as you go down the list many of the states those battleground states that trump one in 2016 he is actually only leading in iowa a sign of trouble i think it's i think florida of all the battleground states a lot of the florida especially is crucial to president trump if he has any chance and right now you know he is nearly a double digit deficit for him no republican presidential winner has won without the state of florida calvin coolidge was the last to do that in 1906 you know i'm not seeing anything that takes hold i would have thought the law and order would have taken hold your point is very well taken this is a guy you know so that's really not taken hold the sleepy joe 'd in the cellar who is by the way been in office for 40 plus years and now he's saying i'm going to do something right that's kind of out there it hasn't been developed really well but the war chest you know war chest there the funding trump has still a great deal of money in the bank but how are they going to utilize that because if you look you were talking about electoral college votes at this point biden is likely or leading he has 2

trump publican senator joni ernst of iowa talks about her journey becoming the first female combat veteran to serve as united states senator. and we wrap up booktv.org in prime time with economics professor stephanie kelton and huff post senior reporter zachary carter talking about moderate economic theories and whether they hold up today. to find more information in your program guide or go online at booktv.org. here is a look at the life and work of civil rights leader julian bond. >> charis books is the south's oldest independent bookstore we are 45 years old. ordinarily we come to you live in person at 184 s. chandler in decatur georgia, were now the new school store for scott

trump fan. but our votes in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina supported donald trump. my job was to go in there and because of our relationship of over 14 years, i wanted him to be a better candidate and better person and i have no regrets to the reality of the voters and make our candidate the best candidate he could be so i could prevent a hillary clinton presidency and make him the best president so we can improve our country. that's what patriots do. i have no regrets at all. if i had to do it all over again, i would do it the same way. >> we appreciate your time as you take a little break with your family at the shore. thank you very much. gov. christie: i love the "washington post" throw pillow back there. i will be working on getting an abc round pillow. >> i'll look for that on sunday morning. governor, thanks again. captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org >> here's a look at our schedule. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, spacex dragon members hold a news conf

some of the targets, kansas, montana, iowa, states that president trump won pretty happenedily in 2016in again by significant margins. how did democrats in those states, how do democratic senate candidates vote over folks that are running for president? >> first of all in montana you have the candidate for senate -- governor, so he's been eleked statewide. stst had a democratic governor who won in 2018. a rot of the republicans who are up this cycle want -- trump won those states by narh o'er margins. those states, colorado, maine, iowa, north carolina, had narrow margins. we should mention the rest of the senate map where you have national enthusiasm for candidates in carolina and texas. we were talking about arizona. the fact that you had really strong candidate rekruts, people excited to run for office on the democratic side is a sign of the kind of year that democrats may have. and you can see that voters are following suit. >> all right. margin, ed, dave, thank you all for joining us. i appreciate that. >> sure. >> that's going to do it for us. join me along with chuck todd, 10:00

trump fan. at the beginning. the fact was our voters overwhelmingly in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina supported donald trump. there job was to go in because of our relationship, we have been friends for 40 years i , wanted him to be a better candidate and better president. i have no regrets in bowing to the reality of the voters and to try to make our candidate the best candidate he could be so i could prevent a hillary clinton presidency and make him the best president he could be so we can improve our country. i think that is what patriots do. i have absolutely no regrets about that. if i have to do it over again i , would do it the same way. >> we believe it there. we appreciate your time as you take a little break with your family at the shore. thank you very much. gov. christie: great to talk to you. i love the "washington post" throw pillow back there. great product placement. i will be getting an abc pillow for those roundtables. >> i'll look for that on sunday morning. governor, thanks again. gov. christie: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by t

. >> and the biden campaign is putting more focus on iowa adding a senior team in the state where trump won handily in 2016. last month a "des moines register" poll among voters in iowa showed the race nearly tied. >>> now, back to tropical storm fay taking aim at the northeast and expected to make landfall near new york city later today. let's take a closer look at your friday forecast. >>> good morning. tropical storm fay is moving north up the atlantic seaboard, and it is the earliest "f" named storm since satellite era. it will be a tropical storm as it pushes into new york and new jersey and lifts north in through new england weakening as it does so. tropical storm warnings in place for long island, connecticut, as well as much of the jersey shore and we'll have winds gusting to more than 40 miles an hour in through saturday with this storm. rainfall, two to four inches. i'm accuweather meteorologist melissa constanzer. >>> coming up, new details on the case against jeffrey epstein's alleged accomplice and what's being done to keep her safe while behind bars. >>> also ahead, the se

