with a question to joe biden because stacey abrams is here because joe biden invited stacey abrams to be here and so, mr. vice president, do you have an announcement to make? is this an audition? is there -- what is the reason that you decided it's time for me to get on tv with stacey abrams? >> well, because stacey abrams has done more to deal with the fair vote and making sure there is a fair vote than anybody and she has a great, great capacity to explain things and the layout, exactly why it will be so critically important in this election. this president already said when they put in the stimulus package the congress first passed money to provide for mail in ballots, he already said i'm not for that if we do that, no republican will ever win or something to that effect. he's made it clear, this is a guy who said he wants to defund the post office from being able to deliver ballots. so stacey knows what she's doing and she's incredibly capable person. >> all right. let's actually listen to what donald trump said about mail in ballots. we have that here and full disclosure before y

that is stacey abrams position. in fact, she is making the same case to get herself selected as the vice presidential nominee. if joe biden doesn't choose stacey abrams, he's racist. speak who do make >> do you think not choosing a woman of color come a black woman actually is a slap in the face to the black female voters? >> i would share your concern of not picking a woman of color but be stomach because black women are the strongest part of the democratic party. we need to reflect the diversity of america. >> tucker: yeah, you need to pick stacey abrams, that is what you need mr. racist guy. say what you will about stacey abrams, there is no mistaking her motives arming. and give her what she wants or she will call you racist. it is simple, and identity politics and of course, abrams' for that too proudly. >> i believe and identity politics. identity politics are the only politics that win. and did abrams learn that cynical little slogan? yale law school like so many political figures before she went. joe biden f

today my question is for stacey abrams. given that young people and high schoolers like myself don't often turn out to vote in elections, how do you ensure not only that high schoolers and college students are empowered in the political process but also turn out to vote at higher rates? >> well, i've been working on this since i was 17. i started registering students to vote on my college campus before i was old enough to vote. i was sent as an international fellow to austria to represent the united states on the conversation of youth civic engagement when i was 21. it's because i believe in the voice of young people. i know that young people change the world. and not long ago i was one. but what i know more than that is this cannot simply be an academic conversation. that's why my campaign in 2018 we had young people at every level of our campaign. and in our work that we're doing now from the work we're doing in southwest georgia helping to respond to covid-19, to the work of counting folks in the census we are engaging y

stacey abrams is here because joe biden invited stacey abrams to be here, so, mr. vice president, do you have an announcement to make? is this an audition? is there -- what is the reason you decided it's time for me to get on tv with stacey abrams? >> well, because stacey abrams has done more to deal with the fair vote and making sure there is a fair vote than anybody and she has a great, great capacity to explain things and to lay out exactly why it's going to be so critically important in this election. this president's already said when they put in a stimulus package the congress first passed money to provide for mail-in ballots, he already said, i'm not for that. if we do that, we'll -- no republican will ever win or something to that effect. he's made it clear, this is a guy who said he wants to defund the post office from being able to deliver ballots. i mean, so, stacey knows what she's doing. and she's an incredibly capable person. >> all right. well, let's actually listen to what donald trump said about mail-in ballots. we have that here. and full disclosu

what has stacey abrams done? can you name anything that she has -- apart from the porno thrillers, but that she has done in her life. >> first of all, she has a couple of nationwide organizations on voter suppression, something republicans know pretty well, about suppressing the votes, particularly for african-americans. she also in georgia was somebody who protected pre-k, something that's a major issue in education, the access to pre-k for young students. and she was somebody who protected that for georgia when it was getting attacked, particularly for low income students, byng republicans. she stood up and was one of the people who protected that. she also worked across the aisle and in the south, she is pro-gun, which i think will play much better than some of the other candidates who come along -- >> tucker: maybe. somehow i doubt she meets my standard of the second amendment fealty, but let's back up. i don't think we can point to a single piece of legislature that she passed in georgia that led to anything

