strategy six months now after the virus was first diagnosed in our country and as the nation him? that s entirely possible. continues to shatter records for daily outbreaks. look, the president used himself the pandemic has now taken over as his own best advocate, his own best communicator, 141,000 lives, and as the new strategist, you name it, lawyer. york times reports it, quote, he knows he s in utrouble. amid mounting alarm in a huge he needs to do something to try portion of our country, to turn this campaign around, so mr. trump has at times appeared he s going to try to do it to inhabit a different universe. himself. he can t imagine having somebody today trump announced that he is else up there at that lectern bringing back the daily doing it for him coronavirus task force it s got to be his own show. briefings. he suggested the key to the dr. murtaza akhter, thank you event, which he stopped doing after his last disastrous for your passion phil rucker, shannon
that s going to do it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow now it s time for the last so january 21st we need a new word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, rachel. 7:00 p.m. host and the president restarting i m not sure if joy makes the coronavirus briefings tomorrow, cut. what could possibly go wrong she d be fabulous. you know, if you work in the jonathan, your reaction to the interview tonight with joy pr department at lysol, like do you sleep tonight? do you just unplug everything at what i found so striking about your corporation at this point like please don t again talk it is joy s willingness to go about ingesting disinfectants. after these questions that way just duck and cover, man. but joe biden just saying the does he know that i m simply going to have to rerun the lysol most elementary things that any thing tomorrow night just to explain why it s been so long presidential candidate should be since we ve seen him do this he knows he
bring up the reports of russia having bounties on our soldiers in afghanistan. we had plenty of discussion, and i think it was very productive. please? that was please, as in please ask me another question that is not about russia paying to kill american soldiers in afghanistan, and of course the next reporter did exactly what donald trump wanted him to do and asked him, what s happened with the v-shaped recovery, to which donald trump lied again saying, i think the recovery has been very strong. tell that to the record number of unemployed people in america whose unemployment benefits donald trump is trying to cut. it took 31 days to get to that question because donald trump refused to take any reporters questions for weeks after the new york times investigative reporters broke the story 31 days ago that intelligence reports were presented to the president saying that vladimir putin was paying the taliban to kill afghanistan soldiers in afghanistan. they were simply co
schoolteachers of america who will not have any of the protections that major league baseball has afforded these teams and these players? that s right. that is the way to look at it and the way to think about it because the major league teams were thinking this is going to happen and protecting themselves from it. it is going to be a lot harder with 30 kids in a class. this is something i m not sure there is going to be anymore baseball by the end of this week. this is a day by day story. we ll see what happens. thank you. thank you, lawrence. thank you. well, 31 days. it took 31 days, and today a reporter finally asked donald trump about what the reporter called, quote, reports of russia being bounties on our soldiers in afghanistan, and donald trump did exactly what we expected him to do. he lied and he quickly turned to the next question. and here is the question and answer that we have been waiting 31 days to hear. i wanted to ask if you did bring up the rep
back that up, i can t in good countenance continue showing you this. fox news abruptly cutting away from kayleigh mcenany s news conference yesterday when she tried to make explosive election fraud claims backed by no evidence, none at all. yeah. you know, willie, remember the morning after the election we were telling everybody to take a deep breath. i think it s time to do that again, like a week later, because i was i was we sort we don t watch a lot of cable news or any news after we get off the show in the morning. i think three hours is gracious, plenty for anybody. but i was walking through the living room and i saw mitch mcconnell. i thought oh, my lord, i m going to be getting texts. and without turning up the sound i knew what he was going to do. he was going to do just like he tweeted, we have a right to count all the votes and then present any legal challenges that we have. and so i knew he was going to say that. then i knew he d say something like, the