jon:, thank you. >> thank you, jon. airline we are more than 60 people onboard vanishes from radar shortly after taking off. the latest on the investigation, next. ♪ ♪ anywhere convenience. everyday security. bankers here to help. for wherever you want to go. chase. make more of what's yours. to stir that fire, university of phoenix is awarding up to one million dollars in scholarships through this month. see what scholarship you qualify for at phoenix.edu. jon: here are some other headlines from arked the around the globe in kim jong-un is threatening to expand his nuclear arsenal and calling the united states, quote, our biggest enemy. this after president-elect joe biden called him a thug. in iran, lead reverse threatening to expel united nations nuclear inspectors unless sanctions are lifted by february 21st that could complicate any effort by president-elect biden to rejoin the obama era nuclear deal. also in iran, the tweet claiming coronavirus vaccines from the u.s. and u.k. are, quote, completely untrustwort

jon. jon: rich ed son at the white house rich, thank you. well the georgia candidates are making a final push to win over as many voters as possible with just three days before those runoffs decide control of the senate. notably absent from campaign trail is senator david perdue, he's in quarantine after comes in close contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus. peter doocy is in georgia with more for us. peter. reporter: jon, good evening senator perdue is trying to be seen and heard although he's in isolation. >> what this will do is just change the way that we're ending up this campaign these last three days are critical so i'm doing media making phone calls participating virtually. reporter: kelly loeffler is knocking on doors herself today with texas senator ted cruz by her side trying to help generate some excitement on the right. loeffler has accused rafael warnock democrat of having a dangerous past now that a camper from a camp reverend warnock once in charge of is a

jon? jon: mark meredith at the white house, thank you. in arizona republicans vote to censure several prominent party members who were at odds with former president trump. including senator john mccain's widow, cindy mccain. members also reelected staunch trump supporter kelly ward as the state's gop chairwoman. all the time that the former president's power in the gop remains very strong. david spunt has more from washington. >> reporter: there is an internal war in the arizona republican party. there is the donald trump faction and the john mccain faction. the mccain faction is made up of cindy mccain, jeff flake and governor doug ducey. all three were censured by the arizona gop last night, but the censure is merely just a symbolic step. it shows the state republican party in its official capacity is more the party of trump than mccain. the party nominee for president just 1 the years ago. arizona gop chairwoman kelly ward was narrowly reelected last night. governor ducey was close with

jon: mark meredith. as president trump gets ready for his georgia rally tomorrow his supporters on capitol hill including republican rented candidate kelly loeffler are challenging joe biden's victory, rich live at the right house. >> severally president trump is planning on challenging the election results himself at a phone conversation with georgia secretary of state. this is according to audio that was obtained by the washington post. >> i just want to find 11780 votes which is one more than we have because we won the state. tell me, what are we going to do, we won the election and it's not fair to take it away from us like this. >> not independently obtain this audio. georgia secretary of state john mathis berger did confirm the call to fox news, the georgia republican party chair u.s. previously disagreed with roethlisberger has tweeted on this, mind-boggling that the georgia secretary of state, his lawyers would secretly record and release the confidential settlement conference with the president,

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jon. jon: hillary vaughn in wilmington, delaware. hillary, thank you. ♪ ♪ jon: meantime president-elect biden is proposing nearly 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan in -- intended to help struggling businesses unemployed americans, and cities and states fighting the coronavirus coronavirus i should say -- alex hogan is live in new york city with details. alex. reporter: good evening. jon, president-elect joe biden saying that no american working 40 hours a week should be still living in poverty. the president-elect proposes in this plan to more than double the federal minimum wage and 20 states across the country, they're making at least $10 per hour while in 30 states, workers can make less than $10 an hour. currently no entire state or territory mandate 15 dollars. aside from washington, d.c., which went into effect in july of 2020. >> because incredible amount of pressure on restaurant industry is just survives and adding you know to the burden of restaurants that are already suffering, by forcing us to increase wages those that

jon: with that kind of talk? >> mo brooks showed up with an objection and a desire to debate election fraud, debate still needs to go on threat the country i did see senator joe manchin calling for the criminal prosecution with people like the president and mo brooks and donald trump jr., that is crazy and only further divide the country, i think the president would take action to protect the movement to ensure people are able to still speak out in the cancellation of members of congress with calls for holly and cruise and mo brooks and myself to resign or calls for worse dock tale with what we see with big tech. no longer is it acceptable for the political left and try to participate in the debate trying to de- platform people who don't agree with them and spire in a political message worthy of expulsion or worse, i don't think i will do anything to animate the calls for unity that we've seen across the political spectrum. jon: your name has come up as one of the democrats would like to take disciplinary action

