abby phillip is back with us.e anna palmer, a senior washington correspondent for "politico." let's talk about georgia. think of it like real estate. each calendar zay a piece day i real estate. if you're deviegt full day to georgia, it means something. >> nobody is going to say joe biden is going to stop a week out from the election sris goin to be georgia. they like the thought of the economic rebuilding that the vice president wants to talk about, unity, and so this is kind of the stage that he's setting himself up for, which is very different than kind of the blocking and tackling in florida and pennsylvania and some of these other states where other surrogates are going. >> but, abby, just explain their confidence. does former vp biden think he's going to win georgia? or is he just trying put president trump on defense? is he trying shore up senate races and down ballot democrats? what's that strategy there? >> i think it's probably a little bit of both. i mean, at this stage, you see the biden/harris campaig

abby phillip back with us this morning. abby, that interview was interesting.t was with jon favreau and tom tommy vetter, his guys for eight years in the administration. i'm not sure the discussion in and of itself will necessarily animate voters, but the president hitting the campaign trail, i know the biden team does think will help. how? and with whom can president obama help? >> that is a very interesting question, i think, this cycle. you know, president obama went out on the campaign trail four years ago for hillary clinton, kind of playing the same role as the closer in that race, too. and -- but i think that there was then a misconception about who president obama actually can move. i do think that there is a segment of the democratic party, but it's a more moderate sort of center-left segment of the democratic party, that obviously loves president obama and the levels of enthusiasm definitely are affected by his presence on the campaign trail. i definitely think there's been a shift away from president obama among the most liberal of liberals, like sor

medically abby has to go through a lot. she sees multiple specialists in pittsburgh, cleveland, and boston. she has ongoing blood work to monitor her anemia and to watch for signs of leukemia. she has regular e.e.g.'s and m.r.i.'s to monitor the progress of her seizures. she uses hearing aids and glasses, a wheelchair, and a speech generating device. she relies on protections for people with preexisting conditions. and she relies on the ban on lifetime caps to access this care. without the affordable care act, amy would be uninsurable. unquote. then erin goes on to talk about the benefit of living in pennsylvania because of some extra protections that abby has. and then she continues and i'm quoting, because she receives this care, abby is right now healthy, happy, and thriving. as you might expect, abby is considered very high risk should she contract covid-19. abby has not been inside any building that is not our home or a hospital since may 10 of this -- march 10 of this year. summer vacation, play dates, outing, travel

joining us now, cnn political correspondent, abby phillip. it's so nice to have a finish line with this, because we've heard it for so many years. unmasking, unmasking, unmasking. everywhere. one of our experts who worked in the doj said this was common practice in every administration when intelligence officials or lawmakers need to know about what's happening with some sort of intelligence operation, they ask for it to be unmasked. they saw nothing wrong with it. turns out doj found nothing wrong with it. i mean, no wrongdoing found even though they had appointed this u.s. attorney, but the american public will never hear about this, because no report. it all just evaporated. >> reporter: yeah, that is really peculiar that after all of this effort, there's nothing to show for it. doj apparently doesn't want to comment on it. and i also think that it's really reflective of attorney general bill barr's prejudging of the situation from the beginning. in congressional testimony and repeated staples, repeatedly insinuating that there was wrongdo

abby, what's the latest?: election officials are continuing to struggle with long lines. we're seeing gang buster turn out in two states that are not typically presidential battle grounds, texas and georgia. early voelting again bringing lines of voters in the final full week before the election. even the ongoing coronavirus pandemic isn't putting a stop to civic duty. >> the way the country is, we're trying to make a difference. >> reporter: more than 60 million americans have already voted, surpassing all 2016 early ballots cast. more young people and minorities are casting ballots early. >> i want us to be better as a country. there's a lot of injustice and things that need to be fixed. >> reporter: this nasa astronaut proved you can vote even when it's zero gravity. >> it's important for everybody to vote. if we can do it from space, then folks can do it from the ground. >> reporter: in georgia total ballots cast is doubled from 2016. in texas more than 7.3 million people voted so far. that represents mor

