Doctors to go on television and prescribe reviving the u. S. Economy as quickly as possible without waiting to meet safety benchmarks. And yet, with the health of the country on the line, trump appears more interested in settling scores. Today, he openly teased a pardon for convicted felon roger stone showing a complete disregard for the administration of justice. And it all comes amid new questions of corruption surrounding secretary of state mike pompeo. Just two days ago, pompeo claimed that he didnt know that he was under investigation when he asked the president to fire the Inspector General who was looking into him. The new reporting now appears to contradict that denial. According to the New York Times, pompeo was aware of the inquiry, at least one of them, which was scrutinizing arms sales to saudi arabia. As the times revealed, pompeo declined an interview request for the Inspector Generals inquiry as to whether the administration acted illegally. He chose to answer written questions instead. And not only that, nbc news is now reporting that pompeo was inviting billionaire ceos, media celebrities, and political heavyweights to fancy dinners that he hosted roughly two dozen times on the taxpayer dime. State Department Officials involved in the dinners said they had raised concerns internally that the events were essentially using federal resources to cultivate a donor and supporter base for pompeos political ambitions. Complete with extensive Contact Information that gets sent back to Susan Pompeos personal email address. So, whether its unclear when the ousted Inspector General was going to those dinners, he made some kind of inquiry into the Protocol Office last week before he was fired. Im joined now by Claire Mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri. Jill is a White House Reporter for the associated press, and Charlie Sykes said dittor at large of the bulwark. Jill, im going to start with you first. Nbc news is reporting open these dinners. The dinners were named after james madison, americas fourth president , fifth secretary of state who made a habit of inviting foreign diplomats to Exchange Ideas over dinner but historians could point to no precedent for a secretary of state playing host to such frequent gatherings paid for by state Department Funds involving public and political leaders. We have photos of these dinners. These are these madison dinner invitations some invitations. Some of the invite tease were political and government, 29 were global types, media entertainment, 23 diplomats, ford officials. No precedent for this. Is this something thats common in the Trump Administration . Because this is odd. Well, look, theres nothing wrong with a secretary of state or another cabinet official having dinners, informal gatherings of prominent individuals in the case of a secretary of state to have diplomats from other countries, other, you know, representatives of foreign leaders, maybe some corporate folks that the state Department Might interact with. But the list of attendees here per those nbc obtained invite lists included a whole host of other people, including many that he could potentially call on if he does ever at any point choose to go forward with a political campaign. These are, you know, fox news hosts, you know, celebrities, folks that are not typically invited to these kinds of dinners. But as you saw the president s reaction this week, he has just brushed off some of these other allegations including the idea that the ig was potentially looking into instances where pompeos government paid staffers may have done personal errands for him like walking his dog. Well, perfect. You know, you could do, Claire Mccaskill, the what would the right do if obama, right . Its sort of or if it was Hillary Clinton. Here is mike pompeos response to the New York Times story. This was on i had written responses to the inspector again. Lets listen to that. I recommend it to the president that steve linick be terminated. Frankly should have done it some time ago. There are claims that this was for retaliation for some investigation that the Inspector Generals office here was engaged in. Thats patently false. I have no sense of what investigations were taking place inside the Inspector Generals office. Theres one exception, i was asked a series of questions in writing. I responded to those questions with respect to a particular investigation. I did what was right. I dont know if that investigation is continuing. I dont know if that investigation has been closed out. I dont have any sense of that. Again, its not possible for the there to have been retaliation. A normal United States senate would be investigating this, lets be honest. If it was Hillary Clinton, theyd be investigating this. Nothing seems to be being done. Hes just operating freely doing things thats paid by us, the taxpayer. Normally, the chairman of the homeland security, Government Affairs committee has jurisdiction over the specters general and would be calling up a hearing. Instead, hes off on some trope subpoenaing hunter biden stuff, which is just, you know, playing offense for the president on stuff that does not have anything to do with the character of joe biden. You know, and theres a couple things about this. First, all the igs that be being fired makes this a crisis and the republican senators know that. And did you say personal emails, did i hear that . The idea that the states wife was getting personal