good morning. it is sunday, september 20. we are 44 days out from election day. i'm ali velshi live in kenosha, wisconsin, the second stop of our special sunday series, "velshi across america 2020." i will be on the road every weekend, coming to you live from battleground states across the country. we begin with a brand-new "wall street journal"/nbc news poll showing joe biden leading president trump 8 points in a head to head matchup as the race for the oval office kicks into high gear. both candidates are out on the campaign trail trying to convey their message to the masses.

in some states votes have already been cast as early voting is under way. our top story, the nation continues to pay tribute to a late american i kcon. at the white house, flags are flying at half-staff in memory of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. although not formally announced, "the new york times" is indicating her body is expected to lie in repose at the supreme court so that large crowds can properly honor her. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell and other prominent senate republicans wasted no time discussing how and when to fill her speed on the supreme court. president trump says he's looking to act swiftly to replace ginsburg on the high court. he says he plans to nominate a woman next week, opening up a political battle that could transform the nation's highest court and alter the presidential

election. last night in a campaign stop in north carolina trump used the prospect of further stacking the court with conservatives as yet another plate of red meat for his base. >> so article ii of our discussion says the presidential nominate justices of the supreme court. [ cheering ] i hope you hear that back home. no, it says the president is supposed to fill the seat, right? and that's what we're going to do, we're going to fill the seat. >> simply unbelievable. a short time ago we learned that former vice president joe biden will be delivering remarks this afternoon in philadelphia, 2:00 p.m. eastern. those remarks are expected to be centered around the supreme court. now, joining me is democratic senator dick durbin of illinois. he serves as the senate minority whip. she's a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, good to see you, thank

you for being with us. let me ask you, given how quickly mitch mcconnell has moved on this, how quickly donald trump says he's going to move on this and how important the supreme court is, particularly to democratic voters, what can you do to hold off this onslaught, this juggernaut, this attempt to nominate and perhaps place a nominee, donald trump's nominee on the supreme court before the election? >> ali, there are a limited number of things we can do. what it boils down to is this. will four republican senators decide that it is too hypocritical to reverse the position they took four years ago when they denied to president obama the authority to fill a supreme court vacancy in the last year of his term. the argument mitch mcconnell and each one of them made was, wait a minute, we've got an election coming, let the american people have the last word as to the selection of the next supreme court justice. so if four republicans think it

is rank hypocrisy for them now to totally reverse their position, we have a chance to stop the process. >> all right. tell me how that looks, though, because there could be four republicans who say let's wait 'til after the election, but let's say that happens, the senate remains in session. there is a new president elected but not a new congress until the beginning of the year. what happens then? do republicans then go into even higher gear in a lame duck session to nominate a supreme court or to place a supreme court justice on the court? >> it's a good question, because there have been a lot of speculation as to whether or not if mcconnell has his way, reverses the position that he took four years ago, and the president sends a nominee, whether we would start the investigation and hearings even before the election, then have a vote on the in nominee between

election day and the inauguration. all speculation. if four republican senators say flat out, we will not vote for the motion to proceed, we want to wait and let the next president make that selection, the only exception would be the reelection of president trump, then they might consider it. i mean, there's a lot of uncertainty here as to where they're going. the point i want to make and was made earlier by senator hirono with whom i serve on the judiciary committee, we want the american people to understand, this isn't just a battle of words between the big shots in washington. this really comes down to the supreme court making decisions that affect every single one of us. more than 6 million americans have been tested for the covid-19 virus. in the eyes of the insurance industry, all of those americans and many more to follow have a preexisting condition. under obamacare, the insurance companies cannot discriminate against americans for preexisting conditions. the trump administration is in the supreme court now trying to abolish that protection. if they have their way, it means some people won't even be able

