good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead only that my prayers go up for president donald trump and his wife, the first lady, that they have a speedy recovery. yes, you heard that right. sympathy from me to this president. and knowing like the rest of you that he has been diagnosed with covid-19, i am calling on him to get serious now about pandemic control. but doing so not with mockery, which won't help, even though he has certainly mocked others, and as such invited deserved criticism. but we do not want to become like those we criticize so rather than dropping an i told you so, i'm going to let experience do what i couldn't. when i spoke to the president over the summer asking him to consider the pandemic's impact

on the most vulnerable, the poor and racial minorities disproportionately harmed by every aspect of this plague and its reach, i told him "you ought to test the homeless and the incarcerated, they can't social distance, they can't get health care, please look out for the most run valuable." that's what i said to the president. the president said, "well, al, i hear you, i'm not going to make any commitment." this pandemic has made a commitment to showing you how serious it really is. imagine facing it without the medical expertise and care that you have on the taxpayer and, for what may legitimately be the very first time you're made to understand the effect of your decisions and the decisions you made on this virus, which have

literally touched on the lives of every person on this planet, including your family, your staff, the military and the secret service who serve and protect you every day. and of course more than 7 million americans who have been infected with this virus. so we start tonight with a few big questions exactly one month until election day. how will the president's covid diagnosis and hospitalization impact his campaign and joe biden's? which is already dialing back on its attack ads. will there be more debates, more rallies and of course will it move the polls? joining me now is the chairwoman of the congress an black caucus, congresswoman karen bass of california. thank you for being with us, congresswoman bass and we can

let the nation in on a little secret. you and i share birthdays, which is today. both you and i have a happy birthday together today. >> that's right. same to you, happy birthday. >> let me ask you, i think we've heard a mostly civil tone from all of us in the civil rights community and the congressional, the democratic community and i think that this is an opportune time, though, to challenge the republicans, not in an ugly way but in a way to say, fine, we all unite and want to see the president and his wife recover but isn't it time also to unite and get the heroes act passed or whatever the senate equivalent is now that we see that this disease, this plague, this pandemic can even reach the most protected man in the country, isn't it time to take care of

those that are eveningfinancial distraught because of it, isn't it time for secretary steven mnuchin to come to terms with congresswoman speaker explosion -- pelosi? >> i think you are absolutely right. i every day i hear calls from constituents whose businesses are closed, people who have been out of work for a long time. one of the things they are fighting over about the bill is resources for state and local government. those are the first responders. california's on fire. firefighters need the resources. people are getting ready to be evicted from their homes and many are already being evicted. so it's just no excuse. i absolutely wish the president and his family the best, a speedy recovery, but there is just no excuse at all. and you've seen a number of members of the house and the senate who are also infected now. so this virus knows no

boundaries, and we need to act, we need to act immediately. i am hoping that we'll be called back soon because they will have reached a deal. why they don't want to provide resources for people is just beyond me. >> now, the president's diagnosis has impacted prospects for a pandemic relief in congress. here is speaker nancy pelosi on msnbc. >> this kind of changes the dynamic because here they see the reality of what we have been saying all along. this is a vicious virus and it spreads as the president has known from the start, we always have to find a path. that is our responsibility to do so and i believe that we will. >> so as we talk this evening, congresswoman, over 200,000 people have died, 7 million infected and now the president of the united states and the first lady. if we cannot get the senate and

those in the administration to come to terms with that we need a life line given to small businesses and some more stimulus money to the public, i don't know what can bring this message home to them. we are trying to and should take -- i won't even say take the high road, take the road that we believe in because we just don't believe in being vile and rude but in this climate come on, people are suffering. >> absolutely. this is the richest country in the history of the world and we have more people who have died from this virus than any other country. it is inexcusable, it is an embarrassment. we are so much better than this. there is just no reason to allow people to suffer when we have the resources in this country. every day i think about the over 200 souls that have died and now almost all of us know someone

