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CHRIS CUOMO: So, let s be honest with each other here. What happens tomorrow? Can we really turn a new leaf? Is a change of president enough to cause a change in the state of this country? Let s discuss where we are and where we can go.
New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman. Author of the best seller
Thank You for Being Late. Good to see you, brother. How you feeling this eve?
TOM FREIDMAN: Good to be with you, Chris. And I m feeling hopeful. I watched President-elect Biden and, you know, Vice President-Elect Harris give that address today in Washington. There was something beautiful about it. And it just reminds you what happens when you turn the noise machine down. And you get two people – two decent people who are just trying to figure it out and lead by bringing people together and not by dividing and enraging. So, I am feeling hopeful. I know, it’s going to be a long slog, though, Chris.
5:37 p.m. Eastern
BRIAN WILLIAMS: The men and women who will be the power structure of the United States of America walking away now under heavy security after what I think, Nicole, was a beautiful and fitting memorial.
NICOLLE WALLACE: Yeah, I think that the incoming president, incoming vice president may have just cracked open a lot of people who were holding it all in, and I think this is the first time that anyone in a position of power has spoken to the families of 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID. I remember coming in on a Saturday night at the very beginning of the pandemic, and Joe Biden called in and did an interview with Mike Barnicle and me and I told him that, because my son was home full-time, I was teaching third grade for the first time in my life and not doing a very good job and anchoring from home and not doing a very good job, and I didn t want my son to see me cry so I cried every day when I ran and I asked him how he could believe in a god that allowe
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