whatever else is really going on in the news. tonight, though, the president has cross adeline in his public remarks that bring us to a new place as a country, and we're going to be talking about that in some detail tonight. but we're going start tonight with our eyes on louisville, kentucky. louisville, kentucky. an all-night curfew has just gone into effect this hour, as of the last few seconds. it comes at the end of a tense day in louisville, which followed a tense sumner that city. there have been protested on the streets of louisville, kentucky, for 119 consecutive days, protests over the police killing of breonna taylor in march of this year as the kentucky attorney general announced whether there would be charges brought against any of the officers involved, much of downtown louisville was closed off with vehicles, concrete barriers, store fronts were boarded up, a three-night curfew

was announced, the national guard was deployed. it almost looks like preparations for a hurricane or impending flood. tonight there has been continued protests. there have been some arrests. some protesters have set small fires. police are out in large numbers, and we are receiving reports just in the last few minutes, preliminary reports, that a police officer may have been shot in downtown louisville. our nbc affiliate in louisville reporting tonight that an officer was shot around 8:30 p.m. tonight. we'll bring you more information on that as we have it. we're going to be going to our reporters live on the ground in just a moment, but all afternoon and evening reporters on the ground in louisville say there is a palpable sense of anger and grief and disbelief there all of these months into this controversy after a grand jury indicted one of the three police officers involved in breonna taylor's death.

that one officer was not charged with anything having do with her death specifically. the former police officer was charged with wanton endangerment. wanton endangerment specifically of breonna taylor's neighbors because as the grand jury described his indiscriminate shooting sent bullets flying into their apartment. so he is not charged with shooting breonna taylor. he's charged with endangering her neighbors by firing wildly into their apartment once this incident unfolded. the investigation concluded the fatal bullet came from one of the other two officers. those other two officers, the investigation found, were justified because breonna taylor's boyfriend shot at the police when they fired into her apartment.

he claims they never identified themselves as police. he says he and miss taylor were awoken from their bed. they thought they were invaded. that's why they fired. the police did not announce they were the police. today, kentucky's attorney general found one witness who corroborated the police saying they announced police. the people of that state and the people of this country can see the evidence for themselves. as for brett hankison, he was booked into jail at 4:30 this afternoon. 32 minutes later he was released on $15,000 bond. there was a scene at jefferson park where 200 protesters gathered to hear the announcement over the loudspeaker.

he said, quote, as it concluded there was confusion at first and then anger from those that gathered. one woman asked, is that it? protesters almost immediately began chanting "no justice, no peace." several cried at the news of the grand jury's decision. one said, quote, i'm heartbroken. this is not the justice system if it's not for everybody. an attorney for breonna taylor's family, benjamin crump, called the decision outrageous and offensive to breonna taylor's memory. he said if brett hankison's behavior was wanton endangerment in taylordataylor's neighbor's apartment, it should have been wanton endangerment in taylor's apartment. now we learn two officers have been shot and are in the

hospital. we'll bring more details as we have them. we're expecting a press conference later this oochbing. joining us now is cal perry. what can you tell us about where you are and what you've seen tonight, what we should understand about how this is unfolding tonight. >> we're here outside of jefferson square park. curfew started about six minutes ago. got an alert on the phone, so this is about as close as we're going to get. we're about 0.8 of a mile from where the officers were shot. there will be a press conference, we understand, later. that news immediately changed the mood here. for about two hours think s th as they had been in the past. there were minor clashes with

the police. i'm saying minor because we're talking about water bottles being thrown at the police. as you see here, there's a few minor fires. all of this, a long way of saying that people here have been telling us tonight they do not believe that the law was designed to protect breonna taylor. over 195 days of protests leading to tonight and as you laid out, now charges related directly to the breonna taylor shooting. we heard from her family who basically have called this a miscarriage of justice. they're very upset. the legal team as well. we'll have to see what that did, the two officers been shot -- again, we don't know their condition -- what that does to the city. it will likely be a turning point. they will likely enforce the curfew. as you see, the streets are almost empty of protesters, they've basically gone home now. >> cal, you mentioned you're less than a mile from where you

believe those officers were shot. do we understand anything further about the circumstances of their shooting? is there any information that we've been able to obtain from official sources or straight out reporting as to what may have occurred? >> reporter: it has a city that was concerned about things turning violent. even more concerned now. as we head later in the evening, i think the real question is how strictly will they enforce the curfew. after breonna taylor was killed, there was a second incident. david macatee was shot by the

