To behave like an dictator, refusing to accept that the voters have spoken, erroneously declaring victory, bulldozing over our democracy and hunkering down in the white house, refusing to relinquish the reins of government or even to admit hes been fired by the American People. Trump is no longer an autocrat in the making, hes already there. In an election one has lost, an election that has zero evidence of fraud, thats what autocrats do. Trumps focus is on his power and his ego, and perhaps on that orange jumpsuit that may be waiting once he leaves office. His focus is nowhere near his duty to protect the American People from a raging pandemic which has now taken more than 251,000 lives. And behind every strongman is his supine party, the fixers and the kingmakers and the thugs who enable him. Trumpian mascots like mitch mcconnell, william barr and Lindsey Graham, seen here fist bumping Vice President elect Kamala Harris on the senate floor, despite his claims of voter fraud in the el
Arrive out of nowhere or cemetery logs that turn into a dead of night tiebreakers but the more we are learning about what happened, the more it looks like something more subtle, some manipulation that would favor in this case democrats. Through a series of state rule changes that kicked in in the weeks prior to the election, these changes made it easier to open up the spigot on what is an acceptable ballot. It got easier in the closing weeks to have a ballot to make it through than it had in the past. Thats what we are exploring tonight primarily in michigan and also in georgia. The New York Times back in september raised concerns about the mailin ballots that were coming in on normas numbers for the first time ever, setting analysis that found that in 24 primary elections this year more than 500,000 mailin ballots were rejected or 2 returned by voters, theres a growing concern that the number of ballots rejected could surpass 1 million. The democrat lawyer mark elias went to work, he
Complicit in a coup attempt. Im more troubled youre seeing a lot of republican officials go along with it. Why the white house is finally coming clean on americas covid catastrophe but still blocking the biden team from helping. If youre fighting a battle and the calvarys on the way, you dont stop shooting, you keep going into the calvary gets here. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We have breaking news tonight from the state of georgia, where the republican secretary of state there has announced that the hand recount of the president ial results have concluded and joe biden is, again, confirmed as the winner of the state of georgia. From the press release in georgias recount, 9 highest error rate in any county was. 73 . Most counties found no change in their final tally. The majority of the rest had changers fewer than ten ballots. So joe biden won georgia. That will be certified tomorrow. He won the president ial election. And despite that clear el
States two largest democratic counties there. Kristin fisher is following it from the white house this morning. Kristin, what is the chance that were going to see the president today . Good morning. Good morning. As of now, there are no Public Events on his calendar. Thats the 12th time, the 12th day this has happened since the election. But it does sound like were going to hear from the president s legal team. The president tweeted about an hour ago that quote an Important News Conference Today by lawyers on a very clear and viable path to victory. The fact remains that his legal team has yet to provide evidence of voter fraud or irregularities to overturn the election. In wisconsin the Trump Campaign has paid about 3 million for recounts in two counties in that state. Then in wisconsin michigan youve got two republicans on an election board in wayne county who now want to take back their votes which certified the results of the november 3 election. The woman you heard from in the int
So we have some breaking news tonight. The United States reaching a terrible milestone in the covid19 pandemic. Now more than 250,000 americans dead from this virus. 250,000 people. As the pandemic rages on, president elect joe biden warning that trumps obstruction of the transition will set back the bidens team ability to get the virus under control, but were learning some current and former Administration Officials are going around trump, quietly reaching out to bidens team in an effort to put duty to country over partisanship. I want to bring in now cnns White House Correspondent jeremy diamond. Jeremy, good evening to you. So more than 250,000 americans have died from the coronavirus, but not one word from our president on the pandemic. Whats going on inside the white house. Reporter don, it was less than a month ago the white house chief of staff said in the white house were not going to control this pandemic. That is the baseline attitude at this white house. My sources told me t