yamiche: many were peaceful gatherings.evenings saw fires, vandalism and looting, before democratic governor tony evers sent ithe national guard. city officials estimate the cost of damage to city property so at nearly $2 million. and today, evers announced state loans to assist local businesses. for his part, the president also pledged to provide millions of dollars for small businesses and law enforcement. democrats across wisconsin repeated requested the president not visit, saying he would only ignite tensions. >> this is trump's america. yamiche: the national democrati partreleased an ad today that echoed that, blaming presideen trump for sc of violence. his meeting with law enforcement today comes after he told fox news last night that policegh officers face ressure situations. he then compared police shootings to golfing.ru pres.: they can do 10,000 great acts, which is what they e do, and d apple or a you know, i mean, they choke. meantime, he might've been going for a weapon. and you know there's a whole big thing

our yamiche alcindor reports.amiche: today, former vice president joe biden campaigned in florida -- his first visit to the state since being nominated. there, he delivered harsh words for president trump's policy and rhetoric towards veterans. >> quite frankly, it makes me very upset the way he gets in front of a camera and crows about how much he's done for veterans and turns around and insults service members and fallen heroes when the cameras are off. calls them suckers and losers. donald trump has no idea about the ideas of women and men who sign up to serve. duty, honor, country. that's what service and patriotism is all about. yamiche: the sunshine state has one of the largest military and veteran populations in the country. bidestressed the need to strengthen the v.a. >> we have a responsibility to ensure that we are providing veterans world class healthcare they deserve in every situation. yamiche: veterans make up a critical voting bloc in one of toughest battlegrounds. a statewide poll released today fr

yamiche alcindor has our report. yamiche: a somber day at the supreme court.mer law clerks for justice ruth bader ginsburg lined up to see her remains in the building she served in. inside the courts great hall, a gathering of family and close friends. the flag-draped casket was laid on the funeral beer first used after president abraham lincoln's assassination. a rabbi open with remarks honoring ginsberg as a trailblazer and champion for women's rights. >> to be born into a world that does not see you, that does not believe in your potential, that does not give you a path for opportunity, or a clear path for education, and despite this, to be able to see beyond the world you are in, to imagine that something can be different -- that is the job of a prophet. yamiche: to the side, the courts remaining eight justices, together for the first time since march, paid their respects. in simple terms, chief justice roberts eulogized ginsberg. chief roberts: tough, brave, fighter, a winner, but also thoughtful, careful, compassionate, honest. yamiche: reflecting on her

yamiche alcindor has the report.iche: last night in louisville, kentucky, demands for justice for breonna taylor had more urgency, after a grand jury brought no charges against two officers that fatally shot taylor in he home. they were trying to serve a drug warrant in march. a third officer who was fired was charged with recklessly shooting into a nearby apartment. taylor had no criminal record and no drugs were found in her apartment. kentucky's attorney general said officers acted in self-defense after taylor's boyfriend fired the initial shots. angry and distraught, hundreds took to the streets for protests across the nation from los angeles to new york city. >> this will be in the history books. if we do nothing, police will continue to commit genocide on my brothers and sisters. yamiche: in washington, d.c. -- >> this young, amazing woman contributing to her community gets shot down because they went to the wrong house looking for an ex-boyfriend? the whole thing is so infuriating. yamiche: demonstrations were

so, hello, yamiche. race, as we know has been sump a arged pic in this country for so much of this year. this isn't the first time the president has addressed race. give us a little more context about what was behind what the >> well, judy, as you noted, race has been a topic ofon conversan this country for year.g time, but especially this president trump as theel 2020 tion near as made race a core part of his strategies. supporters of the president say he's made it something of bringing together americans but also not calling america racist. today what we heard from the president was more of him attacking americans that are really looking at this country and saying we need to really understand the legacy of slavery in a more robust way. the president, in particular, was making a case without evidence that there isa sort of historical movement afoot to distort american history and and the next generation ofen americans with a liberal ideal thatill benefit democrats. he said that a lot of these people tha

