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182,000 americans will have died from coronavirus before the end of august. that's a new prediction by the cdc. 40 million people may lose their homes in america, a number that's four times what it was during the great recession. and the 3rd of november, election day. trump suggested delaying it. we'll count all the ways that's never going to happen. "velshi" starts now. good morning. it is saturday, august 1st. i'm ali velshi. overnight according to an intern government document the centers for disease control is forecasting the death toll from covid-19 could reach over 180,000 by the final week of august. those are daunting estimates
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considering that today is august 1st and we are close to 155,000 deaths into this pandemic so we'll add an additional $25,000 lives to that total in the next three weeks. more than 7,000 a week. that as we quickly approach 4.6 million confirmed cases. remember when trump said it would go to zero and disappear? even scarier reality is that yesterday on capitol hill the nation's top public health officials made it clear we still don't seem to have a national strategy in place to combat this virus. here's what dr. anthony fauci had to say when questioned on the topic. >> would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and political leadership to develop a plan, execute it and stick to it? >> i think there was such a diversity of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything
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down. >> in other words, a lack of leadership is at the heart of this matter. then there's this, a brand-new "vanity fair" article suggesting a total betrayal of the power of the executive office playing partisan politics with the lives of americans when it comes to a national unified coronavirus response. the article says jared kushner was charged with setting up an aggressive coordinated national covid-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control and suddenly it went poof into thin air. "vanity fair" reports according to an expert the political folks believe coronavirus was going to be relegated to democratic states that they could blame those governors and that it would be an effective political strategy. last night i posted the question of the lack of leadership and the findings in the report to congressman jim clyburn of south carolina who currently chairs the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis. here's what he told me.
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>> the fact of the matter is we are lacking leadership at a time when we need it most. we are aware that jared kushner came up with a plan in march that it went away and what we understand is that because it was new york and new jersey, both so-called blue states, they didn't think that there was anything that they had to be concerned with because it wasn't their states. >> turning now to efforts on capitol hill to pass the next coronavirus relief bill or in this case lawmakers inability to come to terms on the next rescue package aimed at aiding millions of struggling americans. last night the $600 a week additional unemployment benefit that was critical in keeping many individuals and families afloat during thesetimes offici expired. this as the gop-led senate
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packed their bags and left town on thursday with no deal in place for millions of out of work americans. democrats want to extend the current benefit through the end of the year and republicans want to cut it to $200 a week. nancy pelosi was outraged at republicans walking out on the american public in need without getting a deal done. >> the path that they have taken us down with their delay, their denial, distortions have caused dea death, has caused deaths unnecessarily. also disappearing last night was the federal moratorium on evictions for qualifying tenants that provision covered nearly 30% of the country's rental units. without those protections, some 40 million americans could be evicted because of the economic fallout of covid-19. so while many of the less fortunate members of our country worry about where their next
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paycheck is coming from or where they will live next month, a large majority of the senate enjoyed a care-free summer extended weekend off. while some meetings are planned on capitol hill this weekend, this looks like it could be an extended process of getting a deal done. joining me now is raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. congressman, thank you for joining us. we have a big problem right now. you tweeted that the one difference between democrat and republicans plans for the next covid-19 bill is the 736s are p the social safety net versus the republican plan of $18 billion. we're not even close on this. >> no, unfortunately we're not. there's a lot of in-fighting and fighting within the republican party. they are not even able to come to the negotiating table unified with any kind of proposal. so it's very hard to negotiate with them when we don't know who to negotiate with.
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>> let's talk about something else that you tweeted. you said my investigation into the contracts the trump administration negotiated for ventilators to address the po pandemic squandered moor th eed 5$500 million. there was no experience in this, and a single mask was never produced by one company. >> taxpayers got ripped off, donald trump got taken to the cleaners yet again in a contract involving pandemic response. he preaches the art of the deal, but here the company he negotiated with practiced the art of the steal and taxpayers paid for it. they paid more than five times what they should have for previously contracted for ventilators and americans were deprived of ventilators at the very time when they needed it and there was a severe shortage.
