mark sanford is unimpressed, saying that the president is the proverbial elephant in the room. is a bully and people have seen what has happened to those who go against him. so those who are usually clear thinking toss that to the side for one simple reason, political preservation." this is the former republican senator jeff flake talking to the bbc. >> he still commands a lot of support and dedication on behalf of t base. you can see that by how many are sticking with him. people who know better. lindsey graham knows better. ted cruz, he knows better. they look at the bas he controls and they do not want to run afoul of that base. ros: that is a former senator and former governor. this week, the washington post published an article with one senior official quoted as saying, 'what is the downside to humoring him. nobody thinks the results will change. he went golfing this weekend. he is not plotting. he is tweeting about filing lawsuits. they will fail. he will tweet more about how the election was stolen. then he will leave.' this is the calculation, how to handle a president

sanford is actually a fake detection company released just last week or last month, which basically unveiled their own telegram the messaging app. this technology had been wrapped up in an interface where users could simply send an image of any woman or miner fully clothed, which they taken perhaps from our social media. and then this bot, which telegram was hosting would use the ai to generate an image of that woman or indeed child nude. now there were over 100000 images being shared publicly. and when the censor to recently asked telegram to take down the bot, they didn't even answer and it was only when this report was released and it got a lot of public attention that telegram for least that part. but the most important thing to remember here is that technology is becoming increasingly accessible and anybody can be targeted, right? we're talking here about one image taken from a woman or a child social media. and while this manifestation was a nonconsensual fake porn, it can be used in a whole host of other settings. it could be used as fraud. it could be used as blackmail. so we're only

. >> it is the 123rd big game with cal and sanford kickoff is just over an hour at memorial stadium inkeley cal has the axis to break there won't be any fans in the stadium but the pandemic is forcing many of its games week long tradition to not go virtual taking a live look now at cal's virtual tailgate party berkeley fans getting the chance to countdown to kickoff over zoom. they yoga. a pregame truck talk students and alumni are enjoying their bragging rights for as long as they can time now over a check of their weather. >>> we change things up in the weather, guys, we put in a lot drier air yesterday things all of those winds. that means things have really cleared out and the mornings are going to get cold. you can see sutro tower and then you can see for miles out there are no clouds here let's get another advantage for the one that sits further inland this is above the tri-valley looking over dublin looking in the complete opposite direction we did a complete 180 looking as far he says he can hear and it is back into the low 60s now in most locations concord, 58. santa rosa san

i don't know exactly why there is this huge surge going on. >> dr. roger said sanford hospital is gearing up for intentionally dozens of patients in icu in the coming weeks. her biggest worry, what's happening now in the midwest, hospitals reaching capacity, could have been here. >> how important is it to fly now versus if there could be a vaccine available by april. could we wait a little bit longer. >> doctors are encouraged by news of the vaccine. a light at the end of the tunnel. the stanford doctors recommendations, keep gatherings outdoors when possible, and intimate. small groups are clearly better. >>> researchers at the georgia institute of technology have created an interactive map to visualize the risk of coronavirus infection this thanksgiving. it uses documented coronavirus cases in each county and data from antibody test results. you can adjust the size of the hypothetical gathering. the model assumes that at least one person there will be infected with the virus. the map shows higher risk areas in red and lower risk areas in yellow. and we posted a link

the former repubican south carolina governor mark sanford is unimpressed, saying... n senatorjeff flake talking to the bbc. he's still commands a lot of support and dedication on behalf of the base. you can see that by how many are still sticking with them. people that know better. lindsey graham, he knows better. ted cruz, they know better. why haven't they said anything? they look at the base he controls and they don't want to run afoul of that base. but that's a former senator, and a former governor beforehand. this week the washington post published an article full of anonymous quotes from people still in theirjobs. one senior republican official says. and this is calculation for republicans how to handle a president who won't accept that he's lost when all the evidence suggests that he has — and how to gauge the impact on american democracy and their party the longer this goes on. let's speak now to lisa rein who covers the federal government for the washington post. how do you assess how the republican party is playing this? i think your previous guests have set

