Cancelled weddings or bar mitzvahs. The notion the virus is handled is not dominating our lives specifically because of the governments inadequate response is, frankly, insulting and offensive to all of us. Do you remember this from seven months ago today . Anybody that wants a test can get a test. Seven months ago he said that. Its still not true. How great would it be if every student and every teacher could get a test . But they cant. The president continues to push lies to the American Public about the virus, again, falsely comparing the annual death rate from the seasonal flu to that of the Novel Coronavirus using false numbers even though the president is on tape in february privatelily to bob woodward admitting he knows coronavirus is much deadlier than the flu. One of the signs that the president s infection has only hardened those inaccurate views of the pandemic or willingness to lie about it even as his own white house has become a hot bed of infection. Joining me now is cnn White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. It doesnt seem politically all that savvy to me. His advisers were hoping it could help give him a boost. Its not clear what happened and what drove this because the treasury secretary who is doing the negotiating on behalf of the administration, jake, was supposed to speak with nancy pelosi in a matter of hours. Now that is not going to happen since the president says they will not be making any agreement until after the election which sent the stock market in the direction that the president does not want it to go in. To be clear, these sides were not close to any kind of agreement but they were at least talking and making some kind of progress. Now thanks to what the president said there will be no relief for the millions of americans who do not have jobs or have not recovered their jobs yet, or, of course, the Small Businesses that need an influx of cash at this time. The president said that is not going to happen until after november the 3rd. Reporter back at the white house from a threeday hospital stay, President Trump is downplaying coronavirus and says he is looking forward to debating joe biden in nine days. He is looking forward to it. He is ready. I think he is going in with a new mindset on the coronavirus. Reporter trumps own physician says he still is not out of the woods when it comes to his diagnosis but for now, he is staying in the white house residence and considering delivering a National Address. The fact youll see him in some form today ill leave that to him him what it is. Reporter trumps press secretary is working from home after testing positive to coronavirus adding to a growing list of officials staying home because they tested positive or in contact with a colleague who did. At least one member of the military who is directly assigned to support the president in the oval office and residence tested positive, as did a third staffer in the press office. With officials worried about possible exposure, the west wing looked more like a ghost town today and dramatic photos showed the Briefing Room being disinfected by white house employees dressed in full protective gear. Alongside a final pitch for joe biden. Votes are already being cast. Michelle obama referenced the white house outbreak today noting that the secret service and residence staff should never be taken for granted. The president didnt elude to the heightened concerned as he returned to the White House Monday night with a staged entrance. A Campaign Spokesman wrongly claimed that the president was alone on the balcony when he took his mask off. The president is alone on the balcony outside. He takes his mask off. Reporter but that is not true. A photographer was right behind the president and afterward he went inside to reshoot his entrance with a camera crew already waiting. The president spent the day spreading misinformation and facebook removed one of his posts after he falsely claimed that the flu was responsible for more deaths than the coronavirus. Jake, earlier, white house officials said a chance we would hear from the president today. There was that talk of a National Address but now my colleague zeleny said its coming out in several hours. They kaw the west wing today chaotic because a lot of staff are quarantining whether they or someone they knew is positive. The source said the president is the one calling the shots. Thank you so much. Lets bring in chief medical correspondent stephon gilmoranj. The president s physician say the president is showing no symptoms today. What does this tell us about the president s condition . It tells us right now if you look at those numbers that he is doing pretty well. If he is moving around and keeping his oxygenation up is a good sign. Not getting any supplemental oxygen are good indicators. You can say at this point in time he is doing well. We know a lot about this disease and we have to anticipate what might happen in someone who has active covid disease, is dealing with these medications he is receiving, the steroids, those sorts of things you have to create a fuller picture and still say, look, does this mean he is free and clear or does this mean he has to continued to be monitored for several days which i think its the latter. That is the point here as command connolly is only providing information that reflects almost only on the president s health. What other questions do you need to have answered before knowing how well President Trump is truly doing . There is a lot of data. Just basic vital signs would be good to know. We have been told his oxygen saturation. Any fever food . What is his heart rate . Any signs of other dysfunction of any organs . Does he have pneumonia . This