america prepares for a post thanksgiving co-vid surge. >> we already have this massive surge across the country. >> it's the potentially the mother of all super spreader events. >> plus the biden administration takes shape with a message of unity. >> we're at war with a virus, not with one another. let's remember, we're all in this together. >> while the outgoing president clings to his voter fraud fantasy. >> the numbers are corrupt. it was a rigged election, 100%. >> and the split screen economy, stocks at record highs while millions of americans go hungry. >> just survive it. that's all i can say. you just have to survive it.

>> welcome to "inside politics". to our viewers in the united states around the world, thank you for joining us. joe biden will be sworn in as the president. we know that, especially from a ruling after an appeals court judge rejected claims of fraud saying they, quote, have no merit. president trump tweeted, retweeting false conspiracy theories claiming without any basis in fact that he's the real winner and the fight is not over. so these words on thanksgiving day may be the closest we'll get to a concession. he said yes, he'll leave the white house if the electoral college crowns biden the winner. >> certainly i will. certainly i will, and you know that, but i think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january. a lot of things.

massive fraud has been found. >> president-elect biden is moving forward. he unveiled the first cabinet picks last week made of long-time biden advisers and obama administration veterans. he's set to announce his economic in the next few days which sources say will include janet yellen as treasury secretary. the real story last week was the tale of two presidencies. current and future. a contrast best illustrated by their thanksgiving week messages. >> i know we can and will beat this virus. america is not going to lose this war. we'll get our lives back. life is going to return to normal, i promise you. >> don't let joe biden take credit for the vaccine. the vaccines were me and i pushed people harder than they've been pushed before. >> our drx was tested this year. we learned the people of this nation are up to the task. >> this was a massive fraud.

this should never take place in this country. we're like a third world country. we have machines that nobody knows what they're looking at. >> america is a nation not of adversaries but of neighbors. to love our neighbor as ourselves is a radical act. it's what we're called to do. >> don't talk to me that way. you're just a lightweight. don't talk to me -- i'm the president of the united states. don't ever talk to the president that way. joining us now with the reporting and insights, julia her issueville davis and jo ling kent. listen here first to president-elect joe biden who is clearly trying to showcase a different style and tone than president trump. >> you want solutions, not shouting. reason, not hyperpartisanship, light, not heat. you want us to hear one another again, see one another again, respect one another again.

you want democrats and republicans and independents to come together and work together. and that my friends is what i'm determined to do. >> julie, the question is can he maintain that, facing a divided congress. a lot of democrats want him to be tough with republicans. many republicans are likely to resist him at all costs. some republicans haven't acknowledged he's president-elect at this point. will his efforts amount to much in the polarized town? >> well, i mean, it's hard to say, and that's the big question of whether or not his, the beginning of his administration can be successful. i mean, what you played there was definitely a contrast between two different types of people. president trump is talking about his own grievances and personal complaints and you have joe biden who has campaigned for many months and won the presidency by talking about

unity and coming stoing togethe coming past division. you saw two people with different interests in what happens next. joe biden is trying to set the table for bipartisan proimpregre wants to see that's the only way we can get anything done given how closely divided the house and the senate are. and what president trump and a lot of elected republicans aligned with him are doing are trying to set the table for basically stoking people's anger about a outcome of the election to try to make it as difficult as possible for joe biden to get anything done starting with confirming the cabinet nominees if he wants to fill out the top echelons of the administration. >> we'll talk about that. president trump said for the first time last week he'll leave if the electoral college votes for biden. he also falsely keeps saying

he's the real winner even though he's not and projecting lawsuits. his lawyers insist their taking them to the supreme court. what's next for the legal fight in the president, and at what point does he acknowledge reality here? >> well, i think we've seen him come the closest to acknowledging reality just in the posts you've seen from the thanksgiving day. he said he doesn't have any intention of not leaving the white house should biden be crowned the winner of the electoral college which we expect him to be, but we've known this all along, even before the election results, that this president does not going to be the type of president who was going to go out with a gracious concession speech like we've seen from past losing candidates of national presidential elections. he perhaps was never going to have the traditional meeting of the incoming president and the outgoing president, and there's a question of what he's going to do at the inauguration for joe biden. he did hint at that in his

thanksgiving day appearance, that he knew what he was going to do an inauguration, but he wouldn't tell the press who was there what his plans were. i mean, i think the closest you may see to any kind of concession speech is perhaps his upcoming rally this weekend in georgia. he's not going to admit defeat. he's made it clear he does not believe he lost, even though he did, and i think what we can expect to see is kind of a long laundry list of his accomplishments while in office to try to show his supporters that he was the actual winner when he wasn't. >> he was not. and julie, one of the contrasts we've seen through this week is the biden cabinet picks versus the trump cabinet picks. biden is leaning toward people with a long track record in government. people can see how they stack up. how they look against the trump picks over the years.

