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a supreme time this weekend when rbg herself officiated their wedding. look at this photo. they are a very lucky couple to have a supreme court justice officiate their wedding. rbg made the time to do this, congratulations to the new couple and justice ginsburg. that does it for me, you can catch me tomorrow morning for morning joe first look, the reed out with joy reed is up next. democratic presidential nominee joe biden is striking back against donald trump's attempt to fear monger his way to re-election. despite the fact that he is the current president of the united states. in a speech today in pittsburgh, bi
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biden spoke about the president. >> this is a sitting president of the united states of america, he's supposed to be protecting this country, but in stead he's rooting for chaos and violence. the simple truth is, donald trump failed to protect america, so now he's trying to scare america. these are not images of some imagined joe biden america in the future, these are images of donald trump's america today. he keeps telling you if only he was president, it wouldn't happen. if he was president. he keeps saying, if he was president, you would feel safe. he is president, whether he knows it or not. and it is happening. >> that is true. at last week's republican convention, which is just a four-night infomercial for donald trump. no one will be safe in joe biden's america. republicans are trying to bolster that claim. using manipulated images of
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donald trump's america. biden went on to note, rightfully what is really scary for most americans. that would be the coronavirus pandemic which donald trump has failed to stop. it continues to ravage this country with a staggering and growing sickness account. as of today, there are more than 6 million coronavirus cases on his watch, and nearly 200,000 deaths. instead of doing something about that, trump is doing everything he can to blame everyone and everything for the health and economic catastrophe that's happening on his watch. he's applying the same tactic when it comes to the violence that he himself is unleashing. as new york times reporter captured a caravan of trump supporters on saturday, drove hundreds of trucks through the city and got into clashes with counter demonstrators who had
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been peacefully demonstrators. the trump supporters shot paint ball guns at protesters. a man was shot and killed between the trump caravan and black lives matter protesters saturday. ted wheeler slammed trump for creating the hate and division that led to the violence. trump has refused to condemn the violence. instead he tweeted and retweeted more than 100 times through the weekend while he wasn't golfing. and this morning praising the protrump activists who appeared just before violent protests in portland. he praised them as great patriots. trump has yet to mention jacob blake who was shot seven times in the back by a police officer in kenosha. and his -- shot by a police officer while his children watched. nor has he mentioned the two
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victims killed by kyle rittenhouse. the 17-year-old vigilante nowen sads murder. just last hour donald trump defended him. >> that was an interesting situation. you saw the same tape as i saw. and he was trying to get away from them, i guess, it looks like, and he fell. and they violently attacked him and it was something that we're looking at right now. i guess he was in very big trouble. he would have been -- he probably would have been killed. >> very interesting? it was interesting? trump plans to go to ken osha tomorrow. where he is not welcome. in a letter yesterday, wisconsin governor said i write today to respectfully ask you to reconsider. now is not the time for decisiveness, now is not the time for elected officials to ignore armed militants. and today trump doubled down on his plans to visit despite the
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request that he stay away. i'm joined now by seattle bureau chief for the new york times, jennifer rubin opinion writer for the washington post. >> describe the scene what you saw amid those protests, which apparently included you yourself being hit with a paint ball blast? >> yeah, they really started out in the suburbs, the trump supporters gathered by the hundreds, they had hundreds of trucks with flags on them, they were intending to drive around the outskirts of portland staying on the highways, a lot of them broke off and came right downtown. at that point there's all the protesters downtown, they're ready to con front them, and have some sort of conflict there. and then you saw these paint balls being fired from the backs of these pickup trucks. people were responding by throwing things back. the whole evening really
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devolved pretty quickly at that point. there were fist fights in the streets, there was a car run over a bike. it was egs ka lating throughout the night. >> and did you at any time see black lives matter marchers attack the men in the trucks? >> i mean at that point, when the paint balls were being thrown, there are things being thrown back, people are lighting donald trump flags on fire, sometimes there were vehicles being blocked and some people are getting out on the street and there were fist fights in the middle of the street. there was sort of a lot of mutual conflict at some point there, but a lot of frustration from the protesters side that these trucks would just drive down into the middle of the city with guns and with paint ball guns, clearly ready for some sort of conflict. >> so to be clear. the men in the trucks had guns,
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right? >> there were some people, when i was out in the suburbs getting ready, there were people who were getting their paint ball guns ready, there were others who had body armor and longer guns. real firearms that they were openly carrying. and the organizers of the event were encouraging some level of concealed carry. >> the organizers of the event, not the organizers of black lives matter. you talk about the organizers of the caravan? >> yes, that's right. >> avid, i'm glad you're here, you have a history with the fbi, you have a good background to talk about this. donald trump liked a twheeet wa lauding the kenosha shooter. he is encouraging this. here's kaley mcenany, she denied that trump saw the video of
