>> here on c-span we were planning to take you live to new york city at 10:00 for a briefing with mayor bill deblasio, obviously running a little late. we'll get to that as soon as it starts here on c-span. taking a look at the u.s. house today, members will be gaveling in at noon eastern. there are five bills on the calendar, including one requiring all federal agencies to make their annual budget justification materials available to the public. and another to notify congress within 30 days whenever an inspector general is placed on paid or unpaid duty status. one round of votes today starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. and under the house rules for the 117th congress, which were approved yesterday, house floor proxy voting has now been reinstated and is in effect until february 18. watch the house live beginning at noon eastern here on c-span. g

at the polls open in georgia. here is the front page of usa today. georgia runoffs. control of senate and voters'-- as presidentnds trump alleges widespread voter fraud in georgia because his loss to joe biden on november 3. republicans are worried those claims, punctuated by trump's phone call saturday when he tried to pressure gop state officials to overturn november's election, could discourage gop voters from turning out. peach state voters will decide whether david purdue and kelly loeffler will return to washington or if john also if -- jon ossoff and raphael warnock take their place. both ossoff and warnock will result in a 50/50 split in the senate, effectively giving democrats control the senate.

vice president-elect kamala harris would cast the tie-breaking vote. today, aboutusa that potential of a democratic win in the senate. hoping forition victory but bracing for defeat in georgia. they write that joe biden is eyeing a more dishes -- ambitious agenda for the first 100 days of his presidency if democrats can win tuesday. biden's advisers are privately skeptical about jon ossoff and raphael warnock's chances. confidants say the incoming team's core priorities will remain the same regardless of the outcome. climate change, and racial inequality. they can see the scale of plans could change dramatically come tuesday evening. read more at politico.com for that.

the new york times on their front page this morning write about a news conference we covered from georgia yesterday. the headline is georgia officials announced trump on the eve of runoffs. republican wanted to scream when he called. they write about the official yesterday, give real sterling -- .abriel sterling mr. trump pressured mr. raffensperger during the conversation to find most overturn his general election loss. to scream, mr. sterling said, in a news conference referring to his reaction to the call between mr. trump and mr. raffensperger. mr. sterling said the president's allegation of fraud had been thoroughly debunked and , i found it to be something that is not normal and nobody i

know who would be president would do something like that to a secretary of state. the sharp rebuke offers the most vivid example of how mr. trump's assault on georgia voting roiled the state. [video clip] >> what we have seen also is a difference in the turnout models depending on congressional district and county in the state byfar in large part driven the continuing misinformation and disinformation concerning the value of people's vote in this state. the secretary wants to make clear that everybody's vote is going to count. everybody's vote did count. i want to make that abundantly clear. if you care about the values and directions of the nation you want to see, it is your obligation to turn out and vote tomorrow cannot be you democrat or republican.

-- tomorrow, be you democrat or republican. statementsresident's , we are specifically asking you and telling you, please turn out and vote tomorrow. one of the things i have had to argue with people i have known for 20 years. they say come our election was stolen. our votes do not count. i said, ok, i am not acknowledging the election was stolen because it was not. if you believe in your heart of hearts that there was, the best thing for you to do is to turn out and vote and make it harder for them to steal. if that is what you genuinely and your heart of hearts believe, turn out and vote. there are people who fought and died and marched and prayed and voted to get the right to vote. throwing it away because you have some feeling that this may not matter is self-destructive ultimately and a self-fulfilling prophecy in the end. everybody who cares about the future of this nation should turn out and vote.

it is important. the reason i'm having to stand here and say -- today is because their people in positions of authority and respect who have said their votes did not count and it is not true. host: the headline from the atlanta journal-constitution reflecting the comments of gabriel sterling, georgians urged to turn out in u.s. senate runoffs despite and to dispel fraud fears. those runoff elections get underway today in georgia for georgia residents. the line is (202) 748-8003. from atlanta, here is terry. caller: good morning. how are you? host: fine, thank you. caller: i voted absentee both times, in the general election and for the special runoff. and i have a few health challenges. i tried not to expose myself to any potential illnesses.

