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a very good day to all of you from right here at world headquarters for msnbc. i'm alex witt. we begin with a biz day in the battleground states. joe biden wrapping up one rally in bristol, pennsylvania, in the last hour before heading to another. >> 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. year not learning how to live with it you're asking us to learn how to die with it. a dark winter unless we change our ways. and showing up at his tome town, donald trump. early voters in new york city also finding themselves waiting on long lines today as we give you a look at the scene outside of madison square garden. and one of the most popular democrats is back on the trail this afternoon. former president barack obama stumping for joe biden in north miami. and the fact joe biden is on his way to lucerne county, pennsylvania. a second stop in the battleground state today. ali vitali is on the ground in dallas, pa. ali, welcome. what will we larry from the fbee

vice president? >> reporter: today biden's campaigning in the battlegrounds within the battleground state of pennsylvania. you mentioned he was in bristol earlier. he's heading up to lucerne county now. a county, for example, obama won and trump flipped in 2016. prior to this stop, biden was campaigning in a suburb of philadelphia. providing a sort of one-two get out the vote punch to what obama did earlier in the week. barack obama earlier this week with his first foray back on to the campaign trail trying to tell voters in the urban center of philadelphia they need to get out to vote now. now biden doing the same thing in the suburban areas of the state, trying to function across the state as they try to turn out all parts of the coalition. one of the key issues here is fracking. it's an issue trump tried to weaponize against biden and especially after that debate stage sparring match over the idea of pulling back from oil subsidies. biden saying he wants to ban

them. biden making his position xlecl. >> 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 -- >> reporter: and alex, you know you're getting closer to election day when pennsylvania is seeing all of this candid foot traffic. not letting up over the next ten or so days as candidates alike will be barn storming this state a little with others. when the candidates aren't here it's almost like they're still here. you can't go to a battleground state without seeing ads plastered all over the airwaves, on your phone and everywherals. there's a reason for that. biden is spending a lot of money on ads but actually gist broke the all-time spending record overall spending more than $583

million total. that's the most ever. record-breaking numbers. we know they're fund-raising big cash and also know where it's going. >> absolutely. my thanks to ali vitali. you've made the point clearly about battleground states and that is why president barack obama is in florida this afternoon, everyone. joe biden trailing by just two percentage points putting florida within reach there. ellison barber joins us from miami. what are you seeing there? at last word you said former president obama should be there about 2:45-ish. does that hold? >> reporter: far as we know that's still the game plan. you can probably hear car horns behind me. someone is speaking and addressing the crowd gathered leer at this drive-in rally. voters have been here waiting since 8:30, 9:00 a.m. to try to get inside to hear former president obama speak. this is the first time president obama has come to florida to campaign on former vice president joe biden's behalf and it is coming at critical moment

in time. early voting started in florida this week. this is the first weekend of early voting and, of course, we're just ten days away from the election. the hope of having former president obama here is that he will help energize the democratic base. it's hard to find a more energizing person for the democratic party than president obama. polls here in florida are so, so very close. this is a swing state and talk about it all the time, because elections here since 2000, they are decided between the candidates of 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%. every single vote here matters in a big way and this is the largest swing state with 29 electoral votes up for grabs. the speaker here now getting a big response from people in the cars here, encouraging people here to go out and vote early, and to take their friends. they want to have a big turnout here in miami-dade. this is a critical county. president trump did a lot better with hispanic and latino voters in this area.

