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here. it called for him to issue a mask mandate. florida reported its fewest number of cases in a month. fredricka wilson of miami joins me. congresswoman welcome on. hi, josh where. how are you? good. i m a south florida native, so i m very interested in getting things under control there. what do you think is the next step in trying to get this pan dellic under control? joshua, i think the next step is for the governor to put in place a statewide mask mandate because eats a very transyet state, even though we have a mask mandate in south florida, we need a mask maup date for the entire state. i think if we put a mask mandate in, we will see things stop. it is out of control. the virus is out of control in florida and very dangerous and people are scared. they don t know what to do. so our police department has now ordered everyone to wear masks and they re passing outside patients and if you re going to say that people should wear masks, the first thing you sho ....
will take. and today marks 100 days until the november election. president trump visited his golf club in new jersey. it s looking more and moore like his re-election campaign is struggling politically. polls in battle grounds show trump trailing. mr. trump made a big campaign change, replacing his campaign manager two weeks ago. today we canceled his public acceptance speech. florida passed new york with the state with the second most cases in the country. california has the most. calling off that big celebration came as a surprise to some of his allies and donors. apparently even his aides did not see it coming. but we begin tonight with the biden campaign and some new reporting from nbc news on where it goes from here. the latest national polls sew biden leading trump. the race is tight in some critical battle ground states. an internal memo from the biden campaign makes clear that the campaign will increase staffing and tv ad spending after some strong fund raising. ....
those leads are within the margin of error. we ll break down the numbers ahead. in about two hours president trump will hold a campaign rally at mindon tahoe airport in nevada a state where the coronavirus case load is inching higher. on monday the president plans to travel to california for a briefing on the historic wildfires there. and peace talks resumed today between the taliban and the afghan government one day after the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. secretary of state mike pompeo is in qatar for the opening ceremony of the negotiations. let us begin with the coronavirus and the president s apparent reasons for downplaying its dangers from the start. he acknowledged what he knew early in the pandemic during a series of interviews with bob woodward. mr. woodward no longer works directly for the washington post but the paper obtained the tapes of some of those interviews. now it s starting out not just old people, bob, but today and yesterday so ....
lead. sally makes landfall as a category two hurricane dumping feet of rain on communities along the gulf coast welcome to wednesday i am chuck todd. 48 days to go until the election, we re losing shy of a thousand people a day in this country to coronavirus we told you last week, we haven t had a week we didn t equal the 9/11 death toll since end of march we are approaching a staggering 200,000 deaths with projected 400,000 deaths through year end. if you see the spikes now and new case numbers, it s clear the labor day surge happened it s all a hard pill to swallow. many deaths could be avoided if the president continues to undermine the country s efforts to fight the virus late this morning two of the health experts testified on capitol hill hill, making comments that forcefully, if politely, rebuked the president s efforts to down play the effectiveness of face masks. wearing the mask when you can t physically distance is critical. i think you directly contr ....
last week s riot, dozens of arrests so far and we will show you who they are and where they re from. but we begin with jennifer griffin on capitol hill tonight with a forceful and very visible warning to potential cup troublemakers. good evening jennifer. good evening brett. it s starting to look a lot more like fort campbell or fort drum here on capitol hill. vice president pence just showed up to address the troops. earlier today we watched as thousands of additional national guard flowed into the capital today from seven states, bringing with them m for rifles and battle gear and turning the u.s. capital into a military staging ground. vice president mike pence just received a security briefing at fema headquarters on the trip preparations and threats that have led it to the buildup of forces in washington, d.c. we are going to ensure that we have a safe inauguration and that president-elect joe biden and vice president president-elect kamala harris are sworn in ....