benson: -- sec. griswold: thank you. >> secretary benson, if you are able to, any thoughts on particularly how people of color experience mail-in ballots versus drop boxes, any thoughts that you could share in terms of what the percentages are between the two, if you have them, but particularly on focusing on mail and are we unwittingly putting an additional burden on black and brown communities? to thenson: it goes back importance of education. disabilities, english as second language, there is so much work we have to do to proactively make sure everyone has access to vote. what we have found in michigan issuethe most important is access to vote. i launched voting matters initiatives, which identifies the precincts in michigan with the lowest turnout. 40 were in the cities -- where in the city of detroit. i have had conversations with people in the community about what we can do better to ensure more people are participating. the number one issue has not been questions about -- it has been the quest

jocelyn benson: yes a web. hearing michigan, we believe that good healthy election and ministration is about making it easier to vote in harder to teach. in the efforts that we implemented to clean up our voter rolls when took office electronic registration information center . that partnership which is a collaboration on the majority of states using the now 30. enables us to be in constant and frequent communication to track individuals through mail i'm sorry, who moved to other states and perhaps register there. and enables us to update our records accurately. similarly enables us to proactively identify and remove voters was they have been deceased. her critical and secondly, what we've done is implement automatic voter registration. when within a sentence of not only made it much easier than ever before. for requires us that everybody comes to our office to get a license or id or update, we checked their voter registration record and we can increase the accuracy of her voter rolls daily now. on one of the m

this is a question for secretary benson from alisa mccool. says hello secretary bentsen i'm a berkeley michigan native and fellow military staff. because we so often, i'm sorry because we move so often voted by mail as a standard part is for my military family. is there a role for veterans and military families about how a vote by mail is an important and establish part of america's elections? >> gessen thank you for that question. there certainly is and you may have seen a number of things we are doing in michigan too engaged or military community and their veterans community as poll workers election workers and voices are workers but on top of that untold story of the reason we are voting by mail came from a military community is an important one to share and spread in your voices is one of those is so important to be telling that story. we also need to do work. we are nearly out of time and we are limited in scope but certainly the work of our military servicemembers and their families want to get their fan -- ballots in one time. we have

. >> the michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson is with us, your job includes fact checking, he's added this sunday, now the democrats are using mail drop boxes which are a voter security disaster. among other things they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. who controls them? are they placed in republican or democrat areas? they're not covid sanitized, a big fraud. not true. but i'll give you a chance to answer that. >> in many way drop boxes are more secure than mixailboxes. we have security footage of them, they're monitored 24 hours a day and what we're doing is a response to the increasing unreliable delivery mail of the michigan that we have been experiencing for several weeks now. they're more secure than many other ways including mailboxes in various ways in part because they're monitored and there is a lot of attention on them and they're placed by bipartisan, nonpartisan individuals, election administrators committed to ensuring their convenient and accessible to every voter, regardless of who

dave likes george benson, i know he does.er, instagram, use the hashtag #ktvu. >>> today, a virtual public hearing will be held this afternoon by the california high-speed rail authority. the monthly meeting will focus on the environmental report on the portion of track between san jose and san francisco, aimed at getting passengers from the south bay to san francisco in 30 minutes. the meeting this afternoon starts at 3 p.m. . >>> bay area tolls will be coming in the future, the metropolitan transportation commission is looking at charging a toll on all freeways with several transit options. the chronicle reports that the commission has a plan that would also reduce the speed limit to 55 on the freeways for safety concerns. all of this is part of a proposal in order to meet a 19 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050, as required by california law. >>> several bay area transit agencies are teaming up and trying to regain the public's trust that riding public transportation and safe. ahead of bart tran

a lot of things can happen. >> harris: the power panel now, guy benson, most of the guy benson radio show. wendy sfo, professor at johns hopkins university. great to see you both. guy, spell it out for me. we've heard from kayleigh mcenany and for the president, and surrogates and others of the campaign. the problems with mail-in voti voting. kayleigh, again at the lectern, having to specify the difference between mail-in voting, absentee voting, reminding that she, the president, and others have done mail-in voting. what do you think of it all? >> there are important differences between absentee voting in mail-in voting. let's just set off to the side the president's tweet about possibly delaying the election. flirting with idea, he was condemned rightly so for that. i think he has a fair point, however, on the question about dates that are not accustomed to running primarily were almost exclusively mail-in voting systems, scrambling to do so in the final months ahead of a national election. there are some states that have that system and have had that in place for quite some time,

