Chuck schumer. The daily beast has decided that the new star of new york politics is jamal bowman, and he hasnt even quite won his Congressional Election that the primary where he challenged elliot i thinkngle. He will join us tonight since hes on the threshold, the verge once the votes are counted of becoming a rising star in new york politics. What an excellent booking. Im jealous. Yeah. Well, you know, we work hard at this. Im going to start stealing your stuff. Here is the way its going to work. I will get him before hes technically won, and then the second hes won, he will be on the Rachel Maddow show. Thats how this will work. If you can promise that on his behalf i will both be surprised and hold you to it. I will book him for you tonight on tv. Thank you. I owe you. Done. Thank you, rachel. Thanks. Thanks, lawrence. It is not a coincidence that on the day that the United States sets a new grim record for the largest number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day a New York Times poll comes out, a poll of the president ial race that shows joe biden with a record high lead in that poll over donald trump. Klein believes that is not a coincidence, those two things, and he will make his case later in this hour. Hes already being called, as i told you, the new star of new york politics and jamal bowman has not yet officially won for the congressional seat currently held by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, but jamal bowman does have a very big lead. Looks like an insurmountable lead in the vote count already, and he will join us later in this hour. If he is sworn in as a member of the house of representatives next year, he might be taking his place in a much more sane atmosphere than it is today because republicans in the house of representatives now seem to have only one mission, to impress donald trump and trump voters by vandalizing house proceedings in every way that they can think of. As we saw in the house impeachment inquiry last year and again today, House Republicans have a strategy when all of the evidence at the hearing reveals trump corruption and in todays hearing corruption by the attorney general, and that strategy is chaos, confusion and Parliament Tear vandalism. Republican members of the committee did not have to do any homework for todays hearing about corruption and Donald TrumpsJustice Department headed by attorney general william barr because their plan was to try to make the hearing imcomprehensible. The first witness to speak today was interrupted in a way we have never ever seen before. He served in the Justice Department in Ronald Reagans administration as well as george w. H. Bushs administration. He rose to the number two job, Deputy Attorney general. Republicans on the committee today were not impressed with mr. Ayers republican credentials. When he went slightly over the fiveminute limit for his opening remarks, which is very, very common in congressional hearings, texas republican louie gomert tried to drown autothe witness testimony with increasingly loud banging on his desk. He said that bill barr does regularly lie in ways that impact official actions. Mr. Chairman, there is not order in the room. There is a banging. No, there is certainly not. Mr. Chairman, would you have gene cooper removed . That kind of madness has never happened in a congressional hearing before republicans like louie gomert started competing for Donald Trumps affections with more and more outrageous conduct. The star witness of the day was Aaron Zelinsky, one of the prosecutors working on the roger stone case. He described the pressure from the president and the attorney general to reduce the prosecutions sentencing request for roger stone. We were pressured to reduce the initial sentencing guidelines calculation for mr. Stone without any clear, legal rational for doing so. When we refused to go along, we were instructed again to disregard the guidelines entirely and to recommend an unspecified lower sentence for mr. Stone. I was told that to the best of anyones recollection such a recommendation has never been made by the fraud and public corruption section of the United States attorneys office. When we again refused, we were told that we could be fired if we didnt go along. I notified the office i intended to withdraw from the case rather than file a memo that was the result of the wrongful political pressure. And while all this was happening, i was repeatedly told the departments actions were not based on the law or the facts but rather on political considerations, mr. Stones political relationships and that the acting u. S. Attorney was afraid of the president. And there you have it, a condemnation of the attorney general from inside the attorney generals own department. Aaron zelinsky revealed that he was testifying remotely today because he was being extra cautious, as cautious as possible, about exposure to the coronavirus because he has a newborn baby at home. And when louie gomert finally got his precious five minutes to question witnesses, here is everything, and i mean the totality, of what he had to say to the biggest witness of the day, aaron civilzelinsky. And the fact that mr. Zelinsky, i was going to ask him questions but and i understand Family Matters and by the way, im grateful for my wife for sticking with me for 42 years today and there are Family Matters. Yeah, shes a lot more fair than were getting around here. But so 42 years. Thank you, kathy. Some of us have Family Matters, too, that are very pressing. But this is very pressing, too. And i wont try to compare those. Thats it. Thats everything he had to say to and about the most important witness in that hearing today. Thats how Louie Gohmert used his valuable time. He did not ask a single question, not one. He did not make a single coherent point other than it was his wedding anniversary today. Louie gohmert who was so desperately concerned