President trump. Well dive into the conspiracy group. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is saturday august the 15th. We are 80 days from election day. Im ali velshi. Nearly 170,000 americans are dead from covid19. More than 5. 3 million americans have been diagnosed with the disease. And for the first time in 21 weeks, weekly initial jobless claims fell below one million but only barely. More than 16 million americans remain out of work. Both the house and the senate have left for recess and not scheduled to return until the second week of september and there is no deal still for the next round of Coronavirus Relief funds. Polling shows joe biden with a significant advantage and despite what he says, it certainly does not look like President Trump believes that hes going to win the reelection in november. Not if you watch what hes doing. If you watch what the president is doing you are going to see the measures of a desperate man. Take, for example, what he admitted to actively engaging in voter expression when he openly admitted the reason he doesnt want to fund the Postal Service is because he doesnt want too many people to be able to vote by mail. They want 3 1 2 billion dollars for mailin votes. They want 25 billion, billion, for the post office. Now, they need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballot. If they dont get those two items, that means you cant have universal mailin voting because they are not equipped to have it. Reporter there you have it, folks. The president just raid out his plan to prevent americans from voting safely during a deadly pandemic. That is not the plan of a person who thinks a lot of people are going to vote for him. Another portrait of a win in an election. Now they want to take it countrywide mailin voting. It is going to be the greatest fraud in the history of elections. When you always talk about russia, russia, russia, and china iran. On voting. Your biggest problem is going to be with the democrats, not with china and russia and iran. Your biggest problem is going to be with the democrats. Yeah, thats the president of the United States saying outloud that his political oppositions desire to find ways of allowing the American People to vote safely during the a deadly pandemic is not only bad, it is worse than overt election interference by americas foreign adversaries. And then Donald Trumps payroll tax holiday as he calls it. What it really is, is a carney trick. The money saved now comes due next year but only if joe biden wins. If trump wins he says hell make a directive permanent so you dont have to repay it. Like a carnival barker. Vote for me and the money is free. Vote for biden and you have to pay up and ill say i told you so far situation i create. The saddest part is he thinks the American People will fall for it. Speaking of the American People will fall for it. There is kanye wests campaign for president. But he wont be on the ballot kanye west is also an outspoken trump sporter and just so happened to meet with jared kushner. According to kushner they both happened to be in the colorado in the same time. And the pump of his campaign is flat foot to siphon votes from joe biden. Maybe it is also just a crazy coincide but people who are winning elections dont need celebrity straw candidates to pull votes from their opponents but if you really want to know what politically desperation looks like, it is this. Its trump pulling out the saddest most tired, racist trope in the whole racist tool kitty. Kamala harris, the first black woman and first south asian woman to run for a major party ticket. And donald trump started tossing around the same kind of racist birther Conspiracy Theory he used to harass barack obama for years. He told reporters he was going to the look into whether harris is eligible to serve as Vice President given that her parents are immigrants. Yeah hes doing that again. And yes, that is a lie. And that is racist. And you can tell how racist a lie is because even South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham whos not winning any awards for courage in the trump era, e even Lindsey Graham felt compel to set the record straight tweeting senator harris is unequivocally an american citizen. And here he is with the dog whilst trying with zero subtlety to cast senator harris has an angry black woman. And now you have sort of a mad woman, i call her. Because she was so angry. Such hatred with justice kavanagh. Ive never seen anything like it. She was the angriest of the group and they were all angry. All radical left angry people. Once again the president calling someone who could be the future Vice President a mad woman. Lets move on and not waste anymore more time on anyway particular bit of racist nonsense, except to underscore that it is all racist nonsense. Democratic congresswoman Sharice Davids of kansas. One of the regional whips for the democrats in house. And out with this new logo save the Postal Service. Thank you for joining us. This is becoming something that is urgent. We should be fixing these things with 80 days to go, but in fact what were seeing coming out of the executive and new post master is the opposite. Removing of machines and removal of post box. How do you plan to deal with the this . Good to be here and talking about the Health Crisis and economic crisis that were in and apparently the president is trying to create democracy crisis as well. I think that one of the things we have to do is make sure that all of us are standing up and talking about the importance of the post office, particularly for our senior who is get so many of their medications, our veterans, like 80 of vernlts get their medications delivered by the post office. And at the end of the day we have to make sure were protecting this constitutionally mandated and Important Institution in our country. What do you want done about it . There are a number of you, i think 175 of you signed a letter to the most postmaster general saying the level of service has to be the same as it was on january 1st of this year into next year. Congress has the power of the Postal Service but its got on a board of directors. They tend to be trump supporters. What can actually be done. Doesnt look like they are all that interested in the letters that you are sending. Well i think the American People know that dejoy is doing a job that is unacceptable. And just after signing on to that letter, i actually decided that really he should be immediately removed. And the board of governors can do that. The president can certainly do that. But at the end of the day we have to make sure that weve got a non partisan professional who cares about the mission of the Postal Service, who cares about making sure that folks are getting the medications they need, that the Small Businesses have the support they need. And as we can see now we need somebody who is not going participate in the political gamesmanship of trying to hijack an election. We need to make sure we have somebody in there who is not going to try to do trumps bidding. And right now we dont have that and that is why i think he needs to immediately be removed and replaced with new leadership. So i get it. But that board at the Postal Service isnt going to do that at all. Under any circumstances. Donald trump is not going do it. At all, under any circumstances. As you look at this, whereas the best way to do get rid of him. I like what you are doing and i like the idea there is a campaign and people need to wear some