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country. nbc correspondent kelly cobiella takes us around the world to see how schools are reopening. good morning. it is sunday, august 30. we begin with breaking news out of portland, oregon were overnight authorities say one person died as a result of a gunshot wound to the chest. in downtown portland police report gunfire range out at 9:00 p.m. local time. several news outlets say pro-trump supporters clashed with protesters. erin mclaughlin joins us with the latest. >> reporter: ali, a homicide investigation is under way in the city of portland, oregon. authorities are still trying to piece together exactly what happened. they're urging people not to draw any conclusions at this point. they say that at 8:46 p.m.,

gunfire could be heard captured on social media there on the streets of portland. social media video also showing a man with a gunshot wound to his wechest, lying on the groun surrounded by police and other authorities, trying to help him. police releasing a statement saying they located and responded to a man with a gunshot wound in the chest and determined the man was deceased. police are also aware of other videos that purport to show the shooting itself, also part of this ongoing investigation. earlier that day there was a pro-trump vehicle rally that began outside of the city, eventually making its way into the city itself. according to police, pro trump protesters clashed with demonstrators. multiple individuals were

arrested. but the caravan had left the city by the time of the shooting. they're trying to figure out whether those two incidents were in any way connected, ali. >> and while they're telling people not to draw conclusions, i was pointing out to shaq brewster a little earlier that we have more than three pages of tweets from the president. these are one line at a time because he's tweeted so much overnight. mostly about portland and what's going on there. any relationship between these and what police are saying actually happened kwemtd? >> reporter: at this point they are not giving many details in terms of the confession, urging people not to draw any conclusions as they work to step the facts as to what exactly happened in portland. >> erin, thank you, my friend. we'll continue to check in with you on the story, erin mclaughlin covering the situation in portland. one thing we've learned about donald trump during his three

years in office, he loves to play to a crowd, to become the master of ceremonies, if you will, to thrive on it, some say he lives for it. in the run-up to the election remember held 300 political rallies or speeches. by comparison, this year he's only had about 20. here's why. the pandemic. much as he doesn't like to talk about it, these gatherings can become potential super spreaders of coronavirus. the united states still accounts for roughly 1,000 deaths a day from coronavirus, many, many months into this thing. confirmed covid-19 cases nationwide are quickly closing in on 6 million. while the overall national death toll has now eclipsed 183,000. donald trump is supposed to be the guy keeping american people safe during a time of crisis and be an example for others. instead he's one of the greatest violators of social distancing protocols and regulations. he's an obstacle for scientists at every turn. we all know he doesn't like to

wear a mask. here is what plfrancis collins told me about the importance of wearing a mask. >> it is a simple fact, wearing a facial covering when you're outside your home is the way we can help stop this terrible pandemic, not because you're so much protecting yourself but because you might be that person who is infected without any symptoms and you're spreading it. you could be a super spreader. we all could be. if you care about your neighbors, you care about elderly people who are at higher risk, it's up to you to act upon that. that's not a political statement. that's a scientific fact. >> more than mask denial, trump is denying super spreaders. the first and largest mask gatherings we've seen in this pandemic have actually been trump events, like the tulsa rally in june. this week alone there was an rnc speech on the south lawn.

look at that seating layout. on friday, there was temperature's airport rally in new hampshire where the crowd actually booed at an announcement to wear masks is a safety precaution. >> ladies and gentlemen, please wear your mask. [ audience reacts ] >> unbelievable. a simple ordinance to protect yourself and others. as trump continues to hold these in-person political events, "the washington post" reports that the secret service is now dealing with several coronavirus cases. carol lentic of "the washington post" reports that dozens of secret service agents who work to secure the security of the president and vice president at public events have been sickened or sidelined. with 65 days remaining until election day, trump's campaign strategy seems to be to throw

caution to the witness. while joe biden has announced he will resume in-person campaigning, telling supporters, we're going to do it in a way that is totally consistent with being responsible unlike what this guy has been doing, referring to trump. carol lennig is the author of "a very stable genius." secret service agents understand their line of work involves risk that they may actually die in protecting the president, the vice president and others. but i don't think anyone signed up for dying for the wrong reason or inadvertently or because of careless. >> absolutely, ali. i'm so glad you framed the question that way because the real challenge here is, an agency that's so valiant that their whole mission is to take a bullet for the president, their whole mission is, we will do whatever is necessary, boss, to protect you, and ultimately to

