Has killed more than 278,000 people in this country. It cannot always relate to the numbers and statistics that we report day in and day out. To them, its about the individual people for whom they care, living, breathing, human beings having their lives extinguished by something we didnt even know about one year ago. Those workers are pleading with their fellow citizens. Stay vigilant. Do not let your guard down. I can tell you theres a lot of people suffering and its not just about dying. Those numbers are the people that are dead. There are countless more that will have lifelong disabilities from this. Not just physical or mental but also financial and theres a lot of Us Health Care workers that will never forget the things that weve had to see and do, and i just ask that you try to think beyond yourself and beyond those numbers and really think about the lives and what you can do to make sure youre not the next number, youre not the next life that we put in a body bag. While the outgoing president ignores the remarks, joe biden renewed his calls for President Trump and congress to act and act now to help americans in need. Were in a crisis. Need to come together as a nation. Need the congress to act and act now. Congress and President Trump fail to act by the end of december, 12 million americans will lose their Unemployment Benefits they rely on. Merry christmas. Unemployment benefits allowing them to keep food on the table and keep the lights on and the heat on, pay their bills. Emergency paid leave will end. Moratorium on evictions will expire. States will lose the vital tools they need to pay for covid testing and Public Health. If we dont act now, the future will be very bleak. The president elect also made clear that hell be putting forward another relief package of his own when he takes office next month. As we inherit the Public Health and economic crisis, were working on a plan that will put forward for the next congress to move fast, control the pandemic, to revive the economy and to build back better than before. This while the outgoing commander in chief travels to georgia to throw his support behind Kelly Loeffler and david perdue as they seek reelection one month from today. It comes on the same day georgia is set to recertify the recount that shows that joe biden was the president ial winner in that state. In other trump rumblings, new report on an investigation into a possible bribery for pardon scheme. The New York Times writing, quote, Trump Associates said to have been scrutinized in suspected pardon scheme. The department of justice investigated a top fundraiser for President Trump and a lawyer for his soninlaw, jared kushner, in a suspected scheme to offer a bribe in exchange for clemency for a tax crimes convict. The sources say San Francisco real estate billionaire Sanford Diller tried to get clemency for a psychologist convicted of tax crimes. He enlisted the help of elliott breudy and abby lowell to get the message to the white house. As part of the effort diller would make, quote, a substantial political contribution. Abby lowells lawyer tells the times no bribe was paid. The scheme outlined by prosecutors underscores the transactional nature of mr. Trumps term where people leverage connections to him or frame their causes in terms of his personal or political benefit to influence his decisions. And of course most observers of trump world do not believe we have seen the last pardons of his presidency with him considering preemptive pardons for crimes not yet charged for some of his closest allies, family members, and even himself as his term draws to a close. All the while a natural catastrophe to which the outgoing president appears oblivious continues. Yesterday the cdc advised people to wear masks while indoors except in the privacy of their own homes. The Washington Post noting this was the first time they had urged this type of universal mask use. It comes as cases are surging nationwide. Ive been reporting these coronavirus pandemic numbers for ten months now. Not to invoke fear but to inform. Weve said it before. Cases increase. Hospitalizations increase then deaths increase. Its unfortunately our reality. The vaccine is part of our reality. It was not in the spring, it was just a hope. I know youre tired of this. Covid fatigue. Id rather be tired and annoyed and live in six months so please wear your mask, social distance, wash your hands, tough it out. Do the things you need to do for a little while longer. We are all in this together and we can get through this together until the vaccine is available to everyone who wants it. Turning now to rhode island. While it is the smallest state in the country right now, it is seeing one of the biggest spikes in covid cases in the last week. Nbcs Valerie Castro is in the city of cranston at the site of one of Rhode Islands new Field Hospitals. Valerie, rhode island hospitals are at capacity now. The state has seen a 36 increase in covid cases from two weeks ago. What are they doing there . Reporter good morning, ali. Right now rhode island is in the middle of a twoweek pause. Restaurant indoor capacity is 33 . Any bar seating is closed. Houses of worship have been reduced to 25 capacity and fitness gyms are completely shut down. This all went into effect on november 30th, this past monday, and that is the same day that an Emergency Alert was sent out to residents in the state letting them know that hospitals are now at capacity due to covid. Now because of that, two