the democratic national convention now in the books as joe biden formally accepts the party nomination, promising to rebuild this country by first tackling the covid crisis. also, reaction from the president and remarks from a new interview in which he accuses democrats of trying to steal the election with mail-in votes. >> and another trump ally indicted. former white house chief strategist steve bannon accused of defunding trump's border wall.

good morning, everybody. it is friday, august 21st. we made it to the end of the week, and it has been quite a 24 hours. i'm yasmin vossoughian. so let's start with the democrats wrapping up their convention last night with former vice president joe biden formally accepting the party's nomination for president. in his speech, biden implored americans to help him, quote, end this chapter of american darkness. speaking against fear, anger, and division, the presidential nominee vowed to be a, quote, ally of the light. as president, bind said his first priority would be to get the virus under control by implementing a national strategy, something the president has failed to do. >> just judge this president on the facts. 5 million americans affected by covid-19. more than 170,000 americans have

died. by far, the worst performance of any nation on earth. more than 50 million people have filed for unemployment this year. more than 10 million people are going to lose their health insurance this year. nearly one in six small businesses have closed this year. and this president, if he's re-elected, you know what will happen. cases and deaths will remain far too high. more mom and pop businesses will close their doors, and this time for good. working families will struggle to get by. and yet the wealthiest 1% will get tens of billions of dollars in new tax breaks. and the assault on the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act will continue until it's destroyed. >> the tragedy where we are today is it didn't have to be this bad. just look around. it's not this bad in canada or europe or japan or almost

anywhere else in the world. and the president keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. he keeps waiting for a miracle. well, i have news for him. no miracle is coming. >> our current president has failed in his most basic duty of the nation. he's failed to protect us, he's failed to protect america, and, my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. >> all right. let's get into this. joining me now, nbc news political reporter shaq brewster. shaq, good morning. great to see you on this friday morning. appreciate you getting up with us. let's talk through some of the highlights. joe biden has been preparing for this speech for some weeks now, some could argue for decades as he finally clenched the nomination after running twice before this time. talk us through some of the

highlights from last night. >> reporter: yeah. you know, it's very interesting because this has been, of course, a very unconventional situation right now. it's been a virtual convention. but what you saw from the vice president last night, he leaned into the moment, the silence last night. there was no arena packed with thousands of people, people cheering for his speech. instead of having a feeling of a rally, this one felt a little more like an address and a little bit more fitting of what we're going through right now. the former vice president talked about how this country is facing four difference crises right now. he talked about the pandemic and, of course, the effects of that. now over 170,000 deaths are associated with the pandemic. talked about the economy and how still we have 1 million people applying for unemployment benefits. he then talked about the racial justice crisis that this country is facing in the wake of the killing of george floyd and

breonna taylor and ahmaud arb y arbery, and then he talked about climate change and his proposals with that. in bringing about those crises and talking about his plans to address this, he also said he was calling for unity, that this is a time where both sides need to come together wrrks he wants to lead this country through this. and that phrase that you continue to hear from this former vice president, that we're in a battle for the soul of the nation. listen to a little bit of what he said in terms of bringing people together and helping to lead america out of these crises. >> while i'll be a democratic candidate, i'll be an american president. i'll work hard for those who didn't support me, as hard for them as i did for those who did vote for me. that's the job of a president, to represent all of us, not just our base or our party. this is not a partisan moment. this must be an american moment. >> reporter: and we've been

watching the entire con verngs all four days, and what really stuck out is how the final day -- or how the previous three days built up to this final day. we heard on monday the party go after president trump, talk about the failures that they believe he has and his administration has had. tuesday they really tried to personalize vice president joe biden, talking about the empathy he carries with him and that he'll carry to the white house. wednesday we heard barack obama talk about the urgency of the moment but also talk about some of his policy positions. what you heard from the former vice president last night was try to weave those themes together, saying he was the man for the job at this point. and then you saw a little bit of celebration, true to this unusual form that we're having right now. he left the convention center that's behind me. he came out to the parking lot that you see behind me where there are about 100 cars sitting out there. people had flags, were waving different glow sticks, and there was a fireworks display. that fireworks display you're

