mr. mccarthy: with who? reporter: anybody that's empowered to make a deal. mr. mccarthy: i'm in the house. it would be the speaker of the house, no. i talked to the white house. reporter: can you give us a sense of where things are going? mr. mccarthy: things are still at the same place. there's one roadblock, there's one big wall that stopped this entire time and it's speaker pelosi. i would think after the politics that she played and the election being over that she'd now put the american people first. she still seems to be in the same position. the good news is you have 23 democrats who put their name on a letter back in september who said, if you did not do your job, speaker pelosi, we would sign the discharge petition. so now if they keep their word, if their word is true and the letter is right, we can at least get p.p.p. relief going. eah. reporter: cases are spiking across the country and in congress. there's still a number of your conference members that are not wearing masks around the capitol. are you concerned about that? and are you concerned that t

mr. mccarthy: good morning. you've heard me quite a bit bout the historic republican freshman class we'll have in the next congress, but i want to give you a few facts. of the freshmen are either women or minorities. and michele steele will be the first korean congress.o serve in nancy mace will be the first female graduate of the citadel republican women from south carolina to serve in congress. the firstarold who is native american woman native to ongress and stephanie is the first iranian american woman congress. this makes me very proud as a republican. and as an american. lincoln that party of is also continuing the legacy of he first black american to serve in congress, joseph rainey of south carolina. into slavery and even after gaining his freedom, he received little education as child. he was drafted by the confederacy, but he escaped and and started a business. after the war, he moved back to georgetown, south carolina, with his family in 1867 -- and in chairman of the county's republican party. just a

mr. mccarthy: thank you all. as you can see, our party, especially the incoming class, is more diverse than we've ever been. that's what makes us only stronger. e won from miami to new york to defeating a committee chair in minnesota, to iowa, to california. even the speaker's home state. but i'm proud to say it's my home state too. we still have a couple more seats out there. gaining in new jersey. i think our numbers are going to be well in the way to over 210. that's going to be an exciting next two years. but we have work to do now as well. hopefully speaker pelosi has put aside her partisanship and will put the american public first. when we departed last, we have a discharge petition on the floor, for all those people who work for a small business, the billions of dollars that are sitting there that can still be used or billions of dollars sitting there for the states. i know speaker pelosi had held a number of her democrats not to sign that discharge petition. if she won't act, we still should. all they ha

mr. mccarthy: gary, want to say a few words? mr. palmer: i'm really looking forward to the opportunity to serve as policy chair. kevin provided great leadership in working with us to develop the commitment to america. and it's resulted in historic gains in the house for us. incredible diversity. we really reflect america. there's one part that's not part of our conference and that's the socialists. we have a conference that represents what most americans want to see. a conference that's committed to putting american families and workers first. i'm proud to be a part of it. mr. hudson: thank you. richard hudson from north carolina. i'm honored to be part of this leadership team. i represent someone who had to win a tough election to come back. i understand what it takes to win back this majority. and i'll be a voice for all the folks in our conference. i'm very excited about working together in one unified message about what conservative principles can do to make america better for all americans and i believe that message is what's g

mr. mccarthy: we want to make sure that we honor those who have fought and we honor our sacrifices but also our victories within at the same time. we want to make sure there are enough individuals still there that can protect the embassies, protect the games that we have made -- gains that we have made. we're just coming through a part, this is something the president had planned to do. i think at the end of the time, you'll still see a number of american troops there. for security. you'll see others from nato participate as well. we want to see democracy continue to grow. so thank you very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2020] >> house democrats also held a news conference today. this runs half an hour. mr. jeffries: good morning, everyone. thank you for your patience. it's great to be back here in the united states capitol. we had our first caucus meeting this morning. we did it virtually. subsequent to the november elections, eve

mr. mccarthy, despite public health warnings and efforts to get people to stay home, air travel has hit anight month high. has the amount of people willing to travel surprised you? >> not really. i think for a lot of people there have been really mixed signals about travel. you have the airline industry pushing hard on the notion that travel is safe. and, ine dangers to it some ways, the cdc give a definitive warning about thanksgiving travel. it came late in the game. we have seen a bit of a falloff in the number of people screened by tsa. yesterday down to 37% of what it was comparable to last year. over the weekend it was 45% of last year's totals. you know, there are a lot of people traveling. people really want to go. they want to be with their and ies or take a break think, you know, they've not gotten a clear signal of what is seca what is not. host: for folks who might be getting on an airplane today or tomorrow, what should they expect the airport? guest: they should expect crowds. i think some people are surprised at the crowds because they spent so much attention on how few peop

