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>> now, just under three days out from election 2020, president trump has stacked his final campaign saturday with no less than four events all in battleground pennsylvania. joe biden's backyard. meanwhile, the former vice president is in swing state michigan, slated to take the stage in motown, detroit, later with his former boss, barack obama, for their first shared event this campaign cycle. we'll take through live the minute it starts. as both candidates rush the rust belt, nbc's final national matchup going into this election weekend has joe biden up eight points. but democrats in some key states are worried about weak early turnout, making tuesday more of a contest than the numbers suggest.

of course, by this time more than 80 million americans have already voted, perhaps the most hopeful national milestone to come out of this year, if not the last four. the reason in large part, president trump. his name on the ballot driving either record support or historic opposition either way. 20 years into the 21st century the united states no longer enjoys the world's confidence as it did just a half a decade ago, and the proverbial crossroads looms as large as it ever has for this country. environmental catastrophes, climate change, and immigration system now synonymous with children orchard by the state. criminal justice, that for millions of black americans still means just us, and the

other side of that, a siege mentality in policing that requires reminding, in 2020, that black lives matter. all of that is on the ballot, as is, of course, the once in a generation plague that has infected more than 9 million americans, taking the lives of 230,000, and the livelihoods of millions more, all in less than eight months. but the president's message has polling to show lack of confidence in his covid response, is that the pandemic is over, and, for him, maybe it is. after successful re-election would mean that enough americans don't care about the carnage that has sprung up on his watch. and to be ousted from office would make him a right-wing

martyr, and the pandemic someone else's problem. but the corrosive behaviors epitomized by president trump has seeped into our new normal and will not dissipate even if joe biden wins tuesday. i cannot tell who to vote for, only that you vote your conscience, whatever that looks like. a busy show. we start today in illinois. joining me now is chicago mayor lori lightfoot. mayor lightfoot, thank you for being with me this evening. >> pleasure. can i just say, your opening monologue, right on target, right on point. >> thank you. thank you very much. let me ask you, ms. mayor, you have been one that has been vehement and unshakable in trying to protect your constituents there in chicago. i was there earlier this week. you also want to protect their

right to vote. what measures are you taking as we see around the country, a lot of mayors concerned about what reaction may occur, whichever way this election may go on tuesday? >> look, we've been focused really on two things. first is making sure that we have election integrity. we've been working with our independent election board for a week to make sure they're prepared. you know, i think these next couple cycles we have to really completely rethink the infrastructure for voting. we rely upon our seniors as election judges, as poll watchers, and we rely upon senior places for polling places as well as schools. well, the senior facilities aren't letting strangers in. the schools that are open don't want strangers trooping through gyms and cafeterias. so we've had to build a whole new infrastructure to get ready for this election, and we are. and we're obviously also

prepared to make sure that the election is peaceful, that whatever expression the people want, we're encouraging them to lean into the long legacy of peaceful protest here in chicago. so we've got our work cut out for us. people need to keep going, make sure that they vote. if you don't know where to vote, go to i will vote.com. but here in chicago we are ready of we're seeing record numbers, both mail-in, early voting. if you're going to vote on election day, have a plan, be patient, stay in line, but stay focused. we got to make sure that we get as many people voting before the polls close as possible. >> now, you've been known as one of the most progressive mayors in the country. i will say that. i've gotten to know you pretty well political ovly over the la several months or year or so, but you're not going to tolerate

violence from either side and you made that clear before. i'm sure you're prepared for that now. i assume things are in place in case there's some that want to protest disruptively because you just said peaceful, yes, and you've been a peaceful protester, but you're not going to tolerate anyone breaking the law. >> no. we can't. and here's why. we saw two forms of violence that happened in our city this summer, which were difficult, but we learned a lot of lessons from. number one, we can't allow righteous, peaceful protests to get hijacked by people who come as as as as arrangements -- agitators. we want no part of that in our city. the other thing we can't tolerate is people who use the opportunity to try to engage in

