court could intervene. they keep saying that in their press conferences. they keep saying, look, there's no reason to not hand your ballot in now or show up and vote on election day. they don't want to have a huge pot of these ballots sitting around they have to contend with and they know could be subject

to legal issues. it's worth noting they are planning on segregating out these ballots that arrive late, between the 3rd and the 6th. i think the hope there, erin, is you keep the pot of ballots smaller that could potentially be contingent to some of these challenges and lawsuits if more of them arise. >> of course the whole country hopes whatever the victory is the margin doesn't involve all of that because it will possibly be quite ugly. thank you very much. let's go to democratic attorney general josh shapiro. attorney general, so much to ask you about. let me start with this, this issue of the postal service. 62% of mail-in ballots in pennsylvania are moving quote, unquote, on time. it's you said 90% for the rest of your state. how concerning is this to you? do you have any feel right now for how many ballots may not count because of this? >> well, here is what i have a feel for. 3.1 million pennsylvanians requested mail-in ballots.

2.4 million have been returned as of a couple days ago. i think we're going to see that number grow when all of the new data is uploaded tomorrow. people are getting their ballots back. if you still have a ballot, we want you to drop it off at the dropbox. as for concern with the postal service, you'll recall i led the national lawsuit against postal service because of the illegal changes louis dejoy made, which ultimately slowed down the mail. much of those changes have been rolled out. we saw an independent monitor at the postal service actually verify the changes were mead. we're concerned about it. right now what we want voters to do if they still have this ballot, make sure you drop it off in a dropbox. >> just to go through the numbers here. this is what you're trafficking in. the margin of victory in your state last time around presidential election was 44,000 votes. 3.1 million, we'll see how many vote on election day, 3.1 million request for absentees, 2.4 returns. that leaves you with 700,000

outstanding. 700 is a lot greater than 44. simple math. how many do you think you'll get after election day. i know you don't have a crystal ball. 700 is a huge number. i imagine you don't think it will be anything close to that, or do you? >> erin, remember, the ballots from this weekend haven't been uploaded into that 2.4 number. you'll have a much more accurate number tomorrow when it gets updated. in addition to that, ballots that are mailed prior to election day or prior to the polls closing on election day can be received up until friday at 5:00 p.m. and they will still be counted. >> okay. so tell me how this counting works. if this comes down to pennsylvania, there's all these details, intricate details across the country that everyone is going to focus on. for example, states that allow ballots -- to they start counting on election day or the morning after election day? these things make a difference. when you start counting, how long does it take for you to

count those ballots? are we looking at days and days and days, or do you think you would know quite quickly the day after the election? >> great question. 67 complaints. each county is permitted to begin opening up mail-in ballots. it's 7:00 in the morning on election day, tuesday november 3rd. some of them will be able to get through the count quick. others more populated counties, it will take that day well into the night, into the next day. here is what you will know, though, in the early morning hours of wednesday after the election. you're going to have all the precinct vote, roughly 60% or so of the total votes, and you're going to have a pretty good sense of the trends of where those mail-in ballots are going per county. so while you certainly won't have a final number until days after, which is not new, that's the way it works with military, overseas ballots, what have you, you're going to have a pretty good sense of the trends where it's heading by the early morning hours of wednesday. >> that is really important.

i know it doesn't mean that's the way it will go but those trends are extremely important in light of what a senior adviser is telling our jim acosta. he says the trump campaigns plans to be aggressive on election night, the attorney general and is prepared to tulare a victory if the president does not have 270 electoral votes. they are saying if it's clear. there's a the lo of ways to interpret this. some of them are pretty scary. it is, of course, unprecedented to do this in any case. what you're saying is these trends are going to be clear. >> i think we're going to have a good sense of the trends. let me come back to jim acosta's reporting what the president is apparently gearing up to say. first off we know that the president talks a lot. i think what is clear after four years is all bark and no bite. i think what is also clear from our constitution, erin, is it's not the president that picks the president, it's the people that pick the president. so donald trump can get out there and say whatever the hell

he wants on election night, but the only thing that matters is when we counted up all the legal eligible votes in pennsylvania and other states and what people have said, what the will of the people is. as the attorney general of pennsylvania, i will protect the will of the people. i could care less what donald trump says, we will count these ballots in a proper way to be certified. >> attorney general shapiro, thank you for your time. thanks for laying this out. so helpful. >> good to be with you. up next, police preparing for violence after the election as they issue a warning about unrest. former director of the cia is "outfront." for trump the road to the white house does run through michigan. so who has the momentum? we'll take you there live. here's to the duers. to all the people who realize they can du more with less asthma thanks to dupixent, the add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma.