no the tree is there. 400 of them inside sanford stadium. harbaugh is 1-3 this season but at least he has figured out the math. rough day at the masters for collin who spun the ball back and into the drink. army and tulane. the black knights got cute on a kickoff return and they have having none of it. and collin marie. junk bull. is it caught? hopk isns. >> the hail mary. >>> the a's drafted murray once to play baseball. i think he made the right decision. the latest in sports. see you tonight. >>> nasa and space x getting a lot of buzz after docking on the international space station. >> the astronauts docked their last night marking their first official joint mission. >> soft capture confirmed. >> we are watching this all unfold. >> when the crew dragon space craft docked. four astronauts launched. one is victor glover. we were supposed to have sound but will play it for you coming up throughout the morning. the southern california man will be the first black astronaut to complete a long term mission on the iss. >> so cool. >> history maki

is twice the current capacity. officials are pleading with the public to do its part to help reduce the spread. sanford hospital is ready to add extra beds if necessary. infectious disease expert dr. ann lou says the next couple weeks will be critical. >> we don't want to punish our kids and elderly folks in the communities by continuing to drag this out because of the desire, which is really strong and very human to want to get together over the holidays. >> reporter: the trajectory of this deadly disease on the hands of the greater community. in san jose, chris nguyen, abc 7 news. >>> san francisco is one of the few bay area counties still in the red tier but that's expected to end as early as sunday. public health director grant colfax says the city is going through a surge and unless something changes, it will move to the more restrictive purple tier. >> we're in the middle of the worst surge that we've seen of this pandemic. the choices we, you, i make in the next two weeks will determine the trajectory of this holiday season. >> something to think about. san francisco is also expecting to see a s

more broadly known and hopefully no one is going to take it personally if you're citing cdc guidelines to uninvite yourself from thanksgiving dinner. dr. sanfordn't there more coverage about the high false negative tests in a testing is important but people need to understand the limitations. a negative test isn't a green light to go live your life and expose others. >> here's the thing, if you have symptoms and your test is negative, that's just common sense. you might want to get retested. perhaps the test was premature, perhaps your specimen was indeterminate and there was not enough mucous on your specimen tip. so if you're still symptomatic, you should get retested and it doesn't stop you from wearing a mask, practicing social distancing just because you are or you presume that you're negative because it's only negative in that moment that you took the test. but not at a point when you go to the grocery store and interact with other folks because that test is honestly negated. >> when donald trump got out of the hot, his first words were he is now immune. can you tell us how long you can be prevented from getting it. >> love that. in the

sanford health bismarck is opening a covid 20-bed unit. doctor lebeau, you say that the opening of the facility should be a wake-up call. thanks for joining us, and tell us why. >> yeah, we've been working hard on figuring out how to work together as a state, as we look at current hospital beds, we're at a shortfall, so we're all working together to try to get new beds online. as far as a wake-up call, this is obviously nonextra disk at medicine, close to our footprint, but it's a separate building, with you we're opening up essential at will work. we hope it gets everybody's attention and really speaks to the need or importance of limiting the spread. >> so, you know, when exactly is it opening? and can you just tell you how it's going to work? so, for starters, it's an old surgical building. there's three operating room and then a recovery room. we're going to take the recovery room first, and a ward with possibly ten beds, and then plan using the operating room for ten beds. it's about two blocks from our hospital. we are looking on the

sanford's and dr. yvonne maldonado, she is on a committee that makes vaccine recommendations to the cdc. >> our committeely charged with reviewing the safety of the vaccine. once the cdc gets it, i will see it, we will have an emergency meeting, at the same time, or within hours, i would imagine we would be able to have that information available. >>> a california could get one to 2 million complete doses to vaccinate those at highest risk. >>> coming up next, not one, but two bay area college football games are suddenly canceled. >>> a bay area town on the coast that just got a beautiful new state-of-the-art fire station. >> i am impressed with the amount of space we have and the functionality of it. >>> nasa gets ready to launch a unique satellite, wait until you hear what this thing can measure down to the mere centimeter. >>> two games have been canceled this weekend, stanford had to scrap their game tomorrow against washington state because the cougars had too many sick players, the pac- 12 policy, the game will be declared a no contest. >>> tomorrow, san jose state also off after fresno state playe

