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This is what the end result is.

We don't have enough nurses
for these patients.

I can't bring your wife.

I paid 27.

Show us your tax return.

Stop the steal.

Stop the steal.

No American
president needs to be impeached

twice.

To understand

how profoundly things changed in 2020,

you only need to look at America's
unemployment rate in February.

A historic low 3.5%.

By April, 14.8%.

It did quadrupled in two months
because of the pandemic.

The pandemic's effect on the economy
essentially sent the financial capital

of the United States,
the biggest economy in the world.

Doc New York as it was struck

early and hard with coronavirus
thousands dying,

the economy sent into a kind of panic
mode, and Donald Trump,

the president, really showing it,
looking all at.

See, at the time,
because of his emphasis on the economy,

he was spending a lot of time
telling Americans, essentially,

don't panic, this will be fine.

We will be okay trying to talk
the economy back up, knowing the economy

was inextricably tied to his fortunes
in a presidential election year.

But Americans knew, looking on the things
weren't fine,

that many of them were dying,
becoming ill, many dying.

This was a big, big problem.

And ultimately, of course,
400,000 would die in the United States

from the virus
while Donald Trump was president.

And over a million would ultimately die
before

the pandemic would be brought to heel
in the United States.

So it was a profound change
for Donald Trump

and in many respects,
his presidency never recovered.

The president of Poland,
welcome to the white House, Donald Trump's

first face to face meeting with the world
leader since pandemic lockdowns.

Upbeat about a vaccine and treatments?

You're going to have a big surprise.

A beautiful surprise
sooner than anybody would think.

As the coronavirus is surging,
more than 36,000 new cases today

in the US, the highest one day total yet

we are not out of this pandemic.

States setting new record, governors
sounding the alarm

because the spread is so rampant right
now, there's never a reason

for you to have to leave your home
unless you do need to go out.

The biggest spike among younger people.

What we're seeing in
Florida is really rapid transmission,

in that 18 to 34 age group.

Doctors blaming complacency.

People started to act like it was summer,
and they started to act

like they wanted to go back to parties
and do lots of big things like that.

And it's coming back and it's biting us,
quite frankly.

In Michigan, at least 34 cases
linked to crowds at one bar.

The young not just catching it.

17 year old student Carson Davis died
yesterday of Covid complications.

New York hard hit early,
now requiring anyone

arriving from current hotspots
to quarantine for two weeks.

We worked very hard
to get the viral transmission rate down.

We don't want to see it go up.

As frontline health workers worry,
the worst is to come.

We don't have enough nurses
for these patients in the United States.

Paul Carrack, seven news.

Well, I was reporting in the United States
for what would be the last couple

of years of the Trump presidency,
but also the start of the Covid pandemic.

State by state.

It was different in California.

There were,
a lot of a lot of restrictions in Florida

that were avoiding restrictions
whenever they could.

You'd have people talking
about a planned demic

refusing to wear masks,
and it's a blow against freedom.

There's sort of politics
triumphed over biology

in, in a lot of the,
sort of Republican states and areas,

local law enforcement would refuse
to enforce things like mask wearing.

So it was just chaotic. And,

obviously,
you know, there were state boundaries

and there are county lines
and that sort of thing.

But a pandemic and a disease
doesn't respond

to to imaginary lines.

And sadly,
the view that the stat showed that

those that did not take it seriously,
that's where there were more cases.

And sadly, it seems more deaths.

Four months to the election.

Donald Trump and rival
Joe Biden were in key battleground states,

each putting a different face
on the coronavirus crisis.

Deaths are down.

We have one of the lowest mortality rates.

We've done an incredible historic job.

It's like a child
who can't believe this has happened

to him, and his job is to whine about it.

His job is to do something about it.

To lead.

Biden boosted by new polls
showing him leading in six

crucial states
which helped Donald Trump win in 2016.

As the virus numbers worsen,
especially in California, Florida, Texas

where today the governor paused reopening
new research predicts

60,000 more Covid deaths
here in the US by October.

But it also says that more than half of
those deaths could be prevented

if people were required to wear masks.

The only option that we have right now
is to order, masks in public.

But calls to cover up
have polarized this country.

A local sheriff
rejecting a statewide order to wear them.

Don't be a shield. Yeah.

And a push to

require masks in Palm
Beach, Florida, sparked outrage.

This is a planned demic.

This is totally political.
And you know, it.

That that mask is killing people.

I don't wear a mask for the same reason
I don't wear underwear.

Things got to breathe.

The vote for masks passed unanimously.

With infections on the rise in 36 states

today, politicians were warned
the virus is out of control.

We are now having 40
plus thousand new cases a day.

I would not be surprised
if we go up to 100,000 a day

if this does not turn around,
states are winding back

freedoms concerned
about 4th of July crowds.

But in Texas, bar owners
are fighting the order to close down.

Come and get it.

Donald Trump tweeting as I watched
the pandemic spread its ugly face.

I become more and more angry at China.

Rival Joe Biden blast saying
the president's handling of the crisis

fix the shortage of PPE

for our health care workers
before you tee off another round of golf.

It's almost July, and it seems like
our wartime president has surrendered.

And despite growing appeals, please,

please, please

wear a face covering
when you go out in public.

What an American got to wear mask.

Defiance continues.

But you got to wear a mask, bro.

A man shoving his way into a store
without one would be six feet

away from an argument
over social distancing in a steakhouse.

Turns into this.

The fight against

the virus has a long way to go
when it comes to the 2020 election.

Covid was part of everything.
It was part of life.

The US, like every other country,
had gone into some kind of shutdown.

One of the key differences in the US was
the pandemic from the start was political.

It was initially talked about as something

that all the Democrats
worry too much about it.

And given Donald Trump
and his team were hoping that the economy

was going to be a big part of his election
pitch.

Suddenly, with the pandemic, things
shutting down, unemployment rising.

It was a disaster for them
that the US went into recession.

The pandemic again
reflecting divisions in America.

Republican run states versus Democrat
run states, approached it differently

in terms of the
the level they had mask wearing, the level

they had, shutdowns of their school system
and that sort of thing.

But what was in escape

was just the growing number of cases
and the growing number of deaths.

Deadly deja vu.

Two states reporting their largest single
day death toll since the pandemic began.

Texas and Florida.

Despite that going to different parts
of Florida today.

The president,
campaigning in the Sunshine State,

a critical battleground
that's currently battling

the nation's most significant
surge of Covid 19 for the Covid,

came to us the flu, the virus, the China
virus, whatever you like to call.

It's got many different names.

But before it hit,
we were doing really well.

But now, as cases continue to rise,
his popularity continues to fall.

Two thirds of Americans disapproving
of Donald Trump's pandemic response

are working to safely
and responsibly reopen

our country, reopen our schools,
get our country going again.

100%. Florida Disney will reopen tomorrow.

Lots of social distancing,
lots of hand sanitizer

as nearby NBA stars
and now living inside a bubble.

If we had any sort of significant
spread at all within our campus,

we would be shut down again.

The president has been forced
to abandon his own reopening

plans,
postponing a rally scheduled for tomorrow.

His campaign citing safety

concerns, blaming not the coronavirus,
but a tropical storm.

The president created a storm of his own
late today, commuting the sentence of ally

Roger Stone, the former campaign adviser,
was just days out

from reporting to a federal prison
to serve a 40 month term for obstructing

a congressional investigation
into the Trump 2016 campaign.

In the United States,
Amelia Brice, seven news.

I was there basically for Trump's entire
First

Presidency, so I was there for four years,
from the start of 2017.

So it was really when the case numbers
and also the deaths started to spike,

that that opinion shifted
and people started to think, hey,

maybe he's not taking this seriously
enough.

Even conservative commentators,
people on Fox, Tucker Carlson,

traveled to see him to say, hey,
I reckon you need to take this seriously.

It was dire in the US,

being in New York
and seeing the city closed down,

but also mass graves and those hospitals
set up in Central Park to treat people.

There was no doubt that this was

something we'd never seen, or something
we hadn't seen for 100 years,

and it didn't seem that he was willing
to drop his usual antics

to take it seriously.

He was still being Donald Trump.

He wore a campaign hat to
to visit rescue workers.

He was shaking hands.

He was still holding rallies.

He was still in groups.

And it did feel like he wasn't
taking the health advice seriously at all.

He was so determined
to keep the economy open

that he didn't
want to take the health advice seriously.

It's a sight not seen

since Covid 19 breached America's shores.

Donald Trump publicly and proudly

wearing a mask
emblazoned with the presidential seal.

Thank you.

Bowing to public pressure
to send a public message

while visiting the frontline
of the battle against coronavirus.

I think when you're in a hospital,
especially in that particular setting

where you're talking to a lot of soldiers
and people that in some cases

just got off the operating tables,
I think it's a great thing to wear a mask.

The centers for Disease Control
and Prevention called for Americans

to wear masks in April, but the commander
in chief resisted the advice,

viewing it as unnecessary
given he's tested for the virus daily.

I've never been against masks, but
I do believe they have a time and a place.

The timing no accident.

The photo op coming
as the United States recorded its highest

one day spike in new cases.

More than 68,000 people infected.

Death rates once declining,
now trending up.

We have areas that flamed up, and they're
going to be fine over a period of time.

With the death
toll rising and case numbers skyrocketing.

Pressure is mounting on both the president
and state leaders

to mandate the use of masks nationwide.

Existing restrictions
already outraging some.

And I'm not doing it.

So I woke up in a free country.

You guys are violating federal blood.

Authorities argue it's not a matter of
breaching rights, but doing what's right.

Donald Trump
returning to the coronavirus stage.

Thank you very much.

But unlike previous briefings
with his task force,

the president was alone
with a somber message,

probably, unfortunately, get worse
before it gets better.

Something I don't like saying
about things, but that's the way it is.

Acknowledging the virus, he's often
said, will simply disappear, is surging.

We have embers and fires
and we have big fires.

And for the first time since the pandemic
began, I have the mask right here.

I carry it and I will use it gladly.

Directly urging Americans to do the same.

When you are not able to socially
distance, wear a mask, get a mask.

Whether you like the mask or not.

They have an impact.

They'll have an effect on message.

Until asked about Ghislaine Maxwell,
charged

with procuring young girls
for abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

I haven't really been following it
too much.

I just wish her well, frankly.

A stunning statement
in an otherwise presidential address.

This pandemic
is not only reshaping America,

but the election campaign to Covid 19

is undoubtedly the greatest challenge
of Donald Trump's presidency.

And he knows this is now
his strongest platform to speak to voters.

Do you want the American people
to judge you on the ballot

in November by how you've handled
this pandemic so far?

This, among other things.

Rival Joe Biden sharpening his attack.

You know, he's quit on you
and he's quit on this country.

An early
morning tweet suggesting a late election.

The president asking
whether he should delay the November poll

until people can properly,
securely and safely vote.

What will happen in November? It's a mess.

Donald Trump claiming
any results would be delayed

and that Mail-In ballots are vulnerable
to fraud and foreign interference,

and everyone knows it.

Smart people know it.

Stupid people may not know it all.

While he knows he doesn't have the power
to change the date,

the Constitution decrees only Congress can
and it never has.

Never in the history of the country,
through wars, depressions

and the Civil War, have we ever not had
a federally scheduled election on time?

And we'll find a way to do that again
this November 3rd.

He's political allies and adversaries
immediately rejecting this suggestion.

Few elections have been as urgent
on so many levels as this one.

Democrats are accusing the president
of simply trying

to distract from economic news out today

that America has just suffered its worst
three month collapse on record.

The president hitting back,
accusing Democrats of intentionally

keeping the economy shut down to cost him
reelection.

Covid careful campaigning in a Corvette.

Events stunts are now online.

Joe Biden behind the wheel talking
American made.

This is just over another staple
the big nomination acceptance speech gone.

Biden now won't be at his party's
convention.

Trump looking at doing his speech
from the white House.

I think it would be
a very convenient location

that would be by far
the least expensive location.

But critics say that breaches
a long held tradition.

You don't have political events
in the capital.

You don't have political events
in the white House with no rallies.

Each side sniping via social media.

Every day that Donald Trump fails
to get this virus under control

is another day our economy falls further
and further behind.

Joe Biden sits in his basement
alone, hiding diminished, Biden

bristling when asked if he'd taken a test
for cognitive decline.

Why the hell would I take a test?

Come on,

man, that's like saying you
before you got in this program.

If you take a test
where you're taking cocaine or not.

What do you think?

And for the first time, Facebook
pulled one of Donald Trump's posts of him

saying children were almost immune
from coronavirus.

If you look at children, I mean,
they're able to throw it off very easily.

