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In Pictures: New Year 2021 celebrations around the world
Good riddance, 2020. Hello, 2021. Here’s how people around the world marked the start of a new year.
Fireworks explode over the ancient Acropolis in Athens during New Year celebrations on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: AFP
New Year’s Eve fireworks erupt over Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates, in one of the world’s largest fireworks shows, on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
People celebrate on Rotterdam’s Erasmus Bridge in the Netherlands during New Year’s Eve celebrations on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: AFP
People take a selfie on Westminster Bridge during New Year’s Eve celebrations in London on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman and her cats look at New Year’s Eve fireworks through the window of her home in Ajdovscina, Slovenia, on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
French police patrol the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, after celebrations and gatherings have been banned amid the coronavirus pandemic, on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS
People take part in New Year’s Eve celebrations in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: REUTERS
Babacar Sene, who sells light-up accessories at Independence Square in Dakar, Senegal, is seen during celebration on New Year’s Eve.PHOTO: NYTIMES
The midnight fireworks light up Tahya Masr Bridge during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cairo, Egypt on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
People stand with candles during a New Year’s Eve memorial for victims of the coronavirus in Johannesburg on Dec 31, 2020.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Fireworks light the night sky over the Kremlin and the Red square to mark the New Year in Moscow on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
People visit Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer New Year prayers in Tokyo on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
Fireworks are seen in Pyongyang during New Year’s celebrations in this photo supplied by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
Fireworks are seen during New Year celebrations in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
A New Year fireworks display is seen moments after midnight in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
People use smartphones to film the fireworks and light effects illuminating the night sky from the Taipei 101 skyscraper during New Year’s celebrations in Taipei on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
A couple take a selfie at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, on Dec 31, 2020. Despite the restrictions in place due to the Covid-19 pandemic, people gathered to celebrate the New Year.PHOTO: AFP
New Year’s Eve fireworks erupt over Chao Phraya river during the fireworks show for New Year’s Eve in Bangkok on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
People release balloons during a New Year’s countdown in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
Fireworks erupt over Chao Phraya river during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Bangkok on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: AFP
People gather on a street during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Hanoi on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
New Year’s Eve fireworks erupting over Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge during the fireworks show on Jan 1, 2021.PHOTO: REUTERS
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Confetti falls on a mostly empty Times Square in New York. This year, a limited live audience of first responders and essential workers and their families were allowed to watch the ball drop from a secure area.
Fireworks light the sky behind the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
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People celebrate under the lights of a Christmas tree in Kiev, Ukraine.
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People celebrate the new year in Wuhan, China, which nearly a year ago became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
Fireworks erupt over the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Residents of the San Jeronimo nursing home dance in Estella, Spain.
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People take a selfie in front of a neon sign in Melbourne.
Countries around the world have welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays. Strict lockdown and border closures in New Zealand have all but eliminated Covid, so New Year’s Eve plans were held as usual. The Sydney fireworks display went ahead, but crowds weren’t allowed to gather on the city’s harbour to enjoy it. Restrictions are being placed on new year festivities around the world as many countries struggle to curb new spikes in coronavirus cases. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
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New Year’s 2021: Auckland, New Zealand rings in New Year with fireworks show
Auckland, New Zealand was one of the first places in the world to ring in 2021, with a dazzling fireworks display and a light show from its iconic Sky Tower and harbour. Revellers on the waterfront watched the five-minute show with brightly coloured fireworks and laser lighting shooting into the night sky over the city’s harbour. While many countries restricted gatherings and cancelled their traditional New Year celebrations due to the coronavirus pandemic, Auckland’s residents were able to ring in the new year to watch the show in person. New Zealand currently has 55 active cases. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7548867/ne… Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB#GlobalNews#NEWYEARS2021#NYE#NewYearsEve
New Year’s 2021: Thailand ushers in New Year with spectacular musical fireworks display
Thailand ushered in the New Year with a spectacular musical fireworks display at the Iconsiam mall in Bangkok amid surges in coronavirus cases that disrupted outdoor celebrations. This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with coronavirus pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7548867/ne… Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB#GlobalNews#NEWYEARS2021#NYE#NewYearsEve
New Year’s 2021: Taiwan’s iconic skyscraper Taipei 101 sets off fireworks
Taiwan hosted its usual New Year’s celebration with a fireworks display by its capital city’s iconic tower, Taipei 101, to ring in 2021. But due to the coronavirus pandemic, it had capped attendance at the main viewing spot next to the city government at 40,000, half of the 80,000 it had originally planned, with attendees having to register their personal details and wear masks. Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je defended the move not to cancel the activities, saying that Taiwan had no community transmission and all correct precautions were being taken. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7548867/ne… Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB#GlobalNews#NEWYEARS2021#NYE#NewYearsEve
Singapore welcomes 2021 with light show at Marina Bay and fireworks in the heartlands
The United Arab Emirates welcomed the new year in Dubai with a mesmerizing display of lights, fireworks and music from the world’s tallest building, the iconic Burj Khalifa. The light show paid tribute to front-line health workers amid the coronavirus pandemic and displayed words of hope for 2021. The UAE has imposed restrictions to slow the spread of COVID-19 on New Year’s Eve, including limiting social gatherings to 30 and under, and masks must be worn. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7548867/ne… Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB#GlobalNews#NEWYEARS2021#NYE#NewYearsEve
New Year’s 2021: Sydney, Australia puts on stunning fireworks display
Sydney, Australia put on a stunning fireworks show from Sydney Harbour Bridge and over the iconic Sydney Opera House to ring in 2021. In past years, 1 million people crowded the harbour to watch fireworks, but most watched on television this year as authorities urge residents to stay home due to the coronavirus pandemic. Australia was among the first nations to usher in the New Year because of its proximity to the International Date Line, but is a grim end to the year for New South Wales and Victoria, the country’s two most populous states, which are battling to curb new COVID-19 outbreaks. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7548867/ne… Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB#GlobalNews#NEWYEARS2021#NYE#NewYearsEve
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Countdown to 2021: Waterford crystal triangles installed on New Year’s Eve ball in Times Square
For over 111 years, the annual Times Square ball drop has been the center of New Years Eve celebrations across America. 2020 has been an unusual year, but this tradition remains the same. Waterford Crystal’s master artisan Tom Brennan joins CBSN to talk about this year’s theme. Subscribe to the CBS News Channel HERE: https://bit.ly/2uz8qYE Watch CBSN live HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7 Follow CBS News on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/ Like CBS News on Facebook HERE: http://facebook.com/cbsnews Follow CBS News on Twitter HERE: http://twitter.com/cbsnews Get the latest news and best in original reporting from CBS News delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to newsletters HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Get your news on the go! Download CBS News mobile apps HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream CBSN and local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites like Star Trek Discovery anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B — CBSN is the first digital streaming news network that will allow Internet-connected consumers to watch live, anchored news coverage on their connected TV and other devices. At launch, the network is available 24/7 and makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday. CBSN. Always On.
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Biden introduces his choice for education secretary, Miguel Cardona
President-elect Joe Biden held a press event in Wilmington, Delaware, to introduce his nominee to head the Department of Education, Miguel Cardona, the top education official in Connecticut. Watch their remarks.
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Donald Trump’s Pardon Palooza – What Message Is Trump Sending With His Many Pardons?
Donald Trump seems to be on the “Friends and Family” pardon plan. What do Trump’s many pardons say about Donald Trump and what do they say about America? Update: Since recording this video, Trump has issued even more pardons and I’m sure he is not done yet. Stay tuned. Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner” can be downloaded where you get your podcasts.
Trump pardons 15, including 4 Blackwater defendants who killed 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqis.
Donald Trump grants 15 pardons: he pardoned Republican Congressman Chris Collins who committed financial crimes/insider trading, Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter who stole campaign money from his supporters, he pardoned George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about contacts with Russians. But worst of all, in my opinion, he pardoned the four Blackwater contractors who slaughtered 14 innocent, unarmed Iraqi men and women and injured 17 others. My former office, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, prosecuted those four defendant three times, trying to bring justice to the dozens of Iraqi citizens and their surviving family members. Trump’s pardons of these murderers is a horrific affront to victims rights the world over. Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner” can be downloaded where you get your podcasts. Follow me on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch…
QAnon Lies Are Going Mainstream Thanks to Trump | NowThis
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The World in 2021: five stories to watch out for, | The Economist
The World in 2021 will start to look beyond covid-19: to the launch of an asteroid-smashing space probe, the next step in the fight against climate change and China’s supremacy at the box office. Here are five stories to watch out for. 00:00 – Top five stories for 2021 00:39 – Democracy under threat 04:17 – The electric revolution revs up 06:55 – A chance to turn a corner on climate change 10:39 – China v Hollywood: battle of the box offices 14:40 – Defending the planet Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter: https://econ.st/3qJCAk5 Find all of the articles in World In 2021: https://econ.st/3a4z5Pr Read our latest coverage of covid-19: https://econ.st/3abooL1 Find all our climate-change coverage: https://econ.st/3oBoLSX 2020: the year when everything changed: https://econ.st/2Kytkyy The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights: https://econ.st/3oIb0BI How would-be autocrats used covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power: https://econ.st/3qJ29l8 Why democracy failed in the Middle East: https://econ.st/2Wl9pps Electric vehicles: who will rule the Teslaverse? https://econ.st/3qK0ITG Countries should seize the moment to flatten the climate curve: https://econ.st/2JICCYY Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short: https://econ.st/3nxNB60 The world’s energy system must be transformed completely: https://econ.st/37V83Y5 Why it’s time to make coal history: https://econ.st/39YIvf9 The World in 2021: the pandemic has shaken up the movie business: https://econ.st/39YGWxS Daily chart: Hollywood is losing ground in China: https://econ.st/39ZvUIs How Hollywood should deal with Chinese censors: https://econ.st/2VYlocv Why easier access to space imposes new environmental responsibilities on humanity: https://econ.st/340i8Sp A new moon race has begun: https://econ.st/3qMu7fM
Public Debt: how much is too much? | The Economist
The covid-19 pandemic is set to increase public debt to levels last seen after the second world war. But is rising public debt a cause for concern? New economic thinking suggests perhaps not, at least for now. Further reading: Find The Economist’s most recent coverage of covid-19 here: https://econ.st/31E02VY Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletter to keep up to date with our latest covid-19 coverage: https://econ.st/3ghRh7W Why economics sometimes changes its mind: https://econ.st/3hXRP41 Read more about the debt after covid-19: https://econ.st/2DtpX92 Why governments must beware the lure of free money: https://econ.st/2GufJXf Read about the Fed’s biggest inflation-policy change in decades: https://econ.st/31VyJG0 Why covid-19 could eventually lead to the return of inflation: https://econ.st/354m9X4 Read about the economies that have started to bounce back: https://econ.st/2OM8fzA Why fiscal policy must shift as economies start to recover: https://econ.st/3hnBSDB Read our article on the resilience of banks: https://econ.st/3hjG8E2 Why investors at home and abroad are buy American government debt: https://econ.st/3hYBBaM
Election 2020: What has President Trump done to America? | The Economist
In the 2020 election, President Donald Trump will be judged on his handling of the covid-19 pandemic. But what else will be his legacy if he loses? Further content: Find The Economist’s coverage of the US elections: https://econ.st/3mwsMa4 Sign up to The Economist’s weekly “Checks and Balance” newsletter on American politics: https://econ.st/3l5C4dl See The Economist’s 2020 presidential election forecast: https://econ.st/35JCkI2 Listen to our podcast “Checks and Balance” on American politics: https://econ.st/2EmBIOU Why we’re supporting Joe Biden in the 2020 election: https://econ.st/2HOFKRq If Donald Trump were to win re-election, how would he do it? https://econ.st/3muDKNl Read our briefing on President Trump’s record on domestic policy: https://econ.st/3kIUrUK Why President Trump’s efforts to sow distrust this election may be backfiring: https://econ.st/35FkWEh President Trump’s record on corruption and conflicts-of-interest: https://econ.st/34FbBNn Why President Trump’s criticisms of the world order had some merit: https://econ.st/3mFB13T Read about why America’s economy is beating forecasts: https://econ.st/3msgorN What impact would Joe Biden have on America’s economy? https://econ.st/3myek1A Would a Biden administration be softer on China than Trump was? https://econ.st/37P2mfR
Joe Biden wins: what next for America? | The Economist
Joe Biden has won the race to become America’s next president. Our experts answer your questions on potential court battles, a divided country and the future of America. 00:00 Can Biden reunite America? 01:27 Is Biden’s path to the White House assured? 02:13 Does Trump have grounds for legal challenges? 05:15 Were the polls right? 06:54 Why are Trump’s supporters so hard to poll? 07:25 How did Trump manage to widen his base this election? 09:27 Will Congress pass any of Biden’s proposed legislation? 11:30 Will Biden have to govern by executive order to achieve his policy goals? 12:36 What will Trump do in his remaining time as president? 14:16 Trump did far better than expected. What signal does this send to other populist movements around the world? 15:52 How might a Biden presidency change the relationship between America and China? 19:01 Will the Republican party continue with Trump’s ideology? 22:50 What is The Economist going to be focussing on in the coming days? Further content: Find The Economist’s coverage of the US elections: https://econ.st/3mwsMa4 See our US 2020 presidential election results page: https://econ.st/3k4MN5T Sign up to The Economist’s weekly newsletter on American politics: https://econ.st/3l5C4dl Listen to our podcast “Checks and Balance” on American politics: https://econ.st/2EmBIOU America changes course, while remaining very much the same: https://econ.st/2Ibkje2 Why we support Joe Biden for President: https://econ.st/2HOFKRq Why postal voting may have put the Democrats at a disadvantage: https://econ.st/3l1NSNp What impact would Joe Biden have on America’s economy? https://econ.st/3myek1A Would a Biden administration be softer on China than Trump was? https://econ.st/37P2mfR How the Republican Party has lurched towards populism and illiberalism: https://econ.st/3eC0LLK How Donald Trump exceeded expectations with America’s Latinos: https://econ.st/2GAnY4m How covid-19 shaped America’s state and local elections: https://econ.st/32cO70A
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Celling of Hazrate-Masomeh’s mosque in Qom, Iran, all images courtesy of Mehrdad Rasoulifard (@m1rasoulifard)
Capturing the intricately tiled ceilings of centuries old mosques, Instagram photographer Mehrdad Rasoulifard (@m1rasoulifard) gives his followers both a history lesson and aesthetic treat. The ceilings are not only covered in rich patterns, but architecturally structured to appear like complex tessellations or honeycombs. The mosques are built to include spiraling series of domes and indents, causing the viewer to get lost in their disorienting beauty.
