And no words have been said to confer that. Theres just something about appearing as the Vice President ial nominee that really changes the dynamic in that room. Especially in a race that right now shows Vice President biden sort of so clearly in the lead, not only nationally but in most swing states. Shes obviously, you know, shes not they havent won the election yet and theres 21 days to go, but because she and her running mate are i think so wellpositioned, people are looking at her as the sort of Vice President in waiting. Yes. And you can you can feel that in the hearing room, i think. Yeah, and its everyone in the hearing room, including the republicans can feel that. Rachel, i learned something on your show, as i do every night. And i have to say, i am very surprised, very surprised to learn that the first drivethrough voting ive ever heard of, youre telling me is happening in texas, instead of california. How did california get beaten on drivethrough voting . Rachel, your home state. I mean, come on. What happened . You know, the states that do mailin voting have often done, like, mail drivethrough mailin dropoff sites which ive seen. I remember the first time i saw that in colorado, i just stopped dead in the street. What are they doing . Theyre voting right there from their cars. Wait a second. And then i realized, oh, theres no polling places. People are actually voting from home and this is just a place to drop it off. Harris county, do not sleep on Harris County right now. Right. That is a gigantic county. Millions of people. Houston itself is huge, but Harris County is go is zillions of people. And to have that young, innovative, super ambitious clerk who has completely taken over and reimagined what it takes to vote in that county while at the state level Texas Republicans are trying to shut all of texas down and make it as hard as possible, its a great, great story and hes like a super fascinating public figure at this point. Yeah, you just introduced us to another star. That was a great segment. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, well be joined tonight by the winner of last nights Kentucky Senate campaign debate. Amy mcgrath is going to join us after Mitch Mcconnell last night in their debate appeared to be a senator who was really out of shape on how to run a reelection campaign, which can happen after 36 years in the United States senate. We will also be joined by senator Amy Klobuchar, who was a key factor in todays confirmation hearing, Supreme Court confirmation hearing. But we begin tonight with the president ial campaign and with only 21 days left in the president ial campaign. Its obama time. Today joe biden said president barack obama is going to be doing campaign events. Joe biden said hell be out on the trail. Another day means another National Poll showing joe biden clearly in the lead. Todays Morning Consult poll of likely voters shows joe biden with an eightpoint lead nationally at 5143. And the important swing state of florida, a Florida AtlanticUniversity Poll of likely voters shows joe biden four points ahead of donald trump at 5147. And today campaigning in florida, joe biden made an emotional appeal to senior citizens. This president cares more about the stock market than he does about, you know, wellbeing of seniors. One day before we cross the threshold of 200,000 deaths, you may recall this, the president was at a campaign rally. And he insisted that the virus was, and i quote, affects virtually nobody. Quote, just elderly people. With heart and other problems. Nobody. Think about that. Who was he talking about when he said it affects virtually nobody . He was talking about americas seniors. He was talking about you. He was talking about my family. Youve worked hard your whole life contributing to society. Building a family. Building the country. Serving america. You deserve security. You deserve respect and peace of mind. But youre not getting it. Youre expendable. Youre forgettable. Youre virtually nobody. Thats how he sees seniors. Thats how he sees you. Joe biden talked to the grandparents of florida as only a grandparent can. While he throws superspreader parties at the white house where republicans hug each other without concern of the consequences, how many of you have been unable to hug your grandkids in the last seven months . I got six of them. Two of them, my deceased sons children, boy and a girl, live not far from me. They can walk through the woods. The only way i see them, i stand on the back porch and we stand down and i bribe them with haagen da haagen dazs bars. But every single day i contact them. But i cant hug them. I cant embrace them. In michigan a rieders poll of likely voters shows joe biden eight points ahead of donald trump, 5853. And in north carolina, a monmouth poll shows two important scenario. It depends on whether there is a high turnout of likely voters or a low turnout of likely voters. In the highturnout scenario, joe biden has a fourpoint lead over donald trump at 5046. In a low turnout scenario, joe biden has just a onepoint lead over donald trump at 4948. High turnout is what were seeing in states with early voting already under way. In georgia, more than 128,000 voters went to the polls on monday, a record for the first day of early voting in the state. Today early voting began in texas. The New York Times reports, in texas, the first day of early voting brought long lines in