learn more at xfinity.com/education. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the president of the united states is taking on michelle obama, after the former first lady's scathing democratic convention speech when she turned his own dismissive words

about the coronavirus against him. >> so let me be as honest and clear as i possibly can. donald trump is the wrong president for our country. he has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job. but he is clearly in over his head. he cannot meet this moment. he simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. it is what it is. >> the president trying to compete with the country's most popular democrat, belittling a speech widely heralded by democrats and even republicans as a groundbreaking keynote address. >> she was over her head. and frankly she should have made the speech live which she didn't do, she taped it, it was not only taped, it was taped a long time ago. she gets fawning reviewing. if you gave a real review, it wouldn't be so phony. i thought it was a divisive

speech, extremely divisive. >> tonight jill biden speaks from a school in wilmington. today we'll have an all-woman show on "andrea mitchell reports" celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, the amendment being ratified 100 years ago today. it was supposed to give all women the right to vote. spoiler alert, it did not. we'll have more on that later in the program. i'll speak to former white house adviser valerie jarrett and facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg. but we begin with nbc correspondent and "weekend today" co-host kristen welker. kristen, we've broken a lot of norms in the last 3 1/2 to 4 years but to have the president of the united states attacking the immediate predecessor first lady is something new and to have her attacking him, frankly. >> reporter: it really was, andrea. this was a former first lady, michelle obama, frankly, that we

had never seen before in terms of the sharpness of her attacks. and what we saw today, i think, andrea, was president trump really struggling to figure out exactly how to go after her. at first he started tweeting sarcastically, "thank you very much for the very kind words, michelle." in another tweet he said, "someone tell measurable obaich that i am in office because of her husband." and when he stepped to the podium, he jabbed her for the fact that the speech was prerecorded. but look, she was the centerpiece last night. she delivered that scathing attack of president trump's leadership and said he is the wrong person to lead this country. she laid out the case for why she feels he's failed the leadership test in a critical moment, when it comes to covid, when it comes to reviving the economy, and when it comes to

addressing the racial disparities that are front and center. andrea, democrats feel the former first lady did exactly what they wanted to do, she framed the argument. last night was an opening argument. senator bernie sanders sort of gave her an assist, teed her up by also saying this is a referendum on president trump. and then he made a call to his progressive base to get unified behind the party. so democrats are feeling good about their first night. they are gearing up for a big second night which is going to include the keynote address from dr. jill biden. she is going to be speaking at the high school here, andrea, where she once talked, brandywine high school. nbc news obtained exclusive images from the campaign of dr. biden touring the elementary school ahead of tonight's big speech which will be live. so all eyes will be on dr. jill biden as we head into night two of the democratic national convention, andrea. >> and also, kristen, on night

two, which is focused on the president's leadership, will be former president bill clinton in the 9:00 hour and also colin powell. he has spoken before at democratic conventions, at a democratic convention for barack obama and endorsed both barack obama and hillary clinton, so he has strayed from his republican roots. of course the republican party also rejected him, that wing of the republican party that donald trump represents. and that's going to be interesting, the focus on national security as well coming tonight. the other thing that was so interesting last night was that bernie sanders, as you alluded to, not only gave his ringing endorsement, so different from 2016, but he said he will work with progressives, of course, moderates, and even conservatives to bring this party together. that was quite striking. >> reporter: i think you make a really important point, andrea, because senator sanders was not only reaching out to his progressive base in an attempt to unify the party, which is it is already largely unified,

particularly when you compare it to 2016. but he did try to reach across the aisle and try to reach out to some of those voters who may have voted for trump in 2016. and that is a key part of this convention too, andrea. they are trying to bring more voters into the fold. in addition to the speakers that you mentioned that we'll be watching closely tonight, i would add congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez to that list. what does she say, again, not only to energize progressives but does she find a way to reach out to people beyond the fold, because that is the broader goal of this convention, ultimately, andrea. >> and she was only given one minute, which is a little striking. she is a rising star in the party. thank you very much, kristen. we'll be seeing you today, tonight, all the time, which is great. and valerie jarrett served as a senior adviser to barack obama throughout his presidency and the author of "finding my voice," she joins me now.

valerie, it's great to see you. i wanted to play another part of president trump's attack today against both of the obamas and get your response. >> i thought her speech was very divisive. and frankly, i wouldn't even be here if it weren't for barack obama. see, we're standing in the white house, i wouldn't be in the white house except for barack obama because they did a bad job. biden and obama. and if they did a good job, i wouldn't be here, i would be building buildings someplace and having a good time. >> valerie, you're reaction? >> it is what it is, what can i say? he's at a celebration of the 19th amendment, the 100th anniversary with a group of women, and he chooses to attack the most popular person and certainly the most popular woman in our country? well, uniyou know what, at his risk.

