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MSNBCW AM Joy August 16, 2020

Journal poll just released gives the first glimpse of how voters feel about the new biden harris ticket. Kamala harris leads the pack with 39 of voters having a favorable view of her. She has a higher overview. Donald trump leads joe biden nationally but with so many barriers still in the way of ensuring the upcoming election will be free and fair, the outcome of the november election is far from predictable. We are still facing foreign election interference, a Global Pandemic, gop led Voter Suppression and a president who is going after the u. S. Postal service, a crucial entity as states gear up for mailin voting in the age of covid19. Joining me now to talk about all this and more is senator cory booker in new jersey. Im so happy to have you with me this morning. You are speaking thursday night, the same night as joe biden. Start the show off, make some news, tell us what youre going to say or at least give us a preview. I wont break that kind of news other than to say that i am so grateful to joe biden that hes asking me to be a part of that night and a part of a Great Convention with a lineup of superstars from aoc to stacy abrams, these rising stars all the way to people that we know like i tell you ms. Obama and i know her husband is going to speak too so im excited about the lineup. So this is going to be a Great Convention. So much enthusiasm, so much energy and youre going to just see this incredible star constellation of people all supporting the biden harris ticket so i think well give them a great launch into the final run to election day. Give us a preview if you could on the general message you plan to offer, because you know, in one hand this is a historic time. Youve been blanketing the media with your enthusiasm about senator harris being on this ticket but also this is a country facing a lot of challenges and so how do you strike that balance in your message, saying we understand the challenges but this is how were going to help you while this system is so broken. Just a preview to what youre going to say to the American People. I want to tell you first because you said something that worries me about how we clearly see an assault on the Postal Service and a lot of this news coming out about how the voting systems are under assault, but i just want folks to remember that we have always dealt with incredible hurdles to get to the ballot. We saw john lewis marching and getting beaten to try to fight to give access to the ballot but they still made it over and they got to the polls. We saw it in the reconstruction period with the first African American serving in congress. We saw incredible violence, murders, lynching, black folks still went through Great Lengths to vote so i want folks to know we come from a history, from women blocked from rousuffrage the bloody sunday. This is more in fact a sign that we should be redeveloping our efforts to make sure that we get out to vote, mail in our vote, get our friends, our families, our communities, everyone out to vote and as far as the overall message, you know, i love the soul speak of joe biden when he talks about the soul of the nation. Im a policy walking nerd but the reality is, i am driven with aspirations to hold up a moral standard. And we all struggle with that. But in the collective, this is an election that is not about one guy and one office. The man thats there now, this is a referendum about all of us. Will we reject his kind of soulless really demeaning, degrading sort of character or will we rise up to aspire to be a more beloved community. So youll hear a lot of my remarks talking about the heart and the soul of this country which is not partisan, its not the other rising of anybody whether it be republican, democrat or independent. Its really about what patriotism is which is love your country and you cannot love your country unless you love your fellow country women and men. And im telling you right now you cant lead the people if you dont love the people and thats why if we want to show who we are as a country weve got to put people in office that are motivated by heart, by soul and by love and in Kamala Harris and joe biden i know that. I know kamala so well because ive heard her how we speak when were joking on the phone or sitting in rooms sharing meals together. I know what has driven her her whole life when is the greatest exhibition of love which is service and sacrifice to others so im going to talk a lot about the heart and im going to talk a lot about the need to love each other as neighbors regardless of what our Political Party is and return to a point where america understands that we have to put indivisible nation under god. I think theyve always been cool but they became especially cool under obama so youre still one of the cool kids in a lot of peoples eyes i say. Because this is all virtual, where exactly will you be doing the speech from . Are you staying home, are you doing it in your basement . Did they give everybody the cool backdrops . What are the mechanics of this for you speakers . So im really just psyched because im what a privilege that the biden team has given me to give a few minutes of remarks and i get to do it from newark, new jersey. Theres something about that that makes me feel very special and the diversity thats going to be in this whole convention, the lived experiences, well be