00:00:00 The att teleconferencing service enter your access code or meeting number followed by pound enter your attendee id number followed by your line, has been muted press star 6 to unmute your own line good morning, everybody good morning uh.
Let me just begin with a couple of uh.
Thank yous i wan na start with uh tim bui and her team for a terrific week of uh storytelling and pieces, uh of hope and inspiration uh for our champions for change series this week that will culminate in a special hour tomorrow night at 10 o'clock.
It's a difficult time in this country in the world and uh kim and our team have brought us some incredible stories.
00:02:20 So thank you to them.
I also want to uh thank and congratulate uh.
The team that put on last night's drive-in town hall uh, not even uh, covet 19 can stop this team and uh.
The ingenuity that was shown uh was terrific.
I want to particularly thank kate, lunger and alexa benowitz and their special events team for all they did, and guy pepper and rezabaktar for all of the staging and direction and their teams and, of course, eric shirlene and his entire uh editorial team uh.
Along with mark preston who uh booked the event that made that happen so to everybody, thank you for an incredibly successful night uh.
00:03:07 Obviously, there is a ton going on uh and i do think that with a lot of it, it's going to require us to step back and put a lot of this in context, because there are just broad themes: uh about politics and science and uh, as michael Has been telling us all week about the administration uh, not publishing materials, uh and the attorney general uh and a step back on his views, and i do think what the fbi director testified to yesterday on many funds is incredibly important.
So there are a lot of threads to follow here.
Let's start with the latest on covid and matthew, uh hi good morning, jeff, it's laura today, um! Sorry! Yes, laura! That's! Okay! No problem! Let me start with the big headlines.
The united states is poised to hit a grim milestone over the weekend of 200 000 deaths and globally there are over 30 million cases uh first last month there was a lot of concern over the changes to the cbc guidelines on who should be tested if source Confirms to siena and dr sanjay gupta that those guidelines did not go through the normal approval process.
00:04:22 There was.
There is an extensive review process in place that was bypassed.
00:04:27 These new york times has some additional details and their story, which we have approved for attribution and also remember that the cdc director redfield said earlier this week that there will be a revision and clarification that, yes, you should get should test asymptomatic patients.
We have sanjay gupta and elizabeth cohen available on this.
00:04:45 Also the cdc released yesterday, a new ensemble forecast, which has the death total by october 10th, up to 218 000 deaths, which represents a little bit of a slowdown, but a slight increase from the previous prediction.
Last week of 217 000 deaths by october 10th on vaccines according to a new study from pugh.
00:05:04 Clearly, the american public has some major trust issues, but there's been a big drop since may on whether or not americans would definitely or probably get a vaccine.
00:05:13 It went from 51 to 72 from 72 percent to 51, and three-fourths of americans worry that the vaccine will be approved before safety and effectiveness are fully understood.
00:05:25 This comes last night.
During the cnn town hall you had vice president biden, saying i don't trust the president's own vaccines.
I trust dr fauci.
If dr fauci says the vaccine is safe, i would take it at the same time.
Last night in the dueling rally, which will be talked about later, president trump said that they're doing great with vaccines and therapeutics and that the numbers are down and it's much that no one can believe.
But in reality he was in wisconsin and yesterday wisconsin reported its single highest daily increase since the pandemic began adding over 1600 cases.
Let me go first to wrap up some health headlines, we'll be monitoring a press conference today, a phone conference at 10 30 a.
m, with hhs secretary alex azar and the cms administrator sema verma, which promises an important health announcement, we're working to confirm what that focus is And you had dr fauci yesterday on radio interviews, saying he was warning americans not to get complacent complacent in that coronavirus, remediation measures like wearing a mask and social distancing and remote work could blunt the double whammy of the flu in the chronovirus in the winter months.
00:06:33 Ahead, as mentioned, we have sanjay and elizabeth available on health and vaccines and getting back to where we are right.
00:06:41 Now, in the new daily cases on the santa map, you are seeing 30 states with an uptick this week, 16 steady and just four down.
In the week two week average there were over 44 000 new cases yesterday and 870 reported deaths.
The us daily average is going between 800 and 900 deaths a day and it's starting to climb again we're hovering around 40 000 new cases each week and that's up 13 week over week.
The u.
s positivity rate stands at 5.
35 percent with 10 states above 10 and, as we previously mentioned, wisconsin there were some other superlatives.
Yesterday with georgia, passing 300 000 cases becoming the fifth state to do so and texas surpassing 700 000 cases as more reopenings were revealed.
00:07:26 We also learned that a fan who attended last week's kansas city chiefs game that allowed fans, because they positive the day after and that 10 people are in quarantine and we're monitoring canada, which has been a doubling in less than a month of cases.
We have bridge and grass we can handle these headlines from new york today and really importantly on schools.
Just three days before, schools were scheduled to open the largest school district in the united states and new york city on monday.
00:07:52 There's a two-week delay.
You'll see a slow reopening headed towards october fifth, first, when middle school and high school students return and at the same time, a study released yesterday showed that up to 52 percent of school employees are at risk for covid due to what they.