>> we won't relitigate that campaign. but you know michelle obama better than anyone, perhaps except her husband, how reluctant it was to engage her in politics, but she was all in last night. i want to play another clip. >> we live in a nation that is deeply divided. and i am a black woman speaking at the democratic convention. but enough of you know me by now, know that i tell you exactly what i'm feeling. you know i hate politics. but you also know that i care about this nation. >> you know, valerie, it struck me that this is one speech that really benefitted from not having the razzle dazzle of the convention podium. we know she can do that, we've seen this. but this was a kitchen table speech to america, really reaching people where they live. >> that is absolutely true. i think one of her real

strengths is the ability to reach out so broadly, andrea. i had the pleasure of during the country with her on her book tour and red states, blue states, she packed stadiums but she made it feel intimate. she has a way of speaking directly, forthrightly, honestly. as she said, she hates politics. i've known her now 30 years. she's always had disdain for politics. but she's a true public servant. what she said last night is she is deeply and profoundly infuriated by what she's seen in president trump's leadership. she wants to motivate people, not just inspire them but motivate them to get out and vote, recognizing that there are efforts all over the country to suppress the vote. and finally, the point i think is so important is, just a full-throated support of a person she knows so well, and she mentioned vice president biden's competency, his character, and his empathy, all qualities that she thinks are important and that to a certain

degree we've taken for granted. and we want our children to see people and to grow up and learn and have that deep empathy. she knows vice president biden has those skills. she posted earlier about kamala harris on instagram, and that girls across our country will grow up thinking that it is perfectly normal, take it for granted that you have a woman of color as a vice president. and so putting the two together, i think that she was the perfect closer, as we like to say, for the first night, and set up tonight, which is about leadership, which matters. >> and i got the unspoken message from her necklace spelling out the words v-o-t-e, which could not be more important, as you know well. also i want to ask you about kamala harris. here she is already in the first week, has had to deal with the president refusing, repeatedly given the opportunity by our own kelly o'donnell on saturday

night in bedminster, refusing to disavow the racist birther attack. he keeps saying, on the one hand, it's a brilliant lawyer who wrote the article. the article has even been disavowed by "news weeweek" whi put it out there. and the angry woman trope that we see on instagram. >> i was thinking about the first time michelle obama addressed the convention when she was the nominee's spouse, and then she was going through what senator harris is going true n through now reca, being depicte an angry black woman, racist and sexist tropes. what we've seen over the years since then is how she's earned the trust and respect and love of the american people. yet it is still going on. it was really important last

night for her to be able to stay, and also in her instagram post about senator harris, to say, look, i know some people will see me as a black woman and you may not listen to me, but it's my responsibility to tell you what i think, to tell you what i feel, what i believe, and to try to motivate you to say, we can do better than this for our children. and she always looks at it through the lens of the children and what we want them to see as role models to look up to. >> speaking of role models, you had your mother as a role model. you are the role model for your daughter, an accomplished anchor on cnn. talk about yourself, your achievements, counselor to the president. today is suffrage day, and how long it has taken to achieve the goals, especially for black women who where discriminated against in the suffrage movement. >> we certainly were. it was a decision made back then

not to support us in the movement. in a sense it is the long arc of the moral universe, it does bend for justice. but it takes far too long. i think that black women are the backbone of the democratic party. i was talking to doug jones a while ago and to this day he knows he is senator in alabama because of the strength of that movement. i think what we're going to see going forward between now and election day is an enormous amount of momentum from black women, who say we have to look out for our country. it is our country too. and it reminds me again of president trump referring to the squad by saying, "go back to your country." we have had to withstand insults and tropes both racist and sexist for too long. we're not going to take it anymore. a group of women got together, andrea, and wrote a letter to the media saying, if you come after senator harris, we will respond and defend her, she shouldn't have to defend herself, we will defend her.