back in 2016. many people expected. they want to make sure they don't let those margins get out of hand, if you will. miami-dade, of course, will most likely vote blue, but what we saw in 2016 was president trump doing well among cuban and venezuelan americans, chipping away at the margins that impacted hillary clinton state-wide here. it wasn't an easy situation, and they don't want to see that happen again. obvious obviously, this is a state president trump would want to win again. barack obama won here but marrowly. a lot of excitement among democratic voters here to hear from president obama. >> ellison barb, looking forward to that in about an hour and a half or so. right now we go to the president who is speaking at the fighting for the forgotten men and women event in north carolina. let's listen. >> -- opening borders and sacrificing american blood and treasure in endless and

ridiculous foreign wars. i fight for the middle class, and biden and his cronies serve only one class. they serve the donor class, believe it or not. now, in all fairness, the donor class, that would be the greatest in history. all i have to do call them. send $10 million. everyone would send $10 million. once you do that you can't deal with them anymore. once you do that, you can no longer do what's right for you. and it's just one of those little things. in 2016, north carolina voted to fire this depraved political establishment and you elected an outsider, as your president. it happened to be me. [ cheers and applause ] and we're putting america, and i love the sound of that drum. that sound -- [ cheers and applause ] that's why i'm here. these people. that's why i'm here. that's why i'm here for these people. right? you didn't think i'd come. did you? huh?

they didn't think, because they haven't been treated well for a long time. right? you haven't been treated well but now you're being treated well. you work hard. you raise your families. you follow your laws. you support your church. you serve your community. and you give your love and your loyalty to your country. but now you finally have a government and a president that is loyal to you. [ cheers and applause ] joe biden's allegiance is to his donors and my allegiance is to the people of this country. that's it. that's it. in every meeting, in every situation in dealing with every foreign leader i am your voice and together we are the voice of a great country. we are the voice of the united states of america, and we are respected again as a country. not like in the past where everybody took advantage of us. [ cheers and applause ]

we're the voice for every citizen who has been neglected, abandoned, ignored and forgotten and maybe that's another reason i'm here. because -- this is a group that's been forgotten. >> all right, everybody. we are going to take a listen from the control booth and see if the president addresses anything on policy. go right now to nbc's josh letterman joining me from ohio where the president is headed late other than today. you're in advance of his arrival there, josh. what do you expect, and do you expect the president to repeat the refrain he just stated there in north carolina? that he ran as an outsider. he was elected. he's now got four years under his belt upon which could be judged. >> reporter: exactly right, alex. we've heard the president do that repeatedly in the presidential debate. just a few nights ago. trying to go after joe biden for, you know, you were in office 47 years. why didn't you do x, y and z you say is so important? the reality is, as you point

out, the president is the incumbent and trying to run as an outsider despite the fact all of the things that he says he will do for country are things that a lot of voters may be looking to see whether or not he made any progress on those over the last three and a half years. the president trying to make as much hay as he can out of what he saw as the biggest sheer inabili inability -- vulnerability joe biden had in the debate. the weakest moment for joe biden talking about that transition away from foss many fuels that ali vitali just spoke about. donald trump, listen to what he had to say about that speaking in florida last night. i don't know if we have that sound there. ready, alex. the president will be speaking here in a couple of hours in ohio. a state he's defending that he won four years ago, before he heads on to wisconsin. but the stakes for president trump here in ohio, perhaps even higher than they are for joe

biden. you see, donald trump here today, vice president mike pence was here yesterday. no republican has ever won the presidency without winning here in ohio. you see why that's such a critical place for the president to hold on and support a state he won handedly four years ago. >> absolutely right with that stat. thank you for that. and white house bureau chief and msnbc political analyst and also senior political reporter at the guardian. phil, you first. you've laid out different strategies for biden and trump in the final days of the campaign. "trump seeks momentum from debate while biden focuses on pandemic." do you have a way to gauge which one has had the greater electoral impact, phil? >> well, you know, if you were to look at polling it tells us biden is leading nationally and in most battleground states, in some cases by pretty slim

margins, because he's been focused relentlessly for weeks now on the coronavirus pandemic believes that that's the top issue on the minds of voters. that voters ar uneasy and disapprove of the president's handling of the pandemic. so biden has been focused laying out his plan for what he would do to get america out of the pandemic and get the economy growing again. that's what we heard him focus on in his formal speech yesterday, and i assume that's what we're going to hear through the day from ali vitali is in pennsylvania as he courts voters there. >> this is just coming in to us, phil. that joe biden is officially the highest spending political candidate's in tv ads after spending an additional $45.2 million on political ads this week. how significant is that? >> fund-raising from the biden campaign has been truly extraordinary. especially when you consider how much struggle to raise money during the primary campaign, but it's been pouring in in recent

