Powering smarter savings. Powering possibilities. Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. Ten tuesdays, 70 days to a Flashing Red Crossroads in our shared North American future. Both president ial campaigns this afternoon on pace with whats going to be a dead sprint to election day. Vice president Kamala Harris and her running mate tim walz at this hour preparing for what will be their tickets First Campaign stop since they formally accepted their partys nomination. A Bus Tour Of Georgia starting tomorrow. Meanwhile with Donald Trumps running mate jd vance campaigning in michigan and indiana, that campaign is adding new voices. An interesting voice. Nbc news adviser confirming that both robert f. Kennedy jr. And gabby is moving with trump. Lets go to North Carolina voters in ten days. Four days after that, the first president ial debate between trump and harris, which now appears to be all systems go. At least right now, according to donald trump. Disgraced expresident a little more than a
Conflict, and five years on, france remembers the victims of one of the worst atrocities in its history. 130 people were killed when islamist militants went on a killing spree in paris. Well meet one of the survivors. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. U. S. President donald trump is due to speak at the white house in about an hour to give an update on efforts to combat the Coronavirus Vaccine. These would be his first comments since last week his first Public Comments since last week when he repeated his refusal to acknowledge the outcome of the election. A court in the state of michigan refused his request to delay certifying results. The president s team is continuing to contest the election outcome. Donald trump in a bad mood. His only official appearance this week honoring the dead at Arlington National cemetery outside washington, d. C. No comment, but his years long tweet storm continued. His most senior officials refused to concede anything. There will be a smooth transitio
Were finally here in the last few days before tuesday, november 3, election day. Voy rs have submitted earl ballots in Record Numbers with roughly 80 million votes already cast. In the nearly 4 years since President Trump took office, regulationhave been rolled back, immigration has been curtailed, and the american jubecial system has come significantly more conservative. This week, Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in as the new a supreme urjustice and a monday night ceremony on the whithouse lawn. But according to polls him her confirmation has not yet proven to be a game changer for mocratic rival joe biden is leading in several critical states and has raised more money. Joining me now by skype from San Francisco, our turn on politics and government senior politics and government kqed correspondent marisa lagos, thank you for joining us. Scott, we just recorded our the nation, the california has silver avoided a spik we expected the pandemic was going to increase early ngmail vobut the nu
Of the tensions, unrest, on election day, and in the immediate aftermath. I do know that our f. B. I. Has been very focused on this issue. Theyve set up relationships with state Election Officials to monitor what we see across various different states. In the event there is trouble, our governors do have the National Guard to preserve the peace. But, margaret, none of this discussion should discourage people from participating in voting and exercising their right and responsibility to vote. Im encouraged that more than 90 million americans have already cast their ballots. Which if you do the math, is the equivalent of the entire 1996 president ial election. I remain optimistic, but we cannot discount the possibility of some trouble or unanticipated events brennan and it is the job of Law Enforcement to worry about these pockets. Possibilities. Yotheyre going to be briefing the media every few hours on election day about any interference. How do you assess the security of this election
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