i pam john sanderson, john anderson of jw marriott. tourism has adapted to challenges of the city. along with my colleagues there are three main pillars that holed us up in san francisco. first, the people who work in the buildings and welcome the visitors to san francisco. this population are dedicated professional

so i argued strongly for him to debate john anderson, another republican running for president and carteridn't want to debate two republicans. and so i said, well, we ought to go to anderson, because i felt sure that reagan would wipe up the floor with him, which he did. but i wanted to put an empty chair out there and put a sign on it. jimmy carter's chair, but they wouldn't let us do that. it would have been very effective. but reagan was a wonderful debater. whenever the red light went on the camera, he was good. and the only debate they had in that 1980 campaign was one debate. and he just destroyed jimmy carter in that debate. and then, of course, he did something that i don't think will ever be done in american politics again. he asked somebody, me, who had run two campaigns against him, to be his white house chief of staff. everybody was shocked. nobody was more shocked than i was. but what a beautiful human being i was privileged to serve for four years. talmage: getting back to your magnificent statement of patriotism, for my final question for this program, secretary baker and i

i pam john sanderson, john anderson of jw marriott. tourism has adapted to challenges of the city. along with my colleagues there are three main pillars that holed us up in san francisco. first, the people who work in the buildings and welcome the visitors to san francisco. this population are dedicated professionals. on the faces seen and unseen they guarantee a clean and safe stay. sf travel has been wildly successful in recovering from past opportunities like the recent renovation of musc oni. $2.5 million to provide rental discounts is needed to come pete with other conventions. they are pulling out all the stops. last is the center. without a highly functioning center supported by the findings of the grand jury the other two struggle to recover and leave many out of work. yes, travel will return to san francisco. how quickly tax revenues return depends on the support and recommendations in this report. thank you to your dedication to clean and safe streets for travelers and associates. i am looking forward to the impacts on resent wins. the street response team and prop b whic

john, listen, anderson cooper recalling bob woodward's interview with president trump.lay a clip they brought up. >> is there any lesson you take because i think this is so important. i have -- i keep -- because i'm in the business of trying to understand other people, i keep learning about how do you really understand people? how do i understand you? you and i -- >> you don't understand me. you don't understand me. but that's okay. you'll understand me after the election, but you'll understand me now. >> you don't think so? >> no, i don't think so. i don't think you get it. >> what are the questions i've not asked that have not been answered? >> i think you've asked me a lot of very good questions, a lot of personal questions. i think you've asked me a lot of good stuff. >> okay. so, we're past the election now, john. we're seeing what the president is doing. what do you think we understand or don't understand about him now after this election? >> well, i think one of the things that surprised a lot of people, and i was among them, was the durability of the president's

i pam john sanderson, john anderson of jw marriott. tourism has adapted to challenges of the city. along with my colleagues there are three main pillars that holed us up in san francisco. first, the people who work in the buildings and welcome the visitors to san francisco. this population are dedicated professionals. on the faces seen and unseen they guarantee a clean and safe stay. sf travel has been wildly successful in recovering from past opportunities like the recent renovation of musc oni. $2.5 million to provide rental discounts is needed to come pete with other conventions. they are pulling out all the stops. last is the center. without a highly functioning center supported by the findings of the grand jury the other two struggle to recover and leave many out of work. yes, travel will return to san francisco. how quickly tax revenues return depends on the support and recommendations in this report. thank you to your dedication to clean and safe streets for travelers and associates. i am looking forward to the impacts on resent wins. the street response team and prop b whic

anderson? >> john'll be following this throughout the day, even as the electoral college gets ready to vote and affirm billion-dollared about's victory, president trump is not giving up. he's been pressuring state officials to throw out the election results and declare him the winner. john harwood is live at the white house with details. john, let's talk about the president's latest pressure campaign against states. >> reporter: look, the president's not giving up, even though the outcome is clear. we've had the supreme court thrown out that ridiculous case that the state of texas and 17 other states brought. electors will vote today. january 6th the congress certifies the results of the electoral balloting that occurs today in the state capitals and january 20th is when you have the inauguration. i would expect right up until january 20th, the president will keep making noise. the question is, how many people are going to be listening? i would think that today will be a significant pivot point for a s

