Meet the press citing his partys failure to unseat lindsey graham. Started to plateau when defund the Police Showed up with a caption on tv right across his head. That stuff hurt, and thats why i spoke out against it a long time ago. Right. I have always said that these headlines can kill a political effort. Then theres senator joe manch manchin. He twoeteeted this, defund the police, defund my butt. I am a proud West Virginia democrat, we want to protect americans jobs and health care, we do not have some crazy socialist agenda, and we do not believe in defunding the police. Manchin drew the ire of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez who tweeted a visual response. It was this photo of her throwing apparent shade on m manchin during a state of the union address. Should democrats win both georgia runoffs, it could be manchin who will be a swing voter and a deciding vote in a 50 50 split between democrats and republicans. Manchin is on record opposing any expansion of the Supreme Court or ending the filibuster. The four progressive freshman known as the squad targeted by conservatives, they all won reelection. Our sisterhood is resilient tweeted ilhan omar, and in an election postmortem in the new york times, aoc remained resolute saying candidates who lost had made themselves, quote, sitting ducks by not, for instance, running savvy online campaigns or accepting her help. And then she added this, progressive policies do not hurt candidates. Every single candidate that cosponsored medicare for all in a swing district kept their seat. We also know that cosponsoring the Green New Deal was not a sinker. Michael evan was an original cosponsor of the legislation. He kept his seat. While theyre praising joe bidens choice of ron klain for chief of staff will the progressives go along with bidens rumored pick of a moderate republican for his candidate. Will they push to reconfigure the Supreme Court. Can joe biden please them as well as moderates and the few republican senators hell need on board to pass any meaningful legislation. All of this leads me to this weeks survey question, please go to my website, smerconish. Com and cast your vote. Which will present more of a challenge to President Joe Biden, progressives in his own party or Mitch Mcconnell . Joining me now is congresswoman ilhan omar representing minnesotas fifth Congressional District. Congresswoman, thank you so much for being here. Good morning to you, michael. In the end, joe biden, he won a substantial victory, 306 electoral votes, the same as donald trump four years ago. Hes over 5 million in terms of the margin. My first question is to what do you attribute republicans gaining house seats, republicans seemingly holding control of the senate, picking up a gubernatorial mansion and more state legislatures than democrats . Let me just say this, i mean, the victory on november 3rd wasnt just a victory for biden, right . It wasnt just a victory for democrats, it was a victory for democratic ideas. We know that even in places where we didnt win, like florida, the minimum wage fight was won. We know places like south dakota and montana had referendums to legalize marijuana, and so we know that this election came about because the base was energized and people want policies that are going to create positive outcomes in their lives. I mean, elections are nuanced. Democracy is messy, and you know, i think to us we know that when george floyd was murdered, people on the democratic side went out and registered to vote and came out in mass numbers. And if you look at what happened in places like detroit, in philadelphia, in minneapolis, in milwaukee, we have seen a huge surge in the number of people that came out. Just in my own district, 88 of the electorate came out to vote. So this is a victory for our democracy, and that is what biden called us to do. He asked people to fight for the soul of our nation, for the soul of our democracy, and people did that in mass numbers. Congresswoman, the l. A. Times today makes reference to your Congressional District. Ill read you a short paragraph, if we put it up on the screen. They said this. The left points to california representative katie porter of irvine as an example of an unabashed progressive succeeding in a swing district, but moderate skeptics argue shes an outlier. They cite the fact that bidens vote in liberal omars minnesota district exceeded omars by more than 70,000, and that biden carried a nebraska Congressional District where a more liberal democrat running for the house lost. To what do you attribute the distance between the president elects margin in your own Congressional District and your victory margin . So i had a very contentious primary. A lot of people in my district knew that i won my primary handily. When we went out and campaigned and put everything into the general, a lot of people were like, ilhan is a shoein when they had the opportunity to vote for legalized marijuana now candidate, even some of my friends and my own neighbors decided to take that opportunity. And i joked i might have even done that if i wasnt on the ballot myself. Look, we know that every single sponsor of medicare for all has won their reelection in a swing state. We know that members of the progressive caucus who are in swing states like ng craig and katie porter won their elections. We know that no one who sponsored the Green New Deal lost their reelection. This idea that we are supposed to listen to republicans who benefit from us, you know, fighting amongst ourselves as democrats is one that is not going to go well with me, and its not one thats going to end well for the policies that we are fighting for as democrats. Were going to have a big challenge. This country right now is dealing with a pandemic. We are seeing a financial crisis. We currently have a president who refuses to concede and allow for a peaceful transition to happen. The Biden Harris Administration doesnt have the opportunity even to try to start that