That highly classified intelligence briefing and also about to roll out more picks for his cabinet. Hi, how are you . Happy thanksgiving. President elect joe biden sending holiday greetings to the front line workers of quid pro quo. Youre risking your lives. Youre amazing, thank you, thank you. Reporter from his Vacation Home in delaware, biden is preparing for the week ahead as hes expected to receive his first president s daily brief on monday, the classified intelligence briefing will offer the commander in chief an early look at Top National Security issues hell face in office. They have been very forthcoming, offering all access and so were going to be starting those on a regular basis. Reporter biden is also on the brink of naming some key members of his Economic Team next week, as he looks to strengthen the economy amid the pandemic. It will be a team ready to support his agenda tor build bak the economy. The president elect is expected to nominate former chair, janet yellen as treasury secretary, setting her up to be the first woman in the role. Its someone that will be accepted by all elements of the democratic party, progressive to the moderate coalitions. Reporter biden already has rolled out part of his National Security and Foreign Policy team. But some key figures missing from that group, his picks for defense secretary, and cia director. The president elect is still weighing his options to lead the pentagon, including veteran dod official, michelle, jaeh johnso and tammy duckworth, for the cia hes considering mike morel, and former National Security adviser, tom donolon. His Transition Team is zeroing in on the pandemic as they gather information from the Trump Administration on the crisis, including plans for a vaccine. Its essential that people feel that this is a safe and effective vaccine. Reporter and heading into next week, bidens Transition Team will continue their meetings with Trump Administration officials on everything from National Security to the coronavirus pandemic and members of bidens Coronavirus Task force are now on those Agency Landing teams so they can get a look at what the Trump Administration is planning when it comes to tackling the pandemic. Jim . Okay. Arlette saenz, thank you very much. We want to talk more about this. Jeremy diamond over at the white house. The president s losing streak in federal court is growing. Were at more than 30 kaucas that the president or allies have lost or had to withdraw across the country, the latest at the hands of a trump appointed judge, and this judge is saying that the trump campaigns legal claims have quote no merit and yet as the president yesterday said that he would indeed leave the white house if the Electoral College confirms joe biden as the next president of the United States next month, he is now suggesting that joe biden needs to first prove what state and local officials have already attested to that this election was not fraun fraudulent in order to get into the white house. We caught them cheating. We caught them stealing. Im the president of the United States. Dont ever talk to the president that way. Lying and lashing out, President Trump bitterly refusing to except his loss to president elect joe biden. Its going to be a very hard thing to concede. Reporter but also vowing to leave the white house if the Electoral College locks in bidens victory next month. If the Electoral College does elect president elect joe biden, are you not going to leave this building. Certainly i will. Certainly i will. And kroyou know that. Reporter that admission coming during a thanksgiving airing of grievances and experience theorie conspiracy theories. Trump under cutting his assurance of a peaceful exit, tweeting biden can only enter the white house as president if he can prove his ridiculous 80 million votes were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. But its trump whos failed to prove his claims. Today, a federal Appeals Court denying the trump campaigns latest effort to deny the victory in pennsylvania. Writing calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here. The campaigns claims have no merit. That ruling brought trump and his allies courtroom losses and withdrawals to more than 30 with not a single court in any state substantiating trumps claims the election was rigged. Trump also refusing to commit to attending his successors inauguration, a tradition upheld by every outgoing president since 1869. I dont want to say that yet. I mean, i know the answer, ill be honest, i know the answer but i dont want to say it yet. Reporter trump is committed to campaigning next week in georgia. Its very important that we win those races. Reporter two runoff elections will decide the fate of the u. S. Senate. Georgia republicans are worried trumps baseless claims about voting. I said listen, you have a fraun fraudulent system. Reporter and his attacks on the secretary of the state. Hes an enemy of the people, the secretary of state. Reporter could depress gop turnout. Today, trump doing damage control tweeting the 2020 election was a total scam but we must get out and help david and kelly. Otherwise we are playing right into the hands of some very sick people. Meanwhile, the president spending another day on the golf course missing in action as the coronavirus pandemic enters its darkest chapter yet we are rounding the curve. Reporter down playing the virus, focused