Beijing barry. I get that this president wants full credit for the economy he inherited, and zero blame for the pandemic that he ignored. But you know what . The job doesnt work that way. Tweeting at the television doesnt fix things. Making stuff up doesnt make peoples lives better. Donald trump followed up tonight with what has now become routine, a packed rally this time in North Carolina, where he covered a range of topics from boasting about his response to the coronavirus to random broadsides and grievances including a few swipes back at barack obama. That pandemic is rounding the corner. They hate it when i say it. All you hear is covid, covid, covid, covid, covid. Covid. Covid. Covid. They want to scare the hell out of everyone. 60 minutes. Take 60 minutes. She said you are begging for women to love you. You said women, please love you. Youll see, youll see. Wait until you see. We have a little surprise for 60 minutes. Theyve said he is so stupid. Then they say hes not really smart. Then they say hes trying to take over the entire country. You know, obama is now campaigning. There was nobody that campaigned harder for crooked Hillary Clinton than obama. He said he will not be our president. And i won. I think the only one. The only one more unhappy than crooked hillary that night was Barack Hussein obama. While the president was on stage, in a case of curious timing and well say it straight up, possibly dubious motives there was a hastily arranged press conference at fbi headquarters in washington. It was ostensibly about threatening emails that are going around meant to look like they were sent out by the far right group the proud boys. The emails appear to tell democratic voters to switch to the republican party. Some of them threaten them if they dont vote for trump. Well have more on this unusual press conference just ahead in our broadcast tonight. Not long after tonights event, the Washington Post reported trump is considering firing the fbi director chris wray after election day. Paper also says attorney general bill barrs position isnt looking that secure, either, these days. Despite this latest palace intrigue theres still a pandemic and most of the nation is now caught firmly in the grip of this latest wave of infections. Late this afternoon, in fact, the cdc offered this grim assessment. Were seeing a distressing trend here in the United States with covid19 cases increasing in nearly 75 of the country. Weve seen nearly 60,000 cases a day on average as well as 700 deaths. Total confirmed cases in the u. S. Now top 8. 3 million with the death toll now over 223,000. Over 1,000 people died in just the past day alone. In a previously taped town hall event for sinclair broadcasting, trump was again defending his track record in handling this virus. With covid, is there anything that you think you could have done differently if you had a mulligan or doover on one aspect of the way you handled it, what would it be . Not much. Its all over the world. You have a lot of great leaders a lot of smart people. Its all over the world. It came out of china. China should have stopped it. Negotiations over another Coronavirus Relief bill still under way. Senate democrats today blocked republicans effort to pass a 500 billion bill. Over in the House Speaker pelosi still pushing for relief in the 2. 2 trillion range. Trump white house has offered a 1. 8 trillion proposal. Republican senators are also focused on getting judge Amy Coney Barrett confirmed today. She met with senators ahead of tomorrows planned vote to move her nomination out of committee into the full senate. Tonight on this network the minority leader Chuck Schumer confirmed ten democrats on the Judiciary Committee will boycott that vote. Theres also a rather Interesting Development tonight concerning trumps personal lawyer and former mayor of new york city Rudy Giuliani. He had a hand in helping to get the president impeached and appears to be in the lead and pushing the president s latest allegations about his opponent. It turns out rudy also has a cameo in the latest Sacha Baron Cohen borat film. Nbc news has obtained a copy of the film that appears to show juli and an actress playing a reporter going into a Hotel Bedroom for drinks in what may be a compromising few moments. Tonight giuliani called the video a complete fabrication and says a suspiciouslooking screen grab from the scene is simply him tucking in his shirt after removing a microphone following an interview. He says he called the police once he realized Sasha Baron Cohen was behind it. Its a lot but lets bring in our leadoff Discussion Group for this predebate wednesday night. Jonathan lem yooer, White House Reporter for the associated press. Annie karni, White House Reporter for the new york times. Jason johnson, campaign veteran, a journalist, and contributor over at the grio and a professor of politics at morgan state university. Good evening and welcome to you all. Annie, lets see. Were 21 hours and change away from the start of this debate now. Some of our colleagues with a straight face have teased out a plot line that features the president unrolling a new tone tomorrow night. Has he had any debate prep that youve been able to