abby, thank you very much. and i should emphasize what abby said, that he told a reporter he felt harassed. i mean, he did. and that is a stunning thing to say. dr. fauci says he feels harassed, his word, by the trump campaign in terms of what they're doing. it is a pretty incredible precipice here that we stand on the edge of. out front next, the florida governor ron desantis arriving at the rally just moments ago. and there was the scene. we see the scene. there are no masks. there are high fives. this is sth this is 2019? plus democrats united and on message regarding trump's supreme court pick. >> president trump promises to only nominate judges who will get rid of the affordable care act. >> by the way, i just want to say amy coney barrett had covid. she's wearing a mask because examples matter. and also tonight hear why women who supported trump in 2016 say they can no longer vote for the president. >> do you regret your vote? >> where we are today? yes. i do. you're clearly someone who takes care of your

joining us now john harwood and abby phillip. abby, i want to start with you. the supreme court ruling means in pennsylvania more mail-in ballots will be counted for longer, for three days after november 3rd, after in-person election day is over. why are democrats this morning so excited about this ruling? >> yeah. well, you know, in some ways you can't extrapolate too much from this ruling but the very individual significance for pennsylvania is why democrats are so happy about this ruling. pennsylvania is such a critical state, particularly for joe biden. it makes his path to 270 much easier. but it's a state that democrats were really worried about in terms of how quickly they'd be able to count ballots, in terms of how long people would have to submit their ballots. so this legal war has been going on for so long. what i'm hearing is people are saying this is basically a win because, in large part, this issue is being settled. we are now 14 days, two weeks exactly, before election day. it is going to be difficult for this to be reversed after the election.

abby philip, to you. an opportunity for empathy. an opportunity for telling the american people, i hear you, i feel literally feel the pain you've been feeling now for seven months. "the new york times" has a story this morning, abby, that says that some of the president's advisers thought that this might be a moment where he could turn to them and offer a new tone. and i hesitate to even use those words in association with donald trump. but, the times makes a point he went the opposite way. >> he's almost always does. the reality is that there is never a new donald trump, there's always the same donald trump who acts in a pretty narrow self-interest, specifically doing things that he thinks will make his base of maybe 30% of the public happy or support him. and that's where he is right now. but last night overnight on cnn's air we had several survivors and family members of people who lost loved ones due to this crisis. and they said the same thing effectively, that his actions or words have been really like a gut punch to them. mi

david axelrod, abby phillip, thanks so much for being with us. abby and david will both be a big part of cnn's special coverage of election night in america, that's tuesday starting at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. >>> so one state that we didn't talk about which is fascinating today is texas. early voting there has just seen a record surge in early voting. we have a live report and we will speak to someone from a county that already has more votes total than all of 2016. >>> today is the final day for early in-person voting in seven states including texas. the numbers in texas surging past early voting totals from four years ago. when you include mail-in ballots it could exceed the total turnout from 2016. also surging in texas the number of people hospitalized right now with coronavirus. cnn's jason carroll has been talking to voters in texas about all of this. jason, what have you learned? >> reporter: good morning, to you. even at this early hour, alisyn, folks are lined up waiting to go inside and participate in early voting. we've seen an enthusi

>> abby, texas has not gone blue since jimmy carter in 1976.stic is it, this idea that the state is in play? >> i think it's realistic. that doesn't mean likely. so if you look at -- what is going on, one of the most fascinating things is, of the things priscilla mentioned, there's an additional factor going in democrats' favor. down ballot, the democrats are competing for the state house of representatives and nancy pelosi has launched a full-on offensive at texas u.s. house seats. there are well-funded candidates running sophisticated campaigns who have been running for two years, some even four years. so joe biden comes into this state with ap infrastructure that has not existed in -- easily 20 years. so i think nbc news and cook political report are correct in rating it a toss-up if only because things are so uncertain and so unstable. >> but talk to us, abby, about who that texan voter is. you're from ft. worth. that is part of the county that went for trump in 2016 but actually voted for beto o'rourke in 2018. who lives there? who is voti