Facebook called it harmful misinformation,
the coronavirus touching everything

with 90 days until America votes,

Donald Trump has finally gone to war

with the US Postal Service
in a deluge of campaign ads.

This is the latest political minefield.

Donald Trump plans to disrupt
absentee ballots and vote by mail.

The president locked in a feud with
Democrats over an economic relief package

and funding for the US Postal Service,
critical for the upcoming election.

Would you be willing to accept
the $25 billion for the Postal Service?

Should they give us what we want?

And so what I want
is what the American people want.

The president reluctant to fund
the service, claiming rampant voter fraud.

His opponents
say he's subverting democracy.

What we've never seen before is

a president.

Say, I'm going to try to actively
kneecapped the Postal Service.

Republican donor and US Postmaster
general now under investigation,

accused of undermining the Postal Service
and cost cutting in an election year.

The service is warning
it may not meet Mail-In voting deadlines

in crucial swing states
like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan.

Why are they creating obstacles to US
voting?

Well, the answer is
because when we vote, things change.

For months,
he's railed against a Mail-In election.

But today, Donald Trump
requested his own ballot to vote remotely.

After a week of campaigning, the president
shifted focus briefly tonight

to a family crisis,
landing in New York City for a nursing

dash to his brother's bedside.

Robert Trump's
condition believed to be serious.

Hopefully, he'll be all right,
but he's he's pretty, seven hard time.

Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job
because he can't.

Barack Obama unleashing on his successor.

He has shown
no interest in putting in the work.

No interest in treating the presidency
as anything but one more reality show

that he can use to get the attention
he craves.

170,000 Americans dead,

millions of jobs gone.

Democracy itself, he warned, is in danger.

Tonight, I'm asking you to believe in
Joe and Kamala's ability to lead

this country out of these dark times
and build it back better.

As he spoke, Donald Trump tweeted,

why did he refused to endorse
slow Joe until it was all over?

They did such a bad job that I stand
before you as president.

Four years after losing to him, Hillary
Clinton urged Democrats

not to let history repeat.

Remember back in 2016 when Trump asked,
what do you have to lose?

Well, now we know our health
care, our jobs, our loved ones.

A night history was made.

Kamala Harris,
the first black and Asian American

nominated for vice president
to a virtual crowd.

My mother taught me that service to others

gives life purpose and meaning straight
to business.

For the now Biden Harris campaign.

Tomorrow, it will be all eyes on
Joe Biden here in Wilmington

for what will be the speech
of his political life.

Having the national spotlight

to try and convince Americans
to choose him over Donald Trump.

Clearly, with his experience, Joe
Biden had been around a very long time.

People knew who he was.

But I suppose there was some lingering
doubts about whether he was enough

to get people who were undecided
to vote for him instead of Donald Trump.

And I think to drive that home, obviously,
what was crucial is someone who,

like Barack Obama, who was so popular,
endorsing his former vice president,

and and Hillary Clinton as well,
making sure that everyone knew

that they were both backing him.

And I think this is part of the effort
to say that if we want to beat

Donald Trump, he's, he's the man.

And part of it was that we have to beat
Donald Trump for the good of the country.

And this convention will come to order
socially distance.

The Republicans roll call
with an inevitable result.

For years,
the only surprise the president's

appearing in-person in Charlotte.

Four more years.

If you want to really drive him
crazy, you say 12 more years after

panning Democrats for a gloomy convention,
starting his with a warning.

The only way they can take
this election away from us

is if this is a rigged election.

Again, claiming Mail-In voting
would mean widespread fraud.

They're using Covid
to defraud the American people.

As his postmaster

general was telling Congress
attacks on the Postal Service should stop.

I have put my word around
to different people.

The plea to that this is not helpful.

Donald Trump
stopping for crowds at an airport.

This has been a real love fest.

Visiting a food bank with daughter
Ivanka, firing up supporters.

It was spectacular.

It was energizing.
He's not sleeping in his basement.

Donald Trump is breaking with tradition

to appear every night at this week's
convention, and when he's not appearing

and speaking, it'll be his family
members in the spotlight,

embracing the man who represents a bright
and beautiful future for all.

Talking law and order.

The couple who pulled guns on Black Lives
Matter protesters.

Your family will not be safe,
and the Radical Democrats,

America
frontline workers and released hostages.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Great stories.

A reminder it's not just his party and
his campaign, but this week it's his shot.

On the
hallowed steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

We are the dream keepers.

America's brave struggles laid bare.

We will not dress up this genocide and boo
and call it police brutality.

The sister of Jacob Blake shot
seven times by police,

joining thousands to march
through the nation's capital.

The second civil rights movement
has began, and history is in the making.

The event organized after the killing
of George Floyd while in police custody.

My brother cannot be a voice today.

We have to be that voice.

We have to be the change.

And we have to be his legacy.

We thank you.

From the Floyd family

marking the anniversary of Martin
Luther King Junior's historic address.

I have a dream.

57 years to the day
we stand and march for love.

And we will fulfill
my grandfather's dream.

I believe some have chosen the answer.

With chaos, including the current occupant
in the white House today.

The president later

quoting the civil rights leader
at a political rally in New Hampshire.

We stand for

so much,

including Martin Luther King's
dream of a nation where our children are

judged not by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.

You know that blaming the media
for the country's

racial tension,
they stoked the flames and they know it.

Today's protest comes at the end
of a summer of unrest in America

and on the eve of an election.

Today's rallying cry
not just for justice reform, but to vote.

We will stand in the polls all day long.

It's turned into a battleground

after the police shooting of Jacob Blake

with two men shot and killed.

Fears of a new flashpoint in Kenosha.

A visit by President Donald Trump,

the state governor and city
mayor urging him to stay away.

This community is trying to heal.

We're trying to pull together.

And I think that at this point in time,
it's it's not the best idea.

The president's on the side
of law enforcement and the rule of law.

Blake's family
blaming the president for the turmoil.

How could they not, be see, nonviolence

when our man in the white House is steady
drumming it up?

After yesterday's clashes

between protesters in Portland,
where a man was shot dead,

the president

unleashed a barrage of tweets
attacking Portland's mayor

as incompetent, a fool, urging
bring in the National Guard.

The mayor firing back.

Do you seriously wonder, Mr.

President,
why this is the first time in decades

that America has seen
this level of violence?

It's you who have created the hate
in the division

with fears now payback for the shooting.

Presidential rival

Joe Biden condemning the violence,
whether on the left or the right.

And I challenge Donald Trump
to do the same.

Joe Biden back on the campaign trail

and the attack is rooting
for chaos and violence.

The simple truth is

Donald Trump failed to protect America.

So now he's trying to scare America.

Despite some stumbles, Covid
has taken more than 100 year.

Look, here's the lives. It's just.

It's when you think about it.

He landed this punch
on a toxic Donald Trump.

He keeps telling us he was president.

You'd feel safe. Well, he is.

President Biden's strategy
is to surrender to the left wing mob,

which is exactly what he's doing.

I don't think he even knows
what he's doing, insisting his own back is

for peaceful.

Paint is not.

And paint is a defensive mechanism.

Paint is not bullets.

Defending the 17 year old supporter who
fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha.

I guess he was in very big trouble.

He would have been.
He probably would have been killed.

As the president heads to the city,

ignoring pleas not to back up for local
police is also on its way.

Well,
this is what the president will be greeted

with when he arrives here in Kenosha
tomorrow.

A city still barricaded
and boarded up under the watchful eye

of the National Guard with fears
the visit will increase tensions.

It also increase enthusiasm and it could

increase, love
and respect for our country.

He'll meet police and business owners,
but not the family of police.

Shooting victim Jacob Blake.

There is nothing to talk about. I'm not.

This is not politics.

This is about the life of my son.

In a state famous for its gambling.

Donald Trump's betting big.

52 days from now,
we're going to win Nevada.

And we're going to win
four more years in the white House.

The crucial swing state
rally at a backup location after planned

events were canceled by the venue's
because of Covid rules limiting gatherings

to 50 people.

The campaign
insisting the crowd was temperature

checked with masks provided
Joe Biden cannot lead our country

because he doesn't really believe
in our country right now.

I don't think he believes in anything.

He just wants to go to sleep, that's all.

Please, darling, I want to go to bed.

I'm exhausted.

I made I made one speech yesterday
as a new poll here

put him four points behind his Democrat
rival, who slammed Trump's gatherings.

Nevadans don't need more bluster
from the president,

he said in a statement,
and don't need his reckless rallies

that ignore the realities of Covid
19 and endanger public health.

Counting down to their first debate face
off, Trump's also accused

the former vice
president of enhanced past performances.

I think there's probably possibly drugs
involved.

That's what I hear.
I mean, there's possibly drugs.

I don't know how you can go
from being so bad

where you can't even get out of the verbal
sparring to intensify this week,

as both Donald Trump and Joe Biden
head to multiple battleground states.

The president also heading here

to California to be briefed
on the state's wildfire disaster

looming.

Brief small talk, handshakes ruled out.

Looking forward to this, Mr.
President. Joe.

The pleasantries ended there.

I should mention that
because the question is.

The question is yes.

Is the left will you shut up and hope

this is a sign
that on a Supreme Court pick

turning to the Covid response,
it only got worse.

This is the same man.

It's no. By Easter
this should be gone away.

And by the way,
maybe you could inject some

bleach in your arm
and that would take care of it.

I was sarcastic, that was,
you know, that a lot of people died

and a lot more are going to die unless
he gets a lot smarter, a lot quicker.

Mr. president, did you use the word smart?

Don't ever use the word smart with me.

Don't ever use that word.
Oh, give me a break.

Because you know what? There's nothing
smart about you, Joe.

Joe Biden attacking a rival
now with a four year presidential record.

You're the worst one present in
America has ever had.

Everything
he's saying so far is simply a lie.

I'm not here to call out his lies.

Everybody knows he's a liar.

I, as the former vice
president's family was dragged in.

The mayor of Moscow,
his wife gave your son $3.5 million.

What did he do to deserve it?

How did he do with the Russian?

$180,000 that Mr.

Guy didn't answer.

He doesn't want. Let me answer
because he knows I have the truth.

His position has been totally,
thoroughly discredited, and

it's hard to get any word in
with this clown.

Fewer interruptions.

I'm appealing to you, sir,
to do that. Well, and him too.

Moderator Chris Wallace,
at times struggling to maintain control.

Worst part of. Let me ask my guest.

As the president
dodged questions on his tax,

I paid $38 million one year.

I paid 27 million as your tax returns.

You'll see it as soon as it's finished.

Donald Trump steered discussion
instead to law and order.

Are you in favor of border?

In order to have some of you
asked a question, let them know in order

to let him go in order with justice,
where people get treated fairly.

And then this challenged to condemn
white supremacists.

Do it.

Say it, and give me a white supremacist
and white like me to condemn voices

and right from my voice.

Stand back and stand by.

But I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what.

Somebody's got to do something
about Antifa and the left.

Donald Trump

and Joe Biden will face each other again
for two more presidential debates.

But with so many Americans voting early
and by mail because of coronavirus.

Here in Cleveland tonight,

it was perhaps their best chance
to make a lasting impression.

A hot mess inside a dumpster
fire inside a train wreck.

That was Joe.

I think the president
absolutely dominated this debate.

Quite frankly,
he could have been the moderator.

It's been an interesting hour and a half.

Sometimes there's a question about what
you get out of a presidential debate.

And I suppose what I got out of the debate
that we saw, the debates that we saw,

was Donald Trump being Donald Trump.

He was loud. He was talking over people,

full of full of

bluster by him at his rallies,

which his supporters lapped up
as the man that, you know,

they know and, that they love.

But for undecided voters who were trying
to do a bit, sort of half and half.

I'm not quite sure how many people
would have been convinced by that

or would have warmed to him
with that performance.

And perhaps of some of those, Joe Biden,
I think, when exasperated,

told Donald Trump to be quiet,

Biden's started
leaning towards him at that point.

I think that was
that was sort of a clear, a

clear moment that sort of showed
the difference between the two.

Dusting off a debate hangover, I think,
was just a national embarrassment.

Two candidates
bitterly divided on stage and off.

But I thought it was a great evening.

It was an exciting evening.

I see the ratings were very high
and it was good to be there.

Felt very comfortable.

A president's unflinching confidence,
a country grappling

with a debate
that devolved into a whole lot of noise.

The question is yours?
Is the question left?

Will you shut up? Interruptions
and insults.

It's hard
to get any word in with this clown.

Don't ever use the word smart with me.

Donald Trump today

facing questions over his comments
about right wing extremists from my boys.

Stand back and stand by.

I don't know who the Proud Boys are.

I mean, you have to give me a definition
because I really don't know who they are.