to buy health insurance let alone afford what's there. that's what it comes down to. when we say to people, the choice of a person on the supreme court means something to you and your family. >> i take it you don't take the president at his word last week when he says he has a better, cheaper plan, he just hasn't told anybody about this. there is talk that if joe biden wins and if democrats take the senate, they should expand the supreme court, add more seats to the supreme court. it's not in the constitution how many seats should be on the supreme court and the supreme court has changed in composition over time. critics say that could delegitimize the court if it's politicized. >> there's a lot of speculation about rule changes, the institution, every theory you can imagine. in the conference call we had yesterday with the senate democratic caucus, there were no proposals made along those

lines. the suggestion was we have to keep an open mind, let's see how the process unfolds. i think that's fair. but ali, consider this for a moment. when ruth bader ginsburg's nomination came before the united states senate in 1993, we had a requirement that it took 60 votes, 60 votes could stop any supreme court nominee. you wonder, here is a woman who argued cases for the aclu before the supreme court and so forth. she was approved by the senate 96-3. 96-3. to think of a different time when the supreme court was not as political as it is now, really it wasn't that long ago. and so when we talk about the approach of the senate, we can help to bring this country together if our rules reflect the fact that we need more moderate people serving on the supreme court. >> senator, good to see you as always. thank you for joining me. senate minority whip dick durbin of illinois. valerie jarrett was a senior

adviser in the obama administration. she is the author of "finding my voice." valerie, thank you for being with us, good to see you again. you were in the white house when -- these have all been the remarkable days of ruth bader ginsburg, but i want to get your sense first on the passing of the supreme court justice. >> oh, on a personal note, ali -- first of all, good morning -- my heart is heavy, my spirit is strong. as a young lawyer i followed her career, watching her argue but the supreme court on issues i care about, preventing discrimination against women. some of my best days in the white house were watching her at the supreme court, important cases such as the affordable care act, marriage equality, the rigor with which she asked questions, and her reputation for not only being an outstanding jurist but a good

human being, who cared about the humanity of the decisions they made. the fact that she devoted her entire career, first as a lawyer and then as a jurist, fighting for justice and equality. i send my condolences to her family and friends whose loss is mighty. it's a loss for our country as well. >> you talk about marriage equality, about the affordable care act, we can add school integration and abortion to that. there are a number of things that are salient to americans that are at risk if donald trump gets another appointee to the court before the election. how should joe biden, who is going to talking this afternoon, at 2:00 this afternoon, how should the presidential candidate be thinking about fighting back on this effort to nominate someone before the election? >> i think we all should be putting pressure on the senate, particularly the judiciary committee, but the full senate, and leader mcconnell who has done a complete 180-degree

reversal. in march of 2016, when president trump obama nominated chief judge of the d.c. circuit, the second highest court of the land, someone with an impeccable reputation, to the court, this is ten months before his successor was going to be sworn in, and mitch mcconnell said, oh, no, no, not in an election year, the american people have to weigh in. and now with just 40 days until the election they intend to jam it through? there should be pressure put on all of those in the senate who would be reversing their positions, the republicans in the senate who tried to strip president obama of this right, we just heard president trump saying article ii of the constitution gives him the power. if that's the case, why was president obama's nominee not allowed to go forward? a double standard, raw political standard. and there will be consequences. >> i want to ask you the question i asked dick durbin, to your point that there will be consequences. should those consequences

include democrats, if they take the senate and the white house, discussing expanding the court to reestablish some sort of balance on the supreme court? >> ali, i don't want to get ahead of ourselves. i think right now, our sole focus should be on the members of the senate in the republican party to say to them, you should wait until after the next president is sworn in. that's the right thing to do. we should not be jamming through an appointment as this right now. so i would say let's keep our focus on that. there are a number of republicans who are in vulnerable seats and we've already heard several of them speak out prior to this about what their position would be. we need to hold their feet to the fire. we all heard the tape that was replayed yesterday about lindsey graham, in a tight race, and he said i will not do this in an election year. well, are we going to hold him to his word or not? that's where the pressure should be. >> valerie jarrett, good to see you, always, thank you for

