predicted that as we got closer to november, and went through what is bound to be its contentious result, that there would be violence. last night in portland, one person shot dead as supporters of president trump and black lives matter protesters clashed in the streets. authorities are still investigating in late breaking news this afternoon. democratic presidential nominee joe biden issued a statement on the violence exclusively to nbc news. it reads, in part, i condemn this violence unequivocally. i condemn violence of every kind by any one whether on the left or the right. and i challenge donald trump to do the same, end of quote. just moments ago, the mayor of portland had this message to the president. do you seriously wonder, mr. president, why this is the first time in decades that america has seen this level of violence? it s you who have created the hate and the division. it s you who have not found a way to say the names of black people killed by police officers,
rioting and looting and violence we have seen sprung out of alternately peaceful protests, we ve seen a alternate reality from donald trump. the president made his most explicit attempt to try to tie joe biden to the protests and some of the outbursts of violence that happened in cities. saying it happened not just in democratic cities and but cities run by joe biden and the democratic party. listen to a bit of what the president was saying. and, jim, let me just tell you beyond that, of course, we heard those attacks from the president but joe biden for his part, he was very clear today in denouncing these attacks and the president suggested that joe biden would instead focus on police and on condemning and attacking the police. that is not at all what we heard from joe biden. what we did hear from joe biden though is putting some of the violence at least on the president, saying the president fueled this fire. listen to joe biden earlier today. fires are burning and we ha
therapies and we ll produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. we will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. the president made no mention of the coronavirus death toll in the united states. it s approaching 181,000 americans. for some perspective on the rate of people dying during just the four nights of the rnc, more people died from coronavirus than on 9/11. and while trying to claim the mantle of law and order, president trump did not mention jacob blake or talk about how two protesters were shot and killed, allegedly, by a teenage trump supporter. joining us now, cnn political analyst, maggie haberman, a columnist for the new york times. but first off, dr. sanjay gupta. sanjay, we want to start with you, not just because you have a medical disagree, but i want to know what you were thinking as you were looking at the south lawn last night and seeing all of those people sitting side by side for so long with n
a round table in community safety. he arrived in town with attorney general bill barr and also chad wolf. we ll keep an eye on it and dip back in if the event makes news. meanwhile facebook says that russian controltrolls are targe americans yet again as we expected them to. and this is based on a tip from the faib. twitter also suspended similar accounts calling them russian state actors. treasury secretary steve mnuchin is testifying on capitol hill before a special house subcommittee on coronavirus. the hearing was called to discuss the need for further coronavirus relief aid and also fault lines have appeared over the next round of relief. i believe a bipartisan agreement still should be reached. what you have put in place, the programs you have recommended, the programs that the congress approved, they have worked. we can t rest because we did a good job with the c.a.r.e.s. act. please, please get back to the negotiating table. but get out of this name blame mess.
you ve broken a big bad law. the notion that this is where we are is staggering. and the question i keep asking, what do we do? i mean this is who he is, but what do we do? this is who he is and he can say what he wants. he has that freedom. but you re right. we re going to get into this. when the attorney general of the united states backs it up, then you have the government supporting that urge to break the law. it s real stuff. always nice to see you, neighbor. nice to see you, my friend. have a good show. thank you, nicole. always good to see nicole wallace. welcome to the beat. i thank you for joining us as we track these toirs now. joe biden talking to jacob blake during his wisconsin trip today after donald trump snubld the blake family. new york police officers suspended after the controversial death of a restrained man in their custody. also new notions of russian meddling as bill barr states legal false hoods in an interview defending donald trump. we begin