kate bedingfield is joe biden's deputy campaign manager, and she joins us for the same spot joe did..te, welcome. kate bedingfield, do we have you there? >> yes. hi, judy. >> woodruff: there she is. so kate bedingfield, i'm going to start out with the same question i had for tim murtaugh. what is the main goal of vice president biden tonight? >> sure. he's going to talk directly to the american people about the fact that if they have been unhappy with the chaotic, erratic leadership that they've gotten from donald trump over the last four years, they have another choice. he's going to talk directly about his plans to get this virus under control, he's going to talk about his plans to build the economy back better, to get our kids back in school and, to once again, lead this country with a sense of degreety and integrity. you know, judy, i was listening to tim murtaugh there, and that was just -- it feels like he lives in a different universe. that was lie after lie after lie, and to listen to him try to revive this smear, this long-dunked smear that they have been trying to work again

kate bedingfield, deputy campaign manager with the biden campaign. te, thanks very much. >> thanks, chuck. >> and we do now have the audio fixed with corey lewandowski, so corey is back. all right, let me stick with that first question there. and you had started to answer. you said you don't know the details of how many more staffers. do you think it would be appropriate for him to campaign in the next 24 hours, or do you think he should quarantine? i mean, if you came into contact with marc short as closely as he did, would you be quarantining? >> well, look, i would make sure that the vice president's taking all of the precautions necessary, as he always has done. i am sure he is tested regularly, and he is in the best care of the best physicians in the world at the white house. so i'm sure he'll do what is necessary and what is appropriate. and look, we've also seen kamala harris's team, members of her team come down with covid, and she took the necessary precautions. so, let's see where this goes, but i have not spoken to the team directly on that

symone, i have to ask you about kate bedingfield. she was originally scheduled to be here tonight in this spot. she has been reported today to have tested positive for the coronavirus. what do you know about her condition, and what can you tell us generally about others in the biden campaign? >> so, lawrence, i do want a quick correction because kate bedingfield is not here because she's actually in philadelphia with the vice president tonight, coronavirus-free, covid-19-free. all of our staff are regularly tested as are dr. biden, joe biden, senator harris, and mr. emhoff and she does not have a positive test. who did test positive was senator harris' communications director, and i've spoken with her today. i know senator harris and vice president biden have also spoken with her today. she's doing well. and we are pulling for her. she's tough. she's working virtually throughout the day today. so i want folks to know at home that the reason we, folks even have this information, is because we were transparent and, you know, we have be

joining me now, kate bedingfield, communications director for the biden/harris campaign. great of you on, kate. >> thanks for having me, chris. >> the president has now issued a third statement on the debate basically saying i'll come with a doctor's note next week. his doctor, dr. sean conley, released a statement earlier today saying basically we expect saturday will be ten days, so he'll be fine. there's no word about if he's testing positive or not or anything like that. but the president wants to come and show up in person with his doctor's note. what's the biden response to that? >> well, i mean, look, you know, the president is trying to change the rules here on the one-yard line. we agreed back in june to three debates. we're requiring -- we expected the cleveland clinic and the debate commission to enforce the rules, to enforce the rules, to ensure that the debate that we held last week was safe. obviously this white house has not been transparent and that is troubling. that is concerning. so we will demand -- we have every expectation -- by that we will demand t

vote in either before november 3rd or on november 3rd. >> joe biden's deputy campaign manager kate bedingfielddoesn't look nervous at all. kate, you look like there is nothing to worry about. tuesday night, everything is going to be fine, right? >> it's like a duck. it's like a duck, just paddling under the surface. >> thank you, kate. really appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. >>> up next, a court has decided to allow guns at polling places in michigan. the michigan secretary of state joins us next. ins us next.using, their laundry smells more amazing than ever. uh, honey? isn't that the dog's towel? hey, me towel su towel. there's more gain scent plus oxi boost and febreze odor remover in every fling. gain. seriously good scent the new iphone 12 pro with 5g meets verizon 5g ultra wideband. remember when the song of the summer took the whole summer to download? but these g's don't blink. (phone chimes) remember when the only way multiplayer gaming worked was with wi-fi? boom! legendary fast with verizon 5g. remember when i told you to clean your

