department is being led by the california state education department. linda darling-hammond is under consideration again. also our two teachers union leaders, randi weingarten and en garcia.s caller: good morning, america. my top issue for biden is covid-19. with 230,000 people dead, i'm wondering how many of those or did not vote. that are so many issues frankly, i don't know where to start. start with the covid part where people are refusing to wear a mask. mask protects me, it protects you, it protects you from me and me from you. think to sayi can this to the c-span audience is the peopleine if that were mostly being affected were blind -- blonde, blue-eyed people. and there was 230,000 deaths. expect black and town people to wear a mask better america? i think so. i don't understand why people don't want to wear a mask. host: to clint in orlando, florida. your top parity for the biden administration. caller: good morning. my top priority for the biden administration is going to be following through on his promise in his victory speech about uniting us as a country. i think joe biden has a very tall order to fill convincing both republicans and democrats that the other side is not the bogeyman, particularly if georgia can hang on and maintain control of the senate. if he is unable to unite us as a country, everything he wants today will be secondary and won't get accomplished. he needs to bring us together and convinced both sides that the other one is not the bogeyman. host: thanks for that. ted on thefrom independent line. caller: hello. i think your topics here is not really over yet because they are going to be doing some counting. after watching what has been going on for the last few years, i kind of think you can't really trust some of the things the and iats have been doing kind of smell some rats. i kind of think this isn't over yet until the fat lady sings. florida. in we are from joseph on our democrats line. caller: good morning. my top priority for president-elect biden would be to deal with the covid emergency here. i think it would be fair to say that if it were not for the covid pandemic, mr. trump probably would have been reelected. however, as a new yorker, if i can say directly, i think president trump, based upon what i heard from bob woodward's interviews with him, he knew the danger of the virus, but he route,o go a different rather than prevention. he chose to roll the dice and adjust to herd immunity, apparently, and it didn't work. mr. president,-year-old snake eyes, which means, you lose, which is unfortunate. york, don't gow away angry, just go away. if i can make a quick comment also about health care in general, this is really my area of real concern for america and sadness. powers in world war ii. we didn't destroy them, we built them up integrated economies, and we also help them right -- rewrite their constitutions. in those constitutions, all of their citizens are guaranteed some kind of health care. we are the only western society that does not provide health care for all of our people. it is ironic because we have the greatest physicians, doctors and hospitals in the world. biden can sithat down with these leaders, get them in the room like he is famous for being able to do, get them to think and talk and come up with a solution like mayo , johns cleveland clinic hopkins, all of these great places. they know the problem, let them sit down and come up with a solution for all americans. host: thank you for your call. a big supreme court case coming up tomorrow. on tuesday, the senate is back. the lame-duck session underway and hearings as well. be a director -- 11:00 eastern with joseph mccabe on c-span. at 10:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning, we will bring you live audio coverage of the oral argument in california the texas, the case concerning the constitutionality of the affordable care act. that is live beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org and the c-span radio app. let's hear from david in san antonio, texas. before i get to you, i want to the colorresident -- talked about the vaccine. here is the president's tweet a few moments ago "stock market at soon,accine coming reported 90% effective, such great news. -- news." that is from president trump this morning. vice president mike pence will be convening a session of the coronavirus task force later this afternoon. to david now in texas. welcome. comments tove a few make. one on the virus. i hear everybody acting like a bunch of panic stricken germ of phobos. had 3 billion people on this planet. the asian flu came through and killed one million of us. today, we have 9 billion people on the planet and the asian flu -- i mean, and this covid has or akilled one million little bit more. it is hardly as severe as the asian flu was. when the asian flu hit america, we went to work, we went to school. i placed clothing cards at the clothing factory where my grandma sewed peacocks -- peacoat's and overcoats. my dad was a navy recruiter officer. my mom was a nurse. we went to work, we lived life. we did not run away and hide in the basement from some bug. these people today in this country act like a bunch of panic stricken germ of phobos. i have no reason to do what they are doing and if you look back, the human race has survived a lot worse than this. one thing about america, we have a lot of old people because our health care is so good and we quit smoking and drinking like drunks. we are living a lot longer. when we are up in years, that virus is rough on us, but that is not trump's fault. it is just a factor of getting old. like me, i am 80. you are vulnerable to the flu. we have always been vulnerable to the flu. host: here is the bloomberg reporting on