All this after joe biden condemned the riots yesterday and blasted President Trumps response to the protests. We have team fox coverage, bret baier standing by with analysis, with more on what jacob blakes family plans today but we begin with mark merritt is also in kenosha to catch us up. In the next few minutes, expected to get an upclose look at the damage left behind after the several nights of riots here on the ground in kenosha. Most of downtown remains boarded up. What weve been going through, also a curfew that goes ineffective night to keep people passive and oclock back in their home. The president touched down a few moments ago in illinois not far from where we are here in kenosha. What he expects to see just moments ago. Thank you very much, and we are going to be making a couple of stops. We will look at some of the damage done, businesses in kenosha and just been a great state, great people and we are getting it straightened out. He is not expected to meet with anyone fro
Department he leads didnt stop there. He mocked the very notion of deferring to any career prosecutors managing cases and asserted he and he alone has all the prosecutorial discretion he said under the law all prosecutorial power is invested in the attorney general. He mocked the very notion that any career official should be free to handle cases free from interference from him. Barr said that argument in essence means the will of the most Junior Member of the organization would determine decisions, but he insisted he would not blindly defer to whatever the subordinates want to do. Heres attorney general bill barr in his own words last night on the career men and women who make up the department of justice. Name one Successful Organization or institution where the lowest level employees decision are deemed is sacros sacrosanct there arent any good leaders at the department of justice need to trust and support their subordinates that doesnt mean blindly deferring to whatever the subordi
Before the plague came in, i had it made. We had this thing won. We were so far up. We had the greatest economy ever. The dreaded second wave, now washing over the u. S. Were facing a tough circumstance right now. Well see accelerating cases heading into the next four to six weeks. Youre going to get scared, youre going to get depressed. This is a normal response to a very stressful situation. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is wednesday, october 21st. It is 6 00 here in new york. And this morning, the country needs to brace itself for what is coming. Overnight, more than 60,000 new coronavirus cases were reported. Ten states reported record hospitalizations. The nationwide hospitalization rate is now reaching levels not seen for two months. So on its face, just these figures tell us the situation in the United States is dangerous. The real problem, though, accordin
The presidency that has failed to protect this nation. If you want to be just treated with dignity and respect then im asking you tomorrow to go out and vote for your alltime favorite president. Americas heard and i believe the message should be loud and clear. Its time for donald trump to pack his bags and go home. Some of yesterdays closing arguments by donald trump and joe biden as we have arrived at election day, november 3, 2020. Nbc news data shows nearly 97 Million People have already voted, look at that. Amazing. Thats 71 of the total votes cast in 2016 and millions more are expected to vote today in an election marked by the covid pandemic. And biden will make a final push in the states that trump won. Kamala harris will make a stop in detroit and their spouses will be on the trail. Dr. Jill biden travels to tampa and st. Petersburg, florida and North Carolina and senator harris husband will appear in columbus, ohio. President trump told reporters he expects to travel to his c
Election results. This has gone on longer than any election that we can remember and im including bush v. Gore because that was already in process, there was a real legal battle happening, these are amorphous threats that theyre trying to come up with. There is no legal battle under way and so where are we this morning . Yeah, i mean, i think people really need to understand that the big difference between the 2000 election which Mitch Mcconnell mentioned yesterday and republicans are talking about a lot is that that was one state and a few hundred votes. We are talking now about republicans trying to claim fraud that they have not had any proof of in at least four states and to the tune of tens of thousands of votes. So there is absolutely no evidence for any of this and they are franticly searching for it and really seemingly coming up with absolutely nothing, but in the meantime youre seeing the republican establishment backing the president up in an effort to hold on to power for a