tifs descended on the statewide recount of the election on behalf of george w bush orchestrated by roger stone and his ilk, the brooks brothers protests were organized to create a distraction and object to the legitimate recount. the new times, donald trump is staging his objections in advance. vice president joe biden is leading in the polls and at the dnc convention this week he showed himself to be a worthy candidate to replace trump at 1600 black lives matter plaza. trump, clearly fearing he can't win the election on points, is trying to change the rules of the game. trying to sew doubt that any election that doesn't guarantee that he stays in power is by definition illegitimate. >> i think this is a very disgraceful situation. i really tonight think that you're going to know anything on the evening, anything meaningful or anything real on the evening of november 3rd. i don't think you're going to know anything. you're not going to know what happened. >> to make matters worse for the former reality show star, democrats this week staged a solid, well produced democratic national convention. >> we've got to vote early, in person if we can. we've got to ask our mail-in ballots tonight and send them back immediately. >> so i think we need to ask ourselves why don't they want us to vote? why is there so much effort to silence our voices? and the answer is because when we vote, things change. >> they know they can't win you over with their policies so they're hoping to make it as hard as possible for you to vote and to convince you that your vote does not matter. >> we must pass on the gift john lewis sacrificed to give us. we must register and we must vote. >> trump wages the public campaign against just the idea of elections. his campaign lores arewo workin behind the scenes to make voting as difficult as possible. there are roughly 40 lawsuits underway against multiple states including crucial swing states like pennsylvania, nevada, wisconsin, florida. republicans are also recruiting nearly 50,000 poll watchers to watch and presumably to intimidate people while they try to vote. and trump isn't hiding the ball on this intimidation strategy. he's bragging about it on tv. >> are you going to have poll watchers? are you going to have an ability to monitor, to avoid fraud? >> we're going to have everything. we're going to have sheriffs and we're going to have law enforcement and we're going to have hopefully u.s. attorneys and we're going to have everybody, and attorney generals. >> and we've seen one of the other parts of the plan involving what has been a full blown assault on the u.s. postal service. earlier today the postmaster general, louis dujoy, ensured senators that recent steps to remove equipment were apolitical. he has no intention of replacing the sorting equipment in mailboxes he had removed around the country. the trump administration has faced major blow back from the delivery days that resulted ahead of the election. trump's behavior has prompted the editorial board of the washington post to warn americans against giving him a second term. in a scathing piece published today they write that trump has sought to undermine the confidence and democracy itself lying about the prevalence of fraud, floating the possibility of delaying election and even suggesting he might not accept its results. these are high crimes and misdemeanors of the constitution and this time it's just us, the american people, to remove mr. trump from office. we're joined by val demings of florida, a member of the house judiciary and homeland security committees and also as we all know, an impeachment manager against one donald j. trump. congresswoman, it's always great to see you. >> joy, so good to be with you. let me just congratulation on "the reed out." you look good in this time. >> thank you very much. i truly appreciate that. i'm a former floridian. >> i know. >> i appreciate talking with you. so i want to play back a little bit of what you said. one of the arguments that you made in the attempt to get donald trump convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors, which the washington post also referred to, here you are talking about donald trump. >> the evidence confirms that if left in office, president trump will continue to harm our america's national security. he will continue to seek to corrupt the upcoming election and he will undermine, he will undermine our democracy all to further his own personal gain. >> what do you make of the fact that given all of the warnings that you all gave, the impeachment managers gave, and given the fact that donald trump has lived down to all of those warnings, he's done almost everything that you all have talked about, that republicans, elected republicans in the house, the senate, and the governors of states like florida are 100% behind him still? >> well, joy, it's not just the warnings that we gave during the impeachment trial. donald trump has reminded us of what he will do since the election. what is it that maya angelo usaid, when people show you who they are, believe them. as the president of the united states he stood on the west lawn and invited china to interfere in the election. so, you know -- and i think about -- i refer to donald trump as an habit actual offender. he cannot help himself. i knew as an impeachment manager during the trial looking at past behavior that he would continue to re-offend as he