months and it speaks to the enthusiasm among democratic donors, and grass roots donors, to get rid of president trump. to deny him a second term. but it's given biden a cash advantage on airwaves. if you turn on television screens in any of these battleground states you see more ads from joe biden than you do from donald trump. and that has been a problem for the trump campaign. we actually heard the president address it at his rally in the organization of video you played a few minutes ago and the president made the argument he doesn't want donations from big donors. that's just not true. he raised plenty of money himself from big, wealthy donors and has courted hem in fund-rais fund-raisers. just not raising as much as joe biden. >> a big one in newport beach last sunday. >> exactly. >> the rallies, bread and butter of the trump campaign, three more schedules today. three more next week. what does this schedule tell us

about the state of the race? >> it tells us where trump is campaigning right now. he's in a lot of states that were in his column four years ago, and that heading into this campaign a lot of prognosticators thought would be somewhat comfort lly leaning trudge but up for grabs and some leading with biden. ohio, florida, not seeing him spending a lot of times in the states he'd be on offense, minnesota, new hampshire. tells us he has a narrow path to get to the 270 electoral votes, nonetheless, he can get there and the math can work for him if he can put some of these states in the bag. >> daniel, politico is reporting about a pep talk the president delivered to his campaign staff this past week. apparently very colorful language in it as well, but he was exuding confidence saying things like we're winning right now and they know it.

what is the president seeing in the returns and data that makes him so confident? because as we've discussed over these last weeks and as we're seeing in the numbers even this week, polls for the most part have him currently behind or in such a tight race, it's within the margin of error with joe biden. >> look, there haven't been many bright spots in the incoming data for the trump campaign. some trump advisers and republican strategists point to dramatic gains republicans have made in key areas of the country, and voter registrations compared to 2016. but that's -- that's one data point among many. i think one thing that president trump really is trying to take comfort in is that this is sort of the same estimation that a lot of observers were making in 2016. that hillary clinton had a huge advantage, and he's counting on some kind of silent majority to come in and to carry him to

victory. he thinks that this is sort of the same situation and that augers well for him. >> what about what you make of the president's attempt to seize on biden's comments about the oil industry, his campaign saying it's the nail in the coffin for biden in states like pennsylvania? is that a stretch? do you think with just ten days to go until the election, does biden's comment change the dynamic at all given how few people remain that are undecided? >> i think it's more of a testament to two things. one is that it's meant to resonate in a state like pennsylvania, and it shows that the trump campaign sees its narrow pathway to victory through that state and that's really the same for the biden campaign. they know that this is a key battleground for them. but beyond that, it's a testament to the response they've gotten in sort of attacking hunter biden. the fact they're pivoting to the vice president's recent comments on oil and fracking suggests the

hunter attack line has fallen flat with the voters they need. >> okay. thank you both. good to talk to you. thank you, guys. one of the architects of president obama the 2020 re-election campaign will join me. i'll ask him a tough question about his old boss who in a short time will be on the campaign trail for joe biden. you don't need to guesses the questi question. he's next. so stay right there. [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

former presidents kbb bb hitting the road in support of vice president joe biden. obama set to hold a drive-in rally in north carolina today days after holding a similar rally in philadelphia. joining me now, jim messina, ceo of the group and former campaign manager to president obama's 2012 re-election campaign. i think i said 2020 leading into this. if you heard that, you would have been working a long time on this one. sorry about that, tim. but what do you think in terms of former president obama?

is he campaigning more for joe biden or to defeat president trump? >> both. the answer is both. he's got to do both. right? he has a story to tell about his eight years with joe biden. his time, you know, the values that joe biden had. and that is incredibly important to these swing voters. 6 million people in 2016 voted for donald trump who had voted for barack obama in 2012. the key to this election especially in the midwest is getting those voters back. so him personalizing the vice president is incredibly important, but also it's time for him to talk about what a real president is. and the values that real presidents have and remind people about what why choice is so important. so i think you're going to see the president do both of those things, and i think he's incredibly effective at it, which is why joe biden used every single second of barack obama's time he can get. >> jim, can you break down that ledger? pro-biden, anti-trump.

