the administration continuing its work to undermine and underfund the post office. and by extension, the mail-in voting the president sees as a threat. we expect to hear more about that in just a few hours in a newly announced presidential briefing. also, trump's soinl and close adviser jared kushner admits to meeting with kanye west. >> and the president also amount of phiing completely baseless claims about the right of kamala harris to be on the democratic ticket. coming up this hour i will talk about an evident by supporters of the new vice presidential candidate to fight back against those kind of smears. we begin with breaking news on a couple of protests we are keeping an eye on right now. a tense scene in stone mountain, georgia as a white nationalist demonstration is facing counter-protests in the city's downtown. members of the white nationalist group, many carrying guns, and dressed in military-type gear,

had originallian played a demonstration in the city's park, where a confederate memorial stands. but officials closed the park today, citing security concerns. now the group faces what is reportedly an even larger crowd of counter protesters, many carrying blaefrt signs and chanting "go home racists". turning now to chicago where protesters are gathering to take part in a black lives matter march across a major city highway. protesters plan to shut down the dan ryan express way to protest police brutal. kathy park is there and joins me now. kathy, what are the protests like right now? how is law enforcement responding given chaos and looting that we saw earlier in the week in chicago? >> lindsey, i can tell you right

now that demonstrators are gathering about seven miles away. we saw some aerial images just a few minutes ago. it looks like the crowd is about 150, 200 or so. the plan eventually is as you mentioned to cross the dan ryan expressway, shut it down and eventually move here into the downtown area. the city has been rattled the past few days because of the widespread looting that took place sunday into monday. over here the my left the iconic magnificent mile. it is pretty empty. we are in the height of summer tour season and i am told this place would be packed. but because of covid, because of looting and in some places it happened twice in just a matter of months for a lot of these businesses, people are on edge. therefore, law enforcement has really stepped up their presence. you hear the ringing behind me. these are some of the bridges here in downtown chicago.

a lot of them have actually been lifted to limit the movement of, and prevent any sort of unrest that may play out. and there are other strategies that law enforcement laid out the other day along with the mayor, saying they will be monitoring social media with a new task force. and also putting up you know, these barricades, these trucks, and also lifting up the bridges to ensure that the city stays calm. so far, we have seen that. right now, officials are saying that they will not actually let these protesters onto the expressway. if the crowd grows to 500 or so, but right now it it look like it is half that size. >> shocking to see the bridges up. thank you kathy park. the president will hold a

-- let's go to the white house, where the president is continuing his war on the post office. josh letterman joins us now. the president has been on a bit of a retweetstorm today, claiming widespread fraud of course with mail-in ballots. what is the late nest his effort to defund the postal service? >> he has been retweeting a series of tweets from spokespeople from the republican national committee talking about dead people voting, widespread mail fraud. we should point out although there have been some problems with mail-in voting in some of the recent primaries we have seen, there has been no evidence of any kind of widespread fraud so far. but this seems to be on the president's mine as waging a battle over mail-in ballots and funding for the post office. as far as the negotiations with congress to extend covid relief and possibly add money for the post office and for vote by mail operations, we have a little bit of movement here after several

days of really inaction. we learned just in the last hour that the white house chief of staff is now having conversations with a group in congress known as the problem solver caucus. this is actually a bipartisan group of house democrats and republicans. they tend to be more moderate members who have a history of trying to bridge the partisan gap to try to find some pragmatic solutions. already talks under way. we know they have spoken by phone. now, these would be talks that don't include louse and democratic leadership in the house and senate, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who really reached a dead-end in their talks with the white house. we don't know whether these parallel talks are going the yield anything. in the meantime democrats are seizing on this as their latest campaign message against the president as they fan out across the country in august ahead of the election in november. listen to what congress won