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america faces, quote, unfamiliar danger in the days ahead. the report going on to say that the american people, quote, have not in living memory faced the realistic prospect that the in couple bept may reje -- incumbent. >> undaunted, my fight against enemies at home and abroad author. dr. brennan, what's your reaction to this? do you think this is a fair characterization of where we are, real prospect the incumbent might reject the outcome or armed violence might result. >> unfortunately, erin, i think both of those are accurate statements. we've never had someone in the oval office that has fueled this type of hatred in our country and fueled the activities that are taking place when we see the attempted kidnapping of michigan governor gretchen whitmer as well as aggressive actions on the roads by these trump

caravans. donald trump doesn't necessarily not condemn them but seems to be fueling that type of aggressive behavior. also clear indications he is not prepared to accept an election outcome that has joe biden as the victor. so the group is exactly right. we've never had somebody in the oval office in the united states who refuses to accept what will be a free and fair and hopefully open election. >> i don't know if you just heard the attorney general from pennsylvania but he was referring to -- talking about the president's reporting tonight that the president could be very aggressive and declare victory before reaching 270 electoral college votes if they felt confident. obviously that's not the way this has ever gone before. they wait for the formal announcement of this election. that may or may not come on election night. it could come way after. his response is that this president was all bark and no

bite. he didn't want to feel concerned about it. when you hear that reporting, be very aggressive and declare victory before reaching 270, what do you say? >> well, i am very concerned because the president has enormous powers not just in terms of what he says but what he can do. what he can do as far as launching the department of justice across the country to investigate some of these things. also what he says publicly has resonance in this country. i don't agree he's all bark and no bite because he does try to bite. hearing the words of attorney general shapiro gives me confidence we have people like him of great integrity who is going to do everything possible to protect the will of the american people, which is to elect the person they want to be their president. so donald trump i think is going to put up many challenges, legal challenges, rhetorical challenges and wield the powers of the office. but i am confident that our system is going to prevail over

donald trump. >> i want to play for you a moment you referenced, which is what happened in texas yesterday with the joe biden campaign bus. it was then surrounded by trump supporters on a highway that were -- they were saying it was an attempt to run it off the road. there was appear awkward moment. people on the bus describe being quite rattled. here is how the president described the incident earlier today. >> you see the way our people, you know, they were protecting his bus yesterday, because they are nice. >> so he was playing to it and everyone there laughing and cheering. >> well, i don't know how any american can believe what comes out of donald trump's mouth. it's one lie after another. yes, there are violent activists on both ends of the political spectrum, on the right and on the left, but i've never heard joe biden encourage that type of aggression and violence. donald trump, yes. he continues to give these

violent actors a pass. i think as we get closer to tuesday and in the aftermath of tuesday, you're going to hear that same type of rhetoric coming out of donald trump that really does insight people to take action including violent actions. >> all right. director brennan, i very much appreciate your time. thank you. >> thanks, erin. next biden trying to flip michigan back to blue. how confident are his supporters it can actually be done? we're live on the ground. president trump trying to sow more doubts about the election. i'm going to talk to a top republican election lawyer who said there's no evidence to support trump's claims about voter fraud. want to brain better?

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>> hello, michigan. >> reporter: both candidates making their play for every vote in the great lake state. >> three days to put an end to a presidency that has divided this nation. three days, we can put an end to a presidency that has failed to protect this nation. >> reporter: in detroit biden got an assist from a motown icon. >> we must vote justice in and injustice out. >> reporter: biden making three michigan stops in one day with his former boss. >> this tuesday, everything is on the line. our jobs are on the line. health care is on the line. whether we get this pandemic under control is on the line. >> reporter: donald trump won

here in 2016 by 10,704 votes. a week from election day, he's returned three times. >> before i became president, the great state of michigan was hemorrhaging your car companies and your car businesses. and thanks to current politicians like joe biden -- >> reporter: the president's in michigan just as coronavirus cases hit their highest level ever. in a first, barely mentioned the pandemic. he did mock his rival, joe biden -- >> sleepy joe, you sleepy guy. >> reporter: complained about the weather and made an open appeal for african-american votes. >> to every black american, i'm asking you for your vote, i'm asking you to send a message to the corrupt democrat establishment and it is corrupt. we welcome you to the republican party. >> reporter: cnn's most recent michigan poll has joe biden at

