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 itself.

>> they want $25 billion, billion for the post office. now they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. but if they don't get those two items, that means you can't have universal mail-in voting because they're not equipped to visit. >> late friday, we learned the u.s. postal service sent letters to 46 states warning that it cannot guarantee all mail-in ballots will arrive in time to be counted for november. the letter comes amid widespread reports of delayed mail delivery, mailboxes being snatched off street corners, and sorting machines being removed from numerous usps locations. people want their mail and public anger is at a tipping point. so much so that the postal service announced late friday that it would stop removing mailboxes until after the election. this morning, protesters gathered outside the home of trump's hand-picked postmaster general, businessman louis dejoy to voice their displeasure with

his policies. to join us facing tough questions from both sides of the aisle about why these changes are happening so close to a general election. questions that need answers fast. also in the president's hit list, kamala harris, joe biden's new running mate. harris is the first black woman and the first of indian descent to be on a major party's presidential ticket. didn't take long for the president to go low in his attacks on harris, pushing the racist lie that she might not be a u.s. citizen. despite the fact sthae wthat sh born in oakland, california, inventing familiar racist and sexist tropes. >> you have a sort of a mad woman, i call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with just justice kavanaugh. i mean, i've never seen anything like it. she was the angriest of the group, and they were all angry. they were all radical, left angry people. >> we'll pull apart that angry woman argument a little later in the show. but first, harris and biden are

taking the opposite road, stressing that they are embarking on a historic challenge. >> joe and what we are about is about lifting people up, understanding that the strength of a leader is based on not who you beat down but who you lift up. this is probably one of the most important elections in our lifetime. and i fear that if we don't correct course, the damage will be irreversible. >> the president is lying about the security of vote by mail. in fact, he and melania have requested and received mail-in ballots for next week's florida primary. he is lying about harris' eligibility. and while we have witnessed this president lie repeatedly for the past four years, those lies are being augmented by something very, very real, cuts to the very institution that many americans rely on for their prescription drugs, their veterans benefits, and their right to participate in our democracy. let's bring in christina greer,

associate professor at fordham, jason johnson, and errin haines, editor at large of the 19th and msnbc contributor. great to see you all. jason, i was so struck in the forward for michael cohen's new book. he describes trump in this way. dottie doing anything, and i mean anything to win has always been his business model and way of life." when you look at these two separate threats, the threats to the postal service, the lies he is telling about senator kamala harris, it would seem it all comes from the same playbook. >> yeah. and usually that playbook ends up in failure. we hope that's the case this time. but we don't know, because there have to be a massive amount of resources put into play in order to save this election. look, i went and researched a lot of this throughout the week. the first step to possibly stop dejoy from doing what he is doing with the post office would be to go to the board of governors who are nine members who control the post office. unfortunately, nine of them were

all appointed by donald trump. so we can't get rid of them. a lot of them were blocked during obama's late years in office. so what's the other option? the option would be for democrats to get as much money as possible into the hands of local postmasters in regional areas to pay for overtime and those kinds of issues. we don't know that that's possible because mitch mcconnell said basically, i'm done. deuces and i'm out of here, and he doesn't want to come up with an updated c.a.r.e.s. act to provide funding. this is going to be a huge challenge. this is exactly what donald trump wants. it's not chaos. it's not an accident. it's not a kerfuffle. the president is trying to steal the election. and it's up to the democrats in congress right now to stop every other government function they can until they get the post office fixed because it's the single most important way that we can remove donald trump by the election in november. >> and christina, continuing to repeat these talking points is part of the trump playbook. in fact, he was just talking about mail-in voting at a press briefing. take a listen.

>> absentee voting is great. you request them. i'm an absentee voter. i request it, i got and sent in my vote. that works out very well. that's what we've had. but now they want to send in millions and millions of ballots, and you see what's happening. they're being lost. they're being discarded. they're finding them in piles. it's going to be a catastrophe. >> christina, you hear him there. he does not know the difference between mail-in voting and absentee voting. you see him continuing to get this all very confused. you hear what jason johnson said about the fact that jason believes he is actually trying to steal an election. i wonder if you agree with jason's analysis. >> i absolutely agree with my colleague. this is the time we actually need to see the u.n. come in, because we have done this -- we've gone to other countries when we've seen this type of authoritarian regime come in and try to change the course of an election.