the states Major Urban Centers with hourslong waits in san antonio. Officials attributed the long lines to high turnout as well as ballots that require more time to fill out. A change in state law forbidding straight ticket or onepunch voting means voters can no longer choose a partys entire slate with one mark, but must manually select each candidate on the ballot. Almost all eligible voters in Travis County are registered to vote this year. Travis county, texas. Travis county, where the texas state capital of austin is located, is the fifth most populous county in texas and the Austin Statesman reports of the county more than 850,000 eligible voters, a record 97 of them are registered to vote in the november 3rd general election. Donald trump went to pennsylvania tonight, where the latest poll shows joe biden ahead by seven points. Over donald trump. At 5144. And while the candidates are on the campaign trail every day, in washington, d. C. This week, the confirmation hearing of Donald Trumps choice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court has delivered an opportunity for democrats to drive home the message that donald trump and every Republican Senate candidate is trying to take Health Care Away from millions of americans. Trump has repeatedly vowed to get rid of the aca. Hes failed time and time again, but hes promised over and over again to tear down the Affordable Care act. President trump has made it crystal clear. Hes promised that his nominees would overturn the aca. Leading off our discussion tonight, john heilemann, National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. He is executive editor of the recount and cohost of showtimes the circus. And zerlina maxwell, director of programming at sirius xm. She is the host of zerlina on nbcs streaming service peacock. Zerlina, i want to start with you and the Vice President ial campaign which in a sense took place at the Senate JudiciaryCommittee Hearing with Vice President candidate senator Kamala Harris making a very effective appearance there. And that is in effect where the Vice President ial campaign for Kamala Harris is basically spending this week. Well, think thats a good thing for the Vice President ial campaign of Kamala Harris, in that it allowed her to hone in on i think what the message of the democrats has been this week, which is that, you know, stop with the gaslighting, stop with the pretending that we dont know how this particular judge and judge Amy Coney Barrett will vote if she is confirmed. We picked her or the republicans picked her for specific reasons, that she agrees with overturning the aca and also has written in negative terms about the right and freedom for women to make choices over their own bodies. And so i think that the democrats have been smart to have a focused and targeted message. Theres a lot of talk about other aspects of her background that i think could siderail and deterrent the more important and prescient concern which is preexisting conditions are an issue that every single american is thinking about exactly in this moment because we are in the middle of a global pandemic, and if you have had covid19, that in and of itself is a preexisting condition. Lawrence, so i think voters are voting for their survival in a lot of ways, and i think the Supreme Court hearing today and Kamala Harris presence reminds voters that they have choices and theyre making them today and they will be through november the 3rd. John heilemann, joe biden in florida today using, of course, Donald Trumps own words against him because no candidate in history has ever supplied the opposition with more ways to use their words. Donald trump, who has said publicly that really nobody gets the coronavirus anymore, except maybe some elderly people who might have heart issues. Yes, donald trump is in the business, lawrence, of providing inkind political contributions to joe biden. Hes been doing it for four years as president to whoever the democratic nominee would be, and more recently when we had joe biden, hes given him lots of ammunition all day long. And i think the florida you know, the create today is pretty stark. You know, we had President Trump in florida yesterday. We have joe biden in florida today. It is the case that with all of the discussion weve had about, like, how Election Nights going to play out, is there ohio are we going to know various states on Election Night . The one state we feel pretty confident well know on Election Night is florida. And its a state where if joe biden wins it, were going to know definitively probably by 10 00 or 11 00 on Election Night, if joe biden wins it, its almost impossible for donald trump to win the presidency without florida. His team admits that. Joe bidens team admits that. Weve seen a string of polling showing exactly why. On display in your program here in the intro, which is seniors. There is not a world where donald trump who won seniors by five or six points nationally in 2016 and won it by eight or nine in florida, a world where joe biden is ahead by three or four points with seniors or maybe more right now in florida. Thats not a theres no math where that works for donald trump. You cant win florida and have your senior your position with seniors flipped by a doubledigit margin, to have a net doubledigit loss in that column. So joe biden is going in for the kill today with that appearance he had today, and i would say, you