trump supporter, kyle rittenhouse, is charged with murder in that investigation already. that is exactly what joe biden said donald trump would say in response to a question like that today. donald trump was asked about an attack by his supporters in portland this weekend. >> i noticed you did not mention that your supporters were also in portland this weekend firing paint ball guns at people, pepper spray. do you also want to take this chance to condemn what your supporters did? >> that was a peaceful protest. and paint is not -- and paint is a defensive mechanism. paint is not bullets. >> what's the big deal? donald trump rambled on from there. and his last line was, quote, that was a peaceful protest totally. so in trump world if trump supporters fire paint balls at you, they are being totally peaceful. and they have every right to do that, according to donald trump. donald trump proves once again today that every word joe biden said about him today is absolutely true. donald trump is planning

i -- trump is proud to be a trump. biden is proud to be a biden.it, and they will hit. there will be issues raised about hunter. we're going to see, how does he handle that. also, some of this family stuff is now fair game because of this tax stuff. you may be in a situation where you have two dads proud of their families and proud of themselves, in a kind of a family feud which is apart of national life. >> we're talking about biden getting hit and then pivoting. but i think biden's going to hit back a little bit too. i do. i don't know if it's on family per say, van. but i do think there are going to be issues that biden's going to go right back at him. >> we're just minutes away. let's go back to jake. >> it's a huge night, and we're minutes away from it, dana, closing thoughts as we prepare for this big moment? >> this is really one of the most important moments we've seen in politics, certainly since we've all been covering it, definitely for me. because of the reason that we were talking about, we are in a pandemic, and people haven't really

that's what trump said after he won. there have been numerous studies done on the issue of voter fraud in our country. they have all concluded essentially in the same way, voter fraud in the united states of america is extremely rare. a study by dartmouth university found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. an article in the new york times from december of 2016 stated and i quote, in an election in which more than 137 million americans cast ballots, election and law enforcement officials in 26 states and the district of columbia, democratic leaning, republican leaning and in between said that so far, they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting. officials in another eight states said they knew of only one allegation. in georgia, where more than four million people cast ballots, officials said they had open inquiries in 25 cases into, quote, suspicious voting or election-related activity. but end of quote. but inquiries to all 50 states, every one, but kansas responded, found no states

[applause] trump: thank you. trump: thank you. trump: thank you . [applause] [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host: after the first debate of 2020 is time to hear your voices and get your views of the last 90 minutes 202 is the area code. 748-8920 of the president if you support former vice president biden 748-8921. all others if you are undecided if you can't get to the phone lines and it's too late to have your voice heard send a text at (202)748-8903. 748-8903 is the text number please include your first name and your city if you send the text and we will take those in just a minute. back to the campaign trail vice president biden tomorrow on a train tour of ohio and pennsylvania. thursday evening 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span remarks at the annual al smith dinner hosted virtually by the archdiocese of new york. president trump will be making remarks at the dinner but tomorrow live on c-span for a rally in duluth minnesota and on friday another valley at 7:00 p.m. in sanford it up. that is what is coming up

this is why you despise trump. if he does not win this election, everything will be swept under the mat, from obama to this day, who tried to replace him with a rotten fbi that is all sitting there, they were not even said records over, so everything is a joke. he took on china for the first time in 30 years on fair trade. you shake your head, i am watching you. how are you and republicans supporting the democrats? the green deal, everything, they want to destroy the country. are notou say the riots peaceful, a little bit? nancy pelosi is holding up the ones that need aid because she wants trillions to bail out california for unpaid pensions. host: go ahead and respond. guest: there is no response to that. that is a person that lives in a bubble of facebook and fox. i get it. it is a phenomenon in politics today. i have to say that i have seen this plenty in this country, and the idea that any of the things he was taking off represents -- ing off represents conservativism, they don't. they represent white ethics gr