governor kristi noem refuses to issue a mask manda mandate though the chief medical officer at sanford health isng on the governor to do it. >> i do believe the governor should put a mask mandate in place, that that would help us in our attempt to fight this virus. >> reporter: we asked the governor's office for a response. they directed us to this statement that the governor made last week. >> i don't want to approach a policy or a mandate just looking to make people feel good. i want to do good. >> i see her point of view, but i also see it from the other side. i'm just glad i'm not in her position. >> kristi noem doesn't give a [ bleep ] about covid. that's all there is to it. >> reporter: in the world where it's become politicized, governors are guiding the way, and they're feeling the heat. look what happened to democrat governor phil murphy of new jersey. he imposed widespread restrictions on his state and he was accosted by a group of people while having dinner with his family over the weekend. >> i was texting several of my family and friends telling them that i was going to die. >> repo

well as the world continues on in the race to find a covid-19 vaccine, stanford medicine is doing its part to sanford has joined a large phase 3 clinical trial of an experimental vaccine. >>so that trial will test whether the vaccine produced by johnson and johnson protects people from covid-19 staffer hopes to enroll up to a 1000 people and they're asking people who have not contracted the virus to enroll now if you push to enroll if you're thinking about it you can find a link on our website just head over to kron 4 dot com. coming up next the kron 00:00am morning news more younger people are stepping up this poll workers yeah hear why they chose to get involved despite not being old enough to vote we'll have that story coming up in just a bit stay with us. >>and welcome back everyone more young people are stepping up as poll workers for this year's election there helping to fill the gap while some experience workers actually set out because of covid-19 concerns just men spoke to young poll workers in sacramento county on why they're getting involved. you just going to put that in a cyber on iraq h

little or no evidence has been provided to supports these allegations well judith kelly is the dean of the sanford school of public policy at duke university she explains what election observers have been looking for in the united states. we here in the united states are also very clear about the fact that in terms of the polling itself. things went well they were well managed we had a record turnout and it was peaceful and orderly the balloting process was secure or and we have strong tracking systems and all these sorts of things. what was more concerning however was the things that we saw leading up to the election are things that we're not used to seeing in american democracy you know never before have we had a sitting president that sort of undermine the confidence in the election or accused opponents of trying to steal the election before the the following had even started or suggested that the election 2 people attack the media or use administratively resources to campaign and these are the kinds of things that the observers called out in their report directly pointing to the president as h

centers there were no evidence has been provided to support these claims we're going to cali is the dean of the sanford school of public policy at duke university she joins us now from durham in north carolina thank you for your time people may be surprised to learn that there were for these elections and has been for decades in the u.s. international election observers tell us about their role and also their findings this time around so the organization for security and cooperation in europe has been visiting the united states since 2002 and they have been observing the elections in force but this time around they couldn't come in as big a contingent and they normally do because of the coronavirus still they put out an assessment. that they after the election and it was somewhat sobering i have to say after the united states has been a beacon of democracy around the world and indeed a pioneer in creating election observation around the world to read what was probably the most critical critical records that they're always see that's ever done that u.s. election critical of what. so you know i think the

austin simon southeast son is an internal medicine specialist at sanford medical center in sioux fallsuth dakota and dr. nathan hatton is a pulmonary specialist at the university of utah hospital. it's very good to have you both here. if i could start with you, dr. simon southeagmon simonson you now at least have a mask mandate and i hope that's going to help. can you tell us what you hear from patients as you go room to room? what are they saying to you? >> most of them followed the masking rules, most of them tried to isolate, usually they can identify an issue or two, a place where they maybe didn't follow the rules as stringently as she shouthey should have and if maybe that may have contributed but most importantly they just wonder where they got it from or what they did or what they could have done to have not gotten it. >> dr. hatton, by making steps such as mask wearing a political point rather than a public health point, did the states' political leaders do residents there a disservice? did they put their health in danger? >> yeah, i mean, i think this is clearly a very diffic

want the american people to that continues until this moment, and general david sanford, who has been with us of the way, is going of rief you on the status our supply chain and the reserves that we have in our make sure orts to that our hospitals and healthcare facilities have the the support to meet this moment. general? >> mr. vice president, thank you, sir. thank you, ma'am. so we're in a much better place to improve upon that capability. you'll see from the slides continuing to row our national stockpile but also our fema stocks to meet the equirements of our state populations. we continue to expand upon the continue to ery to protect our population. the summer, we've grown times and s 10 to 15 continue to grow to meet the surge requirements that we may expect current case load. as you can see behind me, the column wemn or fourth have four-month surge capability based on current case diagnosis, from wearing m-95 masks. added every ing month. the strategic national stockpile ready to a stocks are be the backstop when our states that's assistance and all built upon a foundation after a strong domestic me

