aston villa are one side who aren't involved in european football, and their manager dean smith says, and he think they're right to stick with the three subs rule. this is why smaller clubs in the premier league are against it — even though spurs had that tight turnaround they had almost £100 million worth of extra talent on their bench compared to their opponents west brom, who have a much smaller budget. this division has a handful of clubs with enormous resources and many will feel giving them more substitutes, gives them a greater advantage. we will have to wait to see what happens with the grossest growing number of injuries within the squads over this forthcoming match weekend, but thanks very much indeed for that. if you didn't know their name before you may now, marine from the eigth tier knocking out league two colchester one of the big first round cup upsets. stockport beating rochdale and we also saw charlie from the sixth year producing a big shot from the weekend knocking out wiggin. let's just say that the manager, jamie joint is now on the programme. thanks very much f

dean. rob smith, appreciate it. ainsley: thank you for raising all that money, too. , it's a busy week. some people are going to be traveling so they want to know where the spots are going to be. where you could avoid possible showers, thunderstorms, even snow in the forecast. here are the current temperatures. not too bad actually in terms of temperatures this week. milder than average. so no places that are going to be really subzero. but looking at the forecast today, certainly the northeast are going to get heavy rain and the potential for thunderstorms up towards new england, some snow showers for the great lakes as well. there are your travel delays for tuesday for the northwest we have an active pattern there and then the central u.s. that's where we are going to see mainly rain. we are not talking about a big storm system here but nuisance rain showers and that's going to move across the mississippi valley. the ohio tennessee valley in towards wednesday and in to thursday. now, that thanksgiving day, a quieter forecast for many, so we are enjoying mild tempera

dean in wilmington for us. thank you. >>> joining us democratic congressman adam smith of washington state.e chairs the house armed services committee. mr. chairman, thank you for joining us. as you know, the biden team is reaching out to former pentagon officials who served under former defense secretary mattis to get at least some sense of the information they need before taking over on january 20th. what does it say to you that the president-elect's people have to do this sort of end run since he is being blocked from getting the traditional, the customary presidential daily intelligence briefings? >> well, first of all, it is good that president-elect biden has these connections. he has worked with jim mattis when jim mattis was the cent com commander in a variety of different roles within the pentagon, to have that relationship is a huge positive. i think the president-elect is doing everything he can to be ready. but, look, what president trump is doing here is one of the worst things any president has ever done. i mean he is jeopardizing the health, the safety of our country, basical

dean phillips. and they helped a lot. so we just -- we made it a real effort. and tina smith declared the victor in minnesota.ain, the midwest, i believed from the beginning that joe biden couldn't win this without winning those blue wall states in the middle of the country, and he's done it. he made it a priority, and i'm feeling really good about that right now. >> proud midwesterner, democratic senator amy klobuchar, the great state of minnesota. thank you. thank you to lawrence o'donnell for coming on. oth another break for us. when we come back, with votes rolling in, as the senator mentioned, in arizona, in pennsylvania, among our guests, the attorney general of pennsylvania. but that's the big one in the southwest we're looking at. too early to call in arizona. too close to call in georgia. less than a half dozen states are sooner or later going to decide this thing. we can't always keep our distance. but we can still help protect each other this flu season by getting vaccinated. if you're 65 or older, get the superior flu protection of fluzone high-dose quadrivalent. it's the only 65+ flu vaccine with