voting is a habit-forming behavior. tois up to all of us encourage a high level of civic participation that i expect to see. john: thank you, kristen, tara. thanks to all of our partners, including rob, bill, and finally, thank you to our audience. important events leading up to the election and thinking about our future. to florida, anow state he won in 2016, for a campaign rally in tucson. watch live at 6:00 on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app emma -- radio app. >> joining us is the president of judicial watch, here to talk about issues of the russian investigation and other topics.

remind the viewers about the purpose of your organization. also could you tell viewers how you are funded? voluntaryough donations from the american people. we are a nonprofit educational foundation that tries to bring more transparency, accountability, and the rule of law to our nation's public life. host: one of the issues of transparency that your organization spends a lot of time with is looking into the russian investigation and the backdrop of it. what wasople again essentially your take on what was done in that investigation. guest: my take is the obama administration and hillary clinton campaign were nervous about the legal issues surrounding hillary clinton's emails and other misconduct of 2016bama administration in

as it related to hillary clinton's emails and the targeting of president trump. they doubled down on it, manufactured false allegations against president trump to excuse unprecedented spy operations and later criminal investigations into trump and his team. host: what substantially came out of that? we saw the mueller report eventually, but what conclusive evidence have we found? guest: recently we have information our intelligence community had intelligence that the russians, evidently listening to hillary clinton and company, new that clinton was making it up or was trying to diffuse the russia collusion allegations that were fanciful to distract people from her email obligations. that was briefed to president

to thend was referred fbi for investigation, but not much was done. host: as far as the release of information, one of the things that people were looking for was the durham report. what was that and what was released from it? guest: durham has not released anything. there have been some disclosures from the office of intelligence and other agencies. someial watch received documents about what was going on. durham has had one prosecution/plea deal and not much else. host: the washington post reported last week that there are still no criminal charges or public report on this. why do you think that is! you would have to ask the justice department. it is a disappointment. durham was appointed in april 2019.

there is no excuse for the lack of action. i am not seeing evidence he has done a serious investigation. compare and contrast to mueller. what a significant d.c. criminal investigation looks like. es.nesses, grand juri none of that is president -- is present in the durham operation. host: in most recent days, the president sent out in a tweet as far as the authorization of a declassification. talk about that tweet, what resulted, and what you expect. guest: he said he was ordering the declassification of everything related to the russia gate probe and hillary clinton's and mel's -- emails. the justice department has not released anything to us. they told us the tweet has no meaning legally.

i don't know whether that is right or true. my question is, why is the justice and state department continuing to cover up documents? this is not required by law. it is usually discretionary, despite the president's wishes to the contrary. host: who is behind the cover up? are you pointing to people appointed by the president? ultimately someone like christopher wray is responsible, attorney general barr. they know these documents are out there but they don't have much interest in having them released. timing, sor as the far from the russia investigation, why do you think that matters today? guest: because, as i collect it, is still going on. you still have leaks targeting president trump.

what took place during the russia investigation is a crime in my view. the more information we have, the more accountability there will be. it is not sufficient to get a criminal investigation going, but if we don't know what they did, there is going to be zero public pressure on the justice department to hold them accountable. one of the reason durham has been able to skate without having to do anything is because only now are we learning key aspects about the corruption behind russiagate. host: such as how? and barack brandon obama knew that the russia gate smears were just that and that they were concocted by the clinton campaign to target trump. we have known that generally and in the last few months we have information going back to the beginning that flynn was

knowingly and falsely targeted for prosecution by the obama administration and the mueller operation. we are only hearing about that in the last few months. didn't durham know about that early on? why didn't he act on it? guest: if you want to ask questions, you can give us a call. you can also post on twitter and our facebook page. into relatedtry matters are these series of stories out of the new york post. what do you think of them? guest: they confirm there is significant corruption with the way biden and his family were operating during his vice presidency, probably before, that they were trading on his name, his office, to line their pockets that's what the evidence shows.

