he went to school here at yale. he's the first individual to get this vaccine. the woman next to him, i also spoke to her a little bit earlier as well. excuse me for the ambulance. you can imagine we're in front of a hospital. and as i mentioned, 400-plus patients right now hospitalized with covid-19 at this hospital behind me. so, of course, we'll hear ambulances coming by throughout this moment because it's a split screen moment. folks getting vaccines and folks still hospitalized. so to the right of dr. obuagu you have kay husler. she is a registered nurse for the medical intensive care unit. she said she was pretty nervous to get this vaccine because she didn't really know what to expect. then she talked about the confidence she would feel walking the floor. her co-workers said she was being really humble about her nursing skills. she's one of the best nurses they have here at the hospital. one of the reasons she's getting this vaccine today. that she gives so much care and love and time to her patients. you think about, chuck, how many times we've talked ab

minkema is also a member of the research faculty at yale divinity school and a research associate at the university of free state, south africa. he offers seminars in early american and early modern religious history as well as reading courses in all periods of american religious history. he has contributed several articles to the journal of american history, the william and mary quarterly, the new england quarterly, and the massachusetts historical review, among several others. he has also edited or co-edited several works, too many to name here, on the sermons of jonathan edwards and other colonial preachers. so please join me in welcoming dr. may come up. dr. minkema: thank you very much, ginerva. it is my pleasure to introduce frank bremer, who i have known quite some time. i think i first met you, frank, when you did one of you wonderful conferences in 1991, if you can remember that far. i was a young graduate student , and these conferences offered the opportunity for up-and-coming people like myself to rub shoulders with giants on the earth, like yourself and others, and to ge

it was moments ago that more vaccines arrived at yale new haven hospital.lth care workers are expecting the receive their doses within a matter of hours. right now connecticut is seeing a deadly surge with more covid deaths in the first two weeks of december than the entire montho november. yasmin vossoughian is in new haven, connecticut outside that hospital, expecting to distribute more than 1,900 vaccine doses in the first week. what's going on there, yasmin? >> reporter: can you believe it, chris? in that kind of small box, 1,90 do 30 /* 0 there is a mix of nerves and happiness. happiness because this day is finally here. they'll administer vaccines at 1:00 p.m. nerves because they don't know what to expect. three of four beds in this hospital, yale new haven health, are occupied right now with covid patients. 57 people on ventilators right now. 433 covid patients in the hospital. they are reaching capacity. as you mentioned, just the last two weeks or so have been devastating for the state of connecticut. one of those people that is going to be one of

the editorial team included-of yale. paula peters of the wampanoag nation and myself, the three of us here pictured. along with jeremy bangs of the american pilgrim museum in leiden. because the bradford manuscript included a list of hebrew vocabulary inscribed as part of the governor's efforts to teach himself the biblical language. we engaged yale's eric raymond to transcribe and introduce that material. the inclusion of an si by a member of the wampanoag nation is the most striking departure of this addition from previous ones. but not the only departure. i would like to discuss some of the things that make this volume unique, and then move on to talk about how working on it has helped me to revise my understanding of bradford and his writings. william bradford began to compile in his history in 1630, 10 years after his arrival on the mayflower, and in the same year that john minter arrived in massachusetts, to take charge of the colony that would become the dominant puritan presence in new england. >> while bradford

on the illegal alien front, census bureau says about 11 million -- way back in 2010 -- yale, there's a study from yale suggests it's more like 22, 23 million, and that's before we get to the many millions of other people who are here lawfully but not american citizensno who are, in fact, registering to vote because with we don't have the ability to stophem. you can't g the information needed. >> host: there was a december 1st interview with t associated press, attorney genera william barr said to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could havee affecteda different outcome in the elecon. the security agencs staying after -- saying after the election the 234063rd election was the most secure in american history. what do you say to them? >> guest: absolute bunk. you're not going to see evidence of fraud if you don't conduct the investigation necessary to reveal it. so of course the attorney general would not be familiar with it if his underlings, the people at the fbi or within the juris disdepartment -- justice department itself, are not doing the research that is necessary to d

