welcome back, everyone, to "weekends with alex witt." in just a few minutes, economic power of latinos in america as we take you back to the l'attitude conference. first, this breaking news to share with you. we are four hours away from the president announcing his supreme court pick today, 5:00 p.m. eastern from the white house rose garden. nbc news has learned from multiple choices that the president has chosen amy coney barrett to fill the vacancy by justice bader ginsburg. the president teasing the announcement throughout the day

on friday, including at last night's rally in virginia. >> i'm watching the democrats saying how terrible it is we're appointing -- we have the right. we won the election. 5:00 tomorrow at the white house, we're going to be naming the nominee, who hopefully will be on that court for 50 years. the only thing i can tell you for sure is it will be a woman. is that okay? >> meantime, democratic nominee joe biden appearing in several virtual events this weekend, including what you see right there, the exclusive interview with my colleague stephanie ruhle, where he talked about a number of things including the latino business l'attitude conference going on right now. also he talked about the presidential debate just three days away. >> speaker pelosi said you shouldn't debate the president because he has no fidelity to fact or truth. does she have a point? >> well, she has. look, the people know the president is a liar. i mean, they know that. it's not like it's a -- it's

going to come as a surprise to them. my guess is, it's going to be just straight attack. they're going to be mostly personal. that's the only thing he knows how to do. he doesn't know how to debate the facts because he's not that smart. he doesn't know that many fact. >> carol lee is joining us once again from washington. carol, the first question to you, if confirmed, barrett would certainly cement a conservative majority on this court, a court that might have to step in, in fact, if we have a contested presidential election. do you know what pushed amy coney barrett for the president? >> she has broad support among republicans, senate republicans who were telling the white house that they wanted a nominee who has demonstrated their conservative credentials, who has a record that shows that they're conservative, particularly when it comes to opposition to the way roe versus wade was decided. the president was hearing from

evangelical leaders, key supporters of his, who were saying they would only accept a nmny who was in the mold of amy coney barrett, who they felt was somebody who, again, had this paper trail, demonstrated record of a conservative judge. so, there was that piece that was weighing into the president's -- the president was factoring in. democrats obviously have been critical of her, her position on the affordable care act, her position on abortion and also just generally on the decision by the president to move forward with trying to fill this seat this close to an election. interestingly, amy coney barrett addressed this issue in an interview after talking about justice scalia whose seat came open suddenly in 2016, and she noted that this process wasn't always as divisive for some past supreme court nominees. take a listen to some of what she had to say. >> we live in a different time.

you know, kennedy was confirmed unanimously. so, incidentally, was scalia. this is not the time we live in now. as we know, confirmation hearings have gotten far more contentious. i don't think we live in the same kind of time. so in some the president has the power to nominate and the senate has the power to act or not and i don't think either one of them can claim that there's a rule governing one way or the other. >> the president obviously has said that he wants to move forward with the nomination very quickly to get her confirmed before the november 3rd election. his supporters are very enthusiastic about that. we've already seen them chanting "fill that seat" at the president's rallies, including the one last night in virginia. so far the announcement, the president's base is >> amy coney barrett is leading

with four of her seven children there at their home in indiana. we are presuming, probably correctly, she is heading to the white house. >> a 3:15 that the president is holding. do you know what that one is about? >> this is an interesting one. the president's meeting in the oval office with enk vangelical faith leaders, how important this announcement is to supporters of his. polling numbers have slipped among evangelicals, largely to his handling of the coronavirus. this is something that he feels like he may be able to get some of the evangelicals that were going to be sitting at home or on the fence back on board with him. >> timeline for when this will all be wrapped up, potentially, how long do you think we have? >> the president wants it done in a matter of weeks, that some allies of his would like him to

hold off and have it out there as a motivating factor to get people to vote on november 3rd and have a confirmation vote after the election. he wants to move ahead particularly because, as he said, the supreme court will have a role in deciding the outcome of the presidential election. >> great reporting and conversation as always, carol lee. thank you from washington. >> thank you, alex. let's go back now to msnbc's special simulcast. stephanie, my friend, knows we're showcasing all the panels on topics including immigration and the latino vote the next hour. i will hand things off to you, stephanie. take things away. >> thank you so much, alex, as we continue to focus on the latinos' impact on the 2020 election. the u.s. latino gdp report is out. if considered an independent economy, are you listening to

