Different outlooks when it comes to the soon to be end of the presidency of donald trump. On one side theres the president s supporters, angry at the results of the National Vote count, convinced they were robbed and cheated. They demonstrated here in washington today. Then theres the president himself, publicly sigh lent, mostly out of sight today, slowing down only to wave at the pro trump protesters as they shouted in the streets. All of this happening at the same time as two major developments. The president s own officials declaring the election, quote, the most secure in american history. That comes from his department of homeland security. And an alarming spike in the deadly pandemic, 12 Straight Days now of more than 100,000 new coronavirus infections. A real World Medical emergency on a national came and at a critical time of transition when the company desperately needs solid leadership even from a president whose one term will end in a matter of weeks. Lets go to cnns jeremy diamond. President trump spent what his 301st day today as president of the United States at one of his own golf properties. This one outside washington, d. C. In Northern Virginia while still refusing to accept the Election Results or manage the coronavirus crisis. Are there any signs at all that the president first of all cl concede the election to joe biden and let the transition process officially get under way . Well, wolf, in the weeks since you announced on cnn that we had projected joe biden as the winner of the president ial election, what we have watched from President Trump is mostly him claiming victory, him insisting that this election was rigged and stolen from him. But prooifsly, our sources have told us that the president has vacillated between two different emotions. On the one hand urging his advisors to push forward and recount challenges in several of the key Battle Ground states. On the other hand, beginning to come to grips with the reality that joe biden will be the 46th president of the United States and that he, donald trump, will be a oneterm president. We saw that kind of play out over the last 24 hours, wolf. Yesterday in an event the president briefly acknowledged at least the possibility of a joe biden administration, something he had not done. Today, wolf, after he drove by some of his supporters cheering his claims of a rigged election, the president once again began making those very same claims on twitter. He seemed to be emboldened once again. This is despite the fact that Election Officials in all 50 states have made very clear that there is zero evidence of widespread voter fraud. Even government aerkts the federal Government Agencies have also made clear there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud and yet the president refusing to publicly concede this election to joefld. Sources saying they expect the president to see these legal avenues through. The question is if we do see the president acknowledge legitimaty of joe bidens election. Well get back to you. Jeremy diamond covering the president at the white house. On january 20th of this come year, the u. S. Diagnosed january 20th of this year, the u. S. Diagnosed the first case of covid19. Since then the exponential spread has been met by tireless efforts of the scientific and medical communities. There has been some progress. The death rate has dropped. Treatments have are improved for the outcome for so many patients but as case numbers continue to skyrocket, hospitalizations skyrocketing, did death toll continues toe climb. Its clear this fight is far, far from over and about potentially in the weeks and months ahead to get a whole lot worse. Cnns dr. Son jay gupta has more. New york city, the epicenter of the pandemic this spring. Code 99 could mean someone that still has a pulse, a blood pressure, but is struggling to breathe. The doctor was in the thick of it in match with few tools at that time to manage a new respiratory disease. Imagine trying to treat severe bacterial pneumonia without any antibiotics. Were relying on the machine and the patients own immune system to recover. Other hospitals overwhelmed like morristown medical in new jersey, where dr. Lewis reuben works. Our numbers went up pretty dramatic lirks pretty quickly. We quickly had 20 urnts with covid patients. Our maximum census was over 300 patients concurrently. One study found that in march 25. 6 of hospitalized covid19 case patients would end up dying. Imagine that. One in four. This is a terrible, a very terrible disease thats killing us. By june that mortality rate has dropped by more than twothirds to 7. 6 . The number of deaths has not been increasing markedly. In england, the fatality rate was around 6 and in august it was 1. 5 . One thing has become clear. If someone is infected now, they are more likely to survive than back in the spring. But why . After all, the virus itself hasnt changed. But it turns out we have. For starters, about 75 of the people hospitalized were over the age of 50 back in march. Almost 40 had at least one underlying condition. We are seeing as many centers were seeing more mature patients being impacted and having severe disease. Today more than half of all newly infected people are under the age of 50 and they are significantly less likely to get sick. But even if patients do end up in the hospital, their care is now very different. We have an expanded tool kit. Drugs like remdesivir and monoclonal antibodies to stop the virus from duplicating. Decksa meth zone used to clear clothing associated with covid19. There was a lot of discussion about ventilators and patients who went on ventilator, the mortality rate for them was approaching 50 . What was going on there . For someone whose breathing is so glad that we cant get enough oxygen in them theres no question that weve become better at being able to fake care of patients once theyve contracted covid and even if they become seriously ill. All the things weve been talking about, the issue is now theres so many patients who are contracting covid. Thats going to increase the percentage of people who need to be hospitalized. Weve seen that. Now theres close to 200,000 more people may die