Field Hospitals that were assembled in the spring but never used have now opened. They opened this past monday. One in providence at the convention center. That is able to hold about 600 people. Were told there are 20 patients there right now. The other one here in cranston, this building behind me, is able to hold about 350 people. The latest update we got from a doctor is there are currently 10 patients there. Both of these Field Hospitals are meant to take care of patients who are not critically ill, not on ventilators but they do need to be monitored and are on oxygen. The cdc just predicted this week between 9,500 and 19,500 people could potentially die over the week of christmas, just a few weeks away, following that surge after thanksgiving. The doctors tell us they are very worried about that surge, they are ready and prepared. Take a listen to what they had to say. Our rates in rhode island have been climbing since october and thanksgiving, what we anticipate is the next two to three weeks a continued rise and our hospitals are already quite full and so another two to three to four weeks of climbing covid in our state, our hospitals wont be able to handle it. Thats why places like our Field Hospital are being set up. Reporter ali, just a few weeks ago there were 250 people hospitalized in the state. The state Health Department says that number is now above 400 and 45 are in the icu. Valerie, thanks again for your reporting. Valerie castro in cranston, rhode island. Thanks, valerie. All right. I want to bring in Carol Williams. Shes an intensive care nurse at the Rush Copley Medical Center in aurora, illinois. At last count illinois had registered 770,088 and 13,782 deaths. A few weeks ago Carol Williams made headlines when she shared a post on facebook about her unfiltered experience fighting on the covid front lines. She wrote imagine being the nurse crying with your patient when they realize that everything were doing to help them still may not be enough and death is a real possibility. Imagine being the nurse or Doctor Holding that same patients hand and stroking their head weeks later while their ventilator is removed because they havent improved and their family then says goodbye and i love you over face time while they take their last breath. Joining me is that nurse, Carol Williams who works at the rush Copley Hospital in aurora. You motivated me to remind people that were in this together. We will get through it together. But together means doing the right things together, and you wrote a remarkable post in which you contradicted 13 lies that are out there in the public but theyre lies that actually make it to you. There are people who tell you things in the hospital that are contrary to medical science because theyve heard it in the political environment. Yeah, and thats why i wrote that, because i think its important for people to really listen to Real Health Care providers caring for the patients on the front lines. What effect does it have on you when you are treating people who you know are very ill, who might die and are resistant to the idea this is a real thing, this is serious, this is a potentially fatal infection . Its unfortunate for those patients that even when they make it to an icu that theyre not believing in the virus or whats really happening, but the fact of the matter is is whether you believe it or not, you are a patient in the icu now or in the hospital needing very intensive care so the belief of its real or a hoax becomes irrelevant because the effects on your body are really taking place and theres a real possibility that you could die from this virus and the complications that it causes to you. And you have asked people in your post to imagine what its like being that nurse. I just read a piece of that. Youve asked them to imagine being the covid icu patient, the breathlessness, the pain, the fear, the loneliness, isolation, anxiety, hopelessness, sadness, the need to use all of your energy just to breathe. The true realization that you may not be Getting Better and facing your own mortality. The truth is that this post you put in could be as is more valid now than it would have been six months ago when we thought we were at the height of this. You in illinois like us in new york saw the first wave of this thing in april and may. We didnt think wed be here in december. We didnt think that we would be facing the same challenges in december that we were facing in the spring with the disbelief and just the not the unwillingness to come together for the greater good. So, yeah, thats we didnt think that that was going to be an issue here going into the winter months and yet here we are and things are worse, much worse across the country in hospitals, in icus and everybody is stretched. Its a daytoday battle with these patients, covid and noncovid, with where everybody is going to go. Were nine months into this. We may have six or seven months to go before everybody is vaccinated. How are you going to manage through this . Because you did put in your post, and every nurse and doctor weve talked to has said the same thing, were human. This is hard. Youre used to hard. You trained for hard. This is hard at a different level. This is a level that no Health Care Provider in this country has experienced until now so we are going to lean on each other, lean on our coworkers because thats who is really understanding what is going on with these patients and just to be the amount of burden for the patient, for