good day, everyone, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here's what's happening at 2:00 p.m. eastern, 11:00 a.m. pacific time. we have breaking news to share as capitol hill is bracing for a showdown in just four days. more republican senators announcing today that they are at least in part joining the fight against the election results. seven sitting republican senators, including ted cruz and four incoming senators say they will object to certifying the electoral college votes. the group we intend to vote to reject the electors from states as not regularly given and lawfully certified the statute

tory rec sr requisite. democratic senator chris van holland slamming the efforts last hour on "weekends with alex witt." >> these are political arsonists at this point in time. they are undermining the integrity of our democraciy. many of them talk about america needs to be a voice for freedom overseas but they're taking a blow torch to that idea here at home. >> those efforts by congressional republicans were dealt a major blow in court. a trump-appointed federal judge dismissing a lawsuit aimed at giving vice president pence the power to overturn the election results. meanwhile, as president trump rails against the november election results, he's also making unfounded allegations on twitter that georgia's two senate runoffs are illegal and invalid. democratic senator ben cardin

reacting on msnbc earlier. >> right now he's raising doubt about the georgia election because he recognizes that democrats may very well twin georgia elections. it's not about our democracy. it's not about free and fair elections. it's about donald trump. as a $600 stimulus is hitting taxpayer bank accounts, the battle rages over approval for $2,000 stimulus checks. senate republicans defying the president by blocking the house-passed to stand-alone bill four days in a row. the hopes for a stimulus increase and other rounds of payments now likely in the hands of the next congress and that gets sworn in tomorrow. let's start the hour with nbc's shannon pettypiece in washington. welcome to you. how are other members of congress reacting to the growing number of senators preparing to challenge the election results? >> well, we've been hearing from a number of democrats in response to this latest development with these 11 senators who have come out and said they will vote against the certification of the election.

not too much from republicans yet, but a lot of what we're hearing from democrats is echoing that sentiment you played moment ago from senator van holland, really decrying these efforts. here's what time ryan, democrat house member from ohio, had to say just a few moments ago. >> to attack our constitution and the electoral process in such a cynical way is really beyond me, and it just goes to show you the amount of control that the president still has on republicans. i think this is exactly why people hate politics now because people are in it for themselves and not for the greater good. >> reporter: in the days leading up to this, we have heard from a few republican senators saying that they believe these attacks are harming the country, harming democracy. senator mitt romney has been very vocal about that. senator ben sasse has come out

and criticized this movement not to certify the election results. and boinds oehind the scenes ou reporting shows mitch mcconnell is opposing the election results and telling his members to, you know, stand down on this, calling it one of the most consequential votes of his career. while there are 11 senators and senator-elects, there are 53 republican senators in the senate right now. they're not joining onto this effort. so i think it's to be seen in the coming days how many more republican senators join along with this, how many actually vote not to certify these election results or if it stays this handful of groups who have really been some of president trump's fiercest allies like senator cruz and senator blackburn. >> okay. shannon pettypiece, thank you for that. joining me now to further the conversation, california congressman ro khanna, democratic member of the house

oversight and reform committee, and first vice chair of the congressional progressive caucus. congressman, welcome to you. i had your partner tim ryan on a bit earlier. we're going to talk about what you guys have been trying to do with those stimulus checks in just a moment. but a growing number of republican senators and representatives planning to object to congress's certifying of the electoral college results next week. what do you, sir, make of all of this? why do you think so many of your republican colleagues are willing to stand for the president like this? >> well, it's outrageous and it shows trump's shadow still hovers over the republican party. some of us thought after he lost by over 7 million votes that republicans would strike some independence, but this shows that they still fear trump's tweet. they still fear a republican primary challenge, and you have few senators, senator sasse and romney willing to speak up for the country. and they're saying this is a

fire. i mean, this is really setting fire on american institutions. >> but these are folks that have just been elected. there's not another election, sir, for 22 months. do do people really believe that donald trump's twitter feed, that his influence will be so strong on his to potentially get those folks primaried? really? does that seem logical to you? >> alex that's the fear that's driving it. it's hypocritele. on the one hand they're saying the elections were legitimate in electing us, but they're not legitimate in electing joe biden, so logic doesn't apply. but you saw president trump tweet out against senator thune and saying that we want a primary challenge. and this is something that members across the house and senate fear. they know that he has an energized base in the republican party, and they think if trump is against them, that it's going

