imagine if you can being in a house that is on fire. while you can hear the fire department sirens in the distance, rescue is so close. you can't get out. because someone has bolted the door. america is in a national coronavirus crisis. our house is on fire. and republican elected officials are doing the equal of locking the door with the american

people trapped inside. every single state plus washington d.c., virgin islands all reported increases in cases of illness caused be i the coronavirus in the past two weeks. 70,000 americans are in the hospital tonight. thousands are dying. alone in hospitals across the country and having to say good-bye on phone ands ipads. even the white house task force which had no contact with the president of the united states in fife months issued an alarming assessment this week. obtained by npc warning of an aggressive. unrelenting broad community spread across the country. reaching most counties without evidence of improvement. rather further deterioration. tonight, chuck grassly the 87 year-old republican senator from iowa has confirmed that thesed

positive for covid. yesterday he was in the senate chamber. maskless. so where is the president's party? where is the party that bangs on about the sangty of life. they are busy fighting mask man at a times and pushing back on common sense health regulations because freedom. which means the freedom to die and kill other people with the virus. take senator ted cruz. his home state of texas is overwhelmed. hospitals are reaching the breaking point. the jr. senator is busy lobbing twitter insults at ohio senator. because he dared to ask a fellow republican to wear a mask while residing over the chamber. >> senator from ohio. >> please wear a mask. as he speaks and people below him are i can't tell you what to do. i know that.

>> i don't wear a mask when i'm speaking like most senators. i don't need your instruction. >> i know. but there isn't much interest in this body in public health. >> republicans are demanding freedom from masks they could careless about the 248,000 americans who lost their lives to the virus and accept no responsibility for any of it. in fact, they think they deserve credit. >> this vaccine trully is the light at the end of tunnel. and made possible by the commitment of the republican majority in the senate. and this administration. and our efforts to focus on operation warp speed. >> operation warp speed has been a tremendous success for this administration. i want to give a shout out to the trump administration for making this possible. >> looks to me like the spooker the democratic leader of senate and former vice president biden

all have the view that two and a half trillion or nothing. >> we'll continue to have an open door. and we're ready to negotiate at moments notice. >> i want to fact check. the companies themselves that are producing the vaccines were not involved in operation warp speed and said as much. that's a lie. democrats passed a coronavirus package way back in may and passed it again in october. it's somewhere in mcconnell's office next to the john lewis voting rights act. today dr. fauci seemed really frustrated by the politicization by republicans of the virus. >> this is the worst out break that we had of a respiratory born illness in 102 years. you can't run away from the data. people are not seeing that. these are real numbers. and unfortunately we have gotten into a situation of political

deviciveness that a public health message like on trying to give is not encroaching on anybody's freedom. >> unfortunately for the american people the political deviciveness the rot spread down the republican pipeline all the way to the state a long time ago. in south dakota as deaths continue to skyrocket, governor noem proudly refused to enforce any statewide restrictions because they haven't worked. in minnesota republican state senators refuse to tell the democratic counter parts they had an out break in their ranks. in wisconsin republicans worked at every turn to roll back any measure the democratic gor as implemented to fight the virus. calling the party out writing how many more have to get sick and die before lawmakers work with the governor and do their job? in michigan state republicans are seeking to impeach governor

whitmer because shes trying to protect people. on sunday officials announce new restrictions. the house is on fire. and joining me now is governor of michigan. thank you so much for being here. i really appreciate your presence. it is madness. i'm sorry. it's enough to make you want to climb the wall. it's incredible what republicans are doing. including to you. before i get to the coronavirus, i have to does you about this news. in your state, the board of canvassers fald on tuesday to certify the ballot count. punting the question of who won the most densely populated region to a state board that doesn't meet until november 23. what on earth is going on. isn't that detroit? what's happening.

>> wayne county is detroit. it's the largest county in the state. it's there's overwhelming vote and partisans have decided not to do their legal duty. and the rational is not a legally justifiable rational. so it will get kicked to the state board of canvassers and see where it goes. we are preparing for all sorts of different potential paths that this takes. there's no question joe biden won the state of michigan. he won by 14 times the margin that donald trump won four years earlier. we ran a great election. no drama. it was fair and safe. and secure. and we're going to see this through. >> i'll note that in the story this is the "washington post." the head of the michigan gop congratulated the board in a statement. this is an attempt by republicans to under mine a done deal election. that is over.

