condemn the right. you have done incredible work along with ben collins for us. thank you so much for coming on tonight. >> thanks. >> that is "all in" on this wednesday night. it has been a weird news day. the president this afternoon said out loud that his supporters should try to vote twice in the november elections. voting twice is a felony. but the president is overtly out loud in public is asking supporters to try it to see if they can get away with it. what do you do about it? he's not hinting about it. he's not trying to vaguely create the impression he might want to do that. he's just flat out telling

people go try to vote for me twice. wednesday. until relatively recently we were at least kind of a normal country, you know? ups and downs for sure. things you can take issues with easier here and there. at least we knew how long the number line was. at least we knew zero to 100. now, though, with presidential behavior like this, the system just kind of breaks. for example, open your heart, soften your heart a little bit and look at the lead on this tonight from our colleagues at nbcnews.com. it's perfect. there's absolutely nothing wrong with this lead whatsoever, but the fact that this has to be written. like normal news organizations are not built for this level of weird. i mean, if it's like you invited friends over for a barbecue and

you like lift up a carpet of a room. all of the nouns are there, but it just didn't compute. this is what i mean. here is this lead from nbcnews.com. president trump suggested that people in north carolina should vote twice once by mail and one in-person. escalating his attempts to cast doubt on the validity of the results. the president said "let them send it in and let them go vote, if the system is good they won't be able to vote. if it is tabulated they'll be able to vote." the president said this when asked about the mail-in voting system in north carolina. he concluded "that's the way it is, that's what they should do." "it is illegal to vote more than once in an election." >> yes, it is illegal to do what the president just told you to do. and, in fact, it is illegal to

get people to try to do that. this is a weird day. today is also the day that the trump administration, mike pompeo, announced the united states government will sanction the international criminal court. not the united states will sanction the international cour this is not sanctions on international criminals. this is the u.s. government putting sanctions on the people who work at that court. putting sanctions on people who work at the international court. people who prosecutes more war crimes and stuff. nazis and stuff. the u.s. will sanction the people who prosecutes criminals. those people will now be sanctioned by the u.s. government as if they are terrorists or cartel leaders or themselves criminals of any kind, all because they work at

the international criminal court and the trump administration is waging war on all international institutions which we used to support. it is just bizarre almost non-computable behavior by our government. but apparently that is the order of the day. the president is continuing to, as you know, conduct his campaign on the grounds that america is burning. american cities are all on fire and burning down and they're terrible housescapes. which is not what life it like. you'd never know that from ads. beyond whether or not this scare campaign of u.s. cities if it is true. it is an awkward message, right? even though the president right now is donald trump, while he says all this terrible stuff is happening around the country, the president's re-election campaign is now based fundamentally more than anything else on this premise that this horrible urban hellscape that we are living in now is the future that's in store for the country

once joe biden is elected president. if this hellscape exists now, why is it happening while you're president? it does not compute. this is not logical stuff. the president's campaign right now, there are fundamental messages. see how terrible things are? keep me in charge so this won't happen. it is literal irrationality at the highest level of american politics. it froths. at the same time, it also filters down to local news in weird ways. the "portland press herald" posted this online. somebody tweeting, "can you help me understand the portland riots? why have you not stopped the violence"? >> the "portland press herald"

responds, well, we're a newspaper in maine is the main reason. portland, maine, home of the "portland press herald" is more than 3,000 miles away from oregon, but, you know, i'm sure it's their fault. this is the front page of the "portland press herald" today where you can see our national weirdness coming home to national news. local news. defiant pastor tied to outbreaks divides local community. this is a fascinating story. until recently the little town of millinocket in maine, they have been basically untouched by the coronavirus, "the boston

globe" reports, the whole county has been about 150 cases over the two counties over the course six months, which is not a lot. in millinocket, there has been no cases at all. that area around millinocket, maine, has the highest of covid-19 cases due to a wedding. it was august 8. reportedly no or very few masks. no social distancing. there were a total of 62 people at the wedding. as of now, at least 30 of the 62 people at that wedding tested positive. 30 of the 62, ages 4 to 78. but, of course, it didn't stay confined the wedding guests. the centers for disease control have identified 143 cases that have been traced back to that wedding. that's the worst outbreak in maine.

