Homes for so much of it. Were so grateful. The ari melber starts now. I want to welcome everyone to the beat. Im arri melber. We want to begin with consequences for millions of americans and the other of authoritarian theater on behalf of donald trump. The most pressing development for americans right now is this. Mitch mcconnell digging on of obstruction of 2,000 covid relief payments in a washington rarity had support of democrats and republican president. The fight is playing out in the senate. Bernie sanders expected to launch a filibuster unless mcconnell allowed a straight up or down vote on the 2,000 of payments for americans suffering during this covid recession. That would only slow mcconnell down until friday, the sanders move at which point mcelderccons signaling hell go forward on other business for that vote. That really matters a lot. Its a story were tracking and will continue to do so. President trump, members of congress, republicans who say they are open to this could obviously do more to press mcconnell or find a compromise. Instead, they are focused on this. You can see the headlines showing more republicans joining trumps authoritarian attempt to steal an election. Now tonights news that you see here is something of a breakthrough or a new low in trumps demands for this fruit l attack on results because for the first time, tonight, i can tell you a republican senator is joining what had only been a plo plot in Donald Trumps mind and rogue house republicans. The idea at the last minute they would challenge the certification of bidens win on the floor of congress. Senator holly is announcing he actually will be the very first senator who wants to go this far, who wants to drag this out an extra little bit and object to bidens win next wednesday. Thats typically a congressional formality. I want to be clear before i go further tonight because part of this story matters but part of it is procedurely irrelevant. What is happening here will not impact the results whatsoever. Because no matter what any republicans were to try to do in the senate, the house has full power to shut down any empty challenge to bidens victory. I have no doubt that on next wednesday, a week from today, that joe biden will be confirmed by the acceptance of the Electoral College as the 46th president of the united states. The rules give Speaker Pelosi the power there, which means this planned challenge is doomed to fail. We know procedurally it will not change the outcome of the election or the peaceful transfer of power. Some republicans who were late to admit biden won were answer against the Republican Senate joining in this. Indeed, mcconnell is telling the caucus not to do it and republicans worry this doomed scheme because it will fail quickly will also backfire with no apparent benefit to the Republican Party. One republican senator saying its going to fail and go down fast like a shot dog. So thats the first thing you need to know. For any reason you turned off your television right now, i could tell you it doesnt matter, right . It not going to change who becomes president so know that. But there is more. Because even as theater, i want to be clear with you, what were witnessing, not just all of this year with trump but now post trump because he will no longer be president , what youre seeing as theater tonight is chilling because its authoritarian theater. Republicans in both chambers affirming an effort by a politician to steal an election and end democracy. This is literally the kind of moves that authoritarian leaders make and in a democratic system to an unelected dictatorship. The man you see on your screen thats famous, Vladimir Putin oversees quote elections in russia but theyre not real. Theyre not fair. Theyre just a cover for his authoritarian rule. Republicans are joining trumps effort to do the same. The main difference on display is trump is not as effective as putin and to be fair to the many honest people including people in both parties who work in nonpartisan u. S. Institutions, government, the courts, those institutions are stronger than russias. Keep that in mind as tonights news brings a public reckoning coming next week. Senator holly coming with a move to force every republican senator to go on the record about the question. Do you support democracy in the will of the voters or authoritarian plots to end democracy as we know it . We begin with Margaret Carlson for the daily beast and msnb crash contributor. Jason, im curious what you think about both these points. I emphasize them for viewers because first, on the facts and the news, nothing is changing but the transfer of power to the Biden Administration. First, we have to tell everyone the news. Thats important to know unless you think this was Something Else and then number two, jason, this is still a big, bad problem for democracy even if it is a doomed plot. Yes. Next week. Weve been saying all year long because it not attempted murder doesnt mean its not a crime. We can yell and scream about the gop but the dividing line is was anyone in the senate going to be ridiculous enough and stupid enough and