. >> abby philip joins me now and abby, she outright called trump racist. these are carefully chosen words and that's what she said. >> reporter: yeah, and this is a continuation of what we've been hearing from michelle obama for months now, and it really, i think, reached an apex over the summer with the george floyd protests that touched off racial justice protests all across the current, and she talked about in her podcast the impact that had on her personally and in that clip you just played, she xpounds expounds on that even more, pleading, really, with white americans to envision themselves in the shoes of their fellow americans, their fellow black americans, and really appealing to them not to get drawn in to what she called the president's racist appeals to white people, to fear minorities moving into the suburbs, and specifically, i think this message really is going to be aimed at women, who she's always had a lot of sway with. suburban women, always had a lot of sway with them, but they are also the constituency most open to this kind of message,

i want to bring in abby phillip, right now, and others. abby, first of all, what's at stake, from your perspective, for the candidates in this, the final debate, tonight? >> this is the last impression, wolf. this is the last opportunity, all these candidates are going to have to have millions of people tuning in to their closing argument. and president trump, i think, has a lot more work to do, tonight, than he -- than joe biden. in part, because of how the first debate went. it's been about two weeks or, i'm sorry, even longer than two weeks. almost a month since the last debate. and the president, in that time, hasn't really done much to change voters' impressions of him in this final stretch. and while, you know, a lot of people argue, at this stage, it's not about converting new people. it's about turnout. the president has to make sure he doesn't depress his own potential voters by turning in a very similar performance as the first debate. meanwhile, i think joe biden needs to get pretty specific. he's going to focus on the coronavir

all right, david, abby, gloria, sanj sanjay. we'll get back to you. breaking news continues here in the situation room with more on the president's imminent departure from the hospital and his return to the white house. we'll, of course, have live coverage and we'll talk about all the breaking news coming up with a veteran journalist, bob woodward. there you see him. lots to discuss. he has lots of new information for us as well. we'll be right back. an important message from medicare. fraudsters, they're out to get your medicare number so they can bill fake claims in your good name. don't give them that chance. just calling to confirm your medicare number. do you have your card available? for example, if the caller says they're from medicare, watch out. it's probably a scam. don't give out your card number. and always check your claims statements for errors. report fraudulent charges to 1-800-medicare. guard your card. learn more at medicare.gov/fraud. >>> breaking news this hour. president trump soon leaving the walter reed national military medical

joining me to discuss it nia and abby. what do you think? appropriate for the house speaker to question the president's judgment and mental state right now? he is battling a potentially fatal illness and he is on serious medication as far as we know? >> that's right. he is behaving rather erratically. of course it's hard to tell with this president because this president often behaves erratically, changes his mind on important issues as we've seen him do here with stimulus talks off and on as well as the debates. i think if you're nancy pelosi you are watching a president at a critical time in his election just days out of the hospital and on this medication, and you're also seeing his doctors not be transparent about his status, his health status. it's also clear this president, at least so far, i'm not sure, if we seen him live and in person talking? i know he called into the fox news network and talked to an anchor there for some time. but that in some ways, i think, could be alarming as well. as much as he is declaring that he is cured a

abby finkenauer? rep. finkenauer: i grew up here in iowa, i come from a family that taught me that when there is work to be done, you say yes and you do x. that is what i have tried to do in congress. i passed a bipartisan bill to help small businesses. i have introduced over 20 bipartisan bills, including permanently funding the children's health insurance program so it stops the egg as political football -- so it stops being used as political football. condition while being treated at walter reed na he was admitted on friday after testing positive c

joining us now john harwood and abby phillip. abby, i want to start with you.reme court ruling

joining me now, is malika henderson and abby phillips. do you think it's a smart strategy for the biden campaign in the final stretch to focus on reach states like iowa and georgia as opposed to just honing in on the states that they need, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan? >> i think it's probably fine for the biden campaign to dabble in some of these reach states and especially if it puts the trump campaign on defense. that is is a pretty well-worn political strategy. it's really down to some core states for biden and the most central of them is pennsylvania where he was just a few minutes ago. there is, i think, no other state on the map that is more important for joe biden than pennsylvania. it makes his path incredibly -- significantly easier and make donald trump's path a lot harder. so iowa is a place that the trump campaign says they are doing very well but the fact that biden is going there forcing them to continue to invest time and resources into it is a sign biden is on the offense in this map but, at the same time, based on 2

as abby pointed out, voting is already under way.ch in which you shore up support, not just from your base, but you have that last opportunity, perhaps, to persuade undecided voters this time compared to 2016, there is a smaller percentage of undecided voters. it's not just campaign events. this also throws into question the remaining presidential debates. we know the vice presidential debate is still on as we pointed out, but the two remaining debates between president trump and vice president biden have now been called into question due to the president's condition and uncertainty surrounding his health. so it's really unclear, of course, how this is going to impact the final month of the election, because there's so much that we don't know. we're in uncharted territory. but i think that it will, at the end of the day, reinforce public perceptions about the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. it certainly ensures that the pandemic will continue to be top of mind for a lot of voters as they go into these polls. that is