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to such an extraordinary woman. we'll let rbg's words speak for themselves. >> in my lifetime i expect to see three, four, perhaps even more women on the high court bench. there will be enough when there are nine. nobody asks any questions about all the years when all nine were men. men and women are persons of equal dignity and they should count equally before the law. >> you won't settle for putting susan b. anthony on the new dollar? [ laughter ] >> when they would say things like this, how would you respond? >> never in anger, as my mother told me, that would have been self-defeating. always take the opportunity to teach. and i was listening to him and

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and that is lake michigan. i'm here in kenosha, wisconsin. this is the second stop on "velshi across america 2020." i'll travel to a different battleground state each sunday leading up to the election and i'll speak to small groups of voters in those states to learn their thoughts on this crucial 2020 race. today we are in the battleground state of wisconsin. while this state has politics on its mind, the city of kenosha is reeling from racial unrest due to the police shooting of jacob blake and the ensuing protests. to that end, i asked my panel of voters how they feel about race in america and how much they believe it affects their lives. watch. let's talk about racism. you talked about the protests that have gone on in this country in the last six months or so, less than that, we've had protests for a few months. you're disappointed in the authorities' inability to keep communities safe. have you at any point been able

to think about the complaints that are behind some of those protests? do you believe that there is a structural racism problem in this country? >> i don't like the word "systemic racism." i also don't like the words "white guilt." i think, what does that mean, exactly? we can't help who we're born. i believe we live in a country where anybody can succeed. we have people come from nigeria that are doing better than americans, we have people from asia doing better than americans, we have people from india. so i think that's kind of a crock. they assume they're in a victim role. i don't believe in victimization. i believe there is more victory and lifting people up and making them feel equal because in the eyes of god we are all equal, correct? yes, we're not equally able to do the same things physically, i can't play basketball. but we are equal when it comes

to many of the rights we already have. we have many different organizations for hispanics and for blacks that whites don't have. right now it seems like white people, especially white men, are not doing as well in this country than they used to because of the vitriol that goes on. again, i'm not saying racism doesn't exist and i'm sure in some ways, but it's not just against one group of people. >> systemic racism, i don't think -- i don't think there's systemic racism. i do think there's racism for sure. to speak on my own experiences in life, i'm half mexican, i did half of my childhood out in kenosha county, predominantly white, the other half here. when i was out in kenosha county, i was called all sorts of racial slurs. when he came out to kenosha, i didn't live in a great neighborhood, over behind kmart,

and my closest friends were black guys. when their cousins came over to hang out, they would say, send that white kid inside, i don't want him hanging out with us. so racism is on both sides. i think the more that we keep making it, bringing it to the spotlight and making it an issue, that's when all the tensions come back up. that's when the violence starts happening. you know, is there -- are there racist cops? yes, i 100% agree with that. did that cop in kenosha here act appropriately? i'm not -- i'm not a police officer. i think seven shots is excessive. i don't know. >> i was raised, everybody is equal. that's how i was raised. that's all i can speak from. everybody has an equal shot. i mean, are some people jeopardized b ed by the color o

their skin? probably. but i know people who are on welfare who are white. i mean, all different colors. i don't think that discriminates. i really can't speak as far as i was never discriminated against. so i don't know how that feels, you know what i mean. >> it's hard, right? i guess that's part of the problem, if you don't have the lived experience, how do you know? >> i don't. but all i can do is say i was raised that everybody is equal. that's how my parents raised me. >> there's an issue with inequality in terms of income and those kind of things. we need to attend to it. but fundamentally there is also this issue of race. i've been stopped by the police twice in my life. i was 16 and speeding and got a ticket. again, i was in my late 30s, i was pulled over by a police officer i knew, he gave me a warning. neither of them would have reached their hands to their revolver, their service weapon. i was never at risk.