has done. is he scared to death. he's seen the polls. he knows there are people in his own party that are abandoning ship finally. i was so disappointed at the gop during the impeachment trial and quite frankly some of my c colleagues on the other side. he's trying to use the post office, the united states postal service as his biggest weapon. >> you know, as a former law enforcement officer, he said that he's going to put sheriffs and law enforcement officers at the polls to watch and intimidate people. just as a former law enforcement officer, what do you make of that? >> and let me just say this, and i'm glad you asked that question because i was going to clear that up. law enforcement is routinely at the polling places because, as you know, we're hoping that it gets really crowded, the lines are so long and they help people get safely in and out of the polling places. that is their primary responsibility. but it does sound like this president is going to try to use law enforcement in a different way. i cannot imagine the police chiefs and the sheriffs across this national loug the president of the united states in his desperate state to use law enforcement in any way to try to decide an election, try to intimidate voters. that's not the oath that they took. they department take it to trump, they took it to the constitution of the united states and i would expect them certainly as a former police chief to uphold that oath. >> you mentioned the constitution. donald trump seems to find it to be an annoyance. here he is talking about the fact that he claims that we may not be able to decide the election, for months, years maybe. he seems to think if it's not decided that somehow on january 20th, you know, the constitution says, you know, it's fine, trump, stay in office. he seems to think he would stay in. here's what he says would happen in his mind if there's no decision on november 3rd. >> there is a theory if you don't have it, and that's part of their whole act, if you don't have a choice, that the speaker of the house becomes president and that i think goes into effect on either the 20th or the 1st. and put that in the hopper. add that to everything else. it's a disgrace. >> that would be he thinks the constitution is a disgrace. that's not a theory, that's actually what the constitution says. if no decision is made who the president is on january 20th, the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, becomes the president. that is a fact. who is -- if donald trump is not being told by his own legal advisers had a that is the fact, do you -- are you concerned that there are people in the white house and people in the justice department who are telling donald trump that he can stay in office and reinforcing he can stay in office, that the marco rubio's of the world who are busy fighting with steve schmidt on twitter are telling donald trump you can stay in office. are you worried that marco rubio, rick scott would be okay with him trying to stay in office even if he lost the election? >> joy, donald trump has a laundry list of violations of the constitution, the rule of law. he's trying to destroy our democracy and quite fair and accurately i haven't heard any senator from florida try to hold him accountable. i don't think they're saying anything out of fear of what this president will do, afraid of a tweet or whatever other foolishness that this president engages in. so i don't think they're telling him anything, and it would be absolutely disgraceful for the leaders in the senate, including the justice department, to just stand around and let this president continue to do what he's trying to do to uphold, to stop this election, to sabotage this election and the people's right to vote. and so here again, you know, i think about the house of representatives during the impeachment trial and actually quite frankly during the shenanigans that the president has been involved in over the last two years. think about where we would be were it not for the fire wall in the house of representatives. so we're going to continue to do everything within our power to stop him from trying to stop americans from exercising their right to vote. >> well, congresswoman val demming, always good to talk to you. this is my own editorial comment. when we have a sister here who is not afraid to be a chief of police and the boss of one of the largest police forces and to drive a harley, to have these grown men senators tweeting at them, shame on them. shame on them. >> disgraceful. >> that's disgraceful. i appreciate that. the trump campaign is suing the state of pennsylvania in an effort to stop people from dropping ballots off at secure locations. they're also suing to allow for election, quote, monitors to challenge the eligibility of voters. for more i'm joined by pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro. my first question to you, attorney shapiro, can you stop donald trump from sending these monitors who have no legal authority to intimidate people at the polls and try to challenge their right to vote? >> congrats on a great first month. we have a long track record in pennsylvania and my fellow democratic attorneys general have a long track record of holding this president accountable when he breaks the law. sadly, he breaks the law a lot. and now what he's doing in pennsylvania is actually suing us over a law that was passed, by the way, with more