So this morning the president is undermining and delegitimizing essentially the outcome of the elections saying, quote, the only way that he will lose this election is if its rigged. Cnn Sara Westwood is live from the white house for us now. So there have been at least weeks of attacks on mailin voting, his refusal to commit to a peaceful transition. Help us understand what he was doing last night. Reporter yeah, christi. Last night we heard the president continuing his efforts to undermine his supporters election results. Peddling the baseless claims that fraud could potentially tilt the outcome of the election. Theres no evidence for that that he provided. But this comes after a week in which the president stirred considerable controversy by refusing to commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election on november 3rd. With the president at the rally last night said that he would agree to potentially a friendly transition of power only if he felt that he wasnt cheated. Thats the only way were going to lose is if theres mischief, mischief. It will have to be on a big scale. So be careful. And we do want a very friendly transition. But we dont want to be cheated and be stupid. Reporter now, at that rally in virginia the president was peddling baseless theories about fraud and mailin voting. No evidence of that. That came after days he seized on a department of justice that it had opened an investigation into nine improperly discarded ballots in pennsylvania. Some had been filled out for trump, but that disclosure raised allegations of playing politics at the doj it disclosed details of active investigation and violated ballot secrecy laws. The president and the white house tried to couch his remarks earlier by saying he would agree to a peaceful transition if the election was free and fair. Of course, the president last night was maintaining that he should be the one to get to dictate what is free and fair about the election and had suggested earlier this week that perhaps that would not be possible if mailin voting was so dramatically expanded. Separate appearance in atlanta yesterday, the president was also joking about clinging to his office for more than two terms. All right. Sarah westwood, we appreciate you being here. Thank you. Democratic president ial nominee joe biden is dismissing the president s latest attacks on the election process. Cnns ar let science is with us now. Arlet, its a distraction. Explain. Reporter yeah. Joe biden is arguing that the president is trying to distract from talking about issues like the economy and the Public Health crisis in the wake of covid19. He simply dismissed the president s comments saying that no one would go along with him if he did refuse to engage in a peaceful transfer of power or choose not to engage in that if he were not to win reelection. And biden also took aim criticized the president once again for casting doubt on the election, for questioning the integrity of mailin voting. Take a listen to what biden had to say in an interview with msnbc. The American People arent going to be shut down in this election. Theyre going to vote. Theyre going to vote in large numbers. And theres just not going to be denied. Im confident all the irresponsible outrageous attacks on voting we always have had. And hell leave. Reporter and bidens campaign has said that biden himself has engaged in a peaceful transfer of power when he served in the white house and left in 2016. Now, both biden and President Trump are preparing over the weekend for a critical first president ial debate in cleveland. The two of them engaging in their various forms of debate preparation as they prepare to face off against one another for the first time. Now, biden told reporters that he was going to start heavily focussing on his debate prep on thursday. Hes held some smaller briefing sessions and read through briefing books. Biden said he expects the president to go on the attack and that he expects those attacks to be personal. He said a lot of what the president says arent actually based in fact. And his campaign has said that biden is not necessarily going to act as a fact checker during this debate. They expect the moderator to engage in that on President Trumps part hes also been preparing slightly for this debate. Trying to study some of those possible lines of attack that could come from joe biden. A little bit later today well hear from joe biden when he speaks to a conference of mayor. One of his final appearances heading into that debate on tuesday. Yeah, should be fascinating to watch. Thank you so much. Good to see you. I want to show you now a live picture of the Supreme Court in washington. Today, the president is beginning his push to get a third justice on the court. And our next guest writes this no issue is more pivotal in considering a Supreme Court candidates view to when to overturn a case she considers wrongly decided. In a series of law article reviews, she would not hesitate to jettison decisions with which she disagrees. Ruth marcus, the write every for the Washington Post who wrote that is with us now as we await the president s, we believe, decision to nominate Amy Coney Barrett. Ruth, thank you so much for being with us. Appreciate your time here. Going back to what you wrote about those articles there, what is in the law reviews that you read that concerns you so much . Well, Justice Barrett im getting ahead of myself. Judge barrett has described herself as an