good morning. it is saturday, october 17th. i'm ali velshi.

we are 17 days away from election day. this week, 898,000 new americans filed for unemployment benefits. exceeding estimates. the highest number since august. every singing week since mid march has been worse than any pre-pandemic week in american history. it appears the u.s. border with canada is not going to be reopened anytime soon. i was there last week. although the closure agreement expires next wednesday, justin trudeau told the host of the popular tv show, the u.s. is not in a place where we feel comfortable reopening the borders. during the covid-19 pandemic, americans are dying higher than 18 other higher income countries. according to a report in the journal of american medical association which reveals that after adjusting for population size, overall deaths in the united states this year are more than 85% higher than in

countries including germany, israel and denmark. and are 29% higher in sweden. a country which did essentially nothing to stop the spread of the virus. italy which was devastated in the spring by covid-19. now since june 7th, the covid-19 death rate is at 3.1 per 100,000 people in italy. the united states is at 27.2 per 100,000 people. as for president trump's much vaunted vaccine, studies have been put on pause which are common in drug trials. they are expected. it is how they're supposed to work. they eliminate how ludicrous and dangerous the false claims of a vaccine by november or election day or by the end of the year really are. roughly 220,000 americans are dead from covid-19. about 1,000 americans continue

to die each day from the disease. u.s. surpassed 8 million cases. multiple americans are confirmed to have been diagnosed with covid-19 twice. in the netherlands, a woman who beat the disease died after being reinfected. numbers continue to rise at record rates at more than half the states across the country and the midwest and mountain states with record surgeris. idaho and wyoming and south dakota are among the newest. ohio once seem to have things under control shattered the single day record this week topping 2,000. several other states, including illinois, indiana, michigan, nebraska and wisconsin reporting more than 25% increases in cases in the last two weeks. things have become dire in wisconsin with the state opening a field hospital at the state

fair park in milwaukee. wisconsin setting single day death records for covid-19 and has more than 1,000 people hospitalized. also a record. yesterday, more than 3,800 new cases reported. the third time in a week a record high was hit. nevertheless, the judge blocked the governor's order imposing easing indoor capacity records in what is shaping up to be the latest super spreader event hosted by trump. set to hold a re-election rally at the wisconsin airport. according to the sheriff's office, attendees have to park two miles away and pack on crowded shuttle buses to get to the event. the september 26th rose garden sha ceremony to hold the rushed nomination of amy coney barrett to the supreme court, judge acb doesn't know the 1, 2, 3 with

the first amendment. >> what are the five freedoms of the first amendment? >> speech, religion, press, assembly. speech, press, religion, assembly. what am i missing? >> redress or protest. >> protest. particularly important one these days. one of the people recently diagnosed with covid-19 who can trace his case back to the white house outbreak is former governor chris christie. he attended the rose garden event and part of the trump debate team. christie revealed he spent seven days in an icu and said he was wrong not to follow mask guidelines and the disease is something to be taken seriously. ten months after we first heard about this. if you thought this might rub off on the white house, you would be wrong.

>> through operation warp speed, we will have 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year. the vaccine will end the pandemic once and for all. frankly, i'll say it and they'll hate it. they'll actually love it. even without the vaccine, the pandemic will end. it will run its course. they will go crazy. he said without the vaccine. watch. a headline tomorrow. these people are crazy. no, it is hundrediis running it. rounding the turn. >> just disappear. that wasn't, by the way, a political spoof. that is the president of the united states. trump just doesn't get. it he cannot tell the truth. he cannot tell how this is not all about him. due to the covid-19 diagnosis and calamity of the first go around, the scheduled press debate turned into duelling town halls. they offered different responses when asked about the pandemic.

