American history. We will speak to the new the newagazines yorker magazines jane mayer about her new article why trump cant afford to lose. That would to florida. Thats the sound of supporters cheering on Desmond Meade as he came out of a polling place after voting for president for the first time in 30 years. Two years ago, meade led an effort to restore Voting Rights for floridians who were disenfranchised due to their criminal records. At the heart of amendment 4 is the fact we abolished 150yearold jim crow law. Prior to amendment 4 has income anyone convicted of a felony offense faced lifetime barred from voting. So effectively removed that. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The United States is once again shuttering its own world record for daily coronavirus infections, reporting a staggering 163,000 cases thursday. Nearly 1200 people died of covid19 in the last 24 hours. Public Health Officials are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe as the virus continues to spread exponentially and hospitals are pushed the on capacity. California has become the second u. S. State with more than a million confirmed infections, joining texas. In chicago, mayor Lori Lightfoot has issued a 30day stayathome advisory and will cap social gatherings at 10 people. In pennsylvania, prison officials are warning of a deadly fullblown resurgence of coronavirus. 17 incarcerated people have died of covid 19 in pennsylvania during the pandemic, six of them since midoctober. Meanwhile, when a president elect biden stop hasnavirus advisors proposed Congress Pass a relief package to allow u. S. Residents to remain at home for four to six week lockdown to flatten the curve of transmission. If we did that, then we could block we could like to have reported six weeks and drive the numbers down at the event in asia, new zealand, and australia. And then we could really watch vaccines cruising into avlabity in the first and Second Quarter of next year and bringing back the economy long before that. Amy President Trumps Senior Campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski has tested positive for coronavirus, becoming the latest member of trumps inner circle to become infected after an Election Night superspreader event in the east room of the white house. Republican National Committee chief of staff Richard Walters has also tested positive. He was not at the Election Night white house event. Alaska republican don young, congress oldest member at 87, announced on thursday he has covid19. And 37yearold Iowa Republican congresswomanelect Ashley Hinson also reported a positive coronavirus test. President trump continues to insist he did not lose the november 3 election, even if Election Officials around the u. S. From both parties say there is no sign of widespread voter fraud or other irregularities. On thursday, trump proposed a wild Conspiracy Theory about Election SoftwareCompany DominionVoting Systems that trump votes were switched to biden. There is no factual basis for trump claim. The department of Homeland Security wrote in a statement joined by Election Officials around u. S. The november 3 election was the most secure in american history. There is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. Reuters reports christopher krebs, the top cybersecurity official at the department of Homeland Security, has told associates he expects to be fired for refusing to back trumps false conspiracy theories about the election. Ahead of the election, he posted this Youtube Video to a rumor control website set up by the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency. The election experience is designed to ensure that technology is not a single point of failure. There are measures in place to ensure you can vote and your vote is counted correctly. You should haveonfidence in the integrity of the process and dont overreact to claims that exaggerate the importance of insignificant events. Amy in georgia, republican secretary of state has ordered a hand recount of more than 5 million ballots, the largest such recap in u. S. History, after georgias two sitting republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and david perdue, called for his resignation claiming he had failed to deliver honest and transparent elections. In quarantine after his wife tested positive for covid 19 thursday. Georges top election official Gabriel Sterling dismissed charges by President Trump that tes for trumwork flipped to biden. Bitsknow there have been of misinformation talking about flipping votes and changing bows. Anybody is claiming things are being flipped by supersecret computer developed by the cia is just not speaking well, speaking nonsense. Amy on thursday, trump tweeted or retweeted over a dozen posts, blasting fox news and urging his supporters to switch to the farright cable channel one America News Network and the website newsmax. Trump was reportedly furious after fox news became the first u. S. News outlet to declare joe bidens win in arizona. This comes as axios reports trump plans to start a Digital Media company to rival fox news. Under the plan, trump would tap into his huge database of email and cellphone contacts with appeals to sign up for a Monthly Subscription for his new online channel. Cnn now projects joe biden has secured a win in arizona, joining other News Agencies that have already called the state for biden. With georgia and north carolinas races not yet called, biden has secured 290 Electoral College votes 20 more than needed to win the presidency. On thursday, 150 former National Security officials warned in a letter to trump that delaying the transition to joe poses a serious risk to u. S. Security. Meanwhile, pope francis became the latest world leader to call joe biden to congratulate him on his victory. Biden will become the second catholic u. S. President after john f. Kennedy. Three paid msnbc contributors have left the Cable News Network to join president elect joe bidens transition team. Legal analyst Barbara Mcquade has joined bidens legal review team. Health expert Ezekiel Emanuel has joined bidens Coronavirus Task force. Hes the brother of former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel. And political analyst Richard Stengel will be on bidens u. S. Agency for global media. In 2018, stengel told the council on Foreign Relations about his work as the Top Communications specialist at the u. S. State department. My old job at the state department is what people used to joke is that she propagandaist job. Every country does it in they have to do to their own population and i dont necessarily think it is that awful. Amy a fourth paid msnbc analyst, historian jon meacham, was removed from his role after it was revealed he helped write bidens victory speech. Joe biden has named president obamas former top immigrati adviser Cecilia Munoz to his transition team. During her time in the white house, munoz often justified obamas harsh Immigration Enforcement policies, including the administrations deportation of thousands of Central American children and its decision to kill an executive order that would have halted deportations. In 2011, munoz was interviewed by pbss maria hinojosa. At the end of the day when you have any Immigration Law that is brok and you have a community of 10 million, 11 Million People working and living in the United States illegally, some of these things are going to happen even if the law is executed with perfection. There will be parents separated from their children. They dont have to like it, but it is a result of having a broken system. The answer to that