political strategist and consultant derrick is a former regional press secretary for the democratic national committee a warm welcome to all of you senator i'd like to start with you 100 straight days or nights of protest in portland how have things changed or evolved in that time. has been adjusted it's been our it's been a roller coaster. at times as mr. there is some of this we're still it's like it's. going back a 100 years so. it's very interesting exhaust and wealth mentally and physically. it's definitely

still ahead, we will talk to tom perez, chair of the democratic national committee come on the day ofhe big debate. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. time for a check on the markets with scarlet fu. not so great, not so bad. scarlet: so much for the month end rally that had been taking shape. the nasdaq also giving up some of its recent gains. it had just finished its best to day advances since april. the nasdaq with relative outperformance today. it strength the last two days is a sign of defensive posturing. the catalysts are many. new york daily virus positive rate top 3% for the first time in months just as schools reopen. ,o movement on fiscal stimulus even with nancy pelosi and steven mnuchin speaking this morning and committing to agree to speak some more tomorrow. house democrats released their latest action plan, a $2.2 trillion package, much farther -- much smaller than the $3.4 trillion act they passed. you can see the $1200 check. 20% of the plant will be your mark for state

and clipped democratic climate program what you find is nothing they removed the d n the democratic national committee the d.n.c. basically clintonite donor oriented democrats managed in a big power play to remove biden's progressive climate program that's a battle inside the democratic party is very rather similar to what we just saw and britain. where 'd the lehrer right right wing labor party or the mentor labor party managed undermine the korban campaign in a really vicious matter they were very powerful 800 page deterrent study of how they did it which is being most recent pressed in the british press budgetary and or which showed 2 means that they went to to try to undermine corbin's effort to develop the labor party that would be responsive to the needs of its constituents before just story labor party with policies that actually had very high approval among the government the right way for the labor party for the mentor they were already couldn't stand that they'd rather lose the election than lose control of the party were saying something similar to that in the conflict within the democratic

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now the claim that russia hacks of the democratic national committee goes back to before the 2016 election it's part of years of investigations into alleged trump russia collusion and it culminated in the release of the muller report in april last year which failed to pinpoint any clear evidence of collusion lew rockwell a political consultant and author says russia gate isn't going anywhere. the attorney general wants to reveal the truth i would i would very much like to see that notice that he said that he would give a private briefing to members of the just the judiciary committee if they were interested in that about things that had not been that he had not made. public so i hope a lot more is made public i think is a but many of these documents the american people need to see these documents about the so-called russian collusion which we know i think know any of us who examine a knew was a fraud from the beginning but of course the american media hides it nobody knows about it unless you read certain publications i notice that joe biden last night in the presidential debate referred t

political strategist and consultant derrick is a former regional press secretary for the democratic national committee a warm welcome to all of you senator i'd like to start with you 100 straight days or nights of protest in portland how have things changed or evolved in that time. has been adjusted it's been our it's been a roller coaster. at times as mr. there is some of this we're still it's like it's. going back a 100 years so. it's very interesting exhaust and wealth mentally and physically. it's definitely a fight here what do you think it is about portland that is same this this sustained pressure this memento of the reading that the state of oregon is 87 percent white and only 2 percent black. essentially and so are saying. essentially this is hard to even talk about because. that isn't real to see how this is 2nd foreman and for london for them. it is as a large a large white population. where it was known as a racist state so to see this group go you know in this type of manners that definitely my employment do you know some people have talked about the gentrification of protests having majo

biden and the democratic national committee raised a combined 364.5 million in august, a i asked biden know today how he plans to spend that money. he said he'll spend most of it responding to what high calls the president's lies. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, ed o'keefe, thank you. tonight, joe biden's campaign is accusing russia of false and scurrilous attacks on biden's health and pointing a finger directly at president trump, who they accused of keeping secret a u.s. intelligence report that reveals the plot. here's cbs' jeff pegues. >> reporter: tonight, d.h.s. is pushing back against claims it buried an intelligence bulletin warning the russians were targeting joe biden. werejuly document said there was a russian scheme to promote allegations about the poor mental health of biden, of which there is no proof. but it was never sent. in an e-mail obtained by abc news, acting d.h.s. secretary chad wolf's chief of staff writes, "please hold on sending this one until you have a chance to speak to wolf." tonight, wolf said the document didn't meet his standards. >> the report that you

sinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work for the democratic national committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that and the rush it lou played donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump refusing to step down and that's rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing a pattern here well the new york times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly his a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella ruse to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only biden's. victory can s

