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With massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren about progressive priorities for president elect biden administration. We are joined for our final session of the day with senator Elizabeth Warren, and we couldnt be more thrilled to have her try to unpack what has gone on over these past couple of weeks and frankly, where this country is headed over the next several years. Senator, thank you so very much for joining us. Hello thank you for having me were going to have fun. Lets have fun i have so many questions selfishly to understand how you think about it. But the thing that i think were all trying to make sense of right now is the message that you think the outcome of this election really means and what i mean by that is the democrats have won the white house. But have lost ten seats in the house well see what happens in the senate and im trying to understand whether we think that this is an endorsement or a reputuation of the more progressive values that i know you have argued for or if
Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is getting in the National Media dialogue about the campaign. We get in on a lot of local media when we show up but in terms of the network news, the big newspapers, the cable news, weve been blanked out. And so thats a big frustrati
Since july. Tell us, what has happened with your campaign from july until now . Your campaign is going. Guest well, the first thing weve focused on, july is when we got the national nomination, me and my running mate Angela Walker, then it was a mad scramble to get on ballot lines. We started with the green party having the 21 state battle lines and left 30 more petitions to do and we were appealing the state governments for relief during the covid pandemic because it was against Public Health guidelines to be out there physically asking for petitions and when we did we looked like hazmat workers with gloves and visors and masks and disinfectant. It was a mad scramble to get on the ballot and in the end we got on 30 ballots representing 73 of the voters, 381 electoral votes, you need 270 to win. And then you count the writein states were on and were 96 of the voters and 514 potential electorate votes out of a possible 538. That was july and august. Even more difficult barrier is gettin
The place and with home grown here. I. And you are welcome to the program. Is best known for its beautiful white beaches by the island nation has declared a state of environmental imagine see the huge one oil spill from a grounded ship over 100000 tons of oil need close to its waters efforts underway to salvage the situation. On the beaches already covered in oil which is threatening an entire lagoon and fuel is still pouring into the sea from the grounded ship. Locals are relying on the ingenuity to fight the pollution stuff in sugar cayleys into plastic sheets to make improvised booms there just isnt enough professional equipment volunteers are working with the authorities to scoop up the oil and pump it out of the ships tanks. The government has declared an environmental emergency. Were appealing to france and help the United Nations and other countries. We dont have the know how to deal with a catastrophe like this. Francis promised aid and the sending experts and the naval vessel