>> the words of a president matter. no matter whether they are good, bad or indifferent. >> did you test the day of the debate? >> i don't know. i don't remember. i test all the time. >> button it up. do you take a test every single day? >> no, i take a lot of tests. >> did you take a test the day of the debate? >> possibly, possibly not. you are surrounded by a lot of doctors. >> if i passed that test, i would not want to come here and expose everybody. i think it's decency to be able to determine whether or not you are clear. >> the president appears to be pinning his re-election on the hope he can convince the country that is battered by the virus that covid-19 is not so bad. if the polls are right, that strategy is not working. latest nbc news polling shows biden ahead of trump 51% to 42%.

even trump's voting blocs are crumbling. biden ahead of trump 51% to 47% among white voters. npr notes that the 51% of white voters is the highest for a democratic candidate dating back to jimmy carter in 1976. even among white voters without a college degree, trump is down a net 19 points compared to last month. he still leads in the group by 11%. trump won that bloc however, in 2016, by a whopping 37 points. even among seniors, biden ahead of trump by one point among 50 to 64-year-olds. more and more people realize

more leadership would have saved lives. trump is in deep denial. adding, enough is enough. president trump has failed in the most basic duty of office to protect american lives and livelihoods. in two and a half weeks, we have a choice. accept reality and chart a course forward or continue to living in donald trump's denial. we do not have to do this again. joining me now is journalist laurie garrett. she is an author of "the coming plague." one of the recent pieces cuts to the part of the matter. trump's vaccines can't be trusted. laurie, you and i have been speaking for nine or ten months and i remember when i first met you. you were enraged. it wasn't clear to everybody why you were so enraged. you warned of the very things

everyone else has been warning about. everybody who knows what they're talking about. the white house trusted the university of washington and john hopkins for projections. they called it the gold standard. then the white house stopped using those projections. at least 208,000 would be dead by election day. we are beyond that. you said back in february and march to me that this did not have to unfold the way it was going to. it has. i guess my point is, do we have to go through another seven or eight or nine months like this? >> well, it depends on the american people and who they choose as their leader and what that clearleader chooses to do. if we choose the current leadership and pattern and nature of the leadership in the pandemic, we are in for a rough road. indeed. many reasons to believe that this second wave that is now beginning across the nation is

going to be far worse than what we've experienced up to today. you know, we're officially at a number of 230,000 americans have succumbed in the epidemic. we also know that there is an under count that somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% to 30%. if you at that in, you realize we're well over a quarter million americans now. if we keep seeing that trend in the corruurrent pace of growth continues, we will get to christmas looking at 400,000 of our friends, neighbors, family, citizens having passed away. of course, the president never says this, but 400,000 dead is 400,000 households and families and loved ones. a huge extended circle. there will be millions grieving by then. we are in a situation where we either take this seriously and go all out with a national

policy -- a uniform national policy -- for how we control this virus or we can play this herd immunity game that the president likes very much that is promoted by his adviser scott at atlas and let's make like sweden and let businesses reopen and let everybody go about life as the president says it is not something to be scared of. it is not such a big deal. under those circumstances, i think 400,000 is far less than where we will be by christmas. we will be at 500,000 if we stay this course. >> the president said last night. we just played it. he said without a vaccine, because he is saying without a vaccine because he said there would be a vaccine by election day and by november. he is still talking about the end of the year. although two major trials have stopped for a good reason. you stop vaccine trials when there might be a problem. that is how vaccines are developed. that's why they take so long. he is saying without it, it will go away. without it going away means a

lot of people getting infected. that is what he is talking about with herd immunity. he could not give a straight answer the other night to savannahi guthrie. just let it burn through the population. >> that means a huge death toll. let's be clear. the country that is often cited as the example of the nation that did herd immunity has succeeded which is sweden. sweden has the highest death rate in the nordic nations. they sacrificed a great number of their population in order to achieve this and they are seeing a second wave now. they are seeing a surge. on top of it all, it is not sweden does nothing. that is a misread of the swedish policy. if you test positive in sweden, you are removed from your job. you are placed in quarantine and

your entire family is placed in quarantine with you. in fact, in sweden, the penalty is severe. you stop working. your spouse stops working. your children leave school and you are all hunkered down under mandatory quarantine. we don't do this anywhere. on that side of it, it is more severe than what we do. even in the toughest counties like here in new york where things so far thankfully are under control. >> laurie, thank you again for your service in yelling at the top of your lungs many, many months ago. the thing you and i did not know was the president of the united states could actually make a choice to do the wrong thing. we assumed if the public health information was out there and science was out there, the president would do the right thing. what we now know months later as this is getting worse in america and countries that have done more than america is that we now have a choice in 17 days to decide how this plays out for the next several months.

