joining me now, former white house communications director anthony scaramucci. again, anthony. as you know, president trump's niece mary trump secretly recorded trump's sister judge barry talking about the president in extremely negative terms. i just want to play a quick clip from you which was first obtained by "the washington post." the president's sister judge barry also said, quote, donald's out for donald, period. what do you make of hearing something like that coming from his own sister with whom he is close? >> well, listen, i think there is anxiety in that family related to what he's doing and what he's perpetrating on the nation and the world. and so they're expressing that anxiety. and mary trump has done a service to the electorate by at least explaining in a clinical way the manifestation of the president's personality and why we're in such a bad state. he can't manage things. he only cares about himself. he'll be on stage for four days in the upcoming convention. it's a one-man broadway show running the presidency. and there are cabinet officials i

white house chief strategist, steve bannon. indicted for defrauding hundreds of thousands of donators to support, we build a wall. joining me now from white house communicationsector. anthony, good to see you. i'm curious what your reaction was when bannon was indicted. you know him. you were in the white house when he was there. >> i'm not a buddhist. i'm italian. my reaction was quite joyous. he's a bad guy. he's innocent until proven guilty. i'm talking about his character as a human being and what he's like. he's a very destructive sort of guy. not surprising to me he's in this kind of trouble. he did it before. this time he got caught. we'll see how it unfolds. >> i'm not a budist. you knew that. >> i imagine you agreed with the snl depiction of him. >> the skin care look at him as the blotch. >>. >> a political hit job, this is to stop and instimulate people who have president trump's back against the wall. this is an expected defense? >> i don't think there was a reaction. he head through the 24-page defense. 21 pages of facts they've got him on text messages and phone calls and transfers again, he's innocent until proven guilty but will have to back t

joining me now former white house communications director anthony scaramucci.n, apty. president trump's niece, mary trump, secretly recorded trump's sister, judge barry talking about the president in extremely negative terms. i want to play a quick clip from the audio first obtained by the "washington post". >> the god damn tweet and the lying, oh, my god, i'm talking too freely, but, you know. the change of the stories, the lack of preparation. the lying -- >> she also said donald is out for donald, period. what do you make hearing something like that coming from her own sister with whom he is close? >> listen, i think there's anxiety in that family related to what he's doing and what he's perpetrating on the nation and the world. they are expressing that anxiety and mary trump has done a service to the electorate by at least explaining in a clinical way the manifestation of the president's personality and why we're in such a bad state, you know, he can't manage things, he only cares about himself, he will be on stage for four days in the upcoming convention.

directly with president banker and hedge fund manager anthony scar muchi was famously the white house communications director for 11 days in 2070 anthony thanks so much for joining us you have hosted an extraordinary tweet which is rare for a republican of your stature and you said a vote for joe biden could save the republican party what are you communicating at this at this moment because it sounds as if this is a desperate call for help. well it is in a lot of different layers and so attached to that tweet is a 10 minute speech that i gave last night which is thankfully getting picked up virally and c.n.n. addressed that this morning and it's 3 layers really it is the president's failed leadership style his lack of managerial skills his lack of what we would call executive quotient you know he cannot manage anything a result of which everything is in disarray you know the covert 1000 crisis has been a disaster for the economy and it's also obviously been a health care collab and then the secondary thing is as it relates to leadership is the basis of character and listen i understand that we're go

he's a former white house communications director, not for very long and a regular guest on this showy scurry mucci. you've just been called vein, unprincipled superficial, that's all true, isn't. >> fishable it's my first time back on fox so i appreciate you inviting me back. i've never been called a dilettante before. i don't remember that training, my dad who spent 42 years as a crane operator and an hourly worker, i don't remember that training at his dinner table at 515 every night but that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion. very far from that i watch her show often, i believe in conservative populism, but i believe in a tender side to conservative populism and what you're leaving out of the argument here is that the president is actually failed on his mission. number one, the economy is upside down. you had 13% unemployment for the african american community, number two he's politicized the science around the pandemic. you could have very easily to me go to new zealand, south korea, other countries that have responsible scientific base leadership and let us out of the cris

