kristin urquiza says her dad, mark anthony urquiza, was a supporter of donald trump who died after believinghe president's assurances that the coronavirus was under control. kristin spoke about the loss of her father at the democratic national convention. >> my dad was a healthy 65-year-old. his only pre-existing condition was trusting donald trump. and for that, he paid with his life. amy: kristin urquiza attended the first presidential debate last week in cleveland. after trump's covid diagnosis on friday, she wrote a piece for "the washington post" headlined "i sat in the front row at the debate. did trump infect me with the coronavirus?" she is joining us now from san francisco, california. kristin, welcome to democracy now! we played your speech in full at the democratic national convention. and our condolences to you on the death of your beloved father. what was your response when you saw president trump walkout of walter reed and then walk into the white house after taking off his mask, turning around and walking in the door? >> i was appalled. i know i am not alone. every single pers

. >> reporter: kristin urquiza's father, mark, died from covid after she says listening to the president's recommendations. >> would you say that your dad had a choice to let coronavirus dominate his life? >> no. my dad was the strongest person i know >> and hallie joins me now. hallie, there's a new confirmed covid case in the president's inner circle what do you know >> reporter: there is, lester just moments ago one of the top aides to president trump, stephen miller, confirmed via a statement that he has tested positive for covid and is now in quarantine he's apparently been isolating for the last five days and had tested negative previously right up until yesterday. lester >> hallie jackson tonight at the white house. thanks >>> the fda today imposed stricter standards for coronavirus vaccines, making it unlikely a vaccine will be approved by election day in spite of the president's insistence that there likely would be nbc's kate snow spoke with dr. anthony fauci today about that and the mixed messages coming from the white house. >> reporter: last night the president again promising

let's listen to this moment today with hallie and kristin urquiza. >> the president telling americans not to let coronavirus dominate your life and get out there. your reaction to what you heard and that tone. >> what -- my reaction is pretty simple. this man is the most dangerous person on the plant who is essentially telling the american public that our loved ones, people like my dad mark who died, are suckers and losers for not having the immune system to overcome this virus like him. and it is an insult to me and every single person who has gone through what i've gone through, something that i would not wish upon my worst enemy. >> and, john, with 210,000 dead, if you just think of how many people kristin is speaking for there, it's a minimum of 1 million people, minimum, maybe 2 million people who knew and loved -- more than that, knew and loved these 200,000 people who are now lost, who the president has completely ignored. >> yeah, well, i'd say more than -- more than ignored, lawrence. i think it's, you know, the tweet yesterday was both a dangerous tweet in the sense that it

kristin urquiza, remember her from the democratic convention. >> oh, yeah. >> came out and talked about her father. she said the only pre-existing condition he had is that he believed in donald trump when donald trump said don't worry about it. those human stories of hers and others, the more that breaks through, the more i think people realize we've got to have a different approach. you got to have different leadership. these numbers are so overwhelming. we're literally having like a 9/11 every other day, that we almost are getting numb to it. but those human stories like kristin urquiza, that's going to break through. >> does this break through, what happened in terms of what trump's warm-up act is. senator perdue, despite serving with senator kamala harris for three years thought this was something the crowd would like. >> but the most insidious thing that chuck schumer and joe biden are trying to perpetrate and bernie and elizabeth and kamala or kamalama lama la or i don't know. >> you think he doesn't know how to say the name or, you know, they got funny names, van. they got funny

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