trump today talking about the suburbs. >> they don't mind if low income housing is built in a neighborhood in a beautiful suburb of iowa, but a beautiful suburb anywhere in the country. they went lower -- this has been going on for years. obama made it much worse, and now they want corey booker to run that program. corey booker of new jersey to run that program and make it many times worse than it is

lot of those polls show that biden was leading trump in states that the president carried in 2016 like georgia and ohio. and they were tied in states like iowa which is why we're seeing president trump hold rallies in states that otherwise would not even be battleground for the democratic and republican candidate, but when you factory in the fact that we have this pandemic that the administration has failed to bring under control, a lot of these states that weren't in play before are in play now. >> you wrote an article for the guardian arguing that the efforts to beat trump this year are better and more organized than they have been in the past. tell me a little bit about why this is and why this election feels different. >> a lot of these groups will say, look, we have a record of the president now. we've seen him in action. we know what he's like as president and a lot of what we were worried about in 2016 came to fruition. and they really realized that if there's opposition to trump among the republican party that it needs to be -- to feel a sense that they're allowed to voice that and they're allowed to vote for vice president biden. th

polls show republican senators are also facing tough races in colorado, arizona, iowa, north carolina, and montana. trumpa by 20 points four years ago. in the montana senate race a new poll finds the popular governor and democratic challenger leading the incumbent by two points. meanwhile the latest senate poll out of arizona shows the democratic challenger mark kelly beating reamian incumbent by four points which might not be surprising considering the republican-led state has continued to set all the wrong records for coronavirus. the latest from the crisis in arizona is right after this break. fter this break. place that you laughed about well the names have all changed since you hung around but those dreams have remained and they've turned around who'd have thought they'd lead ya back here where we need ya welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. wow. jim could you ipop the hood for us?? there she is. -turbocharged, right? yes it is. jim, could you uh kick the tires? oh yes. can you change the color inside the car? oh sure. how about blue? that's more cyan but. jump in the back seat, jim. a

trump lost his? the lincoln project is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> republican senator joni ernst of iowaf yesterday from president trump's rhetoric over the weekend regarding nationwide protests and the removal of confederate monuments. >> senator, as somebody who's going to be on the ballot with the president in november, are you comfortable with that? >> well, i think that there is a great level of frustration across the united states all the way around, and as a combat veteran as you stated, someone who has served this great nation, i truly believe that we live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet waend do ha have blemishes in our history. and we need to come together to have hard discussions about our past. the great thing about this nation is we can learn from those blemishes, learn from the hard times in the past, and continue to evolve as a continually blessed nation and, again, we do live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet, and i hope that others understand that. >> senator, as somebody who did fight in combat to protect the freedoms that you just talked

polls show republican senators are also facing tough races in colorado, arizona, iowa, north carolina, and montana. trump montana by 20 points four years ago. in the montana senate race, a new poll today finds the popular governor and democratic challenger steve bullock leading the incumbent by two points. meanwhile the latest senate poll out of arizona shows the democratic challenger mark kelly beating republican incumbent martha mcsally by four points, which might not be surprising considering the republican-led state has continued to set all the wrong records for coronavirus. the latest from the crisis in arizona is right after this break. didn 't know meant so much. but we're all going at our own speed. at enterprise, peace-of-mind starts with our complete clean pledge, curbside rentals and low-touch transactions. with so many vehicles of so many kinds, you can count on us to help you get everywhere you want to go... again. whenever you're ready, we're ready for you. enterprise. wow. jim could you ipop the hood for us?? there she is. -turbocharged, right? yes it is. jim, could you uh kick the tires?

jordan discusses life and influence of first lady melania trump and we talk with two republican senators martha mcsally of arizona and ernst of iowa >> as folks are beginning to arrive, i'm jessica, one to have owners of greenlight and we are excited to host tonight's event with makita stewart, the girl scout troops that began and inspired the world. she will be talking with giselle and daughter karina. you're in for

jordan discusses life and influence of first lady melania trump and we talk with two republican senators martha mcsally of arizona and ernst of iowa. >> as folks are beginning to arrive, i'm jessica, one to have owners of greenlight and we are excited to host tonight's event with makita stewart, the girl scout troops that began and inspired the world. she will be talking with giselle and daughter karina. you're in for an excellent time tonight. i want to say a huge thanks for everyone to make this happen to all of our participants for being here, greenlight store fronts are currently closed but our community is still here, all of us are still here and we really appreciate that. a couple of housekeeping things. log in now, you can see speakers, they can't see or hear you, they can see your names, they know that you are here. you can use the chat icon to share comments if you're here with girl scout troops, we want to hear with what troop you're with. if you want to ask a question, we will have q&a section and you can use the q&a icon. you can see others question and if you see a good one you can up load it to make sure we get to th

