rand paul the senator on the other side of this break. stay with us.u need flexibility- to work from anywhere. and manage from everywhere. advanced technology. with serious security. and reliable coverage, nationwide. forward-thinking enterprises, deserve forward-thinking solutions. and that's what we deliver. so bounce forward, with comcast business. >> joining me right now kentucky senator senate foreign relacingss homeland security governmentalal affairs committee member rand paul senator always a pleasure to see you let's get right into the news day of the i know new york city not town being a new yorker now, not to be focused on the local but the public schools here shutting down, clearly these left wing leaders are giving into the demands of the union what say you should we be concerned about this happening in other parts of the country. >>. >> -- data -- and -- [poor audio]. >> many -- absolutely children, one in a million offering -- put in school, un. >> i am sure government overreach keeps up at night the way that it keeps me up at night, i l

i wonder if rand paul feels the same way.he republican with us right now, senator, what do you think of some of these picks? would they pass mustard with you? >> we've had a democrat at the helm of the treasury for four years anyway so i'm not sure that will make much difference. with a standard whether or not you spend money like a drunken sailor, we are doing that anyway. i'm not sure yellen could be much worse. i would say with regard to foreign policy -- >> neil: steven mnuchin, you're not a fan of the leaders of the president? >> i see him trying to shovel money out the door and give away free money to people and that is not a conservative notion but a democrat and ocean. >> neil: with the blessing of the president, right? he didn't do anything the president didn't want him to do. >> that was directed specifically to him in negotiations with nancy pelosi. but i would say on foreign policy, i am very worried about there will be a shift and back to those who believe we should marrow to narrowly intervene abroad in a big wa

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>> you know, brian, rand paul has a medical doctorate and he should be ashamed.tripped of any ability to practice medicine. and he's not upholding the first tenant of being a physician, which is first do no harm. i don't know why he would say that. for your viewers, to correct misinformation, there's no evidence if you've been infected with covid-19 you're immune from infection for any period of time. you have a 25-year-old in nevada otherwise healthy within six weeks of his first infection got reinfected and had more severe symptoms the second time around. that is shameful on the part of rand paul. he has a platform. he's a physician. he should start acting like one. real quick on masks since i get a lot of viewer questions on this given our conversation last week. these are the things you don't want to do. neck gators of any type is not good enough. they're not thick enough. don't do that. get something else. these cloth masks i have here, the same type of fabric even though they're multilayers, they're two pieces of the same type of fabric adjusted to each oth

gupta, how do you react to that comment from noted expert rand paul? >> rand paul has a medical draukeratdrau doctorate, and he should be ashamed and he should be stripped of certification holding medicine. there's no evidence if you've been infected with covid-19 and you have a 25-year-old from nevada got reinfected, had more severe symptoms the segd time around. so that is shameful on the part of senator rand paul. he has a platform. he's a physician. he should start acting like 1. if i may real quickly on masks, i get a lot of viewer questions on this. given our conversation last week, these are things you don't want to do. neck gators of any type, they're not good. they're not thick enough. so any neck gator you just put up over your nose or mouth, don't do that. get something else. these cloth masks i have here, the same type of fabric, they're like two pieces of the same type of fabric adjusted to each other, don't do that as well. this is what you want to look out for, hybrid cloth masks. so a high thread count piece of cotton, 600 count cotton

also served the same you communications director and stuff legal counsel for republican senator rand paul we appreciate your time thank you. and the u.s. is saying and now the record jump and cried a virus infections 3 days off of the presidential election more than 127000 cases were announced on thursday breaking a record set just the day before the country has also reported 1200 deaths links to the virus taking the overall death toll 223-5000 the number of new delhi cases in the u.s. has risen 550000 less than a week. breaking news coming into us now and president chief of staff mark meadows has tested positive for covert 19 it is unclear when the 61 year old contracted the virus but preliminary reports say he told a trump campaign aide nick trainer. has also been effect infected sorry we're also hearing that a trump campaign aide nick traina has also been infected we will bring you more on this breaking story as it comes to had. been another new record rise in infections and from the 2nd straight day there were almost 60500 new coronavirus cases on friday and 828 deaths nearly 400 of t