they don't believe in democracy. they don't believe when black voters vote it should count. they want to throw out only the votes where black people live. we have see you republican party. and don't protect people from dying at covid. dr. atlas works with trump. your state has 288,000 cases. 8,431 deaths. that is a couple of 9/11s plus. criticizing people who say don't go see elderly relatives on thanksgiving. >> this kind of isolation is one of the unspoken tragedies of the elderly. told don't see your family at thanksgiving. this is their final thanksgiving for many people. believe it or not. what are we doing here? we have to have a policy which i have been advocating. a whole person whole health policy. it's not about just stopping cases of covid.

we have to talk about the damage of the policy itself. >> he said for many people this is their final thanksgiving. it will be for a will the of people if they see elderly relatives and bury them christmas time. your states party is trying to impeach you for having restrictions. what do you say to that? >> here's what i say, covid-19 doesn't care about your politics. it doesn't care about the legislature being on the hunting break. when we're in a worst of the covid out break since this began. covid-19 doesn't care if you want to see a relative. it's a real threat. and nations governors are stepping in because there's been a vacuum at the federal level. we're doing the best we can to keep the people of the state safe. i'm grateful i have neighbors like ohio and illinois. we have been trying to work together. we put out a psa today where we are all involved including

indiana and wisconsin. and minnesota and kentucky. to call on people to mask up and not travel this holiday. we are following the science. and that's how you save lives and mitigate harm to the economy. and get people back to work and keep kids in school. this rhetoric coming out of the washington d.c. under mines the important work we're trying to do on the front line. we need resources, we need support and leaders who are accurate with the medical information. and stop the politics around this public health crisis. it's killing people. >> given the state of the republican party nationwide and in the state of michigan, do you think that it will be even feasible for how will joe biden implement programs to reduce the spread to contain this virus? how can he get that done in a

state like michigan where people are willing to brandish guns. because you asked them to wear a piece of cloth over their face in walmart. i don't understand how biden gets it done in michigan. >> if anybody can get it done it's joe biden. the vast majority of people in my state and probably in states across the nation are doing the right thing. they are good people who are trying to make sense out of all of the confusing and inaccurate information out of washington. they are trying to protect families and they want leadership on this. that's why joe biden won so overwhelmingly. that's why the closer we get to the moment he is sworn in i feel more and more optimistic. i no he has a plan. i know he listens to experts and he can bring us together to fight this common enemy the virus. we're not one another's enemy this virus is. we have to rise to the

challenge. >> i'll take this for myself. we have to fight the virus and a political party that is entrenched itself in standing four square against democracy and against fighting a virus. they have taken the other side in the war against the virus. i don't get it. stay safe. our audience is rooting for you. next door to michigan in wisconsin. 12,000 new covid-19 cases a record 92 deaths reported today. the wisconsin supreme court is deciding whether or not to strike down democratic governor statewide mask mandate. this is insane. joining ne now. president and ceo of the healthcare system. thank you for being here. in your opinion does wisconsin need a mask mandate. >> thank you for having me. short answer, yes. the reason is because if most of

us do the right thing and all of us don't the mask mandate doesn't work. it doesn't stop the transmission of the virus. we all have to be in this together. for ourselves and neighbors and loved ones. make sure we do the right thing. which is actually the easy thing to do. and mask. >> your system where you work 95% full. covid deaths are rising. wisconsin has a record number of hospitalization. in addition to mask mandates, do you think that people like doctor atlas saying people should go ahead and dpet together for thanksgiving. does that under mine the work your healthcare workers are trying to do? >> i will tell you that when you talk to nurses and talk to physicians, they will tell you

that they feel safer when they are in our hospital. taking care of covid patients than going out in the community. sometimes to grocery shop. before they go home to their family. and that's not a great statement in our state of wisconsin. we have to make sure that we enable people to mask. we keep our distance. we keep our gathering really specified to the people that live in your household. and you have been in contact with in your bubble if you may. getting together in large numbers during thanksgiving is another recipe for disaster. we saw it happen after halloween. we are anticipating another surge potentially happening after thanksgiving. so my ask as our rate of

positiveivity in the state go up 35% and region over 31%. that let's be sensible and do the right thing. and make sure we keep each other safe. >> sure. i want to ask a fact question. senator paul an opt meteorologist he tweeted. naturally acquired covid-19. 99.99% effective. likely an over statement. is herd immunity more effective than vaccine. >> well, is it or isn't. it will take a long time to get to herd immunity. you need to be in a position where more than 70% of the people in the community are

actually infected by the virus before you get to a herd immune situation. we're a long ways from there. that's going to create a significant amount of i would say death and devastation. to get to herd immunity. and so a better way is to let's prevent. let make sure we do the things we have at our disposal. as said by many people. dr. fauci the masking and hand washing. making sure we're keeping distance. making sure we're getting a flu shot. and the vaccine is available let's make sure we get the vaccine as well. >> i hope people listen to you and not ran paul. you are a expert and he's not. up next. a full two weeks after voters elected joe biden. republicans are still too cowardly to step up and make sure he gets a transition he and the country need. what in the world is lindsey graham up to in georgia.