and donald trump is absolutely doing, that not just defunding, not just putting in a kleptocracy quite honestly in so many areas of his administration. but we also have to think of a 2020 version of souls to the polls. the president has corroded and is trying to corrode belief in a free and fair election. we need to convince people who do have the resources to submit their ballots, in person if they can, because we know the president will consistently try to defund the usps in the months leading up to the election. he said as much, and we're now seeing he is doing as much as well. >> christina, i also want to stick with you for a second. because in addition, you now have the trump campaign talking about legal battles, about potentially suing states like iowa. how do you think this then plays out on the legal front. >> well, we know the president likes to be a bit litigious because he is trying to hold down a process. the issue is this. on november 3rd, we need to set up the frame 245 we very well

may not know who the win other telephone election. and donald trump is trying to set the stage to say if we don't have a winner, that is, if i'm not the winner on november third, then the election is completely illegitimate. now he is setting that up because he knows he has failed the american people. they have over 160,000 american dead. we have over 40 million unemployed. and that number is counting. and growing by the day. similarly with covid crisis, we know that he has failed the american people. and especially american parents who don't know where they're going to put their children. so he knows that november 3 might not look good for him and he may go down as one of the greatest failures in the latter 20th century presidents. he wants to make sure if we don't have a defin winner, which is him on november 3rd, that the entire election has been a fraud. he is doing that not just through the postal service by creating the narrative in the media such that his supporters will not believe any election results about the evening of november 3rd or the weeks after that. so this is why it's so dangerous, because it's a

perfect storm and a confluence of media, politics, and also funding of great institutions that have been around in our constitution. >> erin, i want you to take a listen to what former president barack obama had to say what trump is doing. take a listen. >> what we've never seen before is a president say i'm going try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting and i will be explicit about the reason i'm doing it. that's sort of unheard of if you're in a state where you have the option to vote early, you need to do that now. because the more votes are in early, the less likely you're going to see a last-minute crunch. >> erin, is there the possibility that this entire strategy backfires? >> i think that the possibility is that this could galvanize the

democrats to participate. in my interview with senator harris yesterday, she talked about jumping over any and all obstacles to the ballot box in november, even as these efforts at voter suppression and depression are under way. christina mentioned souls to the polls. i'm talking to several black churches that say yes, we're getting ppe ready for people who may have to stand in line to cast their ballot. you know, for people like you said, we're 80 days out. and for people who are already hearing that their ballot may not arrive in time for election day. that's a lot of time once early voting gets under way for people to mail in their ballot, to not, you know, wait until a week before election day to mail that ballot back in. because it may not make it in time. and then it may not be counted, and they would be disenfranchised. look, even as you have voting rights activists and advocates kind of pushing through legal channels and other means to change laws or address the infrastructure that will need to be in place for people to vote

safely and participate fully in this democracy, there is also the reality that many people are raising that people are going to have to, you know, do what they have to do to go up to the polls despite the challenges to the ballot box that are being put up by those who would want to see this vote possibly suppressed and depressed in november. >> jason, are the attacks on the postal service and then there are the attacks on kamala harris. we know that she is eligible to run for vice president. president trump, when he was just at that briefing, was asked, was pushed on it, and he would not answer unequivocally when asked to remove all confusion about harris' eligibility to run for vice president. asked plainly, is she eligible, trump responded i just told you, i've not gone into it in great detail. if she has a problem, you would have thought she would have been vetted. and mother on kamala harris pressed repeatedly to clear up her eligibility.

he said don't tell me what i know. let me put it differently. to me, it doesn't bother me at all. i don't know about it. i read one article. the lawyer happens to be a brilliant lawyer. jason, i mean, he's just continuing to sow this element of confusion, right? >> yeah. well, and here is the thing. and this is important, alicia. it's only confusion if press corps people ask him dumb questions. and forgive me for putting it, but why are we asking donald trump about whether or not senator harris is eligible to run for president? this guy isn't a constitutional scholar. he is not smarter than a fifth grader. he is not the person you ask. nobody has ever doubted where senator harris is from. you've got pictures. you've got evidence. so to the degree that we give president trump the runway to lie, it creates confusion that heretofore did not exist. the fact of the matter is senator harris is the current vp nominee for the democratic party. donald trump can't win an open and fair election. anybody asking him any question other than what time it is

