"prime time." covid is now killing at least one of us every minute in america. think of that. and now comes what? the holidays. every milisecond that the trumpers give life to these tantrumps, these conspiracy claims that only rudy giuliani would spew in open court, with every moment wasted on this farce, another one of us is gasping for their last breaths. we suffered this long enough. and what makes it worse is that you guys actually chose someone to do it better. and your choice, that person, joe biden, is being kept by the trumpers from doing what we need him to do. >> we should be further along. there is a whole lot of things that are just -- we just don't have available to us. unless it's made available soon, we're going to be behind by

weeks or months being able to put together the whole initiative relating to the biggest promise we have. >> we celebrate that a vaccine may be available, but that's the guy who will be on watch to make the distribution happen, and trump won't let him learn anything about the process. how can he be about america first when he's guaranteeing that we will be last in terms of our preparedness. we're in a pandemic. and the health and human services department won't share vital information on this virus. they have been told not to respond, but to take it up the food chain. guess what? the hhs secretary didn't even deny it today. in fact, he defended it. listen. >> we have made it very clear that when gsa makes a determination, we will ensure complete cooperative professional transitions and planning. but that's -- we follow the

guidance. we're about getting vaccines and they are pewters invented and saving lives here. that's where our focus is. >> focus is on saving lives, but you have been largely inactive during a pandemic. and now that operation warp speed bravo, it worked, putting the money in was worth the risk. we have one maybe two vaccines. one came from the operation, one didn't. now we need to figure out how to distribute it. it won't be on your watch and now you're not going to help and you think you are about saving lives. you will kill more people by facilitating these tantrumps. that's what they are. it's a revenge blockade of a transition. biden's victory is about to be further solidified. nothing else is going to happen. georgia is on the cusp of announcing its election audit results. and the secretary of state there, a republican, says it will confirm biden's win. we'll see.

trump team lawsuits being laughed out of court. they're in their third iteration in pennsylvania. a federal judge actually canceled an evidentiary hearing. they said you don't even have enough proof to argue if there's proof. rudy giuliani appeared in court yesterday, had no evidence of the fraud allegation. he literally attached news articles at proof and when pushed said this is not a fraud suit. what is it? the play is obvious. it is not about justice. it is about just us, the trumpers, and getting enough political stink to create pressure to hope that a state legislature that is republican-dominated will steal the vote and give it to hand picked electors to be faithless and vote for trump anyway. that's their play. just think about wanting to do that. and how heinous that is as even a suggestion with no proof to

motivate it except proof that you have no faith in your own duty. that's the reality that we're watching. some of the last remaining stimulus programs for the unemployed during this pandemic made unemployed by the pandemic are set to expire by the end of next month. you see any action about that? you see anything? the election is over. but the fight of our lives is only intensifying. and the only attention we're seeing from those in power on the right is to forward trump's endless vanity. let's bring in david gregory and michael smer connish. on the legal side, you are aware of the latest iteration. one, very unusual for a district court to entertain a third iteration of a lawsuit rejected twice. another says seven different counties shouldn't have been countied. proof? see attached, and they're news articles. how did this size up in your

home state on the federal side? >> there has been a disconnect so far between the president's twitter feed and that which has come out in courtrooms across the country because he's making these specious allegations of widespread fraud, but no evidence of that has been introduced anywhere, including in the middle district of pennsylvania federal court where mayor giuliani appeared yesterday. and to your point, chris, rudy seemed unaware of what the then latest iteration was of the complaint. for example, all this talk about oversight of the counting of ballots in philadelphia is not something that was then before the court, and he had to be told so. i think you're right in terms of identifying the play. there is a process here. it's tabulation. it's certification. it's electoral college. and then it's congressional acceptance. and it is a flat-out attack now without any foundation to try and get state legislatures to

refuse to go along with the certification phase, even though there's not been any offering thus far to justify the request. >> do you think it works in pennsylvania? >> absolutely not. it will never work in pennsylvania. for not the least of which reason is you can't go back and change the rules in terms of how you are going to slate the el t electoral college after the fact. had they tried to change the rules before the election, arguably there would be a shot. but you can't go back after the result has already been in and say now we'd like to alter the way in which we choose those individuals. no way. >> david, true or false: we are looking at our future. trump didn't go away. he loses. the institution stands strong enough, but the republicans are too tied to that base, too in on riding trump, worried about trump, they just oppose biden like they did with president obama and then some? >> yeah. i mean, i think kevin mccarthy

