♪ good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." tonight's lead, the nation holds its breath. we're about to see the final full week of election 2020 and the final campaign sprint for donald trump and joe biden. you'd be forgiven even in jaded political journalism for being consumed by this moment in american history, because at

this time in addition to a historically contentious election, the senate is in rare sunday session voting over the course of the next day on whether to confirm supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. and, win or lose, the president may make his most indelible mark on the country, a conservative fever dream of judicial appointments, crowded by a trio of right-wing judges on the nation's top bench. but while that damage will reveal itself over time, the devastation of the pandemic continues to break immediate wreckage overtaken more americans day by day with a milestone number of cases going into this weekend. and now several of vice president mike pence's top staffers have tested positive for covid-19. the latest of dozens of trump

administrators to be diagnosed after super-spreader events at the white house or on the campaign trail. earlier today white house chief of staff mark meadows told the country that the administration has basically thrown in the towel. >> here's what we have to do. we are not going to control the pandemic. we are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics, and other mathematicians -- >> why arenphysicians. why not get control over the coronavirus? >> as this administration admits defeat by the pandemic, its constituents continue to brave the danger to cast their ballots. as of this minute, more than 50 million americans have voted

already including of course president trump who earlier told a new hampshire crowd to do as he says and not as he does. >> i say the biggest risk we have are the fake ballots. i voted yesterday in florida. [ cheers and applause ] and i voted in person because i like to vote in person. call me old-fashioned. wouldn't it be nice to have voter i.d.? the other way they said millions of ballots, we don't know who's sending them, we don't know where they're going, we don't know who's bringing them back, we don't know who signed them. >> meanwhile, joe biden was in battleground pennsylvania yesterday where donald trump won in 2016 where covid-19 cases are surging. so, thus, we begin right there in pennsylvania. joining me now is pennsylvania senator bob casey. senator, thank you for joining us.

>> it's good to be with you. thank you. >> yesterday you were there for the joe biden rally in pennsylvania. what does pennsylvania look like? mr. trump won last time. what is your prediction this time? and how was joe biden received in pennsylvania yesterday, and how has he been received around the state, as you move around your home state? >> reverend al, as you know, pennsylvania's always a competitive state generally, but especially in presidential races. you look at the last 20 years. it's basically been about a three-point state. and we expect it to be closely fought until the very end. but i think the reason joe biden's ahead right now in pennsylvania and the reason i think he'll carry the state is he's addressing the two overarching issues that most americans are concerned about. number one, the response of the

virus and we've got a planned attack of the virus. and also an economic plan, which is about as extensive and detailed and comprehensive as any i've seen for any presidential candidate. so, in our state, they're two of the leading reasons in addition to people's sense of who joe biden is. they know about his empathy for people who are suffering, his own personal experience. they also know about his experience in government and being able to deliver results for families across the board. and i think they know that we can be led by a president who will take on the virus, not surrender to it like donald trump. it's hard to comprehend that a chief of staff of a president would appear on national television and surrender to the virus. that's like saying in world war ii we should just surrender to the axis powers because they're

so powerful and america can't do anything. that's not america. we confront the challenge ahead of us. >> let me push you a little on that because we have not to this day, to this moment, seen what is the trump/pence plan on the pandemic. we do know now because of tapes with the president himself talking to woodward who is authoring a book that he knew the dangers as early as january and not long after that some of his staff warned wall street people that it is very serious way before they warned the american public. but through that we have not seen what is their plan. now we're told eight days before the election that they are not going to be able to contain the virus? what kind of leadership is that,

senator? >> well, first of all, i think it's a dangerous dereliction of duty. that's basically what it is. there's no plan at all, as you outlined. reverend al, there's not even a plan for the subset of the suffering here or a substantial part of the suffering. to give you an example, nursing homes. we have more than 85,000 americans documented in several reports that have died in nursing homes. when you add up the residents in nursing homes with the workers. and there's no plan to get the death number down. and we know exactly what to do to get those numbers down. but you have to invest in it. you have to make it a priority. you have to lead. the president doesn't want to do anything of the kind. so the same approach or failure to have a plan for getting nursing home deaths and case numbers down mirrors the

