coast, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. all this in a week where we saw all-time record highs in california and arizona while snow was falling in colorado. we'll talk with a former white house aide on the climate change happening even faster than once predicted. we begin on the campaign trail. after pausing to remember the victims of september 11th, both presidential candidates are back stumping for votes. joe biden is relying on kamala harris today while president trump had to change his rally plans in nevada. i'm joined by two reporters. president trump facing tough new polls showing him behind in battleground states like the state you are in. what can you tell us? >> lindsey, there's one campaign that is truly out on the road essentially almost full-time at this point and that is the trump campaign. you see vice president pence as well as donald trump taking to

the airplane and essentially traveling around the country. not only is the president holding a rally in reno, nevada, tonight, he'll be in las vegas here for multiple events tomorrow before going to arizona on monday. this is more for this trump campaign than just making stops and listening to a few voters. this is an effort to hold mass gatherings of folks. he's going to be up in reno at an airport welcoming, you know, potentially thousands of individuals. just two nights ago you'll recall in michigan he had more than 5,000 folks come out. when you're look at the poll numbers, the new "new york times" poll numbers in the key swing states, joe biden continues to hold a slight advantage. when you account for the margin of error, it's close. that is where you see the president essentially rolling right through what the state mandate here in nevada is. you know, the governor put forward a mandate saying no more than 50 folks are to gather at a

time, which is heightening concerns in the state as to what these mass gatherings that the trump campaign is trying to orchestrate can ultimately have on these communities. i want you to hear dr. louise medinah, the infectious disease control specialist here at umc hospital. i asked him about what we heard from the president in those recordings on the bob woodward tapes this week where he was down playing the risk associated with the coronavirus. take a listen. >> what is the challenge moving forward for those of you guys on the front lines here? >> the challenges is for people to let their guard down. people want to get back to work as usual. that may take months to happen. as providers on the front line, we worry about increased number of cases, especially around the

holad hollidays. we need tourism, the main part of our economy, but we worry there will be an increase in cases. >> do you wish there was more dire direct message from the top to the greater population? >> so leadership is important. i think telling people the truth of what you know is key to good leadership. as is telling people what you don't know. it's a responsibility to keep your constituents safe. i think the messages has come from our local authorities with what we knew, and we communicated that to the community. >> reporter: lindsey, again, dr. luiz medinah garcia has been on the front lines more than six months because the folks have dealt with the reality that more than 1,400 have died of covid so far this year. you're also looking at the hard part is that there's still more than 150,000 individuals who

were employed back in february before the pandemic hit nevada that are still unemployed today. really that puts the crux of the difficulty of trying to reopen a state that is reliant on tourism and folks coming into the state at the same time understanding just how easy community spread can really ramp up again here in the state. >> leadership is telling people what you knowen and what you dot know. thank you. breaking news out of "the washington post." they're reporting that bernie sanders is expressing concern behind closed doors about the biden campaign. they want him to go more to the left. what do we know about this? >> that's right, lindsey. so "the washington post" reported today that bernie sanders hinted to his closest advisers, basically showing concern about the direction that the biden campaign is moving in, that he's taking somewhat too much of a centrist approach. we got a statement from bernie sanders' former campaign manager

who essentially said that bernie sanders is working as hard as he can to elect joe biden. he's been doing his own virtual rally toss make sure biden has support. obviously, this is a candidate who got criticism in 2016 for not immediately backing hillary clinton and some of that democratic divide played out in the election. we've seen democrats in this election having more of a united front. but that being said, bernie sanders is also kind of showing some concern that he thinks that joe biden should focus more on issues like medicare for all, like getting health care, lowering the cost of prescription drugs. he said that there are things to improve on when it comes to reach out to younger voters, latino voters, and the progressive community. that's the concern bernie sanders is echoing through this statement. when it comes to reaching out to latino voters, kamala harris will be doing an event in a couple hours, a virtual event with latino small business owners in arizona. you can see the campaign trying

to kind of make those plans and reach outta owl of the various communities. but there is some concern, of course, lindsey, that there are parts of the democratic party that may not be happy with the centrist approach of this ticket, and those concerns will be heard and are clearly being heard from senator sanders in this statement. >> we'll stay on top of those developments. thank you. as the president campaigns in nevada today, he's still facing criticism over remarks he made in the newly released interviews with bob woodward and the excerpts recorded earlier in the year for woodward's new book reveal the president intentionally misled the public about the severity of the public, the president saying he did so in an attempt to avoid panic. let's listen to some of what he said to woodward early in february and what the american public heard just weeks later. >> you just breathe the air, and that's how it's passed. and so that's a very tricky one. that's a very delicate one. it's also more deadly than your, you know, even your consistents