the former white house communications director, anthony scaramucci, is here. also april ryan. she is a white house correspondent for american urban radio networks. good evening to both of you. let's see. >> good evening. >> mr. scaramucci, you know donald trump very well. they had a lot of time to prepare to respond to senator kamala harris. they thought that she would probably be the pick. we got birtherism, sexism, and racism? what? what? >> so, it's a one-man show. you know, he's paralyzed the executive branch. that's why you had such a disastrous response to the health care crisis. he's also paralyzed the campaign. you know, so the campaign is in disarray. they're waiting on him on strategy and he's going back to his old playbook that he thinks worked for him last time. and so that's what it is. and he's doubling and tripling down on the racism on twitter because he's trying to signal to people that low-income housing, guys, is code for african-americans, okay, and that's obviously what he's trying to say to people. it's offensive to me. i grew up in an area like that. as i

joining me now, nbc white house correspondent and "weekend today" co-host kristen welker and former obama white house communications director jennifer palmieri, offer the new book "she proclaims." welcome, both. kristen, that interview almost an hour, extraordinary. the president still saying it's under control. we'll show you more of it in a moment. it just defies the reality. >> it defiles the realies the r andrea, and it goes against what the president's top doctors are saying, dr. anthony fauci, dr. deborah birx, who have said the opposite, who have said that this is surging across the country and that what is required right now is increased vin vigilance and an increased adherence to the measures that they have laid out that they feel are necessary to combat this virus. that includes of course wearing face masks, social distancing. dr. anthony fauci saying that he does support opening schools but that it needs to happen in a safe and secure way. it comes against the backdrop of a complicated situation for president trump, just 31% of americans say they trust what president trump has said about the coronavirus.

joining our discussion now, white house correspondent for pbs news hour, and msnbc political analyst. and former white house communicationstor for president obama and for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. jennifer's new book is "she proclaims, our declaration of independence from a man's world." yamish, what are you expecting the trump campaign to throw at kamala harris? >> well, the trump campaign and the president have started talking about the president saying they see her as radical left. they talk about her stances when it comes to immigration, to fracking, that she's going to abolish the police. the thing that's interesting here is the trump began their attacks with a misleading statement. they said that kamala harris called joe biden a racist, and she never did that. she also never called for abolishing the police as a former prosecutor. what's interesting here is that there are black lives matter protesters who are looking at her as a prosecutor saying maybe she isn't progressive enough. the other thing we should note is the president just in a few minutes of a briefing called her nasty three times, using t

anthony scaramucci served as president trump's third white house communications director. he is also the founder of skybridge capital. anthony, always good to see you. speaker pelosi says president trump is actively trying to suppress the vote. do you agree with her? >> 100%. and he's going to come up with a couple other things between now and the next 75 days. he's suppressing the vote because he's looking at the math and he can't make the math work. he got very lucky last time. it was at least 100,000 votes in about 4 to 6 swing states got him over the hump. not going to happen this time. the margins are just too wide, and the undecided voters, a very, very small amount of voters. so the move here is to try to take the voters that are going to vote against him off the table, and so that's what they're doing with the post office. that's why he's already suggesting and leaning into the idea of bringing law enforcement out. of course, people will be afraid of that. it's just like when you're driving in your car and you see a police officer, everyone automatically slows down

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white suburbanites. >> thanks to both of you. we really appreciate it. my guests this sunday on "state of the union" include house speaker nancy pelosi, chad wolf, and former trump white house communicationsscaramucci. that's this sunday morning at 9:00 eastern and again at noon. our coverage on cnn continues right now. i will see you on sunday morning. stay healthy. stay safe. try to enjoy the weekend. ♪ >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." we're following breaking news. right now the united states is nearing 175,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic while the number of confirmed cases has topped 5.6 million. and the cdc is now forecasting that 20,000 more americans will die from covid-19 in the next three weeks alone. meanwhile, the virus is spreading across college campuses right now. outbreaks are being reported in at least 19 states with almost 1,400 known cases. >>> also, in a rather contentious senate hearing on mail-in

holding these political events at the white house erases a well-established line between campaigning and governing. joining us now is former white house communicationsector, anthony scaramucci. anthony, great to have you here. what's been your takeaway from these couple of days so far? >> well, i mean, let's just talk about that act. i think, once again, the president is pushing governmental enormous and he's showing a careless disregard for the system of governing we put in for the last 144 years. i have to mention secretary pompeo for a second. the fact that he's the acting secretary of state and he's beaming in from jerusalem, he really does no better. he went to west point and harvard law school. and i think these people have gotten their judgment miscued because of the president's recklessness. i don't know where all of this is going to go, years from now, as people wake up from this, if you study what happened in the mccarthy era, there were people like this that did these things and lived to regret it and ended up like i believe the president will in november, in the ash heap of history. this is stuff we shouldn't be doing in our country. the