jon, back to you. jon: steve, thank you. well, two days out from georgia's much-anticipated runoff elections, vice president kamala harris is in the state today campaigning on behalf of democrats john ossoff and reverend raphael warnock. president-elect joe biden will be campaigning in atlanta tomorrow. jacqui heinrich is live in delaware with the latest. jacqui. >> reporter: good evening, jon. vice president-elect kamala harris is in georgia right now. the president-elect will head there tomorrow in this last major push for democratic control of the senate, comes ahead of gop senators planning to object to congress' certification of the electoral college results. but a bipartisan group of senators condemn that plan today, saying the senators risk eroding faith over unfounded allegations of fraud. the group wrote in part, the 2020 election is over, all challenges to recounts and appeals have been exhausted. at this point further attempts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election are contrary to the will of the american

jon. jon: alex hogan in new york city. thank you for more on this bring in republican representative of arizona andy biggs member of the house judiciary committee. congressman you've seen the picture of national guardsmen sleeping on floor of a parking garage. what's that all about? >> well, in my opinion it is disrespect to the national guard here we've brought in 25,000 troops and we didn't provide adequate accommodations for them and by the way i happen to have a constituent has relatives serving from another state this type of thing that we're seeing is disrespect and should never have happened. they need to get this solved quite a bit and this is quite frankly what happens when you turn washington, d.c. into military installation. jon: question understand it is going to stay as a military installation for the next couple of months. those 5,000 troops at least are supposed to be there until march. >> yeah, there's no justification for that. they don't want to get the democrats don't want to give back to regular order i

jon. jon: claudia cowen, from los angeles. the army and texas police are investigating the death of a drill sergeant, 3 30-year-old jessica mitchell found dead in her car early new year's day. local media reports the vehicle had been shot at multiple times. alex hogan is tracking the story for us. alex. >> reporter: hi, jon. well, that army sergeant was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, jessica mitchell was also a mother to a 10-year-old son. it was just after 2:00 a.m. on new year's day when investigators found the challenger. the car was in the left lane of the highway, creating a m a haz. inside the vehicle, police finding the body of sergeant jessica mitchell. loved ones say she had posted on social media just hours before. >> it was the same video of her partying, having a good time, being jessica, you know. ringing in the new year. and then shortly after it, you know, it was just tooken from her. we heard there was no witnesses but it's a highway, somebody had to see something. >> reporter: the 30-year

if this business is gonna succeed, jon's behavior has to stop. hey, jon? >> yes? >> why am i hearing from some of the painters that you were yelling at your brother earlier? >> i got upset because he okayed to purchase furniture-- >> but i'm paying for the [bleep] furniture. i'm paying for it. >> well--but, your money-- >> how much do you think i've spent? >> $1/4 million? >> more. how much was he asking you to spend? >> i don't know, a couple thousand dollars. >> okay, so your brother goes out on a limb to improve what you think is gonna be a couple thousand dollars... >> right. >> and you lose your mind? it's not about the furniture, but it's about showing some respect to him. you're more concerned about this than you are him. >> that's not true. >> well then why do you treat him that way? >> but, it's one situation-- >> i know, jon. >> but it--but, marcus, it was-- >> jon, he's a human being. forget about the fact that he's your brother. we shouldn't be talking to people that way. in a situation like this, these brothers need to be working together, not working

jon, let's stop it on gamestop right now. it is elegant, churning intraday, and let's look at the reality. might i suggest a celebration of airlines and recovery. jon: american airlines, look at premarket action with american airlines this morning. you wonder if that is the name of the day to replace what we saw yesterday. amc and gamestop as well. we talked a lot in the last hour about retail and pushback against the immense snobbery in the conversation at the moment. not all retail is equal. i know people have reached out this morning about this topic at the moment. you have institutional players not all created equal. you have retail players not all created equal. the people actively engaging this market on the retail side right now -- many of them know what they are doing. the people that are passively allocated to this market at the moment -- and that is what people have written in about the situation this morning -- gamestop's number two, granted just 0.75%, but the number two waiting in the russell 2000. if you get peo