maloney of new york had to say at a news conference this morning in manhattan. >> we passed this request of $25 billion three months ago in the house of representatives. it is languishing in the senate as we speak. but now the president has made clear that he is holding this money hostage because he does not support mail-in voting. think about that. think about it. it's one of the most undemocratic actions i can think of. and he is admitting it. >> you hear the message from democrats being if president trump is concerned about the state of mail-in voting and the ability of the poufs to handled this stuff, the solution is for the president to try to take action, try to work to provide more resources to better prepare us for the election, not simply to discourage or prohibit people from voting by mail. as we can see, a really wide casse. at this point in time between the president and democrats,

prolonging this conflict and really creating a lack of relief for americans who are waiting for those unemployment benefits and other relief measures that have now expired in the absence of any kind of a compromise. >> josh, if the two sides come to some sort of an agreement would mitch mcconnell call back senators? since they are on reest is the rest of the month. >> that's the basic plan but it is not that easy. the way that the senate is adjourned at this point. in order the bring them all back to washington, basically any senator could object to that. there are going to have to be what mcconnell says is bipartisan consend bring everyone back to the senate. the house have also gone home although democratic members say they should be standing by their phone ready to come back. there are no indications that either side is going to have to rush back to washington because there is no deal to be signed.

>> nbc's josh letterman at the white house. for more on the trump administration and the white house i want to bring in north carolina state board of elections executive director. thank you for joining us. we know that 46 states and d.c. got letters saying if voters follow all of their state's election rules for mail-in ballots, the pace of the postal service delivery may still disqualify their votes. north carolina was one of the states who got this letter. your office says you are going to be encouraging voters to send back their ballots by october 27th so it can be counted. but your website says that's the deadline to request an absentee ballot. how are you getting this information out to voters. >> we started the messaging even before the letter was received because north carolina is the first in the nation to send out absentee by mail ballots. we do that in 20 days. september 4th. we already had to prop our ab

isn'tee by mail materials, stating october 27th. the request date is defined by north carolina law. but we are also keeping in-person voting available during our one-stop early voting period, and also on election day. we are making sure that voters have all three options of how they want to cast their ballots. >> let's talk about volumes. how many absentee ballot requests are you seeing this year? how does that compare to 2016? i am imagining there is great deal more. are you equipped to handle that kind of an influx? >> we have seep a substantial uptick. in 2016 at this time we had about 25,000 requests for absentee ballots stayedwide. now worry at 200,000 already. that's about eight times more. fortunately, we had our statewide primary back on super tuesday in march. that's when we all learned as a country that we had a

coronavirus pandemic, that we would be facing. we had begun preparations even at that point in time for what we need would be a substantial increase in mail-in voting in our state. typically, north carolina has 4 or 5% of our ballots cast, by mail. and we will project 30 to 40% of our ballots will be cast by mail during this election. we have been taking steps along the way logistically with our personnel, working with our legislature to make legislative recommendations that have been turned into a bipartisan bill passed in june to help address some of the concerns we had and how we would conduct absentee voting as well as in-person voting. >> how can you be sure that people who go out and cast their vote in person will be safe doing so?

>> we have a 17-day one stop voting period in north carolina. through an emergency order i have required counties to ensure additional sites, additional social distancing, ways to reduce lines. and during our first two weekends of voting, we will have a minimum of ten hours open at all of our one top early voting sites across the state. those are some of our first steps that we have taken. but we'll have substantial ppe at our polling places. we will ensure that there is a mask available to any voter when they come to vote, single use pens, hand sanitizer, as well as the social distancing provisions. our poll workers will be wearing mask, face shields, gloves, and cleaning that equipment and those voting booths to ensure safety of our voters. and for the poll workers themselves. >> 20 days until you begin absentee voting. thank you so much for your time today. we appreciate it. kamala harris, the first black woman, and also the first

south asian woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket, has been on the democratic ticket all of two days when president trump started amplifying the same racist birther conspiracy theories that he used to question the eligibility of president barack obama for years. nbc's deepa shiv ram joins us now from wilmington, delaware. the president told us he was going look into whether hairs, a natural born citizen would, need to mention s eligible to serve as vice president given her parents are immigrants. have we heard any response from either harris or biden to this false statement? >> lindsey, let's be very clear. the statement like you just said, it is false. it is racist. it's xenophobic and it is absolute will he not true. kamala harris was born in oakland, california, which makes her fully eligible to be vice president or president of the united states. we know this. the biden campaign has reist leased a statement on it a couple days ago when all this started to boil up, denouncing

