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are campaigning hard, blanketing the country's battleground states. already more than 93 million americans have voted, according to the u.s. elections project. this monday joe biden will campaign in ohio and hold three events in pennsylvania. president trump will hit north carolina, pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, all states he won in 2016. and i know some americans are feeling anxious going into election week. some businesses are boarding up in fear of some potential election-related violence, especially if the vote is quite close. trump adviser tells cnn this evening that the president is likely to prematurely declare victory on tuesday night if he gets close to that magic number of 270 electoral votes. that is even if a large number of ballots have yet to be counted. president trump has since denied that report. we'll come back to that. but we have talked a lot about key battleground states, one of

which is pennsylvania. it is the biggest state in play in the rust belt. it is also the former vice president's birth state. both candidates have been pouring resources in there. jessica dean is covering the biden campaign for us tonight. but first white house correspondent john harwood looks at the president's final push on the campaign trail. >> joe biden is closing his campaign with a very strong focus on just a couple of states, principally pennsylvania where he hopes to lock down his victory. president trump is playing defense over a wide span of the united states. he's also going to pennsylvania. but so many other places that he won in 2016 but where joe biden's either running close behind him or has a lead. five rallies on sunday, five more today. the president's been to iowa, the state where joe biden has been running close behind to florida where biden's had a lead to georgia where biden's had a

lead. today he's going to north carolina. biden's had a small lead there. and then try to overcome biden leads in pennsylvania, michigan, and wisconsin. the president is pursuing a legal strategy through the republican party to try to limit the counting of late arriving mail-in votes which raising doubts about the legitimacy of the vote, talking about how late vote counting is going to encourage fraud. this is a candidate who is behind, and he knows it. >> for the biden campaign it all comes down to pennsylvania. we saw vice president biden spending his sunday in the philadelphia area at several events ending with a drive-in rally here in philadelphia where they're hoping to run up the score in this big city with a lot of democratic voters in it. later today vice president joe biden, his wife jill biden, senator kamala harris, and her husband will all spread out across pennsylvania as the

campaign rally hopes to lock in support here. this state is really representative of the coalition they're trying to build across the country as they try to win this election. that includes white working class voters, suburban women, black and latino voters, union households, and people who may have voted for president trump in 2016 who might come back to the democrats in 2020. seeking to put all those people together into what they hope is a winning coalition. remember, president trump won pennsylvania in 2016 by some 44,000 votes, which is a small margin when you stretch it out across the state. the biden campaign hoping to turn pennsylvania blue this year. frank is a cnn contributor and a "new york times" op-ed columnist. frank, thanks for spending your late sunday night with me. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> let's start on the news this evening that cnn has learned that the trump campaign plans to

be very aggressive and declare a victory even if the president hasn't hit the magic number of 270. in pennsylvania, the law doesn't allow officials to even start processing early ballots until 7:00 a.m. on election day. when you look at swing counties like eerie and red ones like cumberland they have to wait until the polls close or even the next morning to start counting. that said and the president has refuted these reports, your reaction? >> i believe the reports because the president has signalled to us for some time that he would do something just like this. and if he does it, i mean, the word premature is really key here. there are a number of states, you named pennsylvania, where there are going to be mail-in ballots that arrive after election day. if they're postmarked by election day, they're legitimate, they should be counted. those will probably skew democratic. the president knows that.

that's why he wants to embrace earlier tallies if the tally is shown ahead. he's setting up a situation where he's going to then say that the last arriving votes are somehow not to be trusted or fraudulent or manipulated, which is untrue. but he's going to use that possibility of the change in the tally to sow confusion and shed doubt on the outcome of the election. >> you and i have been talking for months and months about how edge this country is. we're starting to see parts of the country boarding up store fronts in preparation for potential clashes this week. i saw how federal authorities are going to be putting up this mighty large fence around the white house ahead of and around election day. what might trump stepping up to a podium and declaring this premature victory, frank, actually do to america? >> it could be disastrous for america. he has been doing versions of that for weeks and months. he's telling his supporters any

outcome that doesn't have me as the winner is not to be trusted. he's telling the whole process is illegitimate. and i think joe biden is going to win this thing. that's not a firm prediction. i learned my lesson in 2016. but think about what it's going to mean for joe biden's ability to govern if donald trump has told all of his supporters that the man who is succeeding him is you wi illegitimate, that they should spend the next years rebelling against him, that they should not put any kind of trust -- this is profoundly impactful. >> i want to remind everyone has we're going into this unprecedented seeming week, and we're used to having answers on election night or the we hours of the worning. it's okay if not every vote is in by tuesday night. we have to navigate this together. i want to get to your op-ed that you recently wrote about a

pro-trump america which we may or may not have come this week. but i want to highlight what you wrote. i'm reasonably sure many americans feel the same loss i do. i'm struggling to assign one word to it. optimism, faith. go to the place on the venn diagram where those states of mind overlap. that's the piece of me missing when i look at this beloved country of mine. it's all of our beloved country. i'm going to put your question back to you, frank bruinny. what has trump's america taken from us? what has this presidency taken from us? >> i think it has taken from a lot of people bwhat it's taken from me. i believed our country could only go so low and i believed we could only forgive so much. and over these past four years the president has revealed himself to be such a corrupt factor, he has showed such floored cruelty, such overt racism and yet his approval

ratings haven't changed. 46% of the americans who cast votes in 2016 voted for donald trump. and that proved to be enough for an electoral college victory. if you look at his approval ratings over the last couple of week, they're 44%, 45%. the story of his presidency is he's never lost that support. and i don't know what to make of my fellow americans that they have -- that that many of them have stood by him as he has betrayed them, as he has undermined the country, as he has chipped away at our most cherished traditions, our most important norm. i think we will turn the page on donald trump but i don't know how we will come to terms -- >> frank, if he does win again fair and square, there are folks who say then we deserve it. we deserve it. >> i think then we do deserve it. i think donald trump didn't change this country exactly. he revealed things about the country i think a lot of us were

unaware of. >> frank bruinny, thank you very much. cnn of course is bringing you coverage live around the clock leading up to election day. you can watch tuesday 4:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 p.m. in london right here on cnn. we mentioned pennsylvania. part of pennsylvania are not planning to count mail-in ballots until after tuesday's election, but president trump is slamming that plan ahead. the lieutenant governor of pennsylvania weighs in live. i'm brooke baldwin. just pick your protein, select your doneness, and let the grill monitor your food. it also turns into an air fryer. bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you.