53%, donald trump at 41%. the undecideds just 3%. compare that to this time in 2016. an poll showing a tightening race, clinton at 42% and clinton at 38%, but a huge amount of undecided votes. 13% still didn't know who would get their vote. democrats still shocked over 2016 put little faith in polls. >> you think the polls are correct? >> i hope so. i have a lot of anxiety over this. i'm hoping it is. i'm trying to keep some positive thinking and i think the turnout is a lot stronger this year than last year. >> reporter: trump supporters who braved nearly freezing temperatures for hours to see the president think the polls have it wrong again. >> there's so much spirit behind donald trump and there are so many people that will not come out and talk about it and say they're supporters because

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♪ welcome back to a special edition of "outfront." 48 hours from now, several more states close their polls and tonight a frenzy of activity. the president wrapping up his third rally moments ago. he's still headed two more spots tonight. joe biden is focusing on pennsylvania and making a third stop on the streets of philadelphia. >> folks, in two days we can put an end to a president who has failed to protect this nation. in two days, we could put an end to a presidency that fanned the flames of hate. >> they'll terminate your school choice, eliminate your charter schools, defund religious schools, ban prayer in schools, indoctrine nate your children anti-american lives and force

you to subsidize extreme late-term abortion. >> okay. that comes as the president is sowing more doubt about the election's integrity. >> i think it's a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. i think it's a terrible thing when people are -- states are allowed to tabulate ballots for a long period of time after the election is over. because it can only lead to one thing and that's very bad. you know what that thing is, i think it's a very dangerous, terrible thing. and i think it's terrible when we can't know the results of an election the night of the election in a modern-day age of computer. i think it's a terrible thing. >> of course we don't know when we'll know. i think we should make it clear, just on the facts of that, right, places that have done mail-in balloting, the military, it's been the case that those ballots could come in after election day and be counted,

there's stamps and proof of when they're sent. there's no reason that it would any way indicate fraud. we shouldn't have to say such a thing, but it does bear saying. it comes as a senior campaign adviser tells jim acosta that the president plans to be aggressive on election night. if he's close to the 270 electoral votes but doesn't have them or has been declared a formal winner. >> my response is the president is not going to steal this election. >> our reporters are fanned out across the country tonight. jim acosta is in georgia where the president will be arriving shortly, jessica dean is with joe biden. let me start with you, jim, and what you're learning about the president's strategy for declaring victory on election night. >> reporter: i think you started off perfectly there, just a few moments ago. the trump campaign is planning to be very aggressive on

election night, talked to a trump campaign adviser earlier this afternoon who said, if the president is close to the 270 votes needed to clinch this election, they may -- stress, may, not will, may declare victory at that point because they don't want to drag this thing out, let this thing drag out for weeks and weeks. the advisers cited the case of bush v. gore in the year of 2000 when that battle went on for weeks and weeks and weeks. the president was asked about this by white house pool reporters. he said that's not the case. he's not going to be declaring victory on tuesday night if he's close but has not clinched the 270-vote threshold. but the president also said that as soon as the election results start coming in, they're going to send in the lawyers, quote send in the lawyers, and on tom of that, he complained about how long this ballot-counting process may take. as you were saying a few moments ago, the president is claiming

he's not going to declare victory prematurely on election night. he's already complaining about the ballot-counting process. the other thing we should point out, obviously, the president of the united states does not get to declare the winner or victor of tuesday night's election. that's determined by state election authorities all across the country and so we'll be waiting those returns to come in. the other thing that should be pointed out and stressed, erin, as we're standing in georgia for this rally coming up in a few moments, the fact that the president is campaigning in georgia, a bright red state, this close to the election, highlights some of the insecurity that's going on inside of the campaign. i've talked to multiple advisers, associates of the campaign, republican officials, republicans close to the white house, tahey're saying that the president has to come from behind. he's the clear underdog and is facing long odds in terms of overtaking joe biden. one final thing, as we've seen time and again, no social

