this comes after ballots were kounlth in a backlog of mail in one post office. it is and part of an ongoing lawsuit against the u.s. postal service. a busy night. like i no slowdown in the hours and days ahead. let's turn it over to chris. >> ignore the noise, maintain your poise. that's the instruction for all of us in the days to come. welcome to this special sunday two-hour prime time on election eve, eve. in less than 48 hours we will likely be learning the first results of one of the wildest and most monumental elections of our life times. but know this. we may know the winner tuesday night. we might know the winner on election night. but probably not and that's okay. because elections never end on election day and night.

because the law says there are periods of counting that come after that. okay? legitimate ballots are allowed and counted in multiple states routinely. the president knows this. why would he mislead you and tell that you anything that happens after election day is fraudulent. why would he create this confusion? same reason as always. it may work for him. how so? a trump campaign source says, trump could declare victory on tuesday even if he hasn't won. even if he hasn't clinched 270 electoral votes. how? here's the scenario. trump takes florida. the states start falling either way. biden wins michigan and wisconsin, doesn't get north carolina, georgia, comes down to

pennsylvania. and it's close. and it's tuesday. and trump says it's not that close. we won. but now they want to count for more days the. sounds suspicious, right? it's bs. the law in the state for a long time now, and challenged at the supreme court level wasn't changed is, they're going to continue to count mail-in ballots for three days after election day. if they're received by election day. now, if they're post marked by election day. if they could that a few days later, they'll still count them. six of the counties that trump won in 2016, and remember, this was a surprise. it clinched it for hip. he won by 44,000 votes. six of the counties say they won't even start counting mail-in ballots until after tuesday's election. why would he say something that

could hurt him? because he thinks it might help him. but know this. the idea that we may have to wait for counties in pennsylvania or pennsylvania overall, or other states that have laws to count beyond tuesday is expected and legitimate. for the president to say otherwise is at a minimum untrue. so bleenlt believe it. but at a maximum, he knows it's untrue. what does that tell you? win or lose, this president's mandate must call for a demand for better. not just more of the same. now, joe biden says with some fire, he doesn't care what this president says but he will not steal election. i thought there was a sound bite there. it's a dramatic pause, nonetheless. let's take idea to the cnn

correspondent to fill us in. how was that? did it work for you? the state of play. i was watching the presses's fourth rally of the day. he's on a five-state blitz. what have we heard from him directly? >> what we've heard from the president is repeated attempts, repetitioned attempts on undermine the election. there is no mystery. >> he knows that he's losing. that he knows a majority of americans disprove of his his performance. and so he's trying to figure out some way to screw with the vote counting process to somehow jigger an outcome to his fare. you had one of his advisers going on the sunday show today and saying, we're going to be leading and have more than 280 electoral votes on election night and then they're going to try to steal it.

that is preposterous. you don't have any electoral votes until you've won a state and you haven't won a state until they've counted the votes in the state. that argument is so outrageous that the president as he after he puts a nutty idea out front, he kind of tries to walk it back. take a listen to this. >> that was a false report. wee look at what happens. i think it is a terrible thing when ballots can be collected after an election. you'll have one or two or three states, depending on how it ends up. where they're tabulating ballots and the rest of world is waiting to find out. i think there is great danger to it and i think fraud and misuse can take place and 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 before.

>> the president is trying to justify this rhett pick he's using by saying, you should have gotten your vote in. we have a pandemic. we've got problems with the postal service. unprecedented conditions people are adjusting to. what the president is trying to do in trying to mess with the outcome of the election. he's talking like a thug and he's encouraging his aides and supporters to act like thugs. that's why you saw these people with these trucks trying to run the biden-harris bus off the road the other day. you saw people trying to tie up traffic for no reason in new york. they're trying to see if they can get away with it. the judicial branch, we've seen it in texas. we have the prospect of thely gags about ballots coming in three days late in north carolina and also in

pennsylvania. the question is, will republican judges go i know what that. and there are certain indications that the conservative bloc on the court would go with the president. you heard bret kaevanaugh. it is nuts. there is no evidence of vote fraud which brett kavanaugh could find out from ben ginsburg, his partner, in the 2000 bush campaign when they were trying to stop the voting counting in florida. and ben ginsburg said there is no evidence of fraud. the republican party is trying to gin it up. >> ben ginsburg famous for his litigation role in the election of bush v gore that wound up in the supreme court. >> while trump continues to sow doubt, joe biden is going the other way. >> our response is the president isn't going to steal this election. >> the interesting part is trump

keeps saying biden is sowing doom and gloom. a lot of ballots come in after election day. sometimes from military members. this isn't new. mj lee is following the biden campaign. what's the word? >> reporter: the way joe biden would like the prevent president trump from prematurely declaring victory is not only to win but to have a decisive victory. that's why we saw biden bring his campaign back, really to where it all started. this is the state where he was born. pittsburgh is the place he held his first event as a candidate in 2020. and philadelphia is where his campaign is headquartered. this is where we saw and campaigned all day today. and tomorrow, really, his entire campaign is going to be fanned

out across the state of pennsylvania. and i will tell you, one word that we keep hearing from democrats including biden and also former barack obama in recent days is complacency. democrats look back on 2016 and they will now openly acknowledge that they did take some of these midwestern states for granted. these states that were supposed to be the blow was for the democratic party. they will say openly that hillary clinton, the formerer democratic nominee, just did not spend enough time and resources in some of these areas. what they're trying to do now is to really avoid the mistakes of 2016. but i will note, tomorrow if you look at biden's schedule, he is going to be starting the day out in cleveland, ohio. this just goes to show you. and it is a good reminder that they are of course pouring resources into states where the polling is a lot closer. it is more competitive. it should be more difficult for

biden to try to win some of these states. they're doing that because they want asle pathways to 270 as possible. it is also why we are seeing the biden campaign spend time in states like texas, georgia, north carolina, the calculation here, chris, is that if they are able to pick up one of those states, it makes it infinitely harder for president trump to also have a pathway to 270. >> if joe biden could pick up texas, we would have a very different tuesday night plan than we do right now. the theory for both teams should be leave it all on the field. all on the court. go everywhere you can in this the final bill. anything less than that is always a mistake. that's how you do your job. thank you for working 24/7. let's bring in david gregory and dana bash. biden saying maybe we get texas. if he gets texas, he has a very different night planned than what we're looking at now.

