that's amy walter of the cook polical report and host of public radio's "politics with amy walter." and tamara keith of npr. she alsoo-hosts the npr politics podcast. welcome to you both. and let's just start off with th m ad. it's wortioning, tam, it was on friday that sentence of roger stone. the on saturday, the lincoln project had that rea to go. an ad like that leveraging stone's commutation. what is the messaging there and who is the messaging goi towards? a rapid response uming out been with ads quickly whenever president trump doesnything they think deserves an ad. me of their ads are very trolley, seemed to be aimed at an audience of oneho might be watching "fox & friends" that morning united states. of the in terms of who they're trying to reach, arguably tthey're tryireach republicans who the last time around in 2016 may orhave had some discomfort president trump but couldn't bring themselves to vote for hillary clinton, and now there t, a push, and it's broader than the lincoln projertainly, that's just one example, now there's a push to try to win over people who do fee

and amy walter, national editor of the cookal politeport. amy, welcome back to "washington week." how has the virus and this debate over schoolshaed the 2020 race? am there's no doubt, bob, that it has changed it dramatically. i mean, iyou look at where the president was and where the discussion about the campaign s back in january and february, it was a question about whether a good economy was going to be enough of a tailwi behind a president who had middling job appro ratings, somewhere in the mid 40's or so. we're no almost 100 days away from the election. the president's jobpproval rating now is down to close to 40% in some cas even getting below 40%. he's trailing joe biden in the national polls of course by anywhere from nine points to double digits and he's losing in all of the battleground states. and when you look at where this inflection point began, i think you do have to look to the coronavirusmi pan but also the protests around the kling of george floyd in minneapolis. those are two big crises that got put on president trump's plate and as of now, majorities of ameri

of "the cook political report" and host of puic radio's "politics wit amy walter." tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." it's so good to see both of you. let's talk about the president. right now, tam, he's coming under a lot of criticism, as we have been hearing. governor larry hogan ofo maryland, e interviewed earlier on the program, writes in his new bookbout the point back in march wheretop wiz saying anybody can get a test when, behind the scenes, governor hogan said no one, no governor could get tests and, in fact, we just heardt'st sill hard to get tests in. the fox interview yesterday, the president said testing is what's causing the rise in cases. tell us, tam, is this a deliberate strategy on the part of the white house? >> let's starty saying that testing is not what's causing the rise in cases. the rise in cases is vastly testing.g the increase in so a quick fact check there. but i've spoken to advisors of the president before who've said he simply does no want to be the messenger when it comes to the coronavirus. he doesn't

that's amy walter of the cook pt olitical repd host of public radio's "politics with amy walter."af npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." hello to both of you. we seem to be having this conversation on this subject week after week. amy, to you first, and we should notehabubba wallace responded today by saying hatew ill always be prevailed over by love, that love will win out, in effect. naar backed him up. but here we are talkiabg t this again. is there evidence that this kind of an approach in a p race is effective?l, >> wudy, in 2016, this is what the president focused in od culture wars, and itd wor. it was effective in many places, in large partecause, well, he was running against eight years of democrat-controlled white house. that's not the case this year. he was running against hillary clinho had a lot of her own baggage from being in the political -- under the political microscope for all of these years, being a par oof a lotf different controversies in her own right. joe biden, it's very difficul ht to mak into some left wing ader. finally, we weren't, in 201

etor of the cook political report and hosts the podcast "politics with amy walter."nd tamara keith is a white house coreondent for npr and a co-host of the "npr politics podcast." >> you're a hundred days out -- whoa, excuse me. we are 100 days out. polls show that vice present biden den is is leading the president not only nationally but also in the battleground states. i have so many democtic voters come up to me and ask me, given what time different than 2016. tam, what should i tell? th >> well, there are a lot pyou can say is that this has been a very stable lead for former vice president biden, and the other thing th is notable and is different from the case in 2016, is that a lot of these polls are showing him above 50%. that is to say that he has got a majory of voters saying that if the election were held today they would votefor him. for hillary clinton, she did, at times, have pretty significant leads over donald trump, but she was, you know, at 45%. there was room there in a way that biden has a more commanding lead. of course, anything can happen, anytng

that's amy walter of the cook political report and host of itpublic radio's "politics amy walter."ara keith of npr. politics podcast."lle "npr to both of you. we seem to be having this conversation on this sject week after week. amy, to you first, and we should note that bubba wallaceon red today by saying hate will always be prevailed over by love, that love will win t, in effect. nascar backed him up. but here we are talking about this again. is there evidence that this kind of an approach in presidential >> well, judy, in 2016, this is what the president focused in od culture wars, and it worked. it was effective in many places, in,arge part because well, he was running against eight years of democratleic-contrwhite house. that's not the case this year. he was running against hillary clinton, who had a lot of her own baggage from being in the political -- under the political mioscope for all ofhese years, being a part of a lot of different controversieer own right. joe biden, it's very difficult to make him into some left wing mob leader. finally, we weren't, in 2016, in the mid

