good evening, and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, let the convention begin. the democratic ticket almost official, joe biden and senator kamala harris will accept the democratic party's nomination this week, but for the first time in history, without the cheering crowds, colorful balloons, and avalanche of c confet confetti. the virtual convention kicks off tomorrow and will be the first crucial test to see how the democratic party can engage voters remotely and digitally. all this while in the background a fight to ensure free and fair elections. and out of control pandemic and

a president who is attacking, of all things, the u.s. postal service. and while the president seems to be spending more and more time at his private golf club in new jersey, brand-new poll numbers are out today showing his overall conduct may not help his re-election desire. the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows that in a general election matchup, joe biden is leading by nine percentage points. 50%-41%. on the issues biden is ahead of trump on almost every single within included in the survey. the lone exception, as you can see, is the economy. that may change, of course, with millions of americans still out of work. schools are struggling to figure out how to re-open safely. and the coronavirus crisis still

out of control. this is also the first nbc news poll since biden announced senator kamala harris to be his running mate. voters view harris with a net positivity rating of plus 4%. the poll also shows how americans feel about congress. 47% said they prefer democrats had control on capitol hill, and 42% said republicans. we start with the dnc convention. joining me now is congresswoman gwen moore, democrat of wisconsin, and she is also the whip of the congressional black caucus and sits on ways and means committee. senator, thank you for being with us tonight, senator moore. the convention will be virtual, though some will be there in wisconsin. what do you hope comes out of the convention to energize

voters and persuade independent voters to vote for the ticket of your party? >> well, hi, glad to be with you, reverend al. i mean, already this convention has elevated me from congresswoman to senator. so -- >> well, maybe i'm being prophetic. don't count it out, but go ahead. >> exactly. you know, you're preaching, you've been a prophet all your life. you know, rev, really, we are really excited to host this convention. even though it is virtually because gathering is so very, very important. we do think that wisconsin is the ideal place to reconnect with our values as democrats. you'll hear a lot about the state and surprising sort of factoids about the state but it's a place where labor, where women's enfranchisement, where fighting against the fugitive slave law, we're fighting for

voting rights and really looking at worker protections, even some of the foundations of our social security system and nonpartisan legislative servicess were born right here in wisconsin and in milwaukee. so here's a place that is a perfect place to gather, reconnect, with those values and we're really proud to be the hosts. >> i want you to listen to senator kamala harris today with a message for anyone considering sitting out on this year's presidential election. listen to this. >> look, i'm very clear eyed about the fact that they are going to engage, as you said, in what they have done throughout his administration, which is let's just be very candid and straightforward. they're going to engage in lies. they're going to engage in deception. they're going to engage in an attempt to distract from the

real issues that are impacting the american people. and i expect that they will engage in dirty tactics and this is going to be a knockdown drag-out, and we're ready. >> a knockdown drag-out. are you, the whip of the congressional black caucus, and your colleagues, ready for a knockdown drag-out? because anyone that knows donald trump, and i've wrestled with him for 30-some-odd years, he is not a gentleman fighter. he's a street fighter and i believe he's going to do any and everything to try to win this election. >> well, reverend al, you certainly knew donald trump more than any of us knew him four years ago. we're still stunned that people are not coming to the table in good faith and i just think we, you know, like the late great maya angelou said, somebody

shows you who you are, you just got to believe them. i think we got the right one in kamala harris. she's sweet and compassionate and brilliant but she is really going to eat him alive and have him for lunch. i think so much of this campaign has go the to be about education. you know, it is just making me sick, for example, to hear those data that you reported at the top of your show about how americans still think donald trump is better on the economy. i mean, we need to remind people that the trump inherited the economy of barack obama, and by the way, vice president biden who was at his side, after they brought it out of the great recession. we need to educate people, remind them of that. and just remind them, bring them up to date on how our economy is currently being destroyed because this president has been in denial about the virus.

