Years later we could lose more americans than that in a single day without a word from our president . Fortunately we have good news to begin with tonight. In u. K. , tuesday, day one for distribution of the vaccine. Well have a report from london within this hour. But then theres the situation in our country, where the virus is at its height, where the virus reaches a new height with each passing day. We are closing in on 15 million cases, the death toll now over 283,000. Weve added more than 1 million new cases just in first five days of december according to Johns Hopkins and the covid tracking project. Weve lost 16,000 people just so far in the month of december. Dr. Anthony fauci now warning the pandemic is entering a treacherous phase in this country that a steep acceleration in new cases is more than just likely. With thanksgiving, it was just the end of the week, then you go back to work the next week. With christmas it starts several days before, goes through christmas, the week after christmas, into new years and the holiday. I think it could be even more of a challenge than what we saw with thanksgiving. We are in a very critical time in this country right now. The fda meets thursday to talk about emergency approval for that Pfizer Vaccine. Signoff could come just days after the meeting. Meanwhile the New York Times reporting tonight the white house passed up an offer from pfizer over the summer to sell the u. S. Government additional doses of the vaccine. The administration denies this report, but it indeed raises more questions about whether there will be enough of the vaccine for everyone to eventually get one. Tomorrow the white house will hold what its calling a vaccine summit to focus on distribution to build up Public Confidence in the vaccine. While that is going on, Republicanled SenateHomeland Security committee will be hearing from one dr. Jane oaur rent who has advocated for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment. Joe biden has moved forward for naming choice, current California Attorney general Xavier Becerra will be the nominee for secretary of health and human services. Former member of congress, vocal challenger of trumps efforts to gut the Affordable Care act. And biden will nominate retired u. S. Army general lloyd austin to be defense secretary. Would need a special waiver, fewer than seven years since retired. Should he be confirmed would be first black dod secretary. Duties would include leading u. S. Military effort to make sure the vaccine is distributed all over the country. Among this, rudy giuliani, who has been traveling the country to overturn the Election Results is being treated for coronavirus at georgetown hospital. Holding event in oval office featuring several people without masks, gave update on his friends condition. Hes doing very well. Just spoke to him, no temperature. Trump is not letting go of his effort to invalidate the 2020 election, so he can stay in power. In fact tonight the Washington Post is reporting he called the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of representatives twice during the past week for help. Nbc news confirms trump talked to the House Speaker but his spokesperson says trump didnt press for the election to be overturned. Meanwhile cases brought in michigan and georgia to challenge joe bidens win both went nowhere when judges threw them out. Georgia also today recertified bidens win after yet another recount. Tomorrow is whats known as the safe harbor deadline for certification of state results of the election, when they need to lock in their Electoral College delegates. Some trump allies are hoping the Supreme Court intervenes to upend the election result somehow before the delegates are set in stone, theres no sign of that happening, no test case headed their way. Trump repeated false assertion it was rigged. Claimed he won 2016 and 2020 as well. Politics, i won two, im 20, thats pretty good too. Well see how it turns out. Election was totally rigged, its disgrace to our country, like a third world country. Case has been made and well find out what we can do about it, youll see big things next couple of days. Leadoff guests, ashley parker, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for Washington Post, peter baker, chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times. Dr. Vin gupta, specializing in these diseases and affiliate assistant professor at university of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. Welcome to you all as we start another week. Ashley, if we presume stages of acceptance not unlike grief, what stage would you put the president at based on your reporting tonight, accepting the fact that he lost. The president is sort of caught in the buffering stage. There was a sense early on after election day from his own advisers that he just needed time to move through the stages of coming to accept his loss. But in my reporting, i was talking to a Senior Administration official who basically said, look, anytime i or anyone else goes in to talk to the president , it doesnt matter what the topic, the stated agenda of the meeting is, always comes back to what the president again falsely, baselessly calls a rigged election. An election thats being stolen from him. Thats what he wants to talk to. This person said the president basically has 75 versions of the exact same conversation every single day with whoever walks into the oval office. You cannot get him to focus on the topic at hand, and the only variation is whatever sort