Administration it will be, i guess time will tell. But i can tell you, this administration will not good to a lockdown. Who knows . Well, we know the man set to replace him in january president elect joe biden is hitting back, saying, quote, urgent action is needed today, now by the current administration, starting with an acknowledgment of how serious the Current Situation is. So we begin tonight on the ground in two hard hit parts of the country. Msnbcs Corey Kaufman is in oclare, wisconsin. And reporter Valerie Castro is standing by in el paso, texas. Thank you both for being here. Cory, i want to start with you. Things so bad in wisconsin you actually have the Health Department there declaring an entirely new category. Tell us more. Yeah, Health Department officials are stunned over this. So the previous high category was very high, and that was about 350 people or cases per 100,000 people. All counties in the state of wisconsin passed that to the point at which they had to create
Politics nation. Tonights leads, playground rules. Its like a game of keep away, only the toy is america and President Trump is the bully taunting the rest of us by not handing it back. But while we continue to go through this game, he continues to view our National Direction as kid stuff. We reached another grim milestone today. Nbc news confirming there are more than 11 million cases of covid19 here in the United States. Nearly a quarter of a million americans lost. But the Trump Administration is still signalling no collaboration with the biden Transition Team. The president this morning finally tweeting an explicit concession before walking it back an hour later. The only consistent thing that biden beat donald trump only because, quote, the election was rigged. And while trump weighs his version of the bloody shirt, the streets of our Nations Capital were bloody indeed last night. At least one person was stabbed amid clashes between white supremacistist groups and counter proteste
And why democracy is in a perilous place right now. The 2020 election is over even though President Trump is still in denial about that. His claims of voter fraud are the fraud. Thus, reliable news sources are mostly moving on to cover president elect biden, to cover the transition instead. But there is an entire constellation of websites and talk shows that are in denial just like trump. They are supplying disinformation about the election results, and wherever there is a huge supply, there is a high demand. These crowds in washington over the weekend proved the point. These crowds are being deceived about the election, but there is demand for it. There is demand for a fictional universe. You know, i dont want to call it an alternative reality anymore because it is not reality. There is nothing real about this. But in this fictional parallel universe, the election was rigged. It was stolen out from under trump, and trump was the rightful winner. This is the new birtherism. We are goin
Reopen and resume our lives and put this behind us and not just have thanksgiving and christmas but next thanksgiving and christmas, we have to do everything possible. That the American People have issued a mandate quoting him they want us to cooperate and deliver results, he said. He did not mention President Trump when he said those specific words. With the good news of a possible vaccine comes in need of distribution of it and rising cases across the country calls for coordination between current government officials and in coming administration. Thats not happening. Thats still not happening because the current president wholl leave office on january 20th whether he likes it or not is still blocking the in coming biden team. President elect was asked about that this afternoon. What do you see of your transition given President Trumps delay smooth transfer of power. More people may die if we dont coordinate. Look. As my chief of staff, ron klain, have said, a vaccine is important. H
Now its time for the last word with the great lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. I love the background there. It looks great. It tells us a lot about you, so thank you for that. Well, im not trying to leave clues. Im not good at keeping us house, i dont know where to put stuff. You and i are very private people, relatively private people. And my mission ive done a few shots from home, just a few and my mission each time is to leave absolutely no evidence of anything about me. And so ive gotten the lowest room rater score of anybody whos ever done it. Thats exactly what i was going for. No trace of where i am, you cant tell a thing about it. Your drivers license photo but animated . Thats what im going for. Yeah, exactly. Rachel, i have to thank you so much for last night, everything about it. Oh. And the story you told and the way you brought us through this excruciating couple of weeks of what youve been going through with susan, and doing it to teach us