you -- strenuous flus. we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner. view this the same as the flu. >> josh, what's the latest on the fallout from these comments? >> reporter: it's become something of a routine in washington where republicans asked about the president's controversial comments fall back on some formulation of this is the media taking him out of context or it's anonymous sources. we don't really know what the president said. the problem with that this time, lindsey, is this is president trump versus president trump. the president's own words to bob woodward on tape that are getting him into trouble. that's why we've seen so many republicans from mitch mcconnell to others trying to dodge this all together, saying they haven't seen the book. today it fell to rodney mcdaniel, the chairwoman of the republican party, to defend the president's comments. she told the "today" show this

morning that the president in those comments was acting responsibly. take a listen. >> i think it's responsible for the president not to panic the american people, not to come out and say the world's on fire and have a run on if baethe banks a running to the grocery stores and instilling fear. that is not what the commander in chief does. the president put a plan together to slow the spread, gave daily briefings. >> reporter: a version of something we've heard frequently, republicans saying forget about what the president said, it's not important, focus on what he's done for the country. the problem is when it comes to handling coronavirus, the public by and large does not approve of the way the president has handled that either in the key swing states nor the country at large. >> trying to shift the messaging. where tapes and new polls have put bumps in the road for the trump campaign this week.

i'm joined by an msnbc contributor. good to see you. how are people in your state reacting to those comments that the president made to bob woodward? >> well, it's probably too early to tell, right. they just happened. there's been no reliable polling data. here's the problem here in nevada. we have been as hard hit as any state by covid-19. we're such a tourism-dependent economy. our entire economy is dependent on a couple miles of road known as the las vegas strip, and that has been very badly hurt by the coronavirus. people are looking for someone to blame, and there's tremendous unemployment. the unemployment system is not working properly. and while the governor has absorbed a lot of that, the president from the public data i've seen has taken a lot of that criticism. you have to believe that biden is going to put those soundbites from the president and the contrast you just showed in ads. that's going to reinforce, i

think, some issues that he has here and of course the key here and almost everywhere that's important, the swing state, lindsey, is independent voters. how are they going to react? >> to your point, the new polls, the late est polls show biden leading trump by four points in nevada. but here's the other thing. we just heard from correspondent vaughn hillyard, who spoke to the pain right now that nevada workers are feeling. and typically, people associate president trump with good economic outcomes. so do you think that there will be a shift in thinking, yes, trump might be the incumbent and we are where we are today under his presidency but that people might trust him to move us forward? >> that's a possibility. you know, there is concern by the biden campaign from what i understand that the president's numbers on the economy are still okay and in some cases a little bit better than what biden's are.

we're talk on september 12th that the economy here for instance does not get a lot better and it probably won't by the time people start voting here, which is in about a month when early voting starts. that's going to be very interesting to see who people blame. it's part of the reason that the trump campaign has tried to frame the cancellation of the rallies here at the reno and las vegas airports as the governor doing this. they want people pointing the finger at the democratic governor as opposed to the republican president to try to help trump's numbers here. that is not a real issue in the sense that even the white house's own standards say they shouldn't have been able to hold those rallies, which is why they've moved them. but that is the trump campaign's move here, to try to substitute the governor as the person who is to blame instead of trump. it remains to be seen if that's going to work.

trump's numbers are lower than the governor's. >> you mentioned mail-in voting to begin shortly, which president trump has consistently attacked saying it's okay in florida but not in states like nevada. john, before i let you go, a republican hasn't carried your state since 2004. is nevada still considered a swing state? >> i have to this argument with my democratic and republican friends all the time. right after 2016, i wrote that nevada is now a blue state, that it would be very difficult because so many democrats are now in clark county, which is las vegas. of course even my crystal ball couldn't have foreseen a pandemic, which has essentially crippled the democrats' efforts here to register voters and do the voter contact they usually do. i think that is a swing state. i think four points, five points, i think most people agree that's about where it is. but again, it's september 12th. the democratic machine is really not going yet. if you ask me, this is a lean biden state but not a sure thing

