joe johns is there. two town halls, joe, but one message from one president, a message that could cost americans their lives. >> john, that's true. these dueling town halls really summed up the state of the race. we had that dangerous misinformation from the president about wearing masks. we had news about his own experience with coronavirus and then there were the conspiracy theories. all of this raising questions about whether the president did himself any favors at all by backing out of that debate with joe biden. president trump and former vice president joe biden faced off in dueling town halls, scheduled after trump refused to participate in a virtual debate following his coronavirus diagnosis, a topic he tried to avoid, like when asked whether he was tested the day of the first debate. >> if you ask the doctor, they give you a perfect answer, but you take a test and leave and go about your business. >> did you take a test on the day of the debate, is the bottom line? >> i probably did and i took a

cnn's joe johns live with the latest. joe. >> good morning, john, the president is making it clear he wants to get back out on the campaign trail but he's stuck in the white house recovering from covid-19. he's trying to put the best gloss on it . he says he's feeling great. great is not the word you would use to describe the level of trust in the administration's pandemic response so far. as the white house struggles to contain a major outbreak within its walls, president trump returned to the west wing, despite testing positive less than a week ago. he met with his chief of staff, mark meadows, and social media director, dan scavino in the oval office. >> obviously with the president, he continues to work, we've got a number of safety protocols with full ppe masks, goggles and the like for any direction interaction with the president. >> an isolation card, stocked with yellow medical gowns, respirator masks, and plastic goggles was placed outside the president's office for anyone who needs to be in contact with trump. a

never wanted for anything he'll never forget that friday back in 2003 when all of it was taken away john joe we attacked the village allemande then just 12 years old was in the mountains with the family's cattle. we heard that the whole village had been burned to the ground the people were raped and killed it was a terrible day for me. as even. their mission was part of the genocide following orders from them president omar al bashir the group were to crush an uprising of known hour of tribes against the regime in darfur they said hundreds of villages on fire. more than 300000 people were killed and another 2 and a half 1000000 were forced to flee their homes. they could kill your father in front of your eyes of regular family members that's why we fight a refugee camp. wasteland and abandon villages still bear witness to the war crimes of the past 17 years until recently militias close to the government in darfur continued to spread fear and terror even while the new government in her tomb promised reconciliation and peace so far only very few have dared to return to their villages tens of

joe johns and dana bash and dr. sanjay gupta. joe, 5 a.m. in washington. not terribly long before some people at the white house start showing up for work. are most staffers even going to be allowed in there today? we've been talking, you and i the last hour, how lax covid security has been at the white house. there's a number of reports about that. do we know what happens today? >> the only thing that you can say is you saw, as you read, the doctor's statement indicating that the president is going to try to continue business as usual and that would suggest that the white house complex, the staffers there are going to try to continue with business as usual. it's not going to be that way simply because there are real implications, both from the political side and on the government side. i would say one of the first things you have to ask questions about today is what's the potential effect on this on the supreme court nomination of amy coney barrett and why is that? it's because we're not just wondering about the president's personal contacts, his close co

john, the president publicly saying i won the debate. joe biden is on his heels. publicly his aides support him and privately there's a lot of jitters, and even worse in the republican party right now. >> reporter: well, there's no question about it because you look at this polling, nationally hand in the ballot grounds, especially in those midwestern states that the president flipped to defeat narrowly to defeat hillary clinton in 2016 have moved decisively against him. first from the presidents on coronavirus there's a stopping determination to act as if the virus doesn't exist. we saw that in the debate when he disputed his -- the head of his vaccine project as well as anthony fauci. he's counting on a rapid vaccine breakthrough and ignoring the consequences in the meantime. second thing he's doing is doubling down on this strategy of appealing almost exclusively to white voters. we saw it throughout the summer after the death of george floyd where his message was law and order above everything else, even when it was plain that the public had turned away from a

never wanted for anything he'll never forget that friday back in 2003 when all of it was taken away john joe we've militia attacked the village alum and then just 12 years old was in the mountains with the families cattle. we heard that the whole village had been burned to the ground the people were raped and killed it was a terrible day for me. as in. their mission was part of a genocide following orders from them president omar al bashir the group were to crush an uprising of non arab tribes against the regime in darfur they said hundreds of villages on fire plundered and murdered more than 300000 people were killed and another 2 and a half 1000000 were forced to flee their homes. they could kill your father in front of your eyes for regular family. that's why we fight a refugee camp. wasteland and abandon villages still bear witness to the war crimes of the past 17 years until recently militias close to the government and for continued to spread fear and terror even while the new government in how to promised reconciliation and peace. so far only very few have dared to return to their vil

