Savannah. Now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective. So i think this is a really strong step forward to where we want to be. Fighting the coronavirus is, of course, priority number one for the biden transition team, but the president elect and his advisers are losing valuable time as President Trump continues his futile quest to stay in office. Spending his weekend and this morning treating election conspiracies, false claims and victory and making it clear there will be no concession in the near future. Joining me now nbc political reporter monica alba, msnbc political reporter ali vitali in delaware and cal perry in chicago where a new stayathome vifry radvisory in place. Its an advisory, not a lockdown. Lets talk about the frustration of the biden team they have to wait until mid december with the Electoral College to actually get a transition started. Andrea, in this situation, time is the one resource that you really cant get back. Of course they want to hit the gro
What the outcome will be. And as i said earlier, and i probably shouldnt repeat it, but i find this more embarrassing for the country than debilitating for my ability to get started. President trump is out of sight again today, the second straight workday without any Public Events on his schedule, as the president elect is getting a National Security briefing, not from intelligence officials but from outside Foreign Policy experts. Joining me now, nbc White House Correspondents Kristen Welker and peter alexander, cohosts of weekend today, of course. Kristen in wilmington, peter at the white house. Kristen, first of all, the president elect, his team, are looking forward to this transition planning, not waiting for the white house, going ahead with a National Security briefing, not based on intelligence or official intelligence. Reporter andrea, thats right, and part of what youre going to see today, we expect to see biden in a spray, is really aimed at underscoring that point that you
Months ago to meet the ppe demands of our nation. This is not something we are sitting and continuing to just watch. It is something we are continuing to grow upon and continuously analyze to stay ahead of the increases and make sure we have the ppe on the way to meet the surge in cases. Dr. Fauci. Thank you, sir. Well, done. I will invite dr. Fauci to share his thoughts on the development of a vaccine that is giving great hope. I trust the panels you just showed us encourage the American People to know that we are going to continue to work aroundtheclock to make sure your local hospital as the resources and the supplies that you need to meet this moment. I think we all know we put this pandemic in the past the day we have a safe and effective vaccine. We have made historic progress through operation warp speed with our private partners. Dr. Fauci and nih are intergral to that. Then we will have general gus perna who is coordinating the Distribution Plan for operation warp speed workin
Days ago, but at least it happened now. Heres what biden told nbc news nightly newss anchor lester holt in an exclusive interview earlier today. Its a slow start, but its starting, and theres two months left to go, so im feeling good about the ability to be able to get up to speed, and i fully expected, based on what weve heard so far, well get full cooperation with each of the agencies in question. Today biden formally unveiled key picks for his top positions. Many of them served in the obama administration. There is a sigh of relief i think a lot of people are breathing now. This does even to be over. After weeks of waging war of the election. Trying to do whatever he could to hang on to power, including embarking on a litigation strategy that conservative legal writer walter olson described as going down a hotel corridor, trying each door to see if any had been left unlocked. It seems like were finally moving on. That said, trump is still falsely claiming the election was stolen, as
Will it go to state legislators . Thats a possibility. We have been putting forward lawsuits across the country in states where we feel like there were egregious violations of peoples rights and the way this election process played out. We are open to anything. This comes as the coronavirus pandemic worsens by the day. New today, the head of the trumpetrump ed administrations operation warp speed said they could get a vaccine as soon as december 12th. We will have identified with each state, department of health, where they want the vaccines to be located. Within 24 hours from the approval, the vaccine will be moving and located in the areas where each state will have told us where they want the vaccine doses. We have a team of reporters following the latest this hour. Lets begin with josh ledderman. How are memberles of the Republican Party reacting to trumps legal challenges . Reporter republicans fall into one of three camps. You have a small group of diehard trump allies like doug