"reuters" analyzed data showing states in the upper midwest and west where coseer weather is ding more people indoors had the highest rates of new fections. kansas, nebraska, new hampshire, south dakota and wyoming set new records last week. yesterday four states-- kentuy, minnesota, montana and wisconsin-- set new one-day records according to the reuters analysis. johns hopkins university's coronavirus resource center sho t u.s. with more than 20% of all confirmecases worldwide as of this morning. there are cloonse to 35 milnfections globally and nearly 7.4-million of those are in the united states. violence between armenian and azerbaijani forces continued today over the separatist region nagorno karabakh. ethnic armenian officials from nagornrakh took responsibility fothe latest round of strikes in ganja azerbaijan's second largest city. one civilian was killed and dozens were injured, according to azerbaijan's government. eethe decades-long disputn the countries is over the nagorno karabakh region, whic is part of azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic armenian forces backed by arm

arthel: jeff mason from reuters, white house correspondent, thank you, jeff. jeff: thank you. arthel: eric. eric: pat toomey reportedly will not seek reelection in the senate when current term ends in 2022. that's according to philadelphia inquirer right now. toomey represented the keystone state in the senate since 2010 and widely seen as the republican front runner for pennsylvania's next gubernatorial race. his office is not denying the reports and says that the senator will have an announcement on political future that. will happen tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. when the senator will make his future known when he speaks in bethlehem, pennsylvania. less than one month to go before election day and voting lawsuits are piling up across the country. what this could mean to voters who plan to vote in person or by mail? we will look at some of the cases and what it means to you as fox news channel rolls ahead on this sunday afternoon. ♪ r insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. lib

howie: that was reuters' jeff mason. the president attacked others as well from the medical world to the media world. >> people are tired of hearing fauci and all these idiots, these people, these people that have gotten it wrong. every time he goes on television, there's always a bomb, but there's a bigger bomb if you fire him. >> the president looked like he's already decided he's lost, like the -- ah, biden's a criminal, fauci is terrible. it's what losers sound like. >> the president is gaining massive momentum. democrats, despite what they say and the media mob, what they say, they're enablers. howie: ben, on the obama administration, this is not unnamed sources. the president is publicly pressing his attorney general to name a prosecutor, look into obama and biden and the media are kind of stunned at this open political pressure. >> i don't think it's any question that this is going to be a story that outlasts this election. i feel like people are confining this to donald trump, the person, sort of lashing out at p

at this same point in 2016, reuters/ipsos had the wisconsin race too close to call. 2020 reuters/ipsos has biden by 6 in wisconsin. hillary clinton lost pennsylvania by less than one percentage point. but "the new york times" sienna poll had clinton up by seven in 2016. that same poll right now has biden up by seven. also in pennsylvania, a quinnipiac poll had clinton up by five percentage points in late october of 2016. today, that same poll shows biden up by a much wider margin of 13 percentage points. monmouth at this point gave clinton a ten-point lead in the commonwealth. monmouth currently has biden up by 12 in pennsylvania. let's take a look at michigan another state that hillary clinton lost by less than one percent. at this exact week in 2016, clinton led by 11 percentage points according to an epic mra poll. we don't have that poll this year but the most recent nbc news/marist survey of the state says it's biden by eight. emerson has michigan trump by seven. now michigan winning with biden by ten. and florida, clinton lost the electoral votes by one percentage point. october

in arizona, the latest reuters/ipsos poll has bide within a three-point lead, 49% to 46%, within the margin of error. in ohio, donald trump is ahead 48% to 45%. in texas, the latest quinnipiac university poll shows the two candidates tied at 47% apiece. that's a lot of different states to look at, joe. what do they tell you? >> well, what they tell us is what we have been thinking for some time and that is that, again, willie, that donald trump is having real problems in the area where he was expecting to, you know, run to victory. in the upper midwest, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania where the states gave him obviously a shocking victory in 2016. but you look at pennsylvania plus 10, plus 8, plus 5. michigan, plus 12. wisconsin plus 12 there which is a little below what it usually is. even in iowa, two polls out yesterday showing that joe biden up by three points, that's of course a state that donald trump carried by nine. again, if this were any other candidate, if this were any other election cycle, we would be talking about the end for donald trump but of course it's not becaus

