should be landing, touching down good day, i'm andrea in the area very soon, heading to this church behind me, is mitchell in washington, as president trump and former vice allowing members of the president joe biden are both community, allowing faith leaders to talk about what heading to critical battleground they've been through here in states today. the president visiting kenosha in the last week or so, pennsylvania as new polling very difficult moments for this shows him closing the gap in city. then he'll offer his own that state, the state that helped him score his upset victory over hillary clinton. reflections before traveling to this as joe biden is taking his longest trip as the democratic meet members of jacob blake's nominee, traveling to wisconsin family, all things that to meet with jacob blake's president trump didn't do, family, saying he wants to instead focusing on a law and provide comfort and a healing order message. the biden campaign thinks this message, in sharp contrast to contrast works to their the president's focus on law and advantage. order. early polling, despite nev according to new polls, biden is now leading in the key states of wisconsin, arizona, and north carolina, where the president campaigned just yesterday. joining me now, nbc's mike nervousness from democrats, memoli, covering the biden campaign, msnbc's garrett haake in pennsylvania ahead of the shows that the vice president's president's arrival, quibi content executive shauna thomas, former pennsylvania governor ed message may be more popular. rendell, and charlie sykes, dr. jill biden is also traveling founder and editor in chief of with the former vice president today. >> thank you so much, mike the bulwark. welcome, all. memoli.

mike memoli, joe biden told you garrett haake in pennsylvania, president trump of course is what his goals are today as he going to be counterprogramming heads to wisconsin, the same another key swing state, visiting pennsylvania as he week that, of course, president threatens to withhold federal trump was there two days funding to democratic cities and states, which is very controversial. earlier. let's talk about that and what's >> yeah, that's right, andrea. he said he wants to provide a going to be in latrobe. good example that there were >> andrea, if you're the president and you want to make actually calls from local essentially a war on officials for him to come. and andrea, these are tense democrat-controlled cities central to your reelection moments in the campaign, these campaign, as it appears are difficult moments to really president trump does, there are pull off. but this really speaks to why worse places you could go than joe biden, why his core advisers latrobe, pennsylvania here in western pennsylvania. have always felt why he was the this is a county the president best democrat to go up against won, essentially doubling up donald trump, a unique figure in hillary clinton four years ago. recent political history, to be it's a very rural county, very much a trump base area. sure. sometimes it requires a very this is the kind of place where direct and forceful message like he needs to run up the score if we saw joe biden deliver in he wants to win again in pittsburgh on monday. also talking about the president pennsylvania, a state he carried only by a percentage point back as toxic, as somebody who is in 2016. so that may be what's behind poisoning this country. this latest memo from the white yesterday we even heard joe house, essentially directing the biden mocking the president at times, telling him to get off federal government to try to find ways, if they can, to twitter, saying if he's such a great deal maker, why isn't he defund in some way these big

able to get the help that liberal cities that the president has been at war with. americans need to deal with coronavirus, working with new york governor andrew cuomo, congress to do that. today we'll see a very different of course who oversees arguably joe biden going up against the biggest, most liberal city donald trump using simply his on that list, new york city in example. he's going to be doing more new york state, of course, responded already. here is what he had to say about this proposed trump plan. >> he's not gonna do anything, dan, because he doesn't have the legal power to do anything. it's just a political statement. now, i'm sure he doesn't know the law, he never knew the law, and when he knows it, he breaks it anyway. he's gonna walk down the street in new york? forget bodyguards, he better have an army if he thinks he's gonna walk down the street in new york. uh, no. new yorkers don't want to have anything to do with him. >> the hyperbole there notwithstanding, this is illuminating the trump campaign strategy which has been and remains to campaign heavily in the rural portions, even of