and there's so much at stake and i mean, this stuff with the post office, reverend, it is just unbelievable. and i am so ashamed of the fact that in my own state, the senate chairman of the homeland security committee, senator ron johnson, instead of him focusing on what is being done with the post office, is, again, trying to prosecute, bring those folks who leaned into the russian interference and trump's role in it, he instead is sort of scared of faked-up charges about those folks. >> yeah. >> so we have a lot of work to do. >> and that is what is going to take a lot of work. thank you, congresswoman gwen moore for being with us. joining me now is congresswoman barbara lee of california, a member of the appropriations

committee. congresswoman lee, let me start with the fact that we are in the middle of -- it seems almost unbelievable -- but we're in the middle of a president that has really in many ways declared war, at least has started a fight with the u.s. postal service. i mean, the more you think you heard it all, you hear something else from this president. the postal service, it's something that i think that is not only beyond the pale but something i don't think you or i would have ever imagined a president would even tinker with this. >> reverend al, nice to be with you. you know, nothing this president does really surprises me, but i tell you, we have to be prepared and cannot delink what he's doing as it relates to the post

office which is really trying to take away our constitutional right to vote and disassociate that with the covid pandemic that is killing so many of our community members and african-american and latinx members in such disproportionate numbers so, you know, we are going to make sure -- and we're going to come back to congress and we're going to fight to make sure that we stop him dead in his tracks. you know, reverend al, and this is very personal, my grandfather was a letter carrier. you know that. the postal service has been the pathway into the middle class for so many african-americans. >> yeah. >> and so you look at what he is trying to do that would affect the jobs of postal workers. and also, of course, you know, he's trying to privatize it. so we have to understand this is a voter suppression effort. it addresses the issue of constitutional rights to vote and also it's putting so many people in harm's way as it

relates to our health security requirements. >> one of the things that i observe that is really different about this year as well is at least 130 women of color are congressional candidates ahead of the november election. this is a record number. is this the trump effect, in your opinion, congresswoman? >> well, i think that it may be the trump effect but i think more importantly so many women of color, so many african-american women, are prepared to run for congress and for public office. you know, i got started in politics through the campaign of the first african-american woman elected to congress and to run for the presidency. congresswoman shirley chisolm. >> right. >> >> she passed that baton to so many of us, al. i have a series called "representation matters" where i'm raising monday and night to help the women who are running for public office because you know what, we still haven't

gotten the public financing of campaign so i'm urging and encouraging everyone to support these women because this country needs this transformation with, of course, a vice president and our great fighter, kamala harris, in the white house. so this is a moment of transformation. and i'm very proud of all these women and they've taken this baton and they're running forward in terms of this lap of the race. >> when you look at the economy, when you look at what is going on in terms of the imbalance, in terms of the criminal justice system with the george floyd case and other cases that we have talked about and continue to bring up, when you look at the dire needs that our seniors are facing and people across the board, how do you think the democrats get this message down to the ground to energize people to come out and vote no matter what the impediments?

they need a huge turnout. >> sure, reverend al, i was listening to the really great interview with my sister, congresswoman gwen moore and how, you know, we say we make a way out of no way. well, the silver lining in all of this, i think, in terms of having to do so much now virtually, is we're connecting with so many more people. so many people are really tuned in to what is taking place. really, i have felt the impact, the economic impacts of what the white house and this president has not done and also the health disaster that's taking place in terms of the pandemic. not to mention the progressive agenda that vice president biden and soon-to-be vice president kamala harris have put forward as democrats. and so we're going to organize, we're going to meebl obilize. we got to come out of this convention unified and understand this is the grassroots and people who are going to make a difference at this election and that we have to be vigilant as it relates to

voter suppression. i think we're going to have a turnout like none other and i believe we're going to do this in honor and memory of congressman john lewis and we're going to make sure that those issues of criminal justice reform and the george floyd police injustice act gets passed and all the other issues around systemic racism. and all the issues around gender and equity. and all of the issues around liftings people out of poverty. and income inequality. and health care and education and climate change. we could go on and on. but when you look at the platform that we wrote -- i was a member of the drafting committee -- it's a platform that addresses 99% of what this country needs to move forward, so we're going to win if we do our work and we intend to work very hard between now and november. >> i'm out of time, but i want to ask you, you and i have known each other a long time. traveled even to south africa in '94 for the mandela's fir election. between you and i, if, as you