trump's comments and obviously call him out for that kind of birterism rhetoric we heard when he was using that against barack obama just a couple years ago. we have not heard kamala harris herself respond. i want to point out, lindsey, kamala harris has been running for political office since 2003 and she ab first in many ways since she has been running. this is not the first same she's breaking a barrier. she has been doing it pretty much her entire career. as a black woman and a south asian woman running for office. when you think about it, she faced racism and sexism in every race she has won. we are looking at her in this barrier breaking and history making moment but this is something she has been doing her entire career. >> the biden campaign is targeting hispanic voters in debattleground states. what can you tell us about the ads? >> a ad came out this morning. it is interesting because you

see biden and harris together in this ad. it is notable because it is bilingual coming out in english and in spanish and rlgt at thatting battleground sats to target latino voters. we will play tsome of it. >> now, joe confirmed he's walking with perfect company. a champion of the latino community for years. kamala is the final piece of the puzzle. >> you hear them saying she is a champion of the latino community. obviously, kamala harris is from california a large latino community there. she has been a champion of programs like daca. this is something she's been talking about for a while. the biden campaign making sure her face and name is visible. this is going to be out to many

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welcome back. as kanye west faces criticism over his presidential campaign and the help he's gotten from republicans it was revealed this week that president trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, jared kushner met with west recently in colorado. when asked about the meeting on wednesday, kushner says he has known kanye west for ten years

and that they just quote happened to be in colorado times. curb nesh noted they did not discuss west's presidential campaign. just policy. we both happened to be in colorado. we got together and we had a great discussion about a lot of things. he has some great ideas for what he would like to see happen in the country. >> did you discuss the campaign, his campaign, with kanye west? >> we had a general discussion more about policy. >> the recent changes to the u.s. postal service along with the president's threats to block emergency funding have the potential to impact a lot more than just the election this november. our nation's veterans who both work for and depend on the postal service every day could be collateral damage. that's the focus of a new ad by the organization vote vets. >> after five draft deferments

and -- crump has finally gone to war w the u.s. postal service. yeah, the post office. the one that american troops have relied on for over 00 to bring news from home and deliver our absentee ballots safely back home. and when our service was through, to deliver life saving prescriptions on time from the v.a. today, and every single workday, 30,000 veterans are due a prescription drug delivery by the u.s. postal service. >> will goodwin is the director of government relation force vote vets and an army veteran. he joins us now. will, good afternoon. thank you for joining us. why did your organization feel the need to create this ad? >> sure, lindsey, as we said in the ad, donald trump used five deferments the avoid service in viet nam. but he timely decided to go to war. it is a war against the u.s. postal service as part of a scheme to cheat in november's

election. he doesn't care about the collateral damage, doesn't care about the 330,000 number, the number of veterans who rely every day on the postal ever to deliver their prescriptions. doesn't care about the veterans employed by the postal service and doesn't care about then in and women tee moid to fete their abientee ballots. you found a way to get out of the vietnam war. he should find a way to get out of the war with the postal service and the veterans. >> the postal service is one of the largest employers of veterans. how do you think these attacks on the postal service are going to influence veterans when they turn out with their votes come november? >> it cuts at the core of why people choose to serve in the

u.s. military and wear the uniform risking and losing their lives to defend that fundamental right that we have as americans to participate and vote in free and fair elections. it is clear that joe biden and kamala harris terrify trump, and he think has the only way that he can win in november is to cheat. and i think veterans across the country are pretty roundly criticizing this move not only for the impact on their medication or the employment of those 97,000 veterans at usps, but it's really an attack on our country and an attack on the values that so many of us have served to defend. >> when it comes to mail-in ballots, we know active duty military have been doing that more than a century. do you see that as proof that the system does work? >> absolutely. service members have voted by mail going back to the civil war. it's safe. it works. and think about what we are talking about this year. we are in the middle of a pandemic.

