10000000 people in the world this think they have no nationality i'm told they don't belong and. that everyone has the right to. everyone has their rights. this is news and these are our top stories. u.s. president donald trump is due to face off against democratic challenger joe biden in the 2nd and final t.v. debates before the election former president barack obama has been campaigning for biden his former vice president who is leading in the polls. nigeria's president mohamed of worry has addressed the nation calling for an end to protests and warning protesters not to undermine national security despite growing

anger and unrest on the streets of the capital the commercial capital lagos and elsewhere the president made no mention of choose days police shooting of at least 12 people demonstrators have been rallying against police brutality. the biller asean democratic opposition and its leaders for atlanta. have been awarded the european parliament's top human rights award there's a core of freedom of thought prize mass protests against alexander lukashenko government have rocked the country since he declared victory in the disputed presidential election in august. this is the news from berlin follow us on twitter and on instagram at news or visit our website that's d.w. dot com. millions of americans are standing in line waiting their turn in early voting among

them and hardly ever notice to the european election observers every 4 years the u.s. invites teams to observe american democracy in action but this year they're watching for signs of a democracy in crisis donald trump is the 1st u.s. president to condemn an election calling it fraudulent and rigged it worries observers but it hasn't scared away the voters compared to 2016 early voting totals are already at 90 percent and there are still 12 days to go in this unprecedented american election season i'm bringing off in berlin this is the day. i love this particular state but i might never come here so often i did all over your state you better let me which by hope he's going to come prepared to talk about what he's for let's not forget that the president of the united states at

that last debate on a stage in front of that many 1000000 americans and openly encourages oppression of the full 13 days from now and you see what's going on you see him moment our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders. block everything that will deliver up to those of opportunity and hope the president needs to show that he is that he is a leader we've got to like that as well. also coming up next monday the u.s. senate is set to vote and approve the nomination of amy coney berets to the u.s. supreme court republicans call it there when democrats call it a sham. it's moments like this where you can tell young conservative women there's a place at the table for you the american people know what's going on there not.

they know this process is a sham take it out. to our viewers watching on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day as donald trump and joe biden prepare to go head to head in their final debate before the november 3rd presidential election the eyes of america and the world will be watching and expecting the unexpected tonight and with good reason the 2020 election season is unlike any that has come before the president has already predicted the election will be rigged falsely claiming that millions of mail in ballots will be faked millions of americans are casting their votes early this year so many that a record turnout now looks likely as for the presidential debates 3 words can sum them up chaos coronavirus and cancellation us president trumps performance in the

1st debate was so extreme that it has already been called that debate has been called the worst presidential debate in u.s. history the 2nd debate was called off after trump came down with coke at 19 despite the health risks trump refused to debate biden virtually and that brings us to tonight's debate joe biden enjoys a 10 percent lead in the polls his challenge will be to do nothing that could diminish that lead for donald trump this debate could be his last chance to redefine the narrative in real time with the nation watching tonight's debate comes with new rules designed to prevent out of order outbursts donald trump could become the 1st u.s. president to be silenced with a mute button. hello fellow. she is home the former u.s. president barack obama has a drive in rally as he hit the campaign trail for joe biden democratic nominee and

his former vice president even though many opinion polls show biden in the lead obama raised the specter of the 2016 election left and urged supporters to turn out we can't be complacent i don't care about the polls they're all bunch of polls last time didn't work out because all those folks stayed at home and got lazy and complacent not this time not in this election. in some places that has been easier said than done as early voting starts how many people stood in line for hours and some counties reported blackouts at voting sites will fall to mail in ballots still a record 40 $2000000.00 americans have cost early ballots already according to the u.s. elections project at a campaign event in the battleground states of north carolina president trump rallied his supporters and painted a disused picture of the u.s.