kind of sticker to say i voted by mail to remind everybody around them but the legal avenues dont seem to be there for you. And the other thing we need to do is make sure that folks call their senators, and their members of congress, particularly my republican colleagues who i know have expressed there are plenty of republican colleagues of mine and folks in the senate who have expressed support and who have taken steps previously to support the post office and the Postal Service and we need them to step up and convince this president to stop playing games with the Postal Service. And to spend more time trying to save lives because were in the middle of a globally pandemic the if the president was spending as much time trying to save lives as he is trying to stop people from being able to exercise their right to vote, we would be in a much better place right now in our country with the number of folks weve lost already to the coronavirus. I need a president and the American People need a president that is going to actually be working on the crisis at hand. Congresswoman, good to see you. Thank you for joique me this morning. Democratic congresswoman Sharice Davids of kansas. My pleasure. No amount of relief in sight for millions of the struggling americans. Congress left town without agreeing on a Coronavirus Relief package. How the next wave of unemployment could hit with the force of a tsunami. You are watching velshi on msnbc. Msnbc. Mething was missing. Me. You ok, sis . My symptoms kept me from being there for my sisters. 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Sara nelson, president of the association of flight attendants, communication workers of america and coclaire of the Biden University task force on the economy is calling on congress to act now. As she wrote in fortune magazine, as we stabbed an the precipice of a second Great Depression we cant afford to go small. When the virus surges again more people, more jobs will disappear. Without real relief there will be nothing to slow our descent this time. Sara nelson joins us. While everyone else is look at the world saying wow the first time in 21 weeks wee had fewer than a Million People sign up for Unemployment Benefits. You are worried that there is nothing coming here. For those who continue to file and be on unemployment. They have lost the federal bolleser and a number of other things too. You see the situation getting much worse, not better. Ali, the situation is dire. And we cannot entertain for a second that congress has left and is not going to do anything until september. Mitch mcconnell said they can come back in 24 hours. Nancy pelosi says they will pull people back. Their staffs and those leaders are still in washington and able to negotiate a deal right now. We have to demand it. We have to demand it. Just pick, for example, the Airline Industry. Were going to have people who 19 years ago after september 11th are going to be on furlough again. They are going to be out a job. But this time one in five americans looking for a job cannot get one. Because for every one job there are five people looking for it. So everyone on unemployment cant find a job to replace that. After 9 11, flight attendants did other things. Worked in restaurants, retail. Got our degrees in computer programming. We did other things. That is not available this time. And i think about my beloved California Pizza Kitchen that i worked at that has now filed for bankruptcy. There is nowhere to go. The 600 unemployment check, that was supporting another 5 million jobs. So were going to see those jobs gone. The state and local funding that will keep rural hospitals open and keep our Transportation Systems moving and keep our teachers employed. If we dont have that, that is going to be another 5. 3 Million People out of work. And there is nowhere to go. There is nowhere to go unless this Congress Acts right now. And it has to be congress. So for some Reason Congress sees this as an abstraction. At least relationships in congress see this as an abstraction, a continuation of spending that is going add to the debt. You write millions of workers cant make ends meet even with the 600 added federal benefit. One in three americans is behind on housing payments. And 3040 Million People face eviction in the coming months. Without a deal in congress, those numbers will skyrocket. Play that out. People lose home, Property Values go down. There are fewer jobs because less demand for people who dont have any money. And the cycle gets worse. While you are seeing fewer people filing for Unemployment Benefits right now there is nothing on the horizon that suggests it is going to goose the economy in some fashion and were going to get back to something that looks like normalcy in a few months. Ali what were talk about is all these people losing their homes, having tremendous hurt, in the middle of a pandemic. Also lets recognize they are losing their Health Insurance as well. And this is going to have a trickle up effect on the hurt. And before we know it, were going to be talking about having to bail out the banks again. That is what were talking about. A total collapse of the entire system. Talk about the post office for a second. These are 600,000 Good Union Jobs of people who have been essential workers, continuing to be the last mile of our shipping infrastructure in this country. Rural communities are going to be completely cutoff if we dont have our Postal Service. Veterans who work there are going to go without a job. We are the veterans who count on their medicine being delivered and the 4 Million People every single day who get their prescription drugs. We are talking about massive hurt across the board and not being able to recover. If i think about my Airline Industry alone were at 25 recovery right now. My u. S. Passport is no good. I cant even fly anywhere else in the world. Americans have lost access to the rest of the world. Weve lost our freedom and that is because we are not containing this virus. Were not doing whats necessary to prop up our economy. Were not going to be able to travel. Also were not going to be able to buy airplane ticket. Thats just one example and that is the backbone of our economy, the Airline Industry. So if we dont act right now. If congress doesnt come back right now. Let me just say the house acted over 90 days ago. And there are negotiations that happen. People like to say oh that package was too big. It was too much, whatever. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer have been at the table saying well remove a trillion dollars from the package if you just work with us and negotiate on a deal everyone can agree on. And i can tell you ali from talking to members of the congress there is broad support for our post office. There is broad support for supporting the jobs in the Airline Industry. There is broad support for spending right now because even fiscal conservatives know that every day that we wait t price of recovery becomes greater and we may not be able to recover. Sara nelson, good to see you, thank you for joining us. There you go. As the president of the association of and make sure sure to join me tomorrow miranda warning on velshi. Bernie sanders will be here. Im going to ask how he plans to fulfill a pledge he made on the show. Did not only get joe biden elect but to make him the most progressive president in u. S. History. Tomorrow morning 8 00 a. M. Eastern on velshi. 8 00 a. 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