Republican michigan lawmakers to the white house to little effect. Right . Reporter from what we can tell, the president was unsuccessful in that meeting at the white house yesterday, alex. In convincing Republican Leaders from the state legislature in michigan to try to intervene in the certification of the elections results. Those lawmakers almost as soon as they left their meeting wit president release add statement saying they used their time with the president to emphasize the need for kov covid relief for michigan and not yet made aware of information changing the outcome of the election in michigan and as legislative leaders we will follow the law and the normal process. Going on to say the person who got the most votes should win michigans electoral votes. That seemed a blow to the president s efforts. As you mentioned, alex, new information just in the last few maintains about a new republican effort to try to pressure michigan not to cert fight the results as planned when the
In 60 days. A new milestone in the race for covid19 vaccine pfizer announcing overnight it will apply for an emergency use authorization for its vaccine. It couldnt come as a better team cases surge krooz the country a sea of red and orange. Not good the u. S. Setting a new single day record for the cdc and urging americans to avoid thanksgiving travel. Overnight we learned the president s son don jr. Tested positive for covid19, adding to a long lengthy list of names in and around the president s shall it to contract the virus as we say good morning on this saturday it is november 21st. Im kendis gibson. And lindsey riser we have good news about the vaccine and how effective it is but we have a couple of dark months ahead. Absolutely a team of correspondents and analysts following the very latest for us right now. Lets go first to the white house, where President Trump is still refusing to concede the election even as his efforts to overturn the results hit yet another road block. Nbc
So they vow they are going to fight on to the Supreme Court. Its worth noting the judges in this all nominated by republicans and the lead judge who wrote this pretty scathing opinion is a judge nominated by President Trump in 2017. Nonetheless, the attack on the judiciary system is being activists from the president s legal team and Kayleigh Mcenany spoke to this saying theyre headed to the Supreme Court. Take a listen. There is optimism. There will be a petition filed with the Supreme Court. It will be up to the Supreme Court whether to grant scirtior. And its likely to succeed on the merits of the case in pennsylvania alleging the whole mailin system was deem unconstitutional and going up to the Supreme Court. Reporter its not clear that the Supreme Court would even take the case the trump team is pushing. The case that Kayleigh Mcenany is alleging has been granted a temporary stay in terms of certification. As you know, alex, the certification in pennsylvania has already taken play
We begin tonight with major new developments in iran in what appears to be a targeted assassination of one of its Top Nuclear Scientists. Its fanning tensions in the region as iran vows retaliation and blames israel. The killing happened yesterday per Iranian State media. It reports the man widely believed to be the mastermind of irans covert Nuclear Program was shot dead in an ambush some 40 miles east of irans captain tehran. And as mentioned, irans leader is vowing to fight become, demanding definitive punishment for those behind the killing, which presents a huge Foreign Policy challenge for president elect joe biden, who takes control of the white house in just a few weeks. We get the latest tonight from Nbc News Tehran Bureau chief ali arouzi. Hey, alicia. After that brazen attack yesterday in broad daylight on the mastermind of irans Nuclear Programs, tensions in tehran are running high. Antiamerican and antiisraeli protests have broken out in the capital today. People are calli
Than 13 million. That last jump of a million happening in just six days. So much for turning the corner. While some of us are fortunate to tuck into thanksgiving leftovers later today, millions of our fellow americans are going hungry, the topic is important to me and you can read more in my latest piece on msnbc. Com. Covid19 and its catastrophic effect on hundreds of millions of americans was not on the mind of the outgoing president this thanksgiving. He started the day once again playing golf at his golf club and then for the First Time Since election day, the loser of the election took reporters questions, as you might expect his remarks made no sense and were littered with lies. Joe biden did not get 80 million votes and i got 74 million but there were many ballots thrown away so i got much more than that. Its going to be a hard thing to concede, because we know there was massive fraud. So no, i cant say that at all. I think its a possibility. Theyre trying to look, between you a