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 one of the early

ones casting a blot in the crucial state of florida this morning. he spoke at the largest retirement community to appeal to sigenior citizens whose suppt in 2016 helped lead him to victory. now they've started to abandon him in staggering margins. later today president obama will speak in miami in support of his former right-hand man and statewide polls show obama who won florida twice could help push biden over the top. joining me now -- mitch seizer. folks, thank you so much for joining me. this is my election season. it's my football season, so i'm glad i have some of the best in the business today to join me. i'm going start with you, rachel. rachel, we see a lot of these polls where biden looks like he's leading in wisconsin. it looks like he's leading in

ohio and he might even be in a dead heat in texas. what is happening? >> what is happening is the same things that were powering the midterm turnout we saw, and i call it the negative partisanship of fact and this is that passion that got awoken in that democratic coalition which really even includes independents that lean with democrats. we saw a turnout of young minority voters, black, latina, and hispanic voters. it's called incandescent rage, right? in my forecasting work there hasn't always been a relationship between midterms and presidentials, but in this

polarizing environment, everything is very nationalized, and that's what we're definitely seeing in this relationship between donald trump and a referendum environment. >> you've been doing a lot with the biden campaign. the fact that barack obama is heading down to florida, what is that saying about the surge in voting there? >> you know, florida is the keep state. one of the key tipping states and the latina vote is going to be crucial. it's going to be a key mobilizer. barack obama can get people out, tell them what's at stake. that's why you're going to see obama campaigning in florida, targeting the communities, some of the communities that rachel talked about, some that were not only there in the midterm, but they exceed what they did.

florida was the one spot that we still need to inch our turnout up to get over the finish line. >> so let's talk a little bit about that finish line, terrance. i want to bring you in and talk a little bit about polls. we're seeing biden in dead heat in so many places, but we also know what happened in 2016 when in many places we saw hillary clinton up and she still lost the election. what do the polls say to you right now? >> you know, the difference between 2016 and earlier is hillary clinton never reached above 100% in places. while she led in place like wisconsin, pennsylvania, and mirks without her going above 50%, it always left the possibility she could fall below the finish line there. but what we see is joe biden really entering the final week of this election with a more commanding lead and a very, very

different coalition. it's very different from the obama/bind coalition and the one that clinton put together in 2016. joe biden is leading among senior citizens, leading among white women. these are groups that typically do not lead. as he's begun to improve his margins even above men of color, which i was concerned about for a little while there, his partisanship has settled in. and i think even as black men and latino men are confronted with donald trump, even they are beginning to fall in line here, so i do think joe biden is entering the final stretch in a very, very safe position. >> i want to talk a little bit about florida specifically because while we're seeing a huge surge in early voting, one of the biggest concerns we're seeing is the fact that perhaps elections won't be called on election day, specifically because of florida. as an expert in this case -- i don't want to give you any

flashbacks -- talk a little bit of what may have changed since you were overseeing the elections in florida, and what can we expect? >> well, we all have bad memories of flori h-duh, which means things take a long time. i think the difference this time is a surge in early voting. you can count by vote the mail-in absentees as they come in. that makes a big, big, big difference. then by early voting, by the time you have 7:00 here on election night for most of the state -- the panhandle's in a different time zone -- you probably will have this time, probably 75%, 80% of all the votes in. what's interesting, though, you have to remember we're so close. our elections in 2018, bill nelson, the incumbent senator lost by 1/10 of one point.

it used to be either way would determine the biggest swing state in the country. now it's 1/10 of a point. even the governor's race, we lost by 3/10 of a point. the governor's approval rating is upside down for him at this moment. that's indicated that biden's in play, michael bloomberg has come in to a lot of money to spend money on grassroots thing. i think we'll have it early, but this is florida. >> when you say bloomberg went in and spent -- he didn't spend pennies. he dropped $100 million into the effort. let's see if that's going to move to finish line. >> no doubt. >> rachel, i want to talk to you a little bit. there's a new study out of change research that seems to correlate that states in the middle of the pandemic surge are

pulling away from trump into biden's camp, places like michigan. can you talk a little bit about that? >> yeah. i mean, you know, my work always thought the center of attention would be the sunbelt, right? you have to kind of understand what happened in 2016, knowing that third-party balloting and late-breaking undeciders in the midwest was not as good of a trump area as people have perceived it to be. but when we look at what's going on down in florida, i mean, we're really talking about a story, wisconsin, michigan, and pennsylvania, of this third wave coming in and dominating the news cycle. and when i talk about trump being his own wofrlt memory, this is a part of it. he pushed very hard to reopen schools. i remember at the time saying, this is a really bad idea

because if they open the schools, they're going to have a time delay where the third wave of the pandemic is going to hit them probably right around election day, mid-october, you know, and the headlines are going to be away from whaetever the headlines might be around the campaign, horrible campaign issue stuff, right back on the worst thing for trump, which really is that covid issue, thamd's exactly what we're seeing. i do think -- one more thing with florida. florida has a rich history of really fantastic election nights, but because it invented vote by mail, it has infrastructure in place to have you volt by mail. we may be able to know on election night what happens there. this is really ironic. florida might be democracy's safety valve because beyond florida, the trump administration's strategy and

unfortunately utilizing the justice department in terms of bill barr is to try to avoid counting mail-in ballots, right? i was a little surprised to see obama pushing voters toward mail-in ballots. i actually dropped my phone and thought, oh, gosh, no, not that. florida, if we get results that night, blocks trump from the presidency. it doesn't block biden. but it does mean that trump has no tap after that, and they will be able to vote. they're already -- they're set up to codify the law there where you start counting early. so we will know election results in florida. we should know them election night. >> rare chel, you're making it such a nail-biter. matt, i want to bring you in, but i want you to listen to this. >> ohio is absolutely in play.

trump won by eight points. it's clear trump fears he's going to lose ohio this time. i think he's ride. right. trump's antics after the election to try to overturn the election will fall on deaf ears. >> matt, if trump loses ohio, i think it not only changes the game, but it talks more about his incompetence of something that seemed so apparent. but i want you to talk specifically about the diversity that exists in ohio. most folks don't realize there's a large puerto rican population. are you in agreement that ohio is in play? >> yeah, that's right. first of all, let's remeend people trump is not just behind in ohio but iowa as well. somehe midwestern states he pulled out of in 2016, they

pulled out. these states are definitely in play. we're paying very close attention to them. to your point of diversity t presence that they have, it's going after african-american votes, going after latino votes, puerto rican votes in iowa and a latino vote strategy in iowa. we're taking this campaign to people, and from their community, from their community so that it feels raich so it resonates and there is a growing population there that it will be in ohio over 100,000 that will be cast and that will be a difference maker if we're looking at states turning and flipping. states are getting more diverse. as they're getting younger and more diverse, that's a bad sign for the republican party where they have been struggling with younger voters and diverse voters, and as those demographic shifts take place, these are really, really bad indicators for trump.

