paul: kim, that seems to be the points they are making. you need to have a check on some of the most extreme demands in the pelosi house and sanders agenda but here's the complication. the president is attacking the governor and secretary of state, also a republican and they are not helping enough returning the presidential election results in some of his lawyers, at least people who support him say don't vote because your votes are no longer safe. how much harm is a doing to the gop candidates? kim: it is a terrible idea because in this election, just as with the presidential election, is going to be about turnout. we know democrats, we've got groups out there already rally their base, making sure votes are headed out, absentee folks are headed out to every democrat and encouraging them to get back in. that operation is huge, widespread. republicans will need every vote they can get, in particular the donald trump base, the rural votes that were so important to him. any suggestion that it's not safe to vote for there should be a protest a

thanks for believing. ♪ ♪ paul: time now for hits and misses of the year. we'll start with the musses. kimr kate brown and portland i mayor ted wheeler who, for turning their city into a poster child of urban violence. failing to protect its citizens and property, their most basic duty. you know, a lot of cities had riots over the summer. the difference is this pair basically turned the keys over to rioters and protesters and antifa thugs and also limited what the police could do. it was one of the biggest failures of leadership in the country and by orders of magnitude. paul: kyle. >> i will give a miss to congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. 2020 was supposed to be a breakout year for democratic socialism with bernie sanders running strong in the presidential race and aoc's squad taking up the fight inside the house. instead, we end the year with president biden elected and republican gains in the house and democratic moderates insisting that the party should never use the word socialism ever again. then last week in a secret ballot house democrats passed over aoc for the committee as

paul: will there be a durham report? good the next attorney general squelch it? kimlutely the durham report, that is one of the things the special counsel required a special counsel to give a report to the ag so there will be a report. barr was very optimistic that just the circumstances in public pressure would mean the report would have to come public. paul: let's turn to the hunter biden investigation, there's an investigation into his taxes and perhaps more. will they be a special counsel named in the hunter biden case. kim: i have no idea. i hope not just because we have that long history of bob mueller, longer history of special counsel and they rarely ever and well. i have no idea whether or not he's going to name special counsel for hunter biden but we certainly don't have this with them. paul: okay, what is his response to the criticism that the news about the hunter biden investigation criminal probe after the election when the people and justice knew about it before and should have disclosed it? kim: well, that didn't happen. bill barr didn't apologize for

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paul: time for hits and misses of the week, kim start us off.to god american hero chuck yeager the famous test pilot that passed away this week at 97, his most famous for being the man to break the sound barrier but he went mock one his whole life, this is a guy he shot down five german aircraft in one day in world war ii, led missions in korea, vietnam and tested on muster hundred 50 different kinds of aircraft. generation gave everything for his country, we mourn his passing. paul: bill. bill: credit where credit is due, big hit to alexandria across your cortez, goya ceo this week said he named her employee of the month for boosting sales which he supported a boycott he was provoked the boycott by appearing at the trump white house and the congress woman put out a tweet showing her making her own seasoning, one of goya's most popular. kudos to the congresswoman for helping the sales and good for the ceo for not backing down and having a sense of humor. allysia: a wonderful dysfunctional state of california cannot seem to keep the lights on, ca

paul: okay. kimre we are at the end of the trump administration, and we had the google lawsuit by the justice department some weeks ago. now we've got the facebook suit. these guys are leaving town very quickly. [laughter] and there's going to be a new biden ftc. how do you explain the politics here late in the game? >> well, you know, it's actually remarkable. i mean, first of all, there's been this pent-up demand for republicans to do manager about these -- something about these social network giants who they believe are biased against conservatives. but the amazing thing is you don't see any democrats complaining about it either, because they hate the social network giants too. mark zuckerberg is the most friendless person in washington. i mean, look at the range of states that have all joined on what's an incredibly weak, very weak case. and the reason is because people are mad at facebook and others for what they perceive as social and political problems. i think the problem with this lawsuit an

paul vercammen. >>> joining me from los angeles is dr. robert kim followley, a professor at the ucla fielding school of public health and the former director of communicable disease control and prevention at the los angeles county public health department. thank you, doctor, for joining us and everything you do. >> always good to be with you, thank you. >> thank you. most of california under stay-at-home orders in an effort to control this virus. it is of course a delicate balancing act trying to protect citizens while not damaging the economy too drastically. would the strict enforcement of mask wearing better serve the state or is it this lock down absolutely necessary at this time? >> at this time, with the amount of surge, in fact, i'm not calling it a viral tsunami that is hitting it us, we really need to pull out all the stops to be able to stop the tsunami and again, there flatten the curve. we are experiencing a situation such that here in southern california, only something like 10.3 of our icu beds are now available. >> yeah, the numbers a

paul: so is it reasonable to expect that kim can keep this going even if he continues to face sanctionsic production keeps running under kim jong-un. he is trying to nurture future nuclear scientists to keep this march going. there are perks if you are a scientist and north korea. he has expanded the education system and sciences since taking power. he has put a lot of emphasis on internet and packing. there is a un security council of experts in north korea that said north korea has developed a very proficient army of hackers that can the country several billion dollars. this is help take the bite out of some of the sanctions. shery: east asia government editor with the latest. here is what the markets are looking like at the moment. we are seeing every sector and the green right now, being led higher by energy. we are talking about the highest level in over a week. 0.9%.tocks also gaining commodities weakening among counterparts. futures higher at the moment. nikkei futures higher. the japanese yen getting a little bit of ground against the u.s. dollar at the moment. sessionsher after