republican votes than democratic votes that's supposed to make it easier for people to legally participate in our democracy, he's suing us to make it harder for people to vote. joy, to answer your question directly, yes, we will prevail. we will stop his efforts to undermine the vote here in pennsylvania as we've stopped his efforts to undermine our lgbtq brothers and sisters and undermine our planet so many other times. we're in court now. this president tweets and makes statements about how they're all kinds of voter fraud in pennsylvania. so we said in our court filings, hey, mr. president, put up or shut up. show us that evidence. you know what they did? his lawyers filed a brief with the court that demonstrated that there was zero fraud in the last election here in pennsylvania. they can't even back up their ridiculous tweets and assertions that he makes. so we're not going to back down to this president. i may not ride a harley like val demings, who's incredibly cool and incredibly competent. i do know how to take this president to court and i do know how to win and that's what i'm doing now. >> i'm sure pennsylvania voters appreciate that. i want to play one louis dujoy. there's the one with trump suing your state and your state is also a part of a lawsuit by multiple states trying to stop the post office from basically being shattered in order to help donald trump win an election. here's louis dujoy saying about whether or not he's going to give the machines back that he took away. >> well, when we've heard about disorders, we talked about that. will you be bringing back any mail sorting machines that have been removed since you became postmaster general? >> there is no intention to do that. they are not needed. >> you will not bring back any processors? >> they're not needed, sir. >> give us the structure of what your lawsuit is. what is your lawsuit alleging and what do you think it will help? how will it help? >> i filed a lawsuit, the eastern district of pennsylvania together with several other states including states like california, massachusetts. what we allege in our suit is that the structural changes that dujoy and his cronies made back in july slowed down the mail by altering the way the shifts work. and as a result of that, we've got, for example, veterans here in pennsylvania who aren't getting their prescription drugs on time and they're spoiling in the mail. we've got small businesses who are really struggling because they're not getting their mail on time. just heard from a small business owner roofer in southeastern pennsylvania today who struggled with that. people are worried, of course, that their ballots aren't going to be getting there on time. so we sued in order to get dujoy in order to roll back those structural changes they made in july. if you listen to his words, he refused to commit to that. now he put out a press release a few days ago, he made some statements, but what we've learned is you can't trust donald trump or his enablers like dujoy. i want proof. we deal with facts and evidence as attorneys general. that's what the law is all about, and dujoy has offered us no binding agreement that he's going to roll back those july changes and as a result we've taken him to court. we're going to do everything in our power to secure and protect every vote here in pennsylvania. look, i just want to stress this. joy, voting is safe. we've been doing this for centuries. trump knows this. but he carries on to try to sow doubt. his recklessness and unlawfulness is to make us feel powerful. the people of pennsylvania, people of united states of america we have the power in this election and we've got to vote. >> you don't need a harley. protecting voters and saving the post office is pretty cool. josh shapiro, appreciate it. up next on "the reed out" -- >> think of the smoldering roouns in minneapolis, the blood stained sidewalks of chicago and imagine the mayhem coming to your town. >> i will draw on the best of us, not the worst. i'll be an ally of the light not the darkness. >> darkness versus light. former senator al franken joins me on biden's vision and the stark, stark contrast with trump. plus, how ugly will it get at trump's dark coronation next week? 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and late tonight, whew, biden struck another contrast with trump on coronavirus. >> would you be prepared to shut this country down again? >> i would be prepared to do whatever it takes to save lives because we cannot get the country moving until we control the virus. that is the fundamental flaw of this administration's thinking to begin with. >> so if the scientists say shoushut it down -- >> i would shut it down. i would listen to the scientists. >> joined by al franken. senator, you know joe biden. donald trump has tried to portray the convention that we all just watched for four days as some dark and terrifying, you know, scary horror show, and then he's out there saying, they're coming to get you. these are crazy people. did you see four days of scary, crazy people in the convention? >> i think the crazy person may be somebody else. that was a beautiful -- that was a great speech. the contrast, it's night and day, as i said. it's light versus darkness. this -- joe biden showed who he was. this was a beautiful convention. you saw. with the conductor, you saw brayden harrington, who was inspired by the kid who