choosing not to wear masks while he down plays the virus, soon the president leaves for another rally in pittsburgh where he'll likely celebrate senate republicans securing the votes needed to move forward on his supreme court nominee in the final six weeks of the election. though their caucus has yet to agree on a new coronavirus relief bill, believe it or not, as new polling out of iowa, where trump won by ten points finds him tied with joe biden at 47%. the same in georgia. a state trump won by five points back in 2016, now trump and biden both tied apartment 47% there. let's turn now to two of the top reporters in washington covering this, senior writer at politico, jake sherman on capitol hill. 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 list that the president put out, those people for the most part are vetted and the senate republican leadership today said that the candidate that the president puts guard will have already been vetted by the senate, somebody who's already on the federal bench, all very important elements, those grip and grins, not gripping and grinning on capitol hill, those meetings between senators on the nominee, all those dynamics are going to happen over the next couple of weeks, the confirmation possibly weeks before the presidential election. >> what's the supreme court battle do for him in his standing with one key demographic that he needs to win, women? >> the president is someone who wants to move forward at full speed the white house press secretary kayleigp mcenny said he'll have his nominee seated. they believe they have the votes to get this through, this is about the president in some ways reaching out to evangelical voters, reaching out to voters who believe in the constitution and a very specific version of the constitution and looking at them and saying, this is why you stomach through scandals and all sort of issues with the president to get the judicial nominees. with women, for democratic women, it's going to infur rate them. watching the court worried about your rights, then you're very, very nervous about the supreme court going to 6-3 republican majority. if you're a republican woman who believes, you're buoyed by the fact. there are a lot of women out there who are very nervous about president trump, republican women who i talked to he had gone a step too far for them, this could solidify president trump that someone as evangelical women are looking i could give him another four years. >> the first debate is a week away, the topics for that, includes the candidates' records on a whole host of issues -- the supreme court, the coronavirus, the economy, and race, including the actual records themselves between trump and biden, what are your sources tell telling you about the president's preparation and whether or not they feel confident about how he'll do on these short list of topics? >> well, the president has said himself that he relies on his political instincts, he really does believe in his own political gut, he has advisers around him, we all know from watching the president for four years, he doesn't take advice from people. we can imagine that president trump is going to be a dog fight with joe biden, he's going to be personal, biting, pointed, that he believes that joe biden is elected that america is going to be a more unsafe place, he'll defend himself very vigorously on the coronavirus fight. sources close to joe biden are very interested in watching joe biden talk about the president's record and telling series of interviews that he did with bob woodward where he admitted to down playing the virus. on race the president has had so many really, really pointed and at times troubling statements, statements that a lot of people have called racist. that was of course that we heard at dnc. apart from policy, they were saying donald trump is simply not a good person and can't be trusted with the american ideals and america's future. >> jake, your thoughts on this besides the debates and the election, does the supreme court confirmation process take away from coming one a new bill for coronavirus relief for the millions of americans affected by it? >> probably. there's been no movement in 12, 14 weeks. it seems like the two sides have given up, frankly, there are two theories. number one, a supreme court nomination will keep people in town a little bit longer and could provide the space and the privacy to cut a deal and then the other theory of the case, a supreme court fight will take up all the oxygen in the proverbial room in the office. i would imagine it will probably get done in a lame-duck session of congress, that's too late for a -- >> what about governmental funding, because that's supposed to expire in eight days. >> there are negotiations going on now between mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi. we don't anticipate a shutdown, it seems like there's a lot of movement on that front. >> thank you. remember, next tuesday president donald trump and joe biden face off in the first presidential debate when they go head to head for the first time, you'll want to watch with our own team here, join rachel maddow, nicolle wallace and brian williams. a top democratic john clyburn shows that the trump administration still has no national plan of tackling the covid-19. released a new report with recommendations for the administration including going and sharing a clear plan for distributing and administrating a covid-19 vaccine and containing the spread in schools. joining me is an associate for center of policy and research in emergency medicine. i wanted to play for you and our viewers, president trump's latest inaccurate comments about the coronavirus. take a listen. >> it affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems, if they have other problems that's what it really affects. you know, in some states thousands of people, nobody young, below the age of 18, like nobody. they have a strong immune system, who knows? you look -- take your hat off to the young because they have a hell of an immune system, but it affects virtually nobody. >> doctor, can you