this? it would rank as the eighth largest economy in the world. i want to bring back our next guest who wrote a new piece for nbc think. in it he says trump and biden could harness u.s. latino power to save the american economy. will they? joining us now to discuss this is sol trujillo, l'attitude co-founder and chair and co-founder of latino power. walk us through this piece. biden and trump, if they harness the economic power of latinos, they could save our economy. we're all looking for that. tell us how. >> number one, our gross domestic product has been in a dramatic fade over the last probably six years in an accelerated way but also in terms of the last decade or more. when we had ronald reagan as president, we grew our gdp at 3.5%. when bill clinton succeeded him,

they grew it about 3.9%, and ronald reagan, 16.5 million jobs were created and under bill clinton it was 18.6. since then, we've been in a dramatic fade. so we all, as americans, need to understand that we are at one of the worst points in terms of the economy that affects all people. now, clearly, in terms of the stock market, we know that it's been at a record level. and that benefits the 5% or even less than 5% of our population. so i start there, as an american that says let's talk about that. so then the question is, how do we change that trend? eighth largest economy in the world already grew at 8.6% in the last period of time in 2018. and basically they outgrew

india, which -- by 22%. outgrew china by 30%. for some reason that doesn't get coverage. this cohort doesn't get talked about, which is why what you're doing today is so special. because as an american, and if you're in business, and if you're a person looking for jobs and you're a person that's looking to put food on the table, this is really important. it's the most entrepreneurial cohort we have in mern america. >> then, sol, why do i keep hearing about business-minded latinos who say we've got to stick with president trump because he's a pro-business president, when you started this conversation with me moments ago about gdp last ten years in

decline. president trump promised gdp at 4%, 5%, 6%. he hasn't delivered any of that. why would latinos, who know all these numbers because they're latino numbers, why would they say he's our guy? >> well, i don't know that latinos are saying he's our guy, because biden does outpoll him but there is a creep that's been occurring and it's with this label of socialism. very intrusive government, we've gone through a period of a record number of bankruptcies. we've gone through a period, for the first time, perhaps in our nation's history, where we weren't creating any net new companies in the last four years. so, if you're talking about what's progress, let's talk about the whole economy, not just the stock market, which the president likes to talk about, but that really doesn't affect

the vast majority of americans. so, in my case, i'm telling both presidential candidates, and starting with biden, talk about how we're going to create more jobs. talk about how we're going to flow more capital to this cohort that's growing and also happens to be the most under capitalized cohort in america. and at the same time, we need to look at latinos engaged at all levels of every company and on boards. and this is because there's growth, because this is going to happen for the next three decades at a minimum. and so as an american, i look at it and say -- and as a business person, i also say, let's invest where the growth is. let's flow capital where the growth is and let's enable them, as much as we can, and that's what i'm telling biden, and i would suggest to president trump. but his record over the last four years says just the opposite.

let's close the borders. let's not let any more people in and those who are daca and are productive and working, let's get rid of them. it makes no sense economically. if you were here this week and heard all the ceos that we had here, from the financial sector, the consumer sector, et cetera, they all said the same thing. we need leadership that is decisive about growth and growth for all people, not just some of the people. >> well, you've looked at build back better, vp biden's economic plan. do you think he lays out a prescription that would serve this agenda you're talking about? >> well, i think there's pieces of it that are really encouraging, and the message that he left with the l'attitude audience here, that you're not showing because for all the reasons that you don't have the

time to, but the point is that in his speech, he does talk about catalyzing. he does talk about the latino cohort, creating 80% of all new net companies and all the other great statistics that he had. i'm encouraged by that. and i want to encourage everybody to listen to both sides, because we're nonpartisan, to listen to both sides and say, okay, who is telling the story about you, who is telling the story about how important you are, and how they could catalyze even more for this cohort as opposed to de denigrading and the final thing i would say, stephanie -- >> yes? >> is that when you think about some of the conversations i've heard you have about florida and other places with recent immigrants from other countries, socialist countries, i always

encourage people to think about intrusive government, because i've operated all over the world. and i think about are we in an intrusive period of time? are we a nation that thinks about the rule of law and actually lives it? and are we a country that actually thinks about growth for everybody, not just some? this is really an important conversation that either presidential candidate needs to focus on and understand, and communicate. do i want a monarchy, do i want to have authoritarian ruling kind of environment, or do we want to really go back to this notion of our american dream, which is we let the people decide, we let everybody be as entrepreneurial as they want and everybody to compete as freely as we want and have had in our country? >> and where do you think we are right now in terms of intrusive

