Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
Today to decide on who should be first to get the vaccine once one is available. With the pandemic raging across the United States, we will speak to two africanamerican doctors who have spent years fighting Racial Disparities in healthcare. One of them joined modernas vaccine study to honor her father who died from covid19. Plus, we will mark World Aids Day with professor Steven Thrasher. Aids continues to kill too many peopl almost 700,000 pele were killed by it last year, and that was decades after education became available. As we are on the verge of potentially having a Coronavirus Vaccine to rollout, we dont antiracist,vely anticapitalist approach, hundreds of thousands of millions of people could continue to suffer and die. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and convention is convening a panel of advisers today to determine who will be the first in line to be
Generation he says. Meanwhile it is jobs day that november jobs report out this morning two and a half hours time 8 30 a. M. Eastern, economists expect 469,000 jobs added to economy with the Unemployment Rate ticking down for a 7th straight month to 6. 8 ahead of the jobs number futures are higher in the triple digits. Dow industrials right now up 136 the nasdaq up 48 and s p 500 higher by 13. After a mix performance yesterday, all three major indices poised to finish the week in the green with a the dow industrials yesterday at 85 nasdaq up 27 and s p 500 weaker by two and a quarter. Taking on big tech, President Trump going after the new defense bill that has no repeal of section 230 of the Communications Act. Threatening to veto it if it is not changed. We are taking a look at that. Plus somebody is watching me. The new technology that can detect whether remote employees are being lazy about work it is making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. European marke
Then, president elect bidens team expresses frustration over the delayed transition. We dont have access to all the information that we need to get from all the various agencies. Chris we will ask kate bedingfield, Senior Advisor to the biden transition how the delay will affect his ability to lead on day one. Plus. They didnt elect joe biden. Chris we will ask our sunday panel about President Trumps continuing bid to reverse the 2020 election. What are his chances . And. I thought about becoming a priest before i thought about becoming catholic. Chris the archbishop of washington about to make history as the nations first africanamerican cardinal. All right now on fox news sunday. Chris and hello again from fox news in washington. This weekend, americans are being urged to double down on the lifesaving measures such as social distancing and mask wearing as the death toll from the coronavirus passes 250,000 and a record 195,000 new cases just on friday. The exploding numbers prompting
Declared winner of pennsylvania, a state certified by victory by more than 80000 votes. Earlier this week, the ruling is another blow to trumps bid to overturn the results of the president ial election. French president among them, mccall has condemned video images showing Police Officers beating a black man in a social media post. Mccall said the violence against the music producer was unacceptable and shameful. The officers in the video have been suspended and are under investigation. According to the paris Prosecutors Office. From berlin, follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website, w dot com. Germany has just passed a grim new milestone. The number of Coronavirus Infections is not passed a 1000000. So how bad is the situation in a country once seen as the european poster child for pandemic control . And is a patient ready to take the medicine . And this is the day when i will be making myself and popular, and i think the measures should be stricter. But if the we s