by record snowfall which is up to 2 metres deep in some places thousands of vehicles are stuck on the roads and power has been cut off to more than $10000.00 homes in northern and central japan after a brief lull in the next 24 hours more heavy snow is forecast over the weekend. top stories on al-jazeera anger is growing in nigeria 6 days after hundreds of school children were abducted $300.00 boys are still unaccounted for after all and then raided their school in katsina state in the country's northwest protesters have rallied in the town of khan carra pyrrhus at the government's handling of the case a faction of the armed group boko haram has released a proof of life video of what it says are some of the kid not always governor of katsina state told out as they were a short time ago but he expects to have progress on the boys' release soon. what

were the substantial progress for the 34 days who had been discussing through intermediaries. lived. part of today or within the early morning hours who were the developments heavy in touch with them for the last 30 minutes i was spoke. with. representing us must be sure that the right of security . is on course. to. see the coming back of the children the french president in one year michael has become the latest world leader to test positive for covert 19 he's still working but will quarantine for 7 days several other european leaders have also entered isolation having been in contact with michael in recent days it's thought he contracted the illness at the european council a week ago. they're not just states has passed 17000000 confirmed coronavirus

cases adding a 1000000 new infections in just the past 5 days and 3600 fatalities were confirmed on wednesday in the coming hours an expert panel to the u.s. food and drug administration will vote on whether to recommend emergency approval of the madonna vaccine. his annual news conference russian president vladimir putin said he's happy to take the locally developed sputnik the vaccine he also dismissed claims that he ordered the poisoning of opposition figure and explain of only a conference was held at putin's private residence because of the pandemic the stream is up next asking if the incoming biden and the restriction can unite the u.s. more use for you after that i phone or.

out of the ok you're watching the stream home edition today we're going to look at the many challenges that lie ahead to president elect joe biden and his plans for his 1st few weeks in office this is what curtis morrison who is an immigration lawyer told us a little bit. from our point of view the 1st 100 days of the bike nearest administration needs to be about reversing this america 1st policy and her placing it whether we care about our neighbors policy. it's a mental illness to think that other countries other foreign nationals have to suffer in order for us to thrive and we need to replace that with

a more compassionate approach to government take immigration if we separate few g.'s and emigrants that is the best diplomatic tool we have to have peace with their neighbors and so that's the transition i would like to say that is casey's you know what seals today's a chance for you to unleash all international political pundits if you need to you know jump into the comment section and be part of today that. i am missing any guest to guess who is decent chance to you taking the p.c. literally and metaphorically in washington d.c. alan fischer our i mean she's just south of here and it's that or it's and you know thomas. oh it's a service a correspondent for al-jazeera english based in washington d.c. i covered the trial campaign 4 years ago and covered the viking campaign all the

way up to election day i was here on the election night just outside the white house unfold all the results as they came in and the eventual winner of course being joe biden thank you and i'm wolf just a moment now welcome back to the stream remind our audience here you are. hi think here this is noel nick or i and i am alan here from palm beach in florida and i am a national out republican strategists and raised there at the and in american. welcome and brianna great to have you on the string tell us really who you are what you do. i'm a former national press secretary for the bernie 2020 campaign and the coast bad faith i cast with virtual texas and i'm also a contributing editor at current affairs magazine i guess let me take you back to

november the 7th when joe biden made his feet to a speech he almost seemed in the speech that he was outlining who these teams would be come january 2021 that's come of this and they are proud of our campaign we brought rare our product coalition report together the broader most diverse coalition of the nursery democrats republicans independents progressives moderate conservatives here on the road during to subvert her or get a straight tragedy here or any other generation there was marriage especially hard to him especially those homeowners carriers as low as their the average american community should go to get her to get was her. i am wondering then that was almost a pension was a promise that was a thank you and now i'm going to do good by you brianna how's it looking with biden

speaks. unfortunately not so good one of the groups that he mentioned was progressive. bernie sanders coalition then additionally people at the list before and represented something like 30 to 40 percent of the democratic party and yet man not a single one joe biden's administration pics are reflective of the progress that we were going up from the progressive movement nobody from the bernie camp has been managed to be given a single appointment another group that he nodded to specifically was african-americans black leaders are perceived to have really put joe biden over the line namely in south carolina where jim clyburn a black congress spent that particular stature gave him a last minute endorsement that was able to help fight and win that state and turn around a string of embarrassing primary last week important it place and yes the news from

