as the university of pennsylvania, my father graduated from the university of pennsylvania and university of pennsylvania law school. at me tell you that biden has big fund there at the university of pennsylvania and i don't know if he even went there. but the chinese are the people that gave him the money for that fund at the university of pennsylvania and my father would be turning over in his grave. secondly, pittsburgh. i used to live in pittsburgh. i love pittsburgh. oozing withtely people. you can barely get across the street. they had to put in new bridges. within a year of trump coming into got a $6,500 raise. anything that people say about trump didn't do this, nobody actually tells me what was the lie he told. host: are people saying that they are better off in pennsylvania than they were four years ago? don't think so and i'm not sure that even the president supporters are saying that i still think they look to the president as the one that can improve that situation. his success in 2016 was largely based on a message around change. he is in a lot of ways trying to repeat that

begin on monday let's now take this moment to speak to me on the cage at his electorate the university of pennsylvania kerry law school neil what do you make of all these potential. legal challenges does seem like would be very difficult for them to chains that spread out. he would not only be called so there's really no factual or legal basis by which the president. and. i think any stop stop alice he just saying. stop the stock. act like it's a in our future and in our leadership and that was always the fear with donald trump is that he was taking america into a place that would make it unrecognizable but joe biden not only want to over voters who voted for trump and in 2016 he won voters in pennsylvania in michigan in wisconsin he also created a new map he won arizona nevada. georgia these are places that. it seems very clear although of course they're going to certify damage to make sure that if there's a if there's a recount if necessary it's going to happen but it's clear that all of the modes that are outstanding are from areas that are you know each one for by and because of their mail and vot

as far as the university of , --sylvania at the university of pennsylvania law school. biden has, what do they call , a big fond of the university of pennsylvania and i do not know whether jeevan went there but the chinese people gave him that money. my father would be turning over in his grave. pittsburgh, it is booming. --is absolutely totally booming. my son immediately almost may be within a year got 860 $500 raise. $6,500 raise. anyone who says trump did not do this or that or lies. nobody ever tells you what it the like he told. greta: let me pick up on what you said. are people saying they are better off in pennsylvania than they were four years ago? nick: i do not think so. i am not sure the president supporters are saying that. they still look at the president is the one who can improve that situation. kids message in 2016 was around change. he is trying to repeat that message even though he is coming up as an incumbent. his supporters are going along with it. he thinks a lot of what is still wrong with this country are beyond the president's control but by reel

the devastation that has wreaked on the economy the nail and the kids that lettre at the university of pennsylvania carry into a school will be coming back here a little bit later thanks for that. but right now i'd like to update all of our viewers who are joining us here on al-jazeera live from doha it has just gone 1700 g.m.t. that is midday on the u.s. east coast and breaking news we are projecting that joe biden is now u.s. president elect 4 days after america went to the polls about to still being counted amid protests and several legal challenges by the trump campaign bonce we do believe that joe biden is the projected winner of pennsylvania not.

these cancer killing cells trace their origins back to the university of pennsylvania and this is far from an isolated case with more than 60 percent of newly approved drugs in the u.s. not stemming from pharmaceutical companies that are german army a professor at the university of pennsylvania marching name invented. in 2465 years old but i began working on the. 19 idea to. karl june was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by time magazine in 2018 and the 1st actually tested this in patients or at age i.d.'s actually because they had lost during the virus many of their own t. cells. 2 years later my wife died of ovarian cancer in 2001 and so i really needed to move from the to do really all cancer or. at the time however he did not receive a dollar from the pharmaceutical industry because the treatment initially only worked on mice but not human it's ok what we know for sure is that the. fund in essential way was essential to make a new industry so to have philanthropy and the government supports.

