Joe biden has a big lead. You know, its interesting, the republicans are saying dont Pay Attention to the polls, we are going to win and democrats are saying, dont Pay Attention to the polls, theres a good chance well lose so, finally, something we agree on. I guess. The republican reelection strategy seems to be centered around making it as difficult as possible for us to vote. In texas, the governor, even though we are in the middle of a pandemic, banned additional mailin dropoff boxes. There is only one ballot drop box per county in texas, the biggest county in texas has almost 5 Million People one box. The governor, greg abbott, is apparently worried that if each county has more than one ballot box, people might put their ballots in them and have those ballots counted, which could lead to democracy. Then who knows what. And, of course, trump, because he needs an excuse if he loses, keeps screaming that the earlyvoting effort is fixed by the government, that he runs. Meanwhile, gues
This race for the white house. Good evening. Thanks for being with us. Im raj mathai. We are tracking several new developments at this hour. First an update from the commander in chief himself. He was up late in the hospital tweeting at 11 30 p. M. Eastern time. President trump saying, quote, going well, i think. Thank you to all. Love. Also more positive test results. Former trump adviser Kellyanne Conway says she has covid19. Conway was at the white house event last saturday where hardly anyone was wearing a mask. She was also helping the president prepare for tuesdays debate. Conway tweeting tonight, my symptoms are mild, and im feeling fine. I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with m everyone affected by thi pandemic. Thats not all. The president s Campaign Manager, bill stepien, has tested positive. In a note to his staff, stepien says he feels fine and will be managing from home. So where exactly is the president at this hour . In a private suite at the Military Hos
We have a big show today Pharrell Williams is on the show, very talented Pharrell Williams, we love him also his charity is world central kitchen, wck. Org hes doing stuff with jose andres. Thats a picture of a dinosaur, right . Or is that a duck . Dinosaur. Jimmy and then we have Millie Bobby Brown who we love and her charity is unicef. Org. Speaking of charities, by the way, a lot of people have been stepping up and i think its a a great thing so thank you, everyone, for donating and my family is donating to every charity that we mention on our show, but our friends over at tmobile wanted to do something really cool. If you text thanks to 50555 theyre going to youll donate 5 to the boys and girls club of america. Right now they have a covid19 relief fund for frontline people working on the frontline for childcare for them because theyre working all the time are you doing this one winnie yeah, are you no, im doing the princess though jimmy so, anyways, these people have to take care o
Making his debut on the national stage. Disgraced Hollywood Mega mogul Harvey Weinsteins fate is in the hands of a jury early signs on what theyre focused on plus the inspiring story of one womans rise to the big leagues. Its wednesday february 19th early today starts right now good morning im cori coffin. And im phillip mena. President trump is flexing his pardoning power for some of the nations most highprofile whitecollar criminals perhaps most notorious is Rod Blagojevich. The president commuted the sentence of the former illinois governor who was removed from office and convicted on corruption charges for trying to sell the u. S. Senate seat vacated by barack obama. The president also wiped away criminal records for several other big names including michael milken, once hailed as the king of junk bonds the disgraced financier became the face of Insider Trading in the 1980s. The president also pardon former new York Police Commissioner bernard kerik. He served four years in prison
Bowl liv is officially on. Kansas city and San Francisco rolling into the big game in miami. Two weeks of hype. Those are some of our top stories on this monday january 20th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Lets begin in hawaii with the search for answers about a violent and deadly incident in honolulu. Yeah, it took the lives of two Police Officers and three other people who were involved remain unaccounted for. The fbi is part of the investigation now into the incident, which forced the lockdown of a neighborhood as home after home caught fire. Overnight new details about a shocking rampage near one of hawaiis most scenic locations. Police say a man killed two Police Officers and sparked an inferno in this honolulu neighborhood not far from the famed diamondhead state monument. It sounded like a shotguntype gunshot. Then we heard rapidfire gunshot after that. And then after that we started seeing the smoke. Witnesses