tv Weekends With Alex Witt MSNBC October 31, 2020 11:00am-12:00pm PDT
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this is it, every one. a historic weekend in final push before election day. the last stomping across the country to get out the vote. you have the president, joe biden and former president obama. the biggest headliners for you this hour. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here. here is what's happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific on this saturday before election day. it's down to the wire. the clock is clicking with less than 72 hours before election day. the candidates are out on the
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trail today. they are barn storming the states that may decide the presidency. any moment we'll see joe biden and barack obama take that stage together in michigan. it's the first of two stops in michigan today. meantime, vice presidential nominee kamala harris is making three stops in florida. the president making four stops in pennsylvania and vice president pence making fo stops in north carolina. it all comes as early voting numbers are shattering records. more than 87 million votes have been cast. experts suggest at this rate the number may reach 100 million before election day. right now, nbc news is polling average has biden leading trump 51.7% to 43.7%. on this weekend before the final votes we have reporters stand out across the nation for you covering darngsds tthe candidatn out, the voters and the polls.
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mike, walk us there what we are about to here. they are there. >> reporter: that's right. there they are. alex, we'll see the former vice president joining his former running mate, president obama there on stage. a role reversal. it will be president obama speaking first before joe biden. i think we got taste of what we're going to hear in some of those earlier speakers. we heard from the governor about the pandemic. we heard from the -- >> closer to chicago. >> we're going to take a listen to the president. thank you very much for the lead in. we hear the honking. stand by for us. >> thank you. thank you for the sfwintroducti. happy halloween, everybody. i love your masks. please give a big round of
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applause as well to governor gretchen witmer. lieutenant governor garland gilcrist. my buddy from the senate. a man whose always in their fighting for you who we need to send back to the united states senate, gary peters. your congressman born and raised right here in flint, michigan. mayor sheldon neely and the big three to come, the next president of the united states, joe biden.
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three days, flint, three days until the most election of our lifetimes. i love you too. i know right now you have the michigan/myichigan state game ad that's a big deal. this tuesday, everything is on the line. our jobs are on the line, our health care is on the line. whether or not we get this pandemic under control is on the line. here is the good news. on tuesday, you can choose change. on tuesday you can elect joe biden and kamala harris. you can choose a better america.
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you don't have to wait until tuesday to cast your ballot. you can vote in person right now. go to iwillvote.com. find your polling place, get out there and vote. if somebody like you already voted, go help your friends and family make plan to vote because we need everybody. not just some people. we got to get everybody out there. i love you too. okay. that's it. put that mask back on. michigan, joe biden is my brother. i love joe biden and he will be a great president. i'll admit 12 years ago when i asked him to be the nominee for vice president with me when i
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was running, i didn't know joe that well. we served together in the senate. he and i came from different places, part of different generations but i quickly came to admire joe as a man who learned early onto treat everybody he meets with dignity and with respect. living by the words his mom taught him. no one is better than you joe, but you're no better than anybody else. that sense of decency and empathy, belief in hard work and family and faith, belief that everybody counts, that's who joe is. that's who he will be as president. the presidency doesn't change who you are. it shows who you are.
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it free-throw lines wreveals wh. for eight years joe was the last one in the room when ever i faced a big decision. he made me better president. he's got the character and the experience to make us a better country. he and cam wikamala will be in fight not for themselves but for every single one of us. we can't sure say that about the president we've got right now. i said this before, i never thought donald trump would embrace my vision. i understood he didn't agree with my policies but i did hope for the untcountry sake he migh show some interest in the job. he might take the job seriously. he never has. he hasn't shown any interest in doing the work.
