President trump is considering preemptive pardons for his Adult Children and jared kushner, along with Close Associates including Rudy Giuliani. Multiple sources telling nbc news that the president does not believe he or his family have done anything illegal. The white house has not commented. Last night a federal judge in washington ordering the release of heavily redacted Court Documents detailing an Ongoing Investigation into a potential bribery for pardons scheme involving at least two individuals acting as lobbyists trying to influence senior white house officials. A Justice Department official tells nbc news, quote, no Government Official was or is currently a subject or target of the investigation disclosed in this filing. This as attorney general bill barr publicly contradicted the president s false claims of widespread voter fraud for the first time, telling the Associated Press there is no evidence of systemic voter fraud that would overturn the election results. And meanwhil
Other things. Thats tonight, Stephen Colbert. Also a little later on this hour, i will tell you how you can come to an online event with me about bag man, about the new book if you are at all interested in that. I will have details on that a little later on. Im supposed to have told you about that like every night for the past four nights, and i have forgotten every single one of those four nights. But i am committed to tell you tonight. Thats why im putting this little reminder here so i at least feel extra guilty if i forget later on. All right. But we are following a number of developing stories tonight both in the world of legal and political news but also when it comes to the pandemic. And lets start there first and foremost. Just within the past hour, the covid tracking project has posted the latest numbers for our country for today, and today for the first time ever, the United States has had more than 3,000 americans die in one day from the coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, 3,
Line for food. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It took 17 days from when joe biden was declared the winner of the president ial election by all of the major press outlets and networks, 17 days of lies and absurd Court Challenges and tantrums, pressure on public officials, but today finally we got the first full day of the actual biden transition. The Incoming Biden Administration now has access to the fbi to vet potential nominees and funding for salaries and travel and office space, and the ability to communicate without going appointees and crucially civilly servants with information. Also a dotgov website. Bidens also starting to get the president s daily briefing. This all should have happened 17 days ago, but at least it happened now. Heres what biden told nbc news nightly newss anchor lester holt in an exclusive interview earlier today. Its a slow start, but its starting, and theres two months left to go, so im feeling good about the abil
I am supposed to have told you about that and i have forgotten every one of those four nights. I am committed to tell you tonight. That is why i am putting the reminder here so i feel extra guilty if i forget later on. But we are following a number of developing stories tonight, both in the world of legal and in political news, but also when it comes to the pandemic. Lets start there first and for most. The covid tracking project posted the latest numbers for our country for today. Today for the First Time Ever the United States had more than 3,000 americans die in one day from the coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, 3,054 americans are known to have died from the disease, the largest number that we ever had. This puts the death toll just today on par with some of the greatest tragedies in our nations history. Events remembered for decades, generations, more than a century. The terrorist attacks of 9 11 killed 2,977 people. 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. That killed 3,000 peopl
All right. But we are following a number of developing stories tonight, both in the world of legal and political news, but also when it comes to the pandemic. And lets start there first and foremost. Just within the past hour, the covid tracking project has posted the latest numbers for our country for today, and today, for the first time ever, the United States has had more than 3,000 americans die in one day from the coronavirus. In the last 24 hours, 3,054 americans are known to have died from this disease. Thats the largest number weve had ever. This puts the death toll just today on par with some of the greatest tragedies in our nations history, events remembered for decades, generations, for more than a century. The terrorist attacks of 9 11 killed 2,977 people. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, an immense fire that burned whoeth swaths of that city to the ground, brought that city to its knees that killed 3,000 people. I grew up in the San Francisco bay area. I can tel