. >> joining me for insight and analysis are peter baker, yamiche alsindor, claire mccaskel, and welcomeo sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. with coronavirus cases surging again and the president's poll numbers stalled, republicans thought they had finally caught a break with the supreme court vacancy serving as of the olkt or shall we say, september surprise, they needed to unite the party, but just as they were teeing up comfortable talking points on the court, preparing to announce judge amocony barrett, once again, the president veered off message, but creating another crisis. the president's comments casting doubt on whether he will commit to a peaceful transfer of power. we will have to see what happens. dominated front pages and rattled folks all across washington including across the river at the pentagon. republicans were forced to distance themselves, though few condemn the president by name, rushing out statements calling for

jeremy and yamiche are back.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, that there's some deep state out to get him. that's not where alexander vindman came from. >> that's not where alexander vindman came from. and his testimony said that he was someone who was nonpartisan, who really wanted to serve his country and serve his country well. and he felt a moral obligation to speak out when he felt like the president was not adhering to the values of the constitution and was putting his own political benefit in front of the country's benefit. it's, i think, troubling that he says that he was bullied essentially out of his lifelong passion, which was serving this country. i also think i

yamiche alcindor reporkng for us, thou. yamiche: thanks. ♪ judy: the u.s. alexion is a target.nnounces today russia, china and iran are trying to hack political parties, presidential campaigns and consultants. it comes one day after a whistleblower from the u.s. department of homeland security russian interference and was under constant white house pressure to skew intelligence. nick i will start with you. what was it microsdat announced nick microsoft says foreign groups have stepped up groups targeting the election and cites three exa per the same russian intelligence unit that hacked and leaked in 2016 has targeted 200 organizations consultants.mpaigns, one analyst says they were targeted unsuccessfully, a -- biden.t for widen. chinese actors try to unsuccessfully target the biden campaign andn individual formerly associated with the trump administration. iranian actors unsuccessfully tried to get information on trump officials. some have been successful, but details how russians are going ento newhs to avoid detection. officials said it is a sign of public private partnersh

yamiche alcindor reporting for us. thank you, yamiche. >> thanks. >> woodruff: the u.s. election is a target-- microsoft unces today russia, chin and iran are all trying to hack the biden and trump campaigns. c es one day after a whistleblower from the department of homeland security claims he was urged to downplay russian interference and was pressure to skew igence.se our nick schiffrin and amna nawaz help fill in the picture. nick, i'm going to start with you. tell us exactly what it was that microsoft announced today. >> microsoft says foreign groups stepped up efforts targetinthe examples. and cites three e same russian military intellence unit that hacked a leak in 2016 has now targeted0 ganizations including campaigns, political consultas, and one analyst said skdk, nicker bakr which consults for biden. microsoft says chinese actors ukes successfully tarlgtd people affiliated with the biden campaign and a promine individual formally associated with the trump administration, but we have no details. microsoft says iranian actors tried unscess friday to log into the

rick and yamiche are still with us. elizabeth, just because you are an expert, i want to ask you what it does to the perpetrators of violence in the name of white nationalism when the vice president mentions the undeniably tragic killing of a homeland security official -- that it was carried out by a bugaloo boy, by a white supremacist when donald trump -- i guess what i'm trying to ask you is, what is the impact of the silence on these movements and on these bad actors? >> the silence is, in fact, permission. and we often talked in 2016 during the campaign that his language had a dog whistle effect to bringing these people out from the rocks they were hiding underneath and they were allowed to express their views that apparently we as a society for a long time had told them were unacceptable and so they've been hiding them. all of a sudden, it came spilling out on a national stage, and that's, for me, why charlottesville was such a unique moment because you realize that it didn't just go away after the campaign and it

so this will be right up against the final voting for americans for president. >> and yamiche, from your reporting at the white house, what are youe hearing about who the leading candidates are?g >> the president says that there are five leading candidates, five women, he says, that are on his list. he, of course, is going to be making that announcement on saturday. it is going to be a real event at the white house, to see him roll out. here are two of the people i want to talk to you about specifically because they're top of the list. the first is amy coney barrett. she is a federal court appeals judge for the seventh circuit in chicago, a former clerk to the late justice antonin scalia. she is really seen as a favorite of social conservatives and people whoti are anti-abortion. another person to think of is barbara lagoa. she is a federal court appeals judge for the 11th circuit, and she is the first hispanic woman to serve on the board of the supreme court, in 2019. and while on the bench she voted in support of a florida law requiring former felons to pay court fees to be eligible to