let's discuss why talk about pennsylvania is specifically what may be our reality on election night. the president is not picking pennsylvania by chance. >> a few things. you're right. the map and the road to 270. for both candidates, it is on that road. pennsylvania really appears critical. maybe more for president trump but it is absolutely critical. and you remember, four years ago, the way donald trump won was to jack up his vote in the already republican areas and surprised democrats who did okay. hillary clinton did okay in the suburbs. but not well enough. and certainly not well enough to counter balance the rural areas. what is so interesting about joe biden in pennsylvania, for example, is that he hasn't been ignoring even areas where he knows that republicans are going to win. he just wants to get the share

of the democratic vote up. even a little bit in some of those really, really republican, conservative areas. you will see that tomorrow when his campaign goes to the four corners of pennsylvania. not just the cities, not just the suburbs. it is those rural areas that is really trump country. >> we often, i often have to look at what the president does through the lens of, why lie about this? he knows what the law is in pennsylvania and he knows why it is legitimate. yengs the election doesn't end november 3rd. why is he saying it? he knows he won by 44,000 votes last type there. it could very well be tight. he wants it to be close enough on election night it could be a disadvantage for him in mail-in ballots and say, he won. that's what we heard out of his campaign as speculation.

he is working his supporters so he can build that momentum if it becomes close. there's a human cry that something is unfair. even working judges who may be looking at that and will do so dispassionately, we hope and trust. i think the president senses some momentum in the close of the campaign. there's a lot we don't know. we look at data that shows had democrats voting earlier than republicans. we see some tightening at the polls. there's no doubt that buoy's the president. he has deep support without fail toward end so that's where he sees the critical bout. making it clear that pennsylvania is more winnable

than florida or michigan. what could happen in arizona or georgia and how those could be daggers to him. he's playing a more conventional view. a lot of what he had in 2016. we've seen the ground today. michigan, iowa, north carolina, georgia, florida. biden did two events in pennsylvania. what does that tell but the difference of opinion about what they need to do? well, joe biden has been more covid careful. that's just a fact. and donald trump is trying to finish out the campaign like w a crescendo. he is running the 2020 campaign like did he in 2016 and he's doing it because it worked. he did surprise the clinton campaign. and frankly the whole country by getting out voters that almost didn't exist before. he's trying to do the same thing

again. i want to add, i think you're getting it. about what the president was saying about not counting votes after election day. that's exactly what will happen in pennsylvania. >> by law. >> by law. the republican legislature said that when they changed the rules to allow for the first time, they didn't go far enough to allow the counties to start doing it early like states are doing. that is why it could take longer. >> first, pre election voting has surpassed two-thirds of all ballots. forgive me for looking down but i don't want to get any numbers wrong. two thirds of all ballots cast in the 2016 presidential election. we've now passed that.

pennsylvania has fewer early ballots there than other swing states because of what dana is talking about. that's something to remember also. that it is not like they think there's some cultural huge bulk of votes that come in later. >> right, right. if the president is in a position where he's held a lot of his territory from 2016 and it relies on the upper midwest, then pennsylvania is where he wants to fight and he wants to throw as much shade on the legal process of counting votes, including for members of the military who would be voting absentee, whose votes would be counted not until the end of the day when the polls close. he wants to throw doubt on that and begin the process of litigation if there is any basis for that. he is so much different than president bush who dana and i covered in 2004. when it was not official until the next morning because of ohio

and there was a big debate at the white house. i was on the north lawn pressuring the news media from inside the white house. call it for bush. call it for bush. he demurd. his top advisers said you can't put a crown on your head and declare this thing. trump is an entirely different guy who looks at the levers of power and his ability to maneuver them much differently. >> remember, this isn't a legal battle that brought to us this point in pennsylvania. there is been a legal battle about what a state legislature did in pennsylvania. and what a state's supreme court did with its own constitution and legislation. a world of difference from 2000. not 2004 but the 2000 race because and why scotus had jurs addition and purview over that. i know alito and kavanaugh have said. for them to take what a state decided by legislative process

and review with it its own judiciary and change it would be true precedent of a new way of the supreme court. you're supposed the stay away from things have gone through the purview unless there is a larger constitutional issue. what will it be here? thank you both. a lot of craziness. why? because when, it is okay the say anything without any basis. you get a real war of words. now, you have the president's favorite pandemic adviser on your screen right now. remember, dr. scottate las has never dealt with a pandemic before. it is not his area of medicine. it is not his area of experience. why is he talking to russian state tv days before our election and saying all the wrong kinds of things from a

scientific perspective? dr. scot atlas is apologizing for stepping in it and he's been stepping on dr. fauci, america's most trusted person in the mix. one of our favorite doctors on what the hell is going on here. next. someday i'll ask you a question that will change me forever. yes. ♪ start your someday today with twenty to forty percent off all bridal.

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longer, shorter, how much, how many, all legitimate topics for debate. we should be debating it right now. go on russian state tv and saying about how the lockdowns are making people die in america? it's crazy. he is now apologizing. not for what embut he says he was unaware that russian state tv is a registered foreign agent. let's get some thoughts from friend to the show. an easy question. do you think that if you were in that position, you would just wanted order to russia state tv thinking, it might as well be anybody else? >> thanks for having me on. r. tshs, russia today, has asked me several times to be on and i said no. i don't do russian state propaganda. and it was objection to me who they are. -- it was obvious to me who they

are. and dr. atlas claims he doesn't know when he has the entire white house media team behind him? that's not believable. unbelievable in the true sense of the word. >> it's not like they jumped him in the street. more importantly, what he said lrksds are bad. kill people. make more people sick than they help. >> this has been a standard thing that he's been saying since march. let's be clear. nobody likes lockdowns. no one advocates for them to use them as means of last resort when everything else has failed. they're only necessary when things are out of control. he keeps blaming that lockdown killed more people than the virus. not true. the virus has killed many more people. >> tony fauci has been very quiet. people give him a lot of heat

for it. he comes out and says scott atlas is not saying things that square with science. he is not respecting his motives because he doesn't respect his pedigree. is fauci right or wrong? >> fauci is right. that's the feeling across the entire white house task force. my sense of it. atlas doesn't have any expertise and he also doesn't read the stuff out there. co-read the literature and get caught up to speed. he doesn't seem interested. >> now the big one. can't vote during covid. too dangerous. going on get sick. you keep telling to us stay home. now it's election day. i don't want to go. and by the way, if i will likely to go, i'm probably someone who doesn't believe you in the first place which means that the messaging may actually have a chilling effect on biden voters. they're the ones paying attention to the messaging. what do you say to those people? >> i say the good news is that