hearing from inner cities to rural areas. Well have americans piping in from all over these United States so i get to represent jersey, i get to represent our largest city, im just excited. So sim sitting here at home in a makeshift studio and ive been working with the biden campaign. They this behind me right now, they gave me some advice on how to make it better. How to stage it . Yeah. How to change it. I actually got Something Green behind me too so i feel good about that. I have no doubt that twitter is going to weigh in with their decorating suggestions. I get it all the time so brace yourself. But dont go anywhere because i want to add some people to the conversation. Joining us now is congresswoman grace ming of new york. Shes also the vice chair of the dnc and president and ceo of vote all latino. Thank you for adding some energy to this panel. Glad you guys are joining. Congresswoman i want to start with you. As were previewing this convention, we got a little preview on what senator booker is saying. I know ill be watching as will other americans but for the dnc, this is really a Party Insider event. I think the circumstances have created a case where its able to bring in people who may not have previously been politically engaged, who may not have been paying attention and some people have already started to complain about the lineup. We had ellie yesterday who said we have mayors stop and a lot of people feel disconcerted that john is speaking. Youre fighting for change. Youve disrupted spaces. What do you make of this dnc landscape at a time where the country is fractured but even the Democratic Party is a bit fractured. Well, first of all, thank you for having me in. Its always an honor to be in the presence of senator booker and thank you so much for your leadership. This convention is anything but conventional this year. We have gone from a usual six hours per day of speaking to a mere two hours during prime time. And so we have less time obviously, but the goal is to win. We are leaving no stone left unturned. We have speakers from aoc to Michael Bloomberg and its also about quality versus quantity. We have been preparing for so many smaller scale Virtual Events during this very Convention Week and i know when im talking to many new voters of color, especially in our Asian American community, for example, as much as theyd like to see andrew yang on the big stage, and Kamala Harris on the big stage, how much more excited and engaging they can be and invested in getting out to vote when theyre on a smaller scale event, many events that are going on through the week as well. So im excited for this creative way that we are operating the convention this year. Maria, i want to turn to you because theres certainly been a lot of chatter that there are so few at a time where lat next voters have grown exponentially and you and congresswoman will be with me later in the hour to talk more about that. Whats your take on the plan, the outlay of the democratic speakers . Well, first of all, its always an honor to be with you, tiffany and with senator booker and with the congresswoman. So this is the thing. Would we like to have more latino voices . Absolutely. We know that we need to attract young voters because they are the ones that are the lynch pin between the Democratic Party winning the white house and getting their families out to vote in the Latino Community. But what is unique about this, we are a Digital First organization. Touching millions of individuals every single month, getting the Democratic Party to go virtual, its almost as if god is on our side saying, you have to go online because thats the majority of your audience now. The audience that you need to mobilize, young people, they are the ones that are going to basically make or break who gets into the white house and trump trump has the online play down pat. He played it in 2016. He got into the nooks and crannies of the internet, and this gives the opportunity of the Democratic Party to force their hand to go digital. To go in the same nooks and crannies, bringing some star power but more importantly bringing the conversation that is so vitally needed to millions of americans of why they need to vote. And it provides them a real contrast and again, it is forcing their hand because that is not where the Democratic Party has b. Well talk a lot more about that later in the hour. I want to turn back to senator booker while we have you. You are pen tsen usually losinga colleague. Donald trump has appointed 200 judges virtually remaking a coequal branch of government which i think can have far reaching consequences. The senate is up for grabs as well. Should the democrats take the Upper Chamber . What will the priority be . Well, youve got to give me you put these two amazing women on, congresswoman who she and i seem to be doing a lot of zooming and calling together and your friend who is a light in my life for a lot of reasons as she knows and just one of the more inspiring organizations. So look, i am so excited about the chance that we have of not only getting back control of the senate but diversifying the senate. I am incredibly excited about kamalas ascension in a historic way, but there are such a diverse Senate Candidates running. The pastor of Martin Luther Kings Family Church is now in a neck and neck fight for a Georgia Senate seat. We have people like Jamie Harrison who is a neck and neck fight for the South