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donald trump long denied science continues his war against math. the very simple that shows president-elect joe biden as the clear victor in the election. that denial is stone walling the presidential transition and posing a clear and present danger to american lives.

medical groups made of real doctors are calling on trump to share the critical covid-19 data that biden needs to do his job. a job that trump isn't even pretending he wants anymore. the biden harris team is forging ahead ignoring trumps bruise ds ego and sycophant friends in receiving national security briefings from outside experts. since they can't get them from actual government officials. a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committee. thank you for both being here. donald trump has used his twitter to fire a gentleman. who was the government official who certified the election was had been safe. he was the director of cyber security. i believe the department of homeland security. he is fired. using a tweet. there it is. he fired him specifically because of the statement that he made about the unprecedented

security of the 2020 election. he is trying to claim it was inaccurate. because he still can't get over losing the election. it's the biggest whining thing we have heard from trump in a minute. what is going on inside the white house? what is going on inside the republican party that they are still trying to under mine an undo an election? >> what's going on inside the white house and trump is doing what no other president did. continuing to try to under mine american democracy. which the foundation of the country. what we see tonight with this firing is the president lashing out at someone he sees as an opponent because the person is telling the truth. he has been saying the election was secure. no votes were changed. earn should feel confident in the election. things that state officials said and the president got angry. he told people close to him that he expected to be fired. imagine that. you expect to be fired because you're telling the truth about american democracy continues to

thrive and go forward without much incident. the other thing you talk about the coronavirus. there was a briefing by biden officials today. i put the question what is at stake if the transition is delayed. we have been talking about the vaccine. they said therapeutics. the access to rapid tests. the idea that people can possibly die and possibly suffer because the president is throwing a tran trum firing people. doing these things. actual lives hang in the balance. that's at risk and the president is lashing out. the gop is worried about their voters. they want to be reelected. but there's a lot of worry because people might not make it to 2022. if they die of a virus. >> i read a piece in u.s. today that talked about the death threats on governor whitmer. who we just had on the show.

saying that republicans understand that they may not lose their jobs if thousands of their own constituents die. they think they might lose their jobs if they go against trump. they are prioritizing him and being obedient to him. even doing things that are absolutely asinine. and pretending he doesn't no he lost the election. and firing people for saying the truth about the election. they feel they have to be obedient to him because all they care about is doing their jobs. because they can't do anything else. they don't have possibilities. what is going on across the aisle? do they talk to you about being concerned about national security and people dying from covid. do they mention the dead when they talk to you? >> few of them today. than when trump was first elected. it started with the private conversations of i don't like what he says. if i speak out he'll come after

me. now they keep their heads down and don't make eye contact. it's not that they're putting party over country. that actually would be more admiral. they are putting their job over country. i would like to think i serve with people who can get another job if they were thrown out for standing up against trump. or think that's the right thing to do. trump cannot fire his way out of the defeat. he cannot sue to victory. it's over. this virus is beating us. it's going to take more lives if my republican colleagues can't find the nerve and the spine to stand up to this president and tell him turn over the keys to the biden campaign. we have a virus to defeat and economy to reopen. >> what is your reaction to the firing of the mr. krebs. it is happened. >> the homeland security official fired his job was to secure the election.