government? >> i think it's frightening. when i see intrusion in terms of deals. when i see intrusion in terms of what companies can do. if you're a global company and you're going to sell to other markets, you do have to manufacture those markets. to say everything has to be manufactured here, it's not real. if you have ever lived abroad, every country thinks the same way. if you want to sell things here, you should make some of them here. that's a global idea. if you're a company that operates in the united states and you want to export and you think about the u.s. market as 330 million people, but there are 7 or 8 other billion people that could be buying, you have to understand that. and i just think that right now we have to go back to what our country has been about. the ronald reagan kind of mindset that says let's stimulate our competitiveness. let's let our companies kind of compete the way that they need

to globally. and at the same time, innovate here. let's deploy capital here so that we can do all the things that i just said. >> can you be a business that promotes global growth and global operations and, at the same time, promotes ideals of america first? america first doesn't have to mean america alone, but it can prioritize the needs and wants of the united states and its people. >> well, i think america first, to me, means that we need to think about job creation here. when you go back to ronald reagan era, where they were creating 18.6 million jobs during their period of time -- i'm sorry, 16.5, and during the clinton period 18.6 million jobs, what we want as americans is to create a lot of jobs. we want to see a lot of job creation. right now our labor force growth is at an all-time low, mostly

because of the exit of the baby boomers and also because of our immigration policies. and so what makes a robust economy is you have job growth. you have people that are coming in to create more outputs of goods and services, which is part of our story of america, and has been our competitive lead. and we've moved away from that. for whatever the reasons are, people don't look at the total economy, total job creation and wage growth that we need to stimulate. we do have to worry about minimum wage. we do have to worry about people's ability to live off the minimum wage. there's a combination of things that if the presidents are really thinking about it, there are solutions and there are ways to do all of the above so that we do think about our country

first, but we do think about our competitiveness in this global marketplace and we can create all kinds of jobs. >> it is not just a paycheck where people can survive but we need to create an economy where people can thrive. thank you for giving us a window into the l'attitude conference. an important series of conversations we'll continue to hear over the next day. that wraps up my portion of this coverage for the l'attitude national coverage. i'm stephanie ruhle. in a moment, roundtable discussion on injustice at the border. e discussion on injustice at the border

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injustice at the border. we'll get to that in a moment. joining me now victoria desoto. we talk about some of the heartbreaking stories, those we know jacob has chronicled so aptly and put into his book. tell me where things stand right now with regard to what kind of potential laws, what kind of documentation would be needed for those at the border, what kinds of things the truch administration is pushing right now, or have they kind of pulled back in lieu of what's ahead the next, what, 38 days? >> interestingly, alex, when we've been focused, consumed with the pandemic, the coronavirus pandemic, we've seen the trump administration very quietly, but very consistently chipping away at immigration in terms of changing rules,

changing procedures, making it harder to come across the border. making it harder to get a visa. making it harder to natural iiz to go from green card holder to citizen. this has all been very quiet because, obviously, we've been so consumed with what's been going on with the pandemic. this is very worrisome, alex, because before we even got to the pandemic, we saw a steady three-year assault on immigration getting more and more restrictive to where we're almost at a record since the 1965 immigration reform of the number of immigrants in this country. tru trump, while he may not be as vocal about immigration, it's not as much of a hot button issue in this climate, he still hasn't taken his policy finger off the topic. >> yeah. of course, that was topic a, really, in so many ways for him about four years ago at this time. thank you very much, vicki, for watching this with us. we are now ready to go to my colleague jacob soboroff,

"separated inside an american tragedy" author. take it away, jacob. >> good afternoon, everybody. alex collins, i'll let you get us started here. [ poor audio ] >> okay, guys, it is very apparent we're having some technical difficulties. jacob is waiting to get things

sorted out on his end as well. as we wait for that to happen, i'll go back to my colleague, victoria defrancesco-soto. stephanie ruhle asked joe biden about that, and sol trujillo and others on her panel were discussing this in-depth. it's a significant voting bloc in this country. what are the issues beyond immigration, vicki, that make it -- that come front and center for this voting bloc? >> the issues, alex, are the same as they are for nonlatinos. inconsistently, you see education and health care as the top two issues for latinos, the economy as well and especially in these times. those are usually the ones that we see at the top. and immigration, as of late, has floated up because of the divisive rhetoric we've seen from president trump.