laurie garrett. she is the author of "the coming plague." she is an avid tweeter. you should follow her. laurie, thank you. as you know, we are 17 days away from the election. people across the country already coming out in droves. i'm telling you, numbers like we have never seen before. this was a line from early voting in north carolina this week. the state is already breaking records. like other states have for early in-person and absentee ballots. we will have an update on the american democratic experiment in progress and the success that you are having after this. er th. ♪ you can go your own way

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more than 21 million americans have cast their ballots which is under way in most states. this includes battleground north carolina where i'll be next week where more than 1 million votes for the general election have been cast. representing 14% of the voting population of the state. joining me now from raleigh is leanne caldwell. you have talked to voters who have waited in long lines to vote which is fwhad peopbad tha have to do that, but they are exercising their duty in american democracy. what have you been hearing from them? >> reporter: ali, i want to update your numbers for a second. the north carolina board of elections just minutes ago put out new numbers on totals. 16% or 17% of registered voters in the state have already voted. absentee ballots you can put in

by mail and voting early has been going on for the first weekend. i'm outside the polling place in durham. the line goes down the street and stretches up to here and you see where the entrance finally is. voter enthusiasm seems to be extremely high. we also think of long lines as a form of voter suppression. in durham county, it has 14 places to go and vote today. you don't have to live in the district. you can vote anywhere. neighboring wake county where raleigh is has 20 places open. people are enthusiastic wanting to vote. that is what they have been telling me, ali. >> that is amazing. lee anne, have you seen problems in early voting so far? >> reporter: i actually haven't. it seems to be running smoothly. there is one suburban raleigh

district on the first day on thursday where machines went down. there was five or a six-hour wait there. for the most part, it has been going well. the location here is smaller than the ones yesterday. we were in downtown raleigh and suburban cary location. this will take a long time because there are not as many opportunities to vote inside. they have fewer people allowed inside. ali. >> leigh anne, thank you. if you have voted, tell us. send pictures of the lines at the polling stations. be careful not to break rules. don't take a picture of your ballot. that is illegal in some states. i would like it hear your story ice.

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>> do you believe that every president should make a commitment resolutely to the peaceful transfer of power? >> to the extent this is a political controversy right now, as a judge, i want to stay out of it. >> does the president have an absolute right to pardon hims f himself? >> because it is opining an open question when i haven't gone through the judicial process, it is not one i can offer a review. >> is roe a precedent? >> roe doesn't fall in that category. >> legal reporter argues that her refusal to answer a question is aiding and abetting the electoral crime which is already in progress. it is an allegedly neutral posture to do a lot of work to under cut the very democratic ideals that she is sworn to uphold. she will shift the court's

conservative majority further right. making it 6-3. in her judicial record, it suggests her confirmation could threaten the establish precedent on the affordable care act one week after election day. this amid a deadly pandemic and millions are dependent on the aca for health insurance. roe v. wade, she is likely to overturn it with the opportunity to do so. we know this because in 2006, barrett signed on advocating overturning the barlbaric legac of roe v. wade. right now, two abortion related cases are waiting to be heard by the supreme court and a dozen more soon to follow. joining me now is the president of the national women's law center. she is the co-founder of the time's up legal defense fund.

