good morning. it is sunday, august 16th. we are 79 days from election day 2020. i'm ali ali velshi. more than 170,000 americans have died from covid-19. months after the president told

the american people significantly fewer than 100,000 people would die from the disease, already adding to a mounting of evidence of failure by the trump administration. schools are figuring out how to either reopen or stay open safely. there's an outright assault on our postal service. it's a lot. what is in store if trump wins reelection? >> well, i don't know, i think for next jeer generally speaking, if we win, a president will ask for the resignation of everybody and brings back people he wants. that's happened before. i can't see something like that happening. >> trump delivered those remark from his private golf club in new jersey,ings a place where he's spending more and more time. we have brand-new numbers showing his andics are not helping. the latest "wall street journal"

poll shows that joe biden is ahead by nine points. if we compare that on other recent polls, it paints a picture of a president who cannot get his support above the low 40s. biden is ahead of trump on every single issue included in the survey, the lone exception is on the economy. i guess that makes sense if you view it through a pre-pandemic lens. we're not in the midst of the greatest economic calamity since the great depression, and the future looks grim at best, at least until we get the coronavirus in control. it's actually better than biden as well. meanwhile, is the polls reveal how americans feel about congress.

when asked 47% said democrats, 42% said republicans. joining me, two nominees helping democrats re-claim control. she's a united states veteran, three tours in afghanistan as a combat search-and-rescue medevac pilot. she's challenging john cornyn. she's a subject of a new 1/2-department interview in "rolling stone." also with me jamie harrison, an associate chair of the democratic national committee, the first black chair of the south carolina democratic part. harrison is challenging lindsey graham, and with less than 80 days to go, he looks to be closing the gap in the race. our nbc news poll had senator graham happened by a whopping 17 points in med february. this month quinnipiac university has the race as a tie. welcome to both of you this morning form sorry to get you

off the campaign trail. m.j. you have a tweet pinned to your twitter account that says it won't be easy to beat a three-term senator, but a cakewalk compared to three tours in combat. now i get two little kids ready every morning, so believe my when i say i can take on a career politics. saddle up. so what do you have to do to win? >> sadly the bar has been set so low we need to show people that somebody is fighting for them. people in texas are ready to lead again. we're tired of leading in the wrong places, like gun violence. before the pandemic neverly one in of five of us did not have access to regular mel coverage. the enthusiasm is reflected in

record turnout in the polls. so i'm excited about the grass-roots energy across the state and how people are saying i'm tired of these d.c. politicians screwing up my life. i want to elect somebody who is like me, who is going to go fight for me. >> jamie harrison, good to see you again. you want from the beginning of your candidacy when ump way behind, you said from day one i told folks were building a new south, a south that is bold, diverse and cloud cover. that's got to mean more for you today than at the beginning of this conversation. it does, ali. listen, people are so excited by starting a whole new chapter here. you know, right now we have a senator who is a relic of a bygone past, someone who is more concerned about his own political relevance than he is the issues that people are

dealing with on a day-to-day base. just like m.j. mentioned we have rural hospitals closing here. 38% have no access to broadband. just a few weeks ago lindsey graham went to the meeting and said i didn't realize this is such an issue. this has been an issue for a long time, but this guy cares move about thinks tv hit times and golfing with the president than addressing the issues that people are dealing with on a day-to-day basis. so we're going to give this absentee center a one-way ticket back home to mar-a-lago or somewhere, but he's lost the respect of the people in south carolina and doesn't deserve to represent them in washington, d.c. >> m.j., the "rolling stone" article quotes you about, first of all, trump's attacks on kamala harris are just making her laugh. to get to the point where she's at, she's faced much worse than him. you are in that world of women

like che like kamala harris, who have done things better. how do you respond to attacks like this that come to her and, by the way, you? >> i'm not new in being a predominantly male career field. 99% of the men i served with was only concerned with whether you can't do the job, but there was this 1%. i'm sure it's not new to her as well. she's grown up through the ranks in another predominantly male career field. for women to get to a place where we've been able to be accomplished, we've already put up with so much and already had to be wise as good at our jobs as our male counterparts. i think that's one of the reasons she's so absolutely phenomenal, the attacks just

