the former chicago mayor if he gets selected in her view is a quote "hard no." >> both parties have a lot of internal strikes to deal with. manu raju, thank you very much to all of you. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening, there is news tonight from two worlds: one real, one is not. there is the actual world we all live in and there is the world that the president of the united states waiting in declining days of his administration. he made big news in his private world tonight and is poised to make more. in the real world even with the vaccine almost here, we are on the verge of recording more deaths. more than 2600 americans died today so far. that number will rise throughout the night. 2600 deaths reported yesterday. the death toll is much closer to

300,000. the number of people hospitalized with covid is a record and more than 100,000, only signals more lives lost in the days and weeks ahead. that's the lead story in the real world. this is what the directive center of disease control prevention says we are now facing. >> december, january and february are going to be rough times. i believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. >> most difficult time in the public health history of this nation. according to dr. redfield today, the death toll could reach close to 450,000 by february. 450,000 human lives in this country lost he warns unless a large percentage of americans following mask wearing and social distancing and avoid crowds. we may reach 450,000 by february

quoting dr. refield. the best way to protect yourself and others is postpone travel and stay home. that's tonight's top story. in the real world, the one we are living and dying. in the president's world meanwhile where the white house has a string of in door celebrations ahead on his third or fourth covid outbreak depending on how you count, here is the reaction. >> the cdc director says the next few months could be the worst public health month in american history. does the white house is setting a good example for in-person holidays at a time the cdc and other organizations asking americans to forgo these kinds of celebrations for your ian safetown safety. >> you can celebrate the holiday

of christmas, you can do it responsib responsibly. social distancing and masks and hand sanitizing stations among others. we'll engage in the celebration of christmas and there will be a hanukkah celebration as well. >> she left the briefing room. the voice was heard, "you crush it kaley." her husband. in the real world several members of the task caught covid. best practices, who needs that? apparently not at the radiology herd immunity guy, remember him? he already quit. 70 million americans voted for the president, could not stand wearing masks.

speaking of voting, here is another headline from the real world from georgia secretary of state talking about the soon to be completed second recount there. >> looks like vice president-biden will be carrying georgia. that's what we expect it. he went onto say we wish that our guy would have won the election but it does not look like our guy has won the election. those criticizing the president using the language at a base of a growing threat for election workers who are simply doing their jobs. that's a real world republican and trump supportering and pl ag with the president not to do anything that could get people killed. tonight some videos of the president's former campaign attorney, sidney powell, spreading conspiracy of the

election, here is his reaction. >> the reality is he's not going to win georgia, wisconsin or michigan or pennsylvania. he has the right to go to the courts. everybody has due process. this stuff what you just showed is ridiculous and unnecessary and frankly at this point dangerous. >> just like his boss, that man is a republican and voted for the president. he understands a whole new reality as well. that reality is this president who he supported turned on him just as some of the president's orbit turning on bill barr. does not matter how much anyone prostrated themselves before donald trump, he'll turn on them in a second if it souits his interest. the president released a 46-minute video showing none of it, pedaling the same lies he

and his team pedalled in this election. in the real world there are two senate run-offs that are happening there. voters are being told that the voting system is rigged so why vote? the fantasy world ranting the president is putting that on jeopardy. that's how crazy this is. republicans and negotiatsenator continue to play along. i guess that he accepts that kelly won the race there. when asked by reporters whether he accepts the presidential ultimates, he ignored the question. he did not spend 46 minutes ranting of how the whole thing is rigged. which to be fair acknowledging reality should not be or take a profile encouraged. just reality. and also to be fair is not like

the president does not selectively do the same. he acknowledges, sort of cashed so he's fund raising like crazy in such a way to put money into his own pocket. people think it is going for the battle of his election. it is not. he can do whatever he wants with it unless you donate more than $5,000. he and the people around him face legal jeopardy so he's set to do a lot of parties. he does not acknowledge the american people voted him out of office. americans are dying. those are realities. sadly for the country they are not his realities. jim acosta begins our coverage from the white house. the staggering pandemic numbers again tonight, kelly mceneny down playing the threat.