penny goldberg joins us from yale and the peterson institute for international economics.de yourself on applied economics. to aou apply economics natural disaster like a pandemic? penny: that is a very interesting question. the pandemic was truly novel. it was something unprecedented. that means we cannot take official models for techniques and apply them to the pandemic. what we can do as economists and scientists more generally is apply the wisdom with opportunity to this situation. apply a certain way of thinking about the problem. part of this involves looking at the evidence very carefully, following the evidence. tom: part of the applied is the run right back to normality. do you have a run rate of when we get back to normal after a vaccine? is it one or two years or you like to live your blanchard where it could be a much longer line back to normality? penny: i am very hesitant to make any predictions. in the past year everything is uncertain. i think it is a long road ahead. of 2021 weby the end will be in a much better place. the pandemic will be on its way out. i

ago,now that yale, ages invented the syringe with the beckett and dickinson company. it for granted today. telus the medical evolution of getting that shot -- tell us that medical evolution of getting that shot and why we should not be afraid today? >> thank you for having me back. it's a pleasure. with respect to the medical evolution, we have 100 years of more of experience with vaccines. if we think of one medical success story that really changed our lives, it's been vaccinations in terms of prolonging life expectancy. now we have come to covid. with the amazing work that has been done, the progress in less than a year, we have a vaccine where the current clinical trials and exhaustive studies have shown it is safe and effective. i think that is the message we really need to get out to everyone. it's on everyone's minds. this has been developed quickly, is it safe? all the evidence we have points to really and other major medical success story in the making. tom: what is the best way to lineup the ducks to get this done? how do we get millions of people efficientl

he went to stanford, the home of big tech and yale law. fancy.s competing for the conservative populist crowd, he's double harvard. secretary of state pompeo hasn't been secret about his presidential ambitions and he is harvard law as well. kris kobach who briefly held trump's voter fraud panel is a fire breathing conservative populist but get this, he went to harvard, yale law and oxford university. and of course senator ted cruz loves slamming elites but overlooks the fact that he went to princeton and harvard law. the problem is not getting a great education, that's something we should celebrate, even if you went to college or where you went to college isn't a predicting of smarts. harry truman didn't get a college degree, neither about lincoln. worked out for both of them. the problem is phoney pose of it all, attacking elites for political gain when by any definition these senators are elite and they have elites on speed dial for fundraising calls. which brings me to a populist myth. ted cruz tweeted today's dems are the party of the rich. t

minkema is a member at the research faculty of the yale divinity school and at the university of the free state south africa. he offers seminars in early american and early modern religious history as well as reading courses in all periods of religious history. he has contributed several articles into the new england quarterly and the massachusetts historical review among others. he has also edited or co-edited several works, too many to name here on the sermons of jonathan edwards and other colonial preachers. so please join me in welcoming dr. minkema. >> thank you very much, geneva, and it is my pleasure to introduce frank bremer who i've known for quite some time. i think i first met you when you did one of your wonderful conferences in 1991, if you can remember that far away. i was a young graduate student and these conferences offered the opportunity for up and coming people like myself to rub shoulders with the giants on the earthlike yourself and others and to get the proper introduction to the field of puritan studies. i remember one session in particular where we tried to d

fessor philosophy at yale. thank you very much. u.s. president elect joe biden, has congress to pass a coronavirus aid package that has been stalled for months. he spoke while unveiling his economic team to deal with the crisis on partisan group of lawmakers, unveiled and $990000000000.00 close to $1000.00 relief. they'll breaking the law deadlock and in this hopeful it will pass but says his team is focused on the next session of congress. right now, the full congress to come together and pass a robust package for relief to address the surge it needs. but any package passed in a lame duck session is likely to be at best just a start. my transition team is already working on what i'll put forward in the next congress to address the multiple crises. refacing, especially are economic and covert operations. let's go live now to kristen salumi, who's in wilmington, delaware, kristen, there is talk of all of building back better when it comes to the economy building back more equitably equitably. how do joe biden's picks janet yellen to seal