instead on who gets credit for the vaccines. Dont let joe biden take credit for the vaccines because the vaccines were me, and i pushed people harder than they have ever been pushed before, and we got that approved and through, and nobodys ever seen anything like it. As for that lawsuit in the federal court in pennsylvania, were now also getting reaction from president elect joe bidens team, this coming from spokesperson mike gyynn, twoet quote this election is over and donald trump lost, both in pennsylvania and nationally. Desperate and embarrassly merit lawsuits. As for the president s legal team, jim, they say theyre going all the way to the Supreme Court. Im sure they are saying that. Jeremy diamond, thank you very much. Lets continue the discussion with former Ohio Governor john kasich, and cnn political commentator, ryan lizza, and Arlette Saenz is back as well. It seems as President Trump was committed to leaving the white house. We all say that yesterday, and today he pulls it back. How do you make sense of this . Well, he doesnt really have any choice. His powers as president expire at noon on january 20th. So this idea that somehow its up to him about whether he leaves or not is kind of silly. I know why were asking him that question. But it doesnt really matter what he says about that. I doubt that he would want to be in the embarrassing situation of being a sort of trespasser on white house grounds when his powers expire in january, so i think this is, you know, just a hyperbole on his part. I think gradually the five stages of grief are working their way through and he realizes he has no choice but to exit. Governor kasich, i think we saw one of the stages pass by the president when he finally took questions from reporters. You know he lost by 6 million votes, hes acting at this point as if hes going to guard the doors of the white house or perhaps lock the doors thinking nobody has a key. What realistically can be done if he refuses to leave . Do you think that is a possibility . No, i think theres no chance, and by the way, the secret service will be gone, and its sort of like, you know, i had protection when i was governor and when the time came for me to pass the baton to the next person, i couldnt imagine barricading myself in my office saying i wont come out. It would just be ridiculous. I think youre seeing a change here, jim. I think by him first saying, oh, yeah, i would abide by the Electoral College. I know he took it back, but they said that. Now hes saying hes going to go to georgia and campaign. Im sort of wondering if he has this fantasy that hes going to run in 2024. Look, hes hitting the ties of the party. So you know, possibly hell take up all the space to nobody else can get any attention, and look, he loves being on the front page. Thats him. Thats donald trump. And so, no, hell be out of there. Well have to see if he can continue to generate the publicity that he gets now. I hope not because hes done, and now its joe bidens turn, and weve got to keep our eyes on joe and the team hes putting together. And the interesting thing about biden. You have trump out here playing golf and complaining. Youve got joe biden trying to honor the first responders, trying to pull people together. This is what i thought joe biden would do, and i think hes doing a good job at this point. I think hes uniting the country. Yeah, i can see the president trying to hold the outgoing president , trying to hold a press conference at the trump hotel after leaving the white house on january 20th to announce hes running in 2024, perhaps we may see Something Like that happen, but arlette, as you reported, president elect biden is moving ahead, and we should hear more of his cabinet nominations soon. Do they see President Trumps comments as empty rhetoric, is there some concern on their part, you know, as brian lizzo was indicating, perhaps the president wont leave willingly . President elect joe bidens team certainly is aware that President Trump can be unpredictable and they are preparing for any possibility, but bottom line, they do not believe that a lawsuit or threat from the president will change the outcome of the election and joe biden will be inaugurated on january 20th, and enter that white house. I think one thing thats notable from the biden team is that you dont see them responding to every tweet or comment from President Trump. They are really keeping their heads down, keeping their focus on the task at hand, and that is trying to map out their plans for the coronavirus pandemic, trying to pibuild out bidens cabinet, and his top officials in the white house, and so you are seeing them, rather than playing into the president s game and trying to get distracted by what the president is saying, youre seeing them just moving forward with their own plans, as biden is the president elect, and putting together that administration that will lead his white house, and ultimately, they see these tweets and threats from the president as simply just distractions that arent going to change the outcome of what happened in this election. Yeah, and ryan, Vice President joe biden, president elect joe biden could make some history with some of these contenders for defense secretary. The names on the list there among these short list contenders certainly would make history. Absolutely. From a diversity perspective, i think all three of them would. Jeh johnson served in