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anyone shooting paint balls, the same thing that donald trump retweeted. here she is. >> what about the video of them scuffling and shooting paint balls at people. >> i don't think the president's seen that video, nor have i. >> when leaders -- let's say in the muslim world talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence including on their own bodies in order to win against whoever they decide is the enemy, we in the u.s. media describe that as they are radicalizing these people, particularly when they're radicalizing young people. that's how we talk about how muslims act. when you see what donald trump is doing, is that any different from what we describe as radicalizing people? >> i don't believe so. at the rnc, we had mike pence talk about a protest, the shooting of a court officer in
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oakland. and he failed to mention that the actual shooter was a bugaloo, someone associated with a far right extremist group. he's taking a page out of pu putin's playbook, he's taking a colonel of truth and using disinformation to take the context of that fact away. we've talked about russia for years, this is exactly what's happening. they're taking context and they're just deleting it. you hear that outsiders are coming into a city and causing may hem. what they don't tell you, what the trump campaign doesn't tell you, is the outsiders in this cases are associated or donald trumpists, and i have to say, it feels like, besides putin, we have trump, the oanly person i won't con zem is heavily armed white men who want to storm the city. >> it's not even not condemning
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them. here's kellyanne conway giving away the whole game. the one thing i appreciate, they tell you what they're doing, they don't hide it. >> the more chaos and anarchy and vandalism and violence reigns, the clear choice for who's best on public safety and law and order. >> to stay with you for a minute, they're doing this and trying to frame it for white voters, scary black people are going to ride into your city and burn down wendy's, even though the people that are shooting people, walking around with long guns armed are trump people. white trumpists who in the case of kenosha, shot two young white men. they didn't shoot anybody black. it's intraracial violence that donald trump is encouraging. you talk about that, you live in seattle, right? kenosha is 12% black, port land
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ear other is 6% black. these are not places that have very many black people. these are not black people that are -- that you need to be afraid of, these are intraracial crimes being committed by white men, do i have that correct? >> that's right. and what trump will do when he rails against democrats and antifa and blm, he's failing to mention the black lives matter movement has taken such root is that it's transcended just the black community. you have in portland and seattle, these are protests that are majority white, but trump wants to paint a picture that it is primarily black people. he wants to paint another picture is that most of these protests are peaceful, he wants to associate the rioting and looting and violence. the violence that was perpetrated was actually from groups associated with trumpism
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and outsiders and they weren't black. but this is exactly the point, that you're right, i think this is an appeal not to the maga wearing flag carrying. trump pickup truck driving supporter, it's to middle class white suburban voters. it's not going to work, i really believe that, i think most white suburban voters right now are worried about schools. you have a president talking about racism, offering no policy, no solution to the fact that many schools are using remote learning. it's a stark contrast in what's happening. this rioting and looting, the reason that american airlines are having layoffs and furloughs is not because of rioters and looters, it's because the economy has come to a screeching halt and that has nothing to do with rioters and looters. i think most voters are going to see through that and they're going to be offended. >> let me get into this. i think you wrote the best column this weekend.
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you read it twice, talk us through it. democrats will not win by cohering in fear that trump will blame them for the violence he invoked. you talked about a specific kind of radicalization that white nationalists do, can you lay that out? >> there is a term for what trump and his supporters are doing. they want to bring about conflict, they want to bring about a race war, this is charles manson kind of stuff. and that is precisely what donald trump and his followers are doing. they're looking for trouble, trying to increase casualties if you will, trying to scare white america. but it just shows you what 24 hours will do, over the weekend my democratic friends were in slight meltdown form and some of my never trumper friends -- saying biden better go to
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kenosha. the democrats better defend themselves and today joe biden walked out there confidently and he slammed donald trump for being the cause of may hem, the cause of violence, the cause of unnecessary deaths from covid, and he did exactly what he's supposed to do. which is to hold trump act ever accountable and say, you're the president, this isn't about a biden america, this is trump america right now, and what's mother, he dared trump to condemn the white violence. and lo and behold, donald trump delivered an inkind contribution tote biden campaign by refusing to do so. by defending white alleged murderers, this was the guy who brought two people to his convention who are indicted for waiving weapons at black lives matter people. this is the party now of white vigilantism of white supremacy.