let's begin at the white house with joe johns. and joe, the president heading back out into the country as the number of cases continue to rise. >> that's right, john. the president heads out to florida today, later this week, he's also going to pennsylvania, iowa, north carolina. it's what a candidate does when he's behind in the poll s in th presidential race. however, we still have very little verifiable information about the president's health, except for what he and his doctors say, including whether the president is contagious. >> we're starting very, very big with our rallies and with our everything. with just 22 days until election day, trump is ramping up his campaigning, causing rising concerns about potential coronavirus spread among rallygoers. the minnesota department of health reporting at least nine cases linked to a trump rally in september, landing one patient in the icu. >> this is a lot of people. that's great. thank you very much. >> reporter: while the president claims he has tested negative for the virus, nine

cnn's joe johns is live at the white house for us with more. hi, joe. >> hi, alisyn. yes, dueling town halls, indeed. so these two candidates are going to be squaring off on competing television networks at the same time tonight. this was supposed to be debate night in america, as you said, but the debate got canceled due to the fact, essentially, that the president backed out after the debate commission said, look, we need you to do this virtually, because of covid concerns. now, the president will be in miami. the vice president, vice president biden, will be in philadelphia. both in town halls. now, these town halls were held on the condition or the town hall for the president, i should say, is held on the condition that he take an independent test for covid to show that he's in the clear. and he's done that. there were two experts who had to review that test. one of them was dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci had a warning for people who were placing too much stock in the president's recovery. listen. >> when people say, the president beat it, i'm not worried about it,

to the broader point, john, joe biden has had a blessing this campaign. the basement campaign has been a blessing for democrats. last night was a reminder why it has been a blessing because joe biden is given to say things he or his staff later have to clean up. the fact that he's never had to have like four or five events along the day on a campaign trail and instead has run a campaign in the covid year which is totally understandable, he is following safety protocols, has been convenient for he and his party. i think this was always the risk with nominating biden, he would have these gaffes that had to be cleaned up after the fact. the larger issue, this is a one issue campaign for all intents and purposes. are they irritant? yes, they can be. this is mostly about donald trump and his conduct. how did last night change that in a serious way. >> back to that point. joe biden, number one, coronavirus was the first topic. number two, president says i don't see a dark winter. facts tell you, joe biden says we are headed into a dark winter. on the facts, you

j joe johns, thank you for your reporting. it's good to hear the messaging they're soaking in from the president which led to some of the questions over mask wearing by supporters. we are getting, in the meantime, jaw dropping numbers when it comes to early voting. 22 million ballots have been cast already. this is according to a survey of ballot data by cnn edison research and catalyst, being a data company that provides data, analytics and other services to democrats, academics and non-profit issue advocacy organizations. from illinois to battleground states, early voting by mail and no person is far outpacing numbers from 2016. marietta, georgia. people got in line early as 4:30 this morning. what are you hearing, why are they willing to wait for hours in some cases to vote early? >> reporter: first of all, apparently, you didn't really need to get here at 4:30 in the morning for the start because these folks behind me now are probably going to wait far less than 30 minutes. there aren't that many people in line. so the lin

joe biden. >> the former vice president saying he would debate if doctors say it is okay. thank you. >> thanks, john. >>> hello to viewers in the united states and around the world. john king in washington. thank you for sharing an important breaking news day with us. another member of the president's inner circle now testing positive for coronavirus. this time it is the press secretary, kayleigh mcenany. the covid positive list in the west wing so far, the president, first lady, head of trump campaign, head of republican party, president's personal assistant, three top presidential confidants, hope hicks, kellyanne conway, and chris christie, and two republican senators that attended the packed white house supreme court rollout last weekend. regardless of positive cases, the president agitating to leave the hospital and get back to the white house. he will talk to doctors later today about possible discharge which could put him back at the white house by tonight. doctors familiar with covid-19 say that would be -- twice needed oxygen to help him breathe, has taken a steroid generally reserved for s