the pentagon as the general council, very experienced. Tammy duckworth, a veteran and someone looked at closely as a potential running mate for biden. She has a Good Relationship with the biden folks, and michelle flornoy, when Hillary Clinton was running, she was talking about very much as a potential defense secretary if hillary had won. Shes always been in the mix as someone to run the pentagon for democrats. So i think well learn a lot about biden with that pick. Three very different types of people with different Life Experiences and i feel like hes struggling with this one a little bit. And governor, i have to say this about this pick for defense secretary. You know, it is a time for significant transformation inside the pentagon. You know, we industrial astill half in and half out, the old threats, as opposed to the new threats, the things like scyber the ability to protect your systems. That building is going to have to be transformed. I know how hard it is being in the congress, and keep an eye on it, whats needed and whats not, to cut waste, it needs to be a big transformation of that building, in light of the fact that we have these enormous debts and it has to be something that knows how to get it done, and knows how to cooperate with the right people, but yet to conduct a transformation. Its also interested to me that some of the republicans are criticizing some of these cabinet picks right now, saying theyre all internationalists. Are they not in favor of the administration and america leading again, being out in front, rallying allies, its a little curious. Well have to see where that goes, too, its interesting. Governor kasich, ryan lizza, Arlette Saenz, thank you for all of that, we appreciate it. Just ahead, the United States passed 13 million coronavirus cases as expert warn the pandemic is surging to new horizons. An Advisory Committee will meet to vote on which americans will be first in line to get the vaccine. This is a situation room special report. S boston lager. A perfect balance of malt hops. Sorry. I was gonna buy that sixpack. Ah, ten bucks. That includes mine. Yep, ok. President trumps hopeless bid to hold on to power were more desperate as he demanded president elect joe biden prove he was really elected with more than 80 million votes. Lets discuss with democratic congressman jim hime of connecticut, hes saying president elect joe biden must prove he had the votes in order to enters white house. It sounds like some sort of Reality Tv Show game requirement for a contestant, but what are the up appimplications of this rhetoric . Well, jim, theres lull no implications to this rhetoric. Our founders were smart enough 240 years ago to not give the currently sitting president anything to do with validating or ratifying or agreeing to the naming of his or her successor. So as usual, donald trump can and will make all kinds of noise but it will amount to nothing because on january 20th and if we didnt know this the day after election day, we know it now, now that we have seen the numbers and we have seen every court in the land basically laugh his cases out of court, on january 20th, joe biden will become president of the United States, regardless of what President Trump says or tweets. And where are your republican colleagues on this, your colleagues in the house on the gop side . They are not in any mood, it seems, to push the president along, to accept reality and move on. No, theyre not, and this is actually sort of the sad thing. Nobody is surprised by Donald Trumps behavior. Weve seen this from the moment he became president when he claimed to have won the popular vote back in 2016 or claimed to have the biggest inaugural in human history. It is sad, though, that more republicans cant find the courage that mitt romney found to just say, look, this is really pretty clear, and i understand why. Im in politics, right, these republicans understand that if they make a statement of the obvious, and by the way, its an obvious statement that would also go a long way to sort of recementing the foundations of our democracy, they know if they do that, and they pop up on President Trumps radar screen, he can end their career, and sadly too many of my republican colleagues would rather perpetuate their career than maybe strike a blow in favor of our countrys democracy. A federal Appeals Court said the push to challenge results in pennsylvania has no merit, as these court losses pile up, are you concerned, you know, that the trump campaign, some of their folks were saying today, the fact that they still have focus is something to be hold, but they were saying today they may take it all the way to the Supreme Court. Does this worry you at all that this may go to the Supreme Court . It doesnt worry me one win bit. The court cases the president has brought havent been bad cases. They have been laughable. The pennsylvania case that you were just talking about was decided by a trump appointed federal judge. And that judge basically did the judicial equivalent of laughing the campaign out of court. So no, i have no worries whatsoever that this Supreme Court will tolerate any shenanigans. Even with Amy Coney Barrett there because there are people who will say, and there are supporters of joe biden who will say that theyre concerned that now that Amy Coney Barrett is on the court, the court has a different character to it now, and make up to it now. Of