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because the republican party has rolled over, didn't bother to come up with a platform or agenda of their own. every republican has bought into this notion of trump, bought into the incitement of racial conflict. bought into this really george wallacish race baiting. i think they are going to pay a heavy price. i do not think this is what people in the suburbs are looking for. i do not think this is what women are looking for when they want security and safety. they can tell that donald trump is fomenting chaos, a rise in racial bigotry in this country. hate crimes are up, all sorts of other indicators. i think it's a misplaced strategy on donald trump's part. he's trying to not be president and yet be president. telling us things are terrible and they will be so under a president biden.
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it becomes a bit incoherent to put it mildly. >> i will tell you, it's very hard to find a george wallace voter, no one ever admits to it any more. i think a lot of suburban white women are concerned that their sons, a lot of whom support black lives matter will get hurt and shot at a protest not by liberals, by trumpists, the people carrying the guns. black lives matter kids have skateboards and a bull horn. their mothers are those women in the suburbs. trump may want to think about that. mike, navid, jennifer, thank you very much. up next, going to read out what the right is getting horribly wrong about protesters and the violence that trump is inviting and exploding. . >> if you begin the radical left power, what you're seeing in the democrat run cities would be brought to every city in this country. no one will be safe.
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>> your president, dude. trump's cronies are pushing the door wide open for russia to help him in this year's election. john brennan joins me. and a tribute to chadwick boseman. we will share some of the conversation that i had with him when the reid out continues after this. luding voltaren have one thing in common none are proven stronger or more effective against pain than salonpas patch large there's surprising power in this patch salonpas dependable, powerful relief. hisamitsu. they will, but with accident forgiveness allstate won't raise your rates just because of an accident. cut! is that good? no you were talking about allstate and...
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beware the power of tribe. we human beings have a flaw that's easily exploited by those who are willing to hurt people to benefit themselves. it's our tendency to sort ourselves into tribes. in germany, adolph hitler and the nazis convinced christian germans that their economic suffering was caused by the runoff from world war i but by their jewish friends and neighbors.
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by the time the war was over, 6 million jews had been systematically florida. in rwanda, class distinctions were exploited by their belgian colonizers to try to kill each other over. in the end, 800,000 men, women and children were massacred, often by people they knew. in our country, the economic ambitions of the european men who broke from the british crown left millions of black and indigenous people either dead, massacred on their own land or enslaved while the newly minted americans used their christian faith to justify, kidnapping, beating, breeding, and selling black adults and children. male slave owners freely raped the black women, and without a second thought often sold their
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own resulting children. tribalism makes monsters of men. bewear the leader who exploits it to secure his own power. we see very few images of actual black lives protests over the police shootings and killings of black people. we get lots of images of the aftermath of those protests. police cars burning, looting almost all at night. the assumption is often made that these two things are one thing, the protests are fueling the violence. that is a lazy assumption, in any controversial event you see, particularly in a political season, always ask yourself, who benefits? in this case, who benefits, if lots of white voters believe that black lives matter is threatening and violent. no one more than donald trump, trump is losing to joe biden full stop. so to sneak back in through the
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electoral college, he needs to win back those american brexit states that put him over the top in 2016. so his fixation on kenosha is relevant. or he needs to add a new state to his map. he posted six dozen tweets harping on fringe polls showing him winning michigan. and praising his supporters who were showing up with ar-15s at protests in portland, oregon. if trump wanted to end the violence in american cities, he could go on his twitter feed and tell his supporters to go home. it's a personality cult, they would do whatever he says. there's no anarchist group on the left who listens to joe biden. this is not a both sides thing. trump is openly doing the opposite, encouraging more violence. and cowing his party into
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refusing the violence. while his media friends laude the kenosha shooter. they know that's trump's only chance of winning, with 200,000 americans estimated dead by the election day, and the post office and the economy in tatters. it's to drive the coronavirus off the front page, it's the best they can do. trump plans to go to kenosha tomorrow, not to try to calm the city or bring comfort to jacob blake's family or the families as he lies paralyzed in the hospital or to jason rosenbaum or anthony huber, the families of those two men who were killed allegedly by the teenaged trump supporter in kenosha, he's going to meet with law enforcement, and based on past behavior, we can assume to hype up his followers even more, maybe he'll even hold a covid rally. we know that white supremacist groups are organizing online. white nationalists have been arrested for breaking windows, starting fires and shooting and