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treating the presidency as anything other than a reality show to give him the attention that he craves. the rest of us have to end with can consequences. almost 230 america,000 american dead. more than 100,000 small businesses have closed. america just had its single worst week of new covid cases. here are. the worst week this week, we've been going through this for months. the federal government has an opportunity to respond for months. his closing argument this week is that the press and people are too focused on covid. covid, covid, covid, he's
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complaining. he's jealous of covid's media coverage. now he's accusing doctors of profiting off this pandemic. think about that. he said this just yesterday. he does not understand the notion that somebody would risk their life to save others would you tell us trying to make a buck. his chief of staff said we're not going to wrol the pandemic. joe biden will when we elect him president of the united states. you remember when republicans were saying let detroit go bankrupt? you remember that? now they might as well be saying
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let america get covid because that's how they're acting. if trump was focused on covid from the beginning, cases wouldn't be reaching new record highs across the country. some of the places he holds rallies have seen new spikes after he leaves town. there was just a study by stanford university that just came out showing thousands of people are likely to have gotten sick because of these rallies he's holding. what is his obsession, by the way, with crowd size? you notice that. this is the one measure he has of success. he's still worrying about his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. it really bugs him. he's still talking about that. does he have nothing better to
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worry about? did no one come to his birthday party when he was a kid? was he traumatized? what's with crowds? i've had crowds before, you know. have had quite a few. you know, our country is going through our pandemic, that's not what you're supposed to be worried about. that's the difference between joe biden and trump right there. trump cares about feeding his ego, joe cares about keeping you and your family safe. he's less interested in feeding his ego with having big crowds than making sure he's not going around making more and more people sick. that's what you should expect from a president. you can expect something different from reality tv star but from a president you want
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them to put you above their own ego. here's the truth, michigan. this pandemic would have been challenging for any president but this idea that this white house has done anything but completely screw this up is nonsense. canada identified its first case the same week that the u.s. did. just a few miles up. it's not close. i may not be pointing north, but canada is pretty close by. our mortality rate in the united states is 2.5 times higher than canada. think about that. if we had the same percentage of folks dying in canada as we do here, nearly 90,000 americans
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would have died instead of 230,000 meamericans. if we handled this pandemic like canada did, 140,000 of our fellow americans might still be alive today. think about that. think about that. yet despite that, last week when trump was asked if he do anything different, he said not much. really? not much. can't think of anything. listen, i understand the president was anxious to down play it because he wanted to get credit for the economy that he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored, but it doesn't work that way. the job doesn't work that way. tweeting at the tv doesn't fix things.
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making stuff up doesn't make people's lives better. you got to have a plan. you've got to put in the work. along with the experience to get things done, joe biden has c concrete plans and policies that will turn our vision of a better, fairer, stronger country into reality. joe's not going to screw up testing. joe's not going to call scientists idiots. he's g not going to host super spreader events around the country. what joe will do is get this pandemic under control with plan to make testing free and widely available. to get a vaccine every american cost free and make sure our front line heroes never have to ask other countries for the equipment that they need. that's what joe biden will do. joe's plan will guarantee paid
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sick leave for workers and parents affected by the pandemic. he'll make sure the small businesses in every community, not just some, not just big corporations but small businesses that hold our communities together and employed millions of americans can reopen safely. donald trump likes to claim he built this economy, america created 1.5 million more jobs in the last years of the obama/biden administration than in his first three years and that was before he could blame the pandemic. joe biden and i with the help of democratic congress rescued the auto industry. gary peters was there. he told us to bet on michigan and we did. manufacturing in michigan grew by 15% over our last four years.