I can only say they have to stand down
and let law enforcement do their work.

After the debate debacle here
in Cleveland, organizers

admit there will have to be changes before
round two.

One, they're looking at cutting off
a candidate's microphone

if they flout the rules.

Last night's moderator,
a veteran Fox News host on the back foot.

Mr. president,
talking about 2 million people.

You're not to calling the debate
a terrible missed opportunity.

I never dreamt that
it would go off the tracks the way it did.

Chris Wallace says don't do that.
That's not.

Can you believe this guy?

I was debating two people last night.

The president back on his own stage
tonight claiming victory.

The verdict is in.

And they say that we we all of us won

big last night in terms of debates.

There's no better show on television
than a debate with Donald Trump in it.

He's incredibly entertaining.

He says things that you just think
you can't say in a political debate,

and people love it. People love tuning in.

People would sit in bars
to watch a presidential debate.

It was the famous prime time viewing
and it was highly entertaining

to see them go head to head.

He was very good on that sort of stage.

He enjoyed riling up the crowd.

He likes being in front of an audience,
and you could see that

he kind of had Bannon's measure
when it came to those live debates.

You could live fact check him
and he'd just disagree and move on

to his next point
or his next insult or his next quip.

And often
they were quite funny and entertaining,

so people kind of didn't mind.

People didn't pull them up and say,
oh, hang on.

What's Mr. Biden saying?

They letting go of it
because I know that it's TV gold.

Protests.

So we'll be seeing what happens over
those next couple, next couple of days.

Not out of the woods.

And over the next few days,
we're going to probably know

for sure, but showing strength.

So I just want to tell you
that I'm starting to feel good.

The president's resolute.

I'll be back. I think I'll be back soon.

Addressing the nation from inside Walter
Reed Military Hospital while outside,

his chief of staff offered
a more blunt assessment, telling reporters

the next 48 hours will be critical
in terms of his care.

We're still not on a clear path
to a full recovery.

Yesterday morning we were
we were real concerned with that.

He had a fever and, his blood oxygen level

and dropped, rapidly.

Appreciate the commander in chief's
medical team

emerging on the hospital's
front steps this morning.

Unable or unwilling to confirm reports

he'd been treated with supplemental
oxygen.

He's not needed anybody.

Any, this morning.

Today at all.

He's not on oxygen right now.

That's right. Right now he is not on.

All indicators are that,

that he'll remain off of oxygen,
going forward.

He may be off the campaign trail,
but that hasn't deterred the president's

supporters holding a Trump style vigil
tonight outside Walter Reed hospital.

We support you.

Even though you're sick,
we know you're going to get better.

We did.
And we're still going to vote for you.

Mr. president,
you might be down right now.

You might be weak right now, but
it doesn't mean you are all down and out.

This rose garden reception,
still the suspected

source of a growing Republican Party
Covid cluster.

Trump adviser Chris Christie
among the latest to test positive.

The former new Jersey governor

by the president's side
as they prepared for the first debate.

No one was wearing masks in the room.

When we were prepping the president
during that period of time, and,

we were the group was,

about 5 or 6 people in total tonight.

He's in hospital.

You wear a mask to protect the person
next to you.

Joe Biden speaking to workers with
a battleground map to himself for now.

I look forward to finishing up
the campaign.

The way it was started,
things got a lot better.

I think, like most countries saw it,
in some of the case numbers dropped.

People started to come out
a little bit more. I know in L.A.

we're allowed to eat on the sidewalk
footpath, which is very exciting for us.

So we did feel like
maybe we were through it.

Maybe we were through the worst of it

in terms of Covid and the riots
and just the huge division.

But there was very much a feeling
like the country needed to heal.

And I think that's why in those months
we did start to see Joe Biden

polling well,
because while he might not have been

the most impressive candidate,
he was calm.

He used the language about healing,
about coming together.

I'll be the president for all Americans,

which is very different
to what we were seeing from Trump.

And that's how I felt

in those last few months that this is
people were yearning for calm,

for healing, for things to just be
on the straight and steady for a while.

Even if you look at the final weeks
and months of that campaign, Biden

was effectively in his basement.

It was a one man band,
not even really saying much, kind of

just waiting and hoping
that the other side fell over.

Meanwhile, Trump's, you know, Trump
returned to rallies while cases.

There were still cases.
It was still Covid.

He ended up getting Covid in October
and spent a few days in hospital

and returned to the campaign trail,

breaching the health advice
to isolate for two weeks.

Not long after it was chalk and cheese
between the two campaigns, and I think

maybe that's why slightly more people
chose the calmer approach. Hi.

Perhaps you recognize me.

It's your favorite president,
Donald Trump.

Covid positive.

I think this was a blessing
from God that I caught it.

This was a blessing in disguise.

A contagious president
back in the Oval Office

touting the benefits of an experimental
antibody treatment.

I went in, no, I wasn't feeling so hot.

And within a very short period of time,
they gave me Regeneron and unapproved

drug cocktail.

Still in clinical trials,
I heard about this drug.

I said, let me take it.
It was my suggestion.

I said, let me take it to me.
It wasn't therapeutic.

It just made me better.

Okay,
I call that a cure, which he insisted

would be sent to hundreds
of thousands of Americans for free

was China's fault,
and China is going to pay a big price.

What they've done to this country,
China is going to pay a big price.

What they've done to the world.

Coronavirus center stage as America's vice
presidential candidates faced off

the pair

divided by plexiglass and
the administration's pandemic response,

the American people have witnessed
what is the greatest

failure of any presidential administration
in the history of our country.

Stop playing politics with people's lives.

The reality is
that we're going to have a vaccine,

a more civilized contest, none of the
fireworks of the presidential stoush.

If. Mr.

Vice President, I'm speaking,
if I may finish there

a fly in Mike Pence's hair
lighting up the internet,

the only off script moment as the well
drilled deputies dodged key questions,

including how to handle their much older
running mate being unable

to carry out their duties.

Tens of millions of Americans
were watching this one and only vice

presidential debate,
including the candidates bosses,

Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Not in the room, but still joining in.

Mike Pence is doing great.

She is a gaffe machine, Trump tweeted.

Biden, declaring his partner
smart, experienced and a proven fighter

as the leaders prepare
for their next clash set for next week.

A Covid comeback from a distant white
House balcony.

Thank you.

I want to thank all of you
for your prayers.

I know you've been praying and I was

in that hospital.

I was watching down over so many people.

The president, 23 days out from polling
day and fighting more than infection.

We got to vote these people into oblivion,
vote them into oblivion.

Billed as a peaceful law
and order protest supporters

mostly masked
but packed into the South Ward.

No thank you.

Promised Covid one.

The drugs, the treatment
Donald Trump credits for his swift return.

We're healing the sick
and we're going to recover.

And the vaccine is coming out very,
very quickly in record time.

Flesh colored bandages
a reminder of his recent hospital stay.

The campaign restart kept
to under 20 minutes.

Brief.

By the president's standards,
we did it in a safe way.

We all wore masks, everybody
kind of social distance.

But you look you look good.

I think the president is doing
what he needs to do to stay away,

staying away
and insisting Covid was going away.

It's going to disappear.

It is disappearing,
but it's not disappearing.

In fact, coronavirus cases are on the rise
in dozens of states,

and medical experts are still warning
against large gatherings.

It's happening in homes
and social occasions and people gathering

and taking their mask off,
pitching for support in Pennsylvania.

And what you got here Joe Biden
with six negative Covid test this week.

I think it's important the president

make sure two things.

One, that he is clear
he is not a spreader.

Trump's doctor later saying

tests found he's no longer
considered a transmission risk to others.

Get out and vote and I love you.

Thank you.

74 and a spring in his step

Donald Trump casting himself
as the young man in this race.

He has no idea what he's saying.

How the hell do you lose to a guy like
this?

Is his father publicly
eviscerating his 77 year old rival?

He had no idea
what the hell he was doing, folks.

Joe Biden, the target of a brutal
political character assassination.

He's always been a dummy.

If he was a nice guy,
I wouldn't hit him like this.

I'm running

against the single worst candidate
in the history of presidential politics.

The mocking followed up by this
from the president's Twitter account,

a doctored image picturing Biden
in a wheelchair in a nursing home.

Who's better for seniors this?

On the same day, the Trump campaign
made a direct pitch to over 65 the clear

choice Donald Trump, a demographic
that could swing this election.

You're expendable.

You're virtually nobody.

That's how he sees

the numbers not lost on Joe Biden
in an actual nursing home today.

With this appeal,
it has prevented Florida seniors

and people all across the country
from getting the relief that they need.

He shot.

He abuse you.

He crush you, your dreams.

This is Trump's sixth visit
to Pennsylvania in as many weeks,

considered
a must win state to win the white House.

The president's looking to put this virus
behind him, but cases are surging.

Who has had it?

Who has had it here? Who's had it?

You know a lot of people. A lot of people.

We are the people I want to say hello to
because you are right now immune alone.

Trump won this state
four years ago, vowing he will again.

You damn well better vote for me.

Pennsylvania.

In America's Midwest, Donald Trump tells
a crowd his second term is in their hands.

We win Wisconsin.
We win the whole ballgame.

This is a.

Man. What the hell do you

think I'm doing here on a freezing night
with 45 degree wins?

Four years ago, voters here
abandoned the Democrats to deliver a Trump

presidency, and nowhere more than
in the cornfields of Howard County, Iowa.

The 40 point swing
was the biggest in America.

Polls now predict a one term presidency.

But is the district that flipped
further than any other for Donald Trump?

Ready to flip back?

Better than most presidents.

Better than he's a business person.

And he looks at it that way.

Not these farming brothers.

I think he's doing been doing really good.

Nor the owner of Fatty's Cafe in town.

He wants a rerun of 2016.

I actually jumped up and down

screaming very happily.

Howard County Democrats
expect to claw back some ground, but say,

even in the eye of a third coronavirus
surge, many will stick with the president.

You still have to keep the economy going,
or more people are going to starve

to death and die from the corona.

The therapeutics are unbelievable.

And the cure is excuse me, I'm here.

Today's rallies defied local doctors
who asked the president

to scrap the events.

President Trump's rallies endanger
public health, and they have become

platforms for him to spread
medically inaccurate information.

The president now has little time
to stir some new momentum in his campaign.

Just 16 days to the election.

Making it tougher.

23 million Americans have already voted.

But in the Midwest, many of his original
backers remain loyal to the Trump cause.

In his home state of

Florida, a campaign
stop to cast his own ballot.

Who did you vote for today?

I voted for a guy named Trump.

The president hitting the road
early for a swing state trifecta,

trailing in the polls on election night,
but trumpeting victory.

We're going to win the state
of North Carolina.

And. Hello, Circleville.

We win Wisconsin. It's over.

Brushing off a third coronavirus surge

and a record daily tally of 83,000 cases.

That's all I hear about now.

That's all I hear.

Turn on television I Covid, Covid, Covid,
Covid, Covid, Covid.

We took our zinc on the way here.

We ate a vegetable of egg sandwich.

We are healthy.

I think it's real,

but I don't think it's as big of an issue
as they make it out to me.

Ohio seems to reflect the national mood
better than any other state.

Since 1964.

It's voted for the presidential winner

every time, and polls
say Donald Trump is ahead.

Here.

As Election Day
looms for both campaigns, it's

not just about trying
to get people on their side.

It's about getting people
to actually vote.

It's go time. It's go time now.

The Democrats deploying their most
valuable player for the homestretch.

You've already voted.
What do you need to do?

You've got

to go help your friends and family
make a plan to vote.

Relying on endorsements like these
to hold on

to what we have,
to keep the momentum and the lead.

He would have been incredibly
confident of reelection.

As I mentioned, the economy was strong,
jobs numbers was strong,

and that's what he wanted to be known
as the Art of the deal.

He was a businessman
who was getting the job done.

Incumbents
usually win a second term in America.

There's only two that haven't.

So he would have
that confidence behind him.

But he also would have felt like Teflon.

None of these scandals was sticking.

His approval rating wasn't dropping.

When these things were coming at him.

So it did seem like
he could do a lot of wrong,

but couldn't be held accountable
for doing anything wrong.

He was divisive. Absolutely.
At that point.

But nothing like the depths
of what we saw in 2020.

And it very much
felt like his plan to be reelected.

And I think he thought

quite easily, really fell to pieces
when we heard about this virus.

And you could tell,
I think, from the start

that he's his primary concern at first
was that this was derailing the plan.

It was an election year, and an election
year in America starts in January.

You have the primaries,
you have the caucuses.

And this just completely threw
a spanner in the works for for his plan.

And he he rallies,
he brings the troops together.

He's not a Covid safe president naturally,
just by the way he behaves.