democratic national convention. did you know that? to get into the democratic national committee and, you have a card and your picture is on it. [indiscernible] very sacred right. we want proof of citizenship, a social security requirement. they do not want any of this to happen, and they want no signature verification. they do not want to have a verified suture -- signature. they oppose voter id. they opposed proof of citizenship. they oppose a social security number requirements as a safety even, and they opposed simple signature verifications. they do not want to have signature verification. they want to require all states to do mail in balloting. i call it unsolicited. some people call it universal. universalerstands why -- it is unsolicited. sending ballots to whoever you can think of. we had a case i guess integers jersey -- new they got two names. democrat.f that was a it probably was. mailing millions of ballots who have not asked to have so millions of will be getting ballots. maybe they want them. not. they will -- do if you look what happened in iowa. that was run by v

sinking along these lines hark fish an outfit funded by michael bloomberg does work for the democratic national committee as well as pro biden super pacs is planning for hypothetical situations that involve mail and voting confusion when every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day which will be some day after election day you will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that and the rush it lou played donald trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted hot fish predicts that such a situation could lead to donald trump refusing to step down and that's rather similar to the transition integrity project are you seeing a pattern here well the new york times certainly has if trump claims a victory that is not rightly his a few munches in the streets will not be an adequate response that may have to be a sustained campaign of civic action as in hong kong and bella reuss to rally the majority that wants to preserve democracy that isolates those who would undo it trump is equated with civil unrest so naturally only biden's. victory can

if he simply says russia had nothing to do with those very controversial 2016 leaks of democratic national committee e-mails. but of course this is something that the white house has denied. back to you, frances >> matt, thank you >>> novak djokovic is out of the u.s. open after hitting a lineswoman with a ball the men's top seed hit the ball behind him out of frustration, down in his first set to pablo carreno busta. now, he went to tend to the woman after she went down and grabbed her throat following a discussion with officials on the court, djokovic was disqualified from the tournament the united states tennis association released a statement on the incident detailing the decision to default djokovic in part "as an action of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly. djokovic penned an apology on instagram, saying he will turn his actions into a lesson of growth >>> the baseball world mourns the loss of hall of famer lou brock. brock played for 19 seasons in the big leagues in the '60s and the '70s, winning two world series with the st. louis cardinals in 1964 and 1967 he was baseba

i apologize to the democratic national committee, where they had the offices that the burglars broke into. just kind of waited out -- just kind of laid it out in a soulful way. that soulful, but if he had apologized -- and hadp agreed -- if nixon apologized watergate would have gone away. i said on this if you apologized -- and he said, i would never apologize. i didn't do anything wrong. we went back to, is this a good policy? ivanka, youryo daughter, and walk on this beautiful property, mar-a-lago, and have a father daughter talk and ask her if she would recommend that you apologize. he said i wouldn't do that, it wouldn't make any difference what she said. i think it wasn't going to make any difference what anyone said. this is part of the problem with trump as president. he gets things in his head, and he will not get them out. he will not listen to others. they have no process. in extensivegh detail in the book his national matus, theams, ki defense secretary, dan coats the director of national intelligence, that they can't get through to him. he won't listen. it's tragic. it's

did things and i am responsible and i apologize to the country and i apologized to the democratic national committee and where they had the offices burglars broke into and just laid it out in a sorrowful way and nixon was not that soulful but if he had done this and had apologized and trump agreed that nixon had apologized watergate would have gone away and on this if you apologize and he never apologized and he did not do anything wrong but i said if we went back to this is a good policy and take your daughter who walked on this beautiful property in mar-a-lago and have a father daughter talk and ask her if he would recommend that you apologize and he said i will not do that and would not make any difference and it would not make any difference what anyone said and this is the problem with trump as president and he gets things in his head and he will not get them out. he will not listen to others and they have no process and as i go through an extensive detail in the book what hisis national security team jim mcmanus sec secretary, secretary of defense, dan coats director of national intelligence t

it looks like both the democratic national committee and russian intelligence services manipulated the fbi under your watch. how could the world's premier law enforcement agency miss all of these signs? >> i'm sorry, senator. i disagree with a lot of aspects of your preamble so i can't answer that one. >> well, it sounds to me like you should have known, and it pretty much speaks for itself that maybe you aren't on top of things the way you should have been. question number four, on february 14th, 2017, you met with the president and he allegedly asked you to let flynn's case go. in any of your meetings with president trump, did you inform him that the flynn case was supposed to be closed on january 4th, 2017, and if not, why not? >> i don't think i had any conversation with president trump about flynn's case except for that february 14th let it go conversation. >> well, if you had that conversation, then couldn't you have informed him that the flynn case was supposed to be closed on january 4th, 2017? >> i don't know why that would be relevant fact for any conversation about flynn lyi