stuttered. that was so moving. and you saw who joe biden is and when you talk about that you saw that interview on the science, he knows that you have to -- you have to go to the science and not your son-in-law, for goodness sakes. this was a beautiful convention, i thought. >> you're right. just on the contrast front. i want to play you two back to back. this is joe biden doing something we haven't seen donald trump do, speak directly to the grief of the 170,000 some families who lost family members to coronavirus. here it is. >> look, i understand. i understand how hard it is to have any hope right now. on this summer night, let me take a moment to speak to those of you who lost the most. first, your loved one may have left this earth but they'll never leave your heart. you'll always be with them. you'll always hear them. second, i found the best way through pain, loss, grief is purpose. >> here's donald trump being asked by peter alexander what he would say to the american people who are grieving. >> what would you say to the 14,000 dead. millions who are scared right now? what do you say to americans who are watching you right now who are scared? >> i say that you're a terrible reporter, that's what i say. i think that's a very nasty question and i think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the american people. >> do you anticipate the republican party and donald trump addressing the pandemic at all next week? and if so, what would you anticipate? >> first of all, how horrible is that? if you're any kind of politician and someone asks you that, that's a lob. that's a softball right over the plate to talk has none. these guys could not be more opposite. he'll talk about saving millions of lives by closing most -- the air travel from china, which he actually didn't really do. but this issue -- this is the biggest issue of the campaign is how spectacularly this guy failed at dealing with this pandemic, and that has to do with not just the 170 plus,000 deaths but it has to do with the destruction, the collapse of our economy. both of those are on donald trump and that is going to be the biggest issue in this campaign and rightfully so. and what he laid out last night, joe biden, was exactly what we should have been doing from the beginning, which is testing that you can test that day immediately and then trace -- contact tracing, isolation, wearing masks and social distancing. every other -- not every other country, but almost every other country has done this. if you look at south korea, they had their first infection on the same day we have. >> yeah. >> and this guy has no, no faem think at all for anyone, that is so clear. >> there'sperformative aspect doing policy and running the entire government. there's also a performative aspect. i think with joe biden he does that naturally but trump would have to work at it. he hasn't. today he did something that struck a lot of us in just watching it as we were on our show calls earlier as being odd. unfortunately, his brother, his younger brother, robert, passed away and, god rest his soul, we really give our condolences to the trump family on the loss of his younger brother, but he did not die in washington d.c. today his funeral was held in the white house and so that you had this image of donald trump exiting the white house with the coffin of his brother. it appeared that this was a response to what we saw this week, that he wanted to show his own sort of image of grieving. i mean, is that -- i don't know if that's unfair of me to say, but i've never seen him perform that kind of thing but to have it coming out of the white house, i don't know there's ever been a funeral for somebody who wasn't president of the united states in the white house. >> you know, he lost his brother and he wanted to celebrate his brother, i think that's fine. there's nothing about donald trump that i like, that i trust, that i admire, but on that one, that was his younger brother. >> yeah. and you don't think that using the white house in that way was in any way inappropriate? >> everything he does is inappropriate so -- you know, i don't want to say in this instance, this one instance. everything else he's ever done is inappropriate. >> i think that's absolutely fair. senator al franken, always great to see you. have a wonderful weekend. thank you. >> you, too. >> thank you. still ahead, the collective shrug from the white house after an outspoken opponent of vladimir putin ends up in a coma after a suspected poisoning. 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who did you want to convey it to? >> well, vice president biden gave me a very clear essay question. it was define the soul of america and do it quick. so i had my march -- that's a direct quotation. i had my marching orders, and really, you know, it's a common place phrase now, but it is one of those things that because it's so common place, sometimes we sort of lose -- might lose what it means and my argument about the soul of the country is not that it's all good or that it's all bad but that it's an arena of our worst instincts and better angels and the task of politics, the task of civic life is to do all we can to give those better angels an advantage. so i wanted to make the point that in american history the person at the pinnacle of power matters enormously. always has. and it's only in the absence of consistent dignity, of genuine embrace of