The major league defeat for President Trump and the possible signs of acceptance from him that he lost the election now even referring to a Biden Administration. Our nbc news investigation, new record covid outbreaks in Nursing Homes whats fueling the surge . Are they more prepared now than in the spring from the nfl to the ncaa, how bigtime college and pro sports are navigating new infections in their ranks. Will santa and all the presents make it this year . Dr. Fauci weighs in for all those Kids Big And Small who are wondering. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As Public Health officials brace for the echo of Covid Infections they worry will follow a boom in holiday travel, the nations hospitals could hardly be more vulnerable tonight hospitalizations from the current wave of covid cases are setting new records. Icus finding whatever spaces they can to handle the spillover of very sick patients and now as millions get ready to travel home from thanksgiving, ho
news central. inside politics starts now. well thom to inside politics. i m dana bash. it is a very busy day in our newsroom s capital. any moment, president biden will speak on the white house on the bipartisan border bill that s on the brink of collapse. the bill includes a host of tough new border policies that the president says he d sign, but republicans are ready to torpedo it after donald trump came out against it. we ll bring it to you live. also this hour, i ll speak to the republican who negotiated that deal. but first, a big court defeat for donald trump. a d.c. appeals court has unanimously rejected trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election subversion case. cnn s paula reid has been digging through the decision. what stands out to you about the way these judges made the decision? reporter: its outcome was very much expected. he s already lost on this issue, this argument that, as president, he should enjoy immunity for things he d
united states and around the world. it is wednesday, october 19th. i m christine romans. we should hopefully know the winners of the mid-term election. the latest cnn polling shows the economy and inflation are the top issues for voters. later today president biden will announce the sale of 15 million barrels of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. that will happen in december. mr. biden s aim is to ease gas prices. the move fulfills the administration s decision back in march to release a total of 180 million barrels from the reserve over a six-month period. we get more now from cnn s phil mattingly. reporter: president biden and his top economic officials have for several months made trying to do something, anything to dampen skyrocketing gas prices a central priority, if not the top priority both politically and economically for the administration. over the course of the summer they had a pretty good run, three months of consecutive drops. a run that was put into qu
question what will pennsylvania voters think of john fetterman s debate performance? the senate race showdown produced big policy clashes between the two. it was also an hour long look at fetterman s ongoing recovery from a stroke. i m also having to talk about something called the oz rule that if he s on tv, he s lying. he didn t pay for his own house. he got it for a dollar from his sister and he hasn t been able to earn a living on his own. plus, 13 days out, president biden tries another take at a closing message. new steps announced today he says will help ease the pain of inflation. a warning, republican control of congress, the president says, will bring government shutdowns and chaos, the camera captures a call between donald trump and blake masters. the former president s advice, peddle election lies at every turn. if they say how is your family, say the election was rigged and stolen. you lose if you go soft. you ll lose that base. i m not going soft. up
soon as we get that adds up we re gonna go to. it mike, i will start to the control room for second. we think the president is coming out now. all right. got it, as soon as he comes out it to. we do in a move on to the general six hearings. this hour we re taking an in-depth look at this weeks generous committee hearing. potentially the final one. members made it clear in this hearing, in case it wasn t, before this all boils down to one individual. the central cause of january 6th was one man. donald trump. who many others followed. that none of this would ve happened without him. he was personally substantially vault in all of it they laid out in meticulous detail a plan for the former president began long before january six, even long before election day 2020. . in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump s former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won th