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trump promised he would make michigan the manufacturing hub of the world again. it's up 1% under his first four years. 15% under obama/biden. 1% under him. that's michigan, right here. we added in the longest streak of job growth in american history. the economic damage he inflicted by botching the pandemic response means he'll be the only president since herbert hoover to lose jobs. herbert hoover. that's a long time ago. joe biden and gary peters know the key to a strong economy isn't cutting more taxes for billionaires, it's lifting up the prospects for working americans. and joe's got plan to create one million new auto related jobs by accelerating electric vehicle
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production. he's got a plan to create ten million good, clean energy jobs and fight climate change in a secure and environmental justice. something that's relevant to flint, michigan. you know something about that. he'll pay for his plans by rolling back trump's tax cuts for billionaires. this is important. joe sees this moment not to get back to where we were but to build on the progress we made together and finally make long over due changes so that our economy makes life a little easier for everybody. for the waitress trying to raise a kid on her own. for the student trying fo ininge out how to pay for next semester classes. for the cancer survivor who is worried her preexisting
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condition mexia protections will be taken away. right before an election they will protect your pre-existing conditions. that's what they say. you know what, joe and i actually protected them ten years ago with the affordable care act. since we did so, with no help from republicans. no votes from republicans. republicans have tried to repeal our undermine the aca more than 60 times. 60 times they've tried to take people's health care away. when asked why you doing that, why you being so mean? you don't think these people should have health care. they is a no, we have a new plan. it's going to be beautiful. it's going to be terrific except it's been ten years now and they still don't have a plan.
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they are trying to bam booboozl you. instead of coming up with plan, they have attacked the aca at every turn. they have driven up costs. they are driven up the number of uninsured. now they are trying the get the supreme court to take your health care away in middle of a pandemic. right at the time when people need health care. they signed onto case right now in the supreme court where they are trying the take insurance away from folks who need it with nothing but empty promgss the take its place. now mitch mcconnell is pouring millions of super pac dollars to try the beat gary peters because that's part of their agenda. michigan, here is the truth. joe and kamala and gary will
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protect your health care. they will expand medicare. they will make insurance more affordable for everybody and the reason you know that's true is because they were there when we did it the first time. here is another thing with joe and kamala, at the helm, this is bas big benefit. michelle and i were talking about this over dinner. you're not going to have to think about them every day. you're not going to have to argue with your family about them every day. it won't be so exhausting. you'll be able to get on with your lives knowing that the president is not going to suggest we inject bleach as a possible cure of covid. you won't have to find out -- you won't wake up in the morning and kind of open your phone and oh, news flash.
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the president retweeted conspiracy theories that the navy seals didn't actually kill bin laden. you're not going to have a president who goes out of his way to insult people just because they don't support him. this is not normal behavior, people. we would not tolerate it from a teacher or a coach or a co-worker or a family member. if a neighbor was acting like this, you'd stay away from that neighbor. why would we accept it from the president of the united states? there's consequences to his actions. it's not just a joke. it's not funny. those actions embolden other people to be mean and divisive and racist. it affects how our children see
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the world and how they treat each other. it affects the way our families get along. it aaffects the way the world sees america. that's why joe talks about the soul of america. that's why he talks about decency and kindness and responsibility and hard work. he cares about every american. he does not have a mean spirited bone in his body. i have seen him spend time with people that strangers, that he doesn't know when he hears about they are going through a hardship, he talks about what he's going through. he sees a kid, his eyes liegts up because he thinks about his own kids and grand kids.
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joe biden tries to live the values we cherish, hon esty, had work, kindness, humility, helping somebody else out. that used to be the definition of manliness, not strutting and showing off, acting important, bullying people. used to be being a man meant taking care of your other people. not going around bragging but just doing the work. not looking for credit. trying to live right. passing on those values to your kids. looking out for a community, carrying your weight, giving up a little bit of what you might have to have somebody who has a real need.
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when you elect joe, that's what you'll see reflected from the white house. those shouldn't be republican or democratic values. they didn't use to be. what we grew up learning from our parents and our grandparents. they're american values. we have got to reclaim them right now but to reclaim them, we're going to have to turn out like never before. if we're going to reclaim those values, we need to leave no doubt. we can't afford to be complacent, not this time. not in this election. we got a little complacent the last election. listen, i understand why americans get frustrated and sometimes think government will not make a difference, voting will not make a difference. i understand that. government's not perfect.