kate bedingfield suggested moving the town hall format to october 22, the date of the third and final debate. bill steppian just issuing trump campaign response, we agree, should have it on october 22nd and the third debate should be shifted back one week to october 29th. we have no update from the cpd, harris, it is really unclear what is going to happen. meanwhile, things were much more civil here than last week in cleveland between pence and harris. they had glass separating them, that didn't stop the barb from being thrown and coronavirus was front and center, watch. >> senator harris: the american people witnessed greatest failure of any president in history of our country. >> vice pres. pence: your continuous undermining of confidence in vaccine is unacceptable. senator, i ask you, stop playing politics with people's lives. >> senator harris: i will not be lectured by the vice president. >> now you have both candidates, harris and pence and biden on the campaign trail in the state of arizona. we'll see if they weigh in further on the developments. one thing for sure, in this str

but i will bring in deputy campaign manager and communications director kate bedingfield. kate, my apologies there. welcome to "meet the press." >> it's quite all right. live television. what can you do? >> live television and technologies we're all using these days. look, let me start with where you guys are headed in this final stretch. i saw a report on tuesday that this week the vice president's going to go to georgia. is georgia that critical to 270 that he should spend the last week of the campaign in georgia and not pennsylvania, wisconsin? i ask you because four years ago you remember criticism of the clinton campaign for focusing too much on georgia in the final weeks. >> look, we're focused on maintaining as many pasts to 270 electoral votes that we possibly can. we believe we're seeing energy all across the country for joe biden against donald trump. the vp is going to be -- i should say vp biden will be in georgia on tuesday. that's right, he will be making a significant message speech there. he will be delivering a closing argument set of remarks at warm spring

. >>> i want to bring in kate bedingfield the deputy manager of the biden campaign. it's a situation that a lot of people are asking about, which is the debate on tuesday. a lot of the misinformation that we're hearing from the trump campaign. why do you feel it's necessary that joe biden debate president trump once again? >> well, look, i mean what we saw from donald trump on tuesday night was divisive. it was hateful. it was chaotic. and it was exactly emblematic of his presidency. exactly the way he's led this country through a crisis and these debates are opportunity for joe biden to show the voters that there's a different choice. it doesn't have to be like that. he used the opportunity to talk directly to the american people, to talk about what he'd do to get us through the covid crisis and poll after poll has shown that people resoundingly believe that he won that debate, that he was presidential and that, you know, and that donald trump was frankly an embarrassment. an embarrassment to the country. so look, we are never going to shy away from having joe biden

joining us now is the deputy campaign manager and communications director for the biden campaign, kate bedingfield, good morning. thank you very much for being with us. on the subject of the president's diagnosis and the possibility, not of the debate tonight, but the next presidential debate, august 15th, former vice president biden says if the president still has covid, we shouldn't have a debate. so what proof will you need? >> well, look, the obligation is on donald trump here to prove that he's not contagious for that debate. i think what the vice president said last night was a very common sense statement. but, you know, vice president biden has every expectation that he will debate in miami at the town hall. he's looking forward to it. but it is a town hall format. there will be real people. there will be citizens there in attendance asking questions. so the obligation is on donald trump to prove that he is not contagious. the obligation is on him to meet the standards laid out by the cleveland clinic, laid out by the presidential commission on debates. and we have every expectation that he

jake. >> we'll be talking to a top official of the campaign, kate bedingfield, coming up. thanks so much, jessica dean. president trump suggesting he got coronavirus at a very specific white house event. is there any proof of that at all? stay with us. emu & doug ♪ you know limu, after all these years it's the ones that got away that haunt me the most. [ squawks ] 'cause you're not like everybody else. that's why liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. what? oh, i said... uh, this is my floor. nooo! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> we're back with our health lead today, president trump trying to paint a rosy picture of his health and putting on full display his fundamental misunderstanding of the virus that's now killed 212,000 people in the united states under his watch. the president claiming he's no longer contagious, an assertion he's not qualified to make. frankly we do not know how far into his infection he is. the president claiming he will be immune to coronavirus even though scientists