a public health crisis that has been particularly awful in the deaths of veterans who are older and a lot of them living in nursing homes across the country where some worst outbreaks this pandemic hit. it works -- the u.s. military is familiar with it. we have got to make sure that not only can everyone here vote domestically but that our troops who are overseas are able to vote, whether this afghanistan, stationed in germany, wherever it may be, they deserve the vote and exercise the rights that they are risking their lives to defend. >> veterans are as diverse as the rest of america, you can't necessarily put them nall one voting bloc. typically the president injoyce the military as part of their base. how do you support these idea where you are definitely supporting the president and you are putting out this warning that he is attacking the postal

service. what has been the reaction so far among veterans that you know personally? >> at this point it is not hypothetical. it is not about president trump and his gross attacks and rhett ricks towards heroes like john mccain when he was running in 2016. he now has a record as a failed commander in chief. whether it was stealing money from military construction funds to build his racist border wall, whether it was trying the ban transgender troops serving around the world. people know whenever donald trump has the chance to put his own domestic till gain to the expense of service members he will do it. it is unacceptable now. the only way to turn it around is to elect and comaer in chief in joe biden who is worthy of the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform make every day. i think that's the message getting through to veterans. >> will goodwin with vote vets.

still ahead an effort to fight back in real time on attacks on newly minted vice presidential candidate kamala harris. county by county our road warriors are on the ground with reaction from key voters in battleground states. as we count down to election day. day. kraft. for the win win.

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together of the divides in our country. i think kamala harris fits that bill perfectly. >> she's a pregnantive thinker. she's very much on immigration, which is good. so i think -- i think it was a wise choice. >> then we go to beaver county, pennsylvania, a drishl include collar democratic stronghold has has grown more gop friendly in recent years. here's what one undecided voter wants to see from the biden/harris campaign. >> i am happy to have not only a woman but a black woman chosen. how that adds up, i don't know. i i am looking forward to the debates, the convention. i want the know more. i want to know what they are going to do for small businesses, how many they are going to help families make it through this pandemic. >> shaq brewster headed to the midwest to speak with voters in

milwaukee, wisconsin, the location for this week's democratic convention. the milwaukee was narrowly won by president trump in 2016 after a dip in voter enthusiasm and black voter turnout. but one resident says harris is a game changer. >> being a black woman, entrepreneur, single mom with daughters, it is a game changer. we are making history now. >> reporter: what's the difference between before you heard about the pick and now? >> i was always supportive. but i am very supportive at this point. bus we want women's issues met. not that a man can't do it. but now we have someone on the ticket that represents us. >> another state donald trump won die just a few percentage points in 2016 is arizona. despite a lola tino voter turnout. that's something democrats are hoping to expand this year, particularly in maricopa county. here's what one grassroots organization member says a

biden/harris couticket to bring them locally. >> having someone who understand the immigration issues is so, so important. this is the west coast. they are our neighbor. the demographics of the southwest are so different than the east coast i think it is important that he picked somebody from the west coast. >> this election cycle, racist and sexist attacks against any and all political candidates will be met by the joined forces of women's groups ready to call them out. one campaign, called we have her back, has established a war room to refute false attacks as they happen. joining me now, tina chen, president and ceo of time's up now. and adrian shop shyer the executive director of black pack. thank you for being with us. there has been discussion over whether the media even should cover some of these attacks we have been hearing, allegations we know to be false.

some say it draws more attention to it. tina, you say it is important to talk about. can you tell us why? >> well, we have got to fight back. we have got to actually call these thing out and name them, because this is what is infecting our culture. we set up we have her back joined from time's up with lots of other women's organizations like planned parenthood, like super majority to really call these things out because if we don't, it infects how we think about women leaders. it infects our politics. it's why we can't envision a woman in the white house. when we have her called out for her ambition. or it happened this morning in the "new york times," frank bernie started writing whether kamala harris should be more emotional. did we write columns that ask male candidates to be more emotional? it trickles down, lindsey. it means this is how people think about ceos. that's why we don't have a single black woman ceo in the