mr. mccarthy has shown over the last four years that there is no bottom to his willingness to debase himself to earn trump's favor. after all, this is the same majority -- or rather minority leader who was going to the trouble of separating starburst candies for the president to make sure that he only got the ones that he liked. so i wouldn't look to kevin mccarthy as an authoritative source here. but we are seeing much the same way that mccarthy and others have echoed the president's false claims about the election and the false statements about fraud in the election, he is now echoing the president's false statements about michael flynn. >> and we're learning president trump is considering pardons for several members of his inner circle including other figures from the mueller investigation. do you view this as an attempt by the president to undo the conclusions of the special counsel's investigation and sort of rewrite the history of the russia probe? >> i think it's in part an effort to vindicate himself somehow by pardoning people who were part of the same ugly cabal, for lack of a bett

mr. mccarthy. but the orchestrator of this whole movement, mccarthyism. it is also to say that we just can't stop with his death. we have to look at how we influence demagogues after. whether they be david duke, george wallace, for people who are in our political context today. i just want to say one other thing. the temptation with a lot of the interviews i've been doing on joe mccarthy, it's a talk about donald trump. this is a really book up about john mccarthy. donald trump's only mentioned the preface in the epilogue. in his story in the story of other demigods as they turn away and every page of the book. on as long as you brought trump up, i'm going to join you in trying to avoid a very deep discussion of him. tell me, when you started putting this book together, it was around the start of his presidency wasn't it? >> guest: actually a week before the election 2016 i had signed up to write a different book. that was a biography of barack obama. the day after the election i realize we will not know rock obama's legacy until after the era of trump is

mrs. milley, secretary mccarthy, and our soldier of the year, i'm honored to be part of this great and grandng with you all. general sullivan, thank you for everything you have done to make this day possible. all of us from the army and all of us from quincy, massachusetts, are extremely proud with what you have done for the museum and what you have done for the nation. the army's history is america's history. the army has been here since before the birth of our nation. our founding fathers recognized the need for an army to protect our freedoms and our way of life and we have been doing that for over 245 years. the army exists to protect a nation. that is our job, and that is what we work hard to do every single day. we are very proud to serve the american people. the national museum of the united states army is a special place because it honors the accomplishments, the sacrifices and the commitment of our american soldiers throughout the nation's history. the army museum has done an incredible job of bringing to life the inspirational stories of service and sacrifice of american soldiers.

mr. joe mccarthy, but the orchestrator of this whole movement mccarthyism and it is also to say that we just can't stop with his death and we have to look at how we influence demagogues that came after whether they be david duke, george wallace or people who are in political to context today. i want is a one other thing. the temptation with a lot of the interviews that i've been doing on joe mccarthy is to talk about donald trump and this is a book about john mccarthy. donald trump's name was mentioned only in the preface and in the epilogue and yet his story and story of other demagogues is there and wait and every page of the book. >> as far as you brought trump up i will join you in trying to avoid it a very deep discussion of him but tell me when you started putting this book together it was around the start of his presidency, wasn't it? >> a week before the election in 2016 i signed up to write a different book and that was a biography of barack obama in the day after the election i realized we will not know barack obama's legacy until after the era of trump is over. it also became appa

mr. mccarthy bragging about well, the dems lost, let's be on the record.hey have 17 seats more than the republicans do in the congress. we still have two seats up for grabs in georgia. let me tell you something. joe biden, i never dreamed he would win georgia. if he can win georgia, i think that jon ossoff and rev. warnock have just as much of a chance to put those two crooks, the trump apologists, leffler and purdue, they don't have any minds of their own. they can't even get along with people in their own party. look at how they are treating that secretary of state just because they don't like the election. folks, i've got news for you. me jump into tell you that we are going to be talking about georgia with buddy carter and hank johnson, both going to be with us later on in the program. let me ask you, stephen, i understand your criticism of republicans. how about your own party? are you happy that speaker pelosi will get another term? caller: i have mixed feelings about pelosi. sometimes i like her, sometimes i don't. i did think she did a good job wit

