california. a busy night along parts of the eastern seaboard as well as our broadcast comes to an end on this monday evening. thank you for being here as we start a new week together. for all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. rachel will be back tomorrow. obviously she has tonight off. but i promise she'll be back in this chair this time tomorrow. there's so much to get to tonight. we're going to start with a bombshell that was dropped in a court filing today from the manhattan district attorney in his ongoing legal battle with donald trump. the manhattan d.a., who is seeking to convince a judge to grant him access to years of donald trump's and his company's financial records, today revealed that his investigation into the president and into his company just might be much broader and more serious than previously known. it was a year ago that the manhattan d.a., cy vance,

subpoenaed eight years of tax returns and financial records from the president's accounting firm. vance's office had opened a criminal investigation into the role that the president and his business played in that hush money scheme payments that were made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the hush money, if you remember, went to women who claimed they had had affairs with donald trump. karen mcdougal and porn star stormy daniels. the president tried to block the manhattan d.a.'s subpoena, taking his case all the way to the supreme court, arguing that he as president had total and complete immunity from criminal investigation. but last month the supreme court ruled against the president, saying that the president does not have immunity from cy vance's subpoena. and in making their ruling, the justices were clear. the president is not above the law. their ruling made the manhattan district attorney basically the only entity in the country with a clear path toward finally prying loose the financial

records that the president has fought tooth and nail against handing over. but there was a catch. see, the president could still go back to the lower courts and make other objections to the subpoena. so that was exactly what the president did. he urged a federal judge to toss the manhattan d.a.'s subpoena because it was, quote, wildly overbroad. trump's lawyers essentially said to cy vance, these records you are demanding go way beyond your investigation. so this is where it gets interesting. today the manhattan district attorney filed his reply in court, and his reply is basically, oh, yeah? well, we're investigating a lot more stuff than you think. the d.a. cites news reports on, quote, possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the trump organization, and he drops hints that the investigation includes bank and

insurance fraud, both felonies. the filing references congressional testimony from donald trump's former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. remember him? in that hearing, cohen gave details on the hush money scheme he carried out at donald trump's direction and for which cohen is currently serving a three-year prison sentence, now in home confinement. but he also offered evidence of what he said was trump's propensity for lying to banks and insurance companies. >> i am giving to the committee today three years of mr. trump's personal financial statements. it was my experience that mr. trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes. >> did this information provided to us inflate the president's assets? >> i believe these numbers are inflated. >> and of course inflating assets to win a newspaper poll

to boost your ego is not a crime. but to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to a bank in order to help him obtain a loan? >> these documents and others were provided to deutsche bank on one oh caticcasion where i wh them in our attempt to obtain money so that we can put a bid on the buffalo bills. >> now, giving false information to a bank to secure a loan is called bank fraud. it's a felony. michael cohen testified there to just one instance in which he witnessed that personally. and we know that cohen began cooperating with the manhattan d.a.'s office in the summer, meaning with investigators while he was in prison in upstate new york. if the new york grand jury finds a provable pattern of criminal activity, then there may ultimately be substantial charges for cy vance to bring. his office is urging the judge in this case not to let the

president keep delaying this subpoena endlessly in the courts because that would end up being a kind of back door to the presidential immunity that the supreme court specifically rejected. joining us now are two reporters with an extensive history of reporting on donald trump's finances. david enrich is "the new york times" business investigations editor, also the author of "dark towers: deutsche bank, donald trump, and an epic trail of destruction." we're also thrilled to have back with us, "new york times" investigative reporter susanne craig, a key member of the reporting team that won the pulitzer prize in 2019 for its deep and riveting dive into the trump family's taxes, including instances of what the investigation revealed as outright fraud. it's a pleasure to get to talk to both of you. susanne, let me start with you and just the lowest-hanging fruit. how tantalizing is it to think that cy vance may actually end up with his hands on the tax returns, and how likely do you think that is?