inviting stacey abrams to join him. one of the women believed to be on his vp short list. when asked whether he had an announcement to make, here is how joe biden responded. >> stacey abrams has done more to deal with the fair vote and making sure there is a fair vote than anybody and she has a great, great capacity to explain things and the layout exactly why it's going to be important in this election. so she knows what she's doing and she's an incredibly capable person. >> biden also giving a preview of his approach to a post trump justice department saying he would take a hands-off approach and would not pardon president trump, committing to uphold the ideal that no one is above the law. joining me right now is symone sanders. it's great to have you with us. thank you for joining us again. let me ask you about what we saw last night. what exactly was that? was that an audition process? was that a vetting process? talk to us about how that came to be. >> i think what you saw was vice president biden coming before the american people, answering questions, taking question

abrams visited every buffet in the state, and branded joe biden as a racist. the president pushed a debunked theory that msnbc anchor joe

with stacey abrams after zooming with michigan governor gretchen whitmer. >> i think you're such a good governor. i think you have done one hell of a job. >> there been statements from the former vice president about the president's trip to pennsylvania, unemployment insurance and health care coverage but with the exception of a statement from a munn, nothing from biden about unmasking. >> bret: peter, thanks. up next, the panel on the whistle-blower testimony today and capitol hill, my interview with senator mitch mcconnell, beyond our borders, a suicide bombing in eastern afghanistan kills five civilians, wounds at least 29 others. officials say the attack was aimed at a military compound but the bomb exploded prematurely. the taliban is claiming responsibility for that attack. the planned swearing-in ceremony for israel's new government was postponed today reporter trickle reportedly because of a dispute over cabinet appointments. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's active

so stacey abrams isn't even in the top two. richard? >> richard: i think somebody like kamala harris does an awful lot. i have reason to think that people at the absolute upper echelon in the white house think a biden-harris ticket is the one they fear most. >> lawrence: why, though? >> richard: with suburban women, i think she is progressive but not too liberal -- >> lawrence: okay, i want to jump in real quick, because as someone that traveled around the country following this race, kamala harris couldn't even win black voters. okay? they didn't like her record on crime. joe biden already has a shaky record on that. i understand from the objects standpoint, you got a black fem. senator, state attorney general. but when it comes to values, she doesn't accomplish that on the ticket. many would say, can she when minority voters? she didn't win minority voters in the primary. how can she do it in the general election? >> harris: we are going to run out of show, here. richard, i'm going to cut you off. when we get together again, i'm going

after shooting the legislative black caucus, they went to stacey abrams inside, maybe we should move it away from being a confederate memorial. and she said she did not want to do it. she would not even allow her caucus to be pulled on it. so she moves to cater a national audience, once you go to san francisco and new york city donors, she picks up the issue. so even with that, i'm not sure that that is a firm commitment on her part or the issue that she plays to reach the audience that she is reaching right now. the state scholarship i went to school, and i did not pay a dime intuition, because they set up a color ship -- scholarship that anybody with 3.0 could go for free. now you have to have a 3.7 to get that scholarship. which i think 90% of black students in georgia i don't have that. she hurt all of those people through those cuts. and then when she turns around and basically is running for vice president, setting yourself up for president, she never talks about her legislative record. nobody asks her. that's the worst part. it's in her interest and not talk about it. but why

interestingly, bernie sanders has endorsed and is supporting stacey abrams. so that is an interesting take. we will see what happens. >> sean: what do you think? does he stay on the ticket matt gaetz? >> joe biden will be the nominee, and we will beat him. i think he is the picture of the past and donald trump will forge a brighter future for all americans. >> sean: always play like a two minute drill. six points down. you need to cross the plane to kick the field goal. that is my advice for anyone running for office. good to see you both. ufc president, the great dana white will join us next and he will explain what measures he's taking to keep fighters safe in the octagon. in his words to "the new york times" and he can make fun of my ninja videos like i do mixed martial arts myself in my spare time. straight ahead so from all of us working early mornings on the farm, long days in the plant, or late nights stocking shelves doing all we can to get you the milk you need. we hope it makes your breakfast a little brighter. your snacks more nutritious. and remin

