her news conference on capitol hill. watch live conference on c-span at c-span.org or the free c-span radio app. at noon former homeland security secretaries michael chertoff and janet napolitano will be part of a discussion on presidential transitions and the peaceful transfer of power in relation to national security. it is hosted by the university of virginia's miller center and starting at noon. we are waiting for a news conference with how speaker pelosi starting just a few minutes. right now, a discussion from this morning's washington journal. host: we did republicans only yesterday. your thoughts on how joe biden will govern. how she could -- how should he interact with republicans on capitol hill? on those votes in arizona, this

is the reporting of the arizona republic. "biden increases lead in arizona, ending trumps hope continuing vote count would put the state in his column." they write "seemingly every national news that has not called arizona for joe biden, called it late thursday shortly after maricopa county reported results from its latest round of ballots." fox news and the associated press had already called arizona for biden last week but at that point president trump had a chance albeit slim to pull ahead of his democratic challenger. biden needs trump with a margin greater than the estimated number of ballots remaining to arizona.d in the thursday evening results from about 4000 maricopa county ballots went 53% for biden and 43% for trump. -- it hadn't

changed much, the map was already called for arizona by the associated dress. that is the data -- by the associated press. that is the data we use for c-span. quoting from the "washington post" -- turning arizona blue is a huge achievement fro for biden. since 1998, only bill clinton has won the mother state. after saturday night's announcement that he went over the top electoral votes, joe biden said this about his governing mandate for the election. pres. biden: i said at the outset i wanted to represent what looks like america. we have done that. for all those of you who voted for president trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. i have lost a couple of times myself. but now, let's give each other a chance. [cheers and applause] away the harsht

rhetoric, lower the temperature, see each other again, listen to and to makegain, progress come that we have to stop treating our opponents as our enemies. they are not our enemies. they are americans. they are americans. [cheers and applause] the bible tells us, to everything there is a season, a time to build, a time to reap and a time to so, and a time to heal. this is the time to heal in america. [applause] [cars honking] , whatis campaign is over is the will of the people? what is our mandate? i believe it is this -- america has called upon us to marshall the forces of decency, the forces of fairness, to marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great

battles of our time. the battle of control of the virus. the battle to build prosperity. the battle to secure your family's health care. the battle to achieve racial justice and root out systemic racism in this country. [cheers and applause] planetbattle to save our by getting climate under control. [cheers and applause] decency,e to restore defend democracy, and give everybody in this country a fair shot. that is all there asking for. a fair shot. host: president-elect joe biden from saturday night. our first hour of biden supporters only -- how should he govern? the line is 202-748-8000 for those of you in the eastern-central time zone, 202-748-8001 for mountain pacific. headline today, joe biden is forging ahead.

's teamsident-elect gets briefing. our first caller, go ahead. caller: good morning. the question of how president-elect biden should govern, i think applies to not only himself but also to our members of congress. we have to stop the name-calling. bothve to demonstrate that democrats and republicans are willing to work together, and that is also the responsibility of the republicans because of the level of distrust for both the government and elected officials that this point in time. it might be a good idea to establish a group to investigate and to make recommendations to ensure that our electoral votes

are counted properly. and to encourage and to demonstrate, to actually demonstrate on the part of the president and members of

-- progressivel caucus cochair at a caucus hosted by the action fund. "you know what to do but let's seize the moment and lead with bold ideas." on the first day of the progression of strategies summit , leading activists outlined their top priorities for the biden administration. the list includes dismantling president trump executive orders on daca, implementing a $15 minimum wage, rejoining the

paris climate accord and canceling a large portion of student debt cured next up is brenda in antioch, california. go ahead. think he needs to govern from the center of the democratic party. when he was running, one of the groups that came out strong for him and he acknowledged it was black america. you,n that, i have to tell out there, one of the reasons bernie sanders did not win was that everybody is not there yet to the far-left. that is not what everybody in the democratic party wants to do. i think he has to govern and listen to everybody. more likely what is to be able to pass. he has to be pragmatic about it.

