A 7yearold girl shot in the head while standing on the sidewalk at grandmothers house during a fourth of july party. Her community understandably outraged. It hurts that somebody could rob somebodys life like that and dont care. All i can do is just pray to god. Now to new york city where at least 42 people were shot. Nine killed. Atlanta, lets go there. 8yearold shot and killed after cops say girls mother tried to drive through illegally placed barricades near where protesters burned down a wendys in response to the killing of Rayshard Brooks. [sobbing] we didnt do anything. Save black lives matter. You killed your home. All part of a violent weekend in our nations cities including baltimore, philadelphia, cleveland among others. In response, the president tweeting in part, federal government ready, willing, and able to help, if asked. The president later tweeting that democrats want to defund an abolish police. All goes back to brians question, will they take that help. Steve, anxiou
Biden campaign is putting on the campaign at this point. Were seeing joe biden touch down at an airport not far from here from what is a short trip from delaware. The kind of trip he will be doing behind me. Its something he could be doing from home. Its largely virtual conversation that hes going to be holding with Union Workers but at this stage of the game, youve got to win by showing up. Thats what the bhiiden came pp is doing by having him come here. Theres really no electoral map that has joe biden winning the presidency that doesnt have him winning pennsylvania. Part of his message will be focused on the economy. Thats one of the issues that shows polling shows President Trump continuing to hold an advantage over joe biden on. He laid out his economic plan in the month of july. Its called build back better. What well start seeing today is a shift towards talking about his on plan versus contrasting it with what he says is the lack of plan for President Trump. In terms of bringin
Thousands of ballots weeks afte the election . Does that inspire confidence in the outcome to you . Should anyone ever trust us . All these other states, they ca count their votes on Election Night, no problems. Every vote matters, right . Think about it commit these votes never would have been tallied without a recount commi now less than 13,000 votes separate the president and joe biden in georgia. That number continues to shrink how many more ballots will they find tomorrow . Of course tonight this isnt just about thousands of missing boats votes showing up weeks later, that are now just turnin up out of thin air, its also about the state, their use of diminutive voting systems which are played like we told you about. With issues with the states primary a few months ago. According to the New York Times in some cases the new machines required to much extra power fo aging polling locations blowing fuses and never powering on. Others, workers were still bein trained just days before th
Apparent winner, 16 days after he was actually declared the victor. That frees up million of dollars and, importantly, makes the transition official initiating background checks on the president elects nominees. President trump says his legal team is moving full speed ahead even though they have lost every major battle that could have affected the outcome. The president elect officially announced his nominees on monday. He will not unveil his full Economic Team until next week but nbc news has confirmed that former fed chair and past head of the White House Council of economic advisers, janet yellen, will be his nominee for treasury secretary, the first woman for that role. On wall street, the dow cleared 30,000 in the last hour, a new all time intraday high. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent Geoff Bennett in delaware and weekend today cohost Peter Alexander at the white house. Geoff, first to you, the biden transition entering a key phase. We expect to see him as soon as 1 00 unl
You can also follow along on cspan. Org or with our free video app, cspan now. Continues. Host we will focus on key battleground states food will focus on wisconsin, arizona, and other states today. Joining us to start this discussion is Jonathan Tamari of the philadelphia inquirer. He is there political reporter. Thank you for joining us. Tell us what is at play as of today. Guest you got two major races that have national implications, both at very different stages. The governors race looks like the democrat over republican. But this is really one of the most consequential elections possibly in the whole country. There is a republican legislature, so republicans are said to with the Governors Office as well. They could drastically change abortion laws in the state, voting laws, and the winner of where the governors will point the secretary of state, who oversees the certification of the 2024 president ial election. As we all know, the 2020 pennsylvania Election Results were challenge