who has been affected or who has passed away from this virus. and the thing is that we are never, ever going to get the economy back until we get the pandemic under control. everybody knows that. it is time to allow science to be the guide for how we address the pandemic. >> now let me tell you something that does trouble me. i've got to say it in a candid way. this senate can come back and embas expedite and have a vote to put another right-winger on a supreme court but they can't expedite and come to terms with this stimulus bill for that matter the john lewis voting bill or the george floyd policing and justice act. so in the middle of all of this, foot dragging in terms of helping people that are

infected, helping people who has been impacted financially because their jobs have been shut down, small businesses closing, they got to go back and forward. but they want to rush in and put judge barrett on the supreme court and on the calendar, as you know as chairwoman of the congressional black caucus, you know this better than anybody, is the affordable care act -- >> exactly. >> and if the supreme court turns the affordable care act and makes it against the law, says it's unconstitutional, that would wipe out people with preexisting conditions and people with covid-19 have preexisting conditions now. >> well, rev, absolutely right. i mean, the irony is in the middle of a pandemic, they want to take away health care. i think a lot of people don't realize that everyone benefits from the affordable care act.

it's not just people who don't have insurance. if you have insurance and you have a preexisting condition, if the affordable care act goes away, your insurance company can either charge you rates that you'll never be able to afford or say they will not cover you at all. so when you have the statistic up that showed there were over 7 million people who have been infected with covid, you do understand that that's 7 million people who now have a preexisting condition that if we have a new supreme court justice who is committed to getting rid of the affordable care act and she's already on record saying she would do that, then you're going to have 7 million people without insurance in the richest country, the only industrialized country that has not figured out how to provide health care for its citizens. this is just inexcusable, rev. >> well, we've got to keep fighting these issues are too important. we're talking about literally life and death.

thank you for -- >> absolutely. >> thank you for being here on our mutual birthdays, we're both working. >> i hope you have a good day. >> i hope you do as well. joining me now is dr. wayne j. reilly, the president of the sunni down health sciences university and republican strategist msnbc political analyst rick tyler and zerlina maxwell, also an msnbc political analyst. dr. reilly, let me ask you first, the diagnosis is that we're hearing doesn't seem complete enough to many people and i must even say a lot of my radio audience, i do asyndica a syndicated radio audience doesn't believe in it at all.

i don't think anyone would go through this playing a gaime. i want to play for the audience an update on the president's condition, tell me whether that's sufficient enough or whether there's something missing here. >> 72 hours into the diagnosis now. the first week of covid and particular day seven to ten are the most critical in determining the likely course of this illness. at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the progress the president has made. thursday he had a mild cough and nasal congestion and fatigue, all of which are now resolving and improving. >> do you feel that the briefing that those doctors gave and it looked like a whole lot of doctors for a mild case, but that's just me, i'm not a doc r doctor, do you feel that that

sounds to you plausible or that maybe there could be even something more serious that we don't know and maybe shouldn't know? >> well, first of all, rev, happy birthday. to paraphrase shakespeare, there's something rotten in denmark. that press conference by the white house physician was more happy talk than relevant information that the people need to know about the president of the united states. he didn't answer direct questions about the president's use of oxygen, his timetable had to be corrected within two hours of that press conference and so as a physician, and i've talked to many physicians around the country today, this was a very unsatisfying press conference to brief the nation on the status of the president of the united states, who now has been admitted to walter reed national medical center for covid.

and the fact that the president of the united states has been admitted as a physician is a glaring siren to me that this is a serious situation. >> zerlina, the president tweeted out earlier doctors, nurses and all at the great water reed medical center and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them are amazing. tremendous progress has been made over the last six months in fighting this plague. with their help, i am feeling well. talk about the trust we have have in the statement from this president. >> unfortunately i don't have any trust, even though the president himself tweeted that. as we know based on profiles of dan scovino, he and others in the white house staff have the capability of tweeting on behalf of the president from his account.