fortune 5-today. it guess down to a restaurant server who asires to be a manager some day. her employers are not looking at her as a leader. it trickles down to our little girls listening to this rhetoric. we have our back, we have watched this movee before and sat back. we are not sitting back this time. >> when donald trump came up with the birther campaign against barack obama it was a fringe opinion but it caught on. obama released his birth skiskt to put it to rest so the campaign could focus on other thing. we are now seeing the same allegations against kamala harris. i want to pose a question to you posed to the editor of the "new york times" from reader. what is it about democratic people of color running for high office that triggers republicans to promeet baseless conspiracy theories. >> yeah, this country has a long history of questioning the citizenship of black americans. this is a part of that long

history, to suggest somehow that she is other, to suggest somehow that she is constitutionally unqualified to run for this position because she simply doesn't belong is essentially the message that they are putting forward and we see this kind of othering and the suggestion that black americans do not belong or are not stips throughout our society, and throughout culture, whether it is bird watching, right, in central park. whether it is sitting and waiting in starbucks. whether it is taling to vote and being told that for whatever reason you should not be allowed. so i think we have both the sort of othering to the country saying she's not an american. and then there is another line of attack we have seen from some of the trump supporters including the black supporters that attempt other her from black america, say she is not one of you. both the misogynistic attacks, and also the racist attacks come

out of the trump campaign are, you know, real opportunities for us to, like tina said, call this out, but also to say what is absolutely unacceptable in our politics, and those kinds of attacks and the kinds of language that's being used. >> this is to both of you. do you feel like yes while it is important to call out this kind of misogynistic racist rhetoric, does it take away from talking about other key important issues? >> no. the american public can absorb multiple messages at the same time. we definitely need to talk about the ish us. we definitely need to talk about things like the post office that you covered and other issues that are out there. but we also can't let this kind of insidious, damaging rhetoric seep into our culture. we have got to stop it right now. you know, we are focused on the political chains because this is one of the most consequently elections in our lifetime.

it is pervasive. the coverage of it is everywhere. everyone is listening to it. and they are learning from it, subtly, each. if it is not in the front of their brain they are hearing these messages and internalizing it for the future. that's why if we don't call it out for what it is, if we don't make sure the american electorate is informed fully an all of these issues, including the subtle signals they are getting we are to the doing a good service to the public and setting ourselves up for a continued failure in the future. >> adrian what's your response to giving these attacks energy? >> i think it is important to know these are the issues, too. right? racism is an issue that is driving people's participation in our democracy right now. driving participation to end it. we shouldn't see this as something trat. to be clear, the trump campaign and administration has decided that miss ogyny and racism is a

way to distract voters from their failure. people perished under his stewardship. there are 30 million americans without jobs. there are reports of 54 million americans going hungry. clear, this is a way for them to try to distract our attention away from their failures. but this is also a part of the issues that we should be.greateling with as americans, as we strive for national unity. as we strive toward a more perfect union we have to grapple with the issues that keep us back and keep us separated. >> we have a lot of work to do. hope to have you back. thank you so much. still ahead. back to school. from virtual learning to in-class instruction, the academic year looks a lot different for everyone. how students, parents, and teachers are preparing.

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how significant is this threat from the turkish president? >> when you talk about turk irk president erdogan, he has become or stylized himself as a champion of the palestinians, the champion of the palestinians outside of the palestinians themselves in the last several years. but israel has had its own diplomatic relations, military relations, economic relations with israel since 1949, the year after the state was founded. it is a bit hip kitical for turkey to threaten that they might withdraw their diplomatic relations with the uae when they have had diplomatic relations with both for decades. this i think a e this bell coast language we are hearing from the region, and from iran as well, it is unlikely these threats are going to be born out. a lot of this region are exhausted from political turmoil of the last decade.

that is why this was an opportunistic time for netanyahu to make the move. bus the uae as long with several other arab countries view iran as their main enemy. they have eclipsed israel as their main enemy state. other gulf arab states are eyeing what's going won the uae and may be following suit. it is no surprise they may at you want to get together maybe each throw in their lot with israel against iran. >> matt bradley, thank you. a complicated come back as the nation's largest school district counts down to the beginning of the school year. teachers protest against in-person learning. how local leaders plan to proceed. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less