the latest reuters poll puts joe biden ahead by nine, 52-43%. in nevada the latest "new york times" siena college poll shows biden leddiading by six. in iowa, the latest iowa next star research poll shows biden leading by four points, 50 to 46% with margin of error plus or minus four points. in north carolina the reuters ips owes poll 49 to 48% biden with a margin of error of 4.4 points. >> willie, i trust absolutely no polls. i think it's a hangover from 2016. but i trust no polls. if trump towdonald trump is wit points of joe biden in any poll, i color that state red. for no good reason at all. d i hear what people in the media are saying about this race, and it sounds remarkly similar to what they were saying about the clinton race four years ago. and, yes, joe biden's over 50% in a lot of these polls. and, yes, joe biden's popularity is higher than ever, but we live in a tum you wiultuous world, c world. the polls started by people picking up the phone, calling, getting responses. we have become a far more cynical, skeptical society, even ov

in wisconsin the latest reuters poll shows biden ahead by eight among likely voters. those who have already cast their votes, 51 to 43%. in pennsylvania, the same poll shows biden and president trump statistically tied among likely voters and those who have already voted biden 49%, trump 45%. and in georgia, the latest emerson college poll shows another statistical tie. trump 48, biden 47%. >> so, john heilemann, what do you see in those polls? we also had a "new york times" siena poll coming out this morning showing joe biden up nine nationally. what trends are you looking at? >> you know, joe, i think it sounds like a broken record here. we talked about this yesterday. i think what you really see here is what you have seen for months, which is a race that has demonstrated remarkable stability for months. a boring headline, right? you are starting to see, the inevitable thing that i think people in our business have expected for a long time, that you and i and mika and willie and i have discussed for months, as you got into the final days that the race was going to t

reuters reporting former director of national intelligence ric grenell met secretly with a representative of venezuelan president nicolas maduro last month to try to work out a peaceful exit from power. no agreement was reached. this evening, correspondent benjamin hall looks at maduro's long and sometimes tenuous hold on power. >> in 2018, the maduro regime was on its knees, his reelection have been dismissed as ringed, large scale protests took over the streets and a military coup was underway. nationalism we later leader juan guaido was recognized by the u.s. and more than 50 other countries as the legitimate leader. it seemed that maduro's days were numbered. >> it's going to happen. >> today maduro is still in power. his thugs still roam the streets and he's purge the military while the world's attention has been on coronavirus. cuba has sent thousands of military advisors in iran traits and refined gas for gold. china, russia, turkey support him while illicit mining and drug trafficking prop up his failed state. >> we brought criminal charges against maduro for his narco terrorism.

make their closing arguments -- let's bring in our panel, jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters, kimberley strassel member of the editorial board at "the wall street journal" and jonah goldberg, editor in chief at the dispatch. where do you see this race and what about each candidate's closing pitch? >> it is getting closer and if you go back to four years ago, it was exactly this last stret stretch, where the polls really started to tighten and you got down in these battlegrounds and we got the results that we did. both candidates obviously trying to capitalize with closing arguments, you have biden making the same argument he's made all along which is coronavirus and the character of the president. i think you see the president trying harder to make his own argument about the economic restoration, about a promise to triumph over the virus and using things like the barrett confirmation hearing to talk about promises kept. we'll and see how those play o out. >> bret: speaking of the barrett confirmation hearings, and scotus overall, that was talked about in thursday's town halls

jase mason, white house correspondent at reuters. lots of new developments then there's that conflicting information over the past couple of hours concerning the president's health. what is your take on what we know definetively so far? >> well, a couple of thing, first of all you're right to say the white house is trying to clean up sort of the confusion about the timing and the doctor, dr. conley sent a memo that was released by the press secretary saying that he had spoken incorrectly and that, in fact, the president had been tested or tested positive for covid on thursday night. so that is what they're saying about that now so that helps with that piece of it. generally though, i think you can analyze the press conference today at walter reed which was very upbeat for the most part and contrast that with the piece of news josh was sharing that was spoken by a source familiar to the pool and conclude that that upbeat conference was probably directed as much at the patient as anyone else. if the white house is concerned about not h

sources told reuters federal regulators will compare data from previous studies on similar vaccines to the company's part for my partner university of oxford. the cdc has extended its no sale order for cruise ships in u.s. waters through october 31st. federal health officials say even with reduced passenger capacity, recent outbreaks on ships overseas suggest infections would spread in the u.s. if operations resume prematurely. although several positive tests forced the titans to delay next sunday's game against the steelers, vikings, who played the titans last weekend planned to go forward against houston this sunday as their players continue to test negative. nfl venues are exploring high tech solutions, including disinfectant spraying drones at mercedes-benz stadium, home to the atlanta falcons. and at bank of america stadium in uptown charlotte, the carolina panthers have deployed a robot that zaps pathogens with ultraviolet light. >> the light strike robot is the only device that has been proven to kill sars-cov-2 with that causes covid-19 into minutes. >> florida state university