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the latest "new york times" poll. sara murray explains why this state is so important. >> you know what's looking good? pennsylvania's looking good. >> reporter: it's crunch time in the keystone state. >> my message is simple. pennsylvania is critical in this election. >> and we win pennsylvania, it's over. it's over. >> reporter: president donald trump eked out a victory by roughly 44,000 votes in 2016, the first republican to carry pennsylvania since 1988. the crumbling blue wall shocked democrats as trump went on to the oval office. >> i love you philadelphia. honk if you're fired up. honk if you're ready to go. are you fired up? >> reporter: this election season, both sides are unleashing their loyal foot soldiers in the hopes of notching a win. >> they know they need this to win. i think that's why they have been here a lot. and both parties go to bed at night thinking they left a lot

of votes oen the table here in 2016. >> reporter: for joe biden it's personal. >> i live in delaware but i'm a pennsylvania boy, born in scranton. >> reporter: the former vice president was born and lived there until grade school. some dubbed him pennsylvania's third senator while he was in congress. this year officials across pennsylvania are preparing for an election unlike any other. for the first time everyone can vote by mail and more than 3 million applied to do so. officials say they most likely won't know election night who won the state. >> my staff is working around the clock, i'm working around the clock. none of us are sleeping now. >> reporter: mail-in ballots can't even be opened until election day and ballots received up to three days after november 3rd are allowed to be counted. >> november 3rd is going to come and go and we're not going to have and you're going to have

bedlam in our country. >> reporter: the state's rules have sent the president into a tie rad. >> if you don't think you're going to win, then -- i did this in little league. you call into question the rules. >> reporter: and a sharp warning about voter intimidation from philadelphia's district attorney. >> this is the cradle of democracy, and i do in fact have something for the president if he wants to send people here to break the law. i have a cell. i have criminal laws, and i have a jury, a very diverse jury, that is going to want to hear why these people came to steal our votes. let's stay in pennsylvania. the lieutenant governor john fetterman joins me live. welcome, sir. good evening. >> thank you. >> so, let's get to the piece that erin's talking about tonight that cnn sources, the trump campaign plans to be aggressive election night, plans to declare premature victory, that is if the president is

close to that mark of 270 electoral reports. you know -- you are the best person to talk to about this because in your own state a number of ballots won't begin to be counted until the morning of election day. how does this sit with you? >> it's not unanticipated. he's been signaling for quite some time he's going to try to sow this kind of chaos. but the reality is it's not the truth. and it's -- it's unlikely that it would prevail, but it's not -- still doesn't mean he's not going to try. >> you understand the nuances and the various part of pennsylvania, certain counties aren't allowed to count those early ballots until even later in the day on election day. when do you think we will know the results out of pennsylvania? >> i think we're going to know sooner than what some of these forecasts are. >> what does that mean? put a time stamp on it for me, lieutenant governor. >> i would say at some point

before 8:00 in the morning of the 4th i would say we would have a pretty good idea. if you look at our top three counties, philadelphia, allegheny, and montgomery, i think everyone is an tis pating what's at hand and infrastructure upgrades have been made. and allegheny county performed superbly in our june primary. if the president doesn't like the results that are coming in, he may not try to make a lot of ridiculous and outlandish statements and maybe even try to challenge things on a legal basis for sure. and of course it's not going to be determined by the commonwealth court or the pennsylvania supreme court. he's going to try to get things to the u.s. supreme court. and of course as everybody knows with the appointment of judge barrett -- justice barrett, excuse me -- there is a balance

of the supreme court that would make most democrats nervous, i would say. s i just -- a appreciate that. but just to reiterate your point for viewers watching who are used to having answers at the end of election night -- we may not even know definitively what happens with pennsylvania until the morning of the 4th. we just all need to slow our roll this next week. when it comes specifically to pennsylvania, when it comes to that magic number of 270 in term of electoral votes, trump's best path to stop biden could come down to arizona and pennsylvania. we know that trump carried pennsylvania by less than one point in 2016. we know that trump, pence, biden and harris will all be in your great state today, monday. what does that signal to you, sir? >> well, i always tell people don't take my word for it. i say pennsylvania can pick the president. don't take my word for it. the president did four events in pennsylvania just yesterday. the vice president was in philadelphia and other parts of

the state today. and they're coming back tomorrow. and they're barn storming the state. so, you have a convergence of both the presidential campaigns converging in pennsylvania for multiple events. so, it's unprecedented certainly than anything i can remember this much attention being directed at our state. >> i want to ask you if i may about also your wife. i was reading about your wife. it speaks to the bigger picture of america. she was the target of a racial slur. she filmed the woman. you could hear the woman calling your wife the n-word on camera. it's being investigated. i want to talk about decency in america. this isn't about left or right or biden and trump. it's about decency. and to me, you know, no matter who wins the presidency this week, mr. lieutenant governor, how do we restore it? >> i just have to say that that certainly was an isolated

incident for my wife. even though she was very upset by it and it was a really terrible situation, but i just would like to remind everybody that 99-point-whatever percent of the interaction my wife or i have with the public here in pennsylvania is almost always positive. but we definitely do need to turn down the temperature here. that's for sure. you can see it growing online more and more. >> did we lose you? >> yeah, i -- >> we lost you. can you hear me, lieutenant governor fetterman? i heard you, we just need to dial down the temperature a little bit online. do you want to finish your point? >> yeah, so we need to dial down the temperature and just get to the point where -- to your point, whoever wins wins. but it's going to be contentious, and we just can't allow this kind of personal attacks, this kind of, you know,

vot voter intimidation or all these things that are being forecast that hopefully won't come to pass. but we definitely are divided, but we have to move past that. and we have to come to a common sense of rules and basic engagement because these next couple of days are going to be anything like my lifetime and american political history for sure. >> let's hope for the common decency no matter where you are on the spectrum. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. legal battles are being foulgt do fought down to the wire. ahead, drive through voting under republican fire in texas. an emergency hearing is hours away. and a judge gives marching orders to the u.s. postal service to get mail ballots delivered in time. us. i felt gross. it was kind of a shock after i started cosentyx. four years clear. real people with psoriasis look and feel better with cosentyx. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx.