the american people to know that continues to this moment and general david sanford has been with us every step of the way is going to brief you on the status of our supply chain and the reserves that we have in our ongoing efforts to make sure our hospitals and health care facilities have the resources and the support to meet this moment. general. >> mr. vice president thank you sir and dr. birx thank you maam. we are in a much better place and continue to improve upon the capability. we continue to grow our national stockpiles to meet the requirements laid out by our states and populatio. we continue to expand upon these to bridge the vaccine delivery to continue to protect american population presents a late summer we have grown our capabilities 10 to 15 times over what they were previously and to continue to grow capability to meet the surge requirement we may expect. as you canee behind me on the third or fourth column in the four months of surge cability based on current case diagnosis with n95 mass. more masks areeing added every month. the strategic national stockpile d their fema stocks are ready to

the other, i think that rift in the transatlantic relationship is always also a rift within europe. just look at the reactions in sanford and the security at the trump presidency. and it was brought up through full of holes in the baltic states and several times that they felt much more secure than under obama. but they didn't see the problem that months. and i think that the french president, very often kind of pretends that he speaks on behalf of europe, but never with europe. so i think that yes, we have seen some progress. but also i think the europeans are really alliance on kind of the idea of strategic autonomy are some friends just want to take a listen to what germany's defense minister said this week the incoming us administration office and big opportunity for something at the same time we have to face up to the fact that our capabilities he's in europe still don't match up to our own ambitions us. do we fix that building up our own abilities? the more we will be in serious partner for the united states. with a conscience, i am not 3, god less if he's president even off to joe biden, and it's a president and

is also in jeopardy. the restrictions also impact sanford and san jose state football as well as the cardinals, spartans and santa clara basketball programs. i do have some good news tonight, the 49ers activated three players, richard sherman, raheem mostert and jeff wilson and trent williams was taken off the covid list putting all four in line to play tomorrow against the rams. and the broncos currently have no quarterbacks on their active roster heading into tomorrow's game against the saints. jeff driscoll tested positive on thursday and today the remaining three were ruled out because they were high risk contacts and are ineligible to play. maybe john elway can suit up one more time. even before the news from santa clara county came down, san jose state had already been impacted by covid today. the spartans came at boise state this afternoon was canceled. that game was canceled this morning due to contact tracing in the rocco's program. last week san jose state dealt with a cancellation after fresno state had an outbreak read both games will not be made up so that leaves the spartans with only two game

is having a huge impact on the banking sector in europe. bbva up 16%. people are talking about that cash being deployed making major acquisitions. sanford l up 25%. alix: let's dive into more of that with pnc's purchase of bbva. isning us from madrid bloomberg's charlie devereaux. why are we seeing this deal get done? think it is a happy coincidence or you have one bank flush with cash and one bank in need of a cash injection. a $15ve pnc which had billion whole burning in its pocket after setting a stake in blackrock, and you have bbva, which has one of the lowest capital ratios in your and his business in the u.s. has been struggling. -- capital ratios in europe and whose is this in the u.s. has been struggling. from bbva's point of view this seems like a good deal. times the value assigned to it by analysts. what is the cash in bbva's pocket going to be spent on? charlie: that is a pretty good question and certainly that is one of the options. we just 10 news out in local media that bbva has hired jp it on potential acquisitions. today triednagement to stress they did have other options. is m&a and its key markets. others could be share buyback