of yale's equity research, and co-chair of my covid-19 transition advisory board. dr. nunez-smith will lead our efforts to provide care to the communities most in need and most affected by the pandemic and often overlooked. she'll ensure that fairness and equity are at the center of every part of our response. this is a central front in our fight against this pandemic, and i'm grateful dr. nunez-smith will lead this charge. finally, as both head of my national institute of allergy and infectious disease and my chief medical adviser on covid-19, i'm pleased to say that dr. tony fauci will be a member of my covid team. by now, tony -- dr. fauci needs no introduction. but he'll have my gratitude when i'm president, the seventh president, he will have served. we know each other and we've known each other for a long time. i'm grateful, and almost before i asked, he said yes. i've seen him take on hiv/aids, h1n1, ebola, and covid-19. dr. fauci's trusted, a truth-teller, a patriot. like every good doctor, he'll tell me what i need to know, not what i want to know. what i

so for instance, there was a book on the slave trade coming out soon with yale university press. and we're talking about this idea that the slave traders would come up very often and they would put in writing that if you send three ships, you get one back, you're still making a substantial profit on the enterprise. in some cases, they would send the ship together. in case of the british, the french, one of the ships, the other ones, that was good. that was fine. >> not only the ships would be seized by patrols, but for now, decades and decades and decades, factoring in loss of the slave of the people and the slave ships had long been now part -- that had been worked through for a century and a half, two centuries, really. and sometimes it's hard to get your head around, the sheer numbers of these ships and the number of lost at sea and the numbers of loss after arrival. but they're factoring in all of this loss. loss of human life, loss of people, even loss of their crews for that matter because at the other end, it's still that profitable. >> lines of business. supplies had chan

he was head of the pfizer vaccine trials through this entire process here for yale new haven. what does it feel like that you'll be getting this vaccine in an hour or so? >> it's hard to even package my feelings together. it's excitement. as one of the researchers running the clinical trials for the vaccine here at yale, as a doctor caring for covid patients on the front line, even as a father worried i could take the disease back home, i'm happy on so many levels that i can hopefully get protected from the disease. >> reporter: talk about the trepidation of people, what does it mean to put yourself out there to say i am getting this vaccine? >> i hope for communities of color, to which i belong, i hope that seeing someone on the front lines of the vaccine process, eager to get the vaccine, i hope that can reinforce people's confidence that the vaccines are safe and effective as they were found to be. >> reporter: now you're going to be getting the vaccine that you worked on, that you studied and researched, an incredible moment for the doctor here, andrea. as you can imagine.

he left for yale in 1935. it was not long before they offered an opening in the law program.rry form graduated in the top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice. their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. and gerald ford went off to war. for am for two years it took them across the monterey. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that american could bury her head in the sand. >> i always felt that i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> he choose a headquarters, at stake was michigan's fifth district and the future of his party and his country. the red, white, and blue office caught people's attention. he took on the republican establishment. when the votes were counted in november 1948, ford won the first of 13 terms in congress. and that's not all he won that year. betty bloomer warren would bring a grace and spirit to the life they would share through the long years of politics. >> from his first day

that is according to a yale professor.. >> i thought we are turned a new chapter that we are now yogis and we like to take up hobbies and we're all introverts. no? >> the new hobby is going to be going to all the clubs, i guess. that's what it says on the paper. >> time will tell, time will tell. >>> you know how the salvation army, this is the time of year where they have the red kettle donation and people drop in a dollar here and there. well, a secret santa dropped in a little something special in tennessee. it was an antique ring worth thousands. nobody knows who it is but they were feeling extra generous this holiday season. there's a photo. it is an antique 1.81 carat diamond ring. >> is that a lot? >> it's worth thousands. it said help the poor. >> cool. >> anything counts. >> it does. you pawn that off. i like that. that's a nice gesture. >>> let's talk about some sacramento firefighters to the rescue after a certain santa got stuck in some power lines. >> ooh, what was he doing? >> look at that. i'm surprised he d