distancing, hardly any trump supporters wearing masks, another potential superspreader, erin. >> thank you, very much, jim. let's go to jessica dean with the biden campaign. pennsylvania, pennsylvania. he is -- quite a different strategy. spending time in a state that he really wants to win and may indeed need to win but is a bit more of an insurance policy at this point to that campaign. >> reporter: right, erin, they're all about pennsylvania as evidenced by the former vice president being here all day today and tomorrow, vice president biden, his wife jill biden, his running mate, senator kamala harris and his husband all fanning out across the state of pennsylvania to all of the different corners. the campaign really, as you alluded to, finds this absolutely critical to their strategy. and you heard from joe biden, his response to those reports about president trump's words about election night, kamala

harris saying that they want an overwhelming victory on election night. they want to leave no room for doubts. they're spreading out in pennsylvania as we close in on the final hours. biden campaign telling us they see pennsylvania as representative of the broader coalition that they're seeking to build all across the country in order to get joe biden elected. that looks a lot like pennsylvania looks. it's black and latino voters, suburban women, working white-class voters, union households. people who voted for president trump in 2016, maybe giving him a chance because they voted democratic in 2012 and are willing to vote for joe biden this time around. they want to take their base and turn it out to the max. that's why you see them here in philadelphia where they really want to run up the score here in pennsylvania. but, erin, they're looking to expand it and capture some of the voters that maybe president trump captured last time. remember, he only won this state

by about 44,000 votes in 2016. >> all right. thank you very much, jessica dean. let's go to michael smerconish, and abby phillip and ben ginsberg. michael, we've got the senior campaign adviser telling jim acosta that the president may declare a victory before he has victory, right, if he's close but not yet at 270 electoral votes, which, of course, would deeply break with precedent and be possibly hugely problematic. the president gets asked about it on air force one moments after words, denies it, says he won't do it, but adds, we'll look at what happens. what he's doing here? >> so pennsylvania for donald trump may earn its nickname as the keystone state on tuesday night. but maybe not. because don't forget, we may know the outcome in florida, in

georgia, north carolina, and ohio. he needs to run all of those states. so pennsylvania only becomes critical if the president can win those four and others and now it comes down to pennsylvania and as you've been explaining quite well, the likelihood is we're not going to know who wins pennsylvania on tuesday night because those mail-in ballots cannot be processed until 7:00 a.m. on tuesday. that's not counting -- they can't be counted until 8:00 p.m. on tuesday. you have seven counties that say we're not going to do it until wednesday. it sets up a situation that we've been discussing here where this red mirage may appear on tuesday night suggesting donald trump is doing better in pennsylvania than he actually is and you may not know the outcome until all of the mail-in ballots are indeed counted. it sounds like he's seeking to take advantage of that. what people need to know is this, it will take a while to

count the ballots but not because of fraud. everybody needs to keep their powder dry. >> that's the thing. you got to count them and you got to have your paper trail and count them right. that's what matters. the trump adviser was citing the 2000 bush v. gore election as the reason they would be aggressive. the idea being, whoever grabs the first, you got to take the ball away from the person. it's hard to undo it once someone announces a campaign. when you hear this rhetoric being thrown out right now, what do you think? >> nobody talked about doing that before the election. the reality of what happened in florida is that the results on election night where most of the ballots were counted was improbably close and that starts a chain and a process. yeah, it took a long time to do, but that's the way the state laws required that it could be

done. so talking about this now seems to be a questionable strategy. even if you were going to do it, why would you talk about it before the election? >> it's a question for both campaigns in the sense if the trends are very clear, do one or both try to declare victory beforehand? is everyone going to wait days until an announcement? these are real questions. if the president goes ahead and declares victory when there's still a question mark, you heard the former director of the cia say his words has resonance as the president. what impact could it have? >> i think it's had a corrosive impact on the confidence the american people have in the process and in the system. one of the reasons that what president trump is doing is different from what we have historically seen is he's implying that ballots that are count a certain -- or that are cast a certain way by mail are less legitimate than other kinds of ballots and shouldn't be