joining us now is former white house communications director anthony scaramucci.to see you. did you know miles taylor? >> i didn't know miles, no. but i respect him. he's obviously a patriot and he's speaking out and he knows the risks of speaking out, alisyn. he knows that they'll stop at nothing, they have this ruthless opposition research machine and they try to tear up your life, see if can they tabloid you and find bad things about you. i don't know. i mean, this is not the america that i think any of us want to live in and then they do the what aboutism, they're trying to show the cities in distress. they're in distress because of the trump administration. they're in distress because we're lying about the science. and we wreck the economy because we couldn't listen to epidemiology. i applaud him but there are great risks to him. >> let's start at the end of what he said there, where he likened the president to a child saying he was mesmerized by the spinning of the hurricane and wanted to know if it was the same as toilets spinning and flushing. as they hope

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so let's bring in nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss and white house communications director under president obama and for the hillary clinton campaign, jennifer palmieri. jen, let me start with you. as somebody who has had to worry about how to put together a big speech, had to put together a big event. arguably, two of the most important speeches a candidate gives are those convention acceptance speeches and you can't do it in front of a big audience. how do you think they're doing so far, jen? >> i talked to stephanie cutter yesterday who is managing convention programming for the convention as part of the -- for the circus. i feel like they have a good plan. the democrats are pretty good at putting on a show. well, first of all, we've all had to adapt. we're into the sixth month of having to adapt. so the democrats have figured out how to adapt the convention as we have in our own lives and audiences have a broader expectation than what you'd normally expect from a convention. but also, what you are really doing is programming two hours every night. two hours of network t

the campaign trail but again he's doing his best to try to distance himself so that the white house communications team is doing as well and almost 4 years on kimberly again today we're not getting any revelations to do with mr trump's tax affairs take us through that because this is a complex scenario where one could kind of kick the can down the road back to another court. yeah this will come said stems from in terms of the latest chapter of the story from a supreme court ruling that came down just you know weeks ago and it really was 2 cases melded into one the supreme court kind of dividing its opinion with respect to members of congress trying to get president trying to tax returns they said look you're going to have to have something concrete if you want this you're going to have to have a very specific request in other words you can't call it a fishing expedition now what donald trump seems to have as you reacted to this in the oval office is confused that decision with the other part of the supreme court's decision involving the case in the southern district of new york and that kicked it

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with me is nbc news political reporter monica alba, plus, dan pfeiffer, former white house communications director during the obama administration, also with the podcast, pod save america, and also message box, a 21st century media mogul these days where you have to have a million platforms. anyway, monica, though, let me start with you and sort of the overall picture here and what you have been -- what i think has been a sort of, i don't know, it's either generic attacks on kamala harris from the republican campaign right now, or mixed attacks. but it doesn't seem to be well thought out. >> you nailed it, chuck. that's exactly right. it's not a coherent strategy. that's what even some people in the president's orbit have noticed and it's put them on notice, expressing concern if the president in the initial reaction yesterday laid out such a contradictory and at times confusing reaction, that doesn't bode very well for the strategy going forward in terms of trying to define kamala harris heading into nevadovembernovember. and it's something we have seen where the trump campaign and the r

she's a former white house communications director, under president obama. and jen, i want to start with you. because what we heard from president obama last night was the likes of which we have never heard before from a former president or from president obama. there were moments where it looked like he was emotional to the points of tearing up. what do you see, jen. what do you think drove it and what do you think the impact will be? >> that's right, john. and i worked for him for ten years and you don't see that emotional outcry frequently or that emotion on his face. i can only remember a couple of times over the course of the long period of time that i worked for him. but i think what we saw last night was somebody who, you know, a former president who had a lot of pent-up feelings and emotions about what he's seen over the last four years. he has picked his moments very carefully to speak out against trump over the last few years on purpose, but this was bigger than a political speech. this was speaking to this moment we're living in, a warning of sort