traditionally, latinos care about the same issues as nonlatinos do. looking at this current moment in time, the latino community is feeling so much pain, alex. the latino community lost the most jobs from the coronavirus pan d pandemic. latinas have the dubious honor of having lost the most jobs, and many of these jobs may not be coming back, because they were in the low-wage, low-skills service sector where automation is taking charge and making a lot of these jobs obsolete. so you have a lot of pain within the latino community, but at the same time as sol was talking about earlier, and as l'attitudes highlights, the latino community is also incredibly entrepreneurial. what the latino community needs is that base, that foundation from our institutions to give them that leg up, to be able to start those new businesses, to

unleash that entrepreneurial spirit. we know in terms of starting new businesses, latinos over-index. the moment is dark right now, but i think in getting the latino electorate mobilized and ready to go out there to say there is a future that is not that far off if you get out and vote. the american economy can be made to work for you, if the right person is in the white house. >> there's nothing more important than casting your vote. vicki, thank you so much. i think we've ironed out our issues with jacob soboroff but thank you for sticking around, nonetheless. jacob soboroff is having his conversation. let's listen in. >> covid or they are being sent back to their countries very quickly. it's an extremely distressing session. it's extremely troubling what's happening. and unfortunately there's a lot of people suffering, a lot of

children who are being sent back and it's really a situation that should have everybody outraged. >> can you describe how you felt when you visited these facilities in what they call pods but you call cages? >> yes. thank you for everybody watching us on ms today. one thing in particular i think i felt the same way i heard congress convey today, sheer horror. i think that is because so many of us don't have the opportunity to peel back the curtain on what's going on. and as we are on the eve of yet another presidential election, a presidential election i think

and rightly so, it's incumbent on both democrats and republicans to stand up, to accept what i saw during family separations, but what's going on as well today in places and hold both political parties accountable for their role in getting us to this point where our enforcement and detention system is centered around the idea of punishment, consequences and of deterrence. instead of looking at the people in it for what they are, most of them are refugees and asylum seekers today. it's important to underscore and something i learned as a covered family separations for our network. >> right. lindsay, many people feel this is strictly a border issue. but we know this is a nationwide crisis. can you talk about how many states have facilities, how many people are being detained in

this country right now? >> yeah. that's a great question. it's not something that just affects the border. there are immigrants being impres prisoned in ice, like the whistle-blower that jacob just referenced, the people are understanding what's happening in these facilities and it's really great that the congressional hispanic caucus went to the facility but so many people are deported before they're able to speak out about what's happening. we worked with a young woman named judith, who was actually a victim of this hysterectomy that she did not consent to, where she had lost her baby and she's already been deported back to

haiti without anyone being able to speak to her and what happened. because of the system itself, the way it's set up, and that people are deported before there's the ability to be oversight, there's no accountability. in these facilities where people are at risk because of the extreme medical negligence that's happening across the country in facilities large and small, that are overseen by i.c.e., that we are starting to have a light shown on that constant problem we're seeing and especially in the middle of a pandemic, is putting people's lives at risk. >> right. jacob, from the time you were writing your book to today, are we becoming immune to these tragedies, families being separated, awful stories about medical negligence, are we immune to this?

>> what ooich heard, particularly from people like lindsay, who are on the front lines from immigration attorneys and activists, and we have to recognize that the job lindsay does is as important as any first responder on any front li line, family separation happened two years ago. in that horrific policy from the trump administration, systematically, over 5,400 children were taken away from their parents and a nobel peace prize winning organization has described that as torture. folks like lindsay could tell you, probably better than i could, today things are arguably worse. you have over 8,800 young children who have been immediately expeled from this country since that policy started, from the beginning of the coronavirus by the trump administration. families are detained indefinitely in i.c.e. prisons, except they hold children as well as adults. both of those things are what the administration wanted to

accomplish during family separations and were not able to. under the guise of coronavirus, under the guise of public health, they have carried out what were really their dream policy wishes that they hope family separation would accomplish i'm so grateful, so glad we're having this conversation today and why i wrote about it, so we could see so clearly how it's playing out despite the fact that it's no longer in the headlines. >> right. you mentioned coronavirus. i can't imagine what covid is like inside these detention facilities. lindsay, jacob, what's it like to be in a pandemic in one of those facilities? >> it's really horrifying what's happen i happening at the facilities