with the use of the committees precious time, by that first witness, just threw his own fiveminute opportunity away, as so many republicans do in hearings like this. The one witness appearing in defense of attorney general barr was former Republican Attorney general Michael Mckay si who served in george bushs administration. He left a big crack in the defense against political interference in the Justice Department. Do you believe that the president , nor the attorney general who has been acting more like the president s personal body guard and his fixer, have not engaged in politics as it pertains to the president s friends. I cant speak for the president. The president is, by definition, a political based on your professional decision, political or professional experience, do you believe the president has engaged in a political way as it pertains to sentences or what happens to his friends . The attorney general himself criticized the president for tweets that he so thats a yes in. Its a maybe. Go ahead. A maybe. Donald ayer lived through the Nixon Administration and now president nixon resign the presidency in the middle of impeachment proceedings. He saw president nixons attorney general con viced of crime, felonies in that investigation. Donald ayer has seen it all, but he had never seen a greater threat to our rule of law than william barr. I was privileged to serve in the department of justice under two republican and one democratic president and i am here because i believe that william barr poses the greatest threat in my lifetime to our rule of law and to public trust in it. That is because he does not believe in its core principal, that no one is above the law. Instead, he has worked toed a vance his lifelong conviction that the president should hold virtually autocratic powers. That includes immunity and being able to accord special treatment to himself and his friends. During todays hearing, the Justice Department announced that attorney general william barr has agreed to testify to the House Judiciary Committee on july 28th. Leading off our discussion tonight, democratic congressman from maryland. Hes a member of the House Committee. Neil katial. Were you surprised by the attorney generals announcement that he is agreeing to testify, although its going to be five weeks from now . Well, hes agreed several times before and hes always found a reason to back out. So i think most members of the committee feel like well believe it when we see it. And, i mean, its scandalous that he wont appear. One of the things that donald ayer pointed out so well was that this administration has been openly defying the appro h appropriations power of congress. We appropriate money for certain purposes and they steal the money to build the president s infantile, medieval wall at the border instead. They have denied dozens and dozens of subpoenas that we have issued, demands for information, requests for information and so on. They just categorically reject the demands of congress, which is the law making power in article one of the constitution. So, you know, it was very powerful when donald ayer said today that donald trump is the biggest threat to the rule of law in the country today, which is res nant with Donald Trumps niece. We should reflect on what the rule of law means. In the hands of the right wing judges, it is just the rules. But the american revolutionaries thought that the rule of law was a system of legal controls against people who had power. They understood that the rabble below would always be subject to the baton in the ribs and the equivalent of the rubber bullets and the tear gas and so on. But the rule of law was a way to control people who get state power, and thats what theyre in the process of trying to demolish, by taking over taking over every governmental entity and stuffing it with their authoritarian puppets and then wiping out the civil rights and Civil Liberties of the people. So weve got a few months left to try to defend democracy at every turn on a daily basis, and we will continue to see these chaotic circus shows by people like Louie Gohmert who was a judge in texas. But they will continue just to, you know, vis corral graffiti and throw tomatoes to distract america from the world historical failure of this administration to deliver any kind of Public Safety or security to the American People in this pandemic, which has cost more than 120,000 lives of our people. I want to continue with our analysis of what we heard and the important points of what we heard today. But congressman, i do think we owe it to the audience to try to explain as quickly as we can why these hearings get out of control like this. There was a call by some democratic members we heard, could the chairman get the sergeant in arms to drag Louie Gohmert out of there. And the truth of the matter is the house rules havent anticipated situations like this. I used to work in the senate. I know what the rules are there. But i studied house rules today. The most i could come up with for unruly behavior was simply a rule about the house floor, where it says the sergeant at arms is authorized to hold up the mace, the symbol of the sergeant at arms authority, before unruly members and carry the mace down the aisle of the House Chamber to subdue disorderly conduct. These rules havent really anticipated Louie Gohmert, have they . No. Or a lot of their friends, matt gates. If you are going to go down with that mace, you better bring the other mace with you, too, because these people were completely out of control. Lawrence, they wont even wear masks. We even have the dr. Fauci and the president s medical personnel saying everybody should be wearing a mask, and they make it a point of macho pride not to wear a mask when we go into congress, which is terrifying a lot of members, including some republicans who have medically Vulnerable People at home. And, you know, jim jordan