Place wisconsin just finalized bidens victory there following a partial recount only hours after arizona certified bidens win in that state. Those are two more significant blows to President Trumps false claims of voter fraud and his refusal to concede defeat. Were also following breaking news on the coronavirus crisis. The fda has scheduled a meeting to discuss modernas application being filed today for emergency use authorization for its vaccine. And an operation warp speed official now says 100 of americans who want a vaccine will have gotten one by june. Lets go to our senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny covering the biden transition. The president elect is now getting the intel briefings he should have been receiving weeks ago. Reporter wolf, good evening. He is. It is 51 days before president elect Joe Biden Takes Office and he did get that president ial daily brief today for the first time in four years since he served as Vice President. That was something that was not on President Trumps schedule today. Also of course he is entitled to get that pdb as it is called every day. All of this is coming as mr. Biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris also received her Daily Briefing as well. Even as they shape up their Economic Team theyll be introduced here tomorrow. For the First Time Since winning the election joe biden receiving the president s daily brief tonight. The one of a kind collection of classified intelligence and security threats facing the u. S. For biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris who also received the briefing it is the biggest milestone yet on their way to the white house. President trump finally signed off on the move last week despite repeatedly refusing to concede defeat. Were going to build an economy that leads the world. Reporter it comes as biden continues filling out his cabinet surrounding himself with history making picks. Tonight key members of the team charged with leading the nations economic recovery. Former Federal Reserve chair janet yellen who would be the first woman to serve as treasury secretary. Cecelia rouse a princeton economist and veteran of the clinton and Obama Administration as the first woman of color to lead the council of economic advisers and neera tanden the first woman of of color and south asian to run the office of management and budget. Press secretary jen psaki, and sim own sanders among the women leading the team. Hi everyone. Psaki a veteran of the Obama Administration is already overseeing confirmation of bidens nominees in the senate which is for now controlled by republicans. We dont need a fabricated crisis in the senate and i dont think the American People are going to tolerate that if there is a refusal to move forward with qualified nominees. Reporter one early criticism from some progressives and conservatives is tanden who has run the center for American Progress a left leaning think tank. As a top aide to Hillary Clinton she tangled with Bernie Sanders in 2016 and has blasted many republicans. The spokesman for senator john cornyn saying because of the disparaging comments about the republican senators whose votes shell need tanden stands zero chance of being confirmed. While there is only one president at a timesharing the document known as the pdb with biden underscores how trumps time in power is drawing to a close. While hardly a stranger to classified briefings, today marked the first time biden received one in nearly four years. It could have something related to a recent terrorist threat or engagements with china and russia. Maybe north Korea Nuclear developments. Reporter he received the briefing at his home outside wilmington where he spent the day out of sight recovering from a weekend foot injury that aides say he received while playing with his dog major. His doctor says biden will have a walking boot for several weeks to treat the hairline fracture. Now we will see the president elect tomorrow in that walking boot as he introduces his Economic Team here in wilmington. I am told he is already focusing on other members of the cabinet and top advisers he has yet to name. The cia director were told is one of the key positions he is looking at. Were told tonight there are several final contenders for that position including mike morell former deputy acting director of the cia as well as david cohen a top official in the cia in the Obama Administration. Jeh johnson was a Homeland Security secretary in the Obama Administration. Lisa monaco a Senior Adviser for counterterrorism under president obama and sue gordon the Principal Deputy dni director so those are some of the picks for cia. Were also getting word there are three finalists for pentagon to lead the pentagon at the department of defense. Were told they are michelle flournoy, also jeh johnson as we just saw, and lloyd austin, a retired four Star Army General who was the head of the Central Command under the Obama Administration and left in 2016 in private, in the private sector right now. Those are some of the names of the rest of the National Security team the president elect is settling on. So by the end of december which starts tomorrow were told most of these cabinet picks will be announced. Very significant developments. Stand by. Well get back to you in just a moment. I want to go to the white house right now. There are new blows to President Trumps brazenly false claims about the election. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Wisconsin, arizona now delivering new shots of reality to a president who is in total denial. Thats right, wolf. President trump is in a state of denial in his quest to overturn the election though the states that matter as you just said arizona has certified its results for president elect joe biden. Wisconsin just finalized in the last hour or so its Election Results. Also confirming a victory for biden. Election officials in georgia, republican Election Officials have rejected bogus accusations floated by mr. Trump and his legal team alleging fraud in the counting of ballots in that state. The outgoing president s hopes at this point to cling to power are fading fast. With his time in office shrinking President Trump is finding his dishonest attempt to hang on to the white house is running into a brick wall. In the form of republican Election Officials in places like georgia who have had enough of the lies. There are those who are exploiting the emotions of many Trump Supporters with fantastic claims, half truths, misinformation, and, frankly, they are misleading the president as well apparently. Reporter georgias gop secretary of state Brad Raffensberger and his top aides are all but pleading with Trump Supporters to stop believing false allegations of fraud coming from the president and his legal team. I cant, however many words i can use to say how crazy some of these things are, nothing was shipped overseas. No votes were switched. We did a hand audit that proved no votes were switched. Reporter the president is trying to go over their heads putting pressure on georgias republican governor, tweeting, why wont brian kem p the hapless governor of georgia use his Emergency Powers which could be easily done to overrule his obstinate secretary of state but kemps office said no saying georgias law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. The secretary has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by executive order. Another blow to mr. Trumps quest the hotly contested state of arizona certified its results for president elect joe biden with that states gop governor looking on. The election was conducted with transparency, accuracy, and fairness in accordance with arizonas laws and elections procedures despite numerous, unfounded claims to the contrary. Reporter even though he has no chance of overturning the 2020 results the president is still dumping disinformation on the public with the help of trump friendly tv hosts. This election was over and then they did dumps. They call them dumps. Big, massive dumps in michigan and pennsylvania and all over. Reporter but mr. Trumps former director of Cyber Security whose team helped safeguard the election said the president simply cannot back up what he is saying. The proof is in the ballots. The recounts are consistent with the initial count. To me, thats further evidence. Thats confirmation. That the systems used in the 2020 election performed as expected. Reporter some republican lawmakers in congress are hopeful the president can get over his loss and attend bidens inauguration. I hope the president is there on inaugural day and continuing to work to see what we can do to have the president there and have Vice President bide tlen likely sworn in on that day. Reporter there is breaking news out of wisconsin as that states Governor Tony Evers has added the procedural step of now certifying the Election Results in that state. Those results for the former Vice President joe biden, president elect joe biden, to become the next president of the United States is just happening in the last several minutes so we can add that to the list of states that have now finalized these results for joe biden. Even as he is making these bogus claims about the election the president still has plenty of enablers up on capitol hill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell we should mention was asked by reporters whether he considers joe biden to be the president elect. Mcconnell did not answer those questions even though, wolf, that is a gimme, a softball question. Of course joe biden is the president elect. He will be president of the United States no matter what they think up on capitol hill. A really totally inappropriate thing for the Senate Majority leader to accept reality. Jim acosta, thank you very much. Lets bring back jeff zeleny along with our Political Correspondent abby philip and cnn political commentator van jones. Abby the president yesterday was saying there are six battleground states up in the air right now. We dont know whats going on. We got to wait for them to determine officially what is going on. Five of those states earlier, georgia, pennsylvania, michigan, nevada, arizona all officially certified biden won those states and just now the governor of wisconsin tony evers said wisconsin officially certified that wisconsin was won by biden. Yet the president and his enablers as jim acosta says refuse to accept reality. Yeah, wolf. Its over. And frankly its been over for sometime now. At least a week and a half at this point when the results have been clear its been very clear that none of these legal challenges would work and even listening to roy blunt saying over the weekend that likely joe biden will be sworn in on january 20th, it is not likely. Joe biden will be sworn in on january 20th because thats what the constitution says will happen on that day, so the president is Still Holding on to this fantasy about legal challenges, about all kinds of conspiracy theories but the reality is that the process is moving forward at a normal pace and very soon there will be no excuse really even for republican lawmakers on capitol hill to continue to hedge about the idea that joe biden is in fact the president elect. They need to accept it whether or not President Trump does. Van, it is interesting because