So please, i implore you, wear a mask. Do it for yourself. Do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement but it is a good way to start pulling the country together. I want to be very clear, the goal of mask wearing is not to make your life less comfortable. Or to take something away from you. It is to give Something Back to all of us, a normal life. The goal is to get back to normal as fast as possible. And masks are critical doing that. It wont be forever. Thats how we get our nation back up to speed and economically. We can go back to celebrating birthdays and holidays together, attend sporting events together, get back to lives and connections we shared before the pandemic. It doesnt matter whether or not we always agree with one another. It doesnt matter who you voted for. We are americans and our country is under threat. And now were called to do the same thing generations of proud americans have done in the face of a crisis throughout our history, rise above our differences to defend the strength and vitality of our nation. You know, thats the character of patriots. Thats the character of americans. We have to do this together. Wearing a mask may seem like a small act. Maybe you think your individual choice wont make any difference. Throughout our history, the history of our nation, we have seen over and over how small acts add up to enormous achievements. It is the weight of many small acts together that bend the arc of history. I know theres nothing the American People cant accomplish when were together as one people with one mission. We can get the virus under control, i promise you. We can rebuild our economy back better than it was before. We can address race based disparities that damage our country. It is in our power. So lets wear a mask. Lets get to work. Thank you. May god bless you, and for all those that lost somebody, our heart goes out to you. We know what its like. Our heart goes out to you. May god protect our health workers, health care workers, and all americans. Thank you. Listening to the president elect of the United States, joe biden. You see senator harris there, Vice President elect ahead of him walking off stage in wilmington, after receiving a briefing from the president elects new coronavirus Advisory Board to help him with transition planning. The Board Meeting on an important day. Number one, first work week since joe biden clinched the election. And number two, pfizer announcing its vaccine candidate in phase three trials proved 90 effective. Lets discuss the meaning with dr. Sanjay gupta and jeff zeleny with us as well. Dr. Gupta, start with you. The timing is fascinating and challenging in the sense that this could be an enormous gift for the country and the world and for a new president to have a vaccine that at least appears to come out of trials with wind at its back, proven efficacy. However, the president elect making clear production, few last testing hurdles, and production and distribution will take months for widespread availability. With the case count going up quickly, doesnt want people to say a vaccine is coming, im good. He needs people, made a bipartisan appeal, please, put on a mask. Yeah. I mean, i thought that was extraordinary, john. It is the first big speech from the president elect and he is spending time talking about masks. It is sort of a historic thing. You look back, read about history of panhandldemics. These are important things as Health Officials said a long time, surreal for me the last year, every time the president speaks, were in fact check mode. Here it was what he was saying was following the science, wear a mask, the importance of testing, setting expectations as you point out about the vaccine. Were still going into a crisis mode. The promising results today, it is not all sorted yet. That will take time. Doesnt mean we can get lax on basic Health Measures he is talking about. Jeff, to that point, look, this is a fascinating political challenge anyway. A president elect, even in good times, even without a pandemic and economic domino effect of it is trying to convince 70 Million People in this case, Record Number of people that didnt vote for him to listen to him. And joe biden talking about maybe youll save your sons teacher, maybe save somebody you go to church with, maybe you save yourself. It was a look riff on please, theres a vaccine coming, but until then, we have to do this together. The question is can he sell that message at a time the current president of the United States refuses to recognize the results. Increasingly the president elect is going to get the microphone of the president. John, you can feel it happening in real time here, the extraordinary megaphone that is really only afforded to the president of the United States is slowly shifting to a president elect joe biden. So by making this statement about masks, it is words we heard him say before, but never with the weight he said them in this moment. Look what he was doing before this. He was setting up an Advisory Board, a task force focusing the urgent work, the priority of his new administration, on this issue. So this is certainly messaging without question. But i, too, was struck by he says set partisan politics aside, doesnt matter if you voted for me or not, lets wear a mask. That will be a challenge in red states with republican governors. It will be on them to decide if theyre going to follow suit and do some mask mandates. One thing the Biden Organization is heartened by is result of an exit poll last week of the millions and millions of voters. About twothirds said believe wearing a mask is a responsibility, a Public Health responsibility, not a political statement. Theyre hoping