greer. also jamil makes a really good point, the president is talking about being a law-and-order president. he's using these racist dog whistles. at the same time, there's evidence, ample evidence now, that he has spent decades breaking the law, ims. how are you going to run on a law-and-order message when you don't follow the law, yourself? i think as we head into the election season, you know, there's a lot of conversation about whether we are headed toward authoritarianism. one of the tenets of that is the breakdown of the rule of law. so this -- i agree with jamil -- puts the conversation back on the fact that the president, himself, does not think the rules apply to him. >> i want to pull up this tweet, i hope we have it, from senator chuck schumer. it is an emoji raising its hands saying -- "raise your hand if you paid more in federal income tax than president trump." i mean, gabe, hard to see how this doesn't become a big story in the days and weeks leading up to this election. >> oh

and christina greer, associate professor of political science. both of you welcome. i notice in that news conference and there is a ton to talk to. the president kept saying his first and only priority is to keep americans safe, and that's one he has been tauting this vaccine. at the same time, he's not wearing a mask. he's not social distancing at his rallies. in fact, he's encouraging people not to wear masks. look at this exchange he had with one of the white house reporters as he tried to ask the president a question just today. >> you're going to have to take that off, please. how many feet are you away. >> i'll speak a lot louder. >> if you don't take it off, you're very muffled. so if you would take it off. >> i can speak a lot louder. is that better? >> it's better, yeah. it's better. >> robert, his actions do not

to understand why, when the need , is so greere's no action. >> no, i agree. but i just want to correct the record. with all the respect an affection i have for david, he's absolutely wrong on this. the democrats' initi legislation which they did pass -- republicans passed nothing -- was then. $3 trill then when the stalemate hit, democrats said drop it from 3o 2. what did the republicans do? their initial offer had been $1 trillion. halfway? try to meet them they cut it in half down to $630 billion. i mean, so j wast -- it was counterfeit, and the reality is they cannot talk about the national debt. the national debhas increased 40% since donald trump took teeth of office, and the best economy in the history of the country, according to donald trump. the national debt, the nional deficit has been met only three

greer? >> all these things are true. appreciate the members of congress, you know, speaking out about it. however, what is imperative is to take this messaging and distill it down to the voting public. it needs to be articulated in a way where voters see how this directly relates to them. yes, trump is a liar and a thief and a fraud. we know these things. black women have been screaming them from the rooftops, actually, for four years plus some. these things are facts. what needs to happen now is our elected officials, in cities and towns across the nation, distill this information in a way that voters can process it, where it mobilizes them and motivates them to actually turn out and vote on november 3rd. as zer relina mentioned we haver too many, millions of voter-eligible elections who chose to sit on the sidelines not just from 2012 to 2016 but every year we have roughly 40% of the voting h-eligible population chooses not to participate in the presidential election which obviously affects down-state races, senate, ho

greer, can you jump in on that point? how this question, all the reporting that we're seeing, how it becomes not just a question of fairness but a question 06 national security? >> oh, i mean, i couldn't agree more. i mean, we have to think about the behavior of the president over the past now years and we ask ourselves why is it that he consistently stands up for our adversaries and questioning whether or not they should be real citizens. i'm thinking about our journal colleague mr. khashoggi when he was murdered. donald trump has proven that it is about him and his personal finances. why are jared and ivanka getting millions of dollars? they are not in an effected position. they are representing the united states in formal capacities, which is highly inappropriate and possibly illegal. sadly, though, i think so many people in our international community have seen that the emperor has no close, not just donald trump but seeing that the united states is not the super power that she once purported to be as we handled the c

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fordham university's christina greer.ood to see all of you, christina, obviously, we've covered tonight many other issues that came first. and we had experts confront the proud boy, the white supremacy. the discussion about the debate. we had interesting disagreement across people who have been critical of trump about whether there should be even be more deba debates. specifically, your view on why donald trump lied more than joe biden and what that means during a chaotic debate like this. >> well, ari, this president lies so easily and so quickly. he's very quick-witted when it comes to his lies and he does it with such force and authority, those of us who have been following him for quite some time, know it's almost natural to him. sau almost like the air he breathes or the water falls that come down like insulin. so it wasn't a surprise. the disappointment was chris wallace wasn't able to rein him in and be ready to fact-check him just because we've seen the president lie with such inpunety over the past three plus yea

themselves into pretzels for someone who clearly does not respect them or their party. >> christina greer, as always, thanks for your time tonight. i appreciate it. next up, the president put thousands of people at risk this weekend when he decided to hold a massive indoor rally in nevada, a move the governor calls selfish and reckless. that governor joins me next. s m. so you're a small business, or a big one. you were thriving, but then... oh. ah. okay. plan, pivot. how do you bounce back? you don't, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. powered by the largest gig speed network in america. but is it secure? sure it's secure. and even if the power goes down, your connection doesn't. so how do i do this? you don't do this. we do this, together. bounce forward, with comcast business. >>> last night in the middle of a pandemic which you may know about, it's an infectious disease that spreads through breathing and air droplets, the president held a massive indoor rally in henderson, nevada near las vegas. thousands of people packed into a warehouse. most not wearing masks i