mr. hernandez just gave inconsistent representations when commissioner mccarthy asked him about the new set of plans, mr. hernandez first said he had not even reviewed the new set of plans, and then, he started saying what was in the new set of plans. >> i do -- i have to interject and say, with 96 permits, i don't know how mr. hernandez is able to keep them all straight. >> i would agree, yeah. >> so i think there's an issue that i'll let others -- mr. hernandez, in fact, speak to, if he prefers. no more questions from me. thank you. >> chief inspector hernandez, did you want to respond to that? >> yeah. in my response, i don't know if we were actually talking about the plans presented to planning because at some point last month, mr. korman came in with a half set of plans that gary didn't know what to do with. unfortunately, that's how mr. korman likes to operate. he likes to send in things by mail, and then allege that things were lost, and we get them and said hey, what are these set of plans for? we talked to him and asked him if he could come in and tell us hey, what these half set o

>>house minority leader, kevin mccarthy was asked if mr. biden said start receiving intelligence briefings. >>he is not president right now. i don't know if you will be president january 20 but whoever is will get those information. >> reporter: he cannot receive those until the general services administration signs off. >>> this just in overnight, china has finally congratulated president-elect, joe biden, former vice president joe biden. we will get this straight eventually. china's president saying that he respects the will of the american people. one of the last major countries to congratulate joe biden in being elected as u. s. president. china along with russia have avoided joining the throngs of government that congratulated biden last weekend after he was projected to have secured enough electoral votes to win the white house. the president getting giving no reason for the delay but said the results will be confirmed according to u. s. laws and procedures. of course, china has had a rough relationship with the trump administration.

so why not in the summer 56 when attacking joe mccarthy why would jack kennedy nancy to mrs. roosevelt i think he liked mccarthy in person. doesn't want to criticize mccarthy. >> i can only imagine and it did not mean enough to him and then to reject his father like that. >> parents were a little younger than and jfk and it was a litmus test has liberal democrats could be trusted so largely because stevenson. >> when it came to 1960 they celebrated kennedy's election and with the mccarthy. not too much of the politics of that time and how they divide it on him. >> but it is worth noting the democratic party of the whole like hubert humphrey for a very long time were unwilling to criticize men to see the broad partisan support to go after him in any serious way. so the senator from massachusetts, a republican is not just more so than jack kennedy so he is not alone. >> and profiles of courage , here we differ a little bit the evidence is powerful the broad architecture of the book the theme of the book and the argument and the need for evidence-based discourse. and then for com

mr kissinger. in the house it there is been no prominent republican in the house or senate including minority leader kevin mccarthy mitch mcconnell the majority a senate who has echoed mr trump's claim of quite spread fraud even if the claims are faulty he has a right to pursue them you're not required to prove your case before you enter court but i think it will destroy any claim that there was an affair ventilation of all of this claims before they were dismissed and add more legitimacy to the outcome of the presidential vote. ok to discuss the rapidly changing election scenario let's get a perspective from both sides of the political divide with good tara dowd she's a democratic political and marketing consultant and we're also joined by steve rogers he's a former member of the donald j. trump for president advisory board he was also the adviser to the president's 2016 presidential campaign good to have you both on the program thanks very much indeed for joining us let's go to steve speakeasies joining us live via skype from nutley in new york steve given the way that donald trump is handling the current situat

said why would he not inthe summer of 66 when atcking joe mccarthy , the guys a spent force, he's gone. why would jack kennedy not to say to mrs. roosevelt that i didn't like the y which is true . he didn't like mccarthy in personal terms or political terms. even now however he doesn't want to criticize mccarthy and i can't quite figure that out . >> i didn't know. i can only imaginehat he was loyal to his family and this was one that didn't mean ough to him as going against his father in peasement did. to reject his father that way . it's a good an explanation as any of them . >> my parents were a lite younger than jfk and marthy was the litmus test to them as liberal democrs of whether a politician could be trusted. whher they could really respect a politician and they ended up at stevenson people because stevenson was much moreoutspoken about mccarthy . so when it came to 1960, they celebrated kennedy's election , but he was not therean and he never was there man and it's really because of the mccarthy period. for a lot of liberals at was true so i think you have a desive effect. not so much on the polies of that time but o