is a respiratory virus. They have not answered that question. There is no answer to that question because they conceded he has imaging studies done. They were not normal they said but they had finding. An important question. Id like to see lab results to give me an kigs how much inflammation in his body and that inflammation can be associated with blood clotting. Hethinner . A lot of questions to ask. One sheet sort of thing is the relevant information for someone to have a clear idea what is happening. They are, obviously, not giving us that, jake. The president s team committed yesterday he is not out of the woods yet. Today, he is declaring victory over the virus and telling the American People to live their lives, not fear infection, dont let it dominate your lives. We have seen a number of interviews and videos from people who have lost loved ones truly offended by the way the president is talking about this. What was your reaction . I share their being offended by it. I mean, you know, pretty deeply. Taking off the mask and saying you have nothing to fear. First of all, he is, obviously, in a very privileged position to say that. No one has near those resources. This is a contagious deadly virus out there. It is advocating for imnunity and throw up our hands. We got nothing we can do here and throw up our hands and let this virus sort of run free through our nation. Its a terrible strategy. Maybe up to 2 Million People would die, depending on the model you look at. Hospitals would become overwhelmed. It would be so destructive and, yet, that is essentially what he was sort of advocating. Take off the mask, you got nothing to fear. Its really problematic for people who are not taking this seriously,sh seriously, obviously, jake. The president tweeted this about the flu today, quote. Flu season is coming up. Many people every year sometimes over 100,000 and despite the vaccine die from the flu. Fact check that number is not true. Are we closing down our country . No. We have learned to live it with like we are learning to live with covid in most populations far less lethal. First of all, we havent had hundred thousand americans die from the flu since 1968, i believe. Hundreds of millions of people are dying today from coronavirus. Has any Health Expert suggest that United States should just live with that . No. No public Health Expert has suggested that and the reality is that even without its always this false choice,wno sa. Plenty of countries around the world wear masks and go outside and good about hand hygiene and keep distance but the countries are very much up and running and they are having a small fraction of the number of cases every day that we have, a small fraction of the number of deaths we have every day. Not only are people not suggesting that this needs to be the way that it is that this people die a day, they are offering a tangible easy to implement solution. They are not presenting a problem but a plan. The plan is an easy one to execute. So its one of these things where i think if you look at public Health Experts, they are frustrated after so many months of saying the same thing, you might imagine. Let me follow up on the flu deaths. I think we have this graphic. Youre absolutely right, jake. Some 210,000 people who have died of coronavirus this year. Seven, eight months now and more than the last five years combined when it comes to flu. Flu is serious. We have always said it and the flu vaccine is important but this coronavirus is exponentially worse and we are not addressing it. There are flu shots but not shot for coronavirus. About President Trumps decision to suddenly end stimulus talks and leaving thousands of americans without a muchneeded life line. What one airport is doing to give people ease of mind when traveling in the age of coronavirus. Stay with us. Hmms and ahhs heard incall. But a resilient business you cacan be ready for it. Re. A Digital Foundation from vmware helps you redefine whats possible. Now. From the hospital shifting to remote patient care in just 48 hours. To the university moving hundreds of apps quickly to the cloud. Or the City GovernmentGoing Digital to keep Critical Services running. You are creating the future on the fly. And we are helping you do it. Vmware. Realize whats possible. Breaking news in our money lead. The dow falling more than 375 points this afternoon after President Trump tweeted just over an hour ago that he is ending all negotiations on the Coronavirus Relief deal. Cnns alison kosik is joining me live. We saw 622point swing on the dow. It had been up 206 points and then fell 416 points. This is interesting because the president isnt listening to the fed chair jay powell who hours before held a Virtual Conference with the National Association of business economics repeating the need for stimulus that is key to keep the economic recovery going. Powell saying the risk of congress pouring too much stimulus in the economy is greater than not doing enough. The president uses the stock market and economy as a barometer of his success. He tweeted our economy is doing very well. The stock market at record levels. Jobs and unemployment are coming back. We are seeing a recovery but that recovery is stalling out. When there is no stimulus package in the mix, you cant expect the economy to move forward. Jake, we have got millions of people out of work. You saw what happened when they had that supplemental unemployment. It helped them put food on the table and helped them pay their bills now they have got nothing and the helt realty is these americans and these Small Businesses need that money now. Alison kosik in new york, thank you. Joining us to discuss is democratic senator from hawaii. Senator, lets