lawyer he served as senior communications director and staff legal counsel for republican senator rand paul he joins us from both the beth this is beth is maryland my apologies. thanks for your time it doesn't seem like the push to listen kate for the president is working as you said cases in michigan and georgia are being dismissed for lack of evidence how do you see this playing out. well it's still very early in the process so we're going to have to see how it plays out i mean the voting is still being counted right now so you have votes being counted in pennsylvania and that allegation in pennsylvania is 1st that the observers are not being allowed into some facilities but also when they are allowed in the not really being allowed to view the counting of the ballots so that's one aspect of it another one which is a significant one is the question of whether votes that come in after election day even though they were mailed before election day or don't have any evidence on the on the low whether they were mailed before or after whether they should be counted matt i assume that is going t

sojourning out is kentucky senator rand paul.bout investigating potential voter fraud and he joins me now. so senator, good to have your tonight. i'm sure you heard the news at the top of the hour tonight about gsa beginning the process of the transition and michigan has certified their vote, philadelphia county has now certified their vote, but the president said there are still outstanding cases that they want to continue to pursue and you hear in this instance met this mathematician just really looking at this mail-in process, which in some aspects is very perplexing. >> you know, i think the first thing that we need to acknowledge is that this was an unprecedented election since normally 99% of people show up in person. we can kind of police that the right people showed up because you don't have the same people showing up again and again. they sign in, they show idea and it's pretty easy to validate their vote. but now we have an election were maybe a third to a half mailed in their ballots. this is never, ever happened in ou

in moments we will speak with rand paul, who has clashed with clashed with dr. fauci on the effectiveness of lockdowns and then later in the hour, kayleigh mcenany on the president's election battles in multiple states, we will get you caught up on that but we begin tonight with health and see services secretary alex azar. thank you for being here tonight. >> glad to be with you, thank for having me. >> martha: so what's your opinion on that suggestion from dr. osterholm that what we need in this obvious second surge is a six week total lockdown across the country to snuff it out? >> well, martha, i got a lot of respect for dr. osterholm but i do think we should be driven by science and data and the facts here and they simply do not support the notion of locking down the country, sheltering in place. you know, it's important the american people know the facts and the simple facts are that our colleges are not mechanisms for major spread of the disease. our kids in k-12 are not mechanisms of major -- we are not seeing those settings for major spreaders of the dis

republican senator rand paul had coronavirus offered this statement. >> we have 11 million people in had covid. we should tell them to celebrate. we should tell them to throw away mare mask, go to restaurants and live again because these people are immune but dr. fauci doesn't want to admit to any of that. he's like woe is me. sdplp wh sdp >> what is he not getting? >> he's not getting everything. i'll remind everybody that rand paul is the same medical genius who while waiting for his covid results to return decided it was a good idea to go for a swim in the senate pool. i put no credence in anything he said about anything to do with this virus. ask the long haulers who have survived covid but are still suffering. ask them if they should celebrate. that's really disturbing. >> at least 35 states have set record highs this month already. south dakota had a seven-day positivity rate at 58%. 19 states reported record high hospitalizations just yesterday. hospital icus are full. idaho governors talk about rationing care. we know hospitalization trends follow by deaths lag a few weeks be

in the meantime, i'm very happy to be joined by rand paul and keley paul. if they know a thing or two about the violence we have seen in the rallies particularly this latest rally on behalf of the president. by night time, and turn into something that probably looked eerily familiar to them. senator and mrs. paul, thank you for joining us. i hope you are doing okay. you know, when you saw what was going on and watched in over the weekend, and did looked eerily familiar to what you encountered leaving the white house after the big event and the president's speech there where you are knee-deep in protests. i got pretty scary. did this seems similar to that? >> absolutely. i think that it seems very similar. what is more disturbing is that you have both right and left calling the other side fake news. many of us say associated press certainly that is objective ne news. the ap reported the story yesterday. i read the associated press story. i had no idea who was attacking who and for what reason. they would not describe that these were people attacking trump. p

senator rand paul joins us right now, the kentucky senator, on what he makes of that possibility, the senate flip. what do you think senator? >> i think there's a real good chance that kentucky goes for trump and i think there's a good chance that mcconnell wins kentucky. i think north carolina and i will definitely go the way the president goes. it's the same way with iowa and i think it's now looking like he's ahead. but i think it's really impossible to make predictions since the polling has been so bad. i know for no one who has never taken a pole, i don't answer my phone to anyone who i don't know who's calling. i don't know how you do polling in this day and age, who takes a call from a random phone number? >> neil: it would be cool if they just stumbled upon you though. let me ask you. are you surprised -- and you are quite right with some of these battleground polls. the president's people, and that means within three or four points, that's a trump state because even to this day four years later, the polls and the pollsters have a tough time really just discerning and accounti

