the worst mistake of my writing, but these never should have allowed myself to be the united states administration to commit a crime in this country. a show trial with obviously coerced statements, perhaps in exchange for a pardon. 16 days later, warm beer discovers that his hopes were in vain. he is publicly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities. his condition from this point on remains uncertain. just shortly before takeoff, dr. mike flook eager is given the few details known about warm beers condition. i had one small written note, one paragraph about his condition, saying he was in a coma. that being french of hospital. that's really all i knew except that he had been hospitalized for 15 months. was looking, are worried about the threat of war. not really. he said, i think i had felt that the relationship between north korea and the us had been bad for a while. no, i thought if this door had opened to bring a warm beer back and there in negotiations to ease things a little bit. 7 in fact, north korea's sudden diplomatic efforts surprises the u.s. negotiators. mickey ber

and i think the bigger problem really is that the city administration, the state administration and the central administration are 3 different bodies that basically control it. and does this no coordination among them to actually make things better? right. so some roads that under some administration, some, some roads and others. so because of the lack of coordination, it's like, you know, if you handle it, you handle it. and as it is not, you know, nobody funding it. and that's one of the reasons why we have, i think, a plethora of issues that the city faces. deeper conflict mentions the bureaucratic problems. india has got a central pollution control board and there are state pollution control boards. how effective are they trying to manage pollution in the states but cut in 3, the pollution control board don't really have that much beef. and they, they are not believed to do this kind of cordon nation among states on policy issues. to give an example, one of the external factors in the season is the stubble bonding, which happens in the neighboring state of punjab. so the ag, because

but now, the state administration for market regulation is proposing to prevent platforms from dominatingket. why now are they moving against those very powerful organizations in china? powerful companies, rather. >> i think something very instructive is jack ma. he decided a few days before the largest ipo in world history that he wanted to make fun of the chinese government. but there was an underlying part of that. with china's coming forward with its digital economy, with this digital you want, things are going to change dramatically. there was a feeling that jack ma was timing his ipo prior to this. because there will be profound changes when you do have a digital currency that is actually working in one of the world's largest trade entities, trade relations, number one trade relations with 120 countries around the world. there is a feeling that they did not want jack ma to cash in on something he could deliver. also, i think people are looking into what is happening with facebook and a lot of these big monopolies. china created their own, obviously, tencent and alibaba are huge. the

my own life, but we think it's own never should have allowed myself to be a more the united states administration to commit a crime in this country. a show trial with obviously coerced statements, perhaps in exchange for a pardon. 16 days later, warm beer discovers that his hopes were in vain. he has publicly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities. his condition from this point on remains uncertain. just shortly before takeoff. dr. mike fluke eagar is given the few details known about warm beers condition. i had one small written note, one paragraph about his condition, saying he was in a coma, that pyongyang friendship hospital. that's really all i knew except that he had been hospitalized for 15 months. was flickinger worried about the threat of war? not really. he says, i think i had felt that the relationship between north korea and the us had been bad for a while. you know, i thought if this door had opened to bring a warm beer back then and there in negotiations to east things a little bit. in fact, north korea's sudden diplomatic efforts surprises. the u.s. negotiato

i have no charge against the administrative state, suppose the epa as i inadvertently killed and endangered insects in my backyard and wants to do whatever they want to do. they charge me with outlaws on and the person doing the charging is an unelected bureaucrats, not sworn officer of the law reporting of a political chain and i get all before an administrative judge on the preceding and has no precedent in law, it's all about regulation and i get convicted on administrative grounds, kind and honest. they can do that and i can say this is all unconstitutional and i'll fight you with ex-wife and z and i will be squashed like the budget bug that i am alleged to have been killed so in one sense the old order is there and it rains but in the other sense, i'm andy and they aregodzilla . and if you see the cartoon, godzilla defeats bambi rather easily so part of that is shipped of political power from the elected branches, delegation to the administrative state which begins with the progress in themselves . so there are structural things that are going on but you also introduced the other eleme