zeke emanuel is the vice provost of global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania which is justoad here by the way, a former white house health policy adviser in the obama administration and the author of "which country has the world's best health care?" that does it for me. thank you for watching "velshi across america" i have had a lot of fun with this series and i hope you enjoyed it, too. i certainly hope i won't be doing more "velshi across america" next weekend from an election coverage perspective. i will be reporting from the streets of philadelphia and providing other coverage through the course of the week. catch me here every sunday and saturday morning 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. "a.m. joy" is next. cindy mccain joins jonathan capehart to explain why she now supports joe biden. stay with us. you are watching msnbc. us you are watching msnbc ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. [ engine revs ] and sweetie can coloryou just be... gentle with the pens. okey. okey. i kn

color and i just filed an ethics complaint about lindsey graham where the professor of the university of pennsylvaniamer director of the office of government ethics and we charged him with conduct of a senator for calling the secretary of state and asking ballots to be thrown out. this is not how we do business in a democracy and senator graham should be ashamed of themselves. president trump should be ashamed of themself. the michigan republican party for engaging in such contact in michigan is absolutely reprehensible and this election has been decided every american gets a vote and that includes african american voters, once again, i would emphasize there is a consistent effort to disenfranchise those voters by throwing out the votes, throwing out the votes for the candidates who they support and that's just not how a democracy works. >> yeah, and for listeners and viewers many know richard painer from his years of work and time on air but some may not. i would just remind everyone, margaret, that's the statement of someone who at the highest echelon of ethics in a republican party rebuking today'

other direction prior to justice baratz confirmation now mccain is a lecturer in law at the university of pennsylvania and we appreciate you joining us and i'll just go thank you very much indeed thank you it's great great to be on . you know other news kosovo's president hushing thought she has resigned to face war crimes charges at the hague is accused of being responsible for the trustees during the kosovo war in the 1990 s. bango reports. hashim thatcher along with 9 other former rebel leaders are accused of murdering nearly 100 people including political opponents the alleged crimes relate to the period when fact she was a top ficca in the kosovo liberation army or the k.l.a. the group fought for independence from serbia during the 998-2999 casa who thought she says his resigns to face trial ever his role in the conflict and to shield his country from disrepute. as i promised i would not allow the president of the republic of kossovo to go to court that is why to protect the integrity of the presidency of classical of the state of castro and the people and respecting the partnership with the inte

national community center and she's of numerous fellowships including with the columbia university center for analysis of social difference and the university of pennsylvania law school. her writing has appeared in reframing the color line and the smithsonian national portrait gallery and the charles wright museum of african american history as well as in work by pbs and netflix among others and also been published in the "washington post," the atlantic among many others. she is also the co-editor of history of black women on the author bound up together, and the multi-award-winning birthright citizens of race and rights. tonight she will be joined by nikole hannah-jones, correspondent for the "new york times" magazine and 2020 when the pulitzer prize and commentary for essay in the 1619 project. they will discuss our brand-new book published today "vanguard: how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all" the "new york times" called her and absorbing scholar, a history of black women who sought to go political power where they could and national book award-winning author said martha jones is the political history of african

mary frances barry is a professor of social thought and history at the university of pennsylvania. says, despite the diverse cabinet picks, it looks like more of the same from the obama era. >> if you are really concerned about turning the page from trump and the symbolism of appointing women who are black or males who are hispanic -- if you are looking at that symbolism, you ought to be very pleased. you have some things you can point to. if you are concerned about more than symbolism, which i am, you would be a little disturbed. all that has really happened is that the establishment of the democratic party is back in power again. it is not just the obama administration. all of those people have been with joe biden. most of us have been around washington and we have watched and seen joe biden and these people politically for years. they are all back. the message to the world is that america is back and our foreign policy and domestic policy, the way that it was under obama is basically back again. in my opinion, john kerry who has been working on climate issues, and is a serious gu

the war was over, in july, it was a fact finding mission led by dean harrison from the university of pennsylvania, was not a zionist, to camps. treating the jews just as the germans did, truman reads this report, read this letter to eisenhower you got to take care of this. it is impossible and un-american. >> you mentioned moving to the cold war aspect of this. could you say a little more about the soviet interests, how does it look from moscow. how does this drift into the beginning stage of the cold war from the east? >> the soviets know that large numbers of collaborators escaped from the east, escaped from the baltic nations from belarus and ukraine and made their way into germany. workers and collaborators who throw away their uniforms, invent new histories, into the displaced persons camps. the soviets know and the polls know and the yugoslavs know there are these war criminals there and wants to bring them to justice. anti-communism in these camps, it is going to affect the future direction of europe and the world that having these dedicated, anti-communist and anti-soviet, is going to cau