abby, right now we're, what, 19 days from the presidential election. we've only seen one debate between president trump and former vice president biden. tonight instead of facing off, they'll appear in separate town hall at exactly the same time. what impact do you think this will have on the contest? >> it's interesting, wolf. the president was the one who backed out of a virtual debate and is doing this town hall instead but based on his own comments today, his own tweets today, it seems to suggest that perhaps the president doesn't actually want to do this. he has been slamming nbc news. he has been sort of prespinning the town hall tonight. a town hall with voters, and saying it's going to be, you know, bad for him or that the audience is going to be stacked against him. this is a president who does not sound like someone who thinks that this is a golden opportunity to have the stage all to himself to speak to the american public. i think in terms of how this affects the race, it remains to be seen. it is not going to be possible for voters, really

abby phillip is with us now.states like georgia needed. >> i think in states like georgia, a lot of activists would say it's been pretty bad for years. this is a huge issue going back many years, but particularly after the 2018 election, when there were accusations and basically the road blocks being put in place to -- for example, like voter i.d. laws and changes to polling locations, consolidation of polls locations had a suppressive effect, particularly on black and latino voters, there have been some studies found that black and latino voters are more likely to wait this lines, they tend to wait about 45 minutes longer than white voters, so the concerns there are real. i would say also about georgia, you know, there's been a rash of sort of voter purging of the voter rolls, they say to clean up the rolls, but the result is often people who are rightfully allowed to vote who should still be registered are taken off, making it more difficult to vote when they want to. just this year, about 200,000 people were r

joining us now cnn political correspondent abby phillip and laura coats. laura, are you surprised to find that this long investigation on the taxpayer's dime by the department of justice, no report, no findings of any wrongdoing? >> gosh, i'm so shocked, alisyn, that a conspiracy theory could not be corroborated. this was something that politically speaking trump was trying to use to suggest that an otherwise normal practice of identifying people who had been redacted from documents in order to better understand a classified document that somehow this was going to transform itself into an overall conspiracy and an overall witch-hunt again against president trump. so i'm not shocked to find that this had no results, but i am shocked to find, however, that we may not actually see the full report. the last time there was a very important months' long plus investigation into an allegation we had the attorney general william barr come out to give not only a preface but also a summary and a press conference about the idea of no findings. and now it seems all i'm

abby finkenauer? rep. finkenauer: i grew up here in iowa, i come from a family that taught me that when there is work to be done, you say yes and you do x. that is what i have tried to do in congress. i passed a bipartisan bill to help small businesses. i have introduced over 20 bipartisan bills, including permanently funding the children's health insurance program so it stops the egg as political football -- so it stops being used as political football. making it so we can attract more doctors to iowa and investments in rural infrastructure. there are people who say, you talk about the bipartisan work, but is that really happening in d.c.? my day is different than what you see on tv at nights. powereve there is more and unity than division and we have to get things done. >> i have to wrap things up. >> thank you. >> who will control congress in january? stay informed on all the competitive congressional races leading up to election day with c-span's campaign 2020 coverage. watch the candidates debate and

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abby has -- and i'll describe what she has.bby is autistic, deaf/blind/nonverbal and has a progressive neurological system affecting multiple systems. she says in this letter to me that her daughter abby is uninsurable without the affordable care act. >> wow. >> here's another mom who vowro to me. her daughter sienna has down syndrome. these are the people whose lives are at stake with this november 10th argument in front of the supreme court on the affordable care act. >> these are real people, and this is a real, real serious situation. thank you for being with us this evening, senator bob casey of pennsylvania. joining me now my political strategist, democrat zerl ina maxwell and republican susan del percio. the fact that as we know, they have already began the process to roll into a vote on judge coney -- becoming justice coney. and as you just heard senator casey said, and he gave two demonstrations of real live people that will be affected, this is no just courtroom kind of back and forth. you are talking about on the 10t