right now. people are trapped inside these facilities. at the facility that is 90 miles outside of downtown los angeles, there is a huge outbreak right now. we have been begging since last march when this first started, that people be freed from these facilities so that they can be with their families, so that they can quarantine and be safe and together. instead we have people trapped in these i.c.e. facilities where covid is running rampant, where we have judges saying it is spreading like wildfire in the facilities, and people are unable to protect themselves. we have clients who call us and say, i'm afraid that i'm going to die in here and i will never see my family again. and the thing to remember is that these facilities are holding people at i.c.e.'s discretion. i.c.e. has the ability to free them all, but they have chosen

to keep people in facilities that have really become death traps in the middle of this pandemic. >> jacob, anything on your end? >> yeah, sure. lindsay and i have been together. the father that i wrote about that was separated for nearly five months and probably would have been deported without his son, if it were not for lindsay, was detained. homeland inspector general report said they found nooses in this facility. this facility in particular, but also how it relates to the broader issue of family separation, but also what we're seeing in irwin, in georgia, there's a lack of oversight, medical oversight, mental health oversight for the well-being and complaints of the migrants detained in these facilities and will not go away if donald trump is no longer the president of the united states. it's critically important to hear from joe biden about how they will deal with what donald trump, if he no longer is the

president, has left him. by the way, if donald trump remains the president of the united states, we already know he wants to continue the policies he has enacted on the border and in these detention facilities. he wanted to restart the family separation policy after it ended. this is all interconnected. i want to underscore and i can't underscore enough it doesn't go away on day one of a joe biden administration. in fact it's more important than ever we continue to talk about these issues then. a lot of this stuff didn't happen overnight. the reason donald trump was able to execute some of the things he has been able to do as immigration policy is because of decades of policies by both democrats and republicans that got to this point, where family separation could be turned on, excuse me, like a light switch. >> jacob, in your book you mention that there are 5,000 children, plus or minus, that had been separated from their families. do we even know if we've been able to reunite them all? >> no.

in fact, it was an incredible piece of reporting by the public institution in the bay area here a couple of days ago that there are still over 1,000 children and parents where we don't know who they are, where they are necessarily, what their proper contact information is, whether or not they were actually separated or, most importantly, if they were, whether or not they were reunited. that's because, as we've said over and over, the trump administration in its immigration policy and specifically the separation policy didn't prepare. they didn't prepare for the separations nor the reunifications. they didn't listen to people who had the best interests of children at heart and knew what a disaster it would be. a federal judge in san diego said he must reunify the parents and children and the aclu provide a list of all the children who were separated from their parents, the government didn't have the proper documentation. you have an organization that deals with migrants in san diego

and throughout california literally going door to door and looking for them. when they do find them, representing them in their cases to ultimately come back to the united states for reunification, this is something that one official told me who was involved in the reunification will result in a century of suffering to these children because of the trauma inflicted upon them as such young children. >> thank you, jacob, and thank you, lindsay, for joining us today. >> thank you, and thanks to the viewers at home at msnbc. >> thanks for having me. >> which means we're thanking all of you as viewers here at msnbc. we'll take a short break, everyone. when we come right back, more from the l'attitude conference and the latino vote and how it will make a difference in this presidential election. make a ds presidential election. frustrated that clothes come out of the dryer wrinkled?

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conference in san diego. latinos make up the second largest voting bloc in the united states. maria teresa kumar is on this next panel. she is exploring the power of the latino vote and its ability to influence the 2020 election. this panel is under way. we're going to it now, everyone. >> 40 days out and the stake koss not be higher for the latino community. as we'll jump into in a little bit, we focus on latinos. they can mobilize the rest of their families to register and vote. while people say latino youth are soft on the candidates, it's about issues for them. talk to them about climate change, racial inequity, jobs and health care. sadly with the tragic death of george floyd happening, we knew that policing is an important issue in the latino community. we changed all of our voter