know, that is one of the Great Stories of the polling right now, is not just how the battleground states stand or how the National Polls stand, its the unraveling of trumps coalition starting with seniors, suburban women, white white suburban women. These are like parts of the coalition that have just completely unravelled over the course of the last couple of weeks and they are why joe biden is in a tremendously commanding position heading into election now less than three weeks out from election day. Speaking of suburban women, we have new video of donald trump speaking in pennsylvania tonight directly to them. And ive been saying since the beginning of the Trump Presidency there is no chance of donald trump being reelected if he does not learn how to speak to voters whose support he does not already have. And so were going to take a look at donald trump doing that tonight. Hes made the big pivot. Hes now trying to speak to voters that he does not already have. Lets see how he did with this. So i ask you to do me a favor. Suburban women, will you please like me . Please. Please. I saved your damn neighborhood, okay . Zerlina, hows he doing with that outreach to voters he doesnt already have . I dont think hes doing so well. And i think part of the reason is the way he talks to to voters who he doesnt assume already support him is with contempt. Hes he does it in a mocking tone, almost to say how dare these these women not support me. Look at how im doing a good job in protecting them from these, frankly, forces that i made up. You know, race racist mobs coming into the suburbs. Hes making up things that they should be afraid of that dont actually exist. But one of the things that i think is really important to connect here, lawrence, between not just suburban women but also these senior voters that you see donald trump losing is the fact that covid19 is the through line. So at the beginning of this pandemic, not just in the past couple of weeks, you know, there was a 11 seniors died every hour. Thats something that is going to stick to the person that was in charge of federal policy. And certainly there is an argument in terms of the state policy, but certainly at the federal level, thats the most visible example of a failure in policy in implementing the necessary ppe for those people who work in those homes. So not just the suburban women who, frankly, are taking care of a lot of those parents who live in those homes, but also those seniors themselves who see themselves as expendable, to your point, and thats why donald trump is losing in this moment. John heilemann, ill never forget seeing those amazing long and inspiring lines in south africa when voters got their first chance to vote for Nelson Mandela for president. And i remember thinking that right. And saying that, you know, yeah, we would get lines like that in this country if we ever had a candidate like Nelson Mandela, but it turns out were getting lines like that in this country because people are getting to the polls to vote against a candidate who they want to stop. Right. Well, lets not forget we had lines big, long lines in 2008 for barack obama, and that was a drew comparisons to the mandela election. You know, i think one of the things that, lawrence, there are two things that are going on that is true. One is that there is an unprecedented early vote right now. I think the number is now close to 11 Million People have voted early so far that have been tabulated. At this time four years ago, the number was under 1 million, all right . So youre talking about an exponential increase in early vote and we know why that is. Its some of its driven by a desire to get donald trump out. Theres no doubt theres a lot of democratic enthusiasm to get donald trump out. Some of it has to do with people being concerned about covid and theyre switching to the early vote, but the problem with that, lawrence, i will say, in some of the places we see the lodge lines its because of the fact that donald trump and his his toadies, his flunkies in these states have reduced the options for people to do inperson early voting, and so the lines are a form of voter suppression, and theres a lot of people that want to get out and vote but theres not that many places to do it. Im concerned about those lines. It shows a couple of things. People really want to vote against donald trump. And on the other side, a lot of governors in red states are trying to keep them from early voting. John heilemann, zerlina maxwell, thank you both for starting us off tonight. Really appreciate it. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks. Up next, the theater of the absurd that is the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of a nominee chosen by the most corrupt president in history. 