>> well, i think it's interesting because today everybody -- it was interesting to hear that the investigation has now gone beyond, you know, the hush money payment that you talked about earlier. but it's hardly surprising. i mean i would imagine if cy vance gets these tax returns, he's going to be like a kid in a candy shop. he's going to look at everything. i think we got one example today of where he's interested in seeing tax information to prove something already out in the public record or to add to that, you know, tax returns and financial records. i think there's a good chance he's going to get it. the question is when, but i think he's got a good argument, and i think the supreme court has sent it on a course. you know, the president's going to continue to fight it, but i think it's a decent legal argument, you know, kind of straight down the middle. >> and, susanne, everyone who has seen the showtime documentary about the investigation into his finances that was based on what you had of his taxes, if the whole thing were suddenly available at the end of a procedure, was made

public, what would be the first thing you would look for? >> in terms of the taxes? i mean there's -- >> yeah. >> so many things. what would be the first thing i would go after? i mean you'd like, i think, for some of the things that cy vance is looking for. are the payments to stormy daniels daniels there or karen mcdougal. there was a couple of payments that were right there. and then you would -- those would be, i guess, two of the big things that you would look at. i'm not sure valuations would be the first thing i would go over, but i think that's going to be a piece of a puzzle to me because i don't think you're going to find necessarily in the tax returns exactly, you know, were those valuations over or under, but you're going to see that in some of the other records that cy vance is looking for. so, you know, he's looking not just for tax records but financial records, that kind of stuff. >> david, i want to get to your story this weekend about deutsche bank and an investigation into the banker that worked with donald trump

and jared kushner. but traveling back in time to this cohen hearing was so riveting because cohen basically says that donald trump is guilty of what cy vance today revealed he's investigating, which is whether or not donald trump committed bank and insurance fraud. here's an exchange with -- listen to this. let's talk about this on the other side. >> to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, ron leibman, and matthew calamari. >> so to your knowledge, did he commit a crime? y yes, and these three people know he did. how is this not something that's under criminal investigation at sdny as well, or do we know that it isn't? >> i don't think we do know that it it isn't. the interesting thing to me is

the moment those words came out of michael cohen's mouth, i got on the phone with my sources at deutsche bank. they immediately confirmed that michael cohen's testimony was basically correct, that they -- trump systematically was overstating the value of all sorts of assets and the bankers would kind of go in and pore over his tfinancial statements and look at the values and just kind of laugh to themselves, they were completely, preposterously over the top. the bank dealt with that by arguing that they could just write down the value of the assets by as much as 70%, and they still thought that he was worth lending to. i think the reality is that might end up being trump's argument, that this couldn't be bank fraud because the bank knew as well as anyone that he was prone to wild exaggerations. so the bank wasn't taking him seriously, and therefore it wasn't a crime. >> so what responsibility does the bank have if he was

submitting values that were so off that they laughed out loud and loaned him money anyway? >> well, the bank isn't responsible for, you know, enforcing the law in this case. deutsche bank, as has been proven over and over again over the years, doesn't take seriously generally its responsibility to enforce the rule of law. and i think the bank's responsibility at this point is to be as cooperative as it needs to be with investigators, whether they're on capitol hill or sdny or in cy vance's office. and to the extent that this is a serious focus of cy vance's investigation, it would really surprise me if he isn't going to reach out to deutsche bank and seek all their records on trump and his dealings with the bank. >> let me put up -- oh, go ahead, susanne. >> i think that's really important because you said at the outset this is bank fraud. it might be. i mean did deutsche bank rely on this? in some cases you don't need tax