. >> in michigan, a reuters poll of likely voters shows joe biden eight points ahead of donald trump, 58-53. and in north carolina, a monmouth poll shows two potential scenarios. it depends on whether there is a high turnout of likely voters or a low turnout of likely voters. in the high-turnout scenario, joe biden has a four-point lead over donald trump at 50-46. in a low turnout scenario, joe biden has just a one-point lead over donald trump at 49-48. high turnout is what we're seeing in states with early voting already under way. in georgia, more than 128,000 voters went to the polls on monday, a record for the first day of early voting in the state. today early voting began in texas. "the new york times" reports in texas, the first day of early voting brought long lines in the state's major urban centers with hours-long waits in san antonio. officials attributed the long lines to high turnout as well as ballots that require more time to fill out. a change in state law forbidding straight ticket or one-punch voting means voters can no longer choose a party's entire slate with one m

a sweeping new "reuters" investigation has found an alarming increase in inmate deaths across more than 500 of america's largest jails. it found that 7,571 inmates died between 2008 and 2019. the mortality rate in those jails climbed 8% in the last three years, and 35% in the last decade. at least two-thirds of the dead were awaiting trial, and never convicted the charges on which they were being held. the supreme court agreedoday to take up a trump administration policy that excludes from the census count people living illegally in the u.s. if permitted, the policy would mark the first time in american history that immigrants would be left out of the population count that determines seats in the u.s. house of representatives. arments are set for next month. u.s. authorities have accused a former mexican defse minister of smuggling thousands of kilograms of illegal drugs across the border, in exchange for bribes. salvador cienfuegos zepeda was taken into custody yesterday in los angeles. he was a senior leader in mexico's war on drugs under former president enrique pena neito. today, me

reuters reporting today that russian state hackers targeted the democratic parties in california and in indiana. the russian-speaking hackers who have been hitting hospitals with ransomware, locking up hospitals' computer systems around the country, that is continuing to happen. in addition to the hospitals we profiled last night, we now know of a hospital system in dixonson county in northeastern, wisconsin, that has been hit by the same ransomware attack out of russia, shutting down the hospital's computers. the fbi and the cyber agency cisa at homeland security tonight put out another bulletin about hackers from iran hitting voter registration data. it's a weird time, and it is easy to get overwhelmed and to be scared about all these developments. but you know what? i actually find comfort in the fact that the solution to all of it is for us citizens is always the same. stay focused. pay attention. but know that god will grant you the wisdom to know what the things are that you cannot change. what you can do, the solution in your own life is the same no matter how overwhelming the

in wisconsin the latest reuters/ipsos poll shows joe biden ahead by nine. 53% to 44%. in pennsylvania, the same poll finds biden leading by seven, 51% to 44%. in texas the latest "new york times"/siena college poll puts president trump ahead by four, 47% to 43%. >> so john heilemann, you know, these polls count off and if they are off let's just shut the whole thing down because polls have never been this wrong before. if you're looking at the polls though that donald trump's team is looking at and the joe biden's team's looking at, they will tell you, tell anybody that asks, off the record, if you know them well enough, michigan is gone. and wisconsin's gone. i don't know that donald has figured that out yet, but they're gone. pennsylvania is slipping away quickly. but they still have the sunbelt strategy where they win those sunbelt states and they somehow figure out a way to win pennsylvania and yet we talked about it last hour with jonathan lemire, this president has a scatter shot approach. he's going everywhere which means he's going nowhere. he's not focusing on

so in that meeting trump once again mocked reuters white house reporter correspondent jeff mason for practicing the preventative measure of wearing a mask in this crowded maskless room. >> this is jeff mason. he's got a mask on. it's the largest mask i have ever seen, so i don't know if you can hear him. >> by the way, it's really remarkable that you are thinking about voting for that man. really it's staggering. you get information from facebook that says that anthony fauci is in some secret cabal that's going to make billions of dollars on a vaccine. that's a lie. you can't be that stupid. you say it's no worse than the flu. no. donald trump himself in february, it's on tape, so please get off your stupid qanon sites, get off your stupid facebook sites, turn your head away from whatever tv station is telling you this is just like the flu because even donald trump said that was a lie it bob woodward back in february. >> look at the number on the screen. >> katty kay, here you have a president who mocked and ridiculed jeff mason for wearing a mask a couple of months back sq asking a