and then you have stacey abrams who just narrowly lost the gubernatorial election in georgia by some 55,000 votes if memory serves. but she was running against the former georgia secretary of state who was also her republican opponent but also the referee, the person in charge of the state's elections. >> yeah. and abrams to me is such a fascinating figure. these are all fascinating women in their own sort of way. abrams because of her trajectory after that race. she was such a celebrated national figure. she ran such an incredible and impressive race, outperformed any statewide democrat in the last 20 years or something like that. that is a tough state for democrats. and then has kind of stayed in the game in a really interesting way. there was some talk about whether she would run for senate. she also did a town hall with joe biden on our air just last week. >> right. >> she -- there's something really interesting and unbelievably compelling about stacey abrams just as a persona. >> right. sort of coincidentally, i interviewed stacey abrams at the kennedy library and museum a few h

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former vice president joe biden with stacey abrams. they're going to be taking audience questions. this is going to be awesome. stay right where you are. here we go. end in sight, and every government decision could mean life or death. >> if you do not do an adequate response, we will have the deleterious consequence of more infections and more deaths >> announcer: tonight, former vice president joe biden on exactly what he would do differ >> ouren family members and friends and neighbors are dying while trump is having a temper tantd rum. >> but how does the apparent democratic nominee get his message out in a time of isolation? >> i'm anxious to go out and campaign. >> announcer: tonight lawrence o'donnell goes one on one withm joe biden and later both joined by stacey abrams, a leading voice for the , democrats. >> i'm working hard to lobby congress toki ensure that we ha vote by mail in every state. >> announcer: her cause to push for fair and free elections taking on new urgency in the age of coronavirus.

joe biden and stacey abrams taking audience questions. this will be awesome. stay right where you are. here we go. ♪ ♪ >> a global pandemic with no end in sight. and every government decision could mean life or death. >> if you do not do any adequate response, we will have the consequence of more infections and more deaths. >> tonight, former vice president joe biden on exactly what he would do differently from president trump. >> our family members and friends and neighbors are dying while trump is having a temper tantr tantrum. >> how does the democratic nominee get his message out in a time of isolation? >> i'm anxious to campaign. >> tonight, lawrence o'donnell goes one on one with joe biden and joined by stacey abrams, a leading voice for democrats. >> i'm working hard to

stacey abrams is a name that comes up, amy klobuchar comes up. biden has said he will pick a female to be the second person on the ticket, but they are very different politicians. stacey abrams ran for governor and lost and senator amy klobuchar is someone who is much more of a centrist leaning democrat the senate. -- democrat in the senate. she is from a hard-line stennett with bothnd has ties sides in the senate she understands -- senate. she understands how congress works and she is a mainstay of politics. if she were to do that, similarly to mike pence who also had an understanding of the way politics works, biden would cup an ally to negotiate -- pick up an ally to negotiate and manage capitol hill in the way that has. has -- pence he was able to provide a conservative steady hand to ease the ideological base of the republican party. amy klobuchar brings an ability to usher in a new era of democratic politics. there are other names on the shortlist, warren and others but the rumblings are klobuchar and abrams. francine: thank you, kevin ciri

elizabeth warren is a native american and stacey abrams is qualified as a governor in their own minds are in pretty good shape. now you have these two very accomplished women of color buying for the vice presidency and i think the democratic party will look for whomever would make the best president in case we get to mid-october and joe biden is no longer coherent were these things start sticking to him. greg: joe biden does not know what day it is. coming up michael flynn when in adam schiff loses once fox news.com for all the latest headlines. greg: it is not where attack to be a democrat. you remember last week we learned the fbi notes from top officials that show them mulling whether to get michael flynn to lie so they can prosecute him or get him fired. the justice department dismissed the case saying he was conducted without any legitimate investigative bias. hooray, there is more, the mueller probe went far beyond what we previously thought the justice department released a scope memo were acting attorney rob rosenstein gave him authority to investigate the truck team well beyo