thank you for being with us. for a lot of people there wondering, we are 17 days from the election day. i know what i'm going to do in the election. we have been smhowing people pictures doing that. they are voting in numbers we have never seen before. they may not be able to do anything about the election of amy coney barrett and the nomination of the supreme court. what do you have to say about that? >> part of the reason people are voting in the large numbers is because we are witnessing the extraordinary power grab by the republicans. it is astonishing. that's one of the things they can do. i want to be clear. the republicans have not actually taken the votes yet. they need to continue to call them and tell them that they don't like what is playing out. they're trying to make people feel defeated like there is nothing they can do. people do have some power here. that is the first thing i want to say. >> number of answers to

questions that were interesting when listing the five freedoms in the first amendment. protest was conveniently forgotten. in the white house and administration, that is the one that seems to be forgotten. she could not commit to whether a peaceful transfer of power is something that should happen. she could not commit to whether or not a president should be able to pardon himself. she could not comment and you tweeted about this on whether voting discrimination still existi exi exists. it wasn't a question about a particular case and how she would rule. does voting discrimination exists. climate change. she said it is a controversial issue. this is worrisome. >> is water wet? there are all of these basic things that were facts that she suddenly had no opinion or no thought on. is there equal pay in this country? is there racism in the country? issuppression in

the country? she has a mile long record to rescind us on civil rights and reproductive freedom. it say problem she did not answer questions but she is asking for a promotion here with a record a mile long. we deserve to hear more. not invasiveness again and again and again. >> you are also the co-founder of the time's up legal defense fund. the president nominated a woman to take the historic seat of a woman on the supreme court. how do you square that? i often talk to people who say with ruth bader ginsburg's nomination, her seat should be filled by a woman. what do you say to people when you hear the opinions that amy coney barrett holds on things that should be important to

women. >> ruth bader ginsburg was an icon. not because she was any or woman, but the legacy to expand for all women and all people in the country. amy coney barrett does a disservice to her legacy because she is a different threat to civil and human rights. she is an affront to ruth bader ginsburg. >> fatima, thank you. my next guest took amy coney barrett to task after using an offensive term after using lgbtq rights. >> i have never discriminated on the basis of sexual prefer rien. >> let me be clear. sexual preference is an out

dated term. it is used by anti-lgbtq activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice. it is not. if it is your view that sexual orientation is a preference, as you noted, then the lgbtq community should be rightly concerned whether you would uphold their constitutional right to marry. >> joining me now is the democratic senator from hawaii. m mazie hirono. aloha, senator. >> aloha. >> there may be many americans who were confronted with sexual orientation and many who use sexual preference without realizing the implication. it is different for a judicial

candidate and different for a candidate to the supreme court bench who may be hearing cases that apply to the lgbtq community. >> of course. as i mentioned in my questioning, she did not use the terms accidentally. those are terms used by people who are not supportive of lgbtq rights. in fact, your previous guest said amy coney barrett will take the supreme court way to the right. probably more to the right of scalia who wrote the major dissent on all of the right pieces. one of the precedents that will come up for this court because two justices, thomas and alito, have signalled the case that allows gay marriage said there is no constitutional basis for that decision. that is why i think this will be

a case where she will not support the gay rights position. it is also, ali, her position on precedent because she believes every justice should decide for themselves what the constitution requires. if the precedent comes up with that assessment and she would be a good candidate to overturn. very dangerous. >> things like the affordable care act. that is real. this is not abstract. they will vote on this the week after the election. the federal government which would be in court defending its own policy has joined the fight against the affordable care act. these are not be an extractioat.

is there anything to be done about that? >> if two republicans grow a conscious or on that committee, one republican, we could stop the nomination. as we have seen for four years, the republicans are busy kowtowing to the president. i think it is important for the voters and the dates for senators up for re-election and hold their feet to the fire. republicans have done a total 180 on letting the voters decide who the next president will be. they should be held accountable. >> senator, i want to ask you about scotus to hear a case of undocumented immigrants. they don't want to complete the census because they fear it connects them to law enforcement. a census that undercounts

americans are dangerous because of the money assigned. if you decide hospitals, roads and ambulances, you have to know the number of people. not citizens in a given place. >> exactly. the constitution requires it in the census that every person, not every citizen, every person be counted. the supreme court has decided to go along with the administration and shortening the time for the census which means it will lead to undercounting. a lot of communities in need will not get the resources. there is something like $1 trillion in resources that are determined by the census count. that's exactly what this administration wants to do. they want to do everything they can to make sure that undocumented people are not counted. he is already saying that is what he wants to happen with the census analysis. >> sthet oenator, good to see y.