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the people in government are not perfect even when it's working. government's not going to solve every problem. we can make things better. a president can't by himself solve every challenge facing the economy here in flint or michigan but if we elect people like gary peters and we get a house in the senate joined with a white house that are more focused on working people and getting you the help that you need, they will make a difference and some folks will get jobs that wouldn't otherwise have jobs and some folks will have health care that wouldn't otherwise have health care. a president by himself can't eliminate all racial bias in our criminal justice system but if we elect district attorneys and state's attorneys and sheriffs focused on equality and justice and we once again have a justice department in a civil rights
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division in the justice department that cares about these issues, we can make things better. that's what voting is about. not make things perfect but making things better. it puts us on a track so that generations from now we can look back and say, you know what, right about then things started getting better again. the fact you don't get 100% of what you want right away, that's not a good reason not to vote. you keep at it. just over 50% of us vote who are eligible. think about that. almost half of the people in most election who is are eligible to vote, don't vote. imagine if 60% of us vote. imagine january 20th when we swear in a president and vice president whose got plan to get
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us out of this mess. who care about folks like you. who know what it's like to struggle. who knows what it's like to have to work hard. who are thinking about working americans and have a plan to help you start getting ahead. imagine what's going to be like to have a president and a vice president who believe in science and who have plan to protect this planet for our children and who believe in racial equality and are sending clear signal that we're all in this together and are doing the work to bring us closer so that we have a america where no matter what we look like, where we come from, who we love or how much money we have got, we can make it. we have a place and we're treated with dignity and respect. michigan, that's what's possible. aisle asking you to remember that it's possible. i want you to remember what this country can be but you can't
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just imagine bets r future. you can't wish for it. you've got to fight for it. we have to out hustle the other side. we got to vote up and down the ticket like never before right here in michigan and all across the country. we've got to leave no doubt about who we are and what this country stands for and if we do, we will send gary peters back to the senate. he wi we'll look out not just for folks who support him but even the folks who don't. my friend, the next president of the united states of america joe biden. joe biden!
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it's good to be back near friends. gary peters who you are going to send back to the united states senate. i'm going to need him. of course, i wish we could figure out how to send back a guy who we used to have an expression up in scranton. there wasn't patch on his jeans. i tell you what, mr. president, you're still driving him crazy because he knows he wasn't patch on your jeans. i'll tell you what. barack obama. it's great to be with the president again. reminds me of what we can when
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you have a president of character. a president respected around the world. a president that our kids looked up to and did look up to. i want to say something we don't say often enough and i mean this from the bottom of my heart. barack obama was a great president of the united states of america. i want to make sure we say it here today. mr. president, thank you, thank you, thank you. with through eight years without one single trace of scandal. not one single trace of scandal. it will be nice to return to that. flint, three days. three days we can put an end to this presidency we have now that's divided the nation, three days we can put an end to a presidency that is failed to protect this nation.
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three days, we can put an end to this presidency that's fanned the flames of hate all across this nation and made us the laughing stock around the world. millions of americans have already voted. millions more are voting today, tomorrow and god willing all the way through to the close of the polls on tuesday. the power to change the country is in your hands. i don't care how hard donald trump tries. there's nothing, let me say it again. there's nothing that he can do to stop the people of this nation from voting in overwhelming numbers and taking back this democracy. when america votes, no matter how many threats he makes, america will be herd. when america's heard, i believe the message will be loud and
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clear. it's time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. we're done with the chaos, the tweets, the anger, the hate, the failure, the refusal to take any responsibility. we're going to act and need your help in doing it as well. we're going to act to get covid under control on day one of my presidency i'll put in action a plan i've been talk about for months already laid out. a national mandate, mask wearing, social distancing, testing, tracing. all things as president obama just said that should have and could have been put in place months and months ago. plan for a full and fair and free distribution of
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therapeutics and vaccines when we get one. we couldn't have nine million confirmed cases of covid in this nation. over 230,000 deaths. we wouldn't be seeing a new record of cases we're seeing right now. 90,000 new cases. 500,000 in just the past week. this guy tells us it's going away. the only thing that will make it go away is if he goes away. folks, we wouldn't be200,000 de next few months. this president knew in january the virus was deadly and trying to improve his image, he wind up
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trying to talk to bob woodward and thought he could change his mind. what he did, he let it be known all the way back in january, he knew how dangerous this pandemic was. he hid it from the american people. he knew it was worse than the flu but he lied to the american people. yesterday he had the gall to suggest that american doctors, people who are putting their lives on the line, on the front lines to save other lives a long with nurses and so many others, he suggests, falsely, they are inflating the number of covid deaths to make more money. what in the hell is wrong with this man? excuse my language. think about it.