representative to washington who some some lot of he was chucked out when the united states administration shut down that mission in 2018 and he said something very similar to me he said basically i put it to him that that surely abidin ministration would potentially reverse some of the excesses as far as the palestinians are concerned of what trump has done. and that might represent a hope for change he said well no it's time to move on we're not just sitting here on 10 toes waiting for a new occupant of the white house we are exploring other options the united states has ceased to be what it used to be there have been 30 years of attempting to change the status quo under u.s. leadership it hasn't worked and so we're calling on other countries as multilateral approach to get involved and that of course is the official policy of mahmoud abbas hasn't really got a huge amount of traction so far and i think other voices within the palestinian movement do recognize the sheer weight of power that the united states has and perhaps more importantly they realize what 4 more years of trump could fu

making some new policy as well, or at least announcing it, saying that from now on the united states administration would view the b.d.s. movement, the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel as anti-semitic and stop funding groups which supported it. we will regard the global or any israel b.d.s. campaign is anti semitic. you know, the so simple to you, mr. president. if you see this, it seems like a statement of fact, but i want you to know that we will immediately take steps to identify organizations that engage in hateful b.d.'s. gondor can withdraw our u.s. government's support for such groups. now the b.d.s. movement itself has responded to that, saying that the us administration was trying to conflate its anti occupation activities with anti semitism, saying that it fought against all forms of racism, including anti jewish racism. and of course, the other highly controversial element of this day's agenda has been the visit to the winery got which, whose actions in the, in the european court really pressed presaged. what the change in policy that was announced by pompei last

to improve, the united states has an obligation to the world to ensure the four years we have lost in the many more years we lost in climate action by the previous administration'ss a catch up to do and we expect the next president of the united states to recognize the uted states has led the world down, drag their feet, and put the entire world, including the united states on climate, therefore we would expect from the new administration was simply an improvement and not rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. serious structural, systemic change that addresses climate change. amy: kumi naidoo, thank you for joining us, global ambassador for africans rising for justice, peace & dignity, and a lifelong south african human rights and climate justice activist. when we come back, we go to his temple, turkey, and then to the u.k. for response to this historic u.s. election. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we turn now to look at how joe biden's presidency will influence u.s. relations in the middle east as the trump administration reportedly prepares to flood i

but it's never should have allowed myself to be alone for the united states administration to commit a crime in this country. a show trial with obviously coerced statements, perhaps in exchange for a pardon 16 days later, warm beer discovers that his hopes were in vain. he is publicly sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for subversive activities. his condition from this point on remains uncertain. just shortly before takeoff. dr. mike flook eager is given the few details known about warm beers condition. i had one small written note, one paragraph about his condition, saying he was in a coma, that young french of hospital. that's really all i knew except that he had been hospitalized for 15 months. was looking girl worried about the threat of war. not really. he says, i think i had felt that the relationship between north korea and the us had been bad for a while. you know, i thought if this door had opened to bring a warm beer back then and there in negotiations to east things a little bit. in fact, north korea's sudden diplomatic efforts surprises. the u.s. negotiators. mickey berg

we used to be fairly relaxed, but now the state administration for market regulation is proposing to prevent platforms from dominating the market. why no, are they moving against those very powerful organization in china as powerful companies rather? well, i think it's only really instructive is jackpot. i mean, he decided a few days before the largest i.p.o. in world history that he wanted to how to make fun of the chinese government. but there was an underlying part of that with china is how many forward with its digital economy with this, you know, this digital you want things are going to change dramatically or is a feeling that jack ma was timing his i.p.o. prior to this because are going to be profound changes when you do have a digital currency that is actually working in a, in the, you know, world of the world's largest trade entities with, you know, trade relations, number one, trade relations for $120.00, countries around the world. people. there's a feeling that they didn't want jackpot attash and something that he couldn't deliver. also, you know, i think there's people a