protect smooth democracy. but here's the issue. now they're having to face this bizarre scenario where the president keeps doing things that are against his own cdc guidance and advice. the president keeps taking people to places where there are folks not wearing masks or people are clustering close together, indoors and outdoors. and the agents have to prepare the security plan there, they have to be in public, they have to travel there. so they are getting v75p(61> and what can they do about it? has the secret service had a response to this, has the white house addressed this issue, or does everybody understand what's happening and they're moving ahead with what they have to do? >> what's happening essentially is the secret service is making

it up on the fly, trying to fix this, trying to repair it by increasing testing, by trying to get people tested before and after events. now there are folks having to travel on chartered planes. there are agents who are driving thousands -- forgive me, hundreds of miles. when the president had that recent event at mt. rushmore, july 3, the wonderful fireworks, a celebration of his image? well, agents had to get in a car from the texas field office, many of them, and drive to mt. rushmore to make that event, to avoid being in a plane with the public, infecting the public or infecting themselves and rendering themselves useless as security agency. >> what a story. carol leonnig is the co-author of "a very stable genius."

nearly 6 million people have been diagnosed with covid-19. meanwhile as the country searches for a viable treatment, there's controversy at the fda, one of the leading agencies working on the situation. the fda's emergency approval for blood plasma treatments, the president called it a powerful therapy. however scientists say trump and the agency quite grossly misrepresented the data on its effectiveness. joining me is the former assistant secretary for health and human services under president obama. doctor, good to see you. there's a few things going on here. one is the example the president sets which i was just talking to carol about.

number two, there is this convalescent blood plasma that the president misrepresented and seemed to have convinced the fda to go along with him in misrepresenting, and,000 we're hearing him talk about a vaccine that will be ready by elected day, and the fda says they're prepared to authorize a vaccine before phase iii trials, before it's fully tested. nothing about this sounds right. >> ali, one of the major challenges in this pandemic response has been the consistent inconsistency in the health messaging from the very start. we all know the lifesaving potential of masks. we know when a president uses one, they protect themselves to some degree but they protect those around them, their family, their friends, people they love. the president said last month that wearing a mask was a patriotic act, but he hasn't repeated that statement since,

so that has confused some people. then we hear the announcements from the fda, which you pointed out, were billed as a major breakthrough, in fact it's not, in fact the commissioner had to apologize the next day for how he characterized the data so far. now we have to be concerned about a vaccine, because the success of that program will depend on having the highest level of trust and confidence from the american people. the commissioner has pledged in the past not to cut any corners, and there is a well-developed process for vaccine development and approval in this country that we have to follow very, very carefully. we need to keep the trust and confidence high as the fall comes and seasonal flu comes and a second wave of covid may be upon us as well. >> doctor, we've been speaking to you and other public health experts since the beginning of this thing. what we learned in the beginning is that a vaccine may take time,

it may not come, therapeutics they may time, they may not come, but in fact there is a way to control the spread of this thing and most other countries have figured this out. social distancing and masks. we now have 183,000 dead. we're still losing about a thousand people a day. we had those people in new hampshire booing an announcement to wear a mask. the president had said at one point that if 100,000 die, we would be doing a good job, which isn't true either. we're on track to have a quarter million dead by the election. >> ali, this is so tragic. when you take a global perspective, countries around the world, in europe and in asia and elsewhere have gotten through this pandemic and gotten out the other side after several months. it's being aggressively controlled despite some outbreaks in some countries. but in this country we've had 50 states going off in 50 different directions, no unified national

strategy. as a result, this pandemic, which started in the northeast in places like new york, headed for the sun belt, places like texas, now in the heartland, places like iowa and the dakotas. so this is very protracted. it doesn't have to be this way. the only way to get through this is to double down on prevention and public health until a vaccine comes. >> it can be done. dr. howard koh, thank you, howard, good to see you. twitter has taken action on yet another disinformation tactic. several fake accounts pretending to be from black people trying to persuade black voters. what happens now?