states that do have big cities, and the vote-rich suburbs around philadelphia that are normally such a key part of republican strategies in statewide races here. the president has thus far been foregoing that to focus on making sure his base voters turn out in very large numbers in places like latrobe in western p.a., andrea. >> a big question has been, garrett, and to all of you, whether that law and order message is working. shauna thomas, the latest quinnipiac national poll shows us the president's attempt to inspire fear as a campaign message is not working, in this poll at least. 50% of likely voters say they feel less safe with donald trump as president, 42% of likely voters say they feel less safe with joe biden in charge. address that, shauna, the messaging we've seen throughout the convention and certainly since the convention, whereas the convention was trying to at least to soften the edges of donald trump, since then it's

been all law and order. >> yeah, i mean, it was very clear which of the messages out of the republican national convention, the president was going to go with. he went with the, quote, law and order idea. that is what joe biden was trying to in some ways combat, any people he may lose from that, by saying he's for security and he's for safety but he also can walk and chew gum at the same time. i think with respect to biden's visit to jacob blake's hometown, to kenosha, wisconsin today, the interesting thing about that is that he doesn't really have to do that much to be a contrast to the president today. he basically has to say jacob blake's name, because that was sort of the headline that came out of donald trump, president trump's visit. he has to do that and he has to meet with the community. now, hopefully you will also talk about some of the policies he would put forth as president, of course we want to hear those things.

but the contrast will be pretty clear, i think. and i think we can't deny that because the president is the president, in some ways he gets to set the terms of the election, but joe biden looked in that camera on monday and basically said, do i look like a radical socialist. i think he's doing kind of what he has to do. and by going to wisconsin today, he is also getting some television play, which i think will put some of those democrat fears you hear at rest a little bit. >> and it may not have gotten a whole lot of notice but one of the photo ops the president was involved in was clearly staged, because when he was in kenosha, he was touring the damage, and he went to a destroyed store, terribly tragic situation for that store owner, but the store owner didn't want to participate, does not support the president, so he brought back a former owner of that store and posed with him in the

wreckage, shawna, so it was pretty trumped up, pun intended. >> it was pretty trumped up. but sometimes i see those images and what he did there and say, okay, it's good we're giving more context on this show and other shows and pieces i've read about how that photo op came about, but in the end the photo that have will probably end up in a campaign ad and it will make -- it looks sort of like the president is standing strong against this kind of rioting and this kind of violence. and it's joe biden's job to say, i condemn the burning of businesses, while i can also have a conversation with the community about what brought us to this point. and then he has to say, what am i going to do as president. >> exactly right. charlie sykes, there you are in wisconsin, and some surprising new state polls including one from fox news on wisconsin, where joe biden is holding an eight-point lead in your state, up 50-42.

that's pretty strong lead given everything that's happened in kenosha, it certainly reinforces the other polling that the law and order message may not be taking hold the way the trump campaign wants it to. >> no, i think it's very clear that at this point that message isn't taking hold, that he's not making inroads into the states, the suburbs. look, what you're going to see today is joe biden's ability to use his superpower, if donald trump's superpower is shamelessness, then joe biden's superpower is empathy. that's the kind of thing that plays well in a state like wisconsin. we're incredibly polarized, we're incredibly tribalized. the races here are always close, it's going to be close here. but so far, the attempt to scare the suburban housewives, or change the entrenched narrative in wisconsin, just does not work. >> ed rendell, i want to talk about the polling in

pennsylvania, where of course you were the governor, the mayor, the d.a., you held every elective office in the state. telling a very different story, joe biden up only 4 points among registered voters, and that number likely shrinks among likely voters. there's been some smart analysis about election day four years ago. let me show you what you said four years ago on election day to me about the chances of donald trump winning pennsylvania. >> let me say first of all, i wouldn't absolutely write off pennsylvania from donald trump. as i said, the turnout's good in trump areas, the turnout is very good in the philadelphia suburbs. i don't think pennsylvania is over. i think hillary is likely to win by two or three points but i don't think it's a -- anybody listening to us better get out and vote if you want hillary clinton to be president. >> so governor rendell, former