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sfwhoxt days to go and know this. i'm not saying it is the biggest lie but for the president at this time right now to say no ballot that is counted after november 3rd is legitimate is a lie. and he knows it is a lie. and he knows what the law is. and that he knows a republican legislature in pennsylvania, he can say what he wants with the governor. he's a democrat. he can say he's a partisan. what does that mean? if he's part of the trump party, he's not a partisan? it was reviewed by its own court system in state to the supreme court level and found to be just. that gave them three more days. it's covid. they were trying to figure it out. they didn't put the resources in as a legislature to allow counting to get it done earlier

like states and this is what they arrived at. they won't get an immediate writ to do it now. it went once. the decision held. they got no stay against it. the president telling that you only ballots on november 3rd and counted then, that's all that counts, it's never true and the election is never over on november 3rd. there's always a period of counting and checking afterwards. electors are chosen. there is a whole process and he knows it and he's lying. period. what does that mean? he's desperate. what does that mean? can biden rebuild the blue wall that looks like swiss chees in 2016? maybe, why. wisconsin and michigan. why?

the odds are not in his favor and what does it mean for biden? do you know who is looking at the answers all the time? the wizard of odds. hard entin. how do i know? he lives in my office. >> you saw the polls in wisconsin. if you look right now and you look at, here are some other states where joe biden is ahead that donald trump won four years ago. nebraska -- >> why do i care about had the nebraska second district? >> here's why. you see that joe biden is at 258 electoral votes. if you give him all the states that hillary clinton won plus the states he's up by 5 states except for pennsylvania. if you give him arizona and nebraska, that gives him 12 additional electoral votes. you see it now. joe biden at 258 in the states that he's up by at least 5 points. if you then add in the second

congressional district plus arizona, what do you get? you get him to actually 270 electoral votes. that is why you should care about nebraska's second congressional district. >> and the reason nebraska is one of two states you would ever talk about, it is one of the only two states. >> essentially what this means, if you start biden with the 258 and then you give him arizona and nebraska's second district, those are where they will be kounlth on election night. all this talk of pennsylvania. if biden wins in arizona and you add in nebraska's second congressional district, you get him to win without pennsylvania. if he loses in all those and the other contests on the screen, then you go to pennsylvania on the screen right now where biden does hold the 6-point advantage. >> where does this leave trump?

>> in a situation where he's well behind coming into election day. he needs to win states that not only is he leading in now but states in which joe biden is leading and he needs win all those states in the previous page plus pennsylvania. if he wins michigan, wisconsin and parx by 6, that is 278 electoral votes. and trump is donnell. >> why does this president seem to be very much banking on that being the state that matters? >> it is because it is the state that matters, right? he who is the win there. even though he's down by 6, it is essentially if you were to build up a path way to 270 electoral votes, pennsylvania is the state that he would need to win in order to stop biden's path. he has to compete there. if he loses parx, there is no other path. >> arizona. who is it? "new york times"? biden was 54-6 there?

>> that was the ssrs. >> so they have biden 50, trump, friction. "new york times" had a 6-point. >> i'll make you believe it this way. the suburbs. that's what maricopa county which has almost all the county. >> sheriff joe arpaio territory? >> well, he's no longer the sheriff there. i'll tell you that much. the suburbs are changing and that's a state in which they elected their first democratic senator since 1988 last time around in 2018. joe biden has held it consistently. a four or five-point lead as the polls seem to indicate is much more secure or democrats should think that will hold.

obviously you saw in 20 scene and the polls don't hold. >> we always know on election night who won. what is this new stuff saying we don't ong election night. >> that's complete and utter garbage. look, arizona, last time around in 2016, you didn't know that donald trump won that state until the thursday after election state and he still won by 3. so oftentimes there are states where even though margin isn't that close, we have to wait and see. i've said it over and over and over again. it is more important to be accurate than fast. and we will be accurate despite anything the president is rounding off potentially. >> the wizard of odds. see you in the office. breaking news on the usps. the united states postal service. why? the judge wanted to make sure they were doing enough to ensure

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breaking news, a federal judge is ordering the the postal service to make some of its regard to patients mandatory. two days out from the election,

the delivery of mail-in ballots is allegedly getting worse, not better. let's bring in a cnn's tom foreman. let's start with the big headline. how do you make essential of this? >> well, there is no sense of this. this is what people have been worrying about for months and months. the question with the pandemic and everything else. will the mail do its job moving forward, especially when we're relying on the mail for so many other things. it is already crowded. the bottom line is these extraordinary measures are things you can't understand. for example, the postal service being essentially ordered to say, you must use the express mail network which says, it will deliver in a day or two for anything going any kind of distance. any of the voting going any kind of distance. and same day or next day delivery to local post offices for votes closer in. that's what these extraordinary measures are at the moment, although you have to say, i'm not sure how much difference they make this late in the game.

look at a couple of states. for example, if you look at colorado and wyoming, they moved on saturday just 43% of the ballots in an on time manner. they're saying that covid is part of the problem. the weather is part of the problem there. but if you were casting your ballot a couple days ago, you would think i have plenty of time. i've done a good job and yet maybe not. >> swing states. what do we know? >> swing states. that's where the issue is. because many of the targeted states that we have been looking at seem to be having the biggest delay problems are these key states that people are looking at. for example, arizona. michigan, wisconsin, minnesota, north carolina. a lot of pennsylvania, texas and florida, all under 90% other time delivery with these ballots. now, 90%.