>> it is pretty unreal so far of the language you are using tonight. let me take you to the white house briefing. we saw kaleigh mceneny, they were putting a clinic and mask avoidance six or seven months. and beyond that she went onto say on the subject of coronavirus vaccine should be called the trump's vaccine putting adivipu putting aside the fact comparing the president to the virus and saying that. the president has been out to lunch on the coronavirus. he was not participating in the task force meeting that occurred earlier this week.

he does not participates in meetings but yet he wants his name on the vaccine. and so the press secretary accused others of hypocrisy but they're bleeding hypocrisy at a very deadly time during this pandemic. >> a new reporting tonight on expectations for possible presidential pardons. >> that's right, i talked to a source close to the white house close to the discussion on this, the public should expect a flurry, that was the word used by the source, flurry of pardons before president trump leaves office. this went onto say among the president's advisers there is a feeling that yes, he can legally pardon members of his family, ivanka trump and jared kushner and donald trump jr. and rudy giuliani and that legally this adviser says that yes the president could go ahead and pardon themselves, never mind

that constitutional scholars say that's not presidential. the president is in the mood of trying it out and his advisers are supporting it. >> jim acosta. joining us is bernie sanders, thank you for being with us. the president dangling 2024 he's running out there. the republican party collapsed and have become a colt. is there any hope of bipartisan, getting stuff done? >> what is undisappoibelievable disappointing, you have a president that don't have the guts to say yeah, joe biden is

the president and to move on. it makes me see the republican party today kind of a colt of the individual and that individual being donald trump. >> the best case scenario for democrats is gain control with the senate with 50/50 split casting the break-in vote, they need to win both georgia run-offs for that to happen. if they don't pull off those victories, what does it mean for democrats getting things done. joe biden have been talking about a lot of big ideas. >> i think the american people right now want a president who understands that the time we are living in are probably more dangerous than any time since when franklin roosevelt took office in 1932. you got the covid pandemic which has to be dealt. you got an economic collapse and millions of people tonight are

struggling to put food on the table. you got millions and millions of people who lost their healthcare. they are unemployed. all the while we are seeing a massive increase in in cocoming wealth and equality. what the american people want for joe biden to get out there. we have a crisis and i am going to act and use my executive order. i will demand congress to raise the living wage. i am going to demand women get equal pay for equal work and cover all people during this pandemic. we deal with the racism within our justice system. i believe that's what the american people want. i believe we'll succeed, obviously it will be easier if

we win it in georgia. that's the agenda of the working people of this country want and more economically since the great depression. >> a lot of what you are saying depends on, i remember talking to you in the past and i don't want to misquote you on, i remember you said to get these things required, not only an out bo pouring at the ballot box but out going and a lot of people being involved. >> that's right. >> there are a lot of folks who are exhausted and they feel joe biden got elected, democrats are now maybe taking their foot off the gas pedal. >> well, we can't afford to do that. i know there are incredible grass root organizations working all over this country. bringing working people together to demand that we create an economy that works for all of us

and not just a few. i think if you have a president biden and vice president harris, you know i think mitch mcconnell ought to move. that's true for republican senators all over the country. the truth is people are hurting in a way that we have not hurt for generations. people want action. i think if the biden administration is strong and force fu forceful with a list of proposals. yeah, that's what we need, we have to cover healthcare for all and rip off by big companies. let's go, joe, let's do it. we can rally the american people even if we don't control the senate or get a hell a lot done. >> where do you see stimulus

negotiations heading then? the bipartisan proposal made uses for a base talk. do you think they'll get something done with mcconnell? >> to all due respect for mcconnell, what he brought his proposal is laughable. we provided in the past 6$600 a week. all over the country people are worried of being evicted. there is no $1,200 check for people. his proposal is laughable. the other proposal brought forth may be a start for discussions. we got to go a lot further than what that proposal now entails. that proposal does not have the $1,200. i would do $2,000 a month of stimulus check but tast thought. we got to build on that. >> the last time you and i

spoke, you said that progressive movement deserves a seat at the table. i want to play what biden told nbc last week when he was asked if he talked to you or senator warren about cabinet positions. let's listen. >> i have talked to them, as i have said, we have significant representations, one thing is critical, taking someone out of the senate or taking someone out of the house at a particular a person of consequence is a difficult decision that has to be made. i have al very ambitious and progressive agenda and it is going to take really strong leaders in the house and senate to get it done. >> what's your response to that? >> well, my response, two responses. the progressive movement in america probably constitutes,

you know, 35% or 40% of the democratic party. i absolutely believe that those progressive, that movement deserv deserves representation in the biden's cabinet. i am a happy u.s. senator from the great state of vermont. if democrats gain control of the senate, i will be a chairman of the committee. i am content of where i am. i believe the progressive movement deserves strong representation in the bidencap cabinbiden's cabinet so we can get further and fighting for the middle class that's hurting. >> appreciate your time. ahead, dr. gounder and dr. sanjay gupta ahead.

