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>> that is "all in" on this monday night. good evening. great to see you. >> great to see you. usually watchingt(fáqçófát( she'll be back inñr this chair this time tomorrow. be muchxdu
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than previously known.q vance's office had opened a criminal investigation intoq th role!u that the president his businessko played in that hush money scheme payments that were made in the run-up to the 2016 election. the hush money f you remember, went to women who claimed they had hadñi affairs with donald trump. stormy mcdaniels. he!u argued tapá hei] as complete immunity from investigation,xd but last month the supreme court ruled?; against the president saying that the president does not havu immunity fromxd sicy vance's ru. district attorney basically the only entity in the country with a clear path toward finally prying loose the financial records that the president has
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there was a catch. see, the president couldjf stil go back to the lower courtsñi a ñ the s&p, so that was exactly what the president did. he urged a>&#deral judge to toss the manhattani] xdd.a.'s subpoe because it was, quote,çó wildly overbroad. trump's lawyers essentiallylp sd to cy vance, these records you're demandingxd go way beyon yourt( investigation some of th today the mabt district attorney filed his rye ply in court and $ehv was, oh, yeah, we'ret( investigating mucht( more than u think. there's protracted criminal conduct at the trumpth@&h(lc% organization and he drops hints suggesting that the investr!páion includest( bankt( insurance fraud and both felonies. theok filing referencese1xd
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congressional testimony from trump'sxd formejá lawyer michae cohen. it wasçó my experience mr. trum inflatedq his total assets when fá did this information $ehprovield us inflat% the assets? >> i believe thet(qxd numbers a inflated. >> of course, also to boost your ego is not a xdcrime, but to yow
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knowledge did the president ever provide inflated assets to a banke1fá in order to help him on a ñiloan? >> thesew3ñai doncuments and ot wereq provided to deutsche bank on one occasion ic wasr attempt to obtainñit( money so that we could put a bid on the buffalo billb>d4 rñ now, gin to a bank to secure a loan is called bank fraud. it's a felony.ñrlp michael cohen testified there to
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fruit. howc tantalizing isc itñi to th that cy vance mayjf actually en up with his hands on the tax returns and how likely do you think that t(is? ñ it's interesting tofá
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hear the investigation has gone beyond the hush money payment you talked about i]earlier. it'sxd hardly surprising.xd i would imagine it would be like everything. going toñi see tax records. i%ink jfthere's a good chance he's going to getjf it. the question is when, but i supreme courte1 is centered on a course.xd it's a decent argument, kind of straight down the mid showtimee1lp documentary about the investigation into his fpss that was based on whatok y
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i'm not sure evaluations would be the first thingfáq i would g of the puzzle took me. i don't think you're going to n the tax returns exactly to 1 valuationsfáok over or under, but you're goingçó to se records that cy vance is looking for. he's looking not just for tax records but financial records, that kind ofe1 stuff.
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mouth last year, i got in touch with people i know atq deutsche bank. they immediatelyt( confirmed th michael cohen's testimony was basically correct, that dor>&d trump was systematically overstating the value of all sorts of assets and the bankers wouldx> so what responsibility doesc the bank have if he was submitting values that were so
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off that they laéwied out loud and loaned him moneyooanyway? >> well, the bank isn't responsible for enforcing the law. deutsche bank hasçó proven over and over through the years itth% law. i think its responsibility at this point isxd to be asxd cooperative with investigators whether they're on capitol hill or at cy vance's xdoffice. it would reallyjf surprise me i he isn't going to reachi] out t deutsche bank and seek all of their records,xdt( dtrump, and suzanne. it's important. fraud. it might q? you don't need tax documents to
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find outlpçó the purchase pricea building in manhattan and they had tax information in some other j[m to be careful, they may have relied on it, and to david's point, we canjf tell right now without seeing tackñr returns tt the information inw3 the documes michael cohen presented to congress, there's stuff in there that's pretty crazy and off. it doesn'tñi take tax returns t figuret( that out. is it fraud? i think you havee1çó to come do to, did the bank rely on it. >> so, david,xd pick up that thread for me and !e9áqáj some of your reporting from the weekend. deutsche bank opens review into the personal banker toxd trump d kushner.,@j(a%m there anye1 int ]9 >> there's an enormous amount of
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overlap. rosalieñit(xdñi lave lilic purc apartment that turns out to be partiar,- owned by jared kushner. that strikes a glaring conflict of interest for the bank. thexdçóçófáxd recommend is beca was theñrqxdjflpçó one that was.