gave up the game pretty clearly, the minority leader in the house in an interview with the new york times because jonathan asked him, well, don't you think that the temperature cools a little bit with biden coming into office? and mccarthy says, well, it depends how it all ends. he said if 70% of republicans believe that biden cheated, then he's going to have a hard time. well, the obvious reality to that is that that's what's being stoked by the president and his allies. so they are stepping back, allowing trump to pedal nonsense to that more and more republicans think, yeah, you know what? this thing is rigged. he's right. and biden is an illegitimate president. that's the game that's being played. that's why this is so dangerous and why in the context of the pandemic it's so shameful. now, we have to acknowledge that this is not new. we have been in a cycle now of a

generation politically where one side delegitimizes the other. and there is no question that there were millions and still are millions of democrats who don't think that donald trump is legitimate. and so the cycle is repeating. but it is so dangerous because it's eroding what little trust people had in institutions. >> michael, can we/do we get to a better place? >> i think we get to a better place when we get through the certification phase. i'm not sure exactly what the president will say. i'm also not sure, call me naive, that the base hangs with him absent some evidentiary finding. but i'm mindful of the fact, chris, that you go back to 2016 and you think about donald trump standing on that debate stage. there were so many individuals running that there was a junior varsity and he was able in the new hampshire primary with 35% of the vote to begin that path toward winning the nomination.

my point is if he comes out of this with his reputation intact among republicans he'd be unstoppable to win the nomination in 2024. >> didn't you just answer your own question? she's going to come out with his reputation unstained. he is the teflon don for then. he is a symbol more than he is significant in terms of his words and deeds. he's going to come out unscathed and looking like a victim. didn't you answer your own question? he may be the man going out in 2024 unless he wants to make it his daughter. >> in any other climate at any other time, this would be a very interesting intellectual argument. but we're dealing with a pandemic. and i have to believe that people are taking a look at this and saying there are no events on his calendar. his activities are to sit there and tweet fwrgrievances. it's like festivus all day long

instead of getting ready for vaccine distribution. that death count i would think is going to be an albatross. >> "seinfeld" reference. except it's festivus and he screws the rest of us. david, your take? >> i think republicans would like to be free of trump, and they can't. they're too afraid politically of what michael is saying, you're saying. he's a force. whether he runs again, even outside of the white house, everything goes through him because he's got this base of support and he's trying to build this idea that somehow he was unfairly deposed for which there is no evidence. but i think that is the question. because, yes, republicans would like to be free of trump. but they recognize that trumpism and that impact on republican party is durable. he's actually changed the party.

and that's what populists do. how that runs its course, we don't know. but it's a big challenge for the party and an additional challenge for biden because people rejected trump at some level. they did not stand squarely behind the democratic party, and that's going to be hanging over biden as he tried to lead. >> after turkey day, do you think biden needs to knuckle up and become fighting joe biden again and say enough of this, i want in. >> yeah, i think so. i think he's got to calibrate it. i think he's done a good job so far. i think he's had a pretty good feel for how to approach trump throughout this season, the election season and now the post-election season. he's acting like a president. he's not just trying to get in the ring with the guy. he's just putting pressure on, putting pressure on. >> i hear you. >> more republicans in their own feeble way are coming around. but, yeah, i think, you know, a couple more weeks and they're going to have to amp it up.