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killing people. and their ranks have only grown. they've grown 55% since trump's first year in office. the arrest of black lives matter protesters have been mainly for things like breaking curfew. there is no both sides here, this is not even new in america. in 1991, david duke took off his klan robe and ran for representative. thankfully he lost, because black voters came out in droves. but he got 55% of the white vote. duke was so hyped for trump's campaign, he bragged they share the same supporters and he ran for the senate and lost again. preying on white voter's tribal loyalties and fears has been used by nixon and george wallace. it was even evident in ronald
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reagan and bill clinton's campaigns. it was a campaign tactic that tends to actually work. trump is just reupping the strategy, just like the alt-right recycled david duke's khaki white nationalism before they got exposed in charlottesville. this is a campaign tactic, y'all, he's pimping tribalism for votes. black lives matter is no threat to the suburbs, a lot of the multiracial groups marching for black lives are from the suburbs. when we come back, i'm going to tell you what is really putting the suburbs at risk, stay with us. ith us [szasz] we take care of ourselves constantly; it's important. we walk three to five times a week, a couple miles at a time. - we've both been taking prevagen for a little
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do you really feel safe under donald trump? mr. trump, you want to talk about fear? you know what people are afraid of in america? they're afraid they're going to get covid. they are afraid they're going to get sick and die. and that is in no small part because of you. >> as trump tries to distract with his dire warnings of death and destruction in american cities, he continues to ignore the death and destruction by covid-19 and his own mishandling of it. we blew past another mind blowing milestone. more than 6 million americans have been diagnosed with the
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virus. about a million and a half in the past month alone, and the death toll is inching closer to 200,000. the devastating human toll isn't the only thing that has wreaked havoc on america. just last week, a million more americans signed up for unemployment benefits. extended unemployment benefits have decreased since the initial $600 in supplemental insurance lapsed in august. because the white house refwuz 20d negotiate with the federal democrats. and the moratorium on evictions is already over. between 30 and 40 million americans could soon be evicted from their homes. economists and federal officials are warning without an additional stimulus from the federal government, the country faces a long-term recession. for more, i'm joined by dr. lippi roy, jason johnson and charlie sykes. i'm going to go in reverse order. i want you to listen to what joe
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biden said today, whether we would be safer under joe biden himself or donald trump. >> we're now on track to more than 200,000 deaths in this country due to covid. more than 100,000 seniors have lost their lives to the virus. more cops have died from covid this year than have been killed on patrol. nearly one in six small businesses closed in this country today. do you really feel safer under trump? >> and charlie, we looked it up, our great producers here looked it up, 9/11 related cancer, 172 deaths this year. 3 from 9/11 related cancer. gunfire 29. and inadvertent gun fire only four, there's lots and lots of other ways people are killed. there have been literally been more police officers who died
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from covid than have died from anything on duty. i wonder how long this donald trump narrative, this made up narrative can last when people's real lives are being lived and they see the death and destruction in their own families sometimes. >> well, it's an extraordinarily interesting question that joe biden posed. are you better off than you were four years ago? do you think you're going to be safer under donald trump? that takes the cake. i think what you're doing here is very important. we need to understand this is a distraction in a distraction, that donald trump very clearly wants to talk about -- he wants to talk about urban violence. he wants to talk about black lives matter, because he does not want to talk about the deaths from covid. he does not want to talk about what's going on in the economy. he does not want to talk about his failure, and the fact that we're about to get 200,000 dead americans, i think people need to understand the cynicism
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behind this, where the president of the united states is putting politics ahead of actually protecting us from the pandemic and is willing to inflict this kind of damage on the american political scene, using the tribal division that you were discussing a few minutes ago. >> i didn't give the police officer number who died from covid, it's 1,993 versus 172, right? it's a lot more. jason, the ways that donald trump has dealt with covid, because it is the biggest threat to his re-election, the thing that's the most threatening to him staying in power is his mishandling of covid. he's resisted believing covid is real, or doing the logical things one would do, if you wanted to help people and stay in power. here is what jared kushner said. the president's son in law and adviser, this is during the real supply chain chaos, said it's