and i think that it is a moment now of reckoning where we're going to force some change and hold people accountable. >> let's hope that that is the case. we have a lot more work to do on all of this. >> yes, indeed we do. >> thank you so much for what you have done. >> thanks for everything you're doing too, andrea, for focusing on women today. >> it's an exciting day. and i see you got the message on the color, the suffrage color of white. >> yes. absolutely. >> we'll have a lot more about the suffrage movement ahead, and my conversation with facebook's sheryl sandberg who championed the "lean in" movement, of course. the postmaster general is heading to capitol hill on friday to defend mail slowdowns across the country. and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez takes aim at former republican governor john

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president trump's postmaster general is indeed heading to capitol hill ahead of schedule after all. louis dejoy will appear friday before the senate homeland security committee, significantly led by wisconsin republican senator and trump supporter ron johnson, so it doesn't appear it will be too much of a grilling, at least from the republican side. he will then return next week to face those house lawmakers who are on fire about millions of mail-in ballots for the november election that they say is being slowed down already. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt, host of "kasie d.c.," joins me. so there are some signs of progress on a smaller covid bill? or is that sort of a false hope? >> reporter: andrea, i don't necessarily think that we're going to see dramatic changes on

a coronavirus relief bill until we know that the parties are sitting back down at the table and actually trying to hash this out. what you have here is another round of competing messaging on that front. but it's been galvanized by the post office crisis. democrats of course coming back to washington on saturday to vote on a bill to send additional money to the postal service. that prompted republicans in the senate to say, okay, we'll do that and we'll attach it to our version of the coronavirus relief bill. the reality is that still leaves us with nothing signed into law despite the bipartisan concern about the postal service. i do think it is bipartisan on capitol hill, there are significant differences between the senate republicans on this question and the white house. mitch mcconnell acknowledged that in his way when he spoke with reporters in kentucky over the course of the past week. and there are many republicans who represent rural states where problems with the post office

can be a life and death question, quite frankly, for people who rely on it for the medications that they need and other critical services. so there is a push to do that. i think mr. dejoy, the postmaster general, certainly is trying to defuse some of the attention that would have been heaped on his monday testimony by going to a friendlier forum first, andrea. >> and kasie, we have both covered bernie sanders back in 2016. the sanders we saw last night was not the bernie sanders of 2016. he was fully embracing joe biden and kamala harris, but at the same time, alexandria ocasio-cortez from the progressive wing got into a spat with john kasich. kasich started first by criticizing her as being too extreme for the party, before he had spoken. then she fired back on twitter and said that he didn't belong there and all the rest. did that at all spoil their unity, the unity message and big tent message?

>> reporter: well, andrea, i wouldn't say that this got more attention than, for example, michelle obama's speech which emphasized unity among all parts of not just the democratic party but the parts of america that are opposed to president trump's candidacy and that includes many of these disaffected republicans that john kasich was speaking to specifically. i do think it was a little preview of what you are likely to see in the event that joe biden wins the white house. you are going to hear a more vocal protestation from the progressive wing of the party. and generationally, you know, we are on track to see more people like alexandria ocasio-cortez. so i am interested to see what kind of tone she strikes tonight. i would be surprised if it's extraordinarily sharp. clearly most people on the convention are on the same page of trying to project unity in the face of donald trump's administration, andrea. >> indeed. if biden wins, it will all change on november 4, clearly it

will last that long. kasie hunt, thank you. the slowdowns at the post office may force more voters to the polls in the pandemic. in battleground michigan, officials say the slowdowns are anything but routine. plus i'll talk to facebook's sheryl sandberg about how much needs to be done for women's equality, especially for minorities. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. msnbc.