explain to our viewers why that's simply not true? >> yes, i mean, we've seen time and again that this president is willing to advance ideas that are tremendously reassuring and scientifically inaccurate, this is not a unicorn zebra of a virus, it spreads in people of any age. and we have seen, you know, we have seen that young people can transmit disease and get sick themselves. so, again, i think there's an inclination to just be extremely reassuring and celebrate wins that are not there. just completely inaccurate. >> your thoughts about the vaccine, the president downplays the virus while simultaneously promising the american people we'll see a vaccine, a coronavirus vaccine by election day, very determined on that date, if we do see a vaccine soon, what would you need to feel confident about, now ed to see to feel confident about its safety and recommendations to patients? >> we really need the full data from the faze three trials. we need to see both ef ficacy ad safety data to make sure we can feel confident and a really solid plan for distributing the vaccine in a timely manner and in an equitable one. you noted that they made recommendations for the vaccine distribution, they're asking for a time line in which we'll see a time line in distributioning the vaccine. cdc asked for data about hospitalizatio hospitalizations, to have full information quickly so that we can make a plan to distribute the vaccine to places that need it the most. we can't wait, this is not, you know, we can't downplay the pandemic and then also say, we need to have this vaccine immediately the truth is, this is the most devastating health crisis our country has ever faced, vaccines are so urgent and we're doing everything we can but the science needs to take the right amount of time so we're not pushing out something that's danger to the american people. >> one of the raging debates in this country is about schools, universities and colleges a new study finds that colleges and universities that reopened for in-person instruction might have caused hundreds of thousands of additional cases recently, what schools need to do to keep this under control? >> reopenings can happen for schools and of course, elementary and high school are very different than colleges which are like residential facilities, but i think what needed to happen, we couldn't expect people to go to college in person with the sole intent is to gather socially and then ask people not to gather socially. a look at community prevalence and a good look at whether any individual college, university was fully prepared to roll out a safe plan for their students to come to school and that means, frequent, routine and rapid turnaround testing, plans for isolation and plans for contact tracing and case isolation, and simply if that wasn't possible, and you know if schools couldn't create for people to be social then they shouldn't have opened and what we have seen this fall is that we've more doubled the number of cases that occurred on colleges and universities this year. a bunch of cases in the spring where we didn't know much. in fall, we still opened against the advice of public health experts. there's a lot to learn here and i hope we can move forward and actually learn these lessons and about accordingly. >> doctor, thank you so much for joining us this hour. president trump lashes out at china during his speech to the u.n. general assembly, and what he had to say vladimir putin, russia's president, at last night's rally. and a warning from student athletes from a family who they lost their son to the coronavirus after he went back to working out with his college football team. his mother joins me later in the hour. you're watching msnbc. tech: wee right to you. ♪ upbeat music >> tech: you'll get a text when we're on our way. >> tech: before we arrive, just leave your keys on the dash. we'll replace your windshield with safe, no-contact service. ♪ upbeat music >> tech: and that's service you can trust when you need it the most. ♪ upbeat music >> tech: schedule at safelite.com. ♪ upbeat music >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ it's official: national coffee day is now national dunkin' day! celebrate with a free medium hot or iced coffee with any purchase on september 29th. more dangerous and corrupt president than trump. he's harming our basic values, giving rise to hate, and he's selling out america to big corporations. i'm working to protect immigrants, women, communities of color, and lgbtq people. and i'm making corporations like pg&e and insurance companies play by our rules. we need experienced leadership to wipe away trump's stain on america for good. president trump blasting china today during a taped speech before the virtual united nations general assembly. he said that tun must hold china accountable for failing to contain the coronavirus which has killed 200,000 americans and nearly 1 million people around the world. joining me now is the president of the council of foreign relations and the author of the world, a brief introduction richard haass. a historic day at the united nations with all the virtual speeches we saw there, leaders of the united states bashing china, another very powerful country before the united nations in some sharp language there from the president and all of this is happening amid a global pandemic, is this rhetoric helpful at this point from your perspective, richard? >> short answer is no. this wasn't a foreign policy speech. not an exercise in diplomacy, this was essentially a campaign stop, it wasn't much of a speech, each leader was given 15 minutes, i don't think the president went over five, six minutes. he began calling at this time chinese flu, essentially aimed at china, aimed at iran a little bit, embraced america first and it was over. it was really -- it was that brief. >> no mention of russia and china. a bit ironic, we have covered or at least discussed speeches in the past, sometimes those speeches go on for almost an hour. on saturday, though the trump administration you brought up the subject of iran, that declared the snapback