00:08:08 What are the cdc outline risk factors like obesity, heart disease and diabetes? It's a risk for both school exposure and also home within household transmission.
00:15:26 We're monitoring, different closures and quarantines yesterday revealed providence college issued a stay-at-home order after 80.
Students tested positive in just two days.
We have briana gordriga available from new york on the education headlines and for the rap packages.
Today you have erica hill, four, six and eight and nick watts size, seven and nine and i'll pause there.
00:08:40 Okay, look: i think that these rap packages are unbelievably important today, because there are so many developments and i do think that we need to be looking closely at the map and where the cases are going up.
It's a much it's a much bleaker uh map, as we approach 200 000 deaths this weekend, and i do think that that number has to be uh front and center in what we're facing uh.
00:09:05 So many little headlines from the schools, the kansas city chiefs thing to up and down, and then i i just think that the uh cbc story and the guidelines and the politics of that it requires actually a washington reporter uh, uh or out of the cdc in Georgia, but to tell this story: uh uh as a as a reported piece uh, i'm gon na um, i'm gon na move to washington now with kogan, please, okay, so um! Obviously um this.
This continuing science versus trump um.
As laura mentioned, these new york times guys new york times, reporting that these um guidelines were um came from the hhs and the cdc was not aware and did not review them as is supposed to be, and then you know this comes on.
Top of this lead.
Um, this lead cover task force, former aid, defense, olivia, troy slamming trump for failing to protect the american people, because he only cared about getting reelected his two minute, video just devastating about um him talking about not shaking hands with those disgusting people and um.
You know she is one of the.
This is a in real time person speaking out about what was going on and just painting this devastating picture, um of how koben was being handled um in terms of um uh early voting.
This is, i just you know, there's obviously, as trump continues to just hammer on the rigged election voting starts today in several states um, this incredible language from the federal judge.
00:10:54 Yesterday gavin word saying that um that they, these ups charges um, were put politically motivated into an intentional effort to disrupt the election.
00:55:16 Um and the washington post is reporting that um abandoning uh plan for the united states postal service to distribute 650 million mass by the white house because um they would concern their concern that it would look bad or create panic, um and then also on voting.
These big developments in the key state of pennsylvania about absentee ballots and um uh the green party being added on the stimulus bill, um that is heating up again um in light of these um economic numbers and and the economy seeming not so strong.
The ball trump um in in the town hall basically said he would deal with pelosi now.
The ball is in her court and she's got ta, have um figure out whether she's going to um deal with him or stick to the two-point.
True trillion last phone call was supposedly um from pelosi domination.
Saying call me when it gets to 2.
2 trillion um and he leaves out david, can talk about the back and forth on the town halls on the politics.
But trump does have a seven o'clock rally in minnesota tonight and that's what i got ta cover.
Okay, look.
I do think that we should put together what happened with the cdc and the politics of the cbc guidelines, with the politics of what happened with the postal service, wanting to send out all the masks and that was killed by politics too.
I just think there's too many things right now of politics, interceding in science and we've got to put them all together, uh in in segments and pieces, they come together, um international coving.
So within that headline, laura mentioned of 30 million global cases.
The fact the number increased by 10 million in just over a month really does capture the recent worrying surge in all areas of the world.
The u.
s, india and brazil still accounts for more than 50 percent of that total, but the world health organization is still warning about these surges in europe.
So i'll start in europe.
In the uk, the traditional new year's eve fireworks display has already been cancelled for this year to prevent crowds congregating in the city center.
00:13:21 Interesting because of the you know, the comments london's mayor, sadiq khan, made around that announcement.
00:44:14 Basically saying that you know, lockdowns may well be coming to london, as the numbers of case numbers in england sort 167 in the last month, and hospital admissions are also doubling every eight days the health secretary said he does not rule out another national lockdown to stop The spread, but that is his quote, the last line of defense, so scott mclean can pull together all the stuff from the uk, but also bouncing into the bigger european fears and in israel.
That's already started its second national lockdown.
As we've said this week, the first country to do that that started at 7am eastern, the three-week lockdown includes a closure of many businesses, strict limits on public gatherings and it's largely going to confine people to win a kilometer about half a mile of their homes.
So the clothes are also coinciding with the jewish high holidays, when people are traditionally here visiting their families and gathering for large prayer services, so oran lieberman will be covering all covering all aspects of that povid related from china.
00:14:29 The outgoing united states ambassador there, terry banson, has slammed beijing's initial handling of the virus, saying what could have been contained in wuhan ended up becoming a worldwide pandemic.
You blame the chinese system for the cover-up and to penalizing local doctors who highlighted the virus at the very outset, so that, while unsurprising, that ban fed would sort of have that white house sort of trump line on hitting china.
It's still a very, very forceful condemnation of the country.
Coming from you know, the chief diplomat there and, and so david culver has the only tv interview with dan said and the the new york times are also interviewing, but we're the only ones.
Who've got that on.
On tape and and there's all that is in the system in new zealand and new zealand recorded its first virus free day in five weeks and is now going to reevaluate current social distancing guidelines.
00:15:18 There they'll look at that next week, friday, automotive, the fourth consecutive day without any cases of community transmission and all recent cases have been found.
