she was defeated by former astronaut mark kelly. a heart of gratitude. serving and fighting for arizona as a u.s. senator has been the opportunity of a lifetime. many times in the last two years i had to pinch myself that this middle-class veteran became one of only 1,984 americans to serve in the u.s. senate and only 677 to serve in both chambers of congress since our nation was formed. like most americans, on my life journey i have overcome adversity which could have crushed me. by the grace of god instead gave me purpose to fight for others. my dad died of a heart attack. i learned to treat each day of this life as a gift. i was reminded of that will when my brother passed away. though it wasn't from covid, this deep grief, is one too many of us have faced in 2020. we've been reminded that every moment, every day, every chapter of our lives is truly a gift. as it has been for most chapters of my life, i didn't come here in the traditional or easy way. i want to first thank the governor for the blessing to serve the great state of arizona, especially d

certification, with senator elect mark kelly and the general election, i will be signing official documentation today that will be hand-delivered to the secretary of the united states senate so that arizona's newest senator can be sworn into office as swiftly as possible. and with that, let's get to work. >> thank you, governor ducey. with that, i will sign this document which contains arizonans official results of the 2020 general election. after i signed the canvas, i will pass it to governor ducey, the attorney general and chief justice will place their signatures on the document as will placeen they the seal on the document. this signed and sealed document now constitutes the official canvas results of the november 3, 2020 general election. based on the official canvas, my office and the governor's office have also prepared the certificates of ascertainment for presidential electors, a certificate of election for u.s. senators, and the proclamation by the governor declaring the ballot measures approved by the voters, and we will now sign each of the documents. all right, well, this conclude

in addition to certification, with senator mark kelly wanting the dinner election, i will be signing official documentation today that will be hand delivered to the secretary of the united states senate so that arizona's newest senator can be sworn into office as swiftly as possible. and with that, let's get to work. >> all right. thank you, governor. with that, i will sign this canvas document, which contains arizona's official results for the 2020 general election based on campuses from each of the 15 counties. after i sign the canvas, i will pass it to you, governor ducey, and the chief justice, will place or signatures on the document, as well. then a seal will be placed on the document. [indiscernible] each? on >> yeah. [laughter] [indiscernible] >> this signed and sealed document now is the canvas result of the 2020 general election. based on the official canvass, my office in the governor's office have also prepared the certificate of ascertainment for presidential electors, the certificate of election for u.s. senator, and the proclamation by the governor declaring the ballot

she was defeated by former astronaut mark kelly.

mark kelly is now a u.s. senator from arizona.o occupy john mccain's old senate seat. he beat fellow military veteran and failed trump acolyte martha mcsally. without being treat, mark kelly's life thus far has been one of soaring highs and crushing lows. he becomes the fourth astronaut in our history elected to congress. john glenn, of course, was the first. indeed he may decide he prefers space to the senate chamber. he spent a combined 54 days in space. over four shuttle missions. prior to that, he flew combat missions in desert storm. mitch mcconnell should know he doesn't scare easily. he would likely not be in the senate if not for a horrible morn in a supermarket parking lot in tucson, arizona, in 2011, when his wife survived an assassination attempt that day and for nine years now has been working valiantly every day to recover from those wounds. both gun owners, embarked on a national campaign to keep guns out of the wrong hands. just yesterday, they went to the final resting place of john mccain, a revered american milit

she was defeated by democrat and former astronaut mark kelly. on the senate floor with a heart of gratitude. serving and fighting for arizona as a u.s. senator has been the opportunity of a lifetime. many times in the last two years i had to pinch myself that this middle-class veteran became one of only 1,984 americans to serve in the u.s. senate and only 677 to serve inot

tomorrow arizona democrat and former mark kelly will be sworn into the senate. he defeated senator mar that mcsally in november but we could seeork on federal spending package this week live senate coverage here on cspan2. >> a senate armed service subcommittee looks at marine readiness with a hearing on wednesday. our live coverage but separate 915 eastern on c-span three, online at c-span.org or listen live with the free c-span radio app. earlier today senate republican and democratic leaders held news conferences to discuss the current state of covid-19 negotiations. first move from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. and senate republicans. cnet. [background noises] [background noises] >> good afternoon everyone. we just had a lunch meeting, conference call this time, where the growing concern about the rise of coronavirus. and we adjusted our meeting to reflect our concern about being extra safe. and conducting what we believe is essential work for the american people. the subject of additional coronavirus relief is on the minds of lots of members. you'