not secure trumps reelection. and again the president can fire him, he's not going to be president in 64 days. the damage he's doing now is he's allowing foreign governments to see that we are weaker because we don't have cops on the beat to protect the country against misinformation. which is what he was supposed to do. we have been a beacon to teach democracy. now they look at us and see a firing like this today and see three things. democracies are fragile. you have to work on them. and third most importantly, you have to protect them. that can only happen if republicans in congress are willing to stand up and unite with democrats against the lunacy. >> hard to want to hold your breath for that. we have the gsa continuing to stand in the way of president-elect biden getting the briefings he need needs. not just for himself. this is prepare him to do the

most difficult arguably job in the united states. in the country. trying to do that on top of a pandemic. getting his hands on that. on national security issues. this woman, emily murphy. blocking the transition. she's a trump appointee. she's held on a tight leash by trump. she plans to move the fbi washington d.c. headquarters in way that protect td trumps hotel interest in the past. he rents government property. that old post office to put the hotel in. is there anything inside the white house -- is everyone okay with this? can we expect anyone to speak out. i remember one senator from oklahoma saying if nothing was done by friday, congress was going to take action. nothing has been done. >> senator lansing ford is a good champl of what happens when you speak out against the

president. i don't expect anyone to speak out about this publicly. they say at least telling me they are privately trying to get the president to process the fact he lost the election. there has been a little bit of shift in rhetoric before. we're wrestle back states skb get states in the president's corner. maybe we'll audit the election and he'll lose quietly and leave. there's no sense -- >> i'm sorry. i don't mean to interrupt. he's not a toddler. he's not four. he doesn't need to process. he's a grown adult man. these people are going to be out of work by january 20. he's gone. he's not a baby. what are they afraid of? so what? >> that's the thing. the question is the so what. the thing that hangs in the balance. he has a power over the republican party because 71 million voters are behind him and scared of voters and base. and as you said it is they could

be talking about a child. he's processing. he's upset. you have to understand he has to get over it. when of course president obama said when you are president you have to think about yourself not your ego. think about the country. right now the president even those close to him tell me he's thinking about the fact his biggest fear was to lose and that's what he has to realize. he has lost. and hasn't wanted to do that. >> you're not a child. grow up. you're a grown man. congressman, it's unbelievable. thank you both very much. why is the republican senator from south carolina sticking his nose -- it gets worse. into georgia? isn't that illegal? up at 2:00am again?

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let's do the time warp again. remember when lindsey graham had the remnants of a spine? you know the lindsey graham who warned in may 2016 if we nominate trump we will get destroyed and deserve it. and he said that trump was doing the party and the country a great disservice. by suggesting the 2016 election was rigged and if he lost it would be because he was a failed candidate? yeah. i think we're done asking what happened to that guy. forever. he's right about those two things though. in his four years of humiliating sycophant si to trump. he destroyed his reputation. that's done. in his latest act he's trying to destroy the integrity of the presidential election result in georgia. georgia secretary of state told

the "washington post" he was facing pressure from republicans including senator graham to exclude legal ballots. he said graham called him up. and asked whether he had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of non-matching signatures. he addressed that claim. as well as the death threats that he and his wife have received as georgia under takes a hand recount of presidential election ballots. at taxpayer embassy pence. which won't change the fact joe biden won georgia by 14,000 votes and is the president-elect. >> he applied to audit the envelopes and throw out the ballots. i'm a conservative republican. always have been. i have never voted for a democrat. the people that are spinning up the crowd used to be democrats. i have always been a republican.

i want to make sure we have a lawful process. integrity still matters. >> today, graham who just as a reminder is the chairman of the judiciary committee denied he asked for the exclusion of legal ballots. >> did you not ask him to throw out the? >> no. that's ridiculous. i talked about verifying signatures. i'm worried about mail in balloting. and i think georgia i have talked to arizona. i have talked to nevada. we have contests all over the nation. >> guess what? there was a witness. a georgia state election official says he witnessed the call. when graham went down the path of asking for ballots of entire counties could be tossed out. >> i heard discussions about absentee ballots and if potentially if there was a percentage of signatures that weren't really truly matching. is there some point you get to

say if somebody went to a courtroom and tlets throw them out. we have no way of knowing. >> just to be clear, they can't just toss out legal ballots for entire counties. meanwhile today the senator acknowledged at least one thing that seems to be true. when asked the real million dollar question about his extracurricular activities. >> why is the senator from south carolina calling a secretary of state in georgia? >> the future of the country hangs in the balance. >> he's right. control of the united states senate. are folks like lindsey graham and his ilk who you want running the country? to make a masterpiece. taste our delicious new flatbread pizzas today.