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pennsylvania court threw out 5 republican lawsuits alleging voter irregularities. clear finkelstein is faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania lol school. she says the lawsuits were empty efforts from the starts. the legal challenges could not have made a difference to donald trump, even if all of the legal challenges and all of the states had prevailed. donald trump could not have won this election, and indeed the number of electors that joe biden won the election with was the same number of electors that donald trump characterized as a landslide. in his own case, donald trump would have to reverse pennsylvania and all the other swing states in order to reverse that decision here, and that will not happen. it cannot be done. what the supporters believe about these decisions is almost up to donald trump because many of donald trump, supporters seem to believe what ever he tells them. so if he says that these decisions were corrupt, unfortunately, they may believe that, but one hopes that the weight of evidence, as well as the statements of his own department of homeland security, saying that there was no fraud

is a professor of law and director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she says the lawsuits are not going to change the state's overall result. i'm here at ground 0 of this litigation namely in pennsylvania and there have been numerous lawsuits filed for example objections to the curing of ballots in which mail in ballots were defective for some formal reason and it standard procedure here to call up the voters and give them a chance to correct those ballots for example by signing the outside of an armadillo. there's the lawsuit about how close republican observers members of the truck campaign can stand to the tables where the ballots are being recounted there's lawsuits around in what's called provisional ballots but it looks as though 1st of all this is the most important point none of these lawsuits could result in flipping the results in pennsylvania because the number of ballots involved is just too small and joe biden's lead in pennsylvania is now too great that's one issue another issue is that judges have not generally been sympathetic the most

of american historians, american society for legal history and national unity center and she's held fellowships including with the columbia university center for her critical analysis of social deference and the university of pennsylvania law school. her writing has appeared in reframing the color line and connected conducted with the library museum. the smithsonian national portrait gallery and the charles wright museum of african american history as well as inwards by pbs and netflix and she's been published in the "washington post," atlantic among many others. she is the coeditor of four -- the author of all bound up together. cannot professor jones will be joined by nikole hannah jones domestic course but for the "new york times" magazine 2021 of the pulitzer prize in cometary for essay 1619 project. it would discuss "vanguard: how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all." the "new york times" called professor jones and -- expanse efficient of black women who sought to build political power where they could and national book award-winning author said martha jones is the political the story of african-american women and this book is the commanding history of the remarkable struggle

finkelstein, he's faculty director of the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania law school. a good to have you with this here on the program. it's trying to present conceded defeat, speaking as a seam says that there are still legal challenges pending. what would you say these latest legal defeats in pennsylvania mean for the trump campaign? they're very significant. there are 2 defeats in particular that the trump folks have been really counting on. one was that cured ballots in montgomery county, namely absentee ballots where voters were contacted to come and remedy formal deficiencies in their ballots, such as failing to sign the back of the arm below. and that practice which exists not only in pennsylvania but also in georgia and in nevada. the challenges to that practice were defeated, as well as the challenge to the absentee ballots that were permitted to come in between and be counted between election day and the following friday. and that was a major playing that the trump campaign was hanging it had on, namely the hope that those would be ruled out from