a fond welcome to my new friend, mark kelly. and, mr. president, i have some more remarks, more on the topics, but i think i will defer those with unanimous consent that i could talk about those later so we can get right to senator alexander's remarks at the 10:30 scheduled time. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will rept. the clerk: nomination, national credit union administration, kyle hauptman of maine to be a member. mr. alexander: mr. president, i thank my friend mitch and my friend chuck for their remarks. i will have more to say to them later. on march 9, 1967, senator howard h. baker jr., the newly elected senator from tennessee, made his maiden address, his first speech on the floor of the united states senate. he spoke for too long. the republican leader of the senate, also baker's father in law, senator dirksen, w

capital where mark kelly began his new mission as an arizona senator.>> congratulation senator.>> kelly is a fourth astronaut to be elected to congress. his nasa career included for shuttle missions to the international space station and he is married to a former congresswoman who survived s&s nation and assassination attempt. >> she is the one who taught me about the side of public service. and what it means to use public policy to improve people's lives. >> senator kelly is a democrat and replaces republican martha mc sally who was appointed to the seat after senator mccain's death. it flips a crucial seat in the democrats effort to take control of the u.s. senate. in the final balance will be determined by georgia's two runoff races next month. >>> still ahead on kpix 5 inch and streaming on cbsn bay area, steph curry gets candidate. what he says he might be borrowing from the former president this season. >> we are getting closer to one of silicon valley's most highly anticipated trials. the unusual precautions for the jury. >>> i'm john ramose in san francisco. protests are breakin

mark kelly was sworn in as a democrat senator of arizona today.tor john mccain. >> hey, senator-elect. >> reporter: a full circle of moment for mark kelly. >> i do. >> reporter: standing by his wife former congresswoman gabby giffords as her old office building becomes his and sworn in today as the newest senator of arizona. >> it would not be possible without you! >> reporter: this moment of triumph has its roots in tragedies. >> number one, a shooting gentlem. >> reporter: in 2011 giffords was shot in the head and nearly killed at a campaign event. it was then that kelly was th s thursd thrust into the spotlight. >> maybe something good can come from all of this. maybe it's our responsibility? maybe it's your responsibility to see that something does. >> reporter: kelly later turned into a political activist launching americans for responsible solutions alongside his wife fighting for gun control policies like universal background checks and red flag laws. >> gabby and i are both gun owners. we are strong supporters of the second amendment but w

ht in the n is rig and he's in the middle of things because he now has mark kelly from arizona, kristin sinema who haot with him 90% of the time over the past few years, governor hicken looper who is going to be another moderate to conservative democratic then you got susan collins who won a state in maine by nine points that joe biden also won in -- by nine points. so you got six, seven, eight .moderates on both sid and people like lindsey graham and jornst saying they want to get involved in this covid al and i really would think of everything that's happened this week, theanin coalition expanding out, manchin and romney, expanding out to six, e seven,ht, nine, 10 moderates in the senate, really is a mostmportant development if you're trying to figure out not what happened the last four years,hat's going to happen over the next two years? of course, bernieidanders has e can't support this bill. people like tom cotton also concerd on the other side they can't support the deal. you're going to have a lot of otogressives and af tea party conservatives, if there still are such a thing in

mark kelly probably going to be sworn in today.state of arizona. so they are going to be moderate. you look at governor hickenlooper, when he is sworn in, will certainly be in the middle of the political spectrum. he is not an ideologue. he is an entrepreneur, of course. you have joe manchin, the bane of a lot of progressive democrats' existence but he is in middle and talking about opportunities that we are going to have. on the republican side, mitt romney has expressed willingness to work with joe biden and the democrats. you can also, of course, look at susan collins, lisa murkowski, who said the same thing. and right now, of course, we have senator warner, who we are going to be talking to soon about this, but also out of pennsylvania pat toomey now once again showing up into these bipartisan groups like he did with joe manchin after newtown. so there you have a bipartisan group of eight senators, which certainly could swing the senate one way or the other on a lot of bipartisan legislation. >> yeah, i guess we will have to wa