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we are coming back live. president trump still there at the podium speaking tie crowd of supporters there, opa locka, florida, his fifth swing state of the day. just one day from election results coming in, mail-in ballots in danger of not be counted. a federal judge mandating extraordinary measures for the u.s. postal service to get the

ballots delivered. the postal service announced it moved fewer ballots on time saturday than it did on friday. key battleground states such as pennsylvania, arizona, michigan and wisconsin are reporting seeing a slowdown. the worst-hit states so far appearing to colorado and wyoming where fewer than half of all ballots are being moved on time. and in the coming hours, a federal judge in texas will hear whether houston officials illegally allowed drive through voting. a group of republicans filed a number of lawsuits asking that more than 127,000 votes in the democratic-leaning area be set aside. the texas supreme court denied that case in one case sunday. >> reporter: polling locations across the state of texas will be quiet on monday as everything gears up toward election day on tuesday. we have seen three weeks of early votes in this state and we have seen record turnout.

9.5 million people have cast their votes here in texas. that is a record. already surpassing the overall total that we saw four years ago. and here in harris county, there is some legal fighting going on over voting locations like this. this is one of ten drive-through voting locations that officials here have opened up because of the covid pandemic. essentially people can drive their cars into these bays. there will be election workers at these tables. they will slide the voting tablets into your car and you can cast your ballot. officials say this is legal. it is safe and secure. but a group of republicans here in houston area have been filing suit, a number of cases winding their way through the court, one in the state system where the texas supreme court has ruled for a second time that this way of voting here in harris county is legal. there are no problems. but these republicans are also fighting this in federal court.

and there's an emergency hearing scheduled for monday morning. and why is this important? 127,000 people use these drive through voting sites during the early voting period. that's about 10% of the overall total in this county. and those republicans want those votes set aside, invalidated essentially, because they say this is an illegal way of voting. democrats say that's absolutely absurd. there haven't been many top republicans in the state pushing back against this group filing this lawsuit. but one republican said what they are doing here is harmful and patently absurd. ed lacs vegasen dare rah. a biden campaign official said people on the road displaying trump flags tried to slow the bus down as it travelled to austin.

and separately in an incident in new york sunday, about 300 vehicles with those trump flags blocked traffic on the mario cuomo bridge. let's start on all of this. joining me now, cnn political commentator scott jenning, a republican who just penned an op said, "donald trump deserves a second term" and ed navarro who has voiced her support for joe biden and kamala harris this go-around. welcome to both of you. anna, i want to start with you. regarding this incident most recently in texas that the fbi is investigating and what we saw in newark, new jersey, specifically to texas, trump tweeted, those patriots did nothing wrong. how worried are you? >> look, i think it's -- i think it's horrible. and it's ironic. i was thinking about this last night after watching all those images because, you know, i was born in nicaragua and i live in miami where there are so many

political exiles. and trump has been talking over and over about how if you elect joe biden he's going to turn america into cuba, america into venezuela, america into nicaragua. the places i have seen this happen, this level of voter intimidation and the kind of th thuggery that we witnessed on that road, are dictatorships, where people have to win elections through cheating and intimidation. i think this is not a joke. i was so disappointed a few minutes ago. i was watching the trump rally here in miami that's going on right now. and marco rubio was making a joke about it saying oh how funny it was, what we saw in texas and how we do that in miami every day. and then, you know, trump came on to, again, talk about how there was nothing wrong with what we saw in texas. look it endangers peoples' lives. it's not just about intimidation, voter intimidation.

it is putting people's lives in danger. trying to run someone off the road is an illegal and endangerment act. >> scott, i want to hear from you. the fbi is investigating. what do you think of all of it? >> well, it's incredibly stupid and unsafe to surround a large vehicle on a highway. i've been in a lot of campaigns that have had buses just like that. i've ridden on a number of them for thousands and thousands of miles. they are big vehicles. they are dangerous vehicle. they are like any huge semitractor-trailer out there and something goes wrong and there's a collision, a shimmy, something, it can cause a lot of damage to vehicles and human lives. it's not something to be made fun of. and public safety on highways with vehicles that large is a serious issue. it's not funny and i don't condone it. >> scott, let me stay with you because we showed the live

pictures of the president speaking there in opa locka and i was handed this latest urgent. for the first time today, a fire fauci chant broke out when president trump said, we hear too much of covid-19 during his rally in florida. he said, quote, don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election. i appreciate the advice. later he said of fauci, he's a nice guy, but he's been wrong a lot. scott, i know you wrote that opinion piece where you said president trump deserves a second term. but this notion of going along with a crowd, fire fauci, would you be okay with that? >> well, i mean, as a political tactic, you know, dr. fauci has pretty good ratings with the american people. so, i mean, that's one way to -- that's one way to do it going into election day. i'm sure -- >> so, he's just pandering.