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not only were they bogus but the two most popular accounts were made to look as though they were run by black men who recently left the democratic party in support of donald trump. this may be part of an scheme by unknown actors to mislead voters and dissuade them from voting for joe biden. removing these accounts is twitter's latest efforts to combat misinformation on its platform. the problem still remains of systematic targeting of black voters to dampen voter enthusiasm they might have. with me now to discuss this and the rise of the digital voter suppression is nbc news reporter ben collins and rashad robinson, a spokesperson for the voting while black pac. good to see you both. ben, what's actually going on on twitter and what has twitter done about it? >> there were two major accounts, i would say.

these accounts had five different tweets, 10,000 retweets, that's enormous engagement. they were posing as black people who had just recently switched from the democratic party, recently, because of black lives matter, over to donald trump's side, they said they were going to vote for donald trump. the problem is these are not real people. one was a stock photo. the other was a dutch model who i called. he said he was very upset he was being used in this propaganda campaign. these are not real human beings. but on twitter you can sock-puppet your way to big support. we're seeing, just like 2016, a lot of artificial messages being pushed by people aligned with the trump campaign, people who are pro-trump generally, pushing these ideas that maybe it's okay to be a black person who supports donald trump and here's proof from this fake account. it's not just this specific message. the president this morning tweeted 20 different times this one fake polling account, this one fake -- it's called poll

watcher 2020, it had 2,000 followers until he jumped on it today. this is a targeted strategy by the campaign. >> i'm looking at the tweets from this morning, more than 70 tweets now from the president this morning, and the first bunch of them, first batch of them are poll watch 2020. rashad, there's two problems here. you are actually a black activist and you've actually been responsible for a lot of pressure on these social media companies to do better. but buzzfeed had an article in which it says real black activists worry that the fake ones will drown them out on twitter. the quote is from somebody who said, we don't have bots, we have real black people, the danger is that these accusation suspect that facebook and youtube latch onto it and it undermines our ability to have a black political dialogue. it's bad that these bots are out there impersonating black people, but it's also potentially bad when they get shut down because real people might get shut down in the process. how do you think this through? >> i mean, it's a nightmare

scenario, because these systems have been set up, the algorithms have been set up to actually get the exact result that we're getting. and so since 2016, and even before, we have been raising these issues for both twitter and facebook. and then when these issues come up, we're the ones that have to go there, highlight it, point out the problems, raise these issues. the shooter in wisconsin, the group that he was part of was flagged over 400 times and nothing was done. these are not mistakes, as mark zuckerberg would like to say. these are like deep problems that are baked into the platform. you know, and it's also part of just the incentive structure of how these platforms are set up. we don't have real rules of the road and regulations. we would have a lot of poisoned food on our shelves and our grocery stores if we didn't have infrastructure that held companies accountable. but what ends up happening is we

get this poisonous messaging that incites violence, and all the companies do is say, we're working really hard, we're trying, judge us by our efforts. and then at the end of the day, we have to look at the results. if the results were a lot of food that was poisoning us, we wouldn't care how hard the companies were working, we would just care we were being poisoned. so our politicians, our leaders, and these companies have to do more. and these companies have to be held to a higher standard. >> let me ask you about what effective this has, because recent polling, nbc/"wall street journal of the polling indicates support for joe biden amongst african-americans is almost exactly what it was for hillary clinton, it was 89% for her, 88% for joe biden, donald trump has seen no growth, as 8%. but the issue isn't that most blacks support the democratic candidate. the social media stuff affects

turnout and enthusiasm. >> absolutely. this is all about turnout and enthusiasm. and when you can sort of cut at pieces of the population in states like wisconsin or pennsylvania, you can do targeting messaging that hits at certain communities. you can create doubt and sow dou doubt, you can put lots of money behind this. this is one of the reasons why we started this campaign, this is one of the reasons why many civil rights organizations like color of change, the naacp, the leadership conference for civil rights and others, have been fighting and pushing on these platforms for years. we've put forward policies after policies for them to adopt. facebook did a civil rights audit that walked through all of the problems on the platform, all of the ways, it was their audit, and they still have not implemented the vast majority of the things that were called out. even when they implement things, they then don't enforce it when

it comes to donald trump or even in the case of wisconsin, where they weren't flagging things that should have violated the four corners of their policy. and then we see these sort of billionaires get on tv and tell us that they're really sorry. and so i think we're in this huge moment where we're seeing nba players speak out, we're seeing wnba players and athletes, we're seeing so many people speak out. i say to the people who work at those social media platforms, what will you say to yourself five, ten, 15 years from now, if you continue to make these billionaires money and you did nothing to stand up for justice? if you continue to go to work every day and did not do the work to stand up against the very real attacks, how many more of us have to be hurt, killed, how many more of us have to have our rights taken away, before we stand up and actually put safety, integrity, and security over growth and profit? it can't just be about how much money you make. it has to be about what you do for the rest of this country.