Often Iranian architecture utilizes symbolic geometry, incorporating an abundant use of circles and squares obvious in the photographed buildings’ symmetrical layouts. Popular colors incorporated into these tiled structures include gold, white, and turquoise which are typically layered onto dark blue backgrounds.
The oldest structure photographed is over 900-years-old which hints at the vast architectural history found in Iran. You can see more of the country’s detailed places of worship and observation on Rasoulifard’s Instagram. (via Designboom)
Celling of Hazrate-Masomeh’s mosque in Qom, Iran
Celling of Hazrate-Masomeh’s mosque in Qom, Iran
Celling of Sheikh-Lotfollah’s mosque in Esfahan, Iran
Sheikh Lotfollah mosque in Esfahan,Iran, about 400 years old
Sheikh Lotfollah mosque in Esfahan, Iran, about 400 years old
Celling of Shahe-Cheragh’s mosque in Shiraz, Iran
Celling of Jameh’s mosque in Esfahan, Iran, 900 years old
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Live: Biden introduces appointees for climate, energy team
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President-elect Joe Biden nominated Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary. Buttigieg could be the first LGBTQ Cabinet secretary confirmed by the US Senate. #CNN#News
Kamala Harris on Trump’s election denial, Biden’s COVID-19 policy and economic relief
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Special Report: President-elect Joe Biden addresses the nation after Electoral College affirms hi…
President-elect Joe Biden addressed the country hours after the Electoral College certified his victory. Mr. Biden noted President Trump’s “dozens and dozens of legal challenges” against the election’s results and said “they were found to be without merit.” “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell anchors this CBS News Special Report.
President-elect Biden campaigns in Atlanta for Jon Ossoff
Streamed live 7 hours ago, Dec. 15.2020 PBS NewsHour
The electoral college formalizes Biden’s win, top Republicans and foreign leaders finally come to terms with the election results, and Attorney General William Barr resigns. #DailyShow#TrevorNoah#DonaldTrump
Support your local PBS station here: https://pbs.org/donate Monday on the NewsHour, the U.S. undertakes its largest ever inoculation campaign as deaths from COVID-19 reach 300,000, the Electoral College meets to certify Joe Biden’s win as the Trump campaign continues to deny the election results, Attorney General William Barr is resigning from his post next week, and Congress appear closer to making a deal on an economic relief package. WATCH TODAY’S SEGMENTS Vaccine doses rolled out to Americans for the first time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e2bN… Electoral College certifies Biden’s victory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrt8g… An economic relief deal continues to elude lawmakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1ub… News Wrap: Early voting begins in Georgia’s Senate runoffs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDltJ… Attorney General William Barr to step down, Trump tweets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX_bx… Russia considered likely culprit in major U.S. cyberattack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NtgZ… How childhood trauma is creating a public health crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhLxx… Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Biden’s leadership post-Trump
Full Episode: The Electoral College Affirms Joe Biden’s Victory & the Vaccines Take Off
On Monday, the Electoral College officially confirmed Joe Biden as the president-elect, and some Republicans have started to recognize his victory over President Donald Trump. Meanwhile the country continues to grapple the effects of COVID-19 as stimulus talks near a potential conclusion on Capitol Hill. The panel also discussed the FDA approving the Moderna vaccine and hacks of American national security infrastructure. Panel: Rachel Scott of ABC News, Jonathan Swan of Axios, Susan Davis of National Public Radio Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Extra: President-Elect Joe Biden’s Latest Historic Cabinet Picks
President-elect Joe Biden announced more Cabinet picks this week, including several historic selections. Biden selected Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Deb Haaland to lead the Transportation and Interior Departments, respectively. Buttigieg would be the first LGBTQ Cabinet secretary while Haaland would be the first Native American Cabinet secretary. The panel discussed the president’s Cabinet and what it says about the Biden administration’s priorities. Panel: Rachel Scott of ABC News, Jonathan Swan of Axios, Susan Davis of National Public Radio Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs? Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek? Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek?
Meet The Press Broadcast (Full) – December 13th, 2020 | Meet The Press | NBC News
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Dr. Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, talks to Chuck Todd about the vaccine rollout. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) talks about negotiations in Congress over a Covid relief bill, during an exclusive interview with Meet the Press. In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) talks to Chuck Todd about President Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and the upcoming electoral college vote. Matt Bai, Lanhee Chen and Kristen Welker join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss the president’s court loses as he continues to attempt to overturn the election. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Vice President Pence receives Covid vaccine on live television, Central California reaches zero percent ICU capacity, leaving 27 million vulnerable, and Supreme Court rejects challenge to President Trump census plan. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:24 FDA Authorizes Emergency Use For Moderna’s Vaccine 1:58 Vice President Pence Receives Vaccine On Live TV 2:20 27 States Say Pfizer Vaccine Shipments Slashed 3:36 FDA Authorizes Emergency Use For Moderna’s Vaccine 4:24 Hospitals At Breaking Point As Covid Cases Explode 6:05 Long Lines For Covid Testing Ahead Of Christmas 7:38 Supreme Court Rejects Challenge To Trump Census Plan 9:07 Trump Out Of Sight As U.S. Faces Multiple Crises 10:53 Chicago Mayor Under Fire Over Botched Raid Video 12:16 Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed After 19 Years 15:02 Walmart & TikTok Hosting Livestream Shopping Event 16:33 Colorado’s New Law To Hold Rogue Police Accountable 18:51 Driver Rescued After 10 Hours Trapped In Snow » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
FDA advisers recommend Moderna’s Covid vaccine, powerful winter storm blasts Northeast, and inside effort to track origin of Covid-19. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:58 FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Emergency Use For Moderna Vaccine 3:57 Some States Warn Pfizer Vaccine Shipments Will Be Reduced Next Week 4:34 New Crisis: Southern California Reports 0% ICU Capacity 5:38 Authorities Warn Americans Not To Travel Over Christmas 6:25 New Crisis: Southern California Reports 0% ICU Capacity 7:34 Lawmakers Race To Lock In Covid Relief Deal To Get Americans Support 9:03 Digging Out After One Of The Most Powerful Snowstorms In Years 10:42 New Bodycam Footage Released In Mistaken Chicago Police Raid 12:12 Family Behind Oxycontin Faces First Public Questions On Opioid Epidemic 14:02 U.S.: Russian Hack Of Government Agencies Poses ‘Grave Risk’ 15:19 Russian Flag & Anthem Banned From Next Two Olympics 15:46 Shipping Faces Triple Threat: Weather, Vaccines, & Shopping 17:15 Virus Hunters: Inside Mission To Trace Covid’s Origin » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Massive winter storm hits Northeast, first severe reaction to Covid vaccine reported in U.S., and FBI foils plot to hijack plane in attack targeting U.S. skyscraper. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:33 Monster Nor’easter Slams Several States, Worst In Years 3:25 Where Is Monster Nor’easter Headed Next? 4:24 Healthcare Worker Rushed To E.R. Due To Severe Vaccine Side Effects 5:29 Tens Of Thousands Of Medical Workers Vaccinated This Week 5:57 FDA Advisory Panel To Vote On Moderna Vaccine Tomorrow 6:09 Inside A Covid ICU As California Faces Worst Covid Crisis Yet 7:51 FBI Accuses Man With Ties To Terror Group Of ‘9/11-Style’ Plot 9:00 President Trump Defiant As More Republicans Acknowledge Biden Win 9:22 Report: Trump May For Special Counsel To Investigate Hunter Biden 9:49 Pence & Biden To Get Vaccine Publicly Soon To Boost Confidence 10:22 At-Risk Youth Facility Chain Accused Of Abuse Speaks Out 16:01 Bodycam Footage Of Mistaken Police Raid Sparks Outrage 17:30 Air Pollution Death Ruling 17:43 Landmark Ruling: Pollution Factor In 9-Year-Old’s Death 18:57 MLB: Negro League Now Part Of Major League Baseball 19:15 How To Help: Toy Drive For Kids In Need This Holiday » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Moderna’s Covid vaccine is highly effective, FDA says, President-elect Biden campaigns in Georgia hoping to boost Democrats ahead of runoff, and Georgia family jumps from window to escape house fire. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 2:00 Moderna Vaccine Days Away From FDA Emergency Authorization 2:51 More Frontline Workers Receive Pfizer Vaccine Across U.S. 3:47 FDA Authorizes First At-Home Rapid Covid Test 4:27 Will Hard-Hit Communities Of Color Get Priority Access To Vaccine? 6:20 CDC Predicts 60,000 More Americans Could Die By End Of The Year 7:03 One Third Of Americans Live In Areas With Low ICU Bed Capacity 8:09 Monster Snowstorm Takes Aim At Northeast 9:06 McConnell Acknowledges Biden’s Win For First Time 10:44 Biden Campaigns In Georgia Ahead Of Critical Senate Elections 12:04 How To Help: Growing Food Crisis In Children 16:06 Key Deadline For Affordable Holiday Shipping At Midnight 17:34 Family Describes Harrowing Escape From Burning Home » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews Connect with NBC Nightly News online! NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80 Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNightlyNews.com: https://nbcnews.to/2wFotQ8 Find Nightly News on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2TZ1PhF Follow Nightly News on Twitter: https://bit.ly/1yFY2s4 Follow Nightly News on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2tEncJD NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.” #ModernaVaccine#2020Election#CovidDeath#BidenWin#NBCNews NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) – December 15th, 2020 | NBC Nightly News
First Covid vaccine given in U.S. as distribution begins, U.S. surpasses 300,000 deaths, and Electoral College votes to make President-elect Biden win official. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 2:00 First Vaccinations Begin As U.S. Tops 300,000 Deaths 4:35 Inside One Of First U.S. Hospitals To Receive Vaccine 6:55 Health Officials Work To Build Covid Vaccine Trust 8:48 U.S. Surpasses 300,000 Covid-19 Deaths 9:43 Hospitals Under Siege And Running Out Of ICU Beds 10:45 Attorney General William Barr Resigns 12:03 Electoral College Certifies Joe Biden’s Victory 13:39 Report: Homeland Security Breached By Russian Hackers 14;04 Report: Russian Hit Squad Poisoned Putin Critic 15:27 Major Nor’easter Could Bring Over A Foot Of Snow 16:25 Massive Snowstorm May Delay Holiday Packages 18: Op-Ed Urging Biden To Drop Dr. Title Sparks Backlash » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: December 15 | MSNBC
Watch the top news stories and highlights from The Rachel Maddow Show, airing weeknights at 9 p.m. on MSNBC. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news and in-depth analysis of the headlines, as well as informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Subscribe to MSNBC Newsletter: MSNBC.com/NewslettersYouTube Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Followmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: http://on.msnbc.com/Instamsnbc Watch Rachel Maddow Highlights: December 15 | MSNBC
Attorney General Barr To Step Down On Dec. 23, President Trump Announces In Tweet | Deadline | MSNBC
President Donald Trump said in a tweet that Attorney General William Barr is resigning. Trump said Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen would become Acting AG after Barr’s departure. Aired on 12/14/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About Deadline White House: Before getting into cable news, Nicolle Wallace worked in politics, including as President George W. Bush’s communications director during his administration and for his 2004 re-election campaign. Those experiences helped contribute to the knowledge and unique point of view she brings to this program. Wallace leads dynamic discussions on the political stories driving the news cycle with Washington insiders and well-sourced journalists. She also provides in-depth reporting while delivering up-to-the-minute breaking news to viewers.
Watch The 11th Hour With Brian Williams Highlights: December 14 | MSNBC
Get the latest news and commentary from Brian Williams weeknights on The 11th Hour. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news and in-depth analysis of the headlines, as well as informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Subscribe to MSNBC Newsletter: MSNBC.com/NewslettersYouTube Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Followmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: http://on.msnbc.com/Instamsnbc Watch The 11th Hour With Brian Williams Highlights: December 14 | MSNBC
Glenn Kirschner: ‘It’s Going To Start Raining Pardons’ | The Last Word | MSNBC
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss Attorney General William Barr’s resignation letter and why he thinks Barr “already has his presidential pardon in his back pocket.” Aired on 12/15/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of “The West Wing,” Lawrence O’Donnell examines the compelling and impactful political stories of the day. O’Donnell convenes diverse panels of guests, including a variety of politicians and cultural voices, to offer unique viewpoints and perspective. In his signature style, O’Donnell highlights the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national conversation.