national guard and the police as they moved through the city. that caused the city to remove the national guard. it really lowered the tensions here. tonight we're seeing the opposite. we're seeing a ramping up of force as you see behind me by the louisville police, rachel. >> you're talking about the enforcement of the curfew by police. we're into a few minutes of curfew by time. in terms of the hundreds of protesters out there before, did the police have to clear protesters from the streets in order to show us the kind of visuals we've got from your shot, or did protesters themselves withdraw as the clock struck the time that the curfew went into effect? >> reporter: so at 8:00 p.m., one hour ago, there was an announcement made it was an unlawful assembly over a loudspeaker by the police. the thing that triggered that

were these small fires. once they were lit, that's when the police decided to move in. they used some of those non-lethal pepper ball rounds and started to move the crowd. the crowd tried to set one of the buildings on fire. everything downtown was boarded up. they tried to set one of the boards on fire. that's when the police decided to step in and lay down force. they used flashbang grenades and pepper spray and the crowd sort of backed off. once the word spread, again, that those officers were shot -- and i think it spread pretty quickly, and, again, it was about a mile from here, this entire city has been following one story for 194 days, and that's the story of breonna taylor. word spread fast. so this area that's been demarcated by the police, there's a ring of dump trucks that's blocking off a 10x10 block radius. once the officers were shot,

it's like everyone cleared out of this area, rachel. >> cal perry, i know you've been there many times over the past few nights as a night like no other. we'll be back over the course of the night, cal. thank you. >> thanks, rachel. nbc new's cal perry in downtown louisville. again, we're following reports in downtown louisville in reaction to the news announced today that one officer will be charged in conjunction with the incident which breonna taylor was killed by a police bullet. one officer will be charged. it is not a police officer who shot breonna taylor. he was charged with wanton endangerment for having fired wildly into taylor's neighbor's apartment and endangering the people in that apartment. calling for the charging of the officers who killed breonna

taylor, we are, as you're seeing in these images, seeing a huge police presence in downtown louisville. we have seen protesters out tonight. we have seen minor confrontations between police officers and protesters, but there is this late-breaking news that we just got from a louisville police spokesperson that two officers under circumstances we cannot yet explain have been shot and gone to the hospital. we do not know more about the officers being shot. we are expecting a live press conference i would expect this hour, but all eyes tonight on louisville, kentucky, for all of the obvious reasons. we're going to keep an eye on louisville tonight. there's statement from the white house this evening that's causing me to break my rule about what the presidenot only president does but what he says.

we've got more on that ahead. stay with us. we've got more on that ahead stay with us

what wouldn't he do? try to narrow it down. what is the thing you can think of that may conceivably be used to keep this president in power that he would not do even if he had a chance. what is the thing that's a bridge too far, something that could work to keep him installed as president but he would not result to that because it is too bad for the country or too extreme. where do you think his limits are? >> will you make sure there is a peaceful transfer of power after the election? >> we'll have to see what happens. you know that. i have been complaining strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. >> i understand that, but people are rioting.

do you commit to make sure there is a peaceful transfer? we'll get rid of the ballots and there will be -- there won't be a transfer, frankly. there will be a continuation. >> the ballots are out of the control. >> get rid of the ballots and there won't need to be a transition of power, there will be a continuation of power. >> get rid of the ballots and there won't be a transfer. there will be a continuation of power. what does he mean by get rid of the ballots? he literally means get rid of the ballots. make sure they're not counted. i mean this isn't some inarticulate blurt or misfire interest the president speaking at the podium from the white house tonight. this is what he is saying consistently now over the last few days. this is what he means. >> with the unsolicited millions of ballot s at this end, it's a

scam. it's a hoax. the democrats know that. you know it better than anybody else. you're going to need nine justices up there. i think that's really important. what they're doing is a hoax with the ballots. >> what they're doing is a hoax with the boll lots. get rid of the boll lots, and there won't need to be a transition of power. there will be a continuation of power. this is not a hyperbolic statement of what he's saying. this is not him verbally glitching. this is him repeatedly and consistently from him of where we are at now. >> this scam that the democrats are pulling, it's a scam. the zam will be before the united states supreme court. i think it's very important to have a ninth justice.