learn . Do you expect anything different tomorrow night . No. There has been no debate prep. There were a few sessions on his calendar, but he did not partake in those. He the hope among his aides is that he will let biden do more talking and that he will lay out a vision for his second term. Its, you know, less than two weeks until election day and hes still not laid out a clear vision for his second term despite multiple attempts by his friendliest interlocutors like sean hannity asking him to do so. I dont expect it would be surprising if he had something to say on that now. The other thing is, they want him to debut a new tone. He has had no debate prep sessions and over the past few days weve really seen him take on fights with people who are not joe biden. They first there was fauci then it was lesley stahl from 60 minutes. Then it was obama a little bit at the rally. He seems to be looking for other targets when many of his aides just want him to be drawing a contrast with biden. Another thing offered to him as a way to attract some of the voters who might be turned off by his tone and twitter feed is to use humor and say i promise in a second term not to tweet as much. That would also be a new tone we havent seen him do. Hes been given some ideas how to do better in the second debate. But at this point i think your viewers are probably tired of new tone and at this point trump is going to do what he wants to do. Yeah, perhaps. Theyre a pretty savvy bunch. Hey, jason, i want to play for you a little bit more of lets call him joe bidens leading surrogate. With joe and kamala at the helm youre not going to have to think about the crazy things they said every day. Youll be able to go about your lives knowing that the president is not going to retweet conspiracy theories about secret cabals running the world or that navy s. E. A. L. S didnt actually kill bin laden. Think about that. The president of the United States retweeted that. Imagine. Jason, not unlike a wine review, i found hints of chris rock and seinfeld in todays delivery. Do you think it can be as effective as it was kind of reassuring to democrats in the base . After all, his job was to get out the vote in pennsylvania. Yeah, brian, i thought it was fantastic. In fact, what i heard was a lflt jon lovitz playing Michael Dukakis on snl like 25 years ago. How could i lose to this guy . There was such exasperation in Barack Obamas speech. This guy is clearly incompetent. He tweets insane theories. You cant not vote for him. You know, its red meat for the base. Its catharsis for people who are watching it. But i also think this is really interesting, brian. If you think about it, the biggest, most important surrogate for joe biden would be barack obama. And he hasnt been the point until these last two weeks. That is indicative of a campaign that is very confident. Places like pennsylvania as opposed to ive got to send barack obama there to make shire i secure these location ppz i think this is a good sign strategically for the campaign, a good sign this is the kind of rhetoric theyre on. Theyre selling we already know this guy is competent and the incumbent is terrible as opposed to were desperate and more concerned. And jonathan lemire, take us out on the trail, figuratively, with you. Talk about these trump rallies as events, as performance art. Compared to 2016, how do they compare . Especially in terms of crowds and energy and the like. Well, for the maga set theyre rock concerts. And certainly the president is playing a lot of the greatest hits night after night. I was there last night in erie, pennsylvania. When he spoke for about an hour. But there are some key differences and similarities to 2016. First of all, lets start on the crowd size. They have gotten significantly bigger in recent weeks. We are now approaching 2016 size. After the pandemic, after he scuttled rallies for a while, hes slowly brought them back. And they were significantly smaller. They have now its thousands of people every night. Most evenings very few in masks. Never any social distancing. Lets remember, these are major events being held in the pandemic. So thats different than four years ago. But aides are frustrated at another change, is that four years ago, particularly in the stretch run of the campaign, the president was for him relatively disciplined. He had key issues that he would hammer night after night. Whether it be on immigration or tried alleging Hillary Clinton corruption. Its far more scattershot this time around. Hes not as zeroed in on a message. There is a lot more personal grievance. Certainly there have always been attacks on the media but theyve been escalated even further in these weeks. And last night he did deliver what his aides want to be his closing message. He said look, it was about the economy. And he told the people there, you vote for me, you vote for the economic recovery thats already begun from this pandemic. If you vote for joe biden youll get socialist economic policies, another depression. Thats what his aides want him to say. He did say it. But it was drowned out by, annie said, by feuds with fauci and lesley stahl and other scattershot messaging that his aides are deeply frustrated