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blake, jr. himself joining the conversation from his hospital room as well as local activists and community leaders of color while trump focused his visit on law enforcement. >> reckless far left politicians continue to push the destructive message that our nation and our law enforcement are oppressive or racist. >> reporter: meanwhile trump is threatening leaders of several democratic cities that it will cut their federal funding if they refuse federal law enforcement assistance and continue to, quote, permit anarchy leading to this angry response from new york's governor. >> forget body guards. he better have an army if he thinks he's going to walk down the street in new york. >> reporter: and today trump is once again casting doubt on mail-in voting even suggesting his supporters illegally vote twice. >> you send them in but you go to vote, and if they haven't counted it, you can vote. >> reporter: the president encouraging supporters to vote for him both by mail and in-person to make sure th

blake was shot. that has to be addressed before anything can be addressed. >> laura, why the officers involved in the shooting didn't do anything different, the president likened their actions to a golfer who choked. >> the president's word choice is tone deaf. the idea the national conversation on race and the criminal system because a black man was choked by a police officer under his own knee. he has been charged for that. the idea you would use the word choke to convey about what the police officers have done and analogize it to a golf course or sports analogy is tone deaf. but also, the idea that accountability is only reserved for some. you could have a benefit of a doubt extended to police officers because they make mistakes, but you don't extend that same benefit of a doubt to the same black and brown people across the country speaks to the two parallel systems in america. as a prosecutor i saw thousands of defendants come to my courtroom. in washington, d.c., a city that is not overly africa

jacob blake sr. and ben crump the attorney for the blake family. so good to see you. i really appreciate it. mr. blake, first of all, how's your son doing? give me his latest condition, if you will. >> right now he's still heavily sedated. it seems like the upper body from the waist up is really trying to fight hard to stabilize. so, basically he is stabilizing from the waist up. but the fact that two of the bullets actually blew out two of his -- the one and the four in the back. so right now, he's hanging on. >> the president finally talked about your son. he says he feels terribly. he says it's a complicated situation that he's not condemning the shooting though. what you say to that? >> i say that none of my children are chess pieces. and my son is not a pawn. and we're not going to be political -- it's not a political way that i'm going to talk about. my son is a human being. my son is actually laying in the hospital. and my son is actually paralyzed from the waist down. so if you don't know his name, it's jacob blake. >> okay, listen, i know that you tell it lik

is jacob blake's father, jacob blake sr.ng jacob blake's family. mr. blake, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. what is your reaction to donald trump visiting kenosha today? >> well, lawrence, i'd like to thank you for having us this eveni evening, but i don't have an opinion about president trump. my opinion is about saving my son's life and just the health of my son matters to me. politics right now, if you're not talking about police reform, if you're not talking about police de-escalating situations instead of escalating situations, i don't have an -- i don't have a political move. >> tell us -- >> i'm not a chess piece. neither is my son. >> please tell us about your son and how he's doing tonight. >> he -- lawrence, he's fighting. he's fighting, you know, for his literal life, not figuratively, for his literal life. and he's doing a good job. being paralyzed from the waist down right now is a terrible thing. >> what do you think you would have told donald trump if donald trump had met w

blake said whoever you are a national leader, local leader. calling the blake fame. talk about reform. making policy. so we can prevent future jacob blakes from being paralyzed. >> substance. substance. over rhetoric. i understand. thank you. thank you, mr. blake. my best to you and your family. >> it was my pleasure. i appreciate you allowing us on your show. and you tell mother lemon she remind me of mother blake. without you all, without them we wouldn't be here. >> amen. thank you. you're in our prayers. see you soon. >>> the president is going to kenosha despite the multiple wisconsin officials urging him not to including my next guest. who says the trip is all about what's best for the president's campaign. not the people he was elected to represent. wisconsin attorney general joins me next. tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. to close, twist until it clicks. tide pods child-guard packaging. now that the rent's due but they've cut your pay. now that the virus has cost lives but your healthcare costs too