for biden. >> ambassadlso shows how import nevada is to president trump, seeing as though he's defying those local authorities and visiting your state today. thanks for joining us. new reporting from politico is raising more questions about the trump administration's response to the pandemic. according to the report, plittly appointed administration officials interveered wifered w reports on the pandemic, demanding the right to review and seek changes to the cdc's report, charting the progress of the covid-19 pandemic. joining us to discuss is msnbc medical contributor dr. patel. i want to start with what we're hearing from politico this afternoon that the trump administration deliberately interfered and manipulated in some cases the cdc's messaging

over coronavirus. what's the your reaction? >> it's pretty disturbing and candidly now i feel like some of us are so numb to these, you know, what people like bombs in any other administration, breaking news, but it feels like it's happening every day. there is just, you know, front headlines above-the-fold reporting that reinforces that this president, this administration through its political appointees, has purposely manipulated science data, statistics, and facts. candidly, for viewers to understand, this isn't just let's manipulate a press release. this is candidly trying to screen something called the morbidity and mortality report which has been a decades-old tradition of a place for doctors and health professionals to understand facts about epidemiology and public health in the country. at its core, it's one of the basic functions of the cdc.

this goes far beyond the pale and puts career staff in awkward positions that i think you're seeing now. i can honestly say this is not the last we're going to hear of it. there's still more to be learned and probably scratching the surface, the political interference. >> i can hear the exasperation in your voice there. dr. patel, we're also hearing mixed messaging. on one hand, president trump saying we're turning a corner. but dr. fauci spoke with andrea mitchell yesterday and he said no, we're dealing with disturbing trends right now. we'll have to hunker down in the fall and winter months. what does that mean? what can be done right now? >> yeah. i think dr. fauci is trying to illustrate that anytime we've sent a message of, you know, we've conquered this virus or when you hear the president say things like we've turned a corner, that really is something the american public listens to because in any normal situation

you would think the leader of the country is expressing what is fact or what is true. and that causes people to feel like their guard is down, go out to bars and restaurants. we know that many of the cases in young people come from being in those crowded settings. i think dr. fauci is trying to level set and say our ability to make progress against this virus will mean that we need to stay either at home, we need to avoid crowded places, we have to wear masks above and beyond all else. we have to do the things we know that can protect us. i think he's saying that because we don't know what the flu and kind of pneumonia season might look like, which normally happens kind of in november, december, january, and while we're all waiting for a safe vaccine, we have to feel we can conquer these other areas. the president sending this message and his political advisers, the head of the fda and the cdc, the secretary of health and human services sending opposite messaging is

absolutely wrong. >> i want to ask you before we let you go about the woodward tapes and the president saying he didn't want to create panic. but isn't is there a type of leadership where you can level with the american public and be honest with them and trust them with that information instead of trying to sugar coat something so that there isn't pan sncc isn't there a way to be honest and at the same time not cause chaos? >> yeah. it's something by the way that, you know, we've been confronted with in this country before, and number one, this is a president who does like to throw panic and you just ran clips from a rally where he essentially is panicking suburban households into thinking that somehow, you know, people are going to come and loot their homes. he is no stranger to inciting panic or doing anything. but to your point more directly, look at the anniversary we just passed yesterday. we passed a huge what i thought was going to be the defining milestone in my lifetime,

lindsey, of 9/11 and the deaths and loss. and we saw a president, then president george w. bush, try to say we're going to have a long road ahead for recover, but here's what we're going to do. you may not agree with his political executive actionactio bring the nation together. what he should have done when he learned how serious this virus was in january, would be to go back to his scientific advisers who were ready with advice and the best guidance. instead what you saw is where we are today. 200,000 deaths and climbing. and by the way, that's just the tip. if we look back in true statistics, lindsey, not only will we see more deaths from covid but we know already there are at least 100,000 more deaths not just from covid, from people who avoided getting health care because their hospitals and icu beds were full of people with covid. i think you're right, there is still a way forward. i think americans are going to have to make a decision about what they want during the election in terms of the

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it has been a week of headlines and revelations for president and his

administration, from the bombshell reporting by bob woodward to a scathing whistle-blower complaint from brian murphy, the former head of the homeland security department's intelligence branch. along a laundry list of allegations against members of the trump administration, murphy said he was directed to down play the threat russia and white nationalists pose to the country, quote, in part because it made the president look bad. he also alleges that former dhs secretary kirstjen nielsen asked him to inflate and lie about the number of known suspected terrorists caught crossing the border, all to boost support for president's border wall. a dhs spokesperson released a statement flatly denying there is any merit to brian murphy's claims. joining me is msnbc contribute or the david corm. let's talk about these claims that dhs officials distorted intel to match trump's statements. brian murphy's lawyer says he has receipts, classified evidence that he's willing to give to congress to back up his

