whether you are home or not tomorrow a very special election panel with some bad news for donald trump that will air a special edition of the beat tomorrow night. that does it for us. i appreciate you tuning in and spending the hour with us. the "the reidout" with joy reid is next. we are officially in the home stretch of the election season. eight days left to cast ballots in the most consequential election of our lifetime. the part that will wind up in textbooks, won't just be about who wins this election. it will be about you. the american voter. the 62 million people who as of today have cast ballots early. waiting in long lines at snaked

around your polling place. sometimes for hours. and long into the night. just to give you an idea of how significant the number is. 62 million. it's already surpassed the total number of early voters in 2016. by more than 12 million. it's quickly catching up to the 63 million total votes that donald trump received last time. total. the number of early voters could hit 90 to 100 million before november 3. a record shattering number that early voting expert predicting a total turn out of 150 million. representing 65% of voters. highest rate since 1908. the trump campaign is giving a clear picture of what would happen if he were to be reelected. chief of staff saying the quiet part out loud. when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic, you are on your own. >> we're not going to control

the pandemic. we are going to control the nakt we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation. >> why aren't we getting control? >> it's a contagious virus. >> new infections soar and another out break strikes the white house. donald trump held rallies in pennsylvania today. admitting his behavior is risky. but down playing a virus that killed a quarter million people under his watch. >> it's a choice between a trump super-recovery. and a biden depression. it's a trump boom and a biden lock down. he wants to lock down the country. i can't lock myself in a beautiful bedroom in the white house upstairs. i can't do it. we have things to do. we have people to meet and i'll have meetings sometimes i have meetings with a lot of people. that were unavoidable. if you're the president.

you can go and lock yourself away. you can't do that. so many of the meetings i say that's risky right? no wonder you get it. that's okay. >> wow. it all comes to a head in eight days. america will choose the person you just heard rejecting science and down playing a sickness he received the best medical care for in the world. or a plan for testing, masks and ppe. and his opponent doesn't have a plan and never did. >> trump called himsz a wartime president. fighting the war against an invisible enemy. i have been saying for months that he waived the white flag. all the way back then. some said i was being harsh and unfair. the white house is admitting what i said months ago was true. bottom line is donald trump is

the worst possible president -- person to lead us through the pandemic. i don't think he has any idea what to do or doesn't care. >> joining me now senator of massachusetts. it's striking to hear him say yo get it, it's fine. it goes away. it's all good. essentially saying everybody go ahead and don't worry about getting coronavirus. and strike that against the fact he isn't worrying about it. he doesn't care. hes encouraging people to get it. we have 8 million people in poverty. 12 million people unemployed. the poverty rate is soaring. people are thrown out of hopes. 100,000 businesses have closed. what's your response to this surrender by the white house? >> we need a president with human empathy. and donald trump has made clear that's not donald trump. he just doesn't seem to care.

about the people who have gotten sick and the people who died. he doesn't seem to care about the harm to the economy. this notion that somehow he has this dream that he's going to have this great recovery. it's not going to be a great recovery until we get the coronavirus under control. that has to be job number one. in the same way that months ago he was saying the coronavirus will just magically disappear. he's now saying the economy will just magically recover. magic is not working for the american people. it is not working for people who have lost loved ones. people who have got p sick. people who lost jobs. for people who can't get kids back to school. for people who see that our country is breaking apart and we don't have a man to lead it. eight days we have to get rid of trump and get joe biden in the white house. >> one of the people who lost

loved ones is yourself. senator. i remember having you on after. sharing our audience condolences with you. when you hear the way donald trump and mike pence who are very -- about this illness. he goz $100,000 worth of free healthcare. that most people cannot get. and he is saying these things and talking about taking away healthcare. that people got under obamacare. what do you make of that? >> this is cruel and heartless. and it is dangerous. here we are in the middle of the pandemic and donald trump wants to take away healthcare. from tens of millions of people. we have millions of people who have been infected with the coronavirus and have recovered. but who may have long lasting effects from it. all of them will have preexisting conditions. and donald trump is perfectly willing to get rid of the

