and when it comes to rural america, it's critical to know the role that mail service plays. s in america, the tiny post offices are community hubs, gathering places and solves loannyness. president trump's down sizing will change everything, from getting prescriptions and paychecks to how they vote. nebraska is allowing expanded voting from home this year. jane, great to the see you. you're in nebraska. give us a sense. when we talk about post offices closing, what does it mean? >> the reality is that trump is trying to dismantle the public trust, and the post office is the hub. where you fill out census information. connecting to family and friends. small businesses, folks have small businesses on etsy. it's show they get goods to folks across the country. but the reality is this, the united states poess office, they deliver to americans, whether you live on a dirt road or a high-rise. the concern now is they will not have the funding and the trump administration will continue to put up blocks. for rural communities, it can take seven days for a liter to reach a community. a

i don't think it will work in rural america. people understand, my neighbors understand that the postal service is something that's really important. and rural free delivery mail is really important. and so for him to do this stuff makes no sense to me. the postmaster general actions for the last two months have raised more questions than provided answers. but in the end it is obvious that what they want is a postal service that doesn't work. and that doesn't work for the country. i'll continue to hoot and holler and do everything i can to make sure that the postal service delivers the mail on time and in a timely manner. they have been a stall work in the country. it's in the constitution. they checked on people not only delivered mail but check on people when they're sick. they have just performed incredible service to the country. for this president to say i don't think it's worth the time. i'll destroy it. it's unacceptable. i hope the american people understand that. >> i hope people follow your advice. to hoot and holler.

why is there this surge in rural america?rter: we'll get to the why in a moment but first to address this notion that president ended the comments with the idea that again but this is basically an urban problem. dr. birx and others are making it's clear it's not the case. georgia, south carolina, north carolina, look how they started to spike up around early june. that is largely driven by, yes, there are cities and related rural problems. move across to louisiana, very high plateau. staying there. keep going across to arizona. very high plateau, staying there. all of these are states that backed donald trump, all of them have large rural populations. why is that a esn issue right n? it is different than the cities with people around each other all the time and rural places people are naturally socially distant and aren't that many people to be around. but here are the big risk factors, older populations than you find in the rest of the country. they're more vulnerable. because they have older populations they have people wit

that exists in rural america. t exists in our big cities as well but those pages never reflected the people i know in rural nebraska or rural west virginia or in south carolina or california because every single state has rural communities. the reality is him as the democratic party by 2040 50% of the population will be electing 84 percent of the u.s. senate. you may think, that's messed up, that's not fair, maybe it's not fair but that's the u.s. constitution and that's not to change anytime soon. but what can change is how the democratic party actually talks with, stands up for, and listens to world voters because we used to win in rural america and not too long ago even our state senator bob nelson was elected in 2006 and served until 2012 and i talk a little bit about why he didn't run for office again in the book after we passed obamacare and how essentially the national party completely left him behind then allowed the republicans this false narrative that he was doing some kickback for our state and the only

. >>> the coronavirus is now multiplying new rural america. there has been a staggering explosion of new infections. more than 40% of the u.s.'s cases were confirmed in july alone and as the pandemic sweeps across states not hit by the virus, one agency says no region is immune. >> reporter: spreading through our nation's largest cities and suburbs the coronavirus is now multiplying through rural america. a cases were confirmed in july >> what we're seeing today is different from march and april it is extraordinarily widespread >> louisiana in the middle of a covid surge is the state with the highest number of infections per capita experts believe mississippi is next >> the situation is dire this is the exact circumstance that we feared when we saw the decision from the govern nor to open up the state. >> with kids and camp counselors also catching the virus there is >> after students tested positive for the virus during the first week of in-person classes chicago's public schools, the third largest in the nation announced they're moving away