originalist. So she wants to go to an understanding of the constitution like that of Justice Scalia who she clerked for. But if youre on originalist justice, but youre not willing to get rid of previously decided cases that you disagree with, then your originalism doesnt have a very big impact. And what she has said is that a justice who believes that a case was wrongly decided should be willing to look just at that and overturn the case. That has implications not just for abortion, which is the thing we mostly talk about when we talk about overturning cases like roe v. Wade, but it has implications for gay rights and same sex marriage. It has implications for affirmative action. It has implications for the kind of gender discrimination cases we have been talking about in the case of Justice Ginsburg who was such a pioneer in that area. It could be as i wrote in the Washington Post a bomb shell approach. Uhhuh. Well in 2017 in her confirmation hearing for her current position she was asked about another review, a 1998 marquette law review, she sited catholic idealogies specifically condemning abortion, as you talk about specificity here. But she said to that when she was asked ability, she said she didnt believe it was, quote, lawful for a judge to impose personal opinions from whatever source they derive upon the law and said her personal views regarding abortion and other issues, quote, would have no bearing on the discharge of her duties as a judge. This is not an infrequent argument that judges cant interject their personal opinions in the judicial area. Why do you find it unreasonable to believe that she would not follow her own words there . Well, i think that my analysis of judge barrett is going to be based on three things her academic writings and comments when she was a law professor, her decisions as an Appeals Court judge, and what she says in confirmation hearings. So im going to just take her at her word that shes going to do her best as justices do to try to separate out her personal views and her personal faith from her judicial understanding. But i think its very clear that her interpretation and approach to the constitution would not understand that it has a right to privacy that, for example, encompasses a womans right to abortion. I think that becomes very clear. Not looking at her faith as a catholic, but looking at her understanding of the constitution. All right. Ruth marcus, we appreciate you taking time for us today. Thank you, maam. Thanks so much. As the number of covid19 cases continues to surge in the u. S. , Florida Governor ron desantis is loosening restrictions on bars and hes even clearing the way for big crowds at next years super bowl. And Michelle Obamas campaign to get out the vote hits atlanta today. How the former first lady wants to help covid victims in the process as well. Im looking for my client. Im his accountant. 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Florida Governor Ron Desantis says his state will host, a full super bowl in february, im kwauting. After hes clearing restaurants and bars to immediately operate at 100 capacity as of today. We want to go to cnn correspondent randi kaye in palm beach county, florida right now. What details can you give us on florida phase 3 reopening . Reporter well, it was a big move by the governor certainly, christi. He said that phase 3 is under way immediately. That means that he lifted all restrictions on bars and restaurants and nightclubs throughout the state, basically reopening the state for business 100 . Restaurants can now be open up to 100 capacity. So fully open. Bars and nightclubs also under phase 3 can be open to 100 . Although they will have some limited social distancing protocols. But the governor says he wants to stop punishing people for not social distancing. Also, if the county does want to keep a restaurant open to between 50 and 100 capacity, theres nothing allowed that would be less than 50 . If they want to go less than 100 , they actually have to prove that and offer some justification for their reasoning as well. The governor did say that south florida, where we are in palm beach county, miami dade, the hardest hit counties there would be a different approach. Miami dade hasnt opened their bars. You cant expect them to go from 0 to 100 right away. Also it azfects these, these masks. The governor said the counties will no longer be able to fine people for not wearing their masks around in public or inside. Theres a lot of mandates you have to wear them inside as well. He basically did away with the mask mandate. This came as a real surprise to some of the local officials. The Orange County mayor, where orlando s Jerry Demmings said he learned about this from a bar owner. He didnt know that the governor was going to do this. Hes disappointed he said. Hell have his county attorney look at it. He also said his mask mandate will stay in place because they dont offer fines or they dont fine people for not wearing masks. As you mentioned, the super bowl, the governor says the threat has eased here. Hes confident we can have a super bowl here in florida many february. Listen to what he said about that. I also want to be able to show were going to be able to host a super bowl in february. We expect to do a full super bowl. And were going to show that were going to be able to do that. Reporter and the governor says that he believes the state is in a position to handle any increase in infections, if there is