, trump, trump signs everywhere.nd up around my area, i don't even hardly see no biden signs or trump signs. you know, not as much as i would if i drove out to friedland, michigan, or midland, michigan. i would like to know, when it comes to these polls, i be hearing these different stations talking about the polls. biden by three or trump by four. how many peoples do they pick or get to come up with this decision? thank you. a greatddie, it is question, one that has been on the mind of a lot of voters since 2016 when the polls, at least in states like michigan and pennsylvania, wisconsin, even ohio were off the mark. they did not get the result correct. some of them may have to do with the number of people who are surveyed. two point to that particular answer, eddie, it depends on the poll. sometimes you will see, in the free press poll todd spangler talked about earlier, there were 600 voters. sometimes you will see it up to 1000 or 1200. and the key part of any poll, when talking about trying to predict an electio

ivanka trump.shington post" reporting a new book by the former deputy campaign manager for trump rick gates claims that president trump wanted ivanka as his running mate in 2016 and actually even polled the idea twice. according to "the post" the book quotes trump as saying she's bright, she's smart, she's beautiful, and the people would love her. outfront now, former republican presidential candidate in 2016, she has endorsed joe biden for president. i really appreciate your time. what is your reaction to this claim that trump considered his daughter as vice president and it wasn't just a light silly thing but a serious thing. it was something he polled and thought would be a good idea. >> well, i'm struck that it is surprising news. it's laughable news. but honestly i think given the jobs he has given his children in the white house, jobs for which they are not particularly qualified, i don't think this is a big stretch honestly. >> a sort of an incredible thing to say. when you think about just

trump do you think are out there? going onere is a lot in those numbers. a lot of republicans are out on the party and have already left. if you look at pew has the registrations of people who identify as republicans and democrats, that has been dropping because donald trump is actively tricking the party. the other thing is that you cannot actually win a national election with just people who were registered republicans. you need independence. a lot of these right-leaning for georgets voted w. bush but they are looking at donald trump and saying i am for keeping the government out of our lives and lower taxes, but i cannot support this person and they are more than happy to say, joe biden is fine, i can vote for joe biden. for donald trump, when he brags about these numbers, what he is areng is all the people who tribally republicans are still in on me, but it is not a big enough group to win an election and there is a lot of people he has driven out, and i am one of them. host: who is olivia troye? guest: olivia tro

they pulled a trump on trump. whatever it is that he was looking for, whatever it is that he wanted, they were prepared to give it to him so long as they could get an exclusive, that they could get a weekly interview, you know, that he would make phone calls in to them in order to discuss what he's doing and give them access behind the -- you know, the blue ropes. >> the other twist in this part of the book is that this fox host who called the president and sort of pledged this secret loyalty to him, this secret i'm behind you all the way although i can't say so publicly, this is also somebody with whom you had an ongoing relationship. he had confided into you about some legal matters and some business interests and also things that were going wrong in his marriage and worries about a divorce. i mean was that a factor here? was he saying this to the president in front of you is also giving you sort of assurances all these things that you know about me, don't worry, i'm going to be good. >> so let me tell you the s

the subject is president trump's taxes. donald trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. in his first year in the white house, he paid another $750. not 750,000. $750. he paid no income taxes at all in ten of the previous 15 years according to the "new york times." largely because he reported losing much more money than he made, they said. "the times" report is headlined long-concealed records show losses and years of tax avoidance. they write, the "new york times" has obtained data extending over more than two decades for mr. trump and the hundreds of companies that make up his business organization including detailed information from his first two years in office, it does not include his personal returns for 2018 or 2019. "the times" continue, his reports to the irs portray a businessman who takes in hundreds of millions of dollars a year, yet racks up losses. the financial disclosures he makes is a public official versus what he told the irs for the same time period. i'm quoting from "the ti

i host: am all for trump. host:-- i am all for trump. host: what are some of the issues of concern for you? caller: my freedoms as an american. i'm about my gun rights. tobout being able to choose vaccinate my children or not. i believe is trump -- i believe that trump's for freedom. have you been affected by the wildfires? caller: very much and i work in the cannabis industry. not only because of that, but in california. obviously, the majority of that is burning. friends, neighbors, people i know, their homes are burning. they are maybe 30 miles from the fires. policeof defunding the , andhings, we need order we don't need people robbing houses and destroying businesses . there are business owners who have lost a lot in california that are -- have always -- they need to be protected. host: how big is the cannabis industry in northern california? caller: it has brought a lot of really amazing jobs and stability to a lot of people. host: thanks for calling in. robert in san jose, california, on our undecided line. robert, are you truly u

