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As we look at live pictures of new york's time square courtesy, the governor's office reported more than 70,000 new cases of covid state-wide. densely populated new york city and long island are far outpacing more rural areas in new cases. and tomorrow night in times square, a scaled back 15,000 gathering is being scheduled for the ball drop, plus one, of course, new york's incoming mayor is that plus one. he's decided to take the oath of office tomorrow night shortly after the clock strikes 12:00. mr. mayor-elect, i guess we can call you mayor-elect for one more night. thanks so much for join...

Going away. tonight it will be right on stage. join k me now from tampa is joan wal ch editor at large with salon.com and an msnbc political analyst and nia-malika henderson, national political reporter for "the washington post." thank you both for being here. >> great to be here. >> thank you. >> joan, let's start with you. can the gop dodge these issues all the way to november? >> no. this is going to be the big culture war night here in tampa, reverend al. i think that mike huckabee, i just ran into one of his advisers, he said it's going to be a positive honest speech. i said is he going t...