tonight, the president in the hot seat. >> you've coined the phrase "make america great again". >> are you aware how tone-deaf that comes off to african-american communities? >> face-to-face with american voters for a town hall in the battle ground state of pennsylvania. >> why don't you wear a mask more often? >> pressing him on issues from the pandemic to race justice. did donald trump win over any voters tonight? "nightline," the president and the people, starts right now. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. tonight, with election day less than 50 days away, president trump found himself in front of a different audience,

uncommitted voters in the swing state of pennsylvania. and for the very latest, we go to jonathan karl, who was in the room with the president in philadelphia. jon? >> on balance, this was a pretty good event for donald trump. he got to show another side of himself, an empathetic side, talking about the incredible death toll from covid-19. this was something we rarely see from the president. that said, he also said again he has absolutely no regrets for anything about the way he handled the crisis. he wouldn't do anything differently, and he said some things that are sure to generate controversy. during one exchange with a pastor from here in philadelphia, an african-american pastor, the president said, well, i hope there's not a race problem in america. and he had a back and forth that was very interesting on the subject of race. he also said that he believes the virus would go away, even if there wasn't a vaccine. that's something that i am sure

many health professionals will disagree with. but juju, on balance, an interesting town hall, a rare chance to see the president truly interacting with uncommitted voters. >> thanks, jon. tonight tonight's 90-minute town sometimes t with more questions than answers. >> at times some have called your behavior not presidential. what if anything would you do differently if reelected. >> i would like that ask regarding your recent comments about united states soldiers, referring to them as suckers. how do you expect to win back the support of our military, the friends and family and military supporters? >> d's easy, because i never made those statements. >> all socially distanced in

philadelphia. for the president and the people, a 2020 special. trump has come under fire four do for down playing the virus. >> i didn't down play it. i actually, in many ways i upplayed it in terms of action. my action was very strong. >> all through january and february, you were, were you down playing, by your own admission, the severity of the kro crisis u. >> not down playing. >> but in the early days of covid-19, president trump telling the public that the virus would simply go away, contrary to what health experts believe. >> it is going to disappear. >> not if we don't take action, is that correct. >> i still say it. it's going to disappear. it's probably going to go away a lot faster because of the

vaccine. it would go away without the vaccine, george, but it's -- >> did wou >> it would go away without the vaccine? >> with time. >> a poll showing an overwhelming 65% of americans disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic with only 35% approving. >> we're still dealing with 195,000 deaths in the united states. when you see that, does did give you any pause, is there anything we could have done differently. >> >> i think woui think we did. >> another point of contention, race relations. after months of unrest across the country, with protesters calling for systemic change, racial justice and police reform. philadelphia pastor carl day confronting the president. >> you've coined the phrase "make america great again." >> right. >> when has america been sgrats

for african americans? are you aware how tone-deaf that comes off to the african-american community? >> i can say this. we have tremendous african-american support. you've probably seen it in the polls. we're doing extremely well with african-american, hispanic americans. >> despite the president's claim, recent polling shows his support between likely black voters is between 5% and 11%. >> if you go, i hope there's not a race problem. there's none with me, because very great respect for all races, for everybody. >> black americans more than three times more likely than white americans to be killed by police. and that indicates this isn't just bad apples. this is a real, systemic, endemic problem. do you believe that? what will you do to address it? >> they want more police, more protection. they suffer more than anybody

else by bad police protection. all minorities, whether it's hispanic or black or asian. they suffer more than anybody else, george. we have to give, we have to give the police back the authority to stop crime. >> but how do you stop police killing blacks at three times the rate of killing whites. >> i can only say this, that the police in this country have done, generally, a great job. there are crimes, there are problems, and there are chokers. think choke under pressure. they have one quarter of a second to make a decision and sometimes they make the wrong decision. >> the president sidestsisisisii vashl justice. >> in light of the killing of george floyd, do you feel racial injustices are occurring in this nation, and if so is, what can be done to address them?

>> i think they were tragic events. if you look at our police, they do a phenomenal job. >> my body, my choice! >> another issue, health care and specifically, coverage of preexisting conditions. >> with co-pays, i'm still paying almost $7,000 a year in addition to the co-pay, and should preexisting conditions, which obamacare brought into, braut to fruition, be removed? >> no. >> without, please stop and let me finish my question, sir. i want to know what it is you're going to do do assure people like me who work hard, we do everything we're supposed to do, can stay insured. it's not my fault i was born with this disease. >> first of all, i hope are you taken seriously, i hope you are. and we are not going to hurt anything having to do with preexisting conditions. we're not going do hurt

preexisting conditions. in fact, just the opposite. if you look at what they want to do where they have socialized medicine, they will get rid of preexisting conditions. if they go into medicare for all, which is socialized medicine, and can you forget about your doctors and your plans, just like you could forget under president obama. >> obamacare guaranteed people could buy insurance, guaranteed they could buy it did he same price as everybody else. guaranteed essential package of benefits, that there wouldn't be a lifetime limit on those benefits. you fought to repeal obamacare. >> i essentially did, because we got rid of the individual mandate. >> that would do away with -- >> no, so we can do new health care. >> but you've been promising a new health care plan. i interviewed you in june of last year, you said it would come in two weeks. >> very it already, i have it

already. the >> you've been trying to strike down preexisting conditions. >> i have it already, and it's a much better plan for you, and a much better plan. >> the president trying to close the chapter on the pandemic. >> could you have done more to stop it? >> i don't think so. what i did by closing up the country i really don't think so. i think we did a very good job. i don't know if that's been recognized. we've made a lot of governors feel good. we've made some reputationly, we've enhanced their reputation. they didn't have anything. we got them the supplies, the ventilators. we've made a lot of people look good that shouldn't look good, to be honest with you. the >> we're out of time, mr. president, thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. the. >> and coming up, breaking down the highlights of the president's performance. did he help sway any uncommitted voters?