i want to talk about jon ossoff. here we go. let me talk about jon ossoff. let me clear this out one more time. again, you can see, he is leading by 16,000 votes at this point. donald trump made a last-minute visit to georgia to this county right here, to whitfield county. you can see jon ossoff didn't do well there. he got crushed, 70% to 21%. but there's no real sign that trump's visit did much to gin up the republican vote. you can see, roughly the same percentage in the presidential election there. i am told we are now joined by the senator-elect from the state of georgia, raphael warnock. reverend warnock, thank you so much for being with us. congratulations. we heard you overnight noting the fact that your 82 mother, whose hands picked someone else's cotton, you said, got to cast her vote for her son to be senator of the state of georgia. what was that moment like when the state was called for you? >> good morning, listen, this is a wonderful day here in georgi,. and i believe, in america. i am an iteration and an example of the american dream. i spoke

jon batiste. hey, jon, how are you? >> jon: i'm very, very good today. >> stephen: so am i. so am i. did you get-- did you get a chance to watch the ceremonies today? >> jon: yes, i did. i just felt it even before i turned it on, the countenance of the nation has been lifted. and i was so happy to see people coming together and uniting. and we're going forward. >> stephen: right. it was a reaffirmation of the beauty and the majesty of will. especially in that space that had been so heartbreakingly violated two weeks ago. it was just a lovely, cleansing moment. >> jon: yes, yes. it felt like the way that things were supposed to be for four years, and we forgot. and then we were reminded today. we turned on the tv, and we see it in action. we're like, okay, now we're back in order. >> stephen: now, everyone was blown away by the young poet laureate, amanda gorman. i understand you know her. you did a project with her. what was that? >> jon: yes, we did a duet and tribute to the builders of the empire state building, who a lot of them are unknown, and even died in building the

jon ossoff got 763. that means the percent of the votes that came in were about 60% for perdue and about 40% for jon ossoff. you're going to say wait a second, this is fulton county, one of the most democratic counties in the state. true. but these could be republican precincts. don lemon can tell you there are republican presipcincts in that area. that's why we're not calling the state, despite the fact we think much of the remaining vote the democratic and jon ossoff could take the lead soon, we haven't called because the precincts haven't come in. >> you were talking about the experience of being in there and obviously the representation of the african-american vote today is going to be a huge part of the headline. it's not over yet but they've already made their stand. >> and i have the perfect person to talk to about that. i i want to bring in newly elected congresswoman nikema williams of georgia, also picking up the late congressman john lewis' seat, the fifth district of georgia. thank you so muc

. >> jon: good morning. the f.b.i. says more than 200 suspects from the siege of the capitol are identified. more than 100 of them arrested. among them the man seen carrying house speaker nancy pelosi's lectern. a retired pennsylvania firefighter accused of throwing a fire extinguisher that hit police officers. one man parading the confederate flag inside the halls of congress and the qanon person for his face paint and hornd hat >> sandra: security ramping up in d.c. 20,000 national guard troops deployed to the nation's capital as washington goes on lockdown. jennifer griffin is live on capitol hill for us. how seriously are they taking these threats ahead of inauguration day? good morning. >> good morning, sandra. they are taking them very seriously and the online chatter the f.b.i. director referenced has been flying around the internet since before that angry mob stormed the capitol behind me on january 6. what has national security officials and secret service and others very concerned here in the capital is that

not enough jon batiste. >> jon: i always love more jon batiste. we have to get the people more jon batiste. i'm with it. >> stephen: people can go get this album, too, right? >> jon: it's out right now. you can stream it, and vinyl, too, for the vinyl listeners. >> stephen: of course, of course. it makes the animation much warmer. >> jon: right, right. >> stephen: well, jon, do you have-- do you have anything-- i know you wrote these jazz compositions. anything you can play for us that is inspired by what you were inspired to write in "soul." >> jon: yeah. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: you got the gig, teach. jon batiste, everybody. you know, i spend a lot of time slowly braising the day's most topical veal shanks in white wine, topping it with the timeliest gremolata and newsiest beef stock, to prepare for you the three michelin-star osso bucco that is my monologue. but sometimes, i run to boston market, slap the contents of their family meal deal onto a tv dinner tray and drown it in an unheated jar of gravy to create the recently-divorced-dad sunday plat