complaint. how do you see this playing out? >> brian murphy's complaint doesn't exist in a vacuum. we have reporting for months, we've had reporting for years that donald trump doesn't want to hear about russian interference in the 2016 election and now, according to his own fbi and own intelligence community, russian, interference in the current election. he doesn't want to hear about it. we've had reporting that the former head of the dhs secretary nielsen couldn't talk about this with him. she was told not to do so. donald trump won't acknowledge what happened in 2016, isn't acknowledging thalte ining that happening again. he is, in a sense, protecting putin, covering up. i don't know how to say this without sounding hyperbolic, but he's betraying the united states. this is a profound threat, and just as you reported a few moments ago, you know, we have

his health and human services department trying to cover up and hide information about the coronavirus coming out of the cdc. the exact same thing has been going on throughout the federal government since trump became president regarding russia's threat to a fundamental building block of american democracy, our presidential elections. >> this week we're hearing from microsoft. in a statement, they said that one of joe biden's main election campaign advisory firms had been targeted by russian intelligence hackers, the same ones that had infiltrated hillary clinton's campaign. this is now a second presidential election in a row where we're seeing this. are we no better equipped to handle russian meddling than we were in 2016? >> we are perfectly equipped to do so if we want to do so. the way the u.s. government often works is a priority is set from the top, from the white house, and the president has been saying for four years that this is a hoax, didn't happen in 2016, doesn't want to hear about

it now because it only raises the issue that his election victory in 2016 was tainted by very severe, harsh, perhaps consequential russian intervention. so we could be doing things about this, and as we could be doing about the coronavirus, having just a clear message from the president, whether to wear a mask or to give a damn about russian intervention, which would mobilize the u.s. government and tell the american public be on the lookout for what you should be doing, what you should be mindful of as we go forward in this election. >> i want to ask you before we let you go about my colleague josh letterman's latest reporting about the treasury department saying the ukrainian lawmaker has been an active russian agent for over a decade, who has been working with rudy giuliani to smear joe biden and his son, hunter. i want your reaction to what giuliani said on "a.m. joy."

>> i wasn't working with him. i was interviewing with him. i did not know he was a russian agent. >> how could you not know? how could you not know, mayor giuliani? you're a former prosecutor from the southern district of new york, former mayor of new york city, you have a national security firm. how could you not know that this person you were talking to was a known russian agent who graduated from kgb schools? >> david, it had to be pretty bad for the treasury department to come out against this guy. >> yeah. in a normal week -- we don't have normal weeks anymore, you know that. >> true. >> this would be the number-one standard. the president's personal lawyer working with a russian agent to produce information to taint and tar the president's opponent, joe biden. we reported in mother jones a month or so back that rudy giuliani was raise $10 million to do a documentary that he would release towards the election about, you know, yo

ukrainian baseless conspiracy theories. it's been widely reported that derkach went to training and his father was noted kgb officers. giuliani has continued to meet with other ukrainian figures accused of corruption who are trying to intervene in our election in a way that the senate intelligence committee run by republicans recently said in a report is being orchestrated or advanced by russian intelligence. so the president's own attorney in league with a russian intelligence officer, agent, whatever he might be, this should make our heads explode. but i think they've already exploded multiple times by now, but it shows you what giuliani and what trump -- because he's doing this for trump -- are willing to do to win this election and to try to pervert the campaign. >> we could spend an hour

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we're learning new details this afternoon in the case of four ex-police officers charged in the death of george floyd. reports say the officers appear to be turning against one another as they ready their defenses. their lawyers have requested separate trials for each officer, although critics say that will delay justice for floyd's family. the lawyer for thomas lane said each officer could have different version of what happened and blame each other for george floyd's death. if convicted, each officer could face up to 40 years in prison. here's what george floyd's brother had to say. >> if you do the crime, you do the time. so why is it different for these

guys? because we will get justice for my brother! >> the trial of the four ex-officers likely won't begin until at least march of next year. america's police officers are supposed to protect and serve, part of an oath they swear when assuming their responsibilities. but what happens when an officer or even an entire squad chooses not to perform their duties when confronted with criticism? it's a phenomenon that many mayors are struggling to understand and control as protests over police brutality sweep the country and demands for justice grow louder each day. joining us to discuss is paul butler, msnbc legal analyst and author of "choke hold." let's start with that phenomenon that is being described. i want to get your take on the balance between duty and accountability. the responsibility to protect and serve doesn't evaporate when they become subjects of criticism, but in cities across the country, a lot of mayors are facing a difficult situation where officers appear to slow their work in response to