watching on screen was a drive-in celebration. this party took advantage of the situation that this was an unconventional situation and they turned it into something that will be a true celebration, that they believe will bring people together, not only democrats but some of those republicans you heard from last night and throughout the week. they believe this is something that will drive them to victory in november now that vice president biden and senator kamela harris are now officially the democratic party's ticket. yasmin? >> shack brewstq brewster, than that. now i want to go to julia hill. way tonight expand on some of that. some of which -- some of the folks that talked before joe biden spoke last night speaking how joe biden is unique ly

preparing after suffering a personal tramgy and dealing with what the country is going through now and fighting for the soul of america and as michelle obama put it, thinged could get worse if he's not elected into the white house come november. talk us through your perspective some of the themes you think are emerging through the last couple of days of the convention. >> yasmin, there were quite a bit of themes i think we've seen over the past week of the convention. i think among the themes is unity. you saw the democratic party during that convention try to portray itself as a big tent party, speaking of democrats and former democrats and john kasich -- excuse me, current republicans like john kasich. and they're trying to tie it to joe biden, someone who will be able to unite the country.

so that was symbolic in a sense. but also, like you said, this issue of empathy, you know, beau biden was a huge theme during that convention, constantly talking about his late daughter naomi and his wife that were killed when he was just a young senator before he met his wife jill. those experiences, trying to get through tragedy that they say prepared him for leadership and really to connect with other people. >> yeah. and it seems as if reconnect in a way because even though we have known joe biden for quite some time as a politician in this country and, of course, as vice president under barack obama, it was if they were reintroducing joe biden to us as someone who could feasibly lead this country for the next four years. with that in mind, of course, we're looking ahead to the republican national convention next week and then beyond that, november. how do the democrats come out of

this because we have historically seen oftentimes parties get historical boosts, right? how do democrats ride this wave? how do they ride this momentum the next couple of days with the rnc ahead and then beyond to november? >> yeah. just watching the commentary last night, you could see joe biden's speech was very well received and even texting with some republican operatives and strategists, they were praising him as well. it was definitely infused. i would say from now until november you're going to see democrats hunkering down and not make the mistake they made four years ago in taking donald trump and the republicans for granted. they're going to take this very seriously and understand that the polls are going to get tighter despite what could happen at the rnc and what happens with president trump between now and november, so they're very much going to hunker down. and i think you're going to see

some of president trump's actions speak for themselves and kind of let him take the lead and then kind of react to it. so i would say not get apathetic at all. they will continue to very much take this as a serious challenge going into november. >> all right. julia manchester, thank you as always. stay close next to your picture of the eiffel tower over your shoulder. love that. i'm go ing to talk to you again in just a little bit. also last night donald trump delivering criticism during joe biden's national convention speech writing on twitter this. in 47 years joe did none of the things of which he now speaks, he will never change. just words. trump sought to depict his rival as out of touch with the working class. >> so tonight we have slow joe who will speak at the democratic convention, and i'm sure he'll

just knock them dead, and he'll remind us that he was born in scranton, but, you know, he left like 70 years ago, right? he left. he abandoned pennsylvania. he abandoned scranton. he was here for a short period of time and he didn't even know it. today it's amazing. it goes around in a circle. he still doesn't know it. but he spent the last half century in washington selling out our country and ripping off our jobs and letting other countries steal our jobs, mexico, china, all of them, stealing our jobs. he's been there for 47 years, and now he's going to come in and make a change. i don't think so. all right. still ahead, steve bannon joining the very long list of former trump officials to phase criminal charges. we're going to discuss the allegations against him and the president's response. we are back in a moment. age is just a number.

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i feel very badly. i haven't been dealing with him for a long time as most of the people in this room know. he was involved in our campaign. he worked for goldman sachs. he worked for a lot of companies, but he was involved, likewise, in our campaign for a small part of the administration very early on. i haven't been dealing with him at all. i know nothing about the project other than i didn't like -- when i read about it, i didn't like it. i said this is for government. this isn't for private people. and it sounded to me like showboating, and i think i let my opinion be very strongly state at the time. i didn't like it. i thought it was showboating and maybe looking for funds. you'll have to see what happens. i think it's a very sad thing for mr. bannon. i think it's surprising. >> that was the president

