we have come to a conclusion. carrots, the result did not change. too bad for carrots. >> the president joking about the turkey and raising the question, who's the real turkey? i concede the hour. the "the reidout" starts now. thank you for the concession. nearly four years we have all been living in a grim reality show. that should never should have made it past the pilot. we'll start a new with joe biden leading the country. regardless of the pathological inability to concede the tran silgs is well under way. the white house approved giving the president daily brief. president-elect biden formally

introduced the top foreign policy and national security team. in an interview, biden described the message he is sending with his initial cabinet picks. >> america is back. we're at the head of the table once again. i have spoken with 20 world leaders and they are all literally pleased and excited america will reassert its role in the world. and be a coalition builder. >> this line up those you selected so far. familiar faces among them. what do you say to those wondering if you are trying to create a third obama term? >> it's not. we face a totally different world. than we faced in obama biden administration. the president this president trump changed the landscape. it's become america first. america alone. >> these first picks may not all

be well known to the american people. each is highly respected in their department. "washington post" notes with the picks biden quote ames to reverse much of the trumps agenda. with figures who promoted lt policies he debuffed and fuel the rise to power. and attempt to bring back normalcy to nothing but a clown show. in case you forgot what normal sound like. here it is. >> america at its best still has a greater ability than any other country on earth to bring others together to meet the challenges of the time. >> i know mr. president-elect and vice president-elect you have selected us not to serve you, but to serve on the american people. >> i'm thinking about the american people. my career diplomats and public servants around the w0r8d. i want to say to you america is

back. multi-lateralism is back. dmo diplomacy is back. >> each member comes from kamala harris noted what brings them to the. >> they also share something else in common. unwaivering belief in america's ideals. and unshakable commitment to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. >> i want to bring in melody barns. jason johnson. professor of journalism. and presidential historian. i'm excited to talk to you. i want to play one more little bite. this is the secretary of state nominee. talking about their family stories. >> my father and mother brought me to this country to escape

communism. they cherished our democracy and were intensely proud to become united states citizens. as was i. >> my late stepfather he was one of 900 children in his school in poland. but the only one to survive the holocaust after four years in a concentration camp. at the end of war he made a break from a death march into the woods. from his hiding place, he heard a deep rumbling sound. it was a tank. but instead of the iron cross, he saw painted on its side a five pointed white star. he ran to the tank. the hatch opened. african-american gi looked at him. he said the only three words he knew in english. god bless america.

>> it occurred to me as i was listen lg today, there's a timber and a tone in a lexicon of america. that we have all gotten so used to hearing in public life. whether from an ambassador or secretary of state. there's a way that public leaders in this country talk. whether or not their policies match. it's the way they speak. i haven't heard it for so long. this was like an assault on senses hearing people speak that way again. how did you take in what you heard today and the incredible stories they were telling? >> i loved it. this is like being at the end of wizard of oz and we have gone through a nightmare. and the droeam is over. we're back to reality with good people coming to important positions. it's also nice to take a look at group of people that don't look like a restricted all white country club. too many of the donald trump people have for the last three

years and ten months. and the other thing you were showing the new dni. the first thing she says to biden in public is you know that i shy away from i never shy away from speaking truth to power. did that ever happen with anyone who worked with trump? it was always dear, leader. he hates dogs. he loves lap dogs. you had people who he appointed like michael flynn and chris miller. i don't know if they were nice people. they didn't belong on the jobs. and they were so unqualified and thrilled to be there they went along with a lot of things that no appointee should stand for. that's the way it's supposed to work in democracy. >> i'll update to the wiz. i love the wiz more. the can you feel a brand new day sound track playing in my head the whole time i was listening to them talk. >> right. >> don't threaten me with a good

time. defense secretary james mattis wrote an article in foreign affairs and why u.s. secretary depends on alliances now more than ever. united states is under mining the foundation of international order. manifesting united states interest. reflecting ignorance of the -- institutions provide vital strategic death and practice america first. has been america alone. that is damaged this country ability to address problems before they reach u.s. territory. it's strikes me that donald trump's team we're not just b listers when it came to who he staffed in. some were generals and should have been a list. they didn't have the courage to speak up. they went in thinking they could reign him in and didn't try. it's the one place the conservatives and i came to agreement during the trump