>> to abby's point, it's not just bad public health. but it's hard to see it as anything other than bad politics, also. why keep showing this picture to people? sanjay, big picture on the pandemic now. we are seeing record-high hospitalizations in ten states. we are seeing case numbers rise. how concerning is this? >> this is particularly concerning, john. i mean, you know, one thing we talk about this in terms of people who have been infected. people who have, sadly, died. people who have recovered. but, you know, the impact, in terms of what happens to people in the interim. you know, people get sick and -- and you start to project what are the hospital bed requirements going to become as we go into the winter months? and what do we really have? so, take a look here. we found this sort of buried into the ihme models. but what you find is that purple line there sort of shows what the hospital bed sort of demand may be as we go into the end of the year. when you do the math on that, you find that it starts to significantly exceed what w

hold on one second, abby. here is former vice president joe biden speaking in grand rapids, michigan. >> before i start, let me explain the delay. we wanted to make sure that we were doing everything by the numbers. and so i got two covid tests this morning, one in delaware and one by the former white house doc who came up, and everything is clear. we wanted to make sure everything was clear before i came. and we were supposed to have an event after this at a headquarters. but based on the crowd size and indoors, the docs said best not to do it. but i want to thank all of you. i want to thank matt. you were putting yourself on the line and a lot of other people did all across this country in your union. and i want to thank david, secretary-treasurer of local 951 for having me here today. look, i'd like to start by acknowledging, which i'm sure all of you do as well, sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and the president of the united states after they tested positive for covid-19. my

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. >>> with me, abby livingston. and abby, reach out to you because you're in texas. equally staggering numbers. more than 2 million already cast ballots, done ither in person or by mail more than 15% of all ret registered voter. a sense of politics and how it looks now in texas and how much you think texas is in play? is it truly purple? is there a chance that it can go democratic? >> i think there's a chance. but i don't want to put odds to it. >> hmm. you know what? looks like abby's frozen just for a moment. hayes, to you way question. the final push we're in now, too little too late? because when you already have this many people, 21 million americans, who cast ballots already, you know, i asked earlier. others on the broadcast, who's left? who has not made up their mind yet? >> that's a great question, and there are, have to be people out there, just by the large, large numbers. people out there not quite who have made up their mind whether or not to cast their ballot for donald trump or going for joe biden. whether it's a hold your nose situation or i don't hav

much about coronavirus because it has impacted him personally, but one thing that he isn't doing and abby phillip made this point in the last hour, which i think is so smart, the president isn't doing anything to educate the public about what he has gone through. he isn't using this moment of him having the virus to make an appeal to his supporters, many of whom are out here today without wearing any masks, without social distancing to take those steps, take those common sense steps that the president failed to take in so many instances before he contracted this virus. he is not using this moment as a teaching moment. just the last point here, what he's doing instead in doing this pr move to show his supporters that he is doing all right, he is putting the lives of secret service agents at risk. we saw at least two secret service agents in the vehicle the president was riding in. they were wearing n95 respirators but that's it. not the kind of protocols behind me at walter reed, where we're told doctors going into the room to treat him, they are wearing the full suite of protective gear,

all that have is meant to reinforce that message too, although not explicitly. >> phillip bump and abby phillips, thank you. have a great weekend. >>> we work at those who word with and for president trump. cnn learned that former retired chief of staff john kelly has said, quote. this brand had you in any reporting is from our new special report "the insiders a warning from former trump officials." it is airing sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern time only here on cnn. >>> with just 18 days until the election, president trump is spreading more falsehoods about coronavirus and he is also spreading coronavirus. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta is here with a reality check next. ...or cold? what ? introducing the new sleep number 360 smart bed. now temperature balancing so you can sleep better together. save up to $1,000 on the new sleep number 360 smart bed and adjustable base. plus, 0% interest for 48 months. ends monday. managing you're on it.es? staying fit and snacking light? yup, on it there too. you may think you're doing all you can to manage type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...but could your m

joining us now is cnn political correspondent, abby phillip.bby, why won't his doctors say if he's tested positive or negative? what is so hard -- why won't president trump say that? >> probably because he hasn't tested negative. and it probably is because he may not test negative before he returns to his public engagements, as his doctor put it. you know, i do think that we don't know whether he's contagious or not. i think his doctors are going to make a determination about that. but there are some questions about what the public should trust about the president's health, his level of contagion, and frankly, that of those around him, and also what the biden campaign at the debate commission ought to trust about that information. i thought it was interesting that dr. conley made an indication about when the president could go back and do rallies or what have you without saying what kind of information, medical data he's using to make that determination. it basically came down to, well, it's been ten days since the onset of symptoms and you kno