kim roosevelt is a constitutional law professor at the university of pennsylvania law school. happens to be the great great grandson of teddy roosevelt. he talked about the legal arguments president trump is likely to pursue. president trump does have lots of legal challenges. but really, none of them are any good. and even if he prevailed on some of them, they wouldn't change the outcome, so his strategy has been to make a lot of bold claims and to file a lot of lawsuits but to the extent that the lawsuits actually identify particular things that they want to change, they only affect a very small number of ballots and some of them are about things like the distance that counters can stand from the watchers. and that wouldn't affect any ballots. so we've got a vigorous legal attack being mounted but in the end i don't think it's going to amount to much. whether it amounts to much or not, what do you make of the fact that he has swung into action so vigorously? is this the constitution working effectively, is it every candidate's right to take things to court if they don't like

kim roosevelt is a constitutional law professor at the university of pennsylvania law school. be the great great grandson of teddy roosevelt. thank you so much for coming on the programme. thanks for having me. we listened to joe biden giving a presidential speech, talking about the work he wants to do. of course, there is a big obstacle in the way and that is that he doesn't have 270 electoral college votes. he is a 17 short and residentjumper would votes. he is a 17 short and resident jumper would say, "i've got lots of legal challenges coming down the line to stop that happening". what do you make of the legal challenges? well, president trump does have lots of legal challenges but really, none of them are any good. even if he prevailed on some of them, they wouldn't change the outcome so his strategy has been to make a lot of bold claims and to file a lot of lawsuits but to the extent that the lawsuits actually identify public —— particular things that they wa nt to particular things that they want to change, they only affect a very small number of ballots a nd affect a ve

. >> joining me now isor of the e system science center at the university of pennsylvania and also authorht to it back our planet, due out in january. michael, thanks for being here. let's talk about what joe biden was just saying there, confronting the realities and it will be difficult. talk to me about what needs to happen versus what can get done, what can get passed through this congress if it does remain a republican-led senate. >> good to be with you. and here as we celebrate the thanksgiving holiday, there is something to be thankful for for those who care about the delclie crisis and our ability to do something about it because biden does have a bold agenda, i think so john kerry will be a wonderful climate czar. but we do have to be realistic about what will be possible especially if republicans retain control of the senate. we're probably not going to see a sweeping "green new deal" type climate bill pass congress. but we could see some sort of climate legislation, we could see some compromise with some republicans willing to cross the aisle and unite with democrats to support

frances berry is a professor of american social force and a professor of history at the university of pennsylvania. she says, despite by the diverse cabinet picks, it looks like more of the same from the obama era. if you are really only concerned about turning the page from trauma and the symbolism of appointing women who are black or males, who are, who are hispanic, or if you're looking at that some balance. and then you ought to be very pleased because you have some things you can point to if you're concerned about more than some alyson, which i am, you would be a little disturbed because all that has really happened is that the establishment of the democratic party is back in power, it is not just the obama administration, it is all those people who have them with general. but most of us been around washington near, watched and seen and know joe button and these people politically for years. and they're all back. and the message to the world is that america is back and our foreign policy and our domestic policy, and the way that it was under obama is basically back. and in my opinion, is john

to address the pandemic and the devastation the economy nail makhija that letter at the university of pennsylvania carry law school will be coming back here a little bit later thanks for that leon but right now i'd like to update all of our viewers who are joining us here on al-jazeera live from doha has just gone 1700 g.m.t. that is new day on the u.s. east coast and in breaking news we are projecting that joe biden is now u.s. president elect 4 days after america went to the polls the votes are still being counted amid protests and several legal challenges by the trump campaign but we do believe that joe biden is the projected winner of pennsylvania and that means that 20 electoral college votes will push him over the magic number of 270 in c. there is celebrations there now outside the white house in washington d.c. let's speak to our correspondent allen question he is also in washington d.c. watching all of that happened allan. huge huge news here which it seems is not being accepted by the trunk campaign. that's right we're just in a statement from trump in the last couple of minutes remember