to make their life harder. and then those like josh hawley who want to run for president are trying to pander to the base. >> i am going to the president said he wants to run for president in 2024. that's another conversation. let's talk about the 140 republican congressmen in your branch of the congress there who are going to be voting for this and supporting this. how do you see this playing out? >> i think that it's a symbolic vote. it's not going to matter. the house will certify the election. the senate will ultimately certify the election. but here is the damage. the damage is that millions of americans are going to question the legitimacy of our process. it's going to prevent us from doing big things from giving president biden a chance in governing in a way that makes america competitive. for all of the republican rhetoric about how we have to compete against china, they're hurting our democracy's ability

to compete and doing real damage. >> let's talk about congress convening for the process on january 6th. before that they gather tomorrow to vote for speaker of the house. will you be voting for nancy pelosi? >> i will. she has the support of our caucus. she has brought together different parts of the caucus and she's unopposed. so i expect her to be speaker. >> that also extends to the progressive colleagues, some of whom have refused to say whether they will support her election bid. >> we need to have a vote on medicare for all and i will push for that. but having a pro forma withholding of a vote for the speaker when she's going to be the speaker, i don't see how that serves progressive goals. >> does that also then apply to the vote that will be happening with the election certification

and all of that? do you think joe biden would be the one certified to be the president-elect come january 20th following that logic? i mean, what's happening on wednesday? >> i do. i mean, i think you're going to have -- joe biden is going to be our president. kamala harris is going to be our vice president. nancy pelosi is going to be the speaker of the house. any thoughtful person in washington knows that's going to happen, so let's figure out how we're going to try in the next 100 days with a raging pandemic, with people dying every day, actually get something done for the american people and stop playing games when everyone knows what the outcome is going to be. >> so last weekend we were talking about the coronavirus relief bill, which the president eventually did sign. this week the debate has been over whether to raise the stimulus checks to $2,000. i want to remind viewers it's a request that was made by president trump, but also, congressman, and you and time ryan have been fight for $2,000

checks for about nine months. what goes through your mind as you watch congress now focusing on your proposal, which is the emergency money for the people act? >> i appreciate you mentioning that. tim represents ohio and the midwest and i represent silicon valley. what we saw is workers have been hurting, that the government saying people can't go to work to keep us safe. we need to make sure that we put money in people's pockets. and $2,000 is what working families need to put food on the table to pay the rent. and, by the way, this is overwhelmingly popular. trafalgar, who is a pollster in georgia and many conservatives believe in him, found that 75%, 75% of georgians want a $2,000 check. so it's not just a right policy, it's actually good politics. >> how do you think americans view, then, mitch mcconnell's efforts to combine larger stimulus checks with the commission on election fraud? also the roll back on the online

liability protections? do you think americans understand that is why they aren't getting more support from the federal government? do you think that might impact the vote in georgia on tuesday? >> i do think it could impact the vote in georgia especially if trafalgar's polls are correct. what mcconnell is doing is the gamesmanship. if mitch mcconnell wants to come out and say he doesn't think that the country can afford to get people $2,000 checks and he thinks that's not a worthwhile expenditure, fine, let's debate that. i seriously disagree. but to play games and not allowing a clean up or down vote on this, that's what upsets people. that's what people hate about washington. give people an up or down vote, say where you stand, and then let the process play out. >> yeah. mitch mcconnell's louisville home has been vandalized.

nancy pelosi's home also spray-painted with messages. hers says "we want everything." does it concern you? who do you think is doing this? are they outliers or do you think it's indicative of growing sentiment of anger and frustration over the lack of more relief? >> first, it needs to be clearly unequivocally condemned. in american democracy, we do not destroy property, we do not threaten other citizens or other elected officials no matter how much we disagree. that's what makes us distinctive as a country that we believe in the rule of law and we believe in resolving things through dialogue. there's enormous frustration in this country, i understand that. there's enormous anger that congress hasn't been able to get things done. but we have to stay true to what makes us americans, and that's still a belief in democracy, and i believe people mobilize, and if they come to capitol hill and