trump us. you are not only loong at arizona and colorado which seem tos stake iowa and georgia.se should be selid republican s. it is a completeps col it looks like right now. >> asd lisa poin out, the year started out with democrats thinking they mig not be able to take the senate. are you surprised at this turn of events? >> i am. i am surprised at a couple of things. david is right about democrats being onhe offensive and republicans being on the defensive. it shoulnot surprise me, this has been the pattern. when a president gets in trouble, his senate colleagues face the same thing very often. in 2016, for example, every rsena who won and the state, the presidential candidate of that party carried. in 2008, when obama swept, only one republican survived in a state th obama carried. that happened to be susan collins in mai. 12 senate seats.0. giants of the senate. frank's church. all went down. the republins won the senate for the first time and 26 years. because the presidential candidate was incredibly weak. jimmy carter, 31% approval in 1980. george w.s bush 25% job approv

trump in 2016. could the biden campaign go in there, could democrats go in there and swing that back? how about another one here? the state of iowa. this one swung even more fiercely than ohio did in 2016. trump won this by nine. even though obama had won it in 2012. now trump leads but by a very, very small margin and one democrats have been talking about for a long time. texas, trump by nine in 2016. tied in the polling right now. and wow, look at that. it has been 44 years since democrats won texas. that was jim my carter over gerald ford in '76. again, with biden leading big nationally, if that persists, raises the question, can you start competing in these states, maybe could you start competing in other states after that? do you want to or play it a little safer? so it's an interesting question there for democrats to be thinking about. probably for them, a good dilemma to have. ahead, the plitization of a national health emergency. what does donald trump hope to gain by going after federal agencies working to control the pandemic. we're back after this. working pandemic we're back after this. ere's sky. 3 out of 4 people ac

prize-winning reporter mary jordan on the life and influence of first lady melania trump publican senator joni ernst of iowa talks about her journey becoming the first female combat veteran to serve as united states senator. and we wrap up booktv.org in prime time with economics professor stephanie kelton and huff post senior reporter zachary carter talking about moderate economic theories and whether they hold up today. to find more information in your program guide or go online at booktv.org. here is a look at the life and work of civil rights leader julian bond. >> charis books is the south's oldest independent bookstore we are 45 years old. ordinarily we come to you live in person at 184 s. chandler in decatur georgia, were now the new school store for scott college. we are coming to life or my home office. in atlanta georgia. we been doing a whole series of educational programs that fall under Ãbworking for social justice and encouraging the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. all through these virtual formats. we feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors all over

, take iowa, where the challenger is beating joni ernst, and she just won the primary, theresa greenfield, president trump that state by ten points and it's neck and neck. >> susan, are these polling trends more about a rebuke of the president or voters changing their minds about him or changing demographics of voters in texas? >> well, it's a combination of things actually. i think it's one a reflection of the environment we're in. people now, this is unlike russia, this is unlike roger stone. this is in people's homes, their families, their children, their grandparents. this crisis, this pandemic is actually affecting people's jobs, the economy, and it's personal. those other things that we hate about president trump or some hate about president trump i should say, are down in washington. they're not the things that touch people right at home. and in texas, there is a shifting demographic. i do not think that texas is ready to go blue yet. it's definitely moving purple, but i think it's a bit too early. and i think at this point, biden has a responsibility to win. he doesn't have a responsibility to run

arizona's republican governor, doug ducey, had initially, like president trump, like florida's republican governor ron desantis, like iowa's very trumpy republican governor kim reynolds, arizona's governor doug ducey had also initially just announced a mandate by which he declared all schools must open no matter what. but, you know, there was pushback, and the pushback worked. and this sort of thing is worth paying attention to, particularly if you are beaten down by how bad the headlines are and how bad the news is staying. look at the places where people fighting for constructive policy are winning, are getting even politicians who have not been good on this issue to get better. in arizona we saw it when the state public health association balked at what the governor was telling schools to do. the state public health association telling governor ducey that instead of picking a date out of a hat, instead they said the government should pick evidence-based criteria to decide when or whether it's safe to open k to 12 schools. they suggested things like a sustained and consistent reduction in the number of new covid cases in