years. the post world war ii order meant something and did organize the world in way that kept the world safer. and trump threw it away and went russia first. north korea first. how easy will it be for the normal to kick in and change things. >> those are fantastic questions. i think when president-elect biden said america is back, i also think professionalism is back. i think that the belief in expertise is back. the belief that the american government can be a force for good both domestically and internationally is back. it will take some time for that message to be believed for people to see our actions both at home and abroad and to see those words and actions match one another. in fact, i think part of what has to happen is there has to be a resetting of the culture of

american government. and america as a force for democracy and the world. that is something is that sad and troubling to say. the stories that tony blinken was telling that they were telling were very powerful. i believe that americans are going to have to work hard to have others around the world believe that we mean what we say and say what we mean. >> we're still the country that elected the guy from the apprentice. and thought he should be president and got 80 million votes a second time. we're that country. i love having jason on. he's contrarian. you have been getting people have been mad on twitter. it feels so good we don't want to interrogate it. these people are experts and are smart and have degrees. we have degrees and intelligence. don't question it.

the thing that does worry me, i'll play a sound bite. this is biden interview with lester holt. >> have you considered for the sake of national unity selecting or nominating a republican someone who voted for president trump? >> yes. we still have a lot more appointments to make. i want the country to be united. the purpose of our administration is once again reuniting. we can't keep this political dialogue going. it has to end. >> what about former rivals from your party? bernie sanders, warren, have you talked to them about cabinet positions? >> i have talked to -- as i said we already have significant representation among progressives in the administration. there's nothing really off the table. one thing is critical. taking someone out of the senate, taking someone out of the house. at a particularly a person of

consequence is really difficult decision. it has to be made. >> it's smart. don't take people out of the contested seats. you have the idea that maybe considering rob and mcdonald. talk about heitkamp. and whether the meat packing industry would cheer people who are concerned about the workers and the plants would be concerned if it's not a fudge instead. are you worried that biden's tendency to conciliation will mean it gives away the game. >> jesus. >> have we lost jason? we lost him. oh, no. we'll try to get him back. i'll go to melody on that question. does it worry you at all that

biden might be too conciliatory who he brings in? >> one of the things we know is that joe biden has been a in government for quite sometime and if you are a student of joe biden and i spent time on the senate judiciary committee and staff person watching him when he was chair and ranking member. and working with him in the obama white house. and one you have to understand who he is. and what the record represents. two, like most presidents he wants to surround himself with the diversity of opinions and diversity of views. but this is what i mean when i say study joe biden, he's going to make the decision that he thinks is the best set of decisions for the country. i believe that he will create a coalition and that kind of diversity that i was speaking of that not everyone is going to like everyone that is a part of the cabinet or part of the senior white house staff. ultimately, i think the norms i

think his values and his principles he talked about on the campaign trail are going to be what drive him. we can see that already in the selections that he made. and i think this coalition that's very diverse that sent him to 1,600 pennsylvania avenue will see him act on the same values and same principles. >> okay. so the gremlins got you. i don't know if you heard and do you agree. >> no, i don't. this is the greatest concern i have about joe biden even though i always thought he was a candidate most likely to win. he's too conciliatory. this is not about working together. i don't want rob e manual. he is concerned about jessie smollett and not mcdonald.

joe biden needs to recognize that he has four years to make the case. trumpism is not effective. he can rally around strong principles again. that means picking people who may sometimes buck the trend. diversity is great. if all that includes people that are in favor of bombing yemen. he needs a administration that is will to change direction. they're all nice people, they have wonderful backgrounds and neighbors who will share the leaf blower with you. and everything else. what i want to see is who he picks on a domestic level. for secretary of labor. and interior. putting in as attorney general. the domestic changes that will support american life and protect children who are coming across the border. that will determine if joe biden ran on changing the soul of america or trying to take us to

a fictitious obama days that weren't great to begin with. >> you're a historian. you're the tie breaker. biden can come in and try to be fdr and make big change because it's required. and say i know i'm a southerner this can't last. we have to make change. or can try and be a hold the line. be a carter and say i want everyone to get along. and let's do smaller things that are nice but don't change anything. that feels to me like it sets up 2024 to be a referendum on nothing happened. nothing changed in my life. therefore give me another rule breaker and somebody a smart version of trump. that scares me most. >> joe biden is the head of a party that is probably in many cases more progressive than he is. he knows that. he cannot just sit on ores and

