spared the most pain so let's speak to the 1st of our guests on this news hour from hong kong john nicholls a clinical professor in pathology at the university of hong kong an expert on influenza viruses and you are researching the novel coronavirus as well i mean how are you feeling 9 months on do you feel like you've been you and your colleagues must have made progress you must know more about this than yet we're still. a 1000000 deaths down and waiting for a vaccine which i must say that she feels on 9 years rather 9 months but i think we've had advance quite a lot but as was just point out before the still a bit of lack of clarity on where not people dying with over 9000 or all of it 19 and so we're actually interesting to see how much those that co-morbidities have contributed towards this excess mortality so yet and from the white basic biology point if you were very clear now about the tach meant of the virus and also some of the mechanisms how it replicates its but still some of the very much a mountain question is on the transmission about how much weight goes into on contact surfa

joining me now are rachel bittekoffer, john nichols, national affairs correspondent for the nation, andr the soul of the democratic party." connie schultz, fuel let'ser prize winning journalist and professor in residence at kent state. ken coleman senior reporter from the michigan advance. and lynn hayes freelan. thank you all very much for being here. i've been looking forward to this segment all weekend. rachel, i will start with you because the intro was all about these polls in the battle ground states and how once you apply the margin of error it's a statistical tie. you are an election forecaster. when you are looking at polls like that, what do you see? >> yeah, i mean, these are polls that are very similar to the last cycle, except for this time they are accounting for weighting for non-college educated voters, so they're really not comparable, right? they are taking an adjustment that was not made last time, the people need to contextually understand and they are also really dealing -- there is an issue last cycle where we had atypical numbers of undecided and third-party votin

>> well, nichole, that's what the bob woodward book raised. johnn, that group who felt, and we can question whether they should have stayed in this administration long as they could but did so because of a dut toe serve and protection the nation what they saw were the president's worst impulses. the idea he was looking out for himself, from a political frame and not always in the national interest. all of those men are gone. as you say, you have been largely replaced by those who are far more politically aligned with the president. don't have necessarily the lengthy track records of service, and instead seem far more willing to bend to this president's whims, and certainly from day one of this administration he has undermined the intelligence agencies and helsinki is the most known moment of that, but there have been countless others, and the morale has been damaged and the departments 'em eve s emptied o. we're seeing here with the election just six or so weeks away great warning signs there could beous interference, namely from russia. every time

nichols that the impending ban was irrational because tiktok's parent bytedance is in negotiation with the trumpet ministration and other parties on a deal that is being forced by the trump administration. has saidney john hall that it would be no different than the government locking the roping offbook forum that town square. fromrrowed the words another town square, the we chat ban. it was granted paper limiter injunction using that tech -- granted a preliminary injunction , using that technology. shery: what can you tell us about smic? semiconductor manufacturing international, china's largest chip company. it has been added to an export list. bitre hearing that it was a of a compromise reach within the trump administration on smic, on basically this new ruling export limitation from the commerce department, u.s. firms must now apply for a license to -- the commerce department in a letter dated september 25 said that smic and its subsidiaries risk ofan unacceptable diversions to military use. it has notid received any official note and in the statement says that it has no relationship with the chinese military and does not make products for any military end-users. the ruling indicated that there coul

john mccain for two decades. but we begin with retired four-star general and msnbc military analyst barry mccaffrey. also tom nichols, writer for "the atlantic" and a professor at the u.s. naval war college. we should note he joins us here as a -- in his personal capacity, and peter baker, correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. barry mccaffrey, to you first, my friend. >> well, i think it's heartbreaking. it's plausible. it matches the other kinds of statements he's made from making fun of gold star families to deriding senator mccain, an authentic american hero. it's combined with a level of ignorance also of american history and our country that is astonishing. he allegedly asked general kelly or people in paris, why did the u.s. and world war ii come in on the side of the allies? he allegedly asked kelly at pearl harbor, tell me what happened here. i think the bottom line is 2.1 million men and women, active guard and reserve in our armed forces, they suffered 60,000 killed and wounded in the war on terror. he has no respect for somebody who serves out of patriotism or commitment t

john hill used the same terminology, town square, that a california district judge used in granting wechat a separate injunction to be banned in the united states. the tiktok lawyer has told carl nichols in that hearing earlier today, sunday morning, he told the judge the impending ban is irrational given its parent is in talks to strike a deal with american entities, you know, when the president has force, has amended this sale -- has demanded a very quick sale. it is interesting, the u.s. attorneys have cited a saturday judge ruling in pennsylvania by a judge. she ruled on a request by three tiktok users who said their livelihoods depend on tiktok. also, this ban would violate the first amendment rights of freedom of speech. this judge ruled against those tiktok users on saturday citing that there was no irreparable injury to users, and she pesticide the first amendment concerns. >> another top chinese tech company is being targeted by the trump administration. we're not talking bytedance or tencent or huawei. give us the latest on this new one. another indication of the trump administration ratcheting up the pressure, semiconductors. basically, a commerce department export ban. irm