write to members of congress, that that will be more effective than this kind of vandalism. >> california congressman ro khanna, it was very good to see you. thank you so much for your time. see you again. >> thank you, alex. happy new year to you. >> and to you. thank you. candidates are making their final stops with three days to go before the senate runoff elections in georgia. interest in the race is so high, the turnout record was broken for early voting. that's remarkable. let's go to julia juster for the event for koefrl koefelly loeff georgia. what are you hearing from voters in general? >> reporter: senator loeffler just wrapped an event here in jefferson. i did chat with some voters about how they're feeling in the race. perdue and loeffler are walking a tight rope on whether it's the integrity or $2,000 stimulus

checks, breaking from members of their party. voters really think that not a lot of that is going to matter in the end. they are so determined to keep that republican majority in the senate to continue president trump's legacy, even as they continue to doubt the election results. for all of the talk of these record-breaking early voting numbers, which, as you mentioned, they crossed the 3 million threshold in early voting period alone, those numbers have been strongest in democratic areas, but republicans are holding out hope that their turnout will be strongest on election day. here's what one voter told me as to why she made her plan to vote. >> honestly, just with everything ongoing with voting fraud, that was my main thing. but i have full support voting in person that my vote counts, more than if i had mailed it in. >> reporter: republicans even as they continue to doubt whether there were issues in the election, to be clear, the

georgia secretary of state's office counted these and certified them in an audit a recount, the results are the results. and folks are really moving ahead to the runoff. we'll see if president trump's messaging here on monday aligns with that. either way, the energy here in the state is high. alex? >> we'll see, indeed, what happens. thank you so much, julia. join our coverage of the runoffs. rachel maddow, joy reid and steve kornacki will be at the big board on tuesday. at the current rate of vaccination, it could take ten years to inoculate everyone. what's going on? we'll take a closer look next. ♪

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here are the latest facts on the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. surpassed 20 million cases on the first day of the new year. once again, it took less than a week to add an additional

million cases to the total. december is officially the deadliest and most infectious month of the pandemic. more than 77,000 americans died of coronavirus last month. 6.4 million people contracted the virus in december. california recording the most covid deaths in a single day on friday, adding 585 deaths and 47,000 new cases. hospitals in southern california in the san joaquin valley have no icu beds available. nflorida is the third state to report a new variant of the coronavirus. as many americans are waiting for the coronavirus vaccine, logging vaccinations for frontline health care workers is causing concern. i'm joined by corey coffin at lenox hill hospital in new york city. let's talk about the logistical issues at the hospital, those getting inoculated and those who are not. what do you know, corey? >> reporter: this would be

logistical issues for the city and states across the nation. we're starting to see, alex, this trend where it's these access points that are becoming an issue. we have the full distribution and a lot of states are getting the vaccine. now it's actually getting the vaccine into people's arms. one doctor here at lenox hill said it's a matter of all of these detailed, important things coming together at once. assuming they get the vaccine here on time and they have the personnel to actually inject people, they also then have to plan out how many people are going to be coming in that day. they have to defrost some of the vaccine for that. they have to get that number right. so all of these things have to line up. and then he said i can't even get my mind around phase 2, which is going to be trying to inoculate essential workers in this city. now, florida has a little bit of a preview of that. they opened up their distribution to some elderly residents. in florida only a quarter of these vaccines have actually been distributed despite long lines of elderly residents waiting.

>> we know that there's great demand and we want to meet that demand, but unfortunately we won't be able to provide any new appointments because of capacity issues. >> if we're not able to get through that first phase as fast as possible, that's going to push the whole chain down in terms of time. every day means lives. >> reporter: all right. so capacity issues mentioned and then, of course, there's the personnel issues, alex. you mentioned the dire situation happening in california. doctors there are worried they even have enough people to administer the vaccine because people are already stretched thin trying to deal with covid patients. in puerto rico the vaccines arrived just after the administrators who would giving those doses out left for the holiday. these are issues states were not anticipating. if we take a more wide-range look at the nation, the cdc is tracking exactly how each sate is doing. the lighter states are not doing as well. for example, kansas is at the bottom of the list, just 11% of

their doses actually passed out for people getting that first dose. now, bringing it back here to new york, mayor bill de blasio vowed to inoculate 1 million people in the city in the month of january. he said he's going to do that however means possible, using pop-ups, schools, but what it's going to say require, he says s a federal response. that's what we hear from more and more state leaders. they will take the reins on getting this done, but they need a uniform federal plan to help them get it done, alex. >> eucori coffin from long hospital. first let's get to your take on the speed of the vaccine rollout. nbc news, you know, has calculated it would take ten years to adequately vaccinate americans at this rate. is this what you expected? how behind are we? >> i can't say that i expected