affordable care act and say insurance companies can discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. this is the worst possible plan at the worst possible time. that summarizes his whole presidency. >> we learned today "washington post" reporting that trumps new plan another magical solution to whatever he thinks the problem is. to get rid of civil service protection. for thousands of federal employees. gisz the idea is replace them all with people like his current dni. ratcliffe. who will be flunkies. >> i set up an agency in the federal government. the consumer financial protection bureau. president obama asked me when i come and set up the agent sichlt it was an extraordinary opportunity. to build an agency that was on the side of the people. so people didn't get cheated on

credit cards and home mortgages and payday loans. we set that agency up and so you understand, we set it up to insulate it from political interference. democratic or republican. to make it a watchdog for the american people. donald trump hated that so much that not only did he put in his director who tried to tear the agency apart, they put political officials sitting next to civil servants who were trying to do their job so that donald trump's people could get political out comes out of them. that's not the kind of government we need. we need a government where when you work for the government, you're not working for one party or another. you're working for the american people. >> i think about the senate. there are a will the of pieces out today. that talk about how broken it is. it's just become another

instrument of republican abuse of power. you had the president of the united states today threatening the governor of pennsylvania. because he didn't act fast enough to give him a place to do a super-spreader rally. doing what he did to ukraine to an american governor. which democrats said he would do if he got through impeachment. you spoke about this last night. about what mitch mcconnell has done to distort the way the senate operates. i'll play it back. >> let's be very clear, if trump and republicans succeed in ramming this nomination through, the american people will expect us to use every tool we have to undo the damage and restore the courts integrity. >> joe biden is a very traditional person. you can give him credit he's bipartisan. he wants things to work the way

it has long worked. have we reached the point democrats have to say enough? it's time to add more seats to the court. it's time to add puerto rico. and d.c. as states. republicans have made it clear they don't believe the rules matter. and they'll do whatever they want including this amy coney barrett nomination. >> focus on the court for a second. that's the real problem. the republicans have now tilted the supreme court and the court of appeals and district courts so sharply, in favor of business, in favor of extremist point of view that doesn't reflect the values of the majority of americans. our job when we i hope i hope, are in the majority next year, is to restore some integrity. to the courts. restore some balance. we can't simply spend an entire

generation of a handful of zealous on the court breaking and destroying everything the american people want to see happen. we can't just let them take away healthcare from people. over turn access to reproductive rights. take away union rights and workers rights. destroy our opportunities. to attack climate change head on. we're going to have to get balance back in this system. and frankly the way i think of it, i want a depoliticize it. turn down the volume. i want to have courts that decide things based on justice and law. not on extreme ideology. the way amy coney barrett has indicated she will. >> to the senate for a moment, you worked really hard through the consumer financial protection and the politics chl to try to get@point where we can spend enough money by taxing the

very wealthy and having them pay a fair share to do important things. education, healthcare, things in the polls want done. the senate won't do. you had ted cruz your colleague on the other side from texas. give an interview and excused the idea of trump being terrible on the debt. he didn't run on debt it's fine. there's a will the of concern that if democrats take back the white house in the senate, suddenly people like cruz will be reborn. as debt conservatives and try to impose and force austerity. and some will be willing to go along with that. it happened to fdr. how can you assure the american people that if democrats get back control they won't give in to this sort of debt. sort of fake concern about the debt that we everyone expects republicans to reestablish.