approach he's taken on the virus overall. why is america, with 4% of the world's population, the country that has about 19 or 20% of the deaths and about 20% of the cases as well? there is no excuse for that, and i think most americans have figured that out, that only one candidate has a plan for that, and that's joe biden. >> and we're supposedly the most resourceful and in terms of medical and other health-related issues, most advanced in the world. let me ask you of another subject. as i speak, the senate is dealing with the nomination of amy coney barrett. and the voting will start as early as tomorrow. and many of us, certainly i have, been outraged that they are doing the complete opposite during voting. it's not even before an election. we're in the middle of an election when in 2016 when judge

garland was nominated by barack obama in february of that year way before anybody was voting early, the primaries were not even over, they said we cannot have a supreme court nomination and vote during an election year in 2016. they're doing the opposite led by mitch mcconnell, the same mitch mcconnell that said the opposite in 2016. what, if anything, can the democrats do at this late stage, and do you intend to, and the democratic senators, intend to show up and vote against her nomination or boycott a nomination as democrats on the jish reach committee did late last week? >> i think the key thing is that people have to understand why this nomination is being rushed. real simple, they are rushing a nomination days before an election. it's never happened in american history, by the way.

we're rushing that nomination to get her confirmed so that she can be on the court on november the 10th, days after presidential election. so that way for the new president, who's ever elected, to make that decision. that's the date that the affordable care act case will be argued before the court. if she's not confirmed by that date, she can't participate in the decision. they want at least a 6-3 court so they can strike down, destroy the affordable care act. and reverend al, you know from covering this and from interviewing people all over the country, this isn't about some obscure supreme court theory or case. this is about real people's lives. whether or not they're going to have the protection and the coverage from the affordable care act, both people who gain coverage and people who already had coverage but had greater protections like those for a

pre-existing condition. i'm just holding up a -- piece of paper here. this is a picture of a family in pennsylvania. and right in the middle you can see abby who is the daughter of aaron gabriel. abby has -- and i'll describe what she has. abby is autistic, deaf/blind/nonverbal and has a progressive neurological system affecting multiple systems. she says in this letter to me that her daughter abby is uninsurable without the affordable care act. >> wow. >> here's another mom who vowro to me. her daughter sienna has down syndrome. these are the people whose lives are at stake with this november 10th argument in front of the

supreme court on the affordable care act. >> these are real people, and this is a real, real serious situation. thank you for being with us this evening, senator bob casey of pennsylvania. joining me now my political strategist, democrat zerl ina maxwell and republican susan del percio. the fact that as we know, they have already began the process to roll into a vote on judge coney -- becoming justice coney. and as you just heard senator casey said, and he gave two demonstrations of real live people that will be affected, this is no just courtroom kind of back and forth. you are talking about on the 10th of next month, they will begin oral arguments on the affordable care act, otherwise

known as obamacare, that will directly affect at least 20 million americans. and many of whom are depending on this legislation because of pre-existing conditions, many young people some of who are voting now because they will never be covered to age 26 if this is revoked. this is a real big deal that we're talking about if in fact barrett is put on that court to be the vote that guarantees that we are going to see the end of the affordable care act. >> which also includes access to affordable contraception coverage as well. there is a lot on the line, rev. and i think senator casey is right that they are doing this now because of the affordable care act. but they're also doing this now because there is an election coming up and because they know that a majority of the american

people not only do not want to do this but may not be voting for them in the election that is currently taking place, and they may not have the political space, if you will, to rush this through after november the 3rd. so i think that they're doing this for a number of different reasons. obviously this is the culmination of a decades-long fight that the republicans and the federalist society want to put judges on the supreme court to strip away women's reproductive freedom in roe v. wade. and i think that there are so many things on the line, rev. but in the backdrop of all of that, all of these political machinations is covid-19. and so, frankly as i sit here and we talk about policy and we talk about the affordable care act, all of which are important and essential to people's lives, but so is their ability to live healthy lives without the threat

