Me next to discuss. Final countdown. Nine days left to vote, polls favorite joe dieden but President Trump says the energy is by him. Has biden got people excited enough to get out and vote . Ill speak with congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez ahead. Im jake tapper in washington. Nine days until lex day and today a worrisome late october surprise. A new coronavirus outbreak tied to the white house and hitting Vice President pences inner circle. Mark short has now tested possible swells marty oaks and one other member of pences white house staff according to an official. Vice president pence is the head of the Coronavirus Task force and close contact of mark shorts. But according to the white house, the Vice President has tested negative for the virus and choosing to stay on the campaign trail. Here he is yesterday campaigning without a mask. The white house says its okay for him to be out there because he is quote, an essential worker but not yet clear how campaigning is essential wor
In key battleground states with biden hoping to win back some of the states that went red in 2016. In michigan biden laid out his vision for a divided country where the cboe pandemic has infected more than 9 Million People and killed more than 230,000 people. To move ahead with plans to count mailin ballots received after election day. Listen here. This is a terrible thing that theyve done to our country. And thats the United States Supreme Court im talking about. That is a terrible political horrible decision they made. Were going to be waiting november 3rd and its going to come and go and were not going to know. Everybody knows who donald trump is. Lets show him who we are. We choose hope over fear. We choose unity over division. We choose science over fiction. And, yes, we choose truth over lie after lie after lie after lie. Joe biden was joined by some democratic star power on saturday. Political correspondent Arlette Saenz is in michigan with more on that. But first, another trump
Pennsylvania, too early to call. Lets get comfortable here. In ohio, while were at it, too early to call. Michigan, too early to call. Georgia, too early to call. North carolina, too early to call. Arizona, too early to call. Wisconsin, are you figuring out a trend here . Too early to call. Minnesota, too early to call. New hampshire, too early, but a biden lead as our decision guest desk sees it. Heres the map to 270. This is how the colors lay out across the country. You see the outlier colorado. On the senate side, of course, that was a flip on the democrats. Let talk about senate races. Having just closed, this is a big one. You see how much whopping vote is in there. Obviously too early to call. Greenfield ernst race. In montana, bullock danes, too early to call. The democrats need three seats to gain control. Steve kornacki, do you have any numbers on turnout tonight . Well, were looking at numbers, you know, across the board, significantly higher than 2016. Were also just trying
In the way of the transition, the General Services administration, says it needs another week before briefing top lawmakers on this delay. Well get reaction from the chair of the subcommittee that oversees the gsa, mike quigley. All of this as the coronavirus dri drives nearly two straight weeks of record hospitalizations. And former president obama is warning the Current Administration might hamper vaccine distribution. Look, it has not been made easier by the fact that weve had a incoherent federal communications strategy, to say the least, when it comes to science and the whole science around covid. Lets begin on this monday with the latest on the transfer of power. Joining us now, nbc news political reporter, ali vitali whos with the biden team in wilmington, delaware. Nbc news political reporter monica alba whos near the white house. Politico Senior Writer and playbook coauthor, jake sherman. Great to have all of you here. So, monica, republicans like ohio start rob portman starte
Four military contractors who worked for blackwater and were all convicted of killing 14 unarmed iraqi civilians in baghdad in 07. The dead included two children. Just minutes after those pardons were announced trump then posted a video in which he seemed to threaten to veto the massive 900 billion covid relief bill that Congress Just passed 24 hours ago. Throughout the summer democrats cruelly blocked covid relief legislation in an effort to advance their extreme left wing agenda and influence the election. The bill they are now planning to send back to my desk is much different than anticipated. It really is a disgrace. Its called the covid relief bill, but it has almost nothing to do with covid. I am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low 600 to 2,000 or 4,000 for a couple. Im also asking congress to immediately get rid of the wasteful and unnecessary items from this legislation and to send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to