jon ossoff and raphael warnock understand that. they saw the power of believing in the promise of american and our darkest months. john learned it from my old friend and yours, john lewis. sees the power to overcome the toughest trials that life can throw at us. he believes as i do, in the quote of a philosopher who said, fate sees best in the dark. the faith that enables us to overcome adversity. to lift each other up, to be a beacon of light to one another, and for the world. that iswho we are and what we should never give up on. i have said many times and i will say it here again. , and i saything again, there is nothing this country has not been able to do when we decide to do it together. we have faced tougher times before, and we have always overcome. we have always overcome. we have always come out better than we went in. no matter what. i know these -- i know this campaign has been exhausting. you put the hard work in over the last two years to get to this moment. it has been intense. it has been nonstop. but i am asking yo

jon: let me jump in. what you are talking about is important -- the secret thing of the return to growth. initially, when we reopen, and hopefully that is in the summer, and deeper into summer we reopen a little more. we know what happens mechanically speaking. we experienced at last year -- you get the nice pop in rebound, growth, and at that point people start to believe growth is not scarce. what i would ask of you is if you can extrapolate the growth rate in two 2022, 2023, 2024, and if we have done enough on the policy side to adjust trend growth because making the sequential call of shutdowns to reopening and rotating the cyclical parts of the market is one thing. sticking with it through the cycle because you think trend growth will be higher and growth won't be scarce, that is a different call. christopher: you are right. you hit on a ton of things. a lot to unpack there. what we did not touch on is what does the tech situation look like in the year? we don't think it looks better. we think we wil

jon batiste. ♪♪ >> jon: hello, hello, hello. >> stephen: jon, are you aware that 2021 is the year of the sea shanty? >> jon: oh, my goodness! wow! >> stephen: i can't believe i'm the one telling you, a msical genius with his finger on the pulse of the scene, as we call it, doesn't know that this is the year of the sea shanty. i have been telling people this! i told my whole family over the christmas break. dad, you're crazy, get off the grog and come back to port. no one's going to listen to sea shan'ties and now they're blowing up online. >> jon: i've got to get on that. what's your favorite ♪ ♪ there once was a ship that put to sea ♪ ♪ the name was belly t. soon may the well oman come to bring the sugar, tea and rum ♪ ♪ one day when the tonguing is done we'll take our leave and go ♪ ♪♪ >> jon: oh! i like that! >> stephen: all right. >> jon: what do you call that? >> stephen: wellerman. it is a 19th century new zealand whaling song. whaling songs are going to be the biggest, best, greatest, all a cappella, a cappella, a cappella, tremendous, take your cars, drums,

jon ossoff, 81% here. the question is if that 60% outstanding, 58% outstanding is only 130,000 votes, even if you get 80% of it -- there is still some other votes out here. we're not done everywhere else, but that's the biggest basket of votes. it was 171,000 and you get 80%, it is enough to overcome that. so that's a big change in the math. and we'll continue to watch as it comes out. the biggest way to know, to understand, is to report them. is to report them. and dekalb county is by far the slowest of georgia counties doing its work tonight. you are asking is there anything else out here still. gwinnett is up to 95%. fulton is up to 99%. you're done, and this is where you can count on votes. so that's a troubled spot for the democrats. more to come in in cobb county, but it is more competitive. you're not going to make up a ton of ground there. douglas county. you look down at clayton, back up to 95%. if you are the democrats now, especially that you are here, it is not 171,000 or 200,000 votes. it is 1

where the votes are still outstanding seem to be very favorable to jon ossoff. so i don't think it's a precipitous claim to say that we'll have two georgia democratic senators.

where the votes are still outstanding seem to be very favorable to jon ossoff. so i don't think it's a precipitous claim to say that we'll have two georgia democratic senators. >> we can talk about what that means from a governing perspective, but before we get to the governing, you've got to get through what's happening today. of course in the halls of the building behind me here, in the