start with the president announcing this afternoon he ending the talks over the stimulus bill. Nancy pelosi is talking with mnuchin. Nancy pelosi tweeted the following here is the tweet from the president. What is your response to that . It is very clear that the president and Mitch Mcconnell do not put protecting American People as a priority. They make it so plain. This reminds me of trump saying im going to build a wall and mexico will pay for it. If people fall for his lives one more time, oh, my goodness. So that is the president. One thing one day and another, another day. We saw President Trump last night moments after he returned to the white house, he was, in fact, remains infected with covid19. He came out on his balcony and took off his mask and a white house photographer was behind him. President trump reports no symptoms said his doctor today. What is your reaction . Most medical professionals are wondering what exactly happened to the president are saying that he is not out of the woods yet. I would like to hear his professional physician say he is not out of the woods yet. The white house physician say yesterday that the president is not entirely out of the woods. He wouldnt go in detail. There you go. He did say that but he didnt talk a number of other items. Good. The president continues to play down this pandemic. He lied to us from the very beginning and so dr. Fauci has to say that we should not downplay the pandemic when you have 40,000 people a day testing positive with 7 million now plus testing positive and over 210,000 people dying. This is not terrible matter . Tell that to all of the families suffering from this pandemic. Jake, this pandemic is touching all of us. My mother in hawaii is in a nursing facility. I have not been able to visit her in seven months. So this is something that so many families are having to undergo and now the president is saying, forget it, we are not going to do another stimulus when millions of people are out of work and millions are without health care. The main thing they want to do, mitchell and lindy graham is put the nominee on the court for her to listen to the Affordable Care act and she can strike it down and causing millions of people without health. I want to talk about judge barrett in a second. But im curious what the protei protocols are your colleagues. Three of your colleagues have tested positive for covid including utah senator lee and North Carolina senator tillis who attended that event with judge barrett being announced as a Supreme Court nominee. What is the protocol for somebody like you going to work . Do they require masks on capitol hill . Does your staff have access to covid tests . Because its quite possible that the hot zone at the white house might also become a hot zone on capitol hill. Of course. When you have three senators that currently have tested positive. So there is no protocol that Mitchell Mcconnell or Lindsey Graham have put forward. They want to have this hearing, come hell or high water, and there is very little in fact, they havent said anything about how pick the senators who are attending this hearing. Is there anything that democrats can do to stop the nomination of judge Coney Barrett . It appears to me from my reporting and conversations with democrats and republicans that really if they have the votes, they have the votes and there is not much you can do. We are still waiting for two more republican senators to develop guts, but im not holding my breath but, at the same time, we are in the middle of a pandemic that has entered really the Judiciary Committee and, yet, Lindsey Graham and Mitchell Mcconnell do not prioritize the safety of their own senators. So we are im going to take whatever precautions i can. I think most of us who attended judiciary hearing over the last week, most of us have been tested. I have tested negative. But that doesnt mean that im not still susceptible. Yeah. So we will see. But we are saying this is no time for us to compromise the safety of any of us and its not just us, its our staff, all of the people who have to work at the capitol. Yeah. This shows so plainly their number one priority is strike down the Affordable Care act. We know that because amy barrett has said that chief Justice Roberts decision that save the Affordable Care act went way beyond what he should have done to find that act constitutional. Senator, thank you for joining us today. I do hope you get to see your mom soon. Thank you. Keep your fingers crossed. Yes, we need to get control over this pandemic. I hope so. We cant count on this president to do it. Thank you, senator. Breaking news on the Vice President ial debates and the plexiglas barriers the Vice President s office is mocking. Stay with us. Water . Why . ahhhh incoming ahhhahh im saved water tastes like, water. So we fixed it. Mio with priceline, you can get up to 60 off amazing hotels. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. Im happy to give you the tour, i lohey jay. It. Jay . Charlotte oh hi. He helped me set up my watch lists. Oh, hes terrific. Excellent tennis player. Byebye. I recognize that voice. Annie . 