there are some trump voters out there that will agree with the point. In message and substance, it makes clear this is the laser focus of this president elect and his Transition Team and of course it is not going to reduce the challenge. He is going to be coming into office as he said, it is a dark winter ahead. He didnt sugar coat this either, john. He doesnt sugar coat. Will there be, could there be. I hope there will be communication, conversations, cooperation between team biden and team trump, at least scientists going through the next ten weeks of transition. Jeff zeleny, thank you. Sanjay, stay with us a minute. Put this more in context, not just what we heard from the president elect but collision of events if you will, hopefully positive collision of events for change with the pfizer announcement this morning. The president s son, donald trump jr. Questioning the timing of the announcement, suggesting pfizer held this until after the election on purpose. Thats what donald trump jr. Says. You spoke to the pfizer ceo, they announced vaccine candidate in phase three trials is 90 efficacy, which would be a big deal. You put that timing question to the ceo. Lets listen. Should we read anything into the fact this got announced right after the election . Yes, science brought it exactly this time. We announce it the moment we learn about it. And i said multiple times that the election for us is an artificial time line. I was predicting this would happen before the end of october. Eventually happened a week later. Because this is when science brought it to us. Essentially he is saying look, as soon as they came to us and explain to viewers, theres an outside Advisory Board, this is not pfizer with its own data holding data, saying well release it today. Walk through the process. You can see the president s son, the president has a large twitter following, theyre going to gin this up that pfizer cooked the books to help joe biden. I think the point that you raise that theres an outside independent committee is probably the most salient here, john. Really it was not pfizers decision. You have the data. No one sees the data except this independent committee. He hadnt seen the data, was told about it yesterday from the committee saying it is 90 es effective. They have these interim analysis points when they check in on data, make sure they have enough people, enough statistical data set here. This is the point where they had that. Thats why they shared the information with the ceo yesterday and obviously it was announced late last night, this morning. It wasnt pfizers decision, john. Lets go deeper into this. Not pfizers decision, important distinction to make. Look, 75 million americans voted for joe biden, 70 million voted for donald trump. Millions and millions more watched it play out. Guess what they share in common, they want a coronavirus vaccine, there are skeptics out there, but this is a global pandemic. What i saw this morning, please help me. You hear 90 efficacy. To a layman like me, i say wow, thank you. You raise that question to explain what it means. Listen. 90 is a game changer. 90 , now youre hoping to have a tool in your war against the pandemic that could be significantly effective. How long this protection will last is something we dont know right now, but it is part of the objective of the study. We will followup the 44,000 people that received, are part of the study for two years. And during this followup obviously we will be looking also at durability of immune responses. Walk us through that, dr. Gupta, in the sense that if i get that, the followup study, we wont know how long the vaccine lasts, but the vaccine should be available sooner, correct . Yeah. I mean, so john, i would say first of all in whole, this is good news. This is a good news story today, whats happened, but these are important questions, 90 effective, 90 preventing people getting infected. Thats how they give them placebo, give them vaccine, see how well it works. The question is how well will it work preventing people getting sick who infected. 80 of people recover no problem anyway, right, with no symptoms or minimal symptoms. It is really this vulnerable population, how well did it work for them, how likely to prevent them getting sick. How long does it last. We know people that get naturally infected, maybe immunity lasts a few months, it is still an unanswered question. What about with the vaccine, is this a yearly thing . It is two shots. How long after you get the second shot do you develop immunity . Typically seven days they say. How long does it last, an entire season . These are questions that need to be answered. Also the safety data that wont come out until the end of the month, john. Progress comes with questions. I hope youre correct. Lets frame it as a good news day. We could use one of those. Grateful for your help to understand this and to get the pfizer ceo on camera for us. Thank you. When we come back, the president elect speaking saying he wants all americans to come together, help him fight covid. The president of the United States, current president , refusing to acknowledge the Election Results. Some things are good to know. Like where to find the cheapest gas in town and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. Something else thats good to know . 