this. we are definitely behind. you know, alex, i think there's a lot of moving parts here, but i would say that the umbrella idea here is that not enough effort, thought, or consideration was given into this part of the administration of the vaccine. i give all the credit in the world to the nih and the cdc, the fda, and the pharmaceutical industry for the research, development, and approval of the vaccines. but when it comes to getting the shot in the arms, we have inadequate funding at the state level. as we talked about many times, there's an inefficient public health infrastructure. and right now, frankly, there's not the man power. you know, i have some retired medical workers, patients of mine who have said i want to help, i'm licensed to administer the vaccine. how do i do it? i don't really have an answer for them other than to reach out to, you know, the state department of health. so i think, you know, we got to where we are we got to the

finish line with the approval but what to do after that, there was just no blueprint on how to do this. >> and this comes as we know what upwards of 3 million that have been inoculated across the country, they're going to need their second dose pretty soon, right? >> right. >> are you worried about confusion with that, people going in for their first or second? >> look, we're doing it different ways. as soon as i got my first dose, i got an electronic, you know, prompt to schedule my second one. you do get a card that says that you've received your first vaccine. but i don't know that there's a uniform policy for how that's going to happen. and i worry people may not ending up getting their second dose when they should because of all the chaos. >> yeah. and we could have two new vaccines approved by spring, astrazeneca is a two-dose vaccine, johnson & johnson's one-dose vaccine. how significant will that be? you have four in circulation. is there any concern that one will be better than another and people will be saying, no, no,

no, i want pfizer, don't give me astrazeneca or vice versa? >> i know. look, we've talked about these numbers now most americans know them by heart that the pfizer and the moderna is about 95% efficacious, astrazeneca at 70%. we don't have the data for j & j. we'll probably be getting that in january when they go for their eua, so that will be welcome information. to be honest, alex, i don't think we're in any sort of position that health care systems and hospital systems and doctors offices will have more than one vaccine to offer. >> good point. >> and i will be surprised if anyone is in a situation to actually ask for one versus the other. but we need to keep in mind that no matter what, they will all likely be much more superior to the flu vaccine we get every year. i'll take the one i'm offered. >> i know you've taken one and you'll be taking another one shortly. given all of this confusion, we

appreciate your time. thank you. it is video of an assault at a new york hotel that's got goth a lot of the country talking. al sharpton joins me to talk about it necks.

. new york police have released video of a woman attacking a 14-year-old boy at a hotel the day after christmas. police released this security footage of the incident and are asking the public to help locate the suspect in this video. the woman wrongly accused the teenager of stealing her iphone, which was later returned to her by an uber driver. nbc news has not established the woman's identity and it is not clear what happened before nor after. what we're seeing here in this surveillance video -- but the teen's mom said this week the hotel manager was equally possible for the escalation. >> for my son to say, mom, why me? why did this lady and the

manager think they could accuse me? he empowered that woman to assault my son and is equally to blame for this injustice. >> that's right. >> amen. >> he chose to try and prove that he was innocent instead of using his hospitality tools and asking our 14-year-old son his side of the story. >> the arlo hotel released a statement on the incident saying, among other things, quote, more could have been done to de-escalate the dispute. we want to apologize to mr. harold ask his son for this inexcusable experience. police previously said they were not investigating the incident as a bias crime, but the family's attorney says they see it as a case of implicit bias and racial profiling. >> if the roles would have been reversed and you had a black adult tackle a white teenager

and falsely accuse that white teenager of taking a cell phone, we know that he would have been arrested for assault and battery. and so we're looking to the nypd and we're looking to the manhattan district attorney to say, are you going to join in the racial profiling? >> joining me now, the reverend al sharpton, president and founder of the national action network and host of "politicsnation" here on msnbc. thank you for joining me. happy new year. >> happy new year, alex. >> it is a happy new year here because we have a lot to get into before your thoughts on this particular issue. i want to ask you about the breaking news with 11 more senators adding to josh hawley saying they plan to join the effort to contest joe biden's election certification. rev, what's your reaction to that? >> this is outrageous by any measure because we are now talking about how you have members of congress that are