So how do you hold a giant rally
when people aren't allowed

out of the houses?

His entire campaign
plan was thrown up in the air.

It capped off a three
rally day in one must win state.

Who is going to vote for President Trump?

Blitzing

Pennsylvania, arguing
Joe Biden simply isn't fit.

He called me George.

And then I hear the reporter should have
said, no, no, no, it's not George.

It's in response to this, when his rival
seemingly appeared to forget Trump's name.

What kind of country were going
to be four more years of Georgia?

Georgia?

Today Biden hit the suburbs.

Don't joke.

I made it through an unannounced
half an hour away

from the president
defending his low key campaign.

It looks like we're not.

We're not putting on Superspreaders.

As Trump hopped between three towns,
promising this oil rich pocket of America

he'll protect fracking
in the final stretch of the campaign.

Donald Trump

is returning to a key message that helped
get him elected in the first place.

Rebuilding America's economy
giving voters a choice

between what he says is a Trump boom
or a Biden bust.

We're thriving. When we were really,

just flat lining

midnight in Michigan last night.

Donald Trump
makes his final pitch in Grand

Rapids,
the same place he ended his 2016 campaign.

And we're going to have
another beautiful victory tomorrow.

But this time, he's the president
asking America to stay with him.

We can be a little bit
superstitious, right?

I think tomorrow's going to be
one of the greatest wins

in the history of our stamina.

Stretching into the early hours
of polling day

after an election eve on a knife's edge.

I have, like, five of these to do today.

So let's get going.
We're in the homestretch now.

We're in the homestretch.

A political showdown now in voters hands.

It's time for Donald Trump
to pack his bags and go home.

He's going to win
anyway. We're going to shovel.

National polls still have him behind.

I'm fighting to survive.

But Donald Trump
is banking on a repeat of 2016.

Somebody said that the show voters.

My people are not shy.

Jobs and economic recovery.

The heart of his final five city strike.

You had the best three years that you've
ever had under President Trump.

A frenzied final swing state push,
but with close to 100 million

early votes already cast,
the unknown result remains under siege.

Please
don't cheat. Governor, please don't you?

Because we're all watching.

We're all watching you, governor.

One more day.

Laser focused on key state. Pennsylvania.

Lady Gaga is going to be speaking.

I can be saying

the man who would be America's oldest
president.

77 year old Joe Biden and drafting
star power for the young vote

will fall from the shallow lawn now

closing with the pandemic
that's defined this campaign.

Last night, Trump went on to say
he was going to fire doctor 5G.

Well, I've got a better idea.

Let's fire Trump for I'll hire fire chief.

In ordinary times, crowds would gather
outside the white House on Election Day.

But these are not ordinary times.

The president's home is tonight
surrounded by hundreds of meters

of perimeter fencing.

In the clearest sign yet,
the police are bracing for civil unrest.

The threats of Post-Poll chaos clear
in city after city, Australians warned.

Hopefully there will not be a tip
and go over to violent,

protest, or unlawful activity.

But I think it's probably a good thing
people are getting prepared.

A basic campaign
that seems unlikely to end tomorrow.

What was inescapable
was the growing number of cases,

and where the population of the US
was starting to leave the world.

By May, there have been 100,000 deaths.

By September,
there've been 200,000 deaths.

By the time the election was rolling
around, there were 300,000 deaths.

And that got to the point
where Americans knew people

they knew family, that new friends,
they knew people in their town,

the communities who had died.

So this was no longer a hoax.

And I think
as those numbers were getting worse,

people saying, well,
and the Democrats really pushed this.

Donald
Trump has failed to handle the pandemic,

and we are suffering because of it.

And our economy is suffering
because of it.

And I think that started resonating
a lot more with voters.

He still one,

maybe two states
short of winning the white House.

But Joe Biden tells supporters
it's in the bag.

We have no doubt that when the count is
finished, Senator Harris and I

will be declared the winners of the 50
states, six are still undecided.

We continue to feel, Senator
and I, we continue to feel very good

about where things stand.

Mail-In ballots breaking Democrat blue
in the crucial election.

Swing state Pennsylvania,
Donald Trump had led

by more than 600,000 votes on election
night.

Tonight,
Joe Biden is poised to snatch the lead

if Joe Biden gets Pennsylvania, it's game
set match.

So it's very close in Pennsylvania, right?

There's no question.

And so that means it's
going to take longer.

Longer too
in Nevada Joe Biden's age holding for now.

But he's losing ground in Arizona.

The Trump team was furious

when the friendly Fox network
called it early for the Democrats.

So why is everybody rushing to close
the book on the 2020 presidential race

before Election Day seven news?

Watch this effort
to rouse up early voters in Atlanta.

Now, those early votes
look like delivering

the Republican stronghold Georgia
for the Democrats.

What are you doing?

Are we rolling people to the polls

of 3FRE early votes,
but especially mail in ballots,

have infuriated the president,
who says many of them are illegal.

He said that this was because of fraud
and cheating.

It is because of math.

Democracy is sometimes messy.

It sometimes requires a little patience

and cash to fight Team Trump in the courts

Joe Biden tweeting a plea for donations
to wage

the largest election protection
effort in history in America.

The vote is sacred.

This as America's pandemic agony deepens.

Two days
now with cases above 100,000 a day.

Joe Biden, addressing the issue
as though he's already in the white House.

Cases are on the rise nationwide,

and we're nearing 240,000 deaths
and telling followers

the people will not be silenced,
be bullied or surrender.

Democrats are now hopeful that within
a day or so, the presidency is theirs.

In Wilmington, Delaware,
Tim Lester seven news.

I spent 16 years working in Canberra,
in Parliament House,

covering politics there, in particular,

the overseas missions and foreign visits
by five of their prime ministers,

and then came to the United States,
in 2020

specifically then to cover the election

and stay on as a US correspondent.

And I've been here ever since.

Trump's allegations on voter
fraud were actually quite scattered.

There were a few particular themes.

There was a claim, for example, that suit
cases of votes have been brought in that,

a voting room
had been cleared of officials

so that these suitcases of pre-prepared
votes could be brought in

and were then counted.

That was totally discredited,
by the way, as time went on.

A particular favorite,
though, in terms of the claims

and this was pushed particularly by,

Rudy Giuliani, was on the voting machines

prepared by a company called Dominion
Voting Systems,

which they said had been made,
for Hugo Chavez in Venezuela

and was set up to turn votes
from one side to the other,

originally in the favor of Hugo Chavez,
they claimed,

but in this case had been redeployed
to help Joe Biden.

The evidence on that two
turned out to be so poor.

The Dominion Voting Systems
sued Fox News for,

airing the claims repeatedly, and Fox News
wound up paying 787.5

million USD in a settlement,
to get out of it.

That tells you all you all you need to
know about how credible those claims were.

He fired the

warning shots that he wouldn't go down
without a fight.

If you count the legal votes,
I easily win.

If you count the illegal votes,

they can try to steal

the election from us. A sitting president

in the white House, undermining
his country's election process.

This is a case
where they're trying to steal an election.

They're trying to rig an election.

Hurling unfounded, widespread allegations
will not allow the corruption

to steal such an important election
or any election for that matter.

And, we can't allow silence of anybody

to silence our voters and manufacture
results.

He's targeted
the mail in vote, millions of them.

In a pandemic election.

We were winning in all the key locations
by a lot, actually.

And then our numbers started miraculously
getting whittled away in secret.

We were up by nearly 700,000 votes
in Pennsylvania.

Yes, in Georgia, I won by a lot states
still counting all day changing numbers.

Left to his own party to explain.

In Pennsylvania, Democrats voted by mail
and Republicans voted by, in person.

It's because you asked them to do so.

Democrats voted by mail.

That's why.
That's why your lead went away.

Major American networks
cut off the prime time speech.

And we have to interrupt here because
the president has, made a number of,

false statements, including the notion
that there has been fraudulent voting,

and we're not going to allow
it to keep going because

it's not true.

David.

There is simply no evidence
that has been presented.

He is trying to plan an alternate route
to retain the white House

as the most powerful person in the world,
and we see him

like an obese turtle on his back,
flailing in the hot sun.

He'd laid the groundwork for this battle
and this election will be the most

rigged election in history.

Only fake ballots all over the place.

I've been talking about Mail-In
voting for a long time.

It's, It's really destroyed our system.

It's a corrupt system.

Two days after the vote,

with his path narrowing,
that's broadened to claims of conspiracy.

These really phony polls.

I have to call them phony polls.

Fake polls were designed
to keep our voters at home, create

the illusion of momentum for Mr.

Biden.

We haven't seen the president
since election night, and he hasn't left

the white House in days.

But right now, he is making sure that

this is a narrative,
a story where he remains the headline.

Only hours earlier, his rivals spoke
first, calm and measured.

I ask everyone to stay calm,
all the people to stay calm.

The process is working,
the count is being completed

and, we'll know very soon.

At least 69
million Americans have voted for Trump.

5 million more than four years ago.

We think we will win the election
very easily.

We think there's going to be
a lot of litigation,

but ultimately, I have a feeling
judges are going to have to rule.

But there's been a lot of shenanigans and
we can't stand for that in our country.

There are reports of problems
with the Mail-In system.

Two days ago,
the attorney general there from Arizona

found 18 unopened ballots
hidden under a rock.

Now, those ballots have
since been returned,

but it just shows you
how vulnerable Mail-In voting is.

The president winning legal action
in Philadelphia, claiming

observers
weren't close enough to watch the count.

People are using binoculars to try and see
the strength of the integrity

of this vote is really unparallel
an attack, leaving so many questions.

President Trump took none.

Mr. president, are you going
to accept the outcome of the election?

Sir, if you lose, every vote counts.

Every vote.

Protesters protecting votes.

Where are the votes?

Where are the two camps dividing?

One group demanding counting continue
while others call for counting to stop.

Near Phoenix, dozens of Trump supporters
gather outside

the elections building,
some trying to get inside.

The poll workers have to be escorted out
by armed sheriff's deputies.

In Detroit, self-proclaimed election
challengers trying to storm the room

where votes are being counted.

Over 50
protesters were arrested in New York

after a peaceful rally turned violent.

And every vote has to count.

Donald Trump now sending in the lawyers
to stop the count

with an avalanche of cheating and rigging
claims.

Suing in Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania
and now Nevada.

Please mail ballots.

They can be from Mars
as far as we're concerned,

Joe Biden could have voted 50 times.

This is fraud.

This is absolute fraud.

We've seen it in Philadelphia before.

They're trying to make a mockery
of the election of this country

as Joe Biden edges ahead in the battle
for the white House.

I'm not here to declare that we've won,

but I am here to

report the count has finished.

We believe we will be the winners.

A divided America with no leader
decided 2020 was already

a year of drama, unexpected events
and so much turmoil.

So perhaps
no surprise that the presidential election

was not going to end in a simple cut
and dried way on election night,

it was too close to call,

and that was partly
because of what had happened with Covid

that there were a lot of people
who voted remotely that voted by mail.

And so the number of votes
were counted on the night.

This is the number of
votes are still had to be counted, meant

things weren't necessarily clear.

Not all the states were were counted.

Some of the counting kept changing.

So on election night,
it was still up in the air

as to what was happening,
the count still underway, but

what immediately happened was Donald Trump
calling

South, saying that this was,
some kind of corrupt thing, that,

that the votes were being hidden,
that the count was being changed.

And it was a it was language
that his supporters soon picked up.

And so over the coming days,

suddenly there were lawsuits
across the country challenging the vote.

There were allegations
that ballots were being dumped in rubbish

bins and, and, and corruption
among election officials.

And his supporters picked that up.

And so they were protesting, stop
the steal was their slogan,

for fear
that Donald Trump was about to to lose.

Election
officials were flabbergasted by this meant

they'd been working for years,
as they always do,

to prepare for this election,
to prepare for this.

This key ideal is key
part of the United States.

This democratic choice.

And now the very process
was being thrown into into chaos

by the protesters, by the lawsuits
from from Trump and his supporters.

And so it took several
it took several days because the count

was slowed down by the the ballots
that had been mailed in because of Covid.

And so it was four days before
finally the last date, Pennsylvania

was called for, Joe Biden.

That meant Donald Trump couldn't win.

Joe Biden had it.

And the effect I remember that
morning in Philadelphia was instant.

That morning, the news came out.

The count had been declared to the state.

The downtown of Philadelphia
was filled with people celebrating

San Francisco, Washington, DC,
cities across the country.

There was massive
turnout of people relieved.

I think that there was finally
an election result.

And today I'm relieved that that result
was Joe Biden had been elected.

But as we now know,
it was just the start of a fight

against that election
result from Donald Trump

and his supporters.