>> terrance, you mentioned how men are pulling back. talk about that and unpack why folks in these two communities would even listen to trump given how the state of affairs are dispropores gnat under covid impacting black and latino communities so hardly. >> absolutely. it's something i've been paying close attention to during super bowl, right, when i saw donald trump's campaign spend $11 million on the super bowl targeting black men after johnson came out after 22 years and thanked the president. i knew black men were part of donald trump's winning strategy, and we did see him for a while trending significantly higher amorning black men, specifically younger black men up until 18 months ago. we see a lot of the demographics

starting to land closer to what we expect them to, and i think men of color are seeing an existential threat from the president that's more violent, militarized police, that has encouraged police to use more excessive force. i think men of color are really starting to recognize that and see donald trump for what he is as an existential threat. i also though, because what's encouraging -- >> i'm sorry, terrance. we need to interrupt you. we see the polling location where donald trump will be casting his ballot any moment now. he's be casting it as a newly minted resident of florida. >> he's going to need that vote in florida. >> while we wait for him to proceed, i want to go back to this. you know, matt barrieto, you can

jump in too. how do young black men and latino voters tell their mothers how they're voting? >> absolutely. the first time i ever voted is because my mother told me to, right? this is why, you know, black women and women of color have become so important in relation to organizing because they do make decisions for household and influence votes far beyond their own. i'm excited about what i see american of color doing in this election. i do expect them to be the margin of difference in a lot of these states. >> matt, i don't think anyone would want to go home for thanksgiving in our house if we found out they voted the other way. talk about that and the i fluns of latinos in the election. >> terrance is right that we are starting to see the numbers turn around. in the black and latino community we're starting to see the gaps close.

i don't know if you caught any of george lopez, but the biden campaign has a specific strategy to reach out and talk to latino men and to talk to them about voting, and part of that is the family. how are your mothers voting? how are your sisters voting? how are your wives voting? let's do this together and get joe biden across the finish line. it's a very strong campaign, and it's one that we're working on. if you haven't checked out george lopez, that's a good one. we're reaching out to latino men across the country. >> we always seem to be fighting something in the latino community. mitch caesar, i want to bring you in. can you talk about what we're seeing as far as a president casting a ballot at a local community? talk a little bit about how even the security protocols, what people are expecting. i'm expecting he's not standing in line. but can you talk a little bit to this? >> yeah.

i'm sure he's not. i'm sure people in alabama beach are not thrilled when he comes to town because he stops all traffic. i find it interesting, though. he's wearing a mask, if i'm looking correctly. that's because in south florida, there are a lot of county commissioners who have employed mask ordinances. >> there he is. >> there he is with a mask. i think what it also denotes -- >> mitch, i hate to interrupt you, but donald trump is now on screen. he is wearing a mask. he just took off his mask. he whipped that off. let's listen. >> much more secure than when you send in a ballot, i can tell you that. everything was perfect, very strict. when you send in the ballot, it could never be secure like that. they've done a fantastic job. great people inside. but it's hoon to be voting, an honor to be in this great area which i know so well, and we're

going to make three stops today, three rallies, three big ones. crowds -- i don't think there's ever been anything like, this this tremendous spirit. i hear we're doing well in florida and everyplace else. thank you very much. you're going to be very busy today because we're going to work you hard. >> who did you vote for? >> i voted for a guy named trump. thank you very much, everybody. >> rachel, i want to go ahead and bring you in. what's your analysis of the way he described his voting experience and how it compares to other americans? >> well, you know, it's like everything else. it's like a gaslight, right? he always votes by mail some of this is the first time he's ever found the experience of voting by mail -- or voting in person to be superior, right? and, you know, i have to say, you know, he's going off to hold three superspreader virus

rallies where le will sentence some people to death. he's the president of the united states and clearly they do have the choice to show up. maybe some of their relatives will get exposed. and they did not make the choice to attend. it's so disheartening to have the president of the united states -- he's excited to go. >> on that, thank you matt barrieto, terrance woodbury, rachel bitecofer, and mitch caesar for joining me today. coming up next, 500 children who will never see their parents again. that's next. who will never see their parents again. that's next. in a pac. formulated with 10 concentrated cleaning actives, that clean deep down into the fabric to remove invisible dirt. see the difference, after being washed with tide hygienic clean. for a deep clean, try tide hygienic clean!

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the kids were ripped from their arms and separated, and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone. nowhere to go. nowhere to go. it's criminal. it's criminal. >> let me ask you about

immigration, ten seconds and then -- >> they are so well taken care of. >> that exchange was one of the most stunning moments at thursday's debate. donald trump refused to admit the tremendous damage he has done. by contrast, joe biden was outraged by reports that laywyes say they can't find the parents of more than 540 migrant children. this is now the tragic aftermath and a stain on our country and a key moment in the election. julie ainsley and astra silva and the director of the immigration law center. thank you for joining me, ladies. before we jump in, i'd like you go ahead and take a listen. >> why should voters trust you with an immigration overhaul now? >> because he made a mistake. it took too long to get it

right. tootoo took too long to get it right. >> the reason i wanted to invite you is you've been very voe call under the obama administration and how your life as changed under the trump administration and hearing the vice president apologize made a difference. can you speak to that? >> my dad was placed in deportation proceedings during the obama administration. i also received daca during the trump. and for me, hearing those words being said, even as activists or being affected by this, we often don't times hear words said. we could have done it faster, we could have done it. right now the reality is my family is in more danger at this moment regardless of a

deportation order or anything of that from the hate being inspired by president trump, from the hate just by his follower followers, let alone i.c.e. raids. right now people on the streets hate us. that's what we're facing. my family is one of millions. i cannot say enough about the people deported under the obama administration. i will say right now the people i meet, i talk to, the people in my community, have never lived in this type of fear before. >> and i wanted to set up the conversation that way, julia, because i know you have extensively covered the separation of children, and not once have we heard the administration say they take fault for anything he's done. can you speak a little bit to that and how even within his own government, officials, public service have said family separation was a bad idea? >> yeah. i mean it's striking to hear what the president said at the debate where he said they've

been well taken care of. we brought reporters down there. what he's referring to are the facilities that the children stayed in when they were first separated. it's incredible how many trump administration officials have tried to defend the policy to me. they say the children were well taken care of. that doesn't matter if you put the child in the ritz-carlton if they're not with their parents. the department of pediatrics talk about the long-term effects separation has had on these children. yes, if you look back at the conversations that were going in in 2017/2018 with the pennsylvania, which we've done exten extensively. we have the documents, know what they've discussed, what we found is this administration clearly knew the consequences. they knew from a 2017 pilot program that children who were breast-feeding were taken away from their mothers, they found out that these children had to basically be able to find their own way back to their families. they had to be old enough for that because there was no system

in place to reunite them. and they knew early on they would be separated so long they would be sent into two different systems. one where n the justice system where the parented would be prosecuted and the other, if health and human system wrts the kids would be kept and then cement to liv with a relative. we knew there was no way to make the two systems work together to talk to these families. even knowing all this in 2018, early may, there were top vieters with a show of hand vote to move forward with the policy we know as family separation, and they're still facing the consequences of that today. >> julia, thank you for that. the next video i'm going to show you may trigger some emotion. i do want to warn you, i find it important for us as americans to understand what's on the line in november. we have to understand these are human beingings, they're not

statistics, and many of the families that left were seeking asylum, which is something completely legal in this country, and what our country, our taxpayers are doing -- tax dollars are paying is basically subsidizing big corporations that are private detention facilities separating families from their children. and listen to the children's plight. but, again, be forewarned this audio is hard to take.