the number of covid cases. near 10 million in the u.s.. no slow down insight. worldwide numbers, total deaths, 1.2 million deaths worldwide according to the data reported by bloomberg. michael is next on the republican line in maryland. good morning. caller: good morning, thanks for having me. i would like to make a few points. that last caller was pretty much right on. i support trump 100%. even with him contesting the election, i think that is a great thing because all of the establishment people are going to come right back andrew in this country again. i am worried for my kids future. want eight-year-olds to choose their gender. that is ridiculous. these are ridiculous policies these people are pushing on the left. i can't believe that america has gone that way. i just don't believe that that is true. why would somebody choose to abandon the american family? that is not what americans want and what foreigners come from other countries to america want for their kids and their families. thank you very much for having me and hearing me out. host: carol, atlanta, georgia. democrats line. caller: top priority is probably covid and character. it is despicable and heinous to me, as an ordained person of faith that it is totally trump's fault. people need to check the statistics. my brother lives in thailand where they have 70 million people and they have had 59 deaths. look at new zealand, when people say this isn't trump's fault, of course it is trump's fault. all you need is a mask mandate. the private school i go to, we have had none and we are open, but people who refuse to wear a mask but want to tell a woman what to do with her body is just wrong. you're getting this from someone ,ho is saying to inject bleach short memories. you're telling people steve bannon has been banned from twitter because he wants to kill dr. fauci, who has served the american public health for 50 years since president ronald reagan. republican presidents. we need to sadly listen to science and look at the world stage. welcome back america. lastly, i am a volunteer every day at an afterschool program for his damp -- hispanic kids. i know people who have interviewed over 6000 asylum families. these families are unable to even apply for a job. they are not mexican rapists. the people i know could get sent back. it was bad with obama, don't misunderstand me, but over 400 new laws to keep these people out. i just want to look at character, covid. thank the lord, we are not getting up every morning to tweets and someone who has failed at every business he has done. he had six bankruptcies with his casinos, his steaks and universities, his wives. it is endless. thank you for taking my call. host: this is from the hill this morning. biden unveils new coronavirus task force. they say he named a number of public health experts who will serve on his task force. the experts include the former director of the biomedical research and development authority who said he was forced out of his position earlier this year after opposing or promoting .nproven treatments emanuel, who served as former advisor to the obama ministration on the affordable care act. surgeon who, a served as advisor to the clinton and obama administrations will serve. one tweets as i expect measured actions from a biden administration to meet public needs in the short term. in the long term, i expect reconciliation and cooperation to right the ship capsized by donald trump. this one, if joe biden wants to unite the country, he can apologize to the child supporters he smeared as racists. the charge of racism is so defamatory that it cannot simply be dismissed as politics usual. healing will only start of an admission of this is wrong. says increase social security and medicare. one more, the climate, human rights, the economy. there is so much that needs to be fixed. while i doubt biden's ministration is going to do much, it can do some things, hopefully. charlie in palm city, california. thank you, c-span and the opportunity to call in and listen to people event every day. i just wanted to make a couple of points. topink one of the priorities is going to be covid-19. i still can't understand why we have children going back to school and not getting tested but nba players are getting tested three and four times a day. our children and our teachers are more important than anyone else when it comes to getting tested. you can take somebody's temperature, that does not mean they don't have the virus. i think that is got to be one of our top priorities. the other thing, we have to stop buying all of our stuff from china. if we can't produce a six inch q-tip to do a test, we have problems. we have drugs coming in from china and people have to stop buying chinese products. the other issue i hope gets resolved are the illegal aliens down here in florida. store,go to the grocery 90% of your produce is being picked by people that are from south america or hispanics. on the table food without these people working. that are good republicans, but they hire illegal aliens by the thousands. basically, slave labor. fired, there is no unemployment insurance being paid on them. basically, it is a new slavery we have created with all of these illegal aliens. the third one i want to make a last point on is the abortion debate. i listened yesterday when people were calling and saying if you have an abortion, you are going to hell. at the 1.5 to look million abortions going on every year. girls and these young boys having babies? they are having babies because they are not using protection. i'm a catholic. the catholic church tells me my wife can't use the pill, she can't use the morning-after pill, iud. i can't use a condom. that is ridiculous. these kids are going to have