now, there is no reporting that this was not the president tweeting, but i think it is important for the audience to know that the white house may having is else tweeting because they're not being completely forthcoming with the other pertinent information about the president's condition. it seems to me that even from the agabeginning of this, we learned from the intrepid reporting by jennifer jacobs of bloomberg news and the leaks that subsequently came out because of the reporting about hope hicks. i don't know that we would have learned about the president's condition if they weren't forced to reveal it and that's really concerning from this moment on, every single person in the white house and mind you they work for the american people, deserve to be truthful and transparent with all of the details wiabout the president's condition because it is a national security issue. every single american needs to understand what danger we are in

as a nation because the president's health is pertinent to our security every single second we're left in the dark. and i think that is so concerning as i sit here today. and of course we all wish the president well, but if they're going to hide some of the balls today, what does that say later when they have to give us more information and update us? >> rick, the response has been, as i said to congresswoman bass, basically civil from the democratic side, congressional and senate, civil rights community, many of us that fight the president and who the president has mocked us. listen to the civility shown even by his opponent the democratic nominee joe biden. >> my wife jill and i pray that they'll make a quick and full recovery. this is not a matter of politics, it's bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously.

>> so he's shown real civility, something that this president hasn't shown, but i don't think i know in my case it's not a strategy, that's just who we are. he, biden, has pulled the negative ads, attack ads i would say off the air, but give me the political fallout for the republicans. in some tight races now, if donald trump is not out there having the big rallies, galvanizing, tweeting, does this make a real political problem, particularly in those races that are very close for republicans on a race like north carolina where now we're hearing tillis, the incumbent republican senator has been found diagnosed to be positive with covid-19? >> rev, happy birthday. >> thank you. >> this is a huge problem for the republicans because donald

trump is effectively off the campaign trail. he's immobilized. that has problems in itself. he has contracted a deadly virus. voters will take that into consideration. when donald trump is removed, all the advantages that he had of incumbency by virtue of contracting of disease. which by the way and i appreciate your gracious tone at the beginning, i don't have that kind of sympathy, i wish i did, rev, that you did have. i look at this as a drunk tridrr who injured himself in a wreck and killed the oncoming driver. he has injured himself and 200,000 people, other drivers, have died due to the coronavirus. so i don't have sympathy for donald trump. he put himself in the situation. he could have done very simple things which he continued not to do to not have contracted this virus and now he has the virus and i hear some talk about we should delay the election. baloney.

there's one candidate who ran a campaign as if there was a pandemic. that was joe biden. and there was another who ran a campaign as if there wasn't a pandemic and that was donald trump. well, guess what, reality has caught up with donald trump and now he's going to have to pay the consequences and republicans are going to pay the consequences as well. you've seen all the video of the white house events, the rallies, people with no masks, his own family taking off their masks at the debate, not telling joe biden they may have contracted this disease and, by the way, i believe that donald trump knew about when he contracted this disease far before 1:00 in the morning the other night because i don't believe they would have made an on-the-spot decision to issue a press release because they're not that transparent. they're calculating. that's what they've done and this is the situation we're in. >> zerlina, should there be a debate wednesday between the two vice presidential candidates,

should there be debates going forward with the president if he is able and joe biden, even talking about virtual and as rick said, is it not way out of bounds even to be talking about postponing an election? >> i missed my chance to say happy birthday the first time so i'm going to say it now. because i don't want to forget in this segment. but i don't think in-person debates, whether they be the vice presidential debates should happen. i'm saying that because the experts really have demonstrated to us what things we need to do in order to make sure that we're safe. now, we know the president has covid-19. vice president mike pence most recently tested negative but we should keep an eye on his condition because he's been exposed to really a white house

cluster and a series of super spreader events in trump's campaign in recent weeks. so i think that the vice president's condition is something they need to be honest and transparent about, as well as updates on the president. i don't think that the priority at this moment as we sit here should be debates or even the election. the most pressing priority is the president's health and the safety and security of the nation and as we look ahead to the election, joe biden i think artfully is trying to have a very dignified response to what's going on but continuing to send the message that he will be the leader that will follow the science. to rick's point, donald trump did not follow the science and subsequently caught the virus because the scientists tell us if you don't follow the science, you can catch this virus and that's what happened here and i hope that he can recover but you see what happens when you don't follow it. >> and he was told, he admitted