>> the abuse these families have suffered and the children have suffered is unconscionable because it's our go. but when the president is saying and you're hearing from the white house they're trying to put these families back together, give it to us straight. who's actually on the ground putting the families back together, because it i not our government. >> that's right, maria teresa. honestly, i still hear the little girl saying mommy and mamita. it breaks my heart to know they're going to be dealing with that trauma for a lifetime. our government will have to pay for their psychological well being. trump refused to cech responsible or his criminal behavior cared out by the border

patrol or i.c.e. so, you know, this is an earn tire machinery that has been built that trump has used to tearize black and brown communities. the reason they were able to make that decision and vote the way julia just described in the situation room is because they do not value black and brown children or black and brown communities frankly as human beings, so that level of imhumanity has allowed them to take our taxpayer money as you mentioned, maria teresa, to terrorize our communities and rip families apart. this is a shameful moment in our history that we will have to absolutely repair. it has to be the biden/harris administration's number one priority to undo the harm caused by the trump administration including the zero tolerance policy and ending the private prisons that are making money off of this pain. >> so, julia, i want to talk a

little bit about when the trump administration says they're trying to find these families. i have to tell you, i was at the border with the network watching as van after van was distributed in mcallen, and they would basically -- vans would be full of families, and then they would leave empty and come back all day when this audio broke. seeing the trauma tieization of these children, they couldn't be held or comforted even by fellow children. you hear stories of these children where they were soiled and they had -- the people watching them were 4-year-olds alongside them. have mothers basically saying they ooesh not been able to see their children and people simply don't understand. when the government says they're trying to reunify these children, that is not the case. who is doing that work, julia. tell us. who is doing that work? >> so because the u.s. government said that that task was too onerous, that happened

in a court filing in 2019, the judge, who's overseeing all of this, appointed a group of non-profits and lawyers who would form a steering committee to try to track down these children. now, they had a status conference earlier this week again. this lawsuit keeps dragging out because they can't find all the parents and the children. the judge heard from those sides and the governor said just this week, didn' week, and i think it's because of the children, they said they may be able to get them government assistance. they slim said, give us updated contact information. they have people on the ground in guatemala, honduras, el salvador, going into rural areas trying to track down these families. all they need the updated information in over to make this. thank you so much for

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as they empower young leaders through civic education to help create a better tomorrow. i've released all of my tax returns, 22 years. go look at them. 22 years of my tax return. you have not released a single solitaire year of your tax return. what are you hiding? >> you just said you spoke to your accountant about potentially releasing your taxes. did he tell you when you can release them? >> show us. stop playing around. you've been saying for four years you're going to release your taxes. >> everybody knows. >> they don't know. what we do know is you're not paying taxes or you're paying taxes that are so low. when asked, he said, i only pay that little because i i'm smart. i know how to gain the system. come on, folks. early polling shows donald trump may have been more

creative with his charitable contributions than previously reported. as "the times" reports, they spoke of his tax deductions, $119 million, came from simply agreeing not to develop land in several cases after he had already shelved development plans. the new york state attorney general is investigating those tax breaks. that was not the only trump tax in the news that broke this week "the times" reported on an undisclosed bank account that trump keeps to -- get this -- pay taxes in china. joining us now t ahe authorf "it's worse than you think." that title always makes my stomach sink. david cay johnston.

welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> he said he forward paid his taxes and all he owed was $780. talk about that. what exactly does that mean? break it down for us. >> well, donald said it's a filing fee. he claims to pay taxes on so many things. >> everything, david, but i hate to interrupt. >> that's true. >> donald said he's prepaid taxes. let me explain what he's saying there. donald as a real estate developer if he still had buildings to depreciate, he can live tax-free. that's under rules you and i can't do. they're also rules under something called the alternative minimum tax and something congress persuaded him to adopt. sometime in the 2005 tax return

i got ahold of and we reported on "d.c. report," he pays the tax and gets it refunded in a few years. if you pay the tax and know you're going to get it back, i look at it on a zero interest loan to the government, donald trump looks at it as paying a pretax and getting it back. >> can i say china isn't as creative with their tax law because it actually looks like he paid over $200,000 over there. what can you tell me has accrued that he paid over $200,000? >> there's nothing disclosed that explains this, and the bank account is not in his disclosure statement. this is something that's rather worrisome. we don't know that they're literally taxes. we do know, assuming that are taxes, that china, india, the

philippines, tax donald trump much more heavily than congress. that tells us we have two tax systems in america, separate and unequivocally kwal. and donald is under business owners who pay little or or no tax. >> i want you to listen to what obama said about trump's dealings abroad. >> this was just reported in the last 48 hours. we know that he continues to do business with china because he's got a secret chinese bank account. how is that possible? how is that possible? listen, can you imagine in i had a secret clie sneeze bank account when i was running for re-election? you think fox news might have

been a little concerned about that? they would have called me beijing barry. it is not a great idea to have a president who owes a bunch of money to people overseas. that's not a good idea. >> i think president obama there is being kind, but talk a little bit about this, the conflict of interest from the president of the united states possibly owing taxes in another country and his business dealings with it. >> this is a fundamental problem here. every previous president with any wealth has put his money into a blind trust. some presidents only held u.s. treasury debt amongst mutual funds. they didn't know who they were. donald trump is for all practical applications is running a business. we don't know about this chinese bank account and exactly what it

means. i'm not sure it means he's currently doing business in china. we don't know enough to say that. but it certainly is disturbing and raises questions about him. you have to remember that donald never directly tells the truth. he'll often reveal what he's thinking. the "times" story this morning, an excellent piece about donations he made, confirms stuff. he took land, earthquake-affected land that's constantly moving and took a deduksz for it because he can't develop it. you can't develop it in the first place. it's worthless. but you can't take a tax deduction for it. the government has not gone after him for that. >> who is it that he owes the debt to? can you provide some inkling where you see that? again, it seems to be another conflict of interest if it's from foreign entities.

>> well, a large part of the money is owed to the american licensed operations of deutsche bank. deutsche bank, which has active ly held illegal accounts which i exploreded years ago, they're a criminal organization in america with banking license. he double a peer to have the resources to bay back his note. does anybody think a licensed bank regulated by donald trump's appointees would foreclose on him? i mean this is just rife with corrupti corruption, and it's why presidents of the united states should not be running businesses. >> my last question to you is we're close to the election. we're ten days out do. the american people, the american voters care that he only spent -- he only paid $780

on his taxes, or is he a brilliant business man for faking the system? >> he's not a brilliant businessman. the $760 in 2016 and 2017, that tease one tax issue that's resonated with people because they can relate to it. the average cop or nurse or fireman -- firefighter pays roughly ten times that amount a year in income taxes and they don't own a private jet and multiple houses and golf courses. they get that there's something amis here. so i think that one issue, not all of the massive tax cheating that's obvious and has gone on for decades and for which he's under investigation by the grand jury of new york, up in of that has moved people, but the 7$750 you can relate to that. you can look at your paycheck and say, wait a minute, i'm having $50 a week taking out of

my check and he's paying $750 two years in a row and claims it's a filing fee? that hat a visceral degree. there's be a new report about trump and his taxes. >> we'll be on the lookout for that one. coming up, donald trump throws a hail mary ten days before the election. we'll let you know what this is about next. we'll let you know what this is about next i'm a peer educator,... a fitness buff,... and a champion for my own health. i talked with my doctor... and switched to... fewer medicines with... dovato. prescription dovato is for some adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment or replacing their current hiv-1 regimen. with...just 2 medicines... in 1 pill, dovato is as effective as a 3-drug regimen to help you reach and stay undetectable. research shows people who take hiv treatment as prescribed... and get to and stay undetectable... can no longer transmit hiv through sex. don't take dovato if you're allergic to any of its ingredients...