returns to figure out the purchase price of a building in manhattan, and they had other information, including other -- you know, his tax information in some cases. so i think just to be careful, they may have relied on it, and to david's point, you know, we can tell right now without seeing his tax returns that the information in those documents that michael cohen presented to congress, there's some stuff in there that's pretty crazy, and it's off. so it doesn't take tax returns to figure that out. and is it fraud? i mean i think you have to come down to did the bank rely on it? >> so, david, pick up that thread for me and also just address some of your reporting from the weekend. deutsche bank opens review into the personal banker to trump and kushner. is there any intersection between these two lines of inquiry, the criminal one and the bank looking at the banker to trump and kushner? >> well, i'm not sure that they are causally connected to each

other, but there's an enormous amount of overlay. the longtime personal banker to trump as well as to the kushner family is now under investigation at the bank because of a real estate deal she did back in 2013 personally where she and a couple of her deutsche bank colleagues purchased an apartment from an entity that now turns out to have been partly owned by jared kushner. and that strikes, i think, a lot of people as a pretty glaring conflict of interest for the banker. the reason that's important right now is that bram blick was the relationship manager for trump. so when trump or michael cohen would go to deutsche bank with, you know, overstated financial statements or kind of bluffing the bank, they were interacting with her. she would develop such an important central role to trump and his -- the people around him, that she was a vip guest at the trump hotel in washington at the inauguration. she had vip seating at the

inauguration. this is someone who is deeply embedded in the dna fabric of the trump organization's finances. so to the extent that she is now in trouble at the bank, that raises a lot of questions about, you know, what information people might be able to get out of her both inside the bank and outside of the bank. and so -- and we'll see, but as i said earlier, i think if cy vance is seriously investigating the way that trump and the trump organization presented themselves financially to deutsche bank, rosemary bramblick is going to be very high on the list of people they're going to want to talk to. >> susanne, i want to give you the last word. go ahead. >> i think one of the things to remember is cy vance is going to be looking at these two issues but he wants to look at the whole thing. he wants to just put all of the pieces together both with the tax returns, all the financial statements. he wants to see the hush money. he wants to see was there bank fraud.

he wants to see is there foreign money? he wants to see everything. i mean this is what he's after. there's no question. >> and i guess, susanne, the same question i asked david is the one i wanted to get you on the record on. do you think that we know if cy vance is the only person looking at what you just describes, the whole picture? do you think that sdny could possibly be looking all of this still? >> i think they definitely could be. as far as we know they're not seeking the tax returns in this manner, but they could be conducting an investigation into who knows what. i mean there could be a lot of things going on that we don't need about. >> a lot of thinks going on that we don't know about is sort of my motto these days. "new york times" reporters david enrich and susanne craig, it's a pleasure to get to talk to both of you. i'm sure rachel will be calling on you early and often on this story. thank you. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former chief of the fraud section of the department of justice, former senior member

of special counsel robert muell mueller's investigation. currently a professor at nyu law school. andrew, thanks so much for being here. so you know your role is often to break this down for me, and we have the reporting. we have the filings. but tell me -- i mean because you go back and you watch that michael cohen hearing, and i watched an embarrassing chunk of it today. and it's clear that he's telling congress donald trump committed the crimes of bank fraud over and over again. i just saw it one time, but this was his m.o. is it likely that this is going to end in some sort of clear criminal exposure for donald trump? >> well, i think there is definitely a criminal investigation, and you have now with today's filing, manhattan d.a.'s office saying that they're looking at a series of individuals and entities in connection with the trump organization. that's their words in their

filing. and this seems like a classic white-collar investigation where, you know, they're going to be looking for the bank records, and they're going to try and match those up and create a timeline to see what was the trump organization telling the bank, what were they telling the investors, and then what were they telling the federal and state and city government when they were filing their tax returns because they're going to want to see the valuation of the assets and see how those changed over time as well as they're going to want to see what the trump organization was saying about their income. it's not rocket science. you know, if you're trying to get a bank loan, you're going to be saying that you have lots of income and lots of assets, and when you're filing your tax returns, you have an incentive to decrease your income so you pay less. so the question's going to be for the investigators whether

