the siberian hospital saying he wasn't fit to fly and at one point, local police say whatever he was poisoned with, suspected, was dangerous to people treating him. at one point, navalny's team in russia said they thought was going on was they were actually, the authorities trying to stall for time in the hopes by the time he actually was evacuated to germany, whatever was used to put him in the serious condition would have dissipated from his system. making it very difficult down the line to do a toxicology report and understand. we are not expecting too many statements today. the ngo that flew him in said he will be undergoing through a comprehensive medical exam. the doctors at clinic asked us to be patient. we will probably hear a statement from the family in a few days giving us an update. given the amount of time, we

need to keep our expectations low. >> his wife is saying that she suspects he may have been poisoned. thank you, matt. it is a new hour. first up on msnbc, we have breaking news from california. it continues to burn. more help arriving as crews fight the biggest fires in the state's history. rare saturday session on capitol hill. all about your mail. the question today, will lawmakers be the one delivering for the postal service? on the heels of the convention, joe biden and kamala harris and how they handle the covid-19 crisis. and father/son doctors trying to save those battling covid. they share their story ahead. good morning. it is saturday, august 22nd. i'm kendis gibson. >> i'm cori coffin. here is a live look to you. sun starting to rise. beautiful light in the sky. >> quiet in grand rapids as it

should be at 6:00 in the morning. 7:00. we say good morning. we have a lot to get to. including the development over the showdown over the postal service which heads to capitol hill. house members will gather for a rare saturday vote. >> house democrats want to add a $25 billion injection into the postal service. they want to assure the postmaster general doesn't implement anymore changes this year. >> it comes after congress grilled louis dejoy who contradicted the president and insisted election mail will get delivered securely and on time. >> we have leann caldwell on the capitol hill. how is the white house reacting to it? >> reporter: good morning, cori and kendis. this is a rare saturday session. this is the middle of august. they came back from their august

recess, but they are trying to find the post office and give them $25 billion today. the house will vote on it later today. this comes amid republican opposition and republican leadership opposition, i should say, and fresh veto threat from the white house. the reason the post office needs money and this is a big deal is because the president has long said he has opposed funding for the post office. a couple of weeks ago, we started getting reports from people out in the country and postal workers who said their mail was being delayed. then, the president said just recently that the reason he opposes post office funding because it would assure the efficient delivery of election mail. in the middle of the pandemic when mail-in ballots are expected to sky rocket.

that setoff alarm bells here at capitol hill. this is coming at the same time the postmaster general, a trump donor, is coming under pressure for the changes he made to the post office in his short tenure so far. he was up at the homeland security committee yesterday. he said he was going to reverse some changes. here's what he said about this issue of overtime i want to play for you. take a listen. >> are you suspending your policy eliminating extra trips? yes or no. >> no. first of all, policy was not to eliminate extra trips. mitigate. >> are you limiting overtime or is that suspended right now and people work overtime if necessary to move the mail out every day? >> senator, we never eliminated overtime. >> curtailed significantly is what i understand? >> not been curtailed by me or our leadership team. >> reporter: he said he never

eliminated overtime. our colleague, geoff bennett obtained an internal memo from the post office which he did just that. that memo is fresh from july. there's a lot of skepticism especially from democrats on what the postmaster general is saying. despite him saying he promises election mail will be delivered and have a priority. the legislation the house democrats well vote on today an attempts to block any of the changes until at least the new year. it is only going to be a symbolic vote because the president, again, said he will veto it and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he has no plans to bring it up. kendis and cori. >> you see the blue boxes and sorting machines that have been removed. most promise to bring those back. leigh ann caldwell. thank you. now to decision 2020 and the

countdown. 74 days until the election. in the first joint tv interview, the democratic ticket responding to president trump's attacks against vice presidential nominee kamala harris. desk missi dismissing the comments as distraction. donald trump gearing up for the republican national convention next week. he is slamming his rivals' week decrying the dnc as the darkest in history. geoff bennett is in washington, d.c. for us. first on the interview that took place with my colleagues at abc. biden and harris reacting to the president's name calling. how so? >> reporter: your former colleagues at abc, kendis. >> yes. lest we forget. >> reporter: the former vice president said he would shutdown the country if that is what scientists advise to stop the spread of covid-19. that stands in contradiction to what president trump has done.

