past 12 to do this lockdown and i'm quite convinced of that thank you so much for joining us doctor dr yan senses president of the german interdisciplinary association of critical care and emergency medicine i think you are. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world british and european union negotiators are making some progress in negotiations over breakfast of holding some sources close to the talks germany's e.u. ambassador said a trade deal could be possible by the end of the week that he goes asians have previously appeared to have stalled with a deal and looking increasingly unlikely the current deadline for talks is the 31st of december. u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has congratulated joe biden on his election win in a speech on the senate floor the republican leader ended weeks of silence over president trump's defeat it came a day after the electoral college officially confirmed biden's victory. and russian president vladimir putin has also congratulated mr biden following the electoral college vote in a kremlin statement mr puti

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dr. fauci. playing the trump yan game. got levelled by gupta. which incentives are stronger at this point? he clearly still wants to be president and nurses delusions. he seems to have made the calculation that staying under trumps warm belly is the way to do it. then you have to people who may try to break away thinking that the house of mur dock can protect them if they go the other way. which looks like the stronger kind of incentive structure for republicans going forward? >> it's hard to say what the incentive structure is. you have a collective action problem. if enough republicans got together and said we're no longer going to be cowed by this lunatic who has led the party to presidential defeat and likely be a bad candidate in 2024. they could do it. the problem is the donald trump was actually right i think when he took the measure of many of the opponents in 2016. and kind of accurately diagnosed their weakness and refusal, failure to stand up to him. i think the behavior you see from rubio right now might be because he wants to be president. it's why he isn't president. it's why