Suspended for lying about the election. What they did should be a problem for them. They should be investigated. And nearly 100 people still missing in florida after the collapse of a 12 story condo building. The latest on the Desperate Search And Rescue efforts. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york im chris hayes. Its the kind of thing we dont see happen often anymore. This afternoon the president of the United States joe biden blocked it to the white house driveway surrounded by democratic and republican senators to announce they have a deal. A big bipartisan legislative deal on infrastructure. This reminds me of the days we used to get an awful lot done in the United States congress. We actually worked with bipartisan deals. Bipartisan deals means compromise. Are you confident are going to have all of the democrats in the senate . Im not confident of anything except we will get to the details of the deal which includes 579 Billion Dollars in new spending on new projec
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
A delayed supplies after criticism of a slow rollout so mccain has more on this now from ballin. This is the astra zeneca vaccine in use available to british patients most at risk from covert since late last month and from now on officially so too for many e. U. Citizens most at risk from the pandemic its a real pleasure to be here and to announce the 3rd positive o. Pinion for the authorize ation of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine this expand the range of Vaccines Available to e. U. And a Member States which will all help to bring the pandemic under control and protect the citizens of the e. U. Except that far fewer e. U. Citizens will be able to receive the vaccine for the next few months after the company cut back what it could deliver to the block astra zeneca a british swedish firm blames production problems at some of its plants and said it can only deliver fewer than half of the 80000000. 00 doses promised the europeans have complained and decided to protect all vaccine stock
We will hear from the head of west coast listings jeff thompson. Lucids desert oasis just finished a listing in san francisco. We will get a picture of supply and demand with first, u. S. Stocks started the month off by hitting records on stimulus talks and covert progress. Salesforce says it will proceed with plans to buy lack for 7. 7 billion to buy slack for 7. 7 billion. Slack prices up, salesforce had dropped. What do we see after hours . Abigail both shares are down. The idea that salesforce. Com would buy slack, now lo and behold, that is happening. As you mentioned, 27 point 7 billion in cash and stock. Some are wondering about the cash piece. Salesforce. Com does have a lot of cash, so using it here for this deal, and i think the bigger thing to take a look at is the fact that salesforce. Coms Ceo Marc Benioff has made more than 60 acquisitions, as you know, in his 21 years, making salesforce. Com the conglomerate of all these different pieces. Now they have this Communication
Thank you for your time today. I like your happy thanksgiving. Happy early thanksgiving. If you have a question the doctor, go to Facebook Live and well try to get them answers. Doctor, the tsa has screened five million travellers since friday. How nervous does that make you, given what were facing right now . It makes me very nervous, kristen, because we know that in previous holidays, even in the united states, memorial day, etc. , it was accompanied by a predictable increase in cases in two weeks. Not only cases but concerningly high hospitalizations. You hook at what happened in thanksgiving in canada, i think the writing is in the wall. Well see increased numbers in two weeks, even above our current surge. Lets try to do our part and one piece of that is having smaller gatherings. Dr. Fauci was asked whether the risk from small gatherings has been exaggerated . What does the data show . Can we do a small gathering without a surge . I think what the contact data tracing shows is it