is it 51-49%? can you give one entity the edge? >> look, you'd have to give the pro-biden the edge. right? joe biden needs to finish the sale of swing voters. the 3%, 4% of people sitting out there trying to make the decision need to hear positive things about joe biden. so i think you're going to see the president, you know, directly address his experience with joe biden. that's the important piece. i think he'll do the other stuff as he did the other day in philadelphia. but most of what you're going to see is positive from barack obama. >> let's play a part of what joe biden said at thursday's debate when asked about the obama administration's immigration policy. take a look at that. >> made the mistake, it too took long to get it right. took too long to get it right. i'll be president of the united states, not vice president of the united states. >> jim, did you bristle at all at that? how do you interpret this?

>> no. not at all. i thought that moment was biden's strongest. when he looked directly into the camera and reminded those folks of parents out there, who are parents, that, you know, these kids were taken away from their parents. focus groups in the med west and tremendous tried during that thinking about their own kids being ripped away. biden was incredibly strong in that moment and everyone understands policy is evolution. what obamacare is. biden will build on it. president obama had a strong immigration policy. biden's going to build on it. that's okay. no bristling. we just need to get rid of this president. >> heartbreaking headline reading about the hundreds of kids separated from their parents at the border during the trump administration and their parents cannot be found to reunite them. that is just -- as parent, brutal. i agree. what about game-changing moments? do you see any for either candidate in thursday's debate?

>> no. i didn't. that's incredibly important if you're the biden campaign. right? donald trump is losing in polls. he is losing at every single background state, some are close, to be fair. he had to change the trajectory of this election. change the way people view him. you just cannot, even the best partisan republicans, can't think there was anything out of that election, our out of that debate, that fundamentally changed the election. a reminder, this is not four years ago. every democrat has ptsd, we're bed-wetting and super good at that alex, but a reminder. 52.6 million people have already voted. so there's just less swing voters out there. less people out there to kind of move this election in a way where donald trump has got to move it. >> listen, how many times you and i said we're not even looking at the national polls. paying no attention to those numbers because we're scarred from 2016 on that. a guest on msnbc a bit earlier

who said this election is not about policy. it's an turnout. give me your thoughts on that and how unusual would that be if true? >> well, look, i think that's the only thing that the trump campaign sort of is banking on right now. they talk about the number. it's true. midwestern states and alt littl in florida republicans registered more democrats than the past. they have shrunk the democratic majorities or margins in those states and they need a massive turnout. a turnout no one has ever seen. these traditional voters who didn't vote in '16, who should support the president. but the fundamental problem with that analysis is all of these independent voters. the actual numbers of people that are voting, take pennsylvania. you and i agree is probably the tipping point state. as of right now, over a million democrats have early voted. 295,000 of republicans already

voted. they're favors joe bidean chandz and by big numbers. those are the voters trump has to switch. i assume you know me. i worry about everything because i'm a worrier. you have to assume both parties will turn out the bases. the question, who's going to get the swing voters? right now it's joe biden. that's why he is favored to win the president any just ten shopping days left, alex. >> you talked about pennsylvania. i'm going to discuss national. when it comes to nbc news national count over 50 million people returned mail-in ballots or voted early. break it down by party 46% votes from democrats. 36% compared with republicans. can we believe what we see or is there a danger looking at this and then taking this as an advantage that would translate into the election date results? >> well, look. there's a containinger edanger national numbers.