>> well, donald trump, we know, doesn't care about anybody but donald trump.hat includes ivanka ultimately. in other words, if it's about his advancing his own interests versus hurting her interests, he will surely choose advancing his own interests. it's funny that michael cohen just referred to trump as the commander in cheat because there's a wonderful quote that it really explains all this from rick riley's book, which was actually called "commander in cheat." and it's how golf explains trump. and he says trump doesn't cheat in golf, he cheats like a three-card monte dealer. he throws it, boots it, and moves it. he lies about his lies. he fudges and foozles and fluffs. and it's the exact same thing with his taxes. he doesn't just cheat. he is an epic cheater. >> and not only that but the hypocrisy is just endless. this is a guy who criticized president obama saying, oh, he only pays 20.5% on $790,000 salary. knowing he's not paying at all, i believe that's a 2012 tweet who knows if he paid any taxes that year. he's also been vicious toward immigrants, part

trump speaks mafia speak.made man, this is a guy who's literally done nothing in his life, he's more fredo than michael. he thinks by rolling over and being the beta dog to putin or erdogan, he's going to get into the dictator's mafia club, he's not. he's being used and manipulated on a strategic scale, and we all can see it with our own eyes. >> or mohammed bin salman, he bragged, i got him out of trouble when he killed an american, had an american killed, an american resident journalist. the idea of him being the beta dog to the alpha dog, that goes along with what the fbi agent who helped launch the russian investigation said. and this is mr. strzok who donald trump is obsessed with, one of the people he's obsessed with. he said donald trump lied about his business dealings. and putin knew he lied, trump knew that putin knew. a shared understanding that provided the framework for a coercive relationship. looking back over the investigation that you all did, do you think it -- looking back on it, do you thin

can joe biden avoid answering trump's follies, reacting to trump's gimmicks and lies and instead shred donald trump in ways that expose him before, yes, the eyes of his own voters. a man who claims to be a big chief executive who can't execute a plan to protect americans from covid, a man who claims to be rich but can't afford the kind of tax bills most americans pay, a man who claims to have most ratings in popularity but has never cracked 50% in votes or polling. as sean carter says in that same battle rap, we don't believe you. you need more people. that's one point joe biden may want to explore tonight dealing with all of these challenges. now an msnbc contributor and worked for both obama campaigns. vice president for communication at cap and libby casey from the washington post. good to see all of you. cornell, having worked inside recent presidential campaigns, i deal with you and this problem. it's one thing to judge and morally condemn a candidate, a president who lies so much, but it's another thing to get in the ring and decide when do you rebut the lie? you can't leave it u

trump: yes. chris: the economy is recovering faster than expected from the shut down in the second quarter. the unemployment rate fell to 8.4% last month. the federal reserve says the hit to growth, which is going to be there, is not going to be nearly as big as they had expected. president trump, you say we are in a v-shaped recovery. vice president biden, you say it is more of a k-shape. what difference does that mean to the american people in terms of the economy? president trump, you go first. pres. trump: so, we built the greatest economy in history, we closed it down because of the china plague. we closed it down, which was very hard psychologically to do. he did not think we should close it down and he was wrong. 2 million people would be dead instead of still 204,000 is too much, one person is too much. should have never happened from china. but what happened is we closed it down and now we are reopening and we are doing record business. we had 10.4 million people in a four-month period t

trump is white vote is the trump base.uch of them come out as possible and he's animating them. he's invigorating them with this covert racism which appeals to them which is why the democrats lost the south during the kennedy and then the nixon administration. sorry to do that little history listen about the modern democratic party. >> i want to share though with both of you something the atlantic. it might fwhnot be a path to success in november. for the first time america may have an anti-racist majority. he have elected on a promise to restore an idealized past in which race was on question. rather than restore that, he have for the moment discredit it. golden age of prosperity and return to k-- it's radicalized millions of white americas who were declined to dismiss systemic racism as a myth. this is, as with all things trump, so polarizing but it's not clear that by putting his foot on the pedal and flooring it that he's done anything to either one recreate the coalition from four years ago and i can't find a person w