university of delaware and syracuse law school. you know, donald trump, because he likes to tell us, liked to remind us went to h wharton at the university of pennsylvania. president obama went to columbia university. there's a lot of that. there's the motorcade. it's arriving in wilmington, delaware. lots of celebrants. for a certain segment of the country, small town folks or state school attendees, this is also a moment of pride. i mean, i know the democrats get tagged as the party of elitists. there are reasons for that, but that's not really where joe biden's from. he -- he was not to the manor born. he was somebody who worked his way where he is. >> i've been thinking about this. the perseverance of joe biden and every president to some extent getting to the president si is a story of perseverance against really tremendous odds. it's not easy to do this. but for joe biden -- >> anyway, keep going. >> except for almost everybody. >> except for john quincy adams. >> i do think that this is such a constant theme for joe biden that, you years ago today, he reached what would have been the highest heights of his life at that time, and it was followed i

then is somebody that is a graduate of university of pennsylvania undergrad, where he was the editor and chief of the newspaper. he was a journalist for a number of years, and then he decided to get into law and went to georgetown law school. he has written frequently on this area of political advocacy. he was one of the lawyers that was deeply involved in the bush fee goal or litigation years ago and one of the lawyers that chapel. we'll talk more about that. let's dig in right away. i was to say to both of you, if either of you think that this election will be resolved and everybody's minds by midnight on election night next week? bob, i am looking at you. at 12:00to sleep knowing who the next president is? are you a mute? with all of the press that we have had about the potential for long delays, i think that you can be reassured that at some time late on election night, there is a high likelihood that we will know he was winning the election, and by the next day the certainty will grow. i know there is talk about it going on for months and months, before anybody has an inkling as

a medical student from the university of pennsylvania tinkers in the summer with old gas masks and bicycle pumps and develops the first operational rebreather for the united states. and the navy seals were born literally in a pool at the hotel only a few blocks away which has the largest indoor pool and they test the rebreather. jack taylor, a dentist from hollywood, california. they come togethering to develop the first seals. it's extraordinary story. taylor even survives a journey concentration camp after he per chutes behind the lines. -- parachutes behind the lines. the story is a story that is hidden here in the national archives. i spent 20 years digging through, you know, literally cubic miles of records. some that had never been seen. >> talk about the tradition that the guard was at dun when the unknown soldier was rested or what is the background from the perspective of that? >> in 19 -- right after world war i, there wasn't a tomb. it was there pick can picnic there and vandalized it. i think it's better if i let one of the people that are some of our finest americans sort of a

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of religious studies at yale university. she earned her p.h.d. in history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters in divinity at union theological seminary in new york and her bachelor's degree from political science from howardford college and is the author this 2020 book, "soul liberty" the evolution of black religious politics in post emancipation virginia published any the university of north carolina press. and before asking if -- nicole the first question, i want to mention this book appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is it's so engaged with digital humanity. the book also exists as a conventional, sort of conventional -- she describes it verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which has -- which shows off what dr. turner was able to do with mapping and kind of digital technology in order to develop her research findings. so one of the things i hope we'll get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of promise she thi

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in july truman sends a fact-finding mission led by dean harrison, harrison of the university of pennsylvania and he says to harrison who is not a zionist, not a jew sends him to visit the camps. harrison comes back with a report he says we are treating the jews just as badly as the german said except were not exterminated them. truman reads this report, he writes a letter immediately to eisenhower and says to eisenhower you've got to take care of this. this is inhumane, this is un-american. and eisenhower goes to work. >> you mentioned before, i want to move to the cold war aspect of this. could you say a little bit more about the sort of soviet interest in this whole situation? how did this look from moscow as are looking at this problem? and how does is going to the beginning stages of the cold war from the east? >> the soviets no that large numbers of collaborators had escaped from the east, had escaped from the baltic nations from ukraine and made their way into germany. and you know in the book i tell many stories of workers and collaborators who throwaway their uniforms and all of the

she earned her phd in history at the university of pennsylvania. her masters in divinity new york and her bachelor's degree in political science. from high referred college. she is the author of this sole liberty the evolution of black religious politics imposed emancipation virginia. before asking her the first question, i want to mention that this appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy it also has two other versions. part of what makes her work so interesting is that it makes it possible to -- it is available as a conventional verbatim open access e-book and also as an enhanced open access e-book which shows off what dr. turner was able to do with mapping and digital technology in order to develop her research findings. so one of the things i hope we will get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of comments she thinks digital humanities holds in this research into african-american history in particular. just to start off dr. turner, tell us about this book. >> thank you so much for having me.