of new Conspiracy Theory he has seen on news max or oan or has been brought to him by an ally who believes in this stuff or at least wants to encourage the president. Thats where he is right now. Hes stuck somewhere in stages of grief and acceptance purgatory, and not really moving on. Peter baker, in the ongoing dichotomy that is your career in journalism, youve written quite elegantly about a period in the west wing that has been quite ugly of late, that is in these days since he lost, how do you reckon this ends . Well, look, it ends january 20th at noon, then the president will no longer be president. Doesnt mean hes going away, or wont continue to shape the National Conversation some way or another, but will do it from outside the white house. We have safe harbor day tomorrow, basically all but insulates results from further challenges, at least in theory thats what the law is supposed to do. Vote on december 13th by electors and congress is supposed to count and accept them before early january. Could see points where disruption could be made but no outcome is going to change the result of joe biden being the next president. Its beyond feasible at this point. The president is lashing out, hes obviously doing things no other president has ever done, calling legislators in pennsylvania, governor of georgia, michigan legislators, gove governor of arizona trying to get them to overturn the will of the people in order to substitute electors favorable to him even though he lost in those states. Its unprecedented and wont be successful. But we have a polarized time. Rather than coming together in which one president graciously hands off to another, tradition of last 200 and some years, we have continuation of the divisiveness weve seen past five years encouraged by number one person in the country and ignoring publicly the real crisis going on in the country with more than 2,000 people dying every day. Hey, doctor, we like to refer to special relationship between the u. S. And u. K. , we have something in common, both led by men early on coronavirus deniers. Of course both men lost time and lives and that continues here. For people who may be curious, why are the brits going first in terms of this vaccine starting tomorrow and not the americans . You know on that, i would say, good evening by the way, the fda here has a more rigorous process. I would encourage all viewers here to take heart that the delay here is not because of politics or a problem with the vaccine, were taking more time to vet the science. Thats a good thing. Hope that engenders greater confidence in American People in the quality of the Pfizer Vaccine and subsequently moderna. If theres concerns, theres concerns raised on the supply we have access to from pfizer, this is where its important to think about Global Engagement and not rush to judgment on the w. H. O. W. H. O. Leads initiative across 172 countries, covax facility, effort across 172 countries to help with r d and pipeline of other vaccine candidates. We dont have access to that or nine other vaccine candidates which we could have if we participated in w. H. O. And engaged with the Global Commons here. Its not to say were not going to have adequate vaccines by march april time frame, but it didnt have to be this complicated. Ashley, back over to your beat, and how it extends across the potomac into northern virginia. Pentagon, if he is confirmed, retired general lloyd austin will run the department of defense and hundreds of thousands of employees. What kind of situation, in english, how big of a mess is he apt to encounter at the pentagon if confirmed . Just in terms of handling the coronavirus and vaccine distribution, its an incredibly daunting task in the best of circumstances. And this is not the best of circumstances. This is a pandemic that has been allowed to rage out of control. Were seeing new records, sort of records you dont want to be setting, every single day. And because of the lag time theres a sense that december is absolutely going to be the worst month yet, followed by potentially several more grim months of a very dark winter. And this is also being hampered by a transition process that was late to get started in part of what we discussed earlier in the segment, the president s reluctance to admit defeat and start a peaceful and efficient transition of power, which is always incredibly important, but even more so now when you have Something Like operation warp speed, started under president trump, could be one of the big Success Stories of his administration but it needs to be from supply chain to fda approval to vaccine rollout to how many doses the u. S. Gets, it needs to be streamlined with the Incoming Administration who has to take this over. That is going to be a challenge. Peter, continuing on your beat and as it extends over to the department of justice at times, bill barr, the attorney general has been such a supplicant to this president , as has been reporte in both newspapers, why would he be mulling over leaving now after all hes been through. Wouldnt think 43 days before Inauguration Day leaves time left to leave on matter of principle. But he seems to be discussing leaving before the end of the year. Obviously if he does that, will be a statement of some sort. Were not exactly sure why he would do it. People weve talked to say its something he thought about even before the tension in recent days. But youre right, hes been one of the most important cabinet secretaries. Considered to be his roy cohn. Didnt