the health care worker, for the system. So we are all leaning on each other. Carol, i hope you can lean on some of us. I hope the public continues to remember the work that you all are doing. I did like in the early months when every day people around the country would open their windows and clap for people like you and front line workers and the people who delivered our goods just to remind you that we are grateful, we really are grateful for the work you are doing and you will be remembered well. We thank you. And this headline from the Washington Post just popped up an hour ago, quote, just 25 Congressional Republicans acknowledge bidens win. Just 25 of 249 total. This is why the Trump White House has been able to pull the shenanigans it has since the weeks of the election. Where are you, republicans . Democracy is on the line. Its time to stand up and face this losing president head on. Is he really the standard to which you want to hold the Republican Party . I truly hope that he isnt. Hat e is how it can make you feel. But, when used at the first sign, abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days. 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The car is careening towards a cliff and with very, very few exceptions republicans across the country are standing by watching it happen and holding their tongues. For those of you who think thats their problem, its not. Its actually all of our problem. This past wednesday donald trump released a 46minute edited video diatribe about the Election Results that he called, quote, the most important speech hes ever made. It contained nothing about the most important issue we all face, coronavirus, but was riddled with lies many already debunked in and out of court about voter fraud, rigged vote counts, Voting Machines and a stolen election. Its bad enough that republicans encouraged this behavior in the early days after joe bidens victory, but its been a month now and enough is more than enough already. Republicans should be objecting to every one of the fake hearings being held to demonstrate voter fraud and every time the giuliani clown car rolls into another stop, specifically at the president of the United States making baseless claims that undermine faith in democracy. I cant tell you how many times over the last four years ive heard people giving trump the benefit of the doubt asking what damage he can actually do. Apparently a lot. His supporters are asking legislatures to overturn the will of the people suggesting he somehow cling to power. Who would have thought that in 2020 we would be discussing members of the grand old party encouraging a coup. Now lets not be poly annish and imagine that donald trump will con see the defeat. He can do much more damage in 46 days in office as the president of the worlds most powerful country. If members of the Republican Party plan to exist beyond trump, they may want to display a little bit of courage. 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Another lifechanging technology from abbott. So you dont wait for life. You live it. Before the break i talked about how the deafening silence to the gop with respect to Donald Trumps shenanigans. Im joined by jennifer rubin, opinion writer, msnbc coop tribtor. Shes written pieces. The size of joe bidens victory matters. And with me is rick tyler. The author of still right, immigrant loving, hybrid driving, composting american makes the case for conservatism. Both of you, welcome this morning. Jennifer, im really dumfounded. According to our reporting at nbc, ten republican senators have acknowledged joe bidens win, 15 members of congress in total according to reporting from the Washington Post have acknowledged joe bidens win. This isnt this isnt partisan stuff. Donald trump is unhinged right now, and at some point if anybody ever wants to see another Republican Party in the future or talk to their children or grandchildren about being a republican, things have got to change. One would think so. This is a display of abject cowardness. None of these people believe his craziness. Do we think marco rubio is unaware that joe biden had a very clearcut victory . I dont think so. And what were seeing right now is that these people are afraid of donald trump. Theyre afraid of their own base and this is how they think theyre going to get by. And somehow they think, oh, well, itll all pass. None of this really matters. Biden will be president. No one will remember this. In fact, what were seeing already is republicans, for example in georgia, are saying, whats the point of voting . Why should we turn out . Its all rigged. Who cares . Theyre undermining themselves. Theyre undermining democracy. To the extent they care about history, theyre certainly undermining their place in history. It is a mass abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of democracy. Rick, talk to me about this. I think i have more democrats than republicans, im sure i have some republicans. For those who are not republicans or consider themselves conservatives, explain to me what you believe the motivation is in sitting and watching this republican clown car with a seized engine and tires blowed outgoing off a cliff . Why would any republican want this to happen . I get jennifers point that maybe trump is more popular than some of them are but there is life after trump and shouldnt republicans who have had a Political Party for a very long time be thinking about that . Well, ali, what youre seeing is a party