Of relief . Tonight we ask congresswoman i ya Ayanna Pressley of massachusetts. This is american voices. It was two weeks ago today that joe biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. Today social media giants, twitter and facebook, announced that theyll hand over institutional handles to team biden in acknowledgment of his win. As of this hour, only a handful of republicans have publicly congratulated the president elect. And General Services Administration Head emily murphy is still refusing to grant full access to the Transition Team. That is despite georgia certifying its Election Results friday. With the states 16 electoral votes going to biden. More key dates are coming hard and fast in the days and weeks ahead. Monday is the deadline for michigan and pennsylvania to certify with nevada following suit on tuesday. Three more states have certification deadlines just after thanksgiving. On december 8th, governor sends certified results to congress, certified electors meet t
Youre unwilling to come forward and present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesnt exist. All this comes as bidens margin of victory over trump is still growing now surpassing six million votes. We have a team of reporters and panelists to go over the days top stories. We begin with Josh Letterman in washington d. C. Whats the latest on trumps attempt to challenge the Election Results . The president and his team continue to show failing in court as all the losses mount up with the latest being this case in pennsylvania overnight learning that is being tossed out by the judge who not only chastised the Trump Campaign for failing to show evidence, but also for requesting the extraordinary remedy of getting rid of millions of legally cast ballots in pennsylvania that would go along with the ballots that they would seek to challenge. Now, the president s campaign is seeking an appeal of that case. But the president s team is also still flirting with this notion that if theyre not
Have we heard from Republican Leaders whether they will go along with what the president wants done . Its been a lot of silence on behalf of republicans. We have heard that House Democrats are willing to put forward a 2,000 direct payment, and that would be by unanimous consent. They would allow that to be added to the package. I think the bigger issue here is this is not a policy debate. This is not something that President Trump is all of a sudden saying, you know, we dont agree on the policy whats happening. He had once to get involved in the debate and the negotiations on this bill. He did not do that. And now hes basically upset with republicans because they have abandoned him in his fight against the electoral college. So its unclear where exactly this ends up because nobody knows what his strategy is. Nobody knows what Donald Trumps end game is. Is he actually going to veto it or was this just a threat that he was upset and he will pull back on that. Thats something were watchin
Hello, everyone. Im alicia menendez. Breaking news tonight. Investigators searching the home of a tennessee man in connection with the Christmas Day bombing in nashville. Also breaking tonight, two pandemic unemployment programs expiring in just hours. Will President Trump sign the relief bill that would help millions . Also tonight, Coronavirus Crisis in california. The governor says the state is preparing for a surge on top of a surge as many refuse to follow stayathome orders over the holidays. Well bring you the latest live from the golden state. This is american voices. Tonight millions of americans will lose critical Unemployment Benefits if President Trump does not sign congress 900 billion covid relief package before midnight. Trump is calling for congress to increase the stimulus checks to 2,000, a figure members of his own party are not on board with. And he is doing nothing to help negotiate a new agreement. All this comes as a Government Shutdown looms on monday. Lets bring
Point help is on the way. We need more vaccine. We need more vaccine. We need more vaccine. Mr. Biden reverses the trump approach, launching a centralized response to fight the pandemic. If we get 70 to 85 of the country vaccinated, lets say by the end of the summer, by the time we get to the fall, we will be approaching a degree of normality. Also, impeachment part two. The senate trial begins in two weeks. What could impeachment mean for the new president s call for unity. Its unconstitutional. It sets a bad precedent for the presidency and continues to divide the nation. I dont think its very unifying to say, oh, lets just forget it and move on. Ill talk to democratic senator dick durbin of illinois and republican senator mike rounds of south dakota. Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc news chief washington correspondent andrea mitchell, the New York Times columnist david brooks, yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for pbs newshour and tim alberta, chief Political Co