jose aristimuno is the former deputy press secretary for the democratic national committee.ys good to have you on the program. i want to start with just the enthusiasm element of all this. let's put the poles aside, and you see that. how much more do the people need to see joe biden at this point to compete with that? >> there is no question, like the report was saying previously, some of the trump supporter's they claim it's a lifestyle. i'm not questioning that by any means. this is an election, it's not a carnival show. excitement doesn't always equal support. part of the reason why we haven't seen the biden camp do as many in-person events is because of coronavirus. we are talking about 200,000 deaths, 600 million infections. it's a serious matter. i get it has to be exciting, but this is different times. this is a different year. i think, now more than ever, americans want solutions to the mismanagement that has happened with covid-19, the economy, it's in shambles. all these things are with the american people are looking for, not necessarily whether a rally has 10,000

august it raised $210 million jointly with the republican national committee, their best month to date, but still well below biden and the democraticmmittee's $364 million in august. on thursday, the president hits the trail, heading to michigan. for pbs newshouri'm john yang. judy: for more but bob woodward's new book, we are ined by "washington post" reporter and moderator of pbs' is washington week, bob costa. bob, you told me you have read the book and listened to many of the the audio recordings provided by bob woodward. how much does he say about what the president knew? bob: woodward recounts bed on his reporting president trud was t on january 28 of this year by top national security officials robert o'brien and matthew pottinger that the coronavirus was the greatest national security threat he had yet seen in his presidency. pottinger compared to the 1918 flu pandemic which killed millions worldwide. just a few days later, the president told woodward that the virus is very deadly, and you saw that in the clip shown by john yang. judy: and weow just a portion of what the president was saying in public at that time. but what

on one hand this is great for trump and bad for the democratic national committee. -- the democrats. >> i want to wade into the sexism thing. if dana will virtually hold my hand. i will make an announcement. it is true that women are more beautiful than men. and that women because they are more beautiful maybe spend more time maintaining their beauty. that women's hair is longer than men's hair and needs to be maintained more and as you mature, perhaps you may need to color said hair more often. am i doing okay so far? >> yes. >> dana didn't squeeze me. >> as someone who goes on tv almost daily as nancy pelosi does and as a very powerful woman, she needs to maintain that look. we also agree that gavin newsom shutting down hair salons seems excessive. as the numbers show on cable news, perks come along with that. we all love our perks. we also know that each of us maybe has gone astray when it comes to the regulation and let our mask slip down below our mouth on occasion. we understand what nancy pelosi did. she is just like the rest of us, greg. the only difference is she doesn't wal

. >> the democratic national committee and for people who don't know, when you sign off on these wiretaps'm told by my inside sources, you'd normally stay far far away from a political competitor, you just don't do it. if you feel you must, for some overriding reason, that would have to go all the way to the top, to the president of the united states because it's such a sensitive matter they would have to examine that then you would want to look at the wiretap if you sign off on it and make crystal clear that all the processes have been followed. you would want to do that personally not just sign it as they say they kind of did not people at the top or implying they were fooled by the people under them when in fact it's their responsibility to make sure that doesn't happen. wow, what a story, you said carter page.com is the place with all the options for the book. >> www.carterpagebook.com, great. the book is called "abuse and power", the story is amazing, thank you carter page, >> thank you so much cheryl. >> here are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the was

. >> the democratic national committee blasted the president saying he encouraged his supporters could to commit voter fraud with the goal of weakening trust in our democracy is what he fears most in november are millions of americans at the ballot box holding him accountable. this as facebook ceo announcedr voting and the pandemic. >> the election fraudulent, people saying that is problematic. additional context needs to be added to that. >> it's not a regular joe is the president of the united states. >> this will apply to the president. >> facebook will not accept new political ads the week before the election and they will remove all posts that claim people will get coronavirus if they take part in voting. >>> it was a rough day on wall street. big losses in technology stocks drive the market down. of the doll dow dropped 800 points just after a day that the nasdaq hit record highs. the nasdaq fell and the smp went down 100 points. >>> the big headline for the weekend a major heat wave headed towards the region. with each passing day we up the numbers as far as projected highs. tha