Took questions from reporters. The answers insofar as they were answers, included lies, attacks, and allegations that are just completely untethered from reality. And, remember, this was thanksgiving. It was thanksgiving. And in those answers the president did actually commit for the first time to leaving the white house in january, however, he indicated he may never actually concede. Take a listen to just how worked up the president got with one reporter. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud. Just to be clear, if the Electoral College votes for joe biden, will you concede . If they do they made a mistake because this election but will you was a fraud. So, no, i cant say that at all. You wont i think its a possibility. Theyre trying to look, between you people dont tak to me that way. Youre just a lightweight. Dont talk to me dont talk to im the president of the United States. Dont ever talk to the president that way. Sir joining us now
The senates top Democrat Chuck schumer says he will try to quickly pass the bill on the senate floor tomorrow. And now vermont senator Bernie Sanders says he will filibuster and override the defense bill veto approved tonight in the house until mcconnell allows a vote on the 2,000 direct payments to americans. That bipartisan house vote to reject donald it ups veto of the 741 billion defense bill sets up the first override of Donald Trumps presidency, weeks before he leaves office. 109 republicans broke with the president to vote for the override, and it has now been more than two weeks since weve actually heard directly from the president in public. He has yet to comment personally on the Christmas Day bombing in nashville, and he has said nothing in recent days about the latest covid surge or the staggering loss of american lives. President elect joe biden, meanwhile, did speak to the nation today after a meeting with National Security experts. He began by thanking members of Law Enf
86,676. The president present much of his time in pennsylvania talking up his administrations efforts to respond to the pandemic, particularly when it comes to that subject of testing. Weve been doing testing at a level that nobodys ever done it before. We have the best testing in the world. It could be the testing frankly overrated. Maybe it is overrated. But whenever they start yelling we want more, we want more you know, they always say we want more, we want more because they dont want to give you credit. Dont forget we have more cases than anybody in the world. But why . Because we do more testing. When you test, you have a case. When you tis, you find something is wrong with people. If we didnt do any testing, we would have very few cases. Just a point of order here, so far just over 10 million americans have been tested. Little more than 3 of the population. Though as you heard, the president has started to point out routinely the only reason we have so many cases is because we d
He took his message about reopening the economy to pennsylvania where he toured a company that makes face masks while not wearing a mask himself. Trump pressured the mayor to lift restrictions. New yorks governor has extended stayathome orders until june 13th. Latest unemployment figuring in our country show over 36 Million People are now out of work since the shutdowns started about midmarch. As of our air time tonight, the death toll in our country is 86,676. The president present much of his time in pennsylvania talking up his administrations efforts to respond to the pandemic, particularly when it comes to that subject of testing. Weve been doing testing at a level that nobodys ever done it before. We have the best testing in the world. It could be the testing frankly overrated. Maybe it is overrated. But whenever they start yelling we want more, we want more you know, they always say we want more, we want more because they dont want to give you credit. Dont forget we have more cas
We dont want no favors. Just get up off of us and we can be and we can do whatever we can be. At the same time just a few blocks away from there, the three other officers charged yesterday in floyds death were making their very first court appearance. All are being held on a minimum of three quarters of a Million Dollars bail apiece. Shaquille brewster starts off the coverage tonight. He is back in George Floyds neighborhood, the neighborhood where george floyd died. Shaquille, sad, emotional day in minneapolis. A proper home going brought a lot of people into the city today. Really emotional day, brian. That really started with that Memorial Service and in that Memorial Service we heard from the brother of george floyd. We heard from his nephew, talked about what it was like growing up with him. The nicknames they called him and talked about what they experienced and living with the memory of george floyd. Then we heard from Benjamin Crump who talked about the impact of the video. He