i know everyone will not get what they want, and i want a president who is not going to worry about giving everybody what they want, that is going to be worried about doing things that can actually happen. i do not want a lot of time wasted and fights that are going nowhere. i do think, and i agree with the previous paul or, -- the previous caller that they need to learn to get along with republicans. i've always said the republicans are not the enemy, they people like us. there are extremists on both sides. by trumpred shitless and his jim jones leadership style and mentality and the way i saw the people behaving. that scared a lot of people and that is probably one of the reasons he lost. i really hope he will stick to what he says, those announcements, those things he said he would do, and that he

will get the best possible legislation on those things and weedst too buried in the and get nothing done. host: let's hear from philip in orlando, florida. good morning. caller: good morning. first of all, the comments made earlier have some relevance with what he can look forward to as far as goals. caller: i would like to see change in rates relation. the primary thing the president has to do is the dire issues with the client and how that will affect and maybe we can

build a platform about providing job opportunities toward the developing of projects that can help with reducing the carbon output in the atmosphere, which is heating up the planet, which is heating up the oceans and giving us the extreme weather. i am very concerned about that and that really turned me off about the last administration, in addition to hiding the issue about the pandemic. i believe we are living in a time where the climate has changed everything we would've been thinking about doing in our normal life patterns and now we have an issue where we have to be prepared. if we do not have an environment and a habitat to live in, how are we going to succeed in any of these other things that are just as important? host: do you think joe biden as president, he has made it clear

the pandemic is his number one priority. do you think in any way his efforts to nationalize fighting the pandemic effort, making it his number one priority, will in any way diminish his goals of rejoining the paris climate accord or addressing climate change, issues you raised? will that delay the implementation of acting on those issues? i believe he needs to rejoin the paris accord as soon as possible to give an indication of his awareness of how serious the problem is. america should be able to take the lead and create the kind of technologies that are necessary. we could do this, but we need all of us. we need to unify. in my book i wrote we are so divided, but it will take something of this type of magnitude that will bring all the people together. host: did you say in your book?

what is the name of your book? shoes" arun in my journey to understand the beginning of how racism began in this country, white began, and why it continues to succeed. african-american. i love this country. host: finish up, that is fine. caller: i love this country. i was born in out in santeria, virginia and i was the product -- in alexandria, virginia and i was a product of an effort to racially integrate the school that i came away with positive feelings about race relations. gradually i saw things go downhill. blacks beganainst in the bush administration and it continued to grow. we need to tackle those things, we need to recognize it is a problem. issues within the change

of racial problems and those are difficult things. question?more when did you write the book. caller: the third edition came out after obama. host: a little plug of the book. thanks to our producer finding that image of the front page. philip in florida. steve in indianapolis. steve, go ahead with your comment. indianapolis. think a lot of the previous callers did touch on things joe biden will have to try to implement. obviously the pandemic is the elephant in the room and he has a knowledge that it will be hard to move forward economically in any other way without trying to tackle that and make some headway on it. i want to comment on -- it is going to be one of the toughest jobs of any president ever when

notave a trump that will even have anything at all to do with helping with the transition at all. he cannot accept any of his defeat and all of the other republicans sitting back complacent, not helping whatsoever. been ablehas always to work across the all of the ah his counterparts, but it just seems like this is a different environment. he is really going to have his work cut out for him. it's just a different climate with these republicans and you have this trumpism. million americans vote for what trump has stood for which is the most anti-american

president -- person i have seen in my life, told any public office -- held any public office. it's a terrible time right now. democrats likely with the smallest governing majority in the house and the 1990's. they had the headline about that -- they lash out at their liberal colleagues. one of those, abigail samberg, the democrat from virginia -- this is audio of that conference call. good want to ensure policing. let's talk about what we are for. while people think it doesn't matter. it does matter.

, coming fromund these cia, the first thing you do is do it after action. everything that you do right and everything that you do wrong. you just need to look at that and be torn apart in 2022 areas this is from the new york post this morning. alexandria ocasio-cortez defends the police monitor after democratic losses. representative alexandria ocasio-cortez defends defund the police after republicans weaponize to the mantra. about severald issues, including the republican

challenger outing the congressional race -- called just last night. colorado springs, this is douglas. good morning. go ahead. >> good morning. i guess my biggest issue would less breaking down the dividing line of conquering and being able to bring the u.s. into unity. that if we do not knock down this wall of misinformation, we will not be able to break this down at all. if people here defund the police, they think that it means

to get rid of the police. onwe cannot communicate these simple issues and understand what the other side is talking about, how do we even get to the issue in the beginning. host: this first hour -- biden supporters only, how should the president-elect govern? morning -- good good morning. good morning, everyone. day.another happy week our nation paused for veterans day.