actually questioning the whole electoral college process, a process that many of us feel is outdated, but it is the process. and for many of the states that they questioned to come back and validate the vote, many of them by republican state attorneys, then what is the basis of this other than they're passifying this president whose narcissism and inability to see that he lost the election is the basis of their questioning this. they've gone to courts and federal judges, some of whom trump appointed who say there's no validity to this. so why go through this kind of motion that only undermines the democratic principles we've gone forward with in this country? >> i hope that was a rhetoric

question because there's no logical answer. josh hawley rankled leadership. from a political perspective, why do you think so many people are joining this effort? i mean, one you could argue that the american public has zero appetite for. >> i think you're right that the public, general public has no appetite for it, but they're playing to the trump crowd, and they're playing to the fact that they're intimidated by the twitter in chief who will say ugly things about them on twitter. and they want that segment of their districts that listen to trump to not be angered by them, which shows they have no leadership and no courage. and they're undermining the very principles of people having confidence in the process of voting and the process of having results from the voting be fair

and unblemished. it would be different if the courts wanted a state attorneys general or states attorneys had said they found even in an inkling of infairness. they've been able to produce no evidence whatsoever, zero. so why are we going through this? what is the basis of invalidating the electoral college if the electoral college goes based on the way the state's votes came out? and the states votes have been by all measures -- are to be judged to be unblemished. >> let's get back to the hotel assault. you were at the press briefing with the harold family. what do you think happened here? >> clearly you're dealing with a woman who decided based on the profile of this young man that he had stole her cell phone, which is racial profiling and should be investigated for the

assault that you clearly see on tape, and for her making a false statement, which we saw in a central park case earlier this year where a woman said she was going to call 911 on a black man in central park who only asked her to do what the sign asked all to do, and that is put a leash on her dog. here you have a hotel lobby disrupted by a woman. and we find out her phone wasn't even stolen. it was in an uber car that she left. to disrupt this young man, assault him and his father, and with no basis at all, and then the hotel employee backed her, not the people checked in the hotel. the father and son were patrons of the hotel. he backs her. it shows the fear that a lot of blacks have every day in new york and around the country which is why i stood with them at the press conference and arranged for all of us to meet with the manhattan district attorney and urge him to not only investigate this, but look at it as a bias crime.

>> what are you hearing from the manhattan d.a. about that? do you think they will? >> well, he did not rule it out. he did not agree or make a commitment. he heard us out and says i'm not ruling everything out. they'll go where the evidence will lead them. but we said that we wanted to expedite. this young man has been traumatized. can you imagine going to brunch the day after christmas with your father, and all of a sudden you're being accused and accosted by somebody for something you have no idea what they're talking about? >> no, and i listened to that mother so tearfully, so upset knowing her son would be, you know, scarred to some degree by all of this, certainly. give me a sense, rev, how the nypd has responded. what's your assessment on that? >> they have responded, i think, so far by saying that they're going to look into it and they are searching for the attacker.

i think that clearly if we're looking at this now on the 2nd of january and this happened on the 26th of december, by now they should've located them and the person and brought them in. clearly this woman got on another station by phone and said that she was attacked. the tapes clearly show she was not attacked at all. she's fabricated an alibi that doesn't stand up to the public evidence that we've seen. and these tapes are not only the tape that the father took, these are tapes that was gotten from the hotel security. so clearly this woman is someone that is, in my opinion, not only engaged in a bias incident, but will try in any way to lie her way out of it. >> how do you see this resolving, rev? >> i think it will be resolved by her being charged with, i hope, several crimes. certainly the assault is there.

certainly i think bias incident, and i think it has to be litigated. you must establish that you cannot have people make false accusations for no reason and then disrupt someone's life. this is a 14-year-old young man. what i think has not been said is he clearly was raised well by his parents and he did not overreact. he did not try to fight the woman. he did not try to do anything that was not appropriate. this woman was out of control and you can only ask why. what fueled this rage and anger and why did she identify him out of all the people in the lobby? >> reverend sharptoal sharpton,o see you. the rev is on "politicsnation" today and every saturday and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. it is much ado about a do-over. my next guest has a message for the president about what can not happen on january 6th.

