And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. That was goldwater as the anticivil rights president ial nominee in 1964. 12 years earlier in 1952, his Senate Victory marked the last time arizona had two democratic senators, until today. When former astronaut and Navy Captain Mark kelly was worn into the senate by Vice President mike pence. With his wife, former congresswoman and gun violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords by his side. Its another quiet way that Donald Trumps administration has officially acknowledged that the election is over, despite trump being unable to admit that he lost, but theres always a cowards caveat in trumpism. When nbc news asked pence if he accepted the Election Results in arizona, which he, himself, had just confirmed by swearing in senator kelly, who won at the same time that joe biden won arizona because their names were on the same ballots, pence did not respond. Meanwhile, trump continues to pump out bogus claims of v
Astounding rate. More than 2,700 deaths reported yesterday alone. Put another way, another american died of covid in just about the amount of time it took me to tell you this story. Cdc director Robert Redfield said we could see as many as 500,000 american deaths by the end of next month. December and january and february are going to be rough times. I actually believe theyre going to be the most difficult in the Public Health history of this nation. Largely because of the stress thats going to put on our Health Care System. Unbelievable stress. But now the good news, as we know. Thats the vaccines are on the way. But the rate of death is expected to keep rising, even as the first wave of americans get the vaccine. That will take months. And a lot can happen in a few months. Take a look at these maps that nbc got from state reports handed out by the White House Covid Task force. You can see how the red zones spread expotentially throughout the fall. And this is where we are now dark re
Portland, oregon, second stop of velshi across america and todays edition is special because later in the show, the one and only Rachel Maddow joins me for her first interview for her superb new book bag man. The wild crimes, audacious coverup and spectacular downfall of a brazen crook in the white house. This is going to be the book this holiday season. You dont want to miss rachel later in the show. Back to what were doing right now. Yesterday the outgoing president was in georgia for the stated purpose of holding a rally to support republicans in the next months january 5 Senate Election runoff. What he really did was talk almost entirely about himself, which continued into an overnight tweet storm by continuing to lie and claim that he was the victim of a farfetched fraud scheme, one that was apparently so clandestine that neither he nor anyone else can find any evidence for it, including his closest comrades in his soontobe former administration. Trump even admitted to his followe
Incompetence release them early without any kind of records. There was a big for of a better word freak out in the american media. These guys are deftly coming here and coming to the United States. Theyre going to wreak havoc and as a result Border Patrol and these people were eventually apprehended or they faded away and Nothing Happened but the point is because American Immigration enforcement because our immigration laws are so focused on keeping people out for economic reasons or for any other types of reasons a small amount of what they are pulled to do focus on legitimate threats. Instead they are more concerned with asking how will an additional worker affect the wages for american tomato pickers . Theyre more concerned with how one additional worker will affect the labor Market Conditions or computer programmers in silicon valley. They are more concerned with where a highskilled immigrants will take a Conference Call with her is at his home or whether that home is listed as a p
I would hope that the Lgbt Community would recognize me to continuing that progress is the key to the progress weve made so far which is engagement and political engagement. And what also recognize that both the Supreme Court and elsewhere around the country we have systematically than limiting what was a limited democracy to begin with and making true selfgovernment harder and harder and would recognize if our political progress and progress on race and gender and a series of other things are intimately tied up in making this really into a self functioning democracy again i recognize that commonality is political. I would say that we need to recognize issues of race, class, sex is some are lgbt issues and we have an investment not only in cases like this one, but comprehensive Immigration Reform in access to health care. All of these are lgbt issues because people look like the rest of the country. We shouldnt get so into our silo that we forget that. Theres something about being a mi