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so when i heard that big ten was out, and when i heard pac 12 as you know was out. they did that a week later. when i heard that i said, we got to get them open and i worked very hard for a very short period of time, very focused shts and i called commissioner warren who was trick, who was great and got him thinking about it and we got him to do it. got big ten open and pac 12 open. welcome back to "'joy" i'm maria teresa kumar. taking credit for things in the midwest, what they love most, big ten football. the season kicked off in wisconsin friday night after conference officials reversed an earlier decision to postpone the season. officials insisted trump didn't influence their decision, though it's not coincidence trump lobbied hard for the season to

take place. given the league featuring key battleground states where he happens to be struggling the most, states like michigan, iowa and ohio. taking an unearned victory lap for reopening the big ten, the coronavirus is surging in those same midwestern states by staggering amounts. if the election were a referendum on the coronavirus, things don't look so good for trump. what's the best tactic for winning crucial swing states that are now coronavirus hot spots? big ten football. joining me now to discuss, msnbc bidder dr. bernard ashby from the committee to protect medicare and john nicholls of "the nation" and author of "the fight for the soul of the democratic party" and faormer attorney and msnbc contributor. doctor, what we see as a surge in these major states that

coincide with the on the parting of big ten football. >> good morning, maria teresa. i think the trouble is that we can't separate a college campus from the community that it lives in, and what we're seeing are these surges in the midwest states and many of those, as you said, are part of the big ten. where big located, a part of this division. this week alone a study traced outbreaks on college campuses back to deaths and cases that occurred in nursing homes in that state. the concern is sports are a thing we play in company of others, and there are things we watch in company of others and would this lead to worsening potentially of outbreaks in those states. >> thank you so much for that. i want to ask you specifically about this. there's 12 mayors from surrounding areas that said that the big ten schools should not open, and this is a quote. while we are all excited for

football games to begin we must accept this imposes new obstacle as we attempt to slow the spread of the virus. this seems incongruous for something president trump is trying to take ownership something he clearly had nothing to do with and the real friction between the mayors. can you speak to that? >> yeah. i think it's the anxiety they're all feeling, because they are closer to the impact of this outbreak. you're seeing, know, tons of hospitals and reporting just record numbers of hospitalizations. we're seeing 40-something states -- oh. sorry. >> no. the fun of live tv. my apologies. talking to my executive producer, but thank you for jumping in. so i want to bring in barbara specifically on, because you are from the midwest, michigan, because you are from michigan, because are worked under the trump administration, talk a little bit about how this might be incongruous?

you have local officials saying, please, don't open. the president trying to take a victory lap he thoroughly doesn't deserve and you actually see a rise. what are we to make of it? >> i think there's great concern. i'm joining you today from ann harbor, michigan, just this week our county and our university put in a stable order for students next two weeks because we're seeing such a spike in covid cases. in fact, the quarantine housing at university of michigan is at capacity. students are urged to stay in their homes and not to gather in groups outside of their own residences. and not only on campus but off campus, which is why the county got involved. the timing of the kickoff of the football season could not be worse, but i think the reason for the reversal was nothing to do with president trump. it was a decision by athletic directors based on the science that the ability to test players has improved dramatically since august, and we have a university

president who is an immunologist a chief health officer, author in infectious disease and they made that decision. the bigger concern is not so much the players but the students gathering to watch the games and why the mayors that host the cities of the big ten schools and games urged the big ten to look not just at infection rates among players but in the cities and the communities that host these games and urging them to hold games not in evenings but daytime to reduce the gathers. that's what we need to keep our eyes on and dangerous to communities that are home to these big ten schools. >> doctor, we're seeing also surging in hospitalization. what concerns do you have based on what she just recently shared about these, it's the small gatherings that actually end up being spreaders. can you speak to that? >> yes. perfectly correct. i mean, the issue is that our leadership has misled the public

and fed us with misinformation consistently. i would have loved to have seen that poll amongst medical professionals. we practice against evidence-based medicine where science matters, and as you may know, the medicine, the most strategic journal indicted the president on his mandate and their view of this pandemic. they've consistently been wrong from saying that, with the flu, saying it would go away. endorsing hydroxychloroquine and now saying we're rounding a corner in the middle of our third surge. so, know, we're at war with the virus, right? instead of the trump administration declaring war on the virus they've declared a war on science. we're honestly tired of it and i side with the "new england journal of medicine." joe biden needs to take over the white house. we need to not fight with an

administration that doesn't believe in science and getting information from pure quacks. >> john nicholls, a lot of families, even in the midwest wondering this focus the president is trying to take credit for for the big ten saying i can't send my kids back to school or go back to work safely. will this backfire among voters? >> of course it will. it already has. look at polling data from upper midwest states where donald trump won the presidency in 2016, because of narrow victories and then an electoral college prevalence, there's been a real shift. and one of those, one of the reasons for that is that in states like wisconsin, in iowa and minnesota, they treat football very, very seriously. there's no question of that, but the lead story on the news right now is covid-19, and it is a crisis. the fact of the matter is that

in wisconsin, for instance, we have hospitals at near capacity. we have field hospitals opening. we have 200,000 cases. 4,600 new cases yesterday. 46 people died and then go over the border into iowa, another battle ground state. in iowa, they've got 114,000 cases. they've got 16,000 deaths, another dozen yesterday. these are the big stories. yes. wisconsin, iowa, michigan, minnesota, they all care about football. there's no question of that. the fact is, that football games are not leading the news in wisconsin at this point or in iowa or these other states. >> doctor, how do you speak to this idea that football can be right now not only an elixir but trying to get away from the actual medical issues that we have that have not been able to be prevented from the white house? what do you say to them? >> yeah. you know, i think it's just

another distraction. i think people, when we're looking at the steps the white house has taken to combat this disease, which is very little, but then they've actually taken actions that speak against setting an example and potentially creating a risk of new infections like at the big rallies they've had. right? and many called this horrible, horrendous, grotesque. you're seeing a setting up of scenarios where people might get sick. it doesn't surprise me that the biden administration would want to push anything that gets to normalcy in the middle of a pandemic year, a year we should be a bit more careful. i want to sort remark on the fact at the games opens communities themselves are seeing spikes and infections. they travel both ways. you can protect some student athletes, but eventually the higher the level of community transmission, the rate of risk to the college community as well that they don't exist in

isolation. >> doctor, what is your take on the trump administration's tactic when it comes to the medical profession? you alluded a little to it, but we know these are disproportionately impacting communities of color. we know that there's a disproportion of the pac-10, the big ten, are a athletes. what does it say to you as a physician when it comes to a part of the community? >> so, as a physician, as a black man living in america, what's going on right now is despicable. i mean, the disproportionate impact of the pandemic has landed on the shoulders of black and brown communities. communities of low ses as well, and it's -- it's sad, because as physicians, our mandate is to protect our community, protect our patients, and we're actually fighting a battle with an administration that doesn't understand the importance of practicing evidence-based

medicine. you know, the other countries have dealt with this in a way that reflects their, their -- their understanding that lives are important, and 220,000-plus deaths later we're still fumbling and making mistakes. it's time to understand the virus isn't going anywhere and we need to start practicing, know, following guidelines and we have a president that's actually flouting our guidelines in the face of a pandemic leading to more deaths and frankly i'm tired of it. >> and drilling down what you just said about other countries handling it. be clear. new zealand under control, australia under control. asia, japan, singapore, south korea have it under control because they followed three simple steps. they've done testing. they've done contact tracing, and they have used masks. i want to ask you, barbara, what is it about the trump administration that seems to want to take away our country's,