again, it will be in the context of the virus. >> that's what i'm saying. michael, i totally agree with everything michael says. that's why i call you guys on the phone so much to figure out what to say on my show. we have watched the gop become the trump party. we have watched them willingly be complicit in ignoring the pandemic and doing the minimum. and now the idea that david says some are coming around, i don't see it. and biden is a commander in chief elect during a pandemic. doesn't that give him the mandate, the wherewithal to say, wait, we can't wait for him to get over it. get out of the way. >> i think he has no choice but to do exactly that. but in terms of whether more republicans will break fold and bring pressure to bear on the white house, i think republicans are mindful of the fact that donald trump increased his raw number of votes as compared to

four years ago. they gained seats in the house. arguably. we don't know until january 5th. the senate remains in republican hands. the mansion in montana shifted to the rs and more state legislatures were won by republicans. there is a political calculus where they are deathly afraid of trump because of the control he exerts on the party. >> they wound up doing that well despite the pandemic. >> true. >> a little is because the democrats have to learn that in this new binary world of left and right they have their own concerns about fringe. but, david, think about that. if we did this on paper and you and i wasted a lot of italian food watching the election of 2016 and then some, you did this during a pandemic. you won seats against the democrats. you probably hold on to the senate and you got more votes than you did in 2016. why change now?

>> right. and that's the key point. we can't forget even though people disapproved overall of his handling of the virus, there is still a lot of people that look up and say, you know, because people nonsensically have created masks as some kind of politicalliy divisive issue. this could have happened to everybody and it's bad all over the world. but the real problem today is what dr. fauci talks about. you need a uniform standard. the virus is going crazy around the country. you have a state by state approach. that's what's been lost. and that's the easy thing for republicans to fall back on now saying, well, you know, the states have their own plans. and you see what's happening in your city, in new york today over the schools. i mean, it's really, really messy. and that's why everybody has got to be onboard. the idea that biden can't talk

to fauci, i mean, there is enough people in the country who hear that that say that just doesn't make sense. that doesn't make sense. >> smirk, last word. >> as the dust settles, this was a referendum on donald trump. he lost that referendum. but voters were not prepared to hand a blank check to joe biden and the democrats. >> that's a good last word. david gregory, michael smir connish, thank you very much for helping the audience tonight. what do we know about all these votes for trump and even a legendary amount of votes against him? division. we've always had them. it's easy in america to play with us, right? everybody here is different. we're all knitted together with a common cause. that's what's happened here. they're not going to disappear. so given this election, how do you move forward? how fragile are we? how difficult is it for the

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okay. the good news. more than 155 million of you -- we haven't seen anything like this in a generation -- you exercised the franchise. you came out and you voted for, against, both. what did we show? oh, are we divided. but there were messages, clear ones. a president has to be better than trump. what else? what about the guard rails for biden in terms of what you want and what you don't? this is part of the biden reality now. he has to figure out: what does this mean for his own course

forward even within his own party. there is a liberal wing. was there a message of rejection of that wing in this party? now what does that mean for how he harnesses the power of the best in his party. that takes us to independent vermont senator bernie sanders. good to have you back on the sn show. on the micro, this talk that, hey, bernie sanders should be in the biden cabinet, that's what he wants. is that true? >> well, look, i want to do everything i can to protect working families in this country who in many ways are living in terrible desperation right now. and if i can do it in the cabinet, that's great. if i can do it in the biden administration, that's great as well. >> do you have a preference? is there a position that would take you from the senate. because if you leave from your

position in the senate, you have a republican governor that gets the seat? >> the republican governor indicated he would point somebody who would caucus with the democrats. i think that resolves that issue. i think something like secretary of labor would be a very attractive position. it would give me the opportunity to fight to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, equal way for equal work for women. it would give me the opportunity to make sure that workers who are entitled to overtime pay get that overtime pay. that workers get pensions that have been taken away from them, that we help workers organize into unions so they can earn decent wages through collective bargaining, et cetera, et cetera. there is a lot of work to be done in the department of labor. >> address the argument that what we saw in the election was, yes, trump was rejected, but there was a record amount of votes for him. and part of that message was, we want somebody other than trump, but don't go too far to the

left. we don't want that either. it scares us, and that's why he got so many votes, so that bernie sanders and that part of the wing, be careful on that. >> well, i don't quite agree with that, needless to say. my understanding is that over100 candidates for congress ran in support of medicare for all, something that i strongly believe in and has got to take place if we're going to deal with our dysfunctional and cruel health care system. you know how many of those candidates lost, chris? the answer is zero. something like 98 candidates ran on a green new deal. one of them lost. i would say, really, to answer your question that we have too many democrats who are not giving their constituents a real choice in the sense of telling them that they are prepared to stand up in a very strong way for working families and take on