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that narrows the field to kamala harris, stacey abrams, and val demings. each of these candidates will boost his appeal to minority voters, but each risks losing some other critical democratic constituents like progressives or moderates. biden has boxed himself in." i want to bring another power panel. david webb, host of "reality check with david webb" on fox nation, and a fox news contributor. jeff nichols, professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland. great to see you both. david, i will start with you just to get a reaction to that list that liz peake says is narrowing. >> david: i don't agree with my colleague, liz, on this one, harris. whether it's val demings or kamala harris were stacey abrams, you've got losers politically. the problem is that none of them bring what the democrats need to win a general election, which is they need to bring other voters, not just saying carolina where the black vote matters in the primary. kamala harris is california, doesn't add much for the democrats. val demings is in florida, but she was

we saw stacey abrams sort of looking like an audition last night. there's a lot of talk about elizabeth warren being a very popular pick for a lot of people, including some black people. there's a lot of talk about kamala harris. do people have a preference, or is it just that he's making that statement that black women are important enough to reward with this position? >> so i think two things can be true. one, yes, i think there is a preference. and i think that overwhelmingly black voters -- it's not a question of how black are you, but how black are your policies? how does your platform speak to me? that's first and foremost. two also, i think people want a ticket that will energize. this talk of vice president amy klobuchar feels like a slap in the face. she's been problematic, does not have a great record on race, does not seem to be something she wanted to correct on the campaign trail. there's a lot of stories that came out about her in the way she treated her staff and she tried to spin it that she was a woman being tough but really when yo

"the washington post" raised eyebrows over its glowing profile of stacey abrams. they write, quote: pandemonium ensues as she walks to the far left of the stage like a runway super model. stops on a dime. poses, tilts her head satellitely and smiles. camera flashes explode. abrams is summoning her interactress and enjoying the moment and getting through it to get to the conversation. here to weigh in joe concha media reporter for the hill. thanks for joining us. what is the "the washington post" doing with this glowing profile with stacey abrams? >> it's amazing. the editor of the worsz is "then post" is marty barren. you mean spotlight the "boston globe" and all of the pliltsers at this one. this got under his radar. this is the exact argument that donald trump makes about the media in terms of being let's say sympathetic to one side and not so sympathetic to another. picture nikki haley or melania trump getting a profile like. that and then i see these comparisons, steve, to beto o'rourke and remember he had this profile that was just marinated in cheesiness van

stacey abrams is the first person i know that is openly campaigning for the doggone job. it's a job that the once vice president from texas said, "it ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit." but she is adamant to want this job. it's interesting, too, you have to ask, what is your qualification to be president? she was not whether you qualify to be vice president. are you qualified to be president? she lost her race for governor of georgia, and the last political job she has was state legislator in the state of georgia. now, i'm not diminishing being a state legislator in georgia. it's a wonderful job. but i'm not sure that qualifies you to be the leader of the free world, and somehow she thinks it does. i'm stunned that she honestly thinks she's qualified to be joe biden's running mate. >> harris: i want to follow up distro quickly without point. you know, at one point, biden's campaign seemed to be -- at least what we are learning -- talking around the idea that he might want to promise a one term. that aptly puts more spotlight on the person's resume as they scoot into that

stacey abrams, it is always great to get a chance to talk to you. thank you for making time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >>> that is "all in" for this evening. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts right now. day 1,203 of the trump administration.1, 181 days to go until our next presidential election.o the president has adopted the use of a scorsesean phrase to sum up our sorry circumstances as a country these days. yesterday he said about the state of the u.s. economy and unemployment, "it is what it is." today when asked about the deats toll he again said, "it is whato it is." adding 70,000 sounds correct to him. just yesterday the president announced he was winding down the coronavirus task force. even though the pandemic is just now ramping up in some places, with the largest spike in new cases now in nebraska and minnesota. the president seemed fine with winding it down.