on the bite and sleepy joe biden is a bit control of his party overture socialist car meters marxists and leftwing extremists. and they're filled with hatred and venom a great. most voters have already made up their minds but the 2nd on last presidential debate tonight is the last chance to win over the undecided earlier on wednesday president trump criticized the choice of topics for debate and the decision to mute microphones to avoid interruptions ofter fuss chaotic debate by the various. and i think it's very bad but not talking about foreign affairs is about foreign affairs and i think that he is a very biased person her parents are buried by. from comments perhaps setting the tone for his final sparring match with his challenger . arrives and we have

a simple day bipartisan do with this evening to preview tonight's debate and to discuss where trump biden and the u.s. are with just 12 days until the election from the left tonight is the filmmaker and democrat activist our room challenger he is here in berlin and from los angeles on the right is republican strategist chris faulkner chris welcome to the show gentlemen it's good to have both of you here tonight it has a shakespearean feel to it to mute or not to mute that is the question are in our start with you is this new function the silencing possibility is it a blessing or a curse for this debate. i think it's a bit of a curse because it's sort of a false sense of system and so yes maybe you protect you know the sanctity of this one or 2 minute opening statement but then you're basically saying it's your job to interrupt in the rest of it because you're a lab you know we hope we do the things that we're allowed to do so i feel like

this sanctions and everything other than a very sort of top level rehearsed line is going to be part of this huge back and forth churn so i don't think it's going to provide a much different debate than the 1st debate at the end of the day chris what do you say about this this mute function. it's really really unfortunate because it's basically assumes the americans can make up their minds based on what they see you know president trump was very aggressive in that 1st debate and. we have every reason to believe you'll be himself and be aggressive on the facts in this in this on last debate here and if people don't like that they get to vote they get to decide letting the moderators in the presidential commission decide these things i think it's ridiculous you know chris that trump is down in the polls right now but i think biden has a 10 percent lead according to the latest polls what does the president what does he have to do tonight to reverse that course. well certainly brought your where the

national polls really don't mean very much united states could based on our electoral college system there's really several battleground states where rick things that really matter and all of the almost every single one of those valid grounds the numbers are within your margin you're just outside the president so the racial a lot closer i think and you know you heard president obama encouraging one to go vote i mean he wouldn't be doing that in such a strike in terms of he wasn't concerned about this and we've seen the polls be wrong in almost every election here in the last several cycles for the president to continue to be victorious. clear contrasts a bright hope for the future and for america which the president does pretty much every time he speaks compared to what you. have to offer nothing to president will do that very forcefully. what should he do to do better. what should he not do tonight. you know he shouldn't get pulled into any kind of

huge argument he shouldn't sort of let himself get heated i definitely think he needs to kind of try to appear to be calm in control present a lot of leadership but i do agree with chris that things are going to be a lot closer than we think in a lot of places and so i think you're going to see biden coming in really encouraging trying to do the things need to do to make sure that those people who still have the ballot and it's all filled out that they haven't mailed it in that sitting on the counter to make sure that they do that and trump counters that actually would be well served to try to make sap some of those people who maybe are going to be voting against him some older folks are on the fence decide not to vote rather than just switch the vote like this is actually one of the ways that he can catch up on the margin and i think one of the key things that we'll see him try to do tonight let me ask you guys about the campaign and the coronavirus cruz you that you helped revolutionize to get out the vote programs of the republican party about

20 years ago what have the coronavirus and social media what have they done to get out the. well the scene basically is a transformation in the way that we talk to each other society but definitely you know campaigns are nothing but a mirror of how society behaves and says fleiss trying to find. what you see with today's get out the vote operations is they they're less intensive on geographic masses in terms of necessarily door knocking although we are doing millions of doors knocked and phone calls being made one voter to another not paid not by a phone bank somewhere but actual real voters in north carolina talking to real voters in north carolina social media certainly is a blessing and a curse sometimes but it allows people share those opinions sometimes to the chagrin of their family or their friends but a lot of people share those opinions and we share the reason why they're supporting particular candidate or another and i think the president trump definitely the 1st president really mastered the use of social media in terms of twitter and the way

he communicates directly to voters and bypasses traditional filters that we have come to come to recognize in american politics what would you say the pandemic social distancing as it worked and biden's favor. so i think in some ways it has worked in his favor in that it is highlighted something that has been a real challenge to president trump and dealing with a policy and foreign ministry to perspective and the pandemic always keeping itself in the news is a counterbalance to trump who's one of his big talents is always keeping himself in the news but we have a really exciting opportunity in exactly what we what you're describing now which is to see what happens when you get out the vote effort one of them is almost entirely on line and one of them is online and offline to see what happens i mean donald trump in that way it was a really interesting candidate in 2016 where he very much under invested in television spending versus hillary clinton invested much more in you tube and we got to see that that actually was something that you could do and become president