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against pedophilia. the president's refusal to condemn it was a rallying cry for those lying about pedophilia. youtube was the latest to ban qanon. there is an important difference between disinformation and misinformation. disinformation tries to manipulate on purpose. misinformation is spread by accident. disinformation is being used to galvanize voters prior to election day. especially in the ranks of conservative media. including the president's relentless attacks of voting by mail which is being amplified by the right wing ecosystem has found rare or old instances of improperly thrown away mail and reframed them and conspiracies

against the president. it is going viral on social media. it is promoted by the white house. the president and allies continue to show that trump himself is the biggest of disinformation in the country. the consequences undermining trust in our institutions and in our democratic system and in the voting system that is under way right now. joining me is roger mcnamee. author of the important book "zucked." roger, it is good to see you again. this is what you have been not warning about, but yelling at the top of your lungs about for the last few years. to say this disinformation can be used by bad actors domestically or foreign actors. it is the thing that suppresses votes. it is the thing that causes people to believe nonsense. i run into it in the trip around the country when i ask people

what is the biggest concern. they say pedophilia. it is not what qanon says it is. >> ali, the problem is the internet platforms are the sorcerer's apprentice. when you have a president of the united states consciously uses disinformation as a political weapon, democracy has no chance of surviving. right now, you see people standing in line five or six or seven hours to vote because they recognize our democracy faces an existential threat. internet platforms are one of the root causes and they are incapable of policing themselves at this point. >> is there any hope that you take from the fact that youtube and facebook have quite late decided to try and clamp down on qanon and other conspiracy

they'ri they'rists? >> it's answer is yes. it is far too late and it comes down to the ability to even nnf the changes. when facebook does something like banning holocaust denial, which they did this week, they often do it just in the english language because that is where the journalists are and not in the other languages which undermines the success of the program like that. i do believe we are in a moment of truth where the country will have to decide what it values more. democracy and self determination on the one hand or the ability to look at cat videos on the other? we are really in a difficult moment here. it is not all clear to me that we can get through this without real series of crises from here. the way trump is manipulating social media, they are no longer able to restrain him. >> i don't want to scribe

motivation, but when donald trump said to savannah guthrie he doesn't know about qanon. the federal government knows about qanon. donald trump went to the basic line that they are against pedophilia. i'm in favor of that. that was a nod to qanon. that was, as i say, playing footsie with qanon. the president did not take the opportunity to distance himself from a crazy and dangerous conspiracy theory that is prolific on the web. >> ali, not knowing is a violation of the oval office. if you think about it in the context of facebook, facebook internal studies have demonstrated 63% of the time when a person joins an extremist facebook group, it is because facebook admitted it. facebook admitted the largest

pages and groups on facebook dedicated to qanon had 3 million members. that means facebook pushed 2 million people into qanon. you know, we have this issue here where facebook and trump profited from each other. obviously, twitter and youtube also profited enormously from trump. all forms of media have. we have got this problem where the profits were great for a while, but now we're in the place where entire society and system of government is under attack. it is not clear that our institutions are strong enough to stand up to it which is why it is so important that americans vote because the last line of defense is all of us exercising our franchise. even if it takes 8 or 10 or 12 hours standing in line. we all have to do that. >> it looks like people are doing it. they are exercising their democracy which is more important and impactful than the

nonsense from the president or social media. >> ali, i think we have to ask the question of whether in the current form facebook, youtube, twitter, instagram, are compatible with democracy? can we allow them to continue to operate at all? it is very clear the people running these companies are unable to control them and the value systems are miss aligned with democracy and i just think we have to have that conversation right out in the open. there are some businesses we banned like slavely. these are different than that and the harm causing to society is hard to calculate. >> slavery was a remarkable business. it was an economic advantage. so are the social media companies. so close that thought off. donald trump did retweet that biden had navy s.e.a.l.s cover up the failed assassination of