have it in Jeff Sessions and bill barr helps in number of occasions, framing the Mueller Report in terms favorable to the president , lowering the sentence for roger stone, the president s friend, overturning the guilty plea of National Security adviser michael flynn, but theres been a rising tension there. President was particularly upset with bill barr for not doing something before the election to highlight any misdeeds he felt like happened by the obama team. He openly said he wanted the attorney general to prosecute his opponent in the election, joe biden, as well as his predecessor barack obama and maybe even hillary clinton. Bill barr didnt do that. Let him down again saying didnt see any fraud at scale to overturn the election. Maybe bill barr is getting ahead of being fired. Thats a possibility in the white house. Get in the job on day one, first thing you should do is write letter of resignation undated and be ready to put it out on your own terms rather than let the president at a tiput it on terms. If anything would be a matter of trying to suggest some sort of independence after several years he didnt look all that at any point. And dr. Gupta, last word from you on your beat, which is saving lives by day and appearing on our broadcast increasing number of nights. It got our attention when dr. Fauci today said that the virusma i may still be spread by people who have had the vaccine. Talked about how masks and distancing are just going to have to be baked into our lives. For those watching, doctor, for how long is this virus going to be part of American Life . Brian, best estimates suggest you have to hold off on vacation planning unt planning until at least midsummer, maybe fall. For your viewers, friends with family in icus, what im seeing, care is being rationed right now. We have to have disaster mindset. Heard from two families just today, critically ill family member, stable but critically ill by any definition is moving to advanced rehab facility. Thats unheard of in normal times. One pull monologist in texas is caring for ten hospitals. Thats going to result in delays in care and necessary procedures being done because one person cant do it all. Takehome message, please do not travel. Please do not travel. Somebody who thinks theyre otherwise healthy and will be fine with covid inadvertently passes it to someone who ends up in icu, dont let it be your friend. Grocery, over 65, shield in addition to a mask and be careful with good hand hygiene. Everyone in the sound of the doctors voice, i hope you take heed of those words, hope we all do. Ashley parker, peter baker, dr. Vin gupta, great thanks for starting us off this monday night. Before break, breaking story, the great chuck yeager has died, flew his x1, a rocket with wings over and past the sound barrier. Book by tom wolfe, author said you were grateful that such men existed and indeed we were. General yeager was close to fearless as any american ever produced. Chuck yeager pushed the edge of the envelope and lived to tell about it over a good, long life, among us, on solid ground, gone tonight at the age of 97. We go now to first break. Coming up, as coronavirus continues to grow, the system that got the sickest patients to the hospital, they say they are at their breaking point. And later how a trump delusion turned into a fact among his most loyal followers, and what all of it means for the future of the Republican Party, say nothing of our country. All of it as the 11th hour is just getting under way on this back to work monday night. These folks dont have time to go to the post office they use stamps. 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I reported today that over 1,700 Health Care Workers tested positive for covid19 last week. Thats double the number we saw the week before. To protect the hospitals, we have to get Community Transmission rates down. And everybody can help with that. Officials in california warning Hospital Systems are becoming overwhelmed, and services that transport those coronavirus patients to the hospital say in many cases theyre on the brink of collapse. In a letter to the feds, president of the American Ambulance association put it this way, the 911 emergency medical system throughout the United States is at a breaking point. Without additional relief, it seems likely to break even as we enter the third surge of the virus in the midwest and west. To that end we welcome to the broadcast, dr. Ed brock, a member of the American Ambulance association. At the outset, remind our viewers, there are two times of ems, volunteer, folks who leave their families and beds and dinner tables when a call comes in, sometimes stand by at ems headquarters. Or career paid professionals who do the same work. They have a lot in common, they treat patients the same way, and one critical thing in common, end of their shift or run, they go home to their families, potentially infecting all of them. Tell us the state of your industry as of tonight. Youre so right, brian. Thanks for asking us to join you. The emergency medical system in the u. S. Has been and continues to be a safety net for communities, patients and families. When you call 911, trained professionals, whether career or volunteer, who will respond to your emergency, whether its raining, snowing, regardless of what the situation is. I didnt say anything, must have been a warble in the coms. It was audio. There are individuals who respond. Heres the concern today, with covid, with dramatically new illness, a very