it's my personal thrill to welcome bob weir to the beat.this. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to get to music but i want to begin where your heart is. you're doing this work with head count. tell us why it matters for you. >> i've been with head count for 10 or 12 years. we have registered well over a million voters. in this cycle alone we registered nearly half of those. well over a third of the eligible voters in this election are young. election are young by our standards. and they have the rest of their lives in front of them. and so what is decided in this election is going to make a big difference for them. the decision that government makes and the actions that it takes, you know, it's all important stuff as we seen for instance with regard to the coronavirus that is going around right now. there is probably more that could have been done and should have been done and was not done. and whoever has a better idea on how to handle that deserves some real consideration, i think. >> i want to ask you, bob, politics can be seen as divid

we are absolutely thrilled to announce that bob weir makes his "beat" debut monday a founding memberld past, present, and future and, yes, fisheads i know you can hear me. the great bob weir will be here to talk music, culture, and voter mobilization project head count which has already helped register over 1 million new voters. in fact even before bob gets here we want to plug headcount.org where you can learn more and participate. you know what they say. some folks look for answers. others look for fights. we're all just playing in the band. we'll post some of the interview online tonight. go to our twitter page in about two hours or just tune in monday. that's it for us. we always appreciate you spending time with us. and in addition to the beat twitter account we're even facebook or instagram or you can find me at ari melber. we do a lot of extra stuff there so when we have a longer interview like bob weir we'll put up the whole thing even if we only play a little part here. thank you to everyone for spending time with us. nicole wallace always says we'll get through this. we wil

to corona outbreak is a battle for survival for this and bob weir and family in downtown johannesburg. because of this those who wish. to for. the future of the most important is. really. a 5 week lockdown brought most businesses to a grinding halt including the restaurant where and cars are more local milo eked out a living for the last 9 years. but he needs a parma to sell something that he doesn't have forcing him to sell illegally. because i'm an illegal immigrant. to get the permit to sell it when this spill. outside my building so that even when the police come. inside my building. the country's informal sector provides up to 2 and a half 1000000 jobs. but the government put strict restrictions in place during the lock down and threaten some with legal action. there were lot of exclusions sashes and documented in my agreements and people with that existing trading payments this is a problem because members of the size who were already vulnerable before they lock down are the ones who are now paying the highest prize for the lock down. army and police guard the streets stay in ni

grateful dead's bob weir is inviting you for a workout. look at him go. you can expect him at your workout session and perhaps some of your favorite dead songs. proceeds go to nonprofit promoting voting among youth. i'm not sure if i can what. i g to stick with my cabernet curls, about 20 of these and you will be in great shape. the full list at kpix.com. what about you? >> i'm going to go home and grab some bottles of hennessy. [ laughter ] >> alright, th for isngnow 6:25 coming up in our next half hour. what california schools are doing to tackle racism and bias in the classroom. >>> we are just hours away from the first ever ride on the bart station. we will have a life review, coming up. >>> before we had to break, let's take a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza. it is friday morning, 6:25. we will be ri businesses are starting to bounce back. but what if you could do better than that? like adapt. discover. deliver, in new ways, to new customers. what if you could come back stronger? faster. better. at comcast business, we want to help you

. >> jimmy: this guy's unbelievable [ cheers and applause they all are bob weir, mickey -- everyone wast i will say the thing that made it great was the -- the fans i mean, i know people talk about that, but the community that they have and they're so nice sure, they're probably on something, but - >> steve: but. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: -- they are so nice, they had no idea it was me and they were just going was like, "what do you think the next song is going to be? and i don't really know. so, i just kept saying -- i know that the songs now, but i'm like, i kept saying, "fire around the mountain? and he goes, "that's a good call that's a call, bro [ laughter ] that's cool, bro i like that idea, man. i like what you're thinking, man! >> steve: come on, man >> jimmy: they were so nice -- and dancing and it was halloween so people were like dressed up and it was just -- what an experience i just -- i hadn't ever had an experience -- if you get the chance, go see dead and company. they were fantastic. but i want to thank them, thank cyndie and jake and i want to thank andy cohen for kind of