has blunted the impact of what hes really trying to deliver as a closing message. And annie, back over to you, talk some more about your reporting that for this boss who only likes to hear good news more than most, what these glimmers of hope are that aides are passing along to him these days. There are some better polls. Theyre not great polls but theres a lot of excitement among his aides about an abc poll that came out yesterday that showed a onepoint race in North Carolina. They are saying that theyre seeing his numbers come back from the hit they took after the double whammy of the first debate where his performance was widely panned and then his hospitalization for the coronavirus. It seems like he has convinced most of his supporters that his health is fine. Hes doing multiple rallies a day. So theyve seen their numbers kind of come back from that horrible week for them. And thats a glimmer of hope. And they think this debate is their final chance for a reset. So they think that, you know, i hear a lot of people saying that conceding that the president had a bad debate and his bad debate overshadowed bidens debate which they didnt think was particularly strong. The hope is that if the president can step back it can reset the dynamics a little bit. That being said, early voting is going gangbusters in states like North Carolina and other critical states. So time is of the essence. But they think they i mean, its a tight race. Theyre hoping for tight. Thats and for a reset possibly on election day when a lot of Republican Voters vote. Indeed. Jason, lets talk about the chance of that reset and a question that i hear asked at least once a day now. How much of that obamaBiden Coalition can bidenharris count on turning out . Brian, all the numbers say its not even going to necessarily look like the obama coalition. There is there are two particular groups that biden seems to be doing particularly well with. We havent seen in a long time. Hes doing very well with seniors including white seniors. I mean, hes competitive with workingclass whites, noneducatesed whites, and white seniors in a way that president barack obama always struggled with. Obama made up the numbers from large support from african americans, large support from latin latinos, large support from young people. I think the Biden Coalition might be a bit wider, might be bit older, might be more spread out than we saw from the previous coalition, but a lot of that is sort of a level of frustration with donald trump and his inability to be competitive with independent voters. I think right now if you look at the places that Donald Trumps campaign is excited about or paying attention to, theyre excited that theyre only 1 ahead or theyre doing better in North Carolina, theyre doing better in arizona. These are places that the Biden Campaign would consider the cherry on top. Biden doesnt have to win arizona. Biden doesnt have to win North Carolina. So i think the coalition that biden is putting together is making it much more difficult for republicans to strategize these last two weeks because he seems to have a wider swath of american support than weve seen for a democrat in a long time. Hey, jonathan lemire, in our closing seconds, anytime the fbi has a press conference within two weeks of an election it gets your attention, jim comey or not. As it did tonight. And we should be skeptical because of our times, because of this administration, because nothing greater than the fact that barack obama had a good day, donald trump was on the stage in North Carolina. Im going to quote from garrett graf, one reason youre in a job like dhs secretary or dni, that you dont compromise your integrity and lie badly, is because there are moments like right now when the public needs to trust you. So there was the dni approaching the microphones followed by the head of the fbi. What do you think that was all about tonight . Youre right, brian. Certainly it was a hastily called News Conference. Reporters were only given about a half hours notice and were told it was going to be a significant announcement on election security, which raised all sorts of eyebrows and antennae across washington. Certainly remember the late developments in the 2016 race caused by james comeys letter about the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Its hard to know. The president everything the president in this four years, politics is everywhere. We know that he has touched institutions. He has touched branches of government that have never been political before which now seem to be. Cdc among them. And this is one where i think this announcement had been greeted with some skepticism. The allegations about iran and russia having voter information that largely, at least at first glance, appears to be publicly available. So theres a sense at least among some that this is perhaps an overhyped event to try to change the narrative, to try to change the conversation, and to yes, cast doubt about the integrity of the election. As much as there was reassurances tonight that americans should have faith in their voting, of course allegations of interference allegedly to hurt President Trump although its not clear why that would be. It wasnt