so abby, the first lady did talk personally.een a patient of coronavirus, her husband had it, her son had it. she attacked joe biden about it. now you look at the context here, her favorability ratings are higher than her husband's. so will her words sway any voters? >> well, if you listen to what she's saying, she's not saying anything a whole lot different than what the president is saying when it comes to the coronavirus and also the central message about the biden campaign sort of trying to paint them as socialists or closet socialists. i think this is a departure from what you typically see first ladies doing on the trail. they are supposed to be in some ways the softer edge, trying to humanize their husbands, connecting with women voters in different ways and particularly with president trump, that would be a really strong contasrast fm melania trump to make. but she's just reading a speech that seems to have written by the west wing, and not doing what i thought she did effectively, when she was diagnosed with covid, whic

but i want to start with abby. unorthodox campaign strategies that you don't normally see within two weeks of an election from both sides. as john just pointed out that sort of litany of people that president trump is going after, lesl lesley stahl, hillary clinton. okay, i know we always ask what the strategy and it's often just the politics of personal grievance. but do voters care about lesley stahl? >> i don't know that voters care about lesley stahl in the way that the president and perhaps the white house do. what was so perplexing about this is that the president really, you know, i mean, i have to just say, he loves 60 minutes. he wants to be seen on one of the most popular news programs on television. and yet, when he had his moment, it kind of blew up based on what we understand from the reporting that's out there and as a result now, they're trying to counterprogram by tweeting mean things about lesley stahl. and it just does not seem ton something that will work. millions of people will see what happene

abby, you're up with the math lesson.st seen the way phil did all of that magic math, how does that play into the strategy that we're seeing for the next few days. >> look, i'm not as good at math as phil is, but i can tell you that you can tell by where these candidates are going, what they think is important. and the biden campaign in particular, because they're living with this sort of hangover from 2016, they really are in a position where they have to show up in that upper midwest region, to make sure that they're signaling to their supporters and to the people who have yet to vote that they haven't forgotten about those states, because, you know, for four years, they heard, well, hillary clinton didn't even go to wisconsin. she didn't even go to these states and she lost them. they don't want that to be the story in just a couple of days. but you also see president trump not giving up on some states that the polls seem to indicate have not really been that much within reach in recent months and recent weeks. and par

cnn political analyst jackie and abby phillip are joining us now.d that audiences in future debates will be required to wear masks, and those who don't comply will actually be escorted out. we are in a pandemic. are you surprised the commission wasn't more firm on this earlier? i know they had some rules regarding masks but now they're saying they'll escort people out who aren't wearing them and are they making any other changes that you know of? >> this stems from the fact that the first family, when they walked into the presidential debate at the cleveland clinic, which is one of the foremost medical centers in the country, had their masks on and took them off while watching the debates. the biden side of that auditorium largely kept their masks on. the cleveland clinic offered the trump family masks and were waved away. so, it seems now the fact that there is this outbreak within the trump campaign and also among the republican party, they've had enough, and they're making sure that people actually wear masks inside to ensure that everyone is saf

. >> abby, what did you think? >> there was that passage whether she talked about how she views the rulings she writes, from the perspective of the losing party. i did think that that was the kind of framing she think being her rulings, to convey to people she will be a reasonable jurist evaluating each decision individually, but then you go to the question of, well, what does it mean to lead policymaking to legislators, in the context of the affordable care act? which has come up all day long day. i think this is an interesting thing, and perhaps jeffrey or joan has insight. republicans all day long have been saying the court should not legislate. she basically reiterated that idea today, but what we face with this affordable care act case that will come before the court in november is a case in which congress did legislate and the federal government now wants to invalidate that law. so i do think it raises some questions and i think it would be borne out later this week how it policymaking legislate to the legisl