is ongoing, jesse? >> alex, the first two faces of this trial dealt with safety and dosage. both were completed successfully with no side effects to people or animals. now sanfordhers moving onto phase three, which they hope will produce more success and more importantly, a vaccine by as early as next year. >> reporter: walter, wearing orange, is the first of 1,000 local people who are signing up to be subjects in stanford's covid-19 trials. >> vaccines are going to be probably the best way moving forward, and then i have the possibility to kind of contribute to this effort of developing a vaccine. it's going to be kind of a small effort on my part to try to do what i can for a number of other people. >> reporter: stanford represents one of 180 global sites, testing a new global vaccine developed by johnson and johnson. the 23-year-old is a recent college graduate who does in person tutoring. >> you need to be able to show that it improves the continue you're studying, so for us, we're looking to see that it reduces the number of coronavirus infections. >> a total of 60,000 subjects across the globe will be injected with other placebo or the vaccine. >> the bod

sanford and san jose state and today nothing. stanford got word against washington state tomorrow canceled. >> as for the nfl, though, the raiders game is but we're just not quite sure which players will be cleared to play. 11 raiders on the covid watch list. they'll be tested sunday morning. if negative they'll play sunday night against the chiefs. that game right here on nbc bay area. and remember the raiders beat the chiefs already earlier this season. sunday night football kick off at 5:20 p.m. >>> amen lowe park teenager is racing his way into the nascar books literally. he recently captured the 2020 series west championship, one of nascar's top developmental circuits, and he did it in his rookie season. >> there's a lot of cool names that have won this championship in the past, so to be able to write my name in that book, in that history book is really cool. >> love says he ones day dreams of winning the daytona 500 but the next big test in january. he's going to get behind the wheel at the dmv to get his driver's license. >> he's also buddies with jeff gordon. we're back in a moment. today's ways of working may work differently t

and while my good friends hank johnson and sanford bishop, while they are doing the work they need to do, while david scott is doing the work he needs to do, the last time we sent them lucy mcbeth because we knew they needed a woman's touch from the georgia delegation. and this time we're going to send lucy back with a new friend, carolyn bordeaux! but we also know that justice and progress go all the way down the ballot. and that's why, guinette, you're going to vote like your life depends on it. you're going to vote for every seat. you're going to vote for the county commission chair, because we need a county commission chair that wants progress in guinnett county. we need to flip the house and make sure voters pick up the politicians. politicians won't be picking the voters in 2021. >> okay, we'll keep a close eye listening to stacey abrams. she's talking about the downballoting reporting as well. right now the president has just wrapped up his first campaign stop of the day with a rally in michigan. polling shows biden is leading that state by seven points. let's get to monica alba who is joining us in wa

is sponsored by your local toyota dealers. >> a week of covid cancellations saw both san jose state and sanford lose their games this week. golden bears. they are no stranger to this as well. their season opener against washington, two weeks ago, was cancelled. cal at oregon state today. a friend of the with authority podcast. first score of the game. chase jarvis to just outside the red zone, they push into the end zone. at the break, early fourth. oregon state opens early playbook. reverse pass to tristan jebia. osu takes the lead, that is. and wide-open in the back of the end zone. t it is blocked. a huge play for oregon state. and then, three plays later, jebia sneaks it in for the score. cal needs a touchdown and john mccarton comes down with it and that seals the deal. up next, they will host the 123rd edition in berkeley. also, pac 12, ucla at oregon. ucla it's a scoop and score on the fumble. game tied at 14. final seconds of the half, chase griffin going to try to hit it out for the hail mary. but there with the football, he i going to go the other way for a long pick six to end the half. the ducks, 3-0, to open

struck he was going to leave sanford and the unexposed to this world there's going to so fundamentally affect his life rethink about david anyone in college now, he or she istially going to live a life that will tracker paralleled the 21st century. got to know it and think where we are part reliving with covid-19, we went through 911. climate change is a daily reality, a phenomenon. so they world matters. globalization to reality is not a choice. but how we respond to it that is the choice. my interest again is to make sure the nature of that response if it is a choice becomes an informed choice. so once their last book was a book made into an hbo documentary. so, that book was about the complications of the world. this book is not going to be made into a documentary as well? >> guest: we are discussing it. i think there's a good chance it will be. again the last book, a world in disarray headed argument thanks the world was beginning to unravel. i never thought i'd be considered an optimist because things have gotten worse that i anticipated three and a half or four years ago. again this documentary assuming it happens will be in some ways more consistent

