baldwin is wrestling with a lot. he's got a lot of demons chasing him, he attempted suicide but for him to come out of these dramatic expenses of movement, trying to reconcile people in disasters feels to me helpful. >> in the moment, i lived my life, so i can turn around. the name of the street in that moment. that paragraph is so important because the first section of that paragraph, his death, that tremendous day in atlanta, something has altered in me, something has gone. he gives us this insight human beings are miracles and disasters. he's trying to give an account of what is broken in him because he believes in this system, it is not worth living. unless we say anything about the messiness of the world, we have to deal with the messiness of our own lives so this is why baldwin is one of the critical voices were a certain kind of journalism including the autobiographical. the way in which we account for the world, we implicate ourselves in it. there is this -- i barely survived writing to think book. almost dri

>> again remember i am walking with jimmy with the baldwin or the lead to baldwin that represents a decline or to echo campbell's horrible formulation in 1963 that they were subordinated to the propaganda i think that's just wrong for by walking with his later work known as the anchor to the book and the conversation with what he's trying to do, michael, the wonderful professor of african-american studies at the university of massachusetts amherst told me we changed not that he was no longer preoccupied to get white people to see themselves differently and in thinking that he still believed in the new jerusalem. so the way in which i read the relationship name industry is the reckoning so there is a formulation where he says the relatively few and like lovers i was thinking what is the consistent thread he's not turning his back on white people here saying we only have a finite amount and we spend so much time trying to convince those who are committed to those in city is views of our values we don't have enough energy to build the world we are trying to build. that may compromise that we h

last opinion is by henry baldwin, and i'll say something briefly about baldwin. baldwin was a nut, apparently. he was a jackson appointee from pennsylvania. he wanted to be secretary of the treasury. jackson's vice president, john c. calhoun, had already given that job to a south carolina friend of his, so they put baldwin on the court to give him something to do, and it cracked, somehow. there were stories he had a running fight with the court reporter, henry wheaton. wheaton would write letters of complaint to john marshall and joseph story saying, you know, i was at the court last night and baldwin is sitting in his room in the dark wearing nothing but his socks, and weird stuff like that. baldwin repeatedly -- the reporter decisions as to who handled publication of opinions, and baldwin refused to give stuff to wheaton because he couldn't stand him for some reason. so if you read through the court reports, they conclude with mr. justice baldwin declined to give his opinion to the reporter but he dissented, and he almost always dissented for some reason or ano

i'm brooke baldwin on cnn. let's get into it. cnn projects for the first time since bill clinton of 1992, the state of georgia is blue. joe biden projected to take the 16 electoral votes. that brings his electoral vote total to 306. they can also pro dictionary that president trump is set to win north carolina, and his total count is brought to 232. let's go straight to the magic wall and our senior political director david chalian. david, georgia, major flip for the democrats. >> no doubt about that, and there it is for the history books, brooke. 306 to 232. that is exactly the electoral count we had in 2016, but president trump had the 306. he called it a landslide, so i guess joe biden can call this a landslide per trump's definition. that is the 2020 election, and as i turn to the popular vote, you see joe biden winning by 533 votes nationwide, what's happened here is nothing short of astounding. joe biden wins by 14,632 votes. joe biden is going to win that states. president trump is not going to be able to overcome him. it

i'm brooke baldwin. growing alarm over president trump's distrust over the election system while throwing the election into chaos. you have the republicans on capitol hill continuing to indulge the president and his lies. for example, roy blunt is now saying president trump may not have been defeated at all by joe biden, who is trying to keep a sense of calm. and now there are growing national security concerns. four top leaders inside the pentagon are now out. they have been replaced by trump loyalists, including a retired general who once referred to former president obama as a terrorist. all of this is happening as the nation is continuing to be ravaged by the coronavirus. the country is breaking yet another record for daily cases with more than 136,000 reported just yesterday. hospitalizations are also at a record high, yet we are seeing no leadership from this current administration. let's go straight to the white house to our correspondent there, kaitlan collins. kaitlan, what are you hearing about