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I certainly hope that all members of the committee have more confidence in my integrity than to think that i would allow myself to be used as a pawn to decide this election for the american people. Well, okay, but how can anyone have confidence in the integrity of a Supreme Court justice nominated by the most corrupt president in history, who has repeatedly said that he needs that ninth justice on the Supreme Court to decide the election in his favor . Judge amy barrett refused to commit to recusing herself from the case that donald trump has said he plans to bring to the Supreme Court, to decide in his favor a case that will be designed by the trump election lawyers to overrule voters and give the election, the president ial election to donald trump. Donald trump has repeatedly said he expects his Supreme Court nominees to overturn roe versus wade and eliminate the Affordable Care act by ruling it unconstitutional. The democratic partys Vice President ial candidate senator Kamala Harris asked judge barrett about Donald Trumps expectation that she will strike down the Affordable Care act. Prior to your nomination, were you aware of President Trumps statements committing to nominate judges who will strike down the Affordable Care act . And id appreciate a yes or no answer, please. Well, senator, as i want to be very, very careful, im under oath, i as im sitting year, i dont recall seeing those statements, but if lets see, i dont recall seeing or hearing those statements, but i dont really know what context they were in, so i guess i cant really definitively give you a yes or no answer. What i would like to say is i dont recall hearing about or seeing such statements. Thats a very careful answer for someone under oath. The old i dont recall version. That makes judge barrett the only person in that room today who doesnt recall hearing donald trump make those statements. Former senator Claire Mccaskill said that that was very damaging to judge barretts credibility. She was named to a list by donald trump during the election that she was going to be considered for the Supreme Court. And she wants you to believe she doesnt know what the president was saying about what he wanted on the Supreme Court . I mean, that is just flatly unbelievable. Rhode island senator Sheldon Whitehouse described in disturbing detail what has become the republican system for selecting federal judges, guided by the Federalist Society with massive funding from untraceable sources that lead to very predictable outcomes in the Supreme Court. Theres been a steady roberts five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions. And the last characteristic of them is that there is an identical republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won. It was an 800, 54 partisan route, ransacking. Judge barrett failed repeatedly on the simplest of law school questions. Judge barrett, under federal law, is it illegal to intimidate voters at the polls . Senator klobuchar, i cant characterize the facts in a hypothetical situation and i cant apply the law to a hypothetical set of facts. I can only decide cases as they come to me, litigated by parties on a full record after fully engaging precedent, talking to colleagues, writing an opinion, and so i cant answer questions like that. Well, okay, ill make it easier. 18 usc 594 outlaws anyone who intimidates, threatens, coerces or attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce for any other purpose than the right of interfering for somebody to vote. This is a law that has been on the books for decades. Joining us now democratic senator Amy Klobuchar of minnesota. Senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. I have to say that exchange we just showed is really stunning that its come to this in these confirmation hearings. That you ask a very simple question about federal law and you cant get an answer. And theres no she im not even sure she knows that what that law said until you read it to her. Well, shes a smart enough person. I just think she was so evasive in so many answers that when it came to something that most judges and most lawyers know, that you cant intimidate voters at the polls, she just chose to say im not answering that. All she had to do and i do remember hearings in the past while maybe people dont say how theyre going to rule on a certain case, they would embrace certain fundamental concepts in the law. And one of those is very real to people now. Why . Because we know an outside contractor was recruiting people, former special ops, to come to my state, my state of minnesota, to intimidate people at the polls. And our attorney general, keith ellison, our secretary of state steve simon made very clear that this is illegal, no question, they cant stand there and do that. However, they continue to recruit. And thats why i thought it was so relevant to ask her and why her whole view of voting where we have Justice Ginsburg, who was the hero of voting rights, now has died and she is trying to get her seat. So it makes it even more salient. The President Trump during the president ial campaign in 2016 repeatedly said that he wanted judicial appointments this is one of his tweets. My judicial appointees will do the right thing unlike bushs appointee john roberts on obamacare. And months after trump tweeted that judge barrett, then professor barrett, wrote an article saying exactly that. That she believed chief Justice Roberts was wrong in his ruling, making it extremely clear that she would have ruled the other way. And now today she pretends that that that what she wrote had absolutely no meaning whatsoever. You know, i i actually showed her that tweet. I blew it up and then kamala followed up as well. And the focus of this for both of us was the fact that it just is as Claire Mccaskill said, its unbelievable that she wouldnt know this. In fact, it felt to me that article, which by the way, was in one of the law journals for the university of minnesota, was kind of a clear signal to donald trump of where she