It's Tuesday, December 8th. I'm Heila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resick and this is what the day where we are now willing to let Trump

reverse the results of the election in Nebraska's second congressional district.

Yeah, truth is it won't change anything but maybe he'll just shut up long enough to let

us get on with our lives.

Yeah, sir, your consolation prize is Omaha. I heard it's lovely in the summer.

On today's show, a look at why Trump is ratcheting up federal executions and what Biden can do

to end the death penalty, then some headlines.

But first the latest.

I think it could be even more of a challenge than what we saw with Thanksgiving.

So I hope that people realize that and understand that it's difficult as this is nobody wants

to modify if not essentially shut down their holiday season.

But we are in a very critical time in this country right now.

We've got to not walk away from the facts and the data.

This is tough going for all of us.

That was Dr. Anthony Fauci talking about Christmas and our COVID nightmare world.

His concern is that the end of the year holidays could be more dangerous than Thanksgiving

because gatherings are more prolonged.

So here's the big picture on the pandemic right now.

Hospitalizations are still breaking records.

The seven day average in cases is around 200,000 and daily deaths are averaging over 2000

as well.

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