Right after four years

and four days of waiting, what, you know,
what did this one.

This is the result tens of millions
of Americans were counting on.

Us to come up the Capitol

dancing to a Democrat president today.

Today.

Oh my God.

Thank you, thank you.

His supporters
excited Donald Trump's first and only term

is now ending.

That same euphoria

repeated in cities across the U.S..

Democrats
looking forward to what's coming.

We believed in our hearts
that Biden was best for the United States.

In Chicago
and in front of his hotel, they cheered

in the city where Trump made his name.

They sang the.

House, and in the state

that delivered for his opponent.

Pedestrian's party a blue celebration.

Every time the light changed from red.

Oh, the news spread like wildfire
throughout Philadelphia

within minutes of Joe Biden being declared
the winner, people flocked here

to the city Hall, taking to the streets,
taking over the streets to celebrate.

Everybody started coming out of their

buildings, out of their apartments,
cheering, yelling, honking.

It was amazing. Awesome.

You feel like a huge
weight has been lifted off our shoulders.

And I'm already hopeful in 2024
that Kamala Harris is the next president.

Pennsylvania tipped the Electoral College
scales in Joe Biden's favor,

but among the celebrations,
they go out Trump supporters.

This lone man confronted in the crowd
those penned in with taunted

and protected by police, three courts,
Supreme Court,

Supreme Court and refusing to back down
what you're feeling at the moment.

I know great.

The other side, they actually believe
that a news agency can tell them

who the president is, and then they start
dumping these fake ballots, and there

they're going to find them all out.

In Michigan,
some simply wouldn't accept the result.

In several other cities, albeit
in smaller numbers,

so-called Stop
the Steal rallies took place.

You committed voter fraud cheaters,
and it's fully proof

that the press is manipulating
and propagandizing this whole election.

But the night belonged to Team Biden.

Hoping for the next four years
at least, provided

that America will march
to a different beat.

A president elect inheriting a pandemic.

I will spare no effort
to turn this pandemic around

once we're sworn in on January
20th, on the day America

cracked 10 million cases of coronavirus,
Joe Biden laid out

a plan to steer the country through,
hammering home the most basic measures.

As you work toward
a safe and effective vaccine,

we know the single most effective thing
we can do to stop the spread of Covid.

Wear a mask and naming his taskforce.

This group will advise on detailed plans
built on a bedrock of science.

The Trump administration, with its own
meeting and its own task force.

Vice President Mike pence heaping praise
on his boss for a vaccine breakthrough.

Despite Pfizer receiving no federal funds
for the development or research

from the white House, the president
questioned the timing of its release.

The FDA and the Democrats
didn't want to have me get a vaccine win

prior to the election,
so instead it came out five days later,

he wrote, going on a purge today,
sacking his defense

chief on Twitter again
railing against the election results.

Nevada is turning out
to be a cesspool of fake votes, he wrote.

We want to protect the franchise
of the American people.

We want an honest, accurate, lawful count.

We want maximum sunlight.

We want maximum transparency.

The white House spokesman

in muted minutes
seen by the president's channel of choice.

I just think we have to be very clear.

She's charging up.

The other side is welcoming
fraud and welcoming illegal voting.

Unless she has more details to back
that up.

I can't in good countenance continue
showing you this publicly.

He's challenging the result,
but privately it's reported Donald Trump's

telling aides he's already looking forward
to a potential run in 2024.

Presidents can only served two terms,
but they don't need to be concurrent.

Still, the president's pushing ahead
with litigation, and President Trump

is 100%
within his rights to look into allegations

of irregularities
and weigh his legal options.

The attorney general late tonight
authorizing federal prosecutors

to investigate clear and apparently
credible allegations of irregularities.

This election is over.

It's time to put aside the pardon,
the partizanship

and the rhetoric
that designed to demonize one another.

The longest

stretch of the Trump presidency
without an appearance on camera.

It ended with this update
on the Covid vaccine.

The vaccine will be distributed
to frontline workers, the elderly

and high risk Americans immediately
and the general population, he says.

By next April
may this as the US suffered a record

170,000 new Covid cases on Friday.

Whatever happens in the future,
who knows which administration will be?

I guess time will tell, but

I can tell you this administration
will not go to a lockdown

that the first public glimpse of doubt

from Donald Trump over
the outcome of last week's election,

it seems like he's finally beginning
to move through the stages of grief.

He got stuck in denial.

CNN projects it for the first time
since Bill Clinton in 1992.

The state of Georgia is blue.

TV networks have called the final

three undecided states
North Carolina for Donald Trump.

It's shameful that he is still in denial.

The numbers couldn't be any clearer.

But Democrat Joe Biden wins
Arizona and Georgia,

pulling him well above the needed
270 Electoral College votes.

The result
a perfect reversal of the 2016 win.

Donald Trump called an Electoral College

landslide and a tremendous landslide.

Really a landslide. We had a landslide.

President Trump is now

looking to protesters to press his claim
the election was rigged.

He tweeted today he might even join
one protest here tomorrow.

With hindsight, election night 2020

looks like a, a really pivotal night
for Donald Trump.

He was in the white House.

He had a number of aides
and, advisers around him,

and watching obviously,
the election results come in.

There was a fair deal of confidence
in the Trump camp, it seems,

on that night in November
that they could win.

And they felt, in fact, they likely would.

And that was the way
the early vote count felt

for those who were watching the the US
election results in the early hours.

Trump did pretty well early.

There was,
a defining time, though, about 1115

eastern US time in the evening, Fox News,
which had,

of course,
long backed Donald Trump with his,

TV network of preference.

Fox News called Arizona for Joe Biden.

It tells you all you need to know
about the Trump administration

and the man himself, that they saw
that as a treacherous act from Fox.

What on earth were they doing
giving one of the swing states,

to Joe Biden at a critical stage?

The the vote count,
on the evening of the election,

you'd think as a journalist, we just say
it is a natural matter of statistics and,

and those clued into elections deciding
when a state ought to be called.

No, this was a matter of treachery.

He called an extraordinary 220
and press conference.

I mean, what the Western leader
on an election night waits till 2:20

a.m., to call a press conference
to discuss the results.

But Donald Trump threw that convention out
and did exactly that.

Not only did he call it at that time,
of course,

he defied the election results.

He said it had been rigged,
that it had been stolen from them.

He said in course,
a pattern that he's now never backed off.

And looking at that night,

it appears that his adviser,

former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani,
who was at the white House that night,

was particularly influential
in telling Donald Trump that it appeared

that the the election had been rigged,
that there was suspicious,

votes had been cast, that he really did
need, to push this line.

Others of his advisers were counseling him
not to.

They were saying, don't
go there, which we shouldn't go there.

But once the leader

did in that press conference,
he essentially locked in a course

on the 2020 election
that he stuck to until today.

That defies
so much evidence to the contrary.

What he Washington on edge

Trump supporters and opponents
clashed near police barriers

around the white House
as the president heads to play golf.

Earlier, he appeared to finally accept
Democrat Joe Biden's victory.

Eight days ago,
he won because the election was rigged.

No vote watchers or observers allowed.

Is the president right now
in this tweet conceding this election?

No, no, no, far from it.

What he's what he's saying is more,
I guess you'd call it,

sarcastic.

Sure enough, a clarifying tweet Joe

Biden only won
in the eyes of the fake news media.

I concede nothing.

When your time is up, then it is your job

to put the country first
and think beyond your own ego.

And this Republican agrees.

Donald Trump's old national security
advisor has slammed party colleagues

who've backed the president's effort
to overturn the vote.

But he won't leave graciously,

and he'll do a lot of damage
in the meantime, prompting this.

John Bolton was one of the dumbest people
in government, a real dope.

The white House transition remains stalled
as the country's

third wave of corona virus rose
to record levels.

And yet,
the most prominent virus adviser here

says President
Trump has not been involved.

The last time the president
was physically at a task force

meeting was several months ago.

Joe Biden appeared at church today,
the president elect's

inauguration is still nine
and a half weeks away.

Donald Trump's final G20 meeting.

So what's on the president's mind?

13 minutes into the World Leaders Summit,

his 89 million Twitter followers find out.

Massive and unprecedented fraud

still trying to turn the election
he lost almost three weeks ago.

President Trump headed for golf,
skipping a leaders

meeting on the pandemic
as it ravages his country.

This is faster, it's broader
and what worries me.

It could be longer.

And I think it's on all of us right now
to make sure that it's not longer.

Americans
join giant traffic queues for Covid tests.

With the daily number of new cases
poised to break through 200,000,

the national death toll now above 255,000.

Apparently, I got the Rona.

The president's eldest son speaking
from isolation about his diagnosis.

I may have a couple days of, solo time

and there's only so many guns
I can clean before that gets bored.

So in the week ahead, America's
Thanksgiving holiday authorities

fear millions will press on
with the typical travel

and big family events if they do.

Covid cases are all but certain to surge
higher still.

Nothing stopping me.

Nothing.

I am nervous,
but I want to be with my babies.

I feel safe to fly. I think.

I think we should
all fly for Thanksgiving.

The Trumps counting down to a
not so festive farewell

for the president out of sight,
but giving the green light

for a transition
to a Biden administration.

His formal approval in a tweet
but no concession.

Our case strongly continues.

We will keep up the good fight
and I believe we will prevail.

Nevertheless,
in the best interest of our country.

I am recommending that Emily and her team
do what needs to be done

with regard to initial protocols
and have told my team to do the same.

Emily Murphy,
who holds the transition funds now

releasing them as the Biden camp, plans
to, quote, gain a complete understanding

of the Trump administration's efforts
to hollow out government agencies.

Joe Biden,

the incoming commander in chief, already
down to business with the nation's men.

Thank you, all of you.

Earlier announcing key cabinet picks.

Among them
former Secretary of State John Kerry

returning to the world stage
as a presidential envoy on climate.

And the first woman picked to lead
the nation's intelligence

agencies and treasury.

So it looks like Republicans

will have any significant profile
blocks to your nomination.

Are you kidding me?

What is

national security first,
because it's national security

as yet another crucial state,
Michigan certified his win.

Trump's embattled legal team calls
it simply a procedural step,

vowing to continue fighting
what they call election fraud.

Some of these lawyers

are now turning on each other, and today,
conservative media turned on them.

You announce massive bombshells.

Then you better have some bombshell.

I will introduce you now.

Mr. president, you are connected
a bit of fight, baseless claims.

This election was lost by the Democrats.

They cheated Donald Trump
phoning in to an event

with Pennsylvania Republicans to challenge
Joe Biden's victory.

We have to turn the election over
because there's no doubt

we have all the evidence, we have
all the affidavits, we have everything.

Fraud claims thrown out by judges.

Still,
the post-election spectacle rolls on,

spearheaded by the former New York mayor.

I know crooks really well.

You give them an inch and they take a mile

and you give him a mile
and they take your whole country.

Today, one crook granted clemency.

The president
pardoning his first national security

adviser, Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty
to lying to the FBI.

Congratulations to General Flynn and
his wonderful family, the president wrote.

I know you will now have a truly fantastic
Thanksgiving

heading into the American holiday.

The president elect with
a national address on a national crisis.

We need to remember we're at war
with the virus, not with one another,

as he looks to mend wounds at home
and bolster relationships with key allies.

Joe Biden will also have to navigate
one of the most complicated relationship

of all China
President XI Jinping, becoming

one of the last world leaders
to congratulate him overnight,

releasing a statement saying he hopes
the two nations will uphold the spirit

of non conflict, non confrontation, mutual
respect and win win cooperation.

A fractious relationship
at an all time low.

Its future still uncertain.

In Joe Biden's America,
this may be the most important speech

I've ever made a presidential transition
unlike anything America's ever seen.

I went from leading by a lot

to losing by a little.

They said you could sign your name
as Santa Claus and it would be accepted.

This is normal.

Normal. Look, even here, normal.

And then. Boom.

49 days before he's
due to leave the white House, Donald Trump

spent 46 minutes on Facebook
raging about a rigged election.

It is statistically impossible

that the person me
that led the charge lost

repeating claims of voter
fraud debunked yesterday by his own

attorney general, a white House
address adding weight to reports.

Trump's considering a preemptive pardon
for himself, three of his children

and his lawyer.

Now I hear that these same people
that failed to get me in Washington

have sent every piece of information

to New York
so that they can try to get me there.

Unwilling to accept the result
of this election and eyeing off

the next Donald Trump will be back
in campaign mode this weekend,

holding a so-called victory
rally in Georgia.

President elect Joe
Biden has largely ignored Trump's claims,

focused instead on a health crisis
he's about to inherit.

We're likely to lose
another 250,000 people dead

between now and January.

You hear me?