to help guide us on what to watch for, our own yamiche alcindor and lisa desjardins. do we know about the format tonight and what we should expect. >> we should expect a pretty feisty and personal debate between vice esident joe biden, former vice president biden and president bump. both wilmaking the case that the other person is dangerous to our very democracy. and they'll be talking about six particular topics chosen by the moderater, the first is how they did on trade and possibly the environment. how they approached those topics.e the next is thpreme court. this is a big topic, increase, after the death of justice ruth bar ginsburg, and trump's notion of judge amy coney barrett to th court. and covid will be on 200,000 americans have died. and the economy is an important topic with millions out of work. and race and violence in vast majority of protests have been peaceful association we have to watch out for that. and lastly, the integrity of the election. another crucial issue because president trump has been saying that il-in voting is filled providing any evid

nbc news political reporter ali vitali in philadelphia pbs news hour white house correspondent yamiche alcindor and former republican chair michael steele, now a senior adviser to the lincoln project also joining us, new jersey governor christie todd whitman peter, first of all, donald trump disagreeing with the cdc director, contradicting him on the vaccine timeline, importantly, all of the corrections afterwards, the tweet from dr. redfield, sort out the political fallout from all of this. >> andrea, i think what it says as much as anything, hearing the president's contradictions of the cdc director, the head of one of the world's premier public health agencies, is how much the president is hanging his reelection hopes on the imminent arrival of a vaccine although none has appeared so far. the president is making the case one could be here this month, next month, or soon thereafter, he suggests, despite the information we've heard from redfield and others in terms of its wide distribution. i was struck by a conversation i had with mark meadows, the president's chief of staff, earlier

yamiche: president trump is eager to fill the supreme court vacancy.plans to make his nomination announcement as early as saturday. they want that person to be confirmed onto the supreme court before the election. republicans are arguing that there are a number of justices confirmed in the period between now and election day. the late justice ginsburg was confirmed in 42 days. the president said that he has five women on the final list. first, there is judge barbara lagoa, a judge on the federal court of appeals in atlanta, georgia. while on the bench, she voted in support of a law requiring former felons to pay court fees. next, judge amy barrett, on the court of appeals in the seventh circuit in illinois. she is a devout catholic, prompting tough questions during her nomination in 2017 she was a clerk for the late justice antonin scalia a. next up is joan larsen, a former michigan supreme court justice and michigan law school professor. also a former federal prosecutor. she wants volunteered for the presidential campaigns of joe biden and bob dole. j

other than the felon voting rights decision that yamiche just mentioned, really don't know much about where she is. she only was on the florida supreme court for, i think, just shy of one year, although she spent 13 years on an termediate state appellate court. she is a former federal prosecutor. she is married with three children. barrett is married with seven children. and barrett, by the way, would also be, if confirmed, the youngest justice to join the supreme court at age 48, the youngest since clarence thomas joined the court at age 43in 1991. but i thinthey are all quite firm in their conservative etiology. >> and they can expect to remain on the court for many years to come. if this timeline holds that lisa spelled out at the beginning of this discussion, we could well have a full complement, nine justices on the bench, perhaps by election day. the new ninth justice is going to hit some big issues right off the bat. >> yes. the court would probably have eight justices in its first sitting for oral arguments, and that would be the first two weeks in october. but you're absolute

yamiche: senator kamala harris spoke at the safety headquarters. some of the heroes from 19 years ago are still here serving this community and i thank you on behalf of all of us for the to your country.our yamiche' todays solemn tone after a raucous night for the president in michigan, where he held a rally. thousands of trump supporters packed together in an airrt hangar. there was little social distancing and few faceasks. came two days after audio conversations with the president revealed president tmp knew about the severity of the pandemic early on. bute sought to play it down judy: for more on all of this, we have daniel busch, who joins us from shanksville, pennsylvania. as we heard, both president biden were there today. what else can you tells about what they had to say? daniel: judy, president trump delivered remarks that were on script. did not stray from his message praising the heroism of the people who died here at this site. joe biden did not deliver official remarks. he didisit the memorial and then with his wife visited a local fi