he's pandering. >> i'm sure a lot of his supporters would agree with that. i can read a poll and i can see that dr. fauci is pretty popular with the american people. so, i -- you know -- >> so, why would he want to fire him -- >> not trying to overcomplicate it. but sometimes things are popular and you go against them and it hurts you. and i suspect that's what would happen in this case. >> ana navarro, what do you think? >> i think it's trump being trump. he wants people to say exactly what he wants them to say and acts exactly how he wants them to act. and dr. fauci is a medical doctor who sticks to science and facts. he has served in seven administrations. he is not a political person. he is a scientist. and i think that bothers trump that he doesn't have the 100% loyalty to trump that trump expects from people, but rather loyalty to the american people, to science and to medicine. >> scott, back over to you just

on the piece of news that's getting really picked up, this notion. we've heard bits and pieces of this for months now, potentially from the trump camp. trump is refuting this, but we've heard sources tell us that the administration may be aggress skpif claim premature victory on election night if he comes close to 270 electoral college votes. what would you think if he were to do that? >> well, i think there's a couple things. number one, calling -- saying you've won an individual state is different than saying you've won the election. so, some states will obviously have more votes counted than others. >> many states may not even have ballots counted by then. >> so, it will depend on the state. if you have a state where you have a substantial number of ballots uncounted and it's a very, very close election, it wouldn't be prudent for either campaign to claim victory. it doesn't mean anything. you could go out and say i won a state, and if they haven't

counted all the ballots, and tomorrow when you lost, you look like a -- look dumb for saying you won when you didn't. it would only be prudent to claim victory in a state where most of the ballots have been counted and it's clear you have an insurmountable lead. i wouldn't advise claiming victory unless you knew it for sure. >> thank you both so much. listen. this election is historic for a number of reasons and for many african-american voters in this country, it is deeply personal. coming up after the break, we'll talk live to some voters about their experiences as black women seeing hope in senator kamala harris. who's supporting prop 15?

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civil rights groups in north carolina say police broke the law as they used pepper spray to dits percent a peaceful demonstration saturday. the police lieutenant there claims the protesters were blocking the street, but the event's organizers deny that. the demonstration was billed as a march to the polls event honoring black americans whose deaths have fuelled. with me now, latasha brown, cofounder of black voters matter, and alesia garzen, one of the three women who cofounded black lives matter. she's author of "the purpose of power." i'll get the book on the screen. ladies, it is wonderful to have

you both on. latasha, i know you've been in the thick of it. what are you hearing about examples of voter suppression? >> we have witnessed it. we have been on the road for the last 35 days. i've seen voter suppression from people who have registered to vote to say that they were not registered, that they never got their registration form to people submitting to get an absentee ballot and never received that absentee ballot down to in galveston, texas, where we were two weeks ago, there were three races held by republican judges, those races had challengers and they were left off the ballot. the good news is we've been seeing a certain level of excitement where people are responding that people are coming out in record numbers. >> i want to talk about the excitement. and alesia, this is to you, specifically on the black vote. i saw the joe biden campaign,

one final push in florida today. we saw joe biden standing alongside members of george floyd's family on the step of one of tallahassee's black churches. i've seen, quote, i don't see it this year, i'm not going to say i'm concerned but it's not the same. are you concerned, alesia? >> well, here's what i think. what i think is that the story of this election is frankly that movements made it happen. and sure, the obama election was superb and it was exceptional. but we are in the middle of a pandemic. we are in the midst of an economic recession. we are in the midst of a crisis in our democracy. so, we shouldn't expect that what we're going to see is 2016 level -- or i'm sorry, 2008 and 2012 level participation. but we should look at this

election as its own particular f phenomenon. and i'm really proud of every single person who has gotten out there, who has voted early, and every single person like latasha who is getting people out there making sure people vote, making sure people know their votes matter and also making sure that people know that whatever happens on tuesday that the story of the success of this election is that we participated. and we participated at record levels given the conditions that we're facing right now. >> well, latasha, let's talk about your personal participation. obviously i follow you on all the socials, and i saw your emotional video from the other day when you cast your ballot. you were talking about your mother and grandmother and the women before you. can you just talk to me about your emotions in that moment? >> yeah, you i don't know, i went to vote. i came back. we've been on the road, black voters matter, we've been on our -- we got powered bus tour. we've been on the road i think 37 days.

and we came home so i could vote on friday. and i expected to just go in, vote, get back to business, come back to work. and while i was in there, i saw kamala harris' name. i did not expect to have this reaction at all. i saw her name on the ballot, and i was overwhelmed with emotion. all i could think about was my brand mother and mother and mothers before them and in that moment i thought about it, i just voted -- i just voted for a black woman for vice president of this country. and i was overwhelmed. i went in my car and i sat down for probably about 20 minutes before i could really gather myself because i knew how significant that moment was. and i also feel that same kind of -- >> did we lose her? alesia, let me come back to you. service such a gripping story. and to watch tears falling from the corners of her eyes just thinking about, you know, summoning history and the women who came before her and knowing that she was voting for a black

woman potentially as vice president of this country. you and i recently talked. i want to say this again. you are one of three women who founded the black lives matter movement. and you often emphasize the power of black women in your conversations. you alluded to this a second ago. black women have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. black women have shouldered the burden at home. the rules have been rigged against your communities. with this election and beyond, how can the tide turn? >> well, the first thing is we have to continue to show up. and black women are showing us the way. and it's women like latasha, women like patrisse cullors, women like so many black women who are out here voting against all odds and doing what we need to do to make democracy work for us and make democracy work for this country. i mean, that is the story, as i said earlier, of this election.

but the thing that we have to do moving forward is to keep going. we cannot let this be one pivotal moment, but we have to actually say, this is going to be a sea change in how it is that we hold elected officials accountable, how it is we engage in the democratic system. and now we know that fundamentally this democratic system is not guaranteed to any of us. you know, the honorable congressman john lewis said to us that the vote is not guaranteed. it is the reason that he crossed the edmund pettus bridge and faced violence just for our right to vote. and we need to make sure we lift up his legacy, but we also need to make sure we further the legacy of people like latasha, people like my grandmother and mother, people like black women who are staying up late at night trying to make ends meet and trying to make sure we can

pursue our dreams at the same time. i hope what happens in this nation from this point forward is that black women get a chance to pursue our dreams in the daylight. that is why we are standing in lines for four and five and six hours to make sure that our voices are heard. so everybody who's listening right now, keep going. you're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing. and frankly we're not going to stop until we get it done. take it from me, take it from our ancestors, we are sick and tired of being sick and tired and we're not going to stop until we reach freedom. >> pursuing your dreams in the daylight, alicia garza. it is always a pressure to talk to you. your new book "the purpose of power" is out. and latasha, thank you for the moments we had you. a trump adviser goes on tv. wait until you hear where he took his criticisms. th the ninji smart xl grill.