then you get this tweet from rand paul, here's what rand paul said.our government said 1.1 million dead people stimulus checks and i wonder how many of those folks also voted absentee. where does this lead? >> those are all very important theoretical concerns. but elections don't get turned around on the basis of theoretical concerns. we all had a lot of theoretical concerns about male and ballots but the thing that changes results is that there has to bed evidence of fraud and impropriety. there's a lot of things being said that are legitimately raised people's hackles but on the other hand you weren't seeing that met with the hard evidence. >> bill: over the weekend and into saturday and sunday, these questions from republicans about software issues. they pointed to a county in northern michigan near traverse city, it was 2-1 joe biden then they flipped it around. what do you make of these claims about software issues russian mark is there merit to them? >> i spent a lot of time looking at that and the reports seem to be inconclusive at the moment a

>> you are not rand paul says when the democrats are in power the republicans of the conservative party when republicans are in power there is no conservative party because often times when it becomes inconvenient when people try to govern. frankly that is because a special interest there is a strong special interest presence nobody would reduce his spending they all increase spending because then they can all get into the risen to a big special interest against the forever wars because they create / fund opportunities for spending with little accountability. there's not a big special interest push to limit illegal immigration because benefits on - - democrats in the benefits with political power and big businesses view it as an opportunity to keep wages down for americans. a number of these issues is not republicans versus democrats bed the established and the universal party that they work to adhere to so the worst elements of washington to impoverish us with bad trade deals and spilled the blood over patriots without an understanding of a victory looks like and to fundamentally chang

received -- rand paul received a vote in texas as did john kasich and bernie sanders received one vote from an elector in hawaii. these people are called faithless electors as we'll talk about in a minute. how do they select? the process starts for any election year well before election day in which potential electors are nominated to stand on the ballot. this nomination's process of who will potentially be the 535 electors selected by each state is up to each state and typically, what most states do is allow the state party organizations to nominate the sufficient number of electors. so again if we're talking about utah, the state democratic party will nominate six people to stand on the ballot as the democratic electors and the state republican party will nominate six people to stand on the ballot as the republican electors. these are the people that you're actually voting for. who are these people typically? who gets nominated to be an electoral college elector. but for the constitution the only rule is they cannot be someone holding a federal office, so a member of congress, t

it has ignored a government also nice interest of rand paul has comments from that. if you will, to his defense minister in a moment, also on the program, even of the country locked in conflicts, a new report shows, ethiopia is the only country in africa that's made progress in governance. over the last 10 years. we'll take you to the arena, of course in lagos, the local government wants to populated with more quotes in a bid to divert traffic from the city's current jested roads. hello, i'm christine wonder. it's good to have your company. if you o.p.'s prime minister may have, has said government troops are about to launch a final offensive into cry. it comes off the t.v. and their forces in the northern region missed a 3 day deadline to surrender on his facebook page. the roche, following the exploration off the state line, the final critical actual law enforcement will be done in the coming days. you spoke earlier to his defense minister, can they get data? we asked him why ethiopia was rejecting mediation office and also now when journalists or humanitarian aid

darling he's a former senior communications director and star legal counsel for the republican senator rand paul he joins us from the in maryland so the president still remaining very defiant launching many of these legal challenges in various states some of which have already been dismissed we have another one being dismissed today in nevada. do any of his lawsuits have legs. well time will tell i think what's happening now is they're organizing their legal strategy i mean we're still in the middle of the count i mean these counts are still going on they haven't been completed there's a good chance that we know in georgia they're going to have a recount there may be other states where there are recounts so some of these allegations will not be litigated for a few weeks and you know one of the most important aspects of this is restoring confidence in the american people that the american people have in the electoral process and are a good deal or republicans are looking at what's going on and in pennsylvania skeptically and so any investigation that's done that comes out either way will help res