say i'll run this as if it eisenhower in 1955. the people appointed today reflect that. i agree, but at the same time i would love to spend tonight enjoying this day. having new people appointed to positions. i don't have to worry whether they are secretly working for a foreign government. or there to steal money. whether they are there to help donald trump make an authoritarian take over the united states. i think we're near out of the clear. as you know, my wife and i have two sons in their 20s. i have felt for three years every single day they have been in danger. i think tonight maybe i can go to sleep. >> nobody that will sell us out to russia. everybody look up, it's a

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nothing normal about the trump administration. it shouldn't surprise you his exit is the chaotic conspiracy laced dumpster fire that it is. with trump refusing to concede even after pennsylvania and nevada formally certified president-elect joe biden defeated trump in both states. the he can emerge victorious is al tern gnat facts. trump is playing golf as a pandemic ravishes the nation. he emerges to brag about the stock market. and back to his favorite past time. retweeting conspiracy theories. by fugitive randy. meanwhile, trump is losing even his staunchest supporters to reality. laura ingram on fox telling her viewers that this charade is

over. president-elect biden will be inaugurated. still, not a single word from senate majority leader mcconnell about whether he will join us in the real world. where joe biden is the next president of the united states. and joining me now senator murphy of connecticut. you are not a former 1980s celebrity. i'm not sure how credible the audience will believe you are. you are an elected official. i will ask you what do you make of the senator majority leader absolute silence. on the election. and his inaction. >> cousin eddy was a great character. in real life he's less stable than he was in the movie. that's who trump is stuck with. your point is right. that maybe mcconnell is in sort of openly engaging in the same level of conspiracy theory. but his silence is more damaging to the country. because what's happening is that

30 to 40% of the american public is come to the conclusion that elections are rigged and if democrats win. this election wasn't close enough for donald trump to steal, what happens two or four years from now when republicans have taken over secretary of state offices and in charge of election board. what happens when a democratic senate candidate wins by 10,000 votes. that election could be stolen. if republicans by that time believe that any time a democrat wins it must be rigged. this has real consequences down the line. mcconnell staying silent he's allowing for this particular virus to infect the entire party. i can tell you why he's doing it. he cares about power and power only. he doesn't want his party to fracture and doesn't want trump to start shooting from the inside. for the georgia run off. the long term damage to the democracy is significant.

>> i think you're right. as a leader of the party, he presided over the tea party invading the republican party and there are tea party republicans in the caucus. g anon-will come in. there's one in the house. there will be some in the senate. they will invade. meanwhile there's real problems in the country. in kentucky, a third of kentucky is struggling to meet basic needs. like food, heat and rent. as holidays approach. kentucky had 162,000 cases of covid. he is completely absent. he sent y'all home for thanksgiving break. we'll put back up the things that are just expiring. emergency unemployment relief. eviction moratorium. rebait checks. student loan fore barns.

you can go on and on. all that stuff is about to expire end of the year. mcconnell doesn't seem to give a damn. you see in signs any of the caucus care anymore than he does? >> let me under score that level of desperation. i came from connecticut from a food distribution event for the holiday weekend and the organizers were panicking a bit because they had enough food for 300 people. and tla had what looked like 300 cars lined up prior to the beginning of the event. they were scrambling to figure out what to say to the families who were faced with going hungry over the holiday weekend. people are at the end of their rope. you are right, mcconnell is refusing to do anything. what we need for mcconnell to do is just enter the negotiating room. he has refused to negotiate with anybody. with nancy pelosi. chuck schumer.