of becoming ill with covid-19. and the president and the vice president who is supposedly in charge of a task force but can't keep his own staff from getting the virus that he's in charge of protecting the american people from, they are failing in this very moment to implement the plans necessary, to implement the plans that scientists all over the world recommend, and that countries all over the world have done successfully. there's a lot on the line and we have the wrong folks in charge to get us out of the mess, affordable care act notwithstanding, but there is a lot at stake otherwise as well. >> susan, as we look at this, we are also seeing the importance, then, of the senate races, because the only hope if in fact the predictions are true that comey is seated and they go after affordable care act, women's right to choose, affirmative action, voting

cases, all of this is that you will have a legislature that will create new law that will take time to get back to the supreme court. otherwise we are stuck because unless you can balance with the legislative branch being active in terms of dealing with whatever the judicial branch comes down with headed by the supreme court, we could end up with a generation that becomes very much like the pre-1950s. >> yeah. and, rev, that's exactly right. the democrats need to take control of the senate to take charge in case any of the cases that are expected to go in front of the supreme court end up with a 6-3 or 5-4 ruling against the affordable care act. and there's one other thing. zerlina was right in mentioning covid because people need their health care while dealing with the covid pandemic. not only that, we don't know how many pre-existing conditions

will exist after people who have had the covid-19 infection. because there's heart problems, there's lung problems. this is going to affect generations of people. and i can't stress how important it is that this year even though i'm a republican i say it is time for the democrats to take back the senate because trump and trumpism must be defeated this fall if we are going to be able to move forward as a nation. we have to get rid of all of the divisive parts. >> i'm almost out of time. but what senate races do you think we should watch that may make that viable that are now being held by republicans that has the real potential of flipping to the democrats? >> sure. there's three off the bat, which is maine, colorado, and arizona. then there's a question of getting two more because it looks like the democrats will lose doug jones in alabama. i would put some serious money

on iowa. joanie ernst is looking really bad these days, not knowing the price of soybeans in iowa, very bad luck. there's a potential for a pickup. it could be montana. north carolina, georgia or both of the georgia seats. >> i'm interested in zerlina's opinion on that, but we'll bring them back for more later in the hour. so don't worry, i want your predictions. but, coming up, president trump claims he has done more for the black community than any president since abraham lincoln. but the facts tell a different story. but first my colleague richard louis with today's other top stories. >> good afternoon to you, rev. stories that we're watching for you this hour, thursday and friday, new confirmed cases now hitting record highs over 8.6 million people infected with the virus. the death toll now stands at

over 226,000 americans. in idaho, health care facilities are stretched to the limit. one hospital warns they may have to transfer patients out of state in order to meet demand. and the harshest california wildfire season on record rages on. today the national weather service put out a red flag warning for most of northern california, alerting residents to dry, windy weather conditions that pose a high threat to creating and spreading flames. this season's wildfires have burned over 4.1 million acres of land and caused 31 fatalities. and unrest continues in nigeria after several civilians have been shot and killed during peaceful protests in the city of lagos. demonstrators want an end of the government's special anti-robbery squad. we will keep you updated on that story as it unfolds. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after the break. the break.

