Catastrophe. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. There was a nine second video posted to twitter yesterday. It was not really in the national news. More of a local story. But it was an incredibly revealing moment about how republicans are going about trying to reelect donald trump. Heres what happens. There is a reporter. His name is matt smith with wisntt out of milwaukee, wisconsin, channel 12. He camped out the elections building in madison, and this is what he got. How many signatures did you collect . That video had the feel of a local reporter being somewhere at the right place, the right time and catching someone in the act. That woman who he asked the question of really did not seem to want to be on camera. There is a good reason for that. The woman you see there, right there, giving the no comment, she is a wisconsin lawyer. Her name is lane ruland. As recently as last week, she was representing Donald Trumps president ial campaign in cour
In the speech the president ial nominee accused the president of, quote, rooting for chaos and violence, adding that hes trying to scare america. The white house is denying the president is fanning the flames of division by praising his supporters who clashed with protesters in a deadly confrontation in portland, oregon. The u. S. Just crossing the 6 million mark of known coronavirus cases as the death toll climbs past 183,000 people. Lets begin at the white house with cnn White House Correspondent kaitlin collins. We do expect to hear from the president soon. Reporter yes, and we may hear more of what he tweeted within an hour of that speech of joe biden where biden was trying to turn around one of the president s main criticisms of him, which is that it wont be safe in joe bidens america. Joe biden is saying, look, this is happening now and its happening on Donald Trumps watch. Tonight the white house says President Trump wasnt fanning the flames of division as he lavished praise on
University, there are 1,293 new covidrelated fatalities yesterday. Yet, late today, the one single person, whose words and deeds might have prevented so many people from dying, tried to gaslight us all into seeing the last six months as a great success. If you look at what weve done and all of the lives that weve saved. Im going to ask that a graph be put up. And now, its up. This was right at the beginning. This was our prediction. That if we do a really good job, well be about 100,000 to 240,000 deaths and were below that, substantially. And thats despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, were at a level that i dont think anybody in the world would be at. Were really at a very low level. If you take the blue states out. Just think about that. That is really a window into how he views this country. There are his states and the blue states. Ignore the death in the blue states. Things look alone, is stunning should be. Had the adm
Seeing the last six months as a great success. If you look at what weve done and all of the lives that weve saved, im going to ask that a graph be put up and now its up. The was right at the beginning if we do a great job. Well be at 100,000 to 240,000 deaths and were below that substantially and thats despite the fact that the blue states had tremendous death rates. If you take the blue states out, were at a level that i dont think anybody in the world would be at. Were really at a very low level. If you take the blue states out. Which i mean, just think about that. Thats really a window into how this president views this country. There are his states, and the blue states. Ignore the deaths from the blue states. Things look great. I mean, that alone is stunning or should be if we werent numb to outrage by now. The president noted tonight that deaths might have reached into the millions had the administra done quote not so good a job so 2 239,999 is a great victory for him . He wondere
Next president of the United States to the nations capitol. Jake tapper is with us. Were watching it all unfold, jake. This is history. It is, indeed. And im reminded of the big task, the tall order that president elect, soon to be President Biden has in front of him, as he comes to this city and begins this job because just as we were going on air, we learned that more than 400,000 americans have died of covid. Yet another reminder, that fwrim milestone of the job that President Biden will have. Dana, theres a lot for us to talk about as we reflect on this moment. One president leaving, another coming in. But the big the tall order of this pandemic is really foremost on my mind right now. The pandemic, the unbelievable death toll that you just talked about. The fact that the incoming president is trying to make it very clear to everybody that it is likely to get worse before it gets better. And thats just the health care, never mind the economic issue that he has in front of us in fro