those of us in rural america do. when those prescription drugs run out and the one you were counting on to be in the mail that's always been there in the past, it no longer shows up, that's a real problem. and so i don't get what the end game here is other than just destroy the postal service and do it under the guise of fiscal conservativism. this outfit has run up $1 trillion a year in debt. put a little money toward the postal service so rural america could catch a break. that's what i would say. >> you wrote a letter to the postmaster general because some of the changes that have happened, including removing post office boxes, i know that's happened in your state. a, when you wrote him a letter, was it an email or a letter because if it was a letter, maybe he didn't receive it yet and, b, did he respond? >> we wrote him a letter. there was no response. and i can tell you that's a good point. we'll make sure we follow up via email, too. but the bottom line is, stephanie, what they have done under the guise of vote

they can be in rural america or in the city.sed to serve with governor ned mcwerter from tennessee, he talked about delivering mail in greene county, tennessee, and i'd talk to him about delivering mail in a rural house in philadelphia, where i was brought up, and those people in rural america and those people in those row houses in philadelphia they're waiting for their prescription drugs. they're waiting for their checks, and this has got to stop. it's got to end, and it's got to end now. if he wanted to implement certain changes, this was not the time to do it. >> yes. >> this was not the time. in the middle of a pandemic. >> i understand what you're saying ethically. president trump is on the record not wanting mail-in balance the los, so he can implementing changes via dejoy where it is already happening. those folks that you're talking about in the row houses and rural america, they're not getting their mail in the way that they were months ago. so it's already happening, and look, as you know, the board of governors on wh

but keep in mind that we probably underplay the divide between urban america and rural america and donaldties. those are places where it is easy to vote. you just pull in, walk into a fire house, two people are in front of you and you vote. where urban centres are anti—donald trump and mainly big cities are democratic with mayors and city councils and he wants to make it hard for urban voters to six feet apart for covid—19 and will be november and cold in milwaukee and cleveland and detroit and minneapolis and you might have to wait for five hours in line in an urban ce ntre hours in line in an urban centre instead of the five minutes ina centre instead of the five minutes in a rural america. so everything donald trump is doing right now is trying to frame a way that he can barely win this election and at least electoral college. if this sells or not we don't know but racial politics have always beena part racial politics have always been a part of the american political landscape. great to get your perspective on this, douglas, thank you for being with us. people living in the us coastal

and that exists in rural america. that exists in our big cities as well.ut those pages never reflected the people i know in rural nebraska or in rural west virginia every single state has rural communities. in the rear john reality is as a democratic party the% of population will be electing 84% of the senate. we think well that's messed up jane, that is not fair. maybe that's not fair but that is the u.s. constitution what can changes how the democratic party talks with, stands up for and listens to rural voters. we used to win a rural america part in that song go even in our state nelson was elected in 2006 and served until 2012 for a talk a little bit why didn't run for office again in the book after he passed obamacare and how essentially and allowed the republicans is false narrative that he was doing some kickback for our state. as a red state governor he knew the kid not have an unfunded mandate in obamacare. he needed to have language in there as a placeholder to say that all states can expand medicaid but the federal government should be putting m

this was a business that used to be a pillar of rural america and then it got taken over by smithfield and you know this is a company that had spent decades devouring independent firms in the united states and acquiring a kind of market share that never should have been allowed to fall under the umbrella of one firm it is not a good idea to allow one firm to control 30 percent of the entire market in the pork industry or food industry once that happened though it became a very attractive target for any kind of overseas company that could afford to buy it just a huge sector of productive capacity in rural america i mean we're talking about thousands of large scale farms and there's a lot of money being made raising pigs in the united states and. the chicago mercantile exchange is one of the biggest in the world agriculture. commodities are also traded here on. the down here this is this is now the financial room here we're standing in sort of over here we have a bond option trading we have the bonds here or a cultural site there has been diminished over here which we still be the option

this has moved into rural america, middle america. what started out being an east coast and west coast epicenter has spread. unfortunately, we have seen some areas do very well and be aggressive in our measures. other areas didn't seem to have the same leadership or desire to do some of these things. their cases skyrocketed. concord north in carolina, republican line. go ahead. caller: i was just wanting to know when he thinks about the cdc coming out and saying 94% of the virus was misrepresented. they are saying only 6% had the virus and they have made that public. and how it has changed to the world. i just don't understand that. the cdc. made that clear. 94% were misinterpreted. so far, the medical establishments and looking at how they are counting deaths, over 180 thousand people have died of the virus. that is more than we have seen from a lot of other causes. average loss of life from traffic crashes every year is about 50,000. we know that covid doesn't affect everybody the same. supery cases, we have the spreaders who are no