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>> congressman, let's talk about that "vanity fair" article, the idea there was something akin to a national plan, a coordinated plan put together by jared kushner and it was actually shut down because the coronavirus at the time was hitting states that were led by democrats, oregon, mi michigan, illinois, new york, new jersey. some in the white house thought let it burn itself out in the democratic states and blame the governors. >> that's right. again, politics characterizes the response of the trump administration to a pandemic that effects all of us. and, you know, my wife is an anesthesiologist, we know that there was a severe shortage of ppe and testing kits and so forth. so a national strategy would have helped with doing two things. one, making sure that we had enough testing kits invoking the defense production act to direct
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industry to manufacture these critical items and make sure they were provided at a lower cost to all those who needed it. but also the other aspect of this that bothers me is incompetence. you see in this "vanity fair" piece jared kushner, his former college roommate and others negotiating a deal where they purchased $53 million worth of testing ket kits from the unite arab emirates of all countries, and these were junk. the and yet this is what this team continues to do. they engage in jv negotiating practices and that's what characterized the ventilator negotiations as well. >> congressman, good to see you. thank you for joining us. congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois. coming up, joe biden's big veep announcement is coming or his choice is coming and there are a lot of contenders vying for the spot. coming up, we'll dig into tammy duckworth and val demings as
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any day now joe biden is expected to finalize his pick for a running mate and an announcement could come this week. biden vowed to select a woman and there are reportedly several high profile top contenders all bringing to the table different backgrounds, expertise and characteristics. over the course of today and tomorrow we'll break down the contenders. as always the vice presidential pick reflects the times. right now social justice, racial equality and police reform are at the top of the discourse. president trump likes to claim he's a law and order president but his history in office on anything from his original travel ban to his pardons to putting kids in cages to the situation in portland all suggests trump is far from
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someone supporting the law. val demings is supremely qualified when it comes to law and order. demings served in the orlando police department for 27 years, rising to the rank of police chief. the first female to hold that prestigious position. she was also an impeachment manager in president trump's trial. like all the candidates, she has some downsides, mainly her lack of experience in national politics. she was my guest on the show last weekend and discussed the situation with federal troops in portland. >> what we are seeing in portland and in we are anticipating in other cities, i've never seen it before, it's disgraceful. as local law enforcement agencies all over this nation work hard to rebuild trust and the relationship with the people they serve in their various communities, i can think of no worse way to undermine their
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efforts than to send federal agents and officers in to those local jurisdictions. they are completely undermining any efforts within those communities to rebuild and restore. >> remember this woman was a police chief. in a similar vain to his law and order outburst, donald trump likes to proclaim how he views his impact on the military. that he's the best thing in all of human history for them. he has never served in the military himself, reportedly obtaining multiple deferments for bone spurs. as is usually the case, donald trump's actions offer noest backing up his words. look at his actions in the middle east, russia or north korea let alone the ex-military generals who have been critical of him. senator tammy duckworth is a war hero and a purple heart recipient. she's a retired lieutenant colonel and a helicopter pilot who lost both her legs in combat
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in the iraq war. she's a champion of veterans, military families and former le served as the director of the illinois department of veterans affairs. she would be the first veteran on a national ticket since john mccain and would be the first female veteran ever. she does lack a big national profile on some issues not relating to the military like on the economy, but the senator always appears to be on the verge of a big breakout. >> you are seeing the military be politicized by this president, at least he's attempting to politicize them. as we saw with his use of the national guard to suppress peaceful protesters in lafayette square. we must as a nation stand up to this president's attempts to turn the military into a political apparatus for his own personal ambitions. i truly believe in our constitution. i truly believe the military must remain independent and impartial. that's why it's the greatest military in the world. it's also why we are a true
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democracy. >> joining me now is the president of emily's list, stephanie schriock and the executive director of blackpac, adrianne shropshire. thank you for being with us. stephanie -- sorry, adrianne, you retweeted a tweet that charles blow tweeted in which he said am i the only one sick and tired of the biden vp guessing game? they're all amazing. pick one. you will want to go out there and convince people to vote for the people who may be the first woman vice president in u.s. history. are you satisfied that you can go out there with any of these women and pitch them to the american voter? >> yeah. ali, with -- as we are seeing in the midst of the 100th year of the passing of the 19th amendment, this is an amazing conversation to be having. it's also an amazing slate of women. one of the things that's very clear is that each and every one of the women under consideration
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are imminently qualified for this position. i think we have seen women running in record numbers. we have seen record numbers of women in office. what's very clear is that women are prepared to lead at the highest levels of our government. any one of these women would be someone that we could go and have a conversation with. and i think in some ways, you know, folks are ready. they're ready to move on. they like who these -- who is in the running. >> stephanie, there are -- we put up 12 pictures, there's probably 15 or 16. we'll try over the next couple of days to go through everybody. one of the great things about this, not only are they all qualified but they brick different qualify kegs. they all do something different. with respect to the two we're talking about now, tammy duckworth and val demings, they do represent things that have typically been strengths of republicans, military strengths, policing experience.
