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A good wednesday morning. Craig melvin here from msnbc headquarters in new york city. There are 49 days left in the trump presidency. Right now the two words dominating washington, president ial pardons. Thats because unsealed federal Court Documents show investigators are looking into a potential briberyforpardon scheme involving president ial pardons. Separately multiple sources tell nbc news President Trump has been talking about the possibility of pardons for some of his family members and s...

Trump was subpoenaed in, but the more you read it, its pretty easy to see how that could turn into a criminal case with the way the funds were used in that. And that would be covered by a president ial pardon of federal crimes of ivanka trump, which has been something thats being talked about in this white house. Since the Trump Inaugural Committee was formed and since there were tens of millions of dollars within it unaccounted for from the very beginning, i remember doing those first slush fun...

Have doubled since november 1. No region of our country has been spared. Nbc news has obtained the latest White House Task force report send to state this is week saying the covid risk to allamericans is at a historic high and warns we are in a very dangerous place to the extremely high covid baseline and limited hospital capacity. And just this morning an unvarnished assessment at long last, where we might be headed. This from the cdc director. The reality is that december and january and febru...

Pennsylvania, michigan, nevada, georgia, arizona. Do you solemnly swear to protect the country about enemies foreign and domestic . There were error messages from tab grulation machines. That you take this without any purpose of evasion. Also in arizona, the attorney general announced that mailin ballots has been stolen from mailboxes and hidden under a rock. Well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which youre about to enter so help you god. I do. Congratulations. Oh, so if t...

Administrations Public Health team. Former obama certainly vivek murthy has been asked to reprise his role, according to the washington post. And the president elect asked dr. Anthony fauci to stay on in his current position, in addition to an expanded role as the chief medical adviser. The Biden White House will need all the help that it can get. 200,000 americans are testing positive for the virus every single day. 3,000 are dying from it. Those numbers are only getting worse in the coming wee...

Get one early. This as the time it takes for the u. S. To record another 1 million new cases keeps getting smaller and smaller. Five days to go from 14 million to 15 million new covid cases in this country. We are well on our way to the next million as the death toll just topped 288,000 people. Joining us now nbc News White House correspondent Kristen Welker and nbc News Pentagon correspondent courtney cueby. The president elect asked congress for a waiver to allow former general austin to serve...

Those are 9 11sized figures. Experts worry this is going to get worse. 9 11 every day. Yesterday also broke the single day record in confirmed cases eclipsing 200,000 in our nbc news count. The first time in this pandemic. The strain on our Hospital System is immense. For the first time in this pandemic we surpassed 100,000 hospitalizations. More than 14 million cases have been confirmed in this country. We can see around 400,000 deaths by the president ial inauguration on january 20th, accordin...

Midst of the fastest, widest and longest surge of new covid infections yet. As we await the vaccines arrival here in the United States, the question is, whens it going to arrive . And how long is it going to take to slow the spread . And president elect joe biden decides who he wants to lead his department of the housing and urban development and the department of agriculture, as pressure intense nice over diversity. The question is, whos going to lead the Justice Department . Its way too early ...

Initiating military hostilities rr accessing the launch codes and ordering a Nuclear Strike. Pelosi told democrats she was assured theres steps in place to prevent a nuclear launch. Theres kpas pe ration inside trump world. Top advisers are discussing the need to resist orders from the president that might be dangerous or unlawful. Two trump cabinet secretaries have resigned since wednesdays deadly attack. Education secretary betsy devos stepping down. Devos blaming trumps rhetoric at the capito...

Statehouses across the country. The images on the left show the National Mall as it looked four years ago. Thousands of people filled the mall for President Trumps inauguration. But on the right, this is what it will look like on wednesday because its closed. Officials are asking everyone to stay home this year. And heres what the mayor of the district of columbia had to say about whats in store this week. I think this will be an inauguration unlike any other. I think it was already destined to ...