Pennsylvania, joe biden now in the lead in that state of pennsylvania. It changed overnight. He has about a 20,000 vote lead right now in georgia. He also has pulled ahead by about 4,000 votes over the last abc, split 49 49, headed to recount in georgia. In the state of arizona joe biden is holding on to the lead by very close. The number of states split right down the middle so immense this year. Nevada, close race as well. Joe biden up by two points. Now, his lead has expanded during the day, about 22,000 votes. Finally, income n, donald trump is holding on to his lead there. Tom, go to the board and explain what happened. George, good evening. We want to talk to you about how things have shaken up in the race. First big headline was pennsylvania. The bottom line, focus on this, joe biden up 20,000 votes so far. Theres 95,000 votes still need to be counted. We know the majority of those, more than 50 come from democratic areas, democratic districts. That could be good news for joe bi
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We need to go big. And if we waste some money now, we waste some money. Absolutely we have too many people hurting and the economy is going to sputter and weve got to get ourselves out of this mess. And this is the way we need to go right now. Let me tell you something, that man has a future in Northwest Florida politics. I like him. Or West Virginia. Mika, thats interesting. Thats from the republican governor of a state that donald trump got 69 in. Jim justice, governor of West Virginia, urging congress to go big on covid19 relief. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is tuesday, february 2nd. We have columnist and Associate Editor for the Washington Post, david ignatius. Back with us, capitol hill correspondent and host of way too early, kasie hunt. And it seems more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hou
Being anccused of abuse of power is, in my opinion, a policy disagreement on how the president should have approached the issues that are out light there. Goes, theforeign aid issue of the 391 million of foreign aid to ukraine, is practically every bit of foreign aid the United Statess purses following the congressional appropriation is contingent on something. Or another. Common trends, whether in the ornate enactment there, is whether or not is any type of corruption that is involved in that. I think we have conceded that ukraine has been a corrupt country and that president anensky was elected on anticorruption platform and we wish it well. The fact is, i think the president would have been derelict in his duties had he held off or just given the foreign aid without trying to check on corruption. That is what was going on. As far as obstruction of congress is concerned, earlier today i talked about the fact that this article is drafted so loosely and so weakly that it arns the congr