here we are some six months into the pandemic and no national st tracing and no school plan. we have seen the patchwork approach from the states. the coronavirus crisis is still persistent. he, vice president biden, and kamala harris, senator harris, were asked about the president's racist attack an where where heg to fuel the birther lie to suggest that kamala harris is something other than fully american. the senator took that head on. take a look at how she responded. >> i think that there is so much about what comes out of donald trump's mouth that is designed to distract the american people from what he is doing every day. that is about negligence and harm to the american people. >> and incompetence. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> the idea that he would say

something like that. no president -- no president has ever said anything like that. no president has ever used those words. >> reporter: the president trump can't run on the economy as he hoped. he is getting low marks for handling of the coronavirus pandemic. he is now leaning in and attacking democrats. suggesting that they are trying to paint a negative picture of the country. here is what he said to supporters at an event in arlington, virginia yesterday. >> over the last week, the democrats held the darkest and angriest and gloomiest convention in american history. they spent four straight days attacking america as racist and a horrible country that must be redeemed. joe biden grimly declared a season of american darkness. >> reporter: anybody who watched all four nights knows the way the president characterized it

is not true. what they did, the president said, the democrats attacked the country. democrats attacked him. inept and unfit and as he put it racist. kendis and cori. >> and lest we forget the inauguration and his speech. >> take the message of hate. darkest days and turn it. using it for themselves. >> no, i own the darkness speech. geoff, thank you. my friend and colleague. all right. breaking news out of california. hundreds of wildfires burning out of control across the state. six people have died. hundreds of buildings destroyed. now new concerns that lightning could spark more fires today. >> it is still a very urgent situation out there. nbc's steve patterson is live in california in vacaville. steve, sadly this is not the

only area with this damage in california right now. >> reporter: just a slice of the destruction we are seeing in northern california. crews at this very moment as we speak are battling hundreds of wildfires all across the state. some of them are the biggest among ever recorded in state history. it has firefighters stretched incredibly thin here. overnight, the sprawl of more than 500 california wildfires surged in relentless march of flames. hardest hit is the north. the largest fires are churning through wine countries. reducing whole neighborhoods to pile of rubble and ash. >> oh, no. oh, no. >> reporter: chris lost most of her livestock. including horse and goat as the flames swept through her parents' ranch. >> the devastation is amazing.

if i stop to think about it, it overwhelms me. >> reporter: so far, the fierre destroyed more than 500 structures and forcing evacuation of thousands. >> fire after fire. it is crazy. >> reporter: meanwhile, firefighters battling back on the frontlines are stretched to the breaking point. >> i have never seen something like this in 34 years. >> reporter: the governor saying all of the firefighting resources have been exhausted. forcing officials to call in help from ten states and two countries. >> we have over 12,000 firefighters actively working to suppress the larger complex fires. >> reporter: somehow the ranch owner in sonoma valley said the firefighters were able to save his property. >> did you think it would be standing? >> no. we have seen video and we

assumed we were not coming back. >> reporter: a small silver lining peeking through the smoke. residents know a painful reality that fire season is just getting started. so officials say a lot of the fires especially here in northern california started with the series of severe storms that led to thousands of lightning strike s and made worse by the report temperatures in the area. the good news is yesterday and today, the humidity increased. it made conditions better for fighting the fires. tomorrow they expect more storms. back to you. >> steve patterson live in vacaville, california. steve, stay safe. a difficult decision is which buildings and properties they need to save. >> so far, 500 have been destroyed. steve, thank you. we have other breaking news. we are about to get updates on the twin tropical storms aiming

at the united states gulf area. marco and laura could strengthen into hurricanes in the gulf of mexico at the same time. that has never happened before. it is happening because it is 2020. fact. texas and florida need to be on guard. everyone from those areas need to be on guard. the storms could make landfall early next week. possibly on the same day. >> it's just mind boggling. >> there is something meteorological if they get within 900 miles of each other. right now forecast to be within 900 miles of each other. the systems start playing off each other. it doesn't hurt the systems. it just makes them that much more powerful. definitely have to keep an eye on this throughout the week. something else making history and had a lot of america