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abby, more than 85 million americans have already cast their ballots and get both campaign seem to seel value in being on the ground in these critical midwestern states right now and not taking either campaign anything for grand. >> -- granted. >> no. this is the time we have to get people to vote physically in most cases because the window for doing mail-in voting and, in some cases, for even casting early votes, has passed. so this is where it's really important for these rallies, especially for president trump, to be the vehicles to turn out their voters. the trump campaign that is at the core of their strategy. the rallies are where they identify their voters and connect with them so they can turn them out. the biden campaign is in a similar position. they have got to gin up enthusiasm in these major population centers. with tuesday coming quickly, i think it's important, especially now for these campaigns to identify what is their election day electorate look like and might set the tone what is happening the rest nist aof the and i think they want to balance out specifically joe b

and abby phillips is back with us. the campaign communications director said that those were dr. fauci's words and he was praising the trump administration. not exactly. your thoughts. >> that are dr. fauci's words, but similar to the email that they tried to spin when they said that, you know, prior to the narrative of me getting fired where they tried to say i wrote a note to president trump, similar to that where i was praising the work of the task force, that's what dr. fauci was doing in march. we were all in the trenches, working day and night, hand in hand next to each other, these are the task force members and experts and cabinet members. we had numerous conference calls. he is 100% talking about the work and effort of the people. and the president at the time was calling the virus a hoax and completely undermining these exact people dr. fauci is talking about. >> the president trump when you use the word hoax he was talking about the democrats and the words that they were using about coronavirus and how they

all right, abby, thank you. abby philip reporting for us. >>> joining us now is the attorney general of pennsylvania, josh shapiro. thank you for joining us. as you're aware, pennsylvania is is a critically important battle ground state in this election. so what will this u.s. supreme court decision mean for the timing of election results? when can we expect to know who won the presidential election in pennsylvania? >> well, wolf, the supreme court ruling gives us clarity and should give the voters confidence they can vote. whether they vote in person on november 3rd, or whether they vote by mail ahead of time. if they vote by mail, the importance of this supreme court ruling is as follows; they can drop their ballot off in a drop box. trump and his enablers were trying to do away with drop boxes. by the way, 40 states rely on drop boxes. the second thing is, is as long as their ballot is postmarked by election day, and received by friday after the election, it'll be counted. look, we have had a president of the

jeff, to abby's point, let's go through the final day contrast. this is president on the road yesterday. his advisers wish he would spend more time about the economy. when he does, he talks about joe biden and makes it sound like if you elect joe biden we'll have an apocalypse. >> it's the difference between a trump recovery and a biden depression. we understand the disease, we have to take care of our older, wonderful people. our elderly. especially if they have heart problems, diabetes problem in particular. different problems. and we do that. but look, i mean, i got it and i'm here, right. >> in contrast, listen to joe biden. the president said i got it and i'm here, tough it out. joe biden says, no, mr. president, wrong call. >> 200,000 could die between now and the end of the year and he said we're not going to control it. not going to control it. the bottom line is, donald trump is the worst possible president, the worst possible person to try to lead us through this pandemic. >> you think in the final days of a campaign how are we going to

in fact, it's even happening in his own home. 17-year-old daughter abbi is a fan of joe biden. >> howid that happen that you started to develop separate views? >> being on the internet, doing more research, digging into politics more. just getting older, old enough to understand what's going on with the president. i think that kind of change has directed me to think differently. >> i love her dearly. and i am very conservative. for me, it's about principles. and she shares some of those principles. but she doesn't express them the way i do. >> sometimes you have to agree to disagree, i'm sure? >> often. >> often? >> yeah. >> it's a big house. >> i can have the biden signs in my room, and the fox news downstairs. >> reporter: the dinner table discourse in the crawford home might be a preview of the shifting landscape in this key battleground state. pennsylvania voters with their 20 electoral votes can simply agree to disagree on november 3rd. >> it has one large east coast city on one side, philadelphia. one large midwestern city, pittsburgh, on the other side. the rest of pennsylvania

get more on all of this with abby phillip is with us and gloria borger.he president taking his closing message to wisconsin, nebraska, and michigan. three states he won in 2016 so what does that tell you about him spending time in these states during the final week of the campaign? >> he is playing defense as you pointed out before. no other way to look at it. the president and his team understand that he has got to win the states that he won in 2016, period, end of sentence, ends of campaign. so he is going back there because they believe that there are enough republican voters there that they can make sure they get to the polls who haven't voted early who can get out and vote for him. a candidate is broadening his outlook and not taking blue tier for grand wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan. you saw him in a state a democrat has not won since 1992 in georgia. a couple of senate races there. he is going to iowa. of course, he is going to florida which they know is tight. very important for them to win. you see biden campaign that is flush with money and f