>> ben collins, i got 30 seconds, but when i see whatever it is, 68 tweets before 8:00 a.m. from the president, my first instinct is to ask you what you make of this. >> umm, look, he has a message to get out this morning, specifically about portland. the worry for years and years was that these white militias and people on the left would start fighting in these pop-up civil wars throughout the country, and you know who that benefits. and the president knows who that benefits. so he has to get some messages out there about polling and he has to get messages out there about what he considers to be law and order. that's exactly what he's doing this morning. again, they may not be the accounts of genuine people. we don't know that, in part because their identities are masked. really think twice before you assume that somebody is real,

even and maybe especially if the president is tweeting it. >> yeah, and one of these days you and i will have a conversation we've had in person many times, that we should have on tv, about the fact that you can actually do some fairly easy things to figure out whether a post is real or a person is tweeting it or somebody on facebook. for some of us, that can be done. we should at least learn those skills. thanks to both of you, ben collins, rashad robinson. this week the world show an extraordinary show of activism that rashad was just talking about by professional athletes in this country, proving they will not just shut up and dribble but rather speak up and demand change. coming up next, the history of sports activism and what these pros need to do to turn profit into progress. st done. what do you think? i don't see it.

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roughly three months after the killing of george floyd, which triggered a racial awakening and a level of protest

never before seen in america, we're back in the same position. the shooting of jacob blake by kenosha, wisconsin police is an all-too-familiar installment in a long-running series. as the fight against prui brutallization of black and brown people continues, nba players made the first move last week in response to jacob blake's shooting. the league, whose players are predominantly black, have made sure the black lives matter message has figured predominantly on the court and on their jerseys since games restarted at the beginning of august. on wednesday, three playoff games were postponed as players said they wouldn't participate due to the week's events. on wednesday all three playoff games were actually postponed. the milwaukee bucks players delayed their games, so did major league baseball and the wnba. even the nhl, whose players have proved resistant to these latest protests, followed suit.

some individual nfl teams made their own show of support. naomi osaka said the continued genocide of black people at the hands of police make her sick to her stomach. in 1936, track star jesse owens ran in the berlin olympics, a silent protest against hitler's racist agenda. he won four gold medals. in 1967, mohammed ali almost lost anything when he refused to be drafted into the u.s. army for the vietnam war. he was stripped of his heavy weight title. the decision was overturned and he regained his championship status. 1968, the iconic image you're looking at was taken at the mexico city olympics, after finishing first and third respectively, two sprinters each

raised a single fist as they stood on the winner's podium. both men were booed in the moment, kicked out of the olympic village and suspended from u.s. track and field for raising that you aeir fists. sound familiar? four years ago colin kaepernick took a knee against this very issue.

s what you have seen in the wake of jacob blake's shooting, does it give you hope there's resurgence, an important place in this discussion right now for athletes? >> absolutely. athletes have always had a role in the civil rights movement, the push for that more perfect union, going all the way back to major taylor in 1896, the same year that plessy versus ferguson edict came out of the u.s. supreme court making segregation the law of the land. he was preparing to participate in cycling events in his own country but he couldn't participate in events in this country despite being a world class cyclist.

even at the height of the civil rights movement when there was this big debate between malcolm x and dr. king, the one thing they both agreed upon was that athletes had a vanguard role, whether you're talking about malcolm x with muhammad ali or dr. king endorsing the human rights efforts in the olympics. naomi osaka, as you mentioned, serena you have to put in there. all of these athletes are critically important to this struggle. >> in the president's several dozen tweets this morning, there are actually a number of them about sports. his position on this, which i think represents a lot of people in this company, is pretty simple. athletes are there for entertainment and to make money and he's not interested in hearing their political views.