was going to be she wrote it the same year she actually became a judge. And what she said was that she was critical of Justice Roberts and basically said it wasnt plausible what he did and how he interpreted the the statute, the constitution to support the Affordable Care act. By the way, that wasnt the only time she did it. She then in the burwell decision did the same thing. She said that she in an npr interview made it very clear that she thought that scalia had the better argument in another dissent on the Affordable Care act. As i said today, follow the tracks like i used to follow deer tracks when i was a kid. Mmhmm. You follow those tracks and you can see exactly where it leads. There was an extraordinary exchange with Dianne Feinstein about does the does the constitution give the president the authority to basically change election day . Now, no, it everyone knows that, no, thats not anywhere in the constitution, but you couldnt get an answer to that from a Supreme Court nominee today. Well, and that was just par for the course. And for me, again, what we see going around the country right now today with three trump judges down in texas overturning a judge who tried to step in and said and heard you and rachel talking about Harris County, texas. 4. 7 Million People. Stepped in, this judge and said, hey, you cant just have one ballot box with all those people. Thats crazy. Now three trump judges overturned that judge and said, yep, its okay for the governor to have just one ballot box. These fights about voting, including in south carolina, Lindsey Grahams home state, where you still have to have a witness now for an absentee ballot, these fights are raging across the country. We have won a lot of them, lawrence, so i dont want people to be sad about the state of status of voting in america. I think you know whats happening. Despite these obstacles, voters are voting. Theyre standing in lines. Theyre getting their absentee ballots in or theyre mailin ballots in record, record numbers. So despite what theyre doing, and that was my whole point at the hearing, Justice Ginsburg in her dissents, when i said this in the opening it was not a cry for defeat, it was a blueprint for the future. So thats how i view this Supreme Court hearing from beginning to end. As hard as it is, and even though as you point out we may not have some secret, clever procedural way to stop this, weve got the people out there voting and they are watching. Senator Amy Klobuchar, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Really appreciate it. All right. Great to be on again. Thanks, lawrence. Thank you. Up next, Mitch Mcconnell faced amy mcgrath in the one and only debate in the Kentucky SenateCampaign Last night. And Mitch Mcconnell seemed like a senator who had forgotten how to campaign. Which can happen to you if you spend 36 years in the senate. Amy mcgrath joins us next. Woo go go go go go go go go on a real vacation. Visit go rving. Com or your nearest rv dealer. You power through chronic migraine15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. Botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. So, if you havent tried botox® for your chronic migraine check with your doctor if botox® is right for you and, if samples are available. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. 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Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell appeared to make light of his opponent, former Fighter Pilot and marine, lieutenantcolonel amy mcgrath. I think her entire campaign is shes a marine, shes a mom and ive been there too long. Senator, youve been there for 36 years. Hows it looking, kentucky . Have we fixed this stuff . Mitch mcconnell actually laughed when amy mcgrath called his failure to pass a new Coronavirus Relief bill a dereliction of duty. The house passed a bill in may and the senate went on vacation. I mean, you just dont do that. You negotiate. Senator, it is a national crisis. You knew that the coronavirus wasnt going to end at the end of july. We knew this. I mean, i just think youve got to and heres the thing, if you want to call yourself a leader if you want to call yourself a leader, youve got to get things done. And those of us that served in the marines, wont just point fingers at the other side, we get the job done. Joining us now, amy mcgrath, the democratic candidate for the Kentucky Senate seat that has been held by Mitch Mcconnell for 36 years. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. I have to say, the 36 years really showed in that debate last night. He seemed not ready for what you brought to that debate. Well, i just think it shows his disconnect with kentucky. And whats going on right now. I mean, he spent a lot of the debate talking about washington, d. C. Politics and just the same old excuses. And the thing that i really wanted to bring up and, hey, youre the leader here. And kentuckys hurting and the countrys hurting and were at a moment of national crisis. And the congress that you built, the senate that you built cant get it done. You cant get it done. And we need leaders that are going to just put this partisan stuff aside and get the job done. Kentucky deserves it. The country deserves it. And i just dont think hes capable of it. And its because hes been there 36 years. And been there too long. And kentuckians are getting that. I want to show another part of this