it features an interview with ali kinani's father.is is "blackwater's youngest victim." >> i am not just remembering. i will never forget those few minutes. whatever you ask me, i will answer with absolute clarity. all i could hear from my car were gunshots and the sound of glass shattering and the sound of tires blown out with bullets. i started to scream, "they killed my son! they killed my son!" what can i tell you? it was like the end of days. with cold blood and stone hearts, they continued shooting. jeremy: baghdad, september 16, 2007. shortly before noon, a convoy of four armored vehicles departs the green zone, the heavily fortified u.s. base in iraq. the men inside of the vehicles were elite private soldiers working for blackwater. their code name, raven 23. the men had defied orders from their superiors to remain in the green zone and proceeded on to the streets of baghdad. as they departed, they were again told to return to base. they didn't. within minutes, blackwater raven 23 would arrive at the congested baghdad intersec

ali. >> look, i'm with you there. i was in minneapolis for the first days of those rallies and those marches. and while there were real efforts to paint them as violence and thug ri and hoodlums -- i was in front of buildings that were set on fire. there's no question about that. but in fact the majority of the people participating in these rallies were not doing that. there were peaceful marchers. they were black, white, young, old, dogs. this was a real actual movement of people. and while we in tv try and show those things, what tends to happen is certain elements got hold of videos of people looting stores and setting fires to things that made it seem like this was thuggery. this was the biggest movement -- rev you've seen it in your life. i hadn't seen it in my life. this was the first time i had ever seen people coming together and not having had this experience, being able to say i can empathize, figure it out, take responsibility without taking blame. and on our shows the number of people who tweeted what can

i am ali velshi. this morning, a second shot of hope. breaking news overnight, the food and drug administration authorize emergency use of the moderna covid-19 vaccine, marking the second time in a week the agency gave a green light to treatment in the battle against the coronavirus disease. moderna is preparing a shipping process as we speak of 6 million doses of potentially life-saving serum nationwide, which is expected to get under way this weekend. unlike the pfizer vaccine that needs to be at ultra cold temperatures, moderna can be at standard refrigerator temperatures, gives the general public two formidable treatments in the fight against covid-19. similar to pfizer, it is given in two doses. moderna's is 28 days apart. during an appearance on the "today" show, dr. anthony fauci adding a dose of reality to the pivotal moment in history. >> all of this is sort of bittersweet because at the same time as we are moving ahead with what will ultimately be the answer, we are living through very, very difficult times. i mean, if you look

and ali, this has been months in the making. it has been 6 1/2 months, almost 7 months since the house of representatives passed the h.e.r.o.e.s. act. since then, negotiations have gone through fits and starts and have been unable to clinch any deal or come to any sort of agreement. but this morning we are on the verge of that, perhaps sending relief to americans very soon, a ali. >> that's excellent news, leigh ann caldwell, live on capitol hill. >>> congressman buddy carter of georgia, he and i have enjoyed a great relationship over the years on tv. he was vaccinated while participating in the pfizer vaccine trial. congressman carter, good to see you. >> good to see you, thank you for having me. >> in real life. >> yes. >> first of all, talk to me about your vaccination. you were part of the trial. generally when you're in a trial, you don't know whether you got the placebo or the vaccine. you found out. >> yes, it's a double blind study so the doctors don't know, the nurses don't know, you don't know if you got the placebo or

ali? >> bill neely, you're a young man, but you may have just remembered because of what bill barr said the pan am 103 attack in 1988, in which 259 people on the plane were killed. 11 people on the ground, 270 people killed in total. i don't think it was on anybody's radar that this was going to happen now, but another charge has been laid. that's why bill barr was actually giving that presser. what do you know about this that is relevant to our viewers? >> reporter: so i covered this story at the time which, of course, was decades ago, and i covered the trial. principally of the man who was the only person convicted of the horrendous bombing. the other defendant was cleared. magrahy died a few years ago. the conviction is working to be overturned in court. there is a man called jim swire, for example, who has been a spokesman for british relatives of those who died, both on board and in the scottish village of lockerbie. he and many of them have never believed, never believed that it was