>> guest: our friend rand paul has a great sync it with the democrats are part of the republicans are conservative party and when the republicans there is no conservative party. oftentimes the things we campaign on become inconvenient when people are trying to govern. i think that frankly is because of the central interest. there's not a strong peschel intrinsic presence in washington d.c. to reduce spending. all of us can agree to increase spend because in the pie is bigger to all get their snouts down into. also there's not really big special interests effort forever wars. these create/fund opportunities for little accountability. there's not a big special interests push to them legal immigration. democrats see illegal immigration as political power for them. a lot of big businesses who support republicans through illegal immigration is an opportunity to keep wages down for americans. a number of these issues is not really republicans against democrats. it's the unipart it's the establishment thathose republicans and democrats are wiing to adhere to. so the worst elements of washgto

her friend rand paul has a great sync that when the democrats are a power of the republicans are theservative party. when republicans are in power, there is no conservative party. because often times the things that we can't see, become inconvenient when people are trying to govern prayed and think that frankly is because of the influence of special interest have read there's not a strong special interest present to reduce spending. all can agree on the increases in it because the pie is bigger . and i would say it is not really a big special interest effort against whatever boris . because these forever worse crag plus fund opportunities for spending very little accountability. there's not a special interest push to limit illegal immigration because democrats benefit in terms of political power for them and a lot of big businesses to support republicans, use illegal immigration to keep the wages down for americans. so on the number of these issues, it is not republicans against democrats. it is the any party, the establishment those republicans and the democrats are willing to adher

>> you are not in their friend rand paul has a great saying could win the democrats are in power the republicans are the conservative party and when the republicans aren't power there is no conservative party because oftentimes the things we campaign on become inconvenient when people are trying to govern. i think that frankly is because of the influence of special interests. there's a strong special-interest presence in washington to reduce spending. it almost increases spending because then the pie is bigger. i would say there is in this special interest against these because these. slush fund opportunities for little accountability and there's not a big special-interest push to limit illegal immigration. democrats in terms of political power for them and a lot of big businesses who support republicans on illegal immigration as an opportunity to keep wages down for americans but a number of these issues is not republicans against democrats, it's being in a party. it's the establishment tha republicans and democrats are willing to it here too so that the worst elements of washington

senator rand paul are here to talk about the violent clashes that we saw in d.c.g it. the georgia secretary of state press therapeutic they have to have all those hand counted ballots in late tonight. will they be able to achieve that amid some of the criticism that secretary of state is getting fr

. >> laura: good for rand paul, and for me, i'm just thankful that we have a president who pressed for operation warp speed, who reopened the country last may, and who understood that a nation without freedom and fellowship is neither safe nor sustainable. and that's the "angle." governor andrew cuomo of new york has imposed some of the most insane restrictions on american holiday celebrations, living thanksgivings of course to just ten people, but there's one county sheriff who is refusing to enforce what he calls a blatantly unconstitutional mandate. richard giardino is a fulton county sheriff and also a former d.a. and judge, he joins me now. richard, has the cuomo administration threatened your office in any way you are refusing to enforce these insane rules? >> not yet. the most they have done is mention the sheriff to step up our politicizing covid, which we know who has politicized it long before the sheriff stated. before we go any farther, i have to tell you -- i heard you and sean talking about fried turkeys, and i hope it is not one that is big enough -- we may have to look

. >> rand paul who tested positive for covid-19 in march took aim at covid-19 and said covid-19 survivors should feel liberated. >> the only people who have already had covid-19. we should tell them to celebrate, throw away their masks. >> reporter: people should wear their masks and social distance but insists he's not trying to shut down the country. >> there is no appetite for locking down on the american public but i believe we can do it without a lockdown. i really do. >> reporter: congressman tim ryan says we can all do our part. >> following science, following the mask mandate, if we do that hopefully their won't have to be a shutdown. >> reporter: another covid-19 advisor argued early on the country would need to be locked down for 18 months, that leaves 2 questions which advice rex was the president-elect will follow. >> republican young tim defeating democratic congressman gil cisneros in southern california, the second gop pick up in california this election. incoming members of the house of representatives filtered onto the floor of the capital for freshman orientation and con

kristi noem, marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul, tim scott and mike lee. four years later, the g.o.p. took control of the senate. two years after that, donald trump was elected president. the difference between the tea party then and president trump's movement now is that this movement now has a lot more clarity about what it wants. the same trump economic and foreign policy agenda that led to higher wages, fewer wars. whatever the final actual college italians, this movement has proven track record of success on everything from achieving our energy independence to challenging china to fast tracking a covid vaccine, raising family incomes. the results were so impressive that not only did president trump broaden his coalition among working-class americans but he helped grow the parties numbers in the house. when all those vaunted media experts with all their credentials were predicting the opposite. they claimed trump was going to shrink the party. remember that? especially on minorities. wrong again. >> blacks and latinos are doing much better under trump versus obama. absolutely. >>