governor rendell, you were spot on, you were pointing that out, at the time i said something like, wait a second, if that's what you're saying, he may carry pennsylvania, she may not win it. and you said, that's right. and of course it was quite a surprise, because a republican had not carried pennsylvania since 1988. >> yeah, and i think the same factors are in play right now, today, andrea. donald trump in polls, and i think this is true not just in pennsylvania, but he always runs about two points better on election day than he does in polls, because there are some people who just won't admit to a stranger that they're voting for donald trump. that was the case in '16 and i believe it's the case in 2020. the key battlegrounds in this race will be the philadelphia suburbs where hillary carried by 180,000 votes, but not enough to win. just to give you a frame of reference, what can be done in the philadelphia suburbs, when i ran for reelection in 2006, i

carried the philadelphia suburbs by 480,000 votes. now, i was a local guy and you can't expect that in a presidential election. but joe biden will do better than hillary clinton in the suburbs. the question is will the trump campaign bring out new trump voters. one scary statistic that no one talks about, as of primary day this year, republicans had registered 80,000 more new voters than democrats. now, i suspect our registration efforts over the summer have cut into that gap. but that's a scary number. number two, the polls show joe biden isn't doing that much better than hillary in scranton and wilkes-barre where he is the native son. i expect him to do better on election day. but pennsylvania is going to be awful close. >> i was going to ask you about scranton and wilkes-barre, of course it's the birthplace of joe biden, but we've seen the

vice president repeatedly going there. the president was there when joe biden was giving his acceptance speech as counterprogramming. two weeks ago. >> no question about it. and i think joe will do better than hillary there, which is good, because he'll cut into the trump margin in the northeast. donald trump will do well in the rural areas, fairly well in western pennsylvania. the key is how badly he loses in the suburbs. he's going to lose the city by almost half a million votes. the question is how badly he will do in the suburbs. i think he's up to now done almost nothing to attract and keep those suburban voters who voted for him four years ago. remember, he was an unknown quantity four years ago. >> what about joe biden inspiring a bigger black turnout than hillary clinton did in the city, in philadelphia? >> there's no question. number one, you saw the affection that african-american voters have for joe biden during the primaries.

number two, kamala harris will be a tremendous help, she's going to be a terrific campaigner. she will help inspire that vote. plus you'll have the two best possible people campaigning for him among african-american voters, and that's barack and michelle obama. and they're going to be on fire. >> nate silver had an interesting tweet which was highlighted in the first read today on the difference between the popular vote and the electoral college, of course, which is the trap for democratic candidates. and he pointed out, charlie sykes, that the victory in the popular vote that joe biden has to have, basically a three to four-point victory in the popular vote in order to have a 50%, or plus 50%, margin, likely margin of winning the electoral college. >> i think that's probably right. i mean, i'm not a number cruncher, but i do think that

that number of 4% is the key, given the way the electoral college skews to donald trump. right now the real clear politics average has biden up by more than seven points. i think it may be even actually more than that. but that's what i think we need to keep in mind, that if you aren't joe biden, you need to go into election day with at least four points. if it is three points, we are in for a white knuckle ride. >> charlie sykes, thank you very much. and news from today from europe is not good at all about covid-19. experts fearing another covid surge after a relative lull during the summer months. richard engel will have that report coming up next. and ahead, growing outrage over excessive use of force by police this time in rochester, new york, after body camera footage of a march killing reveals how officers treated a black man his family says was

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with covid concerns among public health officials rising in anticipation of labor day weekend crowds, here are the facts at this hour. 12 states are now reporting an increase if nn new cases. nationally there are an average of 40,000 new cases per day, bringing the total to 6 million. dr. anthony fauci told us yesterday he would like to see that number down to 10,000 a day heading into the fall. and the u.s. death toll continues to climb, topping 187,000 today, an average of 900 people dying every day from the virus. south dakota is the worst hit state, weeks after the sturgis motorcycle rally. more than 260 cases in 11 states have now been linked to that rally, according to "the