registration information connecting protests to the voting booth. we were able to see over 2700% jump in our voter registration in the month of june over may. people responded. when people say, well, you do not talk to the latino community, it's true. we can see such a significant jump. as of this morning we've registered over 356,000 individuals. when people say we're not paying attention, no, we need to talk to each other, mobileize each other. at the end of the day, we have skin in the game. we have a president right now that is okay with omiting 20% of the american-latino workforce from the c.a.r.e.s. act, wanting to eliminate the payroll tax that, means he's going to go after social security and medicare and more communities where that is complemental income upon retirement, medicare for the latino community is our health care, social security is our retirement plan. even when the small business owner says i'm going to go ahead

and the payroll tax will be a short-term gain, but it's a long-term loss. latinos get it. they get that climate change is on the ballot and they're mobilizing. we are going to organize and mobilize over 3.7 million americans with the help of my partner in crime, wilmer valderrama. no pressure. >> no pressure, wilmer. there's going to be about 4 million young latinos eligible to vote for the first time in this election. you've always been so outspoken about getting this community out to vote. what is the message that you have for these first-time voters? >> well, i mean, i think it's very straightforward. first of all, very grateful to have this time with you guys and always a great time with maria. almost 15 years of us working on this thing. >> you haven't changed or aged a bit, wilmer.

>> that's right. listen, i think it's important to mention that it's your day, right? this is my message to all young people who are not just paying attention but hit the streets, hit the social media platforms when they feel frustrated. the young people have amplified the stories of all the people that we never really cover in the media. and it's an exciting time for young people to show that they deserve a seat at the table. it is your day. this is the time where you continue to shape the next generation of leaders that are going to speak on your behalf, right? and, you know, too much has been sacrificed for us to have this moment and to have the numbers

right now that contribute to the shaping of our country, right? i think that's the message. one, we've sacrificed too much. generations of immigrants have come here to give us the right to vote. i can't look at my mom and dad in the face, having us bring us to america and not do my part by paying it forward to this country. so my simple, you know, message is that, you know, like i said, we amplified it and now we show up. >> it's about giving a voice and a vote for those that can't do that. think about that when you cast your ballot. yes, you're voting for yourself, but you're also voteing for the people that can't. >> that's right. >> when we look back in 2018, maria teresa, about 13% of latin-x voters say they weren't contact bid apolitical party or campaign. we shared 2700% jump from month to month.

what is the potential impact of those numbers on the outcome of this election? >> our job is to mobilize, organize and get out the vote. we can go ahead and say why are people not contacting the latino community, and we can figure that out. but let's figure that out afterwards. right now we need to make sure that latinos, we self organize. we are always on the front lines. the covid pandemic, sadly, has shown when we say we were essential workers, we always knew it. now the rest of the country recognizes it. we also know that 30%, sadly, of all the covid deaths have fallen on the shoulders of the latino community. we need to go out and vote. 6.7 million measuamericans who suffered covid, disproportionately latinos. one thing we do know is that this current president is trying to take away the aca, affordable cares act.

when someone says who care who is on the supreme court? the supreme court will more than likely decide the fate of our health care for our aunts, grandparents, for our children. you have a president that goes after the press, the judiciary system, that goes after us. when we can sit by and see children in cages and not be riled up, i don't know what will. they're brown people. brown babies that all of a sudden have been marginalized and dehumanized. and our job in the latino community, as we've always done, is to help put this country back together again. for a young person who says my vote doesn't matter i say look what we did in 2018. we had the most prosperous election because generation x, y and z, counting ourselves into that generation, we voted. >> we were left out for a minute.

>> for so long. we outvoted baby boomers and brought in the most diverse congress in our nation's history who actually speaks to our values, the most latinas, the most women, and we have 400 pieces of legislation that recognize that climate change is real, that women should get the same pay as a man, that we should have citizenship, have background checks and at the end of the day we should get it done. i know people must be tired. the ohm way to get it done is to go from 2018 as a dress rehearsal and massively flood the voting booth. ideally, you flood the voting booth before november 3rd if you can in most states because we need to make sure all of our votes get counted. >> no question there. we've been discussing this all day here at l'attitude. latinos are driving the u.s. gdp, responsible for 80% of net new business growth over the last decade. there is a lot of power to harness there. how do we harness that power and

ensure we're not facing voter suppression and we have all the tools in our community to confidently vote, especially by mail this year? >> wilmer and i always talk, we vote early, right? wilmer and i all the time. you vote early. go to vote latino.org. we have a partnership with ballot ready. so you can see who is on your ballot all the way from the top of the ticket for the white house which i hope you already know who is on top of the tegt for the white house all the way down to who is going to be on your school board. we try to make it easy. text volunteer to 73179 you can volunteer for us in the confident of your home. >> love that. >> let me echo that. one thing i was going to add to that, maria, is that, man it is a really important and crucial