criminal activity, to rob and a lot our stores and destroy the livelihoods of small business owners who have given everything to a dream of being an entrepreneur. we're going to protect that at all costs. so we want people to express themselves. let's cherish rights in a democracy, and we're going to say do everything we can to protect that and the right of assembling and the right of speech. but if you're coming to do something other than that, other than peaceful protest, you are in the wrong place, and we are ready for you. >> now, among today's many headlines, we had the final emergence of barack obama, a fellow chicagoan alongside joe biden on the campaign trail, and he unloaded. listen to this. >> if trump were 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 seen new

spikes after he leaves town. what is his obsession, by the way, with crowd size? you notice that? he's always worried that this is the one measure he has of success. he's still worrying his inauguration crowd being smaller than mine. >> what is his hometown mayor reaction to president obama unloading today on his successor? >> listen, my president, my homey, is on fire. he's having fun. i've been watching him all week, and he is just lighting it up. he's unburdened from the office and he can really speak his truth. he knows that having a president like donald trump follow him, being obsessed with undoing his legacy, has done real harm and damage to the country. you know, he made the joke about the crowd size, but the point is

trump has always been focused on the wrong things. he doesn't care about the things that i think most americans worry about, the things that you talk about around your kitchen table. are you going to have a job? what's going on with health care? can you get the kids into a good school? the things that we know are the heartbeat of the middle class, donald trump has no understanding thof that. so to see president obama focus on what's important and really motivate people to go to the polls, i got to tell you, it's a pleasure to see. >> well, it's a pleasure to have you with us always. i was in chicago earlier this week and two of my allies said chicago is a different to story with mayor lori. thank you for being with us. joining me now, joe watkins, former white house aide to

george h.w. bush, and christina greer, associate professor of political science at fordham university. dr. greer, i might add. let me go to you first, reverend watkins. the fact that barack obama has come out now and hit the trail, some are saying that's the energy we need particularly those that are supporting biden and those that have said black men have not been as energized as black women. others are saying, is that a possible backlash in states like florida and georgia that might bring out those that for whatever reason don't like the president? you're not a trump supporter, but you're a republican. what is your assessment of the impact of barack obama? >> i think the impact is huge. i think that the president coming out to support joe biden in the closing days of the campaign is very important for the biden campaign and certainly

important for turnout because turnout really matters. right now if you poll, of course, over 90% of african-americans support joe biden. that's a good number for joe biden. now it remains for black people to show up on election day, especially in the critical battleground states, places like pennsylvania, of course, and michigan and ohio, wisconsin, all those places that are going to have a huge hand in deciding who the next president of the united states is. so i think president obama and his presence on the campaign trail is energizing to african-americans, and i think it's a huge help to the biden campaign. >> now, professor greer, when we hear some endorsements from would your honor two rappers of president trump and some trying to spin that as a problem with black males, do you give any credence at all that when you have people out there like barack obama and others that are not even rappers that have ever

been involved in making social justice statements, but just all of a sudden discover politics are really going to sway black male voters to donald trump? >> no, i don't think they'll have a significant impact honestly, rev. let's also be clear, these are rappers that have been very late to the game. they should've participated during a primary when there was real discussion about the diversity of the candidates on the ballot. if we look at the poll numbers, because black women are so abundantly big "d" democratic voters, when we look at 93% of african-americans voting for the presidency, we will see some diversity within agenda dynamics. so black men are more susceptible to, say, republican party messaging, but that does not mean donald trump has black men in his pocket. he may get 11% to 13%, similar to what he got in 2016 because we have black men in the military, in the police departments, black men who are aspirational voters for some of trump's rhetoric about his

purported businesses, but by and large we have to look at black voters, and they're just like a lot of other savvy and sharp voters who make important decisions about covid, not just their individual identity, but what's good for the whole. the strategy is that the black communities had to use when choosing a candidate, i think donald trump might make his normal dent and that's the dent that a lot of republicans tend to make with black men, roughly 11% to 13%. but i don't think that by and large just because ice cube decides to wake up and participate in electoral politics a month before an election that's going to sway the vast majority of black men by any stretch of the imagination. >> reverend watkins, armed trump supporters are harassing democratic events all over the country, forcing the campaign to cancel at least one in texas. how should americans react to undemocratic actions like this?