spelled out. But it adds to the mix here as americans fear two weeks out that the results on election day and the days that follow are going to be unclear and murky and perhaps undermine the confidence in the results. Yeah, people need to be very sharp consumers. Heres a credibilitychallenged dni choosing to toss Donald Trumps name into that press conference tonight. Great thanks to our big three on a wednesday. Jonathan lemire, annie karni, jason johnson. Greatly appreciated pape break for us. And then coming up, more on the many questions raised by tonights allegations of these foreign efforts to interfere with the election that most of us have known have been going on for quite a while. Well be joined by a former fbi senior official. And later, the name hunter biden just might come up a lot tomorrow night. Will names like ivanka, eric, djtj come up just as often . Should they . The 11th hour just getting under way on this wednesday evening. Wednesday evening. And now your copilot. 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Scott wiener immediately went to work, making sure families could put food on their tables, defending renters facing eviction, securing unemployment benefits, helping neighborhood businesses survive. Scott wiener will never stop working until california emerges from this crisis. The bay area needs scotts continued leadership in sacramento. Because we know scott is fighting for all of us. Reelect scott wiener for state senate. We have already seen iran sending spoofed emails designed to intimidate voters, incite social unrest and damage President Trump. Although we have not seen the same actions from russia, we are aware that they have obtained some voter information just as they did in 2016. You should be confident that your vote counts. Early unverified claims to the contrary should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. More of tonights event were still trying to figure out, basically accusing iran and to a lesser extent russia of being behind threatening campaign emails. Theres nothing spoofy about them. Sent to some democratic voters in florida and other states. The emails say some version of vote for trump or well come after you. According to the Washington Post the emails appear to come from the fringe group the proud boys, the same group the president told to stand by at the last debate. Nbc news correspondent jo ling kent is following voter stories like these for us in these final days of the campaign and is with us tonight from los angeles. So jo, what did we learn tonight and how are our elections any safer by distant of this News Conference while the president was on stage in North Carolina . That may be unanswerable. Yeah, thats a tough question. But theres certainly a lot of context behind this. The director of National Intelligence saying that as you said iran is behind these threatening spoofed emails to florida voters, the whole idea is to intimidate them, and theres some personal identifying information like their home address included in some of these emails. Now, director ratcliffe did say they were meant to incite social unrest and damage to President Trump. But he didnt provide any further details or evidence of exactly what he meant by that. So in florida of course you take a look at the broader context here. Voter information like your name or Party Affiliation is actually accessible if you request it through public records. So they also said that russia obtained Voter Registration info as well and at the same time the Cybersecurity Firm mandian is teblling our Kevin Collier on our biz tech team that this is a fundamental shift in irans efforts to interfere in the voting process and is clearly aimed at undermining voter confidence. So the good news there is no indication that votes or tallies have been altered or touched or election infrastructure has been hit in this case. But the bigger backdrop here, brian, is russia has been seen as the bigger threat to the election especially after you remember 2016. So perhaps this is evidence that iran is ramping up and working on similar tactics but also syncs up with our reporting about how iran is attempting to sow discord like on facebook and twitter over the past few months. The bottom line here, brian, is the idea is to undermine confidence in the vote, sow that confusion. Its something russia of course was infamous for in 2016 as well as 2018. Now, the timing on all of this of course is very notable. The emails that nbc news has seen, you can see there on the screen. Theyre dated yesterday afternoon. So this is a pretty fast turnaround for the intelligence community. Not to mention the timing of this presser, less than two weeks before election day. So theres a lot to parse and look at here. A lot of unanswered questions, brian. Yeah, you can see that threat buried in those emails. It says, we will come after you. Jo, thanks. Our own jo ling kent in los angeles for us tonight. For more, were joined by frank figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence and importantlit author of the upcoming book the fbi way inside the bureaus code of excellence. So frank, theres so many questions. Did director wray look coerced or willing to you