we may hear something similar from him in warm springs, georgia, a play as kate bedingfield mentioned, with historical significance because of fdr, one of the underpinnings of biden's message so far has been the need to heal and unify this country. of course, warm springs was a healing place for fdr. i imagine that's going to be a similar message to what we hear from biden when he heads there on tuesday. >> that makes a lot of sense if you think about it. okay, it's a good spot for biden to be. thank you so much, ali vitali. let's go now to nbc's monica in new hampshire. we're learning some more top aides close to vice president mike pence have now tested positive. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah, very significant developments overnight, alex, when weapon learned that two of the vice presidents' closest political advisers had tested positive for coronavirus in recent days. marty obst, somebody who's not a government employee, but a senior adviser to the vice president, who travels with him on air force ii quite frequently tested positive on wednesday. and then the v

he will be joined by white house chief economic adviser larry kudlow, and kate bedingfield. mazy hirono and governor asa hunch inson. it starts at 9:00 here on cnn. >>> the president again says the virus is going to disappear. he said that back in february, as well. the reality is very different. according to the numbers that are out there, across this country more than two dozen states are seeing a rise in cas cases. a key model products close to 400,000 people in america will die by february 1st. we have more on that clarity just ahead. with this seal, this restaurant is committing to higher levels of cleanliness. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the expertise that helps keep hospitals clean, is helping keep businesses clean too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. want to eliminate odors without heavy, overwhelming scents? we get it. introducing febreze light. it eliminates odors... with no heavy perfumes... in light scents you'll love. new febreze light. - with spray moppingrk vacmop to lock away debrisuction and absorb wet messes, all in one disposable pad. just vacuum, spray mop, and t

cluster grows, the president pulls out of the next debate and biden deputy campaign manager kate bedingfieldht-extremist plot to kidnap the governor of michigan. tonight the governor's responding.

. >> the director of communications for the biden campaign kate bedingfield address the question aboutourt packing, here's what she had to say about it. >> donald trump and republicans don't get to set the terms of this debate. this is a distraction that they want to grow out as a hypothetical and they want to throw now to distract from the fact that they are trying to ram through nominee who as i said is going to change the makeup of the court against the will of the iraqi people. jon: how does one consider the makeup and the justices on the supreme court a distraction? >> i don't know if it's a distraction it's when the joe biden is crated for himself, this is not a hypothetical. the left is pushing the idea of court packing in joe biden has created the big problem by refusing to answer the question, first he said he won't answer because it would make news, of course he's running for president. then he said it's a distraction anyone play the game, now he says americans don't deserve to know what his opinion is. we ask what other plans do you have joe that americans don't deserve to k

on sunday, deputy campaign manager kate bedingfield appeared on cnn and called this line of attack a distraction from the trump campaign. take a listen. >> this is a distraction that they want to throw out, a hypothetical that they want to throw out to distract from the fact that they are trying to ram through a nominee who, as i said, is going to change the makeup of the court against the will of the american people. they don't want to talk about that. they are trying to create a distraction and, you know, send folks down a rabbit hole talking about this. >> during the democratic primary, joe biden opposed packing the supreme court. and there has not been any public indication just yet that his mind has changed on that position. but biden has insisted he will not answer this question until after the e electricilection, ca distraction from the issue at hand. later today, joe biden was heading to the battleground state of ohio, where recent polls have shown a tight race between president trump and joe biden. this comes four years after president trump won ohio by about 8 points. and b

adviser jason miller will talk about the president's diagnoses and deputy campaign manager biden, kate bedingfieldheir full strategy. >>> in developing news, the new covid-19 cases on capitol hill could jeopardize the confirmation hearing for amy coney barrett. sund l sundlen serfaty report report >> reporter: senator graham says the two republicans on the committee, senators lee anne tillis were suffering from covid and can participate remotely, even cast their vote by proxy in the committee but this potentially turns into a much, much larger issue for republicans if and likely when her nomination moves from the committee to the floor of the u.s. senate, and that is when senators have to actually show up to cast their vote for her nomination and if these senators are still suffering from the effects of covid, that becomes an issue. republicans have no margin for error and they need their votes to get her nomination through. democrats are calling for the hearings to be delayed. senate minority leader chuck schumer says it's irresponsible and dangerous for republicans to move forward with her nomin

cluster grows, the president pulls out of the next debate and biden deputy campaign manager kate bedingfieldre to respond. >>> the shocking details of a foiled right wing extremist plot to kidnap the governor of michigan. tonight the governor's responding. >> when our leaders meet with, encourage, or fr

