We want to hear from you this morning. What is it like where you live. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, 2027488000. Mountain pacific, 2027488001. You can also text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488003. You can send us a tweet at cspan wj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Start dialing in, we will get your thoughts in a moment. We will begin with yesterdays meet the press and Michael Osterholm, who served on president elect joe bidens task force at this to say about the coming week. Let me ask you this. We are seeing the accidental rise that you sadly predicted would happen in covid cases. We going to plateau anytime soon or is this trajectory going to keep going up and up . Thank you again and let me just say the outset that our future is in our hands. Right now for at least the next three weeks, cases are in the pipeline, of these numbers are going to go way up. Our job is to imagine what the world could be like if we do make the ch
It is really pathetic that all this time, she is the highest in decriminalization and arrests, backandforth, left and right, it does not make sense. Host tell me why you did not vote. Caller i did not vote because i was disenfranchised in 2010. I was a former city council candidate. The democrats endorsed me. Believe, i was never a citizen of lancaster city. Anas a citizen of unincorporated area. There are a lot of people out there in this country that get disenfranchised every day. We do not talk about the democratic party, the Republican Party, the independent. Host ok, that is victoria and arizona. We will go to missouri for a supporter of the president elect. Why i votedreason for joe biden, joe biden will get stuff done in the white house. The reason why the virus is not going away is because the virus the virus the reason why it wont go away is because Kamala Harris said back in august that barack obama and joe obamaback then barack was in the white house back then. Council inl s
Uptotheminute news on election news every day at 1 00 p. M. Eastern and today i will be joined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who is a i strong supporter of President Trump and in just one minute i will be joined by former attorney general eric holder who has been working on redistricting for years now with president obama and has been advocating for democratic nominee joe biden. Two great guest today but first i wanted to run through my notebook a little bit of the headline and i am paying attention to in these final days in florida and florida, florida your member in 2000 said that was a focus for that election and seems to be the focus once again for Vice President biden and President Trump in the tampa area today because they know the corridor vote is key and you also see Vice President biden going to Broward County and making sure black voters in voters are coming out strong and we talked to general holder about that and Voter Suppression issues in florida and across the so
For what they called irregularities and fraud in the voting process. If you support president elect biden and Vice President harris, 202 7488001. If you support President Trump, 202 7488000. If you support another candidate or perhaps did not vote, 20262802 05. Twitter is available to you at cspan wj and you can post on our facebook page. Was last night where president elect joe biden appeared in delaware alongside his running mate, Vice President elect Kamala Harris, to give a speech on the way forward and what to expect in the days ahead. You can see the complete speech on cspan if you which, cspan. Org. Heres a portion from the speech last night. [video clip] wanted thistset, i campaign to look like america. Administration to look and act like that. For those of you who voted for President Trump, i understand the disappointment tonight. I have lost a couple of times myself. But now, lets give each other a chance. [cheers] time to put away the rhetoric, lower the temperature, see eac
Shot and killed at least 12 Peaceful Protesters in lagos on tuesday. We will go to nigeria for the latest. Then as fighting continues in the south caucasus between armenia and azerbaijan we will look at the conflict which has already killed over 700 people. Cooks to put an end of the war controlledre by the major powers that is russia and also the u. S. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The confirmed u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 222,000 as a new report by Columbia University researchers blted the Trump Administration over its disastrous handling of the pandemic. The reports authors write we estimate that at least 130,000 deaths and perhaps as many as 210,000 could have been avoided with earlier policy interventions and more robust federal coordination and leadership. Even with the dramatic recent appearance of new covid19 waves globally, the abject failures of u. S. Government policies and cri