. >>> falling poll numbers are forcing president trump's reelection campaign to spend money in three states that he won easily in 2016, iowame of the barrage of presidential ads we're seeing, no holds barred. and it's not just the biden and trump camps, of course. outside groups are creating lots of ads, notably the lincoln project, which isn't just going after trump, but in this new ad, his closest allies. >> every time they had a choice between america and trump, they chose trump. every time they were called to the service of this nation and their sacred oath, they chose trump. every time. learn their names. remember their actions. and never, ever trust them again. >> trump and the top superpac backing his reelection dropped $31.5 million on broadcast ads in june compared to biden's $8.8 million national ad spend last month. joining me to talk about all of this, senior adviser at the lincoln project and msnbc contributor kurt bardela and jimmy siegle is a media consultant at siegle strategies. i'm so happy to see both of you. jimmy, let's start with the biden campaign which this week released an ad on the power of family

texas, but i want to ask about michigan because there's a report that the trump campaign has not spend any additional on ads there. iowa or even georgia so we have this monmouth university hawks my cow today, having them at a 47-47 tie, so does he need to shore up his position mary and what is traditionally a pretty red state of georgia? >> that's actually not even tr true. time reserved in michigan for the home stretch leading up to election day. we are going to be on the air nationally, first of all, and in key battleground states because we are in the process of educating all americans that joe biden is an empty vessel. he is the trojan horse candidate that the extreme left is using to fill with their extreme agenda. we will be on tv in michigan, absolutely, and all the way up to election day, just as we will be nationally. americans, our internal data shows, that a lot of people now who joe biden is, but not very much now much about him. and that is going to change between now and election day. believe me. >> dana: i think that's interesting. you've said that on this program before. one biden is more fully defined,

iowa was not considered one of the top tier races when the cycle began. generally, fulks thought joni thought jonis ernst was formidable. giving how resounding president trump'sry in 2016 in iowa was, a lot of democrats were not considering it to be in the top tier of opportunities. but that has changed and the race has since become a tossup. we can see why in oath of those ads. to start with the one from senator ernst, it is a solid ad because it does two things, first begins with her career in military service, one of her later calling cards when she burst onto the political scene in 2014. and reminds voters joni ernst is someone who put on the uniform and served overseas in various situations. what i hear from a lot of that thens is that now coronavirus pandemic is affecting americans and the economic fallout puts millions of people in unemployment, focusing races on china and using china as an antagonist has become one of the dominant republican strategies that we are seeing across the board. on the other hand, you have theresa greenfield who, in many ways is mirroring the same path ini ernst took in her race 2014. theresa greenfield grew up on a often ta

trump is undermining the doctors. so just listen to the doctors and wear a mask, and we appreciate that. i see a lot of people here in iowa wearing a mask. and i see some doesn't. but i stay far away from them when they have no mask on. do,that is all i can protect myself, and hand sanitizer, keep everything clean. host: a headline from the "wall street journal," early success stories, see virus surge. those that stemmed this bread in recent weeks face the challenge of maintaining that success. summer increasing travel and distancing fatigue. in ohio, where governor mike dewine had been praised, i said in rising cases is sparking new concern. that is from the "wall street journal." to florida, this is joseph up next. good morning. caller: good morning. listen, my take on this situation is as follows, john made ain his book comment to the effect that mr. trump is motivated primarily or only by his desire to be reelected. and i think that is reflected and what caused the situation we are in now. you know, we are in a deep hole with this coronavirus. it did not have to had been this deep. however, in the beginning, for whate

trump brushes off the spike in cases and offers a dark vision. >> there is a new far left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. >> will the message that worked in 2016 convince voters in 2020? iowa republican senator joni ernst up for reelection this fall will join me. plus she's taking a tough line against the administration on the armed services committee. >> how dare he still call himself skmander in chief. >> and the buzz of vp choice. with months to go before he picks a candidate for vice president, tammy duckworth joins me coming up. >>> hello, i'm dana bash in for jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is honoring freedom in strange times. happy 4th of july weekend. as americans celebrated the country's birthday, president trump did nothing to try to unify a nation still crippld by the coronavirus pandemic and deep cultural unrest. instead he used the occasion to deliver two divisive speeches in front of mount rushmore friday night, he outlined an us versus them message framing most protests on radical assault on american life. >> we will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children, or trample on our free

