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Ballots twice in a series of tweets he clarified that voters should vote by mail as early as possible and then go to a polling station to check that its been counted a day earlier he suggested voting twice by mail and in person to put anti fraud systems to the test lets go straight to our White House Correspondent kimberly help so kimberly is this a correction or a terrific ation from the president did we misunderstand him. Going to throw in a 3rd c. There and i think what this is is cleanup given the fact that the president was faced with overwhelming evidence and a statement coming from the top official in the board of elections in the u. S. State of North Carolina that to vote twice as the president suggested just one day earlier is in fact illegal it is illegal to vote by mail and in person so now what weve seen is the u. S. President to as of the last hour or so clarifying on twitter that he believes that or is suggesting that people if they are mailing in their d ballot that they then go to a polling place to make sure it was tabulated correctly but thats not the only clean up weve seen we also saw the attorney general quite soon after the u. S. President made the suggestion that people break the law by voting twice that he was really in the words of the attorney general just trying to make the point that the monitoring of the election system in the United States is not very good now i dont think that donald trump in his statements was suggesting that but what we have now is the attorney general cleaning up the president s comments and now the president himself cleaning up these comments in face of enormous pushback and even the reminder that such a suggestion is illegal the bottom line is whats happening here is that there is a further erosion in confidence by the American Voter in terms of Election Security the reason a lot of americans want to mail in their ballots is because of the concern of standing in long lines during a pandemic we know that 25 percent of voters voted by mail in 2016 we expect those numbers to be much much higher in 2020 but given the fact that the president continues to suggest there could be widespread fraud because of mail in ballot and if leaves doubt Many Americans minds that the election will be secure. They will even accept the result and thats just the internal concerns you have to remember there are also the extra no concerns about interference having for russia coming from china and other nation states that our intelligence agencies here in the United States say is a very real possibility but what about the the president s other controversial comments in the last 24 hours on threats to what to defund cities with the spin the violence during protests against police violence. Yeah theres no question that this is going to face some legal challenge given the fact that this is being viewed at least by democrats as being politically motivated in essence what happened was on wednesday there are emerged a memo from the federal government that the attorney general have 14 days to identify cities that the federal government believes local officials have lost control of namely portland new york city even washington d. C. With all have democrat mayors and as a result of some of the protests have seen later on violence breaking out in the case of portland extreme more than 3 months of violent unrest in some cases so what the argument is from the federal government is that essentially these local officials have abdicated their responsibility is to keep local citizens safe but what others are suggesting is really happening here is the president is trying to deflect from some of the negative headlines hes dealing with right now trying to project strength in law and order in order to detract from the fact that we continue to have high unemployment the numbers continue to rise there the numbers also continuing to rise when it comes to cases of covert 19 and the president getting a lot of blame for that its a White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat there reporting live from washington kimberly many thanks indeed lets bring in sean xylo from washington hes the Deputy Editor of Congressional Quarterly magazine sean good to have you with us what do you make of the president clarification here well i mean this is par for the course with President Trump will Say Something that gets a lot of negative attention and back up he say he didnt mean it. I think its its his rhetorical style. Is orders say people should. Take him with a grain of salt that hes often joking around or sparring with the press but his detractors now that he is the president of the United States and what he says some people are going to take seriously to what extent is he undermining voter confidence in the system with his comments well i think that is something hes part of his Election Strategy certainly i think he wants to. Keep turnout down i think he use the best electorate is one that smaller than normal because he has a very strong base of support but its not a majority of American Voters its maybe 4040 percent of American Voters so his interest is to discourage people in the middle people who are feeling apathetic people are feeling disgusted with politics from coming out to vote does made in voting in the u. S. Favor one policy over the other thats a really good question i think. Democrats who have been supporting expanded mail and voting because of the pandemic their initial argument was that the storage data indicates that it does not Favor One Party over the other there are a number of states that have allowed mail in voting for for some years now and it has not a bird republicans over over the democrats or vice versa but the polling this year amidst the pandemic indicates that democrats really would like the opportunity to vote by mail and republicans arent as keen on that may have something to do with the way with President Trumps rhetoric that may have something to do with the ideological divide over the virus which Republican Voters seem to take less seriously than democrats is the president s ultimate aim aim who are to to create so much doubt around the system of maine in voting that he can contest the result. I did a lot of people are certainly concerned about that and there is the possibility don election day we wont have the final tally because these mail and votes are going to take a while to count and if the president is ahead on election day from those who voted in person hes going to have a big incentive to try to short circuit the counting of the mail and votes so people are very worried that thats part of his strategy here yes good many thanks indeed for being with us shawns out of that in washington. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden is due to visit the city of commotion in wisconsin which has become the new focus of the National Debates on systemic racism hes expected to meet with the family of jacob black a black man shot 7 times in the back by a white Police Officer last month the shooting led to days of sometimes violent protests against racism and Police Brutality lets go live now to kind of show i was there was john hendren is the. Job ive not due. Until later in the day so lets stop with the civil controversial comments this time by attorney general ball police shootings. Thats right william barr said that jacob blake was carrying a knife he believed when he was arrested or when he when police shot him the family of jacob calls that gaslighting saying he did not have the knife with him the facts as we know them are these according to police blake did acknowledge that he had a knife at no point in the 20 seconds or so a viral video we saw just up to the point where jacob blake was shot 7 times in the back by police at no point in that video was he shown threatening them at all that knife was later recovered on the floorboard according to the police side of the story there