>> president trump: not really.he car is much less expensive and it's a much safer car and you're talking about a tiny difference. what would happen, because of the cost of the car, you would have at least double and triple the number of cars purchased. we have the old slugs out there that are ten, 12 years old. if you did that come of the car would be safer. it would be much cheaper. >> chris: in california. >> president trump: taking a lot of cars off the market. people would be able to afford a car. by the way, we are going to see how it turns out. a lot of people agree with me, many people. the car has gone so extensive because they have computers all over the place for an extra little bit of gasoline. i'm okay with electric cars too. i'm all for electric cars. i've given big incentives for electric cars. what they have done in california is crazy. >> chris: vice president biden, i would like you to respond to the president's climate change record. i also want to ask about, you proposed $2 trillion in green jobs

author of "born trump."t we know, given what we know about this "the new york times" reporting and what you know about how the trump family operates, what's your take on these so-called con summiting fees that were allegedly paid to his daughter sf. >> you know what's really interesting to me is that the trump family generally operates like business is personal and the personal is business. and for years and years and years, the trump organization has at least been involved with some personal decisions. when don junior proposed to his now ex-wife, the business was very much involved in getting the ring at a very hefty discount for don junior and ivanka's wedding invitation. it's very hard to separate the personal from the business in the trump family. but while the lines may be blurred for individual people, they're not blurry in the tax laws, tax laws are black and white. when it comes to consulting fees there's a separation between the personal side of the business is, when i talk to people who are friendl

because donald trump adds fuel to every fire. >> donald trump adds fuel to every fire. what joe biden was talking about specifically in that portion of his speech are the recent protests in wisconsin over the police shooting of jacob blake. he remains in the hospital, reportedly paralyzed after a police officer shot him in the back seven times. today the president remarkably defended the actions of a 17-year-old militia member who is charged with shooting and killing two protesters in wisconsin last week, saying without any apparent basis that that young man probably would have been killed had he not shot the two people who he killed. tomorrow president trump is set to visit kenosha over the objections of kenosha's mayor and the objections of the state's governor. wisconsin governor tony evers sent a letter to president trump today urging him to reconsider this trip, saying, quote, i am concerned your presence will only delay our work to overcome division and move forward together. but where there is fire, this president is always standing by, ready with more fuel. so a

would it be a good book for trump? would it be a bad book for trump? donald trump worried aloud with bob woodward on tape about how george w. bush submitted to interviews with bob woodward and then bob woodward made president bush look like an idiot according to dnld truonald trum never gave the slightest hint that he had read any of his previous 19 books. at the end of one of their last phone conversations, president trump said, hey, bob, could i call you later so i can get to these generals to make sure everything is good i said i still wanted to push on some of these questions. i don't mind, he said. i hope you're truthful if you're not truthful, you're going to hit me. three days later on june 22nd of this year, after bob woodward had already completed a first draft of this book, president trump called again at 8:15 p.m during that phone call melania trump enters the room and president trump says i'm talking to bob woodward and said that bob woodward was writing a book about him. and then he said, it will probably be atrocious, but that's okay. don

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so donald trump must apologize. the fact that everyone who is around him at the time is silent and not denying this i think speaks volumes. i do hope that john kelly and other generals speak out, but we don't need them to to know this is true and we know it's true because donald trump again went after the military this weekend when he attacked military generals for somehow being warmongers. that's exactly the opposite. i served active duty. it's been my experience that commanders don't want to go to war because they know the horrors of war. >> and you know, one of the people who was sent out and has been out flaking for her former boss is sarah huckabee sanders. very much ride or die, for whatever it is donald trump does. i've got an interesting piece of her on the view this morning. watch this segment with her and at one point, joy asks her a very important question. she's saying it didn't happen. she was indeed on the trip. but u just take a listen to thisly l clip. >> question, i want to clear something up with y

and so part of joe biden's job, i think, is to let trump be trump. where he can have a reagan-esque there you go again. because i think the more people see donald trump, the more he reinforces what they think of him. and so don't try and control donald trump but don't let donald trump control you either. joe biden has to stay in charge of his own message. >> very important advice there from carly fiorina. thank you so much. appreciate your insights. >>> and be sure to tune into msnbc for the full debate coverage starting tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. we're going to be right back with new comments from kamala harris on trump's supreme court pick. stay with us. stay with us e of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of

trump hasn't. i mean, the reckoning is why i feel such joy in giving away my royalties from the art of the deal to people and causes that can serve a greater good. so in my case, over the next month, i'll donate my next trench of royalties, i've donated all royalties since the art of deal since trump was elected to joe biden and joe biden fighting for republican senate seats, and to causes that trump hates. it's my way of getting trump to support what he hates. >> anthony? >> i think there's a lot of truth to that. i grew up in a blue collar neighborhood. my parents did give me a lot of love but we were hustling in a tight budgeted family. i love the book that tony wrote. i told him that when i was about 23 years old and i was inspired by it. so for me when i met mr. trump and michael did introduce me to him, i had this feeling about him that okay, this is a doer, a guy that can get things done. and then more time, i saw him, and then when we were on the campaign ge, he was way more relaxed because

