Seeking contributions to his election defense fund. And screaming stop the steal. Donald trump is a con man. Remember he borrowed tens of millions and never paid back. Created a fake university. And paid just 750 in income tax. But got like 100,000 worth of free government healthcare when he got covid. The donations his campaign is soliciting. Daily. According to analysis of the fine print, donors have to cough up 8,000 before any of the money goes to a recount account. Noting a large portion goes to save america. A trump leadership pack. Which gets 60 of the money. Save america by doing what . More grifting . According to plit koe. Trump could place his family members in and former Administration Officials on payroll. And continue to host lavish events at his properties without tripping up Campaign Finance law. Meanwhile a group of 150 former National Security officials signed a letter warning that the government delay in recognizing bidens victory poedss a serious threat to National
Responding to the pandemic, heard directly from front line workers in an emotional Virtual Meeting wednesday. There is something seriously wrong when nurses have to take to the streets to beg for protection in the middle of a pandemic. I have not been tested yet and i have been on the front lines in the icu since february. Youre kidding me. No. Im sorry im so emotional. No. Its just you got me emotional. President trump now in his sixth straight day without public event or remarks, remains focused on his attempts to discredit the election outcome on twitter and with multiple court challenges, many already withdrawn or dismissed by judges. Joining me now, nbc medical correspondent dr. John torres with more on the cdcs big announcement and nbcs kathy park at city hall in new york city where parents are speaking out after mayor bill de blasios decision to move more than 1 Million Students back to virtual learning. John, the cdc doesnt speak out often during this pandemic, unlike other pan
Hospital beds. Hospital beds. Sick with coronavirus. It is a Record Number of hospitalizations since this pandemic began. That record coming on a day 132,000 americans testing positive for the virus. The seventh straight day of cases above 100,000. In a moment well take you to a city that is being called the new epicenter of the outbreak. All of this coming against the backdrop of a president ial transition, despite the best efforts of President Trump, yet to accept the results. It is more than the president s baseless legal fight which so far has featured all caps, tweets and lawsuits without any evidence. This is how our nations top diplomat responded to a question about peaceful transition yesterday. There will be a smooth transition to a second trump administration. All right. Were ready. Is he serious, thats disgraceful. It thats a joke, it aint funny. Meanwhile, president elect biden continues to project a sense of calm saying his transition is moving forward on schedule, but he
Ahead. Leland one tweet started with meeting he won, joe biden and then it changed from there. Gillian hes basically saying despite the string of setbacks in the court and states for michigan, pennsylvania, he is moving on forward with a lawsuit, he has no intention of backing down. To break down the details on all of these efforts, we are joined by david spunt at the white house this morning this afternoon i should say. Reporter many people asking when and if President Trump will concede at this point it does not appear so in classic trump fashion he took to twitter today and as you mentioned when speaking about president elect biden he put up a curious tweet and it came out this morning, he won because the election was rigged, no vote watchers or observers allowed, but tabulated by a radical left privately owned company dominion, you see the blue spot at the bottom, twitter pay me misinformation about Election Fraud is disputed, thats been happening with the president s tweets. Presi
Issue, it is really an issue of how the transition can do its work would unfettered access to the kind of information both at the staff and agency level as well as at the president ial and Vice President ial level to get this transformation going. We know that biden is not getting the classified president ial daily briefings and the same goes for kamala harris. Biden said that is not a bad thing right now. Hes been in the rooms before. Officials have cautioned us, he knows his way around things like the situation room and Foreign Policy. Biden has said it is not like he could act on this information anyway right now. But that being said, there are real impacts on the front of transitioning and specifically trying to figure out the pandemic response, especially as it relates to Something Like a potential vaccine in the early part of next year, ron klain who was Just Announced this week as Bidens White House chief of staff pointing out that some of the agencies in the government, specifi