-- we are went on supposed to forget about coupchment and the attempt on the president earlier this year. the president asked ukrainians what was going on with biden and they went crazy, his political opposition. now we know why, because he was onto something probably bigger than he knew. host: when you say it confirms, how do you qualify that? guest: vice president biden the top to having fired prosecutor in ukraine that coincidentally had been investigating his son's board, burisma. out frommails coming the state department showing that they had long-standing concerns -- the email suggested long-standing concerns about

biden and burisma. one official called it the gift that keeps giving and talked about the russians trolling biden over burisma. it was a big deal in the state department. we saw that confirmed during impeachment. we are seeing it confirmed with documents. now we are having the blanks filled in as to what moneys were being sloshed around. host: from the statement you called for the removal of the investigator because he was slow walking the process. guest: those are after-the-fact rationalizations. how many prosecutors does the vice president get involved in firing? host: the new york post story, is there a direct line from the computer itself, the person who founded, to rudy giuliani? are there questions as to the

validity of the evidence? guest: the new york post tried to figure out the chain of custody and i would hope the justice department and fbi are doing something about it. i am concerned they are covering it up to undermine the allegations. it seems a straightforward issue to figure out whether the emails are legit or not. we have information that hunter biden's lawyer was seeking a return of the material and i have not seen anything from the biden campaign to suggest the emails are not accurate. there is a "washington post this week where biden is reported to tell someone how he needed to make money for the family. we have politico being told by the biden campaign there is no official scheduled meeting between biden and this burisma official, but we can't rule out it did not happen. this is piling up and i suspect

it will get worse. host: the washington times has a story taking a look at this issue. the first sentence says hunter biden left the laptop computer at a delaware repair shop, whose owner gave the material to the fbi and president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani. according to the washington times, the shop owner told that to a senate committee. guest: when you confirm that to a government body, you are putting yourself in legal risk if you are lying. let's get it out. i want to hear what joe biden has to say about these emails. did he get any money from his brother and his son? where was that money coming from? we want the details about where hunter biden was getting money. the scandal is significant. i am also concerned about why

the justice department and fbi has been sitting on this material for a year. what have they been doing? attorney general barr earlier this year said, i don't see any evidence about obama's or biden's involvement in crimes. they are not going to be pursued. did he know about the laptop? if not, why not? host: what's the likelihood that any other information is going to come out so close to election day? documentsmay just get in the ordinary course because of the freedom of information act lawsuits. separately we may get some documents about dr. fauci and his top deputy and their communications about china, the who, and coronavirus as soon as next week. we never know what's going to be in the mail the next day. our first call comes from

new hampshire, sarah on our independent line. go ahead. when donald trump asked the russians for help during his campaign, while we were fighting the russians in syria, i think that should have been enough to open a full investigation on donald trump and his minions and they should have been out of the race. they would have found out the ,ies between donald trump's men his campaign people, between them and russia, them in ukraine , and we wouldn't be in this debacle with this sociopath running our country into the ground under a russian coup. thatis a russian coup donald trump and his people are perpetrating against the

american people and constitution. trump shakingnald down the ukraine, which is extortion, lying to the american people 20,000 times and not protecting us from covid-19. --,000 americans dead host: you brought up a couple topics so we will let our guest address that. guest: on the russian side, that is a crazy conspiracy theory not backed up by evidence. president trump nor any other american knowingly worked with the russians to interfere with our campaign. that's the conclusion of the mueller report, of every indictment mueller brought related to the russian hacking, and -- of of the d&c the dnc. you are saying words that are not backed up by reality. host: from massachusetts, james,

democrats line. caller: i would like to ask a couple of questions. i know you mentioned you testified before congress -- if you testified before congress and tell a lie, there should be criminal consequences. if you like to know believe the four times donald trump went before congress under sworn testimony that donald trump was following all the information he was given, following the science, do you believe dr. fauci should go to jail for that? one other question. interviewaham had an with eiji horowitz -- with ig horowitz. i would like to tout c-span's

archive. you can find that entire testimony and there is a picture of lindsey graham. the caption says, please listen to 35 minutes of lindsey graham's allies and conspiracy theories. that's what's going on at c-span and every other news agency in america -- censorship and carrying the water of joe biden like i can't even believe. i am not aware of dr. fauci lying to congress. i was not quite sure what the question is about inspector horowitz. 's report is worth reading. is something everybody ought to be reading because it demonstrates the fraudulent and criminal nature

of the obamagate/russiagate attack on our republic. caller: republic -- host: republican line, donald. caller: i have a couple voting.s about virginia voteswas over 500,000 ort are not being counted there was something wrong with them. ands wondering about that wondering about the investigation over the last and helped -- and how the prosecutor's people erased all their phones. is there going to be something coming out of that? segue because one

of the other issues judicial watchdogs, mail-in voting and watching over that. talk about the work you are doing there and relate it to the caller to a vs question. is the rolesncern are not clean enough to mail blindly into them, where you have valid and valid applications being mailed to people who have not asked for them. i think this is going to be 100 million valid applications mailed to people who have not asked for them. typically ballots are mailed in most states to people who have asked for them and in some states you have a vote by mail generally. we have had a massive increase operations in a way that increases the risk for voter fraud.