yamiche, to you first.'ve been looking at some of the moments from thisebate that give a sense of where this race stands for both of these >> reporter: the key moment that stands out is the one that both the biden campaign and the trump campaign are focused on today, and that is the president's refusal on the debate stage condemn quite supremacists outright. defending himself and says he is seeking to clarify statements.clean up his he says he didn't know who the proud boys were. and he says what he meant by stand back and stand by is for those white supremacist groups to stand back and stand away from the issues at hand so do their jobs.ment can of course, that is not what he said on the debate stage yesterday, but the trump capaign has been messaging that today. the president is saying he doesn't no who theoud boys are. in 2016, when he was asked to condemn david dc he said he didn't know who david he was, and he didn't know anything about white sprem is sist groups. and the biden campaigns seizing on the

yamiche is still here.ut an effort that -- it isn't secret but it isn't really being telegraphed about how the biden campaign is preparing for this. talk about it. >> well, there are two things going on. one, there's the legal strategy. but before that, there's a political strategy. and the best legal strategy is a big political win. and that's what we're hearing from biden officials is that, you know, this doesn't have to be an issue. if joe biden has a landslide, donald trump is not going to be able to question the results of the election and there won't be huge legal battles. that said, the lawyers on both sides are doing what lawyers are paid to do. and that is look around corners and think of every possible contingency. and one of the places they're focusing on, mostly democratic lawyers, as you said. the biden campaign doesn't want to telegraph what they're doing. they want to tip their legal strategy but there is concern about pennsylvania. and what would happen if you had two slates of electors. you

n thatber one. >> alcindor: f the pbs newshour, i'm yamiche alcindor in washington.> woodruff: as ection moves into the final stretch, we want to regularly see how things are playing out across the country. tonight, we turn to gary abnathy. he's a columnist for the "washington post," based in oh. and sarah smarsh. she's a kansas based journalist and author of the book "heartland." hello to both of you. you were with us for the conventions and it's greac to have youwith us again. we just heard yamiche's report about the pandemic, the diroportionate effect on people of color. i want to start out by asking you about bob wodward's book, "revelations out today," gary aberthy, that the president knew in late january how serious it was. told woodward he knw it was much more deadly than the flu yhe public that it would go awa for many weeks after that. i know it's early, this has just come ot, but what's your sense of how voters where you are going to react to this? >> thanks, judy. ah.d to be with you and sar i read several stories today abthe book. i like bob woodward's bo

that's white house correspondent yamiche alcindor, congrsional correspondence, lisa desjardins who is covering the biden campaign, amna nawaz will be watching the debate with a half a dozen voters from around the country. amy walter of the cook political report, along with "washington post" contributing columnist gary abernathy, joining us from ohio, and syndicad columnist cynthia tucker in alabama, welcome to all of you and we are gog to ask yu no for a quick word from each one of you starting with yiche, tell us how is the president prering. t president did not do traditional debate pre'tp, he waaving mock debates or having anybody play his political opponent. what he was doing was testing out attacks on joe biden in the media, in answering questions from reporters, but we can expect the presiden really go after joe biden in very personal terms, he is goi to go after hunter biden and go after joe biden's history and, record on chi the criminal justice system, on so many othe fronts, esident is really someone who is going to make this in some ways bwls, he is looking for a street fig

and just quickly, yamiche, what are you h the people y talked to about how this affects the election?>> well, this supreme court vacancy up-ends the 2020 election. it puts the supreme court top, top of mind for voters. it was already something that was going to be of course, on people's minds. but the coronavirus and now the supreme court, it really underscores the power of the presidency. people who say theto some president is funf aising it, and the democrats i talked to are worried this couldoc suppress dts, and some say they could also be motivated because it becomes a 6-3 majority for the republicans, democrats could be going to the polls in higher numbers. >> woodruff: all right. and aspects of thisssues election to follow for both of you. yamiche alcindor, and lisa desjardins, thank y >> woodruff: and now a perspective from the senate to give us a sense of at's next for democrats in their effos to block a vote on a supreme court nominebeforehe election, i'm joined by senator maggie has new hampshire. >> woodruff: how do you see the legacy of justice ginsburg? well, thank you fo