>> jon: jon batiste, everybody. thank you, jon. >> stephen: yes, indeed. later on. later on. >> stephen: folks, i spend a lot of time carefully soldering the most topical super-conductive circuit boards, crafting the newsiest lightweight carbon fiber limbs studying human movement patterns, and balancing precision internal gyroscopes to create the cutting-edge state-of-the-art boston dynamics robot that is my monologue. but sometimes, i like to snort some bath salts, break in to an abandoned toys-r-us, dig through the bin of defective rejects, and glue some busted parts together to create the demented franken-furby of news that is my segment: "quarantinewhile!" quarantine-while, "a harvard professor has claimed in his new book that alien debris passed near earth in 2017," and that the object actually "could have been alien space junk." i don't know. alien garbage sounds a little far-fetched. let's take a look. whoa! i don't know if it's garbage, but that definitely appears to be someone's junk. please, have your alien spayed or neutered. not cool, aliens. that is a s

and how about jon ossoff? what's his identity? that's not an easy question to answer when the sum total of your personal achievements could fit comfortably in the ashtray of a sports car. at various points, ossoff has claimed he once worked as a senior national security staffer on capitol hill, which is pretty funny because in fact ossoff was what is called him washington a legislative correspondent. that job consist mostly of responding to letters from constituents. in other words, he was the male boy. and not in a very impressive office either. jon ossoff works for a georgia congressman called hank johnson, who is easily hands-down, ask anybody in washington the single dumbest member of congress and that's saying a lot. back in 2010, just in case you think we are overstating the case, johnson, in a hearing which was on television, asked a navy admiral with deep concern whether the island of guam, which is an island, not a floating platform, might capsize if too many troops were moved onto a base there. watch this tape, you'll se

jon sopel, bbc news, washington. katty: president trump is aving america at its most divided since the u.s. civil war. so let's go now to james, a staff writer for "the atlantic" based in washington. thanks very much for joining me. people have very different views about this president. there are people who absolutely love him and will follow him anywhere, even storming the u.s. capitol, and there are people who absolutely hate him. most people would agree he has been extraordinary. what do you think is the most extraordinary thing about this president? james: i think the most extraordinary and unfortunate aspect and the legacy he believed was reinforced by his action after the election, to magnify the worst parts of the national character. every nation through its history has had a brighter and darker part of its tendencies and most presidents all presidents until this one said he was what we can do together, what we can aspire t donald trump is the only one who tried to magnify and ride on the wave of the darker im

jon batiste. hello, jon. >> jon: yes, hello. how you feeling? >> stephen: i'm feeling good. you know why? >> jon: why's that? >> stephen: i'm special so t "we are" which comes out march 19th, right? >> jon: that's right, march 19th, we're going to hit the streets. >> stephen: you already dropped a new single this weekend which is "i need you." you can check it out on youtube. where else? >> jon: youtube, the music video is there, listen to it on streaming, order the vinyl, pre-order. the world's been crying out for a long time, after 2020, we need to have fun, we can't forget about fun. >> stephen: when did you find time to write an album? we're all very busy. >> jon: well, you know, i had a lot of stuff going on when i was writing thisle a pum. i was in my dressing room at the ed sullivan theater writing most to have the album. >> stephen: i remember that place. >> jon: you see, that theater has a lot of special juju in there. i think that, when you're in that space, there's a lot that you can pull from. so, you know, in between our rehearsals and our show, i just pull 'em

ahead of jon ossoff. ossoff is trailing perdue in the statewide count by just over 1,300 votes right now. it's a situation right now where ossoff is looking to the outstanding votes to leapfrog perdue, and to try to get ahead. and the question of, will it be one 0.5%, then this could go to a recount that could delay it a little bit. but that's the story in the ossoff race. in the warnock race, warnock is looking to the outstanding votes to try to build on his lead he has over loeffler. so where are the remaining votes? this is the biggest one, the biggest source of votes by far that's left. about 20,000 votes, a little bit less in dekalb county. you can see how the votes have come in, warnock is getting 83% 2%, ossoff is getting 82.5%. one of the biggest democratic counties in the state of georgia. there are just under 20,000 votes to come in. they're early votes, votes cast by people, in person, early. it's a democratic county, and that's a democratic group of votes. we expect the almost 20,000 votes to

jon batiste. jon, happy new year. >> jon: happy new year, 2021 in full effect. how are you feeling this year? >> stephen: i. feeling good. not as good as you look in that hat, though. tell me the story about this hat. >> jon: i got this in north africa, tunisia, actually. it's a kufi that. the loneliest monkey wore this when he would play. i saw the awe thentdic one and i had to get it. >> stephen: you and i are from the south. is there a new year's tradition where you grew up? do you guys eat anything on new year's day where you grew up? >> jon: come on, now! we eat black-eyed peas, cabbage and pork shops. >> stephen: we do the same thing. do you call it? we call it hoppin' john. >> jon: where does that come from? >> stephen: i don't know. where does it cofrom, darling? >> i don't know. >> stephen: it's always been called hoppin' john. and you cook bacon, back fat if you've got it, and onions and throw it in with the rice and the beans and it's so good. >> jon: yeah, yeah, we have been eating that since new year's day, with leftovers. it's kickin', man. ( laugh