of sanctions on iran at the united nati nations, disputed by other members, further isolated the united states of america, what implications do you expect to come from this unilateral action by the united states? >> not a whole lot. we basically already sanctioned iran as much as we can. iran is gradually increasing its nuclear capabilities. i literally don't see what this leads to, the administration seems to want to bring about a change of regime in iran, no signs it's going happen, so we're something of an impasse and neither country seems to be doing is talk about a longer term arrangement, some relief on sanctions in exchange in extending the nuclear constraints. right now, certainly the united states and possibly iran is not interested in that. >> someone who has arguably benefited from the u.s. tensions with iran is obviously russia, president trump touting his relationship with russian president vladimir putin at a rally in ohio last night. >> let me tell you, we've been very rough, but at the same time, we get along. i like him, he likes me. >> this is happen as the fbi director says that russia is directing an influence operation to denigrate joe biden, how do you square the two between what the fbi director is saying and what president trump is saying. >> they might be quite consistent. a larger point here is, the purpose of foreign policy is not quote/unquote get along with other countries. the question is, if president trump does have a decent relationship, why hasn't it led to the russians turning off the tap on interfering with our election? why are still trying to kill their dissidents? i don't see any benefit of this allegedly good personal relationship. >> ukrainian president zelensky addressing russia's aggressive in crimea. should the u.s. continue taking a backseat on this and would a biden win in november help bring ukraine's diplomatic issues back to washington, d.c.? >> put more emphasis on it. a big thing we don't have on our side and it's called geographge. we can push for diplomacy. we can help ukraine in a limited way are by providing limited arms. but we have limited options, we're not a position to make this critical square on the chess board, we don't have tools and too many other places that are arguably more strategic significantly. >> ichd are, always a pleasure, thank you very much for joining us today. appreciate your time. >> thank you, my friend. major shakeups at the department of health and human services, why this might be good news for hhs secretary alex azar. one of the top reporters on the story shares the details. 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(doorbell rings) - grubhub! let's get to very latest facts in the coronavirus pandemic. according to new report of the gao, nearly 9 million americans are still waiting for the stimulus checks since the cares act was passed by congress. research shows that 6 -- $600 increase in unemployment insurance didn't discourage people from returning to workforce. the cdc has issued new guidelines that warning in traditional trick or treating by going door to door is among the highest risk activities. and the nfl has fined three coaches $100,000 each for not wearing their mask on sunday and each team has been fined $250,000. a personnel shake-up and the department of health and human services. one of the officials leaving the department included a 2020 college graduate who had been in charge of the department's personnel and was helping shape policy there, all in the middle of a global pandemic, joining me now is healthcare reporter for politico, dan dimon. what can you tell us about these personnel changes at hhs. >> it's important to set the framework that the administration has burned through personnel in the health department over the past three years, even before the pandemic and this recent shakeup, we're on the second health secretaries, different teams around the leadership has come and gone, so the white house liaison that's the office in charge of political personnel, the coordination essentially between the white house and the health department, no which political appointees will be installed in various roles. emily newman went over to hhs at the beginning of the year, an administration veteran, someone who's worked with stephen miller in the white house she and her team imposed more of a white house-led initiative on hhs and secretary alex azar. emily newman earlier this year went to voice of america, she's been in seat there for three months, her deputy liaison was running all personnel at hhs and as you pointed out she's someone as rekrenly this spring was university of michigan taking college class. >> reporter: what she was doing there when we talk about her ability to impact policy? >> i think the biggest frustration for some senior officials is that the white house liaisons have been pushed in to scrutinize career civil servants in their response around the pandemic or try to shape the overall messaging in the middle of this crisis. we have reported about the spokesperson michael caputo who's now on medical leave, he worked and tried to shape the reports coming from the cdc. katherine was someone who enlisted in the that effort to scrutinize the cdc and try to make sure that their messages were lining up with the president's more optimistic take on coronavirus. >> let's talk about the broader hhs, you're also reporting that these changes mean secretary azar's immediate team has now more control over the direction of hhs in the near term, and just yesterday "the new york times" reported that azar is asserting more authority over the fda, what are you hearing from your sources about what's going on hhs and how it is being run? >> the backdrop here, we are month and a half out from an election and the vaccine for coronavirus is foremost among the president, his aides, foremost as an objection before the election hits, alex azar, his department will be shepherding that vaccine along, or potential multipling vaccines ahead of the election, secretary azar is trying to show that she's in control of his operation, he's had an up and down