>> we can't play by two different sets of rules in congress. that is when the republicans are in the majority and want to cut taxes by a couple trillion dollars, they say debt doesn't matter. when the democrats are in the majority and we actually want to cancel out student loan debt. and provide universal child care and universal prek for kids and we want to make a real investment in housing. suddenly they get religion and say you can't do that you'll run up the debt. no. that is over. that horse is out of the barn. a long time ago. the republicans were never serious about debt. what they were serious about is don't tax rich people. in order to make sure that we have decent schools. and decent transit systems and decent housing. for the people who need it. that is what it was all about for them. i hope they lose on november 3.

because when they do as democrats we're going to come back and make those investments. >> senator warren, when she gets into it you hear the oklahoma accent. she's serious. oklahoma by way of massachusetts. thank you very much. great to have you on. >> thank you. >> up next, with covid surging throughout the country, trump accuses front line healthcare workers of lying about the severity of the pandemic. >> if somebody is termly ill with cancer, and they have covid. we report them. and doctors get more money and hospitals get more money think of this incentive. >> would you believe trump covid strategy involved a quid pro quo with santa claus? they want to give mall santas early access to a vaccine. in return for santa's

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decriminalizing sex work, and passing major sentencing reform legislation. but until we reimagine community safety and end police brutality, we must keep working to reform our racist criminal justice system that's shameful to us all. you have covid cases going up. it's like the gods have decided to conspire against you. >> i don't think so. >> what about -- sir, excuse me. cases are up in 40 states. >> you know why? we do more testing. the fake news loves to say cases are up. the fact is we have done a very good job. we have done -- >> that's right. we're doing so much testing. >> donald trump likes to say we're seeing so many cases because the country is doing so much testing. he likes to say we're rounding the corner.

it seems like we're rounding the corner into an oncoming train. back to back single day records. the previous high was in july. 41,000 covid-19 patients hospitalized right now. 40% increase in the past month. reporting the death toll is up 10% over the past two weeks. confirmed infections per day. rising in 47 states and deaths are up in 34 states. for the first time there are more people in rural communities affected by the virus than in metro areas. in el paso, texas a convention center is converted into a temporary hospital. in wisconsin the governor warned their hospital system is being overwhelmed. in illinois, the state top health official was overwhelmed with emotion when she announced the increase in cases and death there. >> these are people who started

with us in 2020. and won't be with us at thanksgiving table. i'm sorry. our message is stay strong. i have never run a marathon. i have the utmost regard for those who train, plan and finish a marathon. this is a difficult race when you can't actually see the end point. i'm sorry that's the message i have for you. >> utah hospitals are considering plan to ration care. administer tors are considering giving younger patients priority because quote older pashtients e more likely to die. former obama white house policy and pulmonologist. i want to start with you, give us a sense of how bad things are

get right now in utah. >> we are exceedingly busy. last week we opened our extra icu for our covid patients. we have surpassed our capacity at times luckily the weekend we are less busy. and today is a better day. we're looking at sort of the icu capacity the hospital capacity on a minute to minute basis. almost. trying to figure how we can take care of the people. >> i want to play something for you. just to -- there's a weird thing happening where people who believe in trump just believe it isn't really happening. they believe the covid cases are fake. the doctors are faking cases. someone dies of a heart attack and the doctor says it's covid. there are 225,000 people. they decided it isn't happening and even if it is, it isn't deadly. people spring back and it's

fine. i want to play for you a dad. his name is paul. a son named michael who was aft the university of dayton. a student who died of covid. >> our kid is in a better place. and he'll be looking down on us. he's 18. he was way too young. way too young. >> my friend nicole wallace does a show kp does a lives well lived piece. different ages and races. all kind of people. are the trump people correct in saying it's only elderly people who have lots of preexisting conditions are dying of covid? >> that's the majority of people. but one of our first deaths was a young woman 24 year-old. by no means if you're under 30 are you protected. we have had people in 30s, 40s,