joe johns. >>> democratic presidential nominee joe biden issued a statement criticizing president trump's planned rally in janesville, wisconsin. biden notes that wisconsin is in the dwrigrips of one of the wor coronavirus outbreaks in the country. he reiterated these concerns while campaigning in michigan yesterday. >> he said we have turned the corner. my grandfather might say, if he were here, he's gone around the bend. turned the corner? my lord. it's not disappearing. in fact, it's on the rise again. it's getting worse as predicted. >> kamala harris is back on the rail soon after two on her team tested positive to covid-19. >>> we're already seeing huge turnout of early in-person voters. nearly 22 million so far, early numbers in georgia compared to 2016. as of noon today, more than 1,370,000 cast early in person ballots compared that to october 22nd, 2016 and just over half a million cast early ballots. cnn's natasha chen where early voters lined up all day. what's happening? barely a line behind you. >> reporter: the good news, it's a lot better than it was when i last talked to yo

joe john, cnn, muskegon, michigan. >>> joe biden has a significant lead in most polls. his campaign is warning supporters not to become kplas it in the final two weeks. >> reporter: as expected, the campaign is putting much of its time, resources and energy into battle ground states and states where they're doing early in person voting. they're seeing some of the same images out of places like north carolina for his part, joe biden will be in durham, north carolina today speaking to voters, telling them to be patient and to get out there and vote. senator kamala harris will be doing the same in florida on monday. she'll make two stops there. biden not out on the campaign trail saturday. neither was harris. biden met with advisers from his campaign on saturday. harris for her part, as you know, a couple people within her orbit tested positive for covid-19. out of abundance of caution, they physically kept her off the campaign trail for a few days. she tested negative for covid-19 on saturday. looking ahead again, you have biden in north carolina today. you have senator h

of course, joe johns isn't the first newsman to be interrupted by an animal. it happened to cronkite. >> president nixon reportedly will announce his resignation, and vice president ford will become the nations 38th president tomorrow, that word comes-- (roaring) (screaming) -- and that's the way it is! >> stephen: with covid running rampant throughout the executive branch, this morning the commission on presidential debates announced that the second presidential debate will be virtual. virtual? how's that gonna work? hopefully it will be like "tron." so instead of discussing the economy, they'll race around on recumbent light-cycles. of course, they'll need to update their wardrobe. the decision didn't sit well with trump's campaign manager, bill stepien-- who, by the way, also has covid. ssary cause trilew format is have posted multiple negative tests prior to the debate." you can't put all your faith in something that could happen down the line when the potential consequence is death. that's like saying, "look, i know your parachute isn't working now, but i

charles: meantime, john, joe biden is, debate last week refused to say whether he would pack the supreme should we be? i know that you have really, you're a constitutional expert. this is, really in your bailiwick but there is a lot of talk about president trump and the stability of the state of the union and the fidelity to the constitution but you know, the to hear biden say he is not going to comment on that scared a lot of people? >> that's probably the more important question than whether amy coney barrett is going to get own the supreme court. you know, you appoint her on the supreme court you're following the basic constitutional and norms. the senator the can fight whether to confirm her or not in the last year of a presidential election. that fundamentally change the nature of the courts and to referee the branches to protect individual rights. if the democrats were toe take power, both congress, presidency, get rid of the filibuster, expand the court with six new justices so there are 16 instead of nine, that would fundamentally attack the impartiality of the system. that is so

if you look at the map, i know you do this john, joe biden if he secures pennsylvania, his path is dramaticallyasier. it is much easier for him to get 270. the same is true if president trump secures florida. his path becomes dramatically easier. so deviating from that strategy would not make sense, particularly for the biden campaign. yeah, it would be great to play in georgia, to play in texas, to play in ohio. but they don't have to do any of those things in order to win. what they can do, because they are in a -- in the enviable situation financially is they can spend money on ads here and there, test the waters, they can send surrogates, send virtual surrogates given the coronavirus situation but it's all about pennsylvania. the if you're if biden campaign right now it's about holding the midwestern statements and making sure you have pennsylvania in your column and this ride is easier come november 3rd. >> 20 electoral votes. you hold that basket, makes it harder for everyone else. you write today, matt, democrats are spooked, they're spooked about disinformation, misinformation, you writ

but let's begin with cnn's joe johns who is live for us at the white house. what a 24 hours, joe. >> that's for sure, alison. if there was any expectation that the president was going to change direction on the coronavirus after testing positive, it was not on display last night. he was downplaying it on twitter. when he got back here to the white house, he did a lit building where a lot of people were. his advisers have been telling him, some of them at least, that he ought to have stayed in the hospital. and his doctors say he's not out of the woods yet. a reckless return to the white house for president trump leaving walter reed national military medical center just 72 hours after being admitted for coronavirus treatment. while likely contagious, trump still removing his mask on the white house balcony to pose for photos in his highly produced homecoming before going on siin the president's move stunning some health experts. >> it's unexplainable that the president of the united states who's actively shedding virus in millions of particles would walk in to