year, he was leading the coronavirus task force, then he wasn't, michael caputo was installed as the spokesperson without consulting azar. so it's been a tumultuous period at the health department. azar is trying to show that his team has the authority to report. >> appreciate your time as always. >> thank you. congratulations on anchoring your own show. >> thank you. pennsylvania where president trump is holding a rally tonight is one of the many states suing the u.s. postal service over mail delays allegedly caused by recent operational changes. pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro joins me next. with 42 days until the election here's your latest vote watch, a federal judge in wisconsin is extending the deadline for absentee ballots meaning they can be counted up to six days after november 3rd, as long as they're postmarked on election day. in 2016, to trump won the state by less than 1%. the houston chronicle reports with straight-ticket voting with no longer an option in texas, the top election in harris county estimates that the average resident will spend a significantly longer time in the voting booth, in response, the state has tripled the number of places. and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg has raised over $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of felo felofelony. it will help former prisoners who are barred by law from voting by outstanding fees. president trump is headed to campaign in pennsylvania this evening the state is currently suing the postmaster general over changes to usps that have allegedly delayed mail delivery nationwide. this thursday, an in-person hearing on the case will take place in federal court, less than six weeks from election day. joining me now is pennsylvania's attorney general josh shapiro. thank you so much for your time. what can we expect to see on thursday? >> we're trying to move it along as quickly as possible in order to give the public confidence in the system that the president and his handpicked crony of a postmaster general louis dejoy have sought to undermined. we were able to go through the documents the postal service, they have confirmed what we already know, louis dejoy and the leadership at the united states postal service made concrete and illegal changes back in july that had the effect of slowing down the mail and while i know he testified, ayman, before congress and said, he wouldn't make any other changes going forward, the reality is the damage is already done, we can prove it, and the effect of that damage is that it has slowed down the mail, and made it more of a process for voters than it needs to be and that's why we're in federal court fighting back not just behalf on the voters here in pennsylvania but i organized a coalition of attorneys general from across the country to help us in this battle that i'm confident we'll win. >> what specifically would the lawsuit do to address the grievances that you outlined if already put in place going back as far as july. >> real simple, we simply want the postal service to roll back the illegal changes they made in july, the very changes that have slowed down prescription drugs, making their way to veterans here in pennsylvania, including a veteran we talked to from merc mercer county, pennsylvania, slowed down the operations of small businesses because they can't get the materials they rely on through the mail and the same changes that sadly could upend our election if these ballots aren't delivered on time. we need to go through this court proceeding to unwind those changes and get the mail flowing again. >> would you vote by mail as the situation stands today in your state? >> of course i would. i voted by mail back in june during our primary and i would prepare to do it again. look, here's what's really happening in pennsylvania, we've got a president of the united states who's quite literally has sued here in pennsylvania to make it harder for people to vote. who made illegal changes in slowing down the process. they're trying to sou doubt in our election process and make the public feel powerless, when in reality, we're the ones with the power, we're the ones who have the about to shape our democracy going forward if we show up to vote. and it's my job as the people's lawyer to secure and protect those votes and make sure that those legal eligible votes are counted. that's exactly what i'm doing here in commonwealth of pennsylvania. >> the pennsylvania supreme court recently ordered officials to throw out naked ballots, ballots that arrive without an inner secrecy envelope, a top election official in philadelphia estimated that's as many as 30,000, 40,000 mail-in ballot tas could arrive in philadelphia alone for the presidential election, are you concerned about that? >> well, look, what's important is that the counties mail the correct material out to the voters, the voters are educated on how to fill out their ballots, put it back in the mail and send it back, and so there's a lot of work going on to educate voters. here's the deal at the end of the day, i want voters not have to worry about lawyering i'm doing in court or the processing of the ballots and simply make their plan to vote, make their plan to vote, engage in our democracy and choose the best path forward for our commonwealth and our country. >> let me switch gears for a moment, obviously the president probably going to coming back to pennsylvania between now and election day, his rallies tend to not have a lot of people who wear masks and sometimes violate mask mandates in those states, are there any legal consequences for those who violate those gatherings in pennsylvania? >> i think the president's conduct and the conduct of his enablers in these community rallies is really reckless, look, whether you're for this guy or against him, we know that this virus doesn't play favorites between democrats and republicans, and we know that this virus is spread through our community in a serious way, we have lost over 200,000 americans. we have dealt with spikes here in the pennsylvania when there have been community gatherings, we