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women's rights activists are facing down the notion this week as amy coney barrett's nomination moves through the senate of having a woman on the high court who will almost certainly work to roll back women's rights, positioning her as a so-called originalist, she's pushing a view of the constitution that explicitly leaves women out. if you only interpret the constitution exactly as it was originally written, many americans, including women, would have few rights today. it comes as the anniversary as the me too movement and the women's march converge, both focused on supporting survivors and protecting women's rights, just another reminder of how much further we have to go. with me now, the founder of the metoo movement.

you started using this expression back in 2006 and back in 2011, it went viral. three years ago it went viral. you tweeted on the third anniversary of that, i've often been struck by some people's willingness to commit to this movement. this is a movement about two things, healing and action. by your own definition of this, where are we today? >> well, by my own definition, we still have a long way to go and i mean, i think this current confirmation hearing is a big end case of that. i think people are woefully m misinterpreting this movement but are woefully standing in the way of progress. i think progress will ultimately win but we have so much more work to do. >> i have met so many people, men, who i think in general would think that they are --

they're not sexist or misogynist but they see this movement as evil and adversarial and targeting of them as opposed to being able to say what have i done that i didn't think to be bad but lived off the structures of holding women down. that is so many of you have talked to about us. and so many of us men think whatever we thought was right then may not be right and we can be allies. is enough being done? >> there is not enough. there's a statue, of medusa holding the head of percius. it flies in the face of everything we've tried to say with this movement that is not

about those things. it's about survivors having voice, coming forward and having solidarity. >> let's talk about the action part of it, the healing and the action. since metoo went viral, only illinois, maryland, new york and vermont have been able to pass the most basic and crucial reform ensuring that the many low-paid gig workers do. workers and health care workers or other workers have legal protections against workplace harassment. if you have a boss in media or entertainment or high profile ush may be able to get somewhere with this but for most women they don't. >> this movement is about most people. it notpeop it's not about people who make the most money and have the

resources. it's about the people who have the least resources. we need dramatic changes in our law but it's also we need culture shift. there is this idea built upon rape culture which creates the opportunity for violence to happen. we have a lot of work to do to dismantle those things for the average person. >> we're not going to get all that work done in 17 days but in 17 days real work can be done. how do you connect people's vote to changing this? >> similar to -- you just said this in the previous segment, or the guy just said this in the previous segment, it's one of the last things that we have control of in this country and people can say with their voices that we want a change. we initiated something called metoo voter and survivors vote because people think of us has just a group that need help but we're a constituency.

survivors cross every demographic and we are people who live in communities that want them to be safer. in 17 days my hope is that survivors will come out and say we don't want a person with the reputation of this man and the history he's had over the last several years in office anymore and they will vote according to that. >> do it if you're a survivor, do it if you're a woman, do it if you're an ally. tarana, thank you, founder of the metoo movement. >> coming up, mark salter, friend and former adviser to the late senator john mccain will help me set up my next stop on the velshi across america tour, phoenix is next. oss america tou phoenix is next. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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good morning. if is saturday, october 17th. i'm ali velshi. we are 17 days out from the most consequential election in our lifetime. we start this hour with the tale of international espionage connected to a close confidante of the president of the united states. the president was reportedly warned that his personal attorney, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani was the target of a russian intelligence operation, a story that is unraveling to reveal allegations of disinformation, dirty tricks and a federal probe over russian efforts to disparage joe biden.