has made a point of never wearing a jacket. I dont care about that. I would not want to kick him off the floor for not wearing a jacket. Thats a fashion statement. But when it comes to wearing a mask, thats a Public Health decision. Its extremely dangerous and we have had a lot of members come down with covid19. As you know, the pandemic is out of control in the red states. Its a lot of the republicans who refuse to wear a mask. Neil, what we saw here in the conduct of the republicans in the hearing is connected to what were talking about in the Justice Department because what we have discovered in the trump era is that so many things that we thought were rules that we thought were kind of unbreakable turn out just to be customs. And being scene in a Committee Hearing is just a custom that was shared by every Single Member of the house of representatives up until the trump era. And so also with so many practices in the Justice Department that we had a sense were codified. We had a sense there were legal lines drawn, but there werent as many as we thought. Thats part of what was under examination today in that hearing, wasnt it . Absolutely. I want to agree with the congressman about attorney general barr and whether hell actually testify on july 28th. I mean, the attorney general has been scared of testifying. The house has been trying for more than a year to get him to testify, and he asked and he acts scared at every turn and dodges it. Hes kind of like trump at a spelling bee, just frightened out of his mind. So, you know, ill believe it when i see it. I absolutely agree with you, lawrence, that the Justice Department is built on the rock of traditions and norms and chief among them is the idea of independence that president s dont tell you if you are at the department who to prosecute or who to let go. Both of those story lines today are clashing because you have the president saying, let go of my pals like roger stone, and thats where the testimony of Aaron Zelinsky today was flabber gasing. People like me who have heard it at the department before have heard it whispered. People have called me, prosecutors at the top of the department and in the career, you know, in the middle ranks saying this is unbelievable, they politicize Law Enforcement. You cant believe it. But they have been afraid to testify. Here you have got this brave guy, Aaron Zelinsky, career prosecutor who has evidently documented everything, thats what he testified today, and he said this president was interfering with Law Enforcement decisions by telling him to go easy on his pals and then there was other testimony today from other folks saying this president is saying to go hard on his enemies and use the prosecution power. And once that happens, our Law Enforcement system, you know, will become on the verge of collapse because it depends on the integrity and even handed enforcement of the law, as all Law Enforcement systems do. A quick word about the Appeals Court ruling in the Michael Flynn case today saying that it should be dismissed. Is that the end of this story . Oh, absolutely not. First of all, the opinion is legally flimsy to put it mildly, so it very well may get further appeals. Second, the president said that Michael Flynn was exonerated today. Nothing in the decision says anything about that, lawrence. Its just about does the president have the raw power to drop a prosecution after someone pleads guilty. And, you know, the exercise of craw power is very different than the wisdom of doing it. Here, everyone agrees this guy, the National Security adviser to the president , pled guilty for lying to the fbi about his conversation with the russians and that gave the russians huge comfort because they knew that our National Security adviser was now compromised, that he had lied to the fbi. Could you imagine having that person in the white house, which is what the president wanted. It was a grave sin. It was criminal. And nothing in todays decision takes any of that back. And Michael Flynn is not vindicated relative to this decision, whatever happens to it. It happens to be a terribly weak decision and should be the basis for further appeal. But whether it is or not, Michael Flynn is not exonerated. Thank you both for starting us off tonight. Really appreciate it. You bet, lawrence. Thank you. After this break, today the United States set a grim record. More than 36,000 new Coronavirus Infections reported, the highest single day total yet. 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Florida has now moved up to ranking 29th out of the 50 states for cases per hundred thousand people. A new National Poll released today by the New York Times found that joe biden has a 14 point lead over donald trump. 50 to 36. One explanation for that lead is revealed in voters assessment of Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic. 58 of voters disapprove of Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Only 38 approve. The poll also found that 55 of voters say the federal governments priority should be to contain the spread of the coronavirus, even if it hurts the economy. Only 34 say what donald trump believes, which is restarting the economy is worth it even if it increases the risk to Public Health. Joins our discussion now ezra klein, the host of podcast the ezra klein show. The numbers in the poll are so theyre such mirrors of each other. The biden 14 point lead. And then this massive disapproval of Donald Trumps handling of the pandemic. Yeah. Its a disaster politically because, and i think this is really important, because it is actually a disaster. There is simply no better politics than governing well. Donald trump, i think, didnt quite get that. It is unusual we elect a true outsider to be president. He had never been a mayor, had never been a governor, had never been a member of the house or senate. He had never governed anything at all. So we ran as a