sanford,ey, mark justin amash. that's about it. everybody else has collapsed before trump. our guest wehner is on watchmen journal.e appreciate you joining us. he is at the public-policy pender. we should mention his book. our topic this morning is the republican party after trump. the phone lines are split up as usual. democrats (202) 748-8000. (202) 748-8001 republicans. pete wehner will be with us for the next half hour. kenny is up first in virginia. good morning. you are going to get mcgill off off my chest. i turned republican again. you said some nasty things about trump, i can understand that. bush is undoubtedly the stupidest president we've ever had. my mother was cared for with health insurance. my dad retired to make sure he got the medical care from the company she worked for. bush made that illegal. that was despicable. the stupid war he got into with a rack. -- iraq. i will never forgive him for taking that medical insurance from my mother did you are probably going to say it's not true. i am living it. guest: a couple of things. he is wrong about medicare part d. that was one of the achievements of

. >> even the leader of sanford health, the largest health system in the dakotas, has given people reason to question whether there isrisis here. >> it's hard for me to say we are at a crisis. that would be misleading. from a clinical standpoint. >> reporter: but ceo kelby crabbenhoff isn't a doctor. his chief medical doctor is. >> would you classify what is happening here in the dakotas as a crisis? >> i would. >> reporter: one expert in south dakota said the state has the highest hospitalizations per capita in the country. >> do you believe that the governor of south dakota should put a mask mandate in place? >> i do believe that the governor should put a mask mandate in place, that that would help us in our attempt to fight this virus. >> reporter: the governor has vowed not to. south dakotans preach personal responsibility. >> when it comes to how we pass this infection, i think that we need to step up and say that this is not the police or law enforcement's problem. it's ours. >> every maskless person we spoke to seemed to know better but vowed to do better. >> i came out of a bar where no one was wearing masks,

that nation is summarized each and every week for the nations governors and provided to them in particular detail as well. after dr. birx speaks we asked general david sanfordp going efforts to provide ppe and medical supplies to our hospital needs. we're literally make sure as i said, as we see cases rising that we're meeting the needs of hospitals around america to stand up the response that any one of us would want a family member to be able to have access to. then we've asked dr. fauci to give us an update on the incredible and historic progress on the development of vaccines. seems like with good news happening every couple of days, that is great encouragement to the american people. then general gus pernham will outline plans on "operation warp speed." he was at fema, i received a detail briefing on plans. i asked general pernod to come today to make the presentation to the american people. that is in a sense putting us in a position literally the day after one of these vaccines is approved we'll be shipping vaccines to the american people and within a day after that we'll be seeing those, vaccines injected into americans, with a particular focus on t

sanford kicks off the day in oregon. a seven-game shortened season. >> it's a different world and from the very beginning we have all said it. if we want to play football this year this ishat we have to do. so we're ready for it. >> with all the stuff that happened this off-season it's bittersweet to get to this moment. >>> cal was set to kick off today against washington. but a berkeley player tested positive which forced the game to be canceled. >>> and we have had a couple of showers. it's cold out there. how long is this chilly weather going to last? i'll have a the details and your full forecast coming up. stay with us. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. visit right now or call during business hours. and accessoriesphones for your mobile phone. like this device to increase volume on your cell phone. - ( phone ringing ) - get details on this state program visit right now or call during business hours. >>> good saturday morning. it's so cold right now, that's what somebody messaged me on instagram. i'm going have to agree. especially when we compare it to some of the highs that we have had earlier this wee

is what it looks like in downtown walnut creek this morning. shops aborted up. many business owners say they will likely leave the plywood up for several days. and sanford cisco, police officers will be on duty over the next few weeks and in san jose, police have not canceled officer vacation days, but the department will be monitoring even all week. >>> if you live in san francisco and still have not voted, when groups that it will help you get safely to the polls. the group is called walk the vote. it is holding an election day socially distanced parade ft. mason and marching to a nearby official voting site. the organizers say walking with a walker the vote is a fun way to make sure your vote to get in and counted. >> what we are doing with walk the vote is providing a safe and effective means of making sure your vote is counted. it is safe because the parade will have people distance by at least six feet as well as wearing masks. it is effective because we will make sure you get to place your vote in an official ballot box. on top of that, it should be fun because all of us could use a parade.>> the walk is only five minutes from ft. mason. the sign