how do you respond to people who take that view, the "shut up and dribble" view? >> this idea that sports is entirely separate from human affairs, that's a myth that was dispensed with decades ago. the reality is sport is one of the most critical institutions in society because it reaffirms and enforces the central values that we're supposed to be about, competitiveness, discipline, hard work, freedom, justice, equality, patriotism and so forth. these athletes are not protesting against the flag or against the country. they are protesting against injustice which is something that we can all agree upon. but of course black people and brown people in this country have never been perceived by the mainstream has credible arbiters and witnesses to their own experiences and outcomes. so there is this tremendous definitional struggle that has been going on since the people enslaved said we want to be free and the slave master said, my

slaves are happy. so that struggle has been going on, and what mr. trump is contributing to the situation today is just another dimension of that. but i think the athletes, those who are on the side of justice and on the right side of history, are going to prevail. i'm profoundly optimistic that they will. >> i'm a little amazed, i was amazed four years ago with the strength of the reaction to colin kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, a powerful but peaceful a protest is there could be, and you would think the guy was taken the american fabric apart thread by thread. what's changed? why is what colin kaepernick did then now more acceptable and gaining in steam? >> major taylor and jesse owens, jack johnson, joe lewis, jackie robinson, kenny watson, that group was the second wave, smith

and carlos, jim brown, bill russell, a third wave. fourth wave was colin kaepernick. the fifth wave was framed up by entire teams becoming involved in this situation. and this was set in motion, i could see this coming in 2014, when the university of missouri, black football players threatened a boycott, not just a protest, they threatened a boycott unless the students' demands that the president be fired and so forth, that the students had been battling for two years, was recognized and honored. three days after the football players sent out that statement on social media, the president resigned, soon followed by the chancellor and ultimately the football coach. at the end of it, it was clear to me that this was a new wave of athlete activism that was

already on the political horizon. once you get teams involved with boycotts, they're sending a message, not like protests which are simply making a statement. then comes the strategic challenge of, what are you going to do next, what are next steps. >> we're going to have that conversation, dr. edwards. i can talk to you about this for several hours. i would like you to come back and we can talk about what happens next. dr. harry edwards, professor emeritus at uk berkeley, founder, although you can't believe he's old enough to be that, but founder of the 1967 project for human rights. up next, the latest from portland's clashes between trump supporters and black lives matter activists. ♪

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when gunfire rang out in downtown portland. the death occurred as pro trump supporters clashed with demonstrators on the 94th day of george floyd protests. homeland security acting secretary chad wolf spoke out about the incident. >> what we've seen in wisconsin, minnesota and other places, those governors are stepping up, calling in the state national guard in many instances, obviously wisconsin we're sending in department of justice law enforcement officers as well. when we talk about portland, they continue to refuse any type of federal assistance to bring that violent activity going on for almost 90 days now, a little over 90 days, to a close. the citizens of portland want this. we need to bring some normalcy back to portland. again, if the state and local officials won't do it, they need to ask for assistance from the federal government. >> president trump's been ferociously tweeting this morning including this one at 6:00 a.m. eastern. the big backlash going on in

portland cannot be unexpected after 95 days of watching an incompetent mayor admit that he has no idea what he is doing. the people of portland won't put up with no safety any longer. the mayor is a fool. bring in the national guard. this is one of 70 tweets the president sent out this morning, some of which cannot be read on tv. joe biden has said trump is using the national guard as a pawn. >> i'll be a commander in chief. i'll make sure that our national guard have the support and resources they need. not one, not one who diverts more than $1 billion in national guard funding to pay for a border wall, taken out of the national guard for a border wall. that's not keeping us safe. i'll restore respect for our civil and military relations. that's the bedrock principle of our republic. you know, it's been tested

lately, but i promise you, as president i'll never put you in the middle of politics and personal vendettas. i'll never use the military as a prop or as a private militia to violate the rights of fellow citizens. >> i want to bring in a reporter for "the washington post," he's been reporting in portland. good morning, what do we know about the latest in portland, what happened overnight? >> reporter: thanks for having me. so last night after a series of charged confrontations between the trump supporting group and black lives matter activists, there was a shooting in a busy part of downtown. one person is dead. he was wearing a hat with patriot prayer, that's a far right activist group that's known here. as far as the circumstances of the shooting or whether it happened as a direct result of those clashes, the police have

not said yet. it's under investigation. a suspect hasn't been named at this point. >> what's the situation with the national guard, those federal troops that were in portland, the ones that didn't have sort of identification, state police and local police, how do though all stand vis-à-vis each other? because the homeland security secretary has said all options are on the table including the national guard. who is policing portland at the moment? >> reporter: so it's the local police department, the portland police bureau. as far as federal troops go, the mayor, ted wheeler, has asked them not to come back to portland, insisting that they only worsen the chaos in the city. what was notable yesterday was the moments when the police did show up, so like i said, there were these series of charged confrontations, one on a highway on-ramp, where the black lives matter activists and the trump supporting group were able to come face-to-face.