reacting to the arrest of his former adviser, steve bannon, before an oval office meeting with the iraqi prime minister. let's go through what happened yesterday. so bannon was arrested and charged with fraud for his alleged involvement in raising private funds to build a wall on the mexican border. bannon, who was taken into custody on a yacht docked in westbrook, connecticut, worked with three others in an online fund-raising campaign called we build the wall. he allegedly raised $25 million with plans to use it toward building a wall. he then misappropriated along with others to misuse the money and commit to money laundering. bannon was arraigned in federal court when he was released on

bond. he once served as chief strategist to the president. he was ordered to surrender his passport and confine his travel to connecticut, new york, and washington, d.c. joining me now, none other than msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. i guess that's what happens when you get arrested on a yacht in connecticut. walk us through this alleged scheme that bannon and his cohorts have pulled off. they raised money, promising this money would go toward a border wall as i stated earlier. instead, some of this money allegedly spent on things like cars and plastic surgery. what's happening here? >> what's astonishing to me is that it appears from the allegations that these defendants may have set themselves up for nailure. they allegedly made promises that 100% -- not 99%.

100% of the money raised would go directly to the wall. not even to the charity itself but to building the wall, and i'm paraphrasing, of course, the allegations, and that may have been what got them into trouble before they even started collecting money. there are charities that operate at 100% efficiency, but those are very rare, and even some of the top charities in the country operate at 90% to 92% efficiency, meaning some 2% to 8% go to cost, overhead, things like that. they may have set themselves up for failure by making that promise of 100% efficiency. really, the charities that achieve 100% efficiency are those who take in-kind donations like blankets. this charity was accepting money, and that's where they got into trouble.

>> did you just hold up a can as a prop, danny? i appreciate that. i think people may not have understood what you meant when you said can. >> sweet peas have a lot of fiber, by the way. >> as a defense attorney, danny, walk us through what type of, if any, viable defense bannon may have here. >> one of the main defenses i expect bannon to make is that it's his co-defendant. he's going to end up pointing at his co-defendant if he ends up going to try. he's going to sark hy, hey, he'e one who benefitted. the problem is the government seems to have a lot of evidence that bannon himself benefitted, and if it's true they routed these payments through other charities, other non-profits and other companies, it's a pretty crazy way of disguising the funds, paying through one company and then paying from

that company over to the defendants. i mean it's a pretty basic way of money laundering, and if that's what they did, then it's not going to be very hard for the government to make out their money laundering case, and, of course, like i said at the outset, promising 100% of your contributions will go to building the wall? i mean they might as well thrown up a red flag to the gift and said investigate us. >> yeah. i've got to to say as i read all about this, i don't know how to put schemes together like this, but this certainly didn't seem like a very creative one. it seemed like a lot of holes there to poke. danny cevallos, thank you as always. good to see you. still ahead, everybody, the president and his latest attempt to secure his financial records. the latest in that ongoing battle coming up next. n that ong battle coming up next. i like to recommend pronamel to my patients. pronamel will help push the minerals back into the enamel, to keep the enamel strong. i know it works. and i hear nothing but great things

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attorneys. district judge victor marrero says the trump team failed to show that the subpoena to trump's accountant was issued in bad faith. he also argued that the eight years of financial records was overbroad and was harassment. he wrote this. the judicial process did not transform automatically into an incidence of incapacitating harassment and ill will merely because the proceedings potentially ma -- all right. still ahead, the president continues to rail against mail-in voting, but he's also raising suspicions about the integrity of in-person voting, claiming he wants to use law

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. we're going to begin this half hour with the latest on the u.s. postal service. the agency has instructed its managers, quote, not to reconnect mail-sorting machines that have previously been disconnected. that is according to emails obtained by vice news. the message was issued shortly after postmaster general louis

dejoy put out a statement saying this. to avoid even the appearance of any impact on election mail, i'm suspending these initiatives until after the election is conclude. nancy pelosi spoke to louis dejoy and said he had no intention of replacing machines and that plans for adequate overtime are not in the works. so, meanwhile, lawmakers on capitol hill yesterday pressing a former usps board member on possible political influence in the hiring of dejoy, a trump campaign donor. a former board member said he had on jukted to dejoy's appointment to that position and quit in part because of it. yesterday senate majority leader mitch mcconnell tried to assuage concerns about the postal service and its ability to handle mail-in voting. >> there's been a lot of sort of