our citizens' easiest defense by spreading the virus by stigmatizing a mask? >> i can't understand the philosophy, but there is, it seems, at least here in the midwest, a sort of libertarian train of thought that you can't tell me what to do. you can't impinge on my freedom and i have a freedom not to wear a mask. that's, of course, 100% wrong. our constitutional rights are not absolute. your rights to be free and where they begin to harm me, and so there's a famous phrase that gets quoted from time to time in supreme court cases that says "the constitution is not a suicide pact." so when there is a harm, states certainly have a right and obligation to protect its citizens wearing a mask. that's something that is fulfills a compelling governmental interest, a public safety interest. narrowly tailored to achieve that goal. it no different from seat belts and other things used to protect

public health and it strikes me as not only foolish but antithetical to what our constitution is all about. not only giving people freedom but making sure others are protected as well. >> so john nicholls, now, the governor of michigan was basically threatened with kidnapping because she was encouraging people to wear a mask. just something basic, again, we can protect ourselves, and who many have forecasted can actually potentially save another 200,000 lives between now and december. can you speak to what is happening in these states where there does seem to be that not only libertarian bent but more radicalized individuals who are intent on defying science in this case? and what can we do about it? >> look, there is division in these states. these are battleground states. you have urban rural divides. you have partisan divides and ideological divides and some folks that go to extremes, but if you want to talk about doing

somebody r something about it, start by not holding super spreader rallies. donald trump is coming to waukesha, wisconsin today, about 50, 60 miles from which i live, and he's expecting a large rally with a crowd of people. his supporters are on air, aides on air saying fine if you're a healthy 35-year-old man. well, i'm sorry. the healthy 35-year-olds who may go to that rally without a mask, packed in, without social distancing is going to go home, and maybe tomorrow they're going to go to sunday dinner with their 68-year-old mom or someone else. i mean, the president is sending exactly the wrong signal, and unfortunately it is filtering down through the partisan ranks, and in wisconsin, in iowa and other states, we have a clear partisan divide on public health, and it is -- it is indeed unhealthy, but it's also i think for the president

something that an awful lot of people are waking up to. i hear it in so many places around wisconsin. especially in rural areas. the rural hospitals are really taxed. there's just a feeling, this isn't the right time for big rallies. this isn't the right time for sending the wrong signals. you want to do something about it? don't come to wisconsin, mr. president. >> that's a powerful statement. doctor, i want to wrap up. something that trump said during his most recent debate with biden was that children can't contract this. we foe that's not the case. in fact, the mortality rates among children sadly are led by african-american children and latino children. can you speak to that? >> yes, maria teresa. it's actually a reflection of our families. right? i think that the point that mr. nicholls has made. people who contract this disease can bring it back to their families and it's not just the mortality carried by the children, even the number of

infections by the children has a very sharp racial divide. it's a study here in massachusetts that showed kids who are actually sick, a huge percentage of the ones carrying the virus are actually latinx communities. disproportionate than they are represented in the population. not only that, the cdc had a study this week that showed that access mortality from this year compared to last year. at least 300,000 more people who died, majority of that increased and 66% could be described by covid. majority of the increase are in communities of color and hispanic communities and in young 25 to 45-year-olds compared to prior years. >> and this is the thing. the president speaks to individuals who are, sadly, who die of covid, as a statistic, and for the loved one that lost that parent or that child, or that spouse, they have a name. so thank you, doctor, for joining us.

and john nicholls and barbara mccabe and doctor, thank you as well. up next, scaring voters away from the polls. t, scaring votey from the polls.

told ud, persons dressed in what looked like security guard uniform and maybe had side arms. so firearms on their hip. they indicated, and this is not then confirmed yet, that they were hired by the trump campaign. i've never seen this before in my 17 years as election administrator. voter intimidation, deterring voters from voting, impeding voters' ability to cast a ballot of selection is unacceptable, and will not be tolerated. >> the trump campaign said it. >> do not send arm supporters to

a florida polling place this week. a new report from the armed conflict location an event data project finds that militia groups and others post a serious threat to the safety and security of american voters. identified several states that are at increased risk of election-related violence. you've got ten days if you're not one of the nearly 47 million americans who have already voted. what's your plan to make sure your ballot is safely cast and counted? joining me now is kristen clark, president and executive director for the lawyers committee for civil rights under law. malcolm nance, and msnbc contributor alexandria harris. executive director of the andrew goodman foundation. a big fan of the work you do with college campuses, alexandria but i want to start with kristen's can you talk a little about this increased violence threat we're seeing? you and i are part of the

national election protection task force and its a non-partisan group and this is an issue that has surfaced. >> well, what we're seeing is an escalation in white supremacist activity, something we've been contending with all year. white supremacist activity and rising levels of militia activity. this is moment we need state election officials and law enforcement officials to do their part to keep these bad actors who are out with the goal and intent of discouraging people from freely casting their ballots to do their job. many states have laws that establish zones that require that there be no electioneering and certainly no activity that would intimidate or frighten or discourage someone from being able to freely vote. so this is a moment where we need officials to act and respond, and we should expect that in these final days between

now and november that we will see an increase in this kind of activity. we will see an increase in disinformation campaigns, and other efforts to discourage high voter turnout. >> alexandria, what is your group doing to combat this misinformation and ensure that people can cast vote safely? the aclu has a voting rights act 101. put it up on the screen. we can talk a little what your group is specifically doing. the stuff aclu is saying this is your voting rights. polls close while still in line, stay in line. make a mistake on yourballot, ask for a new one. machines down, ask for a paper ballot. run too problems ar run into problems call the election protection hot line. 1-8 6-our very vote nap is kristen clark's organization. can you talk what you're doing with the andrew goodman foundation? >> yes. thank you for the question and for something me.

we are experiencing a lot of confusion for young people who are getting misinformation. so we have a website at andrew goodman foundation where people can come, they can track their ballot, cure their ballot. helping people whose ballots were rejected. poll workers you know, they are screening and often elderly. a highly targeted population for covid. we've recruited almost 3,000 student poll workers across our network and show up and support our election day. of course, because today is early voting election day, be brave. don't let anybody turn you around. >> malcolm, we learned recently russia had an effort to try to hack into indiana election systems and california election systems. can you speak to that? because it smells so emergency of 2016. so much of 2016. >> well it is 2016 and since

that leadership of this country has taken virtually no steps to try to protect the electoral process, our enemies are emboldened and what they see is an opportunity if not to actually, you know, access some of these systems but to spread a little chaos in the run-up to the election. our voting system is very diverse in the united states. it is very hard to actually go and change a whole, you know, ballots by the hundreds of thousands, because every precinct uses different machines. few are actually online. but what they can do is spread chaos by going into the voter retch station system, possibly using that for targeted ads, and things like this. so russia has been vesue herera -- sue herera active and russia can see what the campaign is doing, take their message, amplify it, ifmeans send armed guards to the poll or come out