say, senator kamala harris becomes vice president, it will open a senate seat in california. will we see barbara lee in the senate race? just between the two of us. just between the two of us. >> just between the two of us, there's no senate race. there's a race for the white house right now. let me tell you, we're going to win that race. that is what we all are focused on between now and november. >> i had to try. thank you for being with us, congresswoman barbara lee. >> nice being with you. >> all right. joining me now are two political strategi strategists, republican joe watkins and democrat ayesha mills. let me go to you first. what does the democrats have to do this week? they're not going to have the cheering crowds and the balloons and all that i outlined and i know the excitement of democratic conventions. i've been to many. i spoke at a couple. and with the whole atmosphere

different, what do they need to do to penetrate virtually and get the same energy and the same urgency in voters' minds that will watch the convention this week? >> yeah. well, good so see you, reverend al. i am so missing the fact we're not going to have all the balloons dropping around kamala harr harris, first black woman v.p. candidate. what we get from those moments or get from taeattendsing convention, i'll never forget being there when barack obama accepted the nomination and the energy and the crowd. what we get from those moments is hope. we get a sense of connectedness as people. we get an imagination around the promise of who we can be. despite everything that's going on right now. and so what the democrats have to do is really bring back the sentimentality to some degree of our democracy. right now, we're in a street fight with donald trump, constantly. we're talking about, you know, the fact that he is trying to

manipulate the usps right now. it's always something with him. we are constantly fighting and angry and upset and harmed and, you know, in a state of trauma, and what the democrats need to do is to remind people that we when working together when coming together can make history, can transform our country, that there is hope and opportunity out there for us all. i think that biden and harris are going to do that. i think that harris did that when she talked about the relationship with beau biden. it made me tear up. i think that we need that kind of inspiration and motivation. that's what's going to get people -- make sure people come out and vote. i'm hoping all the speakers knock it out of the park and those clips go viral because americans need to feel good again and that's where the democrats need to -- >> now, joe watkins, aside from being a republican strategist, you're a minister and you know

many of us in churches have had to go viral for the last three or four months. and get our messages and our congregants dealing through a viral kind of congregant, congregation. it has worked. i know machurches who say more people are online for sunday morning services than in church when they had it. so you can turn this around. but the other concern is how you deal with this interference with postal services that now is being told that they may not be able to service people in time for the elections. i want you to listen to the white house chief of staff on the postal service's crisis. >> we'll have the money allocated and as the postmaster general lewis dejoy said just the other day, if it's about processing ballots, he's willing to spend the overtime to make

sure that it happens and make sure we get ballots back as quickly as possible. >> now, here we go, joe watkins, the president saying that we need to stop this, that there's going to be fraud and now his chief of staff is saying -- dejoy who is the head of the postal services, postmaster general, is going to work overtime and the money will be there. i mean, what is going on in this confused messaging from the white house? >> well, we need to have a strong post office. i'm an african-american, an american, an african-american, republican, and the strength of our country is in the capacity of americans to be able to vote and so you want to create an environment for everybody, especially in this covid-19-impacted environment where everybody gets a chance to vote. so you want to make sure that the post office right now is strong and vibrant and able to do its job and i believe it can be. but it needs the support of republicans and democrats in the

house and the senate and also of the white house. it needs the strong support of all of them to make sure that it happens. it's in the best interest of america and as a black person i remember the struggle that people of color had in the 1940s and '50s and even the early 1960s to have the right to vote. it's a right that we all have. it's one of the rights that we enjoy as americans. we ought to have no impediments to our capacity to vote in november. so everything ought to be done possible to make sure that the post office is strong and able to accommodate everybody who has to vote by mail in this coming season, election season. >> for us, it is also a civil and voting rights issue. yes, many of us do not support donald trump, but the right to vote is sacred and the right to vote, particularly in our community, as joe just said, was fought, people died, and to