that sounds pretty high but some of these could be pretty close races and that 10% of early voting could make a difference. and we know, democrats have been taking part in early voting a lot more than republicans can. that's why so many democrats say, if the mail system is not working properly, it is a type of voter suppression. >> right. democrats have been utilizing it more. but more than republicans have. let me ask you. how do we know this? who flagged these problems and took them on court? >> well, basically, there have been challenges in congress is that there have been challenges to the usps all along by various voting rights groups saying we have to have some read on this. so the postal service is getting the reports out and they're saying there is nothing nefarious. it is just difficult to manage all this. especially with all the packages in the system. with staffing shoogs and some underperformance issues.

but, chris, the real problem is when the president months ago started flagging the mail service saying, all this voting by mail is wrong. it should be stopped. it's a problem. and then he puts in a new postmaster general and other problems come up. of course, people who suspect there is a fly in the ointment look at this and say this is precisely what we were worried about. and i will point out, that many, many places where this is happening, where republican groups are challenging the mail vote, the absentee vote, they're not doing that in any places where donald trump is likely to be getting a lot of votes. they're doing it in places where democrats are likely to be voting against him. >> while you were talking, i was looking down at pennsylvania to see if i could figure out what this would mean here if you didn't have a 10% flow through. if you had the 10% flow-through gap. you want to talk about what you should be outraged about. shouldn't the law, it shouldn't

be the law being followed, which is what the president is trying to confuse about in pennsylvania couple of imagine 10% of the votes in states that matter don't even get counted because of the mail service? tom? >> and don't forget, in about half the states, even if you vote ahead of time, you vote legally, you vote on time. if it is just not received by election day, it doesn't count. you could have voted two weeks ago. and if it doesn't show up, it does not count. that's why people are alarmed. especially if it comes down to where every vote really does count in some places. >> tom foreman. told as a only a great story teller can. patriots, doing their thing, expressing their rights. that's what we're about here. they have to right to say it anyway. when does it become harassment? trump is applauding an incident. if hit happened to him, it is

all you would hear about about him being victimized. the fbi is looking at i. why? those are the cars with the flags. those are trumpers, right? then tu biden bus there. what are they doing? what are they doing? why are they forcing it to slow down? why would the president joke about this and say it's a good thing and then the fbi which is of course directed by his own appointee look into it? what is this about? what could it pore tend? andrew mccabe on a sunday night. next. hey! it's me! your dry skin! i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture. we've got to have each other's backs... cerave. now the #1 dermatologist recommended skincare brand. car vending machines and buying a car 100% online.vented now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car.

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the trump supporters were forcing it to slow down the. they got it down to 20 miles an hour and then the cops came and didn't stop anybody, but escorted the bus to where it was going. with a is the law here? >> well, thanks for have aring here. i think it's a disturbing set of events to see. everybody has probably seen it by now. it doesn't surprise me that the fbi has taken the matter up for investigation. that of course, does not necessarily mean that a law has been broken and someone will be prosecuted. with the fbi, what they will do now is they will try to identify the people who were involved in driving those trucks and slowing the biden bus down. and i think particularly the incident where one of the trucks appears to try to run another vehicle off the road, there's contact made. they will be trying to determine what the intent was behind the people who were involved and whether or not there was potentially a violation of federal law there. >> the fbi, you know, so, what's

the push back? the president is like, oh, they are just good people, they were escorting it, they are nice. what you guys should be worried about in the fbi is not this, this is not your business. you should be going down there and figuring out the an ar ki-- are you worried about this for? >> well, i think the fbi has been clear over the course of even all the demonstrations over the course of the summer. the thing that gets the fbi involved is not your ideology. it's not your left wing or right wing or you belief antifa or you support trump, the thing that gets the fbi involved is violence. the acts of violence, people committing violence in the streets. that is when law enforcement gets involved and it provokes fbi interest. for me, it's a pretty clear case that you were at least on the verge of some potentially very serious injuries, this could

have turned out, you know, in to a violent collision in all kinds of different ways. it's something worth looking in to. whether or not there's a prosecutable crime here is a question for the prosecutors. the period saying to the proud boys. stand back, stand by. cheering on the guys in michigan with the guns. getting in the face of cops there about mask policy and other stuff. him saying that this is nothing. does that matter or is it not fair to put it that way? >> no, it's absolutely fair to mutt it on him. we know there's a cause and affect relationship between what the president says, his behavior, the way he conducts himself around these issues of white supremacy and kind of white wing extremist violence. the way he signals to the groups his tacit approval or their support for him and the things

they are doing. those actions, those signals. that communication. people in that spectrum take them as signals of approval and move forward and we have seen it happen in a number of different occasions. >> andrew mccabe, thank you very much. the president still on the stump. wants to hit five states. about to hit the fifth rally in as many states. he is saying a lot of things that are not true, especially when the election ends. why? he believes that even if he is lying, if it's better for him, it's worth saying. let's take it on and let's get after it on this special sunday edition of cuomo "primetime," next. yes. ♪ start your someday today with twenty to forty percent off all bridal.

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welcome to prime time, this president who wants to stay in office, doesn't think all of your votes should matter. he wants to talk about a legitimate election. he doesn't want all the votes to be counted. listen. i think it's a terrible thing when ballots can be counted after an election. >> it's not about collecting ballots after an election. in pennsylvania, which is really what he is talking about. but other states have the law as

well. is that if it's postmarked by election day that is when you vote, that is when i would vote in person. right? that's okay for us. why isn't it okay for a mail-in ballot? so, you postmark it, on election day. what if it gets there a day or two later, should it not count? what if a state has a law to make sure it counts and that law has been tested by that state's courts and found to be constitutional? isn't it legitimate to you? certainly our judicial process would say it's legitimate. that's called democracy. that's called normalcy. now, a trump campaign source said that the president is prepared to declare his win even if he has not secured the

electoral college vote. you tell me, how is that good for anyone but him? think about it. trump says that was a fake report or a false report. no, it wasn't. it was exactly what he wanted put out. and then he takes the half step back. that he likes to do. and then later on, will often double down. which he did when he spoke. it doesn't sound far-fetched based on everything this president has said and done. here's what joe biden said in response. >> my response is the president is not going to steal this election. >> it's very interesting. if it, if you don't count it on november 3rd, forget it, if that were the rule, i wonder if pennsylvania would be president. pennsylvania put him over the top but we didn't find out the counting for days. for days. was he okay with that then?