john is back with us. >> first one we have seen by zoom, anderson, so interesting.physical threats and constant threat to health. each state can decide how it wants to cast its vote. one thing i want to point out in nevada, remember how close nevada was? took days to decide results of the election in nevada. it just took 17 minutes for them. they started meeting 17 minutes ago, but decided to cast all their electoral votes, the six electoral votes from nevada went to joe biden. just to gif yve you a sense whe we are, before nevada cast votes, you can see donald trump has amassed 56 electoral votes, joe biden has amassed 27. this will continue to change over the course of the day. the lead here at this hour, mr. president, is completely immaterial. in the 5:00 hour when california meets to cast ballots, the 55 will go to joe biden, he will go over the 270 needed to win, and he will one more step of the way be the official president-elect of the united states, anderson. >> all right. john berman, thank you. electoral voting is under way in delaware. let's listen in. >

i pam john sanderson, john anderson of jw marriott. tourism has adapted to challenges of the city. along with my colleagues there are three main pillars that holed us up in san francisco. first, the people who work in the buildings and welcome the visitors to san francisco. this population are dedicated professionals. on the faces seen and unseen they guarantee a clean and safe stay. sf travel has been wildly successful in recovering from past opportunities like the recent renovation of musc oni. $2.5 million to provide rental discounts is needed to come pete with other conventions. they are pulling out all the stops. last is the center. without a highly functioning center supported by the findings of the grand jury the other two struggle to recover and leave many out of work. yes, travel will return to san francisco. how quickly tax revenues return depends on the support and recommendations in this report. thank you to your dedication to clean and safe streets for travelers and associates. i am looking forward to the impacts on resent wins. the street response team and prop b whic

john berman here for anderson. that's the chief of moderna. moderna is seeking authorization for it joining pfizer. this is remarkably hopeful news and it was followed by a dose of breaking news, the departure of only doctor that the president seemed to embrace on his task force, dr. scott atlas, the one that doubted masks and had no qualifications for the job is stepping down. more on how the task force is taking the news. coming to be what is the darkest days, a record number of americans in the hospital, nearly 95,000. in wisconsin, nearly one and four of them in icus. in rhode island, there are no beds left. hospitals are at capacity. they have been setting up field hospitals there. the country is averaging close to 160,000 cases a day. we have not even begun to feel the effect of holiday travels and get togethers. >> we don't want to frighten people but that's the reality. we said that these things would happen as we got into the cold weather and as we began traveling and it happened. it is going to happen again. >> our medical and public

john berman here, in for anderson. so, more than a month ago, with the president refusing to accept his election defeat, a senior-republican official, asked from "the washington post," and i am quoting now, what is the downside of humoring him now for this little bit of time? after all this official said, it's not like he is trying to prevent joe biden from taking power on january 20th. tonight, evidence is growing that he is. and another official told cnn, quote, no one is sure where there is heading. for the third time we know of, since friday, attorney sydney powell was at the white house today. she is the conspiracy theorist, you will recall, who was kicked off the president's election team, after making allegations too wild, even for them. she now wants the president to order the federal seizure of voting machines, in swing states. so does the president's fired national security adviser, michael flynn. he and powell met with the president, friday. here is what he told news max, thursday, about the president's opti

john berman here, in for anderson.ief medical officer of moderna, describing his reaction to extremely positive data on his company's new covid vaccine. moderna is now seeking emergency-use authorization for it. joining pfizer, which has a similarly effective vaccine. this is remarkably hopeful news. and it was followed by a dose of breaking news. the departure of the only doctor the president seemed to embrace on his task force. dr. scott atlas. the one, who doubted masks and had no infectious-disease qualifications for the job, stepping down. more, in a moment, on how the task force is taking the news. what could be the darkest days, yet, for the country. nearly 95,000. in wisconsin, nearly one in four of them are in icus. in rhode island, there are sifrmly sifr simply no beds left. an alert went out to cell phones that hospitals are at capacity. the country i