administration of failure. although they met with his secretary of state john kerry several times. they confide in favorite network socks, news easy prey for their hosts, ongoing partisan crusade against obama's democrats and john kerry was secretary of state at the time you just picked him right now met with. and what was the outcome of that nice guy. nice person. you in any way? totally exasperated and overwhelmed with north korea. totally. did he help you in anyone? no, absolutely not. did anyone in the state department help you in any way? no, absolutely not. the 1st thing, after i got the phone call was to teach you read that state department, log on. no one to write korea before you let him go out. and which socialist state department, so that other words, many owing you, for the kidnapping and imprisonment of your son was your fault. that was the message from the state department. right. that they acted like that we were ignorant. thanks to clay for letting him go. we feel we should arrange judge to you and blamed you for your son's kidnapping by the north korean government.

he served as a former assistant secretary of state in the obama administration. when tony blinken was deputy secretary of state, thanks for your time mr. rubin. so we're getting a clearer picture now of biden's plans for foreign policy, right? with his pick of anthony blinken who, you know, well for secretary of state, what does this appointment say about how a biden administration plans to approach foreign policy more generally? it's clear with sectarian blink and what we have is a nominee who is very close to the president. that's number one item that people at the state department care about. does the secretary have the ear of the president? but we also have someone who is committed to diplomacy. this is a president elect. you said very firmly that he wants america to engage in the world to agree diplomatically and having secretary blinking in this job is going to be sure that we have that kind of a speech to the world that our diplomats are empowered to actually engage. discuss, negotiate and follow through on commitments by the good to that end. talking about

administration of failure. although they met with his secretary of state john kerry several times. they confide in trump's favorite network sox news, easy prey for their hosts, ongoing partisan crusade against obama's democrats. and john kerry was secretary of state at the time to just get to him when that was said and what was the outcome of that nice guy. nice person, if you in any way, totally exasperated and overwhelmed with north korea. totally. did he help you in anyone? no, absolutely not. did anyone in the state department help you in any way? no, absolutely not. the 1st thing, after i got the phone call was to teach you read that state department, log on. no one to write korea before you let him go out and which someone from the state department, so that other words, many owing you, for the kidnapping and imprisonment of your son was your fault. that was the message from the state department that they acted like that we were ignorant. thanks to clay for letting him go and we feel we should arrange judge to you and blamed you for your son's kidnapping by the north korean go

was biden's national security adviser at the start of the obama administration, he's a known diplomat, he was a deputy secretary of stateing the last couple of years of the obama administration, so he's experienced. he's a loyalist, which tells you a lot about what joe biden might be looking for, specifically in foreign policy, and he knows joe biden's foreign policy inside and out, where he would stand on any given issue. and there are a number of big crises that are facing the incoming administration. so, there's that. and also, i've got to say, the one question that was coming up when you look at who joe biden was going to pick for his cabinet was how many fights he was going to pick. and here he chose not to pick a fight. he went with tony blinken. susan rice was another candidate who was up for the secretary of state job. she was being considered. chose not to go with her. she, obviously, would be somebody who would be very controversial and could set off a big sort of battle within the senate. >> yeah, it's really hard to see susan rice getting confirmed by the senate, if mcconnell is, in fact, going to remain in

she was an undersecretary of state in the obama administration.he is an msnbc global affairs contributor and director of the center for public leadership at harvard's kennedy school. ambassador sherman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. we're very lucky to have you in this discussion since you know everyone who i just named. let's begin with the 71st secretary of state toney blinken. >> toney is just extraordinary. i've known him since he was a speech writer at the beginning of his career with the clinton administration. up know that he's been by joe biden's side all through his tenure as a u.s. not on the senate foreign minister. -- foreign relations committee. it helps you with the political process and whatever subject matter you have to face. he certainly smart, engaging. he knows everyone around the world. he grew up in paris. he speaks truly native french. he is a dad of two little kids. his wife evan-ryan is fantastic. we have someone who understands what they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis in their lives. he's just an ex