. >> iowa senator chuck grassley urging william barr to release findings before the election, no one was prosecuted before november with surveillance of the trumpampaign. >> world health organization changing its timelines reveal its part about the coronavirus pandemic online and not from chinese officials. hundreds of scientists calling on the who to release updated guidelines, airborne transmission place more significant role in spreading covid-19 than previously thought. todd: north korea - in hopes of denuclearization talks with the us, top officials thing the hermit kingdom has no intention of meeting. >> deputy secretary of state arrives in south korea. >> reporter: tensions remain high between north and south korea in the north says talks with the united states are off the table. north korea's director general for us mayors accused south korea over the weekend of misinterpreting statements made by the country. south korea has been encouraging the north to come back to the negotiating table after 3 rounds of talks between donald trump and north korean dictator kim jong un. a year ago the two leaders met in the demilitarized zone and donal

democrats in montana, iowa, originally thought to be top-tier races have raised in near seven figures. the other problem for trumpm for a candidate is not necessarily the only reason people will turn out to vote. instead, elections with an incumbent can sometimes be a referendum on how the country is doing. 67% of voters now disapprove of the president's handling of race relations, and it's estimated that around 20 million americans have protested in black lives matter protests. making them the largest in the country's history. both trump and biden have received more than 17 million votes in their respective primaries. with some say still left to vote wind up with the most votes of any primary candidates in history. so, do i buy that there's plenty of enthusiasm for the president? well, absolutely. the problem is there might be as much enthusiasm against him, too. >> thanks to nate for that. the roundtable is up next. we'll be right back. the roundtable is up next. we'll be right back. >>> let's use this opportunity to take bolded investments so t future is made in america, all in america. we should use it to buy

iowa. russian influence in the u.k. is the new and normal that's the conclusion of a long awaited parliamentary report and westminster into moscow's allergic modulating in british. donald trump son's troops onto the streets of the city of portland to quash on grass all claims his moves in legal as it wasn't just we need good local authorities. to cross the line russian claims it's because the vaccine is good to go all the questions are raised in the west over how it made such progress. police in the u.k. want to draw is the best of all jihad this would refer you to acts of terrorism amid fears it breeds hate towards muslims need to face here. when we give these labels to them we get to their auctions and there to receive these people on to the specific reason because they believe in this extreme islamic view. bringing your news around the clock this is our team international a very welcome from the whole team here in moscow well let's head straight to the u.k. where a much anticipated report into a large and russian interference in british politics has finally been released and it concludes moscow's influence because the new normal however bashes the u.k. government for fail

wineries tied to congressman devin nunez, and an iowa farm owned by his family received loans of $2 million. according to the ap, 40 lobbyists with ties to trumpelped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid. among them, five former administration officials. so much for draining the swamp. and then there's jared kushner. businesses connected to the kushner family raked in millions under the program. observer holdings, run by his brother-in-law, received up to $1 million. an entity owned by his mother, brother, and sisters got anywhere from $1 million to $2 million and up to $1 million went to another entity that owns land in new jersey, where a hotel his family owns is located. you're welcome, america. since all these rich people who didn't need this help were lining their pockets with money intended to help struggling small businesses, it's no wonder the trump administration tried so hard to keep congress from knowing where all that money was going. stick with us. usaa is made for what's next no matter what challenges life throws at you, we're always here to help with fast response and great service and it doesn't stop

he added this comment today "as i was saying -- trump tax returns used to be something that he talked about a lot on the campaign trail especially in iowaew hampshire. >> what is he afraid of? what is buried in those returns? why can't the american people see them? >> that was from october and this afternoon and pennsylvania, biden did not directly address in front of the crowd the supreme court ruling about the tax returns as that tax returns took a backseat to issues like health care and investing in american made goods and services to the tune of $700 billion in taxes after he takes over. biden did kind of allude to the way that he thinks president trump sees the world, the lands that he thinks he sees the world through, accusing him of favoring wall street over main street. >> neil: thank you very much. a surprise from the john roberts cord. let's go to that other equally famous john roberts, our white house correspondent. what do you think? >> one thing that appears to be clear at this point is that the november election is not going to be part of the contents of his financial records are tax returns. even if cyrus vance, the manha

you wrote that trump is looking for a confrontation in oregon in hopes of winning political points in ohio or iowa. but there is real people there and there is a real young man who really had facial reconstructive surgery and really had his blood pool on the street after he was really shot with a nonlethal round by a federal official who to this day we don't know what entity he came from. one question i have for you and the citizens of your state, if two men come up to me in gubs and cam flag and grab me to put me in a car, i'm not going with them. i don't know who they are. i don't know if they're people that just bought camouflage in a store and a police badge and have a gun. i don't know what authority they have. >> this is terrifying for the citizens of the city of portland surrounding communities. obviously it is definitely like pouring gasoline on a fire. this is not how we solve problems in my state. and it is absolutely unacceptable. the circumstance you just showed, complete violation of civil rights and a violation of our constitution. certainly federal law enforcement officials should b