john berman here, in for anderson.ore than a month ago, with the president refusing to accept his election defeat, a senior-republican official, asked from "the washington post," and i am quoting now, what is the downside of humoring him now for this little bit of time? after all this official said, it's not like he is trying to prevent joe biden from taking power on january 20th. tonight, evidence is growing that he is. and another official told cnn, quote, no one is sure where there is heading. for the third time we know of, since friday, attorney sydney powell was at the white house today. she is the conspiracy theorist, you will recall, who was kicked off the president's election team, after making allegations too wild, even for them. she now wants the presiden

john berman here in for anderson. we'll talk about how important this is with the pandemic projected to claim 562,000 lives by april. the president's silence or even worse silence in this avoidable human tragedy. 23,000 deaths reported so far. covid is the country's leading cause of death. they're the folks behind the 62,000 fatality projection which is up by more than 60,000 since the last month. between now and april, 49 states will experience high or extreme stress on icu capacity and deaths per day will exceed 3750. it is so important to take every precautions for yourselves and others until max vaccinations can do its job. >> your neighbors and community, wash your hands and wear a mask or when ever you are unable to practice distance. >> that's the vice president after getting vaccinated today sending the right message of preventions and so did pelosi and mitch mcconnell. not so the president because although he did send out a treat praising fedex and ups delivering the vaccine, he did not roll up his sleeves fo

john berman here for anderson. that's the chief of moderna. moderna is

john berman in for anderson and this nightmare is the kind in which screams go unheard, or unheeded by those that care. and it's a nightmare that did not need to happen. six months and one day ago, the self proclaimed effort against the outbreak said it would not happen. here is what ran under mike pence's name. the piece was outlined, there isn't a coronavirus second wave. yetting now, thanks to the leadership of president trump and the courage andcompassion of the american people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months ago and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy. that is 190,000 american deaths ago. nearly 2900 ethdeaths reported t so is far tonight, on top of the 3600 last night. nearly quarter million new cases in a record number of people hospitalized. no mention of any of that for the man whose name is on the op-ed, we will have the inside story of it shortly, by the way. and no mention either by the president. not a peep. nothing acknowledging that california today reported the highest number of covid fatalities ever, 379 in a single da

john berman here, in for anderson. this nightmare is the kind, in which screams go unheard. worse, unheede

john berman here in for anderson.about how important this is with the pandemic projected to claim 562,000 lives by april. the president's silence or even worse silence in this avoidable human tragedy. 23,000 deaths reported so far. covid is the country's leading cause of death. they're the folks behind the 62,000 fatality projection which is up by more than

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john berman here, in for anderson. we will talk more, in a moment, about how important this is with the pandemic now projected to claim 562,000 lives, by april. first, though, the president's silence, or even worse than silence, in the face of this largely avoidable, human tragedy. nearly, 2,300 new deaths rort d reported so far, tonight. covid is now the country's leading cause of death, according to the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation. they are the folks behind that 562,000-fatality projection which, itself, is up by more than 60,000, since the last model. what's more, this new one predicts that, between now and april, 49 states will experience high or extreme stress on icu capacity, and that deaths per day will exceed 3,750. that's about one life lost, every 23 seconds. which is why health officials say it's so important to take every precaution, for yourself and others, until mass vaccination can do its job. >> the health of your family, your neighbors, and your community firs