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inauguration. is this someone deeply embedded in the dna fabric of the trump ? raises a lot of questionse1 about what information people mighte1 get t of her both inside offá the ban and outside of the bank, and we'$ earlier, i think ifxdñie1ñi cy vance is seriouslyt( investigatg the wayi] trump and the trump organization presented themselves financially to deutsche banks rosalie bramlick is going to be very high.
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i mean this is what!u he'se1q a there's no question. >> i guess, suzanne, the same know? do you think a5sdny could possiy be looking at all of this still? >z3 i think they definitely coud bchlt as far as we know, they're notw3 seeking the tax returns i conducting an investigation into g knows what. there could be a lot of o things going on that we don't know about. >> a lot ofqi] things goingi] ot we don't know about. >> it's a pleasure to get toçó talk to both of i]you. i'm sugar ray chel will be calling you early and often on this story. thank you. joining us now isçóáo@ andr weisman,e1 former senior memberf the investigation.
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professorially. thank you so much for being here. you know your role is off on the break this down for me andxd we have thelpokfá reporting, we ha filings, but tell me -- i mean because you go back and watch thate1 michael cohen hearing ani watched an embarrassing chunk of and it's clear he'sxd telling congress donald trump committed the crimes of fraud over and overxd again. i just saw it one time, but this was his m.o. is it likely that this is going to end ini] some sort of clear criminal exposure for donald trump? definitely a criminal investigation andl)uáu have now with qtoday's filing manhattan d.a.'s office saying they're looking atfáq a series of individual end entities with thd trump organization. that's their words in theirxd filing,ç!et this seems like a
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classic white collar investigation where they're going to be looking for the bank records, and they're going toñi try to match theirs up and create a time line to see what was"árq trump organization telling the ñibank, what were ty telling theñ
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>> a close trump all:oç and a veteran of thexd justice department said to me at the ñi gravest legal threat, donald trump, because the place wherej hexd acted most sorts of hazards toñi his own legal standing wask covering up affairs, was in the shoddy businessfá practices. what do you make ofxd the fact what do you make ofxd the fact that cy vyn- visited michael cohen in prison and seems to be following thoseó qti r:ur)uráhp' obvious xdlead. i mean one of theçóçó things th zvestigation is someone to tell you where the bodies are buried, and m/÷ you don't want to take has, what documents he has, and then you do exactlyxd what the
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you know,e1ñi they're doing something very smart, which is the subpoena that's at issue here isñr to the trump organization's accountants, and that is really where you're going to get a catch of documents that could be really damning. because they're going to have all sorts ofxd recordsxdñ and tax returns their possession, custody, and control. them. michael, i guess i ask because michael cohen was also for a while ine1 the clutches o bob mueller.fá in a se,çqjjáus( is nam#.
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the office didn't have qthat. it had set limits put in place by the attorneyw3 general, and that did not include a personal or trump organization, financial investigation, sort of classic, you know,ñr white collar investigation. so that was not directly within the special i]counsel's office. now, theq southern district of new yorkñi could have looked at that, but one thing that is public, youçó remember the skirmish at the sentencing of michael cohen where the southerf districtr it really wasn't full andñi ñrjfcomplete. ñrxd educated guess would be thatçó e southern district of new york is not looking atlp thise1 andxd te
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office that's really taking the lead in this is the manhattan district attorney's office. >> let me ask you whatçó i aske suzanne at the top ofok the program. what do you thinklpçóçó cyok va odds xdare, chancese1xçiñ donal trump and hisxd lawyersxd have back to ttqñi kour and arguedoks really broad. he's come back and said it's one was that the s&p was issued in bad faith, and the other was that the subpoenaw3 was overbro.