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off elections on january 5. future of the united states senate. in particular. senator graham of south carolina admitted as much. when asked what business he had calling up secretary of state. lt "washington post" reports that behind the scenes republicans are calling trump a political burden. senator perdue told donors to succeed we have to remind people of what the democrats will do. it has nothing to do with loeffler or me. perdue would say it has nothing to do with him or loeffler. since the political ad points out both sold stock after being briefed about the dangers of covid. instead of helping georgia. perdue faces a rematch against democrat jon ossoff. and loeffler faces warnock. joining me now. editor at large. and editor at large of the bull

work. i want to get your reaction to the two pieces of breaking news. one of them being the firing of chris krebs. by tweet. by donald trump for the sin of saying the election was not rigged. saying it was a clean election. your thoughts? >> it's a continuation of the war on the truth. this was a whistleblower. someone within the government knocking down the crazy conspiracy theories that the president himself was pushing out about the manipulated voting machines and voter fraud. what you have is a rare truth teller in the trump administration. and the president needs to push his narrative and not necessarily a surprise given what the president has done and what he continues to do. spreading this misinformation and disinformation to keep this alive. >> before we get to georgia.

we have the second piece of breaking news. the wayne county vote is not being certified because the two republicans on the committee deadlocked the committee refusing to vote for certification. are being praised by republicans. for those who don't know what wayne county. it's detroit. black voters. attempt to disenfranchise them. this seems to be a virus of its own. >> the virus of voter suppression. which was present long before the pandemic. and will need to be addressed on the other side of the pandemic. these kind of tactics are what contribute to voter depression. you think about the electorate expanded this cycle. a lot of the folks being black and brown folks. who were encouraged to participate for the first time. imagine the disappointment. if their votes are being treated as invalid or worse, illegal. that simply is not the way our

democracy is supposed to work. and really regardless of your politics, rejecting the politics of voter suppression should be a bipartisan stance in the can you want kp hopefully that can be the case going forward. >> i want to before we get to the lindsey graham of it. krebs tweeted honor to serve. we did it right. can we put the tweet up. honor to serve we did it right. he defended what he did. we'll put that up. he responded. it does seem like the mask is off. what they're essentially saying lindsey graham who said before we don't trust the votes. in detroit and milwaukee. we trust the votes where i won. is they are saying that votes by primarily black communities are inherently illegal and cannot be allowed to stand. whether in georgia or michigan. black voters hear that.

they are paying attention. you can throw as many rapper friend of yours at us that you want. we hear what you're saying and see what you're doing. graham is meddling in georgia. there's a witness on the call that heard him say can't yo throw out the votes of the atlanta people? we don't want those. you have death threats coming in to the right wing republican. what is happening to the party here? what is the point? trump lost. >> so i'll take a deep breath. this is breathtaking. what you are seeing here. massive not just voter suppression. the disenfranchisement of millions of votes. this is the plan that the trump folks are pushing. to declare elections null and void. to toss out people's votes. to take legally cast votes and throw them out. that's what graham is talking about doing. that's what is going on in wayne

county. you have the president's attorney tweeting out congratulations. she wants the legislature in michigan to declare the election in michigan null and void. and have a and name trump electors. this takes millions of americans and wipes them out of the democratic system. this not simply an assault on normal assault. this goes to the absolute roots of our democratic system. and just when we think that the it can't get worse or be any worse or more of bottom for the folks. this happening. i believe joe biden will be sworn in january 20. on the other hand what you are seeing is this creeping acceptance of disenfranchising voters. as you point out there's no way to talk about what just happened in wayne county without saying what the republicans are deciding to do is throw out the largest african-american community in the state of michigan. in order to win.

they might try that in pennsylvania. they might try in wisconsin. i hope people understand that this is not just normal trump awfulness. this is basically as you put it tearing off the mask. these are people it is a raw struggle for power. in the middle of a pandemic. at the moment when we ought to be celebrating the peaceful transfer of power and ought to be confronting this. instead what are we seeing? their strategy taking the vote away literally. >> and literally from black people. particularly. lindsey graham and bishop said he tried to get georgia secretary of state to not count votes is not a surprising. election rigging is real. but doesn't suppress the republican vote. we have a real test for the senate ethics committee.