. >> joining me now, former white house communications director anthony scaramucci, and author of "inhingedndall pickett. author of "black faces in white places" which i need to read clearly. i want to if to the much, which i didn't think i wb able to say. people who are related to trump who are telling us the truth about trump. how much is there a disconnect between what people who work for trump say behind the scenes and what they really -- what they say about him in public and what they say about him behind the scenes? >> zerlena, thank you. shout out to my colleague, omarosa. >> hey, mucc. >> they say one thing in public and snicker behind the scenes. then they go to journalists and try to tell the journalists, i'm here to save america. that's why i'm here. that's not really why they're there. they're there because of the personal power. by the way, it is intoxicating, zerlina. i was there. i saw it. at some point have you to make a decision, are you going to clutch your family and keep your personal integrity and not disavow your life story, or are you going to support this guy? >> tha

general pa psaki the white house communication director you could certainly see techni cratic eye rollingt times. leon pa netted particular he was loyal in every way standing by him even probably when he disagreed to some extent he oftentimes felt that that loyalty was not being rewarded, will. so, is this a relationship that's maybe being overbehind? one point that stands out to me is jen psaki's quote. paints the difference between the trump and obama and joe biden administration. they are cut from the same cloth. off the cuff and feeling their way through it. i want to read past that jen psaki quote where it said the tecnacrats roll their eye. elderly uncle at thanksgiving launch into extended monologues that everyone had heard before. the question is who is biden today some 10 years later? is he still that retail politician? >> we all know about the biden gaffes. we have seen them play out right before our eyes. no one knows that better than president obama. he knows what it is like to work with joe biden. i think he was very hesitant to put his stamp of approval on that. sitting back

and i will also add that, you know, it seems likely the white house, the communication was really broken down, scientists, doctors, everybody is learning about this as we go along. there are things that have to be corrected as we discover more and more about the virus. but it seemed like it was being downplayed, don't panic, don't worry, to the point where you just think, okay, well, you know, the president is not worried, if the white house isn't worried, we're taking steps to cure this situation, okay, let's go on with life. fast-forwarding into june, around june 12th, the monday leading up to the 12th, governor abbott here in texas had lifted some of the restraints on businesses. and increased capacity for 50 to 75% at restaurants, bars and made mention that social gatherings and small groups would be okay. so that's what we did. we hadn't seen each other in a couple of months, we decided to get together, it was just six of us, my partner, myself and both our parents, and it just kind of spread from there. it spread quickly, it spread to multiple cities and 14 of us got infected total

atlas told "the post" the story is false and the white house communications director said trump is focused on ending the virus through medicine, though his push to quickly reopen the economy and send all of america's schoolchildren back to the classroom suggests otherwise. we are happy to welcome back to the broadcast pulitzer prize-winning science reporter, lori garrett. she's a columnist for foreign policy magazine and the author of several books, including "the coming plague." she's also, lucky for us, an msnbc science contributor. so this -- i have a million questions about this. but what does herd immunity look like when there is no treatment and there is no vaccine? it seems like a lot of people could get death ill. >> well, we don't really have a precedent. we've never really said, let's just hold out for herd immunity, for any disease, much less a disease that has a lethality rate have in the 1 to 2% level. so herd immunity implies -- i mean, this is about the herd. you know, a bunch of cows, a bunch of sheep. what have you. and it implies that you're willing to tolerate a certain

appearance in new hampshire, jim acosta reports communication in a bit of counter-programming the white house to the march on washington down on the national mall president trump held a surprise photo op in the oval office. >>where you shoot a full pardon to alice johnson, the same criminal justice reform advocate his prison sentence be commuted 2 years ago, we're giving alice a full part i just told her we didn't even discuss it, we you're out there. so you the audience last night but the president refused to comment on the march in the protesters hopes to end police brutality in the u.s.. his aides shouted over >>a subject democratic vice presidential candidate kamala harris addressed in a virtual message to the demonstrators as we continue to see black men and women slain in our streets. >>and left behind by an economy and justice system that have too often denied black folks are dignity and rights. they would share or

we're going to be asking the postmaster general a number of questions about the communications from the white housethe usps. i'm going to be asking him questions about his own conflicts of interest. he has a 30 to $60 million stake in one of the usps competitor companies at the same time he appears to be sab teenaotaging usps operations. that is wrong. >> that was also known at the time he was appointed to that position. what would you like to know about his actions since and how they kuld impacould impact the election? >> some of those conflicts were known at the time. we have learned about new information such as the fact he's purchased options in amazon at prices lower than their current market price. at the same time that he can effect amazon's share price through usps operations. what we want know about the election in particular is how do we make sure that the ballots and other pieces of mail that are associated with voting by mail are actually done in an fast fashion as they have been done in past elections. even the 2018 election. now we're learning that voting by mail may not be done at fi