back to you. >> joe johns outside walter reed. thanks so much, joe. >> as joe was talking about, white house hasn't been transparent about the president's health. listen to navy commander dr. sean conley yesterday, for one thing. >> the president is doing very well. we remain cautiously optimistic, but he's doing great. >> so, roughly half hour after that, a source familiar with the president's house, now identified as joe said, by the associated press, white house chief of staff mark meadows told the people this, the president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning and the next 48 hours will be very critical in terms of his care. we are still not an clear path to a full recovery. when asked if the president was given supplemental objectixygen is what dr. conley said. >> has he ever been on supplemental oxygen? >> right now is he not dpl-- >> you keep saying that he is not on it right now. should we read into that that he was at some point? >> he was not on it. >> has the president ever needed supplemental oxygen? a s

>> reporter: cnn's joe johns fending it off with seconds to spare. >> now, no events on the president'srely making it on air. >> frickin' raccoons, man. god, again! this is the second time. >> reporter: the second, third, fourth time. this video also from wednesday. the caption, "good morning from the white house where secret service is trying to wrangle a raccoon." nbc's peter alexander saying, it's a family of raccoons, including the one that walked under my legs. so what's the deal? are these camera-crashing critters hungry for their 15 minutes of fame? not really. they're just hungry. >> very often when these animals approach people like that, when they get very aggressive, you eventually find out if you investigate, someone has been hand feeding that animal and they learn to associate people and food. >> reporter: but what about all of us working from home. is that what's making the wildlife extra wild? >> it's possible that some of them have modified their behavior a little bit, they may be going places they weren't going before. they were already there, but you're stuck in your h

, the contrast couldn't be clearer in this race and in this election but i don't think it's new, john. joe biden when he came out of the gates was talking about how charlottesville -- and him getting involved in this race. so this contrast is extremely, extremely clear and they are just laying it out and it's not just the energy at the top of the ticket, you talk about the fundraising, but look at jaime harrison in south carolina. imagine if rick raised $57 million in one quarter or mj hager or the list goes on and on and on with the amount of money that's being raised by democrats up and down the ballot because the energy is there. now, i do want to say that there ain't no change in a 70-year-old man. a 70-year-old man don't change. so this president if we're expecting him to be anything different as we are beginning to finish this race, we should -- we will just be waiting until eternity because that's simply not going to happen. we are in the gotv phase this have campaign, get out to vote. whatever happens in this debate, whatever happens on the stage in erie, pennsylvania, doesn't matt

back to you. >> joe johns for us outside walter reed. thank you so much. let's go to kevin liptak at the white house. kevin, we heard from joe. the medical element of this and the president's health. there's the political side as well that is the white house is struggling to manage and has really flipped the 30 days until the election on its head. >> reporter: yeah, and the president certainly seems very mindful in how this is all playing out in the public. as joe said, he has grown concerned about some of the coverage that he has seen that portrays his condition as being as what he thinks is exaggerated and certainly wasn't thrilled to see that quote from an official saying that his symptoms on friday were concerning. you saw this play out on friday at the white house when his aides had to convince him to go to walter reed, telling him it would be prudent for him to get up there before his condition could deteriorate, potentially deteriorate, and telling him it would be wise for him to go while he could still walk out to the helicopter on his own and show

john: supporting joe biden. want to talk about the election in general. i feel like trump had a lot going for him in 2016 and he had a lot of help. there are a couple of things in his favor. no emails, no wiki leaks, no hillary clinton, no james comey. people know about russia, people know about facebook and they know about twitter. it seems like people did not like hillary. [no audio] john: andrea neal? andrea: this summer of social unrest, the summer of mask wearing the year of covid-19 are , issues that are actually -- extremely different from what the country was facing in 2016. i have got to think in some ways the election is going to be a referendum on the trump administration's policies on covid, on law and order. i think that mike pence tonight is going to make a case on law and order. i think he's going to blame democratic leaders for some of the unrest we have seen that has resulted in violence. i think the republicans are hoping to capitalize on that. and, mike pence can legitimately claim a law and order status as he is a strong defender of la