one i expect will fail. to toss out legal ballots. worthy of expulsion. i'll give you the last word. are organizations that organize african-american voters are their ears piqued to this? because what we are seeing, as charlie just said, is republican voters simply saying that they are willing to throw out democracy altogether when they don't win and to invalidate on their face any vote, particularly by black people, in cities with lots of black people in them. >> well, organizers are absolutely focused on this because while the election is effectively over in most of the rest of the country, there is an election still to be had in georgia on january 5th. and voter suppression, voter depression, while these are very real, these organizers also know that voter suppression can be galvanizing for the people that they are attempting to disenfranchise and those are the voters that they are helping to really stay motivated and understand exactly what's at stake over the next several

weeks. >> absolutely. i'll say to all of the -- particular black voters, but allies in georgia, if you ever needed a reason to vote, vote because they're literally trying to steal your votes. they're doing it openly now. they're saying your votes don't count so make them count. erin haynes, charlie sykes, thank you both. up next, the harsh reality of america under minority rule. just what we were talking about, an out of control pandemic, widespread unemployment and bread lines in 21st century america. this is their america and they're trying to keep it illegally. stay with us. can get a new one. (customer) that is something else. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ when panhe doesn't justs mmake a pizza. he uses fresh, clean ingredients to make a masterpiece.

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term contract required. click or call today. this is america. a country where people wait for hours and hours in food lines. with the line of cars waiting for a box of food in fort worth, texas, last friday, extending three miles at one point as the pandemic and increased unemployment has stretched americans' wallets to the

breaking point. it's the country where the most powerful man in the senate, mitch mcconnell, is laser focused on pushing through right-wing judges and nominees but in no great hurry to pass a bill that would give americans the relief that they so desperately need right now. meanwhile, the situation is only getting worse with covid cases rising in every single state, hospitals filling up in places like paes, texas, having to resort to using inmates to staff their overflow portiomorgues. i'm joined now by julian castro, former mayor of san antonio. you tweeted, long covid lines in texas while covid spikes and greg abbott, the governor there, refuses to spend a penny on the state's rainy day fund. instead, he waits for federal and local leaders to come through. the rainy day fund has run out and they say won't use it until january. i don't understand republicans. say it all the time, my father trended republican. if he had been an american citizen, he would be a reag

reaganite. he's dead and gone and he'd be rolling in his grave. i don't understand what they are, do you? >> no, joy, i don't. why in the world elected officials whose first charge is and ought to be to ensure that they keep -- help keep the people that they represent safe and healthy and able at least to get by don't do everything possible to make sure that we protect the public health, we encourage people to wear masks, to, you know, practice social distancing, all of those things that will keep folks safer and also -- and i pointed this out, as you said, in my tweet. when these republicans are sitting on top of a rainy day fund in texas that is billions and billions of dollars in their coffers don't lift a finger to try and help folks. we see in cities like san antonio, dallas, communities big and small throughout this state

that we have so many families that are food insecure, and texas has the highest number of children who are food insecure at more than 2 million. we've seen food insecurity more than double among households this year, and families with children by one estimate by northwestern had a food insecurity rate of 20.5%. and at the same time, mitch mcconnell and his republican buddies have been sitting there with the h.e.r.o.s. act on their doorstep for months and months not lifting a finger but doing everything that they can to get one more unqualified judge through before the end of this term. it is stunning, and when you layer on top of that a president that is now awol in terms of any kind of leadership, responding to this covid crisis, you know, thank god that we have new leadership in the oval office come january 20th.

>> well, i've likened it to he's the fire department that's like a few miles away. we're locked in the house with the people who won't let us out and the house is on fire. i mean, maybe they don't care because if you look at white unemployment, it's 6%, black 10.8%, latino, 8.8%, asian american 7.6%. maybe they don't care because it isn't affecting them. very quickly, what mitch mcconnell proposed no stimulus check. no new aid to states. just a few small business loans but they want all of these conditions on them. democrats have proposed so much more in their bills, including $1,200 stimulus check, $600 a week in enhanced unemployment. the $400 billion to slotate and local governments. if the democrats don't win the senate back, what do you think is going to happen next year? >> i think there are going to be a lot of people who are evicted, who are basically kicked to the curb. in the months ahead, i think that there are going to be a lot

more families that go hungry who are going to see a lot more people who basically are homeless on our streets. or doubling up. >> yeah. yeah. >> it's too bad for your country. >> yeah. indeed. julian castro, thank you so much. appreciate you. that is tonight's "reidout." "all in" with chris hayes starts now. tonight on "all in" -- republicans move to undermine democracy in michigan as the president fires the top security official who vouched for the 2020 election. tonight, the michigan secretary of state on the republican push to deny joe biden his victory. and what the firing of chris krebs means for us all. then -- >> why is a senator from south carolina calling the secretary of state in georgia anyway? >> donald trump's man in the senate is caught in the act. tonight lindsey graham's election interference maelstrom and alert the networks. >> oh, my goodness. all t