one young person got infected at that wedding, went home, infected their parents, and that parent affected a chiperson at senior center. because of the wedding, they now have got multiple staff members and patients infected. another wedding guest was an employee at the york county jail. as of yesterday, we learned that led to 19 staff and 35 prisoners being infected at the york county jail. the members of the jail are up to 68 cases now among employees and prisoners and again traced back to that wedding.

where the jail employee attended and brought it to work. at the venue itself, multiple staff members tested positive, and at the local schools, students becoming infected and a teacher working at the wedding reception and turned up on-site to prepare for the school year and now there are multiple infections at the school, again, among both staff and students. that means they'll not be opening schools in east millinocket when they thought they would. among thoefse, the superintende. an elderly couple who lives in an isolated wood cabin at lake cedar, they have been isolated at that cabin for months throughout the course of the epidemic because they are older and they knew they were high risk and they knew they were living in a low-risk place that had almost no cases. well, their community in millinocket which used to be a low-risk place is no longer. once the virus spread took hold

after the superspreader event in town. she was 83 years old and died at the local hospital. he's a world war ii veteran. he was hospitalized two days after his wife died. the other place that one wedding resulted in an outbreak is a town called sanford, maine, it is not in the same area. the guy that officiated came from sanford, maine. the local pastor flew himself in to conduct the wedding and flew home. the maine cdc announced on saturday they're investigating a new outbreak at that pastor church. the town also now has an outbreak at the local fire department. you see how these things go. you can go from 0 to 60 really fast. it's a supercontagious infe infectious disease. that kills some people it

infects. it is interesting what happened here. the guy that officiates the wedding, he officiates the wedding and they don't take any precautions. or not enough. one person is dead. a world war ii vet is hospitalized. there's an old folk home with an out break because of this. there is a school in maine that has a new outbreak because of this and the pastor at church. all derives from this one congregate event where people got together and did not wear masks. it turns into the biggest event that created the biggest outbreak in maine. the pastor and all of maine, and everybody learned about this and public health authority tracking all this down. they're being transparent about what they're learning. this pastor who officiated the service where all of these outbreaks came from and infections came from and all these institutions happen to be shutdown and one person is dead already. this pastor learned that his home church where he came home

to is being investigated at an outbreak because they got multiple cases there too. he learned that on saturday. what did he do? he holds multiple in-person services in his church because he doesn't believe any of this is happening. it matters where people get their information, and it matters what people are hearing from people they accept as leaders. you can see the headline here from "the boston globe." i want the people of god to enjoy liberty's pastor at maine superspreader wedding gives defined indoor sermon. just one day after maine centers for disease control announced it was investigating a coronavirus out break among his church. todd bell, the pastor portrayed the church he leads as being at

the frontline of a culture war. i will tell you what the world wants all churches to do bell said during sunday's services. they want us to shut down, go home, and let people get used to that long enough until we can finally stop the advancing of the gospel. bell's comments, says the "globe" echoed political talking points that president trump and others on the right have used to decry coronavirus restrictions at a rally in new hampshire. on friday night, for example, the president lamented he doesn't believe law-abiding citizens can go to church anymore. you can't go to church anymore. he said that on friday. the pastor found out he got a break out at his church and he held a service on sunday. the august 7 wedding has been linked to 123 cases in maine. there's been more since then. 20 more cases since then. it's the largest outbreak in the

state of maine. it's led to the death of an 83-year-old woman who did not attend the event. bell sermon was unrepented. saying he hoped media would watch the service on sunday morning. on sunday morning, a 15-people in-choir, maskless and singing. he's just taken part in an event amid the largest outbreak they've had in the state. who cares? screw the democrats. he told his congregation that masks are pointless. they're like trying to keep a mosquito out of a chain-linked fence. he told his congregation he won't take any vaccine for coronavirus if one is developed because if aany such vaccine wo be abortion. he says if you're taking the

vaccine, you're supporting abortion, which is soapbox crazy talk of where we are accustomed now wherever you find in our life. except he's a point man in the largest outbreak in his state. one dead and a jail and a school and all the rest. but you know what? if the people you accept as leaders say this stuff, it matters. it manifests in the world and it turns out it matters, what gets said about this stuff. >> if they don't believe law-abiding citizens, they go to a church gathering, you can't go to church anymore. do you know how many church closes in this country because of the democrats? >> when the president says stuff like this. less than 48 hours later, the guy with an active outbreak in his church decides he's going to

hold indoor events even after the event that led to is 40-plus people. it matters in the real world. it's a matter of life and death is that this is what they are spreading. >> they close our churches. >> people of faith are under attack. you're not allowed to go to church. >> democrats won't let you go to church. >> they don't believe law-abiding citizens can go to a church. >> citizens. he means citizens, but you know. if you publicly insist that trying to not spread covid is a democratic party's plot to barn church and kill god t result of that in this country is you're going to have right-wing pastors happen pli spreading covid wherever they can because that's what they heard they should do in order to be a hero. any measure of slowing covid is a democratic plot.