00:15:27 Speaking quarantined, travelers returned from abroad.
00:15:31 So look it's just a sort of a bright spot.
Amid all the other gloom and we've got bricks filed on that story and we're going to be doing a fuller breakout on new zealand for next week in south africa, we talked yesterday about how the country was preparing to reopen for business, but now it has to Confront rampant coded corruption, more than 700 companies are under investigation following allegations that government officials skinned off money from contracts totaling more than 400 million dollars, so government corruption look is nothing new in south africa to have government corruption there's been decades of it, but the startling Levels reached during the pandemic has now really led to this kind of moment of national reckoning um for the ruling anc party.
So dave mckenzie's got a really good sort of look at that story and then, finally, in mexico, sort of the the headline is, you know the mariachi bands go silent, but there's a much more serious note to this story.
The traditional staples at every wedding party or social gathering, the kobe restrictions, have killed off all music.
You know, but the livelihood of musicians across the country, but it's just a colorful way to tell what is a serious story of mexico's impending economic hardship.
00:16:37 More than 53 percent of the country's economy relies on the informal sector, you know, musicians and trades people and, and you know, markets, etc.
So it is really really big clobber.
So, although you know lafayette economies are due to be down 10, mexico is going to be very, very severely hardly hit.
So matt rivers takes a look at that through the eyes of the mariachi bands and that's kind of nice piece too i'll, leave it there.
Okay, thank you and uh.
I would also say i would also say that uh, i thought galaxy's comments overnight: um about australia and the lack of flu there, meaning that there might not be a uh, a wave of flu and coveted in the united states uh this winter, i think, were really Interesting and worth discussing with sanjay um business jeff good morning, investors uh on this friday bracing for what is going to be a choppy session.
00:17:34 This following two straight days of decline, all on the fed's dour outlook of the u.
s economic recovery.
As we know, saturday marks six months to the day since the first state home orders went into effect, the stock market somewhat recovered parts of the housing market are booming, but at the same time the u.
s economy is down almost 12 million jobs.
00:17:53 Service spending is at a fraction of where it was, and americans continue to struggle with food and housing and security overnight.
00:17:59 A world bank economist predicting that the recovery could take as much as five years and the bank also talked about rising income inequality, cnn businesses, charles d, alcorn, reporting on a new study this morning that billionaires like bezos gates and zuckerberg shockingly raked in a whopping, 845 Billion in combined assets from march to september growing their combined wealth by 29.
This as the pandemic ushered in the worst unemployment crisis since the great depression that is up online right now and, of course, uh.
Millions of americans that are out of work are looking to d.
c for help and talks remain tenuous.
As virginia just mentioned, betsy klein reporting that economic advisor larry kudlow saying he doesn't think.
Another stimulus package is key to an economic recovery, but this clearly going against the grain and message of most economists and central banks, including powell, as i just mentioned uh just out this morning, we just alerted from christina alecci that goldman sachs will likely downgrade their assessment Of the u.
s economy, if no further fiscal stimulus is introduced and, of course this as progress seemed to be far-fetched lawmakers leaving for the weekend.
00:27:14 The big question now obviously is: can congress muster the political will to adopt another massive stimulus measure before the november election? Christine roman and christina alessi are up and available on those threads, and that is where we get on kovid.
00:19:21 Thank you very much.
Okay.
So let me open it up your thoughts on covid.
Please hey good morning! Oh sorry, please go first.
I i was just going to add jeff to your point about um, looking at uh the cdc, uh news and sort of the pressure and the uh postal service and the mask and the pressure.
I just think an added element to that is um.
You know we should go back and look i mean we have to go back far for olivia, troy or john bolton, but people who have been in the situation in the white house who have been around the team who who come to the conclusion that everything is About his re-election and everything is about, politics is a good just from people who have been at the table and in the rooms uh to remind as a part of that uh piece as we look at those uh that pressure okay, so just but then i'll.
Let you in one second, that's fine david.
But again, i think these two things are news today, uh that uh we need to um be putting together and then we can broaden it out with your your point of view as well: go ahead, ben um, so virginia and laura sort of touched on.
All of these, but i just wanted to underscore a couple of things first, on the postal service um.
If you go back and you look at this actual document that was obtained uh directly - you see in this document, it says the first shipments are expected to reach u.
s households as early as april, and then it was xx.
The date hasn't been filled in yet, but that just directly goes to show how early the administration knew that this would be a helpful thing and didn't do anything about it indirectly.
How many lives, obviously, could have been saved if these masks were sent out and people did wear them and take it seriously as far back as april um very quickly on the schools uh study that laura mentioned, i would encourage everyone to go back and take a Look at a late night alert sent out by maggie fox last night, which really just has some incredible data in it.
As far as who uh, who exactly are the people in these schools who are at risk both by the positions that they hold, as well as the uh preconditions that they have and then lastly, really quickly on the vaccine? Uh the study that laura mentioned, showing just how many people you know, don't trust the approval process um we could have a vaccine approved in you, know the near or medium term.
That is very, very effective, but if no one gets it, it doesn't matter because it won't protect anyone, and that, i think, is just something we should not get lost in the race for the vaccine.