the bidens, jacob blake and his family.ou spoke to joe biden about his role as a consoler for your documentary on joe biden. what did you make of these contrasting visits. what did you make of it? >> tells you a lot about both men. joe biden went to kenosha, walked through burned streets, met with police. didn't speak with the family. the family didn't want to speak with him. joe biden went to kenosha, met with community, lawyers, family, then jacob blake over the phone. and there's a part of joe biden, and i think it comes from his own experience with personal tragedy, he said to me his own experience with stuttering which he says made him a more empathetic human being. while it might be difficult for a lot of people from any walk of life, much less a presidential candidate, to have that kind of conversation with somebody obviously in pain from his hotel room. joe biden it comes very easily. he's almost a pastor in many ways. i think these are conversations that he just doesn't shy away from. >> charles, you're a long time

even jacob blake jr. and other african-americans and say that we deserve equal justice under the law. the attorney general can't put his fingers on the scale of justice to try to justify again another killing of an unarmed black man who is not threatening the police. the extra judicial killings of black people in america has to stop. it has to stop. >> appreciate your time and your work on this. and we did want to get your official response to that. this is an open case. the attorney general seems to be falsely putting a weapon on the individual who was shot. so getting your official response is important. we'll stay on the case. ben, thank you. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. i want to turn to a scandal over voting integrity. president trump discussing absentee voting and saying people could go vote a second time in person. >> they'll go out and vote and they'll have to go check their vote by going to the poll and voting that way. their system is as good as they say it is, they won't be able to vote. y

. >>> joe biden visiting kenosha, meeting with the family of jacob blake and personally calling blakeut of the icu what they talked about. >>> president trump's stunning suggestion that voters should consider casting ballots twice, which is not legal the new warning from election officials. >>> the coronavirus hitting hollywood, the rock and his family testing positive who he says got them sick, and production on the new "batman" movie shut down after someone on set is diagnosed with the virus. >>> the plunge on wall street, the dow falling more than 800 points so what's driving the drop >>> hoping for a miracle a month after that massive explosion in beirut a heartbeat detected in the rubble now the search is on. >>> and the power of a second chance from homeless in a supermarket's parking lot to its star employee. nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening, i'm hallie jackson in for lester we begin tonight with disturbing new video that yet again is triggering fury and grief in an american community with the death, yet again, of a black man after an encounter with police. the

joining us now is jacob blake's uncle, justin blake. mr. blake, i appreciate you being with us. thank you for your time. first of all, can you tell us how jacob is doing this evening? >> thank you for having us on your program tonight. jacob is doing better. he's slowly but surely able to talk a little better, able to stay up a little longer, hold the hand of his father, our brother jake, big jake and talk to his mother julie and communicate with her. he told her the other night she was looking beautiful and we know little jake was doing better. the weight is lifted off shoulders, his life isn't any further in danger so that she looked good and we knew our nephew had to be doing better because of the way she looked at the hotel. >> that's good news. how much is he aware of everything going on in kenosha? >> not very much. he's sort of stuck at the spot where he got shot. he asks his father, our brother big jake the other night, why did they shoot me so many times? so he's still sort of stuck in that. speaking of communicating more but sort of haven't moved past that little bump

he used the word that jacob blake was armed and that jacob blake was in the midst -- was in the act oftting a felony. those are two key words that can basically tell investigators and prosecutors who are going to be look at this investigation that these officers were justified in their actions. and that very much is still an ongoing investigation by the local authorities here. the state attorney general whose running an independent investigation is then going to turn over his findings to the local d.a., who is going to ultimately decide whether or not there was justification. but the problem now is that you have the attorney general who is running a parallel investigation seems to have already made up his mind without having all the facts. the family, of course, says that the attorney general is misinformed. what we do know, and what little information the attorney general here has released, the local attorney general, is that there was a knife and that mr. blake admitted to possessing the knife. but we don't know where in the confrontation the threat of a possible use of a knife again