opening the door for ridiculous lie. and quite frankly, if you ask him what time it is, you should still check your watch. >> errin, you are speaking with senator harris, her first interview since being named as former vice president biden's running mate. it would seem that their strategy is to not engage at all in this line of attack. >> that's absolutely right. and i think you've seen joe biden really staying on message, focusing on the pandemic, how it is disproportionately affecting marginalized communities, what he is going to do on day one if he is elected. and you saw senator harris when she made her debut this week really staying on message, not really addressing the attacks, the racial and gender attacks on her that have been coming from the other side. so i think in that way, they seem to already have that kind of simpatico relationship that joe biden said that he was looking for because they are not trying to add to the many

distractions that americans already face with the pandemic trying to figure out how they're going to vote, trying to figure out how their children are going to get to school or not. trying to figure out how they survive in this economy, trying to figure out if they're going to be able to make the rent or buy groceries. those are the things that this campaign seems to be focused on and not really engaging in the attacks that the trump campaign attempts to cast on either of them. >> christina, jason, and errin, thank you all for spending some time with us. president trump lashing out at vp pick kamala harris. a little bit later, we'll get into why the president seems to have an issue with strong women of color. plus, former presidential candidate julian castro joins me to talk about next week's democratic national convention and why the latino vote may be more critical than ever. that's next. that's next.s than rheumatoid arthritis. when considering another treatment, ask about xeljanz a pill for adults with moderate to severe

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kamala harris today. the video partially in english and in spanish is targeting hispanic voters in arizona and florida, saying harris has been, quiet, an ally and a fighter for the latino community for years. as the newly solidified ticket makes its push for latino voters, the campaign knows it is vital this election will mark the first time hispanics will be the largest minority group in the electorate. let's bring in julian castro, former secretary of housing and urban development. secretary castro, big week for democrats. what is the core message that they need to hear? latinos need to hear coming from democrats during this convention? >> it's about opportunity that democrats represent an america where everyone, no matter who you are can have opportunity in this country to start a small business, to get a great education, to get good health care, to have a safe, decent affordable place to live. we've had a president over the last four years that believes in opportunity for some. joe biden throughout his public

service has pushed to where we're a nation of opportunity for everybody. i think that message resonates with the latino community. >> 2012 you gave the keynote at the dnc. i remember both your speech and i think perhaps the most memorable part was that your daughter was very young at the time, and she kept mugging for the cam rand a stealing some of the spotlight. there are going to be a large majority of the candidates from the primary are going to be speaking at this convention. you, though, are going to be on a panel. and that has not gone unnoticed. there is a hash tag that is circulating, let julian speak. and i wonder what it means to you, the only latino who ran in this presidential primary that you will not be given the same speaking time at this convention as many of your rivals from that primary. >> well, look, as you know, alicia, it's always very difficult when they put these speaking programs together.

and that's more true this year, because the networks are only giving each of the parties who hours on these four nights. so it's like eight hours collectively. they've had to squeeze what would be many more hours of broadcast tv into just eight hours. and that means they had to make tough decisions. and i understand that. look, i'd be lying to you if i said that i'm not disappointed that there aren't more latinos and latinas generally speaking on that program and that there is not a native american, not a muslim american. you think about the beautiful coalition that has become the democratic party over the last few years, i'm not sure right now it's fully represented on that stage. but more important than the speaking, than the talking is really the doing. and the fact is we have a ticket in joe biden and kamala harris that have a strong track record of embracing, of including everybody in this country, no matter what they look like, no

matter their background, where they come from. and they've embraced that vision in the policies that they're putting forward. and i know that they're going to be that kind of president and vice president. i think that's more important than just to speak. >> "new york times" opinion columnist frank bruni wrote that kamala harris is underselling herself. even in her debut joined appearances with biden this week, she didn't tell her story in a compelling way. he writes, quote, she gives you less of her history not more. she steers away from emotion, not toward it. maybe what a woman aiming for top jobs in a man's world has to do. maybe that's even more incumbent on a woman of color. you've dealt with this as a candidate. you've dealt with this your entire career in public service. these questions are complicated for anyone seeking elected office. they're more complicated if you are woman. they're more complicated if you are a person of color. is this the type of unsolicited advice that anybody benefits