. >>> former astronaut mark kelly will be sworn into the senate today to fill the last two terms of john his wife, former congresswoman, gabby giffords, paid their respects to john mccain tuesday at the naval cemetery academy. >>> overseas, a 9-month-old baby was killed after a man drove into a crowd of pedestrians in southwest germany. police say he may suffer from mental illness. >>> today's weather, snow moves through new england. chilly temperatures will extend into florida this morning. a new storm system brings snow to the plains and rain to the gulf coast. >>> and finally, the lucky parents introducing us to their miracle newborn. >> their baby has set a record being born from a 27-year-old frozen embryo. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning, a tennessee family celebrating their new miracle baby. >> we always make the joke that they've been frozen for so long, of course, they don't sleep now. >> reporter: molly everett gibson, now a healthy little girl, was a frozen embryo for more than 27 years, making her the longest embryo frozen before birth. >> hi. >> repor

tonight, former astronaut mark kelly is the country's newest senator.e president pence administered the oath of office today to the arizona democrat as the state's senior senator. kyrsten sinema held a bible. kelly won a special election to fill the seat held by the late senator john mccain. his wife, gabby giffords, the former congresswoman who survived a 2011 assassination attempt, spent the day by her husband's side. this was a big day for american airlines and for boeing. for the first time since march of 2019, passengers flew on a 737 max. the jetliner was grounded llrldwide following two deadly crashes overseas. cbs' kris van cleave had a seat on today's flight. >> reporter: tonight, back in the air with passengers aboard. we are on an american airlines 737 max as it takes off from dallas heading for tulsa, oklahoma. this is a demo flight. it's part of american's effort to get people comfortable with the idea of flying on a max again, but it's also really the first time anyone from the public has been allowed to fly on this airplane since it was g

kelly's win marks the first time since 1953 that arizona will be represent body democrats in the senatefornia senator diane feinstein said she parted secretary of state alex padilla to fill senator kamala harris's seat. she said today in an interview that he would represent california well. padilla worked as an aid to the senator 25 years ago. if appointed by governor newsom, he would be the state's first latino senator. he served on the l.a. city council and the state senate before being elected as secretary of state five years ago. >>> new details on the ongoing corruption scandal at san francisco city hall. city administrator naomi kelly is now taking a leave of absence two days after her husband stepped down as general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission. federal prosecutors are accusing harlan kelly of accepting bribes from a contractor as part of a pay to play scheme. naomi kelly has not been charged wait crime, but the criminal complaint against her husband said she attended a family vacation that was a paid for by the contractor. she is the 5th department he

mark kelly worn in by former vice president biden as the next senator from arizona.unman shot her in the head when she was holding an event outside of a grocery store. he defeated the republican mcsal toe win the seat. president-elect joe biden admitting that democrats forgot rural americans. he said there is no way the party can lose almost every rural county in the nation. peter doocy now with more from wilmington, delaware. >> joe biden is saying that part of the job as president for him will be bringing rural americans who found trump appealing back under the democratic party tent. he told the "new york times": it goes to the issues of dignity. how you treat people. they feel forgotten. i think we forgot them. biden shrugged off congressional concerns about neera tanden who managed to offend progressives and conservatives over the last few years. biden said if nasty tweets matter 90% of republicans will boe not available for jobs. he said tanden is smart as hell. transition officials are telling fox they don't forecast massive progressive deflections. but republi

mark kelly's wife was just worn in as a governor.e was able to take the oes because the race that he won in november was a special election and it is note able that the vice president is wearing in the winning from an arizona race because president trump continues to insist that the results were rigged and wrought with fraud. mark dekelly is the senator and the president lost the state of arizona. >> and there is now an investigation for bribery for pardons scheme. the president says it is all fake news. >>> and largely believing joe biden won because of massive fraud, many of them do not believe that listening to experts can help prevent the spread of coronavirus or the science behind climate change. david brooks joins us on why the republican party has become detached from reality. ♪ [ beeping ] [ engine revs ] ♪ uh, you know there's a 30-minute limit, right? tell that to the rain. [ beeping ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. we're all finding ways to keep moving. but how do we make sure the direction we're hea

