topping 77,000 on thursday and 79,000 yesterday, surpassing the records that were set in july. cases are rising in a whopping 75% of the country. more than 8.5 million americans have now been diagnosed with the disease and more than 225,000 americans have died. around 900 americans continue to die every day from covid-19. yesterday dr. anthony fauci revealed that the white house coronavirus task force meets on average once a week and that he hasn't spoken to president donald trump, quote, in a while. nbc news has learned that trump has not attended a white house coronavirus task force meeting in months and is not expected to do so in the final days before the election. that's the truth. now i present you with a bunch of lies. but i've been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we've been able to do with the -- if you take a look at what we've done in terms of goggles and masks and gowns and

everything else and in particular ventilators. it will go away. and as i say, we're rounding the turn, we're round being ting th. it's going away. >> days before trump uttered those remarks, canada announced the border with the united states will be closed due to the unstable situation in the united states. meanwhile here's trump making no sense whatsoever when talking about something he knows nothing about, science and medicine. >> we have a vaccine that's coming, it's ready. it's going to be announced and delivered. >> you also said a vaccine will be coming within weeks? >> yes. >> is that a guarantee? >> no, it's not a guarantee but it will be by the end of the year. >> you have said a vaccine is coming soon within weeks. your own officials say it could take into 2021 for enough americans to get vaccinated and then they say the country will be wearing masks and distancing in 2022. is your timeline realistic?

>> i think my timeline will be more accurate. >> you will get a vaccine that ends the epidemic and pandemic. without it it goes away and with it it goes away faster. you're going to have it very soon. >> that last bit of mumbo jumbo that trump said came during a rally yesterday at the village, a huge retirement community in florida, which tells you how desperate trump is. he's lying to senior citizens about a deadly pandemic that he has done far too little to fight. more so now this election does whoever a remarkably clear choice for two different paths forward on a multitude of issues we're facing. here's joe biden on covid-19. >> this is the same fellow who told you this is going to end by easter last time, told you don't worry, we're going to end this by the summer. we're about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan. he says that we're, you know,

we're learning to live with it. people are learning to die with it. you folks at home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning. that man or wife going to bed tonight reaching over to touch out of habit where their wife or husband was is gone. learning to live with it? come on. we're dying with it. >> biden's also addressed another topic that trump wants to pretend doesn't exist, foreign election interference. >> i made it clear that any country, no matter who it is that interferes in american elections will pay a price. they will pay a price. and it been overwhelmingly clear this election, i won't even get into the last one, this election that russia has been involved, china's been involved to some degree and now we learn that iran is involved. they will pay a price if i'm elected. they're interfering with american sovereignty. >> the specific stories biden is

referring to involve russia and iran obtaining american voter registration information which was revealed by the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe. ratcliff adds russia and iran had taken specific actions to influence public opinion receipting to our elections. iran is said to be responsible for a recent cascade of emails purporting to be from the far right group proud boys and sent to voters in multiple states threatening them if they department vote for donald trump. the latest national polling of a ranch showing biden ahead by eight points. and now "the washington post" reports that trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire fbi director chris wray after the election which could oust the attorney general bill barr. the reasons have nothing to do with you or me or the country but all instead selfishly about

donald trump who has become exasperated that federal law enforcement, in particular wray and barr, the head of the fbi and torattorney general have no done what james comey did to boost his campaign and announce an investigation against trump's opponent and this week donald trump has called for biden to be jailed. a he wants them all to be jailed. he's not even talking about arresting and a trial. he wants to skip all the way to jail. donald trump is increasing his manic push to criminalize the opposition. that's not what happens in a democracy. that's authoritarianism plain and simple. it how donald trump views himself. in ten days we've got a choice between two directions for the future of america, for the character of america, for

american democracy of the people, by the people or for the people or on the other hand trumpian authoritarianism. joining me now, staff writer for the "new yorker" and a pbs frontline correspondent who worked on "whose vote counts." and laura rosenberger, director of the alliance for securing democracy and served as a senior official at the state department, the nsa and nsc under president obama. remarkably relevant to this conversation about what influence re influence we're getting from other people. welcome to both of you. jelani, the stuff donald trump is saying is not that different from what he said for a few years but it's unhinged from anybody believing they're living in a democracy. >> sure. and the pitch of it has increased in the last weeks as joe biden's lead has extended further and further. you know, but one of the more astounding things about this is