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joining us later in that discussion will be stacey abrams, founder of fair fight, a group fighting voter suppression to ensure a fair election in november. joe biden for the full hour, special night on thursday at 10:00 p.m., joined for first time in tv interview with stacey abrams. >>> coming up, michael will tell us the state of testing in america, the reality. all the realities absent from the white house press briefing today. that's one of our missions, to give you the information that the white house should be giving you. michael osterholm will do that next. types of chronic hep c. whatever your type, epclusa could be your kind of cure. i just found out about mine. i knew for years. epclusa has a 98% overall cure rate. i had no symptoms of hepatitis c mine caused liver damage. epclusa is only one pill, once a day, taken with or without food for 12 weeks. before starting epclusa, your doctor will test if you have had hepatitis b, which may flare up, and could cause serious liver problems during and after treatment. tell your doctor if you have had hepatitis b, other liver or kidney p

abrams about her appearance president trump attacking conner lamb as a, quote, american fraud. and just three months before the republican national convention is set to take place in charlotte president trump is threatening to move it elsewhere if north carolina's democratic governor is unable to guarantee by august we will be allowed full attendance that would mean more than 20,000 supporters shoulder to shoulder in this arena. just last weekend the state recorded its largest daily increase in positive covid cases. and governor roy cooper says he does not know what situation his state will be in august. >> it's okay for political conventions to be political, but pandemic response cannot be. >> reporter: the president also taking a swipe at his democratic opponent, former vice president joe biden who unlike president trump wore a mask to his state's memorial monday. president trump sharing this tweet making fun of biden's choice >> he's a fool, an absolute fool to talk that way >> reporter: and most stunningly from president trump's latest tweets falsely suggesting former repub

they will be joined by stacey abrams. thanks for being with us. i'll be right here tomorrow night at 7:00. don't go anywhere, "all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> tonight on "all in" undercover of the crisis he's made worse, new signs the president is abusing his power to attack political enemies and benefit corrupt associates. i'll be joined by richard bloom blumenthal and pluf. >>> the white house tried to silence for speaking the truth about the lack of a plan and who warns of america's darkest winter possibly ahead. congresswoman who ran today's hearing anna of california will join me. >>> back to school, what that will even mean. what it looks like, what we've learned from other countries and for the love of god, when? when "all in" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. it has become clear, painfully clear the president has declared bankruptcy on the question of handling the coronavirus. you can't fix it, so he is giving up. all you have to do is look at his twitter feed. he doesn't really want to talk about it

they will be joined by stacey abrams. thanks for being with us. i'll be right here tomorrow night at 7:00. don't go anywhere, "all in with chris hayes" is next. >>> tonight on "all in" undercover of the crisis he's made worse, new signs the president is abusing his power to attack political enemies and benefit corrupt associates. i'll be joined by richard bloom blumenthal and pluf. >>> the white house tried to silence for speaking the truth about the lack of a plan and who warns of america's darkest winter possibly ahead. congresswoman who ran today's hearing anna of california will join me. >>> back to school, what that will even mean. what it looks like,

stacey abrams, it is always great to get a chance to talk to you. thank you for making time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >>> that is "all in" for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thanks very much, my friend. much appreciated. >>> and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you with us tonight. on april 10th, three and a half weeks ago, vice president mike pence spoke at the white house, about a worrying new situation that was emerging in northeastern colorado, a town called greeley, colorado, which is up sort of near ft. collins. >> i spoke today to the governor of colorado, we've been in contact with senator corey gardner, about an

there is nobody who has turned out more black people devote than stacey abrams, and at the level of increased they had 2014 over 2018. she got 92% of the vote. i would argue that the data shows that that is a person who actually would be his strongest ally, but there's also other women of color who could also have some of the benefit that he needs with those constituencies as well. >> i think that speaks to something else you wrote in a column for the guardian before super tuesday which again feels like ages ago. so much has changed since then. but you wrote whoever wins the nomination will owe their success to the love and support of people of color. the question is, you wrote, will the nominee love them back? i think we saw that both with biden and sanders. back to back i think you wrote this right after south carolina, right after the latino vote carried sanders to victory in nevada, and then biden had that victory that was a complete u-turn for his candidacy in south carolina. biden is the nominee, what do you think that not all he but the democratic party as a whole need to prioritize in