and he did not say jacob blake's name once. instead the president focused on surveying the damage of some of the riots that have happened in that city as well as meeting and thanking law enforcement there. the president also taking credit falsely for deployment of the national guard there that was ordered by the state's governor. when the president was, though, jim, asked about jacob blake, all we heard the president say was that he feels terribly about the situation. but he declined to weigh in any further saying that it is a local investigation, and of course, jim, the president did not meet with jacob blake or his family. tonight president trump surveying kenosha, wisconsin, a week after police shot a black man in the back seven times. but the president instead lamented on the property damage and delivered political remarks. >> reckless far-left politicians continue to push the destructive message that our nation and our law enforcement are oppressive or racist. they will throw out any word that comes to them. >> reporter: t

blake's shooting.ut pam, it is very difficult for that to happen, particularly because of where this took place. kenosha, wisconsin, is a key battleground. of course the state of wisconsin is an important battleground. it's a state that president trump narrowly won back in 2016, but kenosha itself, a county that has generally voted for democrats in presidential election cycles, went to president trump last time but only by 300 votes. this county, these people dealing with this tragedy are going to play an important role in the 2020 election. >> worth pointing that out. thank you so much. >>> "outfront" now, anthony davis the president of the kenosha naacp chapter. and motley was representing gauge gross kroits. president trump said he believed his visit could increase love, respect and enthusiasm for the country. do you think he accomplished that today? >> i'm going to say that with his visit here and his comments, he did talk about love. he talked about law enforcement and supporting law enforcement.

well, shortly after events wound up, i spoke with jacob's uncle, justin blake, blake family friend tanya and alvin owens, who runs a barbershop and was tear gassed when he was protesting. i started by asking tanya to explain how shocking this turn of events has been for the town of kenosha. we are just a small town, a peaceful people, getting on with day—to—day life. nothing major happens here. there are some issues here in our town with division, but we have never seen anything like this. alvin, you know that mr trump today called the angry protest, the violence and the property damage in the city "domestic terror." you have a business there, your barbershop i think is fine but i know you must have seen other businesses, many of them black—owned being trashed. how did you feel about that? you must understand the anger, the frustration, but surely that must have been rough. what is rough is watching a video of a black man being gunned down shot seven times. what is rough is within one week we had a fire in uptown here in our city, and then four or five days later, we had looters from god

justin blake is the uncle ofjacob blake, tanya mclean is a friend of the blake family and alvin owensnd was tear gassed when he was protesting. ta nya, tanya, i know you held a family event today in the street where jacob was shot. a very different event from the president's press conference. different event from the president's press conferencelj wa nt president's press conference.” wa nt to president's press conference.” want to ask you, briefly, how would you describe kenosha. do you recognise the picture that the president painted of your place? absolutely not. we have some technical issues. at the moment your picture is frozen. can you hear me? yes. yes we can hear you. tanya, painters a picture of kenosha. we are just a small town, a peaceful people, getting on with day—to—day life. nothing major happening here. there are some issues here in our town with division but we have never seen anything like this. alvin, you know that mr trump today called the angry protest, the violence and the property damage in the city domestic terror. you have a business there, your barbershop is f

blake. this is the kind of contrast that the biden campaign has tried to highlight throughout this process. the trump campaign very clearly thought that the winning message for them would be a law and order campaign. the biden campaign's view is if you remember how he launched his campaign, it was focused squarely on the protests and counter-protests in charlottesville in 2017. that was what joe biden said motivated him to get into this race. you saw joe biden travel to houston to meet with george floyd's family and now in the wake of another incident which has roused real concerns about police practices, as well as criminal justice in this country, joe biden trying to be a convener and a healer rather than someone, as the biden campaign sees in the president, someone who is trying to divide the country. >> that's nbc's mike memoli traveling with the biden campaign in kenosha, wisconsin. >>> let's continue with daniel moody and the co-host of democracy-ish, and also with us is bill crystal,