that on the tapes with bob woodward that was released with bob woodward's book. doc, let me ask you as we're out of time, dr. riley, what should we look and listen to hear to feel that we are getting the information we need that we're being protected? the president is over not only the country domestically and foreign, but friends and foes, he has the nuclear -- he has access to the nuclear codes that we need someone that is healthy and rational. i mean, our very lives could depend on it. what do we need to hear from these doctors? you tell me from a medical doctor point of view, what do we need to know and what is off limits? >> well, we need for the rightness. we need transparency. the president of the united states and his health is a national security issue, rev. the whole world depends on the leader of the free world to be

vibrant, to be healthy, to have his faculties, to be cognitively ready to respond to whatever they present at his desk or at the white house. and so, again, i'll be looking to see over the next seven to ten days. that will tell us because at his age we do know that the seven to ten-day period is where patients sometimes can get into significant problems, require icu care possibly, god help us if the president has to go on a ventilator, but these are the issues that we're going to be looking for. what is his oxygenation? does the president require oxygen tomorrow, even though dr. conley said he was not on oxygen today, that's just a point in time. we need to know every day whether the patient has been administered supplemental oxygen. we need to know other factors in terms of his care. so over the next few days, seven to ten days, we have to have

better transparency from the white house because it is, as you say, a national security issue. >> all right, dr. riley, rick tyler and by the way, zerlina is joining the nbc family with her new show "zerlina," on streaming service p service peacock, find it under the choice. richard lui has the top stories. >> the u.s. census bureau will continue its head count through october 31st. a federal judge ruled on this after commerce secretary wilbur ross said he wanted to end the count early by october 5th. some lawmakers said the census would be inaccurate if it ended

early. friday the census bury confirmed it will comply with the court's order. 10 million floridians are under a flood watch along the central and atlantic coast. heavy rain is expected to hit throughout the weekend, five inches of rain in some coastal areas expected. >> wildfires have burned four million acres of land in california. the temperatures will be five to 15 degrees above average for the season. more "politicsnation" right after the break. "politicsnatio after the break.

for this week's memo to trump, i want to talk about an educational failure and at least this one, mr. president, you can't blame betsy devos. no, this is entirely on you. and your absurd executive orders

banning racial sensitivity training for all government agencies and contractors. you recently took to twitter to spout your own uninformed take on the order your handlers no doubt prepared for you to sign, claiming that you're banning the indoctrination of, quote, government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies, end of quote. that statement reveals your complete ignorance about what these trainings are for because systemic racism and sexism ensures that american adults have already been indoctrinated with harmful sex and race-related ideologies. those of white supremacy and patriarchy and in your second tweet you imply that anyone who doesn't completely embrace your version of america and your own

embrace or at least tolerance of white supremacy somehow doesn't love the country. the unfortunate implication is clear. you claim that being anti-racist is anti-american, which means you believe that racism is inherently american. that certainly explains your desperation to downplay the wave of violence being committed on our streets by white supremacists because you know that white supremacists make up an important part of your base, which is probably why instead of denouncing them at tuesday's debates, you said this -- >> proud boys stand back and stand by but i'll tell you what, i'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing -- >> his own fbi -- >> far from could ndemning whit

nationalist groups, you instructed this white supremacists to stand by, this despite your own head of the department of homeland security telling congress that whie supremacisue prem -- whie suit -- white supremacists are the most extreme threat to the country and they have your very own words incorporated into its logo, fitting since your complete disinterest in fighting the scourge of coronavirus has resulted in the disproportionate suffering and death of black americans, a national shame. maybe now that you've tested positive yourself, you'll find an ounce of compassion for the hundreds of thousands of americans suffering because of your maligned incompetence. but i won't hold my breath. still despite your best efforts to advance white supremacy, all is not lost.

the united states can defeat its shameful addiction to racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. after all, in comparison to many other countries around the world, the u.s. is still in its adolescence. the grand experiment in democracy has been chugging along for just under 250 years. and you, mr. president, cannot be allowed to stunt its growth. we the people will never stop fighting to realize the full potential enshrined in the constitution that i am quite certain you still have not read. so here's a foundational line from another document you have surely neglected to read, the declaration of independence, quote, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. i know understanding consent isn't really your strong suit.