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governmental responsibility. but those who stand in them are american heroes. and of course these tactics are targeted. black voters, the most reliable voting bloc for democrats are far more likely to face long lines as a barrier to participating in our democracy. and the obstacles and intimidation aren't just coming from republican officials and operatives. some of them are even coming from foreign actors, top national security officials have warned both iran and russia have obtained voter information. and iran was responsible for sending threatening letters to voters in florida. but the more immediate threat might come from within your own neighborhood. for instance, a landlord in colorado allegedly sent his tenants a threatening letter promising to double their rent if joe biden wins in november and freezing rents if the president is re-elected.

in the swing state of florida, a company threatened his workers with layoffs if in the event we have a biden win. and then fired an employee who spoke out against this intimidation tactic. h and to borrow a phrase from joe biden, the malarkey doesn't stop even at some polling places. in memphis a poll worker was fired after illegally turning away multiple voters wearing "black lives matter" t-shirts. if you were one of those voters, i implore you to go back and make your voice heard, because despite every obstacle thrown in their way, more than 56 million americans have already cast their ballots in this election, blowing away early voting records. this country has never lived up to its greatest promise, that we all are created equal. it was constrained from the beginning by the barbaric

treatment of enslaved africans and occupied native americans. and by the arbitrary limitations set on the voting franchise, when only white male land owners were allowed to vote. for centuries, american heroes have battled to expand voting rights to black folks, brown folks, native folks and women of all races. the we can honor those giants by making sure we keep showing up, keep waiting in those lines and keep overcoming every despicable act of voting intimidation thrown at aus. and to those to try to stop us, you're right to be afraid of our votes and our voices because we believe in an america that lifts up those who have been kept down, an america that never stopped striving to live up to its full promise of liberty and justice for all. and as you can see by the voter turnout so far, there are far

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opt in and save big today. we secured permanent and record funding for hbcus, that's historically black colleges and universities. numbers that they never thought were possible and long-term financing. >> one of the president's go-to boasts about his so-called service to black america is funding for hblack colleges and universities. and while he did sign a bill extending hbcu funding, that's all he did. the bill was bipartisan and passed through both houses of congress. so by signing it, he was simply doing his job. and despite the president's constant efforts to malign his predecessors, the fact remains

that president obama allocated hbcu funding every year of his term. while this president regularly requests less funding than congress provides. yet, he's using a clip of hbcu leaders in a campaign ad without permission, implying their support for his re-election where none really exists. joining me now is dr. leslie baskerville, president of the national association for equal opportunity in higher education. dr. baskerville, let me ask you straight up. hbcus have asked the trump administration for many things including necessities like research funding, infrastructure in the most basic equal funding of the institutions. has the administration ever worked toward that with you? >> so, reverend, thank you so much and i'm delighted to be

here. the hbcus have -- we're in a good position. we have strong bipartisan support in congress. and relative to whether or not this president has done more for others for hbcus than others, i've asked people to look at the budget that the presidents send to congress. that reflects what the presidents support. so, for example, if a budget talks about cutting the s.n.a.p. program, which is for food stamps for children or early childhood, healthy start, headstart, those types of programs, that would not be a support program for hbcus because disproportional percentages of our students and families are low-income. if they decided to cut s.t.e.m. for girls or guys, that would not be an hbcu support program. and so i encourage people to look at the budgets. as you know, presidents don't

pass budgets, they make recommendations to congress. and we have strong support with the 55 members of the congressional black caucus this year, about five or six leaders in education, with jim clyburn, the whip of the house, and the bipartisan caucus headed by alma adams. so we have strong bipartisan support. we've been lucky to get out bills from congress because of the support of our members, our students, those in the community, and the strong bipartisan support under the leadership of the congressional black caucus. >> all right. let me -- >> oh -- as you pointed out -- >> if the congressional black caucus and the congress has been going forward, would it then be a misrepresentation for the president to claim that he brought in record funds and that he did this more than anyone that the hbcus never expected

this, more than anything before him, and that he is the one that engineered this, when in fact there was the consistent support that also the last administration did, but that was also done by the congress led by the congressional black caucus clyburn and others that you named. >> yeah. and i'm not sure exactly which bill you're talking about. so, the only mandatory funding for hbcus was set to expire earlier in the year, and it did expire because it didn't have the support of the administration. it did not have the support of many republicans. we worked for months and months with a broad bipartisan support from the states and from leadership from the hbcus, the pbis and others, we were able to get that passed. and that clearly came about from congress and made its way up, certainly a president has the option not to sign a bill. fortunately, the president opted