stacey abrams, senator kamala harris, congresswoman val demings and others. what i thought was very interesting, and i thought something i'd not heard him say before, is he said there will be more than one black woman on the list considered. and i think that we can clearly say that he made that statement and that people are going to watch that. you have an african-american, very qualified african-american congresswoman on the committee, a congresswoman in rochester, from delaware. so i think it was very interesting to me how he responded. i also took very serious note that he committed an attorney general that will continue to work -- that former attorneys general eric holder and loretta lynch had made. what i wanted was to deal with some substantive issues that deal with the very community you raised that james clyburn was so influential with in south carolina. and i think we got some substance there. and all of us respect jim clyburn nationwide, not just in south carolina. >> certainly that's true. among the names being floated as possible vice presidents,

as we saw with stacey abrams. >> that's exactly right. i think he is doing the latter of what you're sharing with us. you also had senator harris and senator klobuchar, for example, introducing really -- this really ambitious modernization of electoral work for the 2020 election, and it was an opportunity for both of them to audition for the role of saying, look, we're really trying to fix the system. you have val demings coming out of florida who is also being flirted with whether or not she is going to be the candidate. he has been doing a lot of work not only with stacey abrams very visably, but also with elizabeth warren. so this idea is he is trying to temperature check folks, but also saying look, i'm taking a measured approach and i'm introducing you to all the candidates that i'm really thinking about. >> ruth marcus, maria teresa kumar, we haven't done much politics in a while. >> i miss it. >> while we didn't do a lot, we did. so i think a lot of us political junkies do. but bigger things are obviously facing us all. ruth marcus

tweets mocking the former georgia candate for governor stacey abrams. i think we are able to show that tweet. ridiculing house speaker nancy pelosi's looks, and he also went on to tweet, calling hillary clinton a very offensive word that we are not going to repeat her. he also tweeted a conspiracy theory, long debunked. it's not just one paper, here is the new york daily news on sunday the headline, donnell plays golf as the death toll fr covid nears 100,000. what a putz. the fake and totally corrupt news makes it sound like a mortal sin. i knew this would happen! what they don't say is that it was my first golf in almost three months. my guess joins me now from florida. let's start with that trip to baltimore, despite the mayor asking him not to. did you make of that, and also this i did that age he was perhaps not really adhering to the social distancing rules that he initially spoke about >> i'm not surprised he went to baltimore. throughout this entire pandemic, president trump, while following some guidelines, has kind of almost made guidelines for

stacey abrams, founder of fair fight and fair count and the former gubernatorial candidate in georgia. stacey, good morning. great to see you. this attempt by mitch mcconnell and donald trump to declare this huge bill, over $3 trillion to help states, dead on arrival, flies in the face of their claims that democrats don't want to help states, they want to have a wish list, this bill would make it easier for people to vote. do you -- has it been as clear to you from republicans that what they object to with vote by mail is the fact that more people would get to vote and that would help them -- hurt them in in being able to win. >> good morning, joy. yes, that is the statement made not only by donald trump, but also made in the state of georgia by the speaker of the house. there was a reaction when the secretary of state in georgia agreed to expand access to vote by mail by sending out ballot applications. the following weeks he created a voter fraud task force, trying to use this to intimidate people out of using a right that they hold in the state of georgia and held since 2005. the c

abrams's weight, ridiculing house speaker nancy pelosi's looks, i think we are able to show these tweets... and one calling hillary clinton a very offensive word we won't repeat here. he also tweeted a conspiracy theory long debunked that a television host who he has feuded with may have killed a woman. it's notjust one newspaper. here's the new york daily news on sunday... the president has responded... julia manchester is a political reporterfor the hill. shejoins me from florida. trump going to baltimore despite mayor asking him not to. what did he make of that and the idea he was not adhering to social—distancing rules he initially spoke about? i'm not surprised he went to baltimore. throughout this entire pandemic, president trump, while following some guidelines has kind of almost made guidelines for himself. we have seen that those around him of all worn masks, something his own coronavirus task force have recommended all americans do. however last week we saw the president travelled to michigan and for most of the trip you did not wear a mask despite being asked to do so. i'm n