Carolina senate seat. This could be a historic time where the most African Americans fill 4 or 5 of the senate but we have the chance to make the senate the most diverse in history and as far as the agenda, should we get Mitch Mcconnell back into the back benches or possibly hes got a tough race out of the senate altogether, im telling you right now, what mcconnell has called himself. This is not what his critics call him. He calls himself the grim reaper. In other words, that he has killed bipartisan bill after bipartisan bill coming out of the house of representatives. Even 90 of americans agree on would be getting done right now if it wasnt for Mitch Mcconnell stopping things. So what im looking forward to is having a functional congress again because as a guy who does work across the aisle there is a lot we can agree on and its time that we stop having the blockage or the grim reaper cutting down bills. Thank you for that, senator. I want to mention that you and senator bloomenthal introduced. We are out of time but i do love your advocacy for these Young Athletes in college. Ill be glad to have you back any time. Well be talking all object voters of color so stay tuned. Be sure to catch msnbcs live coverage of the Democratic Convention kicking off tomorrow at 7 00 p. M. You dont want to miss that. And next up, another history maker. Former attorney general lo rhett that lynch on the role that Kamala Harris will have on American History. More a. M. Joy after the break. En American History more a. M. Joy after the break. When you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. But when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. So, when you get a check. You can deposit it from here. And you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. You can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. And you can pay your friends back from here. So when someone asks you, wheres your bank . You can tell them heres my bank. Or heres my bank. 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How incredible is that and what a statement about joe biden that he decided that he was going to do that thing that was about breaking one of the most substantial barriers that has existed in our country and that he made that decision with whatever risks that brings. This week senator Kamala Harris didnt just become joe bidens running mate, she earned a place in our history books forever. Joining me now is someone who knows a Little Something about making history herself. Loretta lynch, the former u. S. Attorney general, the first African American woman to hold that position. I am so happy to have you here with me this morning. I have so many questions for you. We were just on together with joy reid the other night or when joy was hosting so its an honor to share the screen with you once again. I want to get right to something though that was breaking yesterday and that still happened. Theres been so much unrest across the country and the past 24 hours weve seen an uptick. So we saw unrest in portland. We saw it in georgia with the proud boys protesting and even in michigan, there was unrest. I dont want to be hyper bollic about i this but this uptick in violence it feels like a warning and with the confluence of an upcoming election, the Global Pandemic and the social and criminal justice issues we have in the country, im really concerned about where this is going. You were the top Law Enforcement official. What do you make of it and whats your advice of the American People as we prepare to enter this election season . Well, good morning. Thank you so much for having me on. Im so delighted to be with you. What we have seen over the past several months obviously not just the pandemic, not just the curtain being pulled back from systemic inequality in our system, but also a great racial reckoning in our country, discussions about systemic racism and systemic inequality. Whenever we have this sort of reckoning theres an enef tabl backlash. We saw it at the beginning a few months ago when far right extremists tried to infiltrate protests. When groups began to appear at the peaceful black lives matter protests, trying to high jack the agenda and trying to inject violence into it. So whenever you have this big push for equality which we are seeing now across the country and it stans races, it spans age groups, it spans every demographic, you see inevitable backlash. We have to do everything we can to make sure that our right to vote is protected at these difficult times. Second, you know, ive been heartened when i see some of these protests and i see for example black lives matter or student groups pushing back against these right wing infiltrators and saying this is not our agenda. You know, you do not represent us and making clear the delineation there. The problem is that it raises also the violence and that carries with it the threat of overshadowing the message of equality that the protests are trying to push forward. I have to ask you because i totally take what youre saying. This candidate in georgia that just won her primary so on one hand you see these fringe right wing people out in the streets causing unrest, but on the other hand, some of these people have penetrated government and they could potentially be roaming the halls of congress. What kind of danger does this put our government in . I feel very paranoid a

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