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hospitalizations have soared. the nation's 911 emergency

system is what they call at a "breaking point." a third surge of the virus in the midwest and west. today deaths passing 205,000. the chief of operations warp speed says as many as hundreds of americans could be vaccinated by february. joining me now is dr. gounder and our dr. sanjay gupta. dr. gounder, the country is set to pass the largest number of deaths since the pandemic began, assuming it will continue the next few hours and the death toll will helicoptcontinue to r. what's the path forward besides hunkering down before the

vaccine is widely available. >> i think we need to be pati t patient. it is going to be a while before the american citizens have access to the vaccine. the same measures we have been talking about pfor months, mask and social distancing and spending time with people outdoors as opposed to in doors. those are our best tools here. hospitals are getting overwhelmed and overrun. we are going to see increasing cases and icus stays and deaths in the next couple of weeks. there is a lot we could do to prevent more from happening. >> the 911 emergency system is at a breaking point and struggling to stay together. have you heard that kind of a

statement before and what does that actually, what's the results of that? what would that mean? >> well, we are used to being able to have these sorts of resources. you call 911 and you get that kind of resource and ambulance shows up. the idea that the united states you can run into a situation because they're at a breaking point with as much demand there is, you may not be able to get the type s of services we count on in this country. the highest death rate we have seen overall in wisconsin and california thinking of going to stay-at-home mode again and overwhelming the icus by christmas eve. we have been reporting on it for so long, we have become a little anew to it. the balance thing is a concern. that's the sort of thing that gets people attention, you pick up the phone and you call somebody and they can't get you.

that's when you realize it is turning to a real disaster. >> dr. gounder, we crossed 100,000 covid-19 hospitalizations, you are on the bid biden's covid transitioning team, do you have any sense of capacity? >> our biggest challenge is healthcare workers. back in the spring and march, april into may in new york city when we were dealing with the worse of the surge here, we were able to bring in healthcare workers from all over the country to help us out. a lot of the doctors and nurses i was talking in the icu were from texas. that's just not going to be an option if the entire country is dealing with a surge. the fact is you can't employ the defense production act for healthcare workers that may take years to train. >> what should we take away the fact that u.k. has approved the

pfizer vaccine? >> i think it is a good sign. the data that we are looking at mostly come from the company talking about 90% efficacy and things like that. thank you know i didn't have any reason to doubt it. it is nice to have a regulatory authority like the u.k. that is look, there is no red flag here. we'll have the same process transpiring this country. there will be a lot of challenges even after the authorization in terms of distribution. how does it go over there? may be there is some lessons to be learned. there is good news for the world anderson. >> dr. gounder, when you look at the approval process and rolling out in the u.k., what we are planning to do in this country, what's the comparison like and what will you be able to learn from that process? >> well, i think it is important to remember. this is not a race, the fda is the preimminent drug, safety organization in the world.

so we really do not want them to cut corners. we want them to take or follow their normal processes in the approval process so americans can feel this is truly a safe and effective vaccine. it is not helpful to have vaccine on the shelves. what you want is for people to get vaccinated to line up for vaccines. >> sanjay, the chief adviser to operations warp speed say that hundred million americans could be vaccinated by the end of february. does that seem to be a realistic number? both vaccines if they have to take a double dose? >> yes. >> well, i talked to them about that, if you start to do the math and you say hundred million by the end of january or february, it would mean that other vaccines have come online. i think he's sort of looking at the fact that johnson&and johnson and as well as astra seneca.

we don't have one vaccine that's emergency authorized. if you start to look at the doses, you are right, it is two doses per person for these two front runner vaccines. but, i think the other part of your question, you know, we have been presenting a lot of these numbers and going through the models and it counts on many things going right, not the least of which you are dealing with the situation where you have manufactured vaccines being distributed, you have some sort of stock supply, we are not going to have that luxury. when the pfizer vaccine starts to be used under 7 million doses per week. if you get a bad batch, you may be behind. those are all considerations going into january and february. >> appreciate it sanjay and dr.

gounder. please join sanjay and me for the "coronavirus town hall." president trump is considering firing attorney general bill barr, a reporter broke this story. and a member of the mueller team. quitting feels so big. so try making it smaller, and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette.