. >> rand paul who tested positiv in marczyk aim at doctor anthon cavuto and says survivors shoul feel liberated parrot. >> we have people that at covid we should tell them to celebrate , to throw away their mascara. >> he says they should wear their masks and social distance but insist he is not trying to shut down the country. >> there is no appetite for locking down the american public , but i believe that we can do it without a lockdown. really do. >> biden surrogate says we can all do our part to. >> following science, following the mask mandates, the handwashing, all of that. if we do that, hopefully there won't have to be as shut down parrot. >> at code advisor, argued earl on the country would need to be lockdown for 18 months. that leaves the questions about which advice from his experts the president-elect will follow. >> thank you so much. republicans officially div reading gil cisneros in souther california. this is the second gop pickup i california this election. incoming members of the house o representatives filtered onto the floor in the capital this week for freshman

. >> rand paul headlines a slate of conservative tea-party backed candidates. >> a remarkable 40% ofea-party supporters and eight out of ten of them voted republican. >> feels bad. >> two years ago, barack obama was at 62% in the polls. "time magazine" declared the republican party, all but extinct. and look at where we are now. the voters have not gotten what they asked for. >> the mistake is to think that the country speaks as one. that we're all one thing. what we really are is a massive reaction. we are always reacting to the last thing that happened. so if the country goes left, you can be damn sure it's going to go right. and if the country is looking good for rich people one day, well then the poor people are going to hate that and get angry. if we think we're past race, well, racism will come right back. our pendulum swings. in the long run, we make progress but it can be pretty ugly to watch. >> what a week. the state of hawaii released my official, long-form birth certificate. no one is happier to put this birth-certificate matter to rest, than the donald. obviously, we all

doctor rand paul went back and forth with him and said absolutely we should be opening the schools becausects the least among us the most. when you look at the stories of special-needs children who are suffering as a result of this, of the parents who kids can't b in school now as a result of no having the proper resources. the test results now, like 83 percent rf now of this online learning process and kids are now a shell of their former selves. the teachers unions are responsible for those. leaders in new york city and across the country have been taking their marching orders from these people while the teachers want to continue commi not all of them, but a lot of them in these teachers unions and backing the decisions by th leadership are perfectly fine with getting paid and not actually doing the work to keep these kids in school. it's a travesty, it really is. generations of children will be affected by this. we will see the results of the proms with this for years to come, not just 2020 or when he 21 part. >> one thing i agree with his i saw a high proportion of f's going to low inc

that's why rand paul gets 35,000 retweets when he just spreads absolutely crazy lies.ublican base is looking for. the republican candidates are still scared of them. they've been scared of them ever since donald trump won the nomination and they didn't understand how he could have won, and so now, you know, they've got their tails between their legs and the only ones that have any courage, which are just, you know, like you said, a couple like liz cheney or, you know, mitt romney, you know, are because they feel secure enough in themselves that they can do this. it's truly madness. >> you know, donna, joe biden's victory was so decisive and so clear that there is nothing at a political or legal standpoint, but there is this mandate that he seems to have for his presidency. he campaigned as someone who was a proud democrat but running to be the president of all americans. and i wonder how you think he navigates something that's obviously still very much on former president obama's mind. he wrote a lot and talked a lot in his book tour about truth decay and trying to gov

there was an incident after a trump event where senator rand paul and his wife were harassed and chasedorters. not only to the authorities need to do a better job of knowing that this can be a tinderbox when you have people on different sides in this atmosphere but the media needs to do a better job of telling the story and not downplaying it just because it doesn't fit their preferred narrative. >> dana: it's interesting, tomorrow social media tech heads are going to be back on capitol hill, they get a range of questions and the accusation and bias against conservatives usually comes up. there's the media coverage of course but you also have social media that feeds into this. i think that's a really big part of it. >> howie: the challenge for these giant tech companies which i think have had a terrible 20/20 and one-sided nature particularly of twitter of either blocking or censoring or putting warning flags on trump tweets and trump campaign tweets. i think it's going to hurt their credibility for a long time. but there's also the question of whether or not people use social media to

this is rand paul foreign policy and it's not going to look good in the long run. >> final question,d he might consider nominating a republican for a cabinet position. we saw obama did the same thing. chuck hagel served in his cabinet. if asked, i know it's hypothetical, would you consider a session appointment? >> you would never not consider something that would be very important if something like that came. i haven't heard anything, have no intention of it. but if it was something magical where you could make a big world impact, of course, you look at it. but my job and my goal is represent the 700,000 people i do. i will support president-elect biden when i can and oppose him honorably when i must. >> congressman kinzinger, thank you very much for speaking honestly. >> you bet. >> it is such a refreshing thing to hear with no spin. great interview, jim. >>> a prison and prep school, lisa ling up next with us, showing how these two unlikely worlds come together as her new season of "this is life" begins this weekend. she's here next. pizza. tacos. pizza! what about subway? it's a