guest: what you're pointing to is a lack of synchronicity between the messaging of bush white house communeions .eam -- communications team what they were fashioning was a narrative and visual that was out of sync with what was happening on the ground. expected when they invaded was american troops would be greeted as liberators and iraqis would coalesce around democracy and whatever the new form of government would be. by may, they could see that was not the case. first postwar was replaced by jerry bremmer. the timetable had been taught -- tossed out the window. that theready clear was a lot of postwar disorder that would necessitate us being there for a while. it was not a mission accomplished moment. -- it wasongruent incongruent. bremmer stated control for about a year. by the time he left, things were out of control. it was clear insurgency had taken hold, that insurgency had all sorts of parts. what rumsfeld was saying was these are just what remains of a still wantand they to saddam in power, the still hate americans, we will kill them off be fine. in fact, they were a lot of people

white house. while the medical community remains bullish on a break through, a timeline of 2020 is no guarantee andes like kate porter continue to suffer >> right now today i'm on day 140. as we speak i have the highest temperature that i've had all four months actually that's why i'm sweating and a little shaky right now. >> reporter: the 35-year-old mom from the boston area says she's battled around 30 symptoms since contracting coronavirus in mid march making two visits to the er >> the high heart rate, i can feel my heart skip a beat. >> reporter: with elevated heart rate and brain fog leading to a hodgepodge of medicines. now a form of relief in the form of anti body treatment >> if you get them early enough you can block that initial wave of virus that comes when your body gets infected with covid-19 drug maker and the national institutes of health calling for 2,000 volunteers one trial involving covid patients hospitalized, the other coping at home to test the effectiveness of anti body treatment. special proteins taken from the survivor that would target and lock on to the virus preventing

think that's farfetched i think it's wider than the white house i think it's the white house and the issue of the ties who our intelligence community is tied to but i think there's an underlying story here that fits into what you're talking about which is the fear of what has to say and what he knows and one of the issues seems to be a fear of the influence that what he knows that play on top of this field in the intelligence community and then they could pressure the white house or the white house directly and i think we can't minimize that when we talk about what's actually going on here i think you're right this has everything to do with the relationship between the united states and saudi arabia that's why the complaint mentioned so much so many times the influence that the saudis have on the white house the relationship of the president and his son in law with the saudis the fact that on his inaugural trip abroad he went to saudi arabia and more and so i think that it's another wrinkle in that but there's another part of those that it's not just political and that has to do with what it means to threaten a somebody a foreign n

community. >> children don't have a sense of place anymore. >> believe me, we would all be in a better place. move the white houseo a community black center. mama jenning 2020. >> i should be have to tell you who this is. branford is a grammy award winning jazz musician. his family is new orleans royalty. no matter how successful they get, they always come back to new orleans. when katrina hit, he and other musicians didn't wait. they saw the ninth ward under water and got to work. >> harry connick and i got together with habitat for humanity and decided to use this particular neighborhood to build a lot of homes. >> it's going to be about 70 houses. about ten elder friendly duplex apartments. we use it as a home for musicians. it is hard to get a house when you are living in the gig economy. >> by gig economy, he means the old school gig economy. musicians playing gigs. the heart of the village is the central for music. >> i'm proud that the school serves the community. everybody. he's one kid in there with down syndrome. and i have an autistic brother so it is great that there is a place they can go. >> a place

a former white house communications director quoted in the article.tirring this up. it is a concern you have both michelle obama and the former president will speak for joe biden during the convention this week and kind of a loyalty question there. joe biden has said many, many times he is so loyal to former president obama. the question becomes when it comes to his presidential aspiration is the former president loyal to joe biden? >> 100% president obama is behind joe biden. there is no question and why there will be both michelle and barack will be at the convention. we know. let me say something quickly. the way they do politics will be different and that's okay. that's okay. >> trace: i want to put these poll up. the poll is getting a lot of attention. cnn poll showing that the race is tightening. it has biden up 50% to 46%. that's august 12-15. but on the flip side i also want to put this up. the abc news, "washington post" national poll that has biden up 53 to 41% and it should be noted if we can put finally at the real clear politics average o