you see both basis are super fired up. it's great new yorkers and californians are voting in record numbers for joe biden but just don't matter. as much as these swing states. because joe biden's going to win states like new york and california, and joe biden's -- sorry. donald trump's going to win the deep red states. what you need to do is look at these individual battleground states, and those are the number e we care about. let's talk about the great state of florida. there's no scenario in which donald trump can get re-elected if he loses florida. none. just the math just isn't there. >> hmm. >> if you look at these non-affiliated voters, they're favoring joe biden, exactly the opposite of four years ago, when they favored donald trump. why? because senior numbers are meeving. sca -- moving. scared of the coronavirus. and, two, youth evolving in a much bigger percentage than 2016. the numbers by state to look at. not the national numbers. >> yeah. okay. before i let you go, just appa l

apologi apologize. i'm voting in new york and i'm from california. i understand. >> not as deeply as pennsylvania. >> had to qualify it. couldn't give a simple apology. >> sorry. >> that's all right. see you next weekend. thank you. be sure all of you to watch steve kornacki's election special. what to expect on election night. watch the special tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. it's a dubious if not alarming development in the battle gend kagainst coronaviru. the president doesn't think so are be informed about it. out i (burke) nothing. (customer) nothing? (burke) nothing. (customer) nothing? (burke) nothing. (customer) hmm, that is really something. (burke) you get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. see ya.

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the turn. normal life is what we kauwant. we want normal life to fully resume and that's happening. >> breaking news regarding the coronavirus despite the president's assurances the u.s. recorded its highest single-day increase since the pandemic started adding almost 80,000 cases yesterday. almost every state is reporting some kind of rise in cases. 20 states have seen at least a 25% spike over the last two weeks. many of those in the midwest. in kansas, positivity rate more than 76,000 cases and worrying about the rural areas in that state and overwhelmed hospitals. go to my colleague in kansas city, kansas, for us. co cori, a lot to take in now. what concerns are you hearing there? >> reporter: we spoke with two doctors today as well about what they are having to deal with. they're about to hit here in the

university of kansas hil stilts, 1000th covid patients, think they'll hit it before monday. currently 70 patients are in now and say they are getting better at treating the actual disease and fewer people are in the icu, but with that third wave, they have seen the most amount of deaths in the month of october than in the entire pandemic. so it is certainly something that is of high concern about just how high we're going to get with this third wave, and as you mentioned, the rural communities is where we're seeing hot spots for kansas and neighbors missouri as well around kansas city. listen to what the doctors told me about their concern for medical facilities in those areas to be able to treat these patients and then just kind of the, i guess, advice they have moving forward as we get into this third wave. listen in. >> i do believe now the spread has gotten so wide that rural areas are experiencing even within their smaller populations proportional percentages that

cities are seeing in terms of covid, and i do sometimes, i'm very concerned about capacity of those areas to be able to meet that challenge. >> right now my best advice, don't let your guard down. we're seeing the highest level of spread in our community we've seen so far and consistent across the region. >> a real reason for people to say, keep up their guard and stay vigilant to do these things that we know are the best options we have now. to keep you and your family healthy and safe. >> reporter: and, alex a slightly concerning development as far as the type of patient the demographics we're seeing, or at least the university of kansas is seeing versus now versus beginning of the pandemic. saying patients skew slightly younger and of the people who come in who have extreme symptoms, fewer and fewer of them actually have co-morebid y co-morbidities a trent.

trend. most likely, schools opening, other activities happening making the spread likelier to younger people. >> extraordinary. 20% means one out of five kansas citizens affected. more breaking news this hour on capitol hill. what might feel like an event on the sidelines of the intense campaign scene, the procedural business pushing through amy coney barrett's controversy supreme court nomination. talking how many democrats can slow the process, and how is this playing in this charged electoral season? >> reporter: very little democrats can do in the senate to try to slow down the process. they made several attempts yesterday to call votes to derail this nomination. that was senator schumer of new york who called the votes. republicans shot each one down. the bottom line in this moment is that republicans have the votes to move forward at a