that we have seen this kind of rhetoric kind of leading to this place, there are people who were saying this in 2015 from the first announcement that we would wind up someplace here. if we looked at the scandals and the cumulative effect of this, the michael flynn situation, all the things that michael cohen told us about the fiasco, the fake attempt to have burisma turned into some sort of scandal, the impeachment, the pandemic with blatant cascades of lies to people that are going out left and right and we look at all of this and simply ask aren't you just tired? aren't you just tired of this kind of reality? it's astounding that this is the place we've gotten to. >> let me ask you this, laura. the president in his attacks on joe biden in the debate conveniently ignored the

allegations of russian involvement in his campaign and the mueller investigation and the fact that he was actually impeached over trying to solicit assistance in his campaign from ukraine, accused joe biden of getting money from china and ukraine and selling pillows and sheets. it muddies the waters for people who actually want to know what's happening with foreign interference in u.s. elections right now. we've gotten to the point where it like the vaccine, i don't know who and what to believe. i will believe you, laura, because this is what you do and what you know. what's happening right now with respect to foreign interference in american elections? >> thanks, ali. i think you're exactly right to note the concern about how this muddies the waters because americans really need to know what the facts are about, who is attacking our democracy and about the integrity of the election. here what's we know -- we know that russia, iran and potentially china are engaging in activities to undermine our democracy. china's activities tend to be much longer term and more about

policy shaping and less about the election. russia remains in chris wray's word active in attacking our democracy and reports are out this week about how cyber activities are continuing to target state and local governments, not voting systems but state and local governments. that raises concerns about sort of a broader goal which i think gets lost in the horse race shuffle when we talk about which foreign actor is favoring which candidate and who's up and who's down. the goal of these actors is to undermine america's confidence in the integrity of the elections themselves. so when we have reports of things like foreign actor who are able to access state and local government systems, it potentially provides them with the ability after election day to come in and raise doubts about the integrity of the election. and unfortunately, i think that motive lines up with some of the messaging we've soon from the president himself, where he has actually cast out on election

integrity, raised spurious claims of voter vowed with mail-in balloting and said he himself may not accept the outcome of the election. all of this puts the imperative on the american people. i think the american people need to be assured under underneath the churn of president donald trump there are good efforts being down by dhs and parts of the intelligence community to safeguard our election infrastructure. i believe americans should be confident in those efforts. but americans are also going to have to know that a lot of actors are going to be trying to undermine their faith in the outcome. election themselves and they are going to be the ones who have to maintain faith and refuse to let the actors succeed in those efforts. >> jelani, that's a form of -- go ahead. >> here's the interesting thing about this. there's a quick meteorologist logical analogy. when we have hurricanes, as you

well know, the greatest number of fatalities is not when the storm hits, it's the week after, the kind of cumulative, rolling effect of what storms bring with them. that's the kind of situation we're looking at now. and to the previous point, the day of the election is one concern. of course there's the idea of people coming to the polling places and trying to intimidate people and so on, but it is the cor corollary to russia being the most active group of interfering with the election. domestically the department of homeland security said white nationalists were the biggest domestic threat of terrorism for the foreseeable future. and so when we see that kind of undermining of the outcome of the election or the faith in the electoral process, it's not november 3rd, it's what this does in the days and weeks after, particularly i'd be looking at what these militant white nationalists militias are

going to do in that kind of context. >> i'm very concerned about that. i was watching the debate the way i think a lot of people do, twitter in one hand and i had the debate on the tv. jelani, in that moment i -- he said it before but it just caught everybody's attention that somebody hasn't told donald trump to stop saying he's done more for african-americans than anybody except maybe abraham lincoln. you tweeted who's done more for black people than donald trump, the one waitress at the wolaffl house, prince's boot maker and pat riley. are you encountering any african-americans who believe this nonsense? >> no. i think what i've encountered is a great deal of outrage and i've gotten a lot of emails about this.rious side as an

historian, when you said nobody except abraham lincoln, you don't even have to go that far. look at ulysses s. grant. grant took on the white nationalists of his day, he enforced the ku klux klan act of 1871, broke the back of those attempting to drive black people out of electoral and political consideration. that's what ulysses s. grant did on the heels of abraham lincoln. it's striking to note the exact opposite behavior donald trump refuses to even disavow these people and overseen one of the largest efforts to suppress votes that we've seen in the modern era. >> thank you to both of you this morning. laura roseberger and jelani,