be a poll watcher, and happens in the next ten days we my find ourselves in a situation never before. >> i want to pick up on something malcolm just said. the spread of misinformation. a lot of times social media and nefarious activity happening targeting communities where they often times will talk about not voting top ballot, because both candidates are the same. and instead focusing on the down ballot. there's an article that recently appeared to that effect. what are you seeing, and what is the straight talk we can tell our audience about what they see online and how can they prevent themselves from being basically manipulated? >> that this is moment to be on high alert. by way of the 866 our vote hot line earlier this week we learned very early on about the emails that purported to come from the proud boys. emails that were intended to

discourage people from freely casting their ballots. emails that were scare tactics, frankly, trying to get people to change the way that they would vote. it's quite remarkable that foreign nations see the proud boys, see white supremacists and extremist groups as the vehicle to use to promote their efforts to sow chaos and confusion among voters. right now what we know is that 54 million americans have cast their ballots. right now we know we should be on high alert. if you get a message on social media or in your inbox that sounds awkward, be skeptical. call the 866-our-vote hot line to verify whether or not that information is accurate. we know that they're seeking to discourage people from going out to vote in-person. they're seeking to discourage people from vote by mail and also trying to scare people away

from voting on election day itself. so just be on alert. know that voter sue speppressio a experiencing it foreign and domestic and be were beat it back, raising a red flag, reporting incidents when they surface, and being careful about what we're sharing widely with our networks. >> so malcolm, i want to ask you, one of the tactics the russians did in our elections, they propped up fake organizations either from african-american communities, latino communities and in some cases even white nationalist communities. you make the point that the russians, what they want, is that they want us to feel that we cannot trust the results of the election. how can viewers, when they are watching their social media feeds, how can viewers basically perk up and say, wait a second. i don't think that's real? >> well, it's very simple,

because the russians did these tactics because the flow of information is so fast and loose on the internet, it's just easy to just overwhelm you with posts that are amplified by your relatives on facebook. some of them are crazy. right? but the most important thing is, always find a single reputable news force. i say reputable, well, you work at msnbc. you have a level of bias. well, bbc doesn't have a level of bias. france 24 television doesn't have a level of bias. they have no interest in the same things that fox news might have, for example. which is, you know, has its own ideology it's trying to push. the russians and whoever else who are trying to get donald trump re-elected are doing it for their own nationalistic purposes. it's no longer chaos. a lot of people have been saying, they're doing this just for chaos. no. they have a very specific

agenda. they need it done. so the disenfranchisement and deliberate attempt to say that u.s. news media is not legitimate is also part of that effort to put their preferred candidate in there. so find a source that is, has been reliable forever. i for one am a big fan of the bbc, and they're not going to lie to you. they're just going to report as msnbc does, as cnn does, but as you say, people out there are trying to subvert the faith in those news organizations. don't buy. >> it i want you to hold that thought, malcolm. i actually want to go over to joe biden who is right now in bristol, pennsylvania. >> i love being here at a community college since i'm a professor at a community college! [ applause ] [ horns honking ] >> so, patrick, speaking of our son beau, four days after our son beau's funeral i watched joe

shave and put on his suit. i saw him still himself in the mirror, take a breath, put his shoulders back and walk out into a world empty of our son. he went back to work for you as the vice president. that's just who he is. and joe has faced unimaginable tragedies, but his purpose has always driven him forward. his strength of will is unstoppable. his faith is unshakable, because it's not in politicians or political parties, or even himself. it's in the providence of god. it's in the potential of our nation. his faith is in you. it's in us.

[ horns honking and applause ] >> through it all he learned how to heal a broken family. it's the same way you heal a country. with love and understanding, and with small acts of kindness. with bravery. with unwavering hope. joe has spent his entire career listening and bringing people together. and joe biden will be a president for all people! [ horns honking and applause ] >> and he has a plan to calm the chaos of donald trump's america. but he can't do it without you. right now there's so many who want to tell us that our country

is hopelessly divided. that our differences are irreconcilable, that our communities are fractured beyond repair, and beneath that is another message. your voice can't fix it. your vote doesn't matter. but that's not who we are! is it, bucks county? [ horns honking and applause ] >> in this pandemic we're supporting each other, we're finding mercy and grace in the moments that we might once have taken for granted. we're seeing that our differences are precious and our similarities are infinite. democrat and republican. rural and urban. north and south. coast to coast. you, our communities, are showing that the heart of this nation still beats with kindness and courage.

we don't agree on everything, and we know we don't have to. we can still love and respect one another. can't we? [ horns honking along with applause ] >> now, as most of you probably know, i'm a philly girl. [ cheers and applause ] i grew up in willow grove not far from here, straight down broad street, and i know not all of pennsylvanians agree when it comes to flyers versus penguins. steelers versus eagles. sheetz versus wawa, but there are two areas where we can all be on the same page! number one. we all want to see the patriots lose!

[ horns honking along with applause ] and number two is that pennsylvania is ready for joe biden! [ cheers and applause ] so, are you ready to get this done? [ horns honking along with cheers and applause ] >> this is it. there is no do yov e-observers. we have to believe we are stronger than the challenges they face. because they are. we have to believe that our votes matter, because they do, and we have to show up right now, put our shoulders back and work like we have never worked before! so bucks county, will you join us? [ cheers and applause along with horns honking ] >> will you help us show that our country will never settle

for less than our highest aspirations? [ cheers and applause ] okay. get ready for this one. will you stand with joe biden and kamala harris? horns honking along with cheers and applause ]. because i know that when you do, we will win. so thank you for being with us today. thank you to all of you for showing up now when it matters the most, and thank you for your faith in and an idea that's bigger than any one of us, and that is that we will build a better country, because we are going to do this together, pennsylvania! [ cheers and applause along with horns honking ] >> now i'm excited to introduce harry huber. i often say that educators are

the best organizers. how many educators are out there? [ cheers ] thank you! we know, we educators know, how to make something out of nothing. we fight for our communities and we know when to use our teacher voice. and tara, i know you are proving me right today. so come on up, tara. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ things will get better ooh, ooh, child, things are gonna get easier ♪ ooh, ooh, child, things will get brighter ♪ so join me now as the mississippi democratic candidate for senate mike espy, we are waiting for joe biden. mike, excited you're making time with me today. >> of course, of course.

good morning. >> so, mike, there is a rumor going around that mississippi might go for a democratic senator. break that down for me. >> can you believe it? we've gone from nine points down in february to five points down in august, to one point down three weeks ago and now we're neck and neck here in mississippi and it's for a simple reason. we have more to work with. more black voters in mississippi per capita than any state in the united states. so, therefore, we have a lower threshold for white voters. so our mission is clear. we've got to get a record turnout of black voters in mississippi, ten days from now, and with kamala harris on the ticket, with joe biden on the ticks, with mike esly haven run before and almost won, 47% now, we've got the basis of what we need. we're building something truly remarkable here and i think we're going to do very, very

well. >> mike espy, soinunds like youe deploying the doug jones strategy. calling out to everybody. shocking. and talk to me about the state of mississippi when you are seeing the coronavirus sadly, you know, tragically hitting all of americans. how is it hitting mississippi? and what are you telling folks there? >> it's hit us particularly hard, because we're a small state. so we've got about 3 million people and as of yesterday we had about 3,300 deaths and there's a disproportionate impact on african-american citizens as well. almost 65% of them are in that category, and now we've gotten more than 113,000 infections. so we have conservative leadership now and we no longer have a mask mandate. i just tell everyone even though it's voluntary, do it. look, maria teresa, i believe in