again, because he's afraid of splitting the caucus. about half the republicans want to do nothing. they think of this is should be up to the state or joe biden should be saddled with the entirety of the problem. and so mitch mcconnell is putting the unity of the caucus ahead of the survival of the nation. there are 20 republicans that would vote for 47 democrats in order to pass the substantial coronavirus relief bill. he doesn't want to split up the republicans again heading into georgia. heading into the new congress and that's par for the course for mcconnell. unfortunately. >> yeah. i'm guessing one of those 20 is not ted cruz. out there tweeting b.s. about christmas. like come and get it. he's talking about guns. it's not just ted cruz who is gross on twitter and i don't know how anybody keeps reelecting the man. on the house you have people

taking the side of imperial japan. from world war ii. essentially we have had the republican party take the side of nazis in charlottesville. and the army that murdered 3 million to 10 million people and killed 2,400 americans at pearl harbor. those are the heros along with the 17 year-old who shot two people during a black lives matter rally. i don't know how you ever deal with the party. i don't know how you think you can deal with them. >> this is why these georgia run offs are so important. i want to believe in the power of joe biden to be able to reach out and bring the country together. i want to believe his relationship with mitch mcconnell is so good that he can convince him to drop the history of obstruction. color me skeptical. right now the focus need to be

on making sure there's a senate. 50 members that will vote to fund the vaccination distribution program. in this country. we need $8 billion in order to get the vaccine to states and to patients. the states don't have the money. and we have to worry that if we lose these georgia races, mcconnell will stand in the way of everything and anything that joe biden wants to do. even on the vaccine. i hope it's not true. we have to plan for the worse and win races. >> i think it is. say it louder for the people in the back. at stake in georgia is whether or not there will be relief or a vaccine distributed properly. it's that simple. have a happy thanksgiving. >> still ahead. millions of travelers of course are willing to roll the dice on not getting thechmselves or lov

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the time. >> i am nervous. but i want to be with my babies. nothing is stopping me. nothing. only he can stop. >> despite dire warnings from public health experts and pleas from healthcare front line workers to stay home for thanksgiving. millions are packing airports. cocases on the rise in all 50 states. hospitals are already overwhelmed. wisconsin is begging people to stay home because they are at breaking point. and grappling with the possibility of having to ration care. even for people having medical emergencies. today wisconsin reported more than 100 deaths in a day. for the first time in the pandemic. trump emerged from his hiding place to pat himself on the back over a vaccine. i'm joined by former top aid to mike pence. and a associate professor of

epidemiology. thank you for being here. i feel like watching those people in the restaurant, in the airport. somes masks were falling under their noise. and the things they're saying to justify traveling anyway. even though they are begged not to. i see the problem. i wonder if then what you can see having worked on the task force might be the problem for the next step. meaning getting people to take vaccines and follow the directives of a biden harris administration. listen to joe biden he did an interview today. >> as we speak, people are ignoring advice to stay home. crowding airports around the country right now. you have called for a national mask mandate. how much power as president will you have to influence people in ways you have not been able to as a candidate? >> i hope that we'll be able to have a united voice.

on the need to mask, social distance, testing. and tracing. words of a president matter. and i think it's critically important, it's a patriotic responsibility to wear a mask to social distance. >> the words of the president matter. it will be nice to have somebody saying the right words. how much of a logistical challenge will it be for president biden to implement anything? mandates, etc. >> i think it will be a big challenge. only because we have are living in a very divided time. and you have seen this firsthand. this is something that was created by unfortunately the trump administration. and we are seeing the legacy of the policies and the rhetoric that was earlier in the pandemic. play out firs hand. and i know it's a holiday.

it's a very hard time. people have been isolated. there's covid fatigue. i'm watching this airport and i can think about i'm praying the families and relatives and the people they're going to see and each other don't end up in the hospital. i'm thinking about healthcare workers. as a result of the holiday and gatherings and the travel. that's what i think about. traveling like this and gathering like this. and it just makes me sad. >> same here. and i have heard all the excuses from people i know that are still traveling. they know, please don't do it. people think getting a negative covid test. we now know a negative test doesn't give you an all clear. necessarily. getting one test doesn't mean anything. you have people who have family in nursing homes and want to see

them. and maybe the people aren't aware of why no one is visiting them. people are taking the chance. they want to see family. they don't want people to be alone. you have in milwaukee nearly 300 wisconsin nurses died from covid-19. four weeks. ten times more than the month before. it's having a ripple effect and i don't know how else we can tell people please don't do it. do you have any ideas? >> i think in addition to pandemic fatigue there's this sort of cognitive happening. how can people wrap their minds around not spending thanksgiving with family when they can go to a restaurant with strangers. we want people to remember you can have an infection and two days before you develop symptoms yourself. you can pass it to other people. if you are gathering with family, think about still maintaining space. wear a mask to the extent