. >> dana: thank you, john. joe biden is campaigning in michigan today after testing negative for the virus this morning. former vice president reacting to the latest developments a few minutes ago. >> sending my prayers for the health and safety of the first lady and the president of the united states after they tested positive for covid-19. we can say 100,000 lives in the next 100 days according to the head of the cdc if everyone wears a mask in public. >> dana: we are going to take it around the table. it was shocking news, dagen. we hope that he recovers very quickly. sounds like they are all on top of it over at the white house. >> dagen: i think about all the american people, clearly the country as a whole has a tough road to hoe with the virus and the economy. they are linked. i think about, what can we do? what this country needs now financially is help from congress. nancy pelosi is dragging her fancy feet on getting that out to people. we have recovered 52% of the jobs that were lost in march and april. th

all right, joe johns from muskegon, michigan. thank you. >>> the joe biden campaign is slamming president trump's decision to hold a rally in wisconsin today as experts issue dire warnings about an alarming number of new cases in the key swing state. cnn political correspondent arlette saenz joins me. >> joe biden is off the campaign trail back in delaware today. but he is trying to keep the focus of this campaign on the coronavirus pandemic. and what he sees as the president's mishandling of it. one thing that we really heard biden focus on in past days in the -- expected to do in the coming weeks is focus on that issue of health care. as he argues that democrats will protect and expand the affordable care act. the biden campaign really sees health care as being an issue that touches all facets of the campaign due to the coronavirus pandemic. also putting it in terms of that nomination of amy coney barrett to the supreme court and highlighting republicans' efforts to dismantle the affordable care act. and yesterday while biden wa

back to you. >> well, joe johns, thanks so much. good to have you at the white house. >>> we are seeing, again, this morning long lines, i mean, incredibly long lines of people, hours long in some cases, but people still determined to vote. some waited as long as ten hours to cast their early ballots in this brit cal election. they even brought a chair as you see there. >>> texas is seeing record breaking turnout. what that could signal for election day. beto o'rourke will join us just ahead. >>> also the president says he is immune to coronavirus as you just heard. is he? can you get it twice? we will be joined by the epidemiologist who worked on the study about the first confirmed case of reinfection in the united states. [ sighs ] hey! hey man! you're here. you don't trust me here is vegas, do you? well... i thought we had a breakthrough with the volkswagen. we did. yes. we broke through. that's the volkswagen! that's the cross sport. wow. seatbelts. ♪ please, just tell me where we're going. ♪ but a resilient business you cacan b

cnn's joe johns is live at the white house with more. what happened here, joe? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. well, this is about intelligence reports prepared by entities like the national security agency and how sometimes those intelligence reports that might include the names of americans will conceal those names to protect their identities. and as a matter of business, some high-ranking government officials may from time to time ask for those names to be unmasked in order to understand the reports better. well, so what has happened here is that two years ago, the president of the united states, along with congressional republicans, found out about what the obama administration had done with unmasking and start started really calling this the biggest scandal since watergate, hyping it. the president called it an enormous issue and so much so that senior federal prosecutor was named to look into the issue, john bash is his name. and now john bash, apparently, has finished his investigation with no report, as you said. also ending it without any charges, wi

joe johns, thank you for your perspective from michigan. let's head over to wisconsin, where a crowd is waiting to see the president for what will be his second campaign rally of the night. jeremy dimon is on the ground. jeremy, with just 17 days to go before election day here in the united states, already more than 22 million americans have already voted, early voting going on, what's president trump's closing message to these swing state voters? >>. >> reporter: well, wolf, you are hearing a lot of what we hear from the president particularly on the company trail. are you hearing a lot of red meat. what you are hearing from the president in the final stretch of the campaign is to try and essentially convince voters and convince american what is they are seeing and what is happening in this country somehow is not happening and what i'm talking about here, specifically, wolf, is the surge if cases of coronavirus that is happening right now in most states in the united states across the country. the cases are up on average about 30% over the

cnn's joe johns is standing by at walter reed medical center. good morning, joe. so medical experts are asking what president trump was thinking when he put himself and others at risk for that photo op with his supporters. how was this even allowed to happen? well, how was it allowed to happen? he's the president of the united states, and it's pretty clear that he does what he wants as you know, and he has many times against advice on a range of issues, but also if you want to sort of know the background, it starts with this twitter feed about 12 hours ago. the president tweeted out that he appreciated the crowd that was outside the hospital grounds here holding flags and so on, rooting for the president, in other words. and about ten hours ago, the president put out that other tweet. you showed some of the video of it where it indicated he was going to go out and see the people. the president loves crowds, he loav loves the adoration that comes along with being president of the united states. he wanted to say thank you to those people. he popped into the sports u