transition, and so republicans really are part of a party that is enabling this president , whos not only humiliating himself but humiliating our country, they have, you know, qanon conspiracy theorists part of their caucus. For them to lecture us on what it takes for us to win, to sustain the house, to gain the senate and to govern is something that should not be taken seriously. Would you agree with jim clyburn, would you agree with joe manchin that in the end the defund the police movement, or at least those words, were an albatross around certain Democratic Candidates . And i note congresswoman, i just read the star tribune this morning and i see that in minneapolis in your home state, yesterday 500,000 was appropriated to hire more police in minneapolis this year. What thoughts do you have on that issue in political terms . Yeah, so i mean, if you think about some of the reasons some of the democrats are pointing to, i mean, if we think about south carolina, the surge for the democratic challenger came in october. He was surging in the polls in october. That is not when that Movement Really was gaining momentum. It was sort of plateauing. So we know that thats not the reason this candidate lost, and so there is really a serious postmortem that we have to do. We have to analyze what went wrong. Where our chances actually existed, where we overreached, and how can we duplicate what happened in georgia and use that as a model, have conversations with people, you know, expand our ground game. We are now working with some of the grass roots progressive organizations in georgia trying to get the resources, trying to utilize some of the skills that we have as organizers who have increased turnout in their own districts and trying to see if we can implement some of that there. So you know, theres really an honest opportunity for us to win those two seats, but were not going to get there without unity, and were not going to get there by pointing fingers at each other. Final question, so your candidate, your partys candidate won the white house. How likely is it that he buys into, that his administration buys into medicare for all, the end of fracking, defunding the police, or the Green New Deal where he didnt buy into any of that during the campaign . So we know that these policies that we advocate for has allowed us to win the generational debate. Weve seen even the fox exit poll that 70 of americans believe that a government run like medicare for all is the way to go, and you know, its going to be an honor for us to lobby and champion these policies under a democratic president. Look, we might not agree on everything, but we know these are democratic policies that our base and the American People will benefit from, and were going to continue to advocate for them. What is congresswoman ilhan omars answer to my survey question today . Which is a bigger challenge for President Joe Biden, dealing with the progressives in his own party or dealing with Mitch Mcconnell . The progressives in his own party are an asset. Mitch mcconnell is the i think it is going to be important for the Upcoming Administration to recognize that this is someone who has stifled progress in our country and to figure out a strategy to sidestep him and get things that need to get done for the American People. Congresswoman, thank you so much for your time. Thank you. What are your thoughts . Tweet me at smerconish. Go to my facebook page. Ill read some responses throughout the course of the program. Now we know how shes voting on the survey question. Smerconish, why are you starting out your show with now that the election is over when in fact, its not . It hasnt been certified yet. Come on, trust the process. You know, that statement was the mantra for the 76ers for a long time. It might not be official, there is a process underway, and i respect the process. As a matter of fact, earlier this week i defended on radio the president s right to litigate whatever legitimate issues there might be. But theres a process, and it goes from tabulation to certification. Then the Electoral College, then congressional acceptance. Im going to talk about it in five minutes as a matter of fact, and i think youre fooling yourself if you dont think that the handwriting is on the wall. So i respect the process, but its over. I want to know what you think. Go to my website at smerconish. Com and answer the question this hour, which will present more of a challenge to President Joe Biden, progressives in his own party or Mitch Mcconnell. Ilhan omar, congresswoman omar just said its mcconnell, not us. Up ahead, President Trump still refusing to concede the election. How long will this drag on . What are the consequences . Election law analyst Richard Hasson will explore some of the possible outcomes. Plus, good news in the fight against covid. Pfizer says early analysis has found its vaccine to be 90 effective, but distributing the vaccine, thats going to take a major effort because the temperature required for storage is cold. Think south pole on a winter day cold. Weve got the doctor whos heading up the Clinical Trials here today. And on election day in an extraordinary move oregon voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of heroin and other street drugs. 