so stacey abrams and certainly kamel harris. susan rice val demings who says she's been vetted you can count them out. there's 5 weeks at least left to go we'll be talking about this for some time to come. >>and a quick note here to tune in next wednesday may 27th for our congressional town hall special the road to reopening politicians from all over california will be answering your questions live on our air you can either submit a video of your question on our website kron 4 dot com or you can use twitter and just use the hashtag reopening ca. this inside california politics special will air live from 07:00pm to 08:00pm on kron 4 and on our kron on app which is free to download right now. >>i'm morgan wright in washington, what health experts say congress must do in order to when visible set out to create the future of phone service... we tossed the stuff that wasn't working. stuff like foot-long bills and fees from nowhere. time-wasting stores, misleading ads, unhelpful help centers. and saved the stuff that was working. like

kamala harris came in second followed by stacey abrams and amy klobuchar. meanwhile, new developments this morning concerning an allegation made against the apparent democratic nominee biden's accuser spoke to our ali vitali about what she did and did not report when she says the incident occurred. >> former senate staffer tara reade, who alleges that former vice president joe biden sexually assaulted her when he was a senator, reiterating to nbc news this weekend that she never used the word sexual assault in a complaint reade said she filed back in 1993. biden has flatly denied her allegation. >> i am saying, unequivocally, it never happened, period. >> reade cancelled an interview with fox news sunday citing threats fence again threats against her and her family she is not sure what words she might have used in the 27-year-old complaint that was filed. not the alleged sexual assault she also told the associated press she was, quote, too scared to write about the sexual assault. biden has asked for those documents to be released >> and if that document ex

we talked about stacey abrams. do you think, first of all, it's important that joe biden pick a woman? >> i don't think it really particularly matters to be honest. have you got the two people -- two top democratic contenders toward the end were two old white guys. i think the democratic primary electorate claims that they care a lot about, you know, identity politics, but in the end they don't. by just the shear fact that joe biden is going to be the presumptive nominee. look it, stacey abrams who joe biden just gave a recent test run to ended up on the ticket, i don't know who would be the more delusional one. joe biden who is a plagiarist who has made up easily disprooivel claims like he graduated in the top half of his law school when in fact he graduated toward the bottom or stacey abrams repeatedly lied about losing the georgia gubernatorial race when she lost by 55,000 votes who still hasn't conceded. and who even worse launched a group fair fight off of the lie of voter suppression to keep her name in polit

abrams, who has campaigned with biden just recently. they of course appeared with lawrence o'donnell in a town hall on msnbc. also in the mix we hear about senators warren and klobuchar. this short list is stoking debates among democrats. some civil rights leaders faulting cloeb's work as a prosecutor and her general performance among minority voters in the primaries. then of course you can always go dwrond the short list. there are politicos and activists throwing out all kinds of other names right now, including some prominent figure who's have not ever run for office and frankly might not be interested. some talking up online former national security adviser susan rice and others talking up even michelle obama herself. conjuring the idea of another obama/biden ticket although insiders note that is a non-starter, we're told, for the former first lady. this is a big story we're going to keep an eye on. we have some special guests coming up. a quick break and when we come back, a lot more in our special show tonight. at leaf blowers. yo

eastern when stacey abrams joins mess live. >>> i speak live with the mother of brianna taylor, the emt who was killed by police in kentucky. stay with us. lled by police in kentucky st wayith us how about no no uh uh, no way come on, no no n-n-n-no-no only discover has no annual fee on any card. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/try and never go to the post office again! >>> we have more now on the fatal shooting of an emt worker. 26 years old brianna taylor was shot and killed while sleeping in her own apartment. according to the family's lawsuit. brianna and her boyfriend thought they were intruders. the boyfriend wounded, police began firing blindly, says the lawsuit. she was hit eight times and killed. three officers have been reassign and the police chief has asked the justice department to revi

