Pandemic rch record highs with no signs of slowing down. Researchers are now warning the u. S. Death toll may near 540,000 by april. Today we will speak to one of the worlds leading Infectious Disease doctors, paul farmer, the cofound of partne in health. All of these epidemics find their way to exploit social disparities and inequalities and take their greatest harvest among the pr anvulnerab. E qstion ware aski is does that need to be the case . And of course, the answer is, no, it does not. Amy dr. Paul farmer will talk about the pandemic, health care inequality, and his new book fevers, feuds and diamonds ebola and the ravages of history. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States has set yet another world record for daily coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and deaths with over 216,000 infections confirmed thursday and more than 2800 deaths. Nearly 101,000 people are hospitalized with covi
Im sandra smith. Hi, trace. Trace good morning, everyone. Im trace gallagher. Loeffler hammered home her opponent is a radical liberal. Warnock side stepped questions about Defunding Police and court packing. Democrat jon ossoff appeared alone on the debate stage after senator david perdue opted not to take part. Sandra President Trump rallied for loeffler and perdue over the weekend urging his supporters to turn out in droves. President trump if you dont vote, the socialists and communists win. They win. Georgia patriots must show up and vote for these two incredible people. Sandra fox team coverage. Brandnew analysis from byron york. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in decat you are, georgia, this morning. Last nights event drew a national audience. How did it influence the debates . Good morning. Good morning, sandra. Both candidates were keenly aware that much of their attention and much of their financial backing is coming from out of state and so this debate focused largely on
Welcome, everybody. I think we have some republicans that have a leadership election, but theyll be coming in. Can you see me . Can you hear me . Is it working . Well, the election is over. Theyre still counting the votes and making legal challenges and once all of the legal challenges are made and the votes are counted, well have that done. We still have two outstanding races in georgia to determine the control of the senate. And the committee will keep moving forward doing its work. We have next week social media oversight. I cant wait to have the social media ceos come to the committee and explain themselves about their platforms. I think theres a lot of bipartisan support to take a hard look at social media platforms. The earned act is still a business pending before the committee and after the hearing well have markup. But today, we have mr. Mccabe, the number two at the fbi during crossfire hurricane. I think hes going to appear remotely. I appreciate him coming. And what ill do
Welcome, everybody. I think we have some leadership, about the theyll be coming in. Can you see, can you hear me . Is it working . Well, the election is over. Theyre still counting the votes and making legal challenges, and once all the legal challenges are made and the votes are counted, well have that done. Weve still got two outstanding races in georgia to determine the control of the senate and the committee will keep moving forward doing its work. We have next week social media oversight. I cant wait to have the social media ceos come to the committee and explain themselves about their platform, thats the 17th. I think theres a lot of bipartisan support to take a hard look at social media platform. The act is still business pending before the committee and after the hearing well have markup. But today we have mr. Mccabe, the number two at the fbi during the hurricane. I think hes going to appear remotely, so i appreciate him coming. And what ill do is make a brief Opening Statemen
President elect harris. The election sent a clear message. Its time to stop relitigating issues mr. Mccabe . Can you hear me now . Hello . Yes. Are you with us . Yes, sir. Thank you. I apologize. Any time you feel like you need a break, you just let me know. I apologize, its been over two hours, i apologize for not remembering that. So senator hirono . Thank you, mr. Chairman. Id like to associate myself with the comments made by colleague senator durbin and others on the democratic side on why we are here for the fourth time to go over ground covered especially by the Inspector Generals 440 page report. The witness was asked questions about Text Messages between peter strzok and lisa page when its clear they did not impact the validity of the russian investigation. Yet when we have real facts about National Security concerns such as President Trump calling the president of ukraine to shake him down to help his Reelection Campaign, my republican colleagues dont think thats a big deal.