high-profile cases. what needs to happen here? >> so, there's no evidence th that -- the communities seeing an uptick in violence are the same communities that have been devastated by the pandemic and by the faltering economy. so those factors increase the risk of violence. across the nation, we know that homicides are up but robberies and burglaries are down, so most studies show that police slowdowns don't have a direct impact on the crime. >> i want to get your reaction first to the george floyd case. on friday, defense attorneys for those four officers charged argued that an overdose of fentanyl contributed to his death. so we see here the shell of the defense blaming it on fentanyl, pointing the finger at one another. how can these officers, particularly chauvin, count

they're? >> the medical examiner said the cause of mr. floyd's death was homicide. it was sasphyxiation. it was the choke hold enhanced by those three cops restraining him by the head, the neck, and the back. so these officers have to come up with some defense. they're kind of flailing now, pointing the finger at each other. it will be interesting to see what the judge allows the prosecutor to try all four at the same time, which is what the attorney general wants, or rather he goes with the defense request to have four separate trials. >> tomorrow marks six months since the killing of breonna taylor in louisville. the officers involved in that case have not been charged. what action if any do you expect in the coming days? >> the kentucky attorney general is presenting evidence to a grand jury. grand juries almost always follow the recommendation of the prosecutor. but we still don't have a sense

of where the kentucky prosecutor, who's a conservative republican, is on this case. he's taking his sweet time. we know that for sure. in the george floyd case, charges were brought in the first two weeks. it's been almost six months now and still no prosecution of the officers who killed breonna taylor. >> let's mover to the next case, unfortunately, jacob blake in kenosha, wisconsin. he broke his silence last week from his hospital bed. there are still so many questions in this case, like whether police knew whether blake had a knife in his vehicle when they shot him seven times in the back. what's going on with this case? what do you expect to happen in the next week? >> so, lindsey, the kenosha city officials are still not being transparent about the circumstances leading to his shooting. as you know, the most important question is whether the officer who shot mr. blake in the back believed that he had a weapon in the car. i think the evidence suggests

that the cop did not know that, which would mean that the shooting was unjustified and this officer could face attempted murder charges. but outside of a criminal prosecution, important reform can come from this case like changing the way that people -- that the police respond to people who are experiencing a mental health crisis. >> and that brings us to the case of daniel prude in rochester. the new york attorney general announced a week ago a grand jury would be impaneled. we saw top brass from the rochester police department also retire this week. what are we likely to see from this case? >> so, we know that the medical examiner in this case also wrote that the death was homicide from asphyxiation by the police. the police put that hood on mr. prude, which is legal in kenosha, even though spit hoods are so risky that many other police departments, including the nypd, don't issue them to

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california on monday to be briefed on the devastating wildfires ravaging the west coast which left at least 28 people dead and dozens more missing. california has never seen a fire deadlier or more fierce than the one burning north of sacramento right now, and it's likely not done growing. so far more than 3. acres of land have been tornled across the state making it one of the worst fire seasons on record. six of the top wildfires in state history happening just this year alone. in oregon, with 36 fires scorching more than 1 million acres of land, half a million residents have been ordered to flee their homes as officials prepare for a, quote, mass fatality event. those fires are just one of the many extreme weather events happening across the globe right now. scientists have been ringing the alarm for years and now wildfires, temperature extremes, and hurricanes are giving us concrete evidence of what they've been warning us about. off the coast of florida, tropical depression 19 has now

strengthened into tropical storm sally and is expected to become a hurricane by monday as it travels through the gulf of mexico. all of this as a new report out this week predicts that more than a billion people could be displaced by the year 2050 because of climate change. joining me now, jake levine, former energy and climate aide to president obama. jake, let's listen first to what california governor gavin newsom says about why climate change is wreaking havs ining havoc on hi. >> this is climate change, america fast forward. the hots are getting hotter, the welts are getting wetter. as a consequence of historic droughts, historic heat and historic lightning strikes, this is what you get. >> can you elaborate on this and tell us why these fires seem to grow in their frosty and level of damage every year? >> sure. thank you for having me. so -- mismanagement by -- own