Because people aren't paying attention.

There's no doubt that Covid
completely derailed election for him.

The election was so close.

It's very possible
without Covid he would have won.

And we've often said,
what if it was a year earlier or later?

And I guess he's a politician.

He always had his eyes on the prize.

But there were those moments
where people were dying

and they just didn't
care anymore about an event.

But there were times people were saying,
is there even going to be an election?

I have really good news today.

Our nation has achieved a medical miracle.

The late night approval America's
been praying for.

I am thrilled to report that the FDA
has authorized the Pfizer vaccine.

Operation Warp Speed, now in Top Gear
100 million doses.

Shipping out the first vaccine
will be administered in less

than 24 hours and soon
end the pandemic once and for all.

In a country setting,
a frightening new record every other day,

probably for the next 60 to 90 days,
we're going to have more deaths per day

than we had in nine over 11,
where we had a Pearl Harbor,

an impatient president had accused
the drug regulator of being old, slow

in playing games, coupled with stunning
reports, the white House chief of staff

told FDA Chief Doctor Hahn to authorize
the vaccine tonight or resign.

Hahn labeled that an untrue representation
of the phone call.

We have given Pfizer and other companies
a great deal of money, hoping

this would be the outcome.

But on the same day, another hope dashed.

Breaking news right now out of the US
Supreme Court.

President Trump's latest
legal bid to prove he won the election.

Thrown out.

This was a long shot lawsuit
by the state of Texas, backed

by Donald Trump, and more than 100 House
Republicans won their bid

to overturn the election results
in four key battleground states

was rejected by all nine justices
in a one page ruling

for the first time,
even referencing a future under Joe Biden.

I think that was, it a
sort of couched in terms of,

you know, if in fact.

But I don't think he was conceding
anything in particular.

He's still litigating.

Fraud

from the start, the changeover
between the current president's

team and incoming team is growing tetchy.

We encountered obstruction, including,
Joe Biden says,

from defense leaders
on critical national security matters.

It's nothing
short of my view of irresponsible ability.

After talks with security advisers,
the president elect

had a message for allies
likely to be noted in Canberra

as we restore a of American leadership
on the global stage,

a pledge to repair alliances damaged
through the Trump years, then joining

those allies in standing up to China,
the whole Chinese government accountable

for its trade abuses, technology,
human rights and other fronts as well.

He accuses the Trump administration
of inflicting enormous damage

on US
security agencies of hollowing them out.

No response from the president.

He remains in Florida, tweeting his claim

November's
presidential election must be overturned.

Not according to his favorite newspaper,

a very fine newspaper, the New York Post.

Stop the insanity demands
the New York Post.

You lost the election,
the pro-Trump tabloid warns the president.

He risks finishing not as a revolutionary
but the anarchist holding the match.

Others may yet applaud him, turning $600.

Pandemic relief payments into $2,000
checks.

The president having insisted on it
that more generous handouts

for ordinary Americans
and now before Congress

campaigning

again in Georgia,

where he pulled off an unlikely victory
six weeks ago, we got to vote

incoming President Joe Biden now
tries to wrestle control of the US Senate

after Republican attempts to turn
the state's result in two recounts.

Georgia certainly wasn't going to stand by
and let Donald Trump

or the state of Texas or anyone else
come in here and toss out your votes.

This is several world
leaders offered belated congratulations

for the Biden election win, one of them,
Russia's Vladimir Putin as well.

Top Republicans, influential Senate leader
Mitch McConnell,

largely silent since November's election?

Not any more.

So today I want to congratulate president
elect Joe Biden.

We disagree on a lot of things.

I think we can work together.

On losing his most powerful
ally in Congress.

A setback to President Trump's claim fraud
cost him last month's election.

He's reaction
he headed online and on the attack,

claiming tremendous evidence
pouring in on voter fraud.

The president is still involved
in ongoing litigation,

and for both the current
and new president,

personal decisions
to make on the Covid vaccine.

If and when to get vaccinated.

Well, the president
currently at this moment has said

he is absolutely open
to taking the vaccine.

Doctor Fauci recommends
I get the vaccine sooner or later. Dr..

Washington turns stormy as the Trump
presidency

nears and he's stop the steal,
stop the steal.

The president's supporters
say this is their last stand.

Welcome to the revolution.

President Trump is pushing his vice
president to ignite the revolution.

He called Mike pence to the white House
after falsely claiming

the vice president has the power to reject
fraudulently chosen electors.

Other Republi cans in Congress say
they will break with tradition tomorrow

and vote against certifying Joe Biden's
presidency on January 6th.

I will object to the Electoral College
vote.

Georgia's two pro-Trump Republican Senate
candidates are among them.

Come on in.

They faced voters today
in two Georgia elections.

The Democrats need to win both these seats
to take control of the Senate.

Right now, Raphael
Warnock is leading by 35,000 votes.

I am going to the Senate

to work for all of Georgia.

The Congress is widely expected to weather
Donald Trump's attack

and confirm his replacement.

Many worry, though.

He's open to Pandora's box and Partizan
fighting will be the new norm here.

Whenever America changes presidents.

Yet there's a certainty
among these protesters.

Donald Trump was cheated in November,

and if Congress does
not save him tomorrow,

they believe something else will get Trump
needs to be in the president's

Oval Office.

I truly believe that Biden
needs to go to prison.

There will be a war in this country.
It's that simple.

January 6th was already to be an important
day in the process of electing Joe Biden

as president, was the day where Congress
was to confirm his election.

A lot of pressure had been put on
in the days before by president,

Trump on his vice president, Mike pence,

who had to oversee that process
in the Congress, hoping

that pence would accept the vote of these
false electors that Trump supporters

had set up and therefore, hand

the prison
ANC hand a second term to Donald Trump.

The public pressure grew,
and part of putting that public

pressure on Mike
pence was calling this enormous rally

on the ellipse on the southern edge
of the white House on January 6th,

before the official confirmation
was to take place in Congress.

And Donald Trump addressed that rally.

I was there.

It was it was a giant rally.

They'd done a mammoth job.

Trump supporters
are bringing tens of thousands in Zion

to hear the president speak.

And the president's words of that
rally now echo in US history.

You need to fight for your nation,
he said.

Otherwise,
you won't have a nation to fight for.

And he implored his supporters
to go to the Capitol to put pressure

on, the members of Congress

who were voting to confirm
the next US president and in particular,

to put pressure on his vice
president, Mike pence,

that was overseeing
that process in the Capitol.

The rally beforehand was peaceful.

Was very colorful.

People generally seemed very calm.

Supporters of Trump, obviously,
but pretty calm.

And there weren't any there wasn't outward

signs of problems in the rally itself.

Until the group that decided to take up

Trump's words and march on Congress
got mobile and headed to Congress.

And I remember,

following that group towards Congress
and one of them saying to me, this,

this feels like the start of a civil war.

And there was
a real edginess, a nastiness,

an aggression in that crowd.

This was,
if you like, that crowd of 30,000 had kind

of self-selected
to a group of core supporters

who really meant to take up
Trump's, attack on the Capitol.

They were prepared for it.

There were weapons for it.

They were going hard.

They were fired up by their their hero
to do it,

regardless of what the heroes thought
he was motivating them to do.

They were fired up to attack it.

And as we know,
that's exactly what they did.

You you you.

Chaos at the heart of America's democracy.

Unleashed by the president,
Donald Trump supporters

smashed their way into the US
Congress. And?

Still

furious over
President Trump's November defeat.

Certain he was cheated
and told they can reverse the result.

That they worked from us.

They don't get to steal it from us.

We respect the law. We were good people.

You the government did this to us.

We were normal,
good, law abiding citizens.

And you guys did this to us.

We want our country back.

Hundreds overrun security.

In the famous rotunda on their right.

Capitol
police tried to fight off any further

incursions.

And lawmakers grabbed

gas masks,
making a hasty retreat from the chamber.

We were just told that

there has been tear gas in the rotunda.

And we're being instructed, to each of us
get, gas masks.

America's leading
politicians lured into hiding

and left to comfort one another, unsure
what was happening.

Where are we going?

Raven on the ground,

descending the stairs
and away from any danger.

Those stuck inside watch on as officers
use furniture to barricade the doors.

Everybody's down. Down.

Terrified and praying.

And this is

why, just a few meters away,
they were witnessing a final stand.

Guns drawn. Officers ready to fire.

Desperate to keep the angry mob
behind those doors outside the chamber.

Oh, that's only

a woman is shot.

Let's go.

Oh my God!

She hit.

An active shooter.

A 14 year Air Force veteran.

She would later die in the all around.

The stream of the aggrieved
continued to flow into the building.

Oh, boy.

Oh, no!

USA. As the mob mocked their traditions

from the speaker's chair
and ransacked their offices.

There you go, brother.

This the nameplate of Trump enemy
Nancy Pelosi.

I say yeah.

They need to bring him out
and string him up outside.

Tens of thousands wear the tear gas
and applauded the invasion.

A diehard American.

I am tired of being a second class citizen
in my own country.

I just want to get your thoughts
on what you think of that scene.

It was awesome. Stop the steal.

We want a ten day
audit of the entire election.

Let's get it done.
Then there will be peace.

Then will be civil rest.

But until then, it's treason.

More than anything,
this is a show of the political force

that Donald Trump to the neck
from those who defy him.

The Republicans
decided to stick with convention

and refuse to try and overturn November's
vote.

Media became targets. You better go.

Earlier, the president lit the fuze.

We will never give up.

We will never concede.

It doesn't happen.

You don't concede when the steps in doubt.

So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

There's a lot of tension right
now. Could be Civil War break out.

For all I know,
there was already civil war

among Republicans, many refusing
to back their president.

This election were overturned

by mere allegations from the losing side.

Our democracy would enter a death spiral.

His presidential confirmation stalled.

Joe Biden gave a presidential address.

I call on President Trump

to go on national television. Now

to fulfill his oath

and defend the Constitution

and demand an end to this siege.

Instead, he went on Twitter.

You have to go home now.

We have to have peace.

Washington under curfew and Capitol
Hill security finally bolstered.

Congress returned. Let's get back to work.

This the

building four years ago
as it welcomed Donald Trump.

And this today, two weeks before

his presidency ends, the final,

terrible, indelible legacy

of the 45th
president of the United States.

Undoubtedly our worst.

Locked in the white House.

Support vanishing.

America would be better off if,

the president would, resign
or be removed from office.

The president has become unmoored,
not just from his duty

or even his earth,
but from reality itself.

The resignations roll in from Trump's
former chief of staff, now special envoy.

But I can't stay here.
I not after yesterday.

You can't look at that yesterday
and think I want to be a part of that.

Then cabinet ministers, the education
secretary and the transport secretary,

who said the violence troubled me
in a way that I simply cannot set aside.

Blasted to by a once dear
ally, former Attorney General Bill Barr,

accusing Trump of betraying his office
and his supporters.

He's nice here and he's reputation now

tarnished with blood and broken glass.

Still, Donald Trump will leave Washington
with a grip on the Republican Party base.

Many of those who stormed the Capitol
about to learn the price of their loyalty.

Face after face, they're being identified.

The FBI vowing to round up everyone.

More than 50 have already been charged.

One armed with a semi-automatic
weapon and Molotov cocktails.

The death toll now

finds a Capitol policeman today
succumbing to injuries from the clash.

The woman shot dead inside
was Ashley Babbitt.

She filmed herself on the way there,

and it was amazing
to get to see the president talk.

We are now walking down the inaugural path
to the Capitol building.

3 million plus people.

God bless America, Patriots.

But how they so easily invaded
the American Capitol remains this stunning

failure.

Bursting past police barricades,
they smashed into the building here.

Also swarming in from a second entrance
as the vice president

was evacuated from the Senate chamber.

Tear gas filled the famous rotunda.

The mob waved Trump banners
through the halls to the House chamber.

And that armed standoff,
shocking images seen by the world.

Then there's videos like this.

Police letting some of the crowd in.

We fail.

We did not secure the Capitol.

Three security leaders

have been forced to resign,
including the Capitol Police chief.

Less than a quarter of his staff

were rostered on yesterday,
despite all the warnings of trouble.

And inside, no one knows yet
if sensitive material was stolen.

It is mind boggling that such an event
could occur.

Back on Twitter,
the president talking directly

to his base
and to all of my wonderful supporters.

I know you are disappointed,
but I also want you to know

that our incredible
journey is only just beginning.

He will talk about running in 2024,
but he will not run

because he will fear defeat.

13 days left in power.

But it's Trump's influence
that's likely to linger on.

Thank you.

God bless you and God bless America.

It was three hours and seven minutes

between when he finished his speech
to the crowd at the ellipse,

and he finally did speak publicly

that three hours and seven minutes.