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Reporter exactly right. The harris camp a provision after the debate between the two president ial candidates last week which President Trump shortly after that debate tested positive for the coronavirus. So they thought that additional precautions should be put in place here in Salt Lake City for the debate. They asked for the candidates to be separated further apart than what was originally planned. They agreed to that from 7 to 12 feet. Harris campaign asked that both the Vice President and senator have a plexiglas barrier in front of them to separate them even more. Now the pence camp said they had no problem with harris having the plexiglas barrier around her. What they object to is the Vice President having that same plexiglas barrier. Mark short who is the Vice President s chief of staff telling our jim acosta they dont believe there is any additional safety benefit to having that plexiglas barrier put in place. What we dont know at this point if it will have any impact whether this debate is taking place. Nog level of communications between the campaigns and president that runs the debate. They are doing a walkthrough behind me and we were inside the building and saw that taking place. Still a lot of barvetck and for taking place here. The sense this isnt necessarily a deal breaker for the harris campaign. Just to be clear, ryan. Its the Vice President who, according to Health Experts, including one i interview a few minutes ago saying Vice President should be quarantined because he was in direct contact with so many people who have tested positive. He is the one who probably should be making all of these offers as opposed to slapping them down. In fact, a spokesperson for the Vice President mocked senator harris for wanting a plexiglas guard. Exactly right. Katie miller, who is the Vice PresidentS Communications director, told cnn that if senator harris, she said, quote, if senator harris wants to have a plexiglas fortress around herself, have at it. Youre right, the tone is a mocking one when there is so much evidence to the fact that this white house has had just a careless disregard for the spread of the coronavirus and that extends to the Vice President , himself. Even though he has tested negative for the last number of days since the president s diagnosis came through, there is still that lingering risk. He was among that group of people at the event where amy Coney Barrett was officially nominated by President Trump and he was not wearing a mask. For the most part, he continues to not wear a mask. Jake . Recklessness and unbelievable hubress at the same time. Joining me now, is dr. Derrick cass. Dr. Cass, do you think its safe for senator Kamala Harris to be on the same stage with Vice President pence who has, obviously, been exposed to many people who have since tested positive for coronavirus . And has not quarantined himself. Lets be honest. This is not only about senator harris. What she is doing is advocating for the appropriate behavior froms Vice President for the venue. When he enters the facility will he wear a mask and on stage what happens to the staff . All of the people in the audience, the moderator. The only plaxy glass barrier that is mandatory at this debate should be around Vice President pence. And lets be honest. If he is saying i dont care enough about those at the capacity and not just senator harris he is exemplifying what it means to be a leader of the covid task force. What did you make had when his spokesperson katie miller mocked senator harris for wanting a flplexiglas container . What did you make of that tone as a physician and somebody i should point out has had coronavirus. Yeah. I walk out of the house with a mask on every day. Even having antibodies knowing im unlikely to carry this virus to anybody else when i go to the store, a plexiglas barrier between me and the people working at the Grocery Store to protect them from everybody. I think its embarrassing for them and i think that it shows the same tone. They appreciate Everything Else with. Dr. Ksaa, i have to cut you short because Vice President biden is about to special. America woke to the remains of perhaps the most consequential battle in american soil. It took place here on this ground in gettysburg. Three days of violence, three days of carnage, 50,000 casualties wounded, captured, missing or dead, over three days of fighting. When the sun rose on that independence day, lee would retreat. The war would go on for nearly two more years. But the back of the confederacy had been broken. The union would be saved. Slavery would be abolished. Government of by and for the people would not perish from the earth. And freedom would be born anew in our land. There is no more fitting place than here today in gettysburg to talk about the cost of division. But how much it has cost america in the past, how much it is costing us now and about why i believe in this moment we must come together as a nation. For president lincoln, the civil war was about the greatest of causes, the end of slavery, widening equality, pursuit of justice, the creation of opportunity, and the sangsancti freedom. His words live every after. We know them in hour heads, our hearts and draw on them when we cope in hours of darkness. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought fourth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all man are created equal. Here on this sacred ground, Abraham Lincoln reimagined america, itself. Here, president of the United States spoke of the price of division and the meaning of sacrifice. He believed in the rescue, redemption, and rededication of the union. All this in a time not just a ferocious division but of widespread death, structural inequity, and fear of the future. He taught us this. A houw divided could not stand. That is a great and timeless truth. Today, once again, we are a house divided. But that, my friends, can no longer be. We are facing too many crises. We have too much work to do. We have two bright a future to have a ship wreck on the schoals of anger and hate and division. As we stand here today, a century and a and a half later after gettysburg, we should consider, again, what can happen whether equal justice is denied, when anger and violence