we're rushing things and they're very aggressive and we've not had a strong communication strategy coming out of the white house that's being generous. we haven't had any communication strategy coming out of the white house, so to pull this eua now, i think, would be very scary. >> well, dr. hotez, thank you as always for joining us. i'm sorry to cut short right now. >>> we want to go back live to wisconsin where we're hearing from jacob blake's father. let's listen. >> give me a second. he grabbed my hand. he squeezed my hand. and he said, daddy, daddy, i love you. you know i love you. i said, man, listen. i love you more than anything in the world. he said, well, i didn't think you were going to come. well, what? man, i got in the car, y'all, and drove all night. then, my baby said, daddy, why did they shoot me so many times? i said, baby, they weren't supposed to shoot you at all. i know. i know there's a lot of parents out here in this crowd. you cannot imagine what it feels like to look at your baby, paralyzed from the waist down, shackled, shackled. where was my son going? >> where was he going? >> they a

ministration wants to let the oil companies drill here as campaign is take on the white house and the energy industry indigenous communities are divided between those who want jobs and those who want to preserve a unique landscape and way of life reports as only daniel went to find out more. alaska's arctic national wildlife refuge known as. protected by the u.s. government but also contested for decades. clinging to the icy tundra on the shore of the both at sea in the arctic ocean is qatar the eat some unlikely tourist hot spot at the edge of the world. that it will see from very out of over there do it. all. a resident of more than 30 years today a local god robert thompson is taking me out into the lagoon to be the main attraction. the polar bears. around for more now because you have a church going way down i should not an outer they're going to going to come ashore . come to reform or are going to sink or swim nation or float around bridges. are coming for. them to make it. it's utterly breathtaking to say the polar bears in their natural environment but it's also kind of sad when you consider that just a few decades

is vai damages, the white house says, but does not meet with the blake family, would that be of concern? >> you know, i'm not going to comment on that. i don't know what communicationshe white house has had or not had with the blake family andrea exhibit to go out on a limb. >> would that help with the healing in the community, though? >> i think it may, for sure, but like i say, i don't know if there has been communications or one side or the other is unwilling to meet. >> speak to the mood in the community right now. we saw the march today. it was peaceful. i mean what is your sense of how things are in your community? >> the community is hurting right now. but at the same time, i walked the streets of kenosha downtown and uptown. i volunteered as much as i could, passing out water, feeding people. what we are seeing now is kenosha is starting that healing process. kenosha has come together, work together to try to rebuild and move forward. >> what does the healing process look like? how do you think that shplace? what needs to happen? >> first of all, we got to come together and recognize what happened here. you know, we don't know yet if it was justified or not.

few weeks ago when president trump finally wore a mask and so many people in the white house and in the health communityhed a sigh of relief. finally we were going to get a good example set by the president. well, i've been talking to health officials across the country who are just abjectly mortified by what they're seeing from the south lawn, which looks like a potential super spreader event. the harvard global health institute saying this is deeply irresponsible. it goes against all we know about keeping people safe. we should expect better from our national leaders. the idea that 2,000 individuals with no mass testing, no social distancing, very few of them wearing masks, coming together it's really alarming. and i have to say that idea of this happening while this pandemic is going on and the president and the white house are trying to convince us that it isn't, is just other worldly. since the republican convention began on monday, until 5:00 p.m. eastern, 3,688 americans have died of coronavirus. just sense tince the republican convention began, we have had more losses due to this virus than were

behind the scenes and we reached out in the white house reached out to us when they heard we were talking bipartisan fashion, and we were able to set up communications communications continue today and continue to use our relationships based on trust, exchanging substantive information and get it done for american people because that's who we work for and don't work to win election we work for american people. >> lee. jump in. >> i think it is really important because whichever party ends up being considered to be on side of american people getting economy going is ultimately going to again this election and most important issue is, our economic safety right now people going back to work. on the other hand i know there are a lot of people who are concerned about how they're gong to vote in november. voter enthusiasm all time high and many people are afraid to go to polls. so how do you address that and how do you respond to them because i think it is important issue that we can't defend. >> that's why i've always been supportive of the post office, and recognizing that covid-19 requires us to recognize that people have a fear and rightfully so of th