pefully next congress you'll eed the advice of our yale graduate, mr. westerman, before it all goes up in smoke. i'm proud of the bipartisan work we did together to open up spectrum for advanced communications, enact firstnet, our first responders knew -- new interoperable broadband network and expand access to high speed interinternet though much work still remains to fully connect all americans to high speed broadband. with the ray bonds act, we modernized the f.c.c. and that hadn't been done in a couple of decades. i had the great privilege and honor to chair the energy and commerce committee, we took on the deadly epidemic of drug overdose and combined more than 0 bipartisan pieces of legislation into the support act which while focus thond eopioid crisis actually was much bigger than that and provided support for our communities to help all with addiction. we modernized our mental health law, stepped up medical research and fully funded the children's health insurance program for a decade, something never done before. we modernized the f.d.a. and i

in eft ann arbor for yale the fall of 1935. t wasn't long before the faculty offered coach ford an opening in their law program. for the challenge 1941, gerald ford graduated in the top third of his class. >> returning home to grand he opened a law practice with his friend philip -- but plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. >> and gerald ford went off to war. >> for almost two years the aircraft carrier monterey would 40,000 miles of the pacific. 10 major ence in battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place it in. he had seen too much of the world to believe it would go away or that america could bury in the sand. a i always felt that i was moderate to conservative republican. felt very strongly that the nited states had to have an internationalist foreign policy. >> ford, the internationalist, -- for his headquarters in his uphill challenge of incumbent.t at stake was michigan's fifth istrict and the future of his party and his country. the red, white and blue caught eople's attention and they

yale university american history professor, david and the history of presidential election and parallelsen this past election and the election of 1860 led to the civil war. watch c-span's "washington journal", live 7:00 p.m. eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and weeks. issues surrounding the 2020 election security and administration will be examined by the senate homeland security government affairs committee at the hearing wednesday morning. watch live beginning 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three, online at c-span.org or listen on the three c-span radio app. ♪ >> book tv on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. coming up this weekend, mammy booked for saturday 1:00 p.m. eastern doctors and daniel and former new york times the american correspondent. later with journalist nicholas 755, discussion on the books, let me and he recorded 9:00 p.m. eastern on the book strongman, interviewed by columbia university professor, sherry berman. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. ♪ >> next, today's white ho

he left ann arbor for yale in the fall of 1935 hired to coach boxing and football. it wasn't long before the faculty offered him a opening in the law program. he was ready for the challenge. in 1941 he graduated top third of his class. returning home to grand rapids he opened a law practice with his friend. their plans were interrupted by foreign dictators. gerald ford, the navy ensign went off to war. from us two years the aircraft carrier monterey would take him across 40,000 miles of the pacific. his experience in 10 major battles would change his perception of the world and his nation's place in it. he had seen too much of the world to believe that it would go away or that america could bury their head in the sand. >> i always felt i was a moderate to conservative republican. i felt very strongly that the united states needed to have a internationalist foreign policy. he chose a quonset hut wind isolate against his isolationist incumbent. future of his party in his country. the red white and blue cut people's attention and they listened to the energetic young la

alber the yale school of medicine. this is bloomberg. with the first word news, i'm ritika gupta. president trump is excited to sign a bill that could lead to chinese companies getting kicked off american stock exchange's. the measure approved by congress calls for u.s. regulators to review the companies' financial results. it may be president trump's last chance to shape the fed. the senate is expected today to confirm the nomination of christopher waller to serve on the federal reserve board. weiler has been the research director at the st. louis fed. in germany, chancellor angela merkel says the partial lockdown will be. extended by three weeks. bars, gems -- will be extended by three weeks. yms, and cinemas will be closed. france is putting pressure on european union negotiators not to make any more trade concessions to the u.k.. the french are warning they could veto a bridge that deal between the eu and the u.k. if they don't like the terms. negotiators trying to reach an agreement in the next few days. global news 24 hours a day,