possible. if you can have thanksgiving meal outside. or at least open the windows. that is better. keep the number of people gathering small. and the time you spend together short. those are all ways we can still mitigate risk while we get together for thanksgiving. the safest thing is celebrate with your own household. no question. if you have already made the decision to visit family then please consider how you can prevent spreading that infection to your loved ones. >> part of the reason that we have bars and some restaurants open and schools open but at the same time trying to get mask mandates. president put pressure on states to open the state up. places like georgia and florida followed his example. the politics made it hard to do the healthcare. >> right. there's a report i saw that came out today from the white house

coronavirus task force. it specifically talks about how every situation is different. and every locality is different. and how they should be taking mitigation measures individually. depending on what's going on in the area. they're not talking about it. the white house isn't speaking about that publicly. they should be. if they care about what's happening right now. whether you are a lame duck president or vice president or not. you should be talking about this and telling people wear a mask and telling governors if there's a county that is really suffering, such as my county. el paso. the county judge is trying to implement measures. and the governor and the attorney general are fighting with him about this. this has been going on for a month. this is awful rhetoric. everyone needs to get on the same page. >> terrifying and sad.

>> the world health organization deemed this parallel information bombarded with mixed messages. correct information and misinformation. sometimes nefarious spread of misinformation. and i think when our public health measures become political and it's a symbol of your political affiliation. instead of science based decision making. >> it's a huge -- yeah. >> it's under mining the pandemic response. >> it's deadly. i wish we had more time. stay safe. thank you. remembering former new york city mayor. and rudy giuliani role in under mining him. ♪

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as the institute later records it was one of the biggest riots in new york city history. 10,000 demonstrators blocked traffic in downtown. on september 16, 1992. reporters in innocent by standers violently assaulted by the mob as thousands of dollars in private property was destroyed. in multiple acts of vandalism. they stormed up the steps of city hall occupying the building and stream onto the bridge and blocked traffic. jumps on cars of trapped terrified motorists. many were carrying guns. and openly drinking alcohol. yet the uniform police presence did little to stop them. why? because the rioters were nearly all white. off duty police officers. participating in a demonstration against mayor's call for a civilian complaint review board and his creation earlier that

year of the commission. formed to investigate widespread allegations of misconduct within the nypd. in the center of the mayhem. standing on a car cursing the mayor. through a bull horn. rudy giuliani. he described the ugly protest the following day during a press conference. >> what some of them out there yesterday who were calling out -- for instance. why would the people of our community have confidence they have the capacity to handle a tense situation in a minority community? >> i'm sure you can guess the ugly racist slur we beeped out. hurled at the sitting mayor of new york. the n word. when that same rudy giuliani who is single goal as the next morphs to undo everything he did. making policing less bullying and led deadly for black new

yorkers when he offers condolences to mayor dingen who died peacefully last night at age 93. two months after the death of his beloved wife. take that with the same seriousness you give his legal maneuvers. if anything, he was the original donald trump. just as trump was the unobama. designed as if a laboratory. to put white grievance against an historical black elected leader into human form. please be my mayor. a line from my favorite song. a tribe called quest. he was our mayor. the first black mayor of new york city. the barber's son elected in 1990. a year before i graduated from college. he sought to brig dignity and decency to a new york who previous mayors has been known for harshness. and to a city that was being ripped apart by racial and

religious lines. with black and jewish and korean communities in a state of constant war. it was the new york city depicted in do the right thing. in 1989. the year the central park five lost liberty for a crime they didn't commit. the murders of griffith in 1986 and mobs of young white men in 1989 made howard beach known for young black new yorkers. we knew not to set foot in the neighborhoods if we valued our life. he brought a genuine concern for the poor and homeless to a city that faced a crisis of both. on the day after famed tennis champion arthur ash announced he was hiv positive. he named the city's first coordinator for aids policy. who himself was hiv positive. the virus tore through the gay community nationwide, following years of neglect by the reagan

administration. he welcomed a newly freed man dell l.a. to america in a visit that drew 750,000 new yorkers. including me. as the south leader's motor cade crossed through manhattan, brooklyn and queens. in an era where it seemed like the whole world was at war with black america from the nixon plotted, reagan boosted war on drugs to the plague of crack cocaine and the violence on our streets that led directly to the 1994 crime bill to the indifference and cruelty of the police, dinkins dared to try to make a difference. and we all paid for his brief but hopeful tenure with the first trump. the original trump. the trump named rudy. so save your condolences, rudy. tell it to four seasons landscaping or whoever you think is hiding 8 million trump votes in germany. we don't want to hear from you. up next, we'll talk with an actual ally of the late mayor