>> all those remarks from the president today and yesterday. the president now saying insistently that the election will not be decided by the voters, that this election will not be a real election. those ballots used in election, the ballots are a scam. we need to get rid of the ballots. he's saying explicitly that he expecting the supreme court which he's trying to appoint a new justice right before the election. he expects it is the supreme court which handles the question of who the next president is. rather than the voter themselves, it will be the court. he expects the conservative majority will throw out the ballots and then we won't have to worry about a transition of power peaceful or otherwise because it will be a continuation of power because then he'll stay. >> get rid of the ballots.

there won't be a transfer, frankly. there will be a continuation. >> yeah, it will be very peaceful when i stay in power because we'll stop the ballots. we'll have to get rid of those and i will continue in power. we are here. it is now upon us. there is not any ambiguity of where this is heading, what his intentions might be, or what lengths he'll go to. we are here. when the president said weeks ago he wanted to delay the election -- remember that? elected republicans said at that point, no, we don't think we'll delay the election. it will happen in november. now he's flat out saying it that the reasons he want to move ahead with getting a new justice on the bench because he's declaring now in advance that ballots cast in the election don't count. it is a part of a fraud or hoax and illegitimate and it will be the court including his newly appointed justice that will -- what is the phrase he used -- that will, quote, get rid f the

ballots to stop the democratic hoax election, so there doesn't have to be a transfer of power to a new president. we are there, everybody. it took four years, it turns out, 244 years to stand this republican up, four years to cut it down. just under a thousand americans died today from coronavirus. we are up around 40,000 new cases. every day, seven days a week, we lose people, depending on the day and where it is surging now. missouri with mike parsons and his wife announced they just tested positive. the first lady is sick from her infection as well. like a number of pro-trump

governors, they're something of a denialist. here he is at an event in july telling a crowd, you don't need government to tell you to wear a dang mask. governor parsons is resting at home with his wife. he canceled upcoming events. both now have tested positive. cnn reporting that dr. birx is distressed over the task force of the white house and the radiologist apparently who's taken over the task force now from the infectious disease and epidemiologist expert who used to be a part of it now. he publicly and apparently

privately has questioned why people need to wear masks and why it's a good thing to get as many people possibly infected, and, boy, it seems like there's too much testing, doesn't it there? the president likes his advice, so that's why the white house is running with, that's who's in charge with coronavirus in the white house now. dr. fauci lost his cool with one republican senator kept on spewing that same kind of fox sense herd immunity and all the rest. dr. redfield is facing calls for his resignation amid mounting reports of how he has failed to protect his agency, how he's succumbed and proceeded and participated in political pressure from the white house. some of that reporting about redfield being a willing

instrument of that pressure from the white house is coming from right here on the show. today in congress under oath robert redfield answered questions about our reporting last night on him effectively tampering with cdc science with the report of cdc scientists, making them rescind their report at the meet-packing plant and water it down, in an industry where tens of thousands of americans have gotten infected at work and hundreds have died. we'll have more of that coming up this hour. but this mix that we now live in, this mix of profound government failure and increasingly rapid profound radicalization, we've got over 200,000 americans dead in six

months. 20% of the world's fatalities, and we've got the biggest epidemic and the corruption in government, off the charts to the point where it's literally lard to keep track on a daily basis, even when like me you get paid every day to follow this stuff in the news. it barely made a ripple today. he's up for confirmation after illegally running that agency for months without being confirmed, turns out his wife's firm has received $6 million in homeland security department contracts since he's been on board there. they never had contracts with homeland security before now but they sure do now since her husband chad wolfe got a trump administration job there. that's a show-stopping multi-million-dollar corruption

allegation. good luck squeezing a single headliner or two out of that one. it is absolutely hard for the course when the corruption is this thick in the administration. this went without notice, we learned what was going on when the trump energy secretary quit the cabinet when impeachment charges being brought against the president over him trying to force ukraine to help him win re-election. it turns out the trump energy secretary, rick perry, had been using his own government job at the time, his cabinet secretary, to try to line up what might have been a $20 billion energy deal in ukraine for a company run by his own political donors that he had just left the board of and that he has returned to the board of since he suddenly and unexpectedly quit right in the middle of impeachment. again, like, blip. that wasn't even one day's news