emails of intel about people attending taxpayer functions at the state department, you know, is from anybody who has any shred of decency around the topic of hypocrisy . This is unbelievable. By the way, this Inspector General, joy, is the same one that investigated he went after a very aggressive investigation about her pay and conflict of interest. Also looked into Hillary Clinton and her use of a private server and emails. So this is not an Inspector General who was playing for one team or the other. This is an Inspector General who was trying to do his job and frankly pompeo wanted to make sure he didnt. Charlie, you had eight years of republican sort of imagining a different obama, right . Sort of pretending that he was this evil, corruption guy that was doing there was no hint of scandal in that administration. And yet were just seeing it open now. Were now just seeing people using their offices to make a list for future campaign run from thats what he was doing and having the taxpayer pay for it. And there is a sort of almost sense of let them eat cake about this administration. And i wonder why that doesnt offend more republicans. Well, you could spend a lot of time answering that particular question. Put this in the context of the way in which this administration has really become a kleptocracy. Whether youre talking about trump himself, whether youre talking about the family, other members of the cabinet remember, there have been other members of the cabinet who have been forced out for basically trying to emulate Donald Trumps gris grift, including people like scott pruitt. This is what it looks like. Youre seeing the arrogance of power and the arrogance of nonaccountability. Youre seeing a president who claimed that he would come do washington to drain the swamp has filled the swamp with his own new lizard creatures. I dont know that this will move the needle in any way considering what republicans have been willing to tolerate, what the base has been willing to tolerate. But every once in a while theres a dazzling detail that you have the secretary of state making the taxpayers pay to walk his dog. I dont know whether that cuts through. Probably it doesnt cut through. But right now, for an administration that ran as a populous antielitist, special interest, you know, movement, look at what were finding out about secretary of state pompeo. By the way, when he says that he does not know about the investigations, hes obviously lying. I dont think we need mince words about that. And i want to underline what Claire Mccaskill just said. It is its really troubling and deeply embarrassing, i think, for my my senior senator, im from wisconsin, ron johnson, at this particular moment, with all the things that he could be investigating, to basically doing for donald trump what the president of ukraine would not do for him. Yeah. Indeed. Theres a sort of vibe to this supposedly populous administration. Im going to come back to you on this, claire. I want to let you as a former United States senator, listen back to the president of the United States talking about the depths, the rampant adeaths tha place under his watch due to the pandemic. Heres what he had to say about that. When where he have a lot of cases, i dont look at that as a bad thing. I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better. So if we were testing a Million People instead of 14 Million People, we would have far few cases. Right . So i view it as a badge of honor. Really, its a badge of honor. Its a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done. Okay, thats not how the math im just going to let you comment on that. Its a badge of honor. Its not a badge of honor. The United States of america has about 4 of the worlds population. And we have almost 30 of the worlds deaths. Im not talking about how many tests are being done, im talking about how many body bags there are. How many families something this president cannot acknowledge, the loss of families and friends of almost 100,000 americans. And clearly, if he had not wanted this to go away, clearly if he wasnt focused on his own image instead of the health and safety of america, we could have done a much better job. Weve been playing catchup on this ever since he ignored this problem for weeks on end and lied about it over and over again. At least the American People are now telling polsters they dont believe a word he says about this pandemic. And the deaths are going to continue to stack up and hes not going to be able to get around that reality. Yeah. But, charlie, about a third of the people still believe everything that he says. What donald trump is doing, rather than face the truth and the horror of whats happening in this country, is hes hiring doctors, friendly doctors who will come out and they will they will say, no, hes doing a great job. Washington Public Relations firm distribute and open letter to trump signed by 400 doctors calling the state coronavirus lockdowns a mass casual event. The first significant was dr. Simone gold, an emergency Medicine Specialist in l. A. Whos listed as a of the save our country coalition. Shes appeared in talk show, podcasts to advocate for the use of hydroxychloroquine, of course. She told usa today that shes speaking out against shelter in place and other infectious control measures because there was no basis that the u. S. Should be concerned about covid19. Et cetera, et cetera. This is what it was come to and it