and division are unchecked. As i look across america today, im concerned the country is in a dangerous place. Our trust in each other is ebbing. Hope seems elusive. Too Many Americans see our public life not as an arena for mediation of our differences, but rather they say it as an occasion of unrelenting partisan war fare. Instead of treating each others party as the opposition, we treat them as the enemy. This must end. We need to revive the spirit of bipartisanship in this country and a spirit to work with one another. When i say that, ive been saying it for two years now, im accused of being naive. Im told maybe that is the way things used to work, joe, but they cant work that way any more. Well, im here to tell you they can and they must if we are going to get anything done. Im running as a proud democrat but i will govern as an american president. Ill work with democrats and republicans. Ill work as hard for those who dont support me as those who do. That is the job of a president. The duty to care for everyone. Refusal of democrats and republicans to cooperate with one another is not due to some Mysterious Force beyond our control. Its a decision. Its a choice we make. And if we can decide not to cooperate, we can decide to cooperate as well. That is the choice ill make as president. But there is something bigger going on in this nation than just our broken politics. Something darker, something more dangerous. Im not talking about ordinary differences of opinion. Competing viewpoints give life and vibrancy to our democracy. Im talking about Something Different and deeper. ToMany Americans seek not to overcome our divisions, but to deepen them. We must seek not to build walls, but bridges. We must seek not to have our 50s clenched, but our arms open. We have to seek not to tear each other apart, but seek to come together. You dont have to agree with me on everything or even on most things. To see what we are speexperienc today is neither good nor normal. I made the decision to run for president after charlottesville. Close your eyes and remember what you saw. Neonation kn neonazi and kkks coming out and chanting the same antisemitic vile heard across in the 30s. It was hate on the march in the open and in america. Hate never goes away, it only hides. When its given oxygen, when its given an opportunity to spread, when its treated as normal and acceptable behavior, we have opened the door in this country that we must move quickly to close. As president , that is just what i will do. I will send a clear unequivocal message. There is no clear hate in america. It will be given no oxygen and no safe harbor. In recent weeks and months, the country has been riled by instances of Excessive Police force, heart wrenching cases of Racial Injustice and lives needlessly and senselessly lost. By Peaceful Protesters given voice to the calls for justice, by examples of violence and looting and burning that cannot be tolerated. I believe in law and order. Ive never supported the funding of the police but i also believe in justice is real. That is a product of a history that goes back 400 years, the moment when black, men, women, and Children First were brought here in chains. I do not believe we have to choose between law and order and Racial Justice in america. We cant have both. This is a nation Strong Enough to both honestly face systemic racism and Strong Enough to provide safe streets for our families and Small Businesses that too often bear the brunt of this looting and burning. We have no medium for armed militia roams americas streets and we should have no tolerance for extremist White Supremacy groups menacing our communities. If you say we should trust americas Law Enforcement authorities to do the job as i do, then let them do their job without extremist groups acting as vigilantes. If you say we have no need to face Racial Injustice in the country, you havent opened your eyes to the truth in america. There have been powerful voices for justice in recent weeks and months. George floyds 6yearold daughter who i met with and looked at me and said in our small childs voice, daddy changed the world. Jacob blake Agency Mother was another when she said, violence didnt reflect her son and this nation needed healing. And doc rivers, the basketball coach, choking back tears when i said, owe are the ones getting killed, we are the ones getting shot. We have been hung. Its amazing we keep loving this country and this country did not love us back. I think about that. I think about what it takes for a black person to love america. That is a deep love for this country that has for far too long never been recognized. What we need in americas leadership seeks to deescalate tensions and open the lines of communication and bring us together and heal and hope. As president that is precisely what i will do. We paid a high price for the divisions of this country to impact on how we deal with the coronavirus. 