Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com 13 days until election day and theres breaking news on stories that could impact your vote. The director of National Intelligence saying russia and iran are interfering in the election saying irans posing a far right group, the proud boys, and sending intimidating emails to voters. That, as barack obama, the former president , campaigning tonight for joe biden in philadelphia, delivering a blistering rebuke of Donald Trumps presidency. Lets get to our breaking news on russia and iran being accused of interference. Evan perez, national analyst, Susan Hennessy and miles taylor. Great having all of you on. Thank you so much for joining. Evan, what is the latest on the attempts by russia and iran to interfere in our election . Well, don, according to the director of National Intelligence, what the iranians and russians both did was they were able to obtain Voter Registration data, which, you know, is very concerning, right . On the iranian side, according
To hold the nations second highest office. Their remarks will set the tone for how they will lead this divided country after four years of political turmoil, eight months of a deadly pandemic, and over four days of suspense as we all waited to learn how this election would end. Lets go straut to our correspondents in wilmington, delaware. What do we expect tonight . Reporter well, wolf, when joe biden addresses the nation for the first time as president elect his speech will be one focusing on unity. His advisers say that it draws from some of the major final speeches of his campaign. One that he delivered in gettysburg as well as warm springs, georgia. And this speech has been written for sometime but they have made adjustments for it as the week has progressed. Ultimately, hell talk about the need to come together and how he will be a president for all americans. Now, joe biden spent the majority of today at home with his family taking in this moment that they have worked for togethe
The breaking news coverage, nbc news projects joe biden is the president elect. At this hour joe biden has 273 electoral votes. President trump at this hour as 214. Joe bidens projected win was called after nbc news projected joe biden the winner of pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes. President elect joe biden will address the nation tonight and will be joined by Vice President elect Kamala Harris, who will be the first woman and first woman of color to be Vice President , and she has a video of the moment she called joe biden. We did it. We did it, joe. You are going to be the next president of the United States. Americans across the country are celebrating at this hour, including outside the white house where cheers erupted in support of joe biden, but President Trump is not there to hear those cheers. He is at his golf course. President elect biden released this statement saying i am honored and humbles by the trust the American People have placed in me and Vice President elect
14 Million People may miss very vital aid, the unemployment checks that would have been on their way if not for trumps delay. As you can see, Speaker Pelosi has called a vote on the extended expanded payments. Well let you know what happens. Meerbl, as people were facing reallife problems here, donald trump spent the time that he was delaying this very bill by golfing in florida. Vice president pence on vacation in vale. The backlash to all of that has been bipartisan. I understand he wants to be remembered for advocating for big checks, but the danger is hell be remembered for chaos and misery and erratic behavior. What the president is doing right now is unbelievably cruel. To play thissole switch a roogame which is like i dont get the point, unless its just to create chaos and show power and be upset because he lost the election. Chaos and punishing regular innocent americans for losing the election. That was a republican saying that. Heres a conservative outlet, im sure you know it
Getting straight to work the new president signs a blizzard of executive orders and says he received a personal note from his predecessor. The president wrote a very generous letter. Because it was private i wont talk about it until i talk to him but it was generous. The democrats take control of the senate, swearing in new members, giving President Biden a narrow majority in both chambers of congress. Hello, im laura in washington, mike is in london. President biden has already been hard at work in the oval office. On his first day, joe biden signed i7 executive actions, 15 executive orders, some of which will reverse decisions made by his predecessor, former President Trump. The executive actions will make changes to the us response to the covid i9 pandemic and try to ease some of the financial strain placed on americans resulting from the pandemic. But other executive actions directly target and undo mr trumps actions on the environment, immigration, the us census, and regulatory ch