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my skin, they couldn't run for an election, vote, own land or freely express idea that differed from the government without risk of being thrown in jail or being killed. my father saw his candidacy as a choice for voterswhat they decided was up to them. that choice, that vote is democracy itself. your right to vote was hard earned in blood and jail from the civil rights movement and suffrage movement and yet here in america only about 55% of eligible voters actually vote. in australia turnout is about 09% but australian can vote at any polling station in the country. if you don't do it, you get fined. belgium has a form of compulsory voting. in canada, like most other countries, there's a national

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>> president obama this week walked biden supporters through filling out a ballot. just let that sink in. it's not just some measure. here in the united states, we make it difficult for people to vote, whether it's having to vote on a tuesday, filling out a ballot that is counterintuitive. americans face issues with their ballot, so much so we needed a former president to explain how to do it. as i said a few minutes ago, there are better ways of doing this, ways which we could make it easier in which citizens could vote. instead, we've seen things get more difficult, longer lines, confusing processes and concerns that even when you finally do get your ballot and do vote, the ba ballot might not get counted and make it to where it needs to be in time. so what can we do to make this easier?

>> good morning to both of you, thank you for being with us. i mean for this to be a productive conversation, nicole, because i'm frustrated. i think can you tell. it doesn't need to be this way. but ultimately something about what you do in the next ten days can have an effect on how this happens for the rest of american history. we can actually change this. we can actually become the voting that makes voting easier, not harder. >> and thank you for having me for what has been some of the best reporting during the election that we've seen. we have made voting naing hard s country. one of the first things congress can do after the election is to alter the voting rights act in a way to really pull back the gutting of it by the supreme court. this has allowed this wave the voting suppression laws and

allowed states in a former confederacy like texas to close more polling places than any state in the country, to make it more difficult for cities, for areas with large black and latino populations to vote and make it difficult for all americans to vote. we do have the power. this election is the most important election in my life time for certain, for many reasonso reasons. one of them is whether we are going to continue to expand democracy or continue to try to shrink it? >> one of the things about the other countries i've talked about is federal elections are federally run and administered. things like registration, identification requirements, rules about who can be at a polling place, the number of polling places, they all tend to be determined with a standard applied across the country. tell me how that works in a america. to what degree are we really 50

presidential leelections rather than one? >> it even more than that. sometimes there are rules from one county to the next. maybe this made sense in the 18th century when it was first set up. we need to come out of the horse and buggy age when it comes to organizing our elections. you're right, i'm not aware of any other nation that doesn't have a national body that runs the election for the entire country. there's a provision in the constitution that says the time, place and manner of elections is set by the states, but we can set national standard. we could, for example, there is absolutely nothing stopping us from making a national holiday on election day. i've observed elections around the world, i have never been to another country where they run the election on a work day. usually it's on a sunday so we could move it to the weekend, we could make it a national holiday, we could combine it with veterans day because after all, what did the veterans fight for if not our democracy.

we could make voting registration easier. there a lot of -- we could absolutely as nicole said, we could restore the voting rights act in memory and in honor of the great john lewis and all the work he did. there's a lot we could do at the national level so that even though the elections would continue to be administered at the state and local level, we could set national standards that would make it much easier for people to vote across the country. >> nicole, you've studied certain things about this in a way none of us will ever be able to understand democracy and you won a pulitzer prize for it, which is amazing. what's the real issue? what's the nub here? is it the rules and things we discussed and the laws or is it some other historic form of discouraging voting among some communities, including african-americans but generally speaking, why are we making it harder? what's the best thing we can do to make it less hard, notwithstanding the actual

physical changes we can make to the voting process, what will cause more than 55% of americans to vote in this country? >> so, yes, as you know, we were not founded as a true democracy. one can look at the fact that the electoral college ultimately selects the president and not the popular vote. so we have always in this country wanted to have the sen e -- veneer of a popular democracy, while at the same time restricting who can vote, women could not vote, black people could not vote, native citizens were not considered citizens. when we look at voter restrictions today, we hear people say, well, these apply to all races equally so they can't have a racial intent. we haven't had explicitly racist electoral laws since the 15th

amendment. the same thing with literacy tests and poll taxes. and so we have to truly believe that voting is for all americans, that we don't simply want to create the voters who will vote the way that we want. it seems that what the republican party has decided they're going to do is instead of expanding the electorate, understanding that the more people who vote, the less likely they are to vote for republican, they're trying to restrict who has access to the vote. so we as americans have to demand a more free and fair system of elections. we have to understand this is not ancient history. my grandmother could not vote until she fled mississippi to come to the north. we aren't talking about a history that is old. we're talking about courts even now that are finding that efforts to suppress the vote are being done with surgical