will work on some people. Theyre going to just have their own doctors say their own things and not science. Well, the point that i wanted to just follow up that if shamelessness is Donald Trumps super power, i think his lack of empathy is his achilles heel. And that quote about badge of honor is going to be in a hundred television ads. But to your point, the doctors have the right to speak out, but i think the key here is that theyre going to be used to say that the country ought to reopen without meeting the safety standards. That strikes me as skirting the dark edges of unethical behavior. And i hope that they are extremely skeptical here. Theres an organization out there, its the association of American Physicians and surgeons. And brad parscale, who is the president s Campaign Manager has been tweeting it out. Its an association of hacks and quacks. This is a group thats questions they are antivaxers and theyve suggested that nicotine is not addictive. There ought to be skepticism of the people being trotted out. But also step back for a moment. Look, Donald Trumps presidency is going to be determined on the success of the reopening whether or not people feel safe. To have doctors out there telling people to not take this as seriously, not adhere to the safety guidelines, runs the risk, i would think, of sabotaging his own reopening just like this politicization of not Wearing Masks. I think this is another area where it might work against the trump agenda. Indeed. Were out of time, but, jill, are we going to get a roger stone pardon as the cherry on this horrible sunday, very quickly . Thats a key question here and thats something that roger and his lawyers are certainly paying a lot of attention to waiting, you know, to see what other signals they might get from the president. We saw him move recently on Michael Flynn, now roger stone is the one waiting. Yeah. Everybody gets something. Everybody gets a prize. Thank you so much former senator Claire Mccaskill, jill cobin, charlie, thank you very much. Donald trump is sounding false cries of voter fraud. This time he says mailin balance lorts rigg ballots are rigged. Even though he voted by mail. Ill ask senator Kamala Harris about that. Plus, after blaming president obama after something goes wrong, his Election Strategy should not surprise you, smear obama. Weve got much more to get to, stay with us. So as you head back out on the road, well be doing what we do best. Providing some calm amidst the chaos. With virtual, realtime tours of our vehicles as well as remote purchasing. For a little help, on and off the road. Now when you buy or lease a new lincoln, well make up to 3 payments on your behalf. 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Secretary of state sends you an absentee ballot application, you fill it out, then you get to vote by mail. You think donald trump would actually know that, because he himself voted by mail in floridas march primary. That, of course, hasnt stopped him from stepping up his attacks in recent weeks claiming that mailin voting is ripe with fraud and puts republicans at a disadvantage. A reminder, theres no evidence of any widespread voter fraud in the United States according to numerous investigations and studies. Im joined now by senator Kamala Harris of california. Senator, im going to give you an opportunity to respond back to the president. He seems to think that voting by mail is cheating and bad. Yeah. Mr. President , it is a federal crime to withhold money from states with the purpose of interfering with peoples right to vote. So, you may want to talk with your lawyer bill barr about that and that would be my advice for the president. But, you know, joy, it clearly he has done this because, one, he is always in the business of attempting to intimidate and using his tweets as the method by which he does that. But its clear hes worried about whether hes going win this election. So it is an attempt to suppress the vote, which is an attempt to have these states not send these applications for vote by mail so that people will not get those applications to vote by mail and then not vote by mail. And, again, this is another example of donald trump being complicit with an attempt or even purposely attempting to suppress the vote in an election. And, you know, there is the now infamous quote, which i wouldnt even ask the team to play it back where he says that he claims that there will be levels of voting if you ever agree to youd never have a republican elected begin. It seems that he is saying the quiet part outloud again. Right. Right. But, and if it werent so serious, it is absolutely comic cal comical. I serve on the Senate Intelligence committee. We have published publicly the reports which indicate the source of a lot of the information is from the all of the Intelligence Community of the United States that russia attempted to interfere in the election of the president of the United States in 2016. And they attempted to do it with a Misinformation Campaign which was designed to turn people off, to make them suspicious or skeptical of our democracy and our election system. And this is this is exactly what donald trump is attempting to do again. Weve seen this playbook. Hes playing right into a playbook that weve seen before. And so the important thing is that we make sure people arent duped into believing that their votes dont matter and that our democracy is frail. Our democracy will be as strong as