should not be acting recklessly, any one of us, let alone the president of the united states who's supposed to lead by example. whether you're a supporter of the president, put a mask on. if you care about the community you live in, you should also wear a mask. as for enforcement, that's an issue let to the governor, state police and local police. i'll leave it to the governor on how those orders will be enforced. >> all right pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro. thank you for your time. >> thank you. today is national voter registration day, celebrated on the fourth tuesday of every september according to latest research, millions of eligible voters are still not registered in the country and many of them have never been asked to register. former president barack obama is putting in the ask today. >> what's at stake in this election is much bigger than joe. what it e's at stake is whether our democracy endures. go to iwillvote.com to get registered and learn the options in your state. >> president trump also tweeted out a note reminding people of the day as well, don't forget to plan how and when when you're going to vote, at nbcnews.com/planyourvote. the united kingdom is rolling out new restrictions with cases on the rise. we're live in london right after the break. plus, i'll be joined by a mother two says that she lost her son, a college football player, to covid-19 just days ago, the message for parents of athletes being forced to go back to college. you're watching many, snbc. supplemental insurance. medicare is great, but it doesn't cover everything - only about 80% of your part b medicare costs, which means you may have to pay for the rest. that's where medicare supplement insurance comes in: to help pay for some of what medicare doesn't. learn how an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by united healthcare insurance company might be the right choice for you. a free decision guide is a great place to start. call today to request yours. so what makes an aarp medicare supplement plan unique? 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>> just a big personality that would light up a room. very kind. very intelligent. he was a senior, business administrative major. he was looking forward to graduating this year. also looking forward to turning 21. actually yesterday was his 21st birthday. >> yeah, i can imagine what that is like. do you have any sense or have you gotten any sense of how he might have gotten sick? >> yes. he returned back to campus, and he was fine when i took him back to school. i went in his room, and i sanitized everything. bleached everything. lysoled everything down. and so -- and he was fine. perfectly healthy. he had a physical on the 21st of august. clean bill of health. and he was in the room with his roommate who he thought had a cold. and when i heard the coughing in the background when i was talking to my son, i said you can't be sure it's a cold. we're in the middle of a pandemic. you can't be sure it's a cold. so then maybe a day or two after that, i could hear congest iionn j's -- it was more like in his nose. he thought it was his allergies because he has seasonal allergies. so he thought maybe that was it. and then the next day he was experiencing being more tired than usual. and so that alarmed me. but he contended that he didn't have like, you know, no body aches, no headache. none of the other symptoms. no sore throat or anything like that. but his best friend had gone and gotten him some theraflu. and thinking that that might help. and then it did not. and when i talked to him on the phone the next day, i just happened to be working from home that day and i said to him if you're not feeling better by the time i'm done working here, i'm going to get on the road and i'm going to come get you. and he said to me -- oh, and i also said to him, i started reading down these covid symptoms and he kept saying, you know, none of that is going on with me. and at the end he said, you know what? i did have diarrhea when i got up this morning. so i said when i'm done working for the day i'm going to come get you. if you're not feeling better. and he said to me, well, i knew you were going to say that so you might as well come get me now. because he was not a complainer, i knew when he said that i could come get him in that moment that he did not -- that he really didn't feel good. and so i got on the road and i went and i picked him up, and i brought him back to the city of pittsburgh. i took him first we went to like a med express because i know they do covid testing daily. so i took him there, and as the nurse was administering the covid test to him, she let me know that he had a temperature. and she asked if she could -- and she listened to his chest and she said can i take him inside to do a chest x-ray. and she came back out and said he has pneumonia. and so at that point, i took him to the e.r. >> ms. allen, you're probably aware president trump will be in pittsburgh tonight and this is just one night after telling people that the coronavirus, quote, affects virtually nobody who is young. your son was young. your son was an athlete. he was fit. what would you like to say to the president of the united states? >> leave the science to the scientists. leave the medical research to folks that are qualified to do that. it sickens me that this is political. my son was 20 years old. an athlete. and had just had a physical ten days prior to ending up in the hospital where he had a clean bill of health. so can't tell me that it doesn't impact young people. it doesn't discriminate by age or race or gender. because i am sitting here right now without my son. >> kelly allen, i'm so sorry for your loss and for your family's loss. our hearts are with you and your family as you go through this difficult time. thank you for sharing your story with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. that wraps up this hour for me. i'm going to see you right back here tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern. 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