roll off of her like teflon. i'm just excited about how much strong women we have up and down the ballot all over the place, here in texas, our statewide slate, there's only one male on the entire statewide slate texas just loves their bad-ass women. >> jaime, let me ask you about that. we talked to a lot of women and a lot of african-american women about what kamala harris' appointment means, but you pointed out how personal it is for you. >> i grew up in a household of a single mom. my grandma has played such a huge component in terms of making me the man that i am. i am living right now with today's renaissance woman. my wife is a strong black woman who is an artist. she's a scholar, and she's a

tremendous mother. it just does my heart proud to see kamala harris at this juncture and at this point. she's going to bring so much energy and so much momentum that's going to help campaigns like mj's, help my campaign, and we're going to continue to move forward. this is such a nod to african-american women who have not only been the backbone of the democratic party, but the backbone and foundation for their families for millennia. i'm very leap for kamala, who is a friend as well. she's going to help us usher in the new south, which is bold and inclusive and diverse, and want folks to come and help us believe that. >> m.j., one of the sures we are talking to russel honore this morning, and hi was talking to the degree to which military families vote by mail and have

been doing so since the civil war, but right now veterans get their medications in many cases get theirs medication and their checks through the mail. >> when i was deployed it was a lifeline to get letters from home. you know, we've got people who get their prescriptions and benefits and critical information, projecting onto america that everybody has broadband and everyone has devices and gets their information electronically is a huge mistake, but so reflective of the pattern of problems in our government that seem to only care about some bubble of privilege and wealthy special interests. they leave behind the regular working families across the country. i think any leader like john cornyn, like lindsey graham, who have been prioritizing that bubble, will lose their job in

november. the good news is that because our leaders have so abhorrently failed us over and over again, trying to suppress our votes. we're only one of four states who didn't restrict -- will have a lesser impact, because we're already used to having our vote suppressed. in the middle of a pandemic we had a record turnover, 1 million people vote indeed a primary. when you tell texans, i'm going to try to stop you from doing something, that only motivates to you do it more. we're going to make a huge impact on the direction of the country from right here in texas. the. >> thanks to both of you this morning. mj hegar and jaime, thank you.

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the pandemic continue to say evolve around the united states. there's 5.3 million confirmed cases nationwide, over 170,000 americans have died as a result of the virus. the u.s. continues to struggle with containing it. lawmakers are warning their constituents are fating another shortage of medical supplies. wisconsin senator tammy baldwin sent a already to vice president pence, the chief of the task force, in which she wrote in part, quote -- the failure of leadership is resulting in a rationing of health care in

wisconsin and it's unacceptable. months into this crisis we do not have enough supplies available in the state of wisconsin for the widespread testing that's needed to monitor and contain the virus. i refuse to accept this white house abandoning my state. i'm amazed reading this her that this her was written in 2020 america. i do not understand why at the end of january and we knew about it since december why in august you are writing a her -- a united states senator is writing a her to ash did tessing. >> it's outrageous and just another example of the utter failure of leadership with this administration. on day one the defense

production act should have been fully unleashed, and we should by using that law on the books to make sure that we had adequate testing, adequate ppe, and adequate medical equipment to protect our frontline workers, our essential workers, but also as the economy reopening, there's even more need as other people go back to work and schools consider reopening in various fashions. we need more, not less. just recently wisconsin had delivery of supplies diverted to a state that was -- they said it had a higher need. wisconsin has seen its caseload increase fairly significantly. and so this is just outrageous. >> you talk about the defense

product act. most people learned it's the kind of thing that the president can do in wartime to increase production. ironically the president invoked it with respect to meat packers, so that meat packers could get back to work and it would shield their employers, because there was so much covid spreading around the plants it would shield their employers. that's actually part of what republicans want in the next bill, the shielding of employers. >> right. it was an outrageous use of the pow power it would literally allows us to have a real-time snapshot to immediate the gap between the two, and then used either fema or defense logistics to doctor i want think products. we had domestic supply.

