former new jersey governor christine todd whitman. lowe's "balance of power quote on bloomberg television and radio -- this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television and radio. we turned to mark crumpton for bloomberg first word news. taken narrowen has leads over president trump and critical midwestern states with the presidential race hanging in the balance. in michigan, mr. biden clearly -- currently leads by 32,000 votes of 5 million, and wouldn't -- and in wisconsin joe biden is by 5000 25,000 votes -- votes out of 3.2 million cast. president trump has been tweeting claiming his lead "magically disappeared." meanwhile all eyes are on pennsylvania and election officials say they are working hard to cap every single vote. the state says nearly half of the mail-in ballots have been counted and they are still coming in. pennsylvania will accept ballots postmark by election day until 5:00 local time on friday. ballots from military and overseas voters can be re

about new york, walt whitman said these words, an island. 60 miles long, numberless streets, vehicles, broadway, the women, the shops and shows, city of spires and masts, my city. niagara, 2 million visitors a year. the earth trembles beneath them at the brink. not all are honeymooners. most come to view the work of nature and then go on to see the sights that western new york state can offer. the great lakes wash the feet of many cities, milwaukee, detroit. this one is cleveland on ohio's rim. it has a thumbprint, as all cities leave their thumbprints across the nation. ringed by parks, it has a lakeside stadium, museums and a famous symphony. at water's edge, huge boats unload their hulls. these cargos were forged of steel. there's steel in pittsburgh, too. and where the allegheny forms the ohio river, there lies a golden triangle. 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 l

and i think it shapes the kind of subject about walt whitman and the democratic american democracy, or harriet beecher stone but also enormously popular book and finally for similar reasons he quotes around page 17 i think that all of those virtues show up in this book that he's given us. the kind of biographies what they do generally is follow his life, sometimes his political context there's no biography of but they are kind of standard one volume. they do such a wonderful job, but there's the kind of classic single volume biography. and donald says in the preface this is a biography from the point of view because he didn't have much connection in the society and culture and he was self educated. he was the ultimate self-made man and he entered the presidency the least prepared of any president that we have ever had. in a sense i guess i am taking the opposite point of view on. from the realm of experience from, and you mentioned this just now, from the very highest to the lowest until the very dogs believe in him. emerson had a certain way of writing that was like that. and he felt

walt whitman is to me describing not just the american countryside. he's describing america's best polits. abraham lincoln when he writes the second inaugural, that is a work of literature and he's imagining th sides to this great colict and what it means. and ultimately ends with malice d charity towards all. so that i think informed everything i did. yosaw this during my presidency and you see it in some of the responses to the book, to a promised land. in our current political environment we have a lot of implications with that kind of be able to see the other side. and i think there have been a couple of reviewers and commentators who say look, obama is one side on theother hand the things . and location i think that you can see either side somehow you are paralyzed. at the sensibility means that you can't make decisions that you are because you don't knowway to turn . and the irony is that in fact for me it was the opposite. and i tried to explain his in the book, maybe some folksare impatient with it . it's precisely because i had people i had a

whitman is, to me, describing not just the american countryside, he is describing america's politics.incoln, when he writes the second inaugural, that is a work of literature as he's imagining both sides to this great conflict and what it means and ultimately, it ends with none charity towards all so that, i think, informed everything i did. what's interesting, and you saw this during my presidency and you see it in some of the responses to the book, a promised land, in our current political environment, we have implications with that kind of being able to see the other side and i think you have been a couple of commentators who say look at obama, he is on one si side. he's over thinking things and the implication, i think that if you can see the other side and somehow you're paralyzed. the writer's sensibility means you can't make decisions, you are stuck because you don't know which way to turn. the irony is that for me, it was the opposite. i tried to explain this in the book, maybe some folks are just impatient with it. it is precisely because i can see both sides are all sides to

walt whitman is to me describing not just the american counyside, he is describing america's best politicsm lincoln when he write the second inaugural and that is a work of literate as he is imagining both sides to this great confct and what it means. and ultimately es with malice towards none and charity towards all. so that i think informed everything i did. what is interesting and you saw thisuring my presidency and you see it and some of the responses to the book to "a promised land" in our current political environment we have a lot of impatience with that kind of being able to see the other side and i think there have been a couple of reviewers and commentators who say look at obama, he's on one side and these overthinking things and the implication i think is if you can see the other side and somehow you are paralyzed, that the writer's sensibility means that you can't make decisions that you are stuck because you don't know which way to turn and the irony is that in fact for me it was the opposite and i tried to explain this in the book and maybe some folks are just impatient with