all right professor, thank you very much you're right in the center of it there at the university of pennsylvania we thank you for your time >> thank you so much for having me. >> you're very welcome. >>> let's take a look at the sectors that are leading the rally today. tech and communication services. but the biggest gainer is health care, up nearly 6% and some members in it, health insurers especially like united health care and significant drmarsp,ooup more than 6%. ugke u t 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 drugs. with original medicare you're covered for hospital stays and doctor office visits, but you have to meet a deductible for each and then, you're still responsible for 20 percent of the cost. next, let's look at a medicare supplement plan. as you can see they cover the same things as original medicare, and they also cover your medicare deductibles and co-insurance, but they often have higher monthly premiums and no

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a medical student from the university of pennsylvania who tinkers in the summer with old gas masks and bicycle pumps develops the first operational rebreather for the united states. and the navy seals are born literally in a pool at the shoreham hotel only a few blocks away from here, which has the largest indoor pool, and they test the rebreather. jack taylor, a dentist from hollywood, california, woolsey, whose a screenwriter for paramount, but also a royal commando and liaison officer with the british government, they all come together, this eclectic group of individuals to develop the first seals. it's extraordinary story. taylor even survives a german concentration camp after he parachutes behind the lines. but the story of the o.s.s. is a story that's hidden here in the national archives. i spent 20 years digging through, you know, literally cubic miles of records, some that had never been seen since the war to reveal these extraordinary stories. thank you. >> can you talk a little bit about the tradition of the silent guard? was that done simultaneously when the unknown soldier

seals which chronicles their extraordinary story where you know a medical student from the university of pennsylvania who tankers in the summer with old gas masks and bicycle pumps, developed the first operational re-breather for the united states. and the navy seals are born literally in a pool in the hotel only a few blocks away from, here which has the largest indoor pool in a test or a breather. jack taylor, a dentist from northern california, -- woolly, who is a screen writer for pay vermont but also a liaison officer with the british government. they'll get together. a collective group of individuals to develop the seals. this extraordinary story. taylor even survives a german concentration camp after he parachutes behind the lines. but the story of the oh ss, is a story that's hidden here in the national archives. i spent 20 years digging through literally cubic miles of records. some of that had never been seen since the war. to reveal these extraordinary stories. yes. >> can you talk a bit about the tradition of the silent gird? was that done simultaneously, when the unknown soldier was rest

is a professor of law and director at the center for ethics and the rule of law at the university of pennsylvania she joins us now live via skype from pennsylvania. thrown off of the wall some of it will eventually stick is there any chance of any of this litigation impacting the final outcome of this election. well if union doesn't look like that's the case and here at ground 0 of this litigation namely in pennsylvania and there have been numerous lawsuits filed for example objections to the curing of ballots in which mail in ballots were defective for some formal reason and it standard procedure here to call up the voters and give them a chance to correct those ballots for example by signing the outside of an armful of. there's the lawsuit about how close republican observers members of the truck campaign can stand to the tables where the ballots are being recounted to there's lawsuits around in what's called provisional ballots but it looks as though 1st of all this is the most important point none of these lawsuits could result in flipping the results in pennsylvania because the number of bal