contagious illness, increasing call volumes, emts, paramedics and Flight Nurses are at risk for infection, taking it home to their families. Spend entire shift in personal protective equipment, which we normally wear on some calls, now we wear them all calls. Its a different environment. I think for the first time ever, Emergency Medical Services across the board is worried about sustainability, about our ability to continue to respond as we always have. When we reach for the phone to dial those three digits, its not usually a time of hesitation or reflection, but then again, these times are like no other. Help us help the folks watching tonight, which cases should go to urgent care . Which cases should stay home . People, especially in urban areas, might take half a second to think about calling 911, which cases need to go to the hospital . Is there a way to put them into categories . There are, brian, what we recommend is anything that is a potential immediate risk to life. Breathing abnormalities, severe chest pains, someone whos not acting normal, loses consciousness, severe bleeding. Those are the conditions where the public can call 911. Remember, one of the nice things about the u. S. 911 system is if you have concerns that something may be life threatening from the Communications Specialist to the First Responders to the ems component, all of those folks are trained to identify and recognize the emergency and if its not an emergency be able to help with that disposition as well. By the way, also to our viewers, if you want to hear absolute professionalism, go on any police or fire scanner app and listen to the dispatchers on duty 24 7. It is something to hear, will reaffirm your faith in talent, skill and humankind. Dr. Ed racht, thank you so much for coming on, allowing us to give you time to state your case on behalf of all of those whose lives change on the other end when all of us dial 911. Coming up, outgoing president calls america a third world country, calls his supporters victims. Those sentiments are presumably not shared by elected republicans, just dont expect them to criticize the outgoing president. When we come back well look at their unique ability to absorb these lies. Karate moms. With a sudden, desperate need for brown sugar. Meaning, you. Youre the one we made mywalgreens for. With pickup in as little as 30 minutes. To make saving, shopping. And holiday chaos a little easier. Wait are those ninjabread men . Hiya introducing mywalgreens. Join for 30minute pickup at walgreens. Com to your friends. Your family. To your teachers. In that spirit of giving, chevys proud to give our employee discount to everyone. The chevy price you pay,. Is what we pay. Not a cent more. 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Back with us again tonight veteran writer and pea body Award Winning radio host, curt kurt andersen. His latest work is evil geniuses, the unmaking of america a recent history. And Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National committee, former Lieutenant Governor of the great state of maryland. Now the host of the Michael Steele podcast and Senior Adviser for the lincoln project. Gentlemen, good evening. And michael, since im going to start with the Republican Party, ill start with you. Go back as far as i dont know eisenhower, f. Dirkson, howard baker, ronald reagan. Can you imagine any of them calling their followers victims, any of them calling their country a third world country . And i guess my question is when do you get your party back . Well, to the first one it would be unmanly. To the second it would be unseemly, and it may be gone for a long, long time. You kn, en you lk at the great stalwarts of the party, the men and women who, you know, laid down the bricks from its founding in the 1850s to the reagan era, there was a general consensus about things when it came to governing the nation, when it came to dealing with our allies and enemies, and when it came to how we saw ourselves. The fact the president has now basically made the claim that republicans have always made about liberals, that theyre all about creating victims, and theyre all about victimhoodness. Donald trump has now embraced that and thrown his arms around it in a way that i think emasculates the Republican Party and certainly dumbs down the narrative not just around this election and the processes involved but around the entire idea of how we govern ourselves and what were willing to accept. If i cannot accept the Election Results then im somehow a victim, and you need to change the game or change the rules to address my victimhood, to make me feel better. Im a sore loser, you have to deal with it. It is your responsibility to make me feel better. Thats not what republicanism has ever stood for. And the fact you have republicans now embracing that says some very sad sorrowful things about where the party wants to head. Curt, ive got something for you and by extension our audience. Its a clip from hannity tonight, something ted cruz said. And for our audience remember as this gentlemen speaks he has degrees from princeton and Harvard Law School. When you look at a country where 39 of americans right now believe this last election was rigged, thats a real problem for confidence in the integrity of our electoral system. And so im hopeful the Supreme Court will step forward to its responsibility and resolve this case and resolve other cases as needed. Kurt, couple of problems there. Number one, the Supreme Court takes on a test case. Theres nothing like it in the pipeline. Number two, how about the thought of a Harvard Law School educated lawyer, ie, someone who knows better maybe not codifying or sanctioning a hardened 35 of our population that has bought disinformation from the top. And by the way a Harvard Law School graduate and princeton graduate who in 2016 was calling this president a pathological liar. Ted cruzs one moment of clarity and honesty. And of course its ted cruz, but its typical of republican senators, republican members of the house. Now the Washington Post and the New York Times have both asked each member, republican member of the senate and the house, to the simple fact that joe biden won the election, is he president . 