Trump NSA Cuts Short Official Europe Trip With Wife After Russian Hack Discovered | Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow reports on a rare sighting of shame in the waning days of the Trump administration as Trump NSA Robert O’Brien, who brought his wife on an official trip to Europe in the midst of the spiking coronavirus pandemic, returned home early to deal with the discovery of a Russian hack of U.S. agencies on a massive scale. Aired on 12/16/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Rachel Maddow Show: Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow seeks to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that’s illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective. MSNBC delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis of politics headlines, as well as commentary and informed perspectives. Find video clips and segments from The Rachel Maddow Show, Morning Joe, Meet the Press Daily, The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, Hardball, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more.
Bill Barr Resigns, Signaling DOJ’s Return to the Rule of Law. Here’s a List of Barr’s Greatest Hits
Attorney General William Barr is arguably the most corrupt AG in our nations’s history, eclipsing even John Mitchell, Richard Nixon’s AG who served 19 months in prison for Watergate crimes. Here is 1. a review of Barr’s resignation letter – a remarkable work of fiction – praising Trump’s “unprecedented accomplishments” and 2. a short review of some of Bill Barr’s legal transgressions. Just as justice came for John Mitchell, so will justice come for Bill Barr. Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner” can be downloaded where you get your podcasts.
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‘We Need Brain’: Top 10 Funniest Politics Videos of 2020 | NowThis
Here were the year’s top 10 videos that made us LOL, many of which feature President Donald Trump. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis From his wild scientific theories to his unprecedented ‘knowledge’ of windmills and bleach, Trump made us laugh almost as much as he made us cry. For more 2020 roundups, follow NowThis News. #Trump #2020 #Funny#News#NowThis#NowThisNews Connect with NowThis » Like us on Facebook: http://go.nowth.is/News_Facebook » Tweet us on Twitter: http://go.nowth.is/News_Twitter » Follow us on Instagram: http://go.nowth.is/News_Instagram » Find us on Snapchat Discover: http://go.nowth.is/News_Snapchat NowThis is your premier news outlet providing you with all the videos you need to stay up to date on all the latest in trending news. From entertainment to politics, to viral videos and breaking news stories, we’re delivering all you need to know straight to your social feeds. We live where you live. http://www.youtube.com/nowthisnews @nowthisnews
Who Is Kelly Loeffler? Narrated by Natalie Portman | NowThis
Kelly Loeffler is an unelected incumbent Republican senator from Georgia whose shady financial maneuverings and refusal to acknowledge the actual winner of the presidential election have made headlines nationwide. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis As Kelly Loeffler’s re-election bid goes to a runoff against Democrat Raphael Warnock in January 2021, let’s take a look at the career of a WNBA co-owner turned legislator on behalf of a state that did not vote for her. Natalie Portman narrates the story of Kelly Lynn Loeffler. For more videos like this, follow NowThis News. #KellyLoeffler#NataliePortman#Georgia#News#NowThis#NowThisNews
Who Is David Perdue? Narrated by Ed Helms | NowThis
David Perdue is one of two incumbent GOP senators with a seat up for grabs in Georgia’s January runoffs, where he will face off against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff… (continued below). » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe? » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis? And in case you didn’t already know, the lifelong CEO-turned-U.S. senator has a proven track record of being shady — in fact, just this year, Perdue failed to warn the American public about the coronavirus pandemic before capitalizing on it for personal gain and launched an anti-Semitic ad campaign against his opponent. So how did this fierce Trump ally who looks and acts like a bad guy in a Disney Channel Original Movie find himself in a position to make or break Republican control of the Senate? ?: Ed Helms For more U.S. politics and 2020 election coverage, subscribe to NowThis News. #DavidPerdue? #EdHelms? #Georgia? #Election? #Politics? #News? #NowThis? #NowThisNews? Connect with NowThis » Like us on Facebook: http://go.nowth.is/News_Facebook? » Tweet us on Twitter: http://go.nowth.is/News_Twitter? » Follow us on Instagram: http://go.nowth.is/News_Instagram? » Find us on Snapchat Discover: http://go.nowth.is/News_Snapchat? NowThis is your premier news outlet providing you with all the videos you need to stay up to date on all the latest in trending news. From entertainment to politics, to viral videos and breaking news stories, we’re delivering all you need to know straight to your social feeds. We live where you live. http://www.youtube.com/nowthisnews? @nowthisnews
Does Vitamin D help with Immunity? || Vitamin D and Covid 19
Does Vitamin D help with Immunity? || Vitamin D and Covid 19 #covid#covid19#coronavirus COVID Update Today by Doctor Mike Hansen (YouTube Video Playlist) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… Hopefully, YT does not take this video down, as it’s all based on medical studies. If they keep doing this, I will have to upload my videos to a different website. The Vitamin D supplement that I take: https://amzn.to/2zjaqqb Mentioned Video: Vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) and Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol) and Calcitriol Video Link: https://youtu.be/yf8uYzgMsEw So what does not having enough vitamin D have to do with COVID 19? And IF insufficient vitamin D levels CAUSE more severe disease, why is that? Well, I have to first clarify that it’s not proven that insufficient vitamin D levels lead to worse outcomes. But while it hasn’t been proven, it also certainly hasn’t been disproven. And there is more and more compelling evidence suggesting that lower levels lead to worse outcomes. And there’s no question that vitamin D plays an important role in our immune system. More and more studies are coming out that are sorting out its exact role in this capacity. But the link between poor vitamin D status and risk of certain infections remains cloudy. In 2017, a meta-analysis study consisted of 25 different randomized trials with about 11,000 patients in total, evaluating the incidence of acute respiratory infection. Vitamin D supplementation reduced the percentage of patients experiencing an acute respiratory tract infection. The incidence of URTI in the vitamin D group was 40.3%, compared to 42.2% in the placebo group. In a subgroup analysis, vitamin D supplementation was most effective in patients with vitamin D levels less than 10 ng/mL and those treated daily or weekly smaller doses instead of a huge single dose. The takeaway from this meta-analysis study is that being vitamin d deficient probably makes people more prone to getting upper respiratory infections and should take supplemental vitamin D. But people who have low levels should be taking supplemental vitamin D regardless. Vitamin D has major effects on nearly all our immune system cells, including dendritic cells, macrophages, and T and B lymphocytes. These immune cells have a receptor that binds to vitamin D, called the vitamin D receptor, or VDR. Here are some questions we still need answers to: 1) what level of vitamin D is adequate to protect against or minimize the impact of COVID 19? 2) What level of vitamin D is considered too high 3) should more and more people get their vitamin D levels checked, especially during this pandemic, when fewer and fewer people are physically going to the doctor? 4) should people just supplement themselves? If so, how much? These are all tough questions to answer, especially because we won’t have RCT results for vitamin D anytime soon. Given that low dose, vitamin D is pretty darn safe, it seems quite reasonable for people to take a low dose supplement, especially if they think they might not be getting enough from sunlight or their diet. Of course, ideally, you want to have a discussion with your doctor if possible. A common question is, How much Vitamin D should I take a day? Personally, I take 1,000 IU per day. I know that I’m not going to run anywhere near toxic levels of vitamin D with that dose, while at the same time, I know that I won’t be vitamin D deficient. Doctor Mike Hansen, MD Internal Medicine | Pulmonary Disease | Critical Care Medicine Website: https://doctormikehansen.com/ IG Account: http://instagram.com/doctor.hansen/ FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/DoctorMikeHa…#covid#covid19#coronavirus
Street Art Utopia: Street Art by Alice – A Collection
Alice Pasquini is an artist multimedia based in Roma : painting, illustration, installations and animation are her main tools to create her poetical and hopeful artworks. Her main subject is feminity, with a stress put on strong and independant woman.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine’s 2020 Person of the Year. The magazine also honored frontline health workers, the organizers of the racial justice movement, and the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, with the title Guardian of the Year. Time senior correspondent Charlotte Alter joined CBSN to discuss the choices.
Biden urges Americans to mask up for his first 100 days
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris discuss ways that they will address the coronavirus pandemic once they take office. #CNN#News
President-elect Biden speaks with workers and small business owners — 12/2/2020
President-elect Joe Biden has named Kate Bedingfield as White House communications director and Jen Psaki as his press secretary. He is also set to formally name key members of his economic team, with the long-expected announcement of Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary. #CNN#News
Donald Trump admits ‘it’s hard to get to the Supreme Court’ as legal options dwindle
CNN’s Amara Walker, Carl Bernstein and Brian Stelter discuss President Trump’s admission during a Fox News interview that “it’s hard” to get cases to the Supreme Court and how Trump’s continued legal challenges could undermine future election processes. #CNN#News
President Donald Trump has fought to stay in power, and now with the Electoral College expected to confirm President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory on Monday, the President continues to rage. The panel also discussed Republicans’ support of Trump’s baseless claims, and whether Congress can pass a relief bill before the end of the year. Panel: Molly Ball of TIME Magazine, Errin Haines of The 19th, Philip Rucker of The Washington Post Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Extra: A Look at President-Elect Biden’s Future Cabinet
President-Elect Joe Biden is committed to having his Cabinet ‘look like America.” But as pressure arises from civil rights leaders pushing to diversify the cabinet, Biden has already made some historic, and some controversial picks. The panel discussed what Americans can expect when it comes to the new Cabinet. Panel: Molly Ball of TIME Magazine, Errin Haines of The 19th, Philip Rucker of The Washington Post Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Full Episode: President Donald Trump Fights On & President-elect Joe Biden Looks Ahead
President Donald Trump has continued to remain noncompliant about the election results, sparking outrage and forcing officials to speak out against his baseless claims. Meanwhile, President-elect Joe Biden is discussing plans to improve the American economy with a diverse team of advisors, as a COVID-19 stimulus package may be on the way. The panel also discussed what is happening inside the White House as Trump is leaving office and the fate of the Georgia runoff elections. Panel: Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, Ayesha Rascoe of National Public Radio, Annie Linskey of The Washington Post Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
WashWeek Bookshelf: “Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and The Fight For Western Civilization”
Joe Scarborough, host of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, discussed his latest book “Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and The Fight For Western Civilization.” The conversation focuses on Truman’s establishment of modern U.S. foreign policy after World War II and what President-elect Joe Biden can learn from the former president. Panel: Joe Scarborough of MSNBC Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Exclusive interviews with Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.). Plus, Gabriel Sterling, Voting System Implementation Manager for the State of Georgia, explains why he went public with his concerns over intimidation. Steve Kornacki, Kimberly Atkins, Jeff Mason and Danielle Pletka join the Meet the Press roundtable to discuss President Trump’s campaign rally in Georgia. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and original digital videos. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations.