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Robert salata an Infectious Disease specialist who is heading up the Clinical Trials of covid vaccines at University Hospitals. Hes the department of medicine chair at University Hospitals cleveland medical center. Thank you so much for being here. Explain to me the pfizer vaccine. Ive got a number of basic questions. Its actually two injections separated by three weeks. Might that change . So thank you very much for having me on. It might change in that pfizer is doing an analysis at day 14 instead of day 28, which captured both injections. Day 14, that will be two weeks after the initial vaccine was given, and in that regard theyll look at the same comparison of covid19 cases in the vaccine versus placebo recipients and well see if that holds up. Thats a possibility. But right now what kind of most data maximizing the immune response has been done with two injections. What kind of challenges are presented by the storage and distribution because of the temperature requirement . Yep. So of the vaccines being studied in the united states, and there are four of them with a fifth to come, this is the one that requires the coldest temperatures. As you mentioned before. That is minus 70 degrees celsius, very, very cold, and this vaccine, which is not a live vaccine, virus, it requires that for stability. And in that regard, there are plans to package these in these coolers, especially coolers and the vials within them, which contain five doses per and also using dry ice for transport to places where the vaccine will become available. So those will include health care centers, hospitals, and even retail pharmacies as this moves along. This can be stored in these coolers for up to 15 days and the regular freezer as long as the dry ice is replenished. Dr. Salata, who will determine who among us gets it first . So theres a playbook thats already been put out by the feds, and each state has done the same, and the priority with which people will get vaccinated is according to their risks in part so the first line or the phase 1a, which its been called, will vaccinate Front Line Health Care workers and First Responders followed shortly by the elderly and others with vulnerable conditions, including underrepresented minorities who have had disproportionate complications and death related to covid19. And the general public will probably have vaccine available to them by the spring as said by dr. Fauci yesterday in a very optimistic tone or at least the early parts of the summer. Yesterday in his rose garden press conference, the president made reference to operation warp speed and its applicability to pfizer. Heres what he said. Our investment will make it possible for the vaccine to be provided by pfizer free of charge. Pfizer said it wasnt part of warp speed, but that turned out to be an unfortunate misrepresentation. They are part. Thats why we gave them the 1950000 billion, and it was an unfortunate mistake that they made when they said that. Is he right . Is this all a product of in some way operation warp speed . Well certainly thats been part of the support, but its not the only. Pfizer and the other manufacturers of these vaccines really have undertaken an incredible journey here to get to this point, seven to eight months into the pandemic. And ive never been involved in a study thats been so carefully scrutinized, so nothing is being cut corner wise, and i think i was incredibly excited as many are about the 90 plus efficacy rate and the safety data coming from pfizer so far. The next step is to look at 168 individuals who have had covid and to redo the analysis at that point, and if it holds up like it did in the preliminary analysis, then they will be proceeding to present this to the fda and other independent monitoring groups and hoping to get the early use authorization as was said, and i do think were going to have some vaccine. It was announced this morning by operation warp speed that we could have as many as 20 million doses ready for administration in december. What wonderful news, dr dr. Salata, thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much, michael. Up ahead, President Trump continues to refuse any of the customary courtesies of a transition period between presidencies, so how is this going to end . And i want to remind you, go to my website this hour, smerconish. Com. Answer this weeks question, which will present more of a challenge to President Joe Biden, progresses in his own party or smart Mitch Mcconnell . 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People close to the President Point to this as a possible date whereby he might have to pull the plug. Then theres november 23rd, the county certification deadline in the commonwealth of pennsylvania. Nevada certifies their Election Results on the 24th, arizona on the 30th, the president , of course, has every right to pursue these lawsuits even though the odds of changing the election seem minuscule, if that. Many of his supporters Still Holding out hope, several conser conservative groups will gather today in washington, d. C. , to protest the Election Resultsment how much longer will the president continue to drag this out, and how will it end . Joining me now to discuss is cnn election law analyst Richard Hasson, a professor of law and Political Science at uc irvine. Hes the author of election meltdown dirty tricks, mistrust and the threat to american democracy. Theres a process in place right now. What are the steps in broad terms . Well, you know, the unless the Trump Campaign is able to get a court to change something, were going to proceed along the normal course, which is that were just about done counting the ballots. There are procedures in place to double check everything. At some point when everythings been double checked as you mentioned, there will be certification. Eventually that will lead to some paperwork, which will lead to the appointment of electors in each state, the states that biden won the biden electors. Those electors will eventually meet. The governors will send a piece of paper to congress with the results of those Electoral College meetings, and on january 6th, congress will count those votes, and theres every reason to believe that joe biden will come in at 306 Electoral College votes, which is 36 more than he needs to be declared president. So in that process, at what stage is it most ill say susceptible to attack by President Trump . Is it the tabulation . Is it the certification . Is it the Electoral College . Is it the congressional approval . Wherein lies vulnerability if any . I think weve just now passed the biggest moment of vulnerability. When an election is done, if its very