course it does, and we saw that of course in the ruling that was handed down on the question of whether Governor Cuomo could put restrictions on houses of worship. So of course it is, but its radically different saying that the court is more conservative, which it undeniably is and saying something very different, the Supreme Court is going to ignore every other court in the land and in act in favor of an autocratic, and diluted. Im not about to say i think shes going to conspire to help an autocrat remain in office. Those are pretty different propositions. Congressman jim himes, thank you so much for coming on on this Holiday Weekend. We appreciate it. Happy holidays to you. Well see you soon. Thank you very much. Thank you, jim. A black friday unlike any other as the coronavirus hammers the u. S. More on the breaking news, the u. S. Crossing 13 million confirmed coronavirus cases. children laughing music swells music fades exhales experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list sales event. Sign and drive off in a new lincoln with zero down, zero due at signing, and a complimentary first months payment. Why are we doing this . Why are we doing what . Using my old spice moisturize with shea butter body wash. All i wanted was to use your body wash and all i wanted was to have a body wash. We started by making 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. Were following breaking news, a short time ago the u. S. Topped 13 million confirmed coronavirus cases, and tonight, the death toll exceeds 264,000 people. Cnns alexandra field is in new york with the latest. Alexandra, Health Officials are sounding the alarm. We hope theyre listening out there. Jim if it feels like that number is growing quickly, its because it really is. Were getting used to a million new cases a week. We should see a spike in cases as a result of the lag in reporting that happened in some states on thanksgiving day. But we are still a week, maybe two, away from seeing that much warned about post thanksgiving surge. The season usually filled with cheer is here, but the pain across the country only deepening. I expect that the daily death rate will double in the next ten days, so well be seeing close to 4,000 deaths a day. Reporter more than 90,000 americans spent thanksgiving in a hospital bed. Another record setting day for the 17th day. Hospitals are full already. Icus are full in places like el paso, we have been talking about accessing military hospitals. In other parts of the country, you know, were standing up field hospitals. Deaths this week at their highest levels since may are forecast to climb by 60,000 in the next three weeks, and Health Officials continue to warn about the holiday surge upon a surge. If you were with your family yesterday, stay home for the next couple of weeks while you make sure that you observe quarantine. Reporter the cdc recommended people stay home for the holiday last week. Since then around 6. 5 million have passed through security at americas airports. More than a million of them flew on the day before thanksgiving. Thats record travel during the pandemic, but the busiest travel day is still to come. Expected on sunday. What i can say for travel is that there really is no zero risk at the moment. Reporter the pandemic hasnt put an end to black friday either, deal hunters still lining up at some stores. This thanksgiving weekend wont be all about football. 11 College Football games cancelled or postponed this week because of covid. Posttests also reported in the pros, the browns, falcons, and ravens star quarterback Lamar Jackson the race toward a vaccine lately fueling more optimism but now some confusion. A dosing mishap in astrazenecas trial gave a small study group less dosage but it was more effective than full dose. Without any Vaccines Available yet, more places keep adding new restrictions. In texas, houstons mayor is eyeing a curfew. Basically were going to look at peoples behavior. Were going to look at the degree of Community Spread but the Positivity Rate continues to go up. I dont take anything off the tab table. In florida, where they are reporting 6,000 new cases a day, a decision from republican Governor Ron Desantis to extend an order that rolls back virtually every covid related mandate. And tonight, there is more planning underway for the massive undertaking which is getting vaccines into peoples arms once a vaccine is approved. A cdc Advisory Panel will hold a meeting on tuesday, during which they will vote on whos getting the vaccine first. The likely contender, Health Care Workers alongside people who are deemed most likely to get covid, spread covid, and suffer severe consequences from it, including people like those living in Nursing Homes tonight. Jim. That will be a huge development. Cnns alexandra field, thank you very much for that. We appreciate it. Lets get more with dr. Peter hotez, professor and dean of tropical medicine of Baylor College of medicine. The country has surpassed 13 million cases. How dangerous is this accelerated transmission . And it is accelerated. Were in the most dangerous Public Health crisis this nation has faced at least for the last hundred years. Were going easily to 00,000 new cases per day. It will be accelerated because of the thanksgiving holiday. It will be accelerated again over christmas. And im so upset about the deaths, so we are going to be regularly hitting 2,000 