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thank you for being with us. while president trump and his allies refuse to accept the outcome of this election, starting to see some cracks forming with prominent republicans on capitol hill just the day senator lindsey graham told cnn joe biden -- president-elect joe biden should get intelligence briefings starting now. also you have ohio republican rob portman, he's making similar statements. all this is happening as president-elect biden moves forward with his transition plans despite facing repeated roadblocks from the current administration. biden is making his first major appointment when he named his longtime adviser ron klain as chief of staff. he's expected to be a key figure having previously served as president obama's ebola czar in 2014. that will be critical as the health crisis in this country continues to get worse every day. the numbers are staggering with the u.s. setting another record of daily cases on wednesday, with 144,000. hospitalizations

i'm brooke baldwin. here's the breaking news.ool district in the whole country is now shutting down schools tomorrow until further notice. new york city's mayor bill de blasio just tweeted and said the i positivity rate has reached 3% testing in a 7-day threshold. i'm thinking of the parents who just this afternoon are finding out, they're basically in a lurch now trying to figure out plans for their kids for tomorrow morning. what is the positivity rate in new york city schools, and are these kids contributing to the spread of the virus? >> so from what we know so far, brooke, it doesn't appear that children in schools are contributing to the spread of the virus, that they are not the vectors or superspreaders that many had feared. public school parents had been warned to expect and prepare for this day. nevertheless, at 10:30 this morning, the mayor was scheduled to announce some news. many assumed it would be that schools would be closed. we did not hear from him for hours. the governor then spoke and sort of danced around the

i'm brooke baldwin. great to be here. major headlines we're following this hour, so let me bring you up to speed. first and foremost, president trump has announced on twitter this afternoon that he is firing his defense secretary, mark esper, effective immediately. esper will be replaced by acting secretary christopher miller who currently serves as a director of the national counterterrorism center. meantime, president-elect joe biden is hitting the ground running on his transition to the white house, delivering a speech today on his plans for battling the coronavirus pandemic, and speaking of, just this afternoon, the united states has now crossed the grim milestone of 10 million covid cases. this is just ten days after surpassing 9 million. but in a potentially major breakthrough today here in the race for a vaccine, drug giant pfizer has announced that its vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective. so we've got you covered on all of that. i want to start with kaitlan collins at the white house. ka

of course james baldwin didn't have to stick in such long explanations of the financial crisis or nuclearotiations. every time once in a while you would realize i've got to do a little history and work here and try to find that balance and it was sometimes tough. >> thank you. can i ask more now? we were writing this period there was also all this noise happening and you have to decide what degreeou will lead to that in. this is when the policies were under interrogion and being fully arranged. how much of that influenced you i imaginet was almost like having an element o elephant onr shouer when you were wking on your off work. >> is interesting i don't think it actually affected it that much partly because i, even though i ended up breaking this into two volumes, i had a pretty clear sense of the bulk of the story, and i know how the story and at least the end of my presidencyith donald trump coming into office and i had already internalized and understood what his presidency was going to do and stood for s all this that was happening wasn't shocking or surprising to me. i would say if

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. we begin today with the president-elect wasting zero time in the 57 days left of the transition process, introducing some of the first members of his cabinet, many of them with, as we heard, personal connections to the president-elect, highlighting their backgrounds, and detailing their critical missions ahead, including the nation's, of course, most pressing issue, a pandemic that continues to claim thousands of lives day after day. today the president-elect is more properly equipped to get the job done because, after weeks of delay, gsa administrator emily murphy finally and officially ascertained the election results, freeing up millions of dollars in resources and opening the doors for agencies to start cooperating with the transition. but president trump seems to still be playing games after declaring that he will, quote, never concede, and continuing his rampage against biden's victory on twitter. the president, if you tuned in and you blinked, you might have missed it, because

so baldwin and this moment is kind of marking this. america is always talking about it is changing but it never changes, right? what is so interesting about the conversation around the democratic party is that it is actually insane that we would think the way to respond to the scale of problems that we confront as a nation is to harken back to an older form of politics that is third wave democratic politics, that tries to trying to lead an appeal to this race and democrat that they are so assessed with as a way of responding to this problem. it makes no sense that we would go back to the politics that actually produced trumpism in the first place. the second point -- the third point is this, we can't allow these folks to disentangle trumpism from the republican party. i think this is what bree newsome bass is trying to say. we can't allow them to disentangle these two things. there one in the same. so what are you asking for when you talk about reaching across the aisle? what are you asking us to do when you talk about reaching across