because you can't keep up. today ron johnson published a long promised report about biden and ukraine and biden's son and stuff, and it did not land the way johnson hoped it would. this, for example, is a headline today from "the new york times" on senator johnson's work. inquiryies find no wrongdoing b biden. that's not the way he hoped it would land, but when you are senator johnson, you get what you can. his sources from his bombshell reporting on joe biden included one guy who was sanctioned by the u.s. government for being quote, "an active russian agent for over a decade maintaining close connection with the

intelligence services. quote, this guy was, quote, waving a campaign, concerning u.s. officials in the 2020 presidential election. senator ron johnson start denying he had anything to do with that source. he's a russian intelligence agent. that's after the sanctions against him. he kept on citing another source that the fbi explicitly warned congress back in march that they should not take information from this other guy because they believed him to be a conduit intended to disrupt our election. but senator johnson went ahead with it anyway because that guy was his witness from whom he's getting all this good dirt. look at all this stuff i got from biden. none of this is proven, but it all comes from the mouth of what this guy says.

senator johnson doesn't have anything on joe biden or his family, but he did produce an 80-something-page report today that turns out to be a good index of what the russian int intelligence is doing to try to get president trump re-elected. this time they're doing it with a knowing assist from the elected u.s. republican senator, even after the fbi warned against it. the fbi also issuing a public warning last night that foreign actors and cyber criminals will try to atact and disrupt the presidential election this year skpleskly by exploiting t-- exp trying to distract the election this year. this year with covid necessitating a lot of mail and balloting, it could take a lot longer than usual. the foreign actors who want to make us disbelief that the election is sound and the election results can and how old be trusted and they'll produce an election results that tells us who's the next president of

the united states will be. foreign actors seeking to do us harm will seek to undermine our confidence in our election by telling us that it is a hoax or any ballots that are counted on election day are some sort of scam. foreign actors seeking do us harm will seek to undermine us by telling us that it's a hoax and any ballots counted after election day is some sort of scam. also, the president will stoke that and do that from the white house tonight per your own eyes and ears. the president is doing exactly what the fbi just warned us is being done by foreign powers hostile to us to try to undo our democracy. they're doing it covertly. the president is doing it out loud. it's the exact same message. and it's apparently not just him. as trump appointed officials from the white house

spokesperson to the attorney general and everyone in between starts parroting the president's disinformation how the ballots are a problem and the ballots can't be trusted, reporter from "the atlantic" says the trump campaign is working on a plan to nullify the ballots, to nullify the results of november elect n elections and install trump another term through the electoral college. again, i know this sounds like brainstorming, right? it sounds like the worse case scenario that everybody tries to stretch their brain to come up when trump starts talking in these small anti-democratic ways in 2016, but now it's here, right? it is like solid reporting of what they are doing and it is our own eyes and ears in terms

of what the president is saying. it is no longer theoretical. we don't have to wonder about it anymore. now we're living it. now we have to figure out what to do about it. here's bart gelman reporting today in "the atlantic," quote, the worst case is not that trump rejects the election outcome. the worst case is that he uses his power to prevent a decisive outcome against him. if trump sheds all restraint and if his republican allies plays the parts he assigns them, he could obstruct the emergence of an a legally unambiguous victory for biden. he could prevent the formation of consensus about whether there is any outcome at all.

he could seize on that uncertainty to hold onto power. december 8th is known as the safe harbor deadline for appointing the 538 men and women who make up the electoral college. where he accustom to choosing electors by popular vote. each state shall appoint electors in such manner as the ledge layture thereof may direct. every state has seated the decision of who the electors are to its voters. even so the supreme court afirm firmed in "bush v gore" they can take back the power to elect electors. how and when a stay may do so have not been tested for well over a century. quote, trump may test this. the trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to by pass the election results. he could instead appoint loyal

electors in battleground states where republicans hold the control of the state legislature. trump would ask state legislatures to set aside the popular vote in their state and exercise their power instead to choose a slate of electors directly. the longer trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure state ledge laters will feel to act before the safe harbor deadline expires. to a modern democratic sensibility, discarding the popular vote for licensing gains may look like a coup. by there point, party officials are being invested and narrative of fraud in the election. the trump campaign legal adviser

i spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people's will. the state legislatures would say all right we have been given these constitutional power, we don't think the results are accurate. so here's our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state, the trump adviser said. quote, in pennsylvania, three republican leaders already told me they discussed the appointment of electors among themselves. one, the chairman of pennsylvania said he had discussed it already with trump's re-election campaign. this is based on sources at the trump campaign, sources advising the trump campaign on this strategy and sources in the republican legislators who are saying, yeah, they're talking to