within the next 100 and so days. The numbers are still pretty awful. What we have to do in order to bring those numbers down in addition to the better medical care is reduce the amount of virus out there. The same basic things weve been saying for months. Masks, physical distancing, no large public gatherings, stay away from clustered up door settings. If you do these things, we can in addition to the good medical care, we can start to bring this curve down. Thank you so much, dr. Sanjay gupta. Lets discuss with dr. Jazz mean. Thank you for joining us. As you heard dr. Gupta chronicle some of the health problems. Hes a great doctor and a great journalist. Hes reported on so many health cries ease around the world, whether in haiti or elsewhere. He calls the United States of america one of the worst humanitarian crisis that hes discovered. Is he right . Hes rights. Lets think about the medical aid agency, medicine sans san frontier best known for helicoptering their doctors and nurses after theres been war or somy. That aim saegt has set up operations in the u. S. That lasted between april and october, so for seven months these humanitarians who are used to being in the same kind of places that sanjay was reported from were in florida, new york, texas. They were in the Navajo Nation and the pueblos. When msf was asked, they said its because the u. S. Health care system cannot cope with this crisis. People are dying because of those failures and also the massive inequities of black americans, hispanic and indigenous americans, that to them and many other Health Officials this is a humanitarian crisis here in the u. S. Earlier today, u. S. Southern general dr. Jerome adams was interviewed on National Public radio. Let me play this clip. Listen to this. There is no information that we have that we dont share with the American Public in general and that is not available to the biden task force. Listen to this. Heres what a member of the biden advisory told ana cabrera when she asked if access to the Public Information that is out there already is enough for the incoming biden coronavirus advisory council. Listen to this. A lot has been made public when it comes to research and studies. What information do you need access to from those agencies that isnt public . I think the most critical thing is to know in detailed fashion whats available to us in terms of countermeasures, what are the supplies, and then also where is the virus spreading and again very detailed granular fashion, understanding exactly in real time and there is some thats publicly available, but i think really having the full accounting is going to be really critical to best planning our efforts. So doctor, it sounds like a huge disconnect between dr. Adams, the Surgeon General and dr. Gandhi. What do you make of it . Information that shes saying the past four weeks is very basic information that should be rapidly made available to them. This isnt about one administration versus another, at least it shouldnt be about that. Its about protecting the American Public from this pandemic and we know the Good Public Health requires transparency. This Current Administration, the Surgeon General included, has not been transparent with the public and theyre not giving this lifesaving information to the new biden covid19 task force. Give them the data so that they can get on with their job on january 20th of next year to lift us out of this crisis. It will save potentially thousands and thousands of lives. Theres one estimate that 70,000 americans will die between now and january 20th, the date of the inauguration. 70,000 more will die and so far this Outgoing Administration is not cooperating. They havent authorized the various experts to start providing this critically important information. The advice were still hearing from the experts is what weve been hearing since way back in march. Wash your hands, wear a mask, social distance. Seems to be such simple things to do. It isnt working. So many people are ignoring that advice. What needs to be done to convince the American Public, you got to go out there and do these simple things, including especially wear a mask. Were not just dealing with a pandemic, wolf, were dealing with a miss info demic. This administration, the president himself has been identified as the single biggest driver of false information about covid19, thats according to researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million english language articles about the president and covid19. This has been a massive failure, not just in dealing with the virus, but in dealing with communications and being transparents with the public. The president is sort of doing that instead of having a cohesive Pandemic Response and communicating that to the public has seeded so much distrust. The worry is that now theres politization around masks and vaccines, that will hurt next year and the year after when we do hopefully have a covid vaccine. Heres the thing. In order for us to get herd immunity we need 7 5 of americans to receive an effective vaccine. The polls show a diminishing proportion of americans saying yes, ill roll up my sleeve, ill get vaccinated. We need to deal with the infectious contagion but also the information contagion as well. Make it easy for people to understand what they need to do. Reiterate that wearing a mask can literally save your life and save other lives, too. So, so important. The president was in the rose garden speaking about operation warp speed. He could have looked into the camera and stowed tall 70 million americans who voted for him, wear a mask. It is critically important. Just do it and save lives. We didnt hear from that from the president , unfortunately. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. President trumps former white house chief of staff john kelly is slamming the trgss refusal to begin the transition process saying the delay could be catastrophic. 