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the secretary of state is the head administrator of state is the head administrator of elections. is what she called them, on how election officials in each of the counties where to administer the election. so let me give you one of the issues i have a lot of problems with. when you go to the polling place, you have to sign in in person and the electionjudge checks have to sign in in person and the election judge checks your signature against the official poll book to make sure you are the right person voting. because in pennsylvania, we don't have voter id to vote. when you voted by mail—in, you also had to sign on the outside of your ballot, not on your ballot. we never, in america, have any recognition between the actual vote on the person because we don't want to have coercion in voting. what we now have is a high volume of mail—in votes being counted. do you think donald trump has a leg to stand on here? just to finish my thoughts, all those mail—in ballots, they never checked the signatures. it is a completely different process. do i think donald trump has a leg to stand on?

state as early as tomorrow. he has served in the past two democratic administrations, including as deputy secretary of state under president obama. as chip reid reports, mr. biden is getting more support from republicans who are calling on president trump to concede. >> reporter: on the golf course, president trump took a break for several minutes to talk on the phone. he was probably not talking to maryland republican governor larry hogan who said this about the president's efforts to change the election outcome. >> we're beginning to look like we're a banana republic. >> reporter: the president fired back at hogan tweeting, this republican in name only will never make the grade. to which hogan responded, stop golfing and concede. the president was also probably not chatting with republican chris christie. >> the conduct of the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment. >> reporter: in pennsylvania a federal judge rejected the president's election lawsuit, comparing it to frankenstein's monster haphazardly stitched

she had served as an assistant secretary of state during the obama administration. she's also a woman of color, which would make good on a promise from biden to have his top officials be diverse and reflect the country, but bottom line, biden is simply trying to move forward with his transition, even as the trump administration puts up road blocks. >> okay, big announcement to come. arlette, thanks so much. >>> really exciting news this morning on yet another vaccine. this news coming from a astrazeneca and oxford university. day ta showed their covid vaccine is about 70% effective. there's some nuance to that, that's important. >> there is. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. big picture here, you have multiple options here it seems when these vaccines are proved. tell us what we know about this newest one. >> right, it's definitely for sure good to see these good, early results and i would emphasize early, early results from astrazeneca. they don't look as good as the other two we've heard about in the past few weeks. let's look at the n

avoid which is to have partisan elected have ambitions for hire office in charge of administration in particular states. i think it arouses suspicion of electoral process and does something that our commission very much not like to say of ttention with the goal professionalizing administration and treat it like a public service like any other. secretary of state in one state is in charge of counting the ballots and that running state is also for governor, that person shouldn't be in charge of ballots, you think? bob: i don't think an elected fficial, partisan elected official should be in charge of election administration period. we recommended in our commission a minimum, we would want state the secretaries of office employ election administrative professionals so at least the ultimate esponsibility day to day resided with them. there is still an appearance problem. e saw that play out many, many times over the last several decades. david: i notice that people are stand something labor for 10 11 hours and so forth. in the other parts of society, super ticket to get into disney ahead of other ines, how

he was a strong advocate of the two—state solution — the long—standing international formula for peace abandoned by the trump administration and the only way to have peace in this region is to solve the palestinian question. is to solve the israeli—palestinian conflict. is to end the israeli occupation. saeb erekat had a lung transplant in the us in 2017 and had earlier survived a heart attack. his health deteriorated soon after testing positive for covid—19. palestinians will feel his loss strongly, at a time when relations with israel are at a new low and prospects for the creation of an independent palestinian state, the goal of his life's work, look increasingly dim. yolande knell, bbc news. golf now — and the masters starts at augusta on thursday, seven months after it was originally scheduled. many players, like spain's jon rahm seen here on the 16th hole, have taken to the course for some practice before the tournament tees off. and if this effort — slightly sped up — is anything to go by, he might just be the man to beat! and all on his 26th birthday. not a birthday he is going to forget. that's it for now. thanks