mark kelly is now a u.s. senator from arizona.to occupy john mccain's old senate seat. he beat fellow military veteran and failed trump acolyte martha mcsally. his life has been one of soaring highs and crushing lows. the fourth astronaut elected to congress, and he may decide he prefers space to the senate chamber. he spent a combined 54 days in space. prior to that, he flew combat missions in desert storm. mitch mcconnell should know he doesn't scare easily. he would likely not be in the senate if not for a horrible morning in tucson, arizona, when his wife was shot. gabby giffords and her husband, both gun owners, embarked on a national campaign to keep guns out of the wrong hands. just yesterday, they went to the final resting place of john mccain, longtime p.o.w., u.s. senator, republican presidential nominee. his name and memory have sadly been savaged by the incumbent president, but his name and memory will live on with the new democratic senator from arizona. that is our broadcast for this wednesday night. with our thanks

this afternoon, mark kelly will be sworn in by vice-president mi pence. and now live to the floor of the u.s. senate. the chaplain: let us pray. righteous god, refresh our lawmakers as a river in the desert and as the cool shadows of large trees in a hot and weary land. may our senators find in you a hope that illuminates the paths

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mark kelly was sworn in to the arizona u.s. senate seat formerly held by senator john mccain. kelly's swearing in marks the first time since the 1950s that arizona has had two democrats in its two senate seats. at the same time, the senate today got a farewell address from a senator named lamar alexander, the same lamar alexander who was just absolutely flummoxed by that call he got from the u.s. attorney on that wednesday in january 41 years ago, telling him that he was going to have to take office three days early to stop that corrupt, outgoing governor from giving out irrevocable pardons that were illegally bought and paid for. they needed him to take office to stop a crime in progress. lamar alexander did not want to do that, but he did it at the request of law enforcement. lamar alexander would serve two terms as governor in tennessee after that weird start. he served three terms in the united states senate. he is now 80 years old and retiring from public service. he made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as his closing speech in the u.s. senate today. one of the things t

former nasa astronaut mark kelly is now a u.s. senator from arizona.y by vice president mike pence to serve the final two years of the late john mccain's term. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell gave an emotional farewell today to longtime colleague lamar alexander. the tennessee senator is retiring at the end of his term. >> i myself have leaned on lamar's wisdom for many years. i think i've learned just as much on his optimism. his candid spirit, his ability to look on the bright side. and how hard work and make it brighter still. >> bret: alexander was first elected in 2002. while joe biden concentrates on his economic plan, republicans attack one of his economic advisors. it's because there is no chance their candidate will be confirmed. she might as well step aside. go back to the drawing board. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning - god. and freedom is essential to learning. its principles must be studied and defended. learning

protect his conference and protect the members of the republican conference as it stands, 52 now that mark kelly has been sworn in in arizona. david gets a key point. we're trying to figure out what it means for the republican party. are the votes serving as prosecuti prosecution sees for the republican theory when you have josh hawley on marco rubio lining up. the most important is the georgia senate race. there's no other way to look at it. you have david perdue in the last several days crucial to getting donald trump to sign onto the stimulus. he and kelly loeffler said they would support the $2,000 stimulus checks to this point, some caveats in there. where they stand, this is a bad vote for two members of the united states senate up for re-election in a matter of days, given the fact that giving people money, given the economic times we're in polls pretty darn well. how mitch mcconnell navigates this, how procedurally he puts it on the senate floor will be very interesting to see. jim as you know and david and kaitlan noted earlier, the president put his party in a difficult spot on this ve

to be the end of the line for jutd judy shel nomination with yesterday's swearing in of democrat mark kelly, the senator from arizona replacing republican martha mcsally, the gop no longer has the votes to confirm her. the senate confirming christopher waller to the fed board of governors >> steve weiss, back to you. as you were saying >> yeah, so each time we've seen the market move we've talked in the past, okay, can the market move without apple can the market move without the faangs we've seen that it could there's trading at highs but there have been relative laggards can the market move without the banks coming back? we've always had that rotating conversation we've seen that the market is rotating uickly, now raising all ships. i'm still positive in the porbun is higher. >> what about this idea instead of growth or value, now it's as you laid out this increasing breadth in the market, it's growth and value are we supposed to just buy the market >> this has been my strategy i want to have stocks that thrive in any environment and have seen demand, adoption pulled forward from the wo w