call told them to take off -- jeff mason with reuters told him to take off his mask because he couldn't hear him. >> mark meadows. >> mthen mark meadows up on the hill, you sure look funny in your mask. i don't really understand that, but what were they thinking was going to happen? >> did they think this was funny because covid is deadly. with 18 people, possibly more contracting it, i worry are they going to have a horrific experience with it? >> right. >> is somebody going to die? >> the president says one day, don't worry about this, go about your life. the next day, the next day the joint chiefs have to quarantine because of the president's recklessness. quite frankly because of the stupidity of his covid policy that has been responsible for we don't know how many of the 210,000 deaths that americans have endured, men families have endured. but a lot of it. but even inside the white house you don't have to look at those 210,000 people who have died and figure out exactly how many have been responsible or killed because of white house negligence. all you have to do is look at the fa

and the latest reuters/ipsos poll shows biden leading by two, 49% to 47%. and finally, in arizona, the same poll finding biden leading by two. 48% to 46%. >> so jonathan lemire let's go through the numbers. and these are the first time you or i have ever gone through a polling number in the 2020 news cycle. why don't we do something new today? so michigan plus 7, plus 8. wisconsin, plus 5, plus 17. by the way, those are two really good polls. there is -- i was reading the upshot last night. there's really no explaining the wide divergence in the two polls. georgia plus 4. florida plus 4, plus 2 for biden. arizona plus 2. i'm going to say something now and i don't believe any of these polls, i'll be honest with you. i don't believe any of them. i don't believe any of these polls. i think this race is extraordinarily tight. and every time i start believing the polls, i start looking at data from early state voters. you know, like florida. okay, can donald trump really be behind four points in the state of florida when he is outperforming democrats the way he

it seems to be separate, it was reported by reuters late last night, but now we see the lilly plant was investigated by the fda and an official action indicated report came out, which is not a warning letter, but it's the next step toward the company having to correct some flaws in the manufacturing process at the plant that this monoclonal antibody, neutralizing antibody drug is being manufactured at, mika. >> all right. i want to get to the rally in sanford, florida, for example, because the president's holding them all over the country. i believe pennsylvania had another one as well. but if you look at the video from -- from these events, many of them are, you know, around his plane and airport. there is 100% the opportunity to social distance these people, to spread them out so that they are not such a risk to each other. but as you can see, the campaign has made sure that everybody is side by side, shoulder to shoulder, absolutely positively exchanging droplets and breathing on each other. so, what was the risk for attendees and their families and friends back home at the trump ral

meadows told reuters in which he contradicted in which he had told the press pool, no, the president was doing great. he's in vital health. you know, he is doing fine now. he's on his way to the quick recovery. then he gives another -- that interview with fox news that night in which he did say the president was doing better but again acknowledged he has been in a bad spot on friday and it was going to require a lot of care. we know that meadows signed off on the president's motorcade ride last night outside of walter reed. it's not just the chief of staff changing his story, but you have the president relentlessly being positive and putting out the videos and saying he understands how serious covid is, but you have a team of doctors that now in consecutive days has given briefings which have provided contradictory answers and evaded questions and side stepped inquiries about how the president is doing. the health of the president of the united states, the commander in chief. updates indeed that don't just shape the last month of the presidential campaign but where the united states

in arizona, the latest reuters ipsos poll shows yet another statistical tie. biden 50%. trump 46%. in florida the same poll shows a statistical tie. in florida as well, biden 49% to donald trump 47%. >> so mike barnicle, new hampshire and georgia both have biden with big leads. i suspect they're much tighter in both of those places but no doubt, joe biden looking good in new hampshire. and giving donald trump a run for his political life in georgia, because if biden can't -- or if trump can't win in georgia he's in huge trouble elsewhere. north carolina stayed tight the entire race, but biden's always ahead by two, by three, by four. ohio tied, arizona biden plus 4. florida, plus 2. but as jonathan lemire said whether we believe the public polls or not you could certainly see what the trump campaign is seeing behind the scenes when they're campaigning in a state like iowa that they won easily four years ago. when they campaign in states like georgia, that they won easily four years ago. there is no doubt they are on the run, they are spread thin and donald trump is going to have to

reuters white house correspondent jeff mason who was on that trip in florida with the vice president yesterday. and an msnbc news political contributor, shauna thomas. jeff, you were there at the town hall, the vice president was performing much stronger, talked about how he felt about that debate last week on camera about just how difficult it was. what was your takeaway? >> he sure did. i thought it was interesting he was asked in part whether or not he had stooped to the president's level, by calling him a clown, by asking him to shut up. vice president biden sort of conceded that maybe he should have not called him a clown. it was interesting to me that he wasn't ready to go so far as to say you're right, i'm not proud of my performance. he kept the focus on the fact that president trump was the one who did the vast majority of the interrupting. he also faced questioning, andrea, and i thought this was interesting too, about his ability to stand up to a bully such as president trump. his response was to talk about his history of meeting with president putin and other dictators ar