it's makes me on the end greer and. i just. feel so much injustice in systems. the united arab emirates and bahrain have signed a deal to normalize ties with israel the elaborate ceremony was held in washington d.c. and hosted by u.s. president donald trump who described it as a dorm of the new middle east but palestinians are outraged the agreement reverses years of regional ill feeling towards israel but lacks a resolution concerning its decades old dispute dubbed the abraham accords by the white house the deal makes the u.a.e. and bahrain the 1st arab countries to normalize relations with israel in more than 25 years you groom and ends the u.a.e. economic boycott of israel and allows the possibility of advanced u.s. weaponry sales to the emirates it could also have major geo political ramifications it's been condemned by palestinians as a trial but the sentiment echoed by regional players turkey and iran a white house correspondent kelly how kiss was at the event in washington and says there has been some criticism of the deal in the u.s. congress to characte

after taking a rest ana maria sash she will join the protest again it's makes me on the end greer and. i just. feel so much injustice in the system. even after your treatment the experience you had here in the detention center you still go back to the still because they actually proof what you're trying to say. all this system is not breakin it's highly unfair it's highly illegal and i know that for these people for my parents for my brother who. is to leave there. we'll fight. and i know that. it's just a matter of time. after meeting these young women it becomes clear that even with look i shan't go still in office has already changed step fastened al-jazeera minsk the governor of oregon is asking for u.s. federal assistance as her state struggles to deal with wildfires a call followed the visit by president trump to california which is also been badly hit he dismissed climate change as the cause clashing with that state's governor who said it had to be recognized trumps rival dr biden has accused him of ignoring climate changes effect on the wildfires which killed at least 35 peopl

rachel greer used to work in the product safety at amazon and says in her opinion, amazon customers nowu buy it, you use it. you test it. you rate it. if reviews are good, sales are goodt stays. >> amazon responds to data. if consumers continue to byham zon basics in the numbers expected, they won't pay attention to the details. >> she's one consumer no longer buying. >> i avoid electronics now with amazon basics. >> drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. >>> colorado's officials suing the embattled postmaster general, louis dejoy over a mailer that she says could confuse voters. >> this may have started as well-intentioned. but after we told them that it was wrong information, they should have at least delayed. >> i do believe that this mailer could have a suppressing effect. >> so the mailer was meant to inform you about voting by mail and advises you to request a vote by mail ballot at least 15 days before the election and return the ballot by seven days before. that does not align with election policies in colorado which are conducted entirely by mail. >>> in a statement usps says the card pro

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walter schwab, resigning early in the trump administration, and christina greer, assistant professor at fordham university. lots to get into here, guys. eugene, i want to start with you. what stuck out to you about these new findings? >> well, umm, you know, i think there were two ways to look at this. one is that either the president is a massive tax cheat, right? he just lied and cheated on his taxes and the irs and prosecutors need to go after him and probably will. that's one way to look at it. the other way to look at it the president really is such a kind of -- not a very good businessman, that he really did have massive, massive losses over a period of years due to incontinent spending and unwise purchases, especially of all these golf courses. so he had losses. after all, when i have income, i have to pay taxes and he didn't pay taxes. therefore, maybe he didn't have income. and he manages to survive with these hundreds of millions of dollars of personally guaranteed loans that he somehow got from compliant bankers and therefore, he's in a fairly desperate financial condition

christine todd whitman, professor greer, and eugene robinson, columnist for the "washington post." welcome to all of you. i saved the toughest question for you three. gene robinson, what is to be done if this is revealing as trump's critics say, but it is also raising the spector of a sitting president abusing power, potentially illegally, to hold on to power? >> well, first of all, if this is an actual plot, an actual conspiracy that is unfolding, then it is patently illegal. it needs to be investigated given the state of the justice department by now, and perhaps needs to be investigated by the state attorneys general. if there are people plotting to subvert american democracy, then they need to be investigated and brought up on the appropriate charges. and that process can happen now. just two observations about this. number one, what i believe will happen is that after the election, the state election officials will certify, the state will certify election results. and then the president won't yell and moan and perhaps go to court and try to challenge those results in court. an

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. >>> up next, professor brenna greer talks about some of the myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. she was not the first african-american woman who trooe fused to give her seat. why this version has become so widespread. >> so our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. that is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that we'll go back to the discussion of origin point. our favorite slide which you're going to be so sick of. representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the civil rights movement. and we're going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. one, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. and last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. and i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward but we're not going to do that today. and then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the emmett till case. and which the

i want to thank my guests zerlina maxwell, christina greer, and tony schwartz. i'm alicia mendez. see you back here next saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. my colleague, joshua, picks up our breaking news coverage. >> very busy night of breaking news coverage. hi there, i'm joshua johnson. good to be with you tonight. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, welcome to "the week." let us begin tonight with the breaking story. some long-awaited reporting from "the new york times." it has obtained president trump's tax returns from the past two decades. the "times'" investigation shows that mr. trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in the year he won the presidency. not $750,000. $750. he reportedly paid the same amount in his first year in the white house. the biggest takeaway is that the president has reportedly paid zero income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years. the "times" says that is because he reported losing much more money than he made. here's what the president had to say about this report tonight at the white house. >> it's fake news. it's totally fake news. ma