A somber fairwell. Youve been watching the moving burial ceremony for late congressman and civil rights icon john lewis in atlanta, georgia. Lewis passed away nearly two weeks ago. He was 80 years old. His life and legacy were celebrated and honored in a poignant Memorial Service that featured remembrances from three former u. S. President s including president obama well have more on lewiss final fairwell in the show. Welcome to the lead. With the economy contracting at devastating levels blistering criticism for his Pandemic Response President Trump is returning to hall mark, seeds of doubt in the integrity of the election. You might remember he tried to do this before in the 2016 election. Today the president claimed with no evidence that the november election will be rigged. He also floated delaying the election, though we should be Crystal Clear on this point. President trump does not have the authority to delay the election. Now, after raising questions about those who will attem
A position they refuse to respect the will of the people, refused to respect the rule of law and refused to honor our constitution. So this morning some republicans are admitting what theyve known for weeks, that biden will be president in 36 days. But Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is not one of them. President trump is still trying to distract from his loss and announcing attorney general bill barrs resignation just moments after the final Electoral College vote. All right. Such remarkable images of americans receiving the coronavirus vaccine. More on track to arrive this morning. Well watch some be administered shortly. Modernas vaccine introduced in days. A big deal and getting new data about this vaccine this morning. Horrifying march of the pandemic continues a record 110,000 americans are hospitalized. Its so important when you keep seeing the hospitalization go up. It means we havent turned any kind of corner and it means we can expect death to continue to rise over the
Video from inside the capitol siege that provides a glimpse into the trumpinspired movement that has the nation on high alert. This video is disturbing and we have not censored the language. Theres a [ bleep ] million of us out there. Let the people in. [ yelling ] [ chanting treason ] defend your constitution, defend your liberty. [ chanting ] [ banging ] 1776. Antifa. Guess what. America showed up wheres the rest . [ indiscernible ] where the [ bleep ] are they . While were here, we might as well set up a government. Hey, lets take a seat, people. Nancy pelosi. Lets vote on some [ bleep ]. This is our house. Its our chair. It belongs to the Vice President of the United States. Its not our chair. Look, i love you guys, youre brothers, but we cant be disrespectful. They can steal an election, but we cant sit in our chairs . No. Were not putting up with that either. Its a pr war. We cant lose the war. Were better than that. Information operation. You cant do it. Lets get a snap of that.
Now so rapidly it could soon take over the sars outbreak of 2003. The infection rate going up dally. Nearly 35,000 people now nearly have the virus, the vast majority still in china. Well over 300 cases of the coronavirus have now been documented, though, outside of Mainland China. Fears of it spreading have led to the quarantine of two cruise ships. One in hong kong, the other in japan. A third ship stranded at sea after being turned away from several asian ports, and yet another ship under scrutiny docked in new jersey. But it is the ship anchored in yokohama harbor, the diamond princess, where the greatest concentration of the virus has been found outside of china. At least 64 people on the ship testing positive so far. Cnns matt riversisinyokohama for us. Bring us uptodate and tell us about these latest deaths ap, an american and japanese citizen. Reporter yeah, michael, thats the late breaking news. And frankly we dont know a ton about these two individual cases other than theyre
Jake reese, day to feel alive good morning, im joy reid at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Todays headline in president ial politics comes courtesy of a new poll released just this morning. It shows in the democratic and republican races, the candidates polling highest in terms of popularity are not the candidates who are on top. Senator Bernie Sanders and Governor John Kasich are the only two president ial candidates with net positive ratings among register voters. Though no one in the poll manages to get to 50 . Senator sanders is rated at 45 positive to tlish negative. Compare that to frontrunner Hillary Clinton who has a 56 negative rating and just 32 positive. Clinton does fare better than donald trump, however. Heats gets a thumbs down from 65 of those polled. Senator ted cruz has rated negatively by 49 of registered voters while kasich is bobbing just above the waves at 31 up, 19 down, which also gives you an idea of how little known kasich still is. Vox. Com tracked which