so we sat around lisa murkowski's house one night, social distancing, windows open, masks on, and started the conversation. it led to where we are today. weeks have passed, hours and hours of zoom calls, and we reached this point. it feels good. it feels like legislating. it feels like why we were elected. said, how do i explain to people in utah that i came to washington to address national debt and health care and we don't talk about it on the floor of the senate? that is the reality. we don't talk about it in polite company. we decided to try it differently. joe manchin, mark warner, susan all of, jean shaheen, them i will miss. we have come so far, and this bill shows it. dramatic amount

so we sat around lisa murkowski's house one night, social distancing, windows open, masks on and started the conversation and it led to where we are today. weeks have passed, hours and hours of zoom calls and we've reached this point. it feels good. it feels like legislating. it feels like why we were elected. i remember at one point, mitt said, how do i explain to the people of utah i came out to washington to address the national debt and health care and we don't even talk about them on the floor of the senate? i remember you said that that night and that's the reality. we just don't talk about them in polite company. well, we decided to try it differently. hats off, joe manchin, mark warner, susan collins, jeanne shaheen, all of them, i'm going to miss them as we go through, lisa for dinner, again. we've come this far and this bill shows, 748 billion

so, lisa murkowski. >> thank you, tom. so this is not just paper, this is hope. that stack of paper, that compilation of ideas and concerns and hopes and fears of people all across the country, this is hope. this is hope for the individual who's wondering if they're going to be able to keep their apartment after the first of the year. this is hope for the food banks that i've been talking to just last week, who came together on a call to me to say, unprecedented, what we've been seeing around the state in terms the need of individuals who are coming to the food banks. people who have never been to the food bank before except to be there as volunteers. and now, they're there as consumers. this is hope for the small businesses that right now are struggling, as we have all come indoors for the winter. there's no dining outside in alaska or in maine or in new hampshire or in utah. this is hope. this is hope for those who have been asking their congress to be responsive to what they're seen in the face of this pandemic. this is not only hope from a policy perspective,

a 21 year effort we did just that from jim baker bob dole susan eisenhower and the family and lisa murkowski keeping it going through tough yearspr now an appropriate and stunning memorial to say western democracy in world war ii and onto the world stage with the final dedication at the end of my senate career a full famy circle accomplishment is my dad helped ike the least i could do to help make a memorial to a great general and president. in a homecoming address eisenhower famously said the best thing i can say is i am from abilene he saved roster democracy led the nation for eight years with peace and prosperity. i also come from a small town in kansas so how did this bully become the longest-serving member of congress in kansas history? like father like son. i graduated from k state with a degree in journalism my father join thmarines in world war ii and saw action in oconomowoc and iwo jima. i was joined in peace time to be part of the first marine contingent to rurn to iwo jima on the 15th anniversary of that battle. from marincaptain to editor i dropped everything and within weeks a

proposed cuts and we have held up those that have no place in the bill to thank you to my friend lisa murkowski who plan the best partner i could ask work. and to have enormous success on tens of thousands of acres of enchanted land for all of us each of the's efforts was collaborative and community driven and that culminated in one of the biggest conjure on - - conservation victories industry the passage of the great american outdoors act. thanks to the determination of the grassroots coalition and many champions here in congress we got the bill over the finish line. for the first time we realize the promise the land and water conservation fund the kind my father envisioned 55 years ago when he helped create our nation's most successful conservation program. after 20 years of fighting for this in congress i am thrilled we got it done and we got it together. together. the law is a model how conservation and economic recovery go hand in hand to achieve the urgent goal of protecting 30 percent of our 2030.nd water by and with the great american outdoors act a time of immense division is a tremend