i'm paul vercammen reporting from pasadena. now back to you. >>> dr. kim farley is a profess soort ucla fielding school of public health and is the former director of communicable disease detection in l.a. county. he joins me now from l.a. doctor, thanks so much for being with us. sadly every time we speak, the situation where you are keeps getting worse. so, tell me what you're seeing now. >> thanks, kim, and again, thanks for having me on the program. it's always good to be with you. yes, when we talked before, we talked about there were surges nouch. now i'm actually saying we have a viral tsunami on our hand heres in california and los angeles. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, it just means that we characterize former things like waves or surges and i think just the magnitude of the amount of disease that we are seeing really needs a better term which i think tsunami probably congers in people's minds. or alternatively we talked before about the idea that i thought -- first we're kind of having a match book and throwing matches into the forest. an

i'm paul vercammen, reporting from pasadena, now back to you. >> dr. robert kimarley is a professor at ucl field health, and former director of disease prevention at l.a. county health. he joins me from l.a. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. sadly, every time we speak, the situation where you are keeps getting worse, so tell me what you're seeing now. >> thanks, kim, and again, thanks for having me on the program. it's always good to be with you. yes, you know, when we talked before, we talked about there were surges. now i'm saying saying we have a viral tsunami on our hands here in california and los angeles. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, it just means that we characterize former things like waves or surges and i think just the magnitude of the amount of disease that we are seeing really needs to have a better term, which i think a tsunami probably conjures up in people's minds or alternatively we talked about the idea that we were having a match book and throwing a match book into the forest, and occasionally have a flare up of disease in co

kim explains. >> the lines were long but people waited patiently in their cars at this coronavirus at the recollect creation center. paul montoya said his son found out he tested positive. >> he came over for thanksgiving and tested positive and then told me that he tested positive. i just -- once he said that i told my boss and he said to get tested. i want to make sure i'm fine. >> if they think they have had exposure because they were outside their bubble you want to check yourself at about three days and about eight days. >> the director of the center for issue grative grate medicine. he said it's important to get tested. >> generally speaking about 85% of people in terms of coronavirus transmission and infection will be detect on eight days. the reason we wait 14 day is that gets 98% of people. >> if you feel ill or may have been exposed getting a test isn't enough because of the possible delays in getting the results. he said the first and most important thing is self quarantine. >> unless you know the result of your test you need to stay quarantined from others. >> the medical direct ear of the intense of care un

kim explains. >> reporter: the lines were long the people waited patiently in their cars at this covid testing site, at hansen dam recreation center. paul montoya told us he is here because his son found out he tested positive on saturday. >> he came over things getting into the positive and that he told me he tested positive. so i just, what he told me told my boss and he said yes, go get tested, so i just want to make sure i'm fine. >> what i recommend to my patients is if they have had exposure because they were outside their bubble, if you want to check yourself at about three days, and about eight days. >> dr. michael hurt is director of the center for integrative medicine in tarzana. he says it is important to get tested for coronavirus because people are around others more now. >> generally speaking, about 85% of people in terms of covid transmissibility will be detected on eight days. the reason that we wait 14 days is like it's about 90% of the people. >> he says if you feel ill or may have been exposed, getting a test is not enough because of the possible delays in getting the results. he says the first and most important thin

paul following the breaking news. >> we are tracking updates on this developing story we first told you about last night. a bar in staten island that refuses to comply with kim jong un for restrictions declaring itself an autonomous zone. will be learned the owner was led away in cuffs by sheriff's deputies. we got off the phone with the lawyer's owner who tells us 15 or so sheriff's deputies came into the bar kicking out patrons but demanding all employees stay. a myriad of summonses were handed out and kept them inside for an hour but when:are refused to leave his lawyer says he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. in california more controversies surrounding a high end michelman restaurant about lawmakers saying one thing but doing another. the chronicle reporting the day after governor gavin newsom stopped eating with a large group of people who were indoors the mayor of san francisco did something similar. the mayor had dinner at french laundry which is just north of napa with a party of eight. it wasn't technically against the area's rules at the time, had dinner taken place in san francisco would help violated health guidelines. in la cou

paul manafort or roger stone or kushner were convicted this morning. this was probably in the makings. tim, i want to go to you. think about what kim's point is here about the green light. i know you are a historian. you are a marvelous one at that. i'm thinking about the green lights going forward. but i'm also thinking from historical context here. i want to hear from you. trump has now pardoned at least five people charged in connection to the russia probe. but no matter how many pardons he issues, he will leave office as an impeached president, right? >> well, there will always be an impeached president. there were two restraints on donald trump. one was impeachment, and he got acquitted. the second was his re-election or his attempt at being re-elected. he was not re-elected. there were two constraints. they've both gone away. he's a little less than a month in order to issue a series of bad pardons. but what's at stake here is not simply trump's legacy. what's at stake here is going forward whether the republican party will continue to enable crimes committed in the oval office. i want to be very frank about this. it wasn't sim

kim, set the stage for us here. because you know that the mueller report dangled the idea of pardons for people like coincidentally roger stone for paul manafort. and now he has not just dangled them, he has pardoned them. anything illegal about connecting those two dots? >> well, laura, attorney general bill barr, whose last day was yesterday, when asked by vermont senator patrick leahy whether a promise in exchange for silence, bill barr answered that question yes. but like all things trump, the question isn't so much if it's illegal, it's what can he get away with. and in this moment we have a united states congress who essentially knowing that the mueller report mentioned pardons 64 times, didn't do anything about that, and then also decided not to even really hold an impeachment trial, saying that the whole thing can be resolved in the election and then we have over a hundred republicans in the house of representatives essentially signing onto a brief to take away lawful votes in four states. this is really damaging to the united states constitution because it's setting up a precedent, particularly as the president goes forward a

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