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breaking news, it just hits "the washington post," trump is considering termination of one

official. josh dawsey is joining us now by phone. how angry is president trump at attorney barr? >> two reasons, one barr came out and contradicted him on voter fraud of what they have done and investigations and they looked into matters across the country and they have not found anything to overturn the election and two, barr did not deliver on the durham report against the mueller investigation that he wanted deliver before november 3rd. barr even though he was appointed as special counsel and continuing to look in the that. he did not deliver the report the president wanted. yesterday there was a confrontation with the president, he was describing his anger about him all day. i don't think there has been any

decisions. a lot of dealing that could have happened. >> i don't understand the point. i mean he's got, you know, a couple of weeks left. it seems odd that i mean he's upset but it seems odd. given the blow back that barr is getting from the white house and over comments. i know you spoke to a source telling you why barr decided the speak out, what did he say? >> there was a big pressure on barr to speak out because the president making these claims everyday and a lot of attorney generals who were coming out saying they did not see it. barr does not have the best relationship with rudy giuliani and seeing him as a side show. it was a lot of different concerns for barr to speak out. to your first point, anderson, the president hired mark esper, his cyber security, hefi fired

more than a dozen people. there was a time between now and january 20th where you would expect more firing. he has nothing to lose. in his mind has not always worked to his satisfaction, it has worked against him at times. >> what has the president's relationship with barr been like the last couple of months? >> it has been tenuous, the president wanted barr to make forceful claim of voter fraud and backing him up and he wanted barr to put out the durham report and say more about, you know, what the president-elect without evidence of substantiated fraud. there is a lot of folks who

would say that barr was one of his most loyal after the mueller report, he put out a summary and critical of the mueller report. but, it seems like voter fraud accusation that the president made over and over again is a bit too far for bill barr. >> it would be easy for a foreign power to print up a bunch of phony ballots and send them in and that would be undetectib undetectib undetectib undetectible. he didn't offer any evidence on that. that's the furthest he went backing up the president of mail-in voting. >> that's something that could happen hypothetically. what the president has been saying in weeks and there were tens or not hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots

of the entire minion machines corrupted and foreign conspiracies and others involved and other countries. what barr said a few months ago it was contentious at the time. without evidence and by all accounts of the government and experts that they had done that and corrupted the election. those are a bit of two different things. >> josh dawsey, we appreciate it. we are lucky to have them here in light of the breaking news right now. andrew weissmann, the author of the new book "where law ends inside the mueller investigation" and with us, our cnn's political analyst, carl

bernste bernstein. what's your reaction of the attorney general and the president? >> i am cynical about bill barr. he was perfectly happy to be working under the president when the president was riding high. it is hard not to use the analogy of rats in a sinking ship and now he's no longer in power, he's willing to separate himself. i think it remains to be seen whether he really push back on john durham, for instance, and really wanted to do the president's bidding. i think there is a lot more to come on that story. so, you know i think bill barr is too little and way too late he has any integrity here. >> carl, what would firing the attorney general during a lame

duck presidency would accomplish? >> it would make the base happy and continue to image of trump as grief and raging. everything that trump does is really about himself, his moods and desires and selfishness. what we are seeing and all the things you talked about is trump is our first truly subversive president, always sub vevertinge interests of the people of the united states and the health and welfare to his own selfish finance interest ans and politi interests. it is never about the country. this is one more instance of it. this was all personal. everything with trump is personal. as a result, our national interests have been subverted by a president of the united states in all these areas including pardons that he's talking about. it is about subverting the