biden in the popular vote has won by more than 6 million votes over trump in the electoral college, what, 306 for biden, 232 for the president. You need 270. Its clear whats going on. Why wont they accept reality . I have no idea. Its funny. While theyre playing all these silly games, biden is moving forward and doing stuff that i think should make every american proud. If you look at the people hes putting in positions it is not just that theyre diverse and women, these are extraordinary people. These are people who have served in public life with distinction and honor. Theyve got great ideas. Theyve got new proposals. Theyre getting down to work. And so it is really embarrassing to have this sort of old guard sitting around, you know, kind of being cry babies about something while you have this whole new wave of people getting ready to serve america in such a powerful way. So the contrast, you could not this is where an a, b, c after school special, you couldnt have more of a contrast between, you know, the pouty guy and the good sport who is moving forward joe biden. Jeff, you covered this transition for us. How are they reacting to this refusal by the president and these Republican Leaders including the Senate Majority leader to accept the fact that biden will be the next president of the United States . Reporter wolf, theyre simply moving forward. President elect joe biden is simply making choices, filling out his cabinet, and they are ignoring the silence that is coming in washington. Now, there is no question that president elect joe biden when he was standing here in wilmington giving his victory speech, you know, talking about unity, talking about working across the aisle, he certainly would have hoped it would have been the washington he was used to, familiar with, that he served in the senate so long and as Vice President for eight years but he has gotten a good taste over the last month and tomorrow will be four weeks from election day. He has gotten a very good taste of the washington he is walking into. Wolf, as near as we can tell, he is, you know, keeping the temperature down as he did throughout that sort of period of uncertainty when the gsa would not even ascertain him the winner. He didnt threaten legal action. He just went to work. Were seeing them fill out their cabinet and to simply ignoring the president. We do not see joe biden engaging with donald trump anymore. So i think that is something you will see as they go forward. Theyre instructed from the top down to focus on what theyre doing on the transition to not engage with the outgoing administration. And it is an outgoing administration. There are 51 days left until joe biden and Kamala Harris take office. Abby, clearly what the biden team want to do is make the case that the outgoing president right now is the loser and is irrelevant. Yeah. Effectively. As jeff said, they have a big job to do and they know that. This is not a time period where its just about vanity and sort of it is not entirely about just giving people positions. They have to get an actual government up and running and the Biden Administration really does know that and is aware of that and theyve been working on that even before the ascertainment process was started. So its both about ignoring the president , knowing i think that President Trump thrives on attention and at the moment he seems to be, you know, yelling into the wind or at least yelling into this cable news, fox news, news max abyss. And i think the biden campaigns strategy and thinking about this is that if you dont give that oxygen it is not going to overtake you. They know they have a government to put together and thats what theyre working to do. Van, how much will this continued refusal by the president to accept reality do damage to american democracy . Because there are millions of americans who are going to believe him. Well, that is the worst part about it. Its like having termites. You know, every time he is out there saying i won, its rigged, i won its rigged. Its like you dont know how much damage is being done. How many people are thinking to themselves im going to be governed by a socialist who stole the election and therefore im not going to go along. You dont know until the floor boards break how bad the termite damage has been. And so we just dont know. What we do know for sure is that you have republican officials who are certifying these elections. You have courts, sometimes appointed with republican appointed judges, who im sure would love to be able to continue a republican in the white house and they are the ones who are certifying these elections and moving forward. Van, thank you. Abby, thanks. Jeff, guys, thanks to all of you. Just ahead, will all americans get relief from covid19 by summer . Well break down a new vaccination timetable that is just coming into the situation room. Priceline works with top hotels, to save you up to 60 . These are all great. And when you get a big deal. You feel like a big deal. Priceline. Every trip is a big deal. Save for being a new customer. Save more for adding drivewise. Save even more for driving safely. Take another look at allstate and start saving. 