last week was a leaked call black think you're heads from all of the major civil rights organizations in america and which biden was largely dismissed in a very very you know just discrete considerate request for their various. groups organizing groups right and it's not clear that even without public pressure in the end there isn't that call being leaked that there's any indication he's going to turn it around. no what does a republican strategists make of the behind him what stands out for the people who stands out. or. i think one of the most important that i was so it was the the federal treasury and i was looking more at the economic side is what i have biden was going to do a lot of republicans are very very pleased as well i am for janet

yellen janet yellen is exactly what she was doing when she worked under the obama administration if your member and hillary clinton were running against each other there and it was in august or i doubt right before the election she was in jackson hole wyoming and now there were a rate so i think you know horse is doing very very well that one is as far as the rest of his picks. i think they're pretty reasonable and i can understand why the work for bernie sanders are those with gore and you probably would not be that pleased for some of the moves you know more reasonable picks that we feel like biden to has made the only one that you know i disagreed with pretty much was the john kerry. climate i feel like they may have

been. too but someone a little bit more per se of that would have been to the progressive base how joe biden going to like it i really feel like that was one seat that he actually could have put someone that would have been a progressive there that see. let me just holes for a moment i'm bringing janet yellen janet yellen would be if she. replied i come west to be the treasury secretary so it would listen to what she had to say. in a action will produce a self reinforcing downturn causing yet more devastation. and we miss we risk missing the album to redress deeper structural problems inequality and stagnant wages especially for workers who lacked a college education. communities that have seen industry disappear with no good

jobs replacing lost one this racial disparity a job opportunities housing food security. alan gemini's if he wanted to have a cabinet that looks like a merica night. but i think he's getting closer to it and we're hearing speculation that he may well appoint the 1st needs of american to a cabinet position to become the interior secretary and so that i think is a step in the right direction when he makes cabinet more reflective of what america is is like as a whole i think brianna makes a very good boy that that on progressives there are a lot of these positions it's same old same old is people that's been around washington for a very very long time the norm matic new names new great new thinking that you some

believe is going to change the face of the by the administration. i think real politics dictate. that you really have got to try and appoint people that you know will get through the senate and at the moment with the result still to come from their own office in in georgia the senate is controlled by the republicans so you've got to get through that and certainly hearings in the republican in the senate over the last couple of years of become much more contentious much more difficult but when you hear janet yellen speaking know that she's freed from the constraints of speaking from the fed she would be a surprise she might be a real surprise when it comes to progressive thought in a key position as well at the treasury so i think that there are certainly those who think that it's not as progressive are probably right but you've always got to remember that the cabinet will reflect the president he sets the place he says this

is what we're going to do and they go in execute it so while there might not be progressives in the cabinet it's really up to joe biden to be more assertive than the people that are in his cabinet. brianna guided by may even though it joe biden says the tone that would probably indicate that you should get a moderate it to conservative democrat in these in the seat and yet joe biden is going so far as to put republicans on his transition team and now is gloating the idea of a republican for commerce secretary meg whitman at the current c.e.o. is among these names so the concern here is fine if the expectation is that joe biden is a moderate to conservative democrat is that a quite moderate conservative democrats that's fine but he's going to be making overtures to the people who he perceives to have helped him win the people who really helped him when where the 30 or 40 percent of democrats the democratic base who are progressive the disproportion and where democratic voters who are black disproportionately vote for democrats every 2 to 4 years and probably

a lot of these progressive groups that did door knocking when the biden campaign decided not to door of op because a look at him right and instead what you had was the elevation of these never trying for public events for most most typified by the lincoln project which was a group run by the top republicans and raised or $70000000.00 for these anti trump ads with the idea that it was going to convince a significant number of moderate republicans and the suburbs suburban white women who are key demographic who are fresh treated with trump's bombast that his uncouthness is a room in the lack of decorum and would be willing to vote for a democrat but the more registered republicans voted in 2020 than they didn't when he 16 and all of that money went to waste and yet that group is still being rewarded. i'm just wondering as a progressive base with what's looking like it will be the cabinet for 2021 and you