it's an anti-religion. don't fall for it. you see this manifestation on the local front pages. this is the biggest in maine. you will see this all over. and while that's happening and why we see the power at the nonsense at the top man i fest in death on the ground, what has emerged this week is it may no longer be the policy of the u.s. government to try to stop the spread of covid. >> we like the fact that there is a lot of cases in low-risk populations because that's exactly how we are going to get herd immunity, population immuni immunity. >> these people getting the infection, it is not really a problem. in fact, as we said, months ago when you isolate everyone including the healthy people, you are prolonging the problem because you are preventing

population immunity. low-risk groups getting the infection is not a problem. in fact, it's a positive. >> it's a positive. the more people who get infec d infected, the better. that is a man named scott atlas. he's not an infectious disease doctor. not an epidemiologist. his specialty is doing mris of the spine and brain. nothing to do with coronavirus as all. he has no public health experience and no epidemiology experience. he's the new guy that's running the u.s. coronavirus strategy at the white house. the president reportedly liked seeing him doing these hits on fox news, these contrarian views where he proposes these ideas where you get everybody infected and that will be better.

with that, the expert being a radiologist going on fox saying these things, he's brought to the white house and sidelined the other actual qualified experts who were a part of the coronavirus task force. scott atlas has been taking over and has had the president's ear. the white house and the president have been talking about covid in ways that are new. and that lined up with the state of view of this guy who was kind of a prank on this subject. it did not get much attention when he said it. there was so much else going on. when the president said this that i am about to show you at the rnc last week. he was apparently describing a new strategy for coronavirus. this is not the way that he described it before. it was the middle of his rnc speech. this is not what him and the white house used to say of how we are tackling this epidemic as a country.

>> we are sheltering those at highest risk, especially the elderly, allowing low-risk americans to safely return to work and school, and we want to see so many of those great states be open by democrats. we want them to be open. they have to be open. they have to get back to work. >> they have to be open. they have to be open. they have to be open. shelter higher risk and allow lower risk to get back to work and school. we'll protect the most vulnerable -- we're seeing so much evidence of that, right? -- but open everything else back up. this is the heard immunity that scott atlas has been snak

snake oil-selling. we'll protect the vulnerable. but open everything else back up so that everybody of low risk gets infected. this is the idea that dr. atlas has been saying on fox news. for months before he was brought to the white house. to turn this into policy. if the president really wants to pursue that some sort of efforts to protect those most at risk but most people encouraged to be infected. if we are pursuing that which is what this doctor is advocating and what the president tells what you say he wants. it is good for him to start to let us know this is how he wants us to change tact here. we should brace ourselves for what it means and this is what he's going to do. as "the washington post" points out this week, nobody knows if immunity even works. the way the herd immunity theorists believe for covid-19. nobody knows how much immunity is conveyed by being infected with covid. nobody knows how much of the population you'd have to infect for it to take hold. this is a crank subject, but if you take them at their word and take them at a conservative estimate, let's say 65% of the

whole population to be infected for this idea of the herd immunity to work, in the united stat states, the population of 238 million people. if you reach the 65% threshold for immunity, if you let 65% of the country get infected. conservative speaking, 1% fatality rate, that means you would have 2.13 million americans dead. that's what they are aiming for. those are the most conservative estimates. that would be the good news result. 2.13 million dead. that's only if we have a 1% fatality rate. it could be millions more dead if the fatality rate is higher than that of 2% or 3%. they're aiming that at 2 million dead americans because a fox news radiologist said so. and he's apparently outmaneuvered experts at the white house and he's made this

the u.s. policy. this is reportedly why the cdc just recommended in the past week all of a sudden fewer americans should get tested. this doctor's theory and the fact that he's got the president's ear is reportedly why the cdc now says if you have been exposed, you should not get tested. this new theory that the president goes by, the more the people are infected, the better we are. that means they want to test less people even after you've been exposed. if you have not been tested or been exposed, you don't know that you are positive. the more the people infected, the better. this is madness. and it has taken hold at the top of the u.s. government, and the president is now propounding this as his big idea how we should deal with covid from here on out. and any democrats or anybody else in the country that doesn't want this, who wants to stop people from getting infected, they're just trying to shut down

your churches, they're trying t your home for some sort of nefarious hypocrisy conspiracy. y 60 days before the election. our former national institute of health joins us to talk about this next. vie vi in 1989 went to these guy.