frances berry is a professor of american social thought and a professor of history at the university of pennsylvania. she joins us of, a skype from washington. d.c., thank you very much indeed for being with us. so what do you make of this list of names to be put forward and the diversity that it seems to represent? well, if you are really only concerned about turning the page from trauma and the symbolism of appointing women who are black males, who are, who are hispanic, or if you're looking at that some balance. and then you ought to be very pleased because you have some things you can point to. if you're concerned about more than some alyssum which i am, you would be a little disturbed because all that has really happened is that the establishment of the democratic party is back in power. it is not just the obama administration, it is all those people who have member general, but most of us been around washington or near some watched and seem to know joe button and these people political freedoms. so they're all back on the message to the world that america is back and our foreign policy and our

but there's a whole lot of things that have been put out there like the university of pennsylvania lawchool and other law schools -- >> reporter: you would be open to anything they might come up with? >> i'm open to what they might say. >> reporter: thank you so much for your time, mr. vice president. how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling good, pennsylvania is my home state, we just went to scranton, we'll finish up in delaware. i feel good about it. i feel good about it. >> reporter: thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> as joe biden is saying, he's feeling good, his home state of pennsylvania adopted -- his native state, of course he ended up moving to wilmington when his father lost his job when he was 7 years old. there he is in pennsylvania, he will be there throughout daylight, his team will get together in philadelphia tonight of course with running mate kamala harris. the fight for north carolina, meanwhile, is critical, very close. big focus on the turnout of black voters in this battleground state. it's also a closely-fought senate race that could determine the control of the

paul offat, a pediatrician at the university of pennsylvania.itting in that meeting, what standard will you be using in your own mind? >> so i think when i'm sitting there, listening to those data, presented to us at the fda's vaccine advisory committee meeting, i will be looking to answer the question, would i take this vaccine myself? >> and finally, step four, if the fda gives the green light, a day or two later, another advisory committee of independent experts, this one with the cdc, will review the data in an open meeting. they'll make official recommendations about who should get vaccinated and who should get vaccinated first. dr. william shackner, an infectious disease expert at vanderbilt university sits on that cdc advisory committee. >> we're interested in complete transparency. these meetings are open to the public on your computer. >> once the cdc panel gives its recommendations, americans can be vaccinated against covid-19. will you take it if it's approved? >> i will definitely take it if it is approved. >> and will you recommend

. >> john legend also a local guy, proud graduate of the university of pennsylvania and coming home for joe biden tonight. hallie jackson, another pennsylvania person, person woman. mike memoli. kristen welker, thank you so much. >>> joining us now, david plouffe, former adviser to president obama, 2008 campaign and james carville, co-host of "the politics war room" podcast. thanks to both of you for being with us. the excitement of this election and fear on both sides is palable. david plouffe, let's talk about the number. i want to start with this from chuck todd this morning on "today." >> the good news is joe biden he just needs one and would give him 270. arizona would give him 270. let's say president holds onto that. florida auto would do it, say the president holds onto that. georgia would do it. maybe he holds onto that. look what this does. this puts us right here. this is the nightmare. joe biden does not want us -- if this is what we're waiting for, it's going to be a long month. not a long night, not a long week but a long month. >> pennsylvania does not count the mail-in b

john teaches at the university of pennsylvania, the ashley parker alma mater. and he has put this out tonight. and i don't blame him because there's so much attention on the various network decision desks. the nbc news decision desks, john lapinski notes, this particular year there are just so many curveballs that we are taking more time to make sure we understand exactly what we're seeing and analyzing it. john is a friend to so many of us at the network and he's a guy whose job is pretty calm, except for this time of year every two years when he just works incredibly long hours and is dealing with the incoming data and tries in the decision desk realm to remain impervious to the outside pressure. they do not see television coverage where our decision desk is, so they're unaware of other news organizations who may be calling races. they try to stay linear. they try to stay in each individual silo, call the races when the numbers add up. now, speaking of numbers, speaking of an ongoing count, there's arizona to think about. vaughn hillyard is our correspondent

