Prosecutors to go ahead and investigate what he is calling vote irregularities e despite a lack of evidence of any major widespread voting irregularit s irregularities. Now the biden team says theyre mulling legal action as they lose time to get things done. John harwood and jessica dean are us. The president on top of this just fired his defense secretary now theres concern of what may happen to the head of the fbi and cia. Reporter thats right. The interference the president is conducting with the normal transition of power which every Outgoing Administration has cooperated with is only part of it. We all remember after the acquittal in the Senate Impeachment trial, the president went on a purge of officials who told the truth about his conduct during the impeachment process now he has embarked on a similar purge against officials who stood up against attempts to corrupt their agencies. He fired mark esper, the defense secretary yesterday. He had resisted the president s attempts to
Good evening once again. Day 1,399 of the Trump Administration, 63 days until the inauguration, 15 days since the president ial election, and 11 days since joe biden was declared the winner of the race. Yes, we have a president who refuses to concede. He loses his power of office at noon on january 20th, the rest of it is politicals and paperwork. It is all happening against this god awful and uncontrolled pandemic that today reached another awful milestone. The death toll today went over a quarter million americans. People with us at the start of 2020 wont be here to see another new years eve. This map shows just how widespread the virus is. Where the cases are. This was put out by the government. Take a moment. Look at the area of red. Find where you live and friends and family live. This is a snapshot of our country as of tonight. Also, as of this evening there are nearly 80,000 americans hospitalized with covid19. That is another alltime high. Today was another day of radio silence
Paperwork, and its all happening against this godawful and uncontrolled pandemic that again today reached another awful milestone. The death toll went over a quarter of a million americans, people who were with us at the start of 2020 will not be here to see another new years eve. This map shows how widespread the virus is, where the cases are. This was put out by the government. Take a moment, look at the area of red. Find where you live, where your friends and family live. This is a snapshot of our country as of tonight. Also as of this evening, there are nearly 80,000 americans hospitalized with covid19, another alltime high. Today was another day of radio silence from the president , as he stayed hunkered down in the white house, he continues to watch tv and remains a constant presence on social media, spreading more falsehoods, disinformation about joe bidens election victory. We did hear from trumps press secretary, who insists the president is focused on his job. The president s
Shawn. The issue of travel advisory in california as that becomes the second state to hit more than 1 million confirmed infections. More than a thousand nurses are threatening to go on strike. Icu beds gone in some states, and governors who for nine months resisted declaring a mask mandate, well, now they are saying wear a mask. Charles watson live in atlanta with the very latest. Charles . Reporter hey, eric. With the u. S. Averaging about 140,000 daily new cases in the last week alone, states are increasingly pushing lockdowns. The governors of california, oregon and washington issued joint travel advisories on friday in an effort to get a handle on surging cases in those three states. What that means is that if you travel to any of those states, youll be asked to selfquarantine for 14 days. Theyre also asking resident to avoided all nonessential travel out of state and limit interactions to only people who live in their homes. The causes are no longer flat, the cases are rising, and
Administrations Public Health team. Former obama certainly vivek murthy has been asked to reprise his role, according to the washington post. And the president elect asked dr. Anthony fauci to stay on in his current position, in addition to an expanded role as the chief medical adviser. The Biden White House will need all the help that it can get. 200,000 americans are testing positive for the virus every single day. 3,000 are dying from it. Those numbers are only getting worse in the coming weeks. And even the muchtouted silver lining, an imminent vaccine, comes with massive challenges. A new report from nbc news outlines how unprepared the Trump White House is for the logistics of actually distributing this vaccine. And how much thats going to challenge the incoming administration, which will inherit the burden of getting the majority of americans vaccinated. As one former hhs official told nbc news quote, this, the team is going to have an amazing challenge of trying to get the publ