counted after a certain time. i don't think there's any kind of precedent for that kind of broad strokes of a statement from the president and i think that's what makes it so problematic. yes, both the biden and trump campaigns are going to have to decide how they're going to approach this, but there's one campaign that's making a claim that a certain type of ballot is less valid than other kinds of ballots. the biden campaign is not doing that. they want every vote to count and the trump campaign should want that too. their voters are also casting ballots by mail. we're already seeing both sides of this debate really preparing to -- they're preparing for the worst in this kind of situation when the president really has a role and a responsibility to tamp down the anxiety around this and urge people to just simply have patience until all of the ballots are counted. >> which are all great points. and, michael, you raised the point that there's a lot that's going to happen earlier. when you look at states like

texas or states like florida, they are counting. when their polls close, their early ballots, unlike those in pennsylvania which don't start being counted until after the election, have already been counted. we're going to get a sense earlier on in the evening as to how close this race may be, right? >> and i think florida, in particular, especially because of the way in which their mail-in vote gets tabulated -- no matter what gets said on tuesday night -- and i don't mean to minimize it, that may impact the court of public opinion. but nothing that the president could say on tuesday night is going to stop the process. in the end, i believe the rule of law is going to prevail and no matter what he says tuesday night, in pennsylvania, i can tell you, they'll continue to follow the law and count those ballots and there will be a victor declared. it might not be immediate. >> ben, what about what we're doing to see in terms of challenges, possibly? today the texas supreme court

denied a republican attempt to inval invalidate more than 120,000 ballots. what do you make of all the challenges? are these all legitimate? >> i don't think most of them are legitimate. but we'll see. the trump campaign has apparently decided that if all of the votes are counted, he loses. and so in the 40 lawsuits that they brought around the country, unfortunately, each and every one of them is about constricting the ability to vote. challenges in the polling place are similar. that's where you break it down to individual voters who come in on election day and have their registrations challenged or as absentee ballots are being counted to be challenged on something like sitting matches. you have to pay attention to

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tonight, early voting shattering records, 93 million-plus voters casting ballots with two days until the election. the most crucial county in arizona, which includes phoenix, already has past the total number of votes that were cast in 2016. john king joins me now from the

magic wall. two days out from election day. that's stunning statistic. you're down to turnout and who is left and they have to try to figure out who voted and get everybody else. what are both campaigns watching? >> you make the best point in today's big age, big data politics. they know. they know. you mentioned the numbers for the headline voting. the campaigns know they are. the challenge is, can they find the ones who didn't vote and execute. let's go to the 2016 map. you were showing the president earlier tonight he was in hickory, north carolina, that is here. look how much he won this county by in 2016. the president knows where his voters live, he knows supertrump counties, they're not giant, but you get 30,000-plus margin, 20,000-plus in this county here. that's where you go. you have to go to the places where you can turn out votes. last night in pennsylvania, for example, he was in butler county, this is a trump

supercounty north of pittsburgh. 35,000-vote difference back in 2016. he's trailing in the early voting he has to go to places to get his people to show up on election day. he's going back to where me found them last time. same thing for the democrats. we're going to see a lot of them in pennsylvania but you're going to see joe biden go to ohio. joe biden is going to be in cleveland, ohio. this was not close four years ago. 52-44. it was not close. joe biden is not wasting time in cleveland unless they have data that tells them they're in play. he's going to go to cleveland to try to turn out votes here, african-american, inner city votes, the suburbs, lake county up here, president trump won it handedly, watch lake county on tuesday night and see what happens. watch where the candidates go and i'll close by coming back to pennsylvania. we know the democrats are going to be there tomorrow too. joe biden in philadelphia, back in pennsylvania tomorrow, with senator harris on both ends of the state. here, again, erin, they know. they have the early voting data, they know who has not voted. the campaigns tonight using that

to reach out to the people they need and the candidates are going there for a reason, the same reason barack obama will be in florida, to get people who haven't voter, grab them, literally, no, figuratively, yes. hope a celebrity like obama, biden, harris on the trump side, trump and pence, the trump family, get them to vote. >> you know, there is an expectation and i think it's good there's an expectation, at least i hope there is, across this country that we may not know for a while who wins. however, there's a lot we may know on election night, even if we don't know the winner because a lot of states, every state has their own rules on when they count the ballots, what is sitting ready to be compiled or added to the election day totals. 48 hours from now, 7:21, you got florida, what do you think we could know? >> well, you've got virginia, you've got kentucky, you've got -- let's pull it out. you have indiana. four years ago we did start to know at this point. i remember, to your point, we