john berman here is in for anderson. breaking news with 29 days left in office. the president issued a first big wave of what could be a tsunami of pardons. it includes former republican lawmakers and four military contractors involved in a massacre of civilians in iraq. all this begins of the headline speaking of what else the president is doing when not handing out pardons. trump turns out on everyone from "the axios," he thinks everyone around him is stupid and disloyaled a disloyal and seeking comfort only on those people egging him onto overturn the election results. top officials telling "axios," the president is raging at mark meadows and mitch mcconnell and also now at long last the vice president. we'll talk about that as well as a potential impact of a new covid strain as we passed the 18 million case mark headed of yet another surge on top of the one we are suffering through now. president-elect biden addressed the topic today. >> one thing i promise you about my leadership during this crisis, i am going to tell it to you straight, i am going to tell y

john berman here, in for anderson. this nightmare is the kind, in which screams go unheard. or even worse, unheeded by those who should care. and it's a nightmare that didn't even need to happen, at all. exactly six months and one day ago, the vice president of the united states, the head of the self-proclaimed whole-of-government effort against the outbreak said it would not happen. here's what ran in the "wall street journal" six months and one day ago, under mike pence's name. the piece is headlined there isn't a coronavirus second wave. quoting now. thanks to the leadership of president trump and the courage and compassion of the american people, our public-health system is far stronger than it was four months ago. and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy. the truth is, the piece concludes, whatever the media says, our whole-of-america approach has been a success. success. that was six months, one day, and more than 190,000 american deaths, ago. 823 americans died, today. those words appeared in print. nearly 2,900 deaths, just so far, tonight. on top of

john berman here is in for the presiden anderson. tonight the evidence is growing that he is. another official told cnn today, "no one is sure where this is hae headed." attorney sidney powell was at the white house, she was the theorist that was kicked off the president's election team after making allegations too wild for them. she wants the president to order the federal seizure of voting machines in swing states. so does the president's fired national security pardoned and admitted felon, michael flynn. here is what he told news max about the president's option. >> he can seize everyone sing se of these machines and he can order within the swing states if he wanted to. he can take military capabilities and basically rerun an election at each of those states. >> send in the troops, the retired three-star general says and rerun the election at gunpoint. in the case if you are wondering if he's speaking hypothetically? he's not. it is all a bit much for another friend of the president. >> remember the thing that ronald reagan used to say. personnel is policy. the people that

john berman here is in for anderson. breaking news with 29 days left in office.d a first big wave of what could be a tsunami of pardons. it includes former republican lawmakers and four military contractors involved in a massacre of civilians in iraq. all this begins of the headline speaking of what else the president is doing when not

john berman here is in for the presiden anderson. tonight the evidence is growing that

john dean. >> does this texas lawsuit have any merit whatsoever? >> anderson, i can find none. it was filed late. it was filed after people relied on the law and they are now attacking and the court will recognize that. they'll dismiss on that. this is an original jurisdiction case. they don't these kinds of cases. it takes four justices to get a hearing of the case to bring it in. often these types of cases they have a master, lower court judge to hear the case and process it. i can't see it is happening. >> what about the rest o of the republicans in congress. president trump wants ted cruz to argue for him in court. but, he also wants to be president. just the thought process whether cruz decides whether or not he's ready to do this? why not say yes? >> that's kwaexactly right. you just nailed it. he was a clerk for a chief way back when. he pretty much understands the law more than anything who's maybe at the president's orbit at this point. when ted cruz agree to argue the case in the supreme court, there is little question that he does not think it is going to go there. t

john, does this texas lawsuit, i mean, have any merit, whatsoever? >> anderson, i can find none. first of all, it was filed very late. it was filed after people relied on the law they're now attacking. and the court will recognize that. they call it latches and they'll dismiss, on that basis. there is a real question if -- if texas has standing not -- notwithstanding the fact that is an original-jurisdiction case. they don't like these kind of cases so it's hard to believe. it takes four justices to get a hearing of the case to bring it in. and often, these types of cases, they have a master, a lower-court judge they appoint to hear the case and process it. so, i just can't see this happening. >> dana, you heard what senators romney and cornyn said. what about the rest of the caucus in the senate? cruz used to be solicitor general of texas. he's argued cases before the court. but, you know, he also wants to be president. i mean, just the thought process that cruz must have gone through to, you know, decide whether or not to say that he would agree to do this. i mean, i think he p