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new numbers today. democrats say they raised $70 million during the four-day virtual convention. that is in additiddition to the million after the kamala harris selection for the vice president running mate. >> four historic crises. all at the same time. a perfect storm. worst pandemic in over 100 years. worst economic crisis since the great depression. most compelling call for racial justice since the '60s. the accelerating threats of climate change. i'll be a democratic candidate, but i'll be an american

president. i'll work hard for those who did not support me. as hard for them as i did for those who did vote for me. that's the job of the president. to represent all of us. not just our base or party. this is not a partisan moment. this must be an american moment. >> a unity message there. joining us right now is kalalla harris. a former obama administration official. thank you for being here. good saturday morning to you. who would you say biden is talking to there? he admitted i'm a democrat, but i'll be an american president. >> he was talking to everyone. this convention was about contrast, contrast, contrast. we are looking at a time where vice president biden and senator kamala harris are having to make the case about who people remember them to be.

what the core differences are between them and the current occupant of the white house. he was talking to all americans. it did not feel he was pandering somehow to president trump's base. instead, it really felt he was trying to unify everyone. he was trying to bring them together and make clear that the choice on november 3rd for his candidacy would not be a choice against themselves. you know, i think he did a really great job. >> i want to ask about former president obama's speech. you worked for him in the white house. >> this president and those in power and those who benefit from keeping things the way they are, they are counting on your cynicism. they know they can't win you over with their policies. so they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote and to convince you that your

vote does not matter. that is how a democracy withers. until it is no democracy at all. we cannot let that happen. do not let them take away your power. do not let them take away your democracy. >> he appeared to be giving a dire warning. such a compelling speech. you know him. was he getting emotional there? >> president obama is always, always passionate about service and service to the american people in particular. i think he was trying to build confidence. it was dire. what he was saying is ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. to remind americans all hope is not lost. that power is in their hands. not only to elect a new president, but to make sure that

on november 4th, they continue to hold congress and white house accountable for supporting them living their best lives. this was not unusual for president trump. he is a skilled orator. he is extremely passionate about service to the american public. we saw that there. >> i want to ask about the convention itself and the set up. what we saw in wilmington could have been held in wisconsin. there are a lot of business owners in wisconsin who are upset that lost out on thousands of dollars by not having the virtual convention held there. was that a big mistake? hillary clinton did not visit. they are sore from 2016. >> as i understand it, vice president biden's team has been on the ground in wisconsin and will be on the ground in wisconsin. >> he wasn't there. >> absolutely. >> so many people pointed that out after 2016. that should be a sensitive point.

why not do the speeches out there? >> you know, we can play monday morning quarterback or we can take the convention as a whole. the fact of the matter is this is a non-issue. yes, some people surfaced it. social media does not speak for the masses. there are a number of democrats in wisconsin. the lieutenant governor and governor are absolutely supportive of the constituents. i believe joe biden will be on the ground in wisconsin again. yes, there is an economic situation that could have been avoided if they chose to go to wisconsin. nonetheless, it made sense for joe biden to come home. that was the message of his convention and of the dnc. i don't think that people will hold against him in wisconsin that he did not come and throw them a couple of dollars in, as