U.S. hits highest daily death toll, pregnant and nursing women await more guidance on Covid vaccine, and Supreme Court rejects election lawsuit backed by President Trump. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews00:00 Intro 1:30 FDA Authorizes Pfizer Vaccine 4:24 Ultra-Cold Pfizer Vaccine Poses Rollout Challenges 6:01 U.S. Hits Daily Records For Covid Deaths & Cases 6:20 NYC Hospitalization Surge, Bans Indoor Dining 6:35 Los Angeles Country Death Toll Higher Than 39 States 6:56 Cities Declare Emergency, Hospitals Of ICU Beds 8:01 Should Pregnant Women Get The Covid Vaccine? 9:56 Zodiac Killer’s Riddle Solved After 51 Years 11:49 Supreme Court Rejects Election Lawsuit Backed By Trump 12:34 Trump Acknowledges Incoming Biden Administration 13:12 Biden Picks More Obama Veterans For Top Roles 13:37 Electoral College To Certify Biden’s Win Next Week 13:54 Weekend Winter Storm Sweeps Across The U.S. 14:44 Doctor Who Treated Covid Patients Dies From Virus 16:39 Fact Check On High-Tech Vaccine Tracking Devices 18:05 Major Holiday Shipping Deadline Arrives Tonight
FDA panel endorses emergency use of Pfizer Covid vaccine, Americans call on Congress for pandemic relief, and how the pandemic is impacting life for many Americans with disabilities. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:59 FDA Advisory Panel Recommends Pfizer Vaccine Authorization 4:27 Health Care Workers To Receive First Vaccine Doses 6:13 New Tests Look At Vaccine Safety In Kids 7:40 Answering Your Covid-19 Vaccine Questions 9:06 Record 3,000+ Covid Deaths In U.S. In Single Day 9:35 Inside Covid ICU Pushed To The Brink 11:33 100+ House Republicans Back Longshot Election Lawsuit 12:04 Trump Falsely Claims He Can Win At W.H. Hanukkah Party 12:18 Investigators Examining Hunter Biden’s Dealings In China 12:49 Biden Taps Susan Rice For Domestic Policy Adviser 13:12 Unemployment Rises With Millions Set To Lose Benefits 14:25 4-Year-Old Rescued From Well In ‘Christmas Miracle’ 15:11 Clorox Top Executive On Race To Meet Wipes Demand 17:17 Families With Special Needs Hit Hard By Pandemic » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
U.K. issues allergy warning for Pfizer’s Covid vaccine, Covid cases rising as U.S. begins to see Thanksgiving spike, and what to know about shipping deadlines as online holiday shopping surges. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 2:02 Allergy Warning Issued For Pfizer Covid Vaccine 4:38 Holiday Surge Pushes Hospitals Beyond The Brink 6:41 Inside Vaccine Rollout With FDA Vote Hours Away 8:46 Oxford Vaccine Scientist Urges Rapid FDA Approval 10:23 Facebook Hit With Massive Antitrust Lawsuit 10:50 Hunter Biden Says Taxes Under Federal Investigation 12:08 Trump Moves To Join Supreme Court Election Lawsuit 13:37 John Kerry Speaks Out On Climate ‘Moonshot’ Mission 16:02 Casey Goodson Shooting New 911 Call Released 17:43 Holiday Shipping Deadline Arrives This Week 19:06 SpaceX Unmanned Starship Explodes Upon Landing » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews Connect with NBC Nightly News online! NBC News App: https://smart.link/5d0cd9df61b80 Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNightlyNews.com: https://nbcnews.to/2wFotQ8 Find Nightly News on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2TZ1PhF Follow Nightly News on Twitter: https://bit.ly/1yFY2s4 Follow Nightly News on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2tEncJD NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.” #SpaceX#PfizerCovidVaccine#JohnKerry#ElectionLawsuit#NBCNews NBC Nightly News Broadcast (Full) – December 9th, 2020 | NBC Nightly News
Trump has failed to protect to the people he’s supposed to lead – Legendary journalist Bob Woodward
Legendary journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein talk to Anderson Cooper about President Trump’s legacy and his remaining time in office. #CNN#News
Christopher Krebs Debunks The President’s Lies About Election Fraud
Former Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Christopher Krebs, was publicly fired by the president on Twitter for declaring the presidential election secure. He sits down with Stephen to discuss the need for Republican leaders to stand up for American democracy, and to debunk some of the lies the president is spreading about election fraud. #Colbert#Krebs#ChristopherKrebs
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Laurence Tribe tells Lawrence O’Donnell that if Trump tried to pardon himself, his argument would not hold up in court because it goes against the principle that no one is above the law: “If that were the case, then the president would not be below the law, he’d be above it.” Aired on 12/4/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of “The West Wing,” Lawrence O’Donnell examines the compelling and impactful political stories of the day. O’Donnell convenes diverse panels of guests, including a variety of politicians and cultural voices, to offer unique viewpoints and perspective. In his signature style, O’Donnell highlights the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national conversation.
Biden, Obama, Bush And Clinton Willing To Get Covid-19 Vaccine On Camera | The Last Word | MSNBC
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious diseases physician, tells Lawrence O’Donnell that it’s a “good move” to increase public trust for President-elect Joe Biden and former Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton to get a Covid-19 vaccine publicly. Aired on 12/4/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Lawrence: ‘Your Generosity For K.I.N.D. Has Left Me In Awe’ | The Last Word | MSNBC
This Giving Tuesday, viewers demonstrated their generosity for Kids In Need of Desks. Learn how you can donate desks and girls’ scholarships to students in Malawi at lastworddesks.msnbc.com. Aired on 12/3/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
In Oymyakon, the cold controls everything. The town is located in eastern part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), which belongs to Russia and is know as the world’s Pole of Cold. Nevertheless every morning the children march to school, the youngest just 6 years old. Making their way by temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius. Such circumstances would seem completely inconceivable for Europeans, but in the coldest town in the world, it is the beginning of an ordinary day. At least there is a school bus. But does it still work by temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius? The temperature controls the entire life here, not just the way to school. Running water? The pipes are broken, which is not surprising when the water literally freezes in the air. The inhabitants must melt blocks of ice in order to obtain water. How do the humans, the animals and the nature survive in such a unreal region? This film provides the answer.
In what could be interpreted as a tongue-in-cheek warning about not wearing a mask during the times of COVID-19, residents of Totterdown, Bristol, awoke to a new mural by the elusive artist Banksy. The work depicts an older pensioner sneezing her dentures out while subsequently knocking down an entire row of houses—a staged photo shared by the artist includes a tumbling man being knocked asunder by the germy gust. A wide shot reveals the location as Vale Street, noted for being the steepest street in Britain at a 22-degree incline. The new piece comes a few months after another site-specific work in Nottingham featuring a girl using a disassembled bicycle wheel as a hula hoop.
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On this edition for Saturday, November 28, a record number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized as cases soar across the nation while travel restrictions are keeping hundreds of American Samoans from returning home for the holidays. Michael Hill anchors from New Jersey. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
COVID-19 case numbers are hitting record highs as outbreaks are appearing nationwide right before the holiday season. With millions struggling, the biggest question is, what’s next? The panel discusses what the future holds for America as vaccines arrive, and how a deeply divided Congress can impact future COVID-19 legislation. Panel: Fareed Zakaria of CNN, Yasmeen Abutaleb of The Washington Post, Sarah Kliff of The New York Times Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter:
The Washington Week Bookshelf: Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS”discussed his latest book “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.” The discussion covered the consequences of the pandemic and how COVID-19 could reshape the nation and the world, globalization and the digital age. Panel: Fareed Zakaria of CNN Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
Covid-19 hospitalizations hit record high on Thanksgiving, testing lines long across the U.S., and Black Friday online sales soar as shipping pressure grows. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:45 U.S.COVID Cases Pass 13 Million, Hospitalizations Hit Record Highs 3:16 Hospital Staffing Shortages Feared As Cases Surge 4:00 Record Numbers Lining Up For COVID Tests Nationwide 4:52 The Race For New High-Speed Testing Methods 7:15 Black Friday Online Sales Shatter Records 8:32 How To Get Free Shipping Online 9:05 Iran: Top Nuclear Scientist Has Been Assassinated 10:48 Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim Of Voter Fraud In PA 11:37 Trump Says He’ll Leave White House Once Biden Victory Finalized 12:53 President Trump To Campaign For Georgia Senate Candidates 13:10 Power Cut To Thousands To Prevent New Wildfires 13:33 Historic Monuments Vandalized Across Country 15:02 Race To Keep Nursing Home Residents & Staff Safe 15:59 PPE And Staff Shortages Threaten America’s Nursing Homes » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
President Trump says it will be ‘a very hard thing’ to concede, health experts fear a spike in Covid-19 cases after Thanksgiving, and Americans in need form long lines at nation’s food banks. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:54 Trump Says He’s Not Conceding, Answering First Questions Since Election 3:42 Trump Says He’ll Go To Georgia Ahead Of The Runoff Election 4:25 Trump Says Vaccine Will Be Distributed Next Week, Despite FDA & CDC Timeline 4:48 Thanksgiving Travel Increases COVID Concerns As The Virus Surges 7:00 AstraZeneca Admits To Mistakes In Vaccine Trial, May Run More Testing 8:10 Hospitals Face Mounting Staffing Shortages As COVID Worsens 8:38 U.S. Air Force Deploys Extra Medical Help To North Dakota 10:16 Long Lines At Food Banks As Many Americans Face Deepening Crisis 12:03 American Jobs Crisis: The Jobs Hit Hardest By The Pandemic 13:51 Inside The Massive COVID Testing Effort In The Beatles’ Hometown 15:32 How To Get The Best Black Friday Deals Online 17:05 Kamala Harris Makes Surprise Call To Teen To Thank Him For Portrait 17:43 Joe Biden And Kamala Harris’ Ancestral Connections Abroad » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
President Trump pardons former national security adviser Michael Flynn, long lines form at food banks ahead of Thanksgiving, and President-elect Biden says he was ‘confident’ he would win election in exclusive interview. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 1:25 Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Who Pled Guilty To Lying To The FBI 3:10 Biden Urges Americans To Take COVID Precautions Ahead Of Holiday 3:35 Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Who Pled Guilty To Lying To The FBI 4:48 Airports & Roads Packed Despite CDC Thanksgiving Warning 5:57 18 States Require Out-Of-State Arrivals To Test Or Quarantine 6:34 Airports & Roads Packed Despite CDC Thanksgiving Warning 7:41 States Enact Restrictions Ahead Of Thanksgiving To Stem Record Surge 9:15 FDA Authorizes New Antibody Test For Levels Of COVID Protection 9:25 Long Lines At Food Banks Across The U.S. As Demand Doubles 10:59 Biden On Election: ‘I Was Confident’ We Would Win 12:00 Biden: ‘I Believe That I Can Unite This Country’ 13:13 Inside Europe’s Fight To Save Christmas 15:56 How Stores Are Trying To Keep Shoppers Safe 16:37 Meghan Markle Opens Up About Her Pregnancy Loss » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Dr. John Torres answers viewers’ weekly questions. Inspiring Kids series continues: these twins’ random act of kindness is blooming in this Idaho town. The National Zoo invited the public to help choose a name for the giant panda cub born over the summer – Lester Holt reveals the winning name! This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will go on with a few changes – we will give you a sneak peek. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and original digital videos. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations.
CNN News: Iran vows revenge after top nuclear scientist apparently assassinated, Nov 28, 2020
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge and to continue the country’s “scientific” activities after the killing of the country’s chief nuclear scientist, as top Iranian officials pile blame on Israel over the killing. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who became the face of Iran’s controversial nuclear program, was killed in a district east of Tehran, in what Iranian officials are calling an assassination.
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President Trump pushes baseless voter fraud claims as more of his campaign lawsuits fail
President Trump is still refusing to accept the results of the 2020 election, casting false doubt on the 80 million votes President-elect Biden received en route to his victory. Political reporter Eugene Scott of the Washington Post joined CBSN to break down the president’s baseless claims from the holiday weekend.
Experts Worry Trump Can’t Be Trusted With Nation’s Secrets After Leaving Office | NBC News NOW Nov 27, 2020 NBC News
Some ex-intelligence officials are saying that when President Donald Trump leaves office, he should not receive access to classified information about the country’s national security secrets. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#PresidentDonaldTrump#NationsSecrets#NBCNews Experts Worry Trump Can’t Be Trusted With Nation’s Secrets After Leaving Office | NBC News NOW
President Trump and President-elect Biden to throw their weight behind Georgia Senate candidates Nov 27, 2020 CBS News
After his Thanksgiving conference call with members of the military, President Trump confirmed he plans to travel to Georgia to help incumbent Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue win reelection. President-elect Biden also plans to visit the Peach State to support Democratic challengers Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Georgia Public Broadcasting Reporter Stephen Fowler breaks down the impact these visits could have on the runoff races and gives us the latest in Georgia politics. Subscribe to the CBS News Channel HERE: https://bit.ly/2uz8qYE Watch CBSN live HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1PlLpZ7 Follow CBS News on Instagram HERE: https://www.instagram.com/cbsnews/ Like CBS News on Facebook HERE: http://facebook.com/cbsnews Follow CBS News on Twitter HERE: http://twitter.com/cbsnews Get the latest news and best in original reporting from CBS News delivered to your inbox. Subscribe to newsletters HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1RqHw7T Get your news on the go! Download CBS News mobile apps HERE: http://cbsn.ws/1Xb1WC8 Get new episodes of shows you love across devices the next day, stream CBSN and local news live, and watch full seasons of CBS fan favorites like Star Trek Discovery anytime, anywhere with CBS All Access. Try it free! http://bit.ly/1OQA29B — CBSN is the first digital streaming news network that will allow Internet-connected consumers to watch live, anchored news coverage on their connected TV and other devices. At launch, the network is available 24/7 and makes all of the resources of CBS News available directly on digital platforms with live, anchored coverage 15 hours each weekday. CBSN. Always On.
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Photographs by Guy Reece, courtesy of Extinction Rebellion
Over the weekend of November 10, activist group Extinction Rebellion launched a dramatic installation in London’s River Thames. “Our House is Flooding” was comprised of a life-size brick house, complete with flood lights, a security camera, and a satellite dish, sunken into the British capital’s major waterway.
“Sadly, climate-change is something that affects every one of us. We want to respectfully raise awareness of the severity of the impending human-made disaster,” said Katey Burak and Rob Higgs, who co-built the house. “We wanted to make something that people can visually connect to, whilst leaning on the government and the experts to make the changes that need to be made. Until they make the big legal and financial changes, it’s very hard for people like me or you to make significant changes to protect ourselves and the world around us.”
The impact of climate change on the oceans is inextricably linked to the safety and health of land-bound humans and animals as well. In another chilling example of the immediate effects of climate change and rising sea levels, the world’s foremost art event, the Venice Biennale, was shut down just a few days after “Our House is Flooding”, due to damaging sea surges and floods in the fragile Italian city.
