i am in line with tim scott and nikki haley.ur opponent is going to lose, not because of race, but because he is so liberal. count me in for reforming the police. i voted for the first step act. president trump led the way. they can go back to their families. they can get a job. 31% of our state is african-american. at my record. i have been supporting historically back colleges -- black colleges. you need to be conservative, not liberal. i would like to talk about that a little bit more. if you could explain yourself. you said you do not believe there is systemic racism. but you names to people who are elected officials, nikki haley and senator tim scott, do you think there is a problem that you are only able to name so few people of color when it comes to people who have had success in their careers? perhaps there is a problem when you can only name so few. sen. graham: naming nikki haley and tim scott, national leaders in the republican party. this a proud moment for south carolina. not just for the republican party. tim scot

i am in line with tim scott and nikki haley.ur opponent is going to lose, not because of race, but because he is so liberal. count me in for reforming the police. he's raising $50 million to flip this state into the democratic column and it won't work. coming in for reforming the police. i voted for the first step act. president trump led the way. i worked with they can go back cory booker. a lot of people getting out of jail that resentenced to long terms in jail. 31% of our state is african-american. i'm asking every african-american out there to look at my record. supporting historic black colleges and universities and i'm glad president trump made it a permanent fixture. i care about everybody. if you are a young african-american, a democrat, you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative, not liberal. gordon: senator graham -- carolyn: senator graham, i would like to talk about that a little bit more. if you could explain yourself. you said you do not believe there is systemic racism. but you named two

nikki haley tweeting this picture today of her posing with new hampshire republican women who are all running for office. she says they're strong, smart and amazing. she's sniffing around a presidential run. but what do you notice? what do you notice about that photo right there? huh, looks like it could be a photo from 2018 or 2016 or 2019, you know, a bunch of people right next to each other not wearing masks indoors like the before times in direct contra vengs of cdc guidelines. just a new hampshire republican women getting together as if the virus doesn't exist. here's mike pence. another event. this one in iowa today. a couple hundred people inside. most of them not wearing masks because, again, maga. there is so many examples of this. not to mention this independent senate candidate in maine, max lynn. you see the trump strong motto he's got. he's running to the right of susan collins as the pure unadulterated trump strong candidate. he took anti-mask sentiment to a whole new level. >> i want to cut these masks right in front of our viewers. i want to be your first senator in th

i am in line with tim scott and nikki haley. my opponents going to lose not because of race because he is in line with the most liberal people in the country. he is raising $50 million from liberals all over this country to flip the state into the democratic column. it's not going to work. so count me in for reforming the police. i voted for the first step act they gave african-american males and hispanic males in prison under the joe biden three strikes you're out bill. president trump led the way. i went with cory booker there are a lot of people getting out of jail who were sentenced to long terms in jail for nonviolence offenses for they can go back to the families they can get a job. 31% of her status african-american bird i am asking for every african-american out there look at my record. have been supporting historic black college universities i am glad president trump is made a permanent fixture now it would up the ag every year for the money. i care about everybody. if you are young african-american common immigrant you

. >> bret: we will speak to surrogates for both campaigns, nikki haley from the trump team and pete buttigiegepresenting vice president biden. >> martha: brand-new developments in the story of the biden family business ventures overseas, an investigation is gaining traction tonight as we headed to this evenings debate. >> bret: one of the recipients of an email from hunter biden is confirming its authenticity, actually several emails and text messages and shedding some new light on the families role in a business arrangement with a chinese company. mike emanuel is in washington with the very latest. >> hunter biden's former business partner on a chinese energy deal breaks his silence unloading text messages, emails, and documents he claims are about hunter biden's overseas business dealings and interaction with joe biden. in a may 19th 2017 text message obtained by fox news, hunter biden apparently tells his business associates "my chairman gave an emphatic no." that same day business associate rob walker appears to respond when he said his chairman, he was talking about his dad. he served in