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>> that is very true. and i do also just want to reiterate as the president of an organization, emily's list, that has been working for 35 years to recruit, endorse and support the vast majority of the women you just showed, we're beyond thrilled that we have such a pool of qualified ambitious, energetic, smart women. when you look at congresswoman val demings and senator tammy duckworth you have two special potential candidates for vp. in val demings, one who i had the honor of working with when she ran first for congress and then again and watch her thrive after her service. what i love about val is that she really has a deep understanding of the needs of fixing the -- they all do, but she was a police chief for 27
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years, does understand what needs to be done. senator duckworth has almost given the ultimate sacrifice, and continues to serve this nation despite having to overcome such physical injuries in iraq. so this is someone who could have just said, okay, i'm done. i'm good now. i've done enough. no, she said i have to keep serving. that's the case with all of these women. whatever capacity they came from, these are women, val, tammy, the whole list you put up who are deeply committed to service to this nation. joe biden will make the right decision here because he's looking for a partner who is going to be next to him when they have to -- they have to build back better this nation. we are in deep, deep trouble here. he's got some great options, marlma particularly with these two >> a few headlines, the
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baltimore sun has a headline on july 29th and it said biden should choose senator tammy duckworth as his running mate. "new york times" says tacmmy duckworth is nothing like joe biden. this says biden must choose a black woman for vice president. no one else can speak more eloquently from the lived experience of battling racism and sexism, upholding the fragile promises of our democracy. what do you make of that call to choose one of the four that joe biden says are on his short list, i think five african-american women on our short list. what do you think of that call? >> it's a great piece, and i think that we have seen that call for some time. it is joe biden himself who has talked about the role that black women have played throughout his political career in terms of supporting him. but obviously most recently in
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terms of the role black women played in moving him through the primary. so there has been a number of calls from a number of sectors to certainly acknowledge the role that black women played not just in this election but in every democratic victory since the election of donald trump. and the role that they have played not just in terms of turning out to vote and mobilizing the black community for elections, but the role they played in terms of the leadership they provided within the democratic party and certainly the selection of a black woman as vice president would acknowledge that. and it also, i think, it addresses as many have said the moment that we're in. we are dealing with a country that is grappling with longstanding racism, that is trying to come to terms with how you get at systemic solutions to racism and the way it impacts and plays out in black people
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and people of color broadly lives. i think we're in that moment. and there's recent polling that says that americans, not just black americans, but americans would like to see a black woman on the ticket. with that said, i would say that senator duckworth is absolutely the embodiment of sacrifice and bravery and decency. and stands in direct contrast to what we have seen in terms of the abuse of our military in terms of the disrespect and in fact the abandonment of our men and women in uniform from this administration. she has an incredible back story, her bio resonates. and certainly in this moment, beyond her decorated military service, her bio resonates. she comes from a family who has known struggle. comes from a family who has known what it means when a parent loses a job and how that upends a family's life. that's what americans are dealing with right now.
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and they can certainly see their story in this moment of economic crisis and upheaval because of the pandemic, and this president's inability and ineptitude around it. they can see what they're struggling with, i think, in tammy duckworth's story as well. >> you're right. we had her bio up on the screen. it, like the other women on that screen, their bios are impressive. in a way that's different from a number of people who have been both -- considered and thought of and named vice presidential candidates in the past. but yesterday you made a comment in which you said we've been here before. we know whoever the vp nominee will be, she will have her ambition questioned and her record diminished. we know how to fight back against this double standard and we will, we must. a woman candidate will not get less scrutiny, attention and criticism than a man candidate is, possibly more. >> definitely more. and i wish we weren't in a
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culture that was going to ensure that. we just watched -- we honored four extraordinary senators who ran for president in the last year and a half. what they went through on the questioning of things like experience. then you look at those bios, you're like what are you talking about? these women -- there is not a woman on the list who doesn't have an extraordinary bio. it puts me to shame to look at these bios and think what have i been doing? it doesn't matter which one you're looking at. that's what i feel all the time. we recruit these women, it's like where have you been? you've been saving your community. making sure the schools work. being a police officer, a social worker. serving in the military. then you became a legislator, and attorney general, now you're in the mix for vice president. this is a really incredible
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group of people. the good news here is that joe biden has lots of fabulous options and what i trust is that he's going to pick the right partner for this moment. and it's going to be a winning ticket to defeat trump. what has to happen is we have got to rebuild this nation into a new and better nation. and it is -- what's being left behind is something very, very broken. you were just talking about that earlier. he will need a great partner and he has some great options. he has a tough call. i'm not sure what i would do if i with us in his shoes. he has a tough call in front of him. >> well, the benefit is the rest of those women who he doesn't choose in theory will be part of the ongoing government of the united states or his cabinet. over the course of the next two days we'll be going through a lot of those candidates and bringing you their bios and histories. thank you for helping had us
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kick it off. coming up, the state of police and protests in this country, the way it was presented by the gop and the stark contrast drawn by president obama at john lewis' funeral earlier this week. >> fate of this democracy depends on how we use it, that democracy is not automatic. in a highly-connected lexus vehicle at the golden opportunity sales event. lease the 2020 es 350 for $359 a month for 36 months. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.
