Ater, Susan Ferrechio takes look at how the next senate is shaping up. We also take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host the shape of president elect Joe Bidens Administration will begin to take shape today as he names a covid advisory panel. While cabinet choices may be a week or more away, he could name his chief of staff this week. Good morning, it is monday, november 9. Welcome to washington journal. Our first hour of questioning asking you what is your top priority for the Biden Administration . Here is how you take part. One line for democrats, one line for republicans, one for independence and others. Independents and others. We welcome your texts. Please include your name and where you are texting from. And on facebook as well. We will also keep you updated on some of the legal challenges that are continuing in several states to the election by the Trump Campaign. We will tell you more about those as we look for
election. Continues. Host we are joined by scott long with the hill newspaper, covering congress for quite some time. You have a lameduck session coming in here shortly in the u. S. But before we get to the next congress, tell us what the next few weeks or month looks like on the u. S. House side in particular. Guest the house of representatives will come back to washington after this historic election to hold their leadership elections. It looks like democrats are moving forward with their leadership elections next week. That favors nancy pelosi. The quicker the election, the less time there is for their to build any momentum in opposition against her. Nowe is some chatter right from moderates who are just crumpled about the number of seats that have been lost by democrats in a very surprising fashion. At least seven vulnerable democrats in the house went down to defeat. That has caused some andternation in the party has incited some chatter about whether or not there should be a chal
Over the next couple of days and weeks. Am my first calculation of fivestate differential this of 143 was 150 3000 out 153,000 out of 143 million votes. You wonder if we would have a five state recount. Im kidding. That wouldnt occur. Battle was in hawaii. The differential between john f. 1960 between john f. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was all of 115 votes. There was a recount in hawaii, and there was a swing from nixon to kennedy in 1960. You really wonder, is that what we have in store as we stagger to december . On georgia, just to add a bit of color, i was very focused on georgia over the last , becausenth and a half it is an important state. I believe it is a state that has only voted three times for a democratic president. If those times before it does go to a democratic president , two of those were when jimmyn 1990s carter was on the ballot, and in President Trump won the state by a 5 difference. Anwould even be symbolically important point if it is a razor thin majority. We nee
Fromsion off of the news pfizer. Lets just frame where this market is. Ill let lisa worry about bonds. I am looking for an entry point, and i dont have one coming with s p futures out to record highs, up 120. Jonathan lets get straight to the price action of this moment. Equity futures are absolutely surging, up by 3. 3 . It is a huge turnaround. On the 30 year we go about to 88 basis points. A bit of dollar weakness back through this market, just south of 1. 19. A vaccine possibly helping us normalize this global economy. What does that mean . Bti with a 40 handle. Lisa it looks like pfizer will get some of the safety data necessary to see whether they can get some of the emergency approval to roll this out. This is what everyone has been waiting for. I simply, what is the Circuit Breaker to the surge in covid cases we have seen . Could this be yet . The market is saying yes, and the chances of higher growth, very high according to the market trade this morning. We can bring in sams n
We will speak with independent journalist allan nairn and unit organizer Jane Mcalevey got how to stop and electoral coup and what went wrong in the 2000 flood recount. Then georgia flips blue for now, as joe biden pulls ahead of trump for the first time in extraordinarily tight race for the states 16 elecral votes. Ware patitly watchg as demoacy is mos definitely at stake in to see whether or no georgia will fp for thecratic candidate for First Time Since 1992. Amy will in the u. S. , millions of people are mesmerized by the president ial race, ipuerto ric the isld is dealg with its own race that produced very different results, including the election of afro puerto rican human rights feminist and l lgbtq activist ana irma rivera lassen. Is i am anmeans bt and others the black woman. The discrimination some of us may face. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. Democric president ial nominee joe biden has