so i think there's very few times where we actually get to compare apples to apples and campaigning and so i think if you're chris and you're me or anyone who's a nerd about this stuff there is an underlying sort of laboratory excitement about this pandemic election in terms of really isolating what makes people go in and out of that polling yeah and we really won't know what john people have decided or how the pen did because influenced people's decisions until after election day let me ask you guys a question about that chris what happens after the election if trump loses what will happen to the republican party. or i think you know obviously election is on november 3rd the weighted quarter viruses impacted the logistics of our voting process and in some states dramatically increasing the mail in ballot process which is continuing to take place and now ballots in some states aren't actually allowed to be counted until of that election

day so there are literally rooms full of ballots just waiting to be counted and so that logistically is going to cause a delay in your actual results this will not be one of those elections where you can stay up till midnight or 3 o'clock in the morning you know the winner is i would be quite frankly surprised if we know within the 1st several days who the definitive winner is based on election returns are probably trailing from states like pennsylvania but let's assume he does lose yeah but assume trump does lose what does it mean for the g.o.p. republican party has been around alarming donald trump and will be around a lot longer than donald trump or any other individual republican politicians the republican party has in the parliamentary system in many european countries enjoy sometimes will offer as many 789 different choices for people to vote for in the united states we have all those different factions we just lump them into 2 big groups those republicans will beat each other up again in another primary and figure out who our nominee is going to be if that's the case i got about 30 minutes or get that last question to you what about all of these republicans for biden that

we're seeing right now what will they mean to the democratic camp after election day if joe biden wins. i hope very little i think this is a very singular event where there is a personality clash some of them are people from the national security establishment like think are actually legitimately angry with donald trump's foreign policy in withdrawing troops but i think the real danger in democrats is allowing people like the lincoln project you have so much data they've gotten from this election about voters moderate democratic voters in places like georgia and texas that we're hoping to flip i think these places we very easy to flip back if we continue to allow republicans up close and the opposition our opposition into the house and so i think this is been a tactical error and i hope one that doesn't have huge consequences in transition and then in the buy ministration that we don't expect come or we will find out for

sure in the next coming weeks and months democrat activists are in charge and republican strategist chris for those of you gentlemen thank you very much and remember there's always a mute button there take care and thanks for. the next monday's she will most likely become the new is justice on the u.s. supreme court today the senate judiciary committee voted to advance a.b. kone barrett's nomination to the full senate for a vote republicans on the committee voted unanimously for president trump's nomination to the supreme court democrats on the committee boycotted the meeting calling the nomination process a sham we'll get reaction from the u.s. in just a moment but 1st this report. from the moment president donald trump presented his supreme court nominee amy kearney paris has been one of the u.s. elections main figures the 48 year old catholic and former law professor has

publicly opposed abortion and says the constitution shouldn't be reinterpreted. but at senate confirmation hearings kone parents said she believed judges should stay out of politics. judges can't just wake up one day and say i have an agenda i like guns i hate guns i like abortion and i hate abortion and walk in like a a royal queen and impose you know their will on the world you have to wait for cases and controversies switches the language of the constitution to wind their way through the process democrats worry kone barrett would rule against the affordable care act their signature health insurance reform and that she could hand trump another term if the supreme court decides the election but under questioning by senators kone barack refused to reveal her views on major issues and you believe that climate change is happening and it's threatening the air we breathe and the water we drink and i will not do that it will not express a view on

a matter of public policy especially one that is politically controversial because that's inconsistent with the judicial role as i have explained. opponents argued that a justice shouldn't be appointed so called to an election in. this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president progressives have been fired up by kone barrett's nomination worried it could skew the supreme court in a conservative direction for years. which is exactly what her conservative supporters hope for republicans have already filled 5 of the supreme court's 9 lifetime held seats if appointed kone bar it will continue to influence us politics for years to come. and for more on this i want to bring it in mary ziegler she's a professor of law at florida state university she's also written about a very controversial subject in the united states she's the author of abortion and

the wall in america roe versus wade to the president and she joins us tonight from santa rosa beach it's good to have you on the day what did we learn at the end of the day from all of the questioning of amy kone barrett and she didn't give much away did she know she didn't the best we can do is really to try to read between the lines she avoided a pretty essential as lee saying that roe v wade or decision on same sex marriage over if overseas hodge's were settled law which is tipping her hand in a way that she at least thinks there's a legitimate challenge that could be brought to those things she wouldn't even say that griswold versus connecticut which is a case of the birth control was rightly decided so you can read something into that in the sense that she doesn't see much as settled but you also could just conclude that she was going out of her way to answer as little as possible yeah and since we do have to read so much between the lines what about her previous writings in the