and just beyond a skyscraper of learning, the university of pittsburgh. the state of pennsylvania is not all steel and gold. you can discover quiet amish country. here, history still writes with a quill pen. there's also philadelphia, where william penn looks down upon his quaker city. it, likewise, was the home of good ben franklin and is the site of independence ball and the bell of liberty. here, discover a museum that's one of our nation's richest jewels. a little further on, we see an area rich in the beginning of our history, jamestown, where on the new continent, the first permanent english settlement began. not far away, discover yorktown. here when the great corn wallace gave up his sword to washington, america became a nation. here, too, were ended many lives when american patriots fell in our great civil war. good men were lost in that conflict, which gave painful beginning to our modern nation. in washington, there echos lincoln's pledge that they shall not have died in vain, that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

. >> you went to university of pennsylvania and then migrated to israel. >> right. >> and how did youecome ambassador? how did you-- >> you only have an hour program. >> one minute version is you became ambassador you got involved in mrishgs politics, how did that happen? >> i wanted to get involved in this country i loved the united states where i was born and raised and feel grateful for having been born and raised here, but there was another country that i wanted to help in its fight not just to surviv but right to survive and i think what we have achieved in the last few months with this breakthrough, i think strengthens israel and expand peace and hopefully look back at what's happened in the last few months. i was very heartened, and i'm sure my colleagues were as well, the president-elect, joe biden, one of the things that he agreed with president trump on was the abraham accords. and he put out a statement saying he'd like to build on that and expd it. and that's a good thing when the two parties can't agree on anything, hopefully they can agree on this, which is peace and to

professor roosevelt teaches constitutional law at the university of pennsylvania law school. he was born and raised in d.c. and attended harvard and yale. before joining, he served as a law clerk to supreme court justice david souter. his book sets standards by which citizens can determine whether the supreme court is abusing its authority to interpret the constitution. he also teaches creative writing and is the author of two novels. " in the shadow of the law" and "allegiance." please join me in a round of applause for professor roosevelt. [applause] >> thank you. thank you all for coming. happy super tuesday. [laughter] as you know, it is super tuesday, the democrats are in the process of choosing their nominee. later on we will have the general election and choose our president. that choice will reflect something about who we are as a nation. that is what i want to talk about tonight. who we are, how we decide who we are and what our sense of ourselves means for our relationship to the constitution and for our sense of ourselves as a country. so, who are we? we are americ

professor roosevelt teaches constitutional law at the university of pennsylvania law school. he was born and raised in d.c. and attended harvard university and yale law. before joining the penn faculty, he served as a law clerk to supreme court justice david souter. his book, "the myth of judicial activism, making sense of supreme court decisions," sets out standards by which citizens can determine whether the supreme court is abusing its authority to interpret the constitution. he also teaches creative writing and is the author of two novels. "in the shadow of the law" and "allegiance," so please join me in a warm welcome for professor roosevelt and enjoy the program. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you all for coming. and happy super tuesday. so, as you know, of course, it's super tuesday. the democrats are in the process of choosing their nominee. later on, we'll have the general election, and we will choose our president, and that choice will reflect something about who we are as a nation, and that's what i want to talk about tonight. who we are, how we decide who we are

we're joined now by professor dan hopkins from the university of pennsylvania, along with quinn klinefelterd the focus of the research you are doing, just as a human being, can you give a sense of how you are feeling today? i would say i am a little tired, i have hardly slept in the last a8 hours as i have watched numbers trickling in from all over the country. unlike the uk, we don't have announcements in the constituency is a few hours after completion of voting. we had to wait and scanner websites across the country to know it is happening. —— we have to wait and scan websites. millions of americans have participated. we do know there is legal action and donald trump has said that. this is linked to postal ballots. can you explain what the reality of the issue is and why it is so important? traditionally, different american states have voted differently. states like arizona have long used mail to vote. in pennsylvania, almost everyone traditionally voted in person. coronavirus has caused lockdown is, not only in the uk but forced americans to vote in different ways and americans are voti