. >> i want to thank senators casey and baldwin and merkley for joining us today. we all know that america is in the midst of a third wave of cases. we are seeing the record breaking numbers of new infections, hospitalizations and rising death rates. after president trump's failure to contain the virus, it was encouraging today for the caucus at the lunch to hear doctor murphy, the cochair of the president elect corona advisory board. you know what was great, he was a scientist, he knew the facts, and he will be listened to. whenever fauci came to speak we said this is great but we know trump will pay no attention. but doctor murphy was brilliant in his presentation, and he's going to have input, so that made all of us feel a lot better to feel the change in atmosphere in this whole town. now it's clear senator biden's team, sorry, president elect joe biden's team is ready to hit the ground running and there's going to be light at the end of the tunnel finally. it will get brighter every day. we will have an administration that acknowledges the crisis and that take

james baldwin didn't have to put in long explanations of the financial crisis.egotiations, sohat was the disadvantage. it was in the flownd then he realized i got to do a little history of work here a trying to find that balance. >> thank you. >> here is more now. >> when you were writing this book during a period of transformation america and when you're fighting with yourself, there's also all this noise happening in the world and you have to decide what to let in or out. this is a. when your policies were under interrogation and in some cases, being fully erased by the administration. how much did that influence you when you are putting this book? imagine it was almost like having a 5000-pound elephant on your shoulder while you work. >> it's interesting, i don't think it affected that much partly because i, even though i ended up making this up into two volumes, i had a pretty clear sense of the ark of the story and i know how the story ends, at least the end of my presidency with donald trump coming into office and i had already internalized and understood

so i don't think senator schumer, senator murphy, senator baldwin for being with this. i want to start today if the words of the president back in may. he said and i am quoting we want to terminate healthcare under, what he called obamacare i will refer to as the affordable care act. now everything he has done in his four years as president everything the senate has done has been the same. so when i think about for pennsylvania terminating healthcare under the affordable care think they are thinking about a lot of numbers, five and a half million people pre-existing condition. that may be more than they numbers as the people. just in the past couple of weeks and even over a long period of time. i've come to know a couple of families have been directly affected think of aaron and hur daughter abby i think of shannon and her daughter sienna. sienna has down syndrome, abby has multiple complex medical needs. so for those mother destroying daca personal to them and devastate their lives. the court strikes down the affordable care act it will be an act of in justice it would

be up to the readers but that was certainly part of what i was trained to do and of course, james baldwin not have to stick in long vaccinations of the financial crisis or nuclear negotiations so that was the disadvantage. everyone's amount you would get in that poetic flow and relies i've got to do a little history and a little work here and trying to find that balance was sometimes tough. >> thank you. michelle, could i ask some mor now? >> when we were writinghis book during a time of tumult and transformation in america and you had this conversation but there's also ts noise happening in the world and you have to jt decidehat degree you are in or this is a time when your policies were under interrogation and in se cases been fully erased or the current administration and how much does it influence you when you are writing is book? i imagine it was almost like having a 500pound element elephant on your shoulder while you are working on your own wo work. >> ce, it's interesting. i don't think it affects it that much. really because i even though i ended up breaking this up into two volu