states recording over 1000000 cases each. meanwhile, president elect joe biden and his cold 900 task force are still barred by the outgoing trump administration from getting briefings on the situation. it's imperative that our team and our experts have better access. some states like new mexico have imposed a near complete shutdown, but biden will not order a nationwide freeze when he takes office on january 20th. we're not in a place where we're saying, shut the whole country down. we've got to be more targeted. americans are getting ready for the thanksgiving holiday, which traditionally involves big family gatherings. public officials are begging them to limit groups. we must tell you, you must cancel the normal thanksgiving plans. the u.s. centers for disease control forecast deaths could reach as many as 282000 over the next 4 weeks. robert oulds al jazeera and instantly has reported its highest number of new cases. since the pandemic began, the health ministry registered almost $41000.00 infections in 24 hours. 550 people die and the italian government has toughened restrictions in many areas of the country. peru is former president has

administration did. they were sloppy and impatient and trying to make changes to law. that is why they lost so many times against the stateia. the biden administration can try to reverse course and take us back to the future again in some of the policies, but they have to follow procedures. if they try to do it in a way like a trump administration, sloppy and impatient, they will have the same problem. this newfeeling that president coming in understand these things, and he will have a team that does him right. david: do you have hope for the dreamers? they try to do a deal under president trump but could not get there. would you favor something that took care of the dreamers but had something like e-verify included in it? xavier: what i'm about to say probably has the support and concurrence of 90% of americans, and that is that the dreamers are home. this will be their permanent home. it's just a matter of the politics catching up to the sentiment of the public and the reality of where we are. we need to get a change in the law to make their permanency safe, without the anxiety. won againstued and the trump administrati

a lot of really good people left the state department during the trump administration. great signal from the biden team in appointing linda thomas greenfield to the position of united nations ambassador. again, assuming she's confirmed by the senate, and i think you will see people like tony blinken pay more attention than rex tillerson, first secretary of state, or mike pompeo for that matter, to matters dealing with the career diplomatic service. i would expect to see more qualified people appointed to the second and third tier level positions at the state department, not rank amateurs, in many cases positions will go back to career officials, and it is possible to restore state department morale and it is possible to rebuild the diplomatic service and the state department itself, civil service and foreign service. >> the world will be watching all this. thank you both for joining us this hour. appreciate it. >>> the u.s. air force is deploying medical personnel to north dakota, hard hit by coronavirus. we are live on the ground next. and georgia election officials be

there are other states that do other things on administration. but on the actual development and effective implementation of income tax, it's wisconsin that becomes the bellwether, not just for other states, but for the national government. and one of the important innovations they have is this third party reporting. so they have this very crude form of withholding, where it's not the modern-day notion of withholding, but it's reporting. it's requiring banks and other and financial institutions that are remitted and paying interest and dividends and things of that sort to actually report when they're paying and to whom. that becomes a very important administrative innovation at the federal level. there's very much a story about both states experimenting with things. ohio does some interesting things administratively, sodas -- so does indiana, and the actual implementation of a direct progressive taxation successively and wisconsin, i think emboldens national lawmakers to do it themselves just a few years later. there's very much as a state to nati

state in 2016. under his administration some things in the so-called rust belt have improved. but the corona virus has undone much of that improvement. in the neighboring state of wisconsin known as america's dairy land many are murs back to tromp and helped him to victory. how will they vote this time for. the pandemic forced dave daniels to reduce milk production for several months but demand is starting to pick up again these cows are about to be inseminated for the 1st time. david least hasn't had to throw away any milk we do have to keep on farming because these animals don't understand what's going on they are accustomed to their daily routine. eating lounging around and everything else so they they don't know anything different right now they just figure it's a nice sunny day here at the end of june. farmers like dave on trump hoping for better produce prices and less bureaucracy but thanks to trade disputes and the coronavirus they're now more dependent on financial aid from washington than before. response to cope with 19 or the trade war with china trump solution has