thank you to my friend lisa murkowski was been the best partner i could ask for in this work. in new mexico where public lands are central to our way of life we've had enormous success on locking tens of thousands of acres of land for all of us to enjoy and get a hot dog every now and then re-at each of these efforts was collaborative and community driven and that collaborative work teculminated in one of the biggest conservation victories in american history: the passage of the great american outdoors act. thanks to the determination of the grassroots coalition and many champions here in congress, we got this bill over the finish line. for the first time, we've realized the promise of the land and rowater conservation. the promise my father envisioned 55 years ago, almost 55 years when he helped create our nation's most accessible conservation programs. after more than 20 years of fighting for this in congress i'm thrilled we got it done and we got it done together. together. the law is a model for how conservation and economic recovery gohand-in-hand . it will help us achiev

effort, we did that with the help from bob dole, jim baker, the eisenhower family and senator lisa murkowski. who kept the commission going through these tough years. finally, we have an appropriate if not stunning memorial to the kansan who saved western democracy in world war ii and let america onto the world stage. with the final dedication of the memorial at the end of my career, it is a full family circle accomplishment. ike, the helped elect least i could do was to lead the effort to make a memorial on the mall to a great president a reality. in the homecoming address, eisenhower said the proudest thing i can say is that i am from abilene. he was a small count -- a small-town kansas boy who led the nation for eight years with peace and prosperity. i come from a small town in kansas. how did this boy from holton, kansas become the longest serving member of congress in kansas history? like father, like son. i graduated from k state with a degree in journalism. my father joined the marines and a world war ii and saw action in okinawa and iwo jima. i was joined in priest time -- served onm

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on the republican side, susan collins, lisa murkowski, bill cassidy and mitt romney. they have put as much time as i have a many times more in this effort to bring us to a point where we can offer a solution. they announced this morning that they've come to a conclusion that the spending part of this is going to be manageable, doable on an bipartisan basis ad should be called ont the floor for passage. i will tell you that the $908 billion package they put together is not what i wanted. i believe there should be dramatically larger amounts put intoll this effort but there's someone at thee side of the aise to believe that little or nothing is needed. they have tried to find a a mie ground and i believe i have with the $908 $908 billion. the way it's allocated across the board inbo a draft framework hits the major elements that we need to act on before we go home for christmas in this month of december. i am not happy with a lot of these figures but that's what it's all about in this world of the united states congress. you come together willing to sit down and listen

from alaska, the bookend of the -- the other bookend of the united states, maine and alaska, lisa murkowski. >> thank you for acknowledging the other pseudoof tside of the. i am pleased and honored to have been working with an exceptional group of senators and colleagues in the house to respond to the crisis at hand. i think it's important, as we look to not only the men and women that are assembled here but recognizing who we represent, where we come from and what has happened in our parts of the country. in my home state this morning at 8:00 in anchor raj we are going into our third round of hunker down. basically we're shutting down the businesses, restaurants, bars, hair salons, gyms, basically what happens in a day-to-day life for the people of anchor rage and what that th means to them as they go into a pretty dark and cold time of year with job loss, with insecurity as it relates to food. with insecurity as it relates to not only their schools and their jobs, but whether or not they're going to be able to stay in their home. our response, our responsibility is to come together, not a

four republican senators, mitt romney, susacollins, lisa murkowski and bill cassidy who was on this program yesterday presented the $908 million compromise proposal to mcconnell in his capital office thursday. president-elect joe biden was asked about efforts on capitol hill to pass the new package of economic relief. here is what he said. >> do you support that bill? do you think that you go to the floor of the senate? >> if they get what they are talking about, i think it was $900 billion, that would be a good start. it is not enough, we need to focus on things that are immediately needed. what is immediately needed is relief for people, unemployment checks, relief for people who will get thrown out of their apartment after christmas because they can't afford to pay their rent anymore, relief on mortgage payments, relief on all the things that are in the original bill the house passed, may have changed again today, i don't know, maybe you know but the fact the president said he wouldn't sign any such legislation. i am told, i may be mistaken, i'm not there every day in the senate anymore