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President elect joe biden is in delaware this weekend continuing to plan his transition. He and his team are facing some tough roadblocks as President Trump still refuses to concede and allow the transition of power to go into feck. Jessica is joining us from wilmington, delaware. How are they working around the challenges, very significant challenges theyre facing during this transition . Well, wolf, the Transition Team will tell you they feel they are making progress. Theyve put together their covid advisor board. Theyve seen a chief of staff being named. They feel like theyre making progress in the places where they can. They say they prepared for a vast number of scenarios, including this one. Now, all of that being said, it remains that the General Services administration has yet to ascertain, validate joe biden as president elect here. So that means that the formal transition process has not been triggered, which means they dont have access to any offing the agencies that they need to be interfacing with in order to prepare for the transition in january. So when this comes to Something Like the coronavirus pandemic, they got their Advisory Board in place but theyre not able to talk with the Current White HouseCoronavirus Task force in terms of getting ready for a Vaccine Distribution plan. He said himself that as it gets further down the road, thats going to hamper the Transition Team. Weve learned that the biden Transition Team is doing some back channelling. People in the medical Community Talking about their covid plan and work with what they have. As far as National Security is concerned, president elect biden is not getting the president ial daily briefings which would keep him abreast of the day to day movements. Theyre kind of out in the dark in terms of the Daily Movement and latest information. We know that the biden Transition Team has reached out to former pentagon officials who worked under then second james mattis to get some information. They cant contact the current officials. They figure former officials are the next best thing, trying to get the lay of the land in these agencies, as you well know, transition process is a major undertaking, wolf, and right now it is being slowed down. Jessica dean reporting for us, thank you very much. Joining us, the former u. S. Ambassador to the united nations, the former National Security advisory to President Trump, ambassador john bolton. Ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. The new book you have and well put the book cover on the screen entitled the room where it happened its a major bestseller right now. Ambassador, let me quote from an opinion piece that you wrote for the Washington Post this week, and these are your words. Ill put them on the screen. As of this writing, the Republican Party has not suffered permanent damage to its integrity and reputation because of President Trumps post election rampaging. This will not be too much longer. The more Republican Leaders kowtow, the more trump believes he is still in control and the less likely he would do what normal president s do. How much longer do you believe before the gop really suffers real damage because of the president s adamant refusal so far to concede that he lost the election . Well, i think it could be a matter of days here. If you look at the litigation that the Trump Campaign has brought or sponsored around the country to challenge the elections in the Battle Ground states, their records so far is dismal cases are being dismissed. Lawyers are withdrawing from the cases. They have not presented the kind of information that they need to. I think people, even those who were strong supporters of the Trump Campaign, are beginning to understand theres nothing there. Theyre going to have trouble finding lawyers who care enough about their own legal ethics and personal reputations to file papers in court. If theyve got something, i dont know what theyre saving it for because time is just about out. I want to play for you what the former president barack obama said in an interview with 60 minutes. Listen. What are these false claims of widespread Election Fraud doing to our country right now . They appear to be motivated in part because the president doesnt like to lose and never admits loss. Im more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humoring him in this fashion. It is one more step in de legitimizing not just the Incoming Biden Administration but democracy generally. And thats a dangerous path. So ambassador bolton, is this a moment where you agree with president obama . I think hes overstated it somewhat, but by and large, the point is that the president has no basis other than his own reputation to continues to make these kinds of assertions. And thats why in that thing you refused to, i asked Republican Leaders to stand up and just take the obvious facts that biden has won this election an selbst some dramatic showing, that trump hasnt made and i think cant make. What i worry about, i worry about the effect on the country for de legitimizing our democracy and the electoral process. Ill make clear, if republicans dont distance themselves from trump in the very near future on the integrity of the election, our opponents will take us and lash us to trump for all eternity, and that is not the place we want to be in. We have to acknowledge reality when its there. I disagree with the idea that the Republican Party base apparently cant absorb that. I think they can if their leaders talk to them intelligently. You say the Republican Party needs a long internal conversation about the post trump era right now. Who leads that conversation . What are republicans like you need to agree on . Well, i think in the first instance, this is going to be let a hundred flowers bloom, period. I dont think theres a plan or program at the moment. I think we need to prevent the possibility of nominating somebody like trump in the future who doesnt have a consistent conservative philosophy, who plays by his own rules and looks out for himself and his interests rather than the interests of the country, and his fellow republicans. I dont think that ought to be hard to do. I think we ought to be looking to a return to a reagan ite party in terms of policy and attitude. One thing about ronald reagan, he was an optimist. He was the Republican Party version of hue Bert Humphrey and it inspired people and