also ralph godfrey, former spokesman to former south carolina governor nikki haley.l start with you because you outrank rob. you know palmetto state politics better than most. if i had told you this race would be a toss-up this time last year, what would you have said? >> i would have said that i was stunned, given the history that we've had in the state for republican u.s. senators running for reelection. the chances of a democrat beating them have not been great. harrison has run a remarkable race, he's a very compelling candidate. i have to say it is a dead heat here. if you are an incumbent republican u.s. senator in a dead heat a couple of weeks out, you're in serious trouble. >> rob, what do you make of this toss-up assessment? are republicans legitimately concerned, worried about losing senator lindsey graham's seat? >> i think without question the race is tight. i think there's a lot of excitement on the ground for both sides. it's a margin of error race which i don't think anybody would have told you a year ago that they thought it would be. but at the end o

i -- nikki haley. i said mr. james you are a rock star. what do you see for your race?t is happening on the ground in michigan for you and the president? >> i am not a star. i am just a syrphidae. -- servant. i bring glory to god in everything we do. >> sean: that answer makes you a star. you could have taken all the credit and didn't. good for. >> you it's about what i can do for the people in the state of michigan who have been so disappointed by gary peters. go to my website to learn more about how i can better serve my faith and the nation. i need your help. >> sean: nikki, one of the things that scares me the power grab democrats are saying they will be involved in. i am not sure if people fully understand court packing. i am not sure if they understand 4 new democratic senators or the impact of amnesty on politics for the future. >> sean, there is a lot of stake. whether it's a conservative court versus court packing or law and order versus riots and defunding the police as we see in philadelphia. whether it's education given in the hands of parents versus educati

. >> nikki haley trying to sell a softer version of the republican party message to suburban women that have been fleeing donald trump's column for months. bernie sanders, talk to the labor union members who maybe are not big fans of the democratic party culturally but like bernie and i kind of like trump. >> holding a virtual unity town hall tonight. vice president pence is making a stop in allegheny county, kicking off a busy weekend. and we saw a lot of activity here in pennsylvania in 2016, too. but there is one difference. as the election nears, there are fewer and fewer voters who have not voted yet, since this time, unlike four years ago, all pennsylvania voters can vote by mail or with a bail-in ballot. >> lauren, with 11 days until election day count on nbc 10 to make sure you have all the information you need to cast your vote. we have a full voting guide on nbc 10.com. we have a map of mail in ballot drop box locations. go to nbc 10.com/voterguides. police say a man and a woman are responsible for killing two young brothers. eight-year-old perez and his brother were found sho

this is also hypothetical pure event pick would not necessarily be nikki haley, but certainly she would be in the running and would be interested in it. but i think there are so many different ways this could go, so the speculation is a little bit fruitless at a certain point, and, as you said, i think we would see over the next week or so how seriously the president has this disease. he certainly seemed healthy and fit this week, so i think we will have to sort of watch that and see how his medical condition progresses, but if he really is incapacitated, and there is a new ticket on the public inside -- on the republican side, it will tighten the polls, tighten the race or does millie, but -- the race. ultimately, i think joe biden wins the election. francine: how will we get updates? will it be tweets by the president himself, or will it be a task force? lew: great question. two things. i think we will certainly see tweets from the president, and i would not be surprised if he wakes up this morning and tweets that he is feeling great but he is isolated and still working hard. and i th

at the u.n., i am on board with what nikki haley did, standing with israel unwaveringly. now the administration has shown we can pass peace in the middle east, strengthening bonds with other nations across the middle east, a very unstable region, with israel. -- when itot to comes to china, we've got to make sure we are standing up and being tough on china because they are our adversary. i am disappointed this congressman has not stood up to the chinese -- chinese communist party. sam: a rebuttal? rep. allred: i'm having a hard time understanding how i am supposed to hold nato accountable. i was in afghanistan last year over thanksgiving, visiting the air force base in our embassy. you know who is fighting in afghanistan? nato. there's only one time in the history of nato's existence that mutual defense was enacted and that was after 9/11 to defend us. you have the country of georgia doing base defense and afghanistan, you have the british, the french, the germans . yes, nato can do things better, but this is how we've kept the world safe, and to question that i think sho