and we wouldn't see the price gouging that has come out of the this chaotic supply chain. so we really need to take that step forward as well as make sure that the occupation all safety and health administration puts in place enforcible standards to keep our workers safe. is the president and republicans in the senate are trying to go in the opposite direction. six months into this pandemic we shouldn't be relieving folks of their responsibility to try to reopen in the safest way possible. rather, we should be providing greater standards and greater guidian and enforceable standar standards. >> senator, i want to ask you about a her you signed -- that

many states -- and absentee ballots within a few days of election day. it's vital that standard delivery times remain low and pricing remains cronnant to which -- i'm going to guess the post master will not give you a satisfactory response, so what is the next step? >> one of the problems with the postmaster is he's not given many responses at all. i think -- you know, he's a republican megadonor and is doing apparently a reorganization that's resulting in significant delays. i've heard from literally hundreds and hundreds of my constituents voicing concerns, veterans who can't get their prescription drugs in a timely

manner, others who rely on the mail for social security checks, small businesses trying to get their goods to market. this is a crisis not only for the reliability of our elections in november, but for people on a day-to-day basis. we need to have hearings. in the senate that responsibility falls to the committee on homeland security and governmental afavofairs sig by my senior senator johnson. thankfully the ranking democrat gary peters is undergoing an investigation into the post office, but really they need to join together and him in. if he won't show up, they need to subpoena him. >> senator, good to see you again. thank you for joining us this morning. senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin. 100 years after white women

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this tuesday, august 18th, marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th amendment. sur in practical terms, at the time only white women. as we approach that milestone, this is a topic that is complicated with layers of race and socioeconomic status. when the history is taught to millions of students, a lot of the focus is on white su suffragettes today 100 years

after the law was implemented, it's important to reexamine the role of women of color played in that struggle. according to a pew study 49% of all americans point to women gaining the right to vote as the most important milestones. those numbers drop when it's broken down by race. month white women 49%, while only 36% of black women and 38% of latina women share that same belief. so while women have made huge strides in the political sphere because of the right to vote, we even have our first black woman as a vice presidential nominee, it is important for us to recognize there is still much more work to be done. for us to begin that conversation is nicola jones, and erin haines, editor atlarge of "the 19th" and one of our

newest msnbc contributors, with whom i had the privilege of talking with the other day. nicole, let's start with you. on one hand with i want to celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage. however, the judg journey is -- >> and congratulations, erin, with "the 19th." what we know is that when the 19th amendment gets passed, most bloom women in this country still will not have the right to vote and it would take bloody, violent deadly civil rights movement before most black women are guaranteed access to the ballot. that won't come until 1965. we now the suffrage movement very explicitly discriminated

against blahhic women. it tried to push them aside, because they believed if they included black women in the movement, they would less likely get their own rights. and we struggle with similar issues today. >> and your twitter handle is ida bae wells. >> and an important milestone in an unfinished journey reads -- the 19th amendment can be fairly seen as an important milestone. it is morally repugnant and counterproductive as a triumph at a time when voting rights they paid for in blooed are under attack in the courts and in state legislatures all across the united states. this remains upper most in mind as the country unveils the new

monuments and holds the celebratory events. how do you, as the editor atlarge in an outlet called the 19th based on this is how we view the amendment 100 years ago? >> this is why i call you ally velshi. we have a newsroom that is named for the 19th amendment, as you know, but very important to us was to put that name with an asterisk in our logo as a consequence tarnt reminder in recognition of the black women who were sacrificed frankly. you know, so that white women could get the right to vote and would have to vote twice as hard, an versery which we also celebrated earlier this month. this is about the business of unfinished surrffrage.

and we also had a discussion on the role of raceaally-ship. we have already seen president trump talking about suburban white women, their threa threat their way of life. you know, i think that, you know, racial and gender dynamics in our politics are rooted in the suffrage movement. this conversation about our cent tenial is about where we go 100 years from now. >> that tweet, by the way is wild. donald trump talks about suburban housewives. i don't know anybody who calls anybody that anymore.

