there is still and rightfully a shared celebration by many black women and girls over the first nomination of a black woman, a woman of any color to the second highest office in the land. now comes the calculus of what

senator harris will add to his candidacy, already assumed to have the lion's share of black support this year, if for no other reason than the opponent is donald trump. as team biden settles on a narrative for monday's democratic national convention, we know, as we always did, what the trump campaign's response will be to a black woman on the ticket. since tuesday president donald trump labeled the senator as a radical in the same vein as the rest of his democratic enemies. and because she's a woman, there's that term with him, but what is likely to trip trump up in his approach to harris has and will continue to be unsophisticated racism, a return to the birtherism that elevated

him a decade ago with attacks on her parentage and her claim on the black experience. and the president is in new jersey today where he's expected to give a press conference starting later this hour. we'll go there live once it starts. another opening battle front for the trump campaign, the u.s. postal service. nearly every state in the union having received notice that they may not be able to conduct universal mail-in voting during a pandemic that may make it very necessary. well, then that's the point. as the president told us more than once this week, the quiet part all the way out loud. joining me is congresswoman carolyn maloney, the chairman of the committee on oversight and reform. this week she introduced the delivering for america act in the wake of us present dented

cha -- unprecedented changes to the u.s. postal service. let me ask you, the new postmaster general announcing all these changes, putting people ons in that many states may not be able to mail out the ballots in time, which smells of political maneuvering, the president saying outright that he's not going to go for funding of the post office because he feels that mail--in is set up to hurt him specifically. do you think the postmasters general should resign? >> i don't think he should have been promoted in the first place. it's outrageous what the president is doing.

he is a contributor of substantial sums, millions to the president and he has no experience. i found out yesterday that the i.g., both senator warren and i have called for an investigation of his conflict of interests in financial hearts. so that is going forward. i have also filed legislation to overturn the position that the president has taken that -- and i think it's outrageous what he said, even this thursday, there's an urgency to your show today because he came out and said that he was not going to fund the post office, the $25 billion, which his board of governors that he appointed has said they need the money to function, not for mail-in balloting but just for functioning. and he said now we wouldn't have mail-in balloting. you know, i know we need to vote

by mail, many people need to vote by mail, but i have to throw in how thrilled i am over kamala harris' selection. it was a great pick. the women of america are thrilled about it. she is the third woman appointed, the first black woman. the former two women who ran, they ran with mondale and mccain and they were very far behind in the polls. this time president biden -- soon to be president biden, vice president biden is way, way ahead in the polls. i believe her energy and nlks and drive is going to help his campaign, help the country. i'm thrilled to support her and i believe that women are going to be even more excited, all women, black women, white women, asian women and like-minded men are going to get behind her historic, exciting run. and once she's helping vice president biden when he's

president as he helped president obama, we wouldn't have these problems with the post office. >> i'll get back to you on senator harris. i want to go back to this point because i definitely want to talk to you about senator harris. according to "the washington post" this week, quote, the rnc and trump campaign advisers are now mapping out their postelection strategy, including how to challenge mail ballots without postmarks, as they anticipate weeks, long legal fights in an array of states. >> well, i am calling the postmaster general into an emergency meeting immediately because of that statement. he had responded by request, we wanted him immediately but he gave us the date september 17th. that is too late. we need to subpoena him if he won't come in but we need him to come in and answer questions. i also sent out a letter, a ten-page letter along with speaker pelosi, leader schumer

and other chairmen of committees in the house demanding documentation, information about these changes that he is making. not only is the president not supporting funding of the post office, but his postmaster general has come out with a slew of directives that are designed to slow down the mail in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of a very important election. this has to stop. i've been with the -- >> now the reason i'm so incensed about this is i see it as a civil rights and a voting rights issue. i don't see how you mourn john lewis and turn around and do this and you even call this a democracy and we're undercutting people's right to vote, no matter who they are voting for. and this i think has to be fought -- i mean, we're marching august 28th about this, about protecting the right to vote, that they are actively undermining and saying because