210,000 americans dead and the number is climbing. Its estimated that nearly another 210,000 americans could lose their lives by the end of the year. Enough no more lets just set partisanship aside and end the politics and follow the science. Wearing a mask is not a political statement. Its a scientific recommendation. Social distancing saints a political statement. Its a scientific recommendation. Testing, tracing, the development and approval and distribution of a vaccine isnt a political statement. It is a sciencebased decision. We cannot undo what has been done. We cant go back but we can do so much better and do better starting today. We can have a National Strategy that puts politics aside and saves lives. We could have a National Strategy that will make it possible for schools and businesses to open safely. We could have a National Strategy that reflects the true values of this nation. This pandemic is not a red state or a blue state issue. This virus doesnt care whether you live or where you live or what Political Party you belong to. It infects us all and it will take anyones life. Its a virus. It is not a political weapon. There is another enduring division in america we must end. The division in our Economic Life that gives opportunity only to the privileged few. America has to be about mobility. It has to be the kind of country where in alabAbraham Lincoln, a child of the distant frontier can rise to the highest office in the land. America has to be about possibilities. The possibility of prosperity, not just for the privileged few but for the many, for all of us. Working people and their kids deserve an opportunity. Lincoln knew this. He said that a country had to give people, i quote, an open field and a fair chance. An open field and a fair chance. That is what we are going to do in the america we are going to build together. We fought a civil war that would secure a union, that would seek to fulfill the promise of equality for all. By fits and starts, our better angels have prevailed just enough, just enough against our worst impulses to make a new and better nation. And those better angels can prevail again now. They must prevail again now. A hundred years after lincoln spoke at gettysburg, the Vice President lyndon b. Johnson also came here and here is what he said. He said our nation founded soul and honor in these fields of gettysburg. We must not lose that soul and dishonor now on the fields of hate. Today, engage once again in a battle for the soul of the nation. The forces of darkness, the forces of division, the forces of yesterday are pulling us apart, holding us down and holding us back. We must free ourselves of all of them. As president , i will raise hope, not fear, generosity, not greed, and light, not darkness. Ill be a president who appeals to the best of us, not the worst. Ill be a president who pushes toward the future, not one who clings to the past. Im ready to fight for you and for our nation every day without exception, without reservation. And with a full and devoted heart. We cannot and will not allow extremist and White Supremacists to overturn the america of lincoln and harry tubman and Frederick Douglas, to overturn the america that is welcomed immigrants from Distant Shores and to overturn the america that has been a haven and a home for everyone, no matter their background. From seneca falls to stonewall, we are at our best when the promise america is available to all. We cannot and we will not allow violence in the street to threaten the people of this nation. We cannot and will not walk away from our obligation to, at long last, face the reckoning on race and Racial Justice in this country. We cannot and will not continue to be struck in the partisan politics that lets us, this virus thrive while the Public Health of this nation suffers. We cannot and will not accept an economic equation that only favors those who have already got it made. Everybody deserves a shot at prosperity. Folks, duty and history call president s to provide for the common good and i will. It wont be easy, it wont be easy. Our divisions today are longstanding, economic and racial inequities have shaped us for generations but i give you my word, i give you my word, if im elected president , i will marshal the ingenuity and goodwill of this nation and turn division into unity and bring us together. I think the people are looking for that. We can disagree how we move forward but we must take the first steps and start how we treat one another, how we talk to one another, how we respect one another. In the second inaugural lincoln said with malice toward none and charity for all and god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in to build up the nations wounds, bind up the nations wounds. Now we have our work to reunite america. The move past shadow and suspicion. So we, you and i, together, we press on even now. After hearing the second inaugural address, Frederick Douglas told president lincoln, mr. Lincoln, that was a sacred effort. We have to be dedicated to our own sacred effort. The promise of gettysburg, that a new birth of freedom was at hand. I think its at risk. Every generation that has followed gettysburg has been faced with a moment it must answer the question, whether it will allow the sacrifices made here to be in vain or be fulfilled. This is our moment to answer this essential american questions for ourselves and for our time. My answer is this it cannot be that after all this country has been through, after all that america has accomplished, after all the years we have stood as a beacon of light to the world, it cannot be that here and now in 2020 we will allow the government of the people, by the people and for the people to perish on this earth. No, it cannot and it must not. We have in our hands the ultimate power, the power to vote. Its the noblest instrument affair ge vi so we must, we must vote. We will vote. No matter how many obstacles are thrown in our way because once america votes, america will be heard. Lincoln said the nation is worth fighting for. So it was and so it is. Together, as one nation under god, let us fight the inequality and hate and fear. Lets conduct ourselves as americans who love each other, who love our country, who will not destroy, but will build. We owe it to the dead who are buried here at gettysburg. We owe that to the living and the future generations yet to be born. You and i are part of a covenant, a common story of divisions overcome and hope r renewed. If