and never was jacob blake jr. posing a threat to them as he was going away from them to get into the car, to get his three little boys out of a volatile situation. they were never in a life-or-death situation. so attorney general barr is just mistaken. >> was he armed, at the time? >> based on everything we know, he was not armed, at the time. and we have not been given any facts, by the wisconsin attorney general, anything to contradict what those witness accounts, who was there on the scene, told us. now, attorney general barr cannot go put his finger on the scales of justice to try to do what jacob blake sr. say, justify the unjustifiable of his son being shot seven times, in the back, while the police is holding his t-shirt. and when you look at that video, john, you see that there are women and children in the line of fire. and so, william barr can't perpetuate two justice systems in america. where they will try to condone a young man going to kill two people. and then, walking down the street with an assault

blake.e officers including the shooter and all he has is possibly someone whispering in his year or maybe it was a meeting of law enforcement that gave him information. if that's the case, they violated to provide what has been given to the family, the family's lawyer. everyone knows or has been acknowledged that there has been a weapon, a knife in the floorboard but we also know that there are gradations in the kind of weapons one might have. as the video shows, as everyone saw, as the nation saw, it is very clear that we could not see any movement by mr. blake that would put the officers in fear of their life. that's the relevant point. >> the part of it that is interesting to me, there is an investigation on going. we talk to representatives from wisconsin every day and consistently ask them on tv, give us the latest on the investigation. what do you know about jacob blake? he a was he armed? they refuse to tell us anything but the attorney general went on tv definitively and said he was

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joining us now, jacob blake's uncle justin blake. mr. blake, i appreciate you being with us, thank you so much for your time. can you tell us how jacob is doing this evening? >> thank you for having us on your program tonight. jacob is doing better. he's slowly but surely able to talk a little better. stay up a little longer. hold the hand of his father, our brother big jake and talk to his mother, communicate to julia. told her she was looking beautiful. and knew he must be doing better, weight lifted off her shoulders, life not further in danger. knew he had been looking better because of how she looked at the hotel. >> how much is he aware of everything going on in ken o'os? >> not much, he's stuck where he was shot. he asked why did they shoot me so many times. he's seeking to communicate more but hasn't moved past that bump in the road thus far. >> the president was in kenosha today, you heard some of what he had to say, how satisfied were with you his message? >> not satisfied at all. he's been a lying president, racially discrimin

blake jointed by phone.e, a black man, was shot at least seven times in the back by a white police officer and is now paralyzed. according to blake family attorney ben crump the family was grateful for the meeting and impressed how biden treated blake jr. with care. he spoke of grace lutheran church about his conversation with the blake family. >> i had an opportunity to spend some time with jacob on the phone. he talked about how nothing was going to defeat him, how whether he walked again or not, he was not going to give up, and what i came away with was the overwhelming sense of resilience and optimism that they have about the response they're getting. his mom asked my wife to say a prayer. his mom said a prayer. she said, i'm praying for jacob, and i'm playing for the policeman as well. i'm praying that things change. >> president trump continues to muddy the vote progress says after first urging voters on wednesday to cast their ballots twice. now he's suggesting americans send in mail-in ballots, then

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he had not meet with the blake family or say jacob blake's name during that meeting.en today said he came here hoping to offer some healing in this community. he also talked about that moment in charlottesville, those clashes, and the president's response to it, which is something that prompted joe biden entering this presidential race. take a listen to a bit of what he had to say. >> he said they are very fine people on both sides. no president has ever said anything like that. the generic point i'm making is not all his fault but it legitimatizes, legitimatizes the dark size of human nature. but it did, though, it also exposed what had not been paid enough attention to, the underlying racism institutionalized in the united states still exists, has existed for 400 years. >> so pamela, that is just the latest attempt by biden to highlight president trump as a divisive figure while biden is trying to present himself as a unifying figureheading into the november election. >> all right. arlette saenz. thanks. joining us, thank you for coming on. what do you think, laura

family that says blake posed no threat. tonight president trump is campaigning in pennsylvania after threatening to pull federal funding for what he calls anarchists' jurisdiction, singling out portland, seattle and new york that allowed themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones. >> we must enforce our laws. >> reporter: the president has made empty threats before. >> the president will follow through his memo is exceedingly clear. >> reporter: that memo triggered this reaction from new york governor andrew cuomo. >> he better have an army if he thinks he'll walk down the streets of new york. >> reporter: if elected he'll convene a national commission on policing, bringing together police chiefs and civil rights activists to address tensions in their communities. hallie >> peter alexander at the white house. >>> a new warning from election officials pushing back on president trump after he suggested voters illegally cast ballots twice to test the system more now from pete williams >> reporter: in north carolina where mai