if they think it will hurt them politically in terms of the trump white house. >> i agree with you completely. it is a civil rights issue. it is wrong. we need to reverse it. we are fighting with the mail, with lawsuits, with i.g. investigations, with legislation. we have to overturn this and we need the american people to support us in this effort. i had a press conference earlier today on the ten-page letter that we sent to the postmaster general and we need those answers within a week and this has got to stop. it's got to be reversereversed. they are trialing to steal the election by slowing down the mail. >> i think this is certainly an abuse of power. i certainly am going to be watching and monitoring this from all of the platforms that i'm active on, congresswoman. i'm going to have you back to

talk about kamala harris. we're out of time, congresswoman carolyn maloney. joining me now is amorosa newman, a former adviser to president donald trump and democratic strategist hatima omar omarra. you were an aid to president donald trump, onmarosa. you were clear about your views on his presidency and his character. how do you, first of all, as a black woman see the designation by joe biden of kamala harris, and can you as someone who worked in the last campaign in 2016 for donald trump, can you see yourself voting for kamala harris as vice president and joe biden for president? >> first of all, rev, i am just

thrilled that biden made the right choice. i think it was so critically important for this democratic nominee to select a black woman. truly the seoul of the democratic party, which also allows him to activate so many of the coalitions who have long been forgotten in the party. absolutely as a proud alum of howard university and having lived in california and knowing senator kamala harris, it was an excellent choice. and also, this was the worst case scenario for donald trump, for biden to choose a brilliant, intelligent, experienced black woman, it is going to be very difficult for the trump campaign to respond and to match the wit, the intellect and the strategy of the biden campaign with kamala harris on the ticket. >> do you think that we, as we hear these attacks, the president going back to

birtherism, saying she is nasty, then we hear some even marginal groups on the far left but noise makers doing what they did to barack obama, that we are dealing with some of the cases that we may have disagreed. are these things going to undermine her or do you think there's enough momentum and enough people that are fed up with the trump presidency that the noise on either side is not going to stop the rise of the biden/harris ticket? >> it's being taken very seriously. i've sent out calls to party leaders and activists to be prepared for the racist, sexist

and xenophobic tenor othat the trump campaign will be throwing at kamala harris and biden. as omarosa said earlier, this has been a boone for biden's campaign. within 48 hours he raised $48 million. there's been polling put out now that has shown -- >> within 48 hours he raised -- 48 hours of announcing kamala harris -- >> $48 million. after announcing senator harris, $48 million. there's so much excitement. that was not even counting the merchandise bought from the store from people so excited to get biden/harris materials. now black and brown voters are more excited to support the

campaign. i think it's going to be such a boone for activity. >> omarosa, if you were advising senator harris as one that was involved in the last campaign on the trump side, what would you want her to be ready for? give us ideas of what you think they may start. this is only the beginning. we're going to see after the democratic convention next week, we're going to see the republican convention, and they're going to do four days of going after biden and harris. what would you tell her to prepare herself for? >> i would say to senator harris that no matter how low you think they can go, they can absolutely go lower. donald trump is going to be vulgar, he is going to go into the gutter, he is going to attack things that we decide and we all know in society are off limits. expect him to distract, to lie, to attack and more importantly to try to convince his voters that everything about senator

harris and biden is wrong and everything about him is right. but we already know the tactics. i've seen russian bots going to work in hvcu chat rooms, in c t rooms about women voting groups. he's already dispatched his secret weapon, which is foreign intervention in this election and we have to be prepared, ref. >> now, atima is it not true that many on the far right and some are the far left don't understand the base of the african community, red, yellow, lgbtq and that is that we are certainly trying to deal with bad policing but we also want to deal with gun control and gun violence. and i think that them painting this picture of kamala harris being a prosecutor as all negative is not that we're against people that enforce the law properly, we are against

those that do not do the right thing. i think that underestimates the intelligence of many in our communities that are saying we're not anti-cop, we're anti-bad cop. we want to correct policing. >> absolutely. one of the things i was interesting a conversation with a criminal justice reform lawyer, an activist in that space and one of the things he said was just look at the record, look at the record of things that she has done in comparison to her colleagues at the time and that she has evolved. but even the things we were concerned about and it's totally fine to have a conversation about accountability and what we can expect but that senator harris is not -- she is not in line with any of the aides who have essentially ended the lives and careers of manicy sense in this country. so we know that she's going to be amazing and great on a lot of keefe issues in this country

alongside joe biden and that it is our job not only to get him elected because we're seeing what another four years of trump/pence administration is going to do to this community, we can see we're going to get them elected and they'll be accountable on the issues that we care about. there is no confusion there. >> well, i'm out of time but it will be historic if they win. i was one that worked hard to see a day come where we'd have a black president. we had one from harvard and we may have a black vice president from howard. that's beautiful for me to see. so thank you both for being with us. after the break, my memo to the president, a look at why trump should be very concerned about kamala harris as election day