close, sometimes that leads to a recount, and when i say very close i mean usually within hundreds of votes. Its very hard to change more than a few hundred votes in a statewide recount. If you dont have a really close election in any state that matters for the Electoral College, and we dont, then youd have to point to some broad kind of constitutional problem or imfirmty with how the election was run. We dont see any of that. The Trump Campaign has had a week and a half. Their lawsuits are not producing anything thats showing a major problem. I think the greatest moment of danger to, you know, some kind of upsetting of the normal electoral process has already passed. What of the speculation that certain states could have dual sets of electors at the Electoral College . Is there any real prospect to that happening . So we do have this really odd system where, you know, we dont just have a popular vote, and we dont just assign points for Electoral College. We actually have a process where there are people and theyre pointed and all of this. I think the idea that you would have state legislatures come in and come up with an alternative slate of electors by relying on an arcane federal statute that says that legislatures can do that only when theres been a failure to make a choice. You would have rioting in the streets if Something Like that happened, and theres no factual basis for it. We had fortunately despite the pandemic a very successful election across the united states. And so for state legislatures to come in and say its failed and try and appoint alternative electors which are going to be counted by a democratic house, and youringe going to have governors in most of these states, democratic governors are going to be sending in their own, and those get preference under these arcane rules, i dont see how that kind of play is actually going to work, and it would be a huge risk for these legislatures to try to do Something Like this. And finally, professor, for those perhaps who have not paid close attention or need a civics lesson, apart from this being disruptive for the president elect not being provided the typical courtesies, the intelligence briefings, et cetera, it matters not what President Trump says, concedes, doesnt concede, right . Theres a process. We follow it. Joe biden by all accounts will be sworn in on january 20 regardless of anything that donald trump, President Trump has to say now. Right. So the concession has no legal effect. It would make things much easier and i think it would help protect our National Security and help protect dealing with the coronavirus and all of those things, but trump deciding to insist that hes won, thats not going to prevent the transfer of power. Just wanted to make that clear. Professor, thanks so much for being here. Thank you. From social media, what do we have, katherine, i think from the world of facebook. Its a shame after all that trump accomplished he cant go out on a high note. You know, chris, i made that point on sirius xm this week. I made the point before the debates that and many of you who are listening to the words i am about to say may not agree with that list of accomplishments, but he absolutely has a long list of accomplishments meaning things that he could say this is what i told you i was going to do. I was elected. I did them. And he could begin with the courts and the Supreme Court and work from there. But you know, hes choosing not to go that route, and one theory that i have brace yourselves for this as to why hes choosing not to go that route is because any 2024 plan that he might be harboring he might think is better predicated on this race having been stolen from him rather than him having lost to joe biden. So it sets up, you know, the vindication for that which was taken from him perhaps in his mind. I want to remind you to answer this weeks survey question, kindly go to smerconish. Com and tell me which will present more of a challenge to President Joe Biden . Will it be progressives in his own party or senator Mitch Mcconnell . Still to come, for the first time, a state, oregon, has decriminalized possession of small amounts of hard drugs including cocaine, heroin, oxycodone and methamphetamines. Ill talk to a woman who spent years in jail for selling her friend heroin on which he overdosed. 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Its a ballot measure, 110 which garnered 58. 5 of the vote, first in the nation to decriminalize possession of small amounts of socalled hard drugs including cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, and methamphetamines. The measure will apply sales taxes on Legal Marijuana to help pay for addiction treatments. Proponents of decriminalization contend that harsh sentencing has done little to improve society while populating jails with nonviolent offenders who need treatment instead of incarceration and has disproportionately affected generations of minority communities. Among backers of the initiative, facebook founder and chief executi executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife who donated a half a Million Dollars to the cause. Critics see the measure as a troubling slippery slope. Nevertheless, the measure passed even in republican strongholds that went for President Trump. My next guest was one of the advocates and knows the impact all too personally. By the age of 21 Morgan Godvin was addicted to heroin. When she was 24 her mother died of a prescription overdose. The next year she sold a gram of heroin to one of her best friends who died of an overdose. She was charged with delivery resulting in death which has a mandatory 20year sentence. She pled guilty to the lesser charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin and served four and a half years in prison. Morgan caught my eye with this line in a piece that she wrote for the washington post. The archetypel predatory drug dealer is a myth. For many a sale is not about ruthless profit. It is about survival. The piece