Aides Worried by Trump's False Claims.
LEMON: So, he is back at it with just, with less than a month to go before the election. President Trump repeating his false claims that mail-in ballots are fraudulent and corrupt. Now sources are saying aides are trying to steer him away from those false claims which are clearly debunked by fact-checking. More tonight from CNN's Pamela Brown.</s>PAMELA BROWN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Twenty-six days to go until election day and President Trump is showing no sign he will stop spreading misinformation about mail-in voting and voter fraud.</s>TRUMP: It's a corrupt system because they are sending out millions of ballots.</s>BROWN: CNN has learned that some of Trump's aides have been trying to steer him away from these baseless voter fraud arguments and instead have him talk about how the mail-in ballots could cause confusion and even chaos. But Trump continues on.</s>TRUMP: When you send out millions of ballots, when you are the sender you can send them to wherever you want. You can send them to Democrat areas or Republican areas. You don't have to send them at all.</s>BROWN: The disconnect between the candidate and the campaign also heard in poll watcher training videos created by the Trump campaign for 17 different states and reviewed by CNN.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Essentially, the key is to behave yourself and not act like a fool.</s>BROWN: Now one of the top U.S. intelligence officials on election security is acknowledging the president's false claims are being used by foreign powers. The director of National Counterintelligence and Security Center, Bill Evanina, telling Hearst Television if they see a reference made by the President of the United States, a prominent U.S. senator, a business person, someone who America looks at as a voice of reason and they believe it suits their reason, they will amplify that by a thousand to make sure that the most amount of people see it.</s>GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL): You can have the best site in the world, sometimes there's hiccups on it.</s>BROWN: A court filing from an attorney for DeSantis says extending the deadline might sabotage, perhaps irreparably Florida's efforts to maintain normalcy during this profoundly abnormal election cycle. Already more than 5.4 million Americans have cast their votes, this according to CNN and an Edison research survey of election officials in 31 states reporting voting data.</s>DAN COATS, FORMER DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: How will we do it --</s>BROWN: Now a bipartisan group that Trump's former Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, is launching a $20 million campaign in several states telling the public that the election is, quote, "safe and secure."</s>COATS: Help make sure every vote is counted, no matter who you vote for or how.</s>COATS: And we have learned tonight that DOJ is now letting prosecutors announce voter fraud investigations close to election day. This is an exception made to a 40-year-old rule that basically discouraged prosecutors from announcing such investigations close to the election as to not influence the election. But now with this exception made, any matter having to do with ballots or voting, any small matter that could be just human error can now be turned into something bigger. A press release could be sent out saying that voter fraud is being investigated. And one election be expert said for context, this is like giving the green light to influence the election. Back to you, Don.</s>LEMON: Pamela, thank you so much. There will be a stimulus. There won't be a stimulus. He won't debate. He will debate. Decision whiplash inside the White House, what is going on?