joe johns is outside walter reed for more on the president's condition. joe, is there any new factual information this morning as opposed to spin on the president's health? >> reporter: not much, quite frankly, but we are hearing from the white house as well as the doctors over here that the president's condition is improving. he's expected to meet with his doctors this morning, we're told, and could be released as early as today. previously we have been told that the president hasn't shown any signs of fever, at least since friday, all of that coming from the president's doctors, who have a bit of a credibility problem, the president's physician among them. let's talk about that drive-by here on rockville pike just yesterday essentially a political photo-op. it's really created concerns not just about the president's health but also the health of the people who are sworn to protect him. now if you look at the pictures, a couple things are clear. there's an agent sitting in the passenger seat in full protective gear, but that might not be enough in an encl

joe johns joins us from mus keegan, michigan, ahead of trump's rally about an hour from now and joe, just 17 days away from the election. what can you tell us about the president's closing message to voters? >> reporter: well, ana, i can tell you that this trip by the president to michigan is really going to highlight the president's attacks on the governor of michigan, the democratic governor of michigan, gretchen whitmer. the president has gone after her time and time again, including on her strict policies relating to coronavirus and the state. it's been a continuing controversy. the president even tweeted out the words "liberate michigan," which joe biden just recently seized on, indicating that in his view, the president's words actually incited the kidnapping attempt on gretchen whitmer, which led to 13 arrests very recently. nonetheless, the president has continued his attacks on gretchen whitmer as recently as just yesterday. listen. >> how about your governor in michigan. she has that place locked down. we caught some people doing whatever. we'll find out what that was all a

she's running in a statistical tie right now in the polls with republican senator john cornyn. joe biden knows better than most presidential candidates ever have that he will be able to accomplish next to nothing if he is elected president and republicans still control the senate. and so we will begin with the presidential campaign, but we will get to the senate. and beginning with the presidential campaign, i will now present to you all of the good news for donald trump contained in the constant flow of presidential campaign polls that are coming out every day. all right. moving on to the good news in the polls for joe biden, because there is absolutely no good news in the polls for donald trump. we literally do not have enough time to report on all of the good news for joe biden and kamala harris. in the campaign polls. including polls of individual states. today with the latest "new york times" national poll of likely voters showing joe biden ahead of donald trump by nine points, 50-41. vice presidential candidate kamala harris made the biden/harris closing argument in the impor

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is that the right message or does he risk deflating turnouts among progressives. >> john, it's joe bidenlways seen in joe biden, and, quite honestly, the outreach he's always had. you can talk to republican senators, maybe right now during this heated political time. i guarantee you, they would all tell you joe biden was easily one of their best friends on the democratic side. joe biden has always been this way. he's always reached out. it should surprise no one that's the way he treats this campaign. that's the way he's going to treat this as president. he's not going to look at you as an r or a d, he's going to look at you like an american. that's the beauty i think people are beginning to see contrast joe biden with donald trump. joe biden wants to win as president with everyone's vote. he doesn't want to leave anyone behind. right now during covid, the last thing we need is to have americans who are left behind. >> we may get to put that bipartisan thing to a test if numbers don't change in 27 days. you know, general becerra, 27 days, another cliche but it can be an eternity in polit

have this story covered from every angle this morning starting with senior washington correspondent joe johns who is live at walter reed. joe, what is the latest this hour? >> reporter: that joyride, the president's joyride came at the end of a weekend in which the white house, as well as the president's doctors, tried to minimize again and again, the seriousness of the president's condition. he is, by the way, the commander in chief of the united states armed forces, which means his health is a matter of national security. now, the doctors do say the president could go home as early as today. he has not been showing sign of fever now for several days, so it's not clear whether that fever has been gotten rid of by medications or whether the president has gotten rid of it on its own. dr. sean conley admitted talking to reporters, telling them over the weekend, not so much about the president's condition, especially when it comes to the two points where the president's oxygen levels dropped, creating a lot of concern. listen. >> i was trying to reflect the upbeat attitude that the team, the pre