very powerful special interests today who are doing phenomenally well while ordinary people are suffering. so i think what we need is to move the democratic party in a direction we're not in right now. let's be honest about it. donald trump has won a strong majority of working class people in this country. now, you know enough about the democratic body that 40 or 50 year ago that would have been a laughable idea. am i right? >> absolutely. >> that's where we are today. why is that? and the answer is i think that ordinary people out there in rural america and all parts of america do not see a party that says to the insurance companies and the drug companies, stop ripping off the american people. who are demanding a democratic party that is demanding that in a time of massive income and wealth inequality, yeah, the billionaires are going to start paying their fair share of taxes. we will make it easier for kids to go to college, et cetera, et cetera.

i think you need a party that makes it clear which side they are on. democrats have not necessarily done that. >> here's the big problem. if we learn anything from what we're seeing right now, it's that thank god the institutions seem to stand up even against the president, so far so good. but his party is in his pocket. and they're not going anywhere. and you may see even worse than what you dealt with with the republican senate under obama. and you won't get to do any of the things that you want to do and biden is going to be forced to find areas of agreement which are going to have to be center at best. what about that proposition? >> i don't accept that proposition, chris. i think if we come out strong from day one, standing up and making it clear that we have proposals to benefit working families, and if we are prepared to go into those states to tell those republican senators,

you're not going to vote for a strong covid-19 package which protects workers? guess what? we're heading into your state. we're going to explain it to the people in your state. now, we don't know what the results in georgia will be, but it is going to be a very, very tight senate. and i think we can put pressure on individual republicans to do the right thing by talking to the constituents in their own state when we have clear proposals raising the minimum wage, expanding health care, making public colleges and universities tuition free. you make that clear. i think the people in those states will put pressure on their republican senators. >> here is the starting point of the battleground. rubio, ted cruz says, listen, god love bernie sanders, but we have had two votes in the last couple of months. $500 billion relief packages. never enough for these people. so now they're going to blame us for all these people waiting in food lines. we wanted to give them $500

billion. they won't take something. they would rather win nothing. can you win the argument? >> of course we can. we are living sadly, tragically in an unprecedented moment in american history. never been a moment like this with this pandemic. quarter of a million people now dead. an economic downturn, the likes of which we have not seen since the great depression. folks there are people watching this program that don't have enough food to feed their kids. i think when you have a demagogue like trump and others, the way they do well is when people give up on government, don't think government eases their pain. we have got to stand up for those people, no matter what cruz or rubio may say and say we're with you. yeah, we will extend that $600 a week supplement. yes, you are going to get at least the $2,000 a month check to get you over this crisis

right now. i think the american people understand that we have to act boldly and they support that. >> and the $500 billion wasn't enough for that? >> no. it was not. look, you got states. you got cities. you got towns that are facing bankruptcy right now because of declining revenue. you got hospitals today that are overwhelmed, can't care for the patients coming in with covid-19. we need an extremely bold package that addresses the crisis. what is enough is addressing the crisis. it is not a monetary amount. it's making sure that the people in this country have enough to feed their kids with, that they're not evicted from their apartments, that they have a job to do to. >> bernie, are you guys ready for this fight? do you think your party comes together and has galvanized purpose the way we have seen magically manifest in the trump party? i mean, these guys will swallow,

tripe and repeat it and mindlessly look by during these tantrumps like nothing i have ever seen. >> no, that's right, chris. >> the single mindedness, they're all in. can you guys combat that? >> well, i don't want to emulate the republican party. >> can you beat them? >> i don't want it to become a cult of the individual. what you have and the point you make is a very important question. what we have seen. i could not believe it. i would not have told you this would happen four years ago. you have a republican party which has virtually collapsed and become a cult following the whims of the president of the united states. how do you have a party where very few elected republicans are even prepared toing a knowledge joe biden's victory. i mean, that's crazy stuff. if you're asking me do i think the democratic party is prepared to fight back right now, yeah, i do think they are. >> but that would require, not a cult of personality, of course, but do you think the party will be behind biden and what he does that people can, you know, be on

the same page within the party? because if you're not, you got no chance against unified opposition? >> well, it's not a question of what biden does. it's how we all work together for an agenda. biden will come forward with an effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, equal pay for equal work. i think we're going to have united support for those ideas, sure. biden wants to invest $2 trillion no combat climate change and create millions of good paying jobs and energy efficiency and sustainable energy. i think the caucus will support that, absolutely. so i think the proposals that biden has, as you may know, we have some task forces that work with the biden campaign to help work out those ideas. they are strong proposals. they are aggressive. if he brings them forward, i do think the democratic proposal will be behind those.