come november 3rd even you won't be able to ignore the chorus of millions of americans at the ballot box rejecting your unpatriotic views that raceism and sexism are the american way and your shameful implication that want being the country to be better means we do not love it as we should. as always, mr. president, your lazy approach to learning betrays you. the founders encouraged us to go forth and make a more perfect union and with you out of office, we'll be one step clo r closer. 1,2 until then, mr. president, you have my number. once you're done with your isolation, i and i will to teach you and your staff racial sensitivity class free of charge. be right back. sensitivity class charge be right back. physically challenged.

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taylor case, audio recordings of the grand jury's inquiry have been released. the inquiry last week ended up with indicting just one officer in the raid that ended miss taylor's life. kentucky attorney general daniel cameron, who is a special prosecutor in the case, was made to hand offver more than 20 hou of recordings on friday by order of a judge. this comes after a grand juror filed a court motion asking for the transcripts of the sessions to be made public. this is a small victory for miss taylor's family who pleaded for access to the tapes so they could get ann inside look into what went down behind closed doors in the proceedings. so what is in the recordings and what was left out? joining me now is the civil rights attorney who represents breonna taylor's family. i call him the attorney general of black america, attorney

general benjamin crump. what was in the tapes? you came out first and strongly demand being the release of the minutes and the tape. then there was to everyone's surprise a motion by a member of the grand jury itself. what have we found out? i do not hear -- >> reverend al? >> we hear you now. >> thank you to you and national action network and all the other protesters and civil rights groups who joined in demanding transparency for breonna to know what evidence was presented during the grand jury proceedings. and as we discussed, reverend al and we suspected, breonna did not have a voice in that grand jury room. the jurors were advocating more for breonna taylor than the kentucky attorney general daniel cameron to hold people

accountable for her murder. and, reverend al, you listen to these jurors when you listen to these transcripts bringing it up over and over again but what about the officers that killed breonna? and they say they were justified in what they did so you don't need to consider that or deliberate on that. so it shows us exactly what we suspected, bree on weonna taylo not have anybody fighting for her in that grand jury. >> so viewers need to understand in a grand jury only the prosecutor can go in the grand jury. there's no lawyers allowed like you for the family, no defense lawyer. so in many ways, whatever the prosecutor presents is really all the grand jurors can vote on and the evidence he presents or not presents is solely at his discretion. so you're saying to us that even

when grand jurors would raise the question about the policemen that shot and killed breonna, he would say they were operating in self-defense, you don't have to vote on that rather that be putting the evidence in front of them to let them decide that? >> exactly, reverend al. he would just deflect, the prosecutors from his office would just deflect the jurors away and try to tell them what is important and what's not important because you know very well, reverend al, a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich if they wanted to. however, these prosecutors from what we hear on these proceedings and i encourage everybody to listen for themselves, they were not trying to prosecute the police officers that killed breonna taylor. they are more, i believe, trying to exonerate them or justify this unjustifiable killing of this innocent black woman in her own apartment. they never offered anything,

reverend al, about the lie that was in the probable cause affidavit where they said breonna taylor was receiving suspicious packages to her apartment per the united states postal inspector and the postal inspector came out and said that was not the case, breonna never received suspicious packages to her apartment. so he didn't even present that, reverend al. so what was he presenting? what was his prosecutors trying to do? that's why we're demand beiing reconvene another grand jury to give her her due process because this disrespect of black women cannot continue in the american legal system. >> so where do we go from here is that the family and you are demanding a convening of another grand jury. would it be under coameron or under another prosecutor?