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john muir to get the covid vaccine. >> this is going to be the start and hopefully the turn of the corner. >> reporter: joe anderson leads a team of respiratory therapists who work in very close contact with the sickest of patients. >> i've worked all over the country. this by far, by far the worst that i've ever seen, the biggest impact in health care. and obviously i don't have to say it, the community. >> reporter: these people know better than most that like any shot this one could come with some mild side effects. >> there's a very low chance you're going to get any serious side effects as compared to covid, you could end up having the icu or some serious stuff in your lungs. you know what he i mean? >> reporter: so far john muir has received over 5,000 doses and over the next three weeks plans to give the first of two shots to that many frontline staff. >> when the vaccine arrived yesterday, it just all became so real. from the very first day of this pandemic protecting our teams was the most frightening part of it. >> reporter: fortunately, ten months in very few john muir front line workers have actually gotten t

john muir's medical center in concord. >> i'm sure there's going to be some symptoms, but i think the good far outweighs the bad. >> reporter: respiratory therapist joseph anderson is the man who shows up when patients need a ventilator. he says he feels it's his duty to set an example for communities of color that might distrust the vaccine. >> if you look historically, it is a valid concern. but i think right now and part of the reason i would step up and do it, to show that, you know, we need to get this. >> reporter: for this nurse, getting the vaccine means getting a taste of his old life. >> traveling, yes. getting on a plane was my biggest fear. but now at least, in a month or so i could just do that. >> reporter: for the man who runs the emergency room, the vaccine means fewer sick calls at a time when it's all hands on deck. >> we fear getting ill and being out from work and not being able to take care of our patients. >> reporter: a spokesperson for john muir health says they've added hospital beds to the icu as needed. dr. russell rodriguez says even with this invisible layer of security, the winter covid surge is far from over. >> we have weeks to mo

john berman to explain the big picture. what's happening today and explain why? >> it's not just today, it's the next hour, anderson. we'll see four states cast their official electoral votes for president, tennessee, indiana which will cast all of their votes for donald trump and new hampshire and vermont which cast all of their votes for joe biden. why are they doing this? we can thank the constitution of the united states. article ii, section i which says each state may appointment a number of electors equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which that state may be entitled in congress. indiana nine house members and two senators they get 11 votes total. today, that's due to the constitution as well. the 12th amendment of the constitution says the electors shall meet in their representative states and vote by ballot for president and vice president. they have to cast two ballots, one for president and one for vice president. it begins this hour and finishes up at 7:00 when hawaii does its meeting. joe biden will go over 275 votes when california casts its ballots, anderson. >> this is in the

cnn's coverage from times square with anderson cooper and andy cohen kicks off at 8:00 eastern time. it's must-watch tv. happy new year. my colleague john avlon continues our coverage right now. >>> thanks for joining us for a special new year's eve edition of "newsroom." i'm john avlon. as we get ready to say goodbye to one of the worst years in american history, there's yet another timely reminder of the challenges we face as a nation. the u.s. closes out 2020 with another single day pandemic death record, 3,740 lives lost. experts are warning that we could be heading towards 5,000 deaths per day, even 7,000 deaths per day in the coming winter months. a new cdc projection, forecasters expecting another 80,000 americans to die in the next three weeks. outgoing president trump returns to washington today. again, his attention is not on covid, but his flailing quest to overturn the election results. when congress meets to declare joe biden as the winner of the election next week. the focus on fantasy comes at the expense of the pandemic catastrophe. hospitals are at capacity as americans sit inside emergency wings with covid. confirmatio

cnn's coverage from times square with anderson cooper and andy cohen kicks off at 8:00 eastern time. it's must-watch tv. happy new year. my colleague johnoverage right now. >>> thanks for joining us for a special new year's eve edition of "newsroom." i'm john avlon. as we get ready to say goodbye to one of the worst years in american history, there's yet another timely reminder of the challenges we face as a nation. the u.s. closes out 2020 with another single day pandemic death record, 3,740 lives lost. experts are warning that we could be heading towards 5,000 deaths per day, even 7,000 deaths per day in the coming winter months. a new