the American People are strong in participating in it. And donald trump cannot ruin our democracy if we all turn out and we vote and we exhibit the power of the people. Are you surprised that donald trump is proactively bringing up the help he got from russia as a Campaign Strategy . That his strategy seems to be to go back and relitigate a done deal . The mueller report, it is what it is. The reports have already been done. Everybody understands russia interfered. Are you surprised that his strategy is to attack president obama, who was extremely popular, and relitigate the fact that he was helped by russia to get the job in the first place . My response to that, and Claire Mccaskill spoke to eloquently about it, 91,000 people have died in america in just a matter of months because of a pandemic that the commander in chief, the president of the United States, could have done something about had he acted swiftly and embraced the truth, embraced science, and did what a leader, a true leader must do. Which is lead. And so all of this is about him attempting to distract from the matter at hand, which is that we have 36 Million People in america who have become unemployed in just the last couple of months. One in five mothers is describing her children under the age of 12 as being hungry. He doesnt want us to talk about that much less think about that and how he has been an utter failure as the president of the United States to meet the moment of this crisis and lift up the American People. He doesnt want us to talk about that. He doesnt want us to look at his performance. He wants us to follow and look to read his tweets and be distracted by the outrageousness of what he writes and the lies that he writes and the intimidation tactics that he pursues. And, but this is the reason hes doing that, because he has good reason to be scared about this election. Because if you contrast him with someone like a joe biden, we know that theres a huge difference, including the fact that joe biden operates from empathy and concern and care. So, you know, lets not get distracted. Well, i have a question for you on joe biden in a minute, but i have to come back to this. Donald trump, yes, its clear that his strategy is what it is. However, its harder, i think, for people to understand why people like Linsdsey Graham do some of things that theyre doing. Hes in a state thats much more competitive, its much more competitive than its been in the past for his senate reelect. Yet Lindsey Graham has come out extending unemployment insurance. Hes told nbc news that trump agrees its hurting the recovery. And heres what he said about unemployment insurance. He said you can extend some assistance, but you dont want to pay people more unemployed than they are working. You should never make more than your actual wages and saying trump agrees that its hurting the economic recovery. Theres also reporting that trumps circle wants to pump the brakes on more covid aid, assuming that they can just come back closer to the election. And then if theres more money needed, theyll throw some more money in right before the election. What do you make of that attitude toward the people who are suffering . Because, as you said, a lot of people have died, a lot of people are really hurting economically. Well, i would ask that we we can Pay Attention to the attitude, but lets also definitely Pay Attention to the strategy thats at play, which is hold off giving aid to people when they need it right now and then write a check right before the election sincerely donald trump, see, i helped you. Help me with november. So thats the strategy. But heres the reality of whats happening. The relief that the United StatesCongress Passed in terms of unemployment was just for four months, joy. And so for people who already qualified for unemployment insurance, they would get for the duration of that time, then, an extra 600 a person. It included that gig workers, that freelancers would, for the first time, qualify for unemployment insurance. And we know that we are not ready at this point to reemploy those 36 Million People. Theyre going to need relief as soon as this money this money dries out, which is going to be in july. And the only the right thing to do is to help them sustain themselves and their families until they can get back on their feet and we truly reopen. Its just the right thing to do, instead of allowing people to fall deeper and deeper into debt, into poverty, into hunger. And so, you know, theres a strategy, though, thats at play by this president , i have no doubt about that. Yeah. Its about his political survival, which is consistent with who he has been. It is about him. It is about him. It is about having a cabinet of people who praise the great leader. It is about him always looking in the mirror when he should be looking in the eyes of the American People. Well, you know, and we think a lot about the First Responders and the people that are actually, you know, risking their lives and doing the work of trying to save everyone else in this pandemic. One of those people that was doing that was Brianna Taylor who lost her life, shot in her own home by police. This is one of our First Responders, the people who are supposed to be singing songs to at the end of the day that people are doing throughout the country. There is now an update on this case. The louisville courier journal reports that Louisville Police have completed an internal investigation