when he appeared after ratcliffe . Why did ratcliff front the event . And isnt this information both of these gentlemen have known in some form or fashion for months if not years . Youre right to ask the questions. Its an aberration when the dni leads off what is really an operational Investigative Press conference. In fact, i would say, brian, this really wasnt a press conference that you would see to announce that our election is under attack. What that kind of press conference would look like if we were under normal circumstances would be you see a united front, youd see all the heads of our intelligence agencies, cia, nsa, dhs and fbi. The front man would likely be the attorney general, who was completely absent this evening. And you would also see the senate and house leadership there. Why . Because youd hear announcements like this. Our election is under attack by two foreign adversaries. Here is what we can tell you right now. Here is what were doing about it. And the president of the United States has already ordered retaliatory actions against those two nations that are under way right now. In addition, we have here the senate and house leadership because the president has ordered executive emergency funding to shore up security in those states and counties election systems that need it because weve been saying we need it for many, many months and now were going to make those patches in those systems happen. None of it happened tonight, brian. Instead, we have more questions than answers and instead the public is not reassured by what they heard tonight. In fact, what i heard tonight was that iran and russia have gotten into Voter Registration data. If they can get into Voter Registration data, they can delete Voter Registration data. They can move your voting place and polling place. You and i on this show have previously talked about that very scenario. And here we are talking about it in reality. Frank, i just want to play for you what the president was telling the ardent tonight at his rally while that event was going on. Russia. Oh, russia. They probably think were the wackiest people. What did we do now . You created a laptop for hunter biden. Iran doesnt want to let me win. China doesnt want to let me win. They want me to be defeated so badly. So frank, this is like these journalists who are with a straight face reporting hes coming to the debate tomorrow night to exhibit a new tone. I guess thats staying on brand for donald trump. Yeah, i wouldnt expect any kind of a new tone and of course, since the comments tonight that hes made, i think it wont ring true if he changes tone tomorrow. But here is a tone that were going to keep hearing now because his dni had laid the groundwork for it and hes repeated it again tonight. Hes going to say this is about him. These attacks on our election system are about attempts to damage him. Or there are other countries trying to get biden to win. This is the theme. And thats why its so disturbing that his dni, who is supposed to be a neutral intelligence professional but is not, should not have even mentioned whos trying to damage who here tonight. Get us the facts. Tell us what youre doing about it and lets move on. Thats not going to happen and now trump has something to grab on to, proven or unproven, to take us through the election and make various kinds of claims. Frank, thanks as always for answering the call. Frank figliuzzi our guest tonight. Coming up for us, joe biden calls it a smear campaign. Trump calls it fair game. A viewers guide of sorts to tomorrow nights debate when we come back. Ate when we come back. Robinhood believes now is the time to do money. Without the commission fees. So, you can start investing today wherever you are even hanging with your dog. So, what are you waiting for . Download now and get your first stock on us. Robinhood. Whos sujoe biden. Rop 15 . Biden says, every kid deserves a quality education and every family deserves to live in a safe, healthy community. Thats why i support prop. 15. Vote yes. Schools and communities first is responsible for the contents of this ad. Whos supkamala harris. 5 . Harris says, a Corporate Tax loophole has allowed billions to be drained from our Public Schools and local communities. No more. Im proud to support prop 15. Vote yes. Schools and communities first is responsible for the content of this ad. Were prepping for the debate tomorrow night. I cant imagine a debate going off with hunter biden at least not getting a tough question from the moderator on this subject, and if not, certainly from the president of the United States. Okay. So here is the deal. It may seem during tomorrow nights debate as if the president is running against hunter biden and not joe biden. Like so much else in the trump era, going after your opponents kids is all new territory. Then again, unlike past races, all the children of these two guys in their 70s are all fully formed adults. Nonetheless, bidens advisers say time spent on issues other than coronavirus or the economy is time lost. Politico goes on to report it this way. Some allies have been pressing the biden camp to go harder against trumps children considering how aggressively the president is attacking