mr. clyburn as house democratic leader, house democratic whip, mr. clyburn, and a new member of the leadership, the newest member of the -- she's been a member of the leadership, as vice chair of the caucus, now she is assistant speaker, katherine clark of massachusetts. it was a beautifully contested race, a good -- i think members were pleased. and that's what i want to talk about. wish that you could have seen the nominations and the acceptance speeches because then you could have seen the common thread, the unity of our caucus. the values and vision, the knowledge of our subject, the strategic thinking you hear me talk about that all the time. but all of it connected to the hopes and aspirations of merica's working families. that is what unifies us. so i'm very honored. i'm actually -- i was kind of emotional earlier because of some of the things that were said in nomination. but also listening to the other nominations as well as to not only the vision, but the depth of commitment, the values of our caucus. so i'm thrilled, i'm excited, and i can'

but james clyburn made clear that his endorsement came from mr. and mrs. clyburn. >> and there's nobody who emily loved as a leader in this country more than she loved joe biden. emily talked about joe all the time. i know his heart. i know who he is. i know what he is. i can think of no one better suited, better prepared. i can think of no one with the integri integrity, no one more committed to the fundamental principles that make this country what it is. than my good friend, my late wife's great friend, joe biden. >> south carolina voters got the message and gave mr. and mrs. clyburn's friend a huge victory in the south carolina primary. joe biden never had another difficult day on the presidential campaign trail and the rest is history. joining us now is democratic congressman james clyburn of south carolina. congressman clyburn, thanks very much for joining us tonight. it's very important for me personally to be able to hear from you and to be able to get your reaction to what it felt like for you to see joe biden win this election, knowing how low he

mr. clyburn as house democratic leader, house democratic whip, mr. n, and a new member of the leadership, the newest member, she's been a member of the leadership as vice chair of the caucus, now she is assistant speaker, catherine clark of massachusetts. it was a beautifully contested race, a good -- i think members were pleased. that's what i want to talk about. i wish that you could have seen the nominations and the acceptance speeches, because then you could have seen the common thread, the unity of our caucus, the values and vision, the knowledge of our subjects, the strategic thinking, you hear me talk about that all the time, but all of it connected to the hopes and aspirations of america's working families. that is what unifies us. i'm emotional because of some things said in nomination but also listening to the other nominations as well, as to not only the vision but the depth of comm commitment, the values of our caucus. so i'm thrilled, i'm excited, and i can't wait to be working with the new president of the united states, joe biden and ka

mr. clyburn put him up for super tuesday. after he got nomination, here come kamala harris, who never won a vote in the primary for vice president. everyone knows biden will not be around for his full term, because of mental and physical capabilities. i'm wondering how the country will feel they will get settled with a president who never won any primary votes at all? wont: i don't think she primaries but she did win votes. absolutely, if you think back, there have been plenty of vice president who did not run, including our incumbent vice president. he was the governor of indiana. run for thehad not presidency. mccain'sin, john nominee in 2008. there are plenty of cases of sitting vice presidents who had not been active that year. host: mohammed, los angeles. questionsere has been about dead people being on local. died on october 26. she had received a ballot in the mail. peoples a possibility voted and they had died. it does not mean they voted. had, it huge turnout we seems the elect color college -- electoral college work

mr. clyburn. thank you for your time. let's begin with where negotiations stand right now. guest: as you know, the senate has left town. i and we can't get this done without cooperation from him, and he has a ready said he will not put anything on the floor unless it has got support from the white house. and i don't know if anybody can expect much from the white house these days, so i don't see much happening. we will come back after thanksgiving. i talked with the speaker yesterday. i am in sync with her as to what she would like to see done and hopefully we can get something going at that time. but there will not see anything done in the next couple of weeks. host: is the speaker open to lowering the number from $2.2 trillion to a lower number that republicans in the senate would like to see? guest: people keep talking about the number. i keep talking about the need. the american people are hurting, they are in need. let's do what the public needs done, and then apply a price tag to it. i don't operate as looking at the price tag and then dealing out the programs. let's l