we take care of rural america. deploycts agencies to strategic investments in our rural communications infrastructure and we are working very hard with all of the people in government that are involved with the commune occasions infrastructure so that the telehealth gets very quick and easy access. additionally, revenue for rural , vary significantly from month to month, making it difficult from a to stay in business. many, many are having a difficult time. to help makes this problem, my best it will give rural hospitals great flexibility at a more consistent income stream to that or serve their patients. furthermore, i am directing the department of agriculture, the apartment of health, -- department of health and human services and federal can occasions commission, we were just with the heads of each one in the oval office just before i came up to the podium to form a task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. this order continues my administration's focus on rural health care. $165

but we're hoping that basically they're looking at the needs that we have and especially in rural americahia. we have to address it and we're doing it in the bipartisan myself, lisa murkowski is working very hard. we're talking about telehealth and telelearning. if you don't have broadband you can't function. so if that's the new norm then we have a bill in, myself and susan collins which is basically on -- it's rural broadband. basically hot spots that people can go to the local libraries, take out one of the enhanced hot spots if you will that will enhance your internet connectivity. they can at least function for the next five or six months until we can build out in broadband. the other thing, rural hospitals, john. i have had three rural hospitals in west virginia close recently. how in the world do you close a medical facility in the middle of the pandemic? so we have to get assistance to the people on the front line and we're talking hard. >> well, look, we heard from people that they need assistance right away. we have heard from people receiving the extended unemployment and every

covid-19 is exposed to something in rural america has known for a long time.a shortage of psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals. telehealth can help but broadband speeds are still too slow in many parts of my district 20 cases cannot replace seeing their provider. supported by hhs, 14 of the 15 counties in arizona are designated shortage for mental health professionals. this is not a new issue. the shortages, despite rural america having a higher prevalence of mental health issues including substance abuse disorders, and urban areas, there are high levels of poverty, food insecurity and over time, people suffer in silence and lack of providers, early intervention people's mental health more challenging. this pandemic will leave a footprint into the future. the issues on tribal lands are even more stark. in fact, for young americans in alaska native people, 15 to 34 age is the use suicide rates 1.5 times higher than the national average. there are problem communities where the rate is ten times the national average. for this reason, i

, anywhere in rural america or rural appalachia. ood connectivity, this is it. post office is sometimes the last public place we have in many little communities. talking shutting them down? come on. this is america. this is not some other third-rate country. this is ridiculous. >> so critical, senator. especially for seniors relying on getting social security checks through the mail, veterans who get prescription drugs through the mail. hard to believe, you correctly say, this is happening right here in the united states of america. listen to what democratic congressman was said on cnn earlier today. i'll get your reaction. listen to this. >> this is more serious, in my opinion, than the ukraine issue. more serious than russian interferen interference. a postmaster general deliberately removing mail sorting machines, coincidentally in battleground states, and maybe disenfranchising millions of people. it is unacceptable. we need to immediately have him removed. >> what do you think? >> i agree. i don't think he should have ever been

loves the postal service and rural america is a big part of the president's reelection strategy. >> indeed. i mean, i'm fan of snail mail back funding for covid-19 and it was almost like a tit for tat about funding the postal service. so regarding that deadlock between democrats and republicans over that new covid-19 package, which side do you think has the advantage has time goes on, how is this impasse likely to affect the election results or is there even any way to tell? >> well, look, i do think that, frankly, the longer this goes without any deal, the increase pox on both houses outcome here. early on the democrats had a lot more leverage than t the ones le bag right now. they don't have any legislation to show to voters, look, we want this. the house democrats have something. even the president has his executive actions. senate republicans have nada. i do think that not being there in action is also a penalty. there's some talk that the house democrats may end their recess early to deal with the postal service. if they do that, i'm guessing the senate republicans end up doing