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>> absolutely. and apologies for the connectivity issues. >> no worries. >> i think where we got cut off, i was referencing the trump administration's own latest forest assessment of its national climate report in which scientists which scientists very clearly articulate why it is that we now have the conditions we're seeing that create such ferocious, explosive, and deadly fires. that is because as the temperature rises across the globe the west and the southwest in particular see hotter and drier summers, more extreme drought and the pests and disease which spread and create an epidemic of dead trees which create the timber for such dangerous fires. i would point your attention to one other thing too which is what the report also talks about

in terms of public health. people talk about climate change as an environmental issue but the fact is scientists have been calling our attention to the public health impacts of climate change which we are now living and breathing every single moment. you can't step outside anywhere in the state without inhaling smoke and the levels of particulate matter, and volatile, organic, toxic compounds in the air are so dangerous that local health authorities are advising people to stay indoors. >> as we are watching the west coast burn we are seeing extreme temperatures everywhere. the hottest summer on record in phoenix, arizona my hometown. denver saw record breaking heat. less than 48 hours later they saw snow. we are seeing an alarming hurricane season. i realize i am asking you to briefly talk about very different and complex issues but what is happening?

>> well, it is all cascading together. this is what the science calls the cascade effect. it is frankly overwhelming when you read about the projections that the scientists have been warning us about you sort of -- i think our brains like to separate things out into neater, compartmentalized categories. but the fact is, it's all happening at once. i mean, it was just last week as you point out where we were setting record temperatures for a few days in a row. the 60-degree temperature swing in denver is unbelievable. i think it went from around 101 to 30 degrees. that is on the heels of hurricane laura, the floods we're seeing across the globe, the melting of the arctic ice in the northern parts of our planet. and so all of this is happening together and i think that, you know, if this isn't a wakeup

call yet, it really -- i don't know what will be. at this point we really need our leadership in government at the state levels and also in the federal government to get their act together and start accelerating our transition to clean energy, lower carbon technologies, and a lower carbon -- really zero carbon economy. the good news is that we know how to do it. we have the technology that we need. the only thing we've been missing is the political will and collective action to really get started and begin building the clean energy economy that can protect us from these types of extremes and deadly climate events that are ongoing and seemingly more frequent. >> yes, as we're watching all of this video right now of these natural disasters, one word i'll repeat what you said, overwhelming. jake levine, thank you for joining us. after six months of closure the 9/11 museum and memorial in new york is now open again to

the public one day after the 19th anniversary of the september 11th attacks. the museum closed on march 13th due to the coronavirus pandemic. we'll go live to the memorial in downtown manhattan on this opening day. what's the energy like down there? >> reporter: it is an important first day. we've seen quite a few people coming through, two separate lines one for getting your ticket and one for going in. just 25% capacity. temperature checks, masks required. social distancing and of course throughout the interior here you can only go one way. they don't want any cross flow of traffic. we spoke to some folks in line about why they thought it was important to come out on day one as well as the museum's ceo about what this means. listen to what they told us. >> it is about knowing that the world will present you with challenges. sometimes challenges that break your heart. but we do have the capacity in

us to rise up, meet the challenge, and move forward. >> even though it's been 19 years, it is still very raw. you know, the first two years is extremely hard. we lost 343 brothers. you know, it gets better and better but it'll never go away. >> reporter: that gentleman also came to the tribute ceremony yesterday, which was quite emotional and of course due to covid restrictions they had prerecorded the names of the fallen and they had other saw of the measures in place. but thankfully it was still able to go on as well as the tribute in lights. that continued on from dusk to dawn. today a very busy day out here. we do not know if they've hit capacity but we do know that folks have formed a line consistently behind us and it seems like there are not just local new yorkers here but actually tourists traveling in from out of town. i have to give all the viewers out there a bit of useable information. if you do want to come out and

visit this memorial, this museum, or any of the other ones now open in new york you have to get advance tickets because of reduced capacity. >> well, tourists in new york city. interesting. haven't seen that for many months. thank you so much. that's it for me this hour. we'll see you back here tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. the news continues right here on msnbc.

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a good afternoon to you. i'm richard lui live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. thanks for spending your saturday afternoon with us. the president departs for nevada for a rally after he was forced to cancel two campaign events that breached coronavirus guidelines. the president then heads to california monday to assess the damage from the deadly wildfires there. the state's governor continues to highlight the role of global warming as a cause. we'll have a live report from california coming up for you. joe biden remains ahead in the latest "new york times" polling out today. in that he holds a small lead across several swing states. some of them within the margin of error. what that might mean for november as we watch for momentum. and then, recordings which show the president downplayed the risk of coronavirus. new allegations against the department of homeland security and attorney general bill barr, and the president's disparaging comments about military members. all of those headlines lingering. how t