my first guest will be the communications director of the biden campaign, kate bedingfield. a little bit of a spin room here to start things off. and tonight, rachel, i have two people who have been in real wrestling matches with the bear. with donald trump. speaker nancy pelosi will join us. governor andrew cuomo will join us. i think they both have similar stories to tell of what it has been like during this pandemic. to try to force this white house to do the

biden campaign manager kate bedingfield, fed back," trump's erratic behaviour does not allow him to rewte the calendar"... and insisting the final debate remain on october 22nd"" donald trump can show up," bedingfield said, "or he can decline again." >> we agreed to three debates i agreed to the dates, im sticking with the dates. if he shows up great, if not fine.>> awaz: in another scheduling shift, this afternoon, abc news announced it would host a biden town hall in philadelphia on october 15, now that the president had backed out of at night's debate. the back and forth on debate planning comes after an intensea and forth between the vice presidential candidates last night. >> mr. vice president, i speaking. >> i'm speaking.gh in. >> nawaz: in a debate dominated by the pandemic, senator harris slammed the white use reonse, calling it... >> the greatest failure of any presidential administration. i want to ask the american people, how calm were you when you were panicked about where you were going to get your next roll of toilet paper? how calm were you when your kids were sent home fr

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kate bedingfield put out a statement saying that joe biden looked forward to speaking directly with the american people and comparing his vision for you nighting the country and building back better against the president's failed response to the coronavirus. another campaign official more bluntly after the president indicated he wouldn't participate, one campaign is winning and the other is whining. joe biden himself had an early flight today to come out west where he'll join senator kamala harris. we had a chance to hear his reaction to the president's response. check it out. >> we don't know what the president is going to do. he changes his mind every second. for me to comment on that now would be irresponsible. i think if i'm going to follow the commission recommendation, if he goes off and going to have a rally, i'll, i don't know what i'll do. >> reporter: trump is saying he will do a rally instead. biden was asked if he might do the same or participate is he low. a few days ago he did a solo town hall in miami with lester holt. biden also in that exchange praised senator kamala ha

chuck todd asked kate bedingfield, the company campaign manager about this yesterday. she downplayed it. said a lot of the strategy is dictated by trying to keep everybody safe in the coronavirus era. she also pointed to the fact biden will be in georgia for the first time in this general election campaign tomorrow giving what the campaign is billing as a major speech for a closing argument of the campaign. he'll also be in florida on thursday. other than that, steph, that's all we know about the vice president's schedule compared to what we know is a very busy schedule on the part of president trump. >> well, that's what we know. let's dig deeper off of that. i want to bring in phil rucker, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief at "the washington post" and dr. kavita pa tele. white house health policy director under president obama. she is also a fellow at the brookings institute. philip, you wrote about the news with mike pence. yes, he has five aides who tested positive, but he is not slowing down. he's going to events, to carol's point. it sounds like no social dista

i asked this to kate bedingfield on sunday.he last week of the campaign, four years ago, the clinton campaign said, hey, we're going to expand the map to georgia and arizona. and the biden campaign has said they're not going to get ahead of themselves and yet they're in georgia. they must really feel confident about georgia. >> yeah, chuck. first things first. you remember the day that the clinton campaign announced four years ago they were going to go to arizona, send the candidate there? it was the day of the comey letter. obviously, everything changed from that day forward. if you look back to may when the biden campaign first laid out their vision of the general election battleground map, they had 17 states on it. actually 15 states and two congressional districts. and where did we see today they announced their closing television ads, 60-second spots were going to go on the air. 17 states. it's pretty significant, chuck. typically when you shrink a battleground, the biden campaign is still competing in all 17. if anything,

kate bedingfield saying that a public team down 20 points at halftime cuts the deficit to ten points in the third quarter is still losing the game. because of the pandemic and the president's inability to put forward a comprehensive national strategy to confront it, we're seeing that economic growth stall and potentially lead us into a double-dip recession. they make the point that any benefit that we have seen, any recovery in the economy has really gone towards those at the top and that the middle class and black and brown communities especially continue to be hit hard. and, steph, you know in an election, a presidential election, typically the economy is the number one issue. the economy, stupid, remember from 1992 in the clinton campaign. but you mentioned the biden campaign has been laser focused on the coronavirus. we heard it from the vice president yesterday attacking how the president is campaigning. you'll see joe biden behind me later today at one of these socially distanced drive-in rallies as he does everything to keep local supporters and the community safe. this rally