acknowledged the results of the election and announced he'll swear in his new state's democratic senator mark kelly. he asked why rushing to put a democrat in office and ducey nine different tweets explaining arizona election law. a member of trump's legal team is now insisting he was being sarcastic when he called for violence against chris krebs, the election security official trump fires. >> that guy is a class a moron. he should be drawn and quartered and taken out at dawn and shot! >> reporter: it wasn't long after the associated press had published those remarkable comments by bill barr that he showed up at the white house today, which is notable not because he is the attorney general and he typically is there, ybut he not been there lately. we saw him going into the west wing today. moments after this we asked the white house why he was there because no meeting between barr and trump on his schedule but we are told he had a meeting with mark meadows planned in advance of those comments about no widespread fraud in the election. >> thank you. >>> attorney general william barr today has also a

his duty as vice president and swore in the newest united states senator from arizona, democrat mark kelly. acceptance of the results of an election does not get more clear and more formal than that, actually administering the oath of office to the winner of that election. to find republicans who are willing to stand up to donald trump's lies about the election, you have to get outside of washington, because there isn't a single republican in washington with the minimal courage it would take to stand up to donald trump's lies about the election and call them lies. you have to go to georgia to find that kind of courage. today georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, publicly confirmed that he completely agrees with what one of the officials in his office, gabriel sterling, said yesterday in a passionate denunciation of donald trump's dangerous lies. >> and just to let you know, yes, i didn't know what gabriel sterling was going to say yesterday. that had our full support. he spoke with passion and he spoke with truth. and it's about time that more people were out there s

also yesterday, senator mark kelly of arizona was sworn in by vice president mike pence, becoming thected into the senate. kelly's one of two democrats who were successful in unseating republican incumbents in last month's election, narrowing the republican majority in the senate. following the ceremony, the vice president avoided questions about whether or not he accepts the results in arizona, although, clearly, swearing in kelly is considered a formal acknowledgement by the trump administration that the arizona results have, in fact, been certified and are legitimate. there are some ceremonial photos of that moment right there. >>> still ahead here, is the president about to fire attorney general bill barr? according to the "washington post," trump is livid after barr threw cold water on his claims of election fraud. we're going to dig into that new reporting and what the white house is saying. but before we go to break, we want to know, as always, why are you awake? email us your reasons at waytooearly@msnbc.com, or drop me a tweet @kasie. use #waytooearly and we will read all of

this comes as arizona democratic senator-elect mark kelly, who defeated republican incumbent martha mcsally, is set to be sworn in on wednesday. his victory means the senate's balance of power will be decided in georgia's twin run-off elections scheduled for january 5, when republican incumbents kelly loeffler and david perdue will face challengers reverend raphael warnock and david ossoff. some georgia republicans have raised fears that trump's attacks could suppress republican voter turnout, leading to a democratic-controlled senate. schools in baltimore, maryland, are closed for a second day after a ransomware attack shut down much of the school district's computer network. authorities have revealed few details on what was compromised or if the attacker made any demands. this comes as "the new york times" reveals hospitals and other medical institutions are coming under an increasing wave of cyber attacks. a recent attack on the university of vermont health network took down the electronic medical record system for nearly a month, disrupting care for chemotherapy patients and others. in

. >>> former astronaut and retired navy captain, mark kelly, sworn in as u.s. senator, this hour., martha mcsally, in a special election. he will finish the remainder of late senator john mok caccain's. in fact, paid tribute yesterday by visiting his grave with his wife. a hero of mine, since i was a young pilot. he left a legacy to arizona and country that can't be matched but that we all should strive towards. meanwhile, georgia's airwaves are being flooded with ads. total ad spending, already, surpassed $318 million. and when it comes to messaging, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. listen to this from the contest between senator kelly loeffler and reverend raphael warnock. >> police power. the kind of gangster and thug mentality. >> warnock attacks our police. >> somebody's got to open up the jails. >> raphael warnock is dangerous. raphael warnock, the radicals' radical. >> when people have no vision, they revert to division. while she is busy calling me names, let me tell you where i stand. i believe that, in the greatest nation in the world, people should have affordabl

senate gathered and trent gobbling out for this afternoon errors on democrat mark kelly was sworn to the senate by mike pence. he is a former astronaut he defeated republican senator martha mcsally in a special election to serve out the last two years of john mccain's term. also number farewell tributes to senator lamar alexander has retiring after three terms. you. [inaudible conversations] live senate coverage here on cspan2. sue becr watching cspan2 your unfiltered vie of gornment. created by america's cable tevision company as a public service. and brought fuchsia today by your television provider. number republican democratic republicans outgoing senator lamar alexander and his efforts to work across party lines on major pieces of legislation. center alexander chairs the senate health commiee pretty also served at tennessee's governor, education secretary, and spent time early in his career as a senate staffer. his term ends in january pretty talked but his time in e senate. >>