to the trump campaign about doing this. it's a real plan to get corront of the legislatures, have republican-controlled legislatures nullify any elections in their states. we don't think anything on election night counts. they will nullify election night in their states. they will say this is all a fraud, this is all a hoax. we know who won this state. we'll appoint electors to the electoral college who will tell you that trump won this state because the state legislatures have that power, and that, of course, would only happen amid a blizzard of court challenges, which would very quickly go to

the supreme court, which is why the president insists he put somebody on the supreme court right now before the election to make sure this plan works, to keep him installed for a second term regardless of who votes how on election day or before. it's here. we are here. it's happening. we don't have to wonder anymore as individuals, right? we don't have to wonder. i mean, as citizens we don't have to wonder what it would be like to live through a time like this. as individual citizens, we don't have to wonder anymore how we would react, how we would react, what we would do for our country if our country was ever in this kind of peril. you now know what you would do for your country if your country was ever in this much danger. it's whatever it is you're doing right now. what you're doing now, what you're planning to do for the next six weeks, that's what you're made of. that's what you'll be able to say you did when your country needed you.

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. will you commit to making sure there's a peaceful transferral of power after the election? we'll have to see, you know that. i have been complaining strongly about the ballots and the ballots are a disaster. >> i understand that. but people are rioting. do you commit making sure there is a peaceful transfer. >> we'll get rid of a ballots and we'll have peaceful transfer. there won't be a transfer, frankly. there will be a continuation. the ballots are out of control. >> the president crossing a bright red line tonight saying the ballots are a problem, that he expects the ballots to be gotten rid of, and once that happens, there will be no question. there will be a peaceful transfer of this country. there will be no transfer. there will be a continuation of his power, and that he can

guarantee of the peaceful process. the president's unequivocal claim now that the vote does not count and the election is a rigged process and he has plans to undo. that crossed from the level of sort of dystopian small "d" democratic nightmare and threat today and something different when it was reported in "the atlantic" that the trump campaign is also, quote, discussing contingency plans to by pass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where republicans hold the legislative majority. the campaign is already communicating with this prospect. adam schiff warns today, we see this crescendo in an effort to discredit the votes of millions stacked the supreme court and disenfranchise millions and perpetuate himself. there's a common denominator, and that is using instruments of power to perpetuate power in an

anti-democratic fashion. chairman schiff said, quote, it's how you see dmemocracies come to an end. joining us now is the chairman of the intelligence committee, adam schiff. mr. chairman, thank you for making time to be here tonight. i know it is a busy time. >> thank you, rachel. >> as a rule, i don't cover statements by the president unless they are linked to actions by the president because he says a lot of things that come to naugt and are designed kind of to get a rise out of people and turn the news cycle to his advantage. it strikes me that this remark tonight that the election is fraudulent and there will know be a transfer of power and that those are something different that this sort of crosses the line into words of action, that this is essentially the president is in new territory in terms of his threat to the democracy.

>> rachel, you are absolutely right to focus tonight on his words as well as his deeds. they do cross a very bright line. and over the course of this presidency, some of his sporters have been able to write off his remarks as well. that's just trump being trump or clearly he is joking. there's no question that he means exactly what he said, and people fail to take that seriously at our national peril. this is a moment that i would say to any republican of good conscience working in the administration, it is time for you to resign. it is time for you to resign. if you have been debating about whether you can continue to serve this country by serving this president, you can't. it is time to resign. and i would say to those who have been on the sidelines maintaining a dignified silence who have served in the administration in the past, you cannot maintain your silence any longer.

you have to maintain dignified speech now. you have to speak out. do not wait until we have the election. do not wait until after we have the chaos the president wants after the election when he seeks to, as he says, get rid of the ballots because if you do wait and knowing what it has become, you will share some of the burden of responsibility for that chaos that will come. so this is a time for all good is people of conscience to speak, act, and preserve our democracy. there is no longer any question of this president's intentions. his intentions are as clear as the writing on the wall. i am glad you are spending time focusing on this because i think no one will be able to say they did not see this coming when he has so clearly telegraphed his intent now. >> it seems to me, mr. chairman, that we have sort of -- what this does is that we no longer have suspense.