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this week at a hearing on capitol hill for attorney general bill barr, republican congressman from ohio jim jordan used a tightly edited clip of me to make a point. he ran a clip that did not contain proper context. we know what republican congressman jim jordan was doing there. he was painting a picture of chaos, indiscriminate violence. painting a picture of the media using me as an example of
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condoning the violence in the streets of america. the context is key. here is a fuller clip of my own report of which he used a small bit out of context. >> for most of the day today it was a lot calmer than yesterday looked. that's what happened yesterday. it picked up later in the evening, the crowds gathered here. the standoff with the police looked different last night. police had lined up -- there were barricades outside the police station, police lined up around it and prevented protesters from getting close. overnight they put up fences and barricades so that people couldn't get there. that's what broke through. it caused a new center of focus for the protesters. the idea that they would then -- they would then try and take that police station from the police. again, we were surprised to find out that there were police actually in that building. but there were. about five police who came out. they had their weapons with them that fired the -- that fired the gas canisters and it dispersed
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the crowd which came this way and started this activity and a fire that occurred over there. again, there are fires, at least four fires that i can see. and that's just in this small radius that morgan and i are in. obviously some of them are active. this one is now obviously spreading to the buildings on either side of it. the liquor store and the shop to the left. there's no ability -- i think we have to remember this, the national guard has been activated. the they are not here. the police are not here. the police evacuated. the fire engines can't get in here. there's no ability to bring anybody in here to solve this problem. so i want to be clear in how i characterize this, this is mostly a protest, it is not generally speaking unruly. but fires have been started and there's a crowd that's relishing that. there's a deep sense of grievance and complaint here. and that is the thing. when you discount people who are doing things to public property
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that they shouldn't be doing, it does have to be understood this city has got for the last several years an issue with police, and it's got a real sense of the deep sense of grievance of inequality. you mentioned earlier, before we had video, how did we know about these things in. now we have video. the people talking to me, i'm not a investigator and i don't have access to the information that investigators have, they say what more do you need. jim jordan ran 20 seconds out of that out of context. my colleagues and i have not been blindly watching these outbreaks of violence and trying to keep them from the public in some perverse attempt to portray things as peaceful when they are not. what we've done and we'll continue to do is provide the full picture of what's going on. as we saw in oregon, federal troops used tear gas on peaceful veterans and mothers. in minneapolis, the police shot rubber bullets and journalists and protesters, myself included. i got hit. people then as one would expect
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reacted. i recognize that protests and revolution in many ways cannot always be nonviolent in nature. the two sides clash. we've seen it in south africa, the middle east, india, even in our own history where we started a war focused on guerrilla tactics at lexington and concord to gain our independence. the uptick in crime we're seeing now is unrelated to these protests. it's a symptom of our economic inequality, the pandemic, the ongoing recession, the lack of gun control and our criminal justice system. sk context matters. context is key. i and my colleagues will not sit here and tell you this is not a moment of upheaval. i'll give you the facts, the con tex and the understanding to know why this is such a krubl mome crucial moment in time and why peaceful or not protest is a
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as i just mentioned, context is key. it's key to understanding the protests in this country and the protesters and their clashes with law enforcement, it's key to understanding this unique moment in social unrest. joining me now is sonia pruitt, former chair person of the national black police association, she teaches courses on policing and police
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organization and administration at montgomery college. thank you for being with us. i think you understand this very well. protest is different things. some protests are linked to the killing of george floyd and breonna taylor and rashard brooks, and then protests alongside of that about larger issues like social justice and the use of force, and then people who feel like they're not part of a social contract and perhaps they get involved in lawlessness because they don't believe the system works for them, so why should they work with it. there is probably some element of the stuff that donald trump would have you think is the whole thing, he calls violence and rioting, things like that. how do you figure this out as law enforcement? >> it's really difficult. thank you for having me, by the way. because we collect information about crime, but there's always lag time. we have to have time to digest it, time to analyze it. it takes a while to collect the