and also, we want you to know we'll still have bob weir on "the beat" for this interview.er this week and we're still excited about that, bill breaking news or not. i wanted to update you because we mentioned it in the program last week. also election day news as we look to tomorrow. biden and trump will make their final pitches. joe biden from his hometown of scranton, pennsylvania and the rally athe philadelphia, underscoring how big that is, trump plans to be at the white house where he will watch from the east room. msnbc knows 300 to 400 people are slated to be at the white house for it. msnbc special coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern with our whole team there, chris hayes at 5:00 p.m., nicolle wallace before that. so plenty for you to watch as we all get ready for this election. like we said before, if you or anyone you know hasn't voted yet, make sure you still do that. this is ari melber on about the abo "the beat." "the reidout" with joy reid is up next. >>> okay, we are almost at the finish line, america! deep breaths. election day is tomorrow and polls will b

yes, we have bob weir, bill kreitz man and mickey heart. just absolutely fantastic.ight. oh, my god, what a show. [ cheers and applause ] >> i'm in a crowd here to the back row. it was absolutely awesome. it was so much fun that even steve was smiling because steve, he always had the worst -- >> so, andy, if you were me, how would you get the mic away from bill walton? >> i know. you just got to take it, man. it's like a river of words. >> you just have to take it. >> especially with steve -- >> back to you guys. >> hey, bill, get me some shirts and stickers. it's shakedown, okay? you know when you're at a dead show and bill walton pops up in the middle of the floor, oh, man. he goes to almost every show. he'll be there, there he is in the middle like a beacon of light shining in there. everybody is so happy to see him. such a cool guy. such a great representative of the band. i cannot wait to see don lemon and brooke baldwin. they're in nashville? >> they've taking it national. they're taking it across the country. >> they're going to be live inside "the brady bunch

. >> after being able to debate economics with you, being able to talk to bob weir is the second best>> i'm hearing a lot of sarcasm which is the domain of losers. >> no, no, i enjoy that every morning. >> loser >>> parade of quarterly earnings continue we'll hear from dozens of companies including big tech names, microsoft, intel, twitter according to wilf. tesla will report. joining us is sandy bragar, partner at esperian and phil orlando. head of client portfolio management at federated. i didn't know you added that. >> we added that >> we added that. >> i like that touch of class sandy, you're worried about this spread between growth and value, stretch. and almost aware you think it might be local territory but your favorite stocks, i think, are like apple, microsoft, it includes intel so it's like you're like this. you know, you still like -- you still like them -- >> good to see you. >> -- but you're still worried maybe it's time to switch the value. >> we definitely like value. it's got the short end of the shrift for a very long time. it's poised to come back we like value, u.

bob: that's right but he did that very quickly. michael: weirs broadway footing the question. i think your diagnosis is great are full compelling. london in 2020, this time did bernie lewis. bob: i think bernie lost, progressives are more dominant and the democratic party than ever before but because there were two very effective progressive candidates. it was not just bernie sanders. it was also elisabeth warren. and if you look at what happened really beginning in october of last year and then right through the primaries, what you saw is that bernie and elisabeth, kept on splitting the progressive vote. together they had more votes than anybody else. even up to super tuesday. but those votes were split. joe biden, managed to just move right through the center. literally the center. like the old center. and i think establishment was quite relieved. one of the reasons that bernie sanders and elisabeth warren both ultimately lost is not just that this with the boat but also that the democratic establishment got extremely nervous with elisabeth warren's verse . and when she was n

but as bob says -- ♪ for the times they are a changin' ♪ >> reporter: bill weir, cnn, new york. >> benn film "jimmy carter: rock 'n' roll president" at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on cnn. follow me on cnn @skraktapper. tune in to cnn tonight to say good-bye, perhaps good riddance to 2020. live new year's eve coverage hosted by anderson cooper and andy cohen kiks o kicks off at p.m. pattie labelle, snoop dogg, carol baskin of "tiger king" fame, and jbj himself, jon bon jovi. democratic georgia senate candidate john osoff, ohio governor mike dewine, gubernatorial kabd date stacey abrams and dr. jerome adams 9:00 a.m. and noon eastern on sunday. see new 2021. god i hope it's a better year for you. our coverage continues right now. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jichl acosta. this is a cnn situation room special report. the u.s. coronavirus death toll has topped 344,000 people and the country is on the verge of 20 million confirmed cases, the same number of vaccines the trump administration said it planned to administ