LAURIE GARRETT, SENIOR FELLOW FOR GLOBAL HEALTH, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: It requires creating a profit motive scheme of some sort that will -- that brings the industry to the table, without imagining the kind of profit returns they usually want from pharmaceuticals. What are the things you want to do? And so, but I don`t want to question her motive. I`ve been on your program before talking about -- even before I announced I was going to run, restoring the soul of America. BIDEN: She`s capable of doing any or both. The fact is that -- look at Tara Reade`s story. You don’t have to go back many years to find Jim Crow. Do you remember Tara Reade who worked there for about a year in 1992, `93? And Stacey Abrams now has the new mission of making sure that you can cast your vote safely in the age of coronavirus, by mail, if necessary. This -- all this is going -- everything is fine.

That is not the president`s role, responsibility, and it`s a dereliction of his duty, and a dereliction of the duty as a -- you know, you have what? In other words, are you willing to commit to the American ideal that no one is above the law? I mean -- so Stacey knows what she`s doing and she`s an incredibly capable person. And -- and I hope if I`m president that Dr. Fauci will stay on in the administration. — Lawrence O'Donnell (@Lawrence) May 17, 2017.

And now here we are. Forgot your password? Look, let me get something clear. Thank you very much for joining us tonight, Mr. Vice President. Could have been stopped in China before it started, and it wasn`t. As my dad would say, you know, when you get knocked down, you just got to get up, just get up. Plus, the final ballot count in Michigan could take up to 80 hours. And full disclosure before you listen to what Donald Trump says about this, the one thing I have in common with Donald Trump is that we both vote by mail. What`s going on is an absolute travesty, a travesty of justice. What`s going on in London right now, they`re -- in Cambridge, they`re on the verge, they think, of moving forward. I think we have to remember there are two things happening in 2020. Tonight on the Last Word: Joe Biden calls Donald Trump “a disgrace” for considering firing Dr. Fauci. NARRATOR: This is a special edition of "THE LAST WORD," Joe Biden, with Stacey Abrams.

This is being vetted. Whether 2,000 was it or former attorneys general or people who worked in the office that said the present attorney general should resign. We`re going to have to be in a position to be one of the leaders in the world to figure out how we can make sure that this vaccine is made available first and foremost in our case to the people of the United States of America getting access to it, rural, all people, all people. Average Americans doing extraordinary things, risking -- in some cases, giving their lives -- to carry the rest of us on their back, whether they`re grocery store clerks or truck drivers or whether they are people working as nurses or people working as child aides, whatever. Retired. It will not have a parade, if the conditions are the same as today. The show channels O'Donnell… The same way things are going to have to happen when you`re going to have all those Europe -- Eastern European countries, those African countries that don`t have the capacity to pay for it. We`re seeing the soul of America now.

We`re going to make sure that you don`t have to burn the Amazon to make a living in your country. Stacey Abrams is the head of an organization called Fair Fight, which is devoted to making sure that all voters will be able to cast their votes for president on November 3rd, without any interference with their voting rights. Recover your password. That`s what makes us so special. BIDEN: Your generation owns this election. It could be a very dark time. I want to know why Stacey Abrams wasn`t willing to run for the Senate in order to help the party but is willing to accept the role of vice president. But now the coronavirus pandemic threatens the lives of every man, woman and child in the United States. Rewarding tRump was not meant to get us more information - it was pure money. That`s next. The president said, no, no, they`re doing a great job. If it has not been done, it will be an absolute, incredible disaster, beyond repair. your password. We need answers like that so we can get in more questions. "THE 11TH HOUR" with Brian Williams will be up next. your email. Mr. Vice President, just please stay with us. We have -- you have to have some level of cooperation with them in terms of research, in terms of medical supplies, many of which originate in China. Biden: ‘The heart and soul of this country is at stake’.

BIDEN: Well, I think they should vote their heart. Thank you hometown boy. They can handle the truth. Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of ‘The West Wing,’ Lawrence O’Donnell examines the compelling and impactful political stories of the day. How are you going to deal with China? This is what we`re going to do. I find it so profound what is going on in America today, with so many families across this country going through tough times. And you remember when you were there with Pat Moynihan. Mr. Vice President, you`re saying that wherever the investigative trail might lead, whether that be an investigative trail pursued by the Justice Department against Trump officials, Trump associates, administration officials, whether those are congressional investigations, that`s hands off for you? We have to right the wrongs that are being exposed that exist now. And now guess what has happened? We have to make sure that health care and economic justice are part of every single decision, and that happens by speaking directly to you. The world is -- in their overwhelming interest of the rest of the world and the major nations of the world, the major economic powers to provide this capacity and has to be organized, organized. Nobody wants it to be racism, but it seems to be the common thread. It should be vetted. And he`s doing a very good job with a very, very tough situation. As we have learned by now, you can`t build a wall high enough to keep out a virus. And the truth of the case is nothing like this ever, ever happened. They`re part of you. We`re not even in the discussion. But more importantly, engaging you and setting the policies themselves. What they can`t handle is lie or lies. It absorbs more carbon into the Earth than we emit in a day, every single day and it`s burning. Now it`s time to hear from Joe Biden about the issues that will dominate the rest of the presidential campaign, issues of life and death.