that incentive was carried out by people in the trump organization. >> a close trump ally and a veteran of the justice department said to me at the time of michael cohen's arrest that that represented the gravest legal threat to donald trump because the place where he acted most sort of hazardous to his own legal standing was in covering up affairs, was in the shoddy business practices. what do you make of the fact that cy vance went up and visited michael cohen in prison and seems to be following those threats? >> well, it's an obvious lead. i mean one of the things that you need in a white collar investigation is someone to tell you where the bodies are buried. and so, you know, you don't want to take michael cohen's word for it, but you want to see what leads he has, what documents he has, and then you do exactly what the manhattan district attorney's office is doing,

which is you press very hard to get documents. and, you know, they're doing something very smart, which is the subpoena that's at issue here is to the trump organization's accountants, and that is really where you're going to get a cache of documents that could be really damning. if there is criminality, that is a really good place to look because they're going to have all sorts of records and tax returns in their possession, custody, and control. so that was a smart move to go after them. >> well, i guess i ask because michael cohen was also for a while in the clutches of your old boss, bob mueller. and in his sentencing memo, donald trump is named as an un-indicted co-conspirator. arguably michael cohen gave all that stuff to bob mueller, and sdny as well, and we haven't seen anything. does that mean there's nothing

happening, or does that mean it was a different sort of investigation? >> so one thing to remember is first this special counsel's office did not have within its remit -- in other words, it had set limits that were put in place by the deputy attorney general, and that did not include a sort of personal or trump organization financial investigation, sort of classic, you know, white collar investigation. so that was not directly within the special counsel's office. now, the southern district of new york could have looked at that. but one thing that is public is you'll remember the skirmish at the sentencing of michael cohen where the southern district of new york seemed quite displeased with his, you know, cooperation and said it really wasn't full and complete. so i don't think just based on that information, my sort of educated guess would be that the southern district of new york is not looking at this and that the

office that's really taking the lead in this is the manhattan district attorney's office. >> let me ask you what i asked su sarks anne , what do you thi vance's chances are? donald trump and his lawyers have gone back to the court and argued that it's overly broad. he's come back and said, that's because my investigation is broad. where do you see this ending up? do you think cy vance ultimately gets the records he's seeking? >> you kneow, when you make predictions, you can always be wrong. >> oh, i know. >> but i'm going to go out on a limb and say, i think it is as close to 100% as you can get, certainly at the district court. as you mentioned, nicolle, there were two arguments that were made by the president. one was that the subpoena was issued in bad faith, and the other was that the subpoena was

overbroad. both of those legal issues were already ruled on by the district court. the district court has already rejected them when this was first heard when it went up to the supreme court. so it is a near certainty that judge marrero in the southern district of new york is going to adhere to his prior ruling. and i don't see the court of appeals or the supreme court taking on that issue or a stay being granted on those issues. so i think that if i had to make a prediction, i would say that there's a real reason for the district attorney to get these documents quickly because they need to -- if there's going to be a criminal charge, it needs to be brought within a set amount of time. so they have a need for speed. >> right. >> and i don't think that there's any good argument for not turning these over. >> andrew weissmann, one of our

favorite people to turn to on nights like this. former senior member of special counsel robert mueller's team. thank you so much for your time tonight. we're grateful. >> you're welcome. we still have a lot more to get to on a busy monday night. in many states, this is supposed to be back to school week. but the pandemic is still raging, and schools are shifting course. how did we get here, and how can we get out of this? more on that ahead. >> tech: at safelite, we're committed to taking care of you and your car. >> tech: we'll fix it right with no-contact service you can trust.