national interests for donald trump's interests. his own grift, we have never seen anything like this and it is going to continue. the people around him and some of them are horrified. >> i am stunned by time and time again. we have learned this lesson and anybody been in the president's orbits know that no matter how you constitute to benefit this president, that in the end he'll turn on you no matter how much you have degraded yourself. jeff sessions, barr, all these people, you know, are left in tatters whatever reputations they once had and the president chews them up and spits them out. barr now the president spits him out, he won't get to make money on the lecture circuit talking to trump supporters. >> um, i think that's true. although it is conceivable that

barr did this deliberately to try to actually resurrect his reputation there are people who actually sort of played the president correctly. roger stone was convicted by a jury and never spent a day in jail because he made it clear if he got a pardon that he would not be talking. there are people that can benefit from having this very corrupt personal interests that as carl said is really driving what happens in the white house. >> and in your book, you drew a parallel of president trump march donni pardoning the power in the mob. the president has the power to pardon to reward those who stayed loyal. do you think is legal for the president to pardon himself? >> i think the issue of him

pardoning his friends and family, the power is so broad. you can't pardon for state crimes and future crimes. the supreme court may have the decide the issue whether you can pardon yourself. you know clearly that was not contemplated by the framers. we'll see if that ends up getting tested on the court of law. >> if you are president trump, you have the power to the office available for you the next 49 da i da days,what do you do? you are showing no interests protecting the country from the pandemic. >> the first person he wants to protect is paul manafort and whom there is considerable evidence was in contact with russian principles and others

and passed information from the trump campaign to the russians. i would say that pardon is almost certain as are the pardons of his children. one of the interesting things about pardon power is it does not cover future offenses. that goes to the question of why. if there is going to be a lot of investigations ongoing both in federal courts and federal u.s. attorney i would imagine and in state courts that have to do with trump, people, his family and advisers and others. what the trump presidency is about is lying. above all else we are seeing this week once again and lying in the future investigations is not covered by the pardon power. so the pardon power is not absolute, i have no doubt he's going to go ahead with this

unseemingly pardons which speaks volume to who he really is, back to the idea, willing to subvert the rule of law and national interests and all about himself and at the same time, i think we are getting a picture that even republicans and especially in the senate are beginning to understand who they have protected all these years and through this attempted coup in the final days of presidency, trump continues to undermine the democratic elections in our country and these republicans continue to enable hit. this is going to go to their eternal shame. >> they long ago realized who they were fronting for. >> president trump claimed in the propaganda video that we are not showing that the same people failed to get him in washington and send him information to new york and they can try him there,

is he right to be worried of his family's business? >> i certainly would be. whether the manhattan district attorney's office makes that case? a federal pardon will have zero effect on state's invasioestigas whether bank fraud or money laundering, all of that can be brought against donald trump and his businesses. you can't pardon yourself out of civil liabilities. one thing that's important to notice despite the president talking about this is just retaliation, criminal cases have to be prove to a jury of civilia civilians beyond a reasonable doubt. truth is required. this is not just a question of retaliation. this is a question of whether someone has all the proof that can support those charges. >> carl bernstein and andrew weissmann, appreciate it.

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not to challenge the results of the election. tony schwartz, author of "the art of the deal." the president keeps dangling this idea of running again in 2024. while so far today there are more than 2,400 reported coronavirus deaths. what does it say to you about just how messy the next 49 days may be? >> well, 49 days or 49 -- or four more years of this. it's gonna be -- it's gonna be grim. it's gonna be grim of course because of covid, but it's gonna be grim because he's going to keep exceeding himself and the heinous decisions he makes in order to bring the rest of us down with him. but why? you know, it is so interesting.

if you look at the front pages of newspapers. if you tune in to cable shows, we're still talking about trump. we've got a new president, but the dominant topic of conversation is trump. why? i mean, i have been thinking a lot about this. and it's that there is a core principal in psychology which is that pbad is stronger than good. so if one person threatens you and the other person wants to help you grow and live a good life, which one commands your attention? trump is still a perceived threat. 49 days from now, i hope that diminishes dramatically. but it still feels that way. that is his one and only genius, to scare people. >> isn't that -- i don't know if that's called the negativity bias, but the thing that if you can get 100 -- you can get 100 tweets that are positive, but it's the one that's negative

that you obsess about and you pay attention to. you know, it is sort of the same idea at work. i mean, the fact is he is still in office, and he's out there taking donations to the tune of $170 million under the heading of the paying for baseless election challenges. i'm amazed how many people really believe him that this actually happened and are giving money maybe not even realizing or not caring that it's not going to election challenge. it's going to a fund that he has access to that he can use really however he wants. >> well, it's mind boggling and it's frightening and it's hard to understand that he has convinced 74 million people that the endless string of lies that he tells culminating in the lie about who won the election.