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you, the crowd was chanting fire fauci as in dr. anthony fauci. the president seems to be suggesting that he would consider doing that if in fact he is reelected. dr. fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert. the president and dr. fauci have been at odds over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic which is in the midst of a brutal new wave. most saying taking precautions against covid-19 is more important than ever, but not white house coronavirus advisor two is criticizing measures like lockdowns, not in the u.s. media but the kremlin controlled rt. he has apologized for appearing on the network saying that he was unaware they are a registered foreign agent and a source said the white house did not clear the appearance. straight to dr. rodriguez, we

don't normally talk at this time of the day. i appreciate you staying up late with me very much. let me just begin with the combined chance from the crowd there in florida, you know, fire fauci. the president almost teasing them that perhaps he will consider it after the election mixed with what we just heard from dr. atlas on rt, what do you think? >> well, if he fires anthony fauci it will be the firing heard round the world. you know, dr. fauci is the most published scientist in the world. he spearheaded the discovery of the antibody for hiv. he has been at every forefront in medicine, really, for the last 40 years. and dr. fauci came out in one of the newspapers a couple of days ago and said what a lot of us were hoping he would have said a

while back at how dysfunction the u.s. response to covid has been. so he is obviously, along with other doctors now apparently on the president's black list. let's see what happens. it would be a great mistake for him to do anything. >> it was the "washington post" with whom he was speaking. he gave mark meadows credit for being honest saying they didn't have covid under control, and then he was criticizing scott atlas. this is where my ears perked up with where we are with covid-19. he said we are in for a whole lot of hurt. it is not a good situation. all of the stars are aligned in the wrong places you have people congregating at home and indoors. you couldn't be positioned more

poorly. not just dr. fauci. listen to this. >> things are getting worse around the country. i think thanksgiving will be an inflection point and december will be our toughest months. you are seeing accelerated spread. we are at the beginning of what looks like expotential growth. does the u.s. need to consider another lockdown? >> i think we need to consider stricter measures and people need to wake up. i have no doubt we will have lockdowns in different parts of the country. u.k., germany, france is embarking on a lockdown. and we are not special. you know, we are about to hit 100,000 cases a day. and for those people that say that is just because people are being tested, that is absolutely incorrect. the percentage of people that

are turning out positive continues to skyrocket. look at the graph that is on cnn all of the time and in the medical journals. it will go to approximately 2,000 to 2,500 deaths per day. >> i appreciate that. let me jump in. we want to think we are, but when it comes to covid, we're not. dr. jorge rodriguez in los angeles for me tonight. great to have you on. thank you so much. that does it for this hour. our live coverage of the countdown to election day continues with me after a quick break.

former vice president joe biden and u.s. president donald trump are making final appeals to voters in key states for what is likely the most important election of our lifetime. millions of americans are voting as the country battles the devastating pandemic. the u.s. logged more than 80,000 cases on sunday. it is 1:00 a.m. on the east coast. 10:00 p.m. on the west coast. we are live as we count down to election day here in america. it has been exactly four years since donald trump's shock win

over hillary clinton and we will soon know if deeply divided america thinks he deserves a second term. election results will start coming in just over a day from now and the candidates are scrambling for every last vote. joe biden will hold multiple events in pennsylvania and president trump will visit the critical state that could end up deciding the election and also hit north carolina, michigan and wisconsin, all of which he won in 2016. the president by the way holding a late night rally in miami where thousands of people chanted four more years, a fired up joe biden spent much of his sunday in philadelphia with this scathing rebuke of the president. >> folks, in two days we can put an end to a president that failed to protect this nation.

in two days we can put an end to a presidency that fanned the flames of hate. we choose hope over fear and unity over division. we choose science over fiction. yes, we choose truth over lies. multiple lies that he repeats. it is time to stand up. it is time to take back our democracy. >> they want to close down your factories and ship your jobs to china and eliminate private health care, destroy the suburbs, abolish oil and natural gas and send your state -- you know what will happen? you will have a depression. the biden/harris agenda is a war on workers, faith and our police. >> tonight a trump advisor tells cnn the president is likely to declare a premature victory on tuesday evening if he gets close

to the magic number of 270 in the key electoral votes even if a large number of ballots is still being counted. president trump is denying that. >> that was a false report. we will look at what happens. >> more than 93 million americans early voted according to the u.s. elections project and a majoerity with a record turn out. now a federal judge will take extraordinary measures to get ballots to offices on time. the postal service was ordered to notify processing plant managers to ensure delivery of every ballot by the cut-off time on election day. let's start there.

good to see you. your take aways from these extraordinary measures. >> reporter: this is a perfect example of the vital roles that the courts could play in the election. protecting the election, protecting the right to vote and to have our vote actually happened. there are a couple of things that jumped out at me. the specificity. you don't ordinarily see stuff this specific. and the urgency. we talked a lot over the years about how slow our system can be. here you have a federal court saying do it, do it now. it is november 2nd. election day is tomorrow. it is good that courts are recognizing there is no time for foot dragging. >> you had me there. it is technically november 2nd if you are on the east coast election day is tomorrow. my goodness. speaking of election day, we are

reporting according to sources from the administration that trump may very well declare a premature victory tuesday night even if he hasn't hit the 270 threshhold. you know, you have to call that out because a large number of ballots may not even be counted in a number of states by then. you heard the president get off of the plane and do that. how could he do that if he hasn't hit 270. >> if he does this, heaven help us. let me make sure people understand. this is wrong. this is not the way our system works. the constitution gives the states the power to run the election and federal law creates a five-week period to allow the states to finish counting their votes to certify the election. if the president does it, it simply is contrary to law. we have states that don't allow themselves to start counting votes until election day. if the president tries this, everybody will have a

responsibility. the media. the public has to resist this. they have to push hard to let the process play out. politicians, democrats are going to have to fight like mad. republicans need to stand up and say this is not how the system and the process works and the courts can't count them into this and the court can't have any part of a declaration of victory. it is just not the way that the system works. >> we are all so used to answers. we want to know who will win election night or the early hours of wednesday morning. but it is okay that it is taking a couple of days to count every ballot. we know the court is letting states count mail-in ballots received after election day and not others. north carolina ballots can arrive up to nine days after election day. in pennsylvania they can arrive up to three days late, for now. in wisconsin the ballots must be

in by election night. people are looking at it and they are confused and they want their answers. why the different rulings? >> the supreme court has been all over the map literally in the way that you laid out. i think that it helps to break it down by the justice system. there are three justices who in all of the cases have uniformly voted in favor of extended deadlidea deadlin deadlines. three on the other side voting against extended deadlines. that leaves us with robert and kavanaugh. i do think there is a concern. kavanaugh left bread crumbs up for it for throwing out late arriving ballots after november 3rd and the x factor of amy coney barrett. she could tip the ballots if she does weigh in. >> we are go to leave it. have a great night.