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data. we don't always know what's driving a rise in crime. right about now we have a rise in homicides but not other violent crimes. so someone has to sit there, look at that data and figure it out, preferably an expert in these matters. but you are absolutely correct in that there are many, many reasons why there could be a rise in crime. there's many, many reasons why there could be protests. right now we're at a really, really interesting point in our history where we have many things going on at the same time. we have the global pandemic, we have people who are protesting social injustice, like you said there are people who are like i don't know where my place is in this society, i just am mad. so i will go out here and put my fist up in the air and i'll protest. >> where is the line for you, i'm mad, i don't know who i'm mad at, i will put my fist up in
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the air versus i'm mad, i don't know who i'm mad at, i'm going to burn the store down. >> yeah. that's called a crime. in our history it's not unusual for us to have this sort of upheaval and uprising. and when people do not know what to do, sometimes they act out in anger and that may look like burning and looting. it is no excuse. it's inexcusable because it is a crime, but we have to understand the dynamics of it. where it comes from in this country. we have hundreds of years of black people who have been speaking out, complaining, wanting to have someone take action, and now all of a sudden people are kind of listening, and so what better way to bring more attention to it than to come out here and we're going to scream really loudly and some people -- not all people -- are going to take matters into their own hands by burning and looting. again, not an excuse, but you have to understand the dynamics
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of it. >> it's an explanation. let's talk about the dynamics. for the last few months you and i have talked about the movement to abolish police, defund police and the issues with policing. what we saw in portland is an escalation of that. now that the federal agents have largely left and the oregon governor brought state troopers in, last night the protests basically died down. for some reason policing that is closer to people sometimes has a different effect than the federal agents who -- that felt like a bit of an invasion into these cities. >> you know, i saw that these -- we're not even sure who they were honestly. we don't know whether they were police. we hear they were contractors. we don't know. they didn't identify themselves by their uniforms. they didn't have on name tags. they were dressed in camouflage. it was really scary, wasn't it? we don't know where they came from. we know they were an agitating
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factor. we can look at regular policing in our country and understand sometimes when police are introduced into an equation they're an agitant. that's why people are talking about defunding and doing other things with policing such as abolishing certain aspects of it. they understand there's an agitating factor to having police go in. you go to portland and you throw folks in that have guns, they have these cars that are unmarked, they're grabbing people off the street, of course you will have people react to that. if they don't have a way to react to it by, say, some sort of legal method they think they can use, some sort of a process, you'll see them do something unlawful. >> i always learn so much when you're on to join us because you are -- you know this. you see it. i want to ask you one quick last question. one of your own is in the running for vice president, val demings, former police chief in
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orlando. how does that make you feel? >> it makes me feel great. any time i can see especially a woman and in particular a black woman ascend the ranks like they did, become chief of police like she did because it is difficult, and now she could be a vice presidential candidate, that's very exciting. there's lots of little girls who are looking at her now saying, hey, thank you. you're a role model. >> there are a lot of little girls looking at you captain sonia pruitt. thank you for what you do. sonia pruitt former chair person of the national black police association. thank you. breaking news this hour. retired lieutenant colonel alexander vinman just wrote a stunning op-ed in the "washington post." he was fired by the white house and retired from the military. in the op-ed he writes i made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying,
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intimidation and retaliation by president trump and his allies forever limited the progress of my military career. joining me now is josh letterman. josh, this is a remarkable statement from a career military officer in the united states to say -- you and i don't report on these types of things typically in the united states. these are things you report on in other countries that are authoritarian. that the leadership of a country limited a military person's career because of political matters. >> that's right. alex vinman such a key witness in the impeachment testimony against president trump, talking about the phone conversation between president trump and zelensky. there was a lot of questions about whether the pentagon was actually blocking his promotion in retaliation for him providing that testimony against the president. eventually the pentagon did
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release a statement saying that he would have been promoted had he not voluntarily left the military, but now retired lieutenant colonel alex vinman putting this scathing editorial in the "washington post" saying i made the difficult decision to retire because a campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation by president trump and his allies forever limited the progression of my military career. he goes on to say that that is an experience shared by dozens of other life-long public servants who left this administration. vinman saying at no point in my career or life have i ever felt our nation's values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment. alex vinman and his brother, his twin brother both born in the soviet union, emigrated to the united states and decided to serve their country in uniform where they both ended up at the white house. ultimately both of them removed