might not know for a couple of days, what the president is saying is wrong and it's horrible because they count votes after elections all the time. both campaigns have eyes on those votes. if anything nefarious happens, somebody can raise their hand. but to your point, kentucky closes early, this is one of the first places we saw evidence that this is a different year. not because donald trump was winning kentucky, we knew he was going to win kentucky, it was the margins. we saw votes coming in early, donald trump 77%. go back and look at mitt romney before, 62%. all of a sudden you saw these small counties and you say, wow, donald trump is overperforming mitt romney. not a big deal. he was going to win kentucky, anyway, and you want of the same kind of voters down here in southern ohio and the same thing happened and guess what, when we got to pennsylvania, the same kind of voters all down here, and the same thing happened. these early states, the virginias, kentuckys, ohios, they will give us clues, even though it's going to be different this year because of

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tonight the most influential adviser on the white house coronavirus task force apologizing after speaking with russian state media. he apologized for doing the interview but not for what he did during it which is to

denigrate american public health officials in a 30-minute-long interview. >> the lockdowns will go down as an epic failure of public policy. it's a sad statement on america that as the u.s. is hysterical over this. but the point is that the public health leadership have failed egregiously and they're killing people with their fear-indoesuc shutdown policies. >> dr. atlas did not apologize for those comments you just heard. just the fact that he said them to rt which is a russian propaganda outlet in a country that has a universal mask mandate. kaitlan collins is out front in hickory, north carolina. the white house saying atlas did not have clearance to do this interview but it did take place on the white house grounds and they have been neurotic about

everywhere that their public health officials do interviews. suddenly in this case, nobody knew about it and it happened by accident? what's the latest on this that you're hearing? >> reporter: the white house is much less restrictive of dr. atlas doing interviews because he says things that don't disagree with the president, they're more restrictive on a dr. fauci who causes headlines when he disagrees with the president on public health measures. what is notable about this and dr. atlas apologizing seeming he doesn't know what rt is, they do register with the justice department as a foreign agency because they were caught up in the russian interference in the election. they were helping the russians disseminate that misinformation. that's what this outlet is that dr. atlas did a 30-minute interview with. as you noted what he said about the lockdowns and masks in there, but this is the adviser that the president listened to the most if you talk to sources inside the white house when it comes to the pandemic.

scott atlas is someone who travels with the president, he's therein with him, and the fact that he did an interview with this kremlin-controlled state media outlet seemingly without the white house's knowledge is really stunning and that's why he's now apologizing for that. >> all right. the president was speaking where you were, a scaffolding lift was holding up an american flag, and it collapsed near where the crowd and members of the press were situated. we'll show it. tell me what happened. >> reporter: you can tell it's windy here as you can see by my hair. this could have been dangerous. this is in the press bin and these are two scissor lifts holding american flags. and one of them tipped over in the wind and hit the building. they put caution tape up. they had another one with lights on and they had to lower. and the conditions are that

windy that they had to move it. it could have been a risky situation if it had fallen a different direction. >> a lot of wind there and the president continuing with that rally and heading to another one tonight. i want to go now to dr. jonathan reiner, currently in charge of the cardiac lab at gw. dr. atlas goes on russia state television registered as a foreign interference agent to the u.s. government and does a 30-minute-long interview which were he says everything that the united states has done and fauci has done and supported is wrong even though i should note it's what they're also doing in russia, almost to the tee. so what's your take on that? 30-minute-long interview? >> what was more embarrassing than the fact that he did this on russian television was the steady stream of bogus content that issued forth from the really de facto head of the

coronavirus task force. he repeated the president's canard that without the president, 2.3 million americans would have died. that's what would have happened if we went for herd immunity, what he's advocated from the beginning. he said we were historical about the deaths in the united states. he was asked, why does the united states have more deaths than let's say a country like south korea and he invoked some sort of maybe innate biological community for the south koreans. it was really a strange interview. he also stated that freedom of speech was under threat in the united states. really an odd mix of statements from a man in that position at the white house. >> so then dr. fauci is getting a lot of attention for an interview he gave to "the washington post" and he talked about where we are in the coronavirus. he said, we're in for a lot of hurt. it's not a good situation. all of the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into

the fall and winter season with people congregating at home indoors. you could not be positioned more poorly. he's saying these things publicly. you know, not that he's ever not been honest. he's saying them publicly more than he has before. it's scott atlas that the president is listening to, not dr. fauci. you have double-digit states now with record hospitalizations, fauci trying to sound the alarm. is there any way that the relationship between trump and fauci can continue? in a world where trump is re-elected, is there any fauci in that world? >> i hope so. i think the only person in reality who can fire tony fauci is the director of the nih and i think dr. collins would probably refuse and he would have to be fired and secretary azar would probably fire them both. it's very possible that the president might try and clear the slate one way or the other after the election.