but when we see so many other things and so many other instances of people now filming it, it says that there are basic injustices that we have to attend to as a country if we want to be who we say we are in our constitution. >> nicole, you walk in interesting shoes here because you have mixed race children. some people say they haven't lived the experience. you've watched it and lived it. tell us your thoughts about racism in society right now. >> that's exactly what i was thinking when she was talking, because until i moved to western kenosha county, i had never experienced racism with my children either, because we were -- they were in a diverse environment until then. so when it happened, i was shocked, appalled. i couldn't believe it. i thought this was something that was put to bed in the '60s or the '70s. and the pain and the hurt from

seeing my children come home from school and throw up and cry themselves to sleep because of, you know, the derogatory names they were called. until you actually experience it, you can't fathom it. so when they say it like it doesn't exist, probably really doesn't exist in their world. but sthey should take the time o listen to other people who have, and consider it. when trump and other elected officials say it doesn't exist, they're just dismissing it. it does exist. just because you haven't experienced it. and if you haven't experienced it, you should take the time to find someone who has so you can help them. we're all kenosha county citizens. we're all, you know -- and it just -- it really disturbs me that they don't take that time, they just say, it doesn't affect me so it doesn't exist. >> thank you.

what can you say to people who come in good faith to have a conversation, who say, i haven't seen this, i haven't felt it? what's in your heart that you want to say to people who don't have your lived experience and for whatever reason, don't see it? >> i first want to say, believe me when i tell you it exists. you can't know what somebody else has experienced or what they've lived through. and it's not just race. if you're a woman, you can't know what a woman experiences and a woman can't know what a man experiences when it comes to misogyny. the first thing i say if someone comes to me, i say come with an open mind and take what i say at face value. the minute you decide what i'm saying is not correct or not true or not honest, that closes

the door for whoever is approaching me to truly understand. when it comes to racism, yes, we have the individual acts of racism. and i think when most people say they didn't experience it, that's what they're talking about. and of course a white individual isn't going to experience individual acts of racism. but when we're talking about systemic racism, it does not matter what the intentions of the individual players are in that system. the system is set up to be raci racist. just the way that the system of racism has progressed over the last 400 years, it's a well-oiled machine that runs no matter what its actors' intentions are within that machine. and so in order to change it, first people need to acknowledge that it's real and that it exists and then people need to be intentional about trying to address it. >> my deep gratitude to those wisconsinites for participating. i'm looking forward to asking

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if there's a republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, lindsey graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination. and you could use my words against me and you would be absolutely right. >> i'll tell you this. if an opening comes in the last year of president trump's term, and the primary process is started, we'll wait 'til the next election. and i've got a pretty good chance of being the judiciary -- >> you're on the record. >> yeah. hold the tape. >> hold the tape. all right. lindsey graham speaking back in 2016 and 2018. with 44 days to go until the election, the country is now in a strikingly similar position to the example put forth by the south carolina senator. graham, chairman of the senate judiciary committee which approves judicial nominees, has

of course changed his tune this week after the death of justice ruth bader ginsburg. yesterday he tweeted out support for president trump who he says will nominate a woman to the befrnl th bench this week. quote, i stand by what i said in january 2019. harry reid and chuck schumer changed the senate rules to try and stack the courts for obama. now it's coming back to haunt them as i predicted. i'm dead set on confirming donald trump's nominee, end quote. with me now to discuss what can only be seen as a fight of a lifetime is democratic senator patrick leahy of vermont. he sits on the senate judiciary committee that lindsey graham chairs, he's the seniormost member on that committee. senator, i spoke to senator dick durbin in the last hour. he said in the phone call you all had yesterday, the discussion of sort of taking a very decisive option of, if the democrats take control of the senate after the election, expanding the court, was not something that was discussed. so to democratic voters who are