Keep up with Extinction Rebellion’s actions that fight for ecological and social justice on Instagram and Twitter, and find ways to get involved on the organization’s global website. (via Hyperallergic)
Act Now: Our House is Flooding | Extinction Rebellion
Extinction Rebellion activists staged an action on the river Thames in London. A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river (in the early hours of Sunday 10th November) sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send an SOS to the government on climate inaction and draw attention to the threat humans face from climate change and rising sea levels. Representing the disastrous realities of projected sea level rises, perhaps the stunt was unnecessary. As the ongoing flood disaster in Derbyshire and Yorkshire has so starkly illustrated, our homes, businesses and families are at very real risk. We are watching, in real-time, as people’s lives are destroyed around the world and in the UK. Unless action is taken to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero these tragedies are set to worsen. Read more: https://Rebellion.Earth/2019/11/10/ac… Video courtesy of Zoe Broughton Join the rebellion: https://Rebellion.Earth/ International: https://Rebellion.Global/#EverybodyNow 1. #TellTheTruth 2. #ActNow 3. #BeyondPolitics World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups: http://bit.ly/2IGXuM7 Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionRe… Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ExtinctionR…
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Biden Introduces Foreign Policy And National Security Nominees | NBC News
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Watch as President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks and introduces key foreign policy and national security nominees and appointments. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Biden Discusses Plans For First 100 Days In Exclusive Interview | NBC Nightly News
In an exclusive interview with Lester Holt, President-elect Joe Biden discusses his priorities for his first 100 days in office, whether he supports investigations into President Trump, and how his administration would approach racial injustice. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and original digital videos. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations.
Exclusive: One-On-One With Biden In First Post-Election Interview | NBC Nightly News
In his first interview since the election, President-elect Joe Biden speaks with Lester Holt about his cabinet picks, the formal transition of power, his plan for distributing the Covid-19 vaccine and reopening schools. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and original digital videos. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations.
As President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday continued to ratchet up his cabinet after weeks of delays in the White House transition process, President Trump and White House aides sent contradictory messaging about the handover of power. White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the transition. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Harris Praises National Security Team That ‘Reflects The Best Of Our Nation’ | NBC News
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris praised the nominees and appointees that will serve on the national security team for the Biden administration. She claimed the team introduced “reflects the best of our nation.” » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Analysis: Biden Cabinet Picks ‘Collegial,’ ‘Not A Team Of Rivals’ | NBC News
President-elect Joe Biden has announced six of his Cabinet nominees, from secretary of state to national security advisor. NBC News’ Geoff Bennett reports on Biden’s choices, who while not well-known to the American public are highly respected in their own agencies and are decidedly uncontroversial, in order to appear palatable to a divided Senate. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! NBC News App: https://apps.nbcnews.com/mobile Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/bre… Visit NBCNews.Com: http://nbcnews.to/ReadNBC Find NBC News on Facebook: http://nbcnews.to/LikeNBC Follow NBC News on Twitter: http://nbcnews.to/FollowNBC Follow NBC News on Instagram: http://nbcnews.to/InstaNBC#JoeBiden#CabinetNominees#NBCNews Analysis: Biden Cabinet Picks ‘Collegial,’ ‘Not A Team Of Rivals’ | NBC News
Biden, Harris Speak After Meeting with National Governors Association | NBC News
Watch live coverage as President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris deliver remarks after a virtual meeting with the National Governors Association’s executive committee. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News is a leading source of global news and information. Here you will find clips from NBC Nightly News, Meet The Press, and original digital videos. Subscribe to our channel for news stories, technology, politics, health, entertainment, science, business, and exclusive NBC investigations.
President-elect Joe Biden talks exclusively with Lester Holt in his first interview since the election. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 02:03 Biden On Cabinet Picks: ‘This Is Not A Third Obama Term’ 3:20 Biden Not Opposed To Nominating Republican To Cabinet 3:50 Biden: Nothing ‘Off The Table’ Re: Sanders & Warren In Cabinet 4:31 Biden On Transition Shift: ‘Immediately We’ve Gotten Outreach’ 5:20 Biden On Transition Delay: ‘We’re Not’ Behind The Curve 5:41 Biden: ‘I Have Not Heard Anything From President Trump’ 6:27 Biden: Doctors, Nurses & First Responders Should ‘Go First’ On Vaccine 8:12 Biden: We Need ‘United Voice’ On Masks, Social Distancing, Testing, Tracing 9:10 Biden: We Should Focus On Opening Schools As Rapidly As We Can 11:09 Travelers Ignore CDC Warnings As COVID Cases Surge 12:10 Food Banks See Long Lines Ahead Of Thanksgiving 12:55 Biden Says He’ll Tackle Immigration & Climate Change In First 100 Days 14:10 Biden Gets Personal On Economy, Commits To Helping ‘Millions On The Edge’ 15:58 Biden Says He Won’t Use DOJ To Investigate Trump 16:42 Biden: ‘There Has To Be Accountability’ For Cops ‘Who Act Out’ » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
TSA sees highest passenger screening since mid-March, FDA approves Regeneron’s Covid-19 antibody treatment, and more than 83,000 Americans hospitalized due to Covid-19.
On this edition for Sunday, November 22nd, another setback for the Trump administration as more states move to certify the election results, COVID-19 cases surge ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday as experts warn against travel, and, reckoning with history, a Maryland college unveils a memorial to enslaved peoples. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
On this edition for Sunday, November 21, hospitalizations continue to climb as COVID-19 cases break more records, an expert explains the relationship between climate change and extreme weather, such as hurricanes, and Art Garfunkel offers fresh insight on his time in the iconic duo Simon & Garfunkel, and his relationship with Paul Simon. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Trump makes fourth public appearance since election and does not take questions
President Trump made his fourth public appearance since Election Day on Friday, when he held a news conference to discuss his administration’s efforts to reduce the price of prescription drugs. The president did not take questions about his unproven claims of widespread voter fraud or his campaign’s ongoing efforts to overturn the results of the election. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid and CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe join Lana Zak to discuss.
Michigan Votes To Certify Election Results, Declaring Biden Victory | NBC News NOW
The Michigan State Board of Canvassers voted Monday to certify the state’s presidential election results, a victory for President-elect Joe Biden and a major blow to President Donald Trump’s withering effort to contest the results. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.
Biden To Nominate Janet Yellen For Treasury Secretary | Ayman Mohyeldin | MSNBC
NBC News confirms President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Janet Yellen for Treasury secretary. She would be the first woman to hold that position. Previously, Yellen served as the chair of the Federal Reserve during the Obama administration. Aired on 11/23/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Lieutenant Governors Of PA And Michigan Discuss Election Certification Process | Katy Tur | MSNBC
Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman and Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist join Katy Tur to discuss the court cases the Trump administration is pursuing and the process to certify election results in their states. Aired on 11/23/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About Katy Tur: Katy Tur is an NBC News Correspondent and anchor of the 2 p.m. ET hour of “MSNBC Live.” A dogged journalist, Tur emerged as a breakout broadcaster in 2016 while covering the entirety of the Trump campaign across all platforms for NBC News and MSNBC.
Rep. Slotkin Says ‘The Faster This Ends The Better’ As Michigan Heads To Certify Election Results
Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss the state of Michigan certifying votes today and Biden cabinet picks. On the expected nomination of Tony Blinken as Secretary of State, Rep. Slotkin says that Blinke, “knows Joe Biden extremely well. You’re not going to have a scene between them. That’s because as we reinvigorate our role in American leadership-you need to know that person has the backing 100% of the president.” Aired on 11/23/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About Andrea Mitchell: Andrea Mitchell is NBC News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” an hour of political news and interviews with top newsmakers that airs each weekday at 12 p.m. ET on MSNBC. In addition to politics, Mitchell covers foreign policy, intelligence and national security issues, including the diplomacy of Secretary of State John Kerry, for all NBC News and MSNBC properties.
Biden Transition Announces National Security Team Selections | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC
NBC’s Geoff Bennett reports as the Biden transition team announces new selections to serve in national security positions. These include Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Latino nominee to run the Department of Homeland Security, and John Kerry, who will serve as a special envoy for climate. Aired on 11/23/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Trump Dismantles Decades-Old Surveillance Treaty Irreparably On His Way Out The Door | Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow describes how Donald Trump in his lame duck period has not only abruptly removed the U.S from the decades old Open Skies Treaty that supplies the U.S. and its allies with surveillance data on Russian military activities, but has taken steps to dispose of the program’s specialized planes and removed the option of replacing them. Aired on 11/24/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
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Michigan State Official Joins Dems to Certify Biden’s Victory | NowThis
‘We must not attempt to exercise power we simply don’t have’ — A Republican state official in Michigan joined Democrats to certify the state’s election results. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis For more U.S. politics and 2020 election coverage, subscribe to NowThis News. #Michigan#Biden#Politics#Trump#News#NowThis#NowThisNews
The End of a Presidency: Trump’s Loss in a Divided America | Fault Lines
As the Democrats take back the White House, what does the 2020 presidential election say about the future of US politics? Despite Joe Biden’s win, tens of millions of Americans chose Donald Trump for a second term. How the Republican party relates to this bloc of voters – along with the ideology Trump represents – is now central to its strategic direction. For the Democrats, an old guard embodied by Joe Biden and a new generation of progressives are in a contest for influence over the party’s vision. In The End of a Presidency: Trump’s Loss in a Divided America, Fault Lines explores how Trump changed the presidency, and where the two parties will go next. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/
Good morning. Biden introduces his foreign policy team. The Dow breaks 30,000. And Pennsylvania is banning alcohol sales.
Joe Biden with Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2011.Peter Parks/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
How Biden will confront China
The presidents who came just before Donald Trump took a mostly hopeful view of China. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and the two George Bushes all tried to integrate China into the global economy and political system. Doing so, they believed, could persuade China to accept international rules and become more democratic.
China used access to the world’s markets to grow richer on its own terms. It rejected many international rules — on intellectual property, for example — while becoming more authoritarian at home. As a recent Times story puts it, China has adopted “increasingly aggressive and at times punitive policies that force countries to play by its rules.”
Trump is not a close student of international affairs, but he evidently grasped China’s ambitions in ways that his predecessors did not. He treated it as what it almost certainly is: America’s most serious threat since the Soviet Union.
Trump’s China policy had a different weakness, in the eyes of many experts and foreign diplomats. He antagonized allies who are also worried about China’s rise, rather than building a coalition with Japan, Europe, Australia and others. As Keyu Jin, a Chinese economist at the London School of Economics, has written, Trump has been “a strategic gift” for China.
Soon, it will be Joe Biden’s turn — to see if he can manage China more effectively than other recent presidents have. (Yesterday, Biden introduced his foreign-policy team.)
His administration is likely to take a different approach to China than it does on many other issues. On those others, like climate change and health care, Biden will be trying to reverse Trump’s policies. On China, Biden instead seems set to accept Trump’s basic diagnosis but to strive for a more effective treatment. The Biden team’s critique of the current China policy is about “means more than ends,” Walter Russell Mead wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.
Biden and his aides have signaled that they will not return to the wishful pre-Trump policy toward China (even though several of them helped shape that policy in the Obama administration). “The United States does need to get tough with China,” Biden wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine in January.
To do so, they will use diplomacy. Antony Blinken, Biden’s choice for secretary of state, said this summer: “We are in a competition with China … We need to rally our allies and partners instead of alienating them to deal with some of the challenges that China poses.” Jake Sullivan, the incoming national security adviser, has written (along with the historian Hal Brands) that the way to check China’s display of a “superpower’s ambition” and maintain U.S. influence is to end “the current trajectory of self-sabotage.”
Biden, speaking about his new appointees yesterday, said, “They embody my core beliefs that America is strongest when it works with its allies.”
In concrete terms, this could mean forging more agreements on restricting the use of Chinese technology, like Huawei. It could mean creating economic alliances that invest in developing countries only if they agree to respect intellectual property and human rights — and trying to isolate China in the process.
The larger goal will be making other countries believe that the U.S. is no longer going it alone. “The narrative in Asia,” Michael Green of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told me, “is that America is out of the game.”
The view from Beijing: A Chinese official writes about the possibility of “cooperative competition” in a Times Op-Ed.
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Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine.Biontech, via EPA, via Shutterstock
Pfizer plans to ship 4 million doses of its vaccineacross the U.S. in mid-December. Health care workers and vulnerable people will receive the first doses.
Pennsylvania will not allow bars and restaurants to sell alcohol after 5 p.m. today, in an effort to dissuade gatherings on what is usually one of the busiest bar nights of the year.
Qantas, Australia’s largest airline, says it will eventually require passengers to present proofthat they have been vaccinated before flying internationally.
New York is fining the organizers of a Hasidic weddingwith thousands of guests $15,000. Mayor Bill de Blasio called it “amazingly irresponsible.”
THE PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris, announcing foreign policy and national security picks.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Biden’s teams have begun to coordinate with their counterparts in the Trump administration. About 20 meetings took place yesterday, including at the Department of Homeland Security and the Education Department.
The White House gave approval for Biden to receive the President’s Daily Brief, a summary of high-level intelligence.
Trump is planning to pardonhis former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn pleaded guilty twice to lying to the F.B.I. about his conversations with a Russian diplomat.