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for most schools in mississippi, the first day of classes start this week. so when a reporter asked the top health official in mississippi how the state could determine when it was safe for kids to return to school this term, his initial answer was that there was, quote, not an easy answer. the mississippi health director said last week that school reopenings could depend on where the outbreaks are, that there was no one size fits all approach to school reopenings in the state. that very same day, mississippi set a record for the number of coronavirus deaths in a single day. cases there continue to soar.

so today the mississippi health director says there actually is an easy answer as to whether or not school should open for the year. and that answer is no. mississippi's top official telling the public today that he was off when he first suggested students might be able to safely return to school. he says now he thinks it is a good idea to delay school maybe until september. he says if mississippi students all go back to school this week, quote, we are going to pay the price. the governor of mississippi is supposed to make the final call this week. meanwhile, children in parts of tennessee returned to school today. many more are expected to report to the first day of school in the state this week. there are no rumblings of delaying classes there. last week, teachers in nashville held this protest, a mock funeral to protest the state's refusal to cancel in-person learning. they drove past the governor's residence with their cars painted with signs that said

"dead teachers can't teach." there is no federal policy about whether students should return to the classroom in the middle of a still roaring pandemic. we are a patchwork of policies in this country on schools and on every other aspect of this public health crisis. but listen to dr. deborah birx this weekend, a high-ranking member of the president's coronavirus task force reminding the american people in no uncertain terms that this is not a mississippi problem or a florida problem or a hot spot problem, but an america problem. >> i want to be very clear. what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread. it's into the rural as equal urban areas, and to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. >> it is extraordinarily widespread, and yet 4 million cases, 155,000 deaths later,

this president does not see the coronavirus pandemic as his problem to fix. but if he did, one of the things he would probably read first is this piece in "the atlantic" magazine. it's called how the pandemic defeated america. a virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees, written by ed yong, science writer at "the atlantic." ed yong joins us now. it's an incredible piece. i want to get right to it and read some pieces. if i left anything out that you want to talk about, please jump in and point me toward them. this was a gut punch. you write this. the coronavirus found, exploited, and widened every inequity that the u.s. had to offer. far from being a great equalizer, the pandemic fell unevenly upon the u.s., taking advantage of injustices that have been brewing throughout the nation's history. let me read one more before i turn this over to you. you also write, as of early july, one in every 1,450 black americans had died from covid, a

rate more than twice that of white americans. latinos were three times as likely to be expected as white people. >> i mean the statistics are so stark, and i think the sad thing about this is that it was entirely predictable. like of course this would happen. america has such longstanding health inequities that date back to after the end of the civil war and ever since, when health care has been deliberately pushed away from black communities, where health care has been apportioned more according to the logic of jim crow than of hippocrates. and as a result, black people suffer worse health outcomes across the board. so it is no surprise at all that should a pandemic happen to strike a country like this, that they would suffer a disproportionate brunt of it.

same for brown people. the same goes for disabled and poor and elderly communities. i mean just take poverty. so many of the actions that we have recommended to keep ourselves safe are out of the question for people who work low-wage, hourly jobs without sick pay. you know, how do you expect someone who needs to put money on the family's table to stay at home all the time instead of going to work, working in those essential jobs that the rest of us have depended upon? so, again, much of what has transpired -- go on. >> no, no. i just wanted to pull the thread further with you on the same point. the cycle we seem to be in now is that, as you said, the statistics are a gut punch. reading it on paper and reading it out loud is sickening. but where we're heading now with the economic calamity is that health insurance is tied to employment in this country.

and with people literally pouring off the employment rolls, it's about to get worse before it gets better. >> it's about to get much worse, absolutely. and i think it really highlights the weakness of having a system like this, which is just singular in the world, where you tie a person's access to health care to their employment. you know, this is not the first time people have been talking about this as a problem, but i think the pandemic truly highlights these compounding crises where you have a government that doesn't take enough action. you have a virus that then is allowed to wreak havoc around a country that is already riddled with inequalities, with all kinds of other vulnerabilities. people get sick. they fall away from -- they fall away from their jobs, from their normal lives, and now they don't have access to health care at a time when they need it the most. and i think this spiral was also

