and chris lu who served as deputy secretary of labor in the obama administration and is now advising the biden transition. welcome, all. mike memoli, the president-elect, speaking on the economy this afternoon and revealing that some republican senators are secretly congratulating him on his win. he's just put out a statement about the new jobs numbers which is fairly, you know, negative and, you know, alarming, saying this dire jobs report is a snapshot from mid-november before the surge in covid cases and deaths in december as we head into a dark winter. and he's talking about there's no time to lose on the covid package and it's only a down payment, there's nobody a bigger package needed. >> that's right. >> down the road, after the lame duck. >> yeah, that's exactly right, andrea. this statement we just got in the last two minutes perhaps a preview of what we'll hear from the president-elect this afternoon. and you touched on it, this idea of bipartisanship. the fact that, as he revealed last night, he has been getting calls from republicans on capitol hill, even if they're not w

joining me is chris lu who is now advising the biden transition. mericans are set to lose unemployment benefits. we had 1.3 million people applying as of yesterday for new benefits. that's -- i think you've cited that's the 39th straight week where we have unemployment numbers as high as the great recession. >> yeah, look, overall 20 million people are on unemployment right now. those numbers are not getting better, they're actually getting worse. and that's not surprising, because as we see covid cases and hospitalizations and deaths go up, we see the economy starting to slow down again. and so it's critical that congress, both houses, and the white house come together on a package, because about 12 million people are scheduled to lose their unemployment benefits in about eight days. millions of others are facing evictions. this is critical, that this relief package gets done. now, make no mistake, this is not a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. but it does give much-needed money to workers and employers and schools. and it also helps

chris lu and jennifer horn, thank you both. >>> from kitchen products to iphone screens, one company called corning glass is on the front lines of the pandemic. the safe and sturdy valor glass vial. more on this. pretty fascinating. >> reporter: it's about 7:00 on the east coast on a sunday morning and just behind me in this facility are folks that are creating the covid vial for the vaccine. they're creating millions of them right now and it's also a company that created pyrex so you probably have it in your kitchen. if you have a newer generation iphone it's the glass on your iphone so certainly a name brand already but operation warp speed has brought them on as one of two vial creators that will be sending millions out to these pharmaceutical companies to fill the vaccine. now right here this is the vial, the covid-19 vial the vaccine will be going into. let me go through them. it has a low friction exterior coating that increases the production on the line speed and has a number of putting more of these vials on one production line at one time. it has a special chemical mixture,

chris lu, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> coming up, some new allegations in georgia that both republicanse are abusing their powers to enrich themselves and their wealthy friends. the latest on the david perdue and kelly loeffler scandals, next. ndals, next [ whispering ] what's this? oh, are we kicking karly out? we live with at&t. it was a lapse in judgment. at&t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gig-speed internet, but we can't sign up for that here. yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. >>> there's a lot of money flowing into georgia right now according to ad impact, combined ad spending in the two senate runoff races there january 5th has already reached a total of $283 million. we're still more than a month from election day. republicans need to win at least one of the races to maintain control of the senate but they're depending on

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