Earlier, an echo of the latest incidents made its way to the streets of our capital, the get your knee off our nexts protests, the day that 57 years earlier dr. Martin luther king jr. Led the first march on washington. Jacob blakes father wasin the community and the divide facing the nation which hasnt changed enough in 60 years. There are two systems of justice in the United States. Theres a white system and theres a black system. The black system aint doing so well. But were going to stand up every black person in the United States is going to stand up were tired im tired of looking at cameras and seeing these young black and brown people suffer now, the stark contrast between jacob blake sr. That he spoke of was never more evident. Yesterday 17yearold Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with felony murder for killing two protesters as part of a shooting spree in wisconsin. On friday, he waived his initial Court Appearance at an extradition hearing in illinois. His Legal Team Won a postpo p
President trump from holding very large gatherings and defying the White House Coronavirus task force. He held this rally in iowa in front of thousands of people, a largely unmasked crowd. In iowa, one in five people tested are now testing positive for the virus. Just think about that for a second. Dr. Fauci is basically telling us we might have to cancel thanksgiving, but the president s appearing with thousands of people in a packed rally. Just think about that. More than 14 million americans have already cast their ballots. We saw another day of very long lines for early voting across the country. Former president barack obama speaking out in a new interview about President Trump and joe biden. The former president expected to hit the campaign trail for biden next week. Lets begin, though, with the pandemic. Cnn chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta joins me now. Sanjay, maybe its because you trained me, its the hospitalization numbers that we have seen every morning that hav
Night. They deserve a round of applause. Yeah, certainly do. Weve seen a steady stream of updates from pennsylvania this evening, dramatically shrinking Donald Trumps lead for joe biden. A win in pennsylvania, folks, that would push him over the 270 threshold, making him president elect. In georgia, a very close race, somehow getting even closer by the hour. Joe biden is now trailing donald trump by a mere 463 votes. Steve kornacki, back with us at the big board to give us an update. We had a moment there, a moment. We thought it was philadelphia. It actually turned out to be georgia that is delivering that closer call at this hour, steve. Yeah, no, thats right. Weve been getting more regular updates in these overnight hours from georgia, where, again, you just put it up there, but we can see it again. 463 votes. Democrats have been trying to win a president ial election in georgia and havent since 1992. This is as close as theyve come since then, within 463 votes of getting to the lea
As midfebruary. The cdc has already warned that the new and more contagious covid19 variant will likely cause another major surge by march. President biden has unveiled what i calls a full scale wartime effort to combat and defeat the disease. And he is not afraid to tell the American People the truth about what were inagainst. In the next few months, masks, not vaccinations, are the single best defense that we have against covid19. Medical experts say that by Wearing Masks from now until april, we will save more than 50,000 lives. Ill always level with you. I promise you. And the brutal truth is that things will get worse the next several months before they get better. We didnt get into this mess overnight, it will take time for us to turn things around. But we also have to act now, now, with urgency and unity as the United States of america. Meanwhile the failed former president has spoken publicly for the First Time Since fleeing to florida telling the Washington Examiner reporter w
Thats what they want, but thats what they want. Whats needed now is not more stoking of fear and division. We need to bring Law Enforcement and communities closer together, not to drive them apart. Nobody is more opposed to the small number of bad Police Officers and you have them. Theyre a very tiny i use the word tiny. Its a very small percentage, but you have them. The order he signed today sets up a database to track misconduct. It promotes wider use of Mental Health resources among forces and provides funding as an incentive to raise the standards for use of force. It also addresses one of the more controversial issues, and thats police use of choke holds. As part of this new credentialing process, choke holds will be banned except if an officers life is at risk. That caveat there, if an officers life is at risk, is key because oftentime its the word of the officer and because the order stops short of any kind of outright ban on choke holds, which many say needs to be part of any