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for this week's memo to trump, i want to talk about cowardice. it's a quality you have in spades, mr. president, and has reared its ugly head this week when presumptive democratic nominee joe bid nomin nominee kamala harris.

your people even went so far as to try to reand imate the birth lie, implying that harris should somehow be ineligible for the vice presidency. and as for that last bit of grotesque white nationalism, i have two words for you -- you wish. you know she's more popular than you. though with your low tanking approval rates, that's a low blow. she not only beat out you, mr. president, but vice president mike pence and even her own running mate joe biden. even you, mr. president, recognized her greatness not long ago. you donated to her political campaigns twice, in 2011 and 2013. bet you wish you could take that money back now that kamala harris is a looming threat to your own power.

black women are the most reliable voting block for democrats and they try and they reignited joe biden's campaign. this pick will ensure that those black women stay motivated to overcome every voting suppression tactic you try to throw at them to not vote on election day. and kamala harris isn't only the first black woman on a major party's presidential ticket, she's as the first indian american and asian-american person on a party ticket. her candidacy resonates all over this country. you are right to be nervous because we're coming from your job. kamala harris is going to wipe the floor with mike pence at the

vice presidential debate. mr. president, i've been amazed these last four years at the depths of your cowardice but up against kamala harris, you're right to be afraid. you fear harris for the same reason you fear america, she contains multitudes, she worked hard for her education and her career and is living proof that while you and your cronies may try to break the american dream beyond recognition, sometimes hard work, empathy, intelligence and grit can propel a little girl from oakland all the way to the white house. we'll be right back.

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reduction. great job by the people that do it. we are focused on aggressively shielding the highest risk individuals. those living in nursing homes and long-term care facilities are less than 1% of the u.s. population, but account for nearly half of all fatalities. that's an incredible thikred ic. it's 1% of the population but account for nearly half of the fatalities from the china virus. that's why we have rush nursing home funding, rprotective gear and we will announce additional measures to protect nursing home residents we've worked very hard with nursing home companies and also with the governors, 50 governors all around the united states. and we have developed a very good relationship with most of the governors. and i think for the most part they're doing a really good job. they're focused very heavily on nursing homes and when they need equipment that they can't get,

we have tremendous amounts of equipment in stock. thanks to my administration's decisive ambassador to save american jobs, we're currently witnessing the fastest economic recovery in american history. that's because the foundation that we set previously before the virus came and hit our shore, the foundation was so strong. we had such a strong foundation that we're recovering much faster than anybody anticipated. it turns out that it will be a very, very strong v and you'll see that in just a second. so retail spending has fully recovered and is now at an all-time high. that's not for this month or last month, that's at an all-time high. you see that with the chart. this was previous to the plague i call it, the plague coming into our land and really

affected -- dealing with 188 countries. and if you see, we've not only recovered but we're at a much higher level than we were even then. that's an incredible number that nobody thought would even be possible. so we're currently witnessing the fastest economic recovery in american history. that's an amazing statement. so retail spending is great and now, if they would put up auto production has surged 28%. that's your auto production, which is right there. so you'll see that that's now about even to where it was and that was at an all-time record high and we're already even and if you had a chart for used cars, you'd see that used car sales are setting a record. that's great for production because when the used cars are practically not available, they're very, very tight, that means you're going to make a lot of new cars. that number is going to go up beyond what it is right now but that's a fantastic number. that's the equivalent of where it was and that was a record.