deaths per day, but then going up to 3,000 deaths and 4,000 deaths per day, and its happening for a very simple reason, unfortunately, which is without any National Program in place, were seeing such a surge in new cases that hospital emergency rooms, hospital beds and icus are becoming overwhelmed. We dont have enough trained staff in many parts of the country, the northern midwest, and texas, where its the worst in the world right now in terms of number of new cases. We know when hospital staff starts to get overwhelmed, thats when the death rates really go high. This is what happened in new york in march and april. This is what happened in Southern Europe in march and april. Its whats happening now as we speak in the yoou. S. Every weekend i send out a little note to colleagues, just thinking about our Health Care Workers who are doing the best they can. Theyre absolute heroes but they are just being overwhelmed and swamped and this is why the death rate is going up. Dr. Hoe at the scetez, were0 or 4,000 deaths per day, did i hear that correctly . Thats correct. If you look at the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation projections, potentially 500,000 americans can lose their life by a week or two after the inauguration. More lives than the u. S. Lost in terms of gis and world war ii. These are the numbers were talking about, numbers that are approaching what we experienced in the 1918 flu pandemic, except its happening over a much shorter period of time. So this is going to be very destabilizing for the country. And not only in terms of health but also our economy as well as our Homeland Security is under threat because of this at this point. And theres a lag time between infection, and reported cases, so how long will it take to assess the damage, do you think, from these thanksgiving gatherings . Well, the deaths follow a few weeks afterwards, and of course the terrible tragedy is that there is good news on the way. The vaccines are coming in the early part of next year, and even by december, they may begin rolling out. And nobody has to die, and so that if we could just stay disciplined and keep and protect our mothers and fathers and brothers or sisters from getting sick by having the aggressive social distancing in place, and masks, get them through to the other side, get them vaccinated they can live a normal life. We dont have the leadership, especially in the middle part of the country of the 12 most effective states, ten are red states, everyone except minnesota and new mexico, and this is where we have in many of these states, individuals who are defiant of masks and social distancing, recommendations leave the scott atlas Disinformation Campaign that was so damaging beginning this summer, and so thats why i say so many of these lives are lost. Lives that will be lost, we can prevent that from happening if we just had the leadership. Thats why im reaching out to everyone i can in the middle part of the country, particularly conservative news outlets to try to get the word out. Its really tough. It feels like were fighting a losing battle getting the word out. We have to keep doing it. Dr. Peter hotez, and thank you very much for that straightforward information and analysis. We appreciate it. Just ahead, iran is vowing revenge after a Top Nuclear Scientist is assassinated in a brazen attack. 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Certainly israel should be on alert, which it always is, but i doubt, i doubt that they will do it. Heres whats going on, jim. This was an effort, i think, by Prime Minister netanyahu of israel to work with the Trump Administration to complicate life for joe biden. This man, very important Nuclear Scientist has been around for a long time. Why do this now . By doing it now, they force irans hand, make it raise tensions in the middle east, and either iran will retaliate or whether it doesnt, it raises the tensions enough that joe biden faces a problem. Does he condemn this attack . Does he, you know, do something about it . And most importantly, does he in this atmosphere rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal, something he has promised to do. So this it seems to me was bb netanyahu, and Donald Trumps effort to stop joe biden or to complicate joe bidens plan to rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal to keep iran from getting nuclear weapons. Almost pushing joe biden in a more hawkish direction or at least attempting to, and the former cia director john brennan, he tweeted this, well put this on the screen. This was a criminal act according to john brennan, and highly reckless, iranian leaders would be wise wait for the return of a responsible american leadership, and resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits. Do you think the iranians will listen to that . I suspect they will, as with general solomani, they huffed and puffed initially, but realized it was not to their advantage to huff and puff. Brennan makes an important point. In the longer run, does the United States want to be the kind of super power that is condoning targeted assassinations of nonmilitary, nonterrorist officials around the world. First of all, would we want to live in a world where other countries did that to us . And more importantly, what happens when china decides that there are some people, i dont know, in various countries in the world that they dont like, and