to sign that bill. in the covid bills, again, emanating from congress, we were fortunate to -- with our education efforts and tremendous leadership in the house and the senate, we've been able to get bills that are significantly important that enabled our member institutions to get reimbursements for funds that they lost from covid to help their students to get home to help students who needed to relocate, because they didn't have homes to go to. they were expected to be on campus. and so all of that emanated from the congress. >> from the congress. now, not the president. trump is using a picture of presidents of historically black colleges and universities in his campaign ad without their permission. the picture was taken by amorosa neumann by the at the time one of trump's advisers a few weeks after trump assumed office in

february of 2017. but no one gave permission to use this photo as a campaign ad. am i right about that, to your knowledge? >> you're absolutely right, reverend al. and they couldn't do it. our members and the associations that are represented in there including the membership and advocacy association for all of the hbcus, we are nonpartisan, we are 501(c)3 tax exempt associations and our colleges and universities are tax exempt colleges and universities. they were not asked and could not be asked. and they're put in a perilous state, because we cannot and we go to great lengths to make sure that we stay within the bounds of the law that dictates that if you have a special tax status, 501(c)3 charitable organization, if you're a public college or university that you not use your office and/or the relationships at all for partisan purposes.

and so this is casting a pall. we raised a question, we wrote to the rnc the night after the first picture was shown in the video the night of the rnc and they rolled out the trump/pence re-election. we wrote to the rnc and asked that they cease and desist and talk about the perilous state in which it was potentially putting our member institutions legally and that no one had asked and they certainly would not have granted permission to have their names, their likeness, or their institutions or the associations representing them put into a political ad. >> and as you've stated, even the things that were passed he signed as president, he could have not signed it but he certainly was not the quarterback getting it done as he's saying that he's done more for blacks than anyone since abe lincoln. i've wanted to have you on.

i've known you for decades and your civil rights and education work. we've known each other a long time. i've known the president over 35 years. and he has never been a straight shooter. you've always been a straight shooter. we met in daycare center. thank you for being with us, dr. baskerville. >> thank you so much for having me and thank you so much for giving your voice to the important things. >> and let's keep supporting our hbcus. coming up, a new report out this week shows the majority of u.s. terrorist attacks are backed by far-right groups. is that a surprise? and who is to blame? that's next. ext. (fisherman vo) how do i register to vote? hmm!.. hmm!.. hmm!.. (woman on porch vo) can we vote by mail here? (grandma vo) you'll be safe, right? (daughter vo) yes! (four girls vo) the polls! voted! (grandma vo) go out and vote! it's so important!

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a new report out this week reveals that the majority of u.s. terrorist attacks are backed by far-right groups. the report conducted by the center for strategic and international studies found that from january to august, white supremacist groups were responsible for 67% of plots or attacks made, compared to other groups including antifa, which make up for a much smaller percentage. 41 out of 61 instances of terror this year have been tied directly to far-right groups, a staggering fact to think about

since just this week. president trump mischaracterized "black lives matter" movement as a group calling for violence. but it has yet to condemn white supremacists and far-right groups that claim to support him. welcoming back my political strategists, zerlina maxwell and republican susan del percio. zerlina, the president has not denounced any of these far-right groups. he has not said don't support me, don't endorse me. he has not attacked them. he's told them when was questioned about the proud boys, you know, he did everything but denounce them. and this report found that 67% of terrorist acts and plots were backed by violent far-right groups. and 20%, 12 incidents in total were backed by extreme far-left groups like antifa.

as the number of domestic terrorist threats rise, what concerns you the most as the country heads into this pollarized election? >> that the margin of victory for whoever wins this election won't be wide enough for there to be a lot of public confidence that the election was fair and all of the votes had been counted up properly. i think, you know, that period between november the 4th and when a new president is potentially sworn in is i think a window in which you can see an increase, an increase in white supremacist violence targeting people of color. i'm very afraid for that period, frankly. i've been afraid for a couple of weeks thinking through the possibilities with the president emboldening these groups to commit acts of violence. i mean, he's telling them to go to the polls and to watch closely.