we do our part and stand together and keep faith together of the past and one another, the qi divisions of our time will giveaway to a better and brighter future. This is our work. This is our pledge, this is our mission. We can end this error of division. We can end the hate and the fear. We can be what we are at our best, the United States of america. God bless you all and may god protect our troops. Thank you. We can do this. Youve been listening to democratic nominee joe biden speaking in the commonwealth of pennsylvania and making a way for bipartisanship in the wake of multiple crises. Jessica dean is there. This is what biden has been selling to voters since he announced basically normalcy, getting back to saens of normalcy and there was no policy proposal in that speech. Just an idea of, like, everybody just calm down, lets get back to normal. Right. Jake, it was really a call to arms to a return to normalcy and as you point out, that has been the messaging from joe biden since he kicked off his campaign in april of 2019 when he called this a battle for the soul of the nation. To see him return to that messaging today is something we have heard again and again over the many months that we have been covering joe biden. It was also very much who he is. Remember joe biden spent decades and decades in the u. S. Senate where he prided himself on his bipartisan outreach, his friendships with Police Across the aisle. He believes in that and how he believes he can be effective. It is how he believes america can move forward. You notice we are here in gettysburg, pennsylvania, near the battle fields from the civil war where Abraham Lincoln gave that speech. I thought interesting. He said we find ourselves a house divided and that cannot be. We simply are facing too many crises and making the argument the democracy is on the line in this election. Jessica dean in the great commonwealth of pennsylvania, a big battleground state. Biden talking about the importance of voting which is already happening now. A time lapse gives a glimpse in ohio as voting started today. This is the area of columbus. In florida, the state is extending Voter Registration after a system crashed last evening. Many states are making concerted efforts to meet voter demand and others are effort to create burdens for voters. Pamela brown is looking at that in the series about Election Integrity issues that we are calling making it count. Reporter in ohio, the line of voters stretched around entire city blocks, as early voting gets under way today in more states. I think its rekindled, like, a spirited democracy in a lot of people. It has in me. Ive missed votes now today. Reporter the ohio state limiting drop boxes to one location. County Board Election officials even though a court said he could expand it further. To expand it beyond that when its not specifically called for in the law, it would be irresponsible at this point and would really cause confusion. Reporter indiana, early voting is under way as anxious voters, many wearing masks, braved long lines amid a deadly pandemic. In florida, the Voter Registration system went down monday amid a flood of applications ahead of the states deadline. That prompted the secretary of state to reopen the system for a few more hours today. A federal judge in arizona extended the deadline there by two weeks citing the impact of coronavirus on Voter Registration efforts. But a victory for republicans in South Carolina after Supreme Court renee stayed the states witness signature requirement on absentee ballots and many states voters say they are not taking any chances with their ballot. I think instead of three hours today, it might be seven or eight on november 3rd so i wanted to get it done in the most convenient way possible. I dropped off my ballot. I put it in the voter box because i didnt trust the u. S. Mail. Reporter Election Officials in both parties are pushing back on usps post cards sent to all households saying voters should request your mailin ballot at least 15 days before election day which is inaccurate for many states. The office of utahs republican Lieutenant Governor is urging residents to ignore the usps voting instructions. Missouri secretary of state is saying similar in a tweet. Today lawmakers say they are increasingly concerned about americans confidence in the u. S. Voting system. Americans need Accurate Information about how to cast their ballot. Misinformation being spread in the leadup to this years election is a disservice to voters and danger to our democracy. Reporter in texas, in response to the texas governors order for there only to be one ballot box per county, a group started by lebron james is now teaming up with lyft to offer free rides to registered voters up to 15 to the one ballot box in harris county, the big county in texas with millions of voters. Jake . Thank you so much, pamela brown. That is making it count. We will keep an eye on Election Integrity issues until the election. N tune into the only Vice President ial debate tomorrow night, wednesday night, at 7 00 p. M. On cnn. Ill see you tomorrow. This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. President trump ending talks with democrats on another stimulus bill to help millions and millions of americans facing increasingly dire financial fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The virus is spreading further through the u. S. Government with a third White House Press aides testing positive right now. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff along with several members of the pentagon Senior Leadership are quarantining after a top u. S. Coast guard official tested positive. The white house doctor says President Trump, el