Consequences across the country. Plus the president should pardon himself, his family, officials and anybody who has been targeted. Who is angling for a pardon and biden blitz in january to get anything actually done. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes, this is the front page of the New York Times today. Friday, december 4th, not happy, ominous in many ways but Something Interesting about it. Look at it, no stories specifically about donald trump on it. No picture of the president. That said, in many ways this front page is all about donald trump and the disasters hes brought upon us. Red chart of daily covid deaths is all about donald trump. Yesterday United States recorded more deaths than any other day in the pandemic, according to covid tracking project, another 2,500 today, just shy of yesterdays record and theres time left in the day. With the increasing Public Health crisis theres increasing desperation on the economic front. Without congressiona
Designed was to give a lot of power to a little group of people. That and what biden can do on his own to ensure we never have a year like 2020 again when all in starts right now. Joe biden won the presidency decisively and he did it in a country that is nearly as polarized as it has ever been. We know basically the fine vote count. Bidens margin victory is over 7 million votes. 4. 5 points in the popular vote. It a larger margin than barack obama in 2012. Obama was an incumbent and larger than George W Bushs win in 2004. Get this, that 51. 3 its the highest vote share of any candidate challenging a sitting incumbent since fdrs win over Herbert Hoover and thats because it is hard to beat incumbents, so hard four elected president s have lost in the last 100 years. The country rejected donald trump. In the weeks since Election Night weve been on this roller coaster ride. The polls are off again and trump look like he might pull it out on Election Night and the long drawn out counting pr
The way the senate was designed was to give a lot of power to a little group of people. All that and what biden can do on his own to ensure we never have a year like 2020 again. All in starts right now. Joe biden won the presidency decisively, and he did it in a country that is nearly as polarized as it has ever been. Now basically the final vote. Bidens margin of victory over 7 million votes. 4. 5 points in the popular vote. A larger margin of victory than Barack Obamas win over mitt romney in 2012. Obama was the incumbent and its larger than george w. Bushs win over john kerry. An incumbent beating a challenger. Get that, that 51. 3 , its the highest vote share of any candidate challenging the incumbent since 1932. It is hard to beat incumbent. So hard that only four elected president s have lost. The country rejected donald trump. In the weeks since Election Night weve been on this roller coaster ride. The polls are off again. And then of course there was the long, drawn out countin
More states to chaung the balance of power. The way the senate was designed was to give a lot of pow tore a little group of people. All that and what biden can do on his own to ensure we never have a year like 2020 again. All in starts right now. Joe biden won the presidency decisively, and he did it in a country that is nearly as polarized as it has ever been. Were now basically the final vote, 7 million votes margin of victory for biden, larger than obama over romney. Obama was the incumbent and its larger than george w. Bushs win over john kerry in 2004, again an incumbent beating a challenger. That 51. 3 , its the highest vote share of any candidate challenging the sitting incumbent since fdrs win over Herbert Hoover back in 1932. And thats because its hard to beat incumbents. Only four elected president s have lost in the last hundred years. But the country rejected donald trump. In the weeks since Election Night weve been on a roller coaster ride. The polls were off again and it
House sergeant at arms, and he complied with that demand, and he has now resigned. The Senate Sergeant at arms is responsible for security concerns at the u. S. Senate. The majority leader in the senate, of course, is republican mitch mcconnell. Just in the last hour, he too asked for the resignation of the Senate Sergeant at arms, who then resigned immediately. Senator chuck schumer, who is the Democratic Senate leader, he had said earlier today that if the Senate Sergeant at arms didnt resign by the time schumer and the democrats take over with the majority two weeks from now, schumer said that he would fire the Senate Sergeant at arms on day one. Well, now mcconnell has asked for that resignation, and the Senate Sergeant at arms has resigned effective immediately. Speaker pelosi today also called for the resignation of the head of the u. S. Capitol police. After some sort of unexplained dithering over that, over the course of the afternoon and then a statement by the u. S. Capitol p