in a sense on the capitol, there are no rules requiring it, but virtually every member but rand paul,est of them do wear a mask. margery taylor green making it clear she as incoming freshman is opposed to the rules. see if she listens when sworn in in january. >> other rules republicans have complained about, are they enforced? >> they're supposed to be enforced, they're supposed to be told by officials, sergeant-at-arms office to wear a mask if they aren't. sometimes they're not enforced, at the least, members are supposed to listen to them, john. >> new member, trying to make a splash from the get go. appreciate the hustle and new reporting. >>> thank you for spending time with us today. see you monday. also, sunday morning, 8:00 a.m. for inside politics. brianna keilar picks up coverage now, have a great day. stay safe. >>> hello, i am brianna keilar, i want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. remember when the president of the united states said this? >> that's all i hear about now. turn on the television, covid, covid, covid, covid, covid. by the way, no

. >> kentucky senator rand paul who tested positive for covid in march, took aim at dr. anthony fauci and says covid survivors should feel liberated. >> 11 million people in the country who have already had covid. we should tell them to celebrate, we should tell them to throw away their mask. >> dr. anthony fauci says people should wear masks and social distance but he is not trying to shut down the country. >> there's no appetite for locking down the american public but i believe we can do it without a lockdown, i really do. >> congressman tim ryan says we can all do our part. >> following the signs, following the mask mandates, the hand washing and all of that and if we do that hopefully there won't have to be a shut down. >> another biden covid advisor argued the country would need to be locked down for 18 months, so that leads to questions about which advice from his experts the president-elect will follow. bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. stocks were up today is the market shrugged off the fears of a lockdown and embraced the news on the vaccine. the dow surging 400.

i think rand paul and his foreign policy, kind of a trump whisperer on this has gotten through to a pointon. >> how significant is it the fact that you are working together as democrat and republican. it's one example and god knows we could use more, of bipartisan cooperation. >> one thing you see in congress, a lot of times veterans will come together when it comes to issues of national security, when it comes to doing the right thing to protect our country and to live up to the promise that we have made to do everything we can to support our troops. sadly, the president doesn't get that at all. let's not forget this is a draft dodging president who's giving gifts to putin in russia. he's giving gifts to china, north korea. he's giving gifts to iran. they're right of the border from afghanistan. now he's giving a gift to the taliban. look, this is right out of trump's playbook as adam said, and it's terrible policy. it's foreign to talk about what we should be doing. we should be keeping a minimal counter terror force in afghanistan, not just a force that's beg enough to protect itself.

or in iraq or in syria in order to think that this is somehow, you know, following through on his rand paule/unquote, endless wars. even the president himself said that afghanistan isn't a war, it's a peacekeeping mission. so this idea is silly. look, with 2,500 troops all you really have left is enough troops to defend the remaining troops who are just there to defend those troops. at 2,500 troops you really can just do a force protection and you really can't extend power or train or advise the afghanistan military. i think it's part of his desire, again, to say he did it but also maybe an attempt to hobble the next administration because now president-elect biden is going to have to make a decision to either keep it at that risky level or go back and add troops, which is a whole new story. >> hobble the incoming administration, what do you mean? expand on that, please. >> well, i think it's going to be a very tough decision now for the president-elect to make. typically in this country and if you see like george w. bush when he negotiated the status of forces agreement to 2011, he could h

interest of rand paul has comments from that ethiopia's defense minister in a moment, also on the program. even of the country lost in conflicts, a new report shows. ethiopia is the only country in africa that's made progress in governance. over the last 10 years. the press will take you to my rain. of course, in lagos, the local government wants to populated the poor clothes in advance to divert traffic from the city's contest of roads. hello, i'm christine one day. it's good to have your company. ethiopia's prime minister has said government troops are about to launch a final offensive into cry. it comes off at c.p.m. . their forces in the northern region missed a 3 day deadline to surrender on his facebook page. the rows following the exploration off the state line. the final critical actual law enforcement will be done in the coming days. now, d.w. spoke earlier to ethiopia as defense minister kan a year data. we asked him why ethiopia was rejecting mediation office and also now in june, this all humanitarian aid into to cry. this is an issue related to a dissolute, the war, internal

