Thank you, Coup. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. We have a massive political problem.

But this one, we can do something about right now.

The top four congressional leaders are finally talking relief again. It's happening tonight.

But the word is that they're huddling separately right now and there is no word of a deal.

This is unacceptable because this isn't about some irrational sound and fury that will amount to nothing like what we just lived through.

This is a soulless slow walking of relief that must be the focus of attention and outrage.

There is no good reason for this delay. It's time to focus on it.

Has anyone heard of the flood of lawsuits that are hitting businesses so hard that we have to address it right now with equal urgency as hunger, vaccine production, or any family pain?

Well Mitch McConnell has and he is arguing for exactly that. Be very clear.

McConnell is talking about 1400 or so suits since March. They're against employers for work related illness regarding COVID.

He says these suits are such a threat, such an emergency that they are worth holding up relief until there is a deal to hold these employers harmless from liability.

So those companies getting relief matters as much as anything else. Forget the fact that some of those suits may be justified, maybe many of them, maybe all of them, or that people may have been mistreated, or that there's something called workers compensation and other tools that are already in place to limit liability.

Or the fact that litigation is how we figure out problems. Or that you could address the problem of massive number of suits, not 1400, when they really pile up.

You know what's piling up? 60 million. We are close to that number of people who are hungry.

Kids that need food, schools that are desperate, vaccines that need to be produced, families who won't have Christmas.

Those are exigent circumstances. Those are now. These families needed help weeks ago, months ago.

But look at McConnell because this is about him and his visage betrays his demeanor.

He always has that face on because he is about the goal. There is no shame in his game. There is never a trace of humanity or of concern.

He is a pros pro. He does not care about the cost to anyone else. Lie about the Garland nomination, then stack the court.

There is no principle, only priorities, and he will let the pain pour down on this country because he has.

You see, it's not speculative. If he doesn't get this protection, no deal. He says and does what he has to when he has to like today.

The Electoral College has spoken. So today I want to congratulate President Electio Biden.

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