mary trump has told us that in her book. donald trump knows he's a fraud. mary trump has told us that that weighs more heavily on donald trump in his current job than it ever did before the presidency. and for a 74-year-old obese man who sleeps very little, the relentless currents of insecurity that surge through donald trump's mind and body can take a toll. and added to his other risk factors, confined him being rushed to walter reed medical center as he was in october, 2019. this is the account of that trip in michael schmidt's book that made president trump deny today that he suffered a series of mini strokes, which for many is the very first revelation of the possibility of those mini strokes, and effectively the confirmation of those mini strokes. because of donald trump's denial of those mini strokes. that's what he said in that tweet after he talked about his favorite president. he went on to say that this report that he suffered mini strokes was untrue. here is what set off that donald trump tweet today. michael schmid writes -- on a saturday aftern

trump. it was a saturday afternoon in mid-november and president trump was seemingly rushed off to walter reed medical center. it was surprised and it led a lot of questions to what may have went wrong for the president that may lead to a rushed trip. >> the president leaving on an unannounced trip to walter reed medical center with his personal physician right by his side. the saturday's visit was different from his two presidential physicals raising concerns of his health. those were on his official schedule took more than four hours and were not done in phases. >> that was late last year, mid november. the white house later cooked up some weird story about how that sudden unannounced trip to walter reed had been a long plan segment of the president's annual physical and he was doing a bit of it as if physicals are a thing that's happening in the episode of the course of the season. it was very strange. that's not how physicals work. president trump is the oldest person ever elected to the

it's on trump.re eyewitnesses to what went on in the room, as we remember the play hamilton on shuttered broadway, right, in the room where it happens. and in the room where it happened in the white house, we know that jared kushner sat there on an ordinary afternoon, white house meeting, looking at charts and they decided we wouldn't have a national strategy because this was something that they viewed as damaging the blue state governors. and so, there you have it, right? it's the biggest lie in the history of the country. it's the most immoral act by a president in the history of the country. and the results of it all have been devastating. catastrophic. >> you know, and robert gibbs, the incompetence of it continues to put american lives at risk. we are dealing with a mask shortage, of all things. i mean, how are we on month six with everyone agreeing the world over that masks are the easiest and least intrusive way to protect ourselves, how are we out of masks? >> ah -- that is a stunning thing

do you really feel safer under donald trump? mr. trump, you want to talk about fear? you know what people are afraid of in america? afraid they're going to get covid, afraid they're going to get sick and die, and that is in no small part because of you. we're now on track to more than 200,000 deaths in this country due to covid, more than 100,000 seniors have lost their lives to the virus. more cops have died from covid this year than have been killed on patrol. nearly one in six small businesses closed in this country today. do you really feel safer under trump? what about trump's plan to destroy the affordable care act? and with it, the protections for pre-existing conditions. it impacts more than 100 million americans. does that make you feel safer? or how about trump's plan to defund social security? the social security administration's chief actuary just released a report saying that if a plan like the one trump is proposing goes into effect, the social security trust fund would be, and i quote, permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023 with no abi

and yet, that is what trump said after he won.here have been numerous studies done on the issue of voter fraud in our country. they have all concluded, essentially, in the same way -- voter fraud in the u.s. is extremely rare. a study by dartmouth university found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. an article in the new york times from 2016 stated, "in an election in which more than 137 million americans cast ballots, election officials in the district of columbia, democratic leaning, republican leaning, and in between, said that so far, they knew of no credible allegations of fraudulent voting." officials in another eight states said they knew of only one allegation. in georgia, where more than four million people cast ballots, officials said they were opening inquiries and 25 cases into "suspicious voting." but inquiries to all 50 states -- everyone but kansas responded -- found no states that reported indication of widespread fraud. one report reviewed elections that had been studied for voter fraud. th