trump has defended tho righisplay the confederate flag. the federal government has carried oucuits third eon this week. an iowadied by lethal injection this afternoon at a federal prison in indiana. he had been convicted of killing five people in 1993. federal executions resumed this week after 17 years. a federal judge ruled today that a california programca to cap on emissions is constitutional. the program allows companies in the state to trade emissions credits withompanies in quÉbec, cada. de trump administration s california over the initiative, arguing the state was exceeding auitority by conducting foreign policy. atthe democraticnal committee is telling members of congress not to attend the party's national convention in milwaukee next month because of covid-19. vethe cion will be mostly virtual with delegates voting virtually. republicans have downsized tove their cion in jacksonville, florida, but are still plning for delegates to attend in pern. the democratic chair of the house foreign affairs committee lost his primary to a progressive challenger today. the associated press declared jama bowman t

iowa. she's trying to create distance there without condemning the president or doing anything that would stoke his ire. as we all know, trump has zero tolerance for republicans who are seen as betraying him. >> peter, let's switch gears for a moment. new reporting that the administration's new message on coronavirus seems to have shifted to now being learn to live with it. what more do we know about this? >> this is sort of like the seven stages of grief. you've seen denial, blame, anger, now acceptance that the virus is not going to go away any time soon. certainly not before the election. but consider within the last several days, they hope it will just disappear. also saying it's being handled. it's under control. clearly the facts don't bear that out. but the white house as we heard from the chief of staff, mark meadows, is try to sort of focus on this theme to minimize the severity of the virus in some way saying, as the president said, he said specifically that 99% of the covid cases are totally harmless. public health experts, obviously, dispute that. not everybody dies, but maybe 15 or 20% of those who get it can be

think one thing that donald trump did, which surprised a lot of people he gave voice to a lot of people that felt forgotten, people from places like where i'm from, des moines, iowa, where it's flyover country, where you really believe that the coastal elites don't understand why you value your way of life, like having a film your backyard and having sort oft above ground pool and target shooting, those kind of things we celebrity and do in places like iowa where i'm from. >> host: mr. whitaker, were you prepared for the media when you came into the acting ad position? >> guest: i'm not sure i could have ever expected the attention and the suddenness with which i was thrust on the national stage. i was ready for the job. i had dump 13 -- done 13 months a chief of staff to the attorney general. i knew he the department of justice worked and had relationships in the exec afternoon had been a u.s. attorney for knife and a half year i knew the department of justice very well and its mission and its people. but the media was -- even though i had been a contributor on cnn and thought that i knew how the media covered stories i was not ready of the amount of reporters f

trump today talking about the suburbs. >> they don't mind if low income housing is built in a neighborhood in a beautiful suburb of iowa,try. they went lower -- this has been going on for years. obama made it much worse, and now they want corey booker to run that program. corey booker of new jersey to run that program and make it many times worse than it is right now. >> yeah, scarey corey booker. you know, he followed that up with a tweet today saying, you know, he's happy to inform the people living the suburban lifestyle dream you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low-income housing built in your neighborhood. what do you think of a president of the united states saying that, saying democrats hate the country, all the stuff that he's spilling out today? >> you know, to me, that was more than a whistle. that was a pretty loud bark. he is a barking dog that will always go out here and refer, as he once did, to an african-american woman as a dog. that bothered me to no end. i will never get over that. so this president, ever since that statement, i did not expect anymore from him. this is tame com

. >> trump has made an astounding number of completely unsubstantiated voter fraud claims. he tweeted that president obama's win was a sham. >> god bless the great state of iowa>> in the 2018 primaries, he accused ted cruz of stealing iowa and marco rubio of rigging florida. >> new hampshire was taken away. >> people have died ten years ago are still voting. >> nearly 2 million dead people voted for hillary clinton. >> 10s of millions mail-in ballots. >> and in 2020 -- >> will they be forged. >> according to our president. >> will they be stolen from mailboxes. >> mail-in ballots will be riddled with fraud. >> will they be taken from the mail men and mail women? >> it's based on a lie, and it's a trick and it's lethal to american democracy. >> it has been investigated by. republicans and democrats. proven cases are less common than someone being struck by lightni lightning. >> from 2000-2014 in one billion votes cast, there were 31 cases of voter fraud. that is not massive or ramp ant. >> voter fraud does not make sense to risk it. it's unlikely to swing an election and the penalties are severe. >> voter fraud is a felony. so that is a big disincentive. >> th