aligning with biden's aligning with alliances. how difficult is it to rejoin the agreements after four years of trump who took the opposite approach? >> i think it's a really tall order. it's a big task. part of the reason why he has i think chosen some of the people who have real experience in the trenches of policy making on these issues is because he knows that there is so much ground to make up, given the four years that we've just seen. there's no question that this cabinet that he's filling out here looks a lot like what we've seen in the past, a lot like the people he's worked with in the past, the people in the obama administration. if you look at the national security team, the deputies, committees and hash out the policies we've seen rule out under former president obama, it's a lot of those same people. so their experience with the

issues where serve them well. it's still going to be a tall order to try to put back together some of these relationships that have really been frayed over the years. you saw that he selected john kerry to be a climate czar of sorts. that's an area we've seen a lot of backsliding over the past four years. president obama put a lot of energy and effort into making that an issue in his second term. we've seen president trump be able to unwind quite a bit of that. rejoining the paris accord is one thing, but there's a lot of work that has to go into repairing that record as well and doing some of the work to get our country and the rest of the world where it needs to be as far as biden, the progress biden wants to make on that. they have a pretty tall order. >> no question about it. and as this week of contrast played out, we've seen the president making one false claim after another in voter fraud, including in georgia where the republicans are confronting what could be a problem here. voters who believe that the

system is rigged, and yet, there are two crucial senate runoffs that will determine the next majority. so listen to the head of the republican national committee just yesterday trying to reassure gop voters there that they should vote in the system -- they should have faith in the system and vote come january. >> it's not decided. this is the key. it's not decided. if you lose your faith and don't vote and people walk away, that will decide it. we have to work hard. trust us, we're fighting. we're looking at every legal avenue. >> will the president's rhetoric become a problem for republicans come the january 5th runoff elections. >> i think you've seen the difficult dance she had to do in the clip because of the problem by the republican parties, that the president had continuously pushed baseless voter fraud

accusations, particularly in georgia, a state that's critical in the january 5th runoffs. we've seen over the last four years how powerful the president's words are. even with his multitude of falsehoods, that his supporters really do believe that he's saying. it's not a surprise that when he is pushing through his twitter accounts, through his allies and conservative media, when he's pushing the baseless claims that there's voter fraud, basically every single day since the election, that particularly in georgia, of course the supporters are going to believe that and lash onto that. and that definitely could have an impact where republicans are going to need every vote? virginia. it's a close race and those two runoff seats there, and they need -- every voter needs to have faith in the system in georgia. and i think that's what you saw the georgia secretary of state is trying to do over the last several weeks when he was in quite a standoff with national republicans and really trying to protect the voting integrity --

the integrity of votes in his state, but does that -- i think that's a problem for the gop. >> the republican secretary of state, and this fight reminds me of mail-in voting, the president saying it's rife with fraud. thank you so much for your time. up next for us is this thanksgiving going to be -- end up being a coronavirus super spreader event like many experts fear?

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a record number of new cases and worries that thanksgiving travel will turn out to have been a super spreader event. total number of cases in the united states, nearly 14 million, 13.2 million cases. more than 4 million cases in november alone. that smashes an old record set a month ago in october. there's no single hot spot. it's spreading in big states and open states, open states and rural areas. and at least 100,000 new cases since november third every day. this is not because of increased testing. it's because of an increase of hospitalizations. people are worried that states across the country about what this means. this is the number of cases per week. 1.1 million in the week that just ended. at least 1 million new cases every week. that's also double from about a month ago. now, look at the increased hospitalization. this is a real concern that's happening all across the country. more than half of the states, 26 states said hospitalization