we take care of rural america. gencies to deploy strategic investments in our rural communities, infrastructure, and we are working very hard with all of the people in government that are involved with the communications infrastructure so that the telehealth gets very quick and easy access. additionally revenue for rural providers, vary significantly from month-to-month making it difficult for many to stay in business. many, many are having a very difficult time. to help fix this problem my order will create a voluntary medicare payment system that will give rural hospitals flexibility, really great flux ability, and a more consistent income stream to better serve their patients. furthermore, i am directing the department of agriculture, department of health and human services. we were with the heads of each one. in the oval office just before i came up to the podium to form the task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. this order continues my administration's focus on rural health car

you that i don't know what his calculus is in all this, but i don't think it's going to work in rural america. i think people understand, my neighbors understand, that the postal service is something that's really important. and rural, free-delivery mail, is really important. so for him to do this stuff makes no sense to me. and as i said, the postmaster general's actions the last two months have raised more questions than they've provided answers. but in the end, it is pretty obvious that, what they want, is a postal service that doesn't work. and that doesn't work for this country. and i am going to continue to hoot and holler and do everything i can to make sure that the postal service delivers the mail, on time, in a timely manner. they've been a stalwart in this country, as listed in the constitution. they've checked on people. not only delivered mail but checked on people when they were -- been sick. they've just performed incredible service for this country. and for this president to say, you know what? i don't think it's worth the time. i'm going to destroy it. it's completely unaccep

we take care of rural america. eploy strategic investments in our rural communications infrastructure, and we're working very hard with all of the people in government that are involved with the communications infrastructure so that the telehealth gets very quick and easy access. additionally, revenue for rural providers varies significantly from month to month making it difficult for many to stay in business. to help fix this problem, my order will create a voluntary medicare payment system that will give rural hospitals flexibility, really great flexibility, and a more consistent income stream to better serve their patients. furthermore, i am directing the department of agriculture and department of health and human services and the federal communications commission -- we were just with the heads of each one in the oval office just before i came up to the podium -- to form a task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. this order continues my administration's focus on rural health care.

well, the postal service is extraordinarily not only popular in rural america, it's arguably as important of a lifeline as there is in this country. slowing down the mail is going to hurt him with voters that are normally very, very supportive of him. he is -- i really think he is >> chuck, thank you much. lots to talk about for sure. we'll look for more this morning on "meet the press" when chuck looks ahead to the democratic national convention with vermont senator bernie sanders. and a reminder, we will have complete coverage of the convention monday through thursday nights at 10:00 eastern right here on nbc. >>> also this morning, as the number of coronavirus cases gets closer to 5.4 million, georgia, which has been hard-hit, is trying to do more to slow the spread there. nbc's blayne alexander is in atlanta with more on that. blayne, good morning. >> reporter: well, hallie, good morning to you. georgia ranks fifth in the number of covid-19 cases nationwide. back in april the state was one of the first to reopen and for weeks now it's been the center of this back-and-forth over whethe

the president's base and rural america views the postal service as an important lifeline. >> that'slutely right, check, and the president said that he's not going to roll back or push to roll back any of these changes that the postmaster general has made that have caused some of the delays that we've seen, but i think there is a real question facing the president whether or not he sticks to that. i spoke to a white house official yesterday who wouldn't rule out that the president changes positions on this and that he does try to in some way, tamp down the political firestorm which is coming from both sides of the aisle. democrats and republicans, and there is a real concern like his railing on mail-in voting generally, he risked suppressing his own and hurting his own interest in suppressing his own vote, chuck. >> very quickly, charles benson, this postal service story, how consuming it w consuming was it to your viewers? >> we had one during the pandemic, one last month and the other one in april where there was more chaos and confusion and more court challenges and we already saw