>> obviously, you have to get us through the pandemic. the need is so great. i think this will be a fight unlike any i have ever seen in my lifetime. senator bernie sanders, you are certainly going to be a big part of it. thank you for being on this show. you are always welcome to make the case. god bless you and the family. >> thank you very much. now, part of the pain, schools. how many times have i shared your frustration that what's happening in schools sucks? it doesn't seem to make sense that when nobody does it the same way. in one case everybody goes home. they don't know when they're coming back. the teachers are worried. none of them are getting better. now they're getting worse. the nation's largest public school system is going all remote again, new york city. why? covid test positivity has spiked. why do i have it in quotes? what does spiked mean? why is this the best way? why don't we develop better ways

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the numbers blur, right? 250,000 americans lives lost. does that mean enough? can't see it in the sign of people's desperation of do better. can't see it in the sign of our leaders working to turn things around. and we all know deaths are a lagging indicator, right? we start to hear that people are dying more, all the pain that has preceded it, a reflection of the people who were infected two to three weeks ago, hospitals overrun. when new cases were coveraging around 70 to 80,000 a day, that's when the calls went out of what needed to be done.

we don't do it. you don't do it. i don't do it. we don't do it enough. now we're literally making ourselves sick. the hardest hit, okay? those states are where gop governors have followed trump's lead. this is not about right and left. it is about being reasonable. this pandemic, the virus, is the truth. everything it does is pure and true. it gets all of us sick. it doesn't give a damn what you think or who you vote for. all of us know we're headed the wrong way. new york city is closing down indefinitely because of rising rates. the chief doctor, sanjay gupta is here to discuss. i'd like to do it with what seems like good news. maybe good news. and i'm not sure it's good news. first the good news, rapid at home tests has been approved by the fda. is this a game changer? >> i think so. i mean, these rapid at home

tests are a big deal. the issue is with this particular one that you're talking about, i think we have some pictures of it, but it requires a machine. you have to get a prescription for the various free agents or swabs, and i don't know that they're going to have enough of these machines, a common problem, until sort of the first quarter of next year. but fundamentally, chris, you and i have been talking about testing from the start. the idea that you could have rapid accurate at home testing that you don't need to send to a lab, don't need a machine and that's actionable, that can tell you the answer you're really trying to answer, are you contagious, if we could get to that point, and i think we can, those tests do exist, i think they would be huge. we just haven't invested in that. this test will be a big deal, but we don't have enough of them yet. >> what's the cabbage factor? how much money? >> the machine itself, my understanding, is around $50. the issue, the slowdown is really around the manufacturing of these things.

if we had invoked the defense production act around the first antigen, we could be in a different position, chris. every day or every couple of days, you and your family could test yourselves while you are brushing your teeth, putting in your contacts, whatever. within 15 minutes, you have result, actionable data. if they are applied as broadly as they could be around the country, they would be a big difference. >> will we price out people who have to worry the most already? so it's the $50 and then there is a vig on materials you need every time you have to test. will it become expensive in way that you just can't afford it? >> well, it could be. the test that i'm describing, these tests are $5 a piece. you know, if you are doing it frequently, obviously that cost adds up. you are adding it for your whole family. >> and no insurance. >> the government went ahead -- and right now, what happened was

the government essentially bought 150 million of these tests for $750 million and they are giving them out to areas that they think need them. >> not enough. >> but for the average person out there it is ail a cost. >> the 95% effective for pfizer, good news, but -- what's the biggest but? >> i think there is two big question marks i have. one is how long does it last? you get the shot, and it sounds like from the data that the company has released, it is very effective at preventing people from getting sick with covid. the vast majority of people that got sick in this trial were in the placebo group. that's where the 95% number comes from. 162 versus 8. is this a seasonal thing, a yearly thing like a flu shot? it's possible. the other question is basically