let's take it to great minds. before we get in the why let's get in the what. professor, ron, tell us, what is the deal with when elections end or how uncommon or common for ballots on to be counted after election day? >> it's routine. it's historic of course, you know, if you had a rule that only the ballots were counted by election day, what would have happened to the soldiers in world war ii, it's absurd, we have always counted ballots. he is not only suggesting that ballots that were postmarks by the election, he is saying none of them at all should be counted. in multiple states, including wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, you have severe limits on the ability of officials to start counting the ballots before election day. republican legislators have

explicitly refused to change them and bring them in lined with other states like florida and arizona, where you can begin processing the ballots before election day. on one hand, you are saying, you can not count them until election day, then he is saying you cannot count them until the polls close that night. i cannot imagine. cavanaugh expressed difficulty for the truly difficult idea it's striking that we are not hearing more republican officials openly condemn it, and the violence in texas, the lawsuit in texas to throw out over 100,000 ballots. the republican party is giving in as trump moves down the anti-democrat anti-democratic, small d, lanes. >> to your point, you do not hear the state legislature jumping up and down saying this is their law.

and they always erred on the side of counting after election day, rather than doing it early because they were afraid of having the system man ip it -- manipulated before election day. that's what happened in pennsylvania. they didn't give the manpower and the ability to staff it and do it early, so they gave them three days to do it after. and now, the president is making noise. it has to be just to rattle the legitimacy. >> that's all it is. and republicans are scared to death of being in a scenario where it's so close at the end. that there's litigation, and there's a president who's talking like this. and challenging the legitimacy. they would much rather kind of turn tale and ignore it and ignore the president's premature protests. because i think, a lot of them

look at the electoral map, they look at the president and he is an underdog. he is a president who is preparing to not accept defeat if it's that tight that you are going to scrutinize votes that have to be counted in pennsylvania, you can predict this president and those around him are going to find a way to challenge and try to kick it in the courts. >> the proof that the president knows what he is saying is piffle, in pennsylvania, six of the counts, they are republican led, they said, we are not counting until after the election. we can't, we don't have the staff. so he is saying those votes should not count. in 2016, when did we find out that trump won arizona? >> i don't remember exactly. but in 2018 -- >> it was a thursday after election day. >> -- i remember more. cinema ended up winning days

after in arizona. can i make a broader political point? >> please. >> joe biden will be in beaver county, pennsylvania. and kamala harris will be in another county in pennsylvania. trump won both of those counties by 19 points in 2016. how often on the day before the election, do you see a presidential candidate in a county that his party lost rather than a party that is strongly in their favor, where they are going in to wave the flag and turn out the vote. this is not only very unusual. it's very revealing of the biden strategy. because you know, you have to say, given the resistance that trump is facing in the big metros. almost any democrat is pumping up the margin of the philadelphia suburbs or dane county in madison. his potential to sandown those trump margins in trump country. a big part of their vision about

how they win is by not flipping necessarily beaver county. but by losing it by 12 instead of 19. or losing lucern by eight instead of 19. and the equivalent across wisconsin and ohio where he is going on monday. or in central florida, the blue collar counties in the i-4 corridor in many ways if biden wins it will not be through the flashy side of flipping maricopa county in arizona, which he may do. it will be by knocking just a bit off of trump's margin in the blue collar counties. that is what his selling point was. >> david? >> and what is interesting about that, chris, and just adding on the larger political point. remember in 2016, there were people who took a flyer on trump because they thought, you know, what damage can it do? you know, let's shake it up and see. now the people have a better

sense of what a trump presidency looks like, whether you like it or don't like it or like parts of it or don't like parts of it. so, then to ron's point, when you have in joe biden, who is, who is staring down an election day knowing that he has better personal favorables than hillary clinton has. he had better polling and to ron's point, he has the ability to neutralize trump's strength that he is in a position of strength to seek to do that the day before the election. it sets up the most important thing to biden. win, two is the day or days after to say, i didn't just win, but this country offered a rebuke to trump and trumpism that we have seen in the last four years. >> ron? >> real quick, can i add that. it's an asymmetric evolution, you are seeing the places that were resistant to trump metro

america. the core city approximates and the inner services, consolidating further against him. he is probably going to lose over 90 this time. he lost them by 15 million votes last time. just the hundred counties. it will be significantly more than that. he may win counties that account for only 30% of the gdp, the big info age, diverse metro is driving the 21st century economy. on the other side of the line, biden has a potential to slightly fracture and loosen the hold on trump country. kind of the mid size towns. all the places. if biden loses them by less, and wins the big diverse metro centers in every state. that is just a very tough combination nor the president. >> you know, look, a big concern

is, it's a tight race. could go either way, no matter what the prognostication is. the president winds up winning and we will have a problem, because the pandemic is the truth and it's not going to go away. the idea that everything changes if biden wins. do you buy that? >> look, the pandemic. we have, you know, the, the inept response has allowed it to take root to an extent that it will be hard to turn around. and no one is going to do that. i mean, i think, i think your point though is the right one. though, what is the trajectory look like. donald trump has said to the country, i have given up on protecting you. we are going to let this run it's course. why for example, wisconsin was supposed to be a photo finish. and who knows it may yet turn out to be. right now in the polling, there's a wider gap and i think anybody anticipated in the last week of the election. and i think it is in part because of the sense that trump has given up on fighting the virus.

you know, as i like to say at his rallies the media is the message. louder than anything else he says on the stage is the message he sends out by packing all the people together, closely without masks, he is he will thing the country that no matter how long he is in office. no matter how many people get sick or die, he is not taking it more seriously than he has so far. >> great, david gregory. go ahead. >> well, and i, but i, the other side of that is that there's a r reservoir of feeling in the country of experts and people that think at some level the media is over playing this. and deaths are down and there are, we are getting better at treating this. and we cannot keep going with shutting the economy down. even if you don't understand it, there's enough of that feeling we just don't know how big that is. because all of the things that ron says could happen, may not

happen in some parts of trump country because his support is very deep. the question is how wide is it? has he ever been able to expand that base? and that's what we are waiting to find out. >> one thing is for sure, his base is getting sick too. i have to jump, fellas. brothers, thank you very much. get a bit of rest, it's time to roll now. it's time to roll. all right, don't let my politician or anybody else tell you that it is over for either candidate in until you see the number that matters. 2-7-0. 2-7-0. ignore the noise. hold on to your poise. when do we get to 270? let's take a look at a map the most likely paths. just for an expectation of how long this process might take. okay? a bunch of maybes but it's better than nothing, next.

