System Of A Lockdown
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The federal government still hasn’t affirmed Biden's victory, blocking him from the White House access he needs to get a handle on the transition and the government's pandemic response.
America has now surpassed 11 million COVID-19 cases, and the virus is still predominately affecting Black and Brown Americans. Some states are taking sweeping actions to slow rising case numbers, like New Mexico and Oregon, which have both reimposed lockdown measures.
And in headlines: new NYPD data show the limits of independent oversight committees, leaders from 15 Asia-Pacific countries sign the world’s largest free trade deal, and Chad Wolf’s moves to limit DACA weren’t legal.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday November 16th, I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm Gideon Rascic and this is what the day where we were hoping that Trump will |
| 0:11.9 | concede now that he's had a parade. |
| 0:13.9 | Yeah, I mean usually when you lose you don't even get a parade and you got that. |
| 0:17.6 | So you know kick rocks, get the step in. |
| 0:20.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.4 | Bounce. |
| 0:22.4 | Normally you just go home and cry, you know. |
| 0:25.4 | Right? |
| 0:30.0 | On today's show, the worsening COVID-19 crisis in the United States, then some headlines. |
| 0:39.6 | But first the latest. |
| 0:41.3 | You won because he got more votes, okay? |
| 0:43.0 | That's why he won. |
| 0:44.0 | He got more votes in the popular vote by a lot. |
| 0:46.6 | Anyone the same number of electoral votes, the president Trump himself called a landslide |
| 0:50.5 | four years ago. |
| 0:51.5 | But look, if the president's prepared to begin to recognize that reality that's positive, |
| 0:55.8 | Donald Trump's Twitter feed doesn't make Joe Biden president or not president. |
| 0:59.7 | American people did that. |
| 1:01.4 | What we really want to see this week chuck is the general services administration issue |
| 1:05.5 | that ascertainment so we can start to do the kinds of things you and I talked about a few |
| 1:10.2 | minutes ago. |
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