>> i think with outrage and anger. the process ought to go on in the way it's meant to go on you by the founding fathers, everybody is meant to have a voice to voice their opinion. but at the same time, nobody should be harassed. nobody should be harassed for their beliefs or their belief system. this is the united states of america where people have freedom to believe what they want and say it. if somebody said something that others don't like, they still should be allowed to say it without being harassed. i think it's unfortunate and america ought to be outraged that there would be people trying to stand up and harass supporters of vice president biden because of what they believe. i think that's wrong. >> professor greer, when we talk about critical voting, when we look at states like florida and pennsylvania, many feel that the race is really going to come down to which way they go, particularly pennsylvania, but also a large degree, florida.

how significant is the turnout of black voters in those states? could the turnout and participation of black voters in pennsylvania, particularly now with another police shooting there, could that turnout determine actually what happens to this race if it is a close race? if it's not a blowout and it depends on pennsylvania and florida, how significant will the black vote be, pro or con? >> i think it's always significant, rev. i mean, we've seen that black people are the keepers of not just democracy, but the democratic party at large. we must remember pennsylvania has 20 electoral college votes. florida has 29. so it's incredibly important. we know that pennsylvania has -- philadelphia. what we should keep an eye on, though, are their voter suppression and the voter disenfranchisement tactics that are oftentimes used in specific black communities. we've seen this in broward county in miami, outside of

miami and in florida. we've seen, you know, tactics in philadelphia to suppress the vote, the long lines. that's actually of great concern because we know that, you know, unlike many other democratic nations, voting is not a national holiday. many people still have to get back to work or child care or parent care or dealing with loved ones who have covid. so that is actually a great concern to me as to whether or not the suppression and the disenfranchisement of black communities in pennsylvania and florida should be respected. >> all right. we're going to have more with joe watkins and christina greer later in the show. coming up, the one thing president trump and i agree on. but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top news stories. richard? >> thanks, rev. stories we're watching for you this hour, covid-19 infections are rising at a record pace in the united states. on friday more than 98,000. the u.s. rises over 9 million cases nationwide now. thursday was the first time

cases rose by 90,000 in a single day, two days in a row so far. british prime minister boris johnson announced a second lockdown. schools remain open. nonessential businesses will close. the new lockdown begins thursday and lasts until december 2nd. a u.s. citizen abducted from his farm in niger was successfully rescued by u.s. military operation. armed kidnappers held the american man hostage demanding a ran some from his family. and then today the u.s. defense department confirming the operation and that no military personnel were injured in that mission. after sean connery died today in his sleep in the bahamas, he was 90 years old. he was best known as the original james bond, starring in seven of the films in the beloved spy series. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after the break. but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible

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before election day, i want to talk about this outrageous comparison you keep making, mr. president. >> we're the party of abraham lincoln. a lot of people don't know that, the great abraham lincoln, a man i always competed against. >> sorry, mr. president, the only similarity between you and abraham lincoln is that you both have presided over unbelievably polarized times in american history. the key difference is that mr. lincoln ended on the side of the righteous, and you are on the side of the racist. plus, they called the man honest abe while you can't seem to get out of a single sentence without loading it up with lies. but aside from abraham lincoln, i also want to shine a spotlight on your ongoing efforts not to live up to the great promise of

democracy enshrined in our constitution, but to live down to the worst example set by some of the earlier occupants of the oval office, because for all the lofty language and aspirational rhetoric found in our founding documents, mr. president, the fact remains that some of your predecessors did not live up to them, and you aren't either. when the pundits opined that you should be more presidential, they were probably hoping you might ask your speech writers to incorporate some quotes from our third president, thomas jefferson, on the topics of liberty and equality. instead, you and your ghoulish advisers decided to copy jefferson's most shameful legacy, just as he used the threat of family separation to those enslaved.

