They also made it clear that we still do not seem to have a National Strategy to combat and contain this virus beyond hoping for a vaccine. As dr. Fauci suggested in testimony today, we never really had one to begin with. Would you agree with me that the critical difference is either the presence or the absence of social cohesion and Political Leadership to actually develop a plan, execute it and stick to it . I think that with such a diverse of response in this country from different states that we really did not have a unified bringing everything down. At the same hearing the nations testing czar said that we still dont have the Testing Capacity we need due to testing delays. Would it be possible for our nation to have results for all covid tests completed and returned within 48 and 72 hours . Is that a possible benchmark that we can achieve . It is not a possible benchmark we can achieve today given the demand and the supply. It is absolutely a bench mark we can achieve moving forward. Tens of millions are about to lose Unemployment Benefits due to an impasse on capitol hill and the president would not say what he wants in a deal when he spoke to reporters today. Are you going to spell out exactly what you want right now what i want is our people to be able to live and live well because it wasnt their fault that china brought in this pandemic, that china brought in this plague. Its chinas fault. China should be paying for it and maybe they will. Maybe they will. Youll watch. Youll watch. And to cap it off, with just 95 days to go, the president right now seems to be fixated on attacking the legitimacy of this upcoming president ial election and his campaign admits the current strategy is not working and warning that our election infrastructure could not handle a surge of mailin voting. Watch some of this exchange he had today with Peter Alexander because the president seemed a lot less interested in addressing the issue and more about sowing doubts that he thinks it a foregoon conclusion. Mr. President , we heard yesterday your frustrations about how long it will take to count the ballots. Why arent you spending more energy to get the resources and the funding for the states to secure this election for all americans. Peter, you know nothing about my energy. What are you doing specifically. You know nothing about what im doing. What are you doing . Listen, you know nothing about what i do. Everyone knows mailin ballots are a disaster. They think theyre going to send hundreds of millions of ballots all over the United States and its going to come out. And maybe never know the election result and that is what im concerned it. It will be fixed, it will be rigged. People ought to get smart. This is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. This will be catastrophic for our nation and youll see it. Im always right about things like this. I guess i must be. I wouldnt be sitting here. What would he be saying if he were leading in thes right now. Ask yourself that question. Joining me now shannon pettypiece, jake sherman from politico and analyst and ann geren from the Washington Post and a msnbc contributor. If yesterday we saw a president that seems almost a bit defeated by the virus, he came out there and he was sort of you could see, speaking of energy, he was a bit low energy. Today that was an angry president. Weve heard more angry rhetoric. I mean, is he this convinced hes losing and that is why he wants to do this to the election itself . Reporter you know, i feel like i got a little bit of insight in the past couple of hours into the persistent attack on mailin voting. I was just talking to someone on the campaign who is talking about a broader strategy to focus on these early voting states, that there has been this realization, at least a big emphasis, on the fact that the election doesnt start on november 3rd. It starts now. And when you talk about mailin ballots, that is part of it. People being able to mail in ballots, some weeks before election day. They dont mail in on election day and there is a big concern they havent put enough focus on the early voting states and that is where the shift is going to be with the ad buy and the ground ga ground game and that is under the new manager. So the attacks on mailin voting and now think about this campaign strategy, im starting to see the two pieces align here, chuck. That is interesting. And geren, i want to play something the president just said not long ago while in tampa. And, look, he uses dehumanizing rhetoric quite a bit on twitter but this felt like another level. Take a listen. When you had a democrat run city, you have a city with problems. If joe biden is elected president , the chaos and blood shed will spread to every community in our land. Youll have a portland everywhere. In joe bidens america, you and your family will never be safe, riots and criminals will be totally protected, lawabiding citizens will be totally disarmed and American Families will be at the mercy of the violent leftwing mob that youve been watching on television. The imagery hes painting and i know we get numb to the president s rhetoric, but, my word, this to me is part of the problem in our politics, we dehumanize the other size, that you dont disagree, youve got to destroy them, youve got to kick them out of the country, this or that. This is the sitting president of the United States