look, tony fauci has worked for six presidents and i think he'll probably end up working for a seventh president. he's a national treasure, and he understands the stakes. in the last week, cases in the united states increased 19%, hospitalizations are up 13%. unless we change what we're doing, it's going to get worse and tony fauci knows that. >> dr. reiner, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. next a southern black pastor trying to flip a senate seat in georgia. president barack obama is about to campaign with him. reverend raphael warnock is "outfront." and caravans of trump supporters shutting down roads in this country, now including a thoroughfare in new york city. we have details on the ground after this.

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president obama heading to georgia tomorrow to try to help joe biden win the key swing state and appear with democrats who are trying to flip the state's two senate seats which some experts have put as toss-ups, including the crowded special election. in this case, democrat reverend raphael warnock who is on the left appears to be headed to a runoff against kelly loeffler or doug collins. so, earlier today, biden's running mate kamala harris campaigned in the state with this message to voters. >> this is not the time to let up. this is the time to put our feet on that pedal and go and get this thing done. >> democratic candidate for senate? georgia, reverend raphael warnock. i appreciate your time. georgia has not elected a democratic senator in 20 years. georgia has not backed a democrat for president since bill clinton in 1992 and yet

you've got barack obama coming to campaign on your behalf tomorrow. why do you think democrats are gaining momentum in the finally days of these georgia races? >> good evening, it's great to be here with you tomorrow. we're on the verge of victory, the precipice of change in america and georgia is at the center of that change. barack obama will be with us tomorrow. kamala harris was here together for the second time. joe biden a few days ago, and i think even perhaps more poignant is that of all of the places the president of the united states could be tonight, he's in rome, georgia, two days before the election in so-called red georgia. georgia is the hinge that swings the door to change in america and i'm honored as a senate candidate to be a part of that change. >> so let me -- so people understand how this works. i mention senator loeffler and congressman collins. you got to get 50% of the vote to get the seat. if you don't get 50%, there's a

runoff in january. so, you know, do you have a preference on who you would face? if there's a runoff and you're number two, it's you versus collins or you versus loeffler? >> first of all, i have no given up on the idea that we could close this deal on tuesday -- >> you think you can get 50, flat? >> but i think it's quite remarkable that we're sitting where we are with 21 people in the race and i can tell you i'm in savannah, georgia, right now. i'm moving all across this state. there's a lot of energy on the ground. there's a spirit in the air, the sense that people understand how much really is at stake in this election. i'm sitting in a state where we've got 500,000 people in the medicaid gap, the covid-19 pandemic is really bringing into

clear focus the disparities in health care. we have an economic turn down that is leaving people out in the cold and i think georgia is well positioned for change. >> i know you're hoping for more than 50. i'm curious, which you would rather face off against, if you don't get to 50, senator loeffler or congressman collins? >> it doesn't make a difference. they're both making the same argument. if you listen to them, they're saying, elect me and i'll be an excellent representative of donald trump. i'm running to represent the people of georgia who are wondering who in washington is looking out for them as they're trying to figure out how to get health care, how to have a livable wage, how to make sure that we can return their children to school safely. i intend to represent the people of georgia. they can represent a man who has never lived in georgia. >> all right, reverend, i appreciate your time. i know these are going to be a crucial 48 hours for everyone and thanks for being with us. >> great to be with you.