iowa, for example, now appear to be coming into play. and from what reports that i've read it suggests the gop leadership is putting pressure on the trump administration to take this a lot more seriously, handle it better and effectively he's got until about labor day to save the day. he's sinking in the polls. he's behind in key states which he won in 2016 like florida, for example, and battleground states as well, and also nationally, and he also appears to hit a low of 78% loyalty approval among his gop voters as well. so there is a kind of massive shift going on, which is sort of taking the rug from under his feet and the gop leadership is keeping a good eye on this now. and they're even casting around for other candidates in future elections as well. i think they're losing a little bit of confidence and giving him a deadline to get it right by labor day or you're done. mask wearing may be a signal of a change of strategy. >> perhaps. we'll wait and see. you recently co-wrote an article stating that mismanagement of the covid crisis on behalf of the president coupled with racial upheaval we have seen over police brutality, and the p

that have been coming out and consistently biden is leading in places that donald trump needs to win and even places like iowarning much more red. i remember being there in 2018 for focus groups in the congressional races, yet they don't -- it's not looking like it's a total lock for joni ernst. you see the cheap imitation of donald trump in someone like martha mcsally not going to take her over the finish line because at the end of the day it's so inauthentic and no one can get away with what donald trump has. and at this point maybe even donald trump isn't going to get away with it either. >> john heileman? >> you know, i want to come back to the question of trump -- i know we're running out of time in the block. yamiche i want to ask you this question. we talked a lot in this discussion here about the nature of the trump -- the nature of trump's grievance politics and the white supreme acy of it and all this stuff. but what strikes me, there's an element of this missing from the trump argument and it's a clear attachment of the arguments he wants to make to his opponent, joe biden. it is a fascinating thin

trump. the dakota access pipeline has been operating since 2017, carrying fracked petroleum from the bakken oil fields in north dakota through south dakota, iowa and illinois, for transfer to another pipeline to carry it onto the gulf coast. the standing rock sioux call the pipeline the black snake. monday's historic court order comes more than four years after the resistance at standing rock began in 2016, bringing tens of thousands of people to north dakota to oppose the pipeline's construction on sacred lands. democracy now! was there on the ground covering the struggle. on september 3, 2016, the dakota access pipeline company unleashed dogs and pepper spray on native americans seeking to protect their sacred tribal burial site from destruction. this guy maced me in the face. look, it is all over my sunglasses. that woman over there, she was charging. >> the dog has blood in its nose and mouth. she is still standing here threatening. amy: why are you letting the dog go after the protesters? >> the dog. i was walking. without any warning. look at this. look at this. the dog did it. amy: to see the full report from 2016, you can go to democra

iowa, even georgia. they're worried about maine. they have a much more difficult path right now than they did a few months ago because president trumpwilling to take these national traumas that we're going through with the coronavirus and this reckoning over racial injustice and he just inflames tensions. it's making swing voters to the extent that there are all that many left, the few that are out there, don't want anything to do with this republican party. >> jeremy, thank you so much. thanks for being with us. and a major win for colleges and universities as the trump administration announced on tuesday, just moments before going into court to defend their policy that it would no longer require international students to leave the u.s. if their schools had classes entirely online due to the pandemic. this after facing eight federal lawsuits led by harvard and m.i.t., joining me now is randy winegarden, certainly a strong signal about the foreign students. let's talk about reopening schools and listen to what the vice president had to say about reopening schools and whether people should listen to the cdc guidelines. >> we don't wa

of the things will trump did which surprise a lot of people is he gave voice to a lot of people that felt forgotten, a lot of people from places like where i'm from, des moines, iowa, where it is flyover country where you really believe that the coastal elites don't understand why you value your way of life, why you like having a grill in your backyard and why you like having sort of an aboveground pool and all the kind of things that, you know, and target shooting, all the kinds of things we celebrate and do in places like iowa where i'm from. >> mr. whitaker, are you prepared for the media when you came into the acting ag position? >> yeah. i'm not sure i could have ever expected the attention and the sadness with which i was thrust on the national stage. i was ready for the job. i've done 13 months of chief of staff of the attorney general and you have the department of justice operative. i had relationship with a glint in the executive branch and other places. i've been a u.s. attorney for five and half years in the southern district of iowa so i knew the department of justice very well, its mission and its people. the media was, even though i id been a contri

iowa, you could even look at georgia. georgia. it is mind blowing just how low of a hole donald trump has been able to dig himself into.y -- i shouldn't say it is mind blowing because we have almost 150,000 americans dead and more than were killed by the a-bomb at hiroshima and it is not surprising that americans are saying please get out of this situation and move on. >> i'm sorry, we were squeezed for time. speaker pelosi was our guest and we went a little over. but this conversation is to be continued. thank you, both. thanks to you at home for watching, thanks for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. our coverage continues with the fabulous kristen welker after a quick break. r a quick break. uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ac