certified its election results yesterday, solidifying joe biden's win and clearing the way for mark kelly to take a seat in the u.s. senate as soon as tomorrow, after governor doug ducey signed off on the official documents, president trump released a torrent of disparaging tweets about the republican. in one instance, trump seemingly agreed with a comment that ducey, quote, betrayed the people of arizona. ducey, who campaigned with trump during his re-election bid, has stuck by the integrity of his state's voting system, despite the president's unrelenting and unfounded fraud claims. as the governor was signing the certification documents, his cell phone buzzed with the ring tone of "hail to the chief." ducey has previously said he set that song for calls coming from the white house. this time, he muted the phone and set it aside as he signed documents that made trump's loss official. watch this. ♪ i mean. at the same time that the arizona results were being certified, rudy giuliani and other trump lawyers were about two miles away, meeting with a handful of republican state lawmakers at

when former astronaut and navy captain mark kelly was worn into the senate by vice president mike pence. with his wife, former congresswoman and gun violence survivor gabrielle giffords by his side. it's another quiet way that donald trump's administration has officially acknowledged that the election is over, despite trump being unable to admit that he lost, but there's always a coward's caveat in trumpism. when nbc news asked pence if he accepted the election results in arizona, which he, himself, had just confirmed by swearing in senator kelly, who won at the same time that joe biden won arizona because their names were on the same ballots, pence did not respond. meanwhile, trump continues to pump out bogus claims of voter fraud and his -- as his presidency collapses into perhaps what it always was, a giant marketing and corrupt financial scheme. trump today made that literal by using the white house as the set for a 45-minute infomercial for himself, which streamed on facebook today. this while his campaign continues to send out desperate pleas for cash, ignoring the consequence of

says harlan kelly, the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission accepted bribes. as jr stone tells us, there were several individuals involved. jr? >> well, am marks harlan kelly is the tenth person to be charged in this case. the fbi says the bribery allegation here involved a trip to china with hotel stays, meals, and gifts. >> harlan kelly is one of the most powerful people in san francisco. he controls billions of dollars in public money. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor matt haney is talking about san francisco public utilities commission gm harlan kelly, who the fbi is charged with wire fraud in an alleged long running bribery scheme. >> it all seems to follow the same pattern. years of gift giving and doing favors for city officials and then knocking on the door and saying hey, can you help me out with this contract? can you give me some inside information? >> reporter: kelly is one of ten people who face corruption charges. kelly's attorney says his client denies all wrongdoing. >> i will tell you right now there is no jury in federal court in the northern district of california that is going to convict harlan kelly of anything becaus

says harlan kelly, the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission accepted bribes. as jr stone tells us, there were several individuals involved. jr? >> well, am marks harlan kelly is the tenth person to be charged in this case. the fbi says the bribery allegation here involved a trip to china with hotel stays, meals, and gifts. >> harlan kelly is one of the most powerful people in san francisco. he controls billions of dollars in public money. >> reporter: san francisco supervisor matt haney is talking about san francisco public utilities commission gm harlan kelly, who the fbi is charged with wire fraud in an alleged long running bribery scheme. >> it all seems to follow the same pattern. years of gift giving and doing favors for city officials and then knocking on the door and saying hey, can you help me out with this contract? can you give me some inside information? >> reporter: kelly is one of ten people who face corruption charges. kelly's attorney says his client denies all wrongdoing. >> i will tell you right now there is no jury in federal court in the northern district of california that is going to convict harlan kelly of anything becaus