political chatter about this, but let me make it clear. the post office can handle this. there will be a lot more mail-in voting because of the pandemic. we have typicallily not been a state that did a lot by mail, but we will be doing it this time because of the pandemic. so i want to reassure everybody there's going to be a way. a new deal has been worked out between our republican secretary of state and governor to cast a vote and have it be counted whether you do it in person or drop it in the mail. a non-existent problem. it's going to be taken care of. >> all right. so in an interview with fox news last night, the president continued his attack on mail-in voting, claiming democrats are using it to, quote, steal the election as he puts it. it seems he has concerns about in-person voting and wants to

use law enforcement as poll watchers on election day. >> are you going to have poll watchers? are you going to have an ability to monitor to avoid fraud and cross-check whether or not these are registered voters, whether or not there's been identification to know it's a real vote from a real american? >> we're going to have everything. we're going to have sheriffs and we're going to have law enforcement and we're going to have, hopefully, u.s. attorneys and everybody, u.s. attorney general, but it's very hard. >> okay. i want to turn now to the democratic national convention where several former democratic national candidates were featured last night throwing their support behind joe biden and kamela harris, making a case against the president's re-election. joe biden is right. this is a contest for the soul of the nation. and to me that contest is not between good americans and evil

americans. it's the struggle to call out what is good in every american. it's up to us. >> together we work. together we rise. joe biden and kamela harris know the dignity of all working americans. they know the urgency and the demand of our dream. but working people are under attack. >> i want to ask small business owners and their employees one question, and it's question for everyone. would you hire or work for someone who ran your business into the ground? if your answer is no, why the hell would we ever rehire donald trump for another four years? >> our future is now and it is daunting, but i ask you tonight to join me to join joe and cam louisiana to help fight the promise for mesh, turn the page and help lead us forward to a

future that we'll actually be proud to leave to our children. >> some impassioned speeches there. also more than 70 of the nation's former national security officials who saved under republican administrations are endorsing democratic presidential nominee joe biden, joining a wave of gop supporters throwing their weight behind joe biden. a few hours before joe biden formally accepted the nomination, the officials laid out a ten-point indictment of the president's actions, accusing him of undermining the rule of law, aligning himself with dictators, engaging in corrupt behavior that makes him unfit to serve as president. the officials accuse him of, quote, spreading misinformation and undermining public health experts making him unfit to lead during a national crisis. four years ago, 50 senior national security officials issued a similar letter warning president trump would be the

most reckless president in american history, and now they join their colleagues saying they believe joe biden has the character, has the experience and the temperament to lead this nation. joining me once again, political reporter for "the hill," julia manchester. you have more than 70 national security officials who served under gop presidents who are now backing joe biden and calling the current president unfit to lead. how concerned are current lawmakers over national and foreign security threats because of this sitting president? >> i think there's definitely some vocal concern among democrats that we've heard throughout the administration, but i think these gop national security officials coming forward in this letter, you know, further underscores maybe what is some concerns about closed door behind republican lawmakers, and i think you could

be hearing more of that as we get closer toward the election. you know, this is something that the biden campaign is really going to hone in on. remember, joe biden served on the senate foreign relations committee for years and he played a vital role in foreign policy in the obama administration as well, so i think this is definitely an area of strength and an area of weakness for president trump that the biden campaign will be able to take advantage of, using these officials and their support. >> let's talk about the postal service here and the crisis looming as we march toward november 3rd here. you have the postmaster general issuing a statement saying, look, i'm not going to make any changes to the post office until after november 3rd, but then we are hearing that the changes that have already happened are not necessarily being rolled back. you've got mitch mcconnell essentially saying there's nothing to worry about, nothing to look at here, everything will be fine, but no evidence that