it is my understanding you've spoken with and met with jacob blake's uncle.f that conversation? >> i'm just so amazed at the resiliency and the power of the family, specifically his uncle. when we talked on sunday, we were talking about strategizing for the visit of trump to be able to reduce the noise. and you could think after your nephew was shot seven times in a very humane fashion, strapped to the bed like an animal after he wasn't able to walk, that they would like the violence but they were all about the peace. what they could do to bring the people down. they want to hold those officers accountable but they want the land to be at peace. that is what his nephew wants and that is what their trying to promote. >> i know that you've been doing all of this work and so many of the communities and you run the front lines after george floyd's death this summer, you see all of the people, black, brown, white, young, old, protesting, feeling perhaps change is in the air and then, yet, in time another person of color gets killed and the cycle seems to repeat its

jacob blake jr. has never been convicted of any crime.keep trying to put out misinformation that he had a sexual assault charge against him. well, that is an allegation that we fully believe he will be exonerated of and found not guilty. but they have tried to condemn him for it. they forget that trump and judge kavanaugh was charged with sexual assault or allegations and they kept saying well there is two sides to every story. but when it comes to jacob blake jr., they seem to forget that part of it. >> you mentioned donald trump and, in fact, as you know, he was there in kenosha on tuesday and he did not meet with the blake family. but the white house said there was an effort made to try to set up a meeting but the president later said that he didn't meet with or speak to blake's family because they wanted to have a lawyer present. and presumably that would be you. what is the truth between these contradicting claims from the white house? >> well, all i'll say is this, alex. when president obama called tray john martin's parents, they w

instead biden elevated jacob blake sr. to a position of greater permanency in this country and greater moral authority. you are now being lectured about bigotry by a farrakhan accolade who calls black people comes and puts pictures of in the toilet. but of course you are. to the democratic party nothing is ever about percival's, it's always about votes. that's why joe biden will never say a negative word about blm or antifa. no matter how many people they kill. but the past does not go both ways. watch joe biden did not demand that joe biden denounce and attack those republican voters we see every day on the streets with guns, setting fires and point out statues and building targets. when will they stop rioting. to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is. does anyone believe there will be less violence in america? donald trump is reelected. are there words to describe how dishonest those statements were? this is a bewildering audacity. they are not ashamed of it, they amplify it. in it, the ad

the backlash over president trump comparing the officer who shot blake to a golfer who misses a putt and over his defense of the 17-year-old charged with murdering two protesters plus his claims that cities led by democrats are seeing more crimes. we'll separate fact from fiction a cyber attack creates chaos for one major city's first week of remote learning. new york city pushes back the reopening of its in-person classes. across the globe schools reopen from wuhan to the uk. what they are doing. >>> one of the most promising covid vaccines beginning the final phase of trials in the u.s tonight new plans for rolling it out who gets it first? walmart taking on amazon announcing their version of prime. what they're offering to win your business >>> the scare in the sky. a man in a jet pack spotted in the path of incoming planes. the search for the daredevil. >>> and the hero nurses who stayed behind as hurricane laura struck how they saved 19 tiny lives. >>> this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening i'm peter alexander in for lester president trump visiting the city

in the back by police donald trump wouldn't say his name but his presidential rival speaks to jacob blake and his family while visiting kind of. dying from hunger during a pandemic warnings coronavirus restrictions could cause thousands more people to become among the richest in india. and renewed hope of finding a survivor 11 on the rubble as people struggle to cope a month after the court. here is sitting here. and. donald trump is again pushing his message that people shouldn't trust voting by mail ahead of november's u.s. presidential election for a 2nd night in a row he suggested they also had to a polling station to ensure their ballots been counted legal experts warn trump's advice could lead to people breaking the law alan fischer begins our coverage. after the president appeared to ed to supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house briefing the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprising media staking the president out of context presidents tr