pure political entertainment character. He watched politics on tv. He figured out how to do tv politics and to our discredit as a nation, we elected him as president. So now hes president and he still does not understand that you cant run next time the way you ran the first time. His great advantage in 2016 was he had no record. In 2020, he does, and that record is a disaster. Right before i came on air, lawrence, i saw a chart from the washington post. You mentioned todays number in america, Something Like 37,000. The European Union is up to 4,000 new cases a day. If you look in march and april, were about the same as the European Union. This is not a disaster that was inevitable. It is a disaster that is the product of terrible governance. And the other phenomenon here, political phenomenon, which is the worst thing you can possibly do in politics is that donald trump is scaring people. He is scaring people with this threat to their health that he is clearly not defending them against. Its kind of an extension of health care politics, which is a much more innocent version of this. But we discovered in polling in 1994 when the Clinton Health care bill was moving in the senate, i was working in the senate then, that people were just afraid, they were afraid of what this change might mean for their own health care, that same phenomenal of being afraid of the obama legislation recured. But thats a mild fear compared to the fear that people are feeling right now that they or someone they love might be infected by this virus, might be killed by this virus and the president is not defending us against this virus. The core argument donald trump had running for reelection was that the economy looked pretty good. Thats what anybody who he talked to was thinking about running the campaign was telling you. What was important about that was that the American People are not stupid by any means. They look at donald trump. They know he acts crazy. They know the things he says are a bit ridiculous. But what you hear is maybe it will make him effective or maybe hes a wrecking ball that will get things done in washington when the normal, gentle politicians dont. It washed all that away. You can now see the consequences of ill governance. The thing donald trump had before was an economy that was the same trend, by the way, that we saw in the last couple years of the obama administration, which he continued to benefit from. He wasnt acting as president at all. He was not running a white house, not running an administration, not setting an agenda. I spoke with mitt romneys chief strategist. He told me the Republican Party collapsed as a governing institution. It is not like Mitch Mcconnell is doing a great job either in stepping into the void. People can actually see what it looks like when the president isnt doing his job during a crisis, and it is terrifying and it has taken away the argument he had. People were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt so long as the economy and basic functioning seemed like it was working well. Now that there is a match between the way he acts and what appears to be the actual state of the country, he is collapsing in the polls. Big surprise. Thank you for joining us tonight. 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That includes a National Poll released today by the New York Times showing joe biden with a 14 point lead over donald trump. The coronavirus pandemic has more voters using mailin ballots than ever before, which means we will be having delays in getting final vote counts. That includes many of last nights primary races where it could be up to a week before winners are declared. Charlie cook is the editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report and columnist. Charlie, the last time you were here, donald trump was threatening cnn with a legal letter over the 14 point lead poll, and you said then that the cnn poll since it was the most recent poll was probably a leader and it was going to we were going to end up seeing other polls like it, and here we are. Now, i said that after you told me not to talk about it. Thats right. Because you might get a lawyers letter, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can argue, you know, this nbc wall street journal, npr, pbs had it at 7 00, but those were a couple weeks ago. 14 for cnn and New York Times. You know, the thing is, whether it and this may just be a high point, but this is way, way, way down. And when youre looking at, you know, look at the swing states, look at where he where the president is tied joe biden is tieing him in North Carolina and behind by at least four or five points on average in every other swing state. So right now if you just push every state wherever its going and give the president North Carolina, even though it is like a half a point, which biden would have like 318 electoral votes and the president would have 220. And even a democratic has to win the popular vote by, you know, three or four percentage points. But and then a couple points above that and you start having a cascading effect on Electoral College where you start winning lots of states by small margins, and it you know, after a point, it just starts exaggerating. Thats why the difference between a lead of the president , you know, four or five points as it was, you know, six, eight weeks ago, four weeks ago, and Something Like even eight or ten, forget the 14, this is a really big difference. And, charlie, we have some individual state polls that are pretty surprising. We have an ohio poll with joe biden one point ahead of donald trump ahead in ohio. Wisconsin joe biden eight points ahead of donald trump in wisconsin. And, so, there isnt a place to look for reassurance for donald trump except maybe, maybe 1988 and the 18 point lead that michael due ka kas had over george h. W. Bush. Can that happen again . I think given the partisan ship in this