mr. clyburn. you will see in the georgia race. the opponent against kelly loeffler.ssue that's going to come up. >> katie: biden siding with progressives, i want to play this sound bite from the deputy campaign manager from the biden campaign and get your reaction. >> i think vice president biden campaigned on an aggressive, progressive agenda. the climate plan is the boldest, biggest climate plan ever put forward by a nominee running for president. now president-elect. he's going to make good on those commitments. >> katie: i thought he was supposed to be a moderate, jesse. now they are embracing far left policies. >> jesse: he's not going to make good on any commitment if mitch mcconnell is there. he established a commission about the police. we have a commission about the police and that we have a commission about the court. a lot of commissions and that means they don't do anything. aoc needs to accept her feet. she is a marker. she seems naive. deep blue districts and new york and california. democrats are looking for the kill shot with her. she looks alone and

mr. clyburn, you're absolutely right. i felt personally like i was more effective and more connected to my district with the ability to do some of those things for our boys and girls clubs or something like that. i'm with mr. thompson. i served on homeland security security many moons ago. i don't know if they remember that. but we had similar problems back then as to not being able to really do all of the things that are required of that committee because we kept bumping into jurisdictional issues. i would be supportive of you two gentlemen and your requests. and that would affect financial services because we have a cybersecurity component to that when it comes to the financial sector and the hacking potentially and the disruption of the financial sector. we should all get together and do that. i appreciate the testimony. but particularly on the directed funding. i think we did ourselves a disservice by doing away with that, and i yield back. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we always are able to make

. >> i want to bring in house majority whip, congressman jim clyburn of south carolina. mr. whip, you endorsed joe biden in the south carolina primary. you gave him life in that process. and now he is the president-elect. your reaction? >> i'm very pleased with the results. i'm very ecstatic about what may be the future of this great country of ours. my investment in joe biden had everything to do with the restoration of our pursuit towards a more perfect union. i know this is not a perfect country. my god, i'm here. i'm living testimony that the country is not perfect. but we cannot give up on the country. i could not sit idly by and watch this country take backward steps in that pursuit of perfection. so i am pleased that we can now get back on course. we need to restore voting rights to people. we need to restore people's lives and livelihoods. this campaign and a few other things before demonstrated that there's admonition that this country is great, not because it's more enlightened than any other nation but it's always able to repair its faults. fault lines have opened

mr. clyburn. thank you for your time. let's begin with where negotiations stand right now.as you know, the senate has left town. i understand mitch mcconnell with about problem 20-25 members of the senate who seem to not want to do anything. and we can't get this done without cooperation from him, and he has a ready said he will not put anything on the floor unless it has got support from the white house. and i don't know if anybody can expect much from the white house these days, so i don't see much happening. we will come back after thanksgiving. i talked with the speaker yesterday. i am in sync with her as to what she would like to see done and hopefully we can get something going at that time. but there will not see anything done in the next couple of weeks. host: is the speaker open to lowering the number from $2.2 trillion to a lower number that republicans in the senate would like to see? guest: people keep talking about the number. i keep talking about the need. the american people are hurting, they are in need. let's do what the public needs apply a price tag to it

mr. clyburn the king maker honored to be on same show as him.nd he's so modest, i mean, he saved that campaign. i mean, and he has been a beacon for that campaign. those supporters and those leaderships in the biden administration and house they're going to make sure that what joe biden promise to do he does it. so he win by one or win by a million and one you're the president for next four years you've set agenda and go forward from there and i expect joe biden to follow through on his promises. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> as we come up on 5:00 hour here in new york, our coverage continues. welcome bill: welcome back, america. the projections are that's joe biden will be our next president. dana: supporters breaking out in celebration around the country. vice president joe biden and kamala harris are scheduled to address the nation tonight at 8:00. let's go back to the white house and chief white house correspondent, john roberts. reporter: just to expand on what i reported a few minutes ago. sources tell me if at the end of this pro

mr. clyburn put him up for super tuesday. he got nomination, here come kamala harris, who never won a vote in the primary for vice president. everyone knows biden will not be around for his full term, because of mental and physical capabilities. i'm wondering how the country will feel they will get settled with a president who never won any primary votes at all? wont: i don't think she primaries but she did win votes. absolutely, if you think back, there have been plenty of vice president who did not run, including our incumbent vice president. he was the governor of indiana. run for thehad not presidency. mccain'sin, john nominee in 2008. there are plenty of cases of sitting vice presidents who had not been active that year. host: mohammed, los angeles. questionsere has been about dead people being on local. died on october 26. she had received a ballot in the mail. peoples a possibility voted and they had died. it does not mean they voted. had, it huge turnout we seems the elect color college -- electoral college works best