, strange because, you know, yesterday, vice president pence swore in arizona's newest senator, mark kelly. by virtue of doing that, i assume the vice president is acknowledging that the arizona results are valid. >> well, yes. and, you know, we had our republican governor and republican attorney general participate in the certification of the results on monday. the republican governor's office prepared that certificate of election that allowed senator kelly to be sworn in. and so, you know, things are happening the way that they're supposed to be happening. and we still have republican elected officials here continuing to cry foul and claim that there's all of this fraud that there isn't. >> did you ever expect to see a situation like -- i mean, obviously, you know, i'm not talking about just in the run-up to this election because obviously there was a lot of concern and thought about given what the president was saying what might happen afterward. but just in, you know, in our previous lives, did you ever consider this kind of scenario? >> well, i think in america we have free and fair e

of fond farewell to my friend lamar and a fond welcome to my new friend mark kelly. some more remarks on the topics and unanimous consent that i will talk about later to get to senator alexander's remarks at the 10:30 scheduled time. >> thank you, mister president. it is such an honor to be here and to join my colleagues in paying tribute to senator alexander, there are many that want to speak and have a few words to say. all of us wish we could do this to a background of music with lamar playing the piano. that would be the proper setting but i am so pleased to stand and honor the three terms of service in this body and the way he touched the lives of individuals in this body and millions of tennesseans. we know that he has talked about it in his remarks, he has worked with educators. he has worked with innovators. he has worked with the healthcare community, and works with entertainers, many of whom called tennessee home. when i was serving in the house and representing tennessee's seventh congressional district so many times i would look over here and i would say

-- and the arrival of mark kelly. that swearing in is i think at noon today. it is at noon today at the u.s. senate and vice president mike pence will be there to administer the oath of office. our producer with the details there. live coverage of the senate is always on c-span two. vaccinealking about distribution in the u.s.. the headline from the new york the cdc director will decide by wednesday whether to accept the recommendations. states are not required to follow but most are expected to. your thoughts on prioritize --an of dutch prioritize of vaccinations. caller: i agree with the cdc recommendations, those who are most vulnerable and then rush restore clerks and things like that who are putting themselves at risk. about the vaccines, as of the middle of november there were 44 vaccines in human distribution. there were 10 that are currently in phase three. pfizer did not accept government money to research the vaccine. they did accept money for later production. --t is why they are able they can go to any cou

where you have kristen sinema and mark kelly, governor hickenlooper will be sworn in, manchin, romneyins and murkowski. i think i'm going to be repeating it a lot more over the next four years, lindsey graham has been in the middle of these negotiations. i think you're going to see chris coons from delaware, a border state who's going to be in the middle of these negotiations. you know, we're going to have 8, 9, 10 senators who can really determine which way -- which way the senate moves and because there's such a narrow gap between democrats and republicans in the house, there's going to be a lot of deal making there too. i was there when there was a four vote majority for republicans and we made a lot of deals based on what was best for america and not based on what our leaders wanted. >> yeah. of course, house democrats, nancy pelosi, were hoping they were going to run up the score on election day, get a big majority so they could run through whatever they wanted, that didn't happen. they lost about every single of the tossup races and joe manchin and mitt romney have been in the c

you have mark kelly coming from arizona. kristen sinema who may have a different image, a different constituency, but she and joe manchin vote together about 95% of the time. hickenlooper is coming in. you have mitt romney, you've got susan collins who seems like she has something to prove this year. which is she's pretty powerful and can forge consensus if she wants to. lisa murkowski who's always been very independent. pat toomey who has struck compromises before with joe manchin on some difficult issues and you have jeanne shaheen jumping in and lindsey graham. they overwhelmed their own leadership and one thing i noticed in these negotiations, oh no, it's going to be dead because there's not the state and the local aid. oh, no, it's going to be dead because they don't have the liability shield for the corporations and time and again, these -- we'll just call them the solution caucus said no, no. okay, listen, we'll just put those to the side, let's talk about the aid and then we can address those other issues. they reall

will continue to forge alliances with people like joe manchin and the new senator from arizona, mark kellyompromise and, of course, once you get that, you'll have people on the left and people on the right trying to pull that -- you know, those compromised bills as far as they can go. and it's up to joe biden to understand how far he can take it in his direction. politics is the art of the possible, and i am optimistic that there is a possibility of some bipartisanship over the next two years, and i'd like him to read the chapters where truman figured how to do that without sacrificing his values. >> joe, you are may more optimistic than me about joe biden's chances, but i can't wait. >> can i say, way more optimistic than my wife, who tells me every day that i'm pollyannish. >> skeptical, at least. thank you so much, joe for coming on this morning. i encourage everybody to get the book. a great, great book. more "am joy" after the break. >>> i need to say, jason, you a such a copycat. i guessed host, all of a sudden you're guest hosting, like, maybe i should go out and get my ph.d. to rem