country, it is just hard to run up the score. I mean, when you have got two parties, the president can do little or nothing wrong and in the other the president can do little or nothing right, it kind of elevates the floor for both parties, for an incumbent in both parties, so it is really hard to win by those kinds of margins. But early tomorrow morning the New York Times is supposed to be releasing their polls in the battleground states, and the six battleground states, so that will be very, very interesting to watch. And this is a it is a very high quality poll. Charlie, jamal bowman is our next guest. He apparently is going to beat the chairman of the house for Foreign Affairs committee. What do we call that race . Hes got 60 of the vote right now, but we dont have the final tally because of the mailin ballots. Well, his race could get called before most of the others. Election night is now election, you know, weeks. I mean, so his will be called earlier because thats a really big lead. So, you know, that will move a little quicker. But some of these districts it will be weeks and weeks. This will be welcome to the new world. The old election night, lawrence, weve had our last one. Yeah, i guess so. Weve had election months instead of election day and we have had election weeks instead of election night. We will wait for the mail. Charlie cook, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thank you. And when we come back after this break, you and i will meet jamal bowman together. Im excited about this. Hes already being called the new star of new york politics which already has a few big stars. But jamal bowman seems to be on the verge of making new york political history. All the votes have not yet been counted as we just said, but he currently has a huge lead over a powerful House Committee chairman in new yorks chairman. Jamal bowman will join us next. S allstate wont raise your rates just because of an accident, even if its your fault. Cut sonny. Was that good . 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Jamaal bowman has already caused the ultimate problem for elliot engel. He has a massive lead over elliot engel in the democratic primary vote which will not be counted for several days because of mailin ballots. Jamaal bowman has no political experience until he decided to quit his job as a middle School Principal and run for congress. The daily beast greeted him with a headline calling him the new star of new york politics. Joining us now is jamaal bowman, democratic candidate for new yorks 16th Congressional District. Congratulations on what you have achieved so far. We dont have the final numbers. But by the way, i dont know if you saw the beginning of the show, as soon as you are officially declared the winner and only then, Rachel Maddow desperately wants you on her show, can you commit to that tonight . I cannot. Okay. Thats right. Take your time. Play hard to get. It will pay off. So what made you decide that elliot engel should not continue representing this Congressional District. You are both democrats. What did you see that made you say i need to get in there, i need to take that job away from him, heres how i can do the better job . Well, i have worked in this district for ten years as a middle School Principal and i have spoken to and built relationships with thousands of students and parents over that time and congressman engel was an absent congressman, quite frankly. You never saw flyers advertising town halls or assemblies talking about the most importantish y s in the district. We spoke to hundreds of constituents from the north bronx all the way to new york, and we continued to hear the same thing over and over again. He wasnt present. Hes not engaged and it is time for a change. So thats that side of it. On the other side, you know, when you work with children who come from, you know, troubling backgrounds, who suffered through poverty and trauma, you realize the impact of bad policy on the lives of kids who are most vulnerable. And as an educators, all of those issues intersect at your doorstep. So it was those experiences as well as an absent congressman that led to me running this race. How did you deal with those challenges yourself in your own life as a kid growing up in a Housing Project in new york city, getting yourself beaten by police when you were 11 years old, how did you deal with those challenges . How did you get to where you are tonight . My mother. I have the most amazing mom anyone can have. She gave me love. She gave me stability, and she gave me selfesteem and selfworth. And also i had two amazing older sisters who helped raise me as well. And then i had friends and mentors and people outside of my home, whether its through cultures through sports, through the arts or music that kept me on the straight and narrow so the anger of not having my father around or anything like that wouldnt overtake me. Great mom, great sisters, great family and great mentors growing up. What is your number often agenda item when you get to the house of representatives, if you do . Racial and economic equality. It is about time we deal with race and we continue to sensor race and class and put it at the top of the political agenda. Our Campaign Recently released a reconstruction agenda hoping that third time is a charm. You know, America Needs a reckoning. We need to reckon with our history, and we need to reckon with the impact of slavery and racism on every american institution, whether you are looking at environmental issues, wealth, education, health outcomes. You know, africanamericans and latinos continue to be at the bottom of the ladder there. We have to deal with race issues urgenty s t urgently, especially coming out of the covid epidemic. It looks like pushing for federal jobs guarantee, getting people back to work in alignment with the demands of Climate Change and the green new deal. This is the biggest