mr. carter, 51%. another 1% went for eugene mccarthy, an independent candidate.uestion is then, in part, is there a clear mandate for the president who wins this narrowly? in fact, it is even narrower than those figures. because of the electoral college somem, you could work out formula in which only 5000 votes spread over two states would have made a difference. some people say a president who has won by such a small amount may be more cautious, may not feel he has a clear mandate. only time, of course, will tell. my own personal view the president no matter how closely they win the election, they operate as if 100% of the people voted for them. >> yes, i think if you go back to john kennedy's election in 1960 when he won by 100,000, 125,000 votes, his view was that the mandate went with the oval office, it did not go with the size of the boat. i feel mr. carter will feel he is there, just as mr. nixon was there in 1968. margin of whater , one third we have posted up here for mr. carter. i don't think that there will be any problem on that. >> the generalization

it, i thought, why would he not in the summer of '56 when attacking joe mccarthy, when he's spent and gone, why didn't he say to mrs. roosevelt, i don't like the guy, didn't in political terms, and even then, however, he didn't want to criticize mccarthy and i can't quite figure that out. >> let me quickly respond-- i don't know, i don't know. i can only imagine that he was loyal to his family and this was one that didn't mean enough to him as going against his father's appeasement did, to reject his father that way. i think --. >> that's as good of an explanation as any of them. >> my parents were a little younger than jfk and the mccarthy period was the litmus test for them as liberal democrats, of whether a politician could be trusted, whether they could really respect a politician and they ended up, as stevenson people largely because, i think, stevenson was much more outspoken about-- >> he was, he was. go ahead. >> and so when it came to 1960 they celebrated kennedy's election, but they -- he was not their man and he never was their man and it was really because with of the mccarthy period. i think for a lot

but i thought, why we do not in the summer of 56 when attacking joe mccarthy is easy, a guy is gone, why would jack kennedy not safety mrs. roosevelt, you know what? i didn't like the guy come just to come i don't think you like mccarthy and political terms. even then, however, he doesn't want to criticize mccarthy, and i can't quite figure that out. >> let me quickly respond. i don't know, i can only imagine that he was loyal to his family, and this was one that didn't mean enough to him as going against his fathers appeasement did. to reject his father that way. >> as good an explanation as any of them. >> my parents were a little younger than jfk, and the mccarthy period was a litmus test for them as liberal democrats of whether a politician could be trusted, whether they could really respect a politician. they ended up as stephenson people, largely because i think stephenson was much more outspoken about -- >> he was. go ahead, site. >> so when it came to 1960, they celebrated kennedy's election, but he was not their man and he never was there man, individually because of the mccarthy period. i think a lot of liberal

mr kissinger. in the house there is been no prominent republican in the house or senate including minority leader kevin mccarthy mitch mcconnell the majority of the senate who is echoed mr trump's claim of white bread fraud moreover the claim becomes even more dubious when it's recognized that republicans did better than was expected in the house and senate seat gained seats in the house held their own in the senate so there clearly was no systematic anti-republican bias and that further undermined the claim of mr trump now in some ways i think it's healthy that he's initiated these legal avenues for address even if the claims are faulty he has a right to pursue them you're not required to prove your case before you enter court but i think it will destroy any claim that there was an affair ventilation of all of this claims before they were dismissed and yet more legitimacy to the outcome of the presidential vote and if but if you are a tom votes. and you're hearing the u.s. president saying that there is votes of fraud that illegal votes are being counted cedes laws have been changed in the run up to the select

let's brings in house minority leader kevin mccarthy. mr.this morning. congratulations on picking up seats in the house. everyone is waking you up this morning four days after the election president saying legal challenges just beginning. >> we are still counting. we don't know the numbers yet. we have watched in arizona the president gained seats. we have watched in these others become so close you are now going to a recount. have you more americans vote than in any time in our history. but they didn't just vote normally. more voted by mail not because they were requested but because ballots were sent to them. many of these states are not used to that. every county was not treated the same. some voters were able to correct their ballots. some counties we find are allowing to you have a ballot after the election. these are questions not for republicans or democrats but for all americans. we want to make sure we trust. there are transparency, there is accuracy there are reports not just reports but we watched it with our own eyes they were no

