Executive actions to reverse some controversial trump policies. Hes also said to reveal his Coronavirus Task force today, as covid cases soar across the country. Meantime President Donald Trump played golf sunday but did not concede. His inner circle is reportedly at odds over whether to accept defeat. Sources say he wants to mount a media blitz, arguing the election was stolen. But theres so far no evidence to support that claim. Boris sanchez is in washington with more on the Trump Campaigns latest strategy. Lets start with jason carol in wilmington, delaware, to find out more about the president elects plan. Good to see you jason. Multiple challenges face joe biden in his new role, of course, the pandemic taking top priority. Whats he expected to do in the hours ahead . Well, look, Health Officials, rosemary, made it very clear that if this new administration is going to get their hands on the coronavirus, on this pandemic, theyre really going to have to hit the ground running. And
Day that you wait before buying that holiday ticket home . Good evening. We begin tonight with that bombshell exit. Tonight, much of washington still stunned by what played out today. The battle for the next speaker of the house, and the man that wanted the job. Just this morning on capitol hill saying he had the votes. And then Kevin Mccarthy appearing before cameras a couple of hours later, saying hes dropping out of the race for speaker. So what suddenly changed . Heres jonathan karl. Reporter this morning, Kevin Mccarthy seemed on top of the world, saying he had the votes to be speaker of the house. Were going to win. Reporter but less than 2 1 2 hours later, shocked republicans came out of a private meeting. Mccarthy told them hes bowing out, and they were practically speechless. Nobody knows anything at this point. Kevin said hes not running. I just learned this like you all did. Reporter by the time mccarthy himself emerged, swarmed by cameras, he seemed more relieved than defea
Missing votes on the senate floor. 43 of the votes. I know you say youre campaigning for president. But Bernie Sanders, rand paul, theyve missed fewer than ten votes. Youre up at 59 or 60. Well, Everyone Needs to run their own campaign. I can tell you in the history of president ial politics people when theyve been running for politics in the senate theyve missed votes. Im not missing votes because im on vacation. Missing this many votes. This is lower than many people miss. Im running for president so the votes they take are meaningful. A lot of these arent meaningful and they wont pass and even if they do the president would veto them. The other day you got up on the senate floor and said federal workers who dont show up should be fired. Thats not what i said. What to you say . I said federal workers that arent doing their jobs and per norming on their jobs should be held accountable for not performing. Someone nigmight say youre showing up and doing your job by not voting. Because v
Tracks with what weve been seeing in our cnn poll. One of the key things i worry about, when we came out with that number yesterday, we had joe biden at 22 , i wondered the same question, quinnipiac confirms it for us, look at Kamala Harris, 17 in our poll, up to 20 here. The thing ill point out here, Bernie Sanders was the second place guy last time around, look at this, hes in fourth place in both of these polls. Huge piece of this for voters too, if you lean left, who can take on trump. Thats exactly right. A majority of voters are still believe that joe biden is the right guy to take on trump. Its now at 45 or a little less. To me, what weve seen is that debate, in which joe biden got those tough questions from Kamala Harris, he couldnt take those on. Thats one of the big reasons why harris is jumping up, voters see her as the electable choice. Thats who could take on donald trump. We have potential black voters and their choice for a nominee. There you go. Here we go. I think this
Neck . Plus, tomorrow, super bowl will be historical in american gambling history. Thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, bets on the game are now legal in eight states and soon sports gambling could go nationwide, will this make sports better or worse . But first, i love our country. I am seriously thinking of running for president as a centrist independent, for tweeting and repeating that sent its, Howard Schultz the former ceo of starbucks received a remarkable public spanking this week. Just look alt these headlines. Instead of applauding the willingness of a 65yearold accomplished businessman and legitimate billionaire to enter the arena, he was lamb basted and literally heckled. At a book event this week in new york city, schultz endured this. You gotist cal billionaire [ bleep ]. R. He was peppered with questions, asked a ridiculous riddle about the price of cheerios in the hope he will be heckled out of the race, concern came from democrats that his presence in the race would lead t