ridiculing nancy pelosi for her appearan appearance, mocking stacey abrams's weight and calling hillary clinton a word i will not dignify on air and if that wasn't juvenile enough, the president engaged in a virtual shouting match with the republican senate candidate that may once chose as his attorney general jeff sessions. as "the washington post" put it, trump's barrage of social media attacks stood in sharp contrast to a sober reality on a weekend for mourning military dead. trump also squeezed in two rounds of golf including one on sunday morning allowing himself to be seen golfing which he rarely has. after encouraging churches to reopen for services. those very visible outings sent the clearest signal yet that the president wants you to believe it's safe to resume life as normal. to pretend all this horror has magically gone away like he said it would months ago. unfortunately, new images of overcrowded bars, beaches and pools from around the country this weekend confirmed that many americans, at least those who take trump's lead feel the same way. trump today defended his decisi

other possible running mates include a former candidate for the governorship in georgia, stacey abrams and for the congresswoman val demings. >> and appeals court ruled today that they must hold a presidential primary next month. they had voted to cancel the presidential primary on june 23 because of the pandemic. lawyers argued it was wrong to scrap it the decision affirmed the lower courts ruling and the judge had said that eliminating the primary even during the pandemic was unconstitutional. >> not a bad day today. we started off with a few showers east of the area around lake tahoe and north and east away from us with a little wind out there right now with plenty of sunshine and temperatures increase by six or 7 degrees. the rain over the last few days, that low has left and now that it's gone we dry out and it will become more springlike. spring winds are blowing right now in san francisco and you can see the fog great there. that's usually one of the first places you see the fog. the fog is forming along the coast and you do see some wind, wind gusts in some places it's blowing,

the other widely talked about governor's stacey abrams. this is great stuff. biden gets look like he is making a big decision, which the public will want to see how he does that. he can do it on his timetable. there is less pressure on the convention because it has been moved. this is what the biden campaign wants to talk about all day long. whether it comes out as one of these frontrunners or a dark who makes a leap forward soon, we do not know. it will be someone who will help andwith his campaign election come november. i think that will be the number one decisiveness, who will help him win the most. next, tyson isp struggling with the pandemic. that is coming up next on balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: welcome back to balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. time now for stock of the hour. it is tyson. consumers are stocking up on meat and putting it in their freezer, but tyson had to spend a lot of money to keep plants open and workers safe. here with maurice abigail doolittle. abigail: it has been a difficult situ

stacey abrams also campaigning for the job. however, according to the "new york post," biden insiders claim, quote: no one is taking her seriously. here to discuss is former 2016 bernie sanders staffer tezlyn figure garr row. hey, tezlyn. >> good morning. how are you? ainsley: good morning. i'm great. thank you. he told msnbc he was looking at more than a dozen women. out of the list, the short list, who do you want? >> really, to be quite honest with you i want to put the claim iser out there pee personally i'm more interested in a black agenda than i am black symbolism leadership. we certainly have enough political puppets in politics. however, in the case of joe biden. this is not just about symbolism. this is about will vice president joe biden slap black voters directly in the face? this comes down to the fact that black folks resurrected his dead campaign and it was completely dead in the water. black folks came through and resurrected. he should be willing, since he is so eager to get trump out. he should be willing to g

talking about prominent women from nancy pelosi to stacey abrams. hillary clinton endorsing biden. your reaction to all of that? i will bring it up again, joe biden was a grown man. he was a senator for 20 years when these allegations allegedly, these claims allegedly took place. brett kavanaugh was a high school teenager, your reaction. >> you're right to point that out, joe biden was a sitting senator when this allegation allegedly took place. that said, i think we have seen the media, there is a clear double standard in the way that they're handling this allegations. joe biden was able to get away with not addressing it for weeks. again, what i think is even worse is to see progressive women who claimed that they are feminists who many young girls and women look up to just minutes after corroborating witnesses come forward and confirmed tara reade's story, you see them, you see them doubling down. elizabeth: kelly billion -- billion lar thanks for join us. thank you. elizabeth: firestorm over the bombshells. more controversy going on with the fbi, that fbi officials tried to ent