precision to decrease the black and latino vote. we could have a holiday to vote. y -- we could expand mail-in ballots. in oregon they've had mail-in votes for years. that is based on that we want more people in this country to vote and that historically has not been the case. >> that's why voting in big numbers might send messages to people we actually need these chang changes. ellen, of these changes we're discussing, who makes them, initiates them? what can i tell voters, is it your legislature, is it congress, is it the president of the united states? who should initiate the big changes that we need to the ways in which we vote and the goals of getting more people out to vote and making it easier to vote? >> well, it's a combination of people. right now there are a lot of rules that are set by state

legislators. so people really need to pay attention. a lot of people focus on the big picture issues, the races, the presidency obviously is what a lot of people are looking at. but you have to focus also on who your state legislators are because they set a lot of these rules. it is state legislators in florida, for example, who after the voters overwhelmingly decided they wanted returning citizens who had been in prison to be rabable to have the right vote, the legislator overturned the will of the pop by imposing requirements they pay off fees that they couldn't even tell people how much they owed. so it at the legislative level but also it are bills in congress that would expand rights to vote that would improve a lot of these measures that we've been talking about, one a national holiday on election day. that would be a national law. so you have to look at your national legislators and one thing that we have a little bit less influence over, although in

some places for state court, people do vote for state judges look at the records of your state judges also if you're in a position to vote for them because there are a lot of provisions that one enacted, they get challenged in the court and you need to have judges who are committed to free and fair and accessible voting for every single citizen. we've seen some bad court decisions where courts strike down rules or reimpose rules that end up disenfranchising people. >> much work toi be done. credit to some companies in america that are working hard to make sure their employees understand what's going on and are offering time off to vote. it's everybody's work. thanks to both of you. ellen weintraub is a commissioner of the election commission. nicole hanna jones is a pulitzer prize writer who has changed the

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. 12 years ago when i chose -- when i chose bide as vice preside president, as my vice presidential running mate, i didn't know all that well. we had served in the senate together but we weren't super close. he and i came from different places, we came from different generations, but i came to admire joe as a man who has learned early on to treat everybody he meets with dignity and respect and that empathy,

that decency, that belief that everybody counts, that's who joe is. that's who he'll be. >> in a matter of hours, barack obama is going to hit the campaign trail for the second time this week on behalf of his former vice president joe biden. it will be another drive-in car rally, this time in miami. biden is hoping his former boss can be the difference maker in pivotal swing states. trump will be in west palm beach making clear the significance of the sunshine state. sam brock is in miami. i barely ever see you outside of a hurricane in person. florida has always been an interesting state in presidential elections. the polling indicates some distance between joe biden and donald trump. a lot of floridians and experts tell us it not as clear as the polling says. why is florida so important right now? >> yeah, ali, it's a great question. i can tell you on the ground here talking to folks that they do not believe even if the polls

indicate that joe biden right now has a couple point percentage lead, that that's actually going to hold true on election day. it's because of the 29 electoral votes it represents and the fact that president donald trump cannot win this election without florida and joe biden knows if he can squeak things out here, he can probably lock up the election. let's get into the granular details. there are 10 million plus people in florida registered with a party, 5.3 million are democrats, 5.17 million are republicans. that 130,000 person gap is the narrowest that it's been in years. and for context, ali, go back to 2016. the gap was double that and trump carried florida that year by one percentage point over hillary clinton. that's the stage a little bit for you. the economy so important down here, as tourism, restaurants, bars, hospitality, all have been crushed by covid. we know for the state of florida, unemployment right now is at 7.6% give or take, but for miami dade, it's at about 13%.

people want their jobs back. we've seen protests to reopen everything in the state of florida. so that's in play. also the pandemic in general when it comes to the older population here, one in five people in the state of florida are 65 years or older they are concerned about covid protocol and as we say this, we're seeing images from the villages yesterday where president donald trump was campaigning talking to thousands of older people in the largest retirement community in the country, ali and there were people there, packed in, some were wearing masks, many were not, as covid is absolutely on the ballot in this election. ali. >> thank you, my friend. good to see you again. nbc's sam brock for us in miami. donald trump apparently will be voting in person this morning and then he's going to have a rally florida later today. the carolinas -- by the way, that's the site of where the rally is going to be. you see people already assembling for it. the carolinas are set to become key to the outcome of the election.