problem is reforming the law. Amy a warning to our audience the following story contains disturbing footage. In the mediterranean sea, at least 74 refugees have died in a shipwreck off the coast of libya. A sixmonth old baby was among those who lost their lives. The baby died just hours after being rescued. This is at least the eighth shipwreck in the mediterranean since early october. So far in 2020, about 575 refugees mostly from africa and the middle east have died in the mediterranean while attempting to reach european soil. However, the real number is thought to be considerably higher. In ethiopia, Amnesty International has confirmed hundreds of people were likely stabbed or hacked to death in the region of tigray monday night. It hasnt been confirmed who committed the mass killing, but at least three survivors of the massacre told Amnesty International they were attacked by members of Tigray Special police force and the tigray Peoples Liberation front. This comes as african officials are calling for a ceasefire in tigray, where federal troops have been unleashed against the local government after seizing a military base last week. Meanwhile, ethiopias nobel prim prizewinning Prime Minister is claiming the western Tigray Region has been liberated, while the United Nations warns of a dire and worsening humanitarian crisis. The moroccan military broke into a nogo buffer zone early friday morning in the nonselfgoverning territory of Western Sahara and exchanged fire with the polisario front, the Sahrawi Liberation Movement seeking independence. The violence broke a nearly three decadeold ceasefire brokered by the United Nations in 1991. For the past three weeks, sahrawi civilian protesters had blocked a moroccobuilt road in the area that sahrawis consider to be illegal. The peaceful blockade backed up traffic for miles and cut off trade between morocco and african countries to the south. The moroccan military entered the buffer zone friday morning to disperse the civilians, who were evacuated to safety by the polisario front. The sahrawi refugee camps are under a maximum alert, and the polisario has declared the return to Armed Struggle to liberate Western Sahara, which is pending decolonization since when morocco invaded the 1975 territory as spain, the former colonial power, withdrew. The ceasefire agreement included a u. N. Sponsored plan for a referendum on selfdetermination, which morocco has refused to hold. In armenia, protests erupted just minutes after armenian armenias Prime Minister signed a peace deal to end the conflict over nagornokarabakh. Protesters say the deal, which was signed by the president , does not represent the will of the armenian people. This comes as the group genocide watch has issued a warning after identifying several early signs of a potential genocide they considered azerbaijan was engaging in despite a cease fire agreement with armenia. It is estimated the conflict has killed at least 1000 people and displaced over 100,000, though some say the death toll is much higher. In peru, protests continue following what opponents are calling a legislative coup against former president Martin Vizcarra earlier this week amid accusations of corruption that he denies. Meanwhile, advocacy groups are denouncing the police use of teargas and other violent tactics to suppress the protests. During his time as president , vizcarra had pushed forward several anticorruption initiatives that affected members of congress, who themselves are under criminal investigation. Perus former head of Congress Manuel Merino was sworn in to replace vizcarra tuesday. Merino is a member of a centerright political party. A president ial election is scheduled for next april. In iran, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has tested positive for covid19 after authorities temporarily released her from prison. Sotoudeh ended a weekslong Hunger Strike in september as she called for the release of Political Prisoners amid the pandemic. Sotoudeh is a recipient of this years right livelihood awards. She was arrested in 2018 and sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. She had been working on behalf of women protesting a law mandating the wearing of headscarves in public. Two antinuclear activists were sentenced to over a year in prison thursday for breaking into the Kings Bay NavalSubmarine Base in georgia. Theyre both members of the kings bay plowshares seven, which broken at the base in 2018 armed with hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles contending their own bottle, and an indictment charging the government with crimes against peace. And lucille bridges, mother of new orleans civil rights activist ruby bridges, has died at the age of 86. Exactly 60 years ago, on november 14, 1960, lucille bridges dropped her daughter ruby off for first grade at William FrantzPublic School in new orleans, which was under a federal court order to admit its first African American students. U. S. Marshalls had to escort sixyearold ruby past angry white mobs and hostile local police officers. This is her mother lucille bridges speaking in 2018 recalling that day six decades ago. Just standing,le screaming and hollering, 2, 4, 6, 8, we dont want to integrate. 2, 4, 8, just [bleep] pitust got out and started ching eggs and tomatoes and everything, but they did not hit us because the marshals relate to care of us. E walked to the steps they had city policeman. They said, you cannot come in and two of the marshall said, in the United States, the president said we can. Amy the incident was immortalized in a 1964 Norman Rockwell painting titled the problem we all live with. That image, in turn, was recently adopted by artist bria goeller, who painted Kamala Harris the first African American woman elected as Vice President casting the shadow of sixyearold ruby bridges. On her instagram account, lucilles daughter ruby bridges, now 66 years old, said today our country lost a hero. Brave, progressive, a champion for change. She helped alter the course of so many lives by setting me out on my path as a six year old little girl. And those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. When we come back, we will be joined by reporter jane mayer, who just wrote the piece why trump cant afford to lose. Stay with us. [music break] amy this is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The number of americans hospitalized due to covid19 has more than a doubled over the past week as infections so to record numbers across the country. On thursday, a staggering 163,000 new cases were reported a new world shattering record. The u. S. Death toll has topped 242,000. Despite the surge, President Trump is largely ignoring the crisis, letting the virus rip through the country. Since the election was called for joe biden last saturday, trump has only made one brief public appearance and his twitter feed is filled with conspiracy theories. While trump has claimed the election was stolen, his campaign has provided no evidence of widespread voter fraud. On thursday, a wing of the department of Homeland Security released a statement saying the november 3 election was the most secure in american history. There is no evidence that any Voting System deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. Well, as trump refuses to concede the race, we begin todays show with longtime investigative journalist jane mayer of the new yorker. Her most recent article is headlined why trump cant afford to lose. It was published just before the election. Jane mayer writes trump has famously survived one impeachment, two divorces, six bankruptcies, 2