on my good friend from alaska, the book and -- the of the u.s., lisa murkowski. >> thank you for acknowledging the other side of the country. i am pleased and honored to be working with an exceptional group of senators and working with colleagues in the house to respond to the crisis at hand. i think it is important as we look to not only the men and women that are assembled here, but recognizing who we represent , where we come from, and what has happened in our part of the country. , we are goingte to the third round of hunker down. there shutting down businesses, restaurants, bars, hair salons, the gyms. basically, what happens in the day-to-day life of the people of anchorage. and they are going to a pretty dark and cold time of year. security -- with insecurity as it relates to food, with insecurity as it relates to their schools, their jobs, if they will stay in their home. our responsibility is to come ,ogether, not as republicans coming up with a proposal that will provide for targeted emergency relief. it has been said that this is not what everybody would wish. people are going to lo

and i think the first meeting was pause lisa murkowski invited people to are pizza at her place and that resulted in a positive interaction between republicans and democrats on a lot of issues to be able to put together a package that will help our country right now to work through this crisis. i wish i could say that things are better, but when i look at my own home state of ohio, i see just the opposite. in fact, over the past few weeks, we've had annual-- we've had weekly cases that have increased, not decreased. our number of daily yu cases is averaging around 10,000 a day now every day, that's double what it was just a month ago so at least in my state, the coronavirus crisis has increased, not decreased. by the same token, the economic crisis that's a result of the covid-19 crisis has continue to grow. so we have seen people who have lost their jobs because their restaurant doesn't have any business not because there is a government edict. some states have said you have to shut down, some said you have to shut down outdoor dining and not just indoor dining, people have lost their j

i think we will a be spendi lot of time looking at senators like lisa murkowski from alaska, susan collinse. they have bucked the president and their party even on donald tru's nominees. judy: speaking of president trump, the president is still insisting on a regular basis that he won the election, it is ly by fraud that joe biden won. even after they certify the results. my question is, what is this t sayithe people who supported president trump? they are citizens under the joe biden presidency. what is that going to mean for joe biden as he tries to fold the country together? >> that will be something joe something he has begun working onhen you go back to some of his public comments, trying to ke clear that he sees himself as a precedent for all the remarkable thing with what is happening with president trump is that there is reality and then there is what president trump is dng. the professional lawyers who worked on his campaign are not putting their names on any of forts right now to clai fraud or overturn the election results. it is not the well-knownpr essional lawyers who are doin

the reports are that it was lisa murkowski's living room that they went to, socially distanced, and they windows opened. the meantime, when it comes to the question of that cyberattack, we will talk about that in our second hour. if what the about united states does should be done publicly or behind closed doors. and we are also analyzing the new paycheck protection plan. that is coming up in our second hour. this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. bloomberg television and radio. mark: i'm mark crumpton with bloomberg first word news. this is the deadliest year in u.s. history with deaths expected to top 3 million for the first time due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic. final mortality data will not be available for months, but preliminary numbers suggest that you as is on track to see about 50% more deaths than in 2019. that would mark the largest single your percentage leap 46ce 1918 when deaths soared percent due to world war i and a flu pandemic. coronavirus related deaths soared 31% in new york city in the past week, while cases declined, and hospitalizations

will be the definition of divided -- we will need to watch the two at risk for flipping sides, lisa murkowskijoe mansion. he will look at a 60 vote threshold -- you will look at a 60 vote threshold for any legislation. that is what vice print -- that is what president-elect biden is signaling he will make his state of the union address about, his inaugural speech, and concentrate exclusively on the coronavirus, the need for stimulus, and that will occupy the first quarter of 2021 until they get it. if there is a 50 seat democrat "majority" they will try to pursue things like reconciliation and get more funding, but you will not see anymore legislation passed. i encourage our clients to focus on things that can change at the regulatory level and trade policy, u.s. china relations, u.s. eu, u.s. japan. that is the focus on the future. jonathan: we always enjoyed catching up with you. treyz.ta here's the story of last 22 minutes. downside surprise on payrolls. lower.vious read revised the market read pretty clear. soft read on the headline number. seen as a stimulant to provide the stimulus in w