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us at this time. i understand parents need care. but turning my school into a covid laboratory is not the answer. >> i fear for lives and those numbers increasing by the incre opening of school. so these are my concerns as we approach the 2021 school year. new york city is only four weeks away from welcoming students back to classrooms. fears over covid-19 are high. some teachers in the nation's largest school district are amplifying their concerns of in person learning. the prospect of returning not only as educators but as front line workers amid an uncontrolled pandemic. antonio hilton reports. >> shut it down. shut it down. >> allen has taught special education students in new york city for seven years. he's used to challenging

environments. a returning to the classroom in the midst of a pandemic doesn't sit right. >> it's awful. i think they're so disconnected from reality. >> what are your personal fears about what it would mean for you to be back in a school building with your kids. >> one of my students would get it and they would die. that's the worst scenario, or somebody would contract it and spread it to their families. >> new york city leaders announced public schools would return to a mix of in person and remote instruction. now that the city's infection rates are under control. alex is a member of a small social justice caucus within the united federation of teacher's union, called the movement of rank and file educators. they're considering calling for a strike or a sick out. [ chanting ] >> the city consulted closely with new leadership on reopening plans. some teachers felt like their voices weren't being heard by

city leaders like the school's chancellor. >> whey have heard from parents is that think need their children in school. so the 1 million students in new york city we have a little over 300,000 families that have elected to start the school year remote learning. as of right now, we're saying we'll go to a blended learning environment as long as it's safe. >> how will the city respond if teachers decide to strike? >> i don't know. but i'm appealing to teachers, to say to them, we hear you, we understand you. this is based on the medical science and we set thresholds that if that number starts creeping the other way, we will pivot to remote learning without hesitation. i am appealing to teachers to understand that our children need us, they need us now more than ever. >> you can catch antonio's full story on the weekend report on

your quibi app. in new jersey, governor phil murphy has once again revised the state's reopening plans. joining us now from elizabeth new jersey is cory coffin. schools will have in person instruction. and can only teach virtually if they can't meet certain protocols. this gives schools really own willing a few weeks to figure out their plans. what are you hearing from educators about their concerns? >> this is going to be a very quick few weeks. they are happy, though. this is a step in the right direction. not only for individual teachers and the districts. but the state teacher's union which has been advocating for this. it is not 100% virtual, it's somewhere in the middle. schools do have to show that they cannot meet the safety requirements for ppe, proper ventilation, that sort of thing. here in elizabeth where we're at, it will be virtual for this school district, they had some

375 teachers opt in, qualifying for virtual at home teaching, because they thenselves have pre-existing conditions or live with someone who would be immunocompromised. or they are dealing with the different students that may be immun immunocompromised here. i spoke with several teachers yesterday, they gave us their perspective on other school districts that have reopened despite teacher concerns. >> i felt like they were just totally disregarding our roles as educators, and i felt that they were looking at us as we were expendable. >> we need the funding in order to put these things in place that we would happily come back to our buildings with, and do it. unfortunately, the districts don't have the funding that they need in order to ensure what is needed in order to open school buildings. when we're ready to go to an indoor restaurant, ready to go

see a concert, then we can attend school in person. >> that really puts things into perspective. comparison of other indoor events and learning. there's a lot of contact, the teachers told me they're in contact with no less than a couple hundred people a day, because not only do they have their students, they have their other teachers, administrators, staff, bus drivers, security guards, you get the idea how quickly it could spread throughout the entire network, and shut the school down or a school district like what has happened in elizabeth. one thing i want to note is since the governor hasn't fully rescinded his order, but rather, they can qualify for virtual learning in along with that, they must also provide a plan for in person learning eventually, for example right here in this school district they have to have a plan as to how they're going to get that ppe and a date they're going to reopen in person. lindsay? >> very interesting what's happening in elizabeth, new

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