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we're back now with the look at the newspaper headlines. the front page of the "san francisco chronicle." this is a bad situation there. california battling more than 560 wildfires at the same time fire crews stretched and air quality is worsening. i got off the phone with friends

in the bay area. they are on orders to stay indoors because of the air quality. >> those who are not evacuated and the rolling blackouts. in iowa, "des moines register" delivers the respects to the post office. we are seeing more and more stories coming from local communities. people hard hit by the pandemic and telling the local stories. from hawaii. some would love to be vacationing. "honolulu star" says total cases surpassed 6,000. officials are looking at empty hotel rooms for quarantine space. they already have a quarantine if you go to hawaii at this point, you have to quarantine for several days. this just expands that situation which is not getting better. >> they have not been able to squash the rise in cases. and near biloxi,

mississippi. "sun herald." trying to get creative and make money and stay afloat during the pandemic. >> interesting. interesting. on capitol hill, in a matter of hours, democrats are forging ahead to fund the postal service. a rare saturday vote. a rare august vote. the white house is threatening to veto it. kelly o'donnell is at the white house for us. kelly? >> reporter: one of the things is take a moment and acknowledge how unusual this really is. during an august recess when congress is gone for several weeks because every member of the house is on the ballot or their seat is up for election in no november. it is a long tradition to be home and campaigning. they are back on saturday between two conventions that have been so unusual due to the pandemic. that is the back drop here.

they will consider today a measure that would provide funding for the postal service and set restrictions that operational changes could not take place. that is, of course, because of the concern of mail delays and how that affects mail-in ballots. and other things the postal service provides as well. the white house is threatening to veto this measure and it is not expected to move forward in the senate. this is a largely political pressure bill today. there is a lot of pressure to make certain the postal service can function and mail-in balloting can work and be trusted. the president's personal campaign against voting by mail is delivering plenty of tror controversy. >> they all think i'm trying to steal the election. i want the fair result. >> reporter: the unusual. on a summer saturday. congress is back in d.c. to vote

on a house measure that would require no changes to postal service and provide $25 billion for the financially strained agency. on friday, the postmaster general louis dejoy, a trump mega donor, with weeks on the job was put on the hot seat. >> we are not making any changes. >> reporter: a promise to halt operational changes that had begun and led to delayed difficu delivery. allegations of suppressing the vote. >> we are committed. the board is committed. the postal service is committed. leadership is committed to having a successful election. the insinuation is frankly outrageous. >> reporter: democrats argue the changes, especially hurts seniors and veterans dependent on the post office for prescriptions and checks and election ballots. >> will you bring back any mail sorting machines?

>> they are not needed. >> you support voting by mail? >> i think the american public should vote by mail and postal service will support. yes. >> reporter: on friday, at the start of the very political speech, the president acknowledged a personal loss. >> my brother robert would have wanted me to be here today. >> reporter: later at the white house, the trump family held a funeral service for the president's younger brother robert. robert trump passed away a week ago. this is the first time a family member of the president has been honored in this way with a funeral at the white house in about 100 years. it was a different setting. it takes into account the pandemic. guests and family members and close associates of robert trump, president trump's younger brother who passed away last week. there will be a reception at the

white house on a different note to relaunch the rose garden. melania trump with that ceremony. the closed reception held this evening. kendis. >> thank you, kelly. now the dnc has wrapped up, it is the republicans turn. now we have ali vitali on the national mall. what can we expect to see this week versus last week? >> reporter: cori, we watched the first democratic national convention and it went off without a glitch. now the question for the democrats is how to keep the momentum going. this morning, the battle to drive a national message. in the first interview as a ticket, biden and harris continuing the drum beat over president trump's handling of

the coronavirus. >> i will do whatever it takes to save lives. you cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. that is the fundamental flaw of the administration's thinking. >> reporter: it comes after a week of democrats distanced from each other, but united against trump. >> may history be able to say that the end of the chapter of american darkness began here tonight. >> reporter: meanwhile, the president eager to get back in the spotlight. >> democrats held the darkest and gloomiest convention in american history. where joe biden sees darkness, i see greatness. >> reporter: donald trump ready for his programming. >> the convention will be marked by chaos, chaos, chaos. >> reporter: ramping up get out the vote efforts and previewing new ads. hoping to maintain the momentum of the widely watched week that saw $70 million raised.

