Its consistent with the trend weve been warned about. Five Straight Days now of record breaking new cases, new highs at hospitals as well as many reach critical capacity and staff is stretched thin. President elect joe biden is making the pandemic his top priority. One of his advisers calling the coronavirus a National Security threat. Yet despite that very real threat the Current White House is refusing to cooperate, still refusing to low the Transition Team to classified information, information that could be vital in helping to stop the spread of the disease. Today biden meet with his transition advisers to go over their next steps which include speaking with former meantgon officials who worked under former defense secretary jim mattis in the hopes of gathering crucial information. Our reporters are covering all of the latest developments unfolding across the country. We begin our coverage with cnns Poola Sandoval and the alarming rise in cases. Set the stage for us this morning. W
Complicit in a coup attempt. Im more troubled youre seeing a lot of republican officials go along with it. Why the white house is finally coming clean on americas covid catastrophe but still blocking the biden team from helping. If youre fighting a battle and the calvarys on the way, you dont stop shooting, you keep going into the calvary gets here. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We have breaking news tonight from the state of georgia, where the republican secretary of state there has announced that the hand recount of the president ial results have concluded and joe biden is, again, confirmed as the winner of the state of georgia. From the press release in georgias recount, 9 highest error rate in any county was. 73 . Most counties found no change in their final tally. The majority of the rest had changers fewer than ten ballots. So joe biden won georgia. That will be certified tomorrow. He won the president ial election. And despite that clear el
Basically going into exponential growth. America setting records no country wants to set. Infections on the rise in 45 states. I am really frightened by the spike that were seeing in cases right now. Announcer this is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day, it is thursday, november 12th, its 6 00 here in new york. And overnight, president elect joe biden announced the first major decision of his Incoming Administration, naming ron klain as chief of staff. Klain is hugely expected by both democrats and republicans. He has vast washington experience, including coordinating the response to the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. Thats of obvious importance given the coronavirus pandemic, which this morning is just exploding to new levels. Michael osterhome, who is on the president elects advisory board, says we are now entering covid hell. More than 144,000 new cases. Thats a record. More than 65,000 people hosp
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