They will be hearing from their constituents, because this hits home. Coming up i will talk to congresswoman Brenda Lawrence about all of this. President trump continuing his offensive against mailin voting today and also, keeping up his attacks against his democratic rivals ahead of his republican convention. One thing the president is not tweeting about, the arrest of his onetime top political advisor. Steve bannon vowing to fight back against charges that he defraughted those who donated to a quote charity aiming to help build the president s all. More on that story ahead. I we begin on capitol hill where fanse pelosiy earlier this afternoon held a press conference overonion going deliberations on post Office Funding and halting changes by the postmaster through the ends of the year. Leeanne, which have we learned from the House Speaker today . We know this issue of the post service fund asking the post service . Rent ral has become deeply political and steeped in Election Year poli
Vice President Joe Biden who paused campaigning for the day visited the 9 11 memorial where he and the current Vice President had a rare moment of unity dpreeting each other, and their wives did the same. Donald trump marked the occasion but continued his day largely as if it were business as usual. Now, as we grieve the lost souls of 9 11 we continue to grapple with the devastating impact of the covid19 pandemic. To date 193,000 americans have died the anniversary of the 9 11 terror attacks and pandemics remind us there are moments when president s are called upon to lead this nation through trying times. Some have done it better than others, and at this time the current president , donald trump, has by every conceivable measure been an utter failure, full stop, with it comes to protecting americans and leading during times of crisis. Now, this week we learned that trump admitted to playing down the threat of the virus even though he knew it was deadly. As we were learning about that
Story of the current president has been about Donald Trumps buffoonery, lies, racism, criminality. But also about the Republican Party enabling his assault on the presidency and our democratic systems. Donald trumps unprecedented second impeachment trial is heading to the senate. And republican senators face a decision that will define them and their party for generations. Whether or not they will convict a president who spent months pouring gasoline on a lie that whipped up a lynch mob to attack the u. S. Capitol with the intent to hard, kidnap or kill members of congress and even trumps own Vice President. Senate republican leader mitch mcxonl refusing to disrupt his vacation to bring the senate to bring the senate back immediately to put trump on trial. A move that allows trump to serve out the remainder of his term. Theyll need 17 republican senators to break ranks and convict trump. Republican senator Lisa Murkowski who called on trump to resign issued a statement saying the house
Continue to flag. Will the new plan joe biden announced be enough to make a difference . All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris haste. Six days from now, joe biden will be sworn in as president in a capital that right now looks like an occupied city. 20,000. 20,000 National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to washington, d. C. Ahead of the inauguration. Thousands are already there patrolling the streets, sleeping in the halls of congress, which remains on high alert in the wake of the violent attack a week ago incited by the current twiceimpeached president. The incoming president , joe biden, spoke to the nation just a short while ago as he prepares to inherit a nation in the midst of three distinct but intertwined crises. First, of course, the pandemic. Which is arguably the worst it has ever been. We have lost more than 40,000 americans so far this year, in 2021, just in the last 14 days. We hit a Record Number of deaths this week. We are cruising at 2
Dan coats, kirstjen nielsen, National Security advisor john bolton and the head of u. S. Cybercommand and director of the nsa each delivered stark warnings about ongoing Election Interference donald trump was on stage at a rally in pennsylvania calling the entire investigation into russias effort to attack our elections a hoax. In helsinki, i had a great meeting with putin. We discussed everything. I had a great meeting. As i have said consistently, russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day. But i got along great with putin, and everybody said, wow, that was a great. The russians are looking for every opportunity regardless of party, regardless of whether or not it applies to the election to continue their pervasive efforts to undermine our
fundamental values. Now we are being hindered by the russian hoax. Its a hoax. Our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. If i get along with vladimir putin, thats a good