so far, it is jon ossoff,. is jon ossoff with 55%, 44% for david perdue. aree can see more results coming in from the minute. as you pointed out, the lead so far keeps increasing. there are the numbers right there. and% from a file warnock 46% for kelly loeffler. warnock and 46% for kelly loeffler. our producers are always updating election developments online. we have our team working on it. you can find it right now on wsbtv.com. >> take a look at this. incredible access for you here. you're looking live at where election workers are counting ballots inside the georgia world congress center. stay with us, as the runoff results unfold throughout the night. announcer: you have been tvtching live coverage of wsb- in atlanta here on c-span, as the results come in for the georgia u.s. senate runoff elections between republican senators, david perdue and jon ossoff, and kelly loeffler and rough file warnock -- raphael warnock. we will return to the broadcast shortly. ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on th

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jon batiste. jon, when we were in the commercial break here before we came to you, did i see this correctly, do you have a basketball right there between your feet? >> jon: yeah, yeah. >> stephen: just out of shot. >> jon: yup, yup. >> stephen: you just-- you just keeping sharp? what's the-- the ball is there with the piano? that seems dangerous. >> jon: yeah, you know, i still have hoop dreams. i think i can make it. i think i got it. i'm going to go and i'm going to have a second part to my career. i'm going to be in the n.b.a. >> stephen: you-- >> jon: i'm going for it. >> stephen: you will be to basketball what michael jordan was to baseball. i believe in you. ( laughter ) >> jon: well, you know, he worked really hard. >> stephen: he did. >> jon: he worked really hard. >> stephen: he did, he did. jon, what's on-- what's on-- what's on the mind of your fingers right now. >> jon: let's see. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: thank you, jon. ( laughs ). >> jon: have a good one. >> stephen: you, too. folks,

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that race between jon ossoff and david perdue, currently jon ossoff is leading by 16,000 votes, it's very tight. this comes on the heels of a historic victory for democrats here with reverend raphael warnock set to become the state's first black senator. this morning democrats one step closer to taking control of the u.s. senate. abc news now projects democratic challenger reverend raphael warnock will defeat republican incumbent senator kelly loeffler in one of georgia's runoff races. >> every day i'm in the united states senate i will fight for you. >> reporter: warnock is a prominent black preacher at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. a pulpit that once belonged to dr. martin luther king junior. warnock acknowledged his historic role as georgia's first elected black senator. >> i come before you tonight as a man who knows the improbable journey that led me to this place in this historic moment in america could only happen here. >> reporter: it's a opponent a staunch ally of president trump not giving in. >> we have a path to victory, we're staying on it. that's right. >> reporte

in georgia, democrat raphael warnock defeats republican kelly loeffler, and jon ossoff currently leads republican david purdue. the gop could lose control of the senate. beijing tightens its grip. hong kong police arrest around 50 people, including a prominent american lawyer. it's the biggest crackdown yet under china's controversial national security law. and boris johnson says one person in every 50 in england has covid-19. it comes as chancellor angela merkel tightens germany's lockdown to contain the outbreak. good morning and welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua in london. tom keene is in new york. tom, i know you have the ins and outs of politics of the georgia senate race. i would point to what is happening with treasury. we have some interesting calls not only from columbia threadneedle about the 30 year longer-term but also what could happen to the 10 year treasury in the short term if we do see a blue wave. of: it is a real dovetail the political world into the bloomberg world, no question about that. just the 10-year yield is launched from 1% out to 1.02

jon: absolutely not. and you know i think one of the big questions for facebook is and the other big tech whether allowed to expand through acquisition tesla earnings today is -- how did gm ford fit the into what is going on with tesla gm and ford share prices are way up over the last over the last few months. is that just because interest rates are low? or is the market telling us that gm and ford are getting into this electric vehicle game have chance to win at it themselves. >> there is no question general motors making a mainly commitment to about electric vehicles has said from beginning first 20 for 20, 20 new electric cars for 2020 now 30 new molds for 2023. she is investing 27 billion dollars in electric vehicle development gm is the dominant electric vehicle manufacturer partnering with microsoft to use edge communication and use their platform to collect manage data that electric cars will use especially autonomous vehicle technology, and to the extent now that they have -- not full autonomy but