And -- and, at the very same time, you have this astronomical, Depression- level unemployment rate. Tonight on the Last Word: Lawrence O’Donnell builds on Vice President Biden’s message of optimism with four days to go until election day.

That means that we have to focus on issues of climate change, criminal justice.

He does not -- he does whatever is in his interest, takes no responsibility, does whatever in his interest, and we have the problem we have right now. O`DONNELL: And we`re back with more of your questions for Vice President Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams. Yes, yes, yes again. I know that young people change the world, and not long ago I was one. BIDEN: Absolutely -- absolutely, positively. It`s obviously going to be the most important thing that the president faces after the next inauguration. You really will. They had been briefed on it, they meaning the incoming administration. DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: President Xi loves the people of China. And two, Republicans will do everything they can to prevent Democrats from getting their voters to the polls. O`DONNELL: Vice President Biden, we have seen --. That is going to be it seems to me a moment where a president is going to have to say what that president can do for them. It could have been stopped right where it came from, China. The unemployment rate is now 14.7 percent and going up from there.

What are the -- what`s the decision sequence? NARRATOR (voice-over): A global pandemic with no end in sight, and every government decision could mean life or death. That might sound like a private place but as you and I both know, that`s a thoroughfare, that`s a very busy area. That second wave would surely be breaking in January, combined with the regular flu season.

And we, in fact, the president said, we`re the best, we don`t -- basically, we don`t need anybody else`s help. Philly reports: However, according to HuffPost, sources indicate that complications have arisen over a time slot move for The Last Word from 10 p.m. to 6 p.m., and that the network “has not been in contact with O’Donnell’s team of representatives to negotiate a new deal.” It is all about the science. That means we have to think about not winning the White House and the Senate, but we`ve got to win down ballot races, especially winning state legislatures in order to avoid the debacle that happened when Republicans gerrymandered our maps beyond recognition. Really and truly. Mr. Vice President, what was your involvement in the investigation of Michael Flynn and the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn? What are we doing? Given that young people and high schoolers like myself don`t often turn out to vote in elections, how do you ensure that not only high schoolers and college students are empowered in the political process but also turn out to vote at higher rates?

They know -- they want to know the truth.

They never go away, and they`ll advice you and they`ll be there with you. NARRATOR: Tonight, Lawrence O`Donnell goes one-on-one with Joe Biden, and later both joined by Stacey Abrams, a leading voice for the Democrats. O`DONNELL: I want to go to the complexity that -- of what you will be facing on day one, with all those Cabinet members there, obviously the secretary of state. It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct either a prosecution and/or decide to drop a case. The secretary of state will be concerned with not only the relations with China and all of this, but how a vaccine, once it`s developed, can be distributed throughout the world, because we know, if we don`t crush it throughout the world, it will come back to us. If Joe Biden is sworn in as the next president on January 20th, your life and your children`s lives and your parents` lives and your grandparents` lives are going to depend on the work that Joe Biden starts doing that afternoon in the Oval Office, in the Cabinet Room, in the Situation Room. The Abrams taught Democrats two things. How do you plan to change the immigration laws to accommodate specialized immigrants towards a fast-track immigration process, to accommodate such crisis? Let`s go -- let`s go to another question from one of our voters. Let`s listen to the way she described those international complexities.

The fact is that he has not been responsible at all from the very beginning. Truth is what matters. And it`s going to cost all of us. And when I say we, I mean you will be joining in the questioning, because we will turn this hour into a town hall of sorts, with questions from you, our viewers, for Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams, when she joins us later in this hour. In fact, in every single state that has used vote by mail regularly, Oregon for the last 20 years, the number of people who have committed fraud is negotiable.

Professor Glaude asked the same question I have been asking myself every day for the last four years “Why does 40% of the country bow to Donald Trump?” I’m afraid the Professor and I know the answer, but we just don’t want to believe it. O`DONNELL: And this is helping us get in all the more questions, so that`s a commitment. O`DONNELL: Stacey Abrams, he`s against it. He loves his country. And that third number is the largest number of people filing for unemployment benefits in the history of the unemployment program, with an additional three million people reported filing today, bringing the total to 36.5 million people claiming unemployment benefits.