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five states in one day. that is the president's calendar. he is doing his final rally tonight in opalaca florida,

following the battleground blitz across states that he won in 2016. why? because he is desperate but also, got to give it to him. the man is going to fight until the last moment. recent polls show a tightening in races across key states that he needs to get to 270. that is also, why he is saying, doesn't happen on november 3rd. it doesn't count. only what is counted that that dampt then it has to stop. it's not true. it's not valid, it's not correct. it's not whatever happens. so, what does he tell us about the state of play. he walks us through different portions and gives us perspective. >> you jump off what is going on with ron and david. this is the 2016 map. i will talk about why it's the baseline for 2020. even if it's a different election and a different year. you are talking about arizona. look at the margin. donald trump won arizona by 3.5 points. arizona was not called for

donald trump until 2.5 days after the election. if you tick up, one of the big upsets puncturing the blue wall. narrowing it, 1700 votes ahead, this was not called for several weeks after the election. it goes to the idea that counting the ballots after the election is not only normal, it's part of his electoral victory that he likes to talk about. let's start about where the state of play is. you are talking about where polls stand. we are seeing a raft of new polls come out. kind of the final polls for all pollsters in the last couple of days. this is the state of play. the cnn poll, polls. it's the high quality polling we put out. it shows a narrow race for the state of florida. biden up by five. wisconsin, a bit of a wider lead, democrats are feeling more comfortable in wisconsin. biden up by ten and in pennsylvania, six, seven, we have seen it go back and forth, back and forth. i will explain what it means. go to the map and walk it through quickly. it under scores the pathways.

the pathways. if you are looking at the 2016 map, which is the basis for what the campaign is running on. there's a simple pathway to 270 electoral votes. you win back pennsylvania, you win back wisconsin, look at the number. you are up above 270 eelectric the to -- 270 electoral votes. why is biden barn storming, they understand pennsylvania is likely the key that pun lounloc or creates problem for them. what happens if president trump holds pennsylvania. democrats have to find another pathway. that is where they tell you to look at the polling i have showed you. arizona, trump won in 2016. it's not done or close to done. but it's leaning democrat. florida, a clear toss up. north carolina, a toss up. fwa georgia, a toss up. there's different pathways for biden to get to 270, even if

they lose a state like florida or pennsylvania. chris, the bottom line here is the biden campaign knows, this, the form er blue wall is by far the quickest pathway to 270 and the least controversial pathway to 270. a problem and why they matter so much is when pennsylvania will be called. you guys have been talking about it all night. and we can talk more about it. the reality for pennsylvania, we are unlikely to know the decisive victory. they are not counting the ballots in the after tuesday night. until starting on wednesday. that, for the biden campaign makes states like florida, which will count quickly. north carolina which will count quickly and if you want too have some idea of where the midwest is going the state of ohio. not necessarily a place where biden campaign expects to win. but keep in mind. joe biden showing up on monday. some shine of strength there had if he is willing to go there had

in the final days of the campaign. biden may not go to biden. but what happens across the northeastern part of the state could tell you what is about to happen in western pennsylvania and other parts of the midwest. michigan, wisconsin, as they wait for the vote to come in. >> that was some plate of brain food. appreciate it pal. trump is already laying the groundwork for a challenge in pennsylvania. but the reason the brilliance behind what phil was telling you is, where was this rationale of his four years ago? this, this if you don't count it, on election night, it doesn't count. so, does he want to get back arizona? does he want to give back michigan from last time? because they were not decided on election night. come on. what does a former republican congressman see behind what the president is cooking, and what does he foresee? he is on the biden train now. next.

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you know why pennsylvania has more days to vote may il-in ballots? because republicans made it that way. they run the legislature in pennsylvania. and they are the reason had that it will be harder for some counties to get a jump on counting the roughly 3.1 million mail-in ballots that have been requested there in a state of

just under 13 million people. republicans passed the ball. they didn't give the provisions to get it done earlier like other states that have more experience with early voting. but now, the president stands ready to invalidate legitimate votes given time to be counted by law, even if in counties that he needs. >> i think it's a terrible decision by the supreme court. a terrible decision. now, i don't know if that's going to be changed because we are going to go in the night of, as soon as that election is over, we are going in with our lawyers. >> but you don't want judicial activism, no, no, we don't want that. just read the letter of the law. unless it's a republic an legislature and reviewed to be constitutional and you don't like it. then, activism is okay.

let's get it to the supreme court, wait, they won't take the case? terrible decision! come on. my next guest is a former republican congressman from pennsylvania. charlie dent, welcome back to primetime. who knows pennsylvania better than you. what do i have wrong? legislature passed a law. they should have given a lot more assets and money to help count early. they didn't want to do that. so, they added some days after reviewed in the courts there. went to the supreme court, found constitutional within the state. what am i missing? >> not a lot, chris, frankly the legislature should have given the county election officials the ability to count these mail-in ballots prior to the election day. that's what they should have done. i don't know, a week ten days. just give them time. i'm confident they will count the votes. they will be counted probably after the election, we will not get the full, complete picture, i think, for a few days and i think this is a mess and the

president, you know, it's not just what they are doing, what he is saying about the absentee ballots. and candidly, republicans have been better at absentee voting than the democrats. have a more organized system. when the president has gone around bad mouthing mail-in votes. he is bad mouthing it and he is harming his own cause. which, to me is miystifying, wht you have been saying. 3 million have been requested and 2 million -- a million and a half democrats have voted by absentee and half a million republicans. you are not missing a lot. and by the way, the trump campaign is also involved with shall man -- with shenanigans. one area is complaining the trump campaign is requesting ballot security details. they are mystified, doesn't seem right. >> so, when you take a look at