i'm ali velshi in for katy tur. right now more front-line medical workers are getting shots of the vaccine and they're doing it with an extra boost of confidence. the most prominent health official on the front lines of this fight, dr. anthony fauci got his vaccine on camera. he was alongside hhs secretary alex azar. here's what dr. fauci said about this moment. >> it's meaningful as a member of the nih for so many years to be receiving today, with secretary azar and francis collins and several of our health care providers, a vaccine that essentially had its origination in the fundamental basic research that's conducted here at nih by our scientists as well as by our grantees and contractors over the years. >> these vaccines come as we are facing more uncertainty and concerns about this virus and what could be ahead, despite health officials urging americans to stay home, we're already seeing holiday travel hitting records not seen since the pandemic began. it's sparking fears of another post-holiday surge in cases.

i'm ali she wivelshi.f the vaccine to battle the deadly coronavirus. 6 million doses of the moderna vaccine are being made right now for distribution across the nation. one of the distribution points is in olive branch, mississippi, near tennessee. you're seeing a live shot that have facility right now. the fact that the vaccine does not require the same ultracold shipping conditions as the previously-authorized pfizer vaccine will allow for greater distribution at previously unaccessible locations. here is general gus perna, chief operating officer of operation warp speed. >> moderna vaccine can be shipped and stored at standard freezing temperatures and is packed at 100 doses each per container. this allows jurisdiction of flexibility to support hard to reach, small, and more rural areas. >> during that saturday press conference, perna also took the blame for the confusion in the delivery of some pfizer vaccines to at least 14 states due to logistical miscalculations which he repeatedly apologized for. a

ali and maya will be back at 11:30 for another look at the papers.oodbye from me. first up, traditionally, many of us love to travel around this time of year, but with so many restrictions currently, what's happening in those places where christmas is a year—round obsession? well, it feels like a long time ago now, but around this time last year i was in the village of thursford for the uk's biggest annual christmas show. for over 40 years, people have been flocking here to see a traditional all—singing, all—dancing seasonal spectacular — that's broken records and become a regular fixture in the christmas calendar of many people here in the uk. 150 artists take part each year, and last year, for one night only, i was lucky enough to be one of them. of course this year, things will be different. but christmas is far from cancelled. sadly there is no show — instead the vast performance spaces and grounds have been transformed into a huge, dazzling light trail for people to explore. since first opening back in 1977, the cushing family have run the site

this is not just all about trump, ali.hat we're seeing are people who are deathly afraid of this nation becoming a nation of a majority of people of color. we're going to see more of this. we must undergird ourselves. remember, the fbi talked about the greatest terrorism threat is white democrats terrorism in this country. that's what the proud boys are. who supports them? donald trump and the republican party. i say this here, for those 126 house members, what they did was sedition. they were traitors. and we cannot tread lightly. these individuals have a complete disregard for democracy. we must combat that at every turn and call them out and not ignore those 18 republican attorney generals and 126 house members and the shameful u.s. senators like ron johnson who is not representing his black constituents in wisconsin. >> yep. roland, good to see you as always, host of "roland martin unfiltered," nice to be in your home state. stay with us, we're just getting started. when we come back, we'll speak to small business owne

i'm ali velshi. there are 25 days left until joe biden is inaugurated as president. the outgoing president continues on his quest to destroy as much of america's democracy as he can on his way out. living out his authoritarian fantasies in the process with a total disregard to the pandemic suffering of millions of americans. we'll have much more on all of that in a moment. i want to start with the latest in nashville. and that massive explosion that left three people wounded and scores homeless early this morning. police say they received a call of shots fired in downtown nashville just before 6:00 a.m. local time yesterday. responding officers found no signs of a shooting, though they noticed a suspicious recreational vehicle, which was blaring a warning to evacuate the area. about 15 minutes later, the vehicle exploded destroying much of the immediate area and leaving a giant crater in the road. the blast was so big that it was felt miles away. it shook buildings. it shattered windows for several blocks. authorities say the explosion was a "intentional act." joinin