>> jon: oh, my goodness. let's see. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stephen: thank you, jon. jon batiste, everybody. you know, folks, i spend a lot of time lining a path with the brightest, most topical cherry blossoms, laying them by the newsiest bubbling brook and carefully raking the sands to create the japanese zen garden that is my monologue. but once in a while, i like to dig a shallow pit, line it with some two by fours i found behind the home depot, fill it with gravel and sand i stole from the scrapyard, and top it all off with some used cat litter to assemble the derelict sandbox of news that is my segment: "quarantine-while!" quarantine-while, police in new jersey responded to a 911 call that "a flock of angry chickens was wreaking havoc at a mcdonald's drive-thru." you called 911? you're in a car. they're chickens. "the chickens are coming! what do i do?! what d ( laughter ) no word on whose chickens they were, but when animal control arrived at the mcdonald's, they "saw the chickens harassing and chasing customers, along with pecking at car tires." fortunately, no one was hurt, and the

jon ossoff, the democrat, has a lead of 17,000 votes. what we're waiting on is some counties in georgia still have mail-in ballots, vote-by-mail ballots to be reported out. for instance, right here in the atlanta and immediate atlanta area there are about 30,000 of them across these full counties, about 30,000 we think mail ballots that they have to tabulate and report out. but mail ballots in the atlanta metro area in particular, a very democratic area, vote-by-mail bol lots tend to be democratic. i think it's very reasonable to expect ossoff will be extremely well with the mail ballots that come from this atlanta metro area. there's also a few thousand to come from the savannah area in chatham county. there's a scattering from elsewhere in the state. there are probably about 8,000 provisional ballots or so. about 17,000 military and overseas ballots. the overseas ballots, the provisional ballots, those are not counted for several days. what you're seeing here in terms of what's left of the mail vote is a clear opportunity for ossoff to

that is said to assist or boost rafaphael warnock and jon ossof. and we also saw a technical error, with 18,000 ballots having to be manually rescanned. that vote came in throughout the night as they started to rescan those ballots. there was a technical error with the usb drive upload the results. they may get more. dekalb county was the county that pushed everything over the edge. it pushed warnock over the edge and tightened that margin in the race over senator perdue and jon ossoff. nbc news did call the race for raphael warnock. it will be georgia's first black senator elected here in the state. and we also know that we've heard from both candidates, raphael warnock and kelly loeffler. loeffler will not concede the race last night. listen to what we heard from the two candidates last night. >> and so, to everyone out there struggling today, whether you voted for me or not, know this, i hear you. i see you. and every day i'm in the united states senate, i will fight for you. >> we have some work to do here. this is a game of inches. we're going

in the november election, jon ossoff got 100,000 fewer votes than joe biden. i believe raphael warnock at 800,000 fewer votes than joe biden. so, some ways, this is a test and does joe biden have any coattails? we did not see in november. a lot of people down ballot voted republican. i think this will test that. i was very stunned by how brief his appearance was today. 10 minutes at a rally and so forth. i think again their appeal is less that joe needs the help in washington then we've got to give donald trump another defe defeat. >> bret: your thoughts? >> that's interesting. joe biden did not have any coattails and it will be interesting to see if he can grow some. once again, we are having an election that's all about donald trump. the big question now is, can trump feud with the governor and the secretary of state of georgia, will that depress republican turnout? he not only said the election in georgia was fraudulent and he actually won, he said that the senatorial election of georgia were "illegal and illegitimate." that's the question. will he suppress

jon, are you still with me >> yes, i am, scott. i'm still with you are you still short and you tweeted at chamath yesterday something to the effect of this is how it's done and then the stock just surged. >> yeah. well, but i know you'd find this hard to believe, scott, but those spreads that i put on, i put on put spreads and the reason for that is you know and i'll explain to the viewers quickly is that you are limited in any potential loss to what you paid for the spread. so i put on hundreds of thousands of dollars of positions just like chamath, but i then spread is against other short positions in puts and thus creating a position where i know for sure, scott if the stock is above 60 by april expiration i lose $45,000 if, on the other hand, some sort of rationality returns and that 136% short interest comes down and the stock comes down by april, if it's between, say, 60 and $30, i'll probably make two or 300,000 it was me saying that, chamath, here's me putting on a bet to put on the squeeze chamath did a fabulous calls buyi