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tomorrow vice-president-elect kamala harris will campaign in georgia, a final push by democrats to win control of the senate if "n" tuesday's runoff elections. mary ana, what are you are hearing about this? is this affecting the gigantic task of pulling together a white house team? >> well, if you ask joe biden

which our own mike memoli did last week about whether the georgia senate runoffs are affecting him building out his cabinet in any way, joe biden actually said it has really not played a role. of course there's still three slots left open and he has to make that decision before he is sworn in as president. those seats obviously are attorney general, commerce, and labor. the most significant one is that attorney general spot and it's worth noting under consideration is judge merrick garland. it would be easy to fill his placement if biden does choose to pick garland. of course, he currently serves on the did yo.c. court of appea. things that joe biden has to get to in these next couple of days. another one that's been an ongoing issue is the fact that the pentagon as well as the office of management and budget have not been cooperating with

transition officials, delaying meetings or at least not giving full briefings. so that is just one component. the other, of course, are a number of these so-called midnight rules that the trump administration is just trying to pass in the next coming days -- excuse me, the incoming biden administration saying they will put a freeze on day one of his presidency on any rule that has not been instituted, alex. >> thank you so much from delaware. we have this breaking news again. a group of almost a dozen republican senators led by ted cruz announcing plans to object to certifying the electoral college votes next week. i'm now joined by contributing columnist for "the washington post" and author of a recent article entitled "sorry, president trump, january 6th is not an election do-over." edward foley ned, welcome to the broadcast. we have these additional 12. you have seven senators in addition to josh hawley, eight

sitting senators and four incoming, right? so this announcement comes after we learn that republican senator hawley and reportedly 140 house gop members are also planning to object to wednesday's count. first of all, do you find this surprising? >> i do. and unfortunate. it's not way the constitution is supposed to work. the states pick their electors who vote january 14th. that's why it's supposed to be finished. congress just counts the votes. so you're not supposed to have this kind of fight. >> okay. so if republicans follow through with this, though, what happens? i mean, look, does this end anyway other than a confirmed biden win? >> no. it's not going to change the outcome. it's theater. it will delay the process. >> ned, theater benefiting whom? benefiting the american people? benefiting individual lawmakers

that are going along with this for their own careers? benefiting the president? who benefits from this? >> maybe president trump in terms of his power with his base and the party. earlier in the show you talked about about the threat of elections both in the senate and the house. and i do think that's a factor here. i think you have members of congress on the republican side who are afraid that trump is going to opposite them when they seek re-election in a primary fight and they're trying to protect themselves against the base. so i think that's the political dynamic here. but it's terrible for democracy and it's bad for the republic. >> yeah. look, vice president pence has not expressed any support of those republicans who plan to object on wednesday. what do you think pence does this week? what are the chances that he would join those objecting? >> well, he is in some ways the most significant figure. now, if he follows the law, as

he should, he is supposed to preside over the meeting and is not supposed to be decisive. there was this lawsuit seeking for vice president pence to have more power than the law provides. that lawsuit was dismissed and i think it's based on an incorrect understanding of the constitution. but if pence were to try to assert that power himself, you know, that would be disruptive on wednesday. >> this has been around for a long time. lawmakers ought to be familiar with this already. it's intended that the january succession to address a question, are the electoral votes received by congress ones cast by electors the states appointed? i mean, that's it, right? >> correct. think about it as of our country was receiving an ambassador from a foreign country. the ambassador presents credentials. our country doesn't say, well,

did they do their right job? they say is this the ambassador that that country wanted? did they appoint their own electors? if they did, that's the answer to the question. congress isn't question. congress isn't supposed to second guess the way the states appointee l appoint electors. >> they're bracing for large protests in d.c., many protrump groups say they have plans to be there. the president says it will be wild that day. what are you expecting? >> i hope not. again, we believe in peaceful transition of power, we want democracy to work so we settle political issues through the ballot box. the voters should decide if they want a democrat or republican to be the leader. this year, voters chose a democrat. to deny that is to deny reality of what the votes were. it is pernicious that you have

one party refusing to accept defeat. that's not the way democracy is supposed to work. it would be true if either party was doing it, right now, it happens to be the republican party not wanting to accept the verdict of the people. >> all right, ned foley, we accept everything you just told us. thank you so much. the most trusted profession in america now? that's next. amera icnow? that's next. it's time for the lowest prices of the season on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring. ...exactly. no problem. ...and done. and now, the queen sleep number 360 c2 smart bed is only $899.

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