11 republican senators said yes. And depending on the count of the republican members of the house who are not about to leave its eight or nine of the 200 plus who say, yeah, trump lost, biden won. Its its remarkable. But of course throughout this administration for me i am surprised again and again and again at that, at the level to which the republican elected leaders who ought to know better, most of them i dont think are delusional. Most of them understand, for instance, that the conspiracy theories in which donald trump has always trafficked and which hes trafficking again now in order to discredit this obviously perfectly fair and accurate election, that they are enabling that. I fail to i keep being shocked and surprised. I guess not surprised but shocked. And then the question becomes how long does this go on . Is there an end to this on january 5th when they dont have to worry about him screwing up their Georgia Senate runoffs, or as i think is unfortunately more likely does it continue because they have they have in their party and Michaels Party starting really in the 1990s after reagan when they began allowing more and more reality denial of various kinds into the republican discourse and orthodoxy. And here we are. And donald trump in 2016 before the election was saying if i lose its rigged. That was his take then and he won, so it wasnt rigged. This is nothing new. Its been a long time coming. Donald trump is simply the great symptom and exacerbater of what the Republican Party has come to be. Man, you gave us a lot to think about there. Both of these gentlemen are going to stick around. I just have to sneak a break in. When we come back, the essential component missing from one of last nights debates in georgia. When we come back. The future of Heart Failure. 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Save for being a new customer, for adding drivewise, and for driving safely. Whatever you drive, start driving down the cost of insurance. This is the runoff debate with the u. S. Senate seat currently held by senator david perdue of georgia. The candidates are in alphabetical order Democrat John ossoff, Republican David Perdue has served in the u. S. Senate since 2015. Before his election he sat on the board of five major corporations and cofounded perdue partners, a Global Trading company. Senator perdue declined to participate in this debate and is represented by an empty podium. What could be more 2020 than the read off the bio of an empty podium. The other republican running in one of georgias runoff elections next month did show up for her debate on sunday. Senator Kelly Loeffler was asked about trumps false claim the election was somehow rigged. Do you standby his narrative the election was rig and do you support his demand of Governor Kemp to call a special session to seek to overturn those results . Well, first i want to thank the Atlanta Press club for hosting this important debate. And look, its vitally important that georgians trust our election process. And the president has every right to every legal recourse, and thats whats taking place. Senator, do you believe the election was rigged . Look, greg, its very clear there were issues in this election. Still with us, kurt andersen, Michael Steele. Kurt, well call that a nonanswer from the incumbent senator. Should democrats celebrate the fact that trump plans to travel to georgia again because hes so hard wired to talk about his grievances . Well, now that we had i think today the third recount the third count certified and showing that joe biden won the state by 12,000 votes, i guess because, of course, his line on Election Fraud socalled does not change. Theres not new information. Its the same hes got the same 5, 7, 8 minutes of material that he simply goes through again and again in a kind of random order. And i guess hell do that again in georgia. Its meaningful, of course, because the strange line the republicans are trying to walk in georgia is to say this was a totally phony election, rigged, dominion, Conspiracy Theory. But youve got to make sure you go out and vote to make sure these two senators win because to keep the firewall because by the way there might not be a donald trump president but theres going to be because heres a president who hasnt given up yet. Its madness. And the shot you showed, of course, of the perdueless debate jon ossoff as you say its just politics imitates comedy, life imitates art. Its unbelievable but this is where we are. And again, the fact in the Kelly Loeffler debate with reverend warnock, i mean the fact she had to say 13 times rather than answering a question about him, just youre a liberal radical, youre a liberal radical. And then that nonanswer about whether this election was legitimate and joe biden won georgia, again, she used