themy problem is with negative ads that i have seen. i am really quite fed up with that. -- it is like you cannot turn the tv on without seeing something negative and hearing negative things from people. i know the majority of the things being said are not true. the candidates them and makes them look like edited -- 80 its. diots. i watch you every day. sometimes i tape the show and watch it if i'm not up that early. a lot of people calling in on both sides, it seems like you 45 or against 45

and you are for 46 or 846. the negative comments from people calling in a lot of times are joe biden has not done anything, donald trump, best president we have ever had, but i am not sure these people are getting their sources -- their news from credible sources. they are getting opinionated news and repeating some of the soundbites on both sides, republicans and democrats. if people can just get their facts straight and stop calling in with all the hate and vitriol , get things the candidate has done and not just based on your personal like or dislike for someone, if that makes sense. terri.ppreciate that, i'm going to show you one more time.

perhaps people elsewhere have not seen the ads you're talking about. here are a couple. [video clip] >> we have a job to do here in georgia. america is counting on us. >> only you can stop the radical left from total control. win. you vote, we will if you do not, we will lose america. >> this tuesday, everything is on the line. >> we are going to stop socialism in its tracks. we are going to save america. god bless america. >> i'm kelly loeffler. i approve this message. , georgias the choice and kelly loeffler spent tens of millions of dollars trying to scare you. she has attacked my church, my faith, even my family. she is trying to make you afraid of me because she is afraid of you, afraid that you understand how she has used her position in andsenate to enrich herself others like her, afraid you will realize we can do better. i am raphael warnock.

if you like me to senate, i will wake up every day guided by the values of hard work, passion instilled in me by my parents and inspired by the works of dr. king, who said that life's most urgent question is what are you doing for others. even in these crazy times, i think it is possible to work together to improve the lives of georgians, all georgians. that is exactly what i will do in washington. i approve this message and humbly ask for your vote. the: a couple adds their in leffler-warnock race. -- loeffler-warnock race. we spent the first hour talking about the georgia senate runoff race is happening today. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001, republicans. georgians, that line is (202) 748-8003. roy, on ourda, democrats line. caller: how are you enjoying

this morning? host: great, thank you. caller: i think these runoffs are very important. i think it is going to show the balance of the senate. i think the democrats can do it. i will tell you why we need to change. republicans have done nothing but cater to donald trump for four years. they are continuing to do it. instead of getting stimulus money to people, they are fighting for him. i think the democrats have a shot. i think people are sick of this radical left stuff that they came up with. what they do not realize is that the radical left put trump in the last time. he ended up demonizing all the left but i do not think kelly loeffler stands a chance. i think it is going to turn blue and democrats are going to get control of the senate. just the way the political

.andscape is falling out it is heading in that direction. --st: -- line host: host: david is a natural, north carolina. caller: -- in asheboro, north carolina. caller: get out and vote today. we have a country that has gone to nothing. our morals is worth more than anything in this world and the democrat party knows it as well as the republican party. we cannot get a hold of each other's minds. we have to do something because god is coming back soon. vote fored to really our morals. that is all we have left. ont: our coverage tonight c-span will be the simulcast of in results from wsb-tv

atlanta, our coverage getting underway tonight at 8:00 eastern. you can follow it on c-span and c-span radio. and at c-span.org. frank, kentucky, on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. my comment is of course the georgia runoff is important. for biden. if democrats get the seats, he could put forward his agenda, which i think is a good agenda. he is saying deal with the covid virus. it is a shame in the first place, unimaginable. then of course, very happy that he wants to deal with climate change. that is something that seems to always be put on the back burner. social justice is another important issue to me.

me that that race in america is still very much an issue. i think everybody will probably agree for different reasons. when they are talking -- pundits are talking about a threat to our democracy, you have to still really look at the history and it was never really a country where everybody had equal rights to begin with. the ideal that all men were created equal was something that was just an ideal. we are still in the process of living up to it and i hope one day we will. in 2022, the democrats are going to change. caucasians will no longer be the majority. be --e a chance to still

set a good example to the world and such.f diversity thank you for taking my call. in illinois, democrats line. caller: good morning. wish all theto georgians would wake up this morning. have two and that are running for reelection that were on the stock inside >> we'll leave this now and go live to new york city with the briefing of mayor bill deblasio. the messenger: the mayor deblasio: the folks on the ground and the folks who protected this city, save the city to fight off one of the most difficult fauxes -- foes we have seen in our history, the