records last week. about 91,000 americans currently hospitalized and hospitals are warning they're running out of icu beds and trained staff. we're not rounding the turn no matter what the president is saying. the real concern, the tragic concern about the virus all along is about deaths, of course. that is the lagging indicator here. deaths on wednesday alone, 22,09 7 deaths in the united states. hospitals are better at treating co-vid patients than last spring, but experts wan when hospitals are overwhelmed, patient care will suffer. the concern is after the thanksgiving surge, it could lead to an increase in the death count. we have a dire forecast for what's ahead this holiday season from a doctor. >> we're going to be regularly hitting 2000 deaths per day, but then going up to 3,000 deaths and 4,000 deaths. the numbers that are approaching what we experienced in the 1918

flu pandemic, except it's happening over a much shorter period of time. so this is going to be destabilizing for the country in terms of health and our economy and our homeland security is under threat at this point. >> now, joining us now, an emergency room physician from brown university and dean of the brown university school of health. thank you both for joining us. i'm wondering do you agree with the dire assessment, the potential of 4,000 deaths a day and the possibility of civil unrest? >> good morning. thanks for having me on. back in july i was asked by somebody whether we would ever see the 2400 deaths in a day that we did in april. and i said i can't imagine. i can't imagine we'd get that bad. i obviously have enormous respect for that doctor and hope

he's wrong. 2000 deaths a day i think are baked in already. we're going to have that. if we do our part, we can avoid the dire warnings of 3,000 or 4,000 deaths a day. >> 90,000 americans are hospitalized. that's double one month ago. governors warned americans this week that hospitals are reaching their capacity, and doctor, you worked in an e.r. in rhode island. are the hospitals prepared? >> so there's no way that the hospitals can be fully prepared for what we're currently facing. this is like a natural disaster occurring in all 50 states at the same time. there are not adequate beds or staff. and because of the lack of national preparation, there are not adequate supplies. in rhode island we're currently planning to open a field hospital on tuesday because our hospitals are so full of sick

covid-19 patients. but not every state has that option, and even if you open a field hospital, if you have hundreds of staff who are sick which is what many states across the country are currently facing, if you don't have nurses and doctors and respiratory techs, field hospitals aren't going to help you. >> and it could potentially get worse. and that's the fear. air travel was down 60% compared to a year ago, but more americans, about 3.5 million flew between monday and thursday. it's the most air travel since the pandemic began. is that a cause for concern? >> obviously a lot of americans did listen to public health advice and did not travel. i'm thankful for that. we will find out probably in about a week what impact the holiday weekend, the thanksgiving holiday weekend had.

it just takes a little while. and so obviously given where we are, i think we're all worried about the impact. what i would say is for people who did travel when you get home, try to keep your interactions limited. wear a mask. do things you can to stop the spread. it's going to be a tough few weeks ahead. >> l.a. county and others, a lot of cities taking new things into effect, taking tougher measures between l.a. county. stay at home order takes effect tomorrow. it bans all gatherings with people outside your household and all in person dining whether it's inside or outside, but allows retail businesses and schools to say open. police say they won't actively enforce it. can this be effective at all? >> what i wish is people would follow the stay at home orders. i can't tell you how many patients i take care of who say i just went to an indoor

restaurant or i just wept nt to party with a few friends. i didn't think i was going to catch co-vid. the stay at home orders are critical. i think it's important to you keep safe workplaces and schools open. in the structured settings where people are masked, keeping a distance, i'm hopeful that order will be effective. we've seen in france it works. in france they shut down restaurants, cafes, large get togethers but get school and some workplaces open. it was effective. i hope it will be in l.a. and i hope the rest of the country will follow suit. we need to do something or again, this virus is going to just continue to grow out of control. >> and doctor, an fda advisory committee will hold an emergency meeting tuesday to recommend who should get the vaccine first. we expect people also have to get inoculated twice. how complicated will this

process be of distributing the vaccine and ensuring people are getting it? >> yes. this is a great example of where the biology and the medical community has done a great job building a vaccine, but now there's a huge complexity to getting this out to 300 million people, creating a priority list, making sure people get vaccinated twice. all the logistical stuff and then all the communication stuff to help people understand that these vaccines are safe. there's a lot of work ahead, and we really need a functioning government to help pull this off. >> doctors, thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us this morning. and up next as biden's cabinet begins to take shape, he declares america is back. two medical societies have strongly recommended to doctors to treat acute, non-low back muscle and joint pain with topical nsaids first. a formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. a formulation they recommend can be found in salonpas. salonpas. it's good medicine. hisamitsu.