a pair of vieologists from the university of california who made groundbreaking discoveries about the origin of cancer in the human body. their research led to all sorts of innovations in cancer protection and cancer preventions. four years later president bill clinton assigned one of those two scientists to lead the national institute of health.

he was a nobel laureate. had over saw a massive expansion of the budget. and a world leader in research from aids to malaria and stem cell. president obama named dr. varmus on science and technology and dr. varmus was pointed at the cancer of institute. he served until 2015. unbelievable career. and when that's your background, you do not expect to varmus's name on top of an op-ed like this one. it has come to this. it has ignored the cdc. we were startled and dismayed to learn that the cdc altered its testing guidelines to reduce the testing of asymtommatic people. these changes under mine efforts to stop the pandemic. and increase the loss of life. in the face of a dysfunctional

cdc, it is up to states and other institutions and individuals to act. this is an up is down, black is white, previously unimaginable thing to hear from somebody who has operated at the highest levels of american public health, dr. varmus, right? he's the former head of the nah. that is how bad things are. he issued a joint statement endorsing joe biden to be the next president of the united states. joining us now is dr. harold varmus. i'm pleased you made time to be with us. >> my pleasure. >> let me ask you of that characterization of that op-ed. it struck me to see your name next to that sentiment, that argument, and, indeed, that headline was jarring to me because of what i know about your history in health and medicine -- in science and

medicine. tell me about the decision-making process to do that, to go that far. >> let me say, first of all, rachel, i didn't write the headline. the headline was useful because it attracted a lot of readers, but i don't want to be bashing the cdc overall. it is a great institution that served the nation well for many years, but they made a mistake advocating that we test asymptomatic people less frequently. that's the opposite of what we need for reasons you laid out. we need to test people and limit the transmission of the virus. i want to skplarngs firexplain,, testing asymptomatic people is

critical to control the pandemic, and we have a lot of new tools do that, and we can do it cheaper and do it's affectively. we don't need to have the most correct advice at the moment. i'm disturbed by the idea that people are confused by having different levels and what appears to be the public health. that's the part that's very troubling. what i was trying to explain in that piece why the testing of a asymptomatic people is so important. unlike other diseases, this is transmitted by people who have no symptoms. we can't test people every day. it would be extreme. we can do sensible things. the following people should be tested immediately or within a few days of having contact within person known to be infected. we know some people are at greater risk of transmitting a virus, for example, if they're going to a sporting event or work or party or under conditions where they have to be

close to their fellow workers, so we try to establish a sensible way to understand the way this virus is transmitted and diminish that by urging that states and cities and institutions, including colleges and workplaces where people mingle closely. >> dr. varmus, you described it as a mistake by the cdc. i hear you when you talked about the sort of confusing nature of conflicting levels of advice coming out of the cdc, and in your piece you describe it as dysfunctional. part of the reason i wanted to talk to you tonight is i'm worried this wasn't necessarily a mistake or something that was bungled by the cdc. with dr. atlas having this role at the white house with the president's change in language what the u.s. goal is around this, i'm worried they're deliberately trying to reduce the number of people tested so that we don't find outbreaks, so

that there is more spread because they have now become beholden to this idea that the more spread, the better, that we can build up enough immunity, that that will somehow save us from having to do anything to really confine this virus because they don't like what you have to do in order to try to limit its spread. if this is a herd immunity idea, how dangerous is that? >> well, it is dangerous. i resonate with your concerns and i share some of them. but, frankly, in the piece that we wrote, rather than speculate about how decisions got made, what we were trying to do is look at what was replaced -- what was put in place on the cdc website and try to explain to people why this is the wrong thing, and within the context of 1,200 words, you can't explore it and instill an uncertain loon

of decision that led to this change. all i can do is correct the change and change people minds of what we should be doing. >> dr. harold varmus. nobel prize-winning scientist. sir, it's really an honor to have this time with you. thank you very much for your time being here. thank you for your service. >> my pleasure. nice to talk to you, rachel. >> all right. lots to come tonight. as i opened up the show tonight, today's been a weird day in the news. it's been a weird day in news on covid, a weird day on the news on presidential politics, and a weird day when it comes to our grftest international adversary. that story is ahead. stay with us. international adve. that story is ahead. stay with us it's time for the biggest sale of the year on the sleep number 360 smart bed.

