Biden became president elect, and President Trump is still refusing to admit defeat. Yet thousands of his supporters gathered in washington, d. C. , to protest the election results, and last night those demonstrations turned violent. Officials say one person was stabbed, and at least 20 others were arrested. So listen, the president is in denial. He has no path to victory. But he continues to push these baseless conspiracy theories, these false claims, and President Trump has chosen his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to lead the several longshot legal challenges. And while trump focuses on his efforts on an election that will not be overturned, the coronavirus pandemic is surging in the united states. Take a look at this map. Yesterday there were more than 166,000 new cases, and it is the 12th consecutive day that the number has been above 100,000. Listen to this from the chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Hospital he predicts there will be an unprecedented sur
Concede the election, but the math does not lie. Nbc news projects joe biden as the winner of arizona and the apparent winner of georgia, as there is a recount going on there. That puts bidens final projected Electoral College vote total at 306 to Donald Trumps 232. For mr. Trump, actions speak louder than words. He tweets endlessly about Election Results, but hes doing very little. He went golfing earlier today, as he likes to do on the weekends, and hes held few official meetings for the American People in the oval office since the election. As for the media, total avoidance during yesterdays press conference. And those election lawsuits filed by his campaign or on his behalf, theyve all but fallen apart. All of this leaving an Incoming Biden Administration with no daily Intelligence Briefings and no guidance on how the Current Administration is fighting the fastspreading and deadly coronavirus. So, lets get right to our panel. Meira tenden, president and ceo of the center for Americ
Comments, coming as post office whistleblowers save thousands of mailin ballots were either tampered with or thrown out entirely in key swing states. Watch this. Its big i can tell you i saw 24 pallets, i picked them up in new york and drove them to harrisburg and from harrisburg i drove to lancaster. I had no ballots to take on election day, the day after the election i didnt really think anything of it until the Postal Service supervisor asked me if i had forgotten ballots of the night before. And i didnt have any so i was like, thats kind of a weird question, no. And he explained to me that 100,000 ballots were supposedly missing in the state of wisconsin. Jesse during a hearing in michigan, do people watchers claimed they were bullied. Take a look at this. Beco any time as a challenger i tried to look at the ballot, two or three of the poll workers literally screaming at me to get back 6 feet. These people were like professional agitators whose job it was to sow discord among g. O.
Oh, that is you know what . You didnt that is cold. Didnt just do that. When you call somebody and youre watching then and they look at the phone and they turn it over. And they mute it. Arizonas donald trump doug ducey yesterday. He was signing the certification documents that declared joe biden the winner of the state. Thats cold. Its chilly. Would you like a blanket . Willie, do you have a blanket. Would you need one . Sometimes he needs his little night night. No. No. So willie, thats thats the governor of arizona and Donald Trumps watching him as is set to certify this. And trump starts calling him. Trying to get i mean that is unbelievable. Trying to get him to stop from doing what hes legally required to do. I mean, thats the final scene in the movie, isnt it . Where you had a republican who felt like he had to always answer to donald trump literally ignoring donald trump and silencing the music that welcomes him into the room as he certifies the election in the last swing state
And the first vaccine is approved in the uk as the cdc decides who in the u. S. Should be first in line foor a vaccine here. Welcome to wednesday. It is meet the press daily and im chuck todd. President trump appears to be leaving washington the same way he has governed it, chaotically. The uncertainty has only complicated talk necessary capitol hill where a group of bipartisan lawmakers yesterday unveiled a compromise package regarding nearly 1 trillion. But Mitch Mcconnell is signaling its a nonstarter because he thinks the president wouldnt sign it. So now were facing the collision of a must pass government funding bill with the chaos and drama of emergency relief, a bunch of which expires this calendar year all with the backdrop of a worsening pandemic. On top of all that, the president is now threatening to veto funding for the u. S. Military. This is the second veto threat for the same bill that hes issued, by the way, but this time he says hes vetoing it unless lawmakers soften