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not our job to give supplies to them, it's our job to help them. this as medical providers were becking for supplies. one doctor worried his supply would be stolen from another state. they're trying to sneak supplies through to save lives. do you understand as a political scientist why the trump administration would be so resistant to doing the thing that would help them and help people? >> because as we saw that report several weeks ago, at least initially, they thought it was only going to attack blue states. for some reason they thought it would only affect major cities in blue states. then when the problem got out of control, states were forced to compete in this hunger games futilism. the governor had to send the national guard to protect a shipment of masks because he was
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afraid trump and fema would steal it from the bwi airport. i say these three levels of distraction, distraction one is trump wants to scream about black lives matter and scare the suburbs, i'm more terrified of white on white crime. i've been seeing a lot of white people shooting each other lately, i'm concerned. second he doesn't want to talk about covid. all of that, he's destroying the post office and wants to steal the election. he wants to talk about anything other than the fact that he's trying to riggan election, because he knows the polls say he's going to lose. >> his son eric, he was like all people want to talk about is covid covid covid. yeah, man, 6 million people have it. yes, that's right, it's what we want to talk about. it's killing people. it seems they're now belatedly deciding they have to look like
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they're controlling covid. they're saying there's suddenly going to be a vaccine. steven hahn who is one of donald trump's favorite new authorities. his agency was prepared to back a vaccine before the stage three trials. that's the fda playing ball, would you give your own patients a vaccine that was rushed through beforeny finished phase three trials? >> hey, joy, no. i wouldn't give it, i wouldn't recommend it for my patients, my family or for myself. while i do believe in most health care professionals believe vaccines in general, all the vaccines that we have had thus far have been very safe and are highly recommended. those vaccines that we highly recommend have gone through a rigorous testing process,
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clinical trials, what's happening now. and what the fda is getting pressured to do is authorize vaccines to be released to the public without going through the appropriate channels. i also want to say, the clip you showed of vice president biden, what i heard, and what's so critical for physicians and health care professionals is the sense of empath think. i heard the vice president talk about elderly americans, people in nursing homes, like genuinely caring about the most vulnerable people, he talked about black and brown people, communities of color. the other clip you showed, you talked about the president's son as well as the son in law talking about supply chains and the business side of it. those are two different narratives and you pointed out very clearly joy, nothing else matters. there's really topics one through ten are all about coronavirus. we have to get a handle on that first before we can solve any other problem. >> including the economy.
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very quickly, you know the right, you used to do right wing radio, he's now pushing herd immunity. it would take 2.13 million deaths to reach herd immunity. they're also pushing a weird theory that because a lot of the people who died of coronavirus, actually also had another thing, they had a couple different things, it's really only 9,000 people that died. will right wing voters say 1.23 million people can die, it's only 9,000? >> the bad news is, it will work with some people. the bad news is, a lot of people get their news from facebook, and i'm seeing it already. but that base is not enough to win an election. that base is not enough to get
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donald trump another four years. while he's doing that, you have millions of americans, including in the suburbs who are looking at that and saying, this kind of misinformation could kill me. could kill my grandmother, my mother, my sister. who will put my children at risk, that's the real problem when you have the president of the united states willing to traffic in this kind of deadly toxic misinformation. >> a lot of people are going to die in the suburbs listening to him. thank you guys very much. trump's director of national intelligence cancels briefings on foreign interference. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) once-weekly ozempic® is helping many people with type 2 diabetes like emily lower their blood sugar. a majority of adults who took ozempic®
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donald trump has repeatedly dismissed the conclusion that russia interfered in the 2016 election. he's going to stop in person briefings to congress on foreign
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election interference. the committees will still have access to classified written intelligence reports, the members of congress will not be allowed to question individuals about those reports. that's exactly what nancy pelosi and adam schiff of accusing this administration of doing. this demonstrates the interrupt administration is engaged in a politicized effort to withhold election related information from congress and the american people, at the precise moment that greater transparency is needed. it's not just radcliffe who will be holding back election related information from congress. i'll talk about that next with john brennan.