he's offering to back that up, to assure americans that this is going to be a free and fair election on november 3rd. we have dejoy testifying before the senate today. what can we expect? >> i think you're going to see democrats pretty much go hard on dejoy not only for maybe his political connections and this suspicion or theories about why he was originally appointed to this position, but also i think you're going to see him press them on whether this will be a free and fair election when it comes to vote by mail. we know there are americans from multiple different -- all different backgrounds who have relied on this and will rely on this even more during that pandemic, so you can definitely expect him to be in the hot seat as well. but also on the timing of all of this, you know, we're in the middle of the pandemic. we're three months out from one of the most consequential elections probably in many of our lifetimes, and you're seeing

vote by mail from the vantage point of many people come under threat. so that is definitely something that democrats and maybe some republicans are going to voice concerns about. >> all right. "the hill's" julia manchester. thank you as always. great to see you this morning. appreciate you joining us so early this morning. >> stale head, everybody, a second sitting u.s. senator tests positive for the coronavirus. how he's faring straight ahead. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. at "morning" is back in a moment.

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learn more at freestylelibre.us. welcome back. rch senator bill cassidy has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the second senator do it. he experienced some symptoms and is quarantining in louisiana. the louisiana physician saying he got tested yesterday after being exposed to someone with

covid the night before. the senator said he will strictly follow the direction of the medical experts and strongly encourage others to do the same. kentucky representative rand paul was the first to test positive back in march but was asymptomatic. paul, who is also a doctor, refuses to wear a mask on capitol hill because he said he's already had the virus. "the wall street journal" reports that dr. deborah birx told hospital officials in arkansas this week that the current system in which the hospital reports new cases is solely an interim system and the reporting would soon go solely back to the cdc. the new system has been plagued by delays and inkconsistencies n data since being implemented back in july. houvg michael caputo, hhs, assistant secretary for public

affairs telling nbc news in a statement this. the process for reporting covid data reporting has not and is not changing. it only undermines the public health response. the department of health and human services instrkted them last month to no longer report numbers on new cases, hospital capacity, inventories of key supplies an other data through the cdc's health safety network. instead the journal is reporting the facilities were directed to report daily numbers through an hhs system using soft waifr provided by a hospital i.t. specialist that won a roughly $10 million contract with the hhs this year. and the coronavirus continues to playing major league baseball where two unidentified members of the mets organization have now tested positive for the illness including a player. as a result, the league post possibled yesterday's mets game

in miami against the marlins as well as today's series opener against the yankees at citi field. the mets are the fourth team to have a player test positive since the shortened season began on march 23rd. the league has so far post-pwned 34 games this season because of positive coronavirus tests. let's switch gears and get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist janessa webb. good morning, janessa. good to see you this morning. >> hey, good morning, yasmin. good to see you. you know, we have a developing situation that is going to escalate very quickly across the tropics. right now we are still talking about two systems that are currently tropical depressions. they're not even named storms. but the national hurricane center has put out the latest track and they're expecting to turn into a category 1 hurricane at the same time in the golf. we're watching this in the next

24 to 48 hours, we could see named stories. right now we're looking at tropical depression thirteen and fourteen as well. look at this track. it stays under a tropical storm strength, but as it gets into this warm body of water, this is the diceyness of the situation going late into sunday, and monday it turned into a category 1 simultaneously. so we're going to be watching and getting prepared. if you're from miami to pensacola all the way into houston as well, we need to be prepared for a potential tropical storm or even a category 1 hurricane going tuesday into wednesday. we already have tropical storm watches and warnings.

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welcome back. time now for business. after a weak of record highs on wall street, stock futures are pointing yet to another rise. cnbc's julianna ta tatelbaum joining us live from london. good morning to you. talk to us about how markets are looking this morning. >> it certainly has been quite a week, yasmin, especially for big tech stoxx. today u.s. stock features are holding steady, pointing to a firm trade starting this week. the s&p and nasdaq are on pace for four positive weeks in a row now, so big tech really marching

higher. apple closing yesterday with a valuation of more than $2 trillion. tesla closed with a sharp price above the 2,000 mark for the first time ever. in contrast, the dow jones is on pace to break a two-week win st not every stock has been participating in the rally. one of the questions for investors is whether big tech can continue to outperform or whether there's enough enthusiasm baked into the prices. the march for equities comes alongside the number of rise of jobless claims. yesterday we got data showing claims rose to 1.1 million in the last week. economists were looking for 925000. the number of people claiming jobless benefits had fallen in the last two weeks. economists had been warning the recent improvement was at risk of stalling as health concerns cause people to pull back from