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postal workers in michigan are sounding the alarm as mail service is delayed and mail sorting machines are being removed from mail processing facilities across the state, despite denials at the national level. it's a major concern in a swing state that president trump won by just under 10,000 votes in 2016. the postmaster general has said recent postal service changes are, quote, routine. but the president of the western michigan local postal workers union says there is nothing routine about it. >> oh, this is not a routine part of the process. i've seen a lot of changes as long as i've been there, going from manually keying in letters and packages to processing them through equipment. this is not an ordinary change.

you have to ask yourself why. why now? why are these changes being pushed right now, when we're getting ready to go into peak season, when we're getting ready to have a national election? >> nbc's dasha burns joins us outside a post office in kent county, michigan. what are voters saying about it? >> reporter: andrea, in that interview with the president of the postal union here, she also told me she has seen several of those critical mail processing machines removed from facilities. they're machines they use every day to efficiently get the mail out. she says there's no more overtime pay, trucks can no longer go out late, which means that first class mail is sitting and getting delayed. and to that question of why now, a lot of the voters i've been talking to are connecting those dots to the election. both democrats and republicans i've been talking to tell me

they're concerned that this is a deliberate attempt to undermine the voting process. bob roth is a republican voter, he voted for trump in 2016. i've been talking to him since last november as he's been weighing whether to vote for him again. he recently made that decision. take a listen. are you still undecided? >> no. not undecided. >> reporter: what was the final factor for you? >> when there is this deliberate setup to set in one's mind that whatever the outcome is will be fake or rigged or whatever you want to call it. to me, when you cede those -- sow those seeds of distrust, you undermine what democracy is. so anybody that is going to try to persuade the general public

that their vote doesn't matter because it's rigged, it's undermining democracy in my opinion. >> reporter: bob is still not sure if he's going to vote for joe biden or potentially a third party candidate. he says he's going to be watching the convention this week very closely, andrea. >> dasha burns, i think that may be the first time you were accompanied by a great solo sax accompaniment. somebody's playing there on the street, it's kind of nice. thank you very much. >> reporter: beautiful, isn't it? >> it is. today we are celebrating 100 years of women voting, and those who fought for our rights. >> women have written the long story of hard work and heartache crowned by victory. >> next, a look at the historic movement and how today women still face inequality at work and at home. sheryl sandberg joins me next.

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the ability to vote and to make sure your vote is counted is more important than ever this year. today marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the women's right to vote. but in many parts of the country, the right to vote was for white women only. black women had to continue their struggle until the 1965 voting rights act and beyond. >> reporter: in this era of racial reckoning where the right to vote is still being suppressed, 100 years ago women were fighting to be part of the democratic process, a struggle spanning three generations. >> women needed economic rights. she needed educational rights. they needed a lot. but they also needed the right to vote. >> reporter: in 1948, the first

women's rights convention was held in seneca falls, new york. women were excluded from higher education, not allowed to own property, and if married, forced to give up control of their finances. if the marriage failed, even lose custody of their children. then, inspired by the abolitionist movement against slavery, many women began to question their inequality. but their fight for the right to vote was waged during some of the worst years of jim crow race optimism with the rise of the klan and obstacles to all blacks voting. >> how were black women treated then? >> horrifically. part of the narrative about black women was that they really weren't women, they were black, in the most kinds of derogatory, inhumane ways. >> founding member of the naacp

i h ida b. wells. here is her granddaughter. >> it greatly shaped her world view, what she thought she had the rights to, every right that was promised after emancipation. >> reporter: so in 1913, when suffrage leaders held a parade in washington, they tried to make ida wells walk apart from white suffrage leaders. she refused. congress passed a constitutional amendment in 1919 but there was still more drama. ratification depended on getting three-quarters of the states to adopt it. by the summer of 1920, they still needed one more state when tennessee was about to vote. harry byrne, a 24-year-old state legislator in nashville, was opposed until the day before the final vote. >> he gets a letter from his mother saying, harry, be a good boy, and help to get mrs. katz'

ratificati ratification. and he did. >> reporter: but in the south, black women still could not vote. it was the beginning of the nation's long battle for equal rights for blacks. >> one of the songs from the movement is that freedom is a mighty hard struggle, it is a mighty long road. and that's where we are right now. >> reporter: a battle carried on by black women leaders across the country and the south for decades, continuing with the voting rights act and continuing with voter suppression today. >> and joining me now is sheryl sandberg, chief operating officer of facebook and co-founder of leanin.org and optionb.org. sheryl, it's good to see you. it's humbling to see what women had to go through, so much discrimination against black women in the movement. and as your research shows, there is still so much discrimination against black women and latinas in the