her opposition, her opponent, minority leader kevin mccarthy is predicting republicans take back the house in 2022. guest: i think mrs. pelosi understands very well you cannot do the congress forward by looking over your shoulder. she has been and remains quite interested, notwithstanding some of the ways she has characterized, trying to frame legislation in a bipartisan way. canknows legislation that be developed in a bipartisan way endures much better and gets better public buy in and does not face the kind of factional attacks wetionalized have seen from much legislation. , asink she understands that we have seen from house apublican party since 2009, refusal to participate in all most all legislative initiatives. no matter how much they were involved. that includes the affordable care act where there were hundreds and hundreds of republican amendments considered and many adopted. yet no republican votes. did you have to go forward. she will have a difficult time putting together those 218 democratic votes, let alone bringing republican votes along. i go back to what we heard from senator mcconnell. make barack ob

imagine a mitch mcconnell or any of his immediate deputies or kevin mccarthy, who used to serve with the esteemed gentleman i'm on with, mr. dent. no, i just don't see it. what i am hearing, chris, and i heard again today, is more of the rank and file, even in the senate, talking amongst themselves about trying to find a way out. and when i say "find a way out, " the tone and the tenor in conversations that i'm having with republicans, it's different after what happened yesterday with the rudy giuliani press conference, with meddling in michigan yesterday and today as well. and, you know, the hope was that it would work itself out. that was a quote from a republican senate source i talked to, and that it was very clear to them yesterday that they're far from that. so the question is what are they going to do? at this point, i don't know that they can really convince him of anything. at this point it's getting on the right side of history finally and getting on the record that this is wrong, what the president is doing. >> they just have to say it. they don't have to make him believe it. i mean, charlie, we all saw it firs

mr. trump's legal defense fund. graham chairs the senate judiciary committee and just won re-election. house minority leader kevin mccarthyeld also supports trump's claims. but mitt romney tweeted "have faith in democracy and our constitution and in the american people." >>> as final votes are being counted you can count on a legion of lawyers getting ready to figure out where there are opportunities for court intervention. julian glover has been listening to some bay area attorneys to get an idea of some of these strategies. >> at this point it's clear president trump and his legal team's strategy is to slam the courts with lawsuits in key battleground states. we're talking about michigan, pennsylvania, georgia, and those are places where the margin between trump and biden are thin at this point. but in most cases those legal efforts, they failed to gain traction or effect significant numbers of vote. issues raised by the trump team range from mail-in ballots to voting deadlines to access to counting centers. now the cases so far have been heard in state courts given the legal challenges, but jonathan miller of the oakla

mr. trump's legal defense fund. graham chairs the senate judiciary committee and just won re-election. house minority leader kevin mccarthyd also supports trump's claims. but mitt romney tweeted "have faith in democracy and our constitution and in the american people." >>> as final votes are being counted you can count on a legion of lawyers getting ready to figure out where there are opportunities for court intervention. abc7 news reporter julian glover has been hearing from bay area attorneys to get an idea of the potential strategy. >> good morning. at this point it's clear president trump and his legal team's strategy is to slam the courts with lawsuits in key battleground states in areas like pennsylvania, michigan and georgia and in those areas where the lead is razor thin. but in most cases those legal efforts, they failed to gain traction or effect significant numbers of vote. issues raised by the trump team range from mail-in ballots to voting deadlines to access to counting centers. now the cases so far have been heard in state courts given the legal challenges, but jonathan miller of the oakland-based public ri