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bry tell us what you're hearing about this. >> social media videos, pictures showing just that, cars and trucks and we know their trump supporters because they're all flanked in the trump 2020 flags, driving down highways in new jersey and in new york especially getting out of their cars at some points and stopping traffic, backing up traffic for several miles, just down right dangerous. in new jersey, there were several hundred of these vehicles that met up and drove north into the new york area and you can right there on the bridge that connects two counties in new york, just north of new york city, people getting out and stopping traffic. just dangerous and something law enforcement is worried about, especially since we're only just a few days in before the election and it could only get worse. >> so it comes as stores are being boarded up. new warning cautioning that a deeply divided america faces unfamiliar danger in the days

ahead from security officials. what are the specific concerns of the dangers? >> never have we had before a candidate essentially say that he may reject the outcome of this election. basically, cause -- say that this election may not be going in his favor and he might reject it and we might have armed extremists that we have been seeing who the president in some cases tipped his hat at. these are things law enforcement had on their radar for the past several months. we have only seen it heightened. they felt more tension through social media and rhetoric out there as we get closer to this election. mao now we see stores prepare. a number in new york city having to board up. something that one law enforcement official has never seen prior to the george floyd protests. in decades before that and not tied to an election. security groups are getting

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tonight, president trump moments away from taking the stage in rome, georgia. it's his fourth rally today. he goes to wisconsin tomorrow.

voters there reacting to claims the united states is rounding the corner on the pandemic. >> reporter: in madison, there are so many signs of a vibrant democracy, even as they brace for election day like an approaching hurricane. some are more worried about a repeat of what happened in kenosha. others fret over covid-19 tearing through the state at nightmare rates and the president who refused to take it seriously with every visit. >> we are rounding the curve. we are rounding the corner. >> i don't understand how he can downplay the seriousness of this. it escapes me. >> it's wrong. >> i think biden is going to win this state. i think it has strongly affected the way i would vote. i think trump has handled this abysmally. >> reporter: they are among the thousands pouring through this testing center as deaths top 2,000.

new cases set records. hospitals near overflowing. in trump's wisconsin, from farm country up north to the suburbs of milwaukee, there's a very different level of covid concern. did it affect the way you think about the election? >> not at all. they have lots of hand sanitizer. they have wipes, glass protection. it's very safe. my biggest reason for voting for trump is biden -- i don't believe he will live that long. i'm a female, but i'm not real comfortable with two females in office. i don't care for nancy. >> donald trump waved the white flag, surrendered to the vice russ. >> reporter: after nearly 2 million absentee ballots were sent out, less than 200,000 are outstanding. those could mean the difference. both sides wonder, how many are stuck in the mail? >> so slow in wisconsin, a federal judge this week ordered the postal service to do a state wide sweep starting tonight. if they find ballots, take measures to get them in.

that's just getting them in. in april, 23,000 absentee ballots were rejected because a voter didn't know to sign the envelope or put at dress the ad their witness on. donald trump won wisconsin by less than 23,000 votes. mistakes matter. >> reporter: because we had a dress rehearsaarehearsal, we kn it. we will see a more effective election apparatus than our state has seen in the final two days. for those worried about the crowds, take heart. after testing a quarter million people, so far not a single worker here caught the virus. >> on any given day, one testers is probably exposed to 80 positive cases. they are wearing a mask and a face shield. that's keeping them safe. >> reporter: knowing that, what do you think when you see political rallies? >> i worry whenever i see a large gathering without masks.

i know the virus is going to spread in that community. i worry for them. i wish people would wear masks. >> it's incredible to watch this with this backdrop. trump has a big rally in kenosha tomorrow. how significant is that campaign stop for him? we are coming there on the day before the election. that is where he thinks it is worth spending that crucial time. >> absolutely. it's significant for a couple reasons. i went on the page tonight. if you click for tickets, there's a disclaimer you will not sue donald trump or local officials if you catch covid-19. the rate of infection is off the charts in this state. the other reason is what happened after the police shooting of jacob blake. kenosha is a raw wound. kyle rittenhouse, the young man who came up from illinois and killed two protesters there, was just extradited back to kenosha.

he is a conservative celebrity. he got a standing ovation, his mom did, from local republicans. it looks like donald trump, closing argument will be about some of the most painful issues in america. >> certainly will. thanks to you and these historic days. it's good to be with you. see you tomorrow. anderson starts now. good evening. the next 36 hours until election morning look like today and they almost certainly will, well buckle up. today seeing the president all over the map. five campaign stops today. joe biden starting a final two-day blitz in pennsylvania. kamala harris in georgia and north carolina. trump supporters swarming the highways. the mail slowing down just when democracy needs it most. a big court ruling on nearly 127,000 ballots in texas.