workplace. you've got real data to show how promotions and all the other steps, that first rung on the ladder, are so hard for black women to achieve. >> thank you for having me, andrea. 140 years after the first man got the right to vote, the first women got the right to vote, we should celebrate that. at the same time we have to reflect the reality that women, particularly women of color, still don't have the same opportunities. you talked about the broken rung, we look at the big data, women have 7% of the fortune 500 ceo jobs. no black women. women are 24% of congress, 9% women of color. we are not getting the seats at the table that we deserve as women. you have to ask why. what my foundation does, lean in, with mackenzie, we do the

largest survey of women in the workforce, and a lot of attention is focused on the top level jobs, and those are super important. what they miss is where it startin starts. it starts early in a career. for every hundred men who are promoted to manager, 72 women overall are and 58 black women. so that's the broken rung, that first permission. it's because we promote men based on potential and we promote women based on what they've already shown us they can do. and the problem with being a manager is, you can't prove it until you get that opportunity. so that's really why men are getting that first permission. and the rest follows from there. if you have only have 58 black women for every hundred men, you only have 72 women overall, that's why the numbers at the top are so stagnant. to fix this we'll have to look all the way through the workforce right to those entry level jobs.

>> and the disproportionate way covid has affected black women because of where they are on the front lines, because of the situation with health care, their housing, being more often, those who are lower income, not having the space to socially distance at home, being furloughed, pay cuts, all of the above. >> so women worked a double shift before this. most women work outside the home to support their families. that said, even for couples, male and female couples who work outside the home, women did more double shifts, did more housework and childcare. a man is doing an average of 50 hours of housework and health care, that's unprecedented. but the average woman is doing 71 hours. that's a 21-hour gap, every week. that's half a full-time job. and women of color are doing

even more, single mothers are doing even more. a lot of kids are home from school, a lot of schools are doing distance learning. if you have young kids are you know you have to try to sit next to them to keep them focused. we need that work to be evenly shared between men and women, otherwise women in the workforce are going to take an even bigger step back during coronavirus. and we don't want that to happen. on the other hand, if we can use this as an opportunity for men to really step up, men, lean in, lean in, help with your kids, help with the house, this could be a turning point, not just for women but for workplaces overall. >> i want to ask you about the election, because our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows that 45% of people do not have faith that the election will be fair, it's about evenly split, 45-45, a lot that have is because of, first of all, the president's rhetoric that it's going to be rigged, and also this pressure on mail-in voting

and we have a bipartisan report from the senate republican-led intelligence committee today saying that there was extraordinary influence by russia through social media. so i guess the question to you, you know, from facebook's perspective, what are you trying to do to deal with these threats which are ongoing, according to the director of national intelligence, ongoing already from russia this year? >> we're in a totally different place than 2016. elections have changed, and so have we. when you think back to 2016, we had protections in place for state actors. what that really meant was hacking in. that's what states did. think about the dnc emails, think about the sony emails. and we had protections in place. what we missed in 2016, we completely missed it, that's on us, the fbi missed it, homeland security missed it, everyone missed it, was a new form of state interference, not hacking in but writing fake stuff to try

to influence the electorate. we didn't know what that what was in 2016 but now we do and now we have invested billions of dollars. we have massive infrastructure, massive people, massive technology set up to deal with the problem. in 2016, we call these coordinated inauthentic behavior, coordinated attempts to do inauthentic things. in 2016, we took down nothing. we didn't know about it. 2017, we took down one network. in the last 12 months we've taken down over 50. so we go into this election in a totally different place. we also go in having had i think a pretty good track record in 2018. when people talk about things that went wrong in the election, they're still referring back to 2016 and there was a congressional election in between and hundreds of elections around the world. this is a big test for us, and we are as ready as we think we could possibly be for it. >> and you recently took down

one of the president's false claims. twitter had done that before. are you going to be more aggressive about monitoring the president's speech as well? >> when the president violates our hate speech standards or gives false information about voter suppression or coronavirus, it comes down. and that's what's happened in the past. we're also really trying to be proactive on voting. we just launched last week a new voting information center. we actually modelled it on our coronavirus information center. through coronavirus we learned it wasn't just taking down the bad stuff. it's putting up the good stuff. so we have a voter information center. we believe it is a definitive source of accurate information. we are working with state election authorities on it. you can figure out how to register to vote, when votes are -- when polls are open, what are the options. and any time people post about voting on facebook, we're going to link to that. we also have set for ourselves what i think is the most

ambitious goal for voter registration. in the last two elections we registered 2 million people to vote. we've committed publicly to a goal of registering 4 million people to vote this election cycle, which i think makes it the largest of its kind for any organization. we are really committed to doing all we can to make sure that every voice is heard in this very critical election. and when you think about that on today, the day that the first woman got the right to vote, we know how important that is. >> sheryl sandberg, it's a pleasure, thank you so much for being with us, as you say, on an important day. thank you again. >> thank you for covering this. nice to see you as always. >> thank you. and up next, desperate housewives? donald trump weighing in again on what he thinks women voters want with a vision set back in the 1950s. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us on msnbc. nbc.