washington post." clinical trials for a vaccine, the cdc is telling governors to be ready to distribute the vaccine as soon as november 1, raising concerns of an october surprise from the administration. and spain, france, and germany are now reporting a rise in cases. the question now, can that spread be contained. that's why we have nbc news chief foreign correspondent with us, richard engel joining us from london. richard, is europe going to lock down again? >> reporter: well, greetings from a very dreary and rainy london. germany just said today it doesn't anticipate fully locking down. but across europe, officials are worried. it feels like we are back in april or may. and officials are now starting to watch each other very closely. and if you turn on the news here in the uk or anywhere in europe, really, there's lots of very

specific reports about the numbers. in each particular province, in each particular country, countries have been added to quarantine lists, then taken off quarantine lists, so it's created a lot of confusion for international travel. as you know, andrea, europe has been somewhat ahead of the united states. it got covid earlier, it reacted earlier. what's happening here could be what's coming in the united states. and it had been a sense across europe that they had found a rhythm, that they were starting to open up, that for the last two months or so, air travel was starting up again, tourism was working, business travel was up and running. but the last couple of weeks, really just the last week or so, the numbers have been starting to rise. what scientists think is happening is, this is history catching up with them, that the last two months, a lot of young people went out, those young people didn't get visibly sick, they didn't require hospitalization, and that there

was something of a lag time, and that this last two months has really been that lag time. and as they've been interacting more and more freely, they eventually brought the virus back home with them to their families or to more vulnerable populations, which is why we're actually noticing the numbers going up right now. european officials are worried about it and they're start to go tinker with the lockdowns. so far, no massive blanket changes like we saw in the early days of covid where all of italy, all of spain, all of france went into lockdown. they're trying to tighten and adjust the system they have in place. >> and british schools have reopened, have they not? what about in the continent, are schools already opening? >> reporter: schools are opening, and here in europe, that generally means in-person learning. each country has a slightly different take on how effective masks are, how effective closures are.

here in the uk, for example. and mask-wearing is not that prevalent. it hasn't been throughout the pandemic. in fact when you walk down the street here in london, maybe half the people are wearing masks, not more than that. and the british education system has ruled that masks are not required in the classrooms. but they are required when students walk through the hallways. and what they've tried to do, they determined wearing masks in the classroom would be disruptive to teaching, a distraction. but what they're trying to do is limit classes from coming into contact with each other. so they've created a bubble system, so they'll have one class, or two classes if the classrooms are small, get together. they don't wear masks in the classroom and they can interact freely with each other, but if one person in that bubble gets -- tests positive, then the whole bubble has to go into a 14-day quarantine. when they interact with other students in other bubbles in the hallway or playgrounds, they

have to wear masks. but france has a different policy. there everyone wears masks in the classroom, 11 and up. we're seeing different interpretations, and no one really knows exactly what is right, but across europe, there is this concern that the last several months of relaxed restrictions may now be showing themselves with these numbers going up. >> and of course, richard, we know that what happens in europe, then there's a lag time and it ends up inevitably with business travel and tourist travel ends up coming here as well. thank you so much, great to see you, richard engel in london. joining us now is the senior scholar at johns hopkins center for health security, thanks very much, doctor, for being with us. how concerned are you about europe, they were doing so well compared to us and now we're seeing a spike. >> it sort of illustrates what we know about this virus, it establishes itself in the human population and it won't go

anywhere until we have a vaccine and cross that immunity threshold through a vaccine. any time you have social interaction, you have to expect you'll get cases. the key question is do you have the public health infrastructure to deal with those cases and not allow them to land on vulnerable populations and lead to hospitalizations. some places can do that, some places can't. >> and here we've got the spikes at colleges, a thousand positive cases at the university of south carolina, 900 at the university of iowa, 800 at the university of georgia. we're talking also about college towns certainly in iowa and other places where once it erupts on campus, you'll see it spread throughout the area. >> yeah, colleges are basically mass gatherings. you've got people coming from all over the country, all over the region, and mixing there, quadrupling or even quintupling the population of a college town. there's so much social interaction that goes on off