does it actually prevent infection? that may sound like an obvious thing. we know it prevents people from getting sick and even severely sick according to their data, but does it keep them from transmitting the virus. remember, chris, people who don't even have symptoms can transmit the virus. >> they keep your symptoms down, but don't make you contagious. the school thing bothers me, sanjay. just tell the audience why this 3% thing is okay. the percentage in new york schools is not 3%, it is half that. but why is 3% the right number? why is closing down the schools the right thing when they don't even meet that 3% number? why can't we find a better way than closing down? >> yeah. no. i don't relish these decisions. but the 3% number is a bit of an arbitrary number. new york has been doing really, really well in terms of keeping these numbers down. look at south dakota.

56% positivity. 3% by comparison seems pretty good. but that was the benchmark they set by which they would then shut down schools. but, chris, i agree with you. and i sense where your discomfort comes from. that is that the positivity rate, 0.17%. so a lot lower. not just half, but a lot lower. and i got to say, i was surprised. as you know, chris, you and i talked about it. i was skeptical about getting kids back in school. i thought it was going to end up being a huge super spreader event. yet, schools, many of them, have been able to keep a low positivity rate. >> right. >> if you are hitting 3% in a big community like this and you say there is your benchmark, there are other areas of society that seem to be bigger drivers of spread. >> yes. >> sprarestaurants, bars, hotel cafes, to name a few of them. 80% of spread is happening in those locations. i would be focussing on those types of things first.

>> and all those things affect jobs, okay. and, you know, except religious gatherings. that's a separate issue. the schools affect jobs and all these other family vital things. the inequalities among rich and poor are exacerbated. unless you are a kid, it's probably like your kids, by the way, probably self-starters. but my kids with their bad gene pool, they're struggling at home. now i have a wife who runs a business. she has to do this and other people who work can't even go to work. and that's where you wind up closing down? it's so hard for people to accept. this 3% is no magic number. i feel like we need more sanjay guptas in those localities where people are asking questions about how do we do this better? where else are they doing this better? and it is like we're just stuck with the same metrics getting us in and out of these holes. i know you give it to us straight and i know you give us

the best reckoning. that's just one reason i love you. have a good night, my brother. >> love you, too, chris. talk to you soon. >> i got to be honest. i'm not objectionive on the school thing. i'm not. if they told me fact number one, fact, this is two. one plus two equals three. all right. i got you. that's not what the 3% is. and the rate is lower in schools. why aren't we like pushing the standards? how do we do it? because there is such a cost to making the kids stay home? economic, family, stress, health. they're inequalities. you know who does get it? dr. anthony fauci. guess who is going to be on the show tomorrow? yep. fauci. he's here. we're going to take our time. we're going to go through what's happening with schools. why we are where we are, what we're seeing around the country, what the realities are for the holidays and beyond. let's test the doctor and give

him a chance to talk to us. no quick sound bites, no quick commercial windows. we will take time tomorrow night with the man in the middle of the biggest pandemic we have faced in a generation. now, what is the biggest price of it? hunger. okay? food anxiety. talk about political correctness being misdirected. that's called hunger. being hungry. people in their cars barely able to get by lined up for food. these lines are not unique to texas. they're all over the country. the real need stepping up. why it's not enough. the reality, americans doing what our government should do. next.

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this is dallas. but in dallas, die troit, california to queens, in new york it is like this. 50 million of our brothers and sisters are going hungry. covid, that's why. here is where the numbers stood pre-pandemic. all right. the difference, covid. the levels, great depression days. remember those pictures of the guys in the coats with the hats? the latest government figures say the vast majority of the time now it is a family with kids, kids are going hungry in america and our congress is not getting it done. no, not in inner city blue state problem. rural americans, suburban, they're all starving at a disproportionate rate. those are statistics. they don't really work. faces work. stories work. trisha cunningham is the president and ceo of the north texas food bank. neil wilson is a father just like me, just like so many of you. he is up against it and doing the best he can and there is not enough help.