following medical science. i'll tell everyone, listen to dr. fauci, listen to dr. birx. we have to mask up, comply with social distancing, we have to do it because we don't have a vaccine and that's the only way to get through this together. that's my message to them. >> talk a little about your candidate cindy hyde-smith. basically she says things that seem out of turn, basically encouraging the confederacy, talk a little how that is playing among voters in mississippi? >> well, mississippi is going places that she doesn't want to go. she's holding us back. she is really an anachronism. she is a pigeon for confederate symbol, confederate iconography, and we have the new flag now. we've taken down the confederate flag. it was taken down even without a referendum. therefore, you know, moist of

the citizen -- most of the citizens of mississippi demanded that take it down but she equivocated on it. she says this is the best of mississippi history. believe that. and it's not. so we're moving forward. she's not going there, and we just are going to leave her in place and allow mike espy, leader of the third decade into the 21st century. one pound down. >> you're going into perhaps a transformational senate. it looks right now biden has seen a flood of voter on his side. what can you expect when you get there? there's a huge debate obviously they're trying to fast-track amy coney barrett on the supreme court. speak a little to that and also what may thing that if there is a democratic congress, a democratic senator and a democrat in the white house?

>> yeah. they're thoroughly fast-tracking and we know why. we know why, because in november in the supreme court, there's a bull's-eye on the back of the affordable care act. that's the reason that they're pushing her in there so fast. so i hope that they don't, because i'm a solid vote for the aca, for medicaid expansion, for reducing prescription drugs, and for keeping our rural hospitals open. i don't know what the supreme court will do, but if there's a democratic senator i'm certainly going to be one vote to try to keep the aca ins for. minimized we're going to do all we can do build it back. >> you mentioned one of the issues that are big among american voters right now is absolutely access to health care. we have roughly 8 million americans who have suffered under covid who may now have pre-existing conditions that are

four fortuna unfortunately disproportionately impacting black american voters. how can we ensure they'll have coverage if we don't win in the senate? >> they've suffered so many ill-effects, hypertension, asthma and so forth and the pigeonhole for vulnerability. we have to allow states like this to do this and i'm going to be a vote for that reaching across the aisle, doing everything we can do, even these polarized times, to keep health care a live option for people in mississippi who are poor. >> so with that, mike, thank you. i want to go ahead and bring in joe biden. hopefully someone that you'll be working with. joe biden right now. he is live from bucks county, pennsylvania.

jill biden just introduced him. you may hear now you heard a lot of honking every time, and that is because the vice president is taking a pivot. let's listen now. >> i have an admission to make. there's so many of you here, i wish i could go to car to car and meet you all. i don't like the idea of all of this distance, but it's necessary. i appreciate you being safe. what we don't want to do is become super spreaders but thank you so much. i wish i could see all of you back there, but thank you, thank you, thank you, for being here! and for all of you who brought your kids, you owe them at least an ice cream cone on the way home. some reward for being here! look, terry, you're doing the most important work in america. teaching our kids. i've often said, they're not somebody else's kids. their our kids, the kite strings

that lift our national ambitions aloft. without you, we're in real trouble. i'm not saying this because i'm married to a teacher, but i have to admit, if i weren't saying it, married to a teacher, if i won i'd be sleeping in the lincoln bedroom alone! look, everything that will be possible for our country tomorrow is thanks to the hard work of our educators today and they're operating under extraordinary circumstances. because you give kids here in bucks county the confidence to believe in themselves. a tull gets down to confidence. we were talking before we came out, and maybe i shouldn't say this, but i think jill's second grade teacher is here. i'll bet every one of you can remember who your first, second, third, fourth, fifth grade teachers were and what they do and they do it well. when they do it well they give you a sense of confidence. a sense of your possibilities. i want to thank two great county commissioners, diane, you've done an incredible job turning things blue last year.

bob, i want to thank you all. by the way, i used to be a county commissioner. i ran for the united states senator, because it's too hard being a county commissioner. they know where you live. and when you knock on the door as a county commissioner they go, oh, yeah, um -- ah -- exactly what -- what you do is more important than anybody else do. you affect their lives every day and i want to thank you, thank you, thank you, and i want to thank all the speakers today. all of them. and jim greenwood an old buddy. good to see ya, jim. i know you're here. and patrick, thank you for mentioning our son beau. you know, i carry with me every day in my pocket a schedule, and my schedule, this is down to the last 12, 13 years now, and on the back of the xebl i have sc britain in a brack box of total numbers troof troops died and

wounded in iraq and other parts of the world, because every one of these troops, every one of these fallen angels left behind an entire community. left behind family. left behind people who are still mourning their losses. as of today in iraq and afghanistan, 6,924 not roughly 6,900, 924, because every one of them deserves to be remembered. u.s. troops wounded in iraq and afghanistan. 53,194. not 53,000. folks, folks, the idea that our president talks about these folks who gave their lives and gave their everything for this country as suckers and leaders is all by itself an

understanding why his six top generals who have worked for him all say he's not fit to the commander in chief. he doesn't understand the sacrifices they've made. [ cheers and applause and horns honking ] nobody knows that better than patrick and christina i'm looking forward to serving with you, kid. i am looking forward to serve with you. you've got the grit, of ytoughn and smarts to get this done. i really am. i mean this sincerely. be sure we win the white house you send along christina because she's going to fight like hell for the citizens of bucks county. the hard-working folks. i'm not from bucks county but i'm from pennsylvania, my home state and it's back to be back, back on bristol campus. around here, though, as you all

figured out, i'm known as jill biden's husband. and i'm proud of it. she grew up 25 miles from here, in willow grove, and she and i are here today, because it's go time, folks! as my coach and delaware would sigh, it's go time. it's game day. we have ten days left. it may come down to pennsylvania, and i believe in you. i believe in my state! the choice has never been clearer and the stakes have never been higher. the stakes in this election remind me of something my dad used to say. my dad, when coal died in scranton and jobs began to collapse, my dad was not a coal miner, my great-grandpop was a mining engineer and a state senator from pennsylvania and you know what he used to say when we had to leave to go down to delaware to find a job. he said, joey joey, a job's a l

more than just a job. it's about respect, your place in the community, look your wife in the eye and say, honey, it's going to be okay and mean it. that's the lesson i've never forgotten. that's what i grew up with, surrounded by hard-working families in scranton and down the road in claremont, delaware. and how many of them can look at their kids and say with confidence, everything's going to be okay and mean it? how many hundreds of cars wait in a line right here in the bristol campus yesterday to pick up meals, because proud families who always made it work are being pushed to the brink right now. times are hard. unemployment is way up. folks are worried about making their next rent or mortgage payment. whether their health care will be ripped away, in the middle of a pandemic. worried about sending their kids to school, worried about not sending their kids to school.

they see folks at the top dog much better, while the rest are wondering, who's looking out for me? that's donald trump's presidency. more than 220,000 dead americans because of covid-19. and yesterday while he's telling us everything's all right, we saw the highest number, 85,000 new cases in one day since this pandemic began, and yesterday the worst day we've ever had. yet at the debate on thursday night, donald trump said and is still saying, we're rounding the corner. it's going away. we're learning how to live with it. well, i told him at the debate, we're not learning how to live with it. you're asking us how to learn to doi with die with it and it's wrong. it's going to be a dark winter

ahead of us unless we change our ways. experts tell us we'll lose nearly 200,000 lives nationwide in the next several months, all because this president cares more about the stock market than he does you. because he refuses to follow the science. it's estimated if we just wore masks, just wore a mask, over the next few months, experts in his own administration say we'd save 100,000 lives. you know, you know what's really sad about this? the president knew this back in february. he lied to us. he told us he hadn't read the intelligence report that showed how bad this was. how deadly the virus was. but he went on television. he went on-air, i should say, with bob woodward and he said he knew how deadly the virus was, and he hid it from the country.