dismissive enough to do what josh holly is going to do . The thing that concerns me about this and why i agree with you obviously is a big deal is that it shows what ive been saying all along is that the violence and elements of trumpism are not going to disappear. You can draw a Straight Line from proud boys to white nationalists to an increasing portion of the gop that does not believe in democracy that basically doesnt keep republicans in power. Thats it. There is no democracy other than keeping republicans in power and that is what were seeing and the thing we have to remember and constantly talk about and discuss because if the Biden Administration comes in and thinks these are people that can be negotiated with and discussed with, they are sorely d lly mis. These people do not believe in democracy or white minority rule. You can compare that to dictatorships and putin and you can compare that to apartheid south africa. Thats what a portion of the republican has become and not much different from Mitch Mcconnell who is equally as dishiss siedi dismissive. He thinks this could be more effective down the road. Margaret . It is interesting senator mcconnell even knows not to go this far. He just wanted to say take all the legal measures you could and then he stopped after the state electors. This is going to reenforce the majority of republicans who think, who believe trump and think that the election was taken from him and thats a bad thing. This is going to be just a show. Its like the last episode of the reality show and Vice President pence that gets to preside. I think we lost margaret briefly. Take a listen to chris murphy on this. Lets be clear. Josh holly and anyone who supports his effort are engaged in the attempted over throw of democracy. There is no evidence that there was any fraud. Senator holly apparently believes that if a democrat wins the president ial race, it must be illegitimate by definition. Jason, i mean, thats strong words from one senator about another. They have to go back and sit at a table and Work Together but hes saying youre an authoritarian. Yeah, and its true. Look, youve got a certain section of the Republican Party and i said you can go back to nu newt gingrich. They state that the democratic parties collision, any party that supported by lgbtq, asian americans, they dont think those people are legitimate participants in american democracy. This is not about state rights or fraud but White Nationalism as a Political Party at this particular point. Because they dont think a collision that put joe biden into power are legitimate par participants in american democracy are willing to throw it out. I keep saying this because this is dangerous. The violence that were seeing right now is only the beginning. There is going to be violence with what josh holly is doing. Some say hes doing this because he wants to be in position to run to 2024. Thats not what the goal is. The goal is to activate a revolution of sorts to bring joe biden and this new administration to its knees. Yeah, its funny in part because its stupid this is a dictator saying this is how i win votes but the thing youre advocating for would extinguish the system of voting and scary because its deadly serious for very close listeners of jason johnson, i will mention that we did appreciate the adapted c cardi b. Reference off the top. Jason, solute. Solute. Thank you, ari. Thats all. Thank you, jason. I want to turn to someone in the middle of this, Pennsylvania State representative malcolm. He is formally a biden elector, republican senator holly here is objecting specifically to pennsylvanias electors, in other words, the idea pennsylvania didnt follow their state election laws. There is no evidence for that claim. No court held that claim. We deem that claim false although were reporting it because it is representative relevant to you and what he is asserting about you and your state. I give you the chance to respond tonight. So first of all, the senator should keep pennsylvania out of his mouth. Lets start there. What hes doing is a part of what we seen from republicans for four years. They have fallen over backwards, fallen over top of themselves to debate themselves in front of donald trump in whatever way he requests and this is another attempt at doing just that. But what is so difficult to watch, ari, is that they have been okay with donald trump attacking veterans. They have been okay with donald trump even attacking the wives and the families of some of these senators, but theyre lying in the sand is getting relief to americans. Think about that in a second, for a second. Thats their line in the sand. Getting relief to americans struggling and ill tell you why. They dont care about working people. They cost play working people when its helpful to get votes and go in the senate and they are a tool for the millionaire and billionaires that bought their seats in the first place. Youre emphasizing that the very people who will not push Mitch Mcconnell and their own leader to get more covid relief, long delayed will go to over throw democracy if they can get away with it. You made