he is the author of walt whitman's america a cultural biography. winner of the ben croft. his other books include beneath the american resins outs john brown abolitionist. and mightier than the sword uncle tom's cabin in the battle for america. he is a regular book reviewer for the new york review of books, the near times book review and the wall street journal. david will be in conversation with james oakes, one of the leading historians of the 19th century america. james is pioneering works include the ruling race covid 1982. slavery and freedom and interpretation of the old south, the radical and the republican frederick douglass abraham lincoln and the triumph of antislavery policy. in his latest book, freedom national, the destruction of slavery in the united states, 1861 to 1865. they will have a conversation for about 40 minutes, 45 minutes. and then take questions for ten or 15 minutes. please click on the question box below to typing your questions. jim will be sure to get to as many of you as he can. we will try to ended this program after about one hour eastern

former ebay ceo meg whitman is being considered for the commerce secretary and karen bass could run the housing of urban development. l.a. mayor libby schaaf is being considered to lead the transportation department. looks can be receiving for you right now. it is cold out there. meteorologist kari hall is tracking the cool temperatures. you said we need to get used to them for now? >> yeah. it seemed like we didn't have a chance to adjust. we went from very warm weather and a snap and very chilly weather. take a live look outside in san jose, we are enjoying the sunshine but the temperatures are not so comfortable. we are looking at, right now, temperatures still in the low 50s in san jose. we are at 54 degrees in vallejo and oakland also. also seeing temperatures in the mid-50s near the coastline. we are only going to come up with a few more degrees from here as we reach up to 59 degrees. 60. low 60s for parts of the east bay. one of the warm spots is ukiah. the rain is set to move in late thursday into friday and see another round of rain moving in between friday night and saturday m

we know he is looking at a number of republicans for positions including meg whitman. >> trying to bridge that gap. thanks, scott. >>> new protections on the table today. this is to help many business owners now struggling to make it in the bay. leaders on both sides of the bay are seeking to extend eviction protections. they will debate extending eviction ban for commercial buildings set to conspire at the end of this month. san francisco supervisors are considering a new grace period to repay rent march of 2023. >>> countdown to turkey day. turkey farmers are scrambling during the pandemic. >>> we see the rain moving through the middle of the bay area. we are going to be tracking this rain as it continues to move through for the rest of the afternoon. we will go through the time line and talk about the high winds you've been seeing next. >>> these leading ladies of hallmark have been in a combined 27 hallmark christmas movies. they are going to talk to kelly today about their iconic movies and one of them says the unusual place she broke down during quarantine. don't miss it coming up t

former ebay ceo meg whitman is reportedly being considered for commerce secretary. and l.a.ayor eric garcetti could lead the transportation department. >>> leaders in silicon -- in san jose's silicon organization will clear up some questions surrounding controversial election ad that sparked calls for racism. it targeted a city council candidate who wanted to defund police. three board members stepped down and the internal investigation was launched. today's meeting takes place at 1:00 p.m. >>> pg&e credits newly installed devices for doing the job intended in lowering the scope of recent power shutoffs. during the past year crews have installed hundreds of sectionalizers that can stop the flow of electricity breaking power delivery to smaller sections which better isolates high danger areas. a spokesperson tells "the mercury news" about half as many customers experience shutoffs with fewer lines to inspect when power is restored. >>> leaders in the north bay are meeting to discuss the destruction from the glass fire. it sparked in late september burning in napa and sonoma c

walt whitman wrote a poem saying lincoln will alway be the western star in the landscape. that's the way i vie them, kind of distanced and doing his own thing. i was surprised and thrilled by the fact he was so incredibly involv in his culture here what i try to do is leave it like a tapestry. i try not to get too lost i the cultural digressions. i like to always bring it back to linco because he's at the center of my book and so that was a wonderful surprise for me, but he was. >> had a similar sense when i first started thinking about lincoln. i had this like you said he was out there, but i couldn't place him. my interest was in his relations -- [inaudible] and the more i studied him the more it seemed to me he was embedded it returned to be a much deeper, richer, richer culture, anti-slavery. >> if i can give people a hint in your forthcoming book, you anchor him very, very deeply in the antislavery point of view in a wonderful way. >> let me ask one last question before we go to the questions. about lincoln's private life. you have what i think is a very sensible,ensi