very worried right now about what's going to happen, what can you do? >> for one thing, when i came to the senate, it was understood senators kept their word. lindsey graham gave his solemn word that there would not be any movement on the supreme court nominee this close to the election. i am sorry to see him breaking his word. i hope he'll think about that and go back and keep his word, the same with leader mcconnell. this idea that you can just change things around to fit the mood, for example, although i'm glad to see you looking so well, i know the president last night said it was a beautiful thing when you got shot with a rubber bullet at a demonstration. i would urge the president, i don't think he's ever taken the time to read the constitution,

but there is freedom of press in there. and when they try to turn the supreme court into a political arm of the white house, when they try to subjugate and censor a free press, the damage being done to this country is something we will suffer for for years. you add to that the racism that gets incited by this white house, i really worry for the country. but now, with the supreme court, if they continue on this trend, they're going to diminish and demean the supreme court so much that people no longer have any sense of or give any sense of credibility to our courts. >> senator, thank you for your words of support for the first

amendment. we at msnbc are also very, very concerned about the chilling effect of the attempted intimidation of journalists by the president. but we do say to him that we will not be intimidated, we will continue to do our work. senator, what is your sense of the best way for the selection of the next supreme court justice to unfold? is it your opinion that the whole thing should be put on hold until after election day and whomever the next president is chooses and nominates that person? >> for one thing, we ought to be celebrating the life of running back right now. that's what the president should be talking about. the way she stood up for equal rights for all americans, the way she stood up for women and the fact that she was a model for so many people throughout this country, we ought to be celebrating that to have somebody that both republicans and democrats should celebrate. but then we ought to say for the

credibility of the supreme court, to keep the supreme court out of politics, whoever is president after january 20, let that person nominate somebody to fill this vacancy, and then let the u.s. senate have an honest debate on it. doing it this way is the worst possible way to try to ram something through. it is going to so demean our federal court system, it's going to so politicize it, people are not going to have faith in their courts. the president has tried to say, don't have faith in the free press. he's now saying don't have faith in your courts. this is the sort of thing that vladimir putin might do but it should never be done by any president, republican or democratic, in this country.

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there's the cheese castle we're looking at here. historically republicans have been more interested in the appointment of judges as an issue in the presidential election. polling shows in 2016, 62% of hillary clinton voters ranked supreme court seats as very important in the election. trump supporters ranked it at 70%. things are changing in part because democrats have witnessed donald trump deliver on a key campaign promise to stack the federal bench and the supreme court with ideological conservatives. that same poll question asked of biden and trump supporters shows that 66% of biden's supporters believe that court seats are very important versus 61% of trump supporters. and that poll was taken before the vacancy of justice ginsburg's seat, which now could do much more to galvanize support. shortly after trump released the names of those conservatives he would consider putting up for

the job of supreme court justice, senator tom cotton, whose name was on the list, tweeted this. it's time for roe v. wade to go. and now it could be possible that roe could go. another issue you probably thought was settled, brown versus board of education of topeka, kansas, long considered to be settled law, is now considered up for debate among actual and potential trump judicial employees. joining me now, the president of emily's list which aims to elect democratic feel candidates to office, and the executive director of black pac. thank you both for being with me again. stephanie, i want to put up a screen of the number of states that have just one abortion clinic. that's not even the biggest problem. the fact is there are attacks on abortion rights in various forms that are all prepared to go to the supreme court and to a more

conservative supreme court if there is one. the bottom line is abortion rights are actually on the table and at risk. >> oh, that is absolutely the case. we have seen this legislature by legislature, it's one of the reasons emily's list has invested so much in changing state legislatures which are passing so many of these laws. that's why it's such a loss and heart black to lose justice ruth bader ginsburg at this moment. she's been such a fighter for everything we care about, reproductive rights, civil rights, voting rights, the list goes on and on. as i look at this particular election, just as we did in 2018, when democrats took the house back because of women voters, particularly in those suburban districts, they were driven by the desire to protect the affordable care act, which is also on the chopping block at the courts, and they care deeply

in this nation where well over seven out of ten americans believe roe should be the law of the land as it is. this is a mobilizing situation. and i think in an election where we already have seen so much ha energy around women voters this is just going to add to it. because you're exactly right. roe is very much at risk. >> adrian, we know about roe. we know about the affordable care act because there will be a decision on that very soon after the election. but i think there are people who would be surprised that brown versus the board of education is not actually a thing that has been established and decided a long time ago. talk about basic civil rights. most of us thought this was ancient history. it's not according to a number of people who president trump has put up for judicial nomination. there are people who have actually said they don't believe that that is a settled matter.

