Progress is being made on a coronavirus relief. So this has for a shorter period of time. Thats okay now because we have a new president. He takes in for a touchdown. Fall in love with me this Christmas Steve well, they officially lit the Christmas Tree last night on tv. You are looking at it live on 48th and sixth avenue it. Is freezing outside. 32 degrees here in New York City on this december 7th 2020, 70 years ago today the attack on pearl harbor. Ainsley yes, it was. Thank you to all of you who served our you great country. This weekend Saturday Night was the rally. President trump was in georgia and then last night was the debate. So lots of politics over the weekend, brian. Brian i taped it all and, again, length me his vcr. Steve its a beta max. Brian my bad. I feel really prepared for the show for a incorporate challenge. Jillian mele is live in atlanta as the Georgia Senate candidates take the stage ahead of georgias run off elections. Jillian, you dont look cold. Jillian im
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they respond to tonight s top story. they ll be with us in justn u a minute. st a now, we begin this monday o with a fox news alert. the department of energy, they are now finally admittinge the obvious truth.s covid-19 was apparently developed in that by chinese scientists at the wuhan institute of virology, likely through gain of function research. now, the deadly diseas the somehowlab an leaked out of the lab and aninfe infected the entire world .ct and by the way, china knew at the entire time, side note, a sloppy attempt to cover up.m and then thatht all ensued from communist chinese and of the communist chinese and of course, their corrupt propagandists in part that we fund for china. woul and that would be the h.o. and maybe even dr. and ye fauci himself. and yet no one has been helde wh accountable. they have yet, to this point, even wanted to admit the truth, which was obvious.th mow, a message fro president reagan is more relevant than ever. quote, the nine most t
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president and his fellow democrats first laid out nearly 16 months ago. look, this bill is far from perfect. it s a compromise. but it s often how progress is made, by compromises. and the fact is that my message to congress is this this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care cost, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security, all the time reducing the burdens facing working class and middle-class families. so pass it. pass it for the american people. pass it for america. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali viatali, jason furman served as chair of the economic advisers and is professor of economic policy at harvard. i don t know how much of this you were able to listen to, jason, but if you had to sort of break it down for folks to the basics of what is, as we said, a very complex economic argument that the white house is trying to make, what is it? it s a very complex economic situation. t