glenn kessler of "the washington post" joins me for a fact check. >>> backlog at the post office is bigger than what comes at christmas. the impact on mail-in voting ahead. >>> we begin with what was a stunning and tragic loss after chadwick boseman who played jackie robnson, james brown and thoroughgood marshall before striving to fame as the black panther dies at just 43 years old. we take a look at his short but illustrious career. >> this morning, hollywood is grieving the loss of chadwick boseman, the star to played i n iconic figures from jackie robinson. >> give me a uniform, give me a number on my back, and i'll give you. >> and james brown. >> one, two, three, four. >> and challah in black panther. news of his death was announced on social media, detailing his four-year coloncancer. he never spoke of his battle even as it progressed to stage four. >> a true fighter, chadwick persevered through it all and brought you the films you've come to love so much. his passing shocked hollywood and beyond. former castmate writing he had so much amazing work left to create. i'm endlessly grat

glenn kessler, good morning and welcome. dan, i will start with you. give me your initial reaction to the speech last night by former vice president and now democratic presidential nominee, joe biden. dan: i thought it was a very strong speech, probably one of the best speeches of a former vice president and now democratic nominee has given his long career. this has been a pretty successful convention up to last night. but all conventions eventually depend on the performance of the nominee. there are questions about whether biden was going to rise to that moment. i think he did. i thought it was thematically strong. i thought the delivery was quite forceful it it answered questions i think the trump campaign has tried to put out there that joe biden is not up to the moment. i thought last night he was up to the moment. one other, this convention has reinvented what conventions will be in the future. they have shown a new way to do it. one of the things that this convention showed is there is a value in short speeches. this was probably one of the short

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with me on this final warning and renownedlee fact checker glenn kessler. welcome. >> we were running out of superlatives. we called a tall tale of false creams and revisionist history. that is certainly what we saw. we did 25 separate claims of false or misleading state that fact check as false and misleading statement the president made. and that was probably just scratching the surface. we have wrote a whole book on what we call his assault on the truth and his propensity to say false and misleading things. he certainly lived up to our expectations in his reputation, as someone who will say things that are often not based in any reality. jonathan: glenn, that reminds me: listening to the president's speech, i'm wondering for you as a fact checker, did you hear anything new that needed to be fact checked? wefact-check -- >> fact-check the democrats on a daily basis. he had a line about cash bail where he was criticizing biden for supporting a policy that governor chris christie of new jersey has implemented. that popped up in the past week, but we were pr

to theou washington post this morning they have a fact check section --piled by clint crisler glenn kesslerfive million americans infected by covid, more than 170 thousand americans have died. he writes that the claims are accurate when using raw numbers. the virus. however to measure countries on a level field experts look at cases per capita, according to one tracker the united states has the fifth high risk -- highest mortality risk, when looking at the 20 countries peru isy most affected, higher. let's go to rebecca from california, undecided. caller: yes, i am undecided if bideny concern is wins, he gets up there to get the speech, he rips off his mask and it's really hillary clinton. we could be getting hillary clinton back. that is my concern. i feel she just will not go away. host: what makes joe biden and hillary clinton similar? caller: mainly because they have rubbed elbows together too many times. there's a lot that goes on there that does not get out into the public. it has more to do with their personalities and their history. thank you. policies, would you say they are exactl

with me on this final warning and renownedlee fact checker glenn kessler. welcome.

while the washington post so-called fact checker glenn kessler trying to spin the biden blunder on blackt you all know but most of all don't know, unlike the african-american committee with notable exceptions latino communities an incredibly diverse community. within incredibly different attitudes about different things. >> aptly trump campaign point of the biden said black community doesn't have quote diversity, if you listen to the clip he didn't actually say this. what just hours later, biden tweeted that he didn't mean to quote suggests the african-american community it a model it. again this is the "washington post" fact checkered so-called. house speaker nancy pelosi meanwhile flipping out on pbs anchor judy woodruff. pelosi was expecting a softball interview from the left-wing media had this reaction when woodruff asked when the dems had yet to find common ground with the republicans to pass a second stimulus bill, listen. >> democrats want more money, republicans want a lot less, they are saying they're willing to show flexibility and they're also saying a lot of the money that w

. >>> well, "the washington post"'s so-called fact checker, glenn kessler, tried to spin the biden blunderans. listen. >> what you all know but most people don't know, unlike the african-american community with notable exceptions, the latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes the about different things. david: after the trump campaign pointed out that biden said the black community doesn't have, quote, diversity of thought, kessler from the washington post tweeted out, if you listen to the clip, he didn't actually say this. well, just hours later biden tweeted that he didn't mean to, quote: suggest the african-american community is a monolith. and, again, this is "the washington post"'s fact-checker, so-called. house speaker nancy pelosi, meanwhile, flipping out on pbs anchor judy woodruff, pelosi expecting a softball interview and had this action when she was asked why the demss have yet to find common ground with republicans to pass a second stimulus bill. listen. >> democrats want more money, republicans want a lot less. they are saying they

"the now glenn kessler of washington post" says the statement is simply false.ccording to biden, his campaign, and a review of his remarks shows him misquoting biden just as millions of dollars of campaign ads misquote him. the phrase "defunding police" means shrinking their job to public safety. advocates foror -- but also more police overhauls such as training and community policing. no, i don't support defunding the police, biden told the news. in fact, they are able to demonstrate that they can protect the community and everyone from the community. to spend aning additional $300 million a year in the community program started on the clint does in the clinton administration. version -- the audiotape of the full conversation shows biden's response were much more nuanced, but it does not have biden adding that his responses the same of defunding all police. north carolina, supporting the president. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i am supporting trump. all this civil unrest all around 17-year-old,that he was there a couple days before and he was c