republicans taking notes and pushing boundaries. democratic delegates stayed home. hundreds of republicans will gather in charlotte. trump will travel and welcome crowds to the white house for his acceptance speech. >> the dnc put a value-based politics out there in the mainstream. republicans have an opportunity to pick that apart. >> reporter: the latest in the war of words waged over the next 73 days. and guys, we're about to see a really striking contrast as we head into the week with the rnc. we watched democrats frame it as a moral argument and less about policy and more about leadership. we are probably going to see the republicans do the opposite. it will be another example of the polarization we see every day in washington on a national stage. guys. >> ali vitali in washington. thanks. one thing i want to point out that i noticed that i found interesting is the speakers.

major democratic leaders spoke. a lot of citizens speaking at the rnc. >> any celebrities as far as we know, ali? that would be a contrast to the democrats. >> reporter: the dnc did highlight the average american voices there as well. i think both parties will try to use the virtual format to their advantage in that way. i have to say watching the entirety of the dnc, the format was a little jarring. i think given the argument they were trying to make, the somber nature, they used the format to their advantage. i'm really interested in seeing how the republicans use it to their advantage as well. if it goes off similarly glitch free. >> thankfully senator harper was not responsible for any of the zoom calls. >> no. >> all right. ali, thank you. president trump unleashed a new line of attack on mail-in

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in just two days, republicans will kickoff the convention. starting with an in-person roll call in north carolina monday morning. >> this is after the whirlwind week for the democrats who took their punches at the president. >> the current president cloaked

darkness for much too long. >> donald trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't. and the consequences of that failure are severe. >> donald trump's ignorance and incompetence have always been a danger to our country. >> he has failed the american people catastrophically. >> we can do better and deserve so much more. >> if we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for joe biden like our lives depend on it. >> joining us now is susan del percio and courteney subramanian. welcome to you. susan, let me start with you. you see they did not necessarily take on the republican party as a whole, but specifically president trump. how do republicans effectively counter-punch that?

>> what they should be doing is focusing on president trump and what they deem are his best leadership abilities and his record. now, the problem with that, of course, is there is not a good record and he will be judged on the handling of the coronavirus. president trump was criticizing the democrats convention for being gloom and doom. i have yet to see one ray of sunshine coming from president trump or empathy during this whole virus and his three and a half years. i don't expect much different from him. >> courteney, the main message from trump attacking biden is his cognitive abilities. you hear this over and over again. him trying to fit biden in the box. many saying the speech he gave on thursday was the best one of his life. the best one in years. what does that do to his argument? >> before biden's speech, the trump campaign came out with a pretty brutal attack ad atta attacking his mental an cue k a.

conservative pundits said he defied expectation. essentially smashing that argument that the trump campaign has been pushing. that may fall flat for now. especially next week and they have to find another way to disqualify the former vice president. s>> courteney, in the meantime, president trump yesterday said this false claim about the election results, potentially being delayed. here is the listen. >> i'm a life long republican. that attachment holds second place to my responsibility to my country. that's why i've chosen to appear at this convention. in normal times, something like this would never happen. these are not normal times. >> i have known donald trump for most of my political career.

so disappointing and disturbing. >> i'm a long-time republican and long-time ceo. let me tell you, donald trump has no clue how to run a business, let alone an economy. >> this is not about republican or democrat. this is about a person. a person decent enough and stable enough and strong enough to get our economy back on track. >> joe biden will be a president we will all be proud to salute. >> you can tell we're hearing a string of republicans coming out in favor of joe biden. let's shift gears toward that quickly, guys, and talk about what it means for the republican party. >> as a life-long republican myself, i can relate. i think that message is powerful. because, they are talking about the individual. president trump. this is a man who said i, alone, can fix it. that means he thought he could run everything. he has run everything into the ground. that is his record.