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Others cheer the president to fight on. Theres talk of Campaign Style rallies so the president can air his grievances. I think it was so important early on to say to the president if your basis for not conceding is there was voter fraud, then show us. Show us. Friendship means you listen to somebody, give them their opportunity. If they dont come forward with the proof, then it is time to move on. Trump has not lost. Do not concede, mr. President , fight hard. Joining me, kaitlan collins, jonathan martin, National Political correspondent for new york times. There was talk over the weekend some people are saying sir, we dont have a fight, we dont have the evidence or the proof. Any evidence at all the president is going to decide never mind, i lost, or are we still in fight mode . Theyre trying to handle it delicately. The president has been incredibly frustrated and angry over the weekend. Theyre kind of walking on eggshells how to approach this. It is true that Jared Kushner approached the president conceding the election, and my colleague reported the first lady talked to the president about accepting the fact that he lost the election to joe biden. Publicly we see a much different response from people around the president , including his own campaign manager, bill stepien, who held an all staff meeting at their headquarters outside washington this morning im told where he told staff were still in this fight, dont mistake the fact theres not been progress for the idea that we are giving up the fight. Were going to move forward with this. It raises questions of how long can they walk a balance beam of privately people believe it is time for the president to concede the election, publicly his aides are still encouraging him and baseless claims about voter fraud, pushing that, continuing to say theyre going to File Lawsuits and dispute the outcome. That comes as joe biden is moving ahead with planning his transition as we can tell from the Covid Task Force meeting he held and briefed us on. It is a mixture, division inside the white house and the president s inner circle of what theyre going to do next. Basically theyre all waiting on the president to come to terms with whats happening. Jonathan, you know this well, i covered a lot of elections, too, the key to proving anything wrong happened is catch it in real time. The election was six days ago. If there was evidence of people doing wrong things, stuffing ballot boxes, dead people voting, whatever theyre trying to get us to believe this time, we should be able to seat evidence by now, it happened six days ago. What i watch in situations like this is ambitious conservatives around the country like jeff duncan, Lieutenant Governor of georgia, a state the president is losing, and the president needed to win. He says mr. President , you have time to make your case but i dont see it. We have not had any sort of credible incidents raised to our level yet, so well continue to make sure the opportunity to make sure every legal ballot is counted is there. At this point we havent seen any sort of credible examples. Thats a trump ally, jonathan, essentially saying sir, prove it or move on. Yeah. The president has put his party in a tough spot here because they dont want to contradict him, and more importantly, shared core of supporters that have become convinced that there was something ne fash yfarious on. There are no reports of widespread misbehavior and voter fraud, so theyre in a tough spot. It is sort of an al gore ee for the larger challenge. Last four years, they have been on his side and for better and for worse. Obviously theyve taken serious losses in 2018 because of him. Now they have to stick by him, even as much of the country moves on, it is clear that joe biden is the president elect. The question is how much more rope they give him, how much more slack in the line before someone says look, you have to accept the results. I think talking privately to a few members of congress, john, over the weekend, they would like some kind of cue, some wink from the president or his people so they can start moving on. But that clearly as of midday monday is not coming anytime soon so this week is going to be tough for members of congress. They will want to move on and he wont let them. We would wish principle and country would come ahead of politics. That doesnt mean he disappears from the political scene. Exactly. Doesnt mean dangle the prospect for reelection or getting involved in the midterms, endorsing candidates. Others tried to nudge it a bit, but this is a president that doesnt listen to the bush family, but the former president , george w. Bush over the weekend putting out a statement. I want to congratulate President Trump and his supporters on a hard fought campaign. Here, the votes of 70 million americans. We must come together for the same of our families and neighbors for our nation and its future. That was president bush, who is no fan of President Trump. This is a mutual feeling, trying to say you accomplished something really big, sir, now leave. But is my question, but. Those are two ways that people have tried to appeal to the president about accepting this and moving on because they dont want him questioning joe biden being a legitimate president after they defended the president against the same accusations that came from people that did not like the fact that donald trump won the election in 2016. So we have had aides privately tell the president look how many people voted for you, look how strong your support was, it wasnt the worst Case Scenario where you were shown out the door by voters. There were a lot of voters that stood by the president despite what he said about the pandemic. Theyre appealing to him that way. The other interesting thing, theyre talking about the president running in 2024. Saw Lindsey Graham do that today, and other officials brought it up with the president , saying thats a real option he can consider. But people that will not be happy to hear it, the 2024 gop hopefuls, including the