so you see what's happening with respect to the economy and the recovery and the stock market is almost at an all-time high. in fact, nasdaq is at an all-time high. it's had 14 days where we broke the record already over the last two months. so a lot of great things are happening. through the historic relief package that i signed into law, we saved over 50 million american jobs, 50 million american jobs. and the unemployment rate is rapidly going down. you see that. you've seen that. and i think you'll see it over the next two months and you'll have a good report even prior to the election, you're going to have a very good report, i think you're going to have an incredible gdp. you're going to have a tremendous report on business and a lot of it's going to be released, which is very fortunate prior to the election. i think the democrats are going out of their way to try and do whatever they can to stop these kind of numbers, they don't like these kind of numbers because

they think it will hurt them in the election. i think we all have to pull together and we have to do the right job and we have to do what's good for the american people. we were unfairly treated by china because they could have stopped it. with that being said, china has purchased the most amount of corn in history. last week they purchased the two largest days in the history of corn purchase and a massive amount of soy beans. china's been buying a lot of things and they are doing this to keep me happy but they're dreaming about joe biden. they would love to have that happen but i don't think that's going to happen. they are dreaming about him and so is iran dreaming about joe and so are numerous other countries. they dream about it because if that happens they'll own the united states and china i can tell you specifically will own the united states. can't let that happen. if you remember, china had the

worst year they've had in 67 years prior to the plague coming to our shores and we are now starting to do really well. we're going to have a very good third quarter, maybe a great third quarter and we're going to have an incredible next years in somebody comes up and quadruples taxes, which is what they're talking about doing. and also regulations. we've done more in terms of cutting regulations than any administration in history by far -- >> president donald trump right now 5:34 p.m. local time, bedminister, new jersey, where he's giving an update, started with economic indicators, as well as some updates of his data based on covid cases across the country. we are going to step away from this as he continues. we'll continue to monitor it in our control room and if there is any relevant detail we'll bring that to you right here on msnbc. the president at his resort in bedminister, new jersey, started about 5:27 p.m.

reverend al sharpton is still here with us and we will continue with "politicsnation." rev, he seems to be hitting the drum beat of the economy doing well. there will be those as we look at certain categories of employment as well as a lack of governor assistance right now, which they're debating in washington, d.c. >> absolutely. and thank you, richard. he's not dealing with the stimulus and any of that but we will continue to monitor. let me go to this point. as soon as joe biden announced kamala harris as his running mate, the racist attacks began, starting from the top, as the president himself revived his favorite birther lie. some advocates and celebrities are fed up with those tactics and have immediately stepped up to defend senator harris from these bad faith attacks, including some of the other women who were reportedly considered for the v.p. nomination. joining me now is valerie jarrett, former senior adviser

to president obama. she is also the author of "finding my voice, when the perfect plan crumbles, the adventure begins." thank you for being with us tonight, ms. jarrett. you are no stranger in standing up and advocating for what you believe and certainly those of us who have been privileged to work with you down through the years were not surprised, but you took particular leave in defending against these racist and sexist attacks on kamala harris. why? >> well, we're going to have her back, reverend sharpton. i think what we're saying is no more business as usual, no more racist, sexist tropes. women want to compete on an even playing field. senator harris is more than competent to debate any issue that president donald trump or vice president pence want to bring her way, but we're just sick and tired of seeing women

demeaned, diminished and trying to keep them from being in the highest offices. and it shouldn't be up to senator harris to defend herself. what she needs to know is there is an increasing group of women and allies who are men who are not going to tolerate this anymore. >> one of the things that occurred to me when i started hearing from the birtherism rhetoric from the president and then some on the far left would issue black enough is the things that you and many of us that were allies of president obama heard before. i told people this morning this is not my first rodeo with all this stuff. it is almost like it's deja vu. they can't come up with a new script. >> well, that's exactly it, reverend sharpton. when they can't think of anything substantive to debate about, then they bring out issues that are trying to delegitimize their citizenship.

president obama went through the nonsense, and they're bringing back -- i'm hopeful these strategies won't work anymore. they raised more money the day joe biden selected kamala harris and they're working to solve the big problems, not trying to pretend they don't exist and fighting for the people who haven't had a vouice. i think that's what's resonating all across the country. >> one of the things i noticed and some of the times the president, former president now, you and others would kind of calm us down was that the people were focused on their conditions and president obama and you and