into Brianna Taylors shooting. The findings of an internal investigation into the Fatal Shooting of Brianna Taylor by Louisville Police have been turned over to attorney general daniel cameron. The Police Department integrity unit is also providing the same materials to the fbi, the u. S. Attorneys office. Number one, do you have faith in the department of justice currently to get involved and to do something to get justice nor young woman . And what would what would you do . I mean, having been a prosecutor, having had that job, what should be done in this case, knowing it involves police . There should be an independent investigation which i have called on the United States department of justice to conduct an independent investigation of the Louisville Police department, to conduct an independent investigation of the incident that occurred in the Early Morning hours of that day, and to do an investigation to determine if there has been a violation of federal laws, and in particular, civil rights laws and whether there should be consequence and accountability because of that. Ive talked, for example, with her mother, and her as an emt. This young woman had a history and a nature of always taking care of people. She was an emt because she thought that would be the best foundational work that she could do to then become a nurse because she wanted to understand what was going on outside and then go into a hospital to heal people. This beautiful young woman shot down senselessly. And there needs to be an investigation of this. The issue of body cameras, her mother has been advocating for that because, of course, those three Police Officers were not wearing body cameras. To your point, in my experience when i was attorney general of california, i believe i was the first state to require our agents to wear body cameras and keep them on. Because its about transparency. Its about accountability. Its about justice. And and, you know, none of this is going to bring that young woman back to her family, to her community. But theres a lot of work that needs to happen in terms of investigating whether this should be, which i believe there should be serious consequence and accountability for the loss of that young womans life. We have run out of time. You know i wanted to ask you about the ticket, but im told i am out of time. So you may get off the hook asking the question about the ticket. Okay. But will you promise to come back and tell us any developments that you may have . Of course i will. 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Many of the states reopening have not met the benchmarks laid out by the Trump Administration and some Public Health experts are warning that a new surge of infections could follow. A new pbs poll shows that 65 of americans dont expect live to return to normal for at least six more months. And 77 of americans are concerned about a second outbreak. Meanwhile, florida and georgia have come under fire from some critics for allegedly manipulating coronavirus data. For more, im joined by dr. Patrice harris, president of the american medical association. And, dr. Harris, the manipulation of data part, it sticks with me because it seems that if people are not telling the truth about the number of people who are sick and are dying, its a great way to reopen your state because people will think things are better than they are. What do you make of the fact that the date is na is not reli out of some of these states . Good to be with you. Thats dangerous. We at the ama said from the beginning that we need the data to make sure that we are proceeding in a safe manner. And its very distressing, to me, to know that the data that is out there may not be accurate. We need transparency. We need some standard Data Collection right before on a. Right before on air i read another article that georgia may vin concluded antibody tests along with the diagnostic tests. So we really is to make sure that the data is accurate. Theres just no question about that. No debate about that. And when you see things like i was reading earlier today the story about yellowstone reopening, i remember going to yellow stone as a kid, but the idea of going yellowstone, people with no masks on. This was a piece that ran in the guardian showing there they are. People are just out there. Are people taking this still even with all this death way too lightly . Well, joy, the survey that you mentioned said that most people are. But, you know, i, like you, im seeing those photos and others and i dont see enough folks who are Wearing Masks and staying six feet apart. You know, as a physician, when i look at that i worry because i know that those folks are at risk for infection themselves or transmitting the disease to others. And so we will continue to sound the alarm and make sure that we that people know that they need to continue to wear masks, they continue to do the physical distancing and not gather in large gatherings. We dont have treatment, we dont have a vaccine yet. And so we have to use these tried and true Public Health measures. And very quickly, very quickly want to ask you to comment on the theres a story out of new york city that parents are skipping vaccinations or at least the numbers of vaccinations being given to Young Children are declining because of peoples fear of going into the doctors office. People not wanting to be in a medical setting. So its actually were seeing numbers of vaccinations go