50s. all pass away. during this pandemic. >> let me bring you in to this. you have had mark meadows who is the chief of staff to the president of the united states, say that he is moving away according to the "washington post" his schedule is moving the president's schedule awe way from the coronavirus. approximate move on. he hasn't attended meetings and battle are dr. fauci. they want to move on. and pretend it isn't happening and talk about the economy. that is broken. donald trump had this many events. all the places he has been. since he was diagnosed with covid. bouncing all around. like typhoid trump. here are the surges connected with the rallies in minnesota, pennsylvania, wisconsin. where ever he goes he takes covid with him. i don't know what you do at this point. if the people who follow him and in this cult of personality think cozid isn't real.

doctors are saying we're overwhelmed. >> typhoid trump is exactly what's happening. it's not just him. he brings people into the rallies and the words and entire populations actually believe what they're saying. they really do believe this is not a big deal. that people like doctor hatten are making this up to get more money. somehow. or that you can get this great medicine and great cure and you can bounce back to your poipt. i think that what's unfortunate here is that you have regardless of the out come of the election, we have months of this administration where we are seeing cases now skyrocket at a pace we have not seen in the previous two peaks and have still no strategy in place. there's no backstop other than hospitalizing patients and having people die. when you have something like that combined with a flu season

that we don't quite know where we are and the third part is the americans are fatigued. the mental health of americans can only take so much. what the words and president's actions have done have only incited more despair and depression. when we should have more clear messaging to give us understanding and clarity about how we can survive this winter. >> in response to the criticism. about trump traveling arpd and doing events. i want to play you what the director of communication said. >> the president is going to continue campaigning because americans who support him have first amendment rights just like every other american. >> is this a first amendment issue? or is this a health issue? >> this is a health issue.

i would say in order to protect our first amendment rights, our health needs to be protected. my ability to have the freedom to speak my mind or voice my opinion or even believe it or not i want donald trump supporters and i want the people to be safe but to do that we have to ensure their health. that comes from basic common sense. wearing a mask. there's no politics to it. we want them to express all the freedom for the opinions that i might disagree with. they have the right to have. you have to be alive to have the right to speech. and that's very basic. that's why dr. hatten is -- he hasn't seen his family. he's given up rights to take care of patients. that's exactly what we need to honor. so we can all enjoy the same first amendment rights. >> we want them to be safe. they are in stores with us and

target and if they're sick we're all sick. true false with you. here's the depp tu communication director and press secretary. now talking about fighting covid. >> people are not dying of this disease nearly at the rate they were. we know how to isolate the vulnerable. and treat people oftentimes on out patient basis. so the risk just aren't what they used to be. we know how to safely reopen and mitigate. and treat people. >> is that true? from your experience on the front line. >> no. not even remotely close. the reason mortality rate is fallen is because the population age has gone down with time. especially in utah. we had 8% mortality rate. it's 5% now. that doesn't mean people are safe. still 5% of the people who get this disease die. regardless. it's just not true whatsoever.

>> coming up from the state of utah. this is not just happening in new york city and big cities it's happening all over the country. hopefully people will take it seriously. thank you both. be safe out there. still ahead. the deed is done. mitch mcconnell ramming through a sixth conservative supreme court justice. just eight days before the election. will republicans pay a price for the hypocrisy. and pay it at the poll. new vicks immunity zzzs gummies are fortified with zinc and elderberry to sustain a healthy immune system plus melatonin for restorative sleep because being run down, is not an option. recharge your nights to take on your days with new vicks immunity zzzs.

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true to form on sunday he the grim reaper tried to brag about the spoils of his latest power grab. >> we made an important contribution. to the future of the country. a will the of what we have done over four years would be undone sooner or later by the next election. it won't be able to do much about this. for a long time to come. >> with the white house and the is that the in the balance. eight days until we start counting the votes. millions have weighed in. on his flag rant hypocrisy. will the next senate turn the tables? senator of ohio joins me next. r. will the next senate turn the tables? senator of ohio joins me next. t tables senator of ohio joins me next. hi, i'm pat and i'm 75 years old.

