Most important election weve ever had. Early voting has already begun. Dont wait. Vote. Its safe. Go out and vote. He also didnt bring up his frequent and baseless assertions that mail ballots are rife with fraud and will cost him the election. But after the rally, he tweeted, quote, cheating on unsolicited ballots by political hacks, or anyone else, is against the law. We are closely watching. The controversy over trumps comments on the transfer of power erupted yesterday when he answered this question during a press briefing. Win, lose, or draw in this election, will you commit here today for a peaceful transferral of power after the election . There has been rioting in many cities across this country, in your socalled red and blue states. Will you commit to making sure there is a peaceful transferral of power after the election . Were going to have to see what happens. You know that. Ive been complaining very strongly about the ballots, and the ballots are a disaster. I understand t
Preexisting conditions will be continued to be covered. This is about whether or not a woman can be charged more for the same procedure as a man. This is about Peoples Health care in the middle of a pandemic. This all comes as senators on capitol hill are preparing for quite a battle over barretts confirmation. One of the things i want to ask her is will she recuse herself, because if she does not in terms of any election issues that come before us, because if she does not recuse herself, i fear that the court will be further delegitimized. I think she should step forward and say shell recuse herself from any election contest involving this president. This is basically just adding more flames, fanning the flames of division in a country thats already divided. Its something i would think and hope we would come to our senses and say, hey, cant we wait until after the election . A new poll from the New York Times and Sienna College shows a majority of americans think whoever wins the elec
Their own polls cratering the senators who want you to forget theyre on the trump train. Senator john cornyn, been with me from the very beginning. As early voting starts in florida, what you can do to ensure your vote is actually counted and all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes and we are just over two weeks from the election or the end of the election or the end of the voting, may not be the end of the election, and the situation with the virus is just very bad and getting worse. Theres no other way to say it. Cases are spiking with new daily cases averaging more than 57,000 a day. Here is the even more worrying thing, hospitalizations, that key metric that doesnt depend on how much testing we are, we know how many people are in hospitals. That is trending up as well. It keeps climbing. 38,000 now currently hospitalized. Hospitals in some areas at or near capacity. Even with advances in treatment we are still, still losing more than 700 americans on ave
And this comes as trump faces growing criticism for holding those packed rallies with little to no masks or social distancing. This as coronavirus cases are spiking in several states. Today the president s daughterinlaw defending his actio actions in downplaying the severity of the virus. The reality is i go there are more than 220,000 dead americans, laura. Theres literally no objective Health Expert who thinks that the president has done a good job with this pandemic. We have the highest death rate thats not true. In the entire world. Heres what ill tell you. We are coming out of it. We are seen the death rate decrease dramatically. We also have a Huge Population whenever you want to compare us to canada, compare us to europe. Were doing actually much better than europe is. No, were not. Not only with the virus but financially. We are. These are numbers. You can go look them up. I have. And meantime, Pete Buttigieg making the case for biden today saying he is the candidate who can un
Absurdity of life and the responsibility of what actually should be on television. And it really pays to be able to talk to those colleagues during the course of the day like today. Thanks for joining us this hour. We are 15 days out from the president ial election. There may or may not be a final president ial debate this week. The president today openly mused about how he could illegal extort bribes in the form of Campaign Donations from Big Companies who want favors from his administration. The president today openly in front of a crowd of people suggesting that exxon mobile might want a couple controversial permits and he might green light those permits as president in exchange for exxon spending 25 million to boost his campaign. Exxon later in the day had to tweet publicly to let everybody know that theyre not actually planning on doing this. This was just the president musing out loud hypothetically about him committing that crime. He didnt actually already commit it, nor did exx