i think the call is referencing numbers during the 2020 primary where you had over 550,000 vote by mail ballots thrown out because of challenges and other problems. that number was above the 319,000 number for the 2016 general election. the concern is you have potentially millions of people disenfranchised because they relied on mail-in ballots. if you vote by mail, it has been generally understood your vote is more likely to be challenged, intercepted, lost, or thrown out. my view is you should be voting in person. host: your colleague and judicial watch took a look at inconsistencies that have risen in specific areas. if those are true, do you think it is enough to sway an

election? guest: the problem is we don't know. that's why you want a system that reassures people votes are going to be counted accurately, that only eligible voters are voting. we announced a study last week that showed in 29 states there are 1.9 million extra names on the roles. you have got more people on the roles than are living there and eligible to vote. it can mean dirty elections. is they are going to be counting ballots well after election day, not so much because they got a lot of ballots on election day, but some states are counting ballots that arrive after election day. in california, they will be counting ballots for 17 days after the election. that's absurd. even early voting opportunities

for voters, i understand why it may be more convenient to vote weeks before election day, but to me it is at odds with the best way to run an election. wereat the biden emails some trump thing on the other side may sway people to vote against him and they can't change their vote. once you make your vote and something comes up, it is too late. sen. harris: there is -- host: there is a lot of legal teams going to be involved. does judicial watch insert itself? guest: we are monitoring what's going on. we sued in california to try to prevent a lawless mail-in ballot plan. we ended the suit after they promised they would not be mailing to dead people and people who moved away.

we have three active lawsuits to clean up the roles in north carolina, colorado, and pennsylvania. even our warnings to states have a positive impact. in allegheny county, pennsylvania, when we warned them they had dirty names, they immediately removed 39,000 names. host: is the concern over widespread mail-in voting, absentee voting, or both? guest: these days it is a distinction without a difference because you have so many ballots going to people who have not asked for them. in the district of columbia, they just mailed to the voter registration lists. that is happening in california and nevada as well. when you have inactive names on the list, they won't necessarily get a ballot, but those names can be used to request ballots

and anyone with that name can show up to vote in person. when you have dirty lists, you should not be mailing blindly into them. it is a recipe for fraud and chaos. host: ohio, independent line, greg. >caller: good morning. i love the work you can do and i hope you can dig up some of that biden crap. as far as voting stuff, all people got to do is look at hr 1, the first bill congress passed. they could not get that done, so they are trying this mail and --in crap to steal the election. we don't have to worry about russia or china, it is the damn media. i love your work, keep it up.

was the number one piece of legislation introduced by the new pull oc house when she took over again. it incorporates many of the so-called election and voting reforms that the left wants, national ballot harvesting, eliminating voter id, all sorts of reforms they are now trying to mandate through litigation. the left opposes voter id, they oppose us cleaning up the rolls. they oppose every sensible security regulation related to voting. it doesn't make any sense unless they want to steal elections. ,ost: stephanie is next brooklyn, democrats line. caller: i amherst bonding to the russian investigation.

came in, he turned the mueller report around, which he lied about. administration was and still is with russia. giuliani, who is a crooked lawyer. son propaganda with biden's is all a story. everybody is going to look back about trump, his children, his daughter ivanka, his son in law jared kushner, and how much they are stealing from the people, the working people. we have nothing. the deficit is high. and the pooricher is poorer -- what would you like our guest to address? caller: the russia

investigation. fox news is a propaganda organization which tells lies. guest: when i talk about russia, i tried to refer back to government documents. barr lied alleges about the mueller report. he didn't. i encourage your viewers to barr's reportead and read the documents judicial watch is getting. bruce or, an official working with the clinton campaign, and gpswife working with fusion and having easy access to the justice department and fbi. everybody,elling these guys have it in for trump. you should know that. looking at the federal court