you have a nice night, rachel. >> thank you, ali. appreciate it. >> all right. >>> 7 million, 60,412. donald trump lost the election by more than 7 million votes but the gop, which has embraced trump more deeply and fervently than the party has ever embraced a candidate and still embraces him is refusing to examine what went wrong. the gop will actually forego its traditional elect postmortem. something that generally happens when you lose. because trump continues his sorcery with the message that things could hardly be better for the white house. mostly, because he is carrying on this charade that they didn't actually lose the white house. one republican party chair in michigan actually said, quote, as far as i'm concerned, everything's great. but here is the thing. everything is not great for republicans. it's really bad. republicans have lost the popular vote, in seven of the last eight presidential elections. in 2012, when mitt romney lost the popular vote by 5 million votes, his defeat led to a devastating, 100-page rnc postmort

ali was still alive at the hospital. he had doctors look at ali.nted to get treatment for his son. they told him they could not treat him, that the hospital was like a war zone. there were people in the hallways. pickup trucks were bringing victims into the hospital. they had an ambulance dispatched for mohammed and ali to go to a neurologic hospital across town. they had to actually go back through nisour square to get there. during the ride, ali convulsed as mohammed held his hand, and he died. i was contacted to represent them and others in a civil lawsuit against blackwater, erik prince, and the four that were convicted of these murder and manslaughter charges. we proceeded with a civil lawsuit in north carolina against blackwater and the men, the shooters. that case was removed from state court to federal court. we fought to have it back in state court. it was in a court of appeals, the 4th circuit court of appeals in richmond, virginia. and we eventually resolved the case favorably for all parties without the necessity of trial. and i represe

well, ali, i'll say this.the 15 days to slow the spread, which eventually gets extended, right? and it doesn't move as quickly as the president wanted it to move. and the virus is the virus. it's very real. and we saw progress in those couple of weeks when we did shut down and we encouraged everything and we did the social distancing and the messaging was coming directly from the vice president, from the podium, and from dr. birx and others. and whie saw the numbers declin. but then what happened is that you see the white house double down on the message that pressures governors. in these phone calls and in these private meetings where they are told to move forward and open up and release restrictions. and you know, when i see that reporting coming from hhs in those e-mails, i was sick to my stomach today when i read that, and i thought to myself, that was the shift that i saw in june and july when things got even harder and the messaging changed. and the vice president's messaging changed. and i could not fig

ali? >> when motivated, he works really hard. when motivated to overturn the election, he's working really hard. when motivated for these commutations and pardons for people who worked in the tank for him, he works really hard. he just didn't work on other things like the coronavirus. we have jobs like that. you and i are lucky to be able to talk about what we want to talk about every night, but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do, and this president has not done that. >> that's in part why i'm so worried about the prospect of a pocket veto for the covid relief bill, ali, because he hasn't wanted to work on anything due to covid at all, and in fact, if what he does is nothing on that covid bill, if he refuses to sign or veto it and just lets it sit there which is the way he's treated coronavirus for a very long time now, that will mean there is no relief for anyone, the government shuts down, there is no eviction protections, there's nothing in that bill, and all he has to do is make that happen is zip. i am worr

thank you so much, ali, for saving our holidays once again. >> of course.. so is will. this segment made me feel a lot better. care bears, beyblades. maybe i'm not that old because i recognized all of those items. we're still in the game, you guys. >> i have little nieces and nephews. i was taking plenty of notes there. >> same. >>> coming up, if you think your holiday situation stinks, be glad you're not this guy. how he wound up stuck sharing an apartment with his mother and his ex-wife. >> oh, man. that's next. ♪ >>> all right. this happened. >> what happened? >> this guy's living with his mom and his ex-wife in quarantine. >> and it's not a sitcom? >> not yet anyway. the man is a tv writer. his name's neil kramer. for the past ten months, he's been in queens with his mom and his ex-wife. two bedrooms, one bathroom, one crazy scenario. and they're taking -- oh, what is that? >> i don't know what's going on. >> they're taking a whole bunch of pictures documenting the whole thing. he's been posting these on social media with his ex-wife and his mother's ap