We know he largely spent in a room off
the edge of the white House watching

live television, watching the violence
unfold around the Capitol building.

According to testimony, he was often

rewinding his TV, to

to watch in detail particular parts
of the coverage while this was going on,

his aides, even his family,

were trying to get word to him
that he had to speak publicly.

He had to calm down the crowd.

Donald Junior was, as we understand,
texting Mark Meadows, his chief of staff,

saying, you've got to get the president
to call this off.

You've got to do this.

This is destroying his legacy.

That's a paraphrase of the
the text that Donald Trump

Junior
was sending to his dad's chief of staff.

It took three hours and seven minutes
and final.

A Trump made a statement
that essentially said, go.

How many saud is mealy mouthed?

But he did make the statement asking,

his supporters to go home.

And part of the fury

among Congress men and women
was this sense that Donald Trump

had actually sat in the white House
and applauded

as supporters tore through the US Capitol.

Now, we don't know that he applauded,
but that was certainly the sense,

and he certainly took an awful lot of time

to call off his supporters.

I would like to begin by addressing
the heinous attack on the United States

Capitol, condemned around the world
for unleashing yesterday's chaos,

the destruction, terror, five dead.

Oh, stop the steal, stop the steal.

An unprecedented assault on our democracy.

Donald Trump now deplores
the violence, lawlessness and mayhem,

and the supporters who carried it out in
his name

have defiled
the seat of American democracy.

Trump, unrecognizable from yesterday.

Is that pathetic?

Republicans we will never concede.

It's a pure theft.

Third world countries,
their elections are more honest.

The weak Republicans. And that's it.

We're going to walk down
and I'll be there with you.

Some want the president and key allies
that are marked by

have an actual leader
prosecuted for incitement.

Let's have a trial by combat,
inciting a mob to attack the Capitol.

Even fierce Trump allies are backing away.

His actions were the problem,
not the solution.

A fellow Republican says Donald Trump's
cabinet needs to dust off

a rarely used amendment and dump him.

It's time to invoke the 25th amendment
and to end this nightmare.

Democrats say do it or they'll move
to end his presidency by impeaching it.

Never mind.

Donald Trump only has 13 days
left in the job.

President has committed
an unspeakable assault

on our nation and our people.

Also moving against the president,
the social media companies.

He both heights and is heavily
reliant on Twitter, banned him for 12

hours, Facebook and Instagram
for a fortnight, and maybe indefinitely.

And Donald Trump signaled

he's dropping the campaign
to stop Joe Biden becoming president.

A new administration
will be inaugurated on January 20th.

Those who are working in

this building are working to ensure
an orderly transition of power.

Neither the president
nor his spokesperson are taking questions.

Where is the president?

No one wants to take responsibility
for this.

The stately offices
of the Capitol building

are ransacked.

One day, Trump mansion.

Left to the cleaners the next.

Is this the speaker's office this morning,

the chambers of Trump nemesis Nancy Pelosi
singled out by some in the attack.

Don't dare call them protests.

They were a riotous mob

insurrectionist domestic terrorists.

The Capitol building hopelessly exposed,

now fortified police there in force.

The compound rapidly fenced the city
under a state of emergency

until after Joe Biden is inaugurated
and the Trump

years are over.

Worry, anger

meets fear.

We just released phone video

up of the chilling seconds
where Trump supporters are about to storm.

There's a God,
there's a God, there's a God.

The speaker's lobbying Congress.

Then they go, oh, oh,

the shot that kills 35 year
old Californian Ashley Babbitt,

one of five to die in the midweek riot
after President

Trump told tens of thousands
to march on the Capitol building.

What this president has done is rip
the Band-Aid all the way off

to let the country know who he is.

Today, Congress lowered its flag
for another

of the five police officer, Brian
Sicknick.

The repercussions are sweeping
through the Trump White House staff

quitting, former staff
distanced themselves.

You would feel safer today
if President Trump resigned.

In Mike, president Vice President
Mike pence took over.

Oh, what others worry
Donald Trump is dangerous.

Like Twitter today, the social media giant
slammed the door on the world's

sixth most followed account at real Donald
Trump permanently suspended.

Why the risk of further
incitement of violence?

You don't have a first Amendment right
to shout fire in a crowded theater.

And that is essentially
what the president has been doing.

The batteries gone from his online
loud hailer.

Donald Trump went on the president's
official Twitter account.

Twitter has joined the Democrats
and radical left to silence me.

Twitter then removed the tweets.

The US president held back
from using the US president's account.

I don't think it's over yet.

It's never going to be over.

This Trump supporter insists
the president's followers did not

vandalize Congress.

Rather, leftist extremists did it.

It's mindboggling
that you guys are actually

putting a bunch of fake crap on TV.

The FBI says there was no leftist element.

Its investigation leading to dozens
of Trump supporters arrested.

One of them, Richard Barnett, the Arkansas
man who grinned as he took over

Nancy Pelosi's desk, the House speaker
and fierce Trump rival is now leading

the push to impeach the president,
remove him in his final 12 days.

The resolution to do
it could be introduced as soon as Monday.

Here in the very building his supporters
attacked.

The president has disregarded
his oath of office.

What he did was wicked.

There is no way
we're going to impeach the president.

There's not the time to do it.

But Nancy Pelosi sounded
the ultimate alarm

after talks with America's
highest ranking military officer.

An unstable president
she says, could initiate

military hostilities or order
a nuclear strike.

The only way we can hold him accountable
and remove this dangerous man from office

is to, in fact, impeach him.

In one of his last pre blackout tweets.

Donald Trump confirmed he will not attend
Joe Biden's January 20th inauguration.

The first departing president
to skip his successors start since 1869.

One of the few things
he and I have ever agreed on.

It's a good thing I'm not showing up.

Oh, no.

Turning on America's men in blue.

The mob that calls themselves patriots.

Brandishing an American flag as a weapon
to savagely beat a police officer,

bludgeoned and left facedown
on the steps of the Capitol.

The bloody clash

at the entrance to Congress.

The rioters weapons of choice

seen up close, baseball bats,
bits of furniture and even a door

also outnumbered inside this officer,
resorting to taunts

like a troll praised for using himself
as live bait

to lure the frenzied crowd away
from the Senate chamber doors.

Now check this out.

We are inside Nancy Pelosi's office,
but the mob did make it to

the speaker's office.

The evidence is now that
that it was a well-planned,

organized group with leadership.

Nancy Pelosi revealing
her staff were hiding in another room.

The staff went under the table, barricaded
the door.

Turned out the lights, and were silent

in the dark,
listening as the group pounded the door.

While others, proud of having hijacked
the building,

attempted to call the president
to gloat from inside the Capitol.

Let's call Trump.
Yes. That's it. Trembath.

The very principles
on which our country was founded.

Democrats now ready to trigger impeachment
proceedings against Donald Trump

for inciting the violence as more
Republicans call for his resignation.

It's, the best path forward, the best way

to get this person in the rearview mirror.

America is still picking up
the pieces from Wednesday's

siege
and counting the cost of the violence.

This a somber moment outside the Capitol,
where Officer

Brian Sicknick worked
and ultimately lost his life.

A dedicated officer and Trump supporter.

The white House flag
now finally lowered to half mast

his father's message that if any good
comes out of my son's death,

I just hope that it stops all the lunacy
that's been going on in this country.

These people were being encouraged
to do this.

I think the fact they did
it might have shocked people,

but the entire environment that surrounded
it was not shocking at all.

Again, absolutely terror fighting scenes.

But the basis of it
was that undermining of democracy

that to lose
and then to just say, no, I didn't lose.

If a child behaves like that after a game,
you would reprimand them.

But this is the leader of the free world
just denying the election result.

It was incredibly damaging.

And it's something that's continue

to undermine democracy and politics
in the United States.

People I still speak to over there,
I've said how damaging it is

because people just won't accept results
that they don't like anymore.

That's not how it works.

Donald

Trump on the brink of an historic vote
in Congress.

It's ridiculous.

It's absolutely ridiculous shit

to make him the first ever US
president impeached twice.

The impeachment.

It's really a continuation of the greatest
witch hunt in the history of politics.

This his first appearance
since this speech.

I'm gonna walk down
and I'll be there with you.

That ignited the deadly Capitol Hill riot.

What I said

was totally appropriate in Texas
to sign and talk up his border wall.

Not a hint of regret or responsibility
for the attack on Congress.

We believe in the rule of law,
not in violence or rioting

and brushing off the amendment
that might have been used to sack him.

The 25th amendment is of zero risk to me,
but will come back to haunt

Joe Biden and the Biden administration
as the expression goes.

Be careful what you wish for.

He's vice president Mike pence
then ruled it out, saying,

I will not play political games at a time
so serious in the life of our nation.

So impeachment moves ahead.

Donald Trump should not hold office
one day longer.

At least three members
of the president's own party now

say they'll vote with the Democrats free
speech is under assault like never before.

And so, once again,
the white House is tonight heavily

fortified ahead of Joe Biden's
arrival here next week.

The threats not over here in the nation's
capital.

Police are bracing for more trouble today.

The FBI had this warning to those
who stormed the Capitol.

Agents from our local field offices.

We knocking on your door in six days.

We have opened over 160 case files.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The bureau says the day before the attack,
it had intelligence.

A war was coming to the Capitol
and warned police.

Now warning of chilling new threats,
private chat rooms and plans

for future attacks.

A historic chapter

in Trump's turbulent legacy.

Sealed the first American president ever

to be impeached twice
charged with inciting insurrection

one week after the bloody invasion
of America's Capitol.

I want to be very clear.

I unequivocally condemn
the violence that we saw last week.

He watched from the white House

before a five minute
scripted plea from the Resolute Desk.

No true supporter of mine
could ever endorse political violence.

No true
supporter of mine could ever disrespect

law enforcement
or our great American flag.

No true supporter of mine could ever
threaten or harass their fellow Americans.

If you do any of these things,
you are not supporting our movement.

You are attacking it
and you are attacking our country.

A dramatic shift.

Our country has had enough.

We will not take it anymore.

That came too late.

He must go.

He is a clear and present danger
to the nation that we all love.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous man
to ever occupy

the Oval Office, starting with impeaching
the white supremacist in chief.

He must be prevented from ever attempting
to seize power again.

On the House floor,
impassioned debate of votes at warp speed.

A vote to impeach would further divide
this nation.

It's not just about impeachment
anymore. It's about canceling.

As I've said, this is a very sad time

in the history of our country.

No one is celebrating.

Unlike round one,
this wasn't on party lines.

Ten Republicans broke ranks.

I am not choosing a side.
I'm choosing truth.

It's the only way to defeat fear.

I will vote
yes on these articles of impeachment.

Donald Trump will now face a second trial

by Senate with just seven
days left in office.

He'll be gone before it begins.

Donald Trump owns two one half of all
the presidential impeachments in history.

They are few. Andrew Johnson, 1868,

impeached for sacking a cabinet minister
without approval.

Acquitted by the Senate.

1973 Richard Nixon came close.

Impeachment proceedings
began over Watergate, but went nowhere.

I shall resign the presidency
effective at noon tomorrow.

He quit first, was pardoned later.

Bill Clinton, 1998.

I did not have sexual relations
with that woman.

The Lewinsky denial that had him charged
with perjury and obstruction of justice.

He was acquitted.

2019 Donald J.

Trump the first trial abusing power
and obstructing Congress.

Accused of pressuring Ukraine
to investigate Joe Biden.

Acquitted easily.

Now impeached again twice in 13 months,
this time on shakier grounds.

The Republican Senate leader admitting
he doesn't know which way he'll vote

as the nation
visibly braces for round two.

It's a scene
you'd expect to see for a nation at war,

a level of security likened to the days
post 9/11.

This time, though,
it isn't a foreign threat.

This is America turning on America.

Today, I am calling on all Americans
to overcome the passions of the moment

and join together as one American people.

We will get through this challenge
just like we always do.

Washington on the edge

of the operational window.

The US Capitol complex
thrown into lockdown

due to an external threat.

Officials then realized
the threat is in fact, a small fire

more than a kilometer away.

Rehearsals resume

for Thursday mornings,
a unique crowd inauguration.

The people replaced in Washington's Mall

with a field of 200,000 state
and national flags.

Just be ready. Going.

How have you been? On your feet.

Officials concede the FBI is helping

check all 25,000 personnel
securing the change of President

for fear some belong to right
wing extremist groups.

As we've seen, sometimes
the enemies are a little closer to home.

The inside
threat already made real with news.

One of those arrested in the Capitol Hill
attack is from the same National Guard

now securing the city,
also setting this inauguration to pop.

The current
president has decided to skip it.

