The white house for us. What happened with the talks and negotiations . Well, alex with after three hours of meeting at capitol hill today, both democrats and the president s negotiators emerged to say that there was progress today. They are by no means imminent that they are not there yet. Still both suggesting that there was some reason for optimism. Senator Chuck Schumer was saying these are the negotiations that they yet. Take a listen to what he had to say a few minutes ago. He had, really, it was it was the best discussions weve had so far. And id call it progress, but a ways to go. This is not a a usual discussion because the urgency is so great. Healthwise, financial healthwise and, again, the health of our democracy because our elections will be affected by the coronavirus. And we must address that. We also heard in just the last few minutes from the republican negotiators from the white house both the secretary and the treasury, Steven Mnuchin and the president s chief of sta
Vaccines and therapeuticing so they can delay them until after the election. The president reupping attacks on mailin voting, suggesting against without evidence, not only fraud but that ballot drop boxes are a health risk, saying in part, they are not covid sanitized. Twitter actually slapped a label on this tweet for being misleading. Top clear, the president wants you to think that ballot drop boxes will get you sick, yet when it comes to having supporters pile in a room close together to hear him speak, theres no problems . Over the next four days the Republican Party and the president will have to contract what we heard repeatedly in the Democratic Convention. The president s sister, a respected former federal judge slamming him in a secret recording. Its the lack of preparation, 9 lying, the holy [ bleep ]. More on this recording in just a moment, but jeremy, first were getting new details about this announcement from the president. Fill us in. Reporter thats right. Two sources f
Bunch of jerks. You have to dominate. Will you commit here today for a peaceful transfer of power after the election. Well have to see what happens. You know that. So, some remarkable things that, actually, could be both shocking and not surprising at the same time considering that they come from donald trump. But, mika, there you had the president of the United States yesterday saying that he would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power. That was a question. So lets, again, say that for the first time in the history of this republic, you have a president of the United States, who will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power. At the same time hes asking republicans to lie to their constituents and go back on what they said four years ago and ram through a Supreme Court justice. Why . Because he needs that Supreme Court justice to vote for him on any election disputes that he stirs up. Thats that is pretty much a fivealarm fire. Thats where we are. And you invoked maya angelou in
Obliterate the constitution. And it is incumbent on us to not cover everything in a flat way. I mean, there is obliterations of norm which is abhorrent and repugnant. Then they say i wont honor the constitution, which is unconstitutional. For a president who thinks the Supreme Court will hands him a victory, we can point back to arguments where he has said in public, he wont honor the constitution. An unbelievable moment, ari. Yeah. An incredible moment. It is incumbent on whatever people do. Whether youre a citizen or government or journalism, yes, has a role to play but its not a drill. Well get into it. Always good to see you no matter what. Ill be watching. Welcome to the beat. Im ari melber. And as i was discussing with nicole, today everyone can see the United States is led by a president openly challenging whether this country will be a democracy. Lets be clear. This is not about anyones views of donald trump as person or his administrations policies. This is about whether the u
This music may spark memories of voting nights. Today is the official first day that people can vote in person in america so it starts now with real people in real voting lines casting their votes right now for their final choice in a race that everyone agree Social Security a huge deal for the future of america. The economy, the pandemic, civil rights, and so much more the pictures that youre seeing here, of course, new because this is the first day of this voting now of course the pan determine sick an issue in how people make up their minds and a real world impact on voting people are casting ballots across various states today. One out of every three votes that were cast before election day. A whopping 57 million votes total and the pandemic means that more people may vote early and by mail to avoid large clouds on november 3rd were on pace to see tens of millions of people vote early. This is my first time actually doing early voting. We decided to just come on out early and get i