ambassador nikki haley, while biden has deployed running mate kamala harris, his former rival, berniers, and even the legendary singer cher. jamie. >> yuccas: all big names. nikole in the midst of all this campaigning, amy coney barrett appears to be moving closer toward confirmation, especially with the help of one more senator today. >> reporter: well, here in washington, alaska senator lisa murkowski announced that she will vote for barrett, even though she opposed filling the vacancy right before the election. that means republicans will likely have the votes they need to confirm barrett monday. jamie. >> yuccas: nikole killion in washington, thanks so much. the coronavirus crisis in this country is taking a dangerous turn. cases are spiking, an in at leat 41 states. the number of people hospitalized is also setting records. more than 83,000 new cases were confirmed friday. that is the worst day yet. cbs' danya bacchus has the latest. >> reporter: the coronavirus crisis is intensifying. the surge causing pain across much of the nation. 15 states have now reached a pandemic peak in

nikki haley and many others were considered to be anonymous and the "new york times" let that go for policy advisor? that's hard to swallow. >> greg, you looked fired up. go ahead. >> well, you want to talk about principles. glenn greenwald just resigned from his own media empire because they wanted to censor his critical sections of joe biden in his article. that's impress they have he resigned from his own business. think about what the "times" did. it was a deception. the reason they made it anonymous is they wanted to leave it to our imagination who this person could be. they knew the person was a nobody. but they thought if they could call him -- if they just had his by-line the story could not be published. by saying it was anonymous that played that it was a security issue but it was a deception to trick readers. anybody laughing about how this guy is a nobody is missing the point. the "times" massacraded a low low-level hack. if i said i am having someone from the "new york times" on my show tomorrow and putting in disguise. he will rereal -- reveal a long history of sexual h

after the rnc you and nikki haley i even know i was running.t the reality is this process has woken me up to so much we are so blessed to live in this country. will have enough fighters on the conservative side willing to engage the democrats have taken advantage of that for decades and laughing their way to the bank that's not my style i will keep fighting whether i will run or not i will one - - of plans right now but i will say one way or the other for sure. >> we have a new exhibit the presidents club between your father and richard nixon and the friendships that people don't know or understand and to see her father on tv that he will be president. >> it's amazing on the menu at lunch is an amazing library by the way to have that correspondence who say from the president to say she is a political expert if you ever decide to run you will win. that is the first opening salvo so i look forward to seeing all the others because that's pretty amazing in the first person or family letters to the game of politics. >> liberal privilege available fr

in new hampshire, former south carolina governor and trump campaign surrogate nikki haley hosted an event thursday for 99 republican women running for office. haley tweeted a photo of herself posing with the women, packed indoors, shoulder-to-shoulder, none of them wearing masks. here in new york, the john f. kennedy jr. school in queens sent students home for two weeks after staff members tested positive for coronavirus. this came on first day of in-person classes for many of new york city's 500,000 students, even as 10 zip codes in brooklyn and queens reported alarming spikes in coronavirus cases. amazon thursday released data showing nearly 20,000 of its rkers haveve tested positive or were presumed to have covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. in sports news, the tennessee titans canceled sunday's game with the pittsburgh steelers after the team's total number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose to 11. in texas, rerepublican governor greg abbott issued a proclamation thursday limiting absentee ballot drop-off locations to just one per county in the latest effort by texas republica

it can be tricky to do some spotting from our vantage point up high but we have seen ambassador nikki haleythere is a seat marked out for her on the floor. and musician kid rock is in attendance as well. i'm told he has a restaurant here in nashville. he has been somebody vocal about his support for president trump. i suspect we'll see more people come in in the next couple minutes including members of the trump family once they do arrive. the first lady is traveling with president trump. this is the first time we're seeing her publicly since having the coronavirus. she did not attend a rally because of a spokesperson, her chief of staff, said was a lingering cough. this will be an opportunity to see first lady melania trump and members of the trump family including eric and ivanka trump as well. >> nbc's moderator of "meet the press," chuck todd, is here. joe biden is leading in the polls. democrats obviously not going to spike the football quite yet because of four years ago. what is the trump path to victory? what line could he follow? >> it's gotten narrow since the last debate. one thi

ask nikki haley. this is a wonderful state and we can do better. moderator: your time is up. mr. harrison: what you just saw his lynsey taking all of his talking points and dumping all to you. you are worried about everybody else's paycheck other than your own. when you said over our dead bodies will we allow an extension of unemployment benefits for folks who are right now just to make ends meet, what about the fact you every's your salary three times. i wish many of us have raised our salaries, but you raise stores three times. you are worried more about my bills and i am. to my household, i have two boys i have to take care of, along with my wife and a grandmother who is elderly. i also have a mom who was foreclosed on out -- on her home and i helped her. i appreciate that thoughtfulness that you are so concerned. but senator i pay them on time. moderator: thank you. i give you twice i can still respond. sen. graham: thank you for the job i have. i make 175,000 plus as a senator and i never thought i would make this much money. i play my -- i pay my answer payment and help my