positive things about china and then he went on to criticizing the governor of michigan gretchen whitman she's a democrat and she has cracked down aggressively on the coronavirus at one point refusing even to allow michiganders to go from their homes to their vacation homes within this state that's caused a division in the state and trump has fanned the flames saying again here you've got to get your governor to shut down this state well the crowd chanted lock her up and that is just days after 13 people were arrested militia members for trying to do just that they were planning to kidnap her and put her on a kind of trial. this crowd doesn't seem to be bothered by that and the president from out on michigan is a crucial state for him as you said he only won by 0.2 percentage points it's about 10000 votes and that's why trump is here he's trying to get that marginal once again because he won last time by flipping a number of midwestern states that had previously been democratic and he did it in places like this mccollum county become county is a place where we won by 11 percentage points

well i think that is the sole purpose for challenging to prove whitman wrong there's no doubt about that now of course the challenges are absolutely frivolous and we have witnessed the worst moments in presidential history since the selection never in the entire scope of presidential elections going all the way 'd back to the 18th century has any losing president or any losing candidate so you baselessly and falsely undermine the integrity of our democracy by claiming an election was rigged by fraud when there was not a single credible example of any fraud much less widespread fraud even richard nixon when he lost by a hair's breath margin in 1960 resisted calls to challenge the election even though it was there was some real reason to do it back then what he said on not going to undermine american democracy and he gave a very. gracious and noble concession speech as did al gore after he lost the presidency by 537 votes in florida in 2000 i want to talk with you about the polling numbers in just a moment but while we're talking about president trump there is concern that president trump

i think of him as a descendent, creative descendent of emily dickinson and walt whitman.seen the body electric. clearly he was influenced by those american writers who wanted to set language and loose and to use poetry and prose, not to make it flowery but instead to surprise and disarm the readers of these great new worlds would be open bore them. >> that's grt. we can almost see all three together like that. carl once pointed out somef the finer points in raise poetry. i d't know if this but we had not yet seen the stars. they have not yet seen the stars, the animals of our planet will look a the start of the way we do. carl pointed o to you once that the bird to do. ray actually wrote -- >> i'm so glad he did. >> reaoad another -- some say the birds they see, and he went on with the poem that way. a wonderful -- >> i think also that there's a general awakening inside of us to how much more attuned to the world, the stars and each other, the other living things with whom we share this planet really are your but yeah, i think there's a lot of creatures a actually, ev adm

well i think that is the sole purpose for challenging to prove whitman wrong there's no doubt about that now of course the challenges are absolutely frivolous and cornish we have witnessed the worst moments in presidential history since the selection never in the entire scope of presidential elections going all the way 'd back to the 18th century has any losing president or any losing candidate so you baselessly and falsely undermine the integrity of our democracy by claiming an election was rigged by fraud when there is not a single credible example of any fraud much less widespread fraud even richard nixon when he lost by a hair's breath margin in 1960 resisted calls to challenge the election even though it was there was some real reason to do it back then when he said i'm not going to undermine american democracy and he gave a very. gracious and noble concession speech as did al gore after he lost the presidency by 537 votes in florida in 2000 i want to talk with you about the polling numbers in just a moment but while we're talking about president trump there is concern that presiden

walt whitman to me is describing not just to the american countryside.s describing america's best politics. abraham lincoln whene writes the second inaugal and that is a work of literatures he is imagining both sides to this great conflict and what it means and it ultimately ends with malice towards none, so that i think infoed everything i did. wh's been interesting and use all this during my presidency and you see it in some of the responses to the book, to the promised land in the current political environment we have a lot of inpatients and i think there've been a couple of reviewers and commentators who say look at obama he's overthinking things and the implication i think is if you can see the other side then somehow you are paralyzed, that the writers sensibility means you cannot make decisions because you d't know whichay to turn. the argument is for me it was the opposite and i try to explain this in the book may be some folks are just inpatient with it. it'secause i can precisely see both sides or all and i would feel as if i were making a deci