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what is your plan if the law is ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court, you have two minutes uninterrupted. >> what i'm going to do is pass obamacare with a public option and become biden care. the public option is an option that says if you in fact do not have the wherewithal -- if you qualify for medicaid and you do not have the wherewithal in your state to get medicaid, you automatically are enrolled, providing competition for insurance companies. >> president donald trump and republicans have railed against the affordable care act for years. they've continually been unable to offer the american people an

alternative of any sort. joe biden is taking ownership saying if trump's now stacked supreme court strikes down obamacare, if he's elected and if the senate goes republican, he can pass a new version, which he's already calling biden care. like the country, health care is at the political forefront in the carolinas where i'm going to be tomorrow for my special sunday series "svelshi across america." they're seeing a change in their demograph demographics. it's a shrinking rural population. suburbs and cities which tend to be bluer are growing. more than 2.6 million in-person votes have already been cast in north carolina. that's up 126% compared to the same time in 2016. i want to welcome back a friend of the program, valerie jarrett. she was a senior adviser to president obama. she's the author of the book

"finding my voice: when the perfect plan crumbles, the adventure begins." it was a good read. valerie, good to see you again. i was surprised about the attack on obamacare. he consistently says under joe biden's plan, people will loose their employer-sponsored health care. he says the public option is socialized medicine. neither are true. and yet he says he has a plan just around the corner for some kind of health care that covers anybody and yet we have to see a demonstration of this. what do you make of this? >> good morning, velshi. you're absolutely right. he has no plan. since the c.a.r.e.s. act passed, the republicans have been saying let's repeal and replace. the problem is they have no idea how to replace it. what's at stake with the supreme

court sch will hear the arguments about the affordable c.a.r.e.s. act next month, if it's struck down, the hundreds of millions of americans with pre-existing conditions run the risk of losing their insurance or having their premiums go up, young children will not be able to stay on their parents' plans until they're 26, women will not have health care. for the president arguing he's going to look out for people with pre-existing conditions when he's in court right this minute trying to strike it down and he can't explain yet in any coherent fashion what his solution is to that in the midst of a global pandemic? well that is correct's just unconscionable. >> yeah, that's kind of amazing. let's talk about the carolinas. joe biden is arguably the democratic nominee today because the carolinas is where it turned around for him. he had been underperforming until he got there largely with the support of a number of african-american voters, important populations in the

carolinas, both of them. we've got two tight senate races, one in north carolina, one in south carolina. we've got the suburban people that donald trump's always talking about abo. you've got working-class non-college-educated people and evangelicals. you've got everybody to help either joe biden or donald trump to get over the top for the election what are your thoughts? >> as joe biden said during the primary, don't judge me by the early states that are vastly and predominantly white. wait till we get to states that are more diverse. i think his message is one that will resonate deeply in both of those states. his track record, his intellect, his character and integrity, his ability to consistently tell the truth in contrast to president trump, and his willingness to look at his job through the lens of how it's going impact the

lives of the american people. we want a president who's focusing on us, not himself. and so i think that coupled with his dynamic running mate is going to send a very positive message to the good people of north and south carolina, and they'll run like they're ten points behind. that's the way joe biden and kamela harris are. i know they have to earn the trust and respect and confidence of the american people not just during the campaign, but while they're in office. >> i was just talking to sam brock. florida is not going to come down to who has more support. it's going to come down to who gets out there and votes. from the perspective of enthusiasm, what role does barack obama being out there two days in philadelphia, today in florida, what role does that play for people in creating enthusiasm for people who are not only going to voed for joe biden but they tell one person to get out and vote. >> you're right. the election will turn on and turn out. it's ha today see the record

number of people turning out in terrell vote, the number of people who requested absentee ballots, and i know president obama is looking forward to going to florida. he's immensely popular there as he is around the country, and he's just itching to continue to make his case for why joe biden, a man he served with for eight years, is the person who is prepared to move our country forward and look out for everyone. i love the way joe biden says, look, i'm running as a democrat. i will be a president for america. and i think that former president barack obama is the perfect person to close this election out and make that pitch. >> valerie jarrett, when you are on our screen, the viewers know something important is happening. something important is happening. we're ten days from one of the most consequential elections in our history. thank you for joining me this morning. valerie jarrett is the author of "finding my voice: when the

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what's happening here is you know who i am. you know who he is. you know his character. you know my character. you know our reputations for honor and telling the truth. i am anxious to have this race. i'm anxious to see this take place. i am character arric -- carob - the country is on the ballot. i'm maria teresa kumar. we're ten days away from the election day. with friday breaking records for coronavirus the station in the election are life and death but unlike years past, it can more appropriately be thought of as when the voting season ends. these are all the states where early voting is already under way and already 47 million americans have cast a ballot. donald trump is