literally the same words over and over when she was asked that question and reasked it. You know, so its one thing to deny a reality, which is the now necessary stock and trade of the Republican Party under donald trump. But you would think they would come up with slightly more fluent ways to restate their unwillingness to admit the plain facts and plain truth of the outcome of this election. Michael steele, do you think Mitch Mcconnell is worried about georgia . Yes, i think he is. And i think he should be. Well over a million votes ballots have been requested, vote by mail ballots have been requested so far. The deadline i believe was monday to register to vote for the special election. And by all accounts the democrats are prepared to go toe to toe in a state that they won at the president ial level. In a state they should not have won at the president ial level because it is georgia. But it also speaks to what is a growing trend line, brian, that weve talked about before that is starting to sweep in areas that were once, you know, sacred ground for republicans at election time texas, georgia, you know, north carolina. Virginia was once in that great pantheon of republican safe houses. Thats no longer the case. So as mcconnell looks around the landscape the last, you know, gateway to republican success runs through georgia. And guess what . At least one of those gates are closed. And theyre trying to prevent the other one from closing on them, and thats what this election is going to be about on january 5th. Michael steele, we always look forward to your visits on this broadcast. And indeed kurt anderson, its great to have you back on this broadcast. Appreciate it greatly, gentlemen. Thank you. When we come back, its already tuesday in the u. K. Where the brits refer to a shot as a jab, and where this is the day the brits start getting their jabs for the coronavirus. The holidays are a time for giving. To your friends. Your family. To your teachers. In that spirit of giving, chevys proud to give our employee discount to everyone. The chevy price you pay,. Is what we pay. Not a cent more. Because giving,. And giving back, is what the holidays are all about. Use the chevy employee discount for everyone to get a total value of over eight thousand four hundred dollars on this silverado. Get the chevy employee discount for everyone today. As we said a potential turning point in the pandemic could come in a matter of hours. Across Great Britain where its already tuesday, now comes the first round of Coronavirus Vaccine will now go to those at highest risk. We get a report on the rollout effort tonight from our chief Foreign CorrespondentRichard Engel. Reporter brian, how long its taken to get to this point after so many lives have been lost and livelihoods ruined. Here tonight in the u. K. It does feel like were on the brink of a historic change, that starting tomorrow in just a few hours here the global counter attack against covid19 begins. Theyve arrived under tight controls. The Pfizer Vaccine may be the worlds most valuable product right now. Interpol worries the doses could be stolen or counterfeited for the black market. But so far theyve all made it to the u. K. Around 800,000 doses ready for injection tomorrow. Its the moment caregivers here have been waiting for. Nervous. Worried theres something out there that can protect us as well as our patients. Reporter 50 hospitals have been designated as Distribution Centers because they have the cold storage the Pfizer Vaccine requires. Eligible for the first round, front line medical workers, people over 80 and residents of retirement homes. Medical staff are running through drills. I cant hold them in my hands because theyre minus 70 degrees. But to know theyre here and were amongst the first in the country to receive the vaccine and therefore the first in the world is just amazing. Reporter to boost confidence british media report the 94yearold Queen Elizabeth and 99yearold Prince Philip may take the vaccine soon. No confirmation from the palace. Russia and china are already giving out their own vaccines but Public Health officials warn they havent gone through sufficient testing. And lack public data about their safety. Pfizer haze met all the checks, so tomorrow begins biggest vaccination program, marking perhaps the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Brian, this program here starts out small with just a few dozen hospitals in london and outside. But it expands quite quickly. And by next week theyre hoping to have the vaccine available even at local doctors offices. Brian . Well take the good news. Our thanks for that report to Richard Engel in london tonight. Coming up for us, a reminder that it may be a bit of a longer haul until our country declares victory over this virus. After all, we are still setting new records with every new day. That and more when we come back. I love audible because its changed my life for the better. Whatever question i have i feel like theres an avenue to seek the answer. Hit that app and you start a story, youre on an adventure. Download a new book within seconds and its ready to go. Theres something for everybody on audible. I like short stories. Short stories are easy. Theyre quick. I like long and like intricate stories, thats really what i love. Audible originals. I like biographies. Selfhelp. Fantasy. True crime podcasts. I love it so much. I can literally listen to anything. I can do it any time. And any place. 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