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he doesn't do anything other than for money. the people in this nation have suffered and sacrificed for nine months. none more so than the doctors and the front lines and health care workers. it's more than offensive. it's a disgrace especially coming from a president who has waved the white flag of surrender to this virus. our front line workers have given their all to beat the virus. we have a president who has just given up. i will never raise the white flag of surrender. we're going to beat this virus and get it under control. first step to doing that is beating donald trump.
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donald trump keeps tells us what a great job he's done as president. oh, man. well, did you know president obama and i created more jobs in the last three years of our administration than he did in first three years before the pandemic. how about this? did you know that donald trump's going to be the first president in 90 years that will finish his term with fewer jobs under his leadership than when he started it. look, that's a lot of presidents. that's a lot of crisis but only donald trump will have fewer jobs at the end of his presidency than when he started. i and barack understand something that donald trump doesn't. wall street didn't build this country, you did. working people built this country.
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he's done nothing but wage war on american labor. i see the uaw sign out there. first outfit endorsed me when i was a 29-year-old kid. god love you. we have a different view. we believe we should be awarding work, not wealth in this country. under my plan, if you make less than $400,000 a year, you're not going to pay paa penny in additional taxes. the wealthiest people, the biggest corporations, 91 of the fortune 500 companies paid zero in federal income tax last year. they're going to start to pay their fair share. corporates are going to start to pay their fair share. why should a firefighter, an
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educator, a nurse pay a higher tax rate than someone making literally a billion dollars or should you. why should you pay more in tacks than donald trump? he paid $750 in tacks. the one year we know of. he's yet to release it. i've released 22 years of my tax returns. you can go online and look. he hasn't released one. he talks about corruption. what is he hiding? he owes 41 million bucks out there. who's he owe it to? if you notice, he's the only president i know of that have a secret bank account in china. paid 50 times more taxes in beijing than he's paid in the united states. this guy talks about corruption.
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look, we're also going to act to protect health care. trump and the republicans just jammed through supreme court nominee for one overwhelming reason. as the president said, we have been trying over 50 shots to take out obama care, destroy the affordable care act. they're going to be in court, i believe, it's seven days after the election. win or lose they will be in court. if they get their way, 100 million americans will lose protections for pre-existing conditions, including more than four million michiganers. donald trump thinks health care is a privilege. barack and i think it's right for people to have health care. we're not only going to restore obama care, we're going to build on it. we'll keep your private
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insurance. you can choose a medicare like public option if you don't. we'll increase subsidies the lore your premiums. out of pocket spending, reduce description drug costs by 60%. donald trump laud out what he will do for his second term. the actuary at the social security administration says if he gets the plan passed, it will bankrupt social security by 2023. something millions of americans live on, paid for their whole life. i said back six years ago as debbie will tell you, what i said the republicans will try to eliminate medicare. everybody said that's crazy. first thing paul ryan and the
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republicans in the congress did was try to cut billions of dollars out of medicare. these guys mean what they say. i'm going to protect social security, medicare and medicaid because it's a lifeline for so many hard working folks. folks, i have to admit to you, it's kind of personal with me. there's nothing worse that this president has done, in my view, than the way he speaks about our women and men in uniform and those that have given their lives. he called them losers and suckers. my son beau was a major in the united states army. gave us the attorney general job and petitioned to be able to go with his unit to iraq for one solid year after his u.s. attorney being in kosovo.