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time for senior political analyst john avlon. joe biden wants to heal the nation. big rallies in pandemic stricken states. the president wants men to go back to work, men, the husbands. >> i can't imagine why that 1950s redux wouldn't resonate with you. >> we know 617,000 women since september dropped out of the labor market. it's the women who are bearing the brunt of this. does the president not understand that? is this how you get the women vote? >> no, the president does not understand that. this is part of the problem of running a nostalgic campaign which is difficult to do, especially during a pandemic. the point you started with is really key. both candidates are making closing messages to crystallize their campaigns. donald trump is being donald trump. he is playing to the base. he is dividing to conquer the electoral colleges. joe biden speaking and the ads are the opposite of that message. he is running to unite the nation. that is his closing message. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, we have to find a way to work together. you could not hav

a large crowd of supporters filled the streets near john whenever. joen north carolina where he attacked the president's response to the coronavirus pandemic.>> that is done the trump presidency. more than 217,000 americans dead because of the coronavirus. 4000 here in north carolina. on friday, we saw the highest numbers of new cases in one day since july.>> fox news tells us how nevada and north carolina are key swing states in the upcoming election.>>> both candidates hitting the campaign trail with a face uphill battles. former vice president joe biden paying a visit to north carolina. that democrats have not won since barack obama in 2008. taking aim once again at the president's handling of the pandemic. >> he cares more about his park avenue perspective on the world, the stock market, then he does about you. >> outside the room, a copper rate showed support for joe biden. one point, 4 million people have already voted. that is about 20 percent in that state. president trump attended sunday mass in las vegas. he lost the state of nevada in 2016. he

you know, obviously it's been true of both your families is that something that john and joe would speak the same time for iraq and so, here, joe was running for vice president, my husband was running for president, and we both had two sons serving in iraq at the same time. it -- you know, it's not only a bonding experience for the families, but it made both families -- ours, and of course the biden family, understand what the families of troops go through when they deploy i mean, it's hard. and so i -- so he has a different perspective and a good perspective on what it means to serve your country in the military and the effect it has on families. but more importantly, you know, we have that -- that commonality, but as you know, we have the commonality of -- of glioblastoma, which hit both of our families and so it would be hard to separate the biden and mccain family in years to come, because we're just too good of friends >> seth: you also have spoken of former vice president biden's empathy. and i guess that was on display. he did come and visit your husband in the final days, yeah? >

. >> john heilemann, joe biden said today about donald trump that -- joe biden keeps saying i'll be the president for people, even the people who did not vote for me. i will represent everyone equally. and he said today that donald trump thinks he is only responsible for the well-being of the people who vote for him. it seems as of last night he doesn't even seem as though he's responsible for that. leaving them out possibly to freeze to death in the cold. i mean, when you look at that imagery of the trump campaign in the final week, doesn't even care enough to try to take care of its own voters in nebraska. that's just an image that it's hard to imagine seeing in any other campaign ever. >> yeah, sure. and lawrence, i think this is the thing. you and i have talked over the course of the last four years about donald trump. you and i have probably talked on countless occasions about the main thing truly of all the crazy things about donald trump, of all the things that are unprecedented about him, the thing that most sets him apart from every other president that you and i have lived thr

. >> folksy and corny are joe biden's middle name, john. people have believed that's authentic. >> i thought it was malarkey. >> i forgot about that. what we heard president trump was going to do was go after joe biden's son, with whatever you call it, whatever is going on on that side with rudy giuliani and a laptop, he didn't seem to be able to articulate it last night. >> well, i mean, i think in part that's because it's sort of a crazy quilt at this point which has all the hallmarks of russian disinformation. it wasn't for lack of trying. what he would do strategically, mark made a good point, he was restrained to his benefit by the mute button in the front. it didn't result in joe biden hurting himself. it focused him. once that mute button window was over, he would take his 30 second response and immediately try to pivot to an attack. it was an attack only clear to people deep in the ecosystem echo chamber, but he kept hitting it and hitting it, and biden did take the bait once or twice. it got under his skin with a degree of frustrati

john, thanks. joe biden is once again trying to clarify his positions on issues such as energy policy and free college. the democratic nominee spoke with voters and reporters this afternoon in chester, pennsylvania. correspondent peter doocy reports tonight from wilmington, delaware. >> the closing days of the biden campaign look a lot different than the closing days of the trump campaign. >> we are going to be traveling, continue to travel, but the big difference between us and the reason white looks like we are not traveling, we are not putting on super-spreader's. >> in pennsylvania biden continues trying to calm the nerves of energy concerned voters. >> i'm not shutting down oilfields. i'm not eliminating fracking. i'm investing in clean energy, we are going to make sure that we don't continue to subsidize the oil companies. >> but that's not what he promised during the primaries. >> i guarantee you, i guarantee you we are going to end fossil fuel. >> the democratic nominee is also putting a price