the restoration is would be people from the strong right .ike ted cruz or nikki haley or ben sasse whoould be running as the establishment and the republican party. like marco rubio who are breaking ground on american foreign policy and domestic policy urging significant changes. moderate outsiders like larry hogan or charlie baker who are distinctly more centrist and not part of any distinct faction who would perhaps attract a following among people who want something completely different. that hasre a faction an advantage right now? >> with respect to the individuals, it is name identification. whatd to believe that the is more important than who. the alignment of voters eventually determines who the nominee is rather than going from the top down. i think that is the interesting question. there are clearly people who want restoration is to view. clearly people want to see a figure like trump. there is a very strong potential for majority or the plurality around primary voting and young reformers crowd if they are able to both articulate a good message and find an attractive messenger

right like ted cruz orom christie know whos following more of a tea party republican party or a nikki haleyor ben sasse basically would bee running as the establishment of the republican party. young reformers are people like josh hawley or tom cotton or marco rubio who are breaking ground on american foreign policy and america domestic policy urging significant changes. moderate outsiders would be people like larry hogan or charlie baker or even alisa stefanik two or more centrist and distinctly not part of any action would perhaps attract a following among people who want something completelyte differen. >> is there any advantage now what his name and identification? >> with respect to the individuals the name identification. with respect -- i tend to believe that the what is more important than the who, the alignment of voters eventually determines who the nominee is rather than coming from the top down. i i think that the interesting question is there's clear to people who want restoration is view. there is. people who would like to see a trump like figure it but i think there's a very

former un ambassador nikki haley says american's enemies fight democratic elections online because thishat's actually available to them. listen. >> back in 2016, you actually had the russians coordinating rallies that americans were going to, having no idea that they were doing it. their whole goal was to separate us on race and on religion. i think now you're going to see the same thing. they are trying to cause chaos through these e-mails. reporter: so race, immigration, gun rights, domestic issues like that are now the m.o. for russian military intelligence agents looking to interfere in u.s. elections. they are trying to do this by hacking e-mail, by creating fake bot accounts on social media and trying to impact the way americans actually talk about this issue with one another. it's really insidious, neil? neil: they have no doubt that the russians are at it again. the only issue is how many others are at it with them, right? reporter: that's right. and now still political in-fighting about whether russia tried last time around to help president trump or whether russia was clearly

nikki haley weighed in with fox news and she said the bottom line here is that america's enemies fightcratic elections online because it's the cheapest form of warfare that is available to them. listen. >> back in 2016 you actually had the russians coordinating rallies that americans were going to having no idea they were doing it. their whole goal was to separate us on race and on religion. i think now you will see the same thing. they're trying to cause chaos through these emails. >> officials who are familiar with the underlying intelligence are telling fox news that over at the house intelligence committee devin nunes, minority leader, is pushing for this highly classified report to be released to public in an unclassified format. some republican colleagues and democrats are making the case it would compromise sources and methods and really hurt u.s. national security interests to release it. if anyone decides to release it, we'll bring it to you immediately. >> sandra: thank you. >> created real openings for president trump. he said no one lost their health insurance under obamaca

justice amy coney barrett is an example of that and ambassador nikki haley is an example of that secretary goes on. a president who empowers women and it's important that we have people out there speaking about his accomplishments. speaking about the choice we face next week because there are women who are on the face that may sway their vote between now and next tuesday or if they vote early before that. steve: that's right. tammy, there is a brand new abc news poll that has come out that shows that joe biden, according to this and they insist it's not a misprint in wisconsin is up 17 points and it's attributed to the covid response and with women it says that joe biden is ahead by 30. >> yeah. look. i think we learned in 2016 and even through this process that polls are especially weak these days because of the nature of people feeling comfortable expressing their political opinion which has become extremely difficult and in many places dangerous. the poll that matters is the one on november 3rd. i think what we have got here and american women understand this especially is that none of