Melber and chuck todd. Later, a sunday sitdown with the current king of country music, Chris Stapleton. Were at home in tennessee with a man who spent years in nashville as a songwriter before breaking out on his own with a lot of help and harmony from his wife, morgan. Hes completely true to himself and it out shined the sun in a lot of ways to me. I dont know if thats youre blushing, chris. Well, outshine the son. Co sun. A sunday sitdown with Chris Stapleton and his wife and harry smith. Lets begin with new questions about what President Trump may have known after a tweet from his account claiming he fired former National Security adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the fbi. Could that tweet put the president in legal jeopardy . Nbcs jeff bennett is at the white house with more for us. Jeff, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. This morning special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation appears to inch closer to the president s inner circle. President trump is defiant s
In just the last minute, a new look at one of those battleground states, North Carolina. Fresh off the president s visit, a brand new monmouth poll shows biden up just two percentage points, also within the margin of error. Today both candidates are driving their messages home in key states. Joe biden is heading, even as we speak, to kenosha, wisconsin, just days after the president s visit there. He left in the last 30 minutes and will meet with the family of jacob blake who was shot in the black seven times by police, leading to unrest and violence there. It will be joe bidens first visit to wisconsin in 674 days when he was there campaigning during the midterm elections. His message then is the same as hes giving now, restoring the character of our country. 560 miles from kenosha, President Trump is making another sweep into pennsylvania to rally supporters in latrobe near pug. Its another critical mustwin state. I want to go our reporters, nbcs mike memoli in kenosha, wisconsin whe
Up a lot of our time and attention in our coverage tonight. But we also have this race in georgia. We just got a live report from blayne alexander on the increasing pace of the count there. This is painstaking work. In some places we have live cameras where we can see the election workers going through bins and bins. Theres the nevada totals right now. They are taking bins of ballots that have been folded, in some cases folded for weeks, straightening them out, recording the votes, tallying them up, in some cases scanning them. But this is important. This is transparent. This is live closed Circuit Television of a sorting facility in nevada. So everyone can see whats going on. No high jinx, no shenanigans, no monkey business. Thats the way we like it when the prize is at stake. Steve kornacki at the board, going over all the numbers, including numbers that have been incoming tonight in the time weve been on the air, steve. Brian, thats right. The most dramatic we saw tonight was in ari
Toward a decision, we think. Joe biden taking the lead now from President Trump in pennsylvania this morning. And steadily adding to it throughout the day. After passing the president in georgia overnight, georgia is so close it likely will not be called for days or even weeks. And officials there say there will likely be a recount. If the pennsylvania lead holds up, as more votes are counted throughout the day, that state alone would give joe biden the 270 electoral votes he needs to make him the presumptive president elect. In arizonas latest release of votes, the president is not gaining on biden at the rate necessary to eventually overtake him there according to nbcs calculations. The Biden Campaign believes both arizona and nevada, where bidens lead just doubled in the last hour, will end up being blue when all the votes are counted. Nbc news decision desk says nevada is too close to call but as a result of these latest numbers says that biden is now in the lead. Nbc news has a pr
And into the white house. Here is where we stand at this moment. Biden now just 17 electoral votes away from victory with six states left on the board. Here in pennsylvania, the mailin ballots are going for biden over trump by about 80 to 20, cutting deeply into the president s lead in the state and shrinking by the hour. We expect an update from nevada at this hour where joe bidens lead in a state Hillary Clinton won is still small, less than 10,000 votes at last count. In georgia officials expect to be finishing their count this hour as joe biden continues to gain ground from President Trump with votes from heavily democratic counties in and around atlanta coming in. Arizonas secretary of state says there are still hundreds of thousands of votes to tally there and a call may not come tomorrow, with the president s team hoping there is enough republican vote in Maricopa County to jump ahead. And it could take another week to count the remaining votes in north carolina. There are 15 el