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i like new york. i think it's -- with all due respect to those of you who live elsewhere, i think it's the greatest town in the world, and being mayor of new york is the greatest job there is, save the one that president obama has. >> former new york city mayor david dinkins passed away last night at the age of 93. i'm joined now by the reverend al sharpton, host of "politicsnation" right here on msnbc. rev, i met him through you. i think he was here at 30 rock to do an interview for your show and i was so excited to meet him. he was such a great man. what do you remember most about dave dinkins? >> well, i knew david dinkins

since i was a teenager, i was 16 and started my national youth movement group. sometimes i would argue with him, call him names and wanted him to be more strident, and it took time to understand that he had such grace even under the most tumultuous circumstances, and i felt he should be more strident. he said, al, you have to learn how to get the job done. keep your eye on the prize. but i most remember is that when we were facing a police killing of a young man named amadou diallo who in the hail of 19 bullets was killed for sticking a key in the door and the police thought -- they said they thought he had a weapon. he was just going home. they were looking for someone else. and dave dinkins, when we started protests, every day we would go down to the police headquarters, the main one in new york, and sit in and hundreds would be arrested.

he called me one morning and said, al, what time do y'all have the demonstrations? he was the former mayor. he said i'm coming down. but we're getting arrested. i'll see you in the morning. he came down to 1 police plaza where he had been on a knee way before colin kaepernick, he was arrested and had them cuff him with congressman charlie rangel himself and me and we went to jail fighting police reform that he started with that civilian complaint review board. he never left the struggle. he was never one to be loud and boisterous, but he was firm and made real change happen. >> yeah, absolutely. we started off -- we could see charlie rangel and james brown, lots of folks in the photos, i don't know if you can see them come up as you're talking. we started off by talking about the way that dinkins was taken out of office, by rudy giuliani, this rage that giuliani stoked

that was already there in the police against what mayor dinkins wanted to do, which was change policing. i feel like we're having a rerun about that conversation, about black lives matter, whether or not police should be free to kill at will in black communities. he tried to do something about it. what did you take from that fight? is it dispiriting to think after great men have tried, after you have tried, we've had all these movements, we're still fighting about this. >> well, you fight until you win. you don't fight until the fight is over in a certain amount of rounds. this is not pro boxing or wrestling, you fight until you win. every struggle has had long struggles. i remember when nelson mandela came, which you mentioned, and dave dinkins had me as part of the group that went to the u.n. with him and jesse jackson and all of us it it took nelson mandela being in jail 27 years after fighting many decades around apartheid, how could we complain about fighting? we fight until we win, knowing

that the victory is certain. and that's what dave dinkins would always say. and as i went more national from just doing new york activism, he said you're still fighting, al, keep fighting. he'd come up to your national action network rallies, in fact, he was just there a few months ago. we had his 90th birthday there, and we never forgot this gentle giant who had a spine of steel and he didn't need to be boisterous, he just needed to be effective. and he was the one that broke that ceiling and made people know you could be the ceo of the biggest city in the world and perform. he revitalized times square. he started this whole community policing. and in many ways, you are more than correct, joy, it's almost like to study donald trump, you have to study rudy giuliani. they took credit for things that their predecessor did and they used race to try and rev up a political career that ended up

embarrassing them at the end. >> indeed. amen. thank you, reverend al. it's always great to talk with you. thank you very much. i also do want to say to the family of bruce boynton who passed away, rest in peace to him and his family. that's the reetout f"reidout" f tonight. "all in" with chris hayes starts now. tonight on "all in." >> it's a team that reflects that america is back. ready to lead the world, not retreat from it. >> 57 days until inauguration, the biden team takes the stage. tonight as pennsylvania certifies a biden victory, how america nearly failed the trump stress test for democracy. then, senator ed markey on what looks like bold biden climate plans. dr. rick bright of the biden coronavirus task force on their plans to turn vaccines into vaccinations. and the cruel reality of a president patting h