speaking about fellow americans this way. Painting this imagery that ironically, ann, is taking place in trumps america right now, not bidens america. Right. Chuck, the president was giving a particularly apocalyptic version of what really has emerged as one of his Main Campaign arguments which is you will not be safe in a joe biden america. But what hes doing is scaring people about something that is happening right now. And it bears mention that liberal democrats have run cities in america for decades. And weve not had the kind of clashes and the kind of violence and really disturbing things that have happened on the streets of American Cities very often and now weve had four months of it. And many of those conflicts were brought on by the fact that the federal government instigated it in one way or another, from Lafayette Square to portland. I mean he seems to be counting on people only watching this through the prism of his favorite cable channel which clery picks rather than seeing what is before their eyes. Jake sherman, im curious about sort of the view on capitol hill among republicans in particular. Because i feel like a lot of times the Republican Party that is left on capitol hill, if anybody speaks for them at times, it is the wall street Journal Editorial Board page and i thought it was fascinating that the wall street journal said have you thought about quitting. Let me read what they wrote. It is not to suggest that the november election will be rigged as mr. Trump asserts but if he believes that he should reconsider his participation and let someone run who isnt looking for an excuse to blame for defeat. The wall street Journal Editorial Board, it is more of a senate Republican Party, it speaks more for that wing of the party and not trump. Are they speaking for that wing . Well, you know, chuck, they used to call it the paul street journal for paul ryan so you could tell where they used to be aligned. The wall street Journal Editorial Board has taken a series of positions recently that do reflect the broad consensus on capitol hill. They took a position against the president s negotiating tactic in the covid relief package where hes just a completely absent figure in this package. And yes, he said two things this week that were pretty stunning. He has slammed absentee balloting which Senate Republicans say this is a guy who we count on to turn people out to the voting booths and hes not doing that. That is number one. Number two, that he said he wanted to change the election. Senate republicans, house republicans, basically everyone with an election certificate besides donald trump said that was ridiculous. So, i mean, this is the story of his presidency in many ways. The elects officials coming out against him when he says more outlandish things and we saw that again this week. Let me follow up with both you and shannon here a second. So, jake, this morning, you reported that the white house offered an extension of four months of the Unemployment Benefits with the eviction moratorium, for the full 600 and the democrats seemed to say, no, no, no, they made a one week offer. Yeah. I know youre standing by your reporting. Have you gotten any clarification all day. I have to tell you this, if the white house did offer that, i dont understand why theyre not tripling down on it today. They dont seem to be. Well, it is interesting. Reporters heard that that reporting was wrong. One refer that never heard that being wrong is me. So i have no reason to not stand by it and my sources stand by it and it is absolutely the truth. The white house yesterday came out in favor of 600, which a time undetermined. Listen, here is the reality, republicans right now are desperate to get some sort of resolution on Unemployment Insurance and democrats know that and that is why democrats hold all of the cards. The most amazing thing, chuck, if we look back to the obama administration, the president is just completely absent here. Hes not calling the principals down to the white house for a meeting. This is a relatively straight federal negotiation. And were just seeing no resolution from the president , no resolution from any side. And weve already gone over this proverbial cliff. This is real for a lot of americans who have been receiving enhanced unemployment and just one more note here, chuck, tomorrow morning at 9 00 a. M. Nancy pelosi is hosting another meeting in the capitol in her office in person. So important to keep that in mind, too. Shannon, today did you get any clarification . I mean, i was stunned at how sort of that there was nor ambiguity, if it was possible today. Reporter yeah. I think there is negotiating going on through the press. So i dont know. Ive been through this enough time, at this point you cant believe anything that anyone is saying because theyre saying things to try to put pressure and leverage the other side. But it does seem there is a genuine sense in the white house that theyre not going to be getting a deal done in time soon. Now does that mean by the end of the day or over the weekend or monday . It is hard to tell. But there is some pessimism about getting a deal done and jake is correct about the president being ab sent for this and his attention is not focused on getting this deal done. It is on many other things, it is on crime, it is on mailin voting, it is not on 600 a week unemployment. Well, if there