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I think the Intelligence Community has really taken a beating over the past four years and while we need someone who is hypercompetent and understands the role of speaking truth to power we also need someone who is going to help the work force recover, who is going to say to the work force we appreciate your work and we want you to excel and were going to, you know, represent you in the oval office when were with the president. I think were going to need some morale boosts for whoever is picked as director of the cia. I have to ask you this question because your name has been mentioned as a possible contender for this or other positions. Have yet any serious discussions with the biden team about perhaps joining the Incoming Administration . You know, i know this is a favorite parlor game in washington and while it is always an honor to be, have my name in the paper with lots of great folks, no one has asked me to be anything other than the representative of michigans 8th district, which i love, so no. There is nothing wrong with being a member of the u. S. House of representatives. I got to tell you as someone who has covered washington for a long time. As you know, the president elect announced his Economic Team today at least major members of his Economic Team following the announcement of his all female Senior Communications team in the incoming white house. What do you make of these choices . Well, i think honestly he just brought in qualified people. I think it is an interesting thing that its an all female team representing him to the press but it is also the most qualified team. Then on the economic side what really gave me a sort of good feeling was these are folks who have experience from the last recession. They understood what worked, what didnt work, from stimulating the economy, and we need that now more than ever because what people are asking me about is covid relief. That is what my constituents are calling about every day wanting to know when well get a deal and we need one desperately. What is the problem . I mean people are waiting in lines for food. People are suffering right now. There should have been a deal weeks and weeks ago. And there wasnt a deal. Who is responsible for this failure . Well, i think that there is blame to go around. We are working on a negotiation in september and into october and i had high hopes for that. But i think the election and the Politics Around the election and other things just got in the middle of it. And i feel strongly. When i talk to my peers, my democratic peers, my republican peers, we should not be going home for christmas without a covid deal. Right . If the rest of the country is going to be so worried and so concerned and so just on edge about whats going to happen to their small business, unemployment, we shouldnt be going home and enjoying christmas with our families until and unless we get a deal. I think you are absolutely right. Because this is so critical right now. Do you think the fact that there was no deal in the last few weeks before the election hurt your fellow democratic representatives who wound up losing . You guys lost house seats, democrats in the house of representatives, people like Donna Shalala in miami, max rose in new york. People who really were desperately anxious for a deal. Do you think the fact that nancy pelosi couldnt come up with an agreement with Steve Mnuchin the treasury secretary and the senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell that hurt your fellow democrats in losing all these seats in the house . Listen, i think like i said theres blame to go around. Everyone should have locked themselves in a negotiating room until they got a deal. Frankly i think bigger than any one election i think we really need to acknowledge people are looking to see that their government can get something done. That is democrats, republicans, they want to look to washington and say, were in the middle of a pandemic. Get something done. Get something on the table. We did that in the spring. And i expect the same of my own leadership, of leadership in the senate and in the white house between now and christmas. Pass a deal. Get the money out to the people who need it. They are desperate right now. Congresswoman slotkin of michigan thanks for joining us. Thank you. Just ahead breaking news on when you may be able to get a Coronavirus Vaccine if you want one. 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. See yourself. 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Reporter well, some very, very good vaccine news, wolf. Moderna has now submitted its potential vaccine to the fda for emergency use authorization. Theyre going to have a Committee Meet december 17th to discuss that application. Also, we heard from an official with operation warp speed, the federal vaccine program, and he says that by june, 100 of americans that want a vaccine will have had the vaccine. That is by june. But lets see how many people actually want it. Thats a whole other story. Modernas potential vaccine is, they say, 100 effective at preventing severe cases of covid19. It will allow us to go back to basically a normal life. And that is really what we want this vaccine to do. We want it to prevent people from dying. Reporter today that vaccine became the second submitted for fda authorization. Next week an fda Committee Meets to assess pfizers offering. Does it work . Is it safe . We could be looking at approval within days after that. Moderna is basically one week behind that. We could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into peoples arms before christmas. Reporter but a sign of our still very strange times the Denver Broncos just played a wide receiver at quarterback. One regular qb has covid. Three more in quarantine. All nfl practice suspended today and tomorrow. We are nearing almost 200,000 infections a day. I expect well cross that at some point soon. Reporter maybe fueled by thanksgiving. Sunday was the busiest travel day since the pandemic began. We wont really know the impact of that for another five to seven days. That is the dynamics of this virus. Reporter so many people now tired, bored, sick of this. Expecting people to stay at home for 14 days is quite excessive. I understand the logic behind it. Reporter here is the logic. 