States biden prepares executive orders to undue a slew of orders and as President Trump challenges the vote. And Boris Johnson amongst the first to congratulate mr. Biden, while other leaders prepare to advance relations and biden prepares to name a covid19 task force as infections hit record daily levels while mark meadows tests positive joe biden has called for unity the win means that donald trump becomes the first one term president since george bush sr. In 1993. After four days of intense counting, biden was named the projected win winner in pennsylvania and nevada. He has so far claimed over 75 million votes, that is the most by any president ial candidate in history. Biden outlined the key issues his administration will face in the short term what is our mandate i believe it is this america has called upon us to marshal the forces of decency, of fairness and science and hope and the great battles of our time the battle to control the virus, the battle to build prosperity, the ba
Before election day on november 3rd. The candidates will face off in about three minutes. Belmont university in nashville, tennessee. You may remember the first debate. It was filled with interruptions. Quite unorthodox. The commission on president ial debates decided to change the rules a bit. The microphone of the candidate who isnt speaking will be muted for the first two minutes of each separate debate topic. Lets get you to the white house correspondent, Kristen Welker, who is moderating the debate. The Debate Commission said she will not be responsible for Fact Checking the candidates but our analysts is standing by to do just that. For realtime Fact Checking, you can go to nbc news. Com. We just saw a few moments ago, the guests have been seated. The candidates are waiting to take the stage. Lets get to you. So much anticipation here at Belmont University. You can hear a pin drop as they walk out on the stage. Watch for President Trump to go after joe bidens son hunter biden. An
[ cheers and applause ] for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions in the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to governor dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for the killer . No, i dont. I think you know i opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent. I think there are per and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We have down so in my own state. Its one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in america, why we have the lowest murder rate in any industrial state in america. But we have work to do this nation. W
Slog, which we are in right now. Slog, that is a pretty good way stalling economic recovery. Pandemic fatigue setting in. It is hard to swallow. The worlds better with covid, such a long way to go. Today we saw the pressure put on as investors left without a new stimulus deal and see a spike in cases of covid. Joe, were going to be digging into this slog. Joe it sort of feels like today is the day that its really daunting on people. This is really real. There really is a surge here. If you want to call it a different way. Kind of besides the point whether it is in europe where we are seeing hospitalizations, deaths, and of course cases on the rise. Hospitals in the u. S. Starting to see strains again i capacity. Of course, this is a major theme of the spring surge. Utah hospital starting to prepare to ration care. Reports out of texas, wisconsin, elsewhere. It seems like today was a day a lot of this set in. A lot of opening trade having a bad day. Romaine it is interesting to bring up
[background noises] [background noises] welcome everybody to todays hybrid hearing pursuant to house rules some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via webex. Some members are appearing in person and let me first remind ereveryone that pursuant to the latest guidance on the house attending physician all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Numbers werefa not wearing a may facemask will not be recognized and let me also make a few reminders for those numbers appearing in person, you will see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when you are speaking is what is known in web acts as active speaker you. A timer is visible in the room directly in front of you. Members appearing remotely i know youre all familiar with web ex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points. First, you will see each person speaking during the hearing whether in person or remote as long as yous have your web acts set t