trump: so -- chris: president trump, you have two minutes.hy should americans trust you over your opponent to deal race issues? pres. trump: you did a crime bill, 1994, where you call them super predators. african-americans are super predators and they've never forgotten it. they've never forgotten it. mr. biden: i never said -- chris no, no, sir. : it's his two minutes. pres. trump: so you did that and they call you a super predator and i'm letting people out of jail now -- that you have treated the african-american population community, you have treated the black community about as bad as anybody in this country. and because that is president trump and joe biden spying last night in cleveland. perhaps the calmest moment of the new wood president trump was not interrupting almost everything joeoe biden said. fact checkers have noted trump light whenen he accused him of super predators. it was hiller clinton. still with us, marc lamont hill and kristen clarke joins us, president and executive director of the national lawyers committee for civ

trump: yes.is: the economy is recovering faster than expected from the shut down in the second quarter. the unemployment rate fell to 8.4% last month. the federal reserve said the hit to growth, which is going to be there, is not going to be nearly as big as they had expected. president trump, you say we are in a v-shaped recovery. vice president biden, you say it is more of a k shape. what difference does that mean to the american people in terms of the economy? president trump, you go first. pres. trump: so, we built the greatest economy in history, we closed it down because of the china play. we closed it down, which was very hard psychologically to do. he did not think we should close it down and he was wrong. 2 million people would be dead instead of still 204,000 is too much, one person is too much. should have never happened from china. what happened as we closed it down and now we are reopening and we are doing record business. we had 10.4 million people that we have put back into the wor

trump, mr.voters care about their own children and sending them to school and can they be safe. and there is -- to not get into -- your children do this and i think once again, talks to him about testing. trump, mr. trump, what people care about is the testing for corona and why there hasn't been more of it. continually pivot back to the voter and your care for the voter. the other thing i want to see happen, the one attribute donald trump has had, and it's all fake, but strength. and you know, when he debated against all the other republican candidates, you didn't have that gravitas and strength up there. didn't necessarily have it with hillary because trump was able to play the guy in the corner shooting spitballs at the establishment. i want to see a punch back, a dignified way from biden. and the best example i've seen, and it sticks with me was when he's talked about his son, his late son who was a war hero and referred to trump and said you said people like my son are suckers for going ove

rent to donald trump. look, my guess is he is wildly amused it is on full display that donald trump defense mechanism, right? if somebody in a room is perceived by others to be smarter, to be a better speaker, then he's going to go say, no, they're not. look that, person isn't that smart. that person isn't a good speaker. i mean, there's a pattern and an obsession to this. i mean, look, i think if you read mckay hopkins from years ago on this, there's always been a complex that donald trump has had about looking in on other people and not being seen as part of that crowd of having to look into that. and i think it has -- it governs his actions. it governs his words it governs his thoughts. and in this way it's manifested itself time and time again, whether it's an african-american leader, whether it's a black reporter, the reaction to them is just sharper than it is to others and i think that's not lost on people. >> donna edwards, robert gibbs, thank you both so much for starting us off. elizabeth neumann

and i asked mary trump about it, and i'm about to show you a portion of my interview with mary trump on that subject that has never aired before. watch. >> in terms of what americans should take from this, i feel like you've defined some things in his upbringing that are psychologically interesting in terms of us figuring out who he is and why he might think the way that he did. but there's also some things that you describe that i think he would see as contrary to the public image that he has created. for example, there is an anecdote that you share in the book where you say that your cousin donny, donald trump jr., had apparently at one point planned to or said he might enlist in the army, and it was relayed to you that your uncle, the president, had told him that he would be disinherited if he enlisted. >> yeah. my uncle robert told me that story. >> do you think it's true, or did you ever have any corroboration of it? >> i -- i have had no corroboration, but i -- i believe it. there was literally no reason for him to make such a thing up. it's a pretty specific thing to lie about

trump is this.ommander xh chief. >>. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ]in. [ speaking foreign language ] c. [ speaking foreign language ] >> catty kay, these americans who lost their family members, the way that trump is quoted, the things that he has said, it's not only un-american, it's not only completely bereft of patriotism, but at what point is he not fit to lead? i can't imagine standing by and watching this come out of the president of the united states' mouth. >> yeah. i think it -- it's so -- it's going to be so interesting to watch what kind of reaction we get, if any, from some of the senior generals who have served donald trump. it took general millie's involvement in the incident in lafayette square for james mattis to come out, finally, and say something in public. and i wondered like you whether this is another watershed moment, whether we're now going to get a bunch more of those senior military gen

