Dpeering up to take gearing up to take on this pandemic, dr. Fauci said theres progress on that front. I have been in contact with ron klain. Nothing substantive in the sense of plans but Touching Base with me, telling me we will be talking about it very soon now that the transition is in process. The relationship is so critical as the country just saw its deadliest day since may. The president elect plans to address the nation on all of this later today. Just step back and juxtapose them what the current president is doing today, going instead with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pennsylvania, to do what . Push more unproven claims of voter fraud. Were covering all of the angles this morning. We will begin the hour with rosa flores from miamidade international airport. Good morning, rosa. Despite the cdc saying do not travel, a lot of people are still doing it. Jim and poppy, they absolutely are. Millions of americans are traveling. Just take a look around. Let me show you. I thi
Welcome back. Polls in West Virginia will be closing in 30 minutes now. It was a busy day in republican politics. Marco rubio and ted cruz declined to throw their full support behind donald trump. Here they are. Hes the nominee of the Republican Party or the presumptive nominee. I respect that and accept it. Thats not going to change the reservations i have about his campaign or the policies. Its six months until the general election. There will be plenty of time for voters to make the determination who they will support. Voters will be listening to the candidates, listening to what they support and assessing them on their merit. Its amazing. You get a flash look and remind you of their entire persona. Im not saying that positively. Rubio said he plans to live up to the pledge to support the nominee, but he has serious concerns about trump. I dont know what they mean anymore. Trump said he doesnt think the party needs to be unified. Basically, we need to talk a
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Expensive suits in the closet. According to another new report, manafort was under Government Surveillance before and after the election. Cnn reporting he was wiretapped under fisa warrants. According to that report, the government snooping continued into early this year, including a period when manafort was known to talk to president donald trump. Sharon lafraniere is a reporter who broke the story tonight. She joins me by phone. Your reporting is they told manafort they planned to indict him. How common is that . Thats not that uncommon that a prosecutor would say we dont believe your story, youre not really cooperating with us. Were going to indict you. The difference here, i think,
might be, as my colleagues found out is that they threatened an imminent indictment and this was in the summer and we havent seen it. One of the themes of the piece is the approach of mueller and how it differs particularly in white color investigations. The report says its more like that mafia investiga
Airports. Yes, theyre convenient. But if other people know theres no security there. Sure. But if youre looking at the kind of simple screening you can get at these airports, i dont think we need that much screening. I got the leave there it. Im sorry. Appreciate it. Thank you both. Tune in sunday morning to state of the union with jack tapper talking to congressman ed royce and deval patrick. Thats all sunday morning, 9 00 a. M. , 12 00 p. M. Eastern. Our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. Happening now, breaking news. Mueller and the madam. Robert muellers Team Interviews the woman who earned notoriety as the Manhattan Madam. The Special Counsel apparently wants to know about her ties to roger stone. Is mueller building a case against the longtime trump ally . Russian hysteria after u. S. Intelligence chiefs paint a grim picture of continuing russian interference at u. S. Elections. Moscow responds with ridicule,
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Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. The other question is there are still missing facts, which is the phone call don junior made to the blocked number and what happened after the meeting that are going to be really important in determining whether there is, in fact, legal jeopardy. You have to remember this is one data point. Were focused on it because of don juniors testimony, his involvement of the emails that came out. And we have Public Knowledge of it. Exactly. Theres another wrinkle and this came out last week is that there may have apparently been a premeeting and one of the attendees may be rick gates, todays star witness in the manafort trial. If he was there at that meeting he has told mueller and his Team Everything about that meeting. What i see with this shift with trump is what has been going on repeatedly in trump world, which is when they sense that theres some bad news coming out, they try to change the story, admit to a little bit, but not the worst part. It star