Artist and writer Chris Rodley utilized a deep learning algorithm to create these really lovely illustrations of dinosaurs composed of plants. The images were generated with an online service called DeepArt that lets you upload a “target” image and then apply a visual style to it. For step one he fed the network images of common dinosaurs and then applied the styles of 19th-century fruit engravings and botanical illustrations. The results are a sort of 21st-century artificial intelligence channeling Giuseppe Arcimboldo. You can read a bunch more about all the technical mumbo jumbo over on Sploid. (via Kottke)
PBS NewsHour full episode, Nov. 17, 18,19, & 20, 2020, Full Episode: President Donald Trump Denies Election Results As COVID-19 Spikes, Washington Week Extra: The Road to the Georgia Runoffs, Nov 20, 2020, and WHEN COVID, THE ELECTION AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE COLLIDE, by Lisa Desjardins, @LisaDNews, Correspondent
CBS News: Barack Obama speaks out on politics, life in the White House, and Donald Trump, Nov 15, 2020 CBS Sunday Morning
60 Minutes: 2017: President Obama on eight years in the White House, Nov 13, 2020
CNN News: Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for Covid-19, Nov 20, 2020, Michigan lawmakers rebuff Trump after White House meeting, Nov 20, 2020, Exclusive: Dr. Birx speaks with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Nov 20, 2020
NowThis News : Rudy Giuliani’s Hair Dye Leaks at One-of-a-Kind Press Conference | NowThis, Nov 20, 2020, Kayleigh McEnany Claims Trump Didn’t Get Peaceful Transition, Nov 20, 2020,
ABC News: President Trump in legal, financial jeopardy after leaving office, Nov 13, 2020
Crooked Media: Presidential Historian Reacts to Trump’s Refusal to Concede | Lovett or Leave It, Nov 15, 2020
MSNBC: ‘Meltdown’: As Rudy Giuliani Flails In Court, Trump Hides In WH | The Beat With Ari Melber, Nov 20, 2020, In Wake Of Trump Loss, GOP Senator Ensnared In Voting Scandal | The Beat With Ari Melber, Nov 17, 2020, Lawrence – ‘Another Day, Another Trump Vengeance Firing’ | The Last Word, Nov 18, 2020, Bob Woodward – Trump Testing How Far People Will Go Along With Him | The Last Word, Nov 17, 2020, Remember When Ted Cruz Promised We Would Stop Caring About Covid-19 After The Election? | All In, Nov 17, 2020, Cybersecurity Chief Fired; Openly Debunked Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies | Rachel Maddow, Nov 18, 2020, ‘Fantasy World’: Lawyer Who Argued Against Rudy Giuliani Recaps Absurdity In Court | All In, Nov 17, 2020, Graham Faces Questions For Reaching Out To GA Election Officials | The 11th Hour, Nov 18, 2020
Glenn Kirschner: Lindsey Graham Pressures Georgia Secretary of State to Toss Votes. Biden Mulls Over Investigations, Nov 17, 2020
The Daily Show: Faithless Electors & Trump – If You Don’t Know, Now You Know | The Daily Social Distancing Show, Nov 17, 2020, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Late Night: Rudy Giuliani and Lindsey Graham Lead Trump’s Coup Attempt: A Closer Look, Nov 18, 2020, Late Night with Seth Meyers
Roylab Stats: [LIVE] Coronavirus Pandemic: Real Time Counter, World Map, News
President Trump continues to refuse to accept the election results, taking aid from his lawyer and Republican leaders that have resulted in no overturn in Biden’s victory. The panel also discussed the fate of the nation as the pandemic surges, while COVID-19 stimulus talks are put on hold for yearning Americans. Panel: Paula Reid of CBS News, Asma Khalid of NPR, Peter Baker of The New York Times Watch the latest full show and Extra here: https://pbs.org/washingtonweek Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2ZEPJNs Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonweek Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonweek
The nation is looking to Georgia as the state’s two Senate runoff elections are right around the corner. The panel continued the conversation from the broadcast and discussed a private phone call between Republican senators expressing their views on Trump’s ongoing election feud, and what the future of the Senate might be in 2021. Panel: Paula Reid of CBS News, Asma Khalid of NPR, Peter Baker of The New York Times
Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for Covid-19, police respond to shooting at Wisconsin mall, and Pfizer applies for emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 01:30 Donald Trump JR. Tests Positive For COVID-19 01:36 Mall Shooting Leaves Multiple People Injured 04:07 Pfizer Seeks FDA Emergency Approval For Vaccine 06:38 New Crackdowns As U.S. Tops 185,000 Daily COVID Cases 08:50 1 In 5 U.S. Hospitals Faces Dire Staffing Shortages 10:49 Trump Falsely Claims ‘I Won’ The Election 11:10 Georgia Certifies Biden Victory After Hand Recount 11:29 Trump Hosts Michigan GOP As He Seeks To Overturn Defeat 12:42 Biden Celebrates 78th Birthday, Meets Top Democrats 13:17 Massive Testing Crush Ahead Of Thanksgiving 14:50 Judge Hails ‘Daniel’s Law’ Named After Slain Son 15:48 Long Lines As Travelers Defy CDC Holiday Warning 17:07 High-Speed Police Chase Ends With Pond Plunge » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
President-elect Biden blasts ‘incredible irresponsibility’ of President Trump’s refusal to concede, CDC warns against traveling for Thanksgiving, and the impact of the pandemic on isolated older Americans and ways to help. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 01:54 Biden: Trump ‘One Of The Most Irresponsible President’s Ever 02:12 Biden Not Ruling Out Legal Action Against Trump 02:52 First White House Task Force Briefing Since July 03:23 Biden, Trump Administration Vow No National Lockdown 03:39 Trump Escalates Election Challenges And Falsehoods 04:43 CDC Warns Americans Not To Travel For Thanksgiving 07:20 Covid Vaccine Roll Out Faces Major Challenges 09:11 Inside Rural Hospital At The Breaking Point 11:10 Pompeo Makes Unprecedented Visit To West Bank 12:43 Nuclear Watchdog Urges U.S. Not To Strike Iran 13:36 New Police Video In Fatal Shooting Of Two Black Teens 15:34 Pandemic Takes Devastating Toll On Older Americans 18:21 Does Deep Cleaning Stop The Spread Of Covid-19?
Pfizer says Covid-19 vaccine is 95 percent effective, FAA clears Boeing 737 Max to fly again after two fatal crashes, and new fallout after Trump fires top cybersecurity official. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
President Trump orders drawdown of troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, considered Iran strike, coronavirus cases rise in every state, and family works to help others after young son dies by suicide amid pandemic. Watch “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT (or check your local listings). 00:00 Intro 2:08 Trump Transition Delay Raising Security Concerns 4:08 Rocket Attack In Baghdad’s Green Zone 5:05 Biden Receives Unofficial National Security Briefing 5:55 Kamala Harris & Lindsey Graham First-Bump On senate Floor 6:01 Biden Doesn’t Want Trump Probes To Consume Presidency 6:15 Trump Fires Head Of Election Cybersecurity 6:45 Catastrophic Coronavirus Surge In All 50 States » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews
Barack Obama speaks out on politics, life in the White House, and Donald Trump
In his first television interview since the election of Joe Biden as the 46th President, former President Barack Obama sits down with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King to discuss the first volume of his memoirs, “A Promised Land.” He talks about the enormous opposition he experienced as he entered the White House; the impact of his political career on his family; and why he campaigned for his former vice president – and spoke out so vociferously against his successor, President Donald Trump. Subscribe to the “CBS Sunday Morning” Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20gXwJT Get more of “CBS Sunday Morning”
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Members of the Michigan state legislature’s Republican leadership who met with President Donald Trump at the White House Friday afternoon said they “have not yet been made aware of any information that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan.” The Michigan lawmakers — who visited the White House at the invitation of the President — didn’t say anything to suggest they were going along with Trump’s long-shot effort to overturn the results of the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden. “As legislative leaders, we will follow the law and follow the normal process regarding Michigan’s electors, just as we have said throughout this election,” Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield said in a joint statement after the meeting. A person familiar with Friday’s meeting said the session was cordial as the group explained to the President the process for certifying the election and assigning electors in their state. “Michigan’s certification process should be a deliberate process free from threats and intimidation,” the lawmakers said in their statement. “Allegations of fraudulent behavior should be taken seriously, thoroughly investigated, and if proven, prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And the candidates who win the most votes win elections and Michigan’s electoral votes. These are simple truths that should provide confidence in our elections.” Trump did not apply any overt pressure on the lawmakers to try and shift electors from Biden to himself, or to prevent the vote from being certified, the person familiar with the meeting said, but the President did appear interested in the explanation the lawmakers offered. #2020Election#CNN#News
Exclusive: Dr. Birx speaks with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta
White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx sits down with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta for an exclusive interview as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the US. #CNN#News
Leaky hair dye, hot mic issues, a list of wild accusations — here’s what went down at the Trump campaign’s one-of-a-kind press conference about alleged voter fraud. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis Rudy Giuliani made some wild claims on alleged voter ‘fraud’ as hair dye dripped down his face. On the Trump campaign’s official stream of the event, a hot mic picked up audio of people mocking him. Trump’s allies have lost 31 of their legal challenges to the election. There is no evidence of any widespread voter fraud. #Giuliani#Trump#News#NowThis#NowThisNews
Kayleigh McEnany Claims Trump Didn’t Get Peaceful Transition | NowThis
The Trump admin is trying to rewrite history by saying they were denied a peaceful transfer of power, totally contradicting earlier statements — roll the tape. » Subscribe to NowThis: http://go.nowth.is/News_Subscribe » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: https://go.nowth.is/KnowThis In US news and current events today, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a press briefing that Donald Trump was denied a peaceful transfer of power back when he won the 2016 election against Hillary Clinton. But receipts don’t lie. For more politics videos, follow NowThis News. #KayleighMcEnany#Trump#Obama#News#NowThis#NowThisNews
President Trump in legal, financial jeopardy after leaving office
ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports on the many legal and financial vulnerabilities President Donald Trump faces after his term ends, and whether he can pardon himself before leaving the White House.
Presidential Historian Reacts to Trump’s Refusal to Concede | Lovett or Leave It
Lovett is joined by presidential historian Michael Beschloss to discuss Trump’s unprecedented refusal to concede and what history can teach us about healing our nation’s divisions. Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/crookedmedia?… Crooked believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. At a time when it’s increasingly easy to feel cynical or hopeless, former Obama staffers Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor have created a place where people can have sane conversations that inform, entertain, and inspire action. In 2017 they started Crooked with Pod Save America—a no-bullshit conversation about politics. Since then, we continue to add shows, voices, and opportunities for activism, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world. That’s it. End of mission. Want some pep talks, the most important things to do/know, and the occasional dog pic? Shoot us a text at (323) 405-9944 Written content at http://www.crooked.com Follow Crooked on Twitter https://twitter.com/crookedmedia Follow Crooked on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CrookedMedia/ Follow Crooked on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/crookedmedia/
‘Meltdown’: As Rudy Giuliani Flails In Court, Trump Hides In WH | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
As Trump continues to lose in court over his election fraud claims, MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber provides an update on the ongoing litigation and breaks down Rudy Giuliani’s bizarre behavior in court. Washington Post reporter Libby Casey and journalist Blake Zeff join to discuss Giuliani’s distracting behavior and the GOP’s efforts to undermine the election, Casey asserting “you could not script this.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. http://www.thebeatwithari.com). Aired on 11/20/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Beat with Ari Melber: Former lawyer Ari Melber leads this show that provides in-depth analysis of the day’s biggest news stories. “”The Beat”” features guest interviews in addition to reporting on stories from across the country. The stories that are covered span across the political spectrum. In addition to his law background, Melber is a former Senate staffer, giving him a unique perspective to share on the political happenings coming out of Washington, D.C.
In Wake Of Trump Loss, GOP Senator Ensnared In Voting Scandal | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
New bombshell allegations against Sen. Lindsey Graham assert he pushed to have legally cast ballots thrown out during a phone call with Georgia’s Republican secretary of state. MSNBC’s Ari Melber discusses the breaking story with Judiciary Committee member Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who asserts Graham “may have crossed the line into illegality” in an effort to “rip away” Biden’s victory. Aired on 11/14/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
In a remarkable turn of events, the Republican Secretary of State in Georgia reports that Senator Lindsey Graham pressured him to toss out lawfully cast ballots, prompting Congressman Hakeem Jeffries to demand a Department of Justice investigation. Meanwhile, President-elect Joe Biden ruminates over how his administration will approach the issue of investigating the crimes of Trump and company over the past four years. Here is a proposed solution to the concern expressed by Biden of not wanting his administration consumed by endless Trump investigations. Please consider becoming a #TeamJustice patron at: https://www.patreon.com/glennkirschner My podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner” can be downloaded where you get your podcasts. Follow me on: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/glennkirschner2 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glennkirschner2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/glennkirsch…
Faithless Electors & Trump – If You Don’t Know, Now You Know | The Daily Social Distancing Show
Donald Trump fired his top cybersecurity official, Christopher Krebs, via tweet. Lawrence O’Donnell explains why we should thank Christopher Krebs for doing the right thing. Aired on 11/17/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: Drawing upon his experience as a former chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee and as an Emmy-winning executive producer and writer of “”The West Wing,”” Lawrence O’Donnell examines the compelling and impactful political stories of the day. O’Donnell convenes diverse panels of guests, including a variety of politicians and cultural voices, to offer unique viewpoints and perspective. In his signature style, O’Donnell highlights the latest news developments and offers his take on the political stories driving the national conversation.