iowa. >> hello good morning >> there he is >> thanks. >> how are you >> good. >> great to see you. >> donald trump is in office because god allowed him toa a reprieve so that they could reset and get back to normal. >> i see and donald trump has essentially said he's a king do you believe he is king? >> i think we all have if you're in christ jesus. >> let me go to aaron haynes. >> i am indeed freezing, but coming to you from chilly las vegas on the hills of a massive win for bernie sanders if it's sunday, it's denny, denny, denny what does that mean? my producers wrote that in there. it's deny, deny, deny. i'm like, who's denny. >> that's a low bar, joy. >> the big news this morning is what happened last night in south carolina former vice president joe biden's big win pushed the pause button on bernie sanders' presidential momentum. >> there is no mincing words this morning as we've just discussed. we are in the midst of a global pandemic that shows no signs of slowing down >> all of the people who make our lives possible, many of them risking their lives in order to save lives and now they're in danger of losing their jobs. >> we fin

trump has to be absolutely rebutted on this issue. >> woodruff: david,. >> i'm worried about it. we've had a bad year on elections. long lines in georgia. the night of iowa caucuses. just had a bad year, epidemic makes it a lot worse. a lot of people are not going o be comfortabl comfortable pan m polls. a lot of people are not where they live. worry a close election have results drag out for days, wee weeks, while everybody in the conspiracy world undermines it. this is sometng that for most, ould be upper most on our mind d what donald trump is important. >> woodruff: finally, david, i didn't give you a chanc week to say something about john lewis, the nation said goodbye w to him all thk then yesterday that very moving funeral service in atlanta. thoughts about how that unfolded and what his life meant. >> just on obama eulogy, i thought it was -- ino didt mind if it was political. if barack obaanma wts to deliver a eulogy wants to dedicatit to causes that i dedicate my life to that's fine by me.ha what he emzed about lewis is what was so impressive him anthe wholeement which was progressiveness. constant offense. always marching whenever there was a

iowa caucus side yet? >> don't you want everybody to vote? >> absolutely. there you hit. everyone who is qualified to vote should vote. we want free and fair elections. if we have one, donald trumpcted for another four years. >> what if i'm qualified to vote and i'm scared of coronavirus and i want to mail in a ballot? >> there are means and mechan m mechanisms you can do that. >> mail-in voting. >> an absentee ballot. we have mechanisms in place. we have a whole government approach in protecting the sanctity of voting with this president working with the fbi, pressure testing ballot locations to make sure there's no meddling. universal mail-in, we have distancing at polling places. everyone will have a mask. there's hand sanitizer. this is a sacred thing in our country. we can't allow people to cheat, steal, to take those ballots and have multiple hands pass through them and touch them between a time that a person cast their vote and when they go to be counted. that's unacceptable. >> in the end, will the president acknowledge the decision of the american people if he doesn't win the election? >> again, if it is done properly, absolutely he will. it's still hillary clinton goin

iowa was notgenerall considered the top tier races when the cycle began. generally folks thought that senator joany ernst in her first term was a recumbent and the t largest swingto b from an obamaa trump state. a lot of democrats were not considering it to be in the top tier of pick-up opportunities. but that has changed and that race has since become a toss-upm and we could see why in both ofa those ads.cause it to start with the one from senator ernst, it is a fairly solid ad because it begins with hisshe career in military servi which is one of the major calling cards when she burst on the political scene in 2014. and it begins there and it eas reminds voters thatt joni ernst put on the uniform and served overseas in dangerous situations and then it pivots to china. n and what i hearow from a lo of u republicans is that as the coronavirus pandemic has continues to affect americans as the economic fallout continues to put millions of people in unemployment, focusing on china andategie using it as an antago has become you hav one of the d republican strategy we're seeing across the board.. on the other hand, you have teresa greenfield who in many ae ways is mirroring the same path th

iowa primary, which is tough for king, because his race is like his favorite thing he famously loves it former vice president joe biden spoke in philadelphia yesterday and criticized president trump'sesponse to the protests against police violence across the country. said biden, "if anyone's going to act racist in this country, it's going to be me accidentally." according to a new poll, 53% of american office workers worry that their current skills will be outdated in fewer than five years, skills like no-pants budget meetings. royal caribbean has announced that due to coronavirus travel restrictions by the canadian government, it has canceled all cruises that pass through canada through october. so, if you planned to take a cruise to canada in october, you're doing cruises wrong, i think? i'm not an expert, but today was national egg day, which comes before national chicken day. but wait, chicken day happened last year, which came after egg day, which came before -- damn it karen chee, everybody. when the news is dark, you can count on america's sweetheart, karen chee, to write you a joke about national egg day thank you, karen i miss seeing you. today was also -- excuse me, i'm o