00:21:47 Okay, anybody else anyone else on coven, okay, laura the rest of domestic, please uh sure so for the fires out west uh, there are 59 active fires, but there is rain in the forecast.
The el dorado fire, the one that was sparked by the botched gender radio party over the labor day weekend, has killed one firefighter according to the national forest service.
00:22:21 Yosemite national park was closed to visitors through the weekend due to poor air quality.
00:22:27 We have a team of reporters covering this with paul vertanman and josh campbell in southern california's, bobcat fire and miguel marquez up in oregon.
We'll continue to monitor the cleanup and the what is left from sally's path through florida and alabama.
You have the governor of alabama touring destructions today through two towns, and nearly one week after the los angeles county, sheriff's deputies were ambushed, while sitting in their vehicle detectives, say they're, making progress on identifying a suspect.
You have the reward for the arrest of the suspect rising to over 600 thousand in the upstairs fighter, monitoring development and then also quickly in louisville.
You had the city council voting, no confidence in the mayor on his handling of briana taylor, as we wait for a decision from the attorney general and the grand jury on the case we'll be monitoring today.
The rochester city, council and they'll have a special meeting regarding the death of daniel prude and it will focus on the independent investigation, the response by the city, police and officials and uh.
We also have the georgia man that was seen on video being brutally beaten by the sheriff's deputies will hold a press conference at some point today, where he talks about his numerous injuries and the medical issues he's facing his girlfriend will also be there she's, the one Who shot the video and that's where we start domestically today? Thank you very much for international, so richard may have more on the uh tick-tock wechat story.
You know the commerce department now planning to restrict access to those two apps in the us and just to mention that selena wang is available from hong kong she's very, very worse, but well versed in both these companies, and so she can get into that as needed.
And outside of that just a couple of other stories, saudi arabia has about 200 million dollars in aid funding for un agencies operating in yemen.
That comes just days after nema's investigation revealed the devastating impact of funding cuts by the usd uae and saudi arabia to humanitarian organizations in the country, so she'll be up and covering that on our shows today for us and then lastly, just one story: we're watching taiwan.
00:24:36 Taiwan scrambled fighter jets and deployed their missile defense systems.
00:24:40 Today, after a dozen chinese aircraft entered the island's airspace, tensions are really escalating between these two countries, especially as the u.
s makes more overtures overtures for taiwan.
In the last few days, the u.
s under secretary of economic affairs is heading to taipei, this weekend to attend a funeral but um the closer that the us gets to taiwan, the more jittery that china gets and the tensions are really ratcheting up, so we'll be keeping An eye on that and looking into that next week, that's it good! Thank you mike uh business yeah, as mike mentioned breaking this morning, the commerce department announcing that it would ban us business transactions and downloads from chinese owned social apps like wechat and tick tock, starting on this sunday, we'll be off this morning on fox business, so playing It down a bit saying existing tick.
Tock users can continue to use the software, but can't update the app and obviously this announcement comes after the president was expected to announce whether or not the government will prove a deal for oracle to take the minority stake in tick tock and become a trusted technology Partner uh still unclear if the commerce department's announcement means there's no possibility of a deal going through before the deadline.
We continue to be all over that brian fung is up and available.
That's where we start.
Thank you.
Okay, the rest of washington, please, okay, so um, as you mentioned, on the ray situation from yesterday, um trump uh attacking him overnight for um for what he testified yesterday talking when when he talked about russia um, he said with trump saying what about china um and Also, just to know this ray also knew about how antifa is a more an idiot ideology than an organization um, so uh, just the trump response to all of that overnight on the bar story, that was so much a focus yesterday, um, kevin and team are working On some more reporting that we hooked up later today about what the heck is going on over there and then i just want to mention um.
The latest stir the base from the president, which is this national commission to pro to promote pro-american curriculum, the federal government.
It is worth noting has absolutely no power over what is taught in local schools um, but in this um very out there speech yesterday, he he brought that up and that's what i and david's got all the politics: okay, we'll get to the politics in a second.
I think all three things you mentioned are worthy.
You know today and through the weekend just uh, you know trump's attempts to on the history and the way we teach history is cynthia and others have been telling us uh for several weeks now.
00:27:24 This is uh uh.
You know this is what happens in uh dictatorships when they try to teach history.
I do think that the rey story on the fbi, both on russia and is coming out saying that russia is interfering and is the biggest threat and they're trying to help biden contradicts completely what what trump and barr and others have said about china being the biggest Threat and trying to downplay russia, i think what he said about antifa, incredibly important and trump's attack on ray who clearly would not survive into a second trump administration.
We should be doing a segment on rey and everything he said, and then i think as far as bar goes, we should be doing a step back piece on just bar as a whole and just how incredibly partisan he has become.
I know we talk about this.
Every day, but take this week in concert with everything and there's just a big step back piece to be done on bar.
Let me open it up for anybody else and thoughts on any topics: hey jeff fenn here we're doing a human interest story on farm workers out west that have been affected by the fires.