what the, the need is here. the president won by 44,000 votes. seven pennsylvania counties that he won in 2016 will wait until after election day to process mail-of in ballots. so, if he gets what he wants. 44,000 votes was the margin last time, he is going to start saying that seven county cans that he won? don't get to count ballots? >> yeah, i think that's quite possible. and in fact, if you are really worried about a red mirage, blue shift scenario, i would worry about it in pennsylvania. i do think you can see a situation where trump does well in person voting on election day, because so many democrats have voted absentee, that you know, trump could be doing reasonably well on election night, only to watch this thing shift. over the coming days toward the democrats towards biden. and then, that is when trump and his legal team will raise hell and start saying this whole

system is rigged and it's fixed. i mean, that's what i'm worried about in pennsylvania. this red mirage, blue shift. it's a real, it's a very real possibility. given where we are at the moment. >> i'm with you. i think it's, i know a lot of the bigger brains will say no, no, it will be done. pennsylvania will be nice for biden. he wins it big or he doesn't. i think he will win it. my concern is not the talk. that's what the president does. but the walk of violence. people doing what they the did to the biden bus. one truck knocking in to a car on the highway, and the guys with the guns showing up. they are allowed to be a hundred feet away most places because that is seen as a first amend. right that you get to go with guns and form a speech. are you worried about what could happen in terms of reaction to trump not winning the election? >> well, i'm not as worried about that on election day. i'm worried after the election. >> right. >> that if, if, if that we have

a close election, that if it's a close election, and the president questions the legitimacy of the tallies, than i worry that there could be civil unrest. i hope it's not the case. by the way, this could be a desiesive win for biden. i'm not saying it will be. but it could be. and of course, pennsylvania is going to be the center of the storm, given the president's rhetoric, i mean, i do worry that it's going to contribute to civil unrest, hope i'm wrong. >> me too. because i don't know that we are going to have a huge, look i'm happy to be wrong all the time. i don't do the polling. i don't do the analysis. but i would be shocked if it's not a close race that night, which means you are going to be following things in pennsylvania, we will be right in the bullseye. charlie dent, thank you very much, we will watch it together. god bless between now and then. voters they are mailing in ballots, why? a lot of reasons. by the way, it's been well used by republicans in a lot of states for a long time. it's about organization. it's about getting in early.

getting it done. taking out risk. especially during a pandemic. and remember, the pandemic is not the only virus in our midst, right? you have dis information and now you have a weird synergy, where russia and iran are magnifying the ugliness that is being put out by our own president. and now, his favorite task force member who has no busy talking about a pandemic in the first place, let alone being his most trusted source about one. is talking to kremlin tv. and bad mouthing our response to the pandemic. you got to hear from doctors who understand the science. and we have one of the best next. someday i'll ask you a question that will change me forever.

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the most controversial adviser on the white house coronavirus task force, gave a 30 minute long interview to russian state media. here's a clip. >> the lock downs have been one of the, will go down as an epic failure of public policy by people who refuse to accept they were wrong. the public health leadership have failed egregiously and they are killing people with the fear

enducing shutdown policy. >> think about this, russian trolls and other interference, want us to question response to the pandemic. want us to think we should not respond to the pandemic. it's part of the dis information campaign. not only do you have trump's main guy, echoing what they want you to think, he is didding it on russia tv, not to mention the fact that this atlas has no experience with pandemics. and he is the main adviser? boy does that explain a lot of inaction. now, atlas is apologizing, not for what he said, he said, oh, i didn't know that russia today was a registered foreign agent. i didn't know i was not supposed to go on there. when we try to book people from the task force, it goes through three layers of vetting, this guy walked in to russia today and nobody knew about it.

let's bring in dr. sheffner. the idea that lockdowns are bad, make more people sick than they help? >> ah, chris, can ome on, we al know it's not correct. by reducing the activity and know forcing social distancing and really eliminating large groups, that's exactly what we would like to do on a voluntary basis. to reduce the transmission of the virus foumpt look to a country that has done it better than anybody else. look to china. now we don't want to do it the way they did it. they locked down wuhan and the surrounding province. they are counting covid case on their fingers. it works it works in new zealand, south carolina, be account, reducing that kind of

interming he will of people, reduces the opportunities for the virus to spread. now, if we all wore our masks, the way we were supposed to do. of course, that had would help enormously. if we avoided the large group activities, which are accelerators, you know, the virus spreads among those people who come, realize the people that go to the large group activities in their daily life, they are not wearing the mask they are not observing social distancing. you can bet the virus is there we need to be more restrained. this explains a lot. something else the president

said. the president had one of the guys account oguy s echoing the guy. the president is misin formed and let down by his staff that told him that doctors don't get paid by the diagnosis. if the infection gets in the bloodstream, you have to spend more time at the bed side, talking to the family, changing drugs.

what can it do moral of the people that we need most, which is you guys? >> it just distresses people greatly. but, you know, everybody buckles down, they are doing their job. they are taking the very best care of patients that they can. the public health people, the rank and file. they are doing their jobs working very hard. hoping that this tsunami soon will pass. >> i wonder if he would have trash talked the doctors that got him and out so fast at walter reed so fast. i hope not. i hope you let everyone know, he only speaks for himself when it comes to this kind of stuff. we have always responded to you guys as the first responders and angels that you are.

and that is only more of how people feel now. it will never be less. thank you for what you are doing. >> thank you, chris. >> all right. now, look, i have been arguing with you guys for a long time. i think coronavirus has to be the prevailing issue of the election. it's connected to everything that is wrong with us right now. >> we are at the end of the worst week yet in the pandemic. more infections. more hospitalizations now are popping up. and there will not be a vaccine by tuesday. as the president has been floating. so, can you win a second term? when people feel that you stink at the issues that matter most. let's discuss with two great minds. next. see ya! heartworm disease? no way! simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this protection. and simparica trio is demonstrated safe for puppies.