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we've got to request our mail-in ballots right now tonight and send them back immediately. we have got to grab our comfortable shoes, put on our masks, pack a brown bag dinner and maybe breakfast, too. we've got to be willing to stand in line all night if we have to. >> michelle obama giving a

how-to, how to vote. joining me, michelle thomas and carol anderson, emory university professor and chair of african-american studies there. welcome both. dr. anderson, let's talk about michelle obama and the message of voting despite all the problems. you're in georgia. you saw the problems in the recent election that women and all voters really have to be determined to get around all these efforts to suppress the vote. >> absolutely. in georgia, you saw five-hour lines during the primary. you have to deal with exact match. you have to deal with voter roll purges. you have to deal with poll closures. you have to deal with the pandemic of now they're not quite sure or they know they're not going to be sending out requests for absentee ballots so now you've got to request the absentee ballot in the middle of

a pandemic. you have all of these things that are designed to make voting much more difficult and to actually suppress the vote because where you see this differential, where you have to stand in line and probably bring your breakfast as michelle obama said, are in minority communities. that's where we're seeing the really long lines. >> as you expressed, and thank you again for your contributions to our report earlier in the program on just how difficult it was for black women in the south, especially, to vote after the 19th amendment was passed 100 years ago today. shawna thomas and carol anderson, look at what the president said about suburban voters. >> i think that the suburban housewife, as you say and i think that women and men living in the suburbs who fulfill their american dream or at least got a big part of it, they now live in

a safe, beautiful area. they don't want to have people coming in and forcing low-income housing down their throats. and, you know what? people can say i'm a bad person for doing that or they sccan say -- >> the racist dogwhistle is now a siren song. >> yeah, i mean, most of what trump says or president trump says tells us more about him than it does about the people in this country. i think what president trump was expressing there is how he sees the american dream. how he sees that suburban dream. i think there's a lot of people in the country who don't necessarily think moving out to the suburbs and pretending there aren't people in poverty and pretending that you can't give people a helping hand is the way that they want to live their american dream. so i think, you know, this president, he is going to continue to be who he is. and there -- we talk about the

president's lies, his untruths. but over and over again he strikes the same tone about things. and he tells you that's what he thinks the american dream is but that's not necessarily what everybody thinks the american dream is. and, you know, i'm going to hear that a different way than you're going to hear it and the way other people are going to hear it, but it's just more information about who do you want to vote for? is it joe biden or donald trump or kanye west? >> and we now know that the republican convention is going to feature that st. louis couple who brandished their firearms against the black lives matter protesters in june. carol anderson, what is that going to say to america coming at the republican national convention? >> it's really striking that same tone of the invasion. and that invasion is language that we have heard back in detroit. a black doctor who moved out of

the all-black restricted neighborhood into a white working class neighborhood and was surrounded by a mob. and they talked about this invasion of these negroes so that black people moving to better homes becomes an invasion. what trump is doing there is multifold. he's trying to scare white women because that's who has really defected from him and to say i can protect you from this invasion so you need to vote for me. except white women aren't protected. and what you saw there with that couple with their guns was their way of protecting from this invasion. it's the same language, the same tropes, and it's the same kind of vicious racism that has made this election such a stark,

clear difference between one party and the other. >> carol anderson, chairman of the department, chair of the department and professor at emory university and shawna thomas, our colleague and friend from quibi and nbc, thank you very much. that does it for "andrea mitchell reports." msnbc will have complete coverage of the democratic national convention, of course, all day and our primetime coverage at 7:00 eastern on msnbc. mats rachel maddow, nicolle wallace and joy reid. and first, chuck todd is up next for the new hour of "mtp daily" every day at 1:00 here on msnbc. >> tech: when you've got auto glass damage...

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