i'm thankful to my research team and to my colleagues to the leadership here at yale for supporting me in this work. and i'm grateful to all of the researchers and advocates who blazed the trail, whose work on health equity and racial justice too often went unbelieved or overlooked across the generations. most of all, i'm thankful to my family. to jessie and our three children for their unwavering support and humor. and to my mother and her mother, for modeling kindness, generosity, and courageous leadership through service. i have wanted to be a doctor since i was 6 years old. and i'm a proud general internal medicine physician today. but as i grew up, i came to understand that there were deeper dimensions to help beyond what i saw in the human biology textbooks that i borrowed from my mother's bookshelf. i grew up in the u.s. virgin islands, a place where people died too young from preventable conditions. my own father had his first stroke in his 40s and was left paralyzed. i learned there was a term for what we were, an underserved community, marginalized by place and by race. in my

host: david, an american history professor at yale university. in this segment of the washington journal until 10:00 a.m. eastern this morning. if you want to join this conversation as we talk about the history of divisive presidential elections, phone lines as usual, republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent, (202) 748-8002. as folks continue to call in this morning, i want to go back to early october. joe biden any speech at gettysburg quoted some of the words of president lincoln's second inaugural address as he talked about the need for the country to come together through what he had to say back on october 6. >> i give you my word if i'm elected president, i will marshal the ingenuity and goodwill of this nation to turn division into unity and bring us together because i think people are looking for that. we can disagree about how we move forward. andust take the first steps start with how we treat one another. how we respect one another. inaugural, lincoln said malice toward none, with fondnessor all, with in the r

up next, for the study of slavery resistance and abolition at the mcmillon center of yale university. historian, manuel barcia, discusses his book, the yellow diamond fever, fighting disease in the 19th century transatlantic slave trade. >> i did not plan for this book to come out in the middle of a pandemic first of all. i promise, i don't have a crystal ball. >> timing is everything. >> i know. but it has been tough having to talk about the disease. on a more personal layer, these experiences of the subject of my book. trying to find out what is going on. or the lack of public policy at some point as well. >> one of the central themes in your book is this idea of dread. >> it is. the terror of disease in that year. go ahead. >> i think there are two or three things that i have to say. first of all, i don't consider myself a medical historian. i think i am a neophyte at best, and definitely, this was a kind of adventure. i've been reading quite a lot about this for many years and i have colleagues who helped to me. i mentioned them in my acknowledgment. they have been very supportive

i used to play tennis with a guy when i still taught at yale who came up with a great line. i'm looking at him, with whom i used to play tennis here. he came up with a line one day. he said, a good call beats a good shot every time. out! -- [ laughter ] -- a good count , the republicans could count the votes. a good count could be beat the actual returns any time. so, i want to get to the dispute in a minute. but let me, first of all, what might explain this high turnout? it is really unprecedented, in a sense, an unequal turnout of voters. well, it wasn't the candidates. although the contrast between the candidates in itself is very, it wasn't the kennedy's, because, of course, the dates did not campaign in the 19th century. that was verboten. you did not go on the stump. other people campaign for you. the two candidates, actually there were three candidates, actually four. there was a greenback candidate also. rutherford b. hayes was in his third term as governor of ohio when this election returns. he was a veteran of the civil war who had enlisted as a major in an ohio re

associate professor of medicine and public health at yale school of medicine, founding director of the research center and co-chair of my advisory board, dr. nunez-smith will lead our efforts to provide care to the communities most in need and most affected by the pandemic and often overlooked. she'll ensure that fairness and equity are at the center of every part of our response. this is a central front in our fight against this pandemic. and i'm grateful dr. nunez-smith will lead this charge. and finally, as both head of my national institute of allergy and infectious, i'm pleased to say that dr. tony fauci will be a member of my covid team. by now, dr. fauci needs no introduction. but he'll have my gratitude when i'm president, the seventh president he will have served. we know each other and we've known each other for a long time. and i'm so grateful when i called him, almost before i asked, he said yes. i've seen him take on hiv/aides, h1n1, ebola, zika over his nearly 40 years of service to our country. dr. fauci is trusted, a truth-tell he truth-teller, a patriot. he'll tell me