not -- we continue to work with our states on a recurring basis. administrators is constantly engaged with the governors and their staffs. to both our regional administrators, to the state medical -- health and both officials, to the emergency management firms and the state to find out what their needs are to help challenges and to grow the state's stockpiles. relates to our federal emergency management mandate of local execution, state support.t, and federal as you saw in the previous slide and as you will see on this between d coated map, our states and the federal government, we -- color coated map, between our states and the federal government, we stand in a better position than we did a certainly four or five months ago, to meet the surging ppe demands of our and this is not something we're sitting on and continuing to watch. it's something that we're grow upon and continuously analyze so that we increases ead of the and make sure that we're ppe on ng, and we have a the way, to meet the surge in cases. it over to dr. fauci. well done. with that i'm going to

other states do other things on administration and the actual development and implementation of income tax. it's wisconsin that becomes the bellwether, not just for the congressional states. one of the provisions they have is third-party reporting. they have a crude form of withholding where it's not the modern-day notion of withholding, but requiring banks and other financial institutions that are paying interest and dividends and things like that sort to actually report with their paying. that becomes a very important administrative innovation at the federal level. it's very much a story about both states experimenting with things. ohio does some very interesting things, michigan, sodas indiana. and then the actual implementation of a direct, progressive taxation successfully in wisconsin emboldens national lawmakers to do it themselves, just a few years later. it's very much a state to national story. does that help? yes, very much so. that's one of the keys of this. it allows social democrats in milwaukee, for example, to galvanize support. it requires a constitutional amendment in

counting ballots right now, those ballots would be at the heart of a dispute on a state level first between election administratorsre, republicans, democrats on a state level there. it could, then, proceed to courts. it could then proceed down the road to the supreme court but it first would likely be litigated on that level so there's no indication that the president's words that this could immediately be taken to the supreme court, is actually valid, that that approach would actually be valid and it doesn't seem to be that anyone believes that could happen in the coming days. brent: we are monitoring, sumi, to remind our viewers, waiting for joe biden to speak any moment now, monitoring the monitors as well as you. let's talk about this blue wall that has come into american parlance here about what joe biden is trying to rebuild. that's those states in the upper midwest of the united states, that have traditionally been havens for democrats. sumi: that's right, the upper midwestern states like pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. and these are states that joe biden's campaign spent days and several hours in the

states. general services administration. chief said she'd taken the decision independently, despite the threats she claims she's been receiving. in other headlines shares in former joint astra zeneca take a hit after initial results from clinical trials find that it's covert. a vaccine is less effective than rivals. a texan with a rare muscle wasting disease, comes to russia for treatment. after being told back home, he would never walk again. used to use this all the time. it was very good move because a new york times vacancy for a moscow correspondent reads like something straight out of a spy thriller live from moscow. here in the capital, you're watching r.t. international. i'm daniel kids. but 1st, up this hour, the transition process to hand power to president elect. joe biden has been, officially kicked off in the u.s., the head of the general services administration to confirm the news in the last few hours. without further ado, let's cross our live to caleb or pointers for the latest for us. caleb, thanks for joini

the future, who knows which administration will be, i guess time will tell, is he edging closer to a concession for knowledge is that he may not be leading the united states next administration. and the bring troops and libya's war will be live in tunisia on the final day of the u.n. backs. fighting ethiopia's move into greater region is escalating with the reports of rockets hitting civilian areas. and growing concerns of ethnic cleansing, the country's human rights commission is sending a team to investigate reports of massacres in my car. drop, amnesty international says that it's likely that hundreds of civilians were stabbed to death. the government blames forces loyal to, to graze leaders and allegations they deny. thousands of people fleeing to neighboring sudan lived outside al-jazeera have it out. oh, he's in the city of gonda on the border of the t great region. one of the leaders, of the c.p.l. if i'm sorry, we can't go to the habits we appear to have lost contact with him. he was there a minute ago. we'll move on and we'll come back and have it out over just a few moments. actually i had sent us an update a while ago. here's what he had to say