from? >> look, i respect frank. everybody has their opinion on these things. but i'd say two things. number one, i got to see these candidates and be around them a lot, including senator harris. she actually was one of the warmer more i think resonate candidates out there with crowds and the people we were in front of because of how she relates to people, including her biography. if you go back the very beginning to her announcement speech, you know, and also the ads that she put out and her conversation along the way on the campaign trail about her immigrant story and the american dream that her family has lived, i think she has done a good job of that. the other thing, alicia, as you know very well, a lot of people watching is especially for women, and especially for women of color, you're damned if you don't and damned if you don't, because, you know, if you put too much of that out, you're

going to be soft and too emotional. if you don't do enough, then you get what hillary got, which is you're too much like a robot and you're compassionless. meanwhile, the guys get to go around and do whatever they want and give bio or not give bio, and that's not what we're focused on. i hope that one of the positives that come out of the accomplishment of senator harris and when she becomes vice president and everything that she goes on to do after that will be that some of these double standards will be if not completely shattered, that they'll be at least nor as big. and young girls like my daughter, like my daughter who is 11, whether she chooses to go into politics or business or academia or whatever that she won't have to grapple with these things in the same way. >> all right. secretary castro, thank you for your time. he is a congressman one day and an emergency room doctor the next. we'll talk to the california lawmaker taking matters into his own hands in the fight against

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she treated biden worse than anybody else by far. there was nobody, including pocahantas. nobody treated biden so badly as kamala. >> well, let me ask you this, then. do you have an issue with a strong woman of color being in this presidential race? >> none whatsoever. >> you don't see her as a threat? >> no, none whatsoever. nope, not at all. >> you heard there it. the president says he has no issue with a strong woman of color being in this presidential race. and yet as "the new york times" reports, trump's actions following the announcement of kamala harris as joe biden's running mate crystallized trump's view of women. either the good suburban housewife who he assumes will vote for him, or the nasty woman, who allegedly fails to respect him or his political allies. president trump has called harris angry, a mad woman, and of course nasty. and if trump's use of the term

nasty against a woman feels familiar, it should. >> nobody has more respect for women than i do, nofnbody. >> any social security security contribution will good up, as will donald's, assuming he can't figure out how to get out of it. but what we want to do is to replenish -- >> such a nasty woman. >> i was a little surprised. she was extraordinarily nasty to kavanaugh. she was nasty to a level that was just a horrible thing the way she was. i watched her poll numbers go boom, boom, boom, down to almost nothing, and she left angry. she left mad. there was nobody more insulting to biden than she was. >> joining me now, the executive director of the representation project. she is also the author of "rage becomes her: the power of women's anger." also with me julia craven.

you wrote an entire book about women's anger, and i think that that is one of the insults that is easy to get lost in that grab bag of insults, and yet can be pretty powerful. what is underneath calling a woman and specifically a woman of color angry? >> well, i think the clearer message is that she is wrong. she is unattractive, she is unlikable, she is transgressing. she is not a person who is supposed to hold him or others accountable. that word anger is so tied up in masculine power and domination and leadership that it's almost oxymoronic for some people. and obviously the president struggles to think there is any woman who is ledgitimately angr. it's meant to disparage the

person, delegitimize what they're saying and hopefully silence them. which is unlikely in this case. >> julia, normally the line of attack against really any vice presidential candidate is that the person is not qualified, is not ready on day one, and that is an incredibly hard line of attack to lob against senator kamala harris given her experience as a prosecutor, as an a.g., given her experience in the u.s. senate. it also seems that republicans can't make heads or tails of her ideology, that they both say she is the most liberal member of the u.s. senate and not progressive enough for progressives should have been surprised us that all of these attacks are ad hominem? >> no, i don't think it should at all. it's like you said. senator harris was -- she's not only qualified to be vice president, she was one of the most qualified candidates running for president during the primary. so i don't think it's ridiculous at all to know that these

attacks are ad hominem. >> soraya, what i find so interesting about your book, which i read cover to cover when it came out is that you look at anger as a motivating force, right? that you can say women are angry and that's a way of saying she is not likable, she is unhinged. but we're also living in a moment where anger can be deeply, deeply motivating, especially when it comes to women voters. >> that's true. and i think we see that at times of political tumult generally in history. but i think what's important here is for women in particular, claiming anger involving a lot of risk, right? because we've disassociated femininity from anger. but if you think about anger as the emotion of self-defense, of indignity, it's our response to threat. the question is why would we gender these emotions at all? women have the right to defend themselves, to defend their rights, to defend their interests and to participate as