welcome to "prime time." >> thanks. >> thanks, chris. >> first, trish, articulate just generally, how bad is it now compared to anything you have ever seen it before? >> well, number one, we have never had a pandemic like this before and we have not seen hunger rates like this ever, even going back to the great depression times. >> i have friends who work in your good works business, and they say it has taken them time to adapt not just to the volume but the faces, that they keep seeing people like neil coming in and they say, hey, you here to volunteer? they say, no, man, i need food, and they've never seen anything like it before. >> you're absolutely right. the face of hunger looks like you and i do. it could be your neighbor down the street that lost their job, it could be a child in your student's classroom that's sitting next to them. it could be your hairstylist or your favorite waiter.

i think that's what has happened with the pandemic is there are so many now that need our help that have been able to make it before, and now, unfortunately, because of the economic stresses they're not able to. >> neil, thank you, brother, for coming on the show. i know you work hard. i know you are proud. i know you take care of your family. i know you sevrved this country. i know it is the first time you have been in this position. how quickly did things get to this point and why? >> it was real quick, like within a month we realized we ain't going to have food for thanksgiving. i said, you know, my wife said, well, they're having this food drive that we can go to. we sat there for three-and-a-half hours to get our food, but it is -- we're always the ones donating to this stuff, you know. we're just not used to having to sit back and take it, you know. it is like -- it felt -- you know, it felt uncomfortable for us a little bit at first, but i said, well, we got to do this.

then there's a lot of people out there that need our help, you know, and stuff too. so what we're going to do with this food is just kind of help some of these other people out that, you know, we know don't have anywhere to go for thanksgiving. so we're going to, you know, give some to some of the friends of ours that don't have a home to go to. >> when you talk to your family, neil, and you talk to yourself, why at 57 years old, why is this happening to you? >> i don't know. i mean it is -- i was working, doing a job, working good. just the pandemic hit and it just started, you know, going downhill from there. you know, it just -- you know, my wife ended up getting her stimulus check on her social security, but i didn't get one and i'm -- i get a disability check from the va but i still

didn't get one from first time. so i'm hoping this helps, the next one comes through because, you know, we could have used that extra. we ended up losing our home in tyler, now we're just renting a house, so we had to, you know, do that, give up our home we were paying for. so it is just like because we couldn't afford it and keeping up, and rent, a lot of times would help paying rent. that wayla landlords will help repair for repairs that need to be done to the house. >> you are shaking your head, trish, because you have heard stories like this too often these days? >> it is sad. you know, you hear these stories and you heard that one. we had the gentleman that stayed in his car overnight for this distribution we had on saturday with his stepsons just to be able to put food on the table. we have had families, fathers come through that wanted to put the food in grocery bags because they felt like there was a stigma associated with coming to get a little extra help. we don't want that. we know people need a little

extra help right now. you know, we want to help that teacher that had to stop doing her night job staying with hospice patients because she didn't want to put her students at risk. now some of her income has gone away, and these are the families that we're helping. we want to help people stay in their homes a little longer. we want to be able to help people to help their child with that distance learning that they need to put into place. that's what we're here for at the food bank, is to fill those gaps. >> god bless you and the people who volunteer with you and work with you for doing your work. neil -- trisha cunningham. neil wilson, mr. wilson, what do you want our elected leaders to know? >> i just want to know there's -- how many people are out there really struggling. i mean this has been -- i bet you some of the people that were volunteering probably also needed a little bit of help, too. i imagine there was some of them in there, but they wanted to volunteer to help and maybe, you know, they probably had family members in the line, too. there just were so many people

out there. we weren't able to visit with them, you know, because of the covid situation, but at least, you know, they were not just handing out food. they were going around, giving out hand sanitizers, mask, wearing masks. i thought that was -- but once this is over with and things, i'm definitely going to be back into helping again once i get back on my feet. >> it is amazing your first instinct, neil, aim sui'm sure s why you served the country, why you raised your family, your firsti first instinct is to be in a position to help others. i swear to god every day i do this job i'm telling people in power to do better for people like you and to help people trying to help people like you, trisha cunningham. i'm thankful for people like you coming on the show to let us know the truth. we will fight for people like you every day. god bless. >> thank you. thank you, trisha, too.

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