00:28:40 These are people that live marginally trailers, uh uneducated, some of them are have illegal status and are afraid to get help so tell their stories on these uh fires.
The impact this is having on their lives so we'll have that content that we could share with y'all.
00:28:56 Thanks, thank you.
Anyone else, anyone else: okay, politics uh good morning, so um, obviously uh on uh koben.
You saw that uh bynum just continued to hammer away at trump in our town hall, uh last night, uh repeating uh that line that uh.
He he knew and he didn't do anything and it's nearly criminal um.
He uh laid into his um uh lack of leadership.
Uh on this issue and uh - and you know uh said he should be uh stepping down um and, of course, uh saying that he would be straight with the american people uh if he were uh president um, in addition uh to the copen stuff, just uh, what You were saying off of the uh rey stuff, you know having baiden described russia as an opponent and china as a competitor that the difference in the way he sees those - and he is wanting his portrayal of himself as extraordinarily tough on russia, not showing his cards.
But saying that you know there would be consequences and they would be real on day one.
He would immediately be uh taking on putin for election and appearance or or what have you uh, not revealing exactly how he would be doing that, but uh as serious uh.
As a delivery, as he had about sort of uh saying that he would take them on and trying to use that as a contrast, uh, obviously uh with trump as well.
Remember: um dan coats in the woodward book and what have you um? The frame that biden put on the whole sort of campaign last night of scranton versus park, avenue uh the notion of uh, not just uh the economics of that, but an entire sort of world view of what that means and trying to uh separate donald trump uh Into uh, you know an elitist and an upbringing that is not actually in touch uh with uh the people uh, who uh, are a significant part of the president's case and that joe biden is trying to uh dig into uh from.
In fact, you know if you look at the bulk of uh joe biden's post-convention travel um, whether it was uh macomb county last week and sitting down in the cnn interview with jake or the scranton town hall last night uh tonight, when today he's gon na head To duluth minnesota uh, where they start early voting uh this.
This is somebody who is trying to uh clearly uh fight, uh, donald trump on that turf of white working-class voters across that critical uh midwest region uh as part of his path to 270.
As part of what he thinks would be a successful buying coalition, i think that's what you saw on that scranton uh versus park, avenue uh frame uh that he put on last night.
00:32:05 Uh we've been talking.
Obviously, i'm called virginia mentioned early voting in a bunch of places.
00:32:12 We are moving into that place now in the calendar where this is moving in to like into sort of turbo charge in terms of in starting today, minnesota virginia south dakota, but in the days ahead over the course of the next week or two.
00:32:27 So many more states are coming online now in terms of the voting process.
00:32:31 Uh really beginning uh, just as we are, you know, uh 11 days away or so from that first debate, so uh this election is happening now, uh, voters uh are engaged in it.
Now.
Um and that's why you'll see both trump and biden in minnesota there today uh, we expect to see biden about 3 45 pm eastern there, jessica dean is out in duluth with biden, uh and uh, and you well i'll leave that there uh.
The other note that i want to make is that um bloomberg uh that 100 million dollars uh in in florida money that he has promised to infuse into the campaign uh to help deal by him in florida and sort of free him up to allow his campaign To also focus on other priorities uh that spending we begin to see today in the form of the priority of usa, super pac uh, and that uh is using that bloomberg money in florida.
It's it's an ad all covered based.
Uh just does that whole timeline thing again of everything, uh donald trump said throughout the course of the last six or seven months.
With all the case, number and death number increases along the way.
As he's saying this thing, uh culminating with that line in the rose garden uh about not taking uh responsibility so uh that bloomberg effort begins uh in earnest today in florida and then uh just the latest round of state polls out from new york times siena this Morning, looking at arizona north carolina and maine, you see biden meeting in arizona over uh the president.
You see a basically uh tied up battle in north carolina and by the well ahead of maine.
00:34:09 Obviously, also these three states have three critical senate races for battle control.
In the senate, uh, where you see the democrat ahead of the republican incumbent uh in arizona north carolina and it's a within margin of error, race in maine, but um the democrat numerically ahead, their their gideon of uh of stephen collins, so uh, it just shows you Uh the democrats are on the march here uh in the battle for control of the senate as well, and i think that's where we start.
00:34:40 Thank you david.
Let me open it up for thoughts on politics.
00:34:45 Anyone on politics yeah.
I just want to make sure that um for shows they're still talking about the uh, the pence deputy who came out yesterday that we reported a lot.
00:35:05 I would recommend that we also include, as we have been um general kellogg's interview with wolff, that was so tough and so unequivocal regarding the fact that he's been in every meeting she's been, and he didn't hear anything regarding shaking hands the way she said she did And i just think it's important that we provide that kind of counter, which is a little different than just a statement from the white house because uh he did come on our air and he did make that case.
00:35:43 Yep yep welcome to come back again anyone else.
I do think that uh to david's point, i think we, our analysis on biden coming out is sprinting joe versus park, avenue trump, although it's fifth avenue trump, but nonetheless same point is uh.