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president-elect biden is assembling a diverse cabinet with several firsts. the first italian immigrant to lead the oh -- janet yellen, the first woman as treasury secretary, and avril haines, and linda thomas-greenfield. this is a promise biden made in june where he pledged he'll ensure the leadership in the institutions actually look like america. joining us no-- he named his initial cabinet picks. any surprises and what does it

tell you about his policy goals and strategy in dealing with republicans in the senate? >> well, no major surprises here so far from the biden team about his picks. there are a lot of -- they're pretty conventional picks as far as cabinet nominees are concerned. people who are foreign policy share biden's world view of reengagement on the national stal stage. republicans aren't questioning their credentials and their experience to serve in the posts. i think no surprises there. i think there are fights looming ahead, particularly within the democratic party and with progressives on some of his future picks such as the picks at the pentagon and more members of his national economics team. but you do see, perhaps, where he may have been calibrating and thinking about the potential that he could be facing a republican senate who will confirm his nominees.

i think the obvious example there is susan rice who was talked about as the top candidate for secretary of state. clearly qualified to sit in that position, but they already face a lot of public resistance from republican senators, and republicans are signaling they were going to have a major fight against her already, even before her nomination. i think that may have played a role in joe biden ultimately going with tony blinken for secretary of state. >> it will be interesting to see the fights he chooses to pick in the weeks ahead. the progressives have been pushing biden to name a major figure like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren to the cabinet. here's what biden had to say about that to nbc. >> i said that we already have significant representation among progressives in our administration, but there's nothing off the table. one thing is critical, taking someone out of the senate, taking someone out of the house

at particularly a person of consequence is really a difficult decision that would have to be made. i have a very ambitious, very progressive agenda, and it's going to take really strong leaders in the house and senate to get it done. >> will the left wing party accept no warren no sanders in a biden candidate? >> we'll have to see. a number of progressive activists texted me after biden made those comments saying that he thinks he has enough progressive representation is going to have enough progressive representation in his administration. they said what progressives is he talking about? one of the things that a number of outside groups, whether we're talking about democrats or we're talking about others, they're waiting to see bigger names they feel would represent this emerging left bank of the party. that being said, a lot of the

nominees that biden name sod far are people that progressives say they can live with. they aren't in love with them, but they're people they think they can work with. some of those are ron klain, chief of staff. progressives saw that as a win for them. compared to the other candidates biden was potentially going to choose from, they felt that ron klain was the one that would be most sympathetic to their policy priorities. they were also particularly happy about janet yellen who biden is expected to formally name to be the treasury department, and they feel as though she's someone they can work with. but they're mounting more aggressive campaigns against some lower level potential picks. they are particularly against bruce reed, a veteran biden staffer. he was biden's former chief of staff when biden was vice president. he's been with biden for a long time throughout the years. also served on biden's campaign.

and a lot of progressives see him as a deficit hawk. he is likely going to be in the administration, be a big surprise if he isn't. that might be a loss for progressives, because biden's team has forcefully defended him, saying that he is not a deficit hawk, that he wouldn't try to limit spending, especially during a time of crisis. >> and laura -- >> there's a lot -- >> staying with you. there's been pushback from jim clyburn concerned about the lack of diversity so far in pushing for more black officials to be in the cabinet. this is what he told "the hill". from all i hear black people have been given fair consideration. but there's only one black woman so far. i want to see where the process leads to what it produces but so far it's not good.

pushing for martha fudge to be agriculture of secretary. how are biden and the team reacting to criticism and will they listen to what clyburn is saying? >> i think they'll listen to congressman clyburn. he's someone they have listened to throughout the campaign. as we know clyburn was pivotal in biden's south carolina win and has an ear with biden's incoming administration. he's not the only one trying to push the administration. there's members of the congressional hispanic congress who want to see a number of nominees. as many as five or six. they're hoping the administration will be reflective of the latino administration across the states. biden's team sees reflective of that, but we have a lot of positions that the incoming administration has yet to fill, and we don't know how those are going to look. >> you were mentioning

republican senators. they're already voicing their opposition to biden's pick, some of them. this is from the missouri senator said what a group of corporate big tech sellouts he tweeted. marco rubio tweeted i support american greatness and have no interest in returning to the normal that left us. this from tom cotton, the liberal media -- over the biden alums and obama alums back together. in your view, how difficult will it be to get nominees confirmed no matter how controversial or less controversial through a narrowly divided senate regardless of who is in charge here? >> well, something in common with those three republican senators you named. clearly, behind the republican presidential nomination in 2024.