. >> john heilemann, joe biden in florida today using, of course, donald trump's own words against him because no candidate in history has ever supplied the opposition with more ways to use their words. donald trump, who has said publicly that really nobody gets the coronavirus anymore, except maybe some elderly people who might have heart issues. >> yes, donald trump is in the business, lawrence, of providing in-kind political contributions to joe biden. he's been doing it for four years as president to whoever the democratic nominee would be, and more recently when we had joe biden, he's given him lots of ammunition all day long. and i think the florida -- you know, the contrast today is pretty stark. you know, we had president trump in florida yesterday. we have joe biden in florida today. it is the case that with all of the discussion we've had about, like, how election night's going to play out, is there -- ohio are we going to know various states on election night? the one state we feel pretty confident we'll know on election night is florida. and it's a state where if joe biden

joe will always fight for the american people, just like john did. i approve this message. sweetheart, do my forearms look bigger? they look the same. i've been spinning faster recently. i think they're getting bigger. feel them. [ television plays indistinctly ] yeah, they kind of feel bigger. yeah, cool. [ grunts ] sorry. switch to progressive and you can save hundreds -- you know, like the sign says. >>> twitter has changed its policy about materials after blocking lengths to an unsubstantiated "new york post" story about hunter biden and ragie ining conservatives. it was taken from a computer dropped off at a repair shop in 2018. he was said to have arranged a meeting between his father and an iranian businessman. nbc news has not seen or verified the material. >>> "the washington post" reports the white house was warned by intelligence that the russians were targeting giuliani according to sources familiar. giuliani dismissed the allegations laid out by "the washington post." now nbc news is reporting federal investigators are examining the giuli

the rational left would you sure don't listen who is on your list joe. johns i think this is. actually. going to get all right jim let me ask you what is the lesson there for those of us outside the united states watching. well i mean i think it reveals a sort of dilemma that the democrats have even if they should win the presidency which is how much are they going to be sort of take the lesson from the trump presidency and particularly from the last 2 supreme supreme court fights over america and over the current one whether they're going to decide that they want to be norm shatters as well and if they get control are they going to pack the supreme court which is constitutional but not something that's been done in in many many decades in fact hundreds of well over 100 years and so it would be it would be a real nuclear weapon in the political battles and it would sort of reduce united states yet further into the partisan miasma that it's in but i think quite a few democrats and certainly the democratic base feels that there are the in that and they're already fighting that b

the rational left would you share with us on this and who is on your list joe. johns i think this is. going to get all right jim let me ask you what is the lesson there for those of us outside the united states watching. well i mean i think it reveals a sort of dilemma that the democrats have even if they should win the presidency which is how much are they going to be sort of take the lesson from the trump presidency and particularly from the last 2 supreme supreme court fights over america and over the current one whether they're going to decide that they want to be norm shatters as well and if they get control are they going to pack the supreme court which is constitutional but not something that's been done in in many many decades in fact hundreds of well over 100 years and so it would be it would be a real nuclear weapon in the political battles and it would sort of reduce the united states yet further into the partisan miasma that it's in but i think quite a few democrats and certainly the democratic base feels that there are the in that and they're already figh

cnn's joe johns joins us now from bucks county, pennsylvania. joe, take us there. >> well, the president is wheels down, and he is on his way. it won't be very long before he arrives at this event. a very different event from what we've seen around the country at the airports. this is not a rally. the president is giving a speech much smaller crowd. the president left the white house just a little while ago. he spoke very briefly with reporters. let's listen to some of that. >> spending the day in pennsylvania, and we're going to have a great day. i think we're doing extremely well with the votes. i think it's going to be very interesting three days. it's going to be a very interesting tuesday. you have a big red wave that has formed, as you probably noticed. we're doing very, very well with the african-american vote. we're doing very, very well with the hispanic vote all over. and we're doing very well. it's going to be really something. >> have you thought a little bit about what you're doing on election night, mr. president? >> yeah, i'll be p

drag him down that road, but let joe do the talking, then see what comes out of it. >> john, i want to ask you, karla made the point that with biden being in the lead in many polls right now, president trump needs to flip the script, if you will, change the narrative. i want to ask you, do you think that that is something that can happen with this debate? if so, what could actually happen that would flip the script? >> i think what would flip -- what the two candidates are fighting over are the few undecide thes left in the race. they have their bases locked in. there are people who are going to make their decision based on the last 12 days. i think that's really what they're working on right now. and i have to say, you mentioned the lesley stahl interview. i think most fair minded, independent people who haven't decided will fall in the president's camp and find him in favor. that was a very aggressive, unnecessarily brutish interview. >> all right. karl lashes last word here and i'll ask you what you think a win means for each of the candidates tonight what you think we should look o