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both of those legale1 issues we already ruled on by the district court.=z of it
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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 that there was, quote, not an easy answer. the mississippi health director said last week that school openings could depend on where the outbreaks were. 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
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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 schools 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 return 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,
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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
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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 you some points. if i left anything out, feel free to jump in. but you write, the coronavirus found, exploited, and widened every inequity that the united states had to offer. far from being a great equalizer, the pandemic fell unevenly upon the u.s., taking advantage of injustices that had 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
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july, every one in 1,450 black americans had died from covid, a rate twice that of white americans. latinos were three times as likely to be infected as white people. >> i mean, the statistics are so stark. and i think the sad thing about this is it was entirely predictable. like, of course, this would happen. america has such long-standing 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 hypocrisies. as a result, black people suffer worse health outcomes across the
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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 -- 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 into work, working in those essential jobs that the rest of us had depended on. so, again, much of what has transpired in this -- 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 headed now with the economic calamity, is that health insurance is tied to employment in this country. and with people literally
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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 truly -- 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 their jobs, from their normal life, and now they don't have access to health care at a time when they need it the most.
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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 are often porous. trump's included numerous exceptions and allowed tens of thousands of people to enter from china. 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.
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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 always 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. as someone who can't think of
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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. on that next they line up by the thousands.
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president trump has launched operation warp speed, which is an historic effort to bring vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostic to the american people in record time. president trump looked at the timelines that all of these players and 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.
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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 ones 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.
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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 design. 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,
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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 this are already in phase 3 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
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different phases in their development. the ones that are furthest long are in something called phase three trials. these are the largest trials where individualized are randomized to either a vaccine or a placebo. and we follow them to see whether they have any side effects or whether they are infected or get disease. and 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 that the vaccine is at least 50% effective before being considered for widespread use. >> one of the by-products, i guess, of the rancor in our
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politics and of the distrust that's been sewn over the last five months is that when you poll people on whether or not they'll take a vaccine once 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 this we don't know how well it works, we don't know which age groups it works in, we don't know the side effects 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 an important
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barrier. but i don't find the people who are unsure, you know, that to be concerning. so my goal is to really lay out what the process looks like and encourage and advocate for transparency at every step so 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. robinhood believes now is the time to do money.
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sunday morning. all right. the senate will come to order. 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 and vote on assembly bill 4. the bill having received a constitutional majority is cleared and passed. >> this is how lawmakers in an american state on video that you just saw for yourself passed 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.
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if the president sounds nervous, it might be because he's trailing in the polls now as we are 92 day a 2 days away from t 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 remembered 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 live to see the day when everybody could vote.
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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. 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 are now have sort of engulfed the debate around mail-in voting at a national level if they have engulfed your state adds well. >> yes, they have, unfortunately. it is part of a trend that republicans don't think they can win if a lot of people show up to vote.
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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 might also wish to do so my mail. nevada is a state 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 the pandemic, too? >> listen, we tried that. we tried that yesterday. there is really no reason. and i believe 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.
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>> tell us exactly what is in the bill and your comments about it, and your support for it was so moving. tell us about the bill and what it meant to you personally. >> it is 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 anevadan 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
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articulated, every citizen's right to vote? >> you know, we here in nevada don't take kindly to threats. we have been threatened with lawsuits before, and they have brought them, and they're usually frivolous and they are dismissed. and so to they 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. i wish this was the end. that was a cinematic close. but we have more. we'll be right back. >> thank you, thank you. be righ. >> thank you, thank you. itching for an outing or itching for some cuddle time. but you may not know when he's itching for help licking for help or rubbing for help. if your dog does these frequently. they may be signs of an allergic skin condition
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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, democratic facing a challenge from corey bush. in michigan progressive congresswoman 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 chris kobach. the national republican party is warning local republicans that if he gets the nomination, it would threaten the senate
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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 will be. i'll see you tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern. "first look" is up next. president trump claims the coronavirus is down. the virus is spreading. new york governor andrew cuomo lashes out at the president and the administration's response to the pandemic calling it, quotes, the worst government blunder in modern history. good tuesday