and abby phillip, our political correspondent. so let me start with you, dr. reiner. what we're seeing here really looks like -- it's like something out of north korea. the dear leader comes out. right? with the magnificent helicopter entrance and up the stairs and off goes the mask as he pauses, you know, and preens for the shots. >> yeah. i was half expecting him to hold up a bible at the end of that shot. it's unexplainable that the president of the united states, who's actively shedding virus, millions of particles, would walk into that building with the enormous number of staff unmasked, shedding virus in the air in that building. it's really hard to understand how no one told him not to do that. and i think this is the problem that i've seen over the last several days. there doesn't seem to be anyone in charge of his care other than the president of the united states, other than the patient. i'm wondering how much of his therapy was dictated by the patient, how much of his hospitalization, the need for hospitalization, and the time of discharge was dictated by t

. >>> david gerton and abby phillips, our chief medical corresponde correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. two weeks after the day, the event where dr. fauci called it super spreading of a mask gathering at the same place. >> it is a pandemic. there may be still people there who recently contracted the virus and besides the president who could be contagious. it was reckless before he got covid and it is still reckless. it does not matter what group of people coming together for. the virus does not care. it could jump to host to host. it is a terrible idea. even if the president is distanced? what about the other people? the white house staffs they have been exposed to the virus. we have no sort of protection. >> what's your take on the protocols in place for keeping the people safe there? >> we sort of gone through this a few times. testing is important overall. the idea of using it like this and telling people and making it okay that people don't have to wear masks, they can physically distance and not abide by public health stuff, that does not work that way. the real value

. >> let's begin our conversation this hour with abby phillip and alex burns. >> abby, you're in theinal campaign now and it becomes chess. especially when i started campaigns you didn't have early voting at this level, a, but, b, you didn't have the data. they know who voted who has not voted. and the challenge is get the ones who haven't, grab them by the collar, get them to a dropbox, polling place or make sure they show up on election day. >> this is the get out the vote stage of the whole campaign. at this point i think both campaigns understand they're not persuading a lot of people. and even if they were, this year compared to four years ago, just a pool of undecided voters is a lot smaller. people know what their choices are and they're making it. but you have to look at those numbers and think, was it -- i think we know the answer to it, it was not a wise decision for president trump to discourage his voters from voting early, compared to the democrats. you have a lop sided early voting situation in a number of states that is going to make the election day dynamic for republ

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i just on my podcast talked to abby philip.s abby philip or yamesh, i'm surprised he did not blow a gasket with kristin welker, he has a difficult time dealing with black women who have some level of authority. and i think that, you know, having kamala harris on the ticket is driving him crazy, day in, day out. he does attack men and white folk. but he really, really, really just goes after black women. he goes after their intellect. he apparently can't pronounce her name. he called abby philip basically stupid. april ryan, yamesh, it goes on and on and on. and you see this, this is, this is just something and i you know, i, my heart goes out the for mike and the rest of the republican party. one of the things we are realizing is that, the racism and xenophobia and biogtr is not a bug, it's a feature. and they will not be able to get rid of this after november 3rd. this is still donald trump's party for the next decade plus. >> i am simply pointing out that he pronounces everyone's name correctly. gives them a nickname, but he

abby and dana, guy, thank you very much. just ahead, we'll dig deeper into florida's crucial role into the fight for 270 electoral votes. will the state decide the presidential race? >>> and there is a new warning just out from dr. anthony fauci as the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic gets worse. we'll be back. insulin injections can make diabetes complicated. meet omnipod - it delivers insulin through a tubeless pod. just one small pod replaces up to 14 injections! and today - you can get started with a 30-day omnipod dash trial at omnipod.com. no more daily injections. it's game-changing! get started with a free 30-day omnipod dash trial today. go to omnipod.com for risk information, instructions for use and free trial terms and conditions. consult your healthcare provider before starting on omnipod. simplify diabetes. simplify life. omnipod. >>>we're following all the presidential news on the race with only five days to the election. both focusing today on florida, a battleground with a history of deciding who wins