thats what we need more of. And you agree with the former white house chief of staff retired general john kelly who issued a statement yesterday saying its time for the Outgoing Administration and the president to start cooperating with the incoming administration. Let me read it. This is general kelly. The delay in transitioning is an increasing National Security and health crisis. It crossed the Current Administration nothing to start to brief mr. Biden, ms. Harris and cabinet members, senior staff. The downside to not doing so could be catastrophic to our people regardless of who they voted for. This is essential that the transition briefings begin, righ right . Absolutely. And john made the points, and its cleatly correct, that President Trump can authorize the transition process to begin without in any way conceding what i think is the obvious legitimacy of bidens claim to the presidency. He can disavow backing that claim. He can just say im doing this as a matter of prudence and good judgment on behalf of the american people. I dont expect that to happen. But its certainly something he could do. Were looking at the numbers. The president elect biden, he is leading the National Popular vote now by more than five and a half, almost approaching six million votes right now in the electoral college. 306 to 232. You need 270. Hes way ahead as far as the elek tram college goes. Its time for the president to recognize that. Ambassador bolton, thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Stop the steal is gathering steam at pro trump protests as well as on the internet. Whose really behind this . Our cnn investigation is next. He uses fresh, clean ingredients to make a masterpiece. Taste our delicious new flatbread pizzas today. Panera. At university of phoenix, students with relevant Life Experience and eligible transfer credits save on average 11k and 1 year off their undergrad degree. 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A three word slogan stop the steal youve seen it slashed across your media screens or heard shouted by people who believe President Trump was robbed of the election. It turns out stop the steal is not a new movement at all. It just never before had this kind of following or attention. Heres drew griffin. Its an internet battle cry, stop the steal has swept across in boxes, facebook pages and twitter like an out of control virus. The claims that democrats stole the 2020 election from donald trump arent true but the truth means little to people inundatesed with lies. I believe they tried to steal the election. A grass roots uprising started more than four years ago. The brain child of a political dirty trick artist and convicted liar who has pushed disinformation schemes for years roger stone. Stop the steal is posting much of this material. This is insurmount jbl compelling evidence of frauds. Stop the steal is a coordinated effort that has been revived twice by roger stone and allied political operatives in an attempt to gas light the entire integrity of our voting and election process. Ben decker who conducts investigations says far from a Grass Roots Campaign stop the steal is a business. In 2016, roger stones pac launched stop the steal. Org which was asking for 10,000 donations reportedly back then to help unb cover vote fraud against donald trump. Stone says it was a nonprofit created to ensure the integrity of the vote. Stop the steal reemerged briefly in the twailgt mid terrence. Then the stop the steal campaign rebooted by a group of people orbiting roger stone. Testimony cast of characters include a roger stone wannabe. Got a message from roger stone. He began weeks before election day and launched a stop the steal website. Im one of the co founders a tea Party Activist who in 2016 formed the group women vote trump with roger stones ex wife. Cramer was behinds a stop the steal Facebook Group along with two people who worked on Steve Bannons we build the wall fund. It was shut down. Also pages affiliated with ban oon that according to posts using inauthentic behavior tactics to artificially boost how many people saw their content. The pages had 2. 5 million followers before they were shuttered. Stop the steal is a highly coordinated partisan political operation. This week stone took his message to the most notorious conspiracy theorist of all. Alex jones. On twitter researchers at clemson saw the hashtag stop the steal mentioned in two million tweets. The tweets, facebook posts filled with unsubstantiated and false evidence of widespread voter fraud quickly caught the attention of disinformation researchers liko conor. Only a day and a half before facebook took it down but by then, it was already too late. Copycat sites number in the dozens. Drew griffin, cnn, atlanta. Thank you, drew. 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While every vote certainly counts there are also too few left to change the outcome of the race from the white house. Joe biden will become the president of the United States on january 20th, but as democrats nationwide clearly are rejoicing in the bidenharris victory, they did not necessarily have much in the way of political coat tails elsewhere. Joining us to discuss the chairman of the Democratic National committee tom paron. Tom, thanks for joining us. I want to talk about the state of play. Democrats picked up two senate seats, they lost one. Theyre wait on the georgia runoffs to see who controls the senate next year in the house which the democrats obviously have controlled since theyve scored so many wins in 2018. The party lost seats. Theyve dramatically mirrored in state legislatures, democrats did not do all that great down ballot contests. What happened to the socalled blue wave that so many were anticipating . Well, i think its important to ask ourselves the question where were we four years ago and where are we now. Four years ago we had 15 governors, we have 24. We have Speaker Nancy Pelosi as of 2018. Weve won almost 400 seats in the legislature. Split legislative bodies. Have we won as many seats as we wanted . No, we didnt. In congress, you look at the seats we lost they were seats we won in twaifgt. Look at new mexico, really