break-neck pace to make judge amy coney barrett justice amy coney barrett and appear extremely determined to do so. 53 republicans in the chamber. just two are publicly opposed to the nomination. susan collins and lisa murkowski. the others in favor voting against democratic motions and nothing really democrats can do beyond try to convince two more of those republicans in just about 48 hours when on monday we're expected to have a final vote in the senate to confirm this nomination and create a 6-3 conservative supreme court. this obviously is an issue in various election campaigns. particularly for senators like thom tillis in north carolina and joni ernst in iowa on the judiciary committee that oversaw the nomination of amy coney barrett. strong enthusiastic supporters of this nomination and opponents have said this shouldn't be happening now in the middle of an election cycle. >> give me a sense of what all's at stake with a 6-3 conservative

court and perspective how contentious this is? >> reporter: stakes are enormous. anxiety and nerves running high with democrats gaveling in, giving speeches opposing the nomination strength -- strenuously. play a little sound here. i believe we have senator mcconnell, republican leader and senate schumer democratic leader. >> okay. >> our democratic colleagues tried to climb the senate's process itself is not legitimate. we live in a constitutional republic. egitimacy of an outco not depend op emotions. >> just heard another warped and

distorted comment from leader mcconnell. the blatant 180-degree hypocr e hypocritical turn he has made on supreme court nominations. >> reporter: and there you see is a snapshot how contentious this is. the reason, 6-3 supreme court would be an enormous shift, most significant shift to the right on the supreme court by a gel justice since 1991 when clarence thomas replaced the sieve's rights icon thurgood marshall. we've heard a lot about affordable care act and roe versus wade. voting rights. supreme court mostly sided with republican lawsuits on things like mail-in ballots and curbside voting. providing a sixth voting creating a buffer in case one defects. many more things but i'll stop there as an indication what's at stake and how much the supreme

court to change american life if amy coney barrett becomes the next justice. >> lots to consider there. okay. thank you so much. president trump in the workplace. the new details revealed in a tell-all book by a former employee that joins me next with her side of the story. ♪ oooh...you meant the food, didn't you? ♪ imagine the places we'll go... together. expedia

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shocking details about the president before he took office from someone at his side for years. the new book "tower of lies"

describes what 18 years of working with donald trump reveals about him. joining me now, author of that book. barbara, former executive vice president of the trump organization. barbara, welcome. timing-wise, what made you want to write this book now? >> i started it a while ago. you know, i was doing a little writing in the beginning. i posted him in the 2016 election, but time went past and i was observing him and i said, i have to do something. everyone has to do something and what could i do? write a book. so i did. >> so in this book, which i'm going to say is pretty darn stunning if even half of the things you allege are true. you recount racist, anti-semitic, sex issist behainer along with trump's ability to lie. if you didn't know the facts he could slip something past you. how often did you experience this kind of behavior and there are specific instances you want

to share with us? >> i've experienced it quite frequently. hard to pinpoint in one way or another but basically often, something often would tell people somebody said something about somebody else and try to start a little, you know, a little fight between people, among people. you'd have to go to the person and say, did you say this, really? it was always no. he did things like that with contractors, with office staff. i said do this and that one said -- little thing. now, he told big lies, too. don't get me wrong. constant. like, had you to check. had to check with someone else. >> yeah. wasn't there, you mentioned contractors, brought to mind when i read that when there was a wrap party for completion of a big skyscrapers he did not want to invite any of the laborers to the party and you said, all right. the contractors, i guess you can let them in, he said? >> you know, no. everyone went. we had parties for the tapping out party.

you finished the structure of the building, a big celebration. everyone goes. mentioned it to donald. great, do this, that, balloons, champagne. figure how to get all the men there. a lot of men on the job. he said what men? i said all the workers. what? are you kidding? i don't want them at party. i said donald, that's what the party is about, who it's for. everyone went. but everyone went. >> in the long run everyone got to go. that's good. talk to me about the story you recall where the president turned red-faced because you brought a young, black job applicant into the lobby of a building? what was that about? >> i was at the job site across the street meeting with candidates for a position i had somebody who help me.