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past two weeks, an absolutely incredible ad. it got squeezed out of the news cycle. i don't know if you have seen this before, but you should see this. watch. >> my son was the first person to die in combat under donald trump. just five days into his presidency. he ordered the s.e.a.l. team into yemen. not in the situation room with all the intelligence assembled but sitting across steve bannon. at a dinner table. there was no vital interest at play. just donald trump playing big man going to war. when it went horribly wrong. >> when you lose a $65 million warplane and an american life is lost or wounded, i don't believe you can call it a success. >> donald trump demeaned my son's sacrifice to play to the crowd.

for four years he assailed core values. when russia put bounties on our troops' heads, trump defended putin instead of our military. >> i believe it's a hoax. >> he knee-capped the postal office to undermine the right to vote. >> this election will be the most rigged in history. he misled us throughout the pandemic. >> i don't take responsibility at all. >> 200,000 americans will have died before we vote. they and ryan have one thing in common. >> it did not have to be but for donald trump. if you hear one thing, let it be this. don't trust donald trump with your kid's life or your own. >> remarkable ad that was produced during the convention by the veterans' group, vote vets. we reached out to that gold star father bill owens for comments on that. we would love to speak to him. it does not seem like he's doing any public statement other than that remarkable ad that we just showed you. certainly that should be enough.

meanwhile, the organization that produced that with bill owen, vote vets, they really had been punctuating their weight at the election cycle. in terms of this content they have been able to bring to the floor. also, some well-timed stuff including this i am going to show you today. time to coincide with the president doing an event in front of a battleship today. >> donald trump is panicking, finding any excuse to show up in the military communities. he knows if elections were held today, he would lose in a the military vote in a landslide. 60ch of active duty officers disapprove of his presidency because donald trump disrespected people who served. our troops are in more danger today because of donald trump's betrayal. he abandoned kurdish allies in syria.

he would not stand up for our troops when putin put bounties on their heads and afghanistan. his weakness emboldens the enemy. russia is engaging u.s. troops, slamming into our patrols and syria intercepting our bombers and flying their bombers dangerously close to our aerospace. trump's refusal to defend america's national security is dangerous. his refusal to stand up for our troops is humiliating. his threat to deploy active duty troops against american citizens is unconstitutional. when it comes to the military vote for the next commander in chief, trump is not leading. he's losing. >> new ad out today from, again, vote vets, which has been doing these very effective, very hard-hitting pungent anti-trump ads over the course of this whole cycle.

and that point that they're making from a veteran's perspective how america -- trump refusing to defend our troops and being hurt by trump being so weak when it comes to russia, that is humiliating. that's a live issue not only in politics but on abc news. russia interfering to help trump in the november election by promoting false propaganda. that's circulating first in russian propaganda outlet. about joe biden being in poor health. that bulletin about russia promoting that line, that was done in july. it is set to be released. a federal law enforcement agencies. the trump administration holds it at the last minute and wouldn't let it get out.

two months later that intelligence warning still has not gone out. the trump campaign, meanwhile, has been pushing that exact line against joe biden even as russian propaganda outlets had been pushing it too. part of the russian interference effort. dovetailing with that. the only thing that trump administration has done is stop the u.s. public from being warned that's part of the russian government operation. and, you know, this trump sort of subservience to russia -- ininstances like this, obviously, it serves an interest, but it has an impact on the country as a whole and it has a very, very important and pointed relevance, point of relevance to what's happening right now with russia in the world and with russia in their behavior toward us. russia as of today is now being blamed for yet another nerve-agent-attempted assassination of russian

opposition figure alexei navalny. we're also in the past week seeing direct physical confrontations between u.s. and russian troops. the president has been silent on these matters. this isn't just a political issue for the election. this is live for the news. michael mcfall is going to join us live next. stay with us. stay with us these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office