good number in congress. There was trump plus 12 or 13 districts. Oklahoma, same thing with kendra horn, others wonderful member of congress. I wish she were still there. The races will always be tough with donald trump on the ballot. We have so much more going for us in state legislate churs across the country. Were fighting like heck in georgia. We have the most pomp prize of all. The presidency. And joe biden is going to lead us around the coronavirus, around Building Back our economy, throughout reuniting our country. So im thoroughly excited about where we are. Weve got more work to do and im confidence we can get the job done. The white house has been won by the democrats. I want you to listen to one democrat who is not very happy right now. Congresswoman abigail span berger of virginia. She won the race but slammed her party on a Conference Call with her colleagues. I wane you to listen to this. We have never used the word socialist or socialism ever again. We want good numbers because of that. We are classifying it as a success and the [ bleep ] torn apart in 2022. As you know, democratic congresswoman Donna Shalala in miami, not necessarily a red area or Debbie Powell also in miami or max rose in new york. They lost to republicans. They lost their house seats to republicans. Is representative span berger right, that the democrats should stop talking about socialism, stop talking about defunding the police . Joe biden and democrats have been clear. You look at our platform. Its clear. We dont want to defund the police. We want to make sure that Police Perform effectively. They build partnerships with communities like joe biden did in the 90s when he worked to establish Community Oriented policing. Weve been clear about what we want to do. We want to make sure that Law Enforcement officers like joe apaio, the sheriff in maricopa, arizona, are not allowed anymore. We didnt and joe biden and barack obama, we were the ones who prosecuted joe arpaio and donald trump pardoned him. We didnt defund the sheriffs office. We reformed it. Thats what democrats are for. We have to be mindful that republicans engage in the socialism Social Security and medicare and medicate. We have to do a better job of responding to that and calling it out for what it is, which is his fault. We want to be sure our economy works for everyone. We want people to have access to health care if you have a preexisting condition or not. Thats here doing and we undeniably need to make sure we do more to combat this information thats out there, and we will continue to do that. And he did win the biggest prize of all, the presidency, which is so, so important. As always, thanks for joining us. Always a pleasure. All right. Even if President Trump refuses to acknowledge president elect biden will be sworn in on january 20th. Before that happens, theres still a lot that needs to occur. Were going to tell you what will happen over the next few very, very busy weeks. Well be right back. Here . Nah. Introducing the all new chevy trailblazer. Here . Nope. Here. When the middle of nowhere, is somewhere. The all new chevy trailblazer. Making lifes journey, just better. Spanber. For your prescriptions . Optum perks can save you up to 80 . And everyone can do it. Its from optum, a Health Care Company thats trusted by millions of people. Opt in and save big today. 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Whether President Trump decides to acknowledge them or not, the next few weeks are packed with events setting the stage for joe biden to assume office as the 46th president of the United States. One of the first big milestones is to make sure that every american vote in every state is official. Here is cnns tom foreman. Reporter hey, wolf. From now until the second week of December States should settle their vote counts and certify the results. They all have their own particular deadlines, so it wont happen all at once and, of course, if their local rules or legal challenge require a recount that could produce some delays, but theyre all headed for the same goal, saying within a few weeks we have settled all disputes and this is our final tally for each candidate. They must have that complete by december 14th because that is when the electors must vote. Who are they . They are 538 people from all 50 states chosen by the parties, and they mirror the number of senators and representatives in each state, plus the District Of Columbia which gets three. This is the electoral college. Typically they gather at their local state houses and award their electoral votes, in most cases to whoever gathered the most popular votes in their state, although occasionally some break from that and cast rogue votes, becoming what we call faithless electors. Although the Supreme Court ruled just this year they can be punished or removed if they take that action. In any event, the results must be sent to washington no later than december 23rd, and then on january 6th those electoral votes are counted during a joint session of congress under the watchful eye of the president of the senate, meaning Vice President mike pence. When that count is done, he will be the first person to officially announce the names of the next president and Vice President. Then on wednesday, january 20th, at noon as prescribed by the constitution, the big finish, the president and Vice President will be sworn in at the u. S. Capitol and begin four years of leading the country or at least trying to amid these challenging times. Wolf. Tom foreman reporting. Thank you very much. Meanwhile, as the pandemic breaks new records across the United States, well take a closer look at how the president s refusal to accept the results of the election could hamper efforts to fight the virus and endanger thousands of american lives. That life of the party look walk it off look one more mile look reply all look own your look. With fewer lines. Theres only one botox® cosmetic. Its the only one. Fda approved. To temporarily make frown lines. Crows feet. And forehead lines. Look better. The effects of botox® cosmetic, may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. 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