Right . And gosh, knows one of the most polarizing times in our history is political journey is unparalleled youre absolutely right. Erin trumps speech later tonight may give us a sense of how he plans to move forward in that journey. Sources now, telling cnn, the former president has been personally and very intensely involved in crafting what hell say tonight, energizing, un, emphasizing unity after the attempt on his life, instead of the more familiar and divisive rhetoric he has offered used in the past. Well be listening, of course to every word thats coming up later tonight than when trump accepts his third president ial nomination and delivers his remarks in primetime, well get a better sense of whats, whats, whats, whats about to happen this son, eric trump, also is speaking tonight and will help tie up his fathers speech. We expect former first Lady Melania Trump to be in the hall making her first appearance at this convention. Erin. All right. And Cnns Phil mattingly is near
stimulus relief package cleared yet another critical hurdle in the house with a full floor vote expected later this week. we re also following a key confirmation hearing up on capitol hill. president biden s attorney general nominee, judge merrick garland, just wrapped up his first day of testimony, making clear that if confirmed, he s, quote, not the president s lawyer. first let s get the very latest on this truly heart-wrenching pandemic news. our national correspondent ryan young is working the story for us. ryan, half a million americans killed by the coronavirus just this past year. tell us the latest, tell us what s going on where you are. reporter: well, so devastating, the news about this. of course, all of us heartbroken by the news that so many americans have lost their lives. of course, right now you can see the number of cars here that are lined up for the vaccine. people want this desperately. they want to get away from the devastation they faced over the last
early with us today. morning joe starts right now. this week in covid history, it s november 2020, and covid is having a moment. more than 144,000 new cases. that is the single highest total since the pandemic began. but news flash, the president has gone missing. pick up that scent. where is he? go get him! why haven t we heard from the president? trump, nowhere to be found. we haven t seen him in a week. we have not heard his voice since last thursday. and nobody is missing trump more than the american people. usa we haven t seen violence or the anger. might have something to do with the fact that there is a very, very pungent smell of marijuana here. why not celebrate with jazz cigarettes? this election is over. this election is not over. far from it. i ve had a microphone in my face all day. when is trump going to concede? they can go to hell. i ve had it with these people, let s fight back. the old lady is right, bring in the caucasian cal
- we are going to make our country great again. - giuliani sees one thing, opportunity. - trump is clearly the best choice. - he thought, this will put me back in the spotlight. - what i did for new york, donald trump will do for america! [cheers and applause] - oh, my god. i moved on her, actually. you know, she was down in palm beach. i moved on her, and i failed. i ll admit it. - whoa. - i did try and [bleep] her. she was married. - that s huge news there. - some breaking news right now. david fahrenthold of the washington post got his hands on a tape. - hello. how are you? hi. - hi, mr. trump. how are you? - nice seeing you. terrific. - pleasure to meet you. - when the access hollywood tape dropped, i was on air. donald trump and billy bush had something of a raunchy conversation. - and when you re a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. - whatever you want. - grab em by the [bleep]. - he s bragging about committing sexual assault. so i was just stunned, absolut
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