. >> it was tweeted out by michigan secretary of state joslin benson, who joins me now.retary benson, what did you think when you heard these racist and misleading robo calls? >> if you see something say something. i wanted to get it out to the public and dispel it right away. i didn't want a single voter to choose not to vote by mail due to the fear that one of the false statements that was in the robo call would not -- we called it what it was, voter suppression, and we wanted to get the word out. >> this what we need in the moment, people to californl out injustice whenever they see it. i commend you very much. how many people do you think got this call? >> i don't know. i'm grateful for the person who contacted wwj, who contacted us. we can be vigilant about the misinformation that is going to escalate in the weeks ahead. >> is this all about suppressing minority voter turnout? >> more citizens want to vote by mail than ever before. when there's a lot of uncertainty, it's a new system for a lot of voters, many will be voting by mail for the first time. it's particula

former homeland security secretary jeh johnson, carol lee and charles benson from our nbc affiliate in convention city, milwaukee. >> welcome to sunday and our coverage of the democratic national convention. it's "meet the press". >>> from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. normally on the sunday before a national political convention we'd be inside a sports arena right now anticipating cheering crowds, boisterous protests and even anticipating colorful balloon drops, but not this year, not before this year's unconventional convention or next week's republican gathering somewhere in america, this year's conventions, like everything else, have been up ended by covid-19. one thing that has not changed here, though is the pre-convention naming of the running mate with joe biden picking the odds-on favorite of the role. biden will try to do something that has not been accomplished since 1992, defeat a sitting president and they begin with a bit of a head start. our brand-new nbc news wal

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so, secretary benson, thank you so much. what did you think when you heard these racist and misleading robocalls? >> if you see something, say something. you know? i wanted to get it out to the public and dispel it right away. i didn't want a single voter in detroit to choose not to vote by mail, out of a fear, you know, that one of the -- one of the, you know, warnings or, you know, false statements that was in the robocall would actually lead them to not vote. so, we called it what it was, voter suppression, an attempt at voter suppression. and we wanted to get the word out so that voters knew not to believe it. >> and this is -- this is what we need, in this moment. is for people to call out injustice, whenever they see it. so i commend you for doing it, and i thank you very much. how many people do you think got this call, rec secretary? >> we don't know. i'm grateful for the citizen that did reach out to wwj, a local news outlet here and enabled us to say if you know anything else, contact us. share it at elections.mich

one of the people she was watching the debate with was lloyd benson. many years later he made the reference to knowing john kennedy. she said he came across as too confident. he wanted to include the audience more in his answers. it is a classic letter. she campaigned for him quite vigorously. she did what she thought she needed to do for the democrats to win. she thought it was vitally important. she had had repeated run-ins with eisenhower and completely disagreed with his policies and thought it was a orton for a democrat to get in arid to resurrect some of the new deal policies that she had supported so strongly. once kennedy gets elected, the first thing he does is appoint eleanor roosevelt. >> it is fascinating. not just for that campaign but presidential campaigns writ large. kennedy is trying to frame himself is standing up for a new generation. we have new ideas, a new energy. he knows full well that if he does not whenever the establishment, he is going nowhere. he has to get eleanor's support. he is trying to get out young voters. i think th

i remember guy benson shared a story with me, saying that for him to speak on campus -- guy benson isll the security he needs just to do a regular speech in front of a group on campus it's crazy. a recent poll said that 62% of adults are afraid to share their political views out of fear of being canceled at their jobs primarily. on campus, if you're a conservative -- debate is out the window. you're a bad person and we're going toe toes to ostracize iy to say anything that's right of center. todd: comedians are typically liberal and they're funny but, no, not going to campus. joe, we appreciate your time this morning. >> good to see you, sir. jillian: a woman swims into a giant shark and this is all caught on camera. >> whoa! oh, my god, oh, my god, mom, don't freak out. don't freak out. oh, my god. oh, my god. jillian: whenever someone says don't freak out, the natural reaction is to freak out. she didn't. she was celebrating her birthday in the bahamas. did you appear to be -- she did you appear to be very calm and even a little happy to meet the shark. i can't say i would be calm a