when rand paul and i spoke out about our assault the a.p.10 minutes of video. finish your thought there. >> dana: we're reading each other's thoughts we both went to that reference point. npr's headline. the takeaway they had. million maga march draws trump loyalists and far right extremists. what's missing? antifa, blm. the crazies went to d.c. and violence broke out is the premise from the headline. the way we consume media now, dana, you and i do this as well. scroll through twitter and facebook and see the headline and you say i get it. you don't open the story. headlines need to be accurate in these situations in the case of npr and others i've seen. no mention of antifa and they're the reason perhaps why two officers were also injured in d.c. on saturday night from metro police. >> dana: i had an idea when i was press secretary there should be a new obligation and tradition that reporters should have to initial and sign off on the headlines that go with their stories because if you ever caught a complaint about an article it is the hea

should be harassed when they are having dinner with their family, not sarah huckabee sanders or rand paul is in excusable. charles: liz peek enjoy our conversations thank you so much my friend now despite the talk that our steel industry is on the decline one company says president trump's tariff actions helped steel productions strong, he's next. insulin injections can make diabetes complicated. meet omnipod - it delivers insulin through a tubeless pod. just one small pod replaces up to 14 injections! and today - you can get started with a free 30-day omnipod dash trial at omnipod.com. no more daily injections. it's game-changing! get started with a free 30-day omnipod dash trial today. go to omnipod.com for risk information, instructions for use and free trial terms and conditions. consult your healthcare provider before starting on omnipod. simplify diabetes. simplify life. omnipod. hi, my name is sam davis and i'm going to tell you about exciting plans available to anyone with medicare. many plans provide broad coverage and still may save you money on monthly premiums and prescription

gillian, we had hoped to bring senator rand paul into the conversation. if this break is long enough, we will do that but for now catch us up because it has been spicy, my friend. >> it has been a whirlwind of a hearing, harris. so far a lot of fireworks flying all around. but this is the second time in three weeks that they have dragged ceos in front of them. they are going all in on a new claim is that the whole problem with social media and its role in this presidential election has really been democrats. take a listen. >> there was a time when democrats embraced and defended the principles of free speech. there was a time when democrats embraced and defended the principles of a free press. and, yet, there is an absolute silence from democrats speaking up for the press outlets censored by big tech. >> now, the broader arguments republicans on this panel are making today is that the social media platforms have a broad and very deep rooted anti-conservative bias that is now infecting everything they do. and resulting in tons of conservative posts being f

about how t modern republan party posed trump's sort of what you've got left are two factions one is rand paul, i think in isolationist and this is probably 20s isolationists they wou favor business engagement and so on and then the sort of unilateral hawks that want and assertive amerin power but don't mind having out associated allies and don't want to see america compromised so you now have these two between themt is pretty much the bulk of the republican par. >> i think it is very reminiscent of the 20s because what you had was called the irreconcilable and they were basically the nativist libertarians, th nationalists and then you had the weighing of the republican pty but it was a unilateralist internaonalism and today we see more or less the same thing and the democratic party meanwhile has gone in the direction of the earlier democratic party and much more committed to multilateralism and international teamwork. it's a little more complicated because in the 20s we had a progressive but irreconlable and i would think today, you know, somebody like bernie sanders or these other figures o

rand paul tweeting this morning about dead people voting.hree of the sunday shows this weekend trying to recast what republican opposition to a president biden might mean, the idea that it would be on policy, not on the question of did he actually win or the personal attacks that we've seen during the trump era. on the democratic side, i think the thing to watch for over the next couple months probably until the midterms in 2022 is this intermural contest about why they lost seats in the house and ultimately what their message needs to be to voters if they're going to expand to house majority. we don't know who is going to control the senate. the idea of were democrats too aggressive on progressive issues. or were they not aggressive enough? there's already some back and forth among house democrats about what their message should be as they now move into a stage of perhaps divided government with at least a democratic house and president. >> they're going to have to find a way to get everyone working together if they want to get something do

those on the other side are saying, my understanding of what happened last summer with the attack on rand paulnd his wife and something happens at night and local authorities, this played out in seattle and minneapolis where they allowed the two sides to be with each other. you can't draw a crowd ahead of time, seems like a petri dish for trouble. >> absolutely right but let me defend the metropolitan police department. to keep these groups apart last weekend, it is a matter that there are 20 arrests, eight firearms confiscated and also four police officers injured as a result of crime keeping these groups apart so what i am saying and what is concerning to me is what started this and in charlottesville we had a woman killed in charlottesville. fortunately what took place in dc there was no one who was actually killed and the metropolitan police department did a tremendously good job. neil: we called dc's office but if the president never concedes this election are you worried about more violence, that could be a precipitant of more trouble? if he doesn't concede does that worry you? >> it wor