someways the last time you were on the beat because under questioning he stipulated he didnt believe biden won. He would have been a trump elector the way youre a biden elector. What do you think at the fact that time people were looking at you rebutting someone that seemed fringe and now the fringe moved into the actual Republican Senate . Well, i think that we all need to recognize that this is the Republican Party. This is who they are. We cant wish that away. We cant hope it away. We have to stare reality in the face and recognize that this is what they believe. They believe in donald trump and only donald trump. Ive called it for a long time, not a Republican Caucus but republican cult and they will do everything, anything their dear leader says but the disappointing fact of that is we have millions of americans kicked out of their homes that dont know whether they will go for the next meal and these folks are more fired up about political stunt than they are about getting critical relief to americans and unfortunately, our own senator here in pat too m, helping lead the charge with Mitch Mcconnell. So disappointing. Yeah, representative from the state of pennsylvania, which we may be hearing about. Thanks for the time tonight, sir. Thank you, ari. We have a 30second break but the fight for georgia and why gingrich is speaking out and we have a special report on Lessons Learned from the pandemic including what bill gates tried to get trump to learn about even before this virus hit but first, autocrats and were back in 30 seconds. Autocrats and were back in 30 seconds. Donald trump has been dubbed a liar, i would be autocrat and ineffective president and highly original from plagiarism to ripping the post election playbook from disgraced autocrats around the world which is something our next guest knows about who was famously targeted by dictators. He cea he sees some parallels here. His recent novel also feature as trump leader who mixes White Supremacists followers with a tv news obsession. So we turned to the author of 14 novels, the winner of the prize who is teaching story telling and writing and indeed, has an online lesson on the master class series you can find on master class. Com and learn from yes, a master. Salman rushdie, thanks for coming. Good to be with you. You have spoken about this before donald trump was as play tabletl blatantly demanding in overturning what the voters decided. Your thoughts tonight . Well, you know, im going to be optimistic right now. It seems to me weve had four years of something which became more and more and more like an authoritarian regime as time passed. We have a moment now where Mitch Mcconnell accepted the results of the election, even moscow mitch, and so maybe we can now look forward to a year after this horrible year, this dreadful pandemic in which we have a sane government that will behave like a sane government and we can beat the pandemic. I think literature has a role to play here because weve living in a moment of an incredibly fractured belief in the truth, one mans reality is another mans fake news and literature has always been a way in which people have been able to rediscover truth because literature is about truth. It about the truth of human nature, the truth of how we are with each other, what we do to each other and may be through literature, we can recapture, you know, beauty, joy, reality and turn away from lies. Does it concern you that people who associate with the left or liberal arts are sometimes now the ones calling for the kind of controls well in some cases may be justified and other cases look like limiting speech rather than engaging with it . Yeah, you know, i spent so much of my life fighting censorship that im not going to change my tune now. I do think, you see, i wrote the story which came out in the new yorker recently which i used the metaphor of a town square in which people are arguing all the time and it seems to me that is what democracy is. Democracy is a place where people argue all the time and the ability to have the argument is something which i would call freedom. You know, anybody any authoritarian regime tries to shut down the argument to say well tell you how to think and that aboility to argue is liberty. Attacks come from the left or right i worry about. So fortunately, this are still enough people who believe in books and believe in literature and believe in the ability of arts and truth that maybe we dont hear somewhere else because fiction oddly, fiction and lies are opposites in a way, you know. Lies are a wave of obscuring the truth. Fiction is a way of revealing the truth, revealing the truth who we are and so and yeah, the writer of fiction is honest about what the theyre telling you. The liar is trying to tell you their fiction is truth. Its all in the frame work of transparency. Im out of time on the beat tonight but i love ending an hour with you because i feel slightly calmer and uplifted listening to you. I hope you come back. Salman, acclaimed author and people can find out more about the master close series at master class. Com. Were out of time on that segment buecause we have other news coming up. 