trump never directly mentioned jacob blake, nor did he meet with blake's family. >> we need a president that's going to unite our country and take us in a different direction. >> reporter: tuesday, the blake family joined a justice for jacob rally in the neighborhood where he was shot. the rally offering services often lacking in the african-american community like voter registration and covid-19 testing. about jacob and stand up my son since he can't stand up for himself. we'll stand him up. >> reporter: blake's father, jacob blake iii said that all that matters is his son's health. >> we, as a family, only care about jacob. we're not political pawns. we're not political photo -ops. all that we care about is the recovery of jacob blake. >> reporter: and blake's sister insists that the justice they seek goes beyond jacob. >> justice for black people as a whole. we want to be able to walk around in our skin and not feel like we've broken the law already. >> reporter: benjamin crump is the family attorney. >> would have liked to have engaged with him about reform to address the systematic

jacob blake who was shot 7 times by police and can osha wisconsin testifies from his hospital bed as he faces charges of sexual assault. lebanon fall silent a month after the explosion the toll through the capital beirut. and the philippines considers raising the age of consent from 12 to 16 we meet the activists behind the nation's fight for women's rights. and i welcome to the program 2 countries that for one of the most devastating wars in the balkans are normalizing economic ties in a deal announced by the u.s. president on trump trump has called the equipment between serbia and kosovo a major breakthrough kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008 but is not recognized by the government or its allies trying says serbia will also follow his controversial diplomatic policy and move its embassy to jerusalem while kosovo will establish ties with israel let's go live now to the white house our correspondent kelly halkett is following all of these developments and of course kimberly president trump will be hoping that these course of a deal will eclipse a domestic a brewing dome

unity from democratic candidate joe biden who's in control is sure to meet with the family of jacob blake a black man shot by police. a push to ease tensions between greece and turkey in the eastern mediterranean but the priest denies it's ready to sit down for talks . be called on russia to investigate this in a transparent and gentlemen there. and the e.u. pounds the pressure on russia as the kremlin rejects german allegations that opposition figure alexina valmy was poisoned. us president donald trump has backtracked on his suggestion voters should try to cast their ballots twice in the vendor's election which is deemed illegal in an abrupt u. turn from 10 tweets it's urging people to send ballots early by mail and then visit the polling station on election day to check if their postal vote was registered the u.s. president has been insisting without evidence that war. postal votes and will lead to widespread fraud once alan fischer reports. after the president appeared to our 2 supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house

his father jacob blake sr. got into a lot of questions about how do we deal with the systematic racism. vice president biden talked about his plan. talked about senator ckamala harris's legislation regarding george floyd. when jacob jr. got on the phone that was the encore to the conversation because you had hip a -- him and vice president biden having a deep kfrpconversation jacob blake jr. saying he is not going to give up, whether he walks or not he is going to believe in the best of life because he has to because he has three little boys counting on their daddy. it was deep. and it ended in hope. >> you said there was a lot of substance in the conversation. what specific pledges, if any, did the vice president talk about policing in general. >> the teacher had a lot of insight. but he talked about having a national registry and having background checks. he talked about trying to ban the chokeholds, talked about having mandatory body cameras, and he talked about having partners in the community, whether busi

jacob blake the man shot in the back 7 times by u.s. police has spoken publicly about his injuries for the 1st time blake was left paralyzed after the shooting last month in can osha in the wisconsin he's spoken as the u.s. and has a labor weekend of protests against racism and police brutality. it's a lot more life to live. your life and not only just your life your legs some that you need to move around and move forward in life and taking on life. staples i stand was in my back state was a month down stuff you do not want to have you know. 24 hours every 24 hours is pain is not the pain hurts to breathe or hers. to move from side to side has to eat please i'm. alive is out there you stick together make some money make everything easier for people because it's so much fun as in ways that. meanwhile jacob blake was talking another night of protests in new york state over the death of daniel prude demonstrates his faced off with police on the streets of rochester who died after being arrested in march and he's put a hood on him and force