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. >> jon: yes, indeed. >> stephen: jon batiste, everybody. folks, this week it isn't just the president who's leaving the white house, because melania trump is also getting ready to make the transition from "first lady" to "un-numbered dame." and this afternoon, she released a farewell addressss. >> it t has been a an honor toto reprpresent amemerican peopople ababroad.. i treasusure each ofof my expeperiences anand the inspspig peopople i have e met along g t. as i say farerewell to mymy rols first t lady, it i is my sincece hohope that evevery americican o theieir part to o teach our r cn what it means to be best. >> stephen: oh, i think your message was clear to "the children." particularly the boogaloo bois the proud boys, and the children of the corn. it was rare to hear from the first lady who has been mostly silent since the insurrection at the capitol earlier this month. but she's been busy. in fact, it's reported that, while that deadly attack was happening, the first lady was overseeing a photo shoot of rugs, furniture, and decorati

jon batiste. hello, jon, how are ya? >> jon: i'm good. that's a happy sound. i love happy sounds. >> stephen: that is. you know, there just isn't enough kazoo in popular music. maybe that's why i still have the will to live. it's -- it's a challenging sound, the kazoo, you have to admit. >> jon: oh, yes. it's an acquired taste, i'll say. but it's very jovial, to say the least. >> stephen: it is. it's light-hearted. it don't take itself seriously, and neither should we. >> jon: that's right. >> stephen: do you have any non-kazoo-based music you might be able to favor this fair audience with? ( laughter ) >> jon: yes, indeed! ♪♪ >> stephen: that's the side you always walk on! jon batiste, everybody. thanks, jon. >> jon: yes, indeed. >> stephen: folks, i spend most of my time special ordering the day's newsiest, most topical components, like a tenth-gen intel core i9 c.p.u., a gigabyte x-570 aorus xtreme motherboard and n-vidia g-force rtx 3090 graphics card, then carefully mounting it all in a tempered glass case with liquid cooling, r.g.b. lighting, and 750

and your broader point, jon? your broader point, jon? jon: my broader point is that the restrictions are -- it's a complicated issue but you can't just say they're bad, they destroy the economy. they also do have positive effects on slowing the virus. so it's a very -- there are very difficult tradeoffs that are made with this. a that is my broader point. i think people look at it as a binary thing. just he get rid of restrictions. dagen: i have always been very, very specific when i call out andy cuomo. because he has literally had a hand in killing elderly people and he won't admit it. and knowing people like janice dean who lost both of her inlaws, it is a stab in the heart of everybody who has lost someone when he postures like that and my issue is, now that trump is gone, he's got to take ownership of every single mistake including the deadly ones. jon: well, you don't see me here defending cuomo. dagen: no, you don't. jon, we're just debating. i never said that. maria: this is the conversation taking place across the country, guys.

when it comes to jon ossoff, challenging the incumbent david perdue, as it stands now jon ossoff has the lead with 52%, an d senator david perdue with almost 2.2 million votes, coming in at 49.8%. that's the state of that race. we showed you raphael warnock being called to win in his race against kelly loeffler. all that playing out today, as it turns out the counting of the electoral college votes, which some have mentioned this morning and you can watch on c-span. and the two senators he may see make comments throughout the day putting all beds in the -- putting all beds in the papers -- op eds in the paper saying why they are doing it. talking about serious allegations of fraud. specifically the elections of three states, florida, louisiana and south carolina, allegged to have been conducted illegally, going on to say that we should follow the president, congress should appoint an electoral commission, a full investigatory and fact-finding authority to bring forth an audit of those disputed states. accordingly, we intend to vote on january 6 to reject the electors in the disputed

to elect 2 individuals who are outstanding leaders in rafael warnock and jon ossoff . i have spent time withthem . we have talked, we have drank together. we have talked about the state of our country, the future of our country,the promise of our country . and they have talked to me about the state of georgia . they had said to me you need to know what'shappening in our state . they said to me these are the needs of the people. these are the needs of the children. these are the needs of small business . these are the needs us small people. these back to these two men are. and look at that in the contextof the history of the state of georgia . look at it in the context of the year where folks were deprived of the right to vote . who were deprived of full status of citizenship. look at it in the history of georgia. where one of the greatest american heroes who was now one of the greatest savanna ancestors, john lewis shared his blood on edmund pettis bridge. a great georgian for the right to vote and he had to shed his blood because the forces were so powerful and violen