Greatest dream in the world is that joe biden wins because the winner of this vote was decided by a fair and open election. Therefore, i humbly concede to joe biden. The American People have responded and they said to me, youre fired. Get out. Its funny i missed that concession speech from the president. Well said. Good morning and welcome to morning joe on this tuesday, november 17th. We have a lot to get to this morning. The latest with the president ial transition. We have reached the point now where the National Security adviser is openly referring to biden as the president elect. Thats very big news. Plus, some stunning allegations coming out of the state of georgia. The states republican secretary of state claims senator Lindsey Graham asked him if he could throw out absentee ballots that were cast legally. Is that a crime . Graham denies this. Well get into that. The other harsh words georgia secretary of state said about members of his own party and again, this is a republican
This is as they unveil restrictions and guidelines to help flatten that curve. And philadelphia announced a ban on all indoor gatherings. That city, neighboring new jersey, announced that it will reduce the size of allowed gathering indoors and outdoors. And chicagos stay at home advisory threatening a more restrictive order could be coming if numbers do not improve there. Biden has put the pandemic front and center since the election but he is not president until january 20th. The current command sere reportedly indifferent. One senior official says the president is no longer regularly briefed on the pandemic by his team of doctors and he railly reads the daily virus reports prepared by dr. Debra brooks. This as dr. Fauci warns that the period of transition between administrations is crucial as we inch closer to an available vaccine. Listen to this. I know that vaccines are very important to get a smooth passing of the baton. You want it to go smoothly. It will not stop and call a tim
On the vaccine. Great news in the span of a few days. Tell us in particular how the moderna one works. Mo der ma der nahas the efficacy and they dont seem to have side effects. And thirdly, for moderna, they dont need any special freezes you can use the freezes that are already in pharmacies and doctors offices. Lets talk about the clinical trials. We heard about challenge trials happening in the uk. Thats not what this is. They didnt give people the vaccine and then give them the virus. Inste instead, what they did was vaccinate a bunch of people and told them to live their lives and see what happens. So what happened in this trial was that 15,000 people were given the placebo and of those 15,000 people 90 of them went out all of them went out and lived their lives. 90 of them ended upcoming down with covid, 90 of them got sick with covid. They gave another 15,000 people the vaccine and they were hold go out and live your lives and see what happens. Five of them became sick with covid
Covering the biden campaign, shannon pettypiece, and kat aie glick on the biden beat as well. I want to start with the comments from michelle obama. Today, were hearing from michelle obama. She wrote a lengthy post on instagram about the transition. Tell us what she had to say. Right, and the former first lady is not extraordinarily outspoken, so when she does speak, it does warrant some attention. She talked about the difficulty she had setting aside some of the personal feelings from the 2016 campaign and welcoming Melania Trump into the white house in 2016, answering her questions, you know, telling her everything she needed to know to be able to assume the responsibilities of first lady. She then wrote in her post, she said, our love of country requires us to respect the results of an election, even when we dont like them or wish it had gone differently. The presidency does not belong to any one individual or any one party. To pretend it does or play along with these groundless con
Pandemic recession. This vaccine could be an assist to the next president , navigating the next several months until it is available is a giant Public Health and economic challenge. Early data suggests Moderna Vaccine is 95. 5 effective. Truly outstanding the way dr. Fauci frames preliminary results. President trumps reaction, tweets historians better give him credit. The news comes at a bleak moment in the pandemic fight. 11 million cases, 246,000 american deaths, 45 of 50 states trending the wrong way. 13 consecutive days with 100,000 plus new infections. The Vice President leads a coronavirus call with the nations governors. The president cant be bothered with such things. Multiple Task Force Officials now publicly confirm the president has not physically met with the nations top coronavirus experts in five months. In those five months, nearly 9 million new infections and 126,000 american lives lost. Dr. Fauci this morning says the virus is not going to call timeout, which is why we