republicans keep control of the senate, is more moderate republicans like senator susan collins and lisa murkowskise world they have to be the negotiating type to deal with president-elect joe biden as it relates to another fiscal stimulus package. that's the biggest unknown. but then cuppled with that is this -- coupled with that is this interesting tension emerging on the geopolitical front, not just the u.s.-china front but the u.s.-middle east front. as commander in chief, the biden team will have quite frankly much more leeway to make more geopolitical decisions just because they have to face a divided congress. lisa: where is trump, president trump at this point given the fact that joe biden is trying to set up his cabinet and get in the door, but there still are massive issues that need to be dealt with before the year-end. kevin: president trump is going to be continuing to try to get there to be a republican majority. he's going to be participating in the campaign with regards to the georgia runoff. he and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell have their goals aligned in the sense they bo

senator lisa murkowski saying this. >> i think the race is over. >> well, too bad. more of senator mccowski's colleagues aren't willing to say that. republican congressman denver wriggleman of virginia saying this today. >> just seems like this is what we do as americans. it doesn't seem that's that big of a stretch to have a peaceful transition that we're looking at things based on fact and not on things that are really fantasy. >> and then there are the local republican officials standing up for the facts. georgia secretary of state brad rathensberger blasting what he calls massive amounts of disinformation and going on to say this -- >> there are those who are ex employed ploiting the emotions with fantastic claims, half truths, misinformation and frankly they're misleading the president as well, apparently. >> remember, these are republicans. georgia election official gabriel sterling, even more blunt. >> the ridiculous things claimed in some of these lawsuits are just that. they're insanity. fever dream, made up. internet, ka balance -- how many ever words i ca

susan collins and kelly loeffler and lisa murkowski and rob portman and these people who were stuck inetween the traditional pillars of the republican party, which is smaller government, less debt -- donald trump doesn't care about that. and voting against more money for people who quite clearly, on its face, need it. it's a terrible position as the -- forget the leader of the country, which i think he abdicated long ago, but the leader of your party, it's a terrible position to put those senators in to vote on. >> i will also say, as we say thank you to you, there's a statement from mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, which we will talk about. what is absent is there's going to be a vote, which is not surprising. chris, thanks for coming back. >> yep. >>> as i mentioned, mitch mcconnell just responded to the president signing this bill. we will have more on what this says and what it means for you out there who are looking for, hoping for help. it looks like the president signed it. you will get some. stay with us. the new myww+ is our most holistic program ever. you get more

then you're going to have susan collins and mitch romney and lisa murkowski saying i don't know i kind of like spending money. they're going to swing over to the dark side. chris hawn. >> you're also going to have a country that's going to need the federal government to spend some money because the president has destroyed the economy of the great nation we live in right now. >> because he single-handedly had covid and sprinkled it all of the country? yeah. >> he failed to lead a more people got covid then needed to get it let's call it what is. he's got no plan for anything. kennedy: except the plans at joe biden's going to used to fight covid that were exact same plans. >> as for bout stepping in georgia, that is a ridiculous statement, tom. that never happened but there's no evidence about her is a state run by republicans who were doing the right thing trying to get people to vote. the republicans are in trouble in georgia because the president is making it very hard for them to win with what's going on. kennedy: what about some of the organizations especially when led by stacy abra

at a dinner with -- i guess there were eight of us, lisa murkowski's home, we said let's try to come up with something that we can agree on. that group grew, became a little larger. we put together a bill. we agree on it. we think it's important to get this passed before the year is over. >> what about direct payments? that's not in here. you said there are other more pressing matters but you can't tell that to people hot who can't make the rent or buy the food. >> good news is that the people who can't make the rent get rental assistance in this bill. there's also tens of billions of dollars going into food assistance, food stamps, food banks, so forth. people who can't make the rent, people who don't have money for food will get help. we're going to extend unemployment insurance at $300 a week on top of the state provision. additional funds to those who are unemployed. the key, of course, is let's keep the cost of this from becoming backbreaking and adding huge debt from our national balance sheet and sending checks to people who don't need it. i know it's popular for people who li