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i might add i'm going to be a typical dad. he's the only foreigner in kosovo that has a 12 foot memorial dedicated to him. the major highway they built, the beau biden highway because of his commitment. my son came home with a bronze star like so many others before he passed away. he wasn't a sucker. he wasn't a loser nor any of you who served. you're patriots. just like all of your sons and daughters, parents or grandparents who served, the president likes to portray himself and i love this, likes to portray himself as a tough guy. when you're in high school, wouldn't you have like to taken a shot. that's a different story. a macho man. when is the last time you read
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about, saw, heard about a president of the united states literally being laughed at by world leaders when he spoke at the united nations. laughed at, out loud. when is the last time you saw a president of the united states being openly mocked by the leaders of nato at a nato conference and can you believe we have a president who acts like vladmir putin's puppy. putin put bounties on the head of american soldiers semrving i iraq and trump was too scared to challenge him. talked to him six times and never mentioned it. trump's not strong. he's weak. he commands little respect on the international stage. this is a president who not only doesn't understand sacrifice, he doesn't understand physical service it takes to serve in uniform in war zone.
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maybe that's why six generals and admirals who work for him left his administration and said he was unfit to be commander in chief. when is the last time any president had that happen. tough guy. that's why joint special operations commander, that's why head of navy seals wa we saw and 22 other four stars have endorsed me saying they support me to be their next commander in chief because like obama and bush and before him, they know and respect him, will support them. i've been in and out of war zones as senator and vice president over 35 times. i tell you what, these folks we have only 1% of the country is in the military.
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they're the backbone, they're the heart of who we are. that's why we have to support our military and get rid of trump. folks, you know, i want to tell you something. think about this. this is a guy who says there's no such thing as climate change. he calls it a hoax. i see it as jobs, health and safety. the impacts on climate fall disproportionately on poor, communities of color. we're going to make sure communities benefit from the hundreds of billions of federal investment and infrastructure and climate change we'll do as a consequence of the change and
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the structure. we're going to create local jobs to rebuild roads, build sidewalk cracks, install broad band, create places to live, work and play safetily. the modernize infrastructure so you can turn on the faucet so clean water can come out. it will never happen again in america. we can and must do be this donald trump has rolled back more than 100 environmental protection laws. many enacted under barack and me. it's also hold polluters accountable. folks, we'll have to deliver on racial justice in america. protesting is not burning or looting. violence cannot be tolerated and it won't. these protesters is cry for justice. the names of george floyd,
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breonna taylor, jacob blake will not soon be forgetten. they will inspire a new waver of justice in america. america has had their eyes opened up. they're ready. i believe this country has to come together. i know when i announced well over a year ago when i said i wanted to unite the country, everybody said that's naive. that was a long time ago. you did it before, bides rngs but you can't do it again. we can and we must. we have no choice. that's our democracies work. i'm running as a proud democrat but i will govern as an american president. i'll work as hard for those who don't support me as those who do. that's the job of a president. it's the duty to care, duty to care for every one. please vote. you still an absentee ballot, get it to a drop box as soon as you can.
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you can also safely vote early until monday afternoon or you can vote election day. just make plan. help get out the vote. visit willwillvote.com/mi. folks, we have such an incredible opportunity. god love you. thank you so much. here is the deal, guys. we've got to vote up and down the ticket here. i, honest to god believe, i give you my word as a biden. we're at and inflection point. we have a chance to make enormous progress. the american people have seen what the other looks like. they've gotten a glimpse of the abyss. i really mean it. they're ready. they're ready to change so much.
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i'll never forget what president kennedy said when he promised to send us to the moon. he used the phrase that has guided me. he said we're doing it because, quote, we refuse to postpone. well, i refuse to postpone the incredible opportunities to the united states of america for the american people. there's nothing beyond our capacity. there's no limit to america's future. the only thing that can tear america apart is america itself. that's exactly what donald trump has been doing from the beginning of his campaign. divided america, pitting americans against one another based on race, gender, ethnicity, national origin it's wrong. it's un-american. that's not who we are. folks, everybody knows who donald trump is. let's keep showing them who we are. we choose hope over fear.