and it was misogynistic, sexist, dishonest and just generally racist, all in one. if you look at the 2016 election all age groups, women outvoted men, but "the washington post" wrote it's representation without being represented, waiting for mostly male legislators or jurists to determine your access t. outpacing men in voting turnout since 1980. it's kind of remarkable. i hadn't realized until i saw that statistic that women have outvoted men since 1980 with so much less representation in politics and the judiciary than men do. >> in some ways this is not surprising, in this country perhaps more than any country in the world, we define citizenship

by the franchise. those who are most concerned about whether they'll be able to maintain their radio i got to citizenship will exercise their franchise at a higher rate. we obvious exercising our franchise and having to bolster people who are not representative of who we are. that's true with women. that's true with black people, asian people, latinos, native americans, but we understand, because we've had to fight so hard to achieve the franchise, we've had to fight so hard to exercise democrat sick, that is why women consistently come out at high rate. we know that black women in particular, at least in 2008 and 2016, were voting at the highest rates of all racial and gender groups. >> thank you for the great work tur doing. nikole, you muckdogs something right, because every week i see more criticisms and insubtle of

the project. and being referred to as an ally is a greatest compliment i've had all year. nikole and errin, thank you. we still have senator bernie sanders coming up, but many schools across the country are already back in session. whether the country can't come to a consensus, why not just ask the kids? >> i feel like remote learning -- >> well, it was kind of fun in real school. >> no, it wasn't. >> you have to speak through technology, like electronic, like zoom or something? >> i want to be -- because school i don't like that much. >> the teachers can't really yell at you and something. you can go to the bathroom anytime. >> i'm just ready for the coronavirus to be over. t ready coronavirus to be over

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then, as progressives, we're going to do everything we can to make the biden administration the most progressive administration that it can become. >> that was vermont senator bernie sanders on this show just two weeks ago saying he's going to work to election joe biden to the presidency. now here we are two weeks closer and we have a vp pick, that as some progressive voters concerned. they're worried the ticket doesn't adequately represent the progressive voters. the dissatisfaction of the left wing of the democratic party has some moderate voters and party leaders concerned that low turnout of progressives could leave the country with donald trump as president. here with me to discuss how this coalition building as well as the vice presidential pick is vermont senator bernie sanders. good to see you, senator. i want to ask you about this. how tro is this situation? are progressives in the party concerned?

is are moderates expressing concerns to you? i can't speak everybody who voted for me or for every progressive in america, but this i do know. the overwhelming, overwhelming majority of progressives understand that donald trump is the most dangerous president in the history of this country. you know, it's not that he wants to throw millions off of health care. it's not that he doesn't believe in the reality of climate change, he wants to give tax breaks to billionaires, et cetera, but progressives and i hope most americans understand that -- we have a president is moving us toward an authoritarian society. everybody, not just progressives, have got to come together and say, sorry, mr. president, heroes have fought and died to protect american

democracy, and you are not going to destroy it. we're going to defeat you. then after the election, i intend, with the progressive community, with working-class people all over this country, to do everything we can to move the biden administration into the most progressive way that we can so that we have a government that represents working people and the elderly and children and the sick and the poor, not just the 1% and wealthy campaign contributors. that's the goal. short term, defeat trump, election biden. longer term, rally people around the progressive agenda, which have democrats have control, we will make significant progress, i believe. >> senator, you know kamala harris, you campaigned against her. you worked with her in the senate. what's your thought? >> i do know kamala, and i will tell you that kamala is very

smart, very aggressive, very articulate and i think she'll be a real asset to the biden campaign. i would not like to be vice president pence in a debate with kamala. so i think that she will be an asset and i look forward to working with her. >> cnn is reporting in a conversation that they have with the state of the union with mark meadows, that he says that the white house might be open to a stand-alone bill to fund the u.s. post office. i know you told kasie hunt that you think nancy pelosi needs to reconvenes congress to deal with this issue. what do you think needs to happen next? >> this is not just the postal service. i am a strong believer in the postal service. i think we have to adequately fund it, make sure everybody guess the delivery services that