i think that a lot of the anticipation and worrying and sort of gaming out potential scenarios in terms of how far he might go had a timeline in mind where we would wait to see what happens on november 3rd. it seems to me the president and his campaign and his supporter in the white house and elsewhere in the administration and in congress have crossed into territory now where as far as they are concerned, it does not matter what happens on november 3rd, that the tallying of the ballots is declared in advance to be inauthentic, to be something that is a sucker's game, that is part of this hoax. the entire election is a hoax. he's essentially running against the election rather than running for re-election. how should the biden campaign or people who aren't supportive or are trying to out flank the

president or his ma maneuverer, i think their focus is no longer on whatever the vote tally looks like whenever the votes start getting counted. >> well, you know, i think the biden campaign, certainly those of us in congress, are making every effort to push back and prepare for these contingencies and ready to be engaged and save your democracy if and when the president seeks to get rid of the ballots as he was saying. and if republican operatives around the country try to seek electors notwithstanding the popular vote in this state. we're doing everything we can. but those who are watching us now, they have a bigger responsibility, frankly, because it's in all of our hands to make sure that this scenario does not play out, that the result is not closed, that, indeed, it's landslide repudiation of donald trump.

that is the only outcome that is the path forward. the president should retain the electoral college leads to a disaster for our country and democracy. our mission has to be clear which is to make this results so overwhelming that it could not be contested and the president's efforts to throw out the ballots fall on deaf ears because i think one thing that "the atlantic" article gets quite right, that is there is no clear playbook for this situation. we've never had a president in advance say that he's unwilling to accept the votes of millions and will not transfer office peacefully. so we have to take matters into our own hands by registering everyone and turning them out. the good news is we have the capacity to do it because we have the numbers to do it. the reason why the president is

so fixated and mcconnell is so fixated on disenfranchising people and throwing out ballots is because they know they represent a defining minority of americans, a shrinking minority of americans. even if they do everything right, we can still win if we do our jobs right. that's what we have to do. as i mentioned, this is a time for people of conscience in both parties. these are the statements of a would-be dictator. there's too much evidence to the contrary. and so we know what we have to do in terms of turning our people out, but republicans of good conscience now know what they need to do, which is they need to stand up and be counted. >> adam schiff is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. sir, when we asked you to be on the show torn, i had a list of about 400 things to ask you

about. i still have 399 of those left in spite of the president's remarks and your reaction to them. i hope you come back soon. there's a lot going on, sir. >> thank you. much more ahead tonight. busy night. stay with us. e ahead tonight. busy night stay with us ...now temperature balancing, so you can sleep better together. save up to $1,000 on the new sleep number 360 smart bed and adjustable base. plus, 0% interest for 24 months. only for a limited time.

we continue to watch unfolding events tonight in louisville, kentucky. a curfew went into effect at the top of this hour. there is a heavy police presence downtown. after months of protests in the wake of the police killing of breonna taylor inside her home, today a grand jury returned an indictment against one of the three officers involved. that officer's not charged with anything related to do -- related to taylor's killing. he's charged with endangering taylor's neighbors by firing indiscriminately into their apartment. amid protests earlier this evening in downtown, louisville. police say two officers were shot and taken to the hospital. we're seeking further information on the condition of the officers and the circumstances of that shooting.

one source tonight is telling us that one of the officers was shot in the abdomen below a bulletproof vest and that officer is surgery. they're reporting a second officer was shot in the high, but we're not independently confirming that and i will caution you it is a single source report in the local paper. we did hear from cal perry this afternoon after news spread of these officers being shot and as the curfew went into effect at the top of the hour, the protests downtown did quickly dissipate and it is just a police show down there right now. we are awaiting a press conference from authorities any minute now and we'll bring that to you live when it happens. stay with us. stay with us ♪

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at this hour, the public viewing, the ability for the public to pay their respects to recently deceased supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg in front of the u.s. supreme court building, that public viewing is now right as i speak coming to a close for this evening. that public viewing opportunity

will resume tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. she lays in repose in front of the supreme court. there will be a second day of that again tomorrow starting at 9:00 a.m. going until 10:00 tomorrow night. that's going to do it for us tonight. do you commit to making sure there's a peaceful transferral of power. >> get rid of the blots. there won't be a peaceful transferral. there will be a continuation. >> the president again refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and completely dismisses the notion that he could lose the election fair and square. the question is what happens if states don't, quote, get rid of the ballots? plus, two louisville police officers shot as protests erupt over the grand jury decision not to indict the