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. >> martha: joining me now, guy benson, host of the guy benson show and political editor of townhall.combutor's. great to have both of you with us. let me start with you, richard. we expect that we are going to see a lot more tromp bashing tonight, that's expected because obviously they are running against president trump. but is there enough of a message of where this party would take the country in the next four years? >> absolutely. what you have seen over the past two nights, i think what you will see tonight is that there will be some trump bashing. they also talked everyday people. we saw yesterday joe biden engaging the conversation about health care. the day before, he engaged in the conversation with a connecticut nurse who got coronavirus. and he is laying out, laying the frame of what will be the build back better biden agenda. which is what they will say is a stark contrast to donald trump and mike pence. remember, this is not the republican party of ronald reagan. this party is not the party of ronald reagan. that's the other argument hillary clinton and kamala harris, eliza

a host of the guy benson show on fox news radio. amy, this choice. i saw you tweet. it was a conventional choice, but it also was historic, which is rare for choice. >> amy: yeah, to be able to pick somebody that really was from the very beginning i would say the topic for those of us inside the beltway conventional wisdom picked. because she has been vetted. she's been on the debate stage literally, the presidential debate stage. she's been in the united states senate. and i think if you are joe biden right now, you needed to do two things. one, have a candidate meets this moment and that is the historic said this but but the first african-american and indian american woman on a ticket. the second is, playing it safe. this is a candidate right now and joe biden who is leading. he is ahead in this race. the time frame for donald trump to catch up is closing. there is no need for joe biden to do anything that would risk that. so picking somebody who looks like they are ready to get into the job of president should joe biden not be ab

guy benson. >> they have to peer that is their spin and by the way i'm on team green for a moderator020 in case there is ambiguity of what we just heard. look, this might be a bigger deal and republicans might be able to make more hay out of this if the rnc also wasn't basically gone. this is a very strange cycle. we won't have tickle typical convention or anything either side of the idol. so you will see both sides try to hype up something a glorified zoom call on both sides of the aisle with a lot of people watching. >> shannon: all right. let's look ahead to the many other things happening this fall based on the primaries from last night. congresswoman who had a challenge and came out strong said this "headline said i was y community responded and said our squad is big. and includes all we believe and we bless you what for each other and prior tours -- prioritize people over profit. it is only getting better." tom, they toppled another incumbent lacy clay out of missouri with another progressive. there will be a new addition to the squad should that person make it through the gene

. >> reporter: rob benson andis fami but then came back for their cat. >> they seem a lot happier. >> reporter: rob, a retired firefighter knows he should be gone. but he's waiting. >> if we see flames of any sort coming over that ridge, we're outta here. >> reporter: his truck is pointed toward the only road out, packed with supplies, camping equipment, and special memories. he leaves fruits and veggies out for neighbors and firefighters passing by. and many have, keeping watch for the night. the big stressor for firefighters is the weather. with stronger winds and lightning in the forecast, that could change things here dramatically. >> 67,000 acres now up in smoke in san mateo and santa cruz counties. kenny choi is at an evacuation center in half moon bay where many are wondering if they still have a home. >> reporter: the number of evacueeise continues to grow. approximately 77,000 people. many of them coming to places like this for help. for continueds of residents, wondering if their homes are still standing. hay can only wait and hope. >> i know so many people had to leave thei

. >> i spoke yesterday with jocelyn benson. going on with the u.s. postal service. specially in michigan. i'm anxious for your thoughts. the "washington post" is reporting that pontiac, michigan, saw the third most reduction in postal sorting capacity around the country. can you garon see, governor, that every vote cast for the president of the united states by mail will be counted in michigan? >> i'm going to work very close when i secretary of state benson and our attorney general dana, i'm forged that i have two brilliant women in those positions and we'll do everything to protect people's votes. when you see the usps targeting a community like pontiac, predominantly african-american, there is no question that there are political agendas going on here that are to disenfranchise voters who would more likely vote democratic. so we've got to all fight that to make sure the sank at this time and integrity of our elections is something that we don't question. that every vote gets counted. >> do you see any other examples that the

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. >> joining me now is michigan secretary of state, jocelyn benson. madam secretary, thank you so much for joining us. let's talk about what michigan is doing to insure that voters can have confidence in the electoral system. first off, when it comes to the postal service, are you being told a specific timeline for when voters need to get their ballots back in the mail to make sure that they are delivered back to you on time? >> yes, first, the citizens of michigan have a state constitutional right to vote by mail, and we believe the united states postal service is duty bound to protect that right. we were one of the 46 states that received a letter from the postmaster general advising us on a number of things we could do in partnership with them, many of them we were already doing, redesigning our envelopes and the like, but also suggesting if a citizen didn't submit their ballots by october 27th, that could be a problem or they wouldn't be counted. we have been telling citizens to get their votes in early through the mail or through the close to 1,0