of cowards. I dont know if theres rehabilitation for unix, but i dont think there is. This party has selfdestructed and destroyed itself, although i would say you under estimate the legal team. Im looking to give them a contribution, id encourage many people to give rudy i was tucking in my shirt, as much contribution and money to keep this clown show going because ive never seen anything like it. Theyre in georgia now telling people not to vote, to boycott the republican election. Where is donald trump saying this . A political first in my political experience, the political first, hes going to have a rally for losers. Hes going to be center stage in the loser rally and hes not going to talk about whats at stake in the senate. Parlly going to mention the republican candidates. We dont have to wonder about this. We know who he is. Donald trump will just talk about how the election was stolen, the grievances and hell drive away the very voters that perdue and loeffler need to win in georgia. Jen, ive got my twitter open because i expect it to blow up after i say what i am going to say to you. I dont want to live in a one party state. Whether its Republican Party or some other party that represents that. I want to live in pluralism. Exactly what happens to save the other party or is there just going to be another other party . Its not going to be useful to have one Democratic Party and Something Else in the gutters of politics in america. Well, that is the 64,000. One is that the republicans eat their own and destroy themselves. As rick said, you have the maga crowd attacking the republican crowd. You may see third party runs. You may see primary runs. You may see them completely devastate one another. Frankly, i have always believed, again, my twitter feed is certainly going to blow up, that you really need to level, to look around the existing Republican Party, that it is hopeless, it is useless. Youll have to reconstitute some type of sound bite that is different, that gives others a choice from the Democratic Party but nevertheless it adheres to basic principles of democracy and the rule of law. Thats not possible so long as this Republican Party goes staggering like a drunk sailor through the landscape tearing up the furniture and creating havoc. So i think the quicker, frankly, the republicans finish selfdestruktding, the quicker the maga and Republican People eat each other alive. Then we can get on, as you say, ali, to the business of creating a balanced second party that can offer an alternative and keep democratsen who nehonest. Whenever you have Just One Party its never good. You want them to be responsive. We as journalists can hold Political Parties to account but theres a better balance. Rick tyler, is there any talk of that . Is there noise of that . There are enough people who enough republicans or former republicans and conservatives who voted for joe biden this election cycle. Are they gathering to say, lets start something new . Lets take over . Lets take back the Republican Party . There are. I dont know if theres any serious effort underway. What jennifer says is absolutely true. What we have to remember, what youre talking about, ali, these are competing philosophies. When you have competing philosophies, the only thing to do, single word our whole entire constitution is based on, compromise. You have to be persuasive and convince enough people to go in that direction which is why i think joe biden actually has an opportunity because of what jennifer said in the destruction of the Republican Party and they will not be able to rehabilitate themselves. He could create a Democratic Party that is a govern mag jort for a nation. That takes a specific skill set to do that. Its a Republican Party until it believes in something, we cant have a party that says we have to win. Win what . We have more deficits, worse trade deals, more insecure global situation. Our situation with iran is worse. With north korea its worse. With russia its worse. Our trade imbalances are worse. I know jennifer is conservative, too, and she watches those things. We dont have a party that represents those interests anymore. Its a thoughtful conversation. 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This week the house of representatives made history when it announced who will serve as chairs and ranking members of its committees and caucuses in next years congress. Representative Gregory Meeks from queens, new york, has become the first black chair of the Foreign Affairs committee. Meeks says his top priority is to work with the next secretary of state to restore morale in the state department. David scott from georgias Atlantic Metro area will become the first black lawmaker to lead the house agriculture committee. My next guest was announced in a new pivotal role, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Advocating for black americans during a time when so many are facing disproportionate effects from covid19, economic insecurity and social and legal injustice. In addition, the black caucus will be tapped with working closely along with the Biden Administration which has promised to diversify the cabinet and administration posts not only to include more africanamericans, but other people of color and more women. With me now, democratic representative joyce beatty of ohio. Congratulations, representative beatty, on the next chair. Thank you, ali, for having me on. Im excited, needles to say, about my appointment and plan to work