debate. And this really is something ive never seen before with a senate incumbent in a debate with a challenger. Lets watch this. The first thing that we need to do is hold big pharma accountable for that. He is incapable of doing that. Hes incapable of doing it because he gets the most money from big pharma than any member of Congress Last cycle, last year. Thats why. Hes basically bought off. What senator mcconnell would do is take that away, take away the Medicaid Expansion where 50 of our fellow kentuckians who are addicted get their treatment through medicaid. And he wants to undermine that. I dont. I want to fix the Affordable Care act. I want to make health care easier to attain so that people can get the treatment and prevention prevention and treatment that they need. Time. Senator mcconnell . Nothing extra . No, why dont we go on to the next topic. Im kind of im kind of speechless after that one. There you have attacked everything about the way he does his work as a senator. Youve said that hes in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry and he has no defense that he thinks kentucky needs to hear about that. Well, he had no defense for a number of questions that came up last night when it comes to Coronavirus Relief, when it comes to health care, when it comes to kentucky, he really wanted to change the subject. I felt like last night he was talking about all kinds of other states and all kinds of other people but wasnt talking about us. And, again, i think that shows the disconnect. We have a million kentuckians that have filed for unemployment some time in the last six months. We have 300,000 kentuckians that dont have health care. We have renters, 50 of kentucky renters facing eviction right now. Look, the most important thing that is so critical and we have to take a step back and really understand and realize that we have 215,000 americans dead in nine months. This is the first Major International crisis in a century where no one is looking to the United States for leadership and its because we have such terrible leaders right now. And he is the perfect example of that. And i just, you know, with when faced with that, he didnt have an answer. The last poll ive seen in kentucky was over a month ago. We dont have any more polling since then. You were within eight points of Mitch Mcconnell over a month ago. Theres been a lot of campaigning since then. There was the debate last night. Where does the race stand tonight in kentucky . You know, there is a lot of energy. Today was the first day of early voting here in kentucky, and weve had mailin balloting mailin voting going on for the last few weeks. We have an enormous amount of energy and people wanting to vote. Kentuckys never made it easier to vote than this year. Which is great because were going to have lots of people be able to make their voices heard. And i think, you know, its its awesome right now because theres so much energy. People want change. They know theyre hurting right now. And they know that senator mcconnells times up. Thats just thats just it. His time is up. Amy mcgrath, democratic candidate for senate in kentucky, thank you very much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. Great to be with you. You might know pete souza as one of the most effective trump critics that you can follow on twitter now, but history will know pete souza as the artist who was preserved the most important imagery of the eight years of the Barack Obama Presidency as the white house official photographer. After this break, you will get a first look at the new documentary about pete souzas work entitled the way i see it, which will premier friday night on msnbc at 10 00 p. 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Pete souzas job was to somehow disappear whenever he was in the room with president obama while at the same time capturing for history what was happening in that room and some things that happened in the Obama Oval Office were magical moments that never could have happened before. This is jacob philadelphia. At one point jacobs mom said, mr. President , jacob has a question for you. So jacobs kind of like, mr. President , my friends tell me that my haircut is just like yours. And with that, president obama bent over, jacob touched his head, click, i got one photo and it was gone. That image was what barack obama had said to us two years ago at our office in chicago. That kid literally cant even believe even though hes seeing the president of the United States in the oval office, until he can feel his hair, he truly doesnt believe that hes just like me. That single image stands for so much more. It stands for how kids will see themselves differently forever. But too i think it tells you something about barack obama. That at the behest of a 5yearold kid you would go ahead, bend over and let that kid touch your head like that. Pete souzas work in the Obama White House is now the subject of a moving documentary entitled the way i see it, which will premier commercialfree on msnbc friday night at 10 00 p. M. After this break, well show you a bit it. After this break well show you a bit more of that documentary and pete sousa will join us. Mentary and pete sousa join us. Is what joe does. When writing his healthcare plan, joe biden worked with both doctors and patients to make healthcare affordable by lowering premiums, reducing drug costs, and protecting people with preexisting conditions. Joe listened to both Small Business owners and workers to create his economic plan that cuts taxes for middle class families, creates 18 million new jobs in his first term, and raises wages by as much as 15,000 a year. 