trump's first term. the issues he vowed to tackle. >> build that wall. >> repeal and replace obamacare. >> these massive tax cuts will be rocket fuel for the american economy. get ready because you're going to be working your asses off. all right? >> reporter: the crises he has faced. >> we will defeat the virus, and emerge stronger than ever before. >> reporter: hear from the people who were there. >> i was in the early meetings in the oval office. >> reporter: in the rooms, where it happened. why does he seem to like putin? this is a cnn special report. "fight for the white house, donald trump's presidency." >> together, we will crush the virus. >> reporter: against the backdrop of a global pandemic, president trump was making his case for a second term. and, from the looks of it, no real concerns about an extremely contagious and deadly virus. >> what the white house was trying to do was say, look, we believe that covid's gone, and we want you to believe that, too. >> you saw donald trump try to sort

, trump has gave us the basic -- if there's anyone who canan rebuild it is donald trump is he's given us great causes of justice on supreme court and justices all across the board. my support is for donald trump not joe biden because joe biden is going to divide this country because the socialists want to take over. >> host: penny in north carolina. imagine the economy as a campaign issue, penny. i would point you towards this "wall street journal" story today, headline economy loses that a gallup poll found 35% of the public saw the coronavirus as the most important issue facing the nation and that 22% saw government leadership as a key problem in economic matters such as an opponent for the economy in general ranked third on the list at 12% just had of race relations. for the president the "wall street journal" writes there is good and bad news in the disconnect between the economy in the campaign. the good is worrying is he isn't being heavily blamed by voters for vicious economic crisis. july, 54% of those surveyed in the "wall street journal" nbc news poll approved of his handlin

it's an november surprise to donald trump from donald trump. the picture he creates, is there anything about that that surprises you? >> i think he writes the first draft of history. i think by and large he's thought of as someone who faithfully records what happens in his reconstructions of conversations. here there's no mystery because the president is on tape. the thing i'm thinking over, nicolle, is it possible the president actually wanted -- on purpose he wanted this virus to spread? before everyone jumps out of their care and says how could that be, here's a guy that was looking around, to be in charge of something, to manage a crisis. he loved striding into that briefing room every day. the covid crisis is going to compromise the ability to have an orderly election day. if he's trailing in the polls, he may want that. i think he wants the chaos and wants the uncertainty and wants the lockdown because it may help him in early november. >> well, we know that he relished describing himself from that podium until he told us to inject bleach

trump, from president trump.other way it could be released is if the irs was involved in a court proceeding, then it could be legally released. outside of that, the guy is blowing smoke, because obviously it was not legally obtained. host: i do not think they have released publicly the tax documents, so i do not think they have actually released that. caller: you are correct, they have not released his taxes, but they are trying to spin at that he only paid $750. nobody in their right mind gets away with paying $750. i mean, i look at what i make and what i am charged by the irs, and believe me it is 100 times more than $750. host: you are not the only one. let's go to maureen calling from redwood city california -- from redwood city, california on the democratic line. caller: how are you? host: just fine. go ahead. caller: i want to make two points. ne, presently can pay $1900 in taxes in his first year. i want to point out that the $72 million tax refund donald trump received because of his business losses, num

america. >> president trump: so, if it weren't donald trump's america, to just use the expression asn president, you would have riots like you've never seen. the democrats have lost control of the radical left and if you look at bernie and -- i call it the manifesto that was agreed to with biden, that's further left than bernie ever was. it won't be able to control these people. these people have lost control of these people and that's hurting them. don't forget, biden wasn't going to come out of his basement until the election. now he had to because the polls are so good for me. now he had to because the polls are different, so all of a sudden he's in pittsburgh. he wasn't going to leave his basement, then he said okay, he's leaving, but he won't leave for ten days. ten days is a long time, so in the meantime like on sunday and so is saturday, i'm in texas, i'm in louisiana. i was going to stop in two other places, arkansas wasn't hit very much, et cetera, et cetera. i would have stopped, but i'm all over the place. i leave early in the morning, i get laid home at night and that's w

forced to vote for trump. voted for trump last time and i was thinking i would probably vote for biden this time. he is making it to where i can't. way biden is going to lead his presidency i don't want him. host: what were you hoping to hear from joe biden? caller: i was hoping to see him come out early and go against -- you keep hearing the media say trump will not go after his --porters until biden just now came out i had not heard him say anything about the destruction going on in the cities. i had not heard him say anything about all the businesses. of black businesses people, hispanic people that are being destroyed in urban communities. he was silent. i don't get it. i really was thinking about voting for biden but i don't see how i can now. he does not look like he can command the job. gail, a will hear from biden supporter from sea cliff, new york. caller: i could not disagree more with that gentleman. you compare how trump handled himself yesterday and biden handled himself, it is like night and day.