your adviser ripped refugee children for their mothers and fathers for your own political gain. and now you have 500 children in the service of your own cruelty. when you called haiti and african nations, quote, s-hole countries, you perhaps would have earned a bully from our nation's 26th president, teddy roosevelt, as he, like you, mr. president, held some horrifically racist views about black people in general and haiti in particular. but we all know that andrew jackson has been your predecessor of choice, a man who signed the indian removal act, oversaw the genocidal trail of tears, and held native americans in camps by the thousands as he awaited forced removal. it seems obvious that jackson has served as your inspiration as you have herded asylum

seekers and refugees in detention, deporting them by the thousands and enacting untold cruelty under undignified and damaging conditions as described by the united nations commission of human rights. while most of the presidents who have committed atrocities also achieved amazing things, jefferson, for instance, end up the declaration of independents. roosevelt established the system of national parks. your presidency is nothing but a tall pile of evil and racism dressed up in a maga hat. you have spent your entire life puffing yourself up in an attempt to convince the world that you're the biggest, the best, the toughest. unfortunately for you, mr. president, all those have turned out to be the shallow lies of a life-long loser. you know you're losing. your last chance is to suppress as many votes as possible,

because you know that the majority, the vast majority of americans have rejected you. but your dirty dealing isn't going to work. when all the votes are counted, as the american people will demand they must, you have no choice but to slink back to where you belong, a footnote in history, a presidency only worthy of being remembered as a warning sign for future americans about what can happen when we take our democracy for granted and elect the flaming racist beacon of our worst impulses to the highest office in the land. we'll be right back. new vehicl? with subaru, you get kelley blue book's 2020 best resale value brand, 2020 lowest 5-year cost to own brand, and most trusted brand for six consecutive years. no wonder kelley blue book also picked subaru as their 2020 best overall brand. a trusted brand and a proven value.

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pennsylvania, and vice president biden and former president barack obama are getting ready to appear together at a campaign event in detroit, michigan. you can see stevie wonder on stage there performing ahead of the rally. we'll take you there when it starts. as millions of americans vote by mail this election, states have been overwhelmed by the record turnout, leading critics like president trump to spread false concern that mail-in ballots will lead to a spike in election fraud. but colorado has been able to debunk these claims since 2014. the state has been supportive of mail-in voting with a system that still been dulkd tbbed the standard. the state made headlines after the results were announced shortly after the polls closed. as of this week, over

2.1 million coloradans have already voted. joining me now is democratic senate candidate and former governor of colorado, john hickenlooper. thank you for being with us tonight. let me ask you this. analysts suggest that this election might be the bluest on record for colorado since 1937. your state has largely been seen in the past as a purple state. do you think it will turn blue on tuesday? >> you know, we got a lot of good energy out there, but, you know, i'm from the small business world. i used to own a brew pub a, a restaurant. when you start getting overall optimistic, bad things happen. when things look great is when you look over your shoulder and say what could happen? and i think we got to make sure over these last four days that we get every vote, everyone to

fill out their ballot and drop it off. >> now, one of the things that i said in the opening is that colorado is really a living testament to the fact that it is very safe for our democracy to vote by mail. secretary of state jenna griswold said that in 2018 only less than 1% of the ballots were flagged and investigated for fraud. also driving-by ballot drop-off will be available monday and election day, so voters don't have to leave their cars to submit their ballot. as someone who has been on the ballot numerous times in colorado, how have you worked to help dispel these myths about mail-in voting? >> well, we've got a field campaign. colorado has about 5.6 million people, so we've had by election day we will have had 12,000 volunteers make 13 million phone