really not. i don't know that i would describe it as fieri since there's no surprises about who joe biden is he ran explicit. telling a group of donors fairly early in the campaign that quote nothing works by the mentally change and that message has only gotten more galling as the world has changed dramatically for the worse in the midst of an unprecedented economic and how crisis if we didn't write overwhelmingly wot policies like medicare for all of for you know america being the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't provide guaranteed health care or free a point of service health care to its population now people are clamoring for it and it's just disappointing as the revenues but he still doesn't think that we need a fundamental change in this country and on you tube i've got william sanderson and send this and makes this point i'm just curious to see how you bounce off this this one the us doesn't unite over domestic matters it's not meant to it's not designed to so this should be some friction about who these peaks are not everybody's going

to be happy the democratic party you'll take is one. but you've got to deal with real politic which means you've got to get people who will get through the confirmation process and i think i mean we know what joe biden is we know or that he is a conservative democrat with some progressive traits and. has he been changed by conversations with the likes of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren well i think we'll find out after january the 20th but there is a call from the groaned of the democratic party that it has to be more radical that he has to take more chances and i think again talking about real politic and that's the 3rd time of use that phrase so gotta stop that. part sure anyone else in the race could have beaten don't trump. i'm not sure the elizabeth warren could

have done it i'm not sure that bernie sanders could have done a not sure they would have got the white spread coalition that would be enough to beat don't trump remember donald trump got more votes than any sitting president has ever managed before he got 70000000 votes now use beaten significantly by joe biden but i'm not sure there's another democrat in the race that would be able to beat donald trump so the question progressives have to ask who would you rather have in office would you rather have joe biden or donald trump and i'm sure they would say joe biden because 4 years ago i think people thought that hillary clinton was going to win the macho war and they didn't go out and vote and they got donald trump and a lot of progressives and a lot of democrats who didn't vote were very upset with what came for the next 4 years now i got it i'm sorry. and it may well get fasten n.p.r. and you come off the back of the hats. well i will tell you that is exactly what

i feel and i think that is actually that's exactly like watrous or did not win the nomination because i think trump would have be be a progressive i do not you know the republicans were touting and they're doing it in georgia right now with the georgia special election runoff socialism and what the progressive represent to middle america is socialism you know we picked up a couple of house of representatives seats in florida i would cuban americans from the very idea they've been to a grand 3 they came from a country more socialism it did not work i think joe biden was the only candidate that have actually and he did. because a lot of middle americans even if it is reasonable you know he was with obama

economy you know it's eyes president they knew exactly what they were going to get . and i don't think people were really willing to nominate someone like the laws of war and so on that's very forward to the left. and i think that you know you make a band has supported by thing that we came across probably would not have term if it wasn't for so warm that appear who it will which was just. before unleashed brianna. let me just remind you said the national press secretary that burn bernie sanders presidential campaign is you money when it's about that be on the go ahead. ok so certainly most democratic voters believe that the only person who could beat donald trump was joe biden and that's why they deliberately biden majority the joe biden supporters didn't even like joe biden they just repeated the media talking point that joe biden was the only person who can be

tropp their. yes that joe biden isn't reasonable or moderate when you actually judge what the policy preferences of american voters are majority 88 percent of democrats support medicare for all for instance and 50 percent of republicans approximately do as well overwhelming majority of americans support marijuana legalization joe biden doesn't a significant percentage of joe biden voters actually mis understood him but he did support care for all probably because he kept saying things like health care is a human right when he had no intention of providing it so the reality is that bernie sanders in contrast had the largest donor base in the party without taking any corporate money more individuals wanted to raise and any president in american history and more black voters gave to his campaign than ever in american history he won the 1st 3 primary contests including the battle with 70 percent of the latino vote a buller share that was extremely instrumental in winning the election which a lot of moderates and conservatives had run and say bernie sanders that to win

florida ignoring the fact that he was the overwhelming preference of latino voters in florida are what happened what we saw was a progressive ballot measures won and joe biden lost the democratic party in florida decided to distance itself from a $50.00 minimum wage because there's that even that was too radical that was too far left and a $15.00 minimum wage while joe biden lost the state and we had 2 weeks of uncertainty about the present mess isn't even going to be because the hard to this were so then and joe biden did such a poor job of managing to reset the country and when the country after joe after donald trump had demonstrated himself to be a boorish well language but to be out abortion bears message are we say for the country and that is not where we need to be not to mention the horrible down ballot effects that joe biden generated by being an unimproved to get asked to a candidate or a candidate out of there didn't generate a lot of enthusiasm and who actually works to pull more republicans out to vote and the way that really had cataclysmic effects down ballot how do you feel.