mr. conservative but as they say, dull as paint. not charismatic. and the fourth is not even in the country. the general of the army, douglas mccarthyn tokyo running the former, i guess still present empire of japan and a popular guy, but can he pull it off from faraway? he doesn't. he has entered into the wisconsin primary. he should win that. he doesn't. he stumbles and is out fairly quickly. there are not a lot of primaries that year. there's the new hampshire primary. there is always the new hampshire primary. there is the wisconsin primary which macarthur should win and doesn't. he loses it to harold stassen which elevates stassen. stassen is an outsider. he is a boy wonder. in 1938, he had been elected governor of minnesota and he was the youngest governor of any state ever and he quit. he is reelected, saying it now if you reelect me i'm going to quit in four months and go into the navy. and he is so popular he is still elected. imagine being elected with a platform like that. he comes out, he's an internationalist. you have got the debate still going on, of internationalism versus isolationism. stassen is on the extreme end

mr. trump would be a drag on the ticket. the house minority leader kevin mccarthyony per what the democrats can pass. >> will continue to grow. the no matter where we will end up, we'll have a very big say or even run the floor, when it comes to policy. reporter: with that smaller majority it will be hard for liberal democrats to advance their cause in the house. neil? neil: thank you very much, chad pergram on all of that. meantime looking at north carolina, looking at counts in other states not getting as much attention, yes, counting goes on in michigan where the trump administration is calling that one. don't even try. after this. before nexium 24hr, anna could only imagine a comfortable night's sleep without frequent heartburn waking her up. now, that dream... . ...is her reality. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts, for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? that's it. i'm calling kohler about their walk-in bath. [ sigh ] not gonna happen. my name is ken. how may i help you? hi, i'm calling about kohler's walk-in bath.

majority leader, it will take kevin mccarthy coming to house minority leader, and other senior leaders and the respective parts of our governors, members of congress to save mrnn bail: come a veryjunior member of congress from maine who went down to the white house to tell president nixon it is time for you to go. —— bill cohan. it is time for president trump to go. ryan christie, thank you so much for joining us. —— ron christie. with just over two months left in office — president trump is making major foreign policy moves, pulling more troops out of irq and afghanistan, prompting some alarm among senior republicans acting us defence secretary chris miller — installed last week after mr trump abruptly fired mark esper — has defended the decision. he may be there in a temporary role but he looks set to try and use the next few months to put his stamp on the pentagon before the biden adminsitration comes in. so what can we expect in these final days and what will it mean for the incoming administration? james g stavridis is former supreme allied commander for global operations at nato. welcome to the programme and thank you for being with us. when it comes t

mr. matt luten was very helpful, but i am not getting any cooperation from the tenant. i was not getting cooperation from building inspector mccarthy. so with all these issues, i feel that as a property owner, we have done everything we can and we certainly deserve a little leeway that we like to request not to be charged those assessments. >> does that conclude your statement? >> sorry? >> is this the conclusion of your statement? >> yeah. all the delay is beyond our control. we try to work with everybody w the tenant w the inspector. and like i said, one snag after the other. three citations and actually, it is all pretty much related to one issue is from the original shower leak. and we need to replace and add additional support to the drywall area in the garage. >> sorry to interrupt, but your time is up now. we will go to public comment. >> thank you. >> there are four callers in the queue. i will start with the first. caller 831524. please go ahead. >> caller: hi, everyone. thank you for listening to my comments today. i am a member of the west side tenant association and housing committee of san francisco. i wanted to speak

her opposition, her opponent, minority leader kevin mccarthy is predicting republicans take back the house in 2022. guest: i think mrs understands very well you cannot do the congress forward by looking over your shoulder. she has been and remains quite interested, notwithstanding some of the ways she has characterized, trying to frame legislation in a bipartisan way. canknows legislation that be developed in a bipartisan way endures much better and gets better public buy in and does not face the kind of factional attacks wetionalized have seen from much legislation. , asink she understands that we have seen from house apublican party since 2009, refusal to participate in all most all legislative initiatives. no matter how much they were involved. that includes the affordable care act where there were hundreds and hundreds of republican amendments considered and many adopted. yet no republican votes. did you have to go forward. she will have a difficult time putting together those 218 democratic votes, let alone bringing republican votes along. i go back to what we heard from senator mcconnell. make barack obama a on