blake faces charges of sexual assault and domestic abuse they say they were trying to arrest blake on the charges when an officer shot him 7 times in the back leaving him paralyzed the court appearance was not related to the police shooting that triggered states of protests across america john hendren has been full and proceedings from chicago and says blake pleaded not guilty to all charges. it was an extraordinary scene jacob blake was shown in this zoom call lying on his hospital bed in a blue shirt and yellow tie the 1st time any of us have seen him since he was shot nearly 2 weeks ago on that sunday and he was asked for his pleas to the charges of 3rd degree sexual assault disorderly conduct and trespassing he pleaded not guilty to all of those now those charges weren't directly linked to his shooting but apparently when police encountered him on the street and you can osha they at some point discovered that he had the that he had a warrant out for him that his girlfriend had made these accusations against him and they tried to take him into custody according to police story they

blake saying that blake was armed and that he was in the midst of committing a felony.et to learn from the state attorney general on their findings in the key investigation. the key question is the knife. was it used in any threatening way? the family disputes that. blake's family disputes that. they say that the attorney general will barr was misinformed. so we wait for more information as we're approaching two weeks. sunday will be two weeks since this happened. and as we await for that, the attorney general here has up to 30 days to issue his report. >> with us now is the wisconsin attorney general josh kaul. he is handling the investigation into the blake shooting. and before taking office his primary practice was election law. and perhaps we'll get into some of that as well. can you give us an update on where this investigation stands? there is a sense and perhaps it's a misnomer, but there's a sense that it's taking a while to get to the bottom of this. >> well, first, jim, thanks for having me. what i can tell you is that this investigation is moving along very q

he did not meet with the blake family.ay, biden tried to sell himself as a unifier in a community hoping to heal and rebuild. >> it's just heartbreaking. i mean, i understand the anger, you know, showing that we need better communication. i'm hoping that this brings everybody together. >> reporter: well, just as he did with president trump earlier this week, wisconsin governor tony evers says that he asked joe biden not to come to kenosha today, saying that now is the time for this community to focus on healing, not be distracted by politics, norah. >> o'donnell: mola lenghi, thank you. now to that news tonight about russia's continuing efforts to undermine our democracy. this stark warning is a new one from u.s. intelligence about russian efforts to cast doubts over mail-in ballots. this year, that could account for some 80 million votes. cbs' weijia jiang is traveling with the president tonight in pennsylvania. good evening, weijia. >> reporter: hello to you, norah, and to everybody. a new bulletin from the department of

he used the words armed, regarding jacob blake and felon.he eyes of any prosecutor and investigator give justification to the officers involved in this shooting so that's a dangerous thing to do. because the investigation is still very much ongoing. what we know from the investigators here who have come out and the little information that they have provided, they say they did find a knife in the vehicle, in the car that jacob blake was using. that was on the floor. that it was on the driver's side floor and that jacob blake admitted to possessing the knife. that's all they have said. they do not explain how the knife may have been in any way threatening or in any way how the officers found the knife to be threatening. and that is the key question here because remember, in the video that we have seen, jacob blake, his back is to the officers, when they grab him by the shirt and then the one officer fires the seven shots. the knife is a big thing here. and the circumstances that are leading up to those moments at the car, those are the key que

and as we know, jacob blake jr.utting out a video describing all of the pain that he has been in, all of the pain that he's been enduring. and then to have this moment with senator harris talking about the pain and talking about how proud she is of him and then him in turn talking about how proud he is of her. and as i said, that was a meeting that took place for been hour in milwaukee after the senator landed there. pam. >> let's talk about what we heard from jacob blake. because we heard from him from his hospital bed for the first time since the shooting. tell us what he said. >> reporter: yeah, he put out this video. he was in his gown laying in his hospital bed. and he talked about the pain that he has been suffering through. and here it is in his own words, pam. >> where life and not only just your life, your legs, something that you need to move around and move forward in life, could be taken from you like this, man. it is the pain. it hurts to breathe. it hurts to sleep. it hurts to move from side to side. i