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october was a horrible month in terms of the pandemic. november looks tore worse. we had more causes reported on this sunday than any other sunday. one thing we know for certain, whoever wins we have to do better on the pandemic. let's discuss the issue that marts most with jennifer and scott jennings. best to you and both of your families. i hope you are well.

governor i start with you. you have polls suggesting that voters believe that biden would be better on the pandemic than trump. how does it translate in to message for the biden campaign? >> i think, it is the number one issue. and it's the issue that biden, by his very activity has been demonstrating that he will take seriously and he will. and i think it's why, you are seeing 57% of voters pan the way donald trump has handled the virus. and specifically, i think one segment, one demographic is seniors. donald trump has fallen 15 points since 2016 with seniors. and that's because 1 in 4 seniors know somebody who has died 95 prs of the deaths have affected seniors, it's a hugely important voting block and they

can see how donald trump is behaving with all of the rallies. they don't need to be told about the study from stanford that i know you have covered yesterday, that said that out of 14 rallies that donald trump did this summer 30,000 covid cases and 700 deaths resulted. people can see them in the rallies and they see it every day and i think, honestly this usual, is why on tuesday or wednesday, donald trump will not win a second term. >> cnn is not reporting that story. but you know, it's out there, there's a lot of things out there for people to consume. jot jennings, doesn't the president, if he is gifted another four years by the american people, doesn't he have to do a better job fighting this pandemic? >> well, yeah, they put a lot of stock had in the vaccine. you hear donald trump talk about it all the time. it has not come before the election. i think it's clear that it's

going to come some time in the near future. whoever wins the white house, biden or trump will have the vaccine to come out -- >> soon. >> going to get it to people who need it the most. hopefully, god willing some time soon. and then it will be task number one. >> you have the on do more than the vaccine. we will not have it until late next year and any numbers that will matter in terms of giving us real defense against the virus, it will be some and it will be in stages. you is are to do get the lodgistics right, that is right. but if we don't have a real plan, your kids and mine won't be in school until 2022. we've got to do more than vaccine planning. >> i think we should follow the health officials who say social distancing and masks is the biggest thing we can do. the president has failed on that. that's why his job performance on coronavirus has suffered.

there's the issue of the vaccine. there's the issue of the rhetorical discussion with the american people and there's the issue of the economy. i think this is one area where trump still maintains some advantage with voters. they believe he is probably better to get the american economy turned around. they look at the gdp numbers that just came out and what he did pre-covid and said this guy looks like he can run an economy and that's what we have to do. that's what he has to hope people believe. >> gotcha. jennifer, what's your take on the economic aspect? >> first of all, donald trump is going to leave off being the worst president for jobs in 100 years. and that is just a fact. i do think what joe biden is saying is that you don't have to choose between health and the economy, that the virus is the pre-cursor to making sure we can open it up. but look, you just had a doctor on who was talking about china.

honestly, south korea, 51 million people. do you know how many people have died from the coronavirus? 466. if south korea were our size, 3,200 people would have died. what are they doing? they are aggressive about testing and tracing and quarantining people who test positive. they put up all of these -- and this is what joe biden says he's going to do -- put up all these additional testing centers to make sure they can identify where the outbreaks are happening. and they did not shut their economy down. they're going into this fall crunch, so they've had to close down their schools temporarily. but they are an example of how if you treat the virus and contain it and detect it, you can have the economy open. unfortunately, donald trump thinks that testing apparently causes the virus or at least increases your numbers. but at least you can follow where it is and then treat where

it is erupting. and he doesn't get that. >> scott, in terms of what we've got to worry about on election day and afterwards, you saw what happened in texas with the biden bus. i don't know why are the president chooses to make light of something like that. i don't know why he's never taken an occasion to tell people to be better than they were in the moment. if you were following the notion he has now about when votes stop counting, he wouldn't have won arizona. he would have to give back arizona and michigan in the last election because he didn't get either of those states on election night because the counting needed to continue. he's also shooting himself in the foot with six counties he needs in pennsylvania who said they won't be able to start counting mail-in ballots, many of which have been kper sexerci republicans all over the country until the day after the election. why is he pushing this? >> to me, it shows a lack of confidence in what's going to happen. every legal vote that's been

cast should be counted. and some of those votes aren't going to be counted until after the election, but if the voter makes a good faith effort to cast their vote, they should have their vote counted. it all has to come to an end at some point, it can't last forever. but if you cast a vote before the election, that voter should have their vote counted. as it's related to the bus, it's extremely dangerous. people have been passing it around. i've seen it on my facebook wall, my twitter feed. these are extremely dangerous. i've ridden in these buses. these are large vehicles. they take up a lot of space. it's like if you've ever been on a -- >> nobody is saying it's not dangerous except the president. >> these are dangerous. >> i know, but the president was joking about it. >> i know. let me finish. the president should not be joking about this. it is not a good idea to pull your vehicle up to one of these huge vehicles on the roadway. it's extremely dangerous and it

would make any driver of one of these bus ts dangerous. >> the day you learn to criticize your own the way scott just back loaded the part about telling trump, you guys would be a much more cohesive group of political players. if that were a trump bus and joe biden had joked about a bunch of biden people messing with the bus, you guys would eat him for lunch even two days before an election. he would be getting condemned from all over the place in the democratic party. >> that's true. >> but the president's joking with you guys about this, and he's got people coming with weapons within 100 feet of the polling places. and he's going to say he won on election night. and people are going to be angry as hell. and what do you think the country has to be ready for, jennifer? >> yeah, i mean, this is why you're seeing all of these businesses board up. they don't know where any anger -- which side anger's coming from.

they want to protect themselves. this is all on trump's part a part of a pattern, right? he winks at those who are carrying guns at -- men in michigan. you've got a governor whose life was threatened to be kidnapped by these domestic terrorists. he's encouraging that type of applause for people who are taking the law into their own hands. he's doing the same thing on the campaign trail. it is why he must go. >> listen, we just have to be better than that kind of notion. scott jennings, to your credit, thank you for giving the right message. >> good for you, scott. >> jennifer, to you and your families, calm heads, good harlts, good luck, all right? and good luck to all of you. we will be with you and we will be here for you all the way through. countdown to election day with brooke baldwin is next. mers 55 d up.

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