sex, but you have to figure out familieswe have these and teach sexbond education and try to solve the problem. let's not get on the radio and say i am against all abortions. you can't unless your wife was dying in the hospital and there is a dozen or more reasons why women die every year, or we have premature babies or fetal alcohol syndrome babies where women are alcoholics or heroin addicts. these are the kind of issues we need to address. just don't stand up and say i am against all abortions. host: brenda up next in south carolina, democrats line. priority wouldt be the covid-19 virus. we were discussing student loans last night and how he is paying over $400,000 and not even touching interest of the last six years. host: if you don't mind saying, how much do you think the four kids you have that went to college in student loans? caller: wow. , altogether,bout about $800,000. i'm just kidding. i would say maybe, about $300,000 between the four of they have different degrees. my oldest has a bachelors, masters, phd. my next has a bachelor master. my next has a bachelor master. my last one is a police officer and does not make a lot of money. u.n. titled them to what you want and you can do what you want, but it is terrible. i think between the four of them, it is right around $300,000. host: what do you think the administration can do on that? what do you think the best option is. in their cases, i think the interest rate needs to be more. in my son's case, i think he should after 10 years, it comes off. will have paid over $50,000. by the time they drop it, he will be able to pay that amount of money. host: is he the one that is a police officer? caller: yes, and i think after 10 years, if you pay your student loan on time, it drops or something. he said after 10 years, the amount he owes, he will have already paid in interest alone. i wish and pray they could do something about that because the interest is so high, it is just ridiculous. host: appreciate you calling in this morning. i want to say the front page of the new york times. toden turns his attention transition while trump refuses to concede defeat. start biden prepared to building has administration even as republican leaders and party lawmakers refrain from acknowledging his victory out of apparent deference to president trump who continued to refuse to concede." fort hill, south carolina, up next is tom. just want to say there are a lot of issues going on with court issues concerning the election. just too many things that seem a little bit offkilter with the whole thing. i can understand the core issues. another thing is, as far as the college loans go, fine, lower the interest if you can and help the students out. as bernie sanders was talking free college and paying off free college -- he took the responsibilities of his own. it is not the taxpayers responsibility. three, io and number have a feeling biden is going to mess with everything altogether. he is going to try to destroy the constitution and mess with your free speech, or freedom of religion, right to bear arms. i think he is going to try to screw all of that over if he can. as far as it goes with the court lawsuits, to be perfectly honest with you, i would like to see trump come out on top. thank you. host: here is the capital journal. "how biden can gain from a split decision. in the power structure emerging, mr. biden can use his own performance in the presidential race, which was stronger than his parties outcome overall, to claim a clear mandate for his agenda and a more progressive one. he can point to republican leverage in the senate and an expanded gop's base in the house is the reason he can't move as far as his party liberals would like on taxes, climate change and health care. in an evenly balanced a senate, whichever party holds control by enjoyr to,'s entrance increased leverage, that means more power for the likes of moderates such as democrat joe mansion of west virginia and senator susand collins of maine. -- main." david is in georgia. caller: [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] of people talk about the masks and biden has already said he will do a mask mandate. a person who has 37 plus years of detection specialist in these masks are no good. these masks are absolutely no good. my whole industry has left at surgeons wearing masks. they are no good. trust me, we tried them all. classgoing through one and it always stuck out in my mind. we learned between the fifth and eighth grade, some of the most powerful explosive natural forces are sneezes and coughs. that is true. they are not going to project anybody that has a ssent -- to protect anybody who has a sneeze or cough. it's in the air. -- and ih departmentit on the health department in my local community. what do you mean droplet spread? nice, it becomes i am hangs in the air for a while so these masks are not doing any good at all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] host: david in georgia. morehead on focus one i had with a the house and then the chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. ♪ >> with joe biden president-elect, stay with c-span for live coverage of the election process and transition of power. c-span, your unfiltered view of politics. former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe testifies before the senate judiciary committee on the crossfire hurricane investigation which looks at russian interference in the 2016 election. watch live coverage of the hearing tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3, stream live or on-demand at www.c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. the supreme court hears oral arguments on the affordable care act in the consolidated cases of texas versus cal