or clarify the law. those are our major priorities. >> mr. secretary, we are coming up upon to 30 thymic so i promised we would be done by then so that would be the last word. secretary scalia thank you >> california governor gavin newsom has scheduled a coronavirus update for this time and appears to be running a little bit late. we will have his remarks, live, when he starts, here on c-span. you can start calling in now as we show you president-elect joe biden from last night in wilmington, delaware. [video clip] biden you know, : in this battle for the soul of america, democracy prevailed. we the people voted, faith in

our institutions held, the integrity of our elections remains intact. and now it's time to turn the page as we've done throughout our history, to unite, to heal. as i said in this campaign, i will be president for all americans. i'll work just as hard for those of who you didn't vote for me as i will for those who did. there's urgent work in front of us. getting this pandemic under control and getting the nation vaccinated against this virus, delivering immediate economic help so badly needed by so many americans who are hurting today, and then building our economy back better than it ever was. in doing so, we need to work together to give each other a chance to lower the temperature. and most of all, we need to stand in solidarity as fellow americans, to see each other, our pain, our struggles, our hopes, and our dreams. we're a great nation. we're good people. we may come from different places, hold different beliefs,

but we share in common a love for this country, a belief in its limitless possibilities. for we, the united states of america, has always set the example for the world for a peaceful transition of power. last night inn wilmington, delaware, after the electoral college affirmed his victory in the 2020 election. fresh off of that electoral college when, joe biden is headed to the peach state of georgia -- this is a reuters story, noting the trip coming ahead of the january 5 elections that could make or break his domestic policy agenda is what they write. noting that his narrow win in the southern state completed his transformation from republican stronghold to one of the country's most competitive political backgrounds. republican senators david perdue and kelly loeffler are facing raphael warnock and jon ossoff

respectively in twin races. that is where president-elect joe biden is headed. write about the same time -- when joe biden was crossing the 270-vote threshold, president trump making some news out of the white house yesterday, announcing that his attorney general, bill barr, will leave his administration next week. this was the president's tweet at about 5:30 p.m. eastern yesterday, with the president saying "just had a very nice meeting with attorney general bill barr. our relationship has been very good. letter,y the job as per bill will be leaving just before christmas to spend the holidays with his family. general jeffey rosen, an outstanding prison, will become acting attorney

general. highly respected richard donoghue will be taking over his duties of deputy attorney general. thank you. "i ams what he wrote -- proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have written -- wrote for the mac and people. your record is more impressive because you have a competent in the face of impossible -- impalpable resistance. that letter released with the president's tweet yesterday, right around the time joe biden was crossing the 270 vote threshold in the electoral college. getting your thoughts on the electoral college affirming the victory -- that speech by joe biden in wilmington, delaware. phone lines split up as usual, republicans, independents and democrats. we'll put the numbers on the screen as we hear from dahlia,

republican in connecticut. good morning. caller: good morning. fouri want to say is for years the news media and the democrats started a false narrative against president trump calling his family a crime family, and now we really have a crime family going into the white house, and i predict he is not going to stay there for a whole year, and then we get -- does heamala really think we going to unite? no way. host: what do you think this country was united question -- last united? caller: hello? last wendy think we were united in this country, dahlia? caller: obama started the whole thing. he went out of his way to separate people. all of these people, all they

want is for us to be global. in other words, the united states last. they don't care about the united states like trump did. that is why trump was so against everything they did, but it is going to come, and people are going to open their eyes. fraud, believe me, there was a lot of fraud. host: dolly in miami. howard in atlanta, georgia. line for democrats. your thoughts on joe biden's speech last night. caller: yes, this is howard. host: go ahead, sir. caller: i just find it interesting that for the democrats it is like reclaiming black people's history from the beginning to see -- not to say whites, but for people like the president to come out and bash

everything we have been going through -- black people have been going through this their entire lives in the united states, and to see this reverse itself -- to see this reverse with a lot of the republicans areas, and weth were out there dying and fighting for both, and the struggles we went through. to see this frivolous stuff, and the -- they continue to try to breathe hatred -- i have never seen the likes of this hatred since years ago. i'm 65 years old now. i'm just hoping people will come together and realize we are in this together, and we need to move on and try to give each other a chance instead of breeding hatred. host: before we move on from all the 2020 elections, can you give us a sense of what you are seeing down there in georgia

with the runoffs? joe biden going down there today to support the democratic candidates in the two senate races. caller: one of the big things, just about every second commercials are coming in. a lot of hatred from the republicans on the democrats trying to get into office. the democrats are not spreading hatred. they are spreading what they are trying to do, and things like that. they are fighting back on well, thisf saying person that they are running against said that i did this, but that is out of context, and then they go on with whatever their agenda is, but as far as the republicans, they are spreading a lot of -- even if some of the stuff was true, they are spreading pure hatred and stuff like that. host: howard in atlanta, georgia. i want to share one of the scenes from the meeting of the electors in georgia -- stacey