but first, white housees corrpondent yamiche alcindor reports on how the presidentl candidates addressed it today. >> reporter: amid a weekend of largely peaceful ptests, dueling messages on who bears the blame for outbursts of violence. in pittsbuh today, democratic presidential nominee joe biden pointed at president tmp. >> this president long ago frfeited any moral leadership in this country. he can't stop the violence because for years he has fomented it. >> reporter: after the speech, president trump tweeted, "to me, he's blaming the police far more than he's blaming the rioters." and white house press secretaryi ka mcenany said democrats are at fault. >> when the trump administration arrives in a democrat-run city engulfed in chaos, peace is restored, law and order is held. >> reporter: the vast majority sparked by the kilf georgens floyd in may have not turned violent, but incidents ofti shoos, property damage andha looting ignited debates over how authorities should respond-- and whether demonstrators on both sides have gone too far. president trump has attacked the efforts of de

and y and yamiche, what is your reaction to what you see as the hoped for outline as the presidential debate a week from tonight? >> i think that the topics are robust and timely and critical. i also think that president trump is going to be, of course, trying to deflect on a lot of these topics in particular, someone who has questioned him a number of times. when you ask the president about race and about black people being killed at higher rates than white people, he does not want to answer that question. i saw the integrity of the election on there. the president has time and time again talked about the fact that he's done all that he could to protect the elections while also saying in the same breath that mail-in voting isn't safe when we know that there is no evidence that there's any sort of mass mail-in voting. so i think it's going to be an interesting thing. i would say for joe biden, he's going to have his work cut out for him. we know that president trump is someone who is a dogfighter. he's pointed, he's brash. he has no real kind of limits on where and how personal he wil

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. >> that really is the key here yamiche, thinking about one of the things that happened yesterday. obviously there were photo ops for the president. it wasn't just a visit. it was a campaign stop. he was in front of one of the businesses that was damaged. it turns out it wasn't even the owner who was praising the president and who had his picture taken. it was the previous owner because the current owner of the business didn't want to be used for the president's political purposes. given that, talk about the need to distract by the president from the ongoing pandemic and what we're likely to hear from him when he finds out that joe biden is headed to kenosha. >> president trump has been searching for a campaign message that would stick against joe biden. you had him talking about joe biden possibly not being physically able to do the job of the presidency. he talked about joe biden letting china take over the united states. it seems like he's settled on this issue and argument that joe biden would not make america safe, and that the suburbs would be abolished if he was elected. wha

white house correspondent yamiche alcindor begins our coverage. ( bell ringing )sh >> alcindor: iksvillennsylvania today, bells tolled for all 40 passengers and crew who died on flight 93. ( bell ringing ) on 9/11, those on the flight wrestled back control of the plane from hijackers targeting the u.s. capitol. instead, it crashed in a rural pennsylvania field, killing everyone aboard. president trump spoke aa memorial built on the crash site. he talked directly to the family members of those kled. >> today every heartbeat in america is wedded to yours. your pain and anguish is the shared grief of our whole nation. >> aindor: later, former vice president joe biden also paid his respects at the flight 93 memorial. he laid a wreath and met with family members of those who died. the democratic presidential new york city.his day in he attended the ceremony at groundero of the world trade center. there, he stopped to talk with a woman who lost her son in the attacks. he spoke about the pain of sing his own son, beau, cancer. >> it never goes away. >> alcindor: vice president pence was also at

for the pbs newshour, i'm yamiche alcindor. >> woodruff: the economic crisis stemming from the covid- pandemic has worn on for months now. congress is still a long way from passing aonew round of ic relief, and one of the limited actions that president ump took a few weeks ago is still in the middle of being implemented. here to explain where things stand is our own la desjardins. we know there are something like 27 million americans who are receiving some form ofnt unemployenefits, and it was just a matter of weeks ago that president trump promised an additional $300 a week, but the states had to sign on. what do we know about where all that stands? >> reporter: judy, nearly every state has to apply to get that money. but they have to make a choice to do it. states can either ask for $300 per person, and because of some creative guidance by the trump administtion, t e state doesve to contribute anything, or the state could choose to add another $100on its own, for $400 a week for each unemployed person. each state has a different system. many are outdated, so it is taking weeks, in s

yamiche: meanwhile, one of the core tenets of the presidents -- present's 2016 campaign and his firstto repeal obamacare. in 2017 trump came one vote short of passing an obamacare repeal through the u.s. senate. the question has often been, what exactly is the gop plan in their "repeal and replace" pledge? in t past, his administration has taken steps to roll back the aca. he ended the penalty for the individual mandate, one of the law's more unpopular requirements that change once again puts the fate of the entire law before the supreme court. in recent months, trump has repeatedly said he would unveil a health-care proposal in weeks but those self-imposed timelines , have come and gone. the president is also taking some smaller actions. recently he signed an executive order to expand telehealth for medicare recipients. president trump has criticized biden's plan as moving too far toward medicare for all. which president trump sees as radical and too great of a government role in health care. lisa: biden responds that trump's attempts to repeal obamacare would leave millions of ameri