bidens coll from his years in the obama administration. state.tary of president trump accepted a formal transition of power should begin, tweeting it was in the best interest of the country, but he has not conceded yet. ericans our north editor >> to turkeys, corn and cob and there n only be one winner. one could end up on the white house dinner table this thanksgiving, the other will be pardoned to roam free. present trump: i hereby grant you a full pardon. >> corn lives to fight another day. if only all head-to-head battles connected to the white house were that easy to resolve. the president sounding defensive today. president trump: we send our love to every member of the armed forces and the law enforcement heroes risking their lives to keep america se, to keep america great, and as i ayy, america first. should not go awrom that. america first. >>de donald trump has mahe most significant move to acct the resul of the election. announcing the transition process could get underway. urtweeting, case strongly continues. we will keep up the good

. >> women concerned about federal in the elections that are being administrator by the state . to have concerns rated members of the conference, reaching out to key officials in the states to raise concerns and questions about how voting is being conducted. >> you can senator bram about that. but i emphasized is that one of the beauties of the market election system is that we have 50 separate ways to conduct them. every state is different. not to stay that way. god not to try to nationalize how we handle elections. he states know how to do it. one of the great success stories of the current administration is you notice, you will not been writing about foreign intervention. it's a dramatic improvement from the 2016 under the obama administration to the 2020 under the trump administration. the coordination between homeland security and secretaries of state in charge of conducting elections all around the country. i know when things don't happen, they tend not to make a headline but no education, any for intervention, succeeded. they elections were smoothly conducted. the decisio

talking about the cost of the covid recovery and the financial crisis incidentally that city and state administrationsnext statistic in that a ticket governors months to provide 100 million covid tests provided by federal government, how much more difficult is it going to be, he said, when we have to distribute 350 million vaccinations. a point that it the immunologist that joined the a point that it the immunologist thatjoined the biden team was saying the other day, they say they've spent around $10 billion on they've spent around $10 billion on the vaccine programme, but plenty more costs coming down the line in terms of distribution, getting the vaccine to people that need it and they don't know as of yet whether they don't know as of yet whether the money is there because they are not allowed to talk to the outgoing administration at the moment, so they don't know if the monies being provided for that distribution. that's one of the major concerns at the moment that if they hit the ground running in january the moment that if they hit the ground running injanuary and they don't have money to dist

you integrated president reagan's legacy with the work you have done as secretary of state and trump administration. let's start with the chinese communist party. that was a big piece of your speech. you referenced president reagan's speech in missouri. many people look at churchill's iron curtain speech of the beginning of the cold war. your time in this administration, have you witnessed a moment where you had that iron curtain moment, where you recognized the chinese communist party presented a challenge that the only frame of reference was going back to the cold war? sec. pompeo: if you look at the president's remarks from his campaign and before that, he identified a number of the challenges of the chinese communist party's behavior. as we developed our national security strategy, you see the bones being put beneath it. i got to see firsthand every morning what these characters were up to. you get a chance to have a glimpse inside of the apparatus and its intent, which is critical. regimesd with communist in the world. they don't impact the world in the way xi jinping intends to impact the wor

administration. we are ready. amy: secretary of state mike pompeo is backing president trump's refusal to concede the election. is this how the coup begins or is this just the trump administration delaying the inevitable? we will speak to the slate's dahlia lithwick about trump's attempts to overturn the election and the supreme court oral arguments on the affordable care act. the conservative court appears poised to uphold it. >> agree with you on this very straightforward case for separability under our precedents, meaning we would has the mandate and leave the rest of the act in place. amy: but first, as joe biden's lead in the popular vote surpasses 5 million, juan gonzalez analyzes the explosive growth of the latinx boat and unity's overwhelming support for biden. plus, we look at the election results in puerto rico. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. president trump continues to contest the results of last week's election after counts showed joe biden w