they're going to remind me of what a similar group of senate democrats did back in 2017 when president trump's cabinet was taking shape. you had kamala harris and others becoming the hell no caucus and voting against all of trump's nominees and wearing it as a badge of honor. i would expect it from these republican senators as well. clearly a narrow senate and particularly one controlled by republicans and going to be a problem for the cabinet picks. i went back and looked at tony blinken's confirmation site to become deputy secretary of state under the obama years. for not even the top job in the post, he only got two republicans to support him back then. those two republicans are no longer in office. a lot of republicans at the time were opposed to his view on policy and the fact a that he

supported the obama administration's foreign policy. you're going to see a lot of policy fights play out. not so much their experience which was questioned with trump's nominees during his administration, but brutal fights about their views on world engagement, on economics, and so forth. >> yeah. two republican senators no more who voted for blinken for the deputy job. the senators are no longer there. we'll see. thank you both so much. up next, a tale of two economies. investors celebrate new records on wall street as millions say they cannot put food on the table. i want a bucket of chicken... i want... ♪ it's the easiest because it's the cheesiest. kraft. for the win win.

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a k-shaped economic recovery. things get better for those at the top and worse for those in the middle and bottom. the dow jones industrial average

set a new record breaking 30,000 for the first time. good news for investors. at the same time, new data from the labor department said 20.4 million americans are on some form of unemployment benefits. the president focussed on one number. the president-elect on the other. >> the stock market has just broken 30,000. never been broken that number. it's a sacred number, 30,000. >> think of all the people, all the people who are laying at night awake at night staring at the ceiling thinking god forbid, what happens? >> university of chicago economics professor austin gulesby. he was an adviser under paobama. it's good news for anyone with a 401k that stock market is at d

record highs but explain how that can be with millions of americans out of work and as we see unprecedented lines at food banks across the country? >> i mean, it's quite a difference to be put right in your face like that. and we've had specific days. the one day in the spring where we announced a job loss of 21 million, the worst day in the history of the american job market and the stock market went up on that day. you know, i think it's that it's just proving the old moniker that the stock market is not the economy. what matters for the stock market is the profitability of big corporations. and they can be profitable at the same time tens of millions of people are out of work. i don't think over the long run you can really sustain the k-shaped recovery where you have

widely differing outcomes like that. but in the short-run, for sure you can, and you've seen partly from government bailouts and rescues, partly because the small competitors are drying up because they're running out of money, and partly because of good news that came from the vaccine, you've seen the stock market for the really big companies, they perceive their profits are high and going higher. so the stock market value goes way up. >> and that leads to the discussion in washington about what to do about it. the surge in new co-vid cases means new restrictions on businesses. some states have shut down. pandemic plans in washington expiring or gone. the bigger unemployment benefits, the aid to small businesses to help unemployment benefits. payroll aid to small businesses.

eviction moratoriums. these are sad numbers. 10 million jobs lost since february. 26 million people not with enough to eat. 6 million at risk for eviction or foreclosure. should democrats in congress take a smaller deal before the end of the year. pelosi said no deal is better than half a deal. so she right? >> i'm just a policy guy. i know that the president-elect, biden, has been calling for doing something, because the list of statistics that you said just tell you what everybody feels and knows which is there are a lot of people really hurting in the country. i hope they can agree on something soon, because this -- because we have the vaccine and the virus really is the boss of the economy at this point, there is a great risk that we could

stall out or even have a double dip recession if we continue to let this virus rage out of control like this. and in an environment like that, where you've got millions of people literally saying they can't put food on the table, there's got to be some relief. now, i know everyone calls it stimulus, and it-- but this isn stimulus. this is relief money until we can get the furnace back on. we have to do this. it's not jump starting growth. it's just keeping people from being evicted, keeping businesses from shutting down permanently from what was supposed to be a temporary shock. and i think it's important. so if they have to accept half a loaf, then they should half a loaf, and then let's try to get another half of a loaf. but right now is really touch and go, and i wish both sides could see that. >> yeah. and you were part of the obama