of the cook political report and host of public radio's "politics with amy walter." d tamara keith of npr. politics podcast. the npr welcome to you both. and let's just start off with that ad. it's worth mentioning, tam, it was on friday that esident trump commuted the sentence of roger stone. on turday, the lincoln project had that ready to go. an ad like that leveraging stone's commutation. what is the messaging there and who is the messaging going towards? >> the lincn project has been a rapid response unit coming out with ads quickly whenever president trump does anhing they think deserv an ad. some of their ads are very trolley, seemed to be aimed at audience of one who might be wahing "fox & friends" that morning -- the president of the united states. in terms of who they're trying to reach, arguably, they're trying to ach republicans who the last time around in 2016 may have had mediscomfort for president trump but couldn't bring themselves to vote for hillary clinton, and n there is a push, and it's broader than the lincoln project, certainly, plat's just one

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byron york, chief political correspondent of the "washington examiner," amy walter and ben dominik nitschepublisher of "the federalist." aunt amy, that was quite something but it is today, 112 days to election day. >> that's right and that's what it felt like, much more like a campaign rally than a traditional rose garden event. >> biden's been basically unable to accept these were he doesn't take questions, and the media focus has always been on understandably the different challenges of reopening particularly as it relates to schools to the president i think was using the one real aspect of the white house that he can do for some attention towards one of these contrast. going back and forth about agenda items, policy debates in a couple of other areas. >> had this kind of a speech since weeks from election day. to ben's point, this is focusing a lot on coronavirus and former vice president biden opened up his remarks today with that, take a listen. >> it's gotten bad enough that even donald trump finally decided to wear a mask in public. i'm glad he made the shift. mr. president, it's no

. >> amy walter, thank you for the assist. that is politics monday. >> thank you. >> finally, during this anniversary week, for the ada, we wanted to take a moment to highlight the achiements of performers, comedia and artists with disability's. their work was called ada 30, lead on. here are a few moments from theh evening th a format much like a variety show. it included president bush upon speech -- bush'speech when he signed the law. >> let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. >> there were so many otr things that i want to thank the ada forut the most important thing, the thing i love thbest about the ada is tt i got to skip the lines at disney. >> i get knocked down aundred times and rise 100 more. when you're someone slightly different, people sayng tto beware like why pursue a job when they don't want to have you there? there is a little piece of wisdomassedd aro from friend to frien it says that wch does not kill us makes us stronger in the end. >> i exley just turned 45. -- actually just turned

>> juan: well mike has potentially amy walter's is on the possibility of some kind of backlash and whatdana, are pulling away from thed death, the protests were legitimate an end an expression of racial injustice in america. so some of that may come back, and it may benefit the president. overwhelmingly, americans and tellingly independence are still with the "black lives matter" social protest movement. and when you see the new york city folks painting "black lives matter" on fifth avenue, we have something like that here in washington, d.c. it has become a tourist attraction for school groups, church groups and i think people on fifth avenue, it's going to become a huge tourist attraction. >> dana: all right, but if crime continues -- >> greg: that will not save a single life. purely symbolism. >> juan: let me tell you come i don't think black men, black men should be stopped and frisked at leisure of cops. i don't think that is defensive. >> greg: who said it? >> dana: that's not what greg said. we are going to go. next up "the five" celebrating major milestone tomorrow. it is our ni

it with me i'd like to welcome in my panel this hour, national editor for cook political report amy walterlar lar larry sab addo and joel payne. amy, let me start with you on the big picture where this race plans. we mentioned george h.w. bush, he's the last to seek re-election and lose. the others got re-elected. when you look at donald trump's political standing 100 days from the election, do you see something that's similar to bush 92? do you see strengths that weren't there? do you see weaknesses that weren't there? >> the most obvious is we've never seen a pandemic before, so many tendrils on the pandemic, the economy, the concerns in the previous package about schools. it goes through every part of our life. on top of it, a real reckoning on race that the president has been decidedly on the wrong side of. you put those all together and you say in the next 100 days, can he gets right on those two issues. that seems not likely. the question in my mind, steve, is how many people right now are out there who are ambivalent about who to vote for. if you look at the polling we've seen in ma