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. just a heads up for all of you, new in minute we'll hear from president-elect joe biden and vice president-elect harris, their remarks how to beat the pandemic this president has fully surrendered to. cases are surging, hospitalizations at record levels. 250,000 americans have died. according to the administration's own testing czar, the worst is still ahead. despite all of this, the president of the united states continues to put his ego ahead of every single one of us. refusing to work with the biden team, actively hindering their attempt at a transition. trump's own health secretary even ordered his team to not work with the incoming administration. simply put, that means lifesaving vaccines might not reach the most vulnerable in a timely manner. more americans will die all because the president lost this election. next hour we expect an update in the coronavirus task force. we don't know if the president will show up. after 1800 americans died just yesterday, wouldn't it be nice i

the fire next time by james baldwin, autobiographical essay tells a story and is internal but paints complete portrait of new york and race and preachers, and entire world a few square blocks that gives you a picture of all of america, a sweeping history. that was my creative writing class. what i thought about wring, the presidential memoir, those were my models as opposed to traditional presidential memoir i met with king such and such. how i succeeded in tracking a more literary approach to it. that was part of what i was trying to do. james baldwin didn't have to stick in long explanations of the financial crisis over nuclear negotiations, and and a little work here. >> can i ask some more now? >> when you are writing this book during a period of tumult and transportation in america, having a conversation with yourself but there is also this voice happening in the world but to what degree you are going to tune it out or let it in. your policies were under interrogation, he raced by the current administration. how much did that influence you when you were writing this book. it was

and that was before with invited prime minister baldwin to broadcast to the nation from return study even helped write the speech i of peace will not serve in the safety and security of the british constitution. hey, we can say that silly found all of the principals of tea and independents. it was actually a man, hey, allowed the prime minister of the day or 22 rolls cast from his own house and was very proud of his involvement in editing the words and making it sound better. ask that gray area that the b.b.c. ends up occupying during the general strike and the persons reporting which are very overtly pro-government. that tells us something about the organization of the b.b.c. from the beginning. john reith's diary entry about the b.b.c.'s role during the strike is pretty telling. the strike he wrote, many have lasted much longer, had it not been for us. and just months later, the network got the government official seal of approval through a royal charter that formalized its existence. but it came with strings attached ministers were given the power to choose, the b.b.c.'s chairman

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as the country's only national news source, one, the conservative prime minister stanley baldwin wanted on his side. as the b.b.c.'s founder, john reith knew that independence and impartiality crucial to its reputation. he also viewed the government's patronage as key to the b.b.c.'s future. so general strike was a really crucial moment in the b.b.c.'s history. the person who become the b.b.c.'s 1st director general is relying on the goodwill of government for the institutional future of the b.b.c. . so that's the immediate context. now, the government strings along this kind of threat, the b.b.c. being brought under direct government control into the strike itself. and the reason they do that is pretty obvious because they know that it will impact editorially on what the b.b.c. does. john reith compromised the, government would not commandeer the b.b.c., but it was effectively given a veto over what could be broadcast. dissenting voices from the trade unions to the opposition labor party band. in order to resume negotiations, the general counsel the trades union congress decided the ge

i am brooke baldwin. >>> we are back. i am brooke baldwin. the president is trying to walk back commitment to american democracy. he says it is joe biden's job to prove his 80 million votes were not fraudulent if he wants to take office come january. big unsolvable problem, the president says. that statement is pure nonsense, like the president's repeated claims of nonexistent voter fraud. it also serves as attempt to get out of a corner the president put himself in with his answer to reporters. watch. >> if the electoral college elects joe biden, will you leave this building? >> certainly i will, and you know that. i think there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of january, a lot of things. >> let's go straight to cnn political analyst in politics, margaret, awesome to have you on. the president tells reporters on thanksgiving he will leave office and now this big caveat, why? >> it is messaging, brooke. he is signaling publicly what his advisers have been signaling for weeks now which is that he does, in fact, inten

alec baldwin had a great message.s and leo 2.0 next as we continue. ♪ ♪ >> sean: we continue to smear the president, the supporters, races. for example, president obama and his new book claiming president trump exploded millions of voters who were spooked by a black man in the white house. they later today, radical squad member omar compared the president's release to kkk rallies. liberals, failed radio talk show host alec baldwin said president trump should be buried in oxley graveyard with a swastika on his grave. okay, here with reaction civil attorney leo 2.0. most popular and dangerous as a maga hats. >> these hats are referred to the new leo terrel who is a major trump of order going down to georgia and becoming a hannity corresponded to when i support the two republican senators. i will tell you this, sean. omar's comments are outrageous. i've been to trump rallies. what does it make me? i'm a civil rights attorney. how in the world am i going to represent our work or a man whose racist? trump not a racist. i'l