rulings highlighting the illegal warrants being used to spy on the trump team through carter page -- florida, whereo democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris is holding a campaign event with voters in florida. sen. harris: you are going to have an impact on people you may never meet, but because you in florida voted with your voice, you will very likely determine the outcome of this election. i am here on behalf of joe biden and myself to say thank you. [honking] i don't have to tell everybody here. there is so much at stake in this election. who watched the debates? [cheers] two.ve actually had

i really meant that townhall. did you see joe biden? wasn't he spectacular? in this election, folks have gotten two choices. i think what we saw in those town halls last week really made clear there is a distinct difference between the two choices being presented to the american people. on the one hand, joe biden, who is dedicated to building on the success he and president barack obama created with the affordable care act, which brought health care to 20 million people, an initiative born out of an understanding that health care should be a right and not a privilege of those who can afford it. the affordable care act, which said it just ain't right when

people who have pre-existing conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, breast cancer, be denied coverage because an insurance company doesn't cover you if you have an pre-existing condition. noy got rid of that and said longer can you deny access to health care if they have a pre-existing condition. joe biden has been fighting for working people his entire life. trump,other hand, donald who right now with bill barr is in the united states supreme court trying to sue against the affordable care act. if they are successful, they will get rid of coverage that

imagine if you knew what he knew on january 28 and what you might have done to protect your children, knowing it was inevitable there might be a time people would have to stay home from work and perhaps you could have planned for that. instead he held onto that information, covered it up, and then told the people you are on one side of his ledger. if you don't wear a mask, you are on the other side. what's that about? this is the difference between a donald trump and a joe biden.

joe biden stands for the people, with the people. he knows this election will be conducted by the people. that's what's ahead of us. what is ahead of us is to fight, knowing that we don't want a spends his time trying to sow hate and division between us. andnow that in the beauty the of what we are, the majority of us have so much more in common than what separates us. in the rainstanding because we know we are better than this and we know the strength of our democracy is in the strength of the people and that the people are prepared to fight for their country based on our love of our country. we will fight for our country.

that's what this election is about. with the exception of some of the great members of congress and mayors -- i also know you have other folks elected in florida. i'm not going to mention names. country, people are trying, including the , to suggest you can't trust our election system. they are trying to confuse folks about voting, trying to suggest there is something that lacks integrity about our system. they are trying to confuse folks about our power to vote, about how to vote. we are smarter than that and we know the power we have when we vote. here is the point i want to make. weetimes not only do we know have to vote to honor our

ancestors who fought for our rights, people like the late, great john lewis. we know we need to vote to honor. we just honored the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, all those suffragettes who fought for the right of women to vote. we also fight for all those who understand black women did not get to vote until 1965. ancestors, but this is what i want to ask you and then i am going to close my comments because i want y'all to get out of the rain. we have to ask -- and please get back in your cars. i will talk louder. here's the thing. over the people all country trying to put roadblocks in. picking up the drop boxes so people find it hard to find the dropbox to early vote.

they have been trying to suppress the vote, purge the voter rolls. you have to ask, why are these powerful people trying to make it so difficult to vote? because they know our power. they know when we vote, we win. , we vote when we vote for justice, fairness. they know we know what's on the ballot in 2020. justice, economic justice. criminal justice reform is on the ballot. reproductive justice is on the ballot. climate justice is on the ballot. we know what we have at stake and we know our power and that's why we will vote every day until election day and get this thing done. thank you.

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hearings for judge amy coney barrett concluded, watch the next steps. 9:00ing thursday live at a.m. eastern, the senate judiciary committee votes on the nomination. friday on c-span2, the full senate begins debate on confirmation. watch live on c-span and c-span2, stream on-demand at c-span.org, or listen live on the c-span radio app. do i let my people run it really well, or badly? if i run it badly, they will probably blame him. more importantly, i want to help people. he has cost 10 million people to health care they had from employers because of his recession. >> with less than two weeks before the election, watch the second presidential debate between president trump and joe

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color during the pandemic. this panel focused on the history of distrust of medical professionals in communities of color and what they would like social media companies to change about their platforms. this is held by george washington university. >> welcome back. from the moment coronavirus reached the united states, its impacts have been more severe for communities of color. the cdc reports that compared to white, non-hispanic americans, hispanic and latinx americans are 2.8 times more likely to contract the virus and 4.6 times more likely to require hospitalization. for black americans, the rate of infection is 2.6 times higher, hospitalization is 4.7 times greater, and the death rate 2.1 times that of white americans.