active members of a democratic society. and if you castigate them for expressing those rights, with righteous and justifiable rage, then you're really trying to limit their participation in the public sphere. >> soraya, so much of this critique, though, goes back to justice kavanaugh's hearings where you have senator harris asking a very pointed line of questioning. it is my instinct that we are going to see that video play out again and again in the next 80 days. i wonder what you think the actual message is coming out of that video. it has more to do with just then the expression of passion or emotion from either of them. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, i'm happy we're watching that video over and over again. i find it fascinating that some people believe that watching that video is somehow going to dissuade her supporters that she is a great candidate for the vice presidency.

i think we saw kavanaugh's expression of anger as an entitled indignance. how dare people talk about me this way. how dare they impugn my honor. there are several people who acted the same way. and i think that seeing her question him and hold him accountable is extremely powerful and important, because we're really living in a time politically when we have leadership that refuses to be held accountable and she is known for doing that. and she does it very clearly. her rhetoric is very straight forward. she does not mince her words, and i think that the more of that video we see, the better, honestly. >> i also want to bring in kenya evelyn. she a reporter for the guardian. i'm glad you are able to join us. i will come back to you in a second. first, i want to talk with julia about a piece she wrote for

slate. quote, i'm cautiously hopeful that what may emerge from this moment is a understanding that black women and other women of color can be delighted by seeing herselves reflected in tupper echelons of american politics while we can also fiercely hold them accountable for lackluster decisions. what does that look like, julia? >> i think it looks like just truly, truly allowing black women, allowing women of color to be happy about the fact that a black woman, a woman who graduated from a historically black university, a woman of asian descent, that this person, this person with all of these multifaceted identities is on the vice presidential -- got the vice presidential nomination, sorry. however, i also think that people have a right to be somewhat disappointed because of the critiques of her prosecutorial record, and i think that both of those things can happen at the same time. i don't think it has to be either or. i don't think that people have

to just completely throw away the significance of this moment in order to hold her accountable, critique her record, however you want to put that. >> kenya, you and i were supposed to speak on air the day that senator harris was announced as joe biden's running mate. so i have been wanting to know since then, since that news sort of blew up our spot what you made of that decision, and what you make of all of the attacks that president trump has since launched against her. >> sure. this is par for the course for the administration, but what this essentially shows us, the depth and breadth with which we give white men the platform and privilege to pontificate on communities on they know very little, are underinformed or underexposed. this just brought out some of the most antiquated racist strokes we've seen from the angry black woman trope to the constant pitting of black communities against each other whether it be the black

immigrant community or nativist black americans. we're seeing it par for the course. but i don't think this pick was necessarily surprising. in fact, we saw 100 black men write a letter to the president, excuse me, write a letter to former vice president joe biden stating the obvious, that black women have been the bread and butt other this party, and it's time for this party to pay its due because all the lip service of black lives matter, all the lip service of social justice reform, all of that is nor naught if the platform is going to reflect policies. we see them disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. we see them disproportionately impacted like we said, this recession. and then we see them at the forefront of the streets seeing the social -- leading the social justice uprising. so black women have been taking that mantle. they've done it for the greater part of the 20th century as the most strongest part of the democratic voting blocs and now the democrats are starting to see that. and this was a smart decision for them. essentially, it kind of left them with no choice if you have so much of the hoopla, so much

of the anticipation surrounding the anticipated announcement of senator harris as the vp nomination. i think it was much more of a risk for the broader electorate to possibly to be disappointed for a number of reasons for it to not be essentially the name we've been hearing all this time. but she ticks off so many core demographics that are essential for the democratic party, whether it be the young -- whether we see young progressives who are still skeptical of her criminal justice record, whether we're looking for something that reflects the pulse of the people and where the party is going. and we're also seeing before she ticks the first woman, the first asian american, and that's the fastest growing minority group in the united states. but she also speaks to something that the democrats take for granted, and that's the diversity among the -- not african american was natively born in the united states. she is the daughter of a jamaican immigrant as well, and the black immigrant community is just as thriving within the black electorate as those who

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