hard for the people, for our communities and for justice for all. We are going to have much opportunity to get to know each other over the next few years. You have a very heavy lift in front of you. I want to start with the first thing that a lot of people a lot of africanamericans are talking about. This is an administration that promised great diversity and change and in some quarters there is criticism that people havent seen that as quickly or as fast as they would like. What is your view on how this administration is forming with respect to diversity in africanamericans . Well, i think were just starting. One thing that i have been very pleased with and many of my members in the Congressional Black Caucus is that he has done what he said he would do. He said he would he would make sure he identified and picked a female as his Vice President. So not only did we get a female, we got someone who is extremely talented, great leadership skills in Vice President elect kamala harris, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Cedric richmond, who represents a Younger Group of individuals, quite talented, and he also, member of the Congressional Black Caucus, will have the eyes be the eyes for the president and the ears. When you look at the Communication Team, an all female Communication Team of some of the best minds and individuals quick to speak and write. Simone saunders, very good friend of mine at the table representing the younger folks, the millennials. Im very pleased with that. When we look at korecorrine jana ear, linda thomas greenfield, ambassador to the united nations. Cecelia ross, who as you know, is the chair of the council of economic advisers. She also was very helpful to president obama. And we have wally who is a friend and was just with us by zoom at our meeting this week of the Congressional Black Caucus will be the deputy treasury secretary. So theres so many more. Ashley etienne, president of Vice President elect harriss Communications Team who comes from the house of representatives and a lot of key staff are going to be on the bidenharris team who are africanamericans. So i think we should not be quick to judge. I dont want to start out judging in a critical way when he has done so much in starting up, however, that does not mean that we will not come to the table and challenge or question. Im sorry to interrupt you. Lets talk about some of the stuff that president obama was talking about this week. This year has been hot when it comes to social justice and the equal equality in policing. Obama warned that there are terminologies that we use like defund the police that may have scared some soeters away into voting for other people. This is a member that is close to you as members of congress, particularly black members of congress representing diverse parts of the country. Absolutely, ali. We have a big tent. There will be some individuals where that works for them or that is their ideology that we should defund the Police Department. While words matter, terminology matters the most. The core of it is we need to reform the Police Departments across the nation. Every day you turn on the tv and you see another person who has been shot, and not just shot, shot multiple times, shot in the back, shot while they were lying on the ground. Shot while they were lying in the car with their children and there was not imminent danger so do we need to readdress, reform, reallocate and look at how we are addressing the reform of our criminal justice system, how were looking at the reform of our Police Department . Yes. You have to remember it was just a few months ago that i was pepper sprayed when i was out peacefully protesting so i know what its like to have unnecessary force, but that does not mean we get rid of all of our police and our Police Departments because then we wouldnt have the services we need for those things that are in alignment. But i think we will take a critical eye of how we reform it. And as you mentioned, we have a bill with the jobs and justice bill that deals with a lot of the social injustices. Heres the good thing in my caucus. We have a lot of great ideas. We have people who are extremely verbal. We have very talented people that ill be reaching out to. Many of them are our new Congressional Black Caucus members that i agree with their intent and their focus. We just have to figure out how to shape them. Well, youve got your work cut out for you. I hope you and i will spend many hours talking. Joyce beatty, the next chairperson of the Congressional Black Caucus. Thank you for taking your time to be with us. Thank you. Right now lawmakers on capitol hill are pushing a new 908 billion stimulus package that could help millions of americans, but progressive Bernie Sanders says he cant support it as it stands now. He joins me next in a sweater to explain why the bill doesnt go far enough. Are you tired of clean clothes that just dont smell clean . What if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks . Now they can downy unstopables inwash scent boosters keep your laundry smelling fresh way longer than detergent alone. Pour a cap of downy unstopables into your washing machine before each load and enjoy fresher smelling laundry. 