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Hes harming our basic values, giving rise to hate, and hes selling out america to big corporations. Im working to protect immigrants, women, communities of color, and lgbtq people. And im making corporations like pg e and Insurance Companies play by our rules. We need experienced leadership to wipe away trumps stain on america for good. Unlike his predecessor, mr. Trump does not allow his Staff Photographer to capture the aspects of life and work inside the white house. If you just stack up the images of the Obama Presidency and Trump Presidency you will see the two stories of america in the starkest possible contrast. Joining us now pete souza, his career the subject of the new documentary, the way i see it premiering this friday on msnbc at 10 00 p. M. Eastern. It really is an honor to have you here. Ive been admiring your work for years. How does a kid from new bedford, massachusetts, end up with this all access pass at the white house . I think hard work and luck. I met barack obama when he was sworn in as a new senator in 2005 and i was working for the Chicago Tribune based in d. C. And i spent much of that year documenting his first year and i got access other photographers didnt get. He got to see how i worked and 4 years later he asked me to become his chief white house photographer. I want to take a look at one of your photographs of barack obama and joe biden. I think we have them out on the white house lawn sitting together. The control room has it somewhere. But if theres truth in that photograph it does look like a real friendship between those two men. For sure it was. And, you know, i think that bond was strengsenned when joe biden lost his son. And over the course of that year that beau was being treated for his brain cancer, Vice President biden confided in president obama about what that was like. And i think that really cemented their bond. The world has seen your photograph of the situation room during the raid on osama bin laden. Theres that photograph that we all have kind of memorized, and i dont think its occurred to many of us weve always looked at the photograph and i dont think weve ever really thought about so whos in that room taking that picture. You must have had a security clearance for moments like that and to be in there in moments like that. I did. I had a top security clearance, so i was able to be in the room when stuff happened including the bin laden raid, which i will say i think you can see it in their faces that was probably the tensest and most anxious 40 minutes of his presidency. The your mother im told met the president of the United States. What was that like . Yeah, she met him in 2010. You see the picture there on screen. Now, was that your picture, pete. Did you take the picture of your mother meeting the president . No, my colleague samantha appleton, took that photograph after i introduced her to him. And then Chuck Kennedy at our wedding in the rose garden made this picture of my mom touching president obama on the face. What did your mother say about that experience . You know, i think it was i mean, she was overwhelmed. And i saw that with so many people visiting the oval office for the first time meeting president obama. You get overwhelmed, and it happens so fast that you almost dont remember it. And thats the great thing about these photographs is for me and for many of the people i photographed who only got to meet president obama once, they have a memory of it with a photograph like this. Lets take a look at more from the documentary. Every three months we would go to walter reed and he would visit wounded warriors. I think it affected him emotionally. One time he went and we saw cory remsburg. He had gotten injured by an ied. The guy when he was on patrol with in afghanistan was killed instantly. Cory was thrown into a ravine. He was under water. Somehow he survived not drowning. He spent months in a coma. He lost half his eyesight and the ability to control half his body. He had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. But heres the thing that really took me aback. President obama had met cory in normandy the previous june. And id taken a picture of that encounter. And the picture, we had sent a copy to the family, and it was taped on the hospital wall. And i was looking at that picture and looking at corey and saying to myself this is the real cost of war. Pete, it was an emotional job for you, too. Absolutely. I mean, look at it this way, lawrence. Every emotion that barack obama experienced as president i was in the room for, the good times, the bad times. And in many ways i think theres a bond between us that will never be broken because of that. I experienced it as an observer, but i watched him deal with the emotions. Pete souza gets tonights last word. Thank you very much for joining us tonight, pete. And pete souza will get the last word on friday night. The documentary is the way i see it. Right here friday night, 10 00 p. M. , commercialfree. Premier of the way i see it. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. And good evening once again. Day 1,363 of the trump administration. 21 days to go untilct