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As everyone learned the last few cycles, you need the whole picture, not just partial data. What do you see there . Well, the early vote in georgia looks absolutely great for democrats. Now keep something in mind, for all intensive purposes, the republicans should have this election in the bank. The historical precedent is fully on their side. The party that loses the white house always wins these run offs. Also, democrats historically do very poorly in run off elections. They fail to turn out their voters and then you add the fact that georgia is for all intensive purposes still a red state that only recently with sta stacyey abrams gurun turned pur. It took a lot of people by surprise including republicans and democrats by surprise. That state is turning purple but not quite fully blue yet. These things should speak to the fact that republicans should be easily able to win this. The problem however, is that trump has really messed things up for them. There is a serious concern that the maga crowd will not turn out on election day. They certainly are not doing early voting in that state. If you look at northwest georgia, the numbers are very, very low in the state and among republicans in general. They are basically banking on a huge election day turnout. I appreciate that breakdown. You know who agrees with you is someone that you dont share his politics, hes obsessed with dinosaurs, do you know who im talking about . Right. Yeah. I actually like dinosaurs a great deal but i know youre talking about the former speaker of the house. Thats correct. Take a look yeah for her reaction on the other side dinosaurs or not, here is newt. The longterm control of the u. S. Senate lies in georgia. Both georgia senators have endorsed the 2,000 payment that President Trump proposed and mitch ought to bring it up to a clean vote. I really am very worried if he play as clever game, it may look good inside the senate but could cost us two senate seats and control of the senate. I have about 30 seconds. Your word on that . Yeah, i dont believe im saying this but newt gring wiins correct. What happened is rocking a divorce proceeding and the children who are being forgotten about this divorce proceeding are locklear and purdue. They are the victims of an ac separation between mcconnell and trump and i think gingrich is trying to intervene and do that. Great point. We hear about socalled civil wars in the parties youre referring to a similar concept of a family feud and who will be hurt by it. Always good to have you on the beat, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Im keeping it moves because we have a lot coming up. Trump under fire over the pace of covid vaccinations anything but warp and a special report on one of the most accomplished innovators of the word bill gates saw aspect to the pandemic coming and tried to personal warn donald trump. There is lessons here for all of us when we return. Lessons heref us when we return. Want to sell the best burger in every zip code . Add an employee. Or ten. Then easily and automatically pay your team and file payroll taxes. That means. World domination or just the west side. Run payroll in less than five minutes with intuit quickbooks. Wannits timeight and for aerotrainer. A more effective total body fitness solution. announcer aerotrainers ergodynamic design and four patented air chambers create maximum muscle activation for better results in less time. It allows for over 20 exercises. Do the aerotrainer super crunch, push ups, aero squat. It inflates in 30 seconds. Aerotrainer is tested to support over 500 pounds. 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Were not ready for the next epidemic. That was 2015. Gates going public with the evidence showing the u. S. Was not ready for this kind of pandemic. So as part of our on Going Special coverage, right now, we turn to awe report on the warnings, what they reveal about the response today and the approach in the future and potentially save lives. Of the experts out there in areas ranging from medicine to disaster prep, bill gates excelled in several critical fields, computer invasion that requires original thinking, business that excels on execution and his current chapter Public Health philanthropy where he takes on challenge with both his skills and his money. Gates became the richest person in the world by leading a Tech Revolution and he became increasingly famous as a nerd with a can do spirit. Here he was back in 1995 sporting a hard hat and lab coat. One of the things you designed for the house that youre very excited about. Ive got a trampoline room that i can go and use. [ laughter ] a trampoline room . Thats right. This is like an actual trampoline or a computer trampoline . Nonvirtual. Trampolines are not the item many billionaires brag about buying but gates isnt the typical billionaire and different in ways that are especially relevant now. Take his intellectual hunger. He vacationed only once a year and used that time to dig into obscure academic research. Like most of us, bill