but instead, blake family is expected to be right here in the neighborhood where jacob blake was shot more than a week ago, seven times by kenosha police. community leaders are organizing a rally of sorts, a peaceful gathering that they hope will serve as a contrast to what they see as divisive rhetoric coming from the white house. as you mentioned, the governor and mayor here are both said they do not want the president here, the mayor saying that perhaps at least wait a few days, perhaps into next week because the resources are stretched so thin here, the county executive here in kenosha yesterday pushing that cart as well with regards to the tweet the president put out yesterday, it was insistence that the national guard come here, that that was the reason for the relative calm in kenosha, without that national guard kenosha would be no more. the county executive pushing back hard and saying that is a false statement and, again, a lot of controversy here with regards to this trip. we did speak with some of president trump's supporters, however, who do say they do want the president

in the back by police donald trump wouldn't say its name but his presidential rival speaks to jacob blake and his family while visiting can ocean. sending in the heavy machinery a frantic hunt after signs of life are heard one month on from the huge blast in lebanon's capital. and people are still marching against the president of the rooms as he seeks help from russia. donald trump is again pushing his message that people shouldn't trust voting by mail ahead of november's u.s. presidential election for a 2nd night in a row he suggested they also head to a polling station to ensure their ballots been counted legal experts warn that trumps advice could lead to people breaking the law alan fischer begins our coverage. after the president appeared to our 2 supporters in north carolina to break the law and vote twice the defense from the podium of the white house briefing room the president does not condone unlawful voting by the president's been very clear about this some once again not surprised media taking the president out of context president's trying to enfranchise americans which is e

jacob blake seven times in the back. i mean even the president has to understand that there's something awry there, and he wint wasn't even able to acknowledge that. so when i look at polling in wisconsin, i say to democrats, hold your fire and keep up the work because we know that there's a long road ahead and the president is no stranger to stoking chaos and confusion. >> jeremy bash, we mentioned overnight in portland last night, a riot was declared. there's been sort of an ongoing situation there for a few months now. we talk so much about protests, peaceful protests that often play out during the day. but portland's one of those places where it's been a very different story at night. that seems to be sort of the type of thing that trump is trying to play up here politically, set himself in opposition to, say the democrats are being weak on. meantime, the president, as we've seen this week, when he's got his supporters driving through, firing off paint ball guns as the reporting has it, you've got him encouraging the

blake's vehicle.hey found it on the driver's side, on the floor board and they say that jacob blake admitted to them that he possessed the knife. the family denies. they say they have different information, they think that the attorney is mischaracterizing and sort of giving it more worth than it is, and that they argue that the investigation is still very early. the knife is the key thing, and the key moment in the middle of this shooting, what led up to it? what justifies the officers in firing at jacob blake? that's still at the center of this investigation by local authorities. jim? >> sitting attorney general seeming to inject himself making a judgment. shimon prokupecz, arlette saenz, thanks to both of you. >>> over the past several months as you've witnessed nationwide protests have called for an end to systemic racism in policing. yesterday though the attorney, william barr, of course, the top law enforcement official in this country, doubted that that exists. have a listen. >> i think the nar

jacob blake is here, he is the uncle of justin blake. >> justin blake, the uncle of little jake. >> i wish we were seeing each other under better circumstances because as you reminded me, we knew each other in chicago. but thank you so much. offer at lea or at least we met in chicago for a night at a dinner. >> yes. >> so, listen. i just wanted to -- i'm glad you're here. i am sorry for what's happening with your family. but did you hear anything in that message that showed any concern for your nephew, jacob, and what happened to him? >> don, thank you for having us tonight. no, there seemed to be no sympathy, whatsoever, for our family, nor my nephew, that was shot seven times in the back. it looked as though they were trying to make him a scapegoat. >> he went on to say more about your nephew's case. here it is. >> well, i'm not going to talk about blake. the blake case. >> why not? >> because i think it's different than the floyd case. >> what's different? >> well, floyd was already s subdued, encompass incapacitate handcuffs, and was not armed. in the jacob case, he was in the mid