mccarthy is still celebrating wins in the house of representatives, biden also over came for commanding primary vote, so there are certainly statistic impossiblities and the federalist calls it magic as you referred to. mr. president, will you be able to prove that the computers can circumvent the controls that are in place? a lot of people say oh, no we have controls in place, there are paper ballots, the computers cannot get through the controls in place. can you do that and secondly, in terms of pennsylvania, your team got a blow on friday an appeals court rejecting the request to block the certification of pennsylvania's election results. your attorneys have said they will appeal to the supreme court give us your timing on that. will you get a different outcome in the next couple of days? will we be hearing a victory in pennsylvania in the next couple of days? president trump: okay well let me just talk about the federalist paper just for a second because you mentioned it. there are five points, and it was written brilliantly but sarcastically because they were saying he must be a great campaigner because he lost here, here, he loss here and he won the election. if a president, this is over a long m

mr. biden -- should he overcome the president's challenges, if he's running the white house, to what extent does he want to deal with people like mitch mcconnell and congressman mccarthy there were tea party negotiations in the obama empty sigh presidency, itn who dealt with mcconnell very closely in everycoming a lot of the budget block-ups that they had. maria: and dagen, mcconnell will not -- is waiting for the trump legal battles to flow through the courts. he will not say president-elect because he's waiting to see how this investigation into ballot fraud goes. go ahead, dagen. dagen: i'll just point out, though, that not one single democratic senator voted for amy coney barrett. so when pressured by the left wing leadership of the party, they caved. number one, even though she was clearly qualified for the job by every estimation. number two, joe biden called himself a moderate at one point. this will let him govern if the republicans can maintain control of the senate. let him govern that way in part. and i will point out of, as ronnie jackson was saying, the democrats gained zero seats in texas and the republicans picked up seats in california for the first ti

mr. matt luten was very helpful, but i am not getting any cooperation from the tenant. i was not getting cooperation from building inspector mccarthy. so with all these issues, i feel that as a property owner, we have done everything we can and we certainly deserve a little leeway that we like to request not to be charged those assessments. >> does that conclude your statement? >> sorry? >> is this the conclusion of your statement? >> yeah. all the delay is beyond our control. we try to work with everybody w the tenant w the inspector. and like i said, one snag after the other. three citations and actually, it is all pretty much related to one issue is from the original shower leak. and we need to replace and add additional support to the drywall area in the garage. >> sorry to interrupt, but your time is up now. we will go to public comment. >> thank you. >> there are four callers in the queue. i will start with the first. caller 831524. please go ahead. >> caller: hi, everyone. thank you for listening to my comments today. i am a member of the west side tenant association and housing committee of san francisco. i wanted to speak

mr. mccarthy bragging about well, the dems lost, let's be on the record. they have 17 seats more than the republicans do in the congress. we still have two seats up for grabs in georgia. let me tell you something. joe biden, i never dreamed he would win georgia. if he can win georgia, i think that jon ossoff and rev. warnock have just as much of a chance to put those two crooks, the trump apologists, leffler and purdue, they don't have any minds of their own. they can't even get along with people in their own party. look at how they are treating that secretary of state just because they don't like the election. folks, i've got news for you. me jump into tell you that we are going to be talking about georgia with buddy carter and hank johnson, both going to be with us later on in the program. let me ask you, stephen, i understand your criticism of republicans. how about your own party? are you happy that speaker pelosi will get another term? caller: i have mixed feelings about pelosi. sometimes i like her, sometimes i don't. i did think she did a good job w

but why would he not in the summer of 56 when attacking joe mccarthy, the guy's suspense force is gone why would jack kennedy not say to mrs. roosevelt you know what? i don't think he ever like to mccarthy in personal terms but political terms, even then he didn't want to criticize mccarthy and can't quite figure that else. >> i can only imagine he was loyal to his family, that didn't mean enough to him, what his appeasement did to reject his father's that way. my parents were a little younger than jfk and mccarthy was the litmus test for them as liberal democrats, whether a politician could be trusted, whether they could respect a politician and they ended up largely because stevenson was more outspoken. when it came to 1960 they celebrated kennedy's election, he was not a man. a decisive effects not so much on the politics of that time but how democrats im. >> one other thing. it is worth noting the democratic party as a whole, like hubert humphrey, for a long time unwilling to criticize mccarthy, pretty far into 54 to see broad parts of the party go after him in a serious way. kennedy is not alone. senior senator from m