i mean, it would be one thing to make that claim if the election had been close. now we know it wasn't even close. and the thing about people who are authoritarians is that one of their key tactics is say it over and over and over again. if you look at trump's feed right now, this is all that's in the feed. one nonsense claim after another after another. and i always felt that what trump -- what trump is instinctively so smart about is that at a certain point people say, okay, okay. but not everybody says that. but way more people say that than we would have hoped. >> yeah. i mean, it exhausts you. at a certain point, people just give in. and i think that's what the -- you know, a strategy he's pursued in business as well. it's just sort of his

unrelenting shamelessness. at a certain point decent people say i don't want to live in this world anymore. let him do whatever he wants in this particular instance. >> yeah. >> you have said before the president's quote loyalty is to his own survival. how much do you believe his own survival is now tied to his grip on the republican party? i mean, does he need them for the next four years? they, i assume, think that they need his, you know, his -- his support certainly. >> yeah. i mean, that's clear, that the republicans have decided that, and this is just another dissent that we have watched over the past four years, speaking of shamelessness, where they have made the decision that it simply -- to the degree that what they care about is their own survival, it won't happen if they don't go along with him. and that includes the willingness to let democracy go.

i mean, i don't think this -- i don't think -- i don't, and i don't think most people think that this threat to democracy is somehow over the day trump goes out of office. he has taught his children well, and they have recognized that they are no longer bound by the truth. and as i said probably to you multiple times before, it's a huge advantage when you don't have -- when you don't feel you have to tell the truth. >> yeah. tony schwartz, as always, i appreciate it. thank you. one late item that ought to intrude on the president's fantasy world but does not. the country reported 2,658 deaths from coronavirus in a single day. that's a terrible new high and a horrible new low for this country. the subject is sure to come up when they sit down with jake tapper tomorrow night right after 360, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. it will be fascinating. just ahead, the president's eldest daughter and presidential

adviser ivanka trump sat for a deposition today. details on that when we come back.

earlier we reported on the nurry of pardons that the president may be prepared, inclouding some for close family. ivanka trump sat for a deposition involving accusations of misuse of inaugural funds. so what have we learned about the deposition? >> anderson, we have learned from a new court filing that ivanka trump sat for a deposition yesterday. part of a lawsuit brought by the attorney general for the district of columbia, the top lawyer in the state. he sued the trump organization and the president's inaugural committee earlier this year alleging they had misused funds for the inauguration, specifically alleging they grossly overpaid for the use of event space at the trump hotel in washington, d.c. so ivanka trump sat for a

deposition yesterday. she had been on e-mails she was warned that the rates quoted were quite high and the optics wouldn't look good when this did become public. we also learned that the attorney general's office also subpoenaed the first lady for documents relating to the inaugural. this investigation is a civil lawsuit, so the president's pardon powers cannot protect the family or the family business from this investigation. but it is yet another one of these allegations that have come out where they're alleging that the president has improperly profited from his position and it is another lawsuit and investigation that will dog the president, his family and his business even when he's out of office. >> fascinating. appreciate it. thank you. don't miss full circle, our digital news show. you can catch it streaming live 6:00 p.m. eastern at cnn.com/fullcircle or watch it on the cnn app any time on demand. that's it for us. the news continues. i want to hand it over to chris. >> appreciate it, coop.

i am chris cuomo and welcome to "primetime." here's the fact. trump is the least of our problems. he is a simple study at this point. trump is toxic, period. sure he's going to go out with a bang in trying to blow up as much as he can. he is absolutely trying to make nothing better, despite the fact that america is in a time of abject crisis. he knows this. he doesn't care. so he's not working on the pandemic that is worse than ever, that he's not making a deal happen on relief when more people are struggling to put food on the damn table than at any time in this country since my parents were babies during the great depression. trump is so far gone that i cannot in good conscious play the substance of a 46 minute spiel that he spewed tonight. at is lies and ugly suggestions