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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," less than a week before the midterms, the president will give a major speech tonight from washington on why he believes the future of democracy is on the ballot. barack obama has been crisscrossing the country for democrats. liz cheney crossing party lines. >> the basic question that you should be asking yourself is, who will fight for you? >> if the people in our party are not doing the job they need to do, then were going to vote for the peop...

We are trying to get to the bottom of that. its impossible to hire enough people to monitor these in real time. theres a triage decision made at the command center. we have a security detail with the speaker. shes safe and sound with us. we dont need to monitor the back door of her home. >> barbara, what do you make of that reporting and the level of security thats not there because of the demands? >> i think whenever you are trying to prevent a terrorist attack, there are always vulnerabilities...

Of 20 and 54. and this 22-year-old los angeles resident taking to social media to describe how her symptoms evolved. tonight she says shes proof that that the pandemic can hit anyone. >> i want people to know its very important the stay inside and follow the cdc guidelines, to take it seriously. >> there are many young people in icus across the country. we have to take it seriously and not have a false sense of security. matt, i also know theres news coming in from sources in washington state an...

To survive injuries like this as well as require certain techniques to be used and utilized when caring for them when they have catastrophic injuries like gunshot wounds such as these. jon: i wonder how you handle -- i guess you would call it triage. im not a medical professional, obviously -- >> of course. jon: you know, youve got multiple ambulances coming in, you dont know whos coming in next, you dont know if the next patient is going to be injured worse than the one that youre seeing right ...

Is that the campaign is all about her, and she is not a popular figure. >> you mentioned john mccain, that was a big moment. he is not a war here. i dont like guys who get caugh caught. there was the connecticut famil family. which stood out to you as perhaps the judge? >> the judge was very bad. the thing about trump, i think what rachel is quite right, his supporters like his refusal to apologize, to never back down. that part is good. but until he learned to take instruction, and the failure ...

Theres a woman who has a gunshot wound to the head and her hand. >> have law enforcement tried to interview them at all? >> yes. we have law enforcement in. they always wait until we tell them, but they have had the chance to very briefly talk to the officers. we were able to have them speak with their loved ones and they also were able to speak briefly with law officers before they have gone off to the operating room. >> have they told you guys anything that you can tell us about what happened?...

Officers. we have been able to speak with their loved ones and they were also able to speak briefly with law officers before theyve gone off to the operating room. >> have they told you guys anything that you can tell us about what happened? >> no. >> and you say a woman is ready to go into surgery? >> they are on their way to surgery, yes. >> which of the injuries? the shoulder -- >> the young lady with a gunshot wound to the head were just assessing right now. obviously well make a triage deci...