who was his intellectual equal and i think that excited bill, enormously. >> after graduating from yalellary moved to washington. headhunted to work on the watergate investigation. >> i shall resign the presidency, effective at noon tomorrow. >> bill had proposed marriage, several times. after less than a year in washington, hillary follows her heart to arkansas. >> one of her friends traveled to arkansas with her. and the entire road trip, tried to convince her not to do it. you're crazy, hillary. you'll be throwing away your life. you are a big deal. you can really go places, in politics. >> hillary said she thought she might be crazy, too. but she was just in love with him. >> the couple married in 1975. >> the governor of arkansas and his wife hillary. >> bill quickly climbed the political ladder and, by 1979, was governor of arkansas. hillary joined a prestigious law firm. >> she was one of the first women in the state to be hired by a mainline law firm. and later, she was named partner. so, her trajectory became very swift. >> you are less than 40. you don't have children. you don

with time off at cambridge university, yale, stanford and other institutions, holt has been at the university of virginia since 1974. he's written widely and deeply about 19th century american political history. for many years his writing focused on the years before the civil war. his book, "the political crisis of the 1950s" has become the standard on the run-up to the civil war for advanced college political history courses. his 1999 book, "the rise and fall of the american wiig party, jacksonian politics and the run-up to the civil war" was up for the lincoln prize and was described as magisterial, and not just because of its 296-page heft. recently michael holt has written of the reconstructive period following the war. by one vote, the disputed presidential election of 1876 tells the story of america's closest presidential election which perhaps, not coincidentally, had the highest percentage of eligible voters participate of any presidential election, 81.5%. please welcome michael holt. [ applause ] >> thank you, george. it was the 1850s that ran up to the civil war. the other day i was

i was talking to an author who also has a book coming out soon with yale university university press and the title was the last slave ships. and we were talking about this idea, that the slave trades would come up with often and they would put in writing. that if you send three ships to africa and get one back, you are still making a substantial profit in the whole enterprise. cases i understand they would send ships together. the british or french or whoever would come after would capture one of the ships and the other would make it, that was good. that was fine. david: not only, the ships would be seized by patrols, but now decades and decades, factoring in loss of the enslaved people in these slave ships had long been part of the, that had been worked through for a century and a half. two centuries, really. is hard to sometimes get your head around the sheer numbers of these ships and the numbers of a loss at sea and in the numbers of loss even after arrival. but they are factoring in the loss of human life and lots of people, even most of their crews. for even at the other end, i

not as if the clock struck 12:00 when you graduate from a place like harvard or yale. lbj his father said, you'll brush up against the grindstone of life. that's more important than whatever college experience you went to. so that means you just keep learning. lbj learned from people. he had those congressmen over to his senate and office buildings and to the mansion night after night after night. they would have dinner with him. he'd learn from them, listen to them. the answer is you don't think you're suddenly educated because you went to an ivy league school. you think, i'm going to keep doing this the rest of my life and those people will catch way up. teddy roosevelt was reading abraham lincoln in the middle of a coal strike because he wanted to know as you were saying before, how did lincoln handle a difficult situation. there's so much to learn. this is from michael, too, from history. you learn from your parents and grandparents. why would you not learn from the other presidents who went through triumph and tragedy and they've been through similar situations li

up next, for the study of slavery resistance and abolition at the mcmillon center of yale university.torian, manuel barcia, discusses his book, the yellow diamond fever, fighting disease in the 19th century transatlantic slave trade. >> i did not plan for this book to come out in the middle of a pandemic first of all. i promise, i don't have a crystal ball. >> timing is everything. >> i know. but it has been tough having to talk about the disease. on a more personal layer, these experiences of the subject of my book. trying to find out what is going on.