others in this campaign kept saying let's stay focused on what people are concerned about. at that time we were in a tremendous recession and some of the attacks people were not hearing because they knew the conditions they were in and you kept putting the program and plan out there. and i think the republicans are making the mistake now people are in a pandemic. they have no stimulus relief that is now committed and they're not hearing a lot of these distractions because they're saying, wait a minute, you're in the incumbent that put us in this situation. >> exactly, and he has to run on his track record. that's why the tweet the other day about suburban housewives will vote for me. first of all, that's a throwback expression from the 50s and "leave it to beaver." it's not relevant today. i have a lot of friends who live in the suburbs and you know what they're worried about? they're worried about whether or not their children can go to school and be healthy. they're worried about if they do go to school, will they be

bringing the covid-19 home to their parents and grandparents. they're worried about will people that they love have to die alone because of the nature of this pandemic? they're worried about losing their jobs, they're worried about whether or not they're essential workers they're going to be put in harms way because we don't have enough protective equipment. those are the kind of issues i think people are worrying about. so throwing up this attempt at a racial appropriation, you know, cory booker running a department that's going to send black people into your neighborhood, that's not where america is. i think what we saw over the course of the summer, reverend, with the demonstrations in all 50 states, people of all age, all colors, all backgrounds supporting black lives matter, that's the pulse of where america is. they're appealing to a shrinking base and i don't think it's going to work this time. the on thily thing that really s me nervous is the attempt to mess up the effectiveness of our

post office at a time when we should be doing everything possible to ensure people can't vote by mail. i saw this image of all these mailboxes being picked up and stacked up. what's that about other than voter suppression? >> absolutely. valerie jarrett, thank you for being with us this evening. >> you're welcome, rev. >> as we celebrate a black woman being added to the presidential ticket for the first time in our history, the state of black america leading up to the pandemic is a grim one. according to the national report by the national urban league, gauging just how much fortunes have improved or corroded for african-americans since 1976. the 2020 report is informed largely by the public health catastrophe of the pandemic and its outsized effect on people of color, but also the protest movement that continues to grow and evolve around police

killings of unarmed black civilians. joining me now, mark morial, president of the national urban league. mark, tell me what the findings of the report tells us about the race -- the racial difference between how blacks and people of color fared under the covid-19 crisis this pandemic as opposed to others because even in a pandemic, it seems that the inequality is apparent. explain what your report found out in terms of data. >> reverend, thank you for having me today. and, yes, this state of black america report paints a grim picture. triple crisis. the crisis of health, the crisis of the economy and jobs and the crisis of racial justice. this report hits us like an

earthquake. as america caught the corona, truthfully black americans have caught hell. let's give consideration number one to the corona. black americans are twice as likely to die from the corona. there have been almost 170,000 deaths. the best estimates are that some 65,000 or almost 70,000 of those 170,000 deaths have been of black people. black people are three times as likely to contract the coronavirus, and when they do because of health disparities, many times it is more severe. so the health crisis is number one. number two, the economic crisis. i heard the president just a minute ago seeking to paint a rosie picture. no. the unemployment rate now is 10% on an overall basis. for black americans it's up to almost 17%. you know what that means? it's the highest black

unemployment rate since the reagan recess of the early 1980s. >> let me stop you right there because i want to get into the report this year featured, as it always does, the quality index to indicate where conditions are in the black community. i want you to give me the employment numbers again as the highest since reagan's first year. homeownership, health care. stack all this up against white americans. this year's number of 73.8. what does that really mean? >> so what that means is black americans rate at 73% on key indicators compared to white americans. so, for example, if you would take the unemployment rate. the unemployment rate now on an overall basis is 10, for white americans it may be in the 9% range. for black americans it's not 17%. so this comparison, reverend,

shows that the disparity remains very, very wide. and i might add that the economic gulf between blacks and whites is frozen in suspended animation. that disparity has changed very little in some 40 long years. and i can tell you without fear of contradiction that the black unemployment rate is probably going to decline because of the impact of the economy, the foreclosure rates, the eviction rates, which is why you need a foreclosure and eviction moratorium that has teeth passed by the congress. this is a dire situation right now, and action is needed to rectify it. >> now, the other thing that you have advocated and convened many of us in the civil rights community is that is also why even without a lot of effort by this administration, you're telling people to fill out the census because we can't even fight if we're undercounted for