i wrote a whole chapter about rural america and i sent it to him and he loved it.ody has fought harder for family farmers than willy nelson and we have to reconnect with folks. instead of telling people trump is a pig, people say, i know that, but how does it affect me? >> 88 days and you were writing a book that trump would like to make it about him but we need to make it about the voters, the trump trap as you just mentioned, still major issue in the news, can democrats learn anything from 2016 and really focus on those issues that matter instead of continuing to focus on donald trump. >> i hope, i hope. covid changes every. i think this is the first political strategy. i did two things. i grew a beer and wrote a book. you knew me. >> i had it all over. 33 years. so -- i wrote it during covid and it's more important now, you know, it is as stacy abrams has said and many others, vote as if your life depends on it because it does, it really does. politics is not any longer what i said, what i call show business for ugly people, it's a real thing, it's your life and

to everybody in america, but particularly people right now during a pandemic and particularly rural americahere, among other things, they may not have reliable access to broad band, for instance. so we need to invest enough and work to make sure that the postal service can deliver the way it always has and people can again rely on it for everything from medications to social security checks and daily mail and communication. >> well, he's going to be before a house hearing on monday, and we will keep our eyes peeled for that. thank you so much for making a little time for us tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> ahead, how was it the senate was able to find the trump-russia nexus that robert mueller couldn't? jeffrey toobin on the bombshells we learned this week on the trump campaign of cheating ahead. granted. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (mom vo) we got a subaru to give him some ato reconnect and be together. and once we did that, we realized his greatest adventure is just beginning. (avo male) welcome to the most adventurous outback ever.

we take care of rural america. ies to deploy strategic investments in our rural communications infrastructure, and we're working very hard with all of the people in government that are involved with the communications infrastructure so that the telehealth gets very quick and easy access. additionally, revenue for rural providers, very significantly from month to month, making it difficult for many to stay in business. many, many are having a very difficult time to help fix this problem. my order will create a voluntary medicare payment system that will give rural hospitals flexibility, really great flexibility and a more consistent income stream to better serve their patients. i am directing the department of agriculture and department of health and human services and the federal communications commission, we were just with the heads of each one in the oval office, just before i came up to the podium, to form a task force that will break down barriers to expanding rural health care. this order continues my administr

spreading through our nation's largest cities and suburbs, the coronavirus is now multiplying through rural america, a staggering explosion of new infections, more than 40% of the u.s.'s 4.5 million cases were confirmed in july alone. >> i want to be very clear, what we're seeing today is different from march and april. it is extraordinarily widespread. >> reporter: tonight louisiana in the middle of a covid surge is the state with the highest number of infections per capita experts believe mississippi is next. >> the situation is dire this is the exact circumstance that we feared when we saw the decision from the governor to open up the state. >> reporter: with kids and camp counselors also catching the virus there is renewed worry about school and whether children should return. after students at this junior high in indiana tested positive for the virus during the first week of in-person classes, chicago public schools, the third largest in the nation, announced they may be moving away from their planned hybrid system to all remote learning, similar to los angeles. but students in new york still

to everybody in america, but particularly people right now during a pandemic and particularly rural america where, among other things, they may not have reliable access to broad band, for instance. so we need to invest enough and work to make sure that the postal service evcan deliver th way it always has and people can again rely on it for everything from medications to social security checks and daily mail and communication. >> well, he's going to be before a house hearing on monday, and we will keep our eyes peeled for that. thank you so much for making a little time for us tonight. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> ahead, how was it the senate was able to find the trump-russia nexus that robert mueller couldn't? the bombshells we learned this week on the trump campaign of cheating ahead. when we started carvana, they told us that selling cars 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work. building an experience that lets you shop over 17,000 cars from home. creating a coast to coast network to deliver your car as soon as tomorrow. recruiting an army of customer advocates to make

this is really an important issue for rural america. i'll just tell you that. thank you. >> i know that for sure. thank you, sir. all right. we've got much more to come tonight including we're going to be talking with the person inside the system who i believe was the first person in the country to alert the nation that something weird and very hard to reverse was going on in terms of the way the trump administration is trying to break the postal service. this person who let the country know about one of the first and worst things they've been doing is going to join us here live next. stay with us. oing to join us he next stay with us find new listings so quickly? (operator) got another vacancy at fifth and pine. (brad) oh, that's good. apartments-dot-com. the most popular place to find a place. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so l