Vice President , ron desantis, nikki haley, mike pompeo, all these people are going to be living on the edge, waiting to see what it is the president does. A lot of people said they dont think the president , if he doesnt run in 2024, he will likely float it a few years as he does other things. Thats giving pause to people that would like to be looking at their own president ial runs starting soon. John, real fast if i could, this is about trying to incentivize Good Behavior by some of the president s friends and advisers. If you take this now, handle it with some modicum of dignity and grace, you will have a chance down the line to close the vote more. Delayed gratitude has never been a compelling thing for the president. Delayed gratitude. New terms and things as we go through this. Grateful to you both. We will keep our eyes on that. Six days after the election, were still counting votes, including from key battleground states. The latest in just a minute. Still a father. But now a friend. Still an electric car. Just more electrifying. Still a night out. But everything fits in. Still hard work. Just a little easier. Still a legend. Just more legendary. Chevrolet. Making lifes journey, just better. The annual Enrollment Period is here. The time to choose your coverage. Begins october 15th and ends december 7th. So call unitedhealthcare. And take advantage of a wide choice of plans. Including an aarp Medicare Advantage plan from unitedhealthcare. It can combine your hospital and doctor coverage. With part d Prescription Drug coverage, and more, all in one simple plan. 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For the president , 4,215. So joe biden gets 56 plus of this. The point being, we are still counting votes. Trump Campaign Says we shouldnt have called it. This is what we see consistently. Joe biden has the lead, is getting more votes as they continue to count mailin ballots. Again, 87 votes for bide, 64 votes there, thats 53 . The issue is, were doing this to show you, theyre still counting votes but theyre not changing the result as the president decides what to do. You flip it out, heres where we stand. We havent officially called georgia, there might be a recount. Waiting for them to finish arizona and nevada. Joe biden put back the blue wall in democratic hands, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. Joe biden will be the president elect even as we continue to count votes here. It was a complicated election. Some states like ohio and texas went blue a long time because they were counting mailin votes first. Other states were red a long time like pennsylvania and then went blue. Election day votes were counted, then mailin votes were counted. At cnn, were lucky, had great help. Down the hall from me, double magic wall live moment on television, the great phil mattingly. As you went through this, phil, and as we continue to go through it, that was one of the hardest parts, explaining some states did it one way, some states another way. Everybody needed to wait and be calm, no matter who you were rooting for. Thats right. The best example was you can superimpose what happened with wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania with what happened in ohio. I remember watching you, vividly watching you go through my home state start of the night, went through ohio, it was blue. And it was blue where democrats said they needed it to be to have a chance in the state. By the end of the night, you realized it wasnt close at all. I think thats also what i think is most interesting about the night, now that we have a good sense where they are. Pennsylvania on the whole. You know votes are coming in, joe bidens lead increased in the last 24 hours in this state. Most interesting, not about joe bidens ability to flip counties. He flipped two and flipped two the democrats needed, he flipped erie. Since he got in the race in the state of pennsylvania, he could increase democratic margins in areas Hillary Clinton lost some ground and could narrow republican margins in strongholds for President Trump. Take this county. President trump flipped it in 2016. 58. 3 to 38. 9 . What did joe biden do. He lost. Donald trump won the county handily. Look at the margin. He shaved two points off. He did that in republican counties all over the state, at the same time going into democratic counties like lack wan a, and growing the margin three or four points. Joe bidens theory of the race about the blue wall, same case in michigan and wisconsin, wasnt that he would flip a bunch of states back, he would grow democratic margins and narrow trumps margins and john, thats exactly what he did. It is. One of the things you look for, you use the math as a tool to tell you what is america saying. One of the things i was doing during the race, you come into it, you say these are the states here that made donald trump president. What about this. Not since 1992 has that been blue. Not since 1996 has that been blue. Joe biden can make a case i sat out, saying i would rebuild the blue wall. Set out saying i could win in places a liberal candidate couldnt. One of the things i do, i have places, places you look at. This place will tell me something. We had a streak end here. This county voted for the winner in president ial elections since 1956. 