david reynolds is a professor at the graduate center and the author of walt whitman america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. his other books include beneath the american renaissance john brown abolitionist and mightier than the sword, uncle tom's cabin and the battle. he's the regular book reviewer for the "new york times" book review and "the wall street journal." david will be in conversation with one of the leading historians since 19th century america. the pioneering works include the ruling race 1982, slavery and freedom and interpretation of the old south, the radical and the republican frederick douglas, abraham lincoln and triumph of antislavery politics. and his latest book freedom national the destruction of slavery in the united states 1861 to 1865. they will have a conversation for about 45 minutes and then take questions for ten or 15 minutes. please click on the question box below to type in your questions and jim will be sure to get to as many of you as he can and he will try to end the program after about one hour eastern time. thanks to the foundatio

i can teach walt whitman and there is a way that i can teach to open my students eyes. we have been working off of constraints for a long time i can teach notes on the state of virginia by thomas jefferson and i can give you a whole lecture on racial havoc just by reading the notes so we have to do is to be subversive within the constraints and as we continue to bring pressure to bear politically on the way in which we teach our children. but you can do that work in the classroom you just have to be creative spirit that's a great answer because he is not on the curriculum everywhere although coming out more and more in this is our moment with the new interest with a library of america coming up with a new anthology why is this a moment for baldwin? >> i think it has to do with black lives matter with this movement in front it is clea clear, men and women so there's a way it clears that policy so it makes sense i also think baldwin is the most critic that we have ever produced i'm surprised about my book with that extraordinary documentary was important as well but becau

and governor whitman faces an impeachment attempt over the latest coronavirus restrictions. and less hypocritical, president trump has repeatedly gone against his own centers for disease control guidelines holding large events with masks option and all of this happening as coronavirus infections soar across the country and lockdowns loom large. newsom said during apology that covid fatigue is exhausting. it may be less so when good food. some of the dishes on the tasting menu at the french laundry. >> at $350 a plate. the parade of high-profile outsiders going to georgia. the latest on the campaigns from atlanta. >> it would be hard to overstate what politicians are saying about how important the 2 georgia senate run off races are. tom cotton was stumping for republicans. if he said if the 2 democrats win and take control of the senate it could mean armageddon for the united states. >> they are waiting to see will we have a republican majority that protects your rights and lets you keep more of your own money? or will the democrats be in charge? >> all eyes on georgia now th

look at chuck hagel, people like john kasich and carly fear rena, meg whitman, those are the sort ofple who have the qualifications joe biden will be looking at. a lot of serious people ask me about the joe biden administration, what are the chances socialists will be running it? i think if he picks some key republicans, it will do a lot to calm the market and calm the american people into knowing the next four years aren't going to be the most radical elements of the democratic party controlling things, being a more sensible side of the democratic party and even some republicans helping lead the way. it would do a lot to calm the country after what we went through in the last week. jillian: thanks, have a good day. carley: governor cuomo announcing the restrictions as kim jong un for cases surge in new york. joe borelli says he needs to consider the financial harm it will cause next. >> today's report very worrisome but this is a warning signs the we have work to do to make sure this -- city stay safe and we do not have that second wave. >> bill diblasio says he is worried about cov

i often read poetry from some of the classical people and one of them is walt whitman. you are reading "leaves of grass." this says something amazing about the human spirit. you are reminded that he referred to black people as monkeys and baboons. he was not alone in that. if that everyday object and this everyday contemporary object, we have those ideas morphing to the present. i will give you another example of a modern object. there is such an interesting story about this. years ago, i will not name the store and i will not tell you what it rhymes with, ok? i went into a store and there were eight cookie jars. they were all animals. when you opened the mouth of the dog, it barked. when you opened the mouth of the pig, it made pig sounds. when you opened the mouth of the alligator, it made this sound. obviously, it taps into the long history in jokes and movies that black people are not really people. they are food for other people. this is an everyday object sitting on the store shelf. we do a lot -- over the years we have done a lot of trainings or conversations wit

chair of the democratic national committee, hopson, former chairwoman of dreamworks animation and meg whitmanceo of ebay and packard and she would be seen as an olive branch to conservatives, possibly serving as a balance to whoever biden picks for secretary of labor. on the short list right now, contenders for that include tom perez for labor, chair of the democratic national committee, former secretary of labor but also senator bernie sanders who has really been gunning for this position, trying to pressure the biden administration to consider him for this spot but also to candidates tied to the cio, union organization key to delivering support for biden and also bill spriggs on that list. those announcements after thanksgiving into next week. connell: now as we circle back to the white house, a newsmaking tweet from the president while hillary was reporting. >> as we were talking, president trump tweeted a moment ago he has pardoned his first national security advisor, michael flynn. let me take you to the tweet. as of three minutes ago. it's my great honor, he says, do not general flynn h