he was operating as a special prosecutor and does not necessarily have to be under him. >> exactly. as i talked to my great co-counsel in kentucky, that is exactly what we're going to ask for, that he appoint a special prosecutor because as attorney general, he has that power in the state of kentucky where he can appoint a private or another d.a. to prosecute the case. in this case he chose to prosecute it himself for whatever reasons because it is obvious when we listen to these recordings that he was not advocating for breonna taylor to have her death accounted for. >> all right. we're going to stay on this. attorney general benjamin crump, thank you for being with us tonight. >> many voters hoped president donald trump could be a great ceo president like the character he pore paratrayed in the appre

but federal employees found that what america got was a horrible boss and it may have been his risky and irresponsible behavior that led to his positive covid-19 diagnosis. but even prior to the president's own infection, his handling of the pandemic has endamae endangered federal workers, much so that a majority of them were afraid to return to their work places. thank you for being with us, dr. kelly. you and i talked and worked together down through the years and now that you're president but you and i talked recently throughout the summer as we were preparing for the big march on washington, you kept talking about a lot of the workers were afraid to go back to work. explain the duress that your members were under. >> well, thank you, first of all, brother al.

and thank you and happy birthday to you. >> thank you. >> i understand today is your birthday. but for federal employees, they have been under a lot of duress just the fact that they have not been given proper ppe and those type of things. they're being told to return back to work and they have not met the standards that's been presented by the cdc and those types of things. so it's a lot of unrest and a lot of duress for federal employees. >> now, when you have federal employees who in many cases are the essential workers overwhelmingly in black and brown communities having to go to work while you have some officials just outright saying don't worry about face masks to the public, don't worry about anything, they are literally going into situations they have no control over that could threaten their very health and their very lives. >> you're exactly right.

not only that but, you know, we have had federal employees to die from this pandemic because there have been a lack of ppe because of a lack of consideration these employees are placing themselves in harm's way. of day we have all kinds of nightmares, if you will, from nurses, even our prison system, you know, transporting people that are already infected into the prison systems. it's very misguided for our employees and for our members. >> what kind of support do every day government employees need going forward and do you think the president's own diagnosis may help them get that support now? >> well, you know, i think that president donald trump has many of their rights through executive orders rules that

carry the weight of law but that no congress will ever improve. federal employees need a new president and that's just all there is to it and more members of congress that respect the role that the civil service play in upholding our democracy. america needs to be age to trust our government, federal employees need to be able to do their work without fear and political interference and with full rights to appeal when they're being victimized. we may never know about all the corruption that union members would have otherwise brought to light but were not for the fear of retribution from the trump goons and the agencies now that their union contracts have been weakened. >> now the problem in our veterans affairs is said to be investigated for claims of systemic racism, how has the president embassy xacerbated th problem? >> well, the white house has shown so much of indifference to the welfare of the federal workforce in numerous ways over

the last four years, you know. there's still not enough ppe. you know, and when you just speak in terms of the v.a. itself, we did a survey, the v.a. workforce was surveyed, focusing on the racism against the employee of the department of veteran affairs whom we represent and the veterans that we serve by the system and around a third of our members are veterans themselves and many of them expressed v.a. racist attitudes both as employees and as patients. 78% of the pundits say they have personally witnessed action of the v.a. that reflects systemic racism again against both v.a. employees and veterans. this is not a story of v.a. employees mistreating veterans, this is a story of a management culture that has flourished under secretary wilke that

condones the racist behavior. we extremely grateful for the senators taking this survey seriously and making a request for a thorough study. all the racist dog whistles from the white house do indeed find their way into the operation of federal agencies. it not different when it comes to the vnc.a. secretary wilke has been known to condone this type of treatment. even speaking to the confederates. it tells us of his character. we've never over the last four years this nation by far has been living off intimidation and lies and this administration is showing itself, you know, by doing just that, continuing to intimidate, continuing to lie to the american public and to all of america. >> dr. everett kelly, thank you for being with us this evening. >> thank you. >> up next, my final thoughts.

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that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague alicia menendez picks up our news coverage. >> all right, thank you, reverend sharpton. and a very happy birthday to you. >> thank you. >> hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez. thanks for spending part of your weekend with us. when we started this show, we promised to cover the big stories of the week and the breaking news. today that's the president hospitalized at walter reed medical center, diagnosed with