turn my attention to is this transition in the new biden administration. what are they going to be able to do, where are they going to move ideologically. what are the issues that are going to be most important to them because those are the things that will ultimately affect our lives. i think that's the most important subject for the next year or two. host: you can see paul waldman's work at the american prospect. website at c-span.org. >> the people of the station have spoken they have delivered us a clear victory, a convincing victory. for we the people. we want with the most votes ever -- won with the most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate, 74 million.

admit surprise me, tonight, we are seeing all over this nation, all parts of the country, across the world, an outpouring of joy, of hope, renewed faith in tomorrow to bring a better day. humbled by the trust and confidence you have placed in me. i pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but unified. red states ande blue states, only sees the united states. heart work with all my with the confidence of the whole people, to win the confidence of all of you. is what america, i believe, is about. , and that iseople what our administration will be

all about. i sought this office to restore the soul of america, to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, and to make america respected around the world again. united here at home. it is the honor of my lifetime to so many millions of americans have voted for that vision, and now the work of making that vision is real. it is the task of our time. >> you can see that full speech not only featuring the president elect but the vice president alike at c-spine.org. the new york times, the president-elect of what he faces in the future when it comes to that idea of seeking common ground, they wrote this, this data joe biden gained in the senate did not always jazz light bid andrail, his 1988

in a plagiarism controversy. in 2008, mr. but his struggle to stand out in a crowded field. he dropped out after iowa after cementing his reputation for verbal gaps by referring to mr. obama as articulate and clean. backce president, he was in his element. every time we had trouble in the administration, who's got sent to settle it? me, because i demonstrate respect for them. sometimes that approach got results, he helped secure three republican votes for the economic stingless bill in 2009, and on other occasions, including a gun control effort, it ultimately did not. thisof that profile morning available in the newspapers, plenty of other pieces as well looking at the president-elect joe biden. your calls before our next guest. robert from covington, kentucky. supporter of president trump. you're up first.

go ahead. hello c-span. anyone would straighten out the false narrative that 100 30 million people would lose their health care if the aca is struck down when in reality the only way people would lose their health care is if congress defunded the program and there is no way that they would do it and of course trump would veto that. the other thing is that in michigan, they found out that a software program that was installed by dominion systems change six thousand votes from trump to biden. 65 of the 83 counties, then they found out that it was used in literally every swing state including arizona, pennsylvania and georgia. and many of the swing states.

host: ok. let's go to maggie. overland out, florida. also a supporter of the president. caller: good morning. i think mr. biden is a very shrewd old man, but old plays in there. strokes that he had two is why he keeps making these mistakes. and that worries me deeply. our current president seems to be in excellent health and seems to be the most patriotic man i have ever experienced in that white house. and i'm grateful for his leadership and i'm grateful that he's been our president for four years. and i'm very worried about mr. biden's health in the upcoming years.

host: tyrone in harlem, new york. caller: the reporter said something about mitch mcconnell stopping everything that joe biden is trying to accomplish and i hope that all americans realize that's more detrimental to us that it is to mitch mcconnell or biden. both of them are going to be all right. agenda don't get the passed. the american people are the ones who are going to suffer. we need to come together and realize that like the caller said old men and men that have mental problems and all that, when the agendas they try to get past don't get past, it affects more of us than it affects them. host: a supporter of joe biden from compton, california. go ahead.

to talk abouted the shift of black men voting for donald trump. i believe they made that shift because a lot of black men do not believe that women should be leaders and they have a problem based on their so-called church relationships that women should not lead, be leaders here in america. that's why they did not show up for hillary clinton then they shifted over to donald trump. so i'm just calling to brothers on this. support our sisters today. they want to blame it on misinterpretation of the bible. bible inat the christianity, it calls for equality. that how did you come to conclusion? caller: i talked to them. i live with them could i come from the streets. a lot of them have problems with women leading. and another one, not just trump

supporters. asked --my brothers except these conspiracies. them, do theyk believe man walked on the moon. i have had my discussion in my own family. they believe in martians and aliens. they believe that the world is still flat and then they call themselves believers in the bible. host: in madison, alabama. supporter of president trump. we'll go to jeffrey. caller: i'm also african-american and i'm a christian. we christians support president trump. president trump is a man of god. on him. of god is and jesus christ is the one who is fighting his battle. president trump's supporters, we would not be out in the streets.

our battle is against the democrats who killed all of the babies in the womb. that's why we support president trump. because the constitution says everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. those kids in the mother's womb have the right to life. hand do you not think the of god extends to the president-elect? caller: no. the hand of the devil is on the vice president biden. president trump has not lost this election right now. december 14 will be the final answer. host: the president-elect transition team sending out their very first tweet as far as

the biden harris presidential transition. strongere will rise than we worked before and it also has a video. finally as together one america stronger than we were before. daye will act on the first of my presidency to get covid under control. act to reward work, not wealth in this country. restore our faith in democracy and our faith in one another. we will once more become one nation, under god, indivisible. a nation united. a nation healed. host: again, that is the biden

harris transition team sending out their very first tweet. you can see that on the military.com website, a future of what the military holds under the president-elect. the withdrawal of u.s. troops from germany, they transgender ban, the diversion of construction funds to build a wall on the mexican border. biden will have the authority to reverse a string of controversial military and national security policies put in place by president trump's executive orders. associated press and major outlets projected that the president or president-elect, although the results must be certified and is expected to face legal challenges from the trump campaign. our line for those who support others.