That should really be the focus of our political analysis today that, with with uh biden going to minnesota today and really going after the white working-class vote that cuts into trump's vote, we spend a lot of time on this call talking about biden's outreach to minority voters, But this is really uh if you - and david has pointed this out, as is very strong on this, if you look at where biden has been campaigning and this new approach and this new, this new theme, it's really about cutting into the white working-class voter strength of Trump and that's, i think where our analysis should be today - hey jeff.
In that same vein, i think it would be a good idea to start a regular ad watch segment, because the these ads are running.
We know biden spent an extraordinary amount of money this week in battleground states and trump is also spending in battleground states and huge numbers on digital, and anybody can see the digital ads, although some of them are targeted to specific areas, so they have local targeting, even In the digital ads in terms of their geographic distribution, but but i do think that uh all these ads that are running in the battleground states that the people that don't live in battleground states aren't seeing are worth taking a look at.
I saw last night or yesterday during the day one of our digital pieces or one of our uh political teams.
Checks on a biden ad said that uh it was misleading um some of the trump ads are misleading.
00:37:45 So i think both the reality check and also just a chance to see what they're saying, because, as you know, a lot of the biden ads that were launched this week and david talked about this.
I think earlier in the week, are targeted towards the exact people.
00:37:58 You're talking about the white voters in um that trump did really well with last time, whether it's about jobs or manufacturing or health care they're very targeted towards those groups.
There's also ads that are in spanish that are targeted towards latinos, but i just think it would be helpful to us to have a regular look at these ads fact: checks on them, but also just to see what the messages are.
That would be great.
I agree.
Hey david, do you want to comment on? I know.
I know you believe that uh you know that that in the end this is going to come down to those white working-class voters.
00:38:41 Uh.
Do you want to just make a comment on that sure i mean listen.
00:38:44 It's not exclusively right all these things in politics, it's both and not either or uh.
He by then obviously needs uh, a real big turnout in the sort of core pieces of the obama coalition of african-american votes and latino votes and young people he needs.
00:39:02 All of that, but as we slice and dice the electors, we talk a lot about demographics.
Here, um i it seems uh where he is really potentially making a difference and could win.
The election on is what his appeal is right now, uh with white voters specifically, and i mean - and more specifically older voters as well, older uh voters, but um it.
It is um if indeed joe biden, wins the white house.
It's not going to look exactly like the obama coalition.
I know a lot of democrats say: oh, he just needs to recreate the obama coalition.
If he was going out, it's going to be the biden coalition and it's that coalition is going to look uh whiter and older, most likely than the obama coalition did uh and yet still potentially be successful for joe biden so um.
I do think it's uh and as you're talking about you see it in this travel, you see it in the advertising that michael's talking about um.
I i do think that that has been a clear focus uh from the campaign as well again, not to ignore um.
The importance of the youth vote, the minority vote, all the different it all has to be put together in a way that that works uh, but but we shouldn't lose sight of that.
The fact that the biden coalition could be a successful one and look different than the last successful democrats i do.
I do think that that our post-game analysis should be about post-town hall.
Analysis should be about that today.
Any other thoughts before we move to digital digital, hey.
Good morning we have 28.
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So far this morning, stephen collins analysis on last night's town hall with the headline biden shows the qualities trump lacks is out as our top story over 11 000 concurrents, in that one and collinson gets into and builds out the brenton versus park avenue pitch from last Night um, our take away from the town hall, is also doing very well, followed by the u.
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We have a headline on the controversial cdc testing guidance that was published outside normal review process, and we have a few personal stories coming today.
Something we've seen audience connecting more with um and also keeping a focus on europe and what's happening there with the numbers going in the wrong direction.
00:42:02 Uh big news this morning, the tick tock and wechat band we're looking to get out exactly what is going to happen to the apps in the us.
That'll be a good interest piece for our audience.
00:42:12 Um on the wildfires.
We have a piece out looking at a much needed break in the weather that can help, but still other fires are prompting even more evacuations um and we'll stay on all the latest.
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Stop there thanks great.
Thank you christine john.
Thank you christina john.
They said.
Can you hear me jeff yeah now we can hear you right uh, so we're going to be bundling all these fresh headlines which, just round out a week that underscored the raw politicization of covid out front, will be uh, dr gupta's fresh reporting that matches what the New york times had on the cd cdc testing guidance, uh and the um political pressures there uh, and that tells the with the washington post reporting on the um uh plan to mix the uh.
The distribution of the face masks we'll handle that out of the white house with john harwood uh and also get into what the former penn state had to say.
Uh and all this is in the shadow of um quickly, marching to that 200 000.
Very grim milestone a death which will most likely hit this weekend next hour.
00:44:10 Um hha secretary azar has some sort of announcement.
00:44:14 Listening in with a healthy dose of skepticism, we have former cdc director david thatcher, dr liana nguyen dr sarah badad, on the dangers of undermining the cdc and the health experts.
Lisa lera from the new york times just had a really sharp take out about the decline in confidence of a coped vaccine.
She said it should come to come as no surprise if you, if you've been listening to trump over the past um couple of weeks, uh in a few months, uh some other domestic whips that we're getting into biannual rodriguez on the college.
00:44:42 Cluster angle uh, most notably what we're seeing in providence college carolyn mano on the chiefs and the fan that tested positive and now other fans are quarantining.