He's the first to do that
in more than 150 years.

Donald Trump is widely expected
to announce a raft of pardons tomorrow,

then spend his final hours
as president flying to Florida.

Always remember
that violence is never the answer

and will never be justified
from the First Lady.

A farewell message
to all the people of this country.

You will be in my heart forever.

As removal trucks arrived at the Trump's
Maria Lago resort.

It really was an administration
that never quite organized a handover.

For many weeks after the election.

That was because the president didn't
acknowledge that he'd lost.

He was planning on stay.

He was organizing to stay.

So at least up until January 6th,
there was no acknowledgment from Mr.

Trump that he was actually going.

We also know, though, that down
to within a couple of days

of leaving there, basically, remained.

Things remained very much in place.

In the white House,
they hadn't been prepared

for any change over
to a new administration to any degree.

And it did really become,

a great scramble at the end to get out.

This was this period would also become
fascinating because, of course,

so many government documents
that were meant to be sent

to the National Archives
right at that time, as the administration

left turned up in boxes years later,
scattered right through Maria Lago.

And they're now at the center, of course,
of one of the court cases against Donald

Trump, charged with, his failure
to give up government documents,

some of them deeply secret and no doubt
troubling to allies like Australia.

May be then great.

As the sun set over a lonely
Lincoln Memorial,

the president in waiting paused
for just a minute longer.

A somber ceremony.

Joe Biden's
first stop in Washington to heal.

We must remember.

It's hard sometimes to remember.

But that's how we heal.

Morning.

400,000
American lives lost to the pandemic.

Calling as Donald Trump, my fellow

Americans, delivered his parting words
from the white House.

I took on the tough battles,
the hardest fights,

the most difficult choices
because that's what you elected me to do.

Spending his final hours as commander
in chief, granting clemency to 143 people.

A full pardon for former strategist
Steve Bannon, charged

with defrauding Trump supporters
over border wall fundraising,

and to rapper Lil Wayne on weapons
charges.

As the president prepares
for a trial of his own Top Gun

accused of inciting the Capitol riot
that's come to define his final days.

The crime, in some cases, was murder.

Yeah, and this president is an accessory
to that crime.

The mob was fed lies.

They were provoked by the president.

The strongest rebuke from a once loyal
ally.

Political violence is an attack
on everything we cherish as Americans.

Advice for his successor.

The world respects us again.

Please don't lose that respect.

Without mentioning Biden by name.

We extend our best wishes,
and we also want them to have luck.

It was third time lucky for Joe Biden
to win a presidential race.

Today he left Wilmington
for Washington in tears.

Excuse the emotion, but.

When I die,

Delaware written on my heart.

Soon to be sworn in as America's 46th.

The Commander in Chief.

A number not lost. Standing at the base.

Named for his late son Beau, a war veteran

who died of brain cancer at 46.

I only have one regret.

He's not here because he should.

We should be introducing him as president.

When he does take the oath of office,
there will be more troops than spectators

to witness it.

12 of them now pulled from duty.

Just out of an abundance of caution.

We want to make sure that
that there's no issues.

In a matter of hours,

the Trumps will have a bird's eye
view of this now militarized city

set to hold a farewell ceremony
before heading down to Florida.

Donald Trump
to become the first president in over

150 years to boycott an inauguration.

For weeks, Americans have wondered

whether Donald Trump
would leave the white House voluntarily.

A great honor today.

They watched it happen.

An echo of another president

who left in turmoil,
Richard Nixon after Watergate.

There is the president waving goodbye.

Donald Trump having none of it.

What we've done has been

amazing by

any standard,
but always close to controversy.

His final months were consumed
by turbulence.

The outbreak of a mystery virus in China.

We have a totally under control
from the pandemic.

Seriously out of control.

Two insisting
fraud cost him November's election.

The result of his two month campaign
to change the outcome.

Reporter five dead in the Congress,

so shaken
it impeached him for a record second time.

I will always fight for you.

I will be watching.

I will be listening.

And I will tell you that

the future of this country
has never been better.

At Andrews Air Force Base, several hundred
farewelled the president and first lady.

Being your first lady
was my greatest honor.

Missing the Honorable Michael R pence,

Donald Trump's vice
president, went to the inauguration.

Obviously, some appreciation
that they are abiding by norms.

And while President Trump broke
150 years of tradition,

ditch the niceties of welcoming
the Bidens to the white House

and flew
out before his successor took the oath.

This great man
that has done so much for our country.

It means a lot.

The Trumps welcomed to their new home
in Palm Beach, Florida.

I'm happy for him to finally retire,

to have some peace, to be away
from the swamp

unanswered.

As Donald Trump begins
his time here as an ex-president.

Whether he'll try
for the white House again in 2024.

He teased the idea this morning.

So just a goodbye.

We love you.

We will be back in some form.

Heartbroken Donald Trump
now faces tax investigation

and his second Senate impeachment trial.

Air Force One departed above his Mary Lago
resort, a reminder

he no longer has the legal protection
enjoyed by presidents.

Ladies and gentlemen,
the president elect of the United States.

His hand on the family's
19th century Bible.

And Joseph Robinette Biden, junior
do solemnly swear.

A 30 year senator and two term vice
presidents.

And I will faithfully execute the office
of president of the United States.

Office of President of the United States.

Joe Biden
reached his dream at 78 years of age.

So help me God.
Congratulations, Mr. President.

Joe. The

46 and oldest inaugurated presidents.

This is America's day

and this is Democracy Day,

a day of history
and hope of renewal and resolve.

At the very building stormed in a day of
deadly violence just two short weeks ago.

President Biden
inherited a deeply fractured America,

vowing he's
driven to part the dark clouds.

Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire,

destroying everything in his path.

Every disagreement

doesn't have to be a cause for total war.

And we must reject the culture

in which facts themselves are manipulated

and even manufactured, distrusting

those who don't look like look like you

or worship the way you do,

or don't get their news
from the same sources you do.

We must end this uncivil war.

He spoke before
almost every other living President

Obama,
the Clintons, George and Laura Bush.

But the most recent one had already long
gone.

Donald Trump left the white House
almost four hours earlier,

his divisive presidency over.

Have a good life. We will see you soon.

Thank you.

A final Air Force One flight to Florida,
a blaring

soundtrack,
the full stop on a single tone.

Trump's once loyal deputy
had chosen to be at the Capitol.

Mike pence honoring his vow
to oversee this peaceful transition.

My whole soul is in this.

Bringing America together,

uniting our people, uniting our nation.

We can make America once again

the leading force for good in the world.

Flags fluttered where a sea of people
would have filled the National Mall.

Just a small smattering of special guests.

A podium wiped down.

And my first act as president.

I'd like to ask you to join me

in a moment of silent prayer.

Amen.

To more than 70 million Americans
who didn't vote his way.

Many who still believe
this election was stolen.

He asked for a chance.

Hear me out as we move forward.

If you still disagree, so be it.

That's democracy.

That's America.

A nation that made more history
in this moment.

I, Kamala Baby Harris, solemnly swear.

The daughter of an Indian scientist
and a Jamaican academic.

So help me God.

That's right.

Became America's
first female vice president.

Vice President Kamala Harris.

Don't tell me things can't change.

Thank you.

America.

Even without the usual audience,
the Capitol rolled out a show

and followed

all of us.

Ready?

Lady Gaga? Jennifer lopez.

This land was made for you and me.

And country music star Garth Brooks.

May Zing

Gray is clearly a presidential favorite.

Recalled for more hugs with the past ones,
he forgot.

Bernie Sanders briefly stole the show,

taking selfies in his less
than formal attire,

and a televised concert
replace the inaugural balls.

Not quite the traditional dance
for the first couple.

It's a new dance, a new day.

It all went ahead without a hitch.

No signs of trouble.

Chaos replaced by pageantry.

And the solemn job
ahead of this new commander in chief.

Oh, starting by honoring America's

war dead at Arlington National Cemetery,

then straight to the office.

In the beast with the newly minted number
plates, he headed for the white House.

A slow roll on a parade route, minus
the crowds.

Safe enough

for America's
new first family to emerge and walk down

Pennsylvania Avenue,
stopping for fist bumps and thank U.S.

for the few people there.

What does this moment feel as you're
about to walk into the West Wing?

Returning years
after he left as the second in charge?

It. But

unlike past handovers, the Clintons
to the bushes, bushes

to Obamas and four years ago,
the Obamas to the Trumps.

There was no one to greet the Bidens.

Leaving the new first family

with the house to themselves.

The job for Joe Biden now

turning campaign promises
and rhetoric into reality.

The president wasting no time rolling back
Donald Trump's policies.

On his first day in office.

17 executive orders
signed in the Oval Office.

Mandatory masks in federal spaces
rejoining the Paris climate accord,

ending the travel ban
on mostly Muslim countries

and cutting off funding to Trump's
proudest construction, the Wall.

There was one tradition Donald Trump kept.

He left a note for Joe
Biden in the resolute desk.

The president
wrote a very generous letter.

I have. It's
because it was private. I will

not talk about it until I talk to him.

First, he called in new appointees
and made it clear,

if you ever work with me
and I hear you treat another colleague

with disrespect, talk down to someone.

I promise you,
I will fire you on the spot.

He's stepping up for you when

there's a new president and a new tone.

America's Biden era begins

looking back at that, especially the last
couple of years of the Trump presidency.

I think it's fair to say the United States

saw more division, but also less trust.

They saw from the leadership
in the white House

someone who routinely,

went against what was happening
in the Justice Department,

went against the intelligence community

during Covid, would be challenging
what health authorities were saying.

Pillars of American society or Western

democratic societies, these key government
areas or areas of expertise.

Donald Trump would take a swipe at
and encourage his supporters,

to to take a swipe at the
his fake news criticism

of the mainstream media
and when we were at Trump rallies would be

would be their shooting
with the rest of the media.

And there would be there would be times
when they'd all be turning to us

and yelling fake news at us,
because that's what Donald Trump

had told them to do,
and they were getting on board with that.

These institutions that are key to the
to the United States and the way it works,

we're all being challenged.

And so, you know,
I went through Covid with less

trust of doctors and health authorities,
which I think harmed the Covid response.

Questions about how
the justice system work were called into

were called into question
by the commander in chief.

Questions
about how the military was operating.

We're also called into into question in
in some ways.

So I think America ended the Trump

presidency with more division,

but less trust in institutions that were
at the core of how the country worked.

My entire time in the US was Trump's
America, and to see it disintegrate right

to what it did is saddening.

There are beautiful people in the US.

It's something that with our pop culture,
we grow up

looking up to the United States,
especially as our closest ally,

and to be standing
in front of the white House,

literally surrounded by civil unrest,
was something that I certainly didn't

expect my stint there to be wrapping up
with.

It's sad to look back on.

I don't know
whether it could happen again.

I don't know how much Covid was a factor,
how how much the many different things

that went wrong in 2020
contributed to that overall outcome.

But it was terrifying to be there for it.

I think it made me even more determined to
defend our role and how important it is.

We can't be standing a few streets away
trying to tell you what's happened,

because we won't see it
and it won't be entirely true.

We won't know if there were warnings
because we won't have heard them.

We won't know if that person
threw something

at a police officer,
because we have to be there to see it.

And to do that, we have to be safe.

There has to be an understanding
that when we're there, you can't touch us.

It's our right to be there.

But also it's the right of the people
at home to know what is going on.

And it's so important for democracy

and the undermining of democracy
was something we really saw in 2020.

And also, of course, then with January
6th, that was very, very concerning.

As someone who's very passionate

about what I do, I believe in what I do
and how important we are to democracy.

A couple of things
stand out in particular,

in terms of the trends over recent years.

One is the polarization
we were talking about

just seems to get deeper.

And the polarization

produces results
that really you wouldn't predict.

I mean, as Donald Trump left office,
he said,

we will be back in some form.

Back then, that felt and look pretty.

Try and, you'd say, well, he's
got to say something like that hasn't he?

But yeah. Fat chance.

Here we are
now, heading into the 2024 election,

and he's the Republican nominee at least.

He will be formally asked.

The Republicans made midyear
to give him that title.

And opinion polls suggest,
if anything, he's ahead

of President Biden in the run
for the next presidency.

It's an extraordinary situation.

It shows how firmly that base

that we've talked about backs
Donald Trump.

He has done a remarkable job

of bringing back Republicans

who who'd just done away
with him, particularly after January 6th.

They simply couldn't countenance,
what he'd done.

And yet the force of his support,
and that's what it is.

It's Republicans
knowing just how strongly,

those core conservatives
in this country support Donald Trump.

The force of that support
has made Republicans who'd abandoned him,

basically

eat their
words and drop back into supporting it.