anderson. >> jim acosta. appreciate it, jim. thanks very much. perspective now from cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger. david axelrod. also, former nixon white house counsel, john dean. david, you know president-elect biden well. what do you make of his speech tonight? and does this now feel like the biden era is much closer at hand? >> oh, there's no doubt about it. look. i think he's been rather -- rather restrained, in the face of everything that's gone on over the last several weeks. it's been clear that he's won this race, for weeks and weeks and weeks. there's been this barrage of disinformation. you know, nuisance lawsuits, across the country, that had no foundation, in fact. and a president calling him illegitimate. having won by 7 million votes and the same number of electoral votes that donald trump claimed, in 2016. so, he had every reason to be irritated. but i thought he hit right tone, anderson, because the fact is there -- there is a lot of heroism in what happened. there's a lot of beauty in what happened, which is that our democracy held. and all across the country, people did their job. sometimes, in the face of enormous pressure. sometimes, i

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anderson house. the projects that ellen just described in one of about to talk about, the book that came from that project, was born here. this was my first archival trip a dissertation a johns hopkins on this issue. i didn't know what i was looking for. i had a question, i want unanswered and i start finding those answers here at the society. it is a great privilege to be back, although it's to know it's been ten years it's a me ten years with that original question to come up with this book that we will talk about today. so with that, let's talk about it shall we? what is this book all about? in ellen told us, this book examines how revolutionary americans dealt with 70 prisoners. british, and also american loyalists. in order to figure that out, i had to begin with a premise. the premise was that prisoners of war, are problematic. they pose a whole host of logistical as well as political problems. prisoners of war in fact have been a perennial problem in the history of warfare. what do you do when you are opponentnt throws down his arms and stops fighting, begging for his life? do you even except that proposition right? do you take prisoners at all? as that person forfeit

david strickland, melissa portman, david martin, doug anderson, lawrence wildgoose, cara fisher, michael davidson, sean bonne, jared bomberg, john beaser, nikki tushell and chris day. from the committee on homeland security and government affairs -- lena chana anika christianson, alexa norik and david wineberg. from the committee on health, education, labor and pensions -- everyone shatz, john rider, nick bath, car spar marcione, nikki mckinley, kend ra isakson, garrick devaney. from the select committee on intelligence, beth friedman, mike casey. from the committee on foreign relations, andrew keller, richie gill, shella arkin. from the committee on agriculture, and forestry, susan keith, kyle varner, claifer boisner, adam tarr. from the committee on energy and natural resources -- renee black, sam fowler, revon cleva, elliott bass ard, armando arvula. from the committee on environment and public works -- john kaine, annie demato, laura gillum, michael freehoff and lucy xau. adam caruso, ann dwyer, jonathan goldman, terry harvey, sally yang, christian lunda, greta paisch, ashley schipitle, beth frable, jamie white, arielle warn

doug anderson, ron allman, lawrence wildgoose, jonathan hail, melissa porter and david strickland for for their work and on the other side of the aisle, james m az. l, simple money perez, and john keist. many members participated in the formation of this legislation. i with aens to thank senators duckworth for -- i want to thank senator duckworth for her work with us on the ntsb recommendations and flight deck alert system that were part of this package of bills to reform the f.a.a. and the f.a.a. process. i want to thank senator moran for his focus on helping us build those standards that we're talking about as far as the f.a.a. going to say that these are the continued standards for improvement in aviation safety. i want to thank senator blunt for his leadership on the air grant program, a very important program that we think will help build up the expertise and knowledge of very, very technical subject certification for people here throughout the process of oversight and legislating and the executive branch. and i want to thank senators cruz and blumenthal for working on such critical elements in the legislation as to how the certification process itself works and what we ne