abrams, former gubernatorial candidate, in the page state, -- peach state was one of the electors for georgia. she was one of people that cast their votes for joe biden yesterday. this is some of her comments at the state capital. [video clip] stacy: we stand not for ourselves, but for the people of georgia. it is on their behalf we took up discharge of the electors, on their behalf we are making sure the nation is led by a good man who believes in the soul of the nation and all of its people. it is on their behalf that we come together today to cast our r. biden joe -- joseph and kamala debbie harris. we are electors, and also a better-- servants of

georgia, servants of a better future, and servants of the united states of america. host: and not long after, the georgia electors casting their 16 votes for joe biden for president of the united states. 270-vote crossing the threshold and going on to 306 electoral votes. that number of firms by the electoral college -- affirmed by the el toro college yesterday. statements last night, been described in "washington post" today as a second acceptance speech in his remarks from wilmington, delaware. a picture from "the washington post," joe biden greeting his wife after that speech. nancy, rochester, indiana. republican, good morning. caller: yes. i have watched trump before he got in the office, and i have

watched him come in the office, and i watched them people get humiliated, and even their young its got humiliated, and wasn't right. trump done what he could, he done his best, and he done better than any other president has done. nancy, do you think we can unite after the 2020 election? that is what joe biden asked the country to do. caller: i don't know. black, and iaround tell you what, i am not prejudice, but i do not like the way the trump family got treated. host: all right. that is nancy and indiana.

sharon in plainfield, wisconsin. line four of the bookings. good morning. caller: good morning. i was watching fox yesterday and they senator republican from missouri, his name was brooks, he said he was going to reject the election on january 5. brooks, the congressman from alabama -- he was on this program last week, last wednesday, talking about what he will do on the floor of the house. caller: he said he would reject the election. host: he was going to object to the certification in certain states. namer: i'm sorry i got his wrong, but he said we can call of our senators to pressure them to reject the same thing. i did not know that was possible, so he is encouraging the voteke me who felt

was corrupt, to fight back against the corruption, because and iis so much of it, can't believe you try to sweep it underneath the rug. i think 73 million people like me want to fight back. that is what i am going to do. i cannot sit back and complain about it and not do nothing about it. host: what you are talking about is he can object during the certification on january 6. as a member of the house, he would need a member of the senate to join him in the objection, and if that happens, then the two chambers will debate the objections. they can vote on it. both chambers would have to agree to the objections, and it would be very unlikely that a democratically controlled house under nancy pelosi -- caller: please don't ever say never because this is a different world we live in. i'm a 60-year-old woman.

i was born in 1960. i have seen it all. i have lived through it all. never say never, because the corruption is going to come out. we have two domino effects right now and when dominoes fall, they fall forward. we have the swivel and we have the biden family. if we all come together, 73 million people like me come together and start ringing out the corruption in this country, we can eat it. host: i don't think i said never, i said very unlikely, but mo brooks talked about his plans to raise those objections. if you want to watch the interview with him it was last wednesday. you can watch it at c-span.org. just

concernria, tempered by over the emotions on the other. both sides must come together again and they shall. that is what michael says in oregon. wyatt says that as a republican he has increasing respect for listening to mr. biden and his speech last night in hopes that democrats and republicans can work together. that is what we are asking you to call in about this morning, the joe biden speech last night, the electoral college confirming that victory in the 2020 election in the next step of course is certification on the floor of the house in that meeting of the house and senate that will be taking place on january the sixth. vice president mike pence will be presiding over the meeting. you can keep calling in. cap, democrats.

republicans, (202) 748-8001. independents, (202) 748-8002. as you are calling and we want to keep you updated on the latest here on capitol hill when it comes to the coronavirus relief negotiations. all the momentum is around the 908 billion dollar bipartisan package that we have been talking about over the past week or so. intopackage is now split two different parts, a 740 $8 billion package that includes new unemployment benefits, small business aid to other benefits that had i partisan support, as described by the post. the second bill includes the provisions that are the most divisive among lawmakers, liability protections for firms and 160 billion dollars for state aid and local governments with the expectation that both of those provisions could be excluded from a final deal to secure passage of the more popular larger package there.

one of those members of the senate who has been leading this effort, this bipartisan bill, joe mansion, spoke to reporters yesterday about the bill and this is what he had to say. [video clip] >> bipartisanship and compromise is alive and well in washington, contrary to what you have been hearing. we have proven that. within one month, taking something that hadn't been on the table, talks were stalled completely and take into fruition to have a bill presented and basically what it does is it takes care of those who are unemployed. that's an emergency. running out of unemployment checks. we have 16 weeks at $300 per week for that. food and nutrition assistance, even going into our food banks because we have nontraditional people who have never been to a food bank before needing food assistance now and we want to make sure they have the opportunity and we want to make sure that we have shelter assistance, rent, eviction

notices, we wanted to make sure that that was in this piece of legislation. small business debt relief is in that. people will talk more extensively about that. then we wanted to talk about student loan forbearance. that's in here. and then it goes on and on, as pages. see, almost 600 so, what we have been able to do is put this 700 and 48 billion dollar bill, a $908 billion package still, but the emergency needs and the assistance for the american people is something we will continue to fight for. host: joe mansion of west virginia there. we will keep you updated throughout the week as those negotiations continue and the clock ticks down on that government funding deadline. remember last week when congress gave itself one more week to come to a deal and if a deal isn't reached by friday evening, there could be a government shutdown with members trying to