and so i don't think that trump is trying to divert attention, i think trump is trying to do whatjoespecific on joe biden‘s policies. ifjoe biden won't explain where he stands on taxes, on the budget, on the debt, on government spending, on size and scope of government, then it is the responsibility of the opponent to talk about it, to raise it. similarly, if donald trump won't talk about what's happened over the last six months, thenjoe biden has the responsibility to raise that as well. we have the right to know the truth as a democracy and our candidates have the responsibility to tell us the truth. and on that issue of coronavirus, i just wonder whether you think it is credible or possible to imagine a president winning reelection having the record that donald trump has, with the more than 6 million cases of infection, the 200,000 or so deaths in the united states, the worse figures in absolute terms of any country in the world. and with a president, frankly, who's peddled some quack theories, who in many people's view has ignored expertise coming from his scientific advisers, is

this is the trump virus. it is an orange virus on this country, and it is a horrible day, and all of the people who want to vote for him, the last guest on, when you talked to her, it is going to be horrible for spouting out all of this cr ap constantly. how does anybody believe what this guy has to say? it is like pt barnum. to sandy ingo youngstown, ohio. caller: he said he is going to n republicansk o who voted for trump? i mean come you sound more like antifa to me. guest: yes, and people. you got me. you caught me. i am antifa. moving on. host: let's move on to david, who opposes president trump. david. caller: hello, rick. seeing theonor of lincoln project at cooper union this february. so i have a quick question for you. , what isatic elders how a newng about supreme court would act? my democratic elders do not really believe that they would automatically nullify a close or even a clear biden victory? about howur feeling the supreme court would rule? well, look. i think it would present an enormous set

in terms of trump, trump i would say did one of two things. one trump was the nominee, he was theed -- when trump nominee, he reoriented the party. what we are seeing with joe biden, he is having to adjust to the party that he is on the top of the ticket. in 2016, at least, accused trump of being beholden to republican interests or establishment interests or saying anything that he did not fairly believe, or change dramatically in a matter of months his position on something in order to satisfy a coalition of voters within his party. joe biden is doing something differently where he is simultaneously this moderate, i ran in the primary as a moderate, that i am also promising you the most progressive administration since fdr. it is possible that being a moderate in today's democratic party is another fdr presidency. i do not think that is the case, but that is the only way you can square that, in which case the party has moved so far to the left that it does not moderate -- matter if you are moderate. i think that is what the kind of means, or

he undoes trump beautifully, and trump gives a speech that he has no feeling about.e doesn't really understand the problems. i just thought that biden hit it out of the park and i thought he became president yesterday. and what at guy strong man and what a weak president we have. more from joeplay biden and reaction from the present in a moment. steve, on the others line. caller: good morning, america. i called on this third line because i am independent. i don't really like either one. we already know that trump is not going to bring this country and we need somebody to step up to the plate and trump already had his chance, biden kind of had his chance. some time, real leadership is when you have a crisis and step up to the plate. that is all we can hope for. if we are going to work out the other problems, we are going to have to bring this country together and work together. that is the only way, because we got about a dozen crises. it is going to be a hard job no matter who it is. i think this is the most important election since abraham lincoln. host: reaction on

left trump fuming. removed from his role at the national security council two days after trump was acquitted. and in july, vindman left the military after 21 years, citing a campaign of bullying, intimidation, and retaliation from the president. but regarding his decision to speak out when he felt something was wrong, vindman told jeffrey goldberg of "the atlantic," quote win had to choose between the president and the constitution. i was aware of the fact that i could be compelled to testify. but i chose the constitution. no army officer wants to be put in that position, but there i was. jeremy and yamiche are back. yamiche, i remain stunned that the president's allies on fox news and some of the pundits there went so far in their efforts to smear this sort of lifelong public servant. they suspected whether or not he was a spy for ukraine. i mean, the smear campaign against vindman turned him into a never-trumper, not the other way around as donald trump likes to fantasize in his paranoid delusions, th