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All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once in a cent ray pandemic, we got a glimpse of what a full or fuller participation version of our democracy would look like because due to the pandemic, state after state, jurisdiction after jurisdiction, and i should note this is both democratic and republican there were fights over this. But across the board, more or less on the whole in the aggregate, all these places did something praise worthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mail ....
Aggregate, all these places did something praiseworthy and novel. They took steps to make it easier to vote. They did this by expanding eligibility for mailin voting and early voting and adding drop boxes for ballots right . Theres Public Health concern. You dont want everyone crowding in on election day so people found ways to just make it easier to vote so you wouldnt have that. And the results are clear. It worked. Turnout was the highest it had been in 120 years. Nearly 67 of eligible voters cast a ballot. And also there was no uniform drubbing of one party by the other. It was not a blowout. It was a competitive election. Yes, joe biden won by a healthy margin. 7 million votes. 70 plus Electoral College votes. But remember republicans gained seats in the house. They want some key senate rates right . Now rather than looking at that outcome and thinking wow, we can be a ....
And in europe and its response to be replicated elsewhere. First good to have you with us lawmakers in the u. S. Congress are preparing to block president Donald Trumps order to withdraw u. S. Troops from germany its a rare instance of the democratic and republican parties working together to pass legislation the final version of the annual defense bill was which still needs to be voted on voices support for the continued presence of u. S. Forces in germany and would require an Impact Assessment before any troops are removed in july the pentagon announced it would withdraw about a 3rd of the 36000 u. S. Troops based in. So how likely is it that u. S. Troops will not speak withdrawn from. Washington correspondent stephanie has actually it is very likely that there wont be any withdrawal at least not under the reigns of this administration of the triumvirate ministration as y ....
Government wasnt warned nato secretary general stoltenberg wasnt warned so there was more concern about how this was done than perhaps what the actual eventual movements might be but as stephan just explained there may be bureaucratic reasons why it doesnt happen at all and we got some hints about that earlier this week ahead of the nato minister ariel from the u. S. Ambassador Kay Bailey Hutchison she said that she expects this decision to be made by the Incoming Administration and thats not all she told us about what the plans may be lets hear from her i want to say that the announcement about troops in germany was also an announcement that the troops all the troops that were there before would be in europe its just whether or not they stay in germany or whether they are moved to other places in certain instances so but has been well is just been put forward ....
Praised for promoting Girls Education and also sharing top of his 1000000000. 00 in prize money with other finalists. I better strategy welcome to news that you could join us got all of us infections continue to rise across the world with many countries reporting 2nd even 3rd waves of the virus south korea for instance and in india the capital delhi but in the country where it all began china its a whole other story on thursday local media reported less than 20 new cases so whats china doing right and then their sins here for other countries well discuss that with an expert in a bit but 1st heres more on life in china in the shadow of a global pandemic. In china signs of the corona virus pandemic are hardly noticeable Authorities Say there are only a couple 100 active cases and next to no new daily concerns. We have no evidence right now that the situation in china is anyth ....