2011, castor my back to 2011 there large number of republicans, gingrich and term, michele bachmann rand paulbig field, think there is herman cain maybe here, the compete against obama which was going for reelection. in planned parenthood had been in the news a lot. and had big, under the conservatives come under the republican party. and each of these candidates had pledged would fund planned parenthood. i had her assignment from the new yorker to write a history find why is planned parenthood suddenly an issue so i started researching that story. and the papers of planned parenthood, the organization smith college and a wonderful library there. so are the papers of margaret sanger's they founded in 1916. but meanwhile i was writing an acacia at law school in a history workshop. and i am in ancient history truths. i decided that i wanted to write an acacia about the lie detector which was invented at harvard bite undergraduate writer around the time planned parenthood was founded. there's a guy name wilton larson. as excited to write an acacia about him i went into wikipedia to begin to find

rand paul is asking this morning is not only is this constitutional but do these mask mandates work to stop the spread of the coronavirus? and you have, of course, the biden advisors, ron klain who will be joe biden's chief of staff. let's not forget in february he said we don't have a covid pandemic crisis, we have a fear crisis and he praised new york city mayor bill deblasio for holding a dinner party to fight against that fear. so when it comes to the credibility of these people i think it is good to look at the record what they've been saying about the pandemic up to this point. >> sandra: there is the mask mandate and then there is a look at what might happen as far as a coronavirus stimulus package. there was a promise and talk of from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and other democrats of a slimd-down package. now they're talking about a bigger package. $3.4 trillion hero's act, a starting point. here is chuck schumer on that. >> the heroes act does something that vital. strengthens medicaid and improves access to healthcare coverage. support for hospitals at a time when covid i

one of them senator rand paul and his wife.tel, they were confronted by protesters. remember this right here thankfully d.c. bike using to protect him from people. the senator was on the show and he talked about he was horrified and thought people were getting paid to come in from out of state. he tweeted this out. this is the breaking news. the d.c. u.s. attorney today confirmed this would be yesterday. confirmed to me that they will not pursue an investigation of who is funding the thugs who attacked my wife and me and sent a d.c. police officer to the hospital. he was on this show right after it happened. and here he is explaining what happened. >> they were yelling threats trying to push the police over to me grabbing at us and if got worse and worse and worse. finally we decided to make a move. we have got to make a move. try get to the hotel which was another block. they were shouting threats, you know, to us, to kill us, to hurt us. they need to be arrested, questioned, they need to say where are you staying and bills ne

of the conversations i had with people who know him pretty well, they compared him to sot t of a rand paulbertarian type republican, somebody who is so deeply committed to a set of principles he wouldn't be easily swayed by trumpism, and sure enough that's what we saw. >> and so now he faces political blowback for following the law. and again, it wasn't ambiguous. he had only one thing he could do. he followed the law, and now republicans are going to punish him for it. thank you so much. we really appreciate it. today marks 51 days until inauguration day. as we draw closer to the 46th presidency, it's a fitting time to focus on if thele leadership. each morning we are going to sit down with historians who have written on presidents with this central question in mind. what can their examples teach joe biden? today we focus on dwight d. eisenhower. >> three days from now, after half a century, in the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the presidency is vested in my successor. we now stand ten years

long as anyone can remember, vet rands day in petaluma has looked and sounded like this, with the biggest, most extravagant parade in northern california. it's an event paulrd to every year. he has the pictures to prove it. >> right up there, me and three other guys. there's only two of us left. he's 90 and i'm pushing 88 hard. >> reporter: but tomorrow, they'll be missing the crowds and the noise in petaluma, and you can blame covid-19. instead of thousands of people cramming the sidewalks, this will be a subdued affair with a few veterans in cars driving around town with a police escort. maybe someone will stream it on social media. they're calling it a possible virtual veterans day. >> never heard of the word before. i've heard of a parade, but i've never heard of that one. >> reporter: joe noriell is helping run the event. his father fought in korea. they had to do something, he says. >> this is a contact-free, safe event. people will have the opportunity to watch this event from their businesses, from their cars, standing by. >> reporter: in petaluma, that will take some getting used to. would you have felt comfortable standing on the street with som