predictable as with much else of this pandemic. it really has found, exploited, and widened every weakness that the united states had to offer. and it turned out the country had plenty to offer. >> you also report out how in washington, the white house and the federal officials did everything wrong. you write this. this is about travel bans hurting, not helping. you write, in practice, travel bans are woefully inefficient at restricting either travel or viruses. they prompt people to seek indirect routes via third-party countries or to deliberately hide their symptoms. they're often porous. trump's included numerous exceptions and allowed tens of thousands of people to enter from china. ironical ironically, they, travel bans, create travel. when trump later announced a ban on flights from continental europe, a surge of travelers packed america's airports in a rush to beat the incoming

restrictions. so even when we tried, we failed. >> it's the wrong measure. and, you know, i keep on saying that this is predictable, but someone whose first instinct is to build a wall, who rode into power on this tide of xenophobia was also going to reach for border control as their first option. and i admit that it is very intuitive and that it seems promising. but for all the reasons you read out, they're very difficult to enforce. they might delay the spread of a pandemic for a few days, maybe weeks at best, but they're not going to stop it. to stop it, you need to get testing ready. you need to shore up your hospitals. you need to get public health strong. and the risk of putting travel bans in as your primary means of defense is you forget about doing all the other stuff because you think you are secure, and that is clearly what happened to the united states this year. someone who can't think of

anything else other than to build walls and erect barriers between people reached for that and did nothing else. >> ed yong, science writer at "the atlantic" magazine, who has reported out a remarkable piece of journalism. thank you for sharing it with us here. we're grateful to get to talk to you about it. when we come back, operation warp speed is about delivering a vaccine faster than we have ever done it before. but can it be done quickly and safely? we'll get an expert to weigh in on that next. we've always put safety first. ♪ ♪ and we always will. ♪ ♪ for people. ♪ ♪ for the future. ♪ ♪ and there has never been a summer when it's mattered more. wherever you go, summer safely. get 0% apr financing for up to five years on select models and exclusive lease offers.

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california's economic challenges are deepening. frontline workers stretched too thin. our nurses and medical professionals in a battle to save lives. our schools, in a struggle to safely reopen,

needing money for masks and ppe, and to ensure social distancing. and the costs to our economy, to our state budget? mounting every day. we need to provide revenues now, to solve the problems we know are coming. president trump has launched operation warp speed, which is an historic effort to bring vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics to the american people in record time. president trump looked at the timelines that all of these players in the pharmaceutical industry and elsewhere said would be needed to bring these products to market, and he said, that's not acceptable. >> that was alex azar.

he's the secretary of health and human services. that was him back in may talking about president trump's operation warp speed, the white house's goal to deliver 300 million doses of a coronavirus vaccine by january of next year. today president trump moved that goalpost even closer on the schedule, saying that a vaccine may be available well before the end of this year. while the administration may want a vaccine for political reasons, yesterday and frankly all of us would love a vaccine as soon as possible, scientists are sounding the alarm that we must resist the urge to rush out a product we aren't sure about. one such vaccine researcher writes in today's "new york times," quote, creating vaccines is hard, and we should be prepared for the reality that some promising onces will not meet the fda's criteria. researchers and the government should also commit to transparency so that people can see the results for themselves to understand the regulatory decisions. waiting for a better vaccine to come along may feel like

torture, but it is the right move. with so many potential shots on goal, scientists are optimistic that a safe and effective vaccine is out there. we can't afford to jeopardize the public's health and hard-earned trust by approving anything short of that. the author of that stark warning in "the new york times" today is natalie dean. she's an assistant professor of biostatistics at the university of florida, specializing in emerging infectious diseases and vaccine study. professor dean, thank you so much for joining us tonight. what is the reality of this push for a vaccine? and i'm guessing that october or january would both represent a real acceleration of how these things are normally researched and brought to the public, no? >> absolutely. normal timelines for vaccines are measured in years, sometimes even decades. but we're talking here about months.