walt whitman is to me describing not just the american countryside but america's best politics, the secondnaugural, that is a work of literature, he is imagining both sides of the conflict, what it means and ultimately ends with malice towards none and cherry towards all. so that, i think, informed everything i did. you see this in my presidency and some of the responses to the book, to a promised land. in the current political environment, a lot of impatiens being able to see the other side. a couple reviewers and commentators on one side or the other, the implication, somehow you are paralyzed, the writer's sensibility means you can't make decisions, you're stuck because you don't know which way to turn? and the irony is in fact, i tried to explain that to people, and and i would feel as if i was making a good decision. and overthinking problems was or is it was a weakness in politics. it is indicative of a culture in which we simplify and eliminate all gray areas and be the other team. and how we come together. and seeing donald trump eliminate all complexity and just do whatever he wan

and i of the ten read poetry from some of the classical people and one of them is walt whitman and you're reading "leaves of grass" this is so powerful, this says something amazing about the human spirit and then reminded that he referred to black people as, you know, monkeys and baboons. he was not alone in that and. the point is that in this every day object, in this every daikon temporary object we have those ideas morping to the present. another example of a modern object and there's such an interesting story about this. years ago -- i don't name the store and i won't even tell you what it rhymes with, okay. but i went into a store and there were eight cookie jars. and they were all animals. and when you opened the mouth of the dog it barks. and when you opened the mouth of the pig it made pig sounds. but when you open the mouth of the alligator it made this sound. >> oh, my sure is tasty cookies. >> it taps into this long history, especially material culture but in jokes, in movies that black people aren't really people. they are actually food for other people, and the story part aga

he will be speaking to former new jersey governor christine todd whitman as the market digests the raten we will get the results, who will it be and what does it mean for stimulus? this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ from bloomberg world headquarters in new york to our tv and radio audiences worldwide, i am david westin. welcome to "balance of power" where the world of politics meets the world of business. for the for siebel future looks like the big story will be the outcome of the election and who wins the presidency. before we get answers let's look at how markets are reacting. what are the markets telling us? abigail: interesting action. on the surface it is risk on, stocks sharply higher, the s&p 500 up for a third day, the best three days going back to april. investors piling into the risk of stocks. the nasdaq 100 up even more, up 4.7%. at the same time you have this massive rally in bonds. the certainty markets are trading with relative to stocks suggests they are almost pricing in the markets believe they know who the next president is. you can also make the narrative around the 10 year yie

former east bay -- ebay ceo meg whitman is reportedly being considered for commerce secretary and l.a run the department of housing and urban development. also l.a. mayor eric garcetti is among those being considered to lead the transportation department. >>> joe biden's team is having a tough time getting ready. >> scott mcgrew, the trump administration not ready to acknowledge that loss just yet. >>> right. it's standing in the way of the transition. biden can still prepare his people for the presidency and, indeed, yesterday he announced new steps in the fight against coronavirus including new members of his coronavirus task force. more about that in a minute. coronavirus has killed 7,471 americans since election day. emily murphy may become a household name, the trump appointee who releases federal funds to the new president elect to use in his transition, literally the desk space and the pencils and the security badges and all of the things you need to build a government from the roots up. here she is at a senate hearing some time ago. kamala harris was there as well. i don't hav

mayor is eyed for the transporting a department and ebay ceo meg whitman could manage the commerce department. >>> news of elect results and a vaccine timeline advancement sent stocks soaring on monday. the market reaching numbers we haven't seen in months. will the market continue on its upward swing? cbs news business analyst joe less isinger joins us from -- joe s jill schlesinger joins us from new york. good morning, jill. >> good morning. >> talk about what happened yesterday and what fueled that rally? >> you know, it's really a making. news of this vaccine was a shot in the arm. sorry for that little pun. it really was for the markets. now, we're coming off of a really big rally last week. in fact, last week elect week was the best elect week for stocks since 1932. and so last week's action was really framed by this idea that a democratic president, along with a split house and senate, right, the republican-led senate and a house led by democrats would mean that there would be no tax increases, that we may have a better plan for trade with china. there would be a big spending bill that