ultimately they came to blows for the first of several times. the police showed up then, separated the groups, and then the trump supporting caravan, that group of cars was able to come into downtown portland and again, predictably, the groups got into fights and skirmishes in the streets. the police showed up again. and then the groups sort of went on their separate ways. the black lives matter activists were marching through downtown. the caravan seemed to be leaving downtown portland. and then this shooting happened. >> faiz, thank you for your reporting, faiz siddiqui, a reporter with "the washington post" from portland. it's only been four short years since the last presidential election, one that was heavily influenced by russia. russian meddling in our elections was shockingly easy to

accomplish. just two months from the next presidential election, you would think our lawmakers, our leaders, our president, would be given the tools to make sure this never happens again. you would think we spent four years doing everything we can to avoid a repeat of 2016. but instead we've spent four years debating the legitimacy of the interference. this week, not only is the president not going to be taking this threat seriously himself, but the director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, his hand-picked dni, will no longer give in-person briefings to congress on election interference, 64 days from an election that we know the russians are involved in. as with most things in the trump era, the decision is unprecedented, deservedly causing democrats in congress to speak out. represent jackie speier from california serves on the intelligence, oversight, and armed services committees. good to see you, congresswoman

speier, thanks for joining us. your colleagues are telling us about how worried they are about the type of interference going on in this election and the fact thatand you think the administration is whitewashing it or not representing it. >> i think what the administration is doingqd>s'sz manipulating it. he has manipulated some of the most important institutions in this country whether it is the cdc or the fda or the u.s. postal service, we should all be alarmed at how he is using the power of the presidency for his personal benefit and not for the american people. the american people have the right to know about the intelligence and they have the right to know if russia is meddling. now there is an effort to hush that all up. >> what do we do about this?

>> we are 64 days away from the elections, the intelligence committee has some evidence that russians are interfering again, we did see a report that says russia is in vovolved and china involved. iran has certain desires out of the elections, russia voinvolve in a way they were last time. >> that's absolutely correct. that has been made public. this was not long ago that the president was saying ukraine may be responsible for what happened in 2016. now we have a bipartisan report from the u.s. intelligence committee made it crystal clear it was russia, russia, russia. you have a president who won't call putin out for anything who

said in helsinki. is the president becoming putin's puppet? is he becoming his mouthpiece? we have every right to know what the intelligence is and we have the right to question our analysts and if it requires subpoenaing them, i believe we should do that. >> part of this is the politicalization of the process that people like you warned about. the argument is that we don't want to brief you guys because you may leak sensitive information about sources and methods to the press or to other people. this method of doing it does not answer that problem if that was the problem. >> that's correct. >> and you know the leak is brought up every time the president wants to hush something up. the usps is a great example.

everyone is this country is upset of the slowing of the mail. i had over 4,000 constituent inquiries aboutx2aaeé that. you see it in all the institutio institutions32 and now the intelligence committee has been actually impacted by this cancer that the president is infecting all of these really important institutions that must be protected. >> what can you do about it? i have heard from adam schiff and congressman christie murphy and senator blumenthal and they all said americans have got to know this. what can they do about this if they want classified information? >> if they don't declassify it, they have to come before the intelligence committee and be questioned about it. there are ways we can communicate to the american

people that there is trouble ahead. what they did in 2016 was profound. they facebook ads and persons and bots and created false rallies and got into the record of people in this country. who to say they can't get into the machines? that's why having paper ballot is so important because it is important to have paper trail. our votes should be protected and suggesting how iran -- the russians have turned this into a science. we have people working all day everyday putting out information on facebook and twitter and other

a narrative that would suppress increase the vote for donald trump. >> congresswoman, good to speak with you, thank you for being with us. jackie speier from california. that does it for me on "velshi," coming oçfó3[um go nowhere, you are watching msnbc. experience the ultimate sports hub.

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good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy," i am tiffany cross. protesters have been protesting for months. those in trucks shot paint ball guns at protesters who threw objects back at them. one man shot and killed. it is unclear whether the shooting was kconnected to the protest. the man who was shot was wearing a hat with the right wing group.

videos from portland last night shows the moment of that shooting. we want to bring you that video now. i have to warn you this video is disturbing. >> iç4