the american spirit, of inclusion not exclusion, focusing on the worst of us, not the best, when we have a president who does that, we need to ride to the point and i think that's what i wanted to convey. at our best we reach out. we don't clinch a fist. >> yeah. you did it very beautifully. miss elena beverly, my homey from 2008 when i was a wee little junior person. you were like a boss lady doing all of these things. i'm so proud of you. >> i'm so proud of you. >> the reality is what we saw this week was only made possible by what happened in 2008, right? the election of barack obama literally made possible the selection as the democratic nominee of joe biden. had he not picked joe biden, had there not been that convention, this would not have happened. i want you to talk to me about this trajectory. there was a beautiful little touch here where you could see the blocks in the classroom she's standing in had blm, black lives matter spelled out. rachel is the first one that noticed that. i can barely see. you also had out of the dnc keynote speakers, 17 of them were next generation leaders. they gave time and space, lots of time for these new generation leaders to speak. talk to me about what you think has grown from 2008 to 2020 in the democratic party? what's changed? >> thank you for that question. so certainly we wouldn't have joe biden in the position that he's in today without the obama/biden coalition and the unit at this that was brokered across the country in support of that ticket. what i thought was so unique about her built upon that. in addition to it being a very diverse country, we are a deeply hurting country. he spoke to the trauma that all of us are facing right now. i love that he said he was going to be an ally of the lights. when people are traumatized, he spoke to the trauma the country is facing. over 170,000 lives that have been lost, friends, families, businesses that have been shuttered. black lives, black bodies that we all walk in fear in the street knowing we could be george floyd. he actually invoked george floyd's name. and i think this is carrying out and expanding upon that obama/biden coalition but also speaking to the country where we are right now. i was so -- i was pleased and delighted with the convention because of those new voices, as you mentioned, that were brought in, because there were references to black lives matter, because it's clear we understand the more aggressive but they're opening the door to flexibility that we can broker leadership. >> there was a glaring thing missing from what we saw over the last four days and that was a lot of focus on the court. i mention that knowing that you had -- during this -- donald trump's counter programming was his former campaign manager getting arrested, the courts getting his tax returns and going off on twitter. there's a lot in the law that matters and there's a lot in the convention that has to do with the law about whether or not a president can hide his tax returns, about abortion, a lot of stuff. you did right that there should have been a more direct focus on the courts. spell that out for us. >> i hate to be like a human womp, womp. this was a great convention if there was only one branch of government. there are three branches of government. what we need to understand, whatever you feel about biden? i love the democratic convention for democrats but what you need to know is ruth bader ginsburg is 87 years old, steven prior is 81 years old. if you don't take back the courts, you take back nothing. if sarah gideon does not want, if m.j. hagar doesn't win, you take back nothing. i didn't hear enough of that. i'll tell you what i'm going to hear, the republican national convention because next week when they're in between their confederate reenactments and authoritarian boot licking, what you will hear is judges, judges, judges, judges. the republicans are going to bang that drum. that's why they're bringing the covington high school kid, to bang the drums on judges. our convention didn't hit that point. >> elena, i'll give that to you. tim scott, jonie ernst. they don't have any big stars. antiabortion activists in there. >> they sure do. >> they want to talk about school safety, criminal justice. so they're on themes. because they don't really have celebrities. they can't get jennifer hudson. they're going for themes. the court is going to be a theme next week. >> yeah. they can't get tracy ellis ross so they're going for hate, division, they're going to bring that teenager that you just mentioned who was banging the drum -- who was taunting the native american elder. they're going to bring the -- those -- that crazy couple from st. louis, that gun toting couple, the mcincludes ski's. the side show will be real for the rnc but the contrast couldn't be different. couldn't be more different. we have brayden harrington. we have real people. we have those 17 newly elected democrats coming to the table. >> yeah. >> we have real people. >> i hope that couple doesn't bring their guns. jon meacham, thank you. he's going to stake around. pretty soon we're going to have who on the week. ♪ ♪ s. and though you may have lost sight of your own well-being, aetna never did. we're always here to help you focus on your health. because it's always, time for care. my gums are irritated. ♪ i don't have to worry about that, do i? 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