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I am worried about this because im going around the country every week talking to Small Businesses and workers, and theyre very you know, while im very excited well have a vaccine out soon, these folks dont have six months of money to keep their businesses afloat or to stay in their apartments or to not be kicked out of their homes. Theyre finding themselves in food lines and food insecure. We need direct payments. Absolutely we need direct payments. Let us be clear, what we have right now are people suffering in a way economically that we have not seen since the great depression. Hunger is at an alltime high. In recent years you have tens of thousands of people facing evict shunned and 90,000 people uninsured or under insured. What people want, in the midst of this crisis, through no fault of their own, because of the pandemic. The economy is in shambles. They are asking the United States congress to help them. At the very least what we should be doing is continuing their 1200 payment to every working class adult in this country plus 500 for their children. Their. In addition to that, i worry very much that in this building put together right now there is legal immunity for corporations who have been irresponsible in protecting their workers. So the fact that we are not addressing the economic crisis of tens of millions of people in this bill and they were giving large corporations cart blanche to ignore the safety needs of their workers tells me this is not a bill that should be passed. In fact, when the democrats wanted a 2 trillion bill and Mitch Mcconnell was suggesting a 500 billion bill, it was mostly the 500 million didnt include any direct payments to anybody. It was mostly indemnity to corporations. I have to ask you, senator sanders, where this is coming from . Is it the lies the president has had about coronavirus and its seriousness . Is it Mitch Mcconnell and republicans who are very concerned about increasing debt, which would be like finding god very suddenly in your last week life, or is it this kshaped recovery in which weve got a dow at 30,000, stockholders doing very well, people like me who can work from home and unaffected if it takes another six months to get a vaccine, ill do just fine. Theres a whole group of people in this country who are in food lines and not able to work from home and getting sicker and potentially exposed to death. Ali, i think it is all of the above. It is a contempt. Now, could you imagine if Corporate Executives were put into a position where their lives were being threatened and the government said we dont have to worry about that. Were looking at tens and tens and tens of thousands of working class people, often black and brown working in the Food Processing industry, working in amazon, whereas i understand it 20,000 people have been infected. And what Mitch Mcconnell is saying were going to make sure that none of those corporations, no matter how irresponsible they have been, none of them are going to face any legal repercussions this reminds me of going back to the jungle. Remember the book the jungle in the early 1900s, were going back there. Doesnt matter what you do to your workers. Second of all, the American People dont want a handout, but they understand that this pandemic is now ravaging this country, worse today than everyone before. They need help to get their feet back on, you know, their feet back on standing up so they can take care of their kids. We have got to address those. Where are you in this process . What levers do you have to push . Obviously if the Georgia Senate run yo runoff goes a certain way on january 5th, it will be a lot easier to get things three you senate. Small businesses need grants, not loans, Companies Need european style pay the companies to keep people employed for longer. Were working with colleagues both in the senate and in the house and were trying to rally the American People. What we are talking about here, al al this is a good idea for congress to listen to the American People, not corporations. Were talking about this georgia election. This may be the best answer for getting things done in congress if democrats have essential control of congress in a 5050 senate. Yeah, look, this is enormously important. And to our friends in georgia, please understand that what this election is about, if you want to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, you got to vote for warnock. If you want a strong covid19 emergency bill you got to vote for these guys. Whats happening in in georgia is going to impact the entire country. It will mean whether or not we can bring forward an agenda that works for working people rather than just the wealthy and the powerful. Youve told me several times over the last few months since i left the president ial race that your goal is to get joe biden elected and then to make him the most progressive president in the history of the United States. That job comes a lot easier if if you at least dont have republicans controlling the senate. Absolutely. Were all working as hard as we can to make sure the two Democratic Candidates win in georgia and that well have those two elections, it will clearly have a pro found impact on everybody in our country. Senator, gold to see you. I appreciate you taking time to join us this morning. Independent senator Bernie Sanders of vermont. Thank you, sir. Thank you. That does it for me. Tomorrow i am hitting the road again. Im going to be in portland, oregon for velshi across america, surviving the next wave. If you are a Small Business owner or worker facing tough decisions as covid cases surge, send you my question at mystory velshi. Com. 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