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baldwin: thank you, commissioner. i yield back. senator rosen is the last senator, i think, to be able to question our witnesses and we need to conclude our hearing shortly thereafter. this committee room is to be occupied again and in preparation to do so, he needs to take place soon. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank everyone here for being here. -- my colleagues have already asked about reef -- workforce training and retraining because during this pandemic, american ingenuity has spot and many have the ability to tackle these insurmountable problems. for example, when the pandemic a nevada, they started making fay shields and participant -- partitions for casinos and agencies. the center teamed up with our downss center to produce for local health care workers. this august, i had the opportunity to virtually visit churchill county. they make bourbon and they .hifted to hand sanitizer the henderson area in las vegas, switched to produce hand sanitizer. i want to thank you for addressing some of the challenges we have do

. >>> and our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. ♪ >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin.ou are watching cnn. thank you so much for being with me on this friday afternoon. i want to let you know -- okay, i'm just getting in my ear from my producer, we were watching this event in the briefing room of the white house. president trump was present. we were waiting to see if he would actually take questions because he has not done so in 17 days, and i'm just now told that he left. so 17 days no questions being taken by the president of the united states. just given everything that is happening, right, the numbers don't lie. the president lost the election definitively. he is behind in the popular vote by nearly 6 million. he lost the electoral vote by 74. his legal battles are losing steam. so much so that he and his allies are 2 for 31 in the courts. it is over. and yet here he is, hosting republican lawmakers from michigan today, a state that he lost by more than 150,000 votes in a desperate bid to overturn those results. and while the president is all in on holding up the de

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. a second vaccine maker is filing for emergency use authorization today. a u.s. expert is making a prediction on how soon the shots could be rolled out. >> operation warp speed said we'll ship within 24 hours of fda authorization, so we could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people's arms before christmas. >> to be clear, secretary alex azar is talking about the first round of vaccines which are expected to be prioritized for health care workers, the elderly. obviously, welcome news, nonetheless. hospitals across the country are bracing for a post-thanksgiving surge as well, but before enough time passes for those new covid cases to even register, the numbers are already catastrophic. yesterday marked the 27th consecutive day that the u.s. topped 100,000 new infections. and we now know that over 30% of all covid cases happened in november. despite just the staggering numbers here, the president had one thing on his schedule today, a weekly

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being used as guides a people can take in everything from the comfort of their own homes to school baldwin went to see them in action. follow the lobster there's bound to be modern art zany works by philip called there a natural progression from andy warhol and pop art but it's not just the art that's interesting these robots are awaiting instructions from viewers at home the machines will follow the commands of virtual visitors zipping the one work or lingering on another that's incredible it's a pandemic proof show. visitors can stay safe while going to a museum i really miss being able to see art so i think the road out of option is is appealing. certainly if there's nothing else available it's it's creative it's interesting and it gives you a chance to feel like you're in the museum to kind of simulate that experience there are strict rules for the robots they have to keep their speed down they're not allowed to run into other robots or real visitors if they do a plug is called and they're logged off. call there came up with the idea during lockdown to ensure his show was seen i though

eat fresh. >>> hi, there, i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn on this monday. for being here. we begin with the president. 58 days left in office, and he is seemingly in hiding. only leaving the white house to play golf. hiding behind this fantasy that he won re-election, a twitter feed that has become an echo chamber of lies and lawsuit after lawsuit that continue to be thrown out. so it should come as no surprise that more republicans are emerging to support a peaceful transition of power to president-elect joe biden who in the face of unprecedented obstruction is moving forward with building his foreign policy team, naming key members of his

i'm brooke baldwin. the ucases top 10 million coronavirus cases.are told we are about to enter, quote, unquote, corona hell. >> reporter: america is helded -- helded in the wrong direction regarding covid-19. cases rising in 49 states. cases topping 1,000 cases a day in the last week. >> they're letting their guard down. they're starting to get together, and as it gets colder, we'll see more still. >> 32 states seeing their highest 7-day average for new cases, among them, ohio. >> we're seeing cases far beyond anyone thought could happen. it wouldn't surprise me if over the next weeks we see 2,000 cases a day. >> monday saw the largest increase in people hospitalized since early july. the total number nationwide nearing the april peak. 17 states reporting record hospitalizations, including utah, where the governor declared a state of emergency and issued a statewide mask mandate. nebraska's new restrictions, including rules on masks, start wednesday, and idaho. >> we continue to have 50-plus patients with covid in the hospital, and just for a refer