progressive that there is a base that's struggling a base that's dying because of a lack of healthcare a base that i don't play it 14000000 americans thrown off their health insurance because in america if you don't have a job and don't have concerns that's cataclysmic that kind of get on the kind of margins but we could celebrate oh i'm going to go and yet everybody in europe so generously only and i'm going to be a mannequin they don't really have an idea of what socialism as i mean that the they've got this it of socialism and it's nor what we would consider the european model i think when when americans see or this is socialism the actually think of soviet union russia which is socialism for people you know you think more sweden the united kingdom under a labor government france socialism that sort of thing certainly not the much more extreme view of that which you get in america let me just ask you if you guessed this just very briefly this comes from sensex to the truth on you tube they want to

know do you think the meeting can unite americans and i'm just going to go brianna out no and. yes i actually think that biden can unite and especially given something like a neck wittman which was you know our public get i think there verse x. and including even republicans and meeting all kinds of diversity on that panel i think you'd hear us from. our own. mind in the. i think you know electorate or people towards the middle. but i think there will you know american politics is is very divisive divided and i don't see that they were next 4 years and markedly. brianna. he could buy advocating for

a new new deal to lift america out of health crisis and right now but he won't because he was elected on the basis of being a corporate a corporate candidate. early on today. coming the highest the finest princeton and that was talking about the 1st 100 days of the new administration one of the issues is getting a stimulus package for people who are suffering from coronavirus on the 1st 100 days this so much that the next administration say they want to do is come in the harris 1st of all and i'd love to hear your thoughts about that guest let's hear from the v.p. moratoriums on of victuals and foreclosures are about to end the people here in washington d.c. have got to stop living in a bubble the people have a right to expect that their leaders in congress see them and act in their best interest you know i can speak for joe and me we were elected to do

a job and we intend to bring everybody along who wants to do the job with us. what is your priority brianna for what happens in the 1st 100 days. given the kind of bailout people across the world particularly in europe have gotten because of stay at home orders because of coke it might surprise until our own that in america we got one for $1200.00 check only if you met a certain income qatar and a limited $600.00 boost to our point benefits that ended months ago and since then there's been nothing and even more importantly at no point during the campaign did joe biden or come here assuming she was running but joe biden has never advocated for restarting stimulus checks never and the press doesn't really ask about it so there is a lot of comp and circumstance and kind of rhetorical bluster but the reality is the democrats could be really running strong including in the storage races on the

idea of getting stimulus checks to americans who desperately need them that's what i'd like to hear out of both those leaders. i have a minute left to wrap up as. briefly i have a day one agenda for president elect joe biden to rejoin the paris agreement rejoin w.h.o. of race corporate tax to 28 percent this is day one agenda what about the 1st 100 days what's possible. he's really got to look at all that and he's got to luke this financial stimulus and that you've got to remember that when obama came in with biden this is one of me they had just billions and billions and billions of money into the financial system because the banks are on the verge of collapse in the financial system was important but they're going to look at that level of stimulus to try and regenerate the economy and also to help people who will desperately need that level of help because of what's happened during cold. thank you so much i

really appreciate you allan and brianna and noel bringing different perspective as to what will face joe biden administration and look like and how is it coming together have a look you know my laptop we waste ink i conversations a little bit further when we go on to instagram allied with doing that a little bit later so at 2030 g.m.t. starting from wednesday we will have a conversation you will be had after a conversation with dr cornel west he's offensive philosophy i know you know who he is he's going to be very candid about where we are right now with this vice president elect and president elect as they became to full what they want the new administration to be like if you on instagram like highly recommend can the section coming up very shortly that can help wraps up this home edition epicenter of the strange things of watching us a mixed take every putting. forward

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