>> well, ali, what you're seeing is a party of cowards.bilitation for unix, but i don't think there is. this party has self-destructed and destroyed itself, although i would say you under estimate the legal team. i'm looking to give them a contribution, i'd encourage many people to give rudy -- i was tucking in my shirt, as much contribution and money to keep this clown show going because i've never seen anything like it. they're in georgia now telling people not to vote, to boycott the republican election. where is donald trump saying this? a political first in my political experience, the political first, he's going to have a rally for losers. he's going to be center stage in the loser rally and he's not going to talk about what's at stake in the senate. parlly going to mention the republican candidates. we don't have to wonder about this. we know who he is. donald trump will just talk about how the election was stolen, the grievances and he'll drive away the very voters that perdue and loeffler need to win in georgia. >> jen, i've got m

and in tehran we have ali a rainy a researcher at the center for strategic studies welcome to each of you michael let me start with you today just how precarious is the position that of the prime minister mostafa called me finds himself in right now and is he going to be able to confront those iran backed armed groups in the country. well thanks for having me it is a is it difficult position for anyone who becomes prime minister to go after these militia members when the militia members themselves wear the uniform of the iraqi military so in several cases from mr comey has has put counterterrorism sir our counterterrorism forces at risk by having them capture militia members only to release them within 2472 hours after economy was pressured by members of the militias to include fog of catawbas law case because ali osama hoch so it is a very sensitive for iraq when the prime minister cannot use the iraqi security forces because they're infiltrated by these militias to go after militia members responsible for rocket attacks against the u.s. mission in iraq that not only hurt americans t

>> well, ali, my plan is not complicated. the house did the right thing by as you indicated over a two-thirds bipartisan vote. they voted to increase the $600 direct payment to $2,000 for every working class adult in this and my plan is simple. to demand mitch mcconnell allow the united states senate to vote up or down on that legislation that was passed by the house. if mcconnell allows that to happen and we get the 60 votes, and i think we have a shot to do that, we are going to bring massive relief to tens of millions of families in this country who today are struggling. they're worried about eviction, about feeding their kids. they're worried about being able to go to the doctor. this legislation would help very significantly and give people some hope as we end this very, very terrible year. >> so, you need all the democrats in the senate and 12 senators. we probably know you've got two, the two senators locked in the georgia race. they've decided they found religion about that. >> you're quite right. isn't it amazing how

and chinese regulators announce an anti monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant ali baba. u.s. president donald trump has issued another way of pardons granting clemency to more of his allies he's pardoned 26 people including his 2016 campaign chairman paul metaphors and roger story in his long time adviser and friend he also pardoned charles kushner of the father of his son in north jarrad kushner it's the 2nd list of presidential pardons in as many days she has written he has more now from washington d.c. . the major attention is being given to those connected to the russia gate investigation and jarred kirshner doldrum son in law and senior advisors father paul manor for roger stone they will get pardons for their roles in the in the rush to get investigation we should or always remember robert mueller didn't convict anyone nor was convicted of collusion with russia but plenty of people were convicted because of their conduct during the investigation both poor man afore and roger stone convicted of obstructing the investigation paul metaphor also very convicted of tax evasio

ali? >> these are amazing reports, amazing levels of efficacy and speed at which they're getting out. good to see you. shaquille brewster in olive branch, mississippi. we'll continue to cover distribution of the vaccines and people getting vaccinated, amid this news and record covid-19 numbers, more americans are out of work. the jobs report shows initial claims rising for the third week in a row, hitting the highest level since september. every week since start of the pandemic in early march has had more first time jobless claims than any other week in prepandemic history. congress continues to prove right its dysfunctional reputation, even when so many people they're supposed to be serving are depending on them in so many ways. here's the situation. senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, and nancy pelosi, combined new round of coronavirus assistance, which is reportedly $900 million framework with the larger must pass $1.4 trillion government funding bill. the latter has a deadline of