down for children. That does not sound like a good thing. What do you make of that . It is not a good thing. And, in fact, i wrote an oped along with dr. Sally goesa who is the president of american pediatrics and others here in georgia and we raised the level of alert regarding that. Because the last thing we need right now, joy, is another Infectious Disease outbreak on top of covid19. Certainly it was appropriate to reduce hours, but we want our families to take their children in for their regular well child visits to make sure they get their vaccinations on time. Or as close to on time as possible. Yeah, indeed. Dr. Patrice harris, thank you so much. Really appreciate you joining us. Please stay safe. And still ahead, the latest from the Virtual Campaign trail, including a new National Poll showing joe biden leading donald trump by double digits. He wont be happy about that. Stay with us. Ts. He wont be happy about that. 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Former Vice President joe biden, the apparent democratic nominee, has been limited to online campaigning from his home in delaware. Last night during a virtual town hall, he addressed trumps claim that he is taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and the president s for offering medical advice despite having zero qualifications do so. Its like maybe saying if you injected clorox into your blood, it may cure you. Come on, man, what is he doing . What in gods name is he doing . And the things that president s say, the words of a president matter. Look, this is absolutely irresponsible. Theres no serious medical personnel out there saying to use that drug. Its counterproductive. Its not going to help. But the president , he decided thats an answer. So what do you think people are going to be doing . You think theyre not going to use it . Catchphrase is come on, man. With less than six months until election day, a new quinnipiac poll shows biden lead be trump 50 to 39 . Thats up from last month when biden was leading by eight points. While joe biden is trumps apparent opponent, trump is focusing on a different target heading into november. Former president barack obama. Yep, its a strategy that has a lot of republicans nervous. Thats coming up next. A lot of repubcalins nervous. Thats coming up next. R right n. And right now, is a time for action. So, for a second time were giving members a credit on their auto insurance. Because its the right thing to do. Were also giving Payment Relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. Right now is the time to take care of what matters most. Like weve done together, so many times before. Discover all the ways were helping members at usaa. Com coronavirus discover all the ways were helping members i am totally blind. And non24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. Talk to your doctor, and call 8442142424. Show me what youre made of. So we showed it our people, sourcing and distributing more fresh food than anyone. Our drivers helping grocers restock their shelves. How were helping restaurants open popup markets. And encouraging all americans to take out to give back. Adversity came to town. So we looked it in the eye. And it wont be us. That blinks first. Welcome back. The focus of Donald Trumps impromptu visit with republican senators or capitol hill yesterday was not the coronavirus, as you might expect. During their nearly hourlong lunch, trump set his sites on novembers election. His message to the republicans, according to senators in the room, get tough in their phony vechcti investigations of the phony handling of the Michael Flynn case, trumps former adviser. Its his strategy to focus his attacks on bidens former bass, former president barack obama. They see a big risk in that approach. One republican tells sherman that obama, hes likely to go for the jugular. Wouldnt be surprised if he pulls out the really dirty stuff. Im joined by Michelle Goldberg and erin haynes. It is a strange strategy, anne, ill sta ill start with you on this. He just did a virtual graduation, hes going to do another one with beyonce, joe biden. The idea of using him as the strategy and focusing on him does not make sense to me. Youre a political reporter. Do the people youre talking to out there in the world think it makes sense . Well, good evening, joy. You know, my reporting has certainly reflected that we know that former president obama did stay off of the trail during the primary. And, in fact, you know, then candidate now Presumptive Democratic nominee joe biden said that he did not want the advice i mean president obamas endorse meant duriment primary. He wanted to earn this on his own. But i think we know thats not going to be the case as this pif vts to pivots to a general Election Strategy. Weve seen him weighing in on the Trump Administrations response to this pandemic, which has elicited is response in kind from President Trump on twitter. Then we saw president obama taking the opportunity during last weekends commencement speeches, for example, to comment on the current state of leadership in our american government. And so president obama said, you know, i think him being on the campaign trail and any criticism of him could actually energize democrats headed into the fall. Thats what it seems to me, seems logical to me. Michelle, donald trump is also, he seems to only be able to operate in one way and that is in a rally. Its the only way he feels confident