time for us to really show up for one another. i think this is the moment we have been waiting for for a very long time. and what maria said times two, basically. >> this is what we have been building towards. >> it is. and the two of you have built this incredible organization to really go out and speak to this community. what i love is seeing you speak to this fortunate not only in english but also in spanish. that's what you do so well. that you build resource. think about our parents, our tias, they are most comfortable reading in their native language. i have members of my family who say i don't understand this or that. i drive them to you guys because you have it in spanish and that's an authentic way to speak to latin people so we show up

and vote not only on election day, but also vote early. wilme wilmer, what is your voting plan. >> ultimately, making sure i talk to friends and family to make sure everyone is recommendingstered. my fiancee just moved from san francisco out here to l.a. so she has to register. we are having fun. i have so much experience at it it makes me health care like i am cool, cooler than she thinks i am. we have got to look at november as the last day to vote. voting starts now. and november 3rd is the last day for us to vote. i think that that's the best way to look at it in this moment. that's what i am trying to -- making sure my nephew and all of these young friends who are 20, 21, 22 years old who are literally voting for the first time because they haven't -- four years ago, they couldn't.

so it's a really -- it is a revolutionary time. i am celebrating that my plan is to margaritas and ballots. you know? >> if you have some extra invitations i will take you up on both the ballot asks the margaritas. maria, you will join us as well, right. >> absolutely. >> i love it. i always like to give people a call to action. so for everybody that is watching this from home today, if you are going to be watching this on msnbc, maria, what is one thing that we can all do today to help mobilize our commune to vote? >> i would say volunteer at vote latino. text volunteer to 71379. we are going to mobilize the latinos who oftentimes don't get a call from a candidate or from the campaign. we are here saying that you

matter. more importantly, that this is going to happen because of us. because like everything else in the latino commune we make things happen even with the smallest of resources because we believe that everything is possible. >> no question about that. >> i think -- absolutely. >> go ahead. >> no. that's it. i think ask your neighbor. you know, you for example you have the courage to ask your neighbor for a cup of sugar, you should also have the courage to and them are you registered? it is important, because your zip code -- it goes in phases. let's not forget that the census are up for grabs. if you haven't been counted in the census, it is critical because of the drisks funds and also how you tailor leadership and coming into november you are going to see a bigger demo showing up to put people in office that echo our me and our

critical and important future. we pave the road now. that's important to reach them. >> no question about that. when i was doing the math preparing for this, i realized we basically have four weekends. on weekends we ten to spend our time relax, reading. do all of those things, but also put yourself to work on the weekends. work for the future of this country. work for the people that don't have a voice. and it's so easy to do that like you said maria, because you can do this from home. i have done this b. it is the easiest thing in the world. there is script of. there is a list of numbers. and the impact that that small -- >> really. >> honestly, let me be frank and honest. this is supposed to be fun. okay? make it fun. like, this is a celebration of democracy. this is the celebration of the fact that in many of our countries we never were invited to actually tell the government when we really need in

leadership. this is what a vote is. we always forget that the vote was created for the people to continue every generation have a seat at the table tailoring who speaks on behalf of the evolutionary and very fast-changing country. and every leadership is not going to echo the generation you are in. you have to show up and tell the government -- >> there you have it, everyone. we have to pay a couple of bills here with our commercial break coming up. very good points being made there at the latitude economic conference, particularly by wilmer bald rama saying it should be fun. we have to admit it is an honor, but let's make of the fun. get galvanized get out there and do the most important thing between now and november 3rd. hover you want to vote get out there and let your voice be prepared. we have another hour of house ahead. the president is preparing to

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good day, everybody, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to weekends with alex witt. so much going on. we will get you up to date. first to the breaking news. we are three hours away from the president announcing his supreme court pick todays. it will happen at 5:00 p.m. eastern from the white house rose garden. nbc news learned the president picked amy coney barrett. there you see her leaving her home in indianapolis an hour and a half ago. the president teased the announcement throughout the day on friday. including last night in philadelphia. >> we have the right -- we won the election, right? 5:00 tomorrow at the white house we are going to be naming the nominee hopefully who will be on that