Um john king has the connecticut governor, ned lamont uh, very worried about a spike in his state of cases and he's already questioning.
If this is a labor day spike that health experts warned us about uh on the education piece, we have a broward county teacher union rep.
To answer to the new study that we reported late yesterday, 51 of all school employees are at increased risk of covet because of pre-existing health concerns and their age and the other side of the school's argument.
We do have the head of baltimore um city schools on that huge digital divide, we're seeing there thousands of students not getting online and what that means um for their for their future.
When they're not getting the education, they should be getting internationally or in lieberman.
On the lockdown beginning in israel again, this is rosh: hashanah gets underway, uh and dave culver with his outgoing u.
s ambassador interview.
00:45:44 It is a big focus on minnesota in the 2020 race, with both trump and biden going there jessica dean we hitting her all day ahead of his appearance at three o'clock and watching his outreach to the working class.
There john king has the minnesota secretary of state.
It's one of the um many states today that are beginning early voting, uh uh, and then we have christian homes in virginia to keep underscoring the early voting piece of all of this pam brown on the fallout of the postal service ruling uh.
00:46:11 We have max boot uh booked to do a big takeout segment on um everything ray had to say during that testimony yesterday and trump attacking him, and we do have nikki hannah jones joining joining us again.
She's, a creator of the 1619 project to answer directly to trump's criticism, um about her project yesterday, paul recammon on the western wildfires and the firefighter killed uh from the fire sparked in the gender reveal party.
00:42:31 Stephanie elam has a couple of emmy sponsorships and we round out the week of champions for change with the peace uh at two o'clock on brianna's show.
00:46:44 Thank you, john washington.
Good morning, um uh caitlin we'll take up the four o'clock with uh donald from the white house, and mary trump joins us for the latest on uncle donald um, erica hill, with the coveted wrap and uh sanjay.
Of course, we'll get into the new pc guidelines increases in cases t-cells versus antibodies, uh, jessica, dean on scranton, joe in minnesota and harriet looks at the latest polling data.
We get uh julie, chadley on the latest economic business news and we are going to stay on fires, of course, uh and in the situation, room uh we'll be following kovis from both the political side, uh in the public health uh front uh.
So on the politics we'll get into the cdc guidelines being rewritten in that, in conjunction with this top down uh on a plan to distribute thousands of masks back in april.
00:47:34 All of that, on the heels of this latest uh pen, page to call out the president and this consistent narrative around the administration, uh playing politics uh with uh the virus on the public health side, we'll uh watch for this uh azar announcement.
00:47:51
00:44:14 That's expected at 10 o'clock and see what that is, as we near uh 200 000 deaths um with 30 states now trending up, so we're seeing this shift back in the wrong direction.
Uh we'll follow on schools and this uh study looking at who's at risk.
Um, you know this is uh.
New york is pushing back their start date.
Uh we'll look at the poll on public trust, uh in vaccines and dig more into fauci's comments about the flu and covered this fall.
Could uh? Could the flu uh possibly uh not be? As prevalent as we thought uh so we'll get into all of that with the nick wad and erica hill wrap pieces and our doctors internationally, we'll follow on uh who the wh warning about europe.
Um and uh cover the second lockdown underway in israel, uh out of washington, we'll get into trump versus rey in this attempt uh to shift the focus away from uh russia to china and we'll take the step back, look um at bar and what's going on there Uh we'll be looking for that new uh reporting uh we're expecting from evan and see if that can further the story uh and on politics, we'll watch uh fine in minnesota, on the heels of last night's town hall trump also headed there floating is getting underway in The state, um and we'll take this broader look um at the tale of two candidates: uh scranton, joe uh versus fifth avenue trump uh, and that's where we're starting.
Thank you emily does anybody else have any thoughts about today before we move to the weekend, yeah jeff.
It's been very quickly um, so hhs uh sold their tele briefing this morning as a major policy announcement, but uh tammy luby just got the release for it and it is a new model of care for medicare beneficiaries with chronic kidney disease um and a new payment Model to improve care for cancer patients um, so they really oversold that it seems we will obviously have someone on the call just to see if anything else comes up, but i would, i would say to everybody: don't hold your gut fitting thanks ben other thought.
Yeah.
I've won good david.
I was just coming back to the bar thing.
I mean.
The thing i was thinking was watching ray is what he is saying.
What bar is saying both cannot possibly be true and to sort of do a side by side of the remarks about russia versus china, antifa and blm, and maybe even expand it to the cdc director's comments on masks versus bars.
00:50:27 And i think what barr has emerged is essentially he's a propagandist he's not even it's not even that he's partisan um.
You know and i think framing it that way.
00:50:36 Uh might be a way into what's happened to him or how he's evolved so to speak.
00:50:40 I totally agree, and i would recommend that you know some of our prime time shows really produce that out.
The way david is describing it and you know not just talk about it, but really take the shape of all these guys and produce it right.
00:50:56 Yes, um.
You know back um in may of of 2019 donald trump tweeted.
Why didn't president obama do something about russia in september before the november election, when told by the fbi? He did nothing and had no intention of doing anything.