and comfortable. Hes talking about going back and doing rallies again, which seems insane because there is still a risk out there of a health risk. Is it likely people will still be willing to gather in rallies with donald trump even with covid19 out there . My guess is that it is because he has been sending a lot of mixed messages about the deadliness of covid and about the treatability, right . So people might go to his rallies thinking that they are protected if theyre on a preventive dose of hydroxychloroquine. To me it shows and weve seen this over and over again is just how little he cares about his supporters, right . And his contempt for them has always been sort of obvious, its something that howard stern spoke about recently, these are not the people he wants to spend time with and his approval hes seeking his whole life and he is willing to put their health, their lives at risk in order to get this adrenaline shot that he craves of these adoring crowds and that he really cant function without. Yeah, the political story says some white house officials go on. No, i was just going to say. I would add to that this puts President Trump at odds with some governors in states where he would like to have these rallies who are balancing Public Safety with Public Health concerns and even the mayor of charlotte raised concerns whether its going to be safe for the rnc to have their convention in charlotte later this summer which they at this point are still on track to do. Yeah, absolutely. You know, apparently according to aids who talked to trump, he thinks the face masks look gloomy and lack the showmanship. Lets talk about biden. We had senator Kamala Harris on earlier this evening. She is one of the top names you hear talked about when it comes to joe biden making choices about who he is going to pick. You know what . Im going to go ahead and play kellyanne conway. I dont think the other side, the republican side really has an answer for the idea there will likely be a woman on the ticket but here is kellyanne. You see the long short list of joe bidens v. P. Choices. They happen to be female. He sounds like a coed at the end of a frat party. That doesnt make sense. Biden is going to pick a woman. Lets talk about what it sounds like what he needs. There is this New York Times piece that talks about black voters are key witnesses to crimes against democracy. This is gettable voters that can overwhelm the political system if Democratic Candidates persuade them voting will get them pow tore build the state and country they want but the democrats are treating black people as though they need a gentle nudge this week before the just need a gentle nudge before the election and there is fear there will be another catastrophe before election day. There is a choice right now. There is a pull and push between women in general and black women. That is very obvious. There are op eds written and emails and open letters to the campaign. Ill let you start, michelle. Is it important that joe biden pick a woman, a black woman because that is where the core base is or there is a push on the other side . There is a lot of Amy Klobuchar talk, et cetera. Okay. Well, i hope it not Amy Klobuchar. I will say, i think, if you look at polling, i dont think you see in the polling African American voters saying that its very important to them to have a black woman on the ticket if im not mistaken in some of the most recent polling, the most popular candidate among all democrats, i think including African Americans was elizabeth warren. My husband used to work for during her campaign. I think what is more important than the Vice President ial pick is the campaigns entire approach. I mean, theyve been i think somewhat hubbled by the coronavirus pandemic. You had Stacey Abrams doing this really intensive long work to create a new electret in georgia and i think what she showed is that you cant just kind of come in a couple weeks before the election and start trying to turn people out, right . Its a very, very long term project and i think its unclear who is doing that work in this environment. You know, the same question here, Kareem John Pierre is hired. Erin, this is your scoop so ill let you weigh in on it. Is the Biden Campaign aggressively trying to fix a problem, to enhance their standing with black voters . Is the strategy because it seems like they are starting the amy alisons, that hire is starting to happen. Yeah, so i think it is the ladder to your point, joy, that joe biden understands, you know, how he got to this point is my understanding from the campaign. He knows that black voters are the reason that he in large part is your presumptive nominee in the spring, you know, months ahead of schedule and, you know, black women have been saying for several years now they want to be valued not just for their output but for their input, right . So a signal of that could be him picking a black woman Vice President but also, showing other ways in which he might govern with the backbone of the Democratic Party in mind. Absolutely. Well keep an eye on it. Michelle goldberg, erin haynes, thank you very much. Well be right back. N haynes, thank you very much. Well be right back. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. This is hals heart. Its been broken. And put back together. This is also hals heart. And his relief, knowing hes covered by blue cross blue shield. 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