back, mitt romney who has been a frequent critic has called the president's claims dangerous and lisa murkowskican senator told me that the president should concede. jim? >> their standards have changed, too. initially they said legal process in court, of course, he has lost in court now they are talking about the electors being chosen. we will try to keep up. >>> you can catch rafael car knock and kelly loeffler face on the senate georgia debate. that airs 7:00 eastern time right here on cnn. cnn gets an exclusive inside look at how china handled the coronavirus outbreak. what they knew, what they told the public during the early weeks of the pandemic. as a technical director at 3m, i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives. my team helped expand the benefits of reflective technology, so it's highly visible when it needs to be, and less visible when it doesn't. whether you're hard at work or heading home for dinner, it's there when it matters most. we know that what we do helps more people get home safely. at 3m, we aspire to improve lives. ♪ ♪ ♪ heart monitors that let your docto

centrist group, people like susan collins and mark warner are getting together, joe mansion, lisa murkowskithey've been criticized for not being able to produce results but they seem to have at least revised the talks right now. you have both side exchanging paperwork this week. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell talking to the democratic leaders. steve mnuchin seems to want to deal. they had their stimulus bill today and yesterday. that's far away from the sent risk $908 billion deal. so we're still a way to go and we have a very limited amount of time left. december real -- december 11 is the deadline i for the talks to end and congress members to go home. >> neil: when you talk about the white house, i don't mean to -- i'm not trying to be flippant here, the president. because he was a fan of going big, the bigger the better in the campaign. and urging that the -- that the -- that it meant signing on to something -- i don't remember $2 trillion or more where nancy pelosi was, a little north of that. that was fine. but the issue that $908 billion is too pricey? is it -- where does tha

you'll see joe biden trying to really seriously talk to people like rob portman and people like lisa murkowski and people like, you know, john thune and others who, you know, now mitch is pretty good at keeping everybody in the corral and that's what you're seeing now. he was having difficulty keeping everybody in the corral on denying that joe biden had won this election. so he finally capitulated because he had real friction in his caucus over people saying, wait a minute, we can't keep being quiet about this. so in -- i can't overstate how important the georgia elections are. it is going to make a big difference to -- as to the role of mitch mcconnell going forward. >> so, claire, let me start with you, then, is how this covid relief deal came together, is that the model of how biden has to work with the senate is basically find a coalition of the willing on the right, and in this case it was, you had the three people we could have predicted, right, collins, murkowski and romney and bill cassidy, you brought up portman. cassidy is one of those guys that wants to be in the mix. is that the m

predictions but the democrat-led house will certify the election results and republicans like lisa murkowski of course i'll certify the election results, siding with the democrats in the senate to make sure that the legitimate process is upheld. this is going to put republicans in a difficult position of having to either choose between legitimately respecting the process or being seen as siding with president trump, so josh hawley is creating this sort of false choice that they have to make. >> thank you guys, happy new year. >>> coming up, the georgia senate candidates are making their final push ahead of today's election. what they're doing on the ground, the big surrogates on their way and what to expect from the last day of early voting. >>> plus the latest on the investigation into the national christmas bombing. the bomber believed in conspiracy theories. what investigators are learning. that's ahead. ♪ 2020 that's it calling anyone with grit change this, change that, but don't ever quit 2020's done a new era has begun so keep pushing forward... because this is twenty twenty won the fu

but i would also look at somebody like a mit romney, a lisa murkowski from alaska, a susan collins from reaching across the aisle. i think these georgia races are going to be important to see what the final make-up of the senate is. but understand it's going to take a herculean effort by the president-elect and his team to get this senate and to get this congress and really to repair our democracy. to get it in a place where governing is something that is a possibility. we're a long, long way away from it being a probability. we've got to get it back to being a possibility. >> before people hop on twitter no horses were harmed in the production of this broadcast. hey, steve schmidt, i want to quote from a letter you have written as part of an outreach to aoc, perhaps making for one of the best political pairings of the year that ceases to surprise us. i would like to officially reach out to aoc on behalf of the lincoln project in defense of democracy. we disagree on many issues and that is okay in our view. by the way, we don't look down on waitresses. we admire them. we are all the typ