yamiche alcindor.our, i'm >> woodruff: today witnesses the last primary elections before november. once winners are declared in delaware, we will know who all the nominees are for every congressional race across our country. here to breakdown what to watch for in the fight for control of capitol hill, our own lisa desjardins. hello to lisa. to you, lisa, so let start with the senate. catch us up on the contest to either take over or keep controf he upper chamber, now that we're just seven weeks away from election day. >> that's right, so much to talk about. let's dig right in the nate. democrats need three or four seats, that's the key number, they need to pick up three or four seats to take contr the senate. so let's go to the graphics, the maps that we've got ready fr this. first of all, thesinare the seatlay now. there are more tossups increasingly on the map, it's about 12 seats. here's what democrats like. if you look at anothermap these red states, look t red states, these are vulnerable republicans. of the 12 seats in play, 10 are republicans. so democrats have ten chances,

for the pbs "newshour," i'm yamiche alcindor.udy: so what does the times reporting seem to tell us about president trump's business practices, and how they line up with what other wealthy americans do when paying their taxes? for that, we turn to david cay johnston, an investigative journalist and author who focuses on tax issues, and who has long followed president trump's business dealings. and peter faber, a tax attorney who often advises wealthy clients. hello to both of you. thank you so much for joining us. david johnston, you have looked at donald trump businesses for a long time. what do you make of what you are seeing in the report? >> the reason donald does not want you to see his tax returns is clear, he did not pay taxes in many years. secondly, there is a great deal of evidence in the times reported that donald is not doing this through lawful tax avoidance but engaged in tax evasion. that is not a new thing for the president. he had two civil trials for income tax fraud. in the past, he lost them and was found to ha

correspondent yamiche alcindor has our report. >> alcindor: last night in protesters' demands for justice for breonna taylor gained new urgency. they came soon after a grand jury brought charges against two officers who fatally shot taylor in her home. the officers were attempting to serve a drug warrant in march. a third officer, who has already been fired, was indicted for recklessly shooting into a nearby apartment. taylor, who was sleeping before officers shot her, had no criminal record, and no drugs were found in her apartment. angry and distraught, hundreds took to the streets for protests across the nation, from los angeles... ( protests ) ...to new york city... >> what happened today, it's definitely going to be in the history books, because if we do nothing, the police are going to continue to commit genocide on my brothers and sisters. >> alcindor: ...and washington, d.c. >> this young, amazing woman, who was contributing to her community, gs shot down because they went to the wrong house looking for some ex- boyfriend? i mean, the whole thing is so infuriating. >> alcindor: de

yamiche brings up a great point.to distract from the bitter truth on your screen right now that 203,000 families have lost a loved one to this pandemic, to this virus that the virus has been lying about through his teeth, still continues to lie about even today. so with that in mind, we understand that. but mike barnicle, this has also been a theme of donald trump's for some time. donald trump has been talking about, my government, my military, the fact that he's going to serve more than the constitutionally mandated limit of eight years. that he's going to have a third term. trying to undermine the results of the election from the very beginning. talking about how yesterday he wouldn't guarantee the peaceful transfer of power. that requires a closer examination and we're going to have to be able to do two things at once. we're going to have to follow him down this rabbit trail because this rabbit trail may lead to the worst constitutional crisis for american democracy that we've had since the civil war. and also you

pbs newshour correspondent yamiche alcindor. the president tweeting out that he'll announce his supreme court pick on saturday. re-tweeted an article about rush limbaugh saying they skip confirmation. he's expecting a woman to be nominated by the president, what do your source say the next few weeks will look like on capitol hill? >> ayman, thanks again for having me. the process is going to be like this, it's going to include hearings because that's what happens on capitol hill, hearings always happen and they're not going to confirm a justice to the supreme court no matter what rush limbaugh unelected radio host says, they're not going to confirm without putting the nominee through hearings. number two, mitch mcconnell as you noted was not committal on a time line, that's a very big deal. before the election or after the election. we doesn't know where the votes are. but, listen, mitch mcconnell in less than a week has secured 50 weeks to move ahead with this nomination on the senate floor, that's a very big deal, because that