the kind of resources that we need to try to deal with this inequality. >> you've been enormously helpful, you and nan have been enormously helpful in the overall coalition we built to encourage people to fill out the census and the census was interrupted due to covid. now we're seeing to people fill that census out. now we find out that the administration and the census wants to cut the door knocking program 30 days short. this is an outrage. it cheats the american people out of their right to have a full and complete couldn't. i can tell you, reverend, we're looking at some measures to challenge that. i think it's our responsibility to challenge what the census bureau is doing. a full and complete count, an accurate count, a full count is necessary for their rfair reap n

reapportionment and if you haven't filled ou the st the se -- census, i want to encourage you. we have to do what we must. >> these eissue will not addres themselves and without light put on them and persistent fights, they will never advance themselves. advancements in the past was because we were out there doing what was necessary to put light on it and that would ten to fight and battle, like the national urban league. and i think when we see this unprecedented organic movement of a lot of people are different races, intergenerational, which is not new, the freedom riders were organic and there were student groups that had nothing to do with the dr. keing or the urban league that did it.

we've seen it before. it gives us hope but we must be focused on exactly what the problem is, which is why this report is important because in order to have a cure, you must have a diagnosis. >> you must have a diagnosis, you must have froeprotests, yout have activism but it's got to carry its way into the ballot box for to us have the kind of public policies we need. the activism must continue, but we've got to make sure that people vote in large numbers this fall. we've got to push back against this voter suppression. we've got to challenge this voter suppression. and if it takes a haz-mat suit for us to go vote, then put on a haz-mat suit. we must vote. >> and we must deal with this mail-in. i'm out of time but the mail-in challenge, you were mayor of new orleans, how do you respond to this disaster that we started this show on where they are informing people all over -- i'm talking about governors now,

that the postmaster general is saying we may not be ready to give you the ballots in time for mail-in voting? >> it's a man-made disaster, reverend, made by one man undermining a government agency that has been around since the beginning of the nation and the constitution. and i think it's so disrespectful to the men and women who are letter carriers and postal employees to undermine their work. it's voter suppression at the highest levels. it's as though there's a conspiracy, a one-man conspiracy to prevent people from voting. it's outrageous. we've got to challenge it. it cannot stand. >> all right, my friend. thank you for being with us, marc morial. stay with us. marc morial. stay with us uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card.

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last year in the middle of the beginning of the presidential primaries getting

prepared for the 2020 race, senator kamala harris and i went to a well publicized lunch, or breakfast at world famous soul food restaurant sylvia's in harlem. and as we sat there, and i wanted to know her platform and her program and her strategy for her campaign, she really wanted to talk to me about shirley chisho chisholm, the first black woman who went to congress, who ran for president in 1972. and i was one of the youth coordinators of her campaign. i was just 18 years old, or would be 18 that october. she wanted to know what miss c. was like. that's what we called shirley chisholm, and what i learned from her and what she was up against, the miss song. >> and the racism. and i thought about miss c., shirley chisholm when joe biden announced that kamala harris would be the vice presidential candidate for the democratic party.

it was a long journey from a black woman who is also had caribbean descent in her background. ran for president to a daughter of a jamaican father, now being on the ticket, showing that we kept fighting and we kept dreaming. we went through mrs. c.'s campaign and jesse jackson's campaign that helped raise the issue of a woman on the ticket in geraldine ferraro was a result of that in 1984, all the way to winning with barack obama twice, both his election and reelection. never stopped. and at the same time, kept having the masses that would involve themselves in activism where we became the thermostats as those that would go in the rooms that the temperature was changed because those of us on the outside was turning up the heat, would go to places others

couldn't go. i know that mrs. c is looking at kamala harris knowing that it was all worthwhile, that now we have a black woman that has gone to the top of the ticket. that's why we won't stop being thermostats. that's why we're marching august 28th and the 57th anniversary of the march in washington. marching for the john lewis voting rights bill, marching for the george floyd and police justice bill, marching to keep our voices loud and clear that america can be great. it's not there yet for everybody, but it can be. we're going be covid-19 specific in all directions that day, but we're going to be there to stand up, because some of us know that without struggle, there is no progress. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague alicia menendez picks up our news coverage.

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good evening. i'm alicia menendez. we are just two days a way from the democratic national convention and 80 days from the presidential election. and just as things are beginning to come together for democrats, the president is doing his best to tear it all apart. president trump using all of his powers to wage an all-out assault on one of the few institutions enshrined in our constitution, the u.s. postal service and on mail-in voting