good to have you on. arizona, a crucial swing state that threatens to derail president trump's re-election chances. joe biden holds a small lead and if he takes it he could be in good position to reach the 270 electoral votes that it takes to win the presidency. with me now arizona congressman live from phoenix. congressman, great to have you on. >> great to be here. >> first let me start with you. even if trump doesn't hit 270 electoral votes on tuesday night he may be aggressive in calling it for himself essentially, you know, the premature victory. this had is not how it works, you know. a number of states won't have counted all of the ballots.

>> he doesn't make the call. every state has their own certification process and there are guidelines about when the election is actually certified. he can lie to himself and to his followers but he will be losing and he will be out on january 20th one way or another. i don't want to play into the fearmongering. i don't know what mind games he is playing with his people. democracy will win the day and he will be out of the white house. >> we will let the people decide and we will watch the electoral college votes closely and see where it goes. i want to talk to you about your key state of arizona. extremely tight race between biden and trump. one question this year, does arizona flip from red to blue. i was reading the article out of the washington post describing 1 in 4 voters are non-white and a slim majority of voters were college graduates according to the 2016 exit polls.

the state is ripe to turn blue. but why hasn't it already, and what is your biggest worry come tuesday? >> well, we have a very young electorate. it has been a while many of us have been working to make the community more active. to date we have more latinos that voted by mail than in all of 2016 up until last week when that occurred. we also had a lot of people that did not quite understand what the danger was to a trump presidency. many of us warned them. we have seen this type of action before. we saw what was happening. there were a lot of people that did not want to believe it and now we see it as well as covid-19 ravaged arizona and it

hurt our economy and it has hurt the people of color in the state. all of that combined really brought an awakening to a lot of voters that are realizing this is not the presidency for that. that is why we see a surge of first-time voters. >> it will be interesting to watch, one of the last states to close the polls on tuesday. and lastly we have to talk about closely watched senate contest with the polls showing 52% backed democrat mark kelly and this is a state that you knew that gave us mitt romney, john mccamey barry goldwater. how could it be want state that elects mark kelly over senator mcsally? >> arizona has always been a moderate state. we were led by a moderate

republican in john mccain and he established the mold of that. whenever there were new candidates that came along that fit the mold we did vote for that. mark kelly fits the mold of a democrat that can work with both sides. he has got his own western independence streak in the west and i think that fits arizona. unlike martha mcsally where she is polling less than donald trump. mark kelly fits the environment. he has worked his tail off. that is why you see it in the polling. he is really going to bring it home and in the process he will turn the rest of the state blue. we are very lucky to have a great ticket with biden and harris on top. >> appreciate your confidence. we have to wait to see if it goes blue. we will all be watching arizona

so, so closely. thank you. our coverage continues live around the clock leading up to election day and tune in to cnn tuesday on election night in america. young people in america are poised to be a huge factor in the 2020 presidential election. ahead, my conversation with a youth activist that survived that parkland school shooting in 2018. >> i want us to be better as a country and i think there is a lot of injustice and things that need to be fixed. >> move past difficulties and hurdles and cast a vote and get it in the system. it will be safe. it will count. all otc pain relievers including voltaren

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>> people are really starting to recognize all of the different chaos in the political climate. voting is the only real say we can have. >> i think it is about the

character of the country in who we vote for. i just want my voice heard on that. >> 2020 has been a record shattering year for early voting among young people. listen to this, 9.5 million people between the ages of 18-29 already cast an early vote. remains to be seen whether young voters will turn out in higher numbers overall or just are voting earlier. here is an adavid, an activist. you voted right when you could a couple of weeks ago. what did it feel like?

>> it felt surreal. i hope we are go to have changes in the white house and the senate. it felt like a really big impact. it is amazing to think of the impact that filling in one bubble can have. >> totally. part of the story now going into november 3rd is that we have seen a record number of early voting specifically when it comes to young people. you have been a part of this rally encouraging the younger people across the country to vote. i am just curious. what are you hearing?

what is the issue that is getting them to vote? >> i think the issue getting young people to vote, frankly it is all of the issues. i was texting a friend today that is a former member of the organization. i was talking about why there is such a high voter turn out. people are just fed up and understandably so. we are seeing a massive amount of inequality and gun violence and climate change happening. one of them is working on creating a future for us that is not survival.

the parents. here you are in this new film coming out called "us kids" following a number of you for the march for our lives movement. here is a quick clip. >> get involved today by voting for policies that won't get you killed tomorrow. >> i am excited because i have not seen a movement like this since 1963 when change is on the horizon. >> how do you hope this will inspire other young people? >> i hope it inspires others to give them cautiously optimistic

hope. things can change if enough people get involved every day americans are mobilizing to save our democracy and save every day people. i just hope the documentary shows what happens when people can vote. they truly do care about the people and the people of the country and not just making a special interest happy. there is one interest that should be at the minds of everyone. the american people. >> david, great to have you on and good luck. >> thank you. >> here we are in the final stretch. one swing state here is