00:51:21 We are now in september before the november election, and i would recommend we take this tweet jeremy diamond had a story back then about this whole um tweet, and here we have the fbi, telling us in congressional hearing exactly what trump was saying.
Obama didn't do anything about and he's ignoring it, and i you know that whole thing about there's always a tweet.
00:51:51 I would recommend on this day that we go back and take that may first 19, 2019 tweet by donald trump and and raise it as something that is uh obvious that uh he should be doing what he's saying: obama didn't do and uh and and tie it Together totally uh a really good observation point, and i think just like david's point about barr, we should absolutely be doing that again.
I think our prime time shows some of them.
We should be looking at that.
Thank you, rick other thoughts.
Okay, then, let's move to the weekend please and start with super kanish good morning.
Jeff so michael have a commentary on the big story of pa this week, the court decision to extend the deadline for those absentee ballots and how we all know this already with all these mail-in ballots.
We need to prepare for not getting election results in november.
00:52:51 Third bloomberg plays into this as well.
He he's investing in florida.
00:52:54 He thinks that biden can put away florida, make it harder for trump to claim victory in election night, hopefully avoiding chaos.
So let me start there and if you look at everything, that's happened.
In the last year we went from a good economy to impeachment the pandemics.
George ford killings, protests, civil unrest, trump's former national security adviser, saying he's not fit for office goldberg's atlantic article woodward's book.
But you know what good or bad the numbers just don't change real clear politics said by net 50 and trump at 43 last october and a year later it means virtually unchanged.
We have ron bronstein on this and in the battleground states.
Everyone says, like oh so-and-so's, gon na win because look at all the yard signs yard signs are everywhere.
00:53:29 You know that that's telling, but do these tell us anything about who's, really gon na win? What's the impact of yard signs, this has actually been studied and we have the professor who did it donald, green from columbia and then last we have.
Should private companies be able to require their employees to return the office? We have a labor and employment attorney on that.
00:53:45 That's where we start.
Thank you kathryn, a reminder.
We have our champions for change special saturday night at 10 p.
m, eastern and then we'll move to sunday and start with inside politics.
00:54:00 Uh.
We have dr john dr randy, marking this weekend's grim um 200 000, milestone as we get into the trend lines the cbc and face mask reporting, vaccine polling and saucy on the flu trump's version of reality.
Many times clashing with his own administration uncovered on science.
On the election and on history with historian douglas brinkley and former gop congresswoman mia love in the past of 270 in the covet election plus biden's working class voter pitch with josh dassey and asma khalid and we'll talk to climate scientist.
00:54:35 Catherine, hey ho about the realities of the west coast fires and this busy hurricane season, and that's where we start.
Thank you very much state of the union.
Hey there uh we're still working on our top guests and hopefully should have something coming out shortly.
We do have michigan governor gretchen whitmer, so we'll talk to her about the latest on kovid trump, obviously called up her state this week saying it needs to get open um and we'll get her reaction to everything that we've learned recently about what the president knew early On about the virus and how that might have made a difference to states like hers, i will also talk to her about the election and how she's, preparing and she's calling on congress to do another stimulus.
So we'll talk to her about that.
Uh jake is also taking a special segment for the end of the show, with jon stewart um senator kristen gillibrand and the wife of a veteran rosie torres about an important new initiative that they have to fight for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in iraq and Afghanistan, so we'll do that at the end of the show and um should hopefully have our top guests soon.
00:55:41 Okay, thank you.
Jeff uh bob woodward will be live with fareed sunday morning to talk about trump's, unusual friends around the world, putin she kim erdogan and many more uh.
He has great insight into why trump uh wants to be pals with these guys from his uh interviews and his recording um with the white house having brought israel bahrain and the uae together this week to sign what they call a peace plan.
00:56:12 We'll have the top editor of uae's main newspaper, mina al-arabi uh, to talk about how it looks from there um and with the west coast, on fire in the world experiencing more heat.
00:56:23 As climate change worsens, we tackle the question of how climate's gon na change, where americans and people around the world live in 2070.
20 of the world will be uninhabitable.
Um, abram, lust garden has a cover story in this weekend.
00:56:40 Uh new york time magazine, uh and had another one in july will uh he will join fareed, okay, reliable sources, all right, we're gon na get into how trump's war on science is being waged by his loyal foot.
00:56:54 Soldiers like laura ingram and the rest of the pro-trump media uh, we have former washington post executive, editor, glenn downey helps make sense of everything.
That's going on we're going to put together a panel of international journalists on how all this that's going on in this country is being viewed outside the world, and we have nicole hannah jones talking about trump's attack on the 16-19 project.
00:57:14 Okay, does anybody else have anything they want to bring up any final thoughts? Okay, i just want to encourage you again, like i began big picture context, take a step back: science, politics, the politicization of science and these two things we've just learned today, barr and who he's become and the way david vigilante laid it out, um ray and all Of rey's warnings, rick davis is very insightful observation about trump's fleet all of this and then obviously all of the news of the day, especially on so much going on on copic, have a good day.
Everybody a good weekend, stay safe, we'll see you monday, bye, .