Have want to heal with less time. Amy the u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 250,000 as the number of infections soar across the country. Nearly 2000 deaths in one day. But President Trump is all but missing in action. He has not attended a Coronavirus Task force meeting in five months. He continues to have no Public Meetings on his schedule. We will speak with the atlantics ed yong. Then to iran. As President Trump installs loyalists in a shakeup at the pentagon, is the president laying the groundwork to attack iran . Plus, we will look at why climate activists and progressive democrats are protesting president elect joe bidens decision to tap congressman Cedric Richmond to a Top White House post. He is the leading democrat recipient of fossil el money in congress. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The official u. S. Death toll from covid19 has passed a quarter of a Million People as the virus rages
Force pierce. After this big celebration on saturday night the team is during the transition process. One of the new Top Priorities is the creation of the covid19 task force that will heap the handling of the mandate. Repealing Trump Administration travel ban from several majority countries and putting new safeguards in place to play protect dreamers from deportation. He believes his job is to work with everybody. That is the message for the American People on thats how joe biden use governing. Trump wants to fight the results. The waiver result division, even when you dont get your way in an election is to count every legal pallet. Make sure illegal ballots do not reduce the civil rights and votes of those who voted legally. The attorney general says no evidence of fraud has been submitted to them. Releasing a statement sunday saying in part, our office takes allegations of voter fraud extremely seriously. Should anyone file this complaint with our office, we will conduct a thorough i
The next 100 days. Tom the transition challenges are simple. He needs a single letter out of gsa and that has not happened yet. We will do with Greg Valliere a on this in a moment. There are still four states with under a 1 count, and that is really what matters around all the hoopla. Francine it certainly does. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Biden is launching his transition effort while President Trump continues legal challenges over the election. The news media declared biden the winner of the president ial election on saturday. The former Vice President won or was leading in states that would give him more than 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Meanwhile, the president has falsely claimed victory whilst saying there was widespread in legal voting. He has not offered any evidence. President elect joe biden will take the first step to one of his Biggest Campaign promises today, to bring the Coronavirus Crisis under control
A political transition and bolivias former leader abel morales heads home from exile in argentina just days after his party swept back to power we will have a live update from one of science. To simply told you sport is less than the brim of age schools in stoppage time as a simulation state some of the telly and league while he goes to the dont call in show. The fight against covert 19 may have taken a significant step forward this monday the u. S. Drugs make a fine vaccine candidate has proved to be more than 90 percent effective bringing some hope in a pandemic thats killed nearly 1300000 people all over the world now pfizer says it is on track to ask for permission to sell the vaccine before the end of the month but u. S. Health regulators have. Theyll need some time to review any potential vaccine the head of the World Health Organizations also been calling for Scientific Solutions and solidarity to end the pandemic that was what proved to be a largely Virtual Meeting of the w h o
Day 16 of squattergate. The bad president has no Public Events on his schedule but he is busy cooking up all manner of evil schemes. This really is getting scary. All jokes aside, its become very clear hes trying to cut the voters out of voting. He lost the election. Hes 6 million votes behind. Its not even close, thats a lot of votes. Now hes doing what he does, hes abusing the system to try to steal this election he claims has been stolen from him. Remember when o. J. Went into that hotel room with a bunch of thugs to steal his old memorabilia back . This is the white house version of that. [ laughter ] whats happening is insane. Theres no one trump wont falsely accuse. Hes accusing the georgia secretary of state, guy named brad raffen berger, of obstructing because he wont overturn bidens win. This guy, not only is he a republican, hes a hardcore republican, a guy who watches bluebloods every week type republican. Never voted for a democrat in his life. And two years ago, he got an