joining us now is yamiche alc alcindor. that press conference we just heard outside the white house. what do you make of what you just heard? an attempt for the president to wholeheartedly clearly condemn white supremacy and racism, he did it again, he said he doesn't know who the proud boys are, he deferred to law enforcement. he denounces it, more referring to them and law enforcement, not a clear condemnation. >> the president again missed an opportunity today as he did last night to say the words i condemn white supremacy in all forms. anyone who follows my campaign and supports me should not be doing so. the president is not doing that. today he's saying he doesn't know who the proud boys are, that's a pretty incredible thing to hear, it goes back to the idea that the president said at one point that he couldn't condemn and wouldn't condemn david duke and then he claimed he didn't know who david duke is. the president here is claiming ignorance. what this underscores especially for critics of president trump and joe bi

and yamiche alcindor. phil, let me begin with you. let's start with announcement coming out of the white house about bahrain and israel, they'll normalize relations. tell us about why today, what have you learned? why on september 11th did the president want to make this announcement? >> you know, ayman, i'm not entirely sure why the president wanted to go ahead and make this announcement today it sounds like the officials from bahrain are prepared to reveal more about this announcement next week, it's an important date in the united states, september 11th, i was traveling with president trump this morning with shanksville, pennsylvania where he paid tribute to the 40 people who died aboard flight 93 that crashed in an open field in pennsylvania. spoke about the american resolve and put politics aside for a couple of hours to do that. so i think, you know, announcing some sort of peace accord here is very much in keeping of the momentum president trump is trying to show heading into the election he's able to successfully negotiate som

but first let's hear about where re candidates stand with correspondents, lisa desjardins and yamiche alcindor. >> desjardins: it was the signature legislation of the obama administration: the affordable care act, better known as obamacare. when it was signed into law 10 years ago, then vice president biden celebrated passage, memorably putting it like this: >> this is a big ( bleep ) deal. both incredibly powith has been some and controversial with others. among core aspects: it protects ericans with pre-existin conditions, allows parents to age 26 and eliminates out ofl pocket expenses for many preventative services. since passage of obamacare, the democr shifted left on health care, led in large part by senator bernied sanders'is signature" medicare for all" proposal. despite that pressure, biden largely held center during his primary camp cgn. his heale plan focuses on a public option, where anyone licould buy into a medicar plan. he would automatically enrinl some peopltates that didn't expand medicaid. he'd also increase tax crets to help lower costs for low- income people. bide

we are failing to address and we are seeing the evidence of it more and more, year after year. >> yamicheon. >> thanks so much for being here secretary. just talked about global warming, election security. on this 9/11, 19 years after so many people died, 64 times the number of people who died on 9/11 have died from the coronavirus in the united states, and i want to ask you, how do you see the coronavirus as a national security threat at all? how do you think it might change the way we look at security in this country if this virus continues to kill thousands of americans? >> it is a national security threat. anything that has the ability to kill 200,000 people in seven months is a national security disaster. and there need to be lessons learned from this crisis. this was an unprecedented crisis but not an unanticipated one. we learned a lot from the ebola experience in 2014. this is on a much, much larger scale, obviously. but the lesson learned from a national security perspective is that national leadership, the messaging from national leadership does matter. even though the authority

let's bring in news correspondent yamiche alcindor. what's the reaction inside the white house?hat are they saying? >> there's anger and also this sort of let's all push this aside and avoid it. if you listen to what president trump said yesterday during his briefing, he really lashed out at "the new york times" and the idea this is fake news. this is all made up, false. but when he was posed a specific question, how much taxes do you actually pay and is it more than a couple hundred dollars, $750 over two years, $750 twice, is it more than that? he stumbled and mumbled and didn't answer the question. which is, is it true that you are this billionaire who is evading tax taxes. so he continues to say he's under audit, cannot talk about his tacks. once he's done under audit he'll present them. i think the line in this "the new york times" story what this mean, apart from as you say the evadining and the possibly breaking of laws, they said ultimately president trump may be better and more successful playing a media mogul than being one. that stopped me dead in my tracks it tells u