a lot of people are going back to abusing and using opiates and when you're asked what opiates you know you're going to die it is an epidemic growing within a pandemic is the number of fatal opioid overdoses continues to rise john hendren and you 0 chicago. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera more than 300 schoolboys of ducted by an armed group in nigeria last week have been released the gunman stormed the school in the northwestern city of kut seen at last friday there's been increasing pressure on the government to improve security they have so far. given 340. schoolchildren later on we also understand 4 have joined so we have to leave 344. children that out on

their way to cousin and now they said they have surrendered or that he is with them so we will find out. whether that still some left like i said even the figure we gave was not to stick because who are looking at doing city $30.00 to $400.00 and now we have to $344.00 so we will know exactly about tomorrow a panel of experts advising us regulators has backed the emergency use of a 2nd coronavirus vaccine be endorsement of the medina job paves the way for a swift approval by the food and drug administration last week the committee back to the fines a biotech that come to being administered across the united states. the u.s. is set to have its 1st native american cabinet secretary deb holland is president elect joe biden's pick for interior secretary the 60 year old is in her 1st term as

a congresswoman from new mexico had been a strong grassroots campaign for her appointments u.s. government agencies are rushing to tighten their computer security after confirming they've been hit in a long running and sophisticated hacking operation the attackers are suspected to be linked to russia they reportedly breach cyber defenses and access to e-mail and internal files at the treasury and commerce departments as well as computer giant microsoft and us president donald trump says he's optimistic a long running rift in the gulf will soon be over speaking by 13 with saudi arabia's king solomon a 3 year blockade on qatar by saudi arabia and 3 of the country's was one of several regional issues discussed by the 2 leaders so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after this train station that saw just by foot. no moved out of his parents' house after he got me he says he found more space to begin escape after renovating it last year it's now his home along with his wife

daughter and all but it's really government said that he was to be constructed to be tough to permit an issue that the militia ordered last month our interview were cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to do. it took the family months to build their brick house and less than an hour to see it getting. high after the ok you're watching the street home edition today we're going to look at the many trying to us that lie ahead to president elect joe biden and his plans for its 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 by maris administration

needs to be about reversing this america 1st policy and replacing 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 that we need to replace that with a more compassionate approach to government take immigration if we accept refugees and immigrants that is the best diplomatic tool we have to have peace with their neighbors and so that's the transition i would like to see. that is courtesy's view what's yours today is a chance for you to unleash all international political pundits if you need to you know it today jump into the comments section and be part of today. i am going to say hello to the guest to guess who is decent house to you taking the

political temperature literally and metaphorically in washington d.c. alan fish out and introduce yourself to our international audience and your code thomas. oh is this your i'm a senior 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 or no 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 lucky to. high thing here this is a narrow well make 4 and i am ally here from palm beach in florida and i am a national our republican strategists and raised there at the ending 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 chrysler terry for the bernie turning 20 campaign on the coast of bad faith prosper fertile texas and also a contributing editor i current affairs magazine i guess let me take you back to november the 7th when joe biden made his feet to speech it almost seemed in the speech that he was outlining who these teams would be come january 2021 that's coming isn't. i'm proud of the campaign we built around it i'm proud of coalition we put together the broader and most diverse coalition leadership democrats republicans independents progressives moderates conservatives there are no erna subvert her gay straight transgender warrior to no as you hated era i was raised especially those mothers and especially those moments

when this campaign was as low as their the arab american community should get when i was shy your. i am wondering what was almost a pancho's upon what was a thank you and now i'm going to do good by here brianna how's it looking so 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 of joe biden's ministration pics are reflective of the progress that we're going up from the progressive movement nobody from the bernie camp has been managed to give 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 loss where he came in 4th and 5th place and yes the news from last week was a leaked call black think you're has 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 on the embarrassment of that car being leaked that there's any indication he's going to turn it around. no it is a republican strategy snake has the behind him peaks what stands out the people who stands out. from that think one of the most important that i was folk and