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from their positions at the white house amid all of this heat over their role in the impeachment hearings. >> that's a remarkable op-ed. a remarkable statement about the state of our democracy right now. josh, as always, thank you very much. josh letterman at the white house. coming up next, we'll dive into the headline from the "washington post." 2020 is the summer of booming home sales and evictions. the author of that joins me next to talk about the grim economic future facing millions of americans if congress fails to act soon. if congress fails to act soon wabba wabba! all new, plant powered creative roots gives kids the hydration they need, with the fruit flavors they love, and 1 gram of sugar. find new creative roots in the kids' juice aisle. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor
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runs out. >> former senator al franken is right, americans are scared. millions have been left worried about how they're going to pay for groceries, bills, and their rent as congress lets the $600 a week enhanced unemployment lapse. they have been unable to come to a bipartisan deal and now as we see a rise in coronavirus cases and the potential for a second lockdown, it's more important than ever to keep both americans and our economy afloat. my next guest paints a grim picture of what could happen if congress fails to act. she writes once the down woord spiral starts, more job losses lead to less consumer spending, lead to more business closures and job losses. it could lead to a dealership downturn that permanently damages the economy for years to come. economists say the united states is not in that spiral yet but the nation is at an inflection point. i have healther lother long her i want to talk about the first
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one about inkwaltequality. the biggest asset people have is their home. and if you don't have a home, the biggest cost is housing. if you went into this at a slow jog, you're going to come out running. if you went into it stumbling you're going to come out flat. >> i think you're right. i remember back to the great recession in 2008/'0 nine, we were driving around looking at all of the empty homes as people were kicked out and foreclosed on. what i'm worried about this summer and as we head into the fall is an eviction crisis. this pandemic is hitting renters much harder. and the federal moratorium on evictions has now expired. congress has let that lapse. what that means is landlords can now send a letter to the renters and say, look, if you're not paying the rent, i can start kicking you out at the end of august. there are eviction courts that are open around the country that are having these hearings right now as we speak.
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and the reality is, we could easily see 12 million evictions by october. >> i want to point out yet something else in this article that you wrote. it's not that recessions are bad for everyone. they're good for about 7% of the people. according to seasonally adjusted data released last week by the commerce department and national association of realtors. meanwhile, 12.6 million renters were unable to pay rent according to the latest household pulse survey from the u.s. census. if you have money and credit, you can get a 30-year fixed mortgage for 3% or less today in the is a great time to be wealthy. this is a great time to be -- to be rich. at the very time same that you are -- that millions of americans, as you point out, are losing their wealth. >> it's an unprecedented time
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for housing inequality many this country. and a reminder that this pandemic is hitting people so differently that basically what's happening is people who still have a job, people who came into this -- this situation with some savings, this is like a bargain hunting housing situation for them. you know, they're able to take advantage of these historic lows in the mortgage rate, 30-year mortgage fell below 3% for the first time ever in july. and so basically the wealthier are going out and they're buying bigger homes right now. i mean, homes with yards, homes with an extra office where they can work from home. and at the flip side, we have 12 million americans who weren't able to pay their rent in june and now we have that eviction moratorium that has expired. and on top of that, this weekend, as you've reported, that $600 extra unemployment benefit that the federal government has been giving out, that is now gone as well. so we have families that are
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going from having about $900 a week in unemployment to dropping to $300 or less a week in unemployment. basic math, you can't pay your rent. most people can't many this country if they're only getting $300 or less a week. >> heather, thank you for your remarkable reporting on this. i do encourage our viewers to follow heather long and read her reporting. it's very detailed and tells you a lot about what's going on in the economy. still ahead in our hour, i will be joined by the federal elections commission commissioner ellen wine trout. we'll talk about the president's shocking call to delay the election and how he's using it for a distraction. i'll talk about the filmmaker behind you've been trumped too about his fight with a scottish family that left them with a lack of running water. them wia lack of running water. (upbeat music) that's why febreze plug has two alternating scents and eliminate odors for 1200 hours.
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