had been a tussle with blake and they tried to shoot him shoot times with a taser but blakes family particularly as uncle justin blake talks about the 2 different systems of Justice Blake may or may not have had a knife on his person but it at no time do we have any evidence that he threatened police with it and yet during the protests Kyle Rittenhouse a young white 17 year old boy from illinois gotten a tussle with protesters shot and killed 2 of them and shot an inch. A 3rd one he walked away with an assault weapon strapped to the front of his chest held his hands high and walked straight past Police Despite the fact that there were people behind him yelling that he had just shot some People Police allowed him to pass allowed him to drive home to illinois spent the night where he was arrested the next day for those shootings and Justin Blake Jacob blakes uncle says that bad is evidence of 2 different forms of justice one for white people and one for black people and he says that bill barr is simply trying to justify the unjustifiable so Joe Biden John do the little what are we expecting. Well what we know is that biden will be meeting with jacob blakes family but he will also be eating with Business Leaders and with Law Enforcement and thats telling because biden has been trying to walk this line where on the one hand hes supportive of the protest movement and the need for social justice the kind that black lives matter has been crying out for but hes also been condemning the violence that occurred here the are the arson and perhaps looting that occurred and so we expect him to be talking about that when he meets with Business Leaders and Law Enforcement and then when he meets with the blake family. We expect him to just offer some sympathy and to talk about the need for a systemic change to what he describes as systemic racism by police here in the United States how long hell be meeting with the family we dont know we know that he met with the family or he spoke with them on the phone for Something Like an hour last week and this suggests that biden whos been largely doing Virtual Events from his basement may now be out on the road doing regular campaigning which is the traditional thing to do when there is not a covert 1000 crisis so we expect. Hear more from the Vice President later treading that central line condemning the violence but also supporting the protesters and thats key because President Trump is essentially called him a tool of far left radical protestors this is biden coming out as he said in a speech within the past 48 hours saying no thats not who i am and as he said in that speech do i look like a radical socialist john well be back with you im sure in coming hours for the moment many thanks john hendren live in cairo shop in wisconsin the release of Police Body Camera video of a black americans death has provoked calls for officers to be charged with his killing protesters rallied in rochester new york States Office of the videos release which the city mayor describes as Disturbing Police were called when new york proved run naked into the street while he was suffering a Mental Health crisis officers who did him and knelt on his back died when he was taken off life support 7 days later according to the Washington Post 1022 people have been shot and killed by police in the u. S. Over the past year well the heart of the total number of those killed were white black americans though a shot at a disproportionate rate 32000000. 00 people hispanic americans are also killed by police a disproportionate rates 24000000. 00 on the figure for white americans is 13 less than hoff the race of those who are black phase of itself is the codirector of the liberty and bashful Security Program of the Brennan Center for justice she says that successive the us governments of failed to recognize systemic failures in Law Enforcement. Its not just admits this is mr ation that has difficulty admitting and you will recall that former f. B. I. James comey was also you know very. Very negative about some of the protests going on around these taliban acking that 14 so this isnt a long standing. Position in one force and which is to deny that there are systemic problems and to blame any misconduct on its a few bad apples theory because thats very convenient for them right it means that you can now focus on you know prosecuting one or 2 people rather than stepping back and looking to see what are the structural racist. Issues that are taking place in policing around the country its a movement that was born on the fringes of the internet q on long pushes far fetched conspiracy theories including that a socalled deep states is trying to bring down donald trump now a woman who has spoken in support of q. And on looks likely to win a seat in congress on his ear as Andy Gallacher reports. An online Grassroots Movement that came to be called the great awakening the q and on Conspiracy Theory was born on the dark fringes of the internet nearly 3 years ago followers believe that the in all of us q is someone with high government player in the Movement Began with the unfounded claims that satanic worshipping politicians and celebrities who work in tandem with global governments to abuse children and that a socalled deep state wants to destroy President Donald Trump i am 100 percent behind him hes working for the president is working for our country the rallying call of we are q was then heard it from rallies and even the president himself seemed to embrace a movement the f. B. I. Has called a potential domestic terrorist threat these are people that dont like seeing whats going on in places like portland and places like chicago and new york and other cities and states and. Ive heard these are people that love our country and believe us and now running and in Marjorie Taylor greens case winning elections green who President Donald Trump calls a future republican star beat a conservative youre a surgeon in georgia and will likely had to congress in many cases and then elano mars and that he should minneapolis and the plan was not only a man and he said were not going to allow them to tear our country down berners is right and really we want to have that here in northwest georgia that according to media matters more than 60 former and current congressional candidates have promoted or embraced q and on political experts say in reality the movement remains on the fringe it hasnt gotten bigger but it could. But with that said i think people are more resistant to these sorts of ideas than sometimes we give them credit for and at the same time conspiracy theories are just a part of the Human Experience and this is really nothing new im more involving those candidates that did well while embracing bizarre conspiracy theories have since distanced themselves and some cases the Republican Party has subtly aligned themselves with the q and on movement and the president has retreated q. And on followers at least 200. 00 times there are even gating followers outside the us its said that we live in a post truth era but cuban on has serious consequences followers have been accused of attempted kidnapping murder and other criminal activities it may have started as a fringe cult like belief system following the president s comments and several victories in elections they may feel more emboldened the never under gallacher aljazeera Miami Florida facebook has announced what it says a steps to prevent its platform from being exploited in the week leading up to the u. S. Election it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before the election but will continue showing ones already in the system c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg says that hes concerned about a period of intense claims and counterclaims as the final results are counted facebook has previously faced criticism for not doing enough to fact check on tickles on its platforms. 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