was 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 right. before the election she was in jackson hole wyoming and now there were. so i think you know where she is doing very very 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 day that you know i disagreed with pretty much was the john kerry it. climate i feel like they may have been. too but someone a little bit more progress of that would have been to the progressive base how joe biden get a life and i really feel like that was one seat that he actually could have put someone that would have been a progressive there in that city. let me just pause for a moment and bringing janet yellen janet yellen would be if she. agreed by congress to be the treasury secretary is there any sense of 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 lacks a college education. communities that have seen industry disappear with no good jobs replacing law school and this racial disparity a job opportunities housing food security. alan. given he said that he wanted to have have a cabinet that looks like america. but i think he's getting closer to it and we're hearing speculation that he may well appoint the 1st native 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 like as a whole i think brianna makes a very good boy that that on progressives there are a lot of these positions same old same old as people that's been around washington for a very very long time in the north a dramatic new names nor 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 olson 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 got it may even though it joe biden says the tunnel and that would probably indicate that you should get a moderate it to conservative democrat in these in these seats and yet joe biden is going so far as to put republicans on his transition team and now is quoting 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 and 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 disproportionate number of 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 translate publicans for most most typified by the lincoln project which was a group run by the top republicans that raised or $70000000.00 for these anti trump ads with the idea that it was going to convince a significant number of moderate republicans in the suburbs suburban white women who are key demographic who are frustrated with trump's bombast that his uncouthness is

a room in the lap of decorum and would be willing to vote for democrats but at 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 firies then so 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 wotte 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 free a point of service health care to its population now people are clamoring for it

and it's just disappointing as the reviews 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 william sanderson makes this point i'm just curious to see how you bounce off things this one the u.s. 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 picks 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

it 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 no 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 that 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 as that. 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 beat beat a progressive i do not you know the republicans were telling him they were 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 with 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 could have actually and he did don't because a lot of middle america and even him is reasonable you know he was with obama economy you know it's i think president they knew exactly what they were going to get and i don't think equal or really willing to nominate 'd someone like the laws of war and so on that's very forward to the left like her and i think that you know you make a fantastic court by saying that we came across probably would not have term if that wasn't for someone that appear who the whole which was. to be unleashed brianna. let me just remind you see the national press secretary the plenty songs his presidential campaign does 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 be 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 beat trump their reality is that joe biden isn't reasonable or moderate when you actually judge what the policy preferences of american voters are majority 80 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 it care 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 bernie sanders in contrast had the largest donor base in the party without taking any corporate money more individuals wanted to raise and than any president in american

history and more black voters gave to his campaign than ever in american history he won the 1st $3.00 primary contests including the battle with 70 percent of the latino vote a bill or share that was extremely instrumental in winning the election which a lot of moderates and conservatives had run and say bernie sanders that a win florida ignoring the fact that he was the overwhelming preference of latino voters in florida 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 in joe biden last state 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 borish 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 the ass to a candidate or a hair out of it didn't generate a lot of enthusiasm and who actually works to pull more republicans out to vote and a way that really had cataclysmic effects down ballot how do you know to a progressive that there is a base that's struggling a base that's dying because of a lack of health care a base that i don't play it 14000000 americans their own are 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 spend yet everybody in europe so generously only and going to 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 liberal 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 nowhere brianna out no and. yes i actually think that biden can unite and especially given something like a meg whitman which was you know our public get i think there verse x. and including even republicans and meaning all kinds of diversity on that panel i think here yes from. our own. mind in the.

i think you need illiterate people towards the middle. but i think you know american politics is just it's very divisive divided to see that they were next 4 years markedly brianna. he could by advocating for a new new deal to lift america out of economic and 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. come in the house the 1st 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 house is 1st of all and i can love to hear your thoughts about that guest let's hear from the v.p.

moratoriums on of victuals and foreclosures are about it and 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 it benefits but ended months ago in sense then there's been nothing and even more importantly at no point during the campaign did

joe biden or calmly hear a statement she was running but joe biden has never advocated for restarting stimulus checks never and the press doesn't really ask him about it so there is a lot of i did comp and circumstance and current rhetorical bluster but the reality is the democrats could be really running strong including of these georgia 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 leaders i have a minute left to wrap up and something briefly i have a day one agenda for president elect joe biden we join the paris agreement rejoin w.h.o. of race corporate tax 20 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 you've got to remember that when obama came in with biden this is one of me they had just to billions and billions and billions of money into

the financial system because the banks are on the verge of collapse this is 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 perspectives 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 got to cornell west he's a festive losses that i know you know who he is he's going to be very candid about where we are right now which states vice president elect and president elect as

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