calls. one of the things they tell people is, you know, you can -- you can vote safely. don't even worry about it. we have in many cases the same volunteers calling the same voter multiple times. we send a lot of people to my website, hickenlooper.com because you can sign up and be part of these phone banks through our website. we want to make sure to get the word out to everybody that it's safe, it's less expensive. we save $6 per voter by doing an all-mail-in ballot. when you talk about voters, that's real money. as jenna griswold told you, they do this risk-limiting audits where they can demonstrate that there are less questionable ballots in all mail-in voting compared to a traditional election. so it is less expensive. we have higher turnouts. we have the second highest in the country in 2018. and it's less expensive.

and it's safe. the real question is why is donald trump, who's obviously become a desperate person willing to do desperate things, why is he still trying to cause all this voter suppression all across the country? >> now, your senate race is against republican incumbent cory gardner. and he's heating up. a recent poll shows you have an eight-point lead over your opponent. after he first won his seat in 2014 by a narrow margin, i know you're being cautious, but this has to have you some optimism. >> it gives me a little optimism, but i'll have a lot more optimism on tuesday night. you've been around politics long enough to recognize that you just can't trust the polls. you got to go out and continue organizing and get people to the website, get people to phone banks, and make sure that we get

every single person who's got a ballot to fill it out and to make sure it gets dropped off. we have 400 boxes where people can drop off their ballots between now and 7:00 on tuesday night. i want to make sure that, you know, they estimate by monday morning we'll have 75% of coloradan voters will have filled out their ballot and dropped it off. that means there's 25% left. we just have to do everything we can to make sure every vote gets counted. again, we're sending people to hickenlooper.com, to the secretary of state website, everything we can do to keep people focused and energized to finish strong. and i think that's what democrats have to do all over this country. michigan, wisconsin, ohio, pennsylvania, north carolina, texas and georgia. if everyone keeps this energy up and finishes strong, we could have a very happy wednesday morning. but it's only if everybody really pushes themselves for these last four days.

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we are back and waiting for vice president joe biden and former president barack obama to take the stage at a campaign rally in detroit, michigan. we'll take you there when it starts.

back with me, our republican strategist joe watkins and associate professor of political science at fordham university, dr. christina greer. reverend watkins, in these battleground states it's going to come down to who can turn out their base. at the end of the day, i believe that it's who can bring and excite their base to come out and vote and their supporters come out and vote. will the presence that we talked about earlier in the show that has energized of people and particularly black males with the presence of barack obama, will it also be used by the trump campaign to energize a lot of people who dislike obama in trump's base? >> i can't imagine that would happen. i think the president is busy

with other things. i don't think he's going to take time to attack president obama. i think president obama will continue to energize voters throughout pennsylvania and around the country who support joe biden, particularly african-americans who already poll more than 9-1 in favor of joe biden, over 90% of african-americans as of the last poll i saw are poised to vote for joe biden on tuesday. they already cast their ballots but what really matters now is going to be turnout on tuesday. and i think that everybody -- figure out what matters. i think in philadelphia they will have turnout now because of the police shooting that took place a few days ago. it's going to inspire african-americans to show up bigger at the polls. look for a significant african-american turnout, certainly, in philadelphia and people around the state of pennsylvania. >> we're going to talk about

that shooting in philadelphia on tomorrow night's show. dr. greer, president obama has joined the campaign and is echoing biden's final message. the president has given up on battling the pandemic. watch. >> what's his closing argument? that people are too focused on covid. he said this at one of his rallies. covid, covid, covid, he's complaining. he's jealous of covid's media coverage. listen, winter is coming. they're waving the white flag of surrender. florida, we can't afford four more years of this. >> the president has given up on covid. the president feels the media is talking too much about covid. 230,000 people plus are dead, and there are upticks in terms of people being found positive with coronavirus, dr. greer.