is one other thing they dont seem to be straight on, ann geren, it is a message for the reelection. I think in a remarkable sort of admitting it publicly, yes, were retooling, were pulling ourard our pulling our ads, and theyre also scrambling for that and do you have a better idea of what the message is going to be out of the campaign . Not really. Because they havent put out a replacement message for the one campaign ads that theyve now taken down. It is obviously not a good look to go dark on campaign ads, poll advertising. At least for a few days. We dont know exactly for how long. With fewer than 100 days to go to the election. I think the argument that the president was making and the clip that you played a little bit earlier remains the main rationale. It is law and order, youll be safe with me, you wont be safe with the other guy. But of course, the president himself undercuts that routinely. What we do see from the campaign is an effort to reboot a bit. I think of this more as a reset button than a panic button. But the new Campaign Manager is essentially trying to show value and show difference from the old one. You have a new guy and he has to come in and clean house and change things around or otherwise it looks like the same old same old. So it is not surprising that he made some changes. And it seems that the advertise that you broke last night seemed like a major one. But it is mentioned that donald trump tried to do the same thing in 2016. Paul manafort was supposed to come in and install a more disciplined Rigorous Campaign and get things back on track and now hes doing it went good sepien. Jake sherman, do house and Senate Republicans want to run on this same law and order message or do they want to run on a slightly different message having to do with fiscal issue . Well, i havent seen many Senate Republicans run on this law and order message. Frankly there are very few house republicans, because theyve been wiped out in the house, there are very few in competitive messages. Cory gardner is running ads about an outdoor bill he did. They might do it in some places but the fiscal matters, the stimulus to the economy, i think that is what theyre running on in the immediate. And who knows where this could go. They could split with him in a dramatic way if this goes south. But everyone republican in the senate is becoming more and more bear is about their prospects in 95 days that is remarkable and stunning to me. It does feel like it is every republican for themselves now. And and it begins with the guy running for reelection and that does feel like that is what were seeing right now. Thank you all for getting us started. Up ahead, were going to get into some detail on this stuff as the president attacks the legal voting process and trying to sow doubts about the legitimacy of our election. Well going to fact check his voter mail fraud claims and ill talk about the real concern when it comes to mailin ballots. 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But as a couple of radical left people said, you know, who actually agree with me, they said no matter what you do, were not prepared for this. Theyre not prepared for an an slaut of millions of ballots. Theyre not prepared. Theyre not prepared. You watch. Theyre not going to announce anything on november 3rd. Theyre not going to announce on the 4th or the 5th or the 6 00th. It will go on forever. In a moment well address the issues facing election that could be conducted by mail but first lets dive into the efforts to sow doubts about the legitimacy of this election. With me is trevor potter, from the federal election commission, former General Council to john mccain and i have feel hes going to be very busy as the campaigns sue each other and we look to expertise to figure out what is going on. Trevor, it is good to see you. Let me start with there is a lot of the president s allies cherry picking some stats to try to create more doubt about mailin voting. Let me play something that the press secretary said. Take a listen. Always a mailin ballot system, mass mailout ballots are more at risk at fraud. Look at l. A. County where 112 of l. A. County is registered. That means you have 12 of excess ballots floating around that are, we know, at least 12 that are not accurate ballots that were mailed out. This is a very basic concept and it is one that the media has done a very good job reporting on. So, 112 of ballots get mailed out. To me it sounds like a lot of people move in and out of l. A. How much of it is that . How normal is Something Like this . Well, it is youre absolutely right. What the press secretary is saying is that you have people who moved, you have people who died, and when people move they tend not to go and stop on their way out of town and tell the Voter Register that theyre leaving. They register in their new place and it takes a while for it to catch up. But that has nothing to do with whether there is going to be fraud in the election. Because what happens is, in los angeles, which is one of the few states that mails every registered voter a ballot automatically, when that happens, if its nondeliverable, it is returned to the election office. If it is delivered, lets say to the apartment of the next tenant gets it, it doesnt matter because only the registered voter could actually vote that absentee ballot. They have to provide identification wh