but it turns out they are apparently not as brave as governor whitman in michigan and willing to puthildren's futures on the line to allow through a canadian corporation to do as it wishes and to suppress the rights of citizens, including surveillance, militarization of law enforcement, direct payments to law enforcement. i mean, that is what is happening on the ground. aboutcould you talk enbridge, the canadian company -- for those of our viewers and listeners who don't know about it? >> sure. pipelineis the largest infrastructure company in north america. it is a massive company that is directly tied to the continuation and perpetuation of the tar sands industry. tar sands is the dirtiest fossil fuel in the world. it is one of three projects i'm working on, the line 3 project is also tied to keystone xl and the trans am pipeline. those are the last three major lines propose. all the others had been canceled . ofridge has a long history spills. it is responsible for the largest inland spill in u.s. history. they have a long history of causing pretty serious, destructive damage to th

clara barton and walt whitman cared for patients in the building where the 16th president consoled hisnded. we joined mr. obama's peers in the gallery of the presidents to talk about his book. i'm curious about the title. i think a lot of people feel that we are farther from a promised land. >> obama: well, i titled it the promised land because even though we may not get there in our lifetimes, even if we experience hardships and disappointments along the way, that i at least still have faith we can create a more perfect union. not a perfect union, but a more perfect union. >> pelley: you write in the book, "our democracy seems to be teetering on the brink of a crisis." what do you mean? >> obama: we have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms-- expectations we had for a president that had been observed by republicans and democrats previously. and maybe most importantly-- and most disconcertingly, what we've seen is what some people call truth decay, something that's been accelerated by outgoing president trump, the sense that not only do w

biden may consider former republican gubernatorial candidate meg whitman to head the commerce department including eric garcetti possible candidate to be the transportation secretary and also attorney general xavier becerra for attorney general. >>> the supreme court will hear a case today aiming to strike down the affordable care act. jobina, this could wipe out insurance for millions of americans. >> kumasi, this morning justices will hear oral arguments whether to invalidate the law best known as obama care. a live look at the supreme court. california will be one of 20 other states and washington, d.c., fighting to save the individual mandate requiring nearly all americans to buy health insurance or pay a tax. the trump administration and republican lawyers argue that piece is unconstitutional. >> normally the supreme court when they rule something unconstitutional, it takes effect immediately. but it's really hard to find a precedent of a supreme court decision that would have such a sweeping effect on the country. >> 21 million americans are at risk of losing their coverage if the

former ebay ceo meg whitman is reportedly considered for commerce secretary and l.a.uld run the department of housing and urban development. also, l.a. mayor eric garcetti is among those considered to lead the transportation department. >>> 5:48 right now. according to a new l.a. police officer's union surp va reported by the "l.a. times," the rank and file felt unsupported during summer protests sparked by the death of george floyd. now that survey found nine in ten officers did not feel supported by the police chief, michael moore. many believe he should resign. nearly 7 in 10 officers believe the department was not prepared for the protests. in a statement to officers moore promised to do better. >>> disney cutting more jobs in its southern california theme parks. disneyland and california adventure have been closed since the pandemic started and there's no word when they may reopen. in september disney announced 28,000 layoffs. disney is not saying how many employees will be furloughed this time around. 49ers wide receiver kendrick bourne back on the covid list. b

someone like meg whitman, the ceo of quibi, has been talked about for something like secretary of commercet let's focus on the top jobs people actually know about for the most part. the people being talked about in those roles and i should caution we don't know with 100% finality are basically people who have worked in previous administrations, the obama zrijs administration, the clinton administration, and have known joe biden for a very long time. >> let me talk to you about some of the faces we saw in the campaign trail in the democratic party. there's talk about elizabeth warren. there was at least chatter about it earlier on. i'm not sure how real it is now, chatter about elizabeth warren being labor secretary or treasury secretary. there's been chatter about pete buttigieg, maybe secretary of state. what are you hearing? >> there's a lot of question around this right now. this is one of the most fluid parts of the whole conversation largely because specifically when it comes to someone like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders who is also said to be interested in a cabinet role at som