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they all endorse yes on prop 25. to end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. governor gavin newsom and van jones. they're voting yes on 25. the western center on law and poverty. the dolores huerta foundation. californians for safety and justice. and the california democratic party. they all agree that the size of your wallet shouldn't determine whether or not you're in jail. so, vote yes on prop 25. the self-described grim reaper mitch mcconnell and republicans followed through with the heist of a supreme court seat today. the senate will be voting at any moment to confirm judge amy

coney barrett. mcconnell blocked obama's pick 237 days before the 2016 election. since the american people should have a choice they said. this time, we are eight days until we start counting votes in an ongoing election. 60 million americans have already cast ballots. under the pall of the power grab happening br our eyes. mcconnell kroued the democrats won't be able to do anything about is for a while. progressives are calling his bluff. saying party should add seats to the court. if they retake the senate majority. i'm joined now by senator of ohio. i know you have to vote. i thank you for being here. what do you make of the argument? mitch mcconnell destroys norms because he doesn't think democrats who believe in the rules will ever play back the same way. should democrats just say fine, if this is the new game, we're going to add five, six, ten seats to the court. and blot out amy coney barrett.

>> i think everything is on the table. i would start with -- i have been using the word spineless for my colleagues. i like your word. that maybe better. it's pretty clear that mitch mcconnell is already packed the court. through the federal judiciary over the last four years. at all levels. everything is on the table next year. democrats play hardball. that means we figure out the best answer. i think mcconnell already decided that trump will lose. and in his mind he understands they'll lose the senate and this is one last power grab that mitch mcconnell is doing it cap the career. and i think he knows that. and we go big next year and what we do. the voting rights and john lewis act. the proact for the child tax

credit. that puts money in working families pockets. when climate and all racism and all the big things. the best answer to mcconnell's power grab is move the country forward in pa progressive direction. and that's what next tuesday will do. and start january the first week in january and inauguration january 2. circuit courts have 20 people on them. there's nothing in the constitution that would prevent democrats from adding seats to the court. other president's have done it. they expanded from five to six to nine. that isn't unusual. how do you explain the resis tense of biden to talk about it? packing the court. republicans packed the court. it's unpacking. >> i think every option is on the table. most democrats and progressives will tell you that.

there are a number of different things we can do on the court. on decisions made. and cases they can hear. i'm not a lawyer but i rely on people like senator white house and keen legal mind on how we fight back. again the best answer certainly we address the court issue. the best an is go big. the first of the year and change the country. and change the way that not so much the way we do business here, that's important. what's really important is i want people a year from now to think i voted for joe biden and voited for green field and in iowa. and my life got better. i voted for joe biden and new hampshire. my life got better. that's the best answer to mcconnell and how we push forward. and all this will be background noise. we'll deal with the court. that's on the table. we'll figure out how to do that in the months ahead. >> let's talk about the senate.

if mcconnell is reelected, even if democrats win. he would be minority leader. and how much havoc he reeked during obama administration. one thing that would neutralize him is create more full citizens in this country. who are of color. that would be washington d.c. and puerto rico. who are unrepresented essentially. right now. they don't have the same level of vote and voice. shouldn't those be states? >> with d.c. not clear the puerto rico. the people of puerto rico want to be a state. some want independence. and status quo. many want state hood. i'm open to that. i'm d.c. should be a state. we have to do other things. we have to go after gerrymandering and enhance labor rights. that is one way republicans suppress the vote. keeping people out of unions

because the way that the law is constructed. we do the john lewis vote rights act. a number of things we do to expand democracy at the same time we move forward and change peoples lives immediately. long term on climate and structural racism. immediately in terms of minimum wage and child tax credit and helping people with student debt. all those things. >> let's go to the economy. donald trump thing he was hanging onto and what some voters that still claim they prefer him for the economy. now he's tied with joe biden. even on the things trump promised. this is bha the "washington post" wrote. the the president promised withered. after rising by 4% during the first two years. manufacturing unemployment slid last year. even before the pandemic. today the united states has fewer factory worker than when

