Days away until the most important election of your lifetime. Six swing state residents talk to me how they plan to vote and ultimately agree on just one thing. We do have a crisis of leadership and were living in a time where calls for strong leadership. And two hours of analysis about the candidates and the issues. Plus, Rachel Maddow and the press secretary for President Trumps Reelection Campaign both join me live. Velshi starts now. Good morning to you. It is sunday, july 26th. 100 days out from election day. Im ali velshi live on the ground in bethlehem, pennsylvania, the site of the old bethlehem steel corporation. Plants at this site started producing steel 147 years ago in 1873. Grew to become the second largest steel manufacturer in the nation, producing steel for the golden gate bridge, much of the manhattan skyline, Madison Square garden and ships and artillery for both world wars. This plant ran 24 hours a day employing more than 30,000 people in its heyday. This november
Good saturday morning. Its october 10th. Im lindsey reiser. And im Candice Gibson live from msnbc World Headquarters in new york. With 22 days until the election and hours away from the president s first inperson event since his covid19 diagnosis. That event this afternoon at the white house, actually just five days after he left the hospital. And this all comes amid new fallout from that september 26th rose garden ceremony. Youre looking at video of it right now. Nearly a dozen people who attended this event contracted coronavirus. You can see here everybody sitting closely together, very few masks. And dr. Anthony fauci declaring it officially a superspreader event. Nbcs josh lebanon is joining us from the white house. Tell us what we know about this event. Im told thousands of people have been invited. Reporter good morning, kendis. One week ago, when i spoke to you and lindsey at this very same time, i was standing outside of a hospital, where the president was convalescing from th
Blame the pandemic. Either theyre very happy with what he was saying or somebody was just trying to turn right. A lot of hugging yesterday. As we say good morning, it is sunday, october 25th. Im kendis gibson. And im lindsey reiser. Were happy to have you here. Were going to new york, where the president is holding a rally today. And the breaking news of Vice President pences advisers testing positive. What more do we know . Of course, guys, Vice President mike pence is the head of the Coronavirus White House Task force. Hes been the one leading these weekly meetings, often talking to agency heads about Wearing Masks or social distancing but we are learning an outbreak is among his closest aides. His chief of staff, marc swartz, who went on air force 2 with him constantly, tested positive after having been with the Vice President all week. And marty oak, political adviser, hasnt been on the trail about a week but they had been with the Vice President as they were preparing for that deb
The president is blaming the violence that we saw here in washington last night on what he calls antifa scum, issuing several tweets in the last 12 hours or so, in which he seemed to encourage the police here to crack down violently on those demonstrators. President trump tweeting, d. C. Police, get going, do your job and dont hold back. Now, we should point out, of the arrests that we know about from last night, at least 20 arrests, we dont know yet whether those were people who were there supporting President Trump or opposing him and supporting president elect biden. So unclear whether the president s comments there are really accurate. But weve seen the president want to use these rallies, despite the fact that some of them did turn violent, to try to be a demonstration of the fact that he still enjoys a really strong base of support, including people who want to cheer him on in this legal contest to try to overturn the results of the election, despite what has already happened wit
And were already halfway through 2020 as well. Thats true. Just getting saturday morning. Good morning, im cori coffin. Im candice gibson. Thank you for being with us. Lets say good morning to orlando. Okay. So this is a traffic cam on a saturday morning. What more do you expect . But that said, the nba just finalized its plans to restart its season right there late next month at disney world. There have been some players who have tested positive for covid19 but they have their own sort of ordeal and plans to make sure that all of the players are safe. The nba says a new game schedule will come with Strict Health and safety measures. 16 players testing positive. We begin with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic as well. A troubling surge in new cases, more than half the states in the country are seeing the increases, at least five states reported daily records of new infections on friday. That includes florida, georgia, tennessee, idaho and utah. All seeing their highest number of c