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in a hospital in berlin. he's said by doctors to be in critical but stable condition. but this ideas that russia was behind the attack, that they used a russian military poison that would tell the world for sure it was them, that conclusion today drew forceful responses from the leaders of the uk and the european union and nato and other european countries. here in the u.s., not so much. the president still hasn't said a word about this at all. joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfall, professor mcfall. thanks very much for joining us. it is nice to see you. >> good to see you. thanks for having me rachel. >> so you have called on president trump to join other world leaders in condemning the poisoning of navalny. he has obviously not done so. how would it matter if he did? what difference would it make if he did? >> well, it goes to the point that you were just making earlier, that he is weak before

putin. he doesn't push back on anything. so putin thinks he can do anything, whether it's running into our soldiers in syria or perhaps putting bounties on our soldiers' heads in afghanistan. we don't know all the facts and details about what happened to mr. navalny, but he doesn't do anything. it means we're not leading the free world, rachel. look at all those statements you just put. we are not even trying to catch up to them. we are behind. and that lack of unity in the democratic world makes america weaker across the board, not just with respect to russia, but with respect to all of our adversaries around the world. >> we have frequently seen the president exhibit this like profound weakness and subservience and meekness around the issue of russia even when other people in his own government won't go along with it. in this case, secretary of state

mike pompeo seems to go along with it. he did a press conference on the day that germans confirmed it was a poisoning. we did get a national security council short series of tweets condemning it and saying that the u.s. will work with allies to hold russia accountable. i mean, i was happy to see that statement from the national security council. but that's kind of strange, right, to not have the president talking about it at all and instead have this subtle unsigned statement from an amorphous body. >> correct. because you probably can't even name that person, right? i can't. it means nothing compared to the words of the president of the united states. i want to underscore, this is not just a one-up. president trump has said nothing about the democratic protests in belarus. he said nothing about what russia is doing now if our democratic elections. in other words, he's not defending the sovereignty of the

and i think this is hard for people to understand. like if the chinese ships came into the san francisco bay, we would expect our government to tell us about that threat because we could see it, you could do video of it. it would be physical. because it is a digital threat, we don't see it, but it's the same thing. putin is violating our sovereignty. we should be pushing back on that. >> this reporting today which is initially from abc news and a number of other news agencies that have been confirmed that the homeland security department had an in l intelligence briefing ready to go, warning not just generally that russia is interfering in the election, but specifically if you see stories out there about joe biden having mental health issues, those are things

being launched by the russian government, laundered through their social media avatars, and they are trying to use that to insert that story line into the u.s. election in order to hurt biden's campaign. they had that intelligence briefing ready to go. the trump administration has stopped it from going out. does it matter to the american people to not be sort of inoculated in that way against that form of interference? >> of course it does. it's outrageous that they are denying the american voters this information. and, rachel, i want to remind you, you and i talked about this in the fall of 2016 when we, or at least i on your show, was critical of the obama administration for not putting out more information about the threats at that time because the voters need to know what the russians are doing. if they're trying to influence our vote, at least letting them know that they're doing it might help them to make more balanced decisions about what they do in november. i just think it's absolutely outrageous. it's not enough to debrief the intelligence committees. they need to be briefing the american public about these activities. >> former u.s. ambassador to

russia, michael mcfaul. professor mcfaul, it's always good to have you here. thank you so much for your time. >> glad to be here. thanks for having me. >> more to come. please stay with us. having me. >> more to come. please stay with us.

that is going to do it for us tonight. i will tell you this. since we have been on the air tonight, we got the very sad news that hall of fame pitcher tom seaver has died. he was 75 years old. he died with covid-19.

he was a 12-time all-star, 20 years in the major leagues, u.s. marine corps veteran. he pitched in the major leagues 1967 to 1986. he was elected to the hall of fame in 1992. he was named on 99% of the ballots cast that year. tom seaver has passed away at the age of 75 years old. sad news. all right. "first look" is up next. president trump visits north carolina and suggests his supporters try to vote twice in the november election. what the president failed to mention is that's illegal. plus the cdc tells states to be ready to distribute a potential coronavirus vaccine by november 1st, raising concern among some health experts. and attorney general william barr gets pressed on escalating violence in some cities and denies there are two systems of justice for white and black americans.