his. When it comes to kids and alleged conflicts of interest, they say look no further than ivanka trump. While serving as a white house official she won three new trademarks in china on the same day she met with chinas president xi jinping. Back with us to talk about all of it is Emily Jane Fox, National Correspondent for vanity fair, who has extensively covered the trump family, happens to be the author of born trump inside americas first family. So emily, would it be fair game if a bit off brand if biden decided to go after, say, ivanka trump . It wouldnt, i presume, be for lack of material. Sure. There is a stunning amount of material that the president and his children have presented people to chew over over over the last two years. In fact, just i guess exactly four years ago this week i was reporting on a story about how ivanka trump planned to get her epionmouse lifestyle brand back on track when her father inevitably lost in the election in 2016. That plan was of course scrapped because her father won and her brand is now defunct though as politico noted not before her brand was issued trademarks from china. But her brand has been ongoing over the last four years as she served as an adviser in the white house, and she has continued to break the norms, break the rules and break the law. Just this week ivanka trump was campaigning. In the last two days she makes stops in four different states, which violates the hatch act. There have been a number of times over the last four years in which she used a private email server in the white house, in which she actually and her husband just being in the white house in and of itself violated a 50year statute that limited antinepotism in the white house. So there is not a lack of material. The fact of the matter is that the American People dont need joe biden to bring that up tomorrow in the debate. They need to just look at the last four years the trump family has done a pretty good job themselves for bringing that to the attention of the American People. Emily, it could not be more on brand for 2020 that the man formally known as americas mayor spent a good bit of today defending a freeze frame from the new borat movie where hes lying on a bed he says tucking in his shirt. What kind of character in your line of work has Rudy Giuliani become . It is such a departure from his time as americas mayor, the man that for the last several decades the American Public has gotten to know. I think one of the Great Questions of the era of trump has been what happened to Rudy Giuliani. I know people on this network have asked him to his face and they have not been satisfied by the answer. I think it is the most fitting fourth act end for the character of Rudy Giuliani in this era. Over the last two weeks, he has been the main perpetrator of this biden story. He has been the one out front the hunter biden story, that is. Hes been the one out front putting that story forward and making sure that or at least trying to get the Mainstream Media to cover it. It is fitting that he has become the story getting in the way of the hunter biden story maybe taking on more oxygen this week. With our compliments on a beautiful viking stove hood and a lovely backsplash. Always good to see Emily Jane Fox from vanity fair. Thanks very much for coming on tonight. Great to see you. Coming up for us as we approach our next break, were now on the verge of a third surge of coronavirus. Well ask our next guest just how long life is going to feel this way across our country when we continue. If you have medicare, listen up. The medicare enrollment deadline is only weeks away. 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In my 34 years as a physician, i have never seen so much suffering from a single disease over such a short period of time. Ive been thinking back to eight months ago when we first started to face this pandemic and it was a sprint at that time and now eight months in with the pandemic, im realizing that im tired. I know others are tired. Not just our bodies and our minds but our spirits are fatigued as well. Those are the folks we need to listen to. Fresh warnings from our Health Care Workers on the front lines of this coronavirus sounding the all too familiar alarm by now as a third surge now grips our country. Positivity rates are up in nearly 3 4 of our country. Were now averaging about 60,000 new cases a day. Those are the highest numbers weve seen since august. Not one state in our country is headed in the right direction. With us again tonight is dr. Irwin redlener, a pediatrics physician by trade, Senior Research scholar at columbia universitys earth institute. Also happens to be founding director of columbias National Center for disaster preparedness. Irwin, i want to take you back to this afternoon just before barack obama emerged to give his speech. You gave an answer to a question asked by Nichole Wallace that kind of took my breath away. It was about what life is going to be like for the foreseeable future in our country and im wondering if you could share it with the good folks watching tonight. Sure, brian. So look, the problem is there is no end in sight. And im going to speak directly and clearly about this. I