interested and i set up an interview. i didn't know whether the kid was black, white, who cared? sitting in the lobby, of course when i go across the street to my office where trump's office is and interviewed him. didn't work out exactly, but as i'm leaving trump says, somebody says trump wants you. better go see him. he was oh, my god. livid. don't you ever do that again. i don't ever want to see that again. i don't want black kids sitting in the lobby when millionaires are coming to buy apartments. >> wow. one last one i want to recall again the book is filled with these. there was one time when you write that the president, of course, as a private citizen, hired a german residential manager believing his heritage made him especially clean and orderly? and -- and he said something to that effect in front of a group of jewish businessmen. do you remember that one? >> absolutely. we were sitting in his office. just hired this gentleman and

trump absolutely loved him pap real german. really clean, very good. very good. by the way, he says to the jewish people, watch out for him. he's kind of -- [ inaudible ] what was he talking about? i was shocked. >> so i imagine there's a lot of allegations in this book, barbara. how's the trump campaign, has the trump white house reached out to you? thth they said anything about what you're alleging in this book? >> no, and i don't really expect them to. everything is true. i think they know that publicity is not what they want. it's up to them. whatever they say. everything is true. everything can be represented. it can be, you know, guaranteed, one way or another. >> hmm. so, okay. you're going ahead with the book and see what happens with it. >> yes. thank you. >> thank you so much, barbara res. appreciate it. the book, everyone "tower of

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to keep up but he says tens of thousands of words a day and categorizing 50, 60 false or misleading claims a day has meant we're eight weeks behind. if he continuing at the same pace he was in august, where he made more than 1,500 false or misleading claims that month, he's probably past 25,000 claims as of this week. >> yikes. there are some viewers, i've got to suspect who wonder why does the washington post not characterize the president's false and misleading claims as lies. >> we do when there's a documented instance of something that is clearly a lie, we say it's a lie. when he said he didn't know about the payments to his alleged paramours and there's a video about it. that's a lie.

we can't get into someone's head. i think a lot of the things the president said, he's convinced them it's true. more than 400 times he created the best economy in world history. it was bet ner the '80s, '60s, 1950s. you can see in the "60 minutes" program coming up when leslie says it's ridiculous. he seems puzzled and says of course it is. if he believes it, is he really lying. >> i see the gray area there. you mentioned august. he bet his record. what was it about august that was particularly bad? >> he kept having lots of rallies and teller rallies.

he get ons the phone and chats for 30 minutes for a bunch of supporters. he did interview with friendly host like fox and friends. he did a bunch of press availability. if he talks a lot, there's a lot of false things there. 407 times the president said his economy was the best in history. you've said that one was false. how about this one? his border wall is being built. he said that 262 times. where is the truth in that? >> well, it's not a wall. it's a barrier. it's significantly scaled down from what he had envisioned. much of it is just replacing existing barrier.

it's not ground cover that didn't have a barerer before. the way he characterizes it, he says it's full proof where we documented it's easily breached. >> i think we can say mexico is not paying for it. last one. he passed the biggest tax cut in history. he said that 232 times. truth? >> it's false. his tax cut is the eighth largest in the last 100 years. he was saying it was the biggest tax cut in history before it was even written. he just kept saying it after it was written. >> okay. i love getting truth from you. come see me again soon. thank you so much. we're watching the stage in south florida. that's where the biden campaign is getting some big support from the former president. the obama effect live for you in our next hour. the obama effect live for you in our next hour. this country was not built on white-collar, it was built on blue-collar, hard work.

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once again down playing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic. >> prolonged the pandemic. that's all i hear about. covid, covid, covid. a plane goes down. 500 people dead. they don't talk about it. covid, covid. covid. by the way, on november 4th, you won't hear about it anymore. joe biden is on his way to pennsylvania. it's his second stop of the day in the key battleground state. earlier today he spoke at a drive in rally saying trump is failing at being a president for all americans. >> think of what he's saying about what's going on in america. he's saying if you live in pennsylvania, you're not his problem. you live in a red state, alabama, he may think about you. he's not responsible for your family's well being if you're in a blue state. folk, i don't see the president that way. i don't see it that way. ion