15 members of this one texan family all sick after one birthday party. Now im in the hospital. I cant see my family. Reporter more than 93,000 americans in that same boat in the hospital the highest that number has ever been. In november, alone, 4. 25 million americans were infected the equivalent to the entire populations of montana, vermont, wyoming, and new mexico put together. 42 states are now above a key threshold. More than 5 of tests are coming back positive. This is what exponential spread of an uncontrolled virus looks like. The u. S. Averaged daily death toll now approaching 1500. We are in it and not at the end of it. I think by the end of this wave well have many more americans die than died in world war ii. Reporter now here in Los Angeles County today they closed the playgrounds and told all of us to stay home as much as possible and we just heard from the governor of california. He says he is now considering some drastic measures including perhaps a larger stay at home order. Why . Well, some projections show that california if we carry on as we are, california might run out of icu beds, wolf, by christmas eve. Back to you. So heart breaking. Nick watt reporting for us from l. A. Thanks, nick. Joining us now dr. Richard boeser the former acting director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. Thank you so much for joining us. Let me get your reaction to these Moderna Vaccine developments. These are major. Very encouraging developments the company now saying it has submitted its formal request for what is called emergency use authorization and weve also just learned the fda has scheduled a meeting for december 17th to discuss that application. What do these developments mean for americans who are obviously so eager to get vaccinated against this deadly virus . Wolf, you know, the country is really divided on that. There are those of us who are eager to get vaccinated with a safe and effective vaccine as soon as it is approved and then there are large portions of society that are skeptical. That are worried. The next couple weeks when these meetings are held, the meetings of the fda and their Advisory Committee, are critically important in terms of trust. Without trust we could have effective vaccines which large portions of the population dont want to get and that would be a tragedy. What im going to be looking at here is transparency. Is the fda sharing the data so we can look at it and feel as comfortable as the companies do that these vaccines are safe and effective . And is the Advisory Committee, which i trust greatly, are they allowed to do their work . Do they feel comfortable that the vaccine is safe, effective, and can be managed manufactured at a scale in a way that is safe. That is really important in terms of what i recommend to my patients. A few practical questions that our viewers are asking. Theres going to be two, maybe three safe and effective vaccines eventually approved by the fda. Will americans be able to choose which ones they get . I think that it is probably not likely early on. Later on it may be the case. As a pediatrician when i vaccinate a child against whooping cough there are many different products that i have to choose from. Most patients have dont have an idea and dont have a preference. Here it may turn out that some of the vaccines have different characteristics so if you look at the flu vaccines that are given every year, theres a higher dose vaccine thats better for elderly adults. There are vaccines preferred for younger children. That may end up being the case with one of these vaccines but well have to see how it plays out and what the Advisory Committee to the cdc ends up recommending in terms of who gets what vaccine. Even if you have a little side effect of a sore arm. 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About two years ago the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu mentioned this iranian Nuclear Scientist by name. Watch this. A key part of the plan was to form new organizations to continue the work. This is how dr. Fakhrizadeh mohsen, remember that name now, israel isnt publicly taking responsibility. Theyre really not commenting on this assassination but clearly this man was on their radar, right . Oh, clearly. It is really important to remember everybody is pointing exactly at israel but there are arab League Partners also very concerned about this scientist so, you know, im exactly who did it. There are other players in the middle east right now that believe iran getting a Nuclear Weapon is an existential threat and therefore will be pretty aggressive. There are lots of suspects that could be responsible for this. So are you suggesting you dont believe it is necessarily israel . Because everybody seems to have concluded that it was. Well, clearly israel has the capability and they certainly have proven in the past that they will take this type of kinetic exercise and use that kind of technique if they believe that it prevents what they believe is an existential threat to the state of israel. Where do you think, mike, where does this where does this leave president elect bidens plan . Because he wanted to rejoin, reestablish the iran nuclear deal, which President Trump ripped up. Yeah, listen, i think the middle east that president elect biden will inherit on january 20th is very different than it was four years ago. So think about whats happened in a short period of time. So i think it would be a mistake for them thinking were