campus as well as on campus and it becomes very difficult to keep those cases to a minimum and colleges need to have very extensive plans in place and even with those plans they can't really police all the behavior of those students so colleges are going to be very disrupted by this pandemic going forward. unless there's some small residential college where maybe nobody interacts with each other except for the student body, it's really going to be daunting. >> one celebrity certainly who was affected, we heard this morning from dwayne "the rock" johnson revealing he and his entire family are recovering. listen to what he had to say. >> dhchltd been one of the motht challenging things we've had to endure as a family. it baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing masks and politicize it. it has nothing to do with politics. wear your mask. >> and speaking of politics and

politicians, senator joni ernst, who is in a tough reelection bid in iowa, speaking about the hotspot that iowa has now become, suggesting that covid deaths are inflated, and repeating a misleading cdc information that was on their website, i believe, regarding underlying conditions, suggesting that somehow only a very small percentage, 6 or 9% of the covid cases really were covid, because they really were -- the people who had heart conditions or other underlying conditions, which is completely misleading, they died of covid, dr. fauci said that. >> yes, it is true, they died of covid. when you fill out a death certificate, you put out contributing causes and complications. we want death certificates to be accurate. we want to know what comorbidities people have because that helps us guide our messaging to those groups that are do i bettics, who are

hypertensive. this is a misinterpretation, it derives from people not understanding how medicine is practiced and how death certificates are filled out. it speaks to the lack of scientific literacy in this population. it's unfortunate that politicians who should know better continue to push this conspiracy theory. covid is a deadly disease. it is true, the more comorbidities you have, the more likely you are to die from it. that doesn't minimize the fact that covid-19 is a kill and her it accelerates the processes that those diseases are putting into place. >> and in fact, the other issue i wanted to ask you about was the cdc asking all governors to be ready by november 1 with very complicated arrangements, freezers and other facilities, for vaccine distribution. is this very good planning, or is november 1 some kind of headline that they are going to try to roll out a vaccine before the election, before it may be ready? >> it's hard to tell. and i do think that a vaccine program of the scale that's

going to be needed for covid-19 is going to be unprecedented and we want to make sure states are ready now and start to go plan and think about how this is going to roll out. i do think thinking about november is a little premature for having a vaccine. it's going to trickle out in batches, likely going to health care workers first. november seems overly optimistic to me. it's one thing to plan, it's another thing to try and grab a headline before the election. >> doctor, thanks very much, thanks for being with us today. and meanwhile, protest and outrage in rochester, new york, after newly-released body cam footage showing a black man in police custody where officers put a hood on him. he later died. this is "andrea mitchell reports." we'll bring you details, next on msnbc. s, next on msnbc. is jane. she used to have dry mouth. now, she uses a capful of therabreath dry mouth oral rinse

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there is outrage in rochester, new york, the community responding to police body cam video recorded in march, an 11-minute edited portion of it released by the family of the victim. the 41-year-old black man is restrained in the rain in the middle of the street by police, first handcuffed, then his head is covered with a spit hood after officers had been told the man had coronavirus.

he was declared brain dead at the hospital later that night, taken off life-support, and died days later. the county medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide. the local police chief has declined to comment on the cause of death. nbc's stephanie gosk has the very latest. stephanie, what are you hearing today? >> reporter: well, andrea, it's interesting, because this is an event that occurred months ago, back in march. it was march 23 when the man was held down by police officers. this video obtained by the family's attorney through a freedom of information act was only released publicly this week. and as we have seen in other cases around the country, the body cam footage, the video footage reveals information or shows something that triggers an angry reaction from family and friends and also protests. in rochester, that's what we saw, nine people have been arrested. the family is calling for the immediate suspension of these police officers from the force and they are calling for murder