transition in 2008 and 2009, and sort of the white house economist at the height of the great recession. you got criticism from progrisziprogris progressives who said the obama administration didn't do enough to help working families. that's why they argue the recovery was slow. do you agree? and what should the joe biden administration learn from that experience? >> i partly agree. it was more complicated to actually get more stimulus at that time. it was a deeply divided, if you remember, the stimulus came down to one vote in both the house and the senate. so we had to accept a reality of what was capable. i think the mistake we made was passing a large stimulus, wanting it to be bigger, and assuming well, if the economy is suffering, then the republicans and the democrats would be able to come together and pass more. and they didn't, or for whatever

reason, mitch mcconnell was already there and was already opposed to everything they did. i think that lesson for today is you ought to do as much as you can up front, especially in an environment like this, where it's known to be temporary. the virus is. we are very likely to have a vaccine available to everyone, so do some relief right now. it's not a forever thing. you don't have to get on the train forever. >> and just quickly, are you at all talking about a job in the biden administration? >> i haven't. i'm a big supporter of the vice president's from the obama days and through the campaign now. but you know, i don't -- i don't plan to be going into the administration. >> austin, thank you for taking the time this morning and as covid-19 hospitalizations hit an all-time record this holiday weekend, the doctors on the frontline tell us what they're

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covid-19 hospitalizations ever yesterday. over 91,000 patients. hospital staff are bracing for that number to grow since 4 million new cases so far this month. dr. michael osterholm said they are on the edge of breaking so we asked some emergency room physicians to give us their thats thoughts and what they are most

thankful for. we start off with dr. gilman of arizona who traveled during the early days of the pandemic to help overwhelmed physicians there to back the first wave. >> we have had tens of patients who have been high poxy. a patient had cardiac arrest. it's insane. when i talk about the pandemic and the amount of death health care providers here are seeing who are not even trained, who are not even trained for that. you know? i've been in boot camp in the military and i trained for war and they are in a war. make no mistake, this is a war. there is no general helping us. there is no plan. and for people in this country to continue to get infected, i hate calling family members and they keep telling me that their

child or their husband or their wife is dead. that is what we are doing all across this nation. my 27-year-old cousin, healthy as hell died from covid-19. i've lost three colleagues to this virus. last sunday, i was working in the shift here in yuma, arizona. no mask mandates. no icu beds to transfer a patient but everything is open. makes no sense to me. >> i remember it was this eerie feeling of getting everything ready, the hospital, icu was so quiet. we knew what was coming. it was like standing on the beach and watching like a

40-foot tidal wave come at you and only after it hit you did you realize that it wasn't 40 feet, it was 80 feet and it wasn't the only one. i just saw myself, my family, my loved ones, my community in my icu in a way i never had before and that was kind of profound for me. i think we know a lot more now than we did then. i think we are going to do better than we did then but, at the same time, once the volume of patients just hits a certain amount, there is only so much we can do. so i'm worried. i'm worried for that. >> it's getting very busy and getting very stressful to work in the emergency department. i've worked shifts where we have had patients waiting for eight, ten hours to be seen, where we have had, you know, dozens of patients staying in the emergency department waiting for a hospital bed because our hospital was full.

this year was the first time that i broke down crying. i'm most thankful for having a healthy husband and healthy two boys ages 13 and 10, who have not yet gotten sick. i am most thankful for not having anyone absent from my table. and i know that not only a lot of my patients' families, but a lot of my friends can't say the same thing this year. my greatest fear is going into this holiday season are that people are getting tired. i understand how difficult it is to remain isolated from your friends and family. you know, for myself, christmas is always a big deal. i always -- almost every year i'll travel to where i'm from

and visit my mom who is 80 now. we are not doing that this year. i worried there is not enough people making that decision. >> amazing stories. we wish them luck in the months ahead and thank them for their service and their sacrifice. that is it for "inside politics." up next is "state of the union" with dana bash. her guests including brett giroir and roy blunt and jon oshoff. thank you for sharing you sunday with us. have a good day. does your deodorant protect you all day? we gave new dove men+care to mike who transforms homes for those in need. i feel comfortable and protected all day long. dove men+care 48h freshness with triple action moisturizer.

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