Relief legislation. Why did try to move quickly because next vote. Or may have to be on the floor. But were waiting for senator duckworth and here she is. Lady of the hour. Okay, good afternoon everyone and i want to thank the senator skated duckworth joining me. Now i know this is a moment of Great National challenge. Covid19 is surging and people are dying and more people are getting sick than ever before. Families are struggling and businesses are shuttering. Peoples jobs. It is awful. Everywhere you go in this country. It is awful. So the elections over and the country is ready and eager to move to get us to move so that we can begin healing the process. The country wants us to know you got together get something done to deal with this covid19 crisis. But the Senate Republicans have continued denying the Election Results in their running america back, its a classic example was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee today. Crawling around to the states to try to intervene with the process. That was reckless and instead of meddling with the vote counting in the states, the trump lost, Lindsey Graham should be calling senator mcconnell and telling him to stop blocking covid19 relief. For the Small Businesses and working families, state and local governments, hospitals and you name it. After the election, americans expect us to put aside her partisan differences and do the job they sent us to do. So how do Senate Republicans respond. Instead of working to pull the country back together, so that we can find a common enemy, covid19, Senate Republicans continued to push the conspiracy theories and denying the reality and poisoning the well of our democracy. The republicans shenanigans include indulging the president s temper tantrums. And endangers our National Security is you will hear about me to make charter for us to fight the covid19. Everyone regardless of party, should what president elect biden to be successful in vanquishing the pandemic. But delaying the start of an orderly transition makes that a lot harder to do. It is outrageous that the Trump Administration has refused to provide the president elect the bilevel Intelligence Briefings are brief the transition on the Vaccine Distribution plans. These are essential to ensuring that our country remains safe and the covid19 vaccine is distributed quickly and effectively. And efficiently. That is how we could get our country back to normal. Americans want us to have a smooth process. They want us to put politics aside and get something done. The Senate Republicans are just distracted by an angry petulant president theyre afraid of his wrath. In afraid of what he might tweet about them. His refusal to accept the results of the election we can order for congress to move forward. Some online is very simple. We know that donald trump will never act like an adult. But what about the Senate Republicans. Do they have to mimic him and his child and infant child behaviors. They need to get the message to the president that it is over. But the good of country, he should transition appropriately with the biden team. And help us get some real covid19 relief in a bipartisan bill. Senator mccain. While i think the leader for the chance to appear together with him and my friend senator duckworth on this. If you look at the inauguration cinemark in history. I would argue that the inauguration will take place in january is probably the toughest for our country since march of 1933. Fdr first term. A pandemic that is caused unprecedented and unnecessary death and economic challenges, challenging Global Health situations. And challenging Global Security situations. So what president elect biden is looking into, is one of the toughest first days in office probably the last 90 years. That makes the need for this transition so important. What is the Trump Administration during freedom will repeat this. The comments of the majority leader made but one in particular, his refusal the gsa to give this ascertainment to say, congress is coming together and transition we can start spending some of the biden team inc. Who would harm if they did that for it if they wanted to fight the Court Battles they can still do that. Would harm along the Biden Transition Team this most challenging times to start working on these significant issues. It would harm nobody that is coming everybody that they are just giving in to the whims of just a short president of the disappointed. Im disappointed in my republican colleagues. This is hurting our National Security. When you see the president ignoring the advice of everyone in the pentagon and a setting that we gotta do it to withdrawal for, five days before early. Weve always said that withdrawals should be conditional space. And not arbitrary. But this is worse than arbitrary date, is purely political based. That is leading republican colleagues to god the president s and the pentagon leaders to call the president. Because it will make the world listed for us and others. The second is an area vaccine. H1 and one, the Vaccine Development thank goodness for goodness about that. But the distribution of a vaccine of this complexity, to try to get to 70 percent of the record population to have a phasing and staging and to do for people who dont have the money. Thats extremely challenging. The logistics of it are really hard. And not interrupting with the incoming team early in the biden transition have a full resources at their disposal make a distribution challenge much worse. Last thing i will say matter of a personal i can. I student stage in a hotel room in new york city the morning after the 2016 election. With the former senate colleague. Secretary of state. The polls and only been closed for ten hours. Recently been called 3. She won the popular vote by 3m votes. She was behind the three key states by 77000 votes. I saw how hard it was for her to do with her on feelings that day but i saw what she did was begun think of the country first. She steps the mike and she said, i know were not going to change the any votes. With god start the transition to help President Trump be a successful president. Thats what we should expect of any president and we know we can expect if this president. The kind of courage and putting the country first. We would be able to select another republican senators. Thats what im finding very disappointing at this moment. Thank you. Thank you. At the height of global pandemic, and in the death of a national recession, donald trump is in danger National Security might