was called my friend and i both took heroin. He overdosed. Why was i charged with his death . Shes a commissioner of the oregon alcohol and Drug Policy Commission and currently a Community Health education major at ohsupsu school of Public Health. So why is the idea of what we think we know about the drug dealer a myth . Because every heroin dealer that i ever met was someone who was addicted to heroin first and foremost. They turned to that out of desperation, sometimes they were locked out of the legal economy because theyve got felony convictions, and when youre in active addiction, you can only see towards that day. You know, youre very shortsighted, and so often this is people who didnt want to turn to theft or robbery or, quote, you know, crimes that have victims, and so if they were able to just buy three grams of heroin instead of a half gram and sell it into small little bits to their friends because we have to develop a social circle. Its not like we can buy heroin from the pharmacy, so its all contingent upon that social network. And its not profitable at all. Low level drug dealers make less than minimum wage. Well, your path, its a familiar story. Correct me if im wrong, but it began with oxycontin and then because of the cost, you made the shift to heroin . Yeah, thats correct. I was recreationally using oxycontin, and this is back when that was really booming and because it was prescribed to someone, maybe not always me, it seemed safer, and so it was sort of a steppingstone into heroin. But back then, very few people used heroin. Now heroin has proliferated to the point that even as the government reduces opioid prescriptions, heroin overdoses are not reducing. The connection has been broken because theres just so much addiction pr addiction prevalent in our society right now, but me and my story, yes, i started with oxycontin, and when that became prohibitively expensive, i switched to heroin. So tell me about what happened with you and justin and how the law regarded your conduct. Yeah, so justin was one of my best friends for almost a decade. We had gone to the same high school for a period of time and both got pulled into the party scene, the recreational drug scene. He was the one who you know, he was my original like oxycontin connect, and then when he saw how much i was spending on that because we were friends and very few people deal drugs with a profit motive, he showed me that you could smoke the heroin on tinfoil and it was the same compound, and so my fear was abated. And so for years we were friends in addiction because i could be my full self with him. I didnt have to lie about the fact that i used drugs when i was with him, and thats why i loved being around him. But justin went to jail so many times. He was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for his addiction, tossed in jail cell after jail cell. He was even sent to prison for his addiction, and a few months after that he texted me for a gram of heroin, and i sold it to him, and he went home and he overdosed and he died, and the next day my apartment was raided. I was placed in handcuffs and told i was facing delivery resulting in death for the overdose death of one of my best friends and that i would face a 20year mandatory minimum sentence. Only then did the government indicate they valued his life. They spent hundreds of manhours and over a Million Dollars prosecuting and incarcerating my codefendants and i. Where were those resources when justin was alive . All they gave him was a jail cell. Okay. So respond to people watching and i know because we talked on radio and i had some of these calls after my interview concluded. Speak to the person whos watching this now and saying, well, you should have been punished for that because you provided the agent of his death or to the cnn viewer who says this is horrible what oregon is doing. My kids are now going to be imperilled. You know that argument, you know that mindset. Respond to it. Yeah, so human beings, we fear the unknown, and weve been sold this belief that incarceration protects us and incarceration deters drug use. Well, that belief is a lie, and this is clear because were in the midst of an overdose crisis because for decades all weve been doing is punishing people, and the data shows that is making us worse. We have skyrocketing rates of addiction. If we look towards portugal when they decriminalized drugs, their addiction rates plummeted. Now, i know that may seem counterintuitive, but even the best Public Health messaging does not reach people who have been pushed into the shadows. When portugal took drug use out of the criminal sphere and moved it into med establishment, addiction rates plummeted across society including in youth. And if covid has taught us nothing, it is that we are all interconnected to each other. So if we really want to address addiction, incarceration is not the answer. And in fact, it often makes people worse. Saddling someone with a felony conviction can make it hard for them to find a job and housing for decades, and it is hope for your future and Economic Opportunity that are needed for recovery. Morgan, im glad youre healthy. You know, so often things begin on the west coast and the rest of the nation has sort of a snickering reaction, and then a couple of years later whatever it is that began in california or washington or oregon all of a sudden has migrated eastward. Well wait and see. I view oregon as a very important and ill say necessary lab experiment. So lets all watch. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Still to come, more of your best and worst tweets and Facebook Comments and well give you the final result of the survey question at smerconish. Com, which will present more of a challenge to President Joe Biden, progressives in his own party or senator Mitch Mcconnell . Managing type 2 diabetes . Youre on it. Exercising often and eating healthy . Yup, on it there too. 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