1956. Vigo streak is over. One of the quirky things i do. This has been a bellwether. All night long, might be in arizona or pennsylvania, sneaking a peek to see what the people are doing. The streak is over. They might be grateful for that, means they get less attention from math geeks like me. Another place to look at in 2020, i forgot i was in 2016. Here you go. Red in 2016, red again in 2020. Thats why the streak is over. Another place i wanted to watch, i have been watching many years, this one surprised me. Donald Trump Holding on in macomb county, michigan. Democrats theory of the case, if we get michigan back, we have to turnout African Americans in wayne county but would be nice to win out reagan democrats. And the president held that. That with one of my quirks. One thing i was completely blown away with, this would be considered a positive story for President Trump, no question about it. As you noted, we have all these tools to utilize to figure out demographically, see where things went, how things went a specific way. One of the best tools we had over the course of the night is where has President Trump or joe biden overperformed. What are the counties. I flipped it in full county mode. You see every county. Every county highlighted now is a place where donald trump overperformed his 2016 margin 5 or more. Look at this. Democrats said texas might be in play, it was a real potential option for them as you saw surge of early voting from places like harris county, dallas county, everybody acknowledged for texas to be in play, democrats needed to rundown here, run on the border. They needed to blow up turnout to a degree theyd never seen before. Not only did that not happen, donald trump overperformed everywhere. Everywhere down there. Think of what happened in miamidade. You talked about hispanic vote. Donald trumps power or strength with hispanic voters was very real. And theyre not monolithic. If you look in border counties of texas now, democrats should be very concerned. What the Trump Campaign said would happen did, at least in texas and miami. And well close on that. Phil makes an excellent point. The campaigns do the autopsy. Where did they underperform, thought they could overperform. Theyll look at this map of red and blue states but also will look at this map when you break it down by county akrocross america. Now come the autopsies. Phil, grateful for your help here. He is pretty good. I think so. I think he is. I think he is. As we go to break, show you this map here. We learn a lot from this, phil and i, and the great team behind us. Phyllis selling one for christmas if you want one. How Trump Supporters were convinced the election was stolen. Before we talk about taxsmart investing, whats new . Audreys expecting. Twins wed be closer to the twins. Change in plans. At fidelity, a change in plans is always part of the plan. President trump is not alone in spreading baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, believed by misinformation, plenty of it on social media. Trump supporters are convinced the election was stolen. Thats a claim not supported by any documented proof. With me now, a reporter that went to stop the steal protest. That in and of itself speaks volumes. There are such things as stop the steal protests. Doany . Reporter thats right, we were in pennsylvania over the weekend with Trump Supporters. Pennsylvania the state that allowed us to project joe biden, president elect of the United States. And these Trump Supporters were not happy. They believe the election is being stolen. But to use in support of the argument, theyre using evidence based on misinformation online. Have a listen. It is legal for them to count votes in pennsylvania two days after the election on november 3rd . Yes. Youre wrong. Go. I dont even want to talk to you. I have seen too much pieces of different evidence that shows at this point i would be okay with a revote. Where are all of the trump ballots that were mailed in . Why are we finding them laying around in different places . Trump was telling everybody not to mail it in, right . Thats why theres more mail in democratic votes. Who knows. Reporter john, as i was speaking to people there, i was asking what is the evidence you have. Many of them were citing viral social media posts, some of them shared by the president and his family, which have been debunked and fact checked and found to be false. For instance, false video that purports to show ballots that were for trump set on fire. It is totally false. Election officials in virginia, the state where ballots were reported to be from, totally false. Just incredible how online misinformation is leading people to really try and challenge the fundamentals of american democracy. John . Which is why it would be nice if their president , the person they listened to would say we looked at it, scrubbed it hard. If they have proof, document it. If not, say so. Donie osullivan, thank you. Joe biden is the president elect. Two runoffs in georgia will settle the senate question. We live in a world of fees. Airlines, hotels, food delivery, and especially car dealers all charge excessive, lastminute fees. When you want something badly enough, it feels like your only choice is to pay up. But what if you had a choice to take a stand instead . At carvana, we believe in treating you better. With zero hidden fees, you can drive off without feeling ripped off. Thats what it means to live feelessly. Do a little more good. Thats what we want at unitedhealthcare. Its why we have dual complete, a plan for people with medicare and medicaid. Dual complete lets you keep your current benefits and gives you even more coverage at no extra cost. 