adviser jason miller will talk about the president's diagnosis and biden deputy campaign manager kate bedingfieldl talk about their full strategy. watch at 8:00 this morning right here on abc 7. >>> in developing news, the new covid-19 cases on capitol hill could jeopardize the confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee amy coney barrett. cnn congressional correspondent sundlen serfaty reports. >> reporter: republicans say it is full steam ahead. the republican chairman, senator lindsey graham saying he intends to have the hearing as scheduled on october 12th. he says the two republicans on the committee, senators lee and tillis were suffering from covid and can participate remotely, even cast their vote by proxy in the committee but this potentially turns into a much, much larger issue for republicans if and likely when her nomination moves from the committee to the floor of the u.s. senate, and that is when senators have to actually show up to cast their vote for her nomination and if these senators are still suffering from the effects of covid, that becomes an issue. republicans have no ma

my first guest will be the communications director of the biden campaign, kate bedingfield. we might have a little bit of a spin room here to start things off. and tonight, rachel, i have two people who have been in real wrestling matches with the bear. with donald trump. speaker nancy pelosi will join us. governor andrew cuomo will join us. i think they both have similar stories to tell of what it has been like during this pandemic. to try to force this white house to do the right thing. they both have just experience that no one else in their experience has ever had in dealing with the white house and in dealing with a pandemic. >> fascinating. get to it, lawrence. i want to hear it. >> thank you, rachel. >>> well, people are voting. the lines are long. people continue to show up to vote in record numbers in early voting all over the country. people are social distancing in those lines as they wait to vote. because they know that the country is in the grip of a pandemic. and there is some risk to their health and their lives by going to a polling place. and they know that

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one on one with trump campaign senior adviser jason miller and biden deputy campaign manager kate bedingfieldthat's coming up on "this week" here on abc. george, thanks again. eva, over to you. >>> president trump's health could be a factor for markets in the week ahead. for more on that we go to abc's deidre bolton. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you said it, what is going on with the president right now is certainly going to affect the markets. so think about instability being injected into the system and uncertainty. so in this tick tock about how we hear the president is recuperating, if it's faster, if it's slower than expected, that is likely to move markets. there's also questions, for example, if he's taking longer to recover, what does that mean for the functioning of government? how many other senior administration officials may fall ill? these are all questions that investors will be focused on. we saw the direct cause and effect. you remember this, the president tweeting out confirming that he had tested positive for coronavirus. that was at around 1:00 a.m. eastern time

the campaign manager say, let's shift things around to october 29th and then a statement from kate bedingfield from the biden campaign, well, biden was in the air we'll only agree to what we said to the commission. >> it's a mess. stick around. we'll see you on "morning joe" and you guys can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. thanks for getting up "way too early" on a friday morning. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> well, the president is shall we say in an altered state right now. so i don't know how to answer for his behavior. >> so it's been a very interesting journey, i learned a lot about covid. i'm better, maybe i'm immune. don't let it dominate your lives. i feel great, i feel perfect. i think this was a blessing from god that i caught it. this was a blessing in disguise. these people should be indicted. this was the greatest political crime in the history of our country and that includes obama and it includes biden. >> well, i'd like to come back to the white house soon to do another interview, mr. president. i'd love come to come back to the white house i saw it up clo

according to his deputy campaign manager, kate bedingfield is he going to hit the campaign trail as hardwell. listen to this. >> you will see him a lot. is he going to be campaigning hard these last 11 days. he's going to be all across the country in our battle ground states. is he going to be fighting for every vote. you will see him do in person convenience. you will see him do virtually events. will: let's put up what we know side by side for now. here is what president trump's schedule looks like over the coming days. he has events multiple times per day. three today. on monday he has got two. on tuesday he has got three. he is hitting all the battle ground states from ohio, wisconsin, pennsylvania: meanwhile we what we know, joe biden plans two events today in pennsylvania. we do not know his schedule beyond that jedediah, i think this presidential campaign schedule, i think it's important for two reasons. one, you simply have to have a lot of energy to be the president of the united states and hitting the campaign trail and doing events is certainly evidence of that energy. during