trump was inaugurated. and as many in 1941. i remember coming to ohio for my weekend show and talking to people who thought trump would bring back manufacturing. and believed it the the man of steel ad. do ohioens as you talk to them understand he failed and didn't deliver? >> biden will win ohio. because he's the most proworker prounion candidate we have nominated in a generation. contrast with trump betrayal. he came here with a phony populism and bring jobs back. after other politicians had promised and trump is a business guy maybe he can do it. they see the betrayal. enough see the betrayal. of the public confidence and the truth and the coronavirus ask so much else. i think that enough trump

voters. he won my state by eight points. two years later i won it by seven. that's who joe biden is. and he will govern through the eyes of workers and make the voter sense that. >> you have made a prediction. the current polling shows the race is tied. trump is leading by.6. way within the margin of error. you mention coronavirus. 5,000 ohioens have died over 200,000 cases. what's the biggest issue in your mind in the campaign? economy, coronavirus. what is it? in ohio. >> it's what trump is trying to do with healthcare in the middle of the coronavirus. his incompetence is clear. mean spiritedness is clear. betraying workers is clear. and when you put on top of that the effort to unrelenting effort to try to legislate from the bench to repeal the affordable care act.

in what that means to 5 million ohioens. who have been protected for ten years from having their insurance cancelled because of the preexisting condition. people are waking up to understand that may not be in place. let alone 25 year-olds and parents health plan. 600,000 ohioens that benefitted from expanded medicaid. a million seniors who get all kind of benefits. those facts are starting to sink in. and a president of the united states who is supposed to be on our side. the definition of politics. the president on our side would do all this will in the middle of a pandemic. and mitch mcconnell instead of are e storing the 600 a week that workers lost in unemployment insurance and helping open the schools safe lif. move heaven and earth to jam through a supreme court juts 'tis. at the same time. it's repulsive to ohio. >> thank you. >> voter turn out the the likes

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wear your favorite costumes and the fun never ends. come get your halloween on, happening now at universal orlando resort. as i mentioned earlier, there has been huge voter turnout across the country with 62 million people having already voted. most of those voters, many of those voters, i should say are first time voters, in key battle ground states. newly registered democrats are out numbering new republicans. the state of texas is seeing massive voter turnout. nearly 80% of the total vote in texas in 2016. it remains to be seen which party is benefitting most from that huge turnout. but so far more republicans in texas have voted early than democrats. i'm joined now by maria enjosa president and founder, and

author of "once i was you" a memoir. and senior adviser to the lincoln project whose book is coming shortly, i'm sure. let's go through, maria, some of what these numbers are showing us. we're seeing in texas donald trump up at least in the sienna poll slightly, right at the margin of error, 47-43, but the texas turnout has been, and hispanic voters, this is what the "new york times" is writing, be the group that keeps the state red a while longer. biden has a lead of 57 to 34% among hispanic voters. some went beneath the estimates of clinton support. that is surprising to me. if the turnout is age, and latinx turnout is huge, why is that net benefitting trump? >> well, joy, who knows, right? i mean, at this point, we're going to come to an end game pretty soon, so we're going to

understand what's going on, but here's what i'm thinking. first of all, with polls and latinos, i always have some questions because people really don't know well how to do thorough polling with latinos and latinas, that is historical. here's one thing that i'm hearing, yes, a dear friend of mine, somebody i consider my abulito, my grandfather, told me he is a trump supporter. mexican american, victim of racism himself, and he said i'm voting for trump because he's been good for my retirement account, which was shocking. so i've been hearing that. also that trump has made end roads in this whole notion of the cities are out of control, and he's going to go socialist. biden will go socialist because of alexandria ocasio-cortez. here's the other thing, though, i have heard similar stories about republicans, latino republicans who are saying they