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Senators returning to capitol hill to begin the lame duck session. All eyes on state of georgia, balance of power in washington hinges on two Runoff Senate races set for january. Republicans hope to keep two incumbent seats, kelly lauf letter, david perdue. Democrats promising to flip one or both. Saying in order to win, democrats need to copy, replicate giant turnout of last tuesday. Zb were talking about fine margins. This was the most Competitive Senate race in the country. Now it is about getting people out to the polls for the january 5th runoff. Joining us now, congressional reporter for the washington post. People who might be tired and want the election to be over, uhuh. You might think it is just two races in georgia, control of the senate is at stake here. This is going to become a national boom. Yeah, thats exactly right. John, you cannot sort of overstate how consequential the two senate races are. This will make the difference between whether we have two years of gridlock in washington or whether we see a full democratic takeover where president elect joe biden is able to pass a democratic agenda through congress. Basically, democrats need to not just win one of these seats but both. This is georgia, traditionally a conservative state. Obviously the demographics are starting to change. Biden is slightly ahead in georgia in terms of vote counts right now, but look, republicans we talked to at the post say theyre very confident in special elections, they can turn out their base and say look, unless you want joe biden to pass a radical leftist agenda, which is what republicans are going to say on tv, you need to keep these republican senators, send them back to washington. Again, georgia will very much be determining what we see here in d. C. The next two years. Is it going to be democrats controlling everything or is it going to be infighting with Mitch Mcconnell still in the senate, putting a stop to the biden agenda. Thats the fascinating test. Lets put up slates of two candidates. Warknack running against lauf letter, john ossoff, running against perdue. Control of the senate at stake. Democrats never won a runoff statewide in georgia, they think this time they might have a better chance, energy off the president ial election, number two, they say ossoff has appeal to young voters. Maybe each of their stronger bases if you will if they come out together can get them there, is that a viable theory . Biden is ahead now in georgia. Traditionally republican state. It will play another factor, republican candidates, kelly lauf letter was out there campaigning with q anone candidates. Thats going to hurt her in terms f runoff with warnok, inspiring people to come out, first black senator from georgia to come out and vote. David perdue obviously got a lot of flack making fun of senator kamala harris, and mocked her name, sort of had a dog whistle problem there. Could that hurt him very much . It will be an interesting race to watch. Possible we get biden and trump back on the campaign trail in runoffs. We will watch as that plays out as well. Appreciate the reporting and insights. The election is not over yet. Two important ones still left. Global leaders react to joe bidens victory, one world leader notably keeping quiet. Tag the cloud easier to manage. But we didnt stop there. We made a cloud flexible enough to adapt to any size business. No matter what it does, or how it changes. And we kept going. So you only pay for what you use. Because at dell technologies, we stop. At nothing. Some things are good to know. Like where to find the cheapest gas in town and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. Something else thats good to know. 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Election results before Vladimir Putin congratulates the winner. Moscow giving President Trump who made unfounded claims of Election Fraud the benefit of the doubt for the moment. Russian state media reiterating that with one of the main news anchors describing what he calls the sloppy way in which the u. S. Election has been conducted, adding that all hope is lost for an honest expression of the peoples will. Moscow is bracing, of course, for a tougher tone from washington under president elect biden whose called russia the main threat to u. S. National security. Many russians, President Trump is popular, widely seen as wanting to improve ties with moscow, and as deferential to the russian leader. Breaking news just into cnn from the president s twitter feed. The president of the United States, expecting post election recriminations or personnel moves. He tweets that he just fired the secretary of defense, mark esper. Going to read it here. Pleased to announce christopher c. Miller will be acting secretary of defense, effective immediately. Chris will do a great job. Mark esper has been terminated. I would like to thank him for his service. Runup to the election, many military officials were upset, thought they were lead into the political rally by the president , leaving the white house going to the church across and white house protesters were aghast. Esper made clear he didnt want the pentagon or military officials involved in the election in any way. The president now firing moments ago on twitter, firing someone on twitter, secretary of defense mark esper. This is the dynamic we will continue to watch. A lot of talk the president will use anger and vent it with personnel moves in these important days after the president ial election. Appreciate your time today. Brianna keilar picks up coverage in this breaking news story right now. Hello, brianna keilar. I want to welcome viewers in the United States and around the world. We continue with breaking news 48 hours after the election was called for joe biden, President Trump has just fired his defense secretary. I want to go to Cnns Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Can you give us the latest . Reporter bhe terminated mar esper, putting acting defense secretary in his place, and this is a role that esper would only have two more months, but i