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of democracy for america, sarah fagen, rahm emmanuel and chris christie. president trump said he has no regrets about his handling of the pandemic. the but our polling found 65% of voters disapprove. how can this be a winning message, and overall, did he win over any undecided voters tonight? >> first off, it's his message, and that's what he believes. he's been saying that right from the beginning, and he's continuing to put proof points out there to show the things that did go well. i think what the president did tonight was to calmly and directly answer questions from members of the audience and to spar pretty good with our colleague, george stephanopoulos back and forth. i think the president walked away feeling relatively good about how things went, and i think he should. >> from a performance aspect, what were the strongest moments and the weakest? >> the strongest, his general

demeanor. the president remained calm without, and even when the audience members asked strong questions he responded to the citizens he represents. i think the overall tone was strongest point. some of the questions on covid are very contentious and difficult for the president. that was probably the toughest part of the evening, but i think his general demeanor was the strongest part of the evening. >> rahm, what's the counter point? >> i think the biggest challenge for donald trump and the biggest opportunity for joe biden is when he's auking abotalking abo economy, which is the only place he's in positive territory from a polling perspective, it is always in the rear view mirror, not to quote, but to quote bill clinton, never stop thinking about tomorrow. i think given that he's left the real estate of the future open,

that's a big opportunity for the vice president to fill and to say it's not about what happened yesterday, but it's about what we're going to do tomorrow for your kids. the other piece of this is he showed incredible message discipline in the face of adversity. he didn't get knocked off his game. now, do i think he was factually corre correct? no. i think i would make in real time that the joe biden campaign was putting out fact correctors. >> americans got a chance to see a different side of the president. he's lost ground with college-educated suburban women, was he able to win any back? >> to governor christie's point, this is one of the calmest i've seen him. the he never lost his cool one time. it makes you wonder, when he's at a podium with reporters, if that isn't intentional and for

show. i don't understand why he would take that strategy, but he was incredibly calm. and george asked him very tough questions and interrupted him appropriately so, but interrupted him several times on points that george said were factually incorrect. and he never once was ruffled. i think from the perspective of suburban women, what they are looking for is a strong and calm leader, and he presented that tonight. now where i think he could have done better were on the answers around health care. george asked him repeatedly where the health care plan was that he has been talking about. this because of covid and prior to covid we know health care was the dominant issue in 2018 and likely to be on the forefront of minds when people go to the ballot box, particularly undecided voters and especially women. i think he could have talked more specifically about what he plans to do for health care, but there are seven weeks left. he still has time to do it, but tonight perhaps was a missed

opportunity. >> yvette, a couple of the uncommitted voters pressed him on racial justice and he kept turning it back to law and order and the police. >> i think he continues to show how tone-deaf he is on issues of race. i think there were some real opportunities for him to actually acknowledge the victims. i think he did that for two seconds and spent the rest of his time talking about police. at one point, which was really awkward, he called police officers chokers, which i thought was uncomfortable and weird, and the fact that he didn't acknowledge systemic racism, even when george confronted him with the facts that show there is systemic r e racism and inequity in policing. i think he could have done a much better job. what we know in this country is that police killings are the sixth leading cause of death for

black men and the fact that your president can't acknowledge that we have a system eck problic pr resulting in those deaths is problem. he talked about the loss of pensions for officers and the individual officers who were shot a couple days ago but refused to show that empathy for black men and women who have actually been killed by the people who are supposed to protect and serve them. clearly i don't think he's got a good handle on this. he said at one point that he has a lot of support from african-americans, when his support with african-americans is only 8%. i don't know about you, but i don't think that's great or a lot of support. he missed some opportunities to show empathy and a real connection and show there is a real race problem in america and to separate these issues between can you support black life and also support police officers, and he didn't do that tonight. >> rahm, let me bring you back

into this discussion, the president on the issue of law and order kept hammering down on democrat mayors. as the foormer mayor of chicago, how does this play for voters and how do you respond? >> i would look at this and look at what cities are doing, and i think george came at the president correctly. you are the president for those cities as well, as if they're another america separate. and i think he called him appropriately on that. second is that what you have right now in the country politically is a situation that cities and suburbs have a joint political alliance on a series of issues from public safety to education to equity and funding to the environmental protections, to transportation issues, and that's why the president's trying to scare the suburbs away from what has become a pretty tight coalition between urban and suburban, what i've referred to at metropolitan majority. his attempt to demonize the cities and scare the suburban voters, as we like to say in chicago, that dog just won't hunt. >> thank you all for your

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in case you don't know, the l is for "leave me the -- alone." i have a special honor tonight: i am this show's very last guest host of the year. jimmy has spent all summer fishing, but it's time for him to come back. right now the disney swat team's pulling his ass out of a lake. funny thing about jimmy, for years, he has been trying to weasel his way into my vacations with magic johnson. so much so that he even photoshopped himself into our vacation photos and showed them on this very program. for real. i mean, this is the behavior of a sick, sad individual. there's a guy on this show named pat who wasted eight hours of his life putting these together. missed his daughter's high school graduation! okay, so jimmy begs me to take him on vacation, then he goes away for the whole summer. does he invite me? nope.