crisis we have had since the great depression, and after the great depression, a new deal was implemented and we put people back to work. We have to do the same thing now. It is such an impressive campaign. I wish we had more time to talk about it. Im interested in how you did so well in the northern sections of the district which are wealthier suburbs of new york city. Well talk about that jamal bowman, thank you very much. Thank you. All right. When we come back you will meet another big winner in last nights democratic primary race for a congressional seat in virginia, he is a physician that worked in the Obama White House and had the very strange experience of then working in the Trump White House for a while. He will be the democratic nominee in a Congressional District. He has changed minds before and will try to do it again. Minds will try to do it again. Onceaday treatment used for hiv in certain adults. Its not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights hiv to help you get to and stay undetectable. Thats when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. Research shows people who take hiv treatment every day and get to and stay undetectable can no longer transmit hiv through sex. Serious side effects can occur, including kidney problems and kidney failure. Rare, lifethreatening side effects include a buildup of lactic acid and liver problems. 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I went to work for president obama in the white house as a health care advisor, helping people get good care they could afford. I expected to serve the first woman president too. When that didnt work out i prayed for perspective. My parents words came back to me. Be there for people. The Trump White House staff treated me with suspicion, moved my desk in the hallway and took it away entirely and expected me to quit and to give up. That is not who i am. Then President Trump tweeted about drug pricing. No plan. No thought. Just 134 characters. His staff had no warning. They looked around the room for answers. Eventually turned to obamas policy guy, me, the guy in the hallway. Big farm pharma showed up. I convinced the staff to slow down and be smarter. When asked for help, i gave it. That is the example that i want to set for my children. Joining us now dr. Cameron webb, democratic candidate for virginias fifth district. I am no good at math but i know in a fourway race it is hard to win 2 3 of the vote. You obviously have to appeal to yet a larger group of voters in the general election but only have to win 51 and you are going to need to appeal to Republican Voters in the district. How do you intend to run the campaign from here to election day . I think it is one of the realities, you cant choose your moments in politics. We are in a really unique moment now. The crisis of health care, the crisis of Racial Injustice all over the country. I am a physician and a healer by background. I focus on it my entire career. It is just a matter of connecting with people who are here in the part where i grew up. How much of the campaign has been about dealing with the coronavirus pandemic . It has been significant. Every campaign had to change our strategy when the pandemic really struck. I am still practicing clinically. I am taking care of patients here in the university of virginia. I continue to see patients in the hospital. I am working to lead Community Testing events and get services to folks. There is that dynamic. I am a healer first. On top of that we are running a campaign virtually. That has been a huge impact but for a lot of voters seeing the commitment to be there in that moment and not to rip off of my commercial, but in that moment and making sure that i can step up to serve my community. I think it mattered and that is a big part of the resounding vote we have got. What is your number one argument against the republican opponent Going Forward in this campaign . Well, to be quite honest i dont spend all of my time arguing against him. The number one argument for my candidacy, we are in a critical moment to fix our health care system. I havent heard much in terms of nuance to my opponents plan. But there is a critical need to fix the health care system. Every person in the country needs access to care and we need to deliver on that urgently. That is the argument we are making. Democrat, independent, republican. I think that is something that we are leaning into and making sure that we are delivering it. Do you support medicare for all or do you support the joe biden approach to Health Care Reform . I am not beholden to ieeithe. I think medicare for all may be the it is more about the path to something along those lines. I am focused on the next steps. I think the Public Health insurance option to urgently cover the uninsured americans. We have to change private insurance to something more a nonprofit and change our payment structure but the path is leading to something that looks like a medicare for all system. It is focus voting with their feet and the next step is getting everybody covered. At some point we just want to hear about your days working in the Trump White House but we dont have time for that tonight. Dr. Cameron webb, thank you very much for joining us tonight. Thanks for having me lawrence. Thank you. That is tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams starts now. Good evening once again. Day 1,252 of the trump administration, 132 days to go until our president ial election and today it became startlingly clear we are in a brandnew territory in this coronavirus pandemic and the virus is in no way going away as the president is telling us. It is killing people ins it wake and going anywhere it is welcome. Just today we saw the highest single day record of new infections in our country. 42,158. That is a record. It surpasses the last record reached on april 26th, back during the bad old days, two months ago