pelley: a filmmaker working through the chapters of a single subject because burns found, as walt whitmanrote, "these states are the amplest poem." >> burns: i'm working on seven films right now. i mean, we got ernest hemingway, we have muhammad ali, we have benjamin franklin, we have l.b.j. biographies. we're doing a history of the american revolution and a biography of the buffalo. >> pelley: they are, together, the story of a people straining for union-- a theme ken burns has explored from his very first film which was, after all, about a bridge connecting america to america. >> burns: this is what stories do. they do liberate us from the tyrannies of our limitations, and our past, and our foibles. and so this is what we human beings do to negotiate this all too short passage that we call life. and i'm so grateful that i live in the united states of america, i mean that. i mean that. and that i get to tell stories about us, the u.s. ( ticking ) >> cbs sports hq presented by progressive insurance. i'm james brown with the nfl. prits burg stays undefeated. a big second half enough to tak

whitman, bressman, they were to become personal friends. he goes on to say i had the impression that he had ascended judgment -- that part is not as important. but he goes on to say that these men know more about foreign policy than he himself did or any other person in the cabinet did. prof. allitt: that's right, people like walter litman had been famous in america since world war i. he had this incredible amount of accumulated experience. at the very bottom of the page could you talk about the journalist motives? >> the journalist has comparably interactive motives and he must woo and flatter the officials goodwill heout his will be deprived of information. he will lose his objectivity. a love-hate relationship is almost inevitable. prof. allitt: that is the point, isn't it? kissinger quickly realizes their job is to exploit me. my job is to exploit them right back. i'm sure you have all had the experience of reading a newspaper story that are so glowing. you're suspecting there has been some sort of informal quid pro quo. in which the po

and i think what's moving about this picture is having made that decision only earlier and having whitman note, a response that says the landings failed, the responsibility is mine and mine alone . he goes out and he looks these paratroopers and i really thinking in his mind that his technical experts said between 50 and 70 percent of these boys not coming home. >> another thing i think that you detail is the fact that the original d-day plans when he got his hands on them, he changed them and he doubled the size of his invasion and added this plan about paratroopers landing. and fortunately, the advisor did decide, it was four percent of god and 10 percent wounded or something like that . not at all and they succeeded and everyone assumed that without that the overall, it could have been an overall disaster. >> the paratroopers were the linchpin of the operation. i can tell you a much what i eisenhower was saying at that point because we know that that is at the hundred first airborne, we know it's because a number of them came back and told us what was the area and he was asking them ab

and of course, james reese europe is played by earnest whitman in the film. it doesn't say anything about why he wasn't with us any longer, but my point is that the film takes away from the combat contributions of the regiment, and i think that that has been something that has been repeated by lots of scholars to pay too much attention to james reese europe. i'm not denying that he was a highly inknfluential and path breaking figure in the world of music. but when we're talking about world war i, the focus has to be on the combat soldier. and we tried to make sure that we mentioned james reese europe, discuss him. but our focus is on blacks as combatants. >> i was just curious in terms of the impact -- [ inaudible ] >> you know, he's credited with introducing live jazz to europe. that's been debated, at least spreading jazz. no question it was one of the best, if not the best military bands there. they were recorded by pathay records, so the music spread after that. i have a problem too, because the band embraced the moniker appalachian harlem hell fighters,

let's speak now to newjersey‘s former republican governor chirstine todd whitman, a founding member of thank you for sparing us some time. it's true isn't it really, that this is no longer at the republican party that you belong to, this is the party of donald trump? absolutely, there is no question about it. it's become a cult, basically. when you cite those numbers of 85% of republicans still support the president, the one thing you have to put in perspective what thatis you have to put in perspective what that is that number, it's a smaller pa rt of that is that number, it's a smaller part of the whole. because republicans are leaving the party. they are independence for the first time for the people who register is independent. i now greaterthan time for the people who register is independent. i now greater than the numberof independent. i now greater than the number of registered republicans. he does have a very fervent base that will do anything for him. and accept anything that he does to them. but it isa anything that he does to them. but it is a shrinking group. it's a strange

here is whitman nation told bloomberg news -- here is what steve mnuchin told bloomberg news.responded strongly but there are still areas of the economy that need support. encouragingi am congress to reallocate this money. he thinks if they you -- if they put it someplace else, it will do better. he is seeking a 90 day extension for four of the nine programs. he is not extending the municipal fund facility, the corporate bond facility in the main street lending program. it is one that many fed officials are looking for to stimulate the economy particularly when the congress cannot do anything done. goingl bostick says he is to be watching to see how it does affect constituents including in his own fed district. surprised and i have to say after that announcement, the airport came out with a statement expressing their interest in extending them. that is pretty much where i am. given where the economy is and there is so much uncertainty that is still out there, it is prudent to keep those things open so that people can draw upon it. >> he wants to reallocate unused funds so taxp