says he escapes the office about once a year. Thats where the similarities end. I spend at least a week a year i go off and just read peoples phd thesis and new things going on in the field. You got to read those phd thesises. He looks to see where things might go and hes been deploying money and platform to press challenges that some corporations and governments dont get around to tackling. The Gates Foundation presents ideas, papers and money as youve probably seen to governments around the world and gates has had his own run ins with donald trump. At one Foundation Meeting gates recounted a story where trump was attending a horse show in florida, gates daughter was there, too, and noticed trump took an extra car ride to leave the area so he could make a special helicopter entrances at the event. This is footage Msnbc Chris Hayes first reported. Like 20 minutes later, he flue in in a helicopter to the same place. Clearly, he had been driven away and he wanted to make a grand entrance in a helicopter. Now whatever gates thought of Donald Trumps attempts to impress, bill gates still took the opportunities, controversial or not to advocate pandemic policy with donald trump. Here they were at trump tower after trumps election in december 2016. Gates explaining he was pushing science and Health Policies at the meeting. I saw him in trump tower and i said hey, science and invasion is innovation is a great thing. That was about a broad set of things in energy and health and education. People have all kinds of ideas. You get a private audience with the president. While bill gates is not out here telling everyone i told you so, the evidence shows in many ways, he did. Listen to gates pressing warnings about 2015. We need to get going because time is not on our side. In fact, if theres one positive thing that can come out of the ebola epidemic, its that it can serve as an early warning, a wakeup call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. It was time to get ready. Many governments didnt listen or didnt want to spend the money. Gates specifically outlining the type of potential virus that would be most infectious. Notice how it predicts parts of covid transmission. You can have a virus where people feel well enough infected they get on a plane or go to a market. You can be carrying it and not know it. The worst thing in the world is to go to church and worship and sit next to someone and infect them. That was crucial knowledge and regardless of saying you may have heard knowledge actually is not power. It really depends what people do with knowledge. Went back to meet with donald trump again in 2018. He advocated the Trump Administration gets serious and back a universal flu vaccine. He tried to prod the president with a kind of flattery saying a universal flu vaccine could be kicked off and energized by you, mr. President. What a legacy. Gates sounded interested but not much progress. We can tell you by september of last year, trump signed an executive order that created a Flu Vaccine Task force but headed by someone on the job. Head secretary aczar and didnt come with legislation let alone money to prepare for pandemics. Gates also says trump offered him a possible role as a science advisor something gates and publicly and vprivately. Hes emphasizing while the i can sn economic toll is severe, that comes second to the challenge that cannot be reversed. This virus continuing to kill so many people. It is really tragic that the economic effects of this are very dramatic. I mean, nothing like this has ever happened to the economy in our lifetimes. But money, you know, bringing the economy back and doing money, thats more of a reversible thing than bringing people back to life. Yeah. You know, that is a fundamental piece of wisdom from a very rich man. Your life is worth more than all the money in the world. It echoes something many have admired about bill gates that he embodies success as the great Andre Benjamin once put it, bill gates dont dangle dime in the face of peasantpeasants, consid surroundings or you leave without a trace. The point is real strength doesnt need to flaunt itself. Its crucial for staying alive. Staying safe, as gates also explained back in 2015, as he would later try to warn donald trump, the medical science shows a path for what we all need to do and with that in mind, tonight, bill gates gets the final word. The problem was that we didnt have a system at all. In fact, there are pretty obvious key missing pieces. We didnt have a group of epidemiologists ready to go. A large epidemic would require us to have hundreds of thousands of workers. The failure to prepare could allow the next epidemic to be dramatically more devastating than ebola. It didnt get into many urban areas and that was just luck. Next time, we might not be so lucky. It would spread throughout the world very, very quickly. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. Some wisdom worth reflecting on. We want to share that with you. That special report was previously recorded. Coming up, yes, we have something very special from our team reflecting on some of the high points on the beat this year after this. Beat this year after this. Citing stunts. So to help you remember that Liberty Mutual customizes your Home Insurance, heres something you shouldnt try at home. 