so it's been an incredible feat how quickly scientists have brought some of these products for a virus that we didn't even know existed a few months ago, to bring these vaccines so far along that we're already -- some of them are already in phase three trials. these are the large trials where we actually determine whether the vaccine protects individuals from infection or disease. >> so this is what you write, and i wanted to ask you to just lay out where we are right now. you write this. what we have right now is a collection of animal data, immune response data, and safety data based on early trials and from similar vaccines for other diseases. the evidence that would convince me to get a covid-19 vaccine or to recommend that my loved ones get vaccinated does not yet exist. so just help us understand exactly what that means about where we are right now. >> so there are a lot of different vaccines that are being developed, and they're at different phases in their development.

the ones that are furthest along are in something called phase three trials. these are the largest trials where individuals are randomized to either a vaccine or a placebo. then we follow them to see whether they have any side effects or whether they are infected or get disease. so that's how we can tell if the vaccine's actually protecting. and so these are the studies that determine regulatory decisions about whether a vaccine should be approved for use in a general population. and so these are the studies that are going to inform the fda's decisions about what becomes available. and the plan right now is to stick to these steps that we want to make sure the vaccine's at least 50% effective before being considered for widespread use. >> one of the by-products, i guess, of the rancor in our politics and of the distrust

that's been sown over the last five months is wihen you poll people over whether or not they'll take a vaccine when we do have one available, only 49% of the public says they plan to get vaccinated. 20% says they will not. and 31% are not sure. can you protect a population when 49% of them is vaccinated? >> i think those polls are very interesting because i actually don't find the big bucket of people who say they're not sure to be very surprising. why should people agree to take a vaccine that we don't -- you know, that doesn't really exist yet in the sense we don't know how well it works. we don't know what age groups it works in. we don't know the side effect profile. so i think that's quite normal. certainly the people who are saying they won't take a vaccine no matter what, that does represent, you know, an important barrier. but i don't find the people who are unsure, you know, that to be concerning. and so my goal is to really lay

out what the process looks like and encourage and advocate for transparency at every step so that we can convince people that the process is there to keep people safe and to help protect people and that it's moving as it's intended to do so. >> natalie dean, assistant professor of biostatistics at the university of florida, thank you so much for spending some time with us tonight. we're really grateful to talk to you. >> thank you for having me. election day is exactly three months from today, and that fact apparently has the president worried enough that he's attacking legislators in one state for trying to make it easier for people to vote. that story is next. second chances. but a subaru can. (dad) you guys ok? (vo) eyesight with pre-collision braking. standard on the subaru ascent.

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>> when nevada lawmakers met yesterday for a special session, one of the first things they got to was a bill to guarantee a mail-in ballot for every active voter in that state. some lawmakers spoke for it. some lawmakers spoke against it. and then they voted. >> all right. secretary will close the roll. the vote on assembly bill 4 is 13 in favor, 8 against, the bill having a constitutional majority is declared past. >> this is how lawmakers in an american state on video -- you just saw there for yourself -- passed it a bill to make it a little easier and a little safer for the state's constituents to exercise their right to vote. they passed that bill on sunday at 10:42 a.m. donald trump had a different interpretation of events, calling that vote, quote, an illegal late-night coup and threatening to sue over it. if the president sounds nervous, it might be because he is

trailing in the polls now as we are 92 days away from the election, and several states will open voting even sooner. as the pandemic affects more of life in more places around the country, states are trying to do what they can to help people vote safely. yesterday morning in nevada, state senator pat spearman recommended the journey her near ancestors made from being enslaved to becoming voters. >> my grandmother was barely born free. my dad was born free. i'm only third-generation free. three generations. i'm the third generation to be born free. that's important to me because i can remember talking to my grandfather, my maternal grandfather, and i remember him talking about wanting to have the right to vote. and i can remember one of the things -- the last things he said before he passed away was he was very sorry he would not have lived to see the day when everybody could vote.