charges against them. as you mentioned, the medical examiner ruled this a homicide. the ruling said it was a result of asphyxia, including the effects of drugs at the time, pcp intoxication, and that led to the death. now, back to that footage, to give you a bit of context, it was after 3:00 a.m. joe, daniel's brother, says he called 911 to get some help with his brother who was acting erratically. according to "the new york times," there was also a 911 call from a truck driver who said that daniel was running through the streets saying he had coronavirus. and in these images, in this video you see police officers put what's called a spit hood over daniel's head. now, remember, in march, in new york, there was a spike in coronavirus. there was a crisis. clearly there were fears that daniel might actually have

coronavirus. but it's what happens then after that moment, after he is placed on the ground, he's then held there for two minutes by one officer using his hands, another officers kneeling on him. and then the video shows later emts showing up and performing cpr before he's transferred to the hospital and later dies, andrea. >> obviously a lot more to investigate, but a very,there. thank you so much, stephanie gosk. and double trouble, after the president suggested that north carolina voters try to vote twice, in person and by mail-in ballot. why did the attorney general then refuse to say that double voting is illegal, which it is, by the way? i'll talk to south carolina's democratic senate candidate jaime harrison next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. n msnbc.

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vote twice, which in all cases is not legal. in another attempt to dramatize his false claim that mail-in voting promotes fraud. >> they'll vote and they'll have to go and check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way because, uh, if it, uh, tabulates, they won't be able to do that. so let 'em send it in and let 'em go vote and if their system is as good as they say it is then obviously they won't be able to vote. if it isn't tabulated, they'll be able to vote. so that's it is and that's what they should do. >> voting of course is illegal, voting twice is not legal in any case, something the attorney general, the nation's top law enforcement officer, apparently did not seem to know when you do justify the president's comments a few hours later on cnn. >> he's trying to make the point that, uh, the ability to monitor this system is -- is not good, and if it was so good, if you

tried to vote a second time, you would be caught. >> that would be illegal if they did that. >> i don't know what the law in the particular state -- >> you can't vote twice. >> i don't know what the law in the particular state says. >> i'm not a lawyer, i only play one on tv, but i'm also not the attorney general, but it's not legal. joining me now from south carolina, democratic senate candidate jaime harrison who is challenging incumbent senator lindsey graham for his seat. jaime, it's good to see you again. your reaction to that, the president's suggestion that people vote twice. >> listen, andrea, said it, voting twice is illegal. and i think we just have to say this, it's irresponsible for any public leader to so casually tried to undermine the confidence in our elections. we can't have that. what we need right now is, all democrats and republicans alike, to come together to make sure that voting is safe in this country. that's what we really need.

and it's sad, because, you know, you've got folks like attorney general barr, you have folks like senator graham, on this issue, who have been talking out of both sides of their mouths. when they need to join our efforts to really make sure that folks understand that voting is safe, voting -- we need folks to go and vote. and yes, tentatiat the end of t in south carolina, i would like folks to vote for me. but the important thing is people need to vote. exercise their rights, choose the leaders they believe reflect their values. that's what's important right now. and that's what we need our leaders to express each and every day as they go out and talk to the voters. >> now, i want to point out the president walked it back or tried to in a tweet today, in part saying in order for you to make sure your vote counts and is counted, sign and mail in your ballot as early as possible on election day or early voting, go to your polling place to see whether or not your mail-in vote has been tabulated, if it has,

you will not be able to vote, and the mail-in system worked properly. if it has not been counted, vote, then you can vote. all convoluted, but in many states they actually check the mail-in ballot against the voting rolls, make sure that you haven't already voted, and when they tabulate the mail-in volte, they also check against the voter rolls, so there are checks that are done. jaime, you've been a long shot, at least at first, again the veteran republican in a republican state, obviously, an all-red state, lindsey graham in south carolina. the last quinnipiac poll was a month ago and you had him tied in that poll. do you have any internal campaign polls since showing how you're doing? >> yes. andrea, we're doing extremely well. we just announced, i think at the end of august, that we