yale is at the office of public health. dr.-authors of a new study of how to implement a coronavirus vaccine implementation in the united states. doctor rochelle walensky and dr. pate palteil argue over how it works. how well a vaccine program works will also depend on how quickly it can be manufactured, how efficiently it can be distributed to locations in greatest need, how persuasive health messaging can be in promoting public acceptance and how consistently the public can adhere to the many complementary prevention stralt geez to limit the spread of the virus. we have dr. palteil here with us. it's good to have you with us tonight. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> i can't help looking at those news packages and seeing the older britains get the vaccine. your heart kind of swells. it's exciting to see, and it makes you feel, i think, a lot of emotion with what we've been through over the past year. i want to talk to you tonight because i think you and your colleagues are making clear it's not like onc

david paltiel is at the yale school of public health.ll get out of this pandemic faster if we give the vaccine less work to do. dr. paltiel is one of the co-authors of a new study of how to implement a coronavirus vaccination program in the united states. one of the coauthors of his piece is president-elect's biden's choice to lead the cdc. dr. rochelle walensky. dr. walensky and dr. paltiel argue over how it works. after that, they say it's about implementation. how well a vaccine program works will also depend on how quickly it can be manufactured, how efficiently it can be distributed to locations in greatest need, how persuasive health messaging can be in promoting public acceptance and how consistently the public can adhere to the many complementary prevention strategies like masks and handwashing and distancing to limit the spread of the virus. joining us now is dr. david paltiel professor the yale, one of the authors of that health affairs paper on the implementation of the vaccine program. it's great to have you with us tonight.

public health and management at yale school of medicine, founding director of yale's equity research and innovation center, and co-chair of my covid-19 transition advisory board. the doctor will lead our efforts to provide care to the communities most in need and most affected by the pandemic, and often overlooked. she'll ensure that fairness and equity are at the center of every part of our response. this is a central front in our fight against this pandemic, and i'm grateful dr. nunes smith will lead this charge. finally, both head of allergy and infectious disease and chief medical adviser on covid-19 rime pleased to say that dr. tony fauci will be a member of my covid team. by now, tony, dr. fauci, needs no introduction. but with that my gratitude when i'm president, the seventh president he will have served. we know each other, known each other for a long time and i'm so grateful and i called him almost before i asked he said, yes. i've seen him take on hiv-aids, ebola, zika, coronavirus and every infectious disease in between over his nearly 40 years of service to our country.

the senator attended stanford university and yale law after graduating from prep school. and is there anything less populist than telling more than 81 million americans that their votes shouldn't count so that he, senator joshua david hawley, can scheme his way into the oval office come 2024? for some perspective on all this, i'm joined now by yale university history professor timothy snyder, author of "on tyranny: 20 lessons from the 20th century." you have been sounding the alarm bell about rising authoritarianism, fash im, for many years now. what do you make of this latest development, a sitting republican senator aiding and abetting donald trump's ridiculous attempt to overturn the election? >> the thing that strikes me most and maybe the thing which is the most shameful and dangerous is the endorsement of the big lie. senator hawley knows that the claims he's making are not true. he knows that he is, in effect, endorsing a conspiracy theory. he knows that what he's doing is endorsing a story in which mr. trump is the victim. mr. trump has been stabbed in the back. a

for more on the situation,ai earlier spoke with a professor at yale university and expert on iran inhe middle east. >> first off, why was this scientist taeted, and why not? >> well, it's quite clear that fakhrizadeh was the architect of the nuclear program, sort of a key to everything. and if somebody or some country wanted to eliminate him, the reason is quite simple. in order to destruct any possible reactivation of a weapons program, eliminating him would be the exact answer that anybody would have. and another element of this is an act of provocation. by doing so, this may invite iranian response. and this kind of response could be a military response against any target, including israel. that could be used as a pretext or excuse to activate a full-scale military attack against iran, to attack the atlantic republic. i believe there are several issues behind this. and even intentionally put president-elect biden in a very difficult situation to deal with iran. >> and that is the significance of the timing? >> right. >> i see. so, we've also heard more of iran's threats. it's prom