wisconsin. the president will campaign there in the coming day. what is on the minds of wisconsin voters? >> reporter: even as they brace for election day like an approaching hurricane. some are worries about what happened in kenosha and the president who refuses to take it seriously with every visit. >> we are rounding the curve. we are rounding the corner. >> i don't understand how he can down play the seriousness of this. totally escapes me. >> it is wrong. i think that biden will win the state. i think that it has strongly affected the way that i would vote. i think that trump has handled this abysmally. >> they are among the thousands pouring through the coronavirus testing center in madison each day as that is top 2,000, new

cases set records at hospitals nearly overflowing. in trump's wisconsin, the farm country up north to the suburbs of milwaukee there is a different level of covid concern. >> did it affect the way you think of the election? >> they say if they have hand sanitizer, wipes, glass protection. very safe. my biggest reason for voting for trump, biden, i don't believe he will live that long. i am a female. i am not comfortable with two females in office. >> donald trump waves the white flag and surrendered to the virus. >> less than 200 absent see bee ballots are still outstanding. >> election mail had gotten so slow in wisconsin a federal judge ordered a state wide sweep starting tonight and if they find any ballots take

extraordinary measures to get them in in time. that is just getting them in. back in april 23,000 were rejected because the voter did not know to sign the involve. donald trump won wisconsin by less than 23,000 votes. mistakes matter. >> the thing is that because we had a dress rehearsal in wisconsin, we know how to do it now and we will see a more effective election apparatus. >> reporter: for those worried about tuesday's crowds, after testing a quarter million people not a single worker here caught the virus. >> any given day one of our testers is exposed to about 80 positive cases and they are wearing a mask and face shield. >> what do you think when you see the big political rallies with thousands of people without

masks? >> i worry. i know the virus is going to spread in that community. >> so nice to hear from a variety of voters there. speaking of joe biden, his message is resonating with more women than president trump's campaign according to cnn's latest poll. women voters may hold the key to picking the next u.s. president. (♪ ) keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed

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people should realize how extremely important that it is to vote. we think one little vote might not make a difference but it makes a lot of difference. >> it felt good. it felt like i was somebody. >> those are wise women. listen, there is a lot to suggest that female voters hold the key to the election. men are evenly split between donald trump and joe biden but women favor biden by 61%. the founder of progress pa, helping democratic candidates get elected in pennsylvania. and you know, you voted republican for a number of years. my how the tables have turned.

nice to have you on. >> my pleasure, brooklyn. >> -- my understanding is that it was let it be another person's job. you were merely a meager voter. what changed for you? >> i woke up the morning after the 2016 election and had five really important reasons. i have three children and two step children that i adore and i saw a future where i did not recognize the america. wasn't the america i signed up for or hoped to get to. >> let's remind everyone going back to 2016, the 53% of women that voted, 41% voted for trump. do you get the sense this year that the number will change? >> i definitely do and i want to tell you why.

shortly after the women's march in 2017, there was a boiling throughout pennsylvania of women who have been united in their desire. i think they took the polls too seriously. 2016 at this time, hillary clinton was seven points up in pennsylvania. many women went to bed on election night thinking they had it in the bag only to wake up and realize there was something else that hadn't been done. so, i really believe that we are in a situation where many women got to work, beginning in 2017 to keep this 2020 election in the crosshairs. >> yes. it was a reckoning for a lot of women having covered the women's march and afterwards talking to

so many women. it would be an over simplification to say trump got women fired up. i read this amazing "new york times" piece. let me read it for you. before the trump era these women were hardly radical. many voted for george w. bush and represent not just the feminist activism but the had it up to here with my republican neighbors anger of pennsylvania where dozen of groups that popped up in the last four years. we are on tv late at night. compare the women that woke up in 2016 with the five pits in her stomach to the woman i am talking to live on tv today. what is the biggest change in you? >> the biggest change is learning how broad and deep that the network of women across

pennsylvania. progress p.a. is a group that reached a certain age and a few younger ones that made the decision we were not go to let the movement that began in 2017 sputter out of control and we realized that all of the women in pennsylvania needed a motherhood and a helping hand. our organization was going to be helping to pass the bill for other organizations and some of the organizations we are helping to build will be working on recruiting candidates or raising money for all of the above. really what we found is that we had a lot of talent that was unrecognized and unrealized and ready to be put to work. >> kpeextraordinary what can happen. stacey, good luck to you.

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has publicly suggested that he might fire dr. anthony fauci, the top infectious disease expert in the u.s. this is the exchange just a little while ago. >> don't tell anybody but let me wait until a little bit after the election please. >> that was just earlier this evening. you know, the president has a contentious relationship with dr. fauci. as the president insists the country is turning the corner, fauci says that we are in for a whole lot of hurt with covid-19 rates soaring in the u.s. and experts warning the worst is yet to come. the most cases ever recorded on

a single sunday, 80,000. midwest states are seeing more hospitalizations as the presidential race comes down to the wire and there are worries about how to keep people safe as they go to the polls. live now from westport, massachusetts. a biology professor. nice to have you on and thanks for hanging out with me this late night. >> no problem at all. how are you tonight? >> i am doing all right. we have a little bit going on in this country. i first want to just focus on covid. the u.s. is not on the right path. i mentioned on sunday, the 1st of november saw the most coronavirus cases ever reported on a sunday and the ninth highest day total of the pandemic. did the u.s. need to consider other lock downs like in supeur? >> we need to do something to

get it under control. it is only a matter of time before it gets into that population there of all of tf o people. we will have to come up with stronger measures or closing down the businesses that are responsible for the largest amount of transmission. >> of course businesses hate hearing that. it is colder out. people want to gather inside. indoor dining, depending where you are in the u.s. is allowed or certain small percentage. is there a safe way to gather this winter in small groups? >> there is. it shouldn't be an all or nothing wrong. there is a middle ground. i recently dined in a restaurant that had eight or nine mitigation strategies put into

the restaurant to make the indoor dining experience safe. that is the first time i have been indoors dining since february and i felt wonderfully safe. >> tell me what you mean. what were the mitigation strategies? >> temperature checks when you came in. not great but they are okay. they put in high level of filtration. they had hepa filters on the floor. they made these incredible barriers out of old tables from the restaurants so that there was a physical barrier. the employees were in n95s and white gloves. layer upon layer of protection for the employees and the guests in the restaurants. >> i am wondering for everyone watching, people if they have not already early voted. people are kind of freaked out for lack of a better term at the