and yes, i understand why amy walter is writing what she's writing. >> yeah, definitely. right here, it's kind of the root of all of it. this is the polling average. biden versus trump in national polls, it's basically a nine-point advantage. almost a nine-point advantage for biden over trump. and when you're looking at at least now in these polls, we'll see what happens in the next few months, but when you look at a margin that big in the popular vote, that tends to translate into coat tails. it's not an exact relationship, but what you have here is the popular vote for the past four presidential elections. remember, clinton did not win the presidency in 2016, she did win the popular vote. what did that mean when you talked about the senate races? democrats did gain two senate seats in 2016, but there were 2. there were some close states like pennsylvania and wisconsin. if clinton had done better and won those states, possibly democrats would have had more gains in the senate. go back to 2008. that's when you have a margin in the presidential race that's like what you're

amy walter is saying 2020 is looking more like a democratic tsunami than a blue wave. she adds republican strategists think trump is close to the point of no return. trump's popularity is so low. the "washington post" reports it's as if the unpopular incumbent president doesn't exist. this deliberate approach underscores the difficult position republicans find themselves in as they head into an election season that looks increasingly grim for their party. joining our conversation basil and nick. nick, trump is what trump is. the republican enablers became something they had never been before. they may have championed ideas that were not the right ideas. they green lit somebody who grabbed women in the bleep, someone who called african nations bleep hole countries. they're so deserving of the political pain they find themselves in right now. >> well, nicolle, the president's party accumulated a debt of checks the president has written on members of his own party in the senate and the house. the problem for them is that he dominates the political band width like no other

amy walter of the cook political report tweeted a very animated fact-check that there is no differencetee voting. claire, is that true? >> yeah, basically, that's true. some states, you have to have an excuse to not vote in person. and so, you have to tell the state, i can't come to the polling place and therefore i want to vote absentee. other states, you don't need an excuse. you can just get a mail-in ballot. and in some states, like four or five, six states, ballots, in fact, are mailed out. but here's the thing, the process is the same for all of it. they're not willy-nilly mailing out ballots. every ballot is registered. every ballot is numbered. every ballot must be signed. every ballot is scanned and checked. so, there are safeguards in place for both absentee ballots and mail-in ballots. and the president is creating an excuse for his loss, in my opinion. i think he's going to lose and then he's going to say the election was fraudulent. but they are essentially the same process. and there's all kinds of safeguards in place. there's no fraud going on in oregon in connection wit

amy: yeah president trump yesterday for one of the first times wearing a mask in public at walter reed hospital. he said it was appropriate to wear in a hospital, though he did not previously, sort of marching down the hall with a group of military men, and then he is seen talking to some of them with the mask under his nose. mean, it is a strange state of affairs we are in for a lack of better word when we are trying to command the president or anyone for wearing a mask -- which is something that all public health experts advise, when the evidence is so clear this point, in the middle of the pandemic. that should be a baseline of what we are talking about. talking aut the importancece of leadership, go ahead, dr. wenen. >> i think i it is really important that thee president ad all of our e elected leaders m l good public hehealth behavior because like it or not, there arare millions of americans for whom the president is s the most trusted messenger, and he needs to model the behavior that he wants s all americans to have. at this point, that is uniniverl mamask-wearing. that is stay

amy: thahat's jacob sobororoff n 2018, and he joins us now for more. he's a correspondent fofor nbc received the 2019 walter cronkite award and the 2019 hillman prize for his reporting on child-separation. jacob, welcome to democracy now! congratulations on your book. if you can start off by telling us exactly how many children and parents you believe are still separated? and then comment on this latest nenews of a a federal judge andt he's doing about separations. >> first, i want to s say to you both, it is an honor truly to be on w wit you. the honest answer is, i don't know. the u.s. government doesn't know.. who wonon the reunification ofof children separated by president trump and trump administration under zero policy, , doesn't know either. dealing thihing we owow is 5400 children were systematically taken n away, tortured and the words of physicians for human rights and nobel peace pririze winning organization, by the trump administstration foror no otother reason than to deter families from coming to this country. while there were e 2800 kids in the first initiall group separated under zero-tolera

. >> reporter: amy, good morning. 99 days after the cdc first issued guidance about wearing masks, this was on a visit to waltereed, the president finally wore that mask in front of the cameras, even something his own republican allies have pressured him do. but just as soon as he wore that mask, he sent some mixed messages. he said, they have a time and a place, but even his own health experts recommend that all americans cover their face when social distancing is not possible. this of course as the nation's top infectious disease expert has been increasingly sidelined here. dr. anthony fauci hasn't spoken to the president in more than a month and now there's this remarkable scene playing out behind the scenes. the white house press shop is treating fauci like a political rival basically, distributing what they're calling this list of inaccurate comments they say he's made about the outbreak but really many of the quotes were not in their entirety or were from very early on in the outbreak when scientists were still learning about the virus. on top of that, behind the scenes, the administration officials are p