would like to have better news to bring. You know, they call me a pessimist and whatever. But the fact of the matter is i think were going to have to buckle down and understand that we are going to be facing some part of a coronavirus pandemic for the next one to two, maybe three years. Thats just the way it is. This virus has a lot of mysterious things going on in terms of its behavior and very difficult to predict where were going to be but as you just pointed out, brian, the trajectory is upwards all over the country and in fact many, many parts of the world. And i think were going to have to get into the fact that we have to think about how our lives are going to be altered. It doesnt need to be all bad. By the way. This is really an adaptation process. We want people to get used to living a different type of normal for a while. We need to be able to support our children, help them become adaptive and resilient, and thats the way it is. Were going to have to have different kinds of thanksgiving dinners. The redlener family certainly is. And we just have to get used to it and find the pleasures of life that will come even if were comporting our lives differently. Than we might have preferred. But theres no sense kigd ourselves. We dont want to be trumpians here just mimicking good news with no rationalization. So thats what its going to be, brian. Im pretty convinced it will be a long time before this really leaves us totally. Thank you for that answer and for your candor. And ive got to say i was stunned to see a press conference at the cdc today. We shouldnt be stunned to see that. It should be nearly a daily basis that we get updated on this virus. But they did put out new guidelines. Is that because the virus is changing at all or just our knowledge of it . Well, our knowledge is pretty fluid right now in terms of what is the reality. For example, people who have gotten covid and maybe had lung symptoms, they were short of breath and had to be admitted to a hospital, we dont know what the long term is going to be. A lot of these people may end up with other systems other than their lungs involved including heart involvement and gas tro intestinal involvement, neurological problems. We dont know. Were tracking all this. People that have the virus presumably are immune at least for a little while. We have no idea how long that will be. Will it be a month, six months, a year . Were already seeing cases reported, brian, as you know of people who are getting a second infection, a true second infection. Now, the numbers are very small of those people, but we just are too early in the process and too limited in our knowledge of this virus to really understand where this is taking us, which is why im saying weve got to strap ourselves in, wait for real scientists to make the announcements like you heard from the cdc today. But at the end of the day its going to be a waiting game and we have to know how to take care of ourselves while waiting for the return of normalcy. So you dont have to let me alert our viewers that irwins group is coming out tomorrow with a new report on the death rate. Were going to need to listen up when it comes to irwin redlener. 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Our report tonight on the strain they are feeling from nbc news correspondent vicky nguyen. I have over 1,000 emails. Reporter nick varoni struck a nerve when he post aid simple tweet. How many teachers are close to breaking down . Launching a conversation about how teachers are really doing. Exhausted and burnt out but need to keep providing the best education i can. It feels like were building an airplane while were already in the air flying. Its my 15th year teaching. I feel like a firstyear teacher all over again. Reporter we sat down with three educators for a candid conversation. Do you feel like in some ways the kids stress and anxiety is something the teachers take on . Absolutely. Theyre our babies. My babies. Reporter nick is teaching history remotely. Kelly gallagher is a High School Science teacher. And Nicole Mancini teaches fifth grade. What is the toughest part about teaching during a pandemic . When we think of our kids, some of them are taking care of their siblings. 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Tomorrow night our coverage begins with a special edition of our broadcast, the moment the debate comes to an end. And for us for now thats our broadcast on this wednesday night. It comes with our thanks for spending this time with us. On behalf of all my colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night. Tonight on all in this pandemic would have been challenging for any president. But this idea that somehow this white house has done anything but completely screw this up is just not barack obama is on the scene. Can you imagine if i had had a secret chinese bank account when i was running for reelection . Tonight david plough and alex wagner on the obama event and where the race stands heading into the final debate. Plus, Donald Trumps former Attorney Michael Cohen on the corruption coming from inside the white house and what is happening with trumps current attorney. 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