mr. brennan discussed.hat the hiring of retired army colonel douglas mcgregor is a sign the u.s. wants to accelerate the withdrawal of the troops from the middle east before the end of his presidency before january, three people familiar with the move told axios. mcgregor announced today the new senior acting adviser to secretary of defense. john bolton saying time is running out for republicans. we know he's a big-time war hawk. the fact he's not very helpful -- during impeachment, didn't want to testify. that aside, people are raising alarms we might do a massive withdrawal. are you concerned we might do that? is a quick withdrawal not well-planned, what would the consequences of that be? >> the same that they would be in any other circumstance, which would be very worrisome. it would put our troops at risk. they would be vulnerable if we were to not have a very strategic and thoughtful way of pulling them out. but i'm also as concerned about some of the other things i've been hearing, which are the possi

mr. brennan, i want to go to you on this.n "the washington post," written, how western media would cover the u.s. election if it happened in another country. i'm just going to read a little bit of it. the united states, the former british colony, already rocked this year by ethnic conflict and mass protest by extrajudicial killings by police may finally have a new leader following a disputed presidential election. trump, however, is refusing to leave power and there are fears the fractured nation may be pushed over the edge, destabilizing the western hemisphere. that's how it would sound if we were covering an election in a foreign country, but now we are that country. what do you make of this dissent? >> well, obviously what donald trump is engaged in is the behavior we've seen in many authoritarian countries around the globe where individuals try to retain power by all means necessary and donald trump, i think, has demonstrated time and time again that he's not going to adhere to not only the norms and standards that are ex

mr. brennan, even once mike pence to suddenly turn his back on pows and save america from the wild, lame duck. i think they would seriously consider booking a 25th amendment and pushing donald trump out. all right, well after the obama administration, here's some of them. in november 4 years ago,, the head of crumbs moved to d.c., began doing everything to turn his white house, stay into misery after they planted the russia gate bomb under the oval office chair, to play on his nerves throughout the whole term. what should you expect if not revenge, contacts between president elect donald trump's advisors and russian officials. he's alone in being unwilling to accept the view that this was done by the russians . trump is already act like a russian with one phrase on their mind. that is, he's got nothing to lose pundits are trying to calculate the likelihood of spoiler moves. after all, the lame ducks already caused a stir at the pentagon. president travels purging the top ranks of the pentagon, 48 hours after the election was called for joe biden. president trump is just fired his defense

mr. brennan, that just came out not that long ago, which indicated that they not only saw this as a criminal act, but even referred to it as potentially having been state sponsored. but that is a way of indirectly calling out israel because there is no other state i hope side of the u.s. itself. that has the intent and the capacity to conduct an attack like this. is you say that if iran has blamed israel for past assassinations of this nature, but obviously that is no confirmation that who has authorized this, whether a foreign government has carried out this attack. there is that bought, how significant is it then that someone of loss in fact, is background and seniority was, was assassinated inside the country? well, the danger for the iranians, of course, here is that is really reveals the tremendous breaches of security that must have existed in order for this to happen. and it's taking place within a context in which the i.r.g.c. intelligence have been arresting, environmentalist, arresting academics and claiming that these people are spies all the same time that we're seeing. not only

brennan: dr. birx, thank you and good luck. let's turn now to the midwest. michigan rappermidwest. > >> michigan ranks third in the number of cases. joining us now is mayor mike duggan. good morning, mrmayor. >> mayor: thanks for having me on. margaret. >> brennan: what is driving the infections, and what do you expect to see in the next few weeks? >> mayor: the numbers you're showing are the area. the city of detroit -- what dr. birx said -- she has been to my office and detroit has had the lowest amount. and that's because behavior changed. in march and april, michigan was hammered, along with new york. and we had, within a few weeks, a thousand people hospitalized, and 50 of our neighbors dying every day. today we've got about 200 hospitalized, and we're losing one or two people a day to covid. it is still too high, but the commitment to the testing, the commitment to the masks, has shown that you can dramatically drop the infection rate. >> brennan: when you say behavior changed, you have a mask mandate. what has changed? >> mayor: so -- well, in march and april, we didn't know -- certainly people in detroit took to heart the data that showed if an african-american gets covid, yo

. >> brennan: all right, mr. beasley, thank you so much. on the nobel peace prize you're about to receive. >> thank you. >> brennan: we're back in a moment. when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you. >> brennan: finally today, holly williams spent thanksgiving week embedded with the u.s. military in iraq and sear and sa has they work to prevent ice from regrouping. here is her report. >> reporter: the airborne division is trying to prevent isis. the lieutenant colonel told us the small american presence, about a thousand troops, prevents isis from showing its face. >> they're still here. there is not a whole lot of them, but the fan nasktfanaticsare still out ther. and that's who we're going after. >> reporter: to prevent isis from going a

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mr. trump, voters of color went heavily for joe biden. joining me now is theodore johnson, a senior fellow at brennan center for justice. thank you so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> so, broadly speaking, how significant was the black and hi hispanic vote for president-elect joe biden in the 2020 election? >> yeah, well, by the looks of things, and there's still some votes to be counted, but it looks like brown and black voters won the election for joe biden. if you look at turnout in nevada, arizona, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania and georgia, you'll find that in those very slim margins of victory that biden seems to have pulled out that the minority votes in those states were really the margin of victory, specifically atlanta and georgia, detroit, milwaukee, philadelphia. and then out west in nevada and arizona, mexican-americans provided the margin of victory alongside native-americans, lep any arizona. so, it cannot be discounted. it can't be underscored enough the role that minority voters, particularly black and brown voters played in this election. >> explain to us why you think it was so d