just voted in texas, and they voted for biden for the first time. these are solid latino republican voters who have said we have had it up to here with the president's rhetoric, but i think the key, one of the key things in texas is the youth vote that no one is really talking about that could offset the older votes like my abu abuelito. i don't think his grand kids or kids will vote for trump. that's something we'll have to see. >> among asian american voters, there was that pivot moment, too, where the asian american cohort used to be up in the air and were available to both parties and then there was this radical shift as the party became more racially right wing and more open about it. is the problem here that we can't quantify these voters, because, listen, if it's difficult for these poll outfits to get their hands on the latino vote, they're terrible at polling asian americans. sometimes they just give up and don't even try. >> well, there's a reason why

sometimes we feel like as the asian american is kind of the forgotten minority. ironically enough, apis are the fastest growing minority demographic in america, and our vote keeps increasing with every election cycle and for the first time we saw asian americans front and center, when donald trump was calling it the china virus, we saw asian americans being targeted and attacked and subject to vitriol and racially motivated crimes, and people saying, and i have experienced this many times after coming on any one of your shows where you get the comments, go back to china. go back to where you've come from, china virus, and all the things donald trump has sped, and this is the first election in my lifetime where racism of asian americans has been a prevalent theme that has been part of our social conversations, at the forward consciousness about the

conversations we're having about race and equality in this country. for us, the answer is simple, an open racist who calls us the china virus, or joe biden, someone of tolerance and understanding and acknowledges these are problems. >> there's lots of different kinds of voter suppression. this is one of the most unique. texas voters are being told if they contract covid, they have to present a doctor's note that's certified in order to have a sickness or physical condition that would allow them to vote absentee. your thoughts? i know you suffered through covid yourself. what do you think? >> first of all, one of the things that we need to know about texas that we are all witnessing history not only in texas but in the whole country, right, is that texas was always worried when i was reporting down there. it wasn't a red state or a blue state. they just said it was a non-voting state, so these numbers do bode well for that. i'm insulted, you know, when you are sick with covid, most of us

were sick in bed. we didn't get transported to hospitals and given the highest end treatment like somebody at the white house may have gotten, so you're making an effort to get out of bed. this notion of you've got to go and get a doctor's note, that's insane. that's an added burden to somebody who is sick, and actually for governor greg abbott who is disabled himself and in a wheelchair to ask that from anybody who is ill is, in fact, an insult. it is insult upon injury to force somebody to have to do that, so shame on you, governor abbott for even saying those words to people who are the not well. >> we'll throw up numbers at the end about these early voting numbers. i have to go to this lawsuit, curt. you're part of the lincoln project. jared and ivanka have threatened to sue. the response from the lincoln project is bring it. sue if you must. we don't care. who is the billboards.

here's jared kushner talking about the black folks. >> one thing we've seen in a lot of the black community, which is mostly democrat, is that president trump's policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they're complaining about, but he can't want them to be successful more than they want to be successful. >> interesting, curt, he also claimed people protesting george floyd's murder was virtue signaling. your thoughts on this lawsuit and mr. jared. >> well, you know, how shocking that the son-in-law of the man who thinks there are good people on both sides of charlottesville, has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to race relations in americans, and the challenges african-americans face every day in this country since this country was founded. it just goes to show you, with these guys, it's so easy to get in their head. the fact that they're spending

any amount of time and money on our billboard in times square and not trying to fix what's wrong in america and the 220,000 dead americans, tells you everything about this country. >> and they lost 50 cent. thank you, and before you go. i know i have to send my love to the voting mvps, keep those photos coming tweet at me, voting mvps. all in with chris hayes starts next. all in with chris hayes starts next tonight on "all in." >> here's what we have to do, we're not going to control the pandemic. >> eight days until november 3rd, the president has given up the fight to stop the virus. >> all you hear is covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid. >> what in the hell is the matter with this man. >> tonight, speaker nancy pelosi and the republican bargain with donald trump, and 62 million americans have voted. new nbc analysis of the unfo s