so when republicans speak up, this isn't about policy anymore. we cannot afford four more years of president trump druggiags us through the mud and destroying the democracy. that is what life-long republicans are saying. don't for for him. don't vote for president trump. he is a disaster for the nation in the last three and a half years. >> courteney, we will go back to the question that kendis was posing regarding the false claim of the election results potentially being delayed. take a listen. >> you will not know what happened. i don't think you will know two weeks later. i don't think you will know four weeks later. you know there is a theory if you don't have it by the end of the year, crazy nancy pelosi would become president. i don't know if it is theory or a fact, but that's not good.

that's not good. no, no. if you don't have it and that's part of their whole act. if you don't have a choice, that the speaker of the house becomes president. i think goes into effect on the 20th or the 1st. put that in the hopper. add that to everything else. >> courteney, what is he trying to do? >> yeah, i mean, you know, all of this comes back to the same point which is the president is losing at this point. you know, he was losing at this point in pennsylvania four years ago this month. he is really trying to create an argument that gives him an out. that this is fraud. we can't trust the results. i think nothing really cuts to the heart more than what he said earlier this week which is the only way we're going to lose this election is if it is rigged. i think that, you know, democrats made a good argument

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now to the front lines at a houston hospital where a father/son doctor duo has turned battling the coronavirus into a family fight. father and son are emergency room physicians at memorial herman hospital in houston. welcome to both of you. there you are. texas has more than 600,000 cases of covid-19 in harris county, that county leads the state. what has it been like on the

front lines there? >> we're busy. lots of patients, swimming in covid. >> still to this point? >> things have eased up. i know the cases are down, but from an emergency medicine doctor's standpoint, you go to work, there's a lot of people to see, irrespective of what's wrong with them. >> dr. michael, what are you seeing when it comes to people displaying symptoms. we've heard there's new symptoms that are being detected. are you seeing the same thing at the hospital? >> there's such a wide range when people ask me could this be covid? a lot of it is maybe. a lot of big things are clots in the lungs, stroke, heart attack. but just, you know, lots of things that we can't predict. lots of rashes. a range of symptoms. it's so broad. we're learning more every day,

every week. >> it's quite unusual to v. family members working at the same hospital. here we have father and son. you both work at the same hospital. it wasn't until this week that the two of you worked together. take me through what that must have been like for you guys and for your patients especially during a global pandemic? >> from my perspective, i just struggle between being the proud father and the emergency room doctor. but we got to work together and resuscitate a critical patient. that was a total rush. and then, yeah, we're there. just professionals and we're not really father and son, we're dr. torrey and dr. torrey. >> do you question some of michael torrey's calls? >> absolutely not. >> what about you, michael?

you learned your dad came on board -- well, he was already there. obviously it was a surprise to you as we understand it. >> it was a great experience. a lot of it, yeah, we're just kind of doing our shift, seeing each other walking around, but we did get the opportunity to work hand in hand with someone who needed a lot of help. it was pretty surreal. it was so smooth, we did what we needed to do. we did it together. it was great. >> it is probably a surreal moment as you mentioned for your family to be working there with your dad, especially during a global pandemic. michael, this has really been a tough, tough couple of months for many people there in texas. do you see a light at the end of the tunnel at all? >> yeah. we'll get through this. it's been pretty stressful, people are scared. people are anxious. lots of people are coming in

worried. the hospital is there for you. we'll get through this. just listen to the experts. listen to the guidelines, and look out for each other. there's light at the end of the tunnel. i think it will be a while until we're completely there. it's getting better. >> then to add on top of it you have a possible hurricane or tropical storm headed your way in a couple of days. you guys, be well. dr. paul torre and dr. michael torre, appreciate you joining us. thanks to both of you. >> they have such a great story. irlove wh i love what the dad said, i'm a doctor but i'm a dad. >> you can totally imagine dad saying, i don't agree with that call. but those calls are life and death decisions. >> that's right. you have to take the elder -- >> thank you guys. >> there is an update from the national hurricane center about marco. it's strengthening.

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