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following the un precedented move by the director of national intelligence to no longer hold briefings, the fbi and dhs plan to brief congress on cyber threats and disinformation but not on the plans and intentions of foreign adversaries. the fbi is committed to keeping koeng informed on election security. protecting our elections remains a top priority for the fbi. we decline to comment further. dhs has declined to respond to nbc news. what do you make when you put it
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all together, the dni and fbi saying we're not going to give specific threats with q & a's to congress. i think people worry these agencies have been co opted to open the door for russian interference? >> yes. we all should be worried. i am concerned that donald trump continues to try to manipulate and suppress any information that could be detrimental to him and his re-election prospects. i was heavily involved in briefing congress in 2016 when we saw russia try to interference in that presidential election. i'm very concerned that the congress is now going to be prevented from accessing the information that they need in order to better understand the nature of the threat posed to our presidential election. and the fact that donald trump i think is handpicking individuals such as john radcliffe to be director of national int intelligence who had no real
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experience in the intelligence community, i think he's having these individuals operationalize his interests in terms of suppressing and suffocating the intelligence community. i think it's very worrisome as we have more than 60 days left before the election. i just worry about what donald trump plans to do in that time. >> and, you know, he's not doing it by himself. let me play you senator ron johnson who has been openly tauting the same kind of misinformation that russia has been pushing on places like ukraine. here he is talking about the reactions to the news of the nonbriefings. >> this is being blown so way out of proportion. i can probably count on one or two fingers the things that are actually classified in those briefings. there is no surprise here. >> you know, i want to just remind our audience that ron johnson is one of the senators that took that weird trip to moscow in july of 2018 over 4th of july and has seemed to be
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coopted of this effort to get russia involved. do you worry that there are people in the party, the mitch mcconnells, the ron johnson who also want russia to interfere. >> i'm worried that there is no one left in the republican party who is going to stand up to these authoritarian actions of donald trump. senator rom aneyromney, i think been a lone wolf. but what has happened to the republican party, the members of the republican party in congress who were so concerned during my career about national security issues and very, very worried about what russia was doing to undermine our democracy. they now have fallen in line behind donald trump. and senator mcconnell and others just continue to be sick fan tick when it comes to donald trump and they're allowing him to get away with these actions. i just shake my head. i'm sure the intelligence professionals and law enforcement professionals whose duty and obligations it is to
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protect this country are just feeling very much under pressure. >> yeah. >> to, you know, not share this information with congress. >> you know, one of the people that a lot of folks worry about is jared kushner who donald trump went over and above in order to get him a top secret security clearance even though michael schmidt has a new book out from the new york times that talked about there was a lot of concern about him getting security clearance. it raised alarms with kelly are not revealed in the mcgahn memo. trump ultimately intervened on behalf of his son-in-law. there is a lot of worry because there is a lot of off the record conversations in the middle east. do you worry about it? donald trump took away your security clearance, but he gave his son-in-law one even though he has his fingers in all of these pods. do you worry that jared kushner is a threat to national security? >> this is how authoritarian leaders around the world
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actually carry out their activities. they appoint family members and cronies to these important and sensitive positions. they coopt the services. they le legitimize the press or any opposition. jared kushner and others are just implementing what donald trump wants done. the fact that we have our elected legislators in the congress who are allowing this to happen, i think it is unconscionable. as we get closer and closer to an election, which is the foundation stone basically of our democracy that allows the american people to select who they want to lead our country and the fact that russia seems to be poised to do the same thing they did in 2016, which is to help donald trump get elected. and it is about time that the members of congress stopped these actions as far as what donald trump is trying to do. whether it's through jared kushner or through his other cronies. >> yeah.
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a very sage warning. john brener, really approaeciat your time tonight. up next, a tribute to actor chadwick boseman. adwick boseman
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it's -- it means a lot. >> after his death was announced, kids from all over paid tribute to boseman including five-year-old charter sweeney whose mom took this picture of him. not only was boseman a great actor, but he was also politically active. i was lucky enough to get to interview him on 2017. >> you can always do better. i can always be a better actor. i can always be a better person. so america has never been as great as it should be. so, you know, i don't feel like i'm tired of talking about it if it's not done. it has to be done. it has to be fixed. >> in his last tweet before he died, he tweeted a photo of himself with kamala harris with the #vote2020. well, in that spirit, wauconda forever. make sure that you are registered, and please, please
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