Bob Woodward: Trump Testing How Far People Will Go Along With Him | The Last Word | MSNBC
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bob Woodward tells Lawrence O’Donnell that Donald Trump is testing the waters to see how far Republicans and White House aides will support his refusal to concede. Aired on 11/16/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Remember When Ted Cruz Promised We Would Stop Caring About Covid-19 After The Election? | All In
Republicans like Ted Cruz couldn’t fathom that the steps some leaders were taking to stop Covid-19 were driven by serious concerns. Instead they suggested that it was all some elaborate conspiracy to kneecap Trump—and would go away after the election. Aired on 11/17/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About All In with Chris Hayes: Chris Hayes delivers the biggest news and political stories of the day with a commitment to in-depth reporting that consistently seeks to hold the nation’s leaders accountable for their actions. Drawing from his background as a reporter, Hayes at times reports directly from the scene of a news event as it occurs to provide a firsthand account, digging deep and speaking with people who represent different points of view. Hayes brings the nation’s officials, legislators, policymakers, and local activists to the table to address key issues affecting communities across America.
Ali Velshi reports on lame duck Donald Trump’s firing of Chris Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, despite Krebs’ success securing the 2020 election and his productivity in debunking post-election disinformation of the sort Trump has been promoting to avoid facing his election defeat. Aired on 11/17/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The Rachel Maddow Show: Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow seeks to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that’s illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.
‘Fantasy World’: Lawyer Who Argued Against Rudy Giuliani Recaps Absurdity In Court | All In | MSNBC
“The Trump campaign came in, through Mr. Giuliani, asserting a fantasy world,” says Mark Aronchick. “I sat there dumbfounded because the story presented by Mr. Giuliani bore no relationship to the actual complaint in the case.” Aired on 11/17/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc
Rudy Giuliani and Lindsey Graham Lead Trump’s Coup Attempt: A Closer Look
Seth takes a closer look at President Trump and senior members of the Republican Party engaging in an assault on democracy in an attempt to hang onto power and undercut the legitimately elected next president, Joe Biden. Late Night with Seth Meyers is supporting God’s Love We Deliver to help those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. God’s Love We Deliver is a New York City-based organization that for over 30 years has provided personalized meals and nutrition counseling, free of charge, to those living with severe illnesses. With the help of 17,000 volunteers, God’s Love We Deliver provides over 2 million free meals each year to thousands of New York’s most vulnerable. Click the button on the above/below to donate or visit www.glwd.org.
Graham Faces Questions For Reaching Out To GA Election Officials | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is facing growing questions after Georgia’s GOP secretary of state alleged Graham pushed him to toss out legal votes in the state’s recount. Eugene Robinson reacts. Aired on 11/17/2020. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About The 11th Hour with Brian Williams: Brian Williams delivers the latest updates on evolving news stories and places the major political events of the day into context for viewers. Broadcast live from New York, Williams’ show convenes a dynamic panel of guests to offer a forward-thinking look at the critical stories that are expected to drive the conversation the following morning. Williams has also anchored The Beat with Ari Melber, Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace, Hardball, All In, Last Word, 11th Hour, and more.
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PBS News: WHEN COVID, THE ELECTION AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE COLLIDE
By Lisa Desjardins, @LisaDNews
Correspondent
As President Donald Trump refuses to concede, coronavirus cases continue to reach new heights and Congress nears a bumpy end to its session, the stormy waves of 2020 politics converged today in the U.S. Capitol in a single vote. And this has presented us the opportunity to touch on and update you on all of it.
Congress and the coronavirus
30 members of Congress have tested positive for or been presumed positive for COVID-19 since March. The latest four came in the past few days: Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Reps. Don Young, R-Alaska, Tim Walberg, R-Mich., and Cheri Bustos, D-Ill.
Many others have had to self-quarantine at various points due to known exposure.
Coronavirus and the Federal Reserve nominee
Today, the U.S. Senate held a key vote on a controversial nominee for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
Judy Shelton is an economist and controversial nominee from Trump who draws strong praise and equally strong criticism. She has sharply attacked the Fed and decisions made by chair Jerome Powell, and has openly called for a return to the gold standard as the basis of the U.S. monetary system.
Her views put her at odds with Democrats but also drew opposition from three Republican senators.
With 53 Republicans currently seated in the Senate, she could have squeaked through with the support of 50 and a tie breaking vote from Vice President Mike Pence. Also helping her chances was the potential absence of Sen. Kamala Harris, the vice president-elect, who has been in Delaware preparing for the transition but who has not yet resigned her seat.
But unlike the House, the Senate chose not to allow proxy voting amid the pandemic. Senators must be physically present.
Yesterday, Grassley announced he was quarantining after being exposed to COVID-19 and today confirmed he tested positive for the virus. Days earlier, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., announced he would self-quarantine.
The result? A gripping (for political nerds) math problem.
Republicans went from having 53 Senate votes, to a starting point of 51.
Subtract the three Republicans opposed to Shelton and they were down to 48.
No Democrats were going to vote to approve Shelton.
That could have led to a 48-48 tie, with Pence as tie-breaker, if Harris did not attend.
But late Tuesday morning, Democrats got the message to Harris that her vote could be critical. She made it to the Capitol in time, voted, and the Shelton nomination was blocked. For now. Republicans can try to return to it, but they have a narrow window. They are on holiday recess next week, and on the following Monday, Nov. 30, they lose a seat in the chamber.
That is when newly elected Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly steps in to replace Republican Sen. Martha McSally after he defeated her in a special election. That will put the balance of power in the Senate at 52-48. If the three Republicans who were opposed to Shelton remain so, and Democrats don’t budge, Trump won’t have the numbers he needs to push through his nominee.
While the Shelton fight is not necessarily over, there are few remaining paths to victory.
FIVE OVERLOOKED POLITICAL STORIES FROM THE PAST WEEK
By Ian Couzens, @iancouzenz
Politics production assistant
Progressive House Democrats urge Biden against Defense chief with contractor ties. Nov. 12. A letter from Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan highlighted concerns over the connections between senior DOD leadership and military contractors, suggesting that record high defense budgets in recent years have been the cost of having senior defense personnel “intimately connected” to the corporations. Why it matters: Though Lee and Pocan won’t vote on Biden’s cabinet appointments, their letter offers a glimpse into how progressives would view the possible appointment of Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s likely top pick for Defense secretary who has also in recent years consulted for big-name defense contractors. Progressive senators could seek to block the appointment. — The Hill
A Black woman should fill Kamala Harris’ Senate seat, California caucus says. Nov. 13. The state’s Black leaders have put forth Reps. Karen Bass and Barbara Lee for consideration to replace Harris, but many are also pushing for a Latino to be appointed. Why it matters: Gov. Gavin Newsom’s choice has significant implications for representation and inclusivity and is likely to be highly scrutinized. A Latino senator would be a first for California, a state with a huge Latino population, but Harris is also currently the only Black woman serving in the Senate. — Sacramento Bee
Nevada becomes first state to protect same-sex marriage in its Constitution. Nov. 15. Nevada voters banned same-sex marriage in 2002, but 60 percent voted to protect it in 2020. Why it matters: With a new conservative majority in the Supreme Court, the amendment means same-sex marriage rights will be protected even if the 2015 ruling in Obergevell v. Hodges that legalized gay marriage nationwide is overturned. — The Baltimore Sun
The Biden team’s tug of war over Facebook. Nov. 16. Many Democrats view Facebook’s failure to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platform as an existential threat that needs to be tackled by the incoming administration, but President-elect Joe Biden has chosen people with close ties to the social media company to serve on his transition team. Why it matters: Some are concerned that instead of cracking down on the company, Biden could embrace the Obama administration’s friendly relationship with Facebook, potentially giving cabinet positions to company alums. — Politico
Perdue ducks debate against Ossoff ahead of January runoff. Nov. 16. After Georgia Sen. David Perdue canceled the last debate before the Nov. 3 election to attend a rally with President Donald Trump, he has again declined to debate competitor Jon Ossoff, saying he wants to focus on energizing his supporters. Why it matters: Voters asked to choose between Ossoff and Perdue for a second time will not get another chance to see them go head to head. This time, Perdue’s absence is drawing national attention, as the runoff is one of two in Georgia that will determine which party controls the Senate. — The Atlanta Journal Constitution #POLITICSTRIVIA
By Kate Grumke, @KGrumke
Politics producer
On this day in 1800, Congress moved to Washington, D.C. It held its first session in the capital city, after a decade of meeting in Philadelphia.
Our question: Where did the first congress originally meet?
Send your answers to NewsHourPolitics@newshour.org or tweet using #PoliticsTrivia. The first correct answers will earn a shout-out next week.
Last week, we asked: Which president started the recent tradition of leaving a note for his successor?
The answer: George H.W. Bush
Bush wrote to then President-elect Bill Clinton, “Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.” You can read the full text of the letters here.
Congratulations to our winner: Peg Perri!
Thank you all for reading and watching. We’ll drop into your inbox next week.
Starting October 23, 2020, the top photographs will be on display at the National Maritime Museum. Until then, pick up a copy of this year’s book that collects all 140 winning and shortlisted shots, and explore some of Colossal’s favorites below.
On this edition for Saturday, July 18, remembering John Lewis, a Civil Rights Movement leader and a longtime member of Congress who died of pancreatic cancer on Friday night. Also, the U.S. records more than 70,000 COVID-19 cases for the second time in a row leading officials to start reimposing restrictions in some areas in the country. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from Florida. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6
Congressman John Lewis Address | Harvard Commencement 2018
Congressman and Civil Rights leader John Lewis gave his address at Harvard’s 367th Commencement on May 24, 2018 at Tercentenary Theatre. For more information, visithttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor….
Countless tributes are pouring in to memorialize the life and legacy of civil rights leader and longtime Georgia Democratic Congressman John Lewis. Representative Marcia Fudge of Ohio and CBS News political contributor and Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright joined CBSN to discuss Lewis’ legacy.
Rep. Clyburn: If Trump wants to honor John Lewis, this is what he needs to do
CNN’s Ana Cabrera discusses the loss of Congressman John Lewis with one of his longtime friends and colleagues, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC). #CNN#News
John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has died after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80. Lewis, a Democrat who served as the US representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district for more than three decades, was widely seen as a moral conscience of Congress because of his decades-long embodiment of nonviolent fight for civil rights. His passionate oratory was backed by a long record of action that included, by his count, more than 40 arrests while demonstrating against racial and social injustice. A follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., he participated in lunch counter sit-ins, joined the Freedom Riders in challenging segregated buses and — at the age of 23 — was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington. “Sometimes when I look back and think about it, how did we do what we did? How did we succeed? We didn’t have a website. We didn’t have a cellular telephone,” Lewis has said of the civil rights movement. “But I felt when we were sitting in at those lunch counter stools, or going on the Freedom Ride, or marching from Selma to Montgomery, there was a power and a force. God Almighty was there with us.” Lewis has said King inspired his activism. Angered by the unfairness of the Jim Crow South, he launched what he called “good trouble” with organized protests and sit-ins. In the early 1960s, he was a Freedom Rider, challenging segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South and in the nation’s capital. “We do not want our freedom gradual; we want to be free now,” he said at the time. At age 25, Lewis helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis’ skull. Images from that “Bloody Sunday” shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. “I gave a little blood on that bridge,” he said years later. “I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death.” Despite the attack and other beatings, Lewis never lost his activist spirit, taking it from protests to politics. He was elected to the Atlanta city council in 1981, then to Congress six years later. #JohnLewis#CNN#News
Congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis dies at age 80, Florida and Texas hospitals overwhelmed as coronavirus cases surge, and President Trump gives mixed messaging on mask debate.
The Black Googler Network (BGN) and Talks at Google were honored to host Congressman John Lewis. Rep. Lewis is a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner. He stopped by to discuss his recently-published graphic novel: March: Book One. March is a vivid first-hand account of his dedication to the struggle for civil and human rights
On April 5, 2016, U.S. Congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis delivered the 4th Alan D. Solomont Lecture at Tufts University, with support from the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series. Congressman Lewis shared stories from the Freedom Rides and the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, extolled the philosophy of nonviolence, and encouraged a new generation to continue the fight for justice and equality.
John Lewis and Two Others Attacked at South Carolina Greyhound Bus Terminal| EJI, A History of Racial Justice MAY 9, 2020
On May 9, 1961, 21-year-old John Lewis, a young black civil rights activist, was severely beaten by a mob at the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound bus terminal. A few days earlier, Lewis and twelve Freedom Riders — seven black and six white — had left Washington, D.C., on a Greyhound bus headed to New Orleans. They sat interracially on the bus, planning to test a Supreme Court ruling that made segregation in interstate transportation illegal.
Director Dawn Porter uses interviews and rare archival footage in her highly anticipated documentary entitled “John Lewis: Good Trouble.” A Magnolia Pictures and Participant release, the film chronicles the Georgia U.S. Congressman Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on issues ranging from voting rights to immigration. Drawing on present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, Porter explores his childhood and inspiring family as well as his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, the film features interviews with a variety of political figures including Ayanna Pressley, Elijah Cummings, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stacy Abrams, Jim Clyburn, Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Holder. A post screening discussion includes a conversation between Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch and Dawn Porter. The film will be released in theaters and on demand July 3. A limited number of the tickets will be available via the museum’s website on:
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John Lewis Is a Personal Symbol for a Historic Period
By Bryant Rollins Nov. 14, 1976
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John Lewis is a name from the past in the American civil rights movement, but it is also a name from the present, and perhaps the future, of American politics. Mr. Lewis, normally the most self?effacing of men, was prideful and expansive last week in declaring, as others have, that Southern black voters had been responsible for electing a Southern white politician President.