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going to invest in our urban neighborhoods; and we're going to work to revitalize small town and rural americaies a price they can live on, and farm communities a future they can count on. [applause] and we're going to build the kind of america that lloyd bentsen has been fighting for for the past 40 years; the kind of america, the kind of america where hard work is rewarded; where american goods and american workmanship are the best in the world, the kind of america that provides american workers and their families with at least 60 days' notice when a factory or a plant shuts down. now, i know, i know i have a reputation for being a somewhat frugal man. and let me state for the record that that snowblower is still in good working order, even if it sits in our garage. in nine years, i've balanced nine more budgets than this administration has and i've just balanced a tenth. and i've worked with the citizens of my state -worked hard to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs -- and i mean good jobs, jobs you can raise a family on, jobs you can build a future on, jobs you can count on. progress

small businesses like ours are the backbone of rural economies across america.lan to help more americans, especially people of color start their own businesses. maine casts nine votes for bernie sanders, and 22 votes for our next president, joe biden. >> maryland. >> black lives matter. and when it comes to racial justice, black opportunity matters. >> when joe biden rebuilt our middle class, he won't leave anyone behind. >> more funding for public schools. >> banning racial discrimination in the housing worker. that's building back better. >> maryland. >> the home of frederick douglass. >> casts one vote for bernie sanders and 119 votes for our next president, joe biden. >> massachusetts. >> we need a plan to get the economy going again. joe biden will get the pandemic under control, create new jobs in manufacturing in clean energy, help small businesses in our restaurants recover, and build back better so that our economy is stronger and fairer than it was before. massachusetts casts 30 votes for bernie sanders and 83 votes for our next president, joe biden. >

a spent a lot of time in my rv in rural america and i could tell you two things to count on, a smallfire department. and people out in those communities really depend on the postal service and they know that if a postal service were going to an all for-profit postal service, they would not receive deliveries of important and critical medications and their prescription drugs. the other thing is that from a standpoint of voters who live in cities and urban areas, removing post office boxes and slowing down the mail for the purposes of trying to interfere, i believe, with the election, means that you are going back door way to suppressing the vote of african-american, latino and other communities of color. and so the president really knows this. and you could hear him call out loud for the interference of the election and let me go back to your first point, is an incumbent president who is confident and competent is not afraid of counting the vote. this one is afraid. >> alexi, just today the democrats have really jolted into action, moving to the next part of this what can be done. dav

the african-american vote and then she can help with her moderate use in places like the suburbs rural america is still pretty solidly republican so it gets to be a battleground across all of these states but the margin of victory in some of these states is $10000.00 votes or less so one thing commonly here is can do is drive out the african-american vote in a way that barack obama successfully did in 2008 in 2012 and that alone could make up the margin by which trump one in 2060 yet john and you you cover the george floyd killing and its aftermath extensively for al jazeera in minnesota what does the camera harris pick mean for the black lives matzoh campaign in these states that you're talking about. as interesting as rob touched on this a little bit she's got a pretty aggressive record as a prosecutor and she was not known for taking it easy on african-americans for not prosecuting the kinds of drug times for. which a lot of people believe that african-american trip disproportionately prosecuted in so you've got a bit of a split yes she is african-american or biracial and she people tend to

a week into the postal system because it's not profitable profitable to go down a dirt road in rural america or some urban centers. back to the future and internal postal service memo obtained by a fortune magazine and other news media directs that listen to this over time will be eliminated if our plants run late they will keep the mail for the next day if we cannot deliver all the mail due to call offs or shortage of people and you have to have no other help the mail will not go out hillary kind of brings a tear to why just to see our pal bart again but my question is only after 6 over 6000 postal workers have tested positive for the virus so far and the staffing is already sure it big picture is that one day deal lay in getting the mail out a real hang up for business. no it won't be holland because nowadays it's estimated that 89 percent of all bills are paid online so most and that's another reason for the decline in 1st class mail and that one of the few benefits of this whole pandemic i think for most people has been we've had far less junk mail and that brings me to another point jun