possibility of getting sick. what do you tell people to do? >> with voting you are spending a lot of time waiting for voting but that wait is outside and we know it is less risky than indoors but we need to keep our distance and if we can't maintain it properly we need to make sure that we have masks on. they are a good idea anyway. when we get to the inside portion, what we are aiming to do is to lower the duration and the time that you spend inside there. duration there is really important. things that you can do to make it faster when you are inside is to know what the ballot looks like. look at a sample ballot online. know the way you are going to vote when you get in there so that it is as quick as possible and mind your interactions. keep them at six feet. make sure that there are masks and do not get into any verbal

confrontations or anything like that in the line or voting. >> get in and get out. practice that bubbling ahead of time. aaron, great tips. great to have you on again. >> thank you. >> listen, this was not isolated to the united states. the coronavirus is raging in other countries as well. europe is seeing a dangerous resurgence. let's get the latest updates from around the world. >> reporter: i am max foster in england where a second national lockdown is due to take effect from thursday to prevent hospitals from becoming overrun with coronavirus patients. prime minister johnson is due to confirm plans in an address to parliament meaning people only could leave their homes for work, education or to buy essential items for example. he said the plan was to have a lockdown lasting four weeks but on sunday a senior minister told sky news it could be extended if

necessary. the opposition leader said that a lockdown should have been imposed weeks ago. >> reporter: day three in paris on a partial nationwide lockdown meaning people have to stay at home or can only leave if they go out for less than an hour unless they are equipped with a special piece of paper explaining why it is necessary. they try to bring the surging covid-19 figures back in control. some positivity rates in france above 20% and hospitalizations up substantially and some icus running out of capacity in european cities. a second wave that is looking worse than the first for europe with the virus spreading faster and wider than it did the first time. >> reporter: i am matt rivers in mexico city where they spent the day celebrating the day of the dead holiday where family

members remember loved ones that passed off. roughly 92,000 people have lost their lives as a result of the coronavirus. the government declared saturday, sunday, morning as days of national mourning to remember those victims. they set up traditional altars used by mexicans to remember their dead. critics say the government's mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic is part of the reason that mexico's death toll is so high. >> thanks to all of you and new reports out of the u.k. indicate that prince william tested positive for coronavirus earlier this year and didn't go public because there were important things going on. prince charles got the virus in late march and self isolated in scotland for a week. kensington palace hasn't commented on the reports. as the election is in the final

stretch, hollywood stars are encouraging americans to get out and vote. we will hear about the issues that matter the most in this race.

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have been urging americans to cast their ballots this crucial election. among them billy eichner who spent sunday phone banking for pennsylvania. he said it's shameful just how close this election has been. billy eichner joins me now. he is the senior adviser of swing left. he's a biden-harris supporter. good to have you on. welcome. >> thank you so much. thanks for having me. >> listen, we've got a lot to go through. i know you are fired up. i've spent quite a bit of time on your instagram. we'll get to issues in a second. i don't know if you've heard this. cnn has learned that the trump campaign plans to be very aggressive on election night and is prepared to declare victory, billy, even if the president is close to the 270 electoral votes he needs to win even if large number of ballots have yet to be

counted. what's your reaction to that? >> my reaction to that is he is a pathological liar, and he's a sociopath, always has been, always will be. so i'm not surprised at all. democrats and pundits at large for the past year have been predicting that he would do this. he knows he's behind. and like everything else in his life that he's ever done, he knows the only way he can give people the optics that he wants, give people the image of winning, is by cheating, right? that's what he's done his whole life, right? he cheated on his taxes. he cheats. he lies. this is what he does. and honestly it's worked for him a lot to a really disgusting, shameful degree that our culture allowed it to. but it's not going to work this time. >> it's not just about joe biden and kamala harris for you. i know it is about the issues. between the supreme court, gay

marriage, women's rights, health care, fill in the blank, billy. what is the most important issue for you? >> look, there are so many. i'm a part of the lgbtq community, very proud gay person. so, when i see someone with a history of homophobia like amy coney barrett get a lifetime seat on the supreme court, that gets my community scared. in addition to women's rights and criminal justice reform and black lives matter, the thing that's on my mind that affects everyone, democrats, republicans, everyone is health care. affordable health care. we are nothing without our health. and there are people with pre-existing conditions who are only able to get health care because of obamacare and obamacare is not perfect. but it allowed 20 million more people, especially those with pre-existing conditions, to finally get affordable health care. and now it's time to improve upon that, and you have trump and a supreme court potentially

and certainly republicans in the senate who want to take away that health care. i don't understand. it affects their own constituents too. it is our health and it's our mental health. >> i hear how critical you are of this president. here's what i wonder because i know you've been working the phones, phone banking. have you talked to any trump supporters? >> yep. >> and are you concerned that a number of people will be voting for trump but just not saying it out loud or telling pollsters? >> there's absolutely some of that that will happen. but my focus is not on trump voters. there's no way in the next 48 hours i'm going to miraculously get someone who's racist to not be racist. that's not going to happen. so, this is my whole focus right now. this is the most important message. as you can tell i'm very passionate about this. i have been phone banking all day with hundreds of other people. if you're someone like me in a

blue state or even in a red state that wants to see trump gone and you feel helpless, the best thing you can do right now in addition to voting, of course, but the best thing you can do, what we need everyone to do, is to help us phone bank. you can go to swingleft.org/phonebank. we are going to be phone banking in pennsylvania. i did it all day today with lots of other people all over, ohio, texas, georgia, north carolina, wisconsin. we need people to get on the phones. >> all right. billy eichner still working the phones. thank you so much for spending the evening with us just for a couple of minutes. thank you. >> thank you. and thank you for spending your evening with me. just this quick note, we at cnn of course want everyone to vote. republican, democrat, third party, it doesn't matter. just please exercise your right. you've been watching cnn's live coverage of countdown to election day in america. the news continues next with kate bolduan. ok, just keep coloring there...

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