it wasn't jim clyburn. it was mrs. jones sitting on the front pew of st. john's baptist church in richland county, south carolina. i did what i did for her because she told me that she wanted to hear that. so, yeah, it wasn't jim clyburn. it was those people, my constituents who told me time and time again how they wanted me to conduct myself. and mrs. jones told me on that day how she wanted me to stand up in this presidential election. and i responded to her wishes. >> congressman, it's always a pleasure. i thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate you and i love you. love you so much. >> love you too, brother. >> and i see that back there, that cute dog. and we see the alpha kappa alphas. say it again? >> there room in the room for all you haters. i tell all my divine line brothers and sisters in the final analysis, you may not know it, but you will end up in the omega chapter. >> thank you. and we are appreciating the akas out there as well and the deltas. and don't get mad. my sister was a kappa sweetheart. so, you know, it takes all kind. >> t

mr. biden. he won with support from 61% of black voters there following an endorsement by congressman jim clyburnction, 87% of black voters supported him. more than any other demographic group. that's according to exit polls. let's bring in tiffany cross, a fellow at harvard kennedy school. also the author of "say it louder," black voters, white -- and saving our democracy. and joyce wilson, study of hip hop at georgetown. t tiffany, the support from black voters for joe biden has been consistent from the beginning. why? >> i don't know it's been consistent from the beginning, craig. i'd say after south carolina, i think that's when you saw this collision. after leader clyburn came out and gave him his stamp of approval. look, you and i talked about this many times. black voters are a very pragmatic group of people who look at who will do the least harm to our communities. we cannot deny the fact he was certainly helped by having a black woman on the ticket with him. black women voters, as you know, are the democratic base. so i think we have the conversation about why so many black people can do

clyburn of the significance of this in owen's election. >> i am struck by history. i study the history of this country and voting. maybe mr.my parents were able to register to vote. maybe they never heard of john lewis or have he ever heard of what it took to cross the bridge to get the right to vote. i would ask him whose lives matter at emanuel ame church when nine lives were taken when a young man who is trying to start a race war? do those nine lives matter? i think they do tch. that's all black lives matter is all maabout. thank you for joining us, "ac 360" starts now. >>> we start this hour of 350,000 people of the united states is now dead of the coronavirus. we crossed that horrible threshold. on tuesday, the u.s. reported more than 1700 dead, the highest reported deaths in a single day since may. i want to show you our grim history of loss, 50,000 dead by april and and 150,000 by july and 200,000 back in september. a quarter of a million

mrs. pelosi. he's decided to stay in that leadership job. he at this moment seems to be the leader of the democrats when the pelosi/hoyer/clyburn trend moves on. there's a race to run the democratic campaign operation for the next two years. again, it's between a -- two different styles, alex cardin of california, maloney of new york. they will have a difficult job because as your audience probably knows t democrats are going to have one of your narrowest majorities in decades. next year, we don't know how narrow it will be, but it's already in the range of the smallest majority for the -- for either party in about 20 years and for the democrats in quite some time and they're looking ahead at a joe biden midterm in two years when generally the president's party would do worse and redistricting when the republicans may make more gains in drawing maps to their favor. the third leadership job is for what's called caucus vice chairman, doesn't sound like much. democrats have a lot of leadership jobs. but that person could move up over time. deb holland was thinking of running for a time. robin kelly of illinois and mr. agular of california runnin

mr. bedard. happy thanksgiving to you and yours, sir. >> happy thanksgiving, leland. >> leland: julie? >> julie: one of joe biden's biggest backers taking aim at the man he helped become president. house majority whip james clyburnled the nomination by endorsing him in south carolina, expressing dismay over biden's cabinet picks so far. telling juan williams that biden is falling short on naming african-americans to top posts. kevin corke's life in rehoboth beach, delaware, with the very latest on this. >> happy thanksgiving, julie. when you break this out and realize that, for joe biden, this relationship is crucial. without clyburn, as he pointed out, there is no way he earns the democratic nomination. that said, it's not as if the biden team is currently constructed complete devoid of diversity. as i show you, the cabinet, he has a vice president, u.n. ambassador, and even a secretary of homeland security all coming from communities of color. however, it is the relative paucity compared to the overall team that is what is concerning to congressman james clyburn. he said this in a conversation with juan williams. "from all the hair, black people have been given fair consideration, but there's onlye black woman