just going to go back four years and were going to start where we left off. The Playing Field has changed. The pieces on the board have changed. So you have five countries now recognizing israels right to exist and two of those were just added this year. Thats pretty substantial. Thats different. Our arab League Partners didnt like the iran deal. Now they have a Good Relationship with the trump administration. I would not run into this lets rewind the tape for four years. Im hoping they use this as an opportunity to reengage iran. And even they believe that there are some problems with the iran deal. This is their chance to i think kind of make clear where they thought mistakes were made and that they can fix and then continue to build on the success of arab nations recognizing israels right to exist. I think they could build on both of those relationships. But again, its really been kind of a frustrating thing for me watching every administration, republican to democrat, democrat to republican, say well, whatever the other folks did in Foreign Policy were going to just turn it off. I think thats a mistake. I think they need to find the things they can agree with, find the things that they can build on and reengage that part of the world in a way that just hasnt been done before. And i think they could be successful if they take that tack. Its a sensitive moment indeed. Well see what happens. Mike rogers, thank you so much for joining us. Meanwhile, president elect biden is set to make janet yellen, a former Federal Reserve chair, the first woman to lead the u. S. Treasury department. If confirmed shell face a monumental challenge as the u. S. Tries to recover from the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Cnns tom foreman is taking a look into her long career. I can say emphatically that partisan politics plays no role in our decisions about the appropriate stance of monetary policy. Reporter hardnosed, cleareyed, Janet Yellens nomination has triggered a flurry of praise from the right for her intellect, foresight and independence and from the left where she is called smart, tough and principled. She doesnt have a crystal ball but what she does have is a keen understanding of how markets and the economy work. Reporter her resume, which includes brown, yale, harvard and the London School of economics, spurred president obama to put her in charge of the Federal Reserve in 2014, keeping watch on the nations banks, promoting economic stability. Im honored and humbled by the faith that youve placed in me. Reporter by the time her fouryear term came to a close, however, donald trump was in office. He once said yellen should be ashamed of her work and has openly criticized the fed ever since. The Federal Reserve raised the rates too fast and too soon. Reporter yellen never blinked. Obviously the president has a right to comment on the fed but i would worry that if it continues or intensifies that it could undermine confidence in the fed and the markets confidence in the feds judgment. Reporter since the 1700s, when Alexander Hamilton served as the first treasury secretary, theyve all been male, including trumps man Steve Mnuchin, who has a deep pedigree and business and has staunchly refused to hand over the president s tax returns. Ive had no conversations ever with the president or anyone in the white house about delivering the president s tax returns to congress. Reporter yellen by comparison is known for her balanced approach to business and consumer concerns for imposing stiff sanctions on wells fargo over widespread consumer abuses and her take on the pandemic economy was clear even last spring. Were going to be looking at a decline in gdp of the least 30 , and ive seen far higher numbers. This is a huge, unprecedented, devastating hit, and my hope is that we will get back to business as usual as quickly as possible. Reporter appreciation for the suffering of regular folks, respect for the needs of business. Right now those are the twin engines fueling this rare show of agreement in this deeply divided town. Wolf . Tom foreman reporting for us. Thank you very much. More news right after this. Weg ways to keep moving. And at fidelity, youll get planning and advice to help you prepare for the future, without sacrificing whats most important to you today. Because with fidelity, you can feel confident that the only direction youre moving is forward. See yourself. Welcome back to the mirror. And know youre not alone because this. Come on jessie one more. Is the reflection of an Unstoppable Community in the mirror. Finally tonight we honor some of the men and women we have lost in the coronavirus pandemic. Roberta davis of georgia was 50 years old. Her sister says she was the heart of their family including a daughter and five grandchildren. She had just started baking themed cakes and had many, many orders coming in before she became ill. Pavel becker of florida was 86. Born in yugoslavia, he moved to the United States with his wife and daughter more than 50 years ago. His grandson says he was a tailor who became a successful Business Owner once he arrived here in america. May they rest in peace, and may their memories be a blessing. Thanks very much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, wisconsin certifying the results of its election, affirming joe biden won after a recount that cost 3 million netted biden more votes. But Top Republicans tonight still wont call biden the president elect. Why . Plus one american dying of covid now every minute. A vaccine cannot come too soon. The chief scientist leading operation warp speed is out front. 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