what should we be talking about if we're not talking about that? >> right. i mean, the ways that covid has affected the american population, not just with the deaths -- i mean, keep in mind, rev, we have over 8 million people who were living with covid. they've survived it, but we don't know what their future looks like. we also know that covid is now a pre-existing condition, so with donald trump and his republican party, they want to take away your health insurance and, guess what, covid is part of the precondition they want to take away. to say nothing of the economics, to say nothing of the educational system, parents having to, you know, homeschool their children. we might be looking at losing a generation of women in the workforce who are staying home because they want to take care of their families and it seems since women make less than men, many families are making that hard, strategic choice where the mom is staying home and the dad is going to work if they both have jobs. the catastrophic fallout from covid just can't even be imagined. we're going to feel this for

decades, for generations, and the president just doesn't care. he survived, he's fine, and he has a job. i think, you know, i disagree with reverend watkins, though. i do think that the president will probably tweet about barack obama because his focus and petty knows no bounds. he's obsessed with barack obama. the fact that barack obama as a lawyer is making the case for so many last-minute voters as to why they should be galvanized to go to the polls on tuesday, i think that the president -- president trump has so much more that he should be thinking about and sadly he doesn't. either it's about himself or his money, but it's very rarely if ever about the american people. >> now, reverend watkins, texas republicans are in court right now fighting to have over 100,000 ballots thrown out. what are americans supposed to do in the face of this kind of after the fact voter suppression? >> i think, i said repeatedly that i'm a republican, a republican who's pro-civil

rights, a republican for voting rights. when i worked in the u.s. senate for dan quail, that's one of the first things i suggested, to support voting rights was so important and i still believe it is. and i'm definitely against voter suppression, even that even looks like or smells like voter suppression. this is an unfortunate thing. this is something that i think americans need to speak out against. certainly i know joe biden supporters will speak out against it, but america needs to because it shouldn't be anywhere in this country, any effort to suppress the votes of americans ought to be strongly protested. >> professor greer, let me ask you, i'm out of time, but i have to ask you this. president trump said this week at one of his rallies that women, we're going to get your husbands back to work. and that struck me as very offensive and misogynist, like women don't work too. am i overreacting? >> no, not at all. but i think we've seen a very clear pattern of how donald

trump thinks about women, how they think so about black people, how they think so about mexican and immigrants, how he thinks about immigrants and the lgbtq+ community. it's not fitting of anyone who should be anywhere near the white house or oval office. >> all right. well, i'm going to have to leave it there. thank you, joe and christina. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. at dell technologies, we started by making the cloud easier to manage. but we didn't stop there. we made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. no matter what it does, or how it changes. and we kept going. so you only pay for what you use. because at dell technologies, we stop...at nothing.

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ta mirror -- tamir rice was killed by police, 12-year-old young man with a toy gun in his hand and killed within seconds when police jumped out the car and killed him. supervisors let the request languish for two years in the justice department before ending the inquiry without fully conducting it and now the department has yet to take the steps to close the case.

this of a 12-year-old young man two years dangling a federal investigation that really wasn't happening. i was in illinois earlier this week where a policeman killed a 19-year-old young man and his girlfriend shot by this policeman. then we know in philadelphia where a young man's family, the family of walter williams junior called for help because he was having a mental health episode. police came rather than the ambulance they called and ended up killing him. the problem of policing will not go away by magic. it will only go away by real legislative police reform. it will only go away when we con front it. it does not make us anti-police.

it does not make us one or any group of us saying all police are bad but we're saying these incidents keep happening and unless there's strict laws and enforcement on those that ought to be protecting the law not violating people's rights this will not go away. that's why a lot is on the ballot than just name you see but what they represent. this is not just about an election it's about a direction. will this nation go in a direction of being fair about policing, about the environment, about climate change, about health care. about so many issues. that's why if you haven't voted, you need to vote.

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school. anybody absent we're all on the line. it tell us more about you than it tells us about those of us that rise up. that does it for me. thanks for watching. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, my colleague picks up our news coverage.

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