think that he got into this latest cultural war. Since the moment that it was going to do is going to lose, he has been spewing conspiracy theories and using rationale to refused to accept results make the first steps towards a peaceful transitional power. These lives lead to more americans dying from covid19 because they cannot be vaccinated quickly enough that he could also have serious National Security implications. For the past week, is an trump is upended in a sense of stability the department of defense. Aside from reports that he literally wants to attack iran, as best we can are military, betray our allies and are our enemies with packet unsafe brought in the middle east, he also fired secretary and replaced him with another officials with a series of unqualified loyalists who have been chosen for the loyalty to sign man in the white house rather than their own competence. This of people represents dangerous escalation in one of the most at home as possible. Let me just give you a little historical reference here. Enemies historically have tested this within the first year of each new administration. Less than six weeks into bill clintons term, the trump exploded in the basement of the World Trade Center separated than six months of barack obama taking the oath of office, north korea rattled us twice launching a rocket over the pacific than connecting a nuclear test. Four months after trump was morning, sir pressure onto chemical weapons attack and killed any people and tested american commitment against the use of chemical weapons. And of course, and into George W Bush we had the 911 attacks radar troops will always do everything in their power to keep us safe. I have every confidence in the tactical and technical proficiency and professionalism. Unfortunately, the commanderinchief is making it harder for them to do their job. Looking at history, the value of ensuring a smooth stable transition between administration becomes obvious. So too does the necessity of ensuring that the next commanderinchief is fully briefed on the greatest National Security threat at the moment they stepped into the oval office. There is one reason why incoming administrations particular given access to the Defense Department building and personnel prior to taking office. And yet instead of following the presence, they have barred Administration Officials from cooperating with bidens Transition Team and prevented him from having access to the allimportant president ial Daily Briefing and that he himself has ignored it and is refused to provide the president elect secured government client to speak with world leaders. These states, terrorist groups and Industries Like russia, theyre all watching us right now. Are all aware of the opportunity this transition. Reasons for their own strategic goals. They will see that we now have lacking some experts in crucial to god positions in trouble again springs own self interest in our national interest. His selling chaos we must need stability of exposing his weaknesses to those who do farm. All at st, its on the gop, my colleagues in his gop said enough. And prove that they care part National Security than protecting one man ego. We did to better in our National Security is at stake. Thank you. Thank you. Excellent statements. We will take a few questions rated yes. Reporter . [inaudible]. Protesters from both Political Parties coming out and. [inaudible]. Say is this the. Violence wherever he comes is wrong to be condemned. Reporter . [inaudible]. Senator harris knows this is important about and she is here for it. She didnt need contacting. Knowing how they Trump Administration this entire coronavirus. [inaudible]. Can you give warp speed any credit. You know i have talked to the heads of some of these companies and integrate job and there are times when the private sector is good times with the Public Sector is good, this was a good combination of both. But it really give a lot of credit to the private sector for developing the test is on the Trump Administration. Because their main goal is to get that vaccine distributed fairly and equitably so far they behaved poorly on that. Reporter we been hearing from democrats and republicans to get a better deal done as top priority. [inaudible]. On a single private conversation what you say. [inaudible]. It is leader mcconnell. I have asked later mcconnell three times another for yesterday and today, to sit down and negotiate with us. And according to some of the members, they dont even know what he is doing. So this idea the democrats are eager to sit down. And get a bipartisan bill. Its only the Democratic House that is pass the bill. And he want to get something done, we need a republican senators to do later mcconnell to sit down and come up with a fair and comprehensive bipartisan negotiation. Next. Reporter disappointed in the and can you talk about the feedback. [inaudible]. Yes with that great Feedback Party look friday we are all good. We did job number one. No donald trump as President Joe Biden is an expresident. Were all very happy with that. Working very hard on george upgraded a noble going to examine the races that we didnt lennon try to figure out why. Next party to. Reporter from 4500 to 2500 you think this will put us in line. [inaudible]. I just learned about this, the trump policy has been so erratic its all based on wimp. What happens when he rolls out of bed this morning and how he feels. So dont see have a strategy. The American People dont have a strategy. On even know if the military has a strategy in terms of what he has done. Please. Frankly, to bring the senate chaotic way like he is doing, literally, to bring the troops home. Which is literally recent planning. Actually opening it operated logistical in impossibility. We bring all of those troops back. We will actually leave them there in a dangerous situation because we will have to leave the minor military equipment. They will be ashtrays of military equipment left behind because we lacked that ability to bring it back. Do we bring back half the troops by the the beginning of january. That means living equipment behind so that are enemies can use it. This is why all of military commanders have spoken up and said this the wrong thing to do. Psalm. Bring them home in body bags. Thats what is potentially going to happen of this president gets his way but some political timeline and interNational Security. Thank you everybody. That is it. Thank you folks. Thank you. 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