have polls still open we bring back our getz, marc morial, scott walker, penny pritzger and emily whitmand for joe biden, there has been so much money sloshing around this race but you look at the returns that have come in are you getting the return on investment you hoped >> absolutely. absolutely joe biden is the man who can take this country forward. there's no reason not to want to invest in him and invest in his great ideas. he is not a socialist as some feared i've worked with him he wants to see everyone in our country thrive and he's well aware that half of the jobs that have been lost since the coronavirus have not come back and we need to invest and be smart about how we get this country out of both the health care crisis, the racial crisis as well as the economic crisis that we're facing. >> there has been a concern among some independent voters how progressive former vice president biden would have to become to cater to what the democratic party looks like right now. what did you see throughout the course of the campaign what do you think would happen if he were to take office

the wall street journal editorial page shining spotlight on gretchen whitman's order, the restaurantociation which represents 5,000 businesses has filed a federal lawsuit over the prohibition of indoor dining calling it a seizure of their property. the journal weighs in with this writing, quote, a supreme court justice samuel alto said last week, the longer emergency powers are in use the more they become questionable under law. bars may be closed but too many are drunk on power. perhaps federal courts can sobber them up. schools are closing in new york city sending 300,000 children home as restaurants and bars remain open. here in new york governor andrew cuomo snapped at a reporter yesterday. >> what are you talking about? you're now going to override, we did it already. that's the law, an orange zone and red zone. follow the facts. well, you're confused. >> parents are still confuseed as well. >> they're not confused, you're confused. dagen: this is -- i will let you talk because i'm mad. jon: sorry, dagen, is that coming to me? dagen: yeah, go. jon: i think, you know, i think thi

. >> reporter: christine todd whitman. >> it was in sync with his total denial of climate change.ies, but do so in a manner that doesn't strangle business. rollbacks have not produced the gloom and doom that so many predict. >> every single man, woman, and child in this country has threatened drinking water, threatened fisheries, threatened air quality, and more contaminated land because of this administration. >> donald trump's administration really doesn't want regulators in your life, in my life, in vin's life. so their philosophy is to diminish regulations. >> reporter: a philosophy and legacy that could very well be defined by the legacy of the judges he has appointed and still hopes to appoint. >> today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation's most brilliant and gifted legal minds to the supreme court, amy coney barrett. >> i don't have any doubt his greatest success is going to be the judiciary that has a lasting legacy that can extend well beyond a generation. >> they're likely to affect the law in america for our children and grandchildren long after donald trump is

will: and former ebay boss and republican meg whitman as possible commerce secretary.us now. i want to ask you the same question that i asked in the future. there's going to be a battle for the soul of the democratic party party. there will be for the republican party as well going forward. but for the democratic party here in the short-term, who defines the party, who holds the voice? i know joe biden is president, but does he define what is said, what their direction is? and i guess most tangibly, who is in his cabinet? so i think that will be the first indication, right, of which way this democratic party will go? >> and i think first we might need to get the election absolutely settled. pete: thank you, governor, thank you. >> -- the networks have called it. but i don't remember that the networks get to call elections. last time i read the constitution the voters did. pete: amen. >> and there are still votes being counted. let me just mention this. if the democrats are in a confusion, it's real simple. they can fix this. let the same tv networks that decided who wo

he may have walt whitman's beard temporarily during covid but he's not a veteran political hand.uy with a successful social media company. but that's what passes for our discourse in 2020. >> well, the marketplace of ideas, the marketplace of technology giveth and taketh away, depending on the half-hour. right? the key thing is, and i think vb biden expressed it well. keep calm. let's count the votes. my view is this is not the else of a tv show. it would have been lovely to have known everything and shut it down in an ordinary programming hour. this is too important. it is a big complicated disputeatious country. we have a constitution, we have state laws. the president, of course, predictably tried to role a grenade in the midst of it on twitter. and good for twitter for throwing a flag on that play. >> and of course, rachel raised this. the president telegraphs for a reason. maybe what's going on after midnight is pure skull duggery. facing a consuming and let's just take a deep breath here. there ish nothing outside the american tradition, the ordinary conventions of american