ampamp amper with this is not a partisan fight. this is a vote ing rights and sl rights fight. >> absolutely, rev. absolutely. this is about civil rights. let's put a fine point on that and remind people this is a civil rights issue because the history and legacy of america is they didn't want black people to participate. we were not intended to be a part of this democratic process and donald trump is of the ilk, frankly, of people who still don't think that black people should have equal voice, doesn't want communities who are what he thinks of as minority communities to be equal to him as a white man. and that is what this is fundamentally about. by the way, the post office, the postal service, was not broken. every single day, every single year, with peak efficiency, we get our mail. senior citizens are getting prescription drugs via mail and quickly. we're able to have holiday time, christmas, et cetera, packages are moving, letters are moving,

people are getting their social security checks on time. there was nothing so problematic except for the fact that they're constantly underfunded, with the postal service that required some major upheaval. >> yeah. >> so the fact that the administration has even chosen not of all times to suddenly with all that's going on in america, with covid, the covid cr crisis, the economic crisis, to decide the thing that needed to be tinkered with and fixed somehow with some kind of reforms was the post office is ridiculo ridiculous, one. it's obvious it's about suppressing the vote. >> i'm not sure it's the postal service he wants to fix. i think he wants to fix his re-election. thank you, joe watkins and ayesha moody. coming up, the gop goes postal. i'll explain next. first, my colleague richard lui with today's other top news stories. >> all right, thanks, rev. the stories we're watching this hour for you, more than 170,000, that's a total number of

covid-related deaths nationwide. in the latest count by nbc news, the number of cases nationwide now topping 5.3 million. now, more students are heading back to class this week. but not one arizona school district. more than 100 staff members there are refusing to show up at a school district outside phoenix indicating here they did not feel safe returning to the classroom with students. and the food and drug at station granted emergency authorization for new saliva-based tests for the virus. this comes as the federal government pushes to expand testing capacity. developers at yale are calling it liess invasive and less expensive. more news later. "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton returns right after the break. looks like they picked the wrong getaway driver. they're going to be paying for this for a long time.

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their own constituents. and i know republicans that it's become your habit to fall in line behind trump, no matter how egregious his actions. but this time your silence won't protect you. if you continue to stand idly by as this president's handpicked postmaster general, lewis dejoy, deliberately sabotages a beloved public service in the lead-up to november's election, your own voters are bound to turn against you. 46 states have received warnings from the postal service that dejoy's changes leave them unable to handle mail-in voting. including every single state trump carried in 2016. and, sure, the president and his lackey are doing their best to target the cuts to democratic strongholds. this map shows the removal of sorting machines, causing

capacity to drop precipitously in key democratic areas. but here's the problem with that. a lot of the mail that your rural constituents rely on gets sorted in urban centers. including life-saving medications, social security checks, and even if dejoy and trump somehow manage to target ma mail-ballots exclusively, more than one-fifth of your voters plan to vote by mail, plus nearly half of all independents, and those are votes you're going to need to hold on in november. a few of your cleolleagues have realized what a bad gamble this is. republicans from massachusetts to alaska are calling for dejoy to reverse his unnecessary and harmful changes and while it would be nice if republicans at least pretended to care about all americans, at least three of

you are looking out for your own voters. but i have some good news. republicans, it's not too late to turn this thing around. you could sign on to senator elizabeth warren's letter to the inspector general encouraging serious oversight. you can follow the lead of new jersey congressman bill pascall who made a criminal referral to the state's attorney general for breach of election laws. or if that's too much, you could simply do your jobs in the senate. that means cutting your own august vacation short, returning to washington, forcing mitch mcconnell to bring the heroes act up for a vote, and voting to pass it. in the house, tennessee congressman bill cooper has your game plan ready. subpoena the postmaster general. and if he refuses to appear, arrest him for contempt of congress. maybe that seems like an

overreaction to you, but americans all over this country are missing their mail, including prescriptions and paychecks. all so you and your president can try to steal an election in the middle of a pandemic. your sabotage may have been intended to hurt democratic chances in november, but if you refuse to take action, the empty mailboxes you ignore are going to turn into empty republican ballot boxes this fall. i "gotcha." for colon cancer, do. because when caught early, it's more treatable. i'm cologuard. i'm noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92% of colon cancers even in early stages. tell me more. it's for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. false positive and negative results may occur. ask your prescriber if cologuard is right for you. i'm on it. that's a step in the right direction.