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Here is a look back at 2020 on the beat. Welcome to the beat. I am ari melber. We have a big show tonight. Were here at the red rooster in harlem. This is like political. Youre popping up. Finally left the white house for the first time today since becoming the loser of this race. Donald trump is the loser. The loser. Loser. Loser. I would say this is america but that would be insulting. Was that a low key reference to drakes over. For trump, yes, its over. Makes me think of dr. Dres the chronic. Truth hurts, thats a lyric. Say it the way Biggie Smalls would say it, even when i was wrong, i got my point across. Hiphop say do the ladies run this, yes, we do. Isnt that why drake says no new friends . Said i believe there is a god above me. Im just the god of everything else. Uhhuh. Why dont we see if we ha have Michael Steele, im dialing for guests. Im talking to f. D. Chair. I was hoping for joy reid but go ahead. [ laughter ] this is a disaster. Whenever i see a hurricane at 125 mile per hour wind hanging on to a pole. You do have a nice head of hair. Its one of the only things democrats and republicans can agree upon. Do you have time for a bad passover joke . We wrap it in a face mask. Do you have a favorite econom t economists joke . You know the rapper 50 cent, right . Given recent increases of inflation, hi name is now 64 cent. Oh. Its so, like, dorky dad. We think of it as more nerd. Do you have polling on dead armadillos. Survey says they are dead. You didnt just take the high road, you took the high road fast because youre fast on the road. Kind bar, skinny pop, bark thins. Extra snacks be exchanged for extra stuffing. Its dressing, ari, not stuffing. The kind bar is just a fancy snickers. You can high five. Get in there. Everybody gets a high five. Quote the part of brooklyn i guess you dont know, now you know. Now, and now we do know it is dressing. Were all learning as we go. I want to thank our guests. 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I would try this. Im confused. Why would you waste good alcohol in a then of course you get the person who forgets and they wind up doing their laundry with it or go grab a laundry pod and think its glenlivet. Its intriguing. Im very hypnotized. Is it that its fancy . A ripple in a pod. Too fancy . Too upscale for the pod . Oh, absolutely. It should be served in a glass, quarter inch in the glass with one ice cube for 5 to 30 seconds. Take that cube out, there you go, baby. Thats a lot of time. Do the olympians you work with, do they ever do the ice luge shots . I never have. I would. Heres the thing, dont hit it till you try it. Dont knock it till you try it. I dont need to try that to know its bad. No rk, but i mean i think it could be good. Is this still new . It was when i got here. Whats on your list . These chairs that are attached to your body that you can sit down wherever. This. This. Two sides to this coin. I think this could serve a person for someone who has a walking problem or gets tired easily. This is ridiculous. Can you kidding me . Walking around with that thing on your behind . Yeah. Thats a look. In this time there are so many things about politics, health care, that i think that this is really the best and cheapest way to prevent a pregnancy. Wow. Let me bring up something that is kind of related. Uhhuh. Which is my fall back, which is jawzrsize. Capitalizes on one of the ways it has made us feel terrible about our bodies what are they doing there, adam . This is something that its supposed to strengthen your jaw muscles to make you have a more defined jaw. Have i seen this video before . Yes. Have i thought about buying it . Of course i have. Im only human. Before i let you guys go, i do want to read from beautiful on the outside theres a passage that might interest people. You talk about working out with all kinds of different folks. You say, it was like art of the deal but without russian collusion shan, just russian skaters. Yes. Explain. Heres the thing im ready for this one. We both wrote a book, donald trump and i. One of us is probably not going to jail. What did you learn about being around so many different people leading their countries when you have this experience . On a serious note, when you are training at some of the best facilities in the world, they are in the u. S. Ive trained with so many different athletes from so many different countries. Thats the one thing i do love about sports is that it brings so many different people together regardless of their background, where theyre from, who they are. It connects so many people. I have so many friends from all over the world. Its because of sports. I love that. Very good. You did dancidancing with t star stars. Today michael and i got to do sitting with the stars. We did. It was a lot of fun. What a joy. Absolutely. Mr. Chairman, thank you. 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