they need. this is above and beyond the postal service. this is about american democracy. now, as you know, and as the viewers no, just a few days ago, donald trump for once in his life, i have to admit wag honest. he lies all the time he said in essen we want to destroy the postal service, because we don't want people participating in mail-in ballots. i guess what they believe is that if you can suppress the vote, make it possible for millions to vote, they think it works in their political favor. but i believe that is beyond outrageous, and that we have got to do everything we can to fund the postal service, not to force people to make a choice about putting their lives on the line or getting sick by going to a

polling station as opposed to voting from their homes. we have to make it easier for people to utilize mail-in ballots. i would hope that speaker pelosi reconvenes the house and mitch mcconnell has the courage same for the senate. >> senator, we've posted a story on nbc news. i want to read you the first paragraph and get you rer action to this. president trump has told aids that'd like to hold an in person meeting with vladimir putin. administration officials have explored various times for the summit including potentially next month in new york. i don't know what to make of that. it seems strange given the criticism that donald trump comes under for seeming like he's under the thumb of vladimir putin to be requesting a meeting prior to the election. what do you make of it? >> this is the first that i've

heard of that and it does seem strange to me as well. what i can tell you is that there is a great fear of russia and other countries interfeeing with our elections and rather than sitting down and meeting with mr. putin what trump would be better advised to do is to tell putin not to try to sabotage american elections. i think that would be the better approach. >> senator, i want to ask you about unions. you are a big union supporters. the other day we saw the head of the new york police unit endorsing donald trump's election bid and i've been meaning to ask you about this for a while because we've been discussing the unrest in this country. there is an issue with police unions in particular, with some of the problems that we have been seeing with police. many of the issues both with cutting police funding or

reducing police funding is hampered by the fact police union negotiations has created a situation which makes that difficult but you do have police unions that are fending off police oversight and criticism of their work. how do you deal with this issue? >> well, every worker in the country is entitled to have a union engage in collective bargain, but i think what the american people are seeing now in a way they have never seen it before is not only the kinds of systemic racism that exists in this country, but police brutality and on occasions, police murders. that's what this whole george floyd thing is about. other police murders. we want police departments to enforce the law to protect people, not to be involved in police murders. so do unions have the right to engage in collective bargaining for decent wages and working won digss? absolutely, but we need cities

and states all over this country to make certain that when a young black male walks the street, that person's life is not in danger, the people are not being harassed or beaten up by the police. so we need real criminal justice reform in this country, something i believe passionately in. we do not need to have more people in jail than any other country. and so many young black males within the criminal justice system right now, that's wrong, that has got to change. >> is there an advantage -- a lot of this change does need to come from the police unions. >> the change needs to come from the the american people. and what the american people have got to say is that we have

got to address a very broken and racist criminal justice system and that we need police department reform all across this country. this is what mayors have got to address and city councils and governors have got to address period. and when police officers break the law it is beyond dispute that they must be held accountable for their actions. that has not been the case in the past and by the way, one of the things that we are trying to do as a progressive movement with some success is elect district attorneys all across this country who understand that the function of criminal justice is not just to fill up our jails, but it's to do everything we can to create conditions by which people will not be put into prison if they have not committed serious crimes.

>> senator, good to see you as always. senator bernie sanders of vermont. you'll see him speaking at the democratic convention next week and starting tomorrow, join us for week long special coverage of the democratic national convention. we'll take the helm providing us with in-depth coverage and analysis this week monday through thursday starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern and that does it for me. thank you for watching. you can catch me right back here next weekend from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. my friend tiffany cross is going to be joined by cory booker and it's going to be a good one. stay with us. you are watching msnbc. u are wac

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united states of america. good morning and welcome to a.m. joy. i'm tiffany cross. with the biden/harris ticket finally official democrats are gearing up for a convention unlike any other in american history. for the first time ever joe biden and senator harris will accept the democratic party's nomination virtually without the traditionally massive crowds all due to the covid-19 pandemic. it will also be the first vital test to see how the democratic party plans to engage voters and do it digitally. the convention will kick off tomorrow with a lineup aimed at galvanizing the democratic basin colluding first lady michelle obama, bernie sanders, and many more. but on the eve of the convention, we have some breaking news. a new nbc news wall