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across the country. >> reporter: across the country, school-aged children are heading back to class as districts deal with how to safely pull off in-person learning while dealing with the pandemic. but for some school districts already back in school the headlines tell a story of how keeping everyone safe is not

making the grade. and despite the calls from some to scale back re-opening schools, the president has said he wants schools open and threatened to hold back funding from districts who do not follow his orders. joining me now, florida congresswoman frederica wilson, member of the house education and labor committee. congresswoman wilson, you're on the house education and labor, and you are in florida, congresswoman in southern florida, where there's been this back and forth with governor desantis. how do you feel about the president's move and in your state the governor there has linked school funding to re-opening one school district, in particular, they wanted to wait and it's been given until the end of august to open or lose money. how do you view this kind of threatening and using leverage of public funds to force people

to do things that health experts are advising against? >> well, reverend al, i just want to say that we have to say that there are people who dumb, dumber, and dumbest. our teacher association filed a lawsuit to stop schools from opening in florida. and we will not be opening school. we have a pandemic. we don't know yet how this virus affects children because they have been sheltered. we said, keep the children home, the children have been home and so all of the research that has been done really doesn't focus on children. so we have to be careful before we send them back to school. we need to ensure that the air quality is good, make sure stuff

is circulating correctly. maybe sure there's ppe for all of them. ensure that science tells us that the transmittal rate is down and that the children can safely go back to school. not only children but all of the adults, the teachers, the principals, all of the other workers in schools plus bus drivers. this affects everyone. so in florida we're saying to government, we don't care that you are in lockstep with the president because we know that russia helped him become governor. russia was in our election in 2018. so we know that all of this comcom comes straight from the white house but we're fighting. we're fighting. we're not opening schools until it is -- science tells us it is time to open schools. our children will be online. >> now, you have dedicated a lot of your public service life and

life in general around educating young people and helping young people. i've gone down to 5,000 role models for the last couple of decades and this is what you do. and you are also able to get legislation through congress to establish a commission on the social status of black men and boys. tell us about that. >> reverend al, this is our dream. this is my whole body of work. and this is an aspirational bill. this is -- that's how you say it. and it's landmark legislation that actually passed so we will establish a commission and the department of justice and the civil rights vision, a 19-member commission of congressional members, all members of the congressional black caucus, and appointees by the president, the speaker, and other people in

leadership, to look at all of the issues that affect black boys and men like police brutality. like sentencing guidelines and educational advancement and then we will write bills. we'll have committees to write bills to address these issues. and we have partnerships all over this nation. nfl. my brother's keeper. the naacp. the rainbow coalition. all other civil rights organizations. because we know what happened to black men after the welfare reform. we know what happened to black men after all of the sentencing guidelines. so we got to pick up the pieces and put them in. we got to look at 10, 20, life, we got to look at 3 strikes, we got to look at stop and frisk. we got to look at everything that affects black men and boys

and we got to -- i know that at any given time 1.5 million black men in american are missing. they're missing because they're in prison. they're in jail. or they're dead. >> that's right. >> and also why so many of them are in wheelchairs because they have been wounded in their own communities. with violence within the community. black-on-black violence. so we're going to be looking at the whole spectrum, but the main thing we want to look at is police brutality because that tension has been there between police and black men and we have to find a way to ease that tension in this nation and that is the intent of the commission. >> well, we certainly need to look at it then come up with answers and action. so thank you for getting us

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because we white people, this is a new reality for us. you need to realize that white people do not live in the same reality that people of color do. we think that because we have all these freedoms, everybody else has them, too. that isn't the way it is, people. we are living in a society in which white people -- how many of you people of color can leave when you get tired of racist behaviors directed toward you? how many of you can leave? why not? there is no place to go in this country where there isn't racism. >> that was a clip from a 1992 episode of "the oprah winfrey show" where diversity educator jane elliott demonstrated her blue eyes/brown eyes anti-racism experience. elliott divided a group of people based on the color of their eyes, light or dark, and convinces one group they are superior while treating the others as inferior, less smart,

and less human. elliott's experiment has recently gone viral on social media following the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor as a new generation grapples with racism and bigotry. joining me now is anti-racist educator jane elliott. thank you for being with us, jane. a recent gallup -- >> it's my pleasure. >> i want to show you, a recent gallup poll showed that more than half of americans report being somewhat or very dissatisfied with the state of race relations in this country. does this moment seem different to you? >> yes. i think it's, unfortunate that's 33%. the percentage of people of color in this country not quite. have to realize in 30 years the people we call white are going to be a minority group in this country. best change our behaviors and change it now.