. >>> joining me now is michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson.ecretary, thank you for joining us. can we begin with a quick update, if i can, on just how many absentee ballots have been returned as of this morning and how are the clerks across the state dealing with that extra workload? >> well, we have got 2 million absentee ballots requested by voters, twice as many than ever before in our state. and about as of this morning, 1.6 million of those had been returned. they have to be in by 8:00 p.m. tonight in order to count. now, we have put drop boxes around the state of michigan in every jurisdiction so that if people aren't comfortable and haven't been comfortable using the mail they can return their ballots in the drop boxes. >> next question becomes the counting. how long do you anticipate the counting to take to get a certified result, so to speak? >> well, we are anticipating it will take a little bit more than usual. we usually get our results in not too far after the polls close on election night. because we have twice as many ballots to

clinton's chief strategist in her 2016 campaign, and he's the founder and ceo of the bicepson strategy -- bensonategy group. thanks for joining me. >> nice to be here. thanks for having me. gerry: so senator kamala harris, the vice presidential pick, earlier this year you told me the primary job of the vice presidential pick was to do no harm. does he do this? >> absolutely. i think she has already demonstrate her value on today one. they set a one-day digital fundraising record. i think she's excited people on the young end of the party and excited people who have been in the party for a while. and i think the other thing i probably told you back then that the key thing in picking a vice president is you want to double down on what your basic equities are, and that's what kamala harris -- she's a center-left democrat. gerry: when you say she's center-left, you know, there have been some -- there's been plenty of evidence that he's got a very liberal senate voting record. one web site that tracks these things actually said it's the most liberal voting record. a couple of liberal commentators hav

one of the people she was watching the debate with was lloyd benson. >> oh, really? >> remembering many years later a famous reference be in a vice presidential debate, i knew john kennedy and you're not john kennedy. came across too confident. he needed to include the audience more in his answers. i think you might agree with me if, dot, dot, dot. top her credit, campaigned for him quite vigorously and did what needed done for the democrats to win. at that point felt it was vitally important. she had had repeated run-ins with eisenhower. completely disagreeing with his policies and really felt it was important for a democrat to get in and hoped obviously to resurrect some of the new deal policies she had supported so strongly when her husband was president. but then you get into -- once kennedy gets elected, first thing he does, appoints eleanor roosevelt. >> yes. yes. it's fascinating. i think not just for that campaign but for presidential campaignings at large. it's always and interesting challenge, particularly when kennedy is trying to frame himself as standing

benson were on the road to disaster here if something doesn't change and the region will turn into a desert about. this soup of food craze started as his so often the case in the us. and now super food restaurants on a time in cities around the world face it dishes with exotic ingredients such as avocado chia and keen one which come with the promise of making new slim healthy and happy. customers in this ristorante bottom germany like it. looks healthy and you know you're doing something good for your body just. i like to eat a lot but i like to eat healthy too this is a perfect mix of this lots of healthy stuff here and it's good to have a change from cafeterias other places intentionally. killed in clown recognized nation opened his business about a year ago. he came up with the recipes himself. his pain is to offer a healthy alternative to fresh financed food. yes this is another one of the reasons why we're here is because it's much easier to eat stuff that's bad for you with an eating healthier way and we want to change that and with the term super food you attract more customer

then, there is my friend and my teacher for many years, senator lloyd benson.ause] both as a be prouder texan and as a democrat, because lloyd benson understands america. from the barrio to the board room. he knows how to bring us together. by regions, by economics, and by example. he has already beaten george bush once. [applause] when it comes down to it, this election is a contest between those who are satisfied with what they have and those who know we can do better. that is what this election is really all about. it's about the american dream. those who want to keep it for knows itnd those who must be nurtured and passed along. [applause] i am a grandmother now. have one nearly perfect granddaughter named lily. grandbaby, ihat feel the continuity of life that unites us. defines generation to generation. it ties us with each other. sometimes, i spread the pallet out on the floor and we roll the ball back and forth. i think of all the families like mine. like the ones who nurture children all across america. lily, i know that it is within families that we le

nearby be you andy has an important visitor and conference center in the castle benson. we want to find out would be un disposition on wind power is. the problem is there for the big problems for it's come from industrial agriculture on fields and meadows it's often struggle to find sufficient food because of it for example the red carpet which can no longer find my saw field. industrial farming is a much bigger problem than all the wind power plants being kept a log so when power of nature conservation go together by country can go together if you put the wind farms on suitable can for you selected sites and you ensure that the conflicts are minimized even further in future for example through shutdown and warning systems of on a large midst. so when power and wildlife preservation can co-exist. with a number of red breeding pairs has increased in germany since 1904 and this during a period when power was being massively expanded. nevertheless citizens initiatives often use the red tide as a reason to oppose wind turbines which they describe as bird shredders. for many

