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Ban noknock warrants. Lining up for roll call. The suspect charged in that attack is now scheduled to be arraigned today and the mayor of louisville is calling for peaceful protests heading into the weekend. Its important for those taking to our streets and those supporting demonstrators from home to understand the power of this moment. You have the attention of the people who lead our government, our businesses, our education. Weve engaged in this work and ready to do a lot more but we have to ...

Rhetoric after she started receiving threats, but attorney general bill barr claimed to congress that he had not heard anything about that. This development in michigan comes during a dangerous increase in coronavirus cases across the country. 56,000 new cases confirmed overnight. 56,000. Look at that graph. Thats the highest daily total in nearly two months. This morning, nine states are reporting record hospitalizations. Look at that map. Nearly 1,000 new deaths reported overnight, as well. In...

Still too close to call. Lets take a closer look. In fact, well start in pennsylvania in the keystone state. Heres where the race stands right now with 96 of the vote in. The difference between President Trump and Vice President biden, 28,833 votes. From pennsylvania to nevada we go. In nevada, heres where things stand in that states battle for 11 electoral votes with 97 excuse me, this is arizona, not nevada. Heres nevada. 23 nevada right now, 22,657. From nevada to georgia. Heres a look at the...

Vote. He lost the recounts. He lost the Electoral College, and now hes lost Mitch Mcconnell. Good morning, and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, december 16th joe has the morning off. Along with willie and me we have White House Reporter for the washington press, Jonathan Lemire. Jim vandehigh, elise jordan is with us, and nbc news and correspondent of way too early, kasie hunt. Vladimir putin may have beaten him to it but well dive in with the most powerful republican in Congress Finally...

Todd the Country Christmas music is awesome. Did say santa would be coming to town, rudolph allegedly, we are trying to confirm that. We are going to get into the bill. Watch, dont sleep on the bill. Sports center is going to end, you are watching the big show on friday morning. Jillian lets talk about this. President elect joe biden labeling republican accusations against his son hunter. Foul play. Todd hunters former associates tried to get the former vp involved in business dealings. Reporter...

My heart started to beat faster and i thought where have you been . Where have all of you ben . They stood by and watched this president destroy important parts of our democracy and done nothing. Am i glad he said it today and should it go down in history as an Important Senate speech . Yes. But for gosh sakes, they would not even vote to have witnesses in an impeachment trial. This is really not a moment to celebrate Mitch Mcconnell, but im glad he found it in his intestinal fortitude to state ...

I think within 24 hours you could feel comfortable that the Capitol Building itself is skired. We have to interrupt. There is a stretcher of it looked like a woman, gravely injured, covered in blood. It is unclear how that happened, what happened inside there. Ive been texting with congressman dan tilldy, i asked if he was okay. He said he is okay now. Just trying to get more information about what might have happened in there. But that was a horrifying site. And in the new york times, john that...

Certifying a new president and we get this. Mike johnson, a republican from louisiana on the telephone. Sir, do you want to identify your location at the capitol . Bill, no, i shouldnt do that. Im with a number of house members. Were in a secure location on the house complex. Obviously its a very sensitive thing right now. What have you seen and what have you heard . Well, i was in the middle of the proceedings in the House Chamber down at the table. We were presenting our thoughtful arguments a...

Enforcement has been. If you were wondering the same, you are not alone. The whole world is watching this. The whole world is now able to see what has happened to the u. S. Capitol. By our reckoning both houses, house and senate, have been breached. Members of the house and senate have been told to shelter and, yes, we have seen guns drawn in the House Chamber, pointblank range. Those are gas masks, oxygen hoods handed out to all members of congress, some of whom got behind the railings in the b...

Our nation has prevailed. While you were hopefully sleeping, congress did finally manage to count the electoral votes and officially affirm joe biden as the next president of the United States of america. As crazy as yesterday was, we cannot ignore the fact that lawmakers came back and finished the job. Of course, that came after mobs of Trump Supporters stormed the capitol, brandished weapons and forced those same lawmakers and their staffers to literally go into hiding and flee for their lives...