What's up everyone? Welcome to TYT, Anna Casparian, and John Iderola with you. Today's

show is going to be bananas. Our minion word for bananas, banannet. Today is going to be

banannet. It's going to be amazing. We're going to have a great show. So we have, of course,

updates on the $2,000 direct checks to Americans. What's going down in the Senate will give

you all the details, all the good faith actors, the bad faith actors, and what's likely to

be the outcome. Also an interesting point on that coming from the American prospect. Maybe

Democrats should take Mitch McConnell's proposal. So we'll give you that argument. Also, Josh

Hawley is basically the first in the Senate to stand up and say that he'll challenge Donald

Trump. I'm not Donald Trump, but challenge the outcome of general election. Of course,

he wouldn't. He's dying a 2024 race. Later in the show, we'll also talk about where Biden

stands on the direct stimulus checks to Americans. I really need to get out of the habit of calling

it stimulus checks because they're survival checks. These are checks that are not even intended

at this point to stimulate the economy, but help Americans stay on top of their bills

as much as they possibly can in this incredibly difficult time. But anyway, John, how you doing?

Really excited to do the show with you today. I'm good. I'm excited for the end of the

year. I'm one of those people that chooses to be like, basically not superstitious at all

in my daily life. But like, would January 1st is coming? I'm like, just please magic exist.

Make everything different. So I'm looking forward to that. I know. Yeah. Yeah. I look as

George Bush once said, the secret is to keep expectations low. So my expectations are

pretty low. But we'll fill you in on how the vaccine distribution is doing as well, because

that has a big role to play in how 2021 ends up being for the vast majority of Americans.

But before we get to all of that, let's start off with Josh Hawley because he has been making

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