that information is summarized each and every week for the nation's governors and provided to them in particular detail as well. after dr. birx speaks, we have asked general david sanford with fema to provide update on ongoing efforts to provide ppe and medical supplies to our hospital needs. we're literally going to make sure as i said that as we see cases rising that we're meeting the needs in hospitals around america to stand up the response that any one of us would want a family member to be able to have access to. then we have asked dr. fauci to give us update on the incredible and historic progress on the development of vaccines. that seems like with good news happening every couple of days that's a great encouragement to the american people. then general gus per ma'am will outline our distribution plans on operation warp speed. i was at fema today and received a detailed briefing about our distribution plans i asked general perna to come here today and make that preparation tpresn people and putting us in a position that literally the day after one of these vaccines is approved we'll be shipping vaccines to the american people and within a day after that, we'll

sanford,ey, mark justin amash. that's about it. everybody else has collapsed before trump. our guest wehner is on watchmen journal.e appreciate you joining us. he is at the public-policy pender. we should mention his book. our topic this morning is the republican party after trump. the phone lines are split up as usual. democrats (202) 748-8000. (202) 748-8001 republicans. pete wehner will be with us for the next half hour. kenny is up first in virginia. good morning. you are going to get mcgill off off my chest. i turned republican again. you said some nasty things about trump, i can understand that. bush is undoubtedly the stupidest president we've ever had. my mother was cared for with health insurance. my dad retired to make sure he got the medical care from the company she worked for. bush made that illegal. that was despicable. the stupid war he got into with a rack. -- iraq. i will never forgive him for taking that medical insurance from my mother did you are probably going to say it's not true. i am living it. guest: a couple of things. he is wrong about medicare part d. that was one of the achievements of

head of a major healthcare system is stepping down after sending a controversial email out to its employees saying that he would not wear a mask. he served as ceo of sanfordls in the dakotas, minnesota and iowa. he wrote to workers about his recovery from covid-19. he did suffer from the virus. he said this i'm quoting. for me to wear a mask defies the efficacy and purpose of a mask and sends an untruthful message that i am susceptible to infection or could transmit it. i have no interest in using masks as a symbolic gesture. the company responding in a follow-up message saying we know that words matter and words have power and we regret that the message left many frustrated and disappointed. >> jon: developing this morning iranian state television reporting the assassination of a scientist identified by israel as leading iran's nuclear program in the early 2000s. that attack unfolding just east of tehran. jeff paul is following the story with us from london. >> this is not any iranian scientist. it is the head of the iranian nuclear program and known as the father of the iranian bomb. it is a huge blow to the iranian nuclear program. he was killed on the

that information is summarized each and every week for the nation's governors and provided to them in particular detail as well after dr. birx speaks we have asked general david sanfordo give an update on our ongoing efforts to provide ppe and medical supplies to our hospital needs we are literally going to make sure, as i said, that as we see cases rising that we are meeting the needs in hospitals around america to stand up the response that any one of us would want a family member to be able to have access to. then we have asked dr. anthony fauci to give us an update on the up credible and his for, he development of vaccines. seems like good news is coming every couple of days it is an encouragement to the american people. then general gus persona will outline our distribution plans in operation warp speed. i received a briefing about those plans and i asked general persona to come here today to make that presentation to the american people. it is in a very real sense putting us in a position that literally the day after one of these vaccines is approved, we will be shipping vaccines to the american people. and within a day after that, we will be seeing those vacci

is speaking to supporters. s: it's by no means over, but i have to tell you i am so encouraged by the results. we have carried sanford, auburn, standish, new brewer, edna, oxford, i'm going all over the my hometownworth, of caribou. , thank you. thank you to all the residents and all those towns. there are so many others too. but i doing really well, know it's not over until it's over. and we are waiting for the rest of the vote count totals. but let me take this opportunity to again express my heartfelt appreciation to the people of maine, to all the volunteers who have worked so hard for me. to both my campaign staff and also my federal staff. i have the best staff in the world. [cheers] and of course, most of all, to my family. they have been with me every step of the way. [cheers] and some of them are in their rooms now, but they are still watching. but my husband, i could never have done this without him. my brothers are all here tonight. my sister's in-laws, a lot of my andes and nephews, everybody who played such a role. josh and betsy earlier who were leaders to my campaign. but i am just so grateful to all o