a spike. Now that were going to be open to 100 capacity. He also believes that he will not close the state at all. He said do not expect the state to close no matter what happens here with that spike. And i should point out that we now have about 700,000 cases of coronavirus here in the state of florida, about 14,000 dead, another 120 dead just yesterday. So, certainly the governor sees it as the threat has eased. But many here in the state of florida still taking precautions. Christi, martin . Randi kaye, thank you very much. Let me bring in now cnn medical analyst and former Baltimore Health commissioner, lena nguyen. Good morning to you. Good morning. Let me start by asking you, these actions by Governor Desantis in florida, florida has had a terrible time with this virus. It seems to be improving. But right at the point you make the improvement now comes this great relaxation. Im just wondering your professional thoughts on that. Frankly its irresponsible. Its not the direction we should be going right now. We should be looking at the highest risk setting and by now we have the science to show us that indoor bars, very crowded restaurants where people cannot social distance, these are really the highest risk transmission for coronavirus. We also know that mask wearing is something that if we all do it, it reduces the rate of transmission by 80 which is really substantial. It protects ourselves and those around us. We should be implementing these measures that work. And we should not be waiting until hospital rates and icus become overwhelmed before we start applying these Public Health measures. I think by dialing back these restrictions at this time, Governor Desantis is sending the wrong message. Hes sending the message that its all clear when actually coming into the winter months we should be on our guard, even more than before. And giving it does give this sort of sense to people that, oh well, its over. The worst is past. And i bring that up now because, of course, there was a lot of focus on a vaccine. And yet even as it appears we get closer and closer to the reality of not just one but maybe several vaccines, there is growing skepticism on the part of the public. In fact, recent polling has shown that the levels of peoples doubt in the medicine and in this vaccine has continued to increase. And im wondering whats your level of confidence in the vaccine . I have confidence in scientists. I have confidence in our top government institutions sha that have always done such an exceptional job of protecting the public and safeguarding our health and well being. The problem, though, is i dont have confidence that there isnt going to be political pressure and political manipulation that forces speed at the expense of safety and efficacy. And this is what were seeing in the polling data. We know there are individuals who are skeptical of vaccines at baseline who may be antiscience. But the people who are newly skeptical are not these individuals. Theyre people who really believe in science but they also are distrustful every time they hear President Trump, for example, linking vaccine approval to his election prospects. I think the best thing that can happen right now is for us to totally separate politics from the science and let the scientists who do this work day in and day out, let them have control over the vaccine approval process because in order for a vaccine to be taken, in order for us to see the effects of the vaccine, not only does it have to be safe and effective, it also has to be trusted. Its a vaccination that saves lives, not the development of the vaccine. There is a new study that came out this week that said that the coronavirus may have mu tated. And we know that viruses do routinely mutate. That its become even more contagious. Im wondering, what does that say, then, when we talk about a vaccine if it has the ability to change even after weve come up with one . Yeah. So the coronavirus is an rna virus. These rna viruses do mutate. The good news is that the new strains of the virus dont seem to be more severe. Its possible that theyre looking as if they could be more contagious, which is an issue especially because this is already such a silent spreader. It affects asymptomatic individuals transmitted through aresoles and so forth. It may be we need to develop vaccines that change over time as we do with the flu vaccine. So much remains unknown. We have to keep in mind that this is a novel coronavirus. And were finding out more about this everyday. But this is also why we need to keep up our guard. This is a highly contagious virus. Another study came out this week found that less than 10 of americans have antibodies to the virus. This virus has a long way to go before it stops infecting americans. Unfortunately killing people. Right. If anyone thought we were close to herd immunity that would go against that. Dr. Lena wen, thank you for being with us this morning. Thank you. So stay with us. Michelle obamas campaign to get out the vote just kicked off right here in atlanta. And our natasha chen is there reporting for us more about whats happening there right now and how the former first lady plans to get people involved without even leaving their cars. Ucing schstock slices. For as little as 5, now anyone can own companies in the s p 500, even if their shares cost more. At 5 a slice, you could own Ten Companies for 50 instead of paying thousands. All Commission Free online. Schwab stock slices