cases that she's presided over how much importance should we give to them. well those are probably more indicative we have it's reasonable to assume that she'll be at least as conservative on the supreme court as she was when she was a judge on the 7th circuit court of appeals likely more so because of course when you're on the supreme court you're not going to be overturned by the u.s. supreme court you know where the buck stops so we know that in the past for example on gun rights or on abortion she's been to the right of many conservative judges an issue some willingness to ignore precedent when it doesn't suit her which of course would be significant on issues from the affordable care act to abortion the same sex marriage you know we know that she was appointed the president has said this to to be a reliable conservative on the court is that what she is and it certainly seems that way in the united states people often will refer to her as the female

antonin scalia antonin scalia of course was her mentor and he was not only a consistent conservative he was announced spoken conservative a sort of unapologetic conservative who generally seem concerned about popular backlash that might accompany some of the supreme court's decisions so at least based on what we've seen so far from any county barrett she might well live up to that billing happens we heard the terms in this hearing contemptuous public debate several all star a deceased translate those force if you could for the lay person you may not be familiar with the what particularly for story to see 6. sister it is so says the doctor in that the court generally is reluctant to overturn its own past decisions rate so the idea is that you shouldn't if you're a court and not a political body you shouldn't just change the law or your interpretation of the law every time you people show up on the court so generally the court is supposed

to be reluctant to overturn past decisions and of course in the county barrett paid some lip service to that but surprisingly the supreme court routinely does overturn its past decisions so usually the idea is that a decision can just be wrong that there has to be more to it than that and in the going to burn hinted at various points that her sense of when a decision was sort of beyond question was when it was not contentious political right when people in america all agreed that something was right and of course that isn't true of abortion which is significant it isn't true of the rights it isn't true of lots of things that although i wonder if marriage would apply that in a kind of selective way to favor conservative causes and disfavor progressive ones yeah obviously brings us to the part of the hearings where abortion came up this on the road v wade ruling which ensure the woman's right to abortion in the u.s.

take a listen do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decided. senator i completely understand why you're asking the question but again i can't pre-commit or say yes i'm going in with sam it's and because i'm not i don't have any agenda i have no agenda to try to overrule a k c i have an agenda to stick to the rule of law and decide cases as they come. some ziegler what do you think kim how soon could the supreme court be faced with a macone barrett be faced with a case affecting roe v wade really soon on the court actually has a case now that it can decide here mississippi has banned abortion it 15 weeks and that case is currently on appeal to the supreme court so they can decide shortly after election day that they want to hear that case of course if they don't want to hear that case there's no shortage of other options when it comes to abortion

restrictions everything from bans of abortion and fertilization to laws and any specific methods of abortion to laws regulating the reasons people can get worse and so really whatever the court does with this case on the supreme court with any honey bear it on it will have ample opportunity to reconsider oh and probably will do just that she has a trump pick for the court and the election is very close what about recusal should bear it recuse herself from a hearing if the away action has to be decided by the supreme court you know something like 2000 do you think that she would recuse herself. i don't think she will. part of the reason is that recusal law in the united states is pretty vague and nebulous so there's lots of wiggle room for judges who don't want to recuse themselves she acknowledged that if she didn't recuse yourself it would create a kind of appearance of impropriety that it would seem as if she had been placed on

the court to hand the election to donald trump and if that's in fact what the supreme court ended up doing it would certainly not you know enhance her reputation but there's no really cut and dry rule about when you need to recuse yourself and i think that would probably open the door of her staying put when it comes to challenges to the election of which there are many we've got less than a minute missing but i want to ask you joe biden has said that if he becomes president he'll put together a commission to study the supreme court reforming it which means maybe stacking the court adding justices what would you tell a president biden should he stacked the court well i'm hoping that this commission would find options other than court packing in particular things like term limits or making sure there's an equal number of republican and democratic nominees because the court has become unquestionably a partisan institution in ways that are damaging the courts legitimacy and its

ability to kind of create the idea that there is a rule of law independent of politics i don't think packing is the way to do that but i'm hopeful that if joe biden this elected that there will be a better alternative that the commission comes up with mary ziegler the sterns we were miller professor at florida state university college of the wall posts ago we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thanks for having me. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online go find us on twitter either at the news or you can follow me at. t.v.'s remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then everybody.

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