and interesting side note here one of the people she was watching the debate with was lloyd benson. you may remember many years later in a famous reference during the vice presidential debate i knew john kennedy. but one of the things she says is he came across as too confident and he needed to include the oddsiance more in his answers. it's a classic letter but to eleanor's credit she campaigned for him quite vigorously. and she did what she felt needed to be done for the democrats to win. at that point she felt it was vitally important. she had had repeated run-ins with eisenhower, completely disagreed with his policies and really felt it was important for a democrat to get in, and she hoped obviously to resurrect a new deal of policies she had supported so strongly when her husband was president. but then you get into once kennedy is elected -- >> yes, it's fascinating. i think not just for that campaign but for presidential campaigns writ large it's always an interesting challenge particularly when kennedy is trying to frame himself as standing up for a new generation, right we

and in his place alex padilla spoke along with michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. let's talkabout why he was chosen to speak. is it cause of hifocus on voting security? bs >>utely. across the countrthere's a vote by mail here. and that is somethingth they've been pursuing for years as far as the voters choice act. shifting counties to defend all registered vors to the ballot. it also doesn't hurt that the' short list should they become vice president. is also on the short list of possible appointees. >> next week is the republicans turn in front of everyone and the nation in the limelight. what do they need to accomplish xt week? >>rst of all they need to articulate what presiden trump's accomplishments have been in the first term. for a amlot of icans this is the opportunity to encapsulate what is going here. so what is it that donal has accomplished. the rent flow ofthe last few months is not been positive given the coronavirus and racial strife that we haveseen in america. this is their opportunity tell f the story the trump record. but more importantly they hav

interesting side note over here -- what of the people who is watching the debate with was a lori benson. >> really? >> many years later, remember her in a famous reference to the vice presidential debate. she said, i knew jon kennedy, and you are no jon kennedy! anyways, one of the things she said, she came across as too confident. he needed to include the audience more in his answers. i think you might agree with me. it is a classic letter. to eleanor's credit, she campaigned for him, quite vigorously. and she did what she felt it needed to be done for the democrats to win. at that point, she felt like it was a vitally important. she felt like she had repeated run-ins with as an, hour completely disagreed with his policies, and really felt like it was important for a democrat to get in. she obviously hoped to resurrect for some of the new deal policies that she had supported so strongly, with her husband. then, when kennedy gets elected, the first thing he does, he appoints roosevelt! >> yes! i think it is fascinating, not just for that campaign, but for the presidential campaigns at l

benson's family says he left behind a 4 year-old daughter. >>i look around would break my heart. she's going to be osama father. not knowing. he have plans for. >>here's another look at the 4 women wanted for questioning if you know who they are please contact police. a community forum hosted by temple pilots union high school district leaders set the stage for airing of concerns regarding racism on school grounds yesterday's online meeting welcome public comment. people brought up the lack of discipline earning a disciplinary action for incidents like racist graffiti and hate speech by students on high school campuses a former student was shocked by discipline or report that mostly listed kids of color. he claims that in his experience as a student he saw more white teens commit acts of racism at school. >>our ability was incredible watching. my high school experience or specifically mean people like me white men white straight men of kawhi experiencing lot races stuff or basketball games at rallies in class and the hallways. it doesn't need to be over it could be very subtle an

contributor and host of the guy benson show. everybody has their reaction tonight one. what did you think? >> you know, sandra, i was curious to see how the republicans were going to carry off the show. that element of it. the democrats had more time to plan a virtual convention. they have the power of hollywood behind them. we saw what they were able to produce in terms of production values and continuity and so on and so forth. i thought it was very much an open question whether the republicans were going to be able to match it, let alone surpass it. we had mark lauder from the trump campaign on our show on the radio yesterday. we know how to make good tv. i said all right, we'll see. he was right. they i think won in a head-to-head. only one night. three more to go. but it was a compelling night of television. it was basically seamless, everything looked terrific. the show was very strong. in terms of the substance, it is that 10 to 11:00 p.m. eastern hour that is viewed as the heart of prime time where you really want to put

and i will borrow from lloyd benson. john kasich, i know him, he is a friend of mine. he is not a swing voter. he did not vote for donald trump. meg whitman did not vote for donald trump. colin powell did not vote for donald trump. it is the swing voter that you have got to get out and that you have got to persuade. i think the one line is, focus on that swing voter. who do you trust to rebuild the economy is second time? i think people have more confidence in republican economic policies than democratic. host: with that, we've got to and go. thank you very much for joining me. , firstshington post live look at the democratic national convention and the republican national convention. have a great weekend. and thank you for joining us. comeback next week, tuesday morning at 9:00, when we will give you your first look of the republican national convention. join us then. liveead to washington post and washington post live.com for more information another programming. thank you for joining first look. we will see you next week. ♪ this week it is the republicans turn, star