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i'm yasmin vossoughian. we have a lot to cover in the next two hours. 16 days to go and both candidates are hitting the campaign trail. joe biden keeping up attacks on the president's leadership while the governpresident takes aim a governor of michigan. all this as covid cases are surging around the country. we'll focus on a pair of hot spots this hour, including utah hospitals which are close to collapsing from the weight of new cases flooding into those systems. that is coming up. >>> we start with joe biden wrapping up a speech at a drive-in rally in north carolina where cheers and applause were replaced with honking. with election day two weeks away, i want to bring in ali vitali. talk us through the messaging we heard from the former vice president today. >> reporter: this drive-in rally was a mix of talking policy while also attacking president donald trump. joe biden making mention of things like health care, saying he wants to build on obamacare while also talking about criminal justice reform and t

i'm yasmin vossoughian. nine days to go before election day. the president's strategy, covid? what covid? >> you know why we have so many cases? all we do are test f we cut our testing down in half, they -- well, they wouldn't say that, but cases would go down. now we have the best test. we're rounding the turn. we have the vaccines. we have everything. >> that's despite more than 8 million cases and more than 226,000 american lives lost. and then the president going beyond that at another rally, suggesting that america's front line health care workers have been lying about covid deaths. >> if somebody is terminally ill with cancer and they have covid, we report them. doctors and hospitals get more money. think of this incentive. some countries do it differently. if somebody is very sick with a bad heart they die of covid, they don't get reported as covid. then you wonder, geez i wonder why the cases are so low. >> mike pence refusing to altl the er his campaign schedule one bit after his chief of staff and other aides test positive for covid. this in comparison to the biden/h

i'm yasmin vossoughian. the president's rallies have been labeled as superspreader events, but it's not just potential cases of covid that he's spreading, the rallies are a super spreader event for lies and perhaps most especially for division. this is the president of the united states in michigan. >> ilhan omar who truly hates our country, but she's one of the reasons we're going to win the great state of -- we're going to win because of ilhan, right? we're going to win minnesota. this election will decide whether we preserve our magnificent heritage or whether we allow far-left radicals to wipe it all away. there's something about that when you watch everybody getting pushed around, there's somebody very beautiful about it. >> so the president also used both his rallies yesterday to target michigan governor gretchen whitmer. [ crowd chanting ] >> lock them all up. >> lock them all up, the president says there, which could be an unofficial campaign slogan. it's unclear what votes he hopes to win over with

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i'm yasmin vossoughian.hree days to go in the 2020 election. the campaign trail is hopping today, to say the least. can you believe it or not it? three days? it's been a long time. joe biden holding his first joint appearance of the election season with his former boss, barack obama. in flint, michigan, the four candidates out in force, holding 11 campaign events in four different states. the map telling the story what's important to these campaigns, all hitting those key battleground states. michigan, pennsylvania, north carolina and florida. so let's get right to it. we'll start with joe biden making his first appearance alongside former president and boss barack obama on the campaign trail. with that, i want to bring in my friend mike memoli at the event in flint, michigan. good to see you. thanks for joining us. this is the first time we've seen the president and the former vice president together on the campaign trail. barack obama really laying in to president trump as he has done over the last seven o

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i'm yasmin vossoughian. questions on the president's health have only created more questions. the covid diagnosis upending the election with 31 days to go. how each campaign is dealing with this new reality. also in an unprecedented move recordings have been released. we want to start with a update from the president's physician. it is raising questions like when the president learned that he had covid. >> 72 hours into the diagnosis now. at this time the team and i are extremely happy with the problem that the president has made. thursday he had a mild cough with nasal congestion and fatigue. >> the white house was quick to correct some of what the doctor said there clarifying that the president is on "day three of this illness, not a full 72 hours. he also issued a statement nap same day he attended a fundrais fundraiser. 73 hours ago he attended a rally in duluth, minnesota. so theres that been some back and forth on this time line, josh, that we're all trying to nail down. so talk us through some of the con future here today. >> it is not like we're nitpicking the exact ti

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>>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian. we've got a lot going on right now surrounding the election. 17 days to go and the two candidates pursuing very different campaign strategies in the homestretch. the president preparing right now to hit the road and put thousands more people at risk in superspreader events in two separate states. you see air force one there. this as millions of votes have already been cast. we'll take you to one of the states seeing long lines. and we're watching marches led across the country by women. and consequences, the president's winking nod to qanon and other conspiracy and fears of election violence. but we want to begin with the president en route to one of two campaign rallies that he's holding tonight. the president is taking his re-election push to michigan and wisconsin as well. two states that he won back in 2016 but is now losing to joe biden in the polls. nbc's shannon pettypiece is joining us at the white house. and monica alba. shannon, i'm going to start with you today, the preside

i'm yasmin vossoughian in for ayman mohyeldin today. president trump is getting ready to leave for yet another large rally in the battleground state of north carolina. the airport in gastonia says they expect 15,000 to 30,000 people to attend as just today the state reported 42 new covid-19 deaths and health officials sent letters to north carolina asking for help in slowing the spread. even with a death toll of more than 222,000, president trump says in an interview he has no regrets. >> with covid, is there anything that you think you could have done differently? if you had a mulligan or do-over on one aspect of the way you handled it? >> not much. it's all over the world. a lot of great leaders, a lot of smart people. it's all over the world. >>> kamala harris is making socially distanced stops while joe biden is preparing for the debate. as negotiations between the white house and speaker nancy pelosi continue today on a coronavirus relief bill, a procedural vote on the republicans' $500 billion bill just failed. joining me yamiche

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