>> yeah, that's correct. you know, our courts often reflect our nation's values and we know that for the last 40 years republicans have been trying to undermine and roll back the civil rights legislation that's gotten us so far in terms of progress, in terms of equality in our country. i think that this also just brings into stark relief the myriad ways in which mitch mcconnell has debased the united states senate and has put forward wholly unqualified nominees for the federal bench that like you said can't even bring themselves to say that brown v. board was settled properly. that is -- i agree with stephanie. this is actually a mobilizing opportunity. i think that voters see this moment as a way to both protect all of the issues that we just -- that we just define as being in front of the court, but also really thinking about how

important the senate is in this moment with all of the potential to flip seats. this is -- this is going to be the real motivator for the voters both in making sure we shore up the senate but also in terms of fighting for issues that people completely did not think that we would be fighting for in the year 2020. >> yeah. so stephanie, to emily's list and to black pack, to groups like yours, you know the importance of the supreme court and you know the importance of the senate. though two things have suddenly come together. do you believe that is enough of a motivating force for democrats because traditionally when you ask democrats to list their stuff, they list issues but not process. and what we're talking about here with the senate and the supreme court is process not issues. >> well, you just showed those pew numbers and it's not not the

only bit of research we have seen that democrats are more focused on the course than the republicans. that old political theory that democrats don't care about this has completely shifted under the trump administration because the truth is we do not trust trump and the senate republicans to do the right thing here. to actually make nominee choices that are going to be the best for this nation. and that in and of itself is going to be a mobilizing factor. so it is -- it is the court but it is the court and what the court is going to do to the affordable care act, to reproductive freedom, to voting and civil rights and the list goes on and on. they are not separate. they are all tied together and like i said, we have already been very, very focused particularly women voters. we have talked about this. we're looking at an electorate that could be 55% women voters or higher and you think they're

not going to care about this. they are scared to death about losing their health care as it is and they know that the court has a say on this. on top of their reproductive rights. this is definitely going to be galvanizing and you will see i think some additional polling in the days and weeks to come here. i don't even think we understand how much energy is going to ignite among democrats and women in this country and even frankly independent women and republican women who realize that civil rights and -- just talking about brown versus board of education, that that's even a conversation, you throw in roe, the stakes are so, so high and we have got -- we have got to take the senate back and there's going to be huge motivation. you have already seen it in the donations over the weekend. but now -- >> i was going say, right under -- right under you said it more than $71 million donated to

democrats in the hours after the death of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the associated press reporting that the liberal icon's passing and the contentious nomination fight that lies ahead has already galvanized the party's base. it will be interesting to see how that materials with 44 days to go until the election. thank you. i'm appreciative when you join me on the tour. next sunday, i will be in the battle ground state of colorado, in the city of pueblo. catch me saturday and sunday morning. up next, "a.m. joy" hosted by my friend, jonathan capehart. stay for our new weekend lineup. catch "american voices" followed by the weak with joshua johnson at 8:00 p.m. eastern. happy sunday to you.

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♪ good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." i'm jonathan capehart. the country is still reeling from the monumental loss of supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. a massive outpouring of praise and adoration continued overnight. but her now vacant seat has also ignited a heated congressional battle that could have major political implications for decades. not even 24 hours after ginsburg's death, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and donald trump announced plans to quickly fill ginsburg's seat and on saturday, trump doubled down on that vow. >> we won and we have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want. i do, i have a short list. i could see most likely it would be a