they know what that means. it doesn't mean to show up with your cell phone camera. it means to go with your gun. i think that the president has had every opportunity to condemn white supremacist terrorism, to condemn these white supremacist groups, and he has not done that because he does not want to, rev. and so i think that we should heed the message in that behavior as a threat to our national security and a threat to the lives and safety of people of color in our country. we're living here a year removed from shootings in texas that were racially motivated and emboldened by the president's rhetoric. so this is a real threat that we need to pay very close attention to and be vigilant. >> susan, over the last several years, we've seen synagogues attacked. we've seen racist attacks. we've now even seen a plot to kidnap a governor and put explosives in the state capitol. another governor under threat. this comes on the heels of a

homeland security assessment that a whistle-blower claim was withheld for months that called violent white supremacy, quote, the most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland. in his own dhs -- if his own dhs is worried about the deadly threat of white supremacy, why has the president done nothing in his power to stop it? >> because he believes that those are his supporters. it's sad, it's pathetic. but there's a reason by back in charlottesville in 2017 he said there were fine people on both sides. no, there were not. and the fact is, is that he was always afraid to turn away a part of his base. now i do believe this is a very, very, very small part of his base. but what i can't let go is that there are elected officials, republicans who don't call the president and have not called the president out on this because they're afraid of a

tweet. but this is -- president trump has given these far-right people a chance to, anti-semitic, just a chance to basically give them permission that, all right, you're not supposed to do it, but just stand by, just stay in the wings, don't worry, i got your back. and that is so troubling, rev. >> zerlina, if any other president, the last several, was endorsed by a group that advocated racism, supremacy of anybody's race, white supremacy or others, they would at least say, i do not want your support, i denounce that. the president's been given every opportunity, as you alluded to, in terms of one case. but in many cases, many occasions, and his own dhs to, at the least, at the very least, say i denounce your support.

he has not done that, which in fact is why many of us consider him a racist. >> right, rev. it doesn't take rocket science to put two and two together here. i think that the president's an leads you to the logical conclusion that he harbors some ill views towards people who are not white. he has repeatedly stoked racist rhetoric from voters and everyday americans and our interactions and so, you know, this is a dangerous time and a tinderbox. and i'm hopeful that enough people would show up to reject this that we can move to a new future. >> all right, zerlina maxwell and susan del percio, thank you both for being with me this evening. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. ay with us why?! ahhhh! incoming!

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early voting going on and those that will vote on november 3rd do not forget that we still must deal with the issue of police reform. that we need a congress and a senate to deal with the george floyd policing and justice act that we marched about by the tens of thousands in washington on august 28th. we need to look at the fact that policing all over the world must meet the standard of human and civil rights. i've come out with others denouncing what is going on in nigeria, because it doesn't matter if it's a government led by blacks or whites, the respect for citizens and law enforcement must be there and must be made law. that's why i talk about it in my book, "rise up," that i hope you have gotten by now or will get. that we need to deal with everything from police reform to climate change to lbgtq rights to women's rights.

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that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here next weekend at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague -- up next, my colleague, alicea menendez picks up our news coverage. >> thank you, as always, reverend sharpton, and good evening to all of you at home. aalicea menendez coming to you from telemundo headquarters in miami. near florida and across the country, the heat is on with just nine days left in this 2020 race. as we come on-air tonight, we're not just following this final sprint to election day, but yet another devastating spike in nationwide coronavirus cases. and once again, the white house is proving it is not immune to this pandemic. tonight, what we know about the positive cases in the vice president's inner circle. and new comments from this white house admitting it won't be controlling this virus. in moments, a member of senate leadership, senator dick durbin is here with r