the other who has congratulated joe biden is lisa murkowski, a moderate senator from alaska. also been willing to cross her party. that's another relationship to watch as we wait for the joe biden administration to begin. >> michael, thank you so much for taking us through that. we'll be watching it with you. >>> there's major new developments in the race for a vaccine, and they come at the same time that the cdc director is warning the next three months will be the most difficult in america's health history. >>> plus why would the president discuss pardons for family members who may not be under investigation? being a good father is important to me... ...so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer... ...made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. my doctor said i could start on keytruda... ...so i did. with each scan things just got better. in a clinical study, keytruda offered patients a longer life than chemotherapy. and it could be your first treatment. for non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, keytruda can be used... ...for adult

some republicans are taking issue with leader mcconnell's position, namely, senator lisa murkowski, who is part of that bipartisan group that introduced that $900 billion plan. we're told that she said during a senate republican conference call earlier this week that it's offensive to, you know, put forward what she calls messaging bills. that's obviously something that leader mcconnell pushed back on, but it shows the tension right now within the gop on capitol hill. >> yeah, so i mean, what is your -- when you say messaging bill, just to make it clear for our viewers, that's the idea that mcconnell's putting forward this $500 billion package that he knows is too small but that gives his members something to rally around, say that they're doing -- when i say he knows it's too small -- it's too small for democrats to accept -- >> right. >> and there is going to have to be some sort of negotiation to actually make a law. i guess my question is, did the fact that democrats lost seats in the house, didn't do as well as they expected to do in the senate -- i mean, have they lost all negotia

republicans and i think that should be possible with republicans like mitt romney and susan collins and lisa murkowskithink there is a possibility of doing deals. i think he understands that most republicans will do anything possible to oppose him and have the interest of their party first and foremost, not the interests of their country. he understands that, but he also understands that there is a handful that is more pragmatic and centrist, and by not demonizing republicans as a party, i think he's leaving open the possibility of being able to strike some very important deals with a handful of republican senators. >> max boot, great to see you. thank you so much. >> thank you very much, brooke. >>> coming up next, what we've learned about vice president pence skmiz roand his role in a house meeting about how to help trump overturn the election. le♪ woo vicks vapocool drops now in honey lemon chill the only thing a disaster can't destroy is hope. donate now at redcross.org to save you up to 60%. these are all great. and when you get a big deal... ♪ ...you feel like a big deal. ♪ priceline. every trip

senator lisa murkowski told me that she believes that the president should concede, going much further than most republicans on capitol hill. she would not say even if she voted for the president in the november election. but there are republicans who are egging on the president including lindsey graham. he said he spoke to the president this weekend, the president said that he wants to fight for every vote. and lindsey graham said he should keep doing it. and then when i asked whether trump should go to biden's inauguration he said "i hope he does." but he also added, erin, that the president should go -- he hopes that the president goes to -- sorry, that biden goes to the president's inauguration. >> it's just pathetic. it's pathetic. and he knows better and should do better. manu, thank you very much. i want to bring in michael smerconish, host of cnn's smerconish. amanda carpenter former dmuxs director for senator ted cruz. she did vote for joe bide penn p and david gergen, former presidential adviser to four presidents of both parties. amanda, let me start with you. lindsey graham

split on recognizing joe biden as the president-elect where you had people like mitt romney and lisa murkowskiho did it right after the networks did. now you're seeing other republicans, including mitch mcconnell recognize after the electoral college. there's still a sizable number of republicans who are not on board on this. so republicans aren't unified, whether you come to the covid relief talks or the senate runoffs in january. >> let's talk about those -- by the way, on the senate runoffs, it's testing, the same day mish mcconnell is acknowledging joe biden as the president-elect, joe biden is in georgia working to flip the balance of power to make sure mcconnell is no longer the majority leader come 2021. you mentioned covid relief, mark. this is the week for it. if it's going to happen, it's going to happen this week. my understanding is you have these bipartisan proposals now. where is this going? >> again, hallie, i think the votes are certainly there. the we is whether there's still the political leadership to get them done. as we've been reporting and our capitol hill team has been