raised a record well over $10 million just in august alone. i can tell you on the ground here, i've been doing campaigns since i was 16 years old here in south carolina, and i have never seen the type of energy on the ground that i'm seeing right now in south carolina. people are so excited. and they're hopeful. we've had a senator lindsey graham who has been here for 25 years in washington, d.c., and lindsey was someone that many of us here in south carolina used to respect. we used to have high hopes for him because we thought he was a statesman. because what we've come to realize is this guy is only in it for himself. he's only about his own political relevance and his political power. and he's not addressing the issues that people are really concerned about. we need a senator that's going to fight for all of south carolina and not fight against them. and right now, we have someone in lindsey graham who has been doing just that. so this movement has been amazing. i'm looking forward to november,

because we've been doing this for a while, but it's so amazing to see so many people who have lost all sense of hope, seeing hope because of our campaign. >> now, you've got more than a thousand covid cases at the university of south carolina. what do you think the administration there should do? >> well, you know, my wife is a professor at university of south carolina, so, you know, it's personal as well. the administration has done a good job of isolating those students. they're even tracking wastewater to test -- they're testing wastewater on the campus of the university of south carolina to see if they can track and isolate the cases of the coronavirus. so i applaud the college's president for doing that. but i think we have to be much more vigilant and understand that 21-year-olds are going to be 21-year-olds. so we have to take away some of

the attractiveness of having large pool parties and all those type of things and really help the students understand the severity of this situation. and i believe, and i have confidence in the faculty at university of south carolina to do that. >> jaime harrison, thank you so much. i of course want to say we have repeatedly invited lindsey graham to appear on this broadcast, going back long before the campaign, in fact, but certainly during the campaign, and we're waiting to hear back. >> thank you. coming up next, the ice bucket breakthrough. the viral social media challenge producing real results in the fight against als. more on that coming up. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. pnc knows business keeps moving.

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moment but it did raise critical research funds for als. that was our hope. also known in the past as lou gehrig's disease. never imagining how well it would do. it would raise more than $200 million for als and pay off now by funding new research just published in the new england journal of medicine leading to an experimental drug that slows the progression of that devastating disease allowing patients to retain physical, critical functions longer, like speaking, walking, swallowing. it's not a cure. but many advocates think it would be a turning point. pete who created the ice bucket challenge sadly lost his struggle with the disease just last year. but his mom is now hopeful that a cure is that much closer. >> when pete was diagnosed, we didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. not only do we see the light at the end of the tunnel, but now we can feel its rays. and it's going to happen.

>> and god willing that will happen. today also we are mourning the loss of one of the greatest pitchers to ever play. tom seaver, also known as tom terrific. he took over the new york -- he took the new york mets from one of the worst records in the league to a world series win in 1969. the miracle mets becoming the miracle mets, of course, that year. and along the way, one of just two pitchers to win more than 300 games in his career. he took home three cy young aparreds and made 12 all-star appearances in a 20-year hall of fame career. >> anyone would think that a young kid from fresno, california, would ever end up in cooperstown, new york, you say, how in the world can it happen? it can happen very easily when you have the kinds of friends, the kinds of people, the kinds of support, the kinds of education and, most importantly,

the kinds of family that i have had in my 40 years of living. >> he was always one of my heroes on and off the mound. a great man. he passed away last night due to complications from dementia and covid-19. he was 75 years old. and just moments ago, former vice president joe biden, along with his wife dr. jill biden, landing in kenosha, wisconsin. this afternoon, they'll be meeting with the family of jacob blake, a day after president trump came to kenosha and met with business owners and law enforcement. it's a deliberate contrast, of course. he's trying to send a message of hope and conciliation to the community. a community distraught by violence after protests. protests that followed the death of jacob blake. the protests and demonstrations of late have been peaceful, all peaceful. they even had a barbecue and a block party there the day that

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democratic-run cities, he says, are descending in anarchy. and as the president tries to put the campaign focus on urban unrest, joe biden just arrived in wisconsin. he's meeting with the family of jacob blake. plus, president trump suggests voters in north carolina try to vote twice to test the system. once by mail and once in person. a little problem with that idea, it's illegal. welcome to thursday. it is "meet the press