state america over the rest of america. this fantastic book by doug greiner and andrew reeves is an extraordinary empirical analysis of what happens in presidential politics and presidential administrations as they think about this dynamic. and what they show is that spending gets bent. and policies get bent. to benefit the swing states over the rest of the country who, that does not have the same power that the swing states do. in my view, this is the problem, of the electoral college. not the one out of every nine presidents problem that has produced presidents who are not actually chosen by the majority of voters. not the one out of nine problem. the every election problem. because in every election, the dynamics of this system drive the candidates to focus on an unrepresentative slice of america in order to get them elected as the president of america. ok. so, how would you fix this? well if these are the elements that need to be fixed, the easiest fix is something called the national vote compact. it is where when 270 electoral votes have agreed to this compact. they agree to pledge their electors to vote for the winner of the national popular vote. that compact would solve the winn

so dared argument is that the peace deal is with the united states regardless of who the administration is and that it has to be honored. no course we've seen and as you said earlier that the taliban have been in breach of the syrian. but that's all obama and i am not the government have been in breach of this agreement. this agreement is that it does look at this point in terms of the talks. and then there are also questions. you know that the head negotiator right now is on my highly thought. he's a very well known figure within the republican party. now with joe biden, coming in, the question is, will he be replaced and if he is replaced with clue, because the perception is that he's been very lenient with the taliban. he's given them a lot of leeway. and now the question is, who will take his place and who really can take his place? who has that sort of weight? that recognition with an i want to sell an ad within washington. so as i said, there are so many unanswered questions at this point. and we thank you so much. that was journalist ali latif in heaven. are you going to stay? so

now by the way those those ballots would be at the heart of a dispute on the state level 1st between election administrators there with republicans democrats on the state level there it could then proceed to courts it could then proceed down the road to the supreme court but at 1st with most likely be litigated on that level so there's no indication that the president's words that this could immediately be taken to the supreme court is actually valid that that that approach would actually be valid and it doesn't seem to be that anyone believes that that could actually happen in the coming days and we are monitoring just remind our viewers we're going to speak any moment now we're monitoring the monitors as will is you let's talk about this blue wall that has come into american parlance here about what joe biden is trying to really build that's those states in the upper midwest of the united states where the traditional havens for democrats. that's right these are the upper midwestern states like pennsylvania wisconsin and michigan and these are states that joe biden's campaign spent days several hours in th

announced our 71st secretary of state will be tony blinken who was the secretary of state in the obama administrationnda thomas greenfield, served assistant secretary, her service in the state department including postings in pakistan and any knowlednigeria and keny. she has more diplomatic experience in postings and africa than any previous. avril haines, the director of national intelligence. she serves as cia departmeuty director. alejandro mayorkas will serve as secretary of homeland security. he was deputy homeland security in the obama administration. jake advisor. former john kerry will serve as special presidential on envoy for climate on the white house national council. president-elect biden plans to nominate janet yellen to serve as treasury secretary. that position is considered the second most important cabinet position and joining us now is ambassador wendy sherman, she was the secretary of state in the obama administration. she's the director of the center of community at harvard school. >> thank you wendy for joining us tonight. you know everyone who i just named. let's begin with the

he was a strong advocate of the two—state solution — the long—standing international formula for peace abandoned by the trump administration the only way to have peace in this region is to solve the palestinian question. is to solve the israeli—palestinian conflict. is to end the israeli occupation. saeb erekat had a lung transplant in the us in 2017 and had earlier survived a heart attack. his health deteriorated soon after testing positive for covid—19. palestinians will feel his loss strongly, at a time when relations with israel are at a new low and prospects for the creation of an independent palestinian state, the goal of his life's work, look increasingly dim. yolande knell, bbc news. that's it for now. thank you so much for watching. hello. the mist and fog some of you've seen over the past few days, not as much of an issue over the next 24 hours or so. reason on wednesday behind that is that it'll be a little bit too windy at times, and that wind could bring in thicker cloud with rain in the north and west. these are the weather fronts responsible, they'll only slowly push their way through, so many eastern areas