Out front tonight, the final frenzy. We are down to the final hours of an election like weve never before seen in this country. In just 24 hours polls will be closing in several battleground states. Itll be our first early glimpse of where this historic race could be headed. And now this is it. The candidates, their running mates, their surrogates are fanned out right now across this nation. A country that is on edge tonight. And both sides are so incredibly nervous. Making their final push to get people to the polls. Joe biden is about to hold a second event tonight in pittsburgh, peb pen. President trump is speaking in trafrls city, michigan. That is his third stop of the day. And it is an extraordinary moment in history. Nearly 100 million americans have already soeted. A record. And now it all comes down to turnout tomorrow. We could be looking when you look at the percentage of our population at the greatest turnout of all time or the greatest in 150some years. M. J. Lee is with j
That the government can use. What i can tell you today is that joe biden is going to make good on his promises on the campaign trail. Also new today, nbc news confirming as soon as president elect biden takes office, he will immediately sign a number of executive orders aimed at reversing several of President Trumps unilateral actions. But today democratic senator chris coons is calling for more Coronavirus Relief now, not to wait for the next president. One way that President Trump can show some graciousness in the next 73 days during the transition is to publicly support a significant pandemic relief bill. Weve had record new cases all this past week. Its past time for us to come together and deliver the relief the American People are waiting for. And President Trump is pushing ahead with fighting the Election Results. His campaign with at least seven active electionrelated lawsuits right now including a new one filed in arizona this weekend. Republican senator mitt romney today push
In some of these lawsuits are just that, they are insanity. Its fever dreamed. Made up. Internet i cant however how many words i can use to say how crazy some of these things are. Nevertheless President Trump and his team continue to push forward these lies are state and local officials doing the lions share of standing up for the facts and the truth and Congressional Republicans essentially silent with a handful of exceptions. Take congressman Adam Kinsinger of illinois who tweeted the following. Retiring paul mitch of michigan tweeting the following. In the meantime, president elect joe biden is moving forward with building out his administration. Biden announced key economic physicals for his administration as cnns jeff zeleny reports. Reporter for the First Time Since winning the election, joe biden receiving the president s daily brief today. The one of a kind collection of classified intelligence and security threats facing the u. S. For biden and vecket Vice President elect Kama
That approach also might have given the flash frozen economy a chance to thaw out. Here is dr. Fauci this past sprint. Their attempt understandable to get back to some form of normality. Disregard to a greater plus of degree. The check points we put in our guide lieps about when it is safe to proceed and pulling back on litigation. If that occurs, theres real risk that you will trigger an outbreak that you may not be able to control. Try to get economic recovery. That prediction came in may. The president of the United States found that science inconvenient for the false reassurance and strategic down playing of the pandemic that he engaged him to help him with the election. That despite multiple admissions to bob woodward that he knew all along that the scientists were right about how lethal the pandemic was and he was down playing it on purpose. Even his political strategy failed. America voted against the misinformation on the topic of a deadly pandemic and the pry youration of poli
Undermine democracy. Rudy giuliani has lost every case so far. Continues every case. It should be over. Lets hope it is. Good morning to you. Saturday, december 12th. Im victor blackwell. Good morning, im amara walker in for christi paul. We have viewers with us from around the world. We thank you for being with us. Were hours away from another milestone moment in the covid pandemic. The fda has authorized pfizer and biontechs Coronavirus Vaccine for emergency use. Now this sets up a cdc Advisory Panel to vote today. An acceptance by the cdc would allow the vaccinations to start as early as monday. The timing could not be more critical. More than 3300 new deaths due to covid19 were reported in the u. S. On friday. More than 108,000 people in hospitals right now across the country and the u. S. Has added more than 231,000 new cases yesterday. All of these statistics are records. Lets bring in cnn Health Reporter Jaclyn Howard now to walk us through the vaccine news. Jaclyn, good morning