but here's what he did according to the "new york times" several days ago. his administration, they didn't tell us about the virus. the administration gave wall street investors, though, a heads up. he didn't tell us. he just told his wall street friends and that's why they made so much money by "selling short" in the market. they knew what was coming. what happened to the rest of us? he tried to claim he didn't want to panic the american people. but the american people don't panic. he panicked! and he still has no plan. all he can do is double down on his park avenue way of looking at the world. before the pandemic, he handed out $1.5 trillion in tax giveaways to the wealthiest families in the nation, and the corporations, and now even with 30 million americans that have lost their jobs or hours, he thinks the way to get america's

economy back on track is he's a proposing another multibillion dollar tax cut for the corporations and the superwealthy. since the start of this pandemic, hard to believe, according to forbes, bi billionaires have seen their wealth increase $700 billion. but donald trump can't get his own party to get families economic relief. i don't think he wants to. congress passed the h.e.r.o.e.s. act way back in may. he spent all of his time at this golf course, sand trapper and bunker not trying to bring together anybody to get it done. they don't have time for that. to work on how to get relief now. the hard working people, those that are unemployed, the small

businesses. the schools. in the middle of this pandemic they do have time, though, to spend several weeks on confirms a new justice, who's interested in doing one thing. getting rid of obamacare. i'll tell you why. it is trump's dream to wipe out of obamacare off the books, it's well under way. because his nominee, he said in the past, the law should be struck down. if they get their way, over 100 million americans, including 5.3 million pennsylvanians will lose their protections for pre-existing conditions that we worked so hard to provide. complications with covid-19 will become pre-existing conditions. allowing insurers to jack up your premiums and deny you coverage, and women will again be charged more for their health care, just because they're women, which obamacare wiped

out. nothing is more offensive than the way he's spoken about, as i said, those who served the nation. suckers and losers. as i said, my son beau served in iraq for a year, before that assistant u.s. attorney in kosovo for six months. he came home a decorated war veteran. all of those he left behind, he wasn't a loser or a sucker. he was a patriot. like so many of you. so many of your sons and daughters. parents and grandparents. [ cheers and applause ] >> frankly, i've dealt with guys like trump my whole life. so have many of you. guys who look down on you because they have a lot of money. guys who inherited everything! got everything in their life given to them, and then managed to squander it. guys who afford paying their taxes, because he's smart, he says. he knows how to gain the system. isn't that just the guy you want

setting tax policy? the guy who says he's smart to game the system. so you don't get the help you need. you pay more taxes. because they figure the rest of us, the little people, we can pick up the tab. now we find out trump has a secret bank account in china. oh, guess what? he's paid 50 times more taxes in beijing than he's paid in america! that's a fact. hundreds of millions of dollars in debt over $400 million, due in the next few years. who's he owe it to? where's it coming from? he is known at president making money from foreign sources. folks, give me a break! this guy's not on the level. he thinks wall street built this country. but you and i know who really built this country. families like mine, working

people build it. the middle class. and unions built the middle class! [ cheers and applause ] folks, we're so much better than this. we can bring back this economy. start my plan to deal with the pandemic responsibly. bringing the country around to masks and social distancing, tracing, planning for a safe and equitable distribution so everyone gets it. providing for funding to open our schools and our businesses safely. the ppe national standards. bringing together republicans and democrats delivering economic relief for working families, in schools and in business is. majority want to do that, even those that are there now. as i said before, i'll shut down the virus, not the economy! and we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

[ cheers and applause ] we can build back better than before. and independent analysis by moody's, a wall street firm, looked at my plan and his plan in detail. this is moody's. they said my plan will create 18.6 million jobs in the next four years. that's 7 million more jobs and $1 trillion more in growth than the president's plan, and that comes from wall street and moody's! here's how my plan works. none of you will have your taxes raised. anyone making less than $400,000 will not see a penny in taxes raises. you'll actually see your standard of living go up and your costs go down. why i'm going to do this? i'm going to ask big corporations, the wealthy, to pair their fair share. right now of the fortune 500 companies there are 91 who don't

way a single penny in tax. if they just paid 15%, instead of the 28% they should, that would raise $400 billion. allow me to send every single qualified person to community college, if that's what they chose for free. make sure everyone with a family income less than $125,000 could go to a state university for free! making sure that we can make sure you have your health insurance covered. folks, my dad used to say, if everything's equally important, nothing's important. what are your priorities? they'd say to my dad, tell you what i value, joe. my dad would look at them. don't tell me what you value. show me your budget. i'll tell you what you value. well, all of this, working on value opportunity. decency, respect. making sure there's a fair play

out there. it's time for working people and middle class to get tax relief. to help you buy your first home. to pay for that child care. or caring for an aged loved one. how many single moms or moms and dads today made the decision, if -- if -- their school is open. do i go to my job or stay home with my child if it's not open? how do i believe them behind? what do i do? we're going to also make health care affordable for everyone. i'm going to build on the affordable care act. so you can keep your private insurance if that's what you choose to do, but you can choose a medicare-like option if you're poor. look, we'll increase subsidies to lower your premiums and deductibles, and out of pocket expenses. it's real. it's been looked at. it's positive. and i'll lower your prescription drug costs in this country by 60%. i say that sounds great, joe. how you going to do that?

we're going to allow medicare to negotiate with the drug companies how much they can charge for their prescriptions and all the drugs. [ cheers and applause ] look, we're going to make sure to keep your protections for pre-existing conditions. barack obama and i fought too hard for that and won. we're going to protect your social security and medicare. not what he's doing. he says that, re-elect me. and i'm going to do away with the funding for social security. out of your paycheck. sounds great. except the actuary of social security said that will bankrupt social security by 2023. so go home and tell your parents what a good guy this guy is. we're going to create millions of union jobs modifying the infrastructure. modernizing it. we're going to rebuild american manufacturing by enforcing a buy america plan. let me be clear --

the fact is that the president of the united states is over $600 billion in contract awarded to get things done, everything from building ships to infrastructure. no one will get a contract and it does not violate any trade policy. no one will get a contract in the biden administration that doesn't provide products, all of which were made in america! made in america. [ cheers and applause ] create millions of new jobs. look, let me be clear, also. i'm not banning fracking in pennsylvania or anywhere else. and i can protect pennsylvania jobs, period. no matter how many times donald trump lies, he's never delivered on his promise for big infrastructure plans. he told you in '17, i have an infrastructure plan coming and then '18. '19 and '20.

hasn't done a thing. it's right up there when he says he's going to protect pre-existing conditions. he hasn't done a thing. well, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to build roads, bridges, that are crumbling. climate change is accelerating more frequently and extreme weather events. just look at the wildfires in california, hurricanes along the gulf coast. my state of delaware, lowest lying states above sea level. on the verge of being flooded. according to the best data we have, southeastern pennsylvania including bucks county is warming faster than any part of this state. how long before floods start picking up along the delaware river? we can do something about this. and we better get it done. we better get it done. and by the way, we don't do things like those chumps out there that the microphone are doing, the trump guys.