what is happen nng thing in thi country has been happening for 300 years. the only reason it's getting attention, what's happening to black males now, is getting attention because they've seen it on television in reality. this isn't a reality show we watch add month ago. this is it happen what happens k communities on a daily basis. i'm absolutely astounded people have expressed surprise at this. i don't hear black people expressing surprise that what happened to those two men. it happens in their community all day, every day. and it has to be stopped. and one of the reasons racism has to be stopped is the joint commission on mental health in children, government's joint commission in mental health in children in 1959 identified racism as the number-one health problem among children in the united states. and they didn't say among children of color, they said among all children because if you base your self-image on the amount of kchemical in your ski, we have a problem and need to solve that problem. we need to stop talking about

races and start talking about the human race. there's only one race of people on the face of the earth and that's the human race. you and i came from the same ancestors, reverend al. that means you and i are 30th to 50th cousins. i get upset when my pale-faced cousins abuse darker skinned colors cousins because of the ignorance of my pale skin cousins who think skin color is indicative of anything but skin color. i'm just really angry about this. i know i'm not supposed to be an reasoning a te on television. >> you expressed that anger for a while and stood up as a white female dealing with this and when i look at the fact that i spent my life fighting civil rights, but nearly two-thirds of americans support now the ongoing protests for racial justice. following the killings of george floyd and breonna taylor this summer. can mass protests like this move public opinion, in your opinion? >> i think it can make a tremendous difference if more

people join it. i think 98% of us have to realize that what has been going on has been wrong for 300 years. we have got to re-educate the educators. educators teach racism on a daily basis in schools in this country. we have to re-educate the educators. you have to realize that educators were taught the same things you and i were, and it was a lie. we have to re-educate the educators and re-educate people in the police departments and we have to re-educate people in the congress and the senate because they, too, believe the lie of several different races. it's a lie. it needs to be stopped. >> well, that's why i wanted to end the show with you tonight. jane elliott, thank you for being with us tonight. stay with me. our final thoughts right after this. air. you got this! ♪ ♪

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point in history is to elect john kerry the president of the united states. >> that was my speech in 2004 at the democratic convention. i ran that year in the primaries. but you will not see a crowd standing up this time. you will not have all of the trappings and excitement that we're used to in conventions. but we must have the message that comes through loud and clear that we are fighting for voting rights and voting protection. we are fighting for equal protection under the law by law enforcement and that federal agencies ought to be used to make sure that those police that break the law are punished. we're fighting for health care for everyone and economic relief during this pandemic and equal

distribution of economic relief and opportunities. it is for that reason that we are going to be active on the outside as we have been on the insides not only of conventions but the halls of power. that is why august 28th martin luther king iii and i join national action network and others with this rally and march on -- in washington, d.c., at the lincoln memorial where 57 years ago his father and civil rights leaders appealed to this nation, we appeal to it now, around these issues. we'll be joined by the families of george floyd and breonna taylor and others that have suffered this summer at the hands of what we feel has been unjust and unfair, to stand there under the statue of lincoln and say, justice must be done. we will be very cognizant of the

covid-19. we'll provide face masks for everyone, take temperatures for everyone at the rally and make social distancing. it will be a glorious picture to see people standing distanced, disciplined, unlike a trump rally, and standing up for justice. i also before i leave want to remember today, two years ago i lost a dear friend. the world knew her as the queen of soul. aretha franklin. passed today two years ago. we must continue to fight for the things she gave her life for, and let me also join joe biden who had the respect, and i join him in sincerely wishing condolences to the family of the president who lost his brother, robert trump. we can fight, and i do fight him vociferously, but i refuse to be like others and make it personal. we need to have enough decency to deal with things in a very

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