participating in the economy the way they were. >> while i have you i want to talk about the uber and lyft fight going on in california for months now. it seems as if they have settled and uber and lyft will continue operations throughout the state of california. what more do you have on this? >> yesterday a california appeals court extended the length of time that uber and lyft have until they need to comply with an order to reclassify drivers as employees. it was an 11th hour deal, yesterday we saw them announce they were suspending services in california, that has been reversed and now both companies have until august 25th to file written statements agreeing to expedited procedures required by the order. >> julianna tatelbaum, thank you. great to see you this morning.

have a great weekend. up next a look at axios' 1 big thing. coming up on "morning joe," 2016 democratic presidential nominee, hillary clinton will be our guest. big morning ahead. also last night she called joe biden the kind of leader or service members deserve, senator tammy duckworth will be on this morning. tammy duckworth will be on this morning.

welcome back, joining me now with a look at axios a.m., political report for axios, hans nickels. good to see you on this friday morning. give us axios' 1 big thing today. >> our 1 big thing is this coronavirus convention is going to bleed into a coronavirus campaign. it's so clear that the theory of the case from the biden folks is this is all going to hinge on the coronavirus, the response to it and what president donald trump has done to keep americans safe and revitalize the economy.

my two data points are two speeches crafted before they did the vice presidential nomination. you had former president bill clinton and michelle obama, their speeches were taped beforehand and their message was seamless. there's been a great deal of discipline. the down side of the strategy is it doesn't allow flexibility if the conversation changes, it allows some. but clearly the theory of the case, as we reported last week, they're not thinking about doing a traditional campaign plan because they don't see a reason to go out and campaign, they want to stay within the guidelines of the cdc and state health recommendations. yasmin. >> let's expand on that, let's take a 30,000 foot and above approach on this. what do we expect to see as biden's plans looking ahead after all we have seen over the last four days or so?

>> we didn't learn much about policy, there weren't a lot of policy specifics in this, somewhat par for the course. but what we really got were character testimonials and chief is that joe biden knows how to grieve. and for a country that's grieving this fits into their theory of the case that the country is struggling with covid, joe biden knows loss, hardship, suffering, he's overcome adversity with his childhood stutter, and all that he's endured personally. so very little on policy, which is the way they're going to run this campaign, when you talk to democrats about what they executed, they are very pleased with the job they think they did. >> how is the biden camp feeling, as you touched on a

little bit there, as of today? and especially as we look ahead to the convention next week. how do they plan to combat what is coming from the president? >> they'll be ready, right. there's the tactics, the attacking, backing and campaigning. on the tactics they're ready. the strategy won't change, sort of the macro picture, as you mentioned, is coronavirus. at the end of this, it's similar an ten na. you have a debate, all the candidates come out we won the debate. so you calibrate what campaign officials are telling you and strategists. dint find anyone disappointed with how the last four days went. if there was a concern, it was biden's speech, last night, it's going to raise expectations for the debates. this may add more pressure on the biden campaign for the

debates. because the trump argument about sleepy joe, slow joe, those didn't hold because we all saw the former vice president give a force for forceful, arctic rat speech. he didn't flub any arguments, but he got the lines. great to see you this friday morning. i will be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me this friday morning, i'm yasmin vossoughian. morning joe starts right now. >> they're trying to steal the election. >> the election is going to be fine. >> they send millions of ballots all over the place. >> many people vote by mail. >> it's a disgrace. >> many states because of the

coronavirus like ours are going to have more people voting by mail than in the past. >> look at new york. look at what happened in new jersey. look at what happened in virginia. >> oregon, washington and colorado, they've been by mail for years. >> i won't go through the details you know the story. no control whatsoever. >> there's nothing we can do or should do as a government to dictate how to vote. >> this is a way to try to steal the election. >> we'll have a credible election. >> the only way they're going to win is by a rigged election. >> i don't think the american people need to worry about the election. >> yeah, looks like someone's got a senate majority to worry about. >> no, actually, you know, it's very easy to look at those clips juxtaposed and say oh my gosh we have an issue between donald trump and mitch mcconnell, between the president and the senate majority ad