caller: thank you for taking my call. shout out to c-span for the dozens of years i watched you guys, a bastian of objectivity. i thank you for that. i just want to say that i voted for jo jorgensen, the libertarian candidate for president. ofs goes to the question african-american support for biden.nd lack of it for there were african-american gentleman in back of me and i could hear the conversation. they were saying to the, so you ain't voting for biden. -- he's aone said racist mofo. i am black, but i ain't

voting for biden. which is a reference to biden saying in that interview, if you don't support me, you ain't lack. this young man was saying i am black and i still ain't voting for biden. he also said i ain't voting for trump neither. he was talking about the local congressman. host: why did you vote for jo jorgensen? the -- partly because of i couldn't bring myself to vote for trump. for a variety of reasons. the democrats have kind of left me in terms of their woke culture, all the cancel culture going on. the woke politics. the holier than thou. the being able to say as biden said which i think is a racist thing, you ain't black. if a white man said, if you

don't like hip-hop music, you ain't black. host: ok. that's joe. we were waiting to see if the president would respond off of his twitter feed to the events of the last day or so. here is a series of tweets from the president's account starting with, we should look at the votes. we should look at these allegations. we are seeing a number of affidavits that there has been voter fraud. we have a history in this country of election problems. have an order by the supreme court justice to compel them to separate ballots -- required the intervention of justice alito. of ballots.ge group if there is a problem about what concerns -- me is we had over 100 million mail-in ballots like cities in -- itelphia and detroit

and then it has jonathan turley. i don't know if he's directly quoting. sharon from ohio, supporter of joe biden. good morning. caller: i'm a republican, but i voted for joe biden. worked the polls for several years. i have not been able to the last two years. every ballot has something that -- there's the office that has a number that matches that ballot. on thellot is recorded

either laptop over the book that you write it in. or wherever it is. that ballot number is written so there's three checks. double checks, triple checks. being a people worker, i'm not allowed to look at their ballots. they take it through the machine. they didn't fill in a spot or something, there's two people, a republican and democratic go up to that machine to help that person out of why that machine didn't accept it. if they want to fill out the whole ballot, that's their right. they can push the button and say i want the machine to accept it.

that's sharon giving her experience of poll watching. johnny in north carolina. supporter of president trump. hello? caller: hello? this is chris in texas. host: go ahead. caller: i supported trump and the reason i supported him is he gave me a good tax break. he helped the va hospital. that's why people voted for trump, not because they want to racism and all this stuff going on in this country. i wish you would have asked paul waldman who he supported in the election. i also wish you would have asked him, would biden have won without mail out votes. host: ok. this is austin, texas. carlos.

a of the president-elect. caller: good morning. as talking about votes and this and that, obviously we expected republican turnout on election day. or forople for better worse are either paranoid or afraid of the covid-19 virus. as a veteran, i take that to heart. i'm a democrat but also a combat veteran. there's 253 thousand mail out votes from veterans. 165 of those were from people overseas. we do need mail out votes. received byose were october 22. it wasn't a big gap that was left out. i'm a hispanic man by the way. as far as african-american women, don't look now. bassld love to see karen

get appointed to that seed. i would like to see stacey redemption.urt as a progressive, i would like to see nina turner. i don't want her to just go away. ast: let's hear from supporter of president trump in illinois. joe biden says he wants to be president for the whole united states. he wants to gain the trust of all americans, but not one time while they was counting them votes did he come out and say let these people see the envelopes. with got nothing to hide here. that tells everybody that they are hiding something by not coming out and saying it. peoplene of the supporters heard from last night

kamala harris addressing the nation about the campaign. >> for making this victory possible, to the poll workers who have worked tirelessly to make sure every vote is counted. our nation owes you a debt of gratitude. you have protected the integrity of our democracy. people who make up our beautiful country, thank you for turning out in record numbers to make your voices heard. and i know times have been challenging. especially the last several months. grief, sorrow and pain. the worries and the struggles. what we have also witnessed your

courage. your resilience. and the generosity of your spirit. years, you marched and organized for equality and justice, for our lives and our planet. and then you voted. and you delivered a clear message. unity,se hope and decency, science. and yes, truth. you chose joe biden as the next president of the united states of america. host: the new york times this morning and there write up about

the president's part in all of this, michael share writing that it was unclear whether mr. trump would follow tradition and invite mr. bite into the white house for a symbolic meeting like the one he had in his own transition four years ago. it was also transition for the departing president to attend the inauguration of his successor. esther trump has ignored many of the norms of the office. -- mr. trump has ignored many of the norms of the office. would be a gesture strikingly presidentracter for inflamed passion. a voter in tennessee who did not vote. good morning. go ahead. caller: i just wanted to make a few comments. i'm very data centric.

it did not follow the typical pattern. along with that some of the transparency issues we have had centers, i guess just an overview for the american people, the media does not have the authority to anoint or coordinate a president-elect. and that elect status cannot be aren until those votes ratified by the state. host: you said you didn't vote. why is that? timer: i didn't make the necessary to do it. it didn't work out for me. had i voted as a libertarian, i would have voted for trump. host: keith is from madison, wisconsin.

caller: good morning. i have been listening to some of your right wing callers over the past several weeks now. a lot of them say they weren't going to vote for biden because he was a communist. i'm really looking forward to the flag raising ceremony over the white house. i expect the flag to be read with a hammer and sickle now if you believe what they were saying. these people are just completely nuts. host: why did you support the president-elect? trump, because he's not that's why. i don't believe he's going to do anything that is going to really deliver -- he's going to deliver us right into the hands of another fascist like trump. host: why do you say that?

caller: because he is trying to create some kind of class solidarity. we need independent working-class political movement who putsountry workers first to make sure everybody has health care and everybody has a place to live and everybody doesn't go hungry. that is what we need. is keith in wisconsin talking about his assessment of the current -- the aftermath of the presid >> book tv has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. today at 1:00 p.m. eastern from the literary festival, wanda boyd and her book, coming full circle, from jim crow to journalism. at 2:00 eastern, ape black lives matter co-founder with her book, when they call you a