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. you're watching cnn.y be on his way out and we may not be seeing very much of him these days, but the president is not going quietly and he's not doing anything about the pandemic oren shu ensa peaceful transition of power, and yes, he is still fighting the election results as biden's lead continues to grow. and the president's reaction seems to be firing anyone who disagrees with him. the latest today, a senior homeland security official who refuted his unfounded claims of voter fraud. i'm talking about chris krebs. he is out of a job today, much like the president come january. as the chaos ensues at the white house, president-elect joe biden is full steam ahead and gearing up for the most pressing battle at hand, defeating this

i'm brooke baldwin. great to be here.ines we're following this hour, so let me bring you up to speed. first and foremost, president trump has announced on twitter this afternoon that he is firing his defense secretary, mark esper, effective immediately. esper will be replaced by acting secretary christopher miller who currently serves as a director of the national counterterrorism center. meantime, president-elect joe biden is hitting the groun

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our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. >>> hi there. i'm brooke baldwin.r being with us. while president trump and his allies refuse to accept the outcome of this election, starting to see some cracks forming with prominent republicans on capitol hill just the day senator lindsey graham told cnn joe biden -- president-elect joe biden should get intelligence briefings starting now. also you have ohio republican rob portman, he's making similar statements. all this is happening as president-elect biden moves forward with his transition plans despite facing repeated roadblocks from the current administration. biden is

words felt really poultry, like inadequate tool, and i think that going back, that revisiting, james baldwin this wonderful line, i returned here because i was afraid to. and i think for me that was the cause of facing my fear and all the things i didn't want to know but i also bring new had to be dealt with and faced. they note they note. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> weeknights this month we're featuring booktv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span2. tonight we focus on covert operations. that starts at 8 p.m. eastern. enjoy booktv this week and every weekend on c-span2. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 every weekend with the latest nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 created by america's cable-television companies as a public service brought to you today by your television provider. >> hello, everybody. it's a delight to meet you. >> good to see if you. >> host: i feel like i know you from reading "life of a klansman." it's so intimate and want to thank you for writing it. i'm going to dive in. you will receive an emotional inheritance from aunt maud. tell our audience wha

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. >>> and our special coverage continues now with brooke baldwin. ♪ >>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin.atching cnn. thank you so much for being with me on this friday afternoon. i want to let you know -- okay, i'm just getting in my ear from my producer, we were watching this event in the briefing room of the white house. president trump was present. we were waiting to see if he would actually take questions because he has not done so in 17 days, and i'm just now told that he left. so 17 days no questions being taken by the president of the united states. just given everything that is happening, right, the numbers don't lie. the president lost the election definitively. he is behind in theop

i'm brooke baldwin. no claims of fraud.se are the words of the appeals court in pennsylvania who issued that today on trump's claims of voter fraud in pennsylvania. the opinion includes a straightforward dismantling fortunate trump team's central claim, quote, calling an election unfair does not make it so. charges require specific allegations and then proof. we have neither here, end quote. the court rejection is unlikely to sway this president. instead, look to the president's morning tweet just to get a sense of his current frame of mind, to borrow from u2, he's stuck in a moment and now can't get out of it. the president made a thanksgiving promise, albeit, a hesitant one, to uphold american democracy. >> if the gsa does say president-elect biden is the president, will you leave this building? >> certainly i will. certainly i will. you know that. but i think there will be other things coming. >> he will be leaving office if he can provide that his 80,000 votes were not fraudulent. ryan, good to see you. thanks for being