i'm supporting this bill because although i am third-generation free, i am only the second generation to have in law the right to vote. that's sacred to me. that's sacred to me. >> tonight, the nevada governor signed that bill into law. and joining us now is nevada state senator pat spearman. senator spearman, thank you so much for making some time to talk to us tonight. >> thank you. and thank you for inviting me. >> i want to ask you about the state, and i want to ask you if the partisan politics that have now sort of engulfed the debate around mail-in voting on a national level, if they've engulfed your state as well. >> yes, they have unfortunately. it's part of a trend where the republicans don't think that they can win if a lot of people show up to vote.

and so, yes, unfortunately that trend has come to nevada. >> senator, it seems so backwards, though. i mean donald trump's voters or supporters or people who might want to vote for him in november may also wish to do so by mail. nevada is a state that everybody competes for, a very important state. is there any reasoning with republicans, any saying to them, listen, your supporters might prefer to vote by mail in the middle of a pandemic too? >> listen, we tried that. we tried that yesterday. there's really no -- what they have done is they have been co-opted by a message that is not true. it's not true. and so they did everything from saying that there would be fraud, that a lot of people don't want to be forced to vote by mail. they want to vote in person. and they just weren't paying attention to what the bill is about. that's very unfortunate.

>> tell us exactly what is in the bill and your comments about it and your support for it were so moving. tell us about the bill and what it meant to you personally. >> it's very simple. so this bill ensures that every person who wants to exercise their constitutional right to vote can do so. every registered voter will receive a mail-in ballot. they can mail the ballot back, or if they prefer, they can always take the ballot with them and vote in person. we already had a primary in june where we had mail-in ballots. no problems whatsoever. no problems whatsoever. this is a really simple bill, and it's designed to ensure every nevadan has the right to exercise their constitutional right to vote. >> donald trump says he's going to sue the state over it. are preparations being made to defend what you just articulated, every citizen's right to vote? >> you know, we here in nevada

don't take kindly to threats, and we've been threatened with lawsuits before. and they've brought them, and they're usually frivolous, and they are dismissed. and so to that, i say, mr. trump, we won't be intimidated. we are doing what we believe is the right thing to do for nevadans, and nevadans are not afraid of you. >> nevada state senator pat spearman, thank you so much for joining us tonight. i wish this was the end. that was almost a cinematic close, but we have more. we'll be right back. >> thank you. don't just think about where you're headed this summer. think about how you'll get there. and now that you can lease or buy a new lincoln remotely or in person... discovering that feeling has never been more effortless.

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tomorrow the states of arizona, kansas, michigan, missouri, and washington will all be holding primary elections. there are several big races to watch. in missouri, ten-term democratic incumbent lacy clay is facing a primary challenge from black lives matter activist cory bush. in michigan, progressive congresswoman rashida tlaib is also trying to fend off a primary challenge by detroit city council president brenda jones. the most heated contest tomorrow may be the kansas republican primary for that state's open senate seat. that one features former kansas secretary of state kris kobach. the national republican party is warning local republicans that if he gets the nomination, it would threaten the senate majority and possibly trump's

chances in kansas. as our friend rachel says, watch this space. that does it for us tonight. rachel will be back right here tomorrow night. i know where i'll be. i'll see you tomorrow afternoon, 3:00 p.m. eastern. now word." good evening. you have been busy. i watched you all week last week at 9:00 and now you're back this week at 10:00. hardest working man in television. >> well, you know, what better time, nicole, than to be -- to have a front seat to everything that is going on. you know, in 20 years they're going to ask us about 2020. what were you doing in 2020? and i'll have a good answer. you just mentioned chris kobach. he was at the beginning of the trump administration part of the voter fraud panel that was set up. remember donald trump set up a panel to show us how bad voter fraud was in the last election and it came up with goose eggs? >> well, do i remember? that was sort of the beginning