not bad. but we re watching it go down over time. and why? let s show that to you. we ll go in here. great tool that our team made up. take you become to wednesday. wednesday at midnight. look at donald trump s lead. 548,000. and you can tick through. it grew 589. and it started to drop. why did it start to drop and so precipito precipitously? vote by mail started to be counted by the state of pennsylvania. we saw it happen in wisconsin. we saw it happen in michigan. happening in pennsylvania as well. election day vote counted first. vote by mail counted last. vote by mail because of a pandemic, because of how democrats have been voting throughout the course of this election is leaning heavily democratic. that s what put joe biden over the top in wisconsin. put joe biden over the top in michigan. and right now, take this off, has put joe biden within striking distance of about 160,000 ballots outstanding and those ballots are outstanding very heavily in democratic strongholds where j
thank you. fox news alert now. the dow rebounding after it dropped more than 500 points earlier in the day. jackie deangeles is live at the stock exchange watching this roller coaster. pretty remarkable comeback here. markets trying to claw their way back after losing 589 points in a session low this morning. this as fears on china and trade, a continuation of that story. what s so interesting is, it s not what did china do? what did the united states do? it s what did the bond market do? the bond market is considered more conservative in the sense that it s a safer investment. so when investors started putting money into bonds, the equity markets said, wait a second, do they know something we don t know? is there a reason they re being more cautious here? should we pull back, too? then you saw equities selling off. the bottom line is this. fears were there, jitters were there. they re not going to be resolved in august. traders are saying get ready for a bumpy ride.
being attacked, i m willing to accept the fact that you had nothing to do with it if only you will spend the next 589 days in office doing everything in your office and in your power as the president of the united states to protect us from future hacking once again. i m willing to play, so don t ask me now to celebrate when i m still feeling a hurt and the pain of what happened in 2016 and i m only speaking for donna. i want to hear from hillary, i want to hear from everyone else involved. bernie, everything who got burnt and beaten by the crap that we saw. donna on the point that you acknowledged that no american, trump official was involved, would you acknowledge he won the election? i will look, i played the game, i don t go back and relitigate, i will not relitigate 2016, if i want to to relitigate.
big chunks of the government ahead of christmas. but then again, this is the last time he will have control of the house and senate before 2020 and 589 a lot of voters are going to come to him saying we still need to fund to wall. he is facing a difficult political situationing whichever way he goes. let s talk about the michael flynn sentencing yesterday. so much drama surrounding this sentencing, obviously. going to nk this is push others to cooperate even more now with the special counsel s investigation considering what took place in that courtroom.? if flynn does avoid jail time, he will have gotten off better than some of the other defendants. mueller and the justice department obviously want to make very clear that that is because he s v cooperated extensively with them, that there might be other charges that they re not bringing in the
trump campaign. and paying tribute to the late, great aretha franklin. the 11th hour begins now. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i m steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 589 of the trump administration. president trump is heading into this labor day weekend and ending his summer after another very rocky week. he began it by pointedly not participating in the nation s tributes to the late senator john mccain, who of course had been a frequent trump critic. monday there was trump s reported resistance to putting out a statement by the white house. after several hours on monday,