they in some way encourage operations like this, you know, what were doing is we are weakening the kind of rules of the road of the international system. It may serve the shortterm advantage of the United States or israel in one or two occasions, but in the long run, do we want to live in a world where every great power thinks that they can engage in targeted assassinations of civilian or military leaders of countries who were doing things they dont like . That gets to be a bit of the law of the jungle. It pushes the world in a more dangerous direction. No question about it. Fareed zakaria, thank you so much for joining us on a busy news night, and happy holidays to you, we appreciate it. Thank you. A major u. S. Metropolitan area issues a new stayathome order as covid cases surge. Well tell you about it. Youre strong. 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We taught this through so much multigenerational disfunction. My dad beat me and told me not to cry. Grown man hitting a kid. I look at the youth, and i am like you guys shouldnt be learning that kind of lesson. You guys dont need that. It took coming to prison for me to understand a man is loving, man is understanding, a man treasures his family and friends, a man is selfless. These are things that you should be taught. We werent. So now i teach them to you, today. Joining us now, the host of this is life lisa,ling. This looks like a remarkable program, bringing together Prep School Students and prisoners at a state correctional facility. How does it work . What are the goals . It is an elective course for the pauma school, an elite Catholic High School in salinas, california. An all boys school. For eight weeks they go into the ctf prison which houses more inmates serving life sentences than any other prison in the state of california and they read literature. The transformation that takes place is remarkable. You would think it would be the incarcerated men who would be the beneficiaries of getting to read with the educated young men. But because the incarcerated men are candid, remorseful, you heard that clip of raoul right now, and how open he is about thing that he experienced in his life and his suggestions to these young men, it really gave the young men permission to feel and show emotion. And, look, a lot of young men are struggling right now. We are going through a lot. I think with girls they are more inclined to be able to express their emotions and be able to communicate. But boys are often told, dont cry, dont feel, dont show emotion. So the two episodes that are airing on sunday night are really trying to communicate to boys to do exactly the opposite, and that it is okay to feel. Its remarkable. I imagine that these Young Students and these prisoners, they are getting something from each other. Can you tell us about that . They absolutely get something from each other. I mean, they get this opportunity to just really be open. Jim, the reason i didnt felt compelled to tell this story when i found out about it was some of the incarcerated men felt so moved after the experience of reading a particular novel that they decided to start a Scholarship Program in prison to fund the education of a young man to attend the private school. There was a young man who graduated this past spring whose education at private boys school was paid for almost entirely by incarcerated men in the prison. Wow, that is remarkable. We are all going to be watching on this sunday. Lisaling, thank you for previewing that. A note to our viewers, opportunity in for a new season of this is life with lisaling. You will get two new episodes back to back sunday night at 9 00 p. M. , only on cnn. More news just ahead. We have break news. An alarming rise in new coronavirus cases has just prompted Los Angeles County to issue a new stayathome order for all residents as part of the new restrictions which are expected to last for three weeks. Nearly all public and private gatherings will be banned. Stay with cnn for more on that as this story develops. Finally tonight, lets take a moment to remember some of the wonderful people who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. Vernon matthews of ohio, was 64 years old. He was a generous man who volunteered at his church and opened his home to people in need. Friends say vernon was an amazing cook and a master decorator who will be deeply missed by his community. Bonnie of tennessee was 82 years old. Her family says bonnie was larger than life and sharp as a tack. She loved growing flowers and baking cookies for her grandchildren. May they all rest in peace, and may everybody during this Holiday Weekend stay safe, follow those guidelines, wear your mask, stay healthy so we can see you next year. Im jim acosta. Thanks very much for watching us. Happy holidays. Erin burnett out front starts right now. Out front next, the president s claims about the election have no merit. Thats from a trump appointed judge tonight as the president suffers another devastating setback in his efforts to overturn the election. Plus, breaking news tonight. The u. S. Surpassing 13 million coronavirus cases as the cdc is now set to hold an emergency meeting to determine who should receive the vaccine first. And a woman who just lost her father and aunt to coronavirus joins me. What she wants every american to know about the virus that is infecting record numbers of people tonight. Lets go