The claim is no more susceptible to final proof, or disproof, than others that have been and will be made; the closeness of the vote encourages the claims but also means all the votes are vital for Jimmy Carter. Yet Mr. Lewis has more evidence on his side than most: There has been a peaceful political revolution in the South, and Mr. Carter has been its first beneficiary. For instance:
In 1960 there were only about a million blacks registered to vote in the 11 states of the Deep South; there are now four million. In 1960 there were fewer than 50 black elected officials; now there are about 2,000, In 1960 any attempt by large numbers blacks to register to vote, or to organize politically in any effective way, was met with violent resistance by whites; today, black political participation is an accepted reality.
Last week, black voters apparently contributed substantially to Mr. Carter’s margin of victory in all the states of the Deep South except Virginia, which President Ford won. In Georgia, whites and blacks alike favored Mr. Carter. Elsewhere in the South, about 55 percent of the white voters preferred President Ford, but over 95 percent of the black voters favored Mr. Carter.
Even that near unanimity would not have mattered had it involved the insignificant black vote of the past. This year, 63 percent of registered Southerners, black and white, voted, compared with 53 percent nationwide.
John Lewis is not the only person responsible for that. Last Sunday in Atlanta he was one of about 100 blacks and whites who attended a reunion of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—the student?based activist group of the 1960’s—that Mr. Lewis once headed.
But there were few in that group, now largely over the antimagical age of 30 and mundanely middle class, who constitute a better individual symbol—both a barometer and a progenitor—of black progress from productive protest against a racist social system to productive groundwork within the political system.
He was born the third in a family of 10 children and raised near Troy, the seat of Pike County, Alabama. When he was three years old, in 1943, his sharecropper father took his life savings—$300—and bought his own farm. There, oh 100 acres of mostly cotton in the center of predominantly white farming country, John Lewis was raised in the rigidly segregated environment that prevailed.
That segregation began to break down with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, led by Dr. Martin Luther King. The boycott also provoked Mr. Lewis’ interest in nonviolent social protest. He says now:
“It was inconceivable to us that black people would openly defy white people in the state of Alabama. To see hundreds of thousands of Montgomery blacks refusing to ride the buses, walking together to work, and forming car pools, was a moving experience. We used to lie in the dark at night listening to the news on the radio.”
Mr. Lewis, now 36, is a Baptist minister, a vocation he inclined to when he was 10; Reverend King’s leadership in Montgomery gave form to Mr. Lewis’ aspirations. He decided then not to seek an institutional church connection, but to work for social change in the deep South, and to adopt a Gandhian based, nonviolent social action as his philosophy for life.
He gained a reputation during the civil rights movement years as a mystical person who had a sometimes irrational faith in his own survivability. One leader who knew him well said: “Some leaders, even the toughest, would occasionally finesse a situation where they knew they were going to get beaten or jailed. John never did that. He always went full force into the fray.”
The spirit of nonviolent protest generated by Dr. King and his associates grew into the most powerful social movement since the mass labor organizing of the 30’s. The white South was at first bemused, then angered and outraged, and the outrage was often expressed violently. Demonstrators were brutally beaten, jailed and some were killed.
Between 1960 and 1966, Mr. Lewis was arrested 40 times. His longest term in prison was 31 days in the Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi. He was beaten on many occasions, several times almost beaten to death. In May of 1961, he was left unconscious in a pool of his own blood outside the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Montgomery after he and a score of others were attacked by hundreds of whites; the protestors had been trying to desegregate the bus terminal. Mr. Lewis was saved by a white Southern law enforcement official. He was seriously injured again in March of 1965 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.
The crash of racial barriers falling throughont the South was audible in the North; what was not so audible were the cries of personal pain that many of the civil rights workers suffered. John Lewis’ two concussions, at Montgomery and at Selma, and numerous other beatings, left him with severe, numbing pains in his head. Only in recent years have neurological specialists in Boston and New York helped to relieved some of his suffering.
If the personal pain went unremarked, the movement in which it was incurred did not. The 1964 public accommodations act resulted from national outrage at the beatings of the Freedom Riders; the 1964 Voting Rights Act followed the violence of state troopers in Selma. That legislation is what enabled Mr. Lewis to change the manner in which he pursued his devotional life.
He had been the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from its formation 1963 until 1966. He was involved in other civil rights projects until 1970, when he began the work that bore its sweetest fruit on November 2nd.
As head of the Voter Education Project in Atlanta, a nonprofit organization funded mostly by foundation grants and with a full?time staff of 10, Mr. Lewis pursues tactics he used in the civil rights movement, and his organization’s activities during the recent campaign were typical.
He worked with Julian Bond and other prominent blacks for six months in the 11 states of the Deep South to register voters, sponsor voter education workshops and help get out the vote on Election Day. More than 100 local organizations were financed.
The voter education project spent about $500,000 much of it in grants of $1,000 to $2,000 to local chapters of the Urban League or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, to local church groups of civic organizations. Nearly all of the groups were black; a few were biracial, and some were Spanish?speaking and native American. None were white.
Mr. Lewis stresses that the work was “nonpartisan.” For tax purposes his organization cannot conduct partisan political drives. It is clear, however, that most of those who register are Democrats.
The voter education project also produced radio and television spots, hundreds of posters and thousands of leaflets promoting voter registration. One of the most popular posters included a saying used in earlier voter registration drives by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: “Hands that once picked cotton now can pick a President.”
lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
— Twitter @repjohnlewis June 2018
National Portrait Gallery: John R, Lewis
National Portrait Gallery: John R, Lewis and Julian Bond
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National Museum of African American History and Culture: Dr. King Holding Arms; Dr. King, John Lewis, Reverend Jessie Douglas, and James Farmer
National Museum of African American History and Culture: John Lewis, Sister Mary Leoline, and Father Theodore Gill, Selma to Montgomery March
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other leaders on Highway 80, Selma to Montgomery March
National Portrait Gallery: Martin Luther King, Marching for Voting Rights With John Lewis, Reverend Jessie Douglas, James Forman, and Ralph Abernathy, Selma, 1965
National Museum of African American History and Culture: John Lewis and Sister Mary Leoline Hand in Hand, Selma to Montgomery March
National Museum of African American History and Culture: The Edmund Pettus Bridge
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The Weird Strategy Dr. Seuss Used to Create His
Greatest Work
Setting
limits for yourself — whether that involves the time you have to work out, the
money you have to start a business, or the number of words you can use in a
book — often delivers better results than “keeping your options open.”
There was only $50 on the line, but
millions of people would feel the impact of this little wager.
The first man, Bennett Cerf, was the
founder of the publishing firm, Random House. The second man was named Theo
Geisel, but you probably know him as Dr. Seuss. Cerf proposed the bet and
challenged that Dr. Seuss would not be able to write an entertaining children’s
book using only 50 different words.
Dr. Seuss took the bet and won. The
result was a little book called Green Eggs and Ham.
Since publication, Green Eggs and Ham has sold more than 200 million
copies, making it the most popular of Seuss’s works and one of the best-selling
children’s books in history.1
At first glance, you might think
this was a lucky fluke. A talented author plays a fun game with 50 words and
ends up producing a hit. But there is actually more to this story and the
lessons in it can help us become more creative and stick to better habits over
the long-run.
Here’s what we can learn from Dr.
Seuss…
The
Power of Constraints
What Dr. Seuss discovered through
this little bet was the power of setting constraints.
Setting limits for yourself —
whether that involves the time you have to work out, the money you have to
start a business, or the number of words you can use in a book — often delivers
better results than “keeping your options open.”
In fact, Dr. Seuss found that
setting some limits to work within was so useful that he employed this strategy
for other books as well. For example, The Cat in the Hat was written
using only a first-grade vocabulary list.
In my experience, I’ve seen that
constraints can also provide benefits in health, business, and life in general.
I’ve noticed two reasons why this occurs.
1. Constraints inspire your
creativity.
If you’re five foot five inches tall
and you’re playing basketball, you figure out more creative ways to score than
the six foot five inch guy.
If you have a one-year-old child
that takes up almost every minute of your day, you figure out more creative
ways to get some exercise.
If you’re a photographer and you
show up to a shoot with just one lens, then you figure out more creative ways
to capture the beauty of your subject than you would with all of your gear
available.
Time constraints have forced me to
produce some of my best work. This is especially true with my writing. Every
Monday and Thursday, I write a new article — even if it’s inconvenient.
This constraint has led me to
produce some of my most popular work in unlikely places. When I was sitting in
the passenger seat on a road trip through West Virginia, I wrote an article.
When I was visiting family for the 4th of July, I wrote an article. When I spent all day flying in and out of airports, I wrote an article.
Without my schedule (the
constraint), I would have pushed those articles to a different day. Or never
got around to them at all. Constraints force you to get something done and
don’t allow you to procrastinate. This is why I believe that professionals set a schedule for their production while amateurs wait until they feel motivated.
What constraints are you setting for
yourself? What type of schedule do you have for your goals?
So often we spend time complaining
about the things that are withheld from us.
“I don’t have enough time to work out.”
“I don’t have enough money to start a business.”
“I can’t eat this food on my diet.”
But constraints are not the enemy.
Every artist has a limited set of tools to work with. Every athlete has a
limited set of skills to train with. Every entrepreneur has a limited amount of
resources to build with. Once you know your constraints, you can start figuring
out how to work with them.
The
Size of Your Canvas
Dr. Seuss was given 50 words. That
was the size of his canvas. His job was to see what kind of picture he could
paint with those words.
You and I are given similar
constraints in our lives.
You only have 30 minutes to fit a
workout into your day? So be it.
That’s the size of your canvas. Your job is to see if you can make those 30
minutes a work of art.
You can only spare 15 minutes each
day to write? That’s the size of your canvas.
Your job is to make each paragraph a work of art.
You only have $100 to start your
business? Great. That’s the size of your
canvas. Your job is to make each sales call a work of art.
You can only eat whole foods on your
diet? That’s the size of your canvas.
Your job is to take those ingredients and make each meal a work of art.
There are a lot of authors who would
complain about writing a book with only 50 words. But there was one author who
decided to take the tools he had available and make a work of art instead.
We all have constraints in our
lives. The limitations just determine the size of the canvas
you have to work with. What you paint on it is up to you.
I aspire to live an incredibly long,
happy, and healthy life.
That is why I recently read the The Blue Zones Solution, in which New York Times best-selling author Dan
Buettner reveals the eating and living habits of the world’s longest-lived
people.
For over a decade, Buettner (along
with the National Geographic Society and a team of researchers) studied the 5
locations around the globe that have the highest concentrations of
100-year-olds, as well as exceptionally low rates of diseases such as cancer,
diabetes, obesity, and heart problems.
In the book, Buettner lays out the
specifics for each of these “Blue Zones” locations, analyzes the trends, and
then prescribes a plan for people looking achieve the same level of health and
longevity.
The book is fantastic and I highly
recommend it for anyone who is looking to live a longer, happier life. In case
you are short on time, I have tried to summarize my main takeaways below.
Note: Most of the book focuses on
food because, as Buettner says, “food may be the best starting point for anyone
seeking to emulate the health, longevity, and well-being found in the world’s
Blue Zones.” But a significant portion of the book is also devoted to other
healthy lifestyle habits commonly found in Blue Zones locations, and I have
included some of those key behaviors at the end of this post.
According to TheBlue
Zones Solution:
The best-of-the-best longevity foods
are (Include at least 3 of these daily):
Goat’s Milk and Sheep’s Milk (including sharp pecorino
cheese)
Flat Bread
Barley
Sourdough Bread
Fennel
Fava Beans and Chickpeas
Potatoes
Greens
Tomatoes
Onions
Zucchini
Cabbage
Lemons
Almonds
Wine
Loma Linda, California:
Avocados
Salmon
Nuts
Fruits
Beans
Water (7 glasses per day)
Oatmeal
Whole Wheat Bread
Soy Milk
Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica:
Corn Tortillas
Black Beans
Squash
Papayas
Yams
Bananas
Blue Zones lifestyle lessons to
maximize happiness, health, and longevity:
Move daily (e.g. walking or other moderate-intensity
activity).
Socialize more. Research shows that the happiest people
socialize at least 8 hours per day, especially with parents and family.
Know what gets you up in the morning. Knowing your
sense of purpose, or reason for living, has been shown to add up to 7
years of life expectancy.
Have faith. Attending faith-based services (it doesn’t
matter what faith) 4 times per month has been shown to add 4–14 years to
your life.
Committing to a life partner can add up to 3 years of
life expectancy.
Aim to sleep 8 hours per night for maximum health and
longevity.
Have sex. 80% of people in Ikaria ages 65–100 are still
having sex, and sex has been shown to enhance longevity.
In summary, as noted in the book,
“Eat well, stress less, move more, and love more.”
Here’s to a long, happy, healthy,
and fulfilling life!
Andrew Merle writes about living well,
including good habits for happiness, health, productivity, and success.
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This article was originally
published on October 27, 2016, by Andrew Merle, and is republished here with
permission.
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