all of those things that you would think are associated with rural america. people who are deeply connected and concerned about sustainability. when i first went to congress and started talking about climate change, it was in existential threat and an economic driver. what the biden administration can do is not assume this is an unbridgeable gap. be smart about how we message this. don't sell climate change on shaming people who throw away a plastic bottle. this is the right thing to do. i think people are starting to grasp that. there is goodwill out there. ms. abrams: can you talk about how the democratic party can do a better job of turning out that cross-section of voters, not just the voters we consider our base or trump voters. out people who do not think this is for them? in whichou had races he won in a way that surprised people. beshear, you won by a thin but mighty margin. can you talk about how you build cross-sections of voters at a time when people did nothing it was possible or did not know how to do it? i think focusing on this is how it happen

a mule kick to rural america. ♪ ♪ and later, a concert that covid could not cancel. ♪ ♪ >> this is thekend news. >> garrett: good evening, everyone, i'm major garrett in washington. this week marks a milestone in the evolution of our democracy. 100 years since women obtained the right to vote. it wasn't given. they fought for it for 41 years and the 19th amendment made it so. election day this year is 79 days away, but earlier in states that allow absentee or mail-in voting. now, voting in a pandemic means an unprecedented number of ballots will be mailed. but there are worries the post office might not deliver all ballots on time. today the post office announced a 90 day moratorium on the removal of collection boxes. this has been seen in several states. president trump blames democrats, not his new postmaster general for concerns rovering over the verifiable handling of more mail-in ballots. but today there is another issue, a deeply personal one. late yesterday the president's younger brother robert died in new york. no cause was given. weijia jiang is in bridgewater, new jersey, tr

in rural america, the postal service is highly dependent on it. they have not ever liked the postal service because they always want to find a way to make money off of something. now at a time of a pandemic, you would think they would have a little sensitivity. so obsessed are they to thatmine absentee voting this is their connection. the president says he is not putting up any money for absentee voting and he is not putting up any money for the postal service, under money the health of our -- undermining the health of our democracy. the money for the election that is in the bill is not just about absentee ballots. health reasons for voting by mail because you do not need to stand in line for hours and maybe have even more proximity than your one theodore go to a polling place -- then you want it or go to a polling place that may not be spaced properly. you should not have to choose between your health and your ability to cast your vote. aboutney in the bill is making sure that if you want to go to a polling place, that they are spaced, that there

i see a day of when life in rural america attracts people to the country rather than driving them awaya day when we can look back on massive brick for use massive breakthroughs in solving pollution that is choking our nation. i see a day when our senior citizens and millions of others can plan for the future with the assurance that their government is not going to rob them of their savings by destroying the value of their dollar. [applause] mr. nixon: i see a day when we will again have freedom from fear in america and freedom from fear in the world. i see a day when our nation is at peace and the world is at peace with everyone on earth, those who hope, of those who aspire, my fellow americans, this is because i asked you to -- because i ask you to vote for. this is the cause i asked you to work for. this is the cause i ask you to commit to, not just for victory in november but beyond that into a new administration because the time when one man or a few leaders could save america is gone. we need, tonight, nothing less than the total commitment and total mobilization of the american p

as president, he will continue to strengthen rural america from new england to the pacific. ,> on behalf of the governor and the american samoa democratic party, we proudly cast 11 votes for our next president of the united states .f america, joe biden >> arizona. >> as a middle school teacher i know public educators are doing everything they can to make sure our students have quality learning experiences this fall. as a mother of a high school freshman, i know this is far from perfect. as a union organizer, i will fight to make sure it is scientists, parents and educators that decide when it is safe to go back to school, not politicians. as an arizona latina, i probably cast our votes, 29 for bernie sanders and 51 for our next president, joe biden. >> arkansas. >> feeding people is an act of love and i think we could all use in our -- a little extra love. we took our food truck to the community to deliver meals made right here, for our neighbors in need. even when our leaders let us down, americans kept looking out for each other. arkansas casts nine votes for bernie sanders and 27 vote