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we choose unit over division. we choose science over fiction, and, yes, we choose truth over lies. my fellow americans it's time to stand up and take back our democracy. we can do this. we're so much better than we've been. we can be at our best, the united states of america. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. thank you. thoou. >> there you heard it everyone. a lot of people waiting for that dynamic duo, first time together on this campaign trail for the 2020 presidential campaign season. barack obama introducing his former vice president joe biden. so we have the better part of the hour, the two hitting the
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same bullet points all through out. it was all the final push for the campaign. it was a final argument, if you will. they went from everything about covid. that was a huge talking point right there, protecting health care. you see the two of them together for the first time which brought a smile to all those folks in flint, michigan, attending that drive-in rally. talking about new jobs in taught toe industry, clean energy, something really important for the folks in flint. lots of things to talk about. i'm be joined by yeah meis al sin door. abby and katy hill, author and host of the podcast naked politics. it's going to be quick, guys. thank you for staying with me. katy, to you first, when you look at this as being the final push here, the final arguments to eject joe biden as the next
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president of the united states. how did they do, both of them together? >> there were several times i got chills watching them together. it reminds you of a time when we weren't constantly terrified. weren't constantly anxious and frustrated and so ready for something stable. so i think that this is their best closing argument. it's a way of bringing us to a feeling of hope again. i think barack obama is still a very popular president and joe biden is affiliated with that. it's a good thing. >> yamiche, given the fact you cover this white house and the president, i will note as we were following the president earlier today, he made his way from newtown, pennsylvania, went much longer than scheduled before heading to redding, pennsylvania. he really is all about getting out the vote at this point. i don't know if we have time to play a quick sound bite from the president. if we do, let's do that right now and get you to react on the other side, yamiche.
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>> they don't get to decide this election. this is your choice. you have to be very careful, very, very careful, especially in this state, more than any other state. they say you have to be very, very careful. what happens in philadelphia, we have to be extremely -- everybody has to watch -- vigilant. your decision -- your future is at stake. >> yamiche, does it feel like everything about the trump campaign is about get out and vote? it's not likely he's going to change any minds based on policy and what he's done in the last four years? >> this trump administration and this trump campaign, they are all about trying to get the vote out. he's holding 14 rallies in seven states between now and election day, barnstorming all over the country, especially in battleground states. these rallies aren't just about getting big crowds, but about collecting data from all the people that go to these rallies and ensuring they turn out to
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vote by mail or in person. the one interesting thing that's happening today -- several interesting things happening today. there was an interesting split screen between president trump in pennsylvania and president obama in michigan. president trump was mocking president obama, talking about him, accusing him of corruption. then you saw president obama saying president trump is essentially obsessed with the fact that i'm getting bigger crowds than him and have gotten bigger crowds than him in the past. he said is he traumatized that people didn't go to his birthday party as a kid. that's him going after the jugular there. that's the closing argument. the biden campaign is saying president trump isn't a decent person and not up to the job. president trump leaning in that the corruption charge he's waging against biden will stick. >> barack obama delivering a very harsh rebuke of president trump, oftentimes not doing so
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by name. he did it today, that's for sure. is this something you think will work and should it have been done sooner in this campaign? >> i think there was a novelty of having president obama come out now. it wouldn't have the impact if he had been out since september. on top of that, nobody gets into president trump's head like barack obama. i think in texas we have a term for it. it's called rielg him up. president trump is credited with his win because he was on message four years ago right now. this is the best way to knock him off his message. >> ladies, short but sweet, thank you for staying with me. i'm out of time. awfully good to see all three of you. i'm alex witt. i look forward to seeing you tomorrow at noon eastern. yasmin vossoughian is up next with all the campaign events. plus, the obama factor, a look at the impact the former president still has on voters. hey.
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