he's a graduate of yale college and yale law school. joey siu is a hong kong american activist. and an adviser to the alliance on china. she's participated in hong kong's prodemocracy movement through organizing local grassroots campaigns and to her international advocacy for hong kong. as an advocate, for the people of hong kong, she's testified before the u.s. congress, spoken at the uk parliament in the united nations in geneva and delivered briefings on the european union office at the european union office of the united nations. samuel chu is the founding and managing director of hong kong democracy council, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting hong kong's basic freedoms, autonomy and the rule of law. on july 31st, 2020, chinese state made reported that the hong kong authorities has issued arrest warrants against him under the new national security law making him the first american citizen to be targeted. he's the son of a leading prodemocracy activist who co-led an underground operation for people who participated in tiananmen square protest. nathan law is a m

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. >> reporter: nearby yale scientists tell us saliva tests are accurate and easy. >> when you really look at the lower limit, the saliv test is right up there with the swab based method. >> reporter: while experts say schools are not a major transmission point for covid more testing is seen as critical so labs in 25 states are now working to increase saliva capacity and reduce costs. >> aggressive, routine testing is the only way that we will be able to reopen this country safely >> reporter: if an entire classroom is tested at once the costs drop significantly with the weekly individual price tag then as low as $15 lester >> willem marx, thank you. >>> want to turn now to our serie "america under pressure." tonight we speak to health care workers on the front lines of this crisis. they are heroic but their work and the prospect of tougher days ahead is taking a toll here's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: for months they have fought to keep the country healthy. perhaps now it's time the country fights for them. >> speaking for all of us, we're tired. but we get up and we still do this e

you had a yale school public named albertsionor saying the bottom line the covid low or n children is minimal compared to other quotes. this was back in july. president was saying, keep the schools open. i'm looking at the science. detrimental to keep kids out of school. what were democrats saying? when the president was following here's what democrats were saying. governor gavin newsom say this. taking pressure from trump on opening schools. governor cuomo saying it's not about he president opening schools. schools shut down. ayor de blasio who interestingly reversed himself this week and kids can go back in july he t back said we won't ignore the science ahead likesly charge the president who was following the science. he ifer ruben tweeting, wants to kill your kids. i don't know how that's reporting. and anderson cooper saying, he doesn't care about kids at all. nor the help of their teachers and parents. had the american federation of teachers and the national ducation association railing against the president as well. the president followed the science. he's also kept in mind we

. >> reporter: at yale university, one of the pfizer vaccine researchers was the first to receive it. >> even a father of three kids, worried i could take the disease back home, it's so good on so many levels i get to get the vaccine today. >> reporter: meanwhile the fda authorized the first at-home test the kits are expected in drugstores in january. as for the cost, we're told to expect to pay $30 per test and the manufacturer is ramping up, expecting to put out 30,000 tests every day. >>> the first vaccine doses have been administered. nbc's jake ward is in san francisco for us good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, frances. yesterday was a historic day this hospital behind me saw the city through tuberculosis, the aids crisis, and now it saw the first people to be vaccinated. we spoke with dr. antonio gomez who treats the very sickest here he said he was honored, happy to be the first in the city to be injected he then can't help but turn and think about the dwindling icu bodes beds as they fall below 17%. big emotions, big relief, but a long time before they ccan retun to

all of a sudden the bari report combined with a yale study make people go back to some of those worldwar i things and go, wait a minute, you know, we are seeing that it was effective, and in the '50s, they looked at the world war i information with a new i. >> it would make me think just as you shown here that these casualties were covered up, that the men who died were covered up, forgotten, their deaths were attributed to other causes, inaccurately so, that this is yet another area in which they were forgotten dead from the first world war who probably would've died within a few years afterwards from ms. attribute it causes. >> i go into it quite some link at the end of the book about the tragedy for the veterans. i mean, there were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of boys. remember, they're 20, 21 years old overexposed to mustard gas and lived at their medical charts said burns due to enemy action. they would spend their lives suffering from skin cancers, bronchial ailments, asthma, glaucoma i mean, you name it, all kinds of terrible diseases and did not only never had to properl