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dress rehearsals and joe biden takes a field trip ahead of the most important moment of this election so far, thats tonight on newsnight good evening. im abby phillip and washington for decades, camp david has been a sacred place where american presidents have hosted vips and villains from churchill to putin. but deep in the woods of maryland, it is also the place where presidents have prepared for political survival back in 1980, ahead of his debate with ronald reagan, jimmy carter ba...

scientists into the spotlight with dr. anthony fauci becoming the trusted voice in fight to defeat the pandemic. this morning dr. fauci recounted what he was experiencing last march 11th with savannah guthrie on the "today show." >> if i told you we would have 530,000 deaths in this country inside one year, would that number have shocked you and honestly, how would you have evaluated the response in light of that? >> well, i have to tell you, it would have shocked me completely. i knew...

Millions of people mobilizing outside to get the message out, neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend. >> right. >> person to person. >> do you wish -- you know, you make the point of kind of who he is or how democrats see him and why hes been effective as a politician, particularly within the party over the course of five decades now. do you wish he was not -- i dont mean out giving more campaign speeches but out more talking in interviews, talking on the ground, doing rope lines. we havent seen...

Security matters he would hear something from some member at mar-a-lago or somebody he met at an event and would ask us, "have you heard this?" and we wouldnt have heard it, but he would take it as true. he would gather information from people whether they knew anything or not and it was a fundamental flaw that many people in trumps white house tried to protect him from being put in contact with people who endangered him, who put his own political viability in danger. he just resisted every effo...

The other thing about having him out on the trail is, having spent a year and a half working and traveling with him, i have never met a bigger extrovert. he gets energy from being with people. you could see it in the speech the other night. the first part where he was listing data and numbers, navigating through that, it was fine. he was talking a little fast. he got energy when he had that back and forth with the republicans in the room. when hes out on the trail, thats when people see the magi...

Rope lines for your traps? >> that is what they are proposing, yes. 2030, it will be ropeless fishing, no buoy lines, they want us to use contraptions that are expensive and dangerous. >> ainsley: lobstermen will be forced out of what, what does that mean for people? >> devastating innin ma -- maine, that is what everybody does. if you are not a lobster boat captain, you are involved in the supply chain or sell bait or sell vehicles to lobstermen and crews. its just one of our number one things ...

Inside the rope lines. you were there, recount what happened if you want to. what do you think when you hear that from these people? >> in the case of senator ron johnson, talking about this earlier. you know, hes adhering to the playbook of, if i continue to repeat the same lies over and over again, knowing full well that most of my constituents only source their news from fox news, not saying anything about realities of january 6th, then i can get away with those lies. debunked many, many time...

Im sure hes seen the pictures of the rioters coming in and harming our police officer. that wasnt people politely staying within a rope line. its just ridiculous that he would say that. his own leader, mitch mcconnell, called it an insurrection right after the riot. lying to the public is not the right thing to do as a public official. he should really be ashamed of himself for comments like that. how do you face these police officers who really saved our lives, including his life, how do you fa...

>> 21 months after the insurrection, were still hearing from republicans spreading distorted accounts of what happened that day. this is senator ron johnson running for election. >> call what happened on january 6th is an armed insurrection. thats not accurate. you saw pictures inside the capitol. the armed insurrectionists stayed within the rope lines of the rotunda. >> within the rope lines of the rotunda. its staggering to listen to this. if some of these candidates who continue to lie about ...

He went on to speak more length about foreign policy during this fund-raiser tonight, anderson, talking about what he believes, you, know they are still trying to figure out what the off ramp for putin could be in this war that he has been waging since february. saying that he basically believes the russian leader is trying to assess, where can he have this off ramp where he saves face on a global level. but also at home in russia. because obviously that has been a very big concern and big focus...