thank you, ali. >> all right. well, the law and order president strikes again. donald trump just pardoned crooked ex-congressman, war criminals, and russia scandal felons. this is what american justice looks like in the final 29 days of the trump administration. trump announcing a wave of lame duck pardons this afternoon in what is sure to be just the beginning of a disgraceful final chapter for this disgraceful president. there's one obvious theme with this wave of pardons. trump helped his friends and those who remained loyal to him. he issued two mueller-related pardons to men who stayed quiet, george papadopoulos and the trump campaign stooge and alex vanderswan, a lawyer who was part of mueller's focus into illegal foreign lobbying efforts. both papadopoulos and vanderswan pleated guilty to lying to investigators during the russia investigation. neither provided mueller with any meaningful cooperation. prosecutors did not get anything interesting for them. trump also pardoned two former republican members of congress who were the first to endorse him during

good evening, ali. >>> good evening. in the two months before the election i travelled around the country and i remember speaking to a woman who was supporting donald trump in wisconsin and i asked her why she was supporting donald trump. she said because she's against child sex trafficking and pedophilia. i said so is joe biden. i don't think she had any sense that she knew what qanon was or followed qanon, but it was the groups that she was in that was feeding her this stuff, that voting for donald trump is a vote against pedophilia, voting for joe biden is something entirely different. so, there are people being duped who don't even know they're being duped. >> yes, indeed. and sadly, ali, social media companies, as you and i have discussed many times before, have so much to answer for. they've left it too little too late to crack down on these conspiracy cults. >> thanks for that. >>> thank to you at home for joining us this hour. rachel's got the night off and i hope you at home are getting a little time off this ho

it is saturday, december 12th, i'm ali velshi. breaking news as the food and drug administration officially authorized pfizer's covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in the united states. the treatment, the first of its kind given a green light to combat the deadly coronavirus which has woven a path of destruction across the landscape the last ten months. "the known and potential benefits of the vaccine outweigh potentials risks for people 16 and older. refrigerated transport trucks are expected to begin shipping nationwide today, the first doses expected to be administered early this week, ear marked for frontline workers as well as staff at long-term care facilities. this is a life-changing facility. we're awaiting an fda news conference. as soon as that happens, i will interrupt what i'm doing and bring that to you live here on msnbc. we are waiting for it. covid-19 cases continue to climb nationwide. the total number of individuals infected in the united states is over 19 million while the death toll inches closer to 300,000, 296

good evening, ali. you have a full two hours' worth of show in one hour. and, you know, there's -- that beginning of the show that you had where you talked about pardons, i think you made a really interesting point that we need to not lose sight of. pardons are in the constitution. they are there for a reason. they serve a real purpose and historically, they have. what we saw tonight was not that purpose. >> that's exactly right, and it will raise questions, whether it's in congress or in the courts, it will raise questions as to whether or not the admittedly plenary power of the pardons needs to somehow be circumscribed so it can't be used for plainly corrupt purposes. if this president is going to tell someone, go murder this political opponent of mine, don't worry, i'll pardon you afterwards, that would presumably bring about some reevaluati reevaluation of the pardon power. >> that proxy is -- which most of us have just spent the last several years not paying attention to the degree to which executives like to control this power and then we wonder when

our top corespondeporate story n opening up an anti trust advice into ali baba.unice yoon is joining us with the details. he probably has to be the most high profile business person in all of china and certainly one of the big esz in tgest in the . what is going on with the campaign against jack ma >> well, china is investigating ali baba's alleged no ma november police tick practices including what is called pick one of two, which is forcing merchants on your site only work with one players a opposed to its separately ant group was also summoneded so this whole idea has been quite common in the market for years. and not only by ali baba, so there has been a lot of questions today as to why it is that we're seeing this investigation. of course a lot of this has to do, at least the speculation is, with jack ma's recently fiery speech where he was highly critical of beijing's regulators and also at a time when president xi jinping has been looking to exert more control over private industry. he said that he planned to prioritize anti-monday no november police tick

ali velshi, thank you. in fact, let's just start with your reaction and your feelings in seeing the pictures of these shots getting started here. >> so, kasie, i'm getting a little teary eyed to say that the health care systems in this country have been, highly affected and devastated in some areas is an underestimation because we as health care workers have been there every step of the way. witness to how painful this has been to our patients' families and to our patients and to see this, it is a sea of public health and science that we are where we are and probably receiving my own vaccine in the next couple weeks and i'm taking it because i've been convinced by the data that the fda has put out from the pfizer study and i've been convinced that the transparency that the fda pursued and because i think that it's going to make a difference making sure that we have both health care workers now and long-term facility folks getting the highest risk vaccinated. i hope what this does is build confidence in the

. >> reporter: hey, ali. you can see over my shoulder, there is another truck that has arrived here at this plant, a fedex truck. we were told earlier this morning there would be two main trucks leaving in the initial group of trucks. we actually saw three leave. we were told the two trucks would have shipments of the vaccine, one of them for states west of the mississippi, the other for states east of the mississippi. about 189 boxes filled with the covid vaccine made their way out of this plant in the last hour. those 189 boxes will be making their way to all 50 states. what i am thinking this fedex truck is here for, what we're expecting at some point later this morning, later today, is for another shipment to go out containing vaccine shipments for the four u.s. territories. so that will be it for today. once that actually does happen. and then there will be obviously another shipment going out tomorrow and another one day after that. the army general who is in charge of leading operation warp speed has s

will become back, we will speak to former epa official mustafa ali.e resigned in 2017 from the epa to protest trump administration policies. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. a response now to president-elect joe biden's announcement saturday of the members of his climate team who will tackle what he called the "existential" threat of the climate crisis. his specs include deb haaland of new mexico to leave the interior department, making her the first native american cabinet secretary in history if confirmed. and michael regan, head of north carolina's department of environmental quality, as the first black man to lead the environment protection agency. biden also picked longtime environmental attorney brenda mallory to chair biden's council on environmental quality. gina mccarthy, who served as head of the epa under president obama, will lead a new white house office of climate policy. former michigan governor jennifer granholm will be energy secretary. last month, bid

than it did this generation protested against the all for a tarion rule of xeno bettina ben ali their anger and frustration at how things have turned out is clear don't lay human clearly had diminished when life was really very beautiful under ben ali we have a very beautiful life we lived happily together we loved each other we used to have everything now we don't have anything only crime in of a bad thing. the economy here is expected to contract by 6.5 percent this year that's a significant challenge for any country but there's arguably more pressure to get through the downturn in tunisia where its jasmine revolution is often held up as an example of how popular uprisings can succeed in the middle east bernard smith al-jazeera city boos eat. now a new law has been passed in mexico to drastically curb the powers of u.s. drug enforcement agents the americans say it's a major setback in the fight against organized crime mexico those sees it as a question of sovereignty john heilemann reports of enforcement agents in fictional series like narcos there are bones storming presence in mex

>> thanks, ali. some of those conversations, and, you know, some of those conversations were along the lines of, this has happened at metro newspapers across the country. but it still doesn't change the fact that it was wrong and that it affected generations of kansas citizens who weren't given the recognition or the opportunity, you know, through the what was a mighty platform at the time for the kansas city star, one of the biggest papers in six states, subscribers in six states, a giant platform, and a stage from which the star could have made a real difference at making kansas city a more, you know, equality based city. >> interesting lesson in the idea that you can take responsibility without taking blame for something. what does this do for you moving forward? how is the kansas city star going to be different in a way that doesn't repeat the mistakes of the past? >> sure. and to be clear, we're not perfect now, so we make mistakes now. we've made, you know, mistakes and we'll probably continue

travis, thank you for joining us tonight. >> good evening, ali.d to be with you. >> i know you know things that you probably can't tell us on tv, but given what you can tell us, what do you believe happened here? >> well, i think first we need to give some credit to the adversary here. this was a very creative, sophisticated, and patient attack that also displayed an acute understanding of how federal government agency networks are defended. so call it a supply chain attack. call it a third-party attack. you know, the defense of federal networks is a shared responsibility between those agencies themselves, cisa, and the office of management and budget where the federal cio and the chief information security officer reside. one of the technologies that cisa provides is intrusion detection systems that sit on over 101 federal civilian executive branch agencies. you think of that in terms of the perimeter, a perimeter around those networks, almost leek a perimeter around one's house where you have a sentry out front. these systems are designed to blo

e-commerce and you will still trying to do that 24 hours a lot of this that's all done through the ali baba eat financial you know payment system they do have a view on everything but they started to get credit micro credit out to people and it quickly became the largest creditor in the world i mean they have hundreds of billions of dollars in loans out there they can authorize your loan in 3 seconds i mean they have all your credit history they have algorithms that know if you're going to pay it back or not and they have some of the most sophisticated. algorithms around that space that even companies in the west return a hero how these guys are doing the right sound so in america to access credit to do a leveraged buyout if air let's say mitt romney over there at bain capital you can get the money in 3 seconds and then charges are. percent but the rest of america they go to a payday lender they're charged 3000 percent so china saying well why don't we just extend the same terms of bank capital gad's to our citizens and let them elevate the entire country never all get rich and. you kn

you know the 8 financial group spun out of ali baba which is one of the world's largest companies and it's basically the top leadership is just trying to gain control before you know they're probably most likely i.p.o. in next years i don't expect any long term changes that would follow up on the sand financial dale it's an enormous company it's as big as j.p. morgan the biggest bank in the world plus it's spun out of alibaba as you point out jack mosque company which is rivals. amazon for global dominance in the retail sector and it's part and parcel of the submerging model in china which i guess one could call their surveillance capitalism where the pay which is a very you know phone enabled pay service connected to all the credit service connected and financial connected to the c.c.p. the chinese government gives an extraordinary amount of oversight into people's tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock 2nd by 2nd lives they are literally living in the chinese communist party's livingroom. is that a model ultimately that will sweep the globe and what prevents and financial one point

imran ali. dr., before we get to that vaccine news, we heard overnight that covid-19 infections and deaths continue to rise at very steep levels across this country. more hospitals are on the brink. some are keeping patients in parking garages. what are you hearing? >> yes, parking garages, cafeterias are being used as makeshift units. the problem is staff. we need staff. staff are exhausted. this is really concerning when we see more patients come into the hospital, we might not have enough staff to take care of them, specifically icu trained staff. that's the biggest concern right now. >> as you know, the fda gave the green light for emergency use of the pfizer vaccine, but they voiced concerns about kids and pregnant women. what do we need to know? >> this is a different type of vaccine. it's an mrna vaccine. we don't have the data right now with pregnant women because they were not included in the study. at this point in time, the recommendations are to speak to your doctor or to wait for other

. >> for more, i am joined by ali vitali.a berkeley law lecturer, she is also former deputy chief of staff to president clinton. good to see you both. ali, president-elect biden just introduced nominees for his climate and energy teams. what do these appointments, ali, signal about where the incoming administration will place its priorities? >> well, alicia, throughout this transition, we have talked about the premium that's been placed on refrequentilective governanc diversity of experience, race, and gender. certainly, today, in that room, you saw that reflected. but there is, also, a premium being placed on dealing with the crises that are facing this nation right now. we talk, often, about the pandemic and the economic recession. but climate change was an issue that dominated the democratic primary. voters across the country animated about the urgency of this issue. and today, being in that room, as biden rolled out this next wave of picks. the urgency was clear, as he connected this crisis to all of the other crises that

>> thank you, ali. we have dr.nthony fauci with us, something i've been looking forward to all year. obviously, we have so many questions for him. he predicted that this would be a dark winter for us with the pandemic, and that's where we are tonight. we're also going to have jon ossoff join us later in the hour as the days close in on that georgia election that will decide who controls the senate. jon ossoff will be joining us once again on that tonight. >> you have a great